Will the Switch do well in Brazil?

[DonFerrari]

IcaroRibeiro said:

DonFerrari said:

Errr I don't think region lock will be really necessary. Considering current dollar exchange ratio we can buy PSN full titles from about 270 (49USD and there wouldn't be the 15% tax like USA that makes the game 69USD) and if you buy physical you can find for 220-250 if you wait couple days, because those grey shop buy what Sony prints and ships to Paraguay without taxes and then sell in Brazil for lower than MSRP.

It's the same with Switch physical games, except they are sold for over 350 BRL unless they are really flop ones that just don't sell. Since they are unofficial retailers they don't have a return distribution policy and sometimes sell those games for 270-300 BRL just for the sake of get at least the cost value back, this is happening with very few games that goes on sale quite often on eshop like Ni no Kuni, but almost never happen with Nintendo AAA games like BOTW or Smash Bros Ultimate, those you will find for 350-400 BRL

Digital games are priced 250 BRL on eshop, with current exchange rates this is about 45 USD, I don't know how often american change their account region but at least europeans seems very price sensitive consumers, I don't know why the heck they just don't buy their games on br eshop 

Edit: Just about 2 hours ago euro got their highest exchange rate ever at 6,7 BRL. If a fellow european wants a nice disccount go on BR eshop you can buy any AAA Nintendo game for only 37 EUR (and we have Luigi's Mansion on sale for 170 BRL ~28 EUR)

Well maybe Switch because it doesn't get official releases floats a lot, but even the best sellers for Sony are considerably cheaper and almost always you'll find cheaper physical than digital at launch.

PS+ was like R$100 for a year meaning 25USD at the time, much cheaper than on US or EU. Costumers either don't know or don't care. So besides greyshops that could import from paraguay to send to USA and EU they having considerably cheaper price here wouldn't be a real issue worldwide.