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What console will be manufactured by Sony in Brazil?

PS3 22 40.00%
 
PSVita 7 12.73%
 
PS4 10 18.18%
 
Telegame 8 14.55%
 
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ethomaz on 31 October 2012

I'm here @M.U.G.E.N.

Official PR "Sony Brazil is constantly working to increase its national portfolio and assist in improving more and more the Brazilian economy. However, there is no forecast for local production of the PlayStation 3 console at the moment."

Cold water, no? I don't know for what Sony is investing 100 million Reais (Brazilian's currency).

"telejogo" is a dirty word even for us lol.



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ethomaz on 31 October 2012
chapset said:
didn't Micrososft start doing this last year?? are Sony copying again

Yeap... after that the 360 grow up to 65% market share here.

And like the guys said here the PS2 is producted here since 2010.



DarkTemplar on 31 October 2012
ethomaz said:
chapset said:
didn't Micrososft start doing this last year?? are Sony copying again

Yeap... after that the 360 grow up to 65% market share here.

And like the guys said here the PS2 is producted here since 2010.

So may I eddit the title to: Sony to Start Manufacturing Current Gen Consoles in Brazil?



ethomaz on 31 October 2012

DarkTemplar said:

So may I eddit the title to: Sony to Start Manufacturing Current Gen Consoles in Brazil?

Eu acho melhor ou PS3/PSV.



Cobretti2 on 31 October 2012

Why would manufacturing in Brazil make much change to price?

Does brazil have huge import taxes imposed on companies to try and encourage them to manufacturer locally?



 

 

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Lafiel on 31 October 2012
DarkTemplar said:

Sony announced, last week, investimens of R$ 100 millions (U$ 50 millions) to produce what they called "telegame".

The approval of a R$ 100 millions Sony project by the Superintendency of the Manaus Free Zone (Suframa) is surrounded by mystery. Possibly for reasons of confidentiality, it's unknow which product will be manufactured in Brazil by the Japanese company. The text submitted to Suframa by Sony cites only the term "telegame". Within the range of Sony's consoles, it can mean both the Playstation 3 and the PS Vita.

Source: a brazilian newspaper

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My thoughts: the brazilian market has more than 40 million costumers and the PS2 is still the leader here, with this move Sony is aiming to make PS3 or Vita more accessible (more cheap) to us.

nah in my opinion the main reasons are rather that china is just getting too expensive and too politically troublesome, so they need options



ethomaz on 31 October 2012
Cobretti2 said:
Why would manufacturing in Brazil make much change to price?

Does brazil have huge import taxes imposed on companies to try and encourage them to manufacturer locally?

The 360 price dropped 40% after MS did that here.



haxxiy on 31 October 2012

Maybe this time it'll start being sold under U$ 600,00 or so.



 

 

 

 

 

kain_kusanagi on 31 October 2012
DarkTemplar said:
kain_kusanagi said:
I wouldn't be surprised if they were going to manufacture PSone consoles and reprints of the old games.

The Sega Master System was sold in Brazil well into the 2000's.


lol that is true, by the way TecToy the company that seels the Master System and the Genesis here sold more than 150k unites of both consolse (combined) last year.


I wish the USA loved SEGA as much as Brazil. If it did we'd be playing on Dreamcast 2 right now.

I miss Sega hardware. Sega consoles were always the coolest.



RafaelOrix on 31 October 2012
Cobretti2 said:
Why would manufacturing in Brazil make much change to price?

Does brazil have huge import taxes imposed on companies to try and encourage them to manufacturer locally?

There are huge taxes for importing consoles, but I think there's more to it: another factory producing consoles to sell to South America (Mercosul specially), very low taxes for a long time (Zona Franca de Manaus) and a big market that's blooming lately here (Brasil!).