Its almost cheaper to fly to another country, buy an Xbox and fly back.

Brazil doesnt hate game, Have you ever see how much the population of every mmo rise with new brazil community went a mmo turn Free To Play ?


Its amazing they love game, the governemant tho doesnt want them to buy game.

More the fact that they have very little to show for the taxes

(in truth, the government has been making progress, but more on the matter of raising up the dirt-poor of the country's Northeast, while the rising middle class only sees a delapitaded infrastructure and lavish olympic/world cup stadiums)

When were the last elections? What happened in them regarding tax discussion?

When are the next elections? What is the discussion regarding taxes?

Next year. They NEVER discuss lowering the taxes, we have dozens of political parties and NONE would even bring that up.

Really. How many do you reckon? I assumed as a developing country that gamers were pretty rare.

Damn, it's actually cheaper to buy a gaming PC.

Interesting since their is a 80% tax on tobacco how much does a pack of cigarettes cost in Brazil (don't smoke myself just curious).

Well it looks like the Xbone in my country is the 3rd most expensive in the world. On the other hand, we have rather high salaries. My salary is slightly above average at best and the Xbone would cost me roughly 12-15% of a monthly income after taxes. (Not that I'm buying one though). What does an average brazilian earn?

Sorry it's so expensive.  But as nothing is really black and white, it can lead to good things - i.e. Microsoft opened a manufacturing plant there for the 360. So it made jobs for people.

Hopefully decent paying jobs and people are happy there.  And Sony has had plant there for a while too.

http://thenextweb.com/la/2011/09/27/microsoft-will-start-manufacturing-xbox-360-in-brazil-prices-go-down/