PS4: $1833 USD in Brazil. Get saving Ethomaz!

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Slimebeast on 17 October 2013

"Get saving Ethomaz". That's brilliant.

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zumnupy10 on 17 October 2013

Translated article for those who do not speak Portuguese:

Believe it if you will: PS4 will cost US$1899 in Brazil

In the US, PS4 has a suggested price of US$ 399

Believe it if you will: The Playstation 4 will cost R$ 3.999 (US$1.899). The announcement was made by Sony this Thursday (17), in a statement to the press and throught the PS Blog;

The console will reach the country on november 29. Two weeks after the US launch and at the same day of the European and the rest of latin america release.

In the United States PS4 will be sold for US$ 399, a price a hundred dollars inferior to Microsoft's Xbox One. Oddly in Brazil the situation went upside down: The PS4 is nothing less than R$1.800 (US$ 765) more expensive.

The games for Sony's new console will have a suggested price of R$ 179(US$ 77). New games for PS3 cost R$ 149 (US$ 64) since june 2012. In the US, new releases for both consoles will cost the same price of US$ 60.

Sony did not provide an explanation for the high price of PS4 and it's games in the country.

I blame Sony and local retailers for this.

Our retailers do not sell anything that is game related for less than 100% in profits.

Fortunately black market exists around here. I have the money to buy the console at this price, but I won't do it because it would send a message that it's ok to try to steal us Brazilians.

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Carl on 17 October 2013

Probably cheaper to go abroad and buy one.

Didnt Tretton say they wanted the price to be as similar to the US price as possible?

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Azerth on 17 October 2013

So Xbox wins Brazil? At least at launch I mean

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pr3st00 on 17 October 2013

Confirmed.. PS4 is 4K! (pum intended)... This price is so absurd...

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zumnupy10 on 17 October 2013

Conegamer said:
That's...that's a lot of money alright.

I'm sure that the XOne will do pretty well with the difference in price then.

Not really man.

Xbone is also very expensive, it's just that PS4 price make it look like cheap when in fact it's not.

Gamers around here will just buy consoles from Chinese black market importers. Somehow they manage to sell consoles for less than half of these prices.

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nuno456 on 17 October 2013

It's cheaper to buy a ticket and travel to the USA/Europe, buy the console there and return to Brazil. Rofl.

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Rafux on 17 October 2013

Nobody buys consoles legit in South America every one buys them from the grey market where PS4 will probably cost 650-750$ at launch. Damn taxes.

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Rogerioandrade on 17 October 2013

Ridiculous and dumb tax laws in Brazil and total ignorance of the government towards the videogame market make up for these astonishing prices.

It´s way cheaper importing the consoles than buying the official Brazilian version

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Shinobi-san on 17 October 2013

Thats insane. Sony should have done whatever it could to get the price more reasonable.

Well done to MS for getting the price down so much more than Sony.

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