Nintendo had a similar partnership with Gradiente long ago, I still have my N64's box and manuals with the Gradiente logo in them!

First of all, thank you for the detailed status of gaming in Brazil, really appreciate it!

The final part reminds me a lot af the Philippines. I mean, most "gaming" PCs look something like this:

Or this if you're fancy:

Of course, better options do exist, but they're way out of reach for most Filipinos, even with outdated hardware sprinkled in between:

But you can also find such absolute stinkers like this one:

Yes, that's an Ivy Bridge core i5 from 2012 with just it's integrated Intel HD Graphics sold as a gaming PC. Which make it's claim for e-sports games absolutely laughable, as most won't even run on that thing, let alone be playable.

When I was there 5 years ago, most "gaming" PCs were actually AMD A-series APUs (without GPU of course), simply because modern PC hardware is simply way too pricey for developing countries.

As for console games, the prices were pretty much the same as in western Europe, which again is unaffordable for must common people. Hence trickeries like "sharing" an account for a price on Switch to download the game to your account, then deleting the account again from your system:

Na loja online da Nintendo, se for jogo indie a chance é muito grande da Sony não tem preço localizado enquanto tanto a Microsoft quanto a Nintendo tem, então nesse caso é bem provável que esteja bem mais caro no Playstation sim.

Quanto a jogos fisicos ou exclusivos no digital, não tem a menor comparação, são muito mais caros na Nintendo.

No quesito dos fisicos, grandes jogos da Nintendo mesmo beirando 10 anos como o Zelda ficam no melhor dos casos em torno de 250 reais 1x por ano, geralmente sendo 300 reais com desconto, enquanto grandes jogos do Playstation tem promoções que chegam custar 100 ou até 50 reais pra jogos como o God of War ou The Last of Us. Até mesmo em pré venda consigo descontos de mais de 30% (os últimos lançamentos que peguei por exemplo, Death Stranding 2 com 30%, Ghost of Yotei com 30% e Saros com 40% de desconto, só o Death Stranding já tinha lançado umas semanas, os outro dois foi na pré-venda).

Pra digitais, a Nintendo só faz descontos de 30% no digital no máximo, e com uns 2 anos ou mais entre um desconto ou outro. Pokémon por exemplo literalmente nunca, nenhuma única vez, teve desconto no digital pra jogos nativos do Switch. Sony e Microsoft tem descontos de 50% a 75% em jogos exclusivos digitais com o passar do tempo.

Maior problema da Nintendo é que quem compra hardware deles é pra jogo deles, e são exatamente esses que quase nunca tem promoção no digital e tem promoções bem menores no fisico. Mas a loja online da Nintendo, tirando os jogos deles, tem boas promoções também.

Os preços dos jogos do Switch 2 ainda são maiores que o do PS5 no cheio, e muito dificilmente alguém paga preço cheio em jogo do Playstation, mesmo no lançamento.

Ter um videogame da Nintendo é bem mais custoso, pelo menos até 2028, quando a Sony deve fazer o mesmo sem os jogos fisicos como contraponto, espero menos promoções e promoções menores a partir desse momento, pros digitais.

Pre-built PC prices here are also either comically high or you are getting at last a few pretty bad/old parts with the system.

I built my own PC at the start of the pandemic effect here between March and April 2020, when prices began to skyrocket, but I still got decent parts with just a moderate market up (I did search a lot tho), my PC literally doubled in price 2 months after I built it, lol.

I got a Ryzen 5 3600 + GTX 1660 Super, 16GB 3000mhz DDR34 dual channel RAM and 2x NVMe SSDs (256gb for Windows boot + 2tb for use) and a 2tb hdd for general storage. And now over 6 years after I built it that then already midrange PC its still pretty decent for 1080p gaming lol, it's insane how bad things are nowdays.

For consoles, at least for Playstation and Xbox 360 and One, games drop a lot in price with time, their release price in very expensive, but after something like 2 years they are around $10 to $15 even for the most high profile games, but that is the case only since the PS3 generation. Original PS1 and PS2 games here nearly did even exist (or the OG Xbox too), they never dropped in price and nobody could buy them, so the rampant piracy literally was how everyone was playing games, it was why everybody had a PS1 and PS2 but nobody onwed a single game for them, just burned discs. That's also how I used to play games until around 2010. I was still rocking my PS1 with burned games and playing text based or nearly still image web games in the family PC that never knew what a GPU was.

I fear we are going to return to the PS2 days where nobody actually buy games (high profile at least), with the added benefit of indies and excellent free to play games, tho.