AcademicSaucer
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Why bother, you guys are going to import it from paraguay anyway
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PS4 price was just announced in Argentina!
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Why bother, you guys are going to import it from paraguay anyway
Hero_of_the_Day
Member
Holy fuck. You can buy a pretty good TV to go along with your new PS4 for that price here in the US.
LOL.
LOL.
AcademicSaucer
Member
1899, so i guess 1600-1650 in polvos, 1450 - 1500 import from USA
AcademicSaucer
Member
I paid around US$800 for my GTX580 (1.5GB model) last year. It should be a little cheaper now.
edit: Yup, It's US$450 right now.
admartian
Member
PRetty much this post.
I lol@ Yanks that like to have a whinge and get angry at prices.
andrerobot
Member
I betcha that for chileans it would still be better to import the console directly from the US via Hotbox (or just wait till you find the console at Todojuegos or Katana).
The craziest thing about this upcoming gen is how well Australia has done.Both in release date and pricing.
If you'd told me a while ago that we'd b getting the PS4 before Japan, I'd have laughed in your face. If you'd then told me that the Aussie price was actually a bit cheaper than in the EU countries, I'd have punched you in the balls for making bad jokes. And that Australia would be deemed to be a Tier 1 country by MS, ahead of half of Europe and all of Asia and the the rest of the world.
Compare this all to last gen, when I forked out AU$1,000 for a PS3 (can't remember how much the Wii and 360 were). I remember the 360 launched here months after the US and EU, but can't remember how the Wii and PS3 fared.
If you'd told me a while ago that we'd b getting the PS4 before Japan, I'd have laughed in your face. If you'd then told me that the Aussie price was actually a bit cheaper than in the EU countries, I'd have punched you in the balls for making bad jokes. And that Australia would be deemed to be a Tier 1 country by MS, ahead of half of Europe and all of Asia and the the rest of the world.
Compare this all to last gen, when I forked out AU$1,000 for a PS3 (can't remember how much the Wii and 360 were). I remember the 360 launched here months after the US and EU, but can't remember how the Wii and PS3 fared.
Not right now, with the Chilean Customs on strike!
The economical explanation is that this is not a good idea! Politics rarely involves good economic ideas though...
The PS3 at launch was around 4000 pesos, almost 1000 dolars. But the peso has heavily been inflated since...
Not even announced yet. Xbox360 arrived officialy last November. And in April we only got the official Xbox Live Gold.
Our dear President, and her friends think that importing destroys our national production... ¿of videogame consoloes?... yeah, it's a no go...
The 360 Slim with 250 Gb and two games is 3999 pesos, which amounts to 700 dolars today...
"SE ANUNCIA EL PRECIO DE PLAYSTATION®4 (PS4™
Qué: Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC. (SCEA) anuncia el comienzo de la preventa del sistema de entretenimiento PlayStation®4 (PS4™
So... yeah. 6500 pesos. That's roughly 1200 US Dollars.
Or, to put it in another way, that's about 25% over my current monthly salary.
I guess that's it for me as a gamer.
If you are earning 4800 us dollars monthly, you really had an amazing salary.
At least here in chile some people would kill to get that much money, and I'm sure that argentina too
But back on topic, that price is ridiculous, like all electronic devices from argentina, now I could see why you guys cross the frontier to buy things from
Considering that the stores that you had mentioned it always had their products on almost the same date that the US has (or even before!) I had yet to met somebody who will want to import a console from outside, more considering that the custom agency here is really shady and you had a high chance of losing your console
Another argie here, and yes those prices suck :/
I've got a PS3 with 15-20 retail games, all of them and my PS3 were bought in the US thanks to my cousin who lives there. Obviously that means I need to wait for her to come visit or someone from my family to go to the US, which could take quite a while.
Because of these prices I only buy exclusives on consoles. The rest I buy on PC. So I'm glad stores like Steam, GMG, GOG exist, not to mention humble bundles, which allow me to buy more games than I could otherwise.
Praise Gaben
My friend! Same case, my sister lives in Kansas... and I got away through customs with a PS3 and an Xbox360. Have bought some bargains here though... god bless Cdmarket...
Mas bien yo diría que son una tamaña pelotudez!!!!
He means the PS4 price is 25% above his monthly salary. So he basically earns $960 dollars monthly.
Waiting for the Brazilian fiasco to create a similar thread.
It might be worse because Sony just opened a factory in Manaus, where I think they'll start assembling the PS4 at some point in the future and I'm guessing the price will be almost the same.
There is so much discrepancy here in LA on Sony's behalf in comparison with their latest approach to the gaming market that makes me want to cry. Such a huge market to be explored and no commitment to it so far.
It might be worse because Sony just opened a factory in Manaus, where I think they'll start assembling the PS4 at some point in the future and I'm guessing the price will be almost the same.
There is so much discrepancy here in LA on Sony's behalf in comparison with their latest approach to the gaming market that makes me want to cry. Such a huge market to be explored and no commitment to it so far.
No, he earns a bit less than $1000. The PS4 is 25% more than his monthly wage.
Yeah, I recently realized that, my mistake.
Here in chile the thing will cost in the best of cases 800-850 dollars, since here we had the relation of 1 dollar in the states = 1000 chilean pesos, which are like 2 dollars
sixteen-bit
Member
that's expensive as fuck
Totally, in my case, PS4 would be around half my salary, so I'm obviously not buying one here.
In February I went to Iquique and bought a 40" LED TV for half of what we usually pay, unfortunately we can not import stuff like microwaves, fridges, etc or I would have bought everything there haha.
the funny thing is that IQUIQUE'S Zofri is not that amazing anymore, at least in santiago you could find better thing at the same prices or even lower
Unless you are from some point of argentina where iquique is the nearest that you could go
Haven't bought in Blue Powders/Pink Powders for a good 2 years now, I import all my shit from Amazon, ebat and BestBuy mostly, it really is hard to go back now, I'm gonna import my PS4 too but 1899 Soles is way better than what I was expecting, we're getting there, maybe by the time the PS5 launches prices will be better than now.
I'm from Buenos Aires, but I was in Salta for a week so I took the opportunity to go to Chile and buy some stuff.
Brofist, I've been doing that since I started gaming with the NES xD
LordBaztion
Member
its S/.1900 in Perú, around $680 which is fine for me but I'm importing the XBO for the same price with 2 games. Imported PS4 will be S/.1600, around $570 (no games).
It will be released in november 29, lol before Japan.
It will be released in november 29, lol before Japan.
It's nice to want things, unfortunately reality doesn't conform with our wants. I'm expecting it to cost at least R$2200,00.
Officerrob
Banned
Does it matter that you are releasing the console there in the first wave when nobody can afford the damn thing?
WonkyPanda
Member
Gracias, no lleva acento.
Y si, menuda mierda para mis colegas argentinos.
¡España os apoya, arriba Argentina!
Sigh I always get my accent marks mixed up
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
I'm glad I get everything from the USA even if I live in Mexico.
USA: $400 for launch? Eh, I'll wait for a price drop or 2.
S. America's reaction:
LOL yeah, pretty much.
That's why everytime I see posts like "I'll buy it when it's $5" my soul hurts a bit.
Nomad Blue
Member
Third world?!
Nocturno999
Member
Sony needs to fix this shit if they want faster adoption in Latin America.
dungtongue
Neo Member
Are there any good governments in South America? It's a bit depressing how rough it seems down there due to politicians. I need happy stories about a wonderful leader (or an inoffensively bad leader more realistically).
Cold War is back bro, get ready.
What are you talking about? PC pirating here in Peru is the worst. All those youngsters playing CS and Dota at "cabinas de internet" are pirating those games for sure. Also, stores at Wilson Avenue still sell thousands of cracked no-steam games everyday.
I always thought you were from Brazil due to your name. Do you guys pay import taxes as well when buying from the US?
Dude, gamers can be a whiny bunch. Don't let that stuff get you down. People act like cutting edge technology should be $Free.99.
A lot of the time these claims make no sense. Like Australians paying an excessive amount for their games: doesn't average income tend to be much higher in comparison to that of the states?
Also, the US market outshines every other country in terms of market size. The reason the US market doesn't have high prices for games is because our collective willingness to pay doesn't exceed $60. Somewhere in these companies, there are mathmeticians running statistics which show that a $5-10 increase in price for games would result in a loss in net revenue from the consumers who wouldn't pay for the price increase. In other countries, your small market has a smaller impact, so they're able to price gouge all they want, because they know you'll pay it because you have no other choice.
You want things to change, speak with your wallet. Although, that would require a large amount of people to do so, otherwise you're just one person who doesn't have a system or game, which means practically nothing to the publishers.
Also, the US market outshines every other country in terms of market size. The reason the US market doesn't have high prices for games is because our collective willingness to pay doesn't exceed $60. Somewhere in these companies, there are mathmeticians running statistics which show that a $5-10 increase in price for games would result in a loss in net revenue from the consumers who wouldn't pay for the price increase. In other countries, your small market has a smaller impact, so they're able to price gouge all they want, because they know you'll pay it because you have no other choice.
You want things to change, speak with your wallet. Although, that would require a large amount of people to do so, otherwise you're just one person who doesn't have a system or game, which means practically nothing to the publishers.
Definitely not the case in most of South America, if not all of it.