It is true that we have high gaming taxes, it is true that companies usually overprice their stuff here (iphone and PS4 being the better exemples), but its also true that we, brazilians, like to inflate the sitation sometimes, like saying a decent PC cost that much said, or that the avarage consumer cant afford original gaming. The financial crisis is happening everywhere, we're feeling it more then others with such high prices but you can always look for games and consoles on gray market, paying a more accessible price in a physical copy, selling or trading it later, or buying digital games cheaper, looking for promotions, not buying every hyped release game, using Steam, and so on...
It is very sad we can't go to a shopping center and buy our games or consoles paying a fair price there. That we usually need to look for importers. That our government refuses to do something about it, and that companies dont give a fuck either and overprice the hell out of their products. But I feel like most of us dont usually support the "oficial" (and unfair) market, except when they're pricing similar with the gray market and offering guarantee.
