Imagine the benefits citizens will be enjoying with all those money from taxes...You think Nintendo are charging that much, because they can?
It's the Brazilian import tax. Unless you make your products locally, you are gonna get hit with crazy high tax rates.
Sony explains why the PS4 costs $1800 in Brazil:
Yeah, 63% of the price are taxes.
What the actual fuck?You think Nintendo are charging that much, because they can?
It's the Brazilian import tax. Unless you make your products locally, you are gonna get hit with crazy high tax rates.
Sony explains why the PS4 costs $1800 in Brazil:
Yeah, 63% of the price are taxes.
You think Nintendo are charging that much, because they can?
It's the Brazilian import tax. Unless you make your products locally, you are gonna get hit with crazy high tax rates.
Sony explains why the PS4 costs $1800 in Brazil:
Yeah, 63% of the price are taxes.
Half assed effort. They could get much lower prices by skipping physical games entirely and selling eShop games and cards via POSA.
Yeah, it sucks. Nintendo isn't really releasing anything, it's just an importer making a distribution deal with them, which makes both their hardware and games more expensive than Sony's and Microsoft's, who have actual operations in Brazil to the point you can buy PSN and Live cards in any supermarket.Which is why people are saying there is no effort by Nintendo at all, but rather the work of an importer of physical products, NC Games.
Yay nintendo came back final-- whaaa those prices are stupid, i used to pay less money buying collector's editions back when the dollar was R$3,00https://www.vice.com/pt_br/article/...stribuidos-no-brasil?utm_source=vicetwitterbr
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Nintendo left Brazil early january 2015. Since then, besides the eShop, only the grey market was the option to get games, and they're expensive as shit.
For comparison, a imported launch game on PS4 costs R$250, and a Sony published game like Uncharted 4 costs R$180. A Nintendo 3DS game in grey market costs today R$200, and a Wii U is at least R$250.
Oh, boy...
[Vice Brazil] Brazil will get Nintendo games again
They're still studying the market for prices and expect to put the games into stores costing R$330 to R$400 (US$90+ to US$120). They didn't talk about the console price.
It's more because of ridiculous protectionist measures and the absurdity of considering videogames as "gambling" that makes taxes soar to the sky for them. There's no incentive to have official presence, Nintendo knows the gray market provides the consoles and those are still sales for them even if they only count as "North American" sales, and they save themselves the hassle of dealing with Brazil's insane burocracy at the same time.
$120 for a game....
I really don't know who is to blame.
Also, remember Switch doesn't officially have online access in Brazil, so they would have to make USA accounts.
You know who would pay for a Switch and games is that Brasilian guy that bought a $1000 PS4 in Brasil with games. Still remember he posts on GAF and is a big Pokemon fan
lmao, that guy. I forgot I made a thread about him back in the day.You mean Lord Eternal, the guy who paid 4000 reais for a ps4? He is a legend. Cool guy.
You know who would pay for a Switch and games is that Brasilian guy that bought a $1000 PS4 in Brasil with games. Still remember he posts on GAF and is a big Pokemon fan
Nothing to say about this, besides what everyone has already said. Just a casual shout out to BrazilGAF. Come visit us!
No be able to play Mario Kart 8 Deluxe online, with my Brazilian account is a shame. It was possible to play like this on Wii U and 3DS. This is very disappointing.
Nintendo hasn't given a shit about South America (and LatAm in general) since the SNES days.Also, I wonder why Brazil gets so left behind?
Even some poorer Central American countries get Nintendo games officially.
Central America is easily more corrupt than Brazil.
It's more because of ridiculous protectionist measures and the absurdity of considering videogames as "gambling" that makes taxes soar to the sky for them. There's no incentive to have official presence, Nintendo knows the gray market provides the consoles and those are still sales for them even if they only count as "North American" sales, and they save themselves the hassle of dealing with Brazil's insane burocracy at the same time.