Nintendo announces the price of the Wii for Brazil

Something between 1400 and 1500 Reais.

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/nintendo/wii-date-announced-for-brazil-192758.php

http://wii.advancedmn.com/article.php?artid=7339]

What does that mean? Between 645 and 691 dollars! :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: h: h: h:

So, it will be cheaper to import one from USA, then buying the officialy sold down here.

All this because of the damned 60% tax.

 

I sort of love how Nintendo is dancing around the price in pretty much every other area of the world, yet they went ahead and anounced Brazils price. Isn't stuff expensive over there anyway?

 

Yes. Just showed how overpriced it is. I was hoping a decent price since i read that Microsoft and Nintendo was talking with the government to lower the taxes. I think everybody that likes games thought things would change. Now i'm not even expecting the 360 official launch anymore. The imported premium version is around 2000 Reais, just imagine it with the taxes. If i decide to buy one, i'll get the imported.

It's ridiculous anyway, as most game stores will sell the imported version anyway. And even if they didn't, "normal" gamers would import themselves.This outrageous price will be for main stores like Fnac and so on. It will be funny if Nintendo complain about low sales.

TecToy almost went bankrupt when they sold the Saturn and Dreamcast with prices higher than the imported ones. Now they sell crappy DVD Players, Karaokes, cheap MP3 Players and , of course, Master System and Mega Drive.

 

I don't get it. Brazil is a poor country yet everything cost 10 times more than the US. Why??? I doubt Nintendo are going to sell the wii in some east European country for a massive inflation. Isn't there any way around this dub 60% tax that you have?

Yakumo

 

I believe the term is "assasination".

 

Blame the highly centralized government for expensive electronics.

So let me get this straight. Nintendo has YET to announce the price of the Wii for USA? If so, WTF are they doing announcing Brazils' price?

 

Brazil also has the highest national debt which is probably a factor for the taxes, who says video games can't teach you anything, thanks fifa world cup 2006.

 

I heard about that some time ago. Apparently it comes from the days of the colony, when only the viceroyal controlled importation. Funny things is that, as today, smugglers were everywhere.

Now, tell me if this isnt just senseless: in argentina (a country with almost the same economic rules as brazil) you cant sue nor report a business for selling goods at outrageous prices, BUT that business can sue or report any other who sells at lower prices than theirs. It's called "unfair competition" yet everybody calls that BS.

Anyways, the only excuse I could find from these governments was that they are trying to protect their internal production. Funny thing is that, they dont have any internal production of electronics. Hell, their main productions are farm goods and basic industrial stuff (like small, cheap cars). The rest is just assembled there (with most of the components coming from overseas) or imported.

Our national debt is way higher, at 5 trillons....

 

where are you from? you're right btw. about everything. pathetic.
fuck this country. I'm outta here in 4 years (touch wood).

 

I meet this argie girl in spain, he told me about all those stupid trade laws you guys have to live with.

So you're leaving the country, to where may I ask? and whats "touch wood"?

 

oh crap. double post.

 

touch wood means ' if all goes well', and it's still speculative but I may be moving to Europe, though most certainly not back to the UK, though that's where I'd be inclined to go. it's just very convoluted here, and rather absurd - I'm not saying it isn't that way elsewhere - it is - it's just that there isn't a serious attempt at 'nation building' here. it's all just spin and bullshit.

yeah.. I'll be getting my Wii from Japan when it does come out. half looking foward to the Wii, can't say I'm blown over by what it offers - though the prospect of playing online against my brothers and friends across the water is tantalising - hope we have that option here (to play online that is).

 

good luck @ nintendo selling a 2 digit amount of Wii in brazil...

 

But as a percentage of GDP, we arn't that bad off, dunno if you buy that or not =)

 

in germany we say knock on wood maybe he ment that =)

 

60% tax?!?!?

Is that on everything?

Yikes.....move.

Salvador was a fun city though, although I was only there for a week. I actually bought some games, a copy of Mario Kart Advance and a Barazilian boxed complete copy of Mario Paint.

 

I believe the tax is only on imports...but still...it really blows...as Brazil's game market doesn't get a ton of attention from the big companies...so people end up doing a lot of importing...

Are there any ways around that, Johnny? Like say marking the package as a gift?

 

That's an option although it only works for stuff less than 50 bucks.

What most game stores do is to sell imported stuff brought to the country through the Paraguay border. Since Paraguay has 0% tax on imports, it's almost the same as buying from USA for example. Of course there's a limit on the border, so most stuff enter the country in a "not so legal" way.

The government is just too damn stupid. They put high taxes on everything and then complain about piracy, contraband, and so on. Bunch of hypocrates.

 

I remember reading something about the price of the Wii in Brazil a couple of days ago. I'm really surprised that it will come out THIS expensive. I've read somewhere that videogames in Brazil are taxed under the 'gambling' bracket... it's insane!

But comparing the prices of 'new' game machines in Brazil it is not really a steal. The PSP is being sold for 1300 reais. The Nintendo DS is around 800 reais. And when the PS2 was released way back in 2000, it was sold for 1200 or 1500 reais if I'm not wrong.

Now... stores sell the PSP for 1300 reais. But I've seen boxed PSPs being sold for 700 reais at mercadolivre (Brazil's ebay). Yesterday I was looking for a GameBoy Micro... I found one in a store here in Rio de Janeiro for 567 reais... at mercadolivre I found one boxed GBM for 320 reais. That's a HUGE difference.

Also, I thought Nintendo had quit the videogame market in Brazil. I remember that the GameCube was officially released in Brazil by Gradiente (the company that represents Nintendo in Brazil), but no word for Gradiente supporting the Wii.

And, to say the truth, I am really looking forward to buy a Wii. Everybody said that 1500 reais for a PS2 when it was launched was a steal, yet quite a lot of people in favelas (harlems) have a PS2. Brazil is not really this poor country everybody is talking about. I live here and I know it. People complain too much but they always find a way to save money and buy a last-gen videogame.

Now, I wonder how much a PS3 would cost here... Thanks God I don't want one anyway...

 

In the UK they say "touch wood" or "knock on wood" for luck. It's a tradition/custom.