Nintendo announces the price of the Wii for Brazil

That's true. Thank FHC government for that. A videogame is taxed the same way a gambling machine...

I'm sorry but it IS a steal. They expect us to pay 650 dollars for something that sells for 250 in another country. Curiously in this other country, people have better salaries, better education, ...

That's what i said before. There's a 100% chance that everything in mercadolivre, sold as new, are stuff imported illegaly from Paraguay. That's why you pay more decent prices.

Nintendo didn't quit the market. I think Gradiente simply didn't renewed the contract with Nintendo, so support was finished. 1 year later Lamatel (Latin American distributor of Nintendo) was responsible for importing Nintendo stuff to Brazil. It's funny because, they sell Nintendo stuff without translated manuals (all computer software, game and any electronic product must have portuguese manuals - it's a law), and there's no technical support.

That's it. If you decide to buy a Wii or a DS Lite, and if it breaks after the 1 year guarantee ends, there's no place to take it for getting it fixed. Lamatel is only the distributor and have no obligations of having technical support for the products...

You are right. When people want something they'll probably save money, no matter how much it costs. But don't forget that with the PS2 they only have the expense one time. Then they all buy pirated games that cost between 5 and 10 reais.

I don't think that the Wii or DS Lite will manage to sell if games cost 150 Reais or more (normal price of original games).

Wanna guess? A Premium Xbox 360 costs here between 1.800 and 2.300 Reais (it costs 400 dollars in USA right?). I think the PS3 won't cost less than 3.000 Reais.

Thank god i'm not crazy over new stuff. :dance:

 

My God.... FHC is a dumbass (sorry if this is a bad word... but every Brazilian president has been a dumbass since I remember... Let's not even get started on Lula...)

Hmmm, so that's what happened... Thanks for letting me know

Me neither... if games cost more than 100 reais, I think nobody would buy them. I think it's going to be interesting to see how this online trend would affect gaming in Brazil. As far as I know the XBox360 is connected to the internet 24/7. I don't know if it is necessary to be connected to the Internet for it to work. But let's suppose companies decide to put a bootable program with the game softwares in order to check if the game is being run from the original version.... and that this bootable program would be constantly in need to be upgraded from the Internet so people could play the game.... now it would be impossible to play pirated games, right? This would be a shock to the people, since 99.99999% of the games being sold for the PS1 and the PS2 are pirated software.

My God.....

But I STILL believe people will BUY PS3s. It does not matter if retailers charge 5,000 reais for it, people will still buy it. Some people are just crazy. I AM crazy over new stuff, but at the moment I'd rather buy a less sophisticated product... I think I will look for the GBMicro again... It's so stylish.... I want one. :dance:

 

None of the games released for Xbox 360 require an online connection for validation, because a large number of Xbox 360 owners don't connect it to the internet. I'm not sure the exact amount that do, actually - it'd be an interesting statistic. It was pretty poor back in the last generation, the last statistic I heard was along the lines of 1 in 12 Xbox owners and 1 in 40 PS2 owners, but that was a couple of years back now.

Either way, I'd imagine that if games did implement such a check it would be cracked pretty sharpish. The main objection I've heard about the online capability of the 360 is that some games are being released with large amounts of bugs, which then get ironed out by online patches. Poor behaviour if you ask me, it's been a problem for PC games for the last half a decade and it'd be nice if consoles didn't have to suffer the same.