Sony of America expands into other half of America [update]

Josh, your reply is down a couple of answers, sorry.

You replied to the wrong comment, though. ;)

But anyway, thanks for the info. So, do most people already know English well enough to play games? Or is it that people have to intentionally learn English if they want to play games?

Josh (hoping this will be in the right place)

Well, People usually start learning english in schools at an early age; and, in most of the games, the basic info is easy to get.
So, I'd say about 30% play, say, GTA, enjoying the story
70% play GTA just shooting everything that moves :p

both have fun, right?

and still pricey as f***, thanks to the obscenely high taxes here.
you can buy games at online stores, mega-bookstores (you know Virgin, Zavvi, Fnac? there's Fnac here, but there are also many Brazilian mega-bookstores) and (the still rare) specialist video game stores. but you can't find them at big-box stores and supermarkets.

780GB? xDDD

Lol yes the seller charges in Gigabytes!
Dood we dont have Argentinian Pesos! The official currency is Gygabites >.<


Ya, Special bundle for 780U$S **

blame the government that prefers that we buy some generic Nintendo-based 8-bit console just because it's built here (and it's cheap for our standards)

actually, Chile has a stronger economy, even with a lower GDP than Brazil's.

it's all a tax thing here in Brazil.

Uh.. no. Chile is growing faster yeah, but their economy isn't as reliable as ours in the long-run. Brazil has been behaving better than most other global economies during the financial crisis, which helped us taking the leading role of G20 during Doha. If I'm not mistaken, Chile still has a lot of open debits with FMI. Their economy surge just started and we don't really know how it'll go from here with the crisis..

still, try to convince the government that those taxes (and interest rates) are really too much.

Oh believe me I know this =P Don't think I'm some spoiled brat that buys this shit in local stores. I import everything, even my console itself. But there's a lack of interest from the companies themselves too, they are not just "victims" or else we wouldn't have LCD screens and Iphones here because with all the taxing those products just could never "take off". But hey look, LCD screens are selling hella fast and so are Iphones ;p There's no advertising or marketing here to change the image of gaming in front of society, which keeps it as a niche and expensive market (and thus making those taxes hurt a lot more), but they can only blame themselves for that. People here are so gullible that they are actually buying LCDs without even knowing the difference between them and standard screens. Only one or two cities in the whole country have access to HD signal, that already kills most people's use for it!! But it sells, because of a nice marketing campaign.

Brazil's taxes suck major balls and I agree with you the Government should make it easier for these product lines to "get in", but that is not enough reason to stop any company from selling their products here. We have an important market that spends a LOT, that's all they want. And if it was just tax, why all those other countries have been neglected as well? Mexico and Panama spread their legs to any Global company, but that didn't draw Sony to them until now. So taxing really isn't the only reason here, there's more into play.

Hello, darkjuso!

I'm Brazilian and I do recognize that the Chilean economy is, since long ago, a true model to every SA country.

I don't agree with you when it comes to the geographical terminology, however: the term "Latin America" can't presume that Spanish and Portugueses are the only Latin languages spoke in the Americas.
If "South America" doesn't include Mexico and other countries (as you remarked), "Latin America", on the other hand, includes Quebec - which is not intended.

Anyway, BRIC's first letter is sad. We may still have a quite flawed economy, but it's getting better. Additionally, we have a large population and a fast-growing market. So, if Sony gave up and piracy is going to rule over Brazil it's not really our problem. I know many Brazilians who are willing to support every videogame enterprise, so it's not a question of choice anymore. Sony can't be that naive.

still, the people doesn't care, they just want cheap gas and every other populistic thing that comes from Chávez.