Sony finally launches PS2 in Brazil (or, welcome to 2000!)

I'm just baffled.

"Brazilians will want to get two jobs to afford it!"

and i used to think Brazilians were poor

I learned to read at young age was!

I wouldn't mind going back to 2000 :(

In Argentina, a ps2 in Sony Syle costs 1000$ (around 300 US$) importers sell it at 200US$ and a ps3 costs 3400$ (around 900 US$) =S but importers sell them at 700US$

*Sony Style

PS2:
Sony price: U$400
Any store that imported it from USA: U$200

I got my PS3 for U$500 (BRL 1000). Any video game store that imported it from USA is selling at this price.

Great move sony.
We've heard sony will bring games, PS3 and PSP too.
Problably the price for PS3 will be BRL $3000 (U$1500)
The local news announced that sony will be bringing games.
PS3 games are tagged BRL $249 (U$125)

It's not just sony.
The official Nintendo price for Wii is BRL $2499 (U$1200)

I get myself all my games from an asian online store (you know which is), pay the price in dollar and the tax when the game comes. (the tax is 100%. Yeah, I pay 40 dollars on a game, plus 40 on taxes. Still cheaper than buying here)


No wonder why the piracy here runs rampant.

It really tough being a gamer here.

All I read was "Blah blah blah Tekken Tag Tournament" and lol'd

Yeah, fellow gamers, our lifes here aren´t easy. The prices here are usually 3 times those ins US. I bought my PS3 exactly one year ago for around 900 dollars! If you just wanna stick around your local game store you gotta pay around 120 bucks for each game. But for them it´s easier to import, as I do.

Yet, I only think that Sony has lauched PS2 "officially" to prepare the terrain for the PS3 annoucement around here, because everyone owns a PS2, so I really don´t know who will buy it after almost a decade after its original release AND paying more than it already costs around here.

No words. Just no words....

That*

People in Brazil have money :S

It's funny that this article popped up, as I just purchased a PS2 to send over to my little cousin in Brasil for Christmas. Cost me 100 bucks with everything included. Electronic are outrageously priced over there.

No, it is not great. Sony is selling his PS2 with a higher price than third sellers shop... what looks strange. Sony don't have opened yet the PSN to ps3 owners, so we have to login with an account saying that we are from United States. The price of games here, is really high, cause our gonverment put it a lot of taxes... for you to see, a ps3 game, is usually 50 USD .... here in brazil it is 150 BLR to 250 BLR ... but, if you use a conversor... 50 USD will be something like 87 BLR ... That explain, why all the piracy... by the way, those who have PS3 (as me), we buy games, there is no piracy for ps3... so, we really invest in games, cause we love it... But this love, is really expensive.

In other news:

PS2 Fifa and Pro Evo sales double!

Anybody know how well the Zeebo is doing in Brazil?

What did the PS2 release? Seriously, the console WAS released in Brazil. "Release" is a transitive verb. You can release something--like a story with an improperly used verb--but the object being released shouldn't be releasing anything, or it will be recalled.

We are very rich, indeed, a Rock Band 2 bundle in here sells for ~US$750,00. Seriously.

For those about we been poor... we're not as rich as other countries but we still are not Africa ¬¬ ... From latin america, we're the richer country...

@Bobulous ... if something that brazilian people like is games... and, we know when they're trying to cheating us... so zeebo, for me, is a big failure... maybe some unadvised father or mother can buy it for his son, without talking to him first... but people who know games don't will buy it... I really don't know anyonme who has a zeebo.

This is ridiculous, here in Brazil we already have the ps3 and now them will launch officially the ps2 by 800 reais, if here we pay 800 by an xbox 360 or an ps3 fat, why we would pay 800 by an ps2. And the cost of the ps2 here is of 325 reais (USD $188 ), and with 1 year warranty.

Not true!

Don`t know how this "news" came up, but I bought an official PS2 in late 2001. Local WalMart stores sells PS3s with Brazilian-portuguese documentation and 1-year warranty carried by Sony-Brazil.

Please, check your sources before write nonsense stuff.


Things are really very expensive round here, though...

It is really ridiculous . Xbox 360 was officially released here on the end of 2006 costing R$ 2400,00 ( US$ 1200,00 at the time) , now it costs around US$ 1000,00 (R$ 1700,00 due to new exchange rates, after the economical downturn)

Games here cost R$ 250,00 ( US$ 150,00). Microsoft official releases go for R$ 160 (US$ 90,00) .

I travel a lot , therefore I buy all my gaming stuff on the US (importing is not possible , you'll have to pay 60% on importing taxes and 40% on local taxes). I have already bought 2 xboxes (RROD) for less than the price of one here.

I buy my games for 60 USD on the US and sell them used on the Brazillian equivalent of ebay for 70 dollars. ( which is really cheap by brazillian standards)

Xbox live has not been officially released here, although lots of brazillian use it through an american account ( i am a member since the original xbox)

Piracy is really an issue, but PS3 games cannot be pirated. Why do they cost the same ?!?

The Zeebo is a joke, but I guess it must sell really well to really poor people here .

And we don't suffer it only in games ... A Toyota Corolla costs US$ 30,000.00 here !!

We pay the highest interest rates in the world also ...

Considering the above, you can see why our people is such a poor one.