PlayStation launches digital store in Brazil

@Dark Archon PSN Archonik XBL Dar

Agreed! About time, you deserve it!

@Dark Archon PSN Archonik XBL Dar ... so now they get their turn at having their info stolen.... jk jk jk. for real jk. i'm actually a bit of a sony fan (im big on understating things) but, i just couldn't pass that joke up.

@Shadowbender Haha, asked the same question the same time I did.

@Shadowbender The vast majority of Brazilian gamers play on imported systems. The officially released consoles don't sell as well as Brazilian taxes usually make them much more expensive than the imported ones. I recall the official PS2 costing twice as much an imported system at launch. That's way too much to pay for warranty and support the local industry. It's a bother when consoles suffer malfunction but after a couple of decades we're used to that.

To be honest I've never seen a Brazilian PS2, I only saw those at our Sony Style online store. So many of us, like me, use american PSN accounts. Since we can't migrate I will still use mine though maybe I'll create a third account just to support their decision to release games here.

@nerdydesi1 Haha, same minute. You still present a good question with your last sentence though.

@HaroldoNVU Thanks for the info. Interesting you guys rely on imports so much. But with the PS Store now in your country, it has to only get better from here on out. :)

@nerdydesi1 2009 actually: http://www.joystiq.com/2009/11/19/sony-finally-launches-ps2-in-brazil-or-welcome-to-2000/

It was kind of a joke here too. I commented further in my reply to Shadowbender's comment.

@SpaceFox
Yup. Specially being able to buy games without having to import PSN cards. I'm thinking of creating a Brazilian account just to buy PSN games, even though I'm keeping my main American one because of trophies and It's already the master account on my PSP.

@HaroldoNVU Its cheaper to buy cards over the internet than paying overpriced content.

@LEONLEONLEON

There are Brazilian PSN accounts before the incident, but that only allowed online play. What is launching today is the PSN *Store* ;)

@RodrigoCard

I stand by what I said, They aren't being welcomed back to the store if they haven't had it before. ;)

@Hirun and the same overpricing thing occurs in the brazilian version of Xbox Live. Being a gamer is tough.

@Hirun
I don't know why you're complaining, it's still way cheaper than the usual R$150 - R$ 250 price range.

@NightElve You can use Credit card in the Mexican store for some months now, we need PSN cards

@byaboy Honestly? No. I think it's more related with the fact that Brazil is about to reach 5th place on "GDP Leaderboard" and companies are trying to tap into a new market. The problem is that now there is a hardcore piracy culture here, after decades of being abandoned by game publishers and hardware manufacturers added to taxes that makes games, consoles and PC parts cost between 250% to 320% what they cost in the US (our main games exporter). It's gonna take some time and some investment to change that.