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@Duke the ipod touch costs around $100 to make, so with Apple style deal for components I would say around $50-$80..

@Hirsbrunner The mayas were mostly gone by the time the spanish arrived. The pyramids were already lost in the jungle and few left were living by the coast and knew knowing of their ancestors. That's why the mayas remained lost until early 20th century.

Come one people!!!! it's not working aaaarrrrgggghhhh!!!

@Ezio Auditore da Firenze

To get an idea how lost Sony really, by all latin America they mean Mexico and Brazil.

Gaming is pretty much an impossible feat any place south of Tijuana. To get into gaming you will have to be prepared to buy everything at twice or triple the prices americans pay and get everything weeks, months later (sometimes never). Have a machine break down, you are pretty much out of luck if you don't live in a giant city (anything bigger than 5,000,000 people will have official service) and expect to pay big money for it.

Sony is the worst of the 3. A Ps3 game costs +$85, that shows Sony is pretty much death in the market. The console is too expensive, specially when you can build an amazing pc with that money, play the same games. And blurays? even if I live close to the one of the biggest bluray printing plants in the world, No one buys them.

Nintendo a distant second from Microsoft. The official wii price is $385 dollars here in Mexico with games running a cool $60-$70.Yet the guy that sells you an imported one will get you one for $200. The company that resells Nintendo here (since Nintendo doesn't have official presence here) half assed the success of the Wii and DS with ridiculous prices. I bought my Wii on the first day for around $320. A couple weeks later it went up and never returned to the original price. Your console or a Balance Board breaks? too fuckin bad. Either you send it to Mexico City or buy another. That's the Nintendo logic. Remember that Cammie Dunaway came to work here to Mexico. It wouldn't surprise me that company she works for now, is the one that sells Nintendo stuff here.

Another example is that Rockband all included package costs $370.

Too bad everyone in the northern states can sell them on the internet for american prices and send it to your house for $10. Or even worst, a guy hacks it for $10 and you get games for free of the internet.

I love gaming but most of the people I used to play video games with during my school years simply can't afford it anymore. Specially when they can come over for the weekend and play an $100 game they can beat in 7 hours. With shorter games with very low level of difficulty that price tag is only for aficionados with money. lots of money.

After writing all that rant, I've realized gaming fucking sucks for us. Too bad for Sony that they us as their saviors...

@Oflife you are being a little too forgiving. The thing is running mostly free flash games, The only original really good game is Angry Birds.

@pspitts they can't win against Nintendo so they rather aim at the iphone as a gaming machine. They are aiming low now.

@GldRush98 Are you forgetting the Riiiiiiiiiiiidge Incident?

@richb93 After Apple announced The iphone 4 is magical, Sony decided to pull the plug and start from scratch.

@Outsider Is this the famous Cantina display? so high res it makes everything blurry and the camera makes ugly chicks look good...

@Rick Astley Justin Beiber is not his real name. Her name is Audrey McDonald and is a 34 year old female from Ontario.