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Here in Brazil the main problem are taxes!
There is no local production of console game discs and all products are imported.
Besides, there are different taxes for console and PC games, because PC games are considered as a "software" and console games are considered as a "toy" by the law and to "protect" local toy industry, they have greater taxes. The price of a console game is up to (converted) US$185!
PC games have a similar price to US counterparts, but if US$60 is considered by the americans a high price, imagine that in Brazil!

Maybe the sensor bar says to Wiimote the distance from the TV. If Wiimote "see" the two groups of LEDs on the bar, they will appear to be closer each other as you make the Wiimote far from the sensor bar (TV). Make sense for you? I don't have a Wii for testing...