The PS3 arrived officially this month on Brazil at a price of R$2.000,00. This value could be translate to around US$1,125.00, but the article claims that if Sony Brazil buys in a Best Buy for the same $299, the console still will be $730 with all Brazillian taxes.
In the meantime, Microsoft sells the Xbox 360 for R$999 (around $560) even with the USA price equal a $100 less.
There are a pretty successful initiative, the http://www.jogojusto.com.br... that support less taxes on games and consoles, but this will not be sufficient if Sony and others do not cooperate.
Read more to know details about this consumer disrespect ocorring on Brazil.
Paul Thurrott in a recent episode commented on the on-going Microsoft fiasco hinting at more job losses and that "there's more to come".
There won't be no more acquiring game publishers from Microsoft in the future . Xbox has to pay Microsoft back. It might take two decades to do that.
There really needs to be a class action lawsuit here. You buy these companies just to put people out of jobs. And it’s not like something happened to derail their plans this WAS the plan. Microsoft has no business in this space at all.
Ninja Theory, Perfect Dark, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Wolfenstein 3, Dishonored, Prey, Doom, Quake... something tells me that bad things are going to happen to these entities under Microsoft.
The Xbox brand is expanding, as an Xbox mobile game store is opening this coming July where Microsoft will brings its "first-party portfolio."
“Bond adds that they will start on the web”
This will go nowhere.
Nice knowing you Xbox. This is what happens when the house never gets cleaned.
The only this MS is expanding is the amount of feculence it sprays on everyone who just want to enjoy gaming and make games.
The best thing MS can do for the gaming industry is leave and never return.
It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
https://www.playstationlife...
They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.
They're scum.
"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."
Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.
Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.
But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?
Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.
... and hope that this things change. I could afford any of the current gen consoles, I have two of them, but I will probably buy more games and at least one portable if the price was right.
That is why Piracy is so high in South America.
PS3 won't sell a lot in Brazil for now.
1.- Because of the Price and there is 0% of Piracy in PS3.
2.- Games with high price.
That is why Xbox 360 or Wii, PC Games, PSP, and other consoles sell more as Units in there, because those can be Hacked very easy and quick. But after that, then the same companies and developers don't make profits with those sells.
Download or buy the games with very cheap price.
Well, at least we are getting support... and also, I could buy more games (hope so) in the future, and that's what I am expecting more... I mean, some games here can get to over 100 dollars! But hopefully that will change...
WoooW 1.125$ they like 3500 RS, i feel sorry for Brazil ppl . why the taxes so high there ?
Discriminatory rip offs