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PlayStation Move arrives in Brazil as "incredible" $468

The PlayStation Move motion control device bundle for Sony PlayStation 3, finally can be purchased in Brazil.

The official Sony price for the device is R$799 or $468, more than a Playstation Bundle with Move included on the United States.

In perpective, the Kinect arrived in Brazil for R$599, even they cost $50 more.

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Matthew944891d ago

wow, just wow. South America really gets the shaft

TheOldOne4891d ago (Edited 4891d ago )

"PlayStation Move Bundle containing 1, a camera and a PlayStation Eye Game Sports Champions incredible cost $599.99"

lol reminds me of this: http://www.youtube.com/watc...

RedDragan4891d ago

The thing about Brazil is that you can either afford it or not.

And because of Brazil's enormous economic growth there are plenty of people there who can afford this. That country is not like China and India with huge middle class populations yet. That will come in the next decade and when it does Brazil will see price structures changing accordingly with it.

ngecenk4891d ago

same here in indonesia, its $100 more expensive than US standard price. because if you can afford it, than additional 100$ doesnt really matter that much.

BISHOP-BRASIL4891d ago

I don't know where they get that info... Move had been on Brazil since one week after release in US at BRL 599 (a bit over USD 300) the exact same as Kinect PLUS it's officially a import, the box and manual aren't in portuguese and the age restriction is ESRB, which brazillian boxes don't have. The Sony site have nothing about Move so Sony has yet to launch Move here, although I believe it won't be much cheaper than Kinect.

NewMonday4891d ago

Most likely retailers taking advantage of misinformed costumers.

toaster4891d ago

Nope, it's Brazilian import tax. Brazilian's pay something like 60% of the total + shipping depending on what product it is.

For example, this guy from Brazil has his PC rig featured in Guru 3D's rig of the month, and he says that importing electronics is very expensive.

"For example : here a GTX 480 costs U$1000,00 in the store and in USA for example it costs U$500, and if i want to buy something from another country I need to pay plus 60% of the total, including shipping costs, to my country. Also to change Brazilian money (R$, real) to U$ i need R$1,70 to buy U$1,00. So maybe for you guys will look like I am lying but my sister as it is right now cost approximately U$7900,00."

http://www.guru3d.com/artic...

GodsHand4891d ago

So I can buy your sister for roughly $8,000.00?

High Five!

I am sure your wording is off, but those import traffis suck balls, something the US needs to do with Chinas imports. Make Chinese products expensive to buy here.

DaTruth4891d ago (Edited 4891d ago )

"So maybe for you guys will look like I am lying but my sister as it is right now cost approximately U$7900,00."

There must be a mistype in their some place. Or there are just things happening in other places in the world that I can't fathom being from Toronto, Canada.

@Godshand: That would just make everything expensive and the days of big screen televisions and hi-tech electronics in every home would be over.

We would have our manufacturing jobs back, but I bet you these big companies would still pay us crap anyway. Manufacturing jobs for $10 an hour is just wrong!

RedDragan4891d ago

If the wording is correct then I am sure it is a dialect issue, not that he is pimping out his sister lol...

I would imagine it is a newborn and the initial cost (hospital fee's, foods, clothes, decoration for the room etc.) will cost that much. It would be far less in the western nations.

This would also tie in perfectly with what I mentioned above. Brazil has it's "have's and have not's" in a way that we could not possibly imagine in nations like the USA, Cananda, UK, France, Germany etc.

The rich are rich, and the poor are poor. The middle class is sparce... but hey, with an economic growth of 9%... and a stable predicted growth of 4-5%... in a nation of 150M... this guy will not have to wait long until the import tax is removed. With the rising numbers of middle class people on the way, they will be producing their own stuff.

nVidia, Intel etc will be moving in there ramp up the retail within 10 years! It is looking good for Brazil despite what the news agencies are saying about the infrastructure... we should all know that Brazil is not going to allow it to decay further now that the nation is finally progressing.

For products costing $500 in the USA, he could be only paying $650 instead of the current $1000+.

I quite like brazil... I really want to have babies with the latino ladies there!!! MMMMmmmmmm! LOL

BISHOP-BRASIL4891d ago (Edited 4891d ago )

He probably meant "system", standing for PC. I'm brazillian and "sister" don't make any sense to me too...

Anyway, the problem here in Brazil is that our government is tax happy. Althouth the minimum wage is barelly over 275 USD per month we pay more taxes than many fully developed countries with high HDI. Tax wise Brazil is comparable to Norway or Sweden.

Not only the tax is high but it's dumb too. Take importation just as an example. They never get it right to what tax in the package, I have imported guitar parts in the past from StewMac.com and I got widely results. Sometimes they tax both the stated price + the mailing costs, I had been graced with them just taxing the mailing costs once, everything takes a long time as they don't get where to fit your product, as the time when my package with a bass bridge and turners got stuck for further investigation as for imported FOOD, they had more than once tried to tax me for free ad magazines StewMac send me (and any pressed media not aimed for resell is isent of tax by law)...

Not only they aren't wise enough for a Customs Agency, but their math is not from this world. Like a package comes in, not only they mistakenly tax 60% over the product + mail as for national importation tax (IPI) but they mess things up againg on State level, like I live in São Paulo city, within the homonimous State, so I have to pay other taxes this product avoided, like ICMS, which runs for 25% of the value of the products, but more commonly than anyone would like they apply this tax over product + mail + IPI, overlaping taxes.

I have payed as high as 135% over some products + mailing before. As well as I have many times paid no tax at all because Customs simply failed to stop my product and go straigth for mailing. It's simply a really unefficient system, on top of the fact this national industries protection policy actually protects no one as we usually only import what has no parallel factored here... Like now anyone here buy a Blu-ray disc will buy one factored here but 2 years a go there were no local production while there were already players on stores, resulting on tax going down the drain.

On the matter of videogames there have been national products from TecToy way before Zeebo, most of which were licenced SEGA old consoles rip off, but no one made physical media for sale beyond PC games while you can grab any console in popular electronics stores nowadays, so I don't see the point in tax for importation. The problem with Sony here now is that they are still importing everything and just boxing here, which don't save 'em much of taxes plus they have to go through brazillian stardizations and laws, unless they step up their factory here (which at this moment, beyond boxing, only assemble PS2s) people will run back to grey market or worse as it's starting to become easier to purchase a Jailbreaked PS3 here (I had been in grey market last month to buy the G27 which isn't released in here and almost every store in my region were offering both standard and jailbreaked PS3s with a not so big difference in price, were the hell they found that many 3.42 FWed PS3s I don't know) and they will loose control again.

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jriquelme_paraguay4891d ago

here... Move Cost about 180 U$D...
but if i buy from Amazon, and my courier, cost about 120 U$D

BISHOP-BRASIL4891d ago

That's why so many brazillians cross the border to Paraguay to buy electronics, as each person can legally bring 300 USD worth of products back to Brazil without paying taxes.

But the conversion USD/BRL is different in Brazil and Paraguay so people end up bringing back a little over 300 dollars of products still legally.

saladthieves4891d ago (Edited 4891d ago )

I had the same thought...they just received the short end (and expensive) of the stick! It's kind of weird that the Move is costing a lot more than it is supposed to. Any ideas why? Does it have to deal with shipping costs?

madpuppy4891d ago

do you remember when you kicked Bishop Brennen in the arse?

good stuff....

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renanbianchi4891d ago

That's why piracy reigns on Brazil. NO one is crazy enough to buy it. Everyone imports or get it from grey market, aka doesn't pay any taxes.

Redempteur4891d ago

well you can't pirate move ... the games yes but not the device itself ...

So it'll be grey market all the way

Azfargh4891d ago

Thank god for Amazon and Ebay

Hozi894891d ago

You think it suck for them? I live in Trinidad and Tobago and you can't find a PS3 for less the $3800TT. The currency here is 6tt to 1us dollar.

It's an outrage...especially when retailers here are selling greatest hit titles for $500tt and who knows how much the Move bundle will sell for?

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Microsoft once tried to nab LittleBigPlanet from Sony after a few drinks

It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.

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XiNatsuDragnel3d ago

Microsoft had a good idea but fumbled it again.

Cacabunga1d 23h ago (Edited 1d 23h ago )

Project Spark idea was decent but they quickly gave up ..
LBP was wonderful

ApocalypseShadow2d ago

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.

Zachmo1821d 22h ago

Microsoft didn't force MLB on Xbox. MLB gave Sony 2 options either go multiplat or risk losing the license.

Rynxie1d 12h ago

And why do you think MLB said that? I believe Ms approached MLB.

ApocalypseShadow1d 11h ago (Edited 1d 11h ago )

Totally ridiculous comment.

The only exclusivity Sony had was to their own creation of The Show. Microsoft could have paid the MLB for the license just like Sony did and made their own baseball game.

Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox. They're worth 3 TRILLION dollars. You think that's not enough money to make their own baseball game? Don't be delusional.

Microsoft spun it like they always do and told the media that they had to trust Sony with their hardware. After they put Sony in that position of not having a choice. Either go multiplatform or stop making one of their successful games. That's a no win scenario.

And what did Microsoft do? They didn't try to sell the game to the Xbox community. They put it on game pass to hurt Sony. Pushing the idea of why buy games that are $70 when you can play them in their cheap service for $10. It was a dirty tactic.

You fell for the Kool aid drink Microsoft served you instead of spitting it out. Hope it tasted good because you were fooled by Phil and the gang.

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Hereandthere1d 3h ago

Xbox executive Sara Bond has told Axios that Microsoft spent a number of years trying to get MLB The Show onto Xbox consoles. And when it finally succeeded in breaking off PlayStation’s long-held exclusivity, the company had to “trust” Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X/S consoles.

Bond revealed that MLB The Show “always came up” in conversations between Microsoft and the Major League Baseball organization. “We always said, ‘We love this game. It would be a huge opportunity to bring it to Xbox.'” she recalled. However, when Microsoft’s efforts materialized, it put the company in an awkward situation where it had to send in pre-release consoles to a rival company.

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Notellin1d 9h ago

"Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox."

Take a nap, conspiracies are rotting your brain.

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Hereandthere1d 3h ago

Xbox executive Sara Bond has told Axios that Microsoft spent a number of years trying to get MLB The Show onto Xbox consoles. And when it finally succeeded in breaking off PlayStation’s long-held exclusivity, the company had to “trust” Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X/S consoles.

ApocalypseShadow13h ago

Lying to yourself is unbecoming.

Article link tells you all you need to know in Sarah Bond's own words.

Hereandthere1d 3h ago

They were too cheap/inept/lazy to develop their own mlb game, so they port begged for years and bribed the mlb to make the show multiplatform. Like i said many times, xbox brought nothing to the table their 24 years, ZERO.

ApocalypseShadow13h ago

At least you and others get it. Note drank the Kool aid and asked for seconds thinking it was refreshing.

Most don't even know how it all played out but it's there in black and white for all to see. Microsoft brought it up for years until the MLB forced Sony's hand. It was a win win for Microsoft. Kill one reason to buy a PlayStation or kill the game by dropping it in a cheap service to kill Sony's sales numbers on PlayStation.

OtterX2d ago

"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.

Cockney8h ago

They chose well, Sony gave them the backing to pursue their dreams with no restrictions even tho their games especially dreams have very niche appeal. Media molecule and Sony deserve respect for this in an age of risk averse publishing.

RNTody2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

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?

Inverno2d ago

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.

Sheppard7t31d 22h ago

How did Sony kill the series?

Inverno1d 22h ago

They shut down the servers, that's millions of user created levels gone. That and dead are pretty much the same, it's also been years since 3 and they cancelled HUB soooo.

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fsfsxii1d 8h ago

They shutdown the servers because no one was playing, no one in the community cared about the user created levels so why keep them up? Wtf you guys would never succeed in running a business.

Inverno1d 7h ago

Yea dood no one was playing so they shut off the servers. Cause people with enough common sense can't just Google why they were actually shut of, right?

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