We all know or have heard how crazy is the Brazilian games industry. With those recent prices cuts internationally, the price reduction and exchange rates are benefiting the Brazilian gamers. It is a small benefit since the local tax system makes imported electronic goods to reach high record levels in Brazil.
Submarino(can be considered as the Brazilian Amazon.com), is selling the three most desired consoles as shown bellow:
40Gb PS3 –$1,499 BRL / $832 USD
NintendoWii w/ Wii Sports - $1,999 / $1,110 USD
XBOX 360 (20GbHD and 04 platinum games) - $2,299 BRL / 1,277 USD
Microsoft is the only company that officially launched the console in Brazil. Sony hasonly officially launched the PS2 so far and announced that will manufacture consoles in Brazil. Nintendo executives say that have plans, but are waiting for some tax reductions.
Lets wait for the next moves.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
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Nice find, I got some friends in brazil that I keep asking them if they got a gaming system yet, and they always say "there to damn expensive here!".
And i thought we Aussies had it bad.
I feel your pain man. Ps3 in Aus is $700 but the 360 and wii arent as bad as your pricing. Gaming sure is expensive if your unfortunate enough to live outside the US....
I knew consoles were expensive over there but holy crap.
Well there's absolutely no reason for them to purchase a 360 or a Wii over the PS3.
this is because you guys dind't saw the games pricing
like $300 or more for games lauched in the last 3 months, heck some games continue in $150~200 even after one year the game lauched...
this is why there a lot of piracy here...