Comments on: What’s up with game companies ignoring South America? http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/02/15/whats-up-with-game-companies-ignoring-south-america/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:26:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: humberto http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/02/15/whats-up-with-game-companies-ignoring-south-america/#comment-591676 humberto Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:51:15 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/02/15/whats-up-with-game-companies-ignoring-south-america/#comment-591676 i agreed with federico am from venezuela and It's the same thing here it's too damn expensive to buy a gaming console or a gaming computer i agreed with federico am from venezuela and It’s the same thing here it’s too damn expensive to buy a gaming console or a gaming computer

]]> By: Federico Almada http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/02/15/whats-up-with-game-companies-ignoring-south-america/#comment-591599 Federico Almada Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:28:04 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/02/15/whats-up-with-game-companies-ignoring-south-america/#comment-591599 Am from Argentina... and I have recently bought a PSP which... as you may imagine... is hard to feed with new games... well.. 'with games'. A new PSP from Sony Style here costs from 1200 upto 2000 "pesos" (yes, it depends if you get it from Buenos Aires, or anywhere outside there), while the games cost from 150 to 300 "pesos". So... buying a PSP at the lower price, is the same as getting 4 -new- (6 months old) games (1200 = 300x4). One of the main things are the taxes... if you get something from outside at 100 dollars, you have to pay at least 100 dollars for getting in here... so, just there you have 200% of the original price. Then, the seller wants to make some money, so... add 50 to 100% from that, and you get that a game of 30 dollars, cost around 90 to 120 dollars... nice, isn't it? Anyways... just to add as a final detail... our average salary is around 800 to 1000 pesos... so... it is not (and will not be) easy to be a PSP (or PS3, XBox 360, DS, Wii) player in Argentina... at least you have a loooot of money :) (unluckily, i dont :P) Am from Argentina… and I have recently bought a PSP which… as you may imagine… is hard to feed with new games… well.. ‘with games’.

A new PSP from Sony Style here costs from 1200 upto 2000 “pesos” (yes, it depends if you get it from Buenos Aires, or anywhere outside there), while the games cost from 150 to 300 “pesos”. So… buying a PSP at the lower price, is the same as getting 4 -new- (6 months old) games (1200 = 300×4).

One of the main things are the taxes… if you get something from outside at 100 dollars, you have to pay at least 100 dollars for getting in here… so, just there you have 200% of the original price. Then, the seller wants to make some money, so… add 50 to 100% from that, and you get that a game of 30 dollars, cost around 90 to 120 dollars… nice, isn’t it?

Anyways… just to add as a final detail… our average salary is around 800 to 1000 pesos… so… it is not (and will not be) easy to be a PSP (or PS3, XBox 360, DS, Wii) player in Argentina… at least you have a loooot of money :) (unluckily, i dont :P)

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