Next Gen prices... in Brazil. Prepare to be scared

Supposedly Nintendo never sells their systems at a loss, which is why they've been making ALL THE MONEY (especially from the DS/3DS line).

Also someone needs to mention that in the US the price you see is never the price you pay (except a couple states), because each state has a different sales tax (some have no sales tax). I know in Illinois it's 6%, which isn't 60% or anything, but still means that if I get a PS4 at launch, it'll cost $425 instead of $400. Plus municipality sales tax.

Basically America is a marble cake of screwing you.

 

I'm certain most of the international members here disagree with that statement...

 

yeah I'm visiting Sao Paulo right now and stopped by a couple gaming stores. Everything's super pricey! I'm more into retro games so I brought a bunch of my PS2 games from USA and traded them for SNES and N64 games at Bubsy Games in Sao Paulo. I'd rather trade for games if I can.

 

Quite frankly, I am not surprised. I still remember when the PS2 came out in Denmark the price was 10.000 kroner (1340 $ and 56 cents). But Brazil is a completely different matter than my small country.

 

Up until recently, yeah, but they're selling the Wii U at a loss.

 

I forgot that, but other than the Wii U, and maybe the 3DS after they dropped the price the first time, they don't sell at a loss.

Maybe it explains why Nintendo hasn't had the most powerful hardware the last couple generations.

 

Let's compare small countries then...

In Uruguay, the deluxe WiiU set sells for USD 900.
We still don't have the prices for the next Xbox or Playstation, but to give you an idea, the Xbox 360 with Kinect is selling for USD 570. And even more insane, the regular plain old wii (a black one) still sells for USD 330. A higher price than the one Nintendo set for RELEASE of the Wii in the US.