This is Paulo de Campos aka Lord Eternal, a 34 year old gamer living in the city of Salvador and the proud owner of the first PS4 purchased in Brazil. The next-gen console set Paulo back a whopping R$ 4000 or the equivalent $1800 due to an outrageous import tax .
GH – And why buy here, paying R$ 4.000,00, if it can be bought by other means at a lower price?
Primarily because of the full warranty, and secondly because it’s more accessible to me. I only had to go to the mall to fetch it.
GH – So you didn’t think R$ 4.000,00 was expensive?
No, I’m used to video games being expensive. I’ve been a gamer for 30 years, after all this time I am used to the prices. Unfortunately, in Brazil it has never been easy to buy games or consoles, the prices are always excessive.
GH – What are your thoughts so far about the Brazilian PS4? Is it all in Portuguese? Did you buy games, the camera?
Due to the PSN servers being overloaded I couldn’t play yet. I found no physical games, and I could’t download the ones I had already bought on PSN either. I didn’t buy the camera because it wasn’t available in any store.
GH – What would you say to the people who will criticize you for spending R$ 4.000,00 on a console?
That’s a good question. I’d say that it’s a free world, we are in a free and capitalist country. Everyone is free to buy whatever they want. If it’s on the shelf of a store, it’s for the public to purchase. It’s no big deal.
-NeoGaf
source:
http://www.gamebreaker.tv/culture/brazi ... station-4/
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