Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Wait, wait.... 1800, AMERICAN DOLLARS!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

O_O

That's THREE TIMES WHAT IT COST IN AMERICA!

It'll cost about R$3100.00, and according to Google: 3 100 Brazil reais = 1 449.47866 U.S. dollars

Let me remind you that half of it is taxes. Over here, videogames are the non-tobacco and non-alcohool items with highest taxes, because our government tries to control the defict of what comes in and gets out of the country. Sadly, the taxes are applied to videogames sold by brazillian stores regardless of where the videogame was produced, so it kills our videogame industry as well. When the politicians responsible for this ruling are asked, they claim not to know exactly what a videogame is.

Still, even considering the taxes, it's still quite expensive. So, what happens is, we tend to buy videogames from overseas, mostly america and asia, through the internet, a strategy that some people from europe also resort to. But that's what Sony is trying to fight. They are closing down Hong Kong websites that sold videogames cheaper all over the world LEGALLY so they can have more money into their pockets.