Caniggia said:
I've been to Brazil twice and the game is so popular there. I could talk to anybody about it. If I move there in the future I am sure to have many more competetors than in Sweden, where Konamis football game has been out officially for 11 years.
I was talking to a guy that were in charge of Sony distrubution in Brazil and they wouldn't sell the PS2 officially there because of all the piracy. But we talked about it and there would be a huge market in Brazil if you could only put down the prices so that the average football interested could buy the game. But that price would be like 5pounds and would be such a difference from every other market,that it would be discriminating
I'd love to see the Copa Libertadores so that you could have the World Club Cup Final when you won the Champions League.
I completly agree with you.
I leave on Argentina, our market is similar to brazil but smaller (brazil pop. 187.000.000, arg pop. 37.000.000).
Here is really hard to buy a PS2, not because it's price (a lot of people can afford it) but because the taxes. I bought mine from USA, but the people that tryes to buy it on local stores has to pay about 1350 pesos (340 euros, would you pay 1350 euros for a PS2?).
The same applies to games, the cost from a new original ps2 game is about 220 pesos (would you pay 220 euros for a new game?). Of course, 220 pesos are about 55 euros, but our salaries are payed on Pesos.
So... most of us gets the PS2 from resellers, they buy it on usa for 150 uss and sells here for 250 uss on webs similar to e-bay. About games, well... piracy rules, people buy it for only 15 pesos on stores and only a minority buys original games (some parents for their childs). There's some exceptions... some people (like me) will buy original PES to play it online. (220 pesos
).
As you said, everybody plays WE on Latin America, some have PS2 (it's expensive, but there is a lot of ps fans here) and others plays on cybercafes (stores to acces to internet, some have ps2 there to play). There's tournaments every weekend on a lot of places but we still dont get a local production of the game so we have to play backups. In this case, I'll expense 1/6 of my salary on this game... (220 pesos = 40 lunches on my office buffet).
Maybe someday they will make a local version and sell it a cheaper price (50 pesos). Until then, pircay will continue rullling here and people will have to buy a PS2 from people that buy it on USA and sells it, without paying taxes, on the web. And of course, we will continue witotuh enough attention from .
Back on topic: Of course, i voted for argentinean league, but i'll like to play with brazilian's teams too. Players that will be stars on PES7 or PES8 right now are playing on latin america, on teams like Boca (Palacio, Gago), River (Belluschi, Higuaín, Falcao), San Pablo, Flamengo, Fluminense, Velez, Estudiantes, etc . Right now, there is only 3 la teams on PES and they are underrated and outdated (1 year outdated).
