PlayStation 2 now officially launched in Brazil, seriously

Posted Nov 19, 2009 at 2:31PM by Glenn M. Listed in: PS3 Tags: PS2, Sony

That's not a typo on the title, you read that right. "New" and "PS2" can still be used in the same sentence, without being a smart-ass. The PS3 has just turned three, and its nine-year-old older brother is still making progress - believe it or not, Sony has just officially launched the PlayStation 2 in Brazil.

Even more astounding is that the PS2 retails in the country at R$ 799, or a hefty US$ 465 - a price that could get you an 80GB PS3 and a couple of games in the United States. The reason for the insane price is because Brazil has import taxes from hell, hitting 60% since the 90s.

Games have been around retailing at around R$199, which would be about US$ 115, Kotaku reports. Certainly, the country's black market has already brought PS2s into the country years ago. C'mon, it's Brazil, not a freakin' cave.

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Comments

# Wow... — D.Dark 2009-11-19 10:29

just Wow!

# lol — Portable 2009-11-19 10:47

I feel like stabbing the CEO of Sony haha

# lol — gogeta85 2009-11-19 11:02

There selling the "ps2" like its just so dam advanced in hardware,man brazil really has it tough.

# Seriously.. The F! — Alycan 2009-11-19 11:05

Except from the "what the hell." The following catches my eye:

"That's not a typo on the title, you read that right. "New" and "PS2" can still be used in the same sentence"

The title states:

"PlayStation 2 now officially launched in Brazil, seriously"

Where do you find the word "new" in the title..

... Someone would have said this eventually.

# wow.... — jerix954 2009-11-19 11:18

Just when I thought things were bad...

# last money maker — ZaDoo 2009-11-19 11:19

Wow... I geas that sony made a couple few buck before the PS2 is out of date.

On the other had, could they just buy a PS2 from Ebay?

# Think you misunderstood — Daistaar 2009-11-19 11:32

The sentence using ' "New" and "PS2" can still be used in the same sentence" ' is correct and not tied to the title, "Playstation 2 now officially launched in Brazil, seriously." the concept is that you can use the words "new" and "PS2" in the same sentence in reference to Brazil and it'd be correct. The reference to "not being a typo" refers to PS2 offically launches" where most people would instinctively think PS2 is the typo instead of PS3. Just pointed it out since you knew someone eventually would lol!

On topic: That is sad, pricing is horrendous, but it probably is pretty high end tech there. I'm not sure how developed or industrialized Brazil is, but I've been to neighboring Ecuador and Peru with my wife and my cell phone had more technology than most towns!

# I am brazilian — vitorgatti 2009-11-19 11:36

And what I can say is: LOL, Sony.

I have my PS2 since 2002 (a phat one, paid R$950~US$558 with modchip), and they "release" it now.

If you go to any other store here in Brazil, PS2 is costing R$500 (US$294), and some places they sell PS2 for R$600 (US$352) WITH modchip, 2 controllers and a memory card.

And Sony is selling a single PS2 in their official store for R$799?!

HAHAHAHA man, that is funny

Yes, eletronic stuff is ALWAYS going to be expensive for us, but sometimes things are a little abusive, eh Sony?

PS: PS3 here costs, normally, R$1500 (US$882) and PS3 games cost around R$250 each (US$147). I buy my PS3 games from play-asia (around US$65 including shipping costs), but some people simply don't know they can do that, or how to do that (buy from internet).

Yeah, that sucks, and also we have extreme lag playing any game in PSN, or XBOXLive, or whatever.

So, stop whinning about PS3 features and prices (LOL, everybody begging for PS3 price drop... I'd love to pay US$399 in this console) and THANK GOD you pay US$299 in a PS3 ;)

# Not sonys fault? — nehebkau 2009-11-19 11:36

It wouldn't make sense for Sony to have waited so long. I guess it really takes long with a lot of things in brazil (bureaucracy)?

Sucks to be them! But then again like the article says they should already have had the PS2 years and are now playing on their PS3s ;-)

# yeah like our friends says — rufotattoo 2009-11-19 11:46

well over there all they can get are imports and that often comes at 2 or 3 x more of the original amount if its a launch console whom ever can export there charge for example 00 plus for a 300$ console even when they launch over there whci was the case of xbox 360 here you could buy for 0 over there it was 00 brazilian dollars original microsoft release at at 2 for 1 in currency.

Over there you can either get the original boxed console or the moded for a little more and buy pirate games for 5-10 dollars instead of the original- that over there costs a wopping 100 plus- ps3 games there are 200 plus...

There was never a console release from sony over there hopefully with this if they dont charge an absurd price even thou its a ps2 where u can buy here for 100 dollars and send over there and get the console modified with the modchip to play pirated games...

lets c how it will turn out but i dont think it will do anything good for sony, perhaps if the console comes out cheap they will sell- i doubt that- but for the same purpose to piracy.

yeah ebay and play asia they have to declare the amount of merchandise they are exporting and to brazil its only allowed no more then 50$ with out penalty if its more then 50$ declared and if they hold over there it can take uo to 3-6 months for the person to receive a letter saying that its holded that the federal reserve and they have to pay a penalty- like a tax- to take it out..it really sucks my friend had to pay almost 300 total brazilian dollars for his demon soul ps3 game...

# Hmm.... — Bountyhunter53 2009-11-19 12:19

They may have forgotten that a country called "Brazil" exists.

Kaz Hirai: What can we do to sell more of our stuff?

Employee: I hear that the government suspects that there's another country under America. Ill find out where it is, and it will cost billions of dollars.

Kaz Hirai: OK, do it!

......After 5 years of researching......

Employee: After 5 years of searching I have found it sir!

Kaz Hirai: WHERE IS IT?!?!?!

Employee: Apparently the new country is called Brazil....

Kaz Hirai: Great! Lets sell our PS2's there!

# sad. — quadraxas 2009-11-19 13:09

bad for them.

While you are at it you may also want to hear this.

Altough the ps3 is relased on same date as rest of the world, the official release of the XBOX360 in Turkey was like 10 days ago... but eveyone have been playing unofficially imported Xbox360s, since there were no official release of the console there was nearly no original copies of games, everyone HAD to pirate games. And if you happen to get RROD with an unofficial xbox, you have nowhere to go.

# well — SuperSZ 2009-11-19 13:48

kinda offtopic, but they STILL sell new Sega Genesis's where I live.

# what's funny — StingBlah 2009-11-19 14:22

is that you paid $558 for a PS2. That sh*t is downright hilarious! LOL. You got RIPPED, dude.

# > — Rucario 2009-11-19 14:38

I'm brazilian too, and guy, the import taxes here are REALY from HELL. Sony will never win the black market while selling imported consoles. The only way that the price would be fair is producting the console HERE, not importing, but I think it will not happen any time soon. Also, people who still buy PS2 don't even know that Sony officialy sells it now.

---

About Genesis still being selled, it's Tectoy who sells it, and Tectoy is a *****y company.

# :O — lolwut? 2009-11-19 14:50

Send me one

# :( — MorbidAugie 2009-11-19 15:05

Thats so so sad. it breaks my heart. im glad i live in America...no offence brazil um you still have the hottest babes in bikinis, in the hottest beaches! :)

# [FACEPALM] — Guest 2010-01-19 13:34

auhuahuauauahu

If you ask an Unitedstatian (America is a continent not a country) abou Brazil, he'll probably say: Samba, Ronaldo, soccer, Rio, Buenos Aires!

kkkkkkkkkkkkk, but really, i have a brand new MasterSistem (genesis in USA) and a SNES, and most sadly is that ABNT just set a new power plug padron only existing in Brazil... just to make the companies have at least a conversion factory in the country...

# Brazil — Aceboogz 2009-11-19 15:07

Full of piracy and corruption.

# Come to Buenos Aires — SuperSZ 2009-11-19 15:16

and you will find them for just 26 dollars. ... if you are grateful to me (for having told you that) you can send me some PS3 games, xD jk ;)

# Okay — Navani 2009-11-19 16:07

Well I'll assume the Philippines and Brazil are the same with the black market, and that means: You can go to the mall to buy pirated games for 110 pesos (like $2.35?), any console purchased is pre-modded (meaning PS3 is extremely rare), and consoles are priced highly.. so I guess this is just like a "why not?" effort?

# [FACEPALM] — Guest 2010-01-19 13:37

brazil's currency, ist the Real, and we've been keepin' it Real since 94, peso is argentinian and mexican, and... those spanish speakin dudes

# LOL — MagilsugaM 2009-11-19 16:28

Yeah is funny how in Buenos Aires where i used to live they still sell Sega Genesis 3, they are awesome and all the games as well. They are oficcial lisensed by Sega, they still make them in China then export them to countries like ours. Not bad huh but the NES they sell are fake though those chinese rip off...LOL

# Argentina too — MagilsugaM 2009-11-19 16:31

we sell modded consoles on shops, i think the only one that doesnt sell it modded is Walmart XP. But games can be found anywhere, see why 360 are being sold a lot in America... 1/3 of those are being sent to South America to being modded and sold.

# To clarify some things — vingadorjr2 2009-11-19 17:51

Daistaar... Im brazilian and i can assure you that a misunderstandin g are going on here. Here, we arent a under developed country, by any mean. Here, we have everything the rest of the world have, iPhones, next-gen consoles, and everything you all have. The only diference between us and you, americans and english, is that we dont manufacture or mass-produce many of the last-gen kind of gadgets or technology. We are a emerging country and culture, because of this, we do have many problems in regard some assumptions like politics. The import taxes here are indeed very high in comparation to the marjoroty of the countrys, but it doesnt mean we dont have money. Here we have a culture of import the newests gadgets and techs, because we have money on our pockets to pay the taxes. as said before, we are a emerging country, like China for exemple, but we dont win our money by manufacturing eletronic like China, we win our money by developing a lucrative agriculture business, the same fruits and crops you eat, and by other means. Take me for exemple, i always had the newests consoles since the Atari age, i buy a PS3 on the first week of his cicle and have the newest games. Sorry if i sound a little rush, but im not caring, realy, i do think all of this is very funny to be thuth (^^), and im only posting this comment here to put some light on some of those people that think th USA are the center of the world and europe and asia are the corners. No... you are all wrong, a little to the south have a country almost large as yours, that have a forest worth zilions and that are as rich as ou (americans) are on this moment of crises. To make the things short, we dont manufactory eletronics, we are weel know by this falt, but we arent poor and can pay some import taxes or other little things like that.

# Im brazilian — vingadorjr2 2009-11-19 18:01

Yu are wrong rufotattoo... we only wait 15/30 days maximun to receive our imports from asia, 7/15 days from USA. The rest of the things you have said are all wrong.

# Listen to a Brazilian :P — vingadorjr2 2009-11-19 18:10

Im brazilian and i can assure you that a misunderstandin g are going on here. Here, we arent a under developed country, by any mean. Here, we have everything the rest of the world have, iPhones, next-gen consoles, and everything you all have. The only diference between us and you, americans and english, is that we dont manufacture or mass-produce many of the last-gen kind of gadgets or technology. We are a emerging country and culture, because of this, we do have many problems in regard some assumptions like politics. The import taxes here are indeed very high in comparation to the marjoroty of the countrys, but it doesnt mean we dont have money. Here we have a culture of import the newests gadgets and techs, because we have money on our pockets to pay the taxes. as said before, we are a emerging country, like China for exemple, but we dont win our money by manufacturing eletronic like China, we win our money by developing a lucrative agriculture business, the same fruits and crops you eat, and by other means. Take me for exemple, i always had the newests consoles since the Atari age, i buy a PS3 on the first week of his cicle and have the newest games. Sorry if i sound a little rush, but im not caring, realy, i do think all of this is very funny to be thuth (^^), and im only posting this comment here to put some light on some of those people that think th USA are the center of the world and europe and asia are the corners. No... you are all wrong, a little to the south have a country almost large as yours, that have a forest worth zilions and that are as rich as ou (americans) are on this moment of crises. To make the things short, we dont manufactory eletronics, we are weel know by this falt, but we arent poor and can pay some import taxes or other little things like that. Here we dont serious problems with piracy too, its truth you can find modded consoles and pirated games everywhere (not on the malls)... but its more like a culture problem than a money one, keep that in mind. And the last thing, 70% of my friends have a PS3 full of games, and a do think that this decision to only bring the PS2 officialy to our country was because some plans are being made by Sony, disregardless of price point. ;) So, lets stop with the geocentric american way to be and be more cult about other countrys. ;)

# [FACEPALM] — Guest 2010-01-19 13:43

Ta bem cara você é brasileiro mas porra mano, dava pra maneirar nos erros de ingles, você simplesmente ignora os tempos verbais!

Translate!

Ok dude, u r brazilian, but damn man, don't kill english language, you just ignore verb time!

# Amen bro! — duy817 2009-11-19 22:26

that's what i was thinking in my head already but you said my thoughts in words..

i'm from tx, usa.

# omfg — RaphaelDDL 2009-11-20 02:44

You just said everything.

# ... — vitorgatti 2009-11-20 06:42

Brazil is America too :)

# .... — Silver-Tiger 2009-11-20 06:50

the funny thing is, why do they evebn bring out The PS2 at all. Next year the PS3 is released in Brazil.

# @StingBlah — vitorgatti 2009-11-20 06:52

yeah, I paid US$558 in a PS2.

I would not say hilarious, but kinda sad +/

what I never understood was WHY a lot of people always complained about PS3's price (US$399).

dude, if PS3 was being sold here for R$678~US$399, I would have a PS3 for each room in my house LOL

people in richer countries don't know how CHEAP they pay electronic stuff

# MagilsugaM — SuperSZ 2009-11-20 13:07

haha yeah exactly, I remember that I had the fake version of NES when I was 4 years old. It was awesome, very affordable. Too bad they don't make fake versions of PS3s, 360's and Wii's (that actually plays their games xD)

# :0 — DXcellence 2009-11-20 14:15

Lol Sony violated Brazil hard body. Damn, i knew other countries get consoles real late, but the ps2???? I was expected the 360, and look at the price there selling it lol. I was able to get a ps2 for like 199 back in like 2004.

Brazil still have the better *****es though

# [FACEPALM] — Guest 2010-01-19 13:45

and hottest bikini girls

# Sony's at it again — pookiepoo 2009-11-21 00:51

Really sony... a console that is nearly a decade old for the price of a ps3 what a load of BS. I never thought I'd say this but there almost becoming as bad as M$. lol

Anyway I doubt that they'll sell alot at that price. Based on the likelihood that people that have that kind of money in Brazil would have imported it ages ago.

# - — mr.x256 2009-11-23 06:20

As I remember Brazil was still selling the SEGA Master System new in stores until 1998! Considering that, a PS2 launch doesn't seem so strange.

@ gogeta85: If Brazil has import taxes hitting 60%, who is going to buy a PS3 there? A PS2 launch seems more logical.

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