Hey everyone! How are you guys and girls doing? Hope you're all fine. I don't have nothing important to post and neither any achievement on any game, so since now I have some users tracking me, I'll re-post a blog that I made when no one was tracking me, which I found a good idea.
Again, I'd like to let you all know that Brazil isn't a jungle like many foreign people may think. Brazilians also don't live naked (though it'd be nice if some hot girls did) and the Amazon Rainforest's part of Brazil, and not world's garden. Alright, the Brazilian government doesn't watch our frontiers as they should, but that's not easy when you're the fifth largest country in the world. You say: "USA is larger than Brazil and we can watch our frontiers very well". In the north you've got Canada, in the south you've got Mexico and in both west and east you've got sea.
We've got the sea only in the eastern part of our country. Summing north, south and west, we have frontiers with not less than ten countries. Anyway, let's quit the Geography lesson and go to the post.
If there's a crime that we Brazilians commit and don't pay for is the piracy. I'm not talking about drugs, guns or bio-piracy. I'm talking about games. That's because games prices are absolutely abusive. The taxes on them are over usual and this is what keeps internationally renowned game producers out of Brazil. Almost all the consoles may be modified to run pirated games. Some of them, like the GBA and the DS don't even need to be modified, pirated games work fine on them. The only console that can't run pirated games (until now) is the PS3. But how many Brazilians own a PS3? You could count using your fingers, because the price of the consoles is almost as abusive as the games. Take a look at the numbers:
* Wii: R$1,200 (U$522)
* Xbox 360 Premium 20GB: R$1,700 (U$739)
* PLAYSTATION 3 80GB (it's not PlayStation anymore): R$2,500 (U$1,087)
* PS2 chip mod for running pirated games: R$100 (U$43)
* Wii chip mod for running pirated games: R$200 (U$86)
* Original NDS game: R$140 (U$61)
* Pirated NDS game: R$40 (U$17)
* Original PS2 game: R$120 (U$52)
* Pirated PS2 game: R$8 (U$3)
* Original Wii game: R$170 (U$74)
* Pirated Wii game: R$10 (U$4)
Obs.: 1 real = 2,3 dollars right now/ these prices are an average, so they might not be too accurate.
Take a look at the games sold on discs, enterprises just can't beat piracy. It's a sad reality, but it'll keep like this until the government realize it's losing more money than it would if it decreased taxes for games.
Song of The Post
The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name
A pretty addictive song that I hope you like.
Have a good weekend.