Nintendo will stop selling in Brazil
Taxes are too high
Despite what Nintendo says are its "many passionate fans" in Brazil, the company will stop selling its games and consoles there, due to the increasingly high tariffs and taxes being added to the price of electronics. Electronics costs are surprisingly high in Brazil, where a Playstation 4 costs the equivalent of $1,500 USD, and the Xbox One clocks in at around $800 USD.
Honestly though, if Brazilian Nintendo fans are willing to pay crazy high prices for a Wii or Nintendo game, why not let them? I'm not sure what Nintendo stands to gain by pulling out of Brazil. Unless it is, as Kotaku speculates, a move intended as a form of protest against the country's tax structure.
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