I don't get all this rage... Are you a Sony shareholder or whatever? We are talking about a single (digital) game costing almost half of the country minimum wage. It isn't very difficult to see people in such countries migrating to a different platform in the long term just because it is cheaper and they can afford more games.
No rage, I’m legit saying that if price becomes out of reach for certain people and they migrate to another platform, that in itself is an outcome that is predictable and factored into the decision of raising price.
What you don’t seem to understand is that it is ok for people to migrate. It’s not difficult for you to see and it’s not difficult for anybody to see.
You talked about Apple and it’s the same thing here, Apple won’t drop their prices just so everyone can afford one of their products. They want to hit a certain segment of the market and serve them.
The whole concern thing is just tiresome. Analyzing what’s happening from the POV that people who are making the decisions are straight up dumb? Maybe they aren’t the dumb ones.
Sony has made it very clear that it wants PS5 to be seen as a premium product, its games as premium entertainment.
Brazil is the 12th market, and most of it is mobile, consoles are 29%. Government imposes a lot of taxes on it, and some companies will take a hit and others won’t.
Looking at it objectively, Brazilian gamers should be kicking a shit storm at the governments door instead of taking private companies to task. Nintendo was out of that market for years, not so long ago.
Don’t complain that the product you don’t want is cheaper than the one you want, it’s an absurd complaint.