Showing posts with label international gaming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label international gaming. Show all posts
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Post from Argentina
Although your NPC is on vacation in Argentina, I´ve discovered some interesting information about the relatively untapped markets in South America that I´d like to share. Gaming is not as prevalent here, and per my discussions with some locals, piracy is absolutely the norm. The two issues seem to be a lack of parity whereby South Americans generally do not have the purchasing power to even consider legitimately buying a game for USD60 and also the lack of controls and consequences in the online world. As a result, South American gamers seem to have the idea that anything found online should be free, and without any serious legal ramifications, they turn the idea into reality. I feel as though there must be some better way to approach this market. There is always a level of acceptable loss when it comes to exporting a product to other countries, and clearly prices have not come down enough to truly take advantage of the buying potential in South America.
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