Video games in Brazil
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video-games-in-brazil-176-11925919
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Video games in Brazil
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Brazil is the 10th-largest video game market in the world as of 2022, and the largest in Latin America, with a revenue of 2.6 billion US dollars. Video games were not permitted for import into Brazil until the 1990s, and were then heavily taxed as non-essential goods. As a result, a grey market developed around pirating games, driven by the lack of official channels for purchasing games. Many game companies avoided expansion into the country for these reasons until 2009. An exception was Sega, w
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_games_in_Brazil
date created:
2009-03-09T00:32:57Z
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2024-09-03T20:36:06Z
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