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Playtronic Industrial Ltda. is a Brazilian video game company. Its original iteration was also a toy manufacturer and was based in Manaus, Brazil, and was a joint venture between companies Gradiente Industrial S.A. (consumer electronics company) and Manufatura de Brinquedos Estrela S.A. (toy manufacturer). [1]
Brazil. Manufacturer Console Released Units sold Date of figure Tectoy (Sega) ... Nintendo DS 61,100,000 [7] March 2016 Game Boy 42,160,000 [7] March 2003 Wii
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. [1] Video games were not permitted for import into Brazil until the 1990s, and were then heavily taxed as non-essential goods.
After this month, Nintendo will halt all direct sales in Brazil. According to UOL Jogos, the company's leaving the country due to the exorbitant taxes it has to pay to continue its operations.
Sega's primary competition, Nintendo, did not officially arrive in Brazil until 1993; they entered the region through Playtronic, a partnership between Gradiente and Estrela. [13] By the time Nintendo arrived in the region, they were unable to compete with pirated NES systems already available in the region and Tectoy's established following. [5]
The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is an 8-bit home video game console produced by Nintendo. It was first released in Japan on July 15, ... In Brazil, the ...
Nintendo had exited the Brazilian market in 2015 due to high tariffs, but independent resellers have been trading the console in Brazil since March 2017. [74] Nintendo had since assigned NC Games as their local game distributor in May 2017, [75] and the local company had committed to sell some officially imported Nintendo Switch units in small ...
Brazilian manufacturers also produced cartridges, but ran into the problem of having two formats. Hydron company solved the issue by making two-sided cartridges - one side 60-pin, the other 72-pin. [61] In 1993, Nintendo themselves arrived in Brazil and released the NES with the American cartridge slot.