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by speeder 1379 days ago
Also I doubt the charts include the most popular way of buying a console in Brazil:

Buying one from USA.

Sometimes even flying to USA, buying the console and flying back is cheaper than buying local.

And during the PS2 era, everyone I knew that owned a PS2, bought it from a shop that sold modchipped PS2 that they bought from smugglers that got it from USA.

Currently I see that with the Switch, of the people I know that own a game console, most of the time is a Switch, and most of the time is a pre-modded Switch imported from USA, usually an old hardware version with Atmosphere installed, because modchipped Switches are buggy.