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    Brazil's consumer agency Procon-SP will legally challenge Nintendo due to their EULA banning and bricking consumer consoles

    It's true that many would struggle to afford a Switch (average wage, plus very high tariffs on imported technology) but there's a growing middle class in Brazil that absolutely can afford it. Besides that, the collective market has value in itself, even if many (or most) of its members are...
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    Brazil's consumer agency Procon-SP will legally challenge Nintendo due to their EULA banning and bricking consumer consoles

    The same could have been said about X (formerly known as Twitter) when the platform was briefly banned in Brazil late last year. Despite Musk's huffing and puffing, claiming X wouldn't comply, they did. Why? Brazil still holds strategic importance. South America in general has a poorer...
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