Cool. Now instead of it being 2400BRL, it'll be 3000BRL.
2400 BRL? Please point me to this store so I can scrape them and resell for a profit. New Mariko units aren't going for less than 4000 BRL (that's around 720 USD if anyone is wondering), prices skyrocket after COVID 19.
Brazil always loved Nintendo, since the NES era it was a huge sucess. Maybe future games are going to be translated to Portuguese? (I hope so). Overall i think they have a lot of potential of growing here, I really hope they sell it for around 1500-2000BRL, it would be a much more acessible price.
R$1500 is a straight up conversion from the USD prince, not gonna happen in a million years even if they assembly it here.
Anyways, I really doubt Nintendo will assembly the console here, it would be suicide (also, there's zero talks about Nintendo going into Zona Franca, we usually get hints a company is coming months if not years before they start assembling in the country), so here's my price prediction assuming they're importing like they've always done before exiting the country (I'm not predicting it from my arse, I actually worked in a importing company for a couple years):
The taxation will go more or less like this: ICMS+Importing Tax+IPI+PIS/COFINS+ some other smller taxes. For consoles all these taxes usually reach something from 100 to 150% over the console AND shipping cost. After that you add the importer and the seller profits over the final product: importers usually profits around 20% and the seller I'm not sure how it is nowdays, but it used to be from to 10 to 30%. There's also logistic costs, but I don't know too much about those, so I won't include them. I also won't include taxes over shipping costs because I don't really know how much bulk shipping is going nowdays.
So, the Mariko Switch selling price is 300 USD (since this is the price straight from nintendo, I assume their profit is already in this 300 bux and won't be adding their profits again), let's use a middle ground for taxes of 125%, a 20% of importer's profit and a middle ground for seller's profit of 15%:
300+300*1,25 = 675
675+300*0,20 = 735
735+300*0,15 = 780
So, for a Mariko Switch, without the logistic costs an the taxation over shipping, the price would be around 780 bux, that's an unrealistic best case scenario. It won't be that, imo the price will be closer to 1000 USD. Same for the Switch Lite: minimum unrealistic cost would be 520 USD, imo the price will be closer to 700-750 USD.
A Mariko unity from the grey market is going for around 720 USD, so the official version will most likely be more expensive. It's like I always say: Sony had a reason to release the PS4 here for a thousand bucks, and they did that reducing their margin to probably nothing.
Unfortunately for Brazilians good news are usually not good news at all.