Nintendo Switch eShop Launches In Brazil Next Week With 400 Games Available On Day One

Eshop, you're going to Brazil.

Hopefully it'll have some generous regional pricing...

We only got the Switch recently because Nintendo had given up on us a few years ago. We had a Nintendo here in Brazil for a while too, but it was not worth to maintain it due to all the stupid taxes the industry (mainly gaming) is charged for. It was the same with that store FNAC.
But now, for some reason, Nintendo has decided to come back. I'm can only be glad as now we'll be able to buy games for a fairer price! Still expensive, though, but a little better.

So what's the price going to be?

Next step: North Korea!

When is the Switch coming to Mars

The eshop finally C A M E T O B R A Z I L.

That's great. Now I'm more hopeful for the eShop to launch in Argentina sooner rather than later. I'm tired of having to deal with redeem codes and switching to other regions any time I want a game that isn't available in the webstore.

@Pod conversion rates are going up month by month so it's kind of hard to predict but in the current website for digital purchases, loja.nintendo.com.br newer games are being sold for R$300 (roughly $56) while some older games (like Animal crossing, to give you an idea of how fast exchange rates are going up) are still R$250 (roughly $47), so yeah, Nintendo is willing to take a smaller cut to cater to our sadly collapsing market. I'd bet R$300 to be standardized for the eShop. Obviously, they can only manage to do that because no physical games are sold by Nintendo in Brazil right now (existing physical copies are only of the imported variety)

@dux
Thank you for the insight!
Hopefully the Brazilian market is still going to enjoy having official access to the eShop.

A bit too late but better than having no e-shop at all.

@Pod oh, definitely! We had an official online shop since 2018 but it was quite cumbersome, having to access on a browser and then either type the code in the system to download or redeem through e-mail (most people seemed to miss this e-mail option, which was a lot easier than typing a huge code). Simply having everything in the system is miles better.
Now, what Brazilian fans REALLY want are translated games. Nintendo is basically the only publisher that doesn't do it. Sony, Microsoft, Ubisoft, CD PROJEKT, anything is subtitled AND dubbed in all platforms, triple A's and Indies, and also all of Nintendo's mobile titles. I really don't get why they're still holding off on what is standard for every other single game.

So close and yet so far...
baby I might as well be on mars

I often hear that Brazil is not the best place to be a gamer. I always hear them getting stuff super late or like botched versions of things like ps2 hacked games being sold as legit games there like Dragonball charectors in gta san andreas instead of CJ lol. Weird I wonder why that is.

Queue the weekly Brazilian discounts that make the US/UK eShop's look like a total rip-off.

Not really a big deal, but I hope Nintendo will put someone who actually speaks Portuguese to review the published content.
Several times on 3DS and recently on Switch they would publish some content in Spanish for Brazilian accounts.
This was last week:
https://i.imgur.com/bZt2oq7.jpg

yet they cant open the eshop in most asian countries :l

@dux
Well, that's Nintendo for you.
Hope you will eventually receive some translations, even if they turn out to be in old-country portuguese.

Here in Scandinavia, because Bergsala A/B still serves as their official distributor, Nintendo has always kept a complete hands-off opproach with translations and bonus program integration.
We always got the stars vouchers in the boxes, but we could never officially receive any of the physical rewards. :-/

Now, there are admittedly very few publishers that translate for language regions this small in the first place, but quite often with Nitnendo we don't even get the manuals or boxes translated, or publishers pick translation services that just use a machine translation anyway, with hilarious results. ^^

@Pod we don't have any physical rewards either, and gold coins are only arriving now with the eShop (they existed for the 3DS and WiiU shops though)
I believe by law, boxes and manuals have to be in Portuguese to be sold here, the Switch arrived in September with translated boxes, and also the socket plug revised by the national electrical company (mainland Europe socket works here).
I get why dubbing isn't viable for EVERY language, but I think subtitles should at least be standard. Specially in a country like Brazil where a lot of people don't understand English (I might be wrong but I get the impression that's not the case for Scandinavia). Nintendo's official answer right now is "well but we do have Spanish" which, you know..... Are you kidding me? I literally speak English and can't understand Spanish, it's not THAT similar to Portuguese. (Sorry Latin brothers yes I'm a bad neighbour and I'm ashamed)

@Pod an update now that the eShop has officially launched: to everyone's surprise, older games prices have NOT been updated to R$ 300 (just newer ones), at least no yet, so the Brazilian eShop, with some games at R$ 250 ($ 47) is the cheapest possible eShop.

Wow, that's pretty good, considering how outrageous the prices on boxed Nintendo games have been in Brazil.