Nintendo Puts Business In Brazil On Hiatus

jones_supa writes: Nintendo has announced that it will end distribution of its consoles and games in Brazil. In a statement, Nintendo attributed the move to high import duties, which makes doing feasible business difficult. The company could avoid those duties with a local manufacturing operation, but has chosen not to establish one, presumably for the costs involved. In a statement e-mailed to Polygon, Nintendo of America said that the company's distributor for Latin America would no longer send products to Brazil, but it would continue to distribute Nintendo goods to other parts of South America. Nintendo will also keep monitoring the evolution of the business environment in Brazil and evaluate how to best serve Brazilian customers in the future.

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Re:Brazil has long had a very protectionist

[Crashmarik]

I was thinking of a similar experiment -- if a company refuses to sell a product in your country, then it loses all copyright / trademark / patent protection. Locals would then be free to open up shop and start making the hardware or copying the software. I'm not sure if this would work, but I'd be interested in seeing the result nonetheless.

Ok let me get this straight.

1. Put into place a law that lets you steal the patents of products not being sold in your country
2. Raise Tariffs on said products to the point they can't be sold
3. ....
4. Hope your military is sufficient to deter retaliation from the countries you have been robbing ?

Now admittedly a military response maybe a little much. At the very least you can certainly expect the other nations to go after your assets abroad, pursue economic retaliation, hell they could issues letters of mark and reprisal against your merchant shipping.