In the U.S. the average cost of a video game is about 60 bucks. Electronics in many other countries can be really expensive. Take Brazil for example; because of an old law, people are stuck paying double that of the U.S. for video games. The old law classifies all games as gambling and the government adamantly refuses to change the law. They put 120 percent tax on the video games.
Video games got shoved into the gambling tax law simply because they bore the name “game” in it. Many organizations are fighting the government on the tax. It costs Brazilians as much to buy a single video game as it does an American to buy an entire system.
One such organization has been pushing for tax changes on video games, Fair Game. They’re trying to prove that video games don’t need to fall under the gambling category and that by placing the 120 percent tax, they are actually causing more harm than good.