Man, that’s a pretty big footprint.

Unless ... the silhouette is A5, and the footprint is somewhat smaller? That would make more sense

Sounds doomed to me too. They are pretty much ignoring the fierce M$/Sony/Nintendo competition, not to mention piracy and black market.

Maybe when Brazil had a closed market it would have some hope, I remember MSX doing really well while it was not the best option world-wide.

Now it's way too easy to buy a PS2 and any game for a ridiculous price, which certainly provides a better gaming experience since you can't do much with 50Mb games.

Unless they know something about Brazil's market being closed again, I don't see how they see success in this. Which is a shame.

Brazil has the most expensive Ipod in the world. That's because importing taxes mounts to exess a 100% of the product value plus handling and shipping. Zeebo spinster obviously exaggereted a bit, as a legally purchased Wii comes at a price around US$800,00 while the ilegally imported comes at US$500,00. And he undestated the real price of the Zeebo as well, because of "exchange rate fluctuations" it will be sold here a little bit under US$300,00. That's too much for a non-portable, non-usable gaming cellphone to me. They even plan to sell games from US$4 to US$13, obvioulsy low quality, cellphone level games, where you can get pirated wii and PS2 games for about US$4,00 sold about anywhere. Maybe Zeebo concept is good, but in Brazil, it will fail miserably...

if you buy it in the legal way is the price here, at least the ps3 costs the same $1000.
The problem here is the high taxes, of about 100% of the product+shipping, plus lots of other taxes over the (product+shipping)*2.

I work at a game developer here, and the nintendo ds development kits come to us costing about 3x times the nintendo value

Given that it's Tectoy who do re-releases of old Sega consoles I think it's a shame they didn't go for the old Dreamcast hardware in this. They'd instantly have a library of classics for starters...