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Selling Playstation 3's "illegal" in Argentina

xsynergyx | July 31, 2007 | News | Playstation 3 Company 
Surprising as it is, selling Playstation 3's in Argentina is "illegal". After seeing overpriced PS3's at $1700-$2000 in some ads, Fernando Cassia decided the contact Sony to see if they were imported US units. Federico Augspach, Sony Argentina's marketing manager said that Sony is in fact, not importing console, but instead, selling PS3's in Argentina is illegal. Nonetheless, the ads and a few websites show that they are selling the PS3.
After seeing full-page ads in the local papers for the PS3 - totally overpriced as usual at two thousand greenbacks, - yes you read that right, around $1700 and $2000 packaged with an extra controller and a game. I decided to ask Sony if those units advertised in the paper were US units imported by Sony's Argentina branch or if perhaps those were Euroland PAL units somehow converted to the local PAL/N flavour/oddity.

Augspach said that Sony is not importing the PS3 console into the country, and that selling it in the country is "illegal". He said that in order to sell the console, the Japanese giant must certify it for compliance with the local RF spectrum regulations, that is, the frequencies watchdog agency, or FCC wannabe, the CNC. He said a couple of weeks ago that the firm had not initiated the certification for the device's Bluetooth capability at the time, and that "until that certification" and approval -also known as rubber stamp- ;) does not exist, that it's not legal to sell games console.
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  • 0 thumbs!
    Anime | August 01, 2007
    Thats too bad for Argentinians. They are going to miss out a bit.

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  • -1 thumbs!
    Light Warrior | August 01, 2007
    Hahaha, PS3's selling for 6K. Thats funny!
    So, If I bought a PS3 an d sold it for 2000 bucks, they'd probably fork the money over? Sweet =D.
  • -3 thumbs!
    Final Blade | August 01, 2007
    Wow they weren't the most intelligent people. But surely this will lower any respect i had for them.
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    JJBDude | August 01, 2007
    If I understand correctly it is only currently illegal to sell Playstation 3's in Argentina, as:

    "He said that in order to sell the console, the Japanese giant must certify it for compliance with the local RF spectrum regulations"

    Now I don't know entirely what that means but I'm sure what needs to be done to make the PS3 sold in Argentina will be done, as otherwise that's a big loss for gamers in that country.
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    tidus04 | August 01, 2007
    A big loss for the gamers in the country yes but I do not know if they will bother in changing it unless the changes are resonable. But I think they should just make some news ones with the changes and offer that to Argentina instead ^^.
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    xsynergyx | August 01, 2007
    They can't sell it, but people can buy it from out of the country and bring it in to play, I believe.
    • -1 thumbs!
      Final Blade | August 01, 2007
      Yes they could. Which is why this article is stupid no offense.
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    Tom | August 02, 2007
    That is absolutely ridiculous. It's just not right, and although it would be a huge loss to gamers over there I don't think it's worth it for Sony and they should just leave Argentina.

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