Almost half of those players are on mobile, with the rest split between consoles (29%) and PC (24%). What's a little light trolling between you and 95 million fellow gamers? Why it's hard to get hardwareĪccording to stats published by Newzoo at the 2021 BIG festival, close to half of Brazil's population of 215 million people play games. Brazil's gaming scene really is its own pocket galaxy-partially because it doesn't get enough attention from the rest of the world, and partially because Brazil really is that big all by itself. But after speaking to Slotfeldt, who's only ever seen huehuehue typed by other Brazilians, I realized that many of the country's PC gamers solely experience it as a friendly in-joke. Huehuehue's usage in Brazil morphed into a racist, trolly way to belittle Brazilian players, though the indie developers I met in São Paulo during the Brazil International Games festival felt like they were firmly in on the joke.īefore I went to Brazil, I thought the laugh was used to mock Portuguese-speaking players more than anything else. The Brazilian Portuguese version of hahaha became a meme in early MMOs, and later in League of Legends, as the games attracted huge numbers of Brazilian players. You're constantly scared your GPU will burn when the electricity goes down Thiago Cancian But if you ask PC gamers, it's gotta be huehuehue. Ask anyone there who grew up obsessed with videogames to tell you what is uniquely, definitively Brazil, and they'll tell you its history of Sega Master System clone consoles and bootleg game cartridges, creative workarounds for import prices that could easily cost a month's rent. Or right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro? Or the Caipirinha, the national drink of choice? Look, Brazil is the fifth biggest country in the world: it has a lot to be famous for. Or maybe it's Pelé, legendary football player.
Or maybe it's the Amazon river-that whole rainforest is kind of a big deal.
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