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Neat! SMS is still produced and sold? So if I code a good SMS game and donate it to pirates, they will publish it and kids in poor Brazilian families will play it? Excellent!

Yes, give it to me!
I want games. More games!

No , rich families will play it.
Unless if you are talking about used games.

Tec Toy has a officially license by SEGA.
The games are legally licensed.

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Here, in Spain, it happened something strange: while the official MSX community was focused in MSX2 (and higher) systems, the single users were still stuck to their good and old MSX1.

I don't know who you are referring with "official MSX community". As you know in Spain, in the eighties/early nineties, MSX1 was the most popular MSX generation. Thanks God MSX2 was also sold in Spain and it had reasonable sales. It's true that the most important Spanish MSX magazine of the commercial period, MSX-Club, focussed a lot in MSX2 software in their latest numbers. I would not consider this magazine "official" as it wasn't related to ASCII.

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There are a lot of users that still do not owe an MSX2 computer with FD.

I really doubt that actual Spanish MSX fans/freaks still haven't bought at least an MSX2 with FDD.
That's true for the old days, though.

Of course, all fan/freaks have at least a MSX2 with FDD. And this is what I say: MSX1 owners were a bit unplugged. How many new MSX1 games were produced after the "commercial cassette era"?

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Neat! SMS is still produced and sold? So if I code a good SMS game and donate it to pirates, they will publish it and kids in poor Brazilian families will play it?

I am waiting for that game.

Master System Handy.

http://www.tectoy.com.br/noticias/handy.asp

It was weird, probably due to some discordances about the manufactures. Perhaps, there could be some restriction about powerful home computers ... Or something to do with the license of the legal stuff!
The "costs" don't deserve to be a 'excuse' since there was 80 columns cards with MSX-Video Processors and 'expansion' Kit's with MSX2/2+ VDP!

I believe that the extra cost would be only some memory chips and the clock! Since the EPROM and VDP could be the same as the 80 columns cartridge ...

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Well, I think the only way for you to publish a SMS game is producing it alone or with a team, but at own, show it to Tec Toy and pray for that they think it is worth.

Ask RicBit. He did a game for the Master System that was published by TecToy ("Miniaturas Velozes".

About the reasons shown by my fellow brazilians, I agree, but I´d like to add more info...

During the eighties, Brazil had a hyper-inflation of about 80% per month, so the dollar price was very high compared to our currencies (we changed our currency many times because of inflation). Needless to say that electronic components were quite expensive around here.

Anyway, MSX computers were most used by your average nerd kid... and a computer requires much more dedication and intelligence from its user than a videogame. That´s a motive too. Gradiente preferred a NES over an MSX.

And when TecToy and other companies came with Mastersystem and NES clones respectively, they had far more marketing than the MSX. I don´t remember any MSX TV ad, but I do remember LOADS of TV ads for videogames. In a soap opera ("Tieta" ), there was even a scene in which two men played soccer at the Mastersystem and the winner would receive a kiss from a woman as a prize. Can´t get any more commercial than that. Even the largest newspaper in Brazil, "O Globo", used a considerable portion of it showing the latest games for NES, Mastersystem and Genesis.

'Technical problems'.
There were some problems on the Expert architecture ... For example, this computer caused several interference on nearby Televisions!

This would be unacceptable! Imagine, some devices that could deprivated the signal from others .

Technical books.
Their only 'officially' released books with games for MSX computers, not for the newer generations!

Even for game contests here is missing games, including MSX-BASIC games! Sure that the price of used MSX2 systems is not THAT much anymore ... And Brasil is considered to be one of the nations with higher 'acquisitive' "power".