wah djinn..

i think your shop is really going places..

bila mau buka another branch?

If thats the case open one in KLCC and put you-know-who out of business

where got that fast bro? I don't print money ... hopefully see our local distributor will bring in all console~

is it illegal to set up shop to play console games like cyber cafe?

official launch sounds good in theory but have some major obstacles

1. piracy. MS is still trying to combat pirated copies playing on xboxlive. so far, pirates 1 MS 0

2. official service, refund. support, warranty. official launch means hardware & software support. the machine having 3ROL while under warranty? they have to fix or exchange the 360. DOAX2 Asian version badly pressed kenot load? have to exchange with a new print?

3. lets not even talk about the 'bad press' angle when some clueless but rich parents find out their 10 year olds are playing GoW or DOAX2 on xboxlive with some unknown strangers across the globe and complaint to some ministry

4. all in all, i think an offical launch with assasin's creed might be possible. the hero & the theme might just go well with some ministers (the same ppl who tried to champion the saladdin CG film )


actually i only way i see MS xbox really prosper in korea, china and the smaller SEA countries is through cyber cafe/arcade licensing. bulk license the machine+games, with xboxlive, charging per play or per account will still bring in revenue. look at the sucess of WoW in china! those players play on the cheap, but their business model is legal and bringing in massive proifts!!

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you need a licence to do that . Without the licence is considering illegal I guess.

It's more like Pirates 100000000 MS 0

Microsoft keeps scoring own goals too ( DOAX2), heheheheh maybe if I mod my machine then I'll be able to play... no more annoying cdkey...

Heard somewhere that MS is planning to disable modded x-boxes? Turn them into expensive pieces of high tech art/brick! That'll teach them pirates heheheheh!

is there any place to play console games in klang valley? i mean a proper set up?

no point . no matter how powerful high tech ... they always find a way to fix it.

none at the moment~. beside you cannot simply just setup without microsoft approval.

Hah...its all about money! I think local Microsoft chapter are at fault. They dont have the guts to take the responsibility of being the supporter of Xbox locally. If Sony can bring in the PS2 and PSP officially here despite rampant piracy, why cant there.

I'm guessing they are too "concentrated" on thier O/S here for the piracy issue~ so they don't care us (malaysia Gamers)

I dont consider what Sony doing as officially supporting. They're just selling it to distributors, as for the PS2 for them it's a free tradeoff, they sell the console at a slightly higher price then other places to the retailers, the retailers mod it, and thus no one can go back to them to claim warranty so no lost for Sony.

my prediction is that MS MIGHT launch the 360 here some time in 2007 it's wat i'm hoping for, all of us hoping for it to happen

noticed that MS have been active sponsoring their 360 controller this year? in EFC they gave away quite a few of them for lucky draws. during the previous PC fair HWM subscribers also got them for free. in WCG Msia there was a 360 there on demo & Vista is coming with the Live Anywhere feature...i can see the launch coming

just my thoughts

If Sony can do it why cant MS lah..is all excuses to a bigger agenda...SG being an ally of US...

......you think until where. Jewish conspiracy here??? This ain't no politics forum. It doesn't stop Microsoft from releasing Xb360 in a communist country?

Remember we are #1 pirated country in the world, #2 if not 1....after China. Thing is, China got the population but we don't have that attractive numbers of population.

If you wana stop American imperialism...you goto stop eating McDonalds....

Not to mention Malaysia is pretty much a Playstation nation. LoL.

American Imperialism...duh...stop eating McDonalds...When did the fuc*ing Shi$ did u notice me say that i dont like Americanos...
When i said Ally i meant Business and trade ally you moron.....They may have come to a conclusion that SG is enough to distribute the whole SEA regionlah......Tar$!!!! you PJ

If this ever happens "knock on wood" .. ill move to PS3 and Wii. Perhaps its time for M$ to hear what we have to say on Xbox Live community here in Malaysia.

So how much and what does it take to become an official distributor so that we can get it official here

The only reason why SG is recognised as a viable market is probably because there is very little or no 'pirated' games over there.

Unfortunately, we Malaysian's still think that a game = RM5.