Well, if you wanna count the cost of online gaming, then to be fair you also need to count the cost of a suitable TV for each console.....a 1080p TV for a PS3 will set you back another few thousand at least.... I mean c'mon, you're not gonna spend RM2K+ for a PS3 and then play it on a 21" CRT TV now, would ya?

I'd say that overall, a good PS3 experience is still expensive for the average Malaysian. Those people who do have a PS3, already have enough money to get the hardware to support it, so expensive or not, it's not really an issue.

You can get away with a good X360 experience for much cheaper, thanks to the VGA cable and relatively cheap widescreen LCD monitors available nowadays. The extra US$50 for Live is really nothing compared to splashing out for a 1080p TV

What grey area?? Most people here are happily playing on Live with no problems. Yes, they do acknowledge Malaysia as a Live country although it is not officially supported. We have our own Xbox Live ambassador here

This post has been edited by Darkchaser: Mar 10 2007, 01:08 PM

What kind of "support" do you need anyways? It's an online service, not a hardware service. If there's any problem, you can just email MS or call them up. I've done it already when I canceled my Live account, and they did it no problems even though I'm in Malaysia...

IMO, if I were to buy a PS3, I'd get it to play PS3 games, not PS2 games. I don't really give a damn about backward compatibility.....it'd be a bonus, it won't affect my judgement to buy. And at the moment, there's no PS3 games that really attract me, so I'll wait for later when there's more good games and the PS3's price has dropped.

I registered my Xbox Live account with a fake address. And when I called up the US Xbox Live with intention to cancel the automatic renewal, I verified my fake address no problems. They didn't bug me even though it was so obviously a fake address.

They don't really care about fake address.....you're paying them US$50 per year for the service, why the heck should they care? And nope, there's no impact on credit card either.