you can get a SG set easily at RRP now, as MS SG also will honor the warranty, only problem is sending it back to SG

no point waiting for official launch, no news and no dates, you might need to wait forever for such official launch here

It's crazy when you think about it. Some revisions of the Xbox controllers were even made in Malaysia! I had an Xbox Controller Type S that clearly said 'Made in Malaysia'. To be fair though, it's not just Malaysia that Microsoft ignores. All the countries in Southeast Asia, EXCEPT Singapore, don't get Xbox sales or support.

they aren't "punishing" us

it's just business sense that our market is too small to warrant an official release here

during the X360 days, as per my insider news, we "almost" got an official release here in MY, they even have selected ingram micro as the official distributor, but at the end of the day, they felt it aint worth it that time, 3ROD + piracy, lack of interest parties to carry the consoles forced them to scrap the plan, at the end only Courts has some limited release for a very brief period

but for this gen, they did considering bringing it back officially to SEA beside SG, hence the release of PC Game Pass here...

it's just the matter of time for the official release here in MY, but don't ask me when tho... my insider working inside MS MY already long gone

We DID have official MS Stores at one point. All the Nokia stores changed to Microsoft stores, selling Windows Phone and Surface products. And Windows Phone was a tiny, tiny portion of the phone market in 2012 - 2015. Yet they still chose to sell Windows Phone in Malaysia. They could have used those stores as Xbox retail stores too.

It's not Sony's fault that they came in early to set up presence in Malaysia, despite rampant piracy during PS1 and PS2 era. Microsoft took too long to act, and people just jumped to Playstation because of lack of support here. And now the gap is just too gigantic to overcome.

I have no bone in this console war, since I have been supporting Xbox and Playstation in every console generation (the main consoles only. I don't play handhelds). But if Xbox is truly serious in competing globally, they need to have more presence, outside of US, Europe and a few countries in Asia only.

Not really. I keep seeing these kinds of comments where the lowest common denominator is holding back games development. In actuality, games these days have different profiles for different systems. Just like PC gaming has been for the longest time, if you have a base system, the game will not be able to use higher resolutions, ray tracing, high quality post processing effects etc. Playing a game on Series X will get you better visuals and performance than a Series S, sure. But the Series X isn't being held back by the Series S.

From a developer perspective I get why it's a huge bother, since they need to worry about the Series S too. On PS5, they just need to make one version of the game, and it will work the same on disc or discless systems. On Xbox, they need to make sure the game can run on a Series S too, so they need to make a different profile for it. The Series X version might support 4K resolution and ray tracing mode, while the Series S version lacks ray tracing, and can only go up to 1440p resolution. Again, this is how PC gaming has been for the longest time, and we've been ok with it all this while.

Can you imagine for example, if PCs need to have a specific configuration for it to work? Let's say for example, a theoretical Crysis 4 REQUIRES a Ryzen 9 5900X, 64GB RAM, and a Geforce RTX 3080. No other configurations will work. Sound crazy?

A lot of those so called comparison articles online are usually biased to one side, very rarely they're neutral

No doubt PS5's storage expansion and DualSense controller has the upper hand now, it's cheaper to upgrade PS5's storage compared to XsX

PS5 Dualsense is mostly fun at first, but some will turn it off after a while since either it hinders their gaming performance, or your hand can only take so much vibration, also the battery life sucks

other than this 2, it depends on what games you're planning to play, in term of performance both are similar, I've stop watching Digital Foundry's in depth analysis of game comparison on both consoles, you won't feel the difference unless you're playing both of them side by side

for backward compatibility XsX are miles ahead, including enhancement of the older games

newer exclusive games?  both the same 

just get whichever your pocket is most comfortable with, and with the games you wanna play

read an article recently about developers not too happy with MS because they require developers to make games on BOTH series S and X and cannot develop for just one of the consoles.

this lead to developer saying that games on Series X end up not fully utilised coz the games need to also work on Series S.

does it feel like that for you guys that have Series S/X?

Not really. I keep seeing these kinds of comments where the lowest common denominator is holding back games development. In actuality, games these days have different profiles for different systems. Just like PC gaming has been for the longest time, if you have a base system, the game will not be able to use higher resolutions, ray tracing, high quality post processing effects etc. Playing a game on Series X will get you better visuals and performance than a Series S, sure. But the Series X isn't being held back by the Series S.

From a developer perspective I get why it's a huge bother, since they need to worry about the Series S too. On PS5, they just need to make one version of the game, and it will work the same on disc or discless systems. On Xbox, they need to make sure the game can run on a Series S too, so they need to make a different profile for it. The Series X version might support 4K resolution and ray tracing mode, while the Series S version lacks ray tracing, and can only go up to 1440p resolution. Again, this is how PC gaming has been for the longest time, and we've been ok with it all this while.

Can you imagine for example, if PCs need to have a specific configuration for it to work? Let's say for example, a theoretical Crysis 4 REQUIRES a Ryzen 9 5900X, 64GB RAM, and a Geforce RTX 3080. No other configurations will work. Sound crazy?

LOOOOOL read the article.

Dude who says this is a VFX artist.  Who worked on "I am Fish" and who's company publishes - surgeon simulator.  Certainly not graphic powerhouses as those could probably run on mobiles.  I would take what he says with a pinch of salt.

You only need to look at the results of the games and how well they do for the price point in every digital foundry review.  Decent developers are able to craft worthwhile user experiences at whatever the scale.  And if one day the hardware cannot hack it, the series S can easily be optimised for game streaming when the cloud infrastructure becomes more mature.

edit: actually should have replied to the comment above yours