yup, me senior M$ source also claim the same thing, no plan for M'sia LIVE, but official console is a yes

some of other countries also have official hardware launch 1st while they work on offcial LIVE support.

just wish they stop those IP checking on game DLC. if a game content is suitable for SGP marketplace, it should be suitable for other parallel importers. don't IP-check GeOW maps or Halo3 maps, please.

Yeah! Like India I think! And India (the country not the people!) is going to get Xbox Live soon.

In another not so related news. I read that Microsoft make a statement in TGS that they are going to deemphasize Japan and put more priority on European market.

Which is sad! If Japan is a successful market for Xbox360, then MS surely will look to nearby market such as Malaysia as a good potential.

My personal opinion is that those Japanese is too proud to buy the 360 when PS3 is made locally (in Japan) by Sony.

Anyway I just hope that MS will look at Asia (inclusive of Japan) as one market and realize that we Malaysian is part of the bigger market that is Asia. Establish Singapore as regional hub and then release the console officially in Malaysia. With return and warranty support to a logistic warehouse somewhere in KL. Better if they can have a repair center in Malaysia. Cheaper in term of human resources and well Malaysian have the technical knowhow anyway! (Err not to snub all you Singaporean!! Heh Heh! but we are all paid lower on this side! )

I think MS should have this in place already. I just wonder why they haven't release the 360 officially yet. I mean hmmm ... I don't think Malaysian hacker is that much troublesome. Piracy is happening everywhere (even in Korea .. which see very early 360 release). And Malaysian market is obviously bigger than Singapore (in term of raw population).

Another angle that is interesting to ponder about is (Game) Software Development. One reason they target Japan is to get Japanese developer. Perhaps they can get Malaysian developer or at least those who are interesting in XDK. I can tell you that we got lots of creative people here. But of course (Game) Software Development is not just about creativity.

And that ends my Monday Morning Rambling.

Cheers!! (Where are those drink beer smiley goes? Is it because this is Bulan Puasa heh heh I need some (ROOT) beer!!!)

Just came back from a meeting with a very very senior staff from M$, who is he and what position I cannot say, but he's one of the decision maker lor.
here's what I manage to dig out from him.

No official launching of Xbox360 this year. Official launching will be in year 2008, Q3.



anyway, here's another news, which maybe some of you know of it already:
M$ already finished developed an internet browser for X360 long long time ago, but don't want to release it yet. Why? bcos they fear history will repeat itself again, which history? something to do with IE and netscape lor

is he TL from the E&D division? 2008 q3 seems like a feasible date...

you mean the history where MS won the browser wars?

2008 launch - better late than never. we can then fly the malaysia flag next to our gamertags

actually, i think by 2008, the hardware should be stable and reliable enough to put the 3RL episodes behind. after all the most of 1st xbox are still working after 4+/5+/6+ years of use.

yup, they won the war alright, but what happen after that?

Aaaa.. it's great that we have such a link to senior MS people right here in our forums GreyShadow. Do let them know we'd like to have all the 3 year one on one exchange policies which they have in Singapore too.

don't think that will happen here lor
he claim M$ finally has fixed the 3ROD problems in all of the new batches.

So if no more 3ROD, then there's no need 3 years warranty lor

3rod really sux huh.

q3, 2008? HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

WHAT? Q3 2008?! Crap, I've waited so long and now this.....t'is a cruel world indeed. oh well..at least the games that are out now would be cheaper by then..

Hmmm, WCG.my 08 to have 360 games then?

Yea Q3 = No WCG for us again

Wasting my GOW skills again if no 360 titles in WCG Malaysia...


This post has been edited by Syuji: Sep 25 2007, 05:27 AM

Keep on dreaming, hehe. I hate MS even more now. Think want to mod my XBox hehe

u got skill meh??

At least you can still dload the GRAW2 maps although they're kinda useless since everyone seems to be playing GoW maps. I can't even download those and I'm not going down to Singapore anytime soon

india to get xbox live soon?
iirc i have seen indian GT playing online already