yea how come singapore ( small island ) can be so popular then malaysia , if we look at the globe / map..singapore just like fullstop symbol..hahah..may be microsoft wont launch here due to piracy.

Nay... I am not too hopeful Xbox 360 will 'officially' launch here... for some reason I just don't see a reason for Microsoft to really officially launch here... Singapore has it I strongly believe they're done with South East Asia...

Urm, because Singapore is actually more prosperous than Malaysia? Especially as an area for trades among countries worldwide?

Owh, that and tax incentives.

What about broadband ? I heard Xbox Live was suppose to be in Malaysia (last time) but was dodged because Microsoft thinks Malaysia's broadband services are 'not up to par'. True enough... even with a 1Mbps connection, the speed is crappy.

'Other' countries are using speeds easily like 8Mbps... so even if this connection is 'slow', it would be seriously fast by our calculation...

No wonder they can download full length HD movies to their Xbox....

Can we do that ? Yes. You just got to wake up and sleep twice.

well, everyone knows Singapore get their life support from us and foreigners. So its their natural born talent deal and make deal wif foreigners contract. Malaysia cant get the official release coz our local Microsoft branch don't see this is a profit business. Our gamers market divided by 80% home/cybercafe PC gamers, 10% PS2 and PSP gamers(mostly kids), 5% xbox gamers(included mod users) and 5% other consoles and portable device gamers. Imagine how small XBL community here.

About broadband issue, if a XBL server set here, it should be fix the lagging issue and increase download demo contents speed. Just like other PC online game servers. 1MB is already enough to play Halo2 smoothly in local hosting server, but for those just wanna download HD bikini girls movie to your xbox instead of use it as game console, well, 1MB is definitely not enuff for your lonely time.

*Sony is officially launching Playstation3 here in Malaysia.

This post has been edited by benghee: Sep 12 2008, 02:14 PM

a portion xbox and xbox360 games are actually manufactured in SGP.

i think Flextronics which was a contractor for xbox manufacturing is also a SGP company.

Even if MS is official here , the online capability will remain unchanged due to the fact that games still use P2P as hosting strategy . Host will be randomly selected among users , so if everyone in the room is local , definitely there won't be any lag issue .

If we look it from another perspective, if u r working for microsoft, will u launch it over here in malaysia ? guess not as u cant gain much profit from the number of xbox gamers here. How many xbox gamers tat support original hardware/software in our country ? Bet it less than 1000 people yet some of you still asking when MS will launch it over here in Malaysia its a fundamental problem. For example, most likely xbox gamer in some town of western country already surpass the total number of xbox gamers that we had in malaysia . Just my 2 cents.

i agree. while with PS3, sony knows that the software isn't piratable. so no matter what they will gain revenue from sales of the games.

Totally agree wif you, Papertank. Its all about BUSINESS, guys. As donald trump always say, business is business, nothing's personal. So dun keep complaint why we dun hav xbox launch here, why all the good things (Ipod 3G) go to Singapore? we just have to accept the fact that Microsoft dun wan spend millions of ringgit just to keep few of us playing XBL.

Peace out, happy mooncake festival

If they haven't launched it by now, they probably won't.

However, they'd have a good close look at the upcoming ps3 launch and possibly respond to that if the take up rate is astronomical.

Otherwise, we're a relatively small backwater kinda place known for corruption, piracy and poor enforcement. Why oh why would microsoft want to be here, I wonder?

LOL. is a matter of time only before it become popular and exploit.

Blu-ray is still at the initial stage in the market. Wait until it bloom. then you will see the true belang

Yeah, I agree, the Blu-Ray discs are yet to be 'pirated'. And so Sony is confident releasing it in any part of the world... including 'piracy cove' Malaysia..

Too bad Xbox 360 is still on DVD. DVD !!! - 4.7 Gb !




"Compress til' death do us part" -game developer

just wait n c sony already wana launch the ps3 here in m'sia sure xbox will kacau daun 1,just a matter of time

It will never happen. Xbox will never launch in Malaysia. If it did want to launch, it will be long time ago.

It suck that clamming the warranty is pain in the a$$ but we still get to enjoy eventhough is unofficial

Actually its dual-layer dvds which stores about 8.5 Gb. I always find people who does not know this.

Anyway, if xbox 360 is officially released in Malaysia I would definitely buy another one and of course play everything original.

yeah....as former part of a piracy community(FORMER!i'm clean now),i found that ps3 games have already been pirated.
there are two ways:

1.iso loader.just like the psp,the ps3 is easily hackable,because it uses linux.as it is an open source OS,i find it hard to believe that no one could make an iso loader.
some group(not saying which) has made one,but i'm not sure if it's fake or not.

2.mod chips.blu ray discs HAVE been cracked,and in america and any countries that technology gives a damn about,they have blu ray-r's,like dvd-r's.
basically you download your games,the same way as you download your psp,ps2,xbox games,and burn them on said discs.
then you just load 'em up on your ps3 and....LOL! playable pirated game.

i am NOT encouraging this,i'm just saying that this is all already happening.

sony has seen the potential in malaysian market to promote their console,bcos xbox is nt launched yet so sony took the first leap when ms sees the numbers of consoles sold they will certainly wana come in and sell their consoles here.Piracy games lead to non warranty consoles if ms is officially here and provide warranty support people wont buy piracy and stick to ori games.just my 2 cent la.3rod issues help keep gamers to ori games

yes, I've heard people downloading ps3 games already but the size is massive. I think when blu-ray becomes popular like how dvd was then the pirating activities will increase. I really hope the ps3 remains being all original and pirate proof.

I agree with you. The warranty will make people buy original games and not modify their console but I think the 3rod issue is becoming less now especially when newer revisions are being released. xbox live can also be one factor that will make people play original games.