Highly doubt it's coming. Malaysia's gaming community is just too small. Majority of the population still view video games as childish toys. Sony has a strong fanbase here in Msia, so i'm guessing they're trying to take advantage of that.

This post has been edited by chinook: Sep 5 2008, 11:55 AM

It's not just the education. It's our economy as well. Games in US cost about $60 bucks. They probably earn 4-5000 USD a month on average (rough estimation). We earn the same amount in MYR, approximately only 1000+ USD yet the games we buy cost RM100 and above.

I don't support piracy but let's be rational here, most people who want to play games can't afford it, thus leading them to buy pirated software.

The mindset towards piracy here will not change until our economy improves. Even then, it will still be hard to push for all software to be piracy-free.

Exactly why I said that even if our economy improves, the mindset will still be there.
The point I'm trying to make is that this whole piracy thing is so rampant here because our economy is quite far behind other developed nations. The exchange rate is so high that every time we import something, we end up paying double, even triple what it originally costs.

And yes, the exchange rate is important because games are still items for purchase. Hopefully one day our exchange rate will improve, and we'll be able to buy games at below the current prices.

Yes I do agree that we can plan our budget, heck I basically starve myself every month in Uni just to buy new games but not everyone has that luxury. There are many in the country who have to scrape so much that their wage is only enough to cover the necessities yet their kids want to play video games. Yes, maybe they shouldn't even think about video games at all but kids are kids.

Lol, you've been watching too much Zohan.

Around this time last year, if I remember correctly, there was talk of a Malaysian launch for the 360 before the new year.

One year later, we're discussing the same thing...yet again.