Yes, me and wuffy are going to get one XBOX360 each!
No, our country is not included in the launch list for that console. Heck, our country isn't even on the list for XBOX LIVE! (though i got a subscription anyway...A SINCERE THANK YOU TO MICROSOFT SINGAPORE FOR YOUR KINDNESS IN ACCEPTING MY XBOX LIVE SUBSCRIPTION!). Microsoft Philippines does not officially support the Xbox and the Xbox 360 in our country because the piracy rate is so high that they think it will not be profitable for them. Boo hoo for me.
But we are going to get the xbox 360, when our 'supplier' manages to get them all the way from the 'States (or however they get it...i have no idea how they manage to do it).
It's funny though. I visit message boards every day related to the xbox 360. And these days a lot of the people in the 'first world' are whining about xbox 360 shortages. Every manner of curse and four-letter word is being hurled by consumers at their retailers for not being able to supply them with the console.
Apparently penny-arcade.com thinks it's such a huge issue that they even made a comic strip about it. Wow. It's such a disaster of epic proportions. [/sarcasm]
"Oh noes I have to wait *gasp* TWO WEEKS to a MONTH to get my time-wasting device."
-->The brats--oops, guys at penny arcade.
Where I live, well, they're going to sell that new console at a much more expensive price. Possibly 100% of the price of the 'box will be added to its selling price. Ouch. They probably won't have all the launch games. There will probably be only FOUR xbox 360s in the store--and that would be all of the supply in the entire country. They COULD ALL BE CORE BOXES (Good LORD that would be disastrous! [/NO SARCASM]).
So if your ebgames or gamestop or whatever doesn't manage to get you your xbox360 on November 22, take comfort in the thought that there are places far far worse when it comes to the supplication of gaming needs.
No, our country is not included in the launch list for that console. Heck, our country isn't even on the list for XBOX LIVE! (though i got a subscription anyway...A SINCERE THANK YOU TO MICROSOFT SINGAPORE FOR YOUR KINDNESS IN ACCEPTING MY XBOX LIVE SUBSCRIPTION!). Microsoft Philippines does not officially support the Xbox and the Xbox 360 in our country because the piracy rate is so high that they think it will not be profitable for them. Boo hoo for me.
But we are going to get the xbox 360, when our 'supplier' manages to get them all the way from the 'States (or however they get it...i have no idea how they manage to do it).
It's funny though. I visit message boards every day related to the xbox 360. And these days a lot of the people in the 'first world' are whining about xbox 360 shortages. Every manner of curse and four-letter word is being hurled by consumers at their retailers for not being able to supply them with the console.
Apparently penny-arcade.com thinks it's such a huge issue that they even made a comic strip about it. Wow. It's such a disaster of epic proportions. [/sarcasm]
"Oh noes I have to wait *gasp* TWO WEEKS to a MONTH to get my time-wasting device."
-->The brats--oops, guys at penny arcade.
Where I live, well, they're going to sell that new console at a much more expensive price. Possibly 100% of the price of the 'box will be added to its selling price. Ouch. They probably won't have all the launch games. There will probably be only FOUR xbox 360s in the store--and that would be all of the supply in the entire country. They COULD ALL BE CORE BOXES (Good LORD that would be disastrous! [/NO SARCASM]).
So if your ebgames or gamestop or whatever doesn't manage to get you your xbox360 on November 22, take comfort in the thought that there are places far far worse when it comes to the supplication of gaming needs.