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Xbox 360 to launch in India! |
Listed in: Xbox 360 Tags: diwali, Microsoft, xbox 360 titles
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After hearing how successful India has been doing economically, Microsoft has decided to launch their Xbox 360 gaming console there later this year. The estimated 1.6 million gaming fans in India will be able to pre-order the system as early as next month, and Microsoft guarantees that the 360 will be in India before any of their competitors release their consoles anywhere in the world. In addition, Microsoft is also going to strongly support third-party game developers there as well, and they especially hope to see an increase in the number of XBLA titles. The console will be launched sometime before the Indian festival of lights known as Diwali for the price of 19,990 rupees ($439 USD). Microsoft is definitely trying to spread their means worldwide to take an early lead in the next generation race.
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Lol French players are so fun to confuse the heck out of.
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now i can play people from india aswell as many others
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Even teenagers there dont work.... they all depend on their parents for daily living....
Indian culture is not at all like European culture... it is totally different... to get one, the child or teenager has to be either from a rich parent and spoilt or has to beg their middle class parents to buy them one... we are looking at probably 2-3 years convincing time period before the parents agree to buy one...
20,000 rupees is a very big amount for people there...
I am not looking at a lot of sales in india...
Lets looks at some of my (from my point of view)
Population- ~1.25- 1.5 billion
Poor percentage- ~50%
Middle Class percentage- ~45% (~0.5% of them probably buy the 360 in a year from launch)
High Class percentage- ~5% (.5% of them may buy the 360 in a year from launch)
It still may add up to a lot of consoles sold but i am not going to gurantee that....
All these facts i am presenting with one thing in mind.... parents there are very strict and want their children to just study all the time and top their respective classes...
A thing like videogames is considered a waste of time; especially if that videogame is Rs.20,000, a whole month's work pay for majority of the middle class parents..
This expensive hobby is just thrown out of the window....
Bottomline, MS will not be able to sell many consoles...
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I would definately not take rupees as payment 4 nething. haha
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