[Insert V for Vendetta joke here.] Indian gamers have a reason to celebrate next month, as Live for both Xbox 360 and Games for Windows will launch there on November 5th. A 12-month subscription will run 2200 rupees ($55 USD) and a 1600 MS Point card will cost 1070 rupees. That's roughly $27 USD, so Indians will be paying slightly more than Americans for their virtual currency. Xbox Live Marketplace content for India will be considered part of Asia, so any content available on the Asian XBLM (including XBLA games and movies), will be available to India. The Indian Video Marketplace will have Indian films available for download as well. Finally, India's Marketplace will be host to educational content for grades 1-12. What exactly that entails, we don't know, but we're sure it makes for good marketing.[Via Joystiq]
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10-24-2007 @ 5:43PM
WTangoFoxtrot said...
cool, they get it before we do here in canada, and we only have like a few hundred thousand more 360's here than in the sub-continent !
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10-24-2007 @ 5:45PM
howardryan6 said...
Remember Remember the 5th of November the gun powder treason and plot. I know of know of no reason why the gunpowder treason shall ever be forgot. All from memory. Is CoD4 coming out on the 5th?
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10-24-2007 @ 5:49PM
Eddie said...
Canada doesn't have live???
Wha???
Who have I been playing with?
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10-24-2007 @ 6:18PM
Token White Guy said...
Howardyan6, yep. Can't wait. And I love that poem.
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10-24-2007 @ 6:24PM
maniac0201 said...
#3...of course Canada has live.
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10-24-2007 @ 6:53PM
kyuss74 said...
Well i hope the indians get american customer service operators when they need there box fixed.
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10-24-2007 @ 6:54PM
Arnie said...
Being an Indian and living in the US I can say that this is a really cool feature. I had a cousin in India who bought a 360(he got a RROD also!!)and was telling me that they would be getting Live soon.
He is pretty excited about it cause he tried logging into the Live here and it just gave him hellish lag!!
So good times and Woot Woot!!
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10-24-2007 @ 7:48PM
Foggy Bottoms said...
hmm i see the computer support joke has already been writ.
shucks.
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10-24-2007 @ 8:03PM
WTangoFoxtrot said...
wait by live i thought they ment the marketplace. i think they already have XBL for online play, meaning ive seen the halo3 matchmaking map having a light on in delhi and bombay sometimes even.
just as a correction yea we dont have the marketplace here in canada.
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10-24-2007 @ 8:50PM
Seven said...
Canada has XBox Live, BUT we can not download Movies or TV shows. We only have access to XBLA, and playing games online.
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10-25-2007 @ 7:14AM
Boff said...
Just chiming in with the obligatory comment about the state of the Video Marketplace in Europe.
"What?? India gets the video marketplace before the UK??"
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10-25-2007 @ 10:03AM
dunnypop said...
isn't 2200 rupees a lot of money for the avg person in India?
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10-25-2007 @ 10:05PM
siddharth s said...
Well, Rs 2200 isn't a lot of money anymore. It was a year's of tuition at a public school at one time (in Bombay), but the last time I was in Bombay, a drink at some clubs was about Rs 500. With the younger generation more educated and more driven, they're making a LOT of money. Of course, you still can't earn rupees in India and spend dollars in India. Not for the next 5-7 years at least ...
FYI, Xbox live movie downloads will be a huge hit ... The film and music industry in India is very open to DRM free content. Hell, the music industry itself was selling MP3 CD's (~100-150 songs from various albums) almost 5 years back ....
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