xant, that was probably the funniest thing i've ever heard =)

Star i agree with you, and i'm sorry.

even if only 2% of india's population had access to electricity, broadband, and the means to afford a 360, if those 2 % were interested in buying a 360, microsoft could have huge business there, and i completely agree that as india and china go through their own industrial revolutions that they'll no doubt overtake the united states and europe and might one day replace us as the permanent members of the UN.

it will be interesting to see if the gaming industry can flourish there...

how much do people care about video games in india, and can they be convinced to care? i'm too ignorant to know =)

it's done, but we'll wait a month before sending it in for manufacture.

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these pumpkins are so awesome... it's too bad they're so ephemeral.

you should carve them out of wax or clay instead of pumpkin =)

@starlord

yes, i know india is the second fastest growing economy in the world due to the outsourcing of jobs from developed nations.

i wasn't trying to say anything was fundamentally wrong with not having electricity or watching television.

frankly, we could do without fox news in our homes every night...

all i was trying to say is that it's a dramatically different culture, one where materialism is much less emphasized, and one where commodities that we rely on to survive are gone without, thus making it difficult to market a gaming console, much less a gaming console with an online service.

it's very difficult to say all that so i abbreviated and i'm sorry if it made me come off as archie bunker, but I assure you that's not the case. =)

@word

i agree with you, halo 3 multiplayer is much less laggy than gears of war was...

i mean, gears of war was an amazing game, and one of my all time favorites, but the bullet lag and host advantage ruined it online.

i can't wait to buy the pc version with dedicated servers...

i mean, take team fortress 2 for instance... i play on a 30 player server without any lag on my pc...

but on xbl? no dedicated servers means horrid gameplay...

microsoft should pay for dedicated servers given that customers are paying 50$+ a year...

i was trying to say that more disc space would be better suited for storing video game data, not movie data... it'd be better for pc games too...

I'm all for whichever format has bigger capacity...

i thought that was blu ray... i mean, doesn't blu ray have larger capacity?

i heard they had 100 gig discs out now?

here is the ganges river, where people wash, eat, cook out of all at the same time.

what, did you think i was being facetious?

http://www.pbase.com/2112/varanasi

god every 5 year old and there knowledge of 3rd world countries. go read a book before calling me a bigot.

what am i saying, a vast majority of people there don't have a FRESH WATER SUPPLY.

i'm sorry, but do you know anything about the fucking region?