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More About Asian Launch and Asian Game Price ($43 shipped) Worth Import?

We already reported about the Xbox 360 launch in Taiwan earlier. Here are some extra pictures posted on the Team Xbox GamerScore Blog of the March 16th launch in Singapore, Hong Kong and more from Taiwan:
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* Singapore invited MTV VJ Denise Keller and all sorts of gamers to an event at the Red Dot Gallery.
Before that, they went to the IT Show, from the 9-12. About 23k folks stepped up and got to play 360.

* Taiwan set up a group of Kiosks at the Kmall (if you live there, it’s near the Taipei station). It’s still going on, and here’s what it looks like:

* And Hong Kong had a huge midnight madness-type event.
The team also put up a count-down clock at New Town Plaza. Look at the size of this Xbox:

Sounds like we had a pretty sweet launch, so much so that productivity in Asia is expected to drop. Sweet.
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More pictures of the launch in Singapore are available here[gameaxis.com], for the Taiwanese launch go here[sukimon.com].

With the launch of the Xbox 360 in asia (outside Japan) we also get to see the asian gameprice, which is pretty interesting as it’s well below the ~50-70usd / ~55-70eur pricetag we get here in the west.
As some Xbox 360 titles are not region locked it’s interesting to take a look at import stores like play-asia.com selling these titles for just 39.90usd. With worldwide airmail shipping at just 3.10usd that means you can get titles like Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion[not confirmed region free yet - so dont pre-order unless you have a NTSC/J console] for just 43usd (~35.25eur) delivered to your door instead of respectively ~60usd/70eur and ~60usd/62eur (amazon.com/fr prices).
Of course … keep in mind it’s possible you’ll have to pay importtaxes and for europe maybe also VAT. But with the basic airmail shipping the games get shipped in a small ‘letterbox’ and chances that it gets checked by the customs is pretty low (but possible I guess).
Also … always check the game is not region locked and in english … most online import stores list this in the description. Some asian titles so far (like GRAW) seem to be region free and in english (Oblivion is not confirmed to be region free yet because it’s not released yet). PAL regions also might want to make sure their TV can accept an NTSC signal, although I guess a PAL console will output a PAL signal even with a NTSC game (can anymore confirm this?).
Let us know what you think about this (pretty big, certainly for europe) price difference … would you consider importing games?, do you think it makes any difference on LIVE (like rooms you get into)? Could be worth buying an NTSC/J Xbox 360 so you can also buy the region locked titles from asia

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