You need to be able to buy local stuff, locally generated stuff to get most value for your money and then you need the transportation to get it there.

You do get quite a lot of bang for your buck.

If you really love games and pride yourself as being an early adopter, then no rational argument is going to deter you from buying (360) on day one, ... That said, there are only a few of the first round of 360 games that are noticeably different.

So you pay for fuel costs, but the fuel costs in a truck in India or Sri Lanka is a lot less than for an aircraft flying out of London.