I recently bought Xbox 360 with Kinect in US and brought it to India and I haven't yet created a Xbox Live account. I have some questions regarding how Xbox Live will work with regards to the different countries I purchased and am using my Xbox in.
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Since my Xbox was bought in US do I need to create Xbox Live account with my country as the US? Or do I create an account with my country as India? India has the Xbox Live Arcade but I am not sure if the content is the same. Pros and cons of both approaches?
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Will games bought in India work? Or do I need to buy them from the US?
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Any other issues that I might face? Or any suggestions I should follow?
Best Answer
You can create your X-Box account for any country, however you can only change countries once every 12 months. This can be done via the X-Box live website. You have to however copy all your downloaded content to a backup USB since you can't re-download these. Also the country on your Live account and the X-Box account must match, otherwise it will create some havoc. To access the change your region options on X-Box live look for the following on your account:
Unfortunately I am getting the following screen since I recently did this, however you will get the option to choose a country:
Gamercards can only redeemed for the country they are bought for, as they are linked to the Live store for each country.
The only reason I can imagine your games won't work bought in India, is if they are not PAL/NTSC compatible depending on what you use. South Africans for a long time bought Australian and UK X-Boxes and bought games locally and they worked fine.