I don't believe it that Sony able to pull this off.See the launch of PS3 as example.
MS will not make the same mistake as when Sony launched PS3 for the PAL countries.
Still sad for those people's whose live outside the launch countries.
MS please drop the 24 hours policies and you can have my money.
Notice the wording. It's not saying the system is launching in all these regions. It's saying the regions where games will work if you manage to obtain a console, which could be done through importing.