"$1M missile vs firing a laser. I do not know how much it costs to fire a chemical laser but I bet it is a lot cheaper than firing a missile."

Missiles require purchase in bulk, inspections while in (expensive) storage, transportation to the combat theater, many personnel to maintain, load, and unload them (if a missile isn't fired, it will be returned to storage) and in general a vast support chain to keep them available to shoot.
Once an aircraft is empty of ordnance, it must return to base for weapons reload.

Lasers don't look spendy at all given the cumulative effort and expense of getting a conventional missile to target.

Ballistic missiles don't like to spin, because it does nasty things to the fuel (which has the consistency of an eraser), and to the walls of the missile itself (these things are quite thin for mass reasons).

>>>You are assuming that the 1.3 billion Chinese will have the disposable income to purchase games at the same level someone in America or Europe does.

Yes I am. With Americans and Europeans shipping factories over to China, the average Chinese citizen IS becoming more wealthy, and with the US and EU in deep debt/financial decline, Americans and Europeans will have less disposable income. I predict by 2020 Chinese workers will be on parity with us.

You're missing one important vector.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/01/countering_trus.html