yeah I have that book in English, came with the PS3 Special Edition

Not at all. The reason why Final Fantasy sell where other JRPGs don't is because it actually has a decent production budget. Most JRPGS look cheap (even if they have solid gameplay). Also the generic anime style many of them adopt is not very appealing to people in the west.

I wonder if a 3DS version would make financial sense...
They could throw the translated book as a digital version on the card and make it accesible through the game itself (like the Ps3 version did it)
...I don´t think a port would be very expensive !
I would buy it !

I'm actually shocked at those "rest of the world" numbers for the PS3 version. In this day and age, a HD console JRPG that isn't Final Fantasy selling those kind of figures in US/EU is a major success.

Props to it. Still haven't gotten around to picking it up, but I intend to at some point.

So I assume 500k is a success?

Dat ghost. But good sales for a good game.

Wow I had no idea it would flop that hard.

50k can be a success for someone like Compile Heart.

The 'Tales of' series was a massive success at ~600k domestic sales; but still seems to be doing alright at ~400k.  I'm assuming this would be in the same ballpark as those kind of figures.

As I understand it, Level 5 is basically just given a budget for whomever publisher hires them for a specific project. It doesn't matter to them whether the game sells or not since every Level-5 employee get their normal salary anyway. What matters is if publishers give them projects to work on. I see level 5 as workforce contractors.

At least this is how Platinum Games are structured. Level 5 could be different for all I know.

Every game.