Western developers don't cater to Japanese gamers either, the two are just too different.  Its hard to cater to both without compromising the identity of the game.  The plain fact is the vast majority of western gamers that are open to Japanese games are on PS, not Xbox.

That's kinda my thought too. If they were selling well, they would likely be getting a second shipment. I don't understand exactly how the Amiibo assembly lines are set up, but I imagine they're done in pretty sizable batches to make sure the manufacturing is as cost-effective as possible. If the demand is too small, it might just not be worth it to have another batch created. 

I am disapointed that a character from a universe I love won't be getting another shipment...but since I have no intention of buying it anyway, I guess you can say I'm part of the problem. :P Hopefully there is enough demand to warrant re-continuing some of these figures.

Yea, well, I am guessing these toys will be back in a later date (apart from wii fit trainer) when the respective games get released. I see no way in hell that the villager wont be coming back when/if animal crossing for wiiU gets announced or marth for SMT x FE. But as of right now, these aren't very popular and shelve space on retail is expensive so if they aren't selling as well as expected, then out with the "old" and in with the "new" loll

Well, you actually said japanese devs and publishers, Capcom is a japanese dev that plus your comment about moneyhatting implies that. And Capcom does not have the resource's to make a next-gen fighter, as they have said and their finacial disarray over the year has been more than publized. Doesn't matter how much they sold 5 years ago tbh. And PS4 and XB1 are only close in the US, if your going to be exclusive to a console it only makes sense to even consider the XB1 if your target market is in the US.

That said the topic is about amiibo's and if you really did care about derailing the thread rather than trying to leave under the premise of appearing right, you would've ceased derailing it. In contrast to your post(s) prior.

Call of Duty Ghosts didn't even break 1m units on ALL platforms in Japan, hell I don't think it even sold 0.5m, if that's not niche idk what is.  Destiny failed to sell 0.5m either.  A sports game is a really bad example, sports are the same in every country.  Those are some really bad examples.

Japanese devs didn't try to grow a fanbase on Xbox?  You must have missed all those Japanese exclusive games that were on the 360.  Some developers like the Tales of team almost went out of business because they made a game exclusively on 360, a series that was around for over a decade almost ended because they made a game exclusive on Xbox even with a bag of cash from Microsoft, that's a great sign for other Japanese developers to take a risk and invest in putting their game on Xbox. 

You don't try to grow a fanbase over and over when it fails every time, that's by definition insane.