ps3fanboy.com Tales of Vesperia

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sieanr said:

Gearbox said:

"Sony may have won the July NPD battle against Microsoft, but things have changed quite a bit in Japan. Shockingly, Microsoft's console has beaten the PS3 across the Pacific -- a strange coup we never saw coming. The wild demand for Tales of Vesperia, an Xbox 360 exclusive (for now) spurred sales of the non-Japanese console, defeating the unusual xenophobic fears of the Japanese gaming public ... if only for this week."

Why the hell do people keep repeating this? Its not true at all.

Because, for some reason, people can't wrap their head around the idea that a console full of shooter, sandbox, and sports games would sell bad in a region that hates all of those genres (except for Soccer/Futbol, and they could play that on another platform). Of course, every time a Japanese oriented game is released, the hardware sales increase. Most of the games appeal to Americans, so some of them can't understand why they wouldn't appeal to the average Japanese consumer.