The "Tales of" series, and exactly why Vesperia is a "big deal"

[ookaze]

Vesperia is a big deal to me because it has interest to me.
Though just mild interest, not enough to buy a X360.
Now I understand better how lots of the series fans felt when Symphonia was released on GC, and why they didn't buy a GC for it. They bought it after when it released on PS2 though.

But I feel the series will stay very niche. It just has no chance to expand at all with the way they're managing it. It's just mistakes after mistakes.
They put the worst ones on the DS, and the gaiden on the Wii, which just doesn't make sense as it can't make the series appeal to new players.
Then they put their main one on the console with the audience the farthest from their target in Japan, acknowledgely because of bad forecast and bad decisions from them.

They realise their mistake though, as can be seen by the fact that they quickly delayed and tried to improve the gaiden on Wii. But first impressions from Japan confirm what I thought, in that it wasn't enough.

I feel Namco thought they would do what the GC did with ToS, seeing the very few JRPG like it in the West. They probably think it will sell well like ToS, or Abyss.
But it wasn't enough with ToS on GC, and it's even worse now with ToV on XB360.
They're alienating their main japanese audience, or it's shrinking pretty fast.