(Japan) it makes no sense for SE to keep FF XIII exclusive

[TheBigFatJ]

Infamous said:

Ender said:

Tremble said:
because 150k FFXIII sold in japan is not really important. They need to keep it ps3 exclusive in japan to satisfy playstation fans (psp+ps3)

It most likely has to do with localization costs.

Most likely something along those lines, but people will fail to recognize this. Also, I bet we're going to hear alot of changes regarding FFXIII in the near future. Not sure exactly what, but yeah.

 

How does it have to do with localization costs?  You have the game ported to the 360 in America and you have it localized for Japan already.  Both the porting efforts and the localization efforts will cost about the same whether it was released on the 360 in Japan or not.  Either way you already have to:

(1) port the game to the 360 hardware

(2) localize the game for Japan and the US and also for various countries in Europe.