Well, next year in Japan, I can't think a whole lof ot MS exclusives, but you do have Infinite Undiscovery (a JRPG) slated for next year. It should do Trusty Bell-type numbers (plus a few extra ten thousand due to newer consumers).
I don't think there's a critical mass of games needed, outside of a real steady once-a-week Japanese-centric game if MS ever wanted +10k weeks in some sort of regularity.
However, with Last Remnant, DMC4, RE5, and others coming out next year as multi-plats to the much cheaper X360, we could see sizable increases in the consumer base next year. I can't wait to see what RE5 does in Japan on the X360. It should be huge.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.







