Japan and the US have evolved into completely different markets. You can see it in sales. Japanese consumers are eating up handhelds like hotcakes, as a majority of their software sales are for the DS and PSP these days, while they seem to be latching on to the PS2 as their home console. Their taste in video games also leans more towards RPG or anime-syled games. The "next-gen" is hardly a factor at all over there. They can't even sell PS3s for chrissake.
The American market is just eating up violent video games like Halo. And when you can move over 2 million units in America on the first day, who cares about Japan at that point? It's a much smaller country with a smaller population, it's not even worth attempting unless you have a title with guaranteed mass appeal. America tried reaching out to Japan with games like Blue Dragon and Eternal Sonata, which they flatly rejected. Let them be, at this point. They can play Nintendogs and FF7 spinoffs till they're blue in the face.
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