To respond to my "all it took was a Japanese IP"
I was reffering to an established major-series Japanese IP, and not a new IP (Eternal Sonata) or a smaller niche IP (Beautiful Katamari).
I know there were the pack-ins and price drops, but lets face it: even with all of that, had AC6 not been there as a major catalyist, it wouldn't of happened. Ace Combat 6 sold only 5,000 units below Blue Dragon for it's first week. Don't you think with such high sales (in relation to the user base), that it was a key component of moving the hardware?
Example: last year, this very week, the X360 introduced the Core system... It was much cheaper (the price of a Wii, or near it), and was precieved to be great for the J-gamer. The result? 6,500 units. A 300% increase. But it still was just a 4,000 unit increase. This time around it's a near-14,000 unit increase.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
