Microsofts RPG influence.. gone?

[loves2splooge]

If Mass Effect goes, they pretty much just have Fable, Lost Odyssey (biggest non-FF jrpg on hd consoles thus far) and Blue Dragon (biggest 360 title in Japan) as exclusive RPG IPs. Is that it? Microsoft definitely needs to get some more western rpgs and japanese rpgs going under MGS.

The focus should be on first-party games. Moneyhatting third-parties has it's place though (theres always going to be those hardcore fanatics who can't wait a year+. You all went out and bought GTA on the PS2 and didn't whine when Xbox owners got improvements and extra content. We're supposed to believe that this isn't going to continue to happen in such a front-loaded business as this?) so as long as it's a big IP or a new IP that will generate a lot of interest. The Japanese Tales fanboys did overreact. Namco never said it would remain exclusive. They just used the old bs "we don't have plans for a PS3 port at the moment" crap that we saw from 2K Games, Square-Enix, etc. If you're only going to buy a console for ONE game, you are crazy (even though the xbox 360 surprisingly has a higher attach rate than PS3 in Japan, apparently many Tales and SO fanboys did go out to buy a 360 for just one game). It's not Microsoft's or Namco's fault that the fanboys don't have the patience to wait it out. They have that option. But many fanboys won't and there's nothing wrong with that so as long as they are willing to accept the risk of buying third-party exclusives. It's not like Namco or Square-Enix blatantly told them "it is 360 exclusive." Though if Namco releases ToV's PS3 port to North America, they deserve backlash for putting "only on xbox 360" on the box (in Japan, they wisely left that out). It seems like companies just want to slap that logo on their games just for show. If you don't want backlash and you can't say with 100% certainty that you won't port, leave that logo out of your cover art. Tecmo and 2K Games shamelessly put that logo on Ninja Gaiden II and Bioshock respectively and they deserve full backlash for false advertising.

I'm not even going to bother counting stuff like Infinite Undiscovery, Too Human and Two Worlds. Those will probably be discontinued.