Wii / PS3 / X360 releases through March

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Darc Requiem said: It better for Sony's sake Hanafuda. I mean its really said that the 360 still has sold more total software in Japan. Sienar, the VF4 outsold VF5 by 200,000 units. The series isn't in enough of a popularity decline to bomb like it has on PS3 thus far.

Well, Blue Dragon was supposed to be the game that finally broke the 360 in Japan, but it didn't, and the system is still dead here. People have to remember that although Virtua Fighter is almost a household name in Japan, and it is still huge in the arcades, it is still a rather fringe series when looking at the big picture. Most fighting games are... Not that it makes much difference, but I'm confident that VF5 will sell more than 160,000 (Blue Dragon's total to date) in Japan. Let's also not forget that Blue Dragon had a large scale PR campaign (Lawson tie ins, paying off Famitsu etc etc) too, and a really long time in development. There are already rumours that Mistwalker may dump the 360 if the game doesn't sell well in the US (which I doubt it will). Kind of getting a little off topic here, but none of the upcoming JPN 360 releases are going to do any business.