OctaBech on 21 November 2009
It should be a given that FF XIII will boost PS3 sales in Japan when taking the consol's lack of RPGs directed at the Japanese market into consideration, though the lack of a promise to bring even more RPGs onto the console undoubtedly will negate some of that FF XIII momentum.
A personal guess why the PS3 has been fairing so badly in Japan(apart from price point), is that the jump in hardware hasn't improved the experience of Japanese RPGs, it's pretty much still on the level of PS2 ,Wii, DS and PSP.
Sony can hope that FF XIII will change this and legitimize the PS3(and the xBox 360) as an RPG platform.
