Think of it this way. Wii Sports has sold over a million copies in Japan. Wii Japan userbase is about 1.55 million. 2 out of 3 Wii owners bought what has been referred to as a 'tech demo' - albeit with a great physics engine. If VF5 sells to two out of three PS3 owners in Japan, it sells about 400,000. PS2, the most popular last gen system in Japan, barely saw VF sequels sell that much even with a much bigger user base. Perhaps I guess my question is, what type of game in Japan would justify $600+ (I don't know what PS3 costs in Japan) to play a console to most people? Final Fantasy might be that game...if Square bucks their historical trend of supporting the most popular console of the land. Enix already has christened the transition to the Wii and DS with Dragon Quest. One of my favorite websites www.the-magicbox.com, also reported the other day that Blue Dragon could be a DS game...further making the DS the console for RPGS (Earthbound, Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Mana series, Zelda, etc), perhaps proving once and for all (this generation at least) that RPG's can sell to Nintendo's console 'demographic' (whatever types of people they may be).
People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.
When there are more laws, there are more criminals.
- Lao Tzu
