Yet another Namco semi-exclusive for the X360 and a win for X360 sales in Japan.
Namco sure is giving the X360 alot of love. Definately not a bad thing. I think the game can/will break 100k in Japan alone.
Everyone forgets that most of the JRPGs for the X360 have been forgettable efforts by second-rate development studios.
The only 2 "real" RPGs thus far have been BD and LO - and LO is guarenteed 100k, and/or even 150k.
The others - Enchanted Arms, Eternal Sonata, and such have been offshoots from various publishers (From Software really isn't a household name).
And in the West, with no major SE and such, MS has an uphill battle with the userbase - users aren't entirely there, maybe 500,000 JRPG fans worldwide, on the X360.
However, we've seen in Japan, expecially, when actual franchise IPs come X360-side, they do well. Ace Combat 6 had a pretty strong opening (75k via MC), RR6 did well considering the userbase (and compared to RR7 on PS3), and so on and so forth. A Tales came, a real Tales game, would definately boost the X360 JRPG base by leaps and bounds - as you'd probably have a strong userbase of ~250,000 hardcore JRPG players that would be candidates for buying a Tales game. Would Versperia do as well as Legendia? Probably not, but with MS cash help, and such, it'd be dumb for Namco not to do it.
In other news, it'd be neat to see how much TOV sells on the X360 vs. TOL. TOL did what? 350k LTD in Japan?
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
