Kresnik on 30 September 2012
@ OP
I don't know, really. I can see where you're coming from with the whole cutesy artstyle kind of thing. But I also think it has a very western style - something they probably wouldn't like. I definitely think there's a bit of western-bias influencing the sales figures over there too.
Sony probably released it with minimal marketing as per usual as well, and with a bigger Japanese week for them coming up they probably skipped over LBP.
I don't think it really did that badly all things considered, though. It sold more than LBP PSP did first week (at least according to VGChartz figures) and that obviously had a much bigger install base.
