Microsoft: Japan is a "soulful place" for games

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Wright said:

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chidori-chan2 said:

I hope MS release Lost odyssey 2 ( lost odyssey is  amazing game for xbox 360)

Not likely cuz the sales for the first one and blue dragon were commercial failures and that is why microsoft canned mistwalkers third game cry-on.
                                                                           Edit:Nintendo also felt a bit soured how the last story didn't take off.

Ehh...source? 800k for a JRPG is a success. Maybe it didn't reach Lost Odyssey expectations, but I'm sure they profited on Blue Dragon.

I'm pretty sure blue dragon outsold lost odyssey looking at the vgchartz numbers and I would estimate the game costed at least 15 million dollars to make given that it created alot of assests to span on 3 full DVD's while also having roughly 2 years of development time. Oh and there were 2 developers while your at it. Artoon had around 80 and it was creating the ingame assests while mistwalker with a staff of about 15 at the time were the ones conceptualizing it. I have some trouble believing that blue dragon made profit with these circumstances.

I'm definitely sure that lost odyssey also made a loss and not a gain given the fact that mistwalker has experienced some development issues. 

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=17559    (Look under "What Didn't Go Well" section of the article for more details.)