I'm not sure how else they would judge demand other than by sales, so I don't really see a problem with it as long as their expectations for a very niche game like Oreshika are reasonable. But Sony should have already learned their lesson about this when they declined to localize Demon's Souls only for it to go on to be a million seller for Atlus. There's money in the right kind of RPGs.
And better for Namco to say, "We'll bring over Tales of Xillia 2 if Tales of Xillia sells well," than their previous, "We can bring over more Tales games if Splatterhouse and Dead to Rights sell well." That sets up a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation because if their western action games sell well, Namco is just going to make more western action games.
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