Nintendo completely wasted the Last Story. It should have been delayed, improved and expanded, and released as a Wii U launch title. It could have been huge worldwide and done wonders for Nintendo recapturing the hardcore audience, especially in Japan. It also should have had classic FF7-10 combat to fill the needs of gamers who miss that style. But alas, it was not to be.
They could still fix that mistake and fund TLS2. Make it what it should have been and launch it for the next home console. They should contract Mistwalker to lead it and fund a team of skilled devs to build it, not unlike how they do Smash Bros.
TLS was not better than Xenoblade, however. I bought both at the same time expecting TLS to be my favorite but Xeno was everything TLS should have been and then some. But TLS isn't without value, and if Nintendo wants to be taken serious by hardcore gamers they need more than one great RPG series and more than one title per console.
