Well considering SO4 made roughly around Lost Odyssey sales if you combine both X360 and PS3 than no! I actually don't agree that the sales are bad. PS3 may likely would have sold more than it did or maybe it wouldn't have. The whole belief that JRPG fans are mainly on PS3 is a total hoot tbh. People should have seen it coming before the launch of the X360 because we already knew Enchanted Arms was coming along with a mystery JRPG from Namco (Eternal Sonata) and that Final Fantasy 11 was coming to X360. These were all signs that things were going to be better this generation for JRPG fans w/ X360's. Only Sony fan's were blinded by this and believed no matter what PS3 would be like PS2 and hog the spotlight. 

In turn no Star OCean 4 did not sell bad IMO and it is up in the air how big of a difference it would have made if it was multi right out of the gate. If you want a game bad enough for a specific system than go get it for that system. I for one am an impatient man so I will give 2 examples of my own here: Virtua Fighter 5 and Unreal Tournament 3...both these titles were timed exclusives for PS3 I picked them up when they came out and later down the line traded them in and picked up the X360 version's because it is my system of choice. If anyone is a gamer like myself who wants to have the game on their preferred platform if the option comes around than they likely would have done the same type of thing sooner or later.

It actually makes perfect sense why it would be announced at Microsoft's E3 Conference. It is an established JRPG franchise never before on seen on an Xbox platform. Any X360 owner that likes JRPG's would agree that this makes perfect sense. Not to mention the largest X360 audience is America why not show it off. I am sure hoewever, that is it is announced they won't have gameplay footage available until TGS. I don't believe this game will be exclusive simply because it is not as big as some other well established JRPG's.  It might be timed exclusive or multi out the gate but that is anyone's guess at this point. Same goes for the Breath of Fire Compilation but who knows with this one since no one really knows how much this may even be costing Square to do or whether or not some kind of deal was done.

Well look at RoF sales. Currently 4/1 in favour of the PS3, which such bad sales for the Xbox 360 version, that they could just have made this a PS3 exclusive for a exclusivity boost in sales just like WKC and Yakuza 3 did for the PS3 or Metro 2033 for the XBox 360.

Unless you really push a Xbox 360 JRPG it won't really sell, and making SO a timed exclusive pretty much killed or nerfed the relevance of the franchise. Dumbest move ever.

Speaking of RoF. It's made by the same team that did VP: Silmeria, so unless it's being outsourced I don't think we will see VP: III anytime soon.

That's Japan that it is like that and that goes for any multi game in Japan no matter what genre. Japan is full pride and most simply refuse to buy the game on X360. Sony fanboys must be running rampant across Japan. If you look at sales for RoF in Europe/Others & America they are pretty close on each system and this goes for Final Fantasy 13 as well. Hell who expected the sales of the X360 version to be as close as they are to PS3's. I sure didn't! I am glad to see it sold well though because this shows proves once and for all that there is a fanbase on X360 as well. Christ another persion whining saying that Star Ocean suddenly is not longer relevant because of timed exclusivity on X360. Timed exclusivity didn't kill the relevance of Virtua Fighter or Unreal Tournament. I agree it stinks having to wait for it to comeo ut on your console of choice once it is confirmed to be timed. Star Ocean 4 sold just fine on X360 so it wasn't the dumbest move ever. You are just a fanboy that wants to continue beating a dead horse, so to speak.

No worldwide it's also 4/1 according to this site.

And no, Japan has just better taste when it come's to consoles and games than the west, especially America.

And lol, they needed to dwarf the PS3 version of FFXIII and bundle and promote the Xbox 360 version like crazy in the west to reach those numbers, which aren't even close to the PS3 one's anyway. What would have happened with a PS3 bundle and equall promotion? I guess we will never know, but I think that the difference would have been tremendous.

You forgot to say IMO!   Spoken like a true fanboy congrats!  OH and FYI if you take out the Japan sales and just look at the west RoF sales on X360 were roughly 43,000 and PS3 RoF sales were roughly 61,000. 4/1 my ass!!

As for your bundle excuse all the people I know that got one (including myself) got it because of the 250 gig harddrive primarily and all of us already had the game preordered or planned to buy it on X360 anyways. So I doubt that many extra copies were sold on X360 over PS3 because of the bundle. It boosted console sales more than anything.

A lot of Support for Microsoft, i guess they haven't given up the 360 in Japan
Unless Microsoft is paying Big Bucks for these Exclusivity or Timed exclusive games for the 360, then MS must be losing out a lot in terms of revenue for these projects. Although this may help convert people who haven't been able to buy a Sony PS3 to buy a 360 instead because of the large JRPG range and a cheaper console, other than that its still rather risky because not much of the Exclusived or Timed Ex has been much of an accomplishment in terms of sales.

In the near future i can definitely see FFV13 being made for 360 also, Theres no way SE is going to keep a HIGHLY Budget game exclusived on the PS3, and Judging from what SE has done for the 360 and with Hardly any support for the PS3. Am really surprised Valkrie Profile is being exclusived to 360 if the rumor is true considering how the game was also on the PSP. I mean with the sales on of FF13 on the 360 already a million seller theres no way SE can lose out on this.

I wonder if SE has managed to break even on their exclusive projects such as Infinity undiscovery and others, i really hope to see more Multiplatform games coming from SE instead of Exclusivity or timed because their losing a lot of potential sales from the Sony platform especially making the Valkrie profile an exclusive, I just can't see this as a wise Business decision, Why would you make another exclusive for the 360 console when Sales for FF13 has been really impressive and shows that JRPG games can still manage to sell

1. Why would they announce this at E3 and not TGS?

2. I imagine this would go the route of Star Ocean.

3. Why would Microsoft even spend money on getting this on the 360? (if they did) At most the game sells 350k and moves a small fraction of consoles in Japan. The DS game only sold 300k and only 160k in Japan, although I realize it was a spin-off, can we really expect the a VP 360 game to do much better?

VP is a drop of water in a really big bucket when it comes to sales and impact in the grand scheme.

Same could be said for Monster Hunter:Frontier being that it is an MMO game.

microsoft is surely trying to save the xbox360 and show the japanese that the 360 is still alive to jump in by grabbing monster hunter fronteir it a mmo but still who would expect monster hunter on the 360 i didnt and if this is rumor is true microsoft trying to pull out the guns to increase japanese audences to switch to the xbox platform