The game is region-locked. It has been confirmed by people who have tried the game on their NTSC-U 360s on GameFAQs. Also someone from that forum got this in an e-mail from NCS (import retailer)

"Hi___, we can confirm that No More Heroes for the Japanese Xbox 360 is
not region free. Our customers in Japan already have the game and tested it
on a USA console for us.

Regards,
NCS Inc"

The 360 verison is CERO Z and uncensored whereas the PS3 version is censored (CERO D) so looks like westerners won't be able to get an uncensored version of this port unless they own a NTSC-J 360. Considering that an Arcade 360 costs a fortune to import on Play-Asia, I'm gonna pass. I got dinged hard by customs by importing a Japanese shmup recently. I'd hate to think how much I'd get charged by the mail delivery woman for duties, taxes and handling for importing a console.

 Porting costs are minimal - The original Assassin's Creed was ported from I believe Ps3 to 360 for less then 10% of the total development budget, a figure which has no doubt dropped further since 2006. I can find the article about that if you want but it'll take alot of googling and digging so please take my word for it >_>. 

 It depends entirely on the context then - if we're saying which console sold best as a matter of honour or something then don't combine them. If we're talking about where 3rd parties should be investing money, releasing games etc then it's only logical to combine 360 / Ps3 as the cost of porting from one to another is minimal and to the developer, financially, they are pretty much one platform.

So the 360 version being uncensored gave it that many more sales, huh? Looks like it's doing pretty well compared to the PS3 / Wii versions.

Though, the sales are still low all around, so it doesn't matter much.

Yes, but in this specific circumstance, it's a Wii game being ported to the PS360. I think Marvelous should make a decent profit if they sold 100k between the two, considering all the work was done and it just had be upscaled and tweaked.

It bombed again.

You either look at them individually, or add them all together, that's Wii+360+PS3, not Wii v 360+PS3...

It is a port after all, not a completely new game.

For people talking about the Wii sales of NMH compared to the PS3 and 360 sales of the same game. I don't think that's fair, it's a 2 year old port, very rarely do old ports pull a TOV and double the original sales. The real real interesting game I wanna see in Japan is Basara 3, releasing on the same day - 29/07 - for both PS3 and Wii. The PS3 version is 10 or 15 bucks more expensive, but has better graphics, everything else is the same.

That means that last gen we had just one platform with the GC, XB and PS2?

No.

It means we had three different platforms each other with minimal porting costs between multiplat games.

You can't put together software sales for two different platforms. It's not correct.

I love the drama. Whine whine whine, bitch bitch bitch. I should have been a HD game, it will sell better on any HD system, I will buy it if it comes out... blah blah blah.

on the flip side Wii get's a 2 year old FPS gimped port. It doesn't sell as well HD originals and then the HD Fanbois snicker and laugh at how shitty the sales are, pat themselves on the back for there right comments about how Wii doesn't sell games. Then turn around saying that no one buys ports.

This thread is the epitome of double standard hypocrisy. I love it. Please continue :)

they should've called it No More Herpes - would've sold millions