This FF type game was done for usa/europe markets.
Even when characters are speaking, mouth animation is good only for english voice, and bad for japanese.
This is disrespect for japanese gamers, that`s why this game sold so poor.

Anyway, i had faith in that game, and now it was last chance to give x360 some life.
Now, in 2008, neither DoA5, neither NG2, neither IU will revive x360.
If Big game of Sakaguchi couldn`t nothing will.

Well the game had a debut smaller than BD, I dont know... it go could past 200.000. Im not sure, hard to tell...

Poor old Mistwalker.

They took a big risk by signing the MS deal. Sakaguchi and everyone else knew that.

Now though, it looks like they are going to have to face up to the truth.

To be fair ASH for the DS bombed too, so it might not be a MS problem so much as a Sakaguchi problem. I do hope that Lost Odyssey ends up over a million with US/Europe though.

Screw Japan, as long as it does well every where else.

I dont know, compared to peoples predictions it underperformed. But they only shipped 80K units so they were expecting to sell around that many initially (remember the Dec 09 stats are for 3 days of sales only).

Seems like it did fine. I think the 360 owners need to drop the mentallity for Japan that the PS3 owners have for the US. The 'next big game that will finally yadda yadda' mentallity. 360 haters (well , mainly rabid PS3 people) will just jump on this as an opportunity to take a stab at MS. (I guess they have been getting that kind of crap for most of their major releases the whole year).

Friedtofu for the most part 360 owners down have the same mentality about Japan that PS3 owners have about the US. I can't recall anyone thinking that the 360 would do anything but finish in third place in Japan. I have to eat crow on LO's sales like everyone else, I can't remember my exact prediction but I know it was for around 100 to 120k the first week and 250 to 300k life time. With the way its opened up, I think LO will struggle to hit 125k life time sales.