It's hard to feel sorry for Namco when the only game I know that they're releasing this holiday season is Pac-Man Party.  It's also kinda sad when the only game I remember from Namco this year was Enslaved which wasn't even from an internal team.

No, no, they are also releasing Namco Museum Megamix.   Not to be confused with Namco Museum Remix which they release in '08.  Actually it is confusing, as it's the same game with 9 more arcade games added and one new 'remix' game.   And yeah, I got it.  18 classic arcade games for $20?  Hell of a lot cheaper than VC.

Not to suggest that's impressive in any way.

Localize Tales Of games and you will make more money. Also find a way to make more Xenosaga games (May not be insanely profitable, but just do it for me cause I said so)!

In other news, Namco announced "pantsu dansu", a game in which by day you live as a pair of panties doing chores (training) and fighting off rival panties (pantsu) for experience, and surviving the laundry and dryer, which hilariously, are comprised of a battle royale with physics and powerups a la Blur or Twisted Metal. By night you are worn by a buxom bombshell German girl living in Tokyo as a hostess who is constantly trying to avoid drunken rape.

Consequences of not completing objectives lead to being peed on, moths eating part of you, and stinkiness, which degrades interactions with other pantsu. Reards include dyes, rhinestones, tattoos, and what is being translated as "translucency" which, I'm sure, makes this a day 1 purchase for thousands of Otaku.

Do they honestly expect mediocore title to sell well in the west??

This isnt Japan guys

So is the fad of Japanese developers desperately trying to appeal to the West finally over? If Capcom and B-N are folding on it...

Well.. they did release today Gundam fighting Spirits in JP for the iphone

so thats their biggest holiday title right? :)

Uh... but Clash of the Titians was developed in Japan? :/

Enslaved was meciocre. The game felt like it was playing itself.

Anyway how about they localize some Tales of games?

Let's count

Vesperia PS3- could be 150-200k release maybe more

Graces Wii - hard to say 100-300k probably

Graces F PS3 -  another 100-200k

new PS3 Tales - 200-300k

Just by translating those they would sell more copies than Crap of Titans did.

Capcom arn't folding, just sounds like they're trying to put more quality control on games made in the west. I think what we'll see with Capcom is their JP studio's creating new IP's and then the sequels being made in the west. The idea being that way their internal studio's, who they have the most faith in to make good games, can keep making new IP's and the western studio's already have the concept and engine to work with when making the sequel.

  If the best Namco can do to compete with Activision, EA and Ubisoft is Enslaved and Majin then it's probably best they go back to their Japanese audience. Enslaved could of been a hit imo but it needed the publisher to grow some balls and actually market the thing, like SEGA did with the million seller - now getting a seuqel - Bayonetta, which in all honesty, had far less mainstream appeal.

 But yeah, Namco just need to get more of their Japanese games over there. Tales of Symphonia sold around a million in the west back in the day, localizing these games can't cost much and there's a pretty decent gap in the market for JRPG's on the HD consoles, so where the hell are they?