As far as I know, Microsoft is still trying to get jap devs but their main goal has shifted to Europe 

SO4 will most likely come to 360 but i doubt it will be exclusive

"According to tri-Ace, the platform for Star Ocean 4 is yet to be determined. However, it should be noted that several reliable websites including 1up and Next-Gen.biz have stated that insider sources within Tri-Ace and Square-Enix are considering the Playstation 3. However, nothing has been officially confirmed."

From Wikipedia. Interesting that they have already released a trailer for the game but have still yet to announce the platform.

@Troll

Yes I know, but they are doing everything possible to end up ahead of sony.

Square-enix caters 1st to it's own people and then the rest of the world, and the only HD console doing well in Japan is the PS3 so their is a possibility that it'll be PS3 exclusive, also by the time the game comes out the PS3 install base will be alot bigger, although their is also the possibility of the game making it's way to the 360 to take advantage of the large 360 install base in the US.

Star Ocean 4?


See it on the Master System soon!

;D

Wasn't Square supposed to have a few exclusives for the 360 do to their new partnership right when they mentioned this global outlook thing?

Not saying SO4 would be one... but i've been waiting for these exclusives to be announced.

The 360 going after JRPGs isn't trying to expand it's userbase in Japan so much as it's trying to keep it's customers from buying PS3s.

After the playstation consoles american users are used to throwing in 1 or 2 RPGs a generation (aka Final Fantasy) so they are throwing in a bunch of mid level JRPGs and hoping the previous PS2 owners will get interested in and pick up a few of these instead of picking up a PS3.

That's why they don't care if a lot of these games are even exclusives or not.

Or at least that's my opinion.

I don't get why people get upset though when unannounced games get put on a platform they don't want, well i get why they get mad but i don't get why they act like the developers and console makers are assholes because someone couldn't read their minds and bought the wrong system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Ocean_4#_note-0

Let MS continue to give loads of money to SE, it just makes the PS3 exclusives FF13 and FF versus better on the PS3, more money to invest in the cell to get the most out of the PS3.

Kazs - I wouldn't so much say that Microsoft is trying to keep people from buying PS3s, as it is that they're trying to flesh out their lineup(s), and try to coerce the core gamers to buy X360s.

Merely because most of these core gamers are probably feeling alienated from the current Sony lineup - last generation, the PS2 was easily the best system to get for the best lineup.

Now the waters are muddier than ever. And Microsoft is stirring up the pond again.

When consumers - the 130 million-odd systems and their owners last gen, that haven't been sold yet, start to goto the new systems, what will they chose?

The PS3 is definately not "the" choice it was for the past 10 years. There are no major "must have" games that you must buy a PS3 for anymore. If MS can convince those owners that the must-have games that sold so well in the West last gen, are on the X360 now, they'll switch.

And adding more and more JRPGs are part of that solution - you need to remember, the big RPGs such as Tales games, Final Fantasies, and such didn't sell their bulk in Japan - more than 60% of sales were from the West, and Europe even plays a big part in that. Look at European sales charts - Even on the X360, some of the biggest debuts in their worst markets were JRPGs. Blue Dragon, which died quickly in solidly X360-centric areas (such as the UK, US) wound up debuting strongly in Spain, and France to some point. The X360 needs more market presence in those mainland countries, and JRPGs can provide some of that well-rounded gameplay.

Merely because European consumers care about Sports, Racers, and RPGs for the most part. The X360 already has racers down pat, doing decent on sports, and viying for the RPG market, both East and Western developers.

Is there any coincidence that RPG makers from both cultures are flocking to the X360? It's a certain strategy that games like Oblivion, The Witcher, Sacred, Kingdom Under Fire, Blue Dragon, and various other RPGs are coming to the X360.

Does anyone realize that in 1 and 1/2 years, the Xbox 360 had more RPGs made on it - both east and west, than the Xbox had in the entirety of it's life?

As a RPG fan that owned a X360, we had, in 4+ years:

KOTOR 1/2
Fable
Morrowind
Sukedi
Jade Empire
X-Men Legends 1/2

and maybe 1-2 others that I can't think of.

From Nov 05 to Nov 07 (2 years) we've had:

Enchanted Arms
Oblivion
Spectral Force 3
Far East of Eden Zira
Dario Reverse Moon Legend
Phantasy Star Universe
Operation: Darkness
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
Blue Dragon
Trusty Bell
Lost Odyssey
Two Worlds
Mass Effect

And probably atleast 2-3 I'm not thinking of, and more from Japan.

Quite a difference, eh?