Xbox 360 is trying to be a playstation

microsoft said that they were going after the PlayStation when this gen began

hell i remember most of their e3's talked about "PlayStation"

in 2008 all you heard at microsoft's E3 was playstation this playstation that. "we sold this much more than playstation", "securing title's like this from playstation" etc etc

xbox failed hard and when they came with the new xbox 360 they decided to launch before "PlayStation" not nintendo

and microsoft went for the "PlayStations" market because they wanted to be like "Playstation" and tried to secure all "playstations" game's

Now i must admit that microsoft has done a damn good job doing that. when you think about it most of the people that own xbox 360's are "PlayStation" fans or people from the "PlayStation" market beside's the fps/shooter fans that owned the original xbox

honestly PlayStation had no choice but to do some thing's like the xbox because really the xbox is just an undercover Playstation(well atleast it's trying to be)

i edited the list a bit

i forgot that some game's basically have equivalent's this generation like

onimusha=Ninja Gaiden

Indigo Prophecy=Heavy Rain

starwars battlefront=Force Unleashed

etc

Don't blame Playstation for the lack of Japanese games, blame Japan.

I wish there were more jRPGs as well.

But when there is a new generation of gamers that won't consider any thing that doesn't involve looking down a gunsight, it's a problem.

But I also think it was a problem with jRPG devs trying to fix what wasn't broken (especially SE with the FF series). Most jRPG players are looking for a good story and a memorable cast of characters than "innovations" or huge massive CGI sequences. Xenoblade is a good example of a jRPG done well.

Another problem with the genre is as graphics get better, the character designs come more to life. And as we see, lots of Western gamers are uncomfortable with male characters that don't have biceps the size of watermelons.

PS3 has ire JRPGs then many Gamers in the west relies nut many stay in Japan same goes for PSP many many JRPGs but mostly Japan only. this ends to be because many are done with Manga graphics and are very Pop Culture influenced and are geared more to to Otaku then before. sadly the Otaku community is very much a nice community in the west so many RGs that come over don't sell well enough to Justify the cost of localization. and the ones that are not Manga based like most of Square Enix RPGs are very much super realisms with manga influence. As Final Evangelion said many on Otakudon't like non masculine look in male Characters.             

If you love JRPGs a lot just learn at lest basic Japanese and import you will be much happy as a Gamer I can ashore you

I really am getting tired of seeing shooter games everywhere. But that doesn't mean I`ll settle for niche JRPGs from Japan that are received terribly in all regions and take two years to localize anyway. Final Fantasy XIII made me realize how starved I was for a great RPG even though I still LOVED the game..... I miss having to choose what RPG I wanted on the PS2. On the PS3, it's either FF or White Knight Chronicles basically. Not much to think about when choosing between those to purchase.

idk about that lol

the main game i was thinking about importing was Tales Of Vesperia and there is a english patch currently being made for Vesperia ps3 so i will most likely import it then

here's an example

there is also Eternal Sonata and Star Ocean:The Last Hope

im just mainly waiting for Tales Of Xillia and Ni No Kuni.

If i recall correctly, apart from FF and DQ games the next biggest PS2 jrpg seller was Star Ocean Till the end of time with about 1.6 M a fair drop off,so large sales where the domain of the very few.
Production cost as impacted many games this gen but especially turned based rpg's one reason being that the genre didn't have the sales base apart from the aforementioned big hitters to sustain the increased cost's of making these games at a similar scale to there predecessors another reason was the strength and lower costs of hand held
gaming ,exacerbated even further by being felt strongest in jprpg's home market.
so you had a choice of either making a HD game with it's cost of not just money but also time and resources going from a large market to what was a small market at the time and with the PS3 in particular a lot of negativity
surrounding it or you could alleviate that risk by putting your games on the DS-PSP thus alleviating that risk some what, or if lucky be subsidised by MS not a long term strategy and you could turn to the PS3 latter on , that last part will probably turnout to be, go to the vita.

don't wait if you love TOV just get it now it's already 2 years old on PS3 no point in waiting 2 more years. I have had it since it released in September 2009 loved every moment of my first playthough. I have many friends that import and can't speak a word of Japanese and they play the game with no problems because of on line tutorials and very basic Japanese skills.

trust me you and many others will be much happier if you just import all your JRPGs instead of waiting and hoping for a local release that may never come.it was my love of Japanese Pop Culture from age 5 made me go out 8 years ago and learn Japanese. if you don't wont to learn Japanese fully then basic is all you need fr import Gaming.