oh please, who said it had to be done with PS3 level graphics? ANd who said it would take forever? There are many open world games on PS3 that look better than Xeno and it didnt take them forever to make

I was hoping for better for Darksiders 2, but then I am overly optimistic lol. Surprised that Sleeping Dogs didn't sell better.

From a userbase of 0?

Unlike the 360/PS3 versions, the WII U version will have time and fps exclusivity (as close to exclusivity), so while its got potential for these reasons, issues like online frastructure and ignorance about Wii Pad controls will seed some doubt.

4m was rather a generous prediction. We all know shooters have never really done well *on Nintendo platforms ever since Xbox came out. Doubt will always be there against Nintendo.

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Why make it on PS3 without PS3 level graphics? I sincerely hope that a HD version of Xenoblade with graphics well below usual PS3 standards would still be successful based on its great gameplay and world, but people are awfully graphics-centric these days, and expect a lot from PS3 games visually.

Yes, the PS3 has open world games, but building every texture and model in Xenoblade's world to the graphical standards of those games is just financially unviable. Monolith is a relatively small company, and even if they got funding from Sony to make it on PS3, a new IP JRPG is extremely unlikely to recoup the massive costs.

Tell that to Ni No Kuni developers, that games visuals blows away Xenoblades and i pretty sure its not hurting their wallet. Hell tell that to just about anyone who made a JRPG for PS3. You really dont need to max out PS3s power to get a game that looks good, you sure as hell dont need to make it out to blow away anything on the Wii, thats not a jab at the WIi it just is what it is. For comparison's sake look at Sonic Colors versus Generations. Generations blows it away and its not even get close to what PS3 can do

Geez dude, it's irrelevant. Monolith Soft is a Nintendo dev team. NINTENDO MADE XENOBLADE, and what's more, they made it over two years ago. Under no circumstances could it possibly have been developed for PS3.

The Last Story wasn't developed by Nintendo, but it was published by them in Japan and Europe. If you want to know why PS3 isn't getting awesome JRPGs like these, maybe you should ask Sony why they aren't offering support to smaller developers like Mistwalker.

On-topic, New Super 2 fulfills its destiny by becoming 3DS's sixth million-seller. I wonder what will be seventh? Kingdom Hearts has the most momentum right now, but seems like it's going to fade and won't hit a million until the holidays. DQM got pretty close, but its sales have slowed a lot. Pokémon Rumble and Kid Icarus will probably both get a Holiday boost to a million. It could to be a tight race.

Also: did anyone else notice that Vita's American sales were lower than its Japanese sales this week? I know it's mostly because of Obon, but still... Now it's Europe > Japan > America, and all three are awful. Yikes, Sony...

Well to be fair, it came out an entire year before the PS3 on the DS so it is technically a sequel (or a remake (I haven't played either so take your pick.)) They took a chance by making a game that would have development costs low and to test how well the popular studio Ghibli faired in its videogame foray. Your comparison for Ni No Kuni is like saying Epic Mickey the power of 2 is a new IP while negelcting its lower costing predecessor.

But none of them are as vast and sprawling as Xenoblade while using the same style. Games like No No Kuni and Generations can get away with less thjan cutting edge graphics because of their art style. I agree as far as art transcending tech power goes, but to keep Xenoblade's style you wouldn't be able to rely on the kind of simple textures Sonic uses, you would have to build detailed ones, not to mention the shaders and models to go with them. Expand that to everything in Xenoblade's gargantuan world and you'd need a lot of time, a lot of people, and a lot of money to pay them all over that time. Monolith's no behemoth like Square Enix, and even if they did get the funding from somewhere, and spent ages making it, would a new IP and a JRPG in this day and age make enough money to justify the costs? Almost certainly not. 

Nice week, particularly for 3DS and PS3 on both HW and SW and for XB360 on SW.

NSMB2 is the strongest, and while its launch was big compared to most non-Mario games, but appalling in Japan compared to NSMB DS, in Europe its launch is 40% bigger than NSMB DS. Advertising worked well.