That was quite the long sentence.

I kind of feel like JRPG's are making a slight comeback. There have been some better ones as of late. *Crosses Fingers for more good JRPG's*

I would love for it to be true, but my sense is metrics of success have shifted so niche genres will struggle when seven figure sales become increasingly demanded. Just happy we have NIS, XSeed, Aksys and Atlus type companies around.

I'm just happy that a first-party publisher is treating a massive home console JRPG as a flagship, system-selling release. Progress!

Does this mean they're going to actually publish it in all territories for a worldwide simultaneous release? That's the minimum bar for consideration of that title.

They ain't making a comeback yet, we still need Versus XIII and "X" to come out.

If those turn out to be amazing then we can talk.

Really? I somehow doubt you played it. The time-limit was never a problem for me, my inventory was always getting too full earlier.

Nope, but I did log another 3 hours into Last Story last night. Will moving to it as soon as I beat that.

I wouldn't go that far. We normally can't even expect a simultaneous release for a Final Fantasy or Pokemon title. And at least one of those two franchises typically moves systems.

Ah, quit Last Story, that's cheesy, overlinear crap. Start Xenoblade so you can have played maybe 30% until Pandora's Tower comes out for you Americans. No time for Last Story.

That's one of the things Square did this generation to try and appeal to the West. Timely localizations so that other areas didn't feel they were being ignored. While there was a 3 month delay for XIII (it was most likely due to WW release of two versions with multiple languages), SO4 was simultaneous, and XIII-2 only had a 1.5 month wait.