I'm glad X is getting the success it slide serves. Such an overwhelming experience for me, and I'm only in several chapters in. However, I think it's still gonna be tough for Nintendo home consoles to get more RPGs worldwide. Hopefully, Square can see that there is demand on Nintendo home consoles and release Dragon Quest X, even though I can understand the complications of an MMORPG. Plus, we'll see how Genei Ibun Roku fares worldwide as it is too a big risk with its drastic direction that went beyond what anyone had expected. Hopefully it'll do well as well because I'm sure the developers really liked the direction they decided to go for and with the mentioning of a lot of songs and choreography, itll be interesting to see how Atlus, IS, and Nintendo create an atmosphere centered by the pop culture of Japan, at least within the big lights in Tokyo.

Nintendo should push the Xenoblade series as one of their premiere exclusive franchises, to cultivate a more "core friendly" image.

It sold decently in the United States, I'm glad, although it seems like data from the game is weird.

The Volkampf Tyrant is the best way to calculate the game's sales (I'm sorry, VGChartz isn't). 290K people have beaten that boss in the West, and considering that X has maybe sold 220K copies in the States, either the internal data from the game is flawed, many people have beaten the boss while offline or it sold badly in Europe.

Nonetheless, the game is sitting right now at 400-450K units right now worldwide, which is better than nothing.

Xenoblade Chronicles X is probably not too profitable, but I hope Nintendo will let Monolith Soft make a sequel in order to have a more diverse library of games, and to create a more core-oriented franchise.

Takahashi better explain himself in the sequel though.

Xenoblade+Metroid+Zelda as the holy Nintendo Adventure trifecta.

Damn straight. 

Nintendo have the makings of an awesome "core" lineup right there; you've got something for the RPG fans, something for the sci-fi guys, and classic adventure to top it off.

And let's not forget Fire Emblem and Fatal Frame providing support.  And then they have nice relationships with some key companies that could potentially yield more support.  Platinum, Square, Capcom, Mistwalker, all these have done exclusives with Nintendo and could likely be persuaded to continue doing so on home and handheld consoles.

It's absolutely critical that NX gets the big Square games; Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Kingdom Hearts. That would help them so much.

So not just hd textures, but a full out brand new game with hd graphics? I could see the prior happening way more likely than the second one.

290k for the whole west seems a tad low, for it to be true,  it would mean it flopped badly in Germany and afterwards had no legs whatsoever, because from the little we know it sits at atleast 250k:

- USA = 200k+

- UK = 10k first week

- France = 40k in the first 12 days by what Nintendo France said

And that is without adding in Germany, other smaller markets, the missing days for UK and France, and digital, for all of that to only add 42k to overall number seems a tad low.  If anything, that 292k from the may very well be just for NA, because it is way to low for it to be NA + Europe.