I'm surprised not many people see why these games are being released on the 360.

Hint: What's the 360 strongest region is NA

Answer: They want to expand their sales in NA, to broaden their target and Microsoft wants to expand in Japan.. what better relationship then this??

I though nobody had really heard anything about infinite undiscovery, and that it was not coming out for a long time

Also, the last remnant should be coming out around then, as should Eternal Sonata for PS3, so the summer will be filled with RPGs

It makes perfect sense. The HD console market is non existant in Japan. Japan, despite recent trends, is still the biggest market for RPGs. MS, unlike Sony, seems to be willing to give 3rd parties money for JRPG exclusives. Taking MS's money guarantees the third party that the game will be profitable. Placing the game on the PS3 offers not such guarantee. Particularly when you consider that the PS3 is doing terrible in Japan. After the exclusivity contract has run its course, the third party can thing port the game to PS3 and no matter how many copies they sell on PS3 the game will be near pure profit for them. Meanwhile, MS hurts the PS3 while getting potential hardware sales to boot. 

That's totally stupid!!

You shouldn't do that to a RPG fan's wallet! Too cruel!

outlaw - Most 360 owners are getting used to recieving a slew of great RPGs at the same time.

Last year, we had Two Worlds, Blue Dragon, and Eternal Sonata at the same time, with Mass Effect about 1 and 1/2 months after ES.

Then early this year, we got Lost Odyssey, Culdcept Saga, and Kingdom Under Fire pretty close to eachother.

Such is the horrible fate of the 360 RPG fan: too many RPGs, too little time.

Microsoft needed something like this in Japan. So far they've only had one big release followed by nothing. Now they will have a string of hits which may boost their sales enough to maybe get a sustained increase for a while.

Yes, but I don't see the slew of great RPGs. For 2007, Eternal Sonata and Mass Effect were fantastic, and I'll keep the jury out on BD b/c I am going to try Blue Dragon again because you love it so much.

For 2008, Lost Odyssey is the best RPG they've released by far. Awesome game.

But pleases tell me that you don't think that Two Worlds, Culdcept Saga, and Kingdom Under Fire are great games.

I'm surprised that ToV would have a release date already. Even the JP version of ToV doesn't have a set release date as of now. The namco website just lists "2008" for the JP ver. of ToV.