but its got 3 TIMES the install base of the 360 and its selling 3 TIMES more a week. and 360s been out for how long? 2-3 years now.... please this will not change anything but ps3 getting these games a little later.

I love MS for their efforts in extending their library and reaching out to the japanese player base as well as the rpg base around the world, but I doubt there's anything that will get Japan to buy the 360.

FFXIII could go exclusively 360, and we'd see like a 10k bump. Until Microsoft releases the ultimate "super tiny Hello Kitty ultimate Xbox 360 edition", I don't think they'll touch it.

Small + cute + trendy = sales in japan. Xbox is large, uncute, and very untrendy there :(

 LOL, nice post.

i think the xbox 360 will do alot better in japan with the steady flow of rpg's this fall and winter. also lost odyssey has sold around 700k and blue dragon around 500k , thats very good for a console that is known for fps and not rpg's, so that makes them a huge success. and lost odyssey will break 1 million either by dec or early 09. and i would rather have these great rpg's this year and mid next year for the xbox 360, then hoping and praying that they come to the ps3 like a year or so down the road, if they come at all. and with nothing new to make it worth while to buy the game again on a different system. for ppl who think a steady lineup of good to great rpg's in japan this fall/winter wont make a good healthy bump in sales in blind.

I agree. It also makes for some very angry gamers, if you know what I mean.

@ Dno

You're just bitter because the X360 is the RPG-king.

Playstation was the Behemoth in last gen, but with only 13 million units sold this gen I'd call PS3 a dwarf.

Exlusive JRPG-like game on the PS3:
FolksSoul - 250,000 copies WW.

Exclusive JRPGs on the X360:
Eternal Sonata - 300,000 copies.
Blue Dragon - 500,000 copies.
Lost Odyssey - 750,000 copies.

So the X360 is also the JRPG software-king.

short term. unless that lineup includes FFXIII exclusive...which it won't.

The Japanese are too nationalistic to buy anything not made in Japan. They threw a fit when they found out that most chopsticks are made in the US, but hey... we have a lot more trees.

So the answer is, it will have some impact (some Japanese have purchased the 360 after all), but it will take a generation or two of Japanese to get over the "not built here" syndrome to the point where any American product can really compete.

if SE puts its bigger games on 360 then it will have a big impact,otherwise these will only help like blue dragon did

Folklore is not JRPG-like. It barely has any RPG elements at all. Maybe character design and a semi-ish fantasy story, but that is about as close to an RPG as it comes.

But regardless, Sony SUCKS at delivering JRPG's (the only one is the port Enchanted Arms if you want to call that piece a game) this year so I've finally said screw it and have decided I'm just going to the Darkside and buying them on the 360. I'm sick of waiting on Sony to get their butts in gear.