BAHAHAHA.

Please don't try to play the Star Ocean 4 card.  Dodoce was right, its exclusive.  I was half-right, its on the 360.  You got pawned buddy.

But lets not try to pretend that post had any relevance to whats been said here.  Tombi hasn't used any of my points in this thread.  He's come in and done an epic troll job with a direct attempt to imply that some theoretical made rush of (presumably) exclusive JRPG's will come flying onto the PS3 just a few months after FFXIII and the reality is it just wont happen. 

 o.O Did you not see the point of that post?

Rocketpig: there's no reason to be jealous.  He can buy a 360 too if he likes JRPGs.

And there's never a reason to buy on potential. You can buy if that potential is ever realized, and the system will always be cheaper. 

Okay, let's put up some facts about JRPGs:

Fact: The X360 has the biggest current lineup in quantity.

Fact:  The X360 has the biggest announced lineup in quanitity.

Fact: The X360 has the biggest number of current high quality titles.

Fact: The X360 has the biggest future number of high quality titles.

Fact: The X360 has the highest total sales of JRPGs so far this generation.

Fact: The Wii has the highest total sales of JRPGs in Japan so far this generation.

Clearly I must have missed it.  All I saw was you bringing up a thread where I maintained I was right and TURNED OUT TO BE RIGHT next to Tombi's thread where everyone has attacked him over unneccessary trolling.  They say 360 fans lost their cool after the GTAIV IGN review, and its clear June 10 rattled Tombi's head.

The only possibility I can think of is that you think we should sit around for the 2-3 years necessary to find out whether Tombi is right or not............? 

Exactly my point. I actually regret that I bought into this generation early (waited the longest for the 360, a year). It turns out that the console I waited the longest for is far and away my favorite. I sold my first Wii and bought in again after SMG, SSBB, Okami, Z&W, etc. were released. I really like the system now. As for the PS3, I waited four months to play Uncharted, beat it in three days, and then watched it sit again for quite some time. I wish I would have waited until the MGS4 bundle with a DS3 and game for $400.

 Clearly you're a retard. You never maintained you were right. All you used was very flawed logic, but yet in the end you were right. Why do you think I said "Pot, meet kettle?" You're a hypocrite is what I'm saying. I'm saying you're going to use flawed logic everywhere else yet say he can't use flawed logic...because you're the only one who can. Oh no, we'll have to wait a couple of years to see if he's right! We had to wait months to see if you were right. Those months waiting to see if you were right could have been spent on something else.

This is the real world, things take time...even in the gaming world. The point of that post was to show you that you used flawed logic but turned out to be right, and that Tombi could turn out to be right. If you can make assumptions, everybody else can. He can assume that the PS3 and Wii might play catch up later on. Either concede and say you use flawed logic and could have been wrong then, or accept Tombi could be right.

 Those are my key assumptions. Thank you for actually answering the thread properly instead of shouting fanboy. 

I disagree slightly with the problems you stated though.  

1) So a JRPG takes 18 months to develop. But they are not 18 months away. It has been clear that the Wii will have the biggest user base in Japan for at least the last 9 months. I would think that there will be a massive amount of JRPG's announced for the Wii at E3 08 or TGS 08, for release this christmas or early next year. 

2) If by SRPG bombing you mean Disgaea 3, it has already sold roughly 70% of Disgaea 2 lifetime sales. I don't think the developers would of expected much better than that. The other SRPG, Valkyria Chronicles has already outsold Disgaea 3, so can be considered a success for a SRPG. 

My point was that if I was a JRPG developer, developing a JRPG for the PS3, I would look to release it a couple of months after FFXIII. Because FFXIII will bring a lot of JRPG fans to the PS3. I wouldn't have started development of the JRPG already.

3) If I had enough money I would buy a 360. But I only have enough money for the Wii and PS3. I chose the Wii and PS3 over the 360 because they have a lot more games coming out this generation to my tastes. I think somebody who can't afford all three consoles has to look at what is out now and what is coming out in the future, not just at what is out now. 

By the way, I don't think the JRPG situation and the end of the generation will be:

Wii>>PS3>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>360

More like:

Wii>>>PS3>360 

A few questions:

Wii has through the entire generation been the lead console in Japan. The Ps3 has always been an obvious second or first (before Ps3 launch). Still, the X360 is the lead console for JRPGs, why?

Possible answer: JRPGs do no longer have a main sell-through in Japan. This means that putting it on the 360 is better than on Ps3, and fairly equal to Wii (as X360 owners buy more games).

The Ps3 games have not been launched out of Japan, while the 360 and Wii ones have. Why?

Possible answer: Developers do not have belief that low-profile Ps3 JRPGs can sell out of Japan. For 360 and Wii, they do.