So...which of SE's new IPs aren't "that great"? Pretty much most of them are on the DS and they're all cool. Many of them haven't hit the West though :3 Though we know Sigma Harmonics (just so you know...Kitase worked on Sigma Harmonics) is hitting I think. It was in Nintendo Power.

Star Ocean 3 was arguably more successful in the West than it was in Japan.  Many of the game press consider the Western sales of SO3 to be quite good.  Star Ocean The Last Hope will also sell some 360s in Japan, especially if it gets a bundle like ToV and TLR.  There is also several hints that indicate that SO has peaked in popularity in Japan during the PS1 era when SO2 came out and has been in a steady decline in Japanese popularity ever since wherea it seems to have been vice versa in the West where SO3 has been considered the first SO title to reach global popularity.

Well lets see please name me some S-E New IP's which are actually successful??

I can't name any this gen....last gen KH....nothing else.

TLR from the early previews looks to be another hiccup. To be very frank.....like Rockstar ....S-E's speciality is in its BIG franchises not in the new IP's as they don't share the luxury of having the same production values n so on.

What I got from that news posting was this:

1. It's best to have your studios in EU & NA due to the current crisis. Then they will move all their main FF and KH teams in the U.S as well? The crisis is temporary and affects the whole world. Yen currency may as well fall back to its initial trade. Will they re-focus to Japan? This has more to do with creating a western developing studio than anything else, crisis or no crisis.

2. It's best to focus these games towards the west in general due to sales trends in gaming. Yep, you got that right. Japanese trends are so different than Western trends these days, both in hardware and software, that it´s nearly impossible to satisfy both hardcore masses.

3. The above 2 trends would favor the 360 getting any games that aren't multiplatform and possibly the wii due to the 360 2:1 gap over ps3 in NA.

4. New games from new studios doesn't equal good games because S-E is the publisher or even the developer as we've seen in current years. That´s true, but that´s not their primary concern right now . They need western-oriented games that are good enough and sell very well in the West, unlike some of their ps1 and many of their ps2 games that were great but didn´t sell in the West.

5. Also, S-E has not done well outside the JRPG market and JRPGs are best made in JP. KH, PE, Musashi, Ehrgeiz, Drakenguard are not RPGs that are good up to great games. Don´t tell me because KH and PE have some RPG mechanics that they are ones because they are far more action games and much/quite less JRPGs. 

Reading your posts, you do a good job making it seem like they're jumping ship with the ps3 because it suks or just hasn't sold enough that they just want to make 360 exclusives? that sentiment itself doesn't make sense because multiplat would be the right answer except they were paid the difference of course.

Only time would tell if this move is actually really beneficial or just introduces unforseen losses on the company because they won't have the luxury of the "buy first, ask questions later" approach that gamers use regarding S-E games in the JRPG genre.  I think it´s the right move because practically no one, except rabid fanboys, buy SE games without asking questions before with the exception of the main FF and  KH, as well as DQ in Japan. And people only buy main FFs because they are 100% sure SE put their biggest effort on the title. At least with a new IP targeted to Westerners they have more chances to sell better in the West than a new IP targeted to Japanese. And who´s knows best what Westerners want? Western developers; Japanese developers not so much, only a few. 

Successful=/=great. Doesn't have to sell well to be a good game.

Star Ocean 2 sold 720k LTD with 374k in its first week, Star Ocean 3 sold 550k with 396k in its first week (and that was because some problems due to not playing in older PS2's, the directors cut that we received didn't have that problem, that's why it was a little more successful in the West), do you really think that Star Ocean 4 will pull those numbers in Japan??? my bet is 250,000 tops, and i'm willing to bet that SO4 will not pull a 750k on the US or EU... The best real bet for that game was going multiplatform...

Those SO2 sales are Japan alone.  SO4 could pull a 750K in the West like SO3 because popularity doesn't just fade away in 4 short years.  I think S-E is making sure SO4 does well in the West.