SE has no games out on the PS3 yet.

Ahh, Okay.

I assumed you meant that Square Enix would only get 40% of the costs to make it back, and therefore take a 60% loss.

I like many seem to think this is deserved for SE not releasing games on the 2 bigger home consoles in their own country.

Yes, but from what we've seen so far most of the XBox fanbase are apathetic towards JRPGs.  For a console with almost 14 million users in NA, the sales of JRPGs like Last Remnant, Eternal Sonata, IU, Spectral Force 3, etc have been bad to atrocious.  I don't really understand why M$ are spending millions in securing these JRPGs when they could use that money to develop more western RPGs like Fable and Fallout which are instant hits and have a much larger appeal.  In contrast, TLR sold a pultry 45K copies in its first week.  That's an attach rate of less than 1%.  Is that really worth paying millions for a timed-exclusive contract?

XBOX 360 is likely to have twice the installed base of the ps3 by the time FF XIII comes out?

Where did this come from?

lol i love it when the PS3 fanboyswhining, hey hows Eternal soanata's coming along guys? last time i checked it's elling below 360 sales, i dont give me the "uh bub-buh it's a port" i hear you guys stating time ans time again that you guys want JRPG's when you guys do you dont buy them.. why would S.E waste time on the PS3? if i were Sqaure-Enix i would go pro Ds and the Wii, for god sakes not even there 1st party sony games sales that good (Cough* VC and LBPcough)

 in japan...no way in america and others..no doubt.

Remember that Final Fantasy is far, far bigger than any of the 360's JRPGs, and that FF is the best selling RPG in Americas ever, regardless of whether it is JRPG, SRPG or WRPG.

@flame

Oh yes because LBP has no legs/sarcasm

We have yet to see a JRPG on the ps3 period. Once we have one, thats when we can say whether or not the ps3 can move software in japan(RPG wise).

Right now its all assumptions, and well considering the 360 has a 700k install base in japan, i think its ridiculouse to release HUGE square ip exclusive to the xbox 360 in japan, while the PS3 has nearly a 3million install base, and the wii what? 8 million?

 Again, you're taking it out of context. I replied to this.

Final Fantasy selling "good" in north america for 360?

So obviously, I was talking about the installed base in Americas.

Still, sorry. I should have made myself more clear, so that the people with 10K + posts could also understand.