This strategy of counting on western sales is a complete and total failure, and DMC4 was part of what proved the total failure. How come some people manage to get the wrong conclusion on this?

The West audience won't support what they're making, it's just not sustainable.

Capcom understood it well enough and came quickly back to what they know best: making eastern games.

Why oh why did japanese devs choose to change two things at once in their strategy? When you want to know what is the problem/solution, you change one parameter at a time, not two. This gen, japanese devs changed at least two at once: change their game to try to mimic western ones, and release on platforms with more western market share. And it's pretty obvious, up to the high production value JRPG that look more like WRPG.

I say (and repeat) that Sony and SE (the Square part mostly) are destroying their franchises right and left, and it will come to bite them in the ass soon enough.

Given that their strategy to cater more to the West clearly failed, WKC clearly shows that the PS3 is the best HD candidate for JRPG. Still, it's not enough to sustain them.

I hope WKC reaches 500k in Japan, so that it has a chance to sustain its development costs by reaching 1M sales worldwide. It will depend on how well the online part is received in Japan, but the chances are low it will work actually. At least it looks more like a JRPG than the other, but it's still not enough.

Its a spin off. Spinoffs never sell what the original sold. Its not a full tales game. Everyone knows this. NMH has been the best selling suda 51 game, ToS has sold more than ToV, FE sold well, Brawl sold well. The problem is that people try and judge wii sales by shitty ports and crap games and then point out that "omg wii cant sell hardcorz". You can deny the fact that wii is winning, but you will be swept away as it begins to get the RPGs and other japenese games. DQ X is only the beginning.