I in no way said I didn't think they shouldn't release it on the 360.  But they shouldn't delay releasing a finished product to create a port to another system.  It makes no sense from a business perspective.  At best, you're just costing yourself the interest you'd make on the money earned.

Okay, well that is because M$ paid them. Apparantly they had a contract with Sony, and then M$ gave them a ton of cash and they ripped up the contract, but I think Sony negotiated to keep exclusivity in Japan. Nobody (apart from Wada) really knows what happened, but it is almost certain that M$ paid SE for it to come to Xbox

I agree that something like this probably happened, and that's what angers me.  I don't care if MS throws money around to buy exclusives (I have both consoles, and I actually perfer exclusives), but they anger me when they're keeping me from playing a game I want to play! 

They still have to localise it in English after the Japanese version is finished. It makes sense to release it simultaneously in the west, late ports don't sell as well as simultaneous releases.

true then last remnant its getting that treatment, FF13 should too.

Since we are on Sony forum we can safely say - who cares :) In worst case we will import it.

Eh, I doubt it... Also, "both sides of the Pacific" doesn't mean worldwide, more like NA+Japan. Geography FTW!

By the way, isn't it time that gaming journalists outsource their Japanese translation to some proper translators?

Neh... otherwise we wouldn't have random meltdowns of fanboys... those make life much funnier...

Do you know how much professional express translation costs ?
Especialy from rare and hard to learn language.

I'm pretty sure that some gamers could do it in the cheap or even for free. Also I'm not talking about full translations of big articles, just to get the gist of it in order not to start rumors based on google translate.