Guess the good man wasn't joking with me after all

I don't know myself, but that's very likely, given that Ace Combat made it's name and sold all it's previous copies on PS systems. They can't just give Sony the cold shoulder now, it's not the way you do business.

Expect an AC6 announcement sometime near March/April for the PS3. 

I think most Japanese developers are in love with Nintendo at the moment.

Say what now? Look at the support for the 360 and PS3 from Japanese devs and the support for the Wii. It's not even close. One gets the 2nd tier titles the others get the big franchises.

They are in love with money not Nintendo, I think specifically because it's Nintendo it's taking longer for 3rd parties to embrace their console who is outselling the other two because of Nintendo's history.

 Agreed ckmlb, the Xbox 360 has lots of support and it looks like its going to get better. I really liked Dynasty Warriors: Gundam, Blue Dragon and Eternal Sonata. I only got to play a little of Eternal Sonata demo but I'm damn sure going to finish playing it tomorrow. But all of those games and much more prove that Microsoft is serious about catching the Japanese support and they are surely doing way better than what the original Xbox could do. I agree with you ckmlb on developers just love the money not Nintendo....lol...But I'm every ounce of support that the Xbox 360 is getting and I'm not complaining either. Keep up the good work Microsoft and contiune to get those exclusives and support from those developers!!!!!

Also Blue Dragon is freaking tight and so is Eternal Sonata battle system!!!!! ITS TO MUCH!!!!!!!

Well M$ are just paying for Japanese games. Its a fact Japanese have no love for America (or the rest of the world for that matter) No matter what they do, they will never be number one in Japan.

True alot of games that have been in development for along time are still coming to the PS3(also being ported where possible to get some money back). But after they finish them, they wont be rushing back to it, because of the small user base and the complicated hardware and high dev costs.

That leaves Nintendo, a Japanese company, all the Japanese third partys are gonig to be throwing much more resources and top franchise the wii's way because of the large user base and cheaper dev cost. Also because they are Japanese and they love to support there own, over foriegners.

The reason the support is not what it is gonna be is because the wii's success caught everybody of gaurd as did the ps3 being a big phail. Things will change. It takes years to make games, so the dev started all these games for ps3 before they knew the lie of the land. Now its plain as day that ps3 is commerical disaster and the wii a massive hit. Its a no brainer where all the games are gonna be at.

Unless someone decides to divulge information on an actual 'deal' between MS and Namco, it's very dumb to say "oh, MS must obviously be moneyhatting them".

I think for some games, it's a case of right place, right time. X360 got RR6 because Ridge Racer has always been one of those good "next gen" games. Namco simply built a Ridge Racer next-gen engine, made one for X360, one for PS3. No muss, no fuss.

As for the other games such as ES and AC6, the actual decent exclusives, MS did get a Japanese Bundle for ES together, so I assume MS did atleast promise Namco the bundles, and showed them how much hype was building for Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey, and Namco jumped in.

And finally, for AC6, I feel that Namco did this primarily because of the fact that AC6 will sell REALLY, REALLY well in the US and Europe, and Namco wanted the precieved top-software selling system at that time, and it's the X360 (due to high software tier rates). So they made a good decision there.

Beautiful Katriami? No idea....I don't get that one. I think, though, Microsoft was able to coerce them with the game due to promising XBLA implementation, and showed them the XBLA statistics. Many, many, companies are now beginning to do what Namco is doing by porting a good software title to XBLA since the media is stored forever, and will sell forever.