Who cares about user base?  The 360 has a user base of 17 million in North America and less than 1 million in Japan.  Guess which region SO had better sales in?

Bigger user base does not equal more sales.

      White Knight Chronicles already demonstrated that a game from Level-5 the second biggest jrpg studio in Japan can outsell any Square's jrpgs (the biggest Jrpg developer in the world) on the 360 quite easily.

Because if they can't play FPS, people will migrate to JRPGs... I... guess?

I know, the reason for my post was because of the people in this thread who are claiming that PS3 can not sell JRPG's in the west.

OMG that pic is awesome!

I'm enjoying star ocean alot but that doesn't mean it's for everybody. This game would have definately sold better on the PS3 but I'm not sure that's a good thing. JRPG's need to find a way to adjust to western trends or in this case the 360 audience. I'm not sure what the answer is, but then again I don't make games for a living.

It's kinda hard to sell JRPGs in the West when there are none on the PS3. The blame lies squarely on Sony for doing absolutely nothing when MSFT was moneyhatting the developers right and left.

I like it when 360fans put up the argument of "userbase" in Japan while ignoring the whole userbase of the world or NA.

Remember when 360fans justified that Star Ocean is the kind of game w/ will sell better in NA because SO3 sold better there and because of the overall userbase of the 360.

But then again it's all because of the checkbook but I think this may be the last of the exclusives just like versusXIII will be the last exclusive for PS3 as far as SE is concerned, I think it will really be multiplat from now on...

Out of all the 360 only owners/fans I've met, they all have one thing in common; they usually like wrpgs, but really have no interest in jrpgs. They usually tend to be younger; Most like oblivion, mass effect, fallout3, fable, WoW, ect. They Don't care much about the jrpgs in my 360 collection. Simply trying to Force JRPG fans to buy into their console hasn't worked for MS, and it won't ever work (on a large scale). I think most JRPG fans have grown up playing PS1 and PS2, and also in that experience been playing other games exclusive to the PlayStation platform. It's a very hard thing to do to get people change to another console (who have had their best JRPG experiences on PS1 and PS2 - this includes the Japanese.) I think SE made a poor decision, and they need to think more about the business of making their games popular; not making sure they don't lose money.

Yep the further collapse of old school gaming in America I suppose. JRPG being a part of that seems to further its downfall. How saddening.