If true, this is one of the best stories i've ever heard!

I am sure that such a game would be great; Monolith has shown several times that they can produce great RPG's, and with such a director I don't see an issue.

Yet, taking down FF or DQ is a different story. Baten Kaitos or ToS were great RPG's (on a bad performing platform, but still) and failed to sell well/great respectively, altough the one was a Nintendo-published exclusive and the other one a sequel to a known franchise.
It must be considered that next to FF and DQ, RPG's are not selling that great in Japan. The games coming closest to those two are other Square RPG's (Star Ocean or Chrono for example) and only after them known franchises from other developers are coming; Tales or Breath of Fire are coming to mind.

As Soriku said, this game needs heavy advertisement and a lot of hype to sell well.

On another note, this seems to be further evidence that Camelot and Nintendo are not working together that close anymore. Camelot made the Golden Sun games and all the Mario Tennis/Golf games, but their last work was I love Golf for the PC. Of course, this game is coming for the Wii now, named Wii love Golf, but it's not published by Nintendo but by Capcom. On the other hand, maybe the "Camelot RPG for Wii" which is said to be in development is already to far into development as Matsuno could have brought his own ideas into it.

For those of you who didn't act like assholes, thank you.

And yes, this sounds like it will be something very nice. 

No, he didn't. Perhaps you should be working on reading comprehension as well as fact-checking. 

I know that it wasn't Monolith Soft who did Tales. I just wanted to show examples of good and exclusive RPG's on Nintendo consoles that failed to sell well.

/facepalm

WHOSE? WHOSE WHOSE WHOSE?

If he was asking for a specific developer or person, than I don't really give a crap what their crazy Japanese names are. And stop being snobby.

 qft

 1. I'm guessing you have never played Final Fantasy XI because its a great MMO, last 5? 12, 11, 10-2, 10, 9. Only 1 out of those 5 was average and that was X-2. 12 had a great battle system and took the series in a different direction, 11 was an mmorpg with a very loyal fanbase, X had a great story line, 9 was awesome. WTF is your problem choirsoftheeye? dont like the RPG genre or MMORPGs?

2. Soriku, MONOLITH Soft made the Xenosaga games, those are awesome. So Mistwalker deserves the spot of the worst.

@Desroko - choirs asked the question he answered it. Stop being a fanboy just because your console has no good RPG franchise at the moment, same to you soriku. 

A lot have tried before many failed.

And I have a feeling that FFXIII will sell well because of the big hype it is FF what do you want more ^__^''.

What's that crap about? Can't you just discuss this game instead of arguing in such a stupid manner? He was asked whose RPG's are pathetic and he said that Mistwalker's are. He did neither confuse Mistwalker with Monolith nor did he say that Mistwalker tried to compete with Square, he just answered the question!

I don't actually like RPGs. And he actually said that "their RPGs are pathetic" before choirs joined the thread. The article was about Monolithsoft.

Thank you, glad that's settled. Honestly, I'm really excited for this. I was just trying to make a point (if stupid point) :).