That kind of confirms my suspicions that a PS3 exclusive needs about 400,000 to break even, give or take.

Most of the HD games made in Japan don't have the huge budget's that there western counterparts have.

There are of course some exceptions like RE5 or MGS4, but you can easily distinguish them from the others.

Sucks about World Destruction and Shining Force Feather...

So Puyo Puyo 7 is their 'big' title? Talk about delusional, that game won't sell 100,000 across the platfroms...

Localization is cheap enough to make up in 40,000 sales?

I doubt it when you include manufacturing costs and all sorts of other extras.

I'd get it though.

Assuming it's out when i remember.  Unlike the other two which came out like what.... 2-3 years later?

I didn't see them saying they were happy with the overall sales, but the sales bump that it recently received.  That isn't to say they aren't happy with the overall sales, but this blog post does not prove one way or another.

so they are not even going to release Shining Force and World Destruction here right? that sucks

Very seldom does a HD game break even only with the Japanese sales. That in itself is a surprise.

That means whatever is sold in the West is pure profit!

If they want "good" sales they better release the game this year. The other games came out after 2 years and that hurt the sales but there is no guarantee that the sales will be good.

A little bit down they are talking about the biggest succes in Japan .

Yeah... but Yakuza doesn't sell in the west.  So it's break even or nothing.

Also it had the advantage of the Yakuza Engine already existing.

It's more likely that Yakuza 3 will sell another 500K in japan then it is Yakuza 3 will sell 50K in the US.