Ther eason why I didn't include Wii, DS, and PSP was because the HD games SE is making won't go on there, or at least in their original forms.

And would you say that MS's marketing has helped SE as they believed it would? PS3 also can advertise through the PSN, free of charge.

I don't understand how much they expected advertising to cost, when they're cutting (a safe assumption) 50% of the current JRPG fanbase and their income. And so far that advertising isn't appealing to the Halo/GeoW crowd.

If they have supported the 360 unconditionally as a mistake, then I hope they learn their lesson... it's not helping them at all businesswise, they're losing half of their core base, they're not appealing to Westerners who don't like JRPGs, and only losing money.

They're also losing their safest source of sales, which is Japan. I really don't understand. I'm not saying: "lulz SE got this because it betrayed Sony!!!", but I'm saying that they're losing money because they're taking the wrong approach to appealing to Westerners. Using a western engine (UE3), and western console, does not appeal to gamers.

What appeals to them are the actual games themselves. They should be thinking if they should go after WRPG fans, or if they should appeal to more action fans. What elements of the JRPG genre to change, and to what extent.

Square Enix was basically trying to follow what Capcom did...They same can be applied to Namco Bandai.

Capcom is the only japanese publisher with tremedous success with the X360 platform...Pratically EVERY game they have released on that platform has sold over a million copies or more.

But the problem with SE following Capcom is that SE main product is JRPGS and in the west unless its Final Fantasy or Kingdom Hearts no one gives a shit...It pains me to say that because I love JRPGS but its the truth.

Capcom themselves said they aren't going to dabble in JRPGs anymore due to how poorly they preform in the west...That is the terrible irony here of SE following Capcom.

Capcom is the only japanese company that "gets it" they know the type of games  the west likes and they cater to it really well...SE thinks they can put japanese centric games like JRPGs and expect them to sell big numbers just because its on X360...Its not that simple.

I think you summed it up really well. It's not the consoles, but the product itself that matters to Westerners.

im not sure to be honest

i havent played any of their 360 games at all

maybe Wada is just gay and Bill's good in bed...

I'm not trying to just be dumb in saying that, but honestly nothing else logical comes to mind besides the whole 'aiming at the western market' matter that's been discussed, but personally i thnk there is more to it than that.