I don't think so. The numbers speak for themselves. Square went from the PS2 to the XBox 360. Before the XBox 360 was released every Square game sold millions of copies. Since they started making XBox 360 exclusives, the only million sellers they have had are for the PSP and DS. They have never sold over a million copies of any game on the XBox 360.

I think a more reasonalbe answer as to why Square is so focused on the XBox 360 is because Microsoft is paying them to try to get a foothold in Japan. Anyone who want to deny that is denying common sense. Otherwise, why would they still be making exclusives for a system that can't keep up with [Square] sales on any other console?

It has outsold every PS3 JRPG so far so I guess the PS3 isn't full of RPG fans either.

OT: It's too bad the PS3 isn't getting, I enjoyed it, I think it's an underrated game.

What fallacy is this?

There hasn't been a JRPG close to the potential selling caliber of a Star Ocean or Last Remnant released in America on PS3.

White Knight should pass it though.

So you are saying they should still make games for PS2? CAuse PS3 aint gonna move millions my freind...

"Square Enix has to think about profitability"

"and if the first version didn't necessarily see such great success, they have to think that there won't be a change in performance on a new platform."

"Xbox 360 Japan"

SIGH...I swear if I was running Square-Enix right now they wouldn't be having these problems making profit... *bad word*.

The fallacy was his assertion that the Xbox 360 is an FPS only system, I was simply making a point.

Square-Enix has really just disappeared to me anyways. But I was looking forward to this game. I'm really hoping a niche RPG like Atelier Rorona ends up outselling The Last Remnant majorly in Japan. I'll get a real kick out of that.

Sorry guys, to put it bluntly, S-E can't just up and decide to port this game to a platform.

Retailers have to express interest in buying it, before they can order up a production run, even if the game is, basically, ready to go on the PS3 already. The PS3 having thicker RPG demographics than the 360 is unproven, even if it is more popular in Japan -- unless some PS3 RPG (like WKC, for example) shows some serious traction on the PS3, the retailers won't waste shelf/warehouse space for what they consider to be niche titles on the 360. Heck they may stop wanting to carry 360 JRPGs soon, too, as their performance hasn't been stellar this gen. WRPGs (Fallout 3, Oblivion, Fable 2) seem to be emerging as the new king, from a financial perspective, and even then it might be considered sketchy.

It flopped on the 360 and on the PC. The chances of it hitting the PS3 are pretty minimal at this point.

Star Ocean will probably still make it, though, in my opinion. Its sales aren't too bad, and I would wager it'll perform decently well enough to warrant production of a port (I would bet the cross-plat development is already done, actually).

Only thing that's bugging me about this is why SE is refusing to clearify the status, just explain things and we can all move on with our lives.

Oh but that's where MS "business" comes in. Just like they approached Sakaguchi's Mistwalker, and any other japanese JRPG developer.......