The $/€ 200 difference isn't going to stay there forever and I have confidence in Sony that they will release this year a PS3 with less Hard-disk space for less money, but I could be wrong...

The J-rpg genre isn't that popular among mainstream gamer (in fact I don't know a single mainsteam gamer who play's rpg's), and I think that those gamers will look at what the future as to offer them.

In Europe Rogue Galaxy, Atelier III and Valkyrie Profile 2 recently have been come out, and Odin Sphere and Persona 3 have yet to come to out here, so for the moment the PS2 has the best RPG's for this x-mas and it's not necessary to move.

I think it's questionable at this stage to say that any game, no matter what genre, would currently sell better on the PS3 than on the 360.

As was touched on by others in the thread, I simply think classic JRPG gamers in the West don't know about ES/BD.

Hopefully MS will take this opportunity to advertise the crap out of LO, a game that caters to Western tastes more than the cartoony BD and ES (though I think BD is brilliant). If MS can draw in gamers with LO advertising, expect a modest increase for both BD and ES. Both games certainly deserve higher sales than they have received.

Americans generally don't play a lot of JRPGs anyhow, have you looked at the current Persona 3 and Wild Arms 5 numbers? And those are from a system with a far greater user base.

I have much more hope for Lost Odyssey, you dont have to play as some 8 year old kid. Americans typically go for the Oblivions or Fable vs the jrpg. Is this a bad thing? Depends do you