O man, i got completely owned on my wii prediction.

Fanservice spinoffs are doing great on PSP, but mainline ports are tanking more and more.

I think we'll continue seeing "mothership" games on DS, Wii and PS360.  PSP will get most of the fanservice.

The mainline ports are doing worse?

Well, you can't honestly expect ports to outsell or do near as well as the original.

They're precipitously trending down on PSP, which probably why they've stopped entirely.  Why have Alfa System port a PS2 game that sells less than 100k when they can do a dress up dungeon crawler that sells 300k+?

I wouldn't be surprised if PSP got Tales f Floweria or whatever, Namco has no qualms throwing these games around. It's been nothing but ports and outsourced games so far, maybe they feel the time is right for PSP mothership title.

Have anyone considered the possibility that Vesperia might have been a more attractive, or even a better, game? Famitsu reviews aside, what do the Japanese gamers think of the game? That's the most important missing piece of the puzzle as to why Graces isn't doing as well as it should.

This has nothing to do with damage control, it's trying to find the cause of the problem instead of using conjecture to put blame where it may not belong (which would be on the user base). I know it's easy to just blame Nintendo, the Wii and its user base, but try to fight the urge.

I do agree that sandwiching it between two of the biggest and most anticipated games this generation was a stupid move. It also probably didn't help that 3rd parties have done a very poor job growing a market for their games on the system.

My biggest concern right now is what Namco will do next. I worry that they'll take this as a sign to redirect resources away from the Wii, like many 3rd parties are doing.

I questioned this as well, mainly because ToV is definitely more appealing to me. However, I think the difference in sales is too significant to place blame entirely on appeal. Even if ToG had, say, 20% less "interest" than ToV (which is generous, I think), it has still performed well below PS3's ToV so far.

Eh, would be easier if I knew anything about Japan, everything I know about this is second-hand.

Vesperia got more advertising. It even had a movie dedicated towards it, so that probably has something to do with it.

Anyways, I seriously doubt they're going to divert resources from Wii. Graces is selling like every other Tales this gen despite them whoring the franchise out to every platform imaginable.

I'm really tempted to import FF13 damn it.