Japanese companies defecting to the 360

[Paco]

How well did Tales of Symphonia sell? The PS2 is saturated with RPGs, only the best of the best stand out now. Tales has always been just a little above average. It did relatively well on the GC because it was one of very few RPG options. It probably didn't do as well as they wanted it to though which is why you didn't see more games in the series on the GC.

Namco fucked up with Soul Calibur 3 being exclusive on PS2. I believe it's the worst selling of the series with around 400,000. Namco claimed they wanted to focus their energy on creating a better fighting game, so they chose one platform, the one that has the largest installed userbase. That was their idealology, and it failed them. Then again, from what I hear, the game wasn't very much to get excited about. I hear it was more unbalanced than ever.

Capcom has previously released most of their big games on Japanese consoles, the GC and Playstation. They left some rather crappy left overs for the Xbox. Not so now. Capcom's Dead Rising has sold close to one million. Lost Planet and both of the demos released earlier this year on Xbox Live became the fastest and most downloaded demos at their time. Resident Evil 5 went multiplatform and is headed for 360 as well as PS3.

Just wait and see. IGN and 1up are both reporting basically the same thing, that another big name publisher and franchise that were once Playstation exclusive is opening up to include the 360. 1up called the VF5 move months ago at E3, btw.