Japanese companies defecting to the 360

[A Black Falcon]

Reason being Playstation 2 had a larger installed user base than GC and Xbox combined. It's assumed to be a safe bet.

Because with RPGs, they need to look everywhere and consider their largest possible audience. PS2 gamers eat up RPGs. GC and Xbox owners not so much.

Sales say that neither of those things are always true, of course... I mean, you're speaking in generalities. Generalities are not always true in the details, as things like the examples I cited -- US ToS and Soul Calibur II sales -- prove... trying to deny that Namco is ignoring its US market by not releasing GC versions of the next games in those serieses is absurd because... well, if units sold were all the mattered, why aren't there still NES games being made? It sold 35+ million in the US after all!

Yeah, active systems, and the system's actual userbase and interests, are more important than pure numbers. X360 game sales show this too, with some games selling really, really well despite the limited size of the userbase...