How well FF13 is going to perform on 360 is the big unknown for me at the moment. We've seen 'Western' RPGs like Fable and Fallout perform very well, and minor JRPGs perform comparatively poorly (Eternal Sonata, Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon).
That said, Final Fantasy is almost a genre to itself, and has enormous cache. How many 360 owners have played and enjoyed a previous FF game? I'm thinking that it's a sizable number, and with the likely jump we'll see in hardware sales this holiday season due to the price cut, there's going to be a lot of new owners looking for the new hawtness, right about the time FF13 drops.
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That said, Final Fantasy is almost a genre to itself, and has enormous cache. How many 360 owners have played and enjoyed a previous FF game? I'm thinking that it's a sizable number, and with the likely jump we'll see in hardware sales this holiday season due to the price cut, there's going to be a lot of new owners looking for the new hawtness, right about the time FF13 drops.