BeyondNecroDome said:bah ! their shooters are easily worth it, and look and sound better on a big television and decent speakers..besides, thats an exaggeration, you can import for around 60$, and theyre far more challenging then most new releases. I wonder why they dont port this version to xbla as well and double or triple their sales...
The reason they're moving to mobile phone format is because they can't afford to release them on consoles anymore. The cost of putting out titles for 360 is fairly substantial, and their sales haven't been enough to make up for that. Thankfully they lived up to their promise, in porting most all of their major past series to 360/XBLA by now. I still want/need a JP console, if for no other reason than to pick up the rest of the Cave games.
XBLA titles are definitely cheaper to put out than retail discs, but at the same time there are so many ludicrous fees from Microsoft. At least when Microsoft crafted the framework for their WP7 game releases, as that was more-recently, they must have modeled it to compete with other phone formats and/or Steam (where it doesn't cost developers an arm and a leg to do, well, anything.)