Baba is kinda out of touch, he's the main reason I've come to hate the Tales series, so it hard to take him at his word. He doesn't even come to the US often I think he's coming for SDCC but he's going to skip out on NYCC
which is the one he wants to go to because of stuff like this (if you don't care to read New York State has 5 of the top 10 cities that spend the most on games and one of the biggest industries in the country that spends the most on games)
http://www.theesa.com/games-improving-w ... conomy.asp
http://venturebeat.com/2010/05/09/ameri ... deo-games/
@South Carmain: Yea but like I said above Baba isn't all there, I mean I could figure out why if I knew how most Europeans bought games, or if in fact Europeans as a whole had the same buying habits. In the US Urban areas buy from stores, in Rural they buy online, on the east coast people buy from Gamestop on the west Play n' trade so if the US has so many different areas that buy games in a bunch of different ways I'd imagine Europe which has a bunch of entirely different cultures might have very different delivery methods.
Still as an "American" and the biggest Tales...I guess "fan" on this board I really disagree. I don't think Europe likes RPGs or the Tales series as much as the US because in the 90s a ton of people (myself included) modded their consoles to buy ad play games like Terranigma(which Europe got), Star Ocean, FEDA, Dragon quest 6, Thracia 776, Genealogy of the Holy War and Tales of Phantasia. This movement of hardcore RPG fandom was exclusive to the US back then and I've never seen a group of games as heavily imported as those. If Baba thinks Europeans are more willing to buy into a series that American games have been going out of their way to buy for almost 20 years (going so far as to buy up the Europe exclusive PSP version of Tales of Eternia) he can go on thinking that. (He also thinks every RPG should have a main hero who uses friendship to save the day, every heroine should sacrifice herself for a tree and every middle age male should turn on the main character)
Quick note if anyone can find me a boxed copy of Tales of Eternia for PSP I'll buy it off you, or trade you something really rare like Radiant Historia.