Very likely there. The US demo once started says "The content of this demo is in English only. The full game will be available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Japanese."

Yes. PS3 needs HDCP to output any audio and/or video from its HDMI port. Regardless of content type or resolution. Even the XMB set to 480p will get a blank screen and no sound.

As the above poster said, Xbox 360 is different. IIRC it only uses HDCP during movie playback.

There's a major fundamental difference in how the two consoles handle HDCP:

PS3 requires HDCP for any video and/or audio to be received from its HDMI port, regardless of content type or resolution. It is mandatory for the XMB and games.

Xbox 360 only requires HDCP for movies via HDMI. The menu or games will be fine at any resolution without HDCP

I think we can point this toward a general lack of interest or effort from Japanese developers. The retail brick and mortar sales for PC games there are abysmal. Freeware/shareware or dojin soft is more popular lately. Not only do most multi-platform games which got a PC version in Europe/US, don't in Japan... I haven't heard of even one upcoming PC game for Japan of any genre.

I've been involved with gaming since around 1991, there used to be more Japanese PC support than now. Sonic Adventure DX and Mega Man X8 had decent PC conversions that came out in Japan.

We can agree the US retail market for JRPGs on PC is incredibly small as of late. However... Quite a few are available online. Such as those Asian-developed MMOs.

I'm not counting piracy here of course. Emulating console or handheld JRPGs via illegally obtained ROMs on a PC is still gaming on PC, but it does not support the market.

Go look at the release calender. GBA for Japan died way back in November, with Final Fantasy VI as it's LAST game there. GC died there in December, it's LAST game was Twilight Princess.