tri-Ace, creator of such popular RPG series as Valkyrie Profile and Star Ocean, has said that Infinite Undiscovery is a realization of ten-years worth of ideas, resulting in an experience that could only be achieved on current-day consoles. It is also one of the first Xbox 360 games to cause sales to rise in Japan, and the game was popular enough to cause nationwide shortages of a console that usually sells less than a thousand units a week. With Eternal Sonata, Blue Dragon, and Lost Odyssey failing to be any more than average, gamers were ready for the first stand-out RPG experience of this generation, and with the amount of money Square-Enix put into advertisements many thought that Infinite Undiscovery would be the game that fans wanted it to be.