Blue Dragon is an RPG for the Xbox 360 video game console. It is being developed by Artoon based on a design by Final Fantasy series originator Hironobu Sakaguchi, who is also supervising development. Microsoft hopes this game's release will be a great boon to Xbox 360 sales in Japan, as it will be one of the first traditional Japanese RPGs to come to Microsoft's Xbox 360 system. The RPG genre is especially popular in Japan. The failure of Microsoft's first games console, the Xbox, in Japan is often partially attributed to the system's lack of traditional Japanese RPGs. Along with a quick video shown at E3 2006, Peter Moore promised the game would be out by the end of this year in Japan. [1]

Blue Dragon's designers include two of the creators of Chrono Trigger, the extremely successful RPG for the Super Nintendo. The game features art from Akira Toriyama, the creator of Dragon Ball and visual designer and illustrator of one of Japan's most popular video game series, Dragon Quest. Blue Dragon's soundtrack is produced by Nobuo Uematsu, a composer responsible for much of the music in the popular Final Fantasy game series. The music was performed live at the PLAY! A Video Game Symphony concerts in Chicago on May 27, 2006, Stockholm, Sweden on June 14, 2006, Philadelphia on July 27th, 2006, on August 4, 2006 in Vienna, Virginia, and on September 30, 2006 in Toronto, Ontario.

On October 19, 2006 all 10,000 preorders for Blue Dragon were sold-out in Japan.