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| Dodece said: The stereotype is that role-playing on consoles matters most in Japan which is probably no longer true. |
Most jrpgs, especially the very niche ones get almost all of their sales in japan. I will agree with you though that the U.S is just as important in the case of mainstream rpgs like Final Fantasy. While this may be true, are a significant part of the jrpgs audience, and when you have many Jrpgs on a console that is basically a nonentity in japan, you should expect sales to be significantly less than an rpg would be on another console. Also when you have a console that is selling in japan almost 4-5 times more weekly, than the second place competition, you should expect that console to get a huge amount of niche Jrpgs, and a good number of Mainstream ones. And when this console also sells more than its competition in other regions including japan by a huge amount, you should expect even more. The ds(the leading Jrpg platform) had most of the Jrpgs for it announced in the last year, despite it being on the market many years before. So while Japan isn't as important as people make it out to be, when talking about Mainstream Jrpgs, it is one of the most important regions for Jrpgs, and we should see increasing support ever growing on consoles that dominate in Japan along with other regions.( Examples of these are the Wii, and DS) So I think there is a Huge chance that the Wii will end up being the leading Jrpg Platform at the end of this generation(excluding DS). It won't lead by as much as previous generations though, and this one seems to be the first where all platforms have a considerable amount of Jrpgs.
