I personally think that the whole RPG business does not matter that much to the standard console gamer. There are only a few really big RPG's like FF that are multimillion sellers but i expect most of them to follow ff13 now and go multiplatform.
Many of the here listed JRPGs will probably be happy if they ever reach 1 million lifetime. It will be especially hard for the xbox 360 based ones since they are probably loosing out on japan sales. For the WRPGs i guess Fable 2 will be a big seller, not completely sure on Fallout yet while i liked the old games they were not that big sellers and the one is more action based so i personally am not sure how good it will sell.
I think the big unknown factor in this gen will be the MMORPGs on consoles, we have Age of Conan and Champions Online that are fixed for Xbox 360, and The Agency and DC Comics Online on PS3. In the last gen we only had Everquest Online Adventures and FFXI that were MMORPGs and i think while sales overall were probably ok, they both did not get anywhere near the size of WOW. it will be interesting if there will be a big MMO on consoles this generation, cause this time they have the advantage that more people are already used to playing online on their consoles.
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