Why is only FF and Dragon Quest JPRG:s selling well?

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Pristine20 said:

sc94597 said:

Pokemon sales>Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest

To answer you question; Jrpgs are pretty niche outside of Japan. I guess most Westerners have different tastes than the Japanese. Same reason FPS don't sell to well in Japan.

JRPGs also seem to be niche in JP. No none S-E effort has broken a mil in JP that I know of (except pokemon)

 

That's kinda like saying Mp3 music players are niche because none are really popular outside of Ipod.

Sure Square, Enix and SE are about the only ones outside of pokemong to reach 1 mil sales in Japan... but how many S, E and S-E games have done so?  A 40+?

It's not that RPGs are Niche.  It's that S-E has a competitive advantage over other RPG makers.

That advantage beign the Square and Enix names.

How many genres have more million sellers in japan then RPGs?

Pokemon was just able to overcome this by being both different, and marketable.