Are JRPGs important anymore?

[ookaze]

Actually, the console in first place is already getting the bulk of JRPG.
It's just not "JRPG support", it's rather the console supporting the JRPG.
JRPG are a train wreck for now mainly because of stupid 3rd parties decisions.
Guess why the only one of the big JRPG that does well this gen is Pokemon.
They're already at the second iteration of Pokemon this gen, and it shatters the sales records. And no, Pokemon didn't broke the old formula of keeping it simple.
Don't worry, JRPG are still important and still sell in Japan.

It's just that 3rd parties decided they'd better shun their core japanese market. I said several time since the start of this gen that I strongly believe it would be a mistake, and that they could never compete with western devs on their turf (just like western devs can't compete with japanese on their turf).

It's too late already. I feel the japanese core gamers built lots of resentment towards 3rd parties, new (Mistwalker) as well as old (Square Enix). I see it as very unhealthy.
I already see the traditional JRPG is being killed though. It's ARPG upon ARPG now. I don't know if it is natural evolution or not. The traditional JPG survives only on DS for now. The more casual traditional JRPG seems like it's disappearing, and I see only the Wii getting it back this gen. Oh, and there's FFXIII.