Are JRPGs important anymore?

[Bitmap Frogs]

Seraphic_Sixaxis said:

Bitmap Frogs said:

Loud_Hot_White_Box said:

Microsoft's buying of JRPGs, and however else they may end up on 360 first or exclusively, has diminished their importance overall because it has diminished their audience.

Xbox 1 fans were largely FPS-heads that made fun of Final Fantasy, and for that matter made fun of the Japanese (and shit, probably Democrats) and now 360 fans are supposed to care about JRPGs?  

No, the JRPGs were for one thing only: to get market share in Japan.  And: fail.

 

Obviously only xbox1 owners would be interested on the 360 because MS has failed to expand its market. In other news, 120 million ps2 users are only waiting for lair uncharted dmc4 gta4 mgs4 LBP to upgrade and sony world domination is upon us. Meanwhile, ES the first true jrpg for the ps3 has outsold the 360 version LTD in its first week. In Japan, world renowned publisher/developer Square Enix is finishing touches on the genre-defining, milestone title Final Fantasy 13 Final Fantasy Versus 13 for the PlayStation 3 videogame multimedia-experience-hub system.

This is Xbot Fanboyism at its finest.

Go Trap Card!

 

 

 

It's sad truth passes as fanboyism these days. The ps3 camp has done nothing but attempting to justify the console and its ecosystem with moving goalposts ever since day one. Expected behaviour from people who sided with sony hoping to score a win and found themselves being given the short end of the stick. In the meanwhile and to pass the time and the anxiety until the wins happen, they littered the microsoft forum (thankfully that's now frowned upon and action is taken).

Each of those statements has been put up and repeated ad nauseaum effortlessly by people way too keen on forgetting their own posts. It was only a week ago that many guys bearing sony sigs and avatars predicted 30k hardware sales and bazillion software sales for Eternal Sonata - and they started more than one thread to hype that.

In fact, this very thread is just proof. Before the 360 became the de-facto console for rpg's (both w and j) you couldn't walk past a thread without stumbling on FF13 sigs, avatars and posts from people hyping both the title and the console destined to receive it. What's happened since then? Things like this thread happened, people changed avatars, sigs and what not. But don't despair, let's forget it and focus on what's important now: FF13V is the REAL UBER JRPG that will turn the ps3 into a monster console! Hype it to high heaven! (until it's announced for the 360, that is).