noname2200 said:
Despite the love they get on the forums, JRPGs have always been a very small market in the West (which is why so many of them never make it over). Final Fantasy is big here, but it's about the only one. Even Tales of only has one game that did really well in the West (Symphonia). The almighty Dragon Quest is also met with indifference out here. |
That's not entirely true. Because of the gigantic success of Final Fantasy VII on the PSOne, JRPGs that never came out here before started to get ported to the US. Throughout the lifespan of both the PSOne and the PS2, JRPGs have done quite well in America. It's only this generation where they've started to do rather poorly again.
Heck, Persona 3 has sold 380k copies in the US. JRPGs definitely have an audience here. I think the real problem is that so many of the JRPGs released so far in this generation have been on a console that people associate only with Western games. There's also the issue that the JRPGs released for this current generation of consoles haven't been all that great. When more great JRPGs start showing up again, I imagine they'll start selling well again.
