Deviation59 said:
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. |
I guess I did overstate my case a bit. I retract that. Still, I maintain that the genre's popularity on internet forums is very disproportionate to its popularity at retail. Enough JRPGs do well enough out here, but the only really big one has been Final Fantasy, even on the PlayStation and PS2.
Would you agree that that's more accurate?