Does every Japanese Dev have a long running RPG series?

[patjuan32]

zexen_lowe said:

bigjon said:

It has always seemed that way, but is it true?

Square- Final Fantasy

Enix- Dragon Quest

Capcom- Breath of Fire (now they have MH instead it seems)

Nintendo- Fire Emblem and Pokemon for portables

Sega- Phantasy Star

Namco- Tales

Konami- ??? are they left out? do they make Suikoden?

I quess I was just thinking about this the other day, it seems kinda funny how they like to make everything in a series... Even though none of the games are releated at all (unless it is FFX-2 or ToS:DotnW) And it seems really only square makes alot of non-mainline RPGs (Chrono, Vagrant Story, SoM, etc) ok Enix had Star Ocean too.

(just a disclaimer, I do realize that Square and Enix have merged, I was just seperating them for old times sake)

Yes, they do make Suikoden...and they still keep making it (Suikoden Tierkreis released last week). They do a better job with RPGs than any other company, I might add

To add more:

Atlus: Shin Megami Tensei
Nippon Ichi: Disgaea
Gust: Atelier
Sony: Arc the Lad/Dark Cloud/PoPoLoCrois

 

Level 5 actually develops Dark Cloud