| Picko said:
The point of the post was to show why those series have managed to become mainstream and therefore shouldn't be used as evidence of the health or size of the genre. The genre is primarily niche because the highly successful series have generally relied on one-off exogeneous events that cannot be replicated to become successful. I know highly confusing concept. That there are highly successful games within the genre doesn't preclude it from being a niche genre. Plenty of niche genres in movies, music, television and videogames have had crossover hits without making the genre any less niche. If the success cannot be replicated, and in this case it cannot, then the fact that there is the odd success story should not distort the underlying truth that JRPGs are not all that popular. |
So where does the invisible line get drawn in sales that says JRPGs are niche because they fall under it? Is it one million? Two million? You must have some number in your head that this genre of games is falling underneath. Also, like I previously asked, what genres are not niche?
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