| Mr. sickVisionz said:
Those games are hold overs from previous gens. The fact that the 13th final fantasy game will sell well isn't really resounding proof that RPGs are in top form. The 5th edition of a PS1 era game isn't really resounding proof that that the racing genre is alive and kicking. You've listed like the #1 selling games in their respective genre. Of course the #1 will do well. But what about #2 and lower. If you don't have the luxury of being the 5th or 13th sequel to a franchise, will anyone care about your game? First guy: Umm...? Outside of Pokemon (not a 360/PS3 title) and World of Warcraft (again, not a PS3/360 title), RPGs are not popular. If you make the assumption that consumers speak with their wallets, which they do imo, FPS is by far the most popular 360/PS3 genre. Maybe Final Fantasy will sell alot, but thats like the only one... and its the 13th sequel. What about a game thats not as entrenched as that?
Someone else mentioned that the world is more than america... but what good does it do me to talk about all the JPN only and Europe-only games. Also, look at those sales charts. If you replace US football with soccer, the EU/Others chart is the same as the US one. |
You don't know what you're talking about. MMORPGs eat FPS for breakfast, WoW has 11.5 millions people playing today alone, and then there's the rest of the crew: Warhammer Online, FFXI, EVE Online, City of Heroes, etc... then you have the dozens of millions of people playing F2P MMORPGs.... then you have the millions of people playing Single-player WRPGs... then you have the JRPG fans....
RPGs are bigger than shooters. Hell, I think MMORPGs alone are bigger than shooters.
To be fairer, Shooters is not a genre but a sub-genre of Action. If we were to compare RPG and Action genres, then I think Action would win.
