I'm upset, in a backwards way, about the Wii's success (in Japan, as opposed to the PS3 in Japan) because I have a great HDTV, and I love Japanese RPGs. LO is awesome. TLR is awesome. ToV is awesome. VC is awesome. The 360 will never achieve acceptance in Japan -- god I wish SE would stop it with the 360 JRPG exclusives... its making the genre look bad, for HD JRPG sales in Japan. The Wii JRPGs have a lot to live up to this coming year. If they are not stellar enough to make up for the 480p graphics, the Wii can kiss my wallet's behind -- because it won't see the money again until something *good* comes out.
I own practically every decent (and lesser) PS2 JRPG in existance. I'm done with that gen. If the Wii can't step up to the plate and hit some out of the park, its a disappointment. Sadly, the real victim in this case is the Japanese dev house... who cannot afford to make games on something other than the Wii (because it is popular enough in Japan to support the genre, and the PS3 is not as much), and thus can no longer tell more grandiose tales than those of the past.
JRPGs may just be a dying genre, and the Wii merely the genre's future little white tombstone. I hope that this year's 2009 Wii JRPGs shatter that opinion for me, because that's certainly the direction the JRPGs seem to be heading.
