Are RPGs becoming niche on consoles?

[Impulsivity]

Releasing games like Tales and the like on the PS3 wouldn't have changed things much. Its not just that they're not multi plat, its that those games are old hat even with players who remember buying the first FF game on release day in the US. Games like that just don't capture the mass market imagination anymore at all. Fallout 3 has sold at least 4 million copies across the 2 consoles and the PC, the Witcher sold over a million on PC alone (and is getting a console release) and Mass Effect has done well over 3 million in business. It's not that the market for well developed RPGs isn't there, its just not there for the same old JRPG models that were new back in the 80s.