When did JRPGs start going into decline in the West?

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jkimball said:

jlauro said:
As the developers started being bought out by Microsoft, caring more about the graphics and less about the story, and not making them for the console of choice (the Wii).

Fixed that for you.  For JRPG to be a success in the west, it has to be a success in the east - that's where the 'advertising' comes from. A good rep in japan leads to sales in west.  Since Microsoft bought the JRPG dev's in Japan the JRPG is dead pretty much everywhere.  We lost a generation of JRPG's due to Microsoft fiddling.

 

I'd have to kinda agree with this.