What has gotten into Square Enix?

[Kasz216]

forevercloud3000 said:

Kasz216 said:

forevercloud3000 said:
@Kasz
FF's before FFVII:1-3million
FFVII:9.7 million
All Main series FFs after FFVII:3+million

Dragon Quest is still a predominantly Japanese loved RPG, not so much in america. FF has universal appeal, most of that came after FFVII.

FF's Before FFVII: bellow 1million
FFVII:3+million in all territories
All Main series FFs after FFVII:1+million

I would say FFVII made a difference....

The massive Sony fronted marketing budget made the difference.

Without it Final Fantasy would be just like DQ.

Also you said it made "RPGS popular"  when it didnt.

DQ being a Japanese only phenomena proves this.

Though only thing Sony's 100 million dollar camaign did was make Final Fantasy popular.

There are 3 RPG series only with universal appeal.

Pokemon, Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts.

It made nothing popular but Final Fantasy.

Games like Persona for example owe nothing to FF7.

you are right. I did say "made RPGs popular" which may give too much power and credit to FFVII. But the game made a pretty big damn difference compared to any other JRPG.

FF now has GLOBAL appeal due to the FFVII(Whether it also bid on Sony's massive marketing campaign). It doesn't matter whether ALL JRPGs now sell millions or not.

The facts are...

Americans and PAL territories were not that interested in JRPGs before VII

JRPGs became more popular their after it.

FFs now sell more on a regular basis. They are JRPGs. So JRPGs sell more now.

 EDIT:

Also, Gamers such as myself never looked twice at RPGs before FFVII came along. FFVII paved the way for me getting interested in them(now they are my fav genre. I have Persona 3 and 4 and love them).

Did JRPGS really become more popular afterwords?

It doesn't look that way...  JRPGS largely are as niche as they always used to be. 

The marketing campaign is what made the difference not the game.  The campaign got you to play the game.