Game Informer's poll gives interesting results about RPG's.

[Rei]

Riachu said:

Rei said:
Is that really surprising? The 'j' in 'jRPG' clearly suggests who are these games are targeted at. They arent meant to appeal to westeners.

A lot of people somehow are under the impression that because Final Fantasy and Pokemon are popular in the West then that means that the jRPG genre as a whole is popular and appealing to western people. It is not.

Not necessarily.  JRPG is not even an official acronym.  The J is just used to tell us that that specific RPG was developed in Japan.

 

I cant agree with that. They are not called jRPGs because they are made in Japan. We dont call european RPGs 'eRPGs' you know? (and Europe makes a lot of them) European RPGs are considered a part of wRPGs because they are similar (identical) in style.

   jRPGs are totally different in style, gameplay and everything. 'j' in the name describes that, not just suggests which country the game is from.