So I see. But it wasn't countered very well. WRPGs have always had a moderate to strong presence in the West, particularly NA. Just look at the popularity of Diablo.
It took awhile for WRPGs to have the break out success of JRPGs in the West, however, because 1. WRPGs were confined mostly to the PC realm for quite some time, while JRPGs first made it big on consoles, and 2. WRPGs were never really taken and pushed to the forefront of people's attention by one of "the Big Three". Sony's marketing campaign for FFVII really helped push the JRPG genre back in the ps1 days.
In the end, it's apparent that Western developers are more in-tune with what Western gamers might want, and this is why WRPGs are so popular today. Of course, that notion should be quite obvious, unless Western gamers are somehow capable of enjoying RPGs but are not capable of making any decent ones themselves.
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