Face it. As much as we love them, jRPGs don't get big over here on their own merits.
Symphonia is the only Tales that had success in America. But Nintendo helped a lot with the marketing and the GC was lacking in the RPG department. After that, the series fell back into obscurity (Vesperia 120k total USA, Symphonia 2's first week was 1/4 the JP first week, etc).
FF7 had a ton of (deceptive) commercials.
Pokemon may have stayed big on it's own merits [second best selling series alltime, after Mario], but the TV show and marketing empire behind it is what convinced people to try it out.
Earthbound has a huge cult following now, but I highly doubt most of the "fans" are part of the 140k box sets that sold when the game first came out. It's big break was SSB.
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