Level 5 : JRPG's LOOSING Momentum in Japan, FF13 can HELP JRPG's in west!

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Rei said:

scottie said:
Ok rej. Lets look at it this way.

you're studying the population of humanity by counting the number of people in a remote mining town, assuming that the total population will be equal to a constant times the population of your sample set. Suddenly, the mines run out of gold, and everyone moves away. The only possible conclusion? that humanity is extinct.

Jrpgs are moving to handhelds they are not dying out.

Well I say that a healthy genre can not be made only of estabilished brands. How many non-Pokemon, FF, KH jRPG games have seen a success on handhelds in the West? This generation we are constantly seeing how new wRPG IPs sell millions of copies, and it's just not the same with jRPGs.

   Handhelds or not, but other than a few huge sellers there is not much the genre has left.

 

None really stand out these days, except other Nintendo staples (Mario & Luigi, Fire Emblem) though there have been more niche success stories (Etrian Odyssey, Disgaea PSP, etc).  Last gen on GBA, Golden Sun and the earlier MMBN games did exceptionally though (500k+ US) and there were a lot more lower tier successes (Sword of Mana, Tactics Ogre, etc).  

DQIX will probably do really well though, and maybe spark larger western success for the series.  I think Inazuma Eleven will be huge in Europe too.  Golden Sun DS should be big.  Sure you can point to the "big brands" and say nothing else is really catching hold, but it was like that on PS1 and PS2 for the most part as well.  I don't think much has changed frankly.

 

darthdevidem01 said:
@scottie

MH isn't an RPG

It's an action RPG.  I think the Japanese classification is "Hunting Action RPG" iirc.