| Carl2291 said: The question is... WHY do JRPG's need momentum again. What has caused them to LOSE momentum. Why haven't they been selling as well as previous gens? |
i can think of a few reasons:
1. they were on 360. at the beggining of this gaming gen, many expected JRPG's to be on the PS3(at least i did lol) and follow a similar trend like the last gens with them on PS1/PS2 and so forth. But when they realized that they went to the 360 well this angered quite a bit of ppl and they were basically being sent to die
2. FFXIII took to long to release. Last gen FFX came out 1 or 2 years into the PS2 life cycle and establish itself as the JRPG system of choice for that gen. But this FF game is taking nearly 5 years to come out and so we are without a million seller(on a console anyway) for a vast majority of this gaming gen which dosent look good
3. Handhelds have become the home for the genre. If i were to pull up a list of all the RPG's on the PS3/360 and compare them to the DS/PSP list, ull see that the DS/PSP has a HUGE list of RPG"s to choose from which makes it the easiest choice for your RPG fix. Not only that but handhleds are a lot cheaper to develop for and the profi margins are not as high on there as they are on consoles so it makes it a lot easier for niche companies to thrive there then on conosles. Personally i perfer playing them on consoles, but as long there still around and i can play them, thats really all i care for
