darthdevidem01 on 29 January 2010
| Demotruk said: Darth, a decline isn't measured by reaching an arbitrary benchmark like you've suggested. Final Fantasy is selling less this gen than last. Tales games are selling much less this gen than last. Kingdom Hearts, Star Ocean and many others are selling less this gen than last. Some by very large margins. Now, Monster Hunter is growing and other handheld rpg's are also showing growth, but personally I think MH borders more on an action game than a typical jRPG. But considering how much the Japanese market has been declining, and most of the positives in the Japanese market are expanded audience games like Wii Fit, Wii Sports, etc. it's inevitable that the jRPG genre is declining to counter that, being probably the biggest genre in Japan within the last two or three generations. |
1. We can't say whether FF is selling less this gen until FF13 figures are in.
2. We can't say KH is selling less this gen until KH3 figures are in
3. Star Ocean is selling less, but we all know why, if it launched as a Ps360 multiplat the story could have been different.
Tales games seem to be the ones with declines, TOG & TOV have proven this.
Demon's Souls, Lost Oddesy & Valkyria Chronicles on the other hand have done fantastic.
JRPG sales just seem bad as lots of WRPG's do over a million now. But there are also lots that don't.
BTw I never said there wasn't a decline, but there is no MASSIVE decline at all.
