MontanaHatchet on 13 March 2010
| Khuutra said: Oh Jesus you counted Pokemon. Well okay. I think a lot of people are really equating the rise in popularity of WRPGs with a fall in popularity for JRPGs, which isn't really true. You can say that WRPGs are tkaing some of the JRPG mindshare, which is true, but JRPGs aren't less popular in terms of absolute numbers. |
Yeah. All systems should be counted for RPGs (except for the PC, because it doesn't exist, and it would bring MMORPGs into the mix which would make everything way more complicated). I'd say in terms of absolute numbers, JRPGs are probably a good bit less popular than the last two generations (especially the fifth one), but that's likely due to fewer and weaker releases. And, of course, Pokemon could never recapture the glory of its Red and Blue days. That would just be impossible.
