| Demotruk said: I'm not gonna say anything about Twesterm's central thesis, but can people at least get past the point that jRPG's are in decline. Decline means they are no longer as popular as they once were, and sales are a metric of that. No matter which you look at, the biggest jRPG series like Final Fantasy XIII compared to X or VII, or the more middling series like Tales, they are almost all in decline. They are selling a lot less than they did in previous generations within Japan and outside of it. There are notable exceptions like Dragon Quest but they are not enough to change the overall trend. And "I think the RPG's this gen are great" is completely irrelevant to whether or not they are in decline. |
The topic is abotu Twesterm's central thesis, not the general decline of JRPGs, which you yourself have not qualified via sales - if you try to sit down and make comparisons, don't forget that the body of JRPGs are not mainline games.
Also don't forget Pokemon.
