Are Shorter Attention Spans Hurting The Role-Playing Genre?

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LivingMetal said:

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Some people group games together between handhelds and non-handhelds.  Others such as myself do not.  I get a different experience between playing on a television sitting on my couch than a 4" screen in the palm of my hand.  With that being said, there were a plethora of RPG's on the PSOne and PStwo alone for both past gen consoles.  This gen with the Wii, Xbox 360, and PS3 combined is not much of a comparison.

The context of the article was in regards tonon-handhelds with the examples of Final Fantasy XIII and COD given.

 

I'm sure they could make as many RPGs as they did before for consoles, if the market would accept PS2-quality graphics. Look how long FFXIII took to make - with the same team they could have done an FFVII looking game probably three times.

Since they won't, they must shift resources to handhelds. And it IS a case of one or the other because of how game companies work; you can't just disregard handhelds economically.