BasilZero said:
Yeah, Elder Scrolls and Final Fantasy pretty much switched roles imo, while FF became more hated cause of the latest installments and ports, Elder Scrolls became famous thanks to Oblivion and Skyrim.
Chrono Trigger's SNES sales were low because like any other new JRPG or new brand name, their sales would be low. But ya the PS1,NDS and iOS versions more than make up for the total amount of sales it deserves and proves that its still a hotcake like selling product.
Assassin's Creed and CoD may have had brand rape, but it isnt as bad as what SE did with the FF series, making two online games as part of their mainstream title line (with one being a moderate success while the other one was a complete failure), making abysmal sequels to two FF games, making less than stellar spinoffs such as Crystal Bearers and Capcoming it up by milking ports/remakes.
Mario's a household name, doesnt matter how much they rape it, if it has either mario or pokemon, you know people will gobble it up, even if it is bad (i.e. Mario is Missing - even I was a sucker for it....though I didnt buy it , it was a rental ;p).
Instead of westernizing already existing franchises, they should just focus on making new IPs and still produce new games of Old IPs like they did in the 1990s. N> more medieval/fantasy games and not futuristic stuff. (Although Star Ocean is a exception ;p).
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The majority consider XIII-2 to be better so to call it abysmal is quite a stretch, if you just look at amazon or youtube or even here. But sales wise, it hasn't done well.
I think, that those spinoffs hurt it, whether or not it makes SE money, IDK. But here's my thing. If the JRPG genre was prevalent, it wouldn't be so dependant on 1 IP, or 1 company for that matter (SE).
But here's my opinion.
JRPG's seems to be a niche Genre. Aside from Pokemon (which a lot of people don't even call a JRPG), ditto with Dark Soul's (how is dark soul's not considered by many to be a JRPG? it has just as much in common with Final Fantasy as Oblivions has with mass effect, but idk) Kingdom Hearts, though I think this does well because of disney branding. So JRPG's aren't really going to be the focus for sales in the west, As highly as persona is rated, it hasn't cracked 1 million, and Xenoblade won't.
The focus in my mind from that quote is creating games like dead rising, resident evil, Metal Gear, lost planet. That generally are sort of a western style game with a japanese twist.
