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YukanaSenix on 07 January 2013
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Depends if the taste of the gaming community is changing again.

We changed from the Last Gen to this one.
From a complete Japanese controlled Gen to a Gen where a company from the USA entered seriously the competition and introduced FPS MP on consoles with online possibilities.
J-RPGs in the past Gens on consoles were what FPS are today.Every 2nd game was a J-RPG like every 2nd game today is a Shooter.

You can see in some countries J-RPGs still top the Most Wanted Charts.
I think in Germany NiNoKuni is at Number 1 Most Wanted right now and so it gets some love from other ones too.
People in some countries cry for every Tales of or Xenoblade.I think Europe and Japan are the strongest and safest markets right now for J-RPGs.
The problem is of course > SquareEnix screwed up big in this Gen.The biggest Name in the J-RPG Industry made more mistakes than anyone could have even thought of.
They didn't impact the Genre like they are used to.They wanted to adapt their games to the CoD Community like few other big Japanese companies.
So the smaller ones had to step in but they don't have the "Name power" behind their games even if they are quality in terms of gameplay and stuff.But without the name power of an older Console Gen or enough money to invest in a new beautiful J-RPG you are kinda fu...d in this Shooter driven Generation.

If we have a big change again then yes.
But as long as this stays like this we won't see a big and real good J-RPG anymore.Especially not from SquareEnix as long as they don't let Team Nomura take over so they can go back to former quality.
Till then the western world has to start petitions to get the games over to the west.

And yeah - The start of this Gen was kinda screwed up for J-RPG developers.They choose a console cause of weird promises over the console they would sell their stuff on it.
Now the interest isn't completely lost but it isn't as strong as before at the Genre.People are pissed or moved to other things.
It really depends Next Gen how good Sony and the J-RPG Developers can work together and how much other competitors let them work together without interfering to much in decisions and quality.