| ironmanDX said: Sorry, but you're way, way off there. Even though more consoles sold this gen, look at Final Fantasy sales through all the generations. |
So... you're agreeing with me that install base doesn't really matter, then?
| ironmanDX said: There is only 2 in the top 10. One of them is on a handheld. In fact, the top 3 alone beat out FFXIII combined on ps3 and 360. There was a golden era. They sold more because they were better in most peoples minds, a lot newer and fresher to people who haven't played JRPG's before either. Nearly 10,000,000 sales for VII on ps1 is niche? That would make CoD niche or Halo, or basically every game ever apart from Mario on NES which sold a whopping 40 million copies. |
I didn't say that Final Fantasy was niche. I said that JRPGs are. Final Fantasy is the exception, a single franchise in the genre that managed to gain mass market appeal. You ought not to conflate its decline, which is entirely due to mismanagement, with the decline of the entire genre. The genre is not in decline; Final Fantasy is.
