Lets talk about RPG battle systems

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kupomogli said:

FinalFantasyXIII said:
Blame WoW! It destroyed the console RPG genre sales, and growth overall. If that game didn't take off imagine how many sales some RPG's on consoles could have had.

If new RPGs like Final Fantasy 13 didn't suck, sales numbers would also be better.

 

I think the skyrocketing costs of development from last gen and onward also hurt the market, because now devs needed millons of sales to justify games for a niche genre. In the PS2 days, it was a lot easier to put something out and be satisfied with a few hundred thousand copies sold. Nowadays, anything less than 3 million is an automatic failure. It's not that cut and dry, of course, but you get the idea.