| Ka-pi96 said: Something being niche or not is about sales of the genre as a whole. Xenoblade is niche (outside of Japan), but not because of it's own sales but because JRPGs in general are niche (outside of Japan). And open world isn't a genre so that's irrelevant. You'll probably say FF sells well or something, but being niche doesn't mean a game can't sell well althogh if it's the only IP in the whole genre that sells well then it's still niche. |
I think it's more accurate to label titles and series as being niche. I'm not comfortable calling JRPG niche since Final Fantasy and Pokemon sale so much. Couldn't the argument be other JRPG just aren't as appealing as they should be to match Final Fantasy and Pokemon? Or that those two series simply dominate the JRPG genre so well, all attention to this genre is focused on these games.
Like Mario is a platformer. But who else really makes platformer besides Nintendo? And even then Mario massively outsales the other Nintendo platformers as well. Can we call platformer a niche genre when Mario can generally sale 10 million titles if userbase permits?
