Ka-pi96 said:
Boutros said:
Final Fantasy is a franchise that used to cater to the casual gamer back when they owned home consoles in Japan but that gamer has long jumped ship for mobile gaming so what you're looking at is what the core fanbase of the series is. It's also why series like Persona and Metal Gear Solid didn't see a decline in Japan. Those franchises always depended on their core fanbase and never reached the kind of casual gamers that Final Fantasy did. So until that casual gamer is back on home console we can't expect Final Fantasy to reach the kind of numbers that it used to do. |
The same is true, perhaps even more so, for Dragon Quest, right? Will be interesting to see how DQ11 compares when it finally releases.
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Yeah but that's why the 3DS version exists. We could still see a decline though because the 3DS audience is pretty fatigued at this point and the 3DS never reached the same kind of popularity as the DS anyway.
