Ever since consoles became power enough for action? So you mean 1983 right? First JRPGs were action and the First western RPGs were turn based. Hell some modern ones are like Dragon Age Origins is turn based with the combat being timing and stat based with your swing timer. Xenoblade series is turn based(often confused for ARPG but it's not) Ys is on Famicom and SEGA Master System. Mana on SNES and Oasis on Genesis. We have had ARPGs on consoles for over 30 years. It's not a power thing at all. In fact about every JRPG until Dragon Quest was action based. WRPGs were turn based until maybe early 90s.
I don't care either way. Problem is many games do action wrong. FFXV the most modern has a mess of a combat system. Trying to be stylized combat without understanding how to make a action game. About everything relies on a single button so it has cool animations but none of the depth to make a good ARPG system.
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