haxxiy on 19 April 2024
Otter said:
globally all of these franchises are bigger now than they were in past accept maybe Star Ocean. I think it's a small contributing factor, there is more JRPG competition. And if we acknowledge that FF has moved in an action RPG arena then the competition is even more stark. |
Sure, but that's true for most surviving game franchises from the 90s. The market has grown since (and sales have concentrated in known IPs), even for a niche genre like JRPGs... only FF did not. That suggests it's more a matter of quality rather than competition though admittedly it's a bit of splitting hairs at this point since the result is the same.
