I should add I am not saying JRPG's are bad now, I can't judge that but as a newcomer to the genre with FF13 being my first I think the company has been successful in enticing new gamers to the franchise because I loved that game, this may be why its sold that well & reversed the decline the franchise saw in the west, its attracted new consumers. As far as I remember its reviews were lower than expected which crushed any hype the game had.

However apart from it no JRPG has sold well, so its an exception to the rule.

It's not fool's gold when somebody is willing to fund you and drastically reduce your operating cost to keep people employed...that's called smart business.  Look at EA...it sells a TON of games, but has lsot money nearly EVERY quarter this generation...are they chasing fool's gold as well?  Blizzard has nearly been the only saving grace for Activision-Blizzard for years as well.  If you're not in this business to make money, but instead to brag...then sure, it's fool's gold, but I highly doubt shareholders care about much other than solid balance sheets.

I concur.


all the jrpg gamers is on the ps3.

And the 1.3 Million people that got FF13 on xbox were soccer mom's 

If his logic is correct, then the FF franchise should've been on the original Xbox and not on the PS2 because of superior space and graphics. That is the major crack in his argument. I understand the point he's trying to make, but that is a serious crack. Ninja Gaiden and the FF series have shared the same fate in being on the same system in succession, but later went multiplatform. The difference between the two is Ninja Gaiden got two tries (NG2 and NG2Sigma) where as FF only get one on both systems.

The SE brandname is irrevocably tarnished nowadays...
but they know where the money is. How many Xbox360s did their games alone help sell in Japan? At least 100k.

Funny thing is, they said they brought FFXIII to the 360 to "expand the series in the West"....and the PS3 version outsold it..in the West

completely agree with you, all of SE games have been trash compared to when they were squaresoft, i want mystwalker to develop some ps3 games, i bet they will sell well.

I was writing a reply to this bullshit but then I couldn't be bothered.

Sum up = im bitter at Square Enix, life, the Stations downfall.

Theres so much bad logic in this that I'd have to write 2* as much just to disprove every point. So I say fuckit and I'll move on knowing that yet another bitter and unhappy person can have his tears caught by the 3-4 Final Fantasy XIII versus Xbox 360 discs.

Playstation's first major title was Resident Evil, not Final Fantasy 7. Resident Evil was probably the single most important game on the PSX.