I'll give you LO, it's awesome.

TLR has a far superior version on PC, and ToV does on PS3. 360 can't be king if almost all of its RPG's are alive and kicking on PC.

i so want tales on 360 but the pre owned prices are just to much, games on demand is nice at 19.99 but i want physical media. im confident one day il pick up tales on 360 at a good price

I think, if you allow me to give my opinion, that if we have to name one system the "RPG King", we would need to destribute things equaly. And then we would have to consider one thing, wich one of the 4 systems have the best destribution of RPGs.

We can see that PC doesn't have alot of jRPGs (alot of stuff is missing, like LO, ToV, Star Ocean etc), and we can see that PS3 miss some WRPGs that are on both 360 and PC (or only in one of them), like the Fable series, the first Mass Effect, and a bunch of others. PS3 has its own jRPGs for sure, like Ar Tonelico, Atelier series, and other games, but that goes for Xbox 360 as well, since it has stuff like Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey, Magna Carta 2, TLR and Infinite Undiscovery. Don't take me wrong, i actually love some of the stuff NiS have gave us on the PS3, but i would give the edge to the 360 for Lost Odyssey itself.

Wii has no such thing as a wRPG, and its not known for its jRPG either.

So yeah, in my opinion, if there is such thing as a "king of the RPGs" this gen, it should be the Xbox 360 for being the one who have the best library all in all. But that's more like the king of the fools if you ask me. lol

@skeeuk, if i can get u a copy of tales of vesperia, u want it ?

i know i can find u one cheap.

i hope more tales of games come outside japan, i want more of the series too play.

Frankly Namco, I don't think distribution is your problem.  Its weak advertising coupled with 1-3 new Tales games every year.  Its the same thing hurting the Final Fantasy series.

Upcoming Multiplats:
Dark Souls
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Dungeon Siege III
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Final Fantasy XIII-2
Hunted: The Demon's Forge
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
The Lord of the Rings: War in the North
Mass Effect 3
Risen 2: Dark Waters

Upcoming games not on 360:
White Knight Chronicles 2
Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten
Tale of Grace F
Final Fantasy Versus XIII

Upcoming games not on PS3
???

Games not on 360:
89 - JRPG - Demon's Souls (Really, this feels a lot more like a WRPG than a JRPG)
86 - JRPG - Valkyria Chronicles
78 - JRPG - Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice
77 - JRPG - 3D Dot Game Heroes
75 - JRPG - Folklore (Again doesn't really feel like a JRPG...)
67 - JRPG - Record of Agarest War   
65 - JRPG - Atelier Rorona: The Alchemist of Arland
64 - JRPG - White Knight Chronicles
62 - JRPG - Trinity Universe
61 - JRPG - Ar Tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel
55 - JRPG - Trinity: Souls of Zill O'll
42 - JRPG - Hyperdimension Neptunia   
44 - JRPG - Last Rebellion

Games not on PS3:
91 - WRPG - Mass Effect
80 - WRPG - Fable III
89 - WRPG - Fable II
79 - JRPG - Tales of Vesperia
78 - JRPG - Lost Odyssey
60 - WRPG - Risen
68 - JRPG - Infinite Undiscovery
79 - JRPG - Blue Dragon
69 - JRPG - Magna Carta 2
50 - WRPG - Two Worlds
66 - JRPG - The Last Remnant
59 - JRPG - Spectral Force 3
62 - WRPG - Divinity II: Ego Draconis
64 - WRPG -Arcania: Gothic IV
55 - WRPG - Kingdom Under Fire: Circle of Doom
52 - WRPG - Dark Messiah of Might and Magic Elements
59 - WRPG - Arkadian Warriors

Multiplats:
JRPG - Final Fantasy XIII   
JRPG - Star Ocean: The Last Hope
JRPG - Eternal Sonata
WRPG - Dragon Age II
WRPG - Fallout 3
WRPG - Two Worlds II
WRPG - Sacred 2: Fallen Angel
WRPG - Enchanted Arms
WRPG - Resonance of Fate
WRPG - Mass Effect 2
WRPG - Dragon Age: Origins
WRPG - Fallout: New Vegas
WRPG - The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
WRPG - Rise of the Argonauts
WRPG - Alpha Protocol
WRPG - Borderlands

PS3 Stats:
(Current)                                 (Upcoming)
JRPG = 16                               JRPG = 5
WRPG = 13                            WRPG = 9

360 Stats:
(Current)                                 (Upcoming)
JRPG = 10                               JRPG = 1
WRPG = 23                            WRPG = 9


I dunno... it looks kinda even, with PS3 slanted more towards JRPG and the 360 more towards WRPG. I will note however that the 360 seems to be getting less and less exclusive WRPG while the PS3 continues to enjoy a few upcoming JRPG exclusive.

You will also note that I have not included games that have not been confirmed for the west such as Tale of Xilia and a few other niche game that has been confirmed for Japan release or is already out.

Hey man, cheers, I actually appreciate your post.

And if we talk about the upcomming tittles, i would totally give up my argument. There's too much stuff anounced exclusively to the PS3 (on the jRPG side at least). For the Xbox 360, there isn't much going on... i wonder if it stays like this for the rest of this gen (my bet is, it wont)

But as far as my concern go, Xbox 360's still winning. Even being "almost" even or not (c'mon, it's not! Xbox still has the first Mass Effect, Fable and Lost Odyssey). And that makes the Xbox 360 the king of RPGs. :p

I would prefer to stick with the topic now. Can we open a new thread and move this conversation to there?

Last Post about this! Mass Effect, Fable and Lost Odyssey are great but from a library point of view, and review wise, the 2 consoles are fairly even, My favorite RPG this gen is Valkryia Chronicles and its a PS3 exclusive, this is more a matter of taste really rather than any undisputed superiority of a certain library. Because both system enjoy some excellent RPG and its not a landslide for either side in term of both volume and quality, I don't think you can nominate a particular console as the RPG king like the PS2 was.

Ok fine to have taste for 1 console's offering but overall its more like the toss of a coin.

Anyways, on topic, I hope they choose to eventually release ToV PS3 version, its a shame that the West won't be getting the upgraded version of ToV... and we STILL no word on Tale of Grace F for Europe yet. Namco's failure to actually leverage this series is rather pathetic, with multiple system, lack of support in regions, limited available retail disk, its like they were asking for the series to fail.

So yea, I'm burnt, and won't be trusting Namco's word anytime soon. Word is cheap, get the games on my shelves first.

Final Fantasy 13-2 comes to mind and Record of Agarest Wars Zero.