Hm Chad seems to love his Sony consoles :) but seems not to have many knowledge about other game machines.

The Nintendo DS is clearly the JRPG-Machine of the last years. No other Handheld or console comes close to the great and big output of JRPGs on the DS. And the 3DS seems to continue this success (so far announced are Bravely Default, Beyond the Labyrinth, Tales of the Abyss, Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance, Fire Emblem, Rune Factory 4).

And even the Wii got a bunch of JRPGs in the last years: Fire Emblem, Fragile Dreams, Chocobos Dungeon, Xenoblade, The Last Story, Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, Tales of Graces, Rune Factory: Frontier, Rune Factory: Oceans, Sakura Wars, Earth Seeker, and so on).

Don't count on it.

You've confused me now xD

As FF was throned it can be dethroned. Halo was the king of FPS games for a while (I'm talking sales and popularity, much like FF is ), but CoD replaced it now, for example.

Nothing is really eternal is what I mean.

I think Final Fantasy will stick around for a long time, and when there finally is a FINAL Fantasy, I don't think anything will replace it in the West.

That isn't what I meant by my comment anyway, I was trying to say that Western audiences are not interested in JRPG's and the genre will never take off in those regions, Final Fantasy got lucky.

Gotta love the stealth-Nintendo trolling in that article

Aside from that, everything seems pretty spot on. But I'd argue the DS and PSP are kings in JRPG's already, and with Xenoblade, Pandora's Tower, The Last Story, 2 Dragon Quest games and Monster Hunter, I'd say the Wii is up there with the PS3 as well.

I like a good JRPG. The more exposure the better. A good classic JRPG can't be beaten, right?

I agree with you guys.

The GBA and SNES are definitely my consoles of choice when it comes to new RPGs being released.

Why is it that people treat Final Fantasy as the king, when Pokemon franchise does much better. To dethrone Final Fantasy other franchises have a long way to go.

Remember it is still very hard for any game in that genre, outside of the main three (Pkm, FF, DQ) to reach 1 million. (I ignored Kingdom Hearts, I know...) 

Actually, the Nintendo DS had more RPGs on it than any other console in history, and consequently, also sold more than any other console in history.

http://www.vgchartz.com/worldtotals.php?name=&publisher=&console=DS&genre=RPG&minSales=0&results=500&sort=Total

Over 250 RPGs have been released on the DS. More than 120 million RPGs sold on the DS, this is double what was sold on the PS2, double what was sold on the PSX, over triple what has sold on the PSP, and 6 times more what has sold on the PS3. When it comes to RPGs, the DS is the top system in the genres history.

The person who wrote this deserves my eternal respect.