Red Alert 3, Dawn of War 2, Empire: Total War...

If we're just talking about consoles, then RTS was never a big genre anyway, and it's only getting bigger now.

OT: JRPGs seem to be dying- they struggle to come close to their sales last gen, probably because the Japanese market is shrinking. Stealth games, too, a little bit.

Sadly Turn based RPG's.

platformers.. for sure.. and fighting games.. earlier on VF and tekken had newer releases every 2 yrs...

MY two favorite types it seems. JRPG's and The good old Platformers.

Platformers and JRPGs are both debatable. We keep getting tons of JRPGs on the market, and Nintendo and Sony seem to put out quite a few worthwhile platformers between them on a fairly regular basis. Microsoft is another story on that front

Platformers are not dieing. Yes, there are probably fewer pure platformers, Mario is probably the only big one, but Uncharted 2, inFamous and Ratchet and Clank are all platformy games even if they are not pure platformers and certainly Uncharted has sold well

jRPGs are struggling. Most Japanese developers are diverting more of their resources to titles aimed at the Western Market due to the issues with the Japanese market. This can been seen by what SE is up to with Nier and Order of War. Of course, things like DQ, FF and KH are still going to sell well, and it is certainly not on the point of extinction, though it is contracting

If anything, its only the DS whats keeping them alive atm.

Square, deciding to side with the 360... have helped kill them off also.

Lets hope Final Fantasy 13 makes profit... and DQ9+10 do well in the west.

i hate the fact star ocean wasnt availiable ps3 it really coulda helped save it, most 360 owners go for more of the shooters, that said i think that u could consider uncharted as a platformer, along with infamous,

I'm going to go with fighting games. The titles that do get released sell fairly well, but less and less publishers are taking the chance on making any new ones. We're at the point that only legacy fighters like Street Fighter, Tekken, Soulcalibur, Smash Bros., Dead or Alive and King of Fighters remain. BlazBlue is debateble seeing as how it's highly reminiscent of Guilty Gear and is seemingly replacing it(let's hope not though). Outside of that we only get licensed titles mainly from anime sources like Bleach and Naruto. While the genre isn't going extinct per se, it is shrinking greatly and it seems no one is willing to take a chance on bringing a new big name fighter out.

I'm not sure that many genres truly die so much as get abandoned in favour of more profitable or higher selling genres.

I mean I doubt everyone who loved platformers or adventure games (as in Monkey Island, Grim Fandango, etc) simply up and died or totally changed their tastes - but I think developers willing to back genres with a smaller potential customer base are far and few between now, while many developers fall over themselves to pander to popular genres to try and cash in.

Just like the movies in fact! I'm still waiting for more intelligent blockbusters, but apparently the modern taste runs to brainless and I'm in the minority - but I digress, blame the horror of taking my kids to Transformers 2.