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Originally Posted by TheGame
As for why the library of RPGs has died down.. I'm not sure. It could have to do with production costs and the time it takes to develop them. Its really hard to justify making a deep long RPG when it won't outsell a simplistic game that takes 2 months to develop on Wii. (Or in Ps3 and 360's case.. hard to justify making it when you can reuse the same engine and characters over and over and sell more.)
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Actually, I can no longer see that as a reason, I mean we are 3-4 years into the generation, even if an RPG took a while to come out, I think we would be seeing a ton of them in the fall.
I do think that developers backed the wrong horse at the beginning of the generation. PSX/PS2 were for all intents and purposes, the RPG powerhouse last generation. The Ps3 has not found anywhere near the success, most importantly it hasn't found a footing in Japan yet which makes most of these types of RPGs. So I think developers got scared off.
The Ps3 didn't have the presence PSX/PS2 had in Japan so it was big risk/small reward.
The Xbox 360 can't sell traditional RPGs as Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey and Tales of Vesperia bombed for the most part.
And the Wii just seems to get ignored by most people, though Monster Hunter G and Tri shows Japanese are willing to buy RPGs on it. On the same hand, those were popular franchises so doesn't say much.
I guess it also helps that the DS is easy to develop for, and RPGs do really well on it. It has had some awesome RPGs like The World Ends With You, several Final Fantasies (even if remakes) and the upcoming Mario and Luigi.
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Originally Posted by Vampyr
I think that's because people are familiar with them, and they have carved out their own style, but I think the reason they initially came about was because of hardware limitations.
But how many really successful turn based rpg's do you see now days compared to very successful non-turn based ones? Even Final Fantasy has moved away from typical turn based battles.
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The problem though is... how many turn based RPGs do you see? I mean its hard to gauge success when there isn't anything on the market. Like I mentioned early, there were some that bombed on the 360, but honestly the 360 userbase isn't the type that plays Japanese RPGs.