While BioWare‘s Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk have had their thoughts on Japanaese role-playing games, Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami has his own. He’s apparently in the same boundaries as the Mass Effect developer.
According to Mikami-san, Japanese role-playing games were never at all popular in the west.
“I think it is because Japanese RPGs were really never all that popular in the west to begin with,” Mikami-san told CVG. “I think the best way of interpreting things is that they aren’t getting less popular; they weren’t very popular from the start.”
While there are a huge amount of people in the west who love JRPGs, there is a much larger fan base out there for genres such as FPS and action–adventure. Final Fantasy aside, most JRPGs don’t move that significant an amount of units in the west, either.
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