...I’m...kind of baffled that your comments are kind of missing my point here.

“JRPG” was unambiguously used as a negative descriptor 15 years ago. People started using it instead of “RPG” entirely to single out Japanese games as “bad”. That’s why Yoshida is wary of it, even if it isn’t used that way anymore.

Japanese RPGs used to just be called “RPGs”.

Maybe I’m not reading this right, but does it specify if the sales decline is across all platforms?

Sure glad I’m caught up, because otherwise I’d be pretty damn upset about an auto-playing video on the sidebar full of spoilers.

This helped remind me there is actually a Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure battle royale already: Last Survivor, a Japanese arcade exclusive.

I didn’t buy Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope on launch despite really enjoying the first one. Why?

I’m always skeptical of “look at this AMAZING controller from (some weird company)“ posts on news sites and YouTube. There’s rarely the follow up “how it actually holds up after a few months”.

Reminder that back in the day, people started mistakenly referring to Guilty Gear as a “doujin game”, thinking it was a Japanese genre description and not referring to the origin of games like Melty Blood and Queen of Heart.

“We will continue a new project that will have a story inspired by Code: Veronica but without copyright problems.”

There’s been a very weird, worrying lack of information about this game up to now. Frankly, I’m relieved to at least not see more bug complaints.

Resident Evil 6 is good and has always been good. It’s just that

I feel like a lot of these comments are missing the point, although perhaps deliberately...and maybe are kind of proving his point. People have such drastically different expectations for what they want out of Final Fantasy by now that it seems impossible to please everyone, short of making multiple titles. Sounds…

oh boy another dating game subverting the genre forever by declaring that dating games are stupid

I don’t have a problem with first person games for the most part...but the few exceptions are always indie games. It makes me wonder if they’re skipping some step the big pros are using that takes care of it, at least on people like me.

Shin Megami Tensei in its many, many forms has more than enough material to work with.

If Facebook has taught us anything, it’s that you don’t even need the “Anonymity” part of the equation to get this result.

This kind of “making up a new genre for an existing genre” speak is nothing new with Japanese games. Usually it goes unexamined.

I may have not been clear enough in my comment. Most of those reasons are indeed what justifiably set the general public against SFV and resulted in a bad launch.

This video was a full year after SFV was already out.