NeoElfboy posted...
You would probably be in a much better position than me to speculate on why that is, though it's probably related to diminishing sales as the medium got older.
From what I've read it has more to do with the Japanese market--which is really not my area of expertise. I do remember reading that JRPGs just weren't selling well in Japan, though, and a lot of JRPGs (at least the ones not named "Final Fantasy") got over half their sales from Japan.
Specifically, around the time of the DS launch (so...2005) my understanding was that the entire Japanese gaming market was in a slump, partially because the best-selling genre (JRPGs) were in a slump in Japan. The games market then picked up thanks to the DS, but the DS wasn't really driven by RPGs, what with games like Nintendogs and Brain Age driving a lot of the sales. So...suddenly the Japanese market was back, but the top-selling games in Japan were not JRPGs. As Japanese developers have a strong bias towards developing for their homeland and worrying about translation at a later date, this reconfigured the kind of game most Japanese developers were working on.
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