EndlessNight

It's declining because the lack of an actual good JRPG. Final fantasy XIII didn't receive that much reception and so as dragon's dogma. Dark souls is different since it's very gameplay is very western like. Even though dragon's dogma looks like a western rpg because the setting is more like of a medieval age, the gameplay is still very much japanese. Sleeping dogs and Tombraider aren't even RPGs.

Sleeping dogs - Open-world action adventure
Tomb raider - Action adventure platform

People really have false misconception of what a RPG is. Just because it's open world doesn't mean it's an RPG.
Honestly, this is more than JRPGs which is dying or whatsoever. The whole japanese gaming industry as a whole.

Old articles but it seems most people here don't know these so...

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/04/keiji-inafune-qa/

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/353056/kojima-japans-curse-is-its-focus-on-japan/

I don't think you understood me at all.
What i said was that Square-enix used to focus on releasing Jrpgs into english

and now they have started making and releasing other times of games and put jrpgs on the back burner

i used sleeping dogs and tomb raider as an example of what they are doing now

Depends on what RPGs we're talking about. Good quality Japanese RPGs are declining and Western RPGs is taking the top. We can't deny that.

honestly i don't know whether jrpgs are declining or just lack of porting it to English, and publishers are also becoming alot more universal Square-enix being a prime example they are now releasing a lot of English titles Sleeping dogs/tomb raider being prime examples

has anyone here played kingdoms of amalur? its definitely one of my favorites along with dragon age for western rpgs.

Anyone ever play dreamer ro?

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