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LeonhartFour posted...

I don't even understand what you're trying to say Xenoblade did. Are you arguing that RPGs suddenly became extremely popular in the west because Xenoblade sold a million copies on a dying system? AAA RPGs were still in bad shape for like 5 years after Xenoblade came out, so it had no impact on that. Niche RPGs still occupy the same space that they occupied before Xenoblade. I don't even understand the logic for giving it credit for Persona or Fire Emblem.

To be fair, Fire Emblem: Awakening did in fact revive the series.

https://www.ign.com/articles/2015/06/24/fire-emblem-awakenings-success-ultimately-saved-the-franchise

2016 carried that momentum forward with Fates. Thanks to Nintendo's incredible marketing, it became the best-selling title in the series.

https://www.dualshockers.com/fire-emblem-three-houses-best-fire-emblem-sales-ever/

Persona 5 became a cultural phenomenon. To deny its popularity and how it targeted, and succeeded with, a broader audience would be absurd.

https://goombastomp.com/persona-5-ffvii/

This thread discusses how the genre got its push over the last decade. 2017 was specifically a major year.

https://www.reddit.com/r/JRPG/comments/fnckcd/genre_revival_and_2020/

The only way to assume there was never a JRPG revival is to pretend nothing has changed since the 2000s. And the only way to assume that they've never changed in success is to live in an echochamber, such as a forum that has celebrated the genre long before they picked up popularity outside of said forum. Naturally, being around people who celebrate these games make them sound more popular than they actually are.

The fact of the matter is, several games and series of the past decade, specifically around the mid-late 2010s, revitalized the genre. Even if it wasn't Xenoblade, it at least was a precursor to that role.

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