Quote Originally Posted by Skyblade
There are still plenty of awesome JRPGs being churned out and getting incredibly positive reviews. The games are doing brilliantly, and the demand is there, the developers just don't seem to notice how well they are doing. Probably because they are all for handheld systems. Now, if you'll excuse me, my DS calls.
Personally I find it a bit unfair to compare a DS JRPG to a 360/PS3 JRPG.

Quote Originally Posted by Wolf Kanno
I wouldn't mind going back to the 3 year waiting period.
Do you mean three years between the start of work and end of work, or three years between releases of numbered Final Fantasy games? Because the earlier FF's actually more often than not had less time spent on them. Only VII, XII and XIII were released three years after an earlier FF. And XIII had four years of development, yet it's the one that has brought about such articles as are being linked to in this thread.