D.Moon, I can't say for sure, but from what I heard they made Dragon Age II way more in the style of a hack-and-slash. That may be what they're referencing since I know Dragon Age Origins was playable in FFXII style, something Bioware kinda started themselves with KOTOR. Oh, and play Demon's Souls and Valkyria Chronicles.

Anyway, apparently there are a lot of great JRPGs today, they're just on handhelds. Which not a lot of people buy because advertising is less there, and the dedicated consumer base on them is kinda small. It's like a chicken-or-the-egg kinda problem. But I think we've already hashed out here already that small teams are more likely to succeed with a vision on games like RPGs. And you can't build a console game today with a small team. There's so many expectations of what an HD game has to do that a lot of the great writing and game design falls to the wayside. I've said a lot of this before, but I think the moral of the story is this generation isn't friendly for RPGs. But current gen games sell a lot of copies and make a lot of money and Square will gladly throw the integrity of their franchises to the flames trying to figure out how to tap into that. Right now I'd totally be down for FFXV being on the Vita & 3DS.

And by RPGs you all know what I mean. Yeah, there's a lot of popular "those" RPGs today, but all of those games blow.