Quote Originally Posted by Wolf Kanno View Post
But that is basically your opinion on the matter. I play quite a bit and I am definetly in the older than 20 crowd. All my friends and GF are in the same boat. Families are now using video games as a bonding moment, look at the Wii, I would argue gaming isn't really something "you'll grow out of it" if it was really part of your life. So who is really to say which is correct when you've decided that online survey data is meaningless? At this point, there is no real reason to even discuss this since you've disqualified any type of third party data to allow us to reach closure, and you're own reasoning is only backed up by your own baseless assumptions.

I still stand that a more adult minded RPG with a love story between older characters beyond the simple confines of silly stereotypes like "Boy meets girls" can have equally as much mass appeal.
Well what we do know is that rpg's are not being made for older gamers and there more than likely is a reason for that. While we have shooters that are very obviously made for adults and sports simulations that are so complicated that only adults could really understand them there still is nothing around that indicates that rpg's are being made for adults. Sorry but if there truly was enough merit to start making rpg's for older gamers these older gamers would still be playing rpg's on a massive basis. But they do not seem to be and at this point if they attempted to make a japanese rpg for older gamers that rpg probably would not do very well. Which is why the concept is not being attempted.