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Message: [QUOTE="UnDubious, post: 353802, member: 4030"] Were they actually sitting in warehouses? They rapidly became niche games in general when 3D came out, and gamers are obsessed with the new thing or the next thing, but they still had fanbases that bought them, which is why they were still being made. RPGs were niche in the West but not as niche as people pretend. A lot of 16-bit RPGs received official Western releases, all in all. Final Fantasy 6 (bka 3) actually sold well in the West, too, even if it was 7 that finally made the genre really popular over here. Mostly it was an image/marketing thing. The PSX needed to be the cool new thing, and it needed to cater to self-conscious teenagers and whatnot. 2D was old, and RPGs weren't cool yet. [/QUOTE]

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