RPG history and future :thought from Square Enix(1)

1.Summary

2.History
  (1)FC(NES)
  (2)SFC(SNES)
  (3)PS(PSX)
  (4)PS2(PSX2)
3.Recently
   PS3and mobile platform(PSP,NDS etc...)
4.Future

1.Summary
    about 20years ago, Video game is king of entertainment in Japan. In particular,
  RPG (roll playing game) is most popular. But today, they are in difficult position.
  Especially, RPG is decreasing own sales. I talk about the history and future of
  Japanese RPG by way of example "Final Fantasy" and "Dragon Quest".

2.History
  (1)FC(NES)
         Final Fantasy 1~3(total sales:2.68million)
         Dragon Quest1~4(total sales:5.05million)

        If someone ask what is first domestic RPG,  Many gamers say "Dragon  
      Quest".Before releasing that,  contents in many video games were more
      simple: Just shooting and action game. Dragon Quest was most complicated
      game at that time. Because there are some question and command in that.
      For example: Buy item, gathering information by walking and chatting.
        As company was making newer one, what player could do was getting more.
      they could make the party(team) and control, cross over the sea by ship and
      so on regardless of capacity in ROM is same as 3.5inch FD.
        About that point, final fantasy was in the same way. Except for battle type was
      side view: Dragon quest had front view and it was general type. but Final Fantasy
      had paid attention to the visuality since that time. These difference made  future
      each directions.
        To tell the sales, video games is special entertainment. However boring game
       was, game company was easy to sell.(for instance, Despite Ikki is famous as
       terrible game in Japan nowadays, it had about a million sales)
 (2)SFC(SNES)
        Final Fantasy4~6(total sales:5.43million)
        Dragon Quest5~6(total sales:9.1million)

        By releasing SFC that stands for Super Family Computer, Game company used
      biffer capacity of up to about 20MB. Game soft that have more beautiful graphic
      and sound or music. According to this, more people find video games enjoyable.
      If you see the above result of sales, you can understand that popularity in those
      at that time was awesome.
        As you know, amount of sales in Dragon quest was bigger than that of Final
      Fantasy. However, compared total sales of FC to that of SFC,increasing rate
      that Final fantasy had  was bigger.
       The reason was that Square company, he produced final fantasy series, was
      conscious to make marvelous graphic and interesting story. Final Fantasy 6
      deal with destruction and creation. there are energy problem and conflict in
      this story.It is not too say that the story is drama.
       However, dragon quest stick to these classical visual.Core user want a classical
     visual.They believe that dragon quest is pioneer of role playing game and they don't
     wanna graphic evolution Inheritance of tradition.