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JRPGs will come to the Xbone says Spencer

Salt_The_Fries · 2014-12-07 11:24:57

Xbox has never been the place for JRPG fans. They've always been off in their clubhouse, playing Shin Megami Tensei and reading about how to make your hair all pointy and gravity-defying. But that might be about to change.A user on Twitter asked Xbox overlord Phil Spencer if we'd ever see JRPGs come to the Xbox One. The world held its breath. Dogs ceased to bark. Cars everywhere stopped in the streets. But rather than smiting the young man where he stood, Phil Spencer merely answered: 'You will see JRPGs on Xbox One.'It's a move that makes sense after poor sales in Japan, especially given the recent resignation of Xbox Japan boss Takashi Sensui. It's probably also a welcome change for JRPG fans, as Xbox has never been the place to go to for games like Dragon Quest and Chrono Trigger. We've got Final Fantasy Type-0 and Final Fantasy XV coming, but wouldn't it be nice to have games that weren't just Final Fantasies?In fact, at least one studio is already hard at work making an RPG - the devs behind time-twisting Remember Me, Dontnod, have put up a job listing for an experienced designer 'with strong experience in RPG or Action RPG'. In the meantime, they're working on Life is Strange, a quiet indie tale of adolescence with a sci-fi twist. Exciting stuff!What kind of JRPGs would you like to see on Xbox One? Personally, we'd love a bit of Persona.http://www.totalxbox.com/82485/jrpgs-are-coming-to-xbox-one-says-phil-spencer/--I wonder if it isn't too little too late, but on the other hand it's time to break this hegemony of making 3rd party Japanese games exclusive to Sony platforms where there is no reason to make them so.