Fuck Japan. I can't take the market seriously. They just elected Lightning from FFXIII best charater of the generation.
So THAT'S why Toriyama can get away with saying how Lighting is super popular.
Final Fantasy got so extraordinarily Japanese post Nomura. Even beyond Square Enix, I feel like all of the old Japanese franchises either:
A. Died
B. Went completely insular
C. Outsourced to Western devs
It's like Nintendo is the only company that tries to make games that are marketable overseas and locally, but then again, I remember Miyamoto saying last year how their games are declining in popularity in Japan.
Japan is like the hipster country of the gaming world.