Bethesda games or more accurately TES and Fallout aren’t on the level of Rockstar games, COD or sports games but since Oblivion/Fallout 3 they’ve been up there on the list of “4 games a non-gamer normie dad gets for his PlayStation/Xbox” where Final Fantasy has never been on that level of mass appeal in the West. It’s just too niche, too anime and too Japanese which is why they tried making the newest one all dark and gritty
In the PS1 era, certainly, but that was a time when console gaming was still dominated by Japanese games. In the 2000s Western-made games became huge in the West to the point that Japanese devs wasted many years trying to ape them to win back the Western market
Bethesda games or more accurately TES and Fallout aren’t on the level of Rockstar games, COD or sports games but since Oblivion/Fallout 3 they’ve been up there on the list of “4 games a non-gamer normie dad gets for his PlayStation/Xbox” where Final Fantasy has never been on that level of mass appeal in the West. It’s just too niche, too anime and too Japanese which is why they tried making the newest one all dark and gritty
Final Fantasy was THE console RPG series for years. It was massively popular, and well-known even to non-gamers, to a degree I’ve never seen since.
In the PS1 era, certainly, but that was a time when console gaming was still dominated by Japanese games. In the 2000s Western-made games became huge in the West to the point that Japanese devs wasted many years trying to ape them to win back the Western market