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Its more that RPGs and JRPGs in particular aligned closely with the sphere of Nerdy Culture Video Games appealed to early on with their roots in Classic Nerd Shit like Tabletop Games.
The issue is that the demographic of "people who would like to play a Traditional JRPG" was fully captured by the 6th gen, and the generalized hobby growth past that point was in areas that did have any interest in JRPGs.
Which in turn caused Suits to abandon the Genre over the 7th gen like many others for not being as exponentially profitable as Shooters which were the primary market expansion at the time.
Pic Rel is a shitty mockup of what I mean