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>business viability of the strategy RPG genre

It's really more like no big publishers outside of Nintendo gives a shit which is why Nintendo has such a weirdly high win rate in the strategy genre at video game awards shows thanks to Fire Emblem(and Pikmin). Everything else is poverty shit like Disgaea. Helll, until the 3DS Fire Emblem started doing insane numbers, the record for best selling SRPG WAS Final Fantasy Tactics. Could you imagine an entire genre going through the sixth gen and the HD/blockbuster era and a sales record still standing from the 5th gen?
If Final Fantasy Tactics does well it's not because of sudden burgeoning interest in the genre. Certainly not, the FFT gameplay format is the most widespread one in strategy RPGs and only recently have Fire Emblem clones started closing the gap, it's because it's got the Final Fantasy name and its story has given it legendary status. Hell, when most people's living memory of the last two decades of Final Fantasy has been shit like 13, 15 and 16, a good Final Fantasy being playable on modern machinery will probably move units just for the novelty.