>New Japanese Poll indicates that Dragon Quest is only popular among the middle aged to senior crowd in Japan (42+ years old)
>Most popular games among the Japanese youth are ZZZ, Genshin Impact, Fortnite
>free phone games are popular
you don't say
why even compare them with a console RPG, they're different markets.
>comparing a 40 year old series with modern gacha
>>715924464 (OP)Dragon Quest 12 is probably gonna be the last game anyway. And that's fine. 12 is a good number. Even number. It would feel weird if it ended on 11 or 13. Maybe 15 would be good but Yuji Horii would be very dead by then. So 12 it is.
>only console in japan that is popular is the switch
>every dragon quest game released on it is a 10fps unoptimized mess
>get a reputation as a kusoge franchise among young peopel
no one to blame but themselves