Explains why there's so few of them.

>data limited to japan
my nigga, the average age in japan is like 80.

>>716196937
What's your argument? Think the 80-year-old-FF-gamers are dragging up the average?

>>716196874 (OP)
Average Nintendo Player is 30

>>716196874 (OP)
Square just needs to stay in it's lane and stop tryharding being trendy

>>716197103
Okay. Isn't that ideal?
>making good money, none of that first step in career shit
>probably no children yet, just fucking 20-somethings
>lots of free time because no children and not high enough up at work to matter

>>716196874 (OP)
I'm 37

>>716196874 (OP)
people were saying that FF is dead in japan because it's stereotyped as a game for old people

guess this just confirms it

>>716196874 (OP)
And then when they inevitably die of GRIDS or vaccine AIDS, what will Square Enix do? They need to think of solutions and they need to think of them quickly.

>>716196874 (OP)
I’m 43 I remember playing FF II on Super Nintendo

>>716197305
>young people are not watching anime anymore
It's so fucking over for the animation industry

Define 'fan' because they have only produced garbage for 20 years now but I still play half of the early ones every couple years.

>>716196874 (OP)
Ofc it's old the last good game was nearly 25 years ago

>>716197881
The Nikkei chart is based on active Japanese twitter engagement.

>>716196874 (OP)
Unironically what can Square Enix do to appeal to zoomers without further bastardizing the franchise?

>>716198875
They tried movie shit, actiony combat, and realistic art directions
Besides giving characters names with x's and z's, obnoxious multicolored hairstyles that never have any resemblance of symmetry, and make them overweight with tattoos and face piercings, there's literally nothing else they haven't tried. Square should've stopped trying with zoomers a long ass time ago

>>716198875
They just need to make a good game again. I know it's a meme to say this but e33 and bg3 proved people still do like turn based games

My dad is 50 and he's the average Final Fantasy fan, meaning he played just Final Fantasy IX when he was young, never played another final fantasy again, never replayed FF IX either, doesn't care for the other final fantasies, hasn't played any of the previous ones and hasn't even heard of the following ones.

Yet he still calls himself a fan.
So i suspect 99% of FF fans are like that. The other 1% being the troons who play FF 14

>>716196874 (OP)
>completely remove all RPG elements and make the next mainline entry a shitty shallow full actionslop game with tons of spectacle to get younger players into the series
>doesn't move the needle at all while also alienating the existing fans

>>716199526
based dad getting his peak entertainment then moving the fuck on instead of cheerleading for some shit IP 25 years later.

There were like 10 Final Fantasies released between 1988 and 2000 and then... 4 of them since then? (not counting MMOs)
Why wouldn't they be middle-aged?

>>716198875
It might be funny to say this, but probably more stylized like Persona. Because at least that fanbase is young.

>>716198875
They could start by abandoning the self-imposed Sony exclusivity and the visual kei.

>>716200513
my dad is the same way he played MGS once and was satisfied for life.

>>716196874 (OP)
I wonder why Square stopped creating trends and decided to follow them instead.

>>716201559
The 2000s Western media push by the industry mind broke them and most of Japan. Capcom only kinda recovered, Sega kinda recovered, Nintendo recovered, Konami never recovered, Bamco recovered. It did lead though to mid-tier companies to soar like NIS & Falcom.

>>716196874 (OP)
define "final fantasy fan" because 90% of these supposed "fans" absolutely love one game and hate all the rest

>>716196874 (OP)
Between the different styles and themes of FF 6, 7, 8 and 9, Square decided that doubling down on the aesthetic of 8 but making it even more of a weirdly soft sci-fi-magitech-futuristic vibe for all future games was the future. They were clearly wrong.