Final Fantasy Chat

[BigBrother]

Question for the group on something Final Fantasy related. Something that's been on my mind and I'd be curious to get other people's input? Has anyone else noticed that the rise of Atlus' catalogue has risen as Final Fantasy's has fallen?Obviously FF is still an extremely popular series, but it doesn't feel as big a deal as it was in the PS1/PS2 era, which goes sort of hand in hand with when Final Fantasy evolved (de-volved?) from it's turn based system. I'm still curious as to whether the rise of SMT/Persona would've happened if FF hadn't changed systems, or if the appeal or Atlus' RPG's would've happened anyway, because stylistically and conceptually they're very different games.

I suspect that it might be a little of both what Person/SMT offered by themselves along with Final Fantasy changing it's gameplay significantly, but I was curious if anyone had a similar opinion on it. This might be too simplistic of an analysis.