Just got a PS3 myself and am a huge fan of JRPGs (but not so much of any of the newer Final Fantasies), and...it sure seems dissapointing. Just like PS2 was a step down from PS1 (SNES and PS1, man those were the golden years for RPGs...), PS3 seems to have regressed as well, except much much more so...
I'm not even sure I'll get an RPG for PS3, none of the available ones seem that great. Never getting an Xbox, though. In the future I may just have to go to portables, I guess.
Greylord, you've played the Altelier games? Why are they not so good?
There are a bunch of RPGs, some of them even good. Elder Scrolls, Fallout for sure. Dragon Age is pretty popular.
There's just not as many. But after 4 years, there's more than zero.
My experience with the PS3 and 360 is thus:
PS3 = better hardware
360 = better software (updates are faster to DL, UI and features better)
Actual gamees, for the most part is equivalent. There's enough cross-platform titles out there to have good games on both. The nature of exclusive titles tends to be that you get one you wanted, and one you can't have.
I'm not sure the portables market is doing that well. mobile smartphone games is where it is all shifting. There are some very good RPGs on iThing that cost a heck of a lot less than on PSP for comparable.
why carry a cellphone and a PSP/gameboy when your smartphone does both. That's what's killing the PSP and gameboy right now.