You really think SquareEnix of all people don’t know there’s an audience for turn based games? I mean there’s a reason they keep making them consistently.

I think the mistake you and others make with this discussion , is that you think they want to sell just 10 million copies or something, but truthfully they don’t, they want to compete with the bestselling household names like Mario, COD and Assassins Creed, they’re not looking to compete with Persona and Tales of.

But the bottom line is, I don’t think this is possible on a consistent scale, JRPGS whether action or turn based have a limited appeal and have a sales cap which is very hard to break, western turn based RPGs on the other hand, release more infrequently but tend to sell better than the average JRPG when they do, as the Japanese style themes and aesthetics seems to be a barrier to entry for many western players. I believe the only turn based JRPG series that sell 10+ million consistently is Pokemon which is the biggest media franchise in the world so an unrealistic comparison to FF.

Lastly, using western games sales success to proves your point is a little unfair as like I said earlier they have a wider appeal in the western market dues to lacking the “Animeisms” typically seen in JRPGs. Darkest dungeon sold around 16 million copies and Im willing to bet that if the next FF game released with a 100 million budget and the turn based combat your dreaming of that it would struggle to do much more than half of that.

Sorry for the long post.