According to Skill-Up's interview of Naoki Yoshida (Final Fantasy 14 and 16), the term "JRPG" was actually viewed as a derision in the Japanese game development space: Submitted by Gorotheninja t3_11edcsp on February 28, 2023 at 4:44 PM in gaming 16 comments 11
djmetalhawk t1_jadjlw6 wrote on February 28, 2023 at 5:43 PM This is true. Nobody called the PS1 classic RPGs JRPGs 20 years ago. That term started during the PS3 & 360 era. I use RPG. Permalink 0
According to Skill-Up's interview of Naoki Yoshida (Final Fantasy 14 and 16), the term "JRPG" was actually viewed as a derision in the Japanese game development space:
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