I think it's one of the biggest reasons that the older and less powerful PS2 is more popular.
Well I guess Xbox did get PSO...a year after it was on DC...and it's still nothing like FF.
If any MS developers need help making a RPG just let me know!
I'll just copy the FF fight system like everything else does, add some cartoony jap-looking characters, a hundred billion weapon combinations, a lame good-people vs. bad-people plot, and we got a money maker.