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Literally because Falcom decided to sell out and chase a bunch of PSP-era trends.

>https://dengekionline.com/article/202406/8382

Third question after the screenshot of Agnes and Van standing near Van's car:
>Please tell us more about how the Trails series became consumer-oriented.

>Kondo: First of all, at the time, sales of PC packages were getting tougher. Also, before Trails of Zero, we had released a PSP version of Trails in the Sky FC, but sales didn't grow much. However, the PSP also became a big hit around the time the PSP 2000 came out, and around that time the PSP version of Trails in the Sky SC was also released, and the phenomenon of FC and SC selling at the same time occurred... Around this time, the number of users increased dramatically, so we thought, "It's okay to shift our focus to consumer games," and from Trails of Zero onwards, we only focused on consumer games.

>Another reason was that RPGs at that time were more science fiction-oriented, and there weren't many so-called pastoral games. So we had the intention of shifting in that direction, and we made various moves, such as asking Katsumi Enami to be our illustrator. Crossbell was imagined as a fairly modern worldview, so although it is smaller in scale than the Kingdom of Liberl, we thought it would be okay for it to be technologically advanced in many ways. I think we were able to make a big switch because of the timing of the work's change and the transition of our production environment. In that sense, "Trails of Zero" was a turning point for the series.

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