RPGs are the most overrated game genre ever.
And if stores DID have imported games, you got charge UP THE ASS for them. $80 for a copy of X-men Vs. Street Fighter, plus $25 or whatever for the Action Replay to play it on? Fuck that, the price of import games was too high. Do you expect the average person who just paid $400 for their Sega Saturn to shell out another $100 to play one import game? I don't think so.