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Dragon Quest is also highly JRPG and known as such, and has been mostly on Nintendo consoles, AND is Square Enix (used to just be Enix), but you don't see that in here.  Would be closer to home than FF for sure, which does scratch the head on Cloud even further.  Everyone knows a Dragon Quest Slime when they see it.

Because the average consumer doesn't give a shit about Dragon Quest.
Most people, even people who are only extremely casual gamers, recognize the Final Fantasy brand. You don't have to dig much deeper to find a group of casuals who will recognize Cloud.

But here I am a pretty not-casual gamer and the only Dragon Quest character I can tell you about is Slime and Yangus (and only then because his name made me want hamburgers while my friend was playing).

I mean, I love Namco's Tales RPG games, and I love XenoSaga, and both are awesome JRPGs that I think people should play... but I'm not going to say that Lloyd or KOS-MOS should have gotten in over Cloud.

You have to take a step back when you make statements like this. You're so close to the situation and the hobby, that yeah, you're going to know Dragon Quest and you're going to be able to point at how many millions of dollars it has made and copies it has sold and its history on Nintendo platforms. But none of that matters. Cloud is THE JRPG character. You can't fight that. Superman is THE superhero. Goku is THE anime. These are just things that can't be argued with.