It would seem that Nintendo's platforms have become the official home for Dragon Quest, unwilling as the series is to yet grace the Xbox 360 and PS3. Punctuating that, our community blogs have revealed that Dragon Quest X has been announced, and is heading to the Wii.
DQ IX is due to launch on the Wii on March 28 in Japan, where it will retail for 5,980 yen.
This is good news for Wii fans who enjoy videogames, rather than the stuff Nintendo of America tries to push, as the Dragon Quest series is one of the best examples of hardcore JRPG gameplay out there. Dragon Quest VIII, one of the few DQ titles to ever come to Europe, was a real arse kicker, but brilliantly realized.
Hopefully DQ X continues the tradition of tough, high quality RPGs to give Wii owners something really substantial to chew on.
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6:22 AM on 12.10.2008
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Also I would buy it.
Fact checking needs to be made here
Dragon Quest IX comes out March 28th. X was just announced and thats it.
But, I would kind of rather like to see DQX on the PS3, and 360.
Now you acknowledge that these articles provide news to several thousand more people :D
DQ IX is due to launch on the Wii on March 28 in Japan, where it will retail for 5,980 yen.
Fact check: Dragon Quest IX is coming out for the DS.
In any case, thank you for bringing me this news first. I'm a huge Square-Enix fan. It's really s shame that they're finally giving me a reason to buy a Wii.
Much older. Much.
Thanks Jim!
And ya, like I said in my blog- Wii has Monster Hunter 3 and now Dragon Quest... The others really don't stand a chance... It's a PS2 situation now as far as I'm concerned.
I've been meaning to get into this series, and this is a great excuse to do so.
Hopefully waggle free
IX, X, Wii, DS?
What's coming out for what, and when?
Yes.
Dragon Quest is kinda hard for me, since I was never very good at JRPG's, but still, I like it.
I CAN'T WAIT!!!
Whoa whoa WHOA-- I thought DQ9 was a DS game? When did they switch it over to Wii?
It still is. Ten is not.
Sure these are only two games but they sell sell sell more then any Nintendo produced game in Japan, on name alone sometimes.
Sorry Im tired and a little cranky...
Since IX is coming out on the DS, it sounds like maybe they decided to develop X concurrently. This is kind of nice because now I won't have to wait another 4 or 5 years to play the next one.
PD - DQ fucking owns!