In Japan, Dragon Quest is one of the most popular franchises ever, a title that you cannot fail to hear about. Its success is not aped in the West, where it has a following, but is completely overshadowed by Square Enix's other property, Final Fantasy. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata wants to change that, and make DQIX a household name when it hits.
"At Nintendo, we were able to popularize the Brain Age series overseas, which was said to be unmarketable," stated Big N's chief. "I want to increase the number of people worldwide that understand the appeal of Dragon Quest."
Iwata wishes to form a "strong tag team" with Square Enix in order to meet this goal, and relishes the idea of working with Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii. Looks like whatever rift there may have existed between these two mighty Japanese companies have well and truly been patched up.
Here's to Dragon Quest's global success.
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10:42 AM on 12.12.2008
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You seem to be forgetting Monster Hunter 3. In addition to that, the next mainline Tales game and Samurai Warriors 3 are Wii exclusives. Of course, those games are only big names in Japan, but it is proof that in at least one of the major markets third parties are shifting big developments onto the Wii. I doubt we'll ever see that happen with Western game companies seeing as how those development houses prefer to share game engines which typically only run on high-end hardware.
I too don't really care about FF series anymore, when once I had more love and time for it. Once Square take onboard that they have to focus more on original IP, perhaps some that aren't so japan centric, then I'll support them.
Until they wake up, I'll fly a flag for Atlus who are upstaging Square IMO. Swish CG sequences are cool (I see everyone want to drop trousers for FFXIII, when its not really doing anything we haven't seen before), I prefer solid fun gameplay like Persona 3 and 4.
What also surprises me is that Square aren't pushing DQX beyond Wii, say onto PSP too, which has similar graphics and could do with such an rpg.
I hope Nintendo and Square turn the Wii into the SNES. Man, those were the days.
This is only the beginning!