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makingmusic476 on 18 September 2008
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Garcian Smith said:
lilwingman said:
Garcian Smith said:
Anyway, while I believe it is true that Sony owns the rights to the Dark Cloud name, that only makes it less likely that we'll see a DC3 - on the PS3, anyway. Level-5 is far more likely to announce DS or Wii games.

 

Definitely not out of the question to assume a new PS3 project will be announced. L5 is finishing up work on WKC so they're bound to be working on other things, and they have a fantastic relationship with Sony so why wouldn't they continue working with them now, as opposed to moving to the Wii/DS? Safe to say we'll hear about at least one project for the PS3.

 

I'll answer your question with a question: How many PS3-exclusive announcements have we heard from Japanese companies in the last year? The last year and a half?

WKC itself is a holdover from E3 2006, when everyone still assumed that the PS3 would beat the newly-named Wii's arse to the Mushroom Kingdom and back. Now that the PS3 is dead in the water in Japan, and being thrashed by the Wii everywhere else, why would Level-5 announce an exclusive project for it, especially when the far-more-lucrative DS and much-higher-selling Wii are available to develop on?

Sony pays for the development of every Level 5 game they publish.  It's essentially writing Hino a giant blank check so that he can fully realize any big ideas he might have.

If you notice, the only games Level 5 has paid for and published themselves are puzzle games (Prof. Layton rocks, but it probably didn't take that much time or effort to create), and Izuna.  It's obviously not where they're focusing the majority of their time. 

That being said, I don't believe they'll be making any ps3 announcements at this event specifically.  And, as I pointed out in my previous post, Hino himself has said that he feels he must make Dark Cloud 3 eventually.  Hino also said the following in his recent interview with Famitsu regarding White Knight Chronicles:

How should I put this; from the title, I tried to portray that this is only the beginning, that this is the first chapter of an epic. I hope that this story will go on for a long time.

Throughout this thread and others, I've seen you argue adamantly against the idea of the ps3 garnering any support at all from Japanese developers.  I'm not quite sure why the idea of the ps3 getting a few good games here and there affronts you so, but I do know it's very annoying.