Paul_Warren said:
The most eagerly awaited games coming to the DS, the most popular system in the world at this moment in time, have all been Square-Enix games.
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Your statement is not true. There were a lot of games that were more anticipated than the Square-Enix games and have had better sales. Just look at the sales data collected by VGChartz.
I think Square is important because they have popular RPG IPs, Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, and Dragon Quest. These RPG IPs can do in Japan what Madden and GTA do for consoles in the West, Increase console sales. Actually Square's RPGs sale very well in the West also. Remember there are very few western rpg developers that develop for consoles. Most western rpg developers are more interested in the MMO market. Thus Japanese rpg developers have dominated the console market. This is why Square, Level 5, Namco, Monolith, and any Japanese rpg developer is important.
If Nintendo is successful at the moment, it’s because they are good, and I cannot blame them for that. What we should do is try to be just as good.----Laurent Benadiba
