@Soriku: SE dislikes Nintendo very much, to the point that they will risk themselves to fall into bankruptcy if they need to. I just read the article you linked and lol, SE is having troubles within the companies workers. How come Kitase and Nomura don't want to develop games for other companies? The trouble isn't Japanese market, but themselves who want to believe that Nintendo is killing the industry.
SE had no other choice but to port games to the DS, like it's doing right now because if not bankruptcy would have overcome them. If DS would be on par with the PSP in Japan, most if not all of the SE games would have been on the PSP. The only big original game DS got from SE is DQIX, the rest were just spin-offs or smaller series. PSP got far bigger games like FFVII:CC, Dissidia FF, FFT:The Lion Wars, Agito FFXIII, Kingdom Hearts BBS (Looks to have 100 times the budget and effort of the DS one).
DS mostly got ports, remakes or spin-offs.
It's time for SE to learn in the harsh way (bankruptcy) for being stubborn and elitist.
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Pandora's Tower will have an opening week of less than 37k in Japan. (Won!)
Pandora's Tower will sell less than 100k lifetime in Japan.
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