Dragon Quest IX was delayed into 2008...DS hardware implications?

[*~Onna76~*]

If they wouldn't make remakes of Dragon Quest IV, V and VI then DQIX would have released by the end of this year in Japan, but they have specifically said, DQIX is on hold as the remakes will go first. It kind of pissed me off, but after seeing the screens of DQIV, which looks old school, 2D (please no 3D), I'm getting really curious. I only still find it ridiculous you'll need to pay full price for each of the remakes. I hope the games will become budget prices, but I've got the feeling they won't. I love DQ more than FF games, so I'll bet I'll be buying them anyway.

@Xyrax, DQIX is created by Level 5, so that has nothing to do with the production of FFXIII, neither the remakes, as S.E. has different teams of developers and I guess that the team of FXIII is not working on the DQ remakes as well... Only problem they might have is with publishing, but I don't think either we'll get to say FFXIII before Summer 2008 in Japan. Perhaps we'll get to see DQIX in Japan somewhere in Spring 2008.

I don't think they'll need more hype, the DS installbase is quite big already, a lot of people have bought DS Square Enix games and thanks to the DS, Level 5 has experienced one of it's best successes with Professor Layton.

Perhaps Layton 2 can climb up the DS sales some more, if it will be released by the end of the year in Japan... and I think it will.