bigjon said:
It was well written, I just would not have complemented him if I disagreed. Not too many will deny that the Wii "hasn't" recieved as many core games as we'd like, especial Q3 and 4 2008. But the point of this thread is WILL recieve. And I too believe that the DQX is just the beginning of more. His point in this thread is that, DQX should be a red flag to all HD fanboys, but many of them and just trying to make DQX a non factor. I liken it to FFVII moving to the PSX, Nintendo is going to push this game on the west, and I am willing to bet there were people who thought Pokemon, Zelda, DK, and whatnot would not sell in the west, but Nintendo has succeeded there. I think DQX will outsell ALL other DQX games in the west combined (not saying as much as it sounds... like 1.5-2 mil) and will completely legimize the Wii in the East. Remember the SNES? Nintendo won in the US, but it was not a huge blowout, and in fact I think the Genesis egded it in the others, but look back, The SNES had ALL of the Japanese Support, and Wii is beginning to look the same. I do not think the Wii will become the console of choice of most core gamers in the west (I do believe it will in the east), but I think it will become legitmate to them, and many of them will end up getting one because of the support it will recieve. But, I think it will always be a 2nd console to many core gamers in the west. |
You've got cause and effect backwards. The Wii is getting DQ as an effect of it's dominance in Japan, this isn't going to cause them to substantially improve the situation there when the writing is already on the wall. FFVII was a major cause of the shift away from Nintendo towards Sony when the race could go either way. Money-hat of the century really IMO.
DQ as a game is not going to compromise its' core values which are somewhat incompatible with the west when compared to other I.Ps like pokemon. There the game was considered valuable wherever it released. The market is in Japan and thats where they will focus. If it turns out that it does well in the west following that model then GREAT!
Furthermore publishers are so conservative they will likely not act upon the news of this games format until they get hard sales data in hand which is likely too late to effect a change on the development principles of these companies. It will be other games like Shaun White which are already released which will effect games currently in and/or going into production shortly.
Lastly, really the whole "Core"/"Casual" divide is intellectually dishonest and misleading. Gamers just want to have fun really, and we do better to ignore the very idea that one group of people will like or dislike a certain game depending on which group they fall into. Perhaps if we ourselves get out of this bad habit the Publishers could too because ideally all genres of all games should have excellent representations on all viable consoles. My favourite games last generation was Need for Speed: Underground and Civilization III/IV. One makes me core and the other makes me casual? Bah! Nintendo just makes games fun for everyone and it pays.
Tease.
