Soriku talks to JL: Inquiries about 8th Generation & more

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BengaBenga said:
KH3 has a big chance of being released on Wii:

A company needs profit. One of the main strategies companies use to accomplish this is the spreading of risk.
In the PS2 days there was virtually no risk in developing a (qualty) game for PS2, as the install base was enormous.

Now at the start of this gen, that's different. All 3 consoles have their good and bad points and no-one can say which one will win, if one wins at all, especially with the enormous differences. Wii has much weaker hardware, but sells like crazy. 360 is doing great in the States, but nothing in Japan. PS3 had a very dissapointing start overall.

In order for SquareEnix to make the safest profit, they will divide their projects over different consoles. Since it's a Japanese company they won't be focussing on 360.

PS3 gets main Final Fantasy
DS gets main Dragon Quest
PSP gets FFVII
Wii......no main series yet

Since Wii is doing great around the world, and Kingdom Hearts is perfectly suited for the Wii ("cartoony" graphics, "kids console", Zelda lovers=likely to like KH style)
it's clear that Wii has best changes to recieve SE 3rd biggest franchise.

For the people that say that SE has a benefit from the PS3 doing good and therefore bet everything on PS3 I say:
It's better to lose something on FF and win on other systems than to lose on all your franchise. That SE thinks like this is proven by the move of its biggest Japanes franchise DQ.

 You basically said what I had planned to. It is about diversification this generation. Companies will find that unlike with the Ps2 different audience wil be found on different consoles. You would be taking an extreme gamble throwing all your properties in one place. SE already knows that something are beter on handhelds, some games are showpieces in the high end hardcore arena, and some things just need the widest user base they can find.

 

As far as the John Lucas prediction, I understand your reasoning but I disagree. There will be a Wii successor, and it will come no later than 2013. I have always felt that the Wii has been Nintendo's attempt to replicate the success of the DS for home consoles. The DS will get a replacement(somehat already has with the lite) and so will the Wii. One of the crucial parts of Nintendo is that they make money from hardware from the get go. Unlike Sony who wold just love to strech out a generation for 10-15 years, Nintendo will be content with 5-7 years. Passing on harware for a generation might cost them a billion dollars in profit.

People are right in that that they don't want to alienate people. The Wii 2 will do everything the wii does and be compatible with game cube games, your VC, everything. It will have a huge amount of internal storage by comparison, a build in high spped ethernet jack and hdmi. While there will be some HD games for the new system it will focus more than ever on Wiiware, VC, and other SD content.

I think they will be truely disruptive again with N7.  

And for thsoe worried about transfering it will be a snap. Bring home Wii 2, plug it in, set next to Wii, invidible bluetooth chatter, and it is done.