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The Anarchyz on 18 September 2009
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outlawauron said:
saicho said:
Zuhyc said:
outlawauron said:
saicho said:
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Hero_time88 said:

Perhaps S-E should start to think to change the platform? The Wii doesn't sell that great lately, and it's kind of strange having FFXIII on the PS3 and DQX on the Wii, when they technically share there fanbase.

Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy do not share their fanbase.

I was wondering about that as well. when did DQ and FF share the same fanbase?

Since when do they do not?

Yeah, lots of DQ fans in the west play Final Fantasy and vice versa.

Dragon Quest X won't sell bad on the Wii at all, but by putting FF and DQ on different consoles will hurt the sales of both games. I believe DQ sales will be hurt in the west (again, not bad!) and FF sales in Japan.

I disagree. If FF fans play DQ games in the west, why do DQ games always sell like shit outside Japan while FF games always sell a shitload outside Japan? Even in Japan, I don't think they have that many overlapping fans.

It has to do with most of the titles never making it, and they do not get the attention from press or Square that main FFs do.

Besides, they're not as good.

The reason of that is really simple:

Enix didn't took all the games outside Japan until they merged with Square (and the ones that did get outside Japan were known as "Dragon Warrior", i got lucky that i got the J-games), then Square Enix did a better campaign to promote DQ in the West, even including the FF12 demo in DQ8... Now it's up to Nintendo to do the other part for DQ9 and DQ10 (like they promised)

And the reason FF is so popular in the West is because of their sponsors: Sony. When Square left Nintendo (and that stayed until Iwata stepped in), Sony seized that moment to take the Final Fantasy franchise, so they did a business plan that included a strong marketing campaing and publishing FF7 in the West, anyone that lived that era remembers the really agressive campaing Sony did for FF7... Since then all FF main games sell a lot while DQ had to wait until the merger to be known outside Japan...