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Soundwave on 21 September 2009
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Kenryoku_Maxis said:
Soundwave said:

Somehow I think the extra 3 million+ in sales they would get from having the game on the DS in addition to Wii will cover the dev costs just fine. Capcom manages to do it with the Monster Hunter series without too much hassle. 

NSMB DS and NSMB Wii look very similar too, so does Animal Crossing DS to Wii, I could see something similar to that done for DQX. 

I think this is the best case for the Wii/Nintendo, because they very easily could yank the game entirely off the Wii. They have done it before to Nintendo (Dragon Quest VII) when Nintendo's console struggled in Japan. 

DQVII waqsn't 'yanked' from the Nintendo 64.  It was changed to the PlayStation because it was originally planned to be put on the Nintendo 64 DD in 1996, which Nintendo stopped supporting soon after.  Yuji Horii then transfered all development to Playstation (the most popular system at the time).  Yuji Horii has always stated he will make Dragon Quest for the most popular system at the time.  Hence why DQVIII stayed on a Sony system last gen and DQIX switched over to a Nintendo Platform again this gen.

There's a bit more to this story than that (read: it's why Yamauchi barred Squaresoft from publishing on the Game Boy for a long time). 

And yes, Horii has said Dragon Quest goes to the most popular system. 

The problem is, the Wii is floundering in Japan right now, I don't even think its the third most popular system in Japan right now. Most of the Wii's sales came in its first year and it's been declining year to year ever since in Japan. 

It is not at all like the Famicom, Super Famicom, Playstation, or Playstation 2 -- the other consoles that Enix put DQ on. If the rule of thumb is the most popular platform gets the next Dragon Quest, then its going to be the DS. The DS is the true successor to the PS2, not the Wii.