New Dragon Quest Monsters Joker Sequel Announced

[Kenryoku_Maxis]

Soriku said:

Kenryoku_Maxis said:

Soriku said:

Kenryoku_Maxis said:

Well, now we have a new announcement for the game. It'll be coming out in Japan on April 28, 2010. They sure kept that game under wraps.

Hopefully it won't take a year for a western release.

http://release.square-enix.com/news/j/2010/02/oi821pkid.html

WTF, April? Looks like SE have yet another 1 mil+ selling game soon...

Its in the bag for Japan.  1-1.5m easy.  May even sell more since this game looks to have a lot more content going for it and is coming out a lot later in the DS lifetime and after 6 other DQ titles.  As for the west, they'll have to work for it.

I wonder when they'll show off another DQ game/DQ7 remake for Wii already. It's understandable they didn't focus much on the Wii with DQ since DQ IX was coming to the DS and they needed to focus there but now they need to focus on the Wii. This game coming out this soon rather than like later in the year might signify that maybe.

Actually more than anything I just wanna see DQ X already! I hope they can make it more massive and impressive than the already massive DQ VIII. When should we expect that? TGS?

Its really anyones guess when they'll decide to show off DQX.  I'm frankly surprised they even announced DQX was in development.  They only announced DQIX was in development 2 years into production.  And even then, only gave us a short teaser trailer which ended up looking nothing like the finish product (due to backlash that the game would change to a more real time, action based setup).  With DQX, you have a game that could be just starting development or have been in development since DQIX.  No one knows when development started, what development group is doing it (Chunsoft, Artepiazza, Level 5, a new group), when its expected to end (2012 is hinted at by Wada and some 'rumors') and etc.  And looking back at the past main Dragon Quest titles, most Dragon Quest games only take longer to finish, not shorter, which could mean this game could take anywhere from 3-5 years to finish (DQIX took 5 years to finish due to having to redo the entire game engine).  And if they just started development last year....we're looking at anywhere from 2011-2013 completion date....

So in my view, I'm guessing a 2011 TGS reveal is a VERY conservative estimate.  And probably only going to be a preview video of early concept design like we saw with DQIX.