Khuutra said:
Let me lay it out for you, then. I'm not sure how much Dragon Quest you've played, so I'll be as explicit as necessary. Dragon Quest is often criticized in the West for being needlessly formulaic and holding to modes that are entirely too old. Its system changes considerably from game to game - in some ways - but at its heart its still about going around beating up mosnters quickly and cleanly with nothing getting in the way. The whole premise behind Dragon Quest is not just ease of use, but holding to old forms that facilitate that ease of use in a specific way. Dragon Quest IX was going to have touch controls. Nothing that really changes the game! Just touch controls. They built th whole system of the game around. When that was revealed, the uproar was unreal. Like, "Made the initial reaction to the Gambit system look like a letter to the editor" unreal. The Japanese fanbase lashed out at Square-Enix with such force that Square scrapped the entire thing, went back to square one, and redid it. It's part of why the game took so long to come out. Part of Dragon Quest's identity in Japan - which is the most important market unless Nintendo manages to do some crazy voodoo shit in the West - lies in that simplicity of form and familiarity of function which has allowed an absurd number of Japanese people to play it (and even beat it) for decades. So, fine. You want to say I can't know? That's cool. I acknowledge that. But it still invalidates this topic. 1. We have no indication that the game is goign to involve motion controls. 2. We have many (historic and otherwise) that it will not. 3. Following from (1) and (2), you are basing this supposition concerning the possibility of a multiplat release on an ida with no grounding in reality. That's like me saying that the next Zelda might be a cross-platform release between the DS and the Wii - yeah, I mean, there's no indication that it will happen, but it still merits discussion, right? Wrong. There comes a certain point wherein the suppositions that we make are so far outside the realm of reasonable expectation that they cannot be treated seriously, or even used as the jumping-off point for serious discussion. It's not impossible! Sure, I grant that. But your primary supposition, in itself far from being a guarantee, is so unlikely that the idea is not worth seriously considering until we get some indication to the contrary. |
When you put it like that, it is EXTREMELY unlikely... But as always, there is still a chance 
