Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation coming to North America February 14

[Immortal]

MrT-Tar said:

Immortal said:

Really, Nintendo? Have those ridiculous advertisements for DQIX really made tween girls the intended demographic for Dragon Quest games outside of Japan now?

Oh, and this better come to Europe soon as well. We clearly like the series better.

Nintendo's almost certainly going to be the one to localise here in Europe as well.  S-E said a while ago that a European release was 'not on the cards right now' (I can't be arsed to find the news story now, but if you google it one can probably find it quickly). I just wonder how Nintendo are going to market it, because they can't market VI like they did IX - like a dressing up simulator.

I really hope DQIX's sales in Europe mean we don't get screwed over when it comes to RPGs anymore.

There's a huge demographic for Dragon Quest and a number of other JRPGs in the West actually and I hope Nintendo attempts to sell these games to them rather than Trojan Horsing it to people who'll buy the game, throw it away after less than an hour of play and never look toward the series again.

And I doubt DQIX will make much of a difference for RPGs in general. For the DQ series it might (which would be more than enough for me, :D), but I doubt it has created much of a market for the genre in Europe.