Rumor: Dragon Quest X releasing next year

[trestres]

Soriku said:

trestres said:

DQMJ2 Professional lol? That's not a new game. It's the same game released on the DS before 3DS was announced, but with added bonuses.

And announcements for the Wii from Japanese 3rd parties have stopped early last year.

So? They still released it and game still sold very well depsite the 3DS already being out. They can release a DQ VII remake or whatever on the Wii and it'll still sell well; they don't have to put it on the 3DS although that's possible. Doesn't matter if JP third parties stopped announcing games. And this is also assuming any other DQ game besides DQ X hasn't been in development for a while already, and would still be early in development.

But that wasn't your point. Your point was about announcements. Adding bonus stuff to an already released game is just too obvious of a milking cow to ignore. On the other hand making a totally new game for a dead platform if far more questionable, and as evidence has shown, Wii is no longer a viable platform for Japanese developers outside Nintendo (even for them it's getting tough). If any Wii DQ game has been in development outside of DQX then the most probable outcome is that it has been moved to 3DS, since the HW specs are similar and they would need to build a DQ base on that console. 3DS advantages far outweight the Wii advantages of releasing a DQ game on those platforms.