Rumor: Dragon Quest X releasing next year

[trestres]

jarrod said:

trestres said:

That's nothing, that's only 1 game coming from a third party which isn't even Japan oriented and it's not getting released in Japan for the Wii so far (Virtu Tennis 4 has only been confirmed for 360 and PS3 in Japan).
M&S is a conjunct venture between Nintendo and Sega, much like the Fatal Frame Remake or Pandora's Tower. Thrid parties have not announced shit since last year. Wii is dead already. And those DQ games you name aren't exactly obligatorily in development. Those are just speculation, and remember Wii 2 dev kits might have been in devs hands for at least a year now, that could explain the total lack of Wii announcements and the more aggressive HD focus (so that Wii 2 could have ports ready)

This is all beside the point, since DQ is pretty much unlike any other 3rd party console game.  It has more in common brand wise, influence wise, and sales wise with 1st party Nintendo fare like Wii Sports or NSMB than it does anything on consoles from Sega, Bandai Namco, Tecmo Koei, Konami, Capcom, Atlus, Level 5, etc, etc. That's why boiling this down to the same tired 3rd party arguments is always such a meaningless approach, DQ really plays by it's own rules, it literally defies those arguments.

And what's not speculation is Horii confirming multiple DQ games are in development for Wii. You're free to speuclate otherwise but at the end of the day, that's nothing but speculation on your part. ;)

Yes, but if Wii was seen as such a viable platform, then why do 3rd parties including SE keep avoiding it? Why aren't the mainstream and big games not being released on the Wii? I agree that Wii can sell those games, but third parties don't want their games on the Wii, it's simple I'd say. Otherwise SE would have released something else besides cheap spin-offs of DQ games on the Wii or at least given the Wii a proper FF in the FFXIII universe.

@bolded: Wasn't that a mistranslation? ;)