Squarenix considering Dragon Quest X for WiiU

[milkyjoe]

makingmusic476 said:

Kasz216 said:

I doubt it.  Enix's position has always been "We make our biggest games for the console that has sold the most."

If they did moneyhat them.   They didn't have to.

They likely shared the stage with DQ because DQ is the biggest name in gaming in Japan.

As for it staying on the wii?  What else could they do with it?  It no doubt has already gone through a lot of development, They're going to restart graphical modeling over from scratch?  I don't think so... hell, you'd be better off just starting on DQ11 to release like... a year after DQ10.

Well, that's assuming the guys at Enix have a very simplistic view of the console market.  And, as others have said, surely they would've given the platform more support in its early years if that were the case.

Personally, I think a simultaneous WU/PS3/360 release would be best at this point.  I can't imagine the figures DQX will do given the current state of the Wii, let alone the state of the Wii a year or more from now. 

The Wii has only managed to move 2.5 million units of software so far this year in Japan.  Total.  That number will be significantly lower next year, so for DQX to pull decent figures for a Dragon Quest title, it'd have to outsell every other Wii release for the first half of the year combined and then some.

I don't think that's as ludicrous as you think it is, given what's actually releasing on Wii these days. DQ is a franchise capable of selling 3-4million in Japan alone. The Wii is the only home console that has seen games do those kind of numbers in Japan, so there's no evidence to suggest that it can't do it again with the right game, or that other platforms could suddenly see their top seller increase by several hundred percent with a DQ game.

I also doubt the chances of a new console that will take time to build a userbase being able to put up such software numbers in the short term.