Wyrdness said:
sperrico87 said:
In Japan it will. Elsewhere much less so. In order for SE to commit gigantic resources to Wii U, they would need to be assured it would be a property that would sell well in all three territories. Crystal Chronicles didn't exactly sell well either on GCN or Wii. I think it'd more likely Wii U gets a port or two of a Kingdom Hearts or DQ, but I would be surprised if they took FF from Sony's platforms.
Japan loves handhelds, that's where Nintendo gets all the big Japanese support. Don't see that trend changing the way things are going.
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FF is multiplatform it'll no doubt be on the U, 360 even got FF and it's sales in Japan are non existent which negates your view about sales from all three regions, this isn't like the Wii situation where developers wrote Nintendo off because of the GC and never saw how the market would turn out, now days developers have to be multiplatform. Crystal Chronicles for most part is nowhere near the actual FF games it's quite mediocre so expecting it to do good numbers or even comparing it is not being realistic, the U is not the same situation as the Wii unlike before games can actually be scaled to run on the U and developers haven't committed fully to other platforms. To give an example FFXIII was already a PS3 game before the platform launched but FFXV which is hinted by SE to be in development has no set platform and no doubt performances in Japan are going to sway the eastern studios who mind you desperately need to stage a resurgence after a wayward 7th gen.
SE have also had a run in with Sony over FF Type-0 which further indicates the situation between the two isn't as rosy as some think, it begs the question what's happening with Versus, Nintendo have shown they're willing to nick notable titles like Bayonetta and work with studios like PG so I don't see the same trends unfolding because the situations now are far different then before.
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The mainline FF games haven't appeared on a Nintendo home console since Super Nintendo, so it's by no means something anybody should be expecting for Wii U. If it were to happen, it would be a very significant change for Square Enix. I think Wii U will get the Dragon Quest X port, maybe some kind of Kingdom Hearts remake or port, and then mabye one or two of those DQ Monsters or FF Chocobo games.
