| kingofwale said: >Look at the number of DS's in Japan. I'd guess a large number of PS3 owners in Japan own a DS I hope no idiot would go to the story and say "Oh, there's DQ and FF, but I only want to buy one of them". It's like Halo 3 and Bioshock, both games will sell well, people will buy both. They need to just state a release date and get it over with. |
I have $70 to spend on video games this month and I want both DQIX and FFXIII. I obviously can only get one and will have to wait until I get more money that can be spent to buy the other. By the time that happens though another big game might be out, and a lot of the hype around both games will be down. So yes, people will say "Oh, there's DQ and FF, but I will only buy one of them."
DQ will make them way more money. The DS has a much larger userbase, and in Japan is a much much bigger series. Given that they are likely looking at Japanese sales primarily, you have a bigger franchise on a console with over 10X the userbase or a smaller franchise on a small user base that has not gotten up in arms about a game quite yet (all of which will certainly change in the future). To get a standard FF launch out of Japan you would need to sell a copy to just about every PS3 owner. I think Squareenix is looking to reverse the trend of every FF having a smaller launch than the previous one and not make it worse (speaking of Japan sales only although the trend does hold somewhat true everywhere else).
