Square has become a Sony 2nd Party this generation

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Boutros said:

Alkibiádēs said:

DakonBlackblade said:
Well they want the Japan market, Xbox has no presence at all on Japan, they dont see it as incredibly profitable to release on XOne and see an advantage on working marketting deals and such with Sony to be console exclusive. makes sense.

Yeah, it makes sense to ignore the 18 million people in Japan owning a 3DS.

3DS games are a lot cheaper to develop as well. There's simply no way a PS4 mainline Dragon Quest game will make the same amount of money as a 3DS mainline Dragon Quest game.

Square Enix hopes to make the Dragon Quest series more successful overseas and that's why the PS4 makes a lot of sense. Sure Dragon Quest XI would sell a lot more on the 3DS than on the PS4 in Japan but worldwide I'm not so sure the 3DS has the edge.

And yes 3DS games cost less than PS4 games to make but PS4 games can also be sold at nearly twice the price and they can be ported for cheap on handheld devices in a couple of generations. It would require a remake if they make it on the 3DS now.

Dragon Quest sales in the West have always been pretty terrible, why would that change all of a sudden after such a long time?