I always thought the DQ games should be ported to the PSP.

PSP did get one port from Hori's group (FF & DQ in Itadaki Street) but it bombed, which might've helped him in going Nintendo-only this gen?

Yes, thats why COD4 and COD:WAW sold much better(and made more profit) on Wii,oh wait...

It's a Wii game, at the most it'll likely cost maybe 10 million (the average Wii game is like 5 million, while the average HD game is around 15 million I'm saying 10 million because it's a fairly big game and SE isn't shy with throwing a lot of money in a game, especially DQ), so putting the game on the PS3 would just guarantee more money for SE, it's not going to cost a whole lot more and even if the PS3 version sells only 1 million (which should be easily done in just Japan) that's still guaranteeing SE some more money.

Bamboleo: "The Dragon Quest userbase for Wii is bigger than PS3's."

pizzahut: "CALL OF DUTY SOLD A LOT BUT NOT ON WII!"

I can't help but see a disconnect here as Square Enix doesn't make Call of Duty and the fact that said games aren't Wii exclusive.

look closer...there is a big connection

Basically the arguement is;

Userbase does NOT equal Sales, it's all about brand recognition, even if the Wii and PS3 switched places in sales, a Mario game would sell better on the Wii than PS3, and yeah, obviously that'll never happen since Mario is first party.

Want a great example?

Final Fantasy XIII WILL sell more in US/EU on the PS3 than the 360, due to the fact we know already in the US, the PS3 outsold the 360 version 2:1 on the first day alone.

Explain that people.

I don't understand what you're getting at... maybe I didn't put it right...

Basically, Final Fantasy is, at the moment, considered a Playstation franchise, however, the 360 version WILL provide enough profit to Square Enix to have made the port profitable, yet it still sold more on the lower userbase.

Now, let's try it with Dragon Quest X, the franchise to most people is seen as belonging to Nintendo, however, it's not the userbase that decides this, it's the past of the franchise (As with the Final Fantasy example I used). And it's only safe to assume that either way, enough money will be made, provided it is multiplatform on the PS3 too, to have made the port worth it. Especially since development costs will have been cheaper anyway.

I'm trying to make sense here, but meh, whatever, I know what I mean!

I would also add, that the franchise hit a new high in Japan due to leaving sony platform and going to nintendo.

I been told by others, that when Final Fantasy IX was coming out, some people were saying that it should go to the PSP, or that this is a wrong move on Square Enix. I bet someone could link threads like that, but really it is almost the exact discription of this thread.

...except they'd have to make a completely unique version of the game for the PS3.  And, what people need to understand, there will be people who debate about purchasing the game because there's two versions.  One so called 'inferior' Wii version and one more graphically superior but possibly lacking in content PS3 version.  Whenever there's 2 versions of any game, there's always going to be the question of which is better.  Look at FFXIII and the controversy over that.  Imagine now if there was a PS3/Wii game....imagine the arguing over which was 'better'.  Especially since the game was developed first for the Wii.