I love how everybody who has brought up the publishing agreement between Nintendo and Square Enix have pretty much been flat out ignored

Why would Square Enix screw up their relations with a company that has agreed to market their games for them? If IX and X see any sort of boost in the West, I would expect the series to stick to Nintendo platforms for a long time.

OT: Actually by that logic, if it were to go multiplat anywhere, the best solution from those pointers would be... DS.

More or less, there is a possibility the game could be multiplatform, even on PS3, but I think Nintendo has something invested in the series that we may not fully know yet. Similar to what they may have invested in Monster Hunter. I mean there is always the chance that Nintendo is just trying to help big 3rd party software sell, but it is more than likely that Nintendo has some kinda of monetary stake in helping out DQ IX and MH3 and eventually DQX.

This is of great importance, because Square Enix clearly doesn't think enough of Dragon Quest IX to advertise it in the west, and if they want X to get free western advertising, they'll keep it exclusive.

Dragon Quest is different, too, because in Japan at least, they're going to buy platforms for the game, so going multiplat doesn't help as much, because they're not trying to grow the franchise in Japan. In the West, however, DQ isn't big enough to be worth the money it would take to go multiplat

With Final Fantasy, it was the other case, its big enough that it was worth it to port to 360 for the chance of increased sales, and keep exclusive in Japan because the Japanese would go where the game went. But the only way DQ is going to get big in the west is with Nintendo's help. Square Enix clearly doesn't care.

1. The chance of Dragon Quest X using the Wii motion controls are very slim.  Wii controls don't add anything to the Dragon Quest gameplay, aside from Mini games.  And they already did the 'wiimote' enabled Dragon Quest game.  It was Dragon Quest Swords.

2. The amount of actual 'JRPG fans' on the PS3 aren't as big as you may think.  I mean, even FFXIII didn't make as big of a dent than people expected in Japan.  Let alone games like Disgaea 3, White Knight Chronicles, Tales of Vesperia, Valkria Chronicles, The Last Remnant, Enchanted Arms, the list goes on...  Nothing can even come close to the 'moderate' appeal of games on the PS2, even after its been declared a 'last gen' system.  To say nothing of the sales for the JRPGs on the DS and PSP in Japan, which even a 'mediocre' JRPG can make the best selling PS3 RPG in Japan look like table scraps.  Which, aside from FFXIII, is currently White Knight Chronicles at 360,000 copies.

3. People never learn.  SquareEnix is made of multiple divisions.  And the division that oversees the development of Dragon Quest, otherwise known as Armor Project, pretty much has their own say of how to make the game.  They have guided it to be one of the most successful franchises in Japans history and SquareEnix isn't going to question their ideas now.  As for Sony, they have no say in its development.  And you don't just make a Wii game and a PS3 game.  There's only been a handful of games ever made like that so far.  And they've been made completely independent of each other (think Ghostbusters: The Video Game).  They are NOT going to make two versions of Dragon Quest X.

4. Yuji Horii has already and always said he makes his games for 'the most popular system on the market'.  Sorry, but Wii and DS are those systems.  Likewise, he has never made a multi-platform Dragon Quest game (unless you count Dragon Quest Monsters that could play on both Game Boy Pocket and Color).

I think the main point of having DQX on Wii exclusively was to have a smaller budget, not so much the motion controls. So moving it to the highly expensive and hard to develop for PS3, it would kind of ruin the point of putting it on Wii.

Can I have a link please to where Square Enix's reason to have a Wii release was because it was a smaller budget, that would be helpful.

I don't think they'll treat the majority of their userbase (10 million against 5) with an inferior version. Specially for motion controls, since only a minority of a minority will have access to them.

You made my day sir.

We have a winner.

You're dreaming Carl. With the success of DQIX on the Nintendo DS, there is no chance they will return the franchise to a Sony console. Even more when we know that Nintendo itself will publish the game in Europe and NA.

At best the PS3 might get a port of Dragon Quest Swords.