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ethomaz on 09 April 2013

Kresnik said:

FF XIV hasn't been given a chance to show how it'll perform on PS3 yet, though.

And unfortunately, when it does release it'll suffer a similar situation to DQX on Wii.  Released too late onto a platform soon to be replaced.  It's a slightly better situation since PS3 isn't completely dead, I suppose.

That was the biggest mistake with FFXIV... the game was so bad in PC that Square had to remade the game to release the v2.0 in PC and now they will release it on PS3.

This games was to be released in PS3 in 2011.



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menx64 on 09 April 2013
ethomaz said:
NintendoPie said:
DigitalDevilSummoner said:

Yeah, I still cannot wrap my head around this: Exclusive Wii MMO !

 

DQX could've been great on the Wii, Square Enix just doesn't like money, it seems. They seem to like to screw up a lot of things recently.

I agree... the best plataform for MMO like DQX is PC and port to PS3 (the most FF and DQ users are in PlayStation)... in any case Nintendo could release to all plataform to make more money.

They choose the right plataforms for FFXIV... PC and PS3... but the game is a BOMBA

FF I agree... DQ? Last thing I knew the best selling DQ was DQIX? Did I miss anything?



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ethomaz on 09 April 2013

menx64 said:

FF I agree... DQ? Last thing I knew the best selling DQ was DQIX? Did I miss anything?

DS... I said MMO for portable is harder to happen in today market... maybe in future.

The best selling DQ on consoles is DQVII but that is not my point... my point is JRPGs sells better (have more players) in PS3... so what the best plataform for a JRPG MMO? Wii or PS3? It is easy to know.



irstupid on 09 April 2013

I think they need to fire not their development teams, but their guys who are making forcasts or sales predictions.

Seems every game they release does not meet what they "anticipated"



Mr Khan on 10 April 2013
DigitalDevilSummoner said:
hinch said:
 SE makes an exclusive MMO for the Wii

Yeah, I still cannot wrap my head around this: Exclusive Wii MMO !

 

DQ always goes to the top-selling console. Pretty simple

The problem was the long dev time meant it came out far, far too late.



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irstupid on 10 April 2013
Mr Khan said:
DigitalDevilSummoner said:
hinch said:
 SE makes an exclusive MMO for the Wii

Yeah, I still cannot wrap my head around this: Exclusive Wii MMO !

 

DQ always goes to the top-selling console. Pretty simple

The problem was the long dev time meant it came out far, far too late.

The problem was it being an MMO.

WTF, no one wants and mmo.  Stick to what a game is good at.  Let DQ be a great classic RPG.  

I woudl have bought DQ10 if it was an RPG, but ignored it completely due to being an MMO.  I recal being stocked when I heard DQX was announced.  Then it dropped off my radar as soon as it became MMO related.  Heck I just found out 10 seconds ago that it apparantly came out only a week or so ago.



benao87 on 10 April 2013
ethomaz said:

benao87 said:

Really? I wonder how are you going to back that up.

I think it is pretty know the JRPG users are in PlayStation.

The JRPGs sells better on PS3 than Wii or 360... a Dragon Quest on PS3 will sell better than Wii or 360... it is like Final Fantasy.

Plus the PS3 users are more used to online play than Wii users... MMO is suppose to to better on PS3 than Wii.

JRPG + MMO = PS3

PS. I removed the portables because a MMO needs very good online play and the portables didn't have it yet (I expect better online play with portables with 4G devices).

You just typed your feelings, but that's not backing up your arguments.

JRPG did fare better on the PS3 than on the Wii, but we aint' talking about any particular RPG, it's bloody DQ, even you can't deny that if the game is good it will sell loads regardless of the device. It's like Pokemon, if it were released on PSV, you think millions of japanese are going to say "Oh f**k it, I'm not supporting a Sony device, I'm skipping Pokemon"? Probably some will do, but the game will sell millions of copies.

Now regarding online experience. I think you are assuming that Japanese have the same habits as western gamers, and you are ignoring MH Tri, for god's sake!

Finally, MMO are a different beast. 600k is hardly a bad number, subscriptions  are all that matter. The kid's time exist because of what DQ represents for Japanese society, and even S-E knows better than to charge kids, and they should've included that into their expectations. I think that they are overestimating their games all over around, if they thought they were going to pull a WoW out of DQX they deserve this.



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BaldrSkies on 10 April 2013

This is where all their money is evaporating. They want to shift blame to "low" sales for other games they publish but it's the stuff they develop in house, these terrible MMOs, that are killing the company.



ethomaz on 10 April 2013
BaldrSkies said:
This is where all their money is evaporating. They want to shift blame to "low" sales for other games they publish but it's the stuff they develop in house, these terrible MMOs, that are killing the company.

I have certain the MMOs are not the problema in SE lol.



Otakumegane on 10 April 2013

When will you start making good original JRPGs again SquareEnix?



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