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Leetgeek on 12 July 2008

 

It's been a long time since Nintendo lost Final Fantasy 7 to the Playstation. But times have changed. S-E clearly has been heavily supporting Nintendo consoles; or have they?

Many S-E games released on Nintendo consoles since then have been low budget or lackluster:

Dragon Quest Swords

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles

Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced

Children of Mana

These games, though some might argue are good (I wouldn't), are far from AAA games.

Now Square has put some great games on Nintendo Consoles in the past 10 years but these games are almost all SNES ports. Often direct ports which sell millions and millions of copys but I would imagine that the production cost of these games are very low.

Could it be possible that Squaresoft has its own form of "Shovelware" for Nintendo consoles?

If you do not agree with this statement please explain why.

If you do agree with this statement how would you feel about the possibility that some of this "shovelware" money would surely go to extremely expensive high budget PS360 exclusives (FF13)?

Personally as a DS owner I was disappointed that Chrono Trigger was a direct SNES port with a few "extras" thrown in. If Street Fighter 2 can get a full remake why not one of the greatest RPGs of all time? I was also appalled that I actually spent money on games like FFT: Advanced, Rocket slime and Children of Mana which I thought were very low quality for this day and age.

Should someone say something to Sqaure? Or am I just being paranoid?



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Torillian on 12 July 2008

Well they're still getting new games such as DQ VIII. So I don't think that they're getting totally boned by the deal.



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Leetgeek on 12 July 2008
Torillian said:
Well they're still getting new games such as DQ VIII. So I don't think that they're getting totally boned by the deal.

 

Is that confirmed? I honestly don't know.



Torillian on 12 July 2008

fairly certain DQ VIII is confirmed for DS.



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ctk495 on 12 July 2008
Soriku said:

FFCC is low budget? Have you seen the trailer released last year? That looks far from being "shovelware."

Also, who cares if they wanna make spin-offs and such? They're not supposed to ONLY release main series.

Where is it,I haven't heard about it for awhile?

 

@OP

Intersting thread,I agree with you to a certain extend I would fully but there is DQ IX.



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Cougarman on 12 July 2008

last time i checked DQ VIII was a ps2 game, its DQIX people



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lolita on 12 July 2008
Soriku said:

FFCC is low budget? Have you seen the trailer released last year? That looks far from being "shovelware."

Also, who cares if they wanna make spin-offs and such? They're not supposed to ONLY release main series.

 

Agreed. Plus, they released FF3 on DS which was a total remake and never released here before. FF4 seems quite nice but I agree about Chrono Trigger they could have at least updated the sprites and such. What about DQIX?



Torillian on 12 July 2008

shit sorry....can't keep track of the DQ's



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Cheebee on 12 July 2008

Hmm, yeah, well.. it's true that most of the SE games released on Nintendo systems have been ports, spinoffs, remakes etc.. but then again, when they sell as crazy as they do, why not release them? :p



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Bored4life on 12 July 2008
Torillian said:
fairly certain DQ VIII is confirmed for DS.

Are you sure its not IX?

 



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