Lol, I didn't realize they changed the genre. That sucks then.

But still, they are announcing games for the HD's and they arent announcing anything for the Wii. I still believe Nintendo moneyhated to get DQX and they wont get anything else by SE's own desire. I also still believe SE dislikes the Wii and will not get close to it. I hope I can get proved wrong, but 3 years into this gen and nothing but a 2012 game announcement? That's not encouraging at all. Meanwhile all the consoles are getting the games and Wii owners are still waiting for that day to come, the day SE will announce a Wii game (which will probably happen after DQX launch in late 2012).

FFCC:CB was long agreed before the Wii was even launched. FFIV is just a cellphone port and DQX is 2012.

Look, the only announcement made since 2006 was DQX, so if they are getting their most important franchise and NOTHING else, it most probably means it was moneyhated, like SO4 was probably moneyhated too.

SO4 was surely a moneyhat by MS, there's no logic in making it X360 only out of free will.

DQX? easily chosen because they wanted the biggest userbase. DQ fans would buy the game even if it came out on the SNES.

@Xen: DS's userbase is bigger plus the fanbase will already be there and development costs would be cheaper. Makes no sense for them to be making it for the Wii.

Besides, it was all a very strange happening, as the announcement appeared out of nowhere and even almost a year prior to DQIX's release, and at a time when Wii was starting to die in sales. It was a big amount of money being poured to secure the exclusivity, most probably, since Nintendo needed something to convince hardcore players from not abandoning the Wii. Even the picture with Iwata and the heads of SE is too obvious. Smelled like moneyhat from any part of the universe.

The same logic says they should go for Wii over HD consoles, you do realize. <_<  Especially since they could then pull a Wii-PSP-PS2 if they were really desperate, and obviously, their combined install bases utterly crushes the HD ones.

@jefforange: That's why they are still putting their main games on portables. The HD consoles are getting smaller games, but Wii isn't getting any games at all. There's a big problem there. If they want to kill home console gaming then they are doing it the right way. It's their fault anyways, I know I will be present the day they finally sucumb to all the stupid decision they have been making.

I don't think DQ X is a moneyhatted game, but I do have the feeling Nintendo did sometthing to convince SE to announce it this early

Well in terms of SE games SaGa series is down there with Drakengard... Of course that game was only published by them, but still...

DS is stealing all wii support. western orientated/graphic intensive games go HD. wii should be getting the japaneese oreintated games that dont require top graphics. But DS has shown itself to be much better at selling those games so thats where SE puts them. wii support will start to rise once the DS starts to fall