Yuji Horii, creator of the Dragon Quest series, revealed at a Square Enix press conference in Tokyo today that the next entry in the role-playing game series, Dragon Quest X, is in development for the Wii.

No lah why. Its DQ 10. X. Sepuluh. Ju.

And I just heard millions of kids pengsan in one shot due to this news.

...err..cube try??
go go
*flame wall is ready*

Pihh, if they put it on the Wii it should be half retail price. So easy to make last gen graphic games nowadays. And the gimmick for kids is not suitable for hardcore gamers, like, err... kyo. A game is not a game if it isn't HD. Only OPKs with so much money lying around happy for this game to made on the last gen console. Good luck with your plan SE

Yeah, thats why I dont enjoy 100% when playing Smash Bros, RE 4, Cod, Moh, Okami, Zelda, Mario Galaxy, WE08, GH Wii. 

Don't worry about SE, the sales for this game will be HUGE 

To other so called HD consoles

Square Enix just shot themselves in the foot.

I don’t know how much the rest of you know about Japanese culture (I’m an expert), but honor and shame are huge parts of it. It’s not like it is in America where you can become successful by being an *******. If you screw someone over in Japan, you bring shame to yourself, and the only way to get rid of that shame is repentance.

What this means is the japanese public, after hearing about this, is not going to want to purchase DQIX for DS, nor will they purchase any of Square Enix’s games. This is HUGE. You can laugh all you want, but Square Enix has alienated an entire market with this move.

Square Enix, publicly apologize and cancel DQX for Wii or you can kiss your business goodbye.

Classics

From neogaf forum after the announcement.

peaceful place it is in nintendo section...
i wonder DQ X will be utilizing the wii main function like wii sports?

For goodness sake! That fella much more emotional than me,
although flamed by PS3 fanboys, at least i still planned to buy PS3 wor....
Need to boycott SE like that meh?

I'd be happy if DQ X was even released on Gamecube. Not that because I have a Wii or whatever, but wherever the console may be, I just appreciate how the game will be released. If it meets the greatness it is, then wa lah.

DQIX seems like sure fire hit. Looking at how Layton rocked Japan, it's almost obvious IX and X will look up to promising sales.

Btw, we never want fanboys to jump ship or whatever. We just want people to enjoy.

And Corez, you can stop hyper fanboy mode now.

It was a pretty big shock for me when Dragon Quest IX was announced for Nintendo DS (good lord, has it really been two years?), but it makes perfect sense now that I've played more of the series. I understand what Dragon Quest is about now, and it's not about the bleeding, ragged edge of technology. The series has had a tough time catching on here in the States because, generally speaking, gamers here are about the bleeding, ragged edge of technology. But you look at something like Dragon Quest VII, which was contemporaneous with Final Fantasy X, and it seems downright laughable. Even Dragon Quest VIII, which looked pretty dang good, had the same basic game mechanics as its 8-bit predecessors: turn-based combat, tons of battles, and fairly limited character-building, with Final Fantasy-style party-twinking to break the game being downright impossible.

But those things aren't really the point of Dragon Quest; they're the means to an end, and I've come to understand that the end the series aspires to is something different. Dragon Quest uses its modest visuals and familiar game systems to tell stories -- not big, twisty, shocking stories, but variants on the traditional "legendary hero saves the world" stories. Each DQ title explores a different facet of that fundamental concept, and if you can look beyond the visuals and the somewhat stagnant mechanics, you can appreciate the series' greatest strength: its heart.

Right now I'm playing a preview version of Dragon Quest V for DS, which I'm restricted from discussing in any detail until the usual stupid assortment of embargoes dissipates, but it's an incredible game. It looks exactly the same as the DS version of Dragon Quest IV, and I'm fighting a lot of the same enemies with the same skills and tactics as in the previous title. But again...that's not the point. The point is the game's heart, and in that respect DQV is fairly unparalleled -- maybe by Mother 3, or Skies of Arcadia, or a handful of smaller, more esoteric games. But I look at the efforts competing RPG series have made to explore similar concepts of family, personal duty and heroism through generations and I see well-intended but honestly sort of disastrous results like Phantasy Star III and Final Fantasy VIII.

And so it makes sense that Dragon Quest's sequels are headed to DS and Wii. They don't need PS3-level power to be heartwarming, and in fact too much tech would probably just get in the way. The hardcore gamers have their PS3s and Xbox 360s, but everyone has a DS or a Wii. The DQ series goes where the people are, because that's where the money is; right now, that's on Nintendo consoles, because Nintendo's plan for disruptive technology is actually working out.

My biggest concern about the gaming industry right now is this nonsensical polarity between "hardcore" and "casual" games; I'd hoped the Wii would serve as a bridge between the two, but honestly Nintendo has done a terrible job of it, transforming all but a handful of their longest-running franchises into neutered, pandering messes while they focus their time and money on catering to the retirement home crowd. (That's the current retirement home crowd, mind you -- not the cool retirement home crowd of the future, the one with a stack of MegaTen games to work through.) I'm hoping that DQX is a sign of good things to come: a traditional, uncompromising franchise that's found a home on Wii, where it can focus on its core strengths and be a great game without the need to run a $100 million ad campaign to convince everyone that it will make your brain explode due to visceral awesomeness.

High-end PS3 and Xbox 360 games aren't the future, and neither is the current, pathetic state of the Wii. If any game can reconcile the two, I think, it will be DQX: it's a major franchise, steeped in the traditional vocabulary of video games, but with broad appeal (at least in its home territory). Here's hoping that other third parties take this as a cue to start focusing on the Wii for something other than embarrassing shovelware.

A good read on DQX coming out on Wii

http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=896783...cUserId=5379721

3rd party support is definitely gonna kick up.
Is there a choice? The game company have to make money,
and Wii is the best seller this generation.

Louzy developer can continue to blame Nintendo for taking away biggest chunk of
games sales on Wii. But I bet, if God forbid Nintendo is also developing for PS3 & 360, it will also took the biggest chunk of pie for game sales.

Just name me a developer that can truly stand up against Nintendo. Rockstar? THQ? Square? Yes they are good, but not as good as Nintendo.

hmm...it depends on the genre of the game...
like rockstar only focus on games which attract the older audience with games like GTA and Bully
Square Enix focus mainly on RPGs...
i'm not quite sure with Sega though

Meh was never into DQ games.

hint hint: sony fanboi up up