Wed, Dec 10, 2008 | 07:11 GMT
Dragon Quest X confirmed for Wii (update)
Update: It’s been announced in a press conference – see on Reuters.
According to this Joystiq report and a torrent of others, Square’s just confirmed Dragon Quest X as a Wii game.
It’s a little unclear at the moment, but it seems the title will be exclusive to the platform.
This will be the first Dragon Quest game to grace a current gen console.
The firm also said Dragon Quest IX will be releasing for DS on March 28.
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Tags: dragon quest ix, dragon quest x
8 comments
#1
Blerk
10/12/08, 9:00 am
This doesn’t really come as a surprise. Dragon Quest has historically always shifted to the most popular format of the day.
Given the wonky PS3 performance in Japan I don’t think they’d have ever risked another big-name RPG on it at the minute, and they can probably reuse loads of the stuff they created for DQVIII on the PS2 to boot.
That said… I’m a tad disappointed. Even though I have a Wii.
#2
Vahn16
10/12/08, 9:08 am
Frankly, DQ games just feel inherently suited to portable platforms in my opinion — mostly ’cause they’re so long, I guess. So while I own a Wii, I’d rather DQX were hitting the DS. Oh well.
#3
scratchy69
10/12/08, 9:29 am
Yeah, predictable. Not that disappointing though. DQ will never be as good as FF.
#4
Tonka
10/12/08, 10:12 am
FF games are really, really bad though. So DQ games must be unbearable.
#5
Esha
10/12/08, 10:47 am
I don’t know about that, Tonka. It’s true that most Final Fantasy games are bad, but it’s a matter of watching out for the really good ones. VI and IX come to mind, they were both brilliant.
Though I admit I bought VII because of Red XIII, the only character whom never really saw any fleshing out, and ended up being completely one-dimensional. But I still dug him. …then they went and turned him into Scooby Doo for Advent Children and only gave him one line. Bloody Square.
#6
Gekidami
10/12/08, 10:54 am
The only DQ game i played was the last one released on PS2, it was utter rubish imo, boring as hell, yet it still scored well…
#7
Pixelorama
10/12/08, 3:43 pm
Looks like you guys don’t know a thing about RPGs…Oh well…
Ok, so this is really GREAT news. Dragon Quest/Warrior is my favourite RPG series, and having it on Wii will be really good.
I started playing DW many years ago, with the third episode on GameBoy Color, and it felt completely natural. Really a great game.
Dragon Warrior VIII was bad?…Wow…No comments…
#8
scratchy69
10/12/08, 4:34 pm
DWVIII wasn’t bad – it was a fantastically polished piece of software as you could hope for. It was just a bit long-winded and predictable. And a bit too simple.