On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 21:51:39 GMT, "El Guapo" <plethora@pinatas.com>
wrote:

>
>"Rob Browning" <pluvius3@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
>news:sgptn29c9uo63no1k8ugo9t0p4enqi9n45@4ax.com...
>> On 12 Dec 2006 00:32:53 -0800, "AirRaid" <AirRaid1500@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>TALK ABOUT A MEGATON
>>
>> Wow, how stupid.  Putting a main-line title from one of the most
>> popular video-game franchises on a portable?  And right after they
>> decided to bring the series' look to a modern-day level?  What the
>> hell is Squenix thinking?  (Probably the same thing it was thinking
>> when it decided to make one of its other major series' iterations an
>> MMORPG; that is to say, nothing.)
>
>Yeah!  Putting the game on a system that's still selling like hotcakes and 
>has a huge installed base is just CRAZY.  What's wrong with these people? 
>Shouldn't they be putting it on the console that has near zero market share 
>in Japan (360) or the console that costs $600 and has serious production 
>problems (PS3) or the console that just came out and is selling very quickly 
>but will take years to catch up to the DS in installed base assuming that it 
>isn't just this holiday's fad (Wii)?

This is Dragon Quest we're talking about.  You know, the series that
the Japanese government had to request Enix not to release on work
days because the entire goddamn country would call in sick to buy and
play it?  Do you really think that the currently low penetration of
the next-gen systems would be a major obstacle to the sales of this
thing?

And if Squenix really thought that that was such a problem, why have
they already announced FF13 to be exclusive for the PS3?

Rob
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