"Rob Browning" <pluvius3@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:46f0o2lqj90d6vstvnesn7tg2caair5k39@4ax.com...
> >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?

Yes.

More to the point, it would create an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT set of problems.

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

Because at the time they committed to FF13, nobody knew what hellish
nightmares awaited the PS3...


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