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DRAGON QUEST XI coming to PS4 and Steam on September 4, 2018, Switch ver. coming "Much later"
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The producer did confirm that in gameblog's interview. He said more or less the following : "People need to be very patient because porting the PS4 version on Switch is pretty challenging".
What do we have to do to convince Nintendo and/or Square Enix to localize the 3DS version? There has to be something to let them know the localization of the 3DS version is worth the investment.
A lack of 3DS localization is the one bit of Dragon Quest news I didn't want come to pass.
A lack of 3DS localization is the one bit of Dragon Quest news I didn't want come to pass.
Dual Screen or not, you have to choose between 2D or 3D after the prologue (and can change between any style afterwards by going to the church if I'm not mistaken).
I bought both games day one. VII was my game of the year 2016.
7 and 8 on 3DS bombed, it's pretty definitive they're not going to bother.
Watch that get modded in week 1 on PC(week 1 starting from the day denuvo get cracked). :D
Heroes, Builders and Heroes II all bombed too. They're still bothering with PS4, Steam and Switch though.
Let's be honest, Square Enix were never going to bother with 3DS in the first place. Just like they didn't for most of it's lifecycle. This version coming west always depended entirely on Nintendo so if people still want it that's where they should be directing their energy.
You don't need to crack denuvo for mods like that and cracks just bypass it anyway so it wouldn't help with modding.
Exactly. Even Builders which is a spin off sold better than the mainline games on 3DS.
Squre Enix is trying to evolve the franchise to appeal to a wider audience. The PS4/PC version is the main version they want to push out and people should support them by buying that version. Sure getting the 3DS version is nice but it was done to get you in the Nostalgia feels some would even say it was a gimmick version. It sucks that they are not bringing the 3ds version but if you really want to play that just import and i'm sure they will be a way to play in english or preferred language some day.
I thought about that :D We'll know for sure when the switch version ships with the orchestral OST... Only in Japan. That's what happened with DQVII and VIII on 3DS.
Yup...
I mean, you can play the 3ds version entirely in polygonal 3d. The 3d version looks really nice.
Okay? Whether or not you like how the other one looked is irrelevant, we're getting portable DQXI via the Switch- end of story. That it's UE4 is meaningless.
? I never said the switch version wasn't portable, just that it was running on UE4.
Shin Megami Tensei Strange Journey Redux and Radiant Historia are both text heavy 3DS games being released in 2018.
He's gone on record saying games shouldn't have live orchestra music in them and it should be reserved for concerts/CDs.
That's some bullshit but he's a war crime denier so I guess he's familiar with it.
I could see them going that route since I'm pretty sure Sugiyama charges licensing fees for the orchestra tracks for games like DQVIII 3DS (hence why it was never carried over to the English version)
I've noticed in games like Builders there's a disclaimer regarding the music noting that streaming footage of JUST the music is forbidden, yet I don't see S-E aggressively upholding this on YouTube, so i think they're fed up with him as well and just do stuff like that to make him happy. They're probably well aware people will mod the tracks, might as well make some money off it and make it available for PS4 users too.
I will be buying this. A DQ on PC is huge. Don't care about the music being midi, since I'll be buying the orchestreal soundtrack regardless and just have it playing in the background.
I'm not buying a version of a game I actually don't want as much the portable ones just to support a mega corporation...
Barely from what we know, the numbers are still terrible. And it's a Minecraft clone, that game should be huge.
Not true as DQ7 and 8 in japan on the 3ds got new orchestra music, the versions the west got however did not get orchestra music.
Why would he allow Japan to get orchestra music in the game but not allow it for the western versions?
speculation answer, he probably hates the fuck out of the usa due to the time we made japan publicly apologize for WWII war crimes in 2007 or something
Yeah, as amazing as this game looks the situation with the music really sucks. Is this playing on some kind of synth internal to the PS4? I have no idea if modern consoles even have built-in sound synthesis or if they're designed to play back audio files. If the latter, it sounds like a recording of a studio synth that's decades out of date.
He doesn't.
Only numbers were have for Builders are 1st week Charttrack (UK): 4-5k > Builders PS4 > Heroes (3.1k) > VII 3DS. Minimum for Builders Switch 1st week was 2.3k.
We have 1st month NPD (US) for Heroes (31k) and VII (35k). None of the others were leaked though.
Steamspy global ltd for Heroes is 50k and Heroes II is 36k.
YAY!!
I wanted to play this so bad but I'm a PC addict now and you can't pull me off of it for my consoles for anything anymore.
Day 1!
I wanted to play this so bad but I'm a PC addict now and you can't pull me off of it for my consoles for anything anymore.
Day 1!
I thought DQ Builders and Heroes on consoles were more popular than that in the West. At least 100k copies each at the minimum.
The only really popular in the west are VIII and IX since both of those sold 1 million just in the west and obviously not counting japan. The rest sold bad or mediocre in the west.
Yes, Builders especially did well. With the Switch port I'm sure it's well over 100k
I wouldn't really call it a "Minecraft" clone. If you bought it on that premise alone you will be very disappointed.
Yeah, that is ridiculous. Dragon Quest is one of my favourote third party franchises. A true turn based jrpg that stay loyal to its origins.
To me makes sense to do WW launches on all platforms. They should have done that for Destiny 2 and MHW to name a few.
It is SE fault: it is reasonable to expect that if you announce a version you have something in 3 years. They do not. Thus they do not give a damn about Switch for no reason. We have not seen anything of the game on Switch. Heck, afaik DQ X is already out on Switch in Japan.
Do you have official sales data to back up that? Just curious. Official coming from the companies, not from websites that supposedly track sales.
Now I am a console warrior for wondering what on earth SE has done in 3 whole years with the Switch version. Great. I think you are not understanding what the situation is: they had 3 whole years and for some reason - which I call hate as I prove earlier- they did not do anything. That is why we are complaining about. Pretty sure in 3 years if you want you can port the game, specially outsourcing. They do not bother because they usually treat Nintendo fans like second tier customers to say the least.
...Builders sold 1.1 million worldwide. Probably way more at this point. That's more than any other DQ in the West aside DQVIII on PS2.
http://www.siliconera.com/2016/12/01/dragon-quest-builders-reaches-1-1-million-worldwide-sales/
This one easily has chances to do 2+ million like Persona 5 which officially makes a DQ game a success in the West.
http://www.siliconera.com/2016/12/01/dragon-quest-builders-reaches-1-1-million-worldwide-sales/
This one easily has chances to do 2+ million like Persona 5 which officially makes a DQ game a success in the West.
At the point of which the article was published, around 800k of it came from Japan alone.
Plus Asia, where DQH previously had done really well (100k+). Also these are shipments, not actual sales. The actual sales data we have implies Builders tanked just as hard as the other games in the west, but even if it shipped (highballing it) 200k that's below things like DQIV DS (260k) or the original Dragon Warrior (500k) for example.
Also DQIX shipped slightly more than DQVIII in the west. I don't remember the numbers offhand but Celine's posted them before.
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Never thought I'll see the day a mainline single player DQ game is released simultaneously on PC.
There's no pissing match, they all flopped except VIII PS2 and IX.
Actually...the PC version could be modded to include the released orchestral versions of the soundtrack. Man, that makes me excited.
