As long as Dragon Quest isn’t locked to PS I’ll be fine pleasepleaseplease
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a lot more likely it’ll be locked to Nintendo than PS. But I doubt that’ll happen after that franchise finally went global and multiplat.
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Yeah, I would have expected that previously but I’m hoping that XI S and Builders 2 launching on Game Pass is tipping the scales somewhat. Hoping that the “DQ is on the most popular platform” tradition dies (good riddance to Sugiyama btw) or that they just do PC releases and the GDK makes it so they do an Xbox version as well. That last bit is just wishful thinking honestly, I don’t really have a clue how it works. But damn it, I can hope! And port the DS versions while you’re at it! And bring X Offline to the West!
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Why would they? They get all the meaningful stuff for cheap, even exclusives.
I agree. Maybe just to take them away completely. I don’t know. I just wouldn’t be surprised, that’s all.
Anyway that journalist confirmed the hard fact that SE is allied with Sony against Xbox, as I always suspected, giving the remnants years after was never a “great support” like someone wanted to present.
It won’t be on Xbox day one anyway. XD
Maybe year three instead of year four like XI.
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Yeah, true. None of this is a surprise though.
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Well, I hope their lineup of exclusives will do well. First up, Babylon’s Fall.
nah I am expecting the next DQ game to be day 1 tbh
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I was interested in this game when it was first revealed but since then, not so much.
You’re really optimistic, looking at hard facts, most SE east output is not day one on Xbox.
The hard fact is square enix likes money like every other studio, if Microsoft want those games launching on Xbox day one they need to spend a lot of money, it’s that simple.
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I mean, I doubt every publisher demands a bag of cash only for the “honor” of day one releases on Xbox.
I am thinking that Game Pass engagement has made DQ a Day 1 like it has for Yakuza. Don’t think Sony is nearly as invested in locking down DQ as they are FF
All of them likes money, if the money they ask is there, they will release the games on that platform.
There were public news about DQ success on Xbox? Because there were for Yakuza.
Nope, but you can’t necessarily compare the communication between two completely different publishers either.
Next 5 years AAA output (FF16, FF7R2, Forspoken) won’t be ob Xbox, I think it’s a bit much to be a normal situation.
Am sure the reason for that is because Sony offered a good amount of money for the timed exclusivity.
Either way, if anyone wants to play those games and don’t want to buy a PS5, they can play it on PC, square have no problem releasing those games on PC day one.
yeah but they seem to have a problem releasing those games on PC down the line going by the port quality of FF7R 