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StarTopic Nintendo Direct Speculation |ST5| Uncharted Territory: Drake's Deception

When is the next general full-length Direct?

  • June

    Votes: 130 38.0%

  • July

    Votes: 40 11.7%

  • August

    Votes: 15 4.4%

  • September

    Votes: 129 37.7%

  • October

    Votes: 1 0.3%

  • November

    Votes: 1 0.3%

  • December

    Votes: 1 0.3%

  • January

    Votes: 13 3.8%

  • February

    Votes: 1 0.3%

  • Never

    Votes: 11 3.2%
  • Total voters
    342
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I'm starting a new movement. Can't let the Golden Sun freaks have all the fun. I demand Hey You Pikachu 2. The advances in NLP have been tremendous. Let's make it happen.
 
I really love these threads. There really is nothing quite like the unbridled joy and despair in Fami’s Direct speculation.
 
Djehuty said:
DQ needs to, it’s a giant franchsie but it’s not a kingmaker, Sony exclusivity harms dragon quest a lot more than it will help PlayStation.

Sure it might sell ps5’s but it’s going to sell less than pikmin 4 if it does stay exclusive to ps5.
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I wasn't talking about PS at all. My point was if it's gonna also be Switch release or just Switch 2. Switch can run UE5 so it just depends when the game is coming out.
 
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DQXI eventually became one of the best selling DQs but it took like five different releases to do so (JP PS4, 3DS, int. PS4/PC, DE Switch, DE ports). I'm expecting XII to wait for Switch 2, if only to avoid the need for a cut-down version to begin with, and to give some space between it, DQIII HD2D, spinoffs
 
Apopheniac said:
DQXI eventually became one of the best selling DQs but it took like five different releases to do so (JP PS4, 3DS, int. PS4/PC, DE Switch, DE ports). I'm expecting XII to wait for Switch 2, if only to avoid the need for a cut-down version to begin with, and to give some space between it, DQIII HD2D, spinoffs
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Yeah especially with the state Sony is in now

dragon quest not releasing on a Nintendo console first is suicide now.
 
Djehuty said:
Yeah especially with the state Sony is in now

dragon quest not releasing on a Nintendo console first is suicide now.
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What makes FF able to thrive with strong Sony ties then? PS5 is big in japan as is DQ, i think it'd do fine I just hope switch as well

Edit:Yes I understand FF is more action-y and cinematic, but none the less the market overlap for more traditional RPGs doesn't seem that bad
 
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Djehuty said:
Yeah especially with the state Sony is in now

dragon quest not releasing on a Nintendo console first is suicide now.
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XI's performance was strong enough on home consoles that there's no reason for XII not to stay multiplatform. Something like Switch 2/PS4/PS5/PC, maybe Xbox as well makes the most sense to me
 
Apopheniac said:
XI's performance was strong enough on home consoles that there's no reason for XII not to stay multiplatform. Something like Switch 2/PS4/PS5/PC, maybe Xbox as well makes the most sense to me
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Considering how things have been going I dunno about Xbox, sounds like bunch of Konami stuff gonna skip, and there's some belief of bad blood between SE and microsoft (Octo 1 was not excluded but 2 was)

I don't know what it's gonna take but if they can douse the fires of bad launches and looming acquisition chaos they should probably try to do something for Japan, though considering 20 years there and nothing has ever been great maybe that's a fantasy (and for the record I do not want them to buy anyone, I just mean maybe some marketing deals and just actually having the series on it, so many odd skips like it's not just about popularity there, the actual games seem to be avoiding xbox)
 
Johna X said:
What makes FF able to thrive with strong Sony ties then? PS5 is big in japan as is DQ, i think it'd do fine I just hope switch as well

Edit:Yes I understand FF is more action-y and cinematic, but none the less the market overlap for more traditional RPGs doesn't seem that bad
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Final Fantasy is massively popular outside Japan, and Dragon Quest isn't; the latter needs significant domestic sales (usually 4 million range) in a way that Final Fantasy doesn't.

PS5 isn't that popular in Japan; the weekly numbers right now might look good versus where it was a year ago, but it's certainly not going to get the kind of big install base a Nintendo system gets in Japan. Unless Square Enix are counting on enormous international growth for DQ XII, they'll need to launch the game on a Nintendo system to achieve high sales in Japan. DQ XI sold over 6 million globally, but the overwhelming majority of that came from the Japanese market across 3DS, Switch and PS4.
 
Square Enix is looking to expand Dragon Quest in the West (action combat system, art by Demon Slayer mangaka) so they won't have to release XII on the Switch.
 
Dardan Sandiego said:
Square Enix is looking to expand Dragon Quest in the West (action combat system, art by Demon Slayer mangaka) so they won't have to release XII on the Switch.
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How can we come off of Royal selling almost 2 mil and Pokemon selling 20 mil in 6 weeks and go "yeah let's kill turn based even more"
 
Cucufate said:
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Imagine there's no Direct
It's easy if you try
No Minis, below us
Above us, only hype

Imagine all of Fami
despairing through the net...
YES
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You may say I‘m a dreamer,
But I‘m not the only one!
I hope some day you will join us!
And the Direct will be announced in June 😀
 
LukasManak22 said:
They aren't announcing 2D Mario or DK in a Mini, which is shadowdropped.
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I just feel like that the June/July Presentation will be more lowkey, so I see them going with a Mini Branding. I mean Branding it as a General, Mini or Partner is only there to set expectations. If it‘s livestreamed, shadowdropped and/or announced beforehand is all part of it and can be adjusted to get the exact reaction they want out of a presentation. They always try new stuff with the direct format. The 2018 and 2020 Minis are very different from each other.
 
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Without E3 I don't see a big summer direct, maybe a mini or something.
Tbh I'm expecting a very quiet year whilst they get ready for a big hardware launch next year. A few smaller titles after Pikmin 4 and a new 2D Mario for the holidays is all I think we'll get.
 
Unfortunately I have found that when I get optimistic I end up wrong so i’m only expecting Nintendo to do a partners showcase and then certain DLC for first party games (such as wave 5 for booster course pass) will just get announced separately. Basically the same thing they did last year.
 
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