Sony and Microsoft (especially Microsoft) might as well pack their bags and leave the Japanese gaming market altogether. Why? For one, Square Enix just announced that Dragon Quest X will be released for the Wii, probably sometime in 2010 at the earliest. That means Nintendo will struggle to manufacture the 948593485739485739485 Wiis it’ll need to keep up with demand.
Keep in mind that Dragon Quest IX, which is for the DS, hasn’t even been released yet.
And if you have no idea about this whole Dragon Quest nonsense, I suggest you listen to this Retronauts podcast from 1UP. Basically, the Dragon Quest series is as close to a money printing machine as a non-government entity can legally have. Whatever system has Dragon Quest is guaranteed to sell quite a few units. Perhaps more than that.
I am not familiar with Dragon Quest, but the image you used for this article is simply awesome. Where the hell did it come from?
Flickr. (That’s why I put “Flickr’d” under the photo.) http://flickr.com/photos/oguogu/2813231251/
I didn’t frame my question very well, I really meant how and/or why did that make the association with a post on Dragon Quest. As in where the hell did the idea to use that photo come from? A little window into your creative process. I completely understand that the answer may be “random flikring.”
The picture is of one of the monsters from the Dragon Quest game series, a “Metal Slime”. A Slime is basically the Dragon Quest version of Pikachu, just one of many different monsters you fight that became “the one” to represent the entire game.
What you said, it’s a character from the series.
Haven’t listened to the link yet, so it may mention this, but in the USA, Dragon Quest 1-4 was called “Dragon Warrior”. As of Dragon Quest 7 (I think that was the number) for PS2, it used the original name here in the US. 5 and 6 have been/are scheduled for release respectively here in the US via DS. We got screwed out of those games for WAY too long) Anyways, back in the days of the NES, Nintendo even gave away copies of Dragon Warrior with Nintendo Power subscriptions. It’s a pretty cool series, but it’s almost a religion over in Japan. I’m not sure if it’s still true, but at one time, the release of a Dragon Warrior game was considered a national holiday over there.