Square Enix Want To Bring Dragon Quest VII For 3DS To The West, But Aren’t Sure If It’ll Sell Enough

Siliconera:
"At PAX Prime, Siliconera caught up with Dragon Quest mobile producer Noriyoshi Fujimoto, and asked whether Square Enix were interested in publishing the Dragon Quest VII remake for the Nintendo 3DS in North America."

[MrSwankSinatra]

Well then let Nintendo publish like what you did with bravely default. The only reason this situation exists is because the quality of JRPG's has dropped significantly. I blame japanese developers who would rather make borderline hentai rpgs for anime nuts than REAL JRPG's like DQVII.

[Summons75]

To add to that whenever we do get a great JRPG the anime nuts (as you put it and I quite agree) complain about it and don't buy it making us suffer on the next game.

[NewMonday]

@MrSwankSinatra

they make good games but the crazy thing is that they don't want to publish them west or let any 3rd party do it.

[user5575708]

its all money. if its cost efficient to do it they will but i assume they would need to move over 100,000 units for it to be worth it.

[DrakeVan]

I would like to speak for us 'Anime Nuts' that its not like we want some of those games they bring over. I'd rather have DQ 7 anyday (especially considering when the game Monster Monpiece exists)

[levian]

Well said. I loved Bravely Default, best classic JRPG I've played in years. People say the Vita is great and has a lot of RPGs but most are the type of games you pointed out, borderline hentai RPGs.

Also, didn't they say the EXACT same thing about Bravely Default, among other games? I saw an article some time in the past few months saying they realize the Western JRPG audience is larger than they thought it was. Did they not learn at all?

[3-4-5]

OMG Square.

How out of touch with reality can you possibly be ?

I mean how clueless are they ?

Literally topics daily about how much we want Dragon Quest 7 3DS to be released in the US.

* It's like they really are that dumb.

It will sell a million easily, like....what are they thinking?

Are they thinking at all ?

[3-4-5]

All the non-boob pervy games never end up heading over to the west.

Tons of normal traditional RPG's stuck in Japan because for some reason they think we don't want them.

Japan, we love normal RPG's too, it's just that you don't make enough of them.

We can't buy something that isn't available to be purchased.

[Kamikaze135]

I really wish developers would use Kickstarter (or something like it) to figure out whether they should develop a game or not. Once they hit a certain goal, they could go on with localizing the game and send out copies for the supporters that paid x amount of money. This way they're guaranteed a profit from the start and don't have to worry.

[BenRage3]

I'd buy it.

[mikel1015]

You'll never know until you try. If Bravely Default sold well, then take a chance with another franchise like this. Also bring Dragon Quest 10 for Wii U and 3DS over, too :3

[Relientk77]

Seriously?

Bring it to the West

[PiNkFaIrYbOi]

One of the better Dragon Quests made. Still have our copy for the PS1.

[krontaar]

It doesn't matter if it sells well, it will never be "enough" for square enix.

[Summons75]

Weirdly nothing Square Enix does will ever be "enough" for so called fans.

[Chard]

Here's some advice Square Enix - whatever instinct you have about how to handle any of your games, do the opposite.

[DarkLord1003]

I'd buy it.

I don't unterstand how the whole business with porting works. Why do games like Hatsune Miku get a western release but gems like this one don't

[tehpees3]

Why are they even thinking about it? Every other company cannot wait to localize 3DS games. Did Bravely Default seriously not meet their expectations after they highlighted it as a big seller?

I want to facepalm right now.

[OtakuDJK1NG-Rory]

No it did. The creator was even surprised by it sales. It sold over 600,000 and around 400,000 in Japan.

[hkgamer]

just fking do it.

i hate it when companies dont want to ruin there assets if they dont sell well so they choose not. i think a lot of devs in japan worry too much about cultural differences, there is a big audience for anime in the west now and its no longer classed as a niche thing. market dragon quest well and its going to make decent enough numbers.

[ArmitageSeven]

They're not going to know if it'll sell well if they don't give it a chance. But that's their call to make. I'd say localize it and wait and see the results, THEN they can decide whether or not it was worth trying.

[franwex]

even if it doesn't meet their expectations it builds up a fanbase to cash into in the future. they are already feeling defeated without even trying, what kind of attitude is that?

[colonel179]

Square Enix are pathetic now. They don't want to take even the slightest risk anymore, and they just make stupid decisions. They don't want to release FFXV until there is enough install base, but they forget that a lot of people bought a PS3 for the game, and how did that turn out?

After they release Kingdom Hearts 3, they will become irrelevant, at least for me. Unless FFXV is a mega hit (which I seriously doubt it), what other games will they release that people will want? They already screwed more that half of their Tomb Raider fanbase.

How I wish that either they get bought by some other company, so that they get rid of the piss poor administration they have now, or they just pull a THQ. They have become the cancer of Japanese developers, and gaming industry. They are like the EA and Activision of Japan.

[DougLord]

Kickstarter it

[pecorre]

What??? That's really dumb. Tons of people are waiting for it!

[tweet75]

Dragaon quest was my introduction to jrpgs 25 years ago. It still holds up as one of the best rpg experiences ive had. The series has a simplicity to it yet hits all the enojoyable aspects of rpgs. Personally id like an drago quest compitation.

[TuxedoMoon]

Physical copies of a game is more expensive than digital copies right? With rights and whatnot I mean. Cause if square wants to be cheap, they can just translate (doesn't even have to have English voice acting if they want to cut corners) the games and release them digitally. Translation and releasing it in the 3ds store is WAY cheaper than releasing a physical copy. This way we gt the GOOD square RPGs and they don't lose so much money on it.

Hell, they can have a limited edition version where you get the physical game off their store.

This is the best and cheapest suggestion I can think of. Sure we don't get a physical game, but I'd rather be able to play it (digitally) than not be able to play it at all.

[thejigisup]

Put that ish on the vita

[voodoochild346]

Lol. Yeah that'll get the numbers up...

[LaserEyeKitty]

Square Enix: "Please understand."

[TheCagyDies]

Bravely Default numbers says "DO IT"

[Inception]

Again, SE and their highly stupid target estimation :/

[vickers500]

Why is localization so tough? Just curious, as it seems like it would be something that would be much easier to do than any of the other work on the game such as programming and all that.

Hire someone fluent in both Japanese in English, give him the script of all the dialogue, replace Japanese sentences with English sentences and have it finished within a week, tops. Unless there's some other aspect of localization that I'm not getting or if it's much harder than that? Any time I hear about localization, it always seems to take a year or more for it to get done. Why? It's not like they change that much (if any) of the games actual content, so why is it such a long process?

[stragomccloud]

Please bring it!!!!!