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Square Enix Aims For Simultaneous Worldwide Releases

cw_sasuke said:
no, the dq 4,5 and 6 are the explanation for that delay :-)
also they reworked the battle-system....still dq9 christmas 08 worldwide would be fuckin sweet :D
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Yeah, the reworked battle system did cock up the development. What were they thinking? Aren't DQ IV, V and VI ports handled by a different development company?

Anyway speaking of promised of simultaneous release, Rocket Slime isn't even released in Europe yet...
 
JunoTaksumi said:
NA + JP = The world according to S-E

I'm calling it now, a year down the line when they are releasing games in NA + JP at the same time they'll deny PAL is in the world
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sad thing is you are probablly right but i live in NA so it would be good for me.
 
batbeg said:
Huge delay? It wasn't even announced that long ago.
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Though we haven't heard a thing about it since August last year.

DQ5 DS is also supposed to have a Spring 2008 release, but its official site hasn't even seen one update since it opened on December 21. I really wonder what the heck is going on.
 
Konami's still the company to get the closest on this with SV (2-4 weeks later). Even "same day worldwide" LO was 2-3 months.

We shall see...
 
Well for PS3 games, they could have the space to make it bilingual. Aside from labeling, it probably would cut costs of manufacturing different prints of their PS3 games and release them worldwide.
 
monkeylite said:
Yeah, the reworked battle system did cock up the development. What were they thinking? Aren't DQ IV, V and VI ports handled by a different development company?
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Yes, but still buisness and marketing-wise it`s better phase out those releases.... first make sure that all dq fans are on the ds wagon by releasing the remakes..and then the final touch with the nem installment...

yeah, still no rocket slim in eu - but at least we got dqm:j :D

@Bebpo

Also don`t forget Capcom....
 
Bebpo said:
Konami's still the company to get the closest on this with SV (2-4 weeks later). Even "same day worldwide" LO was 2-3 months.

We shall see...
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Didn't Odin Sphere come out during the same week in Japan and North America?
 
DMPrince said:
Yes! But where's The Last Remnant?!
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Thanks to the miracle that is Unreal Engine 3, it's finally possible to finish multiplatform games with mindblowing next gen visuals on time and within budget. There's no need to worry.
 
Aeana said:
Didn't Odin Sphere come out during the same week in Japan and North America?
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Yeah. OS was weird though. The game was finished for months and just sat because they wanted dual release.

That could be what happens for SE's Japan games though.
 
IzumiK said:
Well for PS3 games, they could have the space to make it bilingual. Aside from labeling, it probably would cut costs of manufacturing different prints of their PS3 games and release them worldwide.
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Uncharted almost filled a blu ray with it's multiple languages. FF games have full screen pre rendered video so I would think that they may have space problems and be shipping a multi disc game.
 
If this new plan doesnt include FFXIII then it doesnt matter.

And start releasing your "international" editions on the USA and EU markets. Do you like money or not?
 
ymmv said:
Thanks to the miracle that is Unreal Engine 3, it's finally possible to finish multiplatform games with mindblowing next gen visuals on time and within budget. There's no need to worry.
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:lol
 
In the age of region free PS3 and DS I no longer care.

The only delay is the time it takes for the game to arrive from Canada.
 
DMPrince said:
Yes! But where's The Last Remnant?!
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Agreed. I thought that it would be out by now at least in JP or with a solid release date. It was one of the first games they announced for 360/PS3.
 
oo Kosma oo said:
In the age of region free PS3 and DS I no longer care.

The only delay is the time it takes for the game to arrive from Canada.
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yep pretty much. so i could be playing dqix this year? o:
 
I'm probably being a cynic, but despite the potential awesomeness of this news, 15 years of being a PAL gamer make me question such a promise.

I'll believe it when I see it, and I fully expect PAL delay announcements somewhere down the line. Yep, definitely a cynic.
 
Square Enix's world map:

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"Simultaneous releases" = when FINAL FANTASY XIV hits Japan, XIII is released in Euroland
 
Over the last few years:
Final Fantasy PSP - 2 months Japan-NA
Heroes of Mana DS - 5 months Japan-NA
FF 12 Revenant Wings DS - 7 months Japan-NA
FF Tactics PSP - 5 months Japan-NA
Itadaki Street DS - 9 months and counting... receiving a 2008 release in NA
Front Mission 1st DS - 7 months Japan-NA
Final Fantasy II PSP - 1 month Japan-NA
Dragon Quest Swords Wii - 7 months Japan-NA
Dragon Quest IV DS - 5 months and counting...
The World Ends With You DS - 8 months Japan-NA
Final Fantasy XII International PS2 - Not receiving an NA release
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates DS - 7 months Japan-NA
Crisis Core FF7 PSP - 6 months Japan-NA
Final Fantasy Tactics A2 DS - 5 months and counting...
Final Fantasy IV DS - 3 months and counting...
Star Ocean PSP - 3 months and counting...
Chocobo's Dungeon Wii - 3 months and counting...

Given that they have approximately 7 months worth of backlogged games to burn through, the only way they're going to be able to catch up is to: a) Not localize a bunch of games, b) Lull releases in Japan, or c) Massively bunch up their US release schedule.

Assuming they schedule all of their remaining to-be-localized releases over this summer (so, The World Ends With You, DQIV DS, Tactics, FFIV, Star Ocean, Chocobo's Dungeon), stagger their spring-summer Japan releases until the early fall (DQV, Star Ocean 2, Dissidia) they could pretty conceivably do worldwide releases starting with DQIX, The Last Remnant, DQVI, Infinite Undiscovery, The Crystal Bearers, and FFXII.

The only problem is that that's a REALLY tight summer-fall release schedule. Bare minimum 9 releases from April-August.
 
If this means not having to wait a year for Dragon quest games I'm for it, thought that's not alway a good thing since the wait for 8 actually made it a better more improved game so I guess it depends on the context of what's coming out.

Really as long as they keep the gap short like how quick the release was for Kingdom hearts 2 after it had been released in Japan I don't mind. It does take time to properly translate rpgs after all.
 
Until I actually see this happen with any DQ game, I completely refuse to believe.

DQIV JP contains an almost-complete English translation, and there hasn't been even a hint of an announcement of a North American release. The game released in Japan 4 months ago.
 
Bad news for Japanese gamers. I think the game would've been released earlier in Japan if they didn't care for a worldwide release.
 
good to hear and now let's hear some release dates for the games already announced and/or find out some new games in development for the current gen.
seriously didnt' they release ffX within a year of ps2 release and not to mention bouncer at launch.
 
You can thank the strength of the gaming markets outside of Japan for this sudden shift in policy
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Translation: Squeenix not seeing the immediate returns they'd like to see in Japan because the Japanese are too focused on non-games.

I still think they're full of shit. They'll say they want to do it, but it'll be business as usual.
 
Snaku said:
Translation: Squeenix not seeing the immediate returns they'd like to see in Japan because the Japanese are too focused on non-games.

I still think they're full of shit. They'll say they want to do it, but it'll be business as usual.
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The Last Remnant?
 
Dark Oni said:
good to hear and now let's hear some release dates for the games already announced and/or find out some new games in development for the current gen.
seriously didnt' they release ffX within a year of ps2 release and not to mention bouncer at launch.
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That they did. They've been slacking this generation >:O
 
soul said:
The Last Remnant?
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Was developed with the Western market specifically in mind. A simultaneous release wouldn't be unusual since that was their aim from the beginning.

The normal Nomura fair on the other hand...
 
Snaku said:
Was developed with the Western market specifically in mind. A simultaneous release wouldn't be unusual since that was their aim from the beginning.

The normal Nomura fair on the other hand...
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Well, no. They created two main characters, each one with a different region in mind. Rush Sykes for Japan and a yet-to-be revealed char for the Western region.
 
soul said:
Well, no. They created two main characters, each one with a different region in mind. Rush Sykes for Japan and a yet-to-be revealed char for the Western region.
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Isn't the conquerer the Western character? Everyone assumed he'd be playable and they said he actually isn't, but he should appeal to the West anyway (thus the whole thing about one character for each region was bullshit).
 
Prime Blue said:
Square Enix's world map:

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"Simultaneous releases" = when FINAL FANTASY XIV hits Japan, XIII is released in Euroland
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regionfree so its all good
xiii worldwide in spring 09 would be soooo :D :D :D
 
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