SAN FRANCISCO — Nintendo’s Wii console might not sell as well this year as it did in 2009, executive vice president Cammie Dunaway said Thursday. Speaking to Wired.com during the company’s media summit at the W hotel in San Francisco, Dunaway said that at this point in the lifecycle of Nintendo’s home console, sales might not continue to climb. “It’s natural that at this point in the lifecycle, going in to our fifth year, that we’re probably not going to sell as many units next year as we sold this year.
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American DS owners have been waiting patiently for Dragon Quest IX , as the game racks up crazy sales in Japan and weekly DLC is released from Square Enix.
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Nintendo publishing Dragon Quest IX in North America
Dragon Quest fans will recognize the name Luida’s Bar from the role-playing game; it’ll also be the name of an establishment Square Enix is opening in Tokyo later this month, coinciding with Dragon Quest VI ’s release on the DS. The bar opens to the public Jan. 28 in Roppongi, Tokyo, but before that, it’ll be holding sneak peeks from Jan
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Square Enix to Open Dragon Quest-Themed Bar [Japan]
Though we’re confident Infinite Interactive’s Puzzle Quest 2 will eventually be a mega -multiplatform release like its predecessor, D3Publisher announced that the game’s roll-out will start on DS and Xbox Live Arcade. It’ll be out in spring 2010, along with every other game you’ve ever heard of, which means that you’ll now have the choice to play all those games or Puzzle Quest . They’ll occupy about the same amount of time
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Puzzle Quest 2 coming to DS, XBLA in Spring 2010
Despite the handicap of not being for sale in most of the world, Dragon Quest IX for the DS sold more copies than any other game in the world between July and September of this year, according to a Top Global Markets report .
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Dragon Quest IX is Q3’s top-selling game
The Taiko Drum Master series has a new Wii game coming, called Taiko no Tatsujin Dodon to 2 Dai Me . Sticks and all it’ll cost 7,980 yen when released on November 19th. Why am I talking yen?
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New Taiko cameos: YMCK, Dragon Quest, Idolmaster
RPG juggernaut Square Enix already has a handful of reliable internet protocols intellectual properties in Final Fantasy , Dragon Quest and Kingdom Hearts — however, the company is looking to expand its portfolio of best-selling franchises. In a recent interview with Reuters , Squeenix’s Yoichi Wada explained that the developer is hoping to have eight flagship IPs, each installment in which will be capable of selling two million units
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Square Enix looking to develop more best-selling IPs
TOKYO — Outside the giant Yodobashi-Akiba department store in the Akihabara district, hundreds of gamers gather each day, crowdsourcing the hunt for rare creatures and virtual treasure. They stand, packed together in a cordoned-off area reserved for them, as store employees attempt to keep the sidewalk clear, ushering the players behind safety barriers. Everyone is holding a Nintendo DS and playing this year’s hottest new game: Dragon Quest IX .
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Why Tokyo Crowds Can’t Stop Playing Dragon Quest IX
Dragon Quest IX may be out, but that doesn’t mean Square Enix isn’t done with DQ games. At this year’s TGS, there will be two Dragon Quest titles on display: Dragon Quest VI and Dragon Quest III .
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Square Enix Bringing More Dragon Quest To Tokyo Game Show [Tgs 09]
Not every game exec plays video games. Square Enix honcho Yoichi Wada says he does. Or says he does.
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Square Enix President Played Dragon Quest IX For 30 Hours [Imperial Hot]
