DragonQuest 9 is being developed for the DS, not the PS2 or PS3.

http://www.gamesarefun.com/news.php?newsid=7333

Considering that DragonQuest is THE Japanese game franchise (the country practically stops functioning on the release day of any of the main DQ titles -- the gov't even asked release days to be on the weekend so that it has less of an impact!), Sony has been delt a huge blow. 

D.Q was never Sony exlusive was it? Wasnt there a D.Q game just released for the DS, or maybe that was Dragon Warrior? Anyway, does it say that the serie will be on DS from now on? I can only see that they are talking about D.Q IX, not the upcomming games like D.Q X, XI and so on.

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The way i interpret this is that Square-Enix is seriously angry at Sony and dont want anything more to do with them. Why couldnt you just post this news without baking Sony hate into it? Im gettin so incredible tired of the Sony hating that im actually starting hate Nintendo, just because of all the fanboys I dont want to buy a Wii at all because of this, sadly enough. Ok, some people hate Sony, but is it really nessessary to mention it in every oportunity when something "bad" is happening to Sony? Aaargh!!

I know, but i dont see the same hate for 360 and Wii as i do for PS3 and Sony. Its just too much of it I see it enough on the other forums im on, i was hoping to avoid it here atleast.

I really do NOT like Sony's gaming division right now.  This goes for PS3 and PSP.  X360 and Wii are both great consoles.  If I was a 3rd party developer, I wouldn't want to develop for Sony either.  It's all a business.  Which console will be able to sell the most copies of your game?

Well in that case:

"PS3 is gonna phail...$600 for a stupid fat stupid system? LMAO. I wouldn't pay $6 for it let alone 100 times that amount.  LOL @ dumb Sony."

jajaja wrote on 12. Dec 2006 at 21:24:

Sorry that you took my post as hating on Sony. Your interpretation of the news is correct: "SE is angry at Sony and doesn't want to support them".

If I were truly hating on Sony, my post would have been something like:

"SquareEnix ditching Sony! Sony's gonna die!!! PS3 sucks, PSP sucks, DS roxors!"

But you see, I didn't say that. I'm not here to flamewar or fanboy-hate.

All I said was that SquareEnix chose to publish the Japanese national obsession on the DS and not a Sony platform. This is a massive blow to Sony and huge news. Square is telling Sony to get their collective shit together before they trust DQ with them. To me, that sounds like SE giving Sony the finger with a "we're nervous about supporting you in your current state". SquareEnix did the exact same thing to Nintendo in the mid 90s.

I understand your frustration at the flamewars and fangasms. I pisses me off too, for the same reasons. But please keep an open mind and objective perspective when reading what other say. Not everyone who has an opinion on a matter is simply fanboying or trolling for a flamewar.