Dragon Quest XII 'Development Preperation' Is Underway, Says Series Producer

As my entry into the Dragon Quest franchise, I loved XI to bits.

I'm up for more Dragon Quest.

Can't wait to see how their non-Ninty fan base gets screwed over. 🙄

I need to get round to playing XI sooner or later, actually I'll make it my next purchase

Excellent. I'm holding out for the Switch release of XI but I'm quite sure I will enjoy it.

Excellent. I loved DQXI and I'll have to get back to it for that platinum.

Exciting news. I love DQ, although 11 still in my backlog (only just started ni no kuni 2 today so it will be a while). Won't get too excited until its actually announced for a Sony platform though

@Rob_230 I literally started that about 3 days ago, really enjoying it so far but it does make me miss playing the first one

I'm 61hrs in and it's great! This is good news.

@carlos82 40 minutes or so for me. Enjoying it so far, but i do miss the charm of Oliver and Drippy, and that glorious welsh accent.

So far my initial impression is where is the voice acting? Im all up for reading text, but it seems really inconsistent between VO and text boxes (which are painfully small to read)

Either way, looking forward to getting stuck in tonight

Cool. I like how DQ has retained its identity over the years. Hopefully this is another absolutely beautiful turn-based JRPG.

@viciousarcanum Yeah, getting the game two years ahead of the Switch version was a real tough pill to swallow, wasn't it?

@Ralizah surprised he prob doesn’t realize that unless you count the 3DS ver (which is 🇯🇵ese Exclusive) the PS4 ver will be the top selling ver with the PC Ver prob 2nd & Switch ver 3rd

The Japanese market ain’t gonna buy it because... they already have it. (It’ll be sub 100/500K) Also it’s cheaper on 3DS & PS4 ver Prob has a nice discount.

West: I think Sony will dab on Nintendo by discounting DQXI on PS4, same w Steam... it’ll prob be $30 maybe near $20... while the Switch ver yes it has more content & such but it’s gonna be the full AAA retail price... ($60)

I wonder if they’ll do PS5 First then Switch/Whatever is after Switch about 1 or 2 years later or will Sony pay for full Console exclusivity... but it may or may not come to Steam or EGS...

The above would help PS5 sales in 🇯🇵

@Rob_230 Drippy was amazing and yeah it's a bit weird when some of it is fully voiced, then other times just a word or sentence with the rest just text and it's kind of annoying to still have to hit X to continue even the bits which are voiced. Really good game though so far, with fun combat and I a nice story of a young boy who wants to bring peace to the world by creating an army and conquering everyone else 😆

@Derpie1 I could see it selling extremely well on Switch in the West. Maybe even better than the PS4 version, as with Ys VIII and a few other JRPG ports.

It won't sell as much as the PS4 version in Japan, but I expect it'll probably do reasonably well for a port, considering it's a big name franchise and SE will likely be pushing the extra content in this port.

No idea how well it has done on PC, so I can't speak to that.

Worldwide, I expect the Switch version to be competitive with the other releases.

DQXI is already frequently available for around $30 in the States. Anyone who wants the game on PS4 likely already owns it. I doubt dropping the price on the PS4 version will effect the sales of the Switch port much.

@Ralizah I think he was talking about how previous Games only came to nintendo platforms

I played a ton of DQ XI, hopefully XII get's a western release too.

Very good news.

Maybe they should port VIII first and stop artificially handicap this beautiful game with being 3ds 240p exclusive? And they coukd always port those 3D remakes like Dragon Quest VII from 3ds and Dragon Quest V from PS2.

@Ralizah

1. The West got the game only a few months ago.
2. The game was in development for PS4/PC before the Switch was even a thing so release date has nothing to do with it.
3. I have a Switch but Square can shove it if they think they can try and force people to "double-dip", especially since...
4. We live in an age where extra content can be supplied to anyone without having to resell the same product at the exact same price again.
5. I never said we should get the extra stuff for free, paid dlc and expansions are common place now and it's perfectly valid to provide the new stuff in such a way, heck it makes perfect sense financially to do so.
6. Defend this and you might aswell defend all third-party platform exclusive content, preorder dlc etc.
7. Then again Ninty gets such special treatment that I'm not really surprised people still turn the other way compared to other companies. 🙄

1) 9 months. There will be over a year-long difference in the Western release dates by the time it comes out, more than likely (July and August will already be stacked on Switch). It'll be about a two year difference in Japan.

2) Sure it does, because the Switch port was also announced well before the system was released. In fact, it was the first game ever officially confirmed for the system, and was supposed to release alongside the other versions. It's not like this was a recently revealed port in a Nintendo Direct. The Switch version was MASSIVELY delayed.

3) Then... uh... don't double-dip? This is a port for people who wanted the game on Switch. If you already own it, you're not likely the target demographic.

4) At least part of the extra content (the optional retro graphical style) comes directly from the 3DS version we never got. Look at it this way: the Switch port is massively delayed because of development issues, meaning PS4 and PC owners got to play it quite a long time before Switch owners, despite plans to release all the versions simultaneously. The beleaguered Switch port finally rears its head with a bit of extra content to make up for the massive delay, but you feel angry and entitled to the extra content, despite getting the game on your preferred platform first. It seems a bit petty. Especially when the PS4 version was a full, complete version of the game. It's not like the PS4 release was some crappy early access version of the game that was rushed out to market to fund THE REAL VERSION on Switch or something.

5) Refer to (4). Also, we don't know to what degree Nintendo money is involved with the development of the exclusive content.

6) I have no automatic grudge against platform exclusive content. This is quite different, though: it's not like the Switch port released around the same time and happened to get more content. This is a very late port of the game, and the exclusive content will help it sell better (because late ports are always going to underperform when compared to the original release of something, especially in Japan).

7) Nintendo fans getting late ports and often half-assed and poorly optimized third party support is "special treatment?" I guess, in a way, it is. It's certainly "special treatment" when Capcom charges $10 more for games like Resident Evil HD on Switch than it does on PS4. When Switch is the only system not to get regular, full retail releases, even for tiny games that would fit on small cartridges, I guess that's special treatment also. But Nintendo fans are getting a somewhat better version of a JRPG you'll have had access to for a year now and were probably satisfied with in the first place, so you feel like your needs as a DQ fan are being disregarded. Cry me a river, dude.