Megaton: Dragon Quest X in development for Wii
by JC Fletcher 
{ Dec 10th 2008 at 12:48AM }
The announcement is super early, but from what we can tell, Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii "accidentally" said "We're developing Dragon Quest X on the Wii." Satoru Iwata then went on stage and said "Thank you very much for developing Dragon Quest X on the Wii!" Horii protested and said something to the effect of "Let's introduce Dragon Quest IX first!"
Thanks for making the internet explode with your banter, guys! Reuters has confirmed the announcement as well, and they're, like, respectable. (And their writer was probably there.)
[Via NeoGAF]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
TwEE @ Dec 10th 2008 1:19AM
Good news for the wii.. did they have this in development alongside 9 I wonder, or are they just starting..
Steven Colbert @ Dec 10th 2008 1:38AM
Excllent.I hope Level 5 is making it because they are the best RPG developers right now.I don't want SE to develop it internally
david @ Dec 10th 2008 9:52AM
DQ is a Square Enix game now so no chance of that.
samfish @ Dec 10th 2008 10:03AM
I believe Level 5 is working on DQ IX, though, hence why he said that.
Tiael @ Dec 10th 2008 7:51PM
Square-Enix hand-picked Level 5 to develop Dragon Quest VIII for the PS2 and now Dragon Quest IX for the DS, so they may also have them develop Dragon Quest X for the Wii.
Metayoshi @ Dec 10th 2008 2:05AM
Dragon Quest IX is not even out yet, and they're already making X? Slow down Squeenix.
The Fatass of Kickassness @ Dec 10th 2008 2:37AM
Slow down? You're joking, right? The faster, the better. Certainly better than waiting and playing lame Squaremakes in the meantime.
SoshiKitai @ Dec 10th 2008 11:49AM
With how generically the-same DQ and FF games are, I'd be disappointed it they took eternity to release these games (I've realized that I never actually miss out on ANYTHING if I skip out on a certain DQ or FF game).
...hell, the main reason they slow down on FF games are just for cut-scenes and over-charted status and leveling systems.
...if they did something ground-breakingly different in each game, THEN you can tell them to slow down.
Phil @ Dec 10th 2008 4:02AM
I basically lost my collective shit over on Joystiq.
Whee.
Good news. Classic gaming will stay on a console suiting for it.
Again I say, Whee. :D
selena @ Dec 10th 2008 11:44PM
Great news for Wii.
Mr Khan @ Dec 10th 2008 8:08AM
Victoly!
(in the spirit of Samurai Showdown)
FrannieBaby @ Dec 10th 2008 8:45AM
Such awesome news!
Now if only it would come out in North America sometime before 2011...
vidGuy @ Dec 10th 2008 9:35AM
First thing I thought of when I saw this post: who is the old Japanese woman?
Atlantis1982 @ Dec 10th 2008 10:51AM
Not sure if I will get this, but I know this is the big (censored) for RPG fans.
Kenology18 @ Dec 10th 2008 12:13PM
This is a megaton and should have more comments.
Matias @ Dec 10th 2008 1:03PM
Holy s***, more rpg's!!!! I need more rpg's, I'm replaying my old ones because of the rpg drought on the home consoles.
The next year is going to be great, so many rpg's coming to the wii, I can't wait for the 2008 to end.
I hope DQX comes the next year too, then it would be even better.
intro94 @ Dec 10th 2008 2:51PM
fking yeah! WII NEEDS RPG LOVE!keep pushing it square!
next year wii will have so many good exclusives.
intro94 @ Dec 10th 2008 2:52PM
which just reminded me, We can now answer to those ps3 fanboys who brag about ffxIII , we got DQ IX and X(pawnage).
zeldazeppelin @ Dec 10th 2008 9:12PM
I can die happy. This is great news. I think this could be the megaton of the year.