Nintendo Pitches In to Help Dragon Quest Succeed -- What It Means

Wired: "The announcement, two years ago, that Dragon Quest IX would arrive on Nintendo DS certainly gave game publishers the confidence to latch on to that platform. Hence the reason for Iwata's 'big smile,' as reported by Japanese game blogs, when Dragon Quest mastermind Yuji Horii blurted out that the tenth game would arrive on Wii. Even if it takes three years before it happens, just knowing that it is coming will make consumers more confident in buying Wii, and publishers more confident in putting big-name games on the platform. If you don't think that such a major ripple effect could happen, then you don't understand just how huge Dragon Quest is in Japan."