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Big publishers not being interested in Ds only games just boggles my mind. It's the best selling portable games machine ever. So obviously there has to be a market somewhere. The games aren't that expensive to develop. The only problem i can see with making ds only games is the piracy rate. Which in all fairness is about as bad as every other portable console. its just benn publised more. I used to love the FF books when I was a kid, even though I always cheated. Didn't know people were still reading them. Fantastic. I love the FF books and still have most of the collection at home. The Warlock of Firetop Mountain is probably my favourite book (or Deathtrap Dungeon - which also had a decent game based on it) in the original series.
I'm surprised that Ian Livingstone (@ Eidos) hasn't used the source material more, considering he helped Steve Jackson with the books. :?
Anyway, I hope it is half decent. If so, I'll definitely buy it. There are almost 110million DS consoles out there, publishers would be mad to not make DS only titles.
It'd be like someone saying they didn't want to make PS2 only titles last gen... The problem comes from most of the DS users only ever buying a couple of games, which are usually only the ones that Nintendo advertise; Brain Training, Nintendogs and Prof. Layton being examples.
Shame really. The same problem applies to the Wii too. The DS has the higher attach rate out of the two handheld consoles, so that theory is a load of nonsense. Not interested in DS only games, or not interested in this particular games as a DS only release?
There's quuite a different there. »
That’s not an argument, as until of 6 months ago, Sony had forgot they even had a handheld, im sure in time the Attach rate will go up on the PSP in time with more games being released, but they totally didn’t support it the way they should have. People that bought the original PSP probably had, everybodys golf, and two GTA games and maybe GOW, and at the outside (Tomb Raider and Killzone). last i checked there only ever been one PSP, and there so far only been a handleful of games i've bothered with. It wasn't untill you could play psone games on it that it got a new lease of life IMO.
My Ds on the otherhand has a pretty large library of games and just keeps going from strength to strength. Ubi didn't like a DS only release? Well they've announced a new Might & Magic and COP: The Recruit as DS exclusives....
Why didn't they apporach Eidos/Square Enix? Ian Livingstone said he'd love to see a Video Game adaption and Square Enix are fine with DS only releases(they love them in fact). As others have said, the big companies would be idiots not to support the DS. And aren't most DS games exclusive anyway? They have to be because the DS and PSP are so different. I own both of themand IMO the only really playable games come from Square Enix on either, with the odd outside game (Monster Hunter, God of War etc). The DS is an excellent system which sells like crazy.
(BTW does anyone know where I can buy a wrist strap for my DS?) Thats a lie look at how many games there are published on the DS from big companies. Maybe they dont want to publish this because they dont want to take a risk with a game that may not sell well. | 
