Dragon Quest ... what are the modern games doing?

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The extra content in the Switch versions is to counteract the wait and the performance drop. It's not as much of a difference with PS4 vs Switch, but DQXI is also on PC, and if you have a powerful enough PC, you can run the game at a much higher resolution and better framerate than on Switch. Between PC and Switch, it's harder to swallow that downgrade for some extra content, since the game really does look beautiful on PC.

It's common sense the Switch version came out later, it just fucking came out, and it's why I stated that's its entire selling point. In Japan, most people who wanted Dragon Quest 11 likely got it day one because of how big of a phenomenon it is over there, so because they announced it for the Switch and because it was delayed to be released such a long time later, they added many new features in the game that became selling points for people to double dip on a game they already bought. Yes, it's a plus for Nintendo Switch fans who didn't get it until later, but let's be serious, it's because they want to entice everyone else who bought it already by getting them to buy the same "Definitive Edition" as they so called it.

Seriously, you can't be that oblivious to the real reason they added it in. If they were releasing the same game on the Switch just because, there's no reason to add extra content. They literally added it because they wanted to get other people who already purchased it another reason to buy it. Do you think that Final Fantasy Dawn of Souls was rereleased with the extra content just because? Aside from it being a portable Final Fantasy that was one of the main selling points that they pushed, same with FF4 Advance, FF5 Advance, FF6 Advance. With both Final Fantasy 1 and 2 Anniversary Edition it was the graphics and music improvement, with FFTactics it was the new translation and extra content, with Tactics Ogre it was the completely reworked game, etc. They're not going to go out of their way and spend all this extra time, effort, and money, on releasing all this extra content unless they think that it will push others into purchasing it. Switch only owners in Japan who refused to get a PS4 but were desperate to play Dragon Quest 11 would have bought the game regardless, the extra content was to get people to double dip, plain as that.

Do you really think anyone who owns a Switch, GBA, PSP, etc, really gives a crap about extra content that they didn't know they were going to get in the first place? Of course no one is going to turn down extra content, but what I mean is they would have been satisfied regardless what version of the game they got if it was something they wanted to play. Nintendo fans are posting #Switcher3 this and Witcher 3 that, because they finally get to play Witcher 3. Does the game have extra content? Unless you call the DLC that was already released on the other versions and later Complete Editions of the same game, then no, so why would Dragon Quest 11 without extra content look any less appealing to someone who has never played and has wanted to play the game.

Here's other examples of console versions of games. When Capcom rereleased DmC Devil May Cry on the PS4 and XBO, not only did they include the DLC, but a selling point to entice people who already purchased the original 360/PS3/PC version, aside from the 60fps on consoles, is that Vergil now had a Bloody Palace, Gods Must Die, Hardcore mode, Turbo mode, red/blue enemies are now effected by any weapon, a lock on button along with an alternate way of doing Stinger style attacks since it was done using forward forward in DmC rather than lock on and towards. DMC4 on PS360 was already 60fps, so on PS4 they added Trish/Lady and Vergil modes as well as this PC only mode that added far more enemies. Resident Evil Origins added Wesker mode to RE0. Need I go on? Point is, these games had extra content on the PS4 and XBO so the same people may likely buy them all over again.

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So yeah, I doubt it, but if DQ11 ever rereleases on PS4 with the Switch content, I'll get it, if not, I'll get the Switch version. I always wanted to own the 3DS version, that was the one I was planning on getting first, but then Square Enix gave us the middle finger and didn't release it in the west. But thankfully we can now play it in some form. I'll also get the PS4 version of Chocobo Dungeon Every Buddy in Japan since it has English and I'll purchase the Switch version of WoFF Maxima multi-language since there's no retail PS4 version of it(but there's a retail version of the XBO version in the west which dropped to $20 in less than a month.)