Nintendo News | Itadaki Street - Dragon Quest and Mario (Update - Confirmed)

By Jorge Ba-oh 30.09.2006 13

Update 2:
With Square Enix giving much needed RPG love to the DS recently, the company plan on bringing something a little bit different to the platform in a portable board game...

In the recent edition of Japanese magazine Famitsu, the game has been confirmed as well as including characters from Dragon Quest and Mario!

Stay tuned for updates.

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Original Story -
With Square Enix giving much needed RPG love to the DS recently, rumour has it that the company plan on bringing something a little bit different to the platform in a portable board game.

The rumour stems from a Japanese blogger that seems to have close ties with Square Enix, as his previous predictions have come true

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jesusraz is offline. jesusraz 28.09.2006#1

Ooh, really? Wow...the PSP version maxxed out at around the 110,000-120,000 unit mark in Japan, but it was immensely popular on the PS2.

This is another major coup for Nintendo, if true. But this guy's been right about Chocobo and FFXII so far, so there's no reason to doubt Smilie

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Laurelin is offline. Laurelin 28.09.2006#2

I don't think that icons from one franchise work good everywhere else (like Link being in Soulcalibur... oh, crap, that was amazing... Shit, I can't find a good example), but when this game is fun, I want to hear more of it. No. I want to hear more of it to see if it's acutally funny!


Help, I'm confused!

I find your lack of faith disturbing!
 
Grampasso is offline. Grampasso 28.09.2006#3

Given the great result obtained with Mario Basketball: 3on3 it's just to be expected. This rumour hints to a Itadaki Street + Mario Party, which would be really, REALLY great and would confirm once more the recently formed strong allegiance between SE and Nintendo.
Finger crossed...

 
jb is offline. jb 28.09.2006#4

Woa, the addition of Mario and FF would be amusing!

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jesusraz is offline. jesusraz 28.09.2006#5

This is a very interesting post from jarrod on NeoGAF:

...just the 2nd PS2 Itadaki Street had FF/DQ characters... and the PSP version was a port of that game. The series is notable for being Yuji Hori and Armor Project's 2nd biggest franchise (after Dragon Quest)... list!

  • Itadaki Street: Watashi no Oten Niyottete (FC) Armor Project/Loginsoft 1991
  • Itadaki Street 2: Neon Sign wa Bara Iro ni (SFC) Armor Project/??? 1994
  • Itadaki Street: Gorgeous King (PS) Armor Project/??? 1998
  • Itadaki Street 3 (PS2) Armor Project/Tamsoft 2002
  • Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street Special (PS2) Armor Project/TOSE 2004
  • Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street Portable (PSP) Armor Project/TOSE 2006
  • New Itadaki Street (DS) Armor Project/tba 2007

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    The Croft is offline. The Croft 28.09.2006#6

    FF, DQ, Nintendo characters in the same game.

    Square Enix and Nintendo are having dirty dreams about the sales that this bad boy will get.

    SE stated that they will be supporting all 3 consoles but they may as well be handheld exclusive for the DS


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    dojo is offline. dojo 28.09.2006#7

    @Mr Ashcroft

    I don't think SE will soon let go of the PSP, as it still has a pretty large(ish) userbase.

    As for the game, I think it'd work well over the WFC with voice chat too. And, oh, I dunno, maybe if it was a port of the NES or SNES one and you could play it over the net with people on their Wii's virtual console. Complicated but awesome.

     
    jb is offline. jb 30.09.2006#8

    Woo! It's been confirmed - first scan updated!

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    Grampasso is offline. Grampasso 30.09.2006#9

    Wait, it's DQ & Mario, FF has nothing to do with it. Please correct the news ^^

     
    jb is offline. jb 30.09.2006#10

    Grampasso said:
    Wait, its DQ & Mario, FF has nothing to do with it. Please correct the news ^^

    Thanks for pointing that out Smilie

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    dojo is offline. dojo 30.09.2006#11

    w00t! I can't see a WFC logo anywhere though...

     
    The Croft is offline. The Croft 30.09.2006#12

    Another 1m seller for the DS then


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    tiamat1990 is offline. tiamat1990 03.10.2006#13

    jesusraz said:
    Ooh, really? Wow...the PSP version maxxed out at around the 110,000-120,000 unit mark in Japan, but it was immensely popular on the PS2.This is another major coup for Nintendo, if true. But this guys been right about Chocobo and FFXII so far, so theres no reason to doubt Smilie

    I guess so...

     

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