The first information about Dragon Quest VIII appeared

Last week, it became known about the plans of the Japanese company Square Enix to transfer eight parts of Dragon Quest to a mobile platform. Yesterday, the first details about one of the future releases appeared.

As you know, Japanese companies do not really like to radically change already released projects when porting to mobile platforms. However, along with tougher competition and a decrease in the tail of sales of paid projects, this policy may well change. Users no longer want to play poorly-transferred hits from twenty years ago, when there are games on virtual shelves next to them that are close in performance to current console projects. 

In addition, the Japanese market itself is going through far from the easiest time at the moment. The featured phones segment, which brought the main income to Japanese giants a couple of years ago, is dying. Users are “transplanted” to powerful devices, and developers have to rebuild with them, moving away from java to native applications.

By the way, due to the fact that the Japanese market partially missed the moment of this transition, there are already a huge number of Western projects in the paid iPhone top. 

Square Enix is also being rebuilt. Recently, a video of Dragon Quest VIII ported to the mobile platform became available on the Internet. Judging by it, this time the Japanese approached the transfer more seriously than usual. 

The eighth part of the JRPG will work in portrait mode. And you can play it with one hand.

A source: http://toucharcade.com