Warlock of Firetop Mountain dev: 'big guys' not interested in DS-exclusive games

Yeah I don't see why they would all deny a game just for being DS exclusive, its more likely they just don't think the game would sell good.

Or, more likely, it didn't fit into their idea of what was a DS game. It's owned by a lot of people, yes. But that audience, by sales charts data, is mostly made up of a casual gaming demographic. This isn't a tirade against the system, it's simple reality. Your "Petz" and "Imagine" games on that platform are simply far lower risk and fit better into their business plans for the DS than a title for "hardcore gamers", unless it was a popular enough franchise like Call of Duty.

Sure they do (both, actually). But they usually only release games for the DS that are not also available on every other platform you can think of. DS exclusives? Unheard of.

Henry Hatsworth and Guitar Hero On Tour come to mind.

That's because no-one has tried to put a full-scale, AAA mature title there for a very long time

The fault here is the chicken, not the egg.

@Khan - oh come on - GTA:CW. Full-scale, AAA, M-rated, huge amount of development effort and the best game bar none on any current handheld system... and (even though it may have sold sort of okay by some standards) it wasn't a big success.

Sure, that's only one game, but at least one publisher did try, and you can't blame others for being wary. I agree that most of the other M-rated or otherwise mature-ish games have kind of sucked, often by trying to do something that would frankly just be better on a 'real' console. But that one didn't, and it still didn't sell.

that's what i was going to say... talk to Eidos (or is that Square now? )
Either way, Square don't seem to have a problem with DS only RPGs...

PS/ Warlock of Firetop Mountain = huge amounts of awesome!!!!