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Square Enix Standalone TV Sword Mayhem

Posted by simoniker on from the hack-n-slash-n-hack-n-slash dept.

Sodakar writes "Square Enix announced today that they will be releasing the latest game in their popular Dragon Quest series in Japan on September 19th, for 6,980 yen (around $50). Not only are you required to swing a sword controller at the screen in order to defeat the enemy, the game doesn't require a console - the sword plugs directly into the TV via A/V cables. Here's some photos of the system, and the official news page. I'll be looking forward to a news blurb about some kid stabbing his TV."

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  1. Magic spells by cloudless.net · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Not exactly real-life, but it would be fun if I can do magic spells with a voice-recognition system.

    1. Re:Magic spells by Synic · · Score: 3, Funny

      "I cast magic missile!"
      "At what?? There's nothing there!"
      "At the darkness!"

  2. Linux by jnguy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hey, its another game system, lets put linux on that!!! I'll give you 100,000 to do it :)

  3. no one will buy it.. by Suppafly · · Score: 3, Insightful

    These self contained games that plug directly into the tv tend to not sell well at all. It might be different in japan, but in the us, these kinds of things are really only bought by people who don't have and can't afford a regular game system. They have deer hunting and fishing games like this at Target all the time. The display models are usually broken after a couple of days and then people lose interest.