Dragon Quest Monsters Finally Drops Nintendo Exclusivity with a New PS5 Game
A new Dragon Quest Monsters game titled Dragon Quest Monsters: The Withered World has been announced for PS5. This marks a significant shift as the series has primarily been associated with Nintendo platforms for decades. The game is set to be a mainline entry and more information is expected to be revealed soon.
- ▪Dragon Quest Monsters: The Withered World is coming soon to PS5.
- ▪This game is known as Dragon Quest Monsters 4 in Japan.
- ▪The last Dragon Quest Monsters game on PlayStation was released in 2002.
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NewsSquare EnixPS5Dragon Quest Dragon Quest Monsters Finally Drops Nintendo Exclusivity with a New PS5 Game The Withered World awaits by Robert Ramsey5 mins ago Share: An all-new Dragon Quest Monsters game has been announced, and it's "coming soon" to PS5. The intriguingly titled Dragon Quest Monsters: The Withered World is actually called Dragon Quest Monsters 4 in Japan, so it's another mainline entry and not some kind of spin-off. As the headline of this article suggests, it's been a long, long time since a Monsters game arrived on PlayStation. The only one to do it was Dragon Quest Monsters 1+2 all the way back in 2002, on the PS1.
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