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Cloudman on 04 July 2015

I bet Star will be thrilled to hear this news : ) Guess I'll give it a shot too.



 

              

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LuckyTrouble on 04 July 2015
Skullwaker said:
LuckyTrouble said:
DQX was a flop in Japan. It sold so poorly on the Wii and Wii U they ported it to freaking every non-home console platform under the sun trying to get more people to buy it. If Japan doesn't want it, it wouldn't sell pretty much at all in the West.

DQX was only on 3DS, Wii, Wii U and PC.

And it wasn't really a flop. Did it sell an amazing number of units? No. But it's an MMO, so what matters is how long the user base stays subscribed. Each time an update is released, it sells more than the one before it, and Squeenix has said that it's been a successful venture for them.

That being said, there's absolutely no chance it will come to the west.

Flop might be strong. It just didn't perform all that well for a Dragon Quest game. It did decently for an MMO, at least. Oh, also, you forgot Android. 3DS, Wii, Wii U, PC, and Android is a pretty wide range of systems. To me, that comes across as either a little desperate, or a little greedy. My guess would be that the subscriber base started to dip, so they released the 3DS version to try to appeal even further to the handheld crowd past the Android port. Either way, it's all irrelevant, since like you said, no way it's ever coming West. It may not have flopped in Japan, but by MMO and DQ standards, it would flop hard in the West.



 

Wyrdness on 04 July 2015
BasilZero said:
CWegzz said:

I've been considering that too.  Which game is the best to start with, or does it not matter?


Doesnt matter which one - its like Final Fantasy  , none of the games storylines relate to each other.


Techincally a few do even thought they're independent of each other. DQVIII is a distant sequel to DQIV but doesn't require playing the latter.



bigtakilla on 04 July 2015
LuckyTrouble said:
bigtakilla said:
Will get both day 1, can they also find it in their hearts to freaking release DQ X?

DQX was a flop in Japan. It sold so poorly on the Wii and Wii U they ported it to freaking every non-home console platform under the sun trying to get more people to buy it. If Japan doesn't want it, it wouldn't sell pretty much at all in the West.


Doesn't stop me from wanting it.



Platina on 04 July 2015

Oh, finally! That's really good to hear



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Darwinianevolution on 04 July 2015

It took them long enough. Also, if they release next year, I have no idea how am I going to buy all the 3DS titles coming out in 2016.



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RenCutypoison on 04 July 2015

Third time in a row that Square Enix send big shots at the Japan Expo and announce big stuff, I really like how much love they give to smaller conventions.

Excited about playing DQ7 for the first time, and getting to play DQ8 again !



RealGamingExpert on 04 July 2015

Nice! Day one for sure!



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noname2200 on 04 July 2015
RenCutypoison said:
Third time in a row that Square Enix send big shots at the Japan Expo and announce big stuff, I really like how much love they give to smaller conventions

Doesn't seem like he was supposed to announce this though.



RenCutypoison on 04 July 2015
noname2200 said:
RenCutypoison said:
Third time in a row that Square Enix send big shots at the Japan Expo and announce big stuff, I really like how much love they give to smaller conventions

Doesn't seem like he was supposed to announce this though.


And Tetsuya Nomura wasn't supposed to come 2 years ago. He still came and that was a blast. I cried a little.