3DS and PS4 "versions" are basically two different games. Kind of silly to combine the sales, just to cover up bad business decisions. Looking at Yuji Horiis quotes years before the DQ11 reveal ("big screen" etc.), I wouldn´t be surprised that the 3DS version was an afterthought, after even SQEX understood that they couldn´t brute force the Japanaese market to their liking.

I wonder what they think the split will be between consoles

Do they mean 5 million lifetime? Or 5 million in its first fiscal year?

I foresee no problem for them to reach that goal considering how many system its releasing and how successful the franchise is. Now if they could just announce a release date for the west, that'd be great.

think this goal is possible

The source of the article is speculating they're referring to this fiscal year, it's also speculating they're referring to Japan only.

So no, we don't know if it's fiscal year or lifetime, and we don't know if it's Japan or Worldwide.

Could manage 5 million in Japan lifetime, I think 5 million this fiscal year in Japan alone is a crazy high goal, so for that reason I think this figure is either Lifetime in Japan, or 1st Fiscal Year World Wide.

I think 5 million is very doable. I was thinking it would do higher actually.

5 million is reaching for the lowest fruit on the tree. SE must not be looking to try and expand this franchise at all with this entry, even despite it being multi-platform.

Sounds achievable