If it didn't take off with VIII it sure as hell wasn't going to take off with XI which is near enough identical in approach, the series won't ever do FF numbers in the west but if pushed it could get 2m or so in the west in a future installment.

I think it is too early to tell as they haven't released the Switch version yet outside Japan. I am personally highly interested in buying and playing DQ11 or whatever on the Switch but can't. Last one I tried was 7 on the 3ds and I sort of liked it but never beat it.

It's a legendary series and, while I've been able to jump into a few franchises without being there in the beginning, certain ones just make me feel like I've missed too much. The same reason I've never played a single Mega Man, Far Cry, and others. The same reason why I gave up on Assassin's Creed. There's just too much.

Because it has not arrived to the Switch yet? Seriously Square Enix, where is it?

DQ is the best JRPG series, if you do not like it then you hate the genre.

No one knows anything about Dragon Quest except, maybe, the name. There is really nothing about it that makes any kind of splash. It's easy to miss and easy to skip over. If you look at what happened with Final Fantasy, it didn't blow up huge until it starting pushing image and style above all else. Every 12 year old kid in the world thought Cloud and Sephiroth were COOL. It had incredible cutscenes that looked amazing in TV commercials. Likewise, Persona is incredibly stylish and unique.

Really, most people in the west don't like JRPGs. A massive portion of the people who buy Final Fantasy don't even like JRPGs. They buy it because they're used to buying it and they want to complain that no one is cooler than Cloud. They don't actively go out and look for JRPGs, the publishers and developers have to make them interested. That would probably mean changing Dragon Quest, so it's probably best if they don't.

agree, i loved the 8 part and got my attention😊

Probably a number of different reasons, and it's still kinda too early to call whether it'll be a success or not. I haven't bought the game yet but I will eventually get it on the PS4. Just have too many games to get through right now. As far as reasons why it hasn't caught on, I'd say lack of consistent releases is one reason, especially when it comes to home console releases. I played DQVIII back on the PS2, and since then the series hasn't really existed on any single console that I've owned. I skipped DQXI because I didn't have a DS, and even if I did have the system I'm not sure I still would have bought it since I don't particularly care for handhelds, and X never even released outside of Japan.

That's effectively over a decade during which there wasn't a single home console release in the main DQ series, and almost ten years since DQ IX was released. That's a very long time to wait for a franchise that had just made its debut in Europe with DQ VIII. I would imagine they could have increased the franchise's popularity in the west if they had actually brought out new games in it sooner than 12 years after the previous home console release.

This! Once we get the Switch version sales will increase with an additional 20m +- 19.79m units!

It's a very late localization. Persona 5 took 6 or 7 months, DQXI took 1 year and 2 months. FFXV WW release helped a lot, same with MHW.

It has had inconsistent releases like KH, but unlike KH there are no collections of the other games.

It released at the same time as other exclusives and as usual near the holidays where it is most likely to flop.

Persona 5 had style, FFXV had hype, DQXI had same old same old, so only fans would pick it up.

Most promotional content doesn't showcase the game and how fun it is, it is just the story and graphics.