The Anarchyz said:
Well, Dragon Quest started to get good sales in the West since Dragon Quest 8, and Final Fantasy exploded in the West since Final Fantasy 7, they're near alignment that way... The thing is, Final Fantasy has a lot more games than Dragon Quest, it should be interesting comparing them in even scenarios... |
Dragon Quest has never really had good sales in America. The highest selling games here were the original Dragon Warrior (which is anywere from 300-000 to 500-000, no one knows), Dragon Quest VIII (400,000 copies) and Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker (500-000).
Since then, all the titles have gone downhill in sales. With the latest DS titles reaching a dismal rate of under 100,000 each so far. Mostly due to no marketing and rather poor localizations.
Frankly, if you added all of Dragon Quests games sold outside Japan and called them 'international sales', it would add up to about 1 Million of the 47 Million on that chart. And thats for America, Europe, Australia, etc. combined.
One can only hope they'll fix this in the future. Nintendo says they're going to help market DQIX, but I doubt America is going to just jump on the games unless SE shows some actual effort on their part (additional marketing and quality control).
Six upcoming games you should look into:
