DQ IX selling another million in second week?

[wenlan]

invetedlotus123 said:

wenlan said:

2nd week over 1 million is not gonna happen for DQIX.
The 2nd hand market is huge in Japan, and those numbers won't be tracked.

A lot of core gamers finished this game in 2 days, if they don't care about the side quests, they will dump the used copies to the market.
Releasing games on DS has no mechanism (e.g. DLC) to keep gamers holding this game a little bit longer.

Still, SE has done a great job shipping more than 3 million copies to stores for the launch day.

Well, maybe the collection factor may hold the used market for a while, no? Maybe Japanese players don't give importance to have a collection...

i think SE came up something gamers can connect their cell phone to DS for certain items.

but due to the natural limit of DS storage (256 MB for DQIX I believe), there is really not that much stuff to hold them for 1 or 2 more weeks.

if you go to Yahoo Japan auction (the biggest auction site in Japan), there are more than 4,000 DQIX for sale now.

http://list4.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/2084063651-category-leaf.html

The "problem" of 2nd hand market for developers is the same everywhere.