| Rei said: DQIX's success on DS is overrated, yes it has shipped 4.2m of copies but (and this is somehow ignored everywhere) the game is priced 30$ lower than previous mainline Dragon Quest game. (60$ vs 90$) |
You don't know how much money SE is making on DQIX, nor how much it cost to develop DQIX. It did take nearly 5 years to make DQIX however. Its arguable, but it might be the biggest and most costly DS game ever made. It certainly looks to be. But that aside, its most likely also going to generate the most units sold for a single DQ game in Japan as well, surpassing DQVII. And once it releases to the international market and with the aid of Nintendo and (hopefully) SquareEnix, it might sell another million+.
Its not hard to say that DQIX could easily be more profitable than DQVIII. Price per unit sold isn't the only measure of profit. But considering the game is selling at a near 64 converted US dollars in Japan, I don't think they're missing that much profit.
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