| darthdevidem01 said: how do you quote twice in one post?! ____ anyway on the first reply: But they are now, nintendo will market DQ9. With DQ9 they probably aim to get a HUGE base for DQ thanks to nintendo's fantastic marketing. Ten DQ10 can ride that wave and can be even more successful. They are planning to do that now I think. Besides after They merged, only 1 main dragon quest game was actually released, DQ9 will be the test in terms of the western market. On the second reply: FFXIII isn't "barely" over them, 500K in japan isn't barely, that was my only problem with what you said, besides the FF4 remakes is at around 700K & the FF3 one around a million. With an xbox 360 release & "the best" version expect FF13 to crawl to what FFx-2 did which according to this site is around 2.4 Million. |
Well, I don't really want to start an argument over sales. But that's also kind of what I was talking about. With each new Dragon Quest title they release, they can do 3.5-4 million in sales easy in Japan. Whereas for Final Fantasy, it seems to be a struggle for them now in Japan to get to the sales of the previous version. As you said, they will need to release a 'best of' and probably have another marketing blitz just to get the sales up to 2-2.5m in Japan. If you have to keep poking the fans in the side to buy the games...it means their interest is waning or some of them are waiting for a price cut. Whereas the fans actually protested and assaulted stores upon learning Dragon Quest IX would be delayed. In other words, you have them by the neck and they'll buy anything you tell them to.
As for Nintendo promoting Dragon Quest, I love this and this is very much needed. But this is also a very bad sign from SquareEnix. Why hasn't SqaureEnix been doing it themselves? Why does Nintendo have to step up and do their job? SqaureEnix actually had a good marketing campaign for Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker and a marginal one for Dragon Quest VIII. And both those games sold well in the west because of it. Yet after those games...all marketing stopped. Not slowed down or went in a new direction...it came to a complete halt. Its pretty evident SqaureEnix doesn't even care about trying with Dragon Quest, so its a good thing Nintendo is stepping up to knock some sense into them, but still, they already should be marketing the games. We've already seen the release of 7 Dragon Quest titles to the west since the SquareEnix merger. Its pretty sad that while these titles go up in popularity in Japan, they go down in sales here. And all it would take is some consistant advertising. Advertising going towards stuff like Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy remakes...which already sell fine.
| CommonMan said: Wait! FFXIII has sold almost 2mil in Japan? Isn't that 2% of the ENTIRE POPULATION of Japan? Pretty good attach rate if you ask me for 1 game. Also, I really think that SE is big enough to handle 2 big franchises at the same time, no? |
There's 127 Million people in Japan. That would be around 1.1% of the population.
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