Has Monster Hunter Surpassed Dragon Quest in Japan?

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Carl2291 said:

DitchPlaya said:

Im just stating the fact, the PSP and PS3 have sold less units than their counterparts and yet their third-party games sell way better, in fact the biggest third-party franchise now happens to be on the PSP.

DX 8 and 9 were jokes compared to 7, it simply shows that abandoning the core gamer will do you good in the short term but ruin you in the long run. If DQ10 comes out on the Wii, which it will even if SE dont want it given Nintendos draconian ways, it will be the start of the decline of the franchise. In fact you can say it already has given both the DS games sold roughly the same despite being on the most succesful platform ever.

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1. Dragon Quest IX is the best selling Dragon Quest ever. Monster Hunter Tri is the best selling Monster Hunter on home consoles and was followed up by the best selling MH ever too. Being on Nintendo platforms doesn't suddenly equal a series decline.

2. This thread isn't about what you think Nintendo are doing to big games.

3. Click the following link, read what it says, then please leave the thread. Nintendo hating is not wanted here - http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=3993800

Remember carl, Monster Hunter Tri is a flop selling at 1 million units and for some reason being the worse selling mainline final fantasy in awhile somehow translates to me saying it is a flop. Anyways I am done being off topic. I already said my peace on the sucessful monster hunter franchise, guess I comment on the DQ franchise.

I think the biggest problem with DQ franhicse, is unlike Monster Hunter it doesn't have huge replayability (I know they tried with this DQ9), and ends up in the used section (Japanese Used Market is huge). If it can some how solve the replayability issues, it could potientially increase sales even further.