Dragon Quest X Dated for August 2

[outlawauron]

Salnax said:

outlawauron said:

Salnax said:

RolStoppable said:
We are looking at a colossal flop here.

If FF14 could sell over 0.64 million with its reviews on the PC alone, then DQX can sell a million on just the Wii, and another million on the Wii U.

Which would be a collosal flop for a DQ game. Don't try and spin FF14s sales as good, because they're not.

You're forgetting though: Monthly fees. It only needs to sell a fraction as much as a typical Dragon Quest game in order to sell. If everybody who buys the game plays it for 7 or 8 months, that alone doubles SE's income. And if this game has legs similar to other MMOs, like FF11 (thousands of active players a decade later) or even 14, the number of Yen that SE makes should eventually be on par with series standards.

Those costs aren't necessarily there just increase profits and extort users, those servers do indeed cost money. While they do make money off it, I don't think you can say that SE would happy with 1 million units sold (which would mean that 50% AT MOST would pay monthly fees).