New Million Seller! Dragon Quest VII 3D
The second Dragon Quest title on 3DS has achieved one million sales in just two weeks. For comparison, Dragon Quest Monsters: Terry's Wonderland 3D, released last May in Japan, still has not sold a million.
The DS also saw several Dragon Quest remakes, but only one -- Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation, released in 2010 -- reached one million in Japan so quickly. (Dragon Quest IX, on the other hand, sold over 2 million in its launch week! Where's DQXI for 3DS, Square? WHERE??)
Realms of Revelation ended around 1.35 million sales in Japan, while no DQ remake on the DS sold more than 1.4 million units there, so I feel pretty comfortable projecting VII sales to fall in the 1.2 to 1.5 million range. If DQ VII secures a Western release -- and it should, given the series' track record for localization -- it should wind up in the 1.5 to 2.0 million range.
