KyleeStrutt on 01 February 2015
Lazy Sunday strikes me again, this time a comparison of all the main line Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy titles, Japan only.
*Dragon Quest X's numbers include the original release on Wii/WiiU along with the first expansion and Dragon Quest X Online, the 3DS version.
Dragon Quest is the game that popularised the RPGs in Japan, the series has consitently had good sales, with all 10 mainline games selling over a million copies, some cool info about it.
- The illustrator of the series is Akira Toriyama, creator of stuff like Dragon Ball and Dr. Slump, he work with both Square and Enix before the merger, the whole Dragon Quest series and the Chrono series are in his resume.
- Total sales of the main series are around 30m copies.
- The average main line DQ sells 3m copies (3.2m excluding the MMO)
- The series only managed to achieved a fraction of the succes in Japan overseas, with the only million seller being DQIX.
- Up until the release of Dragon Quest VII the series was called Dragon Warrior outside Japan.
- Dragon Quest IX not only is the best selling game in the series, as well as the best selling Square Enix game in Japan, it also had the biggest FW sales of the series, publisher and the second highest FW numbers ever (just behind Pokemon Black/White)
- An urban legend (sort of) claims that nation wide productivity plummets the day of DQIII's release, with hundreds of thousands of people calling sick, leaving offices without employess and classrooms without students or teachers; supposedly this made the goverment of Japan quietly forbeid Enix of releasing Dragon Quest games on weekdays, crazy.
Most of the main series has been remade, here's that data.
| Year | Platform | Title | Sales (in millions) |
| 1993 | SNES | Dragon Quest I & II | 1.2 |
| 1996 | SNES | Dragon Quest III | 1.4 |
| 2001 | PS1 | Dragon Quest IV | 1.2 |
| 2004 | PS2 | Dragon Quest V | 1.8 |
| 2007 | NDS | Dragon Quest IV | 1.2 |
| 2008 | NDS | Dragon Quest V | 1.3 |
| 2009 | NDS | Dragon Quest VI | 1.4 |
| 2013 | 3DS | Dragon Quest VII | 1.2 |
Best to worst selling
Sales of the MMOs include all expansions.
While Dragon Quest popularised the genre in Japan, Final Fantasy is the series that made the genre popular worldwide.
- Total sales of the main series are around 28m.
- The average main line FF games sell 2m (2.2m excluding the MMOs)
- Can't think of anything else, sorry.
A bunch of FF games have been remade as well, but I don't feel like making a list about that :P
Best to worst selling.
