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LuckyTrouble on 04 July 2015
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Skullwaker said:
LuckyTrouble said:
DQX was a flop in Japan. It sold so poorly on the Wii and Wii U they ported it to freaking every non-home console platform under the sun trying to get more people to buy it. If Japan doesn't want it, it wouldn't sell pretty much at all in the West.

DQX was only on 3DS, Wii, Wii U and PC.

And it wasn't really a flop. Did it sell an amazing number of units? No. But it's an MMO, so what matters is how long the user base stays subscribed. Each time an update is released, it sells more than the one before it, and Squeenix has said that it's been a successful venture for them.

That being said, there's absolutely no chance it will come to the west.

Flop might be strong. It just didn't perform all that well for a Dragon Quest game. It did decently for an MMO, at least. Oh, also, you forgot Android. 3DS, Wii, Wii U, PC, and Android is a pretty wide range of systems. To me, that comes across as either a little desperate, or a little greedy. My guess would be that the subscriber base started to dip, so they released the 3DS version to try to appeal even further to the handheld crowd past the Android port. Either way, it's all irrelevant, since like you said, no way it's ever coming West. It may not have flopped in Japan, but by MMO and DQ standards, it would flop hard in the West.