NintendoPie on 16 July 2015
| LuckyTrouble said: For those wondering about localization, it seems to be a trend for SE to localize a DQ game if it sells over 1 million in Japan. There are a handful of exceptions to this rule, but they're all explained easily enough by the circumstances of a given generation. I don't think it's so much that the last two Monsters games wouldn't have sold in the US, but the fact that they failed to break a certain number of Japanese sales within a specific amount of time, so SE was lacking confidence that sales would work out in the rest of the world. I mean, imagine that, on a popular release they can only expect around 10% to 20% of Japanese sales on a DQ game throughout the rest of the world. If the game sells 1 million, that indicates that they can expect upwards of 200k more sales throughout the rest of the world, which can be considered good enough, whereas if the game has only sold around 790k like the most recent Monsters remake, that's at absolute best a projected 158k with it likely only hovering around 100k sales in the rest of the world. |
The DQ VII re-make sold 1.26 million units in Japan and it has only just been announced to come over, according to Horii. That game released two years ago; if their thought process was that a DQ game should sell 1 million or more in Japan then it'll be localized then we should've seen DQ VII this year.
