Microsoft unveiling new 360 RPGs next week in Japan

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Riachu said:

ClaudeLv250 said:

Riachu said:
DQ is not very popular outside of Japan like FF is. FFXII sold over 5 million copies but DQVIII sold like 4 million copies(with over 90% of the sales coming from Japan)

 

DQ8 sold shy of 5 million with over a million of those sales from America and Others. Japan certainly didn't account for 90%. Also DQM Joker for the DS outsold Revenant Wings in America. SE said since DQ8 that they wanted to make it a strong franchise outside of Japan and it's working...slowly.

Star Ocean is a pillar franchise. Enix never actually developed the games they published before the merger including DQ

No it's not. When Square and Enix merged the pillars got shuffled around. Now it's DQ, FF and KH.

 

 

But it will take a long long time before DQ becomes as popular here as it is in Japan

What's a pillar franchise? 

 

Pillar franchises are their best selling, most important franchises. Before the merger, Square's 3 pillar franchises were FF -> SaGa -> Mana (Seiken Densetsu). Chrono, Front Mission, etc. are all considered to be smaller and not as important.