AngryLittleAlchemist said:
Wow! That's really impressive and great for the series!
I have to say, this really surprises me and also makes me wonder how the VGChartz community knew this would be such a smash hit. I just don't get it, everyone has been saying this will outsell big Japan names like Splatoon and Final Fantasy, meanwhile I'm over here looking at the sales and the only games in the franchise to sell well are either extremely old, or a "one hit wonder" DS game as well as a very successful PS2 game.
I'm usually the first guy to say "You can't just look at sales! Look at the context!" But this is a case where I just didn't see a success on this scale coming , maybe it's because i'm not really familiar with the games at all, everyone on VGC got the sales so right. Like literally everyone was acting like this was near MH levels, and apparently they're not far off. I just don't get it though, the only contemporary Dragon Quest to sell so well was from 09 and all of the other DS games did well but not that amazing.
I guess there's just some things that ignorant old me can't foresee. Maybe if I was familiar with the franchise I would have seen this coming. Incredibly happy for the game : D
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I think it has to do with familiarity of the games.
If you just look at all the recent Dragon Quest games, it paints a very misleading picture. The "one hit wonder" DS game (Dragon Quest 9) you're talking about was actually the last mainline Dragon Quest game until 11, and the PS2 game (Dragon Quest 8) was the last before that. All those other DS games were just remakes of much earlier DQ games. Dragon Quest 10 was a weird MMO like Final Fantasy 14, which is why it sold low comparatively.
If you look at just the mainline DQ games:
6 (1995) - 3.19 million
7 (2000) - 4.10 million
8 (2004) - 3.61 million
9 (2009) - 4.35 million
Main Dragon Quest games always sell extremely well in Japan, and it's been a pretty long wait for 11.
