DQ11 sells over 2m copies in 2 days! (Retail sales)

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AngryLittleAlchemist said:

StarDoor said:

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.

AAHHHh thanks! I didn't know that haha. I was like "what"!  i didn't know there was "mainline" games

Xen said:

DQ is one of the RPG releases in Japan! Those are some pretty damn good numbers, especially the near 1 owner in 5 on PS4.

...though, stardoor has already given you a good explanation.

I knew it was one the big rpg  releases in Japan. I guess I just figured that all the clutter of 1.6-1.7 million sellers meant it just had a few golden releases haha. 

Another thing that I considered but didn't think would really affect it - the split fanbase. To be honest, I thought that because the PS2 version was so old, there wouldn't be many fans left on the console, sort of like MH assumedly, so I thought it would be outclassed by the DS sales. But, it seems like a lot of fans sticked with consoles! Which is good. The decline of consoles no doubt affected sales, but the sales are still great and almost matched! Like wow .. this will probably outsell FFXV on PS4 in Japan so quick! I didnt think itd be that big

I just hope Monster Hunter Worlds turns out the same. I think Im one of the only big MH fans looking forward to that one ... lol

I'd argue that there are more people that will just stick with either console or handheld than switch their prefered gaming platform for just a game, even if it's their favorite. I'm almost sure that the majority of PS4 buyers have not owned a DS or 3DS and they just waited for the next big game after the excellent DQVIII. Many people have only ever played DQVIII so they're definitely not commited enough to get a handheld just to play DQIX.

That's why I think MHW will do absolutely fine on PS4. It might not outsell a possible 3DS version but I'm confident it will outsell a possible Switch version.