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JRPGfan on 02 August 2017
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Jranation 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.

So its still down? 

Supposedly DQ9 did 2.3m in its first 2days (read on neogaf).

This is like 2.1m (without digital), but then factor in digital, and it might not be down at all, it actually be slightly up.

Its going to do well in the west too, because I think we appreciate the home console versions more.

DQ11 might end up selling really well for a DQ title.