Dragon Quest XI sales stronger on PS4, on track to meet lower end of sales target

[Alkibiádēs]

Kerotan said:

Alkibiádēs said:

It's really not that surprising:

- 3DS is currently in its seventh year already. It's a dying system and its replacement is already on the market.

- The Switch caught Japan by storm, as well as the rest of the world. Many publishers completely underestimated how succesful a Nintendo console would be (again) and now they're caught with their pants off and they're quickly trying to rush games to the system. Should have started sooner. 

- Among the Nintendo fanbase DQ XI is competing with the new hype that is Splatoon 2. 

- Japanese gamers who own both a PS4 and 3DS will have likely opted for the superior version. Square expected them to buy both versions (just take a look at their commercials), but that obviously did not happen (at least not to the extent they were hoping). 

- PS4 version might generate more revenue, but it also had significantly higher development costs, so the extra revenue doesn't mean a lot. 

- DQ XI is still underperforming compared to previous installments, hence why the sales are only meeting their lower end target. 

I stopped reading when you called 3DS a dying system.  It's up a lot in terms of yoy hardware sales.  Nowhere near dying. This myth needs to die and stopped being used as a scapegoat for when a 3DS title under performs. 

It's down yoy WW. 

It's only up in Japan because of DQ XI.