Probably a number of different reasons, and it's still kinda too early to call whether it'll be a success or not. I haven't bought the game yet but I will eventually get it on the PS4. Just have too many games to get through right now. As far as reasons why it hasn't caught on, I'd say lack of consistent releases is one reason, especially when it comes to home console releases. I played DQVIII back on the PS2, and since then the series hasn't really existed on any single console that I've owned. I skipped DQXI because I didn't have a DS, and even if I did have the system I'm not sure I still would have bought it since I don't particularly care for handhelds, and X never even released outside of Japan.
That's effectively over a decade during which there wasn't a single home console release in the main DQ series, and almost ten years since DQ IX was released. That's a very long time to wait for a franchise that had just made its debut in Europe with DQ VIII. I would imagine they could have increased the franchise's popularity in the west if they had actually brought out new games in it sooner than 12 years after the previous home console release.
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