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Blood_Tears on 02 October 2019
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MasonADC said:
Blood_Tears said:

It actually did very well last year in the US compared to previous installments. 

https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/2018/10/24/dragon-quest-11-sales/#/slide/1

"According to the NPD’s Mat Piscatella, Dragon Quest XI‘s launch sales have been the greatest in franchise history, which dates all the way back to Dragon Warrior on the NES. Perhaps more impressive, and maybe even surprising, is that he says the launch sales were more than double those of Dragon Quest IX‘s, which was not only the last core entry of the series to release in North America, but it was also published by Nintendo.
Dragon Quest XI certainly got quite a push this year from Square Enix, but many were worried the game would underperform due to its release timing, mere days before the record-obliterating Marvel’s Spider-Man. While Dragon Quest XI is admittedly more of a niche title in the west, it seems like the extra juice is paying off, at least for the launch period."

Also, it even charted at number 2 in it's launch week in the UK behind Spiderman. Plus keep in mind it did launch for PC in the west and steam spy has it currently between 200k-500k owners. A lot of people would have picked up these versions over the last year for cheap and only the hard core Switch fans will likely pick this up. I highly doubt the Switch version will outsell the PS4 one, especially with LM3 and Pokémon launching in the next month and 6 weeks respectively. Switch owners will have likely moved on at that point anyways. 

I’m on mobile right now, so I can’t get the link, but after two months DQ11 outside of Japan shipped+ digital was like 400k lol. I’m sure it crawled it’s way to 500 or 600k, but IX ended with over a million outside of Japan 

600k actually. They shipped 3.4M on 3ds and PS4 at that time and 600k for the West was announced after 2 months in Nov 2018. The 1M+ for IX shows on this site but this site no longer tracks software sales directly as they admitted they were unreliable. Plus, it's almost been a year and the game has been on flash sales on PSN and Steam a number of times. Hell even retail stores like Best Buy and Walmart plus online sites like amazon has had it for $29.99 and lower at times over the year. SE got a huge bump in revenue with the initial $60 price tag in the US and likely got a ton of cheap buys since then. It will definitely crawl over a million here or already has. My point still stands. I hope you enjoy it regardless. I paid 90+ dollars for it in Canada and plated the game.