Famitsu Sales: W39, 2019 (Sep 23 - Sep 29)

[outlawauron]

MasonADC said:

outlawauron said:

That was shipped + digital, but still very good numbers. Especially as it was slightly undershipped.

I don't know how many threads this argument will just keep appearing in. Shipped + digital for DQXI in the West was ~800k as of Nov 2018. Source

The issue with that source is that it is using sell through numbers to determine shipped numbers. If sell through was really 3.2 million, shouldn't shipped be 3.4 or 3.5 million? Also, it doesn't account for any sales in Asia outside of Japan. So yeah, definitely not 800k. 

At the point that data was given, the odds of any new game shipments for DQ11 being in large numbers is incredibly low. The game was old and games like Dragon Quest won't get new shipments in Japan until it gets re-released as part of cheaper packaging. There's simply no demand for it as the market gets plenty of used copies. It's safe to assume that between PS4 and PC, it's shipped + digital was closer to 800k by Nov 2018 than the 400k you were going with.