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okr on 13 July 2008
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jman8 said:
okr said:
DQIV DS sold 1.26 million in Japan, even DQM: Joker sold 1.5 million.

Zelda: PH sold 0.93 million (I mention Zelda here as the series is not that huge in Japan and the PH sales were quite a surprise).

If even spinoffs and remakes of DQ and a new Zelda DS sell one million or more in Japan alone, imagine what the next regular entry of the 2nd biggest Japanese franchise (behind Pokémon) can do.

I'm imagining 5 million max..... which is obviously great, but not a massive improvement. I could honestly see 5 mill. Japan and 2 million in NA and Others combined. That doesn't beat out FFVII, VIII, or X worldwide. And we have to cut IX and XII some slack since both were released at the very tale end of their systems' respective lives, so they were vastly overshadowed by the oncoming "next gen."

Yes, I should have read your OP more thoroughly. I concentrated on Japan too much and did not really think about your thread question. I just wanted to state with my first post that 5 mill. in Japan is very likely (even more if we look at the Japanese MHF sales on PSP which are the most impressive proof that Japan has switched from consoles to handhelds).

NA and Others (here especially Europe) will be the interesting part. We don't know enough about general DQ acceptance in NA and Europe. It will be very interesting to see how the DQIV remake will sell in the west. These sales will be a good indicator for DQIX.

At the moment I would say: Everything between 6 and 10 mill. worldwide is possible for DQIX. 9-10 mill. would be a "monumental" improvement for the franchise imo.