Why do people think DQIX will sell monumentally better than VIII?

[Viper1]

jman8 said:

Viper1 said:
Why will it sell more on DS? Simple. People in all major territories know of DQIX but DQVIII was mostly relegated to Japan.

It sold 3.6 million in Japan and another million everywhere else combined.

It should easily sell 3 million or more in Japan and given the awareness of the title in the US and Europe now, it's likely it will sell another million a piece there as well.

Really? Obviously popularity or awareness are extremely hard to gauge, but I find it hard to believe many more people know about the game. On top of that, I don't see this as a game that's going to get heavily marketed outside of Japan. 

 

The announcement that DQIX would appear exclusively on DS has caught the awareness of many people that never would have even cared about DQIX before.