This game shows in Japan that it doesn't matter if the game will release on a so called next gen console or on a handheld, it will sell, no matter what

I think fabinou is right that the first week sales also depend on the shipment, but square-enix should know about the game's potential and ship at least more than a million on the first day.

btw, when will it be released?

Difficult to say.  There are a lot of DQ fans that aren't happy about the series moving to the DS.

Depends what kind of a game they come out with.

Over 2m in the first week?  I doubt it. 

@Hanafuda, whatever. Dream on dude, they will all buy it!

I'm guessing 2.7 first week. After that 3-7weeks no.1 place then around the 30k a week for 15 weeks.

 Too much uncertainties to predict. Whether SquEni uses 2Gb ROM(under development) or not? How much is the supply of ROM at the release?

 According to the supply at current, sales stops about 800~900k because of shortage of ROM when DQMJ was released. And If DQ9 uses 2Gb ROM, strain of supply will become more severe...

# For now, there is no info about the production increase of ROM

he's right. Because of this problem of ROM, I think DS is the only one hardware to meet problems with games supplies (as he said, for exemple, DQMJ or FF3 (for its first week in japan) or Nintendogs (f (out of stock during all December 05 in Europe!!) 

No issues about shipment figures... I think almost 4million units will be shipped at launch, and close to 3mill sold at launch. DQ games are close to a national holiday in Japan. Nintendo & SQ won't stuff this one up. Nintendo may also launch something cool along side it, to get "secondary" sales.

Might even be a dedicated DQ pack (DS+game) - not that its needed.

Double post. Sorry.

I believe DQIX will sell great but for me all these +2 millions on day one prediction are a bit too optimistic. This game is big. Actually it's the biggest franchise in Japan but it's also a deep game. I assume it will not be a lame stuff like Pokemon... I would say it's too deep for  girls, kids and grandmas. 1.5 as for week one. You've heard it here first.

You're really full of crap aren't you! Too deep for girls? So you're saying that girls and women are in your eyes stupid? Girls / women play a lot more puzzle games in Japan then guys do. I probably played a whole lot more RPG games in 1 year, then you in your entire life.

And there are most likely more guys with a DS then women, you know.