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Cheetos1 on 08 March 2008

First day? NO
First week? Hmmm...no.

Lifetime...No doubt =p.



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kingofwale on 08 March 2008

@Cheetos1

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Episode 1: OOPSY!
selnor: Too Human I even expect 3-4 mill entire life and 500,000 first day. GoW2 ( expect 7 - 9 million entire life and over 2 mill first day), Fable 2 (expect 5-6 million entire life and 1.5 mill fist day) BK3 (expect 4 - 5 mill sales entire life and 1 mill first day).. Tales/IU/TLR should get to 2 or 3 million! post id: 868878
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Letsdance: FFXIII (PS3+360) first week in NA = 286K
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Kasz216 on 08 March 2008
kingofwale said:
Kasz216 said:
kingofwale said:
Kasz216 said:
kingofwale said:
Louie said:
We are talking about the main series here, not a spin-off so I will go with at least 3.5 million units sold. Considering the huge install base of Nintendo´s Dual Screen I´d actually go as high as 4.5 million.

FFX-2 (a clear spin-off) sold over 2 million copies in Japan alone.

What will work against it is that DQ will be on a completely different platform. DS has been getting tons of spin-off from SE before, I wonder if people will consider the game a DQ series lite.

 

Yes, I used the "L" word.


A spin off that was still in the same genre of game.


exactly, no different than DQ on DS as oppose to on home console like it has always been.


Except... DQ isn't a spin off... and X-2 was on the same system as X. Making it extremely different. I mean... FF7 Crisis Core is a better comparison... to both games.

Despite it suffering from being both a spin off and on a portable with a way smaller userbase.


But you know what they say... if it smells like a wolf, looks like a wolf.... ;)

The fact remains, SE has a lot of FF spins off on DS, unless this game really lives up to the standards set up by previous DQ games, this game will be viewed as somewhat a "Lite" or "spin-off" (kinda like how nobody really consides FFXI a FF main series game when they talk about it)


Yes, it will sell millions, that's for sure


 None of the spinoffs FF type RPGs.   One that was an action, one had something to do with Chocobos and one was an RTS, one was a "Secret of Mana" action link type game and the final one was a tactics game.



naznatips on 08 March 2008

Kingofwale you're getting away with some "lite" trolling in this topic. Watch it. The platform the game is on does not determine whether it's a spinoff or not, and you're strongly implying that the DS automatically lowers the standards of the franchise and makes it a spinoff.

This is the main DQ game in the franchise. Remember, DQ is the hardcore RPG franchise in Japan. FF is the casual RPG franchise. DQIX has never left the number 1 spot of the Famitsu most wanted list since its announcement. If you want to see spinoffs look at Crisis Core and Dissidia. This is not, and it's a much bigger game than anything else Square Enix is currently developing in Japan. Including FFXIII.



FishyJoe on 08 March 2008

Famitsu estimated 5 million.



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ClaudeLv250 on 08 March 2008

3 Million?

You mean within the first few hours?



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darthdevidem01 on 08 March 2008

@naznatips

ACTUALLY

last week FFXIII DETHRONED DQIX from the top stop on that Famitsu Most Wanted list..

someone made a thread bout it yesterday



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naznatips on 08 March 2008
darthdevidem01 said:
@naznatips

ACTUALLY

last week FFXIII DETHRONED DQIX from the top stop on that Famitsu Most Wanted list..

someone made a thread bout it yesterday

Fair enough darthdevidem, but do you expect FFXIII to outsell it in Japan?  That's the real question....



darthdevidem01 on 08 March 2008

@naznatips

no way in hell...

but just saying that on the point you made..

DQIX SHOULD be the highest selling Portable game EVER in japan



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naznatips on 08 March 2008
darthdevidem01 said:
@naznatips

no way in hell...

but just saying that on the point you made..

DQIX SHOULD be the highest selling Portable game EVER in japan


There is no chance of that at all http://vgchartz.com/worldtotals.php?name=Pokemon&console=&publisher=&sort=Japan

In fact, there is no chance it will outsell ANY of the major Pokemon games.  That said, it could easily be the highest selling Dragon Quest game ever, given the system it's on.