You haven't been paying much attention to japan if your "HONESTLY" Surprised about the HW #s.

I'll leave it at that..... 

*Body Guards, Where the **** are you? :p

It is, being on WiiU????????? Though i cant 100% say that given XC Sold 160k lifetime on Wii lol

No, I thought a JRPG like Xenoblade would sell a lot more, this game is rare, it's one of the closest games we will get that remind us of RPGs during the PS1/PS2 era. I hope that made sense lol.

Tbone, a better argument would be that the DQ game is an MMO expansion that you can only play if you bought DQX. Only 4k copies were sold of DQX, so it's safe to say it didn't push any Wii U hardware.

So it was  just an expansion,I didn't know it,consequently it doesn't count...

@Lawlight 22.900 and instead of rounding it upwards,i.e to 23k you rounded it downwards?Hmmm...

Like I said, the Japanese only buy their already established rpgs.

Am I the only one genuinely worried for Monolith Soft? I think this game had a pretty big budget and it selling this low isn't a good sign no. I really hope they keep making JRPGs, we need more.

The DQ didn´t boost the sales, is an expansion, And the original is nowhere to be found on the charts, so no new buyers, no dqx boost. It´s all because XCX 

It likely didn't have a massive budget. The game has almost no  advertisment and they mentioned multiple times that there were budget constraints. If it sells 1 million (which if it follows the pattern of Xenoblade Chronicles it should) then it will likely make a revenue betwen $40-50 million. A game like this probably would have cost $20 mil to produce as Nintendo is a very budget pinching company. It shows if you read Tachikoma's analysis as well. 

They said they were on a strict budget in Iwata Asks.

Anyway, I would like to see other games than rpgs from them.