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Shikamo on 13 May 2017

Square Enix has high hopes for Dragon Quest XI. When Square Enix delivered its latest financial results earlier in the week, CFO Kazuharu Watanabe mentioned that the company is looking to achieve sales of five million copies.

Kazuharu’s comment did not refer to one specific version of the game. Dragon Quest XI will be on 3DS and PlayStation 4, and eventually Switch as well. Kazuharu also did not say if the sales target only applies to Japan, though it may be unlikely for the RPG to head overseas within the next fiscal year.

Dragon Quest IX was the last big seller in the franchise at 4.3 million. However, when counting sales in the west, that amount is closer to 5.3 million.

Even if Dragon Quest XI sells more than IX, it might be difficult for it to surpass the DS game in terms of pure profit. After all XI has different versions involved and its scope is much larger.

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Pinkie_pie on 13 May 2017

Worldwide easily. Around 4 million in japan and 3 million outside of japan. 7 million lifetime.



JRPGfan on 13 May 2017
Ka-pi96 said:
hmm if 9 only just did over that then that could be difficult.

Dragon Quest IX was only for nintendo DS though...

DQXI will be out for alot more systems.



Nautilus on 13 May 2017

Hopefully it beats FF XV sales, and goes to show that you dont need to break conventions just to appease popular trends.



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Valdath on 13 May 2017

I'll be buying both PS4 and 3DS versions.

Damn my DS / 3DS collection is huge: IV,V,VI,VII,VIII,IX and Rocket Slime.

I'd love a DQ Monsters Switch collection.



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Slarvax on 13 May 2017

Square needs to learn how to efficiently make games.



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KrspaceT on 13 May 2017

With a Switch bundle I could see that work out



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aLkaLiNE on 13 May 2017

Really excited for this game, you can have my 1/5,000,000th contribution square d:



Nautilus on 13 May 2017
Ka-pi96 said:
Nautilus said:
Hopefully it beats FF XV sales, and goes to show that you dont need to break conventions just to appease popular trends.

hmm, as much as I'd like to see that happening just to show SE that what made their JRPGs great in the first place isn't "old-fashioned" and can still work, I think it's quite unlikely. Final Fantasy is simply the much more popular franchise. Looking at VGC figures FFXV is already at about 5.3m. I don't know how it's legs have been so far, so I'm not sure how much that will grow, but that's already quite a number for DQ11 to get too as it is!

Yeah i know.This is more asking for a miracle situation.Haivng said that, its not impossible.Japan alone should do betwenn 3 to 4 millions LT, and DQ has been growing on the west, and Persona 5 expanded the audience even further in my opinion.Assuming FF XV legs simply vanish or are very small, it should be possible in theory.And I mean, if it gets close enough, it should send a message anyway.



My (locked) thread about how difficulty should be a decision for the developers, not the gamers.

https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=241866&page=1

Luke888 on 13 May 2017

If they don't release in the west on PS4/Switch and in Japan on Switch soon after the launch on the other two platforms I think it'll be difficult to achieve