Why is that biased?

 DQ is very popular I thought the pre orders would be a lot more.

 But there is still time for it. 

how much of the first day buyers are normally preordering btw? I thought that preorders of 250k would mean around 400k first day sales and 500k first week sales, is this too much?

Assuming that there is no supply problem of course...

This is great cause if this game sees strong sucess then you can beat Wii will get more support frim Square Enix

Strong sales it seems for a spin off. I'm impressed with the number.

 Cause he clearly dislikes nintendo

Where do you get that from? If anything im biased against the 360. Even though Halo is a kickass game. I want a Wii, I want a PS3, and if I had enough money I would want the 360. Im not biased I just perfer one thing over another. DQ is SE best selling title so I thought it would have more pre-orders.

It's hard to gauge exactly what are high or low pre-orders since the definition is not solid. In the USA, GoW2 had one million pre-orders and Pokemon D/P only had half a million, but Pokemon creamed GoW2 in sales.

ok in that case my predictions were a little high, but I just looked at the sales of Cube games in Japan. The best third party game was Resident Evil 0, which sold 450k in Japan. This already shows how goog these numbers are, and compared with Nintendo's first party cube games, Swords would rank sixth on the Cube with 750k in Japan, only beaten by Smash Brothers, Mario Party 4, Mario Kart, Zelda and Sunshine. With sales over a million, it would even rank second, because only Smash managed to sell more than a million in Japan alone.

And as another comparison, Crystal Chronicals which is also a Square-Enix spinoff has sold 370k in Japan. Swords could outsell that in it's first week.

I guess those comparisons with Gamecube games are soon not legitimate any more, because the Wii's userbase will be far bigger. But at the moment, it works.

True that. For 250k people to pre-order even when developers say the game may be too easy and simplistic. I would call that a loyal fanbase. I do expect it to sell much more. I'd say around 750k-1M for a spin-off is pretty decent. DQIX should be 2M easy.

that early number looks pretty good for a spin off.  And it doesn't look like it's a big budget (development cost) game  as well.
Hopefully it will mean more SE games on Wii