This. But I don't let the sales affect me - like the highs and lows that some people go through here. Although, I must admit, it is funny watching sometimes.

Actually, my interest in the Wii's sales is largely academic: in studying disruption and Blue Ocean, I can't help but find its sales trends to be fascinating to watch. To be fair, it was the Wii that led me to studying those aspects, and this site in particular which first piqued my interest by proxy of a link to Malstrom's site, but that is my primary reason now. Before, I just watched the sales numbers for fun. When you take into account that I consider Excel to be entertainment software as much as I consider it to be business software, that may not sound so odd...

 Funny I am the same way.

Btw is DQ4 anygood for the DS I got it for Cmas... I am finishing FF4 ds before I play it thougj ( i never played ff4 b4 at all....)

Well, I liked DQ4DS, at least. But then, I love DQ games in general, and DQ7's style really clicks well with me anyway (if you didn't know, the DQ remakes on DS use a variant of DQ7's engine).

 I have never played any DQ ever, what are they best compared to (FF, Tales, ???)

 It's kind of hard to compare DQ to another series, because it's basically the Alpha JRPG series.  Meaning that most imitate it to some degree, but none really mimic it perfectly.  Basically, Dragon Quest games work off of the most basic RPG formula (turn-based, round-based combat with gradual growth of exp to build up levels and gradual acquiring of funds to buy better equipment), but have polished that formula to a shine over the years.  It's also a series marked with a penchant for random chance having a significant impact on battles, though not really out of your favor unless you try to under-level.  It's also a very "old-school" series, meaning you have to spend a fair amount of time leveling up and gathering funds (grinding, in other words).  But battles are so insanely fast-paced (another hallmark of DQ games) that 10 battles can easily pass in the time that it'd take 2-4 battles to transpire in your average JRPG.

 hmm I am at the moon in ff4, makes me want to skip getting the elite onion gear for now so I can start that game : ).... lol. I wonder why they never caught on outside of Japan, I would say the art style maybe, but Dragon Ball caught on bigtime..

I hear Nintendo is teaming up with SE to really push 9 and 10 on the west, lets hope it works (like they did with Pokemon!!!)

Dragon Quest didn't catch on in the West due to poor timing. During Nintendo's first effort to bring the series into the limelight stateside (there was a massive Nintendo Power giveaway of Dragon Warrior cartridges, in fact), the RPG had not blossomed in the US and games like Mario and Tetris were far more popular. Dragon Warrior seemed a dated-looking and tedious title compared to the sleek and comparatively consistently-fast-paced Super Mario Bros 2. During the era when we were ready for a more complex sort of game (ie. late SNES/early PS1), Enix of America was going bankrupt and couldn't bring us DQ5 or 6. By the time DQ7 came along, it was too late; FF7 had stolen the American RPG audience's attention.

 hmm, thanks for the short history on that. I am really not informed on DQ, I just asked for 4 to get me into the series for 5, 9, and 10.

I think maybe now is a good time to try and bring it to the west again, FF13 is not on the Wii, the Wii has a massive userbase already and Nintendo knows how to sell a game to the west. I think DQ10 will sell 1 million in NA alone, maybe 500-750k in others... and 2.5 million - 3 in japan  (gaming in general is down there)

Nope, I don't care about sales at all

*leaves VGChartz forever*

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