Of course there's a percentage of shared fanbase (me, for example, i love both franchises), especially since Square merged with Enix, but that's more true in the West than in Japan (a lot of people in the West discovered DQ when DQVIII brought the FFXII demo), back then, FFIX was pushed because both companies were separate and competing, even if there was 5% of shared fanbase, Square wanted that 5% to be busy with FF IX, not with Enix's DQ VII...

Even if there's a 50% of shared fanbase, still that leave millions of gamers that only play one franchise, DQ ones have been playing their games in the best-selling consoles (NES, SNES, PS1, PS2, DS, Wii)... FF ones are more loyal to Sony (not all of them, but a lot are accustomed to play the main games on Sony systems, of course, that doesn't mean that if FF went to another system, they wouldn't buy it).

So one being on the Wii and one being on the PS3 is not a big deal for fanbases, it's more a big of a deal for console sales, the fanbase will buy the console where the game is on and the shared fanbase will buy both consoles...

Interestingly enough i have a prediction that Kingdom Hearts III will be on Wii-PS3.

that's almost eclipsed the 170k total sales in japan for the 360 version

to think this could have sold better if it was released last year

Obviously the core fanbase is there. Monster Hunter 3 beat the lifetime sales of the best selling PS3 game in Japan after only 2 weeks of sales. There's not really an argument for DQX selling better on PS3. FFXIII selling better on Wii however...

PLEASE calm down

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DQX being on wii is fine, why would it not sell?

FF13 being on Ps3 is fine too......

Whats the problem people are having? Is it because its not your platform of choice?

thats why you  should own a Pswii

Are the sales enough to move any consoles?

Also, how long until sales in Japan are greater than the world sales for the X360 version?

How did a thread about ToV sales turn into a Wii vs PS3 and DQ vs FF discussion?

I really doubt this, while thanks to the PS wand there is now a possibility, the Wii actually has a strong market presence in Japan unlike the 360. And lets face it, Japan's sale is where its gonna count when it comes to Dragon Quest.

I see portable's as something different than a home console, and my opinion about Third-party support is just an opinion. I love games like Muramasa, ToG, Arc rise of Fantasia and other niche games, but there are barely big games and even Nintendo has admitted that the Wii hasn't sold that good in Japan becuase there wasn't enough third-party support to fill the gaps.

The PSP and NDS have great third-party support, and the PS3 is slowly getting more and more support, while not great, it's considerable better than the Wii's support, and it seems that devolopers like Marvelous are going to switch consoles after those great sales for there games!

 Yes it is awesome that the Monster Hunter franchise which is currently one of biggest franchises in Japan has outsold a game series which used to sell 800-900k on the PS2.

FFXIII will outsell day 1 the LTS of MHIII? Are you suggesting something?