Anyone wanna bet that if SE can do it ( meaning: they are not legally obligated by Nintendo) DQX will be the first to go multiplat?

If it went multi, it'd just go to 3DS.  But it won't, Horii's steering the ship and he seemed pretty adamant it'd be a Wii game.

Besides, if Super Mario can clear 4m on Wii (and likely crawl past 5m), DQ can easily do 3m (and maybe crawl past 4m).  Mainstream games have no problem selling on Wii, unlike PS3 (hello FFXIII).

It's four days, and weekend restocks aren't uncommon.  It really all depends on retailers and presales imo, though I doubt it happens.

I either expect TLS to be a breakout series or I'm just being hopeful. Mainly the latter, :P.

Also, I'd bet against that, definitely. DQ is too popular to fail and when a game tops 1m in Japan, it goes a hell over it on Wii, unlike PS3. Also, SE needs Nintendo to help market DQX in the West, which helped DQIX do very impressive numbers there.

Oh, and it would very backstab-ish of SE to do so after Nintendo helped make DQIX the best selling the series by a soon-to-be wide margin.

There's pretty much zero chance DQX will wind up on a PlayStation or Xbox system this or next generation.  If there's any question about it's platform, it's only which Nintendo platform it'll be on (Wii, 3DS, Wii 2).

That doesn't make any sense

Wouldn't you consider Sengoku Basara and Tales of mainstream too? They are smaller, but they are still pretty known among the casual gamer there, or atleast that's what I have read and heard.

FFXIII started pretty well everything considered, but what killed it's legs probably had more to do with it's word of mouth than anything else.

I have said a lot of times that SCEJ needs to do something about there mainstream image, but it still doesn't have a mainstream quality game with the cultural impact of a FFVII or even a NSMB: Wii, so your comparison isn't really fair in my opinion.

Tales and Basara?  No, not even close... "mainstream" games are basically "everybody" games, stuff that clears a million with a single release, not barely sells half a million across a couple systems.  Tales and Basara, while having relatively large audiences for hardcore games, are also pretty much restricted to their hardcore fanbases too (which can grow or shrink).  They're not games people outside the fanbase buys, they have no larger mainstream pull.  Half a million is more what a notable spinoff of truly mainstream franchises might sell (ie: DQ Swords, MonHun Village, Paper Mario, etc) and exceptional spinoffs tend to do much better even (Mario Kart, DQ Monsters, etc).

I agree on PS3's mainstream image problem though, it really is seen as an otaku machine this gen.  Wii isn't, but it's also been rallied hard against (and ultimately rejected) by the core gamer market... if you could combine the good parts about Wii and PS3, and get rid of the negative image problems, you'd basically have the PS2.  And I'd say software isn't entirely to blame on either side, though I'd agree the necessary stuff was probably a bit too slow in coming (and when it finally did, each console's image had been more or less cemented).

FFXIII really started lower though, it's legs were identical to FFXII, and still comparable to FFVIII/IX/X/X-2.  The only mainline installment with significantly better legs was FFVII.

Only 1 point for The Last Story

FFXIII had good word of mouth in Japan. They love the game over there apparently.

4 points for The Last Story, 58 in total