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Dragon Quest XI Ships 5.5M Units Physical and Digital Worldwide (PS4,PC,Switch,3DS)
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I made this thread so someone with the data can give us some insight ngl
It's kinda crazy to think that Nier Automata has sold close to one of the biggest Square IP's alone.
1.5 more compared to a year ago, that's pretty good. I wonder if the game managed to sell at least 1M outside of Japan.
I saw these ltd values at game data library.
3DS 1.772.911
PS4 1.368.698
Switch 443.927
Not sure how reliable they are or if it includes digital data. (edit: no digital, didn't notice the mention on the site)
I saw these ltd values at game data library.
3DS 1.772.911
PS4 1.368.698
Switch 443.927
Not sure how reliable they are or if it includes digital data. (edit: no digital, didn't notice the mention on the site)
Japan PS4 + 3DS sales were well above 2.1m right around launch, so yeah.
Not all of it is from the switch version ofcourse
Dragon Quest 11 also sold over 4 million, although only 500k was in the west
If the numbers I posted above are correct, around 3.5M physical only.
Japanese sales were 3DS 1.772.911 and PS4 1.368.698. The rest were western sales. This was before the Switch port.
This sounds... not great? Not terribly out of place from other entries, but I feel like with three platforms and the effort of making so many unique versions it might be the worst bang for the publishers buck? I'm sure it's profitable and all, just wonder how it matches up to what Square Enix expected.
The 5.5 million is also shipped, not sold.
DQXI shipped 3 million week 1 in Japan.
Where does this rank among the best selling DQ's? Bout a year ago, in a thread, I predicted it would be the best selling DQ ever. Am I right or wrong?
considering that number also includes non-japanese asian sales, 400-500K is a good estimate for western sales on PS4/PC.
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It's reassuring to see mention of international fans in that statement considering that Dragon Quest will be forever-niche outside Japan.
DQIX's last reported global figure was 5.3m but that was last given after 1.5 years and we know it had sales after that point. DQXI is likely around tied with it, both are the only DQ games to exceed 5m.
That really depends on what you expected from the game. If you expected the series to show big growth in the west it's meh.
Yup.
If only SE didn't go full stupid on the PS4 launch of DQXI outside of Japan, imagine if they actually tried to market it and spaced it out instead of sending out to die sandwiched between Spider-Man and Tomb Raider 3, and even then, Tomb Raider 3 got murdered as well. Its like SE LOVES to make strange decisions and kill their own games for jokes. Not to mention the non-existent marketing for the PC version.
This is up there with their decision to launch Tomb Raider 2 exclusively on XB1, sandwiched between FO4, CoD:BO3, and SWBF.
I don't even know whats up with this company. Hell, they could even make it a $20 paid DLC for the PC and PS4 for the definitive content and roll in money, but they don't...
This is up there with their decision to launch Tomb Raider 2 exclusively on XB1, sandwiched between FO4, CoD:BO3, and SWBF.
I don't even know whats up with this company. Hell, they could even make it a $20 paid DLC for the PC and PS4 for the definitive content and roll in money, but they don't...
They didn't sell that many copies on PC and PS4 in the west to be raking in any kind of serious money to begin with.
With 3-6 version of the same game.
JP 3DS 2D
JP 3DS 3D
JP PS4
overseas PS4 / global PC
global Switch 2D
global Switch 3D
I don't know why I skipped over PC in my head, lol. So yeah, four platforms makes it even worse.
The issue isn't that the west hates DQ, so much as they can't be bothered with it in the first place.
So 1.5-2M in the west then? Kills a lot of the "flopped in the west" comments from before. Great because the game deserves it and much more.
Dragon Quest IX Smashes Series Sales Record With 5.3M
Dragon Quest IX is the first in the series to sell over 5 million copies, Square Enix said Thursday. The Nintendo DS entry in the long-running series that defined the Japanese RPG has sold 5.3 million units worldwide as of the end of 2010, Famitsu reported (via Andriasang). This brings the...
Makes this the second DQ game to hit 5 million worldwide.
Less. ~3.6m physical in Japan and then there's JP digital and Asia to factor in. 1.5 is probably more like the best case ceiling.
