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Worldwide shipments for Dragon Quest Builders 2 have surpassed 1.1 million
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I've really been loving it so far, as my first DQ experience.
Incredible how interesting and time consuming 'Minecraft with story' has been haha.
Incredible how interesting and time consuming 'Minecraft with story' has been haha.
Awesome, glad to hear it did well, since I love these DQ-spinoffs (admittedly I have not yet actually played this one haha).
With around a 20% digital share (which is a fair estimate for Japan I feel), that puts numbers closer to 550k. Which means it did around the same in the West, which is very good cause I think the game was down a bit in Japan
That's representative because Square published the game on PS4, Nintendo on Switch; Square didn't promote it at all, Nintendo gave their version a push.
Lol.
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based on what i've seen in the PAL charts, the switch version seems to have sold more but not by that much. of course that was to be expected since nintendo published and marketed that version.
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yeah
digital sales outside japan are probably good too since it's part of the voucher program.
Did it really manage to outsell DQ XI in the West? While it's a damn fantastic game, I'm feeling kinda sad for DQ XI now :/
That's not true. In Europe at least there have been web ads for the PS4 version.
I think i saw way more ads for the PS4 version than for the Switch One (all Switch ads were on FE, MUA3 and Mario Maker 2)
It kind of negate the fact that "DQ11 was sent to die, it launch in the same time as Spiderman" When DQB got good sales while launching against 3 Nintendo exclusives in a short time
Unless DQXI sold less than 500k copies, nope?
EDIT: Yeah, DQXI was ~800kish in the West.
Awesome and well deserved. Such a feel-good kind of game, the applause from the villagers is both silly and a nice touch. Wish Switch performance was a little better, but I'm still loving the hell out of it. Need to get back to the third story island after Fire Emblem took over my life.
Can't wait to get back to it when I finish Three Houses. I only managed to finish the first island before I got hooked on Fire Emblem.
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iirc it was revealed that XI has done 4 million WW, and about 3.5 of that is between the 3DS and PS4 versions in japan, so it was estimated that the PS4/Steam versions have done around half a million outside japan.
Well deserved. Been playing this on my commute for the past few days and it's excellent. I've been sleeping on Fire Emblem because of it.
where are you getting 800K? last I seen, it was 500K at best (West+Asia)
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it did 1.1 million WW on ps3/ps4/vita, i don't think we have switch numbers.
Damn, this means 2 did as much in less time. Hopefully it goes on to sell more. Christmas is in four months.
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1 had higher sales in japan, so it looks like while the sales for the sequel in japan have dropped a bit, the series is getting bigger in the rest of the world.
edit: sales of DQB1 in japan
[PSV] Dragon Quest Builders <ADV> (Square Enix) {2016.01.28} (¥5.980) - 292.125
[PS4] Dragon Quest Builders <ADV> (Square Enix) {2016.01.28} (¥7.800) - 208.497
[PS3] Dragon Quest Builders <ADV> (Square Enix) {2016.01.28} (¥6.800) - 108.947
[NSW] Dragon Quest Builders <ADV> (Square Enix) {2018.03.01} (¥4.800) - 74.772 (late port)
Sounds well deserved based on what I've heard. Looking forward to getting around to it at some point this year.
The official DragonQuest account only promotes the PS4 version. It doesnt even mention there is a Switch version out :P
With that said, Nintendo promotes better than SE does so overall Nintendo has done a much better job of promoting DQB2 than Square Enix has so pretty sure it's sold better on NSW than on PS4
With how well Nintendo has promoted Dragon Quest for a while, I am curious to see if the Switch version of DQ11 breaks the series' curse in the west.
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i think it'll easily become the best selling version of the game outside japan. ~1 million shouldn't be that hard to achieve.
This is totally false...both Square and Nintendo have pushed the game both before and after launch. This is a false narrative from people with old school advertising mentalities. Social media and video content on the internet IS marketing.
The game is so much fun—much deserved! I'm almost done with the main quest and it's one of my favorite games this year.
Quite confident in the NSW version > PS4+Steam. Expecting it to hit a million.
I've already put 60 hours into it and I'm more enthusiastic about it than ever. Game deserves the success. I'm kind of hoping Square and Nintendo can do a crossover builders style game perhaps with the Zelda IP. The formula is so good and deserves far more success.
I need to get this sometime. Maybe on Black Friday since my gaming is looking booked up thru November with so many releases. Loved the first and like what I hear about sequel
