Nintendo Revels in Dragon Quest IX Success

Japan caught Dragon Quest fever over the weekend with exceptional 2-day sales for the DS debut of Dragon Quest IX.

Defenders of the Starry Sky, developed with the folk at Level 5, officially hit stores on Saturday 11th July (though a fair few outlets stocked earlier) and since then has sold a whopping 2,343,440 copies of the game - over 2 million in two days.

Will you be buying a copy of Dragon Quest IX? Have you imported?

Update - The full Media Create charts are now in and can be seen below, with Dragon Quest IX storming to No.1, more than doubling DS hardware sales:

Media Create Top 50 - 6th-12th July
1.) Dragon Quest IX: Defenders of the Starry Sky (NDS, Square Enix) - 2,318,932 | NEW
2.) Wii Sports Resort (Wii, Nintendo) - 102,715 | 617,000
3.) Friend Collection (NDS, Nintendo) - 57,072 | 294,000
4.) Boku no Natsuyasumi 4 (PSP, SCEI) - 23,767 | 73,000
5.) Hatsune Miku: Project Diva (PSP, SEGA) - 14,268 | 116,000
6.) Monster Hunter Portable 2 G (BEST) (PSP, Capcom) - 12,818 | 776,000
7.) Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days (NDS, Square Enix) - 9,195 | 501,000
8.) Wii Fit (Wii, Nintendo) - 8,920 | 3,490,000
9.) Pokemon Platinum (NDS, The Pokemon Company) - 8,035 | 2,472,000
10.) Sloane and MacHale's Mysterious Story (NDS, Level 5) - 7,413 | 176,000
11.) Ken to Mahou to Gakuen Mono. 2 (PSP, Acquire) - 6,500 | 64,000
12.) Atelier Rorona: Alchemist of Arland (PS3, Gust) - 4,600 | 63,000
13.) Mario Kart Wii (Wii, Nintendo) - 4,500 | 2,280,000
14.) Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth (NDS, Capcom) - 3,900 | 277,000
15.) Infinite Space (NDS, SEGA) - 3,900 | 59,000
16.) Taiko no Tatsujin Wii (Wii, Namco Bandai) - 3,900 | 585,000
17.) Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (NDS, Nintendo) - 3,900 | 656,000
18.) BlazBlue (PS3, Arc System Works) - 3,800 | 46,000
19.) Valhalla Knights 2: Battle Stance (PSP, Marvelous)
20.) Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of the Sky (NDS, The Pokemon Company) - 3,700 | 365,000
21.) EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis (Wii, EA Victor)
22.) New Super Mario Bros. (NDS, Nintendo) - 2,900 | 5,514,000
23.) Rhythm Paradise (NDS, Nintendo) - 2,900 | 1,759,000
24.) Akira Tago's Mind Exercises Vol. 1 (NDS, Level 5) - 2,800 | 25,000
25.) Evangelion: Jo (PSP, Namco Bandai)
26.) Metal Fight Beyblade (NDS, Hudson)
27.) Mario Kart DS (NDS, Nintendo) - 2,800 | 3,464,000
28.) Inazuma Eleven (NDS, Level 5) - 2,800 | 366,000
29.) Shin Sangoku Musou 5 Empires (PS3, Koei)
30.) New Play Control! Pikmin 2 (Wii, Nintendo)
31.) Dragon Ball Kai: Saiyajin Raishuu (NDS, Namco Bandai)
32.) Wii Play (Wii, Nintendo)
33.) Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriot (BEST) (PS3, Konami)
34.) Taiko no Tatsujin 2: The Seven Island Adventure (NDS, Namco Bandai)
35.) WarioWare: DIY (NDS, Nintendo)
36.) Animal Crossing: Wild World (NDS, Nintendo) - 3,800 | 5,030,000
37.) Sengoku Basara: Battle Heroes (PSP, Capcom)
38.) Agarest Senki Zero (PS3, Compile Heart)
39.) Wii Sports (Wii, Nintendo)
40.) Fate/Unlimited Codes Portable (PSP, Capcom)
41.) New Play Control! Chibi-robo! (Wii, Nintendo)
42.) Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the City (Wii, Nintendo)
43.) Monster Hunter G (Wii, Capcom)
44.) Pro Yakyuu Team o Tsukurou! 2 (NDS, SEGA)
45.) BlazBlue (360, Arc System Works)
46.) Sekai wa Atashi de Mawatteru (PSP, Global A) - 3,100 | NEW
47.) Pro Baseball Famista DS 2009 (NDS, Namco Bandai)
48.) Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2009 (PS2, Konami)
49.) WWE Legends of Wrestlemania (PS3, THQ) - 3,100 | NEW
50.) Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii, Nintendo)
XX.) Kirby Super Star Ultra (NDS, Nintendo) - 3,100 | 1,123,000
XX.) Momotarou Dentetsu: 20th Anniversary (NDS, Hudson) - 2,700 | 293,000
XX.) Major League Baseball 2K9 (PSP, Spike) - 980 | NEW
XX.) Hayarigami 2 DS: Toshidensetsu Kaii Jiken (NDS, Nippon Ichi Software) - 830 | NEW
XX.) Major League Baseball 2K9 (PS3, Spike) - 770 | NEW
XX.) Pokemon Diamond/Pearl (Combined in Famitsu) (The Pokemon Company) - 4,200 | 5,686,000

Hardware - This Week | Last Week | 2009 Sales | Lifetime Sales
1.) Nintendo DS (all models) - 128,363 | 54,362 | 1,838,802 | 26,958,437
2.) PlayStation Portable - 26,527 | 32,849 | 1,221,181 | 12,579,284
3.) Wii - 22,141 | 24,971 | 669,281 | 8,148,258
4.) PlayStation 3 - 9,864 | 11,196 | 610,997 | 3,233,465
5.) Xbox 360 - 3,561 | 5,876 | 239,045 | 1,068,482
6.) PlayStation 2 - 3,508 | 3,734 | 139,701 | 21,539,230
XX.) Nintendo DSi - 118,202 | 46,855 | 1,528,686 | 2,760,045
XX.) Nintendo DS Lite - 10,161 | 7,507 | 310,116 | 17,612,921