Japanese Sales | Dragon Quest DS: ~600,000 1st Week, Wii Beats PS3 Again

Anyone else notice that if the DS keeps up a strong holiday performance that it will beat the PS2 by the end of the year. Insane!

Like I said before, there's less than 700,000 units between DS and PS2...so all the DS needs is one really big week and it'll quickly close the gap and could well beat it by the end of 2007!

Nintendo DS 20,159,556
PlayStation 2 20,837,362

Wii 3,870,665
GameCube 4,179,853

Various milepoints nearly reached there

DQV is apparently set for January, meaning DQVI could well come in April...leaving a good run-up for DQIX in Autumn 2008.

Qhat do you mean? DQ games aren't generally whored out by S-E...that's just the FF franchise.

To be getting so many DQ games in such close proximity is quite a pleasant shock for the Japanese market! They've had Rocket Slime, DQM: Joker, DQ Swords and now DQIV all in a short period of time, and will be getting DQV, DQVI and DQIX in the next year (I reckon). S-E is clearly ramping up the DQ side more...and then there's the promise of another Dragon Quest Monsters soon!

I don't care what format FF7 remake ends up on, I just want it!

DS is simply the platform any RPG fan out there can't ignore. Especially if you're a nostalgic old scool RPG fan.

Dragon Quest 5 and 6 never got a release outside japan, and the fact that draque IV already has pieces of european languages translation hidden in its japanese version hints that it's surely gonna hit western shores (it already did with a NES release in North America in 1992 under the Dragon Warrior 4 name)

So you could well imagine that 5 and 6 will follow as well.

It's really interesting for them to remake them for the DS, because some of us never got to play them. I'm talking about the european RPG fans specifically who didn't even get the fourth installment for the NES.

The eighth episode for the PS2 sold very well in Europe and was critically and commercially acclaimed, so it would be silly not to release every new installment of the main series in western countries. I'm really happy about their decision to remake them. I'm playing the fourth in English thanks to action replay which unlocks the other languages, and it's really good.