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Dragon Quest XI will have to sell well in the West for future installments to be localized - TGS '18
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1.) The notion of holding future releases hostage if some pretermined number isn't hit is a bad practice. Ask Capcom how well that works out for them.
2.) You released against Spiderman for fuck's sake. You'll probably have good legs but it's the second worst weekend to release besides against Red Dead.
2.) You released against Spiderman for fuck's sake. You'll probably have good legs but it's the second worst weekend to release besides against Red Dead.
Hope it sells well enough. I'm enjoying it immensely and have recommended it to anyone I can. Will likely double dip on the switch version too.
Well I'm guessing they want around DQ9.
How much has it sold on steam because it's down significantly in the UK?
How much has it sold on steam because it's down significantly in the UK?
Selling better than previous DQ 9 as that is their main reason on moving DQ brand to Sony court. Which is to expand DQ IP on the west.
That'll only happen if Sugiyama is gone, the sexualized outfits are out, and the game actually gets some actual marketing.
Can anybody say if OT sold a million by this point?, like 3 weeks afterwards right, perhaps thats what we have to look for
With no actual advertising/marketing and shitty release dates?
I just can't. DQ is my favorite series.
I just can't. DQ is my favorite series.
It did in less then a month.
Probably hit a Million in a month to a month and a half in the West.
Like I have said, outside of FF, Square Enix seems intent on killing off several franchises. Dragon Quest, Tomb Raider, Deus Ex and they let IO Interactive leave with HITMAN so yeah, this is why im not the biggest Square Enix fan.
It's selling really well over here, though...isn't it? Constantly in the top-selling charts on Steam and was no slouch on PS4 either. And considering it released so close to Spider-Man that's pretty damn good.
So pretty much the exact opposite of this? I get the points you made here but out of the 3 you actually named, marketing is probably all it needs.
Pretty sure the PS4 version is selling really well, steam version? Not so much based on one of the recent threads.
I'm sure we will see more DQ games hitting the west.
Hey you know what would help SE? If you didn't release it in the same month as Spider-man and your own biggest title of this year Tomb Raider, August was completely empty of any big games and you ignored it.
Also don't let yourself get played by some 80 year old fossil because he wants to sell CD's and concert tickets.
Also don't let yourself get played by some 80 year old fossil because he wants to sell CD's and concert tickets.
Xenoblade seems to do just fine with non-optional sexualisation.
Dq9 did very well. For example, it had arguably the greatest legs a jrpg had in the UK. It did one million plus in the West in the tail end of the ds life.
How many people outside of Era do you think actually know about Composer's garbage opinions? Further, how many of those aware, cared enough to opt out of buying? (Hint: No where near enough to have an impact, even here it's very popular game.)
When has "sexualized'' outfits ever demonstrably hurt a games sales? Didn't hurt NieR at least. (may have given it a boost even.)
not really. It could indicate a market is not as interested and you can just save more money by not doing it or doing subs only. its a business not a charity.
I mean the last main series entry on a major console was DQ8 in 2004 so I mean maybe don't release games every 14 years if you want to establish a fanbase? Also don't release against Spider-Man next time. That being said it seems like it's selling okay—hopefully we'll get lots more Dragon Quest in the future.
You don't get to say one thing than try to be sly and pretend its in fact the opposite.
Might be over estimating those first two boss, yeah they are a problem but marketing is the only one that's needed for sales.
At least on Steam, it seems to be selling well. That SteamSpy estimate of 50k-100k that people were freaking out about earlier now is an estimate of 100k-200k and the game hasn't even been out a month yet. I can't imagine that the game is selling worse on PS4 given the series' history. And I also can't imagine that a couple hundred thousand sales at full price isn't more than enough to justify an English localization.
This really seems to be a case of stating the obvious in an attempt to try to drum up more sales more than anything else.
This really seems to be a case of stating the obvious in an attempt to try to drum up more sales more than anything else.
1 million+ at probably close to full price as it is published by Nintendo who famous never cut price.
DQ9 released in 2009 on a major device, and sold more than DQ8 in the West. That said, I get your point that SE is mind-numbingly stupid when it comes to handling DQ in the West.
