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NPD: DQ XI had the biggest launch month in franchise history, dollar sales more than double DQ9
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No one's downplaying anything about DQ11, only stating facts. We actually have launch numbers for DQ9 cause NPD used to give us those back then. Launch sales of DQ9 was 132k. The math of DQ11 comes around to 150k or so.
The fact is that DQ11, across PS4 and PC only performed marginally better than an exclusive title on the DS. To me, that isn't very good.
I had a brain fart and wanted to say « the same with dq9 beeing half price »
And you seem to not be reading the thread considering how multiple people explained why the "double" thing is about dollars, not units sold. This game had almost double the average price of the previous entry and did... guess what, double the dollars. The growth is small (betweek 10 and 20K sales) even with the game on more platforms.
Comparing this to Monster Hunter World is ridiculous. MHW is a juggernaut that did absurd huge numbers over previous entries in the region, DQXI is almost flat in units.
Once I'm home I'll do the maths but if someone wants to get ahead: in Europe it did much lower in UK but better in Spain than DQIX.
Yes... ? Japan didn't see a mainline Dragon Quest on PlayStation since the PS2 era and even including PSP, the last Monster Hunter on PlayStation was Monster Hunter 3 Portable I guess ?
So both of those critical japanese franchise have been missing for a long period on PlayStation and came back in full force with MHW and DQ11, being a success in Japan and also expanding worldwide. Is there anything else I can do for you ?
Made some good money though. Hope it keeps up. DQIX eventually hit 1.12 million overseas, so I kinda wanna see it reach that.
NPD is US only.
Nor is the revenue generated. Hint it more than double it. There was growth in unit sales so what's the issue.
If DQ sold well on 3ds in the US, they'd have released XI.
Octopath was handled by Nintendo in the west, i think? SQEX handled the japanese release for that game ... and look how THAT turned out. It's almost worth the term "wanting to fail".
SQEX's handling of DQ is just bad. A different release month AND the 3DS version would've gotten them better numbers. That they made more revenue on 2 platforms with a higher price and a even more pricey limited edition is neither surprising, nor does it mean they really made more, seeing as Nintendo took care of localization for the handheld games with SQEX benefitting.
Dunno why japanese devs/pubs have sometimes issues with some of their IPs. SQEX with DQ, pre World Monster Hunter and Capcom, Bamco and their sometimes releasing Tales of games in the earlier years and with the mainline handheld titles.
Now imagine how well it could've potentially done if it was released during one of the quieter summer months and not mere days before Spider-Man came out. It's borderline miraculous it sold as well as it did.
Yeah, I'd like to see the numbers before being too excited. Still, it's a step in the right direction.
I have no interest in the series myself, but it's nice to see JRPGs do well.
I would not say "more than double the previous revenue" is "marginally better" but hey, no downplaying alright.
People don't care about DQ spinoffs and remasters in the west. The fact that it's 2018 and the 3DS is dead likely played a bigger part.
Yeah it's a shame the rereleases didn't sell all that much. Don't think the mobile releases did all that well either.
It was marginal at best in the US and it's going to be a tall order to reach DQ9's overseas sales. And that's without taking into account the sharp decline in Japan
Still, the 3DS game is finished, and i think both games, while playing different somewhat, share the same script, so the translation for the PS4/PC version could've been reused for the 3DS.
The sad thing is, you could apply this to most Square-Enix games released in recent memory. Their publishing arm straight up sucks.
Well, yes we do considering NPD threads are apparently a shitshow. Plus not everyone's going to click on that.
Nothing funny about it. Square did well in spite of their stupid decision, not because of it. And I'm positive in August or July this game would've performed even better.
We do:
DQXI on PS4: 1.517.075
On 3DS: 1.852.839
DQIX: 4.402.263
Stop spinning the numbers. The game was released is a very busy month. They aren't stellar but they are good.
Also why get the smaller number in the arc and this weird split of 50k Steam sales for just the US...
We should stick to what we know, XI is the best selling DQ in the west. And that's a small triumph for the series.
I'm calculating actual numbers, you can do your shilling with someone else.
The 3DS script is a bit different since it has its share of exclusive content
It's not a whole lot but it exists
This isn't true though. DQXI could end up being the best selling game in the west, but it's far too early for that.
I'm not debating revenue. The extra revenue is good. I'm debating the units sold, because the revenue paints a good picture on that. And we have a reference point to the previous title since NPD gave numbers back then.
This isn't true at all since Mat's tweet is about revenue, not units sold. It doubled its revenue because it's double the price of DQ9. You could sell similar amounts to the previous title and hit double the revenue. It's math!
If It comes out it;s going to be at best a year after it released in NA and 2 years in Japan so I would say no.
It has the best revenue generated in the opening month for the US.
It's nowhere near beeing the best selling DQ game in the west, like.. at all
One of DQ9's best markets overseas was the UK and we know DQ11 did poorly there in comparison
I'm curious about the french release now
Aside from additional contents plot is actually a bit different for two versions (some NPC placements, quests and such). I have no idea why SE did that though..
To promote double dipping (tbey even sold a double pack on their webstore)
While that is good in a way, by units the difference probably isn't that big. DQ9 was far cheaper and DQ11 is 60$ along even Special editions so not surprised that the revenue is bigger. Anyway, the thing is, we'll have to wait for the financial results of SE to see how the game reached for the calculations and expectations made in there. They probably will find it fine but not to change to a WW release.
The company with issues with DQ isn't SE. They do well on that side. The problem is the western side handling the franchise.
The company with issues with DQ isn't SE. They do well on that side. The problem is the western side handling the franchise.
Keep in mind that DQIX was an uncommonly leggy game in its lifetime sales. Especially in Europe. If it can keep getting consistent sales like IX I can see it getting there eventually.
Considering this is a $35 product Vs a $60 product with an expensive LE this seems like a solid but not spectacular result, which seems very in line with the little we saw from the European charts.
It's still looking pretty likely that DQIX will remain the best selling(units) game worldwide.
It's still looking pretty likely that DQIX will remain the best selling(units) game worldwide.
But the bad choices for that people are also to put the game on PS4 and not releasing in the West the 3ds version after the uber flops of the precedent DQ 3ds games, and not releasing the ghostly Switch version at the same time, we have to make context.
What we have now is the best Us launch in franchise history, but it seems that we we can downplay this fact after all ^^
All my examples were in terms of western releases. Neither company i stated have problems with mishandling the listed IPs in the west. And SQEX US is still SQEX, i would excuse them in Europe due to having a distribution/publishing partner, but not in the US.
The game was leggy because of how it was made. It also encouraged people (both in Japan and overseas) to keep their game, limiting the second hand market.
I just don't see it happening for DQ11
My hope is that through sales, the PC version gets super leggy
