Analyst: Dragon Quest IX to sell 5 million in Japan
by JC Fletcher 
{ Jun 3rd 2008 at 9:00PM }
Can a third-party game sell 5 million copies in Japan? Only the Pokemons, New Super Mario Bros. and Brain Age 2 have broken the 5 million mark, and all of those are published by Nintendo. Oka said that a portable Dragon Quest doubling the sales of a console release would be "not surprising," and Dragon Quest VIII sold about 3.5 million units in Japan (at least, according to VGChartz). Given the lower price point of DS games, the ubiquity of the DS, and the inestimable popularity of Dragon Quest, 5 million doesn't seem out of the question.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Jhongerkong @ Jun 3rd 2008 9:28PM
LOL.
Yeah, itll sell 5 million, in the first 30 minutes
bluezy @ Jun 3rd 2008 10:03PM
How about we get some release dates goin'.
BPM [MKWii: 2578 3585 8392] @ Jun 4th 2008 11:54PM
Only five million? That seems like a pretty conservative estimate. :)