Dragon Quest IX Screens, Tops Most Wanted

By Jorge Ba-oh 05.01.2009 5

Dragon Quest IX Screens, Tops Most Wanted on Nintendo gaming news, videos and discussion

Square Enix have released a handful of new screens from the upcoming installment of Dragon Quest for DS.

The game recently topped Famitsu's most wanted list, beating the likes of Final Fantasy
XIII, Monster Hunter 3 and RE5 for most desired reader title.

Famitsu's Editor-in-Chief has made his predictions for Dragon Quest's launch in March, with the DS-exclusive entry set to sell around 4 to 5 million at launch.

March [DQIX's launch month] will be bigger than the year-end sales war. Even side-stories (such as Dragon Quest Monsters) have sold a million copies, and the previous title in the series (DQVIII) sold 3 million plus. It [DQIX] should be expected to sell from 4 million to 5 million copies.

Box art for Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies
Developer

Level-5

Publisher

Square Enix

Genre

Turn Based RPG

Players

4

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Reader Score

Rated $score out of 10  10/10 (7 Votes)

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mooojc is offline. mooojc 05.01.2009#1

Sounds like its going to be epic! (in sales anyway).

 
Satoshi is offline. Satoshi 05.01.2009#2

It most likely will sell millions, but the voters in Famitsu are sooo not representative of the Japanese gaming community - I mean there's 6 PS3 games on the list and there are only like 8 PS3 owners in the whole of Japan...

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D_prOdigy is offline. D_prOdigy 05.01.2009#3

So... It's gonna be big then?

 
JoshSL is offline. JoshSL 05.01.2009#4

Simon_ said:
It most likely will sell millions, but the voters in Famitsu are sooo not representative of the Japanese gaming community - I mean there's 6 PS3 games on the list and there are only like 8 PS3 owners in the whole of Japan...

Despite PS3 games doing so well and 360 doing so badly? D:

This game is gonna be huge in Japan though, I'm pretty sure DQ is more popular than FF a lot of the time, and as a main series DQ game on one of the world's most popular consoles, there will be implosions and SFX everywhere on launch day.

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jesusraz is offline. jesusraz 05.01.2009#5

The main DQ entries are normally VERY front-loaded, but DS games have shown great legs for certain RPGs, so it'll be very interesting to see what happens.

Five million is definitely not out of the question...

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