Nintendo DS News | Dragon Quest IV Remake Passes Million Mark

The Dragon Quest IV remake for DS currently resides at No.6 on the Media Create chart, with nearly 800,000 units sold so far. However, Square Enix has confirmed a quite special sales goal.

Initially the game, developed in conjunction with Opoona's Artepiazza, sold a massive 360,000 units on its very first day on the Japanese market, which was reportedly 70% of the stock Square Enix sent out to retail. By the end of that sales week it had nearly reached a fantastic 600,000 units...and all this was just a few weeks ago! Now Square Enix has confirmed that it has sent out 1,000,000 units of the game, ensuring that this will be the company's third million seller on DS, following Final Fantasy III (1.1 million) and Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker (1.4 million).

For those that are unaware, here are the numbers for previous Dragon Quest remakes, just to put some perspective on this:

This definitely bodes well for the release of Dragon Quest V on DS, which is scheduled for Spring 2008 in Japan. As for a Western release of DQIV, well, there is a partially translated German, Spanish and English script hidden within the Japanese game, indicating that Square Enix does indeed plan on bringing it to the West. And given how the English script is something like 95% complete and just needs formatting properly, chances of a Q2 or early Q3 2008 release are strong.

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