Dragon Quest 9

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@Nargrakhan

Nice find.

Personally I think the financial report is kinda miss leading: 1 million is how many Nintendo sold to retailers, but not indicitive of how many copies the retailers actually sold. As you mentioned previously, the game is going for $15 to $25 these days… which is somewhere between 30% to 55% off the MRSP. However 1 million would mean the game has broken even for investors - they got back exactly as much as they put in.

I would argue though, that the main problem with warehouses full of DQ9 (which appears to be the case, given the price slashing), is retailers won’t be keen on ordering a lot of DQ6 from Nintendo: which is how they make their money. I suspect that DQ6 will be very limited run: maybe 100,000 cards pressed on initial run. If for nothing else: everyone has Pokemon on the brain.

NPD reported two months ago, that DQ9 sold under 400,000 copies in North America. If that remains the case, then it would appear the series did better in Europe and the Middle East.

Well it probably isn’t quite true. I’d want a report with up through January, or at least December, figures as a lot of people got Christmas money and at least a few went out and bought this game. Those figures are from December 31, so it might mean the market was skewed. Retail reports did put Dragon Quest as one of the biggest selling Black Friday games and the biggest for the DS.