Dragon Quest IX leads to increased DS sales in Japan

by JC Fletcher { Jul 17th 2009 at 5:05PM }

Nintendo of America touted the DS's sales in June, noting that the handheld outsold every home console combined, according to the June NPD numbers. Nintendo of Japan has its own success to be proud of, thanks to the release of Dragon Quest IX, which -- can you believe it -- led to increased hardware sales last week.

According to Media Create, the DSi sold 118,202 units last week, up from the previous week's 46,855. That actually seems like a pretty minor boost given that Dragon Quest sold over two million copies, and given that the red DSi launched alongside it. The DS Lite even managed to sell 10,161 units, presumably because DSis were sold out.

Gallery: Dragon Quest IX

[Via MCV]

Tags: dragon-quest-ix, japan, media-create, sales, square-enix

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Michael T @ Jul 17th 2009 5:14PM

In other news, sun rises in east, sets in west.

SoulBlade @ Jul 17th 2009 5:17PM

yea exactly... though mine was "water is wet"

WINterfang @ Jul 17th 2009 5:28PM

Also if you put chocolate in your milk you can make chocolate milk.

mr mobius @ Jul 17th 2009 5:46PM

I had planned to report that the sky is usually blue, but sometimes red, and othertimes grey, but I didn't want to overshadow this news.

charlie b. @ Jul 17th 2009 6:17PM

@WINterfang: chocolate milk? shut the fuck up. NO WAY.
shit, we gotta tell MystileArmor

WINterfang @ Jul 17th 2009 5:27PM

Numbers...high..whatever.

Babel @ Jul 17th 2009 5:28PM

Woah woah woah, slow down there, egghead.

AmitZ @ Jul 17th 2009 5:35PM

Captain obvious to the RESCUE!!!

nullset @ Jul 17th 2009 5:49PM

What is Suda51 doing there?

Haohmaru (PSN - DimmuBurgerKing XBL - A Real Puppet ) @ Jul 17th 2009 5:50PM

Great, so just what we all expected. Now let's talk about a stateside release.

bm @ Jul 17th 2009 6:45PM

I concur. I've had enough of reading how millions of people -who are not me- are playing this game. :(

Kendall Lartigue @ Jul 18th 2009 12:52AM

Wait a second...INCREASED Nintendo DS sales in...Japan? Is that even possible? Only one explanation for this, every person in Japan bought a SECOND Nintendo DS to play Dragon Quest 9

*end sarcasm*

PSU Fan @ Jul 18th 2009 11:14AM

Now maybe my morning coffee has yet to kick in but, if you presume that the DSi's were sold out wouldn't that explain the "minor" boost to sales? How can you have a major sales increase when there are no systems available for purchase? You seemed to have contradicted yourself with those statements, no?

Elranzer @ Jul 20th 2009 10:28AM

This is big. Sony's gonna have to have something big to counter this. I can't shake the feeling that the PSP Go is going to be a failure. I don't think a port of LittleBigPlanet is going to save them.

The DS now has official-numbered entries of the Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy franchises. PSP is getting the official Kingdom Hearts prequel and Parasite Eve 3 (both of which I'm looking forward to), along with the Final Fantasy agito XIII spin-off that looks suspiciously like FF8. I'm just afraid that the PSP will fail before those games get time to be translated to English.