There are now 3.5 million Dragon Quest IX cartridges
by JC Fletcher 
on Aug 6th 2009 7:30PM
Welcome to your weekly
Dragon Quest IX sales update! We don't do this for most games, but, well, most games don't sell over two million copies in the first week. The relevant part of Square Enix's latest statement about the RPG's success is actually about
shipments rather than sales: the company announced that as of yesterday, it had shipped out 3.5 million copies.
Sales are currently at 3.39 million, so we're confident that the 3.5 million shipped copies will be out of stores soon enough, and within a couple of weeks we'll hear about the number hitting
4 million. Still no announcements about a release outside of Japan, however, presumably because ... actually, we have
no idea why Square Enix isn't using this ridiculous popularity to promote an international release.
