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December 3rd, 2009 at 01:30pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
While we wait for the real, official announcement we so desperately need to hear from Square Enix, another hint has been dropped about a Western release for Dragon Quest IX.
Square Enix has filed a series of trademarks for the phrase “Sentinels of the Starry Skies” in English, French, Spanish, Italian, and German (search for trademark #008724528 on the EU trademark database to see the English application for yourself). The phrase corresponds closely to the Japanese subtitle of Dragon Quest IX, Hoshizora no Mamorubito (”Defenders of the Starry Sky”).
The publisher could be waiting to get its other big RPG out the door before saying anything. It previously noted that if it does localize the DS game (which it will!) it’ll be in the next fiscal year, which starts in April.
Trademark suggests upcoming European release for Dragon Quest IX originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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November 28th, 2009 at 02:45pm
Under DS
He might know if you’ve been bad or good, but that won’t stop St. Nick from sending you on a horse-related fetch quest in new DLC for Dragon Quest IX in Japan. Released on November 27, the Mr. Claus’ Horse downloadable content brings the mythical gift giver to the insanely popular Nintendo DS title.
Sadly, we can only hope Square Enix plans to include this and previous Dragon Quest IX DLC when the game eventually lands in North American stores. You’d think a guy with a sleigh and a few flying reindeer could help speed-up the process, but apparently Santa’s busy horse-sitting.
Santa’s Dragon Quest IX cameo now available in Japan originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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November 6th, 2009 at 11:30pm
Under DS
Square Enix recently chose to attack with its annual earnings report, and among the 12-page PDF file’s barrage of numbers, things look pretty good for the company. Net sales for the six months ending September 30, 2009 were up 33 percent over the same period last year to 91 billion yen ($1 billion), while operating income was also up by 39 percent to 13 billion yen ($144.5 million) over the same period last year. It’s not all roses and Dragon Quest IX sales, however — net income was down almost 58 percent to 2.7 billion yen ($30 million).
The statement also talks about the acquisition and assimilation of Eidos in direct proportion to Square Enix’s games group division — which includes video games across all platforms and online games for personal computers. Through the aid of titles like Batman: Arkham Asylum, Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days and the aforementioned Dragon Quest IX, the games division rose its net sales and operating income by 117 percent and 63 percent to 4.8 billion yen ($53 million) and 1.0 billion yen ($11 million), respectively.
As for the company’s upcoming darling, Final Fantasy XIII, Square Enix prez Yoichi Wada spoke about concern regarding the title’s projected domestic sales. Basically, he’s not concerned at all! “PS3 sales continue to increase. We’re bundling PS3 and FFXIII, and can expect even further sales increases. Orders for FFXIII are definitely not bad,” he said. While he didn’t reiterate anything as bold as six million, Wada did claim that the game is expected to sell in the millions.
Source – Square Enix earnings (PDF) [Via andriasang]
Source – Wada comments on FFXIII sales
Square Enix summons Earnings Report; Final Fantasy XIII Sales Projections evade attacks originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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November 5th, 2009 at 04:39pm
Under Xbox 360
Despite the handicap of not being for sale in most of the world, Dragon Quest IX for the DS sold more copies than any other game in the world between July and September of this year, according to a Top Global Markets report. With 3,925,000 copies sold in Japan, it outsold the number two best-selling game for that period, Wii Sports Resort, by almost 1,000,000 copies — and that game was available worldwide.
Following Wii Sports Resort in the top five: Madden NFL 2010 at 2,612,000, Pokemon HeartGold And SoulSilver at 2,068,000, and Halo 3: ODST, which was only out for a week in Q3, at 1,847,000 copies. All these games have plenty more sales ahead of them as the holidays approach!
Dragon Quest IX is Q3’s top-selling game originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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November 3rd, 2009 at 02:15pm
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Though Square Enix has yet to say anything concrete about releasing Dragon Quest IX outside of Japan, Nintendo has discussed its own plans to market the title. Last year, Satoru Iwata mentioned his intention to promote the game in the West, and during this week’s financial results Q&A session, senior managing director Shinji Hatano reiterated that intention.
“Hatano said that helping to sell Dragon Quest IX outside Japan is part of a larger effort on the part of Nintendo to partner with software makers to sell their games for Nintendo hardware,” GameLife summarized. Maybe eventually, Square Enix will announce this game.
Also on the subject of Dragon Quest IX, at the same event, Shigeru Miyamoto praised DQIX’s communication mode, which allows players to collect and interact with others’ characters passively. “Dragon Quest IX’s passerby communication has caused the number of people walking around outside using their DS systems to increase greatly, and I’m thinking that I could probably make something unique like that,” he said. And then he said “Also, recently, we got a cat.” Hint, hint.
[Via GameLife]
Nintendo still planning to co-market Dragon Quest IX originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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August 28th, 2009 at 01:00am
Under Wii / Nintendo
Last week, for the first time since its July debut, Dragon Quest IX sold fewer than 100,000 copies. Gamasutra reports that the latest Media Create totals (not yet up on Media Create’s site) put Dragon Quest at 79,000 units sold for the week ending August 23, earning it the second-place spot behind another DS game, Nintendo’s Tomodachi Collection.
This isn’t the first week out of the top spot for DQIX: the August releases of SD Gundam G Generation Wars and Monster Hunter 3 bumped Square Enix’s RPG sequel as well. Gamasutra estimates life-to-date sales for DQIX at 3.7 million units — the rate of growth is slowing, but the results are still ridiculous.
Weekly Dragon Quest IX sales drop under 100K for the first time originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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August 9th, 2009 at 04:30pm
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Having sold well over three million copies of Dragon Quest IX in Japan, isn’t it the obvious choice for Square Enix to bring the hit RPG worldwide as soon as possible? Well, maaaaaaybe.
In an investor Q&A session, president Yoichi Wada said that the company is “considering” releasing DQIX overseas, according to Siliconera’s translation, and still deciding which regions will receive it. And when Square Enix does get around to it, the company doesn’t plan to release it anywhere until after April 2010, the start of the company’s next fiscal year.
The Dragon Quest series, obviously, isn’t as major anywhere else as it is in Japan, but Dragon Quest VIII sold around half a million copies in North America, which seems, at least … worth the trouble.
Square Enix ‘considering’ Dragon Quest IX localization sometime after April originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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August 6th, 2009 at 08:30pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
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.
There are now 3.5 million Dragon Quest IX cartridges originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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July 27th, 2009 at 03:30pm
Under Wii / Nintendo
In the old American West, emigrants traveling in wagon trains through the plains would pass around the unenviable task of cooking for the group. Following in that grand tradition, the Joystiq staffers force each other to take turns writing stories about how Dragon Quest IX has sold several or perhaps even many severals of copies.
In this case, the magic number is 3.2 million, as reported by Famitsu. While it’s still 1.8 million short of the 5 million Square Enix hopes to ship, it’s, you know, not bad.
[Via andriasang.com]
Dragon Quest IX sales cross 3 million mark originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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July 22nd, 2009 at 06:45pm
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Andriasang.com reports that Japan will receive the first “Story Quest” DLC for Dragon Quest IX this Friday, July 24. While there aren’t specific details as to what a Story Quest actually is, it certainly sounds fairly self-explanatory. The DLC is entitled “Rikka’s Dream Treasure” and tasks players with snagging a specific treasure map for Rikka the innkeeper. Andria Sang notes that treasure maps are distributed randomly, which could make the quest a bit more difficult than it sounds.
Another standard quest will also be available, “Wonderful Birthday,” in which a character is searching for an item available on the Dragon Quest IX Wi-Fi shopping system. So, we guess you have to buy someone something? Doesn’t seem like much of a quest, really.
Still, if you’ve already cleared Dragon Quest IX — which is actually a requirement for playing the DLC — you’re probably ready for more.
Japan gets first DQ IX ‘Story Quest’ DLC July 24 originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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