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Dragon Quest Heroes fails to chart in EU, barely makes the chart in NA

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The head of Square Enix's Business Division 6 and the executive producer of the Dragon Quest series, Yu Miyake suggested more Dragon Quest titles could be released in English and other languages (Such as the Slime game on 3DS in particular) if Dragon Quest Heroes sold on PS4 in North America & Europe/Australia. Unfortunately, the title's performance on the PlayStation Store would not give any hope of this.

 

PlayStation Europe listed the 20 best selling PlayStation 4 games in Europe/Australia in the month of October 2015 , and Dragon Quest is nowhere to be seen.

 

PlayStation USA has also posted their 20 best selling PlayStation 4 games for the month of October, 2015 and Dragon Quest has barely managed to chart coming in at #20.

 

We'll see soon if the title performed at retail.

 

In great news for Sony, the Uncharted Collection has performed very strongly topping Europe and making #2 in USA.

Edited by Sora96

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I still think it is ridiculous to base the future of a series in other countries based on the sales of a title that has nothing to do with the main series.

Wow, that's disappointing.

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I still think it is ridiculous to base the future of a series in other countries based on the sales of a title that has nothing to do with the main series.

 

It's the closest they're going to get until XI.

It's the closest they're going to get until XI.

I would think localizing the 3DS versions of VII or VIII over Heroes would provide a more accurate representation.  I would even say DQ Builders would have been a better investment to localize.  Heroes is a good game, but I have seen a lot more talk and excitement about all those games than I ever saw for Heroes.

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I would think localizing the 3DS versions of VII or VIII over Heroes would provide a more accurate representation.  I would even say DQ Builders would have been a better investment to localize.  Heroes is a good game, but I have seen a lot more talk and excitement about all those games than I ever saw for Heroes.

 

I disagree completely. VII and VIII are old games. And late life 3DS sales does not show anything for PS4. Builders is even less like mainline DQ. Lol.

Welp, looks like America/Europe will never get the other DQ games thanks to this. Sad really.

I disagree completely. VII and VIII are old games. And late life 3DS sales does not show anything for PS4. Builders is even less like mainline DQ. Lol.

 

I will agree to the 3Ds sales don't compare with PS4, but since XI is also having a 3DS release it would still be a decent representation, and I think it would be better to base the future of DQ on a core series game when it is the core series on the line .  As far as Builders, yeah it is pretty non-mainline, but I have seen more people wanting Builders than I ever saw wanting Heroes (plus with the success of Minecraft it could be a potential cash grab for Square)

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I will agree to the 3Ds sales don't compare with PS4, but since XI is also having a 3DS release it would still be a decent representation, and I think it would be better to base the future of DQ on a core series game when it is the core series on the line .  As far as Builders, yeah it is pretty non-mainline, but I have seen more people wanting Builders than I ever saw wanting Heroes (plus with the success of Minecraft it could be a potential cash grab for Square)

 

Of course, I've always thought Builders would be a good title for them to localize but it would not give any clarity for XI.

Of course, I've always thought Builders would be a good title for them to localize but it would not give any clarity for XI.

 

I will agree to that, the representation would be completely off.  I think Builders still has a good chance of being localized because of its appeal to a larger audience.

 

Hopefully Heroes has done well enough at retail to justify them giving the West one more shot with a main series game; although I don't think I will hold my breath for that.

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