This is MASSIVE for Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake...

Seeing this really makes me wish Visions of Mana & FFVII Rebirth were on the Switch. Cause those games definitely deserve higher sales. Japan, y'all crazy sometimes.

I think the result of these sales definitely means by hook or by crook Monster Hunter Wilds will end up on the Switch 2. The Switch sales of DQ3 were nearly triple on the Switch compared to PS5.
Monster Hunter is popular worldwide now but the huge market in Japan has to still matter.

Ugh pokemon as a series is a lost cause now. First dexit and then the horrible performance of SV. If none of that hurts the series were gonna get garbage from the series going forward and it won't matter it'll still sell gangbusters

The sales are no a surprise dragon quest is much more popular on Nintendo. I legit don't think FF can reach sales of the old FF in jp with switch 2 included imo. FF brand in general is just damaged.

To say the sales numbers will direct what the devs create is like saying what you see on an ad for a restaurant is what you're gonna get. Yeah, it'll be what you're buying, but it's never gonna be quite what you hope for. Square will definitely keep Dragon Quest in its peripherals, but just like what we've seen with Mega Man Battle Network and how Capcom has used the Mega Man franchise after its release, I feel that Square will be stunned that DQ is so successful, just like how DQ Monsters: The Dark Prince showed, but they won't know where to go with it, especially since Akira Toriyama (R.I.P.) passed, and because Square always favors Final Fantasy over any of their other IPs, they won't do anything truly major with the franchise for a long time. Though, this may very well just be my own personal view as a fan who grew up enjoying the Dragon Quest Monsters spinoff series who has watched game after game release stay isolated as Japan only exclusives and waiting since the GameInformer announcement of Dragon Quest X for Wii back in 2012 to see more Dragon Quest ports finally come over. I'm just glad the past 3-5 years have been kind for the fans of the series.

We also need DQ10 in the USA for switch

I’m definitely picking up dragon quest 3 HD 2D soon enough

You’re such a Nintendo shill….. ugh man

An FF6 remake would be incredible, still the best FF imo.

I'll be honest, I got excited because I thought you were going to announce that third-person combat was added as an option in the Dragon Quest III HD-2D remake. 😂

Omg we get it dragon age have destroyed Toriyama art we get it you wish you could destroy Toriyama youself

Man, as someone who remembers when the series started, it really nice to see the series getting so much more love and attention from Western audiences past several years. It's about damn time!

As for DQ 3 HD 2D, got it day after it dropped. Great game and if you don't have it, definitely pick it up!

hi OJ

Looks like the grifters were all talk

Did they remove the censorship?

Good, not great sales. It appears that SE, once again, undershipped the Switch version. They somehow manage to do this every time.

And they said it would flop because of the “censorship”, that didn’t really matter much for Japanese players because it’s still DRAGON QUEST!!!

Got this from PS5 but hey its good switch and other consoles and platforms are getting this game.

Not surprised. Switch 2 will dominate Japan.

I know I got my copy😂.

If you make a game on one system like a goof then you are obviously only gonna get narrow sales. it has been this way since the dawn of time. If you dont make a game that was made famous by Nintendo on a nintendo system so they cant buy it. then you are shooting yourself in the foot. Nintendo fans are Nintendo fans. most of them dont have a playstation or ever had one. And as you can see by the sales if they had made this only on ps5 they would have only had 1/4th the sale they have now. Hopefully they see this and realize the mistakes they are making.

Pokémon sv becoming best selling Pokémon game shows that:
- boycott often if not always fails. Especially for popular franchise like Pokémon
- A lot of these ytbers say Pokémon sucks and nobody shuould buy the game were never into Pokémon to begin with.
- those say palworld is gonna take over Pokémon, think again.

I see a Dragon Quest 12 Switch 2 limited editions.

Dragon Quest HD2D Remake is best enjoyed on the Steam Deck.

Heck yeah double dipped on this one for PC and Switch. It's fun to replay like dark souls with weird builds and parties. Gotta do an all gadabout run soon!

I have adored this HD 2D format since Octopath Traveler. I honestly wish SE would go back and remake the First Six games in the Final Fantasy Franchise in this format, hell, I'd even love to see them some of the other FF games in the style. Or give us FFX-3 or FFX-0.5 or whatever in this style. It's so damn beautiful. Bring on the rest of the DQ series.

can we stop coping and accept the fact that pokemon sells just cause it's pokemon?
it's literally the fifa of RPGs.

Yea pokemon scarlet and violet

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet does have a ton of flaws, and you can see where there is content missing (like you can tell they wanted to make each Gym have a mini-game that you could play over and over with friends), but it really is one of the best stories pokemon has ever done. It really only shows itself best at the end with it's kind of 80s goonies inspired really emotional ending.

A gargoyle speech version would be groovy.

Dragon quest 3 on gbc is more than good enough for me.

It was exceptional when it came out, It’s exceptional now. Can’t wait for the 1&2 had remakes in the new year to finish the trilogy 😊

If you're playing Dragon Quest III on a PS5, it must be the only platform you have.

It would be awesome for them to do the whole Zenithian Trilogy, but if they just did DQ IV that would still be great.

Dragon Quest is positive, but they went back to the drawing board after the response for the original HD-2D reveal. That response was huuuge, on the level of FF7 Remake's initial reveal trailer. They left it in secret and hiding for too long, when they could have let players know that given how enthusiastic that response was, they felt the original build wasn't adequate and wanted to create something truly special worthy of the player base.

THAT would have gone over very well, and heightened anticipation over the release. In the silence and vacuum of no information and no reasoning why a clearly nearly complete game with the 2021 reveal trailer, was postponed for so long. Especially with so little DQ news, when we're used to 2~4x more games over the same period.

So while the sales are good, and I think it's between 1.2~1.5m, maybe as high as 1.8m in Japan atm, depending on digital sales...given Dragon Quest, there might be a far higher physical purchase rate. Given likely costs, it probably needs around 750k~1.2m to break even, as Amata KK's build would be in the 5, maybe as high as 10m range. While the Artdink build and time would be anywhere from 40~60m...maybe a little lower. They skimped hard on marketing, even in Japan. Though Japan had what most remakes get in terms of marketing, so that makes sense. The US and EU had 2 Directs, one half the length of the other, and only AFTER release, a Nintendo Switch news article, which after day 2 of that article going up, they spent extra, likely because digital sales were actually going up, to change its position to highlight. That's probably between 1.5m total with all the other things they did for the NA/EU regions combined, and 5m for Japan.

Had the original build released on May 27th, 2022, as Team Asano had tweeted on DQ Day 2021, after the announcement? I think it would have sold 5m out the gate, first day. This game has sold probably half that world wide, at best. A lot of reasons. Not just the lack of communication. Also the economic conditions, and of course marketing. However the controversy definitely made an impact on it, though we'll never know how much, it's hard to say it made any major impact, but even 50k sales does play a role. The real issue is how SE handled everything, and going dark and quiet after Elon's tweet, rather than play into it...though I'm of the mind that I want to see all of the unnecessary changes like Appearance A/B eventually patched out, and that can always happen down the road. As a DQ fan it's necessary for it to succeed, especially with how precarious things are in the West, and we're unfortunately always left on a precipice of wonder if we'll get the next release, all due to SE and even the DQ team's blunders and poor choices on multiple levels. Lack of communication being a very huge hurdle they still need to overcome.

So great sales and a good thing to celebrate, but had they properly handled that downtime, this game should be at 1.8m on Switch physical minimum, and 500k on PS5 minimum, if not 1.5m on PS5, in Japan alone. With a 1m sales marker in the US and another 1.2m in Europe. With SE touting the biggest HD-2D success in history. That is where we SHOULD be at, and from how much love was put into this version? What this game deserves. I actually hated it at first, it took some time to gravitate towards the art style, but after day 2...yeah, I really really really enjoy it. I do wish we had better battle animations, and a few other things, but I am hoping we see enhancements going forward, less so with 1+2, as with what I feel is an eventual 4~6 trilogy remade this way. Hell, I'd love a Demake of 7~9 and 11 in this style

I bought this game on steam to play on the deck. I trugged through octopath 2 on the switch and the loading times and graphical compromises are just too much to justify buying for it now. hoping switch 2 returns to form. it is kind of crazy that DQ3 remake is like double the sales of Dragon Age veilguard.

Great game, good remake, and it can run on pretty modest hardware. Once it hits a sale, they will move more units. I think a lot of people feel $60 is a pretty rich asking price for a game that has an obviously smaller budget than most AAA games. I snagged a preorder deal on GMG to save a few bucks.

This strategy SE is using with DQ is what they should have done with FF. 1 Big new game (stylized and smaller dimensions like DQ11) and 1 remake in HD-2D (at least for the first 4-6 games). Instead of those big realistic FF games that barely have any fantasy in it, or gigantic remakes split in many parts.

Sales show how well the strategy is working for DQ franchise since it is growing with every release, while FF is just going down and get more dislike with every release.

❤ i need to know what version do i get this on ps5 or switch ? Thanks 👍

Got a copy for all the consoles, fantastic remake of a fantastic game.

Nintendo needs to make Golden Sun and Mother 3 in this style already if they aren’t gonna remake it.

This game is beautiful in my opinion. Was a slam dunk early buy for me.

I didn't know the Mario Luigi game was an rpg, that actually looks cool. I really liked the old Mario rpg on snes.

Does the American Switch version comes with hiragana text option? Thanks!

This game is quite literally on everything though.... so.... yeah. Not sure why we're talking about switch I guess. All I know is go play it. I got it on Steam personally.

It's not surprising that DQ did so well regardless of the censorship, especially in japan where that series is practically a religion. I will get it at some point, preferably physical so I know I own it.

I really hope they don't do a Switch version and do Switch 2 only, else the game will need to be downgraded to be able to run on the extremely outdated Switch hardware, and obviously devs don't make multiple versions nowdays, it's just a single version slightly adapted for different platforms.

You don't need a state of the art console to play a 2D remake of a game. I'd leave that for something meatier.

I love hearing those sales numbers, which don’t lie. I beat Refantazio! I’m playing Brothership right now, but when I’m done I’ll get to DQ3-2DHD for which I’ve been highly anticipating!

I'm still waiting on Dragon Quest Builders 3.