Now, I'm no analyst but I bet Square Enix is tickled pink that
Dragon Quest IX is
selling oodles of copies in its native Japan,
a few dismissed Amazon complaints aside. Given that Square loves making money, whether or not
DQIX would ever make it to the United States seems like a no-brainer -- it's not
if, it's
when.
Gamekyo is reporting that Sqaure Enix boss and talking head Yoichi Wada established a pretty vague timeframe for us at a recent press event in Tokyo -- an occidental release is being studied now, but fans of the series shouldn't expect the game before April of next year. Wada also went on to reiterate Square's goal of hitting 5 million domestic sales. Given that, in three weeks,
DQIX has already racked up almost 4 million, I think they'll get it.
But anyway, bummer about the long wait, yeah? If, by next year you haven't imported it (and miss out on all that
local multiplayer action!) or pirated it (and
risk bricking your DS), how many of you will still be interested? As for me, I recently found the original
Dragon Warrior at a flea market, and a friend gave me
Dragon Quest VIII for my birthday -- I've got more than enough
Dragon Quest to last me until well into 2010.
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3:00 AM on 08.11.2009
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Also that is a really cute picture. Where did you find that?
Some games by Squaresoft/Squeenix made it to the USA after long waiting time...and a lot of games never made it to EU(Parasite Eve 1, XenoGears, Chrono Cross, Einhänder, Chocobo Dungeon 1 + 2,Chocobo Racing Tobal 1+2, FFXI on PS2, FF Tactics PSX, Brave Fencer Musashi, THREADS OF FATE, Legend of Mana)
The shipping costs from US to Germany are fucking high.
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