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Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake has actually ended up being the top-selling video game in Japan for 2024, in spite of just launching a week earlier.
According to approximated figures shared by Famitsu, the Switch variation is the top-selling video game of the previous week with 641,195 copies offered, while the PS5 variation remains in 2nd location with 180,575 copies offered. That’s a combined overall of 821,770 and does not even consist of Steam or Xbox Series X/S sales.
In between both variations, Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake offered 10 times the remainder of the leading 10 integrated.
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It’s an incredible accomplishment for a series that has actually generally shown exceptionally popular in Japan. As IGN examined a couple of years back, designers of the series developed their own law to just launch Dragon Quest video games at the weekend to stop kids avoiding school in the week to purchase the video games.
What’s more, as Noisy Pixel reports, these substantial sales suggest Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake is Square Enix’s most effective Japanese launch given that – think what? – the last video game in the series, Dragon Quest 11, in 2017.
It’s likewise the greatest video game launch given that The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom in 2015, according to Famitsu price quotes.
Worldwide sales of Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake are presently unidentified, though Japan was constantly most likely to have the greatest sales.
Over on Steam, the video game has an all-time concurrent peak gamer count of 45,357, making it the most popular Dragon Quest on the platform by rather some margin. Dragon Quest 11: Echoes of an Elusive Age peaked at 11,793.
Could this work for any other Square Enix video games? Previously today, Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake manufacturer Masaaki Hayasaka stated he would like to see Final Fantasy 6 recreated in the exact same design, though confessed there are no “concrete strategies”.
While Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake recreates the 3rd video game in the series, it is chronologically the very first so makes a fantastic starting point for newbies.