Hirokazu Hamamura — former editor-in-chief of Famitsu magazine, and now director at Kadokawa — stated at the “The Present State and Outlook of the Game Industry” seminar in Tokyo on Friday that he expects that the Dragon Quest XI: Sugisarishi Toki o Motomete (Dragon Quest XI: In Search of Departed Time) game will sell more than 5 million copies in Japan.
Dragon Quest XI will ship on the PS4 and Nintendo 3DS in Japan on July 29.
Secondly, smartphone games such as Hoshi no Dragon Quest and Dragon Quest Monsters Super Light have brought in new fans to the Dragon Quest franchise who are now anticipating the new main game in the series.
Final Fantasy XV’s combined download sales and shipments worldwide exceeded more than 5 million copies on the first day, and currently exceed 6 million copies.