sábado, 15 de abril de 2017

Discussing the pontential of Dragon Quest XI in Japan


Dragon Quest XI will be released in Japan on July 29th, 2017, that’s nearly 9 years after the last single player Dragon Quest game and nearly 13 years after the last one on a home console, that’s a pretty big deal, not only because of the long wait but because this will be the very first Dragon Quest game to be multiplatform, XI will be released on both PlayStation 4 and Nintendo 3DS on that date, with it hitting the Nintendo Switch sometime later.

sábado, 8 de abril de 2017

Japan Monthy Report for March 2017


In the US and Europe there are market research firms that release a monthly report about how the industry is doing, hardware and software sales, these are the NPD Group and the Gfk. As they are the only companies to do that business in those areas their numbers are, for the most part, not revealed to the public, that of course isn't an issue in Japan where we have 3 trackers that release data on a weekly basis.