/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9701910
I'm not sure about the Dragon Warrior games. I read that the first game was given for free with Nintendo Power subscription (see: https://www.oldschoolgamermagazine.com/howard-phillips-speaks-on-dragon-quests-initial-performance-and-nintendo-power-giveaway/)), because it never really caught on otherwise. That's how it got its 500k copies figure. but I've never seen the figures for 2-3-4. I highly doubt that they'd want to risk with V after the pretty awkward run on NES.
FF allegedly did way better, 700k copies, which is admittedly impressive for NES (btw, FF1 wasn't all THAT huge in Japan at 600k copies, but the series eventually got as big as DQ by FFVI). but after that, FFIV sold just 300k units in US, which is pretty underwhelming, considering that in Japan it sold 1.44 mln copies. it seems that after that Square didn't risk it it with other games, and I already mentioned that even the sales for Chrono Trigger / FFVI were somewhat low as well, in that 300-400k range.
So really, I'm only sure that FF1 did really well, but everything else wasn't very successful.