Shinji Hatano, General Manager of the marketing division at Nintendo, confirmed that we'll be seeing Dragon Quest IX in English at some point.
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A few weeks ago, Square Enix started a new type of cooperative Dragon Quest IX quest. These quests require that large groups of players team up to perform tasks. The first such quest was simple: get 500,000 players to submit their DQIX play data via Wi-Fi. Last week, players succeeded in this quest and were given a promised reward: an appearance by Dragon Quest Sword's Setia as a guest character.

Square Enix's plan was to use the data acquired through the quest to share stats about DQIX with other players. Today, it did just that. A National Census page page opened up at the DQIX Square Enix Members site. The page shares play data based off 677,350 (that's right -- they totally beat the 500,000 goal, it seems) data submissions.

The data is split into four pages: Special Data and Ranking, Profile Information, Battle Information, and Character Information.

Here are a few of the stats.
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Anoop Gantayat: "Dragon Quest IX is on its way to topping four million in sales. Meanwhile, the game's various guide books have combined for a major sales feat of their own: one million sold."
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Anoop Gantayat: The surprises keep on coming for Dragon Quest IX. Today, Square Enix unveiled a new type of quest for the game: "Wi-Fi Quests."
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It seems Square Enix boss Yoichi Wada is as addicted to Dragon Quest IX as the rest of Japan - having spent 30 hours on the game in 4 days.

In his weekly column in Japanese newspaper Nikkei, Wada tells how he always tries out the latest games, and "spent 30 hours in the four days after its release" in the case of Dragon Quest IX.
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Anoop Gantayat: Dragon Quest IX has already sold over 3.5 million copies. But Square Enix has even bigger plans for the game, to the tune of 5 million domestically.
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Russ tells of console sales and other RPG deals as he begins, "September may have a lot of games coming out for it, so it is a good thing the prices of the 360 and PS3 dropped. Plus you still might be able to grab a decent computer during the back to school sales. Gaming triple play ahoy!"
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The NGamer magazine has brought some interesting review scores in its latest issue. Check them out.
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VG247: Square told VG247 today that a final decision on launching Dragon Quest IX outside Japan is yet to be made.
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German magazine N-Zone has some reviews for Wii and DS games.
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Gaming Union writes "News has been flooding out of Square Enix's most recent financial media briefing, with investors and journalists clamouring to find out Square Enix's plans.

Comparing Dragon Quest IX to Dragon Quest VIII, which was released on the PlayStation 2, Yoichi Wada, the president of Square Enix, stated that he expected it to achieve at least 5m unit sales. This effectively means that Square Enix expect Dragon Quest IX to surpass Dragon Quest VIII."
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Gaming Union writes "Yoichi Wada, the president of Square Enix, was recently speaking to journalists about his company's performance in the first period of the new financial year. Dragon Quest IX came up, obviously, but questions were fielded about an overseas release."
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Kotaku writes: "The title says it all: Square Enix has shipped over 3.5 million copies of DS role-playing game Dragon Quest IX in Japan.

Going on sale July 14th, the game is the latest entry in the Dragon Quest series and was developed by Fukuoka-based studio Level-5."
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Dragon Quest IX is well on its way to earning the coveted title of the best-selling DS game in Japan. Honestly, who would have expected otherwise? Famitsu parent Enterbrain today reports that unit sales in the region have crossed the 3.2 million mark, a figure that represents sales from July 11 to July 26.
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Sports games and Dragon Quest IX (third biggest week ever) were the big hits for the week on Wii, PS3, PS2, and DS respectively. PSP and Xbox 360 had very quiet weeks by contrast.
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No one can deny that Dragon Quest IX has gotten off to a tremendous start in Japan. In just two days, 2.3 million copies of the game were sold.
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Chris Winkler writes "Square Enix today announced that total shipments of Dragon Quest IX have reached the three million mark, only four days into the DS-based RPG's availability in Japan. Meanwhile, worldwide shipments for the entire Dragon Quest franchise have passed the 50 million mark.
As reported earlier, Dragon Quest IX sold more than 2.3 million copies on July 11th and 12th, the first two days that it was on sale"
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Nintendo Co Ltd (7974.OS) sold more than twice as many units of the DS game player last week in Japan as it did the week before, helped by the latest version of Square Enix's (9684.T) "Dragon Quest" game, a research firm said.

Demand for video game machines had been showing signs of slowing down worldwide, making investors wonder if the current expansion phase will soon come to an end.
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Examiner: "The highly anticipated Nintendo DS game, Dragon Quest IX, becomes the 10th title to get a perfect score from Famitsu by scoring 40 out of 40."
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Kotaku: We know how many were sold in the first two days, and now we also know how many copies of the game were shipped. We sure do know a lot of things.
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