During the week of December 8th, Sony released a Dragon Quest Metal Slime Edition PlayStation 4 in Japan. Japanese sales tracker
Media Create reports that the special
Dragon Quest-themed console sold 38,000 units, bringing total PS4 sales for the week to 68,041.
Thats the highest PS4 sales have been during any given week in Japan since the consoles launch back in February, when it sold 309,000 units.
It also helped that each of the
Dragon Quest-themed consoles came with a download code for
Dragon Quest Heroes, which will be released on February 26th, 2015 in Japan.
Square Enix currently have three
Dragon Quest games in development that have been mentioned publicly. Theres
Dragon Quest Heroes for PS3/PS4,
Theatrhythm Dragon Quest for the Nintendo 3DS, and a
brand new Dragon Quest Monsters game for an unspecified platform.
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