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Japanese champion nearly here.

One date that slipped under the radar earlier was a summer launch for Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies.

Nintendo's picked the same time-frame for the US.

Japan, however, has been playing since last summer. There, the DS RPG has been lauded by critics - Famitsu awarded the game 40/40 - and snapped up by a hungry public, which has bought 4.15m copies to date.

Nintendo's eyebrow-raising decision to plop a fully-fledged Dragon Quest instalment exclusively on DS appears to have paid off.

Videos, screenshots and words await on our Dragon Quest IX gamepage below.

About Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies
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- Release date 22/07/2010
- Publisher Square Enix
- Developer Level 5
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Cid #1 2 years ago

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I really hope this does well in the west. It looks like being one of the best original games for the DS.
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siro #2 2 years ago

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I would say it was Square-Enix decision, and not Nintendo's.
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owl #3 2 years ago

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siro, i think nintendo are publishing it here.

hope this is out by the time i go on holiday in mid-june. . .
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lucky_jim #4 2 years ago

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siro's right though, the decision was still Squenix's.
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Incarta #5 2 years ago

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Excellent news. The last DQ game on DS, the remake of DQV (Hand of the Heavenly Bride) is now one of my all time fave RPGs. Criminally overlooked.
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chrisno21 #6 2 years ago

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Should be good, will definitely pick it up. Isn't 4.1 million pretty low for a DQ game in Japan, I thought they bought two copies each, to go with their two DS'.
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firefly #7 2 years ago

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@chrisno21

I don't know about how well they usually sell but it seemed to be more a case of two copies each just because there's only one save slot.
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bionutz #8 2 years ago

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will there be any enhancements for nintendo dsi?
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Ciaran #9 2 years ago

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Very excited about this! \o/

Probably won't be buying two copies though...
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convercide #10 2 years ago

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I can't wait for this. VIII was one of the best games of last gen.
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