Nintendo DS sold almost a million copies in Japan in its first week. The game sold over 1.2 million copies by March 2010. According to Nintendo Power, Dragon Quest VI was originally planned for North American release in the spring of 1996 under the title "Dragon Warrior V." The Super NES localization of the game never happened, however, as Enix had already given up on the U.S. market. Square, one of the only companies still willing to bring console role-playing video games to the United States, was also still struggling to get their games to sell in the United States, and therefore, Dragon Quest VI had no companies willing to take a risk for it. In Nintendo Power vol. 81, the staff wrote an article on Dragon Quest VI, hoping the game would find a North American release. They also suggested why the series might not appeal to the American audience: there is too much fighting and not enough adventuring. Other critics have mentioned that class building becomes tedious and that the dual worlds are too overwhelming, both possible reasons against a US release. Dragon Quest VI was listed as #7 among the 10 Best Japanese Games Never Released in the U.S. by GamePro magazine in their May 2005 issue. Notes References External links Official Nintendo DS Dragon Quest Zenithia Portal site Role-playing video games Android (operating system) games Dragon Quest video games IOS games Super Nintendo Entertainment System games Nintendo DS games Nintendo games Video game remakes 1995 video games Video games developed in Japan Video games scored by Koichi Sugiyama