 The Game Boy Color version sold a lower 604,000 copies in Japan by the end of 2001, and eventually became the fifth best selling Game Boy Color game in Japan, with 638,551 copies sold.Together with the sales of the remakes, "Dragon Quest III" is the most successful title in the series and one of the best-selling role-playing games in Japan.As of November 2010, Japan mobile phone version was downloaded more than 1,000,000 times.