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''Dragon Quest'' is not nearly as successful outside Japan, having been eclipsed primarily by ''Final Fantasy'' and possibly by other RPG series. Because of [[Enix America Corporation]]'s closure in the mid 1990's, the SNES versions of ''[[Dragon Quest V]]'' and ''[[Dragon Quest VI]]'' were never officially released in North America. In Europe, none of the games have seen release prior to the spin-off ''[[Dragon Warrior Monsters]]'' and then ''[[Dragon Quest VIII|Dragon Quest: Journey of the Cursed King]]''. With the merger of Square and Enix in 2003, the number of places in which ''Dragon Quest'' games are released has greatly increased.[12] In May 2008, Square Enix announced localizations of the Nintendo DS remakes of ''Dragon Quest IV'', ''V'', and ''VI'', collectively called by Square Enix the [[List of Name Changes in the Zenithia Trilogy|Zenithia trilogy]], for North America and the PAL region.[13][14] With this announcement, all the main games in the Dragon Quest series will now have seen release outside Japan at least once. | ''Dragon Quest'' is not nearly as successful outside Japan, having been eclipsed primarily by ''Final Fantasy'' and possibly by other RPG series. Because of [[Enix America Corporation]]'s closure in the mid 1990's, the SNES versions of ''[[Dragon Quest V]]'' and ''[[Dragon Quest VI]]'' were never officially released in North America. In Europe, none of the games have seen release prior to the spin-off ''[[Dragon Warrior Monsters]]'' and then ''[[Dragon Quest VIII|Dragon Quest: Journey of the Cursed King]]''. With the merger of Square and Enix in 2003, the number of places in which ''Dragon Quest'' games are released has greatly increased.[12] In May 2008, Square Enix announced localizations of the Nintendo DS remakes of ''Dragon Quest IV'', ''V'', and ''VI'', collectively called by Square Enix the [[List of Name Changes in the Zenithia Trilogy|Zenithia trilogy]], for North America and the PAL region.[13][14] With this announcement, all the main games in the Dragon Quest series will now have seen release outside Japan at least once. | ||
The ninth installment | The ninth installment, Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies, was released in Japan for Nintendo DS in July 11, 2009. In North American it was released a year later in July 11, 2010 and a few days later in Europe on July 23 while Australia and New Zealand got the game the following month on August 10. | ||
The tenth installment of the main series, Dragon Quest X, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) and it was released on August 2, 2012 only in Japan for the Wii, Wii U (2013), Microsoft Windows (2013), Android (2013), iOS (2013), Nintendo 3DS (2014), PlayStation 4 (2017) and Nintendo Switch (2017). | |||
The eleventh installment of the series is Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age, it was released in Japan on July 29, 2017 for the Nintendo 3DS and the Playstation 4. During the release in Japan it was announced that an international version was going to be released in 2018, the date was later confirmed to be September 4, 2018 for North America and Europe. | |||
===Creation and Design=== | ===Creation and Design=== | ||