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Data from Famitsu and other sources show that Square Enix has now sold 3.2 million copies of Dragon Quest IX in the 10 or so days since it came out in Japan.  This marks the second DS blockbuster in a row for Square Enix, who had Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days in the top 10 sales bracket as Dragon Quest IX first hit the shelves.  So what’s next for Square Enix?

A few things…

The continuation of Final Fantasy IV: The After Years for the American WiiWare market - with 3 additional episodes released on July 6th 2009 and 3 more due in August before the September conclusion.

Square Enix will continue it’s summer assault of the handheld gaming market in Japan with the release of two more titles in August:  Blood of Bahamut, an RPG from the folks who brought us Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings; and The Game With No Name: The Eye, a “first person survival horror” uhhh… whatever that is.  Apparently this is a sequel to the first Game with No Name.

And most important, the American release of Dissidia: Final Fantasy for the PSP on August 25th, 2009.  Day one.  I guess I’ll have to clean my PSP screen and charge it up for this.

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I had totally forgotten about this game - Blood of Bahamut - something Square Enix announced last year with a mysterious teaser image and it ended up being a in-development Nintendo DS game.

Square plans to release this on August 9, 2009 in Japan, with presumed development for the U.S./Europe after that (hopefully).  Watching the trailer, it appears the game is a Revenant-Wings-meets-Shadow-of-the-Colossus type gameplay with you crawling on giants and trying to defeat/calm them.

There is still speculation that this game is a follow-up/successor to Bahamut Lagoon from the SNES era, but nothing seen or announced has confirmed that yet.

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