Editing Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies (section)

===Japan===
''Dragon Quest IX'' shipped with over 2 million pre-order sales. While the official release date for ''Dragon Quest IX'' was July 11, 2009, some retailers had already shipped orders; one such dealer asked its customers to not play the game until the official release date. In spite the large number of pre-orders and additional release shipments by Square-Enix, lines still formed for the release.

Within a two period the title had sold 2,318,932 copies out of an estimated 3 million copies that had been shipped. Some analyst say that 3 million may be too conservative and expect 5 million copies sold in Japan alone with large overseas sales expectations that could break previous {{Main Series}} sales records. The sale is the largest post 2000 debut week sale which was previously held by the former title, {{Dragon Quest VIII}}.