Famitsu's Japan sales charts for Sept. 21-27, as relayed by Nintendo Everything, list Dragon Quest XI S: Definitive Edition at No. 5 with 10,844 physical units sold during its first week on Switch 2 in Japan.
In the software top 10 reproduced in that report, the game appears as "[NS2] Dragon Quest 11 S – 10,844 / NEW," which supports both the unit total and its debut-week status in that chart period. Nintendo Everything's headline also frames the Sept. 21-27 data as first-week Famitsu sales for the Switch 2 version.
That makes this a fairly specific datapoint: physical launch-week sales in Japan, not a global total and not a full accounting of digital purchases.
A post from Stealth on X argued the result "actually seems pretty good" given how long Dragon Quest XI has already been available on Switch, PS4, PS5 and PC. That's opinion rather than chart data, but it helps explain why some observers may see a five-figure relaunch on new hardware as respectable instead of small.
Beyond that, the supplied evidence does not establish broader sales context for earlier versions or how this Switch 2 debut compares with Square Enix's expectations. What it does support is narrower: Famitsu's weekly Japan chart, via Nintendo Everything, shows Dragon Quest XI S opening on Switch 2 with 10,844 physical copies sold and landing at No. 5 for the week of Sept. 21-27, 2026.
