@ozwally I know a decent amount of people interested in it, but for pretty much all of them there were just too many releases this month.... even just on Nintendo's Switch itself.

So a lot of them intend to get it still, but "later" when there's less stuff in the way.

I know I'm part of that group since I'm getting both Dragon Quest XI S and Link's Awakening this month(ontop of the original Dragon Quest trilogy which just got announced as well as releasing on the 27th too).

So I had to pass on getting not just Daemon X Machina this month but also Ni No Kuni.

Most likely I might get DxM sometime around December. I considered October but there's Luigi's Mansion that month and I still need to see how fast I'll recover from DQ11S/Link's Awakening.

Especially since after Luigi's Mansion there will also be the next Pokemon just around the corner.

So bar any surprises(but at this rate, it might take something like a surprisingly early release of Zelda:BotW2 ) in December, that might be when I'd finally have the time/funds to justify getting Daemon Ex Machina.

But yeah, honestly judging September on Daemon Ex Machina for Nintendo's performances might be acting a bit too early because the really big releases for Nintendo this month should instead be Link's Awakening and Dragon Quest 11 S.

The former is a legend of a Zelda game that is already hotly anticipated and the later meanwhile has received a lot of promotion from Nintendo and Square Enix this year. And somethings tells me that DQ11S' success will be less judged in term of brute sales and more in term of it's ability to increase Dragon Quest's visibility in the west even just a little.

(specifically: I'm suspecting from stuff like the DQ trilogy being confirmed, and the Trials of Mana remake coming next year, that SE themselves might have decided to finally diversify their offerings to the west to move away from "everything in the FF-shaped basket" strategy when FF games are becoming ever more costly to develop compared to other franchises that can run solid profits even with much more modest sales like Octopath Traveller)