Nintendo of Australia has announced they will publish the hit title Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies in Australia.

This new Dragon Quest game is the very first in the series to be released on a handheld and also exclusively on the DS. When the game was released in Japan, Famitsu magazine gave it 40/40.

So far, more than 4.15 million copies of Dragon Quest IX have been sold in Japan.

Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies will be released in Australia this winter.