Famitsu has this game selling 568,315 units to date. It's at number 15 in this week's Japanese sales charts selling some 10k+ units. This game is showing a very strong staying power and will no doubt reach 700k+ sales. Hopefully, these surprisingly good figures may help with their decision of creating an NA and EU localization.
I agree. Phoenix Wright 4 has a similar effect when it was released. Both PW1 and PW2 got back into the top 50 when PW4 was released (Media Create). They stayed there for a while.
This game certainly has long legs at the moment, hovering above 20th for the last three weeks, going as high as 11th two weeks ago. 700K in Japan is doable. I wouldn't go as far as 800K at the moment. We'll have to wait and see how it does in the coming weeks.
Professor Layton 2 is not coming out for a while, but it will almost certainly boost sale of Layton 1 when it does. Same as when Layton 3 is released.
The biggest unknown right now is a Western release. After the rumour in April, it has been very quiet. Worldwide sale will almost certainly surpass the current prediction should a Western release be announced, maybe as high as a million.
Yes, this game is selling very well. This game actually fell a few places from last week (it was 11th, if I recall correctly), but this fall is only caused by new releases forcing it down the list. This is not an indication that sales are slowing, and in fact, according to VGCharts, sales have increased this week and have been increasing for the last month.
I'm not sure what caused this sales increase, perhaps just a slow month for the DS let consumers focus more on older DS games.
We'll likely see sales pick up as the next Professor Layton game starts to garner hype and again when the third Layton game is released (this game is the first game in the Professor Layton trilogy).
I think this game will easily pass the current stock price. I think 800K is doable and more than that could be done if the other Layton games do well.
And then there's always the chance of a North American (and PAL, hopefully) release, which would make this game very undevalued.
There's only 145K difference between VGC's current sales estimate of 577K and the current projection of 722K, and the game sold 14,600K last week--its 18th week on the market. Its weekly sales have actually increased the last 3 weeks straight, after slipping below 10K.
I think its going to continue holding up well and pass the current projection.
This game is part of a trilogy. The other two games in the series will cause increases in sales through indirect advertising and new fans of the series wishing to play the first game in the series (this). That probably won't be enough to push this game up to 740K, but looking at how long other games (New Super Mario, Brain Age, Yoshi's Island etc.) have stayed in the charts, it still a possibility. Something like 700K would be more accurate, though, at least until we get a better bearing of how long this will stay in the charts.
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