Yeah, I had alot of this game before the new marketmaker came into play. Of course, I don't have shares now. It sucks to always get screwed over timing of when to short a stock. I mean, this stock was predicted to jump up in April. It's the middle of July and it finally jumps up. These stock markets are finally correcting themselves, but when I see stuff like the 114% rise with Hammer, I don't know if all the bugs have been worked out.
Or it's just the traders. In that case, well, learn to get smart.
OMG not again. I held onto thousands of shares of this game and sold them off 1 or 2 days ago, only to have the game skyrocket today. This has happened to me like near 10 times now! #@$*#
There is an error in my previous post, I meant to say around 100DKP or 1 million copies sold over lifetime tentatively (it could probably be higher if sales in the US and Europe get anywhere near matching the sales in Japan).
The article basically says that they have been waiting for an English translation of Professor Layton and the Mysterious Village and that EGM (Electronic Gaming Monthly) "intimates that it is probably going to happen."
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.
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Or it's just the traders. In that case, well, learn to get smart.