LAYTOOOONA
LET'S GO AWAAAAAY
Happy times around the Game|Life home office tonight, as the Japanese sales are in and Professor Layton And The Devil's Box has handily defeated Wii Fit in the rankings. Yes, this is probably because Wii Fit came out a couple of days later, but whatever: Devil's Box sits triumphantly atop the sales rankings, thumbing its nose at lesser games.
I've been playing Devil's Box for a while, and it's clear that they sunk a lot more cash and time into this one. There's lots more voice acting and animation in between puzzles. Hopefully it cracks a million.
The top ten sales rankings are below.
01. [NDS] Prof. Layton and Pandora's Box (Level 5) - 294,000 / NEW
02. [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo) - 261,000 / NEW
03. [PS2] SD Gundam G Generation Spirits (Bandai-Namco) - 252,000 / NEW
04. [NDS] Dragon Quest IV (Square-Enix) - 135,000 / 732,000
05. [PS2] Sengoku Basara 2: Heroes (Capcom) - 95,000 / NEW
06. [NDS] Mario Party DS (Nintendo) - 80,000 / 539,000
07. [PS2] World Soccer Winning Eleven 2008 (Konami) - 74,000 / 368,000
08. [360] Assassin's Creed (Ubi Soft) - 41,000 / NEW
09. [WII] Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games (Nintendo) - 41,000 / 103,000
10. [NDS] Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters World Championship 2008 (Konami) - 35,000 / NEW
As you can see, *Mario Party *and Dragon Quest IV continue to rack up sales on the DS, and Mario and Sonic actually posted okay second-week sales, although we'll see how long that goes.
Wii Fit, besides having launched on a Saturday, is also undoubtedly supply-constrained. So it could rocket past Layton -- and every other game on this list, for that matter. We'll see what happens in the coming weeks, leading up to the New Year's buyathon that will hold Japan in its iron grip in the early part of January.
I was going to import one, but the $80 game costs about $190 from import resellers because of the huge cost of shipping the Balance Board controller. And perhaps because of scarcity.
Media Create Sales [NeoGAF]
