It's official...the Zelda series is dead in Japan.

 According to VGChartz, PH has sold only 770,000 copies in Japan. For a Nintendo made DS game that's very low, and it doesn't seem to be selling too much anymore. (I think it'll only sell like 150,000 or so more in it's lifetime)

 I hope Link's Crossbow Training isn't Nintendo's answer to poor Zelda sales in Japan...

it's still selling 15k per week.

call me when it drops out of the top 50

Only? ONLY? It has sold more than TP already. And it has tremendous legs. Zelda has been a decreasing series long time now, everybody knows that; PH went higher that TP; It has revived the interest a bit to the japanese.

And how are Nintendo, togepi and Okami connected?

I think it will sell pretty well over the next few months, and should hit 1m by '08 - in Japan. And based on TP, it might do huge numbers in Europe/US.

But your observation is basically correct - TP doesn't have great legs (not compared to Animal Crossing, Brain Training, NSMB, Pokemon anyway...)

Not too good for a high profile Nintendo first party game on the DS, but this is Zelda we're talking about here. As the charts show the series has never really done all that well over in Japan.

The only Zelda games to beat a million in Japan have sold over four million worldwide, so I guess this is a very good sign of things to come. =P

Japanese girls aren't into blond fairy boys? Shrug.

My worry is fairly simple. Mario taught typing. Will Link learn linguistics? Alright, that was bad, but I pray the series doesn't get watered down with small, bad, crap games like Mario kinda did when he began branching.

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http://vgchartz.com/japtotals.php?name=&maker=&console=DS

As you can see, it's actually #22 in the alltime DS japanese top sales: not really THAT bad, and soon in the same league as many Nintendo "ok" sellers: Yoshi Island, Kirby, etc...

Even the most beloved franchises in Japan, Dragon Quest or Final Fantasy, don't sell 2 or 3 million copies on DS, so no shame at all in these "poor" sales with "no legs": Zelda isn't that popular in Japan anymore, so these are really nice sales, and they're not finished yet...

While I was hoping for better sales, PH is still the most successful Zelda in a long time and will very probably hit 1m in Japan in the long run. So no blockbuster, unfortunately, but far from 'dead'. My hopes are high for US and EU, though.

its going to kick ass in US and europe. the word is that the game rocks. good reviews + advertising + good word of mouth is what its gunna get :)