Yo-kai Watch was already released in the US!(Prediction: Sales will not be good)

[aLkaLiNE]

hershel_layton said:

aLkaLiNE said:
Pokemon didn't start off in the west lighting the charts. It was kind of a sleeping giant that built up mad momentum. It's too early to call with yokai watch how well it will do - especially since, as you pointed out, Nintendo hasn't even begun their full marketing campaign

Pretty sure selling 30 million for your first games isn't anything small.

I was speaking quite literally - as in, the first Pokemon games took time to sell what they did and at first they came out unknown to most Americans.  Word of mouth spread and it became the behemoth that it is - what I'm saying is that give Yokai a few months to do the same, then we'll have a real idea of what to expect.  For instance, after Christmas the bulk of the first wave of the game will have been purchased.  After that, all the little kids will, if they like it enough, start encouraging their friends to buy it and that could reignite a second wave of sales.