By the way you are wording it I though a 3DS game was going to break the 12 million mark, and I was, wtf, what game is that?! :)

Don't think Layton will pass 1m before new year's. In which territories has Paper Mario been released?

Professor Layton should pass it and if not 1st week of 2013. As for Paper Mario, it got released everywhere and in japan its selling better than NSMB2 ATM. Its at 0.74 now but by week ending Dec22 should be 0.90-0.92 and by the last week over a mil Also srry for the confusion!

Do you mean in just one region our globally?  If globally, then I would have to say that I strongly believe it can.  It's already got a good head start for just Japan's sales.

yes globally, japan alone will get at least 550k lifetime (it hasn't been out a year yet!) and NoA should beat them in sales. Then you have to include Europe which can hopefully get over 250k lifetime. I mean come on I kno about 10 people buying a 3DS just for this game.

That's actually better then the last few Fire Emblems. 

Well, I stand corrected. It's a lot more possible than I gave it credit. Maybe if it reaches 650k or 700k lifetime in Japan then that would push it over along with the rest fo the world. 

I agree, but given that Japan alone is almost 500k, it might be possible if it sells 250k in Us and Europe. Not likely though.

You got that right! If NoA does better than japan and Europe does decent it can do over 1.5mil! I kno im picking up my copy day 1. In fact its already payed for!