It will probably flop compared to Japan standards of the series. But it will sell more than Monster Hunter does in the west most likely.

Yeah, pretty much this.

The anime and merchandising will launch in the US later this year, presumably before the game comes out.

In that case, it has a chance depending of how successful the tv show is.

it would sell but not pokemon-like numbers. just decent i believe, not sure if it would capture the kids these days with Yo-kai. I'm just interested with the series and maybe my daughter would find it interesting and play it.

thing is, pokemon wasn't just a great concept and amazing timing with a popular anime. For its time, the game was flippin amazing. IGN rated R/B/G a 10/10, the game was fantastic. That also helped as well. I don't think yokai watch has a fantastic game, with a new concept, for it to really take off. The anime might be popular though idk how kids work.

I think it will be a success and sell at about 40% of the numbers it did in Japan.

For the sake of how much money Nintendo is willing to pull out for advertising this thing...I'll say it'll at least moderately do well.

I think it'll do fine, like MH4, but won't be a massive hit.

It could, and it definitely will not sell as well as Japan