Atelier Rorona sold quickly in Akihabara on its first day of release, and, by 1:00 PM, the majority of the district's stores were sold out of the limited edition release.[22] This is because the majority of the stores reserved a limited number of copies for regular sales to meet pre-order demands.[22] The game had sold a total of 43,243 copies during its first week on sale in Japan and was the third best-selling game of the week.[23] It dropped down to ninth place, selling 10,849 copies for the following week.[24] According to public sales information published by Gamasutra, Atelier Rorona was the best-selling PlayStation 3 title on the Japanese Amazon website for the week ending on July 9, 2009.[25] The game dropped to the second highest the following week ending on July 17, 2009,[26] marking its final appearance in the ranking; overall estimates from this time put Rorona at or near 70,000 copies sold, with low-level sales continuing since. This makes Atelier Rorona the fastest and be
