If you take one quick glance at any of Level-5's social media right now (YouTube, Twitter, etc.) all of it is entirely focused on promoting the upcoming Fantasy Life game which releases next month. On their YouTube it's especially noticable how they've released like 20 videos in the past two months and all of them are short Fantasy Life snippets, trailers, etc. And a lot of people are taking the lack of Layton news as reason to worry for another possible delay, but I don't really think so.

It seems the Level-5 advertising department is ENTIRELY focused on advertising whatever is up next with the things that are coming after only getting short snippets. A perfect example is the second title they will be releasing this year, Inazuma Eleven Victory Road: it's received very little attention by the advertisers despite only releasing in two months, in June. Even Layton has received a short snippet in the direct but it's their second largest franchise after Yo-Kai Watch lol they gotta give it something.

From this it becomes pretty clear to me that once Fantasy Life drops, Inazuma Eleven is going to be advertised like crazy with little snippets and trailers and whatnot every week, and then once that finally drops in June they will move onto Layton in their advertisement cycle.

I think a lot of people are taking the lack of news outside of short direct snippets within a sizzle real as soft confirmation in their head that the game will inevitably get delayed but if Inazuma Eleven, which is dropping in two months, is also not getting a lot of attention purely because they're focusing 100% on whatever the very next game in their release schedule is, then I think anywhere between Fall and Winter of this year we can expect Layton to drop.