Topic: How popular is Fire Emblem around the world?

[NWR_pap64]

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Originally posted by: Smash_Brother
I didn't want to come right out and say that, Pro, but TP is probably one of the easier Zeldas, it's just time consuming.

And the Japanese didn't even go for THAT. Maybe non-games really will be the death of traditional gaming.

I need to print up some "Ian was right" t-shirts...

I wouldn't predict doom just yet...

Zelda, despite performance in Japan, became an international hit.

Second, the REAL story is that handheld gaming is becoming the force in Japan. If traditional gaming was dying in Japan sales of traditional games on the DS would've been sluggish as well.

If I am not mistaken, FFXII sold greatly for like 2 weeks, but then was forgotten while Animal Crossing and Brain age kept selling like hotcakes. Once again, it seems like the main focus in Japan is on handheld gaming.

I think the real test, in Japan at least, will be Dragon quest IX. If the game manages to be the least selling DQ game, then traditional gaming is indeed slowly dying and/or traditional RPGs are more vastly appreciated.

[Viewtiful mario]

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Meanwhile, games like Zelda aren't selling as well because they require some degree of gamer skill. It's sad, really...

It was mentioned in one of this site's mailbags that it was most likely that most people bought  the online GCN version since a bunch of people there already have GC's and couldn't get a wii.  Online buys don't show up on sales charts so that's why we think it didn't sell well.  Don't be printing those shirts just yet.

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I wonder if Fire Emblem's Japanese sales were hurt by the game not appearing on the N64. It kind of disappeared for a little while there which might have hurt its momentum. Thracia 776 was released on the SNES during the time when the N64 was Nintendo's main console and Fire Emblem didn't return until the GBA and didn't show up again on a current Nintendo console until the Cube game, and at that point the Cube wasn't so popular so less people noticed it. Fire Emblem kind of had a demotion. The top tier game franchises don't get reduced to portables and out-of-date consoles. That type of release schedule makes for a more obscure franchise.

didn't the same thing happen to Metroid?  Now MP3 is one of the wii's most anticipated games now.  I think the problem was FE came out late in the cube's life, at the point where casual gamecube owners stoped looking out for new GC releases, which is why Baiten Kaitos Origins (god rest that great series' soule) did rather badly in sale.