The footnotes say it includes digital versions of the physical copies (probably meaning the digital version bought as a full game, not extra DLC campaigns) and copies bundled with hardware.Since they're talking shipping and FE was a part of a list of other retail products, I guess it's physical Birthright/Conquest/Special only.
They might still cost the same, I never found awakening cheap usedI wish they had made more of the special editions. Now, I'm just waiting to pick them up used.
How the hell did a anime SRPG get so big? WTF?
I wish they had made more of the special editions. Now, I'm just waiting to pick them up used.
I think presentation had more effect. Those cutscenes made the game look fantastic. More colorful and good voice actingGood marketing combined with making the game more easily accessible to the general audience.
Might already have been asked, but how they are counting copies sold seems very important in this number, at least in the comparisons to awakening
Is buy retail or download of birthright/conquest from store/eshop +DLC of the other version counting for one or two copies of "Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright/Conquest" sold? I suspect it's probably counted as two copies sold rather than one, which is an easy way to inflate sale numbers, I'd reckon.
I have never, ever seen "Ouch" used that way in this kind of context. I've only seen it used that way when someone's getting injured in a spectacular but painful-looking manner.As impressive
Like "Wow !" "Damn !" "KADABOUM BIM BAM BOUM !!!"
If Fire Emblem can keep improving and increase the momentum it can sell better then Zelda.
That's pretty awesome, then again Zelda isn't extactly BIG sellers anymore unless I'm wrong.
Yup, same here. Scalpers gouge for used copies as well. I've even seen them charge more than retail price for just the packaging, with no game.And yet I still can't fucking get a SE version for less than 4x retail value.
Fucking Nintendo.
What a turn around for the series. Love to hear it.
Hopefully this doesn't mean more games with 3 versions
He's trying to backpedal after he tried to make a dumb remark, shhhhhh.I have never, ever seen "Ouch" used that way in this kind of context. I've only seen it used that way when someone's getting injured in a spectacular but painful-looking manner.
Since it's just one SKU it should be counted as one sale.
EU release cancelled. It's made enough money.
It's going to hit 3 million isn't it? Right now it's bigger than Kirby, and it has a very real chance to sell more than what Metroid ever did. Fire Emblem. Who could have seen that coming?
When all is well and done, this game is gonna sell some amazing numbers.
I feel like Fire Emblem is gonna become one of the stronger Nintendo series in the nexts years, the succes of this series is only going to increase imo, even cause that mobile game will surely help.
I can see this series sells something like 5-7 million per main game in some years. My opinion, of course.
I have never, ever seen "Ouch" used that way in this kind of context. I've only seen it used that way when someone's getting injured in a spectacular but painful-looking manner.
Still not out for almost another month T_T hahaha! Soon!
They manage to attract the more casual audience without losing their longtime fans. Also shipping characters is a lot bigger than most people expect.
I have never, ever seen "Ouch" used that way in this kind of context. I've only seen it used that way when someone's getting injured in a spectacular but painful-looking manner.
Still not out for almost another month T_T hahaha! Soon!
Best game in the series deserves those sales.
Fates is amazing.
Tell me why the old FEs don't sell well.
Are different path DLCs figured into total sales? Would the fact I bought Hoshido then got Nohr mean I technically bought 2 copies of the game?
Does it actually say that or is this just assumed, because that would be a lot of copies on shelves in Japan.Unless you got two digital copies at full price or bought 2 physical copies at $40 a piece, your only counted as one sale to Nintendo.
I disagree. I would take Awakening over Fates any day.
Awakening had so much more character/personality that's not even a close match.
I would blame it on having a cast that is too big.
You basically have a cast of two games, split into three games, and because of it, something is lost, which is character development and personality.
But even if you play the three games the characters are still mostly flat. I mean, Awakening isn't really that good either but I still remember Lucina, Robin, even Chrom in a nice way.
I am curious how the series will progress, a double game formula with similar but different design goals every time is really inefficient.
It seemingly worked out for the sales of this game though, and apparently the staff working on the game wasn't bigger than Awakening's. The issue with difficulty levels is that after a certain point (like if you want to remove core skills from enemies or map goals) they might as well be designing two different chapters.