| PAOerfulone said:
Bottom line: Three Houses is going to do just fine. |
I certainly hope so, it's among my favorite franchises and I've absolutely loved how it finally got its chance to thrive in the post-Awakening era. It'd really suck to see it come crashing down again. Part of it is that very few games in Japan seem to even crack a million nowadays. The only game ever to crack 10 million was the original Pokemon Red/Green. The only games to crack 5 million have been certain Pokemon games and certain Monster Hunter games, and Animal Crossing. The only other games to cross a million have been certain Square Enix games and certain system exclusives. It just doesn't happen all that often, so when the US starts buying a game by the millions, Japan usually doesn't compete on sales. Nonetheless, while the series did peak at a very low ceiling in Japan on the SNES, it also always had a very high basement, never falling below a few hundred thousand. Japanese Fire Emblem fans were always very loyal and helped keep the series alive during the difficult era from Path of Radiance up until Awakening. So to see them look like they might not even break 200k, on a very successful system, it's just sad to me as a longtime FE fan, like the longtime Japanese fans are losing interest somehow. I can't imagine why that would happen. While it has become a bit easier, it also has modes that are harder than ever, and while it has done some things to appeal to Western fans, it's done so by arguably becoming more Japanese (read, more anime inspired) than ever.
So sure, Three Houses will probably be fine (it fucking better be, it looks awesome) I'm still worried about Japanese FE fans. But if Amazon is showing it doing fine, then it's probably just a matter of COMG declining faster than I expected. Which is weird to me, for this game, given that COMG seemed to me to attract a niche audience that would tend to like Fire Emblem, so I'd have thought that Fire Emblem would have been immune to the COMG decline. Makes me think maybe COMG has lost some of its core demographic.
