Could FE Fates break the sale record of FE series ?

[DivinePaladin]

tbone51 said:

DivinePaladin said:

tbone51 said:

DivinePaladin said:
I mean they're releasing two games vs. one and getting even more casual so probably. I personally hope the two games thing fails horribly so that Nintendo knows not to split a game in two just because they can, but I don't want the game to fail as a whole. So I'm in this middle zone of somehow hoping one version sells well and the other bombs somehow (which won't happen given the FEnatics out there will buy or will have bought all three campaigns immediately).

 

That's not happening, it already did better than awakening in Japan 

According to VGC, they're about equal, which is pretty bad for a 2v1. It'll eventually pass it if it didn't already (nothing online I found says it has thus far, but it's a safer bet to assume it did). It is worth noting that sources seem to say that most of the buyers were pre-orders in Japan, which sort of goes to my point of FEnatics being the main audience at this point. It won't be a huge difference in overall sales vs Awakening unless America eats both games up though. Knowing how Nintendo goes by shipped+digital, they're going to overstate the game's numbers either way due to the discount on the second campaign download. It'll probably hit 1.4 or so million in NA alone because of the hardcore fans buying in on both games - which again is a shame since it's just showing Nintendo that fans are okay with them Pokemoning a story-driven franchise even though that's a terrible strategy. 

 

Its not bad, Fates>Awakening in Japan. Fates is over 530k in sales (just saw it in one of the gaf threads), and another thing you dont realize is the number doesn't include dlc buyout for the second version. So its not 2v1.

If Sales were counted that 530k number would most likely be somewhere between 850k-1mil in sales

 

You expect a 60-90% attach rate for the second campaign download? Lol your bias is showing buddy. I stand slightly corrected on the sales being a whopping 30k higher than previously reported months ago. 

 

Good job skipping past the rest of my post too. I've outright said I expect it to outsell Awakening slightly physically, with digital sales being the bulk of the difference between the two overall due to the extra campaign DLC bundle; again, it's not very hard to outsell on a higher install base with a more casual-focused set of two games vs. one semi-casual game. Nintendo set this game up to succeed no matter what so it's gonna do well, albeit with an asterisk on final sales when reported officially by Nintendo down the line.