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wombat123 on 04 October 2017
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VGPolyglot said:
Kresnik said:

'Were' being the operative word then. The genre as a whole has taken quite a tumble in recent years.

Its been sustaining itself with this kind of IP-crossovers - sticking the musou formula on a very popular IP. It works a lot of the time (Dragon Quest/Gundam/One Piece/Zelda) but it appears this was not one of those times.

Well, I guess it makes sense that it'd be losing steam, with Dynasty Warriors, Samurai Warriors, Warriors Orochi, One Piece Pirate Warriors, Fist of the North Star Warriros(?), Dragon Quest Warriors, Hyrule Warriors, Fire Emblem Warriors and whatever else that's a lot of games to take in.

Koei Tecmo really saturated the market on musou games.  I used to wonder how they made their money until I realized that they crap out like, three musou games a year. 

As for Fire Emblem Warrior's sales compared to Hyrule Warriors, I always thought Fire Emblem was about as popular as Zelda in Japan but Fire Emblem Warrior's emphasis on recent titles might have left a bad taste in the mouths of Japanese fans as they could have interpreted it as Nintendo/Koei Tecmo catering to the west since that's where all the new fans came from.