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Forums - Nintendo - Fire Emblem on Wii U Would need to sell 700K to be Worthwhile, says Nintendo

I am afraid he is asking is too much for such a niche game.

But hope that the crossover they are working now sells well so they can continue to develop more console games.

Nowadays every console game has to sell around a million unites consequently many other Japanese studios are trapped on the handhelds development because they cannot earn money from consoles anymore.



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700k probably has little to do with being profitable, and more with making more margin than mario games.  This is why you'll never see a true new ip from nintendo again (not counting companies they purchase outright).



Ok let's crunch some numbers, Awakening sold about a million so far on a system which had about 26 million users when it came out in all the regions, so do you really think they will get 700,000 from a system that only has about 4 million users so far?