As we know, Fire Emblem was a niche franchise in a niche genre. (SRPG) With each installment doing anywhere between 200k-500k prior awakening it was on the verge of death yet a phenomenal miracle saved the franchise.

Now Fire Emblem with its last 2 entries doing extremly well is more popular than ever (Awakening close to 2mil and Fates currently at 1.85mil potienally going close to 3mil) and now becomes either tied or surpassing the previous best selling srpg franchise(ff tatics).

So my question to all of you is if the mobile game is done right can we see FE raise to even higher heights?

Discuss below

If done right, of course

Niche? It stopped being after Blazing Sword, which sold around one million; the problem was that the franchise entered a decline in sales, but it happens to most franchises (it didn't help that finding a Radiant Dawn copy was hard as heck). They revitalized it with Awakening, saving the franchise indeed, but Awakening isn't what made the franchise be mainstream. It just popularized its potential.

And SRPGs overall are niche? There's a lot of unsuccessful or obscure SPRGs, but there are also a lot of successful ones.

Regarding your question, the success of the mobile game doesn't equal to the success of the franchise on handhelds and home consoles, though. The mobile game could be a success and the subsequent entry could fail miserably. The mobile market is way more volatile than the other, although a successful entry there can give hope for more games (on handhelds and home consoles).

For starters, they could not butcher the next sequel into two different parts and sell the third option as DLC. This ain't pokemon. The amount of marketing and directs given to these games was great, so they should keep it that way. Things like Corrin on Smash were also helpful, so I guess the next FE Lord in Mario Kart 9?

Fire Emblem could explode on Smartphones. It's a perfect format, it's an atmosphere that many people can identify, maps as in app purchases...it's a potential gold mine.

Not with this rampant censorship, the hardcore fans will leave it behind and will cause the ultimate dismess in the end of the day

Pay to resurrect your units. Nintendo prints money again.

The answer is obviously yes. I think especially as other strategy games are wearing thin on the app store.

I think many people could get behind a Fire Emblem anime miniseries too.

There's several spinoffs to FE that I think could do really well
- Fire Emblem Warriors
- Soul Calibur vs Fire Emblem
- Fire Emblem TCG
- Art Academy : Fire Emblem
- Fire Emblem Picross
- Zelda-like spinoffs

So now "raise to higher heights" for a series mean a mobile game.... Don't really know how to feel about that...

i would like to see a real-time strategy Fire Emblem game like Battalion Wars.

Obviously.