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NPD: Fire Emblem: Three Houses instantly becomes 2nd highest selling FE game (3x rev of SoV in opening month).
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NPD is sometimes confusing with these statements since their chart is revenue based. Is the OP talking revenue or unit sales?
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Seems like it's all revenue? Doesn't seem that impressive in that context given that it's a more expensive game.
Edit again...forgot that this is not counting digital sales.
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Seems like it's all revenue? Doesn't seem that impressive in that context given that it's a more expensive game.
Edit again...forgot that this is not counting digital sales.
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This game is so good, like on a completely different level compared to the rest of the series. I say that as a big Fire Emblem fan, too. The game deserves all of these sales and more.
The exciting part is that there are many obvious areas where they can add a lot of improvement.
The exciting part is that there are many obvious areas where they can add a lot of improvement.
Does anyone have the sales quantity of 3H and the past games in the article? All i'm seeing is the 3x portion.
I believe you have to pay/be a client of NPD to get the raw data as far as #s. Tracking differs in US as opposed to say Japan where we have some trackers that give actual numbers for retail units sold.
Right, I get it. It's strange cause I've always seen that echoes made around 134k on their first week but there hasn't been any official news regarding the overall performance.
They could either pick the most popular route to continue OR go full on comic book and unite all four routes into some sort of crisis crossover where there's suddenly multi-dimension versions of some/everyone.
I imagine it'd be easier/likelier to make a manga/anime continuation of certain routes, though.
As long it isnt just for the female characters like past games. Seriously why Ike, Chrom, any male lord that isnt Marth have no nendoroid or figma.
Screw nendoroids and figmas, why hasn't there been a Lucina scale figure yet? Camilla got one surprisingly, even Mythra and Pyra got there own. I want to spend a fortune on more plastic trash for fucks sake Nintendo.
Figmas are the GOAT through. You get so much mileage out of them with the silly poses its just great. I do wish that she would get another scale figure as well.
50% more expensive, to be precise. That means Three Houses still doubled the previous first month record in units sold.
Edit: Well, previous record by NPD's counting.
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Were there that many FE Figma/Nendoroid anyways? I have a Lucina Figma, and I'm pretty sure Marth and Corrin have one too but that's it? For Nendorids I'm less aware (does Lucina even have one?) and could have sworn it was Marth, Caeda, Corrin, and that one Hoshido sister. We got Cordelia and Tharja too but only as statues.
It's felt really random what characters got what. Like, you'd think there'd be way more Tharja stuff. And a Lucina statue. A Chrom Figma not existing is bizarre.
Edelgard Figma is a given, but I want Bernie and Dorothea too.
Elise got a Nendo too. Only lords and the more overtly popular characters get figures/merch, it seems. I would pay top dollar for a Felicia figma/statue.
Marth has no figma, just a nendo
And sorry, but if they announce a Bernadetta and Dorothea figmas when Ike and Marth have none, or before Claude and Dimitri get theirs, I will be very disappointing. They are good characters but Good Smile Company should do more than just figures for female characters
Really hope the figmas and other figures won't largely be pre time skip designs. I really want a toy of Emperor Edelgard
I still don't understand how IS does merchandising tbh. Feels like there's a whole untapped market there, yet they're so cautious with how they do it. At least it feels like they're opening up on it.
Oh, I just meant that I want them to do enough merch for those characters to get some, not instead of Claude/Dimitri. Like, the whole Persona 5 cast is slowly getting Figmas, but they're doing them in order from seemingly most to least significant. Once Byleth, Edelgard, Claude, and Dimitri are set hopefully they'd continue with the students instead of stopping entirely.
There is a surprising amount of Japan only merch, mostly related to Heroes and the TCG, though. I think the closest thing to figures is those flat acrylic standees, but I forget if they made any for non-Heroes styled characters.
Nintendo in general is pretty bad at merchandising anything that isn't Mario or Pokemon. Despite the roaring success of the Switch, Jazwares stopped making anything that wasn't Mario based in the last few years, meaning GOAT BOTW got no merch besides some roleplay accessories. They even stopped making Splatoon and Animal Crossing stuff.
So from what I understand, this might not be as impressive as it sounds? NPD is revenue based and only tracks sales in the US. Fates sold ~450k copies in the US (including digital), but that was at $40.
Three Houses being $60 means it only needed to sell ~300k to pass Fates. Which is still good, but not mindblowing good.
Three Houses being $60 means it only needed to sell ~300k to pass Fates. Which is still good, but not mindblowing good.
Despite costing 50% more the game has likely opened to double the sales numbers of any previous FE despite likely having a significantly higher digital percentage. That's pretty amazing whatever word you want to use to describe it.
That's what really excites me. They have a solid base here to iterate on and really improve it even more. More hubs, more towns, etc. Could only get better if they keep going.
Zhuge already confirmed that. Digital will be quite high due to the stock issues. Like I don't get how this isn't amazing.
There are Nendoroids for Marth and Caeda from Shadow Dragon, and female Corrin, Elise, and Sakura from Fates (so the more popular of the Corrins and the little sisters from each royal family). I wouldn't be surprised if there were at least a couple for Three Houses.
It's so weird though. Personally I would love to have an entire army of figma figures (Nintendo) but they're out of distribution or just stopped after a period of time. I know people would go nuts over more figures of the less prominent yet popular characters.
I just remembered that this is without digital as well. So probably a lot more impressive than I was initially thinking.
Nintendo's release strategy feels really smart. Tentpoles in the fall, remasters/ports in the Spring, and new/less popular IPs in the summer. Splatoon 2 and Octopath Traveler also had great success they might not have otherwise had without the whole summer to themselves.
The proportion of Fire Emblem characters in merchs produced by Goodsmile/Max Factory is actually higher if we compare to other Nintendo properties, the only one rivaling its number is The Legend of Zelda series. It's just FE have so many characters that the omission of a favorite character felt glaring.
Do we actually know how Fates combined did in comparison to SoV? You're just posting tweets proving they're separate, not how they compared.
I'd assume it did, but IDK. Anecdotally I knew several people who didn't get it physically because they didn't see a point.
Figured I'd quote and ask you too, as you're more likely to know.
Not only is Fire Emblem well below the rest of those, it's well below Animal Crossing and Smash.
Lol maybe one day, probably not. It's in the top 10 for sure I believe.
In terms of unit sales, the 3 Fates SKU's combined sold around 2x more than SOV when comparing opening months.
So.... if 3H was around 300k, and three times more than SOV, that puts the latter at around 100k. And then therefore fates at around 200k as well. I think.
EDIT: shit, I keep forgetting it's revenue, that shakes things up a fair bit..
Ignoring the special editions, 3H would have to sell twice as many units to achieve three times the revenue. So if 3H is ~300k, then SoV was ~150k.