Needed to sell 250K for the series to continue
Fire Emblem: Awakeningsurprised just about everyone with its critical and commercial success. In Japan, the 3DS strategy RPG had sold over400K unitsthrough June 2012, and it’s likely continued to grow since then. In the US, digital and retail numbers totaled240Kas of this past April. And in the UK, it launched atnumber threeon the software charts, boosting 3DS hardware sales by 49%. Yeah, the game’s been doing pretty damn well for itself.
According toAwakeningco-producer Hitoshi Yamagami, the future of the series was riding entirely on the game’s success. In atranslated interviewwith Spanish magazineHobby Consola,Yamagami said, “Truth be told, sales are dropping. The sales manager of Nintendo, Mr. Hatano, told us that this could be the lastFire Emblem. Due to this progressive descent in sales, they told us that if the sales of this episode stayed below 250,000 copies, we’d stop working on the saga. I remember when I came back from the meeting and told the team, ‘My God, what are we gonna do?! The end has come!’ Our reaction was clear: If this was going to be the lastFire Emblem, we had to put everything we always wanted to include.”
Needless to say,Awakeningwent on to blow waaaaaay past that number. So rest easy, my friends!Fire Emblemshall live on!
Awakening could have been the last Fire Emblem[Serenes Forest Forums viaNeoGAF]
