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Fire Emblem Heroes made $115 million in 6 months, 11.7M downloads, now at $500K/day
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foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
Nirolak crunched the numbers and awakening is still the most profitable
Probably is not into this game, but echoes is just come only few months ago and is a perfect remake for the classic gaiden.
I think that Heroes is a great tactics mobile game, and is a nice things for the brand, more people will dig into the mainline games with this "advertising"
OmegaTreeFish
Banned
Wow. Played this game a lot for quite a while. Didnt spend a penny on it though. Amazing how much some people will spend on a game mostly due to impatience lol. I am guilty of it myself in other games but its rare for me and I try to not do it anymore.
I'm sure they will make a radiance remake in the future..
I can understand some angry old time fans of the series, and as much like me i hate the social/dating sim mechanic they put from awakening (and that i'm sure they will put on all the next mainline FE) but if it was not for awakening, our Holy grail fire emblem was a completly lost brand.
Then even if i didn't like awakening/fates and don't love heroes, i'm happy that the brand is soo healthy.
Let's just hope they will throw the old Fire Emblem fans a bone every once and a while.
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
Well, in fact they were dead, before Awakening... awakened the series again.
The newest one in the 3DS seemed to be geared towards that, with strong gameplay and little to no waifus stuff.
SinCityAssassin
Member
Not for long.
Linkstrikesback
Member
Even if that's true at the moment, awakening will be barely making any more money ever again, while this will continue trucking along for who knows how long.
I really think that a part of the devs working on the series really don't like the new mechanics too.
And probably echoes is just a proof of that, because it didn't have any new waifu gimmick.
Anyway i have big hopes for Fire emblem
Aizo
Banned
You've never played FPSs? This is a kill/death ratio. I've never been good enough to reach $500 for every kill and death I get. Pretty good gamers at Nintendo.
I should pick that up some time. Though I think I heard the maps weren't that great due to them being direct remakes of the original?
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
Fire emblem has always had waifus, its a series full of cute girls that all think its appropriate to wear skirts into battle, the "waifu mechanic" is just the support conversations with the added benefit of possibly marrying that person, in fact some games like the 1st fire emblem to come to the West have supports where the end game is deciding who ends up with who.
Can we please stop acting like awakening and even to a lesser extent fates are this big huge departure from the series.
For gods sake awakening came about from the team adding everything that came from previous fire emblem games that everyone loved.
shouamabane
Member
I play it every day. I haven't spent anything though.
manueldelalas
Time Traveler
How much a regular FE game would need to sell to make that kind of money? 5 million?
Yup, maps are garbage, but the rest is so good.
dead souls
Member
Good for Nintendo I guess, but I gave up on the game weeks ago. It simply isn't any fun.
Um, that wasn't the takeaway at all.
Fire Emblem died after Thracia.
theprodigy
Member
No he didn't, he said revenue wise it's got a way to go compared to the rest of the series combined.
Red_taiyaki
Member
I play it daily, and probably whaled somewhere around the range of 200.00 to date. Granted, that's really just out of my expendable monthly income allowance that I usually have reserved for other games anyways.
Between this, FGO, working full time and running, I barely have time for other console games- just got around to finishing Echoes after a few months, so YAY GACHA!
Between this, FGO, working full time and running, I barely have time for other console games- just got around to finishing Echoes after a few months, so YAY GACHA!
Those are my favourite FE games, and I still love Heroes
This game has more actual strategy than the last three mainline games anyways
I loved Echoes too but it's way more pay to win than Heroes is
NeonZ
Member
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2016/160427_4e.pdf
Nintendo (March 2016) listed Fates as selling 1.84 millions, and that was before the European launch. Is the 1.5 million number really newer than that one?
The 1.84 million included the extra paths. The later number doesn't.
Good God Japan
NeonZ
Member
Wouldn't the 1.84 number in that case also include Revelation though? It only lists Conquest and Birthright.
Evil Monkey DTT
Banned
Gotya game trick you out of money so well, my experience with the kingdom hearts one (which I haven't spent a dime on) I was very close to spending 75 dollars as a good investment...... and then I remembered it's a cellphone game.
You'll have to ask Nintendo that. Their shipped numbers include some combination of the extra paths while their sold numbers don't. It's confusing, and I don't know why they did that, but that's how the numbers add up best.
Leon S. Kennedy
Member
This is bad news. Nintendo may consider abandoning console gaming if they continue to have this type of success in mobile.
Let's not jump to conclusions
Not how it works, I think.
Myself I was a huge Shining Force fan on Sega consoles, but, LOL Sega.
WIth Fire Emblem Heroes, Nintendo simply got me hooked to this series. I have already bought Alm & Celica amiibo, going to get a Switch the day Fire Emblem Warriors comes out, and also spent money on FE Heroes (and will likely spend more).
The prejudice against mobile needs to stop - this game is giving a lot of exposure to Fire Emblem as a whole. Fire Emblem Heroes is more polished and supported by its devs than many console games - I mean it's being incredible how Intelligent Systems listens to fan feedback.
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