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7/18/2025, 6:50:37 PM
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Three Houses is already punching fucking high above its weight class for an SRPG considering the two 3DS FE games were already an anomaly for its franchise and its genre.
Anybody that cared about FE were correctly getting Fates flashbacks from the Engage previews. I get that because 3H and Engage's development was so staggered it was probably impossible to meaningfully make huge recalibrations once the 3H numbers started coming in and kept going. But the dev interviews have a bewildering misunderstanding of why Awakening succeeded where other FEs, even ones on non-Gamecube Nintendo platforms, never hit those numbers. Nobody that actually spends money cares about shit before Awakening and they gotta stop thinking that kind of nostalgia baiting is going to translate into sales when the nostalgia they're trying to bait for doesn't exist.
IntSys will probably take the wrong lesson from all the sales and player data, and think the next FE needs specifically an Edelgard carbon copy, and not just make a compelling story and setting with, yeah, a hot babe at the center of it all doesn't hurt.
Beyond that, Switch 2 has barely been on the market for a month and a half. Something like FE or Xenoblade doesn't really test its market saturation but also a non-Pokemon Nintendo RPG isn't on the platform yet so we don't know how many people in that market are making the early jump. Another question is, is Engage where FE's new baseline is? It hasn't been updated from 1.6 million since 2023 so it's still behind Awakening, much less Three Houses. Is that the number of people that will show up for an FE no matter what?
Three Houses is already punching fucking high above its weight class for an SRPG considering the two 3DS FE games were already an anomaly for its franchise and its genre.
Anybody that cared about FE were correctly getting Fates flashbacks from the Engage previews. I get that because 3H and Engage's development was so staggered it was probably impossible to meaningfully make huge recalibrations once the 3H numbers started coming in and kept going. But the dev interviews have a bewildering misunderstanding of why Awakening succeeded where other FEs, even ones on non-Gamecube Nintendo platforms, never hit those numbers. Nobody that actually spends money cares about shit before Awakening and they gotta stop thinking that kind of nostalgia baiting is going to translate into sales when the nostalgia they're trying to bait for doesn't exist.
IntSys will probably take the wrong lesson from all the sales and player data, and think the next FE needs specifically an Edelgard carbon copy, and not just make a compelling story and setting with, yeah, a hot babe at the center of it all doesn't hurt.
Beyond that, Switch 2 has barely been on the market for a month and a half. Something like FE or Xenoblade doesn't really test its market saturation but also a non-Pokemon Nintendo RPG isn't on the platform yet so we don't know how many people in that market are making the early jump. Another question is, is Engage where FE's new baseline is? It hasn't been updated from 1.6 million since 2023 so it's still behind Awakening, much less Three Houses. Is that the number of people that will show up for an FE no matter what?
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