If VG Chartz is to be believed (yes, I know), FE11 sold roughly the same in the US and Japan (0.25 M and 0.27M respectively) and a mere fraction of that in Europe. And now Europe gets FE13 confirmed before the US.
Maybe those numbers are totally bogus, but if they're true, IS has to be looking at other factors besides units sold.
I also suspect our fanbase is deeply incoherent. And I don't care what any Ike partisan says-- I read, with my own eyes, an article detailing Nintendo's disappointment with how FE10 sold and the profit margin they got out of it. And no amount of "Ike is FE's ambassador to the world!" is gonna change that. The "voice" of FE fandom circa 2008 was making shit up and coming up with reasons to justify their particular version of reality, and they're still doing it.
And the evidence I see before me says their version of reality is skewed.
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Date: 2012-02-24 02:35 am (UTC)If VG Chartz is to be believed (yes, I know), FE11 sold roughly the same in the US and Japan (0.25 M and 0.27M respectively) and a mere fraction of that in Europe. And now Europe gets FE13 confirmed before the US.
Maybe those numbers are totally bogus, but if they're true, IS has to be looking at other factors besides units sold.
I also suspect our fanbase is deeply incoherent. And I don't care what any Ike partisan says-- I read, with my own eyes, an article detailing Nintendo's disappointment with how FE10 sold and the profit margin they got out of it. And no amount of "Ike is FE's ambassador to the world!" is gonna change that. The "voice" of FE fandom circa 2008 was making shit up and coming up with reasons to justify their particular version of reality, and they're still doing it.
And the evidence I see before me says their version of reality is skewed.