Fire Emblem

Fire Emblem is a long running strategy role-playing franchise developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo. The first game released in 1990 on the Nintendo Entertainment System. The games revolve around tactical movement of sword-wielding characters across grid-based environments. The series was Japan exclusive until 2003 when the series came to the West with the release of Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade. Due to poor sales of the series, Fire Emblem Awakening was conceived as the final installment of the franchise. As a result of the record-breaking sales of the game and widespread critical acclaim, the series was allowed to continue.^[1] As of May 2023, the Fire Emblem franchise has sold over 20.70 million copies worldwide.

Games[]

Main series[]

Year	Platform	Title	Sales (millions)	Ref
1990	NES	Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light	0.329	^[2]
1992	NES	Fire Emblem Gaiden	0.325	^[2]
1994	SNES	Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem	0.776	^[2]
1996	SNES	Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War	0.498	^[2]
1999	SNES	Fire Emblem: Thracia 776	0.158	^[2]
2002	GBA	Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade	0.346	^[2]
2003	GBA	Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade	0.97*	^[2]^[3]^[4]
2004	GBA	Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones	0.86*	^[2]^[3]^[5]
2005	GCN	Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance	0.536*	^[2]^[6]
2007	Wii	Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn	0.49*	^[2]^[7]^[8]
2008	DS	Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon	0.61*	^[2]^[7]^[9]
2010	DS	Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem ~Heroes of Light and Shadow~	0.251	^[2]
2012	3DS	Fire Emblem Awakening	2.37	^[10]
2015	3DS	Fire Emblem Fates	3.09	^[10]
2017	3DS	Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia	1.00	^[10]
2019	Switch	Fire Emblem: Three Houses	4.12	^[10]
2023	Switch	Fire Emblem Engage	1.61	^[11]
Total sales			18.339

Spinoffs[]

Year	Platform	Title	Sales (millions)	Ref
2015	Wii U	Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE	0.33*	^[12]
2018	New 3DS/Switch	Fire Emblem Warriors	1.00	^[13]
2020	Switch	Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore	0.039^JPN	^[14]
2022	Switch	Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes	1.00	^[15]
Total sales			2.369

Mobile[]

Year	Platform	Title	Downloads (millions)	Revenue (millions)	Ref
2017	iOS/Android	Fire Emblem Heroes	17.80	$1000.00	^[16]

Notes[]

* include VGChartz numbers
- Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade | 0.265 (JPN) [Famitsu] + 0.49 (NA) [VGChartz] + 0.19 (EU/Other) [VGChartz]
- Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones | 0.247 (JPN) [Famitsu] + 0.376 (NA) [NPD] + 0.18 (EU/Other) [VGChartz]
- Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance | 0.156 (JPN) [Famitsu] + 0.38 (NA/EU/Other) [VGChartz]
- Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn | 0.172 (JPN) [Famitsu] + 0.176 (NA) [NPD] + 0.06 (EU/Other) [VGChartz]
- Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon | 0.252 (JPN) [Famitsu], 0.214 (NA) [NPD] + 0.06 (EU/Other) [VGChartz]
^JPN currently only Japanese sales number available
Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem ~Heroes of Light and Shadow~ was Japan exclusive.
Fire Emblem Fates was divided into three versions: Birthright and Conquest as physical releases, and Revelation as DLC.
- Of the two physical versions of Fire Emblem Fates, Birthright was the better performer all-around, but Conquest was close behind.
Fire Emblem: Three Houses is the best-selling strategy role playing game of all time.
Fire Emblem Heroes is Nintendo's most successful mobile game excluding Pokémon related titles.^[17]

References[]

[1] ttp://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/3ds/fire-emblem-fates/0/3

[:14-2] 2.00 ^2.01 ^2.02 ^2.03 ^2.04 ^2.05 ^2.06 ^2.07 ^2.08 ^2.09 ^2.10 ^2.11 Games Data Library

[:22-3] 3.0 ^3.1 https://www.npd.com/products/consumer-tracking/ As of December 2008

[4] ttps://www.vgchartz.com/game/3340/fire-emblem/?region=All

[5] ttps://www.vgchartz.com/game/3341/fire-emblem-the-sacred-stones/

[6] ttps://www.vgchartz.com/game/771/fire-emblem-path-of-radiance/?region=All

[:223-7] 7.0 ^7.1 https://www.npd.com/industry-expertise/video-games/ As of July 2011

[8] ttps://www.vgchartz.com/game/12971/fire-emblem-radiant-dawn/?region=All

[9] ttps://www.vgchartz.com/game/25700/fire-emblem-shadow-dragon/?region=All

[sales-10] 10.0 ^10.1 ^10.2 ^10.3 Nintendo software and hardware sales data from 1983 to present, Updated as of December 2022
CESA Games White Papers. Computer Entertainment Supplier's Association. 2023. https://www.cesa.or.jp/survey/book/hakusho/detail001_2023.html.

[11] CESA Games White Papers. Computer Entertainment Supplier's Association. 2023. https://www.cesa.or.jp/survey/book/hakusho/detail001_2023.html.

[11] ttps://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2023/230509_3e.pdf

[12] ttps://www.vgchartz.com/game/85905/tokyo-mirage-sessions-fe/sales

[13] ttps://gamingbolt.com/fire-emblem-warriors-hits-1-million-units-sold-worldwide

[14] ttps://nintendoeverything.com/japans-best-selling-games-of-january-2020/

[15] ttps://twitter.com/FireEmblemMusou/status/1559812281835347968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1559812281835347968%7Ctwgr%5E77f53de7f6534af5a96035423f551b9a2ecdc546%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nintendolife.com%2Fnews%2F2022%2F08%2Ffire-emblem-warriors-three-hopes-surpasses-1-million-units-shipped

[16] ttps://sensortower.com/blog/fire-emblem-heroes-one-billion-revenue

[17] ttps://sensortower.com/blog/nintendo-revenue-one-billion

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