Spanish games magazine reports that Nintendo would cancel the series if Fire Emblem: Awakening sold less than 250,000 units.
Strong sales of 3DS RPG have helped save the 22-year-old series from outright cancellation, the game's producer has said.
In an interview with Spanish magazine Hobby Consola ( the last entry in the series.
"No doubt. Truth be told, [series] sales are dropping," said Yamagami. "The sales manager of Nintendo, Mr. Hatano, told us that this could be the last Fire Emblem. Due to this progressive descend on 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," continued Yamagami, "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 last Fire Emblem, we had to put [in] everything we always wanted to include."
Nintendo hasn't formally announced if there will be a follow-up to Fire Emblem: Awakening, but previously stated the game has . When Fire Emblem launched in the UK its limited edition hardware bundle led to a 49 percent increase in 3DS sales.
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