No ifs, ands, or buts: Three Houses is #1.

In a sales data report by games industry member DarkDetective Nathan on the ResetEra forums, Three Houses is recorded to have sold 3.02 million units as of June 2020, which by all possible accounts makes it the best-selling Fire Emblem series title ever.

In a previous report by Nintendo themselves back in May, Three Houses had sold 2.87 million as of March 2020, so it is easy to imagine the figure to have already surpassed 3 million by now.

The title of “best-selling Fire Emblem” had been contested for some time due to the nature of the release of Fates, which was published as multiple different units and was not normally all accounted for both physically and digitally in reports. Fates was known to have collectively sold about just 3 million units as of December 2019, according to another ResetEra post.

During the second day of Tokyo Game Show 2020’s Japan Game Awards, an esteemed event celebrating Japanese gaming, Fire Emblem: Three Houses was selected as the sixth winner of this year’s “Award for Excellence” among other titles released between April 1st, 2019 and March 31st, 2020. The news was hosted by personality Hikaru Ijuuin and actor Shohei Shibata, joined by guests Katsuhiko Hayashi and Akio Inou, editors-in-chief of Weekly Famitsu and V Jump/Saikyo Jump magazines respectively.

Following the announcement were video letters from Three Houses co-directors Genki Yokota of Nintendo and Toshiyuki Kusakihara of Intelligent Systems, expressing their gratitude for the win. Thanks to the help of an official interpreter, we’ve transcribed both of their comments in English.

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Intelligent Systems has announced the Three Houses Original Soundtrack for release in Japan early next year on February 17th, a CD set of the game’s complete music library.

The key visual for the Three Houses Original Soundtrack, featuring the two characters Sothis and Rhea.

With a total track time of over 8 hours across 6 CDs, the soundtrack includes all of the music from the main story, as well as the music heard through downloadable content (DLC), namely the Cindered Shadows side story.

The soundtrack will release in Standard and Limited Editions, available to pre-order now via the Fire Emblem Online Shop (and other vendors).

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