{"id":123043,"date":"2022-03-18T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-129020"},"modified":"2022-03-18T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T13:00:00","slug":"triangle-strategy-has-sold-800000-copies-in-just-two-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/03\/18\/triangle-strategy-has-sold-800000-copies-in-just-two-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Triangle Strategy Has Sold 800,000 Copies In Just Two Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0e30e32ec740f\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0e30e32ec740f\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Triangle Strategy\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0e30e32ec740f\/triangle-strategy.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0e30e32ec740f\/triangle-strategy.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Triangle Strategy\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em>Image: Square Enix<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/triangle_strategy\">Triangle Strategy<\/a> has been quietly doing the rounds here at Nintendo Life, impressing us with its gorgeous visuals and in-depth tactical combat. And it seems like many people around the world agree with our review that it&#8217;s pretty darn brilliant. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch\/triangle-strategy\">You should read it<\/a> in case you&#8217;re still thinking about picking it up.<\/p>\n<p>Producer Tomoya Asano has reported that Square Enix&#8217;s latest (triangle) strategy RPG has sold 800,000 copies worldwide, and for a genre that (outside of Nintendo&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/fire_emblem_three_houses\">Fire Emblem<\/a>) doesn&#8217;t seem to be as big as it once was, that&#8217;s pretty impressive. The game only came out two weeks ago, too.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TRST_PR\/status\/1504760714816155652\">Twitter<\/a>, and the producer also shared this rather beautiful drawing from character designer and artist Naoki Ikushima \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/03\/random-watch-triangle-strategys-character-designer-bring-the-games-art-to-life\">whose work is also doing the rounds lately<\/a>!<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u767a\u58f2\u304b\u3089\uff12\u9031\u9593\u304c\u7d4c\u3061\u307e\u3057\u305f\u3002<br \/>\u65e5\u672c+\u30a2\u30b8\u30a2\u5730\u57df\u306720\u4e07\u4ee5\u4e0a\u3001\u5168\u4e16\u754c\u3067\u306f\u3082\u3046\u3059\u305080\u4e07\u3068\u3044\u3046\u72b6\u6cc1\u3067\u3059(\u51fa\u8377+DL)<br \/>\u3042\u308a\u304c\u3068\u3046\u3054\u3056\u3044\u307e\u3059m_ _m<\/p>\n<p>\u30a4\u30e9\u30b9\u30c8\u306f\u751f\u5cf6\u3088\u308a\u611f\u8b1d\u3092\u8fbc\u3081\u307e\u3057\u3066\u3002<br \/>\u3069\u3046\u305e\u307f\u306a\u3055\u307e\u4eca\u5f8c\u3068\u3082\u5fdc\u63f4\u4e0b\u3055\u3044\u307e\u305b<br \/>\u6d45\u91ceP<\/p>\n<p>\u307e\u3060\u306e\u65b9\u3001<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%E6%AC%A1%E3%81%AF%E3%83%8E%E3%82%BC%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%81%AE%E7%8E%8B%E3%82%92%E7%9B%AE%E6%8C%87%E3%81%97%E3%81%A6%E3%81%BF%E3%81%BE%E3%81%9B%E3%82%93%E3%81%8B?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#\u6b21\u306f\u30ce\u30bc\u30ea\u30a2\u306e\u738b\u3092\u76ee\u6307\u3057\u3066\u307f\u307e\u305b\u3093\u304b<\/a>\uff1f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yiyoX043Ib\">pic.twitter.com\/yiyoX043Ib<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u2014 \u30c8\u30e9\u30a4\u30a2\u30f3\u30b0\u30eb\u30b9\u30c8\u30e9\u30c6\u30b8\u30fc\u516c\u5f0f (@TRST_PR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TRST_PR\/status\/1504760714816155652?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Using machine translation courtesy of Google, we can see that Asano is grateful for Triangle Strategy&#8217;s really strong sales:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Two weeks have passed since its release.<br \/>More than 200,000 in Japan + Asia and 800,000 in the world soon (shipping + DL)<br \/>Thank you m_ _m<br \/>The illustration is from Ikushima with gratitude.<br \/>Please continue to support us in the future<br \/>Asano P<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>For comparison, Square Enix&#8217;s other HD-2D game, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/octopath_traveler\">Octopath Traveler<\/a>, hit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/octopath_traveler_ships_one_million_copies_worldwide_in_just_three_weeks\">1 million sales in three weeks<\/a>, so it seems like Triangle Strategy is following a similar path to success as its cousin.<\/p>\n<p><em>Have you picked up Triangle Strategy yet? Let us know in the comments or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/guides\/where-to-buy-triangle-strategy-on-switch\">pick up a copy here<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Square Enix Triangle Strategy has been quietly doing the rounds here at Nintendo Life, impressing us with its gorgeous visuals and in-depth tactical combat. And it seems like many people around the world agree with our review that it&#8217;s pretty darn brilliant. You should read it in case you&#8217;re still thinking about picking it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}