| Scoobes said: Square-Enix are insane. All those games have done reasonably well... or do they not cover the ridiculous budget of re-developing FFXIV? |
Yeah, I mean Tomb Raider is going to be easily the highest selling Crystal Dynamics Tomb Raider and it had the highest debut for a tomb raider, yet it fell below expectations (wtf), and Hitman is the 2nd highest selling hitman which came out like 10 years ago. Sleeping Dogs I see as an issue and they probably hoped it would turn into GTA or Red Dead, but that was a risk/reward gamble that didn't reward them with money.
If that isn't enough to not lose 100+ million dollars the management has severe issues which is why wada's getting canned. But I don't think all the blame should go on only Wada, he has to listen to his marketing and sales people, examine cost/benefit etc.
Something seems a bit weird here, that they haven't highlighted the losses of FFXIV or DQX. Though again here last quarter they said DQX was a disapointment yet that sold had like 600,000 in japan only. WTF were they expecting.
I say this, as I've still loved SE games this gen both eastern and western, but the expectations are assinine.
