Two horrible, absolutely atrocious things happening in this topic.
1. SE blaming 3 games that sold 1.75, 3.6 and 3.4 MILLION.
2. Metacritic rating? I'm sorry but a game isn't reviewed until AFTER it is already finished, and thus all the money has already been spent. SO tell me how a metacritic rating matters in terms of bugdet? Even if the game got a 100 on metacritic doesn't refute the fact that SE already needed to sell "X" amount of games to break even.