Tomb Raider, Sleeping Dogs and Hitman: Absolution declared “commercial failures” by Square Enix

[zumnupy10]

Kresnik said:

zumnupy10 said:

 

whereas the HD business in Japan remained strong through sales of the Nintendo 3DS version of Dragon Quest VII: Eden no Senshitachi (Warriors of Eden) 

 

Do Square-Enix have a different definition of "HD" than me?  Weird comment.

But yes, as everyone else has said, this is beyond ridiculous.  Then again, I think these games had extremely bloated development times.  Should sequels come (and we know one is coming for Tomb Raider), hopefully building on the existing base will create a good game without such a drawn-out process; which may in turn make them more in line with what Square-Enix was expecting.

Well, that, and maybe this will be the realisation they need to lower their expectations.

Weird indeed.  It seems to me that Square considers all consoles, portable or not HD.