haxxiy said:
Their Q4 forecast is just 100m USD higher revenue than 2023's, so it doesn't look like SE was expecting more than ~3m first-month sales throughout March (assuming everything else is more or less flat and Forspoken flopped as badly as it is rumored). |
Internally I think they are worried, it's not like they had 10 big IP, Final Fantasy is really the only one they have that has global reach in big way (well used to anyway). It's more the damage being done to the brand really, once a brand becomes less relevant in this business, it's very, very difficult to get it back.
Their stock price has been down since FF16 released and didn't sell maybe up to some people's expectations, so having a low forecast for Q4 would make sense ... if you have a sky high Q4 guidance and didn't deliver that would be a monumental disaster that would shake their stock price to its core. They had to be more cautious after FF16.
How they are going to prevent FF17 and FF7 Remake Part III from selling even worse has to be a pretty big discussion behind the scenes I would think.
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