I never liked Disgaea. Way too goofy.

You are only half right, gamers aren't killing the devs, the devs are killing themselves when or if they make games that nobody wants or when they cannot manage their budgets.

NIS has been very good at managing budgets, though. Even with all their recent flops they still managed to turn a profit this past year. So either they uncharacteristically really did decide to go crazy on the budget for this one, or this is just their way of saying that Disgaea 5 is a huge title for them.

Either way, 150k (which I assume is for Japan only) seems a reasonable target.

Seems like a fake. Why would they say this publicly? And what does Bloodborne have to do with it? And since when is NIS in financial trouble? If it only needs 150k copies then it doesn't need much money. An amount a lot of investors could come up on the fly. Most of their games sold easily above 150k, so what's with this worry?

Nothing about this sounds right.

Why don't they also release on WiiU and PS3/360 then...

This sounds like premeditation.

Good plan. That way they can be out of business in six months instead of in one year.

So bigger user base = less sales?

No. More platforms = higher dev costs.

Bigger user base = more cost = less profit.

As crazy as this may sound to you its on PS4 because they are doing stuff they couldnt do on PS3. And the only consoles this is really going to sell on are PS consoles.