Where are you reading about Octopath underperforming? I don't see it and I can't imagine it underperformed unless they expected carts to materialize from the wishes of those who couldn't buy it at a store.
Yeah that doesn't suggest each of those games underperformed, although I suspect SotTR did. It just shows they performed worse than games released last year, which could be as much about what games were released as it is about their performance. Having said that, I can't remember what did release last year, anything significant?
Erm.
July-Sep last year was FFXII:TZA, DQXI (JP), and LiS:BtS.
Because it's not the cost of establishing the studio. It's investments that won't be recouped on at all, because they've been abandoned and the focus of the studio amended.
Last year 6months period which is being compared saw the release of Stormblood. Even if the subs were up, it'd do worse because no box sales. It'll only be relevant if they compare that same period in 2019 to 2017 to see how it's going overall.
"content production account related to the game titles under development" almost certainly refers to the tie-in products like anime/films/whatever. That all appears to be canned while game development moves forward as the focus of the studio.
I imagine what got cut are the entertainment stuff, think all the garbage they launched alongside FFXV, movie, anime, etc...
Nope, prototypes etc are an expected / operating cost and are filed differently. Extraordinary loss is the term used to refer to an abnormal loss you weren't expecting to incur and that you don't expect to repeat - and doesn't at all relate to the size of the loss, which might be where some folks are getting tripped up, since that's the usual context you'd see 'extraordinary' used.
Not exactly.
There's a blog that keeps track of active characters over time using the lodestone achievements and filtering trials/people who haven't gotten stuff in a while so it's relatively accurate(not necessarily as a raw sub number, but to compare between patches and such), and numbers seem fairly consistent.
Right, like, I think they way they announced this studio confused people, but the legal structure is identical to the way Square Enix owns Crystal Dynamics and Eidos Montreal, or the way EA owns DICE and BioWare.
The point is, that they are still allowed to make large-scale games. Whatever projects that they had will continue aside from the small-scale stuff.
Cup Noodle commercials, dozens upon dozens, now scrapped and lost forever.
The loss is all the expenses they DID NOT account for when budgeting out the launch of a studio, staffing it, supplying it with equípement, and funding its new venture. AKA any ancillary project they were working on that did not make the cut.
