I played the first one of the series but bounced off it pretty quickly. Seems there are a lot of these now. Are they visual novels or something?

They probably need to sell over 14 million copies at full price to break even with that bonus. The math is very bad for them. That’s not impossible, but it would make it one of the best selling games of all time (top 50)

Companies often arbitrarily pick. In the US retailers often start the year in like April so they can get all their holiday season earnings in the same fiscal year

At some point it’s just mismanagement and blows any potential profit out the window.

“Curse AI for… <checks noted> advancing medical diagnostics!”

It was pretty predictable that this was gaming’s “3d movies” moment imo. I am surprised we’re still talking about it 10 years later though.