Look at

http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/01/...and-the-future

Mitsuda made the 1 million comment this week.

It's not "just Polygon". It's SEs own words.

Mitsuda is talking about the CURRENT state of things... he did not qualify with "LAST YEAR" they were at a million and rising.

He was very clearly managing the expectations that the previous report had set. There's nothing wrong with that and it doesn't mean the game is failing. SE does have to be honest about the state of the game, though. They set revenue expectations with the last report, and when those don't materialize at the level they set, people need to know why. In this case, they didn't have a way to track active users effectively, and now they do.