Quote Originally Posted by SuperDevin View Post
6. If I am in charge of server capacity I am not in charge of sales estimates. Two different departments. If I can save the company money and have just enough servers then I will probably get a bonus. Especially on a game with low sale expectations. Being the guy who has the company buy way more machines (which cost millions) then needed is not a good thing and would likely get you fired.

7. Presale numbers are estimates not actual numbers.

9. SE has been having a hard time with sale lately. Tomb Raider under sold. FFXIII and XIII-2 both under sold. RE6 under sold (Capcom not SE but still a JP IP). See a pattern here?
6...Funny, but effin' up a game launch by having capacity grossly under the need is far more likely to get someone fired than someone who buys hardware that can always be returned to the vendor if it's not needed.

7...presales are estimates. but PRELAUNCH sales, with money collected are not. Not to mention every digital copy sold by amazon, or gamestop or walmart is reported in realtime. Last minute sales wouldn't have afforded opportunity to delay launch but even on day one of EA they knew they were screwed on capacity for the Duty Finder servers and they didn't delay launch. RE6 sucked, as a game in whole, it deserved it's crappy sales. And any even remote hint that all Japanese IP is like another is just fail. Why not compare Pokemon and Urotsukidoji? I mean they're both animated and came from Japan.

9....Here, this. OMG did you read anything about Tomb Raider's sales before you posted this? Go google Tomb Raider sales. Just read the title of the IGN article and the first line in the preview. 4 million copies...well, actually only 3.6 million in the first month, but still, fastest selling version of Tomb Raider ever. Now, if someone effed up the sales projection and expected 6 million...well, they should have launched that game the day before Thanksgiving.

The simple fact is that the powers that be at SE have more than once been quoted as saying something to the effect of this launch makes or breaks SE. And the way they've handled it doesn't look good.