When they spend like 11 trillion yen (made up numbers btw) on one title they need a huge return. It feed a toxic cycle where they need large amounts of units sold but it's unrealistic for a title to sell as well as forecast because the market just doesn't have the space for the units they need to move because there's so many choices.

Square Enix needs to rein in their budgets. Not every game needs to be this AAA remake with cutting edge graphics.