Honestly, if they had gone for a worldwide simultaneous release, I think it could have pulled in twice the box office revenue.
The sheer number of camrip pirated copies flooding online in July was unprecedented' I haven’t seen anything on that scale since Endgame.
That was proof of demand, and because Sony or Aniplex made the stupid decision to delay the Western release by two whole months, they ended up losing a huge amount of potential profit along with countless records they probably could have broken.