>>536767853
XVI flopped because XIII and XV were dogshit, SE mismanaged the brand after X and their identity crisis will never end, and the main audience excited the devs would take the reins of XVI is mainly on PC and they play a fucking MMO, the antithesis of an action game.
And idk if I would say it flopped even if SE thinks it did because it didn't sell 10 million or whatever arbitrary number they decide and delude themselves into thinking they can still reach.
Forespoken also flopped, and had XV not had literally a decade of hype behind it, if all we would have been shown was closer to the final product and not the concept Nomura envisioned, it would have flopped too.