FFS, please stop being difficult:
1. There is absolutely 0 proof of each and every word you said. People move on and/or move up in business and the same happened at Sega. Nobody left because, "they couldn't do what they wanted anymore." Those are the words of a conspiracy theorist.
2. Those numbers are for JAPAN; there's the rest of the friggin' world you need to take into account.
Come on man, really? That was your actual defense?
3. VF5 came out in 2006. It received constant updates to it and FS, until 2012.
And what are you talking about? Sonic Dash, Sonic Boom, all make a ton of money on mobile; Dash is played by over 15 million people daily, including transactions and all the crap. Mania sold over 1 million in 7 months across all platforms. Generations sold 2 million in 6 months, Colors 2.1 million in 4 months, the past 10 years, Sonic has still sold EXTREMELY well, not to mention that these are just the figures for physical sales and not digital (as we all know).
Said it above and will say it again, stop. Drop this argument and stop bashing people because of your own thoughts and NOT the truth.
I'm sorry if my posts are too difficult for you
1-no offense, but you must be pretty naive or obtuse to believe that the mass escape of Sega talents that became guess what, when Sammy arrived on board and continued until few years ago, is just a normal thing, especially when you know all the shifting and changes that happenes inside the company since 2003.
2-So first you try you try to make us believe that all Yakuza games are million seller, and when it backfires to you you claim that those were Japan only sales...
Of course these are Japan sales (it was pretty clear since I read the source directly, I could even be offended by your pathetic attempts to destroy my arguments), but unfortunately for you, the best selling chapter of Yakuza series in the west is Yakuza 6 that reached in the West around 100k copies.
So even in the best case scenario, Yakuza 1 would be 600k in Japan + 100k West, total 700k Worldwide, in truth Yakuza 1 probably sold around 50k in the west, Yakuza 2 even less and so on.
So we are still far from 1 million even taking worldwide sales.
3-VF5 FS is from 2010, 2012 is when it was released (in a lazy digital only port) on consoles.
I'm talking about latest Sonic games, and you give numbers for games released more than 10 years ago (hint: things were little different in 2009-2011)
Sonic Boom or Lost World bombed, Sonic Forces did ok especially since it was a budget game and Sega didn't even published the real numbers (that speak a lot), they give number only for Mania where they did lots of noise for just a 1 million, that is pretty low for Sonic series.
If you count mobile (we reached this point, worst than any Sega manager) you could count also 100 million of free download of Sonic Dash lol.
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