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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neo" data-source="post: 2227108" data-attributes="member: 4139">Its not that I dont believe it it is just as I said it doesnt quite ring true, as a fan and supporter of the game when that announcement came more people than ever were expressing an interest in the game.. and the point I was trying to make is that sales usually equate to sufficient interest..and as the interest hadn't floundered I dont see how the sales would have.. so lack sales being the reason true or not just never made sense to me.I think you missed the point I was making.. sure a publisher may know they need 5000 units to be sold to break even, but none of them can garuntee sales (with the exception of pre-orders which are a good way of guaging how large a print run should be) of that amount.. so using your logic if a publisher knew they needed to sell 5000 and couldnt garuntee that amount they would not release a book... if that were the case no book would be released from anyone.  The best anyone can do is guage the market and interest and guestimate likely sales (via market studies, and niche reasearch etc..), which is why most companies release a single book first in order to guage interest and sales and if sufficient interest and market exists they produce further books.  But with DS it went past that stage and a bunch of books were released for it..but even when the line was cancelled there was still seemingly more interest in the line than thier had ever been and that is what I mean when I say it just didnt make sense that with that taken into consideration low sales would be the reason (which is not to say that wasnt the reason..it just didnt seem like it).</blockquote>

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