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KamikazePotato posted...

tl;dr - Guy on a podcast claims he has insider info saying that Hi-Fi Rush was considered a flop. His statement gets uplifted to an article, which gets spread around to other websites. In response, Microsoft releases a statement directly contradicting the claim, saying that Hi-Fi Rush was a big success. For context, there was also a leaked correspondence a few weeks back where a different Microsoft exec also says they considered Hi-Fi Rush a success. The corrections/retractions have gotten less exposure than the original wrong articles.

Bit surreal to watch misinformation spread in real time.

Eh, it's possible that all of those are true, due to the way company financials work. Say you project you're going to sell 10 million games in the financial year, but you've only sold 5 million copies once your final game of the financial year is about to release. This means that for your original projections to come true, the final game needs to sell 5 million copies, even if you only expect it to sell 1 million. If it comes out and sells 2 million, it's a huge success by one metric, but a giant flop by another (stupid) metric.

This is what happened with Tomb Raider 2013, where it needed to sell a ridiculous number of copies to make up for previous games doing poorly, making it a "disappointment."