The thing is, there is no data available to back up your claim. All either of us have are anecdotes. 

My family was most definitely not wealthy, nor did I live in an area where any of my peers families would be considered wealthy. It seems like there was a 50/50 split of SNES vs Genesis ownership among my friends. 

When I played shortly after finishing the series hearing “I really wanna stay at your house” kind of fucked me up.

Who TF calls him ‘Dee’? A year of dialogue about this show and no one says that.

“By the time the credits roll, only one person of the main crew is alive.”

This is definitely an odd choice especially from a story perspective. if you are playing the games as a trilogy you are basically going to see your characters go from over-powered death machines to struggling to fight a moogle...twice. That’s just weird.

Given the investment in it I suspect what happened was as it neared the point you’d spin up a marketing campaign they realized the game was going to struggle and decided to cut their losses.

They hardly did any advertising for the game, I didn’t know it existed until shortly before it released. The marketing gave the impression like they didn’t care that much about it.

I’m always happy to see another Vanillaware game. I liked a lot of stuff shown in this Direct but that stole the show for me.

The Paper Mario reveal was completely unexpected. I have a few friends who were already hyped for the Mario RPG remake (which I honestly never thought would happen) and are losing their minds…

They may schedule their trades way ahead, but then they could just manipulate company decisions and plans to benefit these trades. instead of the trades reacting to the decisions, its making decisions based on the upcoming trades. It’s like they are saying “Quick, my trade is coming up in a month, whats something we…

The timing AND number of shares are predetermined under a Rule 10b5-1 plan. 

It’s hard to say if their total stocks really matters. The fact that someone is selling the maximum allowed stocks in the lead up to a financially impactful announcement is very suspicious, even if not technically illegal.

It’s been a while since I worked on SEC phone books, but the breach of fiduciary was the first thing that came to mind since it clearly appears that the execs knew that they were going to tank the price. Would it have any effect if the execs try to buy back any stock while the stock is low after this announcement…

As a lawyer who works directly on SEC regulatory matters, I’ll briefly touch on the legality side. In 2000, the SEC introduced a new rule, Rule 10(b)5-1, which provides an “affirmative defense” against insider trading. It basically requires public company insiders (and everyone named in this article would be…

Remember folks, it's only a crime if you're poor.   Otherwise, this is just smart investment/Capitalism.  

and when they quit, dont forget that nice golden parachute severance package

I would also bet that the development cost of a true heir to F-Zero GX would cost nearly as much if not more than the next Mario Kart while only selling a tiny fraction of the copies. So I can understand their hesitation.

I honestly don’t know about that. The only F Zero game that broke 2m was the first game. The other console games sat at about 1-1.5m. And yeah the console install base is much larger now but there hasn’t been a console release in 20 years.

I like how your second sentence immediately contradicts your first

You know what else never sold? Metroid. But Dread’s sold more than ever.