Skullgirls sold ~11,000 copies combined, more than any title released before or since, yet it's a failure? It sounds to me like they're making excuses for Ys to be a "failure", then they can go back to business as usual and claim "pre-orders don't work!".
It won't take many pre-orders for Ys Origin to surpass every other release. With just the CEs and PAX copies, they're at 7500 total.