Consider the following:
Dante has quite a habit of crossing over into other games; he's appeared in Viewtiful Joe, the much beloved Shin Megami Tensei series, and most recently Marvel vs. Capcom 3: one of the largest and most popular games in the fighting game community. All of this, of course, is on top of his own series of games that set a new standard for their genre.
His weird cousin who sits by himself at lunch, Donte, is less prolific; having appeared in his own game which failed to reach the heights of success that Dante's worst missteps did, and...
that one game that did so poorly Sony cut all ties with the devs after a couple weeks
Could Donte simply be cursed to appear in failures? Or worse, is there just something about him that attracts financial ruin? So far he's 2/4 down; but we'll need to see his performance in a JRPG and a side scroller for conclusive results.
Discuss amongst yourselves. 'v'