To tell you the truth the project was doomed from the very beginning. It was doomed when they decided to split the storyline into six different games all being made probably 2/3 years apart. You can not expect people to stay together for that long of a time without leaving and you can not expect a large enough fan base to maintain an interest in the story for that long of time to make the series successful.

If they wanted to make it into a video game (which they really should not have done either) what they really should have done is make a little less of a technologically advanced game with all the highly detailed cutscenes and voice acting. And instead make a game with about the graphics and what not that xenogears had and get the whole darn thing done in one single game.

And really the xeno series does not have a real large following. The people who do follow it are hard core about it but they do not count for a real large group of people. And you cannot expect Monolith to invest so much money into a series that they don't really even know is going to reap them the cash flow in return.

Monolith never should have agreed to this project in the first place. The guy who initially created it never should have tried to bring this story to the video game world. He instead should have tried to write out his story in book format so people could read it as a novel.

That is what should have happened. When it was decided to bring the story of xenosaga to the video game world and try to make it as high tech as they tried to make it it was doomed from that very point to fail.