The game didn't bomb because they "embarrassed" themselves with EVO Japan...
Who said that? The point was that people won't support DOA6 being present on EVO in big numbers as you suggested. They don't care for DOA6 there/don't care for DOA6 in general. They claimed it owned SJWs and prudish EVO after their indeed embarrassing presentation last time and they had their Core Values meme ad nauseam, I still see it occasionally on social media or even here, but that didn't lead to any actual support for the game. That's what I told people already months ago, when they honestly thought this was such a big marketing win for DOA. I just checked, someone on my profile page back then even suggested people would give EVO shit if DOA6 wasn't present in 2019. Yeah, no, no one actually cares.