What are you going on about?
Larian, and Swen himself, has mentioned that DOS2 didn't perform as well as hoped.
picture or it never happened.
I don't know of any interview with Swen in which he said anything like that. Furthermore, a role-playing game from a (at the time) relatively unknown and rather small developer like Larian (again: at the time), which (allegedly) sold around 8 million copies, is by no means a poor performance (disclaimer: of course, we don't know the company's cost structure and we don't know anything about the actual sales figures).