The 10 Biggest Flops of 2008

Sony PlayStation 3 - 352 days 10 hours ago

#1 biggest flop of 2008: SecondStoryGamer.com

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SaiyanFury - 352 days 8 hours ago

OK at least 3 of the games this guy mentions were released with 2 bloody months remaining in the year, how much were they expected to sell in such a short amount of time. Like LittleBigPlanet selling "only" 1.5 million copies. For such a short time frame I think that's pretty good. Another attempt by the media to skew the numbers with word tricks. Also Resistance 2. Sure it might not have lived up to some peoples' expectations, but it's a great game online and off. Selling over a million units in 2 months, again, isn't bad. I wish the media would stop using words to twist facts and numbers around.

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Sony PlayStation 3 - 352 days 8 hours ago

#1 biggest flop: secondstorygamer.com (the source of this article)

#2 biggest flop: N4G's credibility

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SaiyanFury - 352 days 4 hours ago

Yeah I think secondstorygamer.com is the real flop here. With games like Resistance 2 and LBP coming out in a time when the economy is in turmoil, I don't think their sales are all that bad, especially with only counting 2 months of sales. Everyone is counting their dollars lately and with both games selling over a million each in such a short time span where each dollar is important, I think that's very positive sales. Sure, they might do better when the average family has more money, but considering the financial chaos going on in the world, selling over a million each that's not bad at all.

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zodiac909 - 351 days 23 hours ago

lol someone is always there to say this!

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phosphor112 - 351 days 21 hours ago

Haze was a flop, but it wasn't a horrible game. It was just broken with glitches..sadly.

Just wanted to get that out there.

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Beast_Master - 351 days 19 hours ago

People stop making top ten list of garbage. Let's talk about real flops, like Spiderman Web of Shadows, Quantum of Solice, No More Heros, DeBlob and Boom Blox and every JRPG released on the 360. All of these games have a larger market share and none sold close to 1 million.

What is the criteria for a "Flop" because a game that sells more than a million copies seems to be doing well, it qualifies as a Greatest Hit or Platnum game at that point. You can say, "you personally expected, a title to sell better" but that doesn't mean the market will respond. But if it has legs and sells 1-2 million in a few months who is to say it won't top 2-4 million over it's life span. considering both titles will eventually be greatest hits.

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RebornSpy - 351 days 18 hours ago

But Boom Blox was good...

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prowiew - 351 days 18 hours ago

I think the list is spot on. The only problem I have with the list is that it mixes flops in scores with flops in sales. In terms of sales all of the those are flops, minus mercenaries.

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pixelsword - 351 days 18 hours ago

Games that sell over one million are declared a success by THE INDUSTRY. This fraudulent article usurps industry definition of what a successful game is.

GET THIS GARBAGE OFF OF THE SITE.

I did not have an opinion of which site had better news, Digg or N4G; having seen this "article" survive, I believe Digg has the upper hand.

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mint royale - 351 days 17 hours ago

they both made profits and sold reasonably well for a new IP. I don't know how you can possibly come up with that conclusion. Lips and SOCOM were the biggest commercial failures IMO. LPB and resistance 2 sold well too.

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Yipee Bog - 351 days 17 hours ago

would have to be Mercenaries 2. That game was hyped and failed at everything. One of the most glitch ridden games I have ever bought. What happened to the days that developers had to make, ship and polish a game with no patches(pre-next gen, minus pc gaming)? Games should not be put out the door for the sake of a ship date that was promised 6 months into it's development. Heck, not even a year for that matter. Ship the game when its done. I do understand that games need tentative ship dates to keep gamers at bay, but I don't think developers need top be pressured with a looming schedule, it just produces crap like Mercs 2. Case in point, Blizzard games "It will be done when its done", and how many people play WoW or even Diablo 2 still because they're good games. OK, I'm done rambling

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superaktieboy - 351 days 17 hours ago

anything that sells more than a million, is anything BUT a flop lol.. but that might just be me :)

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Mozilla89 - 351 days 11 hours ago

when I saw Force Unleashed wasn't on it. (And Resistance 2 was.) I didn't think EndWar was that bad either.

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MURKERR - 352 days 9 hours ago

lbp has sold nearly 2mil in two months(recent figures)and is constantly selling, how is that a flop for a NEW ip? if you are goin to troll do it in a more intelligent way where your facts support your claims

have a good newyear

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cayal - 352 days 8 hours ago

1.5 - 2 mill for any game is not a flop no matter what.

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Gambit07 - 352 days 6 hours ago

@ Agent: Ok, forget the hype, do you realize that LBP is a game mostly done with a dev team of about 30-40 people, which means it didn't have a humongous budget to begin with, which means they don't need to sell that many copies to rake in the profits. For example let's say a movie comes out with a 20 million budget and makes 35 million at the box office, a 15 million profit would not be considered a flop, but a 100 million dollar movie comes out and makes 110 million, a 10 million profit would be a flop because of the amount of money poured into the project.

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Jenzo - 352 days 3 hours ago

Expectations/outcome.

Expectations: LittleBigPlanet, Motorstorm 2 and Resistance 2 will be the biggest games of 2008 and outsell everything on the 360. The only 360 game that stands a chance is Gears 2 and it will be left in the dust. LittleBigPlanet will be bigger than Mario, MGS4 will compete with Halo 3's sales numbers and Resistance 2 will outsell Gears 2 alone.

Outcome: Gears of War 2 sells more in one day than Resistance 2 and LittleBigPlanet manages to sell in 2 months. Even Fable 2, who no one thought would even compete with these 'juggernauts', enjoys better sales than Resistance 2, Motorstorm 2 and LittleBigPlanet. MGS4 enjoys good sales and at the end of the year it's close to what Halo 3 sold in it's first week.

And now you try to act like you never hyped up Resistance 2 and LittleBigPlanet to be Gears of War killers and the second coming of Christ? Short memory span indeed.

I'll leave Home out of this but you as all know, same story there: overhyping and underdelivering.

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Bubble Buddy - 352 days 3 hours ago

Jenzo; send us links who said that o_0? Most PS3 owners were eagerly waiting for these games but not thinking like it's the second coming of Christ. You're overreacting just a wee bit. I know you're right about those few idiots that just keep repeating the game's name over and over again...

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JeffGUNZ - 351 days 23 hours ago

Yeah, but Gears of War 2 sold over 3 millions copies within the first month of it's release. I don't think we can blame the economy on this one.

Everyone I know who has a PS3, including my brother, who is a fanboy in denial, said R2 was a major disappointment.

Don't worry though, Killzone 2 will get great profits.

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tda-danny - 351 days 17 hours ago

Seriously dude, stfu.

The only place these games were hyped the way you make it seem was on N4G. I only started seeing LBP commercials before Xmas, and I haven't seen any R2 or Motorstorm commercials yet.

R2 sold a million copies in 2 months & got like 90% average rating. How is that a flop? OMFG it was so hyped blah blah... Who Overhyped it? People on the forums... wow they account for about 0.01% of the consumers world wide.

I own all three of those games you mentioned, and they are all great. I also own Gears 2, which a great game.

Why do you always have to hate? Just play the fvcking games...

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crackling - 351 days 17 hours ago

...yeah, because what other people buy and purchase (i.e. sales) should determine whether or not a game is good/bad.... i'm sure nintendogs is one of the greatest games of all time because of that too, right? how about GTAIV?

I've played all of the mentioned besides motorstorm 2, and i'm not complaining one bit... does it make you more happy to play a game enjoyed by the masses? i bet if 5 ppl bought halo 3/gears/whatever large selling title, that game would now be trash, correct? (just to add: i enjoy halo 3 and gears as well because i played them, not based on IF OTHER PEOPLE BOUGHT THEM)

love how n4g is a breeding ground for individuals who base their opinions on what other people do/say/buy....

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Gambit07 - 351 days 17 hours ago

@crackling: you should definitely pick up Motorstorm: Pacific Rift, best racing game I've played, it's THAT good.

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tda-danny - 350 days 14 hours ago

Agreed man!! Motorstorm 2 was bloody brilliant!

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Max Power - 352 days 9 hours ago

i just bought a copy today, and i can't wait to go home and play it....2 more days!

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Bob Dole - 352 days 9 hours ago

Halo numbers unfortunately.

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jack who - 352 days 21 hours ago

using maths date and the laws of flop..

Too Human Release Dates: 08/19/08 to 01/04/09

Sales: 0.51 million
Metacritic Score: 65

5 months with 0.51 million

Haze Release Dates: 05/20/08 to 01/04/09
Sales: 0.59 million
Metacritic Score: 55

8 months 0.59 million

so going by score and hype(teh halo killer) with number of sales and time it took to make those sales numbers and the Developer of the game going out of business(Free Radical) ....Haze is the biggest flop this year.

:)

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IzKyD1331 - 352 days 20 hours ago

If your going by hype, then Too Human takes the cake....10 years in the making buddy.
Haze was not hyped as a Halo killer by any means

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Lonely Hunter - 352 days 5 hours ago

"Sony said it was going to be the YouTube of gaming"
if play or see the created levels in this game you know it's truly the youtube of gaming

there are thousand of great levels it will take you really long time to play them all , and stile you will never finish them all becouse there is alwayes new levels

and that what they meant by comparing it to youtube

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celldomceen1 - 352 days 1 hour ago

has bladestar lost his mind i love how you take any statement and then take it to its most ridiculous point to fit your argument gtfo.

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Perjoss - 352 days ago

"there are thousand of great levels it will take you really long time to play them all"

sadly I could not even finish the single player portion of LBP, the gameplay is sluggish, control of sackboy/girl is not responsive and just not fun.

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Tiberium - 351 days 18 hours ago

More Youtube of E for everyone gaming.

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El Zorro Rojo - 351 days 16 hours ago

Umm yeah, Haze is defintely the biggest flop of last year. Haze was hyped a lot more than Too Human and it actually ended up with lower scores and poorer sales.

Most people were taking a "wait and see" attitude towards Too Human and I think most people were expecting it to end up being pretty mediocre after being in development for so long and its poor showings at E3 etc. I didn't really see anybody hyping that game anyway.

Haze on the other hand was hyped by many PS3 fanboys as the next great shooter and it was rubbed in the noses of Xbox 360 fans.

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Bob Dole - 352 days 9 hours ago

For sure, they need to cool it on those games and make something new.

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cayal - 352 days 8 hours ago

EA cut Need for Speed series didn't they?

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MrAnonymous - 352 days 8 hours ago

i believe Criterion Games is taking over the Need For Speed series now...EA didnt cut it

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tuneraider - 351 days 18 hours ago

*zing!* lol Nice one! Can't wait for the next NFS... can you imagine? Burnout with cops! XD

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ultimolu - 352 days 9 hours ago

...You know when a 360 supporter is a sad fanboy when he creates multiple accounts to bash people on the *other* sad.

Grow up dude. :/

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borgome - 351 days 19 hours ago

Agree except for MGS4

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ambientFLIER - 352 days 8 hours ago

Wow, you KNOW that your jokes suck when you have to actually explain what you're talking about.

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NewZealander - 352 days 8 hours ago

being a homophobe bigot isnt your worst offence, its the bad renameing of the games you listed that is truly disturbing.

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Run_bare - 352 days 1 hour ago

One thing that SONY is lacking today is a good JRPG. Japan just release "White Knight Chronicles", so far SONY only have 1 JRPG, which is "Eternal Sonata". I did not count "Folklore" as it is not JRPG in a sense of traditionality.

I am really looking forward to "The Last Remnant", and hopefully it will come to the PS3 land very soon. I can't consider it rubbish as yet, only the people that play can validate his/her own opinion which is better to be kept to ourselves :)

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razorbladelight - 351 days 19 hours ago

in all fairness it actually had games with both definitions of flop. A flop could either be a highly anticipated game that turned out to be crap, or a highly anticipated game that turned out to sell lower than expected.
All the games on that list fell under either definition.

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El Zorro Rojo - 351 days 16 hours ago

WTF are you talking about? Gears 2 and Fable 2 have both sold several million copies.

I agree that LBP is not truly a flop, but you are a tool for posting such an ignorant comment.

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Syko 360 - 351 days 18 hours ago

It was the part where you said.... "excpet for Sony SDF girls".

Whoops, Enjoy your 2 bubbles. and the open zone. Review the rules. Thanks. Read my Bio if you want irony about your latest statement here. Ha Ha.

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El Zorro Rojo - 351 days 16 hours ago

The difference is, I don't remember anybody really hyping Too Human. Well, I am sure there were a few Xbox fanboys hyping it, but I think that the general consensus before it came out is that it was probably going to be mediocre. It took too long to come out and that is generally a bad sign.

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NegativeCreep427 - 351 days 15 hours ago

F'n ignorant Xbots either can't read or are just so stupidly delusional that they believe only what they want to believe. I don't blame them, though; whatever helps those dumba$$es sleep better at night.

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Shane Kim - 351 days 13 hours ago

Couldn't agree more with you NegativeCreep427, as in the words of Drebin, the xbots minds has been damaged pretty much beyond repair, so the only way to cope with reality is to become microslaves themselves.

And to El Zorro: Too Human was actually hyped by many people. Alot more than what Haze was, and bots are always telling PS3 fanboys how much they hyped Haze.

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sltPoison - 351 days 9 hours ago

When you give the game the title of the "Halo Killer" the game is instantly going to be judged harder.

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El Zorro Rojo - 351 days 16 hours ago

You're entitled to your opinion, but I have to admit that it is just bizarre to me. I think Gears of War 2 is one of the finest action games that I have ever played.

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infekt - 351 days 11 hours ago

@El Zorro Rojo: One mans do-do is another mans gold. GeoW2 in question- Driod's do-do is.. well, you get the gist.

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