The 10 Biggest Flops of 2008

Here are the 10 biggest busts in gaming for the year of 2008.

[WANNA GET HIGH]

This will not end well....

[Sony PlayStation 3]

#1 biggest flop of 2008: SecondStoryGamer.com

[SaiyanFury]

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.

[Sony PlayStation 3]

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

#2 biggest flop: N4G's credibility

[SaiyanFury]

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.

[zodiac909]

lol someone is always there to say this!

[phosphor112]

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.

[Beast_Master]

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.

[RebornSpy]

But Boom Blox was good...

[prowiew]

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.

[pixelsword]

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.

[mint royale]

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.

[Yipee Bog]

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

[uie4rhig]

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

[Mozilla89]

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

[Xbox Street Gang]

wtf is this article? LBP having a 95 metacritic rating and selling 1.5 mil units in less than 2 months is a flop?

Oh! Forgot it was opposite day...

[Agent VX]

It is quite easy, MGS 4 and LBP are the two biggest games released on the PS3 yet. But LBP has only sold 1.5 million copies over the Christmas holidays is a humongous Flop.

I totally believe this game (LBP) will have some legs, but as for now, sales have been very bad for a title of this caliber. LBP has failed so far, though not near as bad as Resistance 2 has.

[MURKERR]

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

[cayal]

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

[Gambit07]

@ 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.

[InMyOpinion]

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.

[Bubble Buddy]

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...

[JeffGUNZ]

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.

[tda-danny]

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...

[crackling]

...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....

[Gambit07]

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

[tda-danny]

Agreed man!! Motorstorm 2 was bloody brilliant!

[MaximusPrime]

i wouldnt call LBP a flop.

it would have released worldwide but Sony respectfully delayed EU dates because of some apparently Islamic quote in one of the soundtracks.

Now LBP is becoming successful as sales beginning to catch up. People are buying LBP.

[BananaSlug]

"Resistance 2

Sales: 1.01 million
Metacritic Score: 87

However, a lackluster single player campaign and forced comparisons to Gears of War 2 because of the close proximity of their release dates prevented this game from shining."

[Max Power]

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

[darkequitus]

What do you need to sell not to be classed as a flop?

[Bob Dole]

Halo numbers unfortunately.

[Nathan Drake]

I can't disagree,Too Human was without a doubt the biggest flop of 2008 and of this Gen thus far.

[jack who]

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.

:)

[IzKyD1331]

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

[Bladestar]

"If your going by hype, then Too Human takes the cake....10 years in the making buddy."

Misleading information... Too Human was not in development for 10 years at least not in Microsoft's hands... the project started in various platforms and was canceled.

Ohh and if you are going to go by Hype... LBP takes the cake...

LBP was hype 100 times more than Too Human... Sony said it was going to be the YouTube of gaming... The biggest thing since the first man took the first dump... the super mario of this generation.

Do you know how many users YouTube have? Based on that statement LBP was suppose to sell at least 20,000,000 copies.

[Lonely Hunter]

"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

[celldomceen1]

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.

[Perjoss]

"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.

[Tiberium]

More Youtube of E for everyone gaming.

[El Zorro Rojo]

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.

[WANNA GET HIGH]

Im suprised over 1million people bought the new need for speed... :/

[Bob Dole]

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

[cayal]

EA cut Need for Speed series didn't they?

[SixZeroFour]

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

[tuneraider]

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

[WANNA GET HIGH]

At least haze was not 10yrs in the making....

[jack who]

didnt know the 360 been around for 10 years?

[Gun_Senshi]

games start being developed before the console is out for the market...

[cayal]

If I am not mistaken Too Human started as a PSX game

[cayal]

If a game started 10 years ago...that is when development started.

The project Too Human began 10 years ago and it was released in 2008. That is a 10 year development cycle.

[Gun_Senshi]

LBP Flop?

[Cerberus_Hunter]

LBP for a new IP did great. I'm sure MM is more that happy with the sales and reviews their game got.

[Bob Dole]

Just wait and see how many it's sold by the end of '09.

[Panthers]

Yup. Im picking mine up in 09...... I think.

There are waaayyy too many games coming though. Gunna be tough.

[Panthers]

I think Socom sold a lot better since this does not count PSN sales. Plus, that game is soo much better than the reviews say. Im playing it now and loving it.

[Bob Dole]

Bob Dole wants to rent that game, is it as good as the others?

[Panthers]

Patch 1.30 comes out either this week or the next and it will greatly improve it. If you are on the fence, then wait for that to come out before judging.

[McDaygo]

If you don't like the list make your own. Too Human was poop.

[Tweewheei]

they were good games and all but who plays most of those games. You have to be at least 410 pounds, butt naked,on a bean bag, in your living room eating cheeseburgers to play those games. Oh yeah i said it.

[Mutley416]

Biggest Flop in 09...this article?

[PirateThom]

"All sales data was taken from VGChartz.com"

Well, that makes this blog irrelevent.

[Lon3wolf]

I am actually surprised at how little Banjo moved, 1/2 million units, ouch. Those people saying this is another article biased against the PS3, please explain?

[tda-danny]

Many games that were hyped that sold poorly were left out:
Infinite Undiscovery, Ninja Gaiden 2.

However R2 and LBP were included? They have only been out for 2 months, unlike NG2

The Last Remnant has been out for 2 months, sold poorly and got terrible reviews... why is it not on the list?

[tda-danny]

Sorry, I should have stated that i'm not hating on NG2. I own it, and this its a great game! However, it hasn't sold that well (apperently a million isn't 'selling well' anymore), and yet is not on the list.

R2 generally got better reviews, and sold just as well in fraction of the time, but still made the list...

I was only using NG2 as an example to point out how bogus this 'top 10' list is...

[greyfox235]

agreed

[psiom]

rofl...
I knew LBP would be there. Apparently becoming a million seller (1.5 actually) soon after launching means a game is a flop. And not just any flop either, nearly one the 10 biggest!

Resistance 2, another million seller, is in fact 2008's 8th biggest flop! hahaha... WOW. How do they write this?

Of all the software released in 2008, almost all of which never got anywhere near 1 million, R2 is the 8th biggest flop.

I think the auther is confusing flop with sales disappointment, but even then...

Heh...gaming "journalism" these days...

* and just to be clear. Look up "flop" in the dictionary:
"3. to be a complete failure; fail: The play flopped dismally. "

Too funny.

[SixZeroFour]

yea i think you were right in saying "I think the auther is confusing flop with sales disappointment"

i think because LBP and Resistance 2 was hyped up so much (or atleast on this site it was) and not selling well on release date, for them it was considered a flop

[psiom]

A flop means something that doesn't cover costs.

For example a film flops at the box office when ticket sales fail to meet productions costs. It's a very clear and completely non subjective definition. When it gets misused like this it just makes an author sound stupid.

They should provide real data if that's the actual claim.

When you make a bogus "FLOP" list like this, it's clearly just fishing for attention.

[laved]

This guy sure is using the term 'flop' extremely loosely. Either that or selling 1.5 million copies makes a game a flop.

[DNAgent]

I don't think that site knows what a "flop" even means.

[razorbladelight]

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.

[Unicron]

Flop is such a heavily misused and over abused term this generation. Pathetic. And this "article" is a joke, per usual. Thanks N4G.

[Syko]

You haven't even passed the contributor test. What exactly have you done for this site?

[evrfighter]

wow...the dude says himself that lbp doesn't make the list because he's aware the game has legs and will probably sell well in 2009. What's with the animosity.

In some form of ps3 defense however, The term "Flop" is being thrown around loosely these days, and is rather harsh especially if a game has already paid for its production costs (not sure if LBP has done this tbh) A better term or phrase for LBP would be "not living up to the hype" or a disappointment.

[cayal]

2 million sold is not a flop, no matter the hype.

[Gambit07]

Only publishers know if a game is a flop, nobody else.

[Microsoft Xbox 360]

Xbox 360 wins most flops 2008.

[gamfreak]

wtf calling LBP a flop for having a score of 95 and 1.5 million worldwide.... Than i can be sure that ALL games on 360 is a flop....!

[El Zorro Rojo]

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.

[SAiOSiN]

I think a game has to sell like 7mil for it not to flop...this article is garbage.

[stealthx]

well wow expansion sold nearly 5 million in a month so i think gears of war 2 and halo are flops to me

[Hercules]

i wonder if socom sold more on the psn...it did say that the numbers are not available..

[Captain_Sony]

So saying LBP is a flop is now banable offense? Man you Sony fanboy mods are getting desperate and pathetic.. LBP flopped kids deal with it. I'll say it here every day from now on.. Banning someone for pointing out a fact even if it is negative to Sony is extremely low. I would love for the POS mod that deleted it to explain what was so wrong with my comment.

[Syko]

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.

[Voiceofreason]

LBP was a complete and utter flop. No question about it. Anyone that cant handle that has some serious fanboy denial issues.

[PirateThom]

Why was it a flop?

Good sales, good review scores, numerous GOTY awards?

What part of that is a "flop"?

[Anon1974]

1.5 million games moved over 2 months, for a brand new platformer, and on everyone's game of the year lists and you consider that a flop? Give your head a shake.

LBP sold in a couple of months what most platformers do their entire run. There are only about 50 platformers over the past 15 years of console gaming that have managed to sell over 1 million copies.

Again, voiceofreason, you're anything but.

[Magic_The_Celt]

LMAO and people say LittleBigPlanet sold bad, compare it to them other games, holy sh*t

Too Human - 0.5 Million

Um :|

[Shane Kim]

Too Human, was supposed to be the messiah of RPG's, best graphics to date, unmatched gameplay and a true innovation it the RPG genre. Now not did it only sell like crap, it scored like crap as well. This is a flop defined. Well deserved nr1 spot.

[El Zorro Rojo]

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.

[NegativeCreep427]

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.

[Shane Kim]

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.

[MerkinMax]

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

[Droid Control]

I know everybody loves them, but i really hate them.

[El Zorro Rojo]

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.

[infekt]

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

[borgome]

LBP was definately the biggest flop, no doubt about it.

[Anon1974]

I don't think anything that's sold over 1 million should be considered a flop. One million is a milestone that only a select few games ever hit.

There have only been roughly 1000 console videogames...EVER, that have broke the 1 million mark over the last 15 years. That's pretty freakn rare when you consider how many console games have been released over that time.

[evrfighter]

To compare. Crysis sold over 1 million and was considered a flop. Nobody denied it. Yes the game which is crowned with having the best graphics to ever grace ANY gaming platform is considered a flop. Goes to show graphics aren't everything. Nowadays Crysis is just a glorified 3d benchmark tool. Nothing more.

But like I said a games a flop only when it has not paid for itself production and ad wise. Nobody will know how much money was poured into LBP. But I imagine in time (probably some time in 2009) it will have paid for itself.

[Anon1974]

There was next to nothing for marketing for it. I never saw one LBP spot that wasn't a PS3 spot showcasing a bunch of games. Media Molecule is only like, what, 12 guys? It couldn't have cost all that much to make. The media and fans did most of the hype work for them.

[arkalos13]

why is resistance 2 in this list. the reason they put in this list is very retarted because it has been compared to gears of war but some people say its a better than gears oif war so gears should be in this list. just about every one of those games are ps3 games. every wii game should be in this list and just about every 360 game game should be here because compared to mgs4 there all flops.

[Sangria]

So a flop is the ratio of hype / sales, not on hype / delivering?
Valkyria Chronicles, 86%, 300k sales.
Infinite Undiscovery teh Final Fantasy killer, 68%, 400k sales.
The Last Remnant, 78%, 400k sales.
Mirror's Edge, 78%, 800k sales PS3 and 360 combined.
Okami, 93%, 250k Wii and PS2 combined.

But how can LittleBigPlanet, Resistance 2 or Wii Music can be flop, since they easily reached the million and one is even GOTY? For example, LittleBigPlanet sold as much as Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition or Rayman Raving Rabbids.

Resistance 2 sold as much as Left 4 Dead, so is Left 4 Dead a flop?
Since that article forgot big ones and mentioned big ones, it's near obvious it was written only for the baiting.

[BlackTar187]

But if it only sold as much as res2 then cant like it anymore it is a flop to me. To bad I was really convinced that I liked it and it sold 5million in 1 minute dammit I need to read pointless sales data more carefully before i pick a game I like because if it doesnt sell 10million minute one then i just dont see how I can like it you know being a flop and everything like the movie postal. or maybe compare it to boondock saints that movie was terrible because it didnt sell a million man im so confused. Titanic is the best movie though you saw how much it sold man its def. 5 stars hands down best movie of all time.

[Sangria]

I'm not affected by your sarcasm since you didn't get what i meant. I honestly don't care about the figures themselves, but the fact that people consider a million-seller as a flop.

Developers are working hard to make video games and publishers put pressure on them to make it sell much. Whatever can be their sale goal, a game that sold 1 or 2 millions is very nice, even more if they are new IPs.

But if decent figures are flops, what can we say about less than a million sold? Dead Space, Mirror's Edge, Eternal Sonata, Valkyria Chronicles... They managed to make good games and we consider them as worst than flop.

Sales does not make the game better (even if it's influencing for its future), i agree with that (of course), what i'm talking about is the definition of flop itself and how this article shows how it's biased.

[BlackTar187]

I was just being funny and stupid to show how dumb the argument of SALES=Quality . Nothing offensive to you sorry if I worded it to sound like that.

Im against the sales=good because for real i liked Too Human and Left 4 Dead i was just using the line titanic becuase its a good thing to say to people who think sales=anything other then money for the developer. Titantic is the #1 movie total gross Theaters and DVD and I hated the movie.

[BlackTar187]

Dead Space= one of my favorite games of 08 and in a month or so im going to play it again i loved that game

[Spybreak]

damn man, how can they mess up this game? The first one was great, the second one is going back to Gamefly, so aggravating. "Cover me I'm going for the alarm, Cover me I'm going for the emplaced gun!" AHHHHH! Shut up!

[BlackTar187]

Was alot of fun as well but man Im forced to make the reasonable and only sensible decision i can from this data I no longer like it anymore crap phew terrible until you stand up and selll 100 million minute one your garbage for a game sorry Too Human I thought it said sold 10 million on the box when i bought it ohh well I guess its back to the titanic

[bobdog626]

Too Humam was alot of fun!Getting New Sword's and Armor was a Blast!The Gun's were Cool too unlike GTA which you Drive people around all Day (Boring).Remember that Game got GOTY.

[bviperz]

Again we're trying to use numbers to justify points of views. Sorry all, sales figures does not equal 'flop'. On the same note, neither does hype together with sales. Why? Because hype is based on individual opinion and therefore cannot be measured accurately, unlike sales. Example? One person's definition of 'over-hyped' is the same as another person's definition of 'under-hyped'. In the end, do you really care what other people consider 'flops'? If so, analyze this: play and enjoy your games.

[gersh]

Resistance 2 was a bit of a disappointment, mainly Co-op, but definitely not a flop.

[BlackTar187]

Coop is the only thing i liked sure single player was fun but not that great I loved Coop and spent numerous hours with friends getting 2 charcters to 30 if there was a DLC pack for Coop I woul dbuy it in a heartbeat if there was a DLC for Single Player i would still but I would just wait maybe 5 heartbeats or so.

[JUSTICEFORALL]

dumb article, i have 2 of the ten that was there, LBP c'mon face it those little bastards are cute and adorable, resistance 2 its alright but feels gutted

[xg-ei8ht]

Motorstorm 2 is the mother of offroad racing games. Come and try to defeat me, muahhahahha.

Seriously it's a great game.

LBP is Awesome as well, just creating the levels is pure excellence.

i think sometimes people just have fun blasting something.

That would certainly explain 14-25yrld's on 360. Run and gun.

Then you got assasins creed, while fun for lil while, got boring pretty quickly/

The two above, if you own a PS3, you owe it to yourself to purchase them.

[Lord Vader]

Wow. Ps3 wins this list with 3 Exclusive Flops and a fourth for "Honorable Mention". = LMAO

[motts]

Wow I bet you cried a lil when vader was the ps3 special character huh? (soul caliber for any NOOOBs hehe)

[Raoh]

no mention of ninja gaiden?

infinite undiscovery?

last remnant?

i think the debate gets lost in translation. i consider flops to be games that suck. even if they sell well.

but i guess i'm alone in this thinking.

[Unicron]

This is N4G. Logic is not allowed here.

[El Zorro Rojo]

Sorry, I don't agree. Ninja Gaiden 2 is awesome and in no way can be considered a flop. It didn't even have that much hype in the first place.

[Raoh]

LOL i just noticed that secondstorygamer.com uses metacritic as its sources.

sigh

[El Zorro Rojo]

What's wrong with Metacritic? (Aside from the lame fanboy user reviews/scores).

[rTR-Pioneer]

wow just wow, the xbots are getting so pathetic with their new account names on here like "bitter sony slave" and loads more, all spouting the same BS
it seems to me these guys that made the article couldn't help but have a go at LBP, it wasn't in their top 10 so they had to invent a new category "honorable mentions"
also by making the list based on sales figures is not fair as many of those ps3 games such as SOCOM are not even out in europe.
they just move the goalposts to abuse the ps3.

[Funky Town_TX]

Can there be a worse game in the history of the world?

[Obama]

You stupid bots, Too Human was definitely hyped more than Haze. Haze is a flop, but Too Human is a mega-flop. Too Human certainly deserves to be the biggest flop and the most disappointing game in 2008.

[AriesFury]

by who's authority?

[Evil Gamer]

LOL...Yippee! The only game I own is the biggest flop on this list TOO HUMAN...and I could care less I died a billion times in that game and had a freakin' blast..the funny part about it is when I talked to actual people who beat it..they say the same thing..please M$ bring on Too Human 2! At least 'Too Human' was Microsoft's banner title..We all know Little Big Planet..was Sony's big dog..and yup 1.5 million is ok (hey even 50 Cent's last game sold a million)..unless you look at Gears of War 2 selling 2.1 mil in one day..even Metal Gear Solid 4..I thought that game was going to do Halo 3 numbers..nah..that's why you got Hideo 'starting his whole company over' to 'compete with the west'..If I'm Microsoft I'll take an 'L' on games like 'Viva Pinata' and 'Too Human'..as long as Fable 2, Gears, and the Halo Franchise remain successful...

[bobdog626]

I Think Unfamous to be 2009"s Flop of the Year.Reason 1 Rayden has that Same Power.Reason 2 Storm has that Power to (See Xmen)Reason 3 Man run's around with Electric in his Hand's.It's not going to work trust me.

[proArchy]

1 RaIden was in a fighting game, and really only had one electricity move which was essentially a fireball
2 Storm is awesome, what's your point?!
3 I don't know, it was pretty fun in Bioshock!

[proArchy]

Oh hell, this is one terrible list. Someone take a screen cap of it and post it on a FAIL blog.

[Bazookajoe_83]

It´s funny what people can come up with :-)

[Neo604]

Too Human wich is a xbox360 AAA title!

[Mitch_Cumstein]

Although Too Human, which I own, is actually a lot of fun to play it just didn't turn out the way most had hoped.

Resistance 2 on the other hand, which I also own, defines mediocrity. The campaign being that bad is inexcusable. The OMG 64 player multiplayer is not nearly as good as it sounds, because NO ONE uses a mic, meaning no one works as a team. The other parts of the online MP are decent, but if you own a 360 with your PS3 you will get that "been there done that" feeling.

Oh and btw, as experienced as Insomniac Games is with the PS3's hardware the lackluster visuals are inexcusable.

LittleBigPlanet probably should have gotten in the top 10 insteah of HM, but I actually think it will sell in the long run....maybe. It should, because it is a fantastic game. No, its not the OMG system seller all the PS3 fanboys said it would be, but it still is better than 99% of what you can get on the PS3. Media Molecule deserves better than what Sony is giving them in terms of marketing and what not.

[motts]

First off, lbp is a new and strange game to most. It's not a Halo or COD shooter where people know what they are getting. Therefore, even with GREAT review scores, people worry about wasting their money. It is a new game bringing back platforming, and to sell as well as it has is great. Trust me it has legs. Anyone i show it to says they had no clue what it was from the ads, (if they had seen them), but are def. buying it now.
You have to realize how hard it is to sell not just a new game, but a new TYPE of game all together. Obviously it was not going to compete with gears in sales. Anyone with an xbox felt safe and KNEW they were going to buy it, because gears one was great. The biggest risk was that it was just new levels of the original, which wouldn't have been that bad

also...if you don't enjoy lbp, try hittin a bowl...of cereal...before playin ;) always a good time

[tk]

I have R2, Haze, LBP, and Tom Clancy Endwar.
Haze was good enough. R2 is very good. Most played game at the moment. The giant monsters is awesome. Because of those two games, the kids and myself spend barely two hours with Endwar.

Although I cannot make a call on Endwar, the other two is not flops. Idiotic article.

[motts]

didn't play endwar...but im not going to mask it, Haze did suck. the coolest part of it was using the Haze, which you used for one level. Plus the fact that in multiplayer being on haze was actually a huge disadvantage. Even if you shot at a person playing dead you couldn't kill them.
Resistance may have been slightly overhyped on n4g and such....but remember you're reading a video game site. People on this site are a tiny fraction of the total number of video game consumers. It may have been over hyped here, but not to the general public.

[SixAmpFuze]

too human is a awesome game and shouldnt be on that list. Sales wise maybe it did flop but that game is like crack. Ive logged in over 500 overs playing this game.

[xionpunk]

Using the word flop loosely...
This is what you get when you are desperate for a story I guess.

[Enigma_2099]

... that there were gonna be PS3 games at the top of this so called "list"

[MerkinMax]

When you think about it, so few people bought them that there is no reason to be upset. They sold like flops. Flops are always going to come around. It's not like people went out and bought millions of copies of Haze and Too Human only to find out that they are terrible. They sold in direct relation to their quality.