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Which Xbox 360 Games Could Flop in 2009?

Xboxist.com writes:

"The Xbox 360 continues to extend its sales lead over the competing Playstation 3, thanks to an outstanding lineup of games and new online services. But as we saw this past year with Wii Music, sometimes even the strongest athlete can take a false step and trip up.

Perhaps the biggest letdown on the Xbox 360 in 2008 was Too Human, which failed to deliver the fun despite being heavily hyped by its developer, Silicon Knights. As Microsoft and third party developers try to wow us with hot new games for the console in the coming year, which ones are at risk of leaving us disappointed? We present three titles that have made out "watch list" of potential flops heading into 2009."

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clinker - 356 days 8 hours ago

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I agree with Halo Wars, I just don't see RTS being a huge hit on the console.

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mint royale - 356 days 7 hours ago

1.1 - It will sell well because it has halo in the name

whether it will be a good game is still to be determined.

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Cajun Chicken - 356 days 7 hours ago

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It will be sold, but it will predictably be traded a lot in the first week.

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IzKyD1331 - 356 days 7 hours ago

1.3 - 13 Year old 360 owner at a store:

"ZOMG! Halo Wars! A new Halo game!"
*after making his mom buy it and popping in the game*
"This isn't Halo! Where are the guns! This is one of those ghey strategy games"

*returns it*

I predict 40% of all Halo Wars sales will be like this

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Cajun Chicken - 356 days 7 hours ago

1.4 - @IzKyD1331

Exactly.

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gaffyh - 356 days 7 hours ago

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@IzKyD1331 - one thing wrong with what you said, "returns it" should be "trades it in" cos you can't return an opened game (when I've tried). So when the game get's traded in, the sales still count up.

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disrupt3r - 356 days 7 hours ago

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In Australia at EB Games, theres a 7 day money back guarantee on all games. Even if you buy and finish it, you can return and get a full refund/exchange.

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Cajun Chicken - 356 days 7 hours ago

1.7 - @gaffyh

If you have a receipt, no questions asked, technically not counted as a sale.

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urban bohemian - 356 days 7 hours ago

1.8 - You used to be able to return an opened game in the uk

But recently game and gamestation stopped this as people were just using them as rental services. I remember buying and completing the darkness and returning it the same week and getting a new game. Shame its stopped!

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JeffGUNZ - 356 days 6 hours ago

1.9 - alan wake?

haha, wait, I am pretty sure about 2 years ago they identified exactly what the plot was for this game. What an awful article. Halo Wars won't be a flop, it is just going to be an all around awful game. What's next for Halo, "Halo Pinata"? Come on Halo, your reign is over.

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Darkseider - 356 days 5 hours ago

1.10 - @1.3 Beat me to it

Yeah what you said.

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mpmaley - 356 days 4 hours ago

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Halo Wars will not flop.

The advertising they're doing for it shows NO GAMEPLAY. If they keep this up non forum users / internet users will just think it's another Halo without M.C.

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Darkseider - 356 days 3 hours ago

1.12 - @1.11 mpmaley

I don't know if you realize that not only is it Halo without Master Chief it is Halo without FPS. This is a RTS (Real Time Strategy) game NOT a FPS. This is where the problem is going to be with younger kids. They are going to see "HALO" and essentially it is HALO without the HALO they are expecting.

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No Way - 355 days 18 hours ago

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Halo was originally meant to be a RTS so I think it will work rather well, besides, it's being developed by one of the best RTS developers, Ensemble.

So, I'm betting the game will be rather good.

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123360 - 356 days 7 hours ago

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not interested in this crap,alan wake pc or rent at best,ms has nothink of interest for me this year may be 2010 unless they have a surprise up there sleeve.they seem to think price of the hardware will help,yes it will but if you aint got the games its worth jack sh*t,they should be bringing exclusive new ips,sony have had a few exclusives flop but it doesn,t stop them bringing new ip,s out year after year,ms seems to think dlc,exspansion packs will be enough this year and for got about exclusives all together,i don,t know about any 360 only users feel but this year is sh*t.sony gets my money this year.

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Sarcasm - 356 days 7 hours ago

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"thanks to an outstanding lineup of games and new online services"

Right, price has absolutely nothing to do with it.

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clinker - 356 days 7 hours ago

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Don't people often point out that the Xbox 360 Elite and 80 GB PS3 are basically the same price, feature-for-feature?

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dazzalfc - 356 days 7 hours ago

3.2 - To a degree...

...i think spec wise the PS3 does provide better value for money, but the problem is not value for money, but simply initial outlay. I think the majority of parents would not care whether the Ps3 came with all the features it does, they simply look at the cost of both machines, and would prefer to pay £180 for an Xbox 360 Elite instead of £280 on a Playstation 3, regardless of what is better or not. Hence why i hate the talk about sales. Sales does not prove one machine is better than the other, its just one of many factors that help determine the result. Surely the quality of the machine and the games are what define a console to an individual, and not how well it sells?

In regards to these games, i suppose they could. I doubt Halo Wars will dissapoint sales wise, as any title with Halo in it could sell. Whether reviews show it is a good game or not remains to be seen. I don't think RTS games work well on consoles compared to Pc's. For me it feels abit un-natural, in a way that Football Manager on the 360 and PSP just didn't feel right. But we'll see. Any game can flop in any area, whether it be Halo Wars or Killzone 2 or whatever game is released on the Wii.

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LeonSKennedy4Life - 356 days 7 hours ago

3.3 - yes

Except the 360 doesn't have:

- Wi-fi
- Internet Browser
- Blu-ray
- Upgradable HDD

How can you really compare the two? Honestly, I think this is getting ridiculous. People can't compare George of the Jungle (One of Brendan Frasier's funniest) to Fight Club (Arguably one of the greatest films/books ever). It's just not possible.

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dazzalfc - 356 days 7 hours ago

3.4 - hang on...

i think you're mis-understanding me in my statement. I am not saying that the Ps3 isnt value for me, for me, its superb value for money, and gives you alot of things that the 360 doesnt. But the majority of people do not know this, or are too ignorant to take this into account when buying a console. We all know to get the best out of the 360 you need extras which push the price up, but the initial price is what present better value for the average joe. Remember, not everybody is a gamer or an electronics freak. A Parent may not know about he hidden costs for online or added wifi etc, but to them, buying a £150 machine is better than paying £280 for one, just becuase of that initial outlay.

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Sarcasm - 356 days 6 hours ago

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To reiterate Dazz, my sister in law bought an xbox360. My girlfriend asked her "why didn't you just get a PS3?"

Her answer? "The 360 is hella cheaper"

Dazz is just right. The initial price is what gets people's attention right away. They don't care about value. They don't care about what games are on it. She doesn't care about Xbox live. She doesn't care about Gears 2. She only cared that it's $199 cheaper than a PS3.

And I would imagine this kind of situation is happening regularly.

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creeping judas - 356 days 6 hours ago

3.6 - @ Sarcasm

The unfortunate thing is that probably 80% - 90% of console buyers aren't as hardcore as we are. And they don't care about the value of all the things the PS3 offers.

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ZackFair - 356 days 7 hours ago

4 - Star Ocean 4.

Possibly.

Tri-ace and Square will realize just how dumb they were, releasing it for the wrong console.

Fans of the series own PS2s and PS3s.

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militant07 - 356 days 6 hours ago

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what a ***** *****
how can game flop because of console ?

im gona buy it on day 1. its seem good and after 2 flops from tri ace i think it wont be the third.

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Nathan Drake - 356 days 7 hours ago

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I have a bad feeling about Ninja Blade

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yz250 - 356 days 4 hours ago

5.1 - hmmmm

why are you, nathan drake, "worried" about ninja blade? hell it isn't like you're going to play it anyways......

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anzagi - 356 days 7 hours ago

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Halo Wars will still sell despite it being a RTS, 360 owners love halo, you could wrap a turd in a Halo napkin and they'd all buy it

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darkride66 - 356 days 7 hours ago

6.1 - I love Halo.

But I'll pass on this one. RTS, no thanks. I tried LOTR: BFMEII, which was a good game, but I just can't bring myself to like RTS's on the consoles. I'm already done with GTA4 so I don't care about the DLC. I am really looking forward to Alan Wake but I have my doubts we'll even see a 2009 release for this one.

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Captain Tuttle - 356 days 6 hours ago

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They're right on about Halo Wars...RTS's on consoles just never make the transition well. And I also agree with the bad feelings about Alan Wake.

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peeps - 356 days 6 hours ago

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when i think of flop i tend to think of more poor sales tbh. think all will do well (in sales) but perhaps ppl will be a little underwealmed by some titles. its like all this excitement over alan wake, when i first saw that announced (years ago now??) i was like oo i wanna know more, and even know i don't really know much more than when i saw the first trailer.

halo wars will sell well and will prob be 'ok', i've got mixed feelings about ODST tbh. only proper hardcore halo fans still play halo3 surely and quite a few halo fans (myself included) didn't enjoy 3 as much as 2. so i just wonder if 2 years after ppl are interested in what is essentially a big expension pack. it may be a new campaign but its still halo at its core e.g. doubt graphics and gameplay will have changed since hte online maps can also be dled for halo 3

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clinker - 356 days 6 hours ago

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I predict that ODST will sell 2x better than Halo Wars.

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kewlkat007 - 356 days 6 hours ago

9 - Every new IP has the potential to FLOP...

Why do we needs these articles, don't we want the games we like, to do well. Unless your a fanboy of course and wants the other competitor to burn in hell.

Anyhow....news must be slow, predicting potential flops. Never was like that back in the days.

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kingme71 - 356 days 6 hours ago

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It may not be an exclusive, but Prototype could be one of those that doesn't fulfill expectations. It was due out last year and pushed back and now it will come out near to Infamous which is pretty similar. Hoping for the best though.

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Dread - 356 days 5 hours ago

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so far not one single comment that doe snot hate on the 360

and then poeple argue that n4g is not sony centric. wow

on point

i am worried about halo wars only becasue it is an rts on a console, but it looks very good so far.

I am a halo fan and to the haters let me remind u that halo 3 is still played online more than any playstation 3 game. so even if you cannot control ur hating perhaps u can recognize that accomplishment.

peace

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Lelouch V Brit - 356 days 5 hours ago

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agree with you 100% about halo wars but it's too early to predict.

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jib - 356 days 2 hours ago

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preach!

i don't think halo wars is going to be anything revolutionary(RTS world) but i agree as well. it does look good/fun from what i've seen

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baseballkid721 - 355 days 23 hours ago

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halo wars and the new halo expansion

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LeonSKennedy4Life - 356 days 7 hours ago

1.1 - Um...

Blue Dragon?
Lost Odyssey?
Last Remnant?
Too Human?
Bomber-man: Act Zero?
Kameo: Elements of Power?

Should I keep going?

Honestly, PP, how old are you?

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Cajun Chicken - 356 days 7 hours ago

1.2 - Bomberman: Act Zero

Has to be one of the worst games on consoles of all time not to mention a hell of an insult to the long running franchise.

Thats what happens when you 'space marine-cyborg' everything up.

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Magic_The_Celt - 356 days 4 hours ago

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Go on then pp

you list PS3 flops of 08 and il show you the flop list of 360

oh wait scratch that.. you cant reply mr 1 hit bubble LMFAO

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BLUR111 - 356 days 2 hours ago

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Looking at most PS3 software sells I would not be talking sony fans.

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ravinshield - 356 days 2 hours ago

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NONE

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Graphics Whore - 356 days 1 hour ago

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What is the correlation between sales and quality? If something sells good does it mean it's better? No, of course not.

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ReTarDedFisHy - 355 days 23 hours ago

1.8 - Graphics Whore

It's the only thing left in their arsenal; they can now only talk about sales. They don't care if a game receives a meta of 110 and is the best game of the century, if it doesn't sell well, they seriously won't care. Sales is everything to them now, it's all they have left to reason why the 360 is better (which is a pretty freakin' dumb reason, mind you).

Honestly, I just want to play the best of games, which is the reason I got the PS3. You guys, the Xbots, if you care so much about sales how about buying a Wii? You'd be very happy, I can tell, considering how much you guys love sales. No offense to the Wii owners. That sh*t sells like hotcakes.

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Shane Kim - 356 days 6 hours ago

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So far the xbox entire 09 lineup is a confirmed flop.

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dkgshiz - 356 days 4 hours ago

4 - My guess is Halo wars

An RTS on a console is always bad.

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Narutone66 - 355 days 18 hours ago

4.1 - RTS is best

played with a mouse and a keyboard. Does Xbox 360 support mouse and keyboard game play?

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Magic_The_Celt - 356 days 4 hours ago

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Well we dont really know since microsoft have barely announced anything yet

But PS3 will have flops, Xbox 360 will have flops, Wii will have many flops (lmao)

Oh and i mean real flops, like

Too Human - 65% Metacritic, 0.5 Million Units sold (seriously)

Not fantasy flops in the minds of fanboys, lmao LBP is a flop

LittleBigPlanet - 95% Metacritic, almost 2 Million Units sold

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