Ricky Ricardo
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Like Acquiescence said, you can't claim credit for a prediction that didn't occur LOL
Cancelled =/= Flopped
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Predict the Flops of 2017
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Like Acquiescence said, you can't claim credit for a prediction that didn't occur LOL
Cancelled =/= Flopped
Some Nobody
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IrishNinja
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waiting on sales #'s but happy that these posts were wrong! especially that last one - US sales have been so bad forever now, this one is looking to hopefully break some records & you can believe we're gonna push Kiwami & 6 after that to keep the momentum going.
agreed that it was way too busy (especially for large & niche japanese releases) a timeframe, but especially with nagoshi/sega stuff, there's sadly precedent for that
Chaos2Frozen
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Well well well, all these Nioh unbelievers... Y'all gonna be feasting on a big fat Karasu-tengu...
Reading the first page of this thread is delicious in hindsight but to be fair to them Guerrilla have not really delivered something as critically well received as Horizon in the past.
You sure about that?
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onemanasylum
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lol at this thread. Poor Crows.
illmatic22
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WRONG
Haha yeah exactly.
So many people say this constantly, as if Killzone 2 never happened. I'm just gonna assume that the people saying this are very young and just don't remember 2009??
wenaldy
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Were you a toddler back in 2009? smh.
AzureFlame
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I was even after finishing all the demos but man the full game changed my mind, it's one of my fav games now and i have the platinum trophy already.
I guess I should maybe have said "consumer" reviews then. I don't know many people who would consider Killzone 2 that highly or put amongst their 'favourite games' myself included. Guerrilla Games did well with their KIllzone titles but they were hardly groundbreaking.
With regards to both your childish insinuations I was 20 then as if that would make a mistake any less or more valid.
onemanasylum
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How many people do you know bra?
Chuck Norris
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Damn GAF is just as bad at calling flops as it is at predicting successes
Triggerhappytel
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I think Killzone 2 was really good, but I could never go back to it today with its clunky movement and the goddamn horrible DualShock 3. I reckon if they did an HD port it would still hold up pretty well, and I'd love the chance to play it again
if they copied the control scheme from KZ3 or Shadow Fall
That is what I was thinking LOL
GAF is bad at predicting, period.
A particular thread with people predicting Wii U as the winner of the gen and PS4 floping so hard that makes Sony gets out of the business comes to mind...
Were they really wrong? We have the PS4 top 10 and yakuza wasn't there or on the digital lists. So it did good in japan but flopped in the west
Ha, NeoGaf prediction threads are always great to look back on. So many people blind to the insanely positive reactions Horizon was getting.
I don't think you can make posts big enough.
I don't think you can make posts big enough.
Well it's good to know you will be wrong.
thekiddfran
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the best ever was the PS4 prediction thread. 90% of people in there proclaiming the death of Sony.
Chuck Norris
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I have no sources but the game felt massively under shipped. I couldn't find it anywhere so bought the digital version
MetalliCabombination
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you stole my stupid joke
Jimmyfenix
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Never count out sony
Yeah it's amazing, pretty sure there's even 1 guy who kinda predicted right and multiple people were laughing at him for it.
Anyway found a fun little game, just randomly jump to a page and enjoy, so far everyone has been gold.
Triggerhappytel
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I'm not sure if this is intentional or not, but reviews are out for it this morning and it has been scoring incredibly well. It's probably going to sell like 4-5 million lifetime if not more, which is in no way a flop.
What does it mean?
Kenzodielocke
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hm.
TalentAlwaysWins
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Assassin's Creed: Egypt/Empire/Whatever won't be a crazy sales disappointment but I don't see the two-year wait helping boost the series' sales back to its highest point. Honestly much of Ubisoft's output for next year has the potential to disappoint sales wise; For Honor, Ghost Recon: Wildlands being the main suspects.
If there's a CoD next year (which is likely) it will likely do less in terms of numbers than Infinite Warfare did, it all depends on how similar it is to the future-warfare style of the past few games.
Whilst Horizon won't flop in any way shape or form, I don't see it being the 9.5/10 GOTY-tier material some think it might be. The developer just doesn't have the pedigree and outside of the amazing graphics and the cool premise I can see it dropping points in the gameplay department. There will almost definitely be a few review thread meltdowns (same when BotW gets its inevitable 7/10 score from one review site)
As for the most major flops, both Agents of Mayhem and MGS: Survive will bomb quite significantly. Scalebound's platform will help kill it financially. Sadly I don't see Gravity Rush 2, Ni-Oh and Nier doing that well but you do never know.
Y'all really thought 😂
CouchMaster
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illmatic22
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What's a flop? (
Scorpio has 6 teraflops.
Also, do I get a front row seat to watch the crow eating?
Smokey_Run
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Glad I'm included even though it was my second most anticipated game of the year and I simply said I understand where some were coming from!
But the digital version didn't do well either
IrishNinja
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...yes?
relative to the series sales out west (sub 20-30k at best) it's looking like this one may've doubled those #'s or more. it's a super niche series, so looking at the top 10 alone is pretty short-sighted; the fact that it likely put up respectable #'s given the audience/timeframe shouldn't be dismissed because games like RE7 did well.
if we did anywhere near 6 figures, it'd be incredible. much love all around to the many gaffers who jumped in; it's not only a fantastic starting point, it's one of the series' absolute best.
this is also very much worth noting - the series never really sold through here. now? it did so well, we saw reprints of older chapters.
Riposte
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"Hmm, personally I'm worried about Horizon." - some fucking idiot a month ago.
WRONG!!!
I bet you wish you didn't say that now hahaha! You should've agreed with me when you still had the chance.
IrishNinja
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for real
you get a ton of people who didn't put their balls out there getting pretty bold once the #'s are safely in, these threads are rife with em
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