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What's the biggest bomba of all time?

daikatana is the correct answer. maybe that Z strategy game with the robots too.

also despite all the love it got from the press, deus ex sold terribly. really really badly. but you can blame daikatana for that. in fact, one of the reasons daikatana is such a terrible game is that it dragged down deus ex's sales performance with it, by sucking away its budget -especially marketing - bit by bit. that's why deus ex never had a spector-made sequel.
 
A Link to the Snitch said:
Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword

Excellent game, great graphics, tons of advertising, good track record for both developer and publisher. It was the perfect title, and it should have been one of the best-selling DS games, or at least one of the best-selling third party games on it. However, it resulted in an utter bomba in all regions. One of the best examples of third parties getting screwed over on Nintendo platforms.
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Ehh.. scratching your DS screen got old quick. The enemy spawning was bullshit too.
 
fernoca said:
Sorry to quote you again, but... :p



Unless it stopped selling after that, it sold way over 200k worldwide. :p
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Actually, this is pretty good evidence to the contrary. It DID stop selling in Japan, and if it did something like 100ish in America, add maybe 75% of that for Europe at the time the PS3 game out...that puts it about 200k, and I'm surprised at that!

Unless you suppose it continued to sell after that for a number of months more and sold "way over" 200k...
 
Jinfash said:
I'm not sure if Hoffman was trying to be funny or not, but isn't it ironic how LPB's case is the same? :lol

4 days of NPD... 200K in sales?
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Yep, though to be fair, at the time people were proclaiming Forza 2 to be a bomba too (albeit not as much because it's a racing sim and not the BIG HOLIDAY gAME!!!).
 
I AM JOHN! said:
It had, like, four days of sales in its first NPD, and continued to have legs after that, and still continues to. Forza has sold a couple million.
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Hm that sure does sound familiar. Sounds like its a pretty decent success then. I retract my statement!
 
Grecco said:
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Guess im being ignored here :/
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So sad, fuck you to whoever didn't buy it.
 
People keep talking about games that were overly hyped, or just over budgeted...but that doesn't mean they didn't sell well. Here's one I'm surprised has yet to be mentioned, that I'd consider the cream of the crop: Beyond Good and Evil. I mean, the game's price dropped to $10 one week after release! On all 4 platforms! I don't know of any other game that sold so horribly to drop that far that quickly.

Such a great game, too...
 
Didn't Mist Chaos for PS3 sell 8k or so and never be released outside of Japan? Not sure of budget so not sure level of bombage
 
Lion Heart said:
Wait, what about Unreal tournament 3? That was a huge disappointment in every way imaginable.
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So basically every Midway published game except the MKs.

Mojo said:
Banjo? Didn't even chart in Europe.
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Are you talking about the new one? I don't think sales numbers on it are going to be great, but they might be okay considering the lower price.

Viva Pinata faltered heavily out of the gate I remember. It might have managed to keep going after a number of price cuts and deals.
 
I remember when people were claiming Uncharted was a huge bomb because it sold like 130K the first month or something like that, because it had become a default PS3 killer app since nothing else was available to fit the bill. Then people started to compare numbers of the Jak games for PS2 to Uncharted, citing how those games sold millions of copies and Uncharted was nowhere close to that. OIf course those same people failed to mention that the Jak games sold millions of of copies over the span of 3-5 years and a lot of those copies sold at GH prices, Uncharted is still 59.99. They also neglected to mention that pretty much none of the Jak games charted on release day, they were just consistent sellers during the PS2 lifecycle. Uncharted, likewise has sold at a steady pace and is over 1 million sold I believe. The lesson? People are stupid.
 
Tribes:Vengeance


I waited so long and then this came out and killed the whole damn community and now there will be no true successor to Tribes 2
 
truly101 said:
I remember when people were claiming Uncharted was a huge bomb because it sold like 130K the first month or something like that, because it had become a default PS3 killer app since nothing else was available to fit the bill. Then people started to compare numbers of the Jak games for PS2 to Uncharted, citing how those games sold millions of copies and Uncharted was nowhere close to that. OIf course those same people failed to mention that the Jak games sold millions of of copies over the span of 3-5 years and a lot of those copies sold at GH prices, Uncharted is still 59.99. They also neglected to mention that pretty much none of the Jak games charted on release day, they were just consistent sellers during the PS2 lifecycle. Uncharted, likewise has sold at a steady pace and is over 1 million sold I believe. The lesson? People are stupid.
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Amy Hennig said on 1up Yours during GDC that the game was profitable.
 
Opiate said:
Please stop with the LBP stuff. I don't just mean in this thread, I just mean in general.

It's reasonable to say, at this point, that LBP did not set the world on fire. Otherwise, we'll just wait and see.

The obvious delight and glee people take in this is unkind. You've had your fun, the joke is out there. Can you please just be nice about it now? Please? As a favor to a random person on the internet? Honestly, I'd greatly appreciate it. There's obviously nothing binding you to such an agreement, I'm just hoping some of you have an instinctive desire to not be jerks, and will operate accordingly.
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You're right.

BOMBA CONFIRMED.
 
Lion Heart said:
Wait, what about Unreal tournament 3? That was a huge disappointment in every way imaginable.
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If a million seller is considered a bomba then something is seriously wrong with Midway's business model.
 
people who talk about how uncharted, Ratchet and Clank ToD, and Forza 2 sold horribly at first but steadily became million sellers always neglect to mention that they became pack-ins.
 
sooperkool said:
Tribes:Vengeance


I waited so long and then this came out and killed the whole damn community and now there will be no true successor to Tribes 2
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Yeah that was a bad one, during the first week it had around 2-500 players online, and that was the peak.
 
Jinfash said:
people who talk about how uncharted, Ratchet and Clank ToD, and Forza 2 sold horribly at first but steadily became million sellers always neglect to mention that they became pack-ins.
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Can't speak for Ratchet and Clank or Forza 2, but I believe Uncharteds numbers hit 1 million before it became a pack in last summer.
 
Regulus Tera said:
99% of which were returned and now lie somewhere in the desert.
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Most citations I've seen have hundreds of thousands as the number in New Mexico and not actually 4 million carts.
 
Fallout 3.

Bethesda said they shipped 4.7 millons of copies, but according to the data we have it hasn't sold 1 million of copies to consumers in its first month.
 
Y2Kev said:
And don't say something from like last week because you're trying to be funny. I mean legitimately a bomb-- moderate budget, some expectation of success, and just outright failure.

This year makes me think of Alone in the Dark and Rock Revolution. AitD never charted and can now be had for $6, and I'd like to see if Rock Revolution has more than 100 people on the leaderboards.

What other like REAL EPIC BOMBAS can you think of?
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considering the delay, how much Rnd cost, initial expectations and what it finally did to the playstation brand, the PS3
 
Regulus Tera said:
99% of which were returned and now lie somewhere in the desert.
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That's not correct. 1.5 million were sold to end users. *Those* were not returned, stores didn't take back crappy games at the time, only defective games (which were really rare - cartridges are pretty sturdy). The rest that made it to stores were what was returned to Atari. Eventually Atari decided they were taking up too much storage space, crushed them, and buried em in a Nevada landfill. When people started digging up carts and finding ones that survived the crushing (free games!), Atari then covered the burial site in concrete.
 
Fio said:
Fallout 3.

Bethesda said they shipped 4.7 millons of copies, but according to the data we have it hasn't sold 1 million of copies to consumers in its first month.
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Those were shipped,and no the game did not bomb.
 
awesome. Bomba means "lets just post a high profile game on the console i dislike" system warzzz ftw! Fight on brothers.


Anyway, i would have to assume from a gaming publicity standpoint, it was ET
 
Shard said:
Grabbed By Thje Ghoulies, estimated to be the worst selling Rareware game of all time.
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Untill they released Banjo N&B, even Mumbo said it was going to "sink at retail"

I love that game
 
I kinda wish I had a copy of ET in good condition. Even though the game was absolutely terrible, even back then. How often I fell into those damn pits and had trouble getting out.
 
mr_bishiuk said:
Heavenly sword cant be too far behind, awesome ads n'all
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TOTAL Sadface.

I swear, Heavenly Sword is one of the greatest games the world ignored. It wasn't even so much that nobody bought it. I'm pretty sure it's sold in excess of 1 million copies. The issue was that it was discarded as being not hardcore enough (Devil May Cry/Ninja Gaiden) and not AM AMAZING enough.

I'm certain the build up and hype was the game's undoing. Ever since the PS3 was announced it was billed as a killer launch title (even though it came much later). The production values were through the roof and it STILL has the best voice acting in ANY gamen released thus far (or at least one of the best)
 
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