Mr Khan said:
Haven't we been over this? If Capcom had to cut its revenue projections because of this game's performance, then it's a failure. Much like Wii Music was almost definitely a failure even though it almost definitely scored a healthy net profit for Nintendo. |
Definition of flop:
- Flop, a box office bomb in the entertainment world
- Flop, as verb or noun, referring to flophouse, cheap rooms in a transients' hotel
- Flop (poker), a poker term describing the first three cards dealt to the board
- Flip-flop (electronics), the bistable multivibrator, a circuit with two stable states
- Flopped image, a type of mirror image in photography, graphic design and printing
- Flop (algebraic geometry), a birational transformation
Box office bomb:
The term box office bomb or flop generally refers to a film that is viewed as highly unsuccessful or unprofitable during its theatrical run, sometimes preceding hype regarding its production, cost or marketing efforts.[1][2] To earn this distinction, the film must also fail to earn more than the reported cost of its production, distribution and marketing by a wide margin.[3]
Gauging the financial success of a film is difficult, and because there is no definitive definition, what makes Box-office bomb can be very subjective. Not all films that fail to earn back their estimated costs during their theatrical runs are bombs,[2] and the label is generally applied to films that miss earnings projections by a wide margin, particularly when they are very expensive to produce, and sometimes in conjunction with middling or poor reviews (though critical reception has nothing to do with box office performance).[4]
Its somewhat inconclusive. It did miss the projections but it did earn more than the reported cost it took to produce. Its a very loose concept.
I guess both conclusions can be valid. It is a flop if you look at projections, it isnt if you think its made substancial profit.
