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Forums - Sales - Yaho list the top game flops of 2010 ... so far

Yup, even if the year isn't finished Yahoo has decided to list the biggest flops of 2010 in sales, these games had big budgets but few sales.

Alan Wake

The problem? Red Dead Redemption, which was released the same day. Rockstar’s western epic sucked the oxygen out of the room when it came out, dominating gamers’ time and affection. Wake never had a chance.

Blur

What’s the problem? It could be that Blur was caught in something of a racing game blast zone, hitting the market at roughly the same time as Sony's ModNation Racers and Disney's Split/Second.

Prince of Persia: The forgotten sands

Even a tie-in with a major Hollywood release couldn’t help the latest installment of this long-running franchise top the sales charts.

Rockband: Green Day

While there’s only one month’s worth of sales data available for this latest installment in the Rock Band series, the numbers indicate that the fan base of Billie Joe Armstrong & co. prefer to listen to the punk rock trio instead of playing their songs on plastic instruments.

Split/Second

It did nearly twice as well as Blur, but never really achieved the breakout status so many people expected it to.

Tiger Woods 11

Sales were just 32 percent of what last year’s version sold in its first month, in fact. (To be fair, that version was initially bundled with the Wii Motion Plus peripheral.)

http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/plugged-in/no-sale-2010-s-most-disappointing-games/1406982



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Alan Wake deserves better. Come on people stop playing cowboy and play Alan Wake. You can go back to your desert horse riding simulator after you've finished the best writen story in gaming today.



Alan Wake deserved low sales anyway...even if it had a great story, it was dissapointing.



Sorry for bad English.

 

I just wanted to know what "Yaho" is...



Wow.  I came to comment on Alan Wake, too!  Damn, that game deserved better.



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zzamaro said:

Alan Wake deserved low sales anyway...even if it had a great story, it was dissapointing.


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yahoo sucks when it comes to game news...so this list is not credible even if I agree that AW performed not so well for a game in development for such a long time...does anyone know if they broke even yet?



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Alan Wake is a Masterpiece and deserve way more sales 



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Dark Void  PS3/360

Red Steel 2  Wii

No More Heroes 2  Wii

Arc Rise Fantasia  Wii

Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces  Wii

Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon  Wii

Calling  Wii

Sin & Punishment: Star Successor  Wii

Blood Bowl   360

Samurai Showdown Sen   360

Dead to Rights: Retribution  PS3/360

Backbreaker  PS3/360

Pure Futbol  PS3/360

Singularity (Such a shame)  PS3/360

Ninety Nine Nights 2  360

Naughty Bear  PS3/360

Clash of the Titans  PS3/360

Last Rebellion  PS3

That's all I can think of at the moment.

It's sad.

 



Bet with Conegamer and AussieGecko that the PS3 will have more exclusives in 2011 than the Wii or 360... or something.

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M.U.G.E.N said:

yahoo sucks when it comes to game news...so this list is not credible even if I agree that AW performed not so well for a game in development for such a long time...does anyone know if they broke even yet?

Yahoo! is mainstream just like CNN, MSNBC and Fox are for television. If they are reporting based purely on the pre-launch hype and then the sales numbers a couple of months afterwards, then I find nothing absurd about it at all.

As for Alan Wake, I may give it a try, but I need to beat Red Dead Redemption for the third time and I am looking forward to what may be the sleeper hit of the year, Mafia 2.