Epic Mickey's opening wasn't too shabby for a third-party Wii game. Well, at least in the Americas.

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That game bombed hard, especially compared to its predecessor.

And well deserved of course.

Enslaved and Castlevania.

Alan Wake didn't bomb. Underperformed a bit, perhaps. But it didn't "bomb".

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A game that was 5 years in development, with big hype behind it and was one of very few Xbox console exclusives and hasn't even sold a million in 6 months. I think that's a bomb. I can't deny it, no matter how fantastic of a game AW is.

Even Pachter expected 2 million.

I don't think Alan Wake bombed, just undersold below expectations. A million might sitll be enough for MS to break even considering the so called low budget studio. You can also grab a new copy for $20 in the US, so you'll see more sales in the long run.

Anyways biggest two bombs for me were:

No More Heroes 2 - They treat the original owners with awesome sauce and not even half of the people buy the sequel. Shame on the Wii audience once again.

Blur - I'm not gonna beat the dead horse. We all know It's a mega flop, and I love the damn game to.

IMO Alan Wake and Blur are great examples. The first was expected to be a system pusher while the second  was actually expected to sell over 4 million. EM is doing some decent numbers IMO, I wouldent have expected more. Other M didnt manage to so some amazing numbers, tough it was a bit absurd from Nintendo do expect 2.5-3 million sales for it.

I don't really see how anyone can say Epic Mickey; it will (easily) break 1 Million units sold and probably turn a healthy profit ... A game like Final Fantasy XIV will probably lose several times as much money for Square Enix than Epic Mickey cost to develop

It appears the whole "bomb" and "flop" game here is based off expectations.  In this, you see a bit of console partisans jumping in and then saying the expectations for a given title are so huge, that if it doesn't break 10 million sales lifetime, it is a flop or bomb.  I think Gran Turismo 5 is fitting into this, the way some jumped on it in this thread.  Is it a flop or bomb?  No way.  Did it underperform?  Well, that depends on if you want to spin the game that it is supposed to compete with FPS titles, or Mario Kart.  How about one ask how it compares in relationship to Gran Turismo in the past, or other driving sims?

Playing expectation games, how about people then jump in and say that Halo: Reach is a bomb or flop, because Black Ops looks to outsell it?  As far as Blur goes, who was hyped over it, except for those at Activision, who were marketing it.  Alan Wake is a possible candidate for underperforming.  It got hyped, and didn't do the MILLIONS in sales, ignore maybe the genre it was in.  When would a title like Alan Wake, no matter how well it was done (and it was brilliantly executed), be a genre that would get lots of sales?

Anyhow, based on what I read here, I would say that Final Fantasy XIV is in the running for biggest bomb of the year.  It did get announced and pushed as a PS3 console exclusive (note i say console exclusive meaning only on the PS3 console), and then it still isn't out yet, and the PC version has lots of issues?  Considering the Final Fantasy brand is one of note, this is not a good sign.

Blur seems like the biggest flop of all the games mentioned... wow