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?

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.

OP or somebody needs to define "Bomb".  Is it a game that failed to live up to the hype, failed to sell and lost their company a lot of money, or a device used by Mario to blow up Mouser in Super Mario Bros. 2?   Some people are naming games that did pretty good or were pretty good as bombs (Alan Wake, Cod Black Ops).

A bomb is known as a product that lost lots of money upon its release and never turned a profit. Example include the movie Final Fantasy Spirits Within and Shenmue.

FFXIV by far. Despite all the hype it was a critical flop and has probably cost Square millions in subscription costs.

Thanks!  Now tell everyone else so we can get on the same page and have a real discussion.....or we could start talking about boobs.  Either or.

Unfortunately, Majin and the forsaken kingdom is another major flop, no one even has mentioned yet. Poor game :(

I'll go with the latter.

I heard Tony hawk the new game bombed

I want to say NBA Jam. There was a game with one metric shitton of potential for sales (at least in this era of good arcadey sports games on Wii reaching unfathomable levels of sales) that was butchered during development several times, and ended up being released to zero fanfare on all three consoles, and selling far less than what, in various alternate universes, could have been:

1: A ~5 million seller for Wii, bringing arcadey NBA madness to the masses on a console shown to be receptive to such things

or

2: The next must-have downloadable title, in a league at least comparable to Sonic 4

Instead we have an also-ran that no-one is even talking about anymore. People at least remember Castlevania, Enslaved, Epic Yarn, Other M, or other under-performers. People don't even remember this, and it had the potential to be fricking ENORMOUS

in terms of money lost bomb APB