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Pavolink on 08 April 2015
RolStoppable said:
Pavolink said:

And that's the cycle. SMGDLC was made in that way because the failure of the og SMG, later 3DWorld because SMGDLC and for the next years we are going to see new exciting ways to play 3D Mario's.

After the historical failure of Super Mario 3D World, Nintendo will learn that they have to do more ambituous games and not cheap ones like 3D World. Of course they will keep failing, but it will be in the same level of SMG, not as terrible as 3D World.

Hopefully they also learned their lesson with Donkey Kong.

Putting sales aside now, the kind of 3D Mario you want is something like Donkey Kong 64, right?

If you consider DK64 the same kind of SM64, the yes, I do.



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bunchanumbers on 08 April 2015

Probably Evolve. People were expecting great things from what I saw from the trade shows. But after it launched it was never heard from again.



outlawauron on 08 April 2015
Kresnik said:

I made a couple of threads about this regarding 2013 games:

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=175781

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=175780

Showing my selections for most disappointing Japanese/Western developed games of the year.  Probably should've done one for 2014 too.

I must have missed those threads. Very interesting.



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GProgrammer on 08 April 2015

Brain Age: Concentration Training, aka Brain Age 3

Brain age 1 = 19 million
Brain age 2 = 14 million
Brain Age 3 = ?? vgchartz has numbers at 60,000



Soundwave on 08 April 2015
GProgrammer said:
Brain Age: Concentration Training, aka Brain Age 3

Brain age 1 = 19 million
Brain age 2 = 14 million
Brain Age 3 = ?? vgchartz has numbers at 60,000


That really is one of the most stunning drop offs in gaming history, lol. 



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Ruler on 08 April 2015

Shenmue 1



Soundwave on 08 April 2015

Add "Blur" to that list ... that was the heavily marketed racing sim that made fun of Mario Kart in its commercials and bombed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ING276z7quA

It actually was a pretty good game apparently (82% meta score), but it flopped and Activision shut down the studio behind the game. 



DivinePaladin on 08 April 2015
tbone51 said:

 

Games That Were Suppose To Sell Very Well/Huge, But Failed to Do So?

 

1st of all, not a Bayonetta 2 thread. Fans Wishful thinking of it selling a million/etc doesn't mean squat in this thread.Im talking about a developer/publishers expectations!

Any game listed doesn't mean it sold bad, just not as close as it was expected to!

 

Anywayz post away!!! 

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Coming from somebody who followed PSAS heavily before launch, won the first PSAS launch contest, led the community for a good seven months, personally emailed SuperBot President Chan Park, and currently run a PSAS fansite, I have to point out that PSAS did NOT underperform according to Sony or SuperBot. They outright said within a few days of launch that the game was performing above expectations, right in the middle of Sony's binge of "we don't comment on rumor or speculation."

The game ended up performing lifetime about what Sony had expected, to the point that support only dropped after they threw in two completely random DLC characters for the sake of cross promotion. When fans boycotted Zeus, Sony saw the sales drop and decided the DLC wasn't worth it. 

Considering how wishy-washy Sony is about non-Naughty Dog or Santa Monica games, and considering the rumors that the game was a Powerstone-styled game until a year before launch, the game did quite well  

 

Sorry, misinformation about PSAS really pisses me off, since that was a big part of what killed the game. Now, on-topic: I'd say Fuse was a super disappointment for Insomniac. As far as I know that game didn't even end up breaking 100K. At least we ended up getting SSO and Ratchet 2015 as a resul! 



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Samus Aran on 08 April 2015
Soundwave said:

Add "Blur" to that list ... that was the heavily marketed racing sim that made fun of Mario Kart in its commercials and bombed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ING276z7quA

It actually was a pretty good game apparently (82% meta score), but it flopped and Activision shut down the studio behind the game. 

Every franchise or company that mocks Mario ends up dying or is on life support.

Sega/Sonic: Genesis does what Nintendont

Crash Bandicoot: hey plumberboy

Blur: the commercial you linked

Square Enix: "give the guys who still make cartridge games a blindfold"

Nintendo always laughs last.



Faust on 09 April 2015
Samus Aran said:

Every franchise or company that mocks Mario ends up dying or is on life support.

Sega/Sonic: Genesis does what Nintendont

Crash Bandicoot: hey plumberboy

Blur: the commercial you linked

Square Enix: "give the guys who still make cartridge games a blindfold"

Nintendo always laughs last.

mind to explain?