I swear I've heard Capcom and Square complain about games selling 6 illion copies as failures. 1 million was a success in the mid 90's at best. It hasn't been since the turn of the century.

Because they can make a big budget multiplayer game that makes 10 times more.

FH3 and Halo 5 are flops, there's no way MS was hapy with 5 million for that franchise. At one point it was somewhat competitive with COD at least on it's own platform. Uc4 and LoU are at least moderate successes I'll concede that much. But anything under 7-8 million is a sure-fire flop, Capcom and Square have called some of their flagship games diappointing at those numbers and that was years ago. You should sell 8-10 mill+ to call a game successfull.

Which also costs 100 times more and are 100 times riskier, by trying to enter a market as red as blood.Not to mention that they would be passing a niche, one in which they can be somewhat safe that is going to be profitable AND sustainable.

And that logic is extremely flawed, not only because there are single player games that sell better than many multiplayer games or the "mainstream" ones, but that these popular games or genres are created when someone takes a chance.Nintendo, Sony, Square, Capcom and many others became the giants they are today because they invested in games that either popular back then or in genres that werent even created(and by default, not a slam dunk).

Really...?  Yet, they don't seem to have any problems developing and publishing games for quite some time now.  And as much as I have nothing to do with Capcom these day and with Dragon Quest being the only appealing franchise I care from Square (more so from the Enix side) as of recent, why should I care what they say? A plethora of other developers of single player games of competiting consoles have been churning out successful quality games left and right while not hitting the 10 million units sold mark.

You are delusional. 8M can't be considered a flop at all even 5M can't. The most you can say about something that sells 5M is that it didn't achieve expectations, in case some people that have excessive expectations.

You can swear all you like, you would still not find any source. What you can find is SquareEnix saying TR hadn't met their expectations when it was about 5M sold.

Do you know how to differentiate flop, failure, not meating expectative, etc?

Also if you would go from your perspective of flop about 90% or more of the games would be flop, and if that was true then the industry would have gone under long ago.

And even more laughable is you thinking that being MP make a game a 10M seller.

And again to the below 10M being a flop. By VGC tables we have only had 65 games that sold over 10M so far in history...

When Sony introduced the program for PlayStation in 1997, games could become Greatest Hits titles after selling at least 150,000 copies and being on the market for at least a year.^[2] Minimum sales required eventually rose to 250,000.^[3] When the program came to PlayStation 2 in 2002, games could become Greatest Hits titles after selling at least 400,000 copies and being on the market for at least 9 months.^[4] Suggested retail prices of Greatest Hits titles were initially $24.99, but they now typically retail for $19.99. Though Sony-developed games are virtually guaranteed to eventually become Greatest Hits titles by meeting their sales and age requirements, 3rd party developers are not required to release their titles with a Greatest Hits label even if said titles meet the criteria. Additionally, Sony allows 3rd party developers some flexibility in the pricing of their own Greatest Hits titles, but most of them stick to the agreed-upon suggested retail price. Games that are multi-million sellers may become Greatest Hits titles much later than 9 months to maximize profits. It is also a common practice for a game to re-release on the Greatest Hits label at a close proximity to the release of that game's sequel or follow-up.

In 2006, Sony extended the Greatest Hits program to the PlayStation Portable.^[5] To qualify, a title must be on the market for at least 9 months and have sold 250,000 copies or more. The Greatest Hits price for PlayStation Portable games typically begins at $19.99.

On July 28, 2008, the program was introduced on the PlayStation 3. A PlayStation 3 game must be on the market for 10 months and sell at least 500,000 copies to meet the Greatest Hits criteria. PlayStation 3 Greatest Hits titles currently sell at $29.99.

Since the PS4's release on November 15, 2013,^[6] there have been four titles that have been named Greatest Hits for the PlayStation 4 with an as of yet unknown criteria for meeting the label.

SO it was 500k not even a million the target during PS3.

link to get you started https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Hits_(PlayStation)

LOL...oh my...

Let me see if i got your point, so the Xbox One according to your statistics, has a 100% Flop Rate seeing how the best selling game on the console is under 8m copies sold.

Am i right?

Well and every year the platform flops to sell 8M.

Welp!

I'll just make this as simple as possible. If the amount of earned revenue exceeds the development cost, marketing cost, platform cuts, and publishing cost, then the game is making a profit. A game can sell below 1 million and still be successful if it is not expensive to make.