What kind of Sales Numbers makes a Game BOMB?

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DMeisterJ on 18 April 2008

It depends

But being a million seller means that [at least on PS360] you made sixty million of revenue, so most likely the game has made profit and not "bombed"

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Gnizmo on 18 April 2008

There is no absolute metric for success/failure of a game. Most people like to rag on No More Heroes for poor sales, but the developers are throwing parties over how amazingly well it sold. If Super Mario Galaxy had struggled to break a million it would be laughed at as the worst disaster in the history of the series, but it is considered successful for Rayman Raving Rabbids 2.

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