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[The Chairman]

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

One of the worst games ever, Sold 1.5 million copies but had 3.5 million unsold, contributing to the 1983 video game crash.

Duke Nukem Forever (2011)

A 14-year in development disaster, which sold about 376,300 copies in its first month.

Too Human (2008)

Sold less than 700,000 units against a big budget, leading to financial losses thanks to Neogaf lol

Anthem (2019)

Sold only 5 million, far below EA's 10 million target so EA just abandoned the game.

LawBreakers (2017)

Sold around 60,000 copies initially and failed to recover, leading to server shutdowns within a year. no, the gender neutral bathrooms didn't help sales.

Babylon’s Fall (2022)

Sold less than 1000 copies on PC within months, leading to a shutdown less than a year post-launch.

Mass Effect: Andromeda (2017)

Sold 2.5 million copies, disappointing compared to previous games, if you play this game your face will get tired and you will never recover.

Forspoken (2023)

Developed by Luminous Productions, it sold numbers lower than anticipated based on the budget. later the protagonist destroyed Luminous studio with her freaking mind!

Marvel's Avengers (2020)

Another Square bomb, estimated losses of $63 million for Square Enix despite high profile IP and marketing.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League (2024)

Failed to meet sales expectations and tarnished Rocksteady's reputation in a matter of few weeks.

Concord (2024)

A mega failure with only 25,000 units sold, leading to an immediate shutdown of the game's servers.

So lets decide this once and for all, what's the biggest bomb in the history of video games?

 

[Bartski]

can't tell without knowing all dev budgets.

 

[GymWolf]

Op forgot skull and bones, the first AAAA game.

 

[PeteBull]

Defo not duke nukem, i played that game, wasnt great but for a fan of the genre it was mediocre/bit bad but not extremly terrible

 

[TintoConCasera]

Most probably Concord.

And imo people overstate the failuer of ET's game. Sure the game sucks and they were left with many unsold copies, but it still sold a fuckton of copies.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Where's Redfall?

Also Starfield should be mentioned, as actual copies sold was probably extremely low like all Day 1 Gamepass titles

 

[Killjoy-NL]

Concord.

Easily. If only because it was Sony.

 

[Nankatsu]

Clearly concord, because it got axed two weeks after launch.

Also, what the hell is Andromeda doing there? Sure it got a difficult launch, but game is better than what people make it out to be.

 

[AV]

Waaaaay too early to call Concord. We don't even really know if it's coming back as a F2P game that ends up doing "okay" in the grand scheme of things.

E.T. still sold a lot, Anthem is still running today I think. Nobody expected Duke to be any good.

Leaning towards Suicide Squad. Going from one of the greatest trilogies in gaming to a rocky 7 year development of a game nobody wanted, cost WB $200m, already led to layoffs and who knows how well Rocksteady come out at the end of it all.

 

[Hookshot]

It’s probably some Sega console that lead to them leaving the market. I loved my DreamCast but the damage was done before that.

 

[RoboFu]

Is this another " let's try to push aside how hard concord failed " thread?

It's concord. Nothing has had the budget and Dev years to be pulled so quickly with so much backlash from gamers.

 

[IAmRei]

ET : ))

 

[winjer]

Nothing comes close to Concord failure.

 

[PeteBull]

Waaaaay too early to call Concord. We don't even really know if it's coming back as a F2P game that ends up doing "okay" in the grand scheme of things.

E.T. still sold a lot, Anthem is still running today I think. Nobody expected Duke to be any good.

Leaning towards Suicide Squad. Going from one of the greatest trilogies in gaming to a rocky 7 year development of a game nobody wanted, cost WB $200m, already led to layoffs and who knows how well Rocksteady come out at the end of it all.

Its not coming back, bro, they pulled the cord coz didnt want even to waste cash for servers upkeep, thats how lil ppl bought/played that game in first and 2nd week after launch, this game got stigma of big failure, even youtubers keep dunking on it for ez reach

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Also, what the hell is Andromeda doing there? Sure it got a difficult launch, but game is better than what people make it out to be.

It’s the same as Mass Effect, there is nothing new being introduced. I have no idea what BioWare was working on all this time.

 

[winjer]

ET : ))

ET sold quite well for the time. They did have plenty of returns.
But the problem was that Atari overproduced the cartridges.

On the other hand, a game like Concord was rejected by everyone.

 

[vaibhavpisal]

Wii U

 

[Chukhopops]

Where's Redfall?

Also Starfield should be mentioned, as actual copies sold was probably extremely low like all Day 1 Gamepass titles

Extremely low but still higher than RE4 Remake, Final Fantasy 16 and Mario Bros Wonder (although it might not include digital sales for Mario), what a disaster indeed.

Redfall should be there though instead of Andromeda.

 

[Aion002]

It's Concord... By far. However, I think that Concord might be salvageable, Sony will probably re-release it as a f2p game with new characters and sell skins and battle passes.

 

[FunkMiller]

It's obviously Concord.

Modern AAA game with modern AAA budget. Eight years development time in total. Barely any sales. Hardly any players. Shut down after a few days.

Hundreds of millions wasted. HUNDREDS.

 

[Von Hugh]

 

[winjer]

It's Concord... By far. However, I think that Concord might be salvageable, Sony will probably re-release it as a f2p game with new characters and sell skins and battle passes.

Concord's name is so tainted in the publics conscience, that I doubt it's salvageable.

 

[Lukaku's First Touch]

This really isn't a competition, it's cleary concord. The biggest bomb in all of gaming history. The amount of work / time / money put in that game and to have it fail after only 9(!!!!) days... unprecedented.

 

[Luipadre]

Concord without a doubt

 

[NiiloPielinen]

Daikatana?

 

[winjer]

That would have been a good candidate a few decades ago, but it "only" cost 30 million to make.

Games like Concord, Suicide Squad, Forspoken are in the hundreds of million range.

 

[Rudius]

Concord: many years of development, 100+ million dollars, 100+ developers = killed in 2 weeks, removed from history, refunded, zero profits.

ET was made by one man in 5 or 6 weeks and sold over a million.

 

[Ozzie666]

To be fair, didn't ET still manage to sell a boatload of cartridges initial? they just over printed them and word of mouth finally caught up?

 

[GymWolf]

Most probably Concord.

And imo people overatate the failuer of ET's game. Sure the game sucks and they were left with many unsold copies, but it still sold a fuckton of copies.

Half of the games in that list are not close to stuff like concord failure.

For a moment I half excpected to read days gone name on that list...

 

[CoreyFlawless]

Where's Redfall?

Also Starfield should be mentioned, as actual copies sold was probably extremely low like all Day 1 Gamepass titles

I mean, starfield still a going. Going over a year and still planning for updates. But ya redfall for sure

 

[Aion002]

Concord's name is so tainted in the publics conscience, that I doubt it's salvageable.

Probably.

But Sony already tried this once:

Morbius Out-Flops Itself, Viral Twitter Memes Blamed

Sony execs have to be embarrassed.

www.vulture.com

Never doubt the stupidity of the people that approved Concord characters designs and thought that consumers would pay 40 usd for it.

 

[acm2000]

as much as i want to give it to concord, the correct answer is still ET

 

[don-mika]

Starfield

 

[Team Andromeda]

Concord with the likes of APB, Fable the journey not too far behind given both those games or less killed the developer

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[Esppiral]

Starfield

Go play concord, while you can....

 

[MrRibeye]

How is this even a debate?

ET sold at least 500,000 copies and nothing on this list sold less than Concord.

 

[Wildebeest]

If Star Citizen ever launches, we have our answer.

 

[tommib]

Definitely Concord.

Some of those actually sold relatively well and kept being supported through various patches.

 

[Sintoid]

Virtual Boy

 

[PauloRoberto]

We should need to know how many dollar were wasted in each scenario.

 

[MarV0]

Nothing else comes even remotely close to Concord.

 

[diffusionx]

Just to set the record straight on ET, Atari had to pay millions of dollars for the ET license, the programmer of the game (Howard Scott Warshaw) got paid a shitload (by the standards of the day) to make the game, and they had to deal with something like 50% of the games being returned. And it's not like today where you just process a refund on a computer. It's a big supply chain problem, which is why they ended up in the landfill.

Still, with Concord we are talking about, probably, a $200 million live service game that lasted three weeks. Even Babylon's Fall got a year. It's the biggest bomb. I don't even know how possible it is to miss that badly.

 

[SaucyJack]

can't tell without knowing all dev budgets.

This

Whilst many are replying Concord because of recency of news, I suspect that Kill the Justice League will have had a much bigger budget and massively underperformed.

I also think it's too early to judge Concord which I imagine will be relaunched at some point. Underlying gameplay was decent and game was relatively bug free, things like character design can be changed. Whether relaunch is paid or free to play remains to be seen.

 

[BlackTron]

Most probably Concord.

And imo people overatate the failuer of ET's game. Sure the game sucks and they were left with many unsold copies, but it still sold a fuckton of copies.

People returned over half a million copies of ET to the store though...that's gotta be a giant nightmare beyond the scope of willfully cancelling and refunding a service game.

 

[Mr Hyde]

Concord easily. Probably 200 million dollars flushed down the toilet. And not only that, it has tarnished the PS brand forever. The game is so foul I don't even want to be associated with Playstation anymore, that's how bad it is. I can't believe Sony pushed this crap out the door and expected the fanbase to just lap it up. Delusional execs like Hermen Hulst has turned the brand into a laughing stock in just a couple of years, and he needs to be fired ASAP before the entire Playstation brand falls off a cliff.

 

[Esppiral]

This

Whilst many are replying Concord because of recency of news, I suspect that Kill the Justice League will have had a much bigger budget and massively underperformed.

I also think it's too early to judge Concord which I imagine will be relaunched at some point. Underlying gameplay was decent and game was relatively bug free, things like character design can be changed. Whether relaunch is paid or free to play remains to be seen.

C'mon stop pretending those were worst flops than concord....

 

[don-mika]

Go play concord, while you can....

i dont play shooters and online games at all

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

Concord is on a whole different level. Avengers for example still sold over 3mil copies. I'm sure they made a loss but still recouped a chunk based of those numbers.

Meanwhile Concord the entire dev and marketing budget essentially got flushed down the toilet. On top of that they were bleeding money just keeping the servers open.

 

[Robb]

Has to be Concord. If that game had released next to E.T. back in the day I imagine Sony would need a landfill twice the size (at least) of Atari’s.

 

[Chuck Berry]

Alright ANOTHER Concord thread! It’s been far too fucking long!