The 12 Biggest Video Game Flops of All Time

Games miss sales projections and disappoint consumers all the time, but 12 titles in particular failed harder in ways players won't soon forget.

The short version

• Game development costs too much to justify anything but a genuine effort, sometimes at the cost of creative freedom.
• Even the industry’s true auteurs must eventually answer for their bold decisions.
• With so many safeguards in place, most games will at least do reasonably well.

What happened

And with ongoing developer attention, even an early misfire like Cyberpunk 2077 or No Man’s Sky can eventually find massive success. There have been some big exceptions, though: huge games that failed to find the audience they deserved, or that simply never came together as their developers intended and thus inspired almost no one to purchase or play them.

Why it matters

Those games will remain disappointing forever.

Summary by Nerd News Network. Read the full article at Polygon via the links above and below.