Since you guys are on the topic, what are the worst selling.

[Legion]

BMX XXX???

 

[see colon]

I would guess that the lowest selling would probably be something like one of those games that was developed on the M2 and actually released in arcades.

i'm not sure if i would count that since the console was never released for home use.

Actually, I once heard that the most returned game ever in the US, was Final Fantasy VII.

as it should be. imho FF7 is the worst of the series.

Well i can tell the the worse amount made - amount sold game ever is et for the atari . They had to burry it out in the desert

IIRC some company bought the land (in mexico maybe?), bug up the carts and began selling them. it wasn't just E.T. in that landfill, there were plenty of other carts, too. wish i remembered the comapny's name. anyway, i actualy played E.T. enough to beat it a few times, even at the harder difficulties. it actualy isn't the worst game i've ever played. but i've played alot of games.
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[Farid]

IIRC some company bought the land (in mexico maybe?), bug up the carts and began selling them. it wasn't just E.T. in that landfill, there were plenty of other carts, too. wish i remembered the comapny's name.

I remember that Gamespy article on the dumbest moment of video games and they said the cartridges were crushed.

Link to Gamespy

Atari produced five million E.T. cartridges. Nearly all of them came back. Faced with tons of unusable merchandise, Atari ended up sending 14 truckloads of cartridges to a landfill in Alamagordo, New Mexico. Don't bother taking the trip, though. Everything was crushed by a steamroller before being dumped.

Anyway, this is maybe one of the biggest management error someone could do with a millions dollars business, ever.

The game was created in 6 weeks (according to that article), but before that, the excutives decided, before the game was even "designed", that they going to make 5M copies and sell them to 50% of Atari2600's owners.

BTW the 12M copies of Pacman cartridges is also funny when you see that they only sold 10M Atari2600 at that time.

 

[cthellis42]

Actually, I once heard that the most returned game ever in the US, was Final Fantasy VII.

"Most returned" is not really a good gauge. It mainly would point to the most-popular game that retains the most resale value (and likely has less replay value), which certainly wouldn't point anywhere near the direction the topic is looking for.

 

[London Geezer]

Actually, I once heard that the most returned game ever in the US, was Final Fantasy VII.

as it should be. imho FF7 is the worst of the series.

Ok...................

 

[Guden Oden]

Instead of worst selling title, why not try to figure out which was the biggest money-loser?

Messiah for example cost a ton to develop (took years), and I hear it bombed in sales. Daikatana (yeah I can already hear the snickers across the internet) was damn expensive too and probably sold even less. Considering Ion Storm almost got completely wiped out by all the combined losses and the Austin devstudio closed down, it had to be a LOT of money...

 

[London Geezer]

Instead of worst selling title, why not try to figure out which was the biggest money-loser?

Messiah for example cost a ton to develop (took years), and I hear it bombed in sales. Daikatana (yeah I can already hear the snickers across the internet) was damn expensive too and probably sold even less. Considering Ion Storm almost got completely wiped out by all the combined losses and the Austin devstudio closed down, it had to be a LOT of money...

Or maybe the most hyped game that sold the least. Why doesn't make sense as a sentence but you get my point. Bouncer would be in the top 10 i'm sure...

Or maybe the games that deserved to sell MUCH more than they actually did, like ICO...

 

[wazoo]

biggest money loser ??

Shenmue ??

future and recent Rare games ??