We usually praise the praises of a constantly growing videogame market, also to underline the importance of a medium that is too often underestimated compared to the others, but it is fair to remember that in the midst of such a gargantuan turnover there are also huge flops, detected by the 1980s to the present day, with more or less catastrophic consequences. With the evolution of business models and development organization, the reference points have also changed and nowadays the definition of flop has probably also changed, often with contradictory results between what can be a failure for critical or enthusiastic audiences, and what is actually financial damage.
The advent of long-term support, from simple corrective updates that can now be decisive to live services that can be put back on track even years later, they make the definition of flop complicated in the modern market, for this reason the games that are part of this small selection of the biggest flops in the history ofa> video games belong above all to the past, while for the current ones we have to make several distinctions.
