It's never a nice feeling, getting picked last. But, since middling Square Enix platformer Balan Wonderworld sold only one new copy – total – in the US in September, there really wasn't any other option. It must have been a joyous day for Balan Wonderworld, which reportedly failed to crack the top 30, or even top 40, sales charts in Japan, North America, or the UK when it launched in 2021. Sonic co-creator Yuji Naka led the doomed project, in which two magic siblings absorb power from theater costumes and work to spread happiness; Nintendo's 2024 Princess Peach: Showtime! functions similarly. "Steam rejected the build" at the finish line, the "last 3 months were intense crunch," and the story was finished 3 days before launch: How one dev scraped together a horror hit that "accidentally" sold 150,000 copies Silksong is huge, but it's way huger on PC: Steam was Team Cherry's biggest US platform, analyst says, and the game didn't even break top 50 on PlayStation Naka later said in 2022 – around the time he was suing Square Enix for trying to have him removed as Balan Wonderworld's director – that co-developer Arzest and publisher Square Enix "do not care about games and game fans," according to our machine translation. Naka was eventually arrested for insider trading. Less sordid is the tale of 2007 Nintendo 3DS sim Imagine Babyz, which Piscatella says also sold just a single new copy in September. In that game, players are teen babysitters who do things like give their babyz bathtime and put on their sneakers. I thought it was OK when I was 10, but I preferred Imagine Gymnast. In just 5 years, the PS5 has outsold a full decade's worth of the PS3 in the US, even without a new Valkyria Chronicles, MotorStorm, or LittleBigPlanet.