Balan Wonderworld — Square Enix’s most middling game sells only one copy in the U.S. in September: “Somebody made the conscious decision to buy it”

Naka later claimed in 2022—around the time he sued Square Enix over attempts to remove him as Balan Wonderworld’s director—that co‑developer Arzest and publisher Square Enix “do not care about games and game fans,” according to translations. He was subsequently arrested on charges related to insider trading.

A less scandalous example is the 2007 Nintendo 3DS title Imagine Babyz, which Piscatella also says moved only one new copy in September. In that simulator players take on the role of teenage babysitters, managing tasks like bath time and getting babyz into their shoes—nostalgic fun when you were ten, though I personally preferred Imagine Gymnast back then.

In just five years, the PS5 has outsold a full decade of PS3 sales in the US—even without revivals of Valkyria Chronicles, MotorStorm, or LittleBigPlanet.