10 Video Games Everyone Wanted (But Nobody Played)
3. The Order: 1886
Sony's track record for exclusive AAA titles since the PS4 era has been extremely strong, so when Ready at Dawn's third-person action-adventure game The Order: 1886 was announced, it immediately became a hugely anticipated title.
The marketing did a solid job of presenting it as a cinematic, ultra-atmospheric title with state-of-the-art graphics that primed it to become Sony's next big franchise.
Yet The Order was a colossal critical and commercial letdown, scoring wildly mixed reviews for its repetitive gameplay and especially its short five-hour length.
With few players willing to fork out a full RRP for a game they could literally beat in an afternoon, The Order sold horribly, enough that Sony permanently cut its price by 33% just a month after release.
Sales topped out at just 1.7 million units, a dire result that's a mere fraction of most PlayStation exclusive AAA titles. For comparison's sake, even the relatively divisive Days Gone sold at least 5.8 million copies on PS4 alone.
One suspects that many simply opted to borrow their friend's copy, rent it for a weekend, or sell it on after playing, if they even bothered playing it at all once the reviews came out.
The Order certainly isn't a terrible game, but it clearly should've been priced in a manner reflective of its scope and length.