10 Video Games You Didn't Realise Secretly Bombed

5. Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars

Grand Theft Auto is one of the most commercially successful video game franchises in history, and most fans would quite understandably presume that anything with the GTA name on it would be giddily gobbled up by players.

Except, that is, for the series' handheld title Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. Originally released for Nintendo DS in 2009 and PSP later that year, the game received near-universal critical acclaim, and remains one of the best-reviewed titles on either platform.

However, Rockstar failed to translate the rave reviews into commercial success, with Chinatown Wars struggling right out of the gate, selling less than 90,000 copies during its first two weeks on release in the U.S.

Granted, giving a GTA game a day-one exclusive release on a Nintendo handheld perhaps wasn't the smartest move, though the game didn't fare any better when it landed on PSP seven months later, again failing to crack sales charts.

Chinatown Wars was at least re-released for iOS and Android devices in the years that followed, even if it likely hasn't ever been a commercial success for Rockstar. At least with the billions in revenue they've made from Grand Theft Auto V, they can take it.