@Esa-Petteri: I don't think anyone believes that the EA Fit will be as successful as Wii Fit. But, it has potential. If the is done properly, it will sell and turn out to be successful, if not, it will not sell and turn out to be prime example of "birdmen".
If there wasn't market for fitness games, why did Wii Fit turn out to be a huge success? If you say that Wii Fit created the market, it means that the market was there, but the right product was missing. In that case, we could take a look at the blue ocean games on the DS, namely Brain Training, which had a sequel to test the new market. I would bet, that Big Brain Academy was a part of this test too.
Now, if you look at the "Brain" titles on DS, you'll notice that there's quite a big market.
As for NMH, if we ask Grasshopper Manufacture, it's a huge success, but, granted, it could have sold more. Maybe the sequel will sell in larger numbers. There's a perception of NMH being a GTA ripoff, which it isn't, atleast as far as i know, which is hurting its sales to an extent. Viva Pinata on 360 did good, but believe it didn't live up to its expectations and the game is seen as a Pokemon ripoff. Not to mention Viva Pinata sequels performance...
If we look at sandbox games, there's really no room in them due to Take Two owning the genre, if we expect others in the genre to perform in similar fashion than the best-selling sandbox game. RPG:s that include tradeable animals, there's no room if we take Pokemon as a benchmark that every game need to equal.
At the moment, in the shooter genre, there are a lot of successful IP:s, which is the cause of a large number of publishers investing into the genre. If there weren't and only the "birdmen" would have entered the market, we would have only Doom and Wolfenstein and a big number of cash-ins.
Ei Kiinasti.
Eikä Japanisti.
Vaan pannaan jalalla koreasti.
Nintendo games sell only on Nintendo system.
