Pretty much agree with all those
The reality is the gaming recession proof sales cannot last forever can it. Every boom has to have a bust and in all honesty i think 2009 will be it.
Each console/format has some awesome games coming for this year but if you add them up as a collective they wont be as big as the games we saw from 07 but more importantly 08. The one game that will sell shead loads is obviously the Halo expansion. Then we have Street Fighter 4 and Resident Evil 5. Those 2 games are the ones im pumped up for the most. But beyond that there isnt anything really that we could say was a Call of Duty or Gears type selling game. People said LBP and Resistance 2 would sell millions but they didnt so that is why i believe Killzone 2 wont either. The first person shooter genre has been done to death and it just doesnt looklike adding anything to it. Games like Bioshock/Dead Space etc.. look for new ways to use the genre and they excell because of it.
Games like God of War 3, Gran Turismo 5 and Final Fantasy 13 i doubt very strongly we will be seeing this year. So if we assume they wont be coming this year leaves very few if any what i would call A+ games coming this year.
But that is not a bad thing, far from it. I think this generation is crying out for new IPs and this year we could have some potentially awesome new ones.
Of course as the months go by the companies will announce their games for the year especially Microsoft (remember the breaking the bank announcement?) so no doubt some franchises will have a few new additions coming i.e new Zelda game.
