Most anticipated games from 2009, by genre

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shio said:

BengaBenga said:
Yeah, sure. ONE Wii game, when the install base will be near 75 million at the end of 2009?!?

Some comments:

Heavy Rain will bomb and won't be the best sold adventure of 2009.
Killzone 2 won't sell more than RE5
Star Ocean 4 will definitely be in the top 10 RPGs
As much as I would want it to, sadly BG&E 2 won't do much
Pikmin 3 should be in the simulation list
Halo will definitely be in the top 3 shooters, it's Halo and will have MASSIVE PR

If you can think of Wii games that can reach the top10/5 of the genres, then tell me. I'm taking opinions.

Heavy Rain will probably bomb, but even if it bombs it will likely still be the best-selling adventure game of 2009. Heavy Rain even has the help of Sony and will get good advertisement (something the other adventure games don't have).

Star Ocean 4? Very unlikely given the terrible sales of other jrpgs on 360.

Yes, B&G2 will probably do not much. But I'm also expecting the games below it to sell weak-ish. Even if GTA IV DLC sells more copies, it will be at a much lower price-point.

Pikmin 3 we don't know anything about it, and I have no doubt it won't come until 2010.

Halo: ODST is an expansion, and consoles still don't seem to have the culture to buy expansions, especially if it's from a 2 year old game. The sales of Oblivion's expansion on Xbox 360 was terrible (only 200k) for a multi-million seller game.

 

EDIT: @Onyxmeth: I'm only talking about games released in 2009. It would be boring to fill the list with several The Sims games and Wii series games. And let's not even forget about having to add, like, 3 World of Warcraft titles in the RPG's top10.
The upside is that we are measuring the success of the games we list throughout it's entire lifetime, not just during 2009.

 

Come up with another and hopefully better reason that you believe SO4 won't sell.