Most anticipated games from 2009, by genre

[shio]

Slimebeast said:

Basically shio is just over-estimating the success of every single PC game coming out in 2009.

This part of his sales rankings was funniest though:
4. Demigod
5. Anno 1404
6. Cities XL
7. Halo Wars

lol No. 4-6 are low budget games that cost less than $5million to develop by dev teams of around 20-30 guys. I expect these games to sell less than 500,000 copies (Anno 1404 mite sell 1 a million because it will be picked up from the bargain bin at 15 Euros in large numbers, like the Settlers games)

Halo Wars is made by a 100 people dev studio called Ensemble, and cost at least $20 million to make. I expect it to sell at least 2 million copies at nearly full price (~$50 per copy)

And Demigod? Wth is Demigod...?

(I do know what Demigod is but I doubt many others do.)

If anything the budget only helps those PC games' higher positions, because they would need considerably less sales than Halo Wars to reach the same profit. But we can only assume, since we don't really know their budgets.

Demigod looks awesome, it's being developed by good, well-known developers, has decent requirements and will have a bigger push for digital distribution than Supreme Commander. Anno 1404 comes from a franchise where 2 out 3 of it's predecessors sold over 2.5 millions each.

Cities XL is more of a gamble. It doesn't come from a well known franchise or developer, but what they're doing in the game is the evolution of City-building games, what Sim City 4 should've been.

Slimebeast said:
4. Aion: Tower of Eternity
5. Champions Online
6. Alpha Protocol
7. Mass Effect 2

Heh.

MMORPGs have the advantage of having subscriptions. Enough said. Aion in particular has been getting HUGE hype since it looks the tastiest Korean mmorpg ever. It also won Korean 2008 GOTY. This game will be thoroughly eaten by Asian gamers, and might be the first F2P MMO that's actually decent.

Champions Online is being developed by Cryptic Studios. Those guys know MMOs.

JGarret said:
So....why is Street Fighter IV listed as "action"?

It's an action game. Fighting is a sub-genre of Action.

Riachu said:

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

 

I have not seen any indication of a Star Ocean game ever selling atleast 2 millions. And no Xbox 360's jRPG has even reached 1 million.