richardhutnik on 11 January 2010
| The Ghost of RubangB said: My favorite part is "The GamesIndustry.biz Network consists of over 9900 members working in all areas of the games business, from publishing and development to retail and education." What a bunch of idiots. Nintendo has 18 of the 20 best selling games of alltime, including the top 13 all to themselves. Nintendo has crossed 10 million sales 11 times this generation alone. But they can't even break into the top 10 for 2010 with their strongest Wii lineup ever? Out of the 10 games they listed, the top 3 will end up being StarCraft 2, Call of Duty 7, and Gran Turismo 5, which they listed as #3, #4, and #10 for some reason. It's gonna be those, Halo, and a ton of DS and Wii games, including some that haven't been announced yet. Final Fantasy XIII will be at the bottom of the top 10 somewhere. Most of the other games won't be in the top 10 at all. |
Odds are, the site is loaded up with professionals who have track records in other industries, who brought their skills to the videogame industry. Such individuals don't have much of an understanding as to what will or will not sell, and end up just going what what will see to get the most marketing or have the most well-known name. I would trust a collective polling of people on here, the likes of Demon's Souls, and Valk Chronicles factored out, for predicting sales, than I would what they came up with.
