Predictions for E3 2010

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I don't expect anything else big being announced for 2010 for the Wii, well except the almost already confirmed LOZ and Wii Relax. With these 2 games TLS, Xenoblade, Wii Party and possibly the localisation of Reginleiv that's already a lot for this year. Perhaps eventually Kirby in Japan but that's all.

For 2011 I totally expect Starfox to be unveiled with the same kind of controls as the plane game in WSR, which means requiring WM+. Perhaps TPS and lightsaber parts will be added too. Probably 1 or 2 big new games by Retro (if they don't work on SF) and Project Sora. One of them will use the Vitality Sensor.

I don't think we will see Pikmin 3 : I think the aesthetic of this serie would be great with very realistic graphics like the clay based artworks so I think it will be a launch title for Wii 2. I really hope I will be proven wrong though because Pikmin 1/2 NPC were amazing but I'm not sure they could add anything significant enough in a sequel for the Wii.

As for third parties I expect not a lot of games but big ones at least from Square and Rockstar and yes possibly from Capcom. At least SSF4 has to be released on Wii too.

The kind of games I would like them to show even if they obviously are totally wild guesses:
- A Mario Tennis/Strikers/Golf/Baseball all-in-one game. Possibly a paintball multiplayer mode added too. That would sell amazingly well much better than separate games combined imo: all the WSR fans would buy it while the concept is still different, laying the emphasis more on crazy items instead of realistic motion controls. They of course could re-used a lot of the assets (characters, environments...) for each sport.
- A Mario detective game in the same vein as Disney Guilty Party taking place in Wuhu Island. Miyamoto talked about something like that and that would be great.
- A Pilotwings game using the balance board.

For 3Ds I expect the last feature to be 3D pointing as I have already said several times.