No one will know. I doubt anyone thought that the well received Uncharted: Drake's Fortune would spawn one of the most critically acclaimed games in history.
I doubt anyone thought that the developers behind the mediocre PS2 game, Urban Chaos, would have ever created a Game of the Year contender and a major franchise that is now the Batman: Arkham series.
Bayonetta went from being a cheesy Devil May Cry clone, to becoming the new industry standard in terms of hack 'n' slash combat. I remember it catching so much flack and sneers before it's release and then it came, it saw and it blew people away.
I could pull a lot more examples out, but gamers are rarely ever right when predicting things like sales, scores or industry standards. For all we know, Mass Effect 3 could be broken on release, Uncharted may be too much of the same, The Last Guardian could be boring and over presumptious and Zelda could be a complete mess.
That also means this year, games like L.A. Noire, Infamous 2, RAGE, Amulur: The Reckoning, Journey, Portal 2, Spec Ops: The Line, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Dark Souls or XCOM could be possible contenders.
Hell, a Kinect game could come out and be the new Guitar Hero. We won't know until at least late November.
Bet with Conegamer and AussieGecko that the PS3 will have more exclusives in 2011 than the Wii or 360... or something.
