Report: PS3 comback, shallow Wii, tepid portables in '08

[Legend11]

HappySqurriel said:

Legend11 said:

Bodhesatva said:

Legend11 said:
The problem with Nintendo's lineup is it's really only SSBB, SMK, and Wii Fit then a big question mark for the rest of the year. Maybe they'll pull out Star Fox and Animal Crossing but will they be big enough to compete with what will likely be a lot of big 360/PS3 multiplatform games as well as the exclusives for each of those consoles?

I expect the 360/PS3 to maintain a more fleshed out library thanks to third parties remaining timid about putting major AA or AAA games on the Wii.

But it sounds like we agree that the Wii, 360 and PS3 are all contenders when it comes to "cream of the crop" games that sell, say, 3 million+ based on previous iterations, which Mario Kart and SSBB are likely to do, and even Wii Fit, despite having no previous iteration to base calculations on, is already well past 1 million in Japan alone and still gaining ground rapidly, so at this point I'd say we have strong data that it will hit that mark, too.

And then, as you onte, Animal Crossing is likely to come out at Christmas, too. It's not the AAA games that the Wii is lacking, it's the No More Heroes style, not-quite-Smash-Brothers-but-still-popular type games. 

 

How many million+ selling Wii third party games do you think will come out in 2008?  What about 2-3 million+ Wii third party games?

Personally, with the size of the Wii's userbase and the rate that it is growing, I'm expecting about twice the performance from third parties in 2008 than we have seen to date. This would mean that we will see 3 to 5 third party games sell more than 2 Million units, 6 to 12 games games selling between 1 and 2 Million units, and 12 to 18 third party games selling between 500,000 and 1 Million units.

Well Nintendo released a list of games that are coming out for the first half of the year so could you list 3 of the third party 2+ million sellers and 6 or 7 of the 1 million+ sellers?