I think 2012 will be a big year for dance games, the genre is fun, and I feel it is still growing, and people who were into dance games before are still into dance games now. If it is going to decline in numbers, it will largely be because of transitioning to the Wii U, but I think it will be a fairly big genre for a very long time among non-nerd/geek gamers. It's also one that is going to expand - you can almost guarantee that many more big companies are going to start up their own franchises.
The dance game genre is not new, DDR was there, but DDR really was limited due to having to use the pad, then DDR for Wii came out and people really liked the motion controller aspect a lot, but not the fact that they were limited to an area with a dance pad - so now dance games remove that - and here we have the first real party game.
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