What's coming for Nintendo?

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Kasz216 said:

By MASSIVE. I assume you mean 5 Million + Selllers...

So, no not that i can think of by looking at GC charts. First party wise there are a lot of oldschool games that COULD reach those heights but nothing that's defininte that I can think of.

Some ones that COULD come.

Animal Crossing. It's on it's way sometime. It did 3 million on the GC... and is likely going to be the most likely to tap into the new casual users. It's something that will seem knew to a market that never knew it existed.

Other then that I think Nintendo will just wait a year and see what 3rd partys can bring. Bringing out retro core gamer titles like a Kid Icarus Game, Kirby game... and mid level casual games like Mario Party 9 and Pikimin.

Then come Late 2009, early 2010. New Zelda, maybe new Mario game.

I expect they'll come up with something new as well during all this but it's hard to call new IP's definite system movers. Hell it's hard to call even established huge franchises system movers at all if NPD didn't botch the April Numbers.

I think this is all fairly probable.  I was wondering if Nintendo might ease back to let TP's have a go.  The one thing Nintendo needs to truly cement the Wii as this-generation's console is for third-parties to start making massive profits (which they are not yet with a couple of exceptions). 

If Nintendo go a holiday season with a price drop instead of big FP hitters and give TP's a go, it could play out very well for them.