Y'know, I'd say Metroid isn't even close to being part of a "big three." There are 4 exclusive games tentatively slated for this year which are part of franchises which have produced 5-million sellers... Super Mario Galaxy, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Animal Crossing, and MySims from EA. Plus, Wii has two games I would consider major wild cards, in Wii Health Pack and Tiger Woods (either 07 or 08, both presumably coming out this year) who we have no historical indicators for, but could be HUGE. The Metroid franchise has never put a game over 3 million in sales... So I don't see it being quite important enough to list as part of "the big three" among that release list. Though, there's only about a 1% chance ALL of those games make it out this year. AC in particular I think has no chance... And MySims little chance... Meh... I'm having a hard time finding a source where AC was actually listed as a 2007 game, but I swore I read that the other day...
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
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