Here is what Nintendo *could* release in 2008: - Mario Kart - Pikmin Wii - Nintendogs Wii - Animal Crossing - Pilotwings - Golden Sun Wii - Luigi's Mansion II - Fzero Wii - WaveRace Wii - ExciteTruck II - Mario Party 9 - New DK platformer - Starfox Wii - Pokemon Adventure Online etc... Plenty of potential titles left for 2008 in my books. Ignoring anything new as well...

Sorry, but I think you don't know much more than I. I think even re-edition of Tomb Rider for PS2 may be much more impressive than this. Few screens I've seen looks really poor but someone mention that these were from very early version of the game. I think it would be tough for this game to gain some appreciation from Wii's users. I believe impressive sales of Wii-sports, Wii-play and Super Paper Mario shows they want simply stuff. The question is how do you define success. If you expect something like Red Steel I think it will work but something more is unlikely as for me.

hmm... that doesn't look good for 2008. mario kart and maybe pikmin the two that could do well. i don't like animal crossing on the wii, but that's just me. nintendogs on wii can't possibly work, can it?

hopefully new IPs, like wii motor sports or something that looked good in demos... but maybe it's time for 3rd parties to blossom!

EDIT: there should be a new zelda title for the wii by then i imagine. 

Still not a great list with a lot of games from the same genres. It makes sense not to release all the games on the original 2007 list before the end of the year for many many reasons.

It's pretty easy for Nintendo to prevent its games from canceling each other's sales. For example, with Galaxy, Brawl, and Corruption, they just have to choose to release at most 2 of them in one big market, where it has the most chances to sell. So, they can release Galaxy and Brawl in Japan, Brawl and Corruption in USA and Galaxy and Corruption in Europe. Or any combination, and then, release the rest early 2008.

As for sales, unfortunately, I think these consoles' goal is tied to their sales.

MS crushing Sony hopes in the living-room is tied to XB360 market share, Sony BD success is tied to PS3 sales.

I dont see that list as specially good . Other than some games that have to prove their value you have the usual crop of Mario games ,Metroid about the same of the Cube incarnations ,and the casual games of the DS as Brain Training etc that suit best for handheld gaming (poor performance of BT its first week in Wii in Japan ).Even the hardcore games as Resident 4 and Umbrella Chronicles are getting dumbed down and made simpler and easier to appease the casual gamers the Wii is aimed to . Besides ,having out Mario ,Metroid ,Zelda and most of hte Nintendo franquises right in 2007 that leaves them with only Fzero along some light hitters for the rest of the lifetime of the console .

Sony has one last roll of the dice in Japan, FFXIII

If this game does worse than Square-Enix and Sony expect, then quite simply, Sony is gone. There are no other major releases for Japan, and every game that was expected to sell heaps has failed. Third parties in Japan will desert them like a burning house, and they will never catch the Wii.

If FFXIII does well, and moves a lot of consoles, there will still be a possibility of resurgance, it will be very difficult, and they most likely won't win, but they will do well.

Fact is FFXIII is so far from us that i think it is no use to think about it ATM...

Eh that's not true, FFXIII is not the only seller for the PS3, would be unfair to say that only "one" game can make the PS3 survive.

This is the weekly famitsu's most wanted listed for last week, now don't say there aren't enough most wanted PS3 games in the list, I count 8:

1. (1 / 2) Dragon Quest IX NDS Square Enix 2.979
2. (2 / 1) Final Fantasy XIII PS3 Square Enix 2.795
3. (3 / 3) Resident Evil 5 PS3 Capcom 2.097
4. (5 / 4) Metal Gear Solid 4 PS3 Konami 1.646
5. (6 / 7) Monster Hunter 3 PS3 Capcom 1.288
6. (9 / 8) The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass NDS Nintendo 1.064
7. (10/ 9) Super Robot Taisen PS2 Banpresto 1.009
8. (7 /12) Odin Sphere PS2 Atlus 972
9. (14/11) Everybody's Golf 5 PS3 Sony 885
10. (11/10) Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors Wii Square Enix 872
11. (8 /17) Devil May Cry 4 PS3 Capcom 838
12. (12/14) Lost Odyssey Xbox 360 Microsoft 809
13. (13/16) Final Fantasy XII Revenant Wings NDS Square Enix 806
14. (15/13) Super Smash Bros. Brawl Wii Nintendo 786
15. (19/15) Animal Crossing Wii Nintendo 713
16. (16/18) Shining Wind PS2 Sega 703
17. (20/19) Final Fantasy Tactics PSP Square Enix 678
18. (18/20) Final Fantasy Versus XIII PS3 Square Enix 643
19. (17/21) Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII PSP Square Enix 638
20. (23/23) Gran Turismo 5 PS3 Sony 546

FF XIII will sell systems...