Animal Crossing, Zelda, Pikmin and a DK game will get everybody attention...

I really don't get why people keep talking about things like DKC4 or Pokemon. Nintendo has shown no interest in keeping the Country line of Donkey Kong games alive since Rare left, and Pokemon has neverh ad a huge presence on consoles so forgive me if I find the idea of this big huge Pokemon MMO/whatever popping out of no where and plowing the industry over with nothing actually leading up to it.

Also, Nintendo isn't going to announce Zelda Wii at E3 if they're still following what Iwata said about announcing games only a few months before they're released. So far they've stuck to that concept with games like Soma Bringer going on sale 3-4 months after being announced. Announcing Zelda Wii a year and a half before it's released would go against this new policy and also doesn't fit the bill of Reggie described as something people would want THIS YEAR. Like I said, Retro Zelda: Most likely. Zelda Wii? Not quite.

Wii sports 2

 I think that's an absolute. The way Brawl points out the lack of video storage space ("Currently, you can only save videos up to three minutes" or something like that) tells me that they most certainly plan on remedying that issue. There may not even be a patch required. I'll bet that Brawl is programmed to read how much space is available, and base how much you can save off of that. I expect that, once SD usability + HDD compatibility is enabled, Brawl will sense either, see that there's now far more space available, and bam! Up to a half-hour at a time or something.

Also, my reasoning behind Zelda Wii... TP is still selling decently. Releasing a new Zelda would effectively destroy that title's legs. It'd put a near end to it. I think they would put that off.

Second, Ocarina of Time released about two fifths into the N64's lifespan, with Majora's Mask  releasing a full two years later. That was a little different, because both were later in the system's lifespan - Majora's Mask within the last year. In this case, TP released at the very beginning to draw attention to the Wii. With that said, I could only see them releasing TP this year if they plan on releasing a third Wii Zelda at the end of the Wii's lifespan. I don't see that being plausible. I see Wii Zelda being the last Zelda title to release for Wii, and with that said, they simply couldn't release it this early. That'd leave the rest of the generation fairly barren.

Third, I think Nintendo would want to take advantage of a larger install base. I think the next Wii Zelda would wait until next year, when a lot more hardcores are into the Wii (thanks to many titles releasing this year and maybe a couple at the beginning of next), to release and attempt to break the 10m mark (which I think it will).

 Fourth, Nintendo has a LOT of potential titles to use right now. They've got all sorts of IPs that they've either stated they are going to use, or that we simply know they WILL use. Knowing Nintendo, since they've already got a Zelda on the Wii, I'd expect them to work on and put out a variety of these other IPs first. Take advantage of their potential, then come back around and use Zelda again.

 Fifth, Zelda titles always take an extraordinary amount of time to make - Ninty really makes certain that each title is epic. They always put a lot of time into them. Phantom Hourglass just came out late last year, and I think they had all their Zelda people working on that alone. I don't think they'd have taken their Zelda guys and said, "Work on two different Zelda titles NAOW." Doesn't make sense. I expect they most certainly are working on Zelda Wii now, full-blast, but if they just started full-fledged work on it a few months ago, I couldn't see them already having their much larger Wii Zelda project anywhere near completion yet. Yes, I'm certain they had a few people working on Zelda Wii while PH was in development, as some people just weren't meant for PH work, and they were perfect for Zelda Wii. But I know they've got a lot of the same teammembers working on all Zelda titles, and a lot of those guys were putting their efforts into PH (which was well worth it, as I see PH to be the third best Zelda title, only behind OoT and LttP). 

 Sixth, it's just logical. Userbase will be quite large by winter '09 - up to the minimum 60m range, and as potentially high as 80m. The Zelda franchise will be cold by then - well in need of a new title. Nintendo will have exhausted a number of other, less popular franchises, and people will be crying out for something fantastic and huge. I'm calling it -  November 7, 2009 - the next Zelda's release date.

Claude: Millions of fans have been crying out for a new DKC title, and WiiWare is the best route for them to go for that. This is the best chance Nintendo has had to release a new classic DK title... it'd be foolish for them to not take advantage of that. And with the Wii surpassing the GCN's total installbase, it's got a LOT more potential with a PKMN title, especially if that PKMN title is done more like a handheld PKMN and less like XD.

Man, what am I going to do until July? Nintendo is going to eat all my extra money this year alone. This announcement is going to have me thinking all the way up till E3. I think that we are going to see a huge bang from Nintendo at E3 this year, all around. The Wii is just getting started.

Oh come on, that has to be to what he is referring. Or maybe, they are going to launch Virtual Boy 2!!

So, if both casual and hardcore will be pleased...

I'm guessing maybe:

A new Punch-Out
A new 1080 Snowboarding
Animal Crossing (guaranteed @ E3)
Kirby (guaranteed @ E3)
Disaster (guaranteed @ E3)
Kid Icarus
One or two new IP's.

The first two will get hardcore gamers salivating, and both will appeal to the pick-up-and-play aspect of the Wii for casual gamers.

Most has been said already, but here's my $0.02.

Metroid was released September 2007. There's no way Retro will have a title ready for this year.

Zelda won't be released this year. TP took about 3.5 years to make, plus TP keeps on selling well.

Fatal Frame IV will be released in August in Japan, so that will probably the early November Nintendo title in the West.

Disaster: Day of Crisis will probably release in September WW, just like Metroid. More mature title after the summer.

Animal Crossing + HDD will be one of the Xmas titles.

I think Kid Icarus can become a very big title if they make it good. Metroid Prime brought the series back from the dead and is one of the best reviewed games ever. If they do the same for Kid Icarus it could be the big mature Xmas title.

A good Pokemon RPG or MMORPG would be the biggest selling console game of the year probably.

My guess:

September D:DoC
Oktober: Fatal Frame IV
November: Animal Crossing & Kid Icarus
December: Pokemon RPG