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 mean really.  The only games the Nintendo brand is going to appeal to is Nintendo fans, and fans who "defected" to other systems.  They might not have the console now... but that's likely just due to the fact that it's a pain to finedthe thing.

Of coruse at the end of the day I don't think it matters that much.  The Wii is hot right now... and if the core retro games the Wii releases are good, it's just going to attract the players.

Honestly, as backwords as it sounds, I think in most cases... it's the system that sells the games.  Not the Games that sell the system. 

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. 

There's some Gere Sub War game (I think that's what it's called. Rumor has it that it may even be a sequel!) coming out. Apparently it's some action/shooting game which I assume stars the guy from Pretty Woman. Someone hinted that it may sell a few copies.

DAMMIT!!!! Completely forgot about Monster Hunter 3. When does it come out?

I disagree with your suggestion that Wii Fit will undermine sales of Wii Music. Are you implying that casual gamers won't buy many games? On the contrary, I think Wii Music has the potential to be a huge hit much like the other games in the Wii Series. The concept itself has been in development since before the console was released. The DS demonstrates that casual games can coexist and still sell like gangbusters.

Wii Chess has been released in Europe since January. I bought it because I like chess and has online as well. It's not a massive seller. I think it actually sold just a few copies. Last time I checked Vgchartz still presents its European sales at 0,0. Which, of course, isn't true. I own it! :)

Honestly, I agree with you. From what i can tell "Casual users" of things buy a lot well... when they are using said product. Cause it's in their mind... and they're enjoying it and such. In such bursts they may actually buy more then the average core gamer... cause everything is new and bloody fucking amazing.

It's just that when you lose their interest... they might be checked out for good. Which is why I imagine Nintendo is trying to use games like Mario Kart as a "bridge". Even focusing on the online capability.

Wii Fit is another genius application of this... because some of the causals (not all, or even most) might actually use the thing every day for a year or so. During that time they are much more likely to pick up actual games to play with it as well.

I mean, think about something you are casual with... isn't it the same way with you? You pick something up, like it, throw a bunch of money in it, get sick of it... a few months pass... you get back into it, throw a bunch of money into it... etc?

Keep them interested and picking up new kinds of games, and moving slowely up to core and hardcore gaming and you've got even more enthusiastic buyers then us uninpressed seen everything bastards.

If you like RPGs, you have Tales of Symphonia later this year.
The first one was really good. By the way, do you think this game could sell more than the first one?
I think that in a RPG-starved system like the Wii, it could duplicate the success the first one had in GC, only that magnified for the Wii larger userbase and more privilegiated position (compared to GC)
I would say it can sell as much as 2 millions LTD. What do you say¿?

ToS DoaNW could do very well. It could do better than the Gamecube one. It's the game I want the most this year.

I think one of this Christmas big title could be Wii Music. We've seen how Rockband and Guitar Heroes are popular. Perhaps Wii Music will be good enough to get the same success that those games have (that is same success that Guitar Heroes has on Wii). That game is also on my want list. The last title that might be pretty good is Animal Crossing. The game on DS is huge and with the Wii's online which is much better than the DS', it might quite popular. I would love them to make a mix of Wii and Animal Crossing.

The last title that we might see is Kid Icarus and I think it's going to do about the same as Metroid Prime because it's an "hardcore" game in a not so known franchise.