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Naum on 28 June 2008

I would love it to be JRPG's.

and it can stay that for lots and lots of years.



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Oyvoyvoyv on 28 June 2008

FPS is dominant right now, I don't know why people say otherwise.

Wii: Pretty even, with a very slight advantage for party games.

X360: 4 out of the top 10 are shooters (5 if you count GTA), so shooter dominant.

Ps3: 5 out of the top 10 are shooters, so shooter dominant.



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Ike on 28 June 2008

I hope Hack and Slash RPG's



shio on 28 June 2008
Ike said:
I hope Hack and Slash RPG's

Diablo III crushes all

 



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coolestguyever on 28 June 2008
brute said:

right now fps is the dominante genre,but i thin in the near future that fighters will be the next one to dominate

 

 FPS will always dominate



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JaggedSac on 28 June 2008

Some genre that doesn't even exist yet. The Wii is probably better suited for a breakout genre to develop.



ookaze on 28 June 2008

Social gaming genre will dominate. Actually, no, it won't dominate, it is already dominating right now.
All the other genres are tripping over themselves to stick onto this new genre :
- Sports with Wii Sports
- Training with Wii Fit
- RPG with the new board JRPG, Monster Hunter
- FPS with poor solo campaign and very good online
- Racing with Mario Kart
- Fighters with Smash Brawl
- ...



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makingmusic476 on 28 June 2008

Action/adventure games! We need more Zeldas, Shadow of the Colussuses and Okamis!


...

I wish. :(



Commando on 01 July 2008

It seems to me that RPGs are dominating. Aside from the enormus flux from the MMOs that have even reached into the casual gamers domain (even though casual gamer is an oximoron), the truth of the matter is every other genre has made an rpgish subgenre. Sports games arent considered to have depth unless there is an RPG element to them (This could be as small as say your the manager and yu build a team with a budget, to the franchises where you actually unlock cards and equipment to give to players and level them up, point in fact Pro Evo Soccer 2008 yu level yur player's exp bar). Shooters yu upgrade guns, Action/Adventure/Platforms adopt a lot of the spell ups and HP + sword skill, so on and so on. The truth of the matter is, that beneaath the core game of whatever the genre may be, typically the most successful games realize that RPGs offer a sense of gratification that would elsewise be absent.



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Rock_on_2008 on 01 July 2008

Console RTS games could be the start of something big. 10 years ago the critics all said FPS games would never take off on consoles. Now critics I am laughing in your faces.