There's no denying that the Wii has some mammoth titles coming in the next year - and that's only the ones we know about. However, regardless of how awesome some of them look, bear in mind that most are from 3rd parties which notoriously don't sell well on Nintendo platforms (DS aside). So how do you think these big new titles are going to fare, sales-wise? And review-wise as well if you fancy sticking that oar in.

Here are a few of my predictions:

Madworld

Sales - 400,000

Review - 82% average

The Conduit

Sales - 300,000

Review - 80% average

Deadly Creatures

Sales - 100,000

Review - 77% average

House of the Dead: Overkill

Sales - 500,000

Review - 83% average

Wii Sports Resort

Sales - 5,000,000

Review - 74% average

Monster Hunter 3

Sales - 2,500,000

Review - 80% average

Sin & Punishment 2

Sales - 100,000

Review - 70% average

Punch Out!!!

Sales - 1,500,000

Review - 85% average

Sonic and the Black Knight

Sales - 800,000

Review - 69% average

Let's Tap

Sales - 1,000,000

Review - 71% average

Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop

Sales - 400,000

Review - 59% average

I really think that a lot of these games need a heck of a lot of advertising to help push them, especially the big hitters like Madworld and The Conduit. Whether this advertising is given is another matter entirely...

What do you guys think then?

For the games you've listed:

I can see Madworld having higher Review-Scores and for the sales I think it can get 1 mio. with some time.

Conduit Review-Score will be lower in my opinion... I don't know why but I can see a lot Reviewers destroy this game, though I believe it will sell more than 1 mio. over time but faster than Madworld. Many are waiting for a good Shooter and I believe many will love it and invite their friends to buy it too.

Deadly Creatures... tough one... I really like what I've seen from it and I would say the Review-Score will be a little bit higher (82% I would say) but sells won't be great but I can see it doing 500k, even if that seems optimistic I believe if it's not totally messed up there will be some people enjoying it.

Overkill: Review-Score won't be over 75% imo, Sales I agree.

Resort: 70% average but I can see the 10 mio sells if M+ isn't bundled with other games

S&P: 85% average imo, ~250k sells

Punch Out: agree

Let's Tap: agree

Dead Rising: I guess it won't get more than 60%, Saleswise I can't see it over 500k without being budget.

After all I have to say that I want 7 of the 9 games and I really hope they all perform well enough for the effort that was put in it. We will see...

Already discussed (twice)

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=56126

For reviews - Conduit I'd say low 70's as many critics compare it to FPSs on PC/360/PS3 which it will fare very poorly against. Some will compare against other Wii FPSs which will give it the odd 85-90

MadWorld I can see getting mid-90's thanks to the pedigree of Clover Studios.

Sin & Punishment I'd expect to be low 80's or high 70's

MH3 I expect low 90's. Capcom makes very solid quality games (RE4, Zack & Wiki, Okami which are all highly rated) and MH is their biggest franchise. I can't imagine it won't average at least 90.

Sin and Punishment was one of the best n64 games and run and gun games I ever played. I feel you guys are really underestimating how good Sin and Punishment 2 will be.

they'll sell well.

Forgive me for being new to the forum....

Wasn't this don...

Hi Gameboy86, nice idea for a first thread. =)

This year there will be 80 to 120 Million peices of software sold for the Wii in every region ... Some of this will be existing software, some of it will be bundled software, and quite a bit of it will be Nintendo software but that still leaves 80 to 120 Million peices of new third party software to be sold on the Wii in 2009.

Now we know that the top 50 or 100 games for a console in a year generally get the lion's share of the game sales, and it is highly likely that the Wii could have 25 to 50 new third party games sell a million (or more) units of software this year. Now if the highly anticipated games can't break 1 Million what games will?

With that in mind ... Your prediction that bothers me the most is Sonic because I thought Sonic and the Black Night was made by the same team that made Sonic and the Secret Rings which was a rushed game, had an average review of 70% and sold 2.09 Million units on the Wii.

I think the games have a big problem ahead of them, as most 'reviewers' (and I use that term very loosely) have their mind set this generation that basically if a game is a Wii or DS game, it automatically is inferior and is justified to be scored lower on principle of having the stamp of 'Wii' on its cover.

On the flip side, since there seems to be an honest effort being put out by Third Parties now, I think sales for Third Party games will go up. Especially since there won't be as many major Nintendo titles released this year on the system. It really looks like the Wii is going to do the opposite of the GC for its last few years, thankfully.

What I think hinges on those games selling however, is each company advertising them. As aside from games like Blom Blox and Carnival Games, no other Third Party Wii games really get enough advertising to justify they GET sales beyond 300,000-400,000 units (walk in random purchases and word of mouth). And especially compared to games on the 360, which are advertised up the wazoo, its no wonder why Third Party developers are trying to make games for the system to be one of the lucky few to make that one game that pushes 3-5 million.