Advertising and Name Brand Recognition own the market.  Its those few rare games each year....maybe 2-3 that break out and sell a million without either tons of advertising or being attached to a major name brand.  And still its usually due to word of mouth or some gimmick.

And why does that even matter?  "Casual" games have always outsold real core games.

so the fizzle comments are basivaly : these games are going to be hardcore and really good, so they might not sell well ?

hum

and also they have crappy games around them ?

well, hope the better for them

Link? I don't remember ever reading this.

It's not really clear whether Nintendo owns the Fatal Frame franchise now. I think the consensus is they do. But Tecmo made Fatal Frame 4 (with Suda btw) and I think Tecmo still owns the rights to develop fututre Fatal Frame games for Nintendo. 


Itsamii: the co-op thing was a joke, right? Please? I'm really not looking forward to co-op in my horror. Bah. *Returns to playing horror heaven REmake* 

Its proof they are stupid. How could you not want aiming in this game. Its the one on the list to most likely live up to expectations.

Just like every game except GTA4. Too bad for HD gaming:(

Someone needs to take that whole "I hope for no IR pointing for Sin & Punishment 2" and make that into an "Epic Fail" poster

How about we beg for the next Tiger Woods Wii game to be button controlled while we're at it?

Still, though, it is a respectable list, and all those games should see the light of day in the first half of the year, except for Muramasa, and possibly S&P2 and Punch-Out!! (damn Nintendo's veil of secrecy). More to hope for should definitely be forthcoming before the end of the year

why oh why do people assume hardcore with shooting and/or blood.

In my personal opinion asking if Wii gamers can get excoted for 2009 is like asking "does a bear shit in the woods?"