I don't think they'll become the 'next big thing' but certainly Wii has revived several genre's - party games, mini-games, Point & Click adventures & Onrail shooters (did I miss any?) and introduced some news ones like true tilt games and fitness games.

Of those I think only fitness games have room for explosive growth to truly be 'the next big thing'

Yup. Although, there are many more potential bridges that have still gone unexplored. I'd like to see third parties like EA take up some of that role instead of just Nintendo and to a lesser extent Sega.

Actually Gamerace, the fitness genres been around for a while, just that Ninty took the idea to *Mad tv voice* Ah hole nada leval!!!"

Well EA have their foot in the 'fitness game' door as well with EA Sports Active. Also yeah on rails shooters could be a good bridge genre depending on the subject matter.

Sidenote: My Fitness Coach for example for on the previous genre. The PS brought alot of what the Wii is doing now to the table, and even set the plates.

...It's the reason why I will NEVER understand how Sony lost sight of what MADE the PS1/PS2 so quickly...Same why Nintendo did too with the N64. =/

I'm glad to see a resurgence in light-gun style games.

That said, it definitely seems like a new bandwagon. I wonder if everyone will get sick of them if too many rail-shooters are published.

Actually, I'm already kind of sick of them. I'm going to pick up HotD: Overkill at some point, and then that's it for me.

i kinda sorda if/ish maybie agree w/ Snow. I just dont have as much fun in games where you dont have full controll of the protagonist.... i will say that time crysis 1 and 2 were unbelivably amazing... BUT there are so many FPS' now that are just as fun but you can also controll the protagonist which gives you the opprotunities to explore you surroundings and appretiate the work that the dev's put into the enviroments and everything else.

Balance Board support for ducking in a new Time Crisis would be sweet. It seems the Wii has the first decent selling rail shooter since at least the DC. Still I am getting a pretty oversize collection of them.

Probably nothing like the next big thing, but they're definitely making a limited comeback. Good news to me, as I really enjoy the genre. ^^

to be honest, i think that they would only sell well on the wii. it has the perfect controller obviously. if they were on the other consoles, it would be much more difficult to play the game