Hrm, i've been looking around the charts and just looking at the situation the Wii is in worldwide and i have to say im intrigued at what we will be looking at a year from now.

Let me explain, personally im waiting for this year to end so i can play  Nights, M&S at the Olympics and SSBB. I am looking forward to Brawl and Galaxy but these are the main three i want. Now i've looked around at MP3''s impact in America and i dont know whether its lower than i expected or not (it doesnt help that the sales of Halo 3 have dwarfed pretty much every first week software sale). Anyone dissapointed with MP3 sales so far? I'm intrigued as to what my choice of games can achieve in sales and if any (apart from Galaxy and Brawl) can be seen as "system sellers". For example, Nights 2 is a game i am going to be highly critical of, the first was insane and i must have been one a select few that played the game originally but despite all the media buzz it has generated since its announcement can we safely say that it will sell systems following its relatively low sales first time around. People are often put off of purchasing a sequel if they dont own the first. Personally i feel that Nintendo have no other choice to place Nights (original) on the Virtual Console a month before Nights 2 is released in order to generate hype and to succesfully hook others.
Mario and Sonic could go either way, i see it as the track and field successor despite not playing it or even knowing a great deal about the control system. More likely to be a sleeper hit than a fully fledged million seller off of the bat.

Now im probably what would qualify as a Wii fanboy, despite owning a 360 as well and my housemate a PS3 so im fully aware of the upcoming software for all systems. Wii doesnt have as many designated system sellers coming out IMO as the 360 which worries me because i see the overall quality of games on the Wii being of a higher standard. This Xmas is an essential year for all parties involved, indeed its the first Xmas in which the consoles are all out worldwide together. Has anybody got any opinions about the upcoming year?

Hasn't this thread idea been done to death by now...no offense nairu, but we have been discussing the wii's 2008 lineup already in several threads. The consensus pretty much is that Nintendo are secretive as hell and not a single one of us can predict what awaits next year. We have tossed around a few names but nothing is conclusive.

Edit...here's the latest discussion....  http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=7912&start=100#end

I said before that I don't believe in System Sellers ... Potentially the biggest game in North America in several years (Halo 3) probably boosted total hardware sales of the XBox 360 by 250,000 units.If a system is going to sell well it will sell well; it won't wait for a system seller to boost sales to a level where it can finally achieve "dominance".

Right now Nintendo has done an excellent job of releasing established game series (Zelda, Mario, Mario Party, Wario Ware, Super Paper Mario, Metroid, and Super Smash Bros.) as a way to motivate buyers, and there are signs that this will continue into 2008 with games like Mario Kart and Animal Crossing. What is taking a while because of lack of foresight is high quality third party games which are starting to trickle in ...

In 2008 I would expect to see 2 to 4 times as many high quality established third party games released on the Wii as we have seen so far; certainly this won't be the best third-party line-up ever but it will be a drastic improvement over what Nintendo platforms have seen since the SNES and could (potentially) be better than the PS3 or XBox 360's third party line-ups.

super_etecoon, its a shame im not interested in 2008's games then isnt it...
Im more interested in peoples perceptions of MP3, Nights and M&S to be honest. I agree HappySqurriel that Wii has done ok with its re-establishing of known brands but the point im trying to make is, would it benefit Nintendo to release previous games or similar games to the afore mentioned ones a short while before the games are released to encourage the so called casual market that Nintendo are aiming at to purchase the released titles. My worry is that because a few of these games are new, that Nintendo's new casual crowd may not find the appeal we do with them due to the fact that they are sequels and they haven't played previous iterations.

Metroid will have long legs, in my opinion...It's not a game for everyone, but it will end up around 2.5 million in the long run, I think.

Nights will tank, both in reviews and sales... It's a high profile game that will get around a 7.5. The backlash will be great and it will be one of the titles that people love to hate.

Mario and Sonic will have limited appeal....If this were a platformer it would sell through the roof...sadly it is an olympic tie in and will just be seen as a collection of mini-games...further proof for many that the wii can't handle real games. I'm actually sad this is even being made, since the pairing probably won't happen again. If I'm wrong and this one does extremely well then surely we will never see a platformer with these two in it together.

Hrm, interesting. Id be gutted if that was the overall outcome of all those games but i can see a future in which that happens. Its the overall doubt that is the worst thing and confidence is shaken when you research further into things;
Nights....being developed by Sega who's reputation for great games has been seriously declining over the years, i cant remember the last Sega game that had the "HAVE TO BUY!" factor but thats possibly just me. Dont even get me started on Sonic either, i loved the 2D iterations, even the DS ones are excellent to play but i just cant stand to play the 3D ones, they are awful.
M&S......Developed by Nintendo and Sega jointly (?). This i think is an important title for Nintendo and have a feeling that they wont allow this to be awful. Again its my opinion but, and this is because of your previous point, that because its the only game involving Mario and Sonic together (so far...) they will at least want to get it right. Personally i think its a guaranteed shoe in that Sonic will be confirmed for SSBB, i imagine it will be one of the latter confirmations but i swear it will happen. Hrm, M&S is released 6 months before the olympics right? Wont that leave it available for a sales spike when they start? Not to mention the Xmas sales boost. Should have long legs but will probably sell mainly to a younger market. (Talking about this, i was in Virgin the other day and i saw a mother pick up THREE of the worst DS games at £25 a pop for her son because they were film franchises and had to be good, dear lord i almost slapped her)
I want to see higher sales of MP3, i would like Nintendo to absolutely annihalate the competition with the big 3 games this year end. Hoping more than actually believing...yet at the least.

If we were to see a Nintendo-developed platformer with both Mario and Sonic in it, the world would explode from its awesomeness.

What's amazing is that Sonic is still a highly recognized icon despite his glory days being so long ago.

Agreed, it sort of makes me cringe inside when i see the shameful way in which Sonic is used to sell games these days. Back in the ol' day a Sonic  game made me tingle with anticipation, nowadays i totally disregard its release and yet kids still love him despite the awful games he stars in. Honestly cant understand it.