Game Series that are becoming oversaturated?

Madden/NCAA
Music Rhythm games

The other games people list are being milked for their names but they are good games unlike those listed above. There is nothing wrong with making a new game iteration every year if you provide enough content and/or improvements to justify the price. Would you rather the devs make a game similar to Halo, CoD, or FF and call it something else just to make it look different? Whats the point?

The devs are there to work and they need to make a salary somehow so why not just build on your most popular franchise? The only problem I have is when they make garbage and label it with a franchise just for sales but this will eventually bite them in the backside really hard.

Halo, Call of Duty Wii(Fit) titles and Music games. if not i will lose faith in the gaming community...

Considering I did not own one piece of Halo DLC, the price of ODST was fine with me.

And the DLC with it's 5-7 hours of gameplay offers more then 90% of other DLC's on the market and full games for that matter.

Burnout is not a 3 year old game, and Big Surf (not free) came out 10 months after it's release if i'm not mistaken..

Halo also had it's share of free updates over it's (Years) on the market..

A reason for me not buying a game, is when the next improved version is arround the corner...so:

_ never bought a hero or band franchise game.
_ my last fifa is 2001 (I had 93 - 95 - 98)
_ Got madden 2007 and never played it (had 2001)
_ MW2 is my first COD since the original.
_ Spinoffs... besides mario spinnoffs, they are usually a bad sign...

I want more for my money, if your going to saturate the market with game updates I want them for 20 bucks max. I am looking especially at you Guitar Hero. I miss the days of long adventures, Dragon Warrior VII and Disgaea both come to mind. That is some bang for your buck.

Imagine Series for Wii/DS

how is mario not on everyones list?

Guitar Hero
SingStar
Imagine
Madden
Lego
Mario
The Sims
Megaman
Pokemon
Final Fantasy (spin-offs and remakes)
Sonic
Street Fighter
Need for Speed

@ Everyone saying Halo, please read the OP.

In the past three years, there have been 3 Halo games released.  Two have been shooters that were markedly different from each other in the way that they play, and the third was an RTS.  Please explain to me, without resorting to irrelevant fanboy talking points, how that is "rehashing the same thing game after game," or better yet, how it possibly rivals Madden, FIFA, or Guitar Hero in the "rehashing" arena.

Because the games are still quite good for the most part.  As long as they are making them different enough and fun enough, it's fine to release a lot of games.

So Mario for instance:

3D Mario games: Super Mario Galaxy last year in 2008, Mario Sunshine in 2005 (I think), and Mario 64 in 1996 so 3D Mario games aren't over saturated.

2D Mario games: New Super Mario Bros Wii this year that introduced 4 player co-op, New Super Mario Bros on the DS in 2006, and the last 2D Mario before that was mid 90's so 2D Mario games are fine.

Paper Mario series: Super Paper Mario in 2007, Thousand Year Door in 2004, and Paper Mario in 2001 so those are fine.

Mario RPG's: Bowser's inside story this year, Partners in Time in 2005, and I think there have been others but those have been spaced out too.

So while there have been 10-ish Mario games in the last 10 years, they are different enough and significant enough that I would call them oversaturated and milked.

Even with something like Pokemon where they are all pretty much the same game with the same story but just different names, they are still fine because they are very well spaced out.

Now if you look at something like Guitar Hero, in the last five years there have been nearly 20 games that are all pretty much the same thing with minor improvements.  That is oversaturated.