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trestres on 14 December 2009

@Soriku: Most of the other games like EoE, First of the North Star, Dead Rising 2, Castlevania, Gran Turismo 5, God of War 3, FFvsXIII, FFXIV, Star Ocean 4 International, Ar Tonelico will obviously gather a lot of fans since those are games that are a first for the console, they have had no previous games in their franchises, so they will sell to fans of those and new owners as well.

Wii has DQX, but that's light years ahead.



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leatherhat on 14 December 2009

Star Ocean, Yakuza, MGS, FF14 and Versus. All big titles, but they have nothing on the biggest release of the year. I'm talking of course about GT5, with that in the spring sony doesn't need anything else, all the other games are merely bonus points.



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Avinash_Tyagi on 14 December 2009
trestres said:
You are clearly have a blurred view, you can't see what's going on with the Wii and 3rd parties in Japan. It's of no use to discuss with you, I should have known better.

Even if third parties are moving away from Wii, that doesn't exclude Nintendo games, and that doesn't mean no third party games will be announced for Wii in 2010



 

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trestres on 14 December 2009

I never said that.



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trestres on 14 December 2009

But those were smaller games from new IP's, Ar Tonelico for example is a franchise and has many fans. Same for SO4, Dead Rising, Castlevania, First of the North Star. These games will gather new people because they are established franchises.



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johnsobas on 14 December 2009
trestres said:
There's nothing to counteract those games with. Plus Yakuza 4, FFvsXIII, Metal Gear Solid Rising, Star Ocean 4, First of the North Star are not small.

3rd party devs clearly are going away. They haven't announced a game in a long time.

Edited my previous post with more games for the PS3.

wii doesn't have much announced right now.  I hope something comes up but all of those games except star ocean 4 have been solidly established on PS3.  Yakuza already has 2 games on ps3, FF is already on there and could be a long ways away, metal gear solid already on ps3 (seems to be western focused too), fist of the northstar is another musou game that ps3 has plenty of already.



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trestres on 14 December 2009

You can't act like the rest of the games won't draw people in.



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Innervate on 14 December 2009

New Super Mario Bros Wii should be enough to carry the momentum in Japan through the next few months, which is probably why Nintendo didn't announce anything substantial yet. In reality, PS3's known lineup for the same time period isn't that great either* (Gran Turismo is probably the only one) so both system's will have to hope that their holiday momentum carries them until the Summer.

*In the context of software that pushes hardware.



Hero_time88 on 15 December 2009

It's not great, but there is enough variation in it and it's better than it's Q1 2009 line-up, and putting it at the same level of the Wii, is lying to yourself for whatever reason.

I think that the Wii will sell in the 15k-25k range due NSMB Wii, but it could fall below that if Nintendo or a Third-party doesn't announce something new to excite the Wii-fanbase.



Avinash_Tyagi on 15 December 2009

^It was selling in the 15-25K even before NSMB Wii, lol, it'll definitely put it higher than that, lol



 

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