2008 predictions
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 3:00 pm
Nintendo
Hero_of_Canton wrote:I've been saying this for months: Animal Crossing Channel. Has to happen.
Wii Fit won't be nearly as big as some are predicting.
Smash Bros. Brawl will come out over here by the end of April. It will perform much worse in the UK than everywhere else. In Japan in particular, it will be a system seller, and its more hardcore appeal will see a small boost in third-party sales.
Disaster: Day of Crisis will be great, but will bomb.
Wii Music will be brilliant - seemingly limited, but with amazing possibilities for those prepared to experiment. It will be a minor success.
Retro Studios' next game will be revealed, but not released.
Pikmin 3 announced for late 2008/early 2009 release.
PS3 to start eating into Wii's lead by end of the year - Nintendo hint at price cut.
Vanillaware's Oboro Muramasa Youtouden will be the best third-party Wii game (and possibly the best Wii game full stop) released in 2008.
The Shadow wrote:Wii Fit will be the biggest selling game of the year, DS and Wii success will continue to break records.
PsychoPriest wrote:The Wii shortage will continue all year.
aki wrote:As for Nintendo in 2008 I can only see them going from strength to strength, I just hope they show/announce Pilotwings Wii (It makes sense Nintendo).
Cuttooth wrote:The better games start coming out by September next year. They look reasonably good and make good use of the controller.
One new FPS game comes out of nowhere using the Metroid Prime 3 system and is hailed as one of the best console shooters in recent times.
Stagguh Lee wrote:I can't see F-Zero coming this year, and so I hate them. Bastards.
Big Rob wrote:Pikmin wii and/or ds to be announced
Nintendo to release Wii Sports 2, replacing Wii sports in the console bundle and it will be available separately, will feature online multiplayer.
Nintendo to announce some sort of solution to the storage problems.
Nintendo to continue to cater more and more to casual gamers...
More and more third party crap to be released....
Alvin Flummux wrote:Wii Summer Sports to be announced and, shortly thereafter, released.
A slew of Balance Board-enabled games - mini and regular - are announced. Some are quite unexpected.
A new Excite game is announced.
The game that Wii Motorsports has become is announced, released in the run-up to Christmas.
Sega announces a new Sonic Wii game.
Akai XIII wrote:Pikmin 3 announced.
Animal Crossing Channel/Game announced.
Kid Icarus Wii will be made by Retro Studios.
SSB:B - best online fighting game of 2008.
Battalion Wars 2 will be crap, like the first one.
Wii Sports 2; online.
Voice support talked about, but nothing confirmed.
Wii HDD/storage announced - will clip onto the back of the Wii (USB memory stick, basically).
Wii Fit wont do as well as people think. Someone will fall off and hurt themselves and sue Nintendo (American, obviously).
FF: The Crystal Bearers wil be cancelled, probably...
Cuttooth wrote:Advance Wars Wii announced. Not Battalion Wars but simply Advance Wars in 3D resembling what I think was planned on the N64 (64 Wars or something?) but was cancelled.
Uppa wrote:A new F-Zero title to revealed, following Captain Falcon's new guise being exhibited on Smash Bros. Dojo. (You just know that's why they're holding him back.)
MCN wrote:Balance Board to be a control option in the next Tony Hawk game.
Skarjo Hannson wrote:Pilotwings announced.
F-Zero Announced.
We all still suck them off for the chance of a proper 3D pokemon RPG.
Goat wrote:No good "proper" games are released.
WiiWare games are seriously overpriced
No Wii HDD/Storage is released
Couple of crap new Wii Channels released
PS3 overtakes Wii sales
PS3 becomes market leader, 360 at second, Wii way behind
Wii Price Cut
Third Party support dramatically falls
Wii fails.
DS is still successful
invincible wrote::arrow: Retro Studios release Kid Icarus Q4 2008.
Konami's PES 2008 Wii will be an amazing evolution of console football games.
Rock Band will be announced for Wii.
Capcom will continue to release Resident Evil games on Wii.
Wii will sell more Guitar Hero than PS3 and Xbox 360.
3rd Party support will improve in terms of quality.
Shovelware games will still be released, but go on WiiWare instead of a full retail release.
There willl be a new version of DSlite announced.
There will be a new version of Wii announced.
SEGA and Nintendo will collaborate on atleast 2 more games.
Balance Board support will be included in sports games, such as Tony Hawk, Family Ski (we already know this) and a new Wave Race and 1080 from Nintendo.
The Balance Board and Wiimote Nunchuck combo will be used together in game.
Voice Support will be enabled for online Wii games.