Game of year awards. Are they accurate? http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/newsArt.cfm?artid=15074 Every year, every game publication falls all over itself to announce its picks for
Game of the Year. Since it's fun to argue on the Internet, we want you to take issue with the popular choices and
post post post about it. That is to ask,
do you find most publications' Game of the Year awards to be accurate?
Last week, we asked you about your predictions for 2008. Our forum visionaries made these bold predictions:
Mr. Jack: Another year of Wii and DS domination.
isanolord: The Wii will be available most everywhere without bundling but remain dominant in sales, only beaten by the DS, which will reach the sales milestone in Japan of having sold more units than the nation's population. The PS3 will continue to be mediocre sales-wise, forcing desperate analysts to begin buying the console in bulk to avoid looking like total morons for continuing to predict its success.
Ian Sane: I figure the Wii will continue to sell like hotcakes and will continue to dominate and yet will still get scraps from third parties. Something, be it hardware restrictions, or the non-gamer audience is skewering things (ie: the third party support that we consider relevant isn't what third parties think non-gamers want and thus we aren't getting it), or third parties being just plain biased against Nintendo is screwing this all up because it just makes no sense for the Wii to sell so well and yet have the worst third party support I've seen for a Nintendo console yet.
Unless the third party situation improves very significantly I'm iffy on the Wii's longterm potential. I fear the possibility of non-gamers losing interest overnight (many non-gamers I meet not only only own Wii Sports but refer to the two as one in the same when saying "Wii") and Nintendo not being able to hold the lead with only the traditional gamers due to the weak third party support. In the old market if the Wii was number one with this lineup it would be vastly overachieving and Nintendo really should do what they can to fix that because it's a serious vulnerability. Nonetheless I think the Wii will continue to sell fine in 2008. This whole paragraph is just a fear but not a prediction. IF anything bad even happened I figure it wouldn't be until a few years from now, possibly even next gen.
Oh and Earthbound will not be released on the VC during 2008.
Meanwhile, here are some radical forum topics running wild on NWR:
- Nintendo Console Discussion: Official "Virtual Console Mondays" Thread
- Nintendo Handheld Discussion: The Official Virtual Boy Discussion Thread!
- Nintendo Handheld Discussion: Advance Wars Series of Games: Next Title - Advance Wars: Days of Ruin
- Talkback: The NWR Mailbag Talkback Thread
- Talkback: Konami Announces Target: Terror
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