Since I only have a Wii I can only talk about those.

What I' m certainly getting is:

No more Heroes
Disaster: Day of Crisis
Enless Ocean (although that is hitting the shelves this year. To be more precise on 9 november in Europe)
Final Fantasy Crystal Chornicles
Samba de Amigo
NiGHTS (see below)

Ooh also one other thing for the Europeans here. You might want to put NiGHTS on the list for 2008

" OK, Release date news is always good. Here' s what we got today straight from SEGA:

Japan and USA: Q4 (December) 2007 release
Europe: Q1 2008

That' s official news."

Coming from the nightsintodreams website. Although IGN still keeps the date at november releases.

Not sure about Mario Kart, Opoona, Red Steel 2 and Tales of Symphonia. It will depend on how things shape up along the way.

Certainly a good time for gamers regardles of the platform you own. I can' t wait for some of them. And now i Have my 360 I don' t have to worry I can very easily get alan wake!

I am eager to hear more on heavy rain it' s still one of my fave trailers for a " next-gen" game

As mario Kart DS is one of my best and most played games ever.

Mario Kart Online > All


Games ill be buying:

No More Hero' s
Samba de Amigo
Deca Sports (coming out in Europe, US 2008)


Other titles I' ll buy depending on Reviews:

Yukuza 3
Endless Ocean
Motorstorm 2 (hopefully it' s 60fps default)
Gran Turismo 5
California Games
Wii Music
Treasures Gaame

All decent epic/realistic wanna-be' s IE FPS' s, Alan wakes etc. I' ll be playing on PC. Alan Wake on PC obviously.

Predictions:

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With the release of Nvidia' s Kick-ass 65m 9800 GPU' s (roughly TWICE as powerful os 8800' s), Gaming PC' s specs will be so powerful that you' ll see alot less of -Only On PC (and 360). Developers won' t even attempt to scale-down their games for consoles.

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Alot more PS3-optimised games will show a clear technical gap over the 360s.

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PS3 sales will pick up world-wide. (obviously)

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Late Next year MS will give details of it' s next Console, which will ship in late 09.. On the shelf' s with the console, ' perfect conversions' of a handful of PC 2008 big-hitters.

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Nintendo will Give details of a new console that concentrates on Combining an advanced Wiitomte technology, HD and cutting-edge graphics technology, it will ship late 09 alongside this photo-realistic-looking game

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PSP 2 will be announced and will finally include touch-screen and will be open to a wider range of games that the original missed out on.

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DS 2 will not be announced in 2008 as Nintendo and DS will be on track of breaking the ' highest selling games platform' record.. Once that record is broke, Nintendo will announce a DS 2 which will included another clever exclusive game play feature and will be as powerful as PSP 2 [:D

are u serious about your predictions?

Developers won' t even attempt to scale-down their games for consoles.

Doubt it.

Alot more PS3-optimised games will show a clear technical gap over the 360s.

I believe the only advantage the ps3 has right now is more disk space. If its possible, I think MS will start making HD-DVD only games

PS3 sales will pick up world-wide. (obviously)

Im sure they' ll pick up, but I dont think it will be a huge progression. I think it' ll take another price drop for it catch up to Wii and 360

Late Next year MS will give details of it' s next Console, which will ship in late 09.. On the shelf' s with the console, ' perfect conversions' of a handful of PC 2008 big-hitters.

I think it' ll be announced at E3 in ' 10 and released the following holiday season

Nintendo will Give details of a new console that concentrates on Combining an advanced Wiitomte technology, HD and cutting-edge graphics technology, it will ship late 09 alongside this photo-realistic-looking game

lulz

PSP 2 will be announced and will finally include touch-screen and will be open to a wider range of games that the original missed out on.

I dont think sony will stoop to that level. Besides doesnt nintendo already have a patent on touch screen hand helds?

DS 2 will not be announced in 2008 as Nintendo and DS will be on track of breaking the ' highest selling games platform' record.. Once that record is broke, Nintendo will announce a DS 2 which will included another clever exclusive game play feature and will be as powerful as PSP 2 [:D

I think it' ll be announced E3 of ' 09. Clever? Whats clever about touching a screen? And as far as it being as powerful as a PSP, I dont think that will ever happen

Alot more PS3-optimised games will show a clear technical gap over the 360s.

The only technical gap here is in your head. People have been saying the right game will show PS3' s superiority over 360 for over a year now. Five years from now people will be saying that the right game didn' t come along.

With the release of Nvidia' s Kick-ass 65m 9800 GPU' s (roughly TWICE as powerful os 8800' s), Gaming PC' s specs will be so powerful that you' ll see alot less of -Only On PC (and 360). Developers won' t even attempt to scale-down their games for consoles.

The 9800 gpu' s haven' t been confirmed. You can' t even say for sure that the thing will exist let alone say with any certainty that it will perform twice as much as a 8800. Although it' s not unreasonable to think so.

DS 2 will not be announced in 2008 as Nintendo and DS will be on track of breaking the ' highest selling games platform' record.. Once that record is broke, Nintendo will announce a DS 2 which will included another clever exclusive game play feature and will be as powerful as PSP 2 [:D

I don' t think so, Nintendo' s next handheld will be of the Gameboy family.

Said earlier NiGHTS for Europe might be pushed back to q1 2008 but Nintendo Europe still has the release date for NiGHTS for November.

But the website nightsintodreams has been correct with all the rest they reported so far. So we' ll have to wait and see.

With the release of Nvidia' s Kick-ass 65m 9800 GPU' s (roughly TWICE as powerful os 8800' s), Gaming PC' s specs will be so powerful that you' ll see alot less of -Only On PC (and 360). Developers won' t even attempt to scale-down their games for consoles.

Im afraid you wont see much progression than Crysis for the remainder of this console generation. Its simply not profitable enough to make over the top PC games anymore.

Nothing on the Wii interests me, 360 and PS3 are just about tied though.

360 - Gears of War 2, Lost Odyssey, Fable 2, Banjo Kazooie, Ninja Gaiden 2
PS3 - White Knight Story, God Of War 3, MGS4, Jak & Daxter, FFXIII, Disgaea 3
Wii - LOL, all of those games suck. Seriously, maybe Tales of Symphonia I guess?

In the words of SONY themselves , it is goin to take 5 yrs to harness the " TRUE POWER" of the ps3 . The technical gap will be obvious alright , next year we wont have fanboys like you giving excuses of the head start and " these are just the first generation games" . Ps3 games will look better obviously , but arent goin to look much better than the 360 games . Accept the fact and move on .

ORIGINAL: mastachefbkw

I believe the only advantage the ps3 has right now is more disk space. If its possible, I think MS will start making HD-DVD only games

Then you are a retard, even crappy PS3 games like Heavenly Sword already show a gap between PS3 & 360, PS3 is more powerfull and it will only continue to be more evident as time goes on.

As for DS2, I doubt it will even be as powerfull as the current PSP, let alone PSP2.

Are you kidding? Have you even played Heavenly Sword yet?

Sure, the cut scenes in HS are fantastic, that I will agree on. But the gameplay itself does not show any graphical superiority over what we have seen from the best on the 360 so far.

This argument needs to be stopped, as we all know that by the end of the 360 and PS3' s cycle, the best games on either console are only going to show a very small difference from the best on PS3 to the best on the 360.

FFS, let this die already!!!!!!

fanboys like you .

Lol fanboy?, dude my tastes in playing ' great games in all forms' are MUCH broader than yours.. so correct yourself!.

The only technical gap here is in your head. People have been saying the right game will show PS3' s superiority over 360 for over a year now. Five years from now people will be saying that the right game didn' t come along.

Dude the technical gap is already showing on some games. Next year, we' ll open up this thread back and you can repent!

The 9800 gpu' s haven' t been confirmed. You can' t even say for sure that the thing will exist let alone say with any certainly that it will perform twice as much as a 8800. Although it' s not unreasonable to think so.

G92 will be released in November 2007 timeframe in the form of " GeForce 9800" series.

" G92" GeForce 9800 GTX specs.

- 65nm process technology at TSMC.
- Over one billion transistors.
- Second Generation Unified Shader Architecture.
- Double precsion support (FP64).
- GPGPU native.
- Over one TeraFLOPS of shader processing power.
- MADD+ADD configuration for the shader untis (2+1 FLOPS=3 FLOPS per ALU)
- Fully Scalar design.
- 512-bit memory interface.
- 1024MB GDDR4 graphics memory.
- DirectX 10.1 support.
- OpenGL 3.0 Support.
- eDRAM die for " FREE 4xAA" .
- built in Audio Chip.
- built in tesselation unit (in the graphics core"
- Improved AA and AF quality levels

Pros.

65nm process will allow for better yields and better power consumption. power consumption will be lower than that of a GeForce 8800 GTX.

GeForce 9800 GTX will be over two times faster than a GeForce 8800 Ultra in real world games and applications.

Release date : November 2007. There will be TWO products at launch: The flagship GeForce 9800 GTX and the second fastest GeForce 9800 GTS.

price for the GeForce 9800 GTX will be 549-649 USD.

price for the GeForce 9800 GTS will be 399-449 USD.

Abit too detailed for a made-up fake don' t your think?

Yes, Nvidia have not yet officially confirmed or unconfirmed these in-depth specs (which have now spammed aross a whole host of trusted sites)..

It is known for specs to be leaked before they have been confirmed.. One things for sure.. if these were totally made up, Nnvidia would have ' officially' categorically denied these by now..


Anyway..Post your 2008 pridictions FFS!!!!!

Huxley>the rest

ORIGINAL: Virtua fighter 5

Lol fanboy?, dude my tastes in playing ' great games in all forms' are MUCH broader than yours.. so correct yourself!.

Might be true , but that doesnt mean u cant be a fanboy ..

VF is a fanboy! Atleast to a certain degree, as he will defend the Wii beyond reason!

What reasons? for having freinds to enjoys it offerrings? it' s part of my wide range of tastes

VF those specs have been debunked. The G92 series card is a mid range model. 8800GTX>G92>8800GTS. Google " Nvidia G92" . Nothing has officially been announced about the 9800GTX, it will only come next year.

Abit too detailed for a made-up fake don' t your think?

Nope, in every generation of new tech there' s always some nerd trying to pull specs out of their ass for attention, and everytime there is someone smarter ready to call BS.

What reasons? for having freinds to enjoys it offerrings?

My friends arent attracted to waving a wand in the air. I play xbox live with my friends, its the same as playing at someones house, minus the split screen, having to look at them, and minus the mute button

ORIGINAL: canadagamer

Are you kidding? Have you even played Heavenly Sword yet?

Sure, the cut scenes in HS are fantastic, that I will agree on. But the gameplay itself does not show any graphical superiority over what we have seen from the best on the 360 so far.

This argument needs to be stopped, as we all know that by the end of the 360 and PS3' s cycle, the best games on either console are only going to show a very small difference from the best on PS3 to the best on the 360.

FFS, let this die already!!!!!!

Um considering the cut scenes are done with the in game engine and the game play LOOKS EXACTLY the same you just contradicted yourself there.

It isn' t an argument, it' s fact, I' m not debating anything here I am telling you that PS3 already has games that look better, I' m not asking you to agree, I' m informing you of the fact - again there is no argument here.

As far as Geforce 9 cards go, there is no way they will double the performance of the current cards, especially if they are coming out this year and for only $500-$600