IGN’s GameMetrics has announced their predictions for the year’s best selling games. They have decided that GTA, Halo 3, and Madden 2007 will prove to sell the most units. They believe that these franchises could very well make up over 30% of the total game sales for the second half of the year.
If this proves to be true, then of the proposed 50,000,000 units that will be sold this half of the year, 15,000,000 will be either Halo, Madden, or GTA. This is even more impressive when you consider that they have not even launched yet. Halo 3 alone is expected to garner somewhere around 6,000,000 units sold.
The one question I have amidst these predictions is where is Pokemon? Granted these franchises sell amazingly, but this year we have also had Pokemon Diamond/Pearl as contenders. I would be extremely surprised if one of these games did not make the top 5 (or possibly even take out one of the power houses). Am I alone in this thought?
Chufmoney