GamesIndustry.biz has recently conducted a huge survey of industry members to find out their top picks of 2010. The survey, which reached out to 99,000 members of the business, has named Halo: Reach as the biggest seller of 2010, beating out other hopefuls such as Final Fantasy XIII and even Call of Duty 7.
The survey also named Alan Wake as 2010's "Dark Horse," while music games are expected to take the biggest popularity hit. The industry also believes that casual games will experience the most growth this year, followed by action/adventure games and the ever-booming MMO category.
What do you reckon? Will Reach beat the likes of Call of Duty 7, and will Alan Wake surprise us all? Hit the jump for the full results.
Halo: Reach to be biggest seller in 2010 [GI.biz]
Games expected to be the biggest sellers in 2010
1. Halo: Reach
2. Final Fantasy XIII
3. StarCraft II
4. Call of Duty 7
5. FIFA 11
6. BioShock 2
7. Mass Effect 2
8. God of War III
9. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
10. Gran Turismo 5
Top ten games tipped as a 'dark horse' for 2010
1. Alan Wake
2. Heavy Rain
3. Darksiders
4. Split Second
5. Brink
6. APB
7. Mass Effect 2
8. Dante's Inferno
9. Just Cause 2
=10. Metro 2033
=10. Max Payne 3
=10. Red Dead Redemption
Genre expected to become less popular in 2010
Music – 33.7%
First-person shooter – 13.5%
Real-time strategy – 12.6%
Casual / social – 10.3%
Action / adventure – 7.3%
Racing - 7%
MMO – 6.2%
Sports – 6.2%
Role-playing – 3.2%
Genre expected to become more popular in 2010
Casual / social – 32.3%
Action / adventure – 23.5%
MMO – 17.3%
Role-playing game – 9.7%
First-person shooter – 9.1%
Racing – 2.9%
Real-time strategy – 2.3%
Sports – 1.5%
Music – 1.5%
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5:00 AM on 01.09.2010
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i'd love to see some more on heavy rain and alan wake soon. here's hoping that they come out swinging and give some acclaim to their creators so they can continue their fine work.
All sequels, seven of which are on their third iteration or greater. Just pointing out the obvious.
I'm not so naive to think wholly new IPs to be best sellers but I still dream of the day that the title Whatever game from the developers of super popular carries the same selling power as the titles Halo:Got a new Helmet or COD:Microwave dinner Warfare.
But MAG is not even on the list of 'dark horses', so I hope that those analysts are shit and that's very likely, because that list is written by captain obvious.
Wow.
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2. Final Fantasy XIII
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If Japanese sales are an indication i think not.
"Genre expected to become less popular in 2010
Music – 33.7%"
No shit Sherlock.
"Genre expected to become more popular in 2010
Casual / social – 32.3%"
Well shit....
I take the exclusion of Nintendo titles that are likely to sell very well (Galaxy 2, Zelda) on the fact that neither have concrete release dates (and one of them doesn't even have a full title).
Though that really makes me suspicious of their inclusion of "COD 7". Or maybe that just makes me a little sad to think that a game we know nothing about will already be the 4th best selling game this year. Oh my.
All you need to do is focus on your Idea, and not try to make everyone happy with features that may not suit the game. As the Darksiders creator said, they didnt put MP in the game or think about DLC because they had an Idea of the Game and just focused all their efforts on it...and it shows.
I thought ME2 would've been higher...its making Mass Effect 1 look like an Xbox 1 Game...
Although Fable II did really well... hmmm
First-person shooter – 13.5%
Genre expected to become more popular in 2010
First-person shooter – 9.1%
They should make their mind up. This list is fiction of the highest order
I'm very excited about Alan Wake.
Of course though millions will also just buy it off worldofwarcraft.com so it'll be hard to track until Blizzard does a press release on how many its sold.
But yeah, Cataclysm will own everything this year in sales :)
wow fan ahead, since when do sales make a game good? and it's extremely obvius than a WoW xpack will always sell good coz there are more than 12 mill of suscribers, so no surprice there
ODST sucked and Reach will suck.
that and ff13 should blast everything.
i think people are getting sick of the yearly halo and cod's.
it seems these companies ( especially activision ) forgot what happened with the Tony Hawk and tomb raider series by not giving people enough time to want them again. people are already burnt out on guitar hero but we'll see several more this year because activision don't care about anything but more money.
I am also wondering, why is Mass Effect 2 a dark horse title and Starcratf II in 2010? Hah, but I am stoked for Mass Effect 2 anyways.
I'm glad to see Bioshock making its mark in the top 10 tho >=)
1) This is a compilation of the results of a survey issued to many different industry members. The inclusion of ME2 in two different categories means these members have two different opinions about the game.
2) This is not a premature "Best of 2010" list. It's what people think will sell the best. Ghost125 in particular does not seem to grasp this.
"Dark Horse" is a term used to describe something that does well despite expectations otherwise. So what we have here is a list of games with expectations that they surpass expectations, which makes you wonder why expectations are so low in the first place. Go figure.
Not that I don't like Halo, but come one, Mass Effect 2 looks to be the second coming of Zeus.