IGN Entertainment has released its latest GamerMetrics report, showing BioWare's upcoming Xbox 360 exclusive
Mass Effect as the most anticipated title for 2007's second quarter, and
Fable 2 as the most popular title showcased during GDC.
The GamerMetrics list gauges reader interest in games through surveys and user activity on IGN's sites, including IGN.com, TeamXbox.com and Fileplanet.com. Looking at the 2007 Game Developers Conference,
covered in depth by Gamasutra, the GamerMetrics report found that Lionhead and Microsoft's upcoming
Fable 2 was the number one most requested game on IGN during the event, thanks to Peter Molyneux's talk at the event.
Additionally, titles for the PlayStation 3, which had a strong showing during GDC, also drew considerable consumer interest - with five PS3 releases making it onto the 'most-awaited' top 20 chart for the week, and
LittleBigPlanet ranked tenth.
However,
Home, the PlayStation 3's upcoming virtual community announced during GDC, ranked fifth in reader anticipation, beating out upcoming heavyweights such as
Super Mario Galaxy (sixth) and
Halo 3 (seventh). Other notable future games releases during the week of GDC included
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 for the Xbox 360 in the second spot, followed by
Super Paper Mario for the Wii, and
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed for next-gen platforms.
Overall, across all platforms surveyed, which includes PlayStation 2, PSP, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, Nintendo DS, and PC, the most wanted game expected to debut in Q2 2007 is Microsoft and BioWare's upcoming Xbox 360 exclusive
Mass Effect. The upcoming Xbox 360 release of
Guitar Hero II and Nintendo's
Super Paper Mario for the Wii ranked as the second and third place titles. Xbox 360 exclusive
Forza Motorsport 2 and
Mario Party 8 for the Wii rounded out the top five in as the fourth and fifth most wanted games for the coming quarter.
On the Xbox 360,
Mass Effect,
Guitar Hero II, and
Forza Motorsport 2 claimed the top three spots for the console specific list, with SouthPeak's upcoming “persistent online RPG”
Two Worlds nabbing the fourth spot. Starbreeze's comic-based next-gen effort
The Darkness, which is also getting a PlayStation 3 release as well, ranked as the fifth most anticipated Xbox 360 release on the chart.
SCEA's
Lair topped the PS3 list in the number one spot, above the upcoming port of
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2. Tecmo's
Ninja Gaiden Sigma took the third spot on the chart, followed by Ubisoft's
Rainbow Six: Vegas. Once again
The Darkness showed up, this time on the PS3 chart as the fifth most anticipated PS3 release for the second quarter.
Looking to the Wii,
Super Paper Mario trumped all other Q2 releases for Nintendo's platform, with
Mario Party 8 exciting players with multiplayer mini-games in the second position.
Pokemon Battle Revolution, the first Wii title to boast online multiplayer, took the third spot on the chart, followed by Ubisoft's
Prince of Persia: Rival Swords and Activision's movie adaptation
Spider-Man 3.
A pair of
Pokemon title ranked on top of the DS chart, with
Pokemon Diamond taking top honors above
Pokemon Pearl. The recently announced
Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales ranked third on the portable chart, followed by
Naruto: Ninja Council 3 and yet another appearance by
Spider-Man 3.
Spider-Man 3 also showed up as the top title for the PlayStation 2, while Square Enix's recently announced
Dawn of Mana ranked second. Atlus USA's upcoming RPG
Odin Sphere and Agetec's
Raw Danger claimed the third and fourth positions on the chart, while Namco Bandai's
Eureka Seven Vol. 2: The New Vision took fifth.
On the PSP, it's
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 that proved to be the most wanted game, with Bethesda's portable RPG
The Elder Scrolls Travels: Oblivion and
Rainbow Six: Vegas taking the second and third spots on the list.
Spider-Man 3 once again swings onto the chart in the fourth position, with the PSP list's top five rounded out by
Prince of Persia: Rival Swords.
Lastly, the PC list was headed up by Windows Vista figurehead
Halo 2, followed by
Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar and
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2. A pair of lesser known titles round out the list with Turtle Rock's
Left 4 Dead in the fourth position, followed by Atari's
ArmA: Combat Operations.
