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8. The Wii's Christmas line-up

The big Christmas games from Sony and Microsoft were great this year. The PS3 had Resistance 2, LittleBigPlanet and MotorStorm Pacific Rift, while the Xbox 360 had Fable II, Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts and Gears of War 2. Nintendo gave Wii owners Wii Music, Disaster Day of Crisis and Animal Crossing: Let's go to the City. Even the most blinkered fanboy can't help but see the gaping chasm that is the difference in quality between those line-ups. Considering Nintendo fans had Super Mario Galaxy and Metroid Prime: Corruption during the same period the year before, perhaps we'd been spoiled, but, after the release of Super Smash Bros. Brawl in June, we can't help but feel as if Nintendo completely ignored the hardcore gamer for the rest of the year.

7. The great PSP game drought

Can you remember all the great PSP games released in 2008? You probably can actually, seeing they can be counted on one hand. God of War: Chains of Olympus was superb, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII was brilliant, LocoRoco 2 was an excellent follow-up to a great game and Patapon is probably worthy of a mention. But, after that, the list runs dry. What other quality games came out for Sony's handheld wonder in 2008? Sony released two Buzz! games (which we're not convinced are entirely suitable for the platform) and a number of services (on demand TV and movies, and a GPS system), but real quality games were in very short supply, not only from Sony but from third parties, too. We're hoping for better next year.

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