Warhammer Online has won multiple awards for its development so far but has yet to prove it can sit with the titans at the top. That hasn't stopped analysts from placing it as the only MMO in the potential best sellers list for 2008.
Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey claims that the year ahead could see the retailer's 2008 results exceeding his own predictions by a large margin.
We recognize investors could continue to punish shares from... fears over a consumer lead recession. That said, we continue to believe the video market will grow significantly in ’08, and expect their used game model will be very attractive to a potentially stressed consumer.
Despite the console and limited multiplayer dominated list, Warhammer Online managed to break in and this could reprisent the start of something revolutionary with the new EA Mythic title.
The list is as follows:
Grand Theft Auto IV (Take-Two)
Midnight Club: Los Angeles (Take-Two)
Guitar Hero III (Activision)
Rock Band (EA)
FIFA '08 (EA)
Madden '08 (EA)
Burnout Paradise (EA)
Battlefield (EA)
Mercenaries 2 (EA)
Borderlands (Take-Two)
Fable 2 (Microsoft)
Halo Wars (Microsoft)
Fallout 3 (Bethesda)
Saboteur (EA)
Warhammer Online (EA)
Spore (EA)
Frontlines (THQ)
Wall-E (THQ)
Call of Duty 4 (Activision)
