Well, I think most of the old canards are on display, and whatever, people will say whatever they want. I think the one thing we do need to be concerned about is how people have a predilection to spend money on franchises they are comfortable with and, to some extent, games they already know are good. There is a strong temptation for many I would imagine to repurchase God of War 3 instead of New IP A given the risk involved in buying New IP A.
Normally, I'd say this would be a pretty big problem. With this gen in particular, however, it seems like there are so few new titles on shelves that it's not necessarily as big of a problem as it would have been in say the PS2 era, where a remaster of RE2 would be going up against Devil May Cry.
In other words, I feel like they have the potential to suck the air out of the room at retail more than they do at the greenlight stage.