In the warm-up to this year's holiday season, consumer analytics firm Nielsen have devised a list of the most anticipated games to be released the rest of the year.
The list displays each game with a rating illustrated by a percentage, based on data collected from over 4,800 gamers aging from 7 to 54 years old in the US. The percentages are set based on a number of key factors such as public awareness, purchase interest and consumer rating.
As far as muti-platform titles go, Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 unsurprisingly comes out on top, with a rating of as much as 98%. Just below we find Fallout 4 and Assassin's Creed: Syndicate with 95% each. Furthermore the new Need for Speed game lands at 92%, just ahead of Star Wars Battlefront with 88%.
These results are impressive, but even more noteworthy is the anticipation levels for the Xbox One exclusive Halo 5: Guardians, who received a perfect score of 100%. In other words, every single participant in the survey, who owns an Xbox One, showed interest in that particular game in some form, making it a far more sought after exclusive than Sony's heavy hitter for this holiday season. Namely Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection, which is slated for PS4, and PS4 alone. Remains to be seen how this awareness and interest translates in terms of actual sales.
The full results are as follows, courtesy of Nielsen