Research analyst Daniel Ernst is worried about the PS3. He believes that there aren't enough exclusive titles to boost the console's sales and, as a result, that will "setback" the PS3 for the next few years.

He also had a few more gaming predictions for 2008...

If gaming were a religion, and we its followers, analysts would be its prophets -- garbed in flowing robes and little belt buckles made to look like old NES controllers. And even though gaming isn't a religion (yet), and analysts lack true soothsaying abilities, gamers still treat their words as reason to get up in arms. Stepping up to the plate today, boys and girls, is Hudson Square Research analyst Daniel Ernst. And Sony fans, you might want to sit down for this one.

First off, Ernst knows Metal Gear Solid 4 has big shoes to fill with being the PS3's savior and all, but he doesn't think Snake and co. are up for the job. He believes the game "won't be enough to materially accelerate the PS3 this year."

Ernst is also preemptively calling Gran Turismo 5 a "no show" this year -- a decent hypothesis considering GT 5 Prologue's release a couple months ago.

And last, but not least -- but certainly last on the release calendar -- is Final Fantasy XIII. "Initially we had hoped it would make it in for the end of the year," he said. "[But FFXIII] definitely appears off the table" as per Square Enix's guidance.

"For the PS3, that's definitely a setback," Ernst said, referencing all the heads counted absent in the PS3's lineup. "And I think this is why their 10M unit guidance for the [fiscal year] was lower than most had expected."

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