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2008 Predictions

Postby robbway » Mon Dec 31, 2007 6:01 am

What will the New Year bring in gaming? Gwarsh! I don't know. Rarely do two years go by without the announcement of "next generation" systems. Will 2008 be different? Will Nintendo announce the DS Medium-Well? Will Blu-Ray win the format war? Another year chocked full of match-3 game goodness? A new Jackiepoo? NO!
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Postby act_deft » Mon Dec 31, 2007 7:14 pm

My predictions for 2008 are:

- FFXIII will be delayed until early 2009

- Silent Hill 5 will also be delayed.

- One of the big cellphone companies (Sony-Ericsson, Motorola, etc.) will reveal a new portable gaming system, along with some mobile capabilities, yet it will not be a phone like the N-Gage is (or was).

- Nintendo will reveal a new handheld to follow up the DS. (DS^2)

- Wii Fit will be a total flop in the beginning, until a new "under-the-water" title makes an appearance and gets unexpected good reviews.

- Konami jumps the gun, again, and releases Beatmania IIDX, a follow up of Beatmania (US) but with the Gold interface (after the JP release of GOLD CS).

- Kirby will get a Wii game, it most possibly be a follow up (or a Remake) to Canvas Course.

And last but not least the Eye of Judgement will sell 1mil worldwide and LOKI will have to pay his bet.
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Postby VxJasonxV » Mon Dec 31, 2007 10:37 pm

- The PS3 will have 3 landmark titles (critically acclaimed, 'must have, must play', everyone talks about it, blah blah blah), two of them will be exclusive to the console.

- The PS3 will not come within 10% of the 360 or the Wii (terms of market share).

- The 360 will get a web browser. (ehhhh. My gut is telling me not to say this, but I said it... so blah)

- The DS will come out with EVEN MORE COLORS (zoinks).

- A Wii update will bring more than 4 pages of "Channels" (or the Wii secretly already does this and I don't yet know that).

- The Wii VC will take on 2 new consoles.
(Bonus Points: 3 new consoles, one will be Master System, the other will be a portable, more than likely Game Boy, with the Game Gear being the possible third).

- Smash Bros. Brawl will kick ass and be an absolutely stellar followup in the franchise.
-- Smash Bros. Brawl WILL NOT release until May 2K8 (or summer... after the kids finals are done :) )

- Nintendo will offer yet ANOTHER free addon to the Wii/Wiimotes (first: new straps, second: new jackets, third: ?!?!)

- The PS3 drops in price first by $50, $100 by years end.

- eAmuse will STILL not exist in the US

- Supernova 3 will come out, and continue to be met by a collective "meh". It will not have a new interface.

- Rock Band 2 will at the very least be announced, (go wireless Harmonica controller!).
-- That (Harmonica) was a joke. Ha Ha. FAT CHANCE.

- Neither BluRay nor HD DVD will fade very much (in terms of constant releases, market/publisher support).

- Adapters for classic game controllers will come out for the Wii. They will not be first party (i.e. nintendo endorsed) accessories.


This concludes Jason's stabs in the dark...
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Postby JonFields » Tue Jan 01, 2008 12:03 am

Nintendo doesn't fix the supply problem for xmas next year. Xbox live will crash again at christmas. And Playstation 3 will get a $299 version with no hard disk but will accept USB devices.

Also many companies celebrate as their game series hit 20 years of age.
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Postby DarkTetsuya » Tue Jan 01, 2008 12:16 am

act_deft wrote:And last but not least the Eye of Judgement will sell 1mil worldwide and LOKI will have to pay his bet.


If I could afford it I"d take care of it myself, LOL.

I... don't really have any predictions for 2008... well I'm sure there'll be more DS color releases, a new Madden, and more halfassed movie licenses, but other than that.... no freaking clue. :P
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Postby skie » Wed Jan 02, 2008 2:42 am

I'm trying to remember everything I said on this weeks show... I went really crazy and off the wall this year, but I think anything is a realistic possibility.

* Someone will challenge Nintendo for handheld supremacy but it won't be Sony or Microsoft but someone new.

* Nintendo will introduce the Wii's in new colors for holiday 08, and will address the console's limited space issues around that time as well, as the ever-growing library of Wii Network games will strain existing limits.

* PS3 will "reboot" for holiday 08 with a re-done model that will significantly reduce price to be competitive with xb360. Metal Gear Solid 4 will help sales but not enough for PS3 to gain significant market share. The FFXIII demo will release around the time of the reboot and will have people talking so much that it actually moves consoles. (I also think sales will be attributed to some other unknown-as-of-yet "must have" title. I didn't say this on the show but I predict this must have title does some type of Web 2.0 or other internet integration unlike anything we've seen.)

* Microsoft will bring something like Youtube to it's console, thanks to the capabilities they've shown to deliver "buffering" video at a decent rate in the last dashboard update (Inside Xbox)
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Postby VxJasonxV » Wed Jan 02, 2008 8:57 am

skie wrote:* Microsoft will bring something like Youtube to it's console,
And the library of that content will SUCK.
(Yes, add that to my predictions.)
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My Predictions

Postby robbway » Wed Jan 02, 2008 10:18 am

I'll grade similarly to last year.

1) I'll predict that Samba De Amigo will be configurable between the Nunchuk/Remote combination and Two-Remote.

2) Superscope 6 games for SNES VC.

3) Lolo 2 on NES VC. Yay!

4) NDS player on Wii Ware (no extra hardware required)--for a premium, though.

5) What's the DS upgrade? I'm thinking Lite-R. The "R" is the screen edges will almost touch and support a FLAT configuration. This would also benefit from two touch screens, but that's one upgrade too many, I think. It should achieve DS Pocket thinness, without compromise on screen size.

6) Puerto Rico on XBLA. With Catan, it seems a logical next boardgame.

7) Milles Bornes on XBLA.

8) Doritos contest winner on XBLA

9) Sci Fi Channel will greenlight a Halo Mini-Series with a treatment similar to Battlestar Galactica.

10) Eye of Judgement sequel/expansion, Eye of Judgement: Omens of Fate (or equally bad and redundant title), will come with or without the Eye. This will forever seal the maximum number of copies of the original EOJ below 1 million. Listeners and fans of OLR will try to invent some gratuitous contest in which Loki dressing like Tingle is involved.

11) Rock Band w/instruments for PS3 will sell on Amazon's Deal-of-the-Day for $90 or under just to get their stock-space back. After Halo 3 Legendary went for $60, and PS3 is the least-selling, it is inevitable.

12) Desperate for more titles, Nintendo will re-tool their most popular GameCube titles for Wii-release at $20. I think the Metroids, Paper Mario, and Zelda Windwaker are good candidates. Expect new content to be Wii controls and mini-games. We can't get enough of that mini-game goodness!
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Postby ssj100matt » Wed Jan 02, 2008 2:06 pm

- Microsoft will drop the price of the subscription fee for Gold Accounts... And XBL will still break down occasionally

- Nintendo will reveal a new DS redesign along with new colors including Link Green, Samus Orange and Mario Blue & Red...

- MGS4: 1) Will be a late summer title 2) And won't be on 360 3) Will greatly influence sales of the PS3

- Wii Fit and the Wii balance board will not take off (at least not right away)...

- Nintendo will not put out a portable HD for the Wii because of fears of homebrewing and cracking... But people will still get around it...

- An actual Wii music channel will come out... Multiple visualizers will be available including a Nintendogs visualization with dancing puppies...

- Sony will stop putting out PS3's with larger HD space... Will stick with the 80gig, 40gig and possibly bring back the 60gig.. The prices for each SKU will also be:

80G=$450
60G=$350
40G (bundle with Ratchet and Clank)=$300

- The price of Blu Ray players will drop to match the price of HD-DVD players...

- Electric Six and Bloc Party songs will come to Rock Band... Listeners will beg Loki to sing Gay Bar but it won't happen...

- The PSP will make a stronger impact on the handheld market

- OLR the fighting game (MUGEN) will come out

- Mr Spanky will return, where he will surprise and scare off new listeners

- At least 1 new show will come to OLR

- OLR will have a big Smash Bros Brawl tournament... Afterwards AGI listeners will call out the OLR listeners and an even larger (OLR vs AGI) tournament will ensue...
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Postby WarriorBob » Thu Jan 03, 2008 2:57 pm

Videogame predictions for 2008:

- Responding to the success of Rock Band and Guitar Hero, Sony attempts to market the PS3 as the high-end music game machine by hiring Harmonix to finally make some sequels to Frequency and Amplitude (since Sony owns those licenses).

- The Wii makes lightgun games popular again. I rejoice, everyone else looks at me like I'm a crazy hobo.

- Nintendo redesigns the DS, insisting that this time the DS stands for "Does Shit" and pushes the "shit you can do with your DS" angle with more skill training game and other tools like browsers, map software, and crude porn games.

- Gibson starts a line of Guitar Hero themed guitars, thus forever melding videogames and rock music into the ultimate child-mind-poisoning vessel of Satan. An attorney from Florida denounces Gibson, Inc. as a 'murder simulator.'

- One million Eye of Judgment copies are sold. However, it turns out that it's just a million xeroxed copies of one card that some kid sold on ebay for $10. OLR debates Loki's bet and it's decided that Loki will indeed buy an Eye of Judgment and Tingle costume, but instead, during the game against Bobby, Loki will drink a beer while setting fire to the tingle costume.

- "Park my bricks" line from the Duke Nukem Forever teaser becomes the tagline for the new game, which is released in 2008. Duke Nukem Forever: Park My Bricks turns out to be a Tetris clone.

- Nintendo DS redesigned again, newest model has no screens and simply shoots money out of it. Only one copy is ever produced and sits at Nintendo Headquarters.

- Nintendo markets Wii telezapper that lets you use your Wiimote as a phone that telemarketers can't call you on because they don't have your friend code.

- Wii fit balance board delayed until 2009 for North America, "guru meditation error" cited.

- Microsoft fires Santa's elves from Xbox Live support after they all suddenly left the offices in December leaving the service in disarray. XBL is fully functional throughout December '08.

- New Wii channel: "Caption your Cat" announced.
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Postby VxJasonxV » Thu Jan 03, 2008 2:59 pm

WarriorBob wrote:- New Wii channel: "Caption your Cat" announced.
Oh hell yes. XD
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Postby WarriorBob » Thu Jan 03, 2008 3:08 pm

VxJasonxV wrote:
WarriorBob wrote:- New Wii channel: "Caption your Cat" announced.
Oh hell yes. XD


Seriously. They're sitting on a goldmine there. If internet girls found out they could make "Mii-ows" on their Wiis the things would be even harder to find than they are now.
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Postby gs68 » Thu Jan 03, 2008 5:02 pm

- Nintendo does a Wiicats marketing campaign.

- Drum simulation game based on the drum part of Rock Band gets released. Everyone who isn't a Bemani fan forgets that Drummania came first and calls it a ripoff with "Japanese techno" and too many drum pads.

- GH4 has Hyper Speed as an option (and not a cheat), and all the anti-HS'ers finally shut the hell up.

- Drunken orgy on OLR with special guest DMN. All goes well until DMN accidentally breaks his NDA.

- Jackie-poo goes to E3, plays GTA 4, and then beats the crap out of numerous attendees and developers. He then justifies this by saying that it's what video games does to kids.

- IIDX 16 gets released, but it also marks the return of SLAKE, and this is emphasized causing 1/4 of the new songs to be SLAKE songs.

- SSBB online phails.

- SF4's tier list:
Top tier: Ryu and Ken
Bottom tier: Everyone else

- EGM's April Fool's joke: Jackie-poo takes over EGM. Mass jihads to his house by pre-teen readers with an IQ lower than absolute zero ensue.

- The developers of Yaris make a sequel: Hiace.
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Postby robbway » Thu Jan 03, 2008 6:26 pm

gs68 wrote:- Nintendo does a Wiicats marketing campaign.
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- EGM's April Fool's joke: Jackie-poo takes over EGM. Mass jihads by pre-teen readers with an IQ lower than absolute zero ensue.

Wii Zapper Cats. Think about it. Mii-iiow!

IQ lower than absolute zero? That's just cold, man. That's just cold.

On Skie's handheld competition prediction? My best candidate picks are LG or Samsung.
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Postby LOKI » Thu Jan 03, 2008 6:53 pm

VxJasonxV wrote:-

- Adapters for classic game controllers will come out for the Wii. They will not be first party (i.e. nintendo endorsed) accessories.


I think these are already available... I could of sworn I saw some. I know there's the super famicom classic controller in Japan.
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