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2009 Predictions
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2009 PredictionsOkay, now that I posted the results for 2008, make your wacky or facty predictions for 2009. An 8th generation console announced? Add-on mania? Netflix transitions to mostly digital? A hyped-up new IP that fails miserably? Microsoft stops putting crappy games on XBLA? Never!
- Konami loses their lawsuit against Pentavision, because Konami's yet to put out a portable Beatmania/IIDX/Pop'n that doesn't suck. Thus, DJ MAX lives on.
-- If it does, DJ MAX Fever becomes successful and the DJ MAX series starts to rival Guitar Hero and Rock band in popularity. - Guitar Hero AC succeeds. Mass lynchings of Bemani fans ensues. - Radiant Silvergun gets shot down by the 2D-hatin' asspipers at Microsoft, who finally decide to delete and block rail shooters and scrolling shooters forever. Nintendo gives refuge to RSG via WiiWare. (To those awaiting its release: be praying, be praying, be praying.) -- Regardless, people continue to hate on WiiWare and VC, calling every last title on it overpriced shovelware garbage. - Earthbound NEVER comes to VC. And for that matter, Mother 3 never gets a US release...but Nintendo puts out an open letter to fans explaining why. Said fans do not grasp the true form of the letter, and continue to riot. - Konami puts out some sort of action or RPG game featuring Pop'n Music characters. -- If it does, A. Michel (the guy in my avatar as of this writing) dies in it. =( - The DSi pulls a 64DD and doesn't get a North American release. - Return of Guys On A Show. The first new episode is a drunken orgy, slash The Fuck Show, slash has special guests DMN and Travis. - Blackwolf and the ferret make amends and cease their rivalry. - Jack Voldemort stages a real-life siege on Take Two and Rockstar's HQ. It fails and he's thrown in jail. - Brawl dies out. Everyone who plays Brawl gets labeled a "tourneyfag" and is banned from various Smash communities. Then the Supreme Court rules 7-0 that Brawl should be banned. (The 2 judges that say no get kicked out.) - Gradius ReBirth's predicted GameSpot score: 1.5 (way too short, same shit from 1985 apparently). Sin and Punishment 2's score: 3.0 (outdated gameplay, it's not 40 hours long, it's a fucking rail shooter and not an FPS) - Arika attempts to make a new Tetris TGM. The Tetris Company sues. Arika says "fuck you," wins the lawsuit, and makes it. - The new comparison joke on OLR is "better than La-Mulana" instead of "better than Crysis." - Speaking of which, Crysis takes #1 in the OLRMM. Last edited by gs68 on Fri Jan 02, 2009 10:38 am, edited 1 time in total.
-3 Guitar Hero's are announced as well as a RB
-Sony finally drops it's price for PS3 -Video sharing makes it into Home -Home finally comes out (March?) -Wii pulls another blockbuster (ala Wii Fit) from under them. Only one though... -Wii starts support for channels via the SD Memory Card
- Nintendo releases Super Smash Bros DS
- Nintendo also releases the Earthbound Trilogy (either via WiiWare/VC or DS cart) - Nintendo will announce EBA2 - KoF XII makes it to the US via consoles - SFIV will get bad reviews because "it's more of the same" - Rez 2 gets announced for the Wii, along with a Rez 1 port also for the Wii. - Portal sequel/prequel gets announced. (I'm betting more on a prequel) - Sonic and the Black Knight will get stellar reviews and it will become a must have for Sonic fans and Wii owners alike. - GT5 (Gran Turismo) will be delayed once again. - PS3 and Wii will have a price drop. - Darkstalkers will make it to either PSN or XBLA - Wii storage problem will still won't fixed completely, and will have to be forced to enable external HDD support - Konami will bring either Dance Maniax or PPP to the Wii I'll try to think of more, but for now that's all.
I'm going to make my list a little organized and huge this year
Gaming stuff: - Sony will announce a price cut by E3 for the PS3, it will be a $50-$100 price drop and they will keep the 80gig bundle as their base SKU - The Wii will NOT have a price drop, but will promise to increase its production of the console - In a move to bring back its core gamers; Nintendo will announce a few monster titles: A new Zelda game, a new Excite Truck and a new title from Shiggy Miyamoto... - Nintendo will come out with a Time Crisis collection game for the Wii that will utilize the Wii Balance Board... - Nintendo will announce an Earthbound/Mother trilogy pack for the US... It will also come out that HAL Labs is working on the next Mother game... - Microsoft will come out with a Blu-Ray player attachment for the 360 and it will be $100 - Microsoft/Rare will announce a new Killer Instincts game and that it will be an Xbox360 exclusive... - MGS4 will NOT come to the Xbox 360 this year - A new Rock Band title will be announced this year (but won't come out till 2010) - FF13 will finally get a release date... All Games and OLR Stuff: - Something BIG will happen to the All Games Radio Network (thats not FNG Live).. - Skie will do a surprise JTV special with SingStar:Abba with Rice Princess and Xtofer - OLR will FINALLY have a OLR T-shirt for people to buy - OLR will get a new/updated website - OLRevolution 2nd mix will come out Sports championships: - The Lakers will win the NBA Finals over the Boston Celtics - The NY Giants will win the Superbowl over the Steelers - Brett Favre will retire - The NY Rangers will win the Stanley Cup over the Colorado Avalanche... This will result in VxJasonxV to banning me
Hm... I would like to expand on this one a bit and say that it will be ready able to be shipped out in time for me to wear to ACen, even if it were borderline enough that overnight shipping had to be involved.
Well aren't the Excite Truck devs working on a new game, right? I heard that might be it, I liked the original. And 2nd mix? Once I get the hookup for the theme I'll give it the once-over and when it's good to go, I'll see if I can't launch it before 2010 OLRmy since 6/23/2002!
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And I won't buy it because it'll be gimped to hell and back.
I'm playing it very conservative this year. I don't think this is going to be a "big" year, as I think it's the calm before the storm... I think 2010 is when we'll hear about some new consoles that will, of course, blow us away.
Microsoft: * Will again this year only give us one major console update in the fall, as they will claim the NXE can meet the needs of adding content as needed, and it will for the most part. They'll throw a bone at us once every few months with some neat new channel or frilly thing we play for a day and then forget about. The major console update will somehow address the Community Games which will have grown out of control by this point in the year, making it impossible to find quality games. It will give our avatars "rooms" or some other type of Home-inspired additions. * Microsofts Littlebigplanet ripo.... i mean "inspired" game will be a focus at this years E3. * Hardcore gamers will be disappointed with Microsoft this year because there won't be a lot of the "Hardcore" titles showing up. Sure there will be a few big ones that will appease the majority, but this year Microsoft is going to go for the jugular in the "family" games market. Sony: * Won't stop trying with PS3. I agree there will be a price drop. There will also be a major management shakeup and I think you'll hear a lot less talk at the various expos this year about how the PS3 is an "entertainment console"... expect to see a lot more focus on Blu-Ray live and the social components of the console i.e. Home. as well as the synchriocity between PSP & PS3 * Will highlight at E3 this year another "Web 3.0" game that relies heavily on user created content just like Singstore, just like littlebigplanet, but something kind of new. I think also we'll see our first true Sony MMO finally show up this year, and Sony will have some limited success with games that you'd usually play on your PC but... on... your... console? No, really. Nintendo: * Realizing that E3 is open to the masses again, Nintendo will basically suck MASSIVE fanboy cock at this year's E3 to try and win them back and deliver at least 3 titles we've "all been waiting for". Reggie will somehow make a joke about how they ignored us all last E3. Some type of new Zelda, a new F-Zero which indeed is what the Excite Truck team has been working on, and I think I'm going to go with the above people that predict that Mother will somehow FINALLY return to the US. The internet has an instant orgasm but the game turns out to be not that great. Colored Wii's FINALLY come out. I'm going to go out on a limb and say something extra crazy and say with this Wii redesign will come 720p outputs, which will make us all orgasm on paper because it's "Wii HD", but in execution it doesn't turn out to be that great because the hardware doesn't get much of an upgrade. * Meanwhile it's a 3rd party developer who will steal the show on the Wii this year and come out with some awesome game that becomes the years must have title, even moreso than anything on Sony or Microsoft's system. Apple: * Continues to see large successes in iPhone apps. Some type of expansion will allow these things to be played on your PC or on your television even, but it's met with tepid success. * I'm going to go out on a huge limb here and say that a future version of iTunes will challenge Steam in selling PC games (Mac games on a Mac naturally) directly through the store. Maybe even something where you can "carry the game with you" and when you plug your phone into a computer, it opens up the game for play on the computer. Fanboys declare Steam dead in the water, but iTunes ends up making most of their $ off popcap style casual titles, and Steam remains big with the "hardcore" PC crowd. General: * Final Fantasy XIII October 2009 Japan, November 2009 US * Rock Band 3 & New Guitar Hero game... but sales decline. One of the games finally introduces a new instrument. I'll even say it's the keyboard we've all been waiting for. How they fit all that shit on the screen..... no idea. That's what the sales decline gets blamed on, but in reailty people are just getting tired of it. * Konami sues over DJ Hero. Fanboys go ballistic because the game isn't half bad, but doesn't see the success of Guitar Hero. It's no beatmania, either which will put off some of your purists. * Okay, chalk this one up to wishful thinking but... I'm going to go for it....: Noticing what is being cooked up with DJ Hero, Konami re-introduces beatmania on the PS3/XB360 at E3 to justify their lawsuit. It's not directly tied to IIDX, but looks very similar. Fanboys collectively faint because Konami appears to get it right. Online play is there. They mix in old classic IIDX songs with newer "hits" though the "hits" are mostly crappy covers but all is forgiven because it's beatmania on the PS3/XB360. Rob Roberts-- Contaminating Internet Radio since 1998
THIS JUST IN: Van Halen's "Jump" and Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" confirmed for ROCKBAND 3! -- now with piano parts! (srsly tho that'd be epic, no?)
I could see that first thing happening more than the 2nd one, cuz it's easier to call their lawyers than it is to develop a game, apparently. OLRmy since 6/23/2002!
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Seeing as Konami is making it make money off of Activision paying them royalties, I doubt they'll do a thing about DJ Hero. Hell, DJ Hero might not do too well because "it's not geetar heerow."
UPDATE (8:32PM PST):
Looks like this one just lost.
Predictions for 2009:
- Activision publishes DJ Hero, and follows up with surprise hits Keyboard Hero, Mariachi Hero, and Mandolin Hero. Having successfully flooded the market with the name, Activision releases Rock Band Hero in December, cleverly stealing Harmonix's market out from under them by confusing parents at Christmastime. - Portal 2 released out of nowhere. Like, out of a wall or something. - Harmonix announces multi-instrument music game "Rock Band: ABBA" which features a tambourine peripheral. During long sections where there is no tambourine, the tambourine player may optionally sing. - Seeing the success of retro revivals such as Bionic Commando, Mega Man, and Street Fighter, Philips decides to re-release Zelda: the Wand of Gamelon with updated graphics and sound. It receives terrible reviews and doesn't sell. Philips doesn't know what the fuck. - New Wii channel announced: Playstation Home. Turns out to just be a prank to mess with Microsoft. - Nintendo announces a new game for the Zelda, F-Zero, and Excite Truck franchises simultaneously. Unfortunately, it's the same game for all three series. "Exciting Zelda F-Truck" becomes the first Nintendo game to score an AO rating. - Preorders of Portal 2 are promised free cake. In actuality preorders are not given cake. - Capcom announces "Capcom Vs. Geography," a new edutainment title. Top tier characters are Chun-Li, Ryu, and Florida. - Xbox Live Community Games becomes the next major hub for porn. Xbox Live sees a rise in subscriptions, Xbox Live users see rises elsewhere. Man, I got nothin' this year.
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