@devoureroftime: Yeah that's a good point, we even lost the creators of Dungeons and Dragons a while ago, and I'm sure others from general geekery video gamery culture will fad away as well, Stan Lee is getting up there. It's sad but hey, it's pretty cool that so many people managed to create so much entertainment after just creating something that seemed fun/cool to do at the time. And hopefully our generations will live up to what they started for us.
A revolutionary new console is released by some relatively little-known company. It will cost $700.
New Call of Duty is wildly different from its predecessors. Included in the game will be a map creator. You'll be able to put your face on your soldier by using something like EA's Game Face. Radical changes are made to the physics of the game. Each weapon fires realistically simulated bullets.
Bloodborne will be horribly broken, short, and unsatisfying, despite nice changes to the combat. Dark Souls III assets will be leaked, giving fans new hope.
Gabe Newell changes company name to HL3, releases game called Valve.
I will continue to replay Half Life 1, 2, Ep1, Ep2, Black Mesa and hope I didn't waste time falling in love with a story/universe that will never be completed.
I don't expect remodels of either system this year. Too early still. PS3 didn't get a redesign until... 2009 was it? The Xbox 360 S wasn't introduced until 2010. Based on that, I can see the PS4 and Xbone getting redesigns no sooner than 2017, by which time I imagine the parts will be much smaller and more easily made.
As for 2015, however, I can only expect three things:
Forum dwellers will point to one or two terrible things and once again say that gaming is dying, ignoring all the good that comes out in the year.
The games media will continue to look down at its audience.
And that there will likely be more than a few sweet games out.
I expect a few delays but overall it will be an overall good to great year. Not 98 or 08 or 11, but a good/surprising year like 12 which I thought was shit at first and enjoyed a shit ton of games.
What's with the grim predictions? Is Double Fine in a poor financial position or something?
Anyway, I predict that:
AC will take a year off. (Edit: I thought about it for more than a second, and yeah right!)
Jeff won't like the new Call of Duty.
Bloodborne will not be met with critical acclaim.
The Witcher 3 launch will not be smooth.
A remastered Bioshock Infinite for the new consoles will be announced.
Either the new Mass Effect or the other Bioware IP will be officially announced with a release date in 2016.
This but it will be like the Halo collection
I actually agree we will see a Bioshock collection with all DLC etc....put a neat bow on all of that whilst they get their heads round where the hell to send the series.
Star Wars Battlefront will be a horrible disappointment.
The Order will be a horrible disappointment.
Batman Arkham Knight will be a horrible disappointment.
Zelda Wii U will be a horrible disappointment.
Halo 5 will be an expected disappointment.
The Division will be an expected disappointment.
Battlefield Hardline will be an expected disappointment.
COD and AssCreedVic will be mediocre.
Metal Gear Solid V will be pretty alright.
Uncharted 4 will be delayed.
Destiny will get 3 expansions.
GTAV PC will be buggy as hell and not easily moddable.
Dying Light will be boring.
Star Citizen will have three new modules announced and rack up another 5 million dollars in crowdfunding and still not release anything resembling a full on beta.
Just Cause 3 will be described as "more of the same, but that's okay" in reviews and get an 82 on Metacritic.
Nothing interesting will happen at E3; Fallout 4, Half Life 3, The Last Guardian and Red Dead Revengeance will continue to not be announced.
The Oculus Rift will continue to be in prototyping and there will be no news about a consumer model.
Indie games will dominate GOTY discussions and at least half of the top 10 will be titles no one has paid any attention to yet.
Star Wars Battlefront will be a horrible disappointment.
The Order will be a horrible disappointment.
Batman Arkham Knight will be a horrible disappointment.
Zelda Wii U will be a horrible disappointment.
Halo 5 will be an expected disappointment.
The Division will be an expected disappointment.
Battlefield Hardline will be an expected disappointment.
COD and AssCreedVic will be mediocre.
Uncharted 4 will be delayed.
Destiny will get 3 expansions.
GTAV PC will be buggy as hell and not easily moddable.
Dying Light will be boring.
Star Citizen will have three new modules announced and rack up another 5 million dollars in crowdfunding and still not release anything resembling a full on beta.
Just Cause 3 will be described as "more of the same, but that's okay" in reviews and get an 82 on Metacritic.
Nothing interesting will happen at E3; Fallout 4, Half Life 3, The Last Guardian and Red Dead Revengeance will continue to not be announced.
The Oculus Rift will continue to be in prototyping and there will be no news about a consumer model.
Indie games will dominate GOTY discussions and at least half of the top 10 will be titles no one has paid any attention to yet.
By 2015 the world will be amazing...some might say shocking - Microwave pizza will be perfected - All HDTVs will be 20K - After 120 years of work only advancing the 'horseless carriage' science will turn ist eye to the 'carrageless horse' bringing a new mode of transport to all of humanity. - Sexbots will be here...finally. The only catch is they can only make the male version because science still lack the true understanding of how a vagina works. - With the polar icecaps gone, the US with a consortium of nations (Great Britan, France, Turkey and El Salvador) dump 200 trillion tons of styrofoam packing peanuts on each pole. The reflective properties of the peanuts saves the earth. Sadly, every single penguin on earth swallows its own weight in 'these packing materials' - they promptly die. - At a US/Russia summit, Putin uses the n-word. As silence cover the hall, Obama answer with "Yo Mama so ugly, Karl Marx told her she needs to shave." ....World War 3 starts and ends in five seconds as both Putin and Obama flip a table.
- Fallout 4 will be announced early next year, be set in Boston and launch fall 2015.
- David Hayter will not appear in MGS V. The game will be critically acclaimed however it will be divisive among fans as story will tone down a lot of the craziness that the previous entries in the series were known for.
- Bloodborne will be good/great but will not live up to fans expectations set by Dark Souls.
- Destiny 2 will be announced at E3. Will promise to fix problems with the first game.
- Halo 5 : Guardians will release. Single Player will be solid however multiplayer will disappoint. Will dig 343 into a deeper hole with the Halo franchise. Sales will not meet Microsoft's expectations.
- Overwatch will be massive. Surprise hit of the year and will reinvigorate the class-based shooter genre.
- Mirror's Edge 2 will get another tech demo at E3. Does not get released until late 2016.
@yukoasho: There's a good reason why we might see an Xbox downsize in 2015 and not a PS4 one. Large fabs like TSMC switched to 20nm manufacturing only shortly after the new consoles released. Switching to a lower cost 20nm part will allow the Xbox to maintain the lower price that has allowed them to keep up in the sales race with PS4 this holiday season, while also maintaining profit margins. That is a very big short term motivator. Due to Xbox's architecture switching to 20nm will probably allow them to switch to a much smaller cooling system, while PS4's architecture will not allow a low enough TDP upon switching to 20nm to create an opportunity for a slim version. PS4's are selling so well right now that it doesn't really matter anyway. There probably won't be a slim PS4 until 2 years from now when a 14-16nm part can be used to lower their TDP to the point where slimming down is possible.
@brendan: Well, changing the internals happens all the time. Even with the OG Xbox, the inner board got smaller and more efficient than earlier models, even without a shell redesign. I can totally see both boxes being lighter as components shrink, but keeping their case design for a long while, as redesigning the case is more for commercial reasons most of the time.
People on the Internet will get angry about something tangentially related to video games. Other people, also on the Internet, will in turn get angry about the first group of people getting angry.
- David Hayter will not appear in MGS V. The game will be critically acclaimed however it will be divisive among fans as story will tone down a lot of the craziness that the previous entries in the series were known for.
MGS V will be beloved as a game, but Keifer's performance will be so minimal and/or phoned-in that it will dominate much of the conversation. Every review will mention it, every forum post will be "I loved phantom pain but man if only they hadn't gone for the stunt casting" or "I liked everything about phantom pain except for (nitpicks) which maybe they could have fixed if they hadn't wasted half the budget on the 24 guy!!!!!!!!!!!" and it will also put Konami in an awkward position for the inevitable sequel because they can't really go back to David Hayter. As a result, MGS 6 will be the one that finally stars The Boss, but that's for the 2017 Predictions Thread.
Also, Quiet's character arc (and the details of her traumatic past) will be so wrongheaded and remarkably clueless that the blogger thinkpieces will block out the sun.
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