Gaming predictions for 2015!

Let's hear what you guys have:

Slim versions of both current gen consoles.

Double Fine to close it's doors.

Valve will release a game.

GiantBomb will hire Danny O Dwyer and Mary Kish.

Gears of War (reboot of sorts) will be teased with an e3 trailer.

Uncharted 4 will be pushed to 2016.

Battleborn will be cancelled.

Cross gen games will continue to exist on major releases.

• better than 2014 big games wise
• a bomb member will leave
• no slim models of ps4/xbo
• uncharted 4 will come out
• danny o dwyer and mary kish stays at gamespot
• double fine stays open

What's with the grim predictions? Is Double Fine in a poor financial position or something?

Anyway, I predict that:

1. AC will take a year off. (Edit: I thought about it for more than a second, and yeah right!)
2. Jeff won't like the new Call of Duty.
3. Bloodborne will not be met with critical acclaim.
4. The Witcher 3 launch will not be smooth.
5. A remastered Bioshock Infinite for the new consoles will be announced.
6. Either the new Mass Effect or the other Bioware IP will be officially announced with a release date in 2016.

I shall get my nipple pierced!

Wait I didn't read that title closely.

Judging by a recent hardware article I read it's possible we could see a slim Xbox soon but not a slim PS4. Something to do with how a 20nm die shrink means the xbox can downsize its large fan due to the difference in power consumption but the PS4 can't. I dunno it seemed to make sense.

Giant Bomb gets swotted somehow.

@militantfreudian: Been an odd year for them.

Spacebase was a bit of a failure.

They just laid off a dozen employees and cancelled a project.

And Double Fine adventure seems to be in a financial pickle and they havent even mailed out boxed games and blu rays yet.

Believe me, I hope they can turn it around. But I don't see Grim Fandango, DFA or Massive Challice being big financial hits. Hope I'm wrong.

@militantfreudian: Double Fine just laid off some people after cancelling an unannounced project. That being said, I somehow doubt they're going under.

In any case, predictions (not necessarily serious):

1. Video games will actually start coming out for these new consoles in a volume that forces me to buy one as my computer becomes unable to handle the new stuff.
2. Bloodborne will be the game that divides the Souls fanbase, moreso than Dark Souls II. Still gets like a 91 on Metacritic.
3. Rare is officially shut down, ending with Phil Spencer setting an effigy of Banjo on fire during the Microsoft Press Conference while cackling madly. (Microsoft's share price goes up 3%)
4. Jeff gives Mortal Kombat X 5 stars.
5. Mortal Kombat X fails to make its way onto the site-wide top 10.
6. Ubisoft admits every single one of their big games is the exact same, announces The Tom Clancy's WatchFarCreed, an open world action/stealth/driving game with a bunch of icons on the map, a story that squanders its own thematic potential and an awful PC port.
7. Dan does something extremely stupid on camera.
8. I am the only person on these forums who mentions Might and Magic: Heroes VII
9. The internet continues to be on fire.

Double Fine will be... fine. They'll just Kickstart their way out of any troubles they have.

Seriously though...

• Lots of remasters and compilations. Gears of War: The Marcus Fenix Collection with beta access to Gears 4. For some reason I'm guessing Uncharted is going to get a compilation as well, with Uncharted 4 quietly delayed into early 2016.
• Ubisoft will announce some "changes" to how they operate.
• Instead of bumping the price back up the Xbox One will be $349 indefinitely. (And $449 for Kinect and 1tb models)
• Lots of previously announced games will get pushed back into 2016. Such as Crackdown, Uncharted 4, and for some reason I think the new Zelda game will too.
• Final Fantasy 15 is going to be even more divisive than 13. (Actually I think it already is...)
• Mario Galaxy 3D will be a thing and exclusive to New 3DS
• New Pokemon games. Probably not Gen 7 but rather sequels to X and Y.
• PS4 will get a firmware update which adds PS2 and PS1 emulation. (And hopefully not fuck up systems again)
• Driveclub might work, and Sony will offer a free game as compensation for those affected.
• Steam Machines will flop

New Call of Duty set in alternate WW2

New Gears of War/GoW collection

Battlefield Hardline will be mega rubbs

GTA V DLC

PS4 with bigger hard drive

1. World peace will be achieved. Call of Duty will be forced to change to Call of Gandhi to keep up with this trend.

2. Peter Molyneux will make HaZe 2 where you fart in people's faces and kick chickens while in power armor doing drugs.

3. Jeff and Dan will find Tupac and ride a unicorn on a rainbow with him, while Alex and Vinny find Biggie Smalls and also ride a unicorn on a rainbow with him. This starts up the West/East coast Giant Bomb rivalry.

4. Ubisoft, EA, and Activision join forces to become a cheesy 90s movie corporate villain.

• Bloodborne is the greatest game of all time; unifies all gamers in the universe and we achieve world peace thanks to it.

Gamespot will hire Jeff, Brad, Vinny, Dan, Drew, Jason, Patrick, and Alex. Rorie, on the other hand, will leave to personally create Alpha Protocol 3 (Skipping numbers will be all the rage in 2015).

Erm, but seriously:

• There will be another Picross e game...
• Gog Galaxy will launch and nobody but die-hard Gog users will give a shit.
• People will continue to be extremely disappointed with most 'AAA' games.
• The Witness still won't be released...
• There will be some mediocre indie game that becomes a meme that people then become obsessed with.
• Lots and lots of games-related Twitter drama.
• Still no new Half-Life game...

• Massive price drop on the Xbox One, moderate price drop on the PS4
• PS4 revision to a slimmer case with possibly updated hardware
• Possible Xbox One revision to a slimmer case
• Nintendo will lose even more money, digging the hole deeper
• Uncharted 4 will come out and be awesome, but fans will bitch that it isn't as good as Uncharted 2
• Someone will complain about the next Tomb Raider game being sexist
• MGS5 will come out and be batshit crazy and blow everyone's mind on a technical level
• Kojima will say "I'm done making Metal Gear!" only to start development on a new one within a year or two.
• Resident Evil 7 will come out and be disappointing (you know its true)
• Unexpected Fallout 4 and/or Elder Scrolls announcement - No game for another 1.5 years after
• Ubisoft continues to crash and burn. Possibly goes out of business.

This but it will be like the Halo collection

I hope Double Fine get back on their feet. I'd really hate to see them go out of business.

@ikilledthedj: I'm not sure that the Bioshock games have the commercial viability of the Halo series. I'd be surprised if 2K or whomever made the effort to remaster all three games.

Why do people think Doublefine's in trouble?

An Uncharted and Gears 'remastering' sounds inevitable really. Not that I'd scoff at the chance to play Uncharted 2 at 60fps mind!

• The second iteration of Guilty Gear Xrd will be released. Will most likely be titled Guilty Gear Xrd in X-Minor 2nd Movement Climaximus
• Nintendo will announce a Metroid game...or they won't. I don't fucking know anymore.
• More Destiny content. More snarky comments.
• People will keep complaining that CoD hasn't changed despite the fact those same fucking people have been complaining about that exact same thing for like the past 5 fucking years.
• KOEI TECMO WILL FINALLY STOP TREATING LISA LIKE A 2ND CLASS CITIZEN AND GIVE HER SOME MORE GODDAMN COSTUMES IN DOA: LAST ROUND!

Two CD Project employees die of exhaustion trying to ship The Witcher 3 on time. They are posthumously added to the game as NPCs. The publicity of this memorial results in an overall net positive to public opinion of CD Project. This leads to EA, Activision and Ubisoft secretly planning to work their employees to death in an attempt to salvage the goodwill of the brands they destroyed in 2014. The truth will not be uncovered for years.

1. PERSONA 5
2. WHO CARES ABOUT NUMBERS BEYOND ONE

That MIGHT be true if it had been on multiple platforms.

Drew and Dan will spend many hours making several references to Predator, Rambo and Commando whilst playing MGS3, and all will be good.

A lot of awesome games will come out and everyone will complain.

Star Citizen.

Persona 5 gets an "exciting" 2018 European release date.

CoD loses all the exo suit stuff, Jeff sighs.

Magic Online is still utter garbage, continues to make millions.

Nintendo launches a new revision of the WiiU, it's actually pretty good.

Giant Bomb gets a new staff member, but someone else leaves.

Bethesda reveal they are working on a new IP.

Ralph Baer will unfortunately pass, as we lose the father of video games.

Most AAA early year PS4 and XBONE releases delayed until fall. Dry spell across the big games, but indies continue strong.

Riding off of the success of smash, the Wii U outsells the other major consoles for the first few months of the year, but never quite closes the gap.

New Star Fox delayed until late 2016.

New Zelda announced for end of 2015. Not as open ended or big as people want it to be (not a Skyrim), but takes a lot of the original game's ideas a little more. Delayed into 2016.

Castlevania creator Koji Igarashi announces new partnership with North American indie game studio, my guess is Drinkbox or Cellar Door Games, launches Kickstarter to make a classic Castlevania game. Similar in gameplay, but draws from other style than just Gothic.

Wildstar goes free-to-play.

There will be no EA basketball game.

Giant Bomb hires another white dude in his late 20's-late 30's.

We don't hear anything about Mirror's Edge 2.

We get hyped up for announcement of Beyond Good & Evil 2 that never comes.

We don't hear anything about Shin Megami Tensei x Fire Emblem.

More female developers are harassed out of the industry. An exodus of game developers from Twitter ensues.

Massive Chalice doesn't exit early access until winter 2015.

New Skylanders tanks and Amiibo doesn't really take off as the market reaches peak Toys to Life.

The new 3DS comes out in May, causes even more market confusion.

No games other than Xenoblade announced to be exclusive to the new 3DS.

Trails in the Sky Second Chapter delayed into 2016.

Harvest Moon confusion is sorted out, Harvest Moon games start being called Harvest Moon again.

Mighty No. 9 launches to middling reviews.

Persona 5 on PS4 is a janky mess, PS3 version blurry and framerate-y.

Persona 5 does not have a playable female protagonist, much to my chagrin.

Platinum announces a game being published by Capcom, universe implodes.

Capcom announces new fighting game franchise, Ultra Street Fighter IV comes to new consoles, fixing ridiculous framerate issues.

King of Fighters XIV announced and released.

Blazblue gets a new update, barely an update.

Persona 4 Arena and Ultimax mysteriously pulled from 360 and PS3 stores due to rights issues between Arcsys and Capcom.

Many download only games start disappearing from XBLA and PSN on 360 and PS3.

PSN on PSP shuts down, preventing people from downloading their games onto the system.

XBLIG shuts down.

That's about all I can think of right now.

You're a monster.

1. Sony shifts its PS4 marketing towards the mass
2. Bloodborne ends up being disappointing because it was rushed out
3. Persona 5 releases worldwide
4. Zelda gets delayed
5. Microsoft drops the price to 299 at the end of the year
6. A lot of the games that got delayed this year get delayed again
7. Nintendo makes a lot of money with Amiibo
8. Brad kills Dan breaks a Game Cube during a 50 turn round of Mario Party 6 (I really, really hope this doesn't happen)
9. I buy an Xbox One
10. Rockstar announces _____ by teasing it a week before putting out a one-minute video and then staying silent for 6 months
11. Dan and Jeff get into anime (It has to do with video games, right? Wait. No! Whatever.)
12. Final Fantasy XV comes out in Japan
13. Everyone is curious about Assassin's Creed *focus-tested title* and then rants about it for a month
14. The Devision gets delayed
15. Splatoon gets extremely high scores from critics, nobody buys it
16. Jeff finds out what Firewatch is

I have to imagine Double Fine will be fine. That's why they make so many games and they're all small projects, so they can absorb a dud or two. Right?

-Final Fantasy XV gets pushed into 2016.

-Mad Max bombs, Just Cause 3 soars.

-New Fallout announced

-Ubisoft announces more gamer friendly staggered schedule of its major IPs.

-Ubisoft immediately fucks itself by releasing another half-assed Assassin's Creed.

--Titanfall 2 announced for X1, PS4, and PC.

-New XCOM announced.

-New South Park game is announced.

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1. Giant Bomb hires someone or somebody leaves Giant Bomb and people will complain
2. BloodBorne is good but since the game has the indecency to not give you an orgasm people will hate it
3. Persona 5 is released in Japan and I get hit by spoilers
4. The Last Hope Final Fantasy XV sucks and people swear to never buy another Final Fantasy game until Square announce Final Fantasy XVI six months afterwards and people get excited saying this is The One
5. I buy a PS4 and regret it
6. The Witcher 3 is amazing and the PS4 version has noticeable problems
7. I buy a fucking One Piece game
8. My PC will continue to suck and I tell myself this will be the year I get a new one and then come up with an excuse as to why I shouldn't
9. Valve tease Half Life 3 and never speaks of it again until 2017
10. Xenoblade Chronicles X is disappointing both critically and commercially
11. More HD compilations and remasters
12. Bioware shows off their new game and Mass Effect 4; both get people excited
13. The new Assassins Creed finally reveals to us all Ubisoft games take place in the same world and dub it the Ubiverse. The game itself is mediocre.
14. Arkham Knight is released, loved, and then forgotten
15. Mortal Kombat X is for real muthaphuckkin G's

I think these are all highly unlikely, improbable, and maybe impossible. Valve is not going to release a game without announcing it at least 7-8 months ahead of time. If it is Half-Life 3, they can get away with it. Anything else, and they would likely want to get some press out of it. So, that would have to be announced at the Game Awards in a week or in January or February. Unless its HL3, which is still highly improbably. Also, Danny and Mary are the best thing GS has going for them, in my opinion, and I don't think CBS would let GB have them unless GS was going down. I don't think the time is right for slim consoles. They need to work on games, first. Typically slim consoles come when you have a decrease in system sales and need to reinvigorate them. I think cross gen will die off. We are already seeing it happen.

So, this year, I think 1) no more cross gen, 2) We get a Bethesda game teaser (unless this happens at the Game Awards) but no release date, 3) Battlefront is delayed, 4) No Assassin's Creed this year.

FF15 please be exited

10 trillion mobile games from SE, originally teased as "New RPG is coming"

Kojima changes his mind about retiring again, says MGS6 is already in the works, this time even bigerer and betterer.

Resident Evil 7 is exactly like 6 despite all the promises.

New call of duty game released, 15 more announced.

I fly to south.

Games will happen

People will complain about resolution when they have no reason to

XOne price drop

PS4 price drop

Maybe slim versions of consoles

Double Fine will stay fine. Broken Age part 2 is fucking dope.

Nintendogate will happen.

Mario and Luigi are sent to prison, while Wario and Waluigi take their place as Nintendo's new mascots.Yoshi was executed for his part in the matter and Princess Peaches body was never found.

Toad is still missing.

So Birdo and Toadette save Nintendo? Sounds awesome, actually.

Fallout 4 announced.
Oculus consumer release date announced
Witcher 3 gets 5 stars
2015 is regarded as another mediocre year for Xbox One / PS4 releases overall.

After being spoon fed Anime for months, Dan will become the new GB Anime Editor.

The Division will have a bunch of interesting ideas and look amazing, but people will find it boring.

Double Fine, Harmonix and Iron Galaxy will merge and create a new superstudio to make Psychonauts 2. And it will be the best game.

GBeast will hire a new person to work in front and behind the cameras, possibly Storage Room Guy or Lady (as seen in the office tour video).

Overwatch will be called a Team Fortress rip-off. But because it's Blizzard it will become huge and make TF2 servers sad and deserted.

Persona 5 and MGS5 will both come out and therefore it will be the greatest year in gaming ever seen in recent memory. This is fact.

Persona 4 and MGS4 came out in the same year (2008).

I will decline sex with my girlfriend in favor of playing Bloodborne.

• Uncharted, Mass Effect and the first 3 Batman games are rereleased
• Persona 5 is released worldwide
• Overwatch is announced as coming to consoles at some point

A sequel to Wild Guns will be released and it will set the world on fire. Jeff Gerstmann will give it 5 stars and be quoted as saying, "Wild Guns is the best sci-fi western shooter since ever because usually the wild west sucks, also Yoshi sucks."

My real prediction is that Nintendo will start doing stuff on iOS and it won't really matter.

Well i predict that video games go in a downward trend to the point where people dont care as much as they use to due to all the gamergate, broken launch dates and other stupid shit and MGSV and witcher 3 being the only "holy shit i need it now!" triple a games.

Holy shitballs....

I only have one prediction, although it's one I'm willing to take an avatar bet (the loser will use one avatar chosen by the winner for a month):

The Witcher 3 will be a disappointing game. Also, the Xbox One version will mysteriously perform better than the Ps4 version.

Woah, good catch, Jesus, I mean I suppose that it is easy to predict the death of someone who is up there in age, but that was really close to when it actually happened, crazy.

Here's an easy prediction.

Ubisoft will mess up something related to a pc release, doesn't matter what, they'll screw up something badly and if they address it at all it will be poorly.

Here is a hopeful one.

Fallout 4 gets a teaser, consists of slow pans, old time music, and a fad up to the face of a soldier that is part of the major faction of the game standing near some rubble of the major (Boston) location.

Here is a COME ON ALREADY one.

Officially the state of The Last Guardian is finally confirmed as canceled or in production.
Oh and we wonthear about HL3 at all, no Portal 3, maybe a L4D3, but that is more on Turtle Rocks shoulders and not Valves.

• Witcher 3 is many outlets game of the year
• The new Zelda game is critically polarizing but obviously praised by the typical crowd.
• The new Starfox game is gorgeous but complaints about its limited, and poor, motion control options makes it critically panned.
• Arkham Knight is technically sound but delivers more of the same. The Batmobile sections are largely criticized. Game is forgotten in GOTY deliberations.
• Master Chief Collection continues to have problems and another beta for Halo 5 is announced.
• Drive Club continues to have problems. PS+ Edition is quietly never released.
• Evolution Studios is closed by Sony and most of the employees are scattered to other Sony studios.
• Uncharted 4 is met with acclaim but is panned for delivering more of the same content.
• Naughty Dog announces new IP for fall 2016
• Sony announces new God of War for Q1 of 2016. Kratos now faces the deities of different pantheons but really dies at the end of this game and passes the torch.
• Persona 5 is released, is critically successful, and is well received from fans.
• Metal Gear Solid 5 is announced for 2016 with no definitive month of release.
• New Call of Duty is released followed by a 4th year of lower sales.
• Destiny 2 is announced/teased
• Battlefield Hardline is technically fine but critically panned as being too much of a mod and not enough of its own game.
• Battlefront is released holiday 2015 but is met with a rocky launch
• Halo 5 is released to mixed reactions.
• No meaningful Giant Bomb hires.
• Giant Bomb East (GBeast) releases no meaningful content.
• Dan continues to be the spearhead of nearly all meaningful content on the site.
• Microsoft still makes dumb decisions
• PS4 gets DLNA support and a PLEX app by July
• PS4 and Xbone get permanent price drops
• New model of WiiU with increased internal storage.
• No new retail Kinect games. Less than 5 purchasable Kinect games on the marketplace. Tons of free garbage.
• Sony's Morpheus is given an official, marketable name. Still not released in 2015.
• New DMC announced for nextgen/PC only.
• New Fallout announced for fall 2016.
• Elder Scrolls Online released in holiday 2015 with no monthly fee required though a setup similar to Old Republic Online. Still $60 retail on consoles.
• Half-Life 3 is not released or teased in any way.
• Brad still obsesses over lame games
• Jeff gets really into another lame game
• Dan still doesn't have a bad meal
• Bloodborne is well received by critics and fans. People who still can't play Souls games continue to complain about how bad those games are.
• New Assassins Creed game released with noticeably less sales despite being technically sound and well received.
• People continue to make posts on the board asking if anyone else feels Giant Bomb content is going down hill.
• People still want to complain about GamerGate but seemingly want to bring it up every other 5 minutes.
• No new Giant Bomb hires

• First permanent price drops on both consoles with the Xbox One going to $329 and PS4 hitting $349
• Nintendo releases a new model Wii U gamepad and pisses off everyone who owns a Wii U even more
• After the New 3DS launch in the US a month later they announce their new handheld because fuck it man
• Sony Announces a Vita 3000 with Micro SD card support (Wishful thinking I know but goddamnit)
• 9 more Dynasty Warriors games will be released
• Koei Tecmo will try to stay relevant and release something Ninja Gaiden
• Bandai Namco will seriously piss off souls players by making them pay full price for the Scholar of the First Sin edition on PC
• Persona 5 gets pushed to 2016
• Whatever platinum releases is an amazing game that is critically acclaimed and no one buys it because the general public sucks
• Microsoft announces Minecraft is moving off java modders loose their collective shit nothing really changes
• The F2P IOS gold rush flames out spectacularly as Zinga and a number of other companies go private again and go out of business
• Nintendo still doesn't admit Earthbound/Mother exists
• Zombie games still inexplicably popular
• Game of Thrones catches up with the books and HBO starts hitting GRR Martin with a stick to make him write faster
• Nintendo Still doesn't admit that Prime is a better Metroid than Other M as the announce Other M 2 ultra space baby edition this time we're seriously guys
• Zelda is pushed to 2016
• Hints about what Nintendos' new home/ portable console hybrid leak in Q4 is announced at E3 2016
• Disney Infinity 3.0 Star Wars is released in August
• Ubisoft actually sees how people are reacting to their half finished products and this year we get AC: Victory but no other annualized sequels and it begins a Call of duty esque 3 years cycle of AC, Watch Dogs, Far Cry
• Halo 5 bombs horrifically as it launches as broken as Master Chief Collection and breaks the Halo formula a bit too much but also doesn't go far enough for the COD style crowd
• Call of Duty goes back to modern times and is boring as hell compared to AW
• EA stops making NBA Live
• Battlefront 3 comes out and is glorious but on Origin only PC sales are limited
• Zone of the Enders teased pre E3 its a mobile game
• Metal Gear HD Collection for PS4 and Xbox1
• the final Starcraft 2 expansion released its kind of mediocre
• New Diablo 3 Expansion adds a new class and a new act as well as pvp finally
• Borderlands Trilogy for PS4 and Xbox1 includes all 3 games and dlc
• Resident Evil 7 teased at the end of Revelations 2 announced at E3 they learn nothing from 6
• That Godzilla game for PS3 comes out and is awesome
• Xenosaga HD for PS3
• Wii U drops to $250
• Machine Games gets to take a crack at Quake it turns out well
• DooM beta launches and its awesome no release date
• Telltale has over extended themselves and has to limit the number of projects they're working on GoT comes out just fine Borderlands not as much
• Doublefine is just fine Massive chalice sells well come to Vita and PS4
• Broken Age breaks even nothing more
• Iron Brigade 2: Drenched comes out and had to be renamed to Iron Brigade 2: Iron Brigaded because that board game asshole diversified
• Occulus Rift still doesn't have a release date
• Star Citizen reaches $1,000,000,000 in money down the game still doesn't even get a release date

• Cross-gen releases begin to fade out
• Assassin's Creed still puts out a game for each gen
• Call of Duty again looks a little bit more to my taste, but I still don't give the series a chance
• I finally cave in and buy a PS4 or Wii U to enter the current gen
• Majora's Mask comes out, I can't resist buying it again, it's still pretty damn good
• The Vita continues to have very little exclusively to it's name outside of obscure japanese titles with either shitty stories or shitty gameplay
• Telltale announces "Tales of the Dragon Age" and "Gotham" episodic titles.
• Prison Architect finally comes out of Early Access, but not until it's ready dammit!
• Gunpoint 2 is announced, I celebrate
• The rest of Kentucky Route Zero comes out
• Fallout 4 is finally announced, I lose my mind
• Destiny never stops being a bummer
• NXT becomes so much better than the main product, that WWE can't help but make it the marquee show. We get NXT 2K16, it's okay.
• Mortal Kombat X is awesome, gets snubbed at GOTY deliberations
• The internet finds someone else to harass primarily for awhile instead of women, maybe minorities, LBGT people or Jews. Goddamn internet.
• Overall things are a bit better than they were in 2014.

Well these are some... uplifting predictions, I guess... Let me make a few of my own to get everyone even MORE excited.

Here are some GB specific predictions:

• The Senior News Editor Giantbomb hires will be met with acceptance and fierce hatred in almost equal amounts (hatred will be greater)
• Gamebomb.ru will continue to push the limits of games journalism and cover the really important stuff, while "Scoops" continues to cover only the "real" news.
• Polls will still be broken
• People will be disappointed when the programmer/designer Giantbomb hires do not replace Alexis, Ian, or Dave as in-front-of-the-camera personalities
• Danny O'Dwyer and Mary Kish will probably both stay at Gamespot, though people will half-jokingly insist that GB poach them from across the hall
• We as a community will be introduced to another Gamespot personality and, after one or two successful appearances in GB content, will insist that GB hire him/her
• GBEast will step up its content production after hiring one or two more people next year, hopefully relative unknowns.

And here are my predictions about games and the industry as a whole:

• The "sexism in games/the games industry" debate spirals even further out of control and comes no closer to arriving at a solution.
• Zelda U will come out and receive critical and public acclaim. People will insist that Nintendo has breathed new life into the franchise and has taken one step closer to the modern era. One month later, people will have either forgotten the game or will be criticizing how far behind other open world games it is.
• Halo 5 is released and receives critical acclaim, but fans continue to be wary of 343 after the Master Chief Collection catastrophe, so sales numbers suffer. Also, the people who buy it will walk away lukewarm on the whole experience. Multiplayer dropoff will be almost as quick as Halo 4.
• Bungie continues to insist that Destiny is fine the way it is and releases expansions roughly the same length as The Dark Below.
• Persona 5 is released to major critical acclaim. I will buy the game and be in the unfortunate group who, like Jeff, has become so attached to the Persona 4 cast that it's difficult to fall in love again. The game will still be great, but many will not care for it as much as Persona 3 or 4.
• Battlefield Hardline bombs.
• At E3, Yoshida will pull a Men in Black flasher out of his pocket and use it to make everyone forget about Drive Club, which will still be broken.
• AC: Victory sells significantly worse than Unity, but will be a better game in every way.
• Steam boxes will suddenly be on the market, but no one will know because of a lack of marketing.
• Gaming on Linux will still not be a reality.
• Call of Duty will continue to lose sales, and Activision might start to worry.
• Console price drops across the board.
• WWE Supercard 2 is released. Since Jeff has been talking about it on the bombcast for months, the game will actually sell well, as much of the GB audience will buy it as a joke.
• Fallout 4 announced. The game will take place in Boston and appear exclusively on next gen consoles and PC.
• 2015 will be the year that meaningful publishers finally abandon the 360 and PS3 and focus all their efforts on the new consoles. Unsurprisingly, this will reduce the amount of broken games to come out, though there will still be some.
• No new footage of Kingdom Hearts 3

Not exactly something I'm proud that I predicted.... It was meant to be a sobering reminder that, hey, we're getting to the point where we are going to start losing the people who built this industry. Treasure them while they're still here. Obviously I was hoping that specific prediction wouldn't be true.

We are all sad for the loss of one of most important figures in the medium.