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iKhan

Make predictions for anything gaming related in 2015

Here are mine:

Nintendo
-Nintendo makes turns a profit, dramatically misses their 3DS sales prediction, and exceed their Wii U prediction
-Nintendo announces "Zelda Maker" for release in early 2016. Similar to Mario Maker, you can make your own large NES Zelda worlds. You can also switch between an NES, ALttP, and ALBW styles.
-Nintendo announces a new Sports game from Next Level games
-Retro is revealed to be working on two different games right now
-Star Fox U is delayed until early 2016.
-We see the first SMT X FE trailer in years
-The Wii U sees a price cut to $250
-Splatoon and Smash Bros bundles announced
-New 3DS launches in Fall in North America and Europe
-Metroid Prime port for New 3DS
-Pokemon Z announced for that winter
-Golden Sun 3DS
-Rhythm Heaven 3DS

Other
-The Last Guardian is announced for 2016
-Final Fantasy XV is initially announced for Winter 2015, then gets delayed
-A Hat in Time launches in Spring 2015, gets high marks from reviewers, and joins the ranks of Shovel Knight and Steamworld Dig as top quality indie games.
-Xbone sales nosedive dramatically in the first half of 2015, mostly due to the holiday price cut ending
-Assassin's Creed has it's worst selling year.
-Bandai Namco announces a port of Tales of Legendia to 3DS.
-Tales of Zestiria gets a PS4 port

Wishful thinking
-Star Fox U is revealed to actually be Star Fox X Star Wars, and is being developed by some members of the Rogue Squadron team.
-Ganbarion announces Pandora's Tower 2
-Lloyd Irving DLC for Smash Bros
-A Xenoblade Chronicles X bundle for Wii U
-WB interactive revives the NHL Hitz series
-Rollercoaster Tycoon World is good
-A new open-world Spider-man game comes out, not based on any movie.
-Rocksteady announces their next game, Arrow: Starling City

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SuperWiiU

All Star Wars games from now on will be canon, so if they did a SFxSW it would mean they were in the same universe. I doubt they'd do that. But that would make for some great cameo's in Star Wars Episode VIII & IX.

Kyloctopus

Nintendogs returns for Wii U...with amiibo support.
Nintendo has never forgotten about Nintendogs. As a matter of fact, it recently rereleased Nintendogs + Cats for the 3DS eShop, alongside a theme promotion. They also haven't forgot about the DS' success. Having sequels to Kirby's Canvas Curse, Mario Vs. Donkey Kong Miniland Meyhem and Art Academy; plus announcing DS Virtual Console, a sequel to Nintendogs just seems like the next step.
There's also this part of the Nintendogs + Cats Iwata asks
"Konno: We actually considered it for the Wii system. But it doesn’t have a microphone, so you couldn’t talk to your dog.

Iwata: Oh! So if the Wii Remote controller had a mic, there might have been a Wii version of Nintendogs?

Konno: Yeah. We might have moved forward with it.

Miyamoto: But there’s a distance between the Wii Remote and the television, so it might not have felt like you were petting your dog."

The Gamepad however has the solution to both those problems.

amiibo also seems like a perfect fit with the game. Scanning these figures in for special bonuses for your pet. It's too enticing for the Nintendogs audience.
To answer why Nintendo never made it in 2012-2014, it's probably to ensure that they have the audience. I think Nintendo's learning from Nintendogs + Cats. While over 3 million copies is still an impressive feat, it's not near what Nintendogs DS set out, with over 24 million copies. I think 2015 is a perfect time to bring a Nintendogs game to Wii U, as it's currently reclaiming that audience.
No, I'm not saying it will reach 24 million copies sold, but it will sell.

Edited on by Kyloctopus

Kyloctopus

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kkslider5552000

Main ones
-Ubisoft apologizes a lot for their disappointing behavior this year. Undecided how genuine it will be.
-Activision and/or Disney finds a renewed partnership with Nintendo because of Skylanders and/or Disney Infinity
-Xbox One goes back to being "Ps4 except no one cares" for much of 2015
-Wii U continues its slow growth but with more momentum and some Japanese developers because of its success in Japan
-Ps4 still rules the universe, hopefully with actual exclusives
-Origin takes advantage of Steam frustrations to get more EA players
-Capcom actually releases new video games again, actually announces a legit Megaman game
-Sega gets in major, MAJOR legal trouble
-3DS gets the type of 3rd party support Wii U owners beg for
-Splatoon and Evolve are huge hits
-Arkham Knight reaches Assassin's Creed level sales (especially after the inevitable AC decline from the Unity insanity)
-Indie games start getting support at game retailers (beyond Minecraft or the like)

a mix of predictions and optimism

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iKhan

kkslider5552000 wrote:

-Sega gets in major, MAJOR legal trouble

Why?

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Drawdler

First pictures of Animal Crossing U

Xenoblade for the N3DS is released when the system launches in Europe/USA/Canada and amiibo support for Smash 3DS is patched in at around the same time

amiibo ends up being a reasonable success, but not a huge hit

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kkslider5552000

iKhan wrote:

kkslider5552000 wrote:

-Sega gets in major, MAJOR legal trouble

Why?

Because EA got 2 lawsuits for releasing a single broken game in Battlefield 4 and Sega has done arguably more questionable things. Between the highly questionable releases of Sonic Boom or Aliens Colonial Marines or the actual straight up illegal things that happened with Shining Force 3, or even that hing with Level 5, this seems almost inevitable.

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PokeMario

Disappointment.

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Jacob717

Here are my predictions

  • Wii U is at 9.5 million units sold at the beginning of the year
  • Yoshi's Woolly World is announced for release March 21st
  • Youkai Watch, Final Fantasy Explorers, and Legend of Legacy, and Reodea the Sky Soldier get localized in the west.
  • New 3DS, New 3DS XL, and New 2DS get announced for June 2015.
  • Xenoblade Chronicles X will be a GameStop exclusieve in the US and releases in May (they said they're almost finished)
  • At E3 2015, Nintendo announces, Super Mario Galaxy 3, A 3D (not 2.5D) Kirby game for Wii U, Paper Mario U, and Metroid U)
  • SMT x FE is announced to be released in 2016.
  • Zelda U sells 3 million copies by the end of the year
  • Wii U sells 5.56 million units at the end of 2015.

Wishful Thinking

  • Wii U port for Tales of Zestria
  • N64, GameCube, Genesis, Saturn, and Dreamcast VC on the eShop
  • A device that you plug into the GamePad and Wii U that let's you take it anywhere without it getting disconnected.

Edited on by Jacob717

Jacob717

iKhan

kkslider5552000 wrote:

iKhan wrote:

kkslider5552000 wrote:

-Sega gets in major, MAJOR legal trouble

Why?

Because EA got 2 lawsuits for releasing a single broken game in Battlefield 4 and Sega has done arguably more questionable things. Between the highly questionable releases of Sonic Boom or Aliens Colonial Marines or the actual straight up illegal things that happened with Shining Force 3, or even that hing with Level 5, this seems almost inevitable.

Don't know about the latter 2, but EA didn't get sued because Battlefield was broken. They got sued because they misled people about the quality of a game that turned out broken.

Currently Playing: Steamworld Heist, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, Tales of Graces F

MsJubilee

Veloster wrote:

FIFA 16
MADDEN NFL 16
NBA 16
NHL 16

That's not a prediction, is already a fact that those games are coming next year.

The Harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. When the going gets tough, the tough gets going.

I'm currently playing Assassin's Creed: Revelations & Watch Dogs 2

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Drawdler

Dipper723 wrote:

  • New 3DS, New 3DS XL, and New 2DS get announced for June 2015.
    • Xenoblade Chronicles will be a GameStop exclusieve in the US and releases in May (they said they're almost finished)

Why would they release Xenoblade N3DS a month before the console? Unless you mean X, then yeah, I can see that happening (especially because it doesn't seem like anything else will come out in May).

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Jacob717

Drawdler wrote:

Dipper723 wrote:

  • New 3DS, New 3DS XL, and New 2DS get announced for June 2015.
    • Xenoblade Chronicles will be a GameStop exclusieve in the US and releases in May (they said they're almost finished)

Why would they release Xenoblade N3DS a month before the console? Unless you mean X, then yeah, I can see that happening (especially because it doesn't seem like anything else will come out in May).

Oops, I meant "Xenoblade Chronicles X".

Jacob717

Gamecubed

-Retro is revealed to be working on Metroid Wii U in the vein of the Prime trilogy
-Xbox One US price cut will become permanent at some point (and other countries will follow suit)
-PS4 price cut by June
-Uncharted 4 PS4 bundle
-Ubisoft's sales take a big dip
-EA continues to try to redeem itself
-Mass Effect trilogy remastered with all DLC on disc for PS4/XB1 is announced and released in the fall/winter of 2015
-Mass Effect "4" is officially revealed with a trailer at E3 with the target of a Q4 2016 release
-New 3DS launches in NA and Europe in Q2 of 2015
-Amiibo has moderate success
-Everybody buys Arkham Knight
-Smash Bros and Splatoon Wii U bundles
-Slim redesigns for the PS4/XB1 are hinted at
-The announcement of PS4/XB1 consoles with 1TB hard drives
-Dragon Ball Xenoverse ends up being either the best DB game since the PS2 era, or it ends up being absolutely horrible (there is no middle ground anymore)
-The Wii is finally discontinued worldwide

Wishful Thinking
-Finally being able to change your PSN name
-Open world Harry Potter
-The Wii U VC finally gets some love

Edited on by Gamecubed

Gamecubed

Jacob717

Gamecubed wrote:

-Open world Harry Potter

There's Sorcerer's Stone, Chamber of Secrets, and Prisoner of Azkaban on the PS2, GameCube, and Xbox, but the GCN and Xbox versions of COS are gimped ports, and the PS2 version has horrible load times that makes the game borderline unplayable. But SS and POA are fine for all three systems.

Jacob717

Gamecubed

Dipper723 wrote:

Gamecubed wrote:

-Open world Harry Potter

There's Sorcerer's Stone, Chamber of Secrets, and Prisoner of Azkaban on the PS2, GameCube, and Xbox, but the GCN and Xbox versions of COS are gimped ports, and the PS2 version has horrible load times that makes the game borderline unplayable. But SS and POA are fine for all three systems.

I have all of those lol. Philosopher's Stone and Chamber of Secrets on PC (best versions) and Prisoner of Azkaban on GCN. I mean like an open world RPG kind of thing.

Edited on by Gamecubed

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IceClimbers

My predictions:

Nintendo
-New 3DS launches in April alongside the port of Xenoblade and Codename STEAM
-Yoshi in March, Splatoon in late May.
-No major Wii U retail game in April, but the Mewtwo DLC will be released.
-Mario Maker launches as an eShop-only release immediately following Nintendo's E3 presentation; has Super Mario Bros 3 and Super Mario World styles
-Metroid is announced.
-Golden Sun is announced for 3DS
-Yokai Watch 1 and 2, Etrian Odyssey Untold 2, and Dragon Quest VII are localized.
-N64 and DS games finally come to Wii U VC
-Star Fox is delayed to 2016

Xbox
-XB1 sales nosedive after pricecut ends, leading MS to permanently cut it.
-Quantum Break turns out to be decent
-Halo 5 ends up being good
-More Scalebound, Phantom Dust, and Crackdown info is shown

PlayStation
-Vita continues to be ignored
-PS4 price cut
-The Order 1886 disappoints
-Bloodborne ends up being good, but not a "killer app"
-Uncharted 4 turns out great
-More indies

3rd-party
-Assassins Creed sales suffer big time
-Batman Arkham Knight turns out amazing
-MGS V turns out amazing
-Final Fantasy XV is delayed to 2016
-The Division disappoints big time, embarrassing Ubisoft even further
-More broken games
-More disappointing games (hopefully SW Battlefront isn't one of them)

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Drawdler

The next Skylanders game is better than Trap Team, Giants and Spyro's Adventure, but worse than SWAP Force. It still lacks online multiplayer. SWAP Zones are still gone and get no equivalent. The gimmick involves shoehorned larger-than-usual figures and Traps are either dropped or gimped by being turned into once-a-level Magic Items.

Dipper723 wrote:

Oops, I meant "Xenoblade Chronicles X".

Alright, fair enough.

Edited on by Drawdler

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Octane

IceClimbers wrote:

-Mario Maker launches as an eShop-only release immediately following Nintendo's E3 presentation; has Super Mario Bros 3 and Super Mario World styles

It's already confirmed the game will get a physical retail release.

Octane

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