Wow it’s already 2012, what a year it has been, i mean just take a look at the impressive things that happened, bin laden, gadaffi and kim jong ill dead, the Iraq war ended, the arab spring, the occupy movement, portal 2, me loosing over 60 kilos and so on and so forth, it’s been an endless stream of good things.
Yet there has also been a lot of bad thing, like most of what’s being done in the us on the republican side, to me pure evil is when you punish an entire world just to get one guy (that you don’t like for no good reason) to loose his reelection and i see it every day in the news.
Also we lost such dignitaries like Steve Jobs and Christopher Hitchens, i a perfect world all the people i admire would suddenly turn immortal, because Hitchens certainly deserves it, i just hope that they find a material hard enough for his statue, so that it won’t seem too soft in comparison to the real deal.
In news regarding stuff more closely related to the theme of this site namely gaming, it seems like the entire community is gearing up for another console cycle with story lines wrapping up, big studios doing smaller games, testing out new IPs and such, some studios are AWOL and rumors that the some big IP’s are getting refreshed gameplay, also team ICO is getting ready to release The last Guardian, which is a type of game they typically do in the end of a cycle to prove that they have really mastered the system.
Next year has a really high likelyhood of seeing both the PS4 and the next xbox, maybe not in their final forms, but it will be something and it will be official.
Well anyway, more about that in the next post but for now lets check in and see how lasy years predictions went.
(Sorry about the messy wall of boxes, i have to change the format until the next time i write this)
Games Likely
10. Duke is finally here
hail to the king, though execution was poor.
9. Rare looses more of it’s dignity with yet another kinect game
It’s like they don’t care anymore
8. Big PS Move holiday push
no, i guess theyforgot about it.
7. Microsoft pushes kinect to hard, forgets the hardcore gamers this year
basically only halo 4 was announced and gears 3 released.
6. PSP mediabliz blowout at E3
im not going to call it a blowout, but it was there.
5. New valve game, possibly HL2 episode 3, but probably just another left 4 dead
looks like next e3 instead.
4. New big sony IP on the way
Last of us, looks great.
3. Next tombraider will actually be pretty good, a clone of uncharted, but good
Indeed it does.
2. GTA V at E3
nope that reveal came later during the year.
1. Ps3 pricedrop to $199
No but to $249
Gaming maybe
5. Wii sucessor anounced
yes, not to exiting though
4. Big PS3 firmware update, unhackable, for now
it’s been a bit anemic in this area lately
3. PS2 BC for all PS3s finally, but only trough PSN
Sort of, but only some remastered titles, and we have to buy them again.
2. Exclusive Rabbids game for ps3
no rabbids this year
1. MGS5 announced
But metal gear rising was reanounced as metal gear rising: revengence
Gaming unlikely but possible
5. Some Ps4 hardware details revealed and hyped along with a few game “demos”
next year though, i hope.
4. One being from bungie
Bungie didn’t announce stuff this year
3. An apple game console, expensive and download only, possibly trough apple TV and an imac
Cause stevie don’t like games
2. Hardcore miamoto game coinciding with the new Nintendo console
no instead he is stepping down to make even more casual games.
1. Minecraft wins big at the VGA.
well, best independent game anyway.
Next up is part two which is the general tech area
likely
10. Firefox 4 will blow IE, chrome and opera out of the water
i think so, its definitely the most useful, so is # 5,6,7,8 and 9, it’s been a crazy year for FF
9. Iphone 5 will not be a huge improvement compared to similar android devices
in fact it was so underwhelming they called it the iPhone 4s, galaxy still rules.
8. Great movie year for people like me
yes, yes and yes
7. The Internet will run out of space, soon
though it’s not an immediate crisis as there are IP adresses to go around for another year.
6. More leaders in high places will be overthrown than ever, using the net
The arab spring is now officially a word in the swedish language (at least written in swedish it is).
5. First big screen devices using AMOLED, like monitors and smaller tvs
Im gonna say yes since the first one was announced a few days ago and will be showed at CES (CES is a much more natural divider of years than the actual date for this purpose which is why i write these just before and after CES)
4. Also tabs will use AMOLED, but not ipad2 or iphone5
Yes and they are great.
3. More android stuff than you can shake an iphone at
yea it’s been everywhere, still mostly phones and tablets though.
2. We will finally see what the new windows 8 OS can do
yea at least some of it, not sure what to make of it though as it’s a more tablet inspired design and it’s yet to show what it does in the regular desktop environment
1. Nikon D4 announced, brings awesome
it’s been delayed a few times, probably due to the flooding in Thailand.
Tech Maybe
5. Home automation is getting some light
yes google showed something really interesting with android but it had yet to materialize into any real products (CES might bring news on that)
4. A slew of hybrid cars starts selling
Yes but under the radar, mostly it’s been about fully electric cars.
3. HDR cameras start coming out of the woodwork
Not so much as i think 3D has taken prescience this year, the D4 might still brring the goods though.
2. Microsoft announce an appstore for windows
well there will be one for win8
1. Google tv fails, moves to android instead
Yes it’s on android now, expect to se a lot of this at CES
Unlikely but possible
5. Apple is forced to open up their iphone/ipad app developer SDK a bit
As if.
4. Nikon D4 will have a revolutionary new sensor and no mirror
It will basically be a D3 with better specs.
3. Big cheap AMOLED tv line announced
Yes by LG and it’s 55″ and relatively cheap.
2. Someone will make an amazing device with android previously not thought of
Probably though i have never heard of it, though google did release something that will make it easier.
1. Apple announces home automation hardware
no, just updated variations of their old stuff
Wow that was a bit of an eye full to read, never doing it like that again so expect the predictions of 2012 to be a bit more ranty and fewer actual items.
Anual predictions, Games | Peter Wallström | 
January 3, 2012 03:37 
