Earlier this week I was enjoying the glorious gadget imagery from CES, everything from 3D tv to transparent displays to laptops and tablets, the future really looks sweet.
Games
Wii – a bland year for Nintendo, finally the big behemoth of consoles are turning down in sales, and even though some larger titles may appear like Mario galaxy 2 and other M, I guess we will have to wait for E3 to hear some news.
Also Michael Pachter has predicted that WIIHD will come at the end of the year, it won’t, I seriously think he is overestimating Nintendo’s business sense, they got one or two things right with the Wii mote and Wii fit, but the rest is not that great, ever heard of Wii Speak, well it did kinda get lost a bit there.
So no WiiHD yet,personally I am leaning towards 2013 and a brand new console.
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You know the drill now add a bit about the last 10 years, there you go.
Games
Wii – so they dropped their price that’s about it besides another Mario game, they really have to step it up, I mean the price drop was only because the ps3 came within $50 at a time from the price of a wii, and the 360 is already down there with their cheapest package (cheap yea, but useless).
Xbox 360 – Well they had a their halo game (ODST) and teased Halo 4, they call it “Halo Reach” but it has the chief in it so it’s halo 4 even though it’s a prequel.
No gears at E3 but dude huge is working on something, and it’s most likely Gears 3.
Biggest news was natal set for release sometime late next year.
PS3 – killzone 2, R&C: a crack in time, uncharted 2, inFamous, all great, a few delays like God of War 3, GT5 and heavy rain and M.A.G. All of them are great.
Ps3 slim and the price drop was the biggest news though, I got the total amount correct but not why and when, although at the time I doubt that even Sony knew.
And yea E3 Was huge for sony, especially with their new motion controllers. Read more »
It’s time to retell the future again.
Games
Wii – will continue with it’s streak of releasing lots of games where only like 3 are worthy of my money, that is if I had a wii, new addons will be released, but probably no pricedrop (not until any other console will sell more).
X360 – wont get that may exclusives like “alan wake” and “mass effect 2”, probably no big ones, you will hear the name “Gears of war 3” uttered at E3, but release is not until 2010, also Halo 4 rumors will surface.
PS3- I thought 2008 was a good PS3 year, but my guess is that it will be even better.
Lots of big exclusives like killzone2, inFamous, Gran turismo5, Heavy rain, Uncharted 2, Ratcher & clank future 2, God of War 3, M.A.G and so on, apparently there is also a secret super sweet game in the pipeline for 2009, I have only one comment, “it’s gonna get expensive this year”
And that’s just exclusives, there are gonna be a great number of games that are must buy.
Regarding the console itself, so far Sony has been selling them at a loss, but no longer, they are finally starting to make money from it, or well at least break even, because I think they will cut the price by a lot, first at E3 or Sonys gamer day, possibly by $25 (it’s more of an “hey look were starting to cut the costs of this thing” thing), and the next one will be $50-75 around the holidays in time for black Friday.
E3 could be big for Sony. Read more »
It’s that time of year again, a time to recap, retell and then finally look forward to the future.
We begin today with my previous predictions.
Games
GTA4, MGS4, Soulcalibur 4, the force unleashed, GT5 prologue, Little big planet, and those are only the ones I got, there where so many games I had to leave some for later, and that’s just for the PS3 (which is all that matters anyway).
Bioshock finally came for PS3 as I said, mass effect on the other hand we might have to wait for the second installment.
Wii had it’s 3 games too, wii fit, mario cart and SSBB, no surprises there.
The only real big exclusive for the 360 is gears2, which is as predicted, I fear that this will continue.
When it comes to hardware sales I predicted the wii would be at the top, which it is, ps3 at second place and 360 last, the result was 360 at 10,9 million sold and ps3 at 10,3 million sold, a victory that was basically only taken the last two weeks before x-mas, mostly because of the price drop they had in September.
Which is interesting given that the ps3 is like twice the price and consumers respond that vigorously at a insignificant price drop, that means that the consumer 360 is valued way less than the ps3, say like half of it, alsoo way less than the Wii since they cost about the same, I wonder what will happen when the ps3 starts dropping in price. Read more »
Finally the last part of this webisodic trilogy of meaningless ramblings, let’s see what this year has in store for us.
Games
2008 will be a glorious year for games, GTA4, MGS4, GT5 and so on, it will be especially glorious for Sony as they will finally have enough games for the PS3 to be competitive, and with over 400 Playstation (PS2, PS3, PSP combined) games in development for this year alone everyone it sure to be content.
Wii games will not do so great, or rather they will do good enough and will release about the same as they they did last year, the problem is that the only real game I know of that may be any good is Super Smash Bros Brawl and that is not a lot.
Xbox 360, no, no good for them either, they had their big exclusives with Halo 3, Bioshock and Mass effect (BTW two of those will come to the PS3), no major new games are known, I find it quite telling that during the last e3 they only showcased titles coming out this year, it seems to me that they are hiding something, be it some super mega title or the fact that basically everything coming to the 360 is coming to the other ones as well.
My money is on the latter one because they would have done anything to boost their sales during the holiday season by saying “sure it may not be out now but just look at what is coming. Read more »
Anual predictions, Rants | Peter Wallström | 
January 12, 2010 03:32 | 
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