I know we’ve already had a topic similar to this in the past, but now that E3 is just a few days away, I couldn’t resist. Rumors are starting to fall on video game sites about possible hardware releases (such as an upgraded PSP), and firm dates on games like Splinter Cell: Conviction and so on. There are even rumors surrounding an announcement of a new Mario/Zelda game for the Wii, with Nintendo’s promise that this year’s presser will be focused on games.
While E3 wasn’t a big deal last year, this year, they’re going to kick it up a notch. I figured that in light of this awesome event, we’d place some bets on things that we think are going to happen, and we’ll try to keep score of who got the most right.
So, put down 7 predictions for E3, and we’ll see who comes out on top. The more specific, the better!
Oooh, this sounds fun.
1. Microsoft will pull a big WTF on everyone regarding the Xbox.
2. A new FF title will be announced
3. The FF7 PS3 remake will be revealed. (You can always hope!)
4. Nintendo will reveal a new console, or a new DS.
5. A new Pokemon game will be revealed?!!
6. Sony will announce something huge reguarding either the PS3, or– will reveal a first look at the PS4
7. Square-Enix will reveal some new groundbreaking thing that everyone will want.
Well, what do you think? Possible?
Here are my official predictions:
1) New Zelda game for the Nintendo Wii. I’ll go one further and say that it’ll be in the cel-shaded style again.
2) Wii HD will be announced.
3) Besides Recon, a new Halo game will be teased for next year.
4) Final Fantasy XIII will get a release date in the US.
5) MGS 4 Expansion, not MGS 5 will be Kojima’s big announcement. He’ll also show off or debut a new game that’s not Metal Gear.
6) Half Life 2: Episode 3 will make its debut.
7) Microsoft will tease a new console.
Oh, and another one:
8. Call of duty Modern Warfare 2 will get some proper game play videos shown, and a longer tease 😛
1: Microsoft and Sony will try to compete on who can have the highest amount of visitors. They will even go as far as abducting people so they can be placed in the audience
2: Half-Life 2: Episode 3: Part 1: Chapter I-IX will be announced.
3: Blizzard will announce that Starcraft: Wings of Liberty, will be split into 3 different, full price games. The First will focus on campaign, meanwhile the other 2 will unlock Multiplayer and Skrimish.
4: Activision will announce that Zombie mode will make its debut in a Modern Warfare game. You will fight Arab Zombies. Capcom lol’s as the Racists attack starts to shift focus from Capcom to Infinity Ward.
5: 6 days in Fallujah will be announced dead. To much cheer from War Veterans. Meanwhile Treyarch confirms that in their new Call of Duty: Vietnam, you will get hooked on drugs and watch your best friends head explode. This recieves no comment.
6: Microsoft will announce that the price of Xbox Live will increase by 200%.
7: Sony will announce that the price of a Playstation 3 will increase by 200%
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I think i got some safe bets here
I can promise there will be nothing about the PS4,lol.
1. FF XIII will be released before Summer 2010
2. PSP GO! will be announced
3. PS3 price cut by $100.00
4. More PS1 classics on the PSN
5. Kojima’s new game will focus on Big Boss
6. Nintendo will announce a new Kid Icarus game (finally!)
7. Square Enix will announce a Final Fantasy VI remake for the DS
I think I’ll go in reverse order.
7. Treyarch drops their new CoD title and hands it over to Infinity Ward. (Please?)
6. Microsoft announces that their new full-body motion control will allow for better interaction with existing and future titles – for an extra $5 per month.
5. Sony announces that the PS3 will not, in fact, get a price drop. Again. Maybe this time people will finally believe them.
4. FFXIII will have its release date pushed back to the fall of 2010, making it the new laughingstock of the release date world.
3. That new PSP 2 that we’ve all seen pictures of will finally be announced, probably with a price point of $170-$200.
2. Pokemon gold & silver remakes will be announced for US release. No word yet as to when Game Freaks will have an original idea.
1. Kojima will give a keynote speech, spending four hours announcing that he will announce another tease on his website in late August. His God complex will be inflated by the deafening applause.
1. PS3 price cut or cheaper version.
2. PSP2 or whatever.
3. Ps3 expanded hardrive (5GB left of my 60 so get on it Sony!)
4. 360 exclusive DLC for some big multi-format game.
5. Nintendo telling us about how great their huge back catalogue for the Wii is making fans love them. Yeah, they oblivious or seem to be.
6. Ubisoft show off the DLC and then the real game and you realise the DLC has all the good stuff.
7. A game will be shown that we take no notice of and ignore but in a year or so when it comes out we’ll all say “I knew it looked good from the start!” lol
Also, Eddy if there’s an MGS4 expansion then it’ll probably be an MGO map pack or something.
Skuba,
you are aware that you can upgrade your HDD on the ps3 right?
I had a 40GB HDD and I upgraded to a 320GB HDD. Took ten minutes.
7. Useless crap for Home.
6. Wii Zelda, but it will be in a far-future Hyrule.
5. Robin is announced as 360 exclusive character for Batman: Arkham Asylum, which will also receive a firm release date.
4. Release date for Borderlands.
3. Some delicious info on Mass Effect 2, The Old Republic and Dragon Age. BioWare declares itself king of Western RPGs.
2. Microsoft announces X-Boxing, where Master Chief will duke it out with the likes of Marcus Fenix and Commander Shepard in the ring.
1. People bemoaning the lack of Starcraft/Diablo info, and eagerly awaiting Blizz-Con.
Half-serious here, but with E3, one never knows.
Anthony, yes I am but I don’t have the technical know-how to do such a move. Also, I don’t know what HDDs are compatible, where to get one (if anyone knows do tell, but make it one compatible w/ european stuff) and also, and most importantly, how to transfer all my data from my old to my new. I really can’t get all the updates again as my internet is so slow it take about 10-15secs to DL 1MB (even longer if there’s more than me using it).
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3) Besides Recon, a new Halo game will be teased for next year.[/quote]
PLEASE GOD NO! Quit beating the dieing horse! Halo still has potential, but I dunno. Doing another one could be…catastrophic. I wont lie, they have room for ONE more, but they have to do it right.
Skuba,
It’s nothing. I also have no technical skills when it comes to computers. I simply googled “upgrade ps3 hdd” and found videos and step by step walkthroughs with tons of information.
1. nintendo will announce “the legend of zelda: all play edition” resulting in a mass chucking of wii consoles everywhere.
2. nintendo will announce 5 new peripherals that cost to much and that no one really wants anyway.
3. nintendo will announce “kid icarus: all play edition” which will come as a surprise to no one because nintendo has been screwing over actual gamers for years now.
4. microsoft will officially announce the zune HD and claim that i can do a bunch of stuff that it actually can not when released.
5. instead of ‘teasing’ a new console microsoft will just wait for nintendo and sony to unveil their new consoles and then steal all their concepts and execute them better.
6. sony will say a bunch of stuff no one can understand because their translator will be too embarrassed to say “the PS3 is a huge success and that is why we are not yet ready to lower the price.”
7. sony will show off their new ‘wii style’ wand/remote/control and then realize that no one will buy it when a wii is just 250 dollars.
[quote comment=”6847″]I think I’ll go in reverse order.
7. Treyarch drops their new CoD title and hands it over to Infinity Ward. (Please?)[/quote]
NO!
That would only give Infinity Ward 1 year to make a game.
If you want a yearly CoD, then it works better the way it is now.
K, thanks Anthony. Few more questions;
1. What do they cost (320GB sounds good)?
2. How do I transfer data form my old to my new (or can I?)? And;
3. Where are the best places to get one? Online/ PC or electronics shop?
1. Nintendo’s big announcement of the day will be what all Nintendo Fan boys have been asking for, a graphics update. A mandatory upgrade will be downloaded to all console setting each games graphics to a maximum of sub-par Gamecube quality. As we all know, gameplay > Graphics. We will now be able to enjoy our favorites like Mario Galaxy and new games that were trying push high quality visuals, like The Conduit, without all those lame “next gen” effects.
2. Reggie shows us a manly game like Motocross or Fishing. He, needless to say, fails horribly.
3. Microsoft begins their show with explosions and a guy with a giant knife fighting a guy dressed up as masterchief, wielding a chainsaw shooting bazooka. Also some games were revealed.
4. Sony shows that they are $599 billion US dollars in debt due to an unfortunate Giant Enemy Crab attack. Sadly, no one could induce massive damage as its weak point could not be located.
5. Half Life 2: Episode 3 is announced to be packaged in the Black Box which will also contain Duke Nukem Forever. Episode 3 has been done for years, Valve ensures us Duke Nukem will be sent to them soon.
6. Sega reveals yet another Sonic game, no one listens.
[quote comment=”6861″]K, thanks Anthony. Few more questions;
1. What do they cost (320GB sounds good)?
2. How do I transfer data form my old to my new (or can I?)? And;
3. Where are the best places to get one? Online/ PC or electronics shop?[/quote]
MIne cost 87 bucks. Not too bad. Found it on amazon. I think its a 2.5mm HDD, like the kind you find in a laptop.
You need to save your save data to a flash drive. Any music and stuff you will just have to re-import.
Ok, even if their predictions don’t happen, wox42 and gordx win for the comments that cracked me up. Particularly the Black Box comment. Good stuff, gentlemen.
Bit late but oh well
1) Shigeru Miyamoto will shock the crowd yet again with his cheerful insanity
2) The team making Duke Nukem: Forever will pay the Escapist/Zero Punctuation to use the lastest ZP “review” of DN:F, have a big laugh, then declare it dead. (I advise all who don’t know what i’m on about to watch it.)
3) Sony will say something but no one will pay attention
4) Nintendo will come up with new ways for us to waggle our extremities.
5) Valve will show awesome in the form of HL2:E3. Nuff said.
6) Rebellion will also show awesome in the form of AVP3.
7) People will go silent as they witness a Predator rip a marine’s head (and spine) off and caress it.
P.s. Yes, i am very, very serious about all of those.
If 2 or 5 don’t happen I will be upset.
one and only one thing is for sure.
a squad of valve employee special forces will drop in from the skylights and kill all of the other game company employees, taking the studio heads hostage, then, and only then, will they tell us that EP3 will not be released until late 2010 and no screenshots or betas will be released…EVER. But we will still bow down and love valve just because they are valve.
1) Valve and microsoft will talk about machinima, and that they, in some mystical way, should receive credit for all the machinima out there.
2) Valve reveals ep3, maybe something about other platforms (LINUX!).
3) Microsoft will reveal something stupid.
4) Blizzard will show some trailers about a game that isn’t actually WoW.
5) Sony will reveal some footage of GT5, a new psp, maybe brag about how psHome will be the future user interface.
[quote comment=”6860″][quote comment=”6847″]I think I’ll go in reverse order.
That would only give Infinity Ward 1 year to make a game.
If you want a yearly CoD, then it works better the way it is now.[/quote]
personally I would not want a yearly CoD franchise
as for what i want
1 Half life ep. 3,
2 an explanation for the new tf2 update system
3 elder scrolls 5
4 and someone to take back the new borderlands look
Here we go:
1) New Zelda Game for Wii
2) MSG4 part II or whatever
3) Some Final Fantasy release on PS3 or DS
4) More speculation on DSi and all the “amazing” things it will be able to do.
5) News on Prototype I hope!
6) 2K Games being f*cking awesome with Bioshock 2
7) Hints at next platforms.
[quote comment=”6874″]Here we go:
1) New Zelda Game for Wii
2) MSG4 part II or whatever
3) Some Final Fantasy release on PS3 or DS
4) More speculation on DSi and all the “amazing” things it will be able to do.
5) News on Prototype I hope!
6) 2K Games being f*cking awesome with Bioshock 2
7) Hints at next platforms.[/quote]
Prototype comes out in two weeks! The only news you would hear at E3 is a delay, which you don’t want!
[quote comment=”6875″][quote comment=”6874″]Here we go:
1) New Zelda Game for Wii
2) MSG4 part II or whatever
3) Some Final Fantasy release on PS3 or DS
4) More speculation on DSi and all the “amazing” things it will be able to do.
5) News on Prototype I hope!
6) 2K Games being f*cking awesome with Bioshock 2
7) Hints at next platforms.[/quote]
Prototype comes out in two weeks! The only news you would hear at E3 is a delay, which you don’t want![/quote]
Oh crap I forgot!