The Official 2008 Predictions Thread

[CKDragon]

All right, here's how I grade my results...

*BioShock will be announced and released on the PS3.

Starting off strong. 1/1

*MS will eventually get off their lazy rear-ends to fix Xbox Live.

Yea, it happened, but this was like saying "The sun will come up tomorrow", so let's not include it.

*PS Home is released to a collective yawn to everyone other than existing PS3 owners, who will climb mountaintops to scream about how revolutionary their 2nd life clone has made their video game system of choice.

Mostly true. 2/2

*MGS4 will be delayed into Q4 and a 360 port will be announced for sometime in 2009.

Nope. 2/3

*Microsoft ponies up BIG bucks to keep the entire Mass Effect franchise exclusive (or at least as timed exclusives)

Well, the PS3 hasn't sniffed the franchise. A forum disagreement about the future exclusivity of Mass Effect was my motivation for this prediction, so I'll give myself a charity point even though it's not exactly right as worded. 3/4

*MS will stop production on the Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive.

Shocker. 4/5

*Halo Wars actually turns out to be a decent game, but will frustrate the living hell out of the mainstream, doesn't-know-how-to-play-anything-other-than-an-FPS Halo player and therefore will lead to it being thoroughly bashed by people like this guy.

Total Miss. 4/6

*Xbox 360 Pro (and possibly the cheapest PS3 model) will hit $300 around the same time that the 360 GPU gets the 65nm treatment.

The definitive part was right... 5/7

*CKDragon continues to welcome his Nintendo overlords, as 1H titles Mario Kart Wii and Super Smash Brother Brawl ensure that Wii shortages will continue until at least June, even if it's not quite to the pre-Christmas degree.

Wiis recently became more plentiful, but they were still scarce well into 2008. 6/8

I need to make more adventurous predictions this year.