The amazing 2014 gaming predictions thread.

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MATH BURN

RIP Mathsofdas, long live Mathadeer!

Last time I checked 10 x 666 = 6,660.

10 x 666% = 10 x 6.66 = 66.6.  

And it's an increase by 666%, so that's 10 + 10 x 666% = 76.6.

Okay Balla bad maths by me. So if it was selling 10 a week it now be selling 17.66. But still my point the number sales mean nothing if we don't know the original number.

Almost: calcu-derp from me in that last post.  It'd be 76.6.

Of course, 0 x 666% = 0, as you say.

Yeah I don't what I was doing either.

Just let us have this good news.   

Ohh and on % the PS4 sales were up 94%.

I got a vision of a new Kid Icarus game for Wii U being announced at E3, don't know if anyone else has mentioned it but I'm putting that one in the hat. It'll also be 93.8% more playable than on 3DS thanks to the Wii U having BUTTONS! BUTTONS! BUTTONS!

............and I predict it will still have unnecessarily awkward controls.   

You're removing the faint hope I just created for myself    

I hope they don't do another Kid Icarus game. It was perfectly self-contained, and Sakurai said that he wanted it to be so. I wouldn't ICE CLIMBERS mind seeing them ICE CLIMBERS revive another IIIIIIIICE CLIIIIIIIIIIIMBERS old franchise though.

Balladeer wrote:

I hope they don't do another Kid Icarus game.  It was perfectly self-contained, and Sakurai said that he wanted it to be so.  I wouldn't ICE CLIMBERS mind seeing them ICE CLIMBERS revive another IIIIIIIICE CLIIIIIIIIIIIMBERS old franchise though.

I'm sensing some sort of hidden message in this post, but I can't quite decipher it.

I like to think I've coded it pretty well.

I still don't get it.  

i didn't like Ice Climbers and a remake would be disappointing IMO

I'm definitely not suggesting a remake.  By most accounts, the original IC is pretty bad.  I'm suggesting IC x the ratio of KI to KIU, if that makes sense (it doesn't): something that plays very differently.  I'll explain what I mean in Drunkalilly's thread, since I think it fits better there.

My post e3 review can be summed up simply as: wrong on all accounts bar smash which did get a sort-of delay but not to the degree I was predicting. Nintendo even managed to actually properly advertise things this time!

Eh, where am I now, then?

Balladeer wrote:

Nintendo:
MK8 to lift Wii U sales... a little bit.  Reaches number 7 in the charts, below a gaggle of shootybang games and annual re-releases. Wrong! It's done much better than that.
Nintendo to have at most one surprise to reveal at E3, with all others being leaked beforehand.  Possibly by Nintendo themselves. Wrong! ORAS was leaked beforehand, but Ninty made up for it with several surprises.
Yoshi Yarn to take centre-stage at E3.  The end duly declared for Nintendo. Half. YWW did actually get a good showing, but if anything, people were more enthusiastic about Nintendo after E3 than before.
SSB4 to be pushed back to early 2015.  The end duly declared for Nintendo... again. Wrong! A small push-back for SSB3D, but only to Autumn.
Pokken to be a 2014 Christmas game.  Nobody buys it. Nothing yet...
Pokémon Z to be announced near the end of the year, with a new Zygarde form(e).  Only the one this time. Can't tell yet.
Starfox, in some form or another.  (They had one on the DS.  It has to turn up at some point.) Going to take this as a yes!
Metroid, in some form or another.  (Reggie wearing that pin.  It can't just be a coincidence/trolling.) Seems unlikely at this stage.
X to have one ghastly crippling flaw that pushes it down into the 70%s.  (Honestly, that thing just looks too good at the moment.) We won't know until 2015, so I'm going to include this as a half on the basis that that's its ghastly flaw.
Nintendo to continue to have a dearth of advertising and drift along in "third place", despite the relative lack of great games on the BBoPs. Advertising actually seems to be happening so far, but I'm still banking on the second half of my prediction.

Sony, Microsoft, PC, Ouya, Apple:


More true than I could imagine, actually. Still nobody on here, despite our substantial multiformat base, on the brink of buying the BBoPs apart from Masofdas.

2/10 so far, then (3/11 if you include my last point), with 4/10 points outright contradicted.

I all ready own both the one & ps4, so not on brink of buying them and a few other's have the ps4 on here. And from the Skype chat during E3 a few now interested in the ONE.

Oh, didn't realise there were other people on here stupid forward-looking enough to have acquired a PS4 this early. Really, though, the fact that the last four PS4 thread posts are all yours says bundles, don't you think?  Not dissimilar in the One thread. Yup, I'd say that



is still pretty accurate!

There has been PS4 talk else where on here child of light, Bloodborne thread which really should be in the playstation section not genreal, transistor, watch dog's and of course E3. Just not much happening on the ps4 at the moment, hopefully the few of us who have got one will start talking about likes of hmm dam it all the good game's are 3rd party this year.

The more I look at the games for ps4 the more I can wait to get the system, all the games that interest me aren't out until 2015.

mas wrote:

Bloodborne thread which really should be in the playstation section not genreal

Thought it was more apt that it went into general at the time as nothing was officially confirmed & the chance that it was a souls game I would've probably asked it to be merged with the Souls thread.