ITT We Predict Gaming for 2019 - Put On Your Nostradamus Turbins and Bitch Some More

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Sony decide to just ban all boobs and scrap TLOU2 for a new uncharted game

Microsoft release Halo: combat devolved which is set on a primitive planet and plays like Farcry Primal.

Nintendo Announce the "new nintendo switch 3d" and a cheaper, uglier 2d version.

Blizzard port overwatch onto mobile devices.

My one hope: DoA6 has a secret boob jiggle option and sexy costumes hidden in the game.
 
The obvious:

Smash Ultimate will be a major advertising vehicle for Switch games, with characters coinciding with game and franchise releases. A second pack of fighters will be announced near the end of the year after the last couple of fighters are announced.

The off the wall:

Given the curious exclusion of Porky as a spirit, unlike all the other bosses from brawl, I expect that he will be one of the fighters and his inclusion will be a vehicle to release a remastered or virtual system Mother 3 that finally sees western release.
 
An actual successor to the 3DS, since I don't believe the Switch will replace it. At least, not yet.
 
The video game bubble bursts, touch 2014 stock prices.
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- Anthem will be extremely mediocre but make hundreds of millions of dollars. Journalist criticism will be restrained solely by the fanservice romance plots and EA's marketing budget. Rumours that Bioware will be finally Old Yeller'd by EA start to enter the mainstream due to Anthem "not performing as expected".
- Every party member in Dragon Age 4 will be a gay or transgender racial minority. The antagonist will be a lame edgelord lady. The developers will fan the flames on social media to trick journalists into marketing the game for them yet again
- Battlefield V BR is a flop which is instantly forgotten about because everyone is already burnt out on battle royale games
- The Game Awards' voting committee tears itself apart trying to decide between The Last of Us 2 and Death Stranding for GOTY and every other award, but ultimately cave and give it to Death Stranding in spite of TLOU 2 being ultra-woke. Anthem gets very little or nothing.
- Blizzard announces Diablo IV and it is in fact a Dark Souls-esque action game like the rumours claim. Feelings are mixed but Diablo fans eat it up anyway and pre-order sales are immeasurable. They also announce Warcraft mobile.
- The Elder Scrolls VI trailer is revealed and you play the Chosen One of Talos (with divine powers instead of shouts) a la Knights of the Nine. It looks good and everyone blows their wad, but cynicism explodes after Todd Howard refuses to unconditionally commit to modding support in an interview.
- The Division 2 is just as mediocre, buggy and plagued with cheaters as the first game but rakes in ridiculous amounts of cash for years to come thanks to aggressive microtransactions.
- Skull & Bones is a really good expansion of Assassin Creed IV's ship gameplay but is poorly balanced and has extremely predatory microtransactions. All in all, a very underwhelming year for Ubisoft.
 
Fallout ‘76 will be patched, and servers will be reduced to allow more player interaction and reduce maintenance. However, pieces that the player base is toxic will follow, and the game will never take off they way Todd envisioned.

Diablo will get its mobile app and will flop. On top of that, the third party they used to develop it is inept and made an security hole that people exploit, leading to another data leak. These problems will bury the franchise.

An ambitious project will be announced. It will be a steampunk-themed survival MMO. They will promise many features, and others will question its validity. A kickstarter campaign will be launched.

Google will announce a PC gaming platform client, like Steam, to intertwine with YouTube’s push towards gaming. They will start by publishing small indie games with a few major titles. The platform will be designed to be streamlined with other google services. It is the next step in Google’s strategy to fully integrate into homes and houses, as they monitor behavior and collect various pieces of data.
 
Some indie software company will get disproportional coverage because they're working on a retro pixel art procedural generated survival role playing game with deep learning AI, proving once and for all to even the most naive that "deep learning" and "AI" are just the latest marketing buzzwords without any real meaning. A blockchain might be involved too.
 
Forgot a few. I'm being pretty flippant with these, but I suspect they'll be fairly accurate all the same-

- Mortal Kombat 11's Season Pass will continue the trend MKXL and Injustice 2 started by adding guest characters absolutely no one was asking for. What, were you expecting Baraka, Rain, and Sareena? Ha! Instead you get Batman, Tallion from Shadow of War, and Ernie Hudson as a Ghostbuster! Look out Noob Saibot!

- Not to be outdone, Tekken 7 releases Season Pass 3, which includes Walter White for some fucking reason.

- Ubisoft continues to be a complete bunch of fuckups, with Division 2 shoehorning in a transgender character with all the grace and subtlety as jackhammer through Jell-O, Jade in Beyond Good and Evil 2 getting hot an heavy with a horse-humanoid creature, and the next Assassin in the Assassin's Creed series to be a gay black Jew who has to save Mary and Jospeh from King Herod.
 
Tf2 will either get a major update and new devs or just wither away.
Overwatch will go on for a few years as a game with a steady playerbase
The creator from undertale makes a collab with some other indie developer to create a new game
Atomic heart comes out, god-like graphics, pretty fun to play the story because exploration and fighting mechanics, overall no replayability till it gets a multiplayer mod/patch/dlc
Cyberpunk 2077 hits the market like sleeping dogs, some love it, some hate it, some call it a bootleg. Vaporwave mod 3 months after launch.
Some random guy launches an indiegogo/kickstarter for a glove to touch objects in virtual reality, weebs's go diamond-hard, the project is funded, but it will take a while to arrive.
Half life 3 fanmade demo alpha version comes out, hype hits like old people with polio.
 
E-Sports as a whole will begin downsizing, as investors are not getting the returns that were expecting. Some examples include:

-DOTA 2's The International 2019 will have a smaller crowd-funded prize pool than 2018, thus beginning mass hysteria that the game is dying. While DOTA's E-Sports scene in 2019 will be pretty much the same as this year, the panic from the smaller TI prize pool will result in noticeable downsizes next year.

-League of Legends will begin making budget cuts in the latter half of 2019, leading to things such as not even bringing live casters to the Worlds Grand Finals venue, since they already cut down on this by not sending English-speaking casters to the venues during this year's Worlds in South Korea, with them only being there for the Grand Finals. And don't expect something as fancy as K/DA at Worlds in 2019.

-The oversaturation of Counter-Strike tournaments takes it's toll, as people start to lose interest, not only because of so many tournaments to watch, but the era of Astralis Wins LOL REALLY kicks into high gear.

-Artifact's $1,000,000 tournament in 2019 will be a flop, and viewership will be so low that the 2019 Pokémon World Championship will have higher viewership. Not to mention that Valve will eventually stop updating the game in the middle of 2019.

-Blizzard's implosion will continue, as Diablo Immortal flops, Battle of Azeroth's ending will be so Horde favored that all Alliance characters will be deleted from the game at the ending of it, and Heroes of the Storm is shut down in the summer. In addition, BlizzCon will be unceremoniously cancelled, and the company will somehow go bankrupt towards the end of 2019, with various Activision staff embezzling company funds, causing a ripple in the gaming world that some people make comparisons to Daewoo's bankruptcy in 1999.

-Following the demise of Blizzard, Valve hastily rushes out a massive update for TF2, there by pushing it to be the #1 class-based FPS. The amount of TF2 porn will rise faster than Venezuela's hyperinflation rate.

-Due to Hi-Rez's incompetence, the Smite Pro League and Paladins Pro League will suddenly be cancelled mid-summer, without any notice. HRX in 2019 will be barely scraped together, like a last minute science fair project, and the event will turn out UGLY. But hey, at least HRX actually happened, while BlizzCon didn't!

-Ubisoft sees the decline of CSGO's competitive scene, and tries to capitalize on that by pumping more into Rainbow 6: Siege's scene. Unfortunately, they end up making a game change that absolutely pisses off the community, thereby squandering those efforts.

-The millions of dollars Epic pumped into Fortnite BR's competitive scene will suddenly not be heard of up in 2019, and people question the future of the game. Somehow though, the STW part of Fortnite sees a resurgence.

-After Capcom sees that pumping in money into Street Fighter V proved to be a failure, the game sees massive cuts in the scene. And Bandai Namco will fail to utilize this opportunity to try to prop up Tekken's pro scene.
 
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EA and Dice make another shooter, and someone gets mad about it for some reason, so EA will post on the internet again to "explain" themselves causing another big controversy to happen. They make just enough money off the "failure of a game" to repeat this ad infinitum.

Fortnite will release a mind-control device that will cause millions of 10 year olds around the world to be slaves to Epic Games (Implying this hasn't happened already)

Bethesda will release something like The Elder Scrolls 6 and everyone will forget about Fallout 76....well until Bethesda gets greedy and pulls a Tamriel 76 or some shit.

But most important and realistic of all....


Some cool warhammer shit will come out and I will play it.
 
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I swear I can remember the Last of Us 2 released a year ago and everyone gurgled about lesbians for a month and then never talked about it again, so either I'm a prophet or I had some vivid false memories of it. So there's my prediction: The Last of Us 2 will release in 2019 and everyone will gurgle about lesbians for a month and then never talk about it again.
 
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