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

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Considering what a dogshit year 2018 was for video games, and that troubling trends have been prevalent throughout this decade, I predict little or nothing will change, at least at the beginning. Thus:

Developers and manufacturers will continue happily tuning out their actual consumers.
Loot boxes.
Microtransactions.
Games-as-a-service.
50GB day one patches. Get those wallets ready for external hard drives.
EA shits on their customers.
Sony keeps up their censorship policy. They will amp it up this year by moving onto AAA titles and bigger studios (except Naughty Dog.)
SonyPony and ResetEra neets will continue defending them.
ResetEra will continue to be the shit-caked anus of the Internet. Developers will continue being pressured into complying with its userbase.
Nintendo will keep on handing out C&D's. They will amp it up this year by threatening people selling used NES carts and Nintendo Powers on eBay.
Then they will do something stupid, likely relating to their online service. The hardcore fanbase will defend it.
Physical media, even lesser of a thing. Manufacturers and publishers will emphasis The Cloud. Something and then another thing will come out without a disc or cartridge drive.

Then:

The Last of Us 2 comes out and divides everyone.
It has a scene with a full frontal naked 11-year-old that Sony did not touch. A shitstorm begins. "But those anime games you..." "This is different, this is ART." "You are normalizing pedophilia." "In the era of #MeToo..." "Lol at you manbabies not understanding the difference between..." "Way to miss the point!" "(Mass bans on ResetEra)" "(3,000 Polygon and Kotaku articles) ":autism:"
Some rogue intern from Naughty Dog Tweets about manbabies hating women, ugly lesbians, and artistically done naked 11-year-olds. Everyone sees the Tweet as representing Naughty Dog as a whole.
The Last of Us 2 wins over 50 Game of the Year awards.
Sony releases the PS5, a tablet/console hybrid that tries to curb off the Switch but ignores what made the Switch successful.
There are serious launch day hardware problems, up to and including exploding batteries.
The Last of Us 2, released as a "remastered" PS5 launch title.
Sony releases a PlayStation 2 Classic with the same problems as the Playstation 1 Classic. A colossal failure.
Nintendo releases a Switch revision. Better battery life. Better processor. More RAM. A line of games that only work with the Switch revision thing...from here on.
The fanbase defends it. "But they :autism:"
We hear an announcement about GTA VI and possibly Bully 2.
Rockstar begins a long, painful and several-times-delayed release of Red Dead Redemption 2's online service.
Rockstar begins a long, painful and several-times-delayed release of Red Dead Redemption 2's PC version.
Anita Sarkeesian yearns for her lost relevancy. Get ready for Tropes vs. Women in Anime.
Microsoft does a thing and no one cares because of the drama with Sony and Nintendo.
We get a crash-happy release of Fallout: New Vegas on Nintendo Switch with a 32 GB day one patch. "But my onboard memory!" "Bu:autism:"
REMake 2 comes out and that's a cool thing.
Except there is a cutscene with Claire's tits jiggling that Sony is quick to patch out.
It is then revealed that REMake 2 Claire would have revealed some extra leg, but Sony forced Japan to change it.
Finally, another hashtag revolt. Polygon goes into full coverage mode. Something about white men, and Nazis and the history of child nudity.
2019 ends with rumors of an industry crash on the horizon.

I tried to be optimistic, guys. I even waited until I had my coffee before I posted this.

EDIT - Alright:

A Switch port of Diablo II that...is not that bad. It's really fun, actually. No more lamenting those lost CD keys.
 
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EA will continue to prosper despite decades worth of vitriol. Battlefront 3 will be announced and will continue to use loot boxes and other predatory tactics.

More remakes of old games will be announced in order acquire nostalgia/autism bux.

Persona 5 will receive a dumbed down special edition with a new Waifu Mary Sue character.

The video game industry as a whole will fully crack down on emulation sites and unwittingly make it so older and forgotten games become lost forever.

Triple A games will continue to be released in even buggier and even more unfinished states while also selling Day 1 DLC and micro-transactions up the wazoo. Fanboys will continue to guzzle this all down.

Indie gaming will continue to stagnate because people can't get the fuck over 2D platformers/Metroidvanias.

Big name devs will continue to be out of touch with the consumer base that brought them to where they were in the first place.
 
Sony will shoot itself in the foot with their new Victorian approach to video game fanservice but is too big to go broke despite going woke

Bethesda quietly shutters Fallout 76, most likely in the late Summer/early Autumn of 2019, and focuses more attention on Starfield and Elder Scrolls 6. Todd Howard presumably learns nothing from the whole debacle.

Fortnite will still be very popular among kids, but slowly loses momentum over the course of the year

The Last of Us 2 will be released and it will suck, but the journalists and Sony will sing its praises anyway. Despite critical acclaim, sales will probably be middling, just enough to break even or at best, only net a small profit. The underwhelming performance of it may be the first wake-up call for Sony to rethink its policies.

Red Dead Redemption 2 will still sell like hotcakes and it will have a popular online component, but RDR Online won't be the juggernaut that GTA Online was

As Sony makes their censorship policies stricter, Nintendo starts experimenting more with M-rated franchises. Bayonetta 3 will probably get announced at the very least, and a new and unexpected "gritty" character from an M-rated third-party franchise gets confirmed for Smash, such as Trevor Phillips, Vito Scaletta, or Albert Wesker.

The mainline Pokemon game for the Switch will get delayed again

Anthem will do okay, but not what EA was hoping for. Dragon Age 4 will fail miserably and Bioware will die a quiet and undignified death at the hands of EA.

Lootboxes will still be a thing for the time being, along with a lot of other awful corporate practices

Crusader Kings 2 will get a another DLC that is fantasy themed. It will most likely be Dark Ages: Vampire since Paradox already owns the IP and it would be done as a cheap Hail Mary attempt at trying to salvage the IP's Paradox gained from the White Wolf buyout in 2015. CK2 fans will complain about it being non-historical while Onyx Path dangerhairs and RPG.net will still call it problematic because it is Classic World of Darkness-themed.

Gaming journalism will still be a cesspit and people will still keep beating the rotted skeletal corpse of Gamergate

Playstation 5 and a new Xbox console will be announced in November or December but not actually released until 2020

Resident Evil 2 Remake will turn out good but not enough to get Capcom to pull its head out of its ass

Kingdom Hearts III does very well and Square Enix finally announces a release date for the FF7 remake late in the year
 
The autistic lol-suit between Toys for Bob and Stardock over Star Control ends up giving lawyers a fat vidya pay check. Meanwhile Toys for Bob tries to show off more of the Star Control they make to jerk off fans.

The Last of Us 2 comes out, ends up not being as promised in trailers while retaining the lesbian kiss scene so many people love to sperg about.

Dragon Age 4 is likely to be shipped off to a different company EA owns after the Anthem fails to deliver as promised.

Anthem is given some positive press via bribes and other shit to gaming journalist. Gamers on the other hand aren't as big in praising Anthem.

Bethesda finds another way to fuck up with Fallout 76.

A new Battlefield game is announced and along with it will be the autism of gamers from all sides.

The Epic Games store gets some fanfare, followed getting its own kind of shit that can make it no different from Steam or Origin.
 
scorptatious said:
The video game industry as a whole will fully crack down on emulation sites and unwittingly make it so older and forgotten games become lost forever.
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Good luck with that, some of us already have autistically large archives. If anything, it'll just take more effort than going to a website.

As for predictions, people have already made mine.
 
2019, the final year in this low, dishonest decade, will a year like 1782 or 1914 and 1873 or 1929. All major vidya gaem projects are delayed due economic difficulties and the diversion of resources towards fighting the various different wars that will break out.

At least we'll have our classic games, at least.
 
Mechwarrior 5 comes out, it's mediocre and tanks while I cry myself to sleep thinking about the wasted potential that is the Battletech franchise.
 
This gonna be long:

- CD Projekt Red's last good game will be Cyberpunk 2077. Like its American counterparts, their forced responsibilities to their share holders desiring infinite growth will slowly break down the model. GoG will be further monetized ala Steam Cards and balances to try and offset shareolder greed, but share-holders only look at short-term gains, not the long term. This will eventually lead to the last decent triple A studio to decay.

- 2019 will see the rise of A1/2 studios, where they sacrifice marketing and budget in order to take risks and try to grab the disillusioned gaming market. Without share-holders, they can take bigger risks. They'll start out slow, but eventually eke it out.

- 2019 will also mark the rise of the East. Eastern game developers give no fucks and will give unique experiences that their American counterparts cannot deliver on due to the fact that sanitization of the market is what they desire. Eastern developers will turn more and more to the PC. Visual Novels will suffer, but games like Neir with realistic wet ass physics will flourish. Journalists will cry but no one will care.

- Activision-Blizzard will become Blizzard in name only. Bobby Kotick's tentacles will purge old Blizzard loyalists until it becomes a shell of its former self. It will be like old Activision, where it runs franchises into the ground. Eventually Activision will consolidate around a few titles and limit Blizzard IPs. World of Warcraft will eventually be slowly killed off and will probably die in 2021. 2019 will see the death of Overwatch as constant micromangement has destroyed the community, and it will be only used to sell merch and phone games only on the force of its characterization alone. It will no longer be able to use diversity to bail it out of its massive problems and micromanagement.

- Companies will become more censorious, which will turn off a majority of the gaming audience who grow tired of sanitized, overly monetized, 'safe' products. This is abated somewhat by PC modding, but eventually it will lead to an increased decline in sales and stock. Stocks of major AAA companies continue to plummet, resulting in even worse monetization, less content, less story. Marketing budgets inflate and development, Q&A and R&D budgets plummet. Exploitative practices continue to become more and more common as companies become desperate to retain shareholders. Games as service is a thinly veiled excuse to turn $60 games into mobile platforms. More exploitative monetization schemes are employed. This will eventually result in a scandal and an FTC investigation too big for the ESRB to prevent. Stories about children becoming gambling addicts hit the mainstream media, using examples of Logan Paul and Rice Gum's mystery boxes as to how the AAA industry exploits its audience.

- Due to the increased shareholder stresses and multiple scandals, corporations will beat games journalists harder to push out their corporate messages and shilling. Expect more articles that are even worse to attempt to push out their established audience for a sanitized one. Journalists will double down on wokeness. We haven't seen nothing yet. It will be the worst year as journalists attempt to eviscerate their audiences. Expect gaming companies to hire more minorities, women and LGBT+ in order to use them as shields from criticism. Journalists will attempt to push out the toxic male demographic as companies eat the 'majority of women play videogames now' narratives, struggling to gain that audience while sanitizing products. This ultimately fails, leading to AAA studios consolidating around very few franchises that remain profitable and relatively risk free.

- More games coming to mobile as companies utilize their cheap development costs and dopamine stimulants to extract money. They will largely be aimed at normies, will make money, but eventually bleed their core audience.

- Anthem gets raped in its asshole. It will be a worse Destiny clone, with a bad story. Warframe will be massively superior to it, as it already has a massive head start. Its story will be awful. It will be surpassed by multiple releases such as REMake, Kingdom Hearts III and Metro: Exodus. Anthem fails and Bioware struggles to make it work. Dragon Age 4 is given a bare-bones team and is pushed out to try and make a quick buck to support Anthem. The effort falls flat as Bioware has no good will left. Bioware is shuttered at the end of 2019 and used as an IP farm.

- Fortnite will eventually begin its slow decline, with Battlefield 5 releasing its Battle Royale and many clones coming out. It will still be popular, but it is very much a flavor of the month type deal and I don't see it having much staying power. If another flavor of the month comes out, Fortnite falls off completely.

- EA continues to be shit. Eventually, all it will publish is Battlefield Games and Sports. While raking in billions, it is no longer really a staple of the hardcore gamer. It will rely on safe IPs to rebuild its stock and take no risk. Origin will continue to shuffle along as a zombie platform.

- Epic Games and Discord's services respectively fail to Steam who simply increase the amount of money developers make. Shady Chinese practices by Tencent will be revealed and the PC market will abandon the Epic Games store altogether. Something will eventually come out about China using Epic's information on its customers and that will be the end of the store. Discord's store will fold by the end of 2019, like Twitch's store which only lasted a year.

- Twitch will become even more restrictive: If you aren't a whore or a male who rakes in money, you will be permabanned without warning. It becomes a shell of its former self and decent streamers become harder to find, which in turn will lower the effect of 'influencers'. Twitch will morph back into Justin.tv.

- Bethesda has learned nothing from Fallout 76. Its engine will not be updated for Starfall and Elder Scroll's 6. Much like Bioware, it has destroyed its reputation on one game. Pete Hines will still try and force creation club, paid mods into the game. Bethesda will force ES 6 and Starfield on its own launcher in order to moderate the content. They will be always online components and they will go out of their way to make Nexus Mods struggle to keep up with the aging engine. Eventually, Fallout 76 will become free to play or extremely cheap. Either way, heavy monetization remains. Bethesda as a studio will continue to decline as its arrogance gets the better of it and the engine becomes too old to support decent mods to keep up with current games.

- Red Dead Redemption 2 will be released on PC but won't make as much money as GTA V in terms of monetization due to burnout.

- The Outer Worlds is a toss up. Since all of this except for a few things are negative, I'll do a positive. The Outer World's rapes Fallout in its asshole. Obsidan's bugs are offset by Microsft's massive resources, minimizing problems. Microsoft uses Obsidian and InExile to build up an exclusive library of games, shoring it up against the PS4. Both studios further marginalize Bethesda who now face competition where they haven't in decades. The Outer Worlds will ship with a far superior engine and allow for more detailed, easier created mods. People will move from Bethesda to Obsidian and Bethesda will find itself with terribly written, buggy games with no one except the hardest core audience to fix them, which shrinks by the day. Microsoft might see sense and see the decay of all the online stores and just stick with its windows store and steam instead of just a singular platform.
 
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Syaoran Li said:
Crusader Kings 2 will get a another DLC that is fantasy themed. It will most likely be Dark Ages: Vampire since Paradox already owns the IP and it would be done as a cheap Hail Mary attempt at trying to salvage the IP's Paradox gained from the White Wolf buyout in 2015. CK2 fans will complain about it being non-historical while Onyx Path dangerhairs and RPG.net will still call it problematic because it is Classic World of Darkness-themed.
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Hell, what if Paradox decides to go all in, does what their good at, and makes a Vampire:The Masquerade based strategy game, where you play as a clan of vampires attempting to extend it’s influence in the modern world. At least that has some potential.
 
Randall Fragg said:
Hell, what if Paradox decides to go all in, does what their good at, and makes a Vampire:The Masquerade based strategy game, where you play as a clan of vampires attempting to extend it’s influence in the modern world. At least that has some potential.
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That would make for an awesome game, and I would play it in a heartbeat.
 
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