The Shrine

Just found some older posts with predictions and I figured I would share:

Andrew, Killer Bee wrote:MGS4 will not come out this year. I'd put money on it. Posted on 24 May 2007

CORRECT! Released on Q2 of 2008! However, you need to specify an amount to bet!

SineSwiper wrote:[DMC4] To be later ported to XBox 360. Seriously, with the lack of exclusive titles on the PS3, what's the point? Even FF13 is going to be on the 360. Posted on 01 Sep 2007

CORRECT! On both counts! (Actually, the DMC4 news was announced on Mar 21 '07.)

Dutch wrote:Point being: I have no faith in the FF13 development team to deliver, and I totally expect them to fail in their rushjobs[ of 5 different FF13 titles. That is, unless they get someone with some skill involved in the project. Posted on 08 Jul 2006

Not sure yet, but you are on the record for that comment. Bets, anybody?

Eric wrote:That has to be the dumbest reason I've ever heard for not being excited about a game. The development team turned you off? What the fuck. The team that handled Final Fantasy X is handling Final Fantasy XIII, and the Kingdom Hearts 2/Advent Children team is handling Final Fantasy Versus XIII, what's not to like? Posted on 08 Jul 2006

Man, are you going to take that Seeker? Bets are now 5:1. If Seeker wins it, he'll win it big. (And Square and gamers will lose big.)

SineSwiper wrote:They need to hurry up and release the Wii, so that Sony/MS realizes that nobody wants to pay $600-1000 for a glorified computer when they can just buy a high-powered PC for that price. Posted on 08 Jul 2006

DISAPPOINTMENT! Price drops, Wii sucks, and I change sides, so -1 point for me!

The Magic Box wrote:Furthermore, the report forecasts that the market share of PlayStation 2 will further increase to 72% by the end of the year. Strategy Analytics pointed out the console war has become a race for the second place, as Nintendo and Microsoft will continue to fight for the second place head to head. The industry experts predict that Nintendo may move to a software-only developer like Sega in the next few years. Posted on 20 Oct 2002

STUPID! WRONG! REALLY FUCKING WRONG!! -10 points!

Dutch wrote:So the question remains, who will win the second spot in the handheld wars, PSP or N-gage? I predict it will be a very tight race =) Posted on 28 Sep 2004

NOT EVEN CLOSE! PSP, though with a slow start, actually has a sizable collection of games. The N-Gage? DEAD DEAD DEAD!

Don wrote:I predict [WoW will pull] 400-500K range for opening in NA, and 1 million in Korea (because it's Korea). While that sounds like a lot, EQ2 pulled in around 200K on opening. Anything less than 400K domestic, WoW will be in trouble against EQ2 in the long run.

CLOSE! Try 250,000 in less than 24 hours, and 350,000 on that Thankgiving Weekend. That's 600K! And it was 700K in Korea. EQ2?! WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!

You still get +2 points.

Zeus wrote:I predict that ESPN Football will sell about 1/15th as much as Madden, even at the $20 price point

WRONG! ESPN NFL 2K5 still made a respectable 3.45m in copies, to Madden 2005's 6.16m (and that's including Madden's DS version).

Dutch wrote:I predict that no one at the Shrine will buy either game =)

PROBABLY TRUE! Anybody here want to prove him wrong? It will only take one person! Bets are 3:2 in Seeker's favor. (I'll put down a bet myself.)

Nev wrote:I predict that, should we humans manage to keep from blowing up the world, there will one day be games graphically and gameplay-wise good enough that there will be public playthroughs of games that are pay-to-attend events...like movies...but there will be a new class of artists who are sort of like professional game players, whose job it is to provide a visually exciting spectacle for the players by playing so "well" or interestingly that they can provide a new experience for the watchers each time.

CRAZY! But true. Actually, this isn't a prediction, considering that already happens!

Dutch wrote:Speaking of Final Fantasy 3 DS, word is out that the game is significantly more difficult than the simplistic SNES/PSX FF titles that most are used to. This was the most difficult game in the series afterall. I predict this will do two things, turn away casual RPG fans who can't stand to die; and attract hardcore and older RPG fans who have been starving for a new game like this.

CAN'T SAY FOR SURE! Can anybody confirm this?

Dutch wrote:I am going to predict that the best two games on the PS2 will be XG3 and FF12.

RELATIVE ANSWER! But, still, good choices.

Nev wrote:If I get this game, I predict several years of my life will disappear.

UNCONFIRMED! Nobody wants to confirm this, since it would involve talking to him! I award +2 points, anyway!

Dutch wrote:I actually quite agree with Sine here, it really seems like Sony has fucked themselves with their grand plan of using the once immensely popular Playstation brand name in an attempt to push their blu ray media. You know, if they would have left the drive out and instead pulled what they did back in 1994, things would be A LOT different now than they were then. They essentially defeated Sega with just one word "$299". I am more than just a bit amused about the complete lack of irony that caused their downfall =)

TURNAROUND! Man, where is this version of Seeker when you need him?

SineSwiper wrote:There's no way to simply "retry" a race after you've failed it, for example. I understand that this is an "open world," and this world is also my menu system, but despite what they might believe in their hearts I don't want to drive two or three scale miles to select Retry.

This would really suck for the car crash events, as I retry those things about 20-30 times, and it only takes me about 5 seconds to retry one.

I predict this will be one of those things like the Wii controller. Yeah, it looks neat and cool, but sometimes people just want to hit buttons, because that is the fastest and easiest way to do it.

CORRECT! Major complaints about the interface in reviews! Go buy Burnout: Revenge instead! +5 points to me, since I'm the one awarding them!

RentCavalier wrote:[SF4] is going to bomb hard, I predict.

UNDECIDED! ON THE RECORD! Bets, anybody?

Don wrote:I predict Blizzard's going to regret making this when they find out it's going to cannbalize their own population in WoW, since WoW is basically Diablo 3 that you have to pay a monthly fee for the vast majority of the players. That is unless Diablo 3 requires a monthly subscritpion fee too.

UNDECIDED AND ON THE RECORD! You can see the graphs on VGChartz when it comes out!

Kupek wrote:Two, as I pointed out, Sony said that cutting the price was not a part of their current plans, not that their plan is to not cut the price. At some point in the future, the price will be cut. Multiple times, in fact.

NOW YOU'RE ON THE RECORD! Bets? Odds?

I retract my statement of SF4 bombing to replace it with a better one:

SF4 is going to sell REALLY well, but everybody who buys it (relatively speaking) as well as reviewers are going to express great amounts of disappointment about some minute detail or aspect of the game. It will ultimately not live up to the hype, and everybody will continue to say SF2 was better.

RentCavalier wrote:I retract my statement of SF4 bombing to replace it with a better one:

SF4 is going to sell REALLY well, but everybody who buys it (relatively speaking) as well as reviewers are going to express great amounts of disappointment about some minute detail or aspect of the game. It will ultimately not live up to the hype, and everybody will continue to say SF2 was better.

to which i say third strike was better

Chris wrote:

RentCavalier wrote:I retract my statement of SF4 bombing to replace it with a better one:

SF4 is going to sell REALLY well, but everybody who buys it (relatively speaking) as well as reviewers are going to express great amounts of disappointment about some minute detail or aspect of the game. It will ultimately not live up to the hype, and everybody will continue to say SF2 was better.

to which i say third strike was better

Whatever, its Street Fighter--everybody pretends to love this game 'cause its old as hell.

RentCavalier wrote: Whatever, its Street Fighter--everybody pretends to love this game 'cause its old as hell.

Just like those idiots pretending to love The Godfather or Catcher in the Rye. Those shits are SO old.

I may be shitty as fuck at street fighter, but I love it so much. It has trained me so that I cannot play any game that requires a button to block. Back will always be block.

RentCavalier wrote:Whatever, its Street Fighter--everybody pretends to love this game 'cause its old as hell.

You are a terrible troll. I hope you grow out of it eventually.

SineSwiper wrote:

Zeus wrote:I predict that ESPN Football will sell about 1/15th as much as Madden, even at the $20 price point

WRONG! ESPN NFL 2K5 still made a respectable 3.45m in copies, to Madden 2005's 6.16m (and that's including Madden's DS version).

Dutch wrote:I predict that no one at the Shrine will buy either game =)

PROBABLY TRUE! Anybody here want to prove him wrong? It will only take one person! Bets are 3:2 in Seeker's favor. (I'll put down a bet myself.)

i bought Madden but i was on sabbatical from the Shrine at the time.

Haha, I was WAY off on the N-Gage thing. Though N-Gage isn't dead, but I do think it is similar to Verizon's V-Cast nowadays.

Prediction: The 1:1 add-on will have Wii-Music packed with it.

SineSwiper wrote:

Kupek wrote:Two, as I pointed out, Sony said that cutting the price was not a part of their current plans, not that their plan is to not cut the price. At some point in the future, the price will be cut. Multiple times, in fact.

NOW YOU'RE ON THE RECORD! Bets? Odds?

I thought it was an uncontroversial statement. All consoles get continually dropped in price as they move through their life span. I see no reason why PS3 will be different.

Dutch wrote:Prediction: The 1:1 add-on will have Wii-Music packed with it.

Alright, I was wrong, Wii Sports 2 is the pack in with this. Which is even better =)

Kupek wrote:

SineSwiper wrote:

Kupek wrote:Two, as I pointed out, Sony said that cutting the price was not a part of their current plans, not that their plan is to not cut the price. At some point in the future, the price will be cut. Multiple times, in fact.

NOW YOU'RE ON THE RECORD! Bets? Odds?

I thought it was an uncontroversial statement. All consoles get continually dropped in price as they move through their life span. I see no reason why PS3 will be different.

What I was saying to which Kupek replied to: I think Sony WILL drop the price earlier than they "want" (well, they NEVER want to) 'cause of the 360 drop. They said they don't plan to drop the price before year end. I'll go on the record as saying they will.....well, that they HAVE to and will because they're losing too much ground.

Kupek wrote:

SineSwiper wrote:

Kupek wrote:Two, as I pointed out, Sony said that cutting the price was not a part of their current plans, not that their plan is to not cut the price. At some point in the future, the price will be cut. Multiple times, in fact.

NOW YOU'RE ON THE RECORD! Bets? Odds?

I thought it was an uncontroversial statement. All consoles get continually dropped in price as they move through their life span. I see no reason why PS3 will be different.

I guess technically, the statement is correct, but when will they do it?

I got this one right:

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and this one:

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Both at Seek's expense.

Flip wrote:I got this one right:

viewtopic.php?t=9243

and this one:

viewtopic.php?t=11081

Both at Seek's expense.

Although, you just demonstrated a complete failure at comprehending the topic of this thread.

Dutch wrote:
Although, you just demonstrated a complete failure at comprehending the topic of this thread.

Yeah, i knew that while posting. Still, totally worth bringing up for the funnay.

Flip wrote:

Dutch wrote:
Although, you just demonstrated a complete failure at comprehending the topic of this thread.

Yeah, i knew that while posting. Still, totally worth bringing up for the funnay.

You have an awfully strange sense of humour.

Jesus you must be bored sine.

Imakeholesinu wrote:Jesus you must be bored sine.

Admit it, it's funny. Even better is if you pretend that I'm some game show host while you read it. (Though, I guess that is obvious enough...)

Also, I think Flip is/was drunk.

SineSwiper wrote:
Also, I think Flip is/was drunk.

Oh, of course not. Just being annoying to get under Seek's skin, sheesh.

SineSwiper wrote:
Also, I think Flip is/was drunk.

My guess was inbreeding.

Dutch wrote:My guess was inbreeding.

Why do you have to resort to some derogatory insult for no reason?

SineSwiper wrote:

Dutch wrote:My guess was inbreeding.

Why do you have to resort to some derogatory insult for no reason?

Flip wrote:Oh, of course not. Just being annoying to get under Seek's skin, sheesh.