Your 2023 predictions

[The Mad Titan]

2023 is shaping up to be a pretty impressive year for current gen gaming. A lot of big titles from all of the big 3 are set to drop this year.
With that said, I do think a lot of these titles could realistically use another year in the oven thanks to covid.
What are some of your hot takes and predictions for 2023.


I'll list 5 of mine.
1) Gaming will get more expensive than ever before in 2023, from VR to people finally starting to get and understand HDMI 2.1 tv's and setups to game, game subs, and physical hardware price increases. I think "premium" gaming is set to increase in price even more in 2023.
2) Xbox starts to deliver more "exclusives" I think this is something that Phil wanted to lean out of but it's clear that exclusives are like pokemon badges to console gamers. So I think you are going to see MS spending more on exclusives and shorter timed exclusives for gamepass and other 3rd party games.
3) I Think it's do or die for VR gaming this year, if it doesn't pop I think it put back on the shelf mostly until late this gen.
4) With that said I think the meta verse starts to "blossom" more in 2023.
5) A new Nintendo system gets announced

 

[Red Shield]

Sony announces and launches the a new ps5 this year.

 

[D1renegade]

Rockstar is gonna finally drop Agent

 

[BBG]

I predict

1) XBOX consoles remain to be the worst value in gaming, while Gamepass remains the best

2) Starfield will be good, but not groundbreaking or classic, ala Cyberpunk 2077. A slight let down, but xbots will rejoice for finally having their first AAA single player next-gen exclusive.

3) I will finally make that leap and sell my consoles to finally join the pc master race. I've been pricing shyt out and while graphics card prices are fukkig disgusting, I imagine I'll start with a modest build and upgrade as necessary over time.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Spidey 2 is gonna obliterate shyt in the fall

FF16 GOTY

Metal Gear Reboot/Remaster of some sorts is announced

TLOU Factions gets released

 

[humminbird]

Kh4 trailer with 2024 release date
ps5 slim announced
FF7 Remake part 2 delayed to next year it kind of already is with the winter 2023 release date

 

[Rekkapryde]

Spidey 2 is gonna obliterate shyt in the fall

FF16 GOTY

Metal Gear Reboot/Remaster of some sorts is announced

TLOU Factions gets released

Xbots overhype the shyt outta Starfield

 

[NoMorePie]

GTA 6 teaser trailer will be released

 

[the elastic]

Twitch will make major acquisitions

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Spidey 2 is gonna obliterate shyt in the fall

FF16 GOTY

Metal Gear Reboot/Remaster of some sorts is announced

TLOU Factions gets released

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Gamepass go crazy…

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

Starfield will launch with bugs that date back to Daggerfall. Within moments of launch people will rush to be the first to break the game in an exceedingly retarded way as a "gotcha". Expect to see the usual stans flooding the front page with those threads. It'll be a 9/10 game from the media but it will do nothing that says "next gen". In fact, Bethesda is going to fukk up the performance somehow.

Forza will arrive on the scene and be a proper visual showcase for the Series X, and even be an example on how developers can make the Series S behave. There will be hardcore juelzing about how they managed to do it. It's not going to be very much of a sim at all. Just a less forgiving handling model compared to Horizon. It will wind up being a relatively casual game - I don't think they'll play on the "motorsport" aspect as much as they should. Multiplayer will be a shyt show. It'll be simultaneously competition for GT7 while not really being competition. They're aimed at different audiences.

Redfall gonna suck, stans gonna be on full damage control.

Do Sony even have games coming out this year? I haven't seen stans in a hype circle yet. If they do, the games ain't gonna actually be that good, but they'll have something which will make them feel entitled to a "Xbox doesn't have any gamesz Sony keeping us fed " quip for a while.

Actually scratch that, Forsaken or whatever it's called is coming. Last time I looked through that thread, things weren't looking too hot. But the stans are gonna rally hard like it's GOTY, at least until there's something else coming to hype up.

I expect Gizmo to have another meltdown should the Activision deal go through. Then the stans can act like they don't care about multiplats like CoD, while fighting back tears that it might be going away from their plastic box of choice in the future.

E3 is going to be forgettable.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

I expect Gizmo to have another meltdown should the Activision deal go through. Then the stans can act like they don't care about multiplats like CoD, while fighting back tears that it might be going away from their plastic box of choice in the future.

I fully expect it to go through, and I don’t care about COD

 

[FromStLouis]

Redfall is going to be a fun mix of traditional Arkane stealth and co-op. Xbox finally levels up on promotion and marketing with Starfield. Sony stans will be more jealous of Hellblade 2 than anything else. We'll get a full reveal of Fable at The Game Awards. We'll close Activision in June, after which Lina Khan will resign with a losing record and we'll announce another acquisition afterwards.

We'll see DeathLoop DLC, and Halo Campaign DLC announced at E3. Indiana Jones and Avowed as well.

 

[Grand Conde]

I think this is something that Phil wanted to lean out of