Future Gaming Predictions

Jason, Kirk, and Maddy revisit last year's predictions to see what game they'll be playing this year, then go through some new predictions for 2025, from the Nintendo Switch 2 to... new Half-Life?

One More Thing:

Kirk: Interviewing your friends & family / StoryCorps

Maddy: Scorcese double feature (Taxi Driver + King of Comedy)

Jason: Encanto (2021)

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StoryCorps: https://storycorps.org/

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2025 PREDICTIONS

KIRK

1. At least one game will be released and then un-released within the year
2. Hollow Knight: Silksong will actually come out
3. Valve will announce a new non-VR Half-Life game
4. The new Nintendo console will have the word "Switch" in the name
5. Conan O'Brien or Geoff Keighley will appear in Death Stranding 2 (either/both)
6. Valve will announce a new Steam controller that's on par with Steam Deck
7. You will be able to "pet the dog" in The Game Awards' GOTY, i.e. the game will have a "pet animal" interact prompt
8. At least two TGA GOTY nominees will be for a studio's first game
9. In the new Fable, you will be able to plant an acorn and have it grow into a tree
10. Square Enix will announce Final Fantasy VII.... Return

Bonus: Nintendo will announce they're bringing games to Steam

Game: SOMA

MADDY

1. A Deadpool video game will get announced
2. The Guillemot family will get pushed out of controlling Ubisoft
3. Metroid Prime 2 + 3 will get remasters released on a Switch in 2025
4. A full-length film will be screened in Fortnite
5. A game made on Roblox will become a huge hit/phenomenon on the scale of Pokemon Go or Among Us
6. Microsoft/Xbox will remove the requirement for new Xbox games to be able to also run on Xbox Series S
7. Half-Life 3 will be announced
8. Silksong will get a release date announcement that will be “it’s out right now” (which means I am also implicitly predicting Silksong comes out in 2025)
9. There will be two more prominent live service game failures in 2025 in the style of Concord and Suicide Squad
10. Waluigi will figure into a new Mario game

Bonus: Half-Life 4 will be announced

Game: Super Metroid

JASON

1. Ubisoft will be sold 
2. An Xbox studios game will be nominated for GOTY at The Game Awards (it's never happened before!)
3. A non-VR Half-Life game will be announced
4. A single player playstation game will be announced for PC within 3 months of its PS5 release
5. Ace Attorney 7 will be announced 
6. Bobby Kotick will get involved with the Trump administration in some way
7. EA CEO Andrew Wilson will step down
8. Switch 2 will have an availability crisis
9. Metroid Prime 4 will launch on Switch and Switch 2 - day one of Switch 2
10. There will be fewer industry layoffs than last year

Bonus: Amazon will pull out of the video game industry

Game: Chrono Trigger