We pick analysts’ brains to get their predictions on Nintendo, the mobile market, eSports, VR and much more
Games Industry | The events that will define 2016
The entire article is interesting.
What are your expectations for next year? Will VR be a big hit? Will Nintendo release their new console?
vr will not be very big, but they companies will nevertheless ensure we buy a lot of them to impress our grandmothers with 360 pornography
a great plague will kill half of the world’s population, effectively making sure TLG doesn’t come out
VR is going to flop. It’ll sell a respectable amount of units, then gradually sell less than that, until the manufacturers stop supporting it. Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR won’t revolutionize the gaming industry, or the world in general. They aren’t going to be used by everyone like smartphones and social media sites.
NX is going to be a hybrid console/handheld. The handheld will have a large screen on it, similar to the Wii U controller, but you’ll also be able to transfer that to a console box and play all NX games on your tv. I believe this will mean that there won’t be a successor to the 3DS because the NX will have consolidated that side of Nintendo. So, essentially, Wii U and 3DS (except for perhaps without the second screen on the handheld controller) combined. I expect Nintendo to deviate from the design of the Wii U controller, though. It’s going to have brand new gimmicks/features that’ll be as interesting or different as the original Wii. I think it’s going to be revealed at E3 2016, then out in 2017.
As far as how it’ll be received, the loyal Nintendo fans will adore it, no matter what they release. Other hardcore gamers may get an NX as well if it intrigues them enough, and there are games they want to play on it. What most certainly won’t happen is the casual market won’t be buying NX in a frenzy, as they did for Wii.
Final Fantasy 15 will most likely be out late next year. It’ll be met with positive impressions, and probably some negative impressions of the battle system being difficult to manage. The positive will overtake the negative.
The Last Guardian won’t be out next year.
VR won’t flop, it just won’t take off in 2016. It will be a few years before VR is a mainstream thing. VR isn’t new, and has been on peoples minds and implemented various ways since the 90s. The key to VR won’t be games though, it will be interesting uses outside of games that makes VR important.
I still don’t think people want a rather heavy device attached to their heads. That will never catch on, unless it’s light as a feather.
VR will have beneficial usage in non-gaming industries, like the medical field and travel industry.
It will become a hit if it gets it’s shit together in the games/software department.
Also, the second the celebrity train jumps aboard, the normies will buy into the VR hype.
Most transformative technology was once considered impossible or improbable. The current tech is definitely prohibitive, specially when you consider it is only the “monitor” and you still need hundreds of dollars for a separate device to render the content. The technology will improve, and it will one day be more compact and less expensive.
These are the very early days, just like the early days of the computer or the cell phone. There are enough people and companies invested in it succeeding that I highly doubt it will just be given up if it doesn’t immediately succeed.
I’m very bad at predicting short term events. I can’t imagine things will change quickly in a year.
What makes sense though is…if Japanese companies don’t delay their games, we might see year 2016 the comeback year of Japanese made games on consoles, especially Jrpgs.
Then we have Nintendo…they have been very quiet and lacklustre in 2015. I’m hoping this means next year we will hear a lot from them in terms of new console and mobile plans.
