In the year 2007

[Gabe_Lewis]

@Sarkus

I can’t really give you a “right” on this. Sim City Societies is not a “new Sim City” in the sense that you meant it. It was never promoted as the successor game to Sim City 4.

Way to nit-pick. He was basically right on.

[Sarkus]

@Gabe Lewis

Way to nit-pick. He was basically right on.

Sure it’s a nit-pick, but it all depends on how you interpret his original prediction. When he wrote it did he mean that there would be a spin-off Sim City title (what we got) or did he really think Sim City V would meet his prediction? I’m not sure he should get credit for something vague. It certainly mattered to Sim City fans that Societies wasn’t Sim City V.

[Kevin_Grey]

@Rob_Merritt

The Wii will take a significant lead this year. However it will show signs of weakness towards christmas as both the PS3 and Xbox 360 bring out their big titles. The PS3 will stay in 3rd place for 2007 and 2008 but will rise to the top at the end of the generation because of its additional untapped power. The 360 will be sucessful for the entire generation but it will always be second place.
Right

Right (so far)

The Wii is showing signs of weakness?

[Grifman]

@Sarkus

I’m not sure he should get credit for something vague.

Isn’t that how most psychics work? :)

[Sarkus]

@Grifman

Isn’t that how most psychics work? :)

I was trying to avoid using that word. I don’t really want to offend Rob.
:-)

[triggercut]

@Gabe Lewis

Way to nit-pick. He was basically right on.

…except Sim City Societies doesn’t look like animation–it is much closer to a realistic look than any version of the game.

[RepoMan]

Since I can’t automatically quote the bits of my post #2 in this thread where I said some bullshit about your predictions (or rather, I can’t quote the quotes of yours I already quoted), I’ll just go over my originals:

@RepoMan

Crackdown sells over half a million units on the strength of the Halo 3 beta invites.

Right.

Spore ships in early December 2007.

Motherfuckin’ wrong-o-matic.

Supreme Commander develops a fierce cult following but does not reach Company of Heroes level of sales.

Right.

Company of Heroes major expansion pack in November 2007. (duh. also, can’t wait)

Right, not that it was hard to guess.

Hellgate: London has major server problems initially but rapidly develops the biggest online non-MMORPG community since Diablo II. (also duh)

Yeah, duh, alright. Wrongolio.

The 360 will have another sales spike in Japan driven by Lost Odyssey, and will wind up having about 10% the volume of the PS3 in Japan by end of 2007, which will be considered either a staggering victory or an unexpectedly strong defeat for Microsoft depending on whether you are K0NY or not.

Baaaaa ha ha haaaaa, what an idiot, me.

K0NY will continue to vacillate in a bipolar manner between relatively level-headed posts and raging fanboism.

Yep, until the banhammer crushed him like a tiny, tiny bug.

Dungsroman will call someone a fag.

Actually, wrong! Bill’s really eased up on that lingo.

Tom Chick will continue to beat Geryk like a gong anytime they play an RTS.

True dat. Fortunately for Geryk, he decided to play Solo Brain Surgeon permanently FTW.

[BobJustBob]

@BobJustBob

And the other 2.5 million units because the game is really really good.

How did I do?

Edit: From Wikipedia: “Ultimately, by the end of 2007, the game sold 1.5 million copies worldwide.” It deserved more.

@Kalle

This thread will be resurrected for christmas 2007

Haha wrong.

[jfletch]

@Sarkus

Sure it’s a nit-pick, but it all depends on how you interpret his original prediction. When he wrote it did he mean that there would be a spin-off Sim City title (what we got) or did he really think Sim City V would meet his prediction? I’m not sure he should get credit for something vague. It certainly mattered to Sim City fans that Societies wasn’t Sim City V.

Is this a joke post? Does it really matter?

[Dave_Markell]

It all depends on what the definition of “is” is.