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JeremyX
12-20-2001, 12:22 AM
IGN pluged into the space time continueum and came up with these predictions. It's long but belive me, it's worth the read!!
(copied directly from their site)



The Xbox will come through in clutch fashion at the 2002 Winter Olympics when dozens of the consoles are flown in from Mexico to replace ten crates of curling stones that suddenly come up missing. Team Canada cries foul as the Americans sweep the gold medal rounds while simultaneously corrupting and commercializing yet another Canadian national past time by putting the Master Chief on the Wheaties box.
The rumored "Halo 1.5" becomes reality as Microsoft issues an add-on disk that not only facilitates easy access play over the internet but allows real time voice communication between players. Once players are actually able to understand each other and don't sound like they're ordering Happy Meals, Halo clans quickly replace the standard family unit.
The Xbox's fear of being compared to PCs will come to an abrupt end by E3 2002 when no less than half a dozen first person shooters will be announced for the system. The success of Halo will encourage, rather than discourage, every Fred, Pete and Bob to get their FPS out the door as soon as possible. When you consider that PS2 has already received versions of the biggest FPS' from the last few years, Xbox versions in 2002 seem unlikely. With the exception of Metroid Prime, the hottest shooters on the way will be announced for Xbox in 2002. But you don't want to play Armorines anyway right?
With more internal development studios than any other hardware manufacturer, Microsoft will put all of their resources to good use by unveiling the longest list of Fourth Quarter 2002 games in the history of the industry. A whopping 94 games from third party publishers and Microsoft will grace the release list for Xbox's holiday lineup. Federal authorities will once again be on The Bill's back when an investigation reveals that the Big M would end up clogging the DVD manufacturing pipeline of the Western U.S. This practice would be deemed as detrimental to healthy competition in the videogames industry. Microsoft's defense of "Nintendo said it would be okay" does not hold up in court and the Xbox sees only 25 games released during the 2002 holidays.
Along with Microsoft's online Xbox plans, comes the few online launch games that'll launch with the online plans. The biggest player will definitely be Sega, who'll use their know-how from their online days with the Dreamcast to create an online game with a huge persistent online world. No, not PSO. We predict you'll be interacting with X-heads and their pet fishes (a la Seaman Evolution) or you'll be vying for customers to pick up (a la Crazy Taxi Next).
With all the good stuff attributed to the Xbox, there's also some bad stuff that we forsee in the year 2002. We predict the first Xbox fatality when some crazy Xhead will overclock his Xbox, creating a massive rift in the time/space continuum, opening a rift in space where an alien Bill Gates doppelganger will invade our world. Pocket protectors for everyone!
If you thought Microsoft couldn't expand anywhere else in the electronics industry, how about the industry that started the video game industry? Although it's pretty common knowledge that Microsoft has an arcade board in the works to blow up anything arcade hardware ever seen, they've gotten quite a bit of assistance from the king of arcades - Sega. Microsoft and Sega have been working closely in developing this new arcade hardware and what's the first game to debut this new Microsoft arcade hardware? Why not simply a game where you blow zombies to smithereens? Yup, House Of The Dead 3 and don't be surprised if you start seeing the Microsoft logo onscreen when Sega delivers the next racing game to feature that catchy phrase, "ROLLLING START!"
With the excellent sales of Dead Or Alive 3 on the Xbox, Tecmo is really liking what Microsoft has done for them. How impressed? Well, it's no secret since our last interview with Itagaki that he's been itching to do a sports title on the Xbox. Unfortunately, that sports title may not come out before Ninja Gaiden but considering the ambitious plans he has for Ninja Gaiden, there might be only one console to handle the power of the master ninja. Mortal Kombat 5 will release on the Xbox... no one will care.
What's big, black, and really ugly? Well, besides Beetlejuice from Howard Stern's, there's a definite argument for the Xbox being one of the least attractive consoles ever to be conceived. Microsoft has some plans to make the Xbox a bit more appealing - colors. Nothing really extravagant has been planned, but a transparent black, white, and gold colors have been talked about. Additionally, with these new colors, Microsoft will slim down the Xbox so it's not as hefty to carry. Get ready for Halle Berry commercials introducing the new Xbox Lite soon.
Every X-head knows the Japanese Xbox launch will is still on track for a 02/22/02 release. What most X-heads don't know is Microsoft's plan to actually introduce these Japanese Xbox controllers right before Japanese launch to the states. Well, that's our prediction at least and considering that we've actually got to try one of these babies out, Microsoft should realize the great opportunity to have Xbox fans swoon for such a maneuver.
Finally, GDC 2002 will also set the stage for the greatest battle the video game industry has every known. Hiroshi Yamauchi, Ken Kutaragi, and Bill Gates will square off in one of the most important video game roundtable discussions the world has never seen. Unbeknownst to all that attend this important summit, the fundamentalist gin rummy players will strike the core of the "sinful" video game world by dropping a bomb at the convention center. Who's going to save the video game world? Of course... Segata Sanshiro will!



I can't wait for what lies ahead!!!!

Bakero
12-20-2001, 02:02 AM
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