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From Indiana Jones to a Nintendo Switch successor, it’s time for 23 more ridiculous predictions founded on no basis of fact whatsoever.

This week’s music is from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild soundtrack by Manaka Kataoka, Yasuaki Iwata and Hajime Wakai.

2023 Predictions

Samuel

  • Machinegames’ Indiana Jones Game Is Revealed This Year, And Features The Voice Of Harrison Ford. And It’S Set Across Many Years In Indy’s Career.
  • A Nier Automata Sequel Is Revealed This Year, And It’S The Best Game Platinum Has Made Since Vanquish.
  • Suicide Squad Kills The Justice League Radiates Bad Vibes Until The Last Minute But Ends Up Being A Legit Goty Contender.
  • The Oculus Quest 3 Is Released This Year With Some Killer Games And Marks A Breakthrough In Vr Adoption - But The Reveal Is Weighed Down By Some Metaverse Nonsense No One Wants.
  • This Is The Year Sony Hard Pivots Into Making Big Multiplayer Games Happen.
  • A Nintendo Switch Successor Is Teased Right At The End Of The Year.
  • Sony Unveils Native Playstation 3 Backwards Compatibility, Leading To A Broad Reappraisal Of The Resistance Trilogy.
  • Game Pass Increases In Price For The First Time As Starfield Launches.
  • Final Fantasy 13 And Its Two Sequels Are Updated For Modern Platforms.
  • New Super Mario Bros Returns In Time For The Mario Movie Dropping - Which Is A Three Star Joint At Most
  • Elder Scrolls 3 Morrowind Remake Gets Announced.
  • A Link To The Past Remake Announced For Switch.

Matthew

  • A similar rush of Castlevania games and media will be announced similar to Silent Hill in 2022.
  • A collection of the DS games will specifically be announced
  • A Super Mario Movie tie-in game will be announced. Specifically a 2D game.
  • Kid Icarus: Uprising switch port gets announced.
  • Starfield will be fine. Will be an unusually smooth launch for a Bethesda game.
  • Netflix Games will start to succeed where other mobile subscription games services have failed.
  • Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom will have a more traditional dungeon based structure compared to Breath of the Wild.
  • A Warriors tie-in for Lord of the Rings or Star Wars: Clone Wars.
  • A Sega Saturn mini is announced.
  • E3 is back, but the E3 experience is increasingly fragmented.

Top 5 games on Metacritic

  • Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
  • Hollow Knight: Silksong
  • Resi:4 Remake
  • Half Life Alyx on PSVR 2
  • Cyberpunk Complete Edition