We alread have another thread for predicting end of 2009 hardware sales for consoles.

This thead is for your other gaming predictions for 2009.

Get out your crystal ball and gaze into the future.  When is the next price drop?  Which games will flop?  Who will win E3?  Which multiplatform games becomes exclusive?  Is it finally the year of the PS3?

Make you predictions before 2009 starts, and come back a year later to laugh at how wrong everyone.

I will go first:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

2009 Predictions

360:
- 360 hardware redesign by Fall. (360 Slim)
- $150 Arcade by Holiday 09.
- "XBox Sports" title is launched with 10 games for you avatars, possibly with motion controller.  (Including:Tennis, Golf, Pool, Kart Racing)
- Microsoft buys at least one Japanese development studio.
- E3 will be very heavily casual focused.  Expect a Home/Animal Crossing like game for Live.
- Halo Wars = 1.5M,  Halo 3:Recon = 6 Million by end of year

Wii:
- Wii Price drop to $200 US coming in Fall.
- Updated model with more internal storage space.  (2GB)
- WiiFit passes 25 million by years end
- Wii Sports Resort 15 million by years end.
- New Zelda game for Christmas supporting Wii motion Plus
- Surprise Wii titles include:  Nintendogs, a GTA spin-off, Wii Fit 2, Zack & Wiki 2, and a Professor Layton game for the Wii
- Non-nintendo published 90+ metacritic rated games in 09: Zero.
- Nintendo goes through a whole year without announcing a new Wii peripheral!
- Conduit = 2M by end of the year
- Wii Music = 6M by end of year

PS3:
- There will be a price drop before summer.
- $299/$399 PS3 for Holiday 09.
- Netflix or Blockbuster video steaming.  (And integrated into Home)
- LBP will be heavily bundled.
- GT5 will be released in 09.  FFXIII will not.
- Killzone 2 = 4M by end of year.

Other
- KH3 announced for PS3/360 (In a E3 bombshell, it is a timed exclusive for 360)
- No MGS4 for 360
- Star Ocean 4 for PS3
- Fable II for PC in Spring.  Gear 2 PC by year's end.
- MS tries to compete with Steam.  Expect Avatars and many XBLA games to appear on Live for Windows.
- Steam for Linux announced

I think Micorosft already said there not going to do another price cut for atlease a few years.

And Final Fantasy XIII should be out in Japan for 09, more then likely not everywhere else.

The PS3 should have a price cut, I'm not sure about a 100 dollar price cut, probably $50 price cut.

And I predict that God of War III will sell 2.5 million copy's by the end of 09

God of War 3 and MAss Effect 2 games of the year hehe

Just for fun (yes, I did steal your prediction and make changes)

2009 Predictions

360:
- 360 hardware redesign by Fall. (360 Slim) (yes, I agree with you)
- Microsoft tries to buy at least one Japanese development studio, but fails.
- E3 will be very heavily casual focused, and soon everyone will be saying Microsoft has lost the hardcorz
- Halo Wars = 1.0M,  Halo 3:OSDT = 4 Million by end of year
- x360 maintains it's current lead over the PS3 (in terms of absolute units)

Wii:
- No price drop in 2009, with exception for corrections to exchange rates
- No updated model, but they finally allow SD cards to be used exactly like current internal memory
- WiiFit passes 25 million by years end
- Wii Sports Resort 30 million by years end.
- New Zelda game for Christmas supporting Wii motion Plus, new Mario Game too.
- Surprise Wii titles include:  GTA V, FFXIV (out before FFFXIII) and a Professor Layton game for the Wii
- Non-nintendo published 90+ metacritic rated games in 09: 2.
- Conduit = 4M by end of the year
- Wii Music = 10M by end of year
- Nintendo has a more hardcore E3 than Sony/Microsoft
- Kingdom Hearts 3 gets announced for Wii
- Wii hits 56% market share within 09

PS3:
- There will be a price drop during the summer.
- $299/$399 PS3 for Holiday 09.
- Blockbuster video steaming.  (And integrated into Home)
- LBP will be heavily bundled.
- GT5 will be released in 09.  FFXIII will not. (see above crazy prediction about FFXIII)
- Home will remain BETA for the entire year
- will get a Dogz or equivalent title (petz, catz, horzez, whatever, it will be crap, and it will be on the PS3)