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Each New Year often brings a sense of determination, resolve and expectation, and for 2015 this couldn't be more true. Next year is packed with blockbuster titles such as Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Halo 5: Guardians, Just Cause 3, Mario Maker, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, No Man's Sky, Pillars of Eternity, The Legend of Zelda and Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, to name a few. 2015 also marks the 20th anniversary of E3. To all of this we can expect many interesting happenings, some good and some bad, and I thought in this thread we can try and predict what might happen.
Some of my predictions
A new console will be revealed
Whether it be Nintendo with the successor to Nintendo 3DS or that console for emerging markets they've been talking about, or some other company like Apple, Alibaba or Google, I wouldn't be surprised to see new hardware next year.
The Legend of Zelda for Wii U WON'T be released in 2015
I think we will see another Twilight Princess situation where the game is released as a cross-platform game at the end of Wii U's lifespan together with a next gen release on the successor system.
In the meantime we will perhaps get something "simpler" like a new Four Swords Adventures or The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask HD (port of the 3DS game). If not a delay for this reason, I think some other technical hickup will happen that will push the game's release date.
Tom Clancy's The Division will fail to impress
Ubisoft will just keep on digging, showing that they have learned little from Watch Dogs. While the game very likely will be more graphically impressive than Watch Dogs, the game will feature very few new gameplay elements and this negligence will show a grand detriment since its inception at E3 2013.
The VR wars will be intensified
Oculus VR hasn't really had much competition, in the video game consumer space anyway, since they started, but Sony with its Project Morpheus is about to change that. Microsoft is also rumored to have plans to reveal the Fortaleza VR glasses originally detailed in the infamous "methodology" document from 2010. I think the battle for the VR space will be very intense this year, and it'll likely start as early as CES January 6-9 with Sony perhaps showing Morpheus. When Microsoft will debut Fortaleza I don't know, could be at a dedicated event (as for Xbox One). I don't think we'll see a new competitor besides Microsoft and Sony in this field however.
Something
No, I don't expect that, but nonetheless I think Valve will provide us something really juicy, having failed to do so at the 10th anniversary of Half-Life 2. Best outcome for me would be a reveal of Source 2. Or something else than hats anyway. They're confirmed for GDC (two booths), perhaps we'll hear something little then.
