• Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.

Jason Schreier 2025 predictions

cormack12

cormack12

Gold Member
Last years predictions: https://www.neogaf.com/threads/jason-schreiers-five-big-predictions-for-2024.1665449/


Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/news...ilksong?srnd=undefined&embedded-checkout=true
(Paywalled....)

oMAnunk.jpeg


Predictions
  • Half Life 3 announcement
  • The industry will rebound driven by PC Gaming primarily
  • Ubisoft to undergo significant transformation
  • GTA VI won't be a 2025 title
  • Hollow Knight: Silksong will be a 2025 title
  • AI will have its Icarus moment
  • Exclusives will become a thing of the past for Sony and Microsoft (wait and see with Nintendo but expecting its 'when' not 'if')
 
Last edited:
nial

nial

Member
Moridianae said:
Nintendo? That's a prediction I'll have to say I'm not particularly inclined to believe.

Of any of them, I'd say Nintendo would take their IPs to the grave and go out of business rather than put them anywhere else.
Click to expand...
They precisely put them on another platform about a decade ago to not go out of business.
 
Cert.in.Death

Cert.in.Death

Member
Exclusives going extinct is wishful thinking. Only once an install base vanishes does a game maker have to search for greener pastures.

But the sentiment that platforms will continue their evolution into software-centric ecosystems is sensible.
 
Insanemaelstrom

Insanemaelstrom

Member
cormack12 said:
  • Exclusives will become a thing of the past for Sony and Microsoft (wait and see with Nintendo but expecting its 'when' not 'if')
Click to expand...
Could be, but I wonder if any of executives are thinking about the long run. I don't speak for everyone, but personally if Sony is releasing games day and date on pc, I would rather game on pc( due to mods) even though I dislike some of the headaches of pc gaming.

Plus it doesn't help that I always do have a pc because some games are just better to play on it( colony builders, rts, etc), so if I already have a device that can play the games( at better performance and mods) why would I buy a theoretical ps6?

I don't think I am the only one in this situation, but if this develop as predicted by Jason, I feel that ps6 will struggle to sell ( relatively speaking, compared to other ps home consoles ). Ps, imo, will end up going the same path as Xbox ( talking about the decline series consoles are seeing this year).
 
rm082e

rm082e

Member
Insanemaelstrom said:
Could be, but I wonder if any of executives are thinking about the long run. I don't speak for everyone, but personally if Sony is releasing games day and date on pc, I would rather game on pc( due to mods) even though I dislike some of the headaches of pc gaming.

Plus it doesn't help that I always do have a pc because some games are just better to play on it( colony builders, rts, etc), so if I already have a device that can play the games( at better performance and mods) why would I buy a theoretical ps6?

I don't think I am the only one in this situation, but if this develop as predicted by Jason, I feel that ps6 will struggle to sell ( relatively speaking, compared to other ps home consoles ). Ps, imo, will end up going the same path as Xbox ( talking about the decline series consoles are seeing this year).
Click to expand...

While I am in the same boat with you (I have a PS5, but it doesn't get used much), I think it's going to take a lot longer for the PlayStation crowd to migrate to PC only than it did for Xbox. Microsoft committed brand suicide at E3 2013 and a lot of people were jumping ship from the Xbox brand. Sony hasn't had a moment like that. Not to mention people who have established a digital library on PlayStation are unlikely to abandon that for PC.
 
nani17

nani17

are in a big trouble
My predictions
Dreamcast 2 announcement
NeoGaf will be bought by Resetera on December 25th
Draugoth will admit he's an AI.
Microsoft will try and buy Ubisoft
Sony will try and buy someone useless like Ubisoft
Concord 2 Revenge of The Millennia will be number 1 on steam
 
Last edited:
Hudo

Hudo

Gold Member
Can someone ask this motherfucker what the hell happened with his prediction (which he gave multiple times throughout the years!) that Final Fantasy Tactics Remaster/Remake is a thing?
 
yurinka

yurinka

Member
James Sawyer Ford said:
He got 2 of them right (GaaS and unions)
Click to expand...
GaaS continue being the most imporant game type of the industry, as usual most top performers and top releases of the year are GaaS. In the case of Sony, despite the Concord failure they had huge successes with Helldivers 2 and Destiny The Final Shape (both top 10 top grossing games of the year in Steam, and Helldivers 2 being their fastest selling game ever).

Sure, some GaaS succeeded and more failed. Same happened with non-GaaS in a way bigger scale. Just like every single year, there are way more non-GaaS that fail. But many people ignore it because never saw their sales or in most case didn't evern heard about them at all.

Unions continue covering a tiny portion of the US gaming workforce and continue not having a meaningful power in the industry.
 
Last edited:
MacReady13

MacReady13

Member
This guy is a fucking joke. Why anyone takes what he says seriously is beyond me. Anyway, Sony not making exclusives anymore? Like they did last year with their PC releases??? They obviously won't release exclusive on the Xbox console or Switch 2 but PC for sure.

Again, why anyone takes what this guy says is a disgrace. He's a fucking moron.
 
M

mdkirby

Gold Member
Not sure what he means by ai having its Icarus moment? Flying too close to the sun and getting burnt?

Like what it becomes too powerful so it gets regulated to death or banned? Even if that does happen, there’s so many open source things, and halting progress can only (maybe) be done on a per country level, which only incentivises other countries to not stop. It’s not like there’s global unity at the moment.

Progress in 2025 will only be faster (possibly significantly so) than 2024
 
kaizenkko

kaizenkko

Member
I really can't see Sony in the same boat as Microsoft.

They keep making their games exclusive for some time, even second party games like Stellar Blade and Rise of the Ronin. Their numbers are good. Their plataform has health numbers, why would they start launching games day one on PC or, especially, on others platforms?

Seems like these guys just want to make people think that everybody is in the Xbox situation.
 
The Cockatrice

The Cockatrice

Banned
I have a feeling Silksong has gone on a permanent hiatus. Absolutely 0 info at any of the major shows at the end of this previous year considering we had something in previous ones is worrying. If they were close to being done with it, they would've no doubt shown something. I think it's dead.

Half-Life 3 is as likely as me becoming rich.

The rest are just just obvious guesses.
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

Grand Theft Auto VI will have more inclusion and less offensive content, says Bloomberg
Rumor 5 6 7 8 9
403
22K
kindaGoth replied
Dragon Age : Veilguard reached 1.5 million players, 50% less than EA's expectations
2 3 4 5 6
294
18K
simpatico replied
Jason Schreier/Bloomberg: Game publishers are waiting as long as possible to commit to release dates on Fall 2025 because of GTA6
29
1K
Jinzo Prime replied
Rumor: GTA 6 release date is February 2025
Rumor 2
65
8K
Luipadre replied
Take-Two has narrowed Grand Theft Auto VI's release window to Fall 2025, the company said today
News 2 3
127
9K
SyberWolf replied
Top Bottom