Spoiler alert: Famitsu's astrologer predicts 2010's gaming trends

[wraggster]

While we have analysts like Michael Pachter to tell us the future of gaming, Famitsu has Yusho Fukuda, a real astrologer (well, as real as an astrologer can claim to be). Why bother looking at market trends and such mumbo-jumbo when the stars have all the information about the game industry's upcoming plans?

What totally specific insights did the cosmos reveal to Fukuda for Famitsu's end-of-year issue? "A game will come out in the first half of the year that will touch off a major boom," Fukuda writes, as translated by 1UP . "And another game will follow upon that in the second half." Also, there will be delays, disputes between publishers, and "we may see a price drop in hardware or software in November."

Fukuda offered predictions for each of the hardware companies as well. Nintendo will advertise a game all summer and release it in the fall; Sony "will release a hit game in 2010 that is based off an older title and will attract attention for games based on history and that feature a large cast of characters;" and Microsoft will sell a game this year involving "adventuring around the world, or examining a map and doing something based off that." Since astrology is a hard science, all of this is 100% guaranteed to happen exactly as Fukuda predicted.

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/12/23/sp...gaming-trends/

[Insomniac-Evolution]

This is the kind of thing that makes people not see what astrology really means, using it as psychic crap is like believing in ghosts (which I don't) but as for astrology in the sense on axis of our solar system, is real and does effect life, as in certain star signs (its all mathematics, cycles which u can elaborate) sorry this article got me going on one lol not just an atheist, well it's criticism but for meaning (virgo) to me this article just points out the obvious, im sure anyone coulda come up with that, learn astrology (like maths) and manipulate it and make money from it haha

Oh! and happy xmas to anyone who reads this lol have a good one

[symbal]

A game released in the first half, another in the second, developers make some games and they argue with each other.. Is that seriously a prediction or just reading news from any year since the early 80's.