– After big names like Ray Muzyka, Greg Zeschuk, Cliffy B, Tetsuya Mizuguchi, Will Wright… Who’s next, Warren Spector? Miyamoto? Warren Spector just lost his job at Junction Point, he might retire.
– Miyamoto, maybe after limiting Wii U damages to Nintendo and an outstanding career.
– Smartphone games are going down. Over saturated market since mid 2009, better experience on tablets, developers can’t make a profit, bye.
– More big studios consolidation/death. Soon in the west we’ll be left with Acti, Ubi, EA. Japan will have Capcom and Square.
– Activision is going to take a financial toll from Blizzard’s panic: Diablo III, their future MMOs and WoW. And CoD is going down in sales and karma too.
– Social games are going down. Because Flash and browser games are horrible and people don’t want to annoy their friends anymore. Virality is so 2010.
– A lot of little niches and successes spread out across more devices than ever. Success randomness is high and freak us all out.
– Gaming on 15” or larger Win8 tablets could really open a world of possibilities. If they don’t cost an arm and don’t sport some shitty ass Intel Atoms.