Gaming hosts Josh and Ryan are coming in HOT with some seriously bold gaming predictions for 2025. They’re loud, they’re crazy, but they JUST might come true (ok probably not). We’ll either look like gaming geniuses or video game failures, but it’s sure to be entertaining no matter how you look at it. It’s another awesome video game filled episode from the Video Gamers Podcast you don’t want to miss! Thanks to our MYTHIC Supporters: Redletter, Ol’ Jake, Disratory and Gaius Thanks to Legendary Supporter: FitNerdJohn Connect with the show: Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/videogamerspod Join our Gaming Discord: https://discord.gg/Dsx2rgEEbz Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/videogamerspod/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/VideoGamersPod Subscribe to us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU12YOMnAQwqFZEdfXv9c3Q Visit us on the web: https://videogamerspod.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What are the bold gaming predictions for 2025?
Hello, fellow gamers, and welcome to the Video Gamers Podcast. It's a new year with a world of games in front of us. We've already talked about our most anticipated releases, what we hope for in 2025 and more, but now it's time to get a little crazy and talk about our video game bold predictions for 2025.
Buckle up because we're about to peer into our crystal ball and talk about some of the strangest things that... might happen this year. Will they come true? Probably not. But if any of them do, we're going to look like geniuses. We'll get into the hot takes in just a minute. But first, some introductions are in order. I am your host, Josh.
And joining me, my bold prediction is he'll be forced to try Elden Ring this year and it will end up being one of his favorite games ever. It's Ryan.
Roll, roll, roll, roll.
Roll it, roll it, roll it.
I'm just going to play Limp Bizkit and just roll, roll, roll all day long.
If you're spamming dodge roll, you're doing it wrong, Ryan. That's what it looks like.
Every video I've ever watched, that's what it looks like.
We don't know if these predictions are coming true. In fact, they're probably not. But, you know. That's a point of hot takes, man. Hot takes. Yes. These episodes are so much fun. All right, listen. We're going to get into the episode here in just a second. We actually have a couple of reviews to read before we get into it. But I got to preface this by saying. Yes, we are crazy.
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Chapter 2: Will Ubisoft face a major collapse in 2025?
Which is also a great review. Not to take away from this review. It's fantastic. We love all reviews.
Absolutely. We love all reviews, as is evidenced by us reading it right now. This one comes in from DanteSilver08, and it's titled The Best Video Game Podcast. And it says, I was looking for a new podcast with a good backlog to do homework to. There was a large lack of good video game podcasts. I was very lucky that Spotify recommended me this. It's amazing. It's very engaging and helps me focus.
Anyway, great podcast. 10 out of 10, I would recommend.
Nice. If there's one thing I strive to be is 10 out of 10. 10 out of 10.
I feel like it's the only problem. It's like then there's no wiggle room to get better, man. It's like your rating system on our leaderboard, Ryan. You're like, I can't give these games perfect 10s because then there's nowhere to go. That's true. I will say, I feel like we're at our peak right now, Ryan. I feel like we are firing on all cylinders 10 out of 10.
We are, dude. We are firing on all cylinders 9.2 out of 10, and we're cruising, and we can just go up, up, up, and away.
Yeah. Occasional backfire here and there, but you know, Hey, we're old guys. So Ryan, I am ready to get into some crazy bold predictions. Uh, let's do this, man. Yeah. Are you ready for some hot takes? Hot takes. That's hot. Yes. I'm sure you're putting that. I know that drop's coming in.
I may have a drop or two I'm going to put in.
All right. I'll tell you what. I'll start things off on this one, Ryan. All right. There's a little bit of spiciness to this one and a little bit, maybe not quite so spicy. But my first bold prediction for 2025 is a little bit of a two-parter. Number one, Assassin's Creed Shadows will release to mid-reviews. And Ubisoft will cease to exist in 2025. We getting some more layoffs?
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Chapter 3: How will AI influence video game development?
And while we don't want to see AI take jobs from people at the same time, I'm not sure that this is going away either. And so it's like, I'm curious to see what they can do with it, how they implement it, what the end product is. Because if it sucks, that's going to really, really hurt that industry. Yeah. But if a game comes out that it's like, dude, this game was made with AI.
And again, people go, well, this game's a lot of fun, man.
I think we won't know. I don't think we'll know until the verdict's in if it's good or not. And then it'll be like, oh, that was AI. AI developed that.
Yeah, I think you're right. I think they will kind of do a little teaser to see before they come out and just say it too. And Ryan, you talked about money. I don't know that we've ever said this on the show, but just to give people perspective, the gaming industry is larger than the movie industry and the music industry combined. Dude.
Okay. I didn't know that. That's wild.
Think about that. The gaming industry is larger than the two of those combined. And that counts all of gaming. So mobile console, PC, all that stuff. But it is absolutely, that's how much money is involved in the gaming industry. And so if you think that AI is not getting involved in this, I think that that's, you know, I think that's people kind of closing their eyes a little bit on that one.
So for sure. All right, let's take a quick break and then I'll come back with another hot take. All right, Ryan, we're back. You know, I have another negative hot take on my list, but I don't want to seem like a Debbie Downer, you know, and go to back to back failure. So I'm going to I'm going to start with this one. All right.
The Nintendo Switch 2 releases this year with Super Mario Odyssey 2 as the premier release title and sets a record for the fastest selling console.
You know, that's... That is... That's hot takey. That is a hot take. PlayStation 2, Nintendo, you know, like... Okay, it's one of those where, like, that's... If that happens, I fully expect that to happen type thing, you know? Like, if it releases, and if it releases with Mario Odyssey 2, like, that's gonna happen. It's just kind of like 1 and 2, you know? Just continuation. It's gonna happen.
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Chapter 4: What could the Nintendo Switch 2 mean for gamers?
Yeah, I know. We're going to play tonight.
We're recording early so we can play tonight.
We are going to play tonight. So I think that just the setup, I think the initial setup with it being Marvel and the just accoutrement, of characters and abilities and skins and everything you can do that has recognized ability, if you will, that people know. Everybody's got their favorite Marvel character. Everybody's got their favorite superhero. Most often, it's a Marvel character.
So the anticipation of waiting for that character, waiting for a new skin, if you like to buy skins or any of those things, I think it's just...
overall and then the gameplay it's it's awesome man so i think it's gonna i think it's a killer man i i there was not a time when i could have like seen the overwatch killer yeah like legitimately because overwatch has just been around forever it was the height of the hero shooter for many many years oh for sure i mean there's the whole issue with oh overwatch 2 is going to be the greatest thing so we're getting rid of overwatch 1 and blah blah blah and then we all saw how that happened and i
I am with you on this one, is that I think that... I think it will. I think it's going to kill Overwatch, dude. Yes. Now, to say kill, they're not taking the servers offline. Let's be real here. Overwatch is not going to shut down their servers and stuff like that, because we've already seen they're really not putting much development effort into Overwatch anymore. No, they don't care.
That thing's kind of just on autopilot. They make a couple skins, and I'm sure they have two people dedicated to Overwatch at this point. But... I think that Marvel rivals will supplant it as the premier free to play hero shooter. And I think Overwatch is going to just fall off into obscurity at some point. Yeah.
Dude, like not, not, not to gush over Marvel rivals again, but the day after this episode releases season one starts for Marvel rivals. We are getting the fantastic four. Yes. We're not getting one new character, Ryan, which is what Overwatch does every three or four months. We're getting four new characters. Four? Like two months after the game fully released. Unreal. You know what I mean?
Like...
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Chapter 5: Can Marvel Rivals outshine Overwatch?
In that franchise, yeah.
Absolutely. And, you know, I've played it, and I'm not an expert on Borderlands. But, man, to think that they just can't right the ship, you know, it's just almost disheartening. But... Yeah, it's one of those like these seem like impossible and they are hot takes, but you don't want them to come true. So it's like, no, this can't be real.
These are not things that we're hoping for. Let's be clear here. Like, we are not hoping for these things, but they are just predictions. You know, they're alternate universes where these things might come to be. And if they do, well, we'll say we told you so. Doesn't mean we're happy about them.
Exactly.
All right, Ryan, what do you got, buddy?
All right, so I got one that may hit you a little bit and may hit you in the huevos there, partner. But I think... Not the beans. I think that the next Elden Ring is going to be a flop. And that's dramatic pause there. I don't like you, Ryan. I know you don't like me. I know, and here's why. Let me explain. I think that it's one of those things where you build up such a great, amazing franchise.
You do so much to it. And be it, I'm not a big Elden Ring fan. I don't like Souls games. I do not like the role simulator that I call it. But I recognize the greatness and I recognize how many people love this genre and this series and this game type. But I think what are they going to do to have a continuation on this type of game? They have to step it up.
You can only make so many expansions or new games that just do the same thing. So what are they going to do? I don't think that they will do it. I think it will be a fair game. I think it will be just like the rest. But it will be a flop in terms of expectations and what people want out of that franchise.
I this one's weird to me because I legitimately have the exact opposite take for Elden Ring.
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