1) Will Duke Nukem Forver finally be released?
No.
2) How many games with 2006/2007 in the title will be released?
None worth playing.
3) Will the Nintendo Revolution be a revolution.
Yes.
4) In fact at then end of the year, which console will have sold the most, even with XBOX 360 having a head start?
The XBox 360.
5) How powerful will the best graphics card be in Dec 2006 and what other PC enhancements will we be able to buy for a decent (i.e. not ridiculous) price?
No other enhancements, graphics cards will be nearly twice as powerful, but you'll only have half the games.
6) Is VoIP going to take off big time and what about Video Phones, the technology is there already.
No.
7) How cheap will HD Plasmas be by next Christmas or will we all be lusting after a new TV technology?
About the same, and there won't be any new TV technology until HDTV is firmly established.
8) How big will the downloadable games market be and will the "big boys" have pushed most of the indies out?
It will shrink. The indies will be pushed out, not by the "big boys", but by their lobbists and legislation.
9) Will Blitx Max's 3D module be out!
Yes.
10) Who of us will have made and sold games?
The usual suspects.
11) Who will give up their day job to go full-time indie games developer?
Hard to tell. Depends on how quick they can make it illegal.
12) Who'll be using Vista and will they like it?
Nobody will be using it, except those forced to, and they won't like it, because they where forced to.
13) How fast will most people's broadband be and can the Internet cope with the fat bandwidth abuse?
Most people still won't have broadband, and the problem isn't bandwidth abuse, so much as available IP addresses, until ISP's get their collective acts together an force everyone to use IPv6.
14) What crappy anti-piracy measures will the big record/movie companies pull out the bag?
Seen the movie Wedlock? Getting your head blown off will seem perfectly reasonable by comparison.
15) How much will piracy of TV programmes increase this year?
It will decline along with the quality of said TV programmes.
No.
2) How many games with 2006/2007 in the title will be released?
None worth playing.
3) Will the Nintendo Revolution be a revolution.
Yes.
4) In fact at then end of the year, which console will have sold the most, even with XBOX 360 having a head start?
The XBox 360.
5) How powerful will the best graphics card be in Dec 2006 and what other PC enhancements will we be able to buy for a decent (i.e. not ridiculous) price?
No other enhancements, graphics cards will be nearly twice as powerful, but you'll only have half the games.
6) Is VoIP going to take off big time and what about Video Phones, the technology is there already.
No.
7) How cheap will HD Plasmas be by next Christmas or will we all be lusting after a new TV technology?
About the same, and there won't be any new TV technology until HDTV is firmly established.
8) How big will the downloadable games market be and will the "big boys" have pushed most of the indies out?
It will shrink. The indies will be pushed out, not by the "big boys", but by their lobbists and legislation.
9) Will Blitx Max's 3D module be out!
Yes.
10) Who of us will have made and sold games?
The usual suspects.
11) Who will give up their day job to go full-time indie games developer?
Hard to tell. Depends on how quick they can make it illegal.
12) Who'll be using Vista and will they like it?
Nobody will be using it, except those forced to, and they won't like it, because they where forced to.
13) How fast will most people's broadband be and can the Internet cope with the fat bandwidth abuse?
Most people still won't have broadband, and the problem isn't bandwidth abuse, so much as available IP addresses, until ISP's get their collective acts together an force everyone to use IPv6.
14) What crappy anti-piracy measures will the big record/movie companies pull out the bag?
Seen the movie Wedlock? Getting your head blown off will seem perfectly reasonable by comparison.
15) How much will piracy of TV programmes increase this year?
It will decline along with the quality of said TV programmes.