HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, where in the world did you hear that?

I suppose the only Bemani game that is keeping the (Konami) music game ARC scene afloat is IIDX and maybe pop'n.  

- I partially agree.  DDR will die, but actually Pop'n is the most popular game in Japan right now by sheer numbers (of both popularity and players), while IIDX runs a close second.  However, GF/DM is still a close third, but it is getting less popular and many diehard fans are leaving because the songs are getting stale, and each new mix doesn't bring too much new content.  (I still love it though ^^)

Other predictions:
1) IIDX will die by 20th mix.
- I agree.  Within the next 3 to 4 years.
2) Mambo a Go Go 2 won't come out.
- Yes
3) New KBM won't come out.
- Yes
4) 1st US IIDX ARC release in U.S. will be last.
- 90% chance of truth.
5) Music gaming in the ARC will be dead (i.e. no news games out) by 2015.
- Agreed, but other kinds of games for the arcade will come out which we don't know about yet, possibly.  I presume arcades will be around for several more decades at least.
6) GF/DM will get U.S. release in some form, then fail.
- Agreed.  Guitar Hero is too rooted into the culture here.  Players of the game just see Guitar Freaks and call it a "wannabe" or an "easy piece of shit" because it only has three buttons.  Also, they don't like the music.  Oh well, their loss.  They can keep their 8 minute songs and cruddy controllers.  
7) New DDR will suck if it comes out.
- It probably wont come out.
7a) More of the original crew will leave.
- Unstoppable.
7b) Konami may enlist ITG people to try to ride on other games' successes (ala kid whatever [ps lol]).
- I hope not.
Newer Bemani games will have less and less liscenses due to internal budget reallocation / cutting within Konami.
- Yes, this will suck.
9) Naoki will have a BG with him cross dressing as a PR stunt for a new music game.
- At least he's cute?
10) Red Octane will start branching out into other rhythm games.
- Whats the point ><
11) More indy / grass roots rhythm games will come out (and most likely not do well)
- Lets hope they do!
12) Less and less Bemani in America (not inc. DDR). Due to Arcades dying tied with size constraints in the appropriate locales.
- People will just latch on to Rock Band and Guitar Hero and not give anything else a chance.  The icing on the cake would be if an American company came out with a DJ simulation game.. that would piss me off.
13) Next election will be rigged to some extent.
- I don't care about American Politics.
14) Al Gore will run.
- He got jipped last time, he deserves it.
15) We pull out of Iraq by 2009
- Good.
16) PUMP will get bigger than DDR by 2k10
- It deserves it.

they've emailed him a ton! ask him!

How could Konami go back to Kyle? That would imply that Kyle was helping them before. :?

And that's the only source on this info? Weak.

SN2 will just be another market scheme.  
Konami asking Kyle?  You learn something new everyday.  Hopefully, it's not the other way around.
I assume, most American simulation games will just kill the market.

As for Al Gore, he'll make another documentary and stab Michael Moore.
As for Iraq, they might move onto Iran instead?  No politics plz.

Self-fulfilling prophecy. That's like saying the Para Para Paradise game series is going to be canceled.

I should dedicate the next 40 years of my life to making sure every prediction Matt made is wrong.

That would be epic win.

No, for the prophecy to be self-fulfilling it would have to *not* already be fulfilled.

Matt hit the square on the head with this topic.  The only points I question at all are 1, 5, 9, 14, and 15.

18's pretty out there too.

What 18?

I just noticed this:



AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Oh, hold on, let me catch my breath.

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BWAHAHAHAHAHAAAA no.

I can almost guarantee you there will be a US military presence in Iraq for the next 8 years, absolute minimum. It may be reduced greatly, but there's no way in hell we'd completely pull out at this point.

There is no 18.

OMENZOMG!

18) Tofu dies one day before 18th birthday. D:

I'm not an expert on the whole Iraq thing, but being in that Marines I can tell you what I've heard, and thats that the Marines will probably pull out soon, and go to Afghanistan. The Army is a large force, and they can occupy Iraq easier. The Marines are a strike force, and we need to be ready in case some shit goes down, with, most likely Pakistan. That would be extrememly shitty, seeing as there are even angrier people there than in Iraq

We still have troops in Japan 60 years after hostilities ended.  The US will have military presence in Iraq as long as we're a super-power and they aren't.

Also, 1 copy of DDR SuperNOVA2 says Matt owes us $5.

where mah money at nigga

We'll just send Stewie after him to get our money. "Wheres my money! I'm gettin really tired of you duckin me man!"

The Japanese government wanted us to stay so they wouldn't need their own military and could focus on developing a top-tier economy.  We didn't want to stay for more than 20 years, Japan turned our one-sided treaties against us to keep us there (basically, we agree to defend them as long as they don't have a military and we wrote their constitution to include a provision illegalizing the creation of a Japanese military).  I doubt we're making the same mistakes twice, especially since the main reason we put up with Japan for 60 years is that it greatly benefited us.

Um, I'm curious as to where you got your information. That may be what we wanted people to think, but not everything is always done for one reason.

The Japanese BOMBED us. We weren't really keeping our military here to protect the Japanese. We were keeping a forward deployed position. Before WWII, we didn't have a foot hold in the far east. It was too far to fly(like they explain in Pearl Harbor, which happens to be a terrible movie, but you get the idea), and we needed somewhere to land. Thats why Iwo Jima was critical to the victory over Japan.

The reason the Japanese can't have a military? Remember Germany? They weren't allowed to have any military after they started trouble either. Same story. The Japanese are now only allowed to have a self defense force.

They don't want us here either. We're taking up huge spots of their land. Especially in Okinawa, because we're using all the flat spots for air strips. The Marines are moving to Guam in a few years, and the Japanese government is helping fund the move.

Now as for why we're still here. In case there is a problem in the far east, oh say like North Korea, we're right here. We even do annual training in Korea, and Jungle Warfare training in Okinawa. And we can stay here under the pretense of defending Japan, while keeping tabs on them and other countries close by.

And Iraq? Yes, we will do something similiar. But instead of taking away their right to bear arms, we're helping them build a military. Because we know they won't use it against us. We'll maintain a presence there, and help build up the Iraqi military and economy so if theres trouble with Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, who ever, we have a nice spot in the desert to place some troops, supplies, artillery, whatever. Another forward deployed base, with allies.

5) Probably most likely will be dead. Japan pretty much doesn't consider DDR to be serious anymore.
6) False, if anything, Drum Mania has more people playing it than Popn Music(I don't mean just the people in love with music games, but the general public.) Guitar Freaks pretty much already failed.
7) People just refuse to accept new DDR games since ITG has been out and everyone was in love with DDR extreme so much that they expect so high of Konami.
10) Guitar Hero? Lmao
12) US didn't have much Bemani other than DDR anyway.
16) I can see this coming.