8. At least one new major console or portable system will be announced.

We've already heard hints that the follow-up to the Nintendo DS is in development, and Microsoft has said the next Xbox will launch in 2011 or 2012. This puts both systems on track for some sort of vague official announcement at one of the 2010 trade shows, with an initial hands-on demonstration some months later. I wouldn't count out the possibility of Sony announcing a true follow-up to the PSP, either, especially if the system's sales don't pick up fast (see the PSP Go prediction, above). Expect Nintendo and especially Sony to be a little slower to announce their follow-up consoles, the former because the Wii is still going strong and the latter because Sony has loudly insisted that the PS3 is meant to be on the market for 10 years.

Offered odds against: 3:1

 

9. Nintendo will announce a portable Virtual Console of Game Boy classics for the DSi.
OK, this one is a bit of wishful thinking on my part. If Nintendo was going to do something like this, it probably would have announced it alongside the DSi Shop and prepared it for the launch of the system. Still, I'm willing to risk being wrong on this one, on the off chance that someone at Nintendo will see this article and say, "Hey, that's a good idea. Let's do it!" Please?

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