Bet on me, loyal readers. I have yet to be proven wrong in my videogame analysis. Maybe because my interests have been firmly rooted in the national pastime of the Geek Republic for the past, oh, 30 years (really? damn!), I can walk the walk.

So let me highlight some choice gems in the news recently:

• Viva Pinata is brilliant – I said it back in March, and everyone is saying it now. ‘Nuff said.
• Wii FTW – Okay, so maybe my predictions were a stated in a roundabout way, but the gist of what I said 12 months ago is looking more and more right on. The Wii “will even challenge Sony for the top spot” in Japan; the PS3 “will undoubtedly succeed initially, but will be hurt in the long run by not having an online infrastructure to compete against Nintendo and Microsoft”; and Microsoft “will battle Sony for Western supremacy, while jockeying Nintendo in the content distribution wars worldwide, and staying afloat in Japan thanks to more cross-platform development and droves of developers leaving Sony for more fertile console land.”
• EA’s Man in the Mirror – When I said EA was jumping the shark about a year ago, I don’t think that was any great prediction. They are a juggernaut publisher that exists by moving millions of franchised and licensed titles across every platform imaginable. When someone thinks about EA, the first word that comes to mind isn’t “innovative”. But now they are taking pressure from analysts, enough to even respond to the criticisms. That’s the new EA, for sure.

Puh-leeze. Someone writes a preview about the nunchuck mechanics of Zelda and gets on the Gaming’s Top 50 Journalists list. I make a few timely, accurate and insightful predictions of the industry and get widely ignored. Oh well, I don’t care as long as I can keep saying, “I told you so.”

And to continue my lucky streak, this week’s lotto numbers are 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42. Don’t blame me if you subsequently get stranded on a deserted island.