In this episode of The Full Nerd, Gordon Ung, Brad Chacos, Alaina Yee, and Adam Patrick Murray wrap up the 12 months with the vacation custom of consuming our personal phrases.

Journalists make predictions on a regular basis, and usually there’s no penalties for being flat-out improper. That’s not the case with the Full Nerd crew, who put their predictions the place their mouths are—actually. How correct was the crew? Well, TFN predicted the chip scarcity would get higher within the second half of 2022, Intel would lastly ship its Arc graphics, chiplet GPUs have been inbound, and other people can be happy with “pricing and availability.” The crew additionally predicted that increased MSRP GPU gross sales are “here to stay” and that Cyberpunk 2077 would get good after a disastrous launch—all guesses that proved true.

Does it sound just like the Full Nerd crew went full on Nerdstramus? We didn’t. For all of the hits, there’s loads of misses—and we’re pressured to actually eat our personal improper phrases in punishing methods to atone for our misfires. To discover out the hits and the misses, you’ll have to observe the total present beneath. You also can watch The Full Nerd episode 241 on YouTube (subscribe to the channel whilst you’re there!) or take heed to it on Megaphone.fm in case you choose the audio alone. 

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