Ethereum is always great on projects. For some reason so few people know that Playstation is actually going to adopt ethereum this year! The new game Plague Hunters based on eth is launching this year (Q1 2019 promised).
This should be even better than cryptokitties, which also added to the price quite handsomely last year. So if you ask me, $1000 is quite possible. There are just a lot of reasons for ethereum to raise in price, hardfork being just one of them.