The Wednesday letters page thinks the PS5 selling so well is bad news for gamers, as another reader hopes for a Zelda: Ocarina Of Time remake.
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Nothing Direct
So that State of Play Japan livestream was a big fat nothingburger. Iâm sure most people werenât expecting anything else but I really am sick of these endless Direct style shows that seem to have no reason to exist, except to get people hyped up and then disappointed.
The mic drop at the end of this was⊠DLC for Elden Ring Nightreign. Iâm not sure what could possibly have been less exciting than that. No offence to the game but you donât put on a 40 minute preview show and have that, a (second) beta for Marvel TĆkon: Fighting Souls, and a bunch of late ports be the highlights.
I guess the whole thing was to advertise the new Japanese-only PlayStation 5 console but could they really not have found something else to talk about to make it worthwhile? Or, you know, not make it 40 minutes long. Considering some of the important things that have been announced with an out of the blue blog post it seems crazy they went to all this trouble for absolutely nothing.
Xane
The very old blood
I canât help but notice that not only was the latest State of Play completely pointless but it didnât have Bloodborne in it, again. The second it was announced, and especially because it was Japan themed, I saw everyone online immediately speculating about a remaster or a remake or a sequel or⊠anything!
I wasnât surprised it was nothing but I am disappointed. Most of what Sony does nowadays doesnât seem to make sense, at least to a veteran fan, but the completely refusal to acknowledge Bloodborne exists in any way is the most baffling thing I think Iâve ever seen them do. We still donât even have a PlayStation 5 patch! Iâm now convinced that we wonât see anything until the PlayStation 6, and I wouldnât even bet on that.
Lobren
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Business decision
The PlayStation 5 selling so well is pretty much the worst news there could be for anyone wanting Sony to change their current approach. There is now no reason at all for them to make more exclusives. They might stop making live service games so much but now theyâre just going to make nothing at all, because apparently thatâs been going fine, and is obviously much more cost effective.
Itâs a pretty clear cut bottom line: do nothing, make more money. I do believe weâll get more exclusives over the next few years, as Sony slowly comes out of their live service phase. If it takes five or more years to make a game then it only follows that we wouldnât see any shift in policy for at least that, but even then itâll never be back to the way things. It just wouldnât make business sense.
Clacker
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Building expectation
Just seen that thereâs a new Lego Zelda set coming out next year, which Iâll probably never be able to afford but, well⊠itâs nice to want things. But apart from the teaser trailer looking super cool I couldnât help but notice that it seems to be Ocarina Of Time. Youâve got what looks like old school Zelda in the background, plus Ganon looming over Link and Navi. Plus, the line, âDo you realise who youâre dealing with?â seals it.
Obviously, Ocarina Of Time is one of the favourite games in the series, but you wouldâve thought for Lego theyâd go for the modern game. So what if⊠this set, which isnât out till next year, is for the remake everyone has been talking about lately? I know thatâs just fan wishful thinking, but itâs not like this news makes it less likely!
Onibee
Digital goods
Cash for shinies you say?! Well knock me over with a feather dance, blow me over with a gust! I have shinies, got a blue Psyduck, a golden Magikarp, a slightly darker grey Munchlax, and a purple Dratini, that may or may not be a green Dragonite by now?! Among othersâŠ
Any takers, drop me a message, PokĂ©mon Home will let you store them before Nintendo gets around to adding them to various games. Remortgage your homes, take your gold to Cash Converters⊠Iâm joking, of course. Or am I?
big boy bent, shiny wrangler
Serious fun
There are lots of troubling things to do with GTA 6, from Rockstarâs union busting to the gameâs no doubt excessive violence, but as cynical as I try to be I canât pretend Iâm not super excited about it.
My one concern though is that the game doesnât take itself too seriously. Dan Houser leaving as head writer is actually a bit of worry, as I think he was behind a lot of the British style satire and sarcasm. Itâs still being made in Scotland, at least to a degree, but my concern is that itâll now have more American writers and overlords.
As good as other parts of it have been my favourite thing to do in any GTA game is to just drive around, smashing into things, and listening to the radio stations. For a lot of the time, I donât need GTA to be anything but that and yet sometimes it overcomplicates itself and gets in the way of the fun.
San Andreas and GTA 4 were the worst for this, so I think theyâve got it out of their system now, but thereâs really no way to know based on the trailers, and reason to be worried given how many people have left over the years.
GTA has never been serious or grounded, despite what some fans seem to think, and I hope that Rockstar remember that, while theyâre simulating everything to the nth degree.
Korbie
End of the beginning
I feel so sorry for the ordinary people working at Bungie. It seems to me Iâve been hearing about bad management for basically as long as theyâve existed and now theyâre being written off as a bad purchase by Sony, which is surely going to be the beginning of the end of the developer.
Theyâll be shut down and all the good developers moved to other parts of Sony, probably within the next few months. I imagine Destiny 2 will be shut down at the same time, if not before. What a sad end to a great developer.
Hammeriron
Five more years
My interpretation of the line about the PlayStation 5 being in the âmiddle of its lifecycleâ is that it confirms the idea that there will be no PlayStation 6 exclusive games. Everything will be cross-gen and the difference between the two will probably be no more than between the PS5 and PS5 Pro.
Itâs what weâve all been expecting, to some degree or another, but Iâm not even that worried about it. For one, itâs a good excuse not to get a PlayStation 6. I donât mean that in a snarky, offended fan kind of way but just that itâs going to be expensive, I havenât got the money, and now Iâve got a good excuse not to spend money on one.
I donât think it will actually matter all that much to Sony though. As far as I understand the way a console maker makes money from consoles is making other publishers pay fees to put their games on them. Thatâs still going to happen whether youâve got a PlayStation 5 or 6, so it kind of doesnât matter to Sony which you have.
All the PlayStation 6 is doing is tempting a new wave of people that didnât get the PlayStation 5 and need some kind of incentive to buy a new console. Other than that theyâre just selling the same games to everyone, regardless of what they have.
Lucis
Inbox also-rans
Lumines? Now that is a name I have not heard in a long time ago. And Meteos? I had no idea they were by the same guy!
Tobz9
I have been playing Ball x Pit non-stop for three weeks and now Iâve beaten it. I literally donât know what to do with my life anymore.
Austin
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