Games Inbox: When will the PS6 be out?

The Tuesday letters page wishes Sega had made a Dreamcast 2, as one reader feels the God Of War franchise should quite while it’s ahead.

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AI use case
So it’s looking like this generation really could go on for much longer than usual. Not because Sony saw sense and didn’t push the PlayStation 6 when no one wanted, but just because of an outside influence (the RAM memory shortages) that they have no control of.

Either way it works out for us ordinary gamers. A PlayStation 5 generation that lasts until at least 2029 would be great. Time for the console to catch up with itself, time to put cross-gen games completely behind it, and time for developers to get to grip with the hardware and really push it.

Like people have said, I don’t even know what game Sony thinks is supposed to be pushing the console right now. Almost nothing is a true exclusive and Naughty Dog still hasn’t made a proper new game for it. Neither has Guerilla Games, if you don’t count cross-gen titles, and they’re the ones I’d look to for state-of-the-art graphics.

This may end up being the only thing AI is good for: preventing the start of the next generation and ensuring we only have to spend money on new games, not new hardware as well.
Franky

Fever dream
I’ve been playing a lot of Mario Tennis Fever the last few days and I have to say it’s really good. I know it’s probably not a cool game to like, and it’s not really doing anything new, but I’ve had a lot of fun playing it with the whole family, which is not something that often happens.

I think a lot of people mistake what family friendly means. It doesn’t mean it’s just for kids, it’s kind of the opposite really because it’s something that appeals to everyone, and specifically not just kids, which is difficult and yet also second nature to Nintendo.

Well, sort of. They’ve messed up the tennis games a few times now, but I really like this one. Yes, you can play it without the trick rackets but even with them I’ve found it a lot of fun. They’re not instant win devices and you can learn to get around all of them with practice. I strongly recommend it if you’re going to be playing local multiplayer with other people.
Titus

Hardware memories
I have to admit I never knew all of Sega’s hardware was down to basically one guy. Kudos to Hideki Sato though, you made my childhood a lot brighter. It’s a shame everything ended with the Dreamcast but unfortunately the games business just became too big for them and they couldn’t keep up.

At the time I thought it was a shame Microsoft didn’t go through with their plans to buy them, since then they’d have infinite funds. But now we see what Microsoft does with the companies it buys it’s a blessing they didn’t. In the end we all have good memories and the company is still going and (sort of) independent, which is more than you can say for many from the same era.
Terry Gold

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Memorable start
Shame to see High On Life 2 getting bad reviews, but the first one didn’t review well either and I quite enjoyed that, so I was going to give the sequel a chance. But if the humour’s changed then I think I’ll wait and see. I’ll probably watch some streams and if it seems the reviews are right I’ll give it a miss.

That’s what I do with most games now, that I’m not dead set on. I try to find someone that’s about halfway into the game though, as I don’t like having the beginning spoiled. That probably doesn’t make sense, but I love that feeling of starting a new game and having no idea what’s coming up.

Unfortunately, I also like that feeling of not having wasted my money, so you have to compromise. But I feel a random bit from the middle is much better to be spoiled than the whole cinematic opening, doesn’t matter what game it is.
Korbie

6.5 million seconds to go
Just a heads-up for GameCentral readers and Underboxers, the Jurassic Park Collection is being delisted from all digital store fronts on Tuesday, 31st March. I was going to pick it up physical on Amazon for about £25 or so but then saw it is on sale for £6.24 on PSN Store on PlayStation 4 and 5 until Wednesday, 25th February, so picked it up there instead.

It is even cheaper if you have PS Plus and also slightly cheaper on PlayStation 4 too. It’s also on sale on Steam too but at the time of checking Monday evening it is not on sale on Xbox or Switch stores, unfortunately.
Andrew J.

Story’s end
I’d forgotten that David Jaffe was the original creator of God Of War and that he barely had any involvement after the first one. When you remember, it does fit his personality personally and I knew before you even said anything that he wouldn’t like the new games because Kratos was too nice. I mean who wants character growth in their stories, huh?

Add me to the list of people that see little point in remaking the original games. You either keep them more or less the same and they seem very dated and bad, in terms of gameplay and story, or you retcon them and upset all the fans.

To be honest, I’m against a retcon too because the new games work better knowing what an unredeemable monster Kratos is and then have him slowly become a better person, to actually be redeemable after all. It’s really well done in the game because it’s not pushed too hard and it takes a long time to happen.

The new games don’t work without the old ones but that doesn’t mean I want to go back and play them. To be honest, I don’t know what you do with the series though, because Kratos’ story is told now. You either have more adventures of him being a nice guy (or becoming angry again for no good reason) or you follow Atreus, who I’m not interested in at all.

Artistically speaking, the series is done but it can’t die because there’s a TV show coming out, so we’re getting prequels and remakes and who knows what next. I’m not looking forward to it.
Zeiss

A fool and his money
Everything about that story about Logan Paul selling his Pokémon card for £12+ million disgusted me. But especially the guy that bought it, whose stated in goal in life is to buy expensive things, because what else are you going to do with money?

I dunno? Build a hospital? These people are awful and it’s extra ridiculous when it’s for a little bit of card you could print out and keep for yourself and it’d be almost identical to the real thing. Anyone willing to pay me 12p for it?
Gadfly

Four good ones
A few remarks on the back of some notable and excellent Reader’s Features.

Concur, there’s absolutely no need for a new generation of consoles anytime soon, when the current crop are more than capable of churning out games of the quality, depth, and substance to keep us all happy. PlayStation 5 has sold some 90 million consoles, yet go to any CeX store and the PlayStation 5 aisle only covers a single column. If the gaming market wants to stop the rising cost of triple-A titles then ditching the current gen for a new one would be suicidal right now.

The announcement of the God Of War trilogy remake, from a pure gamer point of view, shudders me with dread, especially if the remake follows the equivalence of the gameplay style of the latest Norse entries. Where are the new IPs from Santa Monica and Naughty Dog?

I agree that the Wii U was an excellent console brimming with great games across several genres. It paved the way for the Switch to be a huge success. And finally, if Sony has had enough of gaming fair dos, leave whilst you’re on a high and let Sega make a comeback to gobble up their market share! We can only wonder about Dreamcast 2…
Sam

Inbox also-rans
Kudos to that Become indie game, that is the best pun I’ve heard in a long time. Also, I’m impressed that apart from sperm it looks quite realistic. (I think, or at least I assume that’s what it looks like.)
Grol

So just to clarify something, GC. Is Rockstar and GTA likely to be at the Summer Game Fest thing that took over from E3? It’s run by the same people as The Game Awards, but I don’t think they’ve ever been at that.
Bantz

GC: Rockstar has never been at a Geoff Keighley event, so far as we recall. They have featured in Sony showcases (and Xbox ones, back in the Xbox 360 era), but only rarely.

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