Games Inbox: Would you pay £90 for GTA 6?

The Wednesday letters page thinks the concept of Xbox handhelds may already be dead, as one reader looks forward to a Nintendo Direct in March.

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Value for money
It always makes me laugh when fans complain about pricing because you can always guarantee that they will pay whatever the publisher charges, because if they care enough to complain it means they already like the game and they’re going to do anything that’s needed to get it.

I’m not at all surprised that Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen are bestsellers before they’re even out. A vocal minority might have complained about the prices, and the general unfairness of it all, but for most people if you like a thing, especially a game that’s going to give you dozens, if not hundreds, of hours of pleasure the upper limit of what you’ll pay is very high.

That’s why I think Rockstar are going to push for a higher price for GTA 6, because they know people will pay. And not only are they right but I don’t even know if it’s not worth the extra money, considering how long GTA 5 lasted. The latest rumour, which I realise might not have been true, was £90 and I admit I’d pay that.

For over a decade of gameplay and the best graphics ever made? Plus a no doubt amazing open world and who knows what else that they haven’t revealed yet? I’d probably go as far as £150 without blinking. I’d probably not buy another game for months, but then I probably won’t be playing another one for that long anyway.
Flashman

Minimum effort
I have to agree, that was truly a weird way to announce Wolverine’s release date. We’ve been guessing what it’ll be for months now and they reveal it with one low effort tweet? They didn’t even bother to make any new artwork for it or anything.

I’ll be there to buy the game, day one, but please, Sony, can we not have a bit of showmanship here? A boring blog post (which we didn’t even get this time) and an overproduced video every six months is just not lighting my fire.

GC is right when it talks about the excitement of E3 being something we all miss, especially you see something like this being the absolute opposite.
Focus

Downhill run
As much as I’m looking forward to the new Resident Evil, I’m curious what happens if Silent Hill Townfall is good as well. If it is, that will be a three game streak that Capcom themselves would be proud of. And if the Silent Hill 1 remake is good as well, which I imagine it will be, Silent Hill could end up with one of the best runs in modern game. Which is weird for a series that has a pretty low ceiling for how popular it can be.

As a fan I couldn’t be happier but I’m curious as to whether it’s profitable for them. They’re good-looking games and don’t seem cheap, even though I’m sure they’re not the most expensive games either. But if they’re able to continue with this level of success I’ll be over the moon, especially because of what that implies about other mid-budget games in general.
Rhino

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Pointed mystery
I’ve been playing Psychonauts 2 recently on my gaming PC, which is really good (and also funny) and I have worked out how you earn Xbox reward points for playing a PC game for more than 15 minutes a day. With Psychonauts 2 you go into the options on the PC version and sign into your Xbox account and save the details.

When you play Psychonauts 2 for more than 15 minutes a day you get the reward points and also when you unlock an achievement on PC in Steam you also unlock an achievement on the Xbox. Because I had already played some of the game on my Xbox before I played the PC version I got nine achievements unlocked on my PC as soon as I logged into my Xbox account on the options of the PC game.

Psychonauts 2 is a Microsoft game so whether to get the reward points you have to use a Microsoft game on PC and then log into your Xbox account, like I did with Psychonauts 2, perhaps for you to get the points. Mystery solved!
Andrew J.

Rest in peace
Apologises to anyone that liked the game but I really don’t think Prototype is worth bringing back. It was kind of popular because its main character was a complete edgelord and open world games were still fairly new at that point, but it was never great even then. And if the sequel flopped… well, if people didn’t like it then I can’t see why they’d suddenly be turned onto it now.

I know nostalgia is a hell of a drug but is it really that strong for things that weren’t even that good? Surely they have to be positive memories for you to care, not just the fact that you recognise something. The game’s nearly two decades old, just let it rest.
Poindexter

Ex-handhold box
Crazy to see Xbox falling apart like this, but I can’t pretend it’s a surprise in any way. They’ve been a dead man walking for years now and Phil Spencer should’ve gone at least five years ago. I read today that the creator of the original Xbox thinks that the new boss has been put in charge to wind things down and find an excuse to give it up but I’m not sure I believe that.

Tech companies never usually need an excuse to drop a product, no matter how much money they’ve pumped into it, so I don’t see why they’d need to put on a performance about it.

My guess is that they want to use it to promote AI in some way, because that’s all Microsoft is about nowadays, and if that doesn’t work out then maybe they’ll decide to call it a day.

I think they will go ahead with the next gen PC idea, but I imagine the handheld Xbox idea is dead now. The Xbox ROG Ally was all Sarah Bond’s idea, apparently, and Phil Spencer was always the one talking up the idea of handhelds in general.

My prediction is they’ll ditch that idea, and downgrade and eventually shut down Game Pass. Then they’ll try and make the rest profitable but if that doesn’t work they’ll lose interest, and that’ll be it.

I’d bet the farm they never do exclusives again though, not when the main Microsoft dude hates them. He’s really the one in charge now and we already know he doesn’t care about games at all.
Onyx

Series Slim
So what do we think will be the first thing to be shut down at Xbox, following the new boss taking over? It’ll probably be a couple of studios, but I think Game Pass is probably not long for this world now. It was a gamble that didn’t pay off and it was all Phil Spencer’s big idea, and that’s just the sort of thing new bosses try to get rid of early on.

Perhaps the most important question though is what will her big new idea be? AI seems too obvious a guess so maybe a new model of console, like an Xbox Series X Slim, that isn’t as compromised as the Xbox Series S? A better naming system for their hardware would probably be a good idea too.
Gamph

Still waiting
Very interesting article on Monolith Soft and why Nintendo isn’t pushing the graphics of the Switch 2. It’s crazy that all the best-looking games on the system are not anything to do with Nintendo. I’m very curious to see how Resident Evil Requiem turns out because I never would’ve imagined a game like that would’ve worked on the Switch 2, but everything I’ve heard says it works very well.

The problem is though, since I also own a PlayStation 5, there’s no way I’d buy that or probably any other third party game on the Switch 2, so it’s kind of a wasted effort. I get that some people will only have one console, but what I really want to see is how far Nintendo can push the console.

I agree whatever the first Switch 2-only game is will probably involve Monolith Soft but who can guess what that’d be? It’s probably too early for Zelda but would it still be open world or maybe even a new IP. We’ve been making guesses like this for years now and we never get anywhere.

I just hope we have a really good Nintendo Direct next month and the Switch 2 can catch up with itself, because at the moment it feels like it’s just treading water and all because of a lack of information and even a lack of any way to make an informed guess of what to expect next.
Gifford

Inbox also-rans
To Lumpy, who claimed to be a nerd in yesterday’s Inbox… evidently they’re not quite nerdy enough! Kitana was indeed in the first Mortal Kombat movie is 1995, played by Talisa Soto. She had a pretty key role!
Bingo Rose

Now that FireRed and LeafGreen have been released on the Switch eShop, I can now throw out my complete-in-box copies of said games.
LeeDappa

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