Games Inbox: Will tonight’s State of Play be a good one?

The Tuesday letters page wonders how GTA 6 is going to run on Xbox Series S, as a reader thinks Microsoft is leading Xbox fans on unnecessarily.

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Everything or nothing
So Tuesday night is the biggest State of Play of the year, and I really hope it’s something to get excited about and not just 40 minutes of Wolverine and then whatever third party adverts Sony convinced people to pay for.

It totally could be like that, and I’m prepared for it, but I’m going to be more optimistic and say that Sony realises people aren’t happening and is planning big announcements. Only I’m not sure a God Of War spin-off starring Kratos’ dead wife and a renamed Fairgame$ is going to cut it.

Here’s hoping it’s a good one and we get at least a couple of things that haven’t been leaked or rumoured and are a complete surprise. I’ve no idea if it’ll happen but that’s what I look for when it comes to every showcase.
Chopper

Premium Bond
Add me to the list of people that are very impressed by 007 First Light. I wasn’t going to get until I saw the reviews and even then I wasn’t expecting it to be that good, but it has completely surpassed my expectations.

All the Bond stuff is handled perfectly, to a degree, I wouldn’t have thought possible, with a really fun lead, lots of cliches that aren’t overdone, and actually Bond is still a womaniser – just not in a creepy way. He uses gadgets but they aren’t the only way out of a situation and even the car driving is good.

But you could still ignore all that because it’s a great third person action game, with really fantastic melee combat and gun action, that I really wasn’t expected. And then all the stealth stuff and some really fun boss battles and lots of variety. I guess any game is doomed to lose to GTA 6 this year, in terms of awards, but this is easily my game of the year so far.
Symbel

Ally-oops
I’m genuinely surprised that Xbox is still pushing ahead with the ROG Ally… thing, whatever it’s stupid name is, I’m not looking it up. I can only imagine the number of owners must be in the dozens by now, so what is the point?

That new one is clearly going to be a grand or more and that’s crazy. So you can sit there with a handheld, wearing AR goggles to use it to properly?

I’m afraid this just adds to the theory that consoles are only being made for the rich now. There’s no way the Xbox handheld was made with the mass market in mind, and I agree that the Project Helix will probably be the same.
Jorge

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It’ll be out when it’s finished
Am I the only one that hates early access? I saw the review of Subnautica 2 and got really excited, as I didn’t know it was out, but then I realise it was only for the early access version, and the game won’t be out until next year or later.

As far as I’m concerned you release a game when it’s done and not a moment sooner. I really don’t see why these multi-million dollar games need early access anyway. If you’re a little indie developer then sure, maybe you don’t know how a game is going to be received, but for a big company it’s already probably been focus-tested to death.

They’re just trying to get people’s money early. You don’t pay a builder and then they say they’ll do a little bit, see how you like it, and then they’ll be back in two years. Well, okay… maybe that was a bad example!
Shmee

Smoke and mirrors
I don’t get this ‘controversy’ about having PlayStation or Switch logos during the Xbox showcase. If some fans have got their heads in the sand so deep that they can’t see the Xbox is dead as a console with exclusives then they need a wake up call.

I get it, it’s hard to accept the party’s over, but Microsoft going along with them and pretending the good times can come back is just being cruel. To give them the benefit of the doubt, they may be trying to convince themselves as well but there’s no world where Xbox goes back to having exclusives for anything more than indie games, and even then it probably won’t happen much.

The new Xbox boss is trying to get fans on her side, and I respect the hustle, but not only has she not done anything yet, she hasn’t even promised to do anything yet, that we could hold her accountable to. It’s all just aura farming and it’s kind of gross.
Dolphin

Three hardware guesses
My guess for what’s going on with the next gen is that the PlayStation 6 will be delayed until 2028 at the very least. I don’t think it will be cancelled, because the PlayStation 5 is a good money maker for Sony, but I think they’ll know that putting it out now and charging £800, or whatever, for it is not a good idea.

Better to wait until the memory crisis is over and charge a sensible price for it, given everything is ticking over fine at the moment and nobody’s in a rush for a PlayStation 6 anyway.

Only problem is how do you know the memory crisis will even end? Even if they build as many AI data centres as they want, once they’re built they’ll just decide the first ones need to be upgraded and we’ll go round in a circle again.

As for Xbox, I think they will be put off much less by the price, since they already only seem to be aiming it at hardcore fans. That means they’ll buy it whatever, but it also means that it doesn’t really matter because it wasn’t a contender in the first place.

For Nintendo, who always seem to be left out of these kind of considerations, I think their best is to fast-track the Switch 2 Lite. Knowing Nintendo, they’ll make it come out later than it did for the original Switch but in theory releasing it now makes much more sense, because it’s cheaper and it’s probably cheaper for Nintendo to make too.
Biscus

The government always gets in
As much as I’d be happy if they banned Roblox entirely I think that stopping communication for kids is very important. But I have no faith at all that this government will do that. It’ll just be lots of talk and investigations and then they’ll decide that not doing anything is in fact a lot easier for them.

I’m not being political, it’d be the same thing whoever was in. Politicians never have a clue when it comes to technology and always make the wrong decision. Doubly so when it comes to games.
Bander

Split decision
Anyone else sort of wondering what the Xbox Series S version of GTA 6 is gonna be like? I don’t have an S, but like, after the Baldur’s Gate 3 hoo-ha, I can’t help ponder how it’ll play. Or even, how it will look and run.

Talking of the Series S, I get the original sort of premise, of being so affordable that PlayStation 5 users would get one and that would be the thin end of the wedge of ingratiating PlayStation users, yada yada yada. It was an interesting idea! It seems to have been a failed idea.

I kinda hoped a less powerful second console from day one had died a death – if for developers’ extra workload alone – yet it seems the PlayStation 6 will have a handheld version as powerful as a PlayStation 5.

Doesn’t it divide the audience? I’m no economist but that can’t be wise, it makes it harder for people to see the perks and improvement of upgrading. Unsurprising PlayStation are emailing PlayStation 4 owners to upgrade.

Maybe I’m just an annoyed Millennial and feel this gen and the next are being somewhat hamstrung by a lowest common denominator. I long for a time of mind-blowing generational leaps, like GameCube to Xbox 360.

That’s probably the answer here.
Tundra_Boosh

GC: We wouldn’t take anything for granted with the PlayStation handheld until Sony announces it. And that’s assuming it hasn’t been cancelled due to the memory crisis.

Inbox also-rans
Cautiously optimist about the Rayman Legends remake. It doesn’t need one but if it gets more people playing the game then all the better, because it’s one of my favourites.
Grace

Seeing some rumours about a new Marvel Vs. Capcom for one of the showcases this week. Don’t believe a word of it but I still want to believe!
Focus

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