Friday’s Letters page still doesn’t want PlayStation 6 anytime soon, as some readers doubt Avowed will be a hit.
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Gray Friday
So it looks like all the optimism about this being a good Black Friday has come to naught. I don’t think Sony has started selling it but £40 from Xbox? It’s so bad I’m not sure why he even bothered. I also do not know why it is a little, unless they just have not earned much to sell it, and they do not think it is worth it? After all, I can’t imagine Microsoft making them as fast as they used to, given what we know about the demand.
The Nintendo Switch offer is hardly any better, but at least it’s a small effort, which is more than usual. Amazon’s sales are horrendous. Only Star Wars Outlaws, as everyone predicted, and, as always, EA Sports FC 25.
I will recommend one game on sale though and it is Metafora: ReFantazio, which is now 30% in most places. It doesn’t surprise me that it’s a game that sells well in the UK so I’m not surprised to see it go cheap so quickly but it’s a really good game and probably my favorite of the year. So, if more people can play because of Black Friday, at least it’s a good thing.
Gandalf
The opposite of the hype
I don’t like to prejudge anything, but the Avowed game doesn’t look very good. Maybe it will be good, but I can’t see it being popular at all. I don’t know if it’s the opposite of the hype but this game definitely gets it. When I saw the preview I didn’t know what it was at first and then I vaguely remembered the Skyrim clone-looking opening teaser.
And he wants £70 for this? I think the only reason they moved the release date to February is because they know it will be half price during Black Friday before you can blink. From what I can see this should have been a double-A game for at least £20 cheaper, then people might have taken a look at it and been interested. But at the same price as Call Of Duty or EA Sports FC? It didn’t happen.
The problem with this is that the company does not make new IPs that are not sequels, but what is the chance of this becoming generic and unpleasant?
Focus
The moon is dead
The recent Reader feature, about some of the new games released this month, is dead. Now that STALKER 2 is out there is nothing out for the whole year now, beyond Indiana Jones. Basically no big name games during November, just a few mid-tier ones, none of which I can imagine selling well.
You can blame the pandemic all you want, but it’s been four years now and the situation has gotten worse over the past two years, not better.
I really don’t think the people in charge of the game industry know what they are doing or realize that wisdom is slowly killing the interest in video games from normal people. For years now there has been talk of a new industry crash but at this rate it will be due to a lack of new games and a tragic lack of interest.
Even the new games that came out, like Dragon Age and Star Wars Outlaws didn’t do much because they were so similar and predictable. Hopefully Switch 2 and GTA 6 will save us from all this.
Aglor
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Cartridge simulator
It’s a shame what happened to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 and the price is amazing. The worst is that £100+ for the deluxe edition is becoming increasingly common. I like to hear from people in the Inbox who have paid that much for the game because I have never met someone in real life who thought it was anything other than madness.
I just imagine those who have paid a lot and still haven’t played the game and know that at any point it can just break down and not work at all, because it needs a permeant internet connection. As others have read, this is the worst advertisement for online and streaming games. Suddenly I became misty-eyed for the day cartridges.
Yoon
The final decision
So just a quick email to say a big thank you to Magnumstache and Matc7884, regarding the Steam Deck purchase and relative competition. They both give a good explanation of the merits of the entire platform and in Lenova provide new possibilities that I was not aware of.
Personally, I want the monotheism of console games and am not used to this option. I’m leaning towards Steam Deck at the moment as an almost safe choice but I’m going to do some more digging over the weekend, before making a final pressure-filled decision.
Chris in Belfast
Maybe tomorrow
RE: PlayStation 6 release date. I believe it will be…next week.
Let’s face it, that makes a lot of sense as the rest is done last time.
Seriously, as a brand new PS5 pro, I love the upgrades that were promised to come, but they seem to fail to deliver in many cases and in some cases, the experience is worse now, after the patch. Go figure.
I’m sure, it will improve as PSSR develops (DLSS didn’t start well either and took many iterations to get good) but then, why am I paying to be a guinea pig for something that isn’t ready yet? Especially since the PlayStation 6 might come out in 2026.
So I got a sub-PlayStation 5 experience for £700 and it’s a testing ground for your PlayStation 6 experiments?!
Anyway, regarding the handheld aspect, there is no way the PlayStation 6 can upgrade the performance over the PlayStation 5 or the Pro can also offer a handheld experience à la Switch.
The battery would have to be huge, the device would have to be huge enough to not melt, and the cost would be astronomical to provide an upgraded CPU/GPU and a separate device with a screen as part of everything.
This should be a separate device or similar to the portal again
Kiran
Short list
I can’t begin to tell you how uninterested I am in the PlayStation 6 at the moment and I won’t even start to consider buying one before at least 2028. According to the calculations here only ever six Sony first-party games, made by real Sony developers, is the PlayStation 5 -only and it’s totally pathetic to look at four years into the console’s life.
So Concord, Astro Bot, Demon Soul, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, Returnal, and Spider-Man 2. Concord doesn’t even count anymore, because it’s the former game, so that only makes five. Five games for Sony to prove the power and innovation of the PlayStation 5, the majority of which came out in the first two years. It’s really sad.
Dance
GC: There’s also Horizon Call Of The Mountain, Destruction AllStars, Until Dawn, and The Last of Us Part 1, plus a bunch of remasters, but yeah…
Passing the peak
I personally feel that the speculation for the PlayStation 6 is premature, as the length of each generation seems to be getting longer between each console. The PlayStation 5 was released in November 2020 and four years is certainly not long enough for the rumor mill to start!
Obviously, Sony has developed the next product but nowhere did they announce it or release any information about it. It’s like how Nintendo does business and keeps the cards close to the chest, until the last moment when sales have reached the zenith and begin to slowly decline! Then the hype machine can effectively start to last for years and a bit.
The PlayStation 5 should still be sold, because four years have passed and I don’t want a new console, but the current evolution of technology and the most benefit, which culminates in The Elder Scrolls 6! Even if it’s an Xbox exclusive!
With graphical prowess in games like Alan Wake 2, Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, and Elden Ring. etc. I still feel that like the SNES, Xbox 360, and Switch, they should be able to make more dynamic games because the middle to the end of the console’s life historically there are some growth spurts and some amazing new design work is explored in game creation. .
But in the end, it’s a good business and if the time is right, but I won’t, as usual, look too seriously at the specs, because I think the fun with the current generation is still going strong. -time high and certainly shows no sign of slowing down. But I certainly can’t blame us gamers for getting enthusiastic about our favorite hobby, not siree.
Alucard
GC: Like it or not, PlayStation 5 sales have been declining all year, zenith last year.
Inbox well-rans
RE: Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake. Do you have any plans to review this? I didn’t know it was out. The trailer looks good, but the NES-era role-playing game might need some modernization to get me into it.
Michael
GC: To be honest, we forgot too. Our review should be ready today or Monday.
There’s no point in even trying to say what I think about the possibility of a PlayStation 6 leak right now. I will swear very hard not to go past the GC editor.
P. Ella
PS: Almost every day I read about the game industry and just sit here thinking what? Today is no different.
GC: We know what you mean.
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