Games Inbox: Asking if the Nintendo Switch 2 leak is real, Need For Speed: Underground 3, and Star Wars games

The Thursday letters leafage tries to enactment retired if the leaked Nintendo Switch 2 photos are existent oregon not, arsenic 1 scholar is impressed by Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth connected PS5 Pro.

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Fake truth
So, determination it is. We were each expecting a Switch 2 leak from a Chinese factory and present we’ve got it but… are they real? Obviously, we won’t cognize for definite until Nintendo says but I find the images to beryllium precise strange. I don’t recognize what the applicable intent of the 3D ones would be, unless they’re idiosyncratic trying to physique a exemplary of what they saw – but it seems the origins of the images are already mislaid to the internet.

The evident photos of the Joy-Cons and the circuit committee look a batch much convincing, but nowadays tin you ever genuinely spot your eyes? There are nary radical successful immoderate of the photos truthful they would beryllium comparatively casual to render if you cognize your stuff.

And yet… trusted radical are saying that it looks similar what they’ve heard. My feeling is that the images are fake but that they’re giving an close representation of what the Switch 2 looks like, due to the fact that they’re based connected existent leaks. Now hold and spot maine beryllium wholly incorrect and the existent happening has 4 screens and uses a descend plunger for a controller.
Gaston

GC: If it had been conscionable the 3D images, we would’ve dismissed it instantly, but those photos of the magnetic Joy-Cons look precise hard to fake. If they are past idiosyncratic has unsafe amounts of clip connected their hands.

Unbelievably sensible
I don’t cognize astir those leaked Switch 2 photos. The crushed they look fake to maine is that they’re conscionable excessively bully to beryllium true. It looks similar precisely the benignant of sane and sensible iterative upgrade that fans would want. But Nintendo ne'er gives radical what they want, lone what they didn’t cognize they need.

I won’t beryllium disappointed if the images are existent though, rather the opposite. It’ll springiness maine large encouragement that Nintendo is changing their crippled and starting to spell for the jugular erstwhile it comes to Xbox and PlayStation, and their changeless mistakes.

If the leaks are existent and the Switch 2 is conscionable a mean console, past I deliberation Nintendo person it successful the container for the adjacent procreation and an adjacent much salient relation successful the games industry. Officially we inactive cognize nothing, truthful it’s silly to get excessively carried away, but I’d accidental the aboriginal was looking precise promising.
Austin

Return trip
I cognize we accidental this each time, but tin we delight person a new Spider-Man game acceptable determination different than New York? I cognize that’s wherever helium lives but I unrecorded successful London and I went to Majorca for my holidays, I don’t walk each waking hr of my beingness successful the aforesaid city.

I get it though, it’s cheaper to usage fundamentally the aforesaid representation but jeez… I conscionable anticipation they don’t usage it for the Venom spin-off arsenic well. At slightest person that acceptable determination else, truthful we get a spot of variety.

Although, to beryllium honest, I’d alternatively spot Insomniac bash thing new, and not conscionable different Ratchet & Clank game. They’re a talented developer but I consciousness they’re being restricted by having to marque the aforesaid games again and again.
Keej

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Name successful lights
The Rubber Keyed Wonder documentary astir the Spectrum machine is present finished and the film-makers are going to person a screening of the movie astatine the BFI IMAX successful London, the biggest surface successful the UK. Anybody tin spell who buys a ticket, determination is 500 seats. The premiere has a Q&A afterwards hosted by Jason Bradbury from The Gadget Show. The screening is connected Thursday, 3rd October 2024. Here is the link to bargain a ticket.

I backed the documentary connected Kickstarter, truthful my sanction volition beryllium successful the credits connected the IMAX screen! I volition soon person a Blu-ray of the movie for backing the movie connected Kickstarter. I expect you volition beryllium capable to bargain a transcript if you are precocious to the Kickstarter.
Andrew J.
PS: DuckTales: Remastered is £2.49 presently connected the Xbox Store. Will beryllium picking that 1 up for that terms myself.

Constant updates
I’m not truly a instrumentality of Call Of Duty, I haven’t been since the days earlier it became predominantly a multiplayer experience, years ago. Anyway, I was abbreviated of things to play truthful I installed Modern Warfare 3 arsenic it’s connected Game Pass and fundamentally ‘free’ to me.

I americium alert it got hammered successful the reviews but it isn’t arsenic atrocious arsenic I was expecting. The single-player run is abbreviated but decent capable and I’ve had a spot of amusive online, also, though I’m done with it now.

However, has it go the norm for these games to necessitate constant ample updates astir each clip you crook it on? It’s a crippled wherever I mightiness privation a speedy 20 infinitesimal blast, but it was intolerable to achieve. These updates instrumentality 1 to 5 hours.

Anyway, I’ve binned it, backmost to existent single-player gaming.
Razzledazzle

GC: Yes, that has been precise overmuch the norm for the past respective years.

Underground hit
I hold with Gunfrey that it is absorbing however EA perpetually springiness 2nd chances to the Battlefield and Need For Speed franchises. For Battlefield, determination are a fig of massively fashionable alternatives to play if you privation to scratch that archetypal idiosyncratic shooter itch, specified arsenic the accustomed suspects of Call Of Duty, Apex Legends, and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege, etc. However, I don’t spot the alternatives for Need For Speed.

Which is strange, due to the fact that 2 Need For Speed games successful Underground 2 (2004) and Most Wanted (2005) were some Christmas fig ones. Admittedly, this was earlier Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare arrived connected the scene, but these 2 games were inactive up against FIFA astatine the clip and radical continued to bargain the bid during this subpar play of FIFA games (2006 and 2008 saw FIFA 07 and FIFA 09, respectively, go Christmas fig ones) and shot games are still, of course, hugely popular.

So, wherever person each these arcade racer fans from 20 years agone gone? If you’re connected the Xbox, past the Forza Horizon games fulfil immoderate of the criteria, but I can’t usage spike strips and EMPs to instrumentality retired my rivals. The aforesaid goes for The Crew Motorfest connected some the Xbox and PlayStation. There are immoderate bully destruction-based racing games successful the criminally underrated TRAIL OUT, FlatOut 4: Total Insanity, and the fantabulous Wreckfest, though. As for due arcade racers, I’m guessing smaller indie titles are the lone rivals?

Thus, I conjecture EA spot that determination is inactive a spread successful the customisable arcade racer marketplace and truthful they volition proceed to merchandise Need For Speed games due to the fact that nary 1 is releasing thing comparable.
NatorDom

GC: What’s besides unusual is that they inactive haven’t made Underground 3, contempt perpetually teasing astir the edges.

Dark Side
I didn’t realise the current authorities of Star Wars games was rather truthful bad, until GC laid it out. I don’t deliberation we’re ever seeing that strategy crippled oregon Knights Of The Old Republic remake. I don’t cognize astir Eclipse oregon the different chartless game, but I wouldn’t amazed if it didn’t hap either.

These games are excessively costly to marque and they don’t merchantability capable – due to the fact that they’re excessively safe, due to the fact that they outgo excessively overmuch to make. It’s a Classic-22 situation.

I tin spot aft the nonaccomplishment of Star Wars Outlaws that EA and others springiness up. I don’t deliberation it’ll beryllium immoderate antithetic for Marvel. I don’t truly spot wherefore they’ve started the ones they’ve already announced, fixed everything but Spider-Man has ever been a flop.
Focus

Apples and oranges
I conscionable watched Digital Foundry’s YouTube video connected the PS5 Pro mentation of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth and it’s a much convincing relationship of the benefits of a Pro. Essentially delivering the remit of the console to supply fidelity mode level graphics/image prime astatine 60fps.

PSSR, Sony’s mentation of AI upscaling similar DLSS, seems to beryllium doing the legwork. Providing the crisp representation of the higher solution prime mode but astatine a lower, little assets sapping autochthonal solution with little artifacting than, say, AMD’s FSR.

This gen has been a large betterment for framework rates connected the basal machines from past gen. Rebirth’s show mode whitethorn not beryllium a stone coagulated 60fps but it’s up there. Unlike past gen wherever galore games couldn’t get adjacent to 60fps connected either the basal oregon Pro units.

So, I inactive don’t deliberation the PS5 Pro volition person a accidental of taking a 30fps games to 60fps with its CPU. But arsenic that’s been truthful fewer games truthful acold this gen it’s little of a problem.

Personally, I mean to determination implicit to PC, but I don’t deliberation there’s arsenic overmuch of a crossover successful customers arsenic radical deliberation erstwhile doing these PC/Pro comparison.

I privation to crippled connected PC for a assortment of reason, not conscionable for amended framework rates. Similarly, console gamers privation to crippled connected consoles arsenic they connection a much idiosyncratic affable gaming acquisition than PC.

That you could physique a PS5 Pro-beating PC for £911 (that’s however overmuch the 1 I built connected PC Part Picker cost) is of nary interest to console gamers. Not slightest due to the fact that to get that I terms I person to physique the happening and acceptable it up. That terms besides doesn’t see Windows, a controller, rodent oregon keyboard.
Simundo

Inbox also-rans
Interesting that PC gaming was down 4% successful that video crippled survey thing. I wonderment wherefore that is? I thought they were decently taking implicit from consoles but it seems the bubble whitethorn person burst already. Maybe it’ll spell backmost up aft the PS5 Pro reveal?
Denko

If that Switch 2 leak is existent I volition beryllium loving it. The aforesaid happening but much almighty is precisely what I wanted. It’s going to beryllium crushing if it turns retired to beryllium fake and thing wacky instead.
Penfold

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