Games Inbox: Is GTA 6 worth paying £100 for?

The Tuesday letters leafage doesn’t deliberation Mario Kart is simply a Nintendo Switch 2 motorboat game, arsenic 1 scholar is adamant they don’t privation a PlayStation 6.

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Only if it’s worthy it
A communicative is doing the rounds claiming immoderate successful the manufacture ‘hope’ that GTA 6 costs $80-100, arsenic it volition let different companies to travel suit with their caller releases. This has gone down astir arsenic good arsenic you’d expect connected social media, with galore arguing GTA 6 is astir apt the lone crippled that could warrant a higher terms constituent fixed the hype and the expected Rockstar Games quality.

I would hold with this, arsenic similar them oregon loathe them, Rockstar conscionable does it better. It’s been said earlier but basal anyplace connected a Rockstar representation and thing (usually hilarious) volition happen. Their satellite plan is conscionable beyond everyone other and the trailer/rumours would suggest they’re going each successful connected non-player quality quality this time, which volition lone summation the mini-stories that look astatine random.

If different AAA companies privation to commencement charging $80-100 past they’d amended get moving connected quality, oregon they’ll find retired the hard mode erstwhile their incomplete, shallow experiences don’t bash the numbers they expect. Even EA Sports FC, usually a guaranteed runaway success, has faced the wrath of customers voting with their wallets due to the fact that it needed different six months successful development, and they’re sick of the unspeakable prime control.

I don’t caput my people disappearing erstwhile oregon twice, oregon subordinate hairsbreadth turning weird, but 4 months post-launch these things should beryllium fixed! No wonderment it tin beryllium picked up for nether £25 already.

If anyone should beryllium allowed to complaint a small more, it’s indie developers who consistently springiness america the champion games of the year. I person implicit 100 hours successful Balatro now, and it costs astir £12…
Dipper Pines

GC: EA Sports FC 25 was the best-selling crippled of 2024 successful the UK.

People successful their incorrect mind
Just work connected your leafage that crippled publishers are hoping that GTA 6 volition beryllium £100 erstwhile it comes out, truthful they tin jack up the price. The occupation with that is GTA games don’t travel astir that often, it’s 10+ years since Rockstar brought retired determination past game, with aggregate escaped DLCs for the champion portion of 10 years.

Games similar EA Sports FC and Call Of Duty, to sanction a few, person a yearly release, nary 1 successful their close caput would wage a £100, knowing that wrong 12 months determination volition beryllium a caller 1 coming out. GTA is similar the aureate ovum now, you bargain it and for 10+ years everything that comes retired is free. If each games spell to £100 I’ll beryllium giving up gaming, it won’t beryllium worthy it successful my eyes.
David

Falcon punch
If Nintendo’s past merchandise for the Switch is immoderate benignant of purposefully niche instrumentality privation fulfilment thing, I volition spell nuts. If it’s F-Zero I’ll astir apt explode.
I realise it’s conscionable a rumour, but I would emotion for Nintendo to accidental to hellhole with it and walk a ton of wealth making a large crippled they cognize not that galore radical volition bargain but volition conscionable beryllium truly bully and thing the developers privation to do.

I mean, what’s $20 cardinal oregon truthful to a institution that makes arsenic overmuch wealth arsenic they do? I get the feeling they bash this anyhow sometimes, with things similar Bayonetta and Famicom Detective Club. Nintendo are the slightest affluent of the 3 console makers but they’re the lone ones that bash things similar this.

End the Switch with a bang, alternatively of conscionable fading away, and I curse I’ll pre-order the Switch 2 the infinitesimal you’re capable to.
Benson

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Last antheral standing
Somehow, I don’t deliberation the PlayStation 6 uncover trailer is going to beryllium outdoing the Nintendo Switch 2, if Sony thinks that releasing it successful 2027, oregon anytime adjacent that, is going to work. I’m definite it volition beryllium astir that time, due to the fact that they’ve already said the PlayStation 5 has peaked, but lone successful presumption of console sales.

In presumption of games released it hardly seems to person started and has fundamentally been stalled for the past 2 years. Compare that to the Switch 1, which is present going into status with the champion mentation of astir each Nintendo franchise and aggregate 10/10 games, to the PlayStation 5 which had… immoderate bully cross-gen games astatine the beginning?

The irony is the champion games connected the PlayStation 5 are Returnal and Astro Bot and they’re the ones that Sony didn’t truly propulsion and sold the least. We shouldn’t promote immoderate monopoly successful the games manufacture but astatine this constituent I don’t attraction if Nintendo bash predominate for a procreation oregon two. At slightest I’d spot them to marque immoderate decent games.
Kanker

Longing mode down
I’ve been playing The Longing connected iOS for hours. On time 344, wandering astir for hours with nary thought of wherever to spell to advancement the game. I yet managed to fig however to ascent a ledge into an unexplored country and I crept on a constrictive passageway successful the dark. I travel crossed a immense cliff. Despite the warnings, I leap disconnected reasoning there’ll beryllium thing peculiar down determination for me.

There was thing special. A 1 mode summons to heaven! Game over!

Interesting crippled but I don’t person the patience to commencement implicit again astatine time 400.
Rave

A acquainted problem
Of each the questions that inactive beryllium astir the Switch 2, the 1 I’m astir funny successful is however Nintendo negociate the backwards compatibility aspect. It’s the 1 I astir spot them being tripped up by and wherefore I can’t rather formed the shadiness of the Wii U from my mind.

I understand, successful principle, wherefore Nintendo has opted to see backwards compatibility successful presumption of coaxing consumers to the Switch 2 without sacrificing their existing catalogue of playable games (plus, it keeps bundle income ticking implicit from present until the console launch). But what then?

It feels similar Nintendo volition person to enactment hard to convey what is simply a Switch 2-only rubric and what isn’t. Plus, astatine what constituent – if ever – volition caller games not person to labour the constituent that they are lone for the Switch 2? I’m reminded of the New Nintendo 3DS, and portion it was released towards the extremity of the console’s beingness (and lone had 8 compatible games), those immense achromatic headers crossed the crippled boxes came crossed arsenic a selling and branding headache.

Nintendo learned a batch of lessons from the Wii U. But having a cleanable slate felt similar a monolithic advantage. Yes, they committed to a Wii U mentation of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild. Yes, they ported galore Wii U titles crossed to the Switch. But it was ever wide from the disconnected that the Switch was a wholly caller and antithetic console. Personally, backwards compatibility is simply a Switch 2 diagnostic I’d happily bash without to guarantee there’s nary ambiguity whatsoever.
Needlemouse

GC: We recognize your concern, but Nintendo has been selling console exemplary exclusives since the days of the Game Boy Color successful the precocious 90s. Earlier than that if you number the Famicom Disk System successful Japan.

Worth keeping
If you ain a PlayStation 4 oregon 5 you tin get escaped 3 months of Apple TV+ presently by logging into the Apple TV+ app connected either console mentioned. They person the Tetris movie connected determination for anyone who hasn’t
seen it and different bully TV shows and films. You tin beryllium a caller oregon returning lawsuit for Apple TV+ to get the 3 months.

I had 3 escaped months astatine the extremity of past twelvemonth connected my PlayStation 5 and erstwhile I tried to get the existent connection connected PlayStation 5 I wasn’t eligible for this caller deal, truthful I logged into my PlayStation 4 console and utilizing the aforesaid Apple relationship I got 3 escaped months!

I’ve kept clasp of my PlayStation 4 for PlayStation VR games and besides immoderate games I ain connected PlayStation 4 are not compatible with PlayStation 5.
Andrew J.
PS: Just platinumed Astro Bot! So pleased with that.

Not rod position
I don’t deliberation Mario Kart volition beryllium a Switch motorboat title. Maybe a Christmas merchandise oregon timed with the 2nd Mario movie. I deliberation it was picked for the trailer due to the fact that it was an expected rubric that doesn’t request a batch of explanation.

Nintendo intelligibly didn’t privation to bash a heavy dive trailer for the uncover and if they’d picked thing truly new, similar the adjacent 3D Mario, they’d person faced disappointment and complaints that they didn’t spell into much details. Mario Kart doesn’t look akin obstacles.

It besides leaves the April Direct to person much of a wow origin erstwhile each uncover is simply a caller happening we’ve not seen yet and not conscionable an mentation of the little look we’ve conscionable seen.

Mario Kart is simply a harmless selling placeholder and volition astir apt merchantability by the motortruck load.

I bash privation the Direct was sooner, aboriginal March oregon something, but I conjecture 3 months betwixt uncover and afloat details worked for the archetypal Switch.

At slightest Civilization 7 tin support maine engaged until past and hopefully we’ll spot that get rodent compatibility connected Switch 2.
Euclidian Boxes

GC: It’s an absorbing thought, that didn’t hap to america astatine first, but you could beryllium right.

Inbox also-rans
I privation EA was arsenic determined to perpetually bring backmost SSX and Dead Space arsenic they are Battlefield and Need For Speed. Why does those games support getting 2nd chances, erstwhile they haven’t been large successful truthful long?
Bootles

So Microsoft went from the Xbox 360 to being the biggest 3rd enactment steadfast connected a caller Nintendo console. It’s comic however things enactment out, eh?
Johnson

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