The Wednesday letters page fears that VR gaming may be dead for another generation, as one reader wishes 8-bit classic Elite would get a big budget reboot.
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Out of fashionDepressing, but not surprising news, about how single-player games aren’t selling right now. I know it was July they were talking about but why wasn’t Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced in the top 20? We were told that did well and yet it was nowhere to be seen on PlayStation 5, beaten by a bunch of multiplayer games I didn’t even realise were still going.
The only thing I hold to is that these things seem to go in and out of fashion, with a big hit suddenly reminding publishers that people do like this sort of game. EA seem to have gone back and forth on the concept a bunch of times over the years.
I can only think of Capcom though, who just truck on making whatever they want, most of which is single-player only, and everyone seems quite happy to buy it. But I’m going to guess their budgets are a lot more sensible than a lot of these big US games. $400 million for Gears Of War: E-Day seems like insanity to me.Casper
Warm-up actI enjoyed the Fire Emblem games on 3DS, but I really think that was the best format for the series. Unless Nintendo is going to give the Switch games a proper budget they just look so cheap and basic. I could easily see the games running on an Xbox 360 or Wii and we’re at a point now where a lot of indie games look better than that.
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Its real problem though, is it’s just another Nintendo game that you’ve got to get out of the way until you get to the good stuff. I think that’s why they’re not talking about Zelda or The Duskbloods yet, because they know that as soon as people are properly look forward to those they’ll just ignore Fire Emblem and the other minor games completely.Clembor
Customer retentionI can see what Microsoft is trying to do with all this Xbox 360 games on PC and creating a disc-to-digital system, but it’s not going to work. They’ve realised that one of the main reasons for people sticking with one family of consoles now is so they don’t lose their collection of games from previous generations.
But I really don’t think people are going to spend £1,000+ on Project Helix, just so they can play Blinx: The Time Sweeper on it. You’d prefer to keep all your games, but I don’t think it’s going to keep many people from abandoning what is clearly a sinking ship. Not that I think anyone’s going to be in a hurry to spend the same on PlayStation 6, but at least they won’t rule it out completely.Bonce
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Nothing newRE: Valve and consoles. As well as the Half-Life and Portal games they released the two Left 4 Dead games, with EA handling the physical Xbox 360 releases, which were very popular and Counter-Strike on console.
Most of their catalogue has shown up on console, they’re not a prolific publisher on any format. The reason why they’re all old is because Valve pulled back somewhat from making games a long time ago, mores the pity.
Many of us hoped Half-Life 3 would stop being a meme with the Steam Machine release but alas not. The 18 year wait since Half-Life 2: Episode Two continues.
But while games were more of a priority many made their way to console and I think that would probably be the case today if they were more active in game development.