The Wednesday letters page gets ready for more bad news from Xbox, as a reader asks for a Dead Rising 2 Deluxe Remaster.
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Cross-generational
With all this talk about how well GTA 6 will run on PlayStation 5, and if it’ll be 60fps or not, I’m surprised nobody’s really mentioned where the PlayStation 6 fits in with all this. GTA 6 is in basically the same position GTA 5 was in when it came out, with a new generation just around the corner.
Given GTA 5 has been on three different generations so far it seems obvious that GTA 6 will get a PlayStation 6 version. Plus, we know that Sony are promoting GTA 6 like it’s an exclusive and clearly have some kind of marketing deal with Rockstar Games. So it wouldn’t surprise me if GTA 6 literally was an exclusive that generation.
That will put a big spanner in Xbox’s plans, but it makes too much sense, especially as it’ll be able to claim that it can do 60fps easy, if the PS5 Pro can’t. I predict that within a few years everyone will think of GTA 6 as a PlayStation 6 game and forget it ever even started on the previous generation.
Trepsils
Early judgement
I’ve noticed that Digital Foundry seems to be on a bit of a warpath with GTA 6 lately. Firstly, they had that weird thing where they were judging the quality of the graphics based on some promo shots of the DLC and now they’re saying that there’s no way it’s going to hit 60fps.
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I’m not saying they’re wrong, because I’m not a technical expert, but I really don’t see how you can judge that from the trailer. Let’s face it, we all kind of assumed that Rockstar is fudging things a bit with the trailers. The PlayStation 5 has limits and I expect that was actually the PC version but let’s wait and see the final game, or at least some gameplay, before we start deciding what it can or cannot do.
Host
Future line-up
Doesn’t sound like Splatoon Raiders is very exciting from any preview I’ve read, including yours. So once again we see something that seemed like a bad idea from the moment it was show and… it is?
The whole of the Switch 2 line-up after Donkey Kong Bananza seems like it’s been copied and pasted from the console’s fourth or fifth year and for some reason released straight away instead. I don’t see that anything they’ve released since last autumn was a sensible priority and now they’re realising spin-offs of games without an actual new entry first. I don’t get it. And also I am not going to get it… Splatoon Raiders, that is.
Korbie
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Hire purchase
How many people complaining about the price of consoles being £700+ happily pay £700+ for a mobile phone? You can argue many phones are paid monthly over 24 months whereas a console is a big one-off purchase. However, these days there’s so much interest free credit you can split the cost of a PS5 Pro over many months or years. I bought my Xbox Series X on a 24 month plan that Microsoft used to do with certain retailers.
Whereas phones are usually updated every year, a console could last nearly a decade before being replaced as with Switch/Switch 2.
I think for the amount of entertainment and power of consoles these days a grand isn’t really that crazy a price to pay. Of course I’d rather pay less but as with everything these days it’s going to seem overpriced compared to years ago.
Also, just like phones you can always trade in or sell the old console go buy the new- there’s always someone happy to get the previous generation cheaper.
Mark Matthews
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Move or die
I don’t want to say something obvious but if June and July are such quiet months for new releases why didn’t all those games that are out in September and October move up to there? Just as everyone predicted, almost none of them have changed their dates since the bloodbath was revealed – Onimusha is the only big name one, I think, which once again shows that Capcom is one of the few companies with their heads screwed on right.
With all these Xbox layoffs coming up it brings it home just how much all these dumb decisions affect people’s lives. We’re all sitting on our gaming chairs pointing out how useless publishers are but to us it’s literally just a game. To developers, this is their livelihood that’d being destroyed because the c-suite hasn’t got two brain cells to rub together.
Sorbet
Corporate pitch
Following the incredible success and meticulous craftsmanship of the Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster in 2024, the community is incredibly excited about the future of the brand. As Capcom evaluates its leading intellectual properties for future projects, I would like to suggest a vision for a Dead Rising 2 Deluxe Remaster that would serve as the ultimate tribute to Fortune City.
To maximise player engagement, sales potential, and critical acclaim, the community strongly hopes to see a definitive package that consolidates the entire Dead Rising 2 era into one cohesive experience, powered by an upgraded engine.
Dual campaigns (Chuck and Frank): Integrate both the core Dead Rising 2 narrative and the alternate what if storyline of Dead Rising 2: Off The Record, allowing players to experience Fortune City as both Chuck Greene and Frank West under one modern client would be a massive selling point.
The return of ‘Terror is Reality’ (TiR): Modernising the 4-player competitive multiplayer game show with fluid matchmaking and updated physics would provide the game with incredible, long-term replayability and streaming potential.
The Complete Legacy: Rescuing and bundling the previously platform-exclusive DLC, Case Zero and Case West, to offer the complete, uninterrupted Fortune City lore.
There is a profound, widespread desire within the gaming community to see the original voice cast return to voice these iconic roles. Hearing Peter Flemming reprise his role as Chuck Greene, alongside the return of the original actors for key characters like Stacy, Sullivan, and the original Frank West would generate immense goodwill. It would bridge nostalgia with modern technology, creating an unmatched level of excitement and marketing momentum at launch.
gaz be rotten (gamertag)
Format priorities
So, if the PlayStation 5 can’t get GTA 6 to run at 60fps how on earth can they expect to release it on Switch 2? I know the console is more powerful than it looks but there still hasn’t been that rumoured version of Red Dead Redemption 2 and I can’t believe they wouldn’t do that first as a testbed.
Also, if they haven’t even announced a PC version, I can’t imagine that if there was a Switch 2 version it wouldn’t probably be for several years in the future.
Grant
Change of plans
That Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 thing, insisting that the game isn’t coming to Game Pass day one, is so sad it’s hilarious. Two years Call Of Duty on Game Pass lasted as a day one thing and now it’s over. And yet that was the whole point of Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard in the first place!
All that money, all those thousands of lost jobs, and not only didn’t the plan work but they gave up after two tries and the whole franchise is now in do or die mode as far as its popularity goes. It’s hard to imagine it all having gone any worse.
And now we’re probably just days away from thousands more being laid off, from all kinds of different studios, and whole developers being shut down or sold off. It’s hard not to see the whole Xbox concept as a complete waste of time and money and hardship.
The Xbox 360 was an important console, it’s true, but online and downloadable games are too obvious a concept not to have happened anyway. Sega was already doing experiments before Xbox even started.
The only thing I can think of that Xbox has actually done for the whole industry is Achievements and I think we could’ve all lived without that if they’d just kept their greedy hands off Activision, Bethesda, and all the rest.
Focus
Inbox also-rans
What’s the betting that the Blade game gets cancelled when Microsoft announces all these job losses? I’m worried they’ll shut down the other Arkane studio too.
Kiff
Am I the only one that totally gets why Microsoft bosses would want to streamline things at Xbox? It doesn’t make any money for them and it’s getting worse. Not that I don’t feel bad for the people but I blame all this on Phil Spencer, not the current boss.
Tacle
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