Games Inbox: Are people right to criticise Nvidia’s DLSS 5 tech?

The Thursday letters page thinks 2026 is set to be one of the best years ever for video games, as one reader is saddened by the decline in VR gaming.

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Fight the future
So this whole DLSS 5 unveil is not going the way Nvidia imagined, huh? Who would’ve thought the whole gaming world would turn against it and Digital Foundry would be forced to put out an apology! And now we learn that the developers never even knew anything about it?! It was all a corporate deal by the bigwigs and not an artistic vision at all.

Like the reader said yesterday, I bet the companies won’t take the hint – there’s too much money in it for them – but I love that gamers aren’t taking this laying down. People act so helpless when it comes to bad decisions in the games industry but time and time again, we see that publishers back away the instant they think people are voting with their wallets.

I don’t know if the situation is that simple this time around, but all this is sending a clear message that we don’t want AI slop in our games, and the companies need to be changing their plans if they think this is the future of anything.
Gurney

Halcyon days
So I’m officially old now, if Xbox 360 is retro, huh? It’s an odd thing thinking back to that time. It seems simultaneously like yesterday and forever ago. I had to send mine back twice because of the Red Ring of Death but I still loved it. It wasn’t just the games it was the whole vibe, with online being new at that time and games still being cheap enough to make that you got some weird and interesting stuff.

There’s no question the Xbox 360 was better than the PlayStation 3, and any of the other Xbox consoles, but I’d also put it ahead of the PS1 and definitely the PlayStation 5. It’s a shame Microsoft let the early success go to its head and started on all the Kinect rubbish so soon but for a while there you saw the industry giant they could’ve been.
Lord Buckethead

Lance the boil
I never imagined that the boss of Take-Two would end up being the voice of sanity in the great AI debate but everything he’s said about it has been on point. There even seems to be a vague hint of respect and loyalty from him, towards his developers. Not that I’m sure he wouldn’t throw them under the bus in an instant, if it thought it would earn him an extra cent, but at least he pays lip service to them being artists – which is more than somewhere like EA would.

My hope is that the whole AI bubble bursts as soon as possible and we move past it. The longer things go on like this, with all the ridiculous lies from the AI companies (and the AI itself!) the worse it’s going to be when it all explodes. If I was Take-Two I’d put a ‘Not made with AI’ stick on GTA 6 and maybe that would catch on.
Bosley

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Another one bites the dust
And so the winding up on another thing that makes me smile is taken away. Got an email yesterday from Meta to say that the VR Worlds aspect is being shut down from the 15th of June.

I never purchased the headset with the intent to make friends across the globe but I found out that by joining the Worlds aspect, that people from all around the world, from all walks of life, can come together. This was a lovely thing.

I will always stand by my enthusiasm for VR. It is the zenith of what I dreamt of during the early to mid ‘90s. It may be coughing and spluttering but I’ll keep on nursing my headset and keep on rocking. Most of the games installed just can’t be done in flat.
D Dubya
PS: Any update on the Alien: Rogue Incursion sequel?

GC: No, but it hasn’t been cancelled.

Summer blowout
If we’re not going to get as many new releases this Christmas as we would normally, because of GTA 6, I hope they compensate for that by having more announcements than usual during the summer, so we’ve at least got stuff to look forward to.

I’m dying to know what Persona 6 is about and what FromSoftware’s next big single-player game is. There’s so many companies that either haven’t announced anything for ages or where we basically only know the name. What happened to the new Bioshock game and what exactly is Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet? I really don’t want to wait until next year to find out.
Tacle

A year of extremes
Thanks for the Pragmata preview, I’m glad to see that it’s shaping up nicely.

I played the short demo last week and found that the rub your belly/pat your head style of gameplay clicked right at the end of my 18 minute playtime, so I’m looking forward to the full game.

I feel like I say this every year, but isn’t 2026 shaping up to be low-key great for games?

We have two huge commercial and critical hits already in both Pokémon Pokopia and Resident Evil Requiem, with Capcom planning to also deliver both Onimusha and Pragmata later in the year.

Meanwhile the conversation around Crimson Desert seems to point to another banger (I feel sorry for the contributor last week, who said they hope it’s bad so they can focus on other releases; can’t they just play it at a later stage of their life if it is?), and I’d like to think that Nintendo are poised to reveal some exciting Christmas games for Switch 2.

Considering I haven’t even mentioned the looming GTA 6 release in November I think that we’re in for a pretty great year for new releases, despite everything that is going on with gaming hardware and in the real world.
Anon

Mega bonus
Although it’s great to know that Subnautica 2 is finally going to be out soon, surely I’m not the only one that is shocked by the bonus total of $250 million? I’m not begrudging the developers the money but surely that must be much bigger than the budget of the game?

Spider-Man 2 was just north of $300 million and that was meant to be one of the biggest ever, so what’s going on here? Maybe the publisher just never intended to pay up but why even suggest it, because I’m pretty sure it’s not something the developer would’ve gone into it expecting.
Phil

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Resident Evil 9 (out of 10)
***Mild spoilers for Resident Evil Requiem***

I’ve just started playing Resident Evil Requiem, choosing the Switch 2 version over the PlayStation 5 version for portability.

I’m about a quarter of the way through and I feel the reason why the game works so well is that it takes some of the best bits from some of the better Resident Evil games.

The beginning areas with Grace in the hotel and with the monster that’s scared of the dark feels very reminiscent of the Baker mansion in Resident Evil 7. The rest of the Rhodes Hill Care Centre feels like if the RCPD department precinct from the Resident Evil 2 remake and the castle from Resident Evil Village had a weird zombie lovechild.

Leon’s sections feel very much like what I have played of Resident Evil 4 remake.

I’ve got to say so far, with what I’ve played, they’ve nailed it. The parts with Grace feel tense and claustrophobic and ammo is scarce. The bits with Leon just feel like the perfect respite, just unadulterated fun, where you get to let loose and kill zombies to your hearts content.

I think the fact that since 2017 Capcom have managed to release either a new Resident Evil entry or remake less than every two years, and have the series still feel relevant and exciting, is pretty remarkable; especially when you consider that it wasn’t that long ago when the franchise looked to be dead and buried.
matc7884

Inbox also-rans
So Digital Foundry got death threats for their positive video on DLSS 5 and their response was to make a new video where they pretend to have the same opinions as their viewers. The gaming community is a messed up place for sure.
Gecky

I see something called Cthulhu: The Cosmic Abyss but it looks pretty low budget and I’ve not liked the previous games I’ve played. GC, what would you say is the best Lovecraftian game, that is actually good?
Pascal87

GC: That’s easy, it’s Bloodborne. As a bonus it’s also one of the best games ever made.

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