Games Inbox: Are you cancelling PS Plus because of the price rise?

The Friday letters page urges caution when it comes to the summer showcases, as a reader admits he doesn’t care about PS5 exclusives.

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Price reduction
So there we have it, another massive price hike for PS Plus and I have officially reached my limit. There’s no way I’m paying for that anymore, not even on Essential, and if that means no more multiplayer than so be it. Maybe I’ll join for just a month, when a new multiplayer game comes out, but I’m sure I’ll manage, especially as Fortnite and games like that are free anyway.

As far as I’m concerned, it’s a disgrace that we’re expected to pay for online in the first place. You don’t on PC and yet for some reason on console you do, even though there are no extra benefits that amount to anything.

I get that Sony has to fleece customers for all they’ve got at the moment, because of rising costs and other things not necessarily their fault. I’m not here to prop up a billion dollar multinational. I will now be cancelling myPS Plus subscription and giving them less money than ever as a result, so I guess that’s had the opposite result of what they were hoping. Will be interested to hear if anyone else is doing the same.
Cranston

Safe secrets
For those worrying about GTA 6 pre-orders I’ve just seen the Take-Two boss saying that the ‘next few weeks’ don’t count as summer. I’m not sure that’s technically true, because June is definitely summer as far as I’m concerned, but to me this reinforces the rumour that nothing is happening till late summer. By which I assume they mean late July or August.

It is funny that no matter how much everything else leaks, almost no GTA 6 rumour ever turns out to be true. Apart from it being set in Vice City and the two main characters I don’t think we’ve heard anything solid about the game at all, in all these years. That includes the price and the dates, which is what people have been interested in the most. So good job, Rockstar. I guess?
Royston

Punished Bubsy
I find it hilarious that Bubsy can’t even get a good game when a decent developer is working on it. I really liked Demon Tides and felt sure that would guarantee Bubsy a good game, since it’s basically an IP you can do anything you like with. But no, 61 on Metacritic.

Now I want to see Nintendo or FromSoftware make a Bubsy game and for it to still turn out terrible somehow. I wonder how the curse started though? Obviously the first game was rubbish, and the 3D one, but there’s been quite a few now and yet not even the law of averages can help the series. It’s like Sonic taken to the extreme, which I guess was supposed to be the point all along.
Bors

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A remake 65 million years in the making
Just a little titbit of information that I think GC and other dinosaur fans will appreciate: the recent re-releases of Dino Crisis have seen its lifetime franchise go up to 4.9 million, overtaking Ōkami. This is important because Ōkami is getting a sequel and Dino Crisis… is not.

I don’t know why Capcom keep ignoring it but if it’s not because they have big plans for it I will be gutted. Although it’s difficult to be surprised by it, considering how long they’ve been trying to pretend it doesn’t exist.

I felt like we got pretty close to a full remake not long ago, when they were hinting at it, so I’m not sure what changed that they suddenly were all against it. Whoever the dino hater is at Capcom they have to go!
Bernie

From summer
I know we’ve had the pirate leak lately but I don’t believe that said anything about when the game would be announced, so I wonder what the chance of seeing a new multiformat From game are next month? The problem is The Duskbloods, which Nintendo will want all the attention, but will they be able to boss From enough not to talk about their other stuff?

I don’t imagine anyone knows the answer to that but with the Elden Ring film reminding me how good that game was I’m feeling From withdrawal symptoms at the moment. It feels like we haven’t even had a decent clone in a while either. Sometimes I think games taking five or more years to make maybe isn’t such a good idea.
Gauntlett

Summer forecast
With the summer showcases coming I think we all need to seriously get in the mindset that they’ll be disappointing so that when they are, we at least have a chance of being excited by the few things they do say.

This Nintendo one in particular… maybe we get the rumoured Zelda remake, but I’d say that was a pretty big maybe. More likely we’ll just get non-events like the rumoured Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Switch 2 Edition and the Devil May Cry 5 port. If there’s more than one big name reveal from Nintendo I feel we will be doing very well.

Xbox I could see showing off Project Helix in some way, but I don’t look forward to their event as you just know how they’re going to go on, pretending they’re this beloved brand and not the richest company in the world that still can’t get games right.

As for Sony, I feel it could go either way. They could do their usual minimum effort or the recent stuff about single-player games could be leading up to them going back to how things were on the PlayStation 4. That sounds too much like fan wishful thinking though. And while I am a fan and I am wishing that would happen I wouldn’t exactly bet on it.
Radish

Day one bonus
Not to ask a silly question but why does anyone want to pre-order GTA 6 anyway? Are you afraid they’re going to run out of digital copies? I know it’s GTA, and I’ll probably get it day one too, but that doesn’t mean I’ll pre-order it. I just don’t get why people do it for any game.

You often have them bragging in the Inbox that they’ve done it and then immediately saying ‘I hope it’s good’ or even ‘I don’t know that much about it.’ These people must love blind bags.

Even if you accept that there’s basically no way that GTA 6 can disappoint you still don’t gain anything by pre-ordering. At most there’ll be a free T-shirt or something with it, that you’ll never use, and that’s it. But the company will already have your money, so I can definitely see why they encourage it.
Bison

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Au contraire
I know I’m seemingly in a minority here (and am being a little contrarian) but as a PlayStation owner I have to admit I’m personally not that bothered about Sony exclusives. I game on the console because it’s the box you buy that plugs into the TV and you don’t need to think about it… and PlayStation 5 is the market leader in that space. When I’m pouring hours into classics Elden Ring, Baldur’s Gate 3, or Clair Obscur I’m not thinking ‘I could be sat in a man cave at a desk doing this, with a keyboard and mouse like I’m at work’. What else would I buy to play the latest games on my sofa, without worrying about fiddling with settings or compromised ports?

I still think (and obviously Valve do too) that there is space in the market for that machine. A machine that just gets out the way and lets you play the games in the living room, whatever those games may be. I’ve always seen console and PC as different markets for that reason, so baffled when readers are like ‘why not just buy a PC’. It’s like telling someone who lives in London and gets the tube around to ‘just buy a car’, because that’s the best way to get around where you live in… I dunno, Kent. Why would they do that it makes no sense?

Also, a little off topic but to be honest Sony’s games mostly aren’t even that good, even in the high point of the PlayStation 4. Sure we’ve got Bloodbourne, Astro Bot, and Returnal… but then what? Loads of bloated and ‘cinematic’ 7/10 action adventures that would rather be TV? Great. Most of them practically play themselves, as if complex gameplay is beneath them.
Marc

Inbox also-rans
I just tried to play Marathon and there weren’t even enough people to get a game at first. I really do worry that Bungie isn’t going to make it to the end of this year.
Blotter

Have to agree with those saying that Saros is not as good as Returnal. I’m enjoying but I wouldn’t say the combat was better, just the same, and a lot of the others tuff, like the worlds and story, are definitely worse.
Gadfly

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