Games Inbox: How powerful will the PS6 portable be?

The Thursday letters page wonders what would’ve happened to Xbox if Starfield had been a smash hit, as readers are baffled by the new God Of War rumours.

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1 for the price of 2
This stuff about the portable PlayStation 6 is very puzzling to me. I don’t see how a portable could possibly be more powerful than a PlayStation 5 but I also don’t understand why, if it can run the same games as the home console, they do not make it a hybrid like the Switch.

I guess maybe that would make it a little more expensive but I’m not sure? The original Switch was pretty cheap. Why have two consoles when you can have one that everyone gets and is both portable and home.

Unless they want the home one to be much more powerful but then what’s the point of saying the portable runs PlayStation 6 games? If they’re going to have such a big difference in performance it’s all beginning to seem more and more like just owning a PC.
Olliephant

Love and Thunder
That God Of War rumour sounds nuts. I trust the director, but I worry that the world of Kratos is not really fleshed out enough to allow all these different mythologies to combine. If you think about it, the Greek and Norse games have almost nothing in common, in terms of story or gameplay.

In the Greek one it was all happening in what was supposed to be the real world, but I still don’t really understand where the Norse ones were meant to be. Where were all the ordinary humans? Why where there ordinary people in the Greek games but none in the Norse ones?

It says it was Midgard but I thought that meant Earth, but it felt more like some sort of fantasy realm for the gods. The worst thing is, as I write this and try to figure it out, all I can think of is that terrible Thor film with all the gods in it. I really hope Sony has seen that and does the exact opposite.
Trepsils

Free franchise
With this new God Of War rumour it made me realise how few attempts there have been to make a proper King Arthur game. I bought the Blu-ray of Excalibur recently and I love that film. I have a feeling FromSoftware do too, as it has a very Dark Souls/Elden Ring style vibe.

So did The Green Knight, if anyone’s seen that. Sorry to be bringing up obscure films but I would love to see a game that used the Arthurian legends but seriously, without being grimdark. I know there are games, because I looked them up, but I’ve never heard of any of them before. I’m surprised there’s never been a big budget game because it’s a free IP that everyone’s heard of it.
Limbert

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To the stars
I would be very surprised if we ever hear about Starfield again after the PlayStation 5 port. Maybe you’ll get one on Switch 2 as well, maybe even an extra bit of DLC, but it’s under the carpet with it after that.

I wonder how much its failure affected Xbox as a whole. Microsoft was clearly banking on it being a system seller, boosting Game Pass, and proving that buying all these companies was worth it. It didn’t do any of that though, it was just kind of a bit disappointing and not even bad enough to get upset about – the definition of meh.

The problem for Microsoft is that they didn’t have another contender after that. Fable is probably the next one but obviously that came too late for them having to avoid going multiformat. Think about it. If Starfield had been Skyrim quality the Xbox Series X/S might have been a hit after all.
Koblet

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Broken knowledge
So Blizzard planned a new Switch 2 version of Overwatch that runs at 60fps? But when they launched it, it was still 30fps? I really don’t see how this happens so often. I’ve often wondered, do companies not know their game is bugged or do they just think people won’t care?

I think about Cyberpunk 2077 on console and wonder, what was the plan? That nobody would notice? That the game was so good people would forgive it being completely broken? Or they’d just happily wait for the patches, because you needed it out for Christmas.

The fact that this sort of thing still goes on, and on every format, is really not good enough.
Xane

Next gen worries
So everything is pointing towards Sony releasing a home and portable console at the same time for the PlayStation 6? The only real question seems to be the release date, which maybe they don’t even know yet. I don’t think people realise just what a huge risk that is. I know PlayStation 5 is flying high at the moment, with no real competition, but people being broken is going to be a lot more competition than Xbox ever offered up.

Two high-end consoles is going to be in the region of £1,500 to get everything at launch and that seems crazy for anyone but the 1%. Sony must have a plan but I am very interested to hear about it, because I really don’t see how all this works out.

Although I do worry that the answer is AI. If a portable can only just PlayStation 5 games, but using low power mode, that kind of implies the PlayStation 6 isn’t any more powerful. But what if Sony are trying to make up for that with AI, like with DLSS 5?

I’m willing to bet that’s exactly Microsoft plan for Project Helix and while I don’t care if they waste their time with that I’d hate to see Sony ruin the PlayStation 6 with slop.
Oscar

Second best
Bit late to the party but I just finished Resident Evil Requiem and loved it. Yes, the final boss battle is bad, like everyone said, but everything else is great though.

However, I would not say it was my favourite Resident Evil by any means. I think Resident Evil 4 (both of them) are better, but I would say that the Resident Evil 2 remake is the absolute best of the bunch. For me that is the perfect Resident Evil game in terms of length, scares, gimmicks, and general atmosphere.

And that’s despite the fact that the police station setting makes absolutely no sense, in terms of the weird puzzles and furniture. But that’s just part of the Resident Evil charm.
Rothamn

The joy of sadness
I honestly can’t say that any video game has made me cry, and definitely not a Japanese role-playing game. I’m not sure anything I’ve played has even been trying to make me cry. That said I have played a lot of miserable games, that somehow I’ve still enjoyed.

The Last Of Us, Silent Hill, Red Dead Redemption 2, The Walking Dead (season 1 at least), and This War Of Mine are great at making you feel down but that’s what they’re going for and they’re very impressive.

I don’t know that games are really very good at making you feel so attached to a character that you cry though. Just like they’re no good at romance. It’s hard to get that involved in a character if they’re constantly killing people and fighting monsters or whatever.

I think of that bit in Uncharted 4 where Nate is being all romantic (kind of) playing Crash Bandicoot, but he’s killed like a hundred people. Does Elena know that? How does she feel about it? She’s killed a bunch of people too, I think. I don’t really remember because it’s a video game and that kind of real-world worry doesn’t really come into it.

Maybe some people get into their games a little deeper than I do but something like the end of Metal Gear Solid 3, which I thought was really cool, I didn’t get upset about it or anything. Apart from anything the logic of what was going on didn’t seem to make any sense. It just looked good and created a vibe, which I feel is what most video game storytelling is all about.
Josston

Inbox also-rans
RE: Clambake. It’s not going to take six years for GTA 6 to make its money back.
ANON

GC: Isn’t that what he said?

Can you imagine what a nightmare it would be living in a world where pokémon were real? All these giant, weird monsters roaming about and ghosts are not only real but people catch them and fight with them!
Shute

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