Games Inbox: Is GTA 6 being hyped too much?

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Catch it later
Can I ask why everyone is so excited for GTA 6? I like the series, I’ve played them all from the original through the PSP versions, and all the modern games, but I don’t think I’ll lose any sleep if it don’t get it as soon as it comes out.

All the stories are derived from old crime films and the on-foot controls are awful.

Hopefully they redo the controls for walking and the helicopters. And shooting.

I’m not anti-GTA 6. I will be playing it at some stage and thanks to no social media I can avoid spoilers. I still haven’t seen a minute of Resident Evil Requiem as it’s on my list to buy and it’s been out for months. I do hope the game lives up to everyone’s expectations but we have been burned before, so my cynical side has dominance at this time.

As mentioned above, no social media maybe means I’m missing out on some of the hype, but I’ll wait and see.
Bobwallett

GC: So far, they’ve shown very little of the game, and no raw gameplay at all.

Good timing
Well, who would’ve guessed that increasing your prices to ludicrous levels would mean sales start to plummet? I know it’s not their fault, that they have to raise prices, but what’s the endgame here? Normal people aren’t going to want to pay these sort of prices for a games console, so I really don’t know what happens from here on out.

Sony and Microsoft must be thanking their lucky stars GTA 6 is out this year, so more people are going to be interested in buying a console than normal, but even so this is the most disruptive thing that’s happened to gaming in as long as I can remember. And it’d all thanks to the utterly useless technology that is AI… which Microsoft has played a big part in encouraging.
Doshin

Beyond inflation
Wow, the news of Xbox raising console prices again is staggering. The Xbox Series S used to be like an impulse buy, often available at £199, and now it’s going to cost just shy of £400!

I would have thought Microsoft would have a fire sale just to clear all the consoles they have in stock, not price themselves completely out of hope of a resurgence in sales. I didn’t even know there was a digital-only Xbox Series X until I read your news – shows how well it was advertised.
Mark Matthews

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Very bad management
Is it unfair of me to think that Sony announced the job layoffs at Bungie at the same time as GTA 6 pre-orders opened, purposefully to bury the news? You can’t prove it, but it definitely turned out to be a useful coincidence for them.

I think it’s obvious that Bungie as we know them no longer exist. They haven’t got the staff to make Destiny 3 now, even if they wanted to, and whatever they are supposedly working on next must be pretty small scale, if it even exists.

It’s a sad end for the creators of Halo and what were for a while one of the most famous developers in the world. I don’t really understand why they weren’t allowed to make Destiny 3 but maybe it would’ve happened if they hadn’t done Marathon instead. That seemed a mad idea from the start but then apparently all this is due to bad management, so I guess that theory check out.
Kimba

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Slice of the pie
Maybe I’m missing something but I don’t get how Tyler Moon’s Reader’s Feature can be right, maybe I’m slow at this but he said the reason GTA 6 is digital-only is so they can make more money compared to the disc version. But I don’t see how PlayStation and Xbox take as much as 30% of the sale, which on a £100 game could be as much as £30, so how can Rockstar be making more money?

Surely the reason it’s digital-only is because there’s a really tight time frame and there just isn’t enough time to finish the game and send it to be printed and sent to shops. I’ve pre-ordered the Ultimate Edition and as long as it’s worth the £90 I’m not fussed if it’s digital, disc or powered by a mouse on a wheel.
David

GC: There is no indication that GTA 6 is on a tight time frame. All games have to pay a licensing fee to the console manufacturer (and to Steam) but on top of that, if it’s a physical copy, they have to give a cut to the retailer, plus manufacturing and distribution costs. So the digital version is always going to be more profitable.

Empty box
For anybody who collects games on physical and they end up buying a box with a GTA 6 download code inside, there is no way that is going to satisfy the collecting gene. A box with a GTA 6 disc inside would scratch the itch, even if the disc only contains the unlock code for the digital game.

Makes no difference if the box art and other contents within it are the same. A box with a code inside and no disc will sit on their shelf, next to all the other stuff, and it’ll never feel quite right. There will always be that nagging feeling that something is just a little bit off with their collection.

I used to collect PS1 games; had about 300, including all the rare stuff (Castlevania, Suikoden, etc.). All in excellent condition. Decided to trade some of it in. Sold all the rest. All my Xbox 360 games? Got rid of the boxes and put them in cake stand CD holders. Any regrets? None, whatsoever.
Paul C.
PS: Massive saving at the moment on the Xbox and PlayStation stores for the finest shooter/stealth game ever made, in my opinion. Sniper Elite 4: Digital Deluxe Edition. It’s perfection, almost.

All good things
Physical games not existing in a decade seems kinda obvious to me at this point. They barely exist for some formats and genres already and even the Switch is at least 50% digital now, I believe. How long has the PC been digital-only? At least 20 years at this point and it’s never been more popular as a format.

I miss collecting actual boxes and owning stuff but as another reader pointed the boxes don’t have manuals or any cool stuff anymore anyway, so it’s not the same as it used to be even if you try and pretend it is. Things have just moved on, not necessarily for the better, but they have moved on.
Gantz

Perfect remake
So I finally took the plunge over the weekend and bought a Switch 2.

Star Fox is one of my favourite games and the draw was a bit too much for me, that and the fact Zelda: Ocarina Of Time is on its way.

I asked for Star Fox from the lady behind the counter before I even asked for a Switch 2.

If I could have envisioned a remake of that game that is exactly how I would have wanted it to be.

I heard you say the other day that Nintendo left the remaster of Star Fox in the hands of a third party and what a job they have done with it. It is pretty much a straight conversion of a nearly 30-year-old game (that makes me feel old).

Anyway, my question to you guys is, with Ocarina of Time getting a remaster do we know if it’s been passed to a third party or are Nintendo handling it themselves?

As I think if it’s passed to a third party, and this is only my opinion. I suspect it will just be a straight conversion of the N64 classic. Not that I have any problem with that.
freeway 77

GC: Velan Studios is third party, but Nintendo has worked with them before, on Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit. We wouldn’t be surprised if Ocarina Of Time was also third party but equally, we’d expect it to be someone Nintendo has a fairly close relationship with. Officially nothing has been said though and in the last few years Nintendo has been very slow at revealing the developers of its games, so we may not know for a while.

Inbox also-rans
Gears Of War: E-Day is going to be such a flop and yet it apparently has a budget of $400 million?! The Xbox console isn’t available to buy new in some countries and the Steam wishlist numbers (which are public!) are awful, so how does this make sense?
Ratso

Wanna know my favourite part of the Star Fox remake? They didn’t try and shoehorn Krystal into it. I hate that character, Katt is much better.
Binz

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