The Friday letters page is surprised and worried that EA has had two sales disappointments, as one reader is glad Ninja Gaiden is making a comeback. To join in with the discussions yourself email gamecentral@metro.co.uk. Not only on Xbox. Very interesting Developer Direct for Xbox. Lots of great games that had nothing to do with Activision Blizzard and yet they’ve got more games coming out in the first four months of this year than Sony has had in over two years. It’s crazy that that’s true and I’m not even exaggerating.
If Microsoft can keep this up, then I will be very impressed but… why couldn’t they have done this years ago? I’ve got a PlayStation 5 and none of this gives me any urge to buy an Xbox console or Game Pass. Why would I? I’ll just buy the games I want on the console I’ve got, probably some of them after they’ve been discounted.
Xbox is just another publisher now, like EA or Ubisoft. In terms of how I connect with their games there’s no difference. Was 25 years of Xbox gaming really leading up to this? If it makes money for them, it makes money, but it means they now have very little influence on the future of gaming.
Without Xbox we wouldn’t have got online gaming until years later, if it was just left to Sony. And in general it’s good to have a competitor for PlayStation, since Nintendo play by their own rules. It’s a strange way to end the Xbox dream: successful but not in any of things they originally set out to do.
Sight and sound. I’m in two minds over the Doom: The Dark Ages reveal. On the one hand I like what I see but a lot of what the devs were saying was really worrying. They obviously know everyone’s going to call it dumbed down, whether it is or not, and the stuff about the story is just… what? What does Doom need a story for? Especially cut scenes that are going to be keeping you from the action.
