Games Inbox: Are modern video games too long?
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The Monday letters page wants to see Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth on Nintendo Switch 2, as one reader looks forward to a Resident Evil Code: Veronica remake. To join in with the discussions yourself email gamecentral@metro.co.uk. Smaller generation. As we wait for the Nintendo Switch 2 and the start of a new generation I like the talk from various people, including publishers and fans, that video games have just got too big. If PlayStation and Xbox won’t stop making their consoles more powerful, then they can at least start to make their games shorter and cheaper.
This would help in terms of getting something finished inside of five years and also would fit the kind of lifestyle people have nowadays, where spending 60 hours to beat a game is just not feasible. That was fine when it was just a handful of games a year but when every other game is some epic monster that is impossible to complete and live a normal life you know something has gone wrong.
This is happening at the same time that open world games seem to be falling out of favour in general. I think that was a lot of Star Wars Outlaws problem (although it had a lot, to be fair). For me at least the though of starting a new open world game just feels me with dread now, and the thought of how I’ll never have time for anything else. It’s got to the point where I just don’t want that anymore, no matter how good the game is. So it never even gets considered.
Coming home. I think it’s pretty clear that third party publishers are going to release just about everything they can for the Switch 2, at least as first. Like the other reader said, I have my doubts as to whether they’ll actually sell all that well, but if they do then we could see the Switch 2 become the most important console of the generation.
