I’m sure that Nintendo will continue to be jaw-droppingly popular in Japan and that the hardcore Nintendo fans are ready to give their creaking Switch consoles a rest, but I’m less certain that the Fortnite crowd will see a good reason to upgrade.
It’s not just going to be the single-player and then GTA Online anymore, it’s going to be tons of modes and weird asides just like Fortnite, except aimed at edgelord gamers who will try and fill the game with the sort of stuff that would make Mary Whitehouse blush.
Personally, outside of the two Zelda games my Switch hasn’t been used as much as I’d like, so I will try to hold-off on the shiny new hardware until I can clear my backlog a bit (or until a new 3D Zelda releases).
GC: Sea Of Thieves was released before the current industry obsession with live service games and Microsoft has barely owned Activision Blizzard for more than a year, so it is surprising that they never jumped onto the current bandwagon in the period between – at the time when Sony and Ubisoft became so obsessed.
The Wednesday letters page is worried about Sony’s first party games on PS5, as a reader is unsurprised Microsoft hasn’t made any new live service games.
