Games Inbox: If PlayStation went third party, Rocksmith+ song list, and Marvel’s Spider-Man difficulty

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The Wednesday letters page tries to plan out all the games worth getting this year, as a reader plays Resident Evil 4 for the first time.

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The unthinkable I see PlayStation 5 fans are getting overly defensive again, about the thought of the Xbox Series X becoming dominant, but given the way the world economy is going I really think this console war is going to be fought on price, not games, and that is not a battle Sony has much hope of winning.

That got me thinking the previously unthinkable: could Sony ever go third party? It’s a fate that people have imagined for Nintendo for years, without understanding how much more essential hardware is to Nintendo’s business than it is to either Microsoft or Sony. But would it actually be that bad if Sony stopped making consoles, in these days of multiple subscription services?

I find it very easy to imagine an equivalent of Disney+ that is free streaming access to every PlayStation game, past and present, for a reasonable fee. Sony say that this is not currently feasible because they have to make their money back on expensive AAA games, but that’s only because people also need a console to play them on. Remove that issue and suddenly Sony has a lot more options.

If I could have only one, I’d get a streaming PlayStation+ long before Game Pass, simply because Sony has all the best games. So while going third party is usually thrown around as an insult I actually think it could be part of a very successful future for PlayStation.Rastan

Plan of attack Just wondering what new releases everyone else has lined up to play for the rest of the year. I’m currently playing Beacon Pines, which is a charming narrative game that