Games Inbox: Nintendo Direct vs. State of Play, Yakuza name change, and PSVR2 controls
The Thursday letters page considers the wider influence of Ghost Of Tsushima, as one reader asks what happened to Capcom’s Pragmata.
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Good show So there was no E3 in May but there was, sort of one in September? Kind of? It was even sort of thanks to the Tokyo Game Show, which I’d love to see become more important again. Overall though I don’t think either Nintendo or Sony’s State of Play will go down as classics. What I would say though is that they were both positive and, given my rock bottom expectations, better than I expected.
One of the things I did expect was that Nintendo would do the absolute bare minimum in terms of talking about Zelda and announcing a release date and a name. What I didn’t expect though was Pikmin 4 and Fire Emblem Edge – two relatively big games we’d never had any hint about recently.
I’m not a fan of Octopath Traveler, and the sequel isn’t an exclusive, but there were some interesting games amongst the third party stuff, especially the new one from the Danganronpa team.
In terms of Sony, I also thought that was the best God Of War Ragnarök trailer by far, the first to get me excited for the game for any reason other than I liked the first one. Tekken 8 looked good and so did Rise Of The Ronin and the Yakuza remake.
The obvious thing missing from Sony though was any new first party games, or indeed anything other than God Of War. I don’t know what they’re waiting for or what the delay is, and clearly they don’t want to tell us, but it seems to me a serious marketing mistake.
Microsoft isn’t talking about anything because they’ve got nothing close to being ready but surely Sony must have? Their output doesn’t rely on a bunch of
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