Games Inbox: Nintendo Switch 2 power, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor theories, and Elden Ring defence

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The Tuesday letters page is still baffled by Sony’s botched launch of PS Plus Premium, as one reader hopes there won’t be any more Killzone.

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10 year plan I completely understood the point being made by the Reader’s Feature at the weekend, at being upset that Zelda games will never look cutting edge. I wouldn’t say never though. Yes, Nintendo is always likely to be behind the curve, because it can’t make a console that’s more than just a black box and have state-of-the-art graphics as well. Not unless you want to pay £600 for the Switch 2.

However, the law of diminishing returns, when it comes to graphic advances, does play to Nintendo’s favour. People are always complaining that new consoles see a smaller and smaller leap forward each gen, which is true from a layman’s perspective.

What this means though is that Nintendo should effectively be able to catch up in the next generation, and beyond, with games that aren’t truly cutting edge but which do look amazing, and probably even more so given Nintendo’s innate skills with making the best of underpowered hardware.

I’d be willing to bet that with the next 10 years, perhaps less, we’ll have a Zelda game that looks at least as good as Horizon Forbidden West. I’d estimate that’d be running on the Switch 3 (considering the influence of cloud gaming is a different topic entirely) but I’m willing to bet that the Switch 2 will be powerful to put out some amazing graphics.

There are some great looking PlayStation 4 games, and I would expect the Switch 2 to be only a little less powerful than that. Add Nintendo magic to that and you are going to have some great looking first party games (and probably some mediocre