Games Inbox: Predicting the next State of Play, Diablo Immortal disgust, and GoldenEye 007 remake
The Tuesday letters page wants Microsoft to subsidise the cost of a Saturn mini-console, as another reader worries about Sonic Frontiers.
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June predictions So Xbox has two showcases planned this month but the Summer Game Fest won’t have much in the way of new announcements. Boy, I really miss the days of E3. We don’t know of any other events that are definitely happening but we do know that EA and Ubisoft aren’t doing anything. So will Nintendo do their normal Direct? Maybe, but I wouldn’t bet on it. I doubt they’ve got anything else coming out this year, so they don’t really need to do anything right now, especially as they’re not playing the same game as Microsoft.
Sony is though and I’ve got to assume that they will have another State of Play this month. They’ve got to. If Microsoft has a ton of big reveals for Xbox – which I assume they will or someone’s not doing their job – there’s no way Sony can let them go for weeks or months with all that good publicity and nothing from themselves.
I’m pretty confident Sony will have another show before the end of the month. They still haven’t given God Of War: Ragnarök a release date and they must surely have other games they could announce now. If Sony does leave those reveals until July or August then their marketing people will be the ones that have messed up. At this point it’s less a question of who blinks first and more who makes a dumb decision first.Etherness
A moment in time Sounds like GoldenEye 007 is going to be one of the big announcements on Sunday but I really wonder what kind of remaster or remake it’s going to be. As iconic as that game is it really is basically unplayable in its original form so
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