Games Inbox: PS5 and Xbox Series X disappointment, Tekken 8 hopes, and Destiny 2 exclusivity

metro.co.uk:

The Tuesday letters page thinks Hideo Kojima’s next game will be announced this month, as one reader suggests everyone play Into The Breach.

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Two years on I’m all for admitting that Call Of Duty gets an unnecessary amount of criticism from some people but describing its big reveal event as ‘era defining’ sure is… optimistic. To be honest, I’m just getting sick of sequels in general at the moment though, whether it’s Call Of Duty or not.

If your sequels are in double digits and they’re not coming out just once or twice a generation, like Nintendo, then by default I’m just not interested. What the games industry desperately needs is more new franchises, more new names, more things we haven’t heard or seen before.

Last gen already had less new IP than any before it and so far it seems this gen will have even less. Half the time it barely seems like this gen has even started and while that’s in large part because of the pandemic it’s just because there’s been no attempt to do anything new.

Remember when Microsoft and Sony were hyping up SSDs as a game-changer that would change the way developers make games? Well, it’s getting on for two years later and the only game that’s even used it an unusual way is Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and it didn’t make a damn bit of difference there.

There might be all sorts of mitigating reasons but as far as I’m concerned, the next generation has been a disappointment and I don’t see any chance of that situation changing any time soon.MBE

Tekken their time Interested to see what the new Tekken game will be. It’s not something that gets talked about a lot but that franchise must be one of the most consistent there is. Maybe there