Games Inbox: Xbox mini-console ideas, the end of GTA Online, and Zelda: Breath Of The Wild detractors

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The Monday letters page has more speculation about GTA 6, as a reader hopes the FIFA x Marvel tie-in will be like Mario Strikers.

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Xbox Series R(etro) I was playing with my Classic Mini SNES today and it occurred to me that despite us getting mini-consoles of so many famous consoles, with a second Mega Drive one coming up soon, there’s never been anything from Xbox. I know they’re the new kid on the block but Sony hasn’t been in the games business for that much longer, so I’d like to see Microsoft give it a try.

I assume the reason they don’t is that backwards compatibility is a much bigger thing on Xbox, but there were lots of PlayStation 1 games on PS Now and that didn’t stop Sony making a mini-console. There is the issue of online play but that was only a big thing on a few games outside of Halo 2.

You could also argue that streaming also removes the need for a mini-console but that could actually be the way to get it working. Just make it a streaming box, that also includes online play, and then put it inside the usual shrunken console with proper old school controllers.

And before anyone says there aren’t enough games, I’d say there are plenty, many of which were console exclusives at the time: Halo 1 and 2, Psychonauts, MotoGP, Forza Motorsport, Fable: The Lost Chapters, Project Gotham Racing, Panzer Dragoon Orta, Dead Or Alive 3, Jade Empire. Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic, Ninja Gaiden, Splinter Cell, Crimson Skies, Amped, and The Chronicles Of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay.Cubby

Everything dies With all the talk of GTA 6 I wonder what will happen to the city of Los Santos and or online access to it. I cannot imagine a world where I can’t