feltmonkey

How about we just expand the remit to include PS4, Xbone?

Madness. Sheer madness.

Lets do it.

Jedi Survivor is a great shout. Hitman too, although considering the first part came out four years before the PS5 and Series S/X launched, I dunno if it counts. You're squeezing it in on a technicality. 😁

The thing about any games of the generation conversation about the PS5/SeriesS/X generation is that a lot of the games released had PS4/Xbone versions too, especially on the PS5 side.

For me, Elden Ring is the best game released during this time period, but can a game with a perfectly fine PS4 version be the best game of the PS5/SXS generation?

I've only recently joined this generation on the console side of things, so I'm not really the right person to judge, probably. I also tend to play things years after everyone else and often prefer indie games to the AAA blockbusters. Astro Bot, Balatro, and Forza Horizon 5 would be up there. Vampire Survivors also. There are a lot of games that look like they're probably amazing but I haven't got round to yet or played enough to judge - Tears of the Kingdom (where do Nintendo games fit into all this anyway?) Indiana Jones, Cyberpunk 2077 (I only played this before they "fixed" it) Spiderman 2, and Baldur's Gate 3.

A console generation tends to be around seven years, so we're probably still a few years away from the next machines being announced. There probably won't even be another Xbox home console. The next few years will be weird anyway. The price of graphics cards and components have gone through the roof, so unless that changes the next generation of consoles might be prohibitively expensive. We've seen a trend in this direction with the eye-watering price of the PS5 Pro, and a truly next-gen console could easily cost £1000 if Sony or Microsoft don't want to make it a crippling loss-leader. The move away from cutting-edge living room consoles towards handheld machines that Xbox seems to be making makes a lot of sense. We've seen how much of a Game-changer a high-spec handheld can be from the likes of the Steam Deck, ROG Ally, and of course the Switch. I think this is where we're heading. Asus have teased another version of the ROG Ally already, which got lost in the Switch 2 news hurricane.

Obviously, Elden Ring is set in Wales.

(No Man's Sky: Gorilla Edition) looked shit and if you're defending that, then I don't know what to tell you.

Red Faction: Gorilla, surely.

Also this was excellent and deserved more goddammit.

Yeah, you're right. I'm definitely going to steal it.

Regarding the launch line-up, I'm torn. It is objectively very good. I'm trying to adjust my brain a bit because for me, the prospect of playing Cyberpunk 2077 and Elden Ring on a handheld is something I was already able to do perfectly well on the ROG Ally, and it gave me Mass Effect 3 on the Wii-U vibes, but it will be new for most people. I think most people will have already played those games on their PC or existing console already though, and nobody is going to pay £75 to do it again on the Switch 2.

That new From Software game looks tasty though, although it doesn't look like an exclusive.