A reader ponders if the gaming industry has grown too big and if open world games are losing their appeal.
As we wait for the Nintendo Switch 2 and the start of a new generation, I like the talk from various people, including publishers and fans, that video games have just got too big. If PlayStation and Xbox won’t stop making their consoles more powerful, then they can at least start to make their games shorter and cheaper.
This would help in terms of getting something finished inside of five years and also would fit the kind of lifestyle people have nowadays, where spending 60 hours to beat a game is just not feasible. That was fine when it was just a handful of games a year but when every other game is some epic monster that is impossible to complete and live a normal life you know something has gone wrong. This is happening at the same time that open world games seem to be falling out of favour in general. I think that was a lot of Star Wars Outlaws problem (although it had a lot, to be fair). For me at least the though of starting a new open world game just feels me with dread now, and the thought of how I’ll never have time for anything else. It’s got to the point where I just don’t want that anymore, no matter how good the game is. So it never even gets considered.I think it’s pretty clear that third party publishers are going to release just about everything they can for the Switch 2, at least as first. Like the other reader said, I have my doubts as to whether they’ll actually sell all that well, but if they do then we could see the Switch 2 become the most important console of the generation. I’m particularly keen to see how well Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Rebirth does, both in terms of sales and performance of Rebirth – since it’s a PlayStation 5 game. If they can get it working at an acceptable level, then all bets are off. Plus, it will be nice to have mainline Final Fantasy games back on a Nintendo console, where they started. I don’t see a lot of Western games necessarily doing all that well (who on earth is going to want Gotham Knights?) but I think games that are in line with Nintendo’s vibe could do very well. Metaphor: ReFantazio, for example.It’s going to be fascinating to see the effect Switch 2 has on gaming this year, especially as it sometimes seems like a Star Trek movie thing, where one console is good and then the next is bad. Or at least a sales failure. But I do feel that this is the perfect time for Nintendo to shine. PlayStation and Xbox are too stuck in their ways to dare to reduce the power of their machines, so the Switch 2 is really the only sustainable future for gaming, as far as I can see. It can’t go any further than that or you get into the cost and time problems we’re experiencing now, but if the Switch 2 establishes that you didn’t need to go beyond the PlayStation 4 then maybe Sony and Microsoft will get the hint. I want to see a new generation of focus on gameplay, not graphics.
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