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What are Nintendo’s plans for this year? (Picture: Salvo Lo Cascio and Riccardo Cambò Breccia)

The Tuesday letters page asks whether Link will be wearing green or blue in the upcoming movie, as one reader looks forward to Slitterhead.

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Past behaviour is the best indicator of future behaviour
So, Nintendo isn’t going to be at Gamescom this year, which is late August. I know the usual warnings about trying to predict them, but I can’t help try and theorise on what it means. There’re two options I think, number one being they’ll announce the Switch 2 in June and it’s just not going to be at Gamescom because reasons. It certainly sounds like they won’t have anything else to talk about at E3 time so I think a reveal this summer is perfectly likely, but nothing you could take to the bank.

The other option is that it’s not going to be at Gamescom in August because it won’t be announced yet. I know most people seem to be an assuming an earlier reveal but remember that the original Switch wasn’t announced until late October.

Obviously, Nintendo is in a very different place now, compared to just coming off the Wii U, but even so. Without any other hard evidence to suggest otherwise I think the safest bet is to assume they’ll do more or less the same as last time and the Switch 2 won’t be announced until this autumn.
Winston

Horrible realisation
I agree entirely with the Reader’s Feature saying that big budget survival horror is dead, if it was ever even alive outside of Resident Evil. Lots of people don’t want to be scared or grossed out and many won’t even try a horror game, assuming they won’t like it – even when they’re talking about something as tame as Resident Evil 4.

You see it even on these pages, so imagine what the average Joe thinks of it all. Most people don’t want to pay £70 for anything but least of all a game they think they might be too scared of to play more than five minutes into. Don’t believe me? The evidence is in the game sales of the last 25 years.
Golem
PS: Personally I’m still hold out for Slitterhead, as one of the few promising upcoming games that isn’t a remake.

Green vs. Blue
I’ve been thinking about the Zelda movie recently, mostly in terms of how I think it would’ve been much better as an animated film. There’s no changing that now but what about the most important question: will Link be wearing his traditional green outfit or the new blue one from the last two games?

Green is iconic but Breath Of The Wild and Tears Of The Kingdom were by far the most successful games and you could argue are already more recognisable. Also, you know, the green looks kind of silly in real life.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s head-sock all the way as far as I’m concerned but I just can’t see Hollywood doing it. I bet he’ll be wearing the blue for 90% of the game and then the final reveal will be the green suit, kind of like how they did the traditional suit for Aquaman in the first film. I’d be okay with that if they kept it for all of the sequel.
Trepsils

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TV writing
It is a bit unfair of me to suggest the Fallout TV series is better than the games. The two mediums are vastly different. I was referring specifically to the writing. That’s not to suggest Bethesda’s games don’t include some good writing. The issue is there is so much of it, the standard can be very uneven. A tighter script, with the added benefit of talented actors like Walton Goggins and Ella Purnell, set it apart.

I hope the success of the TV show inspires Bethesda to refine the writing in their games. When I play a Bethesda game, I always feel the dialogue heavy character interactions could do with a good editor. The majority of the support characters in the TV show had individual personalities, whereas the games tend to be cookie cutter. I feel Bethesda need to learn less is more.
Anon

Traditional customers
Interesting Reader’s Feature at the weekend, about the aging demographic for console games but I’m afraid I don’t think there’s any sign of publishers trying to appeal more to older gamers. I think it’s pretty clear from the live service obsession that they’re after younger players and have no intention of pandering to traditional customers.

Something tells me that if the live service plan doesn’t work out, they’ll waste time and money on something else as well, rather than just make the sort of games they’ve always made. When a company gets it into its head that an idea isn’t going to provide any growth that’s it. The word is like a curse in big business.
Taylor Moon

Evolving reputation
I can never keep up with these games that get better over time. Is Fallout 76 worth playing now? Did the Grand Theft Auto trilogy ever get any better? Has Helldivers 2 progressed and is it worth spending time on it?

Really, I just like to go by your scores and if got a 7 or more, regardless of genre, I’ll note it down and have a look and forget about everything else.
Bobbleheaddy
PS: Just started the Fallout TV show.

I was hoping you could help; I was wondering if Fallout 76 is worth a play now. I know initial reaction to it was underwhelming to say the least but as time has gone on would you say improvements have been made making it a more enjoyable experience or is it still one to avoid?
Kaz_rover (PSN ID)

GC: Helldivers 2 was always worth spending time on. We haven’t played Fallout 76 since launch, but it was absolutely terrible at that point. Perhaps a reader can comment on how much it’s changed between then and now.

Be kind rewind
I found Super R-Type massively annoying when I owned it in my teens, about 30 years ago. I even got into such a pubescent rage about it that I punched a door.

Despite its flaws it’s a nice addition to the SNES line-up for Nintendo Switch Online and quite enjoyable now that I can rewind when I die and not go to the beginning of the level again and again and again…
John Atkinson

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Keeping secret
I could not help but notice that on Monday we got EA revealing what their two new Marvel games are through a job ad and Sony confirming the PS5 Pro specs by taking down a (month old!) video about them. There’s been a lot of people casting doubt on the talent of major publisher execs, and I entirely agree, but what’s going on with whatever mid-level schlubs keep doing things like this?

The Streisand Effect ensures that far more people are going to know about the leaked specs now on top of Sony confirming they’re real, because why else would they bother to get them taken down?

And the job ad thing… how long has this been going on now? PSA for publishers: we can see those job ads! They’re not secret! Half the time there’s no need to tell them the information anyway. Okay, you want an open world expert and you’re being super sneaky by not saying what game they’d be working on, except… there’s a big picture of Iron Man above the job ad! And the Black Panther one wasn’t even that ‘subtle’.

Either publishers care about leaks or they don’t because the way they handle them, and information in general at the moment, is just stupid. Is there going to be a person on the planet that doesn’t know about the PS5 Pro by the time it gets officially revealed?
Thompson

Inbox also-rans
I’d started to look forward to Harold Halibut so was quite disappointed to read your review, although I admit I didn’t know much about the game beyond the trailer. I guess you really shouldn’t judge a game by its graphics.
Skolly

I’ve got a tip for developers: find a new career, because publishers clearly don’t value. No wonder there are so many indie developers nowadays…
Kissyman

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