The Monday letters page thinks GTA 6 is a bigger risk for Rockstar than people realise, as a reader predicts that Nintendo will remake Zelda: A Link To The Past next.

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Dynamic pricing
RE: Geoff and cheaper Game Pass subscriptions. I’ve still found that CDKeys, now known as Loaded, offer the best prices overall and it’s worth checking out ShopTo as well.

A three month Game Pass Ultimate code is currently £31.99 (as I type) and a one year subscription is £122.99. That’s still really good value at just over £10 per month for Ultimate. Or you could just go month by a month for a still reasonable £12.99.

The prices do fluctuate though, as about two weeks ago I purchased multiple three months of Ultimate for £27.99, so I stacked those codes up and extended my subscription from April 2026 until April 2027.

Hope this helps, Geoff.
Charlie H

Cheap and cheerful
While everyone else seems obsessed by GTA 6 news, all I can think of is Ball x Pit. It’s easily my favourite game of the year and cements my feeling that indie games are really the only kind of games that matter to me nowadays, at least compared to most giant blockbusters.

The game is less than a round of drinks and yet it’s kept me interested for the last three weeks and I’m still trying to 100% it. Just fantastic design all round and so many unlockables and clever little features. The graphics are super basic but they’re exactly what they need to be, including keeping the price down.

I’d rather buy seven games like this than one copy of Call Of Duty, any day of the week. Not every one is going to be as good but at least it’ll be something different. Once I do beat Ball x Pit I’ll try Blue Prince next, since that’s got a lot of good reviews too.
Linejumper

Music to football by
Lots of songs that are forever linked, in my mind, to certain games but two games in particular stand out. Both were released a few months apart, during the best year ever in gaming.

Tubthumping by Chumbawamba in FIFA World Cup ’98 and The Rockafeller Skank by Fatboy Slim in FIFA 99.

I don’t particularly like these songs, but whenever I play on FIFA I usually start humming one of these songs. It’s like a curse!
Paul C.
PS: On the subject of music in video games, a shout out to Nathan McCree and the musical scores he composed for the first three PS1 Tomb Raider games. Perfection!

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The ones that got away
No review of Night Striker Gear? You’ll be on the naughty list GC! It does seem to have gone under the radar, so for those who don’t know it’s a follow-up to the 1989 original arcade game and directed by Hiroshi Iuchi, who also worked on Radiant Silvergun, Ikaruga, and Sin & Punishment. Needless to say it’s great – it might not have the depth or complexity of those other titles but it’s well worth £14.

It looks and sounds incredible and while it runs fine in handheld mode on Switch (it might be on Steam as well?) it should be played on the biggest screen you have with the volume pumped up. Even my eight-year-old autistic son, who unfortunately has been captured by the likes of Roblox. etc. (I’m trying to get him away from it honestly) was mesmerised by Night Striker Gear, declaring it looks very cool. Even the name is awesome!
David

GC: We have to admit; we had no idea it came out. But in December, as usual, we will be trying to review any games we’ve missed during the course of the year, so we’ll add this to the list and if anyone else has any suggestions do let us know. We can’t make any promises, but we’ll do what we can.

Don’t say it
I feel the more people talk about a Zelda: Ocarina Of Time remake the less likely Nintendo is to do it. You can never tell with them, so maybe they’ll do a double bluff, but I just can’t see the state-of-the-art remake we’re all imagining ever happening.

Apart from anything, it’d be really expensive and a lot of work, so if they did do another remake I think it’d probably be A Link To The Past. I hope if they do, though, that it will be in a different art style to Link’s Awakening and Echoes Of Wisdom. It looks okay but I don’t like the design of the characters and the whole thing feels like a bit too basic to me.

I know cost is an important thing to Nintendo, and that’s all very sensible and sustainable, but we’re talking about two of the greatest games of all time here, whose brilliance is becoming hard to recognise because of their age. I really hope Nintendo is able to do something about that.
Carbon

Bad timing
I’m very curious to know what Microsoft will do now that GTA 6 is coming out next Christmas. I don’t believe there’s release dates for Fable, Gears Of War: E-Day, Halo: Campaign Evolved, or Forza Horizon 6, but they’re all meant to be out next year and that makes for possibly the best Xbox line-up ever… even if most people are going to play them on PlayStation 5.

Assuming at least two of them were planned for the autumn, what do they do now? Break up the band and have some come out in 2027? It doesn’t seem likely they’d be able to get them out early, because you know what state most games release in as it is, but surely they wouldn’t delay them a whole year?

There’s only so sorry I can feel for a multi-trillion dollar company but it is a shame that just as Xbox gets themselves in order they go multiformat and then they hit the brick wall of GTA 6.

It’s going to hit all companies the same of course, but Sony doesn’t even really have a Christmas games anymore, so they’re not going to be bothered. As much as I’m looking forward to GTA 6 I don’t like the idea of October and November becoming a wasteland for other releases.
Focus

Maybe, possibly
I think we might be the last gen of what we call gamers. Roblox, TikTok and the need for instant gratification, added to being too lazy to insert a disc, has all but doomed gaming.

Unless there is a killer app released sometime in the next few years, sales will dwindle. Maybe the Switch 2 has or will save it. Who knows?

I had a much better thought on this, but I left it too long and it left me.
Bobwallett

Golden goose
The sales of GTA 5 really are incredible. An impossibly large number and it keeps going up and up, with no end in sight. Even when GTA 6 does come out, not everyone’s going to have a PlayStation 6, so sales for GTA 5 are only going to get a bump, as people go for the next best thing.

I am certain that a big reason for the long gap from GTA 5 is that they didn’t want to do another game in case it isn’t as big and they cut the legs from under GTA 5. After all, GTA 4 wasn’t that big. It was super successful, but it sold less than some Call Of Duty games and most Pokémon sequels.

GTA 5 has sold nearly 200 million more copies and that’s all down to GTA Online. Obviously GTA 6 is going to have a GTA Online equivalent but as we’ve seen many times before, there’s no way to guarantee a live service title is a hit. You can guarantee people are going to buy GTA 6 to play the single-player but GTA Online 2? It’s likely, but it’s not as certain.

I doubt the delays are because of that, they’re probably just trying to make sure they get things right from the off, but no matter how many records it breaks GTA 6 is, weirdly, still going to be a risk. If the reason GTA 5 stops making so much money for Take-Two is because a sequel came out, that has some nasty implications for the future of Rockstar games and any kind of similar thing. It definitely explains why there’ll never be a Minecraft 2.
Coolsbane

Inbox also-rans
Anyone know if my Game Pass subscription has ended, if there is a way of getting Premium cheaper by buying Essential and converting?
Goldenlay

I wish there was some way to bet on Football Manager 26 being a disaster because it was so obvious, based on nothing but his always happens when there’s a change in engine from a developer that’s not that technical. I’d be surprised if they could turn things around even by this time next year.
Bosley

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