{"id":1395,"date":"2025-03-11T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2025-03-13T18:22:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T18:22:19","slug":"games-inbox-do-you-want-an-xbox-handheld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/games-inbox-do-you-want-an-xbox-handheld\/","title":{"rendered":"Games Inbox: Do you want an Xbox handheld?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Would it matter if it had an Xbox logo on it? (Asus)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Tuesday letters page thinks Hideo Kojima should stop obsessing over Metal Gear, as one reader tries to guess when Resident Evil<\/a> 9 will be revealed.<\/p>\n

To join in with the discussions yourself email gamecentral@metro.co.uk<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Bad timing<\/strong>
I think I can give a pretty detailed insight into Microsoft<\/a> gaming policy at the moment: throw everything at the wall and hope that something sticks. An Xbox branded handheld<\/a> coming out this year, at the same time as the Nintendo Switch 2<\/a>, is the most deluded thing I\u2019ve ever heard.<\/p>\n

The Switch has been around for eight years. They\u2019ve had all that time to ask Asus, or whoever, to slap an Xbox logo on one of their portable PCs and they wait for now to do it?! If they hadn\u2019t bought Activision Blizzard I do believe that Xbox would\u2019ve been sold off or shut down at the end of this generation, it\u2019s just one disaster after another. And now we\u2019re hearing that Call Of Duty might not be doing so good<\/a>? That would be very awkward timing, to put things mildly.<\/p>\n

The last Xbox I owned was the Xbox One, which I sold after a couple of years. It would need a lot for me to ever buy another one and a PC handheld like all the others is not that. In fact, I\u2019m not sure what they could do to make me come back. I don\u2019t care about Call Of Duty and I certainly don\u2019t want to encourage them into making AI slop instead of real games. I might get Indiana Jones And The Great Circle on PlayStation 5 though.
Heathcliffe<\/strong><\/p>\n

No escape<\/strong>
Hideo Kojima really needs to get over Metal Gear. As far as I\u2019m concerned, he\u2019s wasted too much of his career with that franchise, when he could have been doing other things. It\u2019s not even as if the games are very different and he\u2019s just using the fact that it\u2019s a successful series to play with different ideas.<\/p>\n

People complain that Naughty Dog or Santa Monica Studio are spending too much time on one game or franchise, but they\u2019re limited by what Sony wants and how long games take to make nowadays, so they\u2019ve at least got some kind of excuse. Kojima doesn\u2019t. Even if we don\u2019t know exactly what kind of leverage he had at Konami he never seems to have made any real effort to get away from it, always saying the latest game would be the last and then making another one anyone.<\/p>\n

But let\u2019s assume he was made to stay on Metal Gear, he\u2019s not now so why is he making a spiritual sequel and putting not-Solid Snake into Death Stranding 2? I just feel it\u2019s a shame. He\u2019s a talented, if misguided creator and I just feel he\u2019s throwing opportunities away even now. He\u2019s in his 60s now, how many Metal Gear homages is he going to make?
Curzon<\/strong><\/p>\n

Too hype to fail<\/strong>
I feel that I should be cynical about this, but I really can\u2019t imagine the April Direct being anything but a slam dunk. At the very least, to mix my sporting metaphors, it\u2019s an open goal that Nintendo should not miss.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t see why they would hold back any important details, especially if it\u2019s going to come out in June. So we should get a date, a price, a bunch of games, and full details on the console. Considering Nintendo invented the whole Direct format this really is theirs to lose.<\/p>\n

You would\u2019ve said that about the follow-up to the Wii as well but what doesn\u2019t kill us makes us stronger, right?
Raleigh<\/strong><\/p>\n

Email your comments to: gamecentral@metro.co.uk<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Game of the show<\/strong>
So, since Resident Evil 9 wasn\u2019t at any of the Direct showcases this year (I notice that Switch 1 dedicated one never materialised) when are we thinking it\u2019ll appear? I can see it being at the Nintendo Direct, since Capcom and Nintendo get on, but would the Switch 2 be able to handle what is presumably a state-of-the-art game?<\/p>\n

Will it be at a not-E3 event instead? Capcom have their own little Direct style shows but I don\u2019t think they ever announce anything new in those, just give more details on things that are already known. I\u2019m really hoping to hear something now that Monster Hunter Wilds is out, and I really hope it\u2019s co-op related too.
Justin Time<\/strong><\/p>\n

GC:<\/strong> Who can say (literally, there\u2019s been no rumours one way or the other) but if we were to guess, we\u2019d say it\u2019s more likely to turn up at Summer Game Fest than the Nintendo Direct.<\/em><\/p>\n

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