Games Inbox: What Nintendo Switch 2 games will be announced in June?

Splatoon is 11 years old this month (Nintendo)

The Tuesday letters page hopes the rumours about a FromSoftware pirate game are true, as a reader predicts the GTA 6 Trailer 3 reveal will be today.

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Nintendo people
Very interesting comments from Nintendo’s big boss, about the price rise and lack of games. Well, he didn’t exactly say a lack of games, but I think we all know what’s what he was getting at. I don’t think any reasonable person could blame Nintendo, or Sony or Microsoft, for price rises, as they don’t want to and it’s not their fault about the memory crisis.

But the question of whether the lack of news this year for the Switch 2 is on purpose or not is a hard one to answer. My interpretation is that it is a mistake, in that they did want to unveil stuff earlier but felt they couldn’t. I don’t really know why they wouldn’t be able to do a quick trailer or something, even it was CGI, but who knows what goes on in the heads of Nintendo people.

I think the most optimistic reading of what he was saying is that he acknowledges they’ve not had a very exciting 2026 so far (although they’ll hardly be upset with Pokémon Pokopia and Tomodachi Life) but they’re going to do better, presumably starting in June.

I’d love if the Zelda: Ocarina Of Time remake is real, I’m sure most people would be to, but what I want to see is a major new franchise. You could argue that’s Pokopia and the new Yoshi game, but I mean completely new characters and gameplay, like they did with Splatoon and ARMS.

Knowing that they’re the only big new games they’ve made in the last three generations is a bit underwhelming and I’d like to see them do better.
Zeiss

The usual suspects
Very disappointed to see your review of Directive 8020 as I was looking forward to that. I like Supermassive’s interactive movies, but I can see on Metacritic that your score seems to be in line with the more reliable sites, so that’s a shame.

Although once again I am staggered at some of the other scores going on here. Everyone sensible seems to have given it between 50 and 70 and yet it’s got two 95s from sites I’ve never heard of and four 90s. Now, everyone has an opinion but every time a game gets reviewed we have this happen where the good sites give a sensible score and the weird ones you’ve never heard of… don’t.

I’m not going to name names, because we can all see them, but what fascinates me is who is reading these reviews? Who goes to a website where every time they give everything 90 or more? I know people like to hear what they want to sometimes but surely there’s a limit?
Rostie

Of mice and men
I am one of the people currently saving up for a PlayStation 6. Never saved up for a console before as I didn’t need to. However, since the PlayStation 5 released I’m now a father and also hoping to move house in the near future, so I thought I better start putting a little money away each week to give myself the option of buying one when the time comes.

When I started saving this time last year I also thought if I didn’t want a PlayStation 6 I could maybe invest in getting a PC to play games instead. Well that seems even more unrealistic than the PlayStation 6 now, unfortunately.
Niall Maguire

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Cashing in
Well, Floodbourne is just too good to be true, isn’t it?

A pirate themed Suls game from the original wizards is a project that just hadn’t crossed my imagination, but, now it has, pressgang me and toss me in the hold until launch day.

Something that riffs on the grotesque of the Pirates of the Caribbean series would hold up quite well, I feel.

I’ve never asked for any Inbox magic before, so I’ll use up my token now (unless you count the time travelling dinosaur hunting/harvesting remake of 2000 AD’s Flesh, but that didn’t work).
Shambling Reg

First draft
I’m beginning to wonder if Capcom would ever make a director’s cut of Resident Evil Requiem. I know all games probably have lots of cut content but with this one you can tell just by playing it, with the changing plots and the rushed ending, that they changed a lot of things.

I’m not too bothered about whether there was a merchant in it or not (although side missions seem cool) but I would love to see what the story was going to be originally and why they changed it. I think the problem is that they were basically going to have another game with Ethan Winters and when they changed that everything else got mixed up, but I’m very interested in what the ending was going to be in particular.

It’s probably not very likely but I’d much rather see that than a remake of Resident Evil 6. Or even Resident Evil 0, if I’m honest. That game sucked.
Shubber

Expensive itch
I recently got Borderlands 4, including the Vault Hunter and Bounty Hunter packs. And whilst all of that wasn’t cheap, I have to say the game is really fun to play and scratching the itch I had after spending several thousand hours on Destiny 1 and 2.

I also like the fact I can do all the content single-player – I kind of had enough on Destiny needing to find random people to play with for dungeons and raids – often the time and stress of that negated the fun of the actual activities.

I have also really liked some of the missions/characters. Some have been genuinely amusing (the rocket with an existential need to explode for example).

The build crafting and diversity is also great!

So overall, just wanted to commend the team. Actually much better than I thought!
Tom

Early access
There seems to be a lot of mistakes lately with companies uploading early versions of games and allowing people to play them before they were supposed. I don’t feel the Forza Horizon 6 ban was really justified, given it was Microsoft’s fault for making the files available.

Obviously, it’s going to be very easy for him to get around the ban but then there was also the stuff about uploading Lego Batman before they were supposed to. Is this going to become the new version of finding a friendly local video game shop to sell you a copy early?

ShopTo used to do that when they sent out games through the post. Not sure if they even sell physical games anymore though, that can’t be much of a racket nowadays.
Wotan

Ultimate combo
I’m not doing it personally, but I would assume a lot of people are currently saving up for a PlayStation 6, at least vaguely in terms of having a bit of a gaming nest egg ready for next Christmas, when it may or may not all kick off.

But if Sony are worried about PlayStation 5 sales trailing off at the moment, because of its age, surely it’s going to go through the roof when GTA 6 comes out? They’re already trying to get people to upgrade but there’s going to be so many that never had a PlayStation 5 before, some that did but sold it, and probably a good number of ultra casual gamers who haven’t owned a console in ages.

Considering how many people are going to buy one just to play GTA 6 it makes even less sense to me, to expect people to buy an expensive PlayStation 6 the next year. Now, hardcore fans won’t mind, and maybe that’s not when it’s coming out now anyway, but the sort of casual person that’s only now buying a console isn’t going to rush out and get another one straight after.

I guess it’s different audiences, and the same sort of thing did happen with GTA 5, which came out right at the end of the Xbox 360, but if you’ve got a problem with keeping costs low and getting people interested I would’ve thought coasting on the PlayStation 5 and GTA 6 combo for a few years would be a good idea.
Trancer

Inbox also-rans
Just in case anyone wanted to feel old but this week is the 20th anniversary of the unveiling of the Wii, before it was released the next year. Doesn’t time fly?
Onibee

Just to let everyone know but the current rumour amongst the accounts I’m reading is that the GTA 6 Trailer 3 is going to be released today. I guess we’ll see but it’s got to be sometime soon…
Heathcliffe

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