BenMulholland

Honestly, I don't see it. Or rather, I see what Spencer is saying, but don't agree. Selling consoles "at a loss" and earning the money back through subscriptions, games and other services sound like a pretty terrible business model, and it's only relatively recently that this has become common practice.

Heck, we're also only talking about the Game Pass and PS Plus here - this isn't accounting for in-game subscriptions, season passes, battle passes, AND the price to buy the game in the first place.

Basically, I don't believe that they need the money to recoup losses on console sales - it's a move to squeeze as much out of consumers as possible.

If they DO need to recoup their losses... Well, that's a failing business plan that consumers (and developers) shouldn't have to cover for them. If it weren't for the monopolies in the console market, they wouldn't have to either...

I've been bouncing between the new Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem: Three Houses on Switch. FE3H in particular has a ton of replayability, and a regular playthrough can provide a fun timesink that doesn't get old.

If you don't like strategy games or how chill, happy, and stop-and-start Animal Crossing is (eg, around 20 mins per day), the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series is a really immersive and difficult (but fair) shooter with RPG elements. It's roughly based on the Roadside Picnic novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, and is probably the best shooter (and the best post-apocalyptic game) I've ever played.

There's a free mod called S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly which combines the maps of all three official stalker games and adds a tone of features, quality-of-life changes, and is generally the best version of the franchise on the market (despite being completely free).

Other than that, I'm looking forward to both the Resident Evil 3 remake (the RE2 remake was excellent and the demo of this one seems to be of the same quality) and Final Fantasy 7 remake. It's a bit of a shame that the biggest games to look forward to this year aren't fresh IPs, but the remakes and sequels are high enough quality to still be worth your time.