Games Inbox: Cyberpunk 2077 launch day nerves, Gran Turismo 7 on PS5, and Fortnite showmanship

I’m not sure where the idea that Cyberpunk 2077 has had rave reviews has come from. The Metacritic is 91, which is good but not amazing, and many of the most sensible sites have not yet posted their reviews, including GC, Eurogamer, Kotaku, and Giant Bomb. GameSpot only gave it 7/10, Polygon were very off about it, and IGN only gave it 90% – which is 50% on anyone else’s scale.  I’m not saying it’s good or bad, because obviously I haven’t played it yet, but I’m very happy for my decision to wait for the dedicated PlayStation 5 version and all the bug fixing and proper reviews that come with it. All the controversy over bugs and epilepsy and how the game treats minorities is not encouraging to me either and I want to see how that pans out as well.  Console review copies only being sent out at the last minute screams performance issues too, so again I’m very happy to be sitting this one out for a few months. It’s beginning to feel like buying any big scale game at launch is just a waste of time and money and I can see this becoming my new policy from now on.  Very glad to know that Gran Turismo 7 is going to be PlayStation 5 only, although as GC implied the chances of it not having at least three major delays are practically zero, coronavirus or not. I still don’t understand why Sony is making so many cross-gen games, or rather why they suddenly changed their minds about it.  Spider-Man and Sackboy I get, fine, but why Horizon Forbidden West if it’s going to be, presumably, next year’s big Christmas game? And I’m going to guess God Of War 2 will be cross-gen too, just because the first one was PlayStation 4-only.  As others have said, it all seemed to be knee jerk reaction but I can’t work out to what? Microsoft didn’t change policies or see some sudden increase in support for Halo Infinite being cross-gen (the opposite really) so what was it all about?  Was it not a sudden decision and Sony just thought it best to lie about it for a while? But if that was the case why brag about all their exclusives and then just weeks later throw egg on their own face? It’s almost Nintendo levels of incomprehensible.  I’m honestly not sure what Sony and Microsoft could do to deter scalpers. Even if Sony had notified everyone in advance (which would have been nice), it’s hard to see that reducing the number of consoles the scalpers might grab.  The scalpers are exploiting the difference between supply and demand, so if we want the console manufacturers to do something they could sell the consoles at the price dictated by demand, i.e. a higher price.  While this would deter scalpers, and would arguably more accurately reflect what the console is worth, it would probably be an unpopular move. Still, if they are going to be criticised either way, they might as well make money out of it, right?   Microsoft has already talked about creating some sort of allocation system, although so far it has been just talk.  Thank you for everybody’s help with choices an