Daily Briefing: Monday 1st February

Nintendo deny planning a Switch Pro 'anytime soon'.

With various insider references to a Switch Pro (or Super Switch), the ageing Switch is almost certainly being replaced - the question is just when, at this point. Nintendo said they aren't planning an announcement 'anytime soon', which might as well be a hard confirmation compared to their previous messaging.

• It makes sense to delay - while a Switch Pro would be a welcome addition to the lineup, there's no need to announce it until they have a new major franchise release to announce alongside, like BotW2. Also, the Switch has insane momentum from this year - waiting to sell through that stock makes sense. And one last thing: the semiconductor industry is under major pressure from all fronts. Nintendo might have to wait to secure production of their new console until the current console and GPU shortage is sorted.

Playstation Studios is publishing an Xbox game

MLB The Show is the first game from the new Sony conglomerate Playstation Studios to bridge the console drop. It's due in 2021 with cross-gen upgrade and shared progression across generations on the same platform.

• Does this mean God of War on Xbox? Absolutely not. It does show that Sony are willing to have a distinction between exclusives and cross-platform games - and not just PC, but their competitor's console

Fallout: The Frontier Returns, Sans Offending Content

The extremely large New Vegas mod was pulled from Nexus Mods, thanks to users finding some inappropriate content one of the contributors was previously involved with creating. After some time, that contributor's content has been removed, among others, and the mod has returned to Nexus Mods.

• This is the danger of an ad-hoc creation - an artist with a history can taint your project. This removal also doesn't solve the criticism that certain parts of the mod are full of, in the words of Twitter users 'the writers' barely-disguised fetishes'. It's apparently an outstanding mod, but sadly it's been a bit overshadowed by controversy.