WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.920 --> 00:00:15.119 He'll be Gon'll be beer. It's the Internet. You're busy. Let's do 2 00:00:15.199 --> 00:00:18.960 this for October eighteenth, twenty twenty three. For the next hour or so, 3 00:00:19.079 --> 00:00:22.199 let me help you sort through the world of gaming on Games Mornings Live 4 00:00:22.239 --> 00:00:26.280 with me Jeff Grebb. Today, the reviews are in and everybody's going gaga 5 00:00:26.399 --> 00:00:30.480 for you guessed it's Skull Island, Rise of Kong. But first, please 6 00:00:30.559 --> 00:00:33.240 join me and welcome to today's co host, the Game as Mornings. It's 7 00:00:33.320 --> 00:00:36.640 Lucy James. Everybody, Lucy, how are you doing? You know, 8 00:00:37.039 --> 00:00:42.000 I'm sad that I'm here and not playing Kong Rise of Skull Island or whatever 9 00:00:42.039 --> 00:00:45.479 the hell it is called. It's really tough to have to live lives where 10 00:00:45.479 --> 00:00:50.200 we have responsibilities away from the beauty that is Skull Island, Rise of Kong. 11 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:53.560 Oh shit, that's what skill I was talking. Didn't even realize. 12 00:00:54.039 --> 00:01:00.399 Skull Island Rise of Kong a game that should not exist, and I'm so 13 00:01:00.399 --> 00:01:03.560 glad it does. Yeah, so really happy that it defied all the laws 14 00:01:03.560 --> 00:01:07.599 of physics to appear in our reality. Have you had a chance to, 15 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:08.799 like you have you just like looked at it, or have you had a 16 00:01:08.879 --> 00:01:14.120 chance to play it. I saw that tweet. Yes, I dropped it 17 00:01:14.120 --> 00:01:18.560 in slack and said, we got a playlet play this. Uh. And 18 00:01:18.599 --> 00:01:22.239 then I was doing much stuff yesterday, so I haven't watched the b Light 19 00:01:22.359 --> 00:01:26.000 Club or Blight Club yet. Oh but Alex Tony Award winning Alex von Yellow 20 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:30.640 popped in, Yes he did. Did you have you just found the just 21 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:36.120 found the clip now, but I'm I'm gonna watch that apparently apparently he was 22 00:01:36.400 --> 00:01:41.799 incredibly high, and then texted Dan this MP three of him singing the song 23 00:01:41.959 --> 00:01:46.120 Mike Minatti, Mike Mike Manatti or however it goes. Uh. And then 24 00:01:46.200 --> 00:01:49.359 Dan just dropped that on us unbeknowst to us. And it was very very 25 00:01:49.879 --> 00:01:53.079 off putting and strange, and I don't like it one bit. I love 26 00:01:53.120 --> 00:01:55.640 it. It was a good time. That game. Uh, it's something 27 00:01:55.680 --> 00:02:00.560 special that game. Uh, you know, it's it. I don't know. 28 00:02:00.560 --> 00:02:02.599 It's something about like okay, you hear. I think you can get 29 00:02:02.599 --> 00:02:07.199 the King Kong license like public domain in certain ways, but it's called Skull 30 00:02:07.319 --> 00:02:12.719 Island, which I think. I don't know if that is public domain. 31 00:02:12.759 --> 00:02:15.360 It's it's I'm really confused about how it all works, Like did they get 32 00:02:15.400 --> 00:02:17.680 the license, and then they're just like, whatever, we'll put this out 33 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:23.719 there fifty dollars and uh and I think it's no forty dollars. This one's 34 00:02:23.719 --> 00:02:27.439 forty dollars. I think this one's forty dollars. It's it's too much money, 35 00:02:27.479 --> 00:02:30.759 whatever it is. But watching damn play. When we got done, 36 00:02:30.759 --> 00:02:32.759 we were just like, we could do maybe play more of that. We 37 00:02:32.800 --> 00:02:36.439 could maybe because it's it's bad in a kind in a pretty fun way. 38 00:02:36.719 --> 00:02:39.520 You're always wait waiting for the next next column, the next yes, the 39 00:02:39.599 --> 00:02:43.879 next and then the next gollumn moment inside the game where it's like, Okay, 40 00:02:43.879 --> 00:02:46.080 what's this next cut scene going to look? Like? What's the next 41 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:49.400 boss fight going to be? And it's always something bad in a really fun 42 00:02:49.439 --> 00:02:52.080 way. I was gonna say, I don't even think Gallum was fun and 43 00:02:52.159 --> 00:02:53.919 a bad way. I think it was just bad. Yeah, it's just 44 00:02:54.120 --> 00:02:58.800 it's just kind of bad. Yeah. Yeah, this looks actually you know, 45 00:02:59.479 --> 00:03:02.759 yeah, this is definitely worse and yet more entertaining. I would have 46 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:07.639 a better time with this, I think than playing Colm. All right, 47 00:03:07.159 --> 00:03:10.280 let's talk about what we do here most weekdays. I Jeff Grubb will help 48 00:03:10.280 --> 00:03:14.919 piece your gaming life back together that includes breaking news and maybe even some of 49 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:17.360 our own original reporting. For all these topics, I'll get the input of 50 00:03:17.400 --> 00:03:21.960 a bona fide expert who will make me look smart. If you are watching 51 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:24.639 live on twitch welcome. You can always listen to the show later on podcast 52 00:03:24.680 --> 00:03:30.159 feeds by searching for Game Mess Mornings, or find the RSS on GiantBomb dot 53 00:03:30.199 --> 00:03:34.159 com. You can also catch the show later with chapters in timestamps on YouTube. 54 00:03:34.479 --> 00:03:37.719 Hello YouTube. Okay, we have a lot to get into, so 55 00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:43.080 let's start the Morning Mess with Super Mario Brothers Wonder review roundup. It's this 56 00:03:43.199 --> 00:03:46.240 is actually the game that has everyone going gaga. This is from Nintendo Everything. 57 00:03:46.439 --> 00:03:50.599 With only a couple of days to go until launch, Super Mario Brothers 58 00:03:50.680 --> 00:03:53.479 Wonder reviews are now starting to go live, and here's a roundup of some 59 00:03:53.560 --> 00:03:58.280 of those results. IGN gave it a nine out of ten. It says 60 00:03:58.280 --> 00:04:00.639 Super Mario Brothers Wonder looks and play like the true next step for two D 61 00:04:00.719 --> 00:04:05.800 Mario platformers. Wonder effects change each stage in both surprising and delightful ways. 62 00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:10.719 The Flower Kingdom mix for a vibrant and refreshing change of pace, and Elephant 63 00:04:10.719 --> 00:04:14.639 Mario steals the show. GameSpot gave it a nine out of ten as well, 64 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:18.079 says Super Mario Brothers Wonder, super brother excuse. Supermar Brothers Wonder is 65 00:04:18.120 --> 00:04:20.879 a bold choice for a name. It plants a flag in the ground that 66 00:04:20.920 --> 00:04:25.600 suggests anything less than a constant sense of all and delight will be a failure 67 00:04:25.639 --> 00:04:30.360 by its own terms. But then surprisingly, Mario Wonder rises to the challenge 68 00:04:30.360 --> 00:04:33.120 and results in a modern classic. The Wonder effects are the marquee feature, 69 00:04:33.360 --> 00:04:36.879 and for good reason, as they serve as a springboard for a cornucopia of 70 00:04:36.959 --> 00:04:42.279 creativity. But it's the smart and thoughtful choices around new power ups, badges, 71 00:04:42.399 --> 00:04:46.120 online multiplayer, and visual flare that cement this in the Mario canon. 72 00:04:46.480 --> 00:04:50.600 This is this is the rightful successor to Super Mario Brothers World, and hopefully 73 00:04:50.680 --> 00:04:54.639 we'll serve as a touchstone for two D Mario going forward. I call it 74 00:04:54.639 --> 00:04:58.160 Super Mario Brothers World, Super Mario World. The game's got like a ninety 75 00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:01.160 three on Metacritic, way higher than I was. Actually, I think that's 76 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:06.439 acting for Tooty Mario, Totymorrow, the new you know. Okay, so 77 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:12.319 it's it's been several decades now. Super Mario World and then we had a 78 00:05:12.360 --> 00:05:15.439 bunch of New Super Mario Brothers games and they have been they have been like 79 00:05:15.560 --> 00:05:17.560 eighty eight at the top. I think maybe maybe a few of them stuck 80 00:05:17.759 --> 00:05:21.000 above that. But my mind like New Super Mario Brothers on the DS, 81 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:25.639 it's kind of a B. It's a B. It's an eighty it's it's 82 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:29.079 it's not h. It doesn't never blew my socks off. The game's got 83 00:05:29.120 --> 00:05:32.199 better. But then you had the diminishing returns on well, this is still 84 00:05:32.279 --> 00:05:35.279 New Super Mario Brothers in a lot of ways, and so uh, I 85 00:05:35.319 --> 00:05:39.920 was like, maybe that's just too dy Mario. Maybe maybe that's just too 86 00:05:39.959 --> 00:05:44.079 dy Mario, and like that, like it's gonna be sort of uh this 87 00:05:44.240 --> 00:05:48.480 vanilla known quantity and it's good and people like it and it sells really well, 88 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:51.279 but it's not ever going to be in the Game of the Year discussion. 89 00:05:51.319 --> 00:05:54.560 This feels like it puts it squarely in the game of the Year discussion. 90 00:05:54.680 --> 00:05:56.920 I don't know, what do you think? Yeah, I mean from 91 00:05:57.040 --> 00:06:00.480 everything I was talking to skill Up about it when we were recorded FPS last 92 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:05.959 night, he's so hot on it. So is Completionist. Yeah, it 93 00:06:06.040 --> 00:06:12.120 sounds incredible. I'm just I am not like a jump out of bed go 94 00:06:12.759 --> 00:06:15.079 buy the new Mario game kind of gal But this one's actually got me really 95 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:18.720 interested because I don't know, like I really enjoyed what we played at packs 96 00:06:18.720 --> 00:06:24.040 definitely, And then are you someone who enjoys platformers in general or is that 97 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:30.399 not quite your genre either? You know what? I think it's time to 98 00:06:30.439 --> 00:06:33.959 stop lying to myself. Yeah, I don't think I really enjoyed a platform 99 00:06:33.120 --> 00:06:38.000 I don't love, sure, but if I think, okay, so for 100 00:06:38.040 --> 00:06:40.680 me, platformers is like when I think of video games, I think of 101 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:43.439 platformers. That's where I'm at, Lucy. But I grew up on Mario. 102 00:06:43.920 --> 00:06:46.000 And if you're someone who's like, didn't grow up on Mario, I 103 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:48.920 wonder like what platformers could have got you there? And you probably did enjoy 104 00:06:48.920 --> 00:06:51.759 a lot of platformers, especially back at like in the you know, the 105 00:06:51.839 --> 00:06:57.720 nineties or whatever, but they haven't. That genre was the like marquee genre 106 00:06:57.759 --> 00:06:59.879 for a long time and then it wasn't. It's so it's easy to be 107 00:06:59.920 --> 00:07:00.639 like, Okay, yeah, I played it then and I don't play it 108 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:03.759 now. I imagine that's kind of how you feel. But I mean, 109 00:07:03.800 --> 00:07:08.399 there's nothing offensive about it, I'm sure. But like, so when you 110 00:07:08.439 --> 00:07:10.720 see this, like the thing that's kind of getting is like, this looks 111 00:07:10.759 --> 00:07:13.120 like it has a ton of ideas, right, because that's what we were 112 00:07:13.120 --> 00:07:15.519 talking about when we came out of playing it at Pax. Yeah, and 113 00:07:15.560 --> 00:07:18.079 that's the thing that everyone who I've spoken to who has played it, they're 114 00:07:18.120 --> 00:07:20.839 just like, oh yeah, when you find that one to see it, 115 00:07:20.839 --> 00:07:26.240 it is just so magical and wonderful. I'm like, all right, Okay, 116 00:07:26.439 --> 00:07:30.160 I'll give it a go. I want to experience joy again. Sure, 117 00:07:30.399 --> 00:07:34.439 I guess, I guess. But yeah. And also I'm at the 118 00:07:34.439 --> 00:07:38.439 point now where you know we don't need any more Game of the Year contenders. 119 00:07:38.920 --> 00:07:43.000 That's definitely true. That's pretty well. Do you have like the games 120 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:47.759 that are like a shortlist if let's say we had to submit a document to 121 00:07:47.920 --> 00:07:50.439 say these the games they should be nominated for Game of the Year. Do 122 00:07:50.439 --> 00:07:55.360 you have like five or six games in mind? Oh? Yeah, so, 123 00:07:55.439 --> 00:08:00.319 I mean Baldersgate obviously up there, Dredged, Dave the Diver Right, 124 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:07.040 Dead Space remakeer Isn't Evil full remake? Are you are are you leaving a 125 00:08:07.040 --> 00:08:09.879 spot open? Yes? Are you leaving a spot open for allen Wick two 126 00:08:09.639 --> 00:08:13.519 Boys. Yep, yeah, so that's all. It's already significantly more than 127 00:08:13.839 --> 00:08:18.240 six games. So yeah, yeah, I'm definitely I know what you mean. 128 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:22.959 But boy, I'm glad I got Spider Man two done. Uh, 129 00:08:22.079 --> 00:08:26.759 so I can just hop right into Super Mario Brothers. Yeah, Super Mario 130 00:08:26.759 --> 00:08:28.519 Brothers. Wonder when it's out because I've been I've been really looking forward to 131 00:08:28.519 --> 00:08:31.759 this and this is my kind of game. So yes, very excited to 132 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:37.039 see the mostly glowing positive reactions. Uh. There was like a like like 133 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:39.279 a single seven out of ten, and even that's like, this is a 134 00:08:39.320 --> 00:08:43.159 good game. It's just like that some of the stuff didn't work for me 135 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:46.480 in terms of always being in awe of everything. And I think if we're 136 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:48.799 setting the bar like there where it's like being all of everything, I could 137 00:08:48.799 --> 00:08:50.919 see like some people are like, yeah, some of the stuff worked and 138 00:08:50.919 --> 00:08:56.240 some some of it didn't. I think from the the game spot snippet here 139 00:08:56.279 --> 00:08:58.559 and I haven't read the full review yet but I will today. Uh, 140 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:03.960 it's says the multiplayer stuff, actually, the online multiplayer stuff works surprisingly well 141 00:09:03.960 --> 00:09:09.960 and is a positive and there's no like online cooperative play. There is something 142 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:13.360 like like online play where like you play the game and then you swap ghost. 143 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:16.000 I can't even remember exactly how they said it worked, but I'm gonna 144 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:18.720 have to probably see it for myself to fully understand it anyhow. But I 145 00:09:18.759 --> 00:09:22.039 think that's very exciting for me as someone who has spent a lot of times 146 00:09:22.039 --> 00:09:24.799 in something like Astrobot, like doing speed run times and swapping that back and 147 00:09:24.840 --> 00:09:30.120 forth with with Mike and Dan. And if it's anything close to that or 148 00:09:30.240 --> 00:09:33.200 or you know, a similar it gets close, you know, acts in 149 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:37.399 a similar way, I'll be very excited. But mostly let's just get in 150 00:09:37.399 --> 00:09:39.600 there and see what all the fun surprises that they got in store for us. 151 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:43.759 Yeah, Like, has Nintendo finally figured out how to do an online 152 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:48.279 game? Uh yeah, I mean I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say mostly 153 00:09:48.320 --> 00:09:52.120 probably still know, but a cool online feature in their game. Maybe maybe 154 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:58.519 because they you know, the spot pass or street pass, like that's not 155 00:09:58.639 --> 00:10:01.879 online feature, but that's like a fun little thing that you can do that 156 00:10:03.039 --> 00:10:07.200 is clever an implementation of of like their NFC technology or however that worked. 157 00:10:07.720 --> 00:10:09.919 And Nintendo's okay at some stuff like that. Right, here's a novel little 158 00:10:09.960 --> 00:10:13.279 thing. But if you're like, okay, but what if I just wanted 159 00:10:13.320 --> 00:10:16.279 to play online with my friends and have that work and be not lagging and 160 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:18.879 ntis I don't know what you're talking about. Both I don't know her. 161 00:10:20.440 --> 00:10:24.480 All right, let's get to the September twenty twenty three SIRCANA report from Matt 162 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:28.759 Piscatella, who is at SIRCANA. September twenty twenty three US video game market 163 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:35.159 highlights from SIRCANA include US consumer spending on video and video and content, hardware 164 00:10:35.159 --> 00:10:39.039 and accessories growing more than ten percent compared to a year ago. That's totally 165 00:10:39.159 --> 00:10:43.519 four point five billion dollars growth in spending on video game content and accessories offset 166 00:10:43.679 --> 00:10:48.240 in eight percent decline in hardware. When you look at the hardware, the 167 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:52.200 hardware was at about four hundred and fifty one million compared to four hundred and 168 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:56.200 ninety million a year ago. We'll kind of talk about some of the hardware 169 00:10:56.240 --> 00:11:01.039 details here in a second, but for the top twenty, Starfield was number 170 00:11:01.039 --> 00:11:03.759 one. It was released in September. Number two was Mortal Kombat one, 171 00:11:05.159 --> 00:11:09.159 also a new game that released in September, followed by EA Sports FC twenty 172 00:11:09.159 --> 00:11:13.159 four, Madden NFL twenty four, and then three more new games for the 173 00:11:13.159 --> 00:11:16.480 month, Payday three, NBA two K twenty four, and The Crew Motorfest 174 00:11:16.960 --> 00:11:20.039 that runs out the top seven, and then it goes to Armored Course six, 175 00:11:20.080 --> 00:11:24.200 Fires of Rubicon, Hogwarts Legacy still hanging out in the top ten, 176 00:11:24.639 --> 00:11:28.480 and Call of Duty Modern Warfare too at number ten, also still hanging out 177 00:11:28.519 --> 00:11:33.519 there from last year. I'm not too surprised the Starfield's at the top, 178 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:37.159 but this is a game that is on game Pass, a game that a 179 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:41.600 lot of people were probably going to play through that and it turns out that 180 00:11:41.679 --> 00:11:45.879 it did sell very well. It sold even better on PC than it did 181 00:11:45.919 --> 00:11:48.759 on Xbox. Though that's not too surprising because I think the saturation of game 182 00:11:48.759 --> 00:11:54.919 Pass on Xbox versus PC is probably much greater, so the people kind of 183 00:11:54.960 --> 00:11:56.759 people who were going to show up to buy this game probably were on PC. 184 00:11:58.440 --> 00:12:01.480 But that's a pretty good showing for the game. It's already number seven 185 00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:05.279 for the best selling games of the year in the United States according to Sircana, 186 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:09.039 just behind Star Wars Jedi Survivor, So that's that's pretty impressive for that 187 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:13.399 game. Yeah, let's see, yeah, let's say yeah, let's see 188 00:12:13.399 --> 00:12:16.519 what Matt Piscatel has to say about it. He said, Starfield was the 189 00:12:16.519 --> 00:12:20.440 best selling game of September, instantly becoming the seventh best selling game of twenty 190 00:12:20.440 --> 00:12:22.559 twenty three year to date. Starfield ranked is the best selling title of the 191 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:26.639 month across both Xbox and PC, with PC being its lead sales platform. 192 00:12:28.279 --> 00:12:31.639 And then for Mortal Kombat once Mortal Kombat one debut as the second best selling 193 00:12:31.639 --> 00:12:33.519 game of September and the number eight best selling game of twenty twenty three year 194 00:12:33.559 --> 00:12:37.320 to date. Mortal Kombat was the one was the best selling game of the 195 00:12:37.320 --> 00:12:41.879 month on PlayStation platforms, placed second on both Xbox and PC, and ranked 196 00:12:43.039 --> 00:12:46.799 third on Nintendo Switch. So a lot of people out there buying that version 197 00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:50.519 of the game. Overall, though the market seems pretty healthy. Video game 198 00:12:50.559 --> 00:12:54.080 sales up really big with all these new games launching, a lot of people 199 00:12:54.080 --> 00:12:58.480 showing up for them, and I'm like trying to think, is there any 200 00:12:58.519 --> 00:13:01.759 game like So we have star Field, Mortal Kombat, E Sports FC twenty 201 00:13:01.799 --> 00:13:03.799 four, pay Day three, NBA two K twenty four, and The Crew 202 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:07.559 Motorfest And just a note there, NBA two K doesn't include the digital sales. 203 00:13:09.559 --> 00:13:11.879 Is there a game that like came out that month, like that didn't 204 00:13:11.879 --> 00:13:13.200 make the top twenty. It sounds like, you know, everything down through 205 00:13:13.240 --> 00:13:18.879 the Crew Motorfest performed pretty good. People are buying games, right, Yeah, 206 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:20.840 I'm just trying to think about like what came out that maybe isn't in 207 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:26.399 here, but like damn, yeah, so's a that's a good showing. 208 00:13:26.720 --> 00:13:31.799 Uh And yeah despite everyone, everything selling famously stable in the games industry right 209 00:13:31.799 --> 00:13:33.879 now, Yeah, yeah, exactly. That's the thing where it's like, 210 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:37.679 when we look at these numbers, a lot of money coming in, everyone 211 00:13:37.679 --> 00:13:39.799 seems to be doing pretty all right, and then the companies are like, 212 00:13:39.879 --> 00:13:45.080 no, we're freaking out. We got to fire everybody. There's the dichotomy 213 00:13:45.120 --> 00:13:48.559 there. There's a split between reality and how these companies are perceiving reality. 214 00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:54.919 And a lot of that comes back to the money coming in from selling video 215 00:13:54.960 --> 00:13:58.960 games? Is you you? I always imagine it as you sell a game, 216 00:14:00.399 --> 00:14:03.039 that money goes into bank account and that money goes to the people that 217 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:05.639 made the game, And of course it's not how it works. These these 218 00:14:05.639 --> 00:14:11.879 companies are moving their their cash around so that they might be they might be 219 00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:16.000 mostly paying their employees by borrowing money and things like that. And that was 220 00:14:16.039 --> 00:14:20.559 really effective for a long time because interest rates were really low and so you 221 00:14:20.600 --> 00:14:24.919 could borrow money and pay your staff and then kind of that was like a 222 00:14:24.960 --> 00:14:28.639 good use of interest rates and and good use of your funds. And now 223 00:14:28.720 --> 00:14:31.159 that's not an option. But these companies sort of got used to that, 224 00:14:31.399 --> 00:14:33.240 and now they're looking around like, man, this is a really tight situation, 225 00:14:33.399 --> 00:14:35.360 even when you can kind of look at it and be like, it 226 00:14:35.360 --> 00:14:41.720 doesn't it doesn't seem that tight out there, but that's how they're behaving. 227 00:14:43.240 --> 00:14:45.639 Was not on that list, Okay, Lives of p Win did that launch? 228 00:14:45.840 --> 00:14:50.639 Uh end of augusta paid was on that list, but Eliza p yes, 229 00:14:52.519 --> 00:14:54.960 and then yeah, but I mean last Piece sold a million. Yeah, 230 00:14:54.200 --> 00:15:00.159 I wonder if that's I think that's likely that it's the publish. Sure 231 00:15:00.159 --> 00:15:03.679 it doesn't report digital sales for that one, like Bloodborne, and they just 232 00:15:03.679 --> 00:15:05.879 want to play it. It was September nineteen, I mean yeah, okay, 233 00:15:07.279 --> 00:15:09.679 yeah, people like, yeah, that game sold a million copies since 234 00:15:09.679 --> 00:15:13.559 down here. It's just because they must not have reported full digital sales, 235 00:15:13.720 --> 00:15:16.320 and people do like Bloodborne. Imagine if they did just a Bloodborne and it 236 00:15:16.360 --> 00:15:20.480 was colon sixty frames per second. How well that would sell, that would 237 00:15:20.480 --> 00:15:24.759 be best selling game of the year. Probably. Yeah, let's see here 238 00:15:24.879 --> 00:15:26.720 some of these other things. EA Sports FC twenty four was the third best 239 00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:31.360 selling game of September. Again, this is Matt Piscatella. Double digit percentage 240 00:15:31.360 --> 00:15:35.360 growth was seen across both units and dollars when compared to FIFA twenty three September 241 00:15:35.399 --> 00:15:39.320 twenty two launch month. E sports FC twenty four launched as the fourteenth best 242 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:43.960 selling game of twenty twenty three year to date ending September. That's got to 243 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:46.440 be good news for EA, who changed the name of this game from last 244 00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:50.799 year and yet sawid growth. There was huge marketing campaign. Seems like that 245 00:15:50.840 --> 00:15:54.200 paid off. I don't know what's what all your British friends saying. Are 246 00:15:54.200 --> 00:15:58.799 they all like, oh yeah, EAFC twenty four, I know that game. 247 00:15:58.799 --> 00:16:03.840 That's just FIFA. I think I've heard a single person call it was 248 00:16:03.879 --> 00:16:07.320 it e A sports FC, A sports FC. Yes. Look, look, 249 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:11.399 I'm going to be real here. That is a terrible name. Yeah, 250 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:19.200 you're not a wrong terrible name, Like it is so generic. It's 251 00:16:19.200 --> 00:16:22.159 got the name of the publisher in the name of the game. Yes, 252 00:16:22.279 --> 00:16:29.559 e A Sports e A sports FC was that football club you don't have? 253 00:16:30.679 --> 00:16:33.639 It would be terrible, be like if Call of Duty was called Activision Shooter 254 00:16:33.840 --> 00:16:44.080 twenty four yeah, or you know another realm punching guy. Yes, I 255 00:16:44.080 --> 00:16:51.480 don't know that, another realm spine crusher, Yes there are. It's it's 256 00:16:51.519 --> 00:16:59.679 weird, you know, bes the boring. I think that is the name 257 00:16:59.679 --> 00:17:04.880 of it. But yes, the thing is is that you can imagine the 258 00:17:04.920 --> 00:17:11.000 consultancy that they had to get in, like they would have had a room 259 00:17:11.039 --> 00:17:14.119 of like people who are on two hundred grand a year just sat around a 260 00:17:14.119 --> 00:17:17.960 big white board. Why were we going to replace FIFA with guys? Oh 261 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:22.480 I know a sports FC? Mm hmm. It does feel like what is 262 00:17:22.519 --> 00:17:23.880 something we could call it that We're never going to have to change the name 263 00:17:23.920 --> 00:17:27.880 again because it's just like, ye stuff we own, it's all stuff we 264 00:17:27.960 --> 00:17:32.519 own, and it's just it's it is exactly what it says on the ten 265 00:17:32.839 --> 00:17:38.119 like EA, sports FC the year let's go, But what does the box 266 00:17:38.200 --> 00:17:41.759 up look like? Does it just have a massive football on it to be 267 00:17:41.799 --> 00:17:45.359 like that is what this game is? Football? And then a guy who 268 00:17:45.400 --> 00:17:51.200 kicks football, so that's almost certainly what is on there. I don't know. 269 00:17:51.640 --> 00:17:57.480 He's Box. It's someone that I don't know. Is it that blonde 270 00:17:57.480 --> 00:18:02.000 guy? It is blowne Go? Who is it? I don't remember his 271 00:18:02.079 --> 00:18:07.720 name, but I assume he's like Swedish or something because the blonde hair. 272 00:18:08.319 --> 00:18:15.279 Very racist. John Football, Johnny Football, everybody, Johnny Football. That's 273 00:18:15.319 --> 00:18:21.359 a different person in America. That's it's Johnny manzil Erling Holland, Holland, 274 00:18:22.279 --> 00:18:25.880 Holland. Yeah, there we go. Okay, Okay, I mean yeah, 275 00:18:25.839 --> 00:18:29.000 it looks good. He's Norwegian. Okay, Norwegian. That makes sense. 276 00:18:29.079 --> 00:18:32.680 I can accept Norwegian. Yeah, all right. Let's see for video 277 00:18:32.720 --> 00:18:36.640 game hardware spending, it fell eight percent compared to a year ago. As 278 00:18:37.119 --> 00:18:42.039 Mapustel mentioned earlier, single digit percentage growth in consumer spinning on Xbox series hardware, 279 00:18:42.319 --> 00:18:48.119 so that's up was offset by declines across both PlayStation five and Switch and 280 00:18:48.440 --> 00:18:52.240 Lucy. Not too surprising that the Switch is seeing some declines. It's up 281 00:18:52.279 --> 00:18:56.079 and down. It's not like consistently down, but it's mostly different. Yeah, 282 00:18:56.200 --> 00:18:57.440 the red one is nice. Yeah, the Mario one, yes, 283 00:18:57.480 --> 00:19:00.400 and that one really want Chap, but it doesn't seem like it's going to 284 00:19:00.480 --> 00:19:03.839 be like a bigger deal here. At least not a bigger deal here as 285 00:19:03.839 --> 00:19:07.319 it was in Japan. But whatever, it's up and down in a way. 286 00:19:07.319 --> 00:19:11.839 That's pretty surprising still for a seventh year of a video game console. 287 00:19:11.440 --> 00:19:15.160 For me, I was like, I did take note of the PlayStation five 288 00:19:15.640 --> 00:19:21.319 having a year over year decline because I know for a fact the PlayStation five 289 00:19:21.519 --> 00:19:23.960 is the furthest thing away from being in trouble, and yet even that system 290 00:19:25.039 --> 00:19:29.519 is like not always one percent of the time growing. I assume that that 291 00:19:29.599 --> 00:19:32.480 must have been a comparison to God of War, right, He's got the 292 00:19:32.519 --> 00:19:36.279 God of War come out in September last year. November. It was November, 293 00:19:36.319 --> 00:19:38.119 Okay, So I'm trying to think of, like what came game released 294 00:19:38.119 --> 00:19:41.680 to September. I feel like there was something I can just go, let 295 00:19:41.720 --> 00:19:48.640 me do this. I'm gonna go to Google and right September and then games 296 00:19:48.680 --> 00:19:52.000 Beat comes up, just like I always plan that to happen. NBA two, 297 00:19:52.200 --> 00:19:56.920 K, Yeah, there's Platoon three, there's the Last of Us Part 298 00:19:56.000 --> 00:20:02.039 one remake. I guess that probably was so something that was like number five 299 00:20:02.680 --> 00:20:06.799 on the chart. So okay, so the comparison is probably I guess that 300 00:20:06.799 --> 00:20:10.319 brings me back to the original thing I was getting at here where For a 301 00:20:10.319 --> 00:20:12.359 while there the Xbox was gone down over year over year, and I'm like, 302 00:20:12.440 --> 00:20:15.839 man, what's wrong with the Xbox? Seems like people just don't care. 303 00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:18.640 But it's like the PlayStation five also can have a month where it's down. 304 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:21.400 It's like, Okay, this can maybe just might be happening. Where 305 00:20:21.880 --> 00:20:29.519 last year was still that reverberations of coming out of COVID and the behavior changes 306 00:20:29.559 --> 00:20:32.640 that happened there, and people were buying a ton of systems, and people 307 00:20:33.279 --> 00:20:34.640 were looking for systems and it was still hard to get so when they were 308 00:20:34.640 --> 00:20:38.240 there, people were rushing out even if they necessarily didn't or didn't necessarily need 309 00:20:38.279 --> 00:20:41.200 to have the console for any particular game. And so I think it's like 310 00:20:41.279 --> 00:20:45.680 still weird comparisons overall. So even something like the PS five, which again 311 00:20:45.720 --> 00:20:51.359 we know is not in any trouble whatsoever, it's it's like skywreckoning even past 312 00:20:51.599 --> 00:20:55.400 the pace of the PS four in a really impressive way. It's okay, 313 00:20:55.440 --> 00:20:57.559 So in the US occasionally these things are going to still be kind of weird 314 00:20:57.599 --> 00:21:03.240 coming out of those COVID. Persons that said, I I do think a 315 00:21:03.440 --> 00:21:08.400 single digit improvement year over year for the Xbox in the Starfield month, I 316 00:21:08.400 --> 00:21:11.559 think I was expecting more. I don't know what you think, Lucy. 317 00:21:12.079 --> 00:21:17.000 Definitely, I've thought Starfield would result in a kind of a bigger uptick, 318 00:21:17.119 --> 00:21:21.519 but I guess maybe not. Yeah, it's kind of it's a weird, 319 00:21:21.720 --> 00:21:23.599 a weird one to gauge as well, because you have a year that is 320 00:21:23.680 --> 00:21:30.119 so stacked. It's like, are people actually buying a console just for this 321 00:21:30.160 --> 00:21:33.519 one release or is it just because they hear about everything incredible that's been out 322 00:21:33.519 --> 00:21:40.079 this year and like that's what it like justifies that purchase. So it's an 323 00:21:40.079 --> 00:21:44.519 interesting one. I mean, it's also very there's gonna be ebbs and flows. 324 00:21:44.559 --> 00:21:48.039 I wonder if broader economic factors. Not to get too into that, 325 00:21:48.119 --> 00:21:52.240 but like maybe people are kind of pulling back on a big purchase because it's 326 00:21:52.279 --> 00:21:56.160 also the run up to Christmas. Things are very uncertain and a lot of 327 00:21:56.200 --> 00:22:00.000 sectors right now. Yeah, oh yeah. Bold Gate three is actually kind 328 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:03.319 of the surprising one. If it's not coming out on Xbox, you would 329 00:22:03.319 --> 00:22:07.119 expect, you know, I see in terms of software, but like maybe 330 00:22:07.119 --> 00:22:10.920 people buying PlayStation for that. Yeah, I think for PlayStation fans, it 331 00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:15.240 was probably like Balder's Kate three is a unknown quantity to them as something coming 332 00:22:15.279 --> 00:22:18.440 from you know, computer RPG and hearing all these great things about it. 333 00:22:18.480 --> 00:22:22.480 But I think it's the kind of game that if you're on PlayStation, you 334 00:22:22.519 --> 00:22:23.960 buy. If you already have a PlayStation, you don't necessarily run out to 335 00:22:25.000 --> 00:22:27.279 get a PlayStation to take a risk on. Is this the kind of game 336 00:22:27.279 --> 00:22:30.000 I'm going to like? Because I think a lot of people don't know if 337 00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:33.039 they're gonna like it until they play it. That said, I think the 338 00:22:33.079 --> 00:22:37.079 EBB and Flow thing you said, it does feel like maybe we are in 339 00:22:37.119 --> 00:22:41.160 a bit of an EBB situation because people were like, I'm gonna get a 340 00:22:41.160 --> 00:22:44.480 PS five next month when Spider Man's here. I'm just gonna wait for that. 341 00:22:45.039 --> 00:22:47.559 So like, I'm not gonna buy it now, I'll wait until that 342 00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:52.799 PlayStation five Spider Man version of the console and the face plates are all out 343 00:22:52.839 --> 00:22:56.240 in store, and I'll just get all of it at the same time, 344 00:22:56.519 --> 00:22:57.799 and so I'm just gonna save my money. Now. I could see that 345 00:22:57.839 --> 00:23:03.039 happening, because we we also do know PS five is going to have a 346 00:23:03.200 --> 00:23:07.119 monster month with Spider Man two. The game is is already it would if 347 00:23:07.160 --> 00:23:10.079 it was like an eighty on Metacritic, it wouldn't have mattered. It still 348 00:23:10.079 --> 00:23:11.720 would have been probably one of the top selling games of the year, if 349 00:23:11.759 --> 00:23:15.759 not the top selling game of the year. And now that it's a low 350 00:23:15.880 --> 00:23:18.359 ninety Metacritic, which is so impossible to get, and people are losing their 351 00:23:18.359 --> 00:23:22.119 mind for it, and it's still Spider Man and it's this big exclusive, 352 00:23:22.279 --> 00:23:26.519 it is just going to just sell a million, million, million, million 353 00:23:26.559 --> 00:23:27.799 copies. And so yeah, the PS five is going to be just fine 354 00:23:27.920 --> 00:23:32.279 this month now in October. So again that EBB and flow. We're going 355 00:23:32.359 --> 00:23:34.680 to see it eb now flow next month and we'll talk about that at that 356 00:23:34.759 --> 00:23:40.640 point. Last little bit here. Accessories spending during the September increased eleven percent 357 00:23:40.680 --> 00:23:42.519 when compared to a year ago, to one hundred and ninety seven million dollars. 358 00:23:42.880 --> 00:23:47.240 Game pad spending increased by fifteen percent in the month compared to a year 359 00:23:47.240 --> 00:23:52.440 ago, while racing controller spinning grew by eighteen percent. I suppose, I 360 00:23:52.480 --> 00:23:57.119 suppose that must be the fortsupervs. Yes, when did Forts Forts of Motorsport 361 00:23:57.119 --> 00:24:00.119 come out? I thought that was also in October. It was October, 362 00:24:00.119 --> 00:24:03.279 but it must make get ready for it prep. And those are the kind 363 00:24:03.319 --> 00:24:07.319 of people that would prep like a month before. Yeah, they really are. 364 00:24:07.480 --> 00:24:11.160 I mean given how like you gotta move all your furniture around, you 365 00:24:11.279 --> 00:24:15.680 gotta get all you gotta fine tune, and you think about your whole life. 366 00:24:15.160 --> 00:24:18.240 Yeah. I do think about my whole life sometimes when it comes to 367 00:24:18.319 --> 00:24:21.920 racing wheels, because I got my racing little right over there, and it's 368 00:24:21.920 --> 00:24:23.119 on the floor, and I don't have a good place for it. So 369 00:24:23.119 --> 00:24:26.680 I'm like I should. I got the TV right here, and I got 370 00:24:26.720 --> 00:24:29.720 a recliner right there in front of it, and that's great, But I'm 371 00:24:29.759 --> 00:24:32.839 like, what if sometimes I move the recliner and then had one of those 372 00:24:33.480 --> 00:24:37.720 real deal like racing seats setups, not like a full like a ten thousand 373 00:24:37.759 --> 00:24:41.920 dollar thing, but one of those like just metal bars and a little racing 374 00:24:42.000 --> 00:24:45.240 chair that you could sit in so that the wheel has a place to sit. 375 00:24:45.680 --> 00:24:48.200 Like I could get one of those and just start playing some racing games. 376 00:24:48.200 --> 00:24:52.279 But I'm like, I don't even play that many racing games. Yeah, 377 00:24:52.319 --> 00:24:55.920 And yet do you have a sit and state and take stock of your 378 00:24:55.920 --> 00:25:00.119 life sometimes and be like you are living the dream? Yeah? Like that. 379 00:25:00.200 --> 00:25:03.599 You can just do that and no one's gonna be like it's it's it's 380 00:25:03.640 --> 00:25:08.839 a heinous we have a supportive family. Uh huh, it's disgusting. It's 381 00:25:08.839 --> 00:25:12.079 not like IM here's what I do. I do take stock, and I 382 00:25:12.240 --> 00:25:18.119 sometimes imagine it as going back in time and finding my ancestors in World War 383 00:25:18.160 --> 00:25:22.440 two and trying to explain my life to them. I always imagine what that 384 00:25:22.480 --> 00:25:26.880 conversation would be like, like they're literally in the bunker in like Germany or 385 00:25:26.880 --> 00:25:30.240 whatever the fuck it was in France. Uh and uh, I'll be like, 386 00:25:30.839 --> 00:25:33.759 Okay, so I set my basement and I play these things called video 387 00:25:33.799 --> 00:25:37.720 games and then I talk about them. And I suppose the easiest way to 388 00:25:37.720 --> 00:25:42.119 explain it is I get paid to have an opinion about it. It's like, 389 00:25:42.960 --> 00:25:49.119 ah, what what skills do you have? Ah? Yeah, these 390 00:25:49.160 --> 00:25:55.960 thumbs bitch take that have fun, have fun with whatever this is. That 391 00:25:56.000 --> 00:25:57.960 meal looks fucked up. I enjoy that. I'm gonna go eat some fast 392 00:25:57.960 --> 00:26:02.119 food that's two minutes away from our house. Yeah. I do take stock, 393 00:26:02.200 --> 00:26:04.400 Lucy, and I never come out feeling great about it. But it's 394 00:26:04.440 --> 00:26:08.160 pretty good stuff. You gotta feel hashtag hashtag blessed. Hash tag blessed exactly 395 00:26:08.960 --> 00:26:12.960 for these accessories them being up like more than ten percent, double digit increasing 396 00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:17.359 accessories. That always says to me, the industry is very healthy. That's 397 00:26:17.400 --> 00:26:19.960 always how I read this. If accessory spinning is up, it means people 398 00:26:21.039 --> 00:26:23.519 are imagining themselves playing video games all through the rest of the year. They're 399 00:26:23.519 --> 00:26:26.160 thinking about, Hey, I'm gonna need another controller because we're going to be 400 00:26:26.160 --> 00:26:30.119 playing a bunch of games when my friends come over and I'm getting a fucking 401 00:26:30.200 --> 00:26:33.079 racing wheel because I'm imagining I'm going to be buying fortsa. If people are 402 00:26:33.079 --> 00:26:37.240 buying controllers, it's because video games are going to continue doing well. So 403 00:26:37.279 --> 00:26:40.759 it's like this good early indicator I think of how the industry is trending. 404 00:26:41.880 --> 00:26:44.160 Okay, we're gonna take a quick break. When we get back, we're 405 00:26:44.200 --> 00:26:48.160 gonna talk about more about Mario Wonder and a whole bunch of news out of 406 00:26:48.319 --> 00:26:52.599 Xbox from an interview that Phil Spencer did with his team. We'll get to 407 00:26:52.640 --> 00:27:04.240 that right after this. We're back. More news, Lucy, Let's get 408 00:27:04.279 --> 00:27:07.839 into Mario Wonder here. This is more of like a quick correction from like 409 00:27:08.119 --> 00:27:11.759 a story we talked about earlier this week where someone's like from that worked on 410 00:27:11.799 --> 00:27:15.599 Mario Wonder said, Yeah, we just felt that we had to make that 411 00:27:15.759 --> 00:27:19.160 Mario Wonder stand out because the movie, and that was like maybe maybe they 412 00:27:19.200 --> 00:27:22.440 saw it during the production or whatever, because there's no way they just saw 413 00:27:22.480 --> 00:27:26.759 it when it came out live. There's not enough time between then and now 414 00:27:26.000 --> 00:27:30.200 to make Mario Wonder what it is thirds out. That might not have been 415 00:27:30.240 --> 00:27:33.079 exactly the case, so the Mario movie had no influence on Wonder's new character 416 00:27:33.119 --> 00:27:37.240 designs, says Developers. This is from Jim Norman at Nintendo Life. We 417 00:27:37.240 --> 00:27:41.279 are just days away from the release of Super Mario Brothers Wonder on Switch, 418 00:27:41.319 --> 00:27:44.880 and as has become something of a tradition, Nintendo Is today released the first 419 00:27:44.880 --> 00:27:48.240 two parts of an All New Asks the Developers interview series about the upcoming game. 420 00:27:48.720 --> 00:27:52.960 The conversation covers a range of topics, including how the team settled on 421 00:27:52.000 --> 00:27:56.279 the theme of Wonder and the changes that have been made to the game's visuals 422 00:27:56.319 --> 00:27:59.599 and sound design. But one section that immediately stood out to us was all 423 00:27:59.640 --> 00:28:03.279 about the influence that Illuminations the Super Mario Brothers movie had on the game. 424 00:28:03.680 --> 00:28:07.400 You might assume that the film's forecasted success, remember both were in development around 425 00:28:07.440 --> 00:28:11.079 the same time, would have weighed heavily on the developer's minds, potentially even 426 00:28:11.119 --> 00:28:15.559 influencing the Bro's new game design, the Brother's new games, the game design. 427 00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:18.480 But truly it's written as Bros with a period, and I'm like, 428 00:28:19.319 --> 00:28:22.440 I know it's Brothers, but it's so weird. Is like, get that 429 00:28:22.480 --> 00:28:26.319 to work in my brain in the UK like the band Bros. Bros. 430 00:28:26.440 --> 00:28:30.599 Yes, I'll just say that from now Super Mario Bros. When asked about 431 00:28:30.599 --> 00:28:36.000 the film's impact on Wonder's expressive character designs, the majority of the interview panel, 432 00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:41.279 which contains the likes of producer Takashi Tesuka, director shiro Shiro Moor, 433 00:28:41.279 --> 00:28:45.519 and sound director Coachi Kondo, among others. Man Coachi Kondo is still doing, 434 00:28:47.119 --> 00:28:51.400 answered in the negative. Art director Masu Nobusatu explained that the team didn't 435 00:28:51.400 --> 00:28:56.559 hear anything about the film's content during development, instead citing the ambition to exceed 436 00:28:56.759 --> 00:29:00.319 new Super Mario Brothers three D models as a more influen reason behind the fresh 437 00:29:00.400 --> 00:29:04.279 character designs. And to me, Lucy, that sounds right. You are 438 00:29:04.640 --> 00:29:10.720 coming off of literal decades of new Super Mario Brothers design that is very sterile, 439 00:29:11.279 --> 00:29:15.200 very safe, very simple, and very cheap. And the one of 440 00:29:15.200 --> 00:29:18.680 the main reasons Nintendo kept going back to it is they could reuse assets. 441 00:29:18.920 --> 00:29:21.359 And most people were like, that's fine, I'm just going to have a 442 00:29:21.359 --> 00:29:25.559 two D Mario game to play with my family. But that had clearly ran 443 00:29:25.640 --> 00:29:29.279 its course and they had to do something, and I think that that's where 444 00:29:29.279 --> 00:29:32.559 all of this came from. And then coming out of the Mario movie and 445 00:29:32.599 --> 00:29:34.680 being like, hey, this is almost as expressive as the Mario movie. 446 00:29:34.680 --> 00:29:37.039 In some ways, it's even more so. Isn't that great? It's like, 447 00:29:37.160 --> 00:29:41.160 yeah, we plan that. Maybe it's like no, not really. 448 00:29:41.319 --> 00:29:44.440 It just kind of came out of a need to do better than what they've 449 00:29:44.480 --> 00:29:48.240 done before. Does that sound right to you? Yeah? I think so, 450 00:29:48.480 --> 00:29:51.240 although I would have loved it if you know, they had like one 451 00:29:51.279 --> 00:29:53.519 of those moments, you know that when mia Zaki goes. I strongly feel 452 00:29:53.559 --> 00:29:57.279 like this is an insult to life itself about like Chris Prows. You know, 453 00:29:57.359 --> 00:30:02.839 maybe, but it's just behind the scenes. But I can't remember who 454 00:30:02.920 --> 00:30:06.599 dropped this in Caane high winded, Uh, did you see the thing about 455 00:30:06.640 --> 00:30:10.319 the live commentary. I did not, I just dropped it in the in 456 00:30:10.440 --> 00:30:15.400 our chat in crew talk. The game originally had live commentary and you could 457 00:30:15.440 --> 00:30:22.519 pick between a generic voice or a sunder version. What wait, what does 458 00:30:22.559 --> 00:30:27.319 that mean? How does that work? I don't know. I don't know, 459 00:30:29.000 --> 00:30:36.200 like like a rude, rude but like still wants to be around you 460 00:30:36.359 --> 00:30:40.960 despite being like the rudeness is implying something. It's it's rudeness with an implication. 461 00:30:41.920 --> 00:30:45.759 Yeah, that's commentary. Okay, yes, explain. Oh yeah, 462 00:30:45.039 --> 00:30:49.559 she did so, Maury said. Tessa san once asked can't we have live 463 00:30:49.599 --> 00:30:53.400 commentary? And then blah blah blah, and then Hi Sheets then said, 464 00:30:53.480 --> 00:30:59.240 we actually spent about six months seriously developing live commentary. We tried adding voices 465 00:30:59.240 --> 00:31:02.960 to match the place actions. Even though we've added various voices, questions like 466 00:31:03.039 --> 00:31:07.119 who's doing this commentary is tied to pop up amongst the team, and then 467 00:31:07.680 --> 00:31:11.240 maury Son says even the team was evenly split, those in favor of those 468 00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:14.480 against. The default voice was very generic, like a newscaster, but you 469 00:31:14.519 --> 00:31:19.200 had the option to switch into a sunder a commentary, and apparently, according 470 00:31:19.240 --> 00:31:23.279 to their playtest, quite a few people were switching it to that it's like 471 00:31:23.319 --> 00:31:26.160 going to Dick's last resort, which is that restaurant where the waiters and waitresses 472 00:31:26.200 --> 00:31:30.400 are very rude to you. Yeah. I like that the sound of that. 473 00:31:30.599 --> 00:31:33.799 Yeah, so is this actually they're saying it's not in the game, 474 00:31:33.799 --> 00:31:37.519 but it was playing in it, but they were working on it, okay, 475 00:31:37.079 --> 00:31:41.519 And then I guess everyone's talking about the flowers, So the flowers the 476 00:31:41.519 --> 00:31:45.400 compromise there. Oh okay, I could see that, yes, because that 477 00:31:45.599 --> 00:31:48.519 does have its own voice actor. Yeah, instead of having like a live 478 00:31:48.599 --> 00:31:56.720 commentary, then they've got this little kay interesting little freaks. I hope they 479 00:31:56.759 --> 00:32:00.079 reallysed everyone in Chatta saying DLC, I'm with you at Badly Big Great just 480 00:32:00.119 --> 00:32:06.680 releases free DALC. It's I heard that. When you originally said it, 481 00:32:06.720 --> 00:32:08.680 I thought it was going to be director's commentary, Like I thought it was 482 00:32:09.160 --> 00:32:13.200 TESTUK like talking over and explaining what's going on as a nerd. I was 483 00:32:13.200 --> 00:32:16.480 like, that's very exciting. But the idea of them getting play by play 484 00:32:16.599 --> 00:32:22.599 John Madden style over your gameplay, that's also that. I would like to 485 00:32:22.599 --> 00:32:24.000 see how Nintendo would pull that off. I would like to see what that 486 00:32:24.000 --> 00:32:30.400 would actually sound like. Yeah, Xbox Boss pledges no more exclusive Call of 487 00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:34.720 Duty skins or timed content. This is from Andy Robinson f VGC. Phil 488 00:32:34.720 --> 00:32:38.279 Spencer has reiterated Xbox's pledge to maintain one hundred percent parody for Call of Duty 489 00:32:38.279 --> 00:32:44.920 across all platforms now that Microsoft has acquired Creator Activision. Speaking on the Official 490 00:32:45.119 --> 00:32:50.000 Xbox Podcast, Microsoft's head of gaming suggested that the kind of exclusive skins and 491 00:32:50.039 --> 00:32:54.400 timed exclusivity on content drops such as betas seen on PlayStation would no longer happen 492 00:32:54.440 --> 00:32:59.079 now that Xbox is in charge for Call of Duty players on PlayStation and in 493 00:32:59.160 --> 00:33:00.960 the future Nintendo. I want you to feel one hundred percent a part of 494 00:33:01.000 --> 00:33:04.920 the community, he said. I don't want you to feel like there's content 495 00:33:04.920 --> 00:33:07.599 you're missing out on, skins you're missing out on, there's timing, there's 496 00:33:07.640 --> 00:33:10.799 timing that you're missing out on. That's not the goal. The goal is 497 00:33:10.839 --> 00:33:15.200 one hundred percent parody across all platforms. As much as we can for launching 498 00:33:15.240 --> 00:33:17.559 content. I say as much as we can on parody, because clearly some 499 00:33:17.640 --> 00:33:22.359 platforms have resolutions and frame rate differences just based on performance, but there's nothing 500 00:33:22.359 --> 00:33:29.400 else what your platform the series, Yes, exactly yeah, I don't think. 501 00:33:29.759 --> 00:33:30.480 I don't Yeah, I don't think you mean it means it in like 502 00:33:30.640 --> 00:33:34.960 such a derogatory way, right, He probably means it like, uh uh, 503 00:33:35.079 --> 00:33:37.960 hey, let's the switch is doing as best it can, because how 504 00:33:37.000 --> 00:33:42.440 he means it's out there really just huffing and puffing and we're on its side. 505 00:33:44.119 --> 00:33:45.640 This No, it's away. It's always so funny because it's like it's 506 00:33:46.119 --> 00:33:50.079 it's the thing that it is Xbox, like that's the thing. It's like 507 00:33:50.119 --> 00:33:53.000 talking about oh yeah, other platforms, but it's like that it's our platform. 508 00:33:53.160 --> 00:33:58.960 Yeah, And uh, I definitely get the sense here that this is 509 00:33:59.000 --> 00:34:01.960 the kind of thing where, yeah, this we are so magnanimous and we're 510 00:34:02.000 --> 00:34:06.440 so thoughtful. But it definitely comes back for it. And I believe that 511 00:34:06.559 --> 00:34:09.239 they believe they are that this is how they feel. But you know, 512 00:34:09.320 --> 00:34:12.760 when you would trace it back far enough, get back to the point where 513 00:34:12.880 --> 00:34:15.599 like they had to convince a regulator so they said they would do this, 514 00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:17.960 and now they're committing to doing this. It's like when you try to trick 515 00:34:19.000 --> 00:34:22.960 your brain and be like I love doing dishes, let's go do some dishes 516 00:34:22.079 --> 00:34:25.119 that would be great right now, and you're like trying to convince yourself. 517 00:34:25.159 --> 00:34:28.840 It's like that kind of works a little bit. You could kind of control 518 00:34:28.880 --> 00:34:31.119 your brain and tell it like something, it'll be like do I and I 519 00:34:31.119 --> 00:34:34.119 think that's kind of what's happening here. We're like, no, we love 520 00:34:34.159 --> 00:34:37.320 this parody and all this stuff. I don't you know. I don't think 521 00:34:37.360 --> 00:34:42.719 that Xbox ever had some alternative evil plan here either. But I do think 522 00:34:42.760 --> 00:34:45.519 that them kind of coming out and being very proud that they're not going to 523 00:34:45.519 --> 00:34:50.159 have the time to exclusive but anymore anymore is more a sign of like, 524 00:34:50.199 --> 00:34:52.400 this is the agreement that they've already made, and if they went back on 525 00:34:52.440 --> 00:34:57.079 this, regulators could still come after them. So they're not going to do 526 00:34:57.159 --> 00:34:59.159 that. That's it. Yeah, I was gonna say, how much of 527 00:34:59.199 --> 00:35:02.519 that is what I so actually want to do and versus a regulatory demand. 528 00:35:02.880 --> 00:35:07.119 Also, someone someone intowitch chat was like big Xbox hater, Lucy, like 529 00:35:07.159 --> 00:35:12.719 as a joke, I assume you should go nextbo I don't know. Yeah, 530 00:35:12.960 --> 00:35:14.880 And it's like the good news for us is like what they want to 531 00:35:14.920 --> 00:35:17.920 do and what they are doing, it doesn't matter if what comes down. 532 00:35:17.960 --> 00:35:21.960 It's like this is nice. Yeah, sure, then that's a positive, 533 00:35:22.039 --> 00:35:23.639 I suppose, and I think I think it is a positive, but I 534 00:35:24.079 --> 00:35:29.239 also, like I wonder how this is going to continue to play out, 535 00:35:29.280 --> 00:35:35.880 like in like, I really hope that this is not just something that they 536 00:35:36.039 --> 00:35:38.639 are you know, like for a long long time, Phil has been talking 537 00:35:38.639 --> 00:35:40.960 about, you know, how important it is, like he wants to be 538 00:35:40.960 --> 00:35:45.199 on the side of gamers making sure that franchises like Minecraft or on other platforms 539 00:35:45.280 --> 00:35:49.440 like Switch and you know, partnerships to the Nintendo et cetera, et cetera, 540 00:35:49.440 --> 00:35:52.559 et cetera. And so I really, I mean speak to see what 541 00:35:52.599 --> 00:35:57.360 happens now that Activisi and Blizzard King are part of Xbox, Like it's huge 542 00:35:57.360 --> 00:36:00.119 for them to make sure everything is still on every platform. But it's like 543 00:36:00.239 --> 00:36:05.119 I hope that it comes from I don't know, Like I hope he just 544 00:36:05.199 --> 00:36:08.000 kind of sticks to that message. Yeah, I'm with you. I hope 545 00:36:08.000 --> 00:36:15.079 that the incentives that are beyond the regulator regulators, which I think is the 546 00:36:15.159 --> 00:36:20.440 like prime incentive here originally, but obviously I think that they are finding other 547 00:36:20.519 --> 00:36:22.760 reasons that this makes sense and other reasons to feel good about doing things this 548 00:36:22.880 --> 00:36:27.480 way. I hope that that stuff is strong enough to kind of keep them 549 00:36:27.519 --> 00:36:32.000 on the straight and narrow with these things. I whenever we talk about the 550 00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:37.400 way these companies behave and where where executives behave, I'm always operating on their 551 00:36:37.440 --> 00:36:39.519 the assumption that everyone is on the same page as me, as we are 552 00:36:39.599 --> 00:36:44.519 under a system where incentives are kind of screwed up. And when I go 553 00:36:44.559 --> 00:36:47.880 to the shop to buy a sandwich in the store owner there's make the sandwich. 554 00:36:47.960 --> 00:36:51.840 They want to charge me as much as possible for that sandwich, well, 555 00:36:51.880 --> 00:36:53.599 giving me the least amount as possible. Those are the incentives of the 556 00:36:53.639 --> 00:37:00.480 system. But I'm like, I'm not going to carry around this specific angst 557 00:37:00.519 --> 00:37:02.159 for that person who lives in the system and is just behaving the same way 558 00:37:02.159 --> 00:37:06.400 I would if I was running a sandwich shop. So I'm not going to 559 00:37:06.599 --> 00:37:10.239 criticize every single individual running a video game company for that stuff that I think 560 00:37:10.360 --> 00:37:15.119 is a systemic problem. So if like, when we talk about this, 561 00:37:15.239 --> 00:37:16.280 like, oh, hope he stays on the straight and narrow, I know 562 00:37:16.360 --> 00:37:21.119 that he's being bent towards the desire to get the most for his investors. 563 00:37:21.480 --> 00:37:23.920 I do think though, that he thinks, at least it seems this way 564 00:37:24.159 --> 00:37:29.280 that if they do behave in a way that is mostly positive towards the people 565 00:37:29.280 --> 00:37:34.039 buying their stuff, that that will have a better long term a result than 566 00:37:34.079 --> 00:37:37.280 if they were to have short term gains of like what can we do to 567 00:37:37.679 --> 00:37:42.480 basically charge the most while giving the little? Right now, we'll see how 568 00:37:42.480 --> 00:37:45.639 that turns out, But for now, I'm hopeful as much as I can 569 00:37:45.679 --> 00:37:52.440 be under capitalism and what could we do? Continue with Phil Spencer more stuff 570 00:37:52.440 --> 00:37:54.320 out of that interview that he did with that podcast. Phil Spencer is all 571 00:37:54.360 --> 00:37:59.559 in if teams want to revisit classic Xbox and Activission franchises. This is from 572 00:37:59.639 --> 00:38:04.159 Jonas at Game Reactor. It didn't take long last year when Microsoft announced that 573 00:38:04.159 --> 00:38:07.639 they were going to buy Activision Blizzard before fans started making lists of classic franchises 574 00:38:07.920 --> 00:38:12.800 they would like to see brought back and suggesting studios that could or that should 575 00:38:12.800 --> 00:38:16.119 develop games created by other teams. Now that Activision Blizzard is officially part of 576 00:38:16.480 --> 00:38:21.159 Microsoft, the wish list has grown even further. But is this something that 577 00:38:21.280 --> 00:38:23.840 Xbox Phil Spencer would even allow? It turns out the answer is yes, 578 00:38:23.960 --> 00:38:30.079 as Spencer visited the question on the latest episode of the Official Xbox Podcast to 579 00:38:30.119 --> 00:38:32.960 talk about the acquisition. When he got the question about teams reviving old beloved 580 00:38:34.000 --> 00:38:36.960 series, he said, if teams want to go back and revisit some of 581 00:38:37.000 --> 00:38:39.639 the things that we have and do a full focus on it, I'm going 582 00:38:39.639 --> 00:38:45.559 to be all in. My question to you, Lucy is do you think 583 00:38:45.800 --> 00:38:51.639 do you think that that kind of thing can happen frequently a studio going back 584 00:38:51.679 --> 00:38:54.639 and bringing back something that people have been asking for. If it's this sort 585 00:38:54.679 --> 00:38:59.079 of thing of if a team wants to do it as opposed to maybe Phil 586 00:38:59.159 --> 00:39:05.599 Spencer being proactive about it, what do you think, Ah, that's yeah, 587 00:39:05.639 --> 00:39:09.119 I mean because you have I mean what's the scale of it. Are 588 00:39:09.159 --> 00:39:15.079 you gonna go all quadruple A like perfect Dark or is it gonna be more 589 00:39:15.119 --> 00:39:20.039 of like a what's that phrase of like a little a little group Skunkworks team, 590 00:39:20.280 --> 00:39:23.840 Skunkworks team Ken of just going in, coming up with the protype, 591 00:39:24.239 --> 00:39:30.199 coming up with some like get the feel together and then pitching it like I 592 00:39:30.239 --> 00:39:34.519 would. I think that would be awesome. But also at the same yeah, 593 00:39:34.519 --> 00:39:37.679 why is it called that time? It's like, if you look at 594 00:39:37.719 --> 00:39:44.519 the realities of video game development right now, how expensive everything is, how 595 00:39:44.519 --> 00:39:47.199 feasible, is that realistically good to be I think in terms of all of 596 00:39:47.239 --> 00:39:52.519 the franchises that Xbox now owns, in terms of the studios that Xbox now 597 00:39:52.519 --> 00:39:57.679 own, Certainly they have resourcing, but at the end of the day, 598 00:39:57.719 --> 00:40:00.199 it's going to be Matt Booty and Phil Spencer taking a look and and like, 599 00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:01.840 are we going to put our eggs in this basket? Or are those 600 00:40:01.840 --> 00:40:05.719 eggs best place We've got a lot of food metaphors today, are those eggs 601 00:40:05.840 --> 00:40:12.320 very best placed in a different kind of scenario, like supporting a bigger project 602 00:40:12.400 --> 00:40:15.159 rather than taking a risk on a smaller one, Right, And that's something 603 00:40:15.159 --> 00:40:19.880 that the industry in general is kind of like dealing with. It's like money 604 00:40:20.000 --> 00:40:23.960 is like games is so so so expensive. So I loved I would love 605 00:40:24.000 --> 00:40:27.440 and like even this quote that you're going to read from Phil, it's like, 606 00:40:27.760 --> 00:40:31.840 definitely there's opportunity there. I think it's also going to be you know, 607 00:40:31.920 --> 00:40:35.239 they're not They're not going to say, oh, well, you really 608 00:40:35.320 --> 00:40:38.239 like that franchise, so we'll give you ten million dollars to do something on 609 00:40:38.280 --> 00:40:42.800 it. It's it's going to be a way more considered approach than yes, 610 00:40:43.360 --> 00:40:46.599 fuck it, let's ball, let's bring back everything. So yeah, so 611 00:40:47.000 --> 00:40:51.159 let's let's let us read this quote from Phil who says, I do think 612 00:40:51.360 --> 00:40:53.679 with Game Pass, we have the ability to maybe pick a couple franchises every 613 00:40:53.760 --> 00:40:59.280 year and almost to like a revisit it, like revisit it. I just 614 00:40:59.639 --> 00:41:02.039 are like a revisited I think what he's saying. And he said, I 615 00:41:02.079 --> 00:41:07.199 just made up that term, So good for you. Fells when the CEO 616 00:41:07.320 --> 00:41:08.800 is like, I made up a new word being the boss, Like, 617 00:41:08.880 --> 00:41:14.119 I'm just gonna make up a tim and that's what's gonna happen. I just 618 00:41:14.159 --> 00:41:15.519 think about CEOs. I was dressed me crazy. Is how proud they are 619 00:41:15.559 --> 00:41:20.599 of like just kind of put a little spin on the words. Learnings is 620 00:41:20.639 --> 00:41:22.280 my least favorite word. It's like that there there was a word for that. 621 00:41:22.280 --> 00:41:25.320 It was called lessons, and you're just starting learnings because you heard another 622 00:41:25.360 --> 00:41:30.239 executive say it. But okay, so he says, like a revisited. 623 00:41:30.480 --> 00:41:32.360 I just made up that term. So it's not a brand on a box. 624 00:41:32.400 --> 00:41:36.079 But you know, I teas about things like hex in just because I 625 00:41:36.079 --> 00:41:37.559 remember playing it as a kid. I have no plan for that. But 626 00:41:37.639 --> 00:41:40.519 I do think when you look across all of the franchises that are part of 627 00:41:40.559 --> 00:41:44.920 our teams. There's an opportunity for us to go back, even if that's 628 00:41:45.039 --> 00:41:49.199 just a recognize the moment and what those things meant in gaming's history, and 629 00:41:49.239 --> 00:41:52.559 do something right with it, make it available to people through game pass. 630 00:41:52.639 --> 00:41:57.400 I think there's an opportunity, and I think so him saying this, I 631 00:41:57.400 --> 00:41:59.480 think this continues to kind of put a shed a light of like how he 632 00:41:59.519 --> 00:42:04.039 thinks about it, and it needs to be studio led and when they are 633 00:42:04.159 --> 00:42:07.880 going to have a space open in their heart and then they're budgeting for ideas 634 00:42:07.960 --> 00:42:13.159 like this. But I think for studios, you hear this, and I 635 00:42:13.159 --> 00:42:16.280 think it's like, you can maybe bring an idea like that to us as 636 00:42:16.320 --> 00:42:21.239 long as you have the big thing you're working on in production as well. 637 00:42:21.480 --> 00:42:23.599 And the reason I say that is I look at something like Obsidian, which 638 00:42:23.960 --> 00:42:27.719 does have several big projects in the works, and then they were able to 639 00:42:27.760 --> 00:42:30.760 do grounded as well. It's like, well, if you can spare the 640 00:42:30.800 --> 00:42:34.360 people and you have an idea that you're passionate about, we are we will 641 00:42:34.400 --> 00:42:37.079 say yes. When it comes to do you need money for this thing that 642 00:42:37.079 --> 00:42:39.440 you're passionate about. That's the one thing that we've kind of a little bit 643 00:42:39.480 --> 00:42:46.679 of insight we've had and this does come from that the Psycho Knots two documentary. 644 00:42:46.679 --> 00:42:51.000 I'm trying to think of the name of it. Yeah, a psychonots 645 00:42:51.280 --> 00:42:53.440 Outlaw dream. I can't remember what it's called, but that huge thing that 646 00:42:53.480 --> 00:42:55.880 had. There's some small parts where they do meet with Matt Booty after they 647 00:42:55.880 --> 00:43:00.360 get acquired by Microsoft, and you know the really, Tim Shaffer's really worried 648 00:43:00.400 --> 00:43:02.519 about, Man, we got to ask for more money. We need more 649 00:43:02.559 --> 00:43:06.280 money for this game. We've never really done this at Microsoft before. And 650 00:43:06.320 --> 00:43:08.039 he goes and asks Matt Pooty matput He's like, yeah, sure, here's 651 00:43:08.199 --> 00:43:14.400 here's a bunch more money. And I think that's probably going to be the 652 00:43:14.480 --> 00:43:16.440 experience of a lot of these teams. If you have an idea that you 653 00:43:16.639 --> 00:43:20.320 are, that you've been working on, and that you that you think you 654 00:43:20.360 --> 00:43:22.840 can bring to market, and you have a plan for it, and you 655 00:43:22.840 --> 00:43:24.920 go to ask money for it, I think you're probably gonna get a yes, 656 00:43:25.920 --> 00:43:29.840 as long as all that stuff is in place. But I think a 657 00:43:29.880 --> 00:43:31.280 studio just being like, are we going to pick a name out of a 658 00:43:31.320 --> 00:43:36.400 hat and just start building a pitch around that. I don't think that's gonna 659 00:43:36.400 --> 00:43:38.719 work. You're going to have to have a really strong idea. And even 660 00:43:38.760 --> 00:43:42.960 then it's like, is that the kind of thing that you could see through 661 00:43:43.039 --> 00:43:45.719 to the end or is it like you start it and it's a false start 662 00:43:45.719 --> 00:43:46.199 and you kind of give up on it, And a lot of these things 663 00:43:46.239 --> 00:43:50.559 end up getting canceled. I wouldn't be surprised by that as well. But 664 00:43:50.719 --> 00:43:53.840 I mean, because even from the Bethesda acquisition, have we seen any other 665 00:43:53.880 --> 00:44:01.239 than the rumored Oblivion remake, I'd think they would be mining right. I'm 666 00:44:01.239 --> 00:44:05.639 trying to think a little bit more like Blacks. You brought up like no 667 00:44:06.360 --> 00:44:08.559 word on fall Out New Vegas two, for example, which seems like such 668 00:44:08.599 --> 00:44:13.599 an easy right. I did hear that there was some conversations between Microsoft and 669 00:44:14.480 --> 00:44:17.519 and but that's an obsidian about a New Vegas two. That was a very 670 00:44:17.960 --> 00:44:22.519 very early conversation about maybe we should do this and whether or not that turns 671 00:44:22.519 --> 00:44:25.599 in anything real. There's so many steps between that game coming out and what 672 00:44:25.639 --> 00:44:30.480 I've heard has happened there. Yeah, bring back wet where we need Wet 673 00:44:30.519 --> 00:44:37.719 back. Please don't put that thing of me putting two words together accidentally, 674 00:44:37.760 --> 00:44:42.599 everybody. I'm so sorry, Jesus Christ, I hate myself. Okay. 675 00:44:43.360 --> 00:44:46.000 The figure is you were saying, like, what have they brought back any 676 00:44:46.000 --> 00:44:49.400 of these old games? Know? What they happened doing though, is like 677 00:44:49.760 --> 00:44:54.360 smaller little projects that they feel proud about and that's a pentiment and grounded and 678 00:44:54.440 --> 00:45:00.239 stuff like that. That's I think that's maybe what's more likely to happen these 679 00:45:00.239 --> 00:45:02.639 studios. We're under Microsoft now, and yeah, we can go bring back 680 00:45:02.679 --> 00:45:06.920 something that already exists. But now is a chance when we can actually make 681 00:45:06.960 --> 00:45:08.760 that game we always talked about making, and we can take a chance on 682 00:45:08.800 --> 00:45:12.199 that, and Microsoft's gonna say yes because it might fit in Game Pass. 683 00:45:12.599 --> 00:45:15.880 So I think that will kind of the opportunity costs there might lean more towards 684 00:45:15.880 --> 00:45:19.199 these studios wanted to do something original, as opposed to being like, oh, 685 00:45:19.239 --> 00:45:22.159 we're the team that's going to take over Banjo. Excuse me. I 686 00:45:22.159 --> 00:45:28.519 think that's less likely. All right, let's go here and say that. 687 00:45:28.800 --> 00:45:32.679 Yes, Paradox Interactive parts ways with hair brain Schemes after the Lamplighter League. 688 00:45:32.920 --> 00:45:37.760 This is from Zoe Handley at Destructoid, Paradox Interactive and Hair Brain Schemes have 689 00:45:37.840 --> 00:45:42.960 announced that the two companies will be partying ways. This comes after Paradox expressed 690 00:45:42.960 --> 00:45:46.840 the disappointment with the performance of the Lamplighters League. Paradox has acquired were originally 691 00:45:46.840 --> 00:45:52.119 acquired the company in twenty eighteen. This is a kind of kind of came 692 00:45:52.119 --> 00:45:54.639 out of nowhere a little bit, and it's a little bit unfortunate, Lucy, 693 00:45:54.679 --> 00:45:59.679 because the way that this kind of went is Paradox was like looking at 694 00:45:59.719 --> 00:46:01.719 how the game was going to perform, and then it came out and they're 695 00:46:01.760 --> 00:46:06.119 like, we are writing this off, basically saying that we're going to take 696 00:46:06.119 --> 00:46:08.280 a huge loss on this game. I do believe they've laid off many of 697 00:46:08.280 --> 00:46:12.119 the people that work there and now they're kind of setting them off on their 698 00:46:12.119 --> 00:46:15.119 own and saying, go fin for yourselves. The hair the people that remained 699 00:46:15.119 --> 00:46:19.639 at Hair Brain Schemes say that they are looking for new publishing partners, new 700 00:46:19.639 --> 00:46:22.800 opportunities, uh, and they probably the good news is the video game industry 701 00:46:22.840 --> 00:46:27.880 is so desperate for content and talent, they probably will be able to find 702 00:46:27.880 --> 00:46:30.559 something. But it does feel a little bit like a raw deal of Hey, 703 00:46:30.599 --> 00:46:35.480 the lablader League's League, it's it's biggest sin seems to be it was 704 00:46:35.559 --> 00:46:38.039 rushed out to market, and that was very unlikely the choice of the people 705 00:46:38.039 --> 00:46:42.199 that worked at hair Brain Schemes, right, yeah, yeah, I mean 706 00:46:42.360 --> 00:46:45.360 I despite you know, being in the video game Trench's day and day out, 707 00:46:45.400 --> 00:46:49.960 I think I think we walked past this at packs. Yeah, we 708 00:46:49.960 --> 00:46:52.760 did. Other than that, like, I've barely heard anything about it, 709 00:46:52.800 --> 00:46:55.199 And it's very difficult right now for any game to cut through the noise. 710 00:46:55.360 --> 00:46:58.840 Yeay, this one came out with that was like a sixty ish Metacritic, 711 00:46:58.880 --> 00:47:01.519 which is just to death nail this year, right exactly, And it's the 712 00:47:01.559 --> 00:47:07.920 Immortals of Avim curse too, right, It doesn't It doesn't matter who is 713 00:47:07.960 --> 00:47:10.920 your publisher if like, fundamentally the game is not good, and fundamentally, 714 00:47:10.920 --> 00:47:15.199 if the game is not good in a year like this full of nines and 715 00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:17.719 tens across the board, yeah you're going to struggle. But I mean, 716 00:47:17.920 --> 00:47:22.440 yeah, didn't didn't Paradox didn't. They lay off a bunch of people before 717 00:47:22.440 --> 00:47:24.719 the game even launched too, So they've been laying people off for a minute 718 00:47:24.719 --> 00:47:30.719 now. Yeah. Yeah, And then it's it's rough that they that this 719 00:47:30.840 --> 00:47:35.519 is happening to the team, like you know, getting acquired thinking that you've 720 00:47:35.519 --> 00:47:38.760 got that security from a bigger publisher, more money. But like, as 721 00:47:38.760 --> 00:47:42.280 we've seen many times, that is not the case. Look at what's happening 722 00:47:42.320 --> 00:47:45.960 with Bandcamp, for example, getting getting acquired by Epic, sold off and 723 00:47:45.000 --> 00:47:51.320 then off your team is out, and so all the best of the folks 724 00:47:51.320 --> 00:47:52.679 that her brain schemes, it seems like they've got a really bomb deal. 725 00:47:53.079 --> 00:47:59.880 Yeah, this is the team that did a Battle Tech the the really well 726 00:48:00.079 --> 00:48:05.599 received, a tactical mech game, not just well received, beloved. A 727 00:48:05.639 --> 00:48:08.800 lot of people really really really love that game, and you're like, man, 728 00:48:09.039 --> 00:48:13.000 they must have been working on a sequel, right, but I don't 729 00:48:13.000 --> 00:48:16.559 know. Lamp Lighters League is one that I did. I had some curiosity 730 00:48:16.599 --> 00:48:23.000 about. It is an Indiana Jones style thing with tactics and stuff like that, 731 00:48:23.039 --> 00:48:25.760 and it's I was like, Okay, I'll check that out if it's 732 00:48:25.800 --> 00:48:29.400 good, and then you know, you see the reviews and it's like it's 733 00:48:29.440 --> 00:48:32.679 really broken and people I remember talking to people who were playing it for review 734 00:48:32.760 --> 00:48:37.440 on Xbox because it's in game Pass, and they're like, this is the 735 00:48:37.519 --> 00:48:44.159 game that has caused my Xbox to crash more than any other it's in like 736 00:48:44.199 --> 00:48:47.199 the several dozen times it cost of the crash. Jesse from Xbox Era said 737 00:48:47.199 --> 00:48:52.719 that he played the game for thirty hours and made ten hours of progress because 738 00:48:52.719 --> 00:48:55.880 he lost so many saves due to the crashing, and it's like, that's 739 00:48:55.920 --> 00:49:00.400 the kind of stuff you just can't launch. You you can't watch game in 740 00:49:00.400 --> 00:49:04.000 that state and expect anything. Of course, the game was was dead on 741 00:49:04.119 --> 00:49:07.239 arrival. If that's the kind of stuff people are hearing about it. Did 742 00:49:07.280 --> 00:49:10.920 you see, speaking of crashes, did you see the Mortal Kombat crash log 743 00:49:10.960 --> 00:49:15.880 thing? That's yes, that is wild one gigabyte. Okay, so apparently 744 00:49:15.880 --> 00:49:21.519 when when Mortal Kombat crashes, it sets aside one gigabyte for the crash report. 745 00:49:21.920 --> 00:49:24.599 It's like one gigabyte even the crash. That's got to be a bug. 746 00:49:24.639 --> 00:49:30.840 And so even the crash reports, that's incredible stuff. I didn't think 747 00:49:30.840 --> 00:49:32.960 it was. I did notice that some of the tweets about it were like, 748 00:49:34.400 --> 00:49:37.079 oh man, Western studios are at it again, and I'm like, 749 00:49:37.119 --> 00:49:39.840 I know a lot of what Western studios make very big games in terms of 750 00:49:39.840 --> 00:49:45.079 the size it goes on your your hard disk, But do games from Japan 751 00:49:45.280 --> 00:49:50.000 not have like large file sizes. I just I didn't get that that was 752 00:49:50.000 --> 00:49:52.880 an East versus West thing. But whatever. Maybe well, I mean, 753 00:49:52.000 --> 00:49:57.000 given the the like a lot of stuff is for the Switch, you know, 754 00:49:57.079 --> 00:50:00.480 maybe they're just you're right, maybe they're much more concerned with optimization because 755 00:50:00.559 --> 00:50:05.079 of the Switch. That makes sense. Yeah, but then File Fantasy seven 756 00:50:05.119 --> 00:50:07.519 Rebirth two discs and that's a marketing feature though, so it is, and 757 00:50:07.559 --> 00:50:14.719 that's double the quality there, it is absolutely Uh Okay, let's hit these 758 00:50:14.800 --> 00:50:17.679 last couple of stories. Actually, just this last one here. Nintendo reminds 759 00:50:17.760 --> 00:50:22.360 us a Switch version of Hogwarts Legacy is still coming from Alex Hopley, a 760 00:50:22.400 --> 00:50:25.960 game reactor. After a few lengthy delays, it seems that Hogwarts Legacy is 761 00:50:25.960 --> 00:50:30.079 finally on its way to Nintendo Switch. Fans of the Wizarding World will be 762 00:50:30.079 --> 00:50:31.880 able to take their adventures on the go on the fourteenth of November, and 763 00:50:32.239 --> 00:50:37.039 digital pre orders are available now. Some screenshots came out. They look pretty 764 00:50:37.079 --> 00:50:40.599 good. I'm still of the opinion that there's just no way that this game 765 00:50:40.639 --> 00:50:45.880 can run decently on the Switch. We'll see, Yeah, go tell the 766 00:50:46.360 --> 00:50:50.719 screenshots look solid, But I mean, I don't know, I don't think 767 00:50:50.719 --> 00:50:54.079 we have any video of the game in motion yet, which is what I'm 768 00:50:54.079 --> 00:50:57.480 really kind of waiting for. And even then, I'm not waiting for a 769 00:50:57.559 --> 00:51:00.840 trailer from them. W B those Warnerable there's they always lie to me. 770 00:51:01.159 --> 00:51:07.400 Yeah, like you see there's no UI on anything. Yeah, that's that's 771 00:51:07.440 --> 00:51:09.719 what I was wanting to look Those screenshots. I'm like, please feel a 772 00:51:09.719 --> 00:51:13.719 bit bull shoddy to me. But who am I to judge before I play 773 00:51:13.719 --> 00:51:17.880 a game amongst us can judge? Well, we'll see. Uh. I 774 00:51:17.920 --> 00:51:21.840 don't think that they wanted to get through the end of this year without this 775 00:51:21.920 --> 00:51:23.480 game coming out on the Switch. I think they want to have it out 776 00:51:23.519 --> 00:51:30.400 for the holidays, and November fourteenth seems like the kind of the good time 777 00:51:30.480 --> 00:51:35.719 to get out before Black Friday basically is what they're Thanksgiving is the twenty first 778 00:51:35.719 --> 00:51:37.719 this year, right, Is that the fourth Thursday of the month. Let 779 00:51:37.719 --> 00:51:45.360 me double check here. I don't know, man, it's the twenty third. 780 00:51:45.440 --> 00:51:46.760 It's it's always the fourth Thursday of the month. In case anyone ever 781 00:51:46.800 --> 00:51:52.400 asks you again, there you go. Uh so, yes, the fourteenth 782 00:51:52.440 --> 00:51:54.719 is basically a week before that. That's kind of the last chance to get 783 00:51:54.719 --> 00:51:58.599 it out. By then we'll see I'm gonna be very curious about that one 784 00:51:58.639 --> 00:52:05.000 though. All right, let's get to the poll from yesterday I asked, 785 00:52:05.320 --> 00:52:07.719 and I have it right over here somewhere. By somewhere, I mean, 786 00:52:08.159 --> 00:52:13.639 I'm gono have to bring it up again. On YouTube dot com slash at 787 00:52:13.719 --> 00:52:17.360 Giant Bomb slash community, you can you can read the question what are you 788 00:52:17.440 --> 00:52:22.320 playing this week or what are you going to play this week? Marvel Spider 789 00:52:22.360 --> 00:52:25.719 Man two, Super Mario Brothers Wonder or Sonic Superstars. Six percent said Sonic 790 00:52:25.760 --> 00:52:30.679 Superstars, forty four percent say Marvel Spider Man two, and fifty percent say 791 00:52:30.719 --> 00:52:37.960 Super Mario Brothers Wonder. That tag team of Spider Man and Mario Wonder Lucy 792 00:52:38.239 --> 00:52:44.599 is pretty incredible because like those are rich, yes, really highly rated, 793 00:52:45.039 --> 00:52:50.960 and then they're probably there's a there's a possibility like Zelda's Out and Hugard's Legacy 794 00:52:51.599 --> 00:52:52.800 are out, and they were they were like very they sold very well. 795 00:52:52.960 --> 00:52:57.960 There's a possibility these two games could end up out selling both of those even 796 00:52:58.199 --> 00:53:00.199 and be like the best selling games of the year. So a big, 797 00:53:00.239 --> 00:53:04.239 big weekend for video games, isn't it? Isn't that right? Addie? 798 00:53:04.840 --> 00:53:08.480 I want you. What do you want? Where's the That's a good question. 799 00:53:08.480 --> 00:53:12.599 It's right here, dude. There you go, There you go. 800 00:53:12.719 --> 00:53:14.320 I gotta turn it on for you. There you go. Okay, you 801 00:53:14.400 --> 00:53:15.559 just want to go to hit the input button and go to PlayStation. All 802 00:53:15.639 --> 00:53:19.840 right, she's been playing all the Sonic games. She's playing, playing, 803 00:53:19.920 --> 00:53:22.800 she playing, She's bouncing back between Frontiers and Superstars actually, so oh my 804 00:53:22.840 --> 00:53:28.760 god, she's enjoying it so cute. All right, Well, I get 805 00:53:28.800 --> 00:53:30.840 another pole question going, Lucy, what do you have going on? Where 806 00:53:30.840 --> 00:53:37.519 can people find you? All that good stuff? So we are actually recording 807 00:53:37.760 --> 00:53:42.519 this week's episode. Jeff justs was our adventure tomorrow, so that will be 808 00:53:42.599 --> 00:53:45.159 going up as soon as possible. Get two episodes of Cowboy be Bob. 809 00:53:45.840 --> 00:53:51.719 I did a big I love how much Jeff loves it. Yes. We 810 00:53:52.039 --> 00:53:55.199 were at Mike Maharty's wedding on Friday and he we were having a meal, 811 00:53:55.239 --> 00:54:00.440 which is lovely beautiful wedding, uh, and he literally was like, oh 812 00:54:00.440 --> 00:54:04.559 my god, beaboup guys. I mean every time every time like you talked 813 00:54:04.559 --> 00:54:06.880 about Jeff jeffs, he just like has a stop. W'd be like, 814 00:54:07.760 --> 00:54:09.159 have we got the anime ever? Made. I'm like, yep, that's 815 00:54:09.239 --> 00:54:15.159 correct. Mike'spiegel like, oh yeah, so we're recording that tomorrow. I 816 00:54:15.159 --> 00:54:17.800 haven't watched the episodes yet. I'm not sure which onesday. Pobob is also 817 00:54:17.880 --> 00:54:22.880 leaving Netflix at the end of the month, so coming over to Crunchy Role, 818 00:54:22.920 --> 00:54:30.960 I guess like me. I did a big timeline of Cyberpunk last week. 819 00:54:30.000 --> 00:54:32.360 It went up on Sunday over on game Spot. If you want to 820 00:54:32.360 --> 00:54:37.320 watch that this week on Friends for second as well. We've got Brian Intaha 821 00:54:37.639 --> 00:54:42.599 coming in talk about Spider Man two. It was a very fun chat. 822 00:54:43.119 --> 00:54:46.039 Do you give me a favor and ask him this. I'm also seeing him 823 00:54:46.079 --> 00:54:51.719 tomorrow, so ask him. In the game, there is a scene where 824 00:54:51.800 --> 00:54:53.320 and this is just a a not even really a spoiler, everybody, I 825 00:54:53.360 --> 00:54:57.400 promise you, I promise you, it's not really a spoiler. There's a 826 00:54:57.480 --> 00:55:00.360 scene where Mary Jane gets frustrated because her story is not going to get in 827 00:55:00.400 --> 00:55:07.000 the paper because a hack reporter wrote a shitty story with the headline tweet yes 828 00:55:07.360 --> 00:55:09.400 can you ask mine? He asked them if that's from his experience working at 829 00:55:09.400 --> 00:55:13.880 EGM with Shoe, because when I worked with Shoe at bit moob and then 830 00:55:14.119 --> 00:55:16.880 at games b uh that's one of the cliches that I remember he hated the 831 00:55:16.880 --> 00:55:20.679 most is Tiger Lions, Tigers and bears. Oh my, if you do 832 00:55:20.719 --> 00:55:23.119 that construction and a headline, he would lose his mind. And uh so 833 00:55:23.199 --> 00:55:27.519 I asked Brian if that's a reference to that or for that's just coincidence, 834 00:55:27.519 --> 00:55:30.239 because I can't imagine that it's a coincidence from a guy that was like at 835 00:55:30.280 --> 00:55:34.840 e GM at that time, we're going a shoe, so especially especially when 836 00:55:34.840 --> 00:55:37.360 you're trying to illustrate that that's that it's a hack reporter, like that's the 837 00:55:37.360 --> 00:55:39.000 point of the scene. So yeah, can you message that. Can you 838 00:55:39.039 --> 00:55:44.960 do that? Yes? Absolutely, and then tell him that I said money 839 00:55:44.960 --> 00:55:46.840 had money had money hat and fragile Eagle. I'll message you that as well. 840 00:55:47.360 --> 00:55:51.559 Oh yeah. And then the other thing is we go spot on on 841 00:55:51.639 --> 00:55:54.400 Friday. Uh Don Yosi has asked what it's going to be about. I 842 00:55:54.440 --> 00:55:58.719 don't know yet. We've got that meeting at eleven am, so I'll find 843 00:55:58.760 --> 00:56:04.719 out that that's up on Friday too. Oh. I have the new poll 844 00:56:04.800 --> 00:56:07.840 question, do you ever buy games that you know are bad? Yes? 845 00:56:08.280 --> 00:56:12.039 Or no? I guess is a tough one because for me, I'm like, 846 00:56:12.079 --> 00:56:14.320 I do track down these bad games, but I have my waste of 847 00:56:14.320 --> 00:56:15.239 getting them without having to pay money for um, so it's a little bit 848 00:56:15.320 --> 00:56:20.239 unfair. I don't know if I would have ever bought Skull Island Rise of 849 00:56:20.320 --> 00:56:23.199 calling for forty dollars or thirty two dollars something, you know, the introductory 850 00:56:23.199 --> 00:56:27.920 sale on Steam and knowing it was bad. Back in the day, I 851 00:56:27.960 --> 00:56:30.639 was always so scared of wasting the few opportunities I got to ask for video 852 00:56:30.679 --> 00:56:35.280 games for my parents for like birthdays and Christmas on a bad game. And 853 00:56:35.320 --> 00:56:37.639 I think that gave me a real aversion to that for a long time, 854 00:56:37.639 --> 00:56:39.360 where it's like I'm not going to waste my time on something that the reviews 855 00:56:39.400 --> 00:56:43.559 aren't glowing, and I think I missed out on some some like stuff that 856 00:56:43.599 --> 00:56:45.239 I would have enjoyed that was, you know, most people thought were mediocre. 857 00:56:45.719 --> 00:56:47.599 But now I'm at a point where it's like, I definitely want to 858 00:56:47.599 --> 00:56:52.920 be playing as many bad games that are like Marquee bad games as possible because 859 00:56:52.920 --> 00:56:54.519 I think there's yeah, maybe it's the Blake Club miss of it, but 860 00:56:54.599 --> 00:56:59.039 having that perspective on gaming and like how you could do things so wrong still 861 00:56:59.159 --> 00:57:02.440 is really fun. So we'll talk about that on Games Morning is tomorrow here 862 00:57:02.480 --> 00:57:07.480 on Giant Bomb. Speaking a Giant Bomb, we will have let's see Blake 863 00:57:07.480 --> 00:57:10.639 Club later today. Mike should be Major Mitch excuse me, should be finishing 864 00:57:10.719 --> 00:57:16.280 up his tour in Mortal Kombat Special Forces on the PS one and then I 865 00:57:16.280 --> 00:57:21.000 can't think there's anything else today but tomorrow voicemail, dunk truck, stuff like 866 00:57:21.039 --> 00:57:25.960 that for tomorrow. Also Thursday Night throw Down TNT for Halo Infinite. Get 867 00:57:25.960 --> 00:57:30.559 your Halo Infinite downloaded. We'll have some fun with that. That will be 868 00:57:30.719 --> 00:57:35.159 around I think one pm Eastern. And then for if you see a Hamlet 869 00:57:35.159 --> 00:57:38.000 of Texas asked what time for a Blake Club today, I think we're doing 870 00:57:38.000 --> 00:57:42.320 that the normal time, which is two thirty pm Eastern, and about that 871 00:57:42.320 --> 00:57:44.920 puts it about two and a half hours from now, so we'll see you 872 00:57:44.960 --> 00:57:47.000 then. All right, Lucy, thank you so much for talking with me 873 00:57:47.000 --> 00:57:52.559 about video games today. I super appreciate it. Now to do the rest 874 00:57:52.599 --> 00:57:55.719 of my stuff for the day. Yeah, I thank you everybody for listening. 875 00:57:55.719 --> 00:57:59.519 You're the best audience in gaming. Until next time, have a good 876 00:57:59.519 --> 00:58:04.960 one, take care of yourself and goodbye. How do you get out of 877 00:58:05.000 --> 00:58:08.280 this level? You gotta start and then go back. You gotta go back 878 00:58:08.320 --> 00:58:09.000 to the map.