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You got me bad. It's the
internet. You're busy. Let's do this

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for July tenth, twenty twenty four. For the next hour or so,

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let me help you sort through the
world of gaming on Game Mess Mornings Live

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with me Jeff Grub. Today,
Xbox shuffles, it's game Pass offerings,

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and Nintendo is teasing something creepy.
But first, please join me and welcome

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you today's co host to Game Mess
Mornings. It's Janet Choe. Everybody,

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jan How are you doing. I'm
doing great. I'm happy on this Thursday

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morning. Oh no, oh,
oh no, it's a it's a Wednesday.

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I kind of threw curveball on you
there. I needed you today instead

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of Thursday. Yeah, so you
got two days left this week? Oh

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no, yeah, though I planned
poorly. Grub, I'm back, everybody,

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We're back. We're doing it.
I missed you all. A Gameless

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Mornings has returned. Uh. For
people who are asking, hey, when

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is it back, it's now.
The answer is now. It's back.

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Uh. Glad to be back,
though, Glad we could get back into

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the swing of things. I say
back a lot of times, so I'm

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just gonna keep doing it. Back
back, back, back, back back

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back, when back back back back
back back a lar, we're back,

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We're back of everybody. Uh yeah, really happy about all this. It

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was a great time off. But
hey, doing the show also makes me.

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I'm pretty happy too, So glad
we could make it happen. But

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Jin, how was it when I
was gone? How are things? How

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was the how's the news? And
all that? I don't remember? Uh,

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it's probably like the same feeling when
one of us is gone for a

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week. Oh I just cussed.
I just did. Now I've started doing

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that a lot. It's just cussing
randomly. Ah, cuss it. Uh.

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The week just goes by so fast, and we're trying we uh,

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we're always spinning plates here a giant
bomb dot com and whatever someone leaves for

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a vacation, we want to make
sure that they are uninterrupted and go on

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the proper vacations. Correct, Yes, continue to spin plates that It's like

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we put a cardboard cutout of said
person and just like pretend they're still there,

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right, Yeah, we go spin
the plate for them, but the

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cardboard cutout is holding it somewhat exactly. Yeah, And I did feel like

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I could get out there and enjoy
myself, and uh, but it is.

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It's something we talked about when you
got back where it's like the scaffolding

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that holds us up is like all
of the stress of making sure everything's working,

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and then when I let that melt
away, it's a little bit hard

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to rebuild that scaffolding a little bit, which is why, which is why

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I think we're afraid of taking vacations
in the first place. I'll lose that

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momentum. But whatever, it went
fine. Here we are, we're back

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in the swing of things, and
it's it's going to be completely fine.

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So yeah, glad I was able
to do it. Looking forward to it.

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You're you got a trip coming up
soon. How much are you talking

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about this? You like let people
know details, You're ready to dot yourself.

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Yeah, totally, one hundred percent. I'm staying at this hotel now.

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I'm going to Japan, unfortunately only
for a week, so Saturday Saturday

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or this Saturday to next Saturday.
I've I've already booked tickets to Disneyland,

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of course, because I am also
a broken Disney adult like Mike Manatti,

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very excited. I'm going to plan
to meet up with a friend of the

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website out there. I don't want
to dos him. I think he's gonna

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be in Japan and we're gonna have
a fun old time out there. I'm

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ready to buy so much, so
many jeans grub. Are you like saving

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room in the suitcase or you bring
in an extra suitcase or you're gonna buy

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a suitcase when you're out there.
I'm gonna buy a suitcase out there.

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Yeah yeah, I mean listening,
Your dollars is gonna go very far.

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You might as well listen. Listen. I'm I'm gonna buy several of the

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white T shirts from the Bear oh
sweet. Yeah, even if I don't

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fit them, I'm just gonna get
the largest fricking size. Yeah, I

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don't. Uh. It never feels
good like getting closed from a Japan So

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they do. They do assume you're
gonna be a little bit swelter than I'm

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running these days. Yeah uh.
And then greb to add to the insanity,

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I'm gonna be back here for like
two days, and then I'm getting

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shipped in a box to comic Con
because our dear friend Emma Fife needs help.

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Yes, you gotta go help them. Okay, so you got you

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got some busy times coming up.
Uh oh boy, oh boy. I

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don't expect from Comicicon grub like I
have, like god, used to the

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conventions, the gaming conventions of E
three, SGF and and packs to an

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extent, never been a games com
But I have no idea what to expect

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from comic Con. And this is
San Diego comic on right, this is

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the yes. Okay, well,
so at least you get to go to

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San die which we definitely enjoyed during
dream Hack, so that you know,

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I try to remember the name of
it chan it came to me, I

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got it. Uh, but yeah, I don't know. We enjoyed San

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Diego, so at least you get
to enjoy that city. But yeah,

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I it was real. So I'm
like, no, if I've been to

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comic I no, I haven't.
I have no idea what you should expect.

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I hope to see our dear friend
Chef Bob out there, yeah once

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or and yeah, yeah, we'll
we'll we'll see absolutely all right, we

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should explain what we do here most
weekdays, I Jeff greb will help piece

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your gaming life back together. That
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Hello YouTube. All right, we
have a lot to get into, so

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let's start the morning mess with.
Xbox game Pass is getting a price increase

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and introducing a new tier. This
is from Eddie McCoo and George Yang at

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GameSpot. Microsoft has revealed some upcoming
changes to Xbox game Pass, including raising

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the price of several tiers, the
introduction of a new one, and the

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closure of another. Starting July tenth, Xbox Game Pass for Console will not

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be available for new members. Well, will not be available for new members

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only, but those who are currently
subscribed will be grandfathered into this tier with

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its existing access to day one releases, including first party Microsoft exclusives. Instead,

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new members will be able to access
Xbox Game Pass Standard for fifteen dollars

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per month. However, it will
not include perks such as day one releases

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access to EA, play game Pass
for PC and Cloud gaming. Xbox game

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Pass Ultimates offerings will remain unchanged,
so you'll still get to day one game

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Pass, EA, all that stuff, but it will be seen an increase

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from seven eventeen dollars per month to
twenty dollars per month. Xbox Game Pass

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Core is also getting a price increase, with its annual charge of sixty dollars

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increasing to seventy five dollars. However, the monthly price will remain ten dollars.

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The price for PC Game Pass will
increase from ten dollars per month to

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twelve dollars per month, but will
still have day one releases. All of

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these price changes will take place starting
on September twelfth. Jan Do you get

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it? Do you understand all that? Yes? And no? Mostly no,

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I just know that they're doing this
for Call of Duty. Yeah,

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I mean they're doing it for That's
definitely the number one factor here is they

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have this big game that they said
would be in game Pass, and now

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here are the caveats to that.
That's a big game that sells very well.

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I think they want to make sure
they get as much money from it

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as possible, and they can sort
of the people that would get game Pass

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for it, it's like, well, yeah, get game Pass for it,

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but definitely go to that twenty dollars
tier. Now, well, game

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Pass Ultimate is where most people already
are on game Pass. Something like eighty

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percent of people who have game Pass
just get Ultimate, so they were already

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paying the higher price. Now it's
an even higher price now. But that

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being said to me, when I
look at this Jen and I see them,

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you know, slightly de emphasizing day
one games on game Pass, where

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it's like, now that most of
the tiers that are that are available to

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you don't include that, or at
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of those tiers on console whatever,
you know, fifteen dollars per month and

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still not getting day one games is
and that that's only for new members,

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so existing members keep that perk.
It feels like the kind of thing where

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it's like, oh, they don't
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game Pass, you know, going
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they want to get as much money
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the Ultimate comes in. So,
yeah, this is about making money from

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Call of Duty, not making money
from game Pass. And I think that

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indicates where Xbox is now, where
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let's make sure we are growing game
pass, that is the future. That

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is slightly less true these days,
and now it is much more like,

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hey, we got to make money
from everything that we have. And I

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don't think that's necessarily a bad strategy, but I think a lot of people

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are like kind of taken aback by
this. They're a little surprised. But

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they've been saying this for a while
now. In like two years ago,

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Phil Spencer mentioned like, hey,
game pass is about fifteen percent of our

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business and we expect it to remain
about about fifteen percent of our business going

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forward. So they've just outright said
it a bunch of times. So this

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is what game pass is. It's
not going to turn into this massive industry

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disrupting force anytime soon. So that
means they got to find ways to make

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more money from from the people that
subscribe, right. I also feel really

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bad for their existing console base that
they it feels not that they're getting screwed,

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but they're getting nickel and dimed a
bit more. Yss that's what's happening

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with them. Yes, like at
this point, I would if I was

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purely a console gamer, I would
really think about exploring getting like a budget

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gaming PC and trying to just play
cod there. Like at this point,

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what are you missing on the Xbox
that you couldn't also get on a PC.

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Yeah, I've been thinking about that
a lot recently jam where I was

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like on the trip and I was
it was just kind of like, you

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know, laying on the beach and
thinking about stuff and then the occasionally thinking

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about video games and being at the
whim of these corporations. Like for a

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long time it wasn't such a bad
thing because that they would put extra effort

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into like add perks to their their
consoles and make them stand apart. But

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it's like, well, when things
go bad, these console manufacturers could panic

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and they could make decisions that make
these consoles feel worse in some ways or

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sort of vanilla. And on PC, where it's like it is open,

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it's open and anyone could do their
stuff there, it's like it's sort of

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up to the community to make sure
that the PC gaming remains interesting, and

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they've done that like kind of consistently
from the beginning. So I definitely feel

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best these days about investing in PC. But not everyone's going to feel that

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way, and some people still want
their consoles and I don't blame them for

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that. I'll still have them.
But I think that when I see stuff

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like this, it is Man,
I am glad. I'm mostly detached from

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from game Pass and what's happening over
there. I'm not thinking about it too

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much. I think I do still
have, excuse me, a subscription,

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but this is all this data iss
remind me, hey, let's cancel that,

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because I haven't been using it recently. So yeah, it's weird,

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but it is for me, like, yeah, this is just where things

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are with these companies. Yeah,
and I know that on this website specifically,

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we've sung the praises of game Pass
as a service to be able to

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check out a wide variety of games
because it felt like such a great value.

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It's still a decent deal. Yeah, and it still is a decent

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deal. It just feels like as
if you were purely a console Xbox person.

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Uh you were, you were continually
being disvalued as as like a core

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person. Uh and and they're just
trying to squeeze more out of you.

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Because I don't believe grub that they're
gonna there's gonna be a major influx of

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Call of Duty players joining Game Pass
after this. I feel like, yeah,

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a lot of those Call of Duty
players, some of them, yes,

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are on Xbox, but a lot
of them are aren't going to be

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on the PlayStation, right and and
they're not going to pick up game Pass

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because they can't. Well yeah,
and it's like that there there's other options.

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We'll talk about that in a little
bit where you don't have to buy

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an Xbox to take advantage of this. But those players are are they already

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have a PlayStation, they already bought
it. They're gonna just play it there,

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you're right, Listen, it moves
the needle a little bit putting the

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Call Duty and Game Pass. But
yeah, I think you're right that that's

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some huge, new, massive game
changing influx is probably not in the cards.

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So that goes back to what this
is them trying to make more money

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from the people who already are in
their ecosystem. And I hate to say

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this, but like taking away Day
one games on the standard tier. At

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this point, what Day one releases
from Microsoft should I be expecting like in

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the immediate future. Yeah, I
mean, it looks a little bit better

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this at the second half of the
year. If we assume that like things

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like Avowed in Indiana Jones are going
to be good, which I'm hopeful for.

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For both of them came out,
I didn't care exactly, but then

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at that point I would just wait
for all of those games to come out,

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and then I would resub to game
Pass later in the year rather than

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have that subscription going continuously, right, And I think that there there will

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be discerning players out there who are
going to do exactly that, where they're

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like, listen, I'm already playing
this game on something that I'm that I

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own currently. You know, I'm
you know, wait in the final fantasy

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for it right now. When I
kind of get through this content, maybe

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I'll look around and see the best
deal I can get, and maybe at

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that point they hop on game Pass
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through a couple a couple of those
games relatively quickly, and then they bounce

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back out like that. That way
of playing games is still available to people

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and they should be taking advantage of
it. But what Microsoft needs is people

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excited about the service, so they
want us like they're like, well,

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I can't cance Oaks, then I'll
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none of that is happening right now, not in any major way. And

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I feel like we talked about this
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but there's been like a flood of
free to play games, and not that

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those free to play games will specifically
be in the same ven diagram as Xbox

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Game Pass players or Call of Duty
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something like Zendless Zone zero first Descendant, once Human. I think that's the

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one that dropped yesterday, right,
Star Wars Hunters is that free to play

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on market. It's free to play
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That's gonna scratch the itch for some
players to like, well, I

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don't have to spend money on these
games, Like I can squeeze as much

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as I can without like paying for
the gotcha mechanics or whatever energy stuff that

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you'd have to do that. I'm
cool dipping out a game pass for a

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little bit because I can just like
someone to chat mentioned like, yo,

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you can get like a three month
voucher later in the year to get all

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of those games. Play those games
later in the year. Versus paying from

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here on out to the end of
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and it's I think what Microsoft is
seen is like, I ideally, at

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one point several years ago, the
thinking was, get a lot of people

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on game Pass, and then those
people would be actively in the Xbox ecosystem

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because their friends would have game passed
and they're like, well, when we're

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gonna play a game tonight, are
we gonna play We're gonna play this game

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alory have on game Pass. Sure, maybe, but then maybe one of

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these free to play games comes out
and it's like, well, we're already

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on Xbox and that's where we play
every night because we have this investment in

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game Pass, Let's just go play
it on Xbox as well. Let's play

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that tonight and then spend some money
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gaming night again because of game Pass. It was gonna be this network effect,

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and it doesn't feel like that ever
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way. I think, if anything, we've seen that those kinds of games

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have been doing slightly worse on Xbox
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they're doing better and you know elsewhere, maybe not the switch but they're doing

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better elsewhere now, So yeah,
people are gonna be spending more and more

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time with those kinds of games,
and not necessarily more and more time with

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them on Xbox. And that's kind
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I think is why we see Microsoft
talk about, hey, we are looking

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past the console in a lot of
our major ways. We're not so interested

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in keeping people in our ecosystem.
In that way, our ecosystem is going

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to broaden to be like hey,
Minecraft on mobile and you know, Call

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of Duty Mobile and King stuff,
and we're gonna get a billion gamers that

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way. It's like, okay,
Sure, in the meantime, the strategy

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on console feels a little bit stale
and like it has not panned out the

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way they wanted to, and now
we're just kind of watching them sort of

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try to maneuver in a position where
it makes the most money possible so they

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can justify their jobs. Yeah,
I you know, I would still feel

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very hesitant to recommend someone getting an
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And I see a couple of folks
saying that, you know, they

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don't want to be tied to their
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But there's like a bunch of ways
now to like stream that if you

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have a reliable connection to your to
your living room TV, Moonlight works great.

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I use that sometimes. But also
like the steam Decknasis Roger, you

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hook those bad boys up to your
TV and you know, it's it's a

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similar experience to the switch because the
Bluetooth very reliable on both. Yeah,

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and I get it some people are
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PC gaming. That that's fair.
But I think all we were saying is

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there's a reason that PC gaming feels
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because when it's driven by the community. It's like, look at esports.

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There are a lot of esports that
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like, well, actually no,
this was just the marketing arm of a

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corporation who is trying to sell a
video game. So the Overwatch Esports League

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was this big, big thing and
it's like, well, okay, yeah,

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but as soon as the corporation loses
interest, what happens to that esports

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scene? It kind of feels decimated. It feels like a desolated island.

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community driven ones? What about the
ones that feel like that are more open

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where people can take these games and
run them themselves. It's like, well,

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no EVO better than ever well EVO
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that the fighting game community pushes that
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is what makes its feel fresh.
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vibe, like watching esports versus the

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FGC, where like organized stuff like
DODA or League or Overwatch like you mentioned

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grub feels like a corporate manufactured type
of experience versus the what started as like

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a grassroots, organic type of thing
with the FGC, like even Nintendo being

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weird with like Smash being an EVO
and all these other tournaments. Uh,

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that scene and that those people over
there still going super duper deep into that

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scene and just like, uh loving
that game exactly. Yes, And it's

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uh so when I look at like, you know, PC versus console It's

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like PC just has that kind of
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they do it now. Obviously,
like you know, Steam is there and

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massive, but there's people feel an
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that how that manifests over and over
again, you know. While we're talking

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about like esports and stuff. Like. Another scene that I feel like has

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grown very organically and just feels very
fun to see pop up and you see

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younger and younger players popping up is
the competitive tetra scene. Seeing these kids

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like do the flicking thing with the
neys controllers. Oh, oh, hyper

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tapping or whatever it is. Yes, I love that. We were playing

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Mario Party and something and and it
was me, Dan, Mike and someone

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maybe maybe it was Bailey, and
Mike was just like, I'm going to

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crush everybody on the tapping the things. And I'm like, I'm gonna try

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the hyper tapping thing. And I
like got my hands set up so I

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could hyper top the buttons by just
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uh, I kind of won easily. So I'm like, this is this

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is the new tech for me.
I need to take advantage of this smote

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more frequently. All right. So
we've talked about many reasons this might be

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happening, but there's kind of an
obvious reason starting us in a face when

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we look at how the games are
performing. The former MPD group now called

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Sirkana, put out their report earlier
this week and hel BLAYD two, which

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came out in the month of May, was nowhere on the top twenty best

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selling games of the month. So
people asked Matt piscatel about it and he

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offered a little bit of more information. This comes from ign Kat Bailey.

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New hel Blade two sales data offers
a clearer picture of how it did on

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Xbox Game Pass and the charts.
Hell Blade two was built as one of

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twenty twenty four's big exclusives when it
released back in May, but overall sales

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numbers have been hard to come by
since launch. Now, thanks to Sirkana's

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most recent sales data, we have
a clear picture of its performance. According

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to Sircana analyst Matt Piscatella, Helblay
two was thirty seventh overall in terms of

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full dollar sales from May twenty twenty
four, putting it at twenty first overall

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on Xbox Series consoles. Hell Blay
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Also, it was only forty dollars
in these charts are arranged by dollars sales,

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and also I think it just didn't
sell very well, and the digital

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sales obviously would be included because it
did end up on the chart at some

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point. Notably, hel Blay two
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and that was born out of its
engagement data, where it ranked twelve on

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Xbox in terms of monthly active users. That puts it behind Fallout seventy six

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on the on the platform, but
ahead of Star Wars, Jedi Survivor,

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Apex Legends in forts A Horizon five. Piscadella shared the sales info on Twitter.

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Since hell Blay two's performance meant that
it didn't appear on any of the

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major charts, I think that,
you know, hell Blay two was never

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destined to be a top of the
chart seller, obviously with game Pass being

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there, but even that, even
with all that considered, this is pretty

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rough and if they are not going
to like put out physical versions of these

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games, making sure that they do
get more people willing to spend you know,

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sixty dollars forty dollars or whatever in
this case, but sixty dollars up

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front on these games is going to
remain important to them. And that's what

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it feels like the change is about. It's like, hey, maybe people

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will pay fifteen dollars per month to
us for this library of games and online

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multiplayer, which I well, I
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So to pay fifteen dollars per month
for this library of games and then

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also give us money up front for
new releases, and they're trying to get

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this best of both the world situation, and I just don't know if that's

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in the cards for them either.
Yeah. I feel bad for hell Blade

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two despite not enjoying any minute of
it. Yeah, same, just because

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I feel like for the was it
like a Game Awards and then a summer

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game fest, like it had such
a huge presence during either one of those

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shows or maybe both of those shows. Definitely during the Game Awards where they

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had like that huge right orchestral sequence, and you know, the game looks

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beautiful, But it also feels like
like that Microsoft kind of let it,

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uh, let let it hang there
on it on its own, because I

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don't remember seeing any type of marketing
for it. It just feels battle around

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grub right, and it's like,
you know, maybe it did do all

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right on game Pass or but you
know, we're in a world now where

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we're looking at what happened to Tango
game Works, and you know, I'll

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keep saying that, you know,
Tango Game Works didn't make enough money and

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that's the real reason why that the
studio got closed. But they would say,

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hey, no, that game did
all right, Hi Fi Rush,

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and then the studio is still closed. So is is now Ninja theory in

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that same situation? And why wouldn't
we assume that maybe yes they are,

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yeah, yeah, And it's it's
such a weird place for hell Blade two

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to come out, Like I don't
I don't remember when the first one released,

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but it's such a dry period for
Microsoft because of how they were also

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despite not marketing it, they were
also positioning it to I don't want to

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say, save the Xbox lineup,
but like really bring people back. And

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I don't. I always felt like
hell Blade one was kind of like a

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cult success, not like a mainstream
big hit. Like I didn't see people

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dressing up as Senua or not really
No, maybe not yet, who knows,

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Greb. Yeah, put the leaf
blow away, guys. But yeah,

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it just felt like an odd choice
to put this much weight on the

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game but also not put this much
faith in the game. It seems like

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to an extent, Yeah, and
you know, this is a situation where

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maybe they were between a rock and
hard place where it's like, do we

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invest more to make this game feel
bigger and more important, make it a

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sixty dollars game, make it a
twenty hour experience, spend several more years

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making it in that case, and
it's like, well, that doesn't feel

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like it would necessarily pay off based
on the respet to what this game was

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when it did launch. But then
also the you know, forty dollars,

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a shorter experience, not a lot
of new ways to engage with the compared

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to hell Blay one according to the
people who played it again, I not

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really spend much time with it,
And it's like, okay, I mean,

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there seemed like there was no great
answer here, but honestly, just

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making the game good might have you
know, better, probably probably would have

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helped. I don't know, but
either way, they want to be selling

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more games. They do they want
to or at the very least, maybe

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that's the wrong way putting it.
They want to be making more money from

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everything that they put out than what
they're making from everything they're putting out,

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and I think that they're back at
a point now where they believe that selling

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games on day one is more important
than growing game Pass, and that seems

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pretty clear to me at this point. I don't know if everyone paying attention

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to the show right now agrees with
that, but it's hard to like lay

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out a countercase, in my opinion. If you want to try to make

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the argument against that's what's happening,
go for it. But based on all

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the evidence before our eyes, based
on Microsoft's actions, it feels like the

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importance of game Pass is being diminished. It's not going to go away.

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It's they're not They're not gonna shut
it down. It will continue to be

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an option, but it is not. It is not the platform anymore.

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I I don't understand business. I'm
not gonna claim that I do grub.

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I don't think anyone does. I
don't. I don't know if they know

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what they're doing. Sometimes, yeah, it seemed like the game pass strategy

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was let's be disruptive, now then
we could be the leaders in the space,

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and when what happened to movies and
music happens to games, we will

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be positioned as the first movers,
and we will be the Netflix, and

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we'll be associated with that, and
people will just come to us. And

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I mean at the time it seemed
like it made some sense. But but

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now here we are and it's like, oh man, gamers are just way

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more obstinate and than everyone else,
and they they spend so much more money

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per gamer than like music listener does
or book reader or movie watcher. That

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again, I think gamers feel more
ownership over the hobby than some of those

409
00:28:12.319 --> 00:28:17.559
other in those other mediums, and
so when they like, no, I

410
00:28:17.559 --> 00:28:18.799
want to do things the way I'm
used to the way I like to do

411
00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:23.000
it, and I don't much feel
like changing. I think Xbox found out

412
00:28:23.039 --> 00:28:27.079
the hard way that there they weren't
able to like control the behaviors a player.

413
00:28:27.160 --> 00:28:30.160
I mean, they should maybe they
should have known better. They used

414
00:28:30.160 --> 00:28:33.200
the carrot instead of the stick this
time. They were going to use the

415
00:28:33.200 --> 00:28:36.400
stick with the Xbox One launch,
or like we're gonna take away you know,

416
00:28:36.559 --> 00:28:40.880
digital or renting games and we're selling
use games and all this stuff,

417
00:28:41.200 --> 00:28:45.240
and and they're like, Okay,
well that didn't work. Everyone freaked out

418
00:28:45.240 --> 00:28:47.880
about that. So instead, what
we're gonna do is we're gonna build something

419
00:28:47.920 --> 00:28:51.200
that's very enticing and make people want
to come to us. And I think

420
00:28:51.240 --> 00:28:55.000
that was a better strategy, but
it also had its limits because you're talking

421
00:28:55.039 --> 00:29:00.400
about changing player behavior and that's not
very easy to do. Finally, on

422
00:29:00.400 --> 00:29:04.920
this topic, new Microsoft advert highlights
that you don't need an Xbox to play

423
00:29:06.079 --> 00:29:10.319
Xbox This is from Tom Iban at
VGC. Microsoft has released a new advert

424
00:29:10.400 --> 00:29:14.559
highlighting the ability to play Xbox games
without a dedicated console. While it has

425
00:29:14.599 --> 00:29:18.200
been possible to play Xbox games via
cloud on PCs, mobile devices, and

426
00:29:18.240 --> 00:29:22.200
select smart TVs and VR headsets for
some time, support for the future was

427
00:29:22.240 --> 00:29:26.480
this week extended to some Amazon fireTV
stick devices. To do so, players

428
00:29:26.480 --> 00:29:30.359
have to install and launch the Xbox
Apps app from their Fire TV device,

429
00:29:30.759 --> 00:29:33.440
signing with a Microsoft account, sign
up for Game pass Ultimate if they haven't

430
00:29:33.440 --> 00:29:38.160
already, and connect a controller to
play that. Those last like four phrases.

431
00:29:38.160 --> 00:29:41.680
There is what I would call the
last mile problem, where it's like

432
00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:44.599
people have a hard time getting over
all of those humps, but whatever.

433
00:29:45.240 --> 00:29:48.640
This is one of the things that
people point to Jan to say, well,

434
00:29:48.720 --> 00:29:51.400
no, clearly they're still invested in
game Pass because they're making moves like

435
00:29:51.480 --> 00:29:56.079
this, And I would I just
don't think fire TV is the answer for

436
00:29:56.160 --> 00:29:59.559
game Pass in any real way.
This doesn't change much, Grub. Can

437
00:29:59.599 --> 00:30:04.599
I go on the weirdest analogy?
Please? I would love it? Okay,

438
00:30:06.119 --> 00:30:12.200
everyone forgive me. It feels like
Microsoft is the person in a failing

439
00:30:12.240 --> 00:30:19.359
relationship trying to open the relationship and
perhaps that will save it. Sure,

440
00:30:21.559 --> 00:30:23.839
And it's like, hey, you
know what, like you can do whatever.

441
00:30:25.359 --> 00:30:27.160
You can go there, now,
you can go here. You don't

442
00:30:27.160 --> 00:30:30.640
gotta you want to be here all
the time with me, but like I'll

443
00:30:30.680 --> 00:30:36.839
be here and that'll save us.
Yeah, don't. And I don't think

444
00:30:36.880 --> 00:30:40.400
that works, Grub. I don't
listen. If it has, I've never

445
00:30:40.440 --> 00:30:45.200
seen it. Jan, Uh,
I think you're kind of on the money

446
00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:48.279
here with this one, where uh
listen in the in the short term,

447
00:30:48.400 --> 00:30:52.480
I think Microsoft's like, let's just
you know, try a bunch of things.

448
00:30:52.759 --> 00:30:56.039
I still think they have this like
some long term strategy about trying to

449
00:30:56.759 --> 00:31:00.000
fundamentally change the way the gaming market
works, where Hey, maybe the law,

450
00:31:00.039 --> 00:31:04.160
maybe regulation will force game stores to
be on other consoles and other platforms,

451
00:31:04.160 --> 00:31:07.279
and then maybe at that point we
could put an Xbox store on a

452
00:31:07.319 --> 00:31:11.559
PlayStation. And again that's my tenfoil
hat long term like conspiracy theory about what

453
00:31:11.559 --> 00:31:17.160
Microsoft's trying to do here, So
it could be completely wrong, but like

454
00:31:17.200 --> 00:31:18.920
I think, like if they're thinking
super long term about like what is their

455
00:31:18.960 --> 00:31:25.079
best chance to like recapture an ecosystem, I think they're starting to think that

456
00:31:25.160 --> 00:31:30.960
way, and in the meantime,
every move they're making feels like like a

457
00:31:30.039 --> 00:31:36.599
half measure at best. Yeah.
I just I just try and like put

458
00:31:36.599 --> 00:31:40.799
myself in the shoes of like a
parent during the holiday season, like looking

459
00:31:40.839 --> 00:31:45.799
for a gift for their their child
or their their nephew, niece, whoever

460
00:31:45.279 --> 00:31:52.759
a young kid in their life,
and like just being decentivized to get an

461
00:31:52.920 --> 00:31:56.240
Xbox and just having that mentality of
like, Okay, it's either a Nintendo

462
00:31:56.319 --> 00:32:01.960
or the PlayStation. And I know
that like media literacy or not media literacy,

463
00:32:02.000 --> 00:32:07.920
but like buying literacy at least is
higher now where you people buying consoles

464
00:32:07.920 --> 00:32:12.279
are not just thinking of the Nintendo
one or the PlayStation one. But they're

465
00:32:12.279 --> 00:32:16.359
thinking of the switch or the PS
five, and some people will be more

466
00:32:16.400 --> 00:32:21.559
clued in that, Okay, a
switch to is coming, so maybe I'll

467
00:32:21.599 --> 00:32:24.759
just go get the PS five because
I haven't heard any positive buzz about the

468
00:32:25.119 --> 00:32:30.880
Xbox in a while, and uh
right, And it doesn't feel like Xbox

469
00:32:30.920 --> 00:32:32.920
is necessarily trying to change that all
that much. Instead, they're like,

470
00:32:34.160 --> 00:32:37.119
yeah, we get it, we
get it. Listen when we don't,

471
00:32:37.160 --> 00:32:38.559
we don't got the stuff. We
were not going to give you the stuff.

472
00:32:38.599 --> 00:32:42.079
So uh, I don't know,
go play our games on Amazon.

473
00:32:42.160 --> 00:32:47.640
And you know, I appreciate all
of the difficulties that like Phil Spencer and

474
00:32:47.759 --> 00:32:52.480
most Sarah Bond and Matt Booty have
highlighted in their conversations in the past,

475
00:32:52.519 --> 00:32:54.880
where they would say stuff like,
yeah, we lost the last console war

476
00:32:54.920 --> 00:32:58.079
and that was a really rough one
to lose, and everyone has all their

477
00:32:58.079 --> 00:33:00.240
digital libraries, so we're never gonna
get PlayStation p to switch over to Xbox.

478
00:33:00.799 --> 00:33:05.599
And I appreciate that even if they
were to make a game that everyone

479
00:33:06.079 --> 00:33:07.839
had to have, well, you
know, look at what's happened in the

480
00:33:07.839 --> 00:33:10.519
PlayStation five right now. They have
a lot of games that people have to

481
00:33:10.519 --> 00:33:15.039
have, and even their console sales
are dropping year overyear at the moment,

482
00:33:15.039 --> 00:33:19.279
and so it's okay, so Xbox
could do all the work to try to

483
00:33:19.319 --> 00:33:22.640
grow that, but they would probably
just be maybe taking some small percentage points

484
00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:28.519
here and there from PlayStation. And
that's not really growth. That is fighting.

485
00:33:28.599 --> 00:33:31.079
That's squabbling back and forth with another
company over the same piece of pie

486
00:33:31.359 --> 00:33:37.319
that they've always been fighting over.
And now Microsoft has officially spent enough money

487
00:33:37.359 --> 00:33:42.640
on investing in games that that is
not enough anymore. So they have to

488
00:33:42.720 --> 00:33:45.920
make so much more money than they've
ever really made. And you know,

489
00:33:45.960 --> 00:33:47.319
now they have the tools to do
that by having Called Duty and King and

490
00:33:47.359 --> 00:33:51.599
all these things like that stuff will
help them make that money. But that's

491
00:33:51.640 --> 00:33:53.200
the point. Now, it's like
Call of Duty and King and what does

492
00:33:53.200 --> 00:33:58.079
that have to do with Xbox?
Nothing really, because those King games aren't

493
00:33:58.079 --> 00:34:01.119
on Xbox at all, and Call
of Duty is not exclusive Xbox, and

494
00:34:01.200 --> 00:34:06.480
those those are the solutions to the
current problem. So why emphasize the Xbox

495
00:34:06.559 --> 00:34:09.000
and they haven't been for years now
is really where we're at. And this

496
00:34:09.079 --> 00:34:12.639
is this goes back to that thing. About two years ago we said game

497
00:34:12.639 --> 00:34:15.000
Pass was fifteen percent of our business. They just flat out say these things,

498
00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:17.840
and it takes kind of years for
it to filter down to the people

499
00:34:17.840 --> 00:34:22.840
who play on Xbox to fully believe
them. But believe them. This is

500
00:34:22.880 --> 00:34:27.039
it, this is what they're doing
now, and I don't again, like

501
00:34:27.079 --> 00:34:30.400
with Game Pass, this doesn't mean
the Xbox consoles go away. This doesn't

502
00:34:30.400 --> 00:34:32.880
mean they're going to disappear tomorrow.
They'll release another one. They'll probably keep

503
00:34:32.880 --> 00:34:37.079
releasing them, but it is just
going to be one option of many.

504
00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:43.199
I feel like I see like a
new special edition Xbox one that is like

505
00:34:43.360 --> 00:34:46.559
skinned, like a different property every
other week. Yes, so, like

506
00:34:47.039 --> 00:34:52.800
the boxes are still being made.
I just think like they they're not pushing

507
00:34:52.800 --> 00:34:54.719
the box. They're definitely not pushing
the boxes as hard as they were.

508
00:34:55.199 --> 00:34:59.719
Yep. All right, so let's
take a quick break. When we get

509
00:34:59.719 --> 00:35:01.960
back, We've got a lot more
to talk about, including a creepy smiling

510
00:35:02.079 --> 00:35:14.480
man video that Nintendo uploaded earlier today. It's weird right after this. All

511
00:35:14.559 --> 00:35:16.960
right, we are back, and
let's get right back into it with what

512
00:35:17.000 --> 00:35:21.719
the hell is Nintendo teasing with this
creepy smiling man video. This is from

513
00:35:21.719 --> 00:35:27.760
Michael mcwerdour at Polygon a new teaser
trailer for something called EMEO is already one

514
00:35:27.800 --> 00:35:30.239
of the strangest things Nintendo has ever
done. On Wednesday, the family friendly

515
00:35:30.280 --> 00:35:36.280
game maker posted a fifteen second teaser
that centers on a spooky mystery man wearing

516
00:35:36.320 --> 00:35:39.440
a smiling paper bag mask. Maybe
it's Dan Record after you mentioned wrestling.

517
00:35:39.760 --> 00:35:45.320
It's unsettling enough that Nintendo has flagged
the video as age restricted, and in

518
00:35:45.320 --> 00:35:49.840
some countries preface the trailer with the
warning that it contains scenes that some viewers

519
00:35:49.880 --> 00:35:52.760
may find disturbing. The only other
thing to appear in the video outside of

520
00:35:52.760 --> 00:36:00.000
the creepy trench coated man is the
kanji symbols that mean meaning EMEO or smile

521
00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:04.519
Aileen Man. Nintendo fans are puzzled
about what EMEO is, with some joking

522
00:36:04.519 --> 00:36:07.920
that it's edgy viral marketing for the
switch to or speculating them that it's a

523
00:36:07.960 --> 00:36:13.280
first party in Nintendo horror game.
Naturally, Hideo Kojima's name is being tossed

524
00:36:13.280 --> 00:36:16.519
around because teasers are his trade.
Coachum is already busy with Destiny two OD

525
00:36:16.800 --> 00:36:22.280
and Phi isn't yeah whatever. Outside
of the spooks played for laps, Luigi's

526
00:36:22.320 --> 00:36:27.000
Mansion series. Nintendo rarely dabbles in
horror. The most prominent examples of nintendo'sploring

527
00:36:27.039 --> 00:36:30.039
the genre are m raated games like
Eternal Darkness, Sanity's Requiem, and Fatal

528
00:36:30.039 --> 00:36:34.480
Frame Mating of the Black Water,
both of which were developed by third parties

529
00:36:34.480 --> 00:36:37.440
and published by Nintendo. I'll get
this up here so everyone could take a

530
00:36:37.480 --> 00:36:43.119
look at it. But yeah,
this is strange. What do you think

531
00:36:43.079 --> 00:36:45.239
it is? This has got to
be Luigi's Mansion four right, That's the

532
00:36:45.280 --> 00:36:49.719
only thing I could explain this.
Luis mentioned four. Yeah, I'll get

533
00:36:49.719 --> 00:36:53.159
this. Creepy man in a trench
coat and Luigi has changed Luigi. Yes,

534
00:36:53.360 --> 00:36:57.239
the Guigi game is very different,
but the players are the same.

535
00:36:57.559 --> 00:37:00.159
Yeah. That's that's it, everybody. It's just fifteen seconds a man in

536
00:37:00.199 --> 00:37:05.079
a trench coat and a smiling faced
paper bag on his head, kind of

537
00:37:05.119 --> 00:37:10.239
flashing in and out of a room. Yeah, and that's it. I

538
00:37:10.280 --> 00:37:14.559
don't know where people are, Okay, peep, oh, okay. This

539
00:37:14.639 --> 00:37:17.400
is a Blueber Team joint apparently.
Yeah, that has been some of the

540
00:37:17.440 --> 00:37:22.679
speculations that this is a Blueber Team
joint. It is. Let's see here.

541
00:37:22.800 --> 00:37:28.960
It just says who is Emeo in
the YouTube description. But yes,

542
00:37:29.000 --> 00:37:30.119
I think people were able to kind
of piece together that some of this is

543
00:37:30.159 --> 00:37:32.800
Bluebird Team, and I think there
might be more of that here. In

544
00:37:32.920 --> 00:37:37.440
a yes, EMEO might also be
a project from Bluebird Team, developer of

545
00:37:37.519 --> 00:37:43.199
Silent Hell to Remake and the Layers
of Fear series. Blueber said in twenty

546
00:37:43.239 --> 00:37:45.639
twenty three it was working on a
new game code named Project M with studio

547
00:37:45.760 --> 00:37:51.599
Draw Distance that was being developed for
Nintendo platforms. Draw Distance has since been

548
00:37:51.639 --> 00:37:53.920
removed from that project, which is
now being worked on by Blueber Team under

549
00:37:54.000 --> 00:38:00.320
subsidiary known as Blackmuir Games. That
subsidiary his subsidiary has just one post on

550
00:38:00.360 --> 00:38:05.880
social media, a message of congratulations
to Nintendo that also includes a piece of

551
00:38:05.920 --> 00:38:08.440
mysterious concept art with a Nintendo switch
nearing the end of its life cycle.

552
00:38:08.480 --> 00:38:12.199
Maybe the folks behind Mario and the
Legend of Zelda had decided to get a

553
00:38:12.199 --> 00:38:15.599
little weird and throw some curveballs at
the console's aging audience. Yeah, that's

554
00:38:15.639 --> 00:38:19.360
I mean, Nintendo does tend to
get a little bit more strange at the

555
00:38:19.400 --> 00:38:22.840
end of its consoles. This feels
a little bit different than that. But

556
00:38:22.920 --> 00:38:28.719
I'm kind of for it. Yeah. I Hey, you know, one

557
00:38:28.719 --> 00:38:30.280
of these days, blueber Team has
got to have a hit, right,

558
00:38:30.599 --> 00:38:34.639
Yeah, listen, I got to
make something that's all right. Even though

559
00:38:34.679 --> 00:38:38.639
people will always say I gave them
what is the one with the flashing or

560
00:38:38.679 --> 00:38:44.519
the like flashing in and out of
existence that required the SSD on the Xbox

561
00:38:44.920 --> 00:38:45.559
Like I said, I gave that
game a ten out of ten. I

562
00:38:45.599 --> 00:38:49.960
never played that game medium, thank
you, Sean. I never played the

563
00:38:49.960 --> 00:38:52.039
game, but people say I give
it a ten out of ten. I

564
00:38:52.480 --> 00:38:57.320
listen, I don't know. I
don't never I don't think I've played a

565
00:38:57.320 --> 00:39:01.559
Blue Erteam game. And I this
looks strange, but we've just seen fifteen

566
00:39:01.559 --> 00:39:07.360
seconds of a teaser and I'm almost
more interested to see it from the viewpoint

567
00:39:07.440 --> 00:39:15.599
of what sort of strange creepiness would
Nintendo be publishing. And I think we

568
00:39:15.639 --> 00:39:21.960
have to assume that Nintendo's probably publishing
this because they if they weren't, they

569
00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:24.400
wouldn't put a video like this on
their channel that does not say who is

570
00:39:24.440 --> 00:39:29.079
making the game, because I think
they would like not want to take like

571
00:39:29.199 --> 00:39:30.119
have people coming to them and be
like, hey, what is this game?

572
00:39:30.159 --> 00:39:32.719
But well, no, we're just
posting a video for one of our

573
00:39:32.760 --> 00:39:36.920
partners. They would always list their
partners. I would, I would believe,

574
00:39:37.000 --> 00:39:40.239
But maybe I'm wrong, Maybe that's
not the case. I don't know.

575
00:39:40.280 --> 00:39:45.719
What is this kind of strange this
you want from Nintendo? You know

576
00:39:45.719 --> 00:39:51.519
we've been saying this for like this, this period of time before Nintendo announces

577
00:39:51.519 --> 00:39:54.119
and releases the Switch to they can
do whatever the hell they want. Yeah,

578
00:39:54.360 --> 00:39:58.920
yeah, for real, there will
be some games that like kind of

579
00:39:58.960 --> 00:40:01.920
come out right in that window of
like switch to his announced and the Switch

580
00:40:01.960 --> 00:40:06.199
is still going, and I hope
that stuff is the strength the console has

581
00:40:06.199 --> 00:40:09.559
seen so far. All right,
let's keep going here. Star Wars Outlaws

582
00:40:09.639 --> 00:40:15.239
character progression breaks Ubisoft's open world mold. This is from Blair Marnell at GameSpot.

583
00:40:15.559 --> 00:40:19.480
Later this summer, Ubisoft in Massive
Entertainment will put players in the role

584
00:40:19.559 --> 00:40:22.840
of Kves in Star Wars Outlaws and
open world games set in the Star Wars

585
00:40:22.960 --> 00:40:28.559
universe. Traditionally, Ubisoft's open world
games, including the Assassin's Creed series,

586
00:40:28.599 --> 00:40:31.480
allow the lead characters to build up
their skills through experience points. However,

587
00:40:31.519 --> 00:40:36.199
Star Wars Outlaws is shaking that up, shaking up that formula by making players

588
00:40:36.280 --> 00:40:40.840
level upcase skills by sending her on
special missions. Via IGN, Star Wars

589
00:40:40.880 --> 00:40:45.440
Outlaws co director Matthias Carlson explained that
there are experts spread throughout the game who

590
00:40:45.480 --> 00:40:51.360
can offer k new abilities and upgrades
in exchange for completing tasks and missions for

591
00:40:51.400 --> 00:40:54.320
them. He also indicates that the
experts are fully realized characters in their own

592
00:40:54.400 --> 00:40:58.880
right. They are full on characters, said Carlson. So they're spread out

593
00:40:58.880 --> 00:41:01.400
in the world and you don't know
exactly who they are, what exactly they

594
00:41:01.400 --> 00:41:05.039
have to offer you, and how
to reach them from the very beginning.

595
00:41:05.400 --> 00:41:07.920
So there's there's this journey of discovery
here as well. And once you reach

596
00:41:07.960 --> 00:41:10.679
them, there's a character there to
interact with and an adventure to go on,

597
00:41:10.760 --> 00:41:15.119
because they won't instantly just oh,
here you go, and then they

598
00:41:15.199 --> 00:41:19.599
essentially open up a little regional progression
for you where the nature of those things

599
00:41:19.719 --> 00:41:24.440
is also very tangible. Yeah,
this is okay, this is fine.

600
00:41:24.679 --> 00:41:29.320
I'm a fine with us. I
like upgrading my character with experience points,

601
00:41:29.320 --> 00:41:31.239
I always do. I like,
I have no issue with that. But

602
00:41:32.119 --> 00:41:36.280
as long as this makes sense and
is fun and is a decent loop,

603
00:41:36.360 --> 00:41:37.920
I'm also for this. Like there's
no reason this couldn't work as well.

604
00:41:38.079 --> 00:41:45.440
How do you feel about it?
I, you know, I I've I

605
00:41:45.480 --> 00:41:51.880
haven't had much interest in an Assassin's
Creed game. You find completely with breaking

606
00:41:51.960 --> 00:41:55.199
that loop or just trying something completely
different, And I don't know every little

607
00:41:55.199 --> 00:41:59.320
tidbit that we hear from Star Wars
Outlaws. I keep getting more and more

608
00:41:59.320 --> 00:42:02.679
interested. And I hate to say
it, Grub, but I think I

609
00:42:02.679 --> 00:42:07.119
got the I think I got the
Star Wars bug back. Are you watching

610
00:42:07.119 --> 00:42:12.559
Acolyte or something? Or watching Acolyte? Yes? Yeah, Acolytes mostly working

611
00:42:12.599 --> 00:42:15.400
for me. I don't love the
way it looks, but Mike, it's

612
00:42:15.400 --> 00:42:19.559
a TV show, you know.
I listened to a more civilized age and

613
00:42:19.840 --> 00:42:22.440
Austin said it's like young adult fiction. And then it's like, oh okay,

614
00:42:22.800 --> 00:42:27.599
I can't accept what this is.
Now is that has really helped?

615
00:42:27.719 --> 00:42:35.159
So it is he like if they
had condensed the Acolyte into like like a

616
00:42:35.280 --> 00:42:39.000
ninety to two hour movie, it
feels like this it would be targeting the

617
00:42:39.000 --> 00:42:45.599
same audience that like Hunger Games or
the Divergent series is trying to get one

618
00:42:45.920 --> 00:42:52.519
percent. And also, y'all seen
Mannyjscinto's arms dude, Yes, right,

619
00:42:52.559 --> 00:42:53.840
there are some people like when I
say I don't like looking at it,

620
00:42:53.880 --> 00:42:58.159
I like looking at some of the
things, and that includes him. He

621
00:42:58.239 --> 00:43:00.440
looks incredible in there. Some of
the care also look very very cool.

622
00:43:01.320 --> 00:43:06.039
But yeah, I Acolyte is definitely
better than a lot of other Star Wars

623
00:43:06.039 --> 00:43:12.480
stuff that's happened with the live action
TV series is recently and I am like,

624
00:43:12.880 --> 00:43:15.440
yeah, I want to explore like
a world where I'm not a Jedi,

625
00:43:15.559 --> 00:43:19.519
where I'm just someone trying to get
by a scoundrel. This game is

626
00:43:19.559 --> 00:43:22.079
promising that. So It's been the
game that I've been wanting for quite some

627
00:43:22.239 --> 00:43:27.920
time. So I continue to be
hopeful about it. And I you know,

628
00:43:28.800 --> 00:43:31.480
I think people played the game or
saw some of the game around summer

629
00:43:31.480 --> 00:43:36.800
game Fest time. It's some of
the reactions were mixed. I'm hoping that

630
00:43:36.840 --> 00:43:38.519
the next time we get the chance
to see it that people are like,

631
00:43:38.519 --> 00:43:40.880
well, I played it, and
actually it's a ton of fun. It

632
00:43:40.920 --> 00:43:45.159
feels like if they could just nail
some of the base things that you're doing

633
00:43:45.239 --> 00:43:49.039
them, but the basic you know, loop of building out the world,

634
00:43:49.280 --> 00:43:53.320
doing some scoundrel shit, coming back
and getting more stuff that makes your scoundreling

635
00:43:53.559 --> 00:43:57.519
even better. That sounds pretty good
to me, and it sound like that

636
00:43:57.599 --> 00:44:00.960
seems to be what they're talking about
here with this progression. Yeah, I

637
00:44:00.639 --> 00:44:05.599
let me be a space scoundrel finally. Yeah, the Star Wars Universe LEXI

638
00:44:05.639 --> 00:44:07.000
sis. She played it and thought
it was neat. That's fack. That's

639
00:44:07.440 --> 00:44:12.719
that's good enough for me right now. Arc system Works is working on a

640
00:44:12.760 --> 00:44:15.039
three D a new three D Double
Dragon. This is from Andy Robinson at

641
00:44:15.079 --> 00:44:20.320
VGC. Arc system Works is working
on a three D revival of classic Beat

642
00:44:20.360 --> 00:44:23.000
Him Up Double Dragon. According to
the latest issue of Japanese magazine for Mitsu,

643
00:44:23.079 --> 00:44:28.079
the new game will faithfully recreate the
action of the original side scrolling titles,

644
00:44:28.400 --> 00:44:32.400
with characters recreated in three D with
Arc system Works fighting game Know How.

645
00:44:32.639 --> 00:44:37.760
Arc system Works is the developer of
many popular fighting games, Guilty Gear,

646
00:44:37.760 --> 00:44:42.199
Strive, Dragon Ball Fighters, and
Grand Blue Fantasy Versus. According to

647
00:44:42.199 --> 00:44:45.719
Famitsu, the new Double Dragon will
be released in twenty twenty five for PS

648
00:44:45.719 --> 00:44:51.880
five, PS four, Xbox and
PC. Did I I could see where

649
00:44:51.880 --> 00:44:53.920
my knuckle hit the period and enter
but a period in chat? Hell,

650
00:44:54.039 --> 00:45:00.119
Yeah, let's fucking go, let's
go. I there was a time I

651
00:45:00.239 --> 00:45:01.760
like where Double Dragon was, like, well, that's one of the important

652
00:45:01.760 --> 00:45:06.639
games franchises me and might always talk
about this. It's like that's you know,

653
00:45:06.679 --> 00:45:09.159
there's Mario and there's Zolda, and
there's Mega Man and there's Double Dragon,

654
00:45:09.760 --> 00:45:15.440
and that just hasn't been true forever, but I'm glad it's coming back.

655
00:45:15.480 --> 00:45:20.199
Do you have any affinity for Double
Dragon? Yeah, Jimmy and Bimmy,

656
00:45:20.440 --> 00:45:24.239
I like those two. Yeah,
that's who they are. Maybe Double

657
00:45:24.320 --> 00:45:31.039
Dragon as like a franchise has not
been as important, but like the foundation

658
00:45:31.159 --> 00:45:35.599
it is laid out, grub is
definitely there. Yeah, I feel I

659
00:45:35.599 --> 00:45:39.400
feel the DNA through the through the
gaming industry right, and it's always had

660
00:45:39.440 --> 00:45:44.239
a legacy that has gone with the
Kunyu kun games and stuff like that.

661
00:45:45.679 --> 00:45:51.000
So yeah, listen, our system
works making a beat him up that is

662
00:45:51.039 --> 00:45:54.800
Double Dragon. Hopefully them recognizing where
beat them ups are at these days,

663
00:45:54.800 --> 00:45:59.599
which is they could be a lot
more complicated than the arcade days and you

664
00:45:59.599 --> 00:46:02.800
don't have to be oh, here's
a simple thing where no matter what,

665
00:46:02.880 --> 00:46:06.840
here's this, here's a combo from
an enemy that you're one hundreds gonna get.

666
00:46:06.880 --> 00:46:08.159
Hicks. We need the Movese lives, so they put in more quarters.

667
00:46:08.239 --> 00:46:12.280
It's like, no, here's a
complex combo system that the player can

668
00:46:12.400 --> 00:46:16.400
use and some cool dodge moves with
with I frames, because that's what like

669
00:46:16.519 --> 00:46:22.360
stuff like Streets of Rage and the
New Intrender's Revenge has that makes those games

670
00:46:22.400 --> 00:46:25.039
so much more fun. And yeah, give me, give me more of

671
00:46:25.079 --> 00:46:30.360
that. I hope that's where an
ARC system Works can. Clearly they have

672
00:46:30.400 --> 00:46:34.599
the stuff to accomplish that. Uh
Now, three D, I hope three

673
00:46:34.679 --> 00:46:36.800
D is just like, well,
yeah, it's a three D space.

674
00:46:36.840 --> 00:46:38.559
But I kind of hope it looks
like an ARC system Works games. I

675
00:46:38.840 --> 00:46:43.639
hope it looks like Dragon Ball Fighters
like that would be great. Yeah,

676
00:46:43.679 --> 00:46:51.000
I hope the the language between three
D double dragon is a not a mistranslation,

677
00:46:51.079 --> 00:46:57.159
but a misunderstanding, because like,
I aren't the characters in Guilty Gear

678
00:46:57.320 --> 00:47:00.800
they're technically three D, right,
Yeah, they're made with like I think

679
00:47:00.800 --> 00:47:05.679
they're all made with unreal engine,
just using uh ARC system Works layer over

680
00:47:05.679 --> 00:47:09.000
an unreal engine. I think I
could be wrong, Uh, but yes,

681
00:47:09.079 --> 00:47:13.400
it's like they are three D models
that just use a certain layer of

682
00:47:13.920 --> 00:47:16.119
shading cell shading to make them look
too D. And that's what happens in

683
00:47:16.199 --> 00:47:20.280
Dragon Ball, happens in Guilty Year, all all that stuff that they make.

684
00:47:20.320 --> 00:47:22.880
So I hope it's like, let's
just take that engine and make up

685
00:47:22.880 --> 00:47:25.880
beat them up with double Dragon.
Yeah, fantastic, give me that,

686
00:47:25.960 --> 00:47:30.360
No, Grub. At the same
time, if anyone is gonna make like

687
00:47:30.400 --> 00:47:34.920
a very interesting three D beat them
up, I would trusts. Yeah at

688
00:47:34.960 --> 00:47:37.480
this point, like right, if
it comes out and it is actual like

689
00:47:37.519 --> 00:47:40.199
three D polygons, no cell shading, it's just straight like whatever, I'll

690
00:47:40.239 --> 00:47:44.159
accept it. At the end of
the day, I just want the combo

691
00:47:44.239 --> 00:47:46.679
system. I want the fighting mechanics
of this beat them up to be really

692
00:47:46.719 --> 00:47:51.639
solid, and I trust them to
do that. I it has been my

693
00:47:52.159 --> 00:47:55.239
dream for the longest time, Grub, and I am once again putting this

694
00:47:55.280 --> 00:48:00.920
out there so this janifests into the
universe. Please. Arc System needs to

695
00:48:00.960 --> 00:48:05.159
make a WWE game. Yeah,
that would be cool. Yeah, like

696
00:48:05.480 --> 00:48:10.960
with their visual flair, that would
be very awesome. I was like,

697
00:48:12.280 --> 00:48:15.000
hey, nether Realms to just take
that WWE fighter that they made for mobile

698
00:48:15.079 --> 00:48:20.039
and make that for console. But
at this point, okay, maybe that's

699
00:48:20.079 --> 00:48:22.679
kind of an old idea because they
were like faux superheroes in that in that

700
00:48:22.719 --> 00:48:27.719
game, right, Nah, just
doing guilty gear, but with WWE characters

701
00:48:27.800 --> 00:48:31.280
that'd be great. Uh Okay,
let's see here. Last couple of stories.

702
00:48:31.280 --> 00:48:37.400
Overwatch two gets Transformers collaborations f Form, Nintendo Everything. Another collaboration just

703
00:48:37.440 --> 00:48:39.360
appeared in an Overwatch two and the
game is now teaming up with Transformers.

704
00:48:39.360 --> 00:48:45.039
Players can get their hands on themed
skins enjoin legendary autobots into Scepticons as they

705
00:48:45.039 --> 00:48:50.559
bring their epic battles into Overwatch.
Outside of skins, themed events and special

706
00:48:50.559 --> 00:48:54.159
rewards have also been added. Here's
some additional information about the about what's featured

707
00:48:54.199 --> 00:48:59.679
Overwatch two. There's Optimus Prime across
Rhinehart, so it's a Ryan Hart skin.

708
00:49:00.159 --> 00:49:04.000
Be Instead it will be a Bashing
skin r C, which I think

709
00:49:04.079 --> 00:49:08.800
is that the Lady Transformer No No
r C and Ilari and Megatron will be

710
00:49:09.000 --> 00:49:15.039
Ramatra skins, and then there'll be
a bunch of specific event collectibles things like

711
00:49:15.079 --> 00:49:17.719
that. Uh. This feels I
mean, I know Overwatch has been doing

712
00:49:17.760 --> 00:49:21.440
a little bit more of this,
but it feels a little undignians, Like,

713
00:49:21.599 --> 00:49:25.159
yeah, undignified in some ways for
that franchise, where it's like Overwatch

714
00:49:25.239 --> 00:49:30.000
used to just be like, here's
an awesome skin for our original characters,

715
00:49:30.360 --> 00:49:37.840
and now they're like, here's some
Transformer slop. Yeah, I'm seeing that

716
00:49:37.920 --> 00:49:42.760
the prices of these bad boys are
pretty up there. Yep, that's what

717
00:49:42.880 --> 00:49:49.280
they do now, Okay, yeah, I don't this. This isn't getting

718
00:49:49.320 --> 00:49:51.719
me to go back to Overwatch too. But then again, I'm not a

719
00:49:51.760 --> 00:49:59.960
Transformers fan, right, but I
can't see this incentivizing folk to go back

720
00:50:00.239 --> 00:50:06.280
who overwatched to especially because if I
was a big fan of Optimist Prime or

721
00:50:06.280 --> 00:50:08.679
any of these Transformers we listed out, I would kind of just want to

722
00:50:08.679 --> 00:50:14.679
play as them versus like a reskin
and being forced to play as this class

723
00:50:15.400 --> 00:50:17.840
or as a specific character that I
may not even like. Right, Yeah,

724
00:50:17.960 --> 00:50:22.480
that's a good that's a good point. It's weird because for that very

725
00:50:22.559 --> 00:50:27.079
reason. So yeah, like it
works in Fortnite in Call of Duty because

726
00:50:27.239 --> 00:50:30.320
those like you build your own classes
there, you go get your own weapons

727
00:50:30.320 --> 00:50:35.360
and stuff like that. Here,
it makes a little bit less sense now,

728
00:50:35.400 --> 00:50:39.199
I get it, but it does
it feels like the like the death

729
00:50:39.280 --> 00:50:45.079
rows of a franchise that is losing
relevance, to be like, what can

730
00:50:45.119 --> 00:50:46.880
we do to get people excited,
and I don't know, let's go partner

731
00:50:46.960 --> 00:50:54.079
up with another IP and bring and
inject that into our game, as I

732
00:50:54.119 --> 00:50:59.639
haven't seen what the skins look like. Is this like the classic Transformers designs

733
00:50:59.760 --> 00:51:04.280
or is this for that new movie
coming out? I think it pretty classic.

734
00:51:04.360 --> 00:51:09.440
Let's just bring it up here overwatch
Transformers and I'll hit that and then

735
00:51:09.559 --> 00:51:17.239
let's see if there's any images for
here is from Kotaku. Yeah, I

736
00:51:17.239 --> 00:51:22.199
mean it looks kind of yeah,
like the new movie is actually trying to

737
00:51:22.199 --> 00:51:30.119
do more of a style that is
similar to the original, like animated movie,

738
00:51:30.440 --> 00:51:34.079
Like that's what RC is like right
here, that's the Lady One and

739
00:51:34.119 --> 00:51:37.760
she looks pretty similar, like inspired
by that, but there's definitely still like

740
00:51:37.880 --> 00:51:42.119
extra stuff, like extra coutrement on
top of all these characters that looks a

741
00:51:42.119 --> 00:51:45.679
little bit different. Yeah, I
guess this is this Megatron. He's got

742
00:51:45.719 --> 00:51:50.639
a cape that's weird. I think
I like it. I think I like

743
00:51:50.719 --> 00:51:57.000
it. I know that like Bashan
transforms and everything because it turns into a

744
00:51:57.039 --> 00:52:01.840
turret. But like, what did
you want lou to be Bumblebee? Because

745
00:52:01.840 --> 00:52:08.199
like Bumblebee's like the Quippie at least
the current iteration of Bumblebee very quippi and

746
00:52:08.320 --> 00:52:15.639
like a Poppy versus Bastion. That's
a good point. Yeah, and they

747
00:52:15.679 --> 00:52:20.119
do have similar personalities. I don't
know, it's uh. I would be

748
00:52:20.159 --> 00:52:23.079
interested to see how these decisions get
made, whatever part of it. It's

749
00:52:23.119 --> 00:52:25.320
just like, well, this character
already has a scan. We got to

750
00:52:25.320 --> 00:52:30.719
give this other character scin. I
guess let's just use Bumblebee. I don't

751
00:52:30.760 --> 00:52:32.519
know. It looks all right,
like I kind of have nothing against it

752
00:52:32.559 --> 00:52:37.400
in terms of the way that they
are doing the Transformer stuff. It just

753
00:52:37.480 --> 00:52:38.960
feels weird for Overwatch, and again, I know they've been doing it for

754
00:52:39.039 --> 00:52:44.800
a while. Yeah, all right. Suicide Squad Killed the Justice League second

755
00:52:44.800 --> 00:52:46.800
season gets last minute delay. Are
you gonna be okay? Jan? I'm

756
00:52:46.800 --> 00:52:52.679
so sorry. Oh h we're gonna
play this, Ben lyons. At Game

757
00:52:52.760 --> 00:52:55.719
Reactor last week, rock Steady told
us about what the second season of Suicide

758
00:52:55.760 --> 00:52:59.599
Squad Killed the Justice League will bring
to the table, and confirm that the

759
00:52:59.639 --> 00:53:02.639
season will start on July eleventh,
which is tomorrow. That won't be the

760
00:53:02.639 --> 00:53:06.440
case any further. This season has
been hit with a delay that will push

761
00:53:06.480 --> 00:53:08.599
it back around two weeks, meaning
you will now have to wait until July

762
00:53:08.679 --> 00:53:12.719
twenty fifth to be able to suit
up as mister Freeze, take on the

763
00:53:12.760 --> 00:53:15.400
new Brainiac fights, earn some new
gear, and chip away at the fresh

764
00:53:15.440 --> 00:53:19.519
battle pass. I actually didn't know
mister Freeze was going to be in this

765
00:53:19.719 --> 00:53:25.119
season. Yeah, mister Freeze is
great man. That a animated series story

766
00:53:25.199 --> 00:53:29.159
with him, which I think is
the introduction of mister Freeze. I think

767
00:53:29.159 --> 00:53:31.719
maybe not, It's probably wrong.
I think that the show introduced what's her

768
00:53:31.760 --> 00:53:38.719
name, the lady everyone always caused
plays as Harley Harley Quinn. Yes,

769
00:53:38.719 --> 00:53:42.239
the show. Yeah, that show
introduced that character, but mister Freeze is

770
00:53:42.280 --> 00:53:47.199
probably before that. Yeah, mister
Freeze is a very cool character that I've

771
00:53:47.199 --> 00:53:52.920
always had an affinity for because of
that episode of the animated series. But

772
00:53:52.000 --> 00:53:54.800
I don't know. I bet Suicide
Squad is not necessarily going for that.

773
00:53:58.440 --> 00:54:00.280
I mean, this is the last
season Ofuicide Squad. You think that we

774
00:54:00.360 --> 00:54:07.119
get I don't know who else they
would put in grub or if the interest

775
00:54:07.239 --> 00:54:10.960
is necessarily there. Did you see
miss Freeze? Everyone's yelling at me,

776
00:54:12.000 --> 00:54:16.119
Okay, I listen. I didn't
know there was a missus Freeze. That's

777
00:54:16.159 --> 00:54:20.119
who he's trying to save the whole
time. It's okay, So you're just

778
00:54:20.159 --> 00:54:22.920
gonna play as a frozen lady.
That sounds awesome. Actually, yeah,

779
00:54:23.360 --> 00:54:29.079
that I'll get my key back in
not being fridged. He doesn't care.

780
00:54:30.760 --> 00:54:35.719
The cold never bothered him anyway.
Uh yeah, grub, I don't know.

781
00:54:35.760 --> 00:54:38.639
Did you see that there is a
suicide There was a new suicide Squad

782
00:54:38.719 --> 00:54:43.320
anime on Max the one to watch
for HBO. Uh I did not know

783
00:54:43.400 --> 00:54:45.679
that. I'll have to check this
out. How is it? It is

784
00:54:45.719 --> 00:54:52.480
called suicide Squad? Is kai?
Oh? Okay? Where does it takes

785
00:54:52.519 --> 00:54:54.920
place? Take place in King Arthur's
court or something like what? I don't

786
00:54:54.960 --> 00:55:00.039
know. I have not seen it, but it looked flashy from the the

787
00:55:00.480 --> 00:55:05.960
art on the Max carousel. All
right, well, hey, good luck

788
00:55:05.960 --> 00:55:10.159
with that, HBO or Max the
one to watch for HBO. I think

789
00:55:10.159 --> 00:55:13.920
they're getting rid of that. I
think they're gonna like start calling stuff HBO

790
00:55:13.960 --> 00:55:19.360
originals again it's the Max originals.
Weird. Oh my god, that's strange.

791
00:55:19.679 --> 00:55:22.440
All right, that does it for
the news. I got a poll

792
00:55:22.519 --> 00:55:27.679
question that I will get up here
right now, actually from forever ago,

793
00:55:28.400 --> 00:55:31.239
but we got your responses. Do
you think that Kojamo will work on metal

794
00:55:31.280 --> 00:55:37.960
gear in any capacity again before the
universe ends. Sixty nine percent said no,

795
00:55:37.199 --> 00:55:42.840
thirty one percent have a faith and
said yes. I voted yes.

796
00:55:42.960 --> 00:55:47.679
I think like that'll probably be the
case, I think, and again,

797
00:55:47.719 --> 00:55:50.880
I think it'll just be like,
oh, he signed off on it and

798
00:55:50.920 --> 00:55:53.280
says I'm executive producer or something like
that and barely does anything on it.

799
00:55:53.320 --> 00:55:58.280
But that counts. What do you
think you think we ever see that again?

800
00:55:58.960 --> 00:56:04.519
Do you think there's ever a world
where uh Pujima, like I mean,

801
00:56:04.559 --> 00:56:08.159
he's already very popular, but he's
skyrockets where he just buys Konami.

802
00:56:09.880 --> 00:56:15.079
Konami has too many other businesses I
saw. It's like like I Konami were

803
00:56:15.159 --> 00:56:17.360
like the spin off, it's like
video game businesses. Maybe he would be

804
00:56:17.400 --> 00:56:21.920
in a situation where he could like
spearhead that with investors, Like that's not

805
00:56:21.960 --> 00:56:25.880
impossible. I forget about all the
other things. Yes, the bath houses

806
00:56:25.920 --> 00:56:30.719
and whatever, insurance. I don't
know what else they have. Yeah,

807
00:56:30.880 --> 00:56:34.360
I could see that bridge being mended
in the future. I think. I

808
00:56:34.360 --> 00:56:37.480
also voted yes in this poll,
like yeah, it's I think there's money

809
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on the table exactly, and right
and people like if they were to make

810
00:56:43.440 --> 00:56:45.199
if they were to come back and
do the Metal Gear movie at a certain

811
00:56:45.239 --> 00:56:49.119
point, if he like has some
hits with like the Desk Stranding movie,

812
00:56:49.679 --> 00:56:52.679
I would be I wouldn't be surprised
to be Konami be like, hey,

813
00:56:52.800 --> 00:56:54.960
yeah, let's just get him on
board, so his name's involved, And

814
00:56:55.039 --> 00:56:59.639
again I think that would count.
And then you know, when they do

815
00:57:00.239 --> 00:57:02.239
a Metal Gear solid, you know, six or whatever, maybe he's not

816
00:57:02.239 --> 00:57:05.320
involved in that first one, but
like the next one, they're like,

817
00:57:05.320 --> 00:57:08.519
oh and we got Kojima back on
board. He's he approved everything, and

818
00:57:08.599 --> 00:57:12.800
it would just be a figurehead position. But still I think that could happen.

819
00:57:13.480 --> 00:57:15.760
All right, That is the poll
question. We will have a new

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00:57:15.800 --> 00:57:20.679
poll question here for the show tomorrow. Before we do that, though,

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00:57:20.760 --> 00:57:22.760
Jan what do we have happening on
Giant Bomb and all that good stuff?

822
00:57:23.440 --> 00:57:27.920
We will have a d Light Club
later today. We're still figuring out what

823
00:57:28.000 --> 00:57:32.519
to do for that. Lots and
lots on the table. If there's anything

824
00:57:32.559 --> 00:57:36.840
specific that's come out and drop that
you would like us to check out,

825
00:57:36.880 --> 00:57:40.400
please please please let us know.
But Games Mornings for the rest of the

826
00:57:40.400 --> 00:57:46.280
week. Voicemail dump truck tomorrow and
we have UPF and BCR planned for Friday.

827
00:57:46.519 --> 00:57:50.639
Yep, so it's looking good.
The week is shaping out. Tune

828
00:57:50.679 --> 00:57:52.880
in for everything. Blake Club will
be back next week, everybody. I

829
00:57:52.920 --> 00:57:58.440
know, it's been quite a hiatus, but you know, Dan's recovery has

830
00:57:58.480 --> 00:58:00.920
gone well, and now both Mike
and Dan they're out of town today.

831
00:58:00.960 --> 00:58:05.199
So it's how the timing works out
occasionally. But yeah, we'll get back

832
00:58:05.239 --> 00:58:07.880
into it and I think we'll have
a couple of weeks in a row where

833
00:58:07.920 --> 00:58:13.760
we will play some tai katana unfortunately. All Right, a new poll question.

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00:58:13.960 --> 00:58:16.559
Are you planning to subscribe to Xbox
Game Pass going forward? Just yes

835
00:58:16.639 --> 00:58:20.639
or no? Let's just kind of
gauge everyone, see how they're doing,

836
00:58:20.679 --> 00:58:23.039
see how you're feeling about it,
and if that means if you are planning

837
00:58:23.039 --> 00:58:27.119
to cancel, if you're already subscribing, you're planning to cancel, that would

838
00:58:27.119 --> 00:58:29.679
I think that would count as a
no. So are you planning to subscribe

839
00:58:29.679 --> 00:58:34.280
to Xbox Game Pass going forward?
That will be up on the YouTube dot

840
00:58:34.320 --> 00:58:37.360
com slash at Giant Bomb. If
you go to the community tab you'll find

841
00:58:37.360 --> 00:58:38.559
that there. If you go to
the live tab you'll find all of our

842
00:58:38.639 --> 00:58:43.400
videos recently. If you go to
giant bomb dot com you can find us

843
00:58:43.400 --> 00:58:47.039
there. I suppose Janet show.
Thank you so much for speaking. Oh

844
00:58:47.119 --> 00:58:50.800
yeah, please two more things.
Oh yeah, hit the people with the

845
00:58:50.800 --> 00:58:53.760
facts. Yeah, sorry, greb
to kill the momentum. All good,

846
00:58:53.960 --> 00:59:00.119
uh for folks that missed it,
are lovely. Turbo Sean put together all

847
00:59:00.159 --> 00:59:06.320
of metal Gear scans and into big
old episodes on YouTube. So the whole

848
00:59:06.360 --> 00:59:10.039
season in a single video, put
together everything. It's all on a YouTube

849
00:59:10.079 --> 00:59:13.440
playlist. If you missed it,
it was behind the premium wall. We

850
00:59:13.519 --> 00:59:16.960
decided to bring that out of the
vault. Go enjoy that as Drew Scanlon

851
00:59:17.440 --> 00:59:22.880
is guided by his sharpa Dan reichert
through all of metal Gear that is all

852
00:59:23.119 --> 00:59:28.880
over there on the YouTube. It
shouts out to Tom Caswell and Terbo Shawn

853
00:59:28.880 --> 00:59:32.480
and Nicki Grayson of course for leading
the charge. Because John BOM's turnting sixteen

854
00:59:32.639 --> 00:59:39.440
y'all. We're putting together a whole
bunch of videos recapping and just going through

855
00:59:39.559 --> 00:59:45.119
fond, fond memories and strolling down
a memory lane from the current staff,

856
00:59:46.360 --> 00:59:51.079
all our peeps we work with now
and a couple of friends of the site

857
00:59:51.119 --> 00:59:54.519
and old faces you may recognize.
Also, there's a new draft a video

858
00:59:54.679 --> 00:59:59.199
for Blake Club. Go watch that. It's very good. I think Danny

859
00:59:59.280 --> 01:00:05.000
O'Dwyer's dropped today and Danny recounts the
good old times of backflips and bioforge.

860
01:00:05.199 --> 01:00:07.800
Yep, good stuff. Uh,
definitely check all that out. It's it's

861
01:00:07.840 --> 01:00:10.880
been fun starting to see those come
out come out and made me realize,

862
01:00:10.880 --> 01:00:14.639
oh, I should do mine,
and I did last night. Actually,

863
01:00:14.679 --> 01:00:16.800
me and Mike recorded artist simultaneously last
night. I had to mute him,

864
01:00:17.360 --> 01:00:22.559
so you'll getting plenty from us everybody, all right, Jan, thank you

865
01:00:22.599 --> 01:00:25.679
so much for spending today talking with
me about video games. Thank you all

866
01:00:25.679 --> 01:00:30.320
for watching and listening. You're the
best audience in gaming, for real and

867
01:00:30.360 --> 01:00:32.320
for serious. Until next time,
have a good one, take care of

868
01:00:32.320 --> 01:00:35.039
yourself, and goodbye.