WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.399 --> 00:00:15.480 You know, like a dummy beer. It's the internet. You're busy. 2 00:00:15.560 --> 00:00:18.719 Let's do this for July twenty nine, twenty twenty two. For the next 3 00:00:18.879 --> 00:00:21.879 hour or so, let me help you sort through the world of gaming on 4 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:26.480 Game Mess Mornings Live with me Jeff Grubb. Today the dinosaurs are in Indie 5 00:00:26.480 --> 00:00:30.640 games now. But first please join me and welcome me today's co host Game 6 00:00:30.679 --> 00:00:35.799 Mess Mornings. It's Tamoor, who's saying, everybody from Giant, I'm doing 7 00:00:35.880 --> 00:00:38.759 good. How are you? I'm doing pretty good. I'm it's been a 8 00:00:38.799 --> 00:00:42.719 good week. I felt productive. It's weird for me, so I'm gonna 9 00:00:42.719 --> 00:00:46.359 take it as w I'm taking this product. Jeff. I don't know if 10 00:00:46.399 --> 00:00:49.399 anyone's told you lately, but you're doing great. 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PS five's shipped or sold in. 37 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:35.159 That's up four percent, but PlayStation software sales are down twenty six percent year 38 00:02:35.240 --> 00:02:39.719 over year. Meanwhile, PlayStation Plus subsubscribe sub subscriptions are at forty seven point 39 00:02:39.759 --> 00:02:44.800 three million, that's up two percent. But then monthly active PSN users one 40 00:02:44.879 --> 00:02:47.280 hundred and two million is down three percent. So you can see some like 41 00:02:49.039 --> 00:02:52.159 I think the wobbling is a really good term from Tom where you could tell 42 00:02:52.199 --> 00:02:55.599 like it's just this this top that is trying to find equilibrium after you know, 43 00:02:55.639 --> 00:02:59.879 shooting up during the pandemic and now it's like where are we going to 44 00:02:59.840 --> 00:03:02.000 sort of settle into a groove here? And it feels like the industry is 45 00:03:02.039 --> 00:03:06.000 just like, yeah, people are buying more hardware, they're buying less games, 46 00:03:06.039 --> 00:03:07.199 they're going out there, you know, they want to have the console, 47 00:03:07.439 --> 00:03:09.479 but they also want to do other things with their money, and it 48 00:03:09.479 --> 00:03:12.800 just feels like the industry is trying to figure out where all of that is 49 00:03:12.840 --> 00:03:15.960 going to land in terms of like the wider market. These numbers, though 50 00:03:16.159 --> 00:03:22.639 pretty good obviously though PlayStation still supply constrained, right Yeah. I think it 51 00:03:22.680 --> 00:03:24.360 all comes down to that supplier constraint, and you're right, it's just a 52 00:03:24.479 --> 00:03:30.719 matter of where is it going to land. Surprisingly, I found that I 53 00:03:30.719 --> 00:03:35.840 don't know from an anecdotal perspective, it is getting better. I think that 54 00:03:36.520 --> 00:03:38.599 the interesting thing is that comes like in fits and waves, where it's like 55 00:03:38.599 --> 00:03:42.879 it'll get better for a bit, and then it's like, again, it's 56 00:03:43.120 --> 00:03:46.800 going to be rough right now. I've over the last week or two, 57 00:03:46.879 --> 00:03:50.759 I've found multiple times that it was easy to purchase a PlayStation. I obviously 58 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:53.800 didn't, but I grabbed a link and gave it to other people who are 59 00:03:53.840 --> 00:03:54.599 like, here you go. You don't have to line up right now. 60 00:03:54.639 --> 00:03:59.280 It's basically like buying on I think this is a lot of battening the hatches 61 00:03:59.319 --> 00:04:03.280 for the smiths and the holiday period when people will be wouldn't when both hardware 62 00:04:03.319 --> 00:04:08.639 all hardware will likely be in demand, and it's going to be way harder. 63 00:04:08.759 --> 00:04:11.759 It will return to the I imagine because it's a higher demand to the 64 00:04:11.879 --> 00:04:15.960 early days where it was basically impossible to get that stuff. And I think 65 00:04:15.960 --> 00:04:19.000 it's this is generally just a warning that, hey, we're coming up to 66 00:04:19.040 --> 00:04:23.120 the Christmas, the holiday season, the spending season, where people are gonna 67 00:04:23.160 --> 00:04:26.680 want these things, and we're going to prep people by telling them, hey, 68 00:04:26.839 --> 00:04:30.079 it's going to be a weaker business for a little bit because it's going 69 00:04:30.160 --> 00:04:34.079 to be tricky. But yeah, fundamentally, though, the the the difficulty 70 00:04:34.160 --> 00:04:39.600 in buying stuff is naturally gonna ebb and flow, and this is shore it 71 00:04:39.639 --> 00:04:43.680 bears, it bears out in the numbers so far, Yeah, and so 72 00:04:43.759 --> 00:04:46.199 many, Like you said, kind of just preparing people for what could happen 73 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:51.560 for an uncertain immediate future. Anyhow, it cuts its forecast profit for the 74 00:04:51.560 --> 00:04:57.360 PlayStation division in game sales. It's says it's see it's annual profit outlook. 75 00:04:57.639 --> 00:05:00.680 It's warning of a weaker PlayStation games sales for forecast. The forecast comes as 76 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:04.279 Sony revealed its ship two point four million PlayStation five consoles in recent quarter. 77 00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:10.120 And then while hardware sales are slightly up, you're over your software sales plummeted. 78 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:13.879 Sony blamed the game slump on a lack of big PlayStation titles this year 79 00:05:13.920 --> 00:05:17.480 compared to twenty twenty one. So clearly, while right now the immediate future 80 00:05:17.480 --> 00:05:20.800 the immediate past that they're like, Okay, there's a slump. Once God 81 00:05:20.839 --> 00:05:25.199 of War is here, I would expect many of these issues to resolve themselves. 82 00:05:25.319 --> 00:05:28.639 Right yeah, I think that that is going. It's going to be 83 00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:33.279 really interesting because God of All is obviously a system seller, and right now 84 00:05:33.480 --> 00:05:36.839 we're in a weird time where system sellers, when they come out, it's 85 00:05:36.920 --> 00:05:41.439 no guarantee that they'll have a good impact because the system is just on there. 86 00:05:41.879 --> 00:05:46.399 So it's fascinating. I imagine God of All will have an uptick. 87 00:05:46.439 --> 00:05:50.000 It's going to create an optick in purchases, for sure, but those that 88 00:05:50.079 --> 00:05:55.600 optic is naturally the ceiling on it is defined by the lack of availability of 89 00:05:55.680 --> 00:05:59.800 PlayStation consoles. I think from Sony side, what they're probably telling themselves is 90 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:02.759 like God of All the first game this is it will be a Ragnarok, 91 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:06.720 will be a game that has a long tail, so when those supply constraints 92 00:06:06.759 --> 00:06:12.120 ideally do even out, this will be one of the games along with Miles 93 00:06:12.199 --> 00:06:15.040 Morales, Spider Man, Horizon and a Demon Souls and a few others that 94 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:19.519 will propel people to you know, buy these games, and it will still 95 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:24.040 have a pretty good attach rate, and who knows by that time. By 96 00:06:24.120 --> 00:06:27.160 that time there could be even bundles where it's like the God of All Ragnarok 97 00:06:27.240 --> 00:06:31.120 bundle. But yeah, it's it's definitely going to move units a little more, 98 00:06:31.240 --> 00:06:34.319 but those units aren't going to be like mind blowing because it's just hard 99 00:06:34.360 --> 00:06:39.319 to find that. And in previous generations it would be a simply case, 100 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:41.800 so simply a case of I say, simply, but it would be a 101 00:06:41.879 --> 00:06:46.639 case of you know, adjusting supply to meet demand, whereas the situation we 102 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:51.360 have now is they can't adjust supply to meet the demand because the components. 103 00:06:51.680 --> 00:06:56.120 Yeah. So, but speaking on the future of like the component shortage, 104 00:06:56.199 --> 00:06:59.879 Sony did sound a little bit more hopeful on that front. Sony now hopes 105 00:07:00.040 --> 00:07:02.360 hardware shipments will improve later this year, as it believes that it is mostly 106 00:07:02.480 --> 00:07:08.240 supply chain disruptions that are affecting PS five shipments rather than a lack of components. 107 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:12.199 So it's like it really has been components this entire time, Sony at 108 00:07:12.240 --> 00:07:15.839 least is intimating here that maybe that is going to not no longer be the 109 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:18.560 case, and now we're going to be dealing with more wobbling. But now 110 00:07:18.600 --> 00:07:23.639 it's just wobbling in that supply chain as they try to get that all figured 111 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:26.160 out to a point where it could be a little tatter and they can get 112 00:07:26.199 --> 00:07:30.879 more more things to where play where people are demanding it right now, instead 113 00:07:30.920 --> 00:07:33.560 of just like in fits and starts here and there where like okay, we 114 00:07:33.639 --> 00:07:39.199 get a huge shipment to America right now PlayStation five's and then in a month 115 00:07:39.279 --> 00:07:42.279 it's like there are no play Station five anywhere and a bunch of popped up 116 00:07:42.399 --> 00:07:44.920 in you know, some other countries somewhere. So they want to make be 117 00:07:45.000 --> 00:07:48.279 able to like do a more regular paste out release of these consoles over time. 118 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:55.959 It's see Routers reports that Sony now has revised its annual profit forecast down 119 00:07:56.040 --> 00:08:00.560 sixteen percent for its gaming business as it anticipates another fall in games sales next 120 00:08:00.639 --> 00:08:05.480 quarter, alongside cost associated with its recent three point side three point seven billion 121 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:09.600 dollar Bungee acquisition. Uh yeah, I mean when you have like big costs 122 00:08:09.639 --> 00:08:13.000 like that on your books. Yeah, there's gonna be a drop in terms. 123 00:08:13.079 --> 00:08:16.720 Like if that is when they're reporting that cost, it's it's gonna hurt 124 00:08:16.759 --> 00:08:18.240 them, but like they'll bounce right back next quarter. That's the kind of 125 00:08:18.279 --> 00:08:22.519 thing where that money was either just sitting in their bank or they got it 126 00:08:22.600 --> 00:08:24.759 with pretty good terms, you know, as even as interest rates go up, 127 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:28.199 they probably got it with pretty good terms. That's the kind of money. 128 00:08:28.399 --> 00:08:30.879 Making their money work for them by getting Bunchie is going to be worth 129 00:08:30.879 --> 00:08:33.879 it in the long run. But yeah, they'll probably take another hit next 130 00:08:33.960 --> 00:08:35.679 quarter. Uh, let's see, and this last a little bit here. 131 00:08:35.720 --> 00:08:39.840 Sony's PlayStation game sales are the latest sign that the gaming industry is slowing down 132 00:08:39.879 --> 00:08:45.240 after a big boost during the initial stages of the pandemic. Microsoft doesn't reveal 133 00:08:45.360 --> 00:08:50.200 its own Xbox hardware shipments, but the company saw Xbox hardware revenue dip eleven 134 00:08:50.279 --> 00:08:54.639 percent in its recent quarter, alongside a six percent dip in Xbox Content and 135 00:08:54.759 --> 00:08:58.639 services revenue and a seven percent decline in overall gaming revenue. While Microsoft had 136 00:08:58.639 --> 00:09:03.799 a straw fiscal year for Xbox revenue, the company is also warning that the 137 00:09:03.879 --> 00:09:07.919 gaming revenue and Xbox content and services revenue will both decline next quarters, So 138 00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:11.279 this is not a Sony or Xbox problem. They are both expecting more of 139 00:09:11.320 --> 00:09:16.960 this, like correction to the pandemic. They'll probably maintain a lot of the 140 00:09:16.039 --> 00:09:20.039 momentum they got because once you sell a console to a person they have it. 141 00:09:20.159 --> 00:09:22.159 It's much easier for them to decide, oh, I want to buy 142 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:24.799 another video game like that. The hard part is getting them to buy the 143 00:09:24.840 --> 00:09:30.399 console. But it's still They're expecting some of that entertainment budget to go elsewhere, 144 00:09:30.399 --> 00:09:35.480 and that just makes sense. Yeah. Sony was asked about the possibility 145 00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:39.799 of raising the price of the PS five. This comes from Tom Ivan at 146 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:43.759 VGC. Sony has refused to be drawn on whether current economic pressures could lead 147 00:09:43.759 --> 00:09:48.519 the company to increase the price of the PlayStation five. In April, Sony 148 00:09:48.639 --> 00:09:52.200 raised the Japanese prices of a range of consumer electronic products, including some cameras, 149 00:09:52.480 --> 00:09:56.519 Blu ray players, home theater systems, headphones and speakers. It said 150 00:09:56.519 --> 00:10:01.519 the price revisions were being made in light of ongoing semiconductor shortages and other external 151 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:05.759 factors that have caused the cost of raw materials, manufacturing, and distribution to 152 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:09.480 increased. During its first quarter earnings call on Friday, Sony was asked about 153 00:10:09.519 --> 00:10:15.799 this and it said about a potential potential price increase for PS five At this 154 00:10:15.960 --> 00:10:20.039 point in time, there's nothing specific we can share about your about price increases, 155 00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:24.440 so they're not even gonna like sort of entertain this question. The only 156 00:10:24.519 --> 00:10:28.120 reason this makes sense to ask about right now is because Meta raise the price 157 00:10:28.279 --> 00:10:33.200 of the quest to Facebook whatever you want to call them. There is no 158 00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:37.840 chance of Sony doing this right. They are too well aware of the backlash 159 00:10:37.919 --> 00:10:41.879 this would create. I think they're too well aware of the backlash just to 160 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:46.240 create. And also it's just the worst time from a PR perspective when you 161 00:10:46.360 --> 00:10:50.039 can't a lot of people are struggling to buy it. So I think that 162 00:10:50.559 --> 00:10:54.480 the problem you have is if you raise the price now and it's not immediately 163 00:10:54.559 --> 00:10:58.799 available as is, people are going to be like, well, I'm not 164 00:10:58.879 --> 00:11:01.879 gonna pay more money and put in hard work to find this thing. I'll 165 00:11:01.960 --> 00:11:07.039 just go and find something cheaper, and chances are they'll find an Xbox or 166 00:11:07.039 --> 00:11:11.240 a switch or upgrade or decide to invest in a PC or something like that. 167 00:11:11.120 --> 00:11:15.279 I think it it is like a bit. It would be shooting themselves 168 00:11:15.399 --> 00:11:20.000 in the leg and it would would now would not be the time for it. 169 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:26.799 I think traditionally console manufacturers don't raise prices. I think the only time 170 00:11:26.799 --> 00:11:33.600 that never happened was when Nintenda released the O LAD and that was more expensive 171 00:11:33.639 --> 00:11:37.279 than the launch price of the original Switch. That's the only time that they 172 00:11:37.519 --> 00:11:39.840 think of it ever happening. The way we do it in the industry is 173 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:48.679 they create. They they increase the price of a console by by introducing a 174 00:11:48.840 --> 00:11:52.279 revision, which is a you know, a PS five you know pro or 175 00:11:52.360 --> 00:11:56.080 something like that, or they create some sort of bundle way it looks like 176 00:11:56.200 --> 00:12:01.120 you're getting more out of it while in reasing the price. So if they 177 00:12:01.240 --> 00:12:05.320 chucked in five digital games or something like that, which is probably cheaper than 178 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:09.559 bundling in a bunch of physical games, and then raise the price, that 179 00:12:09.639 --> 00:12:13.039 would be a way to do it. But I don't think they look at 180 00:12:13.120 --> 00:12:16.600 this core unit and they go, this is a this is we're taking the 181 00:12:16.639 --> 00:12:20.360 baseline model, a baseline price of this model and just raising it. The 182 00:12:20.440 --> 00:12:28.919 meta thing is like it is the difference there is PlayStation and console game hardware 183 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:33.679 is it was established product that they didn't need to figure out. Mainstream penetration 184 00:12:33.840 --> 00:12:41.080 on, whereas VR hardware in a many ways is still trying to get penetrate 185 00:12:41.159 --> 00:12:45.240 the mainstream and reach there. And the reason the oculus quest can go up 186 00:12:45.360 --> 00:12:48.320 is because I believe they sold it at costs for a really long time, 187 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:50.799 or they weren't making money on it in a major way, and they needed 188 00:12:50.840 --> 00:12:54.879 to do that because they needed to sell the idea of VR as much as 189 00:12:54.960 --> 00:12:58.399 the actual VR product as well. And if it's super expensive. One of 190 00:12:58.440 --> 00:13:03.679 the main downsides where people was VR is a thing that they believe is quite 191 00:13:03.759 --> 00:13:07.080 costly to invest in, So the quest too is kind of big thing. 192 00:13:07.279 --> 00:13:09.039 Was it's the thing that you don't need to plug into anything else, you 193 00:13:09.080 --> 00:13:13.399 don't need anything else, and it's dirt cheap, so and it's very good. 194 00:13:13.759 --> 00:13:16.080 So that was the kind of thing. But I think the realities of 195 00:13:16.120 --> 00:13:20.320 the situation have now reached a point where either they believe at matter that they've 196 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:24.799 reached the market penetration that they want where they can now raise the price, 197 00:13:24.200 --> 00:13:28.720 or they simply cannot afford to carry on doing it at that price selling it 198 00:13:28.759 --> 00:13:33.039 at that price, and the the flip side of market penetration is no longer 199 00:13:33.120 --> 00:13:37.200 a concern to them because they need to recoup some costs. Yeah, well, 200 00:13:37.559 --> 00:13:43.159 Tam. One of my favorite capitalism simulating games is well, I mean 201 00:13:43.320 --> 00:13:46.720 everyone knows it's Tingles rosy Rupy Land, a game where you play as Tingle, 202 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:50.639 and the entire mechanic is you need to get money, and then you 203 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:54.799 need to guess how much money this person wants for the thing that you need 204 00:13:54.200 --> 00:13:58.120 and if you if you come up with a price that is too low, 205 00:13:58.240 --> 00:14:00.240 they just keep the money. They don't give you the thing. Now, 206 00:14:00.279 --> 00:14:01.799 it's not how it works, but it's a good like it's a good thing 207 00:14:01.840 --> 00:14:05.559 where it's like all this stuff is made up. The economics is like not 208 00:14:05.679 --> 00:14:09.559 a hard science. It is trying to guess what people will be okay with 209 00:14:09.759 --> 00:14:13.440 and that clearly met as like we can get away with this price increase right 210 00:14:13.480 --> 00:14:18.120 now. PlayStation is just in such a different market right where the Xbox Series 211 00:14:18.360 --> 00:14:20.279 S exists, and it's like this thing that's like selling pretty well and pretty 212 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:24.879 easily available, and it's one of the main reasons that, according to Microsoft, 213 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:30.159 the Xbox Series X and S have been like the market leader for the 214 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:33.720 last three quarters or something like that. Obviously, supply constraints on PS five 215 00:14:33.799 --> 00:14:37.080 a huge reason for that as well. But the availability of the Xbox series 216 00:14:37.159 --> 00:14:41.799 s plays into that and these things competing in the same space. Microsoft is 217 00:14:41.879 --> 00:14:45.600 not going to raise the price of its consoles. Sony's also not going to 218 00:14:45.639 --> 00:14:48.399 do it. But this is the reason why these two things are too easy 219 00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:52.639 to compare. Video gamers, gaming fans way too loud, and it would 220 00:14:52.679 --> 00:14:56.240 just be such a backlash, it would be such a hard thing to push 221 00:14:56.320 --> 00:14:58.840 through. Where in the VR space, it's like, if you don't want 222 00:14:58.879 --> 00:15:01.360 to Quest two, what are you gonna do? Go buy a valve in 223 00:15:01.399 --> 00:15:03.480 decks for a thousand dollars and plug it into your PC. Like Plus two 224 00:15:03.600 --> 00:15:07.600 is just not competing in the same way with other devices, so they can 225 00:15:07.639 --> 00:15:11.000 get away with it. Even even then there's backlash against that one as well. 226 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:13.320 Yeah, the funny thing is like, even at that press, the 227 00:15:13.399 --> 00:15:16.200 Quest two is pretty good, it's still worth it. Like I don't know, 228 00:15:16.279 --> 00:15:18.240 maybe I'm speaking out a turn, but that thing was I was surprised 229 00:15:18.279 --> 00:15:22.440 at how cheap that thing was, and even at his current price, I'm 230 00:15:22.480 --> 00:15:24.159 like, that's good man, right, it was just funny thing that you're 231 00:15:24.200 --> 00:15:28.080 getting is good, right, It's like and I get there, like this 232 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:30.639 is. It's so bold of them, like and not like it. I'm 233 00:15:30.679 --> 00:15:33.159 like, oh, it's so impressive. But it's like they're just, hey, 234 00:15:33.279 --> 00:15:35.600 hey, this thing's worth it at this price too. Typically you would 235 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:39.720 see a company be like, Okay, what we could do is let's just 236 00:15:39.799 --> 00:15:43.080 cut off one hundred and twenty a gigabyte model and we'll sell We'll keep selling 237 00:15:43.200 --> 00:15:46.320 this the current high end model for the same price as it was before, 238 00:15:46.519 --> 00:15:50.360 and then we'll introduce an even more capacity model for even more money, and 239 00:15:50.440 --> 00:15:52.159 that will raise the average sales price. They're like, no, just raise 240 00:15:52.200 --> 00:15:54.720 the price of everything. I'm like, okay, yeah, whatever, go 241 00:15:56.039 --> 00:15:58.519 for it fair. They are chucking in beats, say, but if I 242 00:15:58.840 --> 00:16:02.279 remember correctly, that's that's true. That's a great good point. That's a 243 00:16:02.360 --> 00:16:03.600 great game, and it's the game you would get if you're getting one of 244 00:16:03.639 --> 00:16:07.679 these things. Yeah, you're right, very very easy to mode and stick 245 00:16:07.840 --> 00:16:11.759 all of your anime intros in there, which you know you have to do. 246 00:16:11.840 --> 00:16:12.960 They should just do that for you. They should honestly just do it 247 00:16:14.039 --> 00:16:18.000 for you at this point. All right, Yesterday was the Annapurna Interactive Showcase. 248 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:22.320 There's a bunch of games here in this list. A lot of stuff 249 00:16:22.399 --> 00:16:25.639 is just like, oh, now it's getting ported from one platform to another, 250 00:16:26.320 --> 00:16:27.720 Tam, did you catch up on this? Did anything stand out to 251 00:16:27.759 --> 00:16:34.279 you? I watched a couple of things, and honestly, the thing that 252 00:16:34.279 --> 00:16:41.360 I'm most excited about is the Wilds. I mean, I'm at a point 253 00:16:41.399 --> 00:16:44.919 where I'm like, I forgot most of that game, it's probably time for 254 00:16:44.960 --> 00:16:47.960 another play through. And I thought the same thing. Yeah, I've not 255 00:16:48.039 --> 00:16:51.559 played the DLC yet, so I think I might start that very very soon. 256 00:16:51.720 --> 00:16:55.120 I streamed the original Out Worlds and I did this thing where I set 257 00:16:55.200 --> 00:16:57.639 the you know, the world there's ending music. I set that to a 258 00:16:57.720 --> 00:17:02.039 button on my stream deck, so I just randomly press it at weird times 259 00:17:02.159 --> 00:17:03.920 and the entire chat would be like, what the hell is going on? 260 00:17:04.640 --> 00:17:07.920 So I'm excited to jump back. But in terms of other games, like 261 00:17:08.319 --> 00:17:12.000 the things that I'm most interested in are Sadly. The one that I'm most 262 00:17:12.200 --> 00:17:15.119 interested in is sadly something that we know little to nothing about, which is 263 00:17:15.200 --> 00:17:22.480 Kattacker. Hash is a new game. His studio is called ula. I 264 00:17:22.480 --> 00:17:27.160 think it is yeah or something like that that that looks cool. There's also 265 00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:33.759 Hohokam's coming out as well, and the Lost Wild seems interesting. That's what 266 00:17:33.799 --> 00:17:36.960 I'm showing here. It looks like, yeah, it looks like if you 267 00:17:37.160 --> 00:17:41.519 if Capcom were to make a Dana Crisis with the new Resident Evil model, 268 00:17:41.640 --> 00:17:47.480 right, That's exactly what I hope it is. Yeah, because like I 269 00:17:47.799 --> 00:17:51.519 love the I love the that we've reached the stage where developers will be like, 270 00:17:51.680 --> 00:17:52.480 if you're not going to make it, willed it? Yeah, and 271 00:17:52.759 --> 00:17:56.880 and and we'll just make things and discover increasing right because it like it was 272 00:17:56.960 --> 00:17:59.880 like, if you're not going to make a metric gain you, we will. 273 00:18:00.160 --> 00:18:02.480 And now it's like, if you're not going to make the modern Dino 274 00:18:02.559 --> 00:18:06.880 Crisis first person game like that looks just like Resil seven, we'll do it. 275 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:07.960 I'm like, well, okay, really you could do that. It's 276 00:18:07.960 --> 00:18:12.319 just fantastic. Yeah, So I'm I'm excited that at the prospect of that. 277 00:18:12.440 --> 00:18:15.440 I hope it does work out for them and it is as good as 278 00:18:15.839 --> 00:18:19.799 everyone wants it to be. But yeah, those are the main things that 279 00:18:21.759 --> 00:18:25.960 stuck out for me. There's a few other stories that were like a few 280 00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:27.960 other games that were just like, hey, we've has a bunch of developers 281 00:18:29.039 --> 00:18:32.480 talking about their games, which look interesting, but I'm still waiting to see 282 00:18:32.559 --> 00:18:34.720 more about the games like Forever Ago, for example, it's like a road 283 00:18:34.759 --> 00:18:40.319 trip game with an old man, which seems pretty pretty interesting, but I 284 00:18:40.440 --> 00:18:44.000 want to see more of that less of the people just being like, Hello, 285 00:18:44.119 --> 00:18:47.599 we're in Germany and we have been making some games. Isn't that cool? 286 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:52.720 Yeah? But yeah, I was into a lot of games coming to 287 00:18:52.799 --> 00:18:56.279 switch, a lot of games coming to game Pass. That's nice, that's 288 00:18:56.279 --> 00:19:00.279 always good. Let's like Solar, Ash Mckette, Pathless. I think these 289 00:19:00.319 --> 00:19:03.200 are all coming to Xbox, to Mkenton, Solar, Astron game Pass, 290 00:19:03.880 --> 00:19:07.000 Outer Wilds they say, still coming to switch. The report's still happening, 291 00:19:07.079 --> 00:19:11.400 although they were very apologetic about how long that's seemingly still going to take, 292 00:19:11.559 --> 00:19:15.480 so probably still gonna be a while. Yeah, I don't know, I 293 00:19:15.960 --> 00:19:19.920 was into it. I overall tend to like many Antiparna games. I still 294 00:19:21.000 --> 00:19:23.119 kind of can't get the taste of the recent reporting about Antiparna out of my 295 00:19:23.160 --> 00:19:27.079 mouth, where it's like, Oh, they're just la dude bros, just 296 00:19:27.200 --> 00:19:30.799 like any other Hollyway Hollywood bro that you would expect so to meet in Hollywood 297 00:19:32.119 --> 00:19:34.000 and uh, and they kind of just want to make their money. I'm 298 00:19:34.039 --> 00:19:37.480 like, okay, yeah, I mean I see, so they're not like 299 00:19:37.680 --> 00:19:41.720 some perfect publisher. It sounds like a lot of other publishing outfits. Hopefully 300 00:19:41.799 --> 00:19:45.880 these developers that are working with them can get their games made and treat their 301 00:19:45.880 --> 00:19:48.960 employees right. And yeah, ultimately, if they if they're giving us the 302 00:19:49.039 --> 00:19:55.200 games that are interesting and the people who are in partnerships with them are being 303 00:19:55.279 --> 00:19:57.160 treated well, who cares what if they do bros, then be dude bros. 304 00:19:57.200 --> 00:20:02.880 Whatever. Man bros. Could do a lot worse. And currently looks 305 00:20:02.920 --> 00:20:07.920 like they're just putting out interesting games and funding them. So as long as 306 00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:11.400 the people below the dude bros Are doing the right things whatever. Yeah, 307 00:20:11.559 --> 00:20:15.200 that has been the case, and like many of these some of these studios, 308 00:20:15.440 --> 00:20:19.519 that has not been the case. But hopefully the reporting and they sure 309 00:20:19.559 --> 00:20:22.960 that stuff up. But yeah, it's it's not at every studio. The 310 00:20:23.039 --> 00:20:26.519 other game I forgot to mention, it's thirsty suitors from out on Loop Games. 311 00:20:26.559 --> 00:20:30.160 I'm super excited about that because it's just it looks really cool. Right, 312 00:20:30.240 --> 00:20:33.519 I'm gonna bring up that trailer right now. Yeah that yeah, also 313 00:20:33.559 --> 00:20:37.200 looked very good. It's like interesting like Kata Takahashi like he was working with 314 00:20:37.279 --> 00:20:41.039 them before, with that previous studio that had some issues, and it's interesting 315 00:20:41.119 --> 00:20:42.519 that that studio clothes I can't remember the name of it, maybe check and 316 00:20:42.599 --> 00:20:45.960 help. But now like, oh, but they're still working with Kata Takashi 317 00:20:47.039 --> 00:20:48.000 did go back to them, so it's like, okay, maybe there's still 318 00:20:48.039 --> 00:20:52.519 something there where it's like the issue wasn't with Annapurna. Maybe the issue was 319 00:20:52.559 --> 00:20:56.799 the other way, but the studio yeah yeah, uh yeah. Thursty suitos 320 00:20:56.960 --> 00:21:03.200 looking very cool. This vibing skateboarding like yeah, life sim I don't know, 321 00:21:03.279 --> 00:21:07.920 it's very cool. Yeah, it's like a dating life South Asian representation. 322 00:21:07.079 --> 00:21:11.759 That's really cool. Sergios is my dude here with his hellam alle it 323 00:21:11.799 --> 00:21:15.680 there? Yeah, okay, it looks really awesome. All right, so 324 00:21:15.799 --> 00:21:21.119 let's let's see. Valve won't allow awards and reviews on Steam stop images starting 325 00:21:21.200 --> 00:21:23.559 at September. This comes from j Peters at the Verge. Valve is making 326 00:21:23.599 --> 00:21:27.680 a big change that the way developers can market their games on Steam beginning September. 327 00:21:27.759 --> 00:21:32.640 First, graphical assets developers use in their store listings will only be able 328 00:21:32.640 --> 00:21:37.480 to include game artwork, the game's name, and any official subtitle. Images 329 00:21:37.519 --> 00:21:41.480 won't be able to include review scores, award names, or logos, text 330 00:21:41.599 --> 00:21:45.720 that markets discounts, or text promoting a different product. Here's Valve's reasoning for 331 00:21:45.759 --> 00:21:48.920 the change from a blog post. It's our goal to make it as clear 332 00:21:49.000 --> 00:21:52.559 and straightforward as possible for customers to find games to buy and play on Steam. 333 00:21:52.920 --> 00:21:57.920 Recently, we've noted Recently, we've noticed hard text or logos, and 334 00:21:59.000 --> 00:22:03.599 even some review score being included by game developers in their graphical asset images. 335 00:22:03.839 --> 00:22:06.599 This made us realize our guidelines haven't been as clear as they should be. 336 00:22:06.920 --> 00:22:08.400 As a result of not having clear, defined rules, we've seen we've seen 337 00:22:08.400 --> 00:22:14.720 additional to graphical additions to graphical assets that are creating a confusing and sometimes even 338 00:22:14.839 --> 00:22:19.880 inaccurate experience for customers. I mean, what are they fucking talking about? 339 00:22:22.599 --> 00:22:26.279 Like all marketing is inherently sort of a lie, right, Like all the 340 00:22:26.319 --> 00:22:27.960 it's like all about like building buzz and making you feel like you're going to 341 00:22:29.000 --> 00:22:32.200 miss out. And one way that companies often do that is like, here 342 00:22:32.279 --> 00:22:34.799 are all the nines out of ten moments we got? I don't know, 343 00:22:34.920 --> 00:22:38.319 I mean, this doesn't seem like a problem to me. It's our goal 344 00:22:38.440 --> 00:22:42.640 to make it as clear and straightforward as possible for customers to find games to 345 00:22:42.720 --> 00:22:47.920 buy and play on Steam. Has anyone who wrote that you Steam in the 346 00:22:48.039 --> 00:22:52.839 last five years, Because let me tell you, whoever you are, you've 347 00:22:52.920 --> 00:22:56.200 got a lot more work and a lot more important things to worry about than 348 00:22:56.319 --> 00:23:03.799 images with reviews and pictures of reviews or like scores on it. Because Steam 349 00:23:03.960 --> 00:23:08.799 is a nightmare hellscape of discovery and the ability to find stuff. The only 350 00:23:08.920 --> 00:23:12.960 way I successfully will find stuff is when I know exactly what I want and 351 00:23:14.039 --> 00:23:17.160 I go there and I type it in. If not, I am probably 352 00:23:17.240 --> 00:23:21.680 getting into just some sort of nonsense like rabbit hole, where I won't find 353 00:23:21.759 --> 00:23:26.839 anything and it's so weird. I don't really understand this. Yeah, I 354 00:23:26.880 --> 00:23:30.279 mean, did they explain somewhere? Like some game logos themselves have become so 355 00:23:30.440 --> 00:23:32.759 small that it's hard for players to tell what the name of the game is. 356 00:23:33.240 --> 00:23:37.039 In other cases, graphical asset images are so cluttered with the war logos 357 00:23:37.079 --> 00:23:41.480 and ratings that it is distracted and hard to read. This sounds like old 358 00:23:41.519 --> 00:23:44.880 man stuff, like I can't see what the name of the like it's right 359 00:23:44.920 --> 00:23:47.799 there also right next to the image, Like, I don't see these issues. 360 00:23:47.839 --> 00:23:52.000 I don't get this. I feel like this is a case of I'm 361 00:23:52.039 --> 00:23:57.200 going to be cynical and say when you have When I go to a Steam 362 00:23:57.400 --> 00:24:03.920 page, the main thing that draws my eye and attention is the main unit 363 00:24:03.039 --> 00:24:07.960 right where the screenshots are. Everything else around it is a complete mess. 364 00:24:08.000 --> 00:24:15.400 It's real clod like. If they want to fix stuff, fix everything around 365 00:24:15.440 --> 00:24:18.880 that main unit. Yeah. For me, I think the easiest way to 366 00:24:18.039 --> 00:24:22.759 get a candle on what a game is and whether I'm interested is just use 367 00:24:22.839 --> 00:24:25.759 that a scroll thing and go through the images, maybe look at a video. 368 00:24:26.160 --> 00:24:30.680 And I think developers marketing very smartly realized the rest of Steam is bullshit 369 00:24:30.960 --> 00:24:34.920 and it's confusing people. Let's just put the image here with all the review 370 00:24:34.960 --> 00:24:38.720 scores, and I think what has happening is Valve is gone. Well, 371 00:24:40.039 --> 00:24:44.920 we have all this annoying shit down here where we put review scores and quotes 372 00:24:45.079 --> 00:24:48.559 and links and this kind of stuff, where all the data that we need 373 00:24:48.640 --> 00:24:52.119 people to pass to make these decisions, or like, all the extra sections 374 00:24:52.200 --> 00:24:55.799 that they have, it's just being it's pointless. So let's take it out 375 00:24:55.839 --> 00:24:59.279 of there and make sure that they go there. And like game boxes have 376 00:24:59.640 --> 00:25:03.240 had review scores past to them in like Game of the Year awards emblems pasted 377 00:25:03.319 --> 00:25:07.400 on their front for forever. This just feels like it's part of how you 378 00:25:07.559 --> 00:25:12.400 sell games. I mean, honestly, I think I might honestly find it 379 00:25:12.559 --> 00:25:17.000 helpful when I look at a game's art and they show me this has been 380 00:25:17.039 --> 00:25:19.599 reviewed by reputable sources, and that's like, of course they're cherry picking. 381 00:25:19.599 --> 00:25:23.240 I know they're cherry picking, and maybe this is not a fully accurate representation, 382 00:25:23.480 --> 00:25:26.920 but at least tells me that, oh, this game has been recognized 383 00:25:26.960 --> 00:25:30.359 by people who have played it and they did give it a score. They 384 00:25:30.359 --> 00:25:32.519 played enough to give it a score. And I know if I go to 385 00:25:32.559 --> 00:25:36.519 look for reviews, there will be more like I make that split decision, 386 00:25:36.640 --> 00:25:38.559 like in a second where I look, I'm going through Steam and I see 387 00:25:38.599 --> 00:25:41.720 a game, I'm like, okay, this moment, Oh, ign reviewed 388 00:25:41.759 --> 00:25:45.319 this, That's okay, I'm gonna go maybe see if there are other reviews. 389 00:25:45.640 --> 00:25:47.640 If it's just uh, and then if it's at this, you know, 390 00:25:47.680 --> 00:25:48.359 on the other hand, if it's like oh, here, it's like 391 00:25:48.440 --> 00:25:52.480 some sevens and eights out of tens, and I don't recognize any of these 392 00:25:52.519 --> 00:25:53.559 sites. Maybe that kind of turns me off a little bit, like I 393 00:25:53.960 --> 00:25:59.000 find it informational to an extent. Yeah, And like I'm on a Steam 394 00:25:59.039 --> 00:26:04.119 page right now, and it's so silly because the smallest text on this screen 395 00:26:04.319 --> 00:26:08.920 currently is the review part of it, like the logo. The other images 396 00:26:10.079 --> 00:26:14.799 in the carousel are way bigger than the text, Like they're way easier to 397 00:26:14.880 --> 00:26:18.519 pass. So if anything, they should be like looking at how they present 398 00:26:18.680 --> 00:26:22.960 text and the other sections below it instead of instead of what is going on 399 00:26:23.160 --> 00:26:26.000 like this stuff on the side, which is like is this game relevant to 400 00:26:26.079 --> 00:26:33.319 you? It's all these like genre signifies, online PvP, Steam achievements. 401 00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:34.559 I don't care about any of that, I mean, and all that stuff 402 00:26:34.559 --> 00:26:38.640 stufe by like the like the community and done by algorithms. I kind of 403 00:26:38.720 --> 00:26:42.319 want like more places for the developer themselves to be like, here is what 404 00:26:42.400 --> 00:26:45.000 our game is, and here's like what it can do when you actually play 405 00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:48.359 it, and here's how you can might feel about it. None of that 406 00:26:48.440 --> 00:26:52.200 stuff is like well, many of those things are cluttered up by stuff that 407 00:26:52.319 --> 00:26:55.680 is created by the altgornthumber by the community, and so it's like it gets 408 00:26:55.680 --> 00:26:59.759 confusing and it just feels like this gray smudge that I ignore in most cases 409 00:26:59.799 --> 00:27:03.839 on theme. Yeah, and there's also a complete lack of consistency, Like 410 00:27:03.960 --> 00:27:07.559 I went to the Noman's sky page and there was reviews there. I'm now 411 00:27:07.640 --> 00:27:11.400 on the Red Dead Redemption two page no reviews. There's like there's no review 412 00:27:11.480 --> 00:27:15.920 section here, So like, what is someone supposed to do if they go 413 00:27:15.119 --> 00:27:19.359 to a you know, a page and they're not They're not guaranteed to get 414 00:27:19.440 --> 00:27:23.359 the same information on every single one, Like how do I now look at 415 00:27:23.640 --> 00:27:29.799 there's nothing on this Red Dead Redemption to store page that tells me about the 416 00:27:29.920 --> 00:27:33.920 quality of the game, Like there's no review here unless that's go all the 417 00:27:33.920 --> 00:27:38.000 way down and go to the customer review section. Like it's baffling. Like 418 00:27:38.039 --> 00:27:41.480 then, if you're going to do something like hey, you can't put review 419 00:27:41.680 --> 00:27:45.720 or logo award logos in your images, make it mandatory to ensure that it's 420 00:27:47.079 --> 00:27:51.319 up front and send the review put side of it so people can get a 421 00:27:51.440 --> 00:27:56.240 very good glance of some quotes from reviews. It has stuff like reviews are 422 00:27:56.319 --> 00:27:59.759 positive, but like what is that? What is that for? If I 423 00:27:59.799 --> 00:28:03.000 clear that, it goes down to the bottom where Steam, you know, 424 00:28:03.680 --> 00:28:06.240 user reviews are there. And I don't know about you, but I don't 425 00:28:06.240 --> 00:28:12.880 always use Steam user reviews because ridiculous. Yeahlessly positive, overwhelmingly positive. I 426 00:28:12.960 --> 00:28:15.799 glanced at that, and that's it. There's a lad hair that's scored nine 427 00:28:15.880 --> 00:28:18.519 hundred dollars in red Dead Redemption too and says it's not worth it. So 428 00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:21.799 what am I supposed to do it? Yeah? What I supposed to do 429 00:28:21.839 --> 00:28:23.559 with that information? Yeah, that's a that's a tough one to part see 430 00:28:23.599 --> 00:28:26.839 exactly. It's like when I look at those reviews, I often come out 431 00:28:26.920 --> 00:28:33.079 more confused. So yeah, absolutely, I don't know. Steam is they 432 00:28:33.119 --> 00:28:34.640 sell a lot of video games. They kind of feel like they could probably 433 00:28:34.640 --> 00:28:37.519 get away with like definding stuff however they want. This just feels like a 434 00:28:37.559 --> 00:28:41.680 weird backward step from their laz fair attitude where it's like, hey, just 435 00:28:42.440 --> 00:28:45.759 just you know, sell games ever you want, We don't care, and 436 00:28:45.920 --> 00:28:48.160 like suddenly to like wake up and be like, well we don't want review 437 00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:52.759 scores in image. It just feels out of nowhere. I'm like confused by 438 00:28:52.799 --> 00:28:57.039 it. Let's see mega Man franchise is now sold thirty eight million units. 439 00:28:57.359 --> 00:29:00.839 This is this came from earlier this week. I just kind of wanted to 440 00:29:00.880 --> 00:29:03.799 bring it up because I thought it's a pretty good point of comparison between all 441 00:29:03.799 --> 00:29:07.599 these different things here. Let's bring up the asset thirty eight million copies sold 442 00:29:07.640 --> 00:29:11.079 for MegaMan. That's the one that's stuck out to me. But it's like, 443 00:29:11.319 --> 00:29:15.160 that's one of the reasons we might not be getting more because that series 444 00:29:15.200 --> 00:29:18.920 has been on for so long, and yet the rest of an Evil series 445 00:29:18.039 --> 00:29:22.920 one hundred and twenty seven million units sold, So you can see maybe where 446 00:29:22.960 --> 00:29:26.599 Capcom thinks it should be putting its should be investing its resources now. At 447 00:29:26.599 --> 00:29:30.039 the same time, Devil May Cry series twenty six million units, but of 448 00:29:30.119 --> 00:29:36.319 course that's also a younger franchise than MegaMan. So let's see how Let's go 449 00:29:36.359 --> 00:29:38.960 through the Street Fighter series forty eight million units, Monster hundred eighty four million 450 00:29:40.119 --> 00:29:44.720 units, and Dragon's Dogma series six point eight million units. When you look 451 00:29:44.759 --> 00:29:48.559 at these numbers, it's like, do you think there's a chance of MegaMan 452 00:29:48.640 --> 00:29:52.759 to have a future alongside all these other things that Capcom is obviously like double 453 00:29:52.799 --> 00:29:56.079 down on Resideval, Monster Hunter, Street Fighter. These are working for us. 454 00:29:56.079 --> 00:30:00.559 Do you think MegaMan could ever get there? I would be surprised if 455 00:30:00.599 --> 00:30:06.839 Mega Man comes back in a major way. Like I don't see Mega Man 456 00:30:06.960 --> 00:30:10.799 getting a Triple A experience. I think Mega Man Saturday will all be always 457 00:30:10.839 --> 00:30:15.680 be confined to we put a small team to make this kind of indie experience, 458 00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:21.240 or we've taken all the other Mega Man games and once again package them 459 00:30:21.640 --> 00:30:25.680 into a rerelease of some sort, and here it is again, please buy 460 00:30:25.680 --> 00:30:27.920 it. Which is a shame because I think there's a lot of potential in 461 00:30:29.000 --> 00:30:33.920 that franchise. It is like this is gonna sound blasphemous, but like it 462 00:30:33.039 --> 00:30:38.559 has sonic energy, you know, like they they could turn it into a 463 00:30:38.680 --> 00:30:44.799 good animated series. They could turn it into a great comic series again and 464 00:30:45.079 --> 00:30:48.279 you know, create some really cool I don't know, Sonic Mania style experiences, 465 00:30:48.559 --> 00:30:53.640 and I don't see Capcom having much interest in doing that. Isn't Battle 466 00:30:53.680 --> 00:30:57.480 Network coming out again? So yeah, the Battle Network Collection is coming soon. 467 00:30:57.559 --> 00:31:00.200 That's the next thing. Yeah. Yeah, So, like I don't 468 00:31:00.200 --> 00:31:03.279 know, I feel like Battle Network has got a lot of legs in it, 469 00:31:04.319 --> 00:31:08.559 and maybe this is a chance for people to you know, jump in 470 00:31:08.680 --> 00:31:12.519 and show that they care about Mega Man by supporting that and buying that Mega 471 00:31:12.599 --> 00:31:18.160 Man type of those Mega Man experiences. But I would love to Mega Man 472 00:31:18.240 --> 00:31:21.599 has always been a character that I enjoy, but I've never played and not 473 00:31:21.720 --> 00:31:23.759 played. I never, like super fell in love with the original games, 474 00:31:23.839 --> 00:31:30.119 the Battle Network stuff that I dipped into a more my jam. But I 475 00:31:30.640 --> 00:31:36.480 truly believe that there's a really cool modern Megavania game to be made, if 476 00:31:36.519 --> 00:31:40.599 you know what I mean, Like A, I love the idea of a 477 00:31:40.759 --> 00:31:45.480 studio taking Mega Man and turning it into a bigger Metroidvania style game where you 478 00:31:45.599 --> 00:31:51.640 know, you going around collecting powers and you know, I don't know, 479 00:31:51.759 --> 00:31:56.920 maybe like zero is knocking about as if it's like Samus the evil version of 480 00:31:57.000 --> 00:32:00.640 Samus or something to show like that. The other number here, what was 481 00:32:00.759 --> 00:32:05.279 a Dragons dog was six point eight million. That's for the first game, 482 00:32:05.319 --> 00:32:08.319 and it's like, you know, updates or whatever. That's pretty good for 483 00:32:08.599 --> 00:32:15.599 Dragons Dogma. So far do you expect when Dragons Dogma two comes out that 484 00:32:15.759 --> 00:32:17.240 it could be like a ten million seller? Like could it get to that 485 00:32:17.400 --> 00:32:21.559 next level of being a major, major blackbuster? Do you want me? 486 00:32:21.640 --> 00:32:23.200 Do you want my honest troop? Yes? I do. I think when 487 00:32:23.400 --> 00:32:28.240 when Dragons Dogma comes out to no one's going to give a single man no 488 00:32:28.440 --> 00:32:31.559 No, I think Mega Man, not Mega Man. Dragons Dogma two. 489 00:32:31.799 --> 00:32:36.400 What we've done is what we have is Capcom is about to have their mirror's 490 00:32:36.480 --> 00:32:39.119 edge to a moment. Yeah, I say that. I say that as 491 00:32:39.200 --> 00:32:45.279 a big Dragons Dogma fan. I know we have a lot of folks in 492 00:32:45.599 --> 00:32:50.279 Giant Bomb community but also passed off that love that game. I want it 493 00:32:50.359 --> 00:32:52.559 to succeed, But in my heart of hearts, I feel like that game 494 00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:55.200 is gonna come out and people are gonna be like, what is this? 495 00:32:55.440 --> 00:33:00.440 No thanks and just move on. I feel like the Dragons dog I'm a 496 00:33:00.480 --> 00:33:05.960 fan base has been really good about sounding louder than they are, if you 497 00:33:06.079 --> 00:33:08.359 know what I mean. Yeah, because because you know, the game was 498 00:33:09.119 --> 00:33:13.640 a sleeper hit and then it kind of had it built up slowly. But 499 00:33:13.720 --> 00:33:15.799 it's like one of those things like if you're a champion of it, you'll 500 00:33:15.839 --> 00:33:19.680 be pretty loud among those champions because they're like, not everyone was a champion 501 00:33:19.720 --> 00:33:23.319 of it like some games. So yeah, I think it kind of also 502 00:33:23.400 --> 00:33:28.039 depends on the timing, like when do they put it out. If they 503 00:33:28.119 --> 00:33:30.200 put it out at the right opportune moment, it could hit in a big, 504 00:33:30.279 --> 00:33:35.480 big way. We've seen indie games now come out and everyone they look 505 00:33:35.519 --> 00:33:37.559 like they're being you know, there wouldn't be a major deal, but because 506 00:33:37.640 --> 00:33:43.039 of when they're released, they are like the perfect thing at the perfect moment 507 00:33:43.319 --> 00:33:45.599 when people needed it, and they pop off in a massive way. Elden 508 00:33:45.680 --> 00:33:50.240 Ring is not a great example because it's from software, but like the timing 509 00:33:50.279 --> 00:33:54.240 at which elden Ring came out helped it incredibly, Like they literally no one 510 00:33:54.319 --> 00:33:58.519 else was around it. That's partly because people moved away from it, but 511 00:33:58.599 --> 00:34:00.279 also they want a lot of other games coming out, and it owned like 512 00:34:00.519 --> 00:34:05.240 the Conversation for a couple of months and that was like a big deal. 513 00:34:05.880 --> 00:34:08.280 And obviously Dragons Document is a very different type of game, but it also 514 00:34:08.400 --> 00:34:12.840 has an elder Ring energy to it, where it's this big, open world 515 00:34:12.960 --> 00:34:16.079 game and it will have a lot of really cool like dynamics, gameplay, 516 00:34:16.159 --> 00:34:21.159 dynamics and mechanics, so it could do something big. I really wanted to 517 00:34:21.199 --> 00:34:23.880 succeed, but deep down I have just this itching feeling where it's going to 518 00:34:23.920 --> 00:34:28.400 be one of those things where it got made, where all the people that 519 00:34:28.519 --> 00:34:30.599 play it are happy that it got made. It's probably a decent game, 520 00:34:30.679 --> 00:34:37.199 maybe it's an amazing game. And Itsuno San has it out of his system 521 00:34:37.360 --> 00:34:38.760 because you know, this is his baby and he's been trying to make it 522 00:34:38.840 --> 00:34:42.239 for ages. He's like, God damn it, I keep making you amazing 523 00:34:42.280 --> 00:34:45.079 government cry games. Let me make the one game that I want. And 524 00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:47.159 then he makes it, and maybe we just move on from there and that's 525 00:34:47.199 --> 00:34:52.239 the last of we see of Dragon's Dogma. But I don't know, man, 526 00:34:52.320 --> 00:34:54.519 there's something about it. This makes me feel like we're setting them up 527 00:34:54.639 --> 00:34:59.320 to really get some party in their face. He said all that shit, 528 00:34:59.400 --> 00:35:01.119 I didn't say anything in years. When you come back to clip this, 529 00:35:01.239 --> 00:35:04.880 the rubb it in our face is just you leave me out of it, 530 00:35:05.000 --> 00:35:08.840 all right? Hey, I say I want it to succeed. My feeling 531 00:35:09.039 --> 00:35:14.360 is that we might be like we have, We might have oversold it to 532 00:35:14.480 --> 00:35:17.199 Capcom and then you know what, you know what, I want to succeed 533 00:35:17.400 --> 00:35:21.760 because if it succeeds, that's one step closer to get in the god Hend 534 00:35:21.800 --> 00:35:23.800 remake that I've we've been dying fall. That's what this has all been about. 535 00:35:23.800 --> 00:35:29.239 I knew it, Okay, I knew it all right. Uh, 536 00:35:29.519 --> 00:35:32.519 let's see famits to Japanese physical charts. I'm bringing this up just because we 537 00:35:32.559 --> 00:35:36.159 get a little bit info about Live Alive and how it's doing. It was 538 00:35:36.320 --> 00:35:38.920 number one for the week in Japan. Uh. These are the physical sales 539 00:35:39.079 --> 00:35:43.960 seventy one, one hundred and thirty seven. So if you add in uh, 540 00:35:44.239 --> 00:35:45.760 you know, assumed at least thirty percent digital, it's going to be 541 00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:50.039 right around one hundred thousand. It's probably more than thirty percent, so maybe 542 00:35:50.079 --> 00:35:52.599 even near one hundred and fifty thousand units. That's pretty good for a game 543 00:35:52.679 --> 00:35:57.960 that's sort of no one ever talked about, most people did not talk about 544 00:35:58.559 --> 00:36:00.840 until it got announced that Nintendo to act a few weeks ago with h D 545 00:36:00.920 --> 00:36:04.519 two D remake. And now here it is, and it seems to be 546 00:36:04.760 --> 00:36:07.000 kicking off. I guess game is going to be a pretty good, a 547 00:36:07.039 --> 00:36:09.079 pretty successful thing. And yeah, the kind of thing that's like, oh, 548 00:36:09.400 --> 00:36:13.639 this is the exact right kind of game to do HD two D, 549 00:36:13.800 --> 00:36:16.840 where it is not the super supermassive, big budget thing, but it's a 550 00:36:17.159 --> 00:36:22.840 really good recreation of what we already had, and it's gonna make easily enough 551 00:36:22.880 --> 00:36:25.480 money to justify keep doing things like this in the future, right, Yeah 552 00:36:25.559 --> 00:36:30.440 for sure. I I just thoughted it and I'm having a great time no 553 00:36:30.599 --> 00:36:34.920 it JRPG Expert down Rock, it seems to be having a great time where 554 00:36:35.079 --> 00:36:38.360 yeah, we're in the brief discussions that we have had, but yeah, 555 00:36:38.440 --> 00:36:42.119 this is a kind of thing where it's like, hey, take something. 556 00:36:42.400 --> 00:36:45.679 I feel like this. This kind of style could be Nintendo's new like remake 557 00:36:45.920 --> 00:36:50.280 approach where they're like, hey, let's take our old games that you know, 558 00:36:50.760 --> 00:36:52.960 maybe we get an Earthbound game like this, right yeah, you know 559 00:36:53.000 --> 00:36:59.239 what reminds me of like when like a hip hop song will sample like an 560 00:36:59.280 --> 00:37:02.920 old, old older like so like Michael McDonald's song, Uh yeah, yeah, 561 00:37:04.480 --> 00:37:07.599 yeah, like what it was, I'm like regulate all right, Like 562 00:37:07.840 --> 00:37:09.559 yeah, it's like okay, now Michael McDonald's song is in the top forty 563 00:37:09.599 --> 00:37:12.360 again, what the hell is going on? That's what it feels like. 564 00:37:12.880 --> 00:37:15.239 H two D is the hip hop of gaming. It's what I've been trying 565 00:37:15.280 --> 00:37:20.039 to see exactly. Yeah, uh's the Switch still selling very well. It's 566 00:37:20.119 --> 00:37:22.480 like when you could bind all the models, it's at like eighty thousand, 567 00:37:23.199 --> 00:37:28.280 and you compare that to the supply con strand consoles PlayStation five at ten thousand. 568 00:37:28.760 --> 00:37:31.039 Uh, well, like the eleven thousand and then Xbox Series S and 569 00:37:31.199 --> 00:37:35.639 S right around five thousand, So the Xbox Series X and S still seems 570 00:37:35.639 --> 00:37:38.480 like it's probably outpacing Xbox One. But yeah, once PlayStation five is able 571 00:37:38.480 --> 00:37:42.960 to get as mini units in Japan as they can, it's probably gonna keep 572 00:37:43.039 --> 00:37:46.360 growing ten thousand, eleven thousand. PlayStation five also still wrote like really low 573 00:37:46.480 --> 00:37:51.119 that system. Even though PlayStation doesn't sell as well in Japan as the Switch, 574 00:37:51.639 --> 00:37:54.039 it still should be at like forty fifty thousand like every week or something 575 00:37:54.159 --> 00:37:59.440 like that. So yeah, uh, all right, finally for the news. 576 00:37:59.599 --> 00:38:07.039 Also, I want to PlayStation four eleven eleven eleven past eleven. PlayStation 577 00:38:07.079 --> 00:38:09.440 four as sold last week one hundred and twenty five new two dsllls. There 578 00:38:09.480 --> 00:38:13.639 you go. And every time I see like, oh yeah, there's still 579 00:38:13.679 --> 00:38:15.719 new two ds is in Japan, I wonder if I can get those for 580 00:38:15.800 --> 00:38:21.639 cost. But we'll see, all right. FTC Chair up ends antitrust standards 581 00:38:21.679 --> 00:38:24.559 with Meta law suit. This this comes from Cecilia Kang at New York Times. 582 00:38:25.280 --> 00:38:30.519 This is relevant to a lot of news in gaming because of acquis acquisitions 583 00:38:30.559 --> 00:38:35.280 that just you know, haven't gone through yet, specifically activision of Microsoft. 584 00:38:36.119 --> 00:38:37.320 Well, let's read so we can kind of like lay the groundwork here for 585 00:38:37.760 --> 00:38:42.239 why that may or may not matter. Lena Khan may set off a shift 586 00:38:42.320 --> 00:38:45.639 in how Washington regulates competition by filing cases in tech areas before they mature. 587 00:38:45.920 --> 00:38:52.400 She faces an uphill climb, and this is Lena Khan is the Federal Trade 588 00:38:52.400 --> 00:38:55.599 Commission like leader. Early in her tenure as Chair of the Federal Trade Commission, 589 00:38:55.679 --> 00:38:59.960 Lena Khan declared that she would reign in the power of the largest technology 590 00:39:00.039 --> 00:39:04.079 technology companies in a dramatically new way. We're trying to be forward looking, 591 00:39:04.159 --> 00:39:07.440 anticipating problems and taking fast action, miscon said in an interview last month. 592 00:39:07.679 --> 00:39:13.159 She promised to focus on next generation technologies and not just on areas where tech 593 00:39:13.239 --> 00:39:16.400 behemoths but were already well established. This week, Miss Khan took her first 594 00:39:16.400 --> 00:39:21.159 step towards stopping the tech monopolies of the future when she sued to block a 595 00:39:21.320 --> 00:39:24.679 small acquisition by Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook of the virtual reality 596 00:39:24.760 --> 00:39:30.760 fitness startup within the deal was significant for Metas development of the so called metaverse, 597 00:39:30.039 --> 00:39:35.119 which is a nascent technology and far from mainstream. In doing so, 598 00:39:35.639 --> 00:39:39.280 Miss Khan up ended decades of antitrust standards, potentially setting off a wholesale shift 599 00:39:39.599 --> 00:39:44.760 in the way Washington enforces competition across corporate America. At the heart of the 600 00:39:44.800 --> 00:39:50.800 FTC's lawsuit is the idea that regulators can apply antitrust lawsuit without waiting for a 601 00:39:51.079 --> 00:39:53.440 market to mature to the point where it is clear that companies hold the most 602 00:39:53.480 --> 00:39:59.199 power. The FTC said such early action was justified because Metas deal would probably 603 00:39:59.280 --> 00:40:04.719 eliminate petition in the young virtual reality market. There there's some more history here 604 00:40:04.760 --> 00:40:08.679 about like the you know what the standards were previously, But basically, like 605 00:40:08.719 --> 00:40:15.159 the short version of it is a deal would get blocked by the FTC if 606 00:40:15.199 --> 00:40:19.800 it was very clear that it was moving one company more towards a monopoly. 607 00:40:20.519 --> 00:40:24.079 That is not necessarily it's it would be very difficult to prove that here. 608 00:40:24.400 --> 00:40:29.320 So it feels like khn is trying to do something here where she is establishing 609 00:40:29.400 --> 00:40:35.239 a new standard and people like analysts, let's see the Ftec's lawsuit against Meta 610 00:40:35.440 --> 00:40:39.360 in the budding virtual reality market is a deliberately experimental case that seeks to extend 611 00:40:39.360 --> 00:40:44.519 the boundaries of merger enforcement, said William Kovichick, a former chair of the 612 00:40:44.599 --> 00:40:49.320 agency. She such cases are certainly harder to win, so this feels like, 613 00:40:49.719 --> 00:40:52.960 like he says, an experiment to see if they can broaden the regulatory 614 00:40:53.039 --> 00:41:00.480 boundaries that they have. And it's sort of weird because this for hundred million 615 00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:02.239 dollar deal. It's kind of the way the system is supposed to work. 616 00:41:02.280 --> 00:41:06.880 We've talked about this before, where if you are a small, young company 617 00:41:07.400 --> 00:41:10.199 and you want to try to do something, one of the clear incentives to 618 00:41:10.280 --> 00:41:15.320 do that is you want to get just big enough where you're not profitable, 619 00:41:15.440 --> 00:41:19.159 but a bigger company sees the profit in you and buys you. And by 620 00:41:20.239 --> 00:41:23.679 blocking one of these deals, that could de incentivize people from investing in those 621 00:41:23.760 --> 00:41:28.679 ideas in the future. Now, that's not going to happen in every case, 622 00:41:28.800 --> 00:41:30.400 but that it will be the argument for why this is probably not a 623 00:41:30.440 --> 00:41:34.000 good thing. It's probably gonna be a big part of the argument when what's 624 00:41:34.039 --> 00:41:37.960 this actually goes to court if that happens. Obviously, though the thing that 625 00:41:38.039 --> 00:41:43.119 people are concerned about here or concerned whatever. Like. The reason this might 626 00:41:43.199 --> 00:41:49.320 be interesting is because what does this mean for Microsoft acquiring Activision. I think 627 00:41:49.360 --> 00:41:51.719 a lot of speculation will be like, well, anything can happen now, 628 00:41:51.719 --> 00:41:53.320 if they're going to block this, they could block anything. To me, 629 00:41:53.480 --> 00:41:57.960 this sounds like, well, the reason they pick a small thing off to 630 00:41:58.039 --> 00:42:00.719 the side is because they do want to test this, and while this test 631 00:42:00.840 --> 00:42:05.199 is ongoing, they're probably not going to do anything else too crazy, right, 632 00:42:05.280 --> 00:42:07.880 They're probably not going to buck the Activision deal at all. No, 633 00:42:08.159 --> 00:42:13.239 I think it will be a little a long time before this becomes a standard 634 00:42:13.280 --> 00:42:16.760 thing. And like you said, they want to experiment without like upending the 635 00:42:17.079 --> 00:42:22.360 entire system before they even know the ins and outs of it and the limitations 636 00:42:22.440 --> 00:42:27.719 and advantage this advantages. I don't think it has any impact on the Microsoft 637 00:42:27.760 --> 00:42:31.079 Activision acquisition at all. I agree. I think that's I think it's just 638 00:42:32.079 --> 00:42:36.199 if they wanted to do something about that deal, they probably would have by 639 00:42:36.239 --> 00:42:38.199 now, I think, and I think they're looking past this. And I 640 00:42:38.280 --> 00:42:43.320 also think, like if you look at the target here, Microsoft and pretty 641 00:42:43.320 --> 00:42:49.679 good standing with most regulators and lawmakers in Washington, Facebook very much not and 642 00:42:49.760 --> 00:42:52.679 Facebook is an easy target. No one likes them, No one likes Mark 643 00:42:52.760 --> 00:42:58.000 Zuckerberg. If you are going to test these new ideas at these new possibilities 644 00:42:58.000 --> 00:43:00.960 for regulation out, you're going to do it and Mark Zuckerberg, Yeah, 645 00:43:01.360 --> 00:43:05.320 And you know that also increases it's your best chance of winning too, because 646 00:43:06.039 --> 00:43:07.840 you know the courts they might oversee this also might not like Facebook as much. 647 00:43:07.880 --> 00:43:10.679 It might see more of a threat for them because they've had this pattern. 648 00:43:10.840 --> 00:43:15.599 And I just think this is going to be their focus and Microsoft's probably 649 00:43:15.599 --> 00:43:19.199 going to continue escape by I feel like this is one of those use cases 650 00:43:19.199 --> 00:43:22.199 where it's like, you do it to that company because this in the process 651 00:43:22.360 --> 00:43:28.559 of doing it, you will understand and discover so many hurdles and pitfalls and 652 00:43:28.639 --> 00:43:30.760 things to think about that by the end of it, regardless of whether you 653 00:43:30.840 --> 00:43:36.119 succeed or fail, you have just a metric shit ton of understanding and data 654 00:43:36.239 --> 00:43:37.679 to look at to be like, this is what we need to think about. 655 00:43:37.719 --> 00:43:39.440 This is why it's good, This is why it's a bad idea. 656 00:43:39.519 --> 00:43:44.760 These are the common like precedents that this are the precedents that will likely set 657 00:43:44.840 --> 00:43:47.079 etc. Et cetera. And yeah, you do it with this company, 658 00:43:47.239 --> 00:43:52.000 like, I feel like it's the perfect target for it, because by the 659 00:43:52.119 --> 00:43:55.840 end of it, you'll be like, we've we've encountered every challenge and question 660 00:43:55.960 --> 00:44:00.400 that possibly we could encounter. And then you take that information and when you 661 00:44:00.519 --> 00:44:05.079 use it on smaller companies are less complicated and less you know, have let's 662 00:44:05.119 --> 00:44:08.400 have a knock on effect. It will You'll you'll probably be like, we 663 00:44:09.000 --> 00:44:13.079 we can approach this and we know how to tackle this because of all this 664 00:44:13.119 --> 00:44:16.480 stuff that we did from just clapping Mark Zuckerberg's cheeks for a year and a 665 00:44:16.519 --> 00:44:21.920 half. Right, uh and yeah. As peace Machine points out, this 666 00:44:22.039 --> 00:44:24.800 is all applies to us, and regulation for these kinds of deals is global, 667 00:44:25.159 --> 00:44:30.760 and the European market is completely different with much stricter regulations, and who 668 00:44:30.840 --> 00:44:32.559 knows what will happen there. A few weeks ago we got like, oh, 669 00:44:32.639 --> 00:44:36.880 this deal my close in thirty days because it passed a certain threshold in 670 00:44:36.960 --> 00:44:38.559 America. It's like, well, yeah, yam in America, that doesn't 671 00:44:38.559 --> 00:44:42.400 mean the deal will finalize because Europe could still stand in the way. And 672 00:44:42.519 --> 00:44:45.320 that's still true here. If I was Mark Zuckerberg, I would take this 673 00:44:45.440 --> 00:44:52.679 opportunity to release a social video of him doing the from the Star Trek Wrath 674 00:44:52.760 --> 00:44:55.920 of Khn. Yes exactly, and that now is the time mark. There's 675 00:44:55.960 --> 00:45:00.960 never been a better time for a Wrath of con friends, please yeah, 676 00:45:00.280 --> 00:45:02.840 yeah, all right, let's get to the catchup. Just a few things 677 00:45:02.920 --> 00:45:07.519 here. It updated people on Xbox Live August. Games with Gold have been 678 00:45:07.559 --> 00:45:10.159 announced. Uh you know it is. It's Games with Gold. So it's 679 00:45:10.239 --> 00:45:15.119 Caligo, Scourge Bringer, Saints Road two, and Monaco. I like Scurge 680 00:45:15.159 --> 00:45:17.599 Bringer, I like Monaco, I like Saints Road two. I've never played 681 00:45:17.639 --> 00:45:21.639 Calico. But this, you know, continues to be the kind of thing 682 00:45:21.679 --> 00:45:24.400 where it's like I'm glad I got you know, game pass, Like that's 683 00:45:24.440 --> 00:45:28.039 what I'm happy still happening. What's gonna with Games of Gold? It just 684 00:45:28.039 --> 00:45:30.760 seems to be a really weird thing running on fumes, right, like who 685 00:45:30.960 --> 00:45:34.079 like, who cares? It's all it is. It's like this weird thing, 686 00:45:34.159 --> 00:45:35.840 like they pops up once a month and people are like, well that 687 00:45:35.880 --> 00:45:39.039 looks pretty bad, Like that's that's all it ever is so especially compared to 688 00:45:39.480 --> 00:45:44.000 a recent PlayStation plus, you know, a library update where they're like, 689 00:45:44.159 --> 00:45:47.119 here's the Yakuza game and Tony Hawks pro Skater one plus two remake and stuff. 690 00:45:47.119 --> 00:45:50.880 I'm like, wow, that's really good. So yeah, I feel 691 00:45:50.920 --> 00:45:54.320 like Games with Gold is only currently being enjoyed by people with like an Xbox 692 00:45:54.360 --> 00:45:59.800 three sixties Yeah right exactly. Yes, someone like in their back room and 693 00:45:59.840 --> 00:46:01.159 they like they whenever they have a break, they just go in the back 694 00:46:01.239 --> 00:46:04.960 room. And someone like forgot to cancel Xbox Live Gold at the business, 695 00:46:05.119 --> 00:46:07.400 so someone's like, man on work, I get to play all these great 696 00:46:07.480 --> 00:46:12.199 games. So yeah, Nintendo is returning to Bits Summit. But Bits Summit 697 00:46:12.320 --> 00:46:15.400 is Japan's largest indie game event. It's happening in August sixth through seventh. 698 00:46:15.639 --> 00:46:19.960 This is Nintendo's first time back in three years, and it's booth will have 699 00:46:20.320 --> 00:46:24.559 seven indie games. So Nintendo getting back out there doing something. I heard 700 00:46:24.599 --> 00:46:28.480 that Hollid Night it is going to be there. Oh wow, really, 701 00:46:29.199 --> 00:46:30.320 this is what you're gonna do. This is what you're gonna do to people. 702 00:46:31.760 --> 00:46:36.239 I have heard that Holid Night folk song will be at bits on me 703 00:46:36.400 --> 00:46:38.480 everyone, But it's not gonna be the You gotta go out back, you 704 00:46:38.559 --> 00:46:40.760 got to know the password. I will just try to sneak in the back 705 00:46:40.800 --> 00:46:47.360 and yeah, yeah, don't get arrested everybody. Uh god. I think 706 00:46:47.400 --> 00:46:51.280 it's cool that Nintendo's going back to BITS. I like Bit Summit from what 707 00:46:51.360 --> 00:46:52.440 I've seen of it, I've never been able to go. If I ever 708 00:46:52.559 --> 00:46:54.840 do go to Japan, now, maybe I'll try to time out with BITS 709 00:46:54.840 --> 00:46:58.480 Summit because it looks like a good time. The indie scene in Japan has 710 00:46:58.920 --> 00:47:01.760 like really grown alongside this specific summit, like bringing them all together, and 711 00:47:01.800 --> 00:47:05.559 I think a lot of like smaller developers and tree I'm like looked around be 712 00:47:05.639 --> 00:47:07.880 like, oh, there's way more of us than we were expecting. We 713 00:47:07.000 --> 00:47:10.159 just didn't know that we had a community here and bit someone has been central 714 00:47:10.239 --> 00:47:13.760 to building that out, and that's yeah, based on it is one of 715 00:47:13.840 --> 00:47:17.800 the coolest events in like modern gaming, like in the world. Like I've 716 00:47:17.960 --> 00:47:22.159 never been there. I was BIT somehit adjacent for a little while, but 717 00:47:22.199 --> 00:47:25.000 I spoke to a bunch of people that worked on it and continue to work 718 00:47:25.079 --> 00:47:28.480 on it, And I've always had a back and forth with people because they 719 00:47:28.559 --> 00:47:30.920 want us to come a lot. It's tricky because it is in Japan, 720 00:47:31.119 --> 00:47:36.199 but it's a show that's one hundred percent worth going to if you're there. 721 00:47:36.280 --> 00:47:37.920 And can go there. But if you're not, I would say, like 722 00:47:38.000 --> 00:47:42.679 you can like tune in remotely. And it's really really, really cool just 723 00:47:42.800 --> 00:47:45.280 to keep up on the news of what's going on. It's like a it's 724 00:47:45.280 --> 00:47:47.199 almost like an information share as much as it is like a gathering of the 725 00:47:47.320 --> 00:47:52.039 indie community in Japan. And there's some really amazing stuff that is being made 726 00:47:52.079 --> 00:47:54.920 in Japan in the indie scene. That Bit Summit is pretty much the only 727 00:47:54.960 --> 00:47:59.440 place that is surfacing it to the rest of the world. So yeah, 728 00:47:59.480 --> 00:48:02.039 it's worth attention to and shout out to the people that are putting that on 729 00:48:02.199 --> 00:48:07.599 ear after year. All right, let's get to the poll here. Do 730 00:48:07.800 --> 00:48:10.079 you think that's Star Wars Nights of the Older public remake from Aspire ever comes 731 00:48:10.119 --> 00:48:14.800 out? Is this did? Is this the new one? New one? 732 00:48:15.159 --> 00:48:16.760 Uh? Nope, that's nothing that was from from yesterday. Let me go 733 00:48:16.760 --> 00:48:21.159 ahead and grab that. It will be fine, don't worry about Yeah, 734 00:48:21.239 --> 00:48:23.840 there we go, There we go. I asked about folders, way more 735 00:48:23.960 --> 00:48:29.360 interesting. Do you use folders on your gaming platforms to organize your games? 736 00:48:30.280 --> 00:48:34.239 Yes? That's thirty six point nine percent said yeah, yes, sixty three 737 00:48:34.239 --> 00:48:38.480 point one percent said no. I don't I think like even that among those 738 00:48:38.599 --> 00:48:42.079 yes ers, I bet a lot of them set it up once and forget 739 00:48:42.079 --> 00:48:45.960 about it, because that's how I listen. If there's a I'm never keeping 740 00:48:46.039 --> 00:48:50.000 games that I'm not playing on my consoles. Right. If I'm not playing 741 00:48:50.039 --> 00:48:52.199 that game, it's gone. Like I will never have more than maybe three 742 00:48:52.280 --> 00:48:55.920 or four games on a console unless it's a pollable console. If it's a 743 00:48:55.960 --> 00:48:59.960 switch, I'll keep all the games on there that I have. I think 744 00:49:00.119 --> 00:49:02.360 I might be able to I might say in the future, but like on 745 00:49:02.880 --> 00:49:07.920 on PlayStation, Xbox, pretty much Steam anywhere else, like if once I'm 746 00:49:07.960 --> 00:49:12.440 done with the game, I delete it. I brought this up yesterday when 747 00:49:12.440 --> 00:49:15.800 we were talking about this, but Steam just created an adult games folder for 748 00:49:15.960 --> 00:49:21.320 me, and it's got let's see Fight Angel General Live six. Some of 749 00:49:21.360 --> 00:49:24.280 these are just like, well, there's honey Pop of course, let's see 750 00:49:24.400 --> 00:49:30.239 the Quarry is an adult game according to a Steam Uh, Sex with Stalin 751 00:49:30.039 --> 00:49:34.000 is an adult game, as you might expect it to be. But you 752 00:49:34.079 --> 00:49:37.320 know, yeah, Kuza like a dragon and trying to see if there's any 753 00:49:37.360 --> 00:49:44.199 other stop. You know, it's very stiff and rigid. Yeah, let's 754 00:49:44.239 --> 00:49:46.119 see Suck You Bus, which is like a first person one that has like 755 00:49:46.320 --> 00:49:52.000 you could you see movies in that one? So actual it's an actual adult 756 00:49:52.079 --> 00:49:54.480 game. There you go, yeah, and steams like we gotta take the 757 00:49:54.559 --> 00:50:00.480 logos off. I did not. I'll just a furry cyberfucker too. There 758 00:50:00.519 --> 00:50:05.519 it is right there in my thing launched. A new launched this week. 759 00:50:05.800 --> 00:50:07.880 All right, let's see, I have a new question for are you everybody? 760 00:50:08.440 --> 00:50:12.480 I even put a clarification because people will take the stuff pretty seriously. 761 00:50:12.480 --> 00:50:15.760 I will Dragons Dogma sell? Well, all right, let's do that one 762 00:50:15.760 --> 00:50:21.000 in said I was gonna do. Are you planning to purchase a new console 763 00:50:21.039 --> 00:50:22.639 before the end of the year? That's not fun. Let's do it. 764 00:50:22.760 --> 00:50:29.079 Will Dragons Dogma to sell, like, let's put a number on it, 765 00:50:29.199 --> 00:50:35.679 like north of like nine million cell more than I would say, what Dragons 766 00:50:35.719 --> 00:50:37.960 Doguma one was that whateves? Like seven million? It's like seven million million. 767 00:50:38.800 --> 00:50:45.559 Let's say let's say nine million. Okay, more than nine million copies 768 00:50:46.360 --> 00:50:50.519 and then I'll just put it in here. No, that's just seven that's 769 00:50:50.559 --> 00:50:53.480 do seven okay, the original same as the original, more than seven million 770 00:50:53.920 --> 00:51:00.679 more than the seven million the original has sold. All right, there we 771 00:51:00.760 --> 00:51:07.480 go Game mess mornings, Yes or no, that's easy, and then let's 772 00:51:07.519 --> 00:51:12.039 post this and then tam, you got anything happening for the rest of today? 773 00:51:12.039 --> 00:51:14.119 You got anything you want to promote, anything you want to talk about 774 00:51:14.119 --> 00:51:16.920 and happen over game spot watch my dump truck is out now. If you 775 00:51:17.000 --> 00:51:22.519 want to see Jan say the word clibbed, which is so absolutely ridiculous to 776 00:51:22.599 --> 00:51:24.480 me, I like, I was checking in and on on the show. 777 00:51:24.480 --> 00:51:28.119 I'm gonna listen to the rest of it, and I've seen I haven't watched 778 00:51:28.159 --> 00:51:30.360 the clip but I saw like the image, and I like the way that 779 00:51:30.400 --> 00:51:36.320 you guys have spelled this word clipboard instead of clipboard. Was he like thinking 780 00:51:36.519 --> 00:51:43.239 of cupboard? Like exactly that? Exactly? Cupboard is a very stupid word. 781 00:51:43.440 --> 00:51:46.000 Cupboard, cupboard? Cupboard? What board for my cup? Yeah? 782 00:51:46.440 --> 00:51:52.480 The two words cup and board don't combine to make the thing that you are 783 00:51:52.519 --> 00:51:57.639 then looking at. Right, Yes, it's anomally, Yes it's an anomaly. 784 00:51:57.800 --> 00:52:01.960 Yes it's a bad anomaly. But flip and aboard come together and they 785 00:52:02.079 --> 00:52:09.719 look exactly like the things that you fused to make that word and the skipper 786 00:52:09.840 --> 00:52:15.559 birthday. Yeah, I'm gonna listen. I'm gonna go to the giant bomb 787 00:52:15.840 --> 00:52:23.360 Twitter account right now and just tweet anyone planning to use the know, anyone 788 00:52:23.440 --> 00:52:36.119 planning to do sick tricks on the skippard today, Hell yeah, you got 789 00:52:36.119 --> 00:52:39.360 Everyone should watch a voicemail dump Truck has been really fun for the last several 790 00:52:39.440 --> 00:52:42.360 weeks. You everyone should be listening to. If you're not, so, 791 00:52:42.679 --> 00:52:45.239 definitely check out the latest one. Subscribe to that on podcast feeds or whatever. 792 00:52:46.599 --> 00:52:51.320 Today Ranking of Tech and Indians is going to wrap up today for everybody, 793 00:52:51.440 --> 00:52:52.920 so be sure to check that out. And then, yeah, we 794 00:52:52.960 --> 00:52:57.400 got the weekend. Any plans for the weekend, taim I'm gonna play some 795 00:52:57.519 --> 00:53:02.440 Live Alive. Yeah, dig into that. I might watch some anime because 796 00:53:02.440 --> 00:53:07.320 I am known anime enjoyer. I've got something to catch up on.