WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.480 --> 00:00:16.359 Don't be beer. It's the Internet. You're busy. Let's do this for 2 00:00:16.480 --> 00:00:20.280 July twelfth, twenty twenty four. For the next hour or so, let 3 00:00:20.280 --> 00:00:23.280 me help you sort through the world of gaming on Game Mess Mornings Live with 4 00:00:23.320 --> 00:00:28.239 me Jeff Grubb. Today is Microsoft already leaving the Xbox console behind in some 5 00:00:28.359 --> 00:00:33.439 territories, and the switch has reached a historic milestone. But first please join 6 00:00:33.520 --> 00:00:37.039 me and welcoming today's co host to Game Mess Mornings. It's two more. 7 00:00:37.079 --> 00:00:41.119 Who's saying everybody, Tam, how are you doing? I am doing great. 8 00:00:41.840 --> 00:00:46.039 I cannot see you Jeff Grub in this discord cold, but I don't 9 00:00:46.039 --> 00:00:52.079 think that's not important. What are you talking about? But yeah, I 10 00:00:52.159 --> 00:00:54.280 like people to be able to see me when they're doing the show. Make 11 00:00:54.359 --> 00:00:57.520 some sense. I have a face something to look at. Yeah, you're 12 00:00:57.560 --> 00:01:03.399 in a nice Zelda team. Were the original What do you think all the 13 00:01:03.479 --> 00:01:08.959 chances that use all the echoes of whatever wisdom is game of the Year? 14 00:01:10.719 --> 00:01:15.680 What are the chances of that It's not zero? Because I've been sitting down 15 00:01:15.719 --> 00:01:19.239 and thinking, is there a Game of the Year contender right now that isn't 16 00:01:19.319 --> 00:01:26.680 called elden Ring, Shadow of the Tree downloadable contemp from software. Yeah, 17 00:01:26.760 --> 00:01:32.400 it's tough. It's not zero for Echoes of Wisdom after a link between rols. 18 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:36.120 I think we learned that now. I don't think it's very high either. 19 00:01:37.359 --> 00:01:40.760 I think this will be a Zelda game made by Grezo, and it's 20 00:01:40.760 --> 00:01:42.280 gonna be really good and solid and fun, and that's all masking for I'm 21 00:01:42.319 --> 00:01:46.439 not I'm not gonna put that weight on that game. You're right, though, 22 00:01:46.439 --> 00:01:49.239 what are the other contenders out there? Yeah, Like I've sat down 23 00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:55.239 and thought about it, and I thought, like, maybe Balatro, I 24 00:01:55.239 --> 00:01:57.280 think that that could be contender for us for sure. Yes, yeah, 25 00:01:57.319 --> 00:02:01.239 a thousand times resist. Maybe you mentioned in Infinite Wealth, I mean that's 26 00:02:01.359 --> 00:02:07.560 my top five Infinite Wealth I would I am a long time Yukiza or like 27 00:02:07.640 --> 00:02:12.759 a Dragon fan. I think Infinite Wealth is a lot of fun. I 28 00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:15.639 don't think it's a game of the year content. Yeah, it really hit 29 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:17.599 hard for me, and it's not my game of the year. It's not 30 00:02:17.719 --> 00:02:23.400 there. It's very high up there. It's too it's built unfamiliarity, which 31 00:02:23.400 --> 00:02:28.400 you could say about elden Ring too, But like the the the Yakis, 32 00:02:28.520 --> 00:02:32.199 familiarity is very long tooth right now, yeah, you know, it's definitely 33 00:02:32.439 --> 00:02:36.319 your trading on that for sure. Like that's the whole idea of that game. 34 00:02:36.680 --> 00:02:38.759 You know what I've been playing that. I don't hear a lot of 35 00:02:38.759 --> 00:02:43.240 people talking about maybe I missed it, but I'm having a hell of a 36 00:02:43.280 --> 00:02:46.879 good time. Box Shot Roulette, Book Shot Roulette. Really okay, I 37 00:02:46.919 --> 00:02:51.400 been meaning to check this out. I've not that it is so cool. 38 00:02:51.560 --> 00:02:54.960 It is is act one of inscription. But that's what it looked like. 39 00:02:55.199 --> 00:03:00.759 Russian Roulette is Russian Roulette, okay, And that's the base premise there is 40 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:04.599 like you're doing rushing wet with like a character across the table or something, 41 00:03:04.919 --> 00:03:08.360 yep, and like you you have like weird items that appear that can let 42 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:13.199 you modify what you're about to do. Like you get, like, for 43 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:15.080 example, a blade which you can use to cut off the end of a 44 00:03:15.080 --> 00:03:20.479 shotgun the shotgun so that the next time you fire it it does more damage. 45 00:03:20.520 --> 00:03:23.199 So maybe you want to take off, you know, extra health from 46 00:03:23.240 --> 00:03:27.280 the other person. It is. It is really cool. It's got like 47 00:03:27.319 --> 00:03:32.520 a sawti ish vibe where it's like weird rusty metal and like dirty concrete flaws 48 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:38.120 and that kind of thing. But I think it's currently three dollars on the 49 00:03:38.159 --> 00:03:42.560 Steam. Yeah, it seems highly comand up for me. Yes, yeah, 50 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:46.039 I've been playing a bunch of that. It isn't It isn't like super 51 00:03:46.680 --> 00:03:50.319 long, and it hasn't doesn't have like a crazy amount of ideas, isn't 52 00:03:50.360 --> 00:03:53.560 it. It's just fun and satisfying for a little bit. Yeah, I 53 00:03:53.039 --> 00:03:55.240 was, I was. I was curious about it. I wanted to play 54 00:03:55.319 --> 00:04:00.719 Sileco as well. That's that boomer shooter that everyone was Really that sounds shit. 55 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:03.400 That's how it goes. Hey, listen, it's best to just like 56 00:04:03.439 --> 00:04:09.280 really be very insular and protect yourself and new things. Yes, exactly, 57 00:04:09.360 --> 00:04:11.919 Like, haven't heard of it, don't want to hear about it, have 58 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:15.280 a best way to keep yourself safe. Absolutely, don't throw me with an 59 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:19.959 unfamiliar time exactly. Let's explain what we do here so you can be familiar 60 00:04:20.040 --> 00:04:24.319 with us. Most weekdays, I Jeff Grubb, will help piece your gaming 61 00:04:24.319 --> 00:04:27.959 life back together. That includes breaking news and maybe even some of our own 62 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:30.439 original reporting. For all these topics, I'll get the input of a bona 63 00:04:30.439 --> 00:04:33.639 fide expert who will make me look smart. I gotta trim this mustache if 64 00:04:33.639 --> 00:04:36.680 you are watching live on Twitch Welcome. You can always listen to the show 65 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:41.560 later on podcast feeds by searching for game Mes Mornings, or find the RSS 66 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:45.360 on giant bomb dot com. You can also catch the show later with chapters 67 00:04:45.360 --> 00:04:49.000 and timestamps on YouTube. Hello YouTube, all right, we have a lot. 68 00:04:49.519 --> 00:04:53.199 Hi. Hello, we have a lot to get into. Let's start 69 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:57.480 the morning mess with no Xbox, no problem. This is from Tom Warren 70 00:04:57.560 --> 00:05:01.120 at The Verge, who wrote a lot this piece it's worth checking out over 71 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:08.120 on the Verge as part of his Notepad newsletter, but I picked out this 72 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:11.920 paragraph. In May, I received a tip that Microsoft is changing up its 73 00:05:12.040 --> 00:05:15.879 Xbox strategy for the new financial year in regions like Europe, Africa, and 74 00:05:15.959 --> 00:05:18.240 the Middle East. I haven't been able to fully verify this, but the 75 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:25.680 tipster claimed Microsoft will stop marketing Xbox consoles in certain markets in em EA and 76 00:05:25.720 --> 00:05:30.519 focus only on game Pass, Cloud gaming PC, and Xbox controllers. Microsoft 77 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:34.279 has been struggling to sell Xbox Series S and x consoles in many countries across 78 00:05:34.519 --> 00:05:41.240 EMEA, and the tipster believes Microsoft will now allocate less consoles stock to Europe 79 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:46.240 as a result. That isn't I don't think that would be too shocking if 80 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:47.759 this turns out to be the case. I think Tom also goes on to 81 00:05:47.759 --> 00:05:51.480 say that he is not one hundred percent sure about this or I think you 82 00:05:51.560 --> 00:05:55.199 said there, but he's like, she's looking for more people to confirm this. 83 00:05:56.639 --> 00:06:00.600 I just wouldn't be, like I said, shocked to find out this 84 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:04.879 is exactly what's happening. It does seem like Xbox is struggling in Europe specifically, 85 00:06:04.959 --> 00:06:09.800 and I bet that that is something that is also the case in places 86 00:06:09.839 --> 00:06:15.959 like the Middle Eastern Africa. When you were in the UK, when you 87 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:20.600 were in Europe, the Microsoft, I think Microsoft is probably at its height 88 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:24.639 there, but I don't think that was ever anywhere close to PlayStation. I 89 00:06:24.639 --> 00:06:26.800 don't know what was your read on at the time, And how do you 90 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:31.680 think it's going now. I mean Europe has traditionally so when I was in 91 00:06:31.720 --> 00:06:41.319 Europe before we left the Union, disgusting freaks that children, I mean, 92 00:06:41.800 --> 00:06:46.439 yeah, yeah, for as long as I lived there, Europe was a 93 00:06:46.600 --> 00:06:59.360 PlayStation region for predominantly Jim Ryan. Yeah, Jim Ryan presents Europe. Obviously, 94 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:03.000 there was a lot of so there was a Nintendo and Sega were fairly 95 00:07:03.160 --> 00:07:08.079 like well represented, but that felt like the entry point for video games, 96 00:07:08.079 --> 00:07:11.920 Like when video games were popping off, Nintendo was like, you know, 97 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:16.839 the the major player. Everyone wanted to have a Super Nintendo or a Nintendo 98 00:07:16.959 --> 00:07:23.839 Entertainment system. And then Sega had a fairly good foothold as well. And 99 00:07:23.879 --> 00:07:29.079 then in the PlayStation era Xbox era, PlayStation era PlayStation was far and away 100 00:07:29.160 --> 00:07:34.079 the kind of leader in terms of market share. It did I think a 101 00:07:34.120 --> 00:07:42.160 briefly change with the with the Xbox three sixty. Nintendo we obviously I don't 102 00:07:42.199 --> 00:07:46.240 count that because it was a sensation for that exactly, it is what I 103 00:07:46.240 --> 00:07:47.920 would think, Yeah, three six, it seemed like, now, let's 104 00:07:47.959 --> 00:07:54.519 doing all right. The three sixty did well through sheer force of will and 105 00:07:54.600 --> 00:07:58.879 like it was like I feel like the season three sixty took over the world, 106 00:07:59.319 --> 00:08:05.519 and the three sixty like had success in every region where it shouldn't have 107 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:11.759 success purely because it was a bit of an outlier. It was it came 108 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:15.959 out first, it was cheaper, I mean, it had the online, 109 00:08:16.079 --> 00:08:22.879 good online features they had like Xbox Live Arcade. They were like cooking so 110 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:26.160 so hard with that console. I mean it was also failing every five minutes, 111 00:08:26.399 --> 00:08:31.080 sure with the red ring, but it was a weird situation where the 112 00:08:31.240 --> 00:08:35.039 Xbox was. This is how good the Xbox was. The Xbox was so 113 00:08:35.240 --> 00:08:39.879 good that people had repeated red rings, and the thing that they did was 114 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:43.679 keep getting new Xboxes. Yep, that was the solution, which is insane 115 00:08:43.720 --> 00:08:48.799 behavior. The thing keeps breaking, but you are so ingrained in it they 116 00:08:48.919 --> 00:08:52.559 keep buying new ones knowing they're going to break. So that's how good the 117 00:08:52.720 --> 00:09:00.480 Xbox was at that time, and that translated to a significant market share that 118 00:09:00.519 --> 00:09:03.759 there was some regression where it was like I went back to PlayStation. Once 119 00:09:03.759 --> 00:09:09.159 the PlayStation four hit, it went straight back to like PlayStation just dominating. 120 00:09:09.600 --> 00:09:11.960 That's not to say like in Europe, it's it's like Xbox is dead. 121 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:18.240 I know plenty of Xbox or Xbox owners, and the Xbox has a good 122 00:09:18.440 --> 00:09:24.000 kind of like foothold. When they say Europe, it's important to remember that 123 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:28.840 they are excluding the UK. Are likely yes, yeah, em The E 124 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:33.399 M E A is a for people that don't know M E A. It's 125 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:39.399 in the game, it's in the continent. It's that is a designator that 126 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:43.360 a lot of companies used to for a certain territory and it would not include 127 00:09:43.360 --> 00:09:46.519 the UK. It's as Tam said, that's right. Yeah, so like 128 00:09:46.840 --> 00:09:50.639 Europe makes sense. The Middle East is also a PlayStation pill to like a 129 00:09:50.720 --> 00:09:56.919 crazy right, I'm driven by like I think football games, soccer games that 130 00:09:58.120 --> 00:10:03.519 like just got one associated with PlayStation generations go now, And that's all carrying 131 00:10:03.519 --> 00:10:09.320 forward when I when I worked in retail, we used to have especially I 132 00:10:09.399 --> 00:10:16.879 used to work in Westfield Shepherd's Bush in game and during the Christmas period we 133 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:20.519 used to have people come in from the Middle East who are way too rich 134 00:10:22.039 --> 00:10:26.120 for themselves and had no idea how to conduct themselves in a area of London 135 00:10:26.200 --> 00:10:31.919 where people would roll up on you with a knife and be like give me 136 00:10:31.960 --> 00:10:35.360 a ship. You are acting wild right now. And they would walk around 137 00:10:35.600 --> 00:10:39.039 holding like wads of cash. Incredible, And I would be like, you 138 00:10:39.039 --> 00:10:43.440 know what, I hope you get Robby, deserve it. Yeah, yeah, 139 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:48.000 you need to. You need to meet my homies. They are waiting 140 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:50.759 for you outside and let me tell you some of them met my homies. 141 00:10:54.320 --> 00:10:58.399 But they would have people come in and and just like people are coming from 142 00:10:58.399 --> 00:11:03.600 the Middle East and be like, how many PlayStation fours you have we'd say 143 00:11:03.639 --> 00:11:05.879 like they'll be like give me all of them, yep, and they would 144 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:11.279 just buy every PlayStation and then they'll be like I want one of every game 145 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:16.279 okay wow, and they would like buy everything and then just leave and that 146 00:11:16.399 --> 00:11:20.559 was it. And like they would buy out our stock of PlayStation every single 147 00:11:20.559 --> 00:11:24.919 time, and it was purely to go back sell it and like all I 148 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:28.799 give it as like gifts and stuff, right, and it was it was 149 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:31.759 like PlayStation was number one. The demand was strong enough that that's something you 150 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:37.919 saw multiple times. Yeah that's oh no, that would happen multiple times a 151 00:11:37.960 --> 00:11:43.440 week weeks on it. It was like that. It was like that. 152 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:48.120 Yeah, So like they would they eventually got to the point there where they 153 00:11:48.200 --> 00:11:52.559 knew that we will increase the restock frequency and they would just come in every 154 00:11:52.600 --> 00:11:54.559 other day and be like you have more PlayStations and the would just buy everything. 155 00:11:56.279 --> 00:11:58.919 It got to the point where we had to be like you got to 156 00:11:58.919 --> 00:12:01.159 stop this because everyone else cannot buy it, right, yeah, you get 157 00:12:01.639 --> 00:12:05.679 right, there's got to be a better way. Guys. Some like kid 158 00:12:05.759 --> 00:12:09.240 from from a kid's mom from like East London coming in trying to buy a 159 00:12:09.240 --> 00:12:13.600 console and calmed by it because someone from like several times a week, yeah 160 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:18.879 eight hundred console and one of a Saudi prince came in. Yeah yeah, 161 00:12:20.159 --> 00:12:24.559 okay, So I didn't realize it was like that. And I think that 162 00:12:24.679 --> 00:12:28.320 colors this story a little bit where it shows like, yeah, I'm Xbox 163 00:12:28.399 --> 00:12:33.440 was always fighting an uphill battle, and it's not, and it hasn't necessarily 164 00:12:33.480 --> 00:12:39.200 been fighting it very well this generation or the previous generation, and it does. 165 00:12:39.480 --> 00:12:41.679 I mean, to me, looking from the outside, feels like it's 166 00:12:41.679 --> 00:12:45.679 lost its footing in some of these battles. And uh, I think Microsoft 167 00:12:45.679 --> 00:12:50.519 has now decided the amount of effort it would have to put in to sort 168 00:12:50.519 --> 00:12:56.559 of win over these these territories with the console and trying to sell the console 169 00:12:56.679 --> 00:12:58.559 is probably not worth it to them anymore. That they would just be kind 170 00:12:58.559 --> 00:13:05.639 of like take making market share back from Sony maybe, and that is not 171 00:13:05.720 --> 00:13:07.879 maybe a strategy for growth that they're looking for' Like, hey, we 172 00:13:07.919 --> 00:13:13.039 want to grow beyond the confine, so what of the traditional console audience. 173 00:13:13.919 --> 00:13:16.360 You kind of can't do that by going back and fighting these same fights over 174 00:13:16.440 --> 00:13:22.960 again. That said, I don't know if I think that focusing on what 175 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:26.559 do they say, game pass cloud and PC and then selling Xbox controllers for 176 00:13:26.600 --> 00:13:31.600 people who want to play like on their Fire TV stick. I guess I 177 00:13:31.639 --> 00:13:33.639 don't know. That doesn't seem like the solution either. Do you think that 178 00:13:33.679 --> 00:13:37.960 this is mostly a retreat or mostly a brand new strategy that's going to be 179 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:43.240 shiny and interesting to people. I think it's mostly a retreat, but the 180 00:13:43.799 --> 00:13:50.080 whole cloud element of it provides them with a good cover to retreat, is 181 00:13:50.120 --> 00:13:54.759 good covering fire for them, and also I think it's an opportunity to really 182 00:13:54.759 --> 00:14:00.559 stress tests and put through the cloud element, and like the weird non console 183 00:14:00.600 --> 00:14:07.480 devices approach to having Xbox propagate in different regions to its you know, test 184 00:14:07.600 --> 00:14:09.960 test that out and mess with it and really kind of figure that stuff out 185 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:16.120 in a region where there's not a lot of risk to it. So I 186 00:14:16.159 --> 00:14:20.639 think it's they are clearly like, we're not We're not getting anything out of 187 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:22.759 this. The thing that is interesting to me is like they don't mention Japan 188 00:14:22.840 --> 00:14:28.320 at all, which is I would love to know where they're at now with 189 00:14:28.320 --> 00:14:33.679 with gone back a bunch of times. I also feel like even if they 190 00:14:33.799 --> 00:14:37.120 like know if even if one person was buying, only one person was buying 191 00:14:37.559 --> 00:14:41.320 Xbox stuff in Japan, they still would be like, no, we're not 192 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:45.159 getting out of there. Yes, It's like it's like one of those regions 193 00:14:45.159 --> 00:14:48.679 where if you it looks bad, like it looks bad if you're like, 194 00:14:48.679 --> 00:14:52.759 we're not selling consoles in Japan anymore. Japan is where the home of video 195 00:14:52.799 --> 00:14:54.679 games what you're talking about, yep, like you know that kind of element 196 00:14:54.720 --> 00:15:00.159 to it. But yeah, I think I think they're just like like, 197 00:15:00.960 --> 00:15:03.320 this is a retreat, but it's a good retreat because they have ways of 198 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:07.159 being like, actually, we want to pioneer you know, cloud, and 199 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:11.120 to be fair, the cloud stuff is probably the best in the business. 200 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:18.279 I have been very impressed with how good like playing Xbox games overcloud it has 201 00:15:18.360 --> 00:15:22.679 been, so it's a viable strategy. I just don't think like I would 202 00:15:22.720 --> 00:15:26.600 be playing like, you know, the kind of games that I like to 203 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:31.440 play overcloud anyway. Yeah, I always have a rougher experience with that, 204 00:15:31.600 --> 00:15:35.679 just waiting for the games to start, but that I have not used it 205 00:15:35.679 --> 00:15:41.440 in quite some time. Yeah, I played most of Heaven the or the 206 00:15:41.720 --> 00:15:48.200 Heaven, Hell's Hell's Blades, Hell Blades Jesus. My brain was like was 207 00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:50.600 like I know what he's trying to say, but I can't think of either. 208 00:15:52.039 --> 00:15:54.720 Yeah, heaven least right, that's why. Of course that's what happened 209 00:15:54.720 --> 00:16:00.399 there for people about hell Blade, the makers of Heavenly Sword. Yes, 210 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:03.919 yeah, I played a bunch of that on it, and I also played 211 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:07.360 like a few other games on I think it's xCloud, and I had a 212 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:11.360 great time. I was very shocked, and I was like that I went 213 00:16:11.399 --> 00:16:15.080 to the gym in my building and was playing like an Xbox game and we 214 00:16:15.279 --> 00:16:19.240 had like no leg to it. I bet the I bet the Xbox Cloud 215 00:16:19.399 --> 00:16:25.559 nodes in your area are better than some I would bet. Yeah, I 216 00:16:25.559 --> 00:16:27.679 imagine, so, yeah, I will say. And when I tried to 217 00:16:27.720 --> 00:16:32.039 do it like previously in a different part of the Bay Area, it was 218 00:16:32.240 --> 00:16:37.919 a fucking dread Okay, yeah, so maybe maybe a crapshoot then. Yeah. 219 00:16:37.960 --> 00:16:41.399 Either way, we do know this is their their plan. Someone in 220 00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:45.200 chat mentioned after three year Summer Game Fest, they were sent out a letter 221 00:16:45.279 --> 00:16:49.919 to employees at Microsoft and like every screen is an Xbox we know that they're 222 00:16:49.919 --> 00:16:53.919 headed in that direction. I think that there is reasons to be skeptical of 223 00:16:55.080 --> 00:16:59.279 people like being like, yeah, we buy into this, like consumers being 224 00:16:59.279 --> 00:17:00.960 like, yeah, sure, of course, my TV's already an Xbox I'll 225 00:17:00.960 --> 00:17:06.920 just put my controller up to it and start buying Xbox games through my TV. 226 00:17:07.319 --> 00:17:11.079 Like I that is such a tough sell, I think because people want 227 00:17:11.079 --> 00:17:15.400 to feel an ownership over the things, especially when they're spending you know, 228 00:17:15.440 --> 00:17:18.720 forty to seventy dollars on a game. They want to be like, Okay, 229 00:17:18.799 --> 00:17:22.240 no, it lives on that little box under my TV. I feel 230 00:17:22.279 --> 00:17:25.599 good about that, even if it's digitally it doesn't really work that way. 231 00:17:26.119 --> 00:17:32.400 Yeah, I really struggle. I I know, I personally haven't encountered an 232 00:17:32.480 --> 00:17:37.759 audience that plays video games as apps on TVs right, so I don't know 233 00:17:37.799 --> 00:17:41.759 where they are. Like Microsoft must have like metrics and data and telemetry that 234 00:17:41.960 --> 00:17:45.880 tells them this is gonna work. But I just never have met a single 235 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:51.440 person that is like, yeah, I play Xbox games. I just open 236 00:17:51.519 --> 00:17:53.960 the app on my Samsung phone, or like, open my app on my 237 00:17:55.000 --> 00:17:59.559 Samsung LGTV, whatever it may be. It's just a very, very strange 238 00:18:00.160 --> 00:18:03.519 an audience I've never encountered. I think. What makes me feel like this 239 00:18:03.599 --> 00:18:10.480 is a strategy designed for like hotels where you go into a hotel and it's 240 00:18:10.519 --> 00:18:12.359 like, oh, you can work and play Xbox on this, And I 241 00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:15.960 don't know if that's the thing to be bet on. I think what happens 242 00:18:17.000 --> 00:18:22.640 here is they see how many people are playing Minecraft on cell phones and they're 243 00:18:22.680 --> 00:18:25.559 like, well, that's a real video game, and that's an audience that 244 00:18:25.640 --> 00:18:27.160 is going to grow up and want other stuff eventually, and we should be 245 00:18:27.240 --> 00:18:30.759 ready for them when they arrive. And a lot of them have already arrived 246 00:18:30.759 --> 00:18:37.119 and started playing games. I think that. I think the problem for Microsoft 247 00:18:37.160 --> 00:18:41.960 is that audience is like watching their favorite YouTube content creator and then they click 248 00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:45.039 one video over and then they see all this stuff about and then here's all 249 00:18:45.079 --> 00:18:49.680 these games you can play on PC and PlayStation, and the Steam culture so 250 00:18:49.920 --> 00:18:56.039 ingrained that I just think that those people will naturally gravitate towards like what all 251 00:18:56.079 --> 00:18:59.720 their friends are already going toward, which is a traditional ways of playing video 252 00:18:59.720 --> 00:19:06.680 game. Yeah, and also like you will you can never You couldnot pay 253 00:19:06.759 --> 00:19:11.880 me to log into like a random TV with my Xbox or Steam account. 254 00:19:12.240 --> 00:19:15.960 They controller up to it and I'm like, I'm savvy to this stuff. 255 00:19:15.960 --> 00:19:19.880 I know how to do it. I don't want to imagine it like basically 256 00:19:19.920 --> 00:19:23.960 impossible. Yeah, Like I I think we were like we were in l 257 00:19:25.000 --> 00:19:27.559 A for something, I think a summer game fest or something like that, 258 00:19:29.119 --> 00:19:30.640 and I can't remember. I think it was Lucy trying to hook up a 259 00:19:30.680 --> 00:19:34.759 steam deck to the Hotel TV and was like I had to do some mad 260 00:19:34.799 --> 00:19:38.400 ship together and I was like, I'm just gonna play on my laptop. 261 00:19:38.440 --> 00:19:41.039 It was Ellen Ring time and we're all playing other ring at the same time. 262 00:19:41.039 --> 00:19:47.920 As I did have fun hooking up my my steam deck to my family's 263 00:19:47.960 --> 00:19:49.839 TV up in Michigan. That was a good time. But Hotel TV seasons, 264 00:19:49.960 --> 00:19:55.680 Yeah, no way, no, this is this feels like x cloud 265 00:19:55.720 --> 00:19:57.920 and stuff like that and app something. It feels like something that could bear 266 00:19:59.000 --> 00:20:04.720 fruit like five seven eight where it's like yeah, and I feel like something 267 00:20:04.759 --> 00:20:08.839 awful needs to happen for it to be like, oh shit, we all 268 00:20:08.920 --> 00:20:15.319 learned that to make the semiconductors needed to make consoles, we've been sacrificing five 269 00:20:15.400 --> 00:20:19.599 humans like frommel alchemists, Like sure, and that's you know, we could 270 00:20:19.599 --> 00:20:25.799 find that out tomorrow. That's Tom Warren's next story, humans being sacrificed to 271 00:20:25.920 --> 00:20:33.200 make Xbox Chip. I think that a major disruption is required before this all 272 00:20:33.279 --> 00:20:36.400 sort of snaps into place for Xbox. I think you're right. What that 273 00:20:36.599 --> 00:20:41.039 is other than the human sacrifices, I really don't know, other than I 274 00:20:41.079 --> 00:20:45.400 suppose the thing I keep putting the tentfoil hat on for it, which is 275 00:20:45.440 --> 00:20:48.880 that they think regulators are going to force multiple stores onto any device that is 276 00:20:49.240 --> 00:20:53.119 hazard chip and no more walled gardens. And if you have a PlayStation, 277 00:20:53.559 --> 00:20:59.480 you have to let any store onto your platform, and that includes the Xbox 278 00:20:59.519 --> 00:21:03.799 Store. That is something that is just such a long shot bet in a 279 00:21:03.839 --> 00:21:07.359 gamble, if that's what you're going for, I don't know. That is 280 00:21:07.400 --> 00:21:11.920 a crazy gamble. And oh my god, I feel like that is a 281 00:21:11.000 --> 00:21:18.599 level of like non com compete that capitalism will not allow, if you know 282 00:21:18.640 --> 00:21:22.440 what I mean, right, You're right exactly, You're right. Capitalism loves 283 00:21:22.519 --> 00:21:26.039 like having these these companies sort of duking it out hard. I feel like 284 00:21:26.319 --> 00:21:29.720 you need to. You did so many holes to like the hoops to jump 285 00:21:29.759 --> 00:21:32.759 through before we get to that part of it where it's like you need to 286 00:21:33.440 --> 00:21:37.759 and like the precedent that sets is wild at certain point the next step because 287 00:21:37.839 --> 00:21:41.880 that happens the next step becomes, well, I think that the NFL should 288 00:21:41.880 --> 00:21:45.119 be on every network. Then yeah, and that's not happening like you think 289 00:21:45.400 --> 00:21:48.920 ESPN's or whoever it is going to be is going to be like yeah, 290 00:21:48.960 --> 00:21:52.279 that's fine, na dude, like that is. It's a weird kind of 291 00:21:52.440 --> 00:21:57.319 like you see but you see Microsoft talking regulators and regulators sort of moving in 292 00:21:57.359 --> 00:22:00.799 this direction of like, we want, we want iPhone opened up, and 293 00:22:02.400 --> 00:22:07.000 we want we want like you, we want we want Microsoft to be able 294 00:22:07.039 --> 00:22:10.920 to put like the streaming store on there so that you can subscribe to game 295 00:22:10.960 --> 00:22:12.359 Pass and stuff like that and be able to play it through your iPhone. 296 00:22:12.599 --> 00:22:15.960 And then and then and then Microsoft goes, well what's the difference between an 297 00:22:17.000 --> 00:22:18.960 iPhone and a PlayStation? And then no one has a good answer, and 298 00:22:19.000 --> 00:22:26.079 then that's I feel But I also feel like most regions don't think of games 299 00:22:26.079 --> 00:22:30.960 in the same way they think of like iPhones. Nobody knows, right, 300 00:22:30.680 --> 00:22:34.039 someone right, Yeah, And so we've got someone in the legal field or 301 00:22:34.039 --> 00:22:40.400 I can positions where of influence that would make these decisions, and you tell 302 00:22:40.440 --> 00:22:42.319 them, hey, we want to make we we think that video game system 303 00:22:42.359 --> 00:22:45.839 is gonna be like what you're talking about. I've never seen one of these 304 00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:51.519 one hundred and eighty years old. I I'm basically the crip keeper sitting on 305 00:22:51.559 --> 00:22:53.400 a chair with a gavel. Leave me alone. I don't know what that 306 00:22:53.559 --> 00:22:56.920 is. But they see iPhones all the time, yep, Like through their 307 00:22:56.960 --> 00:23:00.960 blurred, failing visions. I'm like, oh, yeah, well that's the 308 00:23:02.000 --> 00:23:04.640 shiny box. Yeah, the games, the video games, and this is 309 00:23:04.680 --> 00:23:07.640 gonna be like, yeah, yeah, man, take a kid shit away. 310 00:23:07.640 --> 00:23:10.759 I got time for that. I'm trying to write. I'm helping my 311 00:23:10.759 --> 00:23:12.759 friends get away with fucking text for it. This is why, and this 312 00:23:12.839 --> 00:23:18.599 is why it's a long shot for Microsoft, because it doesn't necessarily apply one 313 00:23:18.640 --> 00:23:22.759 to one in the eyes of many of these old fucks. All right, 314 00:23:22.839 --> 00:23:26.759 let's get to the rest of the news. No Nintendo console has lasted as 315 00:23:26.799 --> 00:23:32.079 long as the Switch without being replaced. This is from Andy Robinson at VGC. 316 00:23:32.559 --> 00:23:36.319 The Nintendo Switch has now officially had the longest life span of any Nintendo 317 00:23:36.359 --> 00:23:38.920 home console a pre successor, but you know, before a new successor came 318 00:23:38.960 --> 00:23:44.759 out. Since it's worldwide launch on March third, twenty seventeen, two six 319 00:23:45.119 --> 00:23:48.960 and eighty seven days have passed without the arrival of a successor console, meaning 320 00:23:49.039 --> 00:23:55.920 switches lifespan is officially beaten Nintendo's previous longest lasting console, the Famicom or Nintendo 321 00:23:56.039 --> 00:23:59.920 Entertainment System, which lasted two thousand, six hundred and eighty six days. 322 00:24:00.440 --> 00:24:03.559 Assuming the successor to Nintendo Switch doesn't launch before March first, twenty twenty five, 323 00:24:03.960 --> 00:24:08.480 Switch could go more than twenty nine and twenty days without the launch of 324 00:24:08.559 --> 00:24:14.559 newer hardware. They got like a chart that the shows like how long everything's 325 00:24:14.640 --> 00:24:19.039 lasted, And it's not like it's growing consistently. It's like, you know, 326 00:24:19.119 --> 00:24:22.640 up and down. Some last longer than others. Obviously, we the 327 00:24:22.680 --> 00:24:29.079 WEU A we had a short life span compared to some a lot of the 328 00:24:29.119 --> 00:24:33.519 other consoles, and the WE had a slightly longer one. Things like that. 329 00:24:33.319 --> 00:24:38.079 But I think this is indicative of a couple things. Switch very successful, 330 00:24:38.519 --> 00:24:42.480 and also the march of technology has slowed down a little bit to the 331 00:24:42.480 --> 00:24:45.799 point where it's like these companies don't feel the need to rush out new hardware 332 00:24:45.880 --> 00:24:48.920 every five years. It was always going to take a little bit longer, 333 00:24:49.079 --> 00:24:52.119 and then if you have a successful console, it takes even longer. You 334 00:24:52.160 --> 00:24:56.960 surprised by this. No, No, I also feel like this is the 335 00:24:56.000 --> 00:25:02.920 advantage of doing something calling out your on lane and having a piece of hardware 336 00:25:03.000 --> 00:25:07.640 that literally has no other point of comparison, if you know what I mean. 337 00:25:08.039 --> 00:25:11.920 There's no one else is doing what the switch is doing to the degree 338 00:25:11.920 --> 00:25:12.920 that the switch is doing. I guess you could argue, oh, the 339 00:25:12.960 --> 00:25:17.440 Steam deck is the same, but it is the same, but like it's 340 00:25:17.480 --> 00:25:22.319 also a much niche product. It's almost sold on Steam. Yeah, yeah, 341 00:25:22.359 --> 00:25:26.839 exactly. And like you can anyone can, any Tom Dick and Harry 342 00:25:26.839 --> 00:25:30.359 out there in the world can pick up a switch and immediately know how to 343 00:25:30.359 --> 00:25:36.079 play it, how to like move between two you know, set ups and 344 00:25:36.359 --> 00:25:38.680 buy games, et cetera, et cetera. So I think they have their 345 00:25:38.720 --> 00:25:42.599 own little corner of the market cornered, and they don't really have to. 346 00:25:44.200 --> 00:25:48.160 The demands on them are different, are different from the demands that are placed 347 00:25:48.200 --> 00:25:56.480 on other consoles. Like you, when people feel like that it's time to 348 00:25:56.559 --> 00:26:00.960 move on from a play PlayStation fire they they make or everyone knows it, 349 00:26:00.200 --> 00:26:04.960 like they're screaming about this. Generations over these games look like it's time for 350 00:26:06.000 --> 00:26:07.599 a new one, et cetera, et cetera. But I no give a 351 00:26:07.599 --> 00:26:11.000 ship about Nintendo. Nintendo puts out a game, it looks at us and 352 00:26:11.039 --> 00:26:17.519 everyone goes, hell, yeah Nintendo still plays, still play again, Yeah 353 00:26:17.559 --> 00:26:22.079 exactly. But yeah, I'm not surprised at all. And you know, 354 00:26:22.599 --> 00:26:26.400 Nintendo marches to be of its own drums. When it feels is ready, 355 00:26:26.559 --> 00:26:32.480 it will put out the new console. And also it will look at the 356 00:26:32.519 --> 00:26:37.279 momentum of a console. It's very They're very, very very shrewd in knowing 357 00:26:37.640 --> 00:26:42.039 how to time their consoles. So this this is like, I don't think 358 00:26:42.079 --> 00:26:47.519 the switch gives off. It loses too much momentum, and usually when it 359 00:26:47.519 --> 00:26:51.960 does, they do something to bring it back up. And their consoles are 360 00:26:52.000 --> 00:26:56.200 weird because it, I think more than the other the other competitors, when 361 00:26:56.240 --> 00:27:00.640 their new consoles come out, the old ones keep going for a weirdly long 362 00:27:00.680 --> 00:27:04.480 time, like they still pop off in it for a long time. So 363 00:27:04.720 --> 00:27:07.160 I think they they figured it out, they know what they're doing. They're 364 00:27:07.160 --> 00:27:11.559 gonna put this new one out at the moment they feel like a dip is 365 00:27:11.599 --> 00:27:15.960 coming. By the same time, they'll make it so the switch is still 366 00:27:15.119 --> 00:27:19.519 very very viable. Yep. And it's uh and I think what you said 367 00:27:19.519 --> 00:27:23.559 there about them trying to get away with as much as they can get away 368 00:27:23.559 --> 00:27:29.400 with here, they are probably relishing that after the WEU force them into a 369 00:27:29.440 --> 00:27:33.000 situation where it's like, man, we gotta launch something new now. We 370 00:27:33.079 --> 00:27:36.720 cannot wait. We've got to get out there. Like the market is dictating 371 00:27:36.720 --> 00:27:38.200 to us what we need to do with our successors, so we got to 372 00:27:38.240 --> 00:27:41.720 go here. They're like, no, we can kind of dictate to the 373 00:27:41.720 --> 00:27:45.079 market. That's how much power and sway the switch has. It has its 374 00:27:45.079 --> 00:27:48.839 momentum, it'll keep making money. Let's go for it. And so I 375 00:27:48.839 --> 00:27:52.680 think they are, like I said, relishing the opportunity to keep pushing back 376 00:27:52.720 --> 00:27:56.960 to the launch of the successor now and enjoying the fruits of a really strong 377 00:27:56.039 --> 00:28:00.799 generation. This is you put the other day where it was like, say 378 00:28:00.799 --> 00:28:04.240 something nice about the Wiu or something like that, like tell me some things 379 00:28:04.240 --> 00:28:07.440 about the Wu that you like. We did that in the past. I 380 00:28:07.480 --> 00:28:11.599 don't know if I did did it recently. I think it was you where 381 00:28:11.640 --> 00:28:14.519 you're like one of the best part of things about the Wiu or something. 382 00:28:15.079 --> 00:28:17.920 Well, I do think about the a lot. I like the w U. 383 00:28:18.400 --> 00:28:22.880 I think it's one of the stupidest things I ever created. Listen, 384 00:28:22.079 --> 00:28:27.200 I don't disagree, but I like that controller. Well, we need to 385 00:28:27.319 --> 00:28:34.119 really sit down and talk about that controller, because a fucking joke was pretty 386 00:28:34.119 --> 00:28:37.480 good. If it would have worked in the bathroom, if I could have 387 00:28:37.640 --> 00:28:44.359 taken it over, I would have been very into it. I love my 388 00:28:44.440 --> 00:28:48.079 WIU. I think like it was. They had had a lot of good 389 00:28:48.799 --> 00:28:51.599 I had. I said a lot. I didn't mean a lot. I 390 00:28:51.640 --> 00:28:56.359 had a few good games on it. It had but control the library. 391 00:28:56.440 --> 00:29:02.640 Yeah, that controller was I it's so embarrassing that I would rather have watched 392 00:29:02.640 --> 00:29:10.119 porn in front of people, like just like and I was like, oh, 393 00:29:10.160 --> 00:29:12.359 I was like I was. We put TV on with the wife, 394 00:29:12.359 --> 00:29:15.720 and I'd be like, yeah, here we are. I'm getting my game 395 00:29:15.720 --> 00:29:18.400 out. Looking I'm playing Mario cart Honey, Aren't I cool? It's a 396 00:29:18.519 --> 00:29:22.920 video game? And I can see every individual pixel because they're so fucking huge 397 00:29:23.079 --> 00:29:29.960 on this Fine, you're my chain here, Damn. I love that for 398 00:29:30.079 --> 00:29:33.160 a screen. I remember when they were like, you can play with two 399 00:29:33.160 --> 00:29:41.480 of these from that from launch date. They acted like they had never that 400 00:29:41.599 --> 00:29:45.960 and they were like crazy right now brought into them. It is one of 401 00:29:47.000 --> 00:29:52.319 the most prolific instances of gas lighting I've ever encountered. People like, we 402 00:29:52.440 --> 00:29:56.839 never said that, I'd be like it says it right here, would be 403 00:29:56.880 --> 00:30:00.119 physically impossible. In fact, you wouldn't say that. We would not that 404 00:30:00.160 --> 00:30:03.440 stupid. You sound like a bunch of crazy assholes. That is what Nintendo 405 00:30:03.440 --> 00:30:07.559 would say to me. Or how about putting it on the ground and having 406 00:30:07.599 --> 00:30:11.319 the golf ball on the screen and using them to hit a golf ball? 407 00:30:14.839 --> 00:30:18.119 No, no, I did put the control on the ground and then hit 408 00:30:18.160 --> 00:30:22.559 it with an actual That was a great time. I like to weave you. 409 00:30:22.839 --> 00:30:27.359 I can't help it. Uh, this is probably not going to be 410 00:30:27.400 --> 00:30:33.160 replicated next generation? Do you think, like, no, it's it's probably 411 00:30:33.160 --> 00:30:38.519 okay. My guess is switch to generation is pretty long compared to the rest 412 00:30:38.559 --> 00:30:41.400 of these lines, or you know, it's up there with like some of 413 00:30:41.440 --> 00:30:45.440 the longest generations, But it's not going to be as long as the switch 414 00:30:45.480 --> 00:30:48.759 one. I don't think, right they know they're trading on the success. 415 00:30:48.240 --> 00:30:56.200 It's going to feel like an extended switch generation. If if history is any 416 00:30:56.279 --> 00:31:00.039 indication the pattern is if if, if they live up to the pattern, 417 00:31:00.119 --> 00:31:04.119 Nintendo is about to do something really stupid, yes, which I'm so excited 418 00:31:04.160 --> 00:31:07.799 about. I'm so excited, and I kind of hope that they do that. 419 00:31:07.960 --> 00:31:12.119 We're about to get a wee U, which is I hope and pray 420 00:31:12.279 --> 00:31:18.400 is what happens. And if that happens, then no, this is not 421 00:31:18.440 --> 00:31:22.960 happening again. But if they like, if they like, it's it's weird 422 00:31:23.000 --> 00:31:30.359 because they have to. They have to iterate on this idea and this console 423 00:31:30.519 --> 00:31:36.200 enough for it to seem new and fresh, but not go crazy. And 424 00:31:36.319 --> 00:31:38.519 that's what they had to do after the we and they fucked it up so 425 00:31:38.759 --> 00:31:44.440 bad in both ways. The thing that they released was both not a major 426 00:31:44.880 --> 00:31:48.880 step up and also the stupidest thing they could have come up with, and 427 00:31:48.920 --> 00:31:52.400 that really messed them up. If they do that again, it would be 428 00:31:52.480 --> 00:31:56.480 Nintendo has the opportunity to do the funniest thing possible, Nintendo Switch. You 429 00:31:56.559 --> 00:32:02.000 could be an incredible moment for us. But I suspect that this is going 430 00:32:02.079 --> 00:32:08.079 to be a very very very small step forward in a few spaces, and 431 00:32:08.160 --> 00:32:12.400 the thing that we get is going to be largely the same concept, right, 432 00:32:12.759 --> 00:32:15.319 which they came with a little more power, right, which they can't 433 00:32:15.880 --> 00:32:19.319 like, sort of have the same excitement for which so it just means inherently 434 00:32:19.319 --> 00:32:21.480 that wouldn't be able to last. So, I mean, you know, 435 00:32:21.720 --> 00:32:25.880 we use one one possibility, Super Nintendo's another where it's like the Super Nintendo 436 00:32:27.279 --> 00:32:31.400 did not sell quite as well as the NES. I don't think, yeah, 437 00:32:31.880 --> 00:32:35.960 they had more competition. So it's like that situation where it's like, 438 00:32:36.000 --> 00:32:38.640 yeah, that's Super Nintendo. It's a better Nintendo. And even in that 439 00:32:38.640 --> 00:32:42.440 case where it was like this is the best case scenario, it didn't do 440 00:32:42.480 --> 00:32:45.000 as well as the previous generation. Now that said, on this chart, 441 00:32:45.240 --> 00:32:47.279 clearly it lasted longer than the Oh no, no it didn't. Know. 442 00:32:47.279 --> 00:32:52.200 I'm looking at the Famicom to the to the Color TV game. Excuse me, 443 00:32:52.400 --> 00:32:55.480 Yeah, the Super Famicom to the Famicom quite a bit shorter. That's 444 00:32:55.680 --> 00:33:00.000 kind of what I'm expecting here. I think the Famicom line is pretty close 445 00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:02.279 to the switch line. I would bet the switch to is going to be 446 00:33:02.279 --> 00:33:06.319 around a two thousand days, maybe a bit more than two thousand days. 447 00:33:06.400 --> 00:33:09.559 So we'll see. The thing hasn't even launched yet, we're already talking about 448 00:33:09.559 --> 00:33:14.119 it being over, so we'll see what happens there. Let's take a quick 449 00:33:14.160 --> 00:33:23.640 break. When we get back, a lot more news coming right at you. 450 00:33:23.680 --> 00:33:29.160 All right, we are back and we're gonna get into it as promised. 451 00:33:29.240 --> 00:33:32.440 Nintendo Switch Online ads didn't sets you know Starfie, didn't sets you know 452 00:33:32.519 --> 00:33:37.119 Starfy two, and didn't sets you know Starfie three. This is from sal 453 00:33:37.160 --> 00:33:43.480 Ramano at Kamatsu. Nintendo Switch Online has added the Starfee games, which are 454 00:33:44.079 --> 00:33:47.640 which were never released in North America. They were Japanese only releases, or 455 00:33:47.640 --> 00:33:51.799 at least never came out in the United States. This is one of those 456 00:33:51.839 --> 00:33:55.119 games where I look at you like this looks like so stupid. But everyone 457 00:33:55.400 --> 00:34:00.240 is gonna if I say that online people what you're talking about? You said, 458 00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:02.839 no stuffy, How can you say that about dun sets and those Staffee. 459 00:34:04.160 --> 00:34:06.079 If I see you in the street, I will kill you for what 460 00:34:06.119 --> 00:34:12.159 you have said about. Like if if you were to attack Starfie, people 461 00:34:12.320 --> 00:34:15.559 would hold it up me like this is what you're attacking this cute little guy. 462 00:34:15.039 --> 00:34:20.280 Yeah, it is one of those ones where I always would see, 463 00:34:20.519 --> 00:34:22.480 like you know, the ROM file or whatever. I would see it referenced. 464 00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:24.280 I'd be like, well that looks cute. Why did I never hear 465 00:34:24.280 --> 00:34:28.440 about this game or never play it. And I didn't even really realize it 466 00:34:28.480 --> 00:34:32.599 never came out in North America. Kirby with a Star. It looks kind 467 00:34:32.599 --> 00:34:36.840 of like Kirby, Yes, a little bit like Kirby with a Star. 468 00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:42.880 Yes. Uh yeah. Starfee is wet, Kirby says, mento, oh 469 00:34:42.960 --> 00:34:47.079 god, which I think we've always been that k isn't always wet. How 470 00:34:47.119 --> 00:34:51.599 many times on the show have you said, I demand a wet Kirby. 471 00:34:51.800 --> 00:34:53.519 It's kind of constant with you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and non 472 00:34:53.519 --> 00:34:58.599 stuff. I'm always saying it, give me a room of wet Kirby. 473 00:34:59.119 --> 00:35:01.519 Uh so, yeah, these Starfee games always looked cute. I didn't realize 474 00:35:01.519 --> 00:35:05.239 the rece even three of them, that's wild. But they are just straight 475 00:35:05.320 --> 00:35:09.519 up releasing the Japanese ROMs onto Nintendo Switch Online service, so you can play 476 00:35:09.559 --> 00:35:13.800 these games, and they must be simple enough that that doesn't matter. Although 477 00:35:14.119 --> 00:35:19.199 in the trailer they definitely had like a chunk of like the these cut scenes 478 00:35:19.239 --> 00:35:22.000 I guess from Starfe two, and it was just like, you know, 479 00:35:22.199 --> 00:35:24.639 Japanese text, Japanese texts, Japanese texts. Okay, so there's plenty to 480 00:35:24.679 --> 00:35:27.760 read. We're just not gonna be able to read that if you can't read 481 00:35:27.960 --> 00:35:32.599 akanchi. Either way, though, this is interesting. I think I'm glad 482 00:35:32.639 --> 00:35:37.280 that they are like putting games like this on Nintend to switch online, even 483 00:35:37.320 --> 00:35:40.079 in places where these games never came out. That's something, But I think 484 00:35:40.079 --> 00:35:45.519 it also speaks to they don't have some huge library of games waiting in the 485 00:35:45.559 --> 00:35:51.639 wings. Even though these platforms had huge libraries, between like rights issues and 486 00:35:51.679 --> 00:35:54.320 other complications, they probably aren't like waiting to bring out like some of your 487 00:35:54.440 --> 00:35:59.360 favorites that haven't hit the service yet. Like there's probably several Square Enix games 488 00:35:59.480 --> 00:36:00.480 that're like, no, we're just gonna sell those again. Don't worry, 489 00:36:00.480 --> 00:36:04.079 We're not going to put that on your service. So yeah, I guess 490 00:36:04.159 --> 00:36:08.159 go put Starfie on there or whatever. And that's exactly I've seen this before. 491 00:36:08.920 --> 00:36:15.079 I mean, Smash Brothers a trophy and Smash right, Okay, I 492 00:36:15.159 --> 00:36:20.840 get it. I keep texting you pictures of Starfi contant y yeah, yeah, 493 00:36:20.920 --> 00:36:25.639 yeah stuffe oh yeah, I mean you could just say that sure, 494 00:36:25.719 --> 00:36:30.239 yeah, you're right. That is something. I don't know what, but 495 00:36:30.320 --> 00:36:36.440 it's something then that's in the stuffy is the funniest chocolate, stuffy, yep, 496 00:36:36.559 --> 00:36:39.360 chocolate. That's a really good Olympus good album. Yeah yeah, all 497 00:36:39.480 --> 00:36:44.960 right. Switch Light O led Motters showcases the stunning dinky screen in motion. 498 00:36:45.079 --> 00:36:47.559 This is from Aali Reynolds at Nintendo Life a little while back. A little 499 00:36:47.639 --> 00:36:52.960 while back, we reported on modern Takei Udon's efforts to install an OLED screen 500 00:36:52.239 --> 00:36:55.800 into the Nintendo switch Light, and now he's back with a significant update. 501 00:36:55.880 --> 00:37:00.400 According to Udan, the the debugging process is now almost complete, and to 502 00:37:00.400 --> 00:37:05.400 celebrate the milestone, he's uploaded a video to showcase the OLED screen in motion. 503 00:37:05.880 --> 00:37:07.679 At the moment, the system itself looks a bit gnarly, with the 504 00:37:07.719 --> 00:37:10.960 screen sitting at a slight angle with wires poking out of it, but Udon 505 00:37:12.039 --> 00:37:15.119 states that he should be able to install it fully in just a few days 506 00:37:15.159 --> 00:37:19.119 time. Rather aptly, Udon has also opted to showcase one of the most 507 00:37:19.119 --> 00:37:22.320 beautiful games on the switch, the Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom. 508 00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:27.559 This is something that I'm kind of interested in because I really want to justify 509 00:37:27.599 --> 00:37:30.840 buying that new Zelda switch Light, but I really want to keep playing on 510 00:37:30.840 --> 00:37:36.480 a switch O lead because the screen looks so good and for a while now, 511 00:37:36.599 --> 00:37:39.280 this person tech You Doune's been promising to get this mod out there, 512 00:37:39.639 --> 00:37:42.800 and I was like, yeah, people say that, I bet it doesn't 513 00:37:42.840 --> 00:37:45.840 really happen, but he keeps progressing with it, and this is a recent 514 00:37:45.880 --> 00:37:49.800 recent update, so I'm hopeful. Tam, do you want to help me 515 00:37:49.840 --> 00:37:53.159 put a new screen into my switch light? Chill man, I hope you 516 00:37:53.239 --> 00:37:57.960 do that. Yeah, I've got a steady hand. I consulta. I'm 517 00:37:58.000 --> 00:38:00.679 good. I hope there's no soldering there probably probably will be, how I 518 00:38:00.719 --> 00:38:07.000 think about it. Yeah, I hope it's also unsuldering and then resuldering. 519 00:38:07.159 --> 00:38:09.920 Yeah, I and then I hope I do it in a poorly ventilated space. 520 00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:15.760 That's that's the real way to get the best experience there. Yeah, 521 00:38:15.440 --> 00:38:20.280 this is this is neat. I mean, obviously people might recognize tech you 522 00:38:20.360 --> 00:38:22.719 down as a as a YouTuber who covers a lot of this stuff, but 523 00:38:23.440 --> 00:38:30.760 recently they've been doing amazing stuff with like going. I think they're based in 524 00:38:30.840 --> 00:38:32.719 China. I believe that's correct, but either way, they have very good 525 00:38:32.760 --> 00:38:38.039 connections with people in China, and they've been planning to release a Mister competitor 526 00:38:38.400 --> 00:38:43.960 that is going to be much cheaper. They're releasing a handheld mister. Uh, 527 00:38:44.039 --> 00:38:46.039 so it's gonna be one of these FPGA consoles, but like with a 528 00:38:46.039 --> 00:38:51.920 form factor of an analog pocket, which is also FPGA, but this one's 529 00:38:51.960 --> 00:38:54.039 also going to be less expensive and look just as good. And then they're 530 00:38:54.079 --> 00:38:59.239 promising to do another device that's going to like combine all these things and then 531 00:38:59.320 --> 00:39:01.079 also be a placement for like a retro tank, so you'll be able to 532 00:39:01.199 --> 00:39:05.920 upscale your games to work to look at best on on a TV, and 533 00:39:05.920 --> 00:39:07.239 I'll be able to add all the filters and stuff like that. And then 534 00:39:07.280 --> 00:39:10.880 once getting that trying to get killed by like eight different companies, it seems 535 00:39:10.960 --> 00:39:14.719 like yes, yeah, they're like and the thing with that, with that 536 00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:16.360 upscaler one, it's like, this is going to be like the most expensive 537 00:39:16.360 --> 00:39:21.440 device he is selling, and it's going to be several hundred dollars less expensive 538 00:39:21.440 --> 00:39:24.320 than a retro tank four K. And so I'm like, yes, let's 539 00:39:24.559 --> 00:39:29.119 go. And I mean, and he knows what makes these things like good 540 00:39:29.119 --> 00:39:30.320 because he's been covering him for so long. I think that's why he's like, 541 00:39:30.360 --> 00:39:35.280 I'll just go do it myself. Uh and uh and yeah, so 542 00:39:35.480 --> 00:39:38.320 I'm I'm hopeful, and I'm kind of on board with what with whatever he 543 00:39:38.360 --> 00:39:42.880 wants to do basically, so I kind of even more interested in this O 544 00:39:43.000 --> 00:39:47.440 LED screen for the switch light because of that. Let's say, you know, 545 00:39:47.599 --> 00:39:50.440 I got the video right here. Let me I could show it to 546 00:39:50.480 --> 00:39:53.119 everybody real quick. There you go. You can see it's kind of just 547 00:39:53.280 --> 00:39:57.760 masking taped on right now, and the wires are sticking in through the back 548 00:39:57.800 --> 00:40:00.719 and things like that. But uh boy, it looks real good and you 549 00:40:00.719 --> 00:40:04.960 can know what I got. Actually, let me go and grab it. 550 00:40:05.920 --> 00:40:07.559 Go ahead, you can on the video, everybody, you can kind of 551 00:40:07.559 --> 00:40:10.320 see on the left hand side there's I think that's a switch oh lead and 552 00:40:10.360 --> 00:40:14.519 on the right is a standard switch light. And you can see how much 553 00:40:14.559 --> 00:40:19.599 better just on video the switch O LED looks in terms of being able to 554 00:40:19.599 --> 00:40:22.400 have those blacks that are the black levels and things like that, it just 555 00:40:22.440 --> 00:40:25.639 looks richer and god, it looks great. And it's not like the video 556 00:40:25.639 --> 00:40:30.519 we're watching is even you know, we're gonna be able to represent that entirely, 557 00:40:30.559 --> 00:40:32.320 so it's gonna look even better in person. Uh yeah, this is 558 00:40:32.360 --> 00:40:37.039 the Franken switch. I'm excited I'm going to do this. I'm gonna get 559 00:40:37.039 --> 00:40:39.159 this elder switch light and i am going to do it. All right, 560 00:40:39.400 --> 00:40:43.960 what you do? You do? You know? Peter Brown? Yeah, 561 00:40:44.199 --> 00:40:49.760 totally yeah. Former managing editor of game spot Work there for ages, currently 562 00:40:49.760 --> 00:40:52.800 working at PlayStation. That's a very very good friend of mine. He loves 563 00:40:52.840 --> 00:40:55.840 this stuff. He loves tinkering. He got me a game Boy. Oh 564 00:40:55.920 --> 00:41:00.920 yeah, could you turn it on? I want to see that screen looks 565 00:41:01.039 --> 00:41:08.440 that's great, that's so good. It's so nice. That's fantastic. So 566 00:41:08.440 --> 00:41:12.960 it's a game Boy Advance, not for audio listeners, not an sp game 567 00:41:12.960 --> 00:41:16.320 Boy Advance. You know, the plastic o G and it's really nice but 568 00:41:16.480 --> 00:41:22.440 back lit screen. It's got the backlit screen. It's got a USB C 569 00:41:23.000 --> 00:41:30.039 charging port, it's got a it came with like a flashcas with every single 570 00:41:30.119 --> 00:41:34.039 game ever released for the game by Advance on it. Yep. It's got 571 00:41:34.079 --> 00:41:38.039 the IPS modern screen. So it's it's so nice, yeah, really really 572 00:41:38.400 --> 00:41:44.960 good looking. Yeah. I like, I have the game Boy Color here 573 00:41:45.119 --> 00:41:47.800 and this is They sent a kit basically to put it together, and I'm 574 00:41:47.800 --> 00:41:50.880 like, I might still take it apart and put it. Oh LED's screen 575 00:41:50.920 --> 00:41:53.800 into this Gameboy Color because I think I am. I think I'm pretty sure 576 00:41:53.840 --> 00:41:58.840 Peter does this himself, Like this wasn't one that he purchased. He made, 577 00:41:58.840 --> 00:42:01.119 he like put this together, yes, exactly specifically for me. Yeah, 578 00:42:01.159 --> 00:42:06.840 that's awesome, which is crazy. And I've been playing Metrofesion on it 579 00:42:06.880 --> 00:42:09.119 and it's so much. Yeah, I feel like a kid again sometimes, 580 00:42:09.159 --> 00:42:14.440 man. And that's the thing that was nice about this funny plain one is 581 00:42:14.559 --> 00:42:15.519 it kind of gave me the conflicts to be like, oh I can do 582 00:42:15.559 --> 00:42:19.639 that because this was just it was the kit of all the parts and I 583 00:42:19.719 --> 00:42:22.800 had to put it together myself. And I'm like, this is not nearly 584 00:42:22.840 --> 00:42:24.679 as complicated, and if I did have to do a little bit of soldering, 585 00:42:24.840 --> 00:42:28.599 I think I'd be able to figure it out. So you didn't have 586 00:42:28.639 --> 00:42:30.519 to do it for this one. But fair enough. It's so good. 587 00:42:30.599 --> 00:42:36.159 I love it having like having this, like playing this at night at like 588 00:42:37.119 --> 00:42:38.880 weird times. It makes you feel like a kid again, like that should 589 00:42:38.920 --> 00:42:43.719 be should be asleep. But it doesn't get any better. You just crave 590 00:42:43.760 --> 00:42:47.559 that more and more. All Right, external translators for Nintendo aren't being properly 591 00:42:47.559 --> 00:42:52.000 credited. This is from Alex Hopley at Game Reactor, A good deal work 592 00:42:52.320 --> 00:42:55.960 goes into translation. Considered how many of our favorite games would be nearly unplayable 593 00:42:55.960 --> 00:43:00.119 without subtitles in our native language, or even a proper in some occasions. 594 00:43:00.400 --> 00:43:06.079 However, certain external translators working on Nintendo titles say they've not been given proper 595 00:43:06.119 --> 00:43:09.679 credit. Speaking with Game Developer, multiple sources who wish to remain anonymous have 596 00:43:09.760 --> 00:43:14.400 stated that the Gaming Giant failed to credit them properly on big titles such as 597 00:43:14.440 --> 00:43:16.960 The Legend of Zelda, Tiers of the Kingdom, Animal Crossing, New Horizons, 598 00:43:17.000 --> 00:43:21.599 and more. One employee who has since gone freelance said they were credited 599 00:43:21.679 --> 00:43:24.119 most of the time, but it could vary depending on developer. I do 600 00:43:24.239 --> 00:43:28.800 remember one project where the company decided not to put the in excuse me, 601 00:43:28.800 --> 00:43:31.920 in house testers in the credits. This was one of the Professor Layton games 602 00:43:31.920 --> 00:43:37.519 by Level five. Nintendo of Europe handled the localization and publishing for the Layton 603 00:43:37.559 --> 00:43:42.159 series at that time. The translators on that project protested strongly against the decision, 604 00:43:42.400 --> 00:43:46.639 but the end the testers were not credited for this project. This continues 605 00:43:46.679 --> 00:43:52.159 to stink the industry is bad about this. There needs to be a standard, 606 00:43:52.599 --> 00:43:57.599 and the problem with the industry is that standard in Hollywood was driven by 607 00:43:57.679 --> 00:44:00.880 unions, and this industry just does not have that same thing. So it's 608 00:44:00.920 --> 00:44:04.599 going to continue to be a mess. It feels like, yeah, that 609 00:44:04.760 --> 00:44:07.400 was a That's exactly what I was going to say. Like the union part 610 00:44:07.400 --> 00:44:12.039 of it. I've been hearing about this for a really long time. Like 611 00:44:12.159 --> 00:44:15.159 beyond like the stuff that's mentioned here, I've been hearing about her for years 612 00:44:15.159 --> 00:44:21.159 and years and years where entire teams are not mentioned or they're credited as like 613 00:44:21.239 --> 00:44:24.000 as a team the team name, which sucks because you can't happen in Hollywood 614 00:44:24.000 --> 00:44:29.920 either. Yeah, it's and then everyone who worked at everyone networks on exactly 615 00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:34.119 which is the way you do it. But yeah, I feel like until 616 00:44:34.159 --> 00:44:38.320 someone holds video game publishers in major developers' feet to the fire, no one's 617 00:44:38.360 --> 00:44:42.159 really going to do anything about it. Nothing will change. But like you 618 00:44:42.159 --> 00:44:45.800 said, it's the union part of it, Like that is something that led 619 00:44:45.840 --> 00:44:51.280 the way in Hollywood and movies, TV shows and that kind of stuff, 620 00:44:51.280 --> 00:44:54.960 and there's real no impetus to do that right now. I mean, I 621 00:44:55.000 --> 00:45:01.840 think it's slowly slowly changing the momentum could shift eventually if but like unions, 622 00:45:01.920 --> 00:45:06.760 man, they are good for you. Yes, he is the means of 623 00:45:06.760 --> 00:45:09.039 production. Yeah, And it's not like, well then everyone has to be 624 00:45:09.039 --> 00:45:12.239 in union to get credited. It's like no, no, you just need 625 00:45:12.280 --> 00:45:15.480 a few strong unions and they'll set the rules for everybody and they'll protect a 626 00:45:15.480 --> 00:45:16.679 lot a lot of people, whether you're in the union or not. Yeah. 627 00:45:16.760 --> 00:45:21.320 Yeah, I mean I worked at fed X and ups had a union, 628 00:45:21.360 --> 00:45:23.079 and we got so much shit at fed X because they were so scared 629 00:45:23.119 --> 00:45:27.079 of a union that they kind of basically gave us everything that a union would 630 00:45:27.079 --> 00:45:30.400 have provided anyhow. So it was like that that can happen in gaming as 631 00:45:30.400 --> 00:45:32.599 well. Yeah, I was a union. I'm a member of the union. 632 00:45:32.599 --> 00:45:37.760 When I worked for London Underground and they they were very, very very 633 00:45:37.800 --> 00:45:42.960 pivotal in making sure that the people were treating the people who worked there were 634 00:45:42.960 --> 00:45:46.239 treated with some sense of dignity and and got what they need, which you 635 00:45:46.280 --> 00:45:49.920 know, you leave. You know, people who work on Underground, they 636 00:45:50.039 --> 00:45:54.360 are underground for the entire day, which means they don't see the sun for 637 00:45:54.519 --> 00:45:59.559 months on end, which is how I what I went through. It was 638 00:45:59.599 --> 00:46:04.199 like I didn't see the sun for so long. It was crazy. And 639 00:46:04.239 --> 00:46:07.599 the union made sure that people were properly paid with that in mind, because 640 00:46:07.679 --> 00:46:12.920 the company wasn't going to as that like has it paid like the impact it 641 00:46:12.920 --> 00:46:16.760 has on you know, your mental and physical health like that is that's an 642 00:46:16.800 --> 00:46:21.760 important thing. And the union is what took care of that and looked after 643 00:46:21.800 --> 00:46:27.920 people and you know that kind of thing. And it's important that more industries 644 00:46:28.039 --> 00:46:34.519 have a safeguard for the people who are the rank and file because the industries 645 00:46:34.639 --> 00:46:38.400 themselves won't take care of them because it's not conducive to making more money. 646 00:46:39.960 --> 00:46:45.320 How many jobs have you had in your life? Like just a ballpark? 647 00:46:45.239 --> 00:46:50.519 I think like maybe five, five or six? Yeah, yeah, like 648 00:46:50.559 --> 00:46:55.000 that we should I think we should all do a a exact voice smelt dumb 649 00:46:55.000 --> 00:47:00.800 truck where we just answer questions about our history of employment history because I had 650 00:47:00.119 --> 00:47:05.320 like twenty, I've had so many dumb shit jobs. Yeah I was, 651 00:47:05.760 --> 00:47:07.679 Yeah, I was very employable, is what it was. People just were 652 00:47:07.800 --> 00:47:12.079 I was in demand and I wasn't just a constantly quitting jobs because I was 653 00:47:12.119 --> 00:47:16.800 a irresponsible piece of shit. Planet coasters slippery sequel lets you build your own 654 00:47:16.800 --> 00:47:21.079 water parks. This is from Emma Roth at the Verge. Planet Coaster sequel 655 00:47:21.119 --> 00:47:23.559 isn't just about building the best theme park anymore. It's about water parks too. 656 00:47:24.039 --> 00:47:28.920 The sequel coming this fall will finally let you construct everything from wave pools 657 00:47:28.960 --> 00:47:34.679 and lazy rivers to custom built water slides. It I'm trying to see there's 658 00:47:34.679 --> 00:47:37.480 a date here. I don't know if they've announced a date yet, but 659 00:47:37.039 --> 00:47:40.800 hey, this sounds cool. For some reason, I find this very appealing. 660 00:47:40.840 --> 00:47:44.440 And I'm not even someone who like loves going to water parks. I 661 00:47:44.519 --> 00:47:47.760 just love the idea of looking at them. They look so neat. That 662 00:47:47.840 --> 00:47:52.000 means that they're gonna have to put like the someone piste in the wall. 663 00:47:52.480 --> 00:47:59.800 Yeah, someone's taking a ship in the wall. Yeah, you gotta deal 664 00:47:59.840 --> 00:48:01.239 with Oh no, it's just a Snickers bar, everybody, It's all right, 665 00:48:01.280 --> 00:48:06.639 it's all right. That's funny. Yeah. I hope they account for 666 00:48:06.719 --> 00:48:07.800 all of that. That would be fun. And then I just want to 667 00:48:07.800 --> 00:48:12.400 design some fun water slides and like even just like the idea of a wave 668 00:48:12.719 --> 00:48:15.679 a lazy river, designing like lazy river going through things and going underneath the 669 00:48:15.719 --> 00:48:21.679 other slides. I would love that this is this is a genre that I've 670 00:48:21.760 --> 00:48:24.960 never like. Same that's never worked for me. Well, I've never really 671 00:48:25.039 --> 00:48:29.760 I've never really even like experimented with it much. Yeah, I guess so, 672 00:48:29.960 --> 00:48:34.199 like I never got into theme park all that kind of stuff. Maybe 673 00:48:34.239 --> 00:48:37.280 maybe we should sit down and figure this out. Yeah on a stream, 674 00:48:37.360 --> 00:48:39.280 Yeah, I would love that. Yeah, totally. I think this could 675 00:48:39.280 --> 00:48:43.320 be the one. So yeah, let's give it a shot. I'm very 676 00:48:43.360 --> 00:48:46.039 curious. I've always wanted to and I've just never really taken the time to 677 00:48:46.039 --> 00:48:50.400 do it. We should. We should make the official Giant Bomb theme park, 678 00:48:50.840 --> 00:48:54.599 Giant Bomb Theme Park plus water Slide park. Yeah, building the official 679 00:48:54.639 --> 00:49:00.679 Giant Bombs theme Park would be good as a serious all right, last couple 680 00:49:00.679 --> 00:49:05.440 of stories here. Concord beta is starting today's kind of a PSA one pm 681 00:49:05.480 --> 00:49:09.519 Eastern ten am Pacific time. It'll go live if you are a member of 682 00:49:09.599 --> 00:49:14.199 PlayStation Plus. I believe you can get access to at least the PS five 683 00:49:14.400 --> 00:49:19.199 version without having to do anything extra. If you pre ordered, of course, 684 00:49:19.239 --> 00:49:22.719 you also get access to this beta. There's an open beta next weekend. 685 00:49:22.360 --> 00:49:27.360 For this weekend, though it runs through from today through the fourteenth through 686 00:49:27.440 --> 00:49:30.800 Sunday. I believe I'm going and then the next one, the open data 687 00:49:30.840 --> 00:49:34.519 starts on July eighteenth, everybody, So if you want to wait for that, 688 00:49:34.639 --> 00:49:37.519 go for it. We're gonna be playing this today on the site. 689 00:49:37.559 --> 00:49:40.519 So for UPF, we'll be hopping into Concord. We're gonna be I think 690 00:49:40.559 --> 00:49:44.960 we're gonna be playing on Steam so and I don't think there's pre load on 691 00:49:45.000 --> 00:49:46.480 there, so we'll probably the first couple of minutes will be just downloading the 692 00:49:46.519 --> 00:49:50.320 game and hop it in there. But that's UPF. That's how it goes 693 00:49:50.360 --> 00:49:52.679 sometimes. But look out for that and then we'll let you guys know what 694 00:49:52.719 --> 00:49:58.320 we think about it on BCR later today as well, Amazon Prime is giving 695 00:49:58.320 --> 00:50:00.880 away three more PC games, including This is Why I include the story Suicide 696 00:50:00.920 --> 00:50:06.800 Squad us from Andy Robinson at VGC. Amazon has announced three more games it 697 00:50:06.800 --> 00:50:08.679 will be given away as part of its Prime Day event this month. On 698 00:50:08.760 --> 00:50:13.880 Tuesday, July sixteenth. Prime members will be able to be able to claim 699 00:50:14.000 --> 00:50:17.119 Suicide Squad, Kill, The Justice League, Chivalry To and Rise of the 700 00:50:17.119 --> 00:50:22.400 Tomb Raider at no additional cost. I would recommend not claiming that. Yeah, 701 00:50:22.440 --> 00:50:24.719 I mean, boy, it's rough that that game came out earlier this 702 00:50:24.800 --> 00:50:29.320 year and is already in a deal like this. Yeah, and also didn't 703 00:50:29.320 --> 00:50:34.920 they just delay the season possible like ten minutes before us, ten minutes before 704 00:50:35.079 --> 00:50:37.760 like the like the like the day before they were like, here's all the 705 00:50:37.760 --> 00:50:40.519 shit you're gonna be playing in like tomorrow, and never mind, we're actually 706 00:50:40.519 --> 00:50:43.639 not gonna release it yet and we don't know when it's gonna come out. 707 00:50:44.480 --> 00:50:49.360 Yeah, it's it's uh strange, but that's that's the story of Suicide Squad. 708 00:50:49.639 --> 00:50:51.840 I guess go get it if you want. I don't know. I 709 00:50:52.079 --> 00:50:54.159 don't hate playing that game, but boy, I kind of feel bummed out 710 00:50:54.199 --> 00:50:59.039 thinking about it. It was it was you know what, it's it's fun 711 00:51:00.039 --> 00:51:02.159 if you want to see the cut scenes. Sure, I don't have to 712 00:51:02.199 --> 00:51:08.840 play the games to see that. Yeah, aside Squad Sleep movie. Yeah, 713 00:51:08.960 --> 00:51:14.159 there's some of those cut scenes all wildly good. Yeah. The detail, 714 00:51:14.239 --> 00:51:17.719 I'm like, holy shit, I some crazy cacter models in there, 715 00:51:17.880 --> 00:51:21.440 right, and thought I thought the writing was pretty good. Yeah, the 716 00:51:21.440 --> 00:51:24.639 writing's fun, Like, oh god, this put well that game makes me 717 00:51:24.719 --> 00:51:29.440 sad man, yep, bums me out. I don't even like thinking about 718 00:51:29.480 --> 00:51:31.880 it. Yeah, what was there was another game around that time that came 719 00:51:31.920 --> 00:51:36.000 out that kind of had a similar fate. Now I can't. It's like 720 00:51:36.119 --> 00:51:39.599 so forgotten that I don't even remember it. It's completely memory hold alright, 721 00:51:39.920 --> 00:51:44.079 uh, poll question, I got that right over here. Let me get 722 00:51:44.079 --> 00:51:49.760 that set up all right? From yesterday? Are you curious about Nintendo's Emo 723 00:51:49.920 --> 00:51:52.960 game? Thirty nine percent say yes, twenty five percent say no, and 724 00:51:53.079 --> 00:51:58.320 thirty six percent say what is that? Have you? Have you been paying 725 00:51:58.320 --> 00:52:04.400 attention to this at all? Yeah? E meo. Okay, So earlier 726 00:52:04.480 --> 00:52:07.679 this week, Nintendo put a trailer on its YouTube page without like referencing a 727 00:52:07.760 --> 00:52:13.559 developer or a publisher. It was just a man standing in front of a 728 00:52:13.599 --> 00:52:16.199 wall with a paper bag on his head, and it had a smiley face 729 00:52:16.280 --> 00:52:20.079 drawn on it, and then like there would be like flashes of like a 730 00:52:20.119 --> 00:52:23.360 gnarly hand and it's like fifteen seconds long, and that's all we know. 731 00:52:23.559 --> 00:52:28.960 Officially. The game has been rated in places like Australia, I think the 732 00:52:29.519 --> 00:52:34.920 ESRB ratings out there, but it's it's getting like M ratings basically everywhere. 733 00:52:35.440 --> 00:52:38.639 And is this a Nintendo M rated game? Is this you know? The 734 00:52:38.679 --> 00:52:43.000 new No? Way? Well? I mean right, so that. But 735 00:52:43.360 --> 00:52:45.440 the reason people think it must be from Nintendo is when they put the video 736 00:52:45.480 --> 00:52:49.760 up, they're not saying it from this developer, so they must be taking 737 00:52:49.800 --> 00:52:54.760 ownership of it. It's strange. I think we'll probably find out more soon. 738 00:52:54.800 --> 00:52:58.480 I don't think they're going to make us wait too long. But do 739 00:52:58.519 --> 00:53:01.880 you what are the chances is that this is a secret Hideo Kojima project? 740 00:53:02.239 --> 00:53:08.880 Pretty high? Right? I mean I've been thinking about I love Kajima's games. 741 00:53:09.199 --> 00:53:14.840 I think Kajima is a fantastic videome creator. My man has been posting 742 00:53:14.960 --> 00:53:17.000 a lot of pictures of himself with celebrities, to the point where I'm like, 743 00:53:19.000 --> 00:53:22.079 you've got any game pictures, mate, Like, what's going on here? 744 00:53:22.440 --> 00:53:28.039 I think I think he is fully letting his freak flag fly. Yeah, 745 00:53:28.239 --> 00:53:30.880 I get it, and I respect it, but I'm also like, 746 00:53:30.480 --> 00:53:36.119 Homie, just chuck one death Stranding two screenshot in there, maybe just to 747 00:53:36.199 --> 00:53:37.840 keep, you know, keep us on the hook a bit. But He's 748 00:53:37.880 --> 00:53:40.239 just like, no, man, i I've got look at this person I 749 00:53:40.320 --> 00:53:44.679 met, look at this. But it is the equivalent of like being in 750 00:53:44.679 --> 00:53:49.480 a conversation with a repetitive name dropper. We're just like are you gonna say 751 00:53:49.480 --> 00:53:52.760 anything else? No, he's not gonna say. This is his thing. 752 00:53:53.119 --> 00:53:55.960 He likes. Like I said, I'm just I'm excited for death stranding too. 753 00:53:57.000 --> 00:53:59.280 I want to see that. I don't want to see another picture of 754 00:54:00.199 --> 00:54:02.480 Shafa's face or whatever whoever it may be. This time he was at the 755 00:54:04.400 --> 00:54:08.000 magazine reveal or premiere and it was like, look me a goth. I'm 756 00:54:08.039 --> 00:54:10.559 like, I don't even know who mea got? Is me a goth? 757 00:54:10.719 --> 00:54:15.079 Canceled right now? I don't did she like kicks someone in the dick and 758 00:54:15.119 --> 00:54:19.280 then just being like, no one's gonna believe you because I'm me a goth, 759 00:54:20.639 --> 00:54:22.719 which is like, what are you doing? Man? And then he's 760 00:54:22.760 --> 00:54:24.800 just like, I want to scan her anyhow. I don't give a ship 761 00:54:24.960 --> 00:54:30.800 this is allegedly. Let me scan the alleged dick kicker. I uh, 762 00:54:31.480 --> 00:54:35.800 he's earned a lot. If this is the life he wants to lead, 763 00:54:36.280 --> 00:54:39.239 I know him. All I'm saying is that I still love you for making 764 00:54:39.320 --> 00:54:44.400 video games. Yes, if you, if you're intending on continuing do that, 765 00:54:44.480 --> 00:54:46.119 I would just like to see the said video game if that's okay. 766 00:54:46.239 --> 00:54:50.119 If you if you're completely done with us, fine, like, move on 767 00:54:50.199 --> 00:54:52.039 with your life. I'm happy for you, and I love him for the 768 00:54:52.079 --> 00:54:55.679 real reason to love him. His tweets explaining how The Boys is a parody 769 00:54:55.840 --> 00:55:00.960 of superheroes. I would not have known him. I mean the fact that 770 00:55:01.400 --> 00:55:06.559 he got it, but there is a second number of Americans that did not 771 00:55:06.679 --> 00:55:09.119 get it. You're right, and our shock is a parody. It could 772 00:55:09.119 --> 00:55:14.960 be worse. You're right, going are you fucking people stupid? All? 773 00:55:16.000 --> 00:55:20.119 All right? Newpaul question coming up here in a second before we do that, 774 00:55:20.280 --> 00:55:22.239 dam why don't you tell people where they could find you on the internet? 775 00:55:22.280 --> 00:55:24.599 What you have going on? There's you guys have a new video coming 776 00:55:24.599 --> 00:55:30.480 out soon? What's up? Yeah? We have so Lucy put out a 777 00:55:30.679 --> 00:55:34.639 new episode of Star Players, which you can go and watch. It is 778 00:55:34.760 --> 00:55:37.920 with Aisha Tyler, which was fun. I was actually really nice studio for 779 00:55:38.000 --> 00:55:43.480 that one, and it was it was really fun. Give that watch. 780 00:55:44.159 --> 00:55:51.400 We have spot On coming out today. Yeah, that's about the Xbox Game 781 00:55:51.440 --> 00:55:54.039 Pass subscription changes. We've got a quote from you for that as well. 782 00:55:54.079 --> 00:55:59.239 Happy to help. Yeah, that was that was that'll be out later today. 783 00:56:00.519 --> 00:56:07.400 There's gonna be a concord a ups I believe soon ish and then that's 784 00:56:07.440 --> 00:56:12.440 pretty much it for this week. I'm excited to do less this weekend. 785 00:56:12.480 --> 00:56:15.199 I'm so tired. Hell yeah, I am uh I'm right there with you, 786 00:56:15.679 --> 00:56:21.000 after traveling til the last minute of last weekend, I am uh yeah. 787 00:56:21.079 --> 00:56:24.800 Let's just take it easy, all right, new Paul easy one. 788 00:56:25.119 --> 00:56:30.360 Are you going to play the Concord Beta? Yes or no? If you 789 00:56:30.360 --> 00:56:31.639 say no and then you actually end up playing it this weekending, you can 790 00:56:31.679 --> 00:56:35.400 always go back and change it because we're not going to get to the results 791 00:56:35.480 --> 00:56:39.760 until Monday. Uh. Game this morning's here on Giant. But I downloaded 792 00:56:39.800 --> 00:56:44.559 g t A five. I was just like, I'm gonna play GTA five? 793 00:56:44.599 --> 00:56:45.719 What do you? What do you mean? Like? In what way 794 00:56:45.719 --> 00:56:47.599 are you gonna play? You're gonna play g t A five? Are you 795 00:56:47.639 --> 00:56:52.639 gonna play g t A online five? Okay? I want to play some 796 00:56:52.719 --> 00:56:54.840 five? We should, uh, I we should just do more stuff with 797 00:56:54.920 --> 00:56:59.480 GTA five in general, because I have been thinking about it more and then 798 00:56:59.599 --> 00:57:01.320 I know, I know, Jan keeps bringing up like let's try some of 799 00:57:01.360 --> 00:57:05.800 the new stuff online. I've never really played online at all. I've barely 800 00:57:05.800 --> 00:57:07.920 played online submember. We could do some of that, but I also would 801 00:57:08.000 --> 00:57:13.199 just like to like go through and play some shoot GTA five as well, 802 00:57:13.360 --> 00:57:15.760 so same. Yeah, okay, yeah, well we'll sid summer. We'll 803 00:57:15.760 --> 00:57:20.599 find time for that, all right. I said the pole question. I've 804 00:57:20.599 --> 00:57:23.119 done all that. I have not said. Thank you Tam for hanging out 805 00:57:23.159 --> 00:57:25.320 with me and talking about video games. Man, I really appreciate it. 806 00:57:25.280 --> 00:57:32.119 I just got a cent a link which was to the Demolition Man pinball machine. 807 00:57:34.679 --> 00:57:37.880 There's one being auctioned right now. It is currently one thousand, five 808 00:57:38.280 --> 00:57:45.639 and fifty. That's not the thing is this one was owned by Sylvester Stallone. 809 00:57:45.960 --> 00:57:51.320 What okay, it's got a stink on it. It's got his stank 810 00:57:51.400 --> 00:57:55.719 on it. You're honestly, if you don't spend one thousand, five hundred 811 00:57:55.760 --> 00:58:00.920 dollars on it, you're basically losing mine. I I really want to buy 812 00:58:00.960 --> 00:58:06.400 this, but I think I don't have anywhere for it. I don't have 813 00:58:06.480 --> 00:58:09.280 any I couldn't put this anywhere, and the sounds of pinball will piss off 814 00:58:09.320 --> 00:58:15.400 literally everyone around me. Maybe maybe I'll hang on to it for you. 815 00:58:15.760 --> 00:58:19.760 Right here, I got room right over there, I'm gonna send I'm just 816 00:58:19.920 --> 00:58:22.480 gonna send this link to baccola and be like birthday present for me. Question 817 00:58:22.559 --> 00:58:25.679 Mark. That's the way, that's the way to do it. Expense expense, 818 00:58:27.159 --> 00:58:31.159 expense, all right, everybody, Thank you so much for listening, 819 00:58:31.320 --> 00:58:35.440 Thank you so much for watching. You are the best audience in gaming. 820 00:58:35.800 --> 00:58:38.719 Until next time, have a good one, take care of yourself and goodbye.