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It's the internet. You're busy.
Let's do this for September fifteenth, twenty

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twenty three. For the next hour
or so, let me help you sort

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through the world of gaming on Game
Miss Morning's Live with me Jeff Grubb.

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Today we have the August Serkana Report, a State of Play roundup, and

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more. But first please join me
and welcoming today's co host, the Game

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Miss Mornings. It's Jan Ochoa.
Everybody, Jan, how are you doing.

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I'm doing great. It's so nice. You had to have me on

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twice. That's exactly right. That's
had to have it happen again. I

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am looking forward to talking about a
bunch of news with you. It's not

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Drag's day, so I couldn't have
Tamon that was the big thing. Wait

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too much? Yes, we told
him go to La dude, go to

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La go do something. Drag's worthy
out there. I'm sure he is.

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It's making it happen. He's dragging. He's sliving and dragging, sliving and

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dragon punching down, just doing doing
the giant lifestyle. But yeah, I

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don't know how this was that busy
week. Busy week. I don't I

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don't like I don't I mean,
I like it when it's a busy week,

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because then I'm not thinking as much
about my own personal exactly, personal

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failings and areas where I would try
to grow and fail to do so.

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Yeah, totally inadequacies. Thinking about
all the New Year's resolutions from three years

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ago that I still haven't done.
How I haven't read a full book and

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maybe a year and a half.
Oh no, I've I've read two anim

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Horse books now, so I can't
say I haven't read a book. Yeah,

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back downs. It counts. It's
like it takes a half an hour,

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but it counts. I would hey
that that first one not bad?

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I liked it, not bad.
Yeah, I listened to it while mowing

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the lawn. It basically was done
that that afternoon. Yeah, I enjoyed

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it. That was a fun story, was dramatic, a lot of stuff

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going on there. I've not read
the second book. How far into it

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are you? I completed it and
it's it still holds up. I think,

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Uh, I think this author knows
what they're doing. I'm also surprised

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ian the world of Hollywood that we've
lived through, where everything is an adaptation

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of a book or whatever, that
no one has tried to take another stab

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at animals? Right, what what
stabs have been? Take? Was it?

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It was a Nickelodeon show. I
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say that's it. I never saw
a single second of that show that It

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must have just been a time when
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it's like opinion was on Nickelodeon when
I was watching. I just eventually

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caught all of it. I think
he was on the tail end of,

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like right after Alex Mack. Okay, Alex Mack was the end of my

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era for sure. There you go. Yes, the the main kid I

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already forget his name was played by
the same actor that played Iceman Bobby Drake.

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The singer Ashmore. His name Amore. That's Sam Lake's friend. He's

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in there. He's gonna be an
Allen Wake two pretty soon, so look

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out for that. Gonna get more
Ashmore at more Ashmore more. That's what

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we're getting here very soon. Hell
yeah, all right, we have a

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mess here. Let's explain what we
do about it. Most week days,

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I Jeff greb will help piece your
gaming life back together. That includes breaking

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news and maybe even some of our
own original reporting for all these topics,

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Hello YouTube. Okay, we have a

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lot to get into, so let's
start the Morning Mess with the August twenty

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twenty three Circano Report, once known
as the MPD Report. This is from

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Matt Piscatella over at Sirkana. Shout
outs to Matt at as always one T

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and Matt keep that in mind.
Don't disrespect him with two teas. I'll

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spare it at your feet if you
disrespect him with two t's two. August

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twenty twenty three US video game market
highlights from sir Kana. August twenty three,

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US consumer spending on video game content, hardware, and accessories grew three

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percent versus a year ago. That's
to four point two billion dollars. Growth

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across both content and accessories spending offset
a double digit percentage decline in hardware.

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A year to date, US consumer
spending across video game products was two percent

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higher than a year ago at thirty
four point nine billion billion. That hardware

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spent spending decline was down thirteen percent, at three hundred and seventy six million

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to three hundred and twenty eight million. I get the sense that a big

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part of that is there was some
price cuts on the PlayStation five, like

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relative like not like permanent price cuts, but a lot of discounts that were

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out there, and I bet the
PlayStation five selling pretty close to about the

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same. It might be down a
little bit, but in terms of revenue

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that is down, and it's about
fifty million that the whole industry is down

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and not not not too much.
Just it seems big when you say thirteen

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percent, but be a game hardware
is like just a kind of a small

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amount of the total spending most stuff
gets spent on video games. In fact,

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it's like three point it's five billion
dollars, excuse me, three point

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seven billion dollars, So yeah,
it's that's a four percent increase over last

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year. And then accessories up twelve
percent. So again, like if you

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like try to like tell a story
there people are buying a lot of games.

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People who the people who have hardware
are still investing in getting accessories for

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these systems because they just really that's
their main hobby. Video games is something

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they want to be spending money on, but not necessarily attracted a huge number

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of new customers at this point in
their console generation. That'll probably pick up

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again this holiday. For August twenty
twenty three, the top twenty best selling

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games include at the very top,
Madden NFL twenty four. As is want

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to do. It's always there at
the top of the list. You're always

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going to get that, and that's
that still hasn't changed, even though Armored

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cores six fires with Rubicon right behind
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new games on the list. In
fact, they're the only two new games

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on the list. Yeah, I'm
just gonna point out here and then we'll

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talk about it in a story here
in a second. There was an another

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new game that launched that month,
Immortals of Avium, and it is nowhere

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in the top twenty. Actually,
no boy, I asked Matt Pisktel about

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it. He said, it's number
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So that is that is really rough
for a new game like that,

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you just you kind of see why
what's gonna have We're gonna talk again talk

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about that studio, some layoffs.
We'll talk about that pretty soon. Ripping

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It two though, was still in
the top three after being number one last

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month. That's very strong for that
game, Call of Duty, Hogwarts,

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Legacy, Tiers The Kingdom, and
Tears the Kingdom doesn't have digital sales.

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Then Diablo four, MLB, The
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Kart eight rounding at the top ten, Pickman four at number eleven, still

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so exactly, very respectable eleven.
Uh, and then throughout the rest of

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the top you know. Okay,
so the Final Fantasy sixteen here was number

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five last month and it's number seventeen
now, and we have heard repeatedly sales

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have tapered off faster than they were
expecting. I think they will probably be

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able to boost that up again as
like as they put it on PC in

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other places eventually. But yeah,
I guess that does kind of look like

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a pretty major tapering off, not
some like panic button thing, but it

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still looks like not as good as
Pickman four. I guess, right,

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Yeah, I guess when you when
you look when you look at the brand

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recognition of Final Fantasy versus Pickman,
it does feel bad for Final Fantasy.

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But again, I've we've talked about
yesterday, and I feel like we've talked

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about exhaustively across all of the Giant
Bomb podcasts that it's a lot of the

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onus is on Square and Square not
wanting to actually accept the blame they are.

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They are the Taylor Swift lyrics of
like, Hi, it's me,

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I'm the problem. It's me,
where it's like, oh no, how

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could we do this? We're doing
so bad? Who did this? Oh

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shit, it's us. It's us, Yes exactly. I'm not expecting this

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to like to be the end of
the story for Final Fantasy sixteen or anything

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like that. But yeah, I
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a little bit worried about it.
It is behind games like God of War

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Ragnarok, something that came out a
year ago. It was that that was

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number twenty seven last month, it's
number sixteen this month. I guess that

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shows that things can bounce back up
and down depending on sales. I bet

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a big part of God of War
Ragnarok, though, is people buying those

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discounted PlayStations and maybe getting God of
War Ragnarok alongside of that. That makes

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some sense, And then my Final
Fantasy sixteen is among Grand Turismos seven Miles

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Morales and Rainbow sixth Siege. Yeah, okay, I've always been on the

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other side of this fence. But
do you think part of the confusion with

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Final Fantasy sixteen is because of the
number sixteen and that like people assume,

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like the general gaming audience will assume
like, oh, I think that's related

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to like fifteen. I didn't play
like the other twenty or other fifteen games,

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so I'm not going to check out
this one. So Yoship said that

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same thing where he's like a little
bit worried about that. I don't know,

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you think that, I think everything
has to be on the table for

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like explaining, you know, I'm
not a lack of excitement, but just

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like I think I was expecting the
Final Fantasy brand to be at a certain

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place and it doesn't seem to be. So what's happening there? Final Fantasy

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fourteen clearly is and I don't know, maybe that's the answer. Maybe,

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like people who are are looking for
a Final Fantasy Fix Fix have found out

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that hey, MMOs can do that
consistently with friends over time, and so

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I'm good over here. But yeah, I mean maybe, but I think

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it probably goes back more to what
we were saying about. Hey, Final

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Fantasy sixteen tried to be this broadly
appealing thing, and that was enough to

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to make it feel sort of a
little bit more generic than people wanted it

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to. And they were what they
wanted, something that's like a very specific

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experience that they could dive into and
really sink their teeth into. And this

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is again that's like kind of going
to spoon spoon feed you a little bit.

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Now you kind of have to play
it to realize that. So I

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still think like people the name recognition
people buy Final Fantasy sixteen. I don't

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know, maybe there is something about
dropping the number right, but I would

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be surprised if they actually ever do
that. Yeah, I'd be surprised too,

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even though I brought it up.
Two things that just crossed my mind

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before, I completely forget about what
they are, and oh no, I've

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forgotten what they are. Do you
just burst out whenever they occurred to you?

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Again, Hogwarts legacy is still the
number one best selling game of the

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year so far year to date,
although that's Legends all the Tears. The

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Kingdom was right behind that, and
that's physical only again, no digital sales,

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they're so quires. The Kingdom one
was certainly probably is the best selling

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game of the year. Then Diablo
four, Call of Duty Modern Warfare to

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Star Wars, Jedi Survivor, Madden
NFL twenty four, Resident Evil MLB,

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The Show twenty three with no I
think no Xbox and Switch digital sales included

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there, and then Dead Island too, and Final Fantasy sixteen right at the

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top ten. Apologies I remember,
now, uh yeah, there it is.

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Here's the fortunate reality that I want
to pose it to you, grub

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and our audience everyone watching live.
Here is is Final Fantasy as a franchise

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now considered or going to be considered
by future gamers a boomer brand. I

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think that anything that is uh weebish
can't be boomer ish, right at least

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that at least that this generation maybe
next gen, and I'm talking about human

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generations now. I guess there,
I guess there. I will probably be

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alive during a day where there will
be weebish boomer stuff won't there. Yeah,

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we wish boomer stuff is dragon ball
Z. I guess so yeah,

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yeah, I guess if I was
like, oh, the's like, hey

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do you watch anime? And I
said Dragon ball Z, they would probably

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call me a boomer right. Yeah. Yeah, that's upsetting. So because

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I bring this up, and I
think I brought this up yesterday when with

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the Sega Atlas comparison. But like, you know, some of the new

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hotness is Persona you know, like
those Yeah, everyone loves the Persona kids,

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so in every form that they take, and I feel like Persona five

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Tactica is probably gonna do okay.
Where you know, people just want to

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hang out with a bunch of a
bunch of friends. Maybe that's why fifteen

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did so well, is people just
want to hang out with friends. Yeah,

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exactly, it's a it's a buddy
hangout game. I'm looking at this

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this top ten or top twenty best
selling games year to date, and Fontal

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Fantasy sixteen is in the top ten. Now it's moving top ten, it's

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moved down a spot. But I
mean, but okay, I'm like that's

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good. But then I'm like Dead
Island two is ahead of it now,

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Dead Island, but then I go
Dead Island two. It's a multi platform,

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so okay, but then it's like
Street Fighters six it's like right behind

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it, and I'm sure, yeah, that's also a multi platform, but

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it's Final Fantasy sixteen about the same
amount of excitement as a niche fighting game.

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I mean, Street Fighter six's not
a niche fighting game, but fighting

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games are niche, and then straight
Fighter six being at the top of that.

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But you think fal Fantasy sixteen is
the top of JRPG's I don't know.

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It's hard to like parse this stuff
just based on the information that we

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have, but I do. I'm
like interested in diagnosing what happened to this

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game and to see if it's like, is it really success is it really

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some kind of failure. I don't
know. It's the square factor in that

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this has been like a very heavy
year for video game releases in general.

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I mean, I don't I bet
occasionally on conference calls they say that to

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investors, but that's not something investors
really care to hear about, so they

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kind of have to be careful about
some of those kinds of things, right,

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they'd be like, what, no, we don't we don't care about

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that. You know, Remnant two
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but it's at number thirteen for the
year, although it's moving up pretty fast

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on this list, but it's still
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sales. So yeah, Matt.
In NFL twenty four, I mentioned that

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Jumped Or was immediately number six on
the list for bestselling games year. That's

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pretty impressive. Spending on video gain
content in August group four percent versus last

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year to three point seven billion on
console and PC platforms. Growth in digital

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premium downloads off set to clients across
physical software and digital add ons. Non

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mobile subscription spending fall four percent,
while Censor Tower reported mobile gaming growth of

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two point five percent. Madden NFL
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August, instantly becoming the sixth best
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date. This is the twenty fourth
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release was the best selling title of
its launch month. That's that's consistency right

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there. Launch a month, dollar
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digital add on spinning grew by double
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three a year ago. Wow,
I don't actually, I don't know,

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like grub in any of the social
media circles that are gaming related that I

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follow, I don't think I've seen
anyone grub anyone talk about Madden, not

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even anyone like reposting like a preview
or review. I have on my Steam

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friends list one person playing Madden frequently, and that man's name is Ron Funcious.

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So he said, so he's been
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man, supern Functions wants to play
Madden NFL. Uh. I've played a

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couple of matches and that's about it. That's that's what it are. You're

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right, I haven't heard anyone else
tie, but you don't. It's it.

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That's what's happened. These things splinter
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that that happened a while ago,
and now it's like there's very little crossover

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between the people. You know,
we did that Forts of thing, and

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then like you know, I get
yelled at by Forts of fans who are

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like, no, I played five
million hours of this game. I'm like,

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you're right, this we're not for
you. This this video is not

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for you. You should be going
to the forts of content creators, which

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one million percent exist and we just
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yeah, Madden still very successful.
I feel that same way with like the

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souls Born community, Like, who's
that big YouTuber in that sphere Vati Vidya?

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I think, yes, sure,
I never knew his name, but

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yes, yeah, I know who
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follow the souls Born universe, but
like I come across his stuff very frequently.

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But maybe that's just because, like, you know, friends with someone

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like Tam right, and Tam is
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Oh yeah, Iron Pineapple is another
one. Yes, exactly, all those

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guys we got to be like big
with a niche game off this list Grub,

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Trombone, Champ influencers. Yes,
that's whatever. Hell yeah, let's

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see here. Long okay. Armored
Course six fires roupcom was the second best

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selling game of August and ranked This
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two three year to date after one
month in the market. The release of

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Balder's Gate three helped drive one thirty
two percent growth in digital premium download spinning

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in the PC Cloud and non console
VR content segment. Digital sales of Balder's

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Gate three are not reflected in the
best Selling Titles chart as publisher Larion Studios

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is not a panel member. So
yeah, let's see that's uh boulders Gate

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three. Is that why it's Okay, it probably wasn't on this list,

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and that's why that makes sense.
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about it, PC, this is
not the PlayStation five version. So it's

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like PC is like almost all digital. Uh like I don't know, maybe

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sure percent of sales or physical.
I honestly have no idea, but it's

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some very very very tiny number.
But when it launch its on PS five,

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it's almost certainly going to be up
on this list. Then. Speaking

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of a video game, hardware spending
fell that thirteen percent, as we mentioned

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when compared to a year ago,
to three hundred and twenty eight million.

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PlayStation five dollars sales fell by single
digit percentage in a month when compared to

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a year ago, while both Switch
and Xbox series declined by double digit percentage.

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PlayStation five was the best selling hardware
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for for August while Xbox was ranked
second in both measures. That's happened before

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where Switch was number three on both
measures, but not not very frequently,

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and I think it only happened recently. So clearly switches on the outs.

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We know this, but it's gonna
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I imagine what happened with a Switch
specifically, is everyone shot their loads,

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so to speak, for Tears the
Kingdom, and now like if it

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like you bought it, then there's
not a lot of people who are like

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waiting for the next thing after that, They're like, no, I was

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waiting for Tears of the Kingdom.
I bought it, then all right.

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That's does it for the Circono report. I think overall video games spending continues

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to be pretty good. The growth
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good. I think, yeah,
a lot of big blockbuster games are succeeding,

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but then there is the halves and
the have not here. So Ascendance

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Studios lays off about forty five percent
of its workforce. This is from Sophie

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McAvoy at Games Industry Dot. Is
California based Descendant Studios has laid off about

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forty five percent of its employees,
the studio set in a statement. Ascendant

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studio CEO Brett Robbins announced the news
on X, calling it a painfully difficult,

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but necessary decision. The layoffs come
three weeks after releasing the studio's first

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game, Immortals of Avium. According
to Polygon, forty employees were let go

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from the studio. As of April
twenty twenty three, the independent developer employed

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over one hundred people. A former
worker told Polygon that low sales are the

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primary reason for the layoffs. Another
set of several more employees were dismissed and

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the weeks leading up to the announcement. So I asked Matt about it.

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It's number twenty six on the MPD. Uh, that is I remember way

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back where I would. I've been
following the MPD for a very long time.

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I know it's something most people don't
care about, but I find it

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fun. It's usually like a good
way to understand how these companies sometimes make

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decisions. And I remember seeing a
new game would launch and it would almost

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invariably be in the top ten of
the MPD, let alone the top twenty.

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Yeah, if it's a new game, just because it's a new game,

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any new game, and then it
was what was the follow up to

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from Volition, not not not their
open world crime games, but the one

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that they did after that, No, like they was I can't remember,

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it was like they launched it and
it was this it was like number like

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sixteen or seventeen on the list and
Ancients of Mayhem, thank you chat,

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I really appreciate that. As of
Mayhem launched and it was like number fifteen

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to number sixteen on the list.
I'm like, that's weird and bad and

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kind of worrisome because there was a
time when a game could just come out

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and be new, and they would
have a certain amount of marketing, and

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that marketing would work and they would
get to a certain point on the chart,

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and I think the suddenly gamers became
more discerning and or they were finding

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those niche audiences to be a part
of that we were talking about where it's

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like, no, I'm happy to
just spending all my time over here with

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these games or this one game,
and so a game like Ages and they

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have could be like, hey,
I'm new, so buying me, and

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it didn't work anymore. And that
was a long time ago. Since then,

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I think both. I think gamers
have been like, you know what,

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I want to try more new stuff. Yeah, sure, But also

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I think publishers have become more discerning
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Even even with all that in mind, the Mortals Vadium coming out and

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being number twenty six and yeah,
it's a busy month, of busy time

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of the year, basically a very
strong year, that is a very low

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number. And I was I spoke
to someone who's kind of familiar with this

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over Adia, the numbers are tragically
low for the same else of Immortals of

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Abium, Like, way lower than
you would even expect for a game that

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didn't selll very well. Like you're
okay, we can look around. Not

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a lot of people talk about Wortals
of Avum. It seems like it didn't

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sell well. No, it's way
below that actually, So, I mean,

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when I talked to Matscatel on Twitter, he's like, yeah, I'm

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looking at the numbers that that he
has with both the digital and the physical.

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It's like lines up with what he's
hearing from this developer and explains why

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they had to do his layoffs.
Unfortunately, what do you what do you

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think wrong here? I guess we
could. I mean, it's just a

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game that didn't stand out. But
is it that simple? I in my

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head, I hope that it is
not that simple. Also, it is

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a very confusing and generic name for
a game name, and honestly, Greb,

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it's I don't think it's a case
of there not being an appetite for

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the style of game. You know, we see people clamoring for anything similar

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to a BioShock all the time,
or like a narrative heavy first person shooter,

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even though you're shooting with your hands
here and it looks very pretty,

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but I still had no interest in
it when it came out. I don't

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know if the marketing just didn't work
out for it either, which is very

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disappointing. And I think you hit
the nail on the head when you mentioned

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the Agents of Mayhem comparison, because
I just tried to look up that game.

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I have no memory of it at
all. And I think now,

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especially where time is just so such
a commodity, I don't see a lot

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of folks reaching out of their bubble
unless like there is a lot of hype

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or a lot of excitement for the
game. I mean, look at going

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back to the Orcana reports of everything
that is like on that top there,

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there's some type of name recognition,
and I don't see a lot of new

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games breaking through that that's top ten
specifically, Like there's Madden, Armored Corps

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six, and I know it's been
years, decades even Also paulters Kate three,

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right, but not on this list, but we know a massive,

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massive, massive, massive success that's
like exactly those Yeah, sure, Armored

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Cores six and Paulter Skate three feel
like new things, but they are doing

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things that might feel new using existing
properties. So it makes every risk that

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much less, right, It mitigates
a lot of the risk. Yeah,

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And then, like sixty dollars is
a lot for a lot of folks,

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especially when they are intending to buy
a handful of games throughout the year.

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I'm looking at the audience that bought
Hogwarts Legacy, like they bought a whole

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ass console for one game, and
now they're going to be very choosy with

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like, oh shit, maybe I
shouldn't have spent five hundred dollars, and

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like the sixty bucks, I'll just
be very choosy. I guess I'll pick

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up Madden, Yeah, because I
love Wizards in football. Yeah, I

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mean they're people with the safe bets, like they want things that make their

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purchase feel worth it. Yes,
but that that doesn't mean that they're going

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to be like, well, that
means I'm buying every game. They are

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still looking for very safe investments in
terms of I'm going to spend seventy dollars

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on this thing. I want to
get a lot of time out of it.

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I want to get a lot of
value out of it. Hopefully it

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has something I can do with my
friends online all this stuff, and hopefully

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it's something that I can like talk
about so I have like something to share

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over the digital water cooler or whatever. And I think maybe that that last

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one especially hurt Mortals Babium because it
really had zero word of mouth and no

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one was streaming it, you know. I think you can look to something

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like Walter's Gate three maybe eating its
lunch a little bit, where it's like

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everyone in the world was talking about
that game when a Mortal's Babium arrived,

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and it just left no oxygen in
the room for that game to burn.

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So I also think partially the the
w GA and the SAG SAG after Strikes

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had a partial impact on this game
as well. Like the main voice actor

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is like, and I don't an
actor in Hollywood, like a working actor.

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He's been on like a couple of
Netflix series, so maybe they were

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kind of leaning into him promoting the
game. Lucy. Yeah, it's like

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and that was at a comic comic
con. Yeah, right, But he

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didn't attend, I think because I
didn't know that he didn't attend. I

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think because and maybe some other voice
actors from the game in support of the

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strikes. So it's mostly just the
game development team. It's a bummer and

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and hey, it looks like a
very visually stimulating game. At the same

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time, I think it may have
been too much for some people, or

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it may have just felt more of
the same and rather than something distinct for

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people to check out. I wonder
if, if you know, we're gonna

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get out of this generation eventually,
if this is gonna be one of those

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ones like hidden Gems or something that
people like, Hey, this is actually

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not that bad. It's like surprisingly
good, and once we're out of like

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this time where where it feels like
there's a stink attached to it now because

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it feels like this failure or something, and again not trying to be harsh

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or hurt anyone or kick anyone whether
down. Clearly the studio leading people off.

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That's awful, But I mean that's
that is a real sense that is

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happening right now. As we get
a further away from that, I bet

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people are gonna be able to go
back to this game and have a totally

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fine time with it. That many
people are probably doing that right now,

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just not enough to move the needle
for the studio or for EA. This

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is an EO original game as well, obviously, I think I would like

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an examination of that partnership what that
looks like. EA Originals at one point

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was like, Hey, we are
going to work with this indie studio and

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we're gonna publish their game. And
I just dropped my batter ring. Oh

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my god, We're gonna publish their
game and give it the EA platform.

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And now it's like we're gonna work
with We're gonna take a Coe Techno game

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and make it one of ours.
I think it's Coe Techno, and we're

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gonna take this other massive thing that
we should just be probably be publishing as

405
00:26:52.079 --> 00:26:55.839
an EA game if we really believe
in it. But instead it's a partner

406
00:26:55.839 --> 00:27:00.240
original game, and maybe we're taking
less risk and letting the developed take some

407
00:27:00.279 --> 00:27:00.880
more of that. And yeah,
we're putting some money up, but we're

408
00:27:00.920 --> 00:27:03.720
not putting as much money up as
if it was an EA game for real.

409
00:27:04.200 --> 00:27:07.599
It's like, oh, okay,
I mean, maybe that's not how

410
00:27:07.599 --> 00:27:10.519
it works. That's just kind of
what it feels like in this situation where

411
00:27:11.319 --> 00:27:14.720
we are hearing about the studio getting
laid off or late late enough forty five

412
00:27:14.720 --> 00:27:18.119
percent of its workforce, and EA
is nowhere to be found on any like

413
00:27:18.279 --> 00:27:22.000
Noah has nothing to say about this. So it's like, oh, you

414
00:27:22.039 --> 00:27:23.960
know, what is your responsibility here? What what was your say in the

415
00:27:23.960 --> 00:27:27.839
marketing? How would you help on
that? And clearly they've had successes with

416
00:27:27.960 --> 00:27:30.559
it Takes two, a massive,
massive thing, But in that game I

417
00:27:30.559 --> 00:27:37.480
think was the success success based on
its reviews and it's kind of neat novelty

418
00:27:37.519 --> 00:27:41.559
of the two player thing. And
then people and people love Divorce. That's

419
00:27:41.599 --> 00:27:44.240
just it. That's it. End
game of the year, and Divorce always

420
00:27:44.240 --> 00:27:45.799
wins game of the year. We
know that now. Yeah, look at

421
00:27:45.839 --> 00:27:49.599
every single giant bombed game of the
year. It has a thread of divorce.

422
00:27:51.440 --> 00:27:57.200
Uh he a game for real?
Okay, let's let's move on here.

423
00:27:57.319 --> 00:28:02.839
PlayStation State of Play round up.
Bennett Foddy's new game, Baby Steps,

424
00:28:02.839 --> 00:28:04.079
got a new trailer. It's at
leased in twenty twenty four. I

425
00:28:04.079 --> 00:28:08.720
think that game looks like so much
fun. I'm not sure about the humor,

426
00:28:08.759 --> 00:28:11.880
if how that's gonna work, But
like, I never know about that

427
00:28:11.880 --> 00:28:14.160
stuff in a trailer. I need
to play it for myself to feel it

428
00:28:14.160 --> 00:28:17.960
in context. I don't know,
how about you. Yeah, I looked

429
00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:22.200
fine. I like all of these
style of games. I like Bennett Foddy

430
00:28:22.279 --> 00:28:26.519
a lot, love what a weirdo
that goes through. I want to I

431
00:28:26.559 --> 00:28:30.599
want to watch an interview Danny Go
interview Benett Foddy. Yeah, for real.

432
00:28:30.640 --> 00:28:34.319
I talked to him once where I
was like, I can't remember what

433
00:28:34.359 --> 00:28:40.000
it was about. I think it
was about were using assets or buying assets

434
00:28:40.000 --> 00:28:41.880
from the store and like making games
based on that, and Benetfott he's like,

435
00:28:41.920 --> 00:28:45.319
I'm a huge defender of that.
I mean, obviously he made Getting

436
00:28:45.359 --> 00:28:47.680
over It like that, which is
a commentary on that, but he's like,

437
00:28:47.680 --> 00:28:49.519
no, I'm a huge defender of
that because like occasionally you're gonna get

438
00:28:49.559 --> 00:28:55.200
these really cool ideas that you either
are and either diamonds are the rough or

439
00:28:55.240 --> 00:28:57.559
just diamonds like without the rough part
at all. It just so has to

440
00:28:57.599 --> 00:29:03.759
be surrounded by stuff that we typically
view as crufft or as cheap and therefore

441
00:29:03.960 --> 00:29:06.920
less worthy. But I am to
me, I'm like, for me,

442
00:29:07.000 --> 00:29:11.039
I'm like looking for something that has
a different vibe in the way that punk

443
00:29:11.119 --> 00:29:15.200
music can have a different vibe in
that in that medium, and it's like,

444
00:29:15.240 --> 00:29:18.519
this feels like people just like slapping
shit together and going for it.

445
00:29:18.799 --> 00:29:22.759
And then Benett Foddy kind of the
king of that stuff. And so yeah,

446
00:29:22.799 --> 00:29:26.359
I'm very excited about this game,
really looking forward to it. Uh.

447
00:29:26.720 --> 00:29:30.119
Then there was Ghostbusters Rise of the
Ghost Words for PSVR two. Also

448
00:29:30.160 --> 00:29:33.240
this I'm using this round up.
Sean Turbo Sean put this together for me,

449
00:29:33.279 --> 00:29:37.799
So shout out to Seawan Sean.
That's coming October twenty sixth Resume before

450
00:29:37.960 --> 00:29:41.960
Remake update that's getting a v VR
mode coming this winter. And then the

451
00:29:41.960 --> 00:29:47.400
eight A side story Separate Ways is
finally launching next week, that's September twenty

452
00:29:47.440 --> 00:29:56.519
first. Very good journey. So
hey, you know, yeah, I'm

453
00:29:56.519 --> 00:30:00.000
a big ATA one fan as well. So as or most people except from

454
00:30:00.119 --> 00:30:04.119
Mandy. Apparently he says she's overrated. What he said overrated just a wild

455
00:30:04.160 --> 00:30:11.039
way to say. Mike, why
because he's a bad person. What he

456
00:30:11.079 --> 00:30:12.880
can't even he can't even like blame
that on the drugs. He was totally

457
00:30:12.880 --> 00:30:19.319
sober when he said that. Uh, yeah, he's too cool for school

458
00:30:19.319 --> 00:30:25.640
over there. I'm I'm too good
for eight oh long Avatar Frontiers of Pandora

459
00:30:25.920 --> 00:30:29.759
was shown again. It's released in
December seventh. Yeah, I'm excited.

460
00:30:30.039 --> 00:30:33.559
I'm really I don't have high hopes
for this. I just have hopes for

461
00:30:33.680 --> 00:30:36.359
it. Jen, I just want
to spend some time in there again.

462
00:30:36.400 --> 00:30:38.240
I like I've been saying this a
little bit. I've been hearing a little

463
00:30:38.240 --> 00:30:41.160
bit of murmuring out of some play
tests that are happening. Yourself does this

464
00:30:41.240 --> 00:30:45.680
quite frequently where they have these play
tests, And a couple of things that

465
00:30:45.759 --> 00:30:48.519
stood out to me is like,
yeah, confirmed, it is definitely like

466
00:30:48.559 --> 00:30:52.519
a far cry rees skin of sorts. They're they're doing extra stuff on top

467
00:30:52.519 --> 00:30:56.359
of that. But then the thing
that that that I heard was the park

468
00:30:56.359 --> 00:31:00.519
core or like the running through the
woods, like those scenes in the movie.

469
00:31:00.680 --> 00:31:03.680
They do a really good job of
recreating that so that when you are

470
00:31:03.799 --> 00:31:07.559
moving through that world, you feel
super capable and powerful. I'm like,

471
00:31:07.640 --> 00:31:11.599
yeah, that's the ship. That's
all I need. Yeah, just a

472
00:31:11.640 --> 00:31:18.519
tree onto my ekron and just go
injected into my fiberglass bones. I love

473
00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:22.440
that they're fiberglass bones. Jen.
I think about it every day. I

474
00:31:22.480 --> 00:31:26.839
swear I think about it every day. Okay, that game yet December seventh,

475
00:31:26.960 --> 00:31:30.519
and it looks all right. It
looks okay, and it's a look

476
00:31:30.640 --> 00:31:36.200
greaters. Look, let's all right. I'm down. I'm down. Yes,

477
00:31:36.319 --> 00:31:38.640
I need it. Ubisoft needs it. Jimmy Jimmy Cameron doesn't need anything,

478
00:31:38.680 --> 00:31:42.839
but I hope he gets it anyhow. Ghost Runner two release date is

479
00:31:42.920 --> 00:31:47.039
October twenty six. There's a demo
available now. People are playing that ghost

480
00:31:47.079 --> 00:31:48.880
Runner one was very good. Uh, I don't know. So I was

481
00:31:48.920 --> 00:31:52.200
like glancing away. I looked back
and then it looked like the character was

482
00:31:52.279 --> 00:31:55.680
v I'm like, is this cyberpunk? Nope, Nope, this is the

483
00:31:55.799 --> 00:31:59.359
ghost Runner two. That's what it
is. But it continues to look very

484
00:31:59.400 --> 00:32:04.400
good. Uh. PS five Deep
Earth collection Dual Sense controllers and console covers

485
00:32:04.440 --> 00:32:09.359
shown, including Volcanic Red cobalt blue
and sterling silver. U. It definitely

486
00:32:09.359 --> 00:32:13.279
looks red, white and blue.
I don't. I look closer at these

487
00:32:13.279 --> 00:32:15.160
colors and something feels, I don't
know, muted about them. I don't

488
00:32:15.160 --> 00:32:17.519
know if I like them. Yeah. Yeah, it's like, uh,

489
00:32:19.079 --> 00:32:21.559
they're a little matted, right,
Yeah, is that what it is?

490
00:32:21.599 --> 00:32:24.160
That's probably what it is. Yeah, it's just like there's not they're not

491
00:32:24.319 --> 00:32:29.519
sparkly. I don't know. No, like the PS four controller had a

492
00:32:29.519 --> 00:32:30.960
little bit of like, oh,
if it catches the light's like, oh,

493
00:32:31.000 --> 00:32:34.480
there's a little bit of shine to
it. Right. But then I

494
00:32:34.519 --> 00:32:39.160
just I don't think I like anything. Matt relate Matt Colored. I like

495
00:32:39.240 --> 00:32:44.319
Matt Black a lot sometimes. Uh
yeah, but I mean I like Matt

496
00:32:44.400 --> 00:32:47.559
LeBlanc, will love Matt LeBlanc.
Just like the darkest black black out there

497
00:32:47.640 --> 00:32:51.640
for sure, Matt LeBlanc. Uh. But other than that, yes,

498
00:32:51.680 --> 00:32:53.200
I don't know. I looked at
Maybe it's just like in pictures or something

499
00:32:53.200 --> 00:32:55.759
like. Maybe I could see it
in person, my opinion would change,

500
00:32:55.759 --> 00:33:00.559
but right now, I don't know. Then they had the game talking over

501
00:33:00.599 --> 00:33:05.799
Hell Divers two. We're just coming
February eighths five PC. I don't think

502
00:33:05.799 --> 00:33:07.839
we had a date confirmed before this, so that was good. And yeah,

503
00:33:07.880 --> 00:33:10.240
another one of those the ones where
I'm like, I think this looks

504
00:33:10.279 --> 00:33:14.359
fun, I need to play it. Yeah, it is going to be

505
00:33:14.359 --> 00:33:17.799
one of those. Uh you know, we played Hell Divers one maybe like

506
00:33:17.799 --> 00:33:21.799
a month or so ago. We
all enjoyed our time, a good time.

507
00:33:21.839 --> 00:33:24.480
I can't wait to do that in
third person first person. Yeah,

508
00:33:24.519 --> 00:33:29.119
Like we're bringing the camera down behind
the back, basically the PlayStation camera position,

509
00:33:29.519 --> 00:33:32.480
so that you know what that worked
for like GTA, right, we

510
00:33:32.599 --> 00:33:37.000
had the top down camera, you
know, Hell Divers guy symmetricsh kind of

511
00:33:37.000 --> 00:33:40.000
whatever worked with Zelda worked for Zelda, It's gonna work for Hell Divers.

512
00:33:40.160 --> 00:33:46.079
Absolutely. Another Spider Man two trailer
also closed out the show later by showing

513
00:33:46.119 --> 00:33:50.440
a crap ton of costumes, including
the digital for the digital Deluxe edition.

514
00:33:51.519 --> 00:33:53.319
That Spider Man two trailer, I'll
continue to look like a good Spider Man

515
00:33:53.400 --> 00:33:58.240
game, you know what. I
like that they really showed the expanded city

516
00:33:58.319 --> 00:34:00.759
so that you're not just in Manhattan, right, you're also in queens and

517
00:34:00.799 --> 00:34:05.599
stuff. And they also showed like, Okay, yeah, I know what

518
00:34:05.599 --> 00:34:07.320
you're thinking, how am I going
to swing in these places where it's mostly

519
00:34:07.800 --> 00:34:12.679
residential homes and not sky rise buildings. Well, here's the thing, Miles,

520
00:34:12.719 --> 00:34:15.239
morolics can glide and and we're gonna
give you all these other things as

521
00:34:15.239 --> 00:34:19.079
well, so go and have fun
in those ways. It's like, okay,

522
00:34:19.119 --> 00:34:22.039
you know what they've thought about this. I trust this studio. I

523
00:34:22.119 --> 00:34:23.679
bet this is gonna be just as
fun to explore. And even when like

524
00:34:23.719 --> 00:34:27.119
I do need to swing and I
can't because there's no building there, Spider

525
00:34:27.159 --> 00:34:30.280
Man still runs fast, jumps very
far, all these other things that'll be

526
00:34:30.320 --> 00:34:37.559
good as well. Give me Peter
Parker's uh moten bicycle from Spider Man too

527
00:34:37.800 --> 00:34:40.320
that he failed to deliver pizzas on. That's right, Godda, I'm gonna

528
00:34:40.320 --> 00:34:45.400
bring up Spider Man too every single
for everybody. He's just a boy.

529
00:34:45.599 --> 00:34:50.119
It's tressed the boy. It's just
the boy. Tales of a Rise you'll

530
00:34:50.159 --> 00:34:52.519
see Beyond the Dawn coming November nine. Do you ever played Tales of Her

531
00:34:52.559 --> 00:34:53.679
Rise? I can't remember if you
said, yeah, I like Tales of

532
00:34:53.719 --> 00:34:58.559
Her Rise. I thought it was
interesting that a DALC chapter is coming so

533
00:34:58.599 --> 00:35:01.920
many years after the game. I
think Tales of Her Eyes unfortunately got buried

534
00:35:02.239 --> 00:35:07.000
amongst other JRPGs. But if folks
are clamoring for something like if you kind

535
00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:10.400
of liked Final Fantasy sixteen but it
didn't quite click with you, I would

536
00:35:10.440 --> 00:35:15.039
definitely recommend Tales of Her Eyes.
Tam. Apparently it's confirmed that both Spider

537
00:35:15.039 --> 00:35:19.000
Man can glide. So there you
gotta thank you. Shout out to Tam

538
00:35:19.840 --> 00:35:21.800
who has played the game. That's
what he was doing out in LA.

539
00:35:21.920 --> 00:35:24.360
He's playing Spider Man, playing some
other stuff. He checked out all nineteen

540
00:35:24.440 --> 00:35:30.599
inches of venom, checked out each
and every inch of venoms. I don't

541
00:35:30.639 --> 00:35:32.840
know what they said. They just
said venom, just nineteen inches of venom.

542
00:35:34.039 --> 00:35:37.159
Yeah tells yeah, Tale Surprise what
that is a weird one. I

543
00:35:37.199 --> 00:35:40.000
wonder like, why not can they
do it as an expand alone? I

544
00:35:40.039 --> 00:35:44.119
feel like that would be such a
better things like this far removed. Yeah

545
00:35:44.159 --> 00:35:50.039
I say that, But then you
know other either anime games or RPGs do

546
00:35:50.119 --> 00:35:53.000
the same thing. You know,
Pokemon's getting it's DLC, Zeno Blade does

547
00:35:53.039 --> 00:35:57.320
this, so maybe that audience,
this must work for that audience. You

548
00:35:57.400 --> 00:36:00.159
know, Monster Hunter switched from having
standalones to having DLC, so it must

549
00:36:00.159 --> 00:36:06.119
be totally fine. I also assume
that this is potentially in an effort to

550
00:36:06.119 --> 00:36:09.199
try and boost sales of the original
game. I can't imagine the Tales of

551
00:36:09.320 --> 00:36:14.480
Rise is still a full price title, so I'm assuming maybe it's clocking in

552
00:36:14.559 --> 00:36:17.159
right now at forty to fifty dollars, and then this DLC is what twenty

553
00:36:17.559 --> 00:36:22.079
ten to twenty, So you're getting
people to buy back in at the full

554
00:36:22.119 --> 00:36:25.199
price of the game originally. Yeah, and people are noting that this is

555
00:36:25.199 --> 00:36:29.760
gonna play two did expand alone?
Okay, usually they do that, so

556
00:36:30.559 --> 00:36:32.760
yeah, yeah, but what you're
saying, like, yeah, like people

557
00:36:34.880 --> 00:36:38.400
want they have fondness for these games, and these games are a lot of

558
00:36:38.400 --> 00:36:43.159
times just more than short experiences,
and they want to come back to that

559
00:36:43.199 --> 00:36:45.119
world, and this gives them an
excuse to do so. I think I

560
00:36:45.159 --> 00:36:50.440
think there's probably something there. Let's
see a Hunky Star Rail pulls into the

561
00:36:50.440 --> 00:36:54.960
PlayStation five station on October eleventh,
the best Birthday Gift grub. Yeah that

562
00:36:54.960 --> 00:37:00.199
that game has something like twenty million
monthly active users. That fucking insane.

563
00:37:00.280 --> 00:37:06.119
That's it. Huh. It's bananas, and it's gonna probably even more once

564
00:37:06.159 --> 00:37:10.119
it's on PlayStation five. This is
the one that persona right. Yes,

565
00:37:10.239 --> 00:37:15.760
yes, this is the very quick
turn based game. It's actually pretty good,

566
00:37:16.559 --> 00:37:20.360
and that's the thing gets you an
impact. It's actually pretty good.

567
00:37:20.400 --> 00:37:22.760
Course. Yeah, I've never heard
anyone be like I didn't like that.

568
00:37:22.840 --> 00:37:27.280
Everyone always seems to have a good
time with these games. Yeah. Hey,

569
00:37:27.320 --> 00:37:30.840
Bacalar, if you're watching, can
I expense like a bunch of money

570
00:37:30.880 --> 00:37:37.079
for Han Kai Staril for video coverage
and my birthday? Sure? Man,

571
00:37:37.559 --> 00:37:40.360
he jumped in real quick. It
said it all right. Foam Stars open

572
00:37:40.400 --> 00:37:44.679
beta party for PS five will be
September twenty nine through October one on PS

573
00:37:44.800 --> 00:37:47.920
five. The full game is coming
in early twenty twenty four. Every time

574
00:37:47.960 --> 00:37:52.159
I see this in my eye,
but I'll have fun with that. It's

575
00:37:52.440 --> 00:37:57.000
I hope that it sticks around,
you know. I feel like it'll entertain

576
00:37:57.039 --> 00:38:00.559
the zeitgeis for a little bit.
I just hope that there is a long

577
00:38:00.679 --> 00:38:07.360
lifespan to it. Who knows.
I mean, people are still playing Splatoon

578
00:38:07.480 --> 00:38:13.039
three. The splatooners are not tuning
out, so hopefully Foam Stars people have

579
00:38:13.119 --> 00:38:15.440
been Splatoon curious can can tune into
Foam Stars. It's fun. Yep,

580
00:38:15.639 --> 00:38:20.000
yeah, I would, uh,
I hope that the games like this could

581
00:38:20.039 --> 00:38:24.000
come along and have like a Splatoon
like arc where suddenly they are very popular

582
00:38:24.039 --> 00:38:29.599
and we're getting sequels and people play
them all the time. But even if

583
00:38:29.599 --> 00:38:30.880
it doesn't, I bet Phone Stars
will be fun for a while at last,

584
00:38:30.960 --> 00:38:34.679
and I'll be there for at least
the first little bit. Uh.

585
00:38:34.920 --> 00:38:37.239
Finally, Final Fantasy seven Rebirth.
Let me just read what Sean wrote here.

586
00:38:37.280 --> 00:38:43.559
Looks so good. Holy shit,
let's fucking go. Yeah. I

587
00:38:44.440 --> 00:38:49.320
think that trailer was amazing. It
was very entertaining, and it looks should

588
00:38:49.320 --> 00:38:52.119
make the game look like so much
fun. I uh, it made me

589
00:38:52.199 --> 00:38:59.960
consider my sins. Yes, yes, like I now feel bad for stabbing

590
00:39:00.159 --> 00:39:02.840
Jason a striker in the back to
get this off the top ten list.

591
00:39:04.519 --> 00:39:08.280
Uh and for my own selfish desires
this game. Final Fantasy seven remake was

592
00:39:08.280 --> 00:39:14.159
actually pretty good. Integrate is also
really good. Got really good. Yeah,

593
00:39:14.159 --> 00:39:17.239
absolutely, I think I'm getting yelled
at I'm getting you're mad at me

594
00:39:17.239 --> 00:39:22.960
about Sonic. Also, we saw
a cloud on a segue in this trailer.

595
00:39:22.559 --> 00:39:29.559
Kate Sith was in this. We
saw Daddy Vincent as well. Uh

596
00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:35.199
m hmm, all right, yeah
you said we just mentioned that Matt Mercer

597
00:39:35.239 --> 00:39:37.599
thing. Sorry, the kid was
still yelling at me. Daddy Vincent and

598
00:39:37.679 --> 00:39:43.320
yes he I think member stars doing
Vincent or cool some something like he's doing

599
00:39:43.360 --> 00:39:45.639
one of them. I don't know
because Zach was already had a voice actor,

600
00:39:45.639 --> 00:39:51.079
so it must be Vincent that they
announced. So just put just put

601
00:39:51.079 --> 00:39:54.400
Ben Starr in it. Uh.
Yes, Ben Star should be most of

602
00:39:54.400 --> 00:39:57.559
the cast. That's how I feel
that. You know me, I'm a

603
00:39:57.559 --> 00:40:01.400
Ben Star Mark of course, have
have that star be all the Mogles.

604
00:40:02.039 --> 00:40:07.159
Yeah, that would be very good. And just do the Clive voice.

605
00:40:07.199 --> 00:40:15.280
Don't change a thing, not a
single thing. UPO very Joshua, Uh

606
00:40:15.599 --> 00:40:19.679
really really sed. Date announced for
February twenty nine, which is, you

607
00:40:19.719 --> 00:40:22.800
know, not this year, regardless
of Mike picking up for his Fantasy League.

608
00:40:22.960 --> 00:40:25.239
And then it's on two discs something
we did know. Uh. There's

609
00:40:25.280 --> 00:40:30.679
a twin pack with Final Fantasy Remake
Integrate and Rebirth announced Seemingly no price given

610
00:40:30.159 --> 00:40:34.719
yet for that. Maybe that's changed, Maybe that's happened since this got written

611
00:40:34.800 --> 00:40:38.559
last night. Pop Fantasy seven Rebirth. Who cares about how it's gonna like

612
00:40:38.760 --> 00:40:42.320
the Square Knicks and how it's gonna
sell and all that stuff. I love

613
00:40:42.320 --> 00:40:45.599
Final Fantasy seven remake. Never beat
it. I never finished it, didn't

614
00:40:45.639 --> 00:40:46.639
need to. I felt like I
got my time out of it and really

615
00:40:46.719 --> 00:40:51.480
enjoyed what I played of it.
The combats so good. I'm I'm glad

616
00:40:51.519 --> 00:40:55.039
that Final Fantasy seven rebirth looks just
like all that and more, and they're

617
00:40:55.039 --> 00:40:58.760
putting a ton of effort into it. So very excited to get back into

618
00:40:58.760 --> 00:41:02.360
that game. I want Barrett to
fastball Special Cloud. Yeah, that's got

619
00:41:02.440 --> 00:41:06.760
to happen, that ass. That's
a perfect couple to do that, I

620
00:41:06.800 --> 00:41:12.559
think so. And he just needs
to yell Marley the whole time. All

621
00:41:12.679 --> 00:41:14.760
right with that, I think we
should take a break. When we get

622
00:41:14.760 --> 00:41:16.800
back, we're gonna have a lot
more news, including maybe some worrisome stuff

623
00:41:16.800 --> 00:41:22.000
about that new Paper Mario's tech stuff, Super Mario RPG's music swapping, all

624
00:41:22.079 --> 00:41:31.760
kinds of cool things. We'll be
back after this. We're back, and

625
00:41:31.760 --> 00:41:37.199
I'm gonna talk about more news.
Early tech analysis suggests Paper Mario's thousand year

626
00:41:37.199 --> 00:41:42.519
Door remaster might run at thirty frames
per second. This is from Liam Doulin

627
00:41:42.840 --> 00:41:45.760
at Nintendo Life. It seems the
visual upgrades and Paper Mario the thousand year

628
00:41:45.760 --> 00:41:50.559
Door for Nintendo Switch may come at
a cost. In early tech analysis by

629
00:41:50.639 --> 00:41:53.320
Nintendo World report seemingly suggest gameplaying,
the new version of this turn based RPG

630
00:41:53.400 --> 00:41:58.480
classic will target thirty frames per second. This analysis is based on the Nintendo

631
00:41:58.519 --> 00:42:01.199
Director video upload. Year's part of
what's been mentioned based on what we've seen

632
00:42:01.239 --> 00:42:05.119
that the Switch version of thousand yr
Door is targeting thirty frames per second.

633
00:42:05.519 --> 00:42:08.000
This is a downgrade compared to the
sixty frames per second of the original GameCube

634
00:42:08.119 --> 00:42:12.800
version. This doesn't appear to be
an issue with the trailer simply being rendered

635
00:42:12.800 --> 00:42:15.239
at thirty frames per second, as
we do, in fact, see a

636
00:42:15.280 --> 00:42:17.039
brief moment of I know, I
thought the same thing, brief moment of

637
00:42:17.039 --> 00:42:21.280
sixty frames per second in the trailer
for one shot, but that particular shot

638
00:42:21.280 --> 00:42:24.360
appears to have been doubled, to
have been doubled in speed, thus resulting

639
00:42:24.400 --> 00:42:29.079
in the perceived higher frame rate.
The rest of the trailer never exceeds thirty.

640
00:42:29.679 --> 00:42:31.880
Okay, they could. This could
just be Hey, the game's coming

641
00:42:32.039 --> 00:42:36.960
next year, and when it does
come, it will be sixty frames per

642
00:42:37.000 --> 00:42:42.079
second. That's entirely possible. Nino
usually though, puts these things, has

643
00:42:42.079 --> 00:42:45.599
these trailers closer to where they're actually
gonna be Finally, I don't know.

644
00:42:45.719 --> 00:42:46.840
I guess this maybe a little a
little bit to worry about. I think

645
00:42:46.840 --> 00:42:51.039
I'll be surprised if we get to
the final product and it's actually at thirty

646
00:42:51.039 --> 00:42:54.079
frames per second and not sixty.
I'll be disavoided when we get to the

647
00:42:54.119 --> 00:42:58.039
final product. I was trying to
think of a joke or in an excuse

648
00:42:58.079 --> 00:43:00.840
where you know, when you flip
make flipbook, that's only so many pages,

649
00:43:01.039 --> 00:43:06.119
right, Yes, man, I
don't know. I could flip very

650
00:43:06.159 --> 00:43:09.079
fast. Jan I could flip like
three hundred frames a second on he gave

651
00:43:09.119 --> 00:43:13.079
me the right paper, Like that
should just be a upf We all just

652
00:43:13.079 --> 00:43:15.239
make a flipbook. Yeah, I
would love that. We could do like

653
00:43:15.239 --> 00:43:21.159
flipnote Studio on DS or tyes whatever
it was. But yeah, oh okay,

654
00:43:21.159 --> 00:43:22.800
I'm sorry. Paul G. Manty
just said. Polygon mentioned that that

655
00:43:23.039 --> 00:43:31.159
the death threat for Unity's bosses came
from a Unity employee. Apparently still still

656
00:43:31.159 --> 00:43:34.199
a hot mess over there. I'll
see if I can catch up on that.

657
00:43:35.719 --> 00:43:38.800
Yes, the right, So the
original Game of Paper Mario the Thousand

658
00:43:38.880 --> 00:43:43.639
Year Door on GameCube sixty frames per
second. Uh, it's it's kind of

659
00:43:44.039 --> 00:43:45.960
if you're playing it on emulators or
whatever, sixty frames per second. This

660
00:43:46.039 --> 00:43:51.119
is a game that has always run
really well. They are they look like

661
00:43:51.159 --> 00:43:54.199
they're mostly doing a wonder One remake
in terms of content, but the lot

662
00:43:54.239 --> 00:44:00.159
of the assets do look upgrade and
improved in a number of ways. Someone

663
00:44:00.199 --> 00:44:02.559
pointed out, like there's reflections on
some of the floors, things like that,

664
00:44:02.639 --> 00:44:05.639
and you can do with reflections in
a number of ways. It's not

665
00:44:05.639 --> 00:44:09.960
going to be super taxing, but
it's still it's like this is mostly that

666
00:44:10.039 --> 00:44:13.440
same game. I'm sure it's made
some improvements, but I would expect it

667
00:44:13.440 --> 00:44:17.960
to run sixty frames per second.
It's weird that gall g gall Pomati.

668
00:44:19.039 --> 00:44:23.679
Sorry did I said? Yeah,
he's in chat everybody. What am I

669
00:44:23.719 --> 00:44:28.920
supposed to do? Paul the biggest
Hotti Giamati. That's right, the Hotti

670
00:44:28.960 --> 00:44:34.800
Giamati. He did the Cleveland's best
thing ever American American Splendor, American Splendor,

671
00:44:34.840 --> 00:44:37.400
Thank you so much. Yes,
I love that movie. That's why

672
00:44:37.440 --> 00:44:39.800
I moved to Cleveland. Jan just
hang out with that guy. I get

673
00:44:39.840 --> 00:44:44.719
it, of course, absolutely,
Uh, we'll see. We will probably

674
00:44:44.719 --> 00:44:46.519
get a handful of like more trailers
of this, it'll probably be in other

675
00:44:46.519 --> 00:44:50.800
directs at that point. If it's
still thirty frames per second, I will

676
00:44:50.920 --> 00:44:53.920
then I'll freak out because that game
needs to be sixty uh. Super Mario

677
00:44:53.960 --> 00:44:58.559
RPG remake. Meanwhile, we'll let
you swap back and forth between the OG

678
00:44:58.679 --> 00:45:01.639
soundtrack and the news soundtrack. This
is from Zoe Hanley at Destructoid. After

679
00:45:01.639 --> 00:45:06.800
the Japanese Nintendo Direct, Nintendo updated
the web page for the Super Mario RPG

680
00:45:07.000 --> 00:45:09.320
remake. A few new details were
revealed, including the fact that you could

681
00:45:09.320 --> 00:45:14.199
swap the soundtrack between the remastered and
the Super Nintendo versions. There are a

682
00:45:14.239 --> 00:45:17.159
few games. There are a few
games soundtracks that are as indelibly etched on

683
00:45:17.159 --> 00:45:21.679
the caverns of my ears as the
ones for the Super Mario RPG. It's

684
00:45:21.679 --> 00:45:25.119
a bizarre and unique mix that sounds
nothing like Kochi Kando's more iconic tunes from

685
00:45:25.159 --> 00:45:29.440
the previous Mario games, However,
from the bouncing sounds of Beware of the

686
00:45:29.440 --> 00:45:32.760
Forest Mushrooms to the walking bass lines
of and My Name's Booster, it's packed

687
00:45:32.760 --> 00:45:37.559
full of top shelf tracks. The
soundtrack was put together by Yoko Shimamura,

688
00:45:37.000 --> 00:45:40.480
who did the Street Fighter two soundtrack
is one of the best composers of all

689
00:45:40.519 --> 00:45:45.559
time. She made contributions to soundtracks
like Final Fantasy as well Street Fighter two,

690
00:45:45.760 --> 00:45:50.199
then continue to through Parasite, Eve, Kingdom, Heart's Final Fantasy fifteen

691
00:45:50.400 --> 00:45:53.280
and so many others. Personally,
I'd argue that super Mariopag was her best.

692
00:45:53.719 --> 00:45:59.239
So she's overseen the new soundtrack.
Jan like, that's cool. That's

693
00:45:59.280 --> 00:46:01.719
cool and a good thing, and
that's fantastic, and I'm like, okay,

694
00:46:01.719 --> 00:46:06.599
I want to hear that new stuff. But I do like that Super

695
00:46:06.639 --> 00:46:10.800
mariopg Supernanto No music does play on
my head all the time. So the

696
00:46:10.840 --> 00:46:15.360
idea that get pressed one button and
swap between both musics on the fly,

697
00:46:15.559 --> 00:46:17.800
but both set of music on the
fly, that's that's cool and that's important.

698
00:46:17.800 --> 00:46:21.559
I'm glad that they're doing this.
I can't think of a game that's

699
00:46:21.559 --> 00:46:23.519
done that. I know we've seen
games do like the switch between like the

700
00:46:23.519 --> 00:46:29.079
original graphics and the there's something like
when you do that. They also swapped

701
00:46:29.079 --> 00:46:30.679
the music, but I don't think
i've ember. I don't remember playing one

702
00:46:30.719 --> 00:46:35.880
that's just the music. Uh Tom
manis is muky Island did that, but

703
00:46:36.119 --> 00:46:38.960
uh oh cool, Okay, yeah, Grub, I know you, like,

704
00:46:39.159 --> 00:46:44.639
I know you like Super Mario RPG. But I'm gonna say that Yoko

705
00:46:44.719 --> 00:46:49.800
here has had she's she's had a
run. One's had a run. Like

706
00:46:49.840 --> 00:46:54.559
I mean, listen Zoe Hanley say
SUPERMRPG at the top of her shimmer Borrow's

707
00:46:54.719 --> 00:47:00.159
uh you know the discography. Okay, I might agree with that, but

708
00:47:00.719 --> 00:47:04.320
like street Fighter too, like even
like yeah, Kingdom Hearts, I get

709
00:47:04.360 --> 00:47:07.639
it. That music real real,
real good shoven more. Just give me

710
00:47:07.719 --> 00:47:12.159
more of her music whenever I can. It's very good stuff. This like,

711
00:47:13.440 --> 00:47:15.840
man, this is ah, this
is like a blank check style run

712
00:47:16.079 --> 00:47:20.800
here. Yes, yes, you're
right, yeah where It's just like you

713
00:47:20.920 --> 00:47:23.039
start off strong and then what's the
rest of your career look like because you

714
00:47:23.159 --> 00:47:29.360
did such great music at the start. Yeah. Absolutely, Like Homegirl could

715
00:47:29.639 --> 00:47:34.679
could have just closed up shop like
in two thousands, mid two thousands,

716
00:47:36.440 --> 00:47:39.039
She's still going strong. Oh man, maybe Giles them give me all that

717
00:47:39.199 --> 00:47:49.599
shit? Ye yes? Does that? Me and I How to Meet Bottom

718
00:47:49.599 --> 00:47:52.440
Fantasy seven remake has sold and shipped
a whopping seven million units. We talked

719
00:47:52.440 --> 00:47:55.599
to a bunch about this game,
so I'll just give the details here From

720
00:47:55.679 --> 00:47:59.840
Jonas Mackie, a game reactor,
people could barely believe it it was true.

721
00:48:00.000 --> 00:48:04.000
Score Nix announced Final Fantasy seven Remake
during Sony's E three press conference in

722
00:48:04.079 --> 00:48:07.920
twenty fifteen. The massive ambitions for
the project forced us to wait five years

723
00:48:07.000 --> 00:48:10.880
before the game was finally released in
twenty twenty and instantly became a big hit.

724
00:48:12.239 --> 00:48:15.239
Just one year after release, Square
nixs launched an updated version called Final

725
00:48:15.280 --> 00:48:19.559
Fantasy seven Remake Integrade for PlayStation five, which was well received, and later

726
00:48:19.679 --> 00:48:22.280
that same year it was also launched
for PC and since then is continue to

727
00:48:22.280 --> 00:48:25.760
perform well commercially. And now Square
Nix reveals the Final Fantasy seven Remake US

728
00:48:25.760 --> 00:48:31.800
sold and shipped over seven million units. That is that is pretty good,

729
00:48:31.880 --> 00:48:35.199
But I think this is kind of
what Square Nix is worried about, where

730
00:48:35.280 --> 00:48:38.159
like that, that's the game did
five million relatively quickly on PlayStation four,

731
00:48:38.960 --> 00:48:42.920
and then since then they have had
Integrade and they have had the PC launch,

732
00:48:43.000 --> 00:48:45.199
and now we're at seven millions.
So it's like an extra two million

733
00:48:45.320 --> 00:48:49.639
for Integrade and for the game.
Original game continue to sell and sure it's

734
00:48:49.679 --> 00:48:52.360
been in PlayStation Network and all that
stuff. PSM plus ps plus excuse me

735
00:48:52.800 --> 00:48:55.239
and stuff like that. Sure,
and that's that's awesome money coming in.

736
00:48:58.000 --> 00:49:00.039
But again, I mean I always
say it, and it partially it's partially

737
00:49:00.039 --> 00:49:05.039
a joke, but it's partially not. Luigi's Mansion three is at thirteen million

738
00:49:05.119 --> 00:49:09.400
copies sold, like about double this
and yeah, and I just you know,

739
00:49:09.519 --> 00:49:13.039
I was I've never lived in the
world where people are like Luigi's Mansion,

740
00:49:13.239 --> 00:49:15.480
that's my thing, and I'm surrounded
by people who whose thing is Final

741
00:49:15.559 --> 00:49:19.719
Fantasy. So it's just again maybe
hard to rock. But maybe that's just

742
00:49:19.760 --> 00:49:22.840
the difference, like there between a
niche audience and something that's like appealing to

743
00:49:22.920 --> 00:49:28.960
families. I don't know. I
honestly think part of the confusion grub is

744
00:49:29.039 --> 00:49:32.440
people learning that this isn't all a
Final Fantasy. Seven. Yeah, I

745
00:49:34.199 --> 00:49:37.400
do think that's something. I bet
that is something that turned a handful of

746
00:49:37.440 --> 00:49:39.079
people off early on in the process, and then they were like, I

747
00:49:39.159 --> 00:49:43.360
will just wait and what does that
mean? I guess, And then it's

748
00:49:43.360 --> 00:49:45.280
easy to get distracted and then to
not care until you hear like it's all

749
00:49:45.320 --> 00:49:49.920
completed. I think you're right about
that. Like, my my best buddy

750
00:49:50.840 --> 00:49:53.480
has decent recognition with the Final Fantasy
series. But when I told him,

751
00:49:53.559 --> 00:49:57.199
like, Yo, remake is really
good, you should check it out,

752
00:49:57.519 --> 00:50:00.360
he was like, oh, it's
a whole game. No, it's it's

753
00:50:00.400 --> 00:50:04.239
just the first disc. Yes,
it's like, oh, well, I'm

754
00:50:04.679 --> 00:50:07.800
gonna wait. And even after telling
him like you're gonna have to wait like

755
00:50:08.519 --> 00:50:14.360
a decade probably, yeah, it's
right, Like we have no idea,

756
00:50:14.880 --> 00:50:19.039
I mean, yeah, it's it's
something early on they were very vague about,

757
00:50:19.440 --> 00:50:21.880
and then they were like, okay. When once they start talking about

758
00:50:21.880 --> 00:50:24.599
Rebirth, like it's going that's going
to be the second one of the three

759
00:50:24.639 --> 00:50:27.719
part series, it's like, okay, cool, now we know, but

760
00:50:28.000 --> 00:50:31.199
when is the third one coming out? I'll say that the Rebirth is coming

761
00:50:31.280 --> 00:50:35.920
faster than I originally thought it would
after we waited five years for a remake.

762
00:50:36.360 --> 00:50:37.719
Uh. It's not like some super
fast turn around, but it does

763
00:50:37.760 --> 00:50:43.559
feel a little bit quicker. All
right. This next story, Final Fantasy

764
00:50:43.599 --> 00:50:47.920
seven Rebirth is exclusive for three months
at least. That's what the fine print

765
00:50:49.000 --> 00:50:52.599
said on the trailer over on the
PlayStation YouTube channel for for Rebirth. They've

766
00:50:52.800 --> 00:50:57.519
previously had fine print like this on
their trailers for games like this, and

767
00:50:57.599 --> 00:51:00.639
it's never been shorter than six months
for a big game like Final Fantasy seven

768
00:51:00.719 --> 00:51:05.079
Rebirth, but this time around,
it's like three months. That's the exclusivity

769
00:51:05.119 --> 00:51:08.360
window. And I'm like, to
me, that sounds like maybe renegotiating some

770
00:51:08.480 --> 00:51:10.320
of the terms of these deals,
because they're like, hey, we're not

771
00:51:10.719 --> 00:51:14.360
selling as much as we need to, and we kind of feel like,

772
00:51:14.440 --> 00:51:16.440
yeah, we're happy about the money
you're giving us. Can we like work

773
00:51:16.800 --> 00:51:19.760
work around this a little bit and
we're not gonna put it on Xbox.

774
00:51:19.800 --> 00:51:22.360
We're not gonna rush you and put
it on Xbox, but really we would

775
00:51:22.360 --> 00:51:23.840
like to put it on PC,
maybe a little bit quicker than we have

776
00:51:24.000 --> 00:51:28.400
before, and about soon. He's
like, that's that's fine, we can

777
00:51:28.480 --> 00:51:30.079
work this out. There's a new
CEO. We want to keep things on

778
00:51:30.360 --> 00:51:36.000
an even keel. Over here,
we're doing just fine. Final Fantasy isn't

779
00:51:36.039 --> 00:51:37.679
like our biggest, most important thing. Actually, it turns out like it's

780
00:51:37.760 --> 00:51:40.239
very It's very big. It's part
of the story we're telling. We do.

781
00:51:40.480 --> 00:51:43.440
We love it. We love Final
Fantasy. Over here, you know,

782
00:51:43.519 --> 00:51:45.960
we love Final Fantasy. But if
you need to like shift things around

783
00:51:46.000 --> 00:51:49.360
a little bit so that you could
feel a little bit better about your own

784
00:51:49.400 --> 00:51:52.719
financials Square Nicks. Yeah, well
we'll help you out with that. Three

785
00:51:52.760 --> 00:51:57.480
months is hey, if it's on
PC three months later, that is that

786
00:51:57.559 --> 00:52:00.599
does feel like may that's really quick, they said it. At least who

787
00:52:00.679 --> 00:52:01.480
knows if that's actually how it's going
to play out, though, What do

788
00:52:01.559 --> 00:52:07.079
you think three months is like a
drop in the bucket in like the world

789
00:52:07.159 --> 00:52:09.239
of video games now? Are Yeah, especially with games that like just are

790
00:52:09.320 --> 00:52:14.559
evergreen and and never really go on
many of them don't ever go on sale,

791
00:52:14.639 --> 00:52:15.599
and it's like, yeah, yeah, do these are things? Are

792
00:52:15.639 --> 00:52:20.039
just the games that are always on
the sales charts and stuff like that.

793
00:52:20.519 --> 00:52:23.159
Yeah, three months is nothing.
And you know, with with the Steam

794
00:52:23.239 --> 00:52:30.920
deck just gaining more popularity and the
ass Roger Ali also gaining good traction,

795
00:52:30.400 --> 00:52:34.159
I see a lot of folks maybe
wanting to just play it on a handheld

796
00:52:34.239 --> 00:52:36.840
format as well, or just like
being able to take it on the go.

797
00:52:37.400 --> 00:52:42.440
I don't remember how Final Fantasy seven
remake was when it landed on the

798
00:52:42.519 --> 00:52:45.679
PC, but it was pretty well
received. I think, yeah, right,

799
00:52:46.599 --> 00:52:51.480
in general, like three months,
grub that's like nothing, especially if

800
00:52:51.519 --> 00:52:54.360
you're like trying to finish off like
whatever, you're currently playing. Yeah,

801
00:52:55.320 --> 00:53:00.639
I have no idea what the full
landscape of what twenty four is going to

802
00:53:00.719 --> 00:53:05.239
look like in games releases, but
it already looks very populated, just like

803
00:53:05.440 --> 00:53:09.559
this year. So I could see
folks that may not have a PS five

804
00:53:09.760 --> 00:53:15.480
just waiting if they already have a
PC. Yeah, And it's you can

805
00:53:15.519 --> 00:53:22.039
also see like maybe from Square next
position saying, hey, when we made

806
00:53:22.079 --> 00:53:24.400
that deal for like six months exclusivity
or year exclusivity, And honestly, when

807
00:53:24.400 --> 00:53:28.760
it comes to like keeping off Xbox, seems like Final Fantasy seven remake is

808
00:53:29.199 --> 00:53:32.320
like a two year window. Three
year window. Now, who knows that

809
00:53:32.480 --> 00:53:37.920
was on the PS four late in
its generation and when there was several like

810
00:53:37.039 --> 00:53:39.719
tens and tens and tens of millions
of PS fours out in the world.

811
00:53:39.960 --> 00:53:44.000
Now they're on the PS five,
not early in the generation, but they're

812
00:53:44.000 --> 00:53:46.199
still not above like fifty million PS
five sold. They're getting close to that,

813
00:53:46.320 --> 00:53:50.360
probably they're not above that yet.
So it's like, hey, we're

814
00:53:50.400 --> 00:53:52.440
not getting the same value in terms
of the potential audience we could sell this

815
00:53:52.559 --> 00:53:57.840
too, So either we need more
money up front or we need a smaller

816
00:53:57.920 --> 00:54:00.800
window, and maybe we prefer a
smaller window. I bet they would prefer

817
00:54:00.800 --> 00:54:04.440
a smaller window because the thing probably
will do better if it gets the PC

818
00:54:04.639 --> 00:54:08.400
faster this time around. So you
know, we'll see. And you know

819
00:54:08.519 --> 00:54:13.880
they mentioned with Final Fantasy sixteen jan
Hey, that's got a six month window

820
00:54:14.760 --> 00:54:16.920
and we'll get we're gonna put on
PC, probably not right at that six

821
00:54:17.000 --> 00:54:20.920
months though, because we're gonna take
our time and make sure it's really great

822
00:54:20.920 --> 00:54:22.840
on PS five and we're gonna keep
improving it for PS five and we'll get

823
00:54:22.840 --> 00:54:27.239
to PC eventually, but it'll come
sometime after that six month window. It's

824
00:54:27.280 --> 00:54:29.679
like, so they're not rushing over
on the Final Fantasy sixteen, But I

825
00:54:29.719 --> 00:54:31.920
wonder if that stuff changes, as
like the reality at Square in exchanges and

826
00:54:32.280 --> 00:54:37.280
they need to be making more revenue. All right, Haities two, we'll

827
00:54:37.320 --> 00:54:40.400
return to Hell in early access in
Q two twenty twenty four. We talked

828
00:54:40.440 --> 00:54:45.039
a little bit about this yesterday,
but to get the actual details from Stephen

829
00:54:45.079 --> 00:54:49.239
Mills at Destructoid super Giant Games released
at Development Update for Haities two yesterday,

830
00:54:49.599 --> 00:54:53.480
shedding some light on the rogue roguelike
action RPG's early access release plans. The

831
00:54:53.559 --> 00:54:58.079
sequel to Hades will launch an early
access in Q two of twenty twenty four

832
00:54:58.519 --> 00:55:00.840
on both Steam and the Epic Game
Store. The team went on to clarify

833
00:55:00.920 --> 00:55:06.400
that the exact date, pricing,
and system requirements will be revealed later.

834
00:55:06.960 --> 00:55:09.480
Prior to the early access release,
there will be also a limited technical test

835
00:55:09.559 --> 00:55:13.719
for a handful of players, hopefully
on one of those. This test will

836
00:55:13.719 --> 00:55:17.679
serve as a way to solve technical
compatibility issues before early access. Please Greg,

837
00:55:17.960 --> 00:55:24.159
please crack please, we need it. I gotta love Hadies. I

838
00:55:24.199 --> 00:55:28.840
love Haities so much. Just one
of my all time favorite gaming experiences.

839
00:55:29.760 --> 00:55:32.559
Hadies two just needs to be more
of that. And I mean, I

840
00:55:32.920 --> 00:55:36.280
kind of It's hard for me to
think about any other studio has a better

841
00:55:36.519 --> 00:55:42.519
chance of creating fun new ways to
interact with their world than having the studio

842
00:55:42.599 --> 00:55:45.159
put Haities two into early access again
and say, hey, let's put all

843
00:55:45.159 --> 00:55:47.480
our craziest ideas in this and see
if we can refine them, refine them,

844
00:55:47.519 --> 00:55:52.639
refine them and to get another interesting
play so that you can have like

845
00:55:52.880 --> 00:55:55.400
twenty five runs that all feel completely
different from one another instead of like the

846
00:55:55.480 --> 00:56:00.440
fifteen runs that all felt very different
from one another in Haities one. Yeah,

847
00:56:00.679 --> 00:56:04.400
very excited about this. Uh,
for folks that have had the Hades

848
00:56:04.559 --> 00:56:09.480
Itch and have just gotten tired of
replaying through Hades repeatedly since then, Uh,

849
00:56:10.000 --> 00:56:14.800
if you have an iPhone or if
you have Apple Arcade, there's actually

850
00:56:14.880 --> 00:56:20.280
a pretty good teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Hades like there right now. It's interesting.

851
00:56:20.960 --> 00:56:24.599
Yeah, I don't remember if it's
actually multiplayer. I think that's what

852
00:56:24.719 --> 00:56:29.519
you said. It's the Apple Arcade
one yes, splintered fate. I did

853
00:56:29.559 --> 00:56:30.480
I heard about this game. I
had no idea that's what it was.

854
00:56:31.400 --> 00:56:37.840
It's it's it's I checked out like
the first level felt okay, felt completely

855
00:56:37.920 --> 00:56:43.599
fine. It came out up in
May of this year, so it's a

856
00:56:43.719 --> 00:56:45.599
law. It's been out for a
while. Okay, that's I do remember

857
00:56:45.639 --> 00:56:47.559
hearing about this game. I had
no idea that's what it was. That

858
00:56:47.679 --> 00:56:52.039
sounds very interesting. I still need
to get that I don't know, Mac

859
00:56:52.079 --> 00:56:53.679
Minnie or an Apple TV or something
and start playing some of those games.

860
00:56:54.760 --> 00:57:00.679
Digital Clips launches Wizardry, proving grounds
of the Mad Overlord remake out of nowhere.

861
00:57:00.760 --> 00:57:05.000
This comes from Zoe Hanley at Destructoid. Digital Clips has announced that not

862
00:57:05.159 --> 00:57:08.159
only are they remaking Wizardry Proving Grounds
of the Mad Overlord. They're launching it

863
00:57:08.239 --> 00:57:13.480
into early access now. Wizardry Proving
Grounds of the Mad Overlord was the first

864
00:57:13.559 --> 00:57:16.159
in the series and launched all the
way back in the primordial days of nineteen

865
00:57:16.199 --> 00:57:20.760
eighty one on the Apple two.
It was one of the games that popularized

866
00:57:21.000 --> 00:57:24.800
popular Ali and Lose the Dungeon Crawlers, and helped translate tabletop RPGs to the

867
00:57:24.840 --> 00:57:30.039
home computer. It's not the first, however, Rachel Richard Garriott's A Kelabeth

868
00:57:30.599 --> 00:57:35.960
predates it by a year and Dungeon
Dungeon Quests just with the Jay Temple of

869
00:57:36.039 --> 00:57:38.400
the app shot you throwing that down
real quick for me, kiddo. Thank

870
00:57:38.440 --> 00:57:43.639
you that that came out as well. This is something that digital clips is

871
00:57:43.760 --> 00:57:45.480
very good. Oh okay, hang
on, let me turn this down real

872
00:57:45.559 --> 00:57:51.480
quick. Word pronunci pronunced See,
I'm messing it up. I tried to

873
00:57:51.519 --> 00:57:55.039
say pronunciation and I said pronounce truition. Words are hard, folks. You

874
00:57:55.079 --> 00:57:59.800
know, we don't really do tongue
twisters. The warm up the mouths.

875
00:58:00.360 --> 00:58:06.159
Maybe I'll start including that into the
mic checks. How's everyone doing? Clipberd

876
00:58:06.280 --> 00:58:08.000
is not a flub of the tongue. You know that is just that that's

877
00:58:08.039 --> 00:58:13.119
actually doing the rules like they are
proper, all right, everybody. That's

878
00:58:13.119 --> 00:58:16.719
why skateboard should just be skibbered.
Yeah, that would that would help me

879
00:58:16.760 --> 00:58:22.119
out a lot. Remakes and remasters
are nothing new to game preservation, but

880
00:58:22.360 --> 00:58:24.480
I'm really digging the warts and all
approach we've been getting recently. Usually some

881
00:58:25.679 --> 00:58:30.519
yes, the more aged aspects get
smoothed over, but everything that made the

882
00:58:30.559 --> 00:58:35.039
game special is preserved. That's certainly
the case here. Uh yeah. I

883
00:58:35.159 --> 00:58:38.400
think Digital Eclipse is one of my
favorite studios right now. I've been playing

884
00:58:38.480 --> 00:58:45.840
that the History of Karatica and really
really enjoying. That's just a great way

885
00:58:45.920 --> 00:58:50.039
to do a interactive documentary. Obviously, this is so cool. They did,

886
00:58:50.159 --> 00:58:52.559
Yes, they did a Tarry fifty, but just to take it and

887
00:58:52.559 --> 00:58:54.280
do it with one game, they
just they nailed it. It's so cool.

888
00:58:54.320 --> 00:58:58.639
And now they're obviously they also just
do these preservation projects and stuff like

889
00:58:58.760 --> 00:59:00.639
that. A lot of it feels
like it's driven by their passions, and

890
00:59:00.719 --> 00:59:05.079
I think that's the right way.
Let this passionate studio go out find the

891
00:59:05.119 --> 00:59:07.239
things they want to work on,
im preserve them. That's cool. I

892
00:59:07.639 --> 00:59:13.440
I bang with digitally Clips so hard
because of one of my favorite GBA games,

893
00:59:13.559 --> 00:59:16.920
which is Disney's Lelo and Stitch.
Yes, yes, that digital Clips

894
00:59:16.960 --> 00:59:20.679
would pop up. That name would
pop up a lot on Game boyd bands

895
00:59:20.719 --> 00:59:24.400
games. They did. They also
made Lizzie McGuire on the Go Yo,

896
00:59:25.400 --> 00:59:31.039
well it's a program Studio and the
GV version of Triple X. Oh really

897
00:59:31.760 --> 00:59:36.480
yeah, yeah, not the Triple
X, folks, the Vin Diesel Triple

898
00:59:37.079 --> 00:59:38.400
The list of games you just said, they would make for a great license

899
00:59:38.480 --> 00:59:42.840
to thrill so I can get in
there and play some Triple A Triple X

900
00:59:43.039 --> 00:59:47.079
on a Game Boy Bands. Maybe
you should make No, Disney's Lelo and

901
00:59:47.119 --> 00:59:50.800
Stitch is actually pretty good. I
was thinking of making Mitch play that for

902
00:59:50.920 --> 00:59:55.760
Blake Club. That's that's a really
good idea though, Like that's you're on

903
00:59:55.840 --> 00:59:59.599
the right track. There is there
a Winnie the Pool games. There are

904
00:59:59.599 --> 01:00:02.519
a really bad Disney game. Okay, all right, we got we go.

905
01:00:02.719 --> 01:00:07.159
We'll just continue this discussion the years. Yep, the Gears are spending

906
01:00:07.360 --> 01:00:09.400
pick Pickman four is still dominating Japan's
sales chart. I just wanted to say

907
01:00:09.440 --> 01:00:13.760
it. For thirty one thousand copies
sold in the last week. It's at

908
01:00:13.800 --> 01:00:16.920
eight hundred and seventeen thousand physical copies
sold in Japan alone. That shit's gonna

909
01:00:16.920 --> 01:00:22.119
get to a million just physical games. I couldn't be happier, all right,

910
01:00:22.239 --> 01:00:24.800
jan I got the poll question from
you yesterday. While I get that

911
01:00:24.840 --> 01:00:27.800
all set up, though, why
don't you tell people what's happened on giant

912
01:00:27.840 --> 01:00:30.039
bomb dot com for the rest of
it today and maybe into next week.

913
01:00:31.119 --> 01:00:36.199
What we got going on the rest
of today is we have unprofessional Fridays.

914
01:00:36.840 --> 01:00:40.480
We moved it up yet again.
It is at ten am Pacific one pm

915
01:00:40.559 --> 01:00:45.400
Eastern time. We will be doing
who knows, it's still up in the

916
01:00:45.480 --> 01:00:51.280
air. We will listen zero ninety
nine on UPF. Yeah. Maybe well

917
01:00:51.280 --> 01:00:54.119
we'll check out F zero ninety nine. Maybe I can. We can play

918
01:00:54.119 --> 01:01:00.320
a little bit of blasphemous two maybe
some I'm a P. Maybe is a

919
01:01:00.440 --> 01:01:05.199
P as well? Yeahs a P. It's a I don't want anyone to

920
01:01:05.320 --> 01:01:08.599
take the wrong thing from this,
but it is a very Korean game.

921
01:01:09.280 --> 01:01:14.920
Who Okay? That as a lot
of implications that I'm both excited and frightened

922
01:01:14.960 --> 01:01:17.880
by. Yes, yes, take
take from it what you will. Uh,

923
01:01:19.719 --> 01:01:23.039
but it's it's it's very smooth faces, very moist face, very moist

924
01:01:23.119 --> 01:01:27.320
faces, and then maybe some Mortal
Kombat one, although I don't know,

925
01:01:27.639 --> 01:01:30.840
Yeah, maybe not. I have
the game if we need it though,

926
01:01:30.880 --> 01:01:34.920
and then we played it on PC. All right, let's see here,

927
01:01:35.920 --> 01:01:37.840
I have a pull question from yesterday. How do you grade the Nintendo Direct?

928
01:01:38.320 --> 01:01:42.599
Nine percent gave it an A.
Let's see, eight percent gave it

929
01:01:42.639 --> 01:01:45.519
an F, eleven percent gave it
a D, thirty percent gave it a

930
01:01:45.599 --> 01:01:49.400
B. And the number one answer
here is C with forty three percent,

931
01:01:49.880 --> 01:01:52.679
So the bell curves kind of in
that S to B range. But and

932
01:01:53.599 --> 01:01:57.960
I'm like, I voted see see
jan I think that's how I feel.

933
01:01:58.039 --> 01:02:00.119
But it's just because the last one
was so good and gave me all the

934
01:02:00.119 --> 01:02:02.039
stuff I need and a lot this
one was a lot of updates on that

935
01:02:02.079 --> 01:02:05.800
stuff. So I'm not mad about
it or anything. I really I don't

936
01:02:05.800 --> 01:02:07.199
get mad about these things ever,
even if they are just straight up like

937
01:02:07.320 --> 01:02:09.360
waste of time. It's like,
you know, what's my job, So

938
01:02:09.480 --> 01:02:14.199
I'm still getting paid to do this. I'll live. But you know,

939
01:02:14.400 --> 01:02:15.119
I'm a kind of a little surprised. People are like, no, it's

940
01:02:15.199 --> 01:02:17.440
b this is great. I like
it, but I guess maybe people are

941
01:02:17.480 --> 01:02:21.360
into some of the anime games they
showed. I don't know. Even then,

942
01:02:21.519 --> 01:02:23.760
as someone that is into the anime
games that they will occasionally show,

943
01:02:24.760 --> 01:02:30.000
I would give it like a B
minus to a C plus, leaning towards

944
01:02:30.039 --> 01:02:34.480
the C plus range. Yes,
that's kind. But yeah, I think

945
01:02:34.519 --> 01:02:38.800
you're right. Based off of the
last Nintendo direct that which felt like such

946
01:02:38.840 --> 01:02:44.039
a banger, this one was okay. All right? The new poll question,

947
01:02:44.199 --> 01:02:52.920
will you be upset if Super Mario
RPG remake? I'm not, that's

948
01:02:52.960 --> 01:02:58.760
not What if the paper Marian door
thousand your door? If paper pasper paper

949
01:02:58.840 --> 01:03:09.119
Mario the fact year door is thirty
frames for seconds? Oh? Also get

950
01:03:09.159 --> 01:03:13.760
that on YouTube dot com slash chiant
on on the community tab. I will

951
01:03:14.079 --> 01:03:16.760
get that right now. The Star
Ocean remake demo is out now? Oh

952
01:03:16.920 --> 01:03:21.159
is it really? Oh? Maybe
we can check that out also for we'll

953
01:03:21.159 --> 01:03:22.199
get some stuffs going for this UPF. It'll be a fun one. Well,

954
01:03:22.519 --> 01:03:25.119
we'll do a grab bag of stuff. It'll be a good time,

955
01:03:25.760 --> 01:03:31.880
be good old regular decular UPF.
All right, Jan I think that what

956
01:03:32.119 --> 01:03:35.559
that does it? I think you
talked about what's happening. We did the

957
01:03:35.639 --> 01:03:38.199
poll, we even take the audience
yp but I'll get that in a second.

958
01:03:38.320 --> 01:03:40.800
Jan Thank you so much for spending
today talking with me about video games.

959
01:03:40.840 --> 01:03:44.480
Man, I really appreciate it.
It's my favorite way to start a

960
01:03:44.559 --> 01:03:49.079
Thursday, and I did it on
a Friday. Thank you all for watching.

961
01:03:49.119 --> 01:03:51.480
You're right. Another best audience is
gaming. In fact, you know

962
01:03:51.559 --> 01:03:53.079
what. You are the best audience
in gaming. Until next time, have

963
01:03:53.199 --> 01:03:55.480
a good one, take care of
yourself and goodbye.