WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.440 --> 00:00:10.679 You mean a dummy bit. It's the Internet. You're busy. Let's do 2 00:00:10.720 --> 00:00:14.919 this for June. No, we're on July July seven, twenty twenty two, 3 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:17.359 for the next hour, So let me help you start through the world 4 00:00:17.399 --> 00:00:22.160 of gaming on Game Mess Mornings Live with me Jeff Grub Today, erotic role 5 00:00:22.199 --> 00:00:27.120 players have formed a human wall in Final Fantasy fourteen and that's my kink now. 6 00:00:27.160 --> 00:00:30.760 But first, please join me and welcome me today's co host to Game 7 00:00:30.760 --> 00:00:35.920 Mess Mornings. It's Jano Choo from Giant Bomb. Everybody, hooray, it's 8 00:00:36.039 --> 00:00:41.679 me. I'm ready to put myself on billboards with the horny anime Final Fantasy 9 00:00:41.719 --> 00:00:44.200 people. Put me on the board. You've always been ready for that, 10 00:00:44.240 --> 00:00:48.600 admitted jan You've always been ready for this. God ever since I saw FF 11 00:00:48.640 --> 00:00:52.960 twelve on some magazine cover, I knew it was my time. I finally 12 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:57.039 found my people. It's uh, but you were you were right, Like 13 00:00:57.479 --> 00:01:00.240 honestly, I think it was just it was just a matter of time time, 14 00:01:00.679 --> 00:01:04.079 you know, it was there and it was unlocked within you. Yeah, 15 00:01:04.079 --> 00:01:07.159 it was cowboys, bunny ladies, that's all. It took a little 16 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:11.359 bit of a little billboard somewhere went up and you're like, all right, 17 00:01:11.359 --> 00:01:15.319 time to let my billboard freak flag fly. Oh god, you think it's 18 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:21.719 cheaper to get like one of those electronic billboards like time on those than a 19 00:01:21.760 --> 00:01:25.239 printed billboard. I you know, I would assume, So I bet, 20 00:01:25.280 --> 00:01:27.599 like like the bidding on, well, maybe it's easier to bid, so 21 00:01:27.599 --> 00:01:30.480 maybe there's more competition, so maybe maybe it's a little bit higher because I 22 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:34.640 would assume, like for an electronic billboard, you just go to a website 23 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:38.159 and you're bidding, just like a Google ad Sense sort of thing, right, 24 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:41.079 and it's probably just super easy to get in there, like putting an 25 00:01:41.079 --> 00:01:45.359 ad on a cable news channel at three am, but which you know, 26 00:01:45.359 --> 00:01:47.560 we should do both these things. We should put a cable news channel for 27 00:01:47.640 --> 00:01:51.680 John Bomb on like a three am, and then we should get TV, 28 00:01:52.079 --> 00:01:57.159 yeah, and then a blue board team exactly, and then a digital billboard 29 00:01:57.359 --> 00:02:00.519 for sure. Honestly, this this that's all I've been thinking abo since that 30 00:02:00.560 --> 00:02:04.000 story yesterday about the bands fourteen bill bar. I'm man, we should be 31 00:02:04.000 --> 00:02:07.239 getting a billboard, all right. Before we get into the mess, let's 32 00:02:07.239 --> 00:02:10.120 explain ourselves and what we do on this show each weekday. I Jeff grab 33 00:02:10.120 --> 00:02:14.520 will help piece your gaming life back together. That includes breaking news, the 34 00:02:14.599 --> 00:02:16.879 ketchup, where we discuss the biggest topics consuming the lives of gamers everywhere, 35 00:02:17.039 --> 00:02:21.400 and maybe even bring some of our own original reporting. For all these topics, 36 00:02:21.439 --> 00:02:23.240 I'll get the input of a bona fide expert who will join to make 37 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:28.400 me look smart. But you're joined by me today, Oh sorry, grub, 38 00:02:29.560 --> 00:02:31.240 I would have it no other way. If you are watching live on 39 00:02:31.280 --> 00:02:35.919 Twitch, welcome. You can always listen to the show later on podcast feeds 40 00:02:35.919 --> 00:02:38.520 by searching for Game Mess Mornings, or find the RSS on giant bomb dot 41 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:43.599 com. You can also catch the show later with chapters and timestamps on YouTube. 42 00:02:43.719 --> 00:02:46.800 If you are watching on there, please get that like button. Do 43 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:52.000 the thing. The juice, the algorithm, Juice al We've always said this, 44 00:02:52.439 --> 00:02:55.759 Juice al. Yeah, doesn't any everyone wanted Juice down, Cheetle, 45 00:02:58.240 --> 00:03:01.039 Delicious, Algae, Rhythm Juice. Come on, make it happen, everybody. 46 00:03:01.400 --> 00:03:05.759 Okay, we have a lot to get into. Actually, the list 47 00:03:05.800 --> 00:03:08.240 of the list of news kept getting longer and longer as we got closer and 48 00:03:08.319 --> 00:03:14.840 close to the show. So let's start the Morning Mess with packs organizer read 49 00:03:14.919 --> 00:03:17.680 pop Man I just realized that I'd copy and paste this from VGC Andy Robinson 50 00:03:17.800 --> 00:03:22.439 or VGC and he used organizer with an S and it makes me infuriated. 51 00:03:23.080 --> 00:03:28.520 Packs Organizer read Pop is officially taking over E three, will reshape what didn't 52 00:03:28.599 --> 00:03:32.280 work is like the quote in the headline there, the veteran events company pledges 53 00:03:32.360 --> 00:03:37.719 to create a new benchmark for video game expos. Read Pop, the events 54 00:03:37.759 --> 00:03:42.360 company behind pas EGX, Star Wars Celebration and New York Comic com, will 55 00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:46.080 officially take over the running of E three in twenty twenty three. The Entertainment 56 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:51.759 Software Association announced the news on Thursday, following recent confirmation that the flagship show 57 00:03:51.759 --> 00:03:54.960 will return in twenty twenty three for it's first in person event in four years. 58 00:03:55.919 --> 00:03:59.960 Commenting on the news, read Pops set E three twenty twenty three would 59 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:04.599 welcome back publishers, developers, journalists, content creators, manufacturers, buyers, 60 00:04:04.719 --> 00:04:09.000 and licensers. I'm glad they got the licensers in there. That's what's important 61 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:13.240 to me, thank god. And they also highlight the digital showcase and will 62 00:04:13.280 --> 00:04:18.439 feature in person consumer components. It claimed it had license listen to feedback from 63 00:04:18.439 --> 00:04:23.680 the gaming community and would honor what always worked about the games industry event while 64 00:04:23.720 --> 00:04:27.279 reshaping what didn't. I got some other quotes here, but I mean generally, 65 00:04:27.399 --> 00:04:30.879 just like take your temperature. Where are you at with the idea of 66 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:36.079 a paxified E three I don't and I don't mean this to come off as 67 00:04:36.120 --> 00:04:42.040 as gate keeper here, but I don't, right, I don't think the 68 00:04:42.079 --> 00:04:46.079 public should be let in. Yeah, I mean for the whole thing. 69 00:04:46.439 --> 00:04:48.480 Yeah, I think maybe there should be. There could be public days. 70 00:04:48.519 --> 00:04:53.279 I think that would be the right way of doing this. But it's it's 71 00:04:53.319 --> 00:04:58.120 just it's a clash of purposes, right. Uh. There's a certain audience 72 00:04:58.120 --> 00:05:01.439 that was always there at E three two. Get business done to TCB take 73 00:05:01.480 --> 00:05:06.439 care of business, and they are going to encounter Uh that's the problems that 74 00:05:06.439 --> 00:05:10.639 we're already here there with that where it's like getting around take some time, 75 00:05:10.839 --> 00:05:15.120 and there are lines. Even when you are there for business, getting from 76 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:19.279 one meaning to the other is a pain. Yeah, those those problems are 77 00:05:19.279 --> 00:05:24.040 going to be exacerbated, and we're exasperate exacerbated when you have the public in 78 00:05:24.079 --> 00:05:27.920 there and okay we get to go and you know, see video games in 79 00:05:27.920 --> 00:05:30.639 person. We're not really complaining I'm just saying that it is still it's styles 80 00:05:30.639 --> 00:05:33.199 clashing. And then on the other side, you have people coming in from 81 00:05:33.199 --> 00:05:38.920 the public looking to be entertained, who have paid their own money to shack 82 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:43.079 up an hotel to travel there and then for entrance, and that's going it's 83 00:05:43.079 --> 00:05:46.800 not going to be cheap. And the entertainment that they were they were getting 84 00:05:46.079 --> 00:05:50.519 was mostly waiting in line to play a game that was made for the press 85 00:05:50.920 --> 00:05:56.079 for ten to fifteen minutes. It's not a great experience. Now they have 86 00:05:56.199 --> 00:06:00.720 figured this out with packs. Packs is a really well put together has been 87 00:06:00.759 --> 00:06:04.480 for forever now. It is, so I could see where where they try 88 00:06:04.519 --> 00:06:08.279 to make that happen. But I think you're right where we should have like 89 00:06:08.600 --> 00:06:11.600 no press days, you know business days, not just press days, but 90 00:06:11.639 --> 00:06:14.959 like business days where people are able to have their meetings and whatever, do 91 00:06:15.040 --> 00:06:16.519 their secret e three and you know, come up with the next big game 92 00:06:16.560 --> 00:06:20.319 idea and execute on it, and then public days. I think that's the 93 00:06:20.399 --> 00:06:26.720 right way to pull this off. Yeah, I definitely think. I definitely 94 00:06:26.759 --> 00:06:30.319 think we need a division of days that are just for press and the industry 95 00:06:30.759 --> 00:06:39.079 because watching folks miserably wait in line to watch a trailer. Yeah, that 96 00:06:39.480 --> 00:06:43.920 one E three was gosh, it just it just seems like a bad look 97 00:06:43.959 --> 00:06:47.160 across the board. But the poke the folks at at packs running packs, 98 00:06:47.199 --> 00:06:51.560 I feel like they can figure it out to perhaps spread it out. The 99 00:06:51.560 --> 00:06:59.519 thing that I'm scared of is that this perhaps creates a longer event where there 100 00:06:59.519 --> 00:07:02.160 are more days for press, yeah, and then even more days for the 101 00:07:02.199 --> 00:07:08.399 public. Not that we as an outlet would need to necessarily stay there during 102 00:07:08.600 --> 00:07:12.199 all of the public days. But I could just see it. It's already 103 00:07:12.240 --> 00:07:15.720 it feels like it is already a week long work thing. I could just 104 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:19.759 see it stretching out into a two week work thing. It was already spreading 105 00:07:19.759 --> 00:07:23.720 out a little bit, you know. In the twenty nineteen was that the 106 00:07:23.759 --> 00:07:28.160 last year. Yeah, in twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, 107 00:07:28.199 --> 00:07:30.240 things were spreading out more and more like into the week before, and it 108 00:07:30.279 --> 00:07:33.240 was becoming like a two week long thing. If you wanted to get there 109 00:07:33.279 --> 00:07:35.600 two weeks or a week a full week ahead of time, you would have 110 00:07:35.639 --> 00:07:41.439 had stuff to do for work. And again never really complaining about any of 111 00:07:41.480 --> 00:07:45.319 that stuff. It is going to do mostly fun things, and when it 112 00:07:45.399 --> 00:07:49.000 is like this like sprint of doing a lot of work and a very short 113 00:07:49.040 --> 00:07:51.600 amount of time. It is still mostly a privilege that we got to do 114 00:07:51.639 --> 00:07:57.439 these things. It's just I still think it's not ideal for the people who 115 00:07:57.480 --> 00:08:01.120 would be paying to like try to let glom onto that experience. You need 116 00:08:01.160 --> 00:08:05.959 to separate a little bit. Do you think this opens up like the like 117 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:09.560 if they do live press conferences again, do they have open it up to 118 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:13.240 the public where you can go in and watch these press conferences and they aren't 119 00:08:13.279 --> 00:08:18.439 just pre taped anymore. I think that there's a world where the in person 120 00:08:18.519 --> 00:08:22.839 experience makes more sense if the public is there, because I think one of 121 00:08:22.839 --> 00:08:26.439 the main reasons, the main reason they stopped doing in person events in person 122 00:08:26.560 --> 00:08:31.519 like announcement media blitzes, is because it was costly. But then another reason 123 00:08:31.679 --> 00:08:35.840 is you would invite a bunch of press and then you'd have half the audience 124 00:08:35.879 --> 00:08:39.759 just kind of sitting there taking notes and not applauding and not being excited, 125 00:08:39.799 --> 00:08:41.600 and so there would be the smattering. So then companies started bringing in the 126 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:43.960 public, or they would bring in you know, developers, and they would 127 00:08:43.960 --> 00:08:48.200 all be cheering their own games and stuff and they're like, this is this 128 00:08:48.279 --> 00:08:50.600 is weird? Why why are we doing this? Trying to force this. 129 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:54.279 But if you have an audience that is like there to be partaking in the 130 00:08:54.320 --> 00:08:58.159 excitement, then you have an audience that you can bring in and do in 131 00:08:58.200 --> 00:09:01.879 person in person media blitzes. But I still think that these presentations mostly won't 132 00:09:01.879 --> 00:09:07.360 happen because they are so much easier to just produce ahead of time play. 133 00:09:07.559 --> 00:09:09.080 Most people are going to watch them on YouTube. You play to that, 134 00:09:09.600 --> 00:09:13.240 and you could still make them like slick with really cool and presentation, and 135 00:09:13.440 --> 00:09:16.039 it doesn't matter whether the audience is excited or not, so you can kind 136 00:09:16.039 --> 00:09:20.799 of just fake that stuff. The thing sorry, go ahead, grib I 137 00:09:20.919 --> 00:09:22.919 was just gonna read a quote. No, you finish up your thought first. 138 00:09:24.559 --> 00:09:26.639 The thing I'm happy about is that I know that the av industry and 139 00:09:26.679 --> 00:09:33.320 the video industry as a whole really suffered because of the pandemic. That because 140 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:37.080 these big trade shows are able to come back, or something like E three 141 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:41.679 is on its way back, that those companies can can open back up or 142 00:09:41.720 --> 00:09:46.200 at least start hiring again. Because geez, like, I had a lot 143 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:50.200 of friends that work these trade shows, and they definitely suffered throughout the pandemic 144 00:09:50.240 --> 00:09:56.000 and some of them had to leave that industry because of it. Yeah, 145 00:09:56.039 --> 00:09:56.960 and I think that, you know, it's not just like you know, 146 00:09:58.279 --> 00:10:01.679 Triple Point and stuff like that, people that events companies that would hire people 147 00:10:01.720 --> 00:10:05.639 for a couple of weeks to come work booths and stuff. You know that 148 00:10:05.639 --> 00:10:09.320 that just went away. And that's probably a lot of like working you know, 149 00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:13.600 attempting to work at actors who are looking for stuff to make some money 150 00:10:13.600 --> 00:10:16.120 in places like LA. I mean that that's you know, big chunk of 151 00:10:16.159 --> 00:10:18.480 change that they're now going to be missing out on. So anything the sort 152 00:10:18.480 --> 00:10:22.600 of boost up that existing industry, there's you know, I'm all four of 153 00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:28.000 that that that's great. And I think that booth babes and booth boys, 154 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:33.000 it's exactly boo booth humans. I think we did split the difference there. 155 00:10:33.039 --> 00:10:37.240 Just bring us booth humans and I think we'll be okay. They didn't always 156 00:10:37.279 --> 00:10:39.080 still have people work in their booth. They just let them wear your normal 157 00:10:39.159 --> 00:10:41.759 human clothes. So it was like, yeah, I was like, okay, 158 00:10:41.799 --> 00:10:46.840 this is the right way to do this. I think that this is 159 00:10:46.879 --> 00:10:52.480 also sort of the only path forward for the ESA. This was the ESA 160 00:10:52.679 --> 00:10:56.200 was already like a failing institution before the pandemic. They were struggling to put 161 00:10:56.200 --> 00:11:00.559 together an E three show in twenty twenty, even before they had to cancel 162 00:11:00.639 --> 00:11:03.519 because of of COVID, And so we get to this point where it's like, 163 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:07.960 Okay, now we're past COVID, all those same problems still existed. 164 00:11:07.039 --> 00:11:11.919 We lack the competency to pull off an in person event. How do we 165 00:11:11.960 --> 00:11:13.519 make this happen? Well, you do what every up like, you do 166 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:16.639 what Lucasfilm does, which start like they don't want to have an events team, 167 00:11:16.679 --> 00:11:20.200 they hire an event company read pop just do the same thing. It 168 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:24.480 makes a lot of sense. It's gonna be it's gonna mean probably less money 169 00:11:24.519 --> 00:11:28.080 for the essay, but not the less money they get from not having any 170 00:11:28.120 --> 00:11:31.600 three at all. So yeah, it's sort of the only option they had, 171 00:11:31.919 --> 00:11:35.240 even if even if it's like it's hard for me to see, like 172 00:11:35.559 --> 00:11:37.159 how this makes sense, how they put this and put this together. This 173 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:41.279 is probably the team that could figure those problems out. And it's also like 174 00:11:41.320 --> 00:11:46.000 the one company that the ESA could work with. Yes, uh there This 175 00:11:46.080 --> 00:11:52.840 is from Lance Ferns of Finsterman. Yes, Lance Finsterman who's president of RePOP. 176 00:11:52.159 --> 00:11:56.840 It is a tremendous honor and privilege RePOP to take on the responsibility of 177 00:11:56.840 --> 00:12:00.720 bringing E three back in twenty twenty three. With the support endorsement of the 178 00:12:00.840 --> 00:12:03.159 ESA, We're going to build a world class event to serve the global gaming 179 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:09.039 industry in new and broader ways than we already do it RePOP through our portfolio 180 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:13.919 of world leading events and websites. REPOPS Global VP of Gaming Kyle Martins. 181 00:12:13.919 --> 00:12:20.080 Martin's Kish said, for years, we've listened and heard and studied the global 182 00:12:20.080 --> 00:12:24.480 gaming communities feedback. E three twenty twenty three will be recognizably epic, a 183 00:12:24.600 --> 00:12:28.559 return to form that honors what's always worked while reshaping what didn't and setting a 184 00:12:28.559 --> 00:12:33.320 new benchmark for video game expos in twenty twenty three and beyond. In response, 185 00:12:33.320 --> 00:12:39.000 shots fire, Jeff Keeley immediately tweeted, as we announced back in June, 186 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:41.559 Summer Game Festival return in twenty twenty three is a free digital and in 187 00:12:41.720 --> 00:12:46.720 person event to celebrate the future video games, bringing our entire industry together to 188 00:12:46.759 --> 00:12:52.360 showcase what's next. And in response, I would like to say, Jeff 189 00:12:52.360 --> 00:12:56.399 Grubbs Summer Game mess will return in person at a cheesecake factory near you. 190 00:12:56.879 --> 00:13:01.679 We're gonna have meetups, We're gonna we're gonna bring down the house. So 191 00:13:01.159 --> 00:13:05.639 brace yourself. Brace your asses is what that's our motto, by the way, 192 00:13:05.759 --> 00:13:11.039 brace your asses. And then next door I will be hosting the after 193 00:13:11.240 --> 00:13:16.480 party. We're gonna have a DJ session. We're just gonna share like my 194 00:13:16.600 --> 00:13:22.240 Spotify playlist dj Q three. Yeah, we'll have our own shirts for sure. 195 00:13:22.960 --> 00:13:26.360 Yeah, we're gonna have a battle T shirts. We just we talked 196 00:13:26.360 --> 00:13:31.080 about that in the pre show, so you're looking out for that. I'm 197 00:13:31.080 --> 00:13:33.120 fine with this. We always we do. Keiley was gonna keep doing his 198 00:13:33.159 --> 00:13:37.759 own thing. He does a good job. It's like, I think the 199 00:13:37.799 --> 00:13:41.399 scales will be different, right, You're gonna get companies that have too much 200 00:13:41.399 --> 00:13:45.000 money, probably showing up at the pack C three thing, and then the 201 00:13:45.000 --> 00:13:46.559 companies are like somewhere in between, not sure where they want to be. 202 00:13:48.039 --> 00:13:50.720 You can go to Keiley instead. This works for everybody, right, Yes, 203 00:13:50.840 --> 00:13:56.240 yes, I hope that you know, indie devs that perhaps can't make 204 00:13:56.279 --> 00:14:00.559 it to the big stage of E three are able to be showcased operaly at 205 00:14:00.639 --> 00:14:05.159 Key three or you know, vice versa. The games that could have gotten 206 00:14:05.159 --> 00:14:07.600 lost in the shuffle. I think now have even more of a chance of 207 00:14:07.720 --> 00:14:11.919 landing on either of these shows. Like I hope there's a bidding war for 208 00:14:13.080 --> 00:14:18.960 like Runed Factory six, yes, or for Dwayne the Rock Johnson to come 209 00:14:20.000 --> 00:14:24.399 and hook his latest energy Zoah two ZOA two two OAH is gonna come out 210 00:14:24.440 --> 00:14:28.279 next year, and we're all going to find out first because we were watching 211 00:14:28.679 --> 00:14:31.840 either E three or Summer game fests. So enjoy your enjoy your gaming, 212 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:37.039 everybody. I'm gonna enjoy so much gaming. Uh. Well, we'll keep 213 00:14:37.120 --> 00:14:39.080 up on this, but we'll see m mos se out really comes together. 214 00:14:39.159 --> 00:14:43.559 But E three is dead. Long live E three. Uh. Take two 215 00:14:43.679 --> 00:14:48.600 sins DMC takedown notice to Luke Ross, creator of GTA five, Red Dead, 216 00:14:48.639 --> 00:14:54.360 Redemption Too and Mafia VR mods. This was a take that notice that 217 00:14:54.639 --> 00:14:58.759 just got sent to him like over this past week, and he kind of 218 00:14:58.759 --> 00:15:01.279 wrote this in a blog post. They are demanding that I remove all their 219 00:15:01.320 --> 00:15:05.960 copyrighted work from my Patreon page. I immediately ask for clarifications since it is 220 00:15:07.000 --> 00:15:09.440 my belief that I'm not hosting any such materials. As you all know, 221 00:15:09.559 --> 00:15:15.159 I do create and distribute original modifications for those games, original pieces of software 222 00:15:15.200 --> 00:15:18.759 of my own creation that allow users to experience those games indifferent and hopefully more 223 00:15:18.799 --> 00:15:24.679 intense and profound ways. However, none of my modifications are built using any 224 00:15:24.720 --> 00:15:28.639 software belonging to take to interactive software, and the modifications are not intended to 225 00:15:28.679 --> 00:15:33.759 replace the games, nor are they a means of exploiting to take to interactive 226 00:15:33.799 --> 00:15:37.919 softwares proprietary ip or assets. And he goes on to say, like, 227 00:15:37.919 --> 00:15:41.639 this is like he's trying to figure out exactly what they mean, and he's 228 00:15:41.720 --> 00:15:45.480 like, if I can't figure out what they mean, I'm going to assume 229 00:15:45.519 --> 00:15:48.960 what they really mean here is we don't care about any of that what you 230 00:15:48.039 --> 00:15:50.679 just said. We just want this all to go away. We don't want 231 00:15:50.679 --> 00:15:54.200 you to make these VR mods anymore, and this is our way of getting 232 00:15:54.240 --> 00:15:58.559 you to stop. That would be a slight abuse of DMCA, but that 233 00:15:58.600 --> 00:16:03.240 wouldn't be the first time that happened. And so I'll say, Jan, 234 00:16:03.639 --> 00:16:07.320 this kind of stuff bums me out. Yeah, it's kind of like the 235 00:16:07.320 --> 00:16:10.120 wrong way of using DMCA, and you kind of wish companies would just embrace 236 00:16:10.159 --> 00:16:11.960 it. And I kind of thought we were at a point where companies were 237 00:16:12.039 --> 00:16:15.559 just like, hey, either shut up and just let it happen, or 238 00:16:15.919 --> 00:16:18.639 fully embrace it. I didn't know the third option was still on the table 239 00:16:18.679 --> 00:16:22.279 for some of these companies try to nuke it out of existence. Where are 240 00:16:22.320 --> 00:16:25.840 you at with this? Yeah, it's unfortunate, especially when you know it's 241 00:16:25.879 --> 00:16:32.360 an independent creator really breathing new life into these specific games. They obviously have 242 00:16:32.440 --> 00:16:37.080 a fondness for it, and it just sucks that when like the big lawyer 243 00:16:37.120 --> 00:16:42.159 boys comes swinging around and they gotta take the independent creator down. It makes 244 00:16:42.200 --> 00:16:48.639 me curious as to if this is completely successful in taking his whole operation down. 245 00:16:48.720 --> 00:16:53.120 What happens to folks that make Minecraft mods, right, like for different 246 00:16:53.120 --> 00:17:00.759 shaders and stuff. Is that considered something that mo Yang could do, take 247 00:17:00.759 --> 00:17:04.599 a DMCA and shut all those creators down? Who knows? Yeah, it's 248 00:17:04.599 --> 00:17:10.480 I don't right. I mean, I think it's clear that the companies have 249 00:17:10.680 --> 00:17:15.359 the brute force to make these kinds of things happen. If it doesn't, 250 00:17:15.440 --> 00:17:18.119 if it doesn't convince Luke Cross, the creator of these mods, to push 251 00:17:18.119 --> 00:17:21.720 these things off the platform, well then they'll go after where he gets his 252 00:17:21.759 --> 00:17:23.839 money from Patreon. He has a big Patreon, he's got about two thousand 253 00:17:23.839 --> 00:17:26.799 and five hundred people who support him in the creation of this stuff. Again, 254 00:17:26.839 --> 00:17:30.720 all this stuff he's creating our add ons and probably technically, if they 255 00:17:30.720 --> 00:17:34.319 were to go to court and run this thing out, he would probably scrape 256 00:17:34.319 --> 00:17:40.240 by all things being equal in no world is all things equal? Like, 257 00:17:40.279 --> 00:17:41.480 what does that have to do with anything? It has nothing to do with 258 00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:45.599 reality that we live in. The reality is one big corporation has a lot 259 00:17:45.640 --> 00:17:49.240 of lawyers that could do the threatening and it's not worth the time or the 260 00:17:49.279 --> 00:17:56.480 potential penalties if Luke Ross or Patreon failed. Now to that end, Patreon 261 00:17:56.599 --> 00:18:00.359 does seem interested in sort of trying to figure this one out. Patreon luc 262 00:18:00.440 --> 00:18:03.720 Ross says he's reached out to Take two Interactive and said, hey, what's 263 00:18:03.720 --> 00:18:06.519 going on here? Can I get clarification? No response from Take too so 264 00:18:06.559 --> 00:18:08.359 far. Patron says, Hey, we're we're going to reach out on your 265 00:18:08.359 --> 00:18:11.680 behalf and we're gonna try to open up lines of communication between you and Take 266 00:18:11.720 --> 00:18:15.920 two to figure this out. So it's like, it's nice that Patron a 267 00:18:15.960 --> 00:18:18.559 company that wouldn't have to step up. It's just but they could be a 268 00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:21.920 hands off platform. They could totally just play that role, and that's I 269 00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:23.119 think everyone would be like, Yeah, that's fine, that's what you're there 270 00:18:23.160 --> 00:18:26.400 for. They're going to step in and try to handle this kind of putting 271 00:18:26.440 --> 00:18:29.599 themselves out there a little bit in a way that I wouldn't expect them to. 272 00:18:29.720 --> 00:18:32.079 But yeah, it's kind of nice to hear, right at least, 273 00:18:32.240 --> 00:18:36.759 like someone's trying to help this guy out. Yeah, I do you think 274 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:41.079 I can't help? A couple of people have alluded to this in chat, 275 00:18:41.599 --> 00:18:48.279 But do you think they are perhaps trying to defend Lucas here in attempt to 276 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:52.319 protect their own bag as well? Yeah? I mean that doesn't hurt, 277 00:18:52.440 --> 00:18:56.559 right, But I mean I think, you know, because it could set 278 00:18:56.599 --> 00:19:00.759 a precedent for a lot of projects that are supported on patron being taken down. 279 00:19:00.240 --> 00:19:03.279 That's that's true. It's probably it's probably long term thinking. It is. 280 00:19:03.400 --> 00:19:08.519 But it's also like the way that they most other companies protect their bag 281 00:19:08.519 --> 00:19:12.000 in a situation like this is if a DMCA gets brought up, they just 282 00:19:12.039 --> 00:19:15.359 do whatever the company asks. I mean, that's what that's YouTube policy. 283 00:19:17.160 --> 00:19:21.160 Say yeah, we're okay, we'll nuke it and we bounce, and that's 284 00:19:21.200 --> 00:19:23.519 their long term strategy'll be like, we don't want to actually get sued by 285 00:19:23.559 --> 00:19:27.000 these companies in a situation where like the DMCA has been brought up and Patreon 286 00:19:27.039 --> 00:19:30.640 could just nuke and mounce. They are saying we're gonna get involved, which 287 00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:33.640 could you know, maybe make them liable, maybe make them a play, 288 00:19:33.839 --> 00:19:37.559 you know, a potential defendant in court in a case like this. So 289 00:19:38.119 --> 00:19:42.480 uh, you know, obviously, though there's still the monetary value of you 290 00:19:42.519 --> 00:19:45.680 know, he's got two thousand and five hundred subs, we'd like to keep, 291 00:19:45.960 --> 00:19:48.559 you know, the eight percent or whatever we take from that. But 292 00:19:48.680 --> 00:19:51.599 on top of that, we don't want other companies getting the same idea. 293 00:19:51.680 --> 00:19:55.000 So maybe playing a little bit of defense here makes some sense or Patreon, 294 00:19:55.079 --> 00:19:59.400 I think that's a totally fair reading of the situation. I'll say that I 295 00:19:59.480 --> 00:20:02.759 really like VR modster games. I think it's cool with you get added. 296 00:20:03.680 --> 00:20:07.440 I also think that if you are a company who is doing your own VR 297 00:20:07.559 --> 00:20:11.119 thing, and that's why you're making this move, you really don't worry about 298 00:20:11.119 --> 00:20:14.880 the mods. So there is an audience that does play with mods, and 299 00:20:14.880 --> 00:20:17.880 it's not the audience that you're going to be reaching by yourself. I mean, 300 00:20:18.759 --> 00:20:22.680 we just like Live Alive. That demo went out, the previews started 301 00:20:22.680 --> 00:20:23.640 going out for it, and people are like, I can't believe no one 302 00:20:23.680 --> 00:20:27.039 ever told me about this game and for years fans of that series, but 303 00:20:27.119 --> 00:20:32.519 like there's a fan translation, there's a fan translation. That doesn't matter because 304 00:20:32.799 --> 00:20:36.640 it like that, it is no substitute for the company putting out an official 305 00:20:36.680 --> 00:20:37.960 release of a game. Now, of course this is an up dative version 306 00:20:38.000 --> 00:20:42.200 all that stuff, but an official release will reach so many more people than 307 00:20:42.359 --> 00:20:45.920 a fan translation, a mod, a VR mod that you could find on 308 00:20:45.960 --> 00:20:51.599 some Patreon somewhere. It's just not the same. So don't oh totally don't 309 00:20:51.680 --> 00:20:53.559 like this should not be like the way that Take two is actually handling this, 310 00:20:53.599 --> 00:20:57.519 but whatever it is. Yeah, I mean accessibility in terms of like 311 00:20:57.640 --> 00:21:03.240 even getting a fan translation to work for a lot of the gaming general audience 312 00:21:03.480 --> 00:21:07.319 is too many hoops to jump through, Like you mean I have to download 313 00:21:07.359 --> 00:21:11.480 this and download a zip and then find the zip in this program. What 314 00:21:11.960 --> 00:21:15.720 yep, mods have gotten like easier, but even like then they are, 315 00:21:17.079 --> 00:21:18.519 it's like so easy that I'm like when I look at open a game, 316 00:21:18.519 --> 00:21:21.400 it's like, hey, just sign in, you know, go hit the 317 00:21:21.440 --> 00:21:23.440 subscribe button on this one one website and sign in. I'm like, that 318 00:21:23.519 --> 00:21:26.680 sounds too easy. It's probably not gonna work, so I don't like. 319 00:21:26.720 --> 00:21:29.640 I just don't buy. I'm like, if it's not right there in the 320 00:21:29.680 --> 00:21:32.480 game, I don't want to do it now. Steam Workshop is so easy, 321 00:21:32.480 --> 00:21:33.519 I kind of can't help it do it. But everything else, I'm 322 00:21:33.519 --> 00:21:37.960 like, mad, ditao, I just started messing around with that. That 323 00:21:37.000 --> 00:21:42.119 actually is very useful though, so pretty cool. Okay, let's see here. 324 00:21:44.079 --> 00:21:47.880 Skate four test details have started to leak out. We knew of this 325 00:21:47.960 --> 00:21:49.599 Skate four test was happening because they announced it. He I said, hey, 326 00:21:49.599 --> 00:21:53.119 we're gonna be taking more testers. It started up. Details are leaking 327 00:21:53.160 --> 00:21:56.519 out. I don't think he Ga minds so much because mostly people are talking 328 00:21:56.559 --> 00:22:00.119 about how cool it is. But the play test was still untextured, as 329 00:22:00.119 --> 00:22:04.319 in recent trailers and the leaks some months ago. This comes from a poster 330 00:22:04.400 --> 00:22:08.960 I think on a reddit. It runs on the Frostbite engine. The map 331 00:22:10.319 --> 00:22:12.279 the map test was called fun City, something I think we actually talked about 332 00:22:12.319 --> 00:22:15.160 on grub snacks a few months ago. So yes, it's called fun City. 333 00:22:15.200 --> 00:22:19.279 It's still called fun City. Seems to be a small test test section 334 00:22:19.400 --> 00:22:22.799 of the fuller map. The test map was a mixture of new areas and 335 00:22:22.880 --> 00:22:27.440 old, untextured areas from the original games community center from Skate one was included, 336 00:22:27.519 --> 00:22:30.839 even with details like the mini map or the mini ramp where we all 337 00:22:30.920 --> 00:22:36.839 learned pumping. So maybe San Vansterdam could be the third redesign of zan fan 338 00:22:36.920 --> 00:22:40.599 Alona, but it could also be a completely new city with some of the 339 00:22:40.680 --> 00:22:45.839 original map pieces which were only included for the play test. There's different control 340 00:22:45.880 --> 00:22:51.480 presets. Classic streamlined Experienced could maybe replace the difficulty settings and be more suitable 341 00:22:51.519 --> 00:22:55.680 for different play styles ranging from ultra realistic to arcade. In same Skate three, 342 00:22:56.079 --> 00:23:00.839 like trick Lines, there were also controls dedicated to PC players, So 343 00:23:00.039 --> 00:23:03.480 that's nice that they're thinking about that. From the from the jump here, 344 00:23:03.640 --> 00:23:07.480 where are you at jam with your excitement for Skate four, Because I'm kind 345 00:23:07.480 --> 00:23:10.559 of getting there hearing more about this game, I'm like, I'm getting there 346 00:23:10.599 --> 00:23:15.480 with this. I am so juiced, especially with I've been actually rewatching that 347 00:23:15.559 --> 00:23:22.599 trailer because it just leaves a pleasant feeling or in my mouth sorry phrasing, 348 00:23:25.519 --> 00:23:30.000 and just being just seeing how it seems like they are perhaps focusing on like 349 00:23:30.039 --> 00:23:34.720 the multiplayer aspect. I can only imagine me and my hoodlum friends having a 350 00:23:34.720 --> 00:23:37.680 great time and then just us, you know, as a staff having a 351 00:23:37.680 --> 00:23:44.559 fun time skating together, especially if there are these different control presets, because 352 00:23:44.559 --> 00:23:48.039 I know a lot of people bounced off of skate because they found it too 353 00:23:48.079 --> 00:23:52.279 difficult with like the stick flicking and everything. So if there is a streamlined 354 00:23:52.400 --> 00:23:59.160 control preset that maybe closer mimics something like a Tony Hawk but still retaining the 355 00:23:59.240 --> 00:24:02.440 skate feel, I think it'd be great across the board. Yeah, I 356 00:24:02.960 --> 00:24:06.759 agree. I think this is the kind of thing where you just kind of 357 00:24:06.759 --> 00:24:08.640 create a fun playground for people to mess around with, and it sounds like 358 00:24:08.680 --> 00:24:11.519 they are going and we're going for it, and then oh oh oh, 359 00:24:14.119 --> 00:24:18.240 Jeff Grubb, Yes, is the Christ there? The original te pose? 360 00:24:21.000 --> 00:24:23.240 Yes, you know what you Yes, absolutely Christ. They are always my 361 00:24:23.279 --> 00:24:26.400 favorite move. By the way, that was like I would wreck up something 362 00:24:26.480 --> 00:24:32.119 rum Glifberg throwing out the Christ there. That was my man, or maybe 363 00:24:32.119 --> 00:24:33.480 it was Guelfberg, but either way, I call him Ruin Gliffberg when I 364 00:24:33.519 --> 00:24:37.880 was a kid. So let's see, there's a career and online career mode. 365 00:24:38.480 --> 00:24:42.880 The testers appeared to be in a like an online career and it seemed 366 00:24:42.880 --> 00:24:48.440 pretty similar to Tony Hawk's Proving Ground, where it's all about skating sharing and 367 00:24:48.480 --> 00:24:52.599 creativity and you earn followers in the game, and that's like the main We've 368 00:24:52.599 --> 00:24:53.599 seen that before in a bunch of these kinds of games now, but like 369 00:24:53.599 --> 00:24:59.039 that's the idea you're going for. Yeah, the ultimate metric of success exactly. 370 00:24:59.279 --> 00:25:02.200 There will be a home skate park. Your home or private skate park 371 00:25:02.319 --> 00:25:04.599 is essentially the training park you build in the tutorial, and from there on 372 00:25:04.680 --> 00:25:07.880 you actually have you actually get to fully build it out and design it for 373 00:25:07.880 --> 00:25:11.559 yourself. That's the kind of thing where I think like, as you're like 374 00:25:11.599 --> 00:25:15.200 earning things, you can customize your own skate park and then say, hey, 375 00:25:15.200 --> 00:25:17.440 come over to my skatepark today and have your friends over. That could 376 00:25:17.480 --> 00:25:21.200 be pretty cool. I think I'd be pretty neat. Also, they've updated 377 00:25:21.200 --> 00:25:25.240 the rag doll physics, so it's much less stiffer than it was in Skate 378 00:25:25.319 --> 00:25:30.319 three. So and I think we saw like glimpses of that in that last 379 00:25:30.359 --> 00:25:33.640 trailer that they showed where they're like, hey, we are just going to 380 00:25:33.680 --> 00:25:36.480 whip these rag dolls around in a really fun and silly way. Because we 381 00:25:36.480 --> 00:25:40.000 know a lot of people come to these games because they see compilation trailers of 382 00:25:40.400 --> 00:25:42.680 all the weird things that can happen, and we want to enable that and 383 00:25:42.799 --> 00:25:47.839 unlock that and empower that and then it Also I think the game also has 384 00:25:47.880 --> 00:25:51.680 like a video editing built in, so like that's what comes to creativity parts, 385 00:25:51.720 --> 00:25:53.559 so like you could do something in the game and then quickly edit a 386 00:25:53.640 --> 00:26:00.000 video and post it social So that's pretty neat as well. I'm getting pretty 387 00:26:00.119 --> 00:26:02.839 excited for Skate four. We're probably still not going to get it for quite 388 00:26:02.880 --> 00:26:07.000 some time. I think the the person in that posted this is like, 389 00:26:07.200 --> 00:26:10.440 it's coming in October, either this October or next October. I'm like, 390 00:26:10.440 --> 00:26:14.519 well, it's definitely not this October, but even next October seems a bit 391 00:26:14.799 --> 00:26:18.640 aggressive. I think we're probably not going to get it until like maybe early 392 00:26:18.680 --> 00:26:21.599 twenty twenty four, which I'm okay with. Take your time, figure this 393 00:26:21.640 --> 00:26:25.160 one out and just make it the like skate platform going forward, where you 394 00:26:25.200 --> 00:26:26.759 can where you get all the basics and then you could just add on to 395 00:26:26.839 --> 00:26:30.960 it later whatever you want, and as long as all the basics are good. 396 00:26:30.319 --> 00:26:33.759 It's the kind of game that I think can live for a very long 397 00:26:33.759 --> 00:26:38.920 time. You know, contractually, if Tony Hawk is at all tied to 398 00:26:40.480 --> 00:26:45.960 Activision Blizzard, like, I think that that contract comes and goes like he 399 00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:48.599 definitely like at this point, with no game in the works, he would 400 00:26:48.599 --> 00:26:52.480 be free to go wherever he wants. I think that there's probably a part 401 00:26:52.519 --> 00:26:56.759 of him and his like business, you know, manager would know that their 402 00:26:56.240 --> 00:27:00.960 bread is really buttered with Activision doing another on the Hawk game and maybe holding 403 00:27:02.000 --> 00:27:04.119 off and waiting to see if you can make another one of those happen. 404 00:27:04.480 --> 00:27:07.160 That's gonna be the big payday. It's gonna be a big seller all this 405 00:27:07.240 --> 00:27:11.039 other stuff. So you just wait and see it. Make sure you don't 406 00:27:11.039 --> 00:27:15.440 spoil any potential possibility for that to happen by you know, going to EA. 407 00:27:15.480 --> 00:27:17.920 Now that said, we'll get to a point where it's clear that no 408 00:27:18.119 --> 00:27:21.519 Tony Hawk's pro skater game will ever happen again. Tony Hawk could easily just, 409 00:27:21.599 --> 00:27:23.799 I think, go to EA and make it happen. So, yeah, 410 00:27:23.839 --> 00:27:26.559 that'd be cool. I think it'd be awesome to see him in a 411 00:27:26.559 --> 00:27:30.039 skate game. Okay, last week EA did a bad tweet about how, 412 00:27:30.119 --> 00:27:34.200 oh, they're at ten but they only like single player games or something like 413 00:27:34.240 --> 00:27:37.920 that, and never got mad at them and docked on them all day and 414 00:27:37.960 --> 00:27:41.880 they never forgot, but people didn't forget within EA. This comes from Zack 415 00:27:41.880 --> 00:27:45.440 Swizen at Kotaku. EA's bad tweet last week has led to roundtable meetings with 416 00:27:45.519 --> 00:27:51.720 angry staff. Last Thursday, the official EA Twitter account tweeted a bad joke 417 00:27:51.759 --> 00:27:56.480 about single player games that led to an internet wide roasting and eventually an apology 418 00:27:56.759 --> 00:28:00.680 from the Battlefield publisher, and apparently EA is still still dealing with angry employees 419 00:28:00.720 --> 00:28:03.720 who felt that the tweet was an insult to them, their staff, and 420 00:28:03.759 --> 00:28:07.559 the games they are making. A new report from USA Today shed some light 421 00:28:07.599 --> 00:28:11.759 on how the terrible tweet came, about, what the reaction to it was 422 00:28:11.799 --> 00:28:15.599 internally at EA, and what the plans were pitched to handle the situation and 423 00:28:15.640 --> 00:28:18.880 the ongoing aftermath of it all. The whole mess is both equally confusing and 424 00:28:19.000 --> 00:28:23.000 funny. According to the report, an hour after the tweet went live last 425 00:28:23.039 --> 00:28:27.480 week, it landed in EA's internal slant chat room, where employees and social 426 00:28:27.480 --> 00:28:33.680 media staff began sharing all the roast and angry responses, some from current EA 427 00:28:33.720 --> 00:28:37.000 execs that were popping up all over. As negative reactions spiraled out of control 428 00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:41.279 and the discord discourse began, folks at EA began formulating a plan to turn 429 00:28:41.279 --> 00:28:45.680 the tweet into a positive It just wasn't a good one. That's a zach 430 00:28:45.759 --> 00:28:48.359 there with that with the editorial. The initial plan was to get all the 431 00:28:48.400 --> 00:28:52.480 other EA social media accounts to start dunking on the tweet, while hopefully drawing 432 00:28:52.480 --> 00:28:56.400 more attention to various single player games the publishers in the works. But some 433 00:28:56.480 --> 00:29:02.240 point but some staff pointed out that that this oastin EA strategy would just reinforce 434 00:29:02.279 --> 00:29:06.200 the narrative online that EA's own studios and team hate the company, And so 435 00:29:06.480 --> 00:29:10.079 after many social media managers back backed out of the plan, it fell apart. 436 00:29:10.599 --> 00:29:15.319 Uh, there's there's more to this, but I'm hey, I'm pretty 437 00:29:15.519 --> 00:29:18.160 glad they didn't do that plan that would have been moved. That would have 438 00:29:18.200 --> 00:29:22.200 just exacerbated the nightmare for them, right, just be like having response coming 439 00:29:22.200 --> 00:29:26.160 out being like this fucking sucks. I don't know, Okay, you get 440 00:29:26.319 --> 00:29:33.440 calquestus like lightsabering e threes, Yes, exactly, just a logo, Yes, 441 00:29:33.559 --> 00:29:37.519 exactly, get John Ricatello a picture John Mtell and cutting in half and 442 00:29:37.640 --> 00:29:40.079 like John Cattell, has it worked here for years? I don't care. 443 00:29:40.240 --> 00:29:45.319 We're cutting them the lightsaber. Yeah, not a great and I get where 444 00:29:45.359 --> 00:29:48.079 they're going for there. Hey, we can point out that we have single 445 00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:51.519 player games by having our dewelopers. But it's like the real narrative out there 446 00:29:51.680 --> 00:29:55.480 is like this corporate EA ruins all these studios, So you probably don't want 447 00:29:55.480 --> 00:29:59.000 to turn into that too much. Oh well, ketto, she's got her, 448 00:29:59.039 --> 00:30:00.519 she's got her bunny toy or everybody say hello to Bunny. There you 449 00:30:00.559 --> 00:30:07.039 go, there you go, Okay, Bunny, there you go. Yes, 450 00:30:07.119 --> 00:30:11.519 hello, say hello to Bunny. Very good. All right, let's 451 00:30:11.559 --> 00:30:14.759 see what else. The most agreed on idea was to take responsibility for it 452 00:30:14.880 --> 00:30:18.960 and apologize. One source told USA a novel idea. Yeah. However this 453 00:30:19.000 --> 00:30:22.559 apology, Yeah, this apology ended up being an equally embarrassing tweet. Same 454 00:30:22.599 --> 00:30:29.559 people who play single player games were actually elevens instead of tens. You get 455 00:30:29.559 --> 00:30:33.440 that one jan There's there're elevens out of ten. But while the Internet moved 456 00:30:33.440 --> 00:30:37.200 on to its next target, higher upset EA are continuing to deal with the 457 00:30:37.240 --> 00:30:41.119 fallout from the tweet. USA Today reports that the FIFA publisher is hosting roundtable 458 00:30:41.160 --> 00:30:45.119 discussions and team meetings with executives who felt the joke was an insult to the 459 00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:49.160 games they're working on and the staff making them. I'm ninety nine percent sure 460 00:30:49.160 --> 00:30:52.720 the person who posted the tweet and their manager don't even know about single player 461 00:30:52.759 --> 00:30:57.319 game comments from from a decade ago from EA. One source told USA Today 462 00:30:57.400 --> 00:31:02.680 the comment made them they were referenced was the infamous twenty ten quote from the 463 00:31:02.960 --> 00:31:07.920 then EA Games president Frank Jabo saying that single player games were finished. Further, 464 00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:11.039 the source says that the staff running the Twitter account are all new, 465 00:31:11.200 --> 00:31:15.000 and that most of them aren't really games industry people and likely had no idea 466 00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:21.279 about EA's long bad history with single player games. Kind of like Reddit slash 467 00:31:21.400 --> 00:31:23.160 r slash. Well, there's your problem right there, like right, like, 468 00:31:23.279 --> 00:31:26.279 that's that seems to maybe. I mean, listen, I'm not saying 469 00:31:26.279 --> 00:31:30.119 that only gamers can do these jobs. Get a real gamer in there, 470 00:31:30.960 --> 00:31:36.279 but it helps. It helps in situations like this, at least having someone 471 00:31:36.279 --> 00:31:37.480 on the team to be like, you know, put up the red flag 472 00:31:37.519 --> 00:31:41.440 when you're about to do something like this, right, and you know, 473 00:31:41.920 --> 00:31:48.319 not saying that you have to be a diehard gamer to work away any portion 474 00:31:48.359 --> 00:31:53.279 of the games industry. But the problem also of the games industry is is 475 00:31:53.359 --> 00:31:57.599 that no one ever forgets anything. Yes, yeah, whether it is like 476 00:31:57.680 --> 00:32:04.079 a small misstep or an egregious statement, and like saying that single player games 477 00:32:04.079 --> 00:32:07.440 are dead, folks will continue to remember it and it will stick in people's 478 00:32:07.480 --> 00:32:14.200 minds for forever. Absolutely. And the kinds of things we do forget are 479 00:32:14.279 --> 00:32:17.400 like things we get anxious about before a game comes out. We don't forget 480 00:32:17.640 --> 00:32:22.839 the weird things as an executive set like Jim Ryan bring brings this up now 481 00:32:22.880 --> 00:32:25.000 say he's never gonna live down saying like who wants to play old games? 482 00:32:25.279 --> 00:32:28.000 He's like, that's not exactly what I meant, but it doesn't matter. 483 00:32:28.039 --> 00:32:30.839 It's all anyone talks about now, so like like they know this. And 484 00:32:30.880 --> 00:32:36.119 that's why when you're in a situation like when you're bringing up a concept, 485 00:32:36.119 --> 00:32:37.960 you gotta you have to have someone on the team that knows, like what 486 00:32:38.079 --> 00:32:43.920 is E's history with this concept and absplearly that didn't happen here, Like Phil 487 00:32:43.960 --> 00:32:49.359 Spencer is so tired that he can't buy normal shirts anymore. People misconstruing it 488 00:32:49.599 --> 00:32:52.519 exactly. Yes, he's no more graphic teas for that man that's can't put 489 00:32:52.559 --> 00:32:58.039 anything up on his shelf. It's all, it's all nightmare. Anime is 490 00:32:58.119 --> 00:33:00.759 heading then Xbox they got Anime Xbox now, and then that's why I throw 491 00:33:00.799 --> 00:33:06.640 my Xbox out. All right, let's see here, Halo veteran Paul Bertone 492 00:33:06.799 --> 00:33:10.720 or maybe BERTONI is now at three fourth three as studio Technical Design Director. 493 00:33:12.240 --> 00:33:14.720 This comes from Joe Staton, who is the boss over there at three four 494 00:33:14.799 --> 00:33:19.519 three In terms of overseeing Halo, I'm happy to confirm Halo veteran Paul Bertone 495 00:33:19.559 --> 00:33:22.359 has joined the team as studio Technical Design Director. Paul and I met in 496 00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:27.400 nineteen ninety nine back in Bungee's Chicago days, and then ship Halo one through 497 00:33:27.440 --> 00:33:30.519 three ODST and reached together. I'm thrilled to have Paul helped lead the future 498 00:33:30.559 --> 00:33:36.039 of Halo infinite. And then he posted a picture of him and Paul at 499 00:33:36.400 --> 00:33:38.599 Joe's fiftieth birthday party and are all dressed up in nice ties and stuff. 500 00:33:38.640 --> 00:33:43.359 So yeah, the good good buds getting back together making games. Again, 501 00:33:44.680 --> 00:33:46.759 Basically, if you're wondering the question, probably everyone's thinking it's like, what 502 00:33:47.000 --> 00:33:51.559 is a studio technical design director? So I'd kind of looked into this and 503 00:33:51.599 --> 00:33:54.319 some people on reset era helped out here. Basically, it's the head of 504 00:33:54.359 --> 00:34:00.759 the technical guidelines, tools documentation, developing the overall vision of the technical features 505 00:34:00.799 --> 00:34:04.519 and the engine requirements, and it's kind of a bridge between game design and 506 00:34:04.640 --> 00:34:09.320 technical expertise. And then someone who says they are a technical director says it's 507 00:34:09.320 --> 00:34:13.639 the equivalent of a tech art director and asks as a buffer between the design 508 00:34:13.639 --> 00:34:17.000 and engineering departments and acs as an advocate for the design teams needs when it 509 00:34:17.000 --> 00:34:24.119 comes to creating tools and engines and the support therefore they're in. So I 510 00:34:24.159 --> 00:34:28.320 think this is almost kind of one of the things that Bungee, I'm sorry, 511 00:34:28.320 --> 00:34:31.920 three four three and Halo really need is someone that can say, hey, 512 00:34:32.199 --> 00:34:36.760 the team is it needs all these things, the tools need to be 513 00:34:36.920 --> 00:34:40.079 working in this way to facilitate all that, Because I think based on the 514 00:34:40.119 --> 00:34:44.679 output, like the pace of the output from that team, they must be 515 00:34:44.719 --> 00:34:47.679 having some issues with their tools and their and their engine because there's just not 516 00:34:47.800 --> 00:34:52.480 enough content coming out for that game. And maybe there's other issues, but 517 00:34:52.519 --> 00:34:55.360 it definitely seems like at least one issue is probably that the engine is not 518 00:34:57.440 --> 00:35:00.400 facilitating and empowering the creators at that company to put out all the stuff they 519 00:35:00.440 --> 00:35:05.519 need to get out to get people excited about that game again. You know, 520 00:35:05.639 --> 00:35:08.960 good move, What do you think? Yeah? Totally. Sometimes someone 521 00:35:09.039 --> 00:35:15.480 that is familiar with the product can come back in in a certain position and 522 00:35:15.880 --> 00:35:17.920 give it a good kick in the pants, right, exactly, a good 523 00:35:19.000 --> 00:35:22.199 kick in the pants, A good kicking. I mean sometimes a bad kick 524 00:35:22.239 --> 00:35:24.000 in the pants can't hurt. I mean it could hurt, But then maybe 525 00:35:24.000 --> 00:35:29.519 that's the idea Fall Guys is crushing as a free to play game. This 526 00:35:29.559 --> 00:35:31.440 is just a tweet I wanted to highlight real quick. The game's Twitter count 527 00:35:31.440 --> 00:35:36.320 posted that it has reached fifty million players in the two weeks since it launched 528 00:35:36.320 --> 00:35:38.840 on Xbox and Switch and since, more importantly, it went free to play. 529 00:35:39.480 --> 00:35:43.079 Wow. I was expecting big things for this game when it went free 530 00:35:43.079 --> 00:35:45.039 to play. I wasn't expecting to be like this successful. It is having 531 00:35:45.119 --> 00:35:51.000 its second surge. Clearly it is a huge success, right, great for 532 00:35:51.039 --> 00:35:53.840 them, Absolutely great for them. You know, going free to play can 533 00:35:53.840 --> 00:35:58.400 go either way where it is like a flash in the pan. But I 534 00:35:58.840 --> 00:36:04.400 hope this means can and you'd a sustained player base, right and tickle bits 535 00:36:04.400 --> 00:36:07.599 and chest us but for out long And it's like you know that that's true 536 00:36:07.639 --> 00:36:10.920 of everything at a certain point, like every every game needs to figure out 537 00:36:10.960 --> 00:36:15.679 how to sustain itself over time. What helps you is if you get fifty 538 00:36:15.719 --> 00:36:19.599 million players, like having fifty million players keeping ten percent of your audience, 539 00:36:19.880 --> 00:36:22.079 it's five million players, Like that is a much better starting point. So 540 00:36:22.119 --> 00:36:27.320 it's like, yes, going forward, maintaining excitement about something is the challenge 541 00:36:27.320 --> 00:36:30.679 for everything. Hopefully they could figure that out, but it helps when you 542 00:36:30.719 --> 00:36:36.280 have such a good start. Final Fantasy fourteen players are blocking access to notorious 543 00:36:36.400 --> 00:36:39.920 role playing server with a character Brigade comes from Grace Benefl at game Spot, 544 00:36:40.039 --> 00:36:45.400 So let's just get into it. Following the long awaited release a patch six 545 00:36:45.519 --> 00:36:50.800 point eighteen, which enables data center travel and allows players to visit other worlds, 546 00:36:50.840 --> 00:36:53.119 a growing number of players have been visiting other servers to check out their 547 00:36:53.239 --> 00:36:59.639 unique player culture. As reported by games Radar, players wishing to visit the 548 00:36:59.679 --> 00:37:04.360 Bao Mung Yeah, I'm just Bao Mung are out of luck, for as 549 00:37:04.360 --> 00:37:07.440 soon as you arrived, you will find a large amount of Bao Mung players 550 00:37:07.519 --> 00:37:10.079 blocking the way to the wider world. Balmung is well known in the Final 551 00:37:10.079 --> 00:37:15.679 Fantasy fourteen community for erotic role playing. This new feature, this new travel 552 00:37:15.719 --> 00:37:20.440 feature made Baumung something of a tourist destination, but clear the community members are 553 00:37:20.440 --> 00:37:23.360 not interested in hosting. I'm just getting this idea of like a suburban couple 554 00:37:23.760 --> 00:37:28.880 going out to Baumong to like, Hey, we're gonna go to what's the 555 00:37:28.920 --> 00:37:35.039 what's the resort in Jamaica, The Vandals. It's it's it's the Sandals equivalent, 556 00:37:35.079 --> 00:37:39.000 but it's like like like it's basically the the erotica couldn the Sandals. 557 00:37:39.000 --> 00:37:40.840 I can't remember the name, but it's like, Yeah, got there, 558 00:37:40.880 --> 00:37:44.480 and we're gonna just like, oh, we're gonna get nasty for a week 559 00:37:44.519 --> 00:37:46.280 and then we're gonna go back to our lives. And that's what is happening 560 00:37:46.320 --> 00:37:51.840 in Final Fantasy fourteen right now. So yeah, like you're gonna go see 561 00:37:51.840 --> 00:37:54.960 a chokabo show or something. I don't know. The server has recently been 562 00:37:55.000 --> 00:37:59.519 the source of community controversy, as some players in the Baumong servers made real 563 00:37:59.559 --> 00:38:02.360 life bill boards advertising an endgame party. So clearly there's like a split in 564 00:38:02.400 --> 00:38:06.320 the server, right. Some people are like, everybody come to the party, 565 00:38:06.599 --> 00:38:07.719 and some people are like, we are going to create a human wall 566 00:38:07.760 --> 00:38:12.760 to protect our penises and our butts because we want them off limits to everybody 567 00:38:12.760 --> 00:38:15.639 else. This is all about ours. If you weren't Balmung originally, we 568 00:38:15.679 --> 00:38:21.079 don't want you here. These billboards featured copyrighted material, as well as obvious 569 00:38:21.159 --> 00:38:24.599 signs that terms of service breaking mods tool modding tools were used for the characters 570 00:38:24.639 --> 00:38:30.000 on display. Once community members pointed this out, the billboards were taking down 571 00:38:30.280 --> 00:38:34.000 the player planned in game event they were advertising. However, is still on 572 00:38:34.039 --> 00:38:38.000 the way. So yes, it sounds like Balmung has literal gatekeepers? Is 573 00:38:38.039 --> 00:38:42.119 someone put in chat points out right? There's someone a bunch of people literally 574 00:38:42.199 --> 00:38:45.039 gatekeeping access to the rest of the erotic role playing server? Jan, how 575 00:38:45.079 --> 00:38:52.519 devastated are you by this? I'm hoping I rarely use it, by hope 576 00:38:52.559 --> 00:38:59.400 I can become clout strife and use the Internet to enter the Horny server because 577 00:38:59.440 --> 00:39:00.880 I just need to know now, Yeah, I need to see it for 578 00:39:00.960 --> 00:39:07.119 myself, and I think that these sticks in the mud trying to stop other 579 00:39:07.119 --> 00:39:10.239 people from having fun. Need to recognize the more the merrier. Uh yeah, 580 00:39:10.280 --> 00:39:13.800 I guess what are they afraid of? Like what I guess? I 581 00:39:14.000 --> 00:39:17.000 legit, legit, don't understand. Is it just that they are like this 582 00:39:17.079 --> 00:39:21.960 is ours and we don't want people who aren't here from the start to partake. 583 00:39:22.079 --> 00:39:23.880 Or is there something else that they're like they're worried about. Oh, 584 00:39:24.039 --> 00:39:29.519 if we too much attention gets brought to us, maybe we will, you 585 00:39:29.559 --> 00:39:30.880 know, this stuff will get taken away from us. I don't know, 586 00:39:31.280 --> 00:39:35.800 but probably he controls out, is what Marino says. It's probably a simplest 587 00:39:35.800 --> 00:39:38.760 answer, right, I was gonna say that they're they're probably so used to 588 00:39:38.800 --> 00:39:45.440 eat each other's horniness that any type of feigned horniness will, you know, 589 00:39:45.559 --> 00:39:47.360 not not be received? Well, right, yes, if you're going in 590 00:39:47.360 --> 00:39:52.440 there like I'm gonna pretend to be horny because that's funny to me, I 591 00:39:52.519 --> 00:39:55.079 bet that would be pretty frustrating, and like, hey, you're actually hurting 592 00:39:55.079 --> 00:40:00.960 my vibes that I've so carefully cultivated here, and you know what fair I 593 00:40:00.039 --> 00:40:02.480 get that, And like, you know, this is a it's a it's 594 00:40:02.480 --> 00:40:07.400 a community run in a space that is owned by a corporation, like trying 595 00:40:07.440 --> 00:40:10.079 to mod that, like be like, hey, we like we we feel 596 00:40:10.119 --> 00:40:15.559 ownership of this space even though we don't actually have ownership of it. That's 597 00:40:15.599 --> 00:40:17.440 like a difficult thing to pull off, and trying to be like, how 598 00:40:17.480 --> 00:40:22.719 do we moderate a space like that so we keep our our original intended vibes? 599 00:40:22.320 --> 00:40:24.239 That could be pretty difficult to pull off. And this seems like an 600 00:40:24.280 --> 00:40:28.039 extreme scenario where it's like we're gonna block people from entering here, but maybe 601 00:40:28.079 --> 00:40:30.679 they feel like they don't have any other choice. So I hope that they 602 00:40:30.719 --> 00:40:35.280 get to protect their horny, and am I respect it as Uh? Yes? 603 00:40:35.840 --> 00:40:37.639 Which point you guys? Everyone? I want them all know that I 604 00:40:37.679 --> 00:40:42.960 respect your horny. Uh yes, I do too. Giant baumb respects your 605 00:40:42.960 --> 00:40:47.519 horny. Final Fantasy fourteen Baumang Server, Now you know. Twenty twenty two 606 00:40:47.639 --> 00:40:52.440 video game market declines expected to continue. This is by Matt Piscatella at the 607 00:40:52.519 --> 00:40:57.119 MPD Group. US consumer spending on video game hardware, content and accessory is 608 00:40:57.119 --> 00:41:01.079 now projected to reach fifty five point five billion dollars in twenty twenty twenty two, 609 00:41:01.639 --> 00:41:06.039 a decline of eight point seven percent when compared to twenty twenty one. 610 00:41:06.159 --> 00:41:10.159 Some of the drivers of the decline include the return of experiential spending, higher 611 00:41:10.199 --> 00:41:15.599 prices in everyday spending categories such as food and fuel, the uncertain supply of 612 00:41:15.119 --> 00:41:20.880 video game consoles in hardware, video game console hardware and certain accessories such as 613 00:41:20.880 --> 00:41:23.920 gamepads, and a lighter release slate of games, among other problems, the 614 00:41:23.960 --> 00:41:29.360 surgeon video game players and engagement. The market experience during twenty and twenty twenty 615 00:41:29.360 --> 00:41:32.920 one has leveled off, and we are now seeing more entertainment opportunities emerge that 616 00:41:34.000 --> 00:41:37.360 compete for consumer attention and of course, dollars in hardware. The video game 617 00:41:37.360 --> 00:41:43.440 console market has yet to reflect normalized demand given ongoing supply constraints, particularly on 618 00:41:43.519 --> 00:41:46.679 new generation systems such as the PlayStation five the Xbox series X. This is 619 00:41:46.719 --> 00:41:52.000 not likely to change throughout twenty twenty two and will lead to continued uncertainty for 620 00:41:52.039 --> 00:41:54.960 the market. So, I mean, we knew this was going to happen 621 00:41:55.000 --> 00:41:59.920 eventually, right twenty twenty and twenty twenty one anomalies due to the people at 622 00:42:00.559 --> 00:42:04.000 an entertainment budget that while you know, some people were definitely dealing with with 623 00:42:04.079 --> 00:42:07.880 job crises and all these other issues of things moving around. There are still 624 00:42:07.880 --> 00:42:09.639 a lot of people who like, we're working from home, weren't able to 625 00:42:09.639 --> 00:42:13.480 go out anywhere, had an entertainment budget, and we're like, the one 626 00:42:13.519 --> 00:42:15.400 thing that makes sense now is video games, and a lot of people give 627 00:42:15.480 --> 00:42:20.480 that realization and it led to huge sales across the board. We knew that 628 00:42:20.559 --> 00:42:22.119 was going to come back down to earth at some point. It feels like 629 00:42:22.400 --> 00:42:27.079 we're in this weird thing where it's like the rising PlayStation five, an Xbox 630 00:42:27.079 --> 00:42:30.639 Series X and S sales are battling against that, and it's like, with 631 00:42:30.679 --> 00:42:34.119 the supply constraints, it's going to cause a bit of a dip this year. 632 00:42:35.599 --> 00:42:37.199 Let me, do you know anyone in your life jan that like embraced 633 00:42:37.239 --> 00:42:40.639 gaming a little bit more during the pandemic, and do you like expect them 634 00:42:40.679 --> 00:42:45.000 to like maybe like still engage with it more than they did before the pandemic, 635 00:42:45.039 --> 00:42:46.679 but maybe not quite as much as they were during twenty twenty and twenty 636 00:42:46.719 --> 00:42:52.159 twenty one. Oh a hundred percent. I saw so many people coming out 637 00:42:52.199 --> 00:42:55.760 of the woodwork that wanted up buying a switch during the pandemic because of animal 638 00:42:55.800 --> 00:43:00.920 crossing, a lot of folks wanted buying PS fives because of like the hype 639 00:43:00.199 --> 00:43:05.239 surrounded around it, and then I've seen a lot of those people just taper 640 00:43:05.280 --> 00:43:09.719 off and go back to their normal activities. On top of that, you 641 00:43:09.760 --> 00:43:15.599 know, the gas prices, food prices are rising around us, and I 642 00:43:15.639 --> 00:43:22.480 feel a big contributor to folks buying switches the oculus. Oculus was a huge 643 00:43:22.480 --> 00:43:27.719 holiday seller. I think was because of that hot stimmy action. You know, 644 00:43:28.400 --> 00:43:34.239 like some folks that were able to work from home took that stimmy and 645 00:43:34.480 --> 00:43:37.440 ran away with it and was able to perhaps get a switch, get like 646 00:43:37.480 --> 00:43:44.880 a pre built PC or a gaming laptop and try out be getting into games 647 00:43:44.920 --> 00:43:50.199 for a while. And now that we're not completely healed and gotten over the 648 00:43:50.199 --> 00:43:54.039 pandemic, but a lot of folks are returning to their normal activities of going 649 00:43:54.079 --> 00:43:59.639 out, going to concerts, going to shows, or like movies, movies. 650 00:44:00.039 --> 00:44:01.960 I can tell you Grub as someone that has been going to the movies 651 00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:06.480 as Yeah, as soon as they've reopened. There are so many more people 652 00:44:06.719 --> 00:44:08.639 in theaters now than there were in the past couple of years. Right, 653 00:44:08.679 --> 00:44:12.320 So you've been you've been like able to track that trend. So okay, 654 00:44:12.320 --> 00:44:15.199 so they are getting I mean it seems that way just based on what's happening 655 00:44:15.239 --> 00:44:19.199 with like Top Gun and speaking almost like four or five movies made like twenty 656 00:44:19.199 --> 00:44:22.360 million dollars or something like that. So clearly people are going back. I've 657 00:44:22.360 --> 00:44:25.679 started going back, So yeah, that that I think. I think you're 658 00:44:25.719 --> 00:44:30.039 right, and I think again, there's like various battling pressures on the market 659 00:44:30.159 --> 00:44:35.760 right now. Someone chet says it's weird rising gas prices make me want to 660 00:44:35.760 --> 00:44:37.440 stay home and play games, and of course that's happening as well. I 661 00:44:37.440 --> 00:44:42.440 think that this is what map Piscatella is really getting at here, that it's 662 00:44:42.480 --> 00:44:45.960 an uncertain market like that is how he basically finish that finishes his thought there 663 00:44:46.239 --> 00:44:51.760 where we don't really know what the demand is for consoles because they are limited 664 00:44:51.760 --> 00:44:54.000 in supply. So yeah, the switch keeps selling really well, and then 665 00:44:54.039 --> 00:45:00.199 the PlayStation five and Xbox Series X keeps selling out essentially. And so if 666 00:45:00.199 --> 00:45:01.440 they were if they were a full supply and you could find one anywhere, 667 00:45:01.599 --> 00:45:06.440 would the demand be would demand would demand still be that high or would it 668 00:45:06.480 --> 00:45:08.320 calm down because people feel more comfortable with saying they can get one at any 669 00:45:08.400 --> 00:45:13.000 time or would they just sell that much more because there's that many more on 670 00:45:13.039 --> 00:45:15.000 the market. We have no idea. It's really hard to nail it, 671 00:45:15.039 --> 00:45:19.920 to pin that stuff down and that and that's just like one thing on top 672 00:45:19.960 --> 00:45:22.840 of like all these various pressures that people are feeling from all other sides. 673 00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:25.000 Where they go to the store, and are they noticing the rising prices of 674 00:45:25.079 --> 00:45:29.760 their milk and their eggs and stuff like that most people are, And does 675 00:45:29.840 --> 00:45:32.000 that then affect how they decide to spin And then when they make those decisions, 676 00:45:32.079 --> 00:45:35.559 is it saying, Okay, I'm not going to go out and do 677 00:45:35.599 --> 00:45:38.079 an expensive meal out of the house, and I'm not going to go on 678 00:45:38.119 --> 00:45:40.639 that vacation, or we're not going to do that that drive across the country 679 00:45:40.639 --> 00:45:44.159 because of gas prices, So what should we do? And said, well, 680 00:45:44.280 --> 00:45:46.559 maybe we can afford a new video game. It's but who knows if 681 00:45:46.559 --> 00:45:50.440 that's how people are going to decide. The people have made that decision for 682 00:45:50.480 --> 00:45:52.679 the last couple of years. Are they still satisfied with that? It seems 683 00:45:52.719 --> 00:45:55.800 like probably not everyone. Everyone's probably looking for another way out. Maybe we 684 00:45:55.840 --> 00:45:59.480 will go back to the movies. The movies are still open. That's another 685 00:45:59.519 --> 00:46:01.719 good way to have an entertaining night. It's about the same amount of money. 686 00:46:01.800 --> 00:46:06.519 So I think people are just getting a few more options. And because 687 00:46:06.599 --> 00:46:08.960 they've mostly been sticking with video games for the past couple of years, a 688 00:46:08.960 --> 00:46:13.840 good percentage of the audience is like exploring these other options now, and that's 689 00:46:13.840 --> 00:46:16.800 just natural. But I do think many of the games made during the pandemic 690 00:46:16.840 --> 00:46:21.760 will mean we'll have made like gamers for Life or whatever, which you know, 691 00:46:21.840 --> 00:46:25.639 that's also our model gamers for life. But like, these people are 692 00:46:25.840 --> 00:46:29.119 are gonna come back to their consoles at some point like, hey, oh 693 00:46:29.159 --> 00:46:30.239 yeah, I bought that thing during the pandemic. A new game is out 694 00:46:30.239 --> 00:46:34.239 I care about. Yeah, let's get it, let's play it. So 695 00:46:34.320 --> 00:46:37.000 I think this is there are permanent gains, but there's gonna be some fluctuation 696 00:46:37.079 --> 00:46:40.760 coming out of the pandemic where like that that slack gets back into the market 697 00:46:42.440 --> 00:46:45.239 totally. Uh. Some predictions for twenty twenty two at the half a year's 698 00:46:45.239 --> 00:46:50.480 halfway mark. This is also from Matt at MPD. Switch will lead twenty 699 00:46:50.519 --> 00:46:53.639 twenty two console hardware and units sold with dollar leadership, a too close to 700 00:46:53.639 --> 00:46:59.719 call race between Switch, PlayStation five and Xbox Series X and S. I 701 00:47:00.559 --> 00:47:02.800 like it's it's almost strange to see the Xbox in that race. Now. 702 00:47:02.880 --> 00:47:07.599 Obviously that is partially because, like you know, the supply constraint, but 703 00:47:07.679 --> 00:47:10.880 also I think the Xbox Series X and S was a pretty good strategy of 704 00:47:10.920 --> 00:47:15.119 having the S console out there, sort of no matter what, it's selling 705 00:47:15.119 --> 00:47:16.480 a lot, they're able to get a lot out there, and people are 706 00:47:16.480 --> 00:47:20.960 still excited about the Xbox. So that's that's pretty impressive that it's even in 707 00:47:21.000 --> 00:47:24.159 that race. Xbox Series will be the only console hardware platform to show dollar 708 00:47:24.239 --> 00:47:29.199 sales growth compared to twenty twenty one. That's also on the back of Microsoft 709 00:47:29.199 --> 00:47:31.519 clearly able to get more Xbox Series x's out there than a lot of people 710 00:47:31.559 --> 00:47:37.519 were expecting. Hardware shortages will continue into twenty twenty three, particularly on PlayStation 711 00:47:37.559 --> 00:47:43.719 five and Xbox Series X, while potentially impacting other sex segments such as VR, 712 00:47:44.199 --> 00:47:46.119 something I hadn't really considered, like, oh yeah, that the supply 713 00:47:46.480 --> 00:47:51.840 constraint of components could hit like a new VR headset coming out. Maybe Facebook 714 00:47:51.880 --> 00:47:54.679 would have to push that off or whatever. Elder Ring will finish S twenty 715 00:47:54.719 --> 00:47:59.760 twenty two's best selling premium game in the US market, marketing only the third 716 00:47:59.760 --> 00:48:01.679 time since two thousand and nine that a Call of Duty franchise release does not 717 00:48:01.760 --> 00:48:05.639 lead the market. H do you know what the other two are? Jan 718 00:48:06.480 --> 00:48:10.039 Oh, this is like box Office game for it is uh for video games 719 00:48:12.320 --> 00:48:15.760 this year, but this year was Elden Rings. So then in the past 720 00:48:15.800 --> 00:48:19.559 there was two other times and since two thousand and nine that a Call of 721 00:48:19.599 --> 00:48:22.840 Duty franchise was not number one. I will tell you they were both rock 722 00:48:22.920 --> 00:48:25.639 Star games. Oh geez, rock Star Games. Well, I guess it's 723 00:48:25.880 --> 00:48:30.559 is it Red Dead and or is is it is both GTA five? I 724 00:48:30.599 --> 00:48:34.320 mean, honestly, it would be surprised a GTF. I'm pretty sure it's 725 00:48:34.360 --> 00:48:37.320 GTA five and Red Dead Redemption two? Okay, those are the two. 726 00:48:37.039 --> 00:48:42.519 Uh, let's see, let's let's move ahead. Crisis Core Final Fantasy seven 727 00:48:42.519 --> 00:48:45.000 won't feature new story elements, but that doesn't mean it's a basic remaster. 728 00:48:45.119 --> 00:48:50.679 That's by Cat Bailey over at ign Square. Innex is overhauling the graphics, 729 00:48:50.719 --> 00:48:54.519 the interface, and somewhat controversially, the voice gasts. Various improvements have been 730 00:48:54.559 --> 00:48:58.800 made to nearly all other scenes and battles, to a point where it could 731 00:48:58.800 --> 00:49:01.199 be said that the work we are doing is akin to creating a remake. 732 00:49:01.360 --> 00:49:07.280 That's according to producer Mariako Sato, However, as the core elements such as 733 00:49:07.280 --> 00:49:09.440 the story are grounded in the original work, we call it a remaster. 734 00:49:10.039 --> 00:49:15.320 Speaking of the igne and a brand new interview, Sato discussed Square Enix's intentions 735 00:49:15.360 --> 00:49:19.199 for the remaster, outlining the differences between the various platforms and whether or not 736 00:49:19.239 --> 00:49:23.119 it will ultimately connect with Rebirth. Veteran producer Yoshinori Katasi was also on hand 737 00:49:23.159 --> 00:49:27.199 to shed some light on how the project managed to be greenlit in the first 738 00:49:27.199 --> 00:49:30.559 place. According to Katasi, Crisis Core was not conceived in response to Final 739 00:49:30.599 --> 00:49:35.760 Fantasy seven Remakes infamous reveal. Rather, Katasi says, Final Fantasy seven Remakes 740 00:49:35.760 --> 00:49:39.000 successful development led Square enixs to realize that other stories from the universe could be 741 00:49:39.079 --> 00:49:43.280 updated as well. There isn't really an exact date that I can point to 742 00:49:43.360 --> 00:49:45.280 at a moment point too at the moment, but I do recall that it 743 00:49:45.320 --> 00:49:50.199 was towards the end of the Final Fantasy seven Remake development that we realized that 744 00:49:50.280 --> 00:49:52.639 with the quality we were able to bring to Final Fantasy seven Remake we might 745 00:49:52.679 --> 00:49:57.360 be able to create something for the stories that are actually surrounding Final Fantasy seven 746 00:49:57.400 --> 00:50:00.119 as well, and it is an actual possibility that we can develop Crisis Core. 747 00:50:00.360 --> 00:50:04.079 So that's that's the timing at which we decided that, yes, this 748 00:50:04.159 --> 00:50:08.960 remake can actually happen. Hang on, Sorry, I got yelled at by 749 00:50:08.960 --> 00:50:12.639 the kids. Okay, finally let's see here in the news and then we'll 750 00:50:12.639 --> 00:50:16.880 move on to the catchup. Nintendo announced the Mighty Bowser Lego building set. 751 00:50:17.199 --> 00:50:21.559 Did you see this thing? No, drop this in here too. Let 752 00:50:21.559 --> 00:50:25.960 me scroll down here. This thing looks pretty cool. This looks absolutely gorgeous. 753 00:50:27.000 --> 00:50:30.960 For I'll use the air. You can see grub as this on screen. 754 00:50:31.039 --> 00:50:35.480 Now there's a Lego kit. It looks like it is about two thousand 755 00:50:35.679 --> 00:50:39.119 over two thousand pieces, close to three thousand. Oh, this looks so 756 00:50:39.159 --> 00:50:43.880 good. Yeah, I think I'm gonna get it. It's October first. 757 00:50:43.960 --> 00:50:45.519 It's two thousand, eight hundred pieces, like you said, and it's I 758 00:50:45.519 --> 00:50:47.079 think they said it was like what, let me look up the price. 759 00:50:47.159 --> 00:50:50.239 Let's just click this button here, everybody's se where it's gonna ta. I 760 00:50:50.239 --> 00:50:52.559 think it's two hundred and eighty dollars or something. It's not loading, probably 761 00:50:52.559 --> 00:50:58.199 because people are all trying to pre order it. Let's see, except all, 762 00:50:58.440 --> 00:51:00.159 Oh, I haven't seen this peach before either. That's fantastic, this 763 00:51:00.320 --> 00:51:04.599 Lego Peach. They don't do the minifigs, they do the characters. Oh 764 00:51:04.639 --> 00:51:07.519 man, like kids are gonna go nuts for that. I think it was 765 00:51:07.519 --> 00:51:08.400 like, yeah, two hundred and eighty dollars or whatever. But I think 766 00:51:08.440 --> 00:51:14.119 this set looks really impressive. This bowser looks very detailed, like way more 767 00:51:14.159 --> 00:51:19.440 detail than I would expect a Lego bowser to look. Yeah, I okay, 768 00:51:19.440 --> 00:51:22.639 it looks like this doesn't have any type of functionality with their Mario Lego 769 00:51:22.760 --> 00:51:25.280 set stuff. No, I don't think so. I think there is like 770 00:51:25.320 --> 00:51:29.280 a bowser in one of those things, but it's like the smaller kind and 771 00:51:29.320 --> 00:51:31.760 it has the little, you know, the near field code on the back 772 00:51:31.840 --> 00:51:35.519 or whatever. So when Mario jumps on and he like knows he's jumping on 773 00:51:35.559 --> 00:51:37.840 bowser and stuff like that. This is like a separate thing just for just 774 00:51:37.880 --> 00:51:42.920 for builders. But it looks really cool. How long until we get a 775 00:51:43.039 --> 00:51:45.679 Lego Mario game? Yeah, I was thinking that that would be very cool. 776 00:51:45.719 --> 00:51:51.400 I also think a Lego Mario like TV special because the best things on 777 00:51:51.480 --> 00:51:54.679 Disney Plus are those Lego Star Wars specials, the Holiday one and the Halloween 778 00:51:54.760 --> 00:51:58.599 one, and they're doing the summer. They're doing a summer vacation one here 779 00:51:58.599 --> 00:52:00.039 pretty and like a couple of weeks, and like, I'm so excited for 780 00:52:00.079 --> 00:52:04.599 that. I'm like, they're so funny, they're so like like whimsical and 781 00:52:04.679 --> 00:52:07.760 breezy. My kids like them. I have a good time with them. 782 00:52:07.880 --> 00:52:08.800 So I'm like, man, that would be cool if they did a Lego 783 00:52:08.840 --> 00:52:13.760 Mario like TV show sort of thing. They're probably not going to do that, 784 00:52:13.800 --> 00:52:16.119 though, with Illumination doing the other thing, that'll probably take some time 785 00:52:16.159 --> 00:52:21.440 before all of those companies would feel comfortable like working around each other or whatever. 786 00:52:22.400 --> 00:52:24.119 All right, Jane, let's get to the catch up. Just a 787 00:52:24.119 --> 00:52:29.239 couple of updates for everybody. The Matrix Awakens demo will be delisted on July 788 00:52:29.480 --> 00:52:31.039 ninth, so if you haven't checked that out, you should do that. 789 00:52:31.079 --> 00:52:34.800 Go download it now, just get it on your system. It's actually a 790 00:52:34.880 --> 00:52:37.760 really really impressive demo. It's worth checking out. I think it's on PlayStation 791 00:52:37.840 --> 00:52:42.360 five and Xbox Series X and S. I don't think they ever put it 792 00:52:42.400 --> 00:52:44.559 out on PC, which is like, I would really like to see it 793 00:52:44.599 --> 00:52:47.480 on PC. I but I don't think they ever did. See the latest 794 00:52:47.519 --> 00:52:52.440 PS five update is out. It gives you options for Auto Low Latency Mode 795 00:52:52.440 --> 00:52:57.840 also ALM. It's basically so when you switch to a gaming input on your 796 00:52:57.840 --> 00:53:00.079 TV, switches you to gaming mode. Now, you could set it so 797 00:53:00.159 --> 00:53:04.039 either it does that or it doesn't do that, so you can like activate 798 00:53:04.039 --> 00:53:06.000 it later for some reason if you want to, like, if you watch 799 00:53:06.000 --> 00:53:07.639 a lot of movies on your PlayStation five, maybe you don't want gaming mode 800 00:53:07.679 --> 00:53:12.760 on or something. So although most TV's have been pretty smart about when to 801 00:53:12.800 --> 00:53:16.039 turn that on and off. The Nintendo we Shop and Update Channel are back 802 00:53:16.119 --> 00:53:21.639 online. So in March these things went offline and you could no longer download 803 00:53:21.679 --> 00:53:22.960 games from the Wei Shop. Now. You weren't able to buy games from 804 00:53:22.960 --> 00:53:27.960 the Wei Shop for years now, but in March they went offline, so 805 00:53:28.000 --> 00:53:30.639 you couldn't even like if you bought something in the past, you couldn't download 806 00:53:30.679 --> 00:53:35.480 the games. Now they're back online several months later. Nintendo and never said 807 00:53:35.519 --> 00:53:37.559 anything about this. It just went offline in March. It was in maintenance 808 00:53:37.559 --> 00:53:40.880 mode that entire time, and now it's back online. It seems like someone 809 00:53:40.920 --> 00:53:44.679 just like, oh, went into that closet and reset that server. It's 810 00:53:44.760 --> 00:53:50.039 kind of how it feels like, but I don't know my computer. Yeah, 811 00:53:49.800 --> 00:53:52.599 oh dang, dang it. Oh, I unplug the Ethernet cable. 812 00:53:52.320 --> 00:53:57.920 PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium is getting its first additional content content update by the 813 00:53:57.960 --> 00:54:00.880 end of this month. Jan. What are you looking forward to, like 814 00:54:00.920 --> 00:54:02.920 sort of keep you engaged with that or could it keep you engaged? I 815 00:54:02.960 --> 00:54:07.119 don't know. I don't even know if I'm subscribed to the proper tier because 816 00:54:07.119 --> 00:54:13.079 I'm not checked it out at all. I know that one of my best 817 00:54:13.079 --> 00:54:17.880 friend is very interested in it. He has been playing Red Faction two so 818 00:54:19.119 --> 00:54:22.719 and his main concern that he would like is just more PS one PS two 819 00:54:22.760 --> 00:54:25.000 games. So that's where I'm at. That's what I want, just that 820 00:54:25.360 --> 00:54:30.199 I think like if we get I say, closer to ten than five, 821 00:54:30.320 --> 00:54:37.440 but like around five to ten additions that like from the classic library, I'm 822 00:54:37.480 --> 00:54:39.480 like at a point where hey, you got a pretty good library of modern 823 00:54:39.519 --> 00:54:45.639 PS four games on PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium, then I'm I'm mostly impressed 824 00:54:45.639 --> 00:54:47.079 by that, and so you're doing a good job but I still want that 825 00:54:47.119 --> 00:54:52.440 classic library to get some some love and care and PlayStation one, PlayStation two, 826 00:54:52.480 --> 00:54:57.400 and PSP games. I think if you could add somewhere in total across 827 00:54:57.440 --> 00:55:00.599 all those platforms five to ten games per month, I think got'll be a 828 00:55:00.639 --> 00:55:02.760 good number. I'll be checking in on that and I'll be very excited. 829 00:55:02.840 --> 00:55:07.599 So hopefully that's what we're gonna get. There's a possibility it might be closer 830 00:55:07.679 --> 00:55:09.280 like four to seven, because that's kind of what they did with PlayStation now, 831 00:55:09.360 --> 00:55:15.519 So we'll see. Xbox has confirmed plans to attend games Com UH this 832 00:55:15.599 --> 00:55:21.480 year by Tom Ivan m VGC. Following our recent Xbox and Bethesta Games showcase, 833 00:55:21.840 --> 00:55:23.880 we're excited to confirm the Xbox will be back on the show floor at 834 00:55:23.920 --> 00:55:28.719 Gamescom twenty twenty two in Cologne, Germany. The company said this in a 835 00:55:28.760 --> 00:55:30.840 message since to the press today. Fans in Europe and around the world can 836 00:55:30.840 --> 00:55:35.639 expect updates and some announced games come into Xbox in the next twelve months, 837 00:55:35.800 --> 00:55:39.000 and a chance to hang out as a community again in person. So this 838 00:55:39.079 --> 00:55:45.679 is notable because PlayStation Nintendo, Activision, Blizzard, and Take two all have 839 00:55:45.880 --> 00:55:50.920 made announcements that they won't be there, Jane, you you went to Key 840 00:55:50.960 --> 00:55:53.599 three. Yeah, you like went to a thing in person. I think 841 00:55:53.599 --> 00:55:57.039 I asked to like Lucy a little bit about this, But what was your 842 00:55:57.079 --> 00:55:59.719 take kind of coming away from an in person event again and how you're feeling 843 00:55:59.719 --> 00:56:05.400 about that. I think there was a lot of good energy there that you 844 00:56:05.440 --> 00:56:10.400 know, that direct feedback, whether it was actual genuine criticism or just like 845 00:56:10.639 --> 00:56:15.000 happy to see people playing your game or reacting to your game, I felt 846 00:56:15.000 --> 00:56:21.960 like was a tremendous boost to the morale of especially some of the indie devs. 847 00:56:22.400 --> 00:56:30.159 So I can only imagine that getting that people want that again. But 848 00:56:30.320 --> 00:56:37.000 for because sorry losing my train of thought here, but yeah, overall generally 849 00:56:37.039 --> 00:56:43.400 positive. I wouldn't mind being able to go to another show floor, like 850 00:56:43.639 --> 00:56:47.639 perhaps a games Calm and check out more stuff and just see the general positivity 851 00:56:47.679 --> 00:56:52.519 because I feel like the game's industry as a whole has kind of been like, 852 00:56:52.000 --> 00:56:54.880 I don't know if people like stuff anymore? Do you do you like 853 00:56:55.039 --> 00:56:59.760 things? Yeah? Sick? Cool? Cool? Cool? All right? 854 00:57:00.079 --> 00:57:02.400 People are so hesitant and like I'm afraid of put like dipping the toe even 855 00:57:02.440 --> 00:57:06.920 in the water with these kinds of things, And there's probably a lot of 856 00:57:06.920 --> 00:57:09.000 reasons for that, but I'm glad to see at least one of these companies 857 00:57:09.119 --> 00:57:13.000 like, hey, we are going to go for it's been working out well 858 00:57:13.079 --> 00:57:15.239 so far, and we recognize the risks of doing things in person. I 859 00:57:15.280 --> 00:57:19.000 think as long as they aren't forcing people on their teams to go who don't 860 00:57:19.000 --> 00:57:22.039 want to go get to a thing in person yet, I think that's as 861 00:57:22.039 --> 00:57:23.639 long as you're doing that, you're going to be fine. And as long 862 00:57:23.679 --> 00:57:28.039 as everyone fully understands they have that option to opt out of travel if they 863 00:57:28.079 --> 00:57:31.599 want to, and I hope that's the case. Blizz Con will return in 864 00:57:31.639 --> 00:57:36.599 twenty twenty three. Blizzards Boss has claimed by Chris Scollion as VGC. The 865 00:57:36.639 --> 00:57:39.800 annual gaming convention designed to celebrate Blizzards game hasn't had a live in person event 866 00:57:39.840 --> 00:57:44.719 since twenty nineteen, and Blizzard head Mikey Barra was told has told the Los 867 00:57:44.719 --> 00:57:49.159 Angeles Times that plans are underway to bring it back. He said, we 868 00:57:49.280 --> 00:57:52.960 previously announced we're taking their pause on Blizzcoon while we are reimagine, reimagine it 869 00:57:53.000 --> 00:57:57.039 for the future, but do want to return to a live event that enables 870 00:57:57.119 --> 00:58:00.920 us to celebrate the community. We recently hired a new leader of blizz Cohn, 871 00:58:00.039 --> 00:58:04.039 April McKee, who is hard at work on that plan. We are 872 00:58:04.039 --> 00:58:07.000 committed to bringing back bliz Khon in twenty twenty three. So another example of 873 00:58:07.039 --> 00:58:13.039 that, I'm like, like these publishers specific events, blizz Khn, I'm 874 00:58:13.079 --> 00:58:15.199 not too surprised that that one's going to continue to live even under Xbox I 875 00:58:15.239 --> 00:58:20.480 mansions continue to live. Quake kN will probably continue as well. And like 876 00:58:20.519 --> 00:58:22.599 the stuff like mind Con, I'm glad these things still have their place in 877 00:58:22.679 --> 00:58:25.800 the industry. Like just to let that fail, like let their free flags 878 00:58:25.800 --> 00:58:30.239 fly for sure. Yeah, let those purves go, don't let don't be 879 00:58:30.280 --> 00:58:36.519 like fourteen ball mung purves and and barricade the doors. Let's let them in. 880 00:58:36.719 --> 00:58:39.760 Yes, let let us in. Let's be horny for blizz khn with 881 00:58:39.880 --> 00:58:45.840 consent, Yes, with consent absolutely. Kazuki Takahachi, Okay, let's try 882 00:58:45.880 --> 00:58:51.599 this transition a little bit better, everybody, some bad news. Kazuki Takahashi, 883 00:58:51.679 --> 00:58:54.360 the Creative Yuguo, has died at sixty. Takahashi started work as a 884 00:58:54.400 --> 00:58:59.440 manga artist in nineteen eighty two, but did not find widespread success until nineteen 885 00:58:59.480 --> 00:59:04.559 ninety six, when he created the immensely popular Yugio manga series for Japan's long 886 00:59:04.639 --> 00:59:07.320 running weekly shown in Jump magazine. Uh this is, Uh this is. 887 00:59:07.480 --> 00:59:10.039 It sounds like it was a pretty tragic event. He was found wearing his 888 00:59:10.039 --> 00:59:15.320 snorkeling gear thirty meters off the coast of Nago in Okinawa Prefecture, so it 889 00:59:15.360 --> 00:59:19.400 sounds like it was an accident. They were still investigating. But that's pretty 890 00:59:19.440 --> 00:59:22.000 sad stuff taken before his time, even age sixty, But it sounds like 891 00:59:22.000 --> 00:59:27.400 he was out there being active and just had an accident. Ugo is something 892 00:59:27.440 --> 00:59:30.679 I was I never got into, but boys, something I see everywhere, 893 00:59:30.800 --> 00:59:37.480 and that's like Konami's biggest game ever they have. It's it's it's still gigantic, 894 00:59:37.840 --> 00:59:40.880 and so you know, Takashi here, his legacy will live on. 895 00:59:42.199 --> 00:59:46.159 So rip to Kazuki Yashi, thanks for including this grub. I didn't scroll 896 00:59:46.199 --> 00:59:52.760 further far enough down to see this, but uh, Yugio is another property 897 00:59:52.800 --> 00:59:58.880 from my childhood that is somehow dominated and continue to be a part of my 898 00:59:58.960 --> 01:00:05.360 life into my adulthood. So this, this is really unfortunate, and it's 899 01:00:05.400 --> 01:00:08.199 pretty much because of this gentleman that I became friends with Matt Shipman, and 900 01:00:08.199 --> 01:00:13.800 then Matt Shipman became a part of this website because of his Matt Shipman being 901 01:00:13.800 --> 01:00:19.719 a voice on Yugio, and yeah, like these these trading cards. For 902 01:00:19.760 --> 01:00:23.440 as much as I talk about my adventures in Pokemon, I think I actually 903 01:00:23.559 --> 01:00:28.480 enjoy the game of Yugio more so. Rest in peace, sir, and 904 01:00:28.760 --> 01:00:34.840 thank you for your contributions to the world. I will be framing my blue 905 01:00:34.840 --> 01:00:37.639 Eyes White Dragon in your honor. Yeauts, absolutely, let's see her. 906 01:00:37.719 --> 01:00:42.519 Let's let's get to the question that we talked about yesterday. What would you 907 01:00:42.639 --> 01:00:46.599 rather have a switch pro this year or a Switch Too in twenty twenty four? 908 01:00:46.800 --> 01:00:51.880 And sort of the underlying the caveat there is, if you get a 909 01:00:51.880 --> 01:00:53.760 switch Pro this year, it's probably gonna be a little bit longer than twenty 910 01:00:53.840 --> 01:00:57.320 twenty four. But before we get a switch to, right, people are 911 01:00:57.320 --> 01:00:59.880 like, I don't want to wait, I want to switch too. Is 912 01:01:00.159 --> 01:01:01.840 where you're at, Jan So a seventy seven percent said they want to switch 913 01:01:01.840 --> 01:01:06.119 to in twenty twenty four rather than a switch Pro this year. Yeah, 914 01:01:06.199 --> 01:01:12.920 I don't see it coming out this year and making sense unless this is another 915 01:01:12.960 --> 01:01:15.519 thing that they've been sitting on. I know, last time I was on 916 01:01:15.519 --> 01:01:20.880 the Gay Morning Mess we were talking about Nintendo stockpiling raw materials and stuff. 917 01:01:21.360 --> 01:01:25.159 So I just see that it just makes more sense to make new hardware in 918 01:01:25.199 --> 01:01:29.599 twenty twenty four, and hopefully by then they can they can kind of see 919 01:01:29.639 --> 01:01:37.000 what the landscape looks like with whatever half steps that Microsoft or PlayStation plan on 920 01:01:37.159 --> 01:01:43.159 doing. If they do plan on making like a half step point PlayStation point, 921 01:01:43.159 --> 01:01:45.880 PlayStation five point five or whatever like that, and that's like that's still 922 01:01:45.920 --> 01:01:50.400 up in there. It's still hard to gauge, and I have like it's 923 01:01:50.400 --> 01:01:52.519 I go back and forth. I'm predicting that. And but like at the 924 01:01:52.519 --> 01:01:55.719 beginning of this generation for the Switch, I would have guaranteed we would have 925 01:01:55.920 --> 01:02:00.679 would have gotten a Switch Pro because they've done that for every handheld system since 926 01:02:00.679 --> 01:02:05.519 the game Boy. Gameboy got the Gameboy Color, Yes, got the ds 927 01:02:05.559 --> 01:02:08.519 I, the three DS, got the New three DS, and we got 928 01:02:08.559 --> 01:02:12.480 the Game Boy. Gameboy Events got the Well Gameboy Events maybe didn't have it, 929 01:02:12.519 --> 01:02:15.239 So maybe there's there's some precedents there, Like Gameboy Events just got the 930 01:02:15.400 --> 01:02:17.280 SP and that's not a role full upgrade or anything. Like that, but 931 01:02:17.519 --> 01:02:22.039 we got a brighter screen. There you go not quickly got Backlet we got 932 01:02:22.039 --> 01:02:25.440 back let. Yes, I think that this is something the kind of thing 933 01:02:25.440 --> 01:02:30.199 where I think Nintendo is probably there's probably a lot of momentum internally at Nintendo 934 01:02:30.320 --> 01:02:32.960 to make this thing happen, and for whatever reason, any number of other 935 01:02:34.000 --> 01:02:36.760 pressures that like put on them for like, hey, maybe we don't need 936 01:02:36.800 --> 01:02:38.239 to do it right now. The thing is selling just fine as it is. 937 01:02:39.000 --> 01:02:43.519 Maybe we need to figure out what how we present this to consumers and 938 01:02:43.519 --> 01:02:45.239 how we go to the next switch after that, and what does that look 939 01:02:45.280 --> 01:02:47.800 like. Do we want to extend the life of the switch a couple of 940 01:02:47.840 --> 01:02:52.199 years and like a lot of that stuff is like, oh, they've signaled 941 01:02:52.360 --> 01:02:57.480 publicly that we are in the middle of the switch life cycle just this last 942 01:02:57.519 --> 01:03:01.199 year. So with that and maybe maybe that's something they were thinking, like, 943 01:03:01.239 --> 01:03:04.480 Okay, we do put out the switch pro later and we try to 944 01:03:04.480 --> 01:03:07.239 get this switch life to go a full ten years, and so maybe it 945 01:03:07.320 --> 01:03:10.800 is like twenty twenty five before we start hearing about an actual switch too. 946 01:03:13.840 --> 01:03:16.159 I generally agree with everyone here. Everyone wants to switch to in twenty twenty 947 01:03:16.159 --> 01:03:21.880 four. I don't know if Nintendo agrees. I think it's very very likely 948 01:03:22.000 --> 01:03:25.159 now that we actually still get a switch pro based on the rumors coming out 949 01:03:25.159 --> 01:03:30.280 of there and the rumblings, and it's I know that's weird, but I 950 01:03:30.320 --> 01:03:32.400 think that's probably gonna happen. I hope that's wrong, but I think that's 951 01:03:32.400 --> 01:03:37.360 probably gonna happen. I guess we'll see. Let's let's do the question for 952 01:03:37.400 --> 01:03:42.719 tomorrow. Let's just go ahead and write it here. Would you go to 953 01:03:42.920 --> 01:03:49.920 an E three that is more like a packs I'm hit the pull button and 954 01:03:49.960 --> 01:03:53.199 the options are going to be yes and no. You know. Now, 955 01:03:53.280 --> 01:04:00.800 thinking about how read pop runs their conventions or their events, I I could 956 01:04:00.840 --> 01:04:03.599 see those public days being filled with panels, yeah, you know, like 957 01:04:03.719 --> 01:04:08.119 deaf focus panels, or like Jeff Keiey did a few panels at an E 958 01:04:08.239 --> 01:04:11.199 three that one time and he had like, Eli, that's actually my worst, 959 01:04:11.239 --> 01:04:14.920 my least favorite's my worst, but like least favorite E three moment is 960 01:04:15.199 --> 01:04:18.119 uh Jeff Keilly talking to Elon Musk and like they're taking questions of some girl. 961 01:04:18.159 --> 01:04:20.519 It's like can I take a selfie with you? And Elon Musk did 962 01:04:20.559 --> 01:04:24.719 the biggest like I roll like I don't want to touch you nerds. I 963 01:04:24.760 --> 01:04:28.360 think like face I've ever seen, and like it was like everyone was kind 964 01:04:28.360 --> 01:04:30.840 of like, well well and he's like, Ron, I'll take up selfie 965 01:04:30.920 --> 01:04:32.239 with you, and he did like a Tim Robbins waist and I'm like, 966 01:04:32.239 --> 01:04:35.079 what is happening? I hate it here so much and I had to leave 967 01:04:35.159 --> 01:04:39.280 and then I went to go see a band I like that was actually playing 968 01:04:39.280 --> 01:04:41.559 as part of Jeff Keeley's thing, so he made up for it. But 969 01:04:42.599 --> 01:04:45.000 as long as the panels aren't like that, I'll be fine. As songs 970 01:04:45.000 --> 01:04:46.599 they're more like packs panels, I'll be good. Maybe we could, maybe 971 01:04:46.639 --> 01:04:49.760 we could do an E three panel. What do you say, jan oh 972 01:04:49.760 --> 01:04:54.960 boy? You know, if we can't do packs this year, we're we're 973 01:04:55.000 --> 01:04:58.320 most likely gonna do E three, So maybe I have more time to train 974 01:04:58.400 --> 01:05:01.079 for some nugs. Yes, exact, Uh, let's see and then we 975 01:05:01.199 --> 01:05:04.480 uh, okay, you know what. We'll talk about this tomorrow. Jam. 976 01:05:04.519 --> 01:05:06.440 We got a lot still going on a giant bomb for the rest of 977 01:05:06.440 --> 01:05:10.559 the week, including some stuff today. What's happening while I get our schedule 978 01:05:10.639 --> 01:05:15.320 up here? There was an arcade to get in quick. Look that went 979 01:05:15.440 --> 01:05:17.400 up this morning, Dan and I. There's a special moment where Dan and 980 01:05:17.480 --> 01:05:24.239 I get very close to each other. Yes, there is the voicemail dumb 981 01:05:24.239 --> 01:05:28.760 truck scheduled for later today, but also later today in about two hours, 982 01:05:29.960 --> 01:05:33.960 we have the Neon White Open, more of an invitational, but you know 983 01:05:34.119 --> 01:05:41.519 NW Oh it's funny life right, yeah, for life, and that is 984 01:05:41.599 --> 01:05:45.079 exciting. We got I mean, I don't know time. Oh, it's 985 01:05:45.119 --> 01:05:47.199 in our oops. Yeah, it's an hour Jesus, Okay, I have 986 01:05:47.199 --> 01:05:50.280 to prepare several things then, yes, and then wrap this up. Yes, 987 01:05:53.320 --> 01:05:57.679 we got DNF duel coming up. I think Tam and Jason got to 988 01:05:57.679 --> 01:06:03.079 rerecord that tomorrow due to some technical glitches, and then UPF tomorrow. Yep, 989 01:06:03.400 --> 01:06:05.280 keep it out for that, all that stuff, everybody. I'm looking 990 01:06:05.280 --> 01:06:08.639 forward to it. I'm gonna be on that knee and White Open, so 991 01:06:08.800 --> 01:06:11.119 come watch, Come watch me compete. It's gonna be a good time. 992 01:06:12.199 --> 01:06:15.480 I plan on defeating Jan and allcomers. So prepare yourselves. All right, 993 01:06:15.519 --> 01:06:19.119 everybody, We're gonna wrap up. Thank you all so much for watching until 994 01:06:19.159 --> 01:06:21.880 next time. You're the best audience in gaming. Makes it easy to make 995 01:06:21.920 --> 01:06:25.920 the best show in gaming. Have a good one take care of yourself, 996 01:06:26.280 --> 01:06:28.599 and too sweet.