WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.280 --> 00:00:15.640 You'll be amy beer. It's the Internet. You're busy. Let's do this 2 00:00:15.720 --> 00:00:19.320 for August fourteenth, twenty twenty three. For the next hour or so, 3 00:00:19.679 --> 00:00:22.960 let me help you sort through the world of gaming on Game Mess Mornings Live 4 00:00:23.039 --> 00:00:26.879 with me Jeff Greb. Today, the PS five Slim doesn't look very slim, 5 00:00:26.920 --> 00:00:30.640 and people think Final Fantasy seven remake might be heading to Xbox. But 6 00:00:30.719 --> 00:00:33.759 first, please join me and welcome me today's co host to Game Mess Mornings. 7 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:37.960 It's lex Luty everybody. Lexie, how are you doing? I'm not 8 00:00:38.039 --> 00:00:41.359 doing too bad. I got to watch the American rugby team get the ship 9 00:00:41.560 --> 00:00:47.119 handed to them five Portuguese side that is made up of non professionals who are 10 00:00:47.200 --> 00:00:50.520 all going back home to be dentists the next day. And ship that all 11 00:00:50.560 --> 00:00:57.240 sounds right. That's listen. We we sent our just fiftieth best athletes to 12 00:00:57.280 --> 00:01:00.840 the rugby thing. Not even that's like, that's do good. Yeah. 13 00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:04.480 I love American rugby because you've put so much money into it and most Americans 14 00:01:04.519 --> 00:01:08.400 still don't even know it exists. Yeah, trying to catch up to other 15 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:14.439 sports not doesn't work. The thing where America really gets out ahead is like, 16 00:01:14.719 --> 00:01:17.719 what if we just put all the money into women's sports. And then 17 00:01:17.719 --> 00:01:19.560 it's like and then that like, we'll dominate that for thirty years. And 18 00:01:19.599 --> 00:01:23.120 now that's finally stopping in soccer where they've got they got knocked out of the 19 00:01:23.239 --> 00:01:26.560 World Cup. But it's like, yeah, if you want to dominate a 20 00:01:26.560 --> 00:01:29.159 sport, just put put a bunch of money into women's sports, Like that's 21 00:01:29.200 --> 00:01:34.079 the way to do it and catch it ups. The good news is the 22 00:01:34.079 --> 00:01:38.120 World Cup will be on in the USA, not this year but the year, 23 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:42.319 but the World Cup after. Yes, and you didn't even qualify for 24 00:01:42.359 --> 00:01:46.040 this year's World Cup, so at least you're guaranteed to qualify for the next 25 00:01:46.040 --> 00:01:48.519 World Cup. Well that was that's been our strategy. We're just going to 26 00:01:48.599 --> 00:01:53.439 do a long rest period its good rest for how many years build yeah exactly. 27 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:56.400 Yeah, So we're gonna do a little four year nappy poo and be 28 00:01:56.480 --> 00:01:59.519 ready for that that World Cup and then we're going to dominate. We're going 29 00:01:59.560 --> 00:02:02.280 to Dominate'll tell you what the amount of money that America might put into something 30 00:02:04.120 --> 00:02:07.000 when it's not America, all right, I promise you they will spend a 31 00:02:07.039 --> 00:02:09.960 lot more when it is in America. So they so so it's not to 32 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:15.319 be embarrassed. And one good thing about America whenever they host the World Cup 33 00:02:15.400 --> 00:02:16.759 or something, even if it's the sport, they don't, like, you're 34 00:02:16.879 --> 00:02:22.120 really good at having like a big fucking crowd cheer at shit. That's really 35 00:02:22.199 --> 00:02:24.080 enjoy it. I'll tell you what. You know what, though, I 36 00:02:24.120 --> 00:02:30.400 was still undefeating in football America number one. I'm sorry American football. I 37 00:02:30.479 --> 00:02:35.280 was gonna say, no, we've won every year, we won the Super 38 00:02:35.280 --> 00:02:39.080 Bowl every year. It's been pretty good so far. All right. I 39 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:44.560 don't know how you doing though, otherwise you're doing bad. It's I've started. 40 00:02:44.719 --> 00:02:47.000 I'm going down a deep dark hole of getting into like PS one and 41 00:02:47.080 --> 00:02:53.039 PS two aims now that I got my CRT working vibe from my PS two 42 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:54.800 like a Powell version of Metal Year Solid one, and I was like, 43 00:02:54.800 --> 00:02:57.800 this isn't how I'm going to play it, but I own it now. 44 00:02:57.879 --> 00:03:00.680 Yeah, it's good to have it that way. Yeah, it's just there, 45 00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:02.520 like but man, yeah, that's that sounds good. The pal version 46 00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:06.840 of metal gearself. I'm assuming fifty frames per second or something like that. 47 00:03:07.199 --> 00:03:10.039 Yeah, so I did compare it to I had it running off an emulator 48 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:14.560 on my steam deck, which is also super fun. Running a steam deck 49 00:03:14.639 --> 00:03:16.919 on a CRT, yes, is like maybe the most cursed thing you could 50 00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:22.639 do. And I started playing Cyanowa Wild Hearts on a CRT, and holy 51 00:03:22.680 --> 00:03:27.800 shit, that looked fucking incredible. That's I mean, God, those phosphors 52 00:03:27.800 --> 00:03:30.520 just burning light in your eyeballs with like new games Set's good stuff. I 53 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:36.680 love that. I'm still waiting for my part to get here, to actually 54 00:03:36.680 --> 00:03:39.759 get this myster working with this CRT over here. But I've been messing around 55 00:03:39.759 --> 00:03:43.800 a little bit still and having a good time with it. I still think 56 00:03:43.800 --> 00:03:46.120 I might buy it another CRT. I don't want to talk about it because 57 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:49.159 I don't want to. I don't want to get in trouble. My ms 58 00:03:49.159 --> 00:03:53.919 always well, this one's this one's a production monitor, so it doesn't happen 59 00:03:53.960 --> 00:03:58.039 like I want a dirty, dirty composite input. I want like, Okay, 60 00:03:58.080 --> 00:04:00.639 I don't want the good stuff. I didn't grow up the good stuff. 61 00:04:00.639 --> 00:04:02.879 Why would that. I'm not nostalgic for the good stuff. Lexie, 62 00:04:02.919 --> 00:04:08.199 give me that shitty, dirty composite signal, and that's how I want to 63 00:04:08.199 --> 00:04:11.439 live my life. So I might try to find like an even older TV 64 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:15.759 and get that. That's right. I'm composit. I'm very close to hooking 65 00:04:15.800 --> 00:04:19.879 up the PS three that I have in my place to the CRT because that's 66 00:04:19.879 --> 00:04:25.639 how I originally played Dark Souls was on that old silt that then went to 67 00:04:25.680 --> 00:04:29.040 our grandparents house for about ten years, and that was back in all house 68 00:04:29.079 --> 00:04:30.160 because my dad wanted to dump it. I was like, don't fuck it, 69 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:33.600 dump it. It's fine. What is the what is the newest game? 70 00:04:34.160 --> 00:04:36.839 Like, what is the last game everyone played on CRT? If anyone 71 00:04:36.839 --> 00:04:40.199 wants to put that in the comments, put that in chat, I'd be 72 00:04:40.240 --> 00:04:44.040 and I would love to read that. I think I definitely played games after 73 00:04:44.040 --> 00:04:46.439 this on CRT. But the last one I really remember, and I was 74 00:04:46.480 --> 00:04:48.720 like, oh I got to get an HDTV. It was Modern Warfare Call 75 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:51.680 of Duty four. That was the one was like, we're playing that on 76 00:04:51.720 --> 00:04:55.759 CRT and it actually going HDT. I'm like, it actually didn't help that 77 00:04:55.839 --> 00:04:58.480 much. I feel like I always performed better when I was on CRT, 78 00:04:58.720 --> 00:05:02.279 but I mean it was less put latency, true gamer on a CRT exactly. 79 00:05:02.319 --> 00:05:06.079 That was games were made for CRT. And then we looked at God, 80 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:09.680 we spat in his face, and we're like, give us LCDs because 81 00:05:09.680 --> 00:05:14.079 we are ungrateful animals. That is what we are, all right, we 82 00:05:14.199 --> 00:05:15.480 got a lot to do on this show, so we should explain what we 83 00:05:15.519 --> 00:05:18.199 do here most weekdays, I, Jeff Greb, will help piece your gaming 84 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:21.600 life back together. That includes breaking news and maybe even some of our own 85 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:25.800 original reporting. For all these topics, I'll get the input of a bona 86 00:05:25.800 --> 00:05:29.240 fide expert who will make me look smart. If you were watching live on 87 00:05:29.279 --> 00:05:31.800 twitch welcome, You can always listen to the show later on podcast feeds by 88 00:05:31.800 --> 00:05:36.000 searching for Game Mess Mornings, or find the RSS on giant bomb dot com. 89 00:05:36.040 --> 00:05:40.560 You can also catch the show later with chapters and timestamps on YouTube. 90 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:44.399 Hello YouTube. Okay, we have a lot to get into, so let's 91 00:05:44.399 --> 00:05:47.480 start the morning mess with Is this the PS five slim? This is from 92 00:05:47.560 --> 00:05:51.879 Tom Warren over at the Verge. Let me actually see if I can bring 93 00:05:51.920 --> 00:05:57.079 this up real quick. I thought legally Tom was only allowed right about Microsoft 94 00:05:57.079 --> 00:06:00.120 activation blizzards, right, I mean some somethings we've slipped out of the time 95 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:04.560 stream somewhere apparently, and now he's doing this as well. This is a 96 00:06:04.959 --> 00:06:09.600 video of the PS five slam if if you're watching the video you can actually 97 00:06:09.639 --> 00:06:12.360 see that. But I'll read this story here. Sony has been rumored to 98 00:06:12.399 --> 00:06:15.839 be working on a revision of the PS of the PlayStation five, often referred 99 00:06:15.839 --> 00:06:18.800 to as the PS five Slim, that includes a removable disc drive. Now 100 00:06:18.839 --> 00:06:23.000 images and a video of leaked of a PS five model that looks slimmer and 101 00:06:23.079 --> 00:06:28.560 slightly shorter and may well have a removable disk drive. The first image leaked 102 00:06:28.720 --> 00:06:31.360 of the first image leaked of the rumored PS five Slim in a Chinese forum 103 00:06:31.560 --> 00:06:35.319 form earlier last week, and now a leaked video provides a better look at 104 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:41.639 this rumored device. The video from Better Way Electronics and Australian PlayStation Repair Specialists 105 00:06:41.839 --> 00:06:45.199 shows up the plastic case of a potential future model of the PS five. 106 00:06:45.560 --> 00:06:47.079 It has a bulge for the disk drive, a curve in the middle with 107 00:06:47.120 --> 00:06:53.000 a smaller space for events, two slits on each two slits on each side 108 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:56.439 of the case, and dual USBC ports on the front instead of the single 109 00:06:56.560 --> 00:07:01.040 USBC and USB A ports found on the CURRENTS five models. Sorry just it's 110 00:07:01.079 --> 00:07:03.560 it's too early for the word slip. I'm sorry, that's just it just 111 00:07:03.680 --> 00:07:10.759 it's I okay, real quick, Lexie, looking at this thing, U. 112 00:07:11.519 --> 00:07:14.480 It looks neat, it looks like a PS five. Still, it 113 00:07:14.519 --> 00:07:17.079 looks fat. Still though I do not would not go this is a slim. 114 00:07:18.399 --> 00:07:21.399 As someone that's had a body image issues for a long time, I'm 115 00:07:21.480 --> 00:07:26.279 very dissatisfied with all of the body shaming going on here. Of course I 116 00:07:26.360 --> 00:07:30.959 get yes, and lots of people struggle and the PlayStation five is doing its 117 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:35.360 best and it tries. Yeah, absolutely, and like it doesn't need your 118 00:07:35.399 --> 00:07:40.720 ship mounting on it. It doesn't need your sly comments. But at least 119 00:07:40.720 --> 00:07:43.759 it's also short, like it's got that go. It's short and why the 120 00:07:44.240 --> 00:07:47.399 perfect body type, Yeah that's popular in these days. It has like a 121 00:07:47.480 --> 00:07:51.279 Dad Bard exactly. It's got. It also has a BADNCA donc. It's 122 00:07:51.319 --> 00:07:55.600 got that things sticking out there. Uh. When you're waiting back and you 123 00:07:55.639 --> 00:07:58.240 look at Yeah, when you go back and you look at those old PS 124 00:07:58.319 --> 00:08:01.079 three slims, the first PS three slims, they're not that much slimmer. 125 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:09.600 Then the original PS three like Chunky Boy, they're maybe like twenty thirty percent 126 00:08:09.680 --> 00:08:13.759 slimmer. And then it was until the Super Slim that they actually did get 127 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:16.839 really thin. So I think it's just what kind of a bit spoilt by 128 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:20.839 how smart It's very easy for everything to look huge next to a switch, 129 00:08:20.839 --> 00:08:24.959 and everything to look huge next to the series s and when you have consoles 130 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:30.720 that small on the mark ish anything will look big. Also, like this 131 00:08:30.759 --> 00:08:35.120 is one video and it's stupid to say, but we don't know how big 132 00:08:35.159 --> 00:08:37.759 this guy's hands are. I mean, you're right, you're right, Like 133 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:43.799 parison we have in that video is this guy's hands And yeah, you're right. 134 00:08:43.960 --> 00:08:46.279 We need a banana for scale, right, we need a quarter down 135 00:08:46.320 --> 00:08:52.840 there for someone to put that down there. It's this is like this is 136 00:08:52.840 --> 00:08:56.159 not enough for me. It's what I want to say. It's not enough 137 00:08:56.159 --> 00:08:58.320 for me to be like, oh I want might buy this thing or something 138 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:01.360 like that. Almost certainly I'm not going to buy it no matter what. 139 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:03.879 But seeing this, it's like, well that look isn't so much different, 140 00:09:05.360 --> 00:09:07.639 and I already got the PS five I want. But if it's if it 141 00:09:07.639 --> 00:09:11.720 has a bunch of extra storage and all that stuff, maybe this this moves 142 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:15.759 the needle for me. I just wonder like for a general audience, it 143 00:09:15.879 --> 00:09:18.440 probably I don't think people are looking at this to be like, now's the 144 00:09:18.440 --> 00:09:22.720 time to jump into a PS five. I think this goes back to saving 145 00:09:22.759 --> 00:09:24.679 money for Sony. Clearly this is the revision to be like, let's make 146 00:09:24.840 --> 00:09:28.919 all the big changes now so that this thing is cheaper to manufacturer going forward 147 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:33.240 and we can start on new footing for the rest of the generation. That's 148 00:09:33.320 --> 00:09:35.519 that's still what this looks like to me, right, And it's definitely like 149 00:09:35.679 --> 00:09:39.120 them of Another reason that they do this is simply like, hey, it's 150 00:09:39.120 --> 00:09:43.240 been three years out of the pandemic. Now the like pipe is starting to 151 00:09:43.279 --> 00:09:46.000 wear off, the further is starting to wear off. What if we just 152 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:50.639 had a new thing on shelves. Yes, and people like having a new 153 00:09:50.679 --> 00:09:54.039 thing on shelves. They're like going into a store and seeing a new thing. 154 00:09:54.879 --> 00:09:58.600 And even if it isn't that much different, it's going to be in 155 00:09:58.600 --> 00:10:03.120 a smaller box. It will be able to take up more space on shelves, 156 00:10:03.159 --> 00:10:05.799 like it will or you'll be able to fit more on the same space 157 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:09.440 shelf. And yeah, I think why not if you can make it smaller, 158 00:10:09.480 --> 00:10:11.799 you may as well. It's not a pro it's nothing like that, 159 00:10:11.840 --> 00:10:15.720 but like, yeah, it's it's fine and people who get mad about the 160 00:10:15.720 --> 00:10:20.840 PlayStation five design, like, grow up consoles used to be boring for a 161 00:10:20.879 --> 00:10:26.279 long time. We had a bunch of years of just black boxes. And 162 00:10:26.320 --> 00:10:28.960 it's nice that one of these consoles isn't a black box anymore. Like it's 163 00:10:30.039 --> 00:10:35.360 nice that we're going back to like the weird designs of the GameCube and everything 164 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:39.679 like that. Like I'm fine with it. Yeah, I'm I am too, 165 00:10:39.799 --> 00:10:43.080 And I do think that most of the I'm glad that they kept the 166 00:10:43.120 --> 00:10:46.679 general design language of the PS five. I want the PS five to look 167 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:50.000 like this, and I know a lot of people think it's ugly. Like 168 00:10:50.039 --> 00:10:54.200 you said, grow up, get over it. These are USBC ports on 169 00:10:54.200 --> 00:10:56.639 the front. I guess looking at that, if I just if I unFocus 170 00:10:56.720 --> 00:11:00.399 my eyes and I try to like scale, like do the scale in my 171 00:11:00.440 --> 00:11:03.000 brain, this thing does look a bit slimmer, and it does look a 172 00:11:03.039 --> 00:11:07.279 bit smaller. Honestly, it's still that disk drive that is throwing me off. 173 00:11:07.320 --> 00:11:11.679 Do you do you think that because the rumor is is that there's an 174 00:11:11.720 --> 00:11:16.039 attachable like disk drive, and so do you think you could take this cover 175 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:18.200 off, remove the disk drive, and then you got yourself a PS five 176 00:11:18.240 --> 00:11:22.480 digital and the new version of the PS five digital and that that's what's going 177 00:11:22.519 --> 00:11:26.000 to be on store shelves and like when you okay, so let's say you 178 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:28.679 get the cheaper model that they're still probably still gonna have that does it come 179 00:11:28.679 --> 00:11:31.360 with the disk drive? Do you think that if you were to go out 180 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:33.759 and buy a dis drive, it's gonna come with this panel and the drive 181 00:11:33.799 --> 00:11:39.000 and it just snaps onto the PS five I'd say, like, the only 182 00:11:39.000 --> 00:11:41.559 way it makes sense is if the disk drive is a separate purchase, because 183 00:11:41.559 --> 00:11:45.200 that's the only way that make extra money off of ISH, So why would 184 00:11:45.200 --> 00:11:46.679 they even make it detachable if they weren't going to try to sell it to 185 00:11:46.720 --> 00:11:52.799 you separately? But like it really does weak of And I know someone who 186 00:11:52.799 --> 00:11:54.679 bought a PS five this weekend and was setting it up and was like, 187 00:11:54.919 --> 00:11:58.480 I don't fucking know how to set this signed up, Like this stand is 188 00:11:58.519 --> 00:12:07.679 weird and it's the whole over engineering symptom that this entire system has had where 189 00:12:07.720 --> 00:12:11.879 it just like it's way more complex than it needs to be in ways that 190 00:12:11.039 --> 00:12:16.080 just don't make sense. Like if you're going to make a detachable disk drive, 191 00:12:18.120 --> 00:12:22.440 why would you package it with the console itself. Why not just keep 192 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:28.799 it attached. I really don't know where all the detachable disk drive stuff is 193 00:12:28.240 --> 00:12:31.639 coming from, but I can't imagine it being sold separately. Yeah, it's 194 00:12:33.240 --> 00:12:37.679 it does seem like the kind of thing where it's like they probably engineered the 195 00:12:37.720 --> 00:12:39.840 hell out of this thing and they're like, we can, we can do 196 00:12:39.879 --> 00:12:43.519 this, and this is like the way it makes sense to sort of have 197 00:12:43.639 --> 00:12:48.559 the one skew on shells and then and then this can be a peripheral going 198 00:12:48.600 --> 00:12:54.039 for it, attachment, dettachment, whatever. Yeah, and looking at it, 199 00:12:54.000 --> 00:12:56.000 it looks like that's plausible. Still. I think that still seems like 200 00:12:56.039 --> 00:13:01.600 probably what's happening here, like that they have some that going forward, this 201 00:13:01.679 --> 00:13:05.519 is going to be the one PS five skew, and that lines up with 202 00:13:05.519 --> 00:13:07.399 them trying to sell a ton of PS fives with the discounts in the UK 203 00:13:07.519 --> 00:13:11.039 and throughout Europe and stuff like that. So we've seen them move in that 204 00:13:11.080 --> 00:13:16.399 direction of them trying to get PS five sold as much as possible. And 205 00:13:16.440 --> 00:13:20.600 then that means this thing, because this thing is reportedly rumoredly coming soon. 206 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:24.000 If it is, I mean, I think we could hear about this thing 207 00:13:24.039 --> 00:13:26.440 as soon as this week, maybe next week. What do you think? 208 00:13:26.279 --> 00:13:30.440 Yeah, I mean, Sony on going to Games Calm, but it wouldn't 209 00:13:30.440 --> 00:13:35.879 stop them from getting on that Games Calm news trail where and everyone's online and 210 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:39.159 looking for news. And I am curious now that, like, because the 211 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:43.080 big thing coming out of Microsoft for a long time was like, oh the 212 00:13:43.200 --> 00:13:46.320 Xbox Series X doesn't have to be this big. We just wanted to be 213 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:50.639 able to cool like a motherfucker. So I'm curious how hot this thing will 214 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:56.039 run and if they have managed to optimize everything within it so much that now 215 00:13:56.159 --> 00:14:00.679 it doesn't get hash. Yeah, because that PS five base PS five Like 216 00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:01.879 the times when I was in college, I was like, I don't need 217 00:14:01.960 --> 00:14:05.600 to turn on the heating this evening. I'll just play some fucking video games 218 00:14:07.120 --> 00:14:09.919 and like outlook, git me warm enough. It got fucking hot. YEA. 219 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:13.799 Space heaters and computers use about the same amount of energy and produce about 220 00:14:13.799 --> 00:14:16.240 the same amount of heat. So instead of getting a space heater, just 221 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:20.720 opened the side of your computer, turn off the fans, and just let 222 00:14:20.759 --> 00:14:24.360 it. Let it boil your room. Uh. In terms of the cooling 223 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:26.879 that they've been working on that this entire generation, they've been you know, 224 00:14:26.919 --> 00:14:31.720 they like docabase and Chad Jesse's saying like, oh, they were running really 225 00:14:31.799 --> 00:14:33.399 high clock speeds, and that's one of the reasons the PlayStation five was so 226 00:14:33.440 --> 00:14:37.559 big. They were clearly like, we need to take precautions here. Let's 227 00:14:37.559 --> 00:14:39.159 just be extra safe and make sure we have a ton of extra coin. 228 00:14:39.200 --> 00:14:43.879 And we saw them be like pretty soon in their first revision, not making 229 00:14:43.080 --> 00:14:48.679 many changes except for using less cooling on the on the cooling assembly, less 230 00:14:48.759 --> 00:14:50.759 less material on the cooling assembly, and it's like, oh, they knew 231 00:14:50.759 --> 00:14:54.519 that they had a ton of overhead there and that they were being overly cautious, 232 00:14:54.519 --> 00:14:56.799 so that was a good place to save money. But since then they've 233 00:14:56.799 --> 00:15:00.279 they've switched to the smaller process, and you know that means like the ships 234 00:15:00.279 --> 00:15:05.039 themselves are on a they're smaller basically produce less heat. And as the result 235 00:15:05.080 --> 00:15:07.720 of that, they've already cut down the size of their motherboard in preparation for 236 00:15:07.720 --> 00:15:11.720 this thing, so all this stuff is already lined up for them. Now 237 00:15:11.799 --> 00:15:16.440 it's like this slim model goes back to it's not this isn't really for us, 238 00:15:16.480 --> 00:15:20.320 it's for Sony. It's the save Sony money. And that's perfectly fine. 239 00:15:20.320 --> 00:15:22.399 That's what all these companies have done this a million times, and they're 240 00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:24.840 going to keep doing it. I just like I'm waiting to hear them give 241 00:15:24.840 --> 00:15:28.440 the sales pitch on it, and and and to hear like, is this 242 00:15:28.480 --> 00:15:33.159 the kind of thing where it's like a new three DS where they expect people 243 00:15:33.200 --> 00:15:35.679 who are their biggest fans to come through and buy this thing, or is 244 00:15:35.720 --> 00:15:39.919 that going to be like the PS five pro next year or something like that, 245 00:15:39.919 --> 00:15:43.039 that's going to be where people, Yeah, I have no idea how 246 00:15:43.080 --> 00:15:46.440 you'd sell this is them on the already as a PS five, if it's 247 00:15:46.519 --> 00:15:50.399 just a smaller PS five, Like, unless you're that strapped for desk space 248 00:15:50.519 --> 00:15:54.960 or space under your TV, like you've at this point you've found the space 249 00:15:56.000 --> 00:15:58.360 foot if you own it, you've already made the space for that big fucking 250 00:15:58.360 --> 00:16:03.320 thing. The only way anyone would be upgrading a PS five at the moment 251 00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:10.000 is if there was some new thing about about power, about you know, 252 00:16:10.080 --> 00:16:14.120 horsepower, about pitches. But it's just another PS five. It's just another 253 00:16:14.200 --> 00:16:18.240 PS five. Yep uh Lexie Tommy Dingo and a twitch chets upset that you 254 00:16:18.240 --> 00:16:22.039 were in college when the PS five came out, So I'm still in college, 255 00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:29.639 Tommy Dingo, I'll dust the official deleted or This official deleted image has 256 00:16:29.639 --> 00:16:33.679 people guessing if Final Fantasy seven remake is coming to Xbox for This is from 257 00:16:33.720 --> 00:16:38.759 Mohammed Hassan at Dual Shockers. The official Xbox Brazil account shared a celebratory Father's 258 00:16:38.840 --> 00:16:44.240 Day image, albeit now deleted, featuring several game protagonists alongside their children. 259 00:16:44.440 --> 00:16:48.399 However, many fans noticed that Barrett and his daughter Marlene from Final Fantasy seven 260 00:16:48.440 --> 00:16:52.039 remake were included in the collage, even though the game they star and isn't 261 00:16:52.039 --> 00:16:56.000 available on Xbox platforms as of excusevanced the time of this writing. This has 262 00:16:56.000 --> 00:17:00.799 a lot of people thinking that Xbox they will know something that we don't and 263 00:17:00.799 --> 00:17:07.160 that Final Fantasy seven remake is coming to Xbox, which might be true. 264 00:17:07.480 --> 00:17:11.920 Maybe. Uh. It has me thinking that I am so glad I don't 265 00:17:11.960 --> 00:17:14.799 have to vow on any of these accounts. Yes, exactly, That's what 266 00:17:14.839 --> 00:17:17.720 it really is. This is the kind of like, let me just tell 267 00:17:17.720 --> 00:17:22.200 you people out there that you know, I deal in rumors, I deal 268 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:26.440 in leaks and stuff like that. It's a it's a tough game because that 269 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:34.160 stuff is so compartmentalized. It is so like I'm on Kitten Christa's podcast talking 270 00:17:34.240 --> 00:17:37.759 to them. Yes, I'm a merchant of leaks. As Jan says, 271 00:17:38.960 --> 00:17:42.759 I was on Kitten Christma's podcast. They used to work at Nintendo of America 272 00:17:42.880 --> 00:17:45.599 Nintendo Treehouse, and it was like funny, like dim like, yeah, 273 00:17:45.599 --> 00:17:48.480 we would talk about your leagues all the time, Jeff, and I'm like, 274 00:17:48.519 --> 00:17:51.079 oh yeah, and it's like it's like it's it was always weird because 275 00:17:51.119 --> 00:17:55.720 that stuff is so like we didn't always know everything and barely anyone Nintendo American 276 00:17:55.720 --> 00:17:59.960 does anything. This stuff is so compartmentalized that it's hard to like imagine how 277 00:18:00.440 --> 00:18:02.839 that process even works. I'm like, well it doesn't most of the time. 278 00:18:03.119 --> 00:18:07.599 Getting these leagues confirmed is very, very difficult. The idea that something 279 00:18:07.640 --> 00:18:15.319 like this is happening and the social media person at Xbox Brazil knows. I 280 00:18:15.359 --> 00:18:18.240 mean, it's possible. It's possible that it's like a known obvious things because 281 00:18:18.279 --> 00:18:22.119 it's about to get announced or something. What's more likely here, though, 282 00:18:22.200 --> 00:18:25.799 right Lexie, is that the person that created the art for this post, 283 00:18:26.160 --> 00:18:29.039 just like Final Fantasy seven, didn't think about it all that hard, right, 284 00:18:29.519 --> 00:18:32.839 Yeah, Like if you're getting into a job where you're a social media 285 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:37.480 manager for a video game company, you probably play video games. You're thinking 286 00:18:37.519 --> 00:18:40.880 about like famous game dads and you're like, oh, I like Barrett whatever. 287 00:18:41.200 --> 00:18:45.319 And you know the biggest thing about this is like these two things could 288 00:18:45.319 --> 00:18:51.680 be extremely true independently. Yeah, sometimes could be coming to Xbox literally any 289 00:18:51.759 --> 00:18:55.039 day whenever they want. They could announce it at games Come, they could 290 00:18:55.039 --> 00:18:57.400 do whatever. And also, this guy might have just had a brief to 291 00:18:57.400 --> 00:19:00.400 make a Father's Day social media a post and I was like, well, 292 00:19:00.440 --> 00:19:03.960 I'll just add some fucking dad's dad's a hot dad, I guess, you 293 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:11.039 know. And in Final Fantasies like very popular in Brazil because Final Fantasy four 294 00:19:11.079 --> 00:19:14.160 teams like growing there, and I think the whole franchise is pretty popular. 295 00:19:14.599 --> 00:19:17.680 Uh, the idea that like someone who's been into games and it got a 296 00:19:17.720 --> 00:19:21.480 gaming industry job in Brazil, like, yeah, they're just thinking about Final 297 00:19:21.519 --> 00:19:25.240 Fantasy. That just happens. So and then yeah, look that's a dad 298 00:19:25.359 --> 00:19:26.960 in a game that I'm aware of. And then then yeah, they just 299 00:19:26.960 --> 00:19:33.480 didn't think about it too hard. But I mean, do you think this 300 00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:37.039 is gonna because the Final Fantasy seven remakes relatively old now, who's several years 301 00:19:37.039 --> 00:19:41.000 old now at this point, they're about to release Final Fantasy seven Rebirth, 302 00:19:41.880 --> 00:19:45.400 the you know, the follow up to remake early next year. I guess 303 00:19:45.519 --> 00:19:48.279 is the was what that was what they're saying. I think might have given 304 00:19:48.279 --> 00:19:52.000 a date. I forget it, but that's happening soon. The game came 305 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:56.640 out to PC remake did and never came to Xbox. Do you think that 306 00:19:56.720 --> 00:19:59.240 there's a chance it could come out come to Xbox? Like around the time 307 00:19:59.279 --> 00:20:03.599 of Rebirth hitting P five, I was just checking their Final Fantasy Crisis Core 308 00:20:04.279 --> 00:20:11.119 did come to Xbox. Yeah, which is weird because that game just it 309 00:20:11.200 --> 00:20:15.160 is part of the Final Fantasy seven law like that, it's a big part 310 00:20:15.200 --> 00:20:18.400 of that universe, and it seems like it's going to be an even bigger 311 00:20:18.440 --> 00:20:25.960 pash of their new redcond universe or whatever. And it feels like this should 312 00:20:25.960 --> 00:20:29.359 have happened a year ago. It feels like they should happen maybe two years 313 00:20:29.359 --> 00:20:32.640 ago, right, and it's weird that it didn't, and now that it 314 00:20:32.680 --> 00:20:37.119 hasn't for so long. My sort of how I was like, is the 315 00:20:37.279 --> 00:20:41.279 even is it even worth the Porsching effort? Is it even worth the money 316 00:20:41.279 --> 00:20:45.400 that they'd make from it coming to Xbox. Yeah, it's if people really 317 00:20:45.440 --> 00:20:48.279 wanted to play Final Fantasy seven at this point, they could have played it 318 00:20:48.319 --> 00:20:52.200 on a Steam deck. They could have played it on things that are not 319 00:20:52.440 --> 00:20:56.240 very high barrier to entry, like PCs. So I think most people have 320 00:20:56.279 --> 00:20:59.640 played it if they want to, but it would be nice for it to 321 00:20:59.640 --> 00:21:03.480 be there purely because they have part of the rest of the story there, 322 00:21:03.480 --> 00:21:07.319 and it doesn't really make sense. I absolutely hate it when a sequel like 323 00:21:07.640 --> 00:21:11.720 I really got in. When I was young, I was so annoyed that 324 00:21:12.039 --> 00:21:15.880 the first Mass Effect was on PS three because it was a Microsoft published game, 325 00:21:15.880 --> 00:21:18.680 and I just didn't realize that it was like a Microsoft published game at 326 00:21:18.680 --> 00:21:22.279 the time. But that always annoyed me that the only way PS three players 327 00:21:22.279 --> 00:21:26.519 could play it was like by reading a graphic novel in Mass Effect three or 328 00:21:26.559 --> 00:21:30.599 something. And so yeah, I think they should just bring it over. 329 00:21:30.680 --> 00:21:33.240 If they're going to do it, they may as well. It's an easy 330 00:21:33.319 --> 00:21:37.480 enough win for them. Yep. Yeah, It's a lot of it comes 331 00:21:37.480 --> 00:21:40.119 down to, like what is the deal? I mean, I obviously Sony 332 00:21:40.200 --> 00:21:44.400 got very party for Final Fantasy and it's like we are going to give you 333 00:21:44.480 --> 00:21:47.400 money. We're gonna give you a lot of money because we want Final Fantasy 334 00:21:47.480 --> 00:21:51.359 to be associated with with with PlayStation and that means Final Fantasy sixteen is Hella 335 00:21:51.519 --> 00:21:55.400 exclusive. And but it only sold three million copies. It was a massive 336 00:21:55.440 --> 00:21:57.359 disappointment that didn't work out for them in the long run. Yeah, nothing 337 00:21:57.400 --> 00:22:03.039 works out, absolutely not making enough money. Speaking of making money, we're 338 00:22:03.079 --> 00:22:15.880 gonna be right back after this, all right, We're back. Stalker two 339 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:18.960 Heart of Chernobyl may have just been given a December twenty twenty three release date 340 00:22:19.319 --> 00:22:23.640 from George Jang at IGN. Stalker two Heart of Chernobyl may have been given 341 00:22:23.680 --> 00:22:27.119 a December first, twenty twenty three release date, according to distributor play ons 342 00:22:27.160 --> 00:22:33.319 website first spotted by w CCF tech. The official German play on store is 343 00:22:33.319 --> 00:22:37.160 one is the one that has a listing for Stalker two Chernobyl on PC with 344 00:22:37.200 --> 00:22:41.640 a December first release date, and it describes the game as a unique mix 345 00:22:41.640 --> 00:22:45.680 of first person shooter, whore and immersive sim and also mentioned has survival mechanics 346 00:22:45.480 --> 00:22:48.720 for hunger's sleep and bleeding, as well as a dynamic day and night cycle 347 00:22:48.839 --> 00:22:53.559 with realistic weather effects. Tell you why any survival game these days, Lexi 348 00:22:53.640 --> 00:22:56.319 that doesn't have a teeth meter. I played one with a teeth meter with 349 00:22:56.400 --> 00:23:00.920 comedy teeth. You still have your cow. You need to have a teeth 350 00:23:00.920 --> 00:23:04.680 meter in your game, especially when you really dark in a game where like 351 00:23:04.839 --> 00:23:10.920 radiation is a problem, that would be Yeah, you're pretty Graham. It's 352 00:23:10.960 --> 00:23:12.880 like they're just following out like you brushed, but they're just falling out still, 353 00:23:14.240 --> 00:23:18.519 that's just radiation, Homie. Oh shit, I've been reading that American 354 00:23:18.559 --> 00:23:22.599 Prometheus. I think a lot about radiation these days. Stalk Or two is 355 00:23:22.599 --> 00:23:26.079 one that was gonna come out I think last year and then got delayed. 356 00:23:26.240 --> 00:23:30.640 Obviously, this is partially made in Ukraine and so they were dealing with the 357 00:23:30.640 --> 00:23:37.319 war and now now this is the work. Definitely affected things. I hope 358 00:23:37.319 --> 00:23:38.960 this comes out, but mostly I'm just like I want to step back, 359 00:23:40.079 --> 00:23:41.400 like this game can have all the time it needs. Just figure out what 360 00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:45.960 you're doing, don't don't rush it. Hopefully that you know. Obviously, 361 00:23:45.000 --> 00:23:49.480 if you're running a studio, making money back eventually becomes a concern. I 362 00:23:49.519 --> 00:23:53.279 hope that some publisher I know Microsoft is involved. Hopefully they could step in 363 00:23:53.319 --> 00:23:56.640 and help this game and make sure that the studio can continue to glide along 364 00:23:56.720 --> 00:24:00.119 and keep these people safe or whatever. Doesn't need to rush out. I'm 365 00:24:00.160 --> 00:24:03.440 in no rush to get it, but if you can come out, I 366 00:24:03.759 --> 00:24:07.440 have some pretty high hopes that the game always looked super pretty, but yeah, 367 00:24:07.480 --> 00:24:11.519 I don't know what's your what's your stance on Stalker two? Yeah, 368 00:24:11.519 --> 00:24:15.640 the impression I got was that it was going to start resurfacing soon because I 369 00:24:15.640 --> 00:24:18.000 had heard people make it or saying that they were going to be seeing it 370 00:24:18.079 --> 00:24:22.160 soon, and sounds like, yeah, Microsoft are going to be a game's 371 00:24:22.200 --> 00:24:29.039 calm. So I assume that it's sort of coming back from its long sort 372 00:24:29.079 --> 00:24:33.240 of Jesse Shin period where they were just quietly working on it as and when 373 00:24:33.279 --> 00:24:37.200 they could, because like, there's literally no more difficult circumstances that a developer 374 00:24:37.200 --> 00:24:41.880 could be in working on a game. And I think most people, I 375 00:24:41.960 --> 00:24:45.880 say most people it's the Internet, so probably not most people, but most 376 00:24:45.960 --> 00:24:48.480 people have realized like, oh, like this game will come when it comes, 377 00:24:48.599 --> 00:24:52.079 and that's okay. Yeah. I think even if they do give a 378 00:24:52.119 --> 00:24:57.720 December release date sometime soon, it's just as likely it gets delayed at any 379 00:24:57.759 --> 00:25:02.880 random point for whatever he's and surely because at some point you're dealing with much 380 00:25:03.000 --> 00:25:07.759 bigger real world issues than video games. You're dealing with your political forces, 381 00:25:08.079 --> 00:25:12.359 and hey, if someone starts an offensive, that game isn't coming out, 382 00:25:12.480 --> 00:25:18.480 and who are we to complain? Like fine, yeah, and yes it 383 00:25:18.519 --> 00:25:21.319 does look good. Sorry that was your actual question. No, yeah, 384 00:25:21.400 --> 00:25:23.000 it's yeah, I think it looks pretty good. And yes, it's the 385 00:25:23.079 --> 00:25:27.119 kind of thing. You're right where most people seem to understand this game. 386 00:25:27.640 --> 00:25:32.519 You know, it seems like it could be like the thing headlining or one 387 00:25:32.559 --> 00:25:36.279 of the headliners for xboxes presence at Games Com. You know, Games Comes 388 00:25:36.279 --> 00:25:38.119 gonna Xbox is gonna have a presence at Games Come obviously, but I think 389 00:25:38.160 --> 00:25:41.519 they're also gonna be part of Opening Night Live or do their own thing. 390 00:25:41.559 --> 00:25:45.279 I can't remember exactly, but you can imagine like this game skipped e three 391 00:25:45.640 --> 00:25:49.680 SGF times, like it wasn't at the Kilis in any way, so it's 392 00:25:49.720 --> 00:25:52.079 like, oh, you know, they're like, oh, we'll show it 393 00:25:52.119 --> 00:25:53.119 later, And to me that was like, well, we'll see it. 394 00:25:53.279 --> 00:25:56.240 We'll see it next year, we'll see it maybe next Summer Game Fest. 395 00:25:56.519 --> 00:26:00.160 The idea that it's like, no, they they got something ready to show 396 00:26:00.200 --> 00:26:06.319 off for games Calm to launch it in December. That's really way more aggressive 397 00:26:06.359 --> 00:26:07.480 than I was expecting. But I supposed if you think back, and it 398 00:26:07.480 --> 00:26:10.960 was, well, we were supposed to come out in April twenty twenty two. 399 00:26:11.359 --> 00:26:14.119 I guess the timeline actually lines up a little bit better, better than 400 00:26:14.160 --> 00:26:18.000 I thought originally. So maybe hasn't shot and I didn't want to say it 401 00:26:18.039 --> 00:26:22.240 in case it hadn't been confirmed. It is confirmed playable at yeah, I 402 00:26:22.240 --> 00:26:26.640 think I remember getting the email about that. Yeah, so like does anyone 403 00:26:26.920 --> 00:26:29.880 if they have a demo that's fall enough along that anyone can go up and 404 00:26:30.000 --> 00:26:33.279 play it, then it's probably doing okay, yep, exactly, and I'm 405 00:26:33.279 --> 00:26:37.519 hopeful for it. I although a game in December. I was like, 406 00:26:37.640 --> 00:26:41.759 man, December is when I'm gonna catch up on stuff, and it's like, 407 00:26:41.799 --> 00:26:45.400 oh no, another new game coming out in December. The year prep 408 00:26:45.480 --> 00:26:47.799 is going to be fucking hot fun. This year isn't going to be a 409 00:26:47.880 --> 00:26:52.200 nightmare because all of these games are so easy to complete and like, you 410 00:26:52.240 --> 00:26:55.319 know, get a good taste of quickly. I did be Pickman four and 411 00:26:55.359 --> 00:26:57.599 my and like I did played a ton of that game. My counter I 412 00:26:57.640 --> 00:27:02.160 think my time counter was like third five forty hours or something. And then 413 00:27:02.880 --> 00:27:06.359 so I went back to Tears of the Kingdom and I thought it was like 414 00:27:06.440 --> 00:27:08.559 at like two hundred and I'm not like one hundred and like sixty hours in 415 00:27:08.559 --> 00:27:14.000 that game. Although after this weekend where I played just non stop and still 416 00:27:14.279 --> 00:27:17.440 not really progressing towards the end because I'm like just cleaning up a bunch of 417 00:27:17.440 --> 00:27:19.920 other stuff, man, I probably am getting close to two hundred hours in 418 00:27:19.920 --> 00:27:22.960 that game. And it's like Jesus Christ. And I played a little bit 419 00:27:22.960 --> 00:27:26.559 of Aldersgate three, but not nearly enough. I'm gonna try to play some 420 00:27:26.640 --> 00:27:30.039 more of that tonight. It's just non stop, huge games, and I 421 00:27:30.039 --> 00:27:30.960 want to be playing them all. That's the thing. They're all so good. 422 00:27:30.960 --> 00:27:33.559 I want to be playing them all. All Wolves brings up the high 423 00:27:33.599 --> 00:27:37.920 five rushes falling out of the top ten every day and not if I'm here 424 00:27:37.960 --> 00:27:41.359 to fight foot. That game was fucking incredible, so good. I do 425 00:27:41.480 --> 00:27:45.119 love that game. It's just a tough rough year for anything. Okay, 426 00:27:45.160 --> 00:27:49.519 Forts and Motorsport won't have split screen and other legacy features for launch. This 427 00:27:49.599 --> 00:27:53.960 is Eddie McCoo at game Spot. Microsoft has confirmed that it's upcoming racing game, 428 00:27:55.000 --> 00:27:57.440 Forts and Motorsport, won't have split screen support and two other features from 429 00:27:57.480 --> 00:28:03.640 Pass Games at launch. Current ten creative director Chris Asaki said during the Forts 430 00:28:03.680 --> 00:28:07.839 of monthly video broadcast that the racing game will not feature split screen, spectator 431 00:28:07.839 --> 00:28:12.119 mode, or the ability to race against AI and some multiplayer modes. Heavy 432 00:28:12.119 --> 00:28:17.000 players come into a featured multiplayer event and taking player slots and then spectating, 433 00:28:17.039 --> 00:28:21.720 it's not really the racing we had intended. Asaki said. Similarly, racing 434 00:28:21.759 --> 00:28:26.839 with AI in featured multiplayer in feature multiplayer will all with all its potential impact 435 00:28:26.880 --> 00:28:30.799 on your safety rating, also didn't make a whole lot of sense to have 436 00:28:30.039 --> 00:28:33.920 and is not going to be available for us at launch. And for the 437 00:28:33.960 --> 00:28:37.599 split screen, Asaki said that the team's heavy investment in pushing our new graphical 438 00:28:37.640 --> 00:28:42.640 features and our complete overhaul of the rendering engine unfortunately made split screen really difficult 439 00:28:42.640 --> 00:28:47.119 to implement, and it's also not going to be in for launch. Sports 440 00:28:47.160 --> 00:28:49.200 and Motorsport is not the first big Xbox game to launch without features found in 441 00:28:49.240 --> 00:28:53.519 previous games. Halo Infinite launch without campaign, coop or forge modes, and 442 00:28:53.559 --> 00:28:57.839 so on. Now these some of these modes have all these modes have been 443 00:28:57.839 --> 00:29:02.839 in previous forts as, but not in every previous forts. H. I 444 00:29:02.880 --> 00:29:07.480 think split screen has been h that's one that's but I mean, I voice 445 00:29:07.519 --> 00:29:10.519 split screen seems like one of those ones that if you were if you were 446 00:29:10.559 --> 00:29:14.400 working on a game and you had to cut something split screen in twenty twenty 447 00:29:14.400 --> 00:29:17.160 three, when everyone's got their own system, is playing on their own device, 448 00:29:17.920 --> 00:29:22.200 I don't know, but the spectator mode that's that hasn't always been in 449 00:29:22.240 --> 00:29:23.880 there, and when it is that people really I think the community really likes 450 00:29:23.920 --> 00:29:26.559 it because they use it for e sports and shout casting and stuff like that. 451 00:29:27.319 --> 00:29:30.480 But it's another one where it's like, yeah, you could see how 452 00:29:30.519 --> 00:29:34.519 these things get cut out and AI in multiplayer mode. I think that was 453 00:29:34.559 --> 00:29:37.680 like a big feature in like Forts Motorsport four, but I don't think it's 454 00:29:37.680 --> 00:29:41.880 been in their sense. But I could like it. I can get I 455 00:29:41.920 --> 00:29:45.000 can definitely get cutting that one from like a oh, we want to balance 456 00:29:45.039 --> 00:29:49.319 experience point of view and they go so heavy on the idea like they still 457 00:29:49.359 --> 00:29:52.519 have their whatever they call their dry atas now, but they do have the 458 00:29:52.559 --> 00:29:57.440 go say I stuff and they probably don't want that affecting. You'll go say, 459 00:29:57.440 --> 00:30:03.359 I stuff nonplayable or not player characters impacting that. I like, this 460 00:30:03.440 --> 00:30:07.759 never feels good. This never feels fun. Personally. I have great memories 461 00:30:07.799 --> 00:30:11.480 of like going to a friend's house who had an Xbox when I didn't, 462 00:30:11.799 --> 00:30:15.480 and like playing Thoughts Motorsport co Op and like it blowing my fucking mind. 463 00:30:17.640 --> 00:30:22.960 But like, even just from a like hearts and mind point of view, 464 00:30:22.359 --> 00:30:26.519 it never feels good when there's one less thing on the back of the box, 465 00:30:26.519 --> 00:30:32.559 when there's one less bullet point. And I'm curious if it's always been 466 00:30:32.720 --> 00:30:34.799 like there's been the thing going around like, oh, Xbox is very hands 467 00:30:34.839 --> 00:30:38.680 off with its developers. Is it that the Thoughts A team was like, 468 00:30:38.720 --> 00:30:42.359 Hey, we really want to push graphics as far as we can this time, 469 00:30:42.759 --> 00:30:45.799 we're going to focus on that above all else, which is perfectly fine 470 00:30:45.799 --> 00:30:49.720 if they want to do that, or like, is there a world where 471 00:30:49.759 --> 00:30:52.400 if Microsoft was more hands on, would they be like, Hey, no, 472 00:30:52.559 --> 00:30:56.880 this is like something that people have come to expect, like focus a 473 00:30:56.920 --> 00:31:00.400 little bit less on the graphics. People will only notice that so much. 474 00:31:00.359 --> 00:31:06.680 Let's make sure we have feature parachie with previous versions. Yeah, it's I 475 00:31:06.720 --> 00:31:11.599 think that Microsoft. The word seems to be that they let these studio sues 476 00:31:11.640 --> 00:31:14.559 make their own choices and their own priorities on that stuff. And you know, 477 00:31:14.640 --> 00:31:18.640 obviously a company like turn ten, studio like turn ten is gonna have 478 00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:23.400 the telemetry from how people use their game to know like the most painless areas 479 00:31:23.400 --> 00:31:27.920 to take the scalpel too right, and forts and Votorsport eight, Forts and 480 00:31:27.960 --> 00:31:30.119 Votorsport. I think, you know, they're kind of rebooting. I don't 481 00:31:30.119 --> 00:31:36.119 know if they're calling it eight they are. This is like the big actual 482 00:31:36.160 --> 00:31:38.079 rework, Like they said, there are rendering engine. This is like their 483 00:31:38.119 --> 00:31:41.480 first big improvement to the tech in a very long time, but used to 484 00:31:41.480 --> 00:31:45.640 be on in every other year's schedule. Here we are there that they've taken 485 00:31:45.799 --> 00:31:49.119 multiple years now to get this game ready. You can't I think they if 486 00:31:49.160 --> 00:31:52.720 everything else hits with this game, if the racing feels great, if it 487 00:31:52.759 --> 00:31:57.160 does look visually stunning, if it's running at four K and gets you know, 488 00:31:57.200 --> 00:32:00.319 it can go above sixty frames per second or whatever, which you know 489 00:32:00.440 --> 00:32:04.240 that the reports of games have done. Maybe they get four K one twenty 490 00:32:04.319 --> 00:32:07.519 or something like that. If all that stuff works for this, then I 491 00:32:07.839 --> 00:32:10.200 think it's going to be easy to forgive any absences. But also, you 492 00:32:10.200 --> 00:32:15.039 know, it would be nice if these things get added over time. Split 493 00:32:15.039 --> 00:32:16.880 screen something I will probably never use, but the people who do use it, 494 00:32:16.920 --> 00:32:22.119 I'm sure will be very happy if it does get added later. Do 495 00:32:22.160 --> 00:32:24.640 you think that this is a sort of game that they're looking at as a 496 00:32:24.680 --> 00:32:28.960 platform or that they want to go back to. Hey, no, we 497 00:32:29.000 --> 00:32:31.119 really liked it when we had the every second year cadence with these two studios. 498 00:32:31.119 --> 00:32:36.039 Do you think Microsoft is as a preference as to what direction this goes. 499 00:32:36.200 --> 00:32:37.680 Yeah, I think that they would. I think they would prefer a 500 00:32:37.720 --> 00:32:40.799 platform, but I think because of all the licensing involved in these games, 501 00:32:42.440 --> 00:32:45.599 doing that might be prohibitive, might be difficult, So I think they will 502 00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:49.920 probably stick to some sort of cadence, maybe not every other year, but 503 00:32:49.960 --> 00:32:52.960 maybe every three years or something like that. Fort's a horizon. I think 504 00:32:52.960 --> 00:32:58.200 it's still come out every other year in terms of the demand for that game, 505 00:32:58.839 --> 00:33:01.200 and well, I guess Forts Motors It's audience probably would be happy every 506 00:33:01.279 --> 00:33:04.960 with every other year as well, But I think it makes more sense for 507 00:33:04.960 --> 00:33:07.680 that to come out like to maybe staggered a little bit, but Horizon can 508 00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:10.279 keep coming as long as they have new settings and stuff. Although I guess 509 00:33:10.279 --> 00:33:15.160 maybe Horizons formula is getting a little longer the two too, so wouldn't mind 510 00:33:15.160 --> 00:33:17.799 a bigger change there. But it doesn't need a change to technology necessarily. 511 00:33:17.960 --> 00:33:22.920 They'll get that from Motorsport. They'll build on whatever this is doing. Kind 512 00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:24.920 of want them just like step away from the Yeah, bro, we're at 513 00:33:24.920 --> 00:33:28.559 a party. Oh my god, and everybody knows who you are and you're 514 00:33:28.599 --> 00:33:31.200 on social media. I'm like, okay, well do I have the game 515 00:33:31.279 --> 00:33:35.799 for you. It's called The Crew Motifests. Let's go. I can't like 516 00:33:36.039 --> 00:33:39.160 that game is I kind of respect it because it's just like we tried a 517 00:33:39.160 --> 00:33:43.279 bunch of other ship with the Crew. Let's just make Forts the Horizon. 518 00:33:43.400 --> 00:33:47.000 Let's just do one of those exactly. And it is a carbon copy of 519 00:33:46.279 --> 00:33:51.000 Forts the Horizon. Hey, you gotta do what you gotta do. Uh. 520 00:33:51.119 --> 00:33:53.839 Switch hits thirty million lifetime unit sales during July. This from the Japan 521 00:33:53.920 --> 00:33:59.680 Monthly Charts, and this comes from Jeffrey Rousseau at Games Industry dopp IS. 522 00:34:00.279 --> 00:34:04.160 During July and Japan, the Nintendo Switch reached a lifetime sales total of thirty 523 00:34:04.160 --> 00:34:07.280 million consoles. The MITSUS of monthly retail sales data from June twenty six to 524 00:34:07.400 --> 00:34:13.119 July thirtieth shows that the consoles sold four hundred seven thousand units across its standard 525 00:34:13.280 --> 00:34:16.679 light and O LED systems. By comparison, Sony's PlayStation five console hit two 526 00:34:16.760 --> 00:34:21.519 hundred and forty three thousand systems sold during the month. Sony's hardware has moved 527 00:34:21.559 --> 00:34:24.519 a total of four million units in the country. Nintendo led with nine hundred 528 00:34:24.519 --> 00:34:30.440 and forty seven thousand box titles in Japan for software sales, outpacing Square Enix 529 00:34:30.480 --> 00:34:34.320 is one hundred and nine thousand and Spike Chunsoft's one hundred and one thousand. 530 00:34:34.599 --> 00:34:37.599 Nintendo's newly released Pickman four was the biggest selling title of the month at five 531 00:34:37.679 --> 00:34:43.039 hundred and eighteen thousand physical copies moved. It has sold nearly eighty thousand of 532 00:34:43.039 --> 00:34:46.719 Pickman's three's lifetime sales with ten days after launch, which is very impressive and 533 00:34:46.719 --> 00:34:51.840 that doesn't include digital, although it wouldn't include included Pickman three's digital either. 534 00:34:52.239 --> 00:34:54.639 The Legend of Zelda Tiers of the Kingdom moved ninety two thousand, six hundred 535 00:34:54.679 --> 00:35:00.760 copies sold in the month. Meanwhile, Spike Chunsoft's newest title, Master Detective 536 00:35:00.840 --> 00:35:07.360 Archives Raincode sold seventy four thousand, four hundred copies, Switch hitting thirty million 537 00:35:07.880 --> 00:35:10.280 UH and and games just continuing to fly off the shelf for the Switch. 538 00:35:12.280 --> 00:35:15.119 That that's you know, that's the story for the switching has been in Japan, 539 00:35:15.360 --> 00:35:20.559 and really the Switch is doing seemingly better than ever in Japan. There's, 540 00:35:20.639 --> 00:35:24.480 you know, always the question about where is the temperature at in Japan 541 00:35:24.639 --> 00:35:29.159 for console video games? Are they you know a lot of a lot of 542 00:35:29.280 --> 00:35:30.880 people that moved on to mobile and they're just going to play on their phone 543 00:35:30.920 --> 00:35:36.000 from now on. But but Switch has proven that there's still a massive audience 544 00:35:36.119 --> 00:35:38.679 audience in Japan that wants to play games on console, especially if it's like 545 00:35:39.199 --> 00:35:44.400 a hybrid. But I think Nintendo has also done a really admirable job of 546 00:35:44.440 --> 00:35:47.360 getting people excited about the Switch in Japan in terms of using their marketing and 547 00:35:47.440 --> 00:35:51.519 using like the Mario movie and things like that, and all that seems to 548 00:35:51.519 --> 00:35:54.519 have like rekindled this love affair that they have for for for Nintendo. And 549 00:35:54.519 --> 00:35:59.960 then meanwhile, the PlayStation five is selling well, but it's games never show 550 00:35:59.599 --> 00:36:02.119 the never but rarely does the top ten best selling games of the week in 551 00:36:02.199 --> 00:36:07.280 Japan have a PlayStation five game on it. It's almost always entirely switch. 552 00:36:07.679 --> 00:36:10.480 So it's like people might be buying PS fives, although I know people rumor 553 00:36:10.599 --> 00:36:15.519 or they speculate a lot of those PS fives in Japan are going into China. 554 00:36:15.320 --> 00:36:17.000 I don't know. I have no idea about that. I would love 555 00:36:17.000 --> 00:36:20.519 to like investigate that, but who has the time. I don't know. 556 00:36:21.079 --> 00:36:25.400 Do you think that console gaming has reached this nice like equilibrium in Japan going 557 00:36:25.440 --> 00:36:30.239 forward, Lexie, I think it's less that console gaming has I think it's 558 00:36:30.239 --> 00:36:35.159 that Nintendo has realized that they've found an equilibrium between handheld and console. Yeah, 559 00:36:35.199 --> 00:36:42.079 and that like this is a model that really works for the demographic in 560 00:36:42.239 --> 00:36:50.360 Japan, Like they're just not that into physical like consoles being stationary, and 561 00:36:50.480 --> 00:36:53.960 the idea having a system where all of your biggest games are also coming to 562 00:36:53.960 --> 00:36:59.239 a handheld is really really nice. Like the DS was a great game, 563 00:36:59.280 --> 00:37:02.800 but the only real biggest game that Nintendo had that was still coming to the 564 00:37:02.880 --> 00:37:07.320 DS was you know, the Pokemon stuff and everything else, Like oh, 565 00:37:07.400 --> 00:37:09.719 no, like the big boy version of this game is coming to the WE 566 00:37:10.159 --> 00:37:15.360 or the WU or whatever. I did some very quick napkin math, and 567 00:37:16.000 --> 00:37:21.159 if you look at the amount of switches that have been sold, that's roughly 568 00:37:21.199 --> 00:37:24.039 twenty four percent of the Japanese population that own a switch. Yeah, and 569 00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:29.280 which is wild yep. I mean a lot of those are going to be 570 00:37:29.360 --> 00:37:31.840 multi switch households, but not like you're right, like that's if you just 571 00:37:31.840 --> 00:37:37.719 look at that that raw number, that is very wild, and it's kind 572 00:37:37.760 --> 00:37:42.719 of inexplicable that that it's that the system could be that popular because it's like, 573 00:37:42.800 --> 00:37:45.840 you know, the the japan the culture has mostly moved on to mobile 574 00:37:45.840 --> 00:37:47.440 gaming, but it's like, no, Nintendo found a way with Pokemon, 575 00:37:47.800 --> 00:37:53.159 was Zelda, was Splatoon? Now Pickman four even just being this massive like 576 00:37:53.239 --> 00:37:55.639 the thing in Japan, like there's a there's love affair going on with that. 577 00:37:57.079 --> 00:38:00.840 That's man, that they have figured it out. And maybe part of 578 00:38:00.840 --> 00:38:07.360 it is the Japanese audience sees that Sony is is like looking elsewhere, like 579 00:38:07.400 --> 00:38:08.840 it's you know, it's doing the over the shoulder like looking at the other 580 00:38:08.840 --> 00:38:16.400 girl thing, because Sony isn't interested in making games in Japan for Japan because 581 00:38:16.440 --> 00:38:22.199 they need they need those big blockbusters that have that global appeal because that's where 582 00:38:22.199 --> 00:38:23.760 they need to make their money. These they need games that sell like ten 583 00:38:23.800 --> 00:38:29.159 million copies. But the irony here is Nintendo makes games that that you know, 584 00:38:29.239 --> 00:38:32.320 have this appeal in Japan, Platoon and and Animal Crossing, all these 585 00:38:32.320 --> 00:38:37.039 things, and then those games sell four or five times better than anything else 586 00:38:37.159 --> 00:38:43.159 on a PlayStation or an Xbox or PC globally, and so like that the 587 00:38:43.320 --> 00:38:47.880 by appealing to us a more niche or to a more culturally specific ideal that 588 00:38:49.039 --> 00:38:51.800 still has a global appeal at the same time. I don't know, it's 589 00:38:51.840 --> 00:38:53.760 I find that interesting, and I think that's probably been a mistake by Sony 590 00:38:53.800 --> 00:38:58.239 a little bit over the last couple of years because they got afraid of that, 591 00:38:58.320 --> 00:39:00.400 and now all their games kind of feel the same. I don't know, 592 00:39:00.719 --> 00:39:04.760 is there anything there? Yeah, I definitely think that there's an element. 593 00:39:04.880 --> 00:39:07.800 Like I was lamenting when a friend came to visit, like, just 594 00:39:07.840 --> 00:39:12.239 how much of fucking sucks that Japan Studios isn't around anymore, because those games 595 00:39:12.280 --> 00:39:15.960 gave that company so much personality, And it was when they were playing Astrobash 596 00:39:16.079 --> 00:39:19.960 or Astro's playroom for the first time. It was the first time they'd ever 597 00:39:20.079 --> 00:39:22.000 used a PS five. I was like, you have to play this and 598 00:39:22.760 --> 00:39:27.079 they were like, oh shit. Like this has me thinking about Sony's old 599 00:39:27.159 --> 00:39:30.280 games in a way that's usually only was a for Nintendo stuff. And even 600 00:39:30.320 --> 00:39:35.320 if those games weren't selling the most, even if vib Ribbon wasn't like a 601 00:39:35.320 --> 00:39:38.880 massive seller, it created this like culture and this fuel good nature around the 602 00:39:38.880 --> 00:39:43.400 console. And like, as much as people like their PlayStation, it's not 603 00:39:43.480 --> 00:39:46.239 like it's not a Blue Skies, happy go lucky feeling about it. It's 604 00:39:46.280 --> 00:39:50.639 like, no, this is like where I play women, gritty Murders simulators, 605 00:39:50.639 --> 00:39:54.440 and that's fine. But the thing I'm curious about is when Nintendo does 606 00:39:55.719 --> 00:39:59.440 upgrade to a more powerful console, do you think there's a bit of them 607 00:39:59.440 --> 00:40:06.760 that try is to recaush those Japanese developers that have been focusing on the more 608 00:40:06.800 --> 00:40:12.320 powerful consoles, people like ORGG and Square Unichs who have been focusing on next 609 00:40:12.400 --> 00:40:15.199 gen games. Do you think they finally go, hey, maybe we should 610 00:40:15.239 --> 00:40:19.320 like bring some of those games to our platform and get them selling here too, 611 00:40:19.360 --> 00:40:22.320 because they obviously have a mark ish Yeah, I don't. Nintendo's not 612 00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:25.039 the company that makes overtures, right. That was the question of these Nintendo 613 00:40:25.119 --> 00:40:28.480 going to try to get like you know, our GG and some some of 614 00:40:28.519 --> 00:40:31.000 those other studios after they yes, So I think that they look at it 615 00:40:31.079 --> 00:40:36.400 and they're like we I think it's pretty similar to what like Gabe said about 616 00:40:36.440 --> 00:40:38.760 Steam, right, He's like, we're just gonna do we do our thing, 617 00:40:39.320 --> 00:40:42.719 and we're gonna try to make the best thing possible, and then that 618 00:40:43.480 --> 00:40:45.480 should then lead to people wanting to come work with us because we put so 619 00:40:45.519 --> 00:40:49.760 much effort into making this thing that the best thing possible. Now that does 620 00:40:49.800 --> 00:40:52.159 work for Steam, that has not, that's rarely ever worked for Nintendo. 621 00:40:52.280 --> 00:40:55.400 Nintendo's obviously looking at it in a different way. It's like we just wanted 622 00:40:55.400 --> 00:41:02.239 to light our players and be different and stand out. But I think that's 623 00:41:02.239 --> 00:41:10.400 true. Yeah exactly knives, Yeah, man knives. But Nintendo, even 624 00:41:10.480 --> 00:41:14.400 when Nintendo gets everything like okay, we are we're going to have the more 625 00:41:14.400 --> 00:41:17.280 powerful system. And this system is now just a switch to in a lot 626 00:41:17.320 --> 00:41:21.760 of ways, and it's it's very familiar at this point, and there's a 627 00:41:21.800 --> 00:41:24.800 Steam Steam decks out there and Roger allies. So it's like people aren't going 628 00:41:24.840 --> 00:41:29.079 to be hesitant about that set of things anymore. So we should go out 629 00:41:29.079 --> 00:41:30.639 there and try to get these companies on board. And Nintendo, I don't 630 00:41:30.639 --> 00:41:35.199 think Nintendo really does that and won't do that. I think that they will 631 00:41:35.239 --> 00:41:37.559 be they will be happy to be like, we make our games and they 632 00:41:37.639 --> 00:41:40.599 sell, and if you want to come bring your games to us, like 633 00:41:40.719 --> 00:41:44.440 if you want to be Microsoft to make a ten year commitment, we'll take 634 00:41:44.480 --> 00:41:46.840 it. But we're gonna be happy working with all these indie developers that are 635 00:41:46.880 --> 00:41:52.000 selling way better on Switch than anywhere else. Like they're they're actually much more 636 00:41:52.119 --> 00:41:55.280 pliable. They probably prefer working, but like Haiti's selling probably a couple million 637 00:41:55.320 --> 00:41:59.440 copies on the Switch or close to it. Uh, Like they're like, 638 00:41:59.519 --> 00:42:01.840 no, that that was much a much better experience than going out and try 639 00:42:01.880 --> 00:42:06.360 to deal with a fickle Sega or Electronic Arts or something like that, and 640 00:42:06.440 --> 00:42:10.199 that's work. You're totally right, because like looking at this list now of 641 00:42:10.239 --> 00:42:16.159 the June and July or the July sales from Famitsu, it's like the top 642 00:42:16.199 --> 00:42:22.679 ten games sold the publishers aren't Nintendo, Nintendo, Spike, John Shots, 643 00:42:22.679 --> 00:42:29.320 Soft Square, Nintendo, micro Soft, which is yeah, Nintendo, Nintendo, 644 00:42:29.440 --> 00:42:32.599 Nintendo, and like they are way more happy to have to be getting 645 00:42:32.639 --> 00:42:37.400 one hundred percent of the profits from those games then splitshing however much they have 646 00:42:37.559 --> 00:42:43.760 too with the licensing fees for other publishers selling games on their console. And 647 00:42:43.920 --> 00:42:51.320 I gotta say just that makes me happy and excited because I am someone who 648 00:42:51.320 --> 00:42:52.800 likes a game like Pickman four, and I think Picking four is doing great 649 00:42:52.840 --> 00:42:57.800 everywhere, but the fact that it's doing so well in Japan, take it 650 00:42:57.800 --> 00:42:59.639 goes back to the days of like, well, the game does well in 651 00:42:59.719 --> 00:43:01.079 Japan, so they're gonna keep making it. And it's like I thought that 652 00:43:01.159 --> 00:43:05.199 stuff was over, but I think Nintendo has found it. Like No, 653 00:43:05.280 --> 00:43:07.800 for Nintendo, it's not a fact, it's not over. It's getting better. 654 00:43:07.039 --> 00:43:12.159 It's like they've improved their standing in Japan to the point where it's like, 655 00:43:12.199 --> 00:43:14.960 yeah, if a game does really well there, it's we're gonna keep 656 00:43:14.960 --> 00:43:17.719 making it. Like you know, that's something that Sony and Microsoft would never 657 00:43:17.760 --> 00:43:22.079 do anymore. So yeah, this is I get a little bit chills about 658 00:43:22.079 --> 00:43:25.360 Dex. I'm like, okay, man, Pickman five might be a reality 659 00:43:25.840 --> 00:43:30.840 all right in Japan. Speaking of nineteen ninety Three's Mario Movie is getting a 660 00:43:30.960 --> 00:43:36.239 thirtieth anniversary four K theatrical re release. Let's fucking goes, Sister, my 661 00:43:36.400 --> 00:43:39.559 Nintendo News long before Yes, get get her on the Fallow Letter. Now 662 00:43:39.599 --> 00:43:43.440 let's get plane tickets and let's go. We're going to Kyoto. Everybody. 663 00:43:43.960 --> 00:43:46.880 Long before Nintendo and Illumination ever thought of creating an animated movie based on the 664 00:43:46.920 --> 00:43:52.639 former company's Super Mario franchise, there was a live action film that didn't get 665 00:43:52.679 --> 00:43:55.880 to experience the success that this Year's Mario Movie got to enjoy. This year 666 00:43:55.960 --> 00:44:01.199 marks thirty years since the release of Super Mario Brothers All alternately known as Super 667 00:44:01.239 --> 00:44:06.639 Mario Brothers the Movie. There has been much acknowledgement of the anniversary in Europe 668 00:44:06.639 --> 00:44:09.159 and in the Americas, even though the film has developed a cult following decades 669 00:44:09.199 --> 00:44:13.360 after its release. However, it's a different story in Japan, where it 670 00:44:13.400 --> 00:44:16.559 was released with the name Super Mario Goddess of the Demon Empire. Beginning on 671 00:44:16.599 --> 00:44:22.039 September fifteenth, Japanese audiences will be able to get to attend a theatrical rerelease 672 00:44:22.079 --> 00:44:24.920 of the film. Not only that the version will be a four k restoration 673 00:44:25.360 --> 00:44:30.400 of the movie. I need this. I need this real bad. I 674 00:44:30.400 --> 00:44:32.719 want I want this. Uh it's hard to like watch that movie. It's 675 00:44:32.719 --> 00:44:35.960 not impossible, but it's you know, you can't just go track it down 676 00:44:36.320 --> 00:44:40.320 some nice quality exactly. Yeah, because I think it was last year, 677 00:44:40.880 --> 00:44:45.079 during like the height of my exams, the start menu discord decided what's start 678 00:44:45.079 --> 00:44:47.920 doing some movie nights, and we were like, let's do the Mario movie. 679 00:44:49.159 --> 00:44:52.079 And like I was so out of it and so fucking tired, and 680 00:44:52.119 --> 00:44:54.360 I was like, what the fuck is going on? It was that your 681 00:44:54.360 --> 00:45:00.039 first time seeing it? It was I had seen it through osmosis, which 682 00:45:00.320 --> 00:45:04.760 was like I knew all the stuff in it, but like actually sitting there 683 00:45:04.760 --> 00:45:07.039 and watching it and like having it wash over me, I was like, 684 00:45:07.440 --> 00:45:14.079 what the fuckuck, it's different. Yeah, it's a little bit mine. 685 00:45:15.599 --> 00:45:22.480 I enjoy how fucking weird that movie is similar to like jestedge and and I 686 00:45:22.599 --> 00:45:25.719 super appreciate it because it came out at the time of like Super Mario Bows 687 00:45:25.880 --> 00:45:29.599 three, right, like they just had so little to work with. It 688 00:45:29.639 --> 00:45:30.440 was it was a little bit after some Mario Brothers three, right, but 689 00:45:30.519 --> 00:45:35.280 right in that area. Yeah, it was the world was out by this 690 00:45:35.360 --> 00:45:38.679 by this point. Yeah, but I asked chat to link to a clip, 691 00:45:39.320 --> 00:45:44.960 and Hammond to Texas did and it's the clip of Bob Hoskins talking about 692 00:45:45.039 --> 00:45:49.440 seeing Mario for the first time and looking at him on the screen, jumping 693 00:45:49.519 --> 00:45:52.760 up and down. And then I used to play King Leo. Yeah, 694 00:45:55.039 --> 00:46:00.039 got what an all time quote. That's great stuff. Oh Bob has read 695 00:46:00.079 --> 00:46:04.599 to that. To that guy, he was a good dude. Yeah, 696 00:46:04.639 --> 00:46:07.960 that movie is its. It's it's special and amazing and weird. Uh. 697 00:46:07.119 --> 00:46:10.760 And I'm glad we live in a universe where we can get both the most 698 00:46:10.840 --> 00:46:16.719 generic and safe animated movie that makes a ton of money and Super Mario Brothers 699 00:46:16.800 --> 00:46:21.639 whatever. That's fine, and that this movie at one time existed. We 700 00:46:21.719 --> 00:46:25.039 also need more hot, sweaty John Leguizamo. Yeah, we'll never get any 701 00:46:25.280 --> 00:46:29.719 that. Yeah, we got plenty in Vimeo plus Juliet, but they really 702 00:46:29.719 --> 00:46:32.920 didn't capsualize on that era of him. Yes, you know what this movie, 703 00:46:34.199 --> 00:46:36.920 that movie really was, that Super Mario Brothers movie. It was the 704 00:46:37.039 --> 00:46:40.760 post Batman world. Batman nineteen eighty nine came out and was this big licensed 705 00:46:40.760 --> 00:46:46.039 thing that just crushed and then all these movie companies were like, they didn't 706 00:46:46.119 --> 00:46:50.719 think we need superhero movies, which would have been the thing that would have 707 00:46:50.719 --> 00:46:52.519 happened today. We would have been right that stuff would have They were like, 708 00:46:52.519 --> 00:46:58.199 we need licensed characters that are like our as big as Batman, no 709 00:46:58.239 --> 00:47:01.119 matter where they come from. Whether it's like Dick Tracy, which is another 710 00:47:01.159 --> 00:47:06.239 movie that got made that's pretty similar in its odd oddness to Super Mario Brothers 711 00:47:06.320 --> 00:47:07.559 or Super Mario Brothers all that stuff. They're like, we gotta make it 712 00:47:07.599 --> 00:47:12.280 like Ken Burton style. Yeah, even in the mid nineties, fucking no 713 00:47:12.440 --> 00:47:15.840 kids knew what Dick Tracy was. No, they did not know that movie 714 00:47:15.920 --> 00:47:22.039 rules too though. To be fair, all right, Pokemon Company having conversations 715 00:47:22.039 --> 00:47:25.119 about how to ensure game quality with regular releases. This is from Nintendo everything, 716 00:47:25.400 --> 00:47:30.280 according to ta Kado Utsuly talking about it. Yes, at least we're 717 00:47:30.280 --> 00:47:34.280 gonna have an honest conversation. We are gonna do shit about it. From 718 00:47:34.320 --> 00:47:38.920 Takado Utsunomiya, the chief operating officer of the Pokemon Company, Conversations are being 719 00:47:38.960 --> 00:47:43.400 had about how to keep this up. The series is regular releases of games 720 00:47:43.639 --> 00:47:46.440 will also maintaining quality. That's like, hmm, I think I spotted your 721 00:47:46.480 --> 00:47:51.920 problem right there. Only Yeah, I think you maybe should have had this 722 00:47:52.000 --> 00:47:55.159 conversation a couple of years back, and it's like, that's the regular release 723 00:47:55.320 --> 00:48:00.800 is part. That's the problem. Slow down just slowed. It takes longer 724 00:48:00.840 --> 00:48:05.000 to make games today, while Pokemon we have like three hundred people working at 725 00:48:05.000 --> 00:48:08.199 your company. Yes, maybe that's the other It's like spend more money, 726 00:48:08.519 --> 00:48:13.280 take more time, or make a bad game. It's like, well again, 727 00:48:13.400 --> 00:48:16.760 let's make it worse. That's fine. While Pokemon Scarlet and Violet were 728 00:48:16.840 --> 00:48:21.119 well received from a gameplay standpoint, things came to a head last year when 729 00:48:21.159 --> 00:48:24.599 some fans express disappointment from a technical level performance and gletchers were a problem in 730 00:48:24.599 --> 00:48:29.440 particular. Months later, things still aren't at what where some players who had 731 00:48:29.440 --> 00:48:32.239 wanted some believe that part of the problem affecting Pokemon games came down to the 732 00:48:32.280 --> 00:48:37.519 release schedule. Game Freak often puts out at least one game a year. 733 00:48:37.719 --> 00:48:40.039 Twenty twenty three is an exception, though. Scarlett and yeah, the DLC 734 00:48:40.199 --> 00:48:44.039 that's that still counts, I promise you, because that's back in the day 735 00:48:44.039 --> 00:48:46.079 they would just put out Pokemon Yellow and that's what Scarlett and Violet is the 736 00:48:46.079 --> 00:48:51.320 equivalent of Utsunomia had had this to say in a group interview at the Pokemon 737 00:48:51.360 --> 00:48:53.519 World Championships. I think in general, if you look at the past, 738 00:48:53.679 --> 00:48:58.280 the path we've taken up until now has been this consistent, has been this 739 00:48:58.360 --> 00:49:02.039 constant release, always rearly releasing products on a fairly fixed kind of kind of 740 00:49:02.039 --> 00:49:06.719 cadence, you might say, always having these products able to be introduced and 741 00:49:06.760 --> 00:49:09.440 new experiences for our customers. And that's how we've operated up until now. 742 00:49:09.760 --> 00:49:14.119 I think we're still operating in that way, but there's more and more conversations 743 00:49:14.159 --> 00:49:17.960 as to development environments change about how we can continue to do this while making 744 00:49:19.000 --> 00:49:24.199 sure that we're ensuring really quality products are also being introduced. Something's got to 745 00:49:24.199 --> 00:49:27.360 give, right, I mean, something has given, and it's been the 746 00:49:27.440 --> 00:49:30.280 quality of the tech of the technical releases. That's not new. That's been 747 00:49:30.320 --> 00:49:34.880 the Pokemon company for a very long time. That they always had some of 748 00:49:34.920 --> 00:49:37.000 the worst performing games on the three vs. And now here we are on 749 00:49:37.039 --> 00:49:42.239 the switch and this is like the one company the ads still is. You 750 00:49:42.280 --> 00:49:46.639 know, they didn't have to learn HD graphics pipelines like when everyone else did, 751 00:49:46.679 --> 00:49:49.719 and everyone else went through those growing pains, and like, you know, 752 00:49:49.800 --> 00:49:52.480 Japanese games were like, oh, Japanese games are bad now because a 753 00:49:52.519 --> 00:49:55.599 few companies were struggling to adapt to HD. Well, they went through those 754 00:49:55.599 --> 00:50:00.159 growing paints and they're they've been fine for a decade now. Okemon Company, 755 00:50:00.159 --> 00:50:04.119 however, and Game Freak not so much. They just refuse to get with 756 00:50:04.159 --> 00:50:07.000 the times, and now here they are struggling to make HD games. Yeah. 757 00:50:07.039 --> 00:50:12.599 So something that the Pokemon Championships reminded me, Like, I do not 758 00:50:12.719 --> 00:50:16.920 like Pokemon. I've always been of the belief it's a child's game developed for 759 00:50:17.039 --> 00:50:22.119 like angry thirty five year olds. Ye genre, Yeah, that sounds like 760 00:50:22.199 --> 00:50:30.159 every fucking Nintendo game Mike likes. Yeah, I like Metro too. But 761 00:50:30.800 --> 00:50:37.239 watching a friend of mine, Alicia Hardock, was covering the Nintendo Championships, 762 00:50:37.239 --> 00:50:39.760 and it's really interesting to compare that to something like blizz Con, where it 763 00:50:39.880 --> 00:50:47.079 is a internally run like convention for the fans. But like at BLIZZKHN, 764 00:50:47.400 --> 00:50:53.079 people got like straight up real angry at Blizzard at a certain point, whereas 765 00:50:53.119 --> 00:50:57.880 Nintendo Championships, the vibes that were like always great, everyone was always loving 766 00:50:57.880 --> 00:51:01.199 it, even though like people have are aware that that game is not in 767 00:51:01.239 --> 00:51:07.960 a good stage both competitively and like technically, and so it's really interesting to 768 00:51:08.000 --> 00:51:14.840 see just like how conditioned that community is. You gotta go get an empty 769 00:51:14.880 --> 00:51:20.719 on Pokemon right, yeah too, Like ultimately they're going to keep on getting 770 00:51:21.000 --> 00:51:23.599 away with it no matter how long the games keeps selling, and the games 771 00:51:23.639 --> 00:51:29.800 will keep selling, And the really shitty thing about it is that all that 772 00:51:29.840 --> 00:51:34.079 will happen is the community will get worse and more toxic, and we'll get 773 00:51:34.119 --> 00:51:37.199 more vitriolic, and people are like community managers and people who are new to 774 00:51:37.239 --> 00:51:42.840 the community and marginalize people within the community will wind up bearing the brunt of 775 00:51:42.840 --> 00:51:46.760 a shitty community that feels like they're never listened to, and that sucks. 776 00:51:47.079 --> 00:51:53.800 You're basically slowly turning your community into like a legal Legends style everyone is angry 777 00:51:53.840 --> 00:51:59.639 all the time and find trying to find someone to blame and that shit. 778 00:52:00.159 --> 00:52:04.199 Yep, it's it's kind of thing. Yeah, if whenever criticism becomes the 779 00:52:05.800 --> 00:52:07.639 disallowed within a community for whatever reason, if it's like, well no, 780 00:52:07.639 --> 00:52:09.440 I don't want to hear that, Why don't want you talking about that? 781 00:52:09.440 --> 00:52:14.039 You're right, that always gets turned Like if someone who is voicing that criticism 782 00:52:14.079 --> 00:52:17.960 comes from a marginalized background. They will be attacked for that because of because 783 00:52:17.960 --> 00:52:22.559 they've offended the identity of these fans. Yeah, absolutely, it's and well, 784 00:52:22.639 --> 00:52:25.400 what can what can a studio like like game freaking all that stup to 785 00:52:25.519 --> 00:52:29.320 do about it? They can take ownership of the problems and try to promise 786 00:52:29.360 --> 00:52:32.760 to do something about it. But so far that's not happened. And we'll 787 00:52:32.800 --> 00:52:36.199 see. I mean, this DLC is going to come out for Scarlet and 788 00:52:36.239 --> 00:52:38.320 Violet. We'll see how that runs, but I'm not expecting any big improvements 789 00:52:38.320 --> 00:52:40.960 to that game. Yeah, John Jenna and the chat makes a great point 790 00:52:42.000 --> 00:52:45.679 that it's happening in the Destiny community at the moment, and it fucking sucks 791 00:52:45.719 --> 00:52:50.480 to watch. It's really shitty to see a community it's dissonisfied with the product, 792 00:52:50.519 --> 00:52:54.280 and at some point when the developer doesn't address the product, the community 793 00:52:54.320 --> 00:53:00.719 starts trying to find people who they can take a mash who are like flagship 794 00:53:00.199 --> 00:53:04.800 leaders of the product to, whether it be community managers or community members. 795 00:53:05.239 --> 00:53:07.800 And it's really shitty for those people. And yeah, I know, I 796 00:53:07.840 --> 00:53:10.760 don't know how you fix it. I do know how you fix it, 797 00:53:10.800 --> 00:53:14.960 but I don't think companies have much of an interest in fixing it sometimes. 798 00:53:15.119 --> 00:53:20.719 All right, we are gonna get to the poll from Friday. I got 799 00:53:20.760 --> 00:53:23.239 it around here somewhere. Let me wind it up real quick for you everybody. 800 00:53:23.800 --> 00:53:27.400 Well, I do that, actually know what it's ready? Here we 801 00:53:27.440 --> 00:53:30.320 go. I asked, have you ever tried GTA role plane? And I 802 00:53:30.360 --> 00:53:35.199 forgot to give it just a plane, no options. So nine percent said 803 00:53:35.280 --> 00:53:37.800 yes, thirty four percent said no, but I want to, and fifty 804 00:53:37.800 --> 00:53:42.320 seven percent said no, but I would try and GTA six. So imagine 805 00:53:42.320 --> 00:53:44.840 the people I would just say no didn't answer. Let's just imagine that. 806 00:53:45.440 --> 00:53:52.599 So, yeah, I think that I would try role plane at some point. 807 00:53:52.679 --> 00:53:55.400 But it's like the kind of thing where yeah, obviously a big part 808 00:53:55.400 --> 00:53:59.480 of that is streaming it. So maybe I'm just doing it for Giant bomb. 809 00:53:59.519 --> 00:54:00.400 If we can make that happened, that would be pretty cool. I 810 00:54:00.440 --> 00:54:04.039 would. I would be all for that, though, So, yeah, 811 00:54:04.239 --> 00:54:07.280 is that something you would be interested in particular participating in? I would, 812 00:54:07.320 --> 00:54:09.400 but like, I don't think i'd be interested in doing it in one of 813 00:54:09.400 --> 00:54:14.280 the big public service because the way that just sounds like a hustle, and 814 00:54:14.320 --> 00:54:17.039 it sounds like a job. I'm like, yeah, I don't need that, 815 00:54:17.199 --> 00:54:22.679 Like I don't need to be doing my dailies in Destiny to become a 816 00:54:22.760 --> 00:54:28.400 job. I don't need like cushing fucking grapes going to work being a job 817 00:54:28.599 --> 00:54:31.639 in like GCA. I don't need that. I would rather just fuck around 818 00:54:31.639 --> 00:54:37.039 with my friends. Yeah. Part of me is like back when MMOs were 819 00:54:37.159 --> 00:54:39.599 new to me at least, and Star Wars Galaxies was coming along, and 820 00:54:39.599 --> 00:54:44.039 they're like, everyone's going to have a job in this world, Like you 821 00:54:44.039 --> 00:54:45.840 could just be a you could just be a barber. You could just be 822 00:54:45.880 --> 00:54:49.519 a barber and the Star Wars universe. And to me, I'm like that 823 00:54:49.599 --> 00:54:53.639 sounds fucking awesome. That's I want. I want that job in Star Wars. 824 00:54:53.679 --> 00:54:57.079 I don't. Yeah, that's fine. And then of course the game 825 00:54:57.159 --> 00:54:59.760 came out and it's like, no, everyone is actually playing this just wants 826 00:54:59.760 --> 00:55:01.679 to be a Jedi, and becoming a Jedi was super, super difficult and 827 00:55:01.679 --> 00:55:05.800 it was this huge hassle. Uh, and so they had to like rework 828 00:55:05.840 --> 00:55:07.679 the game and make it easy for everyone to become a Jedi. It's like, 829 00:55:07.679 --> 00:55:10.679 oh man, there was there's something lost there about like having this world 830 00:55:10.679 --> 00:55:15.679 where people have to just play their role and so like to have that come 831 00:55:15.679 --> 00:55:19.239 back in this way but have a big community driven I find that very fascinating, 832 00:55:19.400 --> 00:55:22.320 but also, uh it also it's intimidating, Like you said, like 833 00:55:22.400 --> 00:55:27.800 I want to go in there, and I know I'm gonna want to eventually 834 00:55:27.800 --> 00:55:30.239 just mess around. And if that, if that gets me in trouble, 835 00:55:30.239 --> 00:55:32.360 if there are consequences to that for the people running the server, then it's 836 00:55:32.400 --> 00:55:36.480 like, Okay, I better not even try to like broach that that possibility. 837 00:55:36.559 --> 00:55:37.679 Yeah, I don't. I don't need someone giving out to me for 838 00:55:37.840 --> 00:55:42.800 having fun in a video game, like exactly. I don't need like those 839 00:55:42.800 --> 00:55:45.800 flashbacks to like school of like a teacher giving out to you. Like that's 840 00:55:46.199 --> 00:55:52.039 I'm fine. I got a new poll that we're gonna answer on Wednesday when 841 00:55:52.079 --> 00:55:53.599 we come back. We have of course BombCast tomorrow. But in the mean 842 00:55:53.679 --> 00:55:57.039 time, while we get that ready, let's see what do you have going 843 00:55:57.079 --> 00:55:58.840 on? What do you want to tell people about? Where can they find 844 00:55:58.840 --> 00:56:01.119 you on the internet. I have so much going on, loads of stuff 845 00:56:01.119 --> 00:56:05.599 that isn't coming out for a while. I will have a bunch of games, 846 00:56:05.599 --> 00:56:08.719 calm stuff, So check my Twitter. Basically, LEXI both spelt with 847 00:56:08.840 --> 00:56:15.880 eyes and if you want to check out any start menus work. We recently 848 00:56:15.880 --> 00:56:22.519 had an incredible three thousand word review and progress go up on balder Skate three 849 00:56:22.599 --> 00:56:25.199 by Kate Robinson. She knocked out of the park on that one, and 850 00:56:27.119 --> 00:56:29.920 I'm gladed that we got a code for a game that big. It's always 851 00:56:30.000 --> 00:56:32.679 nice when we can actually give someone the experience of reviewing a big game. 852 00:56:34.079 --> 00:56:38.440 And so check out the start menu on Twitter. Or if you want to 853 00:56:38.440 --> 00:56:44.320 contact us about like getting started in the industry and you're a new journalists trying 854 00:56:44.360 --> 00:56:49.360 to find like opportunities and support, you can email us ASH or you can 855 00:56:49.440 --> 00:56:55.360 email us ASH hello at start menu dot code dot UK. I what do 856 00:56:55.360 --> 00:57:01.159 you think about did you pay attention to that balder skate sort of rouhaha over 857 00:57:01.159 --> 00:57:06.400 the weekend where I think that, Well, so my understanding is like Destin 858 00:57:06.840 --> 00:57:09.960 over at IgM put out a video. It's like this is why other this 859 00:57:10.039 --> 00:57:14.400 is like prooves that other developers are are not doing what they should but when 860 00:57:14.440 --> 00:57:16.239 they release broken games, because balder Skate three proves that you can release the 861 00:57:16.239 --> 00:57:22.280 game that is huge and interactive and has and everything's put together and buttoned up 862 00:57:22.639 --> 00:57:24.280 and there was a lot of a big reaction. This is my I didn't 863 00:57:24.320 --> 00:57:27.239 really pay attention to it, so if anything wrong, let me know. 864 00:57:27.280 --> 00:57:29.440 But it's like, what do you what's your take on all that? I 865 00:57:29.440 --> 00:57:32.239 don't know. Yeah, I mean there's only like so much I want to 866 00:57:32.239 --> 00:57:38.360 say for the sake of employability. But also like the video itself very much 867 00:57:38.400 --> 00:57:45.000 so felt made for TikTok and felt weirdly like watching conservative media, where like 868 00:57:45.480 --> 00:57:50.920 it was just like this is why you should Yeah. Yeah, it was 869 00:57:51.119 --> 00:57:57.199 very strange tone for IGN of all places to be taking and I think that 870 00:57:57.280 --> 00:58:02.800 the message overall was pretty it wasn't a fair framing of what was actually said. 871 00:58:04.239 --> 00:58:08.079 As someone that like covers journalism and like Deston's he has like a ba 872 00:58:08.079 --> 00:58:12.559 in media, like he knows the stuff that framing is very important, and 873 00:58:12.599 --> 00:58:17.599 so I think he really should have been more aware that like, this isn't 874 00:58:17.639 --> 00:58:21.719 a particularly honest way to frame this. This is a way to frameless that 875 00:58:21.760 --> 00:58:25.199 will get people entice to talk about ISH, But what sort of people are 876 00:58:25.199 --> 00:58:30.280 you getting talking about HISH? And even underneath the comments, you go underneath 877 00:58:30.280 --> 00:58:32.800 the comments of that IGN thing, it's not people flaming them being like, 878 00:58:32.840 --> 00:58:36.960 hey, this is this is cringe. It's a load of people who are 879 00:58:36.960 --> 00:58:40.079 like, yeah, these fucking lazy game developers. We've been saying this, 880 00:58:40.159 --> 00:58:45.519 and now even IGNA saying this, We were fucking right, and it doesn't 881 00:58:45.559 --> 00:58:50.840 help anyone. And I think, and for the reason it's an unfair way 882 00:58:50.880 --> 00:58:54.000 to present it is because like Larry and are in an extremely unique position. 883 00:58:54.159 --> 00:58:59.079 They are a independent developer who don't have a publisher over them, who have 884 00:58:59.159 --> 00:59:04.119 made enough money from their other projects that they can have an extremely long yeah, 885 00:59:04.199 --> 00:59:08.039 that they can have an extremely long development time. They also had early 886 00:59:08.079 --> 00:59:12.199 access to have money flowing in for a long time and get feedback for a 887 00:59:12.199 --> 00:59:15.880 long time, like most game developers don't have this. So framing the framing 888 00:59:15.920 --> 00:59:21.519 the story as like old Balder's Gate is so good compared to other games just 889 00:59:21.679 --> 00:59:25.440 feels unfair because like, those other games aren't trying to even pursue what Balder's 890 00:59:25.480 --> 00:59:30.400 Gate is pursuing. Yeah, I wasn't a fan of the video, and 891 00:59:30.920 --> 00:59:35.000 I think that the best thing they can do from me is like just take 892 00:59:35.039 --> 00:59:39.519 the l and move on, And like, I don't want people ranging destined 893 00:59:39.519 --> 00:59:43.559 for it for ages because Destin has done good work in the past, and 894 00:59:43.639 --> 00:59:45.760 like, sometimes you just have to get the work done on the day and 895 00:59:45.960 --> 00:59:49.800 you write something that later you look back on and you go, well, 896 00:59:49.840 --> 00:59:52.960 that was probably a bit too inflammatory, and I've done that and I felt 897 00:59:52.960 --> 00:59:55.239 bad about it afterwards, So like, I get it exactly. That's where 898 00:59:55.239 --> 00:59:58.079 I'm I'm like, I know I've done it on this show, where I 899 00:59:58.199 --> 01:00:00.960 might might have used an example of a game doing well to be like and 900 01:00:01.000 --> 01:00:05.440 this is why this other thing is bad. I use I think like in 901 01:00:05.679 --> 01:00:07.519 the game, like the example Boulders, I think, you know, we 902 01:00:07.559 --> 01:00:10.880 always try to be careful, don't use a game to attack another game or 903 01:00:10.960 --> 01:00:14.800 other developers or things like that. And maybe he didn't mention anyone specifically. 904 01:00:14.800 --> 01:00:19.840 Again, I'm catching up on this, but I think it's worth actually exploring 905 01:00:19.840 --> 01:00:22.840 these ideas. I understand it's like that this video didn't really actually explore anything. 906 01:00:22.880 --> 01:00:27.400 It just kind of echoed all of that sort of vitriol that you get 907 01:00:27.440 --> 01:00:30.800 from outrage merchants on YouTube and things like that. But yeah, I don't 908 01:00:30.800 --> 01:00:34.960 know. If anything, I hope Boulders Day three makes more people consider early 909 01:00:35.000 --> 01:00:37.000 access as a as a viable way to make your game. But that's just 910 01:00:37.119 --> 01:00:39.960 that's it. You know, if other developers can't make that work for whatever 911 01:00:40.000 --> 01:00:44.079 reason, that's fine. I'm not going to come out. Has reminded me 912 01:00:44.559 --> 01:00:50.000 Hades two is launching at some point this year. Yeah, it's an early 913 01:00:50.039 --> 01:00:52.199 access of this year. And boy, that's just the most frightening things. 914 01:00:52.440 --> 01:00:55.320 What if I want to play that and I'm gonna want to play it and 915 01:00:55.480 --> 01:01:00.639 I'm not gonna have time for that. I'm so scared they're all going to 916 01:01:00.679 --> 01:01:04.800 be It's been a year of like hot companions. There's been too many hot 917 01:01:04.840 --> 01:01:09.039 companions in the Hottest companions. Yes, who else? Yes, there you 918 01:01:09.119 --> 01:01:14.800 go go on Louis from from Pickman four as well, So there we go. 919 01:01:15.760 --> 01:01:17.559 All right, everybody, let's uh. I think we're gonna get out 920 01:01:17.559 --> 01:01:21.000 of here. LEXI, thank you so much for spending today talk with me 921 01:01:21.039 --> 01:01:23.039 about video games. Yeah. I always pleasure, always fun. We'll be 922 01:01:23.039 --> 01:01:27.519 back with another episode on Wednesday here on Giant Bomb. Speaking of Giant Bomb, 923 01:01:27.840 --> 01:01:30.199 later today, I will be streaming more Mortal Kombat, so we're making 924 01:01:30.239 --> 01:01:34.159 that happen. Try to keep the story mode going along. We got about 925 01:01:34.199 --> 01:01:37.360 a third of the way through the MK nine campaign. We'll make some more 926 01:01:37.400 --> 01:01:39.800 progress today. I'm looking questions for you, so I might need a swing 927 01:01:39.840 --> 01:01:42.840 by yes, swing on end. I'll be in the I'll be in this 928 01:01:42.920 --> 01:01:45.480 room so everyone that's friends of the psy could swing on end. I did. 929 01:01:45.519 --> 01:01:49.719 I did, I like did an at friends of the site thing in 930 01:01:49.760 --> 01:01:52.400 our chat here in this thing. And it turns out if you click on 931 01:01:52.480 --> 01:01:55.880 like that notification, it just brings you into this room. So people people 932 01:01:55.880 --> 01:01:59.599 were just like, oh, what is this And I'm like, oh, 933 01:01:59.599 --> 01:02:00.800 thanks for join, and I didn't realize that was what's going to happen. 934 01:02:00.840 --> 01:02:04.199 And they're like, why did you do this? I'm like, I am, 935 01:02:04.239 --> 01:02:07.679 I'm sorry. I did not mean yes. And then you have to 936 01:02:07.719 --> 01:02:09.760 tell me that you can't actually do this right now. I didn't mean to 937 01:02:09.760 --> 01:02:13.320 put you in that position, but I'm an old man. I don't know 938 01:02:13.280 --> 01:02:15.599 how technology works. All right, you're the best audience in gaming. We'll 939 01:02:15.599 --> 01:02:19.000 be We'll be back at the BombCast tomorrow. Until then, have a good 940 01:02:19.000 --> 01:02:20.880 one, take care of yourself and goodbye.