WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:12.720 Yo, don't be bad. It's the Internet. You're busy. Let's do 2 00:00:12.839 --> 00:00:16.239 this for October thirtieth, twenty twenty three. For the next hour or so, 3 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:19.280 let me help you sort through the world of gaming on Game mess Mornings 4 00:00:19.320 --> 00:00:23.960 Live with Me Jeff Grubb. Today, Nintendo has a surprising new patent that 5 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:27.760 has people speculating about the switch to But first, please join me and welcome 6 00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:31.399 me today's co host the Game Mess Mornings. It's Evan Campbell. Everybody. 7 00:00:31.440 --> 00:00:35.159 Evan, how are you doing? Yo? I'm doing pretty good. Actually 8 00:00:35.200 --> 00:00:38.320 I got sick. I'm like right after You're like, hey, come on 9 00:00:38.359 --> 00:00:41.399 the show, and I was like, I'll be fine by Monday. Coach 10 00:00:41.479 --> 00:00:44.799 the soccer game on Saturday. I'm like, I'll be better. I can 11 00:00:44.840 --> 00:00:47.600 do this. So I apologize everybody. I'm sorry. What's up? Giant 12 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:50.200 bomb, what's up? Game mess Chat? I'm excited to be here. 13 00:00:50.240 --> 00:00:53.280 You're gonna do awesome like that because the voice. All you gotta do is 14 00:00:53.399 --> 00:00:56.640 just you whisper those sweet video game nothings to me and I'll do the I'll 15 00:00:56.679 --> 00:01:00.920 do all the yelling for you. Screen exactly. Screen. Oh my god, 16 00:01:02.359 --> 00:01:04.599 Evan, where my people have seen your work? What do you have 17 00:01:04.680 --> 00:01:07.959 going on right now? Tell people about yourself. Oh, man, I've 18 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:11.120 been doing really good lately, honestly, because I got laid off in August. 19 00:01:11.159 --> 00:01:15.280 I was at Rooster Teeth and I've just been taking a huge break. 20 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:19.000 So I was running the Inside Gaming channel for like I don't know, on 21 00:01:19.079 --> 00:01:23.400 my own for at least a year. We started as ten in like twenty 22 00:01:23.439 --> 00:01:26.599 nineteen, right there was a shuttering, then there was three, then a 23 00:01:26.640 --> 00:01:29.359 year later there was two, and then there was just me for a little 24 00:01:29.400 --> 00:01:32.359 while. Then they added more people to Inside Gaming, and then I got 25 00:01:32.439 --> 00:01:34.560 laid off well, and then they offered me part time and I was like, 26 00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:38.079 nah, I hit me out of here. So I was doing a 27 00:01:38.120 --> 00:01:41.879 weekend news show called The Weekend Roundup, which was originally written by Brian gar 28 00:01:41.959 --> 00:01:42.879 when he got laid off. Then I had to write it, and then 29 00:01:42.920 --> 00:01:46.599 I was doing like videos in between. So if you want to see my 30 00:01:46.640 --> 00:01:48.920 old work, you can go there. I've been in an industry for a 31 00:01:48.920 --> 00:01:52.640 long time. It started at GameTrailers dot com way back when, and then 32 00:01:52.840 --> 00:01:53.640 like when I got laid off, a bunch of people just went to my 33 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:57.400 personal YouTube channel. I'd like three hundred people is that much, But it's 34 00:01:57.400 --> 00:02:01.239 more than I thought. And so, like I've I've been slowly starting to 35 00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:05.840 build up, you know, things behind the scenes to start producing content over 36 00:02:05.879 --> 00:02:07.759 there. So like this week, I'm going to do a video on Silo 37 00:02:08.120 --> 00:02:12.960 and the Fallout show that got announced last week. But it's just been slow 38 00:02:13.000 --> 00:02:15.960 going. So I've been at home with kids and just you know, yeah, 39 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:21.599 absolutely, what is it when you look about, hey, I'm going 40 00:02:21.639 --> 00:02:25.240 to start making content on my own or start getting stuff working and making videos, 41 00:02:25.240 --> 00:02:28.680 how do you decide like what you're going to tackle Because I mean, 42 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:31.159 you know, you see YouTube people have a lot of success in niching down 43 00:02:31.319 --> 00:02:35.000 like hey, really focusing on stuff, but I have I'm like, I 44 00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:37.120 want to do so many different things. I have a hard time with that. 45 00:02:37.240 --> 00:02:38.879 Did do you have a difficult time with that? Yeah, there's definitely 46 00:02:38.919 --> 00:02:42.919 a split between like, hey, this is what works on YouTube and this 47 00:02:43.000 --> 00:02:45.400 is what the algorithm will promote. I get to learn a lot about that 48 00:02:45.400 --> 00:02:47.879 because Inside Gaming has over a million subscribers, I think it's only about like 49 00:02:47.879 --> 00:02:52.400 one hundred thousand active. Honestly, though, those numbers like that don't make 50 00:02:52.400 --> 00:02:55.000 sense anymore. YouTube YouTube doesn't make sense anymore. Yeah, So yeah, 51 00:02:55.120 --> 00:02:59.000 there's definitely a divide between like I want to interview developers. I want to 52 00:02:59.039 --> 00:03:01.400 go to their studio and talk to them and put faces and names and things 53 00:03:01.439 --> 00:03:05.719 like that. But like anytime I've done an interview at Inside Gaming, it 54 00:03:05.800 --> 00:03:08.520 usually performs low. Right, Like we're in our heyday getting like one hundred 55 00:03:08.520 --> 00:03:12.520 thousand views on average. You do an interview and it gets thirty thousand, 56 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:14.960 It's like, oh, well that's you know, you're not going to be 57 00:03:15.000 --> 00:03:17.159 able to get people to sell that, like even at your own company or 58 00:03:17.159 --> 00:03:20.159 whatever, so you got to pick it. But when you're doing it for 59 00:03:20.199 --> 00:03:22.520 yourself, it's like you just do it for the love, I guess, 60 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:25.479 And so like I've been thinking a lot about that, but I've also been 61 00:03:25.520 --> 00:03:29.639 thinking about like how to grow YouTube. You need consistent content, like a 62 00:03:29.680 --> 00:03:31.439 certain length and that sort of thing. So I'm trying to like plug in 63 00:03:31.479 --> 00:03:35.520 all the holes but then also make room for me to be able to like 64 00:03:35.560 --> 00:03:38.039 do interesting and cool stuff, which I'm hoping. But you know, I've 65 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:40.840 been without a computer for a little bit. I was waiting for the Apple 66 00:03:40.960 --> 00:03:45.919 M three's oh you're getting get announced, And now today we're going to see 67 00:03:45.919 --> 00:03:47.599 what the details are, and then I'll probably pick up one of those bad 68 00:03:47.639 --> 00:03:51.479 boys if I don't know if it's happened yet, but I'm going to check 69 00:03:51.479 --> 00:03:55.039 after the show. Yeah. I got my my wife MacBook air in one 70 00:03:55.080 --> 00:03:59.080 when I first got announced, and I'm like, what have I got you? 71 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:00.840 The one of the new M three ones, and I take that one. 72 00:04:01.080 --> 00:04:04.000 So I have a computer that has a battery that actually lasts. That 73 00:04:04.039 --> 00:04:08.840 would be nice. So I'm in the same boat, Evan. I'm really 74 00:04:08.840 --> 00:04:11.159 glad you're hanging out with me today. I appreciate it. Let's uh, 75 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:14.159 let's explain what we do here most weekdays. I, Jeff Greb will help 76 00:04:14.199 --> 00:04:16.879 piece your gaming life back together. That includes breaking news and maybe even some 77 00:04:16.920 --> 00:04:20.720 of our own original reporting. For all these topics, I'll get the input 78 00:04:20.759 --> 00:04:24.480 of a bona fide expert who will make me look smart. If you are 79 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:27.920 watching live on twitch welcome. You can always listen to the show later on 80 00:04:27.959 --> 00:04:31.399 podcast feeds by search you for game as Mornings, or find therss on giant 81 00:04:31.439 --> 00:04:35.319 bomb dot com. You can also catch the show later with chapters and timestamps 82 00:04:35.360 --> 00:04:40.240 on YouTube. Hello YouTube. All right, we have a lot to get 83 00:04:40.240 --> 00:04:44.959 into, so Let's start the morning mess with Nintendo patents dual screen gaming device 84 00:04:45.040 --> 00:04:48.519 that can be split in half. This comes from Bobby Anhalt at Game Rant. 85 00:04:49.079 --> 00:04:54.199 Nintendo's Nintendo recently filed a patent for a dual screen detachable device, with 86 00:04:54.279 --> 00:04:58.839 the Switch to being Nintendo's worst kept secret, every patent leak that emerges raises 87 00:04:58.879 --> 00:05:01.120 an eyebrow from fans who are eager to get a first look at the next 88 00:05:01.160 --> 00:05:05.560 generation. Report of the Switch's success or appearing appearing at games Com behind closed 89 00:05:05.560 --> 00:05:11.800 door doors have fueled the discussion and speculation online as to what the next Nintendo 90 00:05:11.839 --> 00:05:15.639 console might be and when it might be released. The Switch is enjoyed more 91 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:17.879 than six years of being one of Nintendo's most successful pieces of hardware ever. 92 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:21.879 With eyes on this latest patent, speculation is brewing as to what exactly the 93 00:05:21.959 --> 00:05:27.560 strange new device could be and how and how it fits into Nintendo's future hardware 94 00:05:27.600 --> 00:05:30.800 plans. Should be noted that many Nintendo patents never become consumer products, but 95 00:05:30.839 --> 00:05:38.720 obviously some do as well. This this patent EVAN shows something that looks a 96 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:43.680 lot like a DS or a three DS, except for has a screen on 97 00:05:43.720 --> 00:05:49.319 the outside and then it also splits apart. Just let's operate under the assumption 98 00:05:49.399 --> 00:05:53.920 that this could be the switch too. We'll have a discussion about like the 99 00:05:53.959 --> 00:05:58.279 reality or the possibility of that actually coming to fruition. But is this something 100 00:05:58.319 --> 00:06:00.959 that is that sounds exciting to you? This? Does this sound like a 101 00:06:00.040 --> 00:06:03.319 Nintendo follow up to the switch for a switch to? What do you think? 102 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:08.319 I love this? I love it. It sounds very Nintendo in a 103 00:06:08.360 --> 00:06:11.759 way. That's like how they how would they possibly pull this pull this off? 104 00:06:12.439 --> 00:06:15.279 I love it a lot. But I don't know that this pattern comes 105 00:06:15.720 --> 00:06:19.680 excuse me, not a perfect time where we're just we're getting hyper switch to 106 00:06:19.959 --> 00:06:24.040 we know, probably first half of next year, maybe March, uh and 107 00:06:24.079 --> 00:06:27.759 there. So like hearing rumors about the patterns is similar to me when we 108 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:31.000 heard rumors or that saw the pattern for Gyros when the we right was about 109 00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:33.560 to come out. So it's like, yeah, this really could be this 110 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:36.319 could be the thing, and this would be the way to really like I 111 00:06:36.319 --> 00:06:39.759 didn't think of this. I didn't think they would have. Like what gets 112 00:06:39.800 --> 00:06:43.079 me is the when it's closed. The screen on the top is also a 113 00:06:43.079 --> 00:06:46.720 touch screen, right, which is super fascinating. Right here on this video. 114 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:49.040 Yes, there it is. Yeah, yeah, and then you can 115 00:06:49.079 --> 00:06:53.000 imagine doing like what if they brought like street pass back and you don't even 116 00:06:53.079 --> 00:06:55.800 have to open that thing up to like you know, paying other people or 117 00:06:55.800 --> 00:06:59.279 whatever walking bay. Who knows, but it does seem really really cool and 118 00:06:59.279 --> 00:07:02.040 really, Nintendo, is it legitimate? I mean, could that be it? 119 00:07:02.120 --> 00:07:04.199 Like they said in an article, you know a lot of these pounds 120 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:09.000 get filed and then you never come to fruition. But yeah, that part 121 00:07:09.079 --> 00:07:11.439 kind of hangs me up too. It's like, yeah, maybe this could 122 00:07:11.439 --> 00:07:15.360 be it. But but if we're going straight from switch to switch to and 123 00:07:15.399 --> 00:07:16.519 the rumors so far have been it's not going to be that different. You 124 00:07:16.519 --> 00:07:20.519 know, it's going to be upgraded processor and that sort of thing, So 125 00:07:20.959 --> 00:07:24.920 this wouldn't line up with any of that. And maybe like another generation down 126 00:07:24.959 --> 00:07:27.040 the line. You know, some of these patns they go through and they 127 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:30.279 just hold onto the ears and then they come out you know, a decade 128 00:07:30.319 --> 00:07:33.120 later or whatever. Yeah. So I'm like right there with you in terms 129 00:07:33.160 --> 00:07:36.920 of being excited about this or thinking this is a good idea. Yeah, 130 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:44.319 I think this could totally work. I think creating a way for Nintendo to 131 00:07:44.399 --> 00:07:47.040 bring back a lot of those dual screen games that it did have and make 132 00:07:47.079 --> 00:07:51.240 that work with you know, the three D SDS some we you know, 133 00:07:51.279 --> 00:07:55.079 we use stuff a little bit. I think that would be great. And 134 00:07:55.120 --> 00:07:58.399 I think this is a pretty good gimmick, especially since you know, you 135 00:07:58.480 --> 00:08:01.639 know that you can still all of the single screen games on this device, 136 00:08:01.959 --> 00:08:05.879 and then you get all those dul screen games in there as well. And 137 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:07.519 also I think Nintendo could do some fun stuff if it's like, oh, 138 00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:13.079 what if a home version of the three DS sold like really really well, 139 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:15.800 Like what ideas would people come up with? I don't know, I think 140 00:08:15.800 --> 00:08:20.360 it could be pretty promising. But this so this this filing, the Nintendo 141 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:26.800 submitted it in November eleventh, twenty twenty two, so about you know, 142 00:08:26.839 --> 00:08:28.560 a little bit a little bit more than a year ago, or not a 143 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:31.720 little bit less than a year ago, excuse me. So it feels and 144 00:08:33.240 --> 00:08:35.600 maybe maybe this is something to do with the switch to It feels like, 145 00:08:35.639 --> 00:08:37.919 I don't know, that's kind of soon. They probably would have had stuff 146 00:08:37.919 --> 00:08:43.240 pretty settled by then, you know. At the same time, it's not 147 00:08:43.480 --> 00:08:46.919 so out of the timeline that it's impossible. Maybe they had been working on 148 00:08:46.960 --> 00:08:50.279 it and that's just when they finally got around to patenting the idea. But 149 00:08:50.360 --> 00:08:54.240 I think the more likely saluted answer here is that this is just Nintendo pattenting 150 00:08:54.360 --> 00:08:58.320 its idea to keep it safe. Like you said, I think that's a 151 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:01.799 process that just happens naturally. This companies. They have research and development partner 152 00:09:01.320 --> 00:09:05.000 departments, and then they have legal departments that all, right, we have 153 00:09:05.080 --> 00:09:07.519 this stuff, the work is done. Now we are going to patent it, 154 00:09:07.559 --> 00:09:11.559 because that's literally our job is to see what we're working on and get 155 00:09:11.559 --> 00:09:16.799 it patented. This is probably not going to be the switch too. If 156 00:09:16.840 --> 00:09:20.080 it is, I'll be very happy and excited, but I don't want get 157 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:20.759 people's hopes up. I don't know, what do you think? Yeah, 158 00:09:20.840 --> 00:09:24.279 yeah, I'm inclined to lean that way. This feels like someone that Nintendo 159 00:09:24.399 --> 00:09:28.559 is, like, you know, DS three DS the best selling handheld you 160 00:09:28.559 --> 00:09:31.080 know, one of the best of selling of all time, Like, how 161 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:35.279 do we regain access to those re releases and make money on that stuff, 162 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:39.200 whether it's through a subscription or if you're getting people to pay for that stuff 163 00:09:39.240 --> 00:09:41.320 again, Like that's just money on the table, right, So Nintendo probably 164 00:09:41.360 --> 00:09:43.600 has a department like, hey, what does this look like if we were 165 00:09:43.720 --> 00:09:48.000 to try and imagine a world where we have a new device that complating new 166 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:50.559 games, but also give people access to that old library so we can charge 167 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:54.039 them like the Oneman has to make Nintendo's ability to make money. I think 168 00:09:54.279 --> 00:09:56.720 this feels kind of like what that could be if this is switched too, 169 00:09:56.759 --> 00:10:00.919 though, like you said, like my mind will be blow yep, for 170 00:10:01.000 --> 00:10:03.720 sure, you can imagine what the like the first video of them announcing it, 171 00:10:03.759 --> 00:10:07.120 and it's like it soone's holding it like a like a switch, and 172 00:10:07.200 --> 00:10:11.559 it probably looks pretty sleek because this is their Uh they're probably still revising the 173 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:15.720 switch design. But now they have this thing. Oh you pop it open 174 00:10:15.759 --> 00:10:18.960 and now look at dual screens and oh my god, that it can transform 175 00:10:18.039 --> 00:10:22.840 that much. Uh. This patent does also mention the fact that it can 176 00:10:22.879 --> 00:10:26.960 split apart, so it might feel like it might continue that the joycon idea 177 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:28.519 of like oh, sharing the fund, someone's sitting next to you, hand 178 00:10:28.559 --> 00:10:31.600 them a joy con. Well, now, no, you hand them an 179 00:10:31.720 --> 00:10:35.519 entire screen. I suppose that is what? Does it have its own processing? 180 00:10:35.600 --> 00:10:37.639 Doesn't know that? Is that that? Then? No, it's like 181 00:10:37.679 --> 00:10:41.720 beaming the video wirelessly from the thing right next to it, kind of like 182 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:46.480 the we you uh I Again, I could see that being the case. 183 00:10:46.879 --> 00:10:50.679 I could also see that being a very very much a nightmare for trying to 184 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:54.759 sell devices to children who will definitely lose one half of this thing almost certainly. 185 00:10:56.159 --> 00:10:58.759 But that's also promising for like, oh you can then, yes, 186 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:03.000 when it's handheld, it's two devices yet, you know, spread apart, 187 00:11:03.039 --> 00:11:05.519 and then there's two things happening on each screen. But when you're just one 188 00:11:05.519 --> 00:11:09.120 person playing on the TV, well, the thing you're holding is probably going 189 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:11.039 to be this device, and then the video gets being wirelessly to the TEF 190 00:11:11.080 --> 00:11:13.919 some somehow through a dongle or something like that, and then you can have 191 00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:18.120 a TV dual screen device. So yeah, I was watching the Nintendo Prime 192 00:11:18.200 --> 00:11:24.159 video yesterday or I forget. It's like another rumor guy who was saying like 193 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:26.840 they're pretty certain there's still going to be a DOC. So I can imagine 194 00:11:26.840 --> 00:11:30.200 what that screen on the back of you there's just doc and it's like Mario's 195 00:11:30.240 --> 00:11:33.600 face. Yeah, that's really good. I think something clever. For me, 196 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:37.960 the idea of detachable screen is actually seems a little bit better than the 197 00:11:39.159 --> 00:11:43.279 joy con situation because you can then have a lot more room for like ergonomics 198 00:11:43.279 --> 00:11:46.720 and stuff. Make a company controller and then remove that screen hes they make 199 00:11:46.759 --> 00:11:52.440 like bigger screens and stuff like I don't know for I also kidding, but 200 00:11:52.919 --> 00:11:56.399 just get an excited thinking applications where it's like, oh, you remember when 201 00:11:56.440 --> 00:12:01.200 Google had the like really easy like VR stuff like you you just slide that 202 00:12:01.240 --> 00:12:05.919 thing into like a cardboard mode bo and Google Cardboard. Yeah, just really 203 00:12:05.960 --> 00:12:11.360 creative ideas there. I kind of almost wish for like thumb scenarios, like 204 00:12:11.360 --> 00:12:13.080 a switch pro would be more of a tablet form factor. Then you could 205 00:12:13.120 --> 00:12:16.639 just bring your like your switch pro controller in a case or something and then 206 00:12:16.759 --> 00:12:18.200 have that bigger screen that's like takes up bus from it a lot. Like 207 00:12:18.279 --> 00:12:22.240 something like that be cool. But that's like this definitely seems kind of still 208 00:12:22.279 --> 00:12:26.320 in that pocket device kind of realm. And yeah, and I think a 209 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:28.159 lot of people are waiting for their favorite three DS games to come back, 210 00:12:28.200 --> 00:12:31.919 So yeah, I mean, listen, we get a link between worlds, 211 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:37.600 I'll be thrilled for sure. Yeah. I think that there's a lot of 212 00:12:37.639 --> 00:12:41.720 promise here, but I do wonder where this actually manifests. This could be 213 00:12:41.720 --> 00:12:45.440 the kind of thing where it's actually what we're doing here is we're patenting a 214 00:12:45.639 --> 00:12:50.840 fun like toy that we're going to use to do like a three DS or 215 00:12:50.840 --> 00:12:54.039 a DS Mini and then it has like some fun extras in there and it 216 00:12:54.120 --> 00:12:56.279 spreads like it splits apart and could do all these other fun things. So 217 00:12:56.600 --> 00:13:01.240 yeah, we'll see, uh, we'll see how it actually comes together or 218 00:13:01.399 --> 00:13:05.679 it becomes a product at all. What's that I said? Either way, 219 00:13:05.720 --> 00:13:09.080 I'm going to buy it right exactly. Oh yeah, buy it or suckers, 220 00:13:09.120 --> 00:13:13.399 it's it's game over. Yeah yeah jmih Christmas Eve reminds me that there's 221 00:13:13.399 --> 00:13:18.120 a patent of like the weu being able to put like a bunch of WU 222 00:13:18.200 --> 00:13:22.639 tablets side by side and then like the video display like continues like it knows 223 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:26.600 where the other one is and like so you can draw like a map from 224 00:13:26.639 --> 00:13:31.519 one to the other. Yeah, so they have like this idea of wireless 225 00:13:31.519 --> 00:13:35.879 connected displays, but we'll see it just seems maybe a bit too much for 226 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:39.080 what they would want to do with the switch to So yeah, like you 227 00:13:39.120 --> 00:13:43.320 said, maybe down the line, we'll see ye all right. Next story 228 00:13:43.320 --> 00:13:46.480 here a new Nintendo Switch O lead bundle is about to be released in This 229 00:13:46.559 --> 00:13:50.679 is probably the last one before the new Switch. This is from Bill bil 230 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:54.679 Kuhn, who is a pretty prolific leaker. We're getting close to the holiday 231 00:13:54.679 --> 00:13:58.840 season and Nintendo is obviously keeping keeps releasing new bundles on this occasion, and 232 00:14:00.240 --> 00:14:03.639 many of these packs have just been launched for this month of October alone. 233 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:07.559 Among them, we have seen the Nintendo Switched Sports Bundle, which is released 234 00:14:07.559 --> 00:14:11.679 in October twentieth, or did release October twentieth. The Nintendo Switch Light Animal 235 00:14:11.759 --> 00:14:16.679 Crossing New Horizons Edition Bundle, which is in two variants. There's like a 236 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:18.519 pink one and I think a blue one, and that Alswitch came out October 237 00:14:18.519 --> 00:14:22.360 twentieth. I think that looks really good, by the way. And the 238 00:14:22.440 --> 00:14:26.679 Mario Kart eight Deluxe Switch Bundle released in North America on October sixth. But 239 00:14:26.759 --> 00:14:30.600 there's going to be another Mario cart eight Deluxe Bundle, of course, because 240 00:14:30.679 --> 00:14:33.039 Nintendo just can't get enough of bundling Mario cart Eate Deluxe, this time in 241 00:14:33.080 --> 00:14:35.360 the Europe and the United States. It's going to be bundled with the O 242 00:14:35.559 --> 00:14:39.600 lead for the first time. Yes, and apparently this is coming out. 243 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:43.679 It's sometime in November. It will be three hundred and fifty US dollars three 244 00:14:43.759 --> 00:14:48.759 hundred and ten British pounds and I think three hundred and fifty euros. Nintendo, 245 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:52.200 I just can't get it. You think everyone has Mario cart eight Deluxe, 246 00:14:52.200 --> 00:14:54.519 fine now, but nope, they keep finding new people to sell it 247 00:14:54.559 --> 00:14:58.759 to, and people when they get the switch, they want to have Mario 248 00:14:58.840 --> 00:15:01.120 Kart with it and mus have been a match made in heaven. So not 249 00:15:01.399 --> 00:15:05.279 too surprising, but the idea of like, hey, that Mario Curdie Bundle 250 00:15:05.120 --> 00:15:09.679 in the Red Box is back again this year, and also there's the O 251 00:15:09.799 --> 00:15:11.799 led Mario Curdiate Deluxe Bundle. It's kind of funny from Nintendo at this point. 252 00:15:11.799 --> 00:15:16.559 What do you think? Yeah, it's just slightly better, right, 253 00:15:16.679 --> 00:15:20.399 just being able to play it on that better screen because the screen I personally 254 00:15:20.679 --> 00:15:22.559 didn't justify it at the time, But then you get hit with these bundles 255 00:15:22.559 --> 00:15:28.240 like that. Well maybe maybe now, oh yeah, yeah, I mean 256 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:33.600 I think it's obviously for people upgrading, they're still like hege, it's out 257 00:15:33.639 --> 00:15:37.279 there with the coold either cool designs or just say by now maybe that screen 258 00:15:37.279 --> 00:15:39.759 has worn you down, but for because you almost certainly have Mario Curdiate Deluxe 259 00:15:39.759 --> 00:15:43.279 in some form at this point. So this is definitely just aimed at that 260 00:15:43.399 --> 00:15:46.240 audience of people who maybe just saw the Mario movie and now they're like, 261 00:15:46.279 --> 00:15:48.840 hey, yeah, I'm gonna get the Switch this holiday. I'm gonna wait 262 00:15:48.879 --> 00:15:52.200 for a deal or a bundle, and when they go to the store, 263 00:15:52.279 --> 00:15:54.879 this is going to be the bundle on the shelf that they are most likely 264 00:15:54.919 --> 00:15:58.840 going to get if they want that upgraded oled version. Yeah, it's extended 265 00:15:58.919 --> 00:16:02.720 everyone audience, you know, grandparents, aunts and uncles and stuff at the 266 00:16:02.759 --> 00:16:04.200 best Buy or whatever, and they see the bundle like, oh, Mario 267 00:16:04.279 --> 00:16:07.200 Kart and like, I love this when I was a kid. I'm gonna 268 00:16:07.200 --> 00:16:08.919 get it for my you know kid who probably doesn't have a Switch yet, 269 00:16:08.919 --> 00:16:11.799 who just turned five or six or seven or something like that. That's that's 270 00:16:11.799 --> 00:16:15.799 an easy just you know, Nintendo going through the motions. They know what, 271 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:18.559 they know what to do, they know how to spell those boxes. 272 00:16:18.759 --> 00:16:22.840 Now, the real reason I included this here is that we basically have had 273 00:16:22.879 --> 00:16:27.000 it Mario Kart eight Deluxe Bundle every year of the Switch is life. I 274 00:16:27.039 --> 00:16:30.679 think even in that first year they did a bundle, but if they did, 275 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:33.639 it was definitely the year after and every year since. Uh. Clearly 276 00:16:33.960 --> 00:16:40.360 Mario Kart is key to Nintendo selling selling hardware, at least in their opinion, 277 00:16:40.440 --> 00:16:42.840 like that's it's a huge part of the process of doing that. So 278 00:16:42.879 --> 00:16:48.960 when we get around to a switch to Mario Kart nine's got to be up 279 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:52.799 front early on, you would think, right, or what I feel like, 280 00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:57.879 the timing is more uh probably set up for another uh I don't want 281 00:16:57.919 --> 00:17:02.279 to use this word here place, but another mainline Mario game. No, 282 00:17:03.759 --> 00:17:07.920 yes, whatever, the Bassarspiary stuff is going to end up being. I 283 00:17:07.200 --> 00:17:11.799 think that that probably lines it up, and then Mario Kart eight maybe maybe 284 00:17:11.799 --> 00:17:15.680 it comes late. I don't know how you create a package that looks better 285 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:18.599 than Deluxe, right, And I don't know if it's concerned with that, 286 00:17:18.880 --> 00:17:21.160 but I think you would have to at least say, like I mean, 287 00:17:21.160 --> 00:17:23.119 they're Nintendo. They could probably get away with anything. People will just hand 288 00:17:23.119 --> 00:17:26.200 them their money, but you know, you'd want to have a package at 289 00:17:26.319 --> 00:17:30.599 least as good looking in terms of characters and tracks and all that, and 290 00:17:30.599 --> 00:17:34.119 that probably all takes time. So yeah, I don't know that's a good 291 00:17:36.079 --> 00:17:40.440 Obviously you're you're hundreds and instincts are are pretty on the money most of the 292 00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:44.079 time, man, So I wouldn't put it past too Yeah, I would 293 00:17:44.079 --> 00:17:48.559 just imagine that the you know, god, it's been ten years since Mario 294 00:17:48.599 --> 00:17:52.119 Card eight first debuted, right, so we're in that range. It's not 295 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:55.200 too far off of that. And so we're still running on that same game, 296 00:17:55.240 --> 00:17:57.599 and obviously it's still selling. But you know, and that team has 297 00:17:57.599 --> 00:18:03.759 been making maps now for your courses for Mario Kart eight Deluxe DLC, and 298 00:18:03.799 --> 00:18:07.480 that's wrapping up right now. I think the last the last one come out 299 00:18:07.559 --> 00:18:10.200 or has it, or it's about to come out something like that. So 300 00:18:10.519 --> 00:18:14.160 yeah, yeah, they are finally, finally, finally, for real, 301 00:18:14.200 --> 00:18:18.440 for real, for real wrapping up mariy Cart eight Deluxe. Uh. I 302 00:18:18.519 --> 00:18:21.920 do think that they're trying to time it so that they kind of don't miss 303 00:18:21.960 --> 00:18:23.920 a beat. And I think in that first year, at the latest that 304 00:18:25.039 --> 00:18:29.400 second year, we get Mario Kart nine, uh something along like they say 305 00:18:29.440 --> 00:18:32.839 they app the mobile versions Mario Kart nine, so we'll call it something else. 306 00:18:33.200 --> 00:18:34.559 Uh. But but yeah, I at that point, like you do 307 00:18:34.880 --> 00:18:37.880 have a good point though the package of marik Cart eight Deluxe at this point 308 00:18:38.240 --> 00:18:42.839 is so robust and so uh and just like so supported after this latest round 309 00:18:42.880 --> 00:18:47.319 of DLC that it's going to be difficult for marik Cart nine to look good 310 00:18:47.400 --> 00:18:51.079 next to that. But I imagine one thing that they don't think consumers will 311 00:18:51.079 --> 00:18:52.960 care. It's a new Mario Kart, and they show up for a new 312 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:55.240 marik Kart, and I think they're probably going to be right about that. 313 00:18:55.640 --> 00:18:59.640 And also I do expect them to go all out. They've been They've been 314 00:18:59.640 --> 00:19:02.160 better about that. The Nintendo is a company that I think I would have 315 00:19:02.200 --> 00:19:06.559 criticized in the past for the new Super Mario Brothers games, being like, 316 00:19:06.599 --> 00:19:08.000 oh, yeah, hey, we have an art style that works, let's 317 00:19:08.079 --> 00:19:12.319 just reuse those assets. And hey, I love when developer uses assets. 318 00:19:12.440 --> 00:19:15.920 I think that's a great way to make more games more quickly and more affordably. 319 00:19:17.519 --> 00:19:19.319 That's awesome. Nintendo's one of the richest companies in the world. They 320 00:19:19.359 --> 00:19:25.039 don't need to always do that for four Mario games in a row. But 321 00:19:25.119 --> 00:19:26.960 they're like, no, you know what, now we got wonder We're going 322 00:19:26.039 --> 00:19:29.200 to take our time with it. We're going to put a ton of new 323 00:19:29.279 --> 00:19:32.160 new ideas in it. We are actually going to think about the visual style 324 00:19:32.200 --> 00:19:33.359 and how to upgrade it. And I'm like, okay, if they're doing 325 00:19:33.400 --> 00:19:37.720 that with Mario, I think they would probably have a similar approach to Mario 326 00:19:37.839 --> 00:19:41.839 Kart, where it's like, let's put a little extra effort either into the 327 00:19:41.880 --> 00:19:45.160 visuals or maybe into the presentation of like, oh, it's not just Mario 328 00:19:45.240 --> 00:19:48.440 now it is a Nintendo racer, and how do we bridge that gap from 329 00:19:48.480 --> 00:19:52.119 it being Mario Karts to the Nintendo Kart. Probably still call it Mario Kart, 330 00:19:52.119 --> 00:19:55.960 but you know, have some way of like bringing all that into the 331 00:19:55.960 --> 00:19:59.160 game. And I'm like, yeah, that would be I think a very 332 00:19:59.200 --> 00:20:02.200 big success in terms of, oh, well, now this is a new 333 00:20:02.240 --> 00:20:06.119 Mario Kart that I have to have because this was never possible before to race 334 00:20:06.160 --> 00:20:08.839 around as you know, whatever characters that they would end up bringing in there 335 00:20:10.039 --> 00:20:11.519 samus I suppose. I don't know, does that sound right to you? 336 00:20:11.920 --> 00:20:15.359 We've got to be thinking about the long stretch right after the Mario Kart eight 337 00:20:15.440 --> 00:20:18.000 DLC stuff. I mean, that was an old game when they ported it, 338 00:20:18.039 --> 00:20:21.960 and then there's selling content on it and just like you know, turn 339 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:25.759 on the money fascet. So there's there's got to be plans for any type 340 00:20:25.759 --> 00:20:29.720 of game like that where they're going to have like an extended content plan. 341 00:20:30.119 --> 00:20:32.599 So that kind of scares me a little bit. So maybe even like you 342 00:20:32.599 --> 00:20:36.200 said, like a new Mario Kart nine or ten Mario Kart X, if 343 00:20:36.200 --> 00:20:40.519 you will, we'll come out with a small offering and then they're like, 344 00:20:40.559 --> 00:20:42.160 well, we got all these DLC packs, you can you know, pay 345 00:20:42.200 --> 00:20:45.440 an extra thirty bucks you'll get all that stuff or whatever. So people are 346 00:20:45.440 --> 00:20:48.880 just gonnad up saying paying paying one hundred bucks for that soccer ie or it's 347 00:20:48.920 --> 00:20:52.759 not soccer eye gosh, who is the Smash Brothers guy, Smash it's gonna 348 00:20:52.759 --> 00:20:56.400 have the same problem, sachirist the Smash guy, And we're actually we're talking 349 00:20:56.400 --> 00:21:00.240 about him prey pretty soon. Actually there's a for you. But yeah, 350 00:21:00.240 --> 00:21:03.319 he was saying something similar about, you know, how do you follow up 351 00:21:03.480 --> 00:21:06.000 to Smash Ultimately, Yeah, we have we have that story today. We're 352 00:21:06.000 --> 00:21:07.799 going to talk about it in a little bit. But yeah, I mean 353 00:21:07.720 --> 00:21:11.319 right, no, that's perfect. Now, it's a good teaser. Keep 354 00:21:11.319 --> 00:21:14.359 people hooked, right, that's how you do it. I've never done a 355 00:21:14.400 --> 00:21:19.079 new show before. I don't know. I think that Nintendo is getting better 356 00:21:19.119 --> 00:21:23.319 about that specific problem though, because it's just in the past. I think 357 00:21:23.319 --> 00:21:26.720 they would have just done it by the numbers, and now they're like, 358 00:21:26.960 --> 00:21:30.480 man, we keep holding onto games because like we're gonna slot him in later. 359 00:21:30.559 --> 00:21:33.240 Sometimes we hold on to a game for a year or two years. 360 00:21:33.279 --> 00:21:36.480 What if we just like slowed down the development process a little bit and made 361 00:21:36.519 --> 00:21:38.960 it okay to keep working on a game for a longer period of time to 362 00:21:40.039 --> 00:21:42.960 throw in more cool ideas, and you know we're benefiting from that, as 363 00:21:44.039 --> 00:21:48.000 evidenced by Super Mario Brothers. Wonder I think. So you think we get 364 00:21:48.000 --> 00:21:51.440 like a new double dash mechanic or something with the next Yeah, I think 365 00:21:51.440 --> 00:21:55.480 they'll have a new sort of a double dash like mechanic built in there. 366 00:21:55.599 --> 00:21:57.039 That will be one of the things. And then I think the other gimmick 367 00:21:57.079 --> 00:22:02.400 will be everybody is here. It'll be a big part of it is they'll 368 00:22:02.400 --> 00:22:06.039 start the trailer and it'll be Mario and Luigi and he'll do the desk stare 369 00:22:06.079 --> 00:22:08.000 and they'll have a couple other things and there they'll be like, yes, 370 00:22:08.039 --> 00:22:12.480 this is just Mario Kart. And then suddenly like Samus will pull up and 371 00:22:12.880 --> 00:22:17.720 whoever else. You know. I guess they've had a couple of non Mario 372 00:22:17.799 --> 00:22:21.240 characters in there before, but still, I think they'll go a long way 373 00:22:21.279 --> 00:22:23.359 towards showing this is going to be so exciting. If you're into that wider 374 00:22:23.440 --> 00:22:26.440 Nintendo universe, you're not gonna be able to miss out on that. And 375 00:22:26.480 --> 00:22:30.599 I think that's really going to work for them. Okay, let's take a 376 00:22:30.680 --> 00:22:33.359 quick break. When we get back. We got a lot more news everybody. 377 00:22:33.400 --> 00:22:37.160 We got to Mario Wonder doing really well in the sales charts as expected, 378 00:22:37.680 --> 00:22:41.559 Xbox having some weirdness with their accessories going forward. We'll talk about all 379 00:22:41.599 --> 00:22:51.480 of that right after this, and we're back. We're back, everybody. 380 00:22:51.599 --> 00:22:55.839 The UK charts are out again this week and Mario Wonder has now jumped ahead 381 00:22:55.880 --> 00:22:57.640 of Spider Man two and takes the top spot. This is from Jim Norman 382 00:22:57.960 --> 00:23:02.920 at Nintendo Life. This week's UK box charts are in and has once again 383 00:23:03.039 --> 00:23:06.599 been a tight competition at the top of the pack. Despite picking up the 384 00:23:07.079 --> 00:23:11.000 silver medal in its debut chart appearance, Super Mario Brothers, Wonder has managed 385 00:23:11.039 --> 00:23:14.559 to jump ahead of Marvels Spider Man two this time around and lands in first 386 00:23:14.599 --> 00:23:18.400 place. As word continues to spread, we could see the Flower Kingdom's latest 387 00:23:18.480 --> 00:23:23.279 sticking around in the charts for a while. This basically goes as I think 388 00:23:23.279 --> 00:23:30.440 most people would have predicted. Spider Man two is this massive blockbuster. It's 389 00:23:30.480 --> 00:23:32.960 going to have long legs. It's going to do very well for a very 390 00:23:32.960 --> 00:23:34.440 long time. It's going to be like the PlayStation five game to get. 391 00:23:34.680 --> 00:23:40.279 But two D Mario games are like the long Legs game. They just sell 392 00:23:40.319 --> 00:23:45.000 and sell and sell forever and ever forever. I think New Super Mario Brothers 393 00:23:45.079 --> 00:23:48.279 You Deluxe, the one that came out on the Switch, not including any 394 00:23:48.279 --> 00:23:52.680 of its we use sales, the Port to the Switch sold sixteen million copies, 395 00:23:52.799 --> 00:23:57.440 which is way more than most games sell on a PlayStation or Xbox, 396 00:23:57.519 --> 00:24:02.079 even the biggest games on those platforms. The only games they actually kind of 397 00:24:02.079 --> 00:24:06.480 come close to that or regularly are the Spider Man games. So a brand 398 00:24:06.559 --> 00:24:11.000 new two D Mario that is getting really good reviews and and seems like a 399 00:24:11.039 --> 00:24:14.359 can't miss game was always going to do well at launch. But it's also 400 00:24:14.400 --> 00:24:17.240 one of those games that is going to just sell and sell forever. So 401 00:24:17.319 --> 00:24:21.759 in week two it only had been a fifty five percent decline, which GfK 402 00:24:21.960 --> 00:24:25.359 and Games Industry dapt Is pointed out, that's a pretty good week to week, 403 00:24:25.440 --> 00:24:26.960 Like from week one to week two, it's not bad. It's actually 404 00:24:27.000 --> 00:24:32.119 maintaining a lot of momentum. Spider Man dropped something like sixty six percent or 405 00:24:32.119 --> 00:24:36.400 something like that in that range. So yeah, and that's that's more normal. 406 00:24:36.680 --> 00:24:40.759 So yes, Mario two d Mario maintaining that momentum not too surprising, 407 00:24:40.839 --> 00:24:44.880 right, yeah. I'll also PlayStation five is capped, right, the install 408 00:24:44.880 --> 00:24:48.039 bass a very good point is diinormous. So and like you said, it's 409 00:24:48.079 --> 00:24:49.720 kind of you're just like checking the box. You're like, yes, this 410 00:24:49.759 --> 00:24:52.960 Mario game is going to sell gamebusters, uh, and that's going to be 411 00:24:53.039 --> 00:24:56.920 okay. So yeah, I think just by just by install based alone, 412 00:24:57.000 --> 00:25:00.920 you know, place Spider Man two is out of disab It's impressive how much 413 00:25:00.960 --> 00:25:04.640 it's sold in that sort of thing. And also we just knew this was 414 00:25:04.680 --> 00:25:08.720 going to happen, right yep. Absolutely, And it's the kind of thing 415 00:25:08.759 --> 00:25:14.960 where Spider Man will also be in this chart, in the various charts for 416 00:25:15.079 --> 00:25:18.279 years to come, Like it really will be the Spider Man Marvel Spider Man 417 00:25:18.319 --> 00:25:23.200 in twenty eighteen, and then Miles Morales combined together did something like over thirty 418 00:25:23.240 --> 00:25:27.799 million copies maybe maybe like maybe closer to thirty five million, And that's massive. 419 00:25:27.839 --> 00:25:32.799 That's huge. Most franchises in two games never come anywhere close to that. 420 00:25:33.440 --> 00:25:37.880 But this Mario game could get to twenty five thirty million on its own, 421 00:25:37.039 --> 00:25:40.559 Like that's how big it is. So yeah, a lot of that 422 00:25:40.559 --> 00:25:42.799 will depend on like how it gets ported to the next system or if it's 423 00:25:42.799 --> 00:25:47.720 backward compatible, but if it is, it will easily get to twenty million, 424 00:25:47.799 --> 00:25:49.359 and then beyond that, it's like all that is icing on top of 425 00:25:49.400 --> 00:25:53.960 that. Yeah, for sure. And with the reports of like full supplies 426 00:25:55.000 --> 00:25:57.319 of ps fives and stores, Spider Man two is going this is going to 427 00:25:57.359 --> 00:26:00.880 be hanging in there pretty tight. I saw that, and even like my 428 00:26:00.920 --> 00:26:04.160 wife was a target or something, say there's so many PlayStation fives now, 429 00:26:04.200 --> 00:26:07.000 and I was like, yeah, they said they were going to have a 430 00:26:07.039 --> 00:26:08.880 whole supply for the first time since COVID, So there you go. Yeah, 431 00:26:08.920 --> 00:26:11.440 and they have a little bit of a uh we have a story about 432 00:26:11.440 --> 00:26:15.279 that as well coming up here in a second about them. Likely likely yeah, 433 00:26:15.359 --> 00:26:19.200 no, perfect, They're likely them hitting their very lofty goal that they 434 00:26:19.279 --> 00:26:22.599 had for the beginning of this fiscal year. They're well on their way to 435 00:26:22.640 --> 00:26:26.319 hitting that. We'll get to that in a second. In the meantime, 436 00:26:26.720 --> 00:26:30.640 Xbox will block unauthorized third party controllers. This comes from James Bachelor at Games 437 00:26:30.720 --> 00:26:37.119 Industry Dotiz. Microsoft will block the use of unauthorized third party controllers and accessories 438 00:26:37.160 --> 00:26:41.920 with its Xbox consoles as of next month. Windows Central reported that some users 439 00:26:41.960 --> 00:26:45.279 have already been seen an air message when using such devices warning them that unauthorized 440 00:26:45.279 --> 00:26:49.599 accessories will be unusable with Xbox from November twelfth, twenty twenty three. An 441 00:26:49.640 --> 00:26:56.000 example of the air message says that the user's unauthorized accessory. Unauthorized accessory will 442 00:26:56.039 --> 00:27:00.119 be blocked from eleven twelve, twenty twenty three, people to return to the 443 00:27:00.160 --> 00:27:06.319 store or contact the manufacturer. Microsoft then prompts players to find authorized successories via 444 00:27:06.319 --> 00:27:10.519 the Xbox website. Games Industry dot Is reached out to Microsoft, which confirmed 445 00:27:10.519 --> 00:27:15.559 the air message is authentic. Microsoft and other licensed Xbox hardware partners accessories are 446 00:27:15.599 --> 00:27:21.079 designed and manufactured with quality standards for performance, security, and safety. A 447 00:27:21.160 --> 00:27:25.920 spokesperson told let's see games industry up is that's right, and unauthorized accessories can 448 00:27:26.000 --> 00:27:30.640 compromise the gaming experience on Xbox consoles. Gamers may receive a pop up warding 449 00:27:30.680 --> 00:27:33.720 that their accessory is unauthorized. Eventually, the unauthorized accessory will be blocked from 450 00:27:33.839 --> 00:27:37.839 use to preserve the console gaming experience. For a full list of accessories that 451 00:27:37.839 --> 00:27:44.680 are supported on Xbox consoles, please visit xbox dot com slash accessories. Microsoft's 452 00:27:44.680 --> 00:27:48.000 new policy is expected to come into a full effect from November seventeenth. Some 453 00:27:48.160 --> 00:27:52.200 effective controllers are already unable to connect with the Xbox consoles. Sources told Windows 454 00:27:52.240 --> 00:27:56.519 Central that the new policy lines up with Microsoft's plans to enable third party peripherals 455 00:27:56.640 --> 00:28:02.000 manufacturers to create wireless controllers for xbot. At president, the vast majority of 456 00:28:02.039 --> 00:28:06.119 third party controllers for Xbox consoles are wired, although the first wave of official 457 00:28:06.200 --> 00:28:10.079 third party wireless devices are released earlier this year. Even headsets are only able 458 00:28:10.119 --> 00:28:14.480 to work with Xbox if they receive approval and a special security chip from Microsoft. 459 00:28:15.000 --> 00:28:18.799 I see that. I see Microsoft here evan putting safety and security up 460 00:28:18.839 --> 00:28:25.599 front and foremost, and I suppose that that's probably a thing. It must 461 00:28:25.640 --> 00:28:30.079 be a thing. But do you think that this is the ulterior motive here 462 00:28:30.200 --> 00:28:33.240 is they want to have control over the accessories and get their cut. It's 463 00:28:33.279 --> 00:28:37.039 hard for me to tell. Yeah, I think Microsoft has done such a 464 00:28:37.079 --> 00:28:41.839 good job of building that good guy Xbox image that one stuff like this comes 465 00:28:41.880 --> 00:28:44.000 down, you're like, eh, and you don't question it as much. 466 00:28:44.079 --> 00:28:47.839 But I think definitely one of those moves where they're like, we're just leaving 467 00:28:47.880 --> 00:28:51.720 money on the table here. They could get third party manufacturers to pay them 468 00:28:51.720 --> 00:28:53.880 a license or whatever for I don't know if they've said that outright, but 469 00:28:55.400 --> 00:28:57.039 I would assume that's where they get their proprietary Yeah, wireless tech, you 470 00:28:57.079 --> 00:29:00.759 would assume that's how that would work exactly. I'm assuming that. Yeah. 471 00:29:00.839 --> 00:29:06.319 Yeah, So I think this definitely is like they're moving into an Apple realm 472 00:29:06.480 --> 00:29:10.519 or something like. It's like, well even probably because Apple stuff works with 473 00:29:10.559 --> 00:29:12.920 Bluetooth, and you know, other like what does this do for companies like 474 00:29:14.160 --> 00:29:17.839 eight bit do or eight bit two and you know, I would say like 475 00:29:17.920 --> 00:29:21.160 mad cats, but just because I'm old, sure, but like stuff gaming 476 00:29:21.279 --> 00:29:26.000 or something right which they use the original hardware in some cases with that stuff 477 00:29:26.279 --> 00:29:29.799 so yeah, I'm really curious about this one. But it does seem it 478 00:29:30.200 --> 00:29:33.720 seems like somebody on the top level was like, we're losing money, like 479 00:29:33.839 --> 00:29:37.440 let's lock this stuff down. Yeah, the story says this, and I 480 00:29:37.519 --> 00:29:41.079 figured this is probably the case. A lot of these devices are already Xbox 481 00:29:41.200 --> 00:29:45.240 licensed, and you know that because they have like the Xbox button like built 482 00:29:45.279 --> 00:29:48.720 into their controller and it has the Xbox logo. They wouldn't be able to 483 00:29:48.759 --> 00:29:52.400 use that if they weren't already paying a licensing fee. The likely the most 484 00:29:52.519 --> 00:29:55.720 likely thing is a lot of those companies aren't going to be affected by this. 485 00:29:55.839 --> 00:29:59.440 They are already in that ecosystem there. It probably means good things for 486 00:29:59.519 --> 00:30:03.680 them is they can now start selling official wireless controllers that actually connect natively to 487 00:30:03.799 --> 00:30:07.559 the device without any extra dongles or things like that, and so that, 488 00:30:07.720 --> 00:30:11.440 you know, and the wireless headsets too, Like you're gonna need dongles for 489 00:30:11.519 --> 00:30:15.920 most of those devices because Microsoft has its proprietary wireless there. Because Bluetooth has 490 00:30:15.920 --> 00:30:19.880 been kind of shoddy. Although my pixel updated Evan with uh has a new 491 00:30:21.039 --> 00:30:26.400 codec opus for Bluetooth and it's like, man, the latency on this got 492 00:30:26.440 --> 00:30:29.680 a lot better. It's not perfect, but like it used to be like 493 00:30:29.839 --> 00:30:32.759 watching a video of a movie, like the lip sync was so bad I 494 00:30:32.799 --> 00:30:33.920 almost couldn't watch it, And now it's like, no, that's not a 495 00:30:33.960 --> 00:30:37.279 problem at all. I think maybe for gaming it might still be a little 496 00:30:37.279 --> 00:30:40.599 bit, but who the fuck is gaming on a pixel? Yes, so 497 00:30:41.720 --> 00:30:47.000 this I'm mostly okay with this, as long as perfole manufacturers are able to 498 00:30:47.079 --> 00:30:48.279 do as much support as they always were, and it seems like it's not 499 00:30:48.359 --> 00:30:52.640 really affecting them if it's just trying to like keep out I guess weird third 500 00:30:52.680 --> 00:30:56.519 party Chinese accessory makers. I mean, I like those companies. I usually 501 00:30:56.519 --> 00:31:00.480 get they make a lot of cool stuff. But I suppose I get that 502 00:31:00.599 --> 00:31:03.319 as well, because you know, the consoles are supposed to be mostly locked 503 00:31:03.319 --> 00:31:07.559 down. They are supposed to be these walled guardians of sorts. But you 504 00:31:07.599 --> 00:31:11.680 know, you could plug a mouse and keyboard into your into your Xbox and 505 00:31:11.720 --> 00:31:14.519 it just works like a mouse and keyboard. So this does feel a little 506 00:31:14.519 --> 00:31:18.640 bit out of step with that, right Yeah, And and you lose a 507 00:31:18.680 --> 00:31:22.279 lot of that support for you know, everything that came before, Right, 508 00:31:22.359 --> 00:31:25.039 That's that's kind of the concern. And that's what i'd say too, Like 509 00:31:25.119 --> 00:31:27.359 you're talking about how you know, for safety and security, maybe this is 510 00:31:27.559 --> 00:31:32.480 a better better thing. Also for like product design and development, you're going 511 00:31:32.519 --> 00:31:34.519 to get better quality products. I think with this where you know you're you're 512 00:31:34.559 --> 00:31:37.240 dealing with Microsoft directly, so you know somebody there is going to actually look 513 00:31:37.279 --> 00:31:41.960 at your weird controller or set up whatever you made before. Like they're proving 514 00:31:41.000 --> 00:31:45.680 you to have the proprietary hardware software. So I think that's good. But 515 00:31:45.799 --> 00:31:48.039 but yeah, you're gonna lose that weird stuff that kind of comes out of 516 00:31:48.119 --> 00:31:49.319 left field and like, look at this thing and what it does and how 517 00:31:49.359 --> 00:31:55.920 it works, and I mean it's Xbox is already handling their own accessibility kind 518 00:31:55.960 --> 00:31:59.000 of situation with their own controller. Yeah, and that seems to be going 519 00:31:59.079 --> 00:32:01.200 well. So I would be worried about that. What if somebody needs to 520 00:32:01.319 --> 00:32:05.680 build their own thing for accessibility and now they can't because of this proprietary stuff. 521 00:32:06.400 --> 00:32:08.799 I think that sucks, yes, But you know, outside of that, 522 00:32:09.160 --> 00:32:13.200 I don't know, it will probably mostly be fine. This feels like 523 00:32:13.799 --> 00:32:15.759 it's like, I don't know, just the modern dystopia that we live in 524 00:32:15.839 --> 00:32:21.000 as they keep getting weird and corporations take over everything. Yeah, and the 525 00:32:21.400 --> 00:32:27.240 Xbox Accessibility Controller uses those the phone jackports, which is the standard for accessibility 526 00:32:27.240 --> 00:32:30.240 stuff in general, Like across the board, it's like all these devices use 527 00:32:30.319 --> 00:32:34.680 that phone jackport. I can't remember what the actual technical term is for it, 528 00:32:34.759 --> 00:32:38.319 but the people already are using that to plug things into the wheelchairs and 529 00:32:38.359 --> 00:32:42.640 all these other devices. So the fact that that the Xbox Accessibility Controller has 530 00:32:42.720 --> 00:32:45.200 that there's already a standard that like, oh, Eve, even if this 531 00:32:45.279 --> 00:32:49.359 controller doesn't work for you as is, there's things that you've built for yourself 532 00:32:49.440 --> 00:32:52.799 in other realms, like controlling a wheelchair, you can plug it right into 533 00:32:52.839 --> 00:32:58.559 that Xbox Accessibility Controller and continue interacting with games that way. I'm still sure 534 00:32:58.599 --> 00:33:01.559 though, that people have at actually built their own controllers to have nothing to 535 00:33:01.599 --> 00:33:05.519 do with the accessibility controller, and you would hope that there would be a 536 00:33:05.559 --> 00:33:07.640 way for those to work and without having to be like, well, now 537 00:33:07.640 --> 00:33:10.480 we've got to plug them in and go through the accessibility controller to get through 538 00:33:10.519 --> 00:33:14.440 there. You could see. I can imagine that being cumbersome for some people. 539 00:33:14.640 --> 00:33:16.799 So yeah, you just DM that booty and he delivers that personally to 540 00:33:16.880 --> 00:33:22.319 your house. That's exactly. It's called the booty call, yes exactly. 541 00:33:22.160 --> 00:33:27.720 Uh yeah, we'll see obviously how this plays out. I will say that 542 00:33:27.839 --> 00:33:30.720 I do prefer a world where there are a lot more wireless Xbox controller options 543 00:33:30.759 --> 00:33:34.559 on the market as opposed to all the wired ones that we had. That 544 00:33:34.720 --> 00:33:37.440 was like, hey, those could still get made, but we were always 545 00:33:37.519 --> 00:33:39.079 kind of stuck with Xboxes controller. It's not that they're great. I like 546 00:33:39.200 --> 00:33:42.920 them, but I do like a lot of these third party manufacturers, like 547 00:33:42.960 --> 00:33:45.240 a bit do so I like their ability to do it though, so I 548 00:33:45.440 --> 00:33:47.599 have that option to say I'm going to make a company that does that. 549 00:33:47.799 --> 00:33:52.559 Yes, getting rid of that just it has implications that you or I can't 550 00:33:52.759 --> 00:33:55.400 can't really like fathom right now exactly, and then when it's gone, we 551 00:33:55.519 --> 00:33:59.920 won't know to think about it right exactly. Yes, that's a very good 552 00:34:00.559 --> 00:34:04.799 we don't know what we don't know here all right. PlayStation five is drawing 553 00:34:04.799 --> 00:34:08.119 close to twenty five million units sold in twenty twenty three alone. This comes 554 00:34:08.119 --> 00:34:12.760 from Kieran Harris, a game reactor. There's no doubt whatsoever that the PlayStation 555 00:34:12.840 --> 00:34:15.199 five has been a great success for Sony, and this is despite the fact 556 00:34:15.599 --> 00:34:21.280 the console has sometimes been unreasonably difficult to get a hold of. As we 557 00:34:21.840 --> 00:34:24.719 previously reported, the PlayStation five is no longer in short supply worldwide, So 558 00:34:24.800 --> 00:34:28.239 if you haven't managed to get one yet and now might be the time to 559 00:34:28.280 --> 00:34:30.639 buy one. Sony, which is aimed to sell twenty five million units in 560 00:34:30.679 --> 00:34:34.880 its fiscal twenty twenty three, may now achieve this thanks to the fact that 561 00:34:34.920 --> 00:34:37.400 the console is well stopped. Of course, it's expected that Sony will sell 562 00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:40.800 a lot of consoles during the upcoming holiday Incredibly, it will be the first 563 00:34:40.840 --> 00:34:44.639 time that supply will be able to meet the demand for the console a head 564 00:34:44.639 --> 00:34:47.519 of the holiday shopping season. And then on top of that, this is 565 00:34:47.639 --> 00:34:52.719 just for the standard version of the PlayStation five that we've had since the beginning. 566 00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:54.840 Now they're going to slim model, and Sony has promised that there's gonna 567 00:34:54.840 --> 00:34:59.960 be a ton of those as well. The system was already mostly on pay 568 00:35:00.360 --> 00:35:04.519 to hit this goal. It seems like it's going to crush this holiday season. 569 00:35:05.159 --> 00:35:07.000 Yeah, that's my expectation. How about you. Absolutely? Yeah. 570 00:35:07.039 --> 00:35:08.719 Like I said, my wife was at the target, she was like, 571 00:35:09.239 --> 00:35:14.519 there's so many PlayStation fives and just you thought you'd never see it. I 572 00:35:14.559 --> 00:35:16.719 remember like running a couple of different stories and inside Gaming was like, maybe 573 00:35:17.039 --> 00:35:20.719 like it's going to be now. Tony promised that there's going to be more 574 00:35:20.760 --> 00:35:22.599 PlayStation fives, and it kind of happened, you know, as they said 575 00:35:22.639 --> 00:35:25.760 it. But it seems like we're now at the point where you could just 576 00:35:25.840 --> 00:35:30.280 walk in and pick one up, where I don't think that that had necessarily 577 00:35:30.320 --> 00:35:31.960 been the case, you know, up until maybe a couple of months ago. 578 00:35:32.199 --> 00:35:36.840 Yep. And it doesn't seem like them facing out the original version of 579 00:35:36.840 --> 00:35:39.920 the PS five four, this new slimmer model is going to cause any problems 580 00:35:39.960 --> 00:35:43.840 either. It seems like Sony's fully prepped and ready to go. It's probably 581 00:35:43.880 --> 00:35:46.760 why it took them a little bit longer to announce the thing and kind of 582 00:35:46.760 --> 00:35:50.679 get into the swing of marketing, because they're like, let's wait until we're 583 00:35:50.760 --> 00:35:53.960 sure. They seem pretty sure, so probably not going to misbeat this holiday. 584 00:35:54.360 --> 00:35:58.079 And then if it's able to hit this twenty five million unit sold in 585 00:35:58.159 --> 00:36:00.599 twenty twenty three goal, which you did set out at the beginning of its 586 00:36:00.679 --> 00:36:06.000 year, that should put it back ahead of the pace of PS four officially, 587 00:36:06.760 --> 00:36:10.800 which was something that looked out of the question early on when supply was 588 00:36:10.880 --> 00:36:14.960 so constrained, and now it's like, well, nope, that corrected in 589 00:36:15.199 --> 00:36:19.400 about a year once things were Once the supply was in stores, people bought 590 00:36:19.440 --> 00:36:22.639 it so fast that it just fixed itself, and they are growing from generation 591 00:36:22.719 --> 00:36:27.480 to the generation. I remember seeing the earnings calls too, where like Sony's 592 00:36:27.480 --> 00:36:29.360 like, now we're going to be right on track with PS four, and 593 00:36:29.480 --> 00:36:31.960 was like, really, it doesn't seem that way, you know, And 594 00:36:32.280 --> 00:36:36.639 yeah, they pulled it off, and I'm curious. I haven't looked in 595 00:36:36.679 --> 00:36:40.719 a while, but they're like anticipating something in parallel with like PS two as 596 00:36:40.800 --> 00:36:43.960 well, where I was like, that's crazy. They think they're going to 597 00:36:44.000 --> 00:36:45.719 sell as much as they sold. PS Two's was like greatest selling comps of 598 00:36:45.760 --> 00:36:52.039 all the time. Just I'm waiting to see it. I guess they must 599 00:36:52.079 --> 00:36:54.079 have some pretty good long term plans, but I'm not sure. Yeah. 600 00:36:54.199 --> 00:36:59.039 I didn't include it as a news story, but there is rumors that Sony 601 00:36:59.360 --> 00:37:07.079 is backing away from its game games of service sort of goals and its strategy 602 00:37:07.119 --> 00:37:09.559 where it's like we're gonna have twelve games as a service games launching over the 603 00:37:09.639 --> 00:37:14.880 next couple of years, and that is like, alongside our continued investment and 604 00:37:14.960 --> 00:37:19.079 continued growing investment and the kinds of games you associate with PlayStation, we're gonna 605 00:37:19.079 --> 00:37:21.320 have a bunch of games of service games and that's going to be our future. 606 00:37:21.639 --> 00:37:23.239 Now, the rumors are that they're backing away from that slightly and then 607 00:37:23.239 --> 00:37:27.800 they're looking to partner with companies like I guess, I think, Bandy Namco 608 00:37:28.880 --> 00:37:31.599 and a couple others, a capcom I think, and that sounds like to 609 00:37:31.679 --> 00:37:35.920 do similar deals so that they have with with Square Enix to get a bunch 610 00:37:35.920 --> 00:37:38.199 of big third party exclusives, and that's now going to be the alternative goal 611 00:37:38.280 --> 00:37:42.840 here. Do you think that even with like, if they were to make 612 00:37:42.920 --> 00:37:45.480 that shift and with the pace at which they can get for a big first 613 00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:51.280 party games out, that they can kind of maintain a strong release schedule for 614 00:37:51.400 --> 00:37:52.559 the rest of the PS five, Because I think this is gonna end up 615 00:37:52.559 --> 00:37:55.440 We're gonna look back at this year as like not a week year, because 616 00:37:55.440 --> 00:37:58.840 it's kind of it's going to like, obviously the PlayStation five sold lots of 617 00:37:58.880 --> 00:38:01.519 third party support. Spider Man two is massive, and there was some stuff 618 00:38:01.519 --> 00:38:05.320 earlier on, but it was a slower year compared to what we've had for 619 00:38:05.360 --> 00:38:07.960 the PS five up to this point and likely what we'll have going forward and 620 00:38:08.039 --> 00:38:10.679 with if they are able to maintain that, do you think they can get 621 00:38:10.679 --> 00:38:16.280 to that one hundred and fifty million consoles sold that the PS two hit man 622 00:38:16.360 --> 00:38:20.039 with Sony, I don't know. Like with Nintendo, I'm like, never 623 00:38:20.639 --> 00:38:24.840 bet against Nintendo, right, But with PlayStation stuff, it's hard to tell 624 00:38:24.880 --> 00:38:29.360 of them because I think a lot of their their messaging is really delayed a 625 00:38:29.440 --> 00:38:31.199 lot of times, and then you pick up stuff for earnings calls and stuff. 626 00:38:32.519 --> 00:38:35.559 I mean, I think it's possible, but I don't have a lot 627 00:38:35.599 --> 00:38:37.480 of confidence in it. Yeah, yes, that's my quick answer. Yeah, 628 00:38:37.519 --> 00:38:42.880 it seems I think that this is probably going to end up being the 629 00:38:42.960 --> 00:38:46.800 best selling PlayStation since the PS two, that's for sure, But we'll see 630 00:38:46.800 --> 00:38:51.480 if it's able to uh to get you know, anywhere, getting close to 631 00:38:51.559 --> 00:38:53.519 that. That's tough. That's really really tough. And you know, I 632 00:38:53.639 --> 00:38:57.400 think what we saw with the PS four is PS four had all the momentum 633 00:38:57.400 --> 00:38:59.679 in the world, and it's like, no, now we're ready for the 634 00:38:59.719 --> 00:39:01.400 PS and that's what's gonna happen. As so as the PS five is here, 635 00:39:01.599 --> 00:39:05.320 all of the excitement that was there for the PS four will shift all 636 00:39:05.400 --> 00:39:08.119 at once and there's no sort of lingering and appointed this out. Before that 637 00:39:08.280 --> 00:39:13.440 lingering used to be people who are waiting for the console to be one hundred 638 00:39:13.440 --> 00:39:15.519 and fifty dollars, two hundred dollars, maybe even ninety nine dollars. They 639 00:39:15.639 --> 00:39:21.079 did that for the PS two because there wasn't an iPad. They nowadays they're 640 00:39:21.119 --> 00:39:22.960 like, no, we're just gonna get an iPad or iPhone and I'll just 641 00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:24.760 get free games on there and I'll play that. I'm not sitting around waiting 642 00:39:24.800 --> 00:39:28.679 for a cheap version of this new console. I'm not even thinking about that. 643 00:39:29.000 --> 00:39:30.519 I play games on my phone. And so that that it's like a 644 00:39:30.559 --> 00:39:36.119 couple the audiences have bifurcated and now they just have nothing to do with one 645 00:39:36.119 --> 00:39:37.440 another for the most part. So I think it's going to be very difficult 646 00:39:37.480 --> 00:39:42.400 for any system to really get up into that one hundred and fifty million million 647 00:39:42.400 --> 00:39:45.559 dollar one hundred and fifty million units sold range, except for something like the 648 00:39:45.599 --> 00:39:49.840 Switch, which has the benefit of being both a handheld and a console, 649 00:39:50.199 --> 00:39:53.239 and it's put generations. Yes, yes, exactly, so that's going to 650 00:39:53.320 --> 00:39:58.440 get maybe close, but also the Switch probably isn't going to surpass that number 651 00:39:58.519 --> 00:40:00.840 either. So yeah, the COMPARI since I saw the PlayStation two library with 652 00:40:00.960 --> 00:40:05.159 like a condensed version of like, look how fast these ps fives are selling, 653 00:40:05.480 --> 00:40:07.920 you know, and the in terms of supply and demand, right, 654 00:40:07.960 --> 00:40:09.920 and then you know they're always weird stuff of the math where they're leveraging those 655 00:40:09.960 --> 00:40:15.480 percentages and things to like say big things or point out relevant things. The 656 00:40:15.519 --> 00:40:19.039 thing I constantly remind myself though, is like every year, as we move 657 00:40:19.119 --> 00:40:22.960 forward, there are more people playing video games than ever before. Yeah, 658 00:40:22.039 --> 00:40:27.320 right, so that's like we always have a like a very high ceiling in 659 00:40:27.360 --> 00:40:30.199 that regard to sell more video games than I've ever been sold, to sell 660 00:40:30.280 --> 00:40:32.119 more hardware than it's ever been sold. But I think you make a really 661 00:40:32.159 --> 00:40:36.599 good point about the conditions of the market in which there wasn't these like Apple 662 00:40:36.599 --> 00:40:39.480 devices or tablet devices and things every and streaming, right, all these different 663 00:40:39.480 --> 00:40:43.360 things and buying for people's attention where it's like you either watch TV or you 664 00:40:43.400 --> 00:40:45.360 play video game. Now it's like you have unlimited options with you. So 665 00:40:46.000 --> 00:40:50.119 it's definitely an interesting time to see. But the potential, the potential is 666 00:40:50.199 --> 00:40:52.159 there for PlayStation five to go there. I just have confident in it, 667 00:40:52.239 --> 00:40:55.840 you know, Yeah, it'll be tough, like it's it is on like 668 00:40:57.000 --> 00:41:00.400 the Bell curve of where things end up, like the heavy part, you 669 00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:01.559 know, the meaty part of the Bell curve is probably going to be in 670 00:41:01.599 --> 00:41:06.239 that one hundred and twenty hundred and thirty million console sold range, maybe even 671 00:41:06.239 --> 00:41:07.400 one hundred and forty million. It is where it starts to taper off. 672 00:41:07.679 --> 00:41:12.119 And then like the small probability down there of getting up to one hundred and 673 00:41:12.119 --> 00:41:15.159 fifty million consoles sold is on the chart, but it's like very unlikely. 674 00:41:15.519 --> 00:41:19.199 We'll see. I'm excited, you know, who knows they got a pro 675 00:41:19.800 --> 00:41:22.519 model that is supposedly in the works, and maybe that resets the generation for 676 00:41:22.559 --> 00:41:27.239 them in a really strong way and they carry that forward for another five six 677 00:41:27.360 --> 00:41:30.960 years, and then we'll see in those in that reality, it could get 678 00:41:30.960 --> 00:41:35.320 to one hundred and fifty million, all right. Marvel's Wolverine exists in the 679 00:41:35.360 --> 00:41:37.679 same universe as Marvel Spider Man two. This is from Alex Hopley at Game 680 00:41:37.760 --> 00:41:42.599 Reactor. Insomniac Games has just seen the launch of Marvel Spider Man two, 681 00:41:42.719 --> 00:41:46.079 an incredible superhero game that gives fans the web slinging experience they've wanted for years. 682 00:41:46.519 --> 00:41:51.760 Now that Spidey's last latest outing is a renowned success, though fans are 683 00:41:51.800 --> 00:41:54.960 looking to the studios in next superhero game. Marvel's Wolverine has only seen a 684 00:41:55.039 --> 00:41:59.960 cinematic teaser so far, but with the track record Insomniac has, many are 685 00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:02.519 are incredibly hyped just from that. Also, thanks to a recent interview with 686 00:42:02.559 --> 00:42:07.360 Brian Antahar over at kind of Funny Games Cast, we might have a new 687 00:42:07.400 --> 00:42:10.079 reason to be excited. Antahar confirms when asked if the games were set in 688 00:42:10.119 --> 00:42:14.719 the same universe, that they're all ten forty eight, which is like the 689 00:42:15.280 --> 00:42:20.119 Marvel assigned code for this universe in their multiverse. Intara also explain why Marvel 690 00:42:20.159 --> 00:42:23.599 Spider Man two doesn't contain a Wolverine easter egg. I'm just trying to make 691 00:42:23.639 --> 00:42:28.360 Spider Man and trying to get Spider Man off the ground while there's another Marvel 692 00:42:28.440 --> 00:42:30.920 thing. I think for us it was like, hey, let's just look 693 00:42:30.920 --> 00:42:32.599 at the let that team cook, let them make the game they want to 694 00:42:32.679 --> 00:42:36.639 make, and you know, who knows what the future holds, but right 695 00:42:36.679 --> 00:42:38.280 now, let's let them do their thing, and that game's going to be 696 00:42:38.440 --> 00:42:44.840 great. I think it's completely fair. Yeah, I think that this is 697 00:42:44.920 --> 00:42:47.920 the right way to approach it. They're doing really cool things with Spider Man 698 00:42:49.000 --> 00:42:52.239 two and having allusions to other things in the Marvel universe. They have it 699 00:42:52.440 --> 00:42:55.199 like shied away from that. Like you could visit the Avengers Tower, it's 700 00:42:55.400 --> 00:43:00.239 the biggest building in the game, and Doctor Strange's enclave whatever that's called. 701 00:43:01.599 --> 00:43:06.760 That Santum Staurium, the Sanctum Santaurum. Yeah, goddamn, that's in there 702 00:43:06.800 --> 00:43:09.360 as well. You could just look at that thing. So and that's cool. 703 00:43:09.719 --> 00:43:12.320 But it's like, well, if you're gonna do that and you're making 704 00:43:12.320 --> 00:43:15.159 a Wolverine game, that Wolverine should probably be in this universe, and that's 705 00:43:15.199 --> 00:43:16.400 going to be the case. I like that. How do you feel about 706 00:43:16.400 --> 00:43:19.639 it? Yeah? I like what you said on the show. I think 707 00:43:19.679 --> 00:43:22.239 it was like last week or something about how much restraint Insomniac has showed, 708 00:43:22.320 --> 00:43:25.559 or maybe it was a guest who said it in terms of, you know, 709 00:43:25.639 --> 00:43:29.239 they've got the whole Spider Verse thing already and then they're kind of just 710 00:43:29.360 --> 00:43:35.119 focusing on these these stories about Peter and Miles and kind of that that journey, 711 00:43:35.280 --> 00:43:37.960 and to focus on that without getting spun off into too many different directions 712 00:43:38.079 --> 00:43:42.719 or you know, bringing in Avengers, like, you know, given the 713 00:43:43.599 --> 00:43:45.719 popularity of the Marvel movies and stuff like that, I think it'd be a 714 00:43:45.840 --> 00:43:50.119 real bummer if we got I think it'd be a real bummer if we got 715 00:43:50.480 --> 00:43:54.079 a Wolverine game and then man half the time, Like you want to like 716 00:43:54.239 --> 00:43:59.679 let Wolverine exist and be in his own like Wolverine sphere and have like a 717 00:43:59.800 --> 00:44:02.920 very Wolverine focused story because I in comics you can get that a lot, 718 00:44:04.000 --> 00:44:07.559 but he's always with the X Men. You've got, like and when they've 719 00:44:07.559 --> 00:44:09.719 done it in the movies, that's been bad, right, So I would 720 00:44:09.760 --> 00:44:14.039 really love to see Insomniac. Do you like a very focused Wolverine story that 721 00:44:14.039 --> 00:44:15.800 doesn't necessarily have to be about his origins or whatever, but do the same 722 00:44:15.840 --> 00:44:19.800 thing they did for Spider Man in the way that Insomnia is how and just 723 00:44:19.880 --> 00:44:23.280 like really appreciate these characters. Yeah, I I you know, I'm really 724 00:44:23.320 --> 00:44:27.000 glad what they did with Spider Man and not doing the origin story again. 725 00:44:27.159 --> 00:44:30.280 And I think that's probably the right call for Wolverine. I wouldn't hate a 726 00:44:30.360 --> 00:44:34.239 couple of flashbacks to Weapon X or whatever, especially depending on the setting that 727 00:44:34.280 --> 00:44:37.039 we're going to be in. If we're like up in the wilderness of Canada, 728 00:44:37.119 --> 00:44:40.239 as someone in the airbag and Chad says that, and it's like, 729 00:44:40.320 --> 00:44:44.840 I think the trailer was like slightly suggesting something along those lines, and there 730 00:44:44.920 --> 00:44:47.519 was like magicpor right, that's right, Madropoor. Yes, yes, it's 731 00:44:47.559 --> 00:44:52.480 the the underground Criminal, the Mutant City, right, Okay, yes, 732 00:44:52.559 --> 00:44:57.440 so well in that case, you could also see him like running into enemies 733 00:44:57.480 --> 00:45:00.639 from his past. And I think some flashbacks could be cool with various eras 734 00:45:00.719 --> 00:45:04.960 of Wolverine, because that's a cool idea in itself, the fact this guy's 735 00:45:04.960 --> 00:45:07.880 been around for so long. What can you do with that? And I 736 00:45:07.920 --> 00:45:12.079 think that would naturally lead to what we're gonna see, some snippets of its 737 00:45:12.079 --> 00:45:15.840 origin. We don't need the entire thing to be about this is what turned 738 00:45:16.440 --> 00:45:23.119 Logan into Wolverine. I don't need that. But I think that having these 739 00:45:23.159 --> 00:45:30.760 things exist in the same universe enable some cool sharing of lore. But I 740 00:45:30.079 --> 00:45:35.400 think that Insomniac knows it doesn't need to go much beyond that that he doesn't 741 00:45:35.440 --> 00:45:37.880 There doesn't need to be a button you pressed to call in Peter Parker to 742 00:45:37.920 --> 00:45:39.880 come help you. Right, that's not gonna happen, right, And don't 743 00:45:39.880 --> 00:45:44.360 get me wrong, Like I want to see a Wolfne Holkin Spider Man team 744 00:45:44.440 --> 00:45:49.920 up game like that would be incredible. Yeah, but I also build these 745 00:45:49.960 --> 00:45:52.440 characters up first. You know, there's like a there's a formula, like 746 00:45:52.639 --> 00:45:57.400 people get burnt out on comic book crossovers when they start happening time and exactly 747 00:45:57.480 --> 00:46:00.000 what's happened with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, right, It's like everything has to 748 00:46:00.039 --> 00:46:04.239 be acrossover now, and I think it affects the storytelling of the of stories 749 00:46:04.280 --> 00:46:07.880 you can tell. So yeah, yep. And I think they've seen that 750 00:46:08.239 --> 00:46:13.480 lesson be learned the MCU and by Disney, and I think that they'll be 751 00:46:13.599 --> 00:46:15.639 like, you know what, we'll be a little bit. We're gonna pull 752 00:46:15.679 --> 00:46:17.639 back on that a little bit and just kind of use it where it's fun 753 00:46:17.719 --> 00:46:22.199 and not make it the central pillar of what is happening with our video games. 754 00:46:22.239 --> 00:46:24.760 And that's probably the right choice totally, all right. There's a report 755 00:46:24.880 --> 00:46:30.840 games industry investment deals to increase in twenty twenty four. This from Steven Totilo 756 00:46:30.920 --> 00:46:34.920 at Axios. Mergers and acquisitions in the games industry are picking up after an 757 00:46:34.960 --> 00:46:38.079 extended quiet period, according to a new third quarter report from Drake Star Partners. 758 00:46:38.760 --> 00:46:45.119 Consolidation is a big topic in video gaming, but Drake Star tracked thirty 759 00:46:45.159 --> 00:46:49.480 three m and A deals worth around five billion between July and September. By 760 00:46:49.519 --> 00:46:52.920 the sheer number of deals that was a two year low, but the deal 761 00:46:52.079 --> 00:46:55.880 value exceeded three of the last five quarters, when all the deals tallied in 762 00:46:55.960 --> 00:47:00.840 each period totaled less than one billion. Deals for twenty twenty three's third quarter 763 00:47:00.960 --> 00:47:06.800 including mobile gaming firm Platikis purchase of Yoda Games and in Play Labs for around 764 00:47:06.800 --> 00:47:09.440 four hundred and fifty million dollars, as well as the successful one point seven 765 00:47:09.480 --> 00:47:15.960 billion dollar offer led by Golvin Sachs to take educational gaming platform for Cohoot private. 766 00:47:15.239 --> 00:47:19.880 So it's like things are happening in the periphery of like the like the 767 00:47:19.960 --> 00:47:24.400 core gaming space still but there's still money flowing into these deals, is basically 768 00:47:25.039 --> 00:47:30.440 the story here, and the expectation is that companies that like ten Cents Sony 769 00:47:30.679 --> 00:47:37.280 take to the savvy, which is that the Saudi Arabian company. They're going 770 00:47:37.360 --> 00:47:40.440 to see that the things aren't slowing down, even if it's in these spaces 771 00:47:40.519 --> 00:47:44.920 that they don't always operate in, and they're like, well, we're going 772 00:47:45.000 --> 00:47:46.599 to have to get back out there and make deals happen, or else we 773 00:47:46.679 --> 00:47:50.840 are going to miss out. We're going to have an acquisition fomo, and 774 00:47:50.960 --> 00:47:53.519 we can't have that. So they are likely going to pick up their pace 775 00:47:53.599 --> 00:47:57.239 as well. At least that's the expectation of Drake Star, which I think 776 00:47:57.360 --> 00:48:00.119 is might have some incentive to believe this because I think they are involved in 777 00:48:00.199 --> 00:48:04.800 some of these deals and make money that way. But also I believe them 778 00:48:05.239 --> 00:48:09.360 because there's no reason just to think that these companies really would slow down because 779 00:48:09.400 --> 00:48:13.920 they still do have quite a bit of money, and inflation is still pretty 780 00:48:13.960 --> 00:48:15.800 high even with the interest rates being high, so means it's difficult to borrow 781 00:48:15.840 --> 00:48:20.320 money, which will make some deals difficult to pull off. Many of them 782 00:48:20.360 --> 00:48:22.800 still do have money in the bank that is losing value at a rate that 783 00:48:22.840 --> 00:48:27.079 it's greater than that they are accustomed to, and so that means it's better 784 00:48:27.159 --> 00:48:30.000 to spend it now than to hold on to it and have it be worth 785 00:48:30.119 --> 00:48:36.000 less later and have things be more expensive, right, Yeah, And unfortunately, 786 00:48:36.079 --> 00:48:39.800 they've a lot of the gaming companies and publishers and things who a lot 787 00:48:39.840 --> 00:48:44.719 of these companies to collectively have laid off thousands of employees as well, so 788 00:48:44.840 --> 00:48:47.199 they've got cash right now. Unfortunately. Like that's a weird way to frame 789 00:48:47.280 --> 00:48:52.679 it. I think you're right, laid off really sucks, But there's money 790 00:48:52.760 --> 00:48:54.960 now, and also there's promise of money, so money is going to get 791 00:48:54.960 --> 00:48:58.280 spent, right, Like, this is one of the best years in gaming 792 00:48:58.440 --> 00:49:00.840 We've seen them quite some time. Just things are popping off in a way. 793 00:49:00.920 --> 00:49:05.599 Or you just talked about Spider Man. There's obviously going to be people 794 00:49:05.639 --> 00:49:07.960 who want to make more money, interested in paying for more video games to 795 00:49:08.039 --> 00:49:13.679 kind of spin up. Whether that translates into like, you know, more 796 00:49:13.719 --> 00:49:15.679 sequels and things like that are different, ip oh, Like that's a different 797 00:49:15.679 --> 00:49:20.679 conversation. But there's definitely money here now and definitely a lot of interest. 798 00:49:20.960 --> 00:49:23.840 The people with money always follow the money. They're going to go there, 799 00:49:24.039 --> 00:49:28.360 Yes, exactly, Yes, they get in line and they do whatever whatever 800 00:49:28.480 --> 00:49:32.079 anyone else with money is doing. That is very true. They're all desperately 801 00:49:32.119 --> 00:49:37.480 scared of anything, so they just do what the crowd is doing. Sakarai 802 00:49:37.639 --> 00:49:42.280 is skeptical that future Smash Bros. Games can match Ultimate's scope. This is 803 00:49:42.320 --> 00:49:46.039 from Ali Reynolds at Nintendo Life. Masahiro Sakarai, the director of Smash Brothers 804 00:49:46.119 --> 00:49:50.519 franchise, has released a new video looking back on the development of Super Smash 805 00:49:50.559 --> 00:49:53.920 Brothers Ultimate for the Switch. During the twelve to thirteen minute presentation, Sakarai 806 00:49:54.039 --> 00:49:59.840 delves into the koopious adjustments and additions required to make Ultimate appeal to both veterans 807 00:49:59.880 --> 00:50:04.719 and newcomers, the difficulty face, as well as the difficulties face when dealing 808 00:50:04.760 --> 00:50:07.920 with a sixteen gigabyte switch card versus a twenty five gigabyte we U disc, 809 00:50:08.280 --> 00:50:13.400 and the effects of the COVID nineteen pandemic that the pandemic had on the development 810 00:50:13.440 --> 00:50:16.280 for DLC characters. Toward the end of the video, Sakarai ponders the prospect 811 00:50:16.360 --> 00:50:21.000 of future Smash Brothers titles. While he doesn't rule out the possibility of another 812 00:50:21.159 --> 00:50:24.280 entry to the franchise, he's ad admittedly skeptical that the development team would be 813 00:50:24.280 --> 00:50:29.679 able to create something that goes beyond Super Smash Brothers Ultimates scope and ambition. 814 00:50:30.159 --> 00:50:32.159 As for what comes next for the Smash Brothers series, he said, even 815 00:50:32.320 --> 00:50:37.000 I'm not sure I feel we truly succeeded in making people happy with this game. 816 00:50:37.239 --> 00:50:39.440 But now that Super Smash Brothers has grown to be monstrous in size, 817 00:50:39.719 --> 00:50:45.559 I'd say it's difficult to imagine an increase of this magnitude ever happening. Again, 818 00:50:46.079 --> 00:50:50.159 he speaks a little bit further on this, but I think basically what 819 00:50:50.280 --> 00:50:52.840 he's saying is, hey, it's you can't get bigger than Ultimate. This 820 00:50:52.960 --> 00:50:57.039 really is the ultimate, as in like the end of the road for this 821 00:50:57.239 --> 00:51:00.480 line of Super Smash Brothers, which to me suggests that if I think Sachari 822 00:51:00.519 --> 00:51:02.199 were to go back to the drawing board, I think he would be like, 823 00:51:02.320 --> 00:51:07.840 let's mix things up a little bit now, or reboot things. Let's 824 00:51:07.880 --> 00:51:10.840 take things back to the basics and start building up again, which I don't 825 00:51:10.920 --> 00:51:15.199 think is something Nintendo is going to be too eager to do right away, 826 00:51:15.280 --> 00:51:19.199 which is probably why the very next Smash Brothers game that is going to be 827 00:51:19.320 --> 00:51:22.559 released for the Switch to almost certainly is going to be a Super Smash Brothers 828 00:51:22.719 --> 00:51:25.000 Ultimate Deluxe. At least, that's my thinking at this point. What do 829 00:51:25.079 --> 00:51:30.920 you think I mean two? And we talked about it before too. It's 830 00:51:30.000 --> 00:51:32.320 kind of the pay Day three pay Day two problem right where you have a 831 00:51:32.400 --> 00:51:37.800 game or you know, a decade or so and it has content for that 832 00:51:37.960 --> 00:51:42.079 long and they've been balancing and iterating. You just you cannot launch a game 833 00:51:42.159 --> 00:51:45.400 at the scope and Master Brothers And it was impressive when they did it right, 834 00:51:45.440 --> 00:51:50.159 and then they still had a content plan to add characters for Smash Ultimate, 835 00:51:50.599 --> 00:51:52.280 but just it would take you ten years I feel like to make to 836 00:51:52.360 --> 00:51:58.480 make that game at least in terms of where it is now. And I 837 00:51:58.519 --> 00:52:00.840 don't know if that's the expectation, right. I think the expectation is, 838 00:52:01.239 --> 00:52:05.320 especially as we have more service games, is like it would start small and 839 00:52:05.400 --> 00:52:08.079 then grow, but even still and also like let soccer, I rest man 840 00:52:08.119 --> 00:52:14.000 that can say yeah, he's like semi retired and you're like, well, 841 00:52:14.199 --> 00:52:16.199 man, you know I know what that means. I mean someday you're going 842 00:52:16.239 --> 00:52:19.960 to come back and do something that's actually going to kill you this time. 843 00:52:20.199 --> 00:52:22.800 So yeah, yeah, you think you're out and they bring you back in 844 00:52:22.920 --> 00:52:25.760 for one last Yep, it goes bad yeap it goes, it's going to 845 00:52:25.920 --> 00:52:30.079 go real bad for him if he does. I hope that he said the 846 00:52:30.320 --> 00:52:32.840 problem was, he said this in a previous video, is that he didn't 847 00:52:34.079 --> 00:52:37.679 didn't have time to like train up his replacement for the next game because Ultimate 848 00:52:37.840 --> 00:52:42.159 was so much work and he was constantly working on something that he just couldn't 849 00:52:42.159 --> 00:52:45.119 spare the time to mentor someone that would be like the new steward of Smash 850 00:52:45.199 --> 00:52:50.440 Brothers going forward. So I do think that probably does create an opportunity to, 851 00:52:50.519 --> 00:52:53.719 hey, do a Deluxe and come in there and just oversee the development 852 00:52:53.920 --> 00:52:59.760 and to teach those skills to a new generation while you can go rest for 853 00:52:59.760 --> 00:53:02.119 after that if you want, and just go make YouTube videos which are very 854 00:53:02.159 --> 00:53:07.039 good at actually so yes, so very cool sacaraic. It would allow them 855 00:53:07.079 --> 00:53:09.800 to bide their time to have that that year and score those years of development. 856 00:53:10.079 --> 00:53:15.239 And I think, you know, following the trend of what happened with 857 00:53:15.320 --> 00:53:19.360 Mario Kardate Deluxe, I think Nintendo would be very happy to have a ten 858 00:53:19.480 --> 00:53:25.559 year period of selling Super Smash Brothers Ultimate. Obviously Super Smash Brothers Flour for 859 00:53:25.679 --> 00:53:30.280 REU three DS is kind of the foundation. So you can maybe consider that 860 00:53:30.280 --> 00:53:34.679 at the beginning, but they did so much with Ultimate to change things up 861 00:53:34.679 --> 00:53:37.280 and make it bigger and make it feel like a separate game. That really 862 00:53:37.360 --> 00:53:39.760 Okay, let's count Ultimate as its own launch, which I think is completely 863 00:53:39.800 --> 00:53:44.800 fair and we should. But ten years of that with like various deluxe versions 864 00:53:44.840 --> 00:53:47.599 and re releases and bundles, seems very likely and it's probably gonna happen, 865 00:53:47.719 --> 00:53:52.239 and I think Nintendo knows that's what they want to do for now, and 866 00:53:52.400 --> 00:53:55.000 then after that's said and done, there will be an appetite for Hey, 867 00:53:55.039 --> 00:54:00.239 we'll do a Melee remaster, or we will do a full reboo. Yeah. 868 00:54:00.280 --> 00:54:04.280 I know it's always going to be out there. It's always out there, 869 00:54:04.400 --> 00:54:07.039 just waiting to pop out at us at any moment. I feel like 870 00:54:07.119 --> 00:54:08.599 with Melee two, it's love Monkey's Paul. It's like, what's going to 871 00:54:08.639 --> 00:54:13.719 happen to this? It's going to be thirty locked thirty or something or good, 872 00:54:13.920 --> 00:54:15.039 You're going to get it. But then like something's going to be It 873 00:54:15.079 --> 00:54:19.920 would be like they'll call it Super Smash Brothers Melee, but they'll actually be 874 00:54:20.039 --> 00:54:22.519 like, well, we brought in all the best features of everything, all 875 00:54:22.599 --> 00:54:27.960 the games including tripping, and that's exactly truly a true nightmare. All right. 876 00:54:28.039 --> 00:54:31.440 Last story here, Super Nintendo top Gear Racing Collection coming to multiple platforms 877 00:54:31.480 --> 00:54:36.239 with a new game. This is from Sinaia Bates at Destructoid. We're about 878 00:54:36.239 --> 00:54:39.519 to gain access to even more retro classics on Switch and several other platforms come 879 00:54:39.679 --> 00:54:45.159 January. The top Racer Collection features remastered Super Nintendo racing games to play, 880 00:54:45.519 --> 00:54:49.480 and it's set to launch on January eleventh, twenty twenty four, for Switch, 881 00:54:49.559 --> 00:54:52.679 PS four, PS five, Xbox one, Slash Series SNX, as 882 00:54:52.760 --> 00:54:58.119 well as Steam. The top Racer Collection will feature popular popular nineties racing trilogy 883 00:54:58.199 --> 00:55:01.119 top Gear, top Gear two and top Gear three thousand. First hitting the 884 00:55:01.159 --> 00:55:05.519 shelves in nineteen ninety two, the S and S high Speed Racing series gain 885 00:55:05.559 --> 00:55:08.360 popularity among fans across the globe for being very good games. I like these 886 00:55:08.400 --> 00:55:10.920 games a lot, Evans, so I'm glad that we're getting them back. 887 00:55:10.920 --> 00:55:16.519 They're also doing a new game called top Gear meets Horizon Chase, basically where 888 00:55:16.519 --> 00:55:22.000 they're gonna have like top Gear you know now called top Racer stuff, and 889 00:55:22.079 --> 00:55:25.360 I think it's called top Racer Crossroads mixed in with Horizon Chase, which is 890 00:55:25.480 --> 00:55:29.840 the an Outrun Like, it's a game that's very similar to Outrun, and 891 00:55:29.880 --> 00:55:31.559 they're going to mash those things up together, and I think that's pretty cool 892 00:55:31.639 --> 00:55:37.840 as well. Obviously top Racer new name because top Gear very popular television program 893 00:55:37.960 --> 00:55:43.639 now and they want to avoid getting sued because the both things have a same 894 00:55:43.719 --> 00:55:47.119 name in a similar space that could be possible. That sucks because it's like 895 00:55:47.119 --> 00:55:50.719 a Michael. It's like from a Alva space type. It's like, why 896 00:55:50.719 --> 00:55:52.079 do I have to change my name? Yeah, exact, yeah right, 897 00:55:52.159 --> 00:55:54.320 because this, yeah, this is around for longer. You're right, you 898 00:55:54.360 --> 00:56:00.639 think that. But they probably didn't like renew the trademark and then they renewed 899 00:56:00.679 --> 00:56:02.199 it like again later or something like that, and then it's like, well, 900 00:56:02.320 --> 00:56:06.199 nope, you lost it. So this this TV show is going to 901 00:56:06.239 --> 00:56:09.320 have a claim on it. But yeah, I would go with giving I 902 00:56:09.320 --> 00:56:13.360 would if I were a judge, I would give this game the top Gear 903 00:56:13.679 --> 00:56:16.079 trademark and say those weirdos can go to hell over there at that show. 904 00:56:17.400 --> 00:56:21.039 All right, Evan, I got a poll question that we're going to get 905 00:56:21.079 --> 00:56:23.440 to from last week. Let's go ahead and bring it in here. Wait 906 00:56:23.599 --> 00:56:28.920 is super Mario Brothers Wonder the best online game this year. Only thirty five 907 00:56:28.920 --> 00:56:31.159 percent of people were correct and saying yes, and then sixty five percent said 908 00:56:31.320 --> 00:56:37.320 no. I am blown away by this game's online multiplayer. It is it 909 00:56:37.440 --> 00:56:40.599 does the thing that I think I want from online multiplayer games going forward, 910 00:56:40.599 --> 00:56:45.559 which is like playing on your own together and in a way where it's like 911 00:56:46.000 --> 00:56:51.039 not actually affecting another person's world, but giving you ways to still do that 912 00:56:51.199 --> 00:56:54.440 in minor ways that are very positive. I've said a bunch of now, 913 00:56:54.519 --> 00:56:58.840 this is a strand game. You are putting you are putting down your little 914 00:56:58.880 --> 00:57:01.320 standee, and you're helping people and you're rescuing them, and then all you 915 00:57:01.320 --> 00:57:06.559 could do is just to give a little positive emote, and it only enables 916 00:57:06.639 --> 00:57:08.440 these positive interactions, and then it's just fun to like be moving through a 917 00:57:08.519 --> 00:57:13.239 level and seeing someone else figuring things out or helping you figure something out. 918 00:57:13.800 --> 00:57:15.159 It was a really magical way to play. And then of course playing with 919 00:57:15.239 --> 00:57:20.320 friends and enabling the races was that's also magical. And it all just works 920 00:57:20.599 --> 00:57:22.320 and it doesn't like bounce you back to the main menu or something, and 921 00:57:22.400 --> 00:57:25.079 it doesn't someone could just connect and it doesn't stop to be like, wait, 922 00:57:25.079 --> 00:57:28.800 we got to make sure they're going to connect her or something bad'll happen 923 00:57:28.800 --> 00:57:30.559 if you try to play the video game. Still, it's like no, 924 00:57:30.679 --> 00:57:34.440 it all just works. So obviously it's good. It's good for Nintendo, 925 00:57:34.639 --> 00:57:37.599 like, oh, for Nintendo, this is good online. But I think 926 00:57:37.679 --> 00:57:40.119 in general it's also just a magical online experience. Now. I know some 927 00:57:40.159 --> 00:57:43.840 people mention, hey, Balder's Gate three, and of course, but I 928 00:57:43.880 --> 00:57:45.719 did a lot of that stuff a Divinity Original Sin too as well, so 929 00:57:46.280 --> 00:57:49.440 it's like yeah, yeah, yeah, y, it's that. It's that, 930 00:57:49.599 --> 00:57:52.239 and of course it's amazing. But I get why people think that's even 931 00:57:52.280 --> 00:57:54.719 better because there's so much more going on there. I don't know, have 932 00:57:54.800 --> 00:57:59.880 you tried the multiplayer in Wonder at all, because I've been forcing myself to 933 00:58:00.079 --> 00:58:02.199 only play with my kids, trying to discipline my completely fair way to do 934 00:58:02.280 --> 00:58:06.199 it. Yes, we'll experience this together, and you know, because they 935 00:58:06.360 --> 00:58:07.360 like it, and like, I'm not going to play ahead, but then 936 00:58:07.440 --> 00:58:09.920 like I play Spiderman, like damn, why you play out Us. I'm 937 00:58:09.920 --> 00:58:15.079 like it's too long. I can't wait for you know, But but yeah, 938 00:58:15.119 --> 00:58:17.800 I haven't played much of the online multiplayer. I watched a lot other 939 00:58:17.960 --> 00:58:21.480 people on podcasts and stuff talk about it. I think it's surprising too that 940 00:58:21.599 --> 00:58:27.360 Nintendo pulled this off, right, It's very surprising features that you don't associate 941 00:58:27.440 --> 00:58:30.400 Nintendo with, like really online play. So now if they could just apply 942 00:58:30.559 --> 00:58:35.559 the same set of like mindset to the rest of their connectivity issues and make 943 00:58:35.719 --> 00:58:37.000 like, oh, yeah, we can't go back from here. They got 944 00:58:37.119 --> 00:58:40.639 to figure it out from now on. Yeah, I imagine Smash Brothers with 945 00:58:40.719 --> 00:58:45.079 good online multiplayer. That's sort of that that joke, which is still going 946 00:58:45.159 --> 00:58:47.760 to be a joke for a while. Yes, but but but yeah, 947 00:58:47.920 --> 00:58:51.920 I I boy, I just hope this is in so many more games going 948 00:58:52.000 --> 00:58:53.920 forward, because it's just such a pleasant experience and it makes it feel, 949 00:58:54.360 --> 00:58:58.800 you know, alive and living in a really cool way. All right. 950 00:58:58.800 --> 00:59:00.599 I have another poll question that we'll get to here in a moment. In 951 00:59:00.719 --> 00:59:04.760 the meantime, though, Evan, why don't tell people where they can find 952 00:59:04.800 --> 00:59:07.760 you on the internet when you have going on all that good stuff? Yeah, 953 00:59:07.880 --> 00:59:09.719 right now, I'm on Twitter, but because of all the changes, 954 00:59:09.719 --> 00:59:15.679 and also I don't have to do it for work anymore, So, like 955 00:59:15.840 --> 00:59:20.320 you got away from managing. I mean you're cracking, you're breaking up a 956 00:59:20.320 --> 00:59:22.039 little bit here and there. I'm not sure, like it's been happening throughout 957 00:59:22.079 --> 00:59:24.679 the episode, just a little bit of a break. So we missed some 958 00:59:24.760 --> 00:59:29.960 of those details. So game work. Where can people find you? So 959 00:59:30.159 --> 00:59:35.559 I'm on Twitter and Blue Sky at darth Brook and then the zero in there 960 00:59:35.639 --> 00:59:37.599 right with the zero at the end. Yeah, very clever on my part 961 00:59:37.719 --> 00:59:45.440 to make sure I like it with the tide Boat and then on YouTube right 962 00:59:45.519 --> 00:59:50.400 now the Evan underscore Campbell, So you can find me there. Not a 963 00:59:50.440 --> 00:59:52.679 lot of stuff there yet, but it's going to be ramping up soon if 964 00:59:52.719 --> 00:59:55.039 I ever come back. Hopefully I have a lot more things promote. I'm 965 00:59:55.039 --> 00:59:59.719 talking with a lot of people kind of behind like I've been chatting with if 966 00:59:59.719 --> 01:00:01.840 any but he knows Mike Williams, Oh yeah, extend on Twitter and that's 967 01:00:01.840 --> 01:00:06.559 a good boy. We've been chatting back and forth about getting some together when 968 01:00:06.719 --> 01:00:08.400 usually when I get laid off, you know, it happens kind of for 969 01:00:10.480 --> 01:00:13.840 I hang out with Khalef Adams from Spawn on me. I'm sure, yeah, 970 01:00:13.880 --> 01:00:15.519 Conn it's great too. Yeah, we usually make something together, so 971 01:00:15.840 --> 01:00:20.800 we haven't we haven't like connected yet, but something cool will come from that. 972 01:00:21.480 --> 01:00:23.480 I've been talking with Alan up Heres as well, and we've been working 973 01:00:23.519 --> 01:00:28.599 on some small things behind the scenes like that. So it's a weird time 974 01:00:28.639 --> 01:00:31.079 for me. But things are going to start ramping up, and then eventually 975 01:00:31.119 --> 01:00:34.280 I also have to find full time work, probably in the new year, 976 01:00:34.519 --> 01:00:37.119 so eventually, yeah, get around to it eventually. But now I'm glad 977 01:00:37.159 --> 01:00:40.280 we were able to hang out today. I really appreciate it. Yeah, 978 01:00:40.599 --> 01:00:45.920 let's see here, let's get this new poll question up. Would you want 979 01:00:45.960 --> 01:00:50.000 and intend to do some kind of dual screen solution for the switch to yes 980 01:00:50.400 --> 01:00:54.519 or no. We'll talk about that on the game this morning's episode on Wednesday 981 01:00:54.559 --> 01:00:58.920 here on Giant Bomb. Speaking of Giant Bomb, this week, we have 982 01:00:59.400 --> 01:01:02.559 the bomb Cast happening tomorrow Blake Club. We'll be back on Wednesday. I'll 983 01:01:02.559 --> 01:01:06.199 get back in the motorcycle, get up, and we will play some more 984 01:01:06.280 --> 01:01:09.679 Ride to Hell Retribution. That's been really dumb and the response that's been really 985 01:01:09.679 --> 01:01:12.760 great. Thanks everybody for hanging out and watching that with us. That was 986 01:01:12.800 --> 01:01:15.280 a lot of fun. Well, hopefully we get through it pretty quickly though, 987 01:01:15.320 --> 01:01:20.239 because I'm ready to move on from my game to someone else and then 988 01:01:20.440 --> 01:01:22.039 you know the rest of the week. We're gonna figure it out here in 989 01:01:22.079 --> 01:01:25.000 this meeting, but you can expect a voicemail, dumb truck upf We might 990 01:01:25.039 --> 01:01:29.519 have some fun stuff popping off beyond all of that though, here on Giant 991 01:01:29.559 --> 01:01:31.719 Bomb. In the meantime, though, Evan, thank you so much for 992 01:01:31.800 --> 01:01:36.199 spinning today talking about video games. Man, I really appreciate it. Oh, 993 01:01:36.280 --> 01:01:37.599 thank you man. This is bucket list up for me. It's quite 994 01:01:37.639 --> 01:01:40.360 a long way from bit mob huh. Oh, yes, exactly right. 995 01:01:40.599 --> 01:01:45.559 Huh it's been a while. Yeah, absolutely, yeah, it's fun to 996 01:01:45.599 --> 01:01:49.760 think about the trail we've been on. All right, then, thank you 997 01:01:49.880 --> 01:01:52.840 all for watching. You're the best audience in gaming. Until next time, 998 01:01:52.920 --> 01:01:54.480 have a good one, take care of yourself, and goodbye.