WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:17.239 You'll be blacker, don't be beer. Oh my my, we're good. 2 00:00:17.359 --> 00:00:22.000 It's the Internet. You're pussy. Welcome Jeff Grub. My document actually is 3 00:00:22.079 --> 00:00:25.160 frozen for some reason, so that's a good sign. Uh. And I 4 00:00:25.160 --> 00:00:28.839 don't actually have it memorized, Lucy James, so hello, lud joking, 5 00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:31.640 we do mean to do it? Yeah, you do it. I would 6 00:00:31.679 --> 00:00:36.840 love that. Introduce the show. Okay, it's the Internet. You're busy. 7 00:00:36.920 --> 00:00:41.200 Let's do this for you have not updated this in two weeks December thirteenth, 8 00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:45.039 twenty twenty three. For the next hour or so, let me help 9 00:00:45.119 --> 00:00:50.000 you so through the world of gaming on Gay Mess Mornings Life with Me Jeff 10 00:00:50.039 --> 00:00:53.759 Grub. Today we take a look at how games sold in November and a 11 00:00:53.880 --> 00:00:57.920 Newslda game is on PC. But first, please join me in welcoming today's 12 00:00:57.960 --> 00:01:02.840 co host and game Moss Mornings. It's Lucy James. Lucy James, how 13 00:01:02.880 --> 00:01:08.159 are you doing? That was fantastic? I'm doing great. My edge is 14 00:01:08.239 --> 00:01:11.760 still frozen here, so that's great. You know what, I'm just gonna 15 00:01:11.760 --> 00:01:15.560 close that and restart it. Here. All the windows is behaving weirdly. 16 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:21.200 My my toolbar down here is flashing at me. Windows doesn't normally do that. 17 00:01:22.239 --> 00:01:26.680 Uh Lucy. I I've made my first doctor's appointment since moving to Ohio 18 00:01:26.840 --> 00:01:30.079 more than a year ago, and uh and it was a new doctor. 19 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:34.000 I'm not not thrilled with the experience. It was you know, I'm gonna 20 00:01:34.079 --> 00:01:37.000 I'm gonna goad stand. It was a bad doctor. It's not a good 21 00:01:37.040 --> 00:01:41.359 doctor. Okay, why what do you because like, like, here are 22 00:01:41.439 --> 00:01:44.280 my problems? And he said, well, here are statistics about Americans. 23 00:01:44.599 --> 00:01:47.760 I'm like, okay, well what about what about me? And and then 24 00:01:47.799 --> 00:01:51.680 what we never really talked about anything like specific about me. It was like, 25 00:01:52.040 --> 00:01:53.799 oh, I know facts about that, and what the fuck are you 26 00:01:53.879 --> 00:01:57.280 talking about? I don't Yeah, four and five Americans? What does that 27 00:01:57.319 --> 00:02:00.120 have to do with anything? I just need help, homie. It was 28 00:02:00.680 --> 00:02:06.640 actually infuriating. I I do feel like I in general have pretty bad luck 29 00:02:06.719 --> 00:02:09.560 with with medical professionals. And I'm like, it's time to just get into 30 00:02:09.560 --> 00:02:15.800 holistic medicine. I need to just get into my uh uh like spiritual medicine 31 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:21.840 era. It's time. Yeah. Well, I mean I wouldn't necessarily promote 32 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:23.719 that, but yeah, maybe you need to have to find a different doctor. 33 00:02:24.639 --> 00:02:28.319 Yeah, that's I'm gonna have to like just ask around. You know 34 00:02:28.360 --> 00:02:30.199 what. Mikey's dad's a doctor. I should just ask if I can get 35 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:35.520 some of that daddy medicine. You know, you know, daddy medicine, 36 00:02:35.599 --> 00:02:39.960 my family discount. Get the family discount from daddy medicine. You know what 37 00:02:39.960 --> 00:02:49.280 I'm talking about, daddy medicine. That's one of the most upsetting. Yeah, 38 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:54.759 I've said plenty. Uh, probably I got I got scratched. Lights 39 00:02:54.759 --> 00:02:57.520 are on. I'm not wearing any makeup and my lights are on. I'm 40 00:02:57.520 --> 00:03:04.400 pretty high. But my cat was so annoying anning was she this morning that 41 00:03:04.520 --> 00:03:07.360 I like picked her up and I tried to give her a cuddle and she 42 00:03:07.479 --> 00:03:12.479 just went no. So now I've got this cool scratch. I will say, 43 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:15.199 it does actually look kind of cool. Thank you. Yes, he's 44 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:19.560 tough. You. I would not mess with you with that, with that 45 00:03:19.879 --> 00:03:24.280 scratch flaw. Yeah listen, sorry, yeah him up. I saw him 46 00:03:24.280 --> 00:03:27.639 pop up. As soon as the cat was mentioned. He was like, 47 00:03:29.680 --> 00:03:31.199 they are just afraid of getting scratched, right, People who don't like cats. 48 00:03:31.240 --> 00:03:34.280 They're like, ow, this thing's actually gonna hurt me. It's like, 49 00:03:34.319 --> 00:03:36.319 oh, come on, you see you get a little cool star. 50 00:03:36.439 --> 00:03:38.360 What's the big deal? Yeah, they're weak. I agree, Lucy James, 51 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:40.800 You're absolutely right about that. I don't. I don't care how many 52 00:03:40.840 --> 00:03:45.479 times my cat bites me. I listen, he's he's a big boy. 53 00:03:45.560 --> 00:03:46.840 I'll like get down there and wrestle with him, and then he's like, 54 00:03:46.840 --> 00:03:49.840 it's over stimulated. He's like, no, actually, now it's time to 55 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:53.639 fuck you up. I'm like, there, I get it. I just 56 00:03:53.639 --> 00:03:54.960 think this was this was an accident. And also, Jeff, you go 57 00:03:55.000 --> 00:04:00.360 bit by a little chihuahua the other day, so yep, it was not 58 00:04:00.400 --> 00:04:05.520 a feral dog. It was in someone's handbag. Again, not Barley everybody, 59 00:04:05.560 --> 00:04:11.159 although never body. That's the sweetest, sweetest little girl out there. 60 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:14.280 But yeah, how are you doing otherwise? We're getting here towards the end 61 00:04:14.280 --> 00:04:18.240 of the year. I'm just like, kind of coasting. Is I think 62 00:04:18.279 --> 00:04:23.560 the word I'm just coasting towards the end of the year must be nice. 63 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:29.680 It's not kidding. I just have too much, no responsibility. I'm good 64 00:04:29.680 --> 00:04:33.600 over here. Someone just asked me to review you, so you will go 65 00:04:33.759 --> 00:04:38.839 performance review. I'm working really hard a little bit. Yeah, no, 66 00:04:39.120 --> 00:04:44.959 I uh, it's it was Jeff it's really busy still this week and everything's 67 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:50.040 depressing. So that makes for a great combo looking out at the industry at 68 00:04:50.079 --> 00:04:54.720 the moment and then looking at your silly little task. Yep, you know. 69 00:04:55.279 --> 00:04:59.560 Yeah, it puts everything into perspective, keeps it all pretty decently into 70 00:04:59.600 --> 00:05:03.560 perspective. Yeah, you were catching up on any like games that Now that 71 00:05:03.560 --> 00:05:08.160 you're past the point where you're like, because GameSpot, Giant Bomb, Game 72 00:05:08.199 --> 00:05:10.120 of the Year's stuff out of the way for the most part, right, 73 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:12.360 do you feel the need to like still be catching up on anything or you 74 00:05:12.439 --> 00:05:18.480 like playing what you want to play lay like Dragon Guided. Okay, to 75 00:05:18.560 --> 00:05:24.319 kind of polish that one off, I honestly I've missed a lot of TV. 76 00:05:25.199 --> 00:05:30.839 Oh yeah, So we're doing a watch party of The Gilded Age next 77 00:05:30.879 --> 00:05:33.920 weekend, which is American down to Navvy. Oh, I'm aware I watched 78 00:05:33.920 --> 00:05:39.680 The gilden Age this season one because I love Doubt Navvy so much. Good. 79 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:42.279 Okay, So Gilded Age is one of those shows where it's like, 80 00:05:42.480 --> 00:05:46.600 is this good? Yes, I don't know, but I love it a 81 00:05:46.759 --> 00:05:50.879 million percent. You're gonna be asking yourself is this good? And then and 82 00:05:50.879 --> 00:05:54.519 then yeah, you're still gonna I also love it. I think it's a 83 00:05:54.519 --> 00:05:59.319 bit trashy. I'm gonna say I think it's pretty trashy. It's regency trash, 84 00:05:59.360 --> 00:06:02.720 but no regency trash is bridgeton. Yes, there's no there's no shagging 85 00:06:02.759 --> 00:06:08.560 in Gilded Age. Really, there's some heavy petting occasionally. But now I've 86 00:06:08.600 --> 00:06:12.120 been watching I've been watching that to catch up and then yeah, I'm gonna 87 00:06:12.120 --> 00:06:15.199 be catching up on bake Off, and then I have I have a whole 88 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:18.120 plan what I'm going to do over the break, So you know, I'm 89 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:25.120 gonna finally play out the Wild. I'll do my Alan Wake Control Alan Wake 90 00:06:25.160 --> 00:06:29.399 two play through. Now a new game plus is out. You know. 91 00:06:29.439 --> 00:06:31.920 See, I'm going to change the region of our discord thing real quick, 92 00:06:31.959 --> 00:06:36.560 so you might drop out for a second just because it's okay saving and then 93 00:06:36.600 --> 00:06:42.000 that's gonna be for a moment. There we go, There we go. 94 00:06:42.079 --> 00:06:46.000 Okay, it should be a little bit better now, all right, all 95 00:06:46.120 --> 00:06:47.279 right, cool, let's you know what, let's explain what we do here 96 00:06:47.319 --> 00:06:50.279 most weekdays. I Jeff Greble, help, I got the doc back by 97 00:06:50.279 --> 00:06:54.399 the way you want me to? Yeah, sure, go for it. 98 00:06:54.480 --> 00:06:58.720 Yeah, I notice you've got rid of the line. Okay, before we 99 00:06:58.759 --> 00:07:00.399 get into the mess, I don't remember the last time you ever heard Yeah, 100 00:07:01.240 --> 00:07:04.319 you know, I think it fell a bit repetitive. Maybe I don't 101 00:07:04.319 --> 00:07:08.560 know why, but like, let's explain ourselves. It's just such an easy 102 00:07:08.560 --> 00:07:11.959 thing now at this point, so I just say that, let's explain ourselves. 103 00:07:11.959 --> 00:07:15.680 Most weekdays, I Jeff Grub will help you piece your gaming life back 104 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:19.079 together. That includes breaking news and maybe even some of our own original reporting. 105 00:07:19.560 --> 00:07:21.920 For all these topics, I'll get input from a bona fide expert. 106 00:07:23.000 --> 00:07:26.720 He'll make me look smart. If you're watching on live on twitch welcome, 107 00:07:26.800 --> 00:07:30.399 you can always listen to the show later on podcast feeds by searching for Game 108 00:07:30.399 --> 00:07:33.759 Mess Mornings, or find the RSS feed on GiantBomb dot com. You can 109 00:07:33.800 --> 00:07:38.920 also catch the show later with chapters and timestamps on YouTube. So YouTube, 110 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:43.879 Hello, YouTube, Yeah, thank you so much. We let's get into 111 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:46.040 So, let's get into the mess. Let's get into the mess with the 112 00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:50.800 November twenty twenty three Sirkana report. Yes, I wrote down MPD here and 113 00:07:50.839 --> 00:07:55.120 I will probably keep doing that for quite some time. But there's Sircana now. 114 00:07:55.600 --> 00:07:58.639 Uh yeah, this is MATTP. Piscitello over there. He out on 115 00:07:58.639 --> 00:08:03.480 social media, writing out all the highlights from the report, including let's see 116 00:08:03.480 --> 00:08:07.160 hear us. Consumer spending on video game content and hardware accessories fell seven percent 117 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:11.199 compared to a year ago to five point nine billion dollars. The decline was 118 00:08:11.240 --> 00:08:16.279 driven by a twenty four percent drop in hardware spending and a three percent dip 119 00:08:16.279 --> 00:08:20.759 in content. Let's see here, let's jump to the best selling games. 120 00:08:20.759 --> 00:08:24.839 Call of Duty Modern Warfare three was number one, Marvel's Spider Man two was 121 00:08:24.879 --> 00:08:28.360 number two, and then it was Hogwarts, Legacy, Madden, Mario Wonder 122 00:08:28.639 --> 00:08:33.759 EA Sports FC twenty four, Super Mario RPG, Mortal Kombat one at number 123 00:08:33.799 --> 00:08:37.360 eight, NBA two K twenty four, UFC five, rounding out the top 124 00:08:37.399 --> 00:08:41.879 ten. Other games in the top twenty that were new this month, including 125 00:08:41.919 --> 00:08:46.840 No Rudo plus Bo Rudo Ultimate, Ninja Storm Connections at number twelve. Yes, 126 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:50.159 that's a real thing, and then number seventeen was Star Ocean, the 127 00:08:50.200 --> 00:08:54.960 second story r that was new to the charts as well. You know, 128 00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:56.559 good for it for charting. At least, I wish it maybe would have 129 00:08:56.559 --> 00:09:01.759 performed a little bit better, because I think that game looks really pretty year 130 00:09:01.759 --> 00:09:05.679 to date, Hogwart's likeacy is still number one. Call of Duty Modern Warfare 131 00:09:05.679 --> 00:09:07.759 did debut at number two, though that's the first time I think a Call 132 00:09:07.799 --> 00:09:11.240 of Duty is not debuted at number one in quite some time. The Legend 133 00:09:11.279 --> 00:09:16.080 of Zalda Tiers of the Kingdom physical only they don't have the digital sales is 134 00:09:16.120 --> 00:09:20.759 at number three. It did drop one since last month November video game content 135 00:09:20.879 --> 00:09:24.840 dropped that that three percent that we mentioned compared to a year ago to four 136 00:09:24.840 --> 00:09:28.679 point six billion dollars and eleven percent. Declining console and portable content spending was 137 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:33.879 partially offset by a three percent growth across each of the mobile subscription and PC 138 00:09:35.039 --> 00:09:39.279 cloud and non console VR content segments. The primary drive here for the decline 139 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:43.600 in the console importable content was the comparable strength last year God of War, 140 00:09:43.720 --> 00:09:48.480 Ragnarrock and Pokemon Scarlet and Violet launched. There was nothing really to fill in 141 00:09:48.519 --> 00:09:50.559 those gaps this year, so that's the big reason while you're seeing a decline 142 00:09:50.879 --> 00:09:54.600 year over year, and then Call of Duty Modern War for three was the 143 00:09:54.600 --> 00:09:58.080 best selling game of November, instantly becoming the second best bestselling game of twenty 144 00:09:58.120 --> 00:10:01.919 twenty three. Year to date, it is the fifth consecutive year at that 145 00:10:01.960 --> 00:10:05.840 a Call of Duty title was November's best seller. The last time it wasn't 146 00:10:05.879 --> 00:10:09.440 was Man Red Dead Redemption two ranked first in November twenty eighteen. Game. 147 00:10:09.799 --> 00:10:16.320 Yeah, well, overall it was kind of what you would expect, but 148 00:10:16.360 --> 00:10:20.200 that Call of Duty isn't selling as well as the more recent Call of Duty 149 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:22.960 games, and that also seems to be bringing things down. But overall the 150 00:10:22.960 --> 00:10:28.039 market seems pretty healthy. Any surprises here for you, Lucy James, I 151 00:10:28.159 --> 00:10:35.759 guess not really. I think everyone has been writing that. I mean, 152 00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:39.039 obviously we've been seeing this with layoffs very unfortunately. But it's like, it's 153 00:10:39.080 --> 00:10:45.200 so weird to see things go down, Yes, even if they are to 154 00:10:45.240 --> 00:10:50.000 be expected, even if capitalism is a scam. I was to say, 155 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:56.080 it's kind of weird to see this kind of a small shrink here with regard 156 00:10:56.120 --> 00:11:01.159 to spending, especially when you consider what a year we've had ad for video 157 00:11:01.240 --> 00:11:05.039 games. But obviously, yeah, when you contextualize it with the fact that 158 00:11:05.120 --> 00:11:07.440 God of War Ragnarok was this time last year on November last year, and 159 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:13.399 Pokemon, even though Pokemon is not a game that I ever really dip into 160 00:11:13.519 --> 00:11:16.759 anymore, I've made peace with it. I'm never going to finish a Pokemon 161 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:20.360 game. It's just not for me anymore. But you kind of forget how 162 00:11:20.039 --> 00:11:24.720 big those games are. And so yeah, the PlayStation and Nintendo to have 163 00:11:24.799 --> 00:11:26.320 both of those heavy hitters in one month, yeah, of course there's going 164 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:30.519 to be a decline I think. Yeah, hardware spending as well, because 165 00:11:30.600 --> 00:11:35.000 wasn't this time last year that was when like PlayStation Vibe was regularly available final 166 00:11:37.240 --> 00:11:41.720 and then this year I did see numbers about the Switch drop, but that's 167 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:48.879 just because like, who can you tell take levels now of Switch? Like 168 00:11:48.960 --> 00:11:52.039 if you don't have one by now, and my nieces who are too young 169 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:54.919 to watch this and will not be watching are getting on for Christmas admittedly, 170 00:11:56.080 --> 00:12:00.600 yeah, like we're piss take levels with the Switch. No been picking that 171 00:12:00.679 --> 00:12:03.879 up. So yeah, and even the PS five Xbox, those things are 172 00:12:03.879 --> 00:12:07.360 probably selling pretty equivalent to what they did in terms of unit but they in 173 00:12:07.960 --> 00:12:11.360 terms of unit sales, but both of them saw some pretty heavy discounts in 174 00:12:11.399 --> 00:12:13.440 November, so less money, so it would be and that's how they track 175 00:12:13.519 --> 00:12:18.000 it at the ETSIR Khana is dollar sales, so that would have been a 176 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:20.759 dip as well. When we look at like year to date. So yeah, 177 00:12:20.759 --> 00:12:22.840 November down, but you could, like things move around around the calendar. 178 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:26.200 October was really big this year, I think, a little bit bigger 179 00:12:26.200 --> 00:12:31.080 than last year, or or at least pretty even. The industry is about 180 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:33.799 even overall when it comes to counting how many things are selling. In the 181 00:12:33.919 --> 00:12:39.399 United States, total video game sales up one percent, which is about even, 182 00:12:39.039 --> 00:12:43.559 and then hardware was down one percent, and that's almost certainly mostly due 183 00:12:43.639 --> 00:12:48.559 to the Switch. That's probably the biggest dragging factor there as that like continues 184 00:12:48.600 --> 00:12:52.960 to decline a little bit, although Switch sales still up in Japan. Somehow, 185 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:56.080 it's pretty wild back. Actually, let's see some of the other details 186 00:12:56.120 --> 00:13:01.279 here. Assisted by price promotion, Just Dance twenty twenty four edition jumped from 187 00:13:01.360 --> 00:13:05.600 number seventy three on the best selling charts in October to twentieth in November. 188 00:13:07.120 --> 00:13:11.919 Nintendo Switch was was Just Dance twenty twenty four Edition's leading sales. Platform inclusion 189 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:16.559 and subscription offerings helped several titles see active user count boosts. Sir kinda started 190 00:13:16.600 --> 00:13:20.320 doing this where they're like, hey, here are the most played games on 191 00:13:20.360 --> 00:13:22.399 these platforms instead of here are the best selling games on these platforms. I 192 00:13:22.440 --> 00:13:26.879 think that's been sort of yeah, it's pretty interesting to see. But like 193 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:31.720 Aliens Fired, Team Elite ranked eleventh in monthly active users, Things like That 194 00:13:31.879 --> 00:13:37.799 and Wild Hearts jumped from five hundred first October to number eighteen. So yeah. 195 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:41.559 On Steam, Lethal Company ranked to second in monthly active users in November, 196 00:13:41.679 --> 00:13:45.320 behind only counter Strike two. The title placed to one hundred and fifteenth 197 00:13:45.320 --> 00:13:48.279 in October. Half Life increased from three hundred and eighty three in October to 198 00:13:48.360 --> 00:13:52.360 twentieth in November thanks to the release of Half Life twenty fifth anniversary update. 199 00:13:54.600 --> 00:13:58.039 Let's see Sales of digital at retail products including point of sales, activated gift 200 00:13:58.039 --> 00:14:03.600 cards and digital code on receipts showed single digit percentage of dollar sales growth in 201 00:14:03.639 --> 00:14:07.320 November versus a year ago, and November video game hardware spending fell twenty four 202 00:14:07.320 --> 00:14:11.360 percent when compared to a year ago to nine hundred and sixty four million dollars. 203 00:14:11.720 --> 00:14:16.720 All current generation consoles experienced a double digit percentage decline in dollar sales when 204 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:20.279 compared to a year ago, within to no Switch showing the sharpest drop year 205 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:24.080 on year, and again that's almost certainly due well, not the switch, 206 00:14:24.120 --> 00:14:28.639 but the other two consoles almost certainly due to price reductions. They were readily 207 00:14:28.639 --> 00:14:31.639 available last year and very few discounts this year. There's been a lot of 208 00:14:31.639 --> 00:14:35.720 discounts on those on the hardware for whatever reason, probably because they're being so 209 00:14:35.759 --> 00:14:39.759 competitive with one another. Likes he just dropped in that, like the Series 210 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:43.799 X is down by one hundred bucks this holiday season. Yes, yes, 211 00:14:43.799 --> 00:14:48.639 and PS five like not just last month, not even just October, but 212 00:14:48.720 --> 00:14:52.399 all throughout, like the beginning, like late summer and fall. You could 213 00:14:52.440 --> 00:14:54.120 get that thing for four hundred dollars. There was a time where I think 214 00:14:54.120 --> 00:14:56.919 it was three hundred and fifty dollars. There were some very aggressive discounting on 215 00:14:58.039 --> 00:15:01.080 the PS five and then x Box only just recently started doing that. So 216 00:15:01.200 --> 00:15:05.559 yeah, you can save a lot of money if you buy that hardware right 217 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:11.320 now. Uh. Overall, though, let's see, oh here this last 218 00:15:11.320 --> 00:15:13.399 one. Accessories spending increased three percent when compared to a year ago, And 219 00:15:13.399 --> 00:15:16.039 as always we always I always try to point out, hey, accessory spending 220 00:15:16.120 --> 00:15:20.000 is good like indicator for like, hey, are things still healthy overall? 221 00:15:20.039 --> 00:15:22.600 Because if people are buying headsets and controllers, it means they're probably planning to 222 00:15:22.600 --> 00:15:26.879 buy a lot more games, so growth for accessories is a pretty good sign, 223 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:31.279 especially after the pandemic where people bought a ton of accessories. So if 224 00:15:31.279 --> 00:15:35.279 people are still buying, that's usually a pretty good sign, all right. 225 00:15:35.320 --> 00:15:39.840 Next story here, former Rockstar dev explains why GTA six PC port isn't coming 226 00:15:39.879 --> 00:15:43.759 at launch, As comes from Camera Coke at Game Spot. Grand Theft Auto 227 00:15:43.759 --> 00:15:46.600 six is officially releasing on PlayStation five and Xbox Series X and S and twenty 228 00:15:46.600 --> 00:15:50.159 twenty five, but PC players will have to wait even longer, with Rockstar 229 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:54.519 confirming the game won't be available on PC at launch. But why? According 230 00:15:54.519 --> 00:15:58.360 to a former Rockstar developer, Mike York, who worked at the studio from 231 00:15:58.440 --> 00:16:03.399 twenty twelve through twenty seventeen on projects like GTA seven and Red Dead Redemption two, 232 00:16:03.639 --> 00:16:07.440 it simply comes down to a matter of priority. They want to prioritize 233 00:16:07.480 --> 00:16:10.600 what sells, York said in a recent video about the subject posted to his 234 00:16:10.639 --> 00:16:14.840 personal YouTube channel. Most of the time, especially in the past, PlayStation 235 00:16:15.000 --> 00:16:18.559 was the big seller. PlayStation was the console to have it sold more copies 236 00:16:18.559 --> 00:16:21.879 than any other console. For the most part, everybody is playing PlayStation. 237 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:26.080 The PlayStation version of the game then became the most important version, York said. 238 00:16:26.399 --> 00:16:29.440 When he worked on GTA five while he was at Rockstar, York said 239 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:32.879 the developer spent most of their time making sure the PS three version was the 240 00:16:32.879 --> 00:16:37.000 best it could be, while same simultaneously working on the Xbox three sixty version. 241 00:16:37.279 --> 00:16:40.159 The PC version is kind of the version that's in the background, that 242 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:44.840 is running two versions, is running that is running the two versions and then 243 00:16:44.879 --> 00:16:47.919 building them. Not exactly sure what he means by that. There's always a 244 00:16:48.279 --> 00:16:51.039 PC version of the game, but it's not polished, and it's just kind 245 00:16:51.039 --> 00:16:56.519 of feeding on the other games and making them work. Yeah, this makes 246 00:16:56.559 --> 00:17:00.559 a lot of sense. Prioritization. You think Rockstar big enough that they wouldn't 247 00:17:00.600 --> 00:17:03.519 have to have these kinds of like well, you know, give and takes 248 00:17:03.720 --> 00:17:04.640 and a net negative. So it's like, well, if we put more 249 00:17:04.799 --> 00:17:08.319 resources in the PlayStation version, that means less resources for the place or for 250 00:17:08.359 --> 00:17:11.359 the PC version. But I think when you pair it up with the fact 251 00:17:11.359 --> 00:17:15.480 that it's never hurt them in the past to release a game a year later 252 00:17:15.519 --> 00:17:18.960 on PC or even two years later on PC. Right, So why would 253 00:17:18.960 --> 00:17:22.200 they not just focus on what's going to make the most money, Right? 254 00:17:22.240 --> 00:17:26.400 Away and then have a double dip with a PC later. Right. Yeah, 255 00:17:26.440 --> 00:17:29.039 I was gonna say double dip is the other thing that he's not any 256 00:17:29.319 --> 00:17:34.960 mentioning the like, uh, you know, they get that extra boost and 257 00:17:36.039 --> 00:17:38.839 that's what point you kind of lay the land. They've fixed a lot of 258 00:17:38.880 --> 00:17:44.200 what might be might be broken at launch and then yeah, they'll release it 259 00:17:44.200 --> 00:17:48.160 on Pcso PC is so much harder to configure. For like, if they 260 00:17:48.079 --> 00:17:53.640 the size and scope of this game, if what the Houser, Oh just 261 00:17:53.720 --> 00:17:56.839 one Houser RP. He's not dead, but he's just none of ours anymore. 262 00:17:57.599 --> 00:18:02.359 Finish. Yeah for a second, we got you back. If Sam, 263 00:18:02.400 --> 00:18:06.240 if what Sam Houses said is true in that press release that they released 264 00:18:06.240 --> 00:18:08.759 alongside the trailer, it's like, yeah, it's going to be a difficult 265 00:18:08.759 --> 00:18:12.400 one to to put out there, and they're going they're also gonna want to 266 00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:17.839 make sure that it's it's good and like Roxanne doesn't like putting stuff out. 267 00:18:17.880 --> 00:18:22.240 I mean it has happened, but they don't like it when stuff comes out 268 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:29.880 and is not to their expectation or to the level of quality. And and 269 00:18:29.920 --> 00:18:30.920 you know, not only is it not hurt them in the past, I 270 00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:37.200 think with Grand Theft Auto five and red that Redemption two that had that lagged 271 00:18:37.240 --> 00:18:38.680 before it came to PC. Right, that was there was like a year 272 00:18:38.839 --> 00:18:41.640 gap. I think it's helped both of those things, or helped or at 273 00:18:41.680 --> 00:18:47.079 least it was like a big deal. So GT five was Xbox through sixteen 274 00:18:47.160 --> 00:18:51.440 p PS three and then the next ship consoles the year after, and then 275 00:18:51.519 --> 00:18:53.519 PC, so like two years before it came to PC or something like that, 276 00:18:53.880 --> 00:18:56.400 and each time they released, they re released that game on a new 277 00:18:56.440 --> 00:19:00.720 platform. It was like this big deal in the game started selling immediately really 278 00:19:00.759 --> 00:19:04.200 well all over again. So it's like this two or three year long period 279 00:19:04.200 --> 00:19:08.200 where the game is launching and they get they get a lot of benefit from 280 00:19:08.200 --> 00:19:11.839 that. There's a lot of attention, a lot of mind share, and 281 00:19:11.079 --> 00:19:15.039 yeah, so I not only does it not hurt them, it seems to 282 00:19:15.079 --> 00:19:18.559 help them, and it keeps that strong momentum of having a big game launching 283 00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:22.279 going for years at a time. So yeah, I think when when you 284 00:19:22.319 --> 00:19:26.799 pair that up with the fact that, yeah, the PlayStation version does sell 285 00:19:26.799 --> 00:19:29.079 the best, and someone whos chat is like, hey, does it really 286 00:19:29.079 --> 00:19:32.960 sell better than the PC version? Yeah, PC like is very a very 287 00:19:32.960 --> 00:19:37.079 big platform but games still tend to sell better on console overall, especially these 288 00:19:37.119 --> 00:19:42.799 big marquee games that everyone associates like traditionally with PlayStation. The reason that's true 289 00:19:42.839 --> 00:19:45.119 is because, yeah, they did sell better on PlayStation. They still do. 290 00:19:47.039 --> 00:19:49.680 So, Yeah, prioritizing those like you said, meeting their specifications, 291 00:19:49.720 --> 00:19:53.720 meeting their their their quality assurance, all that stuff, that they're able to 292 00:19:53.759 --> 00:19:57.799 do that more if they focus on fewer platforms, So PlayStation, Xbox out 293 00:19:57.799 --> 00:20:00.799 of the gate, and then I like, here's what I expect, Lucy, 294 00:20:00.839 --> 00:20:03.440 I don't know. You tell me if you think this is right. 295 00:20:03.640 --> 00:20:07.519 A year later, we do get the PC version, right the next holiday. 296 00:20:07.640 --> 00:20:11.160 I would love that. Who knows, it's that timeframe. I'm just 297 00:20:11.160 --> 00:20:14.359 to the point now where I'm like, twenty twenty five seems so far, 298 00:20:14.440 --> 00:20:17.359 which, yes, you got it, so you'll get it. I'll get 299 00:20:17.400 --> 00:20:21.519 to twenty five and then and then we'll see. But I yeah, I 300 00:20:21.519 --> 00:20:25.359 think regardless, we'll definitely we'll get a PC. There's no way they look 301 00:20:25.400 --> 00:20:27.359 no with that entire platform. Oh yeah, no, no way, well 302 00:20:27.480 --> 00:20:30.759 except for with red Dead Redemption one, which never came to PC, so 303 00:20:30.759 --> 00:20:33.880 so weird. But yes, they won't do they won't do that with GTA 304 00:20:34.680 --> 00:20:38.720 Yeah, will you like a double dip? Because I know you're a big 305 00:20:38.759 --> 00:20:41.599 PC player. I play most of my games on PC if I'm not playing 306 00:20:41.640 --> 00:20:47.000 on Switch. But I would probably play GTA six on a console when it 307 00:20:47.079 --> 00:20:48.680 launches, and then I'm going to get it again on PC. Is that 308 00:20:48.720 --> 00:20:52.079 how you think you're going to do it? Oh? Yeah, yeah, 309 00:20:53.319 --> 00:20:57.680 no, I'm I've become a PC pivot now baby, So yes, let's 310 00:20:57.920 --> 00:21:02.359 yeah. Well, yes, I don't think we'll be alone. I think 311 00:21:02.359 --> 00:21:06.079 a lot of people will be right there with us. Get into maybe maybe 312 00:21:06.079 --> 00:21:08.759 we'll get into modding. Yeah, get into mind. I was mudding, 313 00:21:10.680 --> 00:21:12.319 are you gonna play Lethal Company with us on Friday? There's a couple of 314 00:21:12.359 --> 00:21:17.119 mods I think that maybe we could put in there, But because I don't 315 00:21:17.119 --> 00:21:18.839 know if I can play, I will hop in. But that's my I 316 00:21:18.920 --> 00:21:22.319 have seven people to review day, right, that's right? Okay, Well 317 00:21:22.319 --> 00:21:26.160 maybe they'll just come hang out with us. Sure, yes, but yeah, 318 00:21:26.200 --> 00:21:29.480 I was like, eh, I'm gonna mod that, And I'm like, 319 00:21:29.559 --> 00:21:32.079 okay, if I can make it easy for everyone else, because everyone 320 00:21:32.079 --> 00:21:33.279 else would have to have the same mods for it to work, and like, 321 00:21:33.400 --> 00:21:37.720 I'm not sure if anyone else cares about mods, I mod everything, 322 00:21:37.920 --> 00:21:40.640 Lucy. I just sometimes I even forget I'm odd things and then I'm like, 323 00:21:40.640 --> 00:21:42.000 oh, yeah, this is weird. I did this to this game 324 00:21:42.160 --> 00:21:47.200 SIMS mods. Oh yeah, yeah, what's what's a good SIMS mod? 325 00:21:47.480 --> 00:21:49.599 Or? Is it just like ease of use things that you normally use? 326 00:21:51.480 --> 00:21:53.680 No, you can there's a oh what's it called. There's a SIMS mod, 327 00:21:53.880 --> 00:21:57.359 so build mode and ZIMS floors kind of. I can use like a 328 00:21:57.359 --> 00:22:03.039 lot of a lot of stuff to move things out of the tiles that you 329 00:22:03.079 --> 00:22:07.200 want, and there's one that makes it so much easier. So these others 330 00:22:07.680 --> 00:22:11.799 I download like a lot of custom content too, right, yes, totally. 331 00:22:11.079 --> 00:22:15.119 Uh yeah, that's that's what I ended up doing to reci Well four 332 00:22:15.160 --> 00:22:15.799 recently. When I played that, I'm like, oh yeah, I forgot 333 00:22:15.839 --> 00:22:19.319 I did this look at eight to long. Oh no, all right, 334 00:22:19.519 --> 00:22:26.839 let's see here. Japanese publishers need Xbox. According to x Sony VP. 335 00:22:26.440 --> 00:22:32.599 This is from Alex Hopley, a game reactor. Mina Seto Kato, former 336 00:22:32.680 --> 00:22:36.880 Sony VP, who has since joined Xbox as the Director of Partnerships for Japan, 337 00:22:37.519 --> 00:22:40.880 is stressing that Japanese publishers need the Green Team in order to expand their 338 00:22:40.920 --> 00:22:45.279 business. Speaking to Bloomberg, she said, the following Japanese publishers will definitely 339 00:22:45.279 --> 00:22:48.559 need us in expanding their business. It would be difficult to do that just 340 00:22:48.680 --> 00:22:52.839 with the PlayStation. We have seen an increased interest from Xbox in a Japanese 341 00:22:52.880 --> 00:22:56.960 audience. Xbox series consoles have been doing rather well in the country, even 342 00:22:56.960 --> 00:23:00.200 out selling the PS five on occasion, but it's clear that Japan is still 343 00:23:00.240 --> 00:23:06.720 primarily a gaming market dominated by Sony and Nintendo. Okay, there's two sides 344 00:23:06.720 --> 00:23:10.279 of this. For me, Lucy, I think that there's some truth too. 345 00:23:10.359 --> 00:23:12.599 If you want to grow and you're a Japanese developer, being on Xbox 346 00:23:12.680 --> 00:23:15.720 is a pretty good idea. I don't know if it matters, you know 347 00:23:15.720 --> 00:23:18.640 what I know it doesn't matter in Japan the time is that it's outsold the 348 00:23:18.640 --> 00:23:22.880 PlayStation, the Xbox Series X and S. It was like because the PlayStation 349 00:23:22.960 --> 00:23:27.920 five was completely unavailable and the Xbox sold like ten thousand units or like or 350 00:23:27.960 --> 00:23:32.559 a thousand units, whatever it was, and the PlayStation five was like five 351 00:23:32.640 --> 00:23:36.440 hundred because no one could find one. I don't think this matters for Japan 352 00:23:36.480 --> 00:23:38.480 but I think in terms of a global audience, being on Xbox seems like 353 00:23:38.519 --> 00:23:42.160 it would be somewhat useful and would expand you to a new audience. What 354 00:23:42.440 --> 00:23:47.160 do you think. I think so, especially given especially at Summer Gamefest this 355 00:23:47.240 --> 00:23:51.880 year the Xbox Showcase that they had had a lot of Japanese games on there. 356 00:23:52.079 --> 00:23:56.359 They have that kind of deal with Atlas to get they had a P 357 00:23:56.480 --> 00:24:00.680 three and P four from Elia this year on Game Past Day won they announced 358 00:24:00.720 --> 00:24:06.279 Capcom's new game on there. It's interesting. I mean, I think it's 359 00:24:06.319 --> 00:24:10.200 only really a good thing for the Japanese Japanese devs and publishers to be on 360 00:24:10.319 --> 00:24:15.680 Xbox, and Xbox will go and promote that games just like I mean, 361 00:24:15.720 --> 00:24:18.000 just like PlayStation will do it. But like, yeah, that makes all 362 00:24:18.039 --> 00:24:21.079 the sense in the world. Yeah, I think like the Sega Atlas, 363 00:24:21.279 --> 00:24:26.279 like Metaphor Refound Hasio that one recently, the PlayStation audience probably already knows about 364 00:24:26.319 --> 00:24:29.880 that has a history with Atless games, was probably already looking forward to that 365 00:24:29.920 --> 00:24:33.839 game. The idea of that game now showing up multiple times at Xbox events 366 00:24:33.960 --> 00:24:37.680 or showing up at the Game Awards with the Xbox button at the end that's 367 00:24:37.680 --> 00:24:41.359 gonna be like, Oh, the Xbox audience should care about this in a 368 00:24:41.359 --> 00:24:44.680 way that they may be have traditionally not and now the Xbox is sort of 369 00:24:44.839 --> 00:24:48.079 teaching them be like, hey, no, these games are important and maybe 370 00:24:48.079 --> 00:24:49.759 many of them will be in game pass, so you should try them out. 371 00:24:51.039 --> 00:24:52.640 That does seem like, oh yeah, Xbox has an audience. It 372 00:24:52.640 --> 00:24:56.640 could speak to the on behalf of Japanese games. And I think if Japanese 373 00:24:56.640 --> 00:25:03.240 developers want to keep making console and PC games the way that they have traditionally 374 00:25:03.319 --> 00:25:07.160 and not like all shift over to mobile, making Xbox part of that plan 375 00:25:07.279 --> 00:25:11.519 does make a lot of sense for exactly the reason you said. I think 376 00:25:11.519 --> 00:25:17.359 you're probably right. Uh all right. PC port of Zelda Links Awakening offers 377 00:25:17.480 --> 00:25:21.119 HD visuals in one hundred and twenty frames per second scrolling. This one's mostly 378 00:25:21.160 --> 00:25:25.079 for me, Lucy James. This is one of my favorite games. This 379 00:25:25.119 --> 00:25:26.880 is from Anyone to hear? Can anyone hear that noise? Don't hear that 380 00:25:26.920 --> 00:25:32.720 noise? It's a little siren. It's a little siren, and Nintendo Police 381 00:25:32.759 --> 00:25:36.400 is coming for you. Uh. This is It is still available on ith 382 00:25:36.440 --> 00:25:38.640 io. I downloaded this morning. Who knows how long that's gonna last. 383 00:25:40.119 --> 00:25:42.240 If you play the remake of the Legend of Zelda Links Awakening on Switch and 384 00:25:42.319 --> 00:25:47.279 found yourself itching to experience something just a touch more authentic, authentic to the 385 00:25:47.319 --> 00:25:51.160 original, then this unofficial PC port might just be what you're looking for. 386 00:25:51.519 --> 00:25:56.000 Available to download via itch dot io and created by links Awakening DXHD, that's 387 00:25:56.000 --> 00:26:00.880 what you should search for. Link's Awakening DXHD takes the game Boy cover version 388 00:26:00.880 --> 00:26:04.519 of the title and beefs it up considerably, adding in widescreen support HD visuals 389 00:26:04.519 --> 00:26:08.559 in one hundred and twenty frames per second scrolling HD visuals. What it really 390 00:26:08.559 --> 00:26:12.160 does is it just like zooms out. It fills up, you know, 391 00:26:12.240 --> 00:26:18.319 ten eighty by nineteen twenty with the assets of the game that are already there. 392 00:26:18.359 --> 00:26:21.440 So it's like a really small link running around the world. But it's 393 00:26:21.480 --> 00:26:23.319 actually kind of neat because you've never really seen that game that way before. 394 00:26:25.119 --> 00:26:27.480 Not only that, but as highlighted by Digital Founderies John Lenneman. Shout out 395 00:26:27.519 --> 00:26:30.720 to John, you can also zoom out to get a full view of Coholent 396 00:26:30.920 --> 00:26:37.079 Island with every NPC and every visible and active and active exact active character exactly 397 00:26:37.079 --> 00:26:41.640 how you would expect. That's actually pretty impress impressive as well. I am 398 00:26:41.680 --> 00:26:45.200 someone who likes the very original version of Links Awakening Lucy, that the game 399 00:26:45.240 --> 00:26:48.720 Boy black and White version, but whatever, I'll accept DX because this seems 400 00:26:48.759 --> 00:26:53.319 like a really cool project. It is just I just did just download it 401 00:26:53.319 --> 00:26:57.079 from itch dot io. Nintendo is going to come for this immediately. Right 402 00:27:00.160 --> 00:27:03.720 here, Doug Bowser. Right now, you can hear the footsteps mm hmm, 403 00:27:04.000 --> 00:27:08.480 just growing like drum drums in the deep. Doug Bowser when he was 404 00:27:08.559 --> 00:27:11.640 rushing past us at Nintendo Live, he was just like, we're gonna walk 405 00:27:11.680 --> 00:27:15.279 to these people's house, and then now he's just gonna arrive at their door 406 00:27:15.319 --> 00:27:19.000 this morning. It's like it follows. Huh. Yeah. It's truly terrifying. 407 00:27:19.039 --> 00:27:22.920 Actually, And you can only pass on Doug Bowser if you pass on 408 00:27:22.960 --> 00:27:29.319 your indie game to the next person I am gonna play. So I'm very 409 00:27:29.359 --> 00:27:33.039 excited about this. I love this game, and I really like the Switch 410 00:27:33.240 --> 00:27:38.400 remake Lucy. That was like a very cool update of the visuals. They 411 00:27:38.400 --> 00:27:41.200 grew on me very quickly. I thought they did a good job. But 412 00:27:41.559 --> 00:27:45.000 this is like, oh, it's this all the game I played when I 413 00:27:45.240 --> 00:27:48.640 was ten or eleven years old, so very formative, and I kind of 414 00:27:48.640 --> 00:27:52.519 wanted to be the way I remember and this it really is just like that 415 00:27:52.640 --> 00:27:56.279 game blown up to be on a big screen. And I'm excited about these 416 00:27:56.279 --> 00:28:02.200 things in general because whenever the games get poorted to PC, and this is 417 00:28:02.200 --> 00:28:04.319 what this is. This isn't like an emulated version of the game. It's 418 00:28:04.400 --> 00:28:08.319 the source code's been ported to PC. It always opens up the games to 419 00:28:08.359 --> 00:28:11.640 all kinds of different stuff, especially mods. And I'm not even sure like 420 00:28:11.680 --> 00:28:15.319 what mods this game would need, but it's always just fun to see that 421 00:28:15.359 --> 00:28:21.720 work being done because it ensures a certain level of preservation, even beyond oh 422 00:28:21.759 --> 00:28:23.039 we have the emulator in the mods working. It's like, no, it's 423 00:28:23.119 --> 00:28:26.079 just going to work on PC, a platform that's going to probably be around 424 00:28:26.599 --> 00:28:30.480 in some way forever. So I find that very reassuring. Is someone who 425 00:28:30.519 --> 00:28:37.079 loves this game, Oh wait, like you just said, it's gone all 426 00:28:37.160 --> 00:28:40.880 right? Well, hey, lex say I got z it. Play I 427 00:28:40.880 --> 00:28:44.359 believe it. I don't want to click on this. I don't I don't 428 00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:47.440 want to do anything illegal. Oh my god, you're going You're going to 429 00:28:47.559 --> 00:28:52.880 jail. It's okay, all right, it's working for me. I'm not 430 00:28:52.880 --> 00:28:55.039 clicking on this link. I'm not clicking on this link. I got a 431 00:28:55.079 --> 00:28:56.680 game Boy Pocket for because I never played links Awakening. I got a game 432 00:28:56.680 --> 00:29:00.720 Boy Pocket for my friend Peter for my birthday, and it got me a 433 00:29:00.720 --> 00:29:04.279 copy of links Like, oh, really, does the battery still work? 434 00:29:04.279 --> 00:29:10.000 Because like my my I have links Awakening that I found my copy and I 435 00:29:10.039 --> 00:29:11.960 tried playing. I'm like, I thought I had some saves on here, 436 00:29:11.960 --> 00:29:12.640 and I played it for a little bit and I turned it up and turned 437 00:29:12.640 --> 00:29:15.559 it back on and all the saves were gone because the battery had died inside 438 00:29:15.559 --> 00:29:19.000 of it. I've had that happen before with like an old, an old 439 00:29:19.000 --> 00:29:26.079 Pokemon game yep, years ago. But now I'm all good, So yeah, 440 00:29:26.119 --> 00:29:27.200 this one. I think it's like, I think it's like a service 441 00:29:27.240 --> 00:29:30.359 you do where they kind of upgrade it and make sure the batteries all. 442 00:29:30.359 --> 00:29:32.880 Oh yeah, totally, you can pop those open, put in fresh batteries. 443 00:29:32.920 --> 00:29:37.759 Totally, okay, very neat. Oh ps plus at extra Premium titles, 444 00:29:37.200 --> 00:29:40.079 Yeah, hit me with the hit me with the highlights. What's in 445 00:29:40.119 --> 00:29:45.920 there on extra GT five? Oh, okay, that's back on there because 446 00:29:45.519 --> 00:29:51.000 it's like in and out a couple of times. Yeah so yeah. Uh. 447 00:29:51.200 --> 00:29:55.319 Jan's favorite games Stranger of Paradise, Found the Origin, Mozo GP twenty 448 00:29:55.319 --> 00:29:59.640 three, Melt Hell, Singer, Sultan, Sacrifice, Moon Scars. I 449 00:29:59.680 --> 00:30:03.599 don't know why I said that, like Chris Cornell, but you know, 450 00:30:03.319 --> 00:30:07.440 uh, Mega Man eleven, Gigabash, Grime, Tiny Kid, one of 451 00:30:07.519 --> 00:30:12.400 my favorite games of last year, Proteus Shadow, Romaturn's Dragonfall Hong Kong, 452 00:30:12.799 --> 00:30:18.039 and then in the premium tier Mega Man Legacy Collection of Us two, Thrillville 453 00:30:18.039 --> 00:30:23.519 Off the Rails, and Buzz light Year of Star Command. Buzz light Year 454 00:30:23.559 --> 00:30:27.640 of Star Command is okay, It's not one of the better toy story games. 455 00:30:27.839 --> 00:30:32.079 Proteus is really good, though. People should go play Proteus. That's 456 00:30:32.119 --> 00:30:34.240 that's a game that has a lot of juice, especially when you went in 457 00:30:34.279 --> 00:30:37.519 the shooting. It's a very juicy game. Oh, don't punch the microphone. 458 00:30:37.720 --> 00:30:41.160 How you doing? Yes, I know, I gotta work. I'll 459 00:30:41.200 --> 00:30:45.799 be done soon. Valve the Steam Deck owners stop huffing its vent fumes. 460 00:30:45.880 --> 00:30:49.359 This is from Zack Suysen at Kotaku. Valve has a message to all you 461 00:30:49.440 --> 00:30:55.400 folks myself included, who love huffing your steam deck exhaust fumes. Stop it 462 00:30:55.480 --> 00:30:57.839 please. Have you ever tried taken a break from playing your steam deck to 463 00:30:57.880 --> 00:31:02.720 sample the complex freight instances emanating from its exhaust vent? If so, you 464 00:31:02.839 --> 00:31:06.519 aren't alone. Since the release of the handheld PC, many owners have reported 465 00:31:06.519 --> 00:31:10.200 that they can't stop sniffing the fumes that laughed out it walked out of the 466 00:31:10.200 --> 00:31:12.720 steam deck during play. It's becoming a bit of a meme among among steam 467 00:31:12.759 --> 00:31:18.400 deck owners, with folks often posting online how much they enjoy the distinctive aroma. 468 00:31:18.920 --> 00:31:22.400 I'm one of those siccos. This is from Zach and I also in 469 00:31:22.480 --> 00:31:25.960 one of those siccos that's from Jeff Grebb. I'm also a sicko. Yeah 470 00:31:26.400 --> 00:31:32.400 it is. It's intoxicating and probably for a variety of terrible reasons, carcinogenic 471 00:31:32.480 --> 00:31:36.119 reasons almost certainly, But boy it smells real good. Lucy James, what 472 00:31:36.119 --> 00:31:42.079 do we do about this? Nothing? You know what? Stopbe Life is 473 00:31:42.359 --> 00:31:47.599 short, Gabe. We don't all live in New Zealand, our little knife 474 00:31:47.599 --> 00:31:52.400 collection in the fresh air or gay some of us, some of us want 475 00:31:52.480 --> 00:31:57.519 to lick switch cartridges and hoff steam decks. Let us live. Yeah, 476 00:31:57.559 --> 00:32:00.720 some of us need this all right, like I need I need to get 477 00:32:00.759 --> 00:32:05.759 dopamine where I could find it. And if it's from just fully putting a 478 00:32:05.799 --> 00:32:08.599 nostril right on my Steam deck and getting all those schemes right into my brain, 479 00:32:09.240 --> 00:32:13.559 so be it. That's just the way it has to be. I 480 00:32:13.559 --> 00:32:15.480 I mean it's probably dangerous. Actually, you know what. There's a note 481 00:32:15.480 --> 00:32:21.440 here, let's from Steam Support, from Sandler at Steam Support. Hello, 482 00:32:21.519 --> 00:32:24.519 thank you for contacting Steam Support. As with all electronics, it is generally 483 00:32:24.559 --> 00:32:28.960 not recommended you inhale the exhaust fumes on your device. While there are no 484 00:32:29.039 --> 00:32:32.880 safety concerns with general usage, directly inhaling the device's vint fumes should be avoided. 485 00:32:34.079 --> 00:32:36.759 We understand that it may be a meme, but please refrain from this 486 00:32:36.799 --> 00:32:39.599 behavior for the safety of your health. This just feels like them covering their 487 00:32:39.599 --> 00:32:45.400 ass. I bet everyone at Valve also sniffs those fumes. Like, as 488 00:32:45.440 --> 00:32:50.039 with all electronics, when has Valve ever done what everyone else has done? 489 00:32:50.119 --> 00:32:52.680 That's all right? Yes, Wow, stand up from the crowd. Be 490 00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:55.279 bold, be brave. I thought you were I thought you were cool, 491 00:32:55.359 --> 00:33:00.880 Valve. I thought you got us clearly not. Uh. Starfield is going 492 00:33:00.920 --> 00:33:04.440 to get city maps and new ways of travel. This is from Nicole Carpenter 493 00:33:04.440 --> 00:33:07.440 at Polygon. I'm sure everyone's excited for this one, but as the game 494 00:33:07.440 --> 00:33:10.440 Studios plans to update Starfield every six weeks or so in twenty twenty four, 495 00:33:10.559 --> 00:33:15.119 a studio representative posted on the game's reddit for him. This comes after Bethesda 496 00:33:15.160 --> 00:33:19.559 addressed several issues in a patch on Monday, one of which fixes a bug 497 00:33:19.599 --> 00:33:24.000 that player that gave players of ships a pet asteroid as space stuff was getting 498 00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:29.519 stuck to the ships. Several features are like a pet rock. I don't 499 00:33:29.599 --> 00:33:30.920 it doesn't sound like it was deliberate. Deliberate, but I think it's like 500 00:33:30.920 --> 00:33:35.680 people called it like a pet rock pet asteroid because the rocks kept getting stuck 501 00:33:35.720 --> 00:33:37.839 to their ships. I think is what it seems like. Fun. We 502 00:33:37.880 --> 00:33:43.680 got Todd Howard in the chat saying, get ready, everyone to watch out. 503 00:33:43.720 --> 00:33:45.799 Todd's here, He's ready to go, Ready and rare to go this 504 00:33:45.880 --> 00:33:50.079 morning. Several features are coming to Starfield, according to the post. Mod 505 00:33:50.119 --> 00:33:52.160 support, which was announced in September, is one of those features, but 506 00:33:52.160 --> 00:33:58.319 players can expect city maps and all new ways of traveling too. Hey, 507 00:33:58.440 --> 00:34:01.240 maps are coming to Starfield final that one that, like everyone had issues with 508 00:34:01.319 --> 00:34:06.880 because you would. I did like maybe not having maps for like the barren 509 00:34:06.960 --> 00:34:09.599 planets, but you could go to like a city planet when that was set 510 00:34:09.599 --> 00:34:15.079 out by the developers, completely bespoke design, and you could easily get lost 511 00:34:15.119 --> 00:34:20.400 because there was no local map. So yeah, that seems like an oversight. 512 00:34:20.480 --> 00:34:22.440 I'm glad they're doing something about it, but for me, it's still 513 00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:24.960 it's it is too little, too late when it comes to that sort of 514 00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:30.079 thing. I don't know how you feel. I'm not going back. You 515 00:34:30.159 --> 00:34:35.960 can't make me sorry. Todd. Yeah, I was a lot. There's 516 00:34:35.960 --> 00:34:38.599 a lot I missed from this year. I gave ten hours to Starfield and 517 00:34:39.400 --> 00:34:43.039 I love the music, don't get me wrong. There are some elements of 518 00:34:43.039 --> 00:34:45.519 it that I enjoyed. But it's just it was it's too slow for me. 519 00:34:45.800 --> 00:34:50.440 My my brain can't I need I need flashing lights, I need explosions 520 00:34:50.480 --> 00:34:53.000 right now. Yeah, it is. I'm at the stage of my life 521 00:34:53.000 --> 00:34:57.119 I'm like, I'm not going to push through something if I'm not immediately enjoying 522 00:34:57.159 --> 00:35:00.599 it. Yeah, I think my the place I landed was vaguely positive feelings. 523 00:35:00.719 --> 00:35:07.360 That's like vaguely positive. There's a lot to complain about. If the 524 00:35:07.440 --> 00:35:12.480 game still had any of that. But there's the exploration magic of set down 525 00:35:12.679 --> 00:35:15.159 the game tolls. You go this way, you walk in the opposite direction, 526 00:35:15.199 --> 00:35:17.480 and you find a bunch of fun things to do that would be great. 527 00:35:17.519 --> 00:35:22.320 There's none of that really, whether you're exploring on foot on a planet 528 00:35:22.440 --> 00:35:27.559 or exploring exploring and the ship from Solar system to Solar system, none of 529 00:35:27.599 --> 00:35:32.639 that super works in terms of being the compelling part of Starfield. I eventually 530 00:35:32.679 --> 00:35:37.760 found some fun going on some of the side quests, stumbling on maybe some 531 00:35:37.880 --> 00:35:42.519 cool characters. I like moments of like, okay, I'm in orbit, 532 00:35:42.840 --> 00:35:45.920 I'm just gonna start handling some random ships. And the one ship all over 533 00:35:45.960 --> 00:35:49.800 this planet was a lady who invited me over for dinner, and like that 534 00:35:49.880 --> 00:35:52.239 led to a little bit of a side quest and was like okay, yeah, 535 00:35:52.280 --> 00:35:57.400 well, hey a little side quest, if you know what I mean, 536 00:35:57.440 --> 00:36:01.280 a little side piece quest. And then yeah, it's it's it's just 537 00:36:01.400 --> 00:36:06.079 it needs so much more than just hey, a local map and new ways 538 00:36:06.119 --> 00:36:09.239 to travel. I'm not worried about traveling. I just want reasons to travel. 539 00:36:09.280 --> 00:36:15.039 That's kind of what the game is missing. Yeah, uh oh, 540 00:36:15.119 --> 00:36:21.199 yeah, what do you need daddie. Yeah, oh yeah, sure, 541 00:36:21.280 --> 00:36:29.280 Cole holler for me. Okay, she wanted help. She asks for help 542 00:36:29.480 --> 00:36:31.800 in case she has problems going potty. That's what she was asking for there. 543 00:36:32.320 --> 00:36:34.840 She's like, Hey, I'm gonna go. I just want to let 544 00:36:34.840 --> 00:36:36.320 you know and if I holler, will you be able to help? But 545 00:36:36.400 --> 00:36:38.559 I told her yes, so in a second, if she hollers for me, 546 00:36:38.639 --> 00:36:43.719 I will return quickly. Everybody. Uh Indiana Jones game. Oh yeah, 547 00:36:43.719 --> 00:36:45.280 go ahead, what was that. I'll be, I'll be, I'll 548 00:36:45.280 --> 00:36:49.719 hear, I thank you. You're gonna hold the fort and I'll go handle 549 00:36:49.760 --> 00:36:53.159 the butt up. Uh. Indiana Jones game is skipping PlayStation and that is 550 00:36:53.239 --> 00:36:58.599 not overly exclusionary move, according to Disney. This is from Eddie McCoo at 551 00:36:58.599 --> 00:37:02.719 GameSpot. Disney's top gaming boss, Sean Shopta has commented on why he believes 552 00:37:04.000 --> 00:37:08.480 Bethesia's upcoming Indiano Jones game being an exclusive to Xbox is not an overly exclusionary 553 00:37:08.559 --> 00:37:14.000 move. According to Axios, Microsoft asked Disney to renegotiate the terms of the 554 00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:19.760 game's business arrangement following Microsoft's buyout of bethesta parent company's Innimax. The report said 555 00:37:19.800 --> 00:37:22.920 that Microsoft sought a new deal to prevent the game from coming to PlayStation so 556 00:37:22.960 --> 00:37:27.840 it could be exclusive to Xbox on console and also have a PC release. 557 00:37:28.320 --> 00:37:31.320 Shoptass set Xbox is one of the bigger marketplace sister games. As such, 558 00:37:31.440 --> 00:37:36.199 he said, Disney didn't feel like we were going to be overly exclusionary. 559 00:37:36.559 --> 00:37:38.599 We felt like it's still going to reach a broad set of folks, and 560 00:37:38.639 --> 00:37:43.480 we felt financially and strategically for the game that made sense at the time, 561 00:37:43.599 --> 00:37:47.599 Shoptas said. Indiana Jones is in development at well Wolfenstein Studio Machine Games, 562 00:37:47.639 --> 00:37:53.000 and Todd Howard is an executive producer on the project. Shopdad discussed Bethesta's pitch, 563 00:37:53.039 --> 00:37:57.679 saying they pitched us a really compelling vision for Indy and that resonated. 564 00:37:59.360 --> 00:38:01.760 Yeah, this is just still the reality now. I think it is more 565 00:38:01.760 --> 00:38:07.199 common for games to be, especially when they deal with big third party or 566 00:38:07.320 --> 00:38:12.159 big IP, to be more exclusive to PlayStation than Xbox. Xbox is always 567 00:38:12.159 --> 00:38:15.000 pretty pretty hesitant about these sorts of things after the tomb Raider deal never really 568 00:38:15.000 --> 00:38:20.800 worked out in their favor. But you know, the industry is driven by 569 00:38:20.800 --> 00:38:24.280 exclusives, so this doesn't feel weird. I think most people were expecting this, 570 00:38:24.440 --> 00:38:30.400 right, Yeah, I think so after this Zenmax deal, for sure. 571 00:38:30.679 --> 00:38:34.199 I'm at the point now I'm like, I just want to see what 572 00:38:34.239 --> 00:38:38.199 Machine Games is working on, because it's not going to give me Wolfenstein three. 573 00:38:38.559 --> 00:38:43.320 Yeah, I'm and I'm also not I'm not a big Indiana Jones person, 574 00:38:43.599 --> 00:38:46.199 right, you're a young person with the reasonable taste, like, you 575 00:38:46.239 --> 00:38:51.280 know, okay, that's this, You're this is in the nineties. It's 576 00:38:51.280 --> 00:38:53.880 like yeah, it's like it's like, you know, there's only one Matrix 577 00:38:53.920 --> 00:38:59.480 movie. There's only three Indiana Jones movies. Yeah, yeah, it's fair 578 00:39:00.239 --> 00:39:02.559 Indiana Jones. It just doesn't have the cultural appeal that I thought it did 579 00:39:02.559 --> 00:39:05.639 when I was growing up with it. And then I get to this point, 580 00:39:05.800 --> 00:39:07.280 like now most kids aren't like, oh yeah, of course I've watched 581 00:39:07.320 --> 00:39:13.679 Indiana Jones as a kid now, and I think for gen Z like Indiana 582 00:39:13.760 --> 00:39:16.079 Jones doesn't really play at all. I think that new movie is kind of 583 00:39:16.119 --> 00:39:21.159 evidence of that. But hey, I still that doesn't mean that the game 584 00:39:21.199 --> 00:39:23.960 can't be great and that this game can't have a certain amount of appeal. 585 00:39:25.119 --> 00:39:30.159 I do think this might be a little bit of a test, though, 586 00:39:30.280 --> 00:39:34.679 for Xbox to see if going out and paying the money to get a big 587 00:39:34.800 --> 00:39:38.039 character to be exclusive to Xbox will be worth it. I don't know. 588 00:39:38.079 --> 00:39:42.239 Do you think it will probably have to be a pretty significant success for them 589 00:39:42.280 --> 00:39:45.719 to view it as a positive experience, right? I think so too. 590 00:39:45.800 --> 00:39:51.880 But also, I mean it depends on what the metrics the success are gonna 591 00:39:51.880 --> 00:39:57.920 look like. For a licensed game, probably high, higher, maybe a 592 00:39:57.960 --> 00:40:00.920 little bit more scrutiny on it. I mean machine games. I mean, 593 00:40:00.960 --> 00:40:07.400 Wolfenstein is always incredible, but it's never necessarily it's old gang Busters like it's 594 00:40:07.440 --> 00:40:10.320 sold. But should you know, like it should because those games are incredible, 595 00:40:12.840 --> 00:40:15.400 that team's very talented. So I'm I'm just intrigued by it. It's 596 00:40:15.440 --> 00:40:22.559 also we are reaching the point with certainly Disney, where we're reaching oversaturation. 597 00:40:22.639 --> 00:40:27.599 We are beyond oversaturation with Disney properties and lights and properties right now, as 598 00:40:27.639 --> 00:40:31.639 you can see with kind of the reaction to every MCU project, every Disney 599 00:40:31.639 --> 00:40:37.280 Plus show and so really the only and the reaction to the latest Indiana Jones 600 00:40:37.320 --> 00:40:42.239 movie. Those things are bloated expensive. They don't recoup their costs as much 601 00:40:42.280 --> 00:40:45.559 as Disney would like. However, people like audiences are board. However, 602 00:40:45.880 --> 00:40:52.519 you take a look at the reaction to Arcanes, Blade, Marvels Spider Man 603 00:40:52.599 --> 00:40:58.800 two, Marvel's Wolverine, if you can like capture the audience's attention for something 604 00:40:59.199 --> 00:41:01.880 completely different and something that's not going to be not that's not going to require 605 00:41:02.000 --> 00:41:05.480 homework to go in to watch, Like I don't want to have to watch 606 00:41:06.119 --> 00:41:09.559 five different movies to understand the Marvels or Eternals or whoever. Right, So 607 00:41:09.599 --> 00:41:14.719 it'd be interesting to see if that is the same for Indiana Jones. Yeah, 608 00:41:14.760 --> 00:41:19.440 and I think you definitely identified what's been happening for publishers and deciding to 609 00:41:19.480 --> 00:41:22.559 go out and get these ips. They are like looking at the reality on 610 00:41:22.599 --> 00:41:27.079 the ground of building up a new ip, you know, and Arcane's a 611 00:41:27.119 --> 00:41:30.159 good example. Like, I think that they will have an easier time getting 612 00:41:30.239 --> 00:41:34.679 attention if the game is good with Blade than they did with Death Loop. 613 00:41:34.719 --> 00:41:37.039 Death Loop was an uphill climb of getting people to care about that. They 614 00:41:37.039 --> 00:41:42.440 had multiple trailer reveals and people were sort of like it was yes, I 615 00:41:42.519 --> 00:41:45.199 love Death Loop, but I think they was like, hey, that was 616 00:41:45.199 --> 00:41:46.079 it was a fight. I mean like during the time, it was like, 617 00:41:46.119 --> 00:41:49.360 hey, well here's another trailer, I pee like, haven't we seen 618 00:41:49.400 --> 00:41:52.000 this before? We don't care, It's oh okay. And so having something 619 00:41:52.079 --> 00:41:55.920 established that people know they already care about, like Blade, that's the reason 620 00:41:55.960 --> 00:42:00.079 that these companies are now turning to these established ips in a way that they 621 00:42:00.119 --> 00:42:01.800 had not been for a while. Yes, it's expensive to go out and 622 00:42:01.840 --> 00:42:06.559 get these ips, it really is, but they are weighing that against the 623 00:42:06.679 --> 00:42:10.400 cost of turning a new IP into something that matters, which would acquire maybe 624 00:42:10.440 --> 00:42:15.360 significantly larger marketing budget and one that they might not be able to share with 625 00:42:15.400 --> 00:42:19.440 an outside firm like Disney, and Disney would care about the game doing well, 626 00:42:19.519 --> 00:42:21.239 so they'd be like, may can work that out and maybe make the 627 00:42:21.280 --> 00:42:25.280 marketing make more sense. So we are gonna continue to see these license games, 628 00:42:25.320 --> 00:42:29.480 even though, like you said, like a lot of the movies and 629 00:42:29.519 --> 00:42:32.559 the shows are bloated and not doing very well in gaming. They're like, 630 00:42:32.840 --> 00:42:36.480 yeah, we don't really care. That this is a safer bet than trying 631 00:42:36.480 --> 00:42:39.719 something new. So after Hogwarts Legacy, now with these games, with Spider 632 00:42:39.760 --> 00:42:45.440 Man and Wolverine coming, we're gonna get a lot more license games going forward. 633 00:42:45.480 --> 00:42:50.400 That is going to be the norm, all Right, here the final 634 00:42:50.480 --> 00:42:55.079 story. PhD student tries to get Doom running on cells on human cells just 635 00:42:55.519 --> 00:43:00.920 in linked? Yes, an the cells interlinked interlinked. This is from Andrew 636 00:43:00.920 --> 00:43:05.079 Heating at Destructoid. Well, it's been about a hundred of a famento second. 637 00:43:05.960 --> 00:43:09.400 Let's see what people are trying to pour it down. Hang on, 638 00:43:09.480 --> 00:43:12.760 hang on, my kids, I gotta go help you hold down the fort 639 00:43:15.239 --> 00:43:34.960 h I have no idea what a famento second is. Oh no, can 640 00:43:35.000 --> 00:43:37.719 I not hear anything? What's going on in here? Is that one? 641 00:43:37.719 --> 00:43:45.719 All right? Okay? Oh hear me? Lucy's cutting out? Lucy's Oh 642 00:43:46.800 --> 00:43:53.880 I think you're back on my phone? Help ham. Audio cut out to 643 00:43:54.400 --> 00:44:00.440 oh no, we hear you. Hey, can you hear you? Until 644 00:44:00.480 --> 00:44:07.679 that? Hello? Help me? Lucy's being digitized. This is how you 645 00:44:07.679 --> 00:44:17.840 play Doom on human cells. Lucy. Lucy James counts to twelve. Yeah, 646 00:44:19.880 --> 00:44:27.519 okay, the thing is is that jan help me on eight? Can 647 00:44:27.519 --> 00:44:30.440 you hear me or not? Now? I can hear you. I can 648 00:44:30.480 --> 00:44:34.719 hear you now, Lucy, I hear you did a really good job. 649 00:44:37.119 --> 00:44:45.480 My internet cut out? Oh oh no, oh no, I'm Lucy James. 650 00:44:45.800 --> 00:44:49.920 We have three Lucy James to replace the one we normally have. That's 651 00:44:49.920 --> 00:44:52.239 what it takes to replace, Lucy James. Yes, there it is, 652 00:44:52.559 --> 00:44:58.960 okay, by thank thanks, guys, appreciate it. Okay. Yeah, 653 00:44:59.000 --> 00:45:01.880 someone's trying to get do running on cells. They basically not really actually running 654 00:45:01.920 --> 00:45:07.800 on cells. What they're doing is they are treating E. Coli cells as 655 00:45:07.840 --> 00:45:12.880 if they are pixels in a monitor, and they're getting the change color on 656 00:45:13.000 --> 00:45:16.440 command, and so it's displaying Doom, which is actually running on I don't 657 00:45:16.440 --> 00:45:21.519 know something else, probably still a PC. But the idea of E Coli 658 00:45:21.559 --> 00:45:29.000 cells connected to a PC sounds like the start of a like Dustin Hoffman outbreak 659 00:45:29.079 --> 00:45:31.039 movie. So I can't wait for us all to catch Doom, the disease 660 00:45:31.280 --> 00:45:35.360 that sounds like a pretty good time and inevitable. And that's where we're all 661 00:45:35.360 --> 00:45:38.599 going to end up here pretty soon. When will science learn that there should 662 00:45:38.639 --> 00:45:45.679 be limits to what we're capable of, Lucy, No, I feel like 663 00:45:45.719 --> 00:45:49.360 we've had this conversation many times over the years, and I just don't think 664 00:45:49.400 --> 00:45:52.119 they will. Yes, they won't. Also hang on, am Ie back 665 00:45:52.159 --> 00:45:54.440 now, like literally as soon as you get back, I get back, 666 00:45:54.719 --> 00:45:59.559 my internet comes back in. Yeah, it's it's definitely back better than like 667 00:45:59.599 --> 00:46:02.199 what it was when I first arrived and it was your roboting. There's like 668 00:46:02.320 --> 00:46:05.960 a little either's a little bit of delay and stuff like that, but we're 669 00:46:06.000 --> 00:46:08.159 making it work. We're fine. So what you're saying is that I did 670 00:46:08.239 --> 00:46:13.760 such a good job on the intro that you sabotaged it so that I couldn't 671 00:46:13.800 --> 00:46:16.440 take over while you I can't have I can't allow it. I need I 672 00:46:16.480 --> 00:46:22.119 need this job. Lucy, what are you doing to me? All right? 673 00:46:22.199 --> 00:46:24.159 There's a pull question from earlier this week. We'll get to that in 674 00:46:24.199 --> 00:46:28.119 a second, but before we do, Lucy, what do you got going 675 00:46:28.159 --> 00:46:30.239 on? What we have going on on the site? Things like that. 676 00:46:30.760 --> 00:46:34.559 There's a new Jeff Jeff happening, right, Gus recorded that? Yeah, 677 00:46:34.599 --> 00:46:37.639 we did. We recorded that. That's going up today with one of the 678 00:46:37.679 --> 00:46:43.039 best episodes of Cowboy Bebop in one of the worst episodes of Cowboy Bebop, 679 00:46:43.400 --> 00:46:46.280 So please be excited. It's actually it's actually kind of like a very chill 680 00:46:46.320 --> 00:46:50.519 episoode where we just hang out and have a lot of bands and so it's 681 00:46:50.519 --> 00:46:54.239 a bit of a longer episode, real fun. I worked on a couple 682 00:46:54.239 --> 00:46:58.440 of videos, so obviously we need to put coverage up for over Christmas. 683 00:46:58.480 --> 00:47:04.079 So I worked on Best Open World Shooters, which is coming out. I 684 00:47:04.199 --> 00:47:07.119 broke that one yesterday. I'm writing a couple of other ones. Is that 685 00:47:07.199 --> 00:47:13.440 Avatar number one upcoming Open World Shooters, So I'm afraid Avatar you don't count 686 00:47:13.480 --> 00:47:19.039 this time. But you know, stuff like uh, Poleworld is in the 687 00:47:19.400 --> 00:47:25.159 you know which looks looks wild? Yes? Yeah, oh how many Texas 688 00:47:25.159 --> 00:47:29.280 says there were new Windows updates and new Nvidio drivers yesterday, so maybe that's 689 00:47:29.360 --> 00:47:32.360 killing your PCs. Genuinely, My PC updated yesterday and it was a little 690 00:47:32.400 --> 00:47:37.360 bit yeah right, So maybe edge broke for me. And that's that's got 691 00:47:37.400 --> 00:47:42.079 to be an edge thing that's happened to me. More edged I got. 692 00:47:42.159 --> 00:47:45.599 I got edged by Microsoft, yes once again. Uh hey, normally have 693 00:47:45.599 --> 00:47:50.199 to pay extra for that, but now it just comes with Windows, all 694 00:47:50.280 --> 00:47:53.280 right. Pull question from earlier this week. Were you happy with the game 695 00:47:53.320 --> 00:48:00.760 awards? Fifty said no, said yes, that's you know, I bet 696 00:48:00.840 --> 00:48:05.199 this is like the zone that the game works is normally going to be in. 697 00:48:05.519 --> 00:48:07.519 I think ideally you want to maybe flip that number and have like fifty 698 00:48:07.519 --> 00:48:12.239 five percent be happy with the Game Awards and then fit forty five be like, 699 00:48:12.760 --> 00:48:15.280 oh, I wish there were more awards, and really, truthfully they 700 00:48:15.280 --> 00:48:17.280 were. They were actually thrilled with all the new game announcements and stuff like 701 00:48:17.320 --> 00:48:22.079 that. I do wonder how much of the fifty six percent that weren't happy. 702 00:48:22.239 --> 00:48:24.760 Are they not happy because the awards didn't get enough time, that the 703 00:48:24.800 --> 00:48:29.280 people didn't have time to speak, or their favorite game wasn't in the awards, 704 00:48:29.360 --> 00:48:32.119 Right, you can't. You can't really distinguish between those two things. 705 00:48:32.880 --> 00:48:36.719 How are you feeling as we get a little bit more time away from the 706 00:48:36.760 --> 00:48:40.800 Game Awards about the show, about the way Kiley's been positioned in it, 707 00:48:42.119 --> 00:48:46.519 and all of that good stuff. So it ends and I think, is, 708 00:48:47.559 --> 00:48:52.480 well, well, this kind of different things that you can judge it 709 00:48:52.559 --> 00:48:57.400 on. I think as a spectacle pure spectacle, it was fun. It 710 00:48:57.480 --> 00:49:01.440 was the best, tightest show that they've done. Everything flowed really nicely into 711 00:49:01.440 --> 00:49:05.920 each other. I think the musical musical performances were great. I think the 712 00:49:07.239 --> 00:49:09.719 yeah, I just think that that part of it worked. I think in 713 00:49:09.800 --> 00:49:13.679 terms of trailers too, I don't think there was a single trailer really except 714 00:49:13.719 --> 00:49:15.480 for that there was a couple of ones in the in the breaks where I 715 00:49:15.519 --> 00:49:17.639 was like, oh, okay, maybe we don't right, the very very 716 00:49:17.639 --> 00:49:24.079 commercial ones. Yeah, the very very commercial ones. However, awards fell 717 00:49:24.119 --> 00:49:28.519 by the wayside, incredibly disrespectful for the thirty second thing like being in the 718 00:49:28.559 --> 00:49:32.119 audience. We were sat in front of the Cyberpunk team, we were sat 719 00:49:32.159 --> 00:49:36.440 like among all the devs, and you could just see everyone. As soon 720 00:49:36.480 --> 00:49:38.599 as the music started, everyone just growned and it was It was super sad 721 00:49:38.599 --> 00:49:43.039 and it sucked. And I know that Jeff is aware of that. He 722 00:49:43.079 --> 00:49:45.679 has tweeted about it. Oh yeah, He'll be reaching out to people for 723 00:49:45.800 --> 00:49:53.039 sure. And I just think as well too, like I can't even imagine 724 00:49:53.079 --> 00:50:00.679 putting the show together. The amount of stakeholders you have to appease you have, 725 00:50:00.239 --> 00:50:02.880 and at the end of the day, you're wanting to put on a 726 00:50:02.880 --> 00:50:07.559 show, the pressure of making it bigger and better every year, it's going 727 00:50:07.599 --> 00:50:10.960 to be ridiculous. So I think, really tough. One good show needs 728 00:50:12.000 --> 00:50:16.079 to be better overall. I did wonder if he was just referring to the 729 00:50:16.440 --> 00:50:23.039 He kept calling it TGAs yeah, which on that very very early people pointed 730 00:50:23.039 --> 00:50:25.280 that out, and I didn't think about it much. I heard him say, 731 00:50:25.360 --> 00:50:30.079 TGA's a lot. Do you think he's doing the I don't know if 732 00:50:30.079 --> 00:50:34.199 this is apocryphal, but the KFC thing where it's like, oh they call 733 00:50:34.199 --> 00:50:36.719 it KFCX, they don't want to prefer to the chicken because maybe they want 734 00:50:36.719 --> 00:50:38.400 to just be maybe it's not real chicken or whatever. That was the story. 735 00:50:38.440 --> 00:50:42.840 That's definitely not what they were doing. But you know, KFC doesn't 736 00:50:42.840 --> 00:50:45.280 have the word chicken anymore. The game will get well, I think. 737 00:50:45.760 --> 00:50:49.320 So we had that. We talked about that on Friends with a Second last 738 00:50:49.320 --> 00:50:54.119 week, and apparently it's because Kentucky sued. Really of Kentucky is a very 739 00:50:54.119 --> 00:50:58.000 similar thing where if you can brand it is something different where it is, 740 00:50:58.079 --> 00:51:01.320 it does still you know, ties in. But yeah, that's speculation for 741 00:51:01.360 --> 00:51:04.800 sure on my part. Yeah, yeah, but I mean maybe maybe there's 742 00:51:04.800 --> 00:51:07.400 something to that. Yeah, it's it's hard to hard to know for sure. 743 00:51:07.039 --> 00:51:09.920 You know, the very least the evidence is before our eyes about what 744 00:51:10.079 --> 00:51:15.280 matters at the t GAS. It's obviously the trailers. We get that everyone 745 00:51:15.440 --> 00:51:20.239 understands what this really is. That doesn't mean it can't feel a little bit 746 00:51:20.239 --> 00:51:22.320 better here and there. So yeah, but that's I mean that's the thing. 747 00:51:22.320 --> 00:51:28.960 It's like you have to balance the new releases, which get oh my 748 00:51:29.239 --> 00:51:35.760 again, jesus my in like your week the last week can grow up. 749 00:51:36.920 --> 00:51:44.239 Whoever I'm with, Yeah, I am with so no, No, it's 750 00:51:44.280 --> 00:51:51.360 like the trailers get the eyes in two and then you want to divert those 751 00:51:51.360 --> 00:51:55.239 eyes onto the devs, right, yes, give them, give them time. 752 00:51:55.320 --> 00:52:00.199 But like if you want, if you are wanting that true Oscar of 753 00:52:00.199 --> 00:52:04.320 the games industry stuff, that's all about awards. There's the DICE Awards, 754 00:52:04.519 --> 00:52:09.599 there's GDC Bafter, especially like someone who's been to multiple bafters, like that 755 00:52:09.760 --> 00:52:14.599 is a black tie event and everyone is dressed up, like there's no distractions, 756 00:52:14.639 --> 00:52:17.719 No one's on their phone, no one's waiting for a new Whoever, 757 00:52:19.239 --> 00:52:21.800 I did go the Golden Joysticks. That was more of a mix of t 758 00:52:22.119 --> 00:52:25.840 It comes kind of more tga ish, but yeah it was. I don't 759 00:52:25.880 --> 00:52:30.239 know. I feel for Jeff truly in the team because you're never going to 760 00:52:30.280 --> 00:52:34.559 please everyone, especially when the show is now this big yep, this is 761 00:52:34.719 --> 00:52:39.119 big yep. I think the answer probably ten more minutes. We're already there 762 00:52:39.119 --> 00:52:43.000 for three and a half hours. Let's do a couple more minutes and give 763 00:52:43.159 --> 00:52:46.039 all that time to the people winning the awards. And the other thing is, 764 00:52:46.199 --> 00:52:50.239 and we mentioned this on BombCast yesterday, this is my big thing. 765 00:52:50.400 --> 00:52:52.960 If you're going to have celebrities on the stage, put them with a game 766 00:52:52.000 --> 00:52:57.519 developer, no more, just Anthony Mackie up there by himself, Anthony Mackie, 767 00:52:57.559 --> 00:53:00.880 and then someone who made one of the nominated game, so that at 768 00:53:00.960 --> 00:53:05.320 least feels somewhat reasonable that the game industry is being represented up there. No 769 00:53:05.400 --> 00:53:07.880 more, just Hollywood celebrities by themselves. I can't take that anymore. Actually, 770 00:53:08.199 --> 00:53:10.920 I'm sorry. See Mulu, I don't care how much gaming you do. 771 00:53:12.199 --> 00:53:14.800 Yeah, I don't care. I don't actually creak your other ankle. 772 00:53:14.840 --> 00:53:17.320 Actually that's what That's how I feel about it. She was there for Storgate. 773 00:53:17.400 --> 00:53:21.440 Why not have Chris Metson go up. I mean, I know Chris 774 00:53:21.480 --> 00:53:23.519 Medson's backet Blizzard now, but it's like he's there for Stonegate. Pair him 775 00:53:23.519 --> 00:53:27.199 with the dev from Spare him with the dev. Yes, just pair them 776 00:53:27.199 --> 00:53:29.880 with a dev and that's like, for me, that's like half the battle 777 00:53:29.920 --> 00:53:32.199 won right there. If you do that, we are on such a better 778 00:53:32.280 --> 00:53:36.719 track than what it feels like right now. All right, new poll question 779 00:53:36.760 --> 00:53:39.280 that we'll get to tomorrow on the show. Will you double dep to play 780 00:53:39.320 --> 00:53:44.480 GTA six on console and then on PC? Yes or no? I'm gonna 781 00:53:44.519 --> 00:53:46.159 vote yes because that's what I'm doing. I will be interested to see how 782 00:53:46.199 --> 00:53:47.920 much of our audience is like well, no, No, I'm very happy 783 00:53:47.960 --> 00:53:52.119 with console, and maybe our audience is the kind that's like us, Lucy. 784 00:53:52.159 --> 00:53:54.480 But of course I'm going to do that. We'll talk about that tomorrow 785 00:53:54.639 --> 00:53:59.800 on Game mess Mornings here on Giant Bombs speaking a Giant Bomb. Later today 786 00:53:59.800 --> 00:54:02.159 to thirty pm Eastern, about two and a half hours from now, if 787 00:54:02.199 --> 00:54:06.679 you're watching live, Blake Club will be happening. I will be getting back 788 00:54:06.760 --> 00:54:12.760 into Right to Hell Retribution. There it is. I still have it right 789 00:54:12.760 --> 00:54:15.440 here with me. Unfortunately, I haven't found a way to get rid of 790 00:54:15.480 --> 00:54:19.480 the game. It's cursed. Hopefully I'll make some real progress today because I 791 00:54:19.519 --> 00:54:22.400 do not want to be playing this game anymore. It's really bad, Lucy. 792 00:54:22.480 --> 00:54:25.119 I don't know if you know this. You know I did know it, 793 00:54:25.480 --> 00:54:29.400 and I don't want to play it, so I sa save yourself. 794 00:54:30.119 --> 00:54:34.000 Although although all of the love making scenes are incredible, they're all fully clothed 795 00:54:34.039 --> 00:54:37.480 and you can't miss them. The best thing in video games. It's not 796 00:54:37.559 --> 00:54:40.320 quite fucking the bear in Boulder skate three. Lucy, you've got anything else 797 00:54:40.320 --> 00:54:45.159 that we should mention go happening this week? I guess upf will be Lethal 798 00:54:45.199 --> 00:54:46.840 Company. We'll have a voicemail down Trek, all that good stuff. But 799 00:54:46.880 --> 00:54:53.480 anything else we should mention? Oh, it's that's it. Thanks for watching 800 00:54:53.519 --> 00:54:57.159 everybody, Lucy, thank you so much for spending today talking the talking with 801 00:54:57.159 --> 00:55:00.440 me about video games. I really appreciate it. Thank you for having me. 802 00:55:00.599 --> 00:55:04.840 Oh it's weird not all being in person anymore. I know that was 803 00:55:04.840 --> 00:55:07.360 such a good time. It was great, Like I was just hanging out 804 00:55:07.440 --> 00:55:10.199 making stuff, being like, Oh, I'm gonna go downstairs and just see 805 00:55:10.239 --> 00:55:13.519 you sitting at the couch and all the remedy people being like, oh yeah, 806 00:55:13.559 --> 00:55:16.039 look at that. Them just hanging out being cool people just hanging out, 807 00:55:16.400 --> 00:55:20.280 just hanging out. We'll make it happen again frequently, everybody. Look 808 00:55:20.280 --> 00:55:22.159 out for that. Until next time, though, thank you for watching your 809 00:55:22.159 --> 00:55:25.360 the best audience in gaming. Take care of yourself and goodbye.