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this for February ninth, twenty twenty
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let me help you sort through the
world of gaming on Game mes Mornings

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Live with me Jeff Grub Today it's
anything but a dregs day with news about

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GTA six Star Wars, Outlaws,
switch to and more. But first,

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please join me and welcome today's co
host to Game mess Mornings. It's two

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more. Who's saying, everybody,
Tam, how are you doing? We

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will not be helping you sort through
today's gaming news. We will instead be

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focusing entirely on my tech issues.
What's up, big setter? Now?

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This is now a tech support show. Okay, here's the thing, Lad's

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I have an Asus r T a
x eight ahu router is very expensive.

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It's very good, Okay. My
modem is the much coveted Arrest Surfboard SB

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eight two hundred right, which is
also very good. Okay, and it's

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been amazing. I've had close to
one gigab it's been I've had close to

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one gigab ask for second Internet for
like six months. Okay, yesterday,

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Yesterday day before yesterday, actually just
everything absolutely shit the bed for no reason,

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Like if I leave this room,
I will not have internet. If

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I go to the other side of
my apartment, which is not that big

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because I live in San Francisco and
it's expensive here, I do not have

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internet. That means I cannot sit
on the toilet and surf the internet.

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That's terrible. And nothing I have
unplugged it, replugged it unplugged, it

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replugged it. And I'm just like, what's going on, Okay, what's

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happening. Nothing changes everything, Nothing
changes in the hardware, everything changes in

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the connection, and I'm like,
what do I do? So the issue

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specifically is when you're the further away
you get from it, or is it

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like you're seeing it, it drops. It drops momentarily. Okay, yeah,

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the speed like nose dives. The
other day it bugged out in the

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middle of Steph Curry shooting a three
in the air like this, and I

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was like, oh, it's unacceptable. That is always it always does happen

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at the worst moment when you're watching
sports. I've found that happens to me

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too. Okay, A couple of
ideas. So, because you're your motem's

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pretty new, right, all of
it is new. I got it like

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like when I moved into this apartment, which is like six or seven months

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ago. Now, yeah, but
I would double check which because if you're

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using that router the AX it probably
does it have Wi Fi six E don't

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think do you have a six gigahertz
connection as far as you're aware for a

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Wi Fi connection? No, Okay, I've been rocking. I've been rocking

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that dual put two point five or
maybe two point four in five? Yes,

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yeah, four and five. There's
a five. There's a five point

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zero option, but I don't believe
I'm using that. Well, try that

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first of all, because that that
will be well though. The other thing

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are your Wi Fi went like on
the computer? When it? When it?

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Right now? I am. So
what I'm doing is I'm testing.

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So if if it screws up during
this or at some point today, I

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know that laptop connected via Wi Fi
is impacted, then I'm gonna hard wire

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it and see if. Okay,
Also, so we're trouble the same thing.

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Okay, yu, what's on trouble
shooting this ship? You know?

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Okay, Well, then the one
thing I would suggest in this process is

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go into the router settings and finagle
the q o S the quality of service

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connection settings. Maybe turn that off, see if that improves things. It's

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sometime I find that that's the software
that for that can get a little bit

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finnicking. It's the funniest thing.
They have an app which allows you to

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log into it. It's the worst
log in system I've ever seen. I

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use. I use a password,
you know bank where when I make the

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password, it goes in there and
nothing changes. Okay, I went in

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there put my password. It's like, Nope, this ain't your password.

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What are you talking about? Because
I remember logging in with this, So

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now it's like the only way you
can get into this is factory resett fuck

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it. Yeah, well, listen, you're in the middle of the troubleshooting

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process. I bet by by having
this whole segment here, you're going to

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get some people adding you at on
Twitter. You want people to just kind

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of throw out through ideas at you
to try. Yeah, Twitter dot com

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for morehe hit me, hit me
with some ideas, give me some I

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went on the like asis forums and
let me tell you that it's kind of

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like old school neo gap in there. Everyone sucks. Man, that's rough.

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That's right. Stuff. Uh,
let's see see did you did you

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know it's there for me? There? You froze for a good twenty seconds.

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Oh really, no, I didn't
notice it. Okay. I said

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some stuff about neo geph. I
made a fun joke, and then I

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looked at you and you're just like
this. Oh no, I heard the

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neo GIP stuff. I responded all
of it, and then then I was

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finished. And then we were kind
of we didn't definitely had a moment.

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We were repassing ships in the sea
and we didn't. We didn't connect for

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a second there. Okay, all
right, everyone expects some awkwardness. It's

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just gonna be how it is.
That's that's gonna be the one that is

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going to bring the dregs today on
Dregs Day. Uh. The other thing

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before we get started, I was
we got a message from Brian Cox to

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Mitch mckwan chie, and I was
up. I'm not actually frustrated with with

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Mitch about it, but I do
think I should put this out there so

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that people can at him to fix
his problem, which is he only knows

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Brian Cox from dam Where do you
think he knows Brian Cox from Mitch Uh,

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Brian Cox. I'm trying to figure
out what Disney thing right now?

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Think about this. It's literally the
most recent thing where we saw Brian Cox.

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Uh. Is it from the cameo? It's from It's from the tech

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Insion, It's from Oh my god, that's his only context? Was he

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like literally like, it's that guy
from the tech and end? I think

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he said there was maybe one or
two other things. Again, I'm not

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mad. He has to be doing
a bit. No one is this in

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the Disney but yeah, well but
Mike just doesn't care. But he's been

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in a lot of great stuff.
So if anyone wants to throw suggestions at

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Mike to learn about who Brian Cox
is, I give you full permission.

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He may not he's actually yelling at
me in chat, but I give you

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permissions to go to town tell him
where to super Troopers. Mike, you

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could start there, congrab my Manhunter. Oh yeah, actually that's actually a

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legit good one. All right,
You know what, we got to explain

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Hello YouTube. We have a lot
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morning mess with Take two. Earnings
guidance means no GTA six before April twenty

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twenty five, according to analysts.
This is from tom Iban at VGC grant.

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THEFT Auto six looks set to be
released after March twenty twenty five,

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based on publisher Take two's latest earnings
guidance. That's according to Webbush Securities analysts

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Nick McKay and Michael Pactor, who
said on Friday that the game appears to

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have slipped out of its once anticipated
early twenty twenty five release window. On

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Thursday, Rockstar owner Take two downwardly
revised its guidance for its next fiscal year,

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which runs from April to March twenty
twenty five, and a research note

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titled seven billion dollars means no gtaight
and fiscal year twenty five, The analyst

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wrote, management had said that next
year's bookings number will be just over seven

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billion, a far cry from its
initial comments of eight billion in May and

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its first revision of just under eight
billion in November. The drop makes us

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almost certain that GTA six will not
be releasing next fiscal year. With that

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said, we have no reason to
believe the game will have slipped out of

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calendar twenty twenty five, but it
is reasonable to assume that it will launch

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later in that year. Now,
Sam, we do know that this game

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is officially slated now for twenty twenty
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us with the trailer in December,
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that was we would be getting the
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twenty five. Because of the number
of times that Take two said we are

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expecting record revenues for our next fiscal
year, fiscal twenty twenty five. Look

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out, everybody, We're going to
make up like a fuck ton of money.

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It's gonna be nuts, And so
them saying that got a lot of

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people thinking like, the only way
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in that calendar year. And then
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so people piece the you know,
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get GTAI or GT six by March
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their their numbers down by about a
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of money you make from a GTA
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So a lot of this lines up, but also maybe one of the

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least surprising things that a GTA six
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longer. Right, he's frozen,
isn't he? No, it isn't Jesus,

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you're too good at it. I
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it, motherfucker read Yeah, yeah, completely unsurprising, Like I I I

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fully anticipate. Like, firstly,
they're in a position where they they can

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be like, no, we will
not release it, how about that and

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take two assages go all right,
man, please please don't hear us.

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But yeah, I mean, I
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Is is that seems very likely.
It makes a lot of sense because if

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they were releasing a GTA in the
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they'll be like, oh, yeah, we're about to make one trillion

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dollars everyone, it's gonna be sick
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But no, so I feel like, conserve if it's conservative, if it's

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a GTA game in existence or coming, and the kind of fiscal uh predictions

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and projections are conservative, that GTA
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during the period that they're talking about, right, and uh, like a

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great fat Auto is a game they
were already taking their time with the fact

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that it would slip from a three
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little bit later into twenty twenty five, it's just so a possible like them

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wanting a little bit extra time to
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get GTA right, and they yeah, you know's and as much as it's

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nice to like jump to GTA six
and they could use like it's a big

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company, they could use like that
Joelton revenue, they aren't actually in any

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rush to abandon GTA five. That
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And so when they reset the clock
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moved from GTA five to GTA six. They don't They want that to be

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as seamless as possible, and so
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I think we were already kind of
a little surprised that they were giving

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us the date with that trailer like
right away, because that was the first

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time we had seen GTA six in
some time, and so oh, they're

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just confirming twenty twenty five. Great, that was nice. I think a

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lot of people were hoping for that, but still was like, oh,

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yeah, okay, they're going to
just say that. At the same time,

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when that date got announced, I
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said among people like me and you
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people that like absorb the news is
yeah, that's the that's the first date

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we're going to get for this game. We will probably get several others as

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this thing moves around in pinballs through
the release calendar, and here we are

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DoD GTA games tend to move around
a lot. I think I want to

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think back, and it's like maybe
one five moved once, I think,

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if I remember correctly, didn't did
Red Dead moved a couple of times,

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right, I would say very sounds
right, even if it's like not common

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for these franchises these days, with
games being this big, it's common for

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games like this of this type.
You know, you know who's very very

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like excited about the kind of revelation
that GTA isn't coming out that soon every

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other day everybody else, they're probably
like, oh, these analysts are saying

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that there's not likely to be a
GTA in this period of time. Release

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the games as quickly as you can
while money still exists in this industry,

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right, and if you know,
we'll get into some other news here in

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a little bit, but like,
oh, this switch To comes out this

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holiday, It's like, okay,
we can put out a game in like

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the launch window switch To and not
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and distracting everybody from everything else that
is happening, so we get completely buried.

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So yeah, I think everyone else
would be pretty happy to see that

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this game is going to get out
of their way for a little bit longer,

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and then in twenty twenty five they'll
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As far as what is leading to
maybe a delay here, GTA six

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is aiming for perfection, according to
Take two. This is from Hayley Williams

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at game Spot oh No. With
Grand Theft Auto six being one of the

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industry's most anticipated upcoming games, Take
Too Interactive, which owns GTA six developer

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rock Star, is aiming for perfection, and the company's the latest earnings call

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take to acknowledge the excitement around the
upcoming sequel, saying it would rather push

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or perfection than rush an anticipated game
out to market. During the call,

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Take to CEO Strauss Zelnix discuss the
ongoing success of the Grand Theft Auto series,

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saying that the excitement around GTA six
trailer release had a positive impact.

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The Grand Theft Auto series is benefiting
from meaningfully from excitement or surrounding Rockstars announcement

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of GTA six and the release of
its first trailer, Celnick said, adding

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some some statistic and blah blah blahs
around all that. Damn, you seem

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to have a reaction here. How
do you feel about going for perfection with

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g t A six, I just
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how many hours? How many as
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say that. Oh so That is
one of the funniest. It is so

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funny that it has to be like
he knew what he was saying when he

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did got it. There's no way
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Yeah, well, you know,
we'll just talk about it now and we'll

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cross it off the list later.
You get them called Skull and Bones a

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quadruple a game when people are like, hey, why is that? Why

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is that game? Seventy? That
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doing. He's having a loy and
his team dared him to say it.

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Yeah, I dare you would have
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all out of touch that he is
not on the planet anymore, like he

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is drifting around in video game developments
spaces like Albite and Pluto. Yeah,

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yeah, yeah, he's like,
listen, Black Flag came out six months

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ago. We're about to pop off
with a new ship sailing game. What

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are you talking about. I've never
heard of coots that doesn't exist in space?

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Okay, it's fine, Okay.
I do like though, and I

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will not be the first person to
point this out, Like how it does

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like recognize the existential dread of creating
a game that's like so big where it's

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like the more a's you add,
the more likely it sounds like you're screaming

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for help. Like it's like,
Okay, there's something there for sure,

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yeeves. I appreciate it. I'm
just very excited for when Devolver has a

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moment where they like, this is
a quintuple a game and it's just like

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a Tetris clone. Right. The
time for that is now for them to

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come out and make that joke.
I'm looking forward to them doing that this

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year. But yeah, I don't
know what you're talking about. But returning

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to the to the perfection actually story, I I mean, like it's not

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a surprise that rock Star would aim
for perfection. Their games are. I

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think they're close to as close as
a game gets to perfection most times,

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there's I can't think of any games
that rock Star itself developed internally with its

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own teams that have come out and
needed significant overhauls, not counting the G

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T A remasters, which were a
hot mess. But yeah, they aim

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for perfection usually they get close.
GT The online stuff I think is the

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only other part of it, but
like I don't count that as I don't

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play those games online that much,
and like they are always I know since

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the you know GT four where they
had the online that's like always a work

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in progress and it will get there, and once it gets there, it's

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gonna make more money than any most
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But they usually aim for perfection.
The question is the cost of that

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perfection as always. Yeah, So
obviously crunch is a big issue in the

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industry. It has been for a
long time. Rockstar itself has been kind

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of caught up in issues around crunch
and the amount of time and energy that

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goes into getting a game to perfection. So that's something that they need to

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be aware of because now more than
ever, people will be looking to tell

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that story. So if the story
is yo, we made this game as

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close to perfect as we could.
And also look at our developers. They're

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happy, they're healthy, they're getting
paid well, none of them have got

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anything bad to say about the working
conditions. That will be amazing. It

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will be a rarity in this industry
as well, be rarety for Rockstar.

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Yeah, it would be a rarity
for Rockstar. That is the feel good

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story that I want to see happen. If it's the other case whereas like,

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hey, because rock Star did make
changes, and for what I've heard,

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it's a much better Situationally, Yes, like they are in a good

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spot. People are feeling good about
going to work on GTA games, working

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on any of their games, which
require the most out of developers in this

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industry, and they feel okay about
it. If it's a case where we

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reach professions for GTA six, but
we backslid, took two steps back in

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working conditions, that is going to
end very poorly. It's still going to

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sell Gangbusters, obviously, but the
impact it will have on Rockstar's kind of

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image is going to be significant.
But I feel like they're too smart to

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let that happen. I think at
the very least they are recognizing that that

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is a potential outcome that they could
pull a cyberpunk here if they were to

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rush things, if they were to
get things wrong, and it could be

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you know, international news in the
way that cyberpunk kind of beef in it

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out of the gate work. And
I think the thing that really helps is

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cause don't have testicles, so you
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Not with that attitude, Buddy,
come on, we got to do

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something about that. That's that's yeah, the rear view mirror ornament, and

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one of them is a horse test
just a big horse, a shrink a

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constantly shrinking and expanding horse test testicles
depending on how many cops are off.

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Do you its five? It's like
small, look at the balls on this

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guy this car. Yeah, listen, I think that they he Zelnick when

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talking about this was just like,
hey, we know there's a tension between

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getting the game out to market and
airing on the side of perfection, and

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we are airing on the side of
perfection, which is going to lead.

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And it's like their game, that
franchise is in that position where not only

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can they do that, they probably
should. I mean it's similar to what

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Nintendo has done with Zelda, where
it's like, hey, we think we

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have the ideas that are going to
be very exciting for people, and if

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we take the time, we can
get them right and when the game comes

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out, it just works in call
wait to fuse two criminals in the next

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you joke. That sounds like a
very good time to me. Awesome for

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GTA six, maybe even more is
on the line because it is such a

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money printing machine for them that going
from GTA five to GTA six. I

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mean you talked about online being the
problem. That is probably the thing that

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they are thinking about here. They
probably feel pretty comfortable of being able to

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get a single player GTA game out
to market in a way that looks really

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great and plays really well, and
this exciting has a lot of fun storytelling

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in it. The thing that they
probably don't want to mess up this time

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is GTA online, and that's something
that's probably going to be very difficult to

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pull off, even if they err
on the side of perfection. To take

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all the time in the world running
online live service games is challenging on its

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own. Sort of having something that
might be replacing something that's very popular could

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be very challenging, and honestly,
we don't even know how they're gonna do

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it yet, So yeah, I
get their wanting to take their time here.

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They did say twenty twenty five.
That gives them a little bit of

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a buffer if they were planning in
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Now they're like pushing it later in
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give them enough time to figure that
out. Yeah, Yeah, like you

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said, they are the company that
can demand that and like and it would

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come with immediate benefits, like you
know, the time that they take,

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the extra time that they asked for
or not even asked for they say they're

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going to take, will have paid
dividends because the thing that they will release

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will basically become a black hole of
money for them, where people even in

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the vicinity of video games will be
like, I'm buying this done. I

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also feel like, I think GTA
more than any game has got, Like

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I don't want to see it,
but it's the only franchise where they could

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release a new game that is like
dog shit and it will probably sell more

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than every other video game in exists. They've got like one like Mulligan.

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Gimme in them before people start questioning
whether there's anything like before they start getting

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second guest, you know what I
mean. Yes, I think it would

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be a hell of a firestorm if
a game it came out, but I

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think you're right that it would still
sell, all right. Sticky with Take

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two for one last story here.
Take two announces significant cost reductions, but

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says that those reductions are not layoffs. This is from Luis Joshua goudierres but

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it's gone. Take two has recently
announced that it's working on a significant cost

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reduction, but has assured the public
that it won't be laying off its employees

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for now. The news comes from
a take to Earning Support, where the

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company has stated, we are currently
working on a significant cost reduction program blah

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blah blah. But it was struts
sound and talk to ig and later and

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kind of clarify what this looks like. We haven't put any meat on the

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bones of that yet. I would
just note that our biggest line item of

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expense is actually marketing. We do
think we can optimize that. We also

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have third party expenses software, other
vendors supply services, and we always find

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opportunity there. The hardest thing to
do is to lay off colleagues, and

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we have no current plans. So
okay, so this is this is what

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is current period? Right, Yes, the changing I mean, listen,

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he's like he said, there's nobody
on the bones there. Basically he has

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not They haven't decided exactly what it
looks like, but he has identified,

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like, we give money to a
bunch of other people to do stuff for

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us, and we might cut back
there. So while how much how much

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of this do you think that is
them pulling back in preparation of marketing a

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GTA game. I bet saving money
today means more money spent on GTA six

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marketing in the future. He talks
about optimizations, and you know, it's

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definitely something you hear more of today, people wanting to get more more juice

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out of whatevery squeeze of running an
AD and want to make more effective ads.

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I'm sure he's thinking about that stuff
a little bit, but right now

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he's straight up thinking less money on
marketing, and that I mean, well,

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this means Take two is not going
to be laying anyone off. Them

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spending less money on partners and vendors
and contractors means that other companies will still

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be laying people off because they're getting
less money from probably a big spender like

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Take two. So this is a
continued reflection of where the industry is at,

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where a lot of people are receding
back from places where they would have

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happily been spending money before, and
yet hey, them trying to find a

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way to avoid laying off the people
that actually make these games commendable, you

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know, and then finding other places
to cut back. Marketing is a space

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where these companies spend a lot of
money about equivalent to what the budget is

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to a game these days. I
thought they already pulled it back on marketing

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pretty bad because they pulled back on
giving us money. But I don't know

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about everyone else. I mean,
I mean, like, I saw the

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marketing for Midnight Suns, which was
a good game that costs Center and Grow

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Up Take two. I'm just very
yeah by the fact that but it sounds

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got done dirty, yep, I
mean it got done dirty. I think

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partially I want to blame the gamers
there because they've just they heard they heard

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cards and they all flipped out and
lost and shot their pants. Oh god,

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such a good I think that's gonna
be one of those games where people

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are gonna be like for years to
kind of be like, Yo, did

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you play these games? Can get
It will show up on every like hidden

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gym list from any from a YouTuber
in ten years for the platforms on which

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it is available. So I believe
CEOs and executives as far as I can

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throw them, which is very far. You're very strong. Actually I could

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probably throw I reckon I could throw
Strauss's only pretty, he's quite lean.

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Yeah, he's built like a lawn. Yeah, yeah, I could eat

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him free far. I think in
any case, the vast majority of them,

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I'm like, I don't. I
don't trust anything that's coming out your

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math, homie. But taking them
for their word right now, I mean,

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like if you are doing stuff like, oh, we're reducing marketing and

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there's no more bananas, you have
to buy your own fruit loops and orange

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juice is over and as a result, we're not laying off anyone. Fantastic

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love that everyone will be fine,
they'll drink their own orange juice at home.

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But it's also a good opportunity to
keep an eye on it, like

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if pay some attention to what happens, we've take two in an immediate future

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and hold them accountable for it,
like it is is a good opportunity to

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see if they are going to stick
to their guns around this stuff or if

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they're just trying to grind out some
positive buzz. And I mean, and

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it's probably also worth noting that.
Yeah, well, but he's saying there's

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no layoffs coming. They already laid
off people at for Axis last year,

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and that was that team developed Midnight
exactly right, And it's like and so

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then you look around, Okay,
well they're not laying off people that are

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working on GTA no ship there because
they got to get that game out,

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and that would be that would I
think it'll be a terrible signal to send

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to investors that you're laying people the
games. Civilization is the thing, but

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what is take to currently, Like, that's the other big one that is

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like, I think the other big
one that the reason that they were expecting

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a lot of money from this next
fiscal year is that they're making Civilization seven

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and that probably is out in the
next calendar year or so. How much

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do they think that game is going
well? A Civilization does very very well.

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That's they does really well, but
it doesn't do like it Also,

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it's one of those games where I
don't think like you need a crazy amount

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of mocking behind it. You just
like Welfare is out and then over the

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next course of five years it will
just sell an absurd amount of Since Sid

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Myers out there to do some tiktoks
or something. Yeah, yeah, people

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are pointing out Bioshot probably gets a
pretty big marketing budget. Actually, if

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they have any one of those.
I am still not in a position to

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believe that that's happening, right We've
heard about it for so long that it's

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like the fact that we haven't heard
about it is concerning to me. But

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yeah, I mean, are they're
busy building a city under the sea.

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That's more likely to me right now, I find that more believable than a

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new BioShock game. I hope it
happens, though I love by Shock.

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Yeah, I'm not a huge BioShock. I hope it happens for everybody who's

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out there, But like I've been
paying too much attention to that. All

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I see no is we've been hearing
about that game for so long. It's

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weird that we haven't actually seen anything
from it. What if they mixed Civilization

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00:28:25.359 --> 00:28:30.240
and BioShock. You had a sieve
game where you're creating these weird under sea

407
00:28:30.440 --> 00:28:36.920
in the sky like civilizations and then
eventually you have to send one of them

408
00:28:37.079 --> 00:28:41.319
to kill Gandhi. Well, God, it needs to be stopping such a

409
00:28:41.359 --> 00:28:44.759
bitch man. Just because you got
you got a new does we have to

410
00:28:44.880 --> 00:28:47.720
use it? Man? Come on? Yeah, he's like peace and love.

411
00:28:49.559 --> 00:28:52.680
Oh Godi, what's up? What's
with you? All right? So

412
00:28:52.920 --> 00:28:56.400
let's move on to this last story
before the break. Nintendo switched to to

413
00:28:56.480 --> 00:29:00.960
be unveiled in March. According to
a rumor firm, Alex Hopley, a

414
00:29:00.039 --> 00:29:04.200
game reactor, the Nintendo Switch to
Super Nintendo Switch or whatever Nintendo is going

415
00:29:04.240 --> 00:29:07.960
to call it is not that far
away. Multiple reports have pointed to us

416
00:29:08.039 --> 00:29:11.400
getting at least a new look at
whatever Nintado has been working on sometime this

417
00:29:11.559 --> 00:29:15.400
year, and now a prominent leaker
has weighed in and when we and he

418
00:29:15.559 --> 00:29:18.599
thinks we might get a and he
says, when he thinks we might get

419
00:29:18.599 --> 00:29:22.759
a proper reveal. Of course,
it's TAM's favorite, Nate the Hate.

420
00:29:22.680 --> 00:29:27.119
Nate the Hate says they did.
He was on a podcast game and Talk

421
00:29:29.039 --> 00:29:33.119
podcast and mentioned that he believes will
get a reveal of some sort in March.

422
00:29:34.039 --> 00:29:37.359
And to his credit, he's been
saying that for a while. He's

423
00:29:37.359 --> 00:29:38.880
been saying that he thinks we'll get
it, uh in March, for quite

424
00:29:38.920 --> 00:29:45.640
some time. Na Hate is consistent. Yes, yeah, absolutely and consistent

425
00:29:45.759 --> 00:29:49.480
and uh and he's been a pretty
on point for these last few Nintendo rumors.

426
00:29:51.079 --> 00:29:55.759
I Hey, this seems reasonable,
especially if this Nintendo Direct that is

427
00:29:55.880 --> 00:30:00.400
probably coming up next week, is
a partner or a partner showcase and has

428
00:30:00.440 --> 00:30:03.720
third party games. To me,
that signifies we are moving on to the

429
00:30:03.799 --> 00:30:07.279
Switch to very soon. I don't
know, what do you think, tam

430
00:30:07.559 --> 00:30:11.880
Man. I am so excited to
see this, mainly because I'm very excited

431
00:30:11.880 --> 00:30:15.559
for new Nintendo Hallway. I'm also
so excited to see what that screen is.

432
00:30:17.839 --> 00:30:19.480
I cannot wait for them to pop
up and be like, we have

433
00:30:19.559 --> 00:30:25.640
an l CD and everyone goes what
they make a big deal the kid,

434
00:30:25.839 --> 00:30:27.640
Well, they're just gonna be like
so proud of it. It's a liquid

435
00:30:27.960 --> 00:30:33.799
crystal display, all right, chill
out, guy, Look at these colors.

436
00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:40.000
They're so washed out and uh that
yes? And Mike, Yes,

437
00:30:40.079 --> 00:30:42.599
If they are going to have a
Switch to reveal in March and they have

438
00:30:42.680 --> 00:30:47.160
a partner showcase next week, you're
right. Metro Prime for is probably not

439
00:30:47.200 --> 00:30:49.079
coming on which one? And I
have as away Mike, I've lost a

440
00:30:49.119 --> 00:30:52.839
b and watched some Brian Cox stuff. Yeah, thank you, tam You

441
00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:56.160
get it all right. You know
what We're gonna go to quick break when

442
00:30:56.200 --> 00:31:00.880
we get back. We've got a
ship. My Nintendo executive set as Helldiver's

443
00:31:00.960 --> 00:31:03.920
two numbers of Star Wars, Outlaws, and a lot more right after this,

444
00:31:11.440 --> 00:31:15.480
and We're back. We're back,
and the headline I have here is

445
00:31:15.559 --> 00:31:18.000
a ship. My Nintendo executive says. Here are some things that the Nintendo

446
00:31:18.039 --> 00:31:23.000
president for Ukawa discussed when talking to
investors in analysts as part of their financial

447
00:31:23.039 --> 00:31:26.799
earnings report. We go. It
was like here we go, man,

448
00:31:26.880 --> 00:31:30.279
my kids, like, let's it
go constantly. Now she's five years old,

449
00:31:30.279 --> 00:31:33.720
and that's all she says. Super
Mario Brothers Wonder was a significant driver

450
00:31:33.839 --> 00:31:38.000
of sales for Nintendo, outpacing previous
Mario titles. Half of the game's players

451
00:31:38.039 --> 00:31:41.839
engaged in the multiplayer mode, and
the game's popularity was further boosted by the

452
00:31:41.880 --> 00:31:47.640
release of the Super Mario Brothers Movie. Like that part, like we saw

453
00:31:47.720 --> 00:31:51.240
that happening all throughout the year.
But the Super Mario Brothers Wonder kind of

454
00:31:51.400 --> 00:31:56.200
outperforming previous Mario games. I think
that was the expectation. But it's definitely

455
00:31:56.319 --> 00:31:59.480
like, okay, they've confirmed it
there. It is that all of their

456
00:31:59.480 --> 00:32:01.880
games seen to be doing better than
they've ever done before. Two D Mario

457
00:32:02.359 --> 00:32:06.480
kind of seemed like, of course
it was gonna do that it always outperformed

458
00:32:06.519 --> 00:32:09.799
everything else, so not big surprised
there, right, Yeah, yeah,

459
00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:15.359
I mean makes perfect sense. Uh, I do we do you reckon?

460
00:32:15.440 --> 00:32:21.279
We get a full three D Murray
game for the new Switch? Yeah?

461
00:32:21.400 --> 00:32:23.400
I think so. I mean I
did. That's a hope of mine,

462
00:32:23.599 --> 00:32:29.559
mostly because I took it in our
Fantasy Critic league. Like, yeah,

463
00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:34.480
My question is, did they say
anything about Pickman? Uh? And like

464
00:32:35.200 --> 00:32:38.480
they said it they crossed three million
in sales, and that's about they will.

465
00:32:38.759 --> 00:32:44.480
They will never admit Pickman pops off. Well, that did change a

466
00:32:44.519 --> 00:32:46.960
little bit because it did so well
in Japan that whenever they're talking about in

467
00:32:47.039 --> 00:32:51.160
those terms, they're like, man, Japan's pretty wild about Pickman. The

468
00:32:51.279 --> 00:32:53.880
problem is, like it didn't do
necessarily great everywhere else it did okay,

469
00:32:54.000 --> 00:32:58.160
But yeah, I think at the
very least they're like, well, with

470
00:32:58.200 --> 00:33:00.920
the success of Pickman in Japan,
we will be making Pickman games like probably

471
00:33:01.000 --> 00:33:06.319
one per console generation for the foreseeable
future. And boy, I couldn't be

472
00:33:06.319 --> 00:33:09.920
happier about that. That's great.
Uh. The movie significantly contributed to Nintendo's

473
00:33:09.960 --> 00:33:15.160
mobile and IP related business, leading
to increased revenue. However, smart device

474
00:33:15.200 --> 00:33:19.240
application incomes slightly decreased the year on
year. Nintendo, what do you think

475
00:33:19.319 --> 00:33:24.240
Nintendo's like future in the mobile spaces? And they are they still they still

476
00:33:24.279 --> 00:33:30.519
all partnered with DNA, right Dnah? Yeah? I think so are they

477
00:33:30.839 --> 00:33:36.119
like maintain Mode now because I don't
it's anything. Yeah, there's still stuff

478
00:33:36.119 --> 00:33:38.799
coming to fire them. Yeah,
but I don't know, and Mario Kart

479
00:33:38.920 --> 00:33:42.960
seemed like maintain Mode. I don't
know. I feel like a lot of

480
00:33:43.079 --> 00:33:49.559
the kind of traction that Nintendo got
in the mobile space was sadly a novelty

481
00:33:49.640 --> 00:33:52.599
thing, Like it was weird that
Nintendo was in that space, so that

482
00:33:52.680 --> 00:33:57.119
people were more inclined to check it
out. And I think they extended that

483
00:33:57.319 --> 00:34:01.119
by introducing new franchises. Like it
was people like, oh wow, Marios

484
00:34:01.200 --> 00:34:06.359
on mobile, so that got it
a boost. And then as people stopped

485
00:34:06.400 --> 00:34:08.639
caring, they were like, oh, Animal Crossing and then everyone played that

486
00:34:08.679 --> 00:34:13.119
and was like this kind of sucks. And then people played Fire Emblem,

487
00:34:13.239 --> 00:34:17.840
and I would be I'd be interesting
to see if there's a new game coming

488
00:34:17.880 --> 00:34:22.320
out for it. The thing that
baffles me is why don't they put out

489
00:34:22.440 --> 00:34:28.559
the the kind of f zero or
whatever. Of course, yeah, yeah,

490
00:34:29.039 --> 00:34:31.360
can I handle that Tetras sixteen nine
and that kind of stuff on.

491
00:34:31.760 --> 00:34:37.639
I feel like those are a better
option for I think the reason I'll do

492
00:34:37.679 --> 00:34:40.719
this because that's a really good idea. Yeah, it's also they can't gatcha

493
00:34:40.800 --> 00:34:45.000
the shit out of it. Yes, that's probably why. Like those games

494
00:34:45.079 --> 00:34:49.559
are not intensive. The main kind
of intensive quality of them is the Internet

495
00:34:49.559 --> 00:34:52.599
connection they need, which just means
that I can't play in my current Internet

496
00:34:52.639 --> 00:34:55.079
conditions, which sucks for me,
but everyone else should be fine. I

497
00:34:55.079 --> 00:34:59.480
think they put private rooms in the
zero ninety nine, and I had a

498
00:34:59.519 --> 00:35:00.760
lot of fun when we did those
races. We should try that again.

499
00:35:02.239 --> 00:35:05.760
I put this the next one in
here mostly because I want someone to help

500
00:35:05.840 --> 00:35:09.639
me clarify. Nintendo's focus on IP
expansion aims to increase the value of its

501
00:35:09.639 --> 00:35:15.920
intellectual properties and create consumer touch points. Royalties from non visual content have grown,

502
00:35:15.320 --> 00:35:20.400
and Nintendo intends to generate stable revenue
from this initiative. What the fuck

503
00:35:20.519 --> 00:35:23.360
is non visual content? I tried
to like get a clarification on this and

504
00:35:23.440 --> 00:35:28.400
like read up and went to multiple
sites and which they just said non visual

505
00:35:28.480 --> 00:35:34.599
content, which I can only think
means music or smells. Nintendo's big in

506
00:35:34.679 --> 00:35:37.039
the smell market. Listen, let
me tell you this, all right,

507
00:35:37.440 --> 00:35:43.280
and they sold you, if they
sold you the ability to smell Princess Peachess,

508
00:35:43.280 --> 00:35:45.079
thoughts, would you or would you
not take it? I plead the

509
00:35:45.119 --> 00:35:53.519
fifth You know what that means.
The fifth means, gil the American Constitution

510
00:35:53.639 --> 00:35:59.280
protects me in the circumstance. Dam
how dare you you if that was an

511
00:35:59.280 --> 00:36:04.159
option, you nose would be so
cheeks? Yeah, absolutely, I'd be

512
00:36:05.639 --> 00:36:08.000
buried in there. Meanwhile, Mitch
is like, I don't want to put

513
00:36:08.079 --> 00:36:14.840
my nose up codes, but no
shame, no shame in that game.

514
00:36:15.119 --> 00:36:17.559
Uh yeah, I don't know what
they mean by this. I don't think

515
00:36:17.599 --> 00:36:22.360
they mean peaches, but arts and
music and gun running? Is it?

516
00:36:22.559 --> 00:36:25.639
I don't think. I feel I
feel like not like non visual basically means

517
00:36:25.679 --> 00:36:30.039
anything that isn't a video game.
I think that you are right. Yes,

518
00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:37.719
it will be like Mario and Donkey
K the Park Merchant, Absolu and

519
00:36:37.079 --> 00:36:40.320
and like you know, like ring
Tones and shiit like that. Yes,

520
00:36:42.320 --> 00:36:45.559
not not any metro stuff, because
lord knows they will never they never put

521
00:36:45.599 --> 00:36:47.719
anything up. I went to the
Nintendo store. I went to the Nintendo

522
00:36:47.840 --> 00:36:54.079
store looking for anything Metro. They
had one orange hoodie with the green visor

523
00:36:54.280 --> 00:37:00.159
on it and it was an extra
small Do they know their audience? So

524
00:37:00.480 --> 00:37:07.679
that's really iron Metroid extra small for
the only Metro fans out there. Metroid

525
00:37:07.840 --> 00:37:14.079
stuff is five people like me?
All right, kill those sizes up.

526
00:37:15.119 --> 00:37:17.440
The success of the movie propped in
Nintendo to explore promotional efforts in regions where

527
00:37:17.480 --> 00:37:22.400
switch sales are currently low. Mexico
saw increased hardware sales due to targeted promotions

528
00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:27.079
during the holiday season. And this
is like a quick aside everybody, And

529
00:37:27.159 --> 00:37:29.920
I'm going to preface this by saying, I am not a financial advisor and

530
00:37:29.960 --> 00:37:31.920
this show is for entertainment purposes only. If you want to like make a

531
00:37:32.039 --> 00:37:37.280
pretty good investment right now, look
at Mexico because with what's happening in China

532
00:37:37.360 --> 00:37:39.599
in terms of them going into a
depression, Mexico is going to pick up

533
00:37:39.599 --> 00:37:42.599
a lot of that slack and I
think that they are going to have a

534
00:37:42.639 --> 00:37:45.840
pretty big boom period here pretty soon. And so Nintendo, being like,

535
00:37:45.159 --> 00:37:49.440
we're selling more Nintendo's there, Nintendo
switches there, we should maybe like invest

536
00:37:49.519 --> 00:37:51.960
in that in a big way.
I think a lot of companies are going

537
00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:54.559
to end up making and end up
making that same decision. Nintendo also saw

538
00:37:54.880 --> 00:38:00.800
some pretty similar consumer behaviors in terms
of new consumers coming to them and unknown

539
00:38:00.840 --> 00:38:05.440
markets previously to them. In Southeast
Asia. They're like they saw a lot

540
00:38:05.480 --> 00:38:07.480
of success there as well. You
heard a half. Jeff Grubbs says,

541
00:38:07.519 --> 00:38:12.920
invest in Mexico. Invest in Mexico
for entertainment purposes only. Uh we know,

542
00:38:13.400 --> 00:38:15.679
yeah, go ahead, you know. I was thinking, are we

543
00:38:15.719 --> 00:38:19.039
done with Nintendo News? Now we've
got a couple more? Yeah we can,

544
00:38:19.159 --> 00:38:20.960
Yeah we can. Well we we
had a couple, but these are

545
00:38:21.000 --> 00:38:23.400
mostly just here for color. We
can. I thought like, not move

546
00:38:23.480 --> 00:38:25.440
on. But I was just thinking, like, why doesn't Nintendo do a

547
00:38:25.480 --> 00:38:30.000
thing where they do their directs and
if it's good news, Mario presents it,

548
00:38:30.039 --> 00:38:32.599
and if it's bad news, Warrior
presents I think that would be really

549
00:38:32.679 --> 00:38:36.480
funny. It's a really good idea. Yeah, Like if every Nintendo direct

550
00:38:36.519 --> 00:38:38.000
started and then like out of the
corner, you're like it was gonna come

551
00:38:38.039 --> 00:38:42.960
out and it's Warrior and you're like, oh no, and that someone died

552
00:38:43.239 --> 00:38:50.119
or yeah, sales now here we
go. That's a good idea. Yea,

553
00:38:50.280 --> 00:38:52.800
they should do it. That way, okay, Uh, and then

554
00:38:52.239 --> 00:38:55.000
let's see hear anything else worthy worth
bringing. I they say you switch sales

555
00:38:55.079 --> 00:38:59.920
or are stable. Uh, they're
having trouble finding, uh, selling new

556
00:39:00.039 --> 00:39:02.639
consoles, although they said first time
purchasers of Nintendo Switch were kind of up,

557
00:39:04.199 --> 00:39:06.400
So I don't know. There's a
lot of back and forth there.

558
00:39:07.480 --> 00:39:10.199
And then then then you know,
they talked in terms about like, hey,

559
00:39:10.280 --> 00:39:14.400
we do have to be aggressive about
the switch to or when that comes

560
00:39:14.440 --> 00:39:15.480
then use the term switch to.
But they're like, hey, when we're

561
00:39:15.480 --> 00:39:17.880
looking at make a new hardware,
we will have to have a sense of

562
00:39:19.000 --> 00:39:23.159
urgency and all that stuff. We
discussed that previously earlier this week. Hell

563
00:39:23.239 --> 00:39:29.280
Diver two is concurrent Steam player record
is PlayStation Studio's highest yet. This is

564
00:39:29.280 --> 00:39:32.360
from Chris Scullion at VGC. Hell
Divers two has started well on Steam with

565
00:39:32.440 --> 00:39:37.159
a concurrent player record higher than any
previous PC port of a PlayStation Studios game.

566
00:39:37.440 --> 00:39:42.039
According to steam dB, the game's
peak concurrent player count is currently eighty,

567
00:39:43.760 --> 00:39:45.840
which was achieved at ten pm Eastern
on Thursday. This gives it a

568
00:39:45.960 --> 00:39:51.000
higher peak concurrent player count than God
of War Horizons zero don Complete Edition,

569
00:39:51.360 --> 00:39:54.440
The Last of Us Part one and
any other Steam game published by PlayStation Studios.

570
00:39:54.599 --> 00:40:00.360
Now, tam, what do you
think the main difference here is play

571
00:40:00.360 --> 00:40:02.599
a game that's definitely going to make
a huge difference on Steam. And also,

572
00:40:02.719 --> 00:40:07.320
like this, this game came out
day and date. Those games were

573
00:40:07.360 --> 00:40:12.880
all two three years later, right
yeah. And also wasn't it straight busted

574
00:40:12.960 --> 00:40:15.719
for a very long time as well, which is surprising, Like yes,

575
00:40:15.159 --> 00:40:19.320
we're like, oh yes, oh, yes, yeah, this game was

576
00:40:19.719 --> 00:40:22.840
having real rough time on day one. I actually don't know if it's fully

577
00:40:22.880 --> 00:40:24.440
fixed now, but either way,
a lot of people are playing it.

578
00:40:24.480 --> 00:40:30.239
Helld avers one came out to PC
and it only ever did around six thousand

579
00:40:30.320 --> 00:40:35.679
concurrence, but it actually had a
pretty hefty cult following that I think primed

580
00:40:35.719 --> 00:40:37.559
this game to do very well.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it got

581
00:40:37.559 --> 00:40:42.239
a lot of really good word of
mouth as well for a really long time.

582
00:40:43.280 --> 00:40:45.280
It's also a PCs game. Honestly, it's like the way the way

583
00:40:45.320 --> 00:40:51.000
that it works, where it's like
no friendly fire is on and if you

584
00:40:51.159 --> 00:40:53.119
drop something in the world, like
you have to deal with the ramifications of

585
00:40:53.159 --> 00:40:55.159
choosing where you dropped it. We're
not going to be friendly to you.

586
00:40:55.320 --> 00:40:59.880
Fuck you, like You're like,
you're in war now, and that's that

587
00:41:00.159 --> 00:41:04.559
sensibility is very PC to me.
Yeah, and I think you know not.

588
00:41:04.679 --> 00:41:07.679
That doesn't mean PlayStation audience doesn't appreciate
it. I think they really do.

589
00:41:07.239 --> 00:41:10.199
But a PC audience like gobbles that
stuff up. So I'm not too

590
00:41:10.239 --> 00:41:14.239
surprised to see you doing very well
there. We will be playing for vers

591
00:41:14.280 --> 00:41:16.639
two on UPF today as long as
the servers hold up. Jeff Grub said,

592
00:41:16.639 --> 00:41:20.480
play stagey games, the babies and
PC game is all cool. Come

593
00:41:20.519 --> 00:41:24.159
at me. God of War did
about seventy three thousand concurrence at its peak,

594
00:41:24.239 --> 00:41:29.760
and Spider Man Remastered the third highest
ever for PlayStation is sixty six thousand,

595
00:41:29.840 --> 00:41:32.079
so eighty one thousand. Pretty good
debut for Hell Divers. If someone

596
00:41:32.199 --> 00:41:37.880
chat says it's currently at seventy thousand. UBI Soft ceo, Oh yeah,

597
00:41:37.079 --> 00:41:40.320
real quick, did I skip this? I put that at the bottom of

598
00:41:40.360 --> 00:41:45.360
Hell Divers? Okay. Ubi Soft
ceo defends Skull and Bones price tag and

599
00:41:45.400 --> 00:41:49.239
calls it a quadrupley. We've already
kind of talked about this, but let's

600
00:41:49.280 --> 00:41:52.880
talk about you some more. Honestly, yes, what do you think he

601
00:41:52.119 --> 00:41:55.400
was on? You? Do you
think it was hero. He still has

602
00:41:55.760 --> 00:42:00.360
a stash of barbituates that no one
else has access to. He still hold

603
00:42:00.440 --> 00:42:06.159
him under those before going out to
speaking. Honestly, I respect it,

604
00:42:06.440 --> 00:42:09.159
like he's he's holding out hope.
If you know what, it would have

605
00:42:09.199 --> 00:42:12.559
been worse if he came out.
I was like, scape sucks. Man,

606
00:42:13.119 --> 00:42:15.239
You're right, it sucks. He
needs you, needs him to come

607
00:42:15.280 --> 00:42:19.639
out and be like, this game
is better than Half Life two. I'm

608
00:42:19.679 --> 00:42:22.480
not kidding. It's better than Half
Life two. That's what they need.

609
00:42:22.960 --> 00:42:29.280
That is exactly what they need.
Yeah, graping this other, but yeah,

610
00:42:29.320 --> 00:42:31.320
I do respect it. I actually
also I hope it's good. I

611
00:42:31.360 --> 00:42:35.239
hope that it becomes a good game. I want to see that game do

612
00:42:35.400 --> 00:42:38.679
well. I would love nothing more
than to be proven wrong and and like

613
00:42:38.800 --> 00:42:43.199
it is a somehow a quadruple A
game. We're like, oh my god,

614
00:42:43.320 --> 00:42:45.840
this is insane. It's just so
good. I can't believe they pulled

615
00:42:45.840 --> 00:42:53.000
it off. I love a rags
to riches comeback story and play the beta.

616
00:42:53.960 --> 00:42:58.679
Yeah, I was gonna ask you
played it a little bit. Uh.

617
00:43:00.440 --> 00:43:07.440
Definitely seems like Assassin's Creedy Black Flag
was many years ago, ten years

618
00:43:07.480 --> 00:43:09.519
ago, that that game came out
right, like even like longer than that

619
00:43:09.559 --> 00:43:12.840
now, because that was like a
twenty thirteen or twenty It wasn't maybe it

620
00:43:12.880 --> 00:43:15.079
was twenty fourteen. Imagine the Assassin's
Creed Black Flag. But you cannot do

621
00:43:15.320 --> 00:43:19.159
the thing where you jump onto someone
else's boat and stab him and throw them

622
00:43:19.199 --> 00:43:21.280
off the boat, right, the
really fun stuff you mean, Yeah,

623
00:43:22.679 --> 00:43:27.760
hey, I don't want Skalm Bones
to fail, but when? But it's

624
00:43:27.800 --> 00:43:30.480
hard for me, as someone who
pays attention to games for a very long

625
00:43:30.559 --> 00:43:35.000
time and seeing the ups and downs
and to not sort of build a myth

626
00:43:35.079 --> 00:43:37.639
in my mind that this is kind
of a very funny game. Now at

627
00:43:37.679 --> 00:43:39.639
this point where it's like, man, they really spent a lot of time

628
00:43:39.719 --> 00:43:43.679
making that game, and this is
what we are we ended up with,

629
00:43:43.960 --> 00:43:45.559
all right, And then to have
him then come out and be like,

630
00:43:45.599 --> 00:43:47.920
well, it's quadruple A and that
explains it. I'm like, well,

631
00:43:50.079 --> 00:43:52.960
next the next month is gonna come
out and be like, you know what

632
00:43:52.079 --> 00:43:55.880
else is quadruple A? Beyond Good
and Evil too? Yeah, they're into

633
00:43:55.880 --> 00:43:59.559
the camera'd like, oh want do
you have more to show up it?

634
00:44:00.159 --> 00:44:01.480
No? No, no, no, no no no, just trust me.

635
00:44:01.559 --> 00:44:07.320
It's quadruple A. It's quadrip play
well. All the stock prices low,

636
00:44:07.760 --> 00:44:10.679
it's coming on for so reek?
Why is he think beyond good and

637
00:44:10.719 --> 00:44:14.480
evil too? Is that is the
key to keep it the stock price high?

638
00:44:14.880 --> 00:44:17.400
For some reason he does. Who's
trying to buy us? Okay to

639
00:44:17.760 --> 00:44:21.719
out next months? He'll be fine. Uh. We've got more details from

640
00:44:21.840 --> 00:44:24.599
Ubisoft's earning earning support here. This
is from Eddie mccoot game Spot. Ubisoft

641
00:44:24.679 --> 00:44:29.559
has revealed that it will have announcements
to share about its future games lineup this

642
00:44:29.880 --> 00:44:32.039
May. As part of the company's
latest earnings briefing, ubi Soft said the

643
00:44:32.079 --> 00:44:36.360
company will reveal the extent of its
lineup for its fiscal twenty twenty four twenty

644
00:44:36.400 --> 00:44:38.559
twenty five in May. This could
line up with the company's scheduled a full

645
00:44:38.639 --> 00:44:43.800
year earnings announcement for that month.
So Far, confirmed releases for fiscal year

646
00:44:43.840 --> 00:44:46.960
twenty twenty four twenty twenty five include
Assassin's Creed Code Name Red, which is

647
00:44:47.000 --> 00:44:51.719
the one that takes place in Japan, and Star Wars Outlaws and that's on

648
00:44:51.760 --> 00:44:54.320
the premium side of things, and
then The Division Resurgence and Rainbow six Mobile

649
00:44:54.519 --> 00:44:59.880
are also coming out in the free
to play space. So that means tam

650
00:45:00.880 --> 00:45:06.840
Assassain's Creed read in Star Wars Outlaws
by March twenty twenty five, and really

651
00:45:07.320 --> 00:45:09.039
both those games are probably out.
I mean, at least Assassin's Creed is

652
00:45:09.039 --> 00:45:13.239
out by the end of this calendar
year, right, Yeah, I'm more

653
00:45:13.320 --> 00:45:17.159
inclined to think Assassin's Creed is out
before Star Wars. I think Star Wars

654
00:45:17.199 --> 00:45:22.119
probably gets as much time as they
needs much fun because it's not Rockstar.

655
00:45:23.440 --> 00:45:27.679
But yeah, I also like,
yeah, I feel like that's the kind

656
00:45:27.719 --> 00:45:30.679
of order of pecking order you want
to give that game more time than an

657
00:45:30.679 --> 00:45:36.679
Assassin's Creed because Assassin's Creed also kind
of sells itself in a major way,

658
00:45:36.880 --> 00:45:43.039
Like it's a franchise with a built
in audience that is basically sustainable, and

659
00:45:43.199 --> 00:45:46.880
this is a take on the game
that people have been looking for for a

660
00:45:46.920 --> 00:45:52.039
really long time, so it's likely
to reignite like legacy fans who maybe have

661
00:45:52.159 --> 00:45:58.480
dropped off, And I feel like
that's enough of a built in success factor

662
00:45:58.760 --> 00:46:02.639
that they can probably make the call
that Star Wars gets more time even if

663
00:46:02.679 --> 00:46:07.719
it's doing absolutely fine, like and
it's on track and it's looking good,

664
00:46:07.400 --> 00:46:12.519
extra polished time will no doubt help
those developers, and they need that game

665
00:46:12.679 --> 00:46:15.599
to be as good as poss They
can't put our bad Star Wars because because

666
00:46:15.599 --> 00:46:20.480
if it's good, there's every chance
it sells very very well. Yeah,

667
00:46:20.519 --> 00:46:23.239
they seen they've seen what happened with
Respawn, and they were like, oh,

668
00:46:23.480 --> 00:46:25.599
we can have one of those.
Yeah, okay, cool, Yeah,

669
00:46:25.719 --> 00:46:30.760
and they seem like the potential for
a division like game to kind of

670
00:46:30.840 --> 00:46:34.000
exist, you know, and it's
not the same kind of experience, but

671
00:46:34.159 --> 00:46:38.440
like that kind of open worldish shoot
a style game that does well, it

672
00:46:38.519 --> 00:46:43.840
could have a lot of legs and
and the cess it's creed has almost always

673
00:46:43.880 --> 00:46:46.960
come out in the holiday period,
right in the fall, like October November.

674
00:46:47.119 --> 00:46:51.760
I'm trying to think there's ever been
one that launched outside of that window,

675
00:46:51.800 --> 00:46:53.760
and I can't think of one.
What's a Mirage? When did Mirage

676
00:46:53.800 --> 00:46:58.800
come out? Mirage may be a
little bit earlier. Maybe that was that

677
00:46:58.920 --> 00:47:02.199
September. Maybe yeah, Okay,
So either way though, in that like

678
00:47:02.480 --> 00:47:08.679
follish period, and they have previously
said that Star Wars Outlaws is twenty twenty

679
00:47:08.719 --> 00:47:13.800
four, I think they said late
twenty twenty four, and if they're taking

680
00:47:13.840 --> 00:47:17.480
this moment to reiterate that these games
are coming out as part of their fiscal

681
00:47:17.559 --> 00:47:21.760
year. Maybe they would have said
that was gonna slip if they knew that

682
00:47:21.800 --> 00:47:24.119
already. So there's a chance that
Star Wars still comes out in like November

683
00:47:24.280 --> 00:47:29.800
or December. Even Ubisoft has done
December releases before. I don't know if

684
00:47:29.800 --> 00:47:31.639
they would do that with Star Wars. They did it with Avatar, though,

685
00:47:31.960 --> 00:47:35.519
and I wonder if they view those
things pretty similarly, or if Star

686
00:47:35.559 --> 00:47:38.760
Wars is a notch above. Probably
so, But yeah, you're right,

687
00:47:39.039 --> 00:47:43.159
if that game needs more time,
they'll give it more time and easily pop

688
00:47:43.199 --> 00:47:45.639
it into the first quarter if next
year, and not feel anything about it.

689
00:47:45.719 --> 00:47:47.000
That would be totally an acceptable thing
in their eyes. I think,

690
00:47:47.320 --> 00:47:52.840
has there been a date for that
new Star Wars movie? Oh six,

691
00:47:52.960 --> 00:47:55.519
Yeah, it's twenty twenty six.
They don't have any Star Wars movies happening

692
00:47:55.559 --> 00:48:00.039
for quite some time, thank god, thank god. Honestly, I wish

693
00:48:00.400 --> 00:48:05.920
whatever. I'm not excited about that
movie. Uh. Sega revenues rise to

694
00:48:06.280 --> 00:48:09.679
two point seven billion dollars. This
is from Sophie macavoy at Games Industry Dabez.

695
00:48:09.719 --> 00:48:13.920
Sorry, I just do that use
of rise, I think increase Sega

696
00:48:14.000 --> 00:48:17.480
revenues increased it whatever. Sega Sammy
has released its financial report for the nine

697
00:48:17.480 --> 00:48:21.719
months ended December thirty first, twenty
twenty three, and experienced the rise in

698
00:48:21.800 --> 00:48:25.559
overall sales short version. Everybody,
Pachinko up, uh pa packy slots pack

699
00:48:25.679 --> 00:48:32.320
that's patchy slots uh is what I
just said? Offensive tam it's pi chi

700
00:48:32.760 --> 00:48:37.599
slot all right? How dould you
say it? Ah shit, let's move

701
00:48:37.679 --> 00:48:45.599
on, ah shit? Fuck all
right. So that's that those are up.

702
00:48:45.000 --> 00:48:49.440
But the video game sales themselves are
actually kind of down, and they're

703
00:48:49.559 --> 00:48:52.280
like mostly because we play out games
like Sonic that didn't sell very well.

704
00:48:53.239 --> 00:48:55.559
Also, I think they were disappointed
in like a Dragon Guide in The Man

705
00:48:55.599 --> 00:49:00.199
who Erased his Name and Persona five
Tactica. If hey, if you're like

706
00:49:01.039 --> 00:49:04.480
trying to like tell Sega how to
run their business, what do you tell

707
00:49:04.480 --> 00:49:06.639
them about those games and how to
release them? Or do you tell them

708
00:49:06.679 --> 00:49:09.039
like, hey, you have to
just sometimes accept that because Persona five or

709
00:49:09.079 --> 00:49:13.679
Persona three Reload and like a Dragon
Infinite Wealth are coming and they're going to

710
00:49:13.760 --> 00:49:15.039
sell very well, as we've already
seen that they are. What do you

711
00:49:15.079 --> 00:49:19.760
say to that, I mean,
yeah, like I feel like Sega,

712
00:49:20.320 --> 00:49:24.719
I don't know how I mean,
They're never gonna like this the kind of

713
00:49:24.880 --> 00:49:29.679
like Patcheslaw, the rest of that
stuff is gonna always be a major priority

714
00:49:29.719 --> 00:49:32.840
for them, because it just does
like the culture is based around them,

715
00:49:34.320 --> 00:49:37.239
you know. I mean, like
the Japanese culture is molded around that kind

716
00:49:37.239 --> 00:49:43.000
of stuff, the arcade experience and
games like. I think they are quietly

717
00:49:43.079 --> 00:49:47.719
confident with stuff like the like a
Dragon yakus A franchise and Persona to an

718
00:49:47.760 --> 00:49:52.199
increasing degree. They know that.
I bet you they're like that next Persona.

719
00:49:52.360 --> 00:49:55.800
They are ready for that thing pop
off super hard. Persona six because

720
00:49:55.880 --> 00:50:04.320
they have released Persona five is Japan's
sky Rim where it's like it made crazy

721
00:50:04.400 --> 00:50:08.360
money. It's out on everything and
everyone knows why it is globally, you

722
00:50:08.440 --> 00:50:14.760
know what I mean. But yeah, I feel like the the the the

723
00:50:15.119 --> 00:50:19.360
faces, the face is definitely there
in those games. I just felt like

724
00:50:19.440 --> 00:50:23.679
the the return on the other stuff
is non gaming business. The other archhead

725
00:50:23.719 --> 00:50:28.800
game is is so significant that it
will always be a core focus for them.

726
00:50:29.159 --> 00:50:32.360
Yeah, And like their game business
is like about the same size as

727
00:50:32.400 --> 00:50:36.000
their pachinko business. It seems like
when I try to look at these numbers,

728
00:50:36.400 --> 00:50:40.239
but the pachinko business is growing faster, and I honestly I look at

729
00:50:40.280 --> 00:50:44.760
something like, hey, they're disappointed
in the sales Sonic Superstars. Hey,

730
00:50:44.800 --> 00:50:49.840
I played that game at disappointed in
Sonic exactly constantly. But I mean like,

731
00:50:50.760 --> 00:50:52.320
hey, I can imagine a world
where they put out Sonic Media too,

732
00:50:52.400 --> 00:50:55.679
and we are not having this conversation
because Sonic Media too does I think

733
00:50:55.800 --> 00:51:00.840
way better than Sonic Superstars. That
team is making their game now that yees,

734
00:51:00.880 --> 00:51:02.199
we've got a yo yo person where
we're busy. Yes, we're not

735
00:51:02.320 --> 00:51:05.719
doing that again, but I think
they're just busy. I think Sega didn't

736
00:51:05.800 --> 00:51:08.079
choose them, and Sega moved on
from them, and we're like, we'll

737
00:51:08.119 --> 00:51:12.840
handle it ourselves. Thank you for
your help making Sonic relevant again. We

738
00:51:12.920 --> 00:51:15.239
got it from here clearly. Well, well, now proceed to drive that

739
00:51:15.599 --> 00:51:22.360
lad into the ground again, so
I see you in seven years. Finally,

740
00:51:22.440 --> 00:51:24.880
PS five is outsold the Xbox Series
X slash s two to one,

741
00:51:24.920 --> 00:51:30.519
according to data. Take two had
a slide that said seventy seven million consoles

742
00:51:30.559 --> 00:51:35.360
have sold this generation. That would
be just for the Xbox series X and

743
00:51:35.480 --> 00:51:40.599
S and PlayStation five. And if
you were to use the mathematics of subtraction

744
00:51:40.840 --> 00:51:45.599
and subtract fifty million that PlayStation is
confirmed, that would get you about twenty

745
00:51:45.679 --> 00:51:50.639
seven million for the Xbox two to
one. That's actually about the ratio of

746
00:51:50.719 --> 00:51:52.079
last generation. So not much has
changed. I don't know, what do

747
00:51:52.119 --> 00:51:55.119
you what do you think, tam? I think that you should stop trying

748
00:51:55.119 --> 00:51:59.519
to make me do a mass on
a Friday morning and I will not be

749
00:51:59.599 --> 00:52:05.840
engaging this conversation. That's fair.
I mean, like it also makes sense,

750
00:52:06.000 --> 00:52:07.519
like yeah, and like, but
like I think people are wondering,

751
00:52:07.559 --> 00:52:12.360
Hey, things must be really bad
over at Xbox for them to be wanting

752
00:52:12.400 --> 00:52:15.599
to change their strategy strategy so drastically
away from exclusives. I know you see

753
00:52:15.639 --> 00:52:17.199
numbers like that and it's like,
but that's about it. What it was

754
00:52:17.280 --> 00:52:22.400
last generation? No, right,
We actually talked about it, like on

755
00:52:22.719 --> 00:52:25.480
today's episode of spot On, which
is about the Xbox and when it's that

756
00:52:25.559 --> 00:52:29.480
live work, people see that that
will be out later today, it will

757
00:52:29.480 --> 00:52:31.719
be on YouTube or compost last game
Spot and game Spot as well, and

758
00:52:32.559 --> 00:52:37.239
we'll tweet about it. But a
lot of people just automatically are like,

759
00:52:37.360 --> 00:52:43.400
oh, change in this change in
exclusivity clearly means that things are bad at

760
00:52:43.679 --> 00:52:50.480
xbox. No, that isn't necessarily
the case. These businesses have a responsibility

761
00:52:50.679 --> 00:52:54.000
to read the tea leis, look
at the landscape of the industry they're in,

762
00:52:54.199 --> 00:52:58.800
and try and think about where the
business is going before they have to

763
00:52:58.920 --> 00:53:01.519
make it. The turning, you
know what I mean, Pivoting in a

764
00:53:02.880 --> 00:53:07.840
significant way is not easy. You
have to start tanning the ship. Yeah,

765
00:53:07.079 --> 00:53:12.199
you have to start turning the ship. And what's problem what we discussed

766
00:53:12.239 --> 00:53:16.880
it is there's probably a lot of
considerations put into how much are we getting

767
00:53:16.920 --> 00:53:22.840
out of exclusivity, how much do
we stand to gain from making everything money

768
00:53:22.840 --> 00:53:25.880
platform, what are the business conditions
now and what will they be like in

769
00:53:27.039 --> 00:53:30.559
two years, five years, ten
years, fifteen years. What is going

770
00:53:30.639 --> 00:53:34.880
to get us through that? And
that's probably had a significant contribution, and

771
00:53:35.000 --> 00:53:38.320
if not, was the deciding factor
in changing any sort of business change that

772
00:53:38.440 --> 00:53:43.880
they may or may not make.
So when people are like looking at these

773
00:53:43.960 --> 00:53:45.320
numbers and being like, oh,
these sales don't seem all that bad,

774
00:53:45.360 --> 00:53:50.280
why would they change this, it's
because the sales of consoles isn't the be

775
00:53:50.400 --> 00:53:54.559
all and all for a company's performance, and especially if they need to figure

776
00:53:54.599 --> 00:53:59.840
out how to stay healthy going forward, it will be irresponsible of them not

777
00:54:00.079 --> 00:54:02.840
to do stuff like this. And
that goes for Sony and Nintendo Microsoft.

778
00:54:04.079 --> 00:54:07.000
Everyone. Sony is always doing this
as well. You just don't hear that

779
00:54:07.159 --> 00:54:10.440
much about it. Same with Nintendo. Nintendo exists in their own bubble where

780
00:54:10.440 --> 00:54:14.920
their business is entirely their own,
and they're kind of like future proof to

781
00:54:15.000 --> 00:54:19.320
themselves in a lot of ways.
But it's very normal for consoles to sell

782
00:54:19.480 --> 00:54:23.000
relatively well and business strategies to change
in a significant way. Yep, Well

783
00:54:23.039 --> 00:54:25.880
said, they're making some money,
they want to make a lot more,

784
00:54:27.079 --> 00:54:30.199
and they're looking for creative ways to
do that and that's their job. So

785
00:54:30.320 --> 00:54:35.480
yeah, you're onto something there.
All right. We have poll questions to

786
00:54:35.599 --> 00:54:38.440
get to. Let's get to this. This is from yesterday. Are you

787
00:54:38.559 --> 00:54:43.760
going to go back to Spider Man
two for new game plus? Eighty four

788
00:54:43.800 --> 00:54:46.800
percent said no, Only sixteen percent
said yes. I voted knowing this,

789
00:54:47.519 --> 00:54:51.760
Hey, I like a new game
plus here and there, but these days

790
00:54:51.840 --> 00:54:54.679
that's not happening usually unless I'm just
so invested and it's available right away like

791
00:54:54.800 --> 00:54:58.760
it was with let's say Armored Core
six. How about you, Tam,

792
00:54:58.760 --> 00:55:02.280
You're going to go back to this
hmm? Now, I might depin like

793
00:55:02.400 --> 00:55:06.360
I I dip in and out of
Spider Man games just because I like the

794
00:55:06.440 --> 00:55:08.719
feeling of swinging around. So I'll
probably pop it in at some point and

795
00:55:09.320 --> 00:55:13.119
fire it up in the next few
months and then be like, oh,

796
00:55:13.400 --> 00:55:15.800
the DC new game plus is out
wherever. I'll check it out, but

797
00:55:15.960 --> 00:55:20.679
I doubt I will do a full
replay of that game. I got a

798
00:55:20.719 --> 00:55:22.599
new pole question that we're going to
get to here in a second. But

799
00:55:22.639 --> 00:55:24.280
before we do that, Tam,
what do you have going on? Where

800
00:55:24.280 --> 00:55:28.719
can people find you on the internet? All that good stuff? You find

801
00:55:28.760 --> 00:55:31.559
me at home trying to figure out
why my internet is busted. And also

802
00:55:31.639 --> 00:55:37.239
I'm on Twitter at tomorrow, h
And I'm also on Twitch to more age,

803
00:55:37.280 --> 00:55:40.800
which I will be bringing back very
soon. Since moving here. Haven't

804
00:55:40.840 --> 00:55:45.039
streamed and that is partially because it's
hot for me on the internet right now.

805
00:55:46.360 --> 00:55:53.599
And and also yeah, everyone's after
me. And also I've been working

806
00:55:53.599 --> 00:55:59.800
on revamping a lot of the art
stuff, and we've have been like hitting

807
00:55:59.880 --> 00:56:05.119
up my good friend and our good
friend friend of this the site Jerum,

808
00:56:05.280 --> 00:56:10.920
who has put together some absolutely banging
bits of artwork for me. So I'm

809
00:56:10.960 --> 00:56:14.920
like slowly revamping that, but I
hope to be back streaming very soon.

810
00:56:15.119 --> 00:56:20.719
Yeah, and that's where I'm at. He's sending me potential solutions for my

811
00:56:20.800 --> 00:56:23.599
bad intern and let's let's twitch dot
tv slash to more h everybody, make

812
00:56:23.599 --> 00:56:27.599
sure you make sure you hit up
a boy here. I needed to pop

813
00:56:27.679 --> 00:56:30.519
off. So then when I go
to the American government and I'm like,

814
00:56:30.599 --> 00:56:34.039
please let me have this visa and
they look here and they're like, hey,

815
00:56:34.119 --> 00:56:37.679
my kid, Yeah he's kind of
popular. He's not. He ain't

816
00:56:37.760 --> 00:56:44.000
no Kai Sinat, but you know
he's whatever. I think you could start

817
00:56:44.119 --> 00:56:47.199
a riot in central in Times Square
for a PS five. You give one

818
00:56:47.239 --> 00:56:52.119
week and somehow I'd be the only
one that gets arrested. Everyone absolutely sting

819
00:56:52.239 --> 00:56:58.519
operation coming from my boy. Let's
see here, new Paul. Question.

820
00:56:58.639 --> 00:57:01.280
Do you think g t A six
comes to switch to? Your options are

821
00:57:01.360 --> 00:57:05.800
never eventually, but not right away, and switch to will be a launch

822
00:57:05.880 --> 00:57:13.000
platform for GTA six. I feel
like the thing that's keeping that from happening

823
00:57:13.199 --> 00:57:17.239
is Nintendo. I feel like they
need to spend every new console. I

824
00:57:17.320 --> 00:57:21.519
think. I feel like they have
a certain period of time when they need

825
00:57:21.599 --> 00:57:25.440
to invest on establishing a very specific
kind of identity for their console, which

826
00:57:25.559 --> 00:57:31.920
is welcoming, family friendly, anyone
can buy this, it's cool and it's

827
00:57:32.039 --> 00:57:36.880
it's inoffensive. And then once that
kind of wave has passed, that's when

828
00:57:36.920 --> 00:57:39.079
they go, like, you can
also get some real nasty shit. Want

829
00:57:39.119 --> 00:57:45.519
it? Look at this mad world
sad song in it, and I feel

830
00:57:45.559 --> 00:57:47.760
like if GTA comes out on it, it will be many years into like

831
00:57:47.840 --> 00:57:51.320
the switch to his life cycle.
I think. On the other side of

832
00:57:51.360 --> 00:57:53.840
that, rock Star also likes to
do the spreading these things out where,

833
00:57:54.079 --> 00:57:58.079
hey, this year launches on these
consoles, next year, it'll launch on

834
00:57:58.599 --> 00:58:00.199
PC. The year after that one
just on the next green consoles. In

835
00:58:00.239 --> 00:58:04.360
the year after that launches on switch
to UH. They could easily do that

836
00:58:04.480 --> 00:58:07.840
again, and I wouldn't surprised if
they pulled that move here. I want

837
00:58:07.880 --> 00:58:12.199
to I want I want Rockstar to, like of all the companies, I

838
00:58:12.280 --> 00:58:15.920
want Rockstar to be the weirdest with
DLC, Like I I hope that they

839
00:58:15.000 --> 00:58:17.920
go for this one. They're like
really freaky about it, Like I hope

840
00:58:17.960 --> 00:58:23.920
so we'll see Fortnite go hardcore Fortnite
with GTA online like oh, GTA Online.

841
00:58:24.320 --> 00:58:30.280
Uh, the Sopranos crossover, Okay, I wouldn't legit, and that

842
00:58:30.480 --> 00:58:36.239
one hundred tony sopranos running around Teletubbies
and stuff, and I want that too,

843
00:58:36.400 --> 00:58:38.599
but no, give me Tony soprano
for sure. All right, I

844
00:58:38.679 --> 00:58:43.280
think that's gonna do it. Uh, Hell Divers. We're playing Hell Divers

845
00:58:43.320 --> 00:58:45.880
in about thirty minutes. Everybody Hell
Divers to going to get a crew in

846
00:58:46.000 --> 00:58:50.960
there. See how that's going.
I think I started it to get through

847
00:58:50.960 --> 00:58:52.159
the tutorial. It seems like it's
going to be a real good time.

848
00:58:52.199 --> 00:58:55.519
It is. Whenever someone says hell
Divers, I just hat Holy Diver in

849
00:58:55.599 --> 00:59:00.199
my head and it just carries on, uh tam thing. Thank you so

850
00:59:00.239 --> 00:59:01.360
much for hanging out with me today
and talking about video games. I really

851
00:59:01.400 --> 00:59:06.519
appreciate it. Man. I love
being here. I will never be kept

852
00:59:06.559 --> 00:59:09.840
away from here, even with bad
internet. And I will see him next

853
00:59:10.480 --> 00:59:15.159
Drake's Day. I think I'm at
Dice next week, which is wild Man's

854
00:59:15.199 --> 00:59:17.639
wild I can't believe we've already been
that time. Yeah, and then it's

855
00:59:17.679 --> 00:59:22.480
GDC after that. It's NonStop.
Everybody look out for us doing our thing.

856
00:59:22.760 --> 00:59:28.039
Go watch that catch me if you
Dan, It's fantastic. It's really

857
00:59:28.119 --> 00:59:30.719
good stuff. He did a really
good job and chance editing is very on

858
00:59:30.800 --> 00:59:32.880
point. You could tell he was
having a good time with that. That's

859
00:59:32.960 --> 00:59:36.840
up on YouTube, now up on
the website. Thank you all for watching.

860
00:59:36.880 --> 00:59:38.639
You're the best audience in gaming.
Until next time, have a good

861
00:59:38.639 --> 00:59:40.679
one, take care of yourself and
goodbye.