WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.760 --> 00:00:11.000 You look a dummy beer. It's the internet. You're busy. Let's do 2 00:00:11.080 --> 00:00:14.839 this for August fourth, twenty twenty two. For the next hour or so, 3 00:00:15.320 --> 00:00:18.440 let me help you sort through the world of gaming on Game Mess Mornings 4 00:00:18.440 --> 00:00:23.160 Live with me Jeff Grub Today. You shouldn't expect a new switch before March, 5 00:00:23.239 --> 00:00:26.519 and the Steam deck is big in Japan. But first, please join 6 00:00:26.559 --> 00:00:30.559 me and welcomeing today's co host to Game Mess Mornings. It's Jan Ochoa from 7 00:00:30.559 --> 00:00:32.960 Giant Bomb. Everybody, Jan, how are you doing? How are you 8 00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:39.880 feeling? That's me. I am terribly sick. I'm infected. Yes, 9 00:00:39.920 --> 00:00:42.679 I've got a sickness, and I'm getting down with the sickness and the sickness. 10 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:48.880 This Fortnite turns out it's a good game, and I can't stop thinking 11 00:00:48.880 --> 00:00:53.399 about it, and I'm just waiting for the Naruto skins to roll around, 12 00:00:53.920 --> 00:00:58.119 so much so that I looked at an article about the frequency of skins and 13 00:00:58.320 --> 00:01:03.000 I kind of hate myself up. I've been thinking about it too. I 14 00:01:03.079 --> 00:01:04.640 was like, I am probably going to end up buying this battle pass. 15 00:01:04.760 --> 00:01:08.000 I more than likely will not be able to play it enough to get Darth 16 00:01:08.079 --> 00:01:11.640 Vader. But it's a nice thought. And then when like the season's about 17 00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:15.040 to end, maybe they'll convince me to spend a lot of extra money to 18 00:01:15.120 --> 00:01:19.599 unlock all that stuff. I installed it on my switch and yeah, I 19 00:01:19.680 --> 00:01:22.519 do intend to play it more frequently and stuff. It's it's cool. I 20 00:01:22.760 --> 00:01:25.879 like has all that cross progression and things like that. People should watch ups 21 00:01:25.879 --> 00:01:27.680 all seen us. It's available now, right, yes, available now. 22 00:01:29.200 --> 00:01:33.680 Abby Russell pretty much carried our team with you, me and Dan. But 23 00:01:33.719 --> 00:01:37.319 I think we had a time of our lives. Yes, that's how I 24 00:01:37.359 --> 00:01:41.480 would describe it. I you know, it goes, it goes my wedding 25 00:01:41.560 --> 00:01:44.560 day, fortnite, the day my children were born. That's how it is 26 00:01:44.599 --> 00:01:48.719 now everybody. So yeah, very good? All right, before we get 27 00:01:48.760 --> 00:01:51.480 into this mess, let's talk about what we do here and explain ourselves. 28 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:53.879 Each weekday, I Jeff Grubb, will help peace your gaming life back together. 29 00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:59.000 That includes breaking news, the Ketchup, where we discuss the biggest topics 30 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:01.319 consuming the lives of game everywhere, and maybe even bring some of our own 31 00:02:01.359 --> 00:02:05.799 original reporting. I'm halting the show right now, Jan I'm just gonna do 32 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:07.840 one right now. You want me just do one right now? Oh? 33 00:02:07.920 --> 00:02:10.639 Whoa yeah. Lets, it's not even on the rundown. It's because it's 34 00:02:10.639 --> 00:02:15.719 so this one's so stupid. They're making they're making a Killer Clowns from outer 35 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:19.840 Space game. There you go, everybody, Yep, where there you go? 36 00:02:20.439 --> 00:02:23.680 All right, everyone, you're welcome. You're welcome. I go do 37 00:02:23.759 --> 00:02:28.560 with that information what you will. There you go enjoy your life. Yeah, 38 00:02:28.639 --> 00:02:30.520 yes, it's a it's an asynchronous like one of those as we're gonna 39 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:35.319 shore games. I think three players plays the clowns and then like seven people 40 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:38.479 plays like people running from the clowns. We'll see it soon. We'll see 41 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:42.639 it eventually, and then the next month or next month and a half or 42 00:02:42.639 --> 00:02:47.280 so, we'll see it. Okay, why, Hey, I don't listen 43 00:02:47.360 --> 00:02:52.680 and this is It's like, I'm pretty sure this is real. It's rumored, 44 00:02:52.680 --> 00:02:53.919 it might maybe doesn't end up happening, but I'm pretty sure this is. 45 00:02:53.960 --> 00:02:58.240 This is real. So up, And to answer your question, why 46 00:02:59.280 --> 00:03:02.039 I don't know, I think Okay, I'd say I think at a certain 47 00:03:02.039 --> 00:03:06.080 point, you just gotta look at the IP beIN and you gotta pull something 48 00:03:06.120 --> 00:03:09.080 out, and sometimes you pull out kill our Clowns from outer Space? All 49 00:03:09.199 --> 00:03:12.560 right, for all these topics. I'll get the input of a bona fide 50 00:03:12.599 --> 00:03:15.879 expert whoill join me to make me look smart. If you are watching live 51 00:03:15.960 --> 00:03:19.439 on Twitch, welcome, Hello Twitch. You can always listen to the show 52 00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:23.120 later on podcast feeds by searching for Game Best Mornings, or find the RSS 53 00:03:23.199 --> 00:03:25.479 on giant bomb dot com. You can also catch the show later with chapters 54 00:03:25.479 --> 00:03:30.960 and timestamps on YouTube. Hello YouTube. Okay, we have a lot to 55 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:35.319 get into, so let's start the morning Mess with ten cents seeks to raise 56 00:03:35.439 --> 00:03:39.599 its steak and Assassin's creed maker ubisoff and become the single largest shareholder. This 57 00:03:39.680 --> 00:03:44.560 comes from Reuters. I said it right this time, jam I got it. 58 00:03:45.159 --> 00:03:50.400 Actually say it always pronounced its Yeah, I've pronounced it Routers. Actually 59 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:52.800 I know it's Routers. I know. I listen to NPR. Everybody I 60 00:03:52.800 --> 00:03:55.800 can know when they like this comes from Routers, but it's up. But 61 00:03:57.400 --> 00:04:00.400 yeah, it's I think it's Routers. Yeah what Routers are? Yeah? 62 00:04:00.599 --> 00:04:06.039 Okay, who knows. China's largest social networking gaming firm, which bought a 63 00:04:06.319 --> 00:04:10.919 five percent stake in Ubisoft in twenty eighteen, has reached out to the French 64 00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:15.240 firm's founding Guilmote family and express interest and increasing its steak in the firm. 65 00:04:15.319 --> 00:04:19.240 The sources said it's not clear how much more ten Cent plans to own an 66 00:04:19.319 --> 00:04:23.959 Ubisoft, which is valued at five point three billion dollars, but ten Cent 67 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:28.480 aims to become the single largest shareholder of the French company with an additional steak 68 00:04:28.519 --> 00:04:31.480 purchase. Two of the sources said ten Cent plans to buy a part of 69 00:04:31.519 --> 00:04:35.199 the additional steak in Ubisoft, the maker of Blockbuster Assassins Creed video games, 70 00:04:35.199 --> 00:04:40.720 from the Guillmau family, which owns fifteen percent of the firm. Three sources 71 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:46.759 also said ten Cent could offer up to one hundred euros per share to acquire 72 00:04:46.759 --> 00:04:50.959 the additional steak. Two of the sources said that is a pretty extreme premium 73 00:04:51.399 --> 00:04:56.480 right now. I think there's the share prices at forty four euros and one 74 00:04:56.519 --> 00:04:59.759 hundred is like pretty close to its top price ever of one hundred and eight 75 00:04:59.800 --> 00:05:02.879 year, which it hate hit in twenty eighteen. So yeah, I think 76 00:05:03.120 --> 00:05:06.920 Tencent sees a chance to kind of come in and become the bigest shareholder and 77 00:05:06.959 --> 00:05:13.839 basically become the controlling interest in you be soft. I don't know, I 78 00:05:13.920 --> 00:05:17.720 kind of I think this is probably gonna end up happening U. The Gimmo 79 00:05:17.839 --> 00:05:21.759 family. Uh, there's Yves and his brother and his son. His brother 80 00:05:21.800 --> 00:05:25.959 and his son I think have recently like left that company, left the publisher. 81 00:05:26.199 --> 00:05:29.439 It's kind of just Yves on his own, although I'm sure those the 82 00:05:29.480 --> 00:05:32.439 family interests still has a lot of those shares and whatever. Uh. Still 83 00:05:32.439 --> 00:05:35.959 though, I think that they might be sick of trying to figure out you 84 00:05:36.079 --> 00:05:40.360 be soft. For a long time, it was let's try to fight off 85 00:05:40.759 --> 00:05:43.079 Vivendi's trying to come in and take us over. We're going to fight them 86 00:05:43.079 --> 00:05:45.800 off, and now we're free and clear to figure out our future. And 87 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:48.279 then they immediately stepped on like seven rakes and now here like in terms of, 88 00:05:49.079 --> 00:05:53.759 you know, having a terrible culture, a toxic workplace environment, and 89 00:05:53.800 --> 00:05:58.199 then also putting out game after game that is a sort of listless and seems 90 00:05:58.199 --> 00:06:01.079 like they're just drifting. Do you think that the Yves can most just gonna 91 00:06:01.079 --> 00:06:03.600 pull the parachute now and hop out let Tens and give him a bunch of 92 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:06.680 money. He loves Mario and Rabbits too much. I don't think he'd do 93 00:06:06.720 --> 00:06:10.600 it. Yeah, that could be something that would keep me tied to it 94 00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:15.399 down right, Yeah, yeah, I unless more stuff about the culture of 95 00:06:15.399 --> 00:06:21.600 the company gets out and that is just more incriminating information. I don't see 96 00:06:21.639 --> 00:06:27.319 him immediately pulling out just giving it all to Daddy ten Cent, But I 97 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:31.199 feel like it actually is a possibility, depending on how the maybe let's say, 98 00:06:31.240 --> 00:06:34.639 like the rest of the year for Ubisoft goes, because what even is 99 00:06:34.680 --> 00:06:39.759 the rest of the year for them other than Marion Rabbits too, Marion Rabbits 100 00:06:39.759 --> 00:06:43.160 too, And then I think they're gonna have like that next assessment's creed sometime 101 00:06:43.319 --> 00:06:46.680 early next year maybe or maybe late next year, but that seems pretty far 102 00:06:46.759 --> 00:06:49.519 out, so that's not that's not later this calendar year. They don't have 103 00:06:49.560 --> 00:06:54.360 a ton yeah, so, I mean that's right, They've not see if 104 00:06:54.399 --> 00:06:56.879 Thieves. What's the other one, Skull and Bones that's coming out this year, 105 00:06:56.959 --> 00:06:59.480 right, yeah, there you go, sure, sure, okay, 106 00:06:59.560 --> 00:07:02.480 yeah, yeah, that's coming out. That's coming out. I mean unless 107 00:07:02.480 --> 00:07:08.040 they make another random Tom Clancy game that's like a four V or like a 108 00:07:08.040 --> 00:07:11.199 PV shooter or whatever, like, uh, what was that one that came 109 00:07:11.199 --> 00:07:15.800 out Quarantine? Yeah, right, uh based I think I was called Quarantine 110 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:18.079 and I got renamed right. Uh yeah, I remember now and people some 111 00:07:18.120 --> 00:07:21.759 people like that game. Uh most people, I think just forgot it existed, 112 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:27.040 like we are doing right here, right now, exactly. Wow. 113 00:07:27.120 --> 00:07:30.319 Jumping from five percent ownership in the company. I was just quickly trying to 114 00:07:30.319 --> 00:07:34.279 look up who else ten Cent is invested in, and it's everybody. It's 115 00:07:34.360 --> 00:07:41.720 everybody, it's everybody. It's on this list. What it's that. That's 116 00:07:41.720 --> 00:07:46.360 scene from True Romance. It's Gary Olman going everyone, Yeah, there you 117 00:07:46.399 --> 00:07:51.000 go. So ten Cent, this is their strategy. This would not change. 118 00:07:51.040 --> 00:07:54.680 I think the DNA of how you'd be soft approach is making games. 119 00:07:54.720 --> 00:07:57.879 For the most part, Ubisoft is gonna have to kind of continue to be 120 00:07:58.319 --> 00:08:01.680 you'd be soft for this to make sense. But that's fine with Tencent Tencent. 121 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:05.040 Actually, people are always worried like Tencent's going to come in and change 122 00:08:05.079 --> 00:08:07.279 the culture, and maybe they do that if they acquire you wholesale, But 123 00:08:07.319 --> 00:08:11.720 even in those cases, we haven't seen that. The Chinese business strategy of 124 00:08:11.759 --> 00:08:16.639 investment mostly involves making a lot of investments, as we can see with ten 125 00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:20.199 Cent coming up in the news with these purchases constantly, and then standing back 126 00:08:20.279 --> 00:08:24.879 and just kind of waiting and waiting and not getting too involved, not being 127 00:08:24.920 --> 00:08:28.680 two hands on. So and if that gives you know, I think they 128 00:08:28.720 --> 00:08:33.360 would probably give a clear access strategy to you know and just say, hey, 129 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:35.759 are we are going to you know, back out and the this new 130 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:39.799 board of directors, So this newly formed you know, board of directors or 131 00:08:39.799 --> 00:08:43.240 whatever can come in and decide a new CEO or something. But I don't 132 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:46.360 know, it's not it's not going to fundamentally change what to expect from you 133 00:08:46.399 --> 00:08:50.799 yourself anytime soon. No, no, but it definitely gives the people up 134 00:08:50.879 --> 00:08:58.000 top an easy parachute out now, which is kind of infuriating because of just 135 00:08:58.080 --> 00:09:01.840 I'd rather they just own up to right great to get them out. It's 136 00:09:01.840 --> 00:09:05.799 like they are getting this like double what their their shares are worth right now, 137 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:11.519 and there's there's no clear path forward for them to grow from from forty 138 00:09:11.559 --> 00:09:16.440 four euro a share to one hundred euro share to like actually make that makes 139 00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:22.360 sense other than this is the easiest way for ten cents to get control. 140 00:09:22.799 --> 00:09:26.240 But by like, you know, they want to have the control interest uh, 141 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:30.120 because you know that, I think that also gives them the pathway to 142 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:31.919 uh, like I said, they don't want to control like the day to 143 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:35.240 day decisions, but I think they do want to own more and more ubi 144 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:37.519 Soft all the time. And if they get Gimo out of the way, 145 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:41.879 makes it very easier for them to acquire more and more shares and have more 146 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:45.000 and more of ub Soft. Uh. And you know, maybe, you 147 00:09:45.000 --> 00:09:48.480 know, maybe there's a long term play here where if they like are looking 148 00:09:48.559 --> 00:09:54.679 for uh the ten cents making that like handheld cloud streaming thing with Logitech, 149 00:09:54.000 --> 00:09:58.320 if they are looking to have exclusive content for that stuff, And I mean 150 00:09:58.360 --> 00:10:01.000 maybe it goes that way. I just don't know how interested attentions that it 151 00:10:01.039 --> 00:10:05.759 is and in locking down content that it acquires from other studios onto platforms away 152 00:10:05.799 --> 00:10:11.480 from the audiences that have normally engaged with Ubisoft games. So yeah, uh, 153 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:16.320 let's see tactics. Ogre Reborn has finally been announced. We made it 154 00:10:16.360 --> 00:10:22.679 happen, everybody, after a million, a million leagues, this thing has 155 00:10:22.840 --> 00:10:26.039 finally seen the light of day. Let's go just I'll play this trailer while 156 00:10:26.080 --> 00:10:30.519 we read a little bit of details. This is based on the twenty ten 157 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:33.600 release. The game features improved graphics and sound, as well as updated game 158 00:10:33.639 --> 00:10:39.919 design bring into life a new Tactics Tactics Ogre that remains true to its roots. 159 00:10:39.279 --> 00:10:43.879 It's actually rots U Tactics Ogre. Veterans will experience a game that surpasses 160 00:10:43.919 --> 00:10:48.559 their fondest memories, while players new to Tenas Ogre will discover a game unlike 161 00:10:48.600 --> 00:10:54.000 any they've ever played. Reborn and deeper than ever. The game enables players 162 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:56.919 to immerse themselves in the world and intrigue and intrigue of at Tactics Ogre like 163 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:01.919 never before. So, yeah, here it is. It's it's coming. 164 00:11:01.039 --> 00:11:05.120 It's coming to Switch PlayStation and Steam, not coming to Xbox, but it 165 00:11:05.200 --> 00:11:09.639 is coming to PS four and PS five, And I don't I'm not too 166 00:11:09.639 --> 00:11:11.960 surprised by that. This. I think it looks great. It looks pretty 167 00:11:11.960 --> 00:11:15.480 good. It's got a little you know, it's got a little bit of 168 00:11:15.519 --> 00:11:20.399 that like super eagle like smushing together the pixels look that you get in an 169 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:22.600 emulator every once every once in a while. How do you feel about that? 170 00:11:22.879 --> 00:11:28.080 Totally? Yeah, it does look a little smooth, like uh, 171 00:11:28.679 --> 00:11:35.919 someone ran this through like a face tuneap in certain bits, and the portraits 172 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:41.960 kind of look also crunched, but there's still high res either way. I 173 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:46.720 am super jazzed because if this is coming, this means I might final I 174 00:11:46.799 --> 00:11:52.120 might finally get FT and f T A H. And also it was I, 175 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:56.240 you know, I always like the Tactics over series. I always felt 176 00:11:56.240 --> 00:11:58.679 like it was a little bit more adult than what I was ready for a 177 00:12:00.120 --> 00:12:03.559 child, right, and now as like a thirty year old, and I'm 178 00:12:03.559 --> 00:12:05.879 over the hill now because grown manything. I'm a grown man. I could 179 00:12:05.879 --> 00:12:11.639 play the Grown Tactics. I uh yeah, this is another one from that 180 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:13.000 list, the video list, right, the Tactics over Reborn. I mean, 181 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:16.480 obviously we knew this is coming after all these leaks, but it's like, 182 00:12:16.519 --> 00:12:18.960 okay, here it is, and now that it's coming out, and 183 00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:22.440 like, once we get past, it's all right, what's next on that 184 00:12:22.440 --> 00:12:26.279 list that we're gonna get in? Final Final Fantasy Tactics remake is what it's 185 00:12:26.320 --> 00:12:28.720 called. It's what they're saying. So what does that look like? Final 186 00:12:28.720 --> 00:12:31.559 Fantasy nine remake? What is that? Every time I bring up Final Fantasy 187 00:12:31.600 --> 00:12:33.720 nine and remake, I get yelled because I'm like, well, maybe it'll 188 00:12:33.720 --> 00:12:37.360 be like a the remaster like they do with seven eight. They've already done 189 00:12:37.360 --> 00:12:41.559 that with nine, of course, so maybe that maybe they are doing something 190 00:12:41.679 --> 00:12:45.120 more an extra I mean that's what the invidio leak says, and the InVideo 191 00:12:45.159 --> 00:12:48.000 Leakue has had so many games that have now we've now seen the light of 192 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:52.320 day. So yeah, it's it's hopeful. But tactics over Reborn, I'm 193 00:12:52.320 --> 00:12:58.080 excited, except I just it does look like one of those things just kind 194 00:12:58.080 --> 00:13:01.919 of remostly run through filters, and that's a little disappointing to me. But 195 00:13:01.519 --> 00:13:05.879 whatever, I kind of I'm actually kind of there for the game of the 196 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:11.200 gameplay and the tactics itself, and hopefully hopefully Reborn just means like, you 197 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:13.279 know that it has a good pace. You can get right into it, 198 00:13:13.360 --> 00:13:16.039 and they delivertally quickly and stuff like that, and you can like skip things 199 00:13:16.080 --> 00:13:18.399 when you want to, I hope. So from what I remember from the 200 00:13:18.399 --> 00:13:22.159 twenty ten game that this is a remaster of, there was a lot of 201 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:26.600 grinding, right, Yeah, I supposedly took care of but you know, 202 00:13:26.720 --> 00:13:30.679 like I feel like that's part for the course. But maybe they've just streamlined 203 00:13:30.720 --> 00:13:33.720 some aspects, Yes, exactly, and that's probably what they've done here. 204 00:13:33.759 --> 00:13:37.080 I think that's what they're implying by saying it's like the reborn. So we'll 205 00:13:37.080 --> 00:13:39.320 see, we'll get a chance to get our hands on it and we'll figure 206 00:13:39.320 --> 00:13:46.720 it out for ourselves. Okay, uh Cock Media, Cokemedia, let's see 207 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:52.759 the media is uh now, it's now play On. It's the new name. 208 00:13:52.840 --> 00:13:56.240 Now that's spelled p L A I O. N Uh. Let's just 209 00:13:56.240 --> 00:14:01.559 get into it. This comes from Mike Manadi at games Be Cotch Media is 210 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:03.279 actually how I think you're supposed to say it, but you're supposed to say 211 00:14:03.279 --> 00:14:09.279 it with a German accent, so it's Cotch. Cotch Media announced today that 212 00:14:09.320 --> 00:14:11.879 it is changing its name. You just yell, that's jets. How you 213 00:14:11.879 --> 00:14:16.279 do Germax, It's just yeah, just yell. It's name to play On, 214 00:14:16.600 --> 00:14:20.759 which is pronounced to play on. The German Austrian media company started in 215 00:14:20.799 --> 00:14:24.919 nineteen ninety four. It's it owns gaming studios like Santrow publisher Deep Silver. 216 00:14:26.360 --> 00:14:30.799 It became a subsidiary of Embracer Group in twenty eighteen. But why the change 217 00:14:31.600 --> 00:14:35.879 Play On? Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing Frank Webber told games Beat 218 00:14:35.919 --> 00:14:39.039 that it's been brewing for a while. The more international, the more global 219 00:14:39.080 --> 00:14:41.960 we got as a company, the more clear it was from a pure phonetic 220 00:14:43.039 --> 00:14:48.840 point of view, that our name wasn't ideal internationally lard, which many people 221 00:14:48.879 --> 00:14:54.399 are recalling this copy. We don't want to be a cock. We were 222 00:14:54.519 --> 00:14:58.320 changing drastically as a company. We grew rapidly. Today we're producing our own 223 00:14:58.320 --> 00:15:01.600 content much more, which is something we and done initially. At the same 224 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:03.919 time, we have a lot of partners and a lot of let's say, 225 00:15:03.960 --> 00:15:07.120 people who deliver content to us. We help them bring that to market, 226 00:15:07.159 --> 00:15:09.679 bring them to players. This is such a big change that we felt it's 227 00:15:09.080 --> 00:15:13.440 it's now really time to change also the name and to become more what we 228 00:15:13.480 --> 00:15:20.480 are from a branding and naming perspective. Uh and it's like uh like even 229 00:15:20.320 --> 00:15:24.360 honest, they said internally, even honestly, sometimes in internal conversations negotiations, 230 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:28.120 we pronounced that cotch media, even though we know it should be more like 231 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:31.519 coch. Okay, wow, okay, so it's not even conch. It's 232 00:15:31.679 --> 00:15:39.039 cock. I can't I'm not it's called in German. Uh yeah, you 233 00:15:39.080 --> 00:15:43.360 want to try and wait wait wait wait wait wait okay, this word to 234 00:15:43.399 --> 00:15:46.679 me, ok a U g H was supposed to be the phonetic right, 235 00:15:46.799 --> 00:15:50.240 yeah, why now I just want to say, like laugh. So it's 236 00:15:50.279 --> 00:15:58.720 like calf calf calf media media. There are so many ways you can say 237 00:15:58.759 --> 00:16:03.039 this name. Even we use kanch as a name. So play on is 238 00:16:03.120 --> 00:16:07.240 much easier going forward that this all. They also know this was not mandated 239 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:11.519 by Embracer group. Embracer groups just like no, we love our cock. 240 00:16:11.200 --> 00:16:19.559 I'm sorry everybody. I bet you that a portion of the media team would 241 00:16:19.559 --> 00:16:22.519 go to a bar and then the bartender would be like, there's those cock 242 00:16:22.600 --> 00:16:30.879 bullets walk in here. Yeah, all right, let's serve up these cocks. 243 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:34.559 All right, Okay. NKA reports there will be no new Nintendo hardware 244 00:16:34.600 --> 00:16:40.840 this fiscal year, excerpted by Takashi Mochizuki on Twitter. Shout out to Tammy 245 00:16:40.840 --> 00:16:44.919 picked this out of Nika. There will be no new Nintendo hardware this fiscal 246 00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:48.440 year, which ends in March twenty twenty three. He said it's not immediately 247 00:16:48.440 --> 00:16:51.519 clear whether that part of the articles from Nick's own reporting or when. Nintendo 248 00:16:51.559 --> 00:16:57.399 president, who NIKA interviewed for the story, said the story is a paygated 249 00:16:57.559 --> 00:17:00.000 and I was I was trying to check in on it, but basically this 250 00:17:00.039 --> 00:17:03.720 is like what everyone is kind of saying we've been able to read it that 251 00:17:03.799 --> 00:17:07.640 it's not clear, but that's what the NK is reporting. It also lines 252 00:17:07.759 --> 00:17:11.359 up, I think, mostly with what I expected. I wouldn't be surprised 253 00:17:11.359 --> 00:17:15.599 if they were like planning like another revision for this year, but they were 254 00:17:15.640 --> 00:17:22.559 probably never going to launch a switch to or switch pro before March. Are 255 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:26.200 you where are you at with like needing a switch to or switch pro? 256 00:17:26.599 --> 00:17:30.799 Jan Uh? The only reason I feel like I would need a switch to 257 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:33.160 or a switch pro is that I would just like to play first party Nintendo 258 00:17:33.240 --> 00:17:38.279 games better, Like I'm loving Zeno Blade Chronicles three, but there's a part 259 00:17:38.319 --> 00:17:42.400 of me that's like, this could look better somewhere else, This could be 260 00:17:42.680 --> 00:17:47.079 this could play a little smooth or somewhere else. And I can't change any 261 00:17:47.119 --> 00:17:52.599 graphical options to get to make this more like butter and that's that's all I 262 00:17:52.680 --> 00:17:56.440 want. But if Nintendo suddenly decided to pull a Sony and just put some 263 00:17:56.480 --> 00:18:02.240 of their games on PC, which I guess a couple of games have gone, 264 00:18:02.640 --> 00:18:06.960 I guess they weren't the first party like Monster Hunter, like Monster is 265 00:18:06.960 --> 00:18:10.200 astrol Chain on PC, I don't know if it is Monster Hunter, Rise 266 00:18:10.400 --> 00:18:12.839 is like obviously not like you said, not first first party, but that's 267 00:18:12.880 --> 00:18:17.640 like a big switch game that now you can play it on PC and just 268 00:18:17.680 --> 00:18:19.759 see the difference the world of difference whether you're playing on the Steam Deck or 269 00:18:19.799 --> 00:18:23.480 like a really powerful PC, it's a pretty big difference. But yeah, 270 00:18:23.559 --> 00:18:26.559 like it'd be nice if we could just kind of like this Switch is old. 271 00:18:26.599 --> 00:18:29.519 I mean, there's no way around it. It's it's old, and 272 00:18:29.519 --> 00:18:30.880 it's older when it launched a little bit, and now it's like even it's 273 00:18:30.960 --> 00:18:36.519 much older now now they were five five and a half years later that said 274 00:18:36.759 --> 00:18:38.680 they are expecting to like and they said this in their earning support earlier this 275 00:18:38.680 --> 00:18:41.519 week. We talked about it on the show. They're expecting to sell twenty 276 00:18:41.559 --> 00:18:48.000 one million switches switch units this year, and that's like that that almost feels 277 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:51.599 like they're going to do that if like supply chain issues aren't an issue, 278 00:18:51.599 --> 00:18:55.200 which they have been especially in this last quarter, was it was especially bad 279 00:18:55.240 --> 00:18:59.319 in this last quarter for them. Chances are they might even sell more than 280 00:18:59.359 --> 00:19:03.519 that if they get enough units into the supply chain. So it's kind of 281 00:19:03.519 --> 00:19:08.440 it's was very unlikely they were going to displace that or disrupt that with something 282 00:19:08.480 --> 00:19:12.480 else. So yeah, that begs the question, like, when are you 283 00:19:12.480 --> 00:19:18.319 expecting the next switch hardware? God, I'm I'm thinking about like the the 284 00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:22.359 casual folks that are picking up a switch just for animal crossing and animal crossing 285 00:19:22.400 --> 00:19:27.640 looks and runs fine, ring fit runs fine, looks fine, Smash runs 286 00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:32.000 fine, looks fine. Mario. Honestly Mario kard eight deluxe games that you 287 00:19:32.000 --> 00:19:37.839 would not notice any performance issues with. Yeah, Yeah, Like there their 288 00:19:37.880 --> 00:19:41.880 tent poles stuff. I feel like you don't feel the effects of as much 289 00:19:41.000 --> 00:19:45.160 because you know they're utilizing the tools properly. I feel like maybe Split tun 290 00:19:45.279 --> 00:19:49.319 three might be one of the first games to challenge that, right, maybe 291 00:19:49.319 --> 00:19:52.920 it's right there on that on that bubble of them, like maybe having ambitions 292 00:19:52.920 --> 00:19:55.599 that go a little bit above me on with the switch can handle. Yeah, 293 00:19:55.839 --> 00:20:00.759 So honestly, I don't really see one until the Airy late last year 294 00:20:00.960 --> 00:20:04.559 or twenty four, honestly, Like, I feel like they're going to keep 295 00:20:04.559 --> 00:20:07.920 pushing it until the wheels fall off, and then after the wheels fall off, 296 00:20:08.319 --> 00:20:12.640 they're just gonna drag it for like as long as they can. Yeah, 297 00:20:12.839 --> 00:20:15.440 I think it's pretty hard to nail this down. I think specifically, 298 00:20:15.480 --> 00:20:21.400 because I bet it's pretty fluid inside and Nintendo know I say, there was 299 00:20:21.400 --> 00:20:22.359 no way they were going to launch it this year. I bet there was 300 00:20:22.440 --> 00:20:26.640 like a plan some time ago, like yeah, we could maybe launch something 301 00:20:26.279 --> 00:20:30.319 by March of twenty twenty three. Like I bet that there was like a 302 00:20:30.480 --> 00:20:33.519 scrapped plan on the floor, And now they're like, well, with supply 303 00:20:33.599 --> 00:20:37.480 issues and with the system continue to sell so well, that doesn't make sense. 304 00:20:37.640 --> 00:20:41.400 But that changes over time, and I bet they're still trying to nail 305 00:20:41.440 --> 00:20:44.440 down exactly what that looks like. When every time we bring this up, 306 00:20:44.480 --> 00:20:45.799 it's like, I bet they are also trying to figure out, like how 307 00:20:45.799 --> 00:20:49.759 to pull off a transition like this where they are likely going to want to 308 00:20:49.799 --> 00:20:55.039 maintain maintain as much momentum as possible, which is not something they've really done 309 00:20:55.119 --> 00:20:59.559 much before, except for maybe with Game Boy Color and like then the revisions 310 00:20:59.559 --> 00:21:02.480 to the DS and the three DS and things like that. It's like, 311 00:21:02.799 --> 00:21:07.240 so do they try to Is that why a switch pro is maybe still in 312 00:21:07.279 --> 00:21:11.559 the cards because they're gonna like maybe treat it as a maybe effectively it is 313 00:21:11.599 --> 00:21:14.559 a switch to, but they want to treat it as a successor to the 314 00:21:14.640 --> 00:21:17.200 same platform, so they can make people feel like, well, hey, 315 00:21:17.240 --> 00:21:18.799 all your game's gonna keep working, keep buying games the same way you have 316 00:21:18.839 --> 00:21:22.880 been, because that's really the fuel that powers this entire juggernaut is how many 317 00:21:22.920 --> 00:21:30.920 games everyone is buying. So we'll see Valve is expanding steam Deck sales to 318 00:21:30.000 --> 00:21:34.480 Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Valve has announced that 319 00:21:34.480 --> 00:21:38.200 it's opening up steam Deck reservations for customers in Japan and South Korea, Hong 320 00:21:38.240 --> 00:21:41.079 Kong, and Taiwan. Seam Deck will begin shipping by the end of the 321 00:21:41.200 --> 00:21:47.319 year in these regions. This is possible because Valve said it has increased production. 322 00:21:47.759 --> 00:21:51.319 It also noted that the reservation queue for the new regions will not impact 323 00:21:51.359 --> 00:21:55.759 delivery estimates for the current reservation process in North America, Europe and the UK. 324 00:21:56.759 --> 00:22:00.480 Jan to me, this continues like to say, they are really ramping 325 00:22:00.559 --> 00:22:04.000 up production. This thing has been very successful. It's probably one of the 326 00:22:04.000 --> 00:22:07.960 best selling gaming computers of all time. Here coming up pretty soon. I 327 00:22:07.960 --> 00:22:12.119 would I would imagine like you'd like just talking about like a gaming computer in 328 00:22:12.240 --> 00:22:17.440 terms of a product, those things you know, maybe a good one sells 329 00:22:17.480 --> 00:22:19.359 five hundred thousand units because they're you you have a million options, right, 330 00:22:19.599 --> 00:22:23.240 because things are probably gonna get there pretty soon. Right. Honestly, I 331 00:22:23.720 --> 00:22:27.039 was walking through a Costco last night and then I was just looking at all 332 00:22:27.039 --> 00:22:30.000 these gaming PC's, and then I was thinking, like, you know, 333 00:22:30.119 --> 00:22:36.839 a lot of my friends are PC illiterate and would not know what to do 334 00:22:37.079 --> 00:22:41.400 once, like, uh, not know what to do with like anything uh 335 00:22:41.559 --> 00:22:45.559 PC like maintenance wise related. I feel like as soon as like something like 336 00:22:45.559 --> 00:22:49.599 a steam Deck becomes readily available at like a Costco, that stuff is gonna 337 00:22:49.640 --> 00:22:53.880 shipping busters. I think it's I think it's in best Buy at the very 338 00:22:53.960 --> 00:22:57.400 least by the end of this year. I think it's get it's holiday. 339 00:22:57.440 --> 00:23:00.680 I think they get in the best Buy. I don't know if it'll be 340 00:23:00.680 --> 00:23:03.519 in every store, but I think they're going to partner with like one retailer. 341 00:23:03.519 --> 00:23:04.680 I think best Bike does make the most sense. I think when people 342 00:23:04.720 --> 00:23:08.480 think about going to buy like a meta in Oculus Facebook meta quest thing where 343 00:23:08.480 --> 00:23:11.759 where it is, I think they're like, oh, I'll just go they 344 00:23:11.759 --> 00:23:12.640 have those a best Buy, right. I think they're gonna do the same 345 00:23:12.680 --> 00:23:15.160 thing with the steam Deck, And yeah, I think it's gonna work. 346 00:23:15.839 --> 00:23:21.039 Yeah. Yeah, I mean like seeing so many folks during the holidays last 347 00:23:21.079 --> 00:23:25.720 year pick up an Oculus at like a best Buy, you're right, or 348 00:23:25.759 --> 00:23:29.440 like other big box retailers, and just it being an easy purchase to do 349 00:23:29.519 --> 00:23:32.440 there. I could see the same thing for the Steam Deck as soon as 350 00:23:32.480 --> 00:23:37.319 it's readily available everywhere. And I'm interested to see what this has, how 351 00:23:37.359 --> 00:23:41.359 this influences, like the Asian markets because of like you know, the switch 352 00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:45.000 being so prevalent over there, right, but like free to play PC gaming 353 00:23:45.079 --> 00:23:48.200 is also pretty big, and a lot of those markets, I mean South 354 00:23:48.279 --> 00:23:52.079 Korea, this could be huge there. If there's like a certain kinds of 355 00:23:52.319 --> 00:23:55.559 free to play PC games that make a lot of sense on Steam Deck, 356 00:23:55.640 --> 00:23:57.680 Yeah, that could really work. Yeah. And if this makes more games 357 00:23:57.720 --> 00:24:03.039 Deck compatible from the get go, or like increases motivation to make Deck compatible 358 00:24:03.079 --> 00:24:07.519 games, then hell yeah. I think we're at a point where we just 359 00:24:07.519 --> 00:24:11.880 saw we could talk about this right now. Spider Man is Deck verified. 360 00:24:11.440 --> 00:24:15.920 Insomniac Gams Games just confirmed this. Uh yes, yeah, yesterday, yeah, 361 00:24:17.000 --> 00:24:21.039 yesterday on Twitter. Uh I was you know, I wasn't sure about 362 00:24:21.079 --> 00:24:22.640 this because they hadn't said anything up to this point. Like they haven't confirmed 363 00:24:22.640 --> 00:24:25.240 anything. It was like, you know, whatever, when it comes out, 364 00:24:25.279 --> 00:24:26.799 I'll try to play it. But they had not mentioned that. And 365 00:24:26.880 --> 00:24:32.480 there was another game that's coming, Oh they haven't announced that. Returnal inside 366 00:24:32.480 --> 00:24:33.480 of like the thing that people are able to like on the Steam database. 367 00:24:33.480 --> 00:24:36.960 They were saying, Oh, it's getting steam Deck like verified and stuff in 368 00:24:37.039 --> 00:24:41.000 there. Right, Yeah, this is time to go back to Eternal Jan 369 00:24:41.519 --> 00:24:45.200 I don't need to play that game again. But I don't want to play 370 00:24:45.240 --> 00:24:48.799 that game again. What if the mouse and keyboard though that to me, 371 00:24:48.319 --> 00:24:53.079 it's so tasty, that sounds so good. But Marvel Spider Man Remastered is 372 00:24:53.119 --> 00:24:57.000 also steam Deck verified now, and it's like, I think that when you 373 00:24:57.039 --> 00:25:03.319 get big developer from a company like PlayStation making announcements that steam Deck like you 374 00:25:03.359 --> 00:25:07.319 are making the efforts and make it Steamed verified. It's not just an afterthought. 375 00:25:07.400 --> 00:25:08.559 This is something that is happening before the game is out. You want 376 00:25:08.559 --> 00:25:11.279 to make sure it's man, it's got you know, it's got twenty one 377 00:25:11.319 --> 00:25:18.599 thousand likes. Clearly, the steam Deck has become this marketing lightning rod if 378 00:25:18.640 --> 00:25:23.359 nothing else. And I think that's because I was likely sharing the numbers saying 379 00:25:23.359 --> 00:25:26.119 people who get a Steam deck by a lot of games, and I totally 380 00:25:26.160 --> 00:25:30.279 I think that's happening. Totally. It might the fucking number of sorry for 381 00:25:30.319 --> 00:25:33.240 cussing, we can cuss on the show. How many times do we say 382 00:25:33.240 --> 00:25:40.519 cock media? Right? Come on, excuse me, Jeff, it's media, 383 00:25:40.680 --> 00:25:44.359 same thing. Yeah, the number of games I've bought on Steam since 384 00:25:44.480 --> 00:25:48.599 getting of the deck has just like jumped dramatically. And I like the idea 385 00:25:48.880 --> 00:25:52.319 that somewhere in Seattle Gabe just pounded his fist on his desk. Give me 386 00:25:52.359 --> 00:25:59.240 that Spider Man, get me a verification of the Spider Man making work on 387 00:25:59.279 --> 00:26:04.480 the deck all right. Lg IS has partnered with Google to offer three months 388 00:26:04.480 --> 00:26:08.480 of Stadia Pro with lgtvs is from reset Era. Yeah that's the face right 389 00:26:08.480 --> 00:26:12.599 there. Jan heads up. If you own a compatible LGTV and and are 390 00:26:12.640 --> 00:26:17.799 in a supported country. This is available to new and existing Pro subscribers, 391 00:26:17.960 --> 00:26:21.680 even though the press release states new subscribers only. If you've never signed up 392 00:26:21.720 --> 00:26:25.440 for Pro, you automatically get one month free from Google and with this stack 393 00:26:25.440 --> 00:26:26.400 you on top of that, that'll make it four months. Oh my god, 394 00:26:26.440 --> 00:26:30.599 I'm gonna sneezing on ah, Okay, now we're gonna. We're gonna. 395 00:26:32.039 --> 00:26:36.079 Man, I don't hold in your stas is everybody LG Okay, that's 396 00:26:36.160 --> 00:26:37.279 this is this is fine. I guess the reason I really put this in 397 00:26:37.319 --> 00:26:41.720 here is, uh is Steady is still making moves or do you think this 398 00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:47.279 is like a vestige of previous discussions that sort of just met their natural conclusion 399 00:26:47.319 --> 00:26:49.799 and therefore we're getting it now. Yeah. I think it's more so the 400 00:26:49.880 --> 00:26:55.400 latter that, like these conversations were already had and then now it's just a 401 00:26:55.559 --> 00:27:00.000 make good and fulfilling a uh some type of contract. Because Jesus, I 402 00:27:00.039 --> 00:27:04.640 can't imagine, and not to disparage anyone working at Stadia, I can't imagine 403 00:27:04.839 --> 00:27:10.799 a TV company trying to fill out their smart app catalog looking to go with 404 00:27:10.880 --> 00:27:15.839 Stadia versus something like game Pass or x Cloud unless Google was paying a lot 405 00:27:15.880 --> 00:27:18.440 of money. But for the everything we've heard is that Google is like no 406 00:27:18.440 --> 00:27:22.960 longer doing those kinds of deals, right, so for Stadia, Yeah, 407 00:27:23.079 --> 00:27:27.119 I suppose this is why it's so weird. We talked about this yesterday. 408 00:27:27.119 --> 00:27:30.640 I talked about this with Lucy where like you hear the stories about oh Stadius 409 00:27:30.680 --> 00:27:33.400 coming to an end, and Google comes out and says, no, it's 410 00:27:33.440 --> 00:27:36.799 not. And I think and with these stories, and this has happened when 411 00:27:36.799 --> 00:27:40.359 I've made my reporting about stuff like like roller Champions and stuff like look for 412 00:27:40.400 --> 00:27:42.759 the space where both things are true. Because this it's such a messy situation, 413 00:27:44.039 --> 00:27:47.400 and there probably are people who are actively working on these things to keep 414 00:27:47.400 --> 00:27:51.279 them going and make them make sense for the future. And Stadius probably transforming 415 00:27:51.319 --> 00:27:56.119 and not really ending, but the Stadia as we know it many and many 416 00:27:56.160 --> 00:28:00.240 of the probably the features and stuff that they promised and the features that are 417 00:28:00.319 --> 00:28:03.920 actively working right now, I'm probably gonna come to an end and quietly go 418 00:28:04.039 --> 00:28:07.799 away. But yeah, right for now, it's like, hey, if 419 00:28:07.799 --> 00:28:11.680 you still want to try the tech, I guess you have an lg TV. 420 00:28:11.119 --> 00:28:15.880 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, like, I don't know 421 00:28:15.960 --> 00:28:22.119 how much I'm clamoring for to get a cloud gaming app on my smart TV, 422 00:28:22.279 --> 00:28:26.240 But then again, I'm barely using the smart TV capabilities of my TV 423 00:28:26.480 --> 00:28:30.680 versus like it's like a set top box like an Apple TV, And shit, 424 00:28:30.920 --> 00:28:34.400 right, yeah, I got the Nvidios shielding. I'm sorry, listen, 425 00:28:34.440 --> 00:28:38.680 I fucking love it. Jan you know I do. Amazon's Luna game 426 00:28:38.759 --> 00:28:44.880 streaming service arrives on Samsung twenty two smart TVs and monitors. Jan How much 427 00:28:44.920 --> 00:28:51.440 are you into Amazon Luna. I often forget that this service exists. Yeah, 428 00:28:51.799 --> 00:28:55.200 I've covered it. I got about Amazon Luna Control around here somewhere. 429 00:28:55.200 --> 00:28:57.799 I've I've played it a few times. When I need to test something on 430 00:28:57.920 --> 00:29:02.839 the projector over there in the other room, I often end up just on 431 00:29:02.920 --> 00:29:06.799 Amazon Luna. It is. It's an interesting concept. I think it's a 432 00:29:06.839 --> 00:29:08.240 smarter concept than Stadia. What they were doing is, you know, on 433 00:29:08.359 --> 00:29:14.079 like Amazon Prime Video, you can subscribe to like channels like I subscribe to 434 00:29:14.119 --> 00:29:17.880 like Shutter through Amazon Prime and I got all these horror movies and you can 435 00:29:18.039 --> 00:29:21.759 but you can subscribe to show Time, or you could subscribe to PBS Kids 436 00:29:21.839 --> 00:29:25.759 and stuff like that. They have all these options on top of what is 437 00:29:25.759 --> 00:29:29.960 offered in Prime Video proper. Amazon Prime was doing that, or Amazon Luna 438 00:29:30.039 --> 00:29:32.880 was doing the same thing, where like there's an Amazon Luna proper. But 439 00:29:32.880 --> 00:29:36.279 then you can subscribe to the Ubisoft channel for five bucks a month and then 440 00:29:36.319 --> 00:29:38.319 you get all these ubisofts games and it made a lot of sense in terms 441 00:29:38.319 --> 00:29:41.759 of like this is probably the way to do something like this instead of what 442 00:29:41.799 --> 00:29:45.599 Stadi was doing, which was we're just gonna sell you games and we're Google, 443 00:29:45.640 --> 00:29:47.519 so you know we're gonna shut this down eventually, and it doesn't make 444 00:29:47.519 --> 00:29:52.920 any sense actually, so it's a it's a good idea, but I don't 445 00:29:53.319 --> 00:29:56.640 I mean, I just don't. Yeah, okay, I guess making it 446 00:29:56.640 --> 00:29:59.880 more available can only help, and maybe it like moves the needle one, 447 00:30:00.119 --> 00:30:03.960 one, two percent at a time. I just feel like, if you 448 00:30:03.000 --> 00:30:07.200 are Amazon, it is this is the kind of thing that has come and 449 00:30:07.240 --> 00:30:10.359 gone and almost no one ever talks about Luna, and I'm not sure these 450 00:30:10.400 --> 00:30:11.559 are the deals that are going to be answered to it. But then that 451 00:30:11.640 --> 00:30:15.839 said, it's not like this is hurting anything either, right, right, 452 00:30:15.079 --> 00:30:19.160 right, And you know, there's probably the off chance that a relapsed gamer 453 00:30:19.440 --> 00:30:25.200 is going to fire up and notice that the notification that hey, you have 454 00:30:25.279 --> 00:30:29.279 free Amazon Luna has not gone away on their TV anytime they turn it on, 455 00:30:29.440 --> 00:30:33.279 So you know they'll get oh baby's handful of folks to at least try 456 00:30:33.319 --> 00:30:37.319 it out. Yeah, the Baby's handful of people who will then connect the 457 00:30:37.400 --> 00:30:40.400 video game controller to their TV, which I still think it's like that is 458 00:30:40.400 --> 00:30:44.799 the biggest hassle. I think, like an app, but it's like I 459 00:30:44.839 --> 00:30:47.200 gotta go find a controller and like does they have a Bluetooth And how do 460 00:30:47.240 --> 00:30:49.359 I even turn Bluetooth on on my TV? And it's like that's I just 461 00:30:49.400 --> 00:30:52.880 think that comes to so many people to get off on the exit instead of 462 00:30:52.960 --> 00:31:00.359 actually sticking with it. But Baby's handful. Absolutely Resident Evils, Wesker and 463 00:31:00.400 --> 00:31:03.599 Rebecca are joining Dead by Daylight, Reside Evils, Jill Valentine, Leones, 464 00:31:03.759 --> 00:31:07.480 Kennedy, and the titular Nemesis from Reside Evil three Nemesis. We're already part 465 00:31:07.519 --> 00:31:11.119 of the cast. This comes from the cast Marshall at Polygon. By the 466 00:31:11.200 --> 00:31:15.160 way, they were adding the first Resident Evil crossover chapter, which also included 467 00:31:15.319 --> 00:31:19.319 a Raccoon City Police Department map. This chapter was successful enough to earn a 468 00:31:19.359 --> 00:31:26.640 second crossover called Project w which includes Aida Wong and Rebecca Chambers as survivors while 469 00:31:26.799 --> 00:31:30.799 Albert Wesker serves as the newest killer. I'm like, oh, okay, 470 00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:33.680 I'm just gonna be running from Albert Westker in this one. All right, 471 00:31:33.720 --> 00:31:37.880 that's fantastic. Are you gonna spend any time? And Dead Dead Byite is 472 00:31:37.920 --> 00:31:40.799 this our other Fortnite that we've missed out on, because this game is very 473 00:31:40.839 --> 00:31:45.680 popular and also has like every crossover imaginable. I mean, until John Cena 474 00:31:45.759 --> 00:31:52.640 comes into it. Maybe not John the greatest horror villain of all time. 475 00:31:52.680 --> 00:31:56.200 Absolutely just you will not stop hustle, loyalty and respect you to death. 476 00:31:56.640 --> 00:32:01.799 You just gonna five knuckles shuffle you tube. That's right, correct. I 477 00:32:01.839 --> 00:32:07.279 wish this was I wish they also gave me the option for Lance Reddick Albert 478 00:32:07.319 --> 00:32:09.599 Wesker, Sure, and he'd just be like nothing but a very polite man, 479 00:32:09.759 --> 00:32:15.200 just slowly walking towards me. I can't say that this is going to 480 00:32:15.359 --> 00:32:17.440 entice me to check out Dead by Daylight. I mean, if you weren't 481 00:32:17.440 --> 00:32:21.720 there for the other Resieval people, then probably not. But it's like Resival 482 00:32:21.720 --> 00:32:23.519 fans right, probably pretty happy about this. Eta Wong is a fan favorite. 483 00:32:23.920 --> 00:32:27.279 Yeah, there's a lot of people horny for both of those people. 484 00:32:27.519 --> 00:32:31.799 Absolutely. Absolutely, Rebecca Rebecca Chambers. I remember when Resival zero is coming 485 00:32:31.839 --> 00:32:37.960 out, a lot of talk about how Rebecca Chambers had a donkadunk mom. 486 00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:44.119 Sorry. Sorry, Multi Versus season one and Morty have been delayed. This 487 00:32:44.160 --> 00:32:47.240 comes from Chris Scully and at VGC. In a thread posted by the official 488 00:32:47.319 --> 00:32:51.960 Multi Versus Twitter account, it was announced that the planned launch of season one 489 00:32:52.440 --> 00:32:54.519 on August ninth, and with the addition of Morty from MCA Mortius, the 490 00:32:54.519 --> 00:32:59.480 next playable character, has been held back to an unconfirmed date. This is 491 00:32:59.519 --> 00:33:01.640 the quote. We want to let everyone know that we are delaying the start 492 00:33:01.680 --> 00:33:05.920 of season one and the release of Morty to a later date. We'll let 493 00:33:05.920 --> 00:33:07.880 you know the timing as soon as we can. We appreciate your patients and 494 00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:14.400 enthusiasm and look forward to unveiling season unvailing Season one very soon. It added, 495 00:33:14.640 --> 00:33:16.720 due to the season one delay, we will be extending the preseason battle 496 00:33:16.720 --> 00:33:21.640 Pass till August fifteenth, and the end date noted in game will not change, 497 00:33:21.680 --> 00:33:24.119 but the battle Pass will continue after August Sate through the fifteenth. So 498 00:33:25.720 --> 00:33:30.279 listen, this game is massive. It's so huge. It has a lot 499 00:33:30.279 --> 00:33:32.640 of momentum right now that it can withstand a couple of delays for content. 500 00:33:32.799 --> 00:33:38.240 Right. Oh yeah. I think the folks that are rapidly checking out multiverses 501 00:33:38.519 --> 00:33:44.599 are satiated with what is going on there. I feel like everything I've heard 502 00:33:44.680 --> 00:33:47.440 is that the meta is all messed up bugs. Bunny's too powerful right now, 503 00:33:49.119 --> 00:33:52.519 is what I'm hearing. Yeah, I've always said, yeah that I 504 00:33:52.519 --> 00:33:55.960 feel like this team is probably more prepared to roll out characters that even pay 505 00:33:57.039 --> 00:34:00.759 similar to Nintendo that Yo, we can wait for Morty. It still bothers 506 00:34:00.759 --> 00:34:05.319 me that Morty and Rick are not a pair together, right, Yeah, 507 00:34:05.319 --> 00:34:07.960 they do that, like Tom and Jerry are a pair, and like the 508 00:34:07.000 --> 00:34:09.800 way that they work together is pretty good. But it's like, I wonder 509 00:34:09.800 --> 00:34:13.639 if, like maybe they ran out ideas for like pairing up people, because 510 00:34:13.679 --> 00:34:15.679 they also have like the Powerpuff Girls, who I think are going to be 511 00:34:15.719 --> 00:34:19.639 a trio later and stuff, Like they're doing a lot of that kind of 512 00:34:19.679 --> 00:34:22.840 stuff that's interesting. But I mean it makes sense for Lebron because the Lebron's 513 00:34:22.840 --> 00:34:27.840 alone. Wolf doesn't need this basketball and that's his main weapon, and that's 514 00:34:27.840 --> 00:34:31.000 how it works in the game. Jean, what the fuck is a preseason 515 00:34:31.039 --> 00:34:37.480 battle pass? I don't know. I don't know. Weird combination of words 516 00:34:37.559 --> 00:34:42.239 right there. I don't like the idea of a battle pass in general. 517 00:34:42.360 --> 00:34:46.440 Even though I'm thinking about buying the Fortnite one, almost bought the Fall Guys 518 00:34:46.440 --> 00:34:50.000 one. Every week yep, I think I did buy it, absolutely. 519 00:34:50.000 --> 00:34:52.000 I think I did buy the Fall Guys one. Yeah yeah, Culver, 520 00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:54.920 I think says it in our chat. That's just the battle pass with extra 521 00:34:54.960 --> 00:35:00.159 words. I think they just really they're they're noticed thing that so many people 522 00:35:00.159 --> 00:35:05.719 are playing this game that they need to start charging some type of money, 523 00:35:06.039 --> 00:35:07.159 and it's like, hey, these people who are gonna keep playing, Yeah, 524 00:35:07.239 --> 00:35:10.239 delay season one, let's just get a battle pass going yep, get 525 00:35:10.280 --> 00:35:15.039 that BP uh. Yeah, this game, this game is out available, 526 00:35:15.079 --> 00:35:16.400 you can play it now. It's just like Season one act like we're in 527 00:35:16.440 --> 00:35:20.239 preseason content, which I think it just means it's what it launched with. 528 00:35:20.440 --> 00:35:22.320 And then Morty was always going to be like the season one launch for people 529 00:35:22.360 --> 00:35:25.679 who are like wondering, like what the specifics of all this are. But 530 00:35:27.079 --> 00:35:29.360 basically you can go play this game right now and figure it out for yourself. 531 00:35:29.400 --> 00:35:31.079 It's it's free and everyone else is playing it, so yeah, when 532 00:35:31.119 --> 00:35:34.920 you get in on the action. Maybe maybe we should we should stream this 533 00:35:34.960 --> 00:35:36.679 as a group. Yeah, we should, we should, we should have 534 00:35:36.719 --> 00:35:38.960 a multiver I'm actually doing some playing with my community this Friday, so I've 535 00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:43.079 been playing, I've been practicing a little bit. We should get together and 536 00:35:43.159 --> 00:35:45.679 have like a lobby going and play some of it. Who is who is 537 00:35:45.679 --> 00:35:47.400 the main? Who is the main? Grub? I've been trying. I 538 00:35:47.400 --> 00:35:51.400 think I've been trying to go go with Fenn. I think okay, because 539 00:35:51.639 --> 00:35:55.599 I like that he like there's various classes a lot, there's like tanks and 540 00:35:55.639 --> 00:35:59.400 stuff like that, Finness an assassin, and I'm like, I think I 541 00:35:59.440 --> 00:36:02.559 need that hour to like knock people off to make this game feel right. 542 00:36:02.599 --> 00:36:07.400 Although Shaggy as like the tutorial character pretty good as well, Like I think 543 00:36:07.400 --> 00:36:09.719 you can do good things with Shaggy. Maybe we should have a multi versus 544 00:36:09.840 --> 00:36:15.159 open sort of thing. Maybe now we have to let's let's get this going, 545 00:36:15.280 --> 00:36:17.079 Let's get this set up. This sounds like a good time. I 546 00:36:17.079 --> 00:36:22.239 would I would legit like practice for that. That would be fun. All 547 00:36:22.360 --> 00:36:24.679 right, let's get to the catch up. We're gonna talk about what everyone 548 00:36:24.679 --> 00:36:27.800 else is talking about right now, but I want to start with the just 549 00:36:27.880 --> 00:36:30.400 kind of get a little update on what people are playing on the steam deck 550 00:36:30.440 --> 00:36:34.760 over the last week to kind of people spend you know, hundreds of dollars 551 00:36:34.760 --> 00:36:37.280 on this thing that's like, oh, you can finally play Triple A games 552 00:36:37.320 --> 00:36:39.559 on the go as opposed to like the Switcher truly struggles and what are they 553 00:36:39.599 --> 00:36:45.199 playing multi versus number one, Vampire Survivors at number two and straight number three 554 00:36:45.400 --> 00:36:50.400 like but Vampire Vampire Survivors. Absolutely, it's such a good game to show 555 00:36:50.440 --> 00:36:52.719 our handheld. But it's just very funny to play this like little uh, 556 00:36:53.159 --> 00:36:58.000 this game that could run on anything basically and just like have it have it 557 00:36:58.039 --> 00:37:00.920 on your Steam Deck. After Stray, we have elden Ring, No Surprise, 558 00:37:01.159 --> 00:37:06.360 No Man's Sky very popular, and this is this is ordered by average 559 00:37:06.440 --> 00:37:10.199 daily active users according to Steam in Valve, uh No Man's Sky, then 560 00:37:10.239 --> 00:37:15.760 Hades Star Dow Valley, Grand theft Oto five Aperture Desk Job, and then 561 00:37:15.079 --> 00:37:19.800 Monster Hunter Riise is number ten. Wow, And I think Monster Hunter Rise 562 00:37:19.880 --> 00:37:22.360 technically isn't Steam Deck verified yet, right, yes, right, it's like 563 00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:25.199 it's you know the question mark ers that like not even I think it might 564 00:37:25.280 --> 00:37:30.039 be like one of that that uh between say, It's like yeah, it's 565 00:37:30.079 --> 00:37:34.360 like the yellow It's like this is my work, yes right, okay, 566 00:37:34.599 --> 00:37:37.760 right, but you can do some tweaks that game and get running pretty good. 567 00:37:37.920 --> 00:37:40.719 I know that Jason has done exactly that and spend a lot of time 568 00:37:40.719 --> 00:37:46.639 with that game on on Steam Deck, so making me regret investing. Well, 569 00:37:46.639 --> 00:37:50.679 I didn't invest as much time on the switch version as other folks have, 570 00:37:51.440 --> 00:37:53.559 but like it's twenty hours on the switch version, never gonna get back 571 00:37:54.400 --> 00:37:58.239 and you can't like transfer any of that stuff. No cross progression there. 572 00:37:58.840 --> 00:38:02.280 But my dog looks so much better on the Steam Deck, which is what's 573 00:38:02.320 --> 00:38:07.760 really important. Uh, all right, jan I put this here because I 574 00:38:07.800 --> 00:38:15.199 have some questions for you. Pokemon Scarlet and Violet's terrastal trestal phenomenon could forever 575 00:38:15.320 --> 00:38:19.599 change Pokemon hunting. This comes from Anna Diaz, a Polygon. I'm gonna 576 00:38:19.639 --> 00:38:21.760 read some of these bits, but I want to. I want to get 577 00:38:21.800 --> 00:38:25.800 your take, so I thank you. The mechanic could get the Shiny collecting 578 00:38:27.079 --> 00:38:31.280 community ablaze, or could set the Shiny collecting community ablaze. First, let's 579 00:38:31.320 --> 00:38:37.039 go over what terrestalizing is. It is the thing where Pokemon can have a 580 00:38:37.079 --> 00:38:40.039 trestallizing power. You can activate it and actually, you know, when I 581 00:38:40.119 --> 00:38:43.519 got a trailer, we can play here and just kind of show it off. 582 00:38:45.519 --> 00:38:49.199 It is something you can activate during battles to basically as far as I 583 00:38:49.280 --> 00:38:52.639 understand, change the fundamental type of a Pokemon. Some of the examples they 584 00:38:52.639 --> 00:38:58.280 showed where Pikaju change you from electric type to flying type, and evis turning 585 00:38:58.320 --> 00:39:01.239 both grass and both I'm sorry, he's turning both water and grass type to 586 00:39:01.800 --> 00:39:06.079 water and grass type after terrestrializing, and you can see like it makes you 587 00:39:06.119 --> 00:39:09.280 all shiny and diamond like in here. Just fun hats, they get fun, 588 00:39:09.599 --> 00:39:14.000 yes, fun hats like plants, some trees and flowers sticking off their 589 00:39:14.039 --> 00:39:19.119 head. Jan just based on that alone, is that an exciting twist on 590 00:39:19.159 --> 00:39:22.639 the gameplay for you? Oh? Yes, yes, this is incredibly messed 591 00:39:22.719 --> 00:39:30.239 up because I think specifically this will have an impact for one v one or 592 00:39:30.280 --> 00:39:37.039 like a single Pokemon battlers, because a lot of that game is just based 593 00:39:37.079 --> 00:39:40.079 off of like adapting to your opponent and just switching strategically switching in and out 594 00:39:40.679 --> 00:39:46.039 letting certain Pokemon take a hit. And if you can terrest allies a Pokemon 595 00:39:46.079 --> 00:39:51.480 and suddenly they are radically different type than what you're used to, that can 596 00:39:51.599 --> 00:39:54.480 mess up your whole flow. Like I know, dynamaxing had a tremendous impact 597 00:39:54.719 --> 00:40:04.920 on competitive Pokemon from the gen because suddenly priority is different for stuff like speed. 598 00:40:05.400 --> 00:40:07.960 Certain Pokemon are now more much more likely to be able to take a 599 00:40:08.039 --> 00:40:15.320 hit. I don't think they've announced how much how many turns this will last, 600 00:40:15.400 --> 00:40:20.280 or if it's the rest of the mash type of thing. And then 601 00:40:20.320 --> 00:40:25.239 other stuff like there's a move in that exists in Pokemon. It's called hidden 602 00:40:25.280 --> 00:40:31.960 power, and depending on your nature of your Pokemon, it can have a 603 00:40:32.000 --> 00:40:38.679 different elemental effect. So Pikachu could be using like a ground type hidden power. 604 00:40:38.719 --> 00:40:42.000 I don't think you can actually do that. That's just an example, 605 00:40:42.960 --> 00:40:46.119 and then folks would have to watch out for Pokemon running hidden power. I 606 00:40:46.119 --> 00:40:52.679 feel like this could so I kind of like the implications that this can have 607 00:40:52.760 --> 00:40:57.400 because you could be suddenly messed up by an evy because you were expecting it 608 00:40:57.440 --> 00:41:00.519 to roll one way but it's a different way. And I guess this adds 609 00:41:00.559 --> 00:41:07.639 just like a lot more fun complications and combinations to competitive Pokemon, because you 610 00:41:07.639 --> 00:41:10.000 can be like, yo, what is that Pikachu doing. Is that just 611 00:41:10.039 --> 00:41:14.440 like a regular Pikachu or is that going to be a flying Peakachu and mess 612 00:41:14.480 --> 00:41:17.079 my stuff up? Right? And I said, yeah, I think it's 613 00:41:17.119 --> 00:41:21.760 just like specifically, like you said, it's like the competitive community to people 614 00:41:21.760 --> 00:41:24.559 who have played the played the entire game and now we're in the end game, 615 00:41:24.599 --> 00:41:29.039 which is like, hey, I'm gonna be looking for specific pokemons to 616 00:41:29.119 --> 00:41:31.599 help build up my team for when I'm facing other players and a DS and 617 00:41:31.599 --> 00:41:35.440 are associate. You might be facing a Pokemon like Pikachu's type you've known your 618 00:41:35.559 --> 00:41:39.239 entire life with the terroristal phenomenon cast It's type into question, leaving you guessing 619 00:41:39.280 --> 00:41:43.719 if the matchup you've chosen is strong or weak against you opponent. That right, 620 00:41:43.719 --> 00:41:46.079 it's like it feels more like a fighting game, right, like where 621 00:41:46.119 --> 00:41:51.760 you're fainting and you are trying to draw your opponent into doing one move so 622 00:41:51.800 --> 00:41:54.440 then you can actually do your counter move. And that's like inherently more interesting. 623 00:41:54.480 --> 00:41:59.039 I've heard a lot of people basically describing what you're describing like that is 624 00:41:59.079 --> 00:42:05.039 exciting. Yeah, And like the other bonus to this is that I was 625 00:42:05.079 --> 00:42:09.119 reading this because I just love the nitty gritty statistical info. There's something in 626 00:42:09.159 --> 00:42:15.880 Pokemon called STAB, which stands for same type attack bonus. So Pikachu is 627 00:42:15.960 --> 00:42:21.039 an electric type and uses an electric type move that damage is just incrementally just 628 00:42:21.239 --> 00:42:25.199 ever so slightly a little bit stronger versus if Pikachu used a normal type move. 629 00:42:25.400 --> 00:42:29.840 Right, Apparently, if you terrestrialize a Pokemon and it stays the same 630 00:42:29.840 --> 00:42:36.400 type, it adds an additional bonus on top of stab, which is like, 631 00:42:36.559 --> 00:42:39.599 all right, now this like if if like a Pokemon is a fighting 632 00:42:39.599 --> 00:42:44.599 type and terrestrializes to still a fighting type and uses a fighting type move, 633 00:42:45.039 --> 00:42:50.000 that is a man guaranteed an instant ko if it's super effective. That is 634 00:42:50.039 --> 00:42:53.920 exciting. It's super duper effective. Yeah, it's like, oh, there's 635 00:42:54.039 --> 00:42:57.159 there's like a lot of different things you can do with this, and like 636 00:42:57.199 --> 00:43:00.679 that is you know that it's fainting in it. The other way, like 637 00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:04.000 they might expect you'd be to be doing something different, so they might overthink 638 00:43:04.039 --> 00:43:07.559 it and you're like, no, I'm still going electric type. Yeah, 639 00:43:07.679 --> 00:43:12.880 this gets me excited. I'm like I remember hearing stuff like Dynamax and Z 640 00:43:13.119 --> 00:43:17.320 moves or whatever, and I think they never they never stay around, right, 641 00:43:17.320 --> 00:43:20.480 they never stick around, Like they don't come from game to game. 642 00:43:21.039 --> 00:43:22.960 Do you will you like, if this works out how you're hoping, do 643 00:43:23.000 --> 00:43:27.480 you expect them to like maybe incorporate this into Pokemon games going forward? Or 644 00:43:27.519 --> 00:43:29.920 is this going to get left behind as well. I feel like this might 645 00:43:29.920 --> 00:43:34.000 be another gimmick that gets left behind. I feel like, I mean the 646 00:43:34.039 --> 00:43:39.119 online Pokemon community that plays Pokemon Showdown, which is like a web based online 647 00:43:39.119 --> 00:43:45.199 battler. They have modes where they'll combine all of this stuff, but I 648 00:43:45.280 --> 00:43:50.559 don't see them including everything unless it's like a late game type of thing, 649 00:43:50.880 --> 00:43:55.360 because they're so adamant about mentioning, like, oh, dynamaxing is a phenomenon 650 00:43:55.440 --> 00:44:00.519 only to the Gallery region. And now I bet they're saying and I think 651 00:44:00.519 --> 00:44:05.079 they are saying that terrestalizing is something that only happens in the Paladian region. 652 00:44:05.559 --> 00:44:10.920 Yeah, so I think it still will be isolated to this generation unless they 653 00:44:10.960 --> 00:44:15.079 eventually want to make their mega game where it has everything and you can't do 654 00:44:15.119 --> 00:44:20.639 all this and that kind of sounds fun just to see the Pokemon and we've 655 00:44:20.639 --> 00:44:22.440 been hearing about for the last twenty five years. It eventually will happen, 656 00:44:22.519 --> 00:44:27.079 right right yea? Yeah? Also though, like on top of this messing 657 00:44:27.159 --> 00:44:30.280 up the shining community, this is going to mess up the Pokemon collecting community 658 00:44:30.480 --> 00:44:35.800 because you know those crystal stores in the mall that you never go to now 659 00:44:35.800 --> 00:44:39.639 they're going to be filled with Pokemon. Oh no, and the ladies get 660 00:44:39.760 --> 00:44:45.000 like this one. It's gonna heal your chakra and which I need. After 661 00:44:45.000 --> 00:44:50.320 watching eighteen episodes in Naruto, yeah, you know, just touch on the 662 00:44:50.360 --> 00:44:54.639 ads kind of like clarifies. The terrestal phenomenon will likely also impact Pokemon collecting. 663 00:44:54.639 --> 00:44:59.960 With eighteen types in total, the addition of new forms creates in astronomically 664 00:45:00.159 --> 00:45:05.440 large roster of possible Pokemon commendations for enthusiasts to chase after. A shiny hunter, 665 00:45:05.480 --> 00:45:08.199 a kind of Pokemon fan who chases after the special rare shiny forms of 666 00:45:08.239 --> 00:45:13.400 Pokemon, might decide to chase after not just regular Evy and shiny Evy, 667 00:45:13.480 --> 00:45:16.320 but also the shiny forms of the water type and grass type terrestal forms of 668 00:45:16.360 --> 00:45:20.639 ev as well. Oh man. In the trailer, developers explain that trainers 669 00:45:20.639 --> 00:45:24.760 will also we'll be able to get rarer terrestal Pokemon by doing terra raid battles. 670 00:45:25.079 --> 00:45:30.119 But this mechanic potentially requires collectors to commit an immense amount of grind. 671 00:45:30.639 --> 00:45:34.519 Oh yeah, oh yeah, you know the interesting thing grub Like all these 672 00:45:34.559 --> 00:45:37.880 competitive Pokemon players people are at the top of the chain, they have folks 673 00:45:38.360 --> 00:45:43.000 getting pokemon for them. Oh, of course they do. They got their 674 00:45:43.039 --> 00:45:47.719 minions a low yeah, like they hold that their whole discords set to. 675 00:45:49.119 --> 00:45:52.800 Like, Pokemon breeding is still a major thing where Lucy told me about it 676 00:45:52.880 --> 00:45:55.800 yesterday. Don't worry. Yes, oh okay, well not that type of 677 00:46:00.519 --> 00:46:07.000 it's whole cottage industries actually of like, hey, you want this, you 678 00:46:07.280 --> 00:46:10.519 want this legendary grudon, you want it to be this type with this nature 679 00:46:10.559 --> 00:46:15.239 and these ivs, and you want it to be shiny. I got you. 680 00:46:15.880 --> 00:46:19.119 I'll lend it to you. And then the other thing that is messed 681 00:46:19.159 --> 00:46:23.880 up grub is that they're not just regular shinies. They're also square shiny's. 682 00:46:24.199 --> 00:46:30.199 So the particle effects that pop off normally it's like little sparkles, they're also 683 00:46:30.320 --> 00:46:35.559 square sparkles. Oh my god. And also there's a there's you remember that 684 00:46:35.599 --> 00:46:38.159 tea cup Pokemon that came out on Sword and Shield. Yea, yeah, 685 00:46:39.440 --> 00:46:43.800 there is that. That little fucker, Yeah, absolutely, that little fucker, 686 00:46:43.840 --> 00:46:49.400 the ghost the ghost cup boy. There is a variation of that Pokemon 687 00:46:49.920 --> 00:46:54.880 that has like a specific pattern on the tea cup that is incredibly rare. 688 00:46:55.519 --> 00:47:00.199 It does not count as a shiny. So this is further going to mess 689 00:47:00.320 --> 00:47:05.559 up these sickos that have want to fill out their polka decks. And I 690 00:47:05.639 --> 00:47:08.400 support these sickos. Yes, you do. You you you chase your bliss 691 00:47:08.519 --> 00:47:12.679 out there getting Oh my god, the square sparkles a little, my little 692 00:47:12.719 --> 00:47:15.960 pony. The other thing that I just thought about that this added that I'm 693 00:47:16.000 --> 00:47:24.199 wondering is because Pokemon Legends Archaius added the alpha's right, So that's like the 694 00:47:24.199 --> 00:47:30.199 bigger versions of normalmon I'm wondering if alpha's are still going to be in this 695 00:47:30.280 --> 00:47:35.440 thing. So are you gonna have a big crystal boy an alpha crystal square, 696 00:47:35.519 --> 00:47:42.159 sparklet design shiny. Yeah, it's resturrises in seven different ways. Yeah, 697 00:47:42.159 --> 00:47:45.960 oh boy, astronomically large. Thank you for that, Ana Diaz, 698 00:47:46.440 --> 00:47:50.960 and thank you Jan for running through all of that. Up. Are you 699 00:47:50.960 --> 00:47:57.960 excited about Scarland Violet? I don't know. I don't know that. I 700 00:47:58.000 --> 00:48:00.719 don't even know, right like, after all that, I don't know, 701 00:48:00.840 --> 00:48:05.239 mostly because like you enlightened me to this and the chat yesterday when I was 702 00:48:05.239 --> 00:48:08.239 talking over the Pokemon stream. If you want to see sleepy me go check 703 00:48:08.280 --> 00:48:12.400 that out. Watch that, everybody. It's fun. Still, no, 704 00:48:12.559 --> 00:48:15.760 voice acting. Why add voice acting to the trailer if it's not going to 705 00:48:15.840 --> 00:48:20.039 be in the game. That brings us to the poll. Let's go, 706 00:48:20.199 --> 00:48:22.000 let's just do it. Let's get into it. Yes, there will a 707 00:48:22.039 --> 00:48:29.000 mainline Pokemon game have full voice acting within the next five years. Very few 708 00:48:29.000 --> 00:48:31.440 people believe this is going to happen. One in five twenty percent twenty one 709 00:48:31.440 --> 00:48:36.400 point twenty point one percent say yes. Seventy nine point nine percent say no. 710 00:48:37.199 --> 00:48:39.320 Uh, Jean, I goso got you know. Listen, I'm not 711 00:48:39.400 --> 00:48:45.119 a huge Pokemon person. I'm not a shiny Pokemon fan, but I tune 712 00:48:45.159 --> 00:48:47.840 in here and there. I would assume that, Like, for the most 713 00:48:47.880 --> 00:48:51.159 part, people were like, yeah, we would like voice acting, that's 714 00:48:51.199 --> 00:48:52.760 the next logical step. It seems like a lot of people are saying it 715 00:48:53.360 --> 00:48:58.719 shouldn't ever have Pokemon or voice acting. One person said it Pokemon games teach 716 00:48:58.760 --> 00:49:00.599 kids to read, which I'm like, well that their parents should be doing 717 00:49:00.639 --> 00:49:06.800 that. That's not a reasoning. But but like, okay, fair, 718 00:49:06.880 --> 00:49:07.719 fair enough. But a lot of other people are just like, no, 719 00:49:07.800 --> 00:49:12.719 the games are better without voice acting. But you seem to want it. 720 00:49:14.119 --> 00:49:16.760 I mean, do you think it'll ever really happen? Obviously it's not happening 721 00:49:16.800 --> 00:49:21.000 here. And if if it's if it won't I mean, what do you 722 00:49:21.000 --> 00:49:22.559 think people don't want it? I mean maybe people check and say why as 723 00:49:22.599 --> 00:49:28.840 well, But I mean I am of the camp that I have absolutely no 724 00:49:28.960 --> 00:49:32.239 idea why no one would want it, And I mean if you don't want 725 00:49:32.280 --> 00:49:36.119 it, I'm sure it would be a slider that you can turn off. 726 00:49:36.559 --> 00:49:40.119 Yeah, and I don't think the Pokemon company is hurting for money to help 727 00:49:40.239 --> 00:49:47.719 fund getting no voice acting talent, whether middle of the road or top tier 728 00:49:47.960 --> 00:49:52.599 like my boy Matt Shipman. Uh, Pokemon, just just send this to 729 00:49:52.639 --> 00:49:58.840 Matt Shipman's way, him and his wife, the voice everyone. It's it's 730 00:49:58.840 --> 00:50:00.400 just it feels like a no rain or at least I think Lucy mentioned this 731 00:50:00.519 --> 00:50:06.639 yesterday, just like that shebberd like just that type of speech. And there 732 00:50:06.639 --> 00:50:10.039 are a lot of folks that are still tied to the Pokemon digital growls that 733 00:50:10.119 --> 00:50:15.400 go sure, yes, the MIDI, the MIDI cries as we decided yesterday, 734 00:50:15.519 --> 00:50:20.199 yeah, versus like just let them say their names or whatever, like 735 00:50:20.239 --> 00:50:25.960 you already have those existing assets for the shows across the board, and like 736 00:50:27.159 --> 00:50:31.559 Pokemon has been translated into how many different languages for the anime. Just take 737 00:50:31.599 --> 00:50:36.239 all that, Just take all those sand banks, take those waves. I'm 738 00:50:36.239 --> 00:50:39.840 sure you have to do a couple of like legal jumping around, but y'all 739 00:50:39.840 --> 00:50:45.239 can fucking swing it. Y'all can do this. You see that the Pokemon 740 00:50:45.360 --> 00:50:49.760 CEO's Jacket game. Yeah, only the course of the time, one of 741 00:50:49.800 --> 00:50:53.199 the most GQ looking motherfuckers I've ever seen. Just running a Pokemon stream, 742 00:50:53.599 --> 00:50:58.199 I got like, spend some of that fashion money on a voice acting budget, 743 00:50:58.239 --> 00:51:00.679 I think it is my opinion, Yeah, they could, They could 744 00:51:00.679 --> 00:51:04.320 pull this off if they wanted to. They it's obviously just like, well, 745 00:51:04.360 --> 00:51:07.639 we don't have to kind of thing. It's one of those things where 746 00:51:07.639 --> 00:51:10.920 I feel like I won't you, we won't see it in like a mainline 747 00:51:10.960 --> 00:51:15.719 Pokemon game made by game Freak, But if we get something like a weird 748 00:51:15.840 --> 00:51:21.679 offshoot like I don't know, Gale of Darkness from the GameCube, where there's 749 00:51:22.000 --> 00:51:25.480 more work to certain aspects of the game than perhaps they would throw voice acting 750 00:51:25.559 --> 00:51:30.639 there. Whenever I hear whenever I hear Gale of Darkness, I just imagine 751 00:51:30.679 --> 00:51:37.320 a woman named Gail who's just very competuous and scary that's not gone out of 752 00:51:37.320 --> 00:51:39.599 her EMO phase. It's not gone on her Emo phase exactly, and she 753 00:51:39.760 --> 00:51:45.920 rules shoot rules. But yeah, I don't know five years. You said 754 00:51:46.280 --> 00:51:49.800 probably eight, and I don't know if you're joking when I asked that, 755 00:51:49.880 --> 00:51:52.639 but like, really do you think with like within ten years we get a 756 00:51:52.639 --> 00:51:57.920 mainline Pokemon game with voice acting? Uh, if like it's led you know, 757 00:51:58.000 --> 00:52:01.440 led by one of these offshoots first, Yeah, I think within ten 758 00:52:01.519 --> 00:52:07.119 years. Five years. I don't know why that doesn't feel doable anything as 759 00:52:07.119 --> 00:52:09.760 possible? Right, Yeah, yeah, ten years for sure. I think 760 00:52:09.800 --> 00:52:13.119 that's why I said eight, because it's like it's gonna be a little bit 761 00:52:13.119 --> 00:52:19.199 past five. Oh yeah. Yeah. Like there's the Detective Pikachu games for 762 00:52:19.239 --> 00:52:22.599 the I think it was three D S or DS. Uh. I don't 763 00:52:22.599 --> 00:52:27.119 know if it was completely voice acted, but it was voice acted by like 764 00:52:27.159 --> 00:52:31.679 a Danny DeVito, like really guy to be pastic stuff. I never played 765 00:52:31.679 --> 00:52:36.199 those those games the second one ever come out? Was there a second one 766 00:52:36.199 --> 00:52:38.960 that came out? No? I think I think it's still in development or 767 00:52:39.000 --> 00:52:43.519 it's in limbo. Maybe they're waiting for Ryan Reynolds to think of a new 768 00:52:43.639 --> 00:52:46.480 Detective Pikachu movie. Yeah, they're just waiting for Ryan of course. All 769 00:52:46.599 --> 00:52:51.599 right, here's the poll for tomorrow over under, So I want your over 770 00:52:51.679 --> 00:52:54.039 under vote and that'll be what we add here. Nintendo launches the switch follow 771 00:52:54.119 --> 00:52:59.480 up a pro or switch to by December twenty five, twenty twenty three. 772 00:53:00.000 --> 00:53:01.280 You're gonna take the over there or the under. So do you think it's 773 00:53:01.320 --> 00:53:05.599 gonna come like November fall of twenty twenty three, or do you think it's 774 00:53:05.599 --> 00:53:08.880 gonna come like early twenty twenty four at the earliest. So give you over 775 00:53:10.280 --> 00:53:14.920 and under? And you know what's game springs in here? So I could 776 00:53:14.960 --> 00:53:17.320 find it tomorrow? Oh you know what, I'm sorry to circle back. 777 00:53:17.480 --> 00:53:22.199 That's still pokem on Masters ex. The mobile game is full of you voice 778 00:53:22.239 --> 00:53:28.000 acted. Oh my god. Yeah, Jesus Christ, come on, Pokemon. 779 00:53:28.039 --> 00:53:30.400 You got them right there. You could just do it. You could 780 00:53:30.400 --> 00:53:34.280 just take those waves and go, yes, yes, don't even don't worry 781 00:53:34.320 --> 00:53:37.719 about lip flap, all right, just just take them go. I mean, 782 00:53:37.760 --> 00:53:39.719 yeah, they have the lips flapping anyhow, and they're not saying anything. 783 00:53:39.800 --> 00:53:43.400 So just like put like some you don't have to match it up. 784 00:53:43.400 --> 00:53:45.760 We're not looking that closely. We're still not looking at how how you know 785 00:53:45.760 --> 00:53:49.840 we're looking at five out. We're looking at him running around like that's a 786 00:53:49.880 --> 00:53:52.880 little piece up bread right there. I love them so much? Uh, 787 00:53:52.280 --> 00:53:55.840 Jan, what's happening on Giant Bomb for the rest of the day. What 788 00:53:55.920 --> 00:53:59.320 is happening on Giant Bomb for the rest of the day. We had a 789 00:53:59.360 --> 00:54:07.360 fro gun froggin quick look. Dan did solo dolo that's out now if you 790 00:54:07.360 --> 00:54:09.880 want to check that out. We did an oops all seen as Fortnite's stream. 791 00:54:09.880 --> 00:54:12.880 It was a lot of fun. I had a lot of fun doing 792 00:54:12.880 --> 00:54:15.920 that. It's a good time. It's a good time. Abby Russell joined 793 00:54:15.000 --> 00:54:21.039 us. Abby incredibly good at Fortnite. Turns out Dan was on an episode 794 00:54:21.079 --> 00:54:23.440 of album Er yesterday and speaking about album Er, we've got two of the 795 00:54:23.440 --> 00:54:28.800 album Or crew joining us for the voicemail dump Truck today. I believe we 796 00:54:28.920 --> 00:54:34.320 got Jordan and Jeremy joining us. And then I think it's a oh, 797 00:54:34.440 --> 00:54:37.880 we got a quick look for two point Campus going up tomorrow and then UPF 798 00:54:37.920 --> 00:54:43.239 tomorrow as well. Perhaps should we say that there's something semi special about that 799 00:54:43.360 --> 00:54:46.519 UPF we should Yes, Let's okay, right now, this is let's commit 800 00:54:46.599 --> 00:54:49.760 right now, because we've already made the plans. We're good. Let's say 801 00:54:49.760 --> 00:54:54.000 it. Yes, so you know to to keep not reinventing UPF, but 802 00:54:54.079 --> 00:54:58.960 make keeping it fresh. We are going to do a themed week, and 803 00:54:59.000 --> 00:55:02.440 the theme week of this week it's two thousand and two. Now here's a 804 00:55:02.559 --> 00:55:07.880 very important thing about two thousand and two Theme Week UPF. If you were 805 00:55:07.000 --> 00:55:10.880 born around or after that, don't tell me, don't. Yeah, I 806 00:55:10.880 --> 00:55:14.440 don't want to hear that shit. I don't want to go. You keep 807 00:55:14.440 --> 00:55:16.920 that out, You keep that out of chat grub. I was watching a 808 00:55:17.000 --> 00:55:22.679 skate video yesterday from nineteen ninety six, and then someone commented like, oh 809 00:55:22.800 --> 00:55:27.199 man, I wasn't even near being born. Oh my god, I just 810 00:55:27.239 --> 00:55:30.880 started skateboarding because of this video. Yeah, don't do that. Yeah. 811 00:55:30.880 --> 00:55:34.679 I graduated from high school in two thousand and one. So that's where I'm 812 00:55:34.719 --> 00:55:37.440 at. Everybody, Okay, I'm looking forward that we're gonna we're gonna bring 813 00:55:37.480 --> 00:55:39.719 some two thousand and two games. We're gonna hang out. I've got some 814 00:55:39.760 --> 00:55:43.920 ideas, we've got some Dolphin Network play. I'm gonna try to set up. 815 00:55:43.920 --> 00:55:46.199 We'll see. It's gonna be a good time. Uh So, Yeah, 816 00:55:46.280 --> 00:55:51.320 until then and until tomorrow's Game mess mornings. Have a good one, 817 00:55:51.360 --> 00:55:54.000 everybody. Uh, you're the best audience in gaming. I appreciate you. 818 00:55:54.199 --> 00:55:58.280 I appreciate every single one of you. Have a good one, take care 819 00:55:58.280 --> 00:56:00.119 of yourself, and goodbye.