WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:14.919 You'll be luck don't beat it's the internet. You're busy. Let's do this 2 00:00:14.960 --> 00:00:18.120 for August eleventh, twenty twenty three. For the next hour or so, 3 00:00:18.199 --> 00:00:21.359 let me help you sort through the world of gaming on Game mess Mornings Live 4 00:00:21.399 --> 00:00:25.280 with Me Jeff Grubb. Today rock Star is embracing the role playing community, 5 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:29.719 and somehow Sony isn't happy with PS five sales. But first please join me 6 00:00:29.760 --> 00:00:33.880 and welcoming today's co host the Games Mornings. It's Jesse, Donka Basa Norris, 7 00:00:33.960 --> 00:00:37.560 Jesse. How are you doing. I am doing wonderful. I'm in 8 00:00:37.640 --> 00:00:44.159 the the final preparation for non stop game releases that doesn't end for three months. 9 00:00:44.520 --> 00:00:47.359 Yep. It's it is upon us. The season is upon us. 10 00:00:47.439 --> 00:00:53.079 John Madden saw his shadow and just pooped out like fifty games. So here 11 00:00:53.119 --> 00:00:57.159 it is. Games aren't even waiting for John Madden anymore. We're gonna get 12 00:00:57.159 --> 00:00:59.520 a We've already gotten a couple things this month. We're gonna get a few 13 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:03.560 more things. It's all just happening with relentlessly this year. It's it's been 14 00:01:03.599 --> 00:01:07.680 a lot. I continue play Pittman four and really enjoy it. It is 15 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:10.920 fun to play Pittman four. Well, everyone else is freaking out about boulders 16 00:01:10.959 --> 00:01:12.799 Gate three. Now, I'm just like, you guys want to talk about 17 00:01:12.840 --> 00:01:17.200 Pickman and everyone's like, no, we we're fucking over here. That's how 18 00:01:17.239 --> 00:01:19.319 we're living our lives. I'm like, okay, I'm leaving the pitmen alone. 19 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:23.319 That's I'm not doing that to them. That's weird. So yeah, 20 00:01:23.400 --> 00:01:26.840 that's that's my life. But I don't know, Jesse, how are you 21 00:01:26.879 --> 00:01:33.840 keeping up with all these games? Barely? I bet did Atlas fallen? 22 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:37.640 It's all right, it's gonna get crushed because of its release window. Just 23 00:01:38.239 --> 00:01:41.840 just finished up and made the review for Shadow Gambit, which I can't say 24 00:01:41.879 --> 00:01:44.640 anything about because it's not until next week when it comes out. But that 25 00:01:44.719 --> 00:01:49.879 is from the Shadow Tactics and Desperado's team Mimmi Games. They make really good 26 00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:56.120 real time ISS strategy stuff, and so going from that, then immediately going 27 00:01:56.159 --> 00:01:59.680 to Armored Core hopefully, then after that immediately going to Starfield, and we've 28 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:02.239 also got Immortals, and then we've got See If Stars and then it just 29 00:02:02.359 --> 00:02:07.400 keeps going. In September and it never freaking stops. Even just covering one 30 00:02:07.439 --> 00:02:12.280 platform for Xbox has been insanely difficult this year, which is why every time 31 00:02:12.319 --> 00:02:15.680 I see people say no games, I say, I will proddle you. 32 00:02:16.039 --> 00:02:20.879 I want to bop you one exactly too much everywhere. If we covered everything, 33 00:02:21.159 --> 00:02:23.639 we need a team ten times the size. It's it's been a crazy 34 00:02:23.719 --> 00:02:28.879 year. Yep. And uh, it looks like something could still happen with 35 00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:30.400 hardware. Do you see that there's a leak that I didn't put in the 36 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:35.879 news because it's hard to verify that PlayStation five slim image that's going around everyone's 37 00:02:35.919 --> 00:02:38.560 talking about that's weird because I heard so there were rumors that it was gonna 38 00:02:38.599 --> 00:02:42.800 be pretty much the same, just a little smaller, and then an image 39 00:02:42.840 --> 00:02:45.280 hits that's pretty much the same, just a little smaller. Yeah, the 40 00:02:45.400 --> 00:02:47.639 ones need the other like you never know. Yeah, there's a little ugly, 41 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:53.879 Yeah really really ugly. Doesn't care. It loves to be ugly. 42 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:57.680 Uh. Yeah, there's like a little like line through the middle, like 43 00:02:57.719 --> 00:03:00.960 of the panel, a little less of a pop caller, a little I 44 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:05.199 don't know. It's easy to buy, easy to believe, And that's that's 45 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:07.960 that would be the one that would have the It would look even stupid or 46 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:12.840 probably once you attach the optional hard drive, right, although you know it 47 00:03:12.919 --> 00:03:15.800 is like so it's like four panels, it looks like so like two two 48 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:19.840 on the top, two on the bottom. Maybe like one of those panels 49 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:24.400 pops off and the drive slots in really handsomely into this thing or whatever, 50 00:03:24.439 --> 00:03:28.560 and then you can with how they've been with hardware ever since the PS four 51 00:03:28.639 --> 00:03:30.360 Pro. I'm gonna guess it's not gonna look good no matter what. Yeah, 52 00:03:30.360 --> 00:03:35.240 probably not. It's gonna look like an HD DVD drive just dangling off 53 00:03:35.240 --> 00:03:38.439 the side more than likely. Okay, we have a lot to get into. 54 00:03:38.520 --> 00:03:40.080 Let's talk about what we do here first. Most week days, I 55 00:03:40.199 --> 00:03:45.280 Jeff grab will help piece your gaming life back together. That includes breaking news 56 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:47.680 and maybe even some of our own original reporting. For all these topics, 57 00:03:47.719 --> 00:03:51.840 I'll get the input of a bona fide expert who will make me look smart. 58 00:03:52.199 --> 00:03:54.000 If you were watching live on Twitch, welcome. You can always listen 59 00:03:54.039 --> 00:03:58.240 to the show later on podcast feeds by searching for Game mess Mornings, or 60 00:03:58.280 --> 00:04:00.879 find the RSS on giant bombed dot com. You can also catch the show 61 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:05.919 later with chapters and time stamps on YouTube. Hello YouTube. Okay, we 62 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:09.960 have a lot to get into, so let's start the morning mess with Rockstar 63 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:13.599 just made a big investment in Grand Theft Auto role playing. This comes from 64 00:04:13.599 --> 00:04:18.120 Michael mcworder at Polygon. Rockstar Games announced to Friday that it had acquired CFX 65 00:04:18.199 --> 00:04:21.959 dot or, the team behind Grand Theft Auto five Mod five M and Red 66 00:04:23.000 --> 00:04:28.000 Dead Redemption two MO red M, two, popular mods that power custom multiplayer 67 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:31.040 and robust role playing experiences on those games. Over the past few years, 68 00:04:31.040 --> 00:04:34.959 we've watched with excitement as rock Stars creative community have found new ways to expand 69 00:04:34.959 --> 00:04:40.360 the possibilities of Grand Theft Auto five and Red Dead Redemption two, particularly through 70 00:04:40.399 --> 00:04:45.120 the creation of dedicated roleplay servers. That's a quote from the studio. It's 71 00:04:45.120 --> 00:04:47.560 available on the rock Star Newswire website. As a way to further support those 72 00:04:47.560 --> 00:04:51.720 efforts, we recently expanded our policy on mods to officially include those made by 73 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:56.439 the roleplay creative community rocks and then now that's done. With the quote, 74 00:04:56.519 --> 00:05:00.199 rock stars acquisition of the CFX dot r E team the studio as will help 75 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:05.040 them find new ways to support the incredible community and improve the services they provide 76 00:05:05.160 --> 00:05:09.959 to their developers and players. Grand Theft Auto five and Red Dead Redemption two 77 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:14.360 have already have robust multiplayer components, but five M and red M go further, 78 00:05:14.480 --> 00:05:17.360 letting players use custom vehicles, maps, and weapons, and inhabit those 79 00:05:17.399 --> 00:05:21.040 game worlds as virtually anyone. On Friday, at time of publication, the 80 00:05:21.079 --> 00:05:25.839 five M websites said that more than one hundred and seventy thousand players we're using 81 00:05:25.879 --> 00:05:30.839 the mod on custom servers. Jesse. This feels this felt for a while 82 00:05:31.040 --> 00:05:38.560 pretty inevitable that Rockstar would have to go in and do something about the role 83 00:05:38.639 --> 00:05:43.360 playing servers in terms of bringing it into you know, the family and saying, 84 00:05:43.480 --> 00:05:46.800 you know, when we put out a Grand Theft Auto six, I 85 00:05:46.839 --> 00:05:48.480 mean all the games we put out in the future, when they have big 86 00:05:48.480 --> 00:05:54.319 online modes, they are gonna have to have some integration ready to go for 87 00:05:54.439 --> 00:05:57.600 role playing. And this feels like them saying, let's just do the whole 88 00:05:57.600 --> 00:06:00.439 hog, Let's just do the damn thing. Let's go get still, come 89 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:04.240 to the team that does these things and make it native in the game or 90 00:06:04.399 --> 00:06:09.480 native close to native. Maybe it's just one more install going forward, but 91 00:06:09.600 --> 00:06:12.920 making sure it's officially supported, and that's not too surprising, as we've seen 92 00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:15.279 Grand Theft Auto role Playing Service continue to be some of the biggest and most 93 00:06:15.319 --> 00:06:19.800 popular things on Twitch. For example, the moment there's a lot of money 94 00:06:19.800 --> 00:06:23.480 to be made, it was gonna be there's it's kind of like emulation, 95 00:06:23.560 --> 00:06:29.079 the moment emulation starts possibly touching. Like when Xbox finally went after retail emulation, 96 00:06:29.560 --> 00:06:32.079 it wasn't because of Nintendo or Sony. It's because they started doing three 97 00:06:32.160 --> 00:06:36.040 sixty games. They're like, hey, no, we offer those in back 98 00:06:36.079 --> 00:06:39.519 compact and we make money off that. You're not doing it. And with 99 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:43.519 this, this is how GTA is popular for people watching it on Twitch. 100 00:06:43.920 --> 00:06:46.959 So if you want to get into that and promote that, like they're not 101 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:50.439 making any money, they're not going to do it themselves by default until it's 102 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:55.040 their thing. Yes, and it's either we're gonna it was either they're going 103 00:06:55.120 --> 00:06:58.160 to take the pr hit and kill it and kill this thing that's making a 104 00:06:58.199 --> 00:07:00.360 ton of money, or be like, okay, we we get our piece. 105 00:07:00.399 --> 00:07:03.399 Because you know that's what Take two is obviously very much all about. 106 00:07:03.600 --> 00:07:06.639 Yep, and you can see, I mean, I know everyone's already the 107 00:07:06.680 --> 00:07:11.639 wheels are turning. Everyone's imagining how rock Star is going to be able to 108 00:07:11.680 --> 00:07:15.800 make money off of this you know, incorporating stores into the role playing servers 109 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:20.360 and stuff like that. That will be a thing I do wonder like where 110 00:07:21.079 --> 00:07:25.560 rock Star will draw the line because you know, just let people bring their 111 00:07:25.560 --> 00:07:28.279 own stuff in like and express themselves. That's a big part of the role 112 00:07:28.279 --> 00:07:30.959 playing community servers. How much of that are you going to stop or you 113 00:07:30.959 --> 00:07:35.000 know, my imagination is it will be a lot like Minecraft, uh because 114 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:39.439 Minecraft has a store, but even on like the Windows version, they opened 115 00:07:39.519 --> 00:07:41.639 up the tools so you could just make whatever you want in there. So 116 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:44.079 if you want to make your own skins, like they a lot like when 117 00:07:44.120 --> 00:07:46.839 they were introducing the store, like here's the thing and then you know, 118 00:07:46.879 --> 00:07:48.079 if your stuff is good, just put it in the store. But just 119 00:07:48.120 --> 00:07:53.720 do that put you could sell your stuff. It's it's the roadblock siffacation of 120 00:07:53.759 --> 00:07:58.439 it all. Like that's with less if than roadblocks. Right well, listen, 121 00:07:58.480 --> 00:08:01.879 that's that's a low ball, high Bard come under. Yeah, it's 122 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:07.519 they will almost certainly find a number of ways to monetize this. Uh. 123 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:11.720 It's just that's gonna be a balance that they're going to have to maintain of 124 00:08:11.839 --> 00:08:16.120 keeping those fans happy and not not upset that like, oh, Rockstar ruined 125 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:18.279 this because they're trying to charge a bunch of money, Like, we didn't 126 00:08:18.279 --> 00:08:20.480 come here to be in your ecosystem, your you know, your in game 127 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:26.360 economy. But there's one company you can trust micro transaction wise, it's too 128 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:31.160 kay Yep, definitely, and yeah I can get that out. Yeah. 129 00:08:31.199 --> 00:08:33.759 And then the user generated content, Yeah, that's that is where all these 130 00:08:33.759 --> 00:08:39.360 companies see a big potential to make a lot of money. And this is 131 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:45.159 a platform exactly for that. So and people are if you do empower creators 132 00:08:45.159 --> 00:08:48.120 to sell things to each other. That's it's maybe one big way to get 133 00:08:48.159 --> 00:08:52.480 around these things is to say, well that encourages more development, and we're 134 00:08:52.519 --> 00:08:54.080 just gonna take a cut. You guys are selling stuff to each other, 135 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:56.600 Like someone made a cool thing. You want that thing, Well, they're 136 00:08:56.600 --> 00:09:00.519 selling it to you. So it's man, it's kind of It's what happened 137 00:09:00.519 --> 00:09:03.000 a lot with Bethesda with their modern community and then hiring people out of it 138 00:09:03.039 --> 00:09:05.080 and stuff like that. You see it more and more. It happened with 139 00:09:05.080 --> 00:09:11.240 three for three and all the forgers and them becoming employees. So I just 140 00:09:13.120 --> 00:09:16.559 rarely trust Take two on any of this. But I'm I'm hopeful and happy 141 00:09:16.600 --> 00:09:20.279 to be wrong. Yep, this is the role playing scene has continued to 142 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:24.919 be popular, Marino pointing out in Chad it's not as popular as it was 143 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:28.399 during the pandemic, but you know, nothing is, but it's it's maintained. 144 00:09:28.960 --> 00:09:31.679 I know there's several streamers that I've followed for a long time who are 145 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:33.840 just now basically doing that full time, just full time role playing and Grand 146 00:09:33.879 --> 00:09:37.600 Theft Auto, and you know, their audiences have continued to grow. People 147 00:09:37.639 --> 00:09:43.840 are hungry for that content, and I think it's it's something that Grand Theft 148 00:09:43.879 --> 00:09:46.120 Auto and you know, potentially a red dead redemption going forward. But rock 149 00:09:46.159 --> 00:09:50.679 Star at the very least can do that. Very other few companies would be 150 00:09:50.720 --> 00:09:54.399 able to pull off. Like if if rock Star wants to introduce Grand Theft 151 00:09:54.440 --> 00:09:58.440 Auto six with Grand Theft Auto Online two and then there's also role playing stuff 152 00:09:58.600 --> 00:10:03.200 going along all that. I do believe that they can actually make that work 153 00:10:03.240 --> 00:10:05.480 and actually make something successful out of that. Where if another company tried to 154 00:10:05.480 --> 00:10:09.039 come in there and be like we see GT online roleplay doing really well, 155 00:10:09.039 --> 00:10:11.360 we're going to try to make our own one of those, I think that 156 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:16.159 would be very challenging, especially because like even the rps are seen, is 157 00:10:16.759 --> 00:10:20.639 many years and different iterations of getting to where it is now. If you 158 00:10:20.639 --> 00:10:24.679 go back and look at some of the early stuff, it's super JANKI but 159 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:28.840 I imagine rock Star's main thing is just going to be defining rules on what 160 00:10:28.879 --> 00:10:33.840 you can and can't do, when otherwise it mostly runs itself and it's people 161 00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:37.120 making stuff, and a lot of those people who are making it were the 162 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:41.759 ones running the servers, so if they are now rock Star employees, it 163 00:10:41.320 --> 00:10:46.559 probably won't change too much and it's just going to be you can use our 164 00:10:46.600 --> 00:10:52.240 stuff now. You can officially use our stuff now probably I wouldn't imagine characters 165 00:10:52.320 --> 00:10:54.720 and whatnot, but some other stuff you can you can more easily use, 166 00:10:54.759 --> 00:10:58.559 because they would actually get pretty mad if you use too many official textures and 167 00:10:58.600 --> 00:11:03.840 whatnot. But like from the Joker in there and Batman, that type of 168 00:11:03.840 --> 00:11:07.879 stuff probably won't be as common as it used to be. Yeah, yeah, 169 00:11:07.879 --> 00:11:11.080 it'll be. It'd be similar to like how but as the official mods 170 00:11:11.159 --> 00:11:15.639 work versus you know the wild west of just getting mods on PC however you 171 00:11:15.679 --> 00:11:18.080 want. And so you got a Nexus mods, you can you can turn 172 00:11:18.240 --> 00:11:22.120 any Bethesda game into full on Balder's Gate three Bare Sex if you're really exactly 173 00:11:22.200 --> 00:11:26.840 yes, and they do not empower you to do that through their official mods 174 00:11:26.840 --> 00:11:31.120 support, although the official mode support is still pretty good. Uh. I 175 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:33.879 wonder if more people will try role playing if it's like if it feels official, 176 00:11:35.279 --> 00:11:37.919 if it feels like, oh, this is something, because like it's 177 00:11:37.919 --> 00:11:41.080 something where I look at, like we we could do that, we should 178 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:46.120 be able to go massively multiplayer online co op. Ye. It's it's just 179 00:11:46.519 --> 00:11:50.559 it's like going to be the most popular thing because the people that don't want 180 00:11:50.559 --> 00:11:54.360 PvP, that do just want to hang out and mess around with other people. 181 00:11:54.399 --> 00:11:56.679 It's it's perfect for that if you find the right group of people to 182 00:11:56.759 --> 00:12:01.039 play with, right and and it's that that's thing right now where it's like 183 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:03.879 I look at oh, no, you know, no Pixel, the big 184 00:12:03.879 --> 00:12:05.600 the big role playing server that everyone points to us, like this is a 185 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:09.879 great example of really funny content and stuff like that. They you know, 186 00:12:09.879 --> 00:12:13.679 they're invite only. It's it's pretty hard to get in, like even if 187 00:12:13.720 --> 00:12:16.840 you know people. It's like it's like, do I want to put myself 188 00:12:16.840 --> 00:12:20.879 in a situation where I have to like commit to behaving in a certain way, 189 00:12:20.919 --> 00:12:22.519 and like, you know, well if we get invited, like do 190 00:12:22.600 --> 00:12:26.480 I bring Dan Reicherd in there, and like, well he get it, 191 00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:28.000 It's like, well no, probably not. So it's there like another place 192 00:12:28.039 --> 00:12:31.159 we can go. I think if rock Star had an official thing where it's 193 00:12:31.159 --> 00:12:35.399 like, you know, we've put in put like a few barriers on here 194 00:12:35.399 --> 00:12:39.559 to like let you experience it in a safe playground area where you're the only 195 00:12:39.559 --> 00:12:43.519 people you're gonna upset are this giant corporation. It's like, Okay, that's 196 00:12:43.559 --> 00:12:46.159 one thing, and then I think that would be like that would feel like 197 00:12:46.200 --> 00:12:52.080 I would like experiment with that, and then later all these other server still 198 00:12:52.080 --> 00:12:54.519 exists, like that's like okay, now that we find that this is really 199 00:12:54.519 --> 00:12:56.240 fun, maybe we can go on to No Pixel or whatever else. Yeah. 200 00:12:56.399 --> 00:12:58.639 Like so like I think even No Pixel they had a public server, 201 00:12:58.759 --> 00:13:03.159 which was just more of the wild West mess around versus the white listed server, 202 00:13:03.279 --> 00:13:05.799 which is where you've got to apply and you're gonna be like, yeah, 203 00:13:05.840 --> 00:13:07.320 I'm gonna follow the rules and I'm gonna always stay in character, and 204 00:13:07.320 --> 00:13:11.039 I'm because there's a lot of people streaming and there's a lot of people doing 205 00:13:11.080 --> 00:13:15.759 it seriously but there are ones you can just go in and learn the ropes. 206 00:13:15.960 --> 00:13:18.600 Yeah, but it but I totally I'm sure there is. But I 207 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:22.240 think something about like dangerous to stream on right, Yes, and it's like 208 00:13:22.279 --> 00:13:26.720 the the that still feels like I expect those to be like playing with the 209 00:13:26.919 --> 00:13:31.879 with play money and like playing poker with fake money, where it's like this 210 00:13:31.039 --> 00:13:35.600 isn't actually indicative of what the real thing that everyone looks to as the real 211 00:13:35.639 --> 00:13:41.759 thing would feel like. And you know, something a lot of control stuff 212 00:13:41.840 --> 00:13:46.360 that's really unique per server. So they're really good for jumping in because that's 213 00:13:46.399 --> 00:13:50.000 what I've done. I've just jumped in, figured out how things work on 214 00:13:50.080 --> 00:13:52.919 that server and that version of the mod, and then once you get all 215 00:13:52.919 --> 00:13:54.919 that down, it makes it a help a lot easier year you're not feeling 216 00:13:54.960 --> 00:14:00.120 like you're learning while you're on the official one. We really want to on 217 00:14:00.159 --> 00:14:03.200 a show, yes, And I think I think making it making something an 218 00:14:03.240 --> 00:14:05.879 official that is similar to that, I think it's the next step towards opening 219 00:14:05.879 --> 00:14:09.440 this up to even more people. Although you know role plan is always going 220 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:13.080 to be for specific audience, just turns out that audience much bigger and more 221 00:14:13.080 --> 00:14:18.159 passionate I think people will maybe might have once predicted it's improv comedy for the 222 00:14:18.159 --> 00:14:22.799 most part and mix a drama and stuff like it's people like that, especially 223 00:14:22.840 --> 00:14:24.559 if you're good at it. Yep, it's uh, it's I think it's 224 00:14:24.559 --> 00:14:30.519 going to have a place in gaming content going forward for forever, I expect, 225 00:14:30.559 --> 00:14:33.240 because people really enjoy that kind of thing. Really curious if they if 226 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:37.240 people try and mod that into Starfields, because they've already been trying to modern 227 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:41.399 into Skyrim like Sky Big Skyrim co op and it's really cool. I think, 228 00:14:41.840 --> 00:14:43.120 you know, Skyrim makes a lot of sense because that's the kind of 229 00:14:43.120 --> 00:14:46.039 game where you know, you do the mod where you just started some random 230 00:14:46.159 --> 00:14:50.039 character in that world, and like that's almost more fun at this point. 231 00:14:50.080 --> 00:14:52.960 So it's like if you could just do that and then other people are inhabiting 232 00:14:52.080 --> 00:14:56.720 are inhabiting it, that could be very neat h Sony says the reaction to 233 00:14:56.720 --> 00:15:00.960 its price drop has been weak in the UK. This from Jordan Midler at 234 00:15:01.000 --> 00:15:05.240 VGC. Sony has said it's recent PS five price cut hasn't yet hasn't yet 235 00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:09.200 led to the reaction ahead hoped for in the UK. As transcribed by Seeking 236 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:13.960 Alpha, Sony COO Hierroke to Tokey said during the company's recent financial called by 237 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:16.480 Regions. Currently, in Japan, the sales are strong, and the same 238 00:15:16.519 --> 00:15:20.440 holds true for Asia. In North America, their sponsor, the promotion has 239 00:15:20.440 --> 00:15:24.080 been quite favorable. In United Kingdom, it's a bit weak. But Europe 240 00:15:24.080 --> 00:15:28.080 as a whole has been performing quite well. We kind of talked about like 241 00:15:28.159 --> 00:15:31.240 this deal and some of the stuff, but previously was like, oh, 242 00:15:31.279 --> 00:15:35.559 you know, it's doing very well according to GfK, the tracking thing, 243 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:39.440 and that's what we talked about yesterday. Apparently Sony's seeing these numbers and they're 244 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:41.080 like, oh, it's up you know, forty percent, seventy percent, 245 00:15:41.159 --> 00:15:46.759 and by some measures it's up five hundred percent. It's Sony still not happy 246 00:15:46.799 --> 00:15:50.039 with that, they said. PS five hardware sales were three point three million 247 00:15:50.120 --> 00:15:52.360 units for the first quarter, a significant increase of thirty eight percent year on 248 00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:56.919 year. This amount is somewhat less than expected progress towards our fiscal goal. 249 00:15:56.759 --> 00:16:00.120 They do go on to say, like, hey, we drop the price 250 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:03.480 to try to juice these hardware sales, because that's our primary goal right now 251 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:07.480 is to get to twenty five millions sold by the end of the fiscal year, 252 00:16:07.919 --> 00:16:11.200 and to do that, like in certain territories like the UK and really 253 00:16:11.240 --> 00:16:14.559 a lot of other places as well, we are significantly cutting the price. 254 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:18.000 And that led to the Yeah, PS five sales were up seventy three percent 255 00:16:18.679 --> 00:16:22.360 and then for the year and then up forty seven percent compared to I think 256 00:16:22.679 --> 00:16:29.480 like the week before in terms of before the deal went into effect. But 257 00:16:29.519 --> 00:16:33.519 Sony said, yeah, this is it did not lead to the sprint to 258 00:16:33.559 --> 00:16:37.919 pick up PS fives that they thought they would see. I'm just like I, 259 00:16:37.399 --> 00:16:41.720 you know, it's selling faster than ever before. How is this not 260 00:16:41.840 --> 00:16:45.440 fast enough? Jesse? I think their entire goal, this entire generation has 261 00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:51.000 been we want to get so far ahead that once Xboxes all their purchases and 262 00:16:51.039 --> 00:16:55.159 everything start hitting, they just can't catch up in any meaningful way. And 263 00:16:55.200 --> 00:16:57.399 so for them it's they were they wanted to have everything right away, and 264 00:16:57.440 --> 00:17:02.159 then they didn't. It all got delayed twenty twenty two. They still had 265 00:17:02.200 --> 00:17:07.079 some stuff in twenty twenty where Xbox only had ports. Really, so they 266 00:17:07.200 --> 00:17:11.119 just they wanted to put the nail in this generation. And I don't think 267 00:17:11.119 --> 00:17:15.160 they feel like they have because even though we get so used to big numbers 268 00:17:15.279 --> 00:17:21.440 and consoles sold and that being the metric that in the end, it just 269 00:17:21.440 --> 00:17:22.480 comes down to, well, how much money are you making every quarter? 270 00:17:22.559 --> 00:17:27.279 And they're still making more than anyone, but they're not an insane amount ahead 271 00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:33.039 of Xbox and Nintendo like they want to be. So they want as much 272 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:36.519 of you know, the markets this size, and they want every bit of 273 00:17:36.559 --> 00:17:40.920 it that they can get. As where Phil's talked about before, he wants 274 00:17:40.960 --> 00:17:44.960 a bigger market where even if he keeps the same size or it only grows 275 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:48.680 a little, it's a much bigger market. So you're just making way more, 276 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:52.039 which is all shareholders care about. So in the end, they want 277 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:56.680 these enormous numbers right away. They probably want every PlayStation they ship to sell. 278 00:17:56.200 --> 00:17:59.240 And so if it's not as much as they were hoping for, then 279 00:17:59.240 --> 00:18:02.680 I just have to guess they're still selling really well. They're just not selling 280 00:18:02.680 --> 00:18:07.519 out NonStop like they had been before when they had less supply. Yeah, 281 00:18:07.599 --> 00:18:14.680 and it's you know, Sony was has said it's selling about as fast as 282 00:18:14.440 --> 00:18:17.880 PS four now when you line them up like in terms of like month the 283 00:18:17.920 --> 00:18:19.039 month, at this point, it's selling faster than the PS four. The 284 00:18:19.039 --> 00:18:22.640 PS five is, but if you like, line it up from from launch 285 00:18:22.720 --> 00:18:26.480 for both systems. The PS five was about two months behind the pace, 286 00:18:26.680 --> 00:18:32.000 and that was almost entirely due to a lack of consoles in the supply chain. 287 00:18:32.720 --> 00:18:33.839 Now that that's been solved, though, it feels like it's going to 288 00:18:33.960 --> 00:18:37.160 race past that and it honestly it might have already done so, like we 289 00:18:37.240 --> 00:18:41.160 might already be there because it's it's selling that fast. And there is an 290 00:18:41.160 --> 00:18:45.480 issue too, where like the economy is not great, so things are going 291 00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:49.039 to slow down, but capitalism doesn't care. It's just as like, well, 292 00:18:49.279 --> 00:18:52.920 I can fire all these people, like you see with Microsoft even though 293 00:18:52.960 --> 00:18:56.279 they're making more money than ever, like they hired NonStop in the pandemic, 294 00:18:56.319 --> 00:18:57.480 and they're like, okay, don't need you all now, yep, see 295 00:18:57.599 --> 00:19:00.599 later, Like all the corporates will just do that. And it's like, 296 00:19:00.640 --> 00:19:06.440 well, instead of pulling back on executive bonuses and other things, take out 297 00:19:06.440 --> 00:19:08.000 the little guys. Everything we can do to make our numbers look as good 298 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:11.599 as possible, because that is all that really matters in the end. Uh. 299 00:19:12.319 --> 00:19:15.960 This you know the way Sony's position this is, Hey, this is 300 00:19:17.000 --> 00:19:21.200 about meeting that huge target that we said, but you know, I continue 301 00:19:21.200 --> 00:19:23.680 to say it probably is also about that SLIM system, right, Like they 302 00:19:23.680 --> 00:19:26.119 want to get a lot of these out of the out of the stores, 303 00:19:26.160 --> 00:19:30.880 out of retail, out of their shipment centers or whatever, so they can 304 00:19:30.960 --> 00:19:34.039 make room for the Slim and let launch that and not have that sit next 305 00:19:34.079 --> 00:19:37.440 to a bunch of these systems for a while. Right, Keeping anything in 306 00:19:37.519 --> 00:19:41.920 storage costs a lot of money. So like you, it's not just well 307 00:19:41.920 --> 00:19:44.880 we made these, We've now shipped these. It's like, well, if 308 00:19:44.880 --> 00:19:48.160 you ship them and you've got to wait and they only have so much space 309 00:19:48.160 --> 00:19:51.279 in each store, and you're just holding things and you're waiting, there's always 310 00:19:51.279 --> 00:19:55.920 the numbers game of trying to match demand without out pacing it because then you're 311 00:19:55.920 --> 00:19:59.480 just paying money to have things sit in stock. Yep, exactly, So 312 00:19:59.720 --> 00:20:03.720 that they are looking to reduce the possibility of that happen by any means, 313 00:20:03.799 --> 00:20:10.160 and that means actually even cutting the price. Do you think the this sales 314 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:14.680 deal, this this cutting the price, uh, will will have any effect 315 00:20:14.759 --> 00:20:18.960 on how they position the price of the Slim or a bundle including the Slim, 316 00:20:19.119 --> 00:20:22.960 Because it's hope. So because they were they were they went up, 317 00:20:22.160 --> 00:20:26.920 they did go I was hoping at the very least the Slim would go back 318 00:20:26.960 --> 00:20:30.519 down to five. I was hoping or would be great when you're this deep 319 00:20:30.599 --> 00:20:33.279 end. But they're selling NonStop, so there's no point. They're not going 320 00:20:33.359 --> 00:20:37.240 to cut the price severely unless they want to be super aggressive, and they're 321 00:20:37.400 --> 00:20:41.599 they're actual manufacturing costs have dropped down, because I think that's the reason you've 322 00:20:41.640 --> 00:20:45.640 barely ever see the series X on sale is because the things still cost a 323 00:20:45.640 --> 00:20:49.279 lot of money to make comparative to what they sell it at. So if 324 00:20:49.319 --> 00:20:53.319 they can, if they can get the slim down and the DVD drive or 325 00:20:53.400 --> 00:20:59.400 Blu Ray drive isn't some crazy amount of money like four hundred and four fifty, 326 00:20:59.519 --> 00:21:02.839 and then you're adding fifty to one hundred for the drive, then yeah, 327 00:21:02.880 --> 00:21:08.640 it'll definitely help a lot because that five fifty and more globally it didn't 328 00:21:08.680 --> 00:21:11.640 really change much. That's why I'm always curious. They just kept selling, 329 00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:15.559 So I do wonder will they even bother dropping much? Right, it's just 330 00:21:15.559 --> 00:21:18.200 gonna be about aggression because it doesn't seem like they have to. Yep, 331 00:21:18.319 --> 00:21:22.519 And that's that that's the thing here. It's like so they have a chance 332 00:21:22.559 --> 00:21:26.799 to reset the pricing, you know, and I think, especially if this 333 00:21:26.839 --> 00:21:30.039 slim comes in with more storage, I think they will easily keep it at 334 00:21:30.079 --> 00:21:33.480 least at the same price that it's been, or like you said, go 335 00:21:33.519 --> 00:21:37.920 back down the original price worldwide. Either way, I think I do not 336 00:21:37.039 --> 00:21:41.920 think that they will not have something on the shelves that there's gonna be something 337 00:21:41.960 --> 00:21:45.559 on the shelves that has five hundred dollars, Like they want five hundred dollars 338 00:21:45.559 --> 00:21:49.720 to be the price, and they don't need like their main PS five to 339 00:21:49.759 --> 00:21:55.160 be four hundred compared to Xbox is five hundred, because they like everything's still 340 00:21:55.160 --> 00:21:59.960 selling their their the pace is really good, and why take that huge that's 341 00:22:00.039 --> 00:22:03.200 significant hit when they don't have to. I just don't expect them to. 342 00:22:03.319 --> 00:22:06.599 But and if they've got the Pro coming in, you know, a year 343 00:22:06.720 --> 00:22:10.000 or two after that, then that can be then maybe you go four fifty 344 00:22:10.240 --> 00:22:12.720 five fifty exactly, you know, yes, so, and that's you know, 345 00:22:12.759 --> 00:22:15.839 similar to kind of what happened with the with PS four, you know, 346 00:22:15.880 --> 00:22:19.599 not exactly there's some differences, but the Pro came in and maintained that 347 00:22:19.680 --> 00:22:22.400 high price point but didn't go up at by any significant amount, and maybe 348 00:22:22.400 --> 00:22:26.839 this does, but probably not, and then the previous model, and then 349 00:22:26.960 --> 00:22:30.119 eventually the slim would just kind of slot in about one hundred dollars cheaper or 350 00:22:30.160 --> 00:22:33.880 whatever. So yep, that's that seems to be probably how they'll handle it 351 00:22:33.920 --> 00:22:40.000 here, Okay, Destiny two taps Keith David as Zavala to replace the late 352 00:22:40.160 --> 00:22:44.519 Lance Reddick. This is from Ethan Gootch at Kotaku. Ever since John Wick 353 00:22:44.559 --> 00:22:48.759 and the Wire actor Lance Reddick suddenly and unexpectedly passed away earlier this year, 354 00:22:48.960 --> 00:22:52.680 Destiny two fans have been wondering what would become of his iconic character, Commander 355 00:22:52.720 --> 00:22:56.960 Zavala. Today, Bungee announced that veteran actor Keith David, beloved for his 356 00:22:56.039 --> 00:23:00.000 video game work in Halo and Mass Effect, will take over in twenty twenty 357 00:23:00.160 --> 00:23:03.519 for It's the Final Shape expansion. Lance's iconic voice led us through the most 358 00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:07.720 intense moments in Destiny's history, and his impact on our guardians, our community, 359 00:23:07.799 --> 00:23:11.319 and Bungee as a whole will never be forgotten. Bungee announced, then 360 00:23:11.359 --> 00:23:15.720 that's Bungee a quote, and they announced that on August tenth, yesterday, 361 00:23:15.160 --> 00:23:19.200 Keith David a prolific actor on stage and in television, films, and games, 362 00:23:19.400 --> 00:23:23.319 will assume the English language voice of Zavala in the Final Shape and beyond. 363 00:23:23.680 --> 00:23:29.000 Separately, Lance's existing lines in game will remain untouched for the upcoming release. 364 00:23:29.880 --> 00:23:33.599 This is I think this is cool. This is right. I think 365 00:23:33.680 --> 00:23:36.720 Keith David can really take over that role, do well. Keith David put 366 00:23:36.759 --> 00:23:40.880 out a really nice message talking about Lance Reddick and the work he's done, 367 00:23:41.039 --> 00:23:44.400 and it was all just it was really sweet and touching. And I love 368 00:23:44.559 --> 00:23:48.039 I love, I love Lance Reddick. I love Keith Keith David. This 369 00:23:48.160 --> 00:23:51.920 is pretty cool, I think. And it's it's nice to see an actor 370 00:23:52.079 --> 00:23:53.079 be like just pay respects, say I'm just gonna, you know, do 371 00:23:53.200 --> 00:23:56.599 my best to live up to Lance, and Keith David can do that. 372 00:23:56.720 --> 00:23:59.119 So hey, shout out to this. I think this is pretty cool. 373 00:23:59.400 --> 00:24:02.559 I'm going for one great actor with an incredible voice to another great actor with 374 00:24:02.599 --> 00:24:04.279 an incredible voice, and yeah, it's about the best choice I think they 375 00:24:04.319 --> 00:24:07.279 could have made. I mean, I think it's also it's like a testament 376 00:24:07.279 --> 00:24:11.880 to like how good Lance Reddick's voice. If Keith David is who they needed 377 00:24:11.880 --> 00:24:15.480 to get to replace you right, Keith David and all time voice actor known 378 00:24:15.680 --> 00:24:18.720 for for the you know, the tamper of his voice and all that, 379 00:24:18.799 --> 00:24:22.079 And it's like Lance Reddick was right there with the same the same level of 380 00:24:22.119 --> 00:24:30.279 gravitas when he spoke, so absolutely you know this this was the probably the 381 00:24:30.359 --> 00:24:34.839 right choice, and it seems like they handled it pretty well. Do you 382 00:24:34.839 --> 00:24:37.039 think there was any consideration of them like being like, well, maybe we 383 00:24:37.079 --> 00:24:41.440 should just leaves Valla behind or something like that, or it's like it's been 384 00:24:41.920 --> 00:24:45.160 I don't keep up all the time with us any too, especially because game 385 00:24:45.200 --> 00:24:48.519 releases are so crazy. But he's super integral to the story. Yeah, 386 00:24:48.559 --> 00:24:52.039 he's just been one of the driving forces behind it. So I think a 387 00:24:52.079 --> 00:24:53.240 lot of people are like, well, it'd be really weird if he just 388 00:24:53.359 --> 00:24:57.000 kind of disappeared, yes suddenly, or and it wouldn't feel right if they 389 00:24:57.160 --> 00:25:03.599 killed him off in the game, that would be but getting someone really good 390 00:25:03.799 --> 00:25:07.440 and it's been like super respectful. It just was a tragic, out of 391 00:25:07.440 --> 00:25:12.119 nowhere thing losing Lance Reddick. So getting keeping the character going I think is 392 00:25:12.119 --> 00:25:15.240 the best call, both for the game and for the fans. And the 393 00:25:15.240 --> 00:25:19.759 way they've handled has been pretty damn good. Yes, agreed. Let's see 394 00:25:19.799 --> 00:25:23.519 here. I was gonna get this going, but I'll do that in a 395 00:25:23.559 --> 00:25:27.599 second. All right, let's let's move on here. Metroid Dread developer Mercury 396 00:25:27.640 --> 00:25:32.319 Steam is working on two unannounced games. This is from my Nintendo News. 397 00:25:32.799 --> 00:25:34.880 Now that Mercury Steam has finished Metroid Dread, there has been a lot of 398 00:25:34.960 --> 00:25:41.519 questions about what the developer has is going to make after Metroid. Well, 399 00:25:41.519 --> 00:25:45.480 there's somewhat of an answer to that. Yesterday, according to a financial report 400 00:25:45.559 --> 00:25:49.119 from Nordisc Games, which owns a forty percent stake in Mercury Steam, Mercury 401 00:25:49.119 --> 00:25:53.880 Steam is currently working on two large undisclosed titles. We already know that one 402 00:25:53.920 --> 00:25:57.160 of them is in Action RPG, being developed with five or five games. 403 00:25:57.400 --> 00:26:00.400 However, the other game is not known, though some fans think it could 404 00:26:00.400 --> 00:26:04.039 be a new two D Metroid. You could see a tweet relaying the matter 405 00:26:04.480 --> 00:26:10.119 that went out from someone that was covering the Nordisk news. Spanish developer Mercury 406 00:26:10.160 --> 00:26:12.839 Steam is currently working on two a large undisclosed titles, according to Nordisk Games 407 00:26:12.839 --> 00:26:17.680 financials. Mercury Steam is best known for Castlevania, Lord's a Shadow and twenty 408 00:26:17.720 --> 00:26:21.519 twenty one's Metroid Dread. One of these games is a dark fantasy then not 409 00:26:21.559 --> 00:26:22.359 one of those, but like one of the games they're working on is that 410 00:26:22.440 --> 00:26:26.960 dark fantasy third person action RPG developed in conjunction with five or five games, 411 00:26:27.079 --> 00:26:30.920 and that was announced in November twenty twenty one. Mercury Steam has steadily grown 412 00:26:32.039 --> 00:26:34.119 to a team of more than two hundred developers, up from one hundred and 413 00:26:34.160 --> 00:26:41.279 sixty in twenty twenty that I think it's very likely that they're also working on 414 00:26:41.319 --> 00:26:45.319 a Metroid follow up. It's it makes sense because Metroid Dread, well, 415 00:26:45.319 --> 00:26:51.599 you did pretty well for a Metroid game, and also like they built they 416 00:26:51.640 --> 00:26:53.079 were designing the two D Metroid in a way of felt like, oh, 417 00:26:53.119 --> 00:26:56.920 they have put laid down a foundation here that they can build on going forward. 418 00:26:57.119 --> 00:27:00.279 And they could just do basically a direct sequel to this and continue that. 419 00:27:00.359 --> 00:27:03.440 We can get one of those every you know, three to five years, 420 00:27:03.559 --> 00:27:07.680 and that would be pretty cool. What do you think? I hope? 421 00:27:07.720 --> 00:27:11.519 So I joked about Metroid Prime on Mora Kombat just to set Mike off, 422 00:27:11.839 --> 00:27:17.160 but I really enjoyed Metroid Dread. I'm not a huge fan of Unkillable 423 00:27:17.240 --> 00:27:18.279 enemies, but I think the way the game handled it and all that it 424 00:27:18.319 --> 00:27:22.759 was fun. I didn't do the nixt thing and shoot every goddamn wall to 425 00:27:22.799 --> 00:27:26.759 get everything complet done, but I really enjoyed it, So I hope they 426 00:27:26.799 --> 00:27:32.400 are didn't. Didn't it also have like some development issues and trouble, Yes, 427 00:27:32.599 --> 00:27:34.200 that was the going to be the other side of this is Mercury Steam 428 00:27:34.400 --> 00:27:38.480 is uh, you know, not known for but there was some reports that 429 00:27:38.559 --> 00:27:44.440 the the it was chaotic, chaotic development, and the people from Mercury Steam 430 00:27:44.440 --> 00:27:48.279 have come out since then be like would a chaotic game lead to three million 431 00:27:48.319 --> 00:27:49.480 in sales? And it's like, well, yeah, that happens all the 432 00:27:49.480 --> 00:27:55.400 time. It's it's you know a lot of it's probably crunch, a lot 433 00:27:55.440 --> 00:28:00.319 of it could be a stressful work environment beyond that, but yes, it's 434 00:28:00.319 --> 00:28:03.720 definite. There was definitely reports of there being some problems at Mercury Steam. 435 00:28:03.880 --> 00:28:07.680 Uh that scrutiny hopefully maintains so that we could see if that if that happens 436 00:28:07.720 --> 00:28:11.640 again for these games. But it's definitely something that hopefully hopefully they can avoid. 437 00:28:11.759 --> 00:28:15.839 But I do believe that, you know, Nintendo is not like cut 438 00:28:15.839 --> 00:28:18.400 Ties in Mercury Steam or anything like that. It does seem like they want 439 00:28:18.400 --> 00:28:22.039 to keep working with them that would then hopefully come with that increased levels. 440 00:28:22.200 --> 00:28:26.440 I don't think. I don't think NDO Nintendo worries that much about crunch. 441 00:28:26.559 --> 00:28:32.400 It's yeah, it's it's very different because everything I've always heard about Japanese studios 442 00:28:32.480 --> 00:28:34.599 is that you're just expected to work extremely hard. That's just the culture, 443 00:28:34.960 --> 00:28:37.960 right. So yeah, and it's looking at it from our perspective, we 444 00:28:38.000 --> 00:28:41.759 look at and go, oh my god. But then you know, we 445 00:28:41.799 --> 00:28:44.400 don't live there. We don't I don't know, I don't know it that 446 00:28:44.480 --> 00:28:47.119 well, So I don't feel right commenting on it all the time, right, 447 00:28:47.240 --> 00:28:49.920 I Mean, there's definitely concerns with crunch in Japan, Japanese game studios, 448 00:28:51.279 --> 00:28:55.400 and they just their quality of life it's just way better and everything else, 449 00:28:55.759 --> 00:28:59.359 like, and uh, their cost of living is just way lower, 450 00:28:59.519 --> 00:29:03.359 and the money they get paid goes so so so much further that they make 451 00:29:03.440 --> 00:29:07.079 up for it maybe some other ways. But yeah, crunch is still a 452 00:29:07.079 --> 00:29:08.400 problem in Japan for sure. And you're right, so it's like that's probably 453 00:29:08.400 --> 00:29:12.480 not something that they are looking to eliminate from the studios that they partner with, 454 00:29:14.160 --> 00:29:17.880 but they also want to avoid a bat problematic headlines that make it look 455 00:29:17.920 --> 00:29:19.559 like Nintendo doesn't care. It's something they want to avoid as well. It's 456 00:29:19.799 --> 00:29:22.160 you know, you don't really get those stories out of many of the Japanese 457 00:29:22.200 --> 00:29:26.039 studios. So if this studio in Spain is causing that like headaches like that, 458 00:29:26.039 --> 00:29:30.359 that probably would draw some of the attention of the Nintendo and they would 459 00:29:30.359 --> 00:29:33.880 try to do something about it. But I don't think that's something would involve 460 00:29:34.000 --> 00:29:37.559 not making another successful game that would probably it's probably gonna sell pretty well, 461 00:29:37.759 --> 00:29:42.000 especially keeping and keeping like Metroid in people's you know, the front of mine 462 00:29:42.039 --> 00:29:45.960 for them in between, especially free games that are going to take for a 463 00:29:45.960 --> 00:29:48.799 long time to develop. They will eventually have a new system out and they're 464 00:29:48.839 --> 00:29:52.599 going to want to have a lot of stuff for it early. Again, 465 00:29:52.799 --> 00:29:57.480 because it really helped with the Switch. Yes, having representation from each of 466 00:29:57.519 --> 00:30:02.400 their big franchises in the first couple of years of the next Switch. That's 467 00:30:02.440 --> 00:30:04.759 that they basically said that was their strategy when they were talking about maybe it's 468 00:30:04.759 --> 00:30:08.880 a two D kid Icarus game, Well, that that would be fun too, 469 00:30:11.079 --> 00:30:12.839 But I wanted to bring you do with those egg cants. In this 470 00:30:12.920 --> 00:30:15.960 day and age, you can probably do something pretty naughty. You can. 471 00:30:15.079 --> 00:30:18.119 Yeah, you can take him out there and introduce him to the bear and 472 00:30:18.200 --> 00:30:21.039 say, hey, look at that guy. You can fuck that thing. 473 00:30:22.480 --> 00:30:25.759 I am. I'm hopeful that we get a new Metroid two D game as 474 00:30:25.759 --> 00:30:29.119 well. I hope so, and Nintendo says, like you mentioned, like 475 00:30:29.920 --> 00:30:33.119 every franchise they want to have like at least one entry uh per system, 476 00:30:33.200 --> 00:30:37.480 and I think that having a two D Metroid on the switch to pretty soon 477 00:30:37.519 --> 00:30:41.200 would be great. Confusion arises over whether Modern Warfare three is coming to PS 478 00:30:41.240 --> 00:30:45.400 four and Xbox one. This comes from Chris Scoean at VGC. A confusion 479 00:30:45.480 --> 00:30:49.160 is arising among players as to weather Call of Duty Modern Warfare three is coming 480 00:30:49.200 --> 00:30:53.480 to last gen consoles, as spotted on Twitter by YouTuber The Gaming Revolution, 481 00:30:53.720 --> 00:30:57.680 the official Xbox page for Modern Warfare three only list Xbox Series X and S 482 00:30:57.799 --> 00:31:02.480 as the game's planned platforms. However, The Gaming Revolution also notes that the 483 00:31:02.480 --> 00:31:07.559 official PlayStation YouTube account has posted the Modern Warfare three teaser trailer with PS five 484 00:31:07.640 --> 00:31:11.119 and PS four games in the headline. The video also includes the hashtag PS 485 00:31:11.200 --> 00:31:15.880 five PS five games, PS four PS four games. There are three pretential 486 00:31:15.920 --> 00:31:19.039 reasons for the discrepancy. The PlayStation YouTube channel puts either PS five games or 487 00:31:19.079 --> 00:31:22.400 PS five and PS four games in all its trailer headlines, so it could 488 00:31:22.440 --> 00:31:26.240 be that the employee responsible for naming the videos made in air and included PS 489 00:31:26.279 --> 00:31:30.799 four when the game isn't coming to that format. Another possibility is that the 490 00:31:30.839 --> 00:31:33.200 game is indeed coming to Last June systems, and that the Xbox page is 491 00:31:33.240 --> 00:31:37.039 therefore at full The third possible reason is that both sites may in fact be 492 00:31:37.119 --> 00:31:41.640 accurate, and the game's coming to PS four but not Xbox one. What 493 00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:45.880 do you think is happening here, Jesse? So I go through I go 494 00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:48.480 through the Xbox website a ton for reviews and covering stuff and all that, 495 00:31:48.559 --> 00:31:55.240 And generally the way they list their games now is if it's on it's if 496 00:31:55.240 --> 00:31:57.839 the purchase gets you the game on multiple platforms. It shows them in that 497 00:31:57.880 --> 00:32:04.319 playable on action. Yes, but Activision obviously doesn't do smart delivery. So 498 00:32:04.480 --> 00:32:08.720 normally it should say Modern Warfare three Xbox Series X and S at the top, 499 00:32:09.359 --> 00:32:13.599 and that would indicate that that's the version for that. Maybe they just 500 00:32:13.680 --> 00:32:17.039 didn't put up the page for Xbox One. Yeah, I had to look 501 00:32:17.039 --> 00:32:23.400 at that side because probably Modern Warfare three is supposed to have this massive amount 502 00:32:23.440 --> 00:32:27.720 of continuity for Modern Warfare two, which just came out last year and did 503 00:32:27.720 --> 00:32:32.519 come to the last gen systems, So it would be awkward if you couldn't 504 00:32:32.759 --> 00:32:37.799 do that continuation on the Xbox One where you bought Modern Warfare two, like 505 00:32:37.839 --> 00:32:39.359 you bought it there and now this new game's coming out and saying, now, 506 00:32:39.440 --> 00:32:43.519 bring all that stuff you did over there into this next game right now, 507 00:32:43.960 --> 00:32:45.519 and they're like, actually, it's just like, no, we're not 508 00:32:45.519 --> 00:32:47.839 gonna We're not gonna do that. You just get on the new system or 509 00:32:47.839 --> 00:32:52.400 something like that. And so like they're they're they've gotta splash screen for Modern 510 00:32:52.440 --> 00:32:55.400 Warfare three in the big reveal that's happening next week, and it just says 511 00:32:55.599 --> 00:32:59.799 console, yeah, right or it So it's gonna be on everything. They'd 512 00:32:59.839 --> 00:33:00.960 be real where if it wasn't. Yeah, I think so. I think 513 00:33:00.960 --> 00:33:04.599 it's going to be everywhere. And I think this is probably just some confusions 514 00:33:04.680 --> 00:33:09.480 and how it's being put out there, but they probably do move on from 515 00:33:09.599 --> 00:33:16.880 last gen consoles next year, right, something new. You'd think so that's 516 00:33:16.880 --> 00:33:21.759 about how much time it took last Gen and and maybe the a little bit 517 00:33:21.759 --> 00:33:25.680 more. But that that and that also makes certain they'll be owned by Microsoft 518 00:33:25.759 --> 00:33:30.200 by then, barring any insane thing, and Microsoft is pretty much a if 519 00:33:30.240 --> 00:33:32.880 you just want to do next gen, do it, yep, like they're 520 00:33:32.920 --> 00:33:37.680 they're not. They've moved on more quickly than pretty much anyone at this point, 521 00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:40.359 which is really funny. After all the kurf fluffle around launch, with 522 00:33:40.400 --> 00:33:45.440 the we believe in generations and all that stuff, Marino doing the Don matric. 523 00:33:45.480 --> 00:33:47.160 We have a Modern Warfare three for you. It came out twelve years 524 00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:51.000 ago. Yeah, yeah, that's right. If you want to play it, 525 00:33:51.000 --> 00:33:54.000 it's available. There you go, all right. Overwatch two is released 526 00:33:54.000 --> 00:33:59.319 on Steam and it's then immediately review bombed. This is from Chris Scully and 527 00:33:59.359 --> 00:34:02.359 the VTC Internet Ye. Overwatch two has been released on Steam and has immediately 528 00:34:02.359 --> 00:34:07.200 been met with a deluge of negative reviews. The game launched on Steam on 529 00:34:07.279 --> 00:34:09.679 Thursday. At the time of the right of this writing, fifteen hours have 530 00:34:09.760 --> 00:34:14.599 passed and the Overwatched two Steam page now has more than twenty five twenty five 531 00:34:14.599 --> 00:34:20.920 thousand reviews, of which Steam says they are overwhelmingly negatives. Steams stats say 532 00:34:21.119 --> 00:34:24.000 that only around fourteen percent of the users submitted reviews are positive, with many 533 00:34:24.039 --> 00:34:29.159 players taking the opportunity to criticize the games free to play structure and it's ditching 534 00:34:29.280 --> 00:34:32.159 of the much hyped hero missions. While it retains its charming design, wonderful 535 00:34:32.199 --> 00:34:36.039 cast of characters, and some of the best multiplayer maps I've I've ever played 536 00:34:36.079 --> 00:34:39.719 on Overwatch two brought a few enormous fundamental downgrades that leaves it critically flawed. 537 00:34:40.079 --> 00:34:45.760 Flawed reads one of the reviews tagged most helpful on Steam. This was found 538 00:34:45.800 --> 00:34:51.000 to happen, and I think this should it shouldn't be too much of a 539 00:34:51.000 --> 00:34:55.119 surprise to Blizzard and to Activision. They are just going to have to push 540 00:34:55.119 --> 00:34:58.280 through this, right, That's what happens when you have a game that is 541 00:34:58.280 --> 00:35:00.960 in this situation. You've got to push through and try to get to the 542 00:35:00.039 --> 00:35:04.039 other side. And in a couple of years, a couple years, when 543 00:35:04.039 --> 00:35:06.719 it says mostly positive again, they could be like, hey, we look 544 00:35:06.760 --> 00:35:08.000 what we'll look what we did, and that'd be proud of that, but 545 00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:12.400 it's going to take a couple of years. It's a very angry fan base 546 00:35:12.480 --> 00:35:16.400 to begin with. But also buying DLC didn't work. I don't know if 547 00:35:16.400 --> 00:35:20.800 it does yet, but people were trying to buy their battle passes and their 548 00:35:20.880 --> 00:35:24.119 PV unlocked. Yes, which is so when you buy something and it doesn't 549 00:35:24.119 --> 00:35:28.719 work, you definitely immediately leave a very manly angry review. One of the 550 00:35:28.760 --> 00:35:31.440 key things that causes people to leave bad reviews. Yes, and the monetization 551 00:35:31.480 --> 00:35:37.679 behind the missions is bad. It's fifteen bucks, but so it's fifteen bucks. 552 00:35:37.880 --> 00:35:40.440 Normally the season pass is ten. I think some people don't realize you 553 00:35:40.480 --> 00:35:45.199 can either spend fifteen bucks and just get the three missions, or you can 554 00:35:45.239 --> 00:35:47.639 do the bundle. Spend fifteen bucks, get the three missions and enough coins 555 00:35:47.679 --> 00:35:52.039 for the battle pass. But when you do that it doesn't work. You 556 00:35:52.159 --> 00:35:55.199 get very mad. Also, it's only it's three missions. They're about two 557 00:35:55.239 --> 00:36:00.800 hours long because it's three missions out of according to the UI at fourteen and 558 00:36:00.920 --> 00:36:05.159 there's it gonna be fifteen bucks every time for three Like, there's just a 559 00:36:05.159 --> 00:36:07.800 lot of anger around it. Because the game's really fun. New Hero is 560 00:36:07.840 --> 00:36:10.840 really good, it looks good, it runs great. I really enjoy it. 561 00:36:10.920 --> 00:36:15.559 But thanks to Bobby Cottock making them call it overwatched two supposedly allegedly, 562 00:36:16.400 --> 00:36:20.559 and a bunch of other various monetization factors where people are like, you know, 563 00:36:20.639 --> 00:36:22.320 loup boxes really aren't that bad when you can earn them so often. 564 00:36:24.119 --> 00:36:30.639 It's just it's spiraled down, player engagements down, all these different things. 565 00:36:30.239 --> 00:36:35.599 And in the end, I do think things like the game Pass Ultimate Perk 566 00:36:35.599 --> 00:36:38.880 which yesterday, where you get all the new characters and one skin for them, 567 00:36:38.920 --> 00:36:45.559 like Xbox won't do shitty monetization. They get yelled at way too hard 568 00:36:45.960 --> 00:36:47.519 by their families, so they just are like, like Jesus Christ, no, 569 00:36:47.639 --> 00:36:53.960 we won't. And the Halo system as as bemoaned as Halo's ben since 570 00:36:53.960 --> 00:36:58.000 it's launched, where they just did not have any content for like two years. 571 00:36:58.719 --> 00:37:02.960 Their monetization says should be this standard where your battle passes never expire, 572 00:37:04.480 --> 00:37:07.840 all the seasonal events are always completely free. Nothing in the store is Fomo 573 00:37:08.039 --> 00:37:12.239 is just always there, you can always get it. Yeah, And I 574 00:37:12.280 --> 00:37:15.880 really hope that they start pushing that into more of these acquisitions, because Bethesda 575 00:37:15.960 --> 00:37:21.559 doesn't do a ton ESO was already always fine follow seventy six was fine. 576 00:37:21.880 --> 00:37:28.239 But if they can turn around some of in a little bit because Activision makes 577 00:37:28.239 --> 00:37:30.000 way too much money for them to change it completely. But if they can 578 00:37:30.440 --> 00:37:36.400 lessen the shittiness, then I think people would be very happy. Yeah, 579 00:37:36.519 --> 00:37:40.920 I And it's something that again that probably will happen slowly because Overwatch is very 580 00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:46.440 valuable and uh and the you know, Blizzard and eventually Microsoft, they're gonna 581 00:37:46.440 --> 00:37:52.719 want to steward it back to a place of respectability and that'll be worth it, 582 00:37:52.760 --> 00:37:54.679 and they there's you know, roadmaps out there for how to accomplish that, 583 00:37:55.239 --> 00:37:59.199 and they'll be able to probably slowly push this back into a place where 584 00:37:59.239 --> 00:38:02.199 people feel good about it. But it'll take time. And you know, 585 00:38:02.519 --> 00:38:06.119 obviously right now people people on Steam are just gonna be like, well, 586 00:38:06.159 --> 00:38:08.599 we're gonna let you have the shellacking and you know, we'll check back in 587 00:38:08.599 --> 00:38:12.960 in a couple of years. It's it's tainted right now. Overwatch two kind 588 00:38:12.960 --> 00:38:15.639 of similar to what happened with Halo Inpindent, where people just like felt bad 589 00:38:15.679 --> 00:38:19.440 about playing it because everyone was always complaining and that's a real thing and you 590 00:38:19.480 --> 00:38:22.119 really have to worry about that and you'll have to sort I think I think 591 00:38:22.440 --> 00:38:25.079 we've watched two is going to have to bring in that new group. And 592 00:38:25.159 --> 00:38:29.800 the good news is for them being free to play on Steam, they're probably 593 00:38:29.800 --> 00:38:34.320 gonna be exposed to a lot of new players going forward that they wouldn't have 594 00:38:34.320 --> 00:38:37.559 been otherwise, and that would give them the chance to build up that positive 595 00:38:37.559 --> 00:38:38.920 word of mouth again. But we'll see if they could pull that off. 596 00:38:40.079 --> 00:38:45.119 Researchers find China's game time limits were ineffective in reducing excessive play. This comes 597 00:38:45.119 --> 00:38:51.119 from Brendan Saint Clair at Games Industry doppi is. China has a imposed strict 598 00:38:51.159 --> 00:38:54.440 game time limitations for miners, partly out of concerns they could develop addictions, 599 00:38:54.679 --> 00:38:59.639 but a new paper published in Nature Human Behavior found no evidence that the rules 600 00:38:59.800 --> 00:39:05.039 had any impact on excessive gaming at all. The research researchers partner with Unity 601 00:39:05.239 --> 00:39:08.280 Unity to examine more than seven billion hours of playtime and around two point four 602 00:39:08.320 --> 00:39:15.199 billion Chinese gamer profiles from mid August of twenty nineteen to mid January twenty twenty, 603 00:39:15.239 --> 00:39:17.360 a span of time that includes the imposition the imposition of an hour and 604 00:39:17.360 --> 00:39:22.519 a half daily playtime limit for minors, or three hours over holidays. We'll 605 00:39:22.559 --> 00:39:27.400 get into this, but just real quick is this story saying that Unity and 606 00:39:27.679 --> 00:39:30.920 I'm not too surprised that this is the fact, but that Unity like basically 607 00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:36.159 can track the telemetry of people using games made in Unity like period. Is 608 00:39:36.199 --> 00:39:38.039 that you think that's where the state is coming from? Is that Unity Like 609 00:39:38.519 --> 00:39:42.440 if you're making a game and Unity of all that telemetry gets reported back to 610 00:39:42.440 --> 00:39:45.280 the developer and to Unity itself, so that it has this massive trove of 611 00:39:45.360 --> 00:39:49.039 data about how people play a bunch of different games all around the world. 612 00:39:50.280 --> 00:39:53.239 I wouldn't be surprised if that was just the thing the Chinese government wants. 613 00:39:53.519 --> 00:39:58.280 They want to have all that information. In the meantime, Unity also gets 614 00:39:58.320 --> 00:40:01.360 access all of those the government. The government there just really wants to know 615 00:40:01.400 --> 00:40:05.760 what everyone's doing all the time. It's weird that the Unity could have all 616 00:40:05.760 --> 00:40:09.840 that information and not and still be kind of bad it's doing. Why Rilla, 617 00:40:10.079 --> 00:40:15.079 why is my my metic quest two three hundred bucks when it costs them 618 00:40:15.079 --> 00:40:17.320 about seven hundred to make? It's because telemetry. They just they wanted telemetry 619 00:40:17.400 --> 00:40:21.639 data. So all these companies, that's like one of the main things they 620 00:40:21.639 --> 00:40:25.960 go after is data data data you accept on all your EULAs every time without 621 00:40:25.960 --> 00:40:31.440 reading a single word in their half and two point four billion Chinese gamer profiles. 622 00:40:31.519 --> 00:40:36.920 That's that's a lot of Chinese gamer profiles, are there? Is there 623 00:40:36.920 --> 00:40:39.639 two by four billion Chinese people? I thought it was like like one. 624 00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:43.800 It's a little over one. I thought, so it's probably people that are 625 00:40:43.840 --> 00:40:47.119 like five manning World war Craft. Yeah, yes, exactly. So okay, 626 00:40:47.199 --> 00:40:51.440 I got a farm that gold. You know, I might actually reach 627 00:40:51.480 --> 00:40:53.239 out to Unity and get some clarification about some of this stuff. But either 628 00:40:53.280 --> 00:40:58.239 way, so, heavy gaming was defined as an individual plane for four or 629 00:40:58.440 --> 00:41:00.639 more hours a day, six or more days per week, the researchers. 630 00:41:00.760 --> 00:41:06.800 The researchers found no credible evidence for overall reduction in the prevalence of heavy playtime 631 00:41:07.239 --> 00:41:12.079 following the implementation of regulations. In fact, they found players were slightly more 632 00:41:12.159 --> 00:41:15.880 likely to engage in heavy gaming after the regulations went into effect, but the 633 00:41:15.920 --> 00:41:20.800 game was not enough to be considered stas statistically meaningful. The work presented provided 634 00:41:20.800 --> 00:41:24.000 it provides a case study for understanding how a government's policy decisions affect or do 635 00:41:24.079 --> 00:41:28.760 not affect the lives of real people on a grand scale, and forms a 636 00:41:28.800 --> 00:41:32.280 blueprint of future data led public policy, said the studies lead researcher, doctor 637 00:41:32.360 --> 00:41:37.519 David Zendel of the University of New York. It is now possible to attractably 638 00:41:37.639 --> 00:41:42.000 analyze billions of hours of direct digital behavior data. This could lead to better 639 00:41:42.039 --> 00:41:46.239 and more effective policymaking. Governments, industry insider, industry stakeholders, and academics 640 00:41:46.239 --> 00:41:51.880 should rise to this challenge. Should they. I don't know if they should. 641 00:41:52.199 --> 00:41:55.599 I don't know if they I don't know if government, you know, 642 00:41:57.280 --> 00:42:00.480 in industry, stakeholders or whatever, with all of that data in front of 643 00:42:00.519 --> 00:42:06.480 them, have the capacity to accurately process what it means and then to understand 644 00:42:06.519 --> 00:42:08.000 what the best action of the course of action to take on that stuff is. 645 00:42:08.239 --> 00:42:12.440 In fact, the best course of action might be just just stand back 646 00:42:12.559 --> 00:42:15.440 and stand stand down. We don't need your help on this stuff. We're 647 00:42:15.519 --> 00:42:19.599 cool, thank you. I mean, most of them are just going to 648 00:42:19.639 --> 00:42:22.039 try and figure out, well, how can we monetize this more? Right, 649 00:42:22.079 --> 00:42:22.880 of course, And then that's the whole point of the data, right 650 00:42:22.960 --> 00:42:25.719 then that's the reason they gather in the first place, is so that unity 651 00:42:27.000 --> 00:42:30.760 can then sell this information and nice you know, produced bundles and be like, 652 00:42:30.800 --> 00:42:34.400 this is what you need to do if you want to make money, 653 00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:38.280 Like that's the whole idea here, but the idea that it's then being translated 654 00:42:38.719 --> 00:42:42.320 being used for research. You know, you could see on its face how 655 00:42:42.360 --> 00:42:45.840 that is a good thing. But even the researchers like, give this to 656 00:42:45.880 --> 00:42:49.199 the government, let them make better policies out how to keep kids from playing 657 00:42:49.199 --> 00:42:52.880 games. What what are you talking about? Just chill out on that stuff. 658 00:42:52.960 --> 00:42:55.800 The industry lobbyists come in and say no, no, no, ye, 659 00:42:55.960 --> 00:42:59.360 just let us have that now, and then we monetize it and we 660 00:42:59.400 --> 00:43:00.880 give you kick that. Oh yes. The government's like cool, yes, 661 00:43:00.960 --> 00:43:05.960 exactly, and then they will do exactly that. Uh well do there we 662 00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:07.559 go? There? It's sad. There it is where we've lost a headline 663 00:43:07.599 --> 00:43:13.320 here at some point. Uh, there we go. Uh gonna keep going 664 00:43:13.440 --> 00:43:19.280 here. Uh, there's a there's a there's a Pokemon plush that what looks 665 00:43:19.280 --> 00:43:24.800 like a penist Jesse. I know, I was, I was. I 666 00:43:24.880 --> 00:43:29.639 was very excited when I saw it. Immediately shared it to my unperverted weed 667 00:43:29.760 --> 00:43:32.239 friends on the xbox Er discord. Yes. Uh, this is from Ashley 668 00:43:32.239 --> 00:43:37.599 Barton at Kataku Good News. The Pokemon Company released a wiglet plush on its 669 00:43:37.639 --> 00:43:39.880 official Pokemon Center store. Bad News. It looks like a dick. That's 670 00:43:39.880 --> 00:43:44.000 not a bad news, Ashley. Not a human dick, but like the 671 00:43:44.000 --> 00:43:46.639 platonic ideal of an alien dick. The US government doesn't want us to know 672 00:43:46.719 --> 00:43:50.840 about. Very good. There's not much to be done about that. The 673 00:43:50.880 --> 00:43:53.920 water type Pokemon Wiglet not to be confused with the similooking ground type digglet, 674 00:43:53.960 --> 00:43:58.320 so it is different from digglet. But whatever, Apparently there are a different 675 00:43:58.360 --> 00:44:01.440 species. I haven't played come in twenty years. Yeah, listen, I 676 00:44:01.440 --> 00:44:06.360 do not begrudge you that mistake. It is a stringy white worm that is 677 00:44:06.360 --> 00:44:08.679 ten and a quarter inches long to be exact. According to its Pokemon Center 678 00:44:08.760 --> 00:44:14.119 description, debuting in the twenty twenty two open world role playing games Pokemon Scarlet 679 00:44:14.159 --> 00:44:17.480 and Violet, Wigglet loves the beach, though it's shy. It gets cold 680 00:44:17.480 --> 00:44:22.760 in the water. I bet it presents its cocktail sausage shaped pink nose proudly 681 00:44:22.800 --> 00:44:25.559 to society, but it buries the rest of its body deep within the sand. 682 00:44:27.159 --> 00:44:31.880 The Pokemon Center accurately represents that as an oblong sheet white plush with a 683 00:44:31.960 --> 00:44:37.000 cheery pinkish tip extending from a puffy patch of ground, or a dick extending 684 00:44:37.039 --> 00:44:40.519 from its balls if you glance at it really quickly. In any case, 685 00:44:40.559 --> 00:44:45.400 this long, pokey plush version of the Garden Eel Pokemon is ready to stand 686 00:44:45.440 --> 00:44:49.679 tall as part of your plush collection, perch on your couch, coffee table, 687 00:44:49.800 --> 00:44:54.760 or bookshelf, says the Pokemon Center's description of Wigglet. They know what 688 00:44:54.800 --> 00:44:58.719 they're doing, right, Jesse, you know what they're doing over there. 689 00:44:58.760 --> 00:45:02.119 I know what they're doing. I know what they're doing. Oh wait, 690 00:45:02.119 --> 00:45:05.480 you might be muted. I think you might be muted, Jess you I'm 691 00:45:05.519 --> 00:45:07.239 not holding the button. Sorry, I pushed to talk as otherwise it's shitty. 692 00:45:07.440 --> 00:45:10.000 I think they might just be dildo sheets. They had extras up and 693 00:45:10.039 --> 00:45:13.800 they just made it a little diglet face for it. To tell them that's 694 00:45:13.840 --> 00:45:15.360 that's that's that's the up cycling. That's a good way to do things. 695 00:45:16.159 --> 00:45:20.960 I should call him, went one popular fan reaction on Twitter. This is 696 00:45:21.000 --> 00:45:24.559 going to rag me up my asshole set another equal but opposite reaction. In 697 00:45:24.599 --> 00:45:30.480 addition to its length, the twenty five dollars Wiglet plush boasts honorable girth at 698 00:45:30.480 --> 00:45:36.159 four and three quarters inches embroidered soft fabric at the Pokemon center indicates and it's 699 00:45:36.400 --> 00:45:39.599 bindable body lets you create custom poses, so you could do puppetry of the 700 00:45:39.719 --> 00:45:45.599 of the Wiglet. Yeah, you shove a couple of these, so you 701 00:45:45.679 --> 00:45:47.079 take out the stuffing. You just shove some stuff up in there and you're 702 00:45:47.079 --> 00:45:50.760 good to go. Yeah, you're just saying, get bridget. You just 703 00:45:50.840 --> 00:45:53.159 gotta go. Rot it up, Just rot it up. Lollipop chains I'll 704 00:45:53.159 --> 00:45:58.719 Rebake titled Lollipop chains I'll RePOP delayed the summer twenty twenty four. As we 705 00:45:58.719 --> 00:46:04.679 move on from Wiglet and his turgid self from sal Romano at jamat gimats excuse 706 00:46:04.719 --> 00:46:08.480 me, Dragami Games has delayed the Lollipop Chainsaw remake from its previously planned twenty 707 00:46:08.519 --> 00:46:13.239 twenty three released window to summer twenty twenty four, as well as announced it's 708 00:46:13.280 --> 00:46:17.480 an official title to be Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP. Platforms were not announced. This 709 00:46:17.559 --> 00:46:22.679 is not the only game getting delayed right now. Devolver Digital pretty much delayed 710 00:46:22.719 --> 00:46:25.880 everything that it was imaginable. It was so good. It was a good 711 00:46:27.199 --> 00:46:29.960 that they did. They still got a couple, but they didn't even they 712 00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:32.599 didn't date the couple that are still this year and then like Plucky Squire and 713 00:46:32.639 --> 00:46:38.119 other one's going next year in the Devolver Delayed showcase exactly. So I mean, 714 00:46:38.719 --> 00:46:43.760 if you if your game needs more time, I would say, now, 715 00:46:43.960 --> 00:46:46.519 there's never been a better time for a delay than right now. Getting 716 00:46:46.519 --> 00:46:51.360 out of August, get out of October, get out of September, maybe 717 00:46:51.400 --> 00:46:54.960 November, maybe we got called duty called January, February. Like you go 718 00:46:55.079 --> 00:46:58.960 December through February. I am, I love you. If you want to 719 00:46:58.960 --> 00:47:00.960 do that, please any of those games, like anything in what's like, 720 00:47:01.000 --> 00:47:05.679 just go in December right now that that would be relatively safe. But if 721 00:47:05.679 --> 00:47:07.280 you want to get out into early twenty twenty four, like that, that's 722 00:47:07.320 --> 00:47:09.519 gonna get You know, a lot of games are going to come out then 723 00:47:09.519 --> 00:47:13.480 as well, but it's not going to be as busy as it is right 724 00:47:13.519 --> 00:47:15.039 now. Right now, it just feels relentless. I know. There's like 725 00:47:15.079 --> 00:47:20.239 this this constant deluge of console war idiots going on about Balter's Gate three, 726 00:47:20.440 --> 00:47:22.840 and I'm like, thank Christ it is delayed on Xbox, because I have 727 00:47:23.039 --> 00:47:28.079 no idea how I could have covered it if it wasn't delayed, because like 728 00:47:28.119 --> 00:47:31.079 I played three hours and I got almost nowhere in on PC and I love 729 00:47:31.159 --> 00:47:34.440 them like boy, I can't wait to review this. I really hope it 730 00:47:34.480 --> 00:47:37.880 doesn't come out to like January or February. Yep. I bet they'll figure 731 00:47:37.920 --> 00:47:40.920 out how to get that went out relatively quickly though. So do you think 732 00:47:42.119 --> 00:47:45.679 it's just it's really smart on their part because they moved up a month they 733 00:47:45.719 --> 00:47:50.119 avoid Starfield. Yeah, they release right when Starfield is but on the console 734 00:47:50.159 --> 00:47:52.880 that doesn't get Starfield. Yep. And then once Starfield has been out for 735 00:47:52.920 --> 00:47:58.079 a while, they can release on Xbox and they've got three awesome launches and 736 00:47:58.400 --> 00:48:00.519 it's just really smart. It is. Uh, yes, it is. 737 00:48:00.840 --> 00:48:04.960 Really they played their cards the best way that they possibly could, I think, 738 00:48:05.000 --> 00:48:07.280 and it's gonna they're gonna get rewarded for it in terms of lots of 739 00:48:07.360 --> 00:48:13.079 money. That's the theme of the today's episode. Uh okay, what do 740 00:48:13.119 --> 00:48:16.239 we got going here? We got a poll from yesterday where we asked, 741 00:48:16.840 --> 00:48:20.840 and I'm gonna good a right here for everybody, have you ever bought a 742 00:48:20.960 --> 00:48:24.000 cosmetic skin in a game that was priced higher than ten dollars? Thirty three 743 00:48:24.039 --> 00:48:28.679 percent said yes, sixty seven sent percent said no. Is that from yesterday 744 00:48:28.760 --> 00:48:30.000 or is that from the one from before. Oh no, that's right, 745 00:48:30.000 --> 00:48:32.000 that was from the day before. It said twenty one hours ago, and 746 00:48:32.000 --> 00:48:35.920 I just didn't hit refresh. Have you watched Twisted Metal? There we go, 747 00:48:36.039 --> 00:48:38.039 there's the new one. Yes, I binged it. It's five percent. 748 00:48:38.239 --> 00:48:42.199 Yes, I watched its six percent, thirty two percent said no, 749 00:48:42.280 --> 00:48:45.519 but I will, and fifty eight percent says no, I won't ever. 750 00:48:45.079 --> 00:48:50.000 Uh yeah. That's actually pretty good for people who are at least intending to 751 00:48:50.039 --> 00:48:52.920 watch it, if you, because that puts it over you know, near 752 00:48:52.239 --> 00:48:57.480 fifty percent, you know, paramount thing. That's pretty good because they're still 753 00:48:57.559 --> 00:49:00.639 building themselves up to where like Disney end Netflix all them are. Ye, 754 00:49:00.960 --> 00:49:05.800 I'm interested, but I'm so sick of spending for streaming services that no. 755 00:49:05.960 --> 00:49:08.519 And yes for the other one, I finally did. I bought the one 756 00:49:08.559 --> 00:49:14.039 Punchman bundle for Overwatch two with Microsoft reward points, which was like twenty bucks. 757 00:49:14.239 --> 00:49:16.960 Yep, it's uh yes, and I'm I'm I'm kind of like the 758 00:49:17.000 --> 00:49:22.679 same with Twisted Metal, where it's like I'm curious, but I'm just gonna 759 00:49:22.760 --> 00:49:24.719 keep watching the lost. Do you know what I can't? I can give 760 00:49:24.719 --> 00:49:29.119 you a press email. They sent me a code for three months of peacock 761 00:49:29.159 --> 00:49:30.440 to watch it. I'm going to watch it, all right. I'll send 762 00:49:30.440 --> 00:49:36.239 you that fantastic and tell me all about it. All right. Let's see 763 00:49:36.280 --> 00:49:37.440 here, I got a pull question for tomorrow. But before we get to 764 00:49:37.519 --> 00:49:40.960 that, Jesse, why don't you talking a wiggle question for tomorrow? For 765 00:49:42.440 --> 00:49:45.119 Monday too? I'm that's all. Listen. You see wigglet and you just 766 00:49:45.119 --> 00:49:49.320 can't even think straight anymore? Jesse? Where can people find you and your 767 00:49:49.440 --> 00:49:57.320 your your wiglet only xbox Era only fans that Nick keeps talking about wanting to 768 00:49:57.320 --> 00:50:00.280 do, But it's xbox Er dot com. We're our Patreon dot com for 769 00:50:00.360 --> 00:50:06.480 its chexbox Era. We're doing a sick Neickflix our patron and YouTube member only 770 00:50:06.559 --> 00:50:09.559 movie podcast because we really needed to get them to stop talking about movies for 771 00:50:09.559 --> 00:50:13.840 an hour during the main video game podcast. Yeah, I understand. So 772 00:50:13.960 --> 00:50:16.400 we've got a We've got the stupidest combo of all time. Tonight we have 773 00:50:16.719 --> 00:50:21.840 Schindler's List because Nick had never seen it, matched with no hard feelings, 774 00:50:22.159 --> 00:50:25.559 our rated rom com. It's it's a it's a weird mix of movies, 775 00:50:25.639 --> 00:50:29.440 but that's fun. It'd be fun. That's cool. It should be good. 776 00:50:29.480 --> 00:50:30.760 I'm excited to hear about that. We we actually just started our Columbo 777 00:50:30.800 --> 00:50:36.639 podcast Columbros recorded our first episode yesterday, me and Mike. That's right now. 778 00:50:36.639 --> 00:50:38.800 It's only for Patreon members and stuff like that. I love Colombo. 779 00:50:39.000 --> 00:50:43.719 Yeah, what was the one that was the boomer show I would watch growing 780 00:50:43.760 --> 00:50:45.599 up? That was the one they were trying to do mash and some other 781 00:50:45.639 --> 00:50:50.519 songs. Can't do Matt Locke. Yeah, keep me over there on on 782 00:50:50.559 --> 00:50:54.079 Columbo Colombo. Excuse me, but it was a lot of fun. That 783 00:50:54.119 --> 00:50:59.719 first episode, directed by Steven Spielberg, is just fantastic. Okay, new 784 00:50:59.760 --> 00:51:04.519 Paul. Have you ever tried GTA role playing? Yes? No, but 785 00:51:04.559 --> 00:51:07.239 I want to know, but I would try in GTA six and just straight 786 00:51:07.320 --> 00:51:12.440 up no. So that is going to be going up on YouTube dot com 787 00:51:12.440 --> 00:51:15.880 slash at giant bomb. The community tab there has all our polls. Feel 788 00:51:15.880 --> 00:51:21.239 free to vote on that and we'll get to that on Monday on giant bomb 789 00:51:21.280 --> 00:51:23.440 dot com. Speaking at GiantBomb dot com, what do we have happening today? 790 00:51:23.480 --> 00:51:27.960 We're gonna be doing a upf I believe that is happening at one pm 791 00:51:28.000 --> 00:51:30.360 Eastern. Everybody. That's that's ten am Pacific, so a little bit earlier 792 00:51:30.400 --> 00:51:34.480 than you know time has been traditionally. We're moving it up a little bit 793 00:51:34.480 --> 00:51:37.320 to help, uh, you know, because we're balancing people on two coast 794 00:51:37.400 --> 00:51:39.119 a little bit more. So that's going to help out one pm Eastern lookout 795 00:51:39.159 --> 00:51:43.599 for that. I think we're playing We should be able to say it now 796 00:51:43.639 --> 00:51:45.840 because that we're playing it now. I think the embargoes up moving out too. 797 00:51:45.920 --> 00:51:49.199 I did see a review of that, So we're moving out to we're 798 00:51:49.239 --> 00:51:52.800 gonna try to play that. That means no Paulter's Gate three, which I 799 00:51:52.800 --> 00:51:54.559 was really trying to do. Maybe I'll find another slot for that that because 800 00:51:54.559 --> 00:51:59.519 that's happening at one pm though I might do Mortal Kombat afterward. But we're 801 00:51:59.519 --> 00:52:01.000 also there's a couple of quick looks me and Mike. We're talking about recordings. 802 00:52:01.039 --> 00:52:04.719 So it's all just kind of we're trying to balance a few things. 803 00:52:04.760 --> 00:52:07.760 So you know what's fun trying to balance when you try to balance Me in 804 00:52:07.800 --> 00:52:10.320 the US, John in the UK, and Nick and Australia. Yeah, 805 00:52:10.519 --> 00:52:13.760 that's fun. Yeah. At a certain pint, you just gotta be like 806 00:52:13.920 --> 00:52:16.519 Nick, we don't care about your health and sleep safety, anymore. You 807 00:52:16.559 --> 00:52:19.760 just gotta do it when we can do it, Like, I'm sorry, 808 00:52:19.760 --> 00:52:23.800 Australia, deal with it all right. I think I think I wraps up 809 00:52:24.079 --> 00:52:27.920 just about everything. Jesse, thank you so much for taking time to talk 810 00:52:27.920 --> 00:52:30.480 with me about video Go today. And look, my cellular internet held up 811 00:52:30.519 --> 00:52:35.599 just fine. I feel happy. Yeah, so that that T mobile hotspot 812 00:52:35.599 --> 00:52:38.000 really good. I'm I'm so glad that that worked out. It's like that 813 00:52:38.159 --> 00:52:43.159 was literally my only option. Yes, Jesse got a little bit screwed by 814 00:52:43.199 --> 00:52:45.239 his Spheny was not going to be able to be on the Internet for a 815 00:52:45.320 --> 00:52:50.599 year. A day after they said you don't get the internet for a year, 816 00:52:50.599 --> 00:52:52.199 I'm like, what the hell. They're like, oh, your IP 817 00:52:52.360 --> 00:52:55.320 was hijacked and somebody was using it, but it's still it's your fault. 818 00:52:55.400 --> 00:53:00.280 So by thank you, Spectrum, Jesus. Okay, I gotta I have 819 00:53:00.320 --> 00:53:04.840 Spectrum, so I gotta own So they said, oh, you you downloaded 820 00:53:04.840 --> 00:53:07.000 cyberpunk and I'm like, I own cyberpunk on gog. I don't have to 821 00:53:07.079 --> 00:53:13.800 illegally torrent cyberpunk and They're like, we don't care. I'm glad that the 822 00:53:14.280 --> 00:53:17.159 five G internet future is here for you. So that you're able to get 823 00:53:17.239 --> 00:53:22.239 high high enough to do this. Yes, this it worked really well. 824 00:53:22.360 --> 00:53:24.480 So that's a that's fantastic. And you know what, we'll have you back 825 00:53:24.480 --> 00:53:29.079 on game next mornings here in the future on jiant Bomb. But do have 826 00:53:29.199 --> 00:53:31.719 John because it'd be really funny. Trust me, I know the bet I 827 00:53:31.800 --> 00:53:34.880 know what we're doing there. Absolutely, Joe, we'll get you on on 828 00:53:34.920 --> 00:53:37.840 here. Thanks for watching, everybody, you're the best audience of gaming. 829 00:53:37.880 --> 00:53:39.519 I'll see you on Monday. Until then, have a good one, take 830 00:53:39.559 --> 00:53:42.239 care of yourself. Goodbye.