WEBVTT 1 00:00:07.599 --> 00:00:10.439 Hey, everybody, Welcome to Game Best Morning is presented by 2 00:00:10.759 --> 00:00:13.279 ms I with me Jeff Grub, your host from Giant 3 00:00:13.279 --> 00:00:16.320 bomb dot com. Thank you for tuning in. In this episode, 4 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:18.839 we're gonna be talking about Sony making a new handheld 5 00:00:18.839 --> 00:00:21.559 that sounds a lot like the Switch. It's gonna be 6 00:00:21.559 --> 00:00:24.160 a good episode because we have lex Ludi on the show. LEXI, 7 00:00:24.239 --> 00:00:24.920 how are you doing? 8 00:00:25.519 --> 00:00:28.160 The thing I love about Giant Bomb is like one 9 00:00:28.160 --> 00:00:30.519 person tags out and one person tags in and it 10 00:00:30.600 --> 00:00:32.359 just runs like a well oiled machine. 11 00:00:32.479 --> 00:00:33.719 You can't tell the difference. 12 00:00:34.039 --> 00:00:36.320 Yeah, it's like a sports team where they just have 13 00:00:36.399 --> 00:00:38.240 their playbook and everyone knows that role. 14 00:00:38.320 --> 00:00:38.479 Man. 15 00:00:39.439 --> 00:00:41.520 Yep, it's it's beautiful. 16 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:43.880 It's I will mute you and take over your spot. 17 00:00:44.159 --> 00:00:48.640 I don't think the thing is I know Sean isn't joking. 18 00:00:50.799 --> 00:00:52.679 Never joked Sean, not once in his life. 19 00:00:53.079 --> 00:00:56.399 Uh yeah, it's uh, look, we're doing our best over here. 20 00:00:56.479 --> 00:00:59.039 I most of it's just like me being like where 21 00:00:59.079 --> 00:01:01.200 am I at me in the right direction? Where am 22 00:01:01.200 --> 00:01:04.079 I supposed to be right now? But we're we're making 23 00:01:04.120 --> 00:01:06.519 it work. It's been fun still, That's what That's all 24 00:01:06.519 --> 00:01:09.280 that matters, right, everybody, It's not like anyone's paying for this. 25 00:01:09.879 --> 00:01:12.640 Uh lex, see, how are you doing well? 26 00:01:12.760 --> 00:01:16.439 I'm so fucking tired. I'm so tired. I was out 27 00:01:16.439 --> 00:01:20.239 of Games Calm. I had my flight home canceled while 28 00:01:20.280 --> 00:01:22.920 I was at Games Calm, which, let me tell you 29 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:25.200 that rules, and then having it to be. 30 00:01:25.760 --> 00:01:28.439 Like you got to go like you're going to different country. 31 00:01:28.719 --> 00:01:31.000 It's like if if your flight get canceled, what do. 32 00:01:31.040 --> 00:01:31.959 They expect you to do? 33 00:01:32.239 --> 00:01:35.120 It's so weird flights getting canceled such a crazy because 34 00:01:35.120 --> 00:01:35.599 it might me. 35 00:01:35.680 --> 00:01:39.040 Still, the thing that really annoyed me was I booked 36 00:01:39.159 --> 00:01:41.480 return flights and then I had to be out there 37 00:01:41.480 --> 00:01:44.319 a day early for in video event, so I booked 38 00:01:44.359 --> 00:01:47.280 another flash that would get me out there a day early, 39 00:01:47.879 --> 00:01:50.439 and then because I didn't show up for the first 40 00:01:50.519 --> 00:01:53.719 of my like flights that I had originally booked, they 41 00:01:53.799 --> 00:01:57.040 just canceled everything after that because they were like, oh, 42 00:01:57.079 --> 00:01:59.799 this person didn't show up, and I had to win 43 00:01:59.840 --> 00:02:02.480 them and be like, hey, no, I'm in the country. 44 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:05.079 I got a different flish and they're like, oh, we're 45 00:02:05.079 --> 00:02:06.959 going to charge you one hundred and fifty yerho to 46 00:02:07.040 --> 00:02:10.800 rebook it. And I was like that's great. Can I 47 00:02:10.840 --> 00:02:13.439 rebook it, and they were like, no, you can only 48 00:02:13.479 --> 00:02:16.039 do that a day beforehand, so you're gonna have to 49 00:02:16.039 --> 00:02:21.639 bring us back again the day beforehand, which resulted in 50 00:02:21.719 --> 00:02:25.639 me having to cancel two appointments at Gamescom because the 51 00:02:25.680 --> 00:02:28.840 only times that their fucking customer service was open was 52 00:02:28.919 --> 00:02:32.680 during the working day. So in total, I missed out 53 00:02:32.680 --> 00:02:34.840 on two appointments that I was meant to be like 54 00:02:35.319 --> 00:02:38.960 getting freelance commissioned to cover and also pay the one 55 00:02:39.039 --> 00:02:41.120 hundred and fifty y oh so I lost out on 56 00:02:41.159 --> 00:02:45.360 about four hundred and seventy euho because they canceled my flights. 57 00:02:46.199 --> 00:02:49.159 Just it's fun to travel. It's what I've described, It's fun, 58 00:02:49.759 --> 00:02:54.879 no downsides to it whatsoever. Yeah, we I'm like looking 59 00:02:54.960 --> 00:02:56.960 over at packs and I'm like, packs has happening this 60 00:02:57.000 --> 00:02:58.879 weekend and I would love to have been there, but 61 00:02:58.919 --> 00:03:00.000 also happy to not be trying. 62 00:03:00.919 --> 00:03:02.800 Yeah, it's a lot of that has lost. 63 00:03:02.599 --> 00:03:05.680 Its luster on me, especially anytime going to cities I've 64 00:03:05.719 --> 00:03:07.199 been to a bunch of times before. 65 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:10.680 I like Seattle. I do like being at these places, 66 00:03:11.080 --> 00:03:12.479 but I like being at home too. 67 00:03:12.599 --> 00:03:14.439 That's nice, ye, And I will say, first time in 68 00:03:14.479 --> 00:03:18.400 Frankfurt Airport ever the worst airport bar none I've ever 69 00:03:18.439 --> 00:03:21.800 been in. Fine, genuinely one of the most miserable places 70 00:03:21.800 --> 00:03:25.319 on Earth. Just nowhere to sit once you get through security, 71 00:03:25.560 --> 00:03:30.520 nowhere to get food. Fucking miserable experience. But apart from that, 72 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:31.759 Game's Come was good. 73 00:03:32.120 --> 00:03:35.840 Is it like, is it a confusing or is it 74 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:37.719 just like a drab place to be? 75 00:03:38.159 --> 00:03:40.319 It is a drab place to be and there's like 76 00:03:40.479 --> 00:03:44.000 nowhere to sit down once you go through security, so 77 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:46.080 you're just like, well, I guess I'm just sitting on 78 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:48.000 the ground. This is great, And. 79 00:03:49.240 --> 00:03:52.400 Yeah, that's also crazy. Also one of theone doesn't understand 80 00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:53.240 what airports are like. 81 00:03:53.319 --> 00:03:55.159 That's it's one of those airports where it like they 82 00:03:55.159 --> 00:03:58.639 don't have anywhere to refill your water bottles, which I 83 00:03:58.680 --> 00:04:01.319 think should be like a fucking criminal act. Yeah, like 84 00:04:01.400 --> 00:04:05.039 you let people allow to allow people to refill their 85 00:04:05.080 --> 00:04:09.199 warhabah holes when they get through security. It's awful. But 86 00:04:09.240 --> 00:04:10.120 games Come was good. 87 00:04:10.479 --> 00:04:11.960 Yeah, I'm glad to hear it. 88 00:04:12.120 --> 00:04:14.319 I'm sure we'll have opportunities here to talk about it 89 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:16.560 throughout the news, maybe a little bit here or there, 90 00:04:17.399 --> 00:04:20.079 but let's explain ourselves. We're giant bomb. 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But all last, 121 00:05:38.439 --> 00:05:41.839 here we are the latest rumor from YouTube channels A 122 00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:46.360 channel Moore's Law is Dead via push Square. Is particularly 123 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:48.920 significant because it seems to hint that Sony is planning 124 00:05:48.920 --> 00:05:51.720 to launch a variant of the PS six that will 125 00:05:51.759 --> 00:05:54.319 not only be a handheld, but can also be docked, 126 00:05:54.759 --> 00:05:58.079 just like the Switch and switch to. Code named CANNIS, 127 00:05:58.519 --> 00:06:02.800 the handheld is suppose one of three skews play planned 128 00:06:02.959 --> 00:06:06.000 for the PlayStation six. The main one will be Orion, 129 00:06:06.160 --> 00:06:08.879 which will be your bog standard flagship console with all 130 00:06:08.879 --> 00:06:12.319 of the specs. The second is the Canus handheld, and 131 00:06:12.439 --> 00:06:16.120 the third is the Canus console or the PS six S. 132 00:06:16.959 --> 00:06:19.600 The latter two will share similar specs and will likely 133 00:06:19.639 --> 00:06:22.160 lean closer to what Sony is currently offering with the 134 00:06:22.160 --> 00:06:25.240 PS five slash PS five Pro, albeit with a few 135 00:06:25.279 --> 00:06:28.759 minor upgrades here and there. So essentially, rather than focusing 136 00:06:28.759 --> 00:06:31.120 on sheer power, because if it ain't obvious by now, 137 00:06:31.319 --> 00:06:33.720 we're very much past the area of the era of 138 00:06:33.759 --> 00:06:36.839 power and we're into diminishing returns, Sony is seemingly looking 139 00:06:36.879 --> 00:06:39.439 to capture both the console and handle and handheld market. 140 00:06:39.639 --> 00:06:40.040 Hopefully. 141 00:06:40.120 --> 00:06:42.959 This might also mean that it's able to offer slightly 142 00:06:43.040 --> 00:06:46.480 cheaper options because of the so called Orion uh is 143 00:06:46.519 --> 00:06:48.639 going to retail at a similar price to the PS 144 00:06:48.720 --> 00:06:49.160 five Pro. 145 00:06:49.560 --> 00:06:50.519 We'll see if that happens. 146 00:06:50.879 --> 00:06:54.959 Uh yeah, yeah, Okay, So there's a couple of things here. 147 00:06:55.439 --> 00:06:57.639 Uh you know, this comes from Moore's Law is dead 148 00:06:57.680 --> 00:06:59.360 who you know, is kind of all over the place 149 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:02.480 with rumors, but it has had some rumors that have 150 00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:05.800 been born out when it comes to PlayStation stuff specifically, 151 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:09.360 and especially anything that uses the AMD chipset inside of 152 00:07:09.360 --> 00:07:12.439 the PlayStation. So let's just kind of take this as 153 00:07:12.439 --> 00:07:14.439 all right, maybe this is happening. Let's discuss it as 154 00:07:14.439 --> 00:07:19.240 a possibility here. This is going to apparently have a 155 00:07:19.279 --> 00:07:22.040 system where it'll have a handheld mode and it'll run 156 00:07:22.040 --> 00:07:25.120 at a certain power level and then you can dock it, 157 00:07:25.160 --> 00:07:27.240 and when it's docked, it will run at a higher 158 00:07:27.279 --> 00:07:29.560 power level, so you get more performance out of there. 159 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:32.560 That's a little bit different than how some things work, 160 00:07:32.680 --> 00:07:35.480 like the Steam deck can get more power if you 161 00:07:35.680 --> 00:07:37.920 like plug it in or whatever. Switch tends to not 162 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:41.040 give you too many more differences other than games will 163 00:07:41.079 --> 00:07:43.560 have different profiles in certain situations, but it's not like 164 00:07:43.839 --> 00:07:45.839 all of a sudden a ton more power is unlocked. 165 00:07:47.920 --> 00:07:52.399 So yeah, I am curious to see what Sony's thinking 166 00:07:52.439 --> 00:07:55.720 internally about running another handheld out there. This is a 167 00:07:55.759 --> 00:07:59.560 company that has done this multiple times before, not exactly 168 00:07:59.639 --> 00:08:03.439 like this pretty different from a PlayStation portable or PlayStation 169 00:08:03.560 --> 00:08:05.879 VDA in some key ways, but they are going to 170 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:08.399 be going into a space that Nintendo dominates and is 171 00:08:08.439 --> 00:08:10.959 also pretty busy with PC handhelds. 172 00:08:11.480 --> 00:08:13.160 So what do you think when you hear all this. 173 00:08:14.720 --> 00:08:17.439 The thing that gives me a bit of hesitancy about 174 00:08:17.439 --> 00:08:20.600 this rumor is the idea of launching three console skews 175 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:25.120 at once, Like that seems nuts. And also you look 176 00:08:25.160 --> 00:08:29.319 at the history of multiple console skews in recent years 177 00:08:29.600 --> 00:08:35.000 and the like how the Xbox Series S has affected 178 00:08:35.039 --> 00:08:39.600 development on that platform. It hasn't made life easier, it's 179 00:08:39.639 --> 00:08:43.360 made it harder for them to get games running at Parashee. 180 00:08:44.120 --> 00:08:47.360 It's made some games just haven't come to Xbox because 181 00:08:47.360 --> 00:08:51.639 they don't want to deal with the series s And like, yes, 182 00:08:51.799 --> 00:08:55.759 the PS six that has the handheld version will probably 183 00:08:55.759 --> 00:08:59.120 wind up becoming the version that the most people want 184 00:08:59.159 --> 00:09:03.320 to buy. But also if they're saying that the PS 185 00:09:03.360 --> 00:09:07.840 six that is just a traditional console is the flagship version, 186 00:09:08.279 --> 00:09:12.200 then they will also be trying to incentivize developers to 187 00:09:12.240 --> 00:09:15.399 make their games look better on that, And I think 188 00:09:15.440 --> 00:09:19.600 it's a very weird place to stash a console generation 189 00:09:19.799 --> 00:09:25.480 with a like lineup that is already that splitsh It 190 00:09:25.559 --> 00:09:28.320 makes sense as a generation goes on to give people 191 00:09:28.360 --> 00:09:31.360 more options and to kind of be like, well, now 192 00:09:31.399 --> 00:09:33.559 you can buy the Switch lighth which you know you 193 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:36.279 can't dark, but it's cheaper. Or now you can buy 194 00:09:36.279 --> 00:09:38.600 the PS five Pro, which is more expensive, but you 195 00:09:38.600 --> 00:09:42.039 know it's for the premium user. And starting out like 196 00:09:42.080 --> 00:09:47.799 that it seems I don't know, it seems risky because 197 00:09:48.279 --> 00:09:51.960 people already like the switch because they can just plug 198 00:09:51.960 --> 00:09:55.720 it in and play, like that's the convenience of the switch, 199 00:09:55.759 --> 00:10:01.240 that's the convenience of consoles, and the idea of instead 200 00:10:01.240 --> 00:10:03.879 of playing Interlash and just being like, no, we're just 201 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:05.759 doing a handheld hybrid and this is going to be 202 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:10.039 what we do. And I think they're almost scared to 203 00:10:10.080 --> 00:10:12.840 put all their chips down on just doing a handheld hybrid, 204 00:10:13.120 --> 00:10:15.080 even if they think that is the way forward for 205 00:10:15.120 --> 00:10:20.320 the console markers. But also like, I don't know how 206 00:10:20.399 --> 00:10:24.360 much effort they're going to put into a fully traditional 207 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:27.440 console system if the handheld hybrid is where they want 208 00:10:27.480 --> 00:10:32.159 their eggs to eventually wind up. So, yeah, what do 209 00:10:32.200 --> 00:10:35.360 you think of this, because like I'm super split on it. 210 00:10:36.240 --> 00:10:39.480 Yeah, I mean, I think that they are right that 211 00:10:39.559 --> 00:10:43.200 they do need to have some presence in this space, 212 00:10:44.120 --> 00:10:48.039 whether or not they can figure that out, whether or 213 00:10:48.039 --> 00:10:50.559 not they can sort of make that make sense and 214 00:10:50.600 --> 00:10:52.600 present it in a right way that won't sort of 215 00:10:52.600 --> 00:10:57.000 degrade what happens with the core PlayStation six console and 216 00:10:57.519 --> 00:11:01.519 at the same time, is enough to compete and you know, 217 00:11:01.639 --> 00:11:03.720 get a little bit of the market share from Nintendo 218 00:11:04.159 --> 00:11:07.399 something that will be difficult, and then if it's like, 219 00:11:07.559 --> 00:11:09.960 if that's not the strategy, then then them being able 220 00:11:09.960 --> 00:11:11.639 to find a way to kind of set themselves to the. 221 00:11:11.639 --> 00:11:13.879 Side of that. I mean, I think that they're right 222 00:11:13.960 --> 00:11:14.639 that there is. 223 00:11:14.559 --> 00:11:16.240 Going to be a lot of people who have grown 224 00:11:16.279 --> 00:11:19.639 up playing handhelds their whole lives because of Nintendo, and 225 00:11:19.759 --> 00:11:21.799 we'll be like looking at stuff like the Steam Deck 226 00:11:21.919 --> 00:11:24.519 and all these other things and going that's maybe that's 227 00:11:24.519 --> 00:11:26.480 where I should be. I mean, I'll probably still have 228 00:11:26.519 --> 00:11:28.679 a Nintendo system, but I want to have something else 229 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:31.080 that could play all these other games. And Sony can 230 00:11:31.240 --> 00:11:33.720 offer that and in a really compelling way, and a 231 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:35.519 big and a big part of that is they can 232 00:11:35.559 --> 00:11:37.919 still make it a console where it's like just very 233 00:11:37.960 --> 00:11:42.559 simple to use and people still really want that. I 234 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:46.039 just think that every time that they've done this before, 235 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:49.679 it has been dragged down because they try to have 236 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:53.440 two separate like pathways, you know, parallel pathways. So if 237 00:11:53.440 --> 00:11:56.120 we're developing the big games over here and we're developing 238 00:11:56.120 --> 00:12:00.120 the smaller games over here, and they can't support. 239 00:12:00.080 --> 00:12:02.519 Team was always on Visa. The B teams team always 240 00:12:02.559 --> 00:12:04.480 put on always put on Visa games. 241 00:12:04.840 --> 00:12:07.080 Yes, that's right, I mean, and really the B team 242 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:09.360 was put on a lot of PSP games, and then 243 00:12:09.759 --> 00:12:11.720 no team was put on a lot of Vita stuff 244 00:12:11.720 --> 00:12:13.399 where it's like on the Vida the support kind of 245 00:12:13.480 --> 00:12:16.960 dried up like pretty quickly from Sony, uh and some 246 00:12:17.080 --> 00:12:19.000 other you know, third parties. There was a lot of 247 00:12:19.039 --> 00:12:22.440 indies and visual novel games that supported the Vita for 248 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:24.440 a very long time, so it did have some games 249 00:12:24.480 --> 00:12:28.000 coming to it. But uh, that might not be a 250 00:12:28.039 --> 00:12:30.919 problem this time with this thing, because the idea would 251 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:33.840 be that this is just also a PS six that 252 00:12:34.039 --> 00:12:36.000 brings you that brings it up, like to your problem 253 00:12:36.039 --> 00:12:38.240 that you mentioned, like the Xbox Series S has not 254 00:12:38.360 --> 00:12:42.000 caused or has caused some headaches, and so does that 255 00:12:42.039 --> 00:12:46.039 sort of replicate here. I think probably, And I wonder 256 00:12:46.080 --> 00:12:47.480 if like this is Sony just kind. 257 00:12:47.279 --> 00:12:48.360 Of big yeah, go ahead. 258 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:50.679 The really big headache that they are gonna one up 259 00:12:50.679 --> 00:12:53.639 against is like you look at the feature set on 260 00:12:53.720 --> 00:12:56.159 the PS five and this would have to have backwards 261 00:12:56.159 --> 00:13:01.440 compatibility on old Dash like PlayStation five controllers run out 262 00:13:01.480 --> 00:13:04.200 of battery in two hours. And that's just because there's 263 00:13:04.200 --> 00:13:08.159 so much shitting them. There is the with their version 264 00:13:08.200 --> 00:13:13.000 of HD Rumble, there is their gyroroscope, there's their touch pad, 265 00:13:13.399 --> 00:13:16.320 there's their light bars, there's all of this, and I 266 00:13:16.360 --> 00:13:19.799 think that all that stuff being put into a handheld 267 00:13:20.279 --> 00:13:22.480 is going to be a huge battery drain like the 268 00:13:22.639 --> 00:13:27.039 Switch and Steam Deck. They don't have the battery drain 269 00:13:27.200 --> 00:13:30.519 just in a controller that the PlayStation stuff will demand 270 00:13:31.480 --> 00:13:34.799 because people will expect this to be backwards compatible. So 271 00:13:35.000 --> 00:13:37.600 I think that, like already, they're going to have a 272 00:13:37.639 --> 00:13:40.240 real challenge with getting this thing to be power efficient. 273 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:41.240 Yep. 274 00:13:41.320 --> 00:13:44.240 I think yeah, And they're going to face a lot 275 00:13:44.240 --> 00:13:46.519 of other companies and now have a ton of experience 276 00:13:46.559 --> 00:13:48.879 in the space and might have a little bit more 277 00:13:49.320 --> 00:13:51.519 room to work with because they aren't going to be 278 00:13:51.559 --> 00:13:55.600 anchored to something like a PS six. If they do 279 00:13:55.639 --> 00:13:57.919 this and they can position this as a PS six, 280 00:13:58.639 --> 00:14:01.639 every game is going to have to work, right, Like, 281 00:14:02.720 --> 00:14:04.000 is there any way that they could try to find 282 00:14:04.039 --> 00:14:06.480 a way through messaging to be like, these are the 283 00:14:06.519 --> 00:14:08.840 games that don't work on your PS six because it's 284 00:14:08.840 --> 00:14:11.559 the handheld PS six that just can't work right. 285 00:14:11.879 --> 00:14:14.240 No, I don't think you can get away with that, especially, 286 00:14:15.159 --> 00:14:18.039 you know, if your call if you also have a 287 00:14:18.039 --> 00:14:21.679 PS six S model, which is apparently a not like 288 00:14:21.759 --> 00:14:25.320 a traditional console style that is as powerful as the handheld. 289 00:14:26.600 --> 00:14:29.279 I don't think like the idea having two consoles on 290 00:14:29.320 --> 00:14:33.000 the market and one of the games like games can 291 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:37.200 play on only one of them. Seems nuts, like that 292 00:14:37.320 --> 00:14:42.679 would never that would never fly. So yeah, I think 293 00:14:42.679 --> 00:14:47.200 that we've seen this as platforms open up and democracy 294 00:14:47.480 --> 00:14:51.519 take democracization of tools and all of that, developers have 295 00:14:51.559 --> 00:14:55.080 really struggled with getting things running on every single platform 296 00:14:55.120 --> 00:14:57.159 and they have to pick their battles more than ever. 297 00:14:57.720 --> 00:15:02.919 And it I think that one of the real like 298 00:15:03.639 --> 00:15:06.600 luxuries of the console market was if you were a 299 00:15:06.639 --> 00:15:12.279 PlayStation exclusive developer, you could just build your games for PlayStation. 300 00:15:12.519 --> 00:15:14.559 You know, you start with like the cell processor on 301 00:15:14.600 --> 00:15:17.039 the PS three, games that were just built for that 302 00:15:17.159 --> 00:15:20.159 could look really fucking good. Whereas now you're gonna have 303 00:15:20.159 --> 00:15:23.320 a situation where they're at least building for three console SKUs. 304 00:15:23.840 --> 00:15:26.120 Most of these games will probably also be making their 305 00:15:26.120 --> 00:15:29.440 way to Xbox and Switch by this time. And also 306 00:15:29.519 --> 00:15:33.399 they're doing all their porching to PC now, I think 307 00:15:33.440 --> 00:15:38.519 it's gonna like really strain their pipeline. And like they 308 00:15:38.960 --> 00:15:43.080 recently gushed what was it, the PlayStation Support Studio, the 309 00:15:43.200 --> 00:15:48.080 Sony Arts Studio or whatever it was, but like they 310 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:51.039 have Nixy's, but they're kind of a PC porching house, 311 00:15:51.480 --> 00:15:53.919 So I just wonder where the extra support comes from 312 00:15:54.039 --> 00:15:57.000 for them to be able to get these games running 313 00:15:57.039 --> 00:16:00.879 at like acceptable qualities, not just on their souls, but 314 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:02.919 on all the other platforms that they want to be 315 00:16:02.960 --> 00:16:03.519 releasing on. 316 00:16:04.080 --> 00:16:06.720 Yeah, I mean, I think you're kind of getting that. Really. 317 00:16:06.759 --> 00:16:09.840 The maybe the Achilles steel here is, you know, the 318 00:16:09.879 --> 00:16:12.639 reason people buy the Nintendo handheld is to play Nintendo games. 319 00:16:12.679 --> 00:16:15.320 And matt on mapis Catel from Mister Kana earlier this week, 320 00:16:15.480 --> 00:16:18.399 and it's like, yeah, never forget that, that's why people 321 00:16:18.399 --> 00:16:21.440 buy the Nintendo handheld. And I think people buy the 322 00:16:21.840 --> 00:16:26.360 Sony system for Sony games, but there are fewer of 323 00:16:26.399 --> 00:16:29.159 those right these days that it feels like there's fewer 324 00:16:29.159 --> 00:16:31.279 of those that are really moving the needle, at least 325 00:16:31.320 --> 00:16:33.240 the big ones that everyone does talk about. 326 00:16:33.279 --> 00:16:38.360 Sony PlayStation is out now, while Soulicides out this week. 327 00:16:38.440 --> 00:16:40.240 Is that what we're talking about here, That's not what 328 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:43.039 I'm talking about when I'm when I'm mentioning this concept here, 329 00:16:46.679 --> 00:16:49.080 other than the Shawn's of the world, I think that, 330 00:16:49.440 --> 00:16:51.840 you know, when people go to buy this thing, they'll 331 00:16:51.840 --> 00:16:54.480 be like, Okay, well, why am I getting a PlayStation? 332 00:16:54.879 --> 00:16:58.279 It's to play Madden Call of Duty Fortnite it's. 333 00:16:58.159 --> 00:16:59.759 To play all these games that are available on a 334 00:17:00.039 --> 00:17:02.519 lot of different places, and there's going to be other 335 00:17:02.679 --> 00:17:07.559 handhelds that will likely be maybe more affordable and or 336 00:17:07.680 --> 00:17:10.960 more powerful, and or have more stores on them, so 337 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:13.079 you can more easily access some of this stuff, maybe 338 00:17:13.599 --> 00:17:15.359 a place where you've already been playing this stuff. I 339 00:17:15.359 --> 00:17:17.279 guess that's the thing that maybe Sony's trying to do 340 00:17:17.319 --> 00:17:19.400 here is there are a lot of people who already 341 00:17:19.400 --> 00:17:22.119 play those games on PlayStation and they want to take 342 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:24.200 their save file on their account, and they want to 343 00:17:24.200 --> 00:17:26.359 have that be seamless, and they want to serve that 344 00:17:26.440 --> 00:17:28.640 audience over here, and they have evidence that people that 345 00:17:28.720 --> 00:17:31.160 audience does want to play on a handheld because the 346 00:17:31.200 --> 00:17:34.599 PlayStation portal sold way better than they were ever expecting. 347 00:17:34.839 --> 00:17:37.400 Whether that means that that audience can now support a 348 00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:41.480 PS six handheld, we'll see. I just think that they 349 00:17:41.480 --> 00:17:45.720 are in such a different situation because Nintendo's had thirty 350 00:17:45.799 --> 00:17:49.559 years of an audience trained that, hey, our handhelds maybe 351 00:17:49.559 --> 00:17:51.759 your primary way that you're interacting with our stuff because 352 00:17:51.759 --> 00:17:55.160 of Pokemon, and the Sony audience is a little bit 353 00:17:55.200 --> 00:17:57.000 different there. That doesn't mean they shouldn't try this. I 354 00:17:57.000 --> 00:18:00.000 think they probably should. I just wonder if the final 355 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:03.200 product that we see is actually a lot what this 356 00:18:03.319 --> 00:18:06.200 sounds like, or if it's like scaled back, maybe it's 357 00:18:06.519 --> 00:18:09.200 an improved PlayStation portals what they end up settling on. 358 00:18:10.359 --> 00:18:13.160 You know, I will say, I super hope this works 359 00:18:13.200 --> 00:18:19.200 because laystation portable PSVSA they are great handhelds. They feel 360 00:18:19.319 --> 00:18:23.720 really good to hold. Yeah, they like look really nice. 361 00:18:23.839 --> 00:18:27.160 They there is something about those handhelds where it's like, 362 00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:30.200 this is what on the go gaming should feel like, 363 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:33.599 because some of those experiences really were like pushing that 364 00:18:33.680 --> 00:18:37.039 hardware to its limits and were really impressive for what 365 00:18:37.079 --> 00:18:40.000 they are. Like I have Alectroid pocket and the thing 366 00:18:40.039 --> 00:18:42.720 that I play the most on it is PSP games 367 00:18:42.920 --> 00:18:47.799 because they still look fucking awesome and they like are 368 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:51.920 genuinely really fucking good gaming experiences. So like, I want 369 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:54.960 it to work, but I'm just hesitant of this idea 370 00:18:55.000 --> 00:18:59.599 of like three console skews and it it doesn't seem 371 00:18:59.599 --> 00:19:01.960 like a very clear direction, Like I would get it 372 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:04.359 if they were like, no, we are just doing a 373 00:19:04.400 --> 00:19:07.599 handheld hybrid now, but the idea of being like we're 374 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:12.680 doing a handheld and two traditional consoles at launch it's 375 00:19:12.799 --> 00:19:14.200 it seems. 376 00:19:13.960 --> 00:19:14.480 Like a law. 377 00:19:15.519 --> 00:19:17.799 Yeah, it seems it seems like too much, and like 378 00:19:17.839 --> 00:19:22.119 they're setting themselves up for I don't know, not like 379 00:19:22.240 --> 00:19:24.480 if you bear, you focus down on the one thing 380 00:19:24.480 --> 00:19:26.599 you really want to sell, and then over time maybe 381 00:19:26.599 --> 00:19:27.160 you expand. 382 00:19:27.200 --> 00:19:29.160 If they were going to launch all this right away, 383 00:19:29.279 --> 00:19:29.799 I I. 384 00:19:29.880 --> 00:19:31.319 It's the kind of thing where this is the kind 385 00:19:31.319 --> 00:19:33.640 of thing that could cause a console launch delay. 386 00:19:34.079 --> 00:19:35.279 We'll see. 387 00:19:35.319 --> 00:19:37.680 Not that that's any concern, because, as the story rightfully 388 00:19:37.720 --> 00:19:40.079 points out, I am not aching for a PS six 389 00:19:40.200 --> 00:19:43.839 in any way, just like it's not at zero percent, 390 00:19:44.119 --> 00:19:47.160 but it's at like five percent desire level right now 391 00:19:47.160 --> 00:19:47.440 for me. 392 00:19:47.920 --> 00:19:48.119 Uh. 393 00:19:48.640 --> 00:19:50.880 You know, in most new consoles at this point in 394 00:19:50.920 --> 00:19:53.279 their their life, I'm getting up there like, oh yeah, 395 00:19:53.279 --> 00:19:56.240 I'm really looking forward to maybe something new. I think 396 00:19:56.319 --> 00:19:58.640 last gen also took a couple more years than normal 397 00:19:58.680 --> 00:20:00.720 because it was like, yeah, this, there's been plenty of 398 00:20:00.759 --> 00:20:02.839 good games. I'm not necessarily aching for a PS five, 399 00:20:03.160 --> 00:20:04.799 But once they showed it off, I was ready and 400 00:20:04.880 --> 00:20:05.400 rare and to go. 401 00:20:05.559 --> 00:20:07.640 Now it's like, I don't know. 402 00:20:07.799 --> 00:20:10.359 It doesn't feel like we've had our twenty seventeen equivalent. 403 00:20:10.559 --> 00:20:13.160 This generation, you know, it doesn't feel like there's been 404 00:20:13.160 --> 00:20:16.279 a year where you're like, man, what a fucking back 405 00:20:16.319 --> 00:20:20.279 to back bangers throughout the year? Like, there's been great games, 406 00:20:20.400 --> 00:20:22.920 and I think like the overall quality of games has 407 00:20:23.200 --> 00:20:28.279 been excellent recently, but like we haven't had that year 408 00:20:28.319 --> 00:20:30.720 where like literally no one could figure out what game 409 00:20:30.759 --> 00:20:34.720 of the year would be because there's like four games 410 00:20:34.759 --> 00:20:37.680 that are like eligible or like could be some of 411 00:20:37.720 --> 00:20:39.559 the greatest games of all time coming out in the 412 00:20:39.559 --> 00:20:40.039 same year. 413 00:20:40.759 --> 00:20:43.720 Yeah, there's been, Yeah, there has been a lot of 414 00:20:43.720 --> 00:20:47.440 great games. It just has not felt like the PlayStation five, 415 00:20:47.799 --> 00:20:50.160 Xbox Series X, they've not felt like they've had their 416 00:20:50.359 --> 00:20:52.839 definitive year like you're suggesting. And I agree with that 417 00:20:53.960 --> 00:20:56.160 last thing before we move on from this topic. So 418 00:20:56.319 --> 00:21:00.279 PS five pro is seven and fifty dollars. Now all 419 00:21:00.319 --> 00:21:02.200 of their consoles went up like fifty dollars. 420 00:21:02.319 --> 00:21:02.680 I think. 421 00:21:03.319 --> 00:21:05.680 I think when I look at that pricing, part of 422 00:21:05.680 --> 00:21:07.640 me does make me. Part of me does think that 423 00:21:07.680 --> 00:21:10.200 they're setting up the next gin so that they can 424 00:21:10.240 --> 00:21:13.400 step up from these prices, And honestly, having a handheld 425 00:21:13.440 --> 00:21:15.480 in the mix makes it make even more sense to 426 00:21:15.519 --> 00:21:18.759 me because that this thing that the way it's described 427 00:21:19.359 --> 00:21:22.440 can't be less than six hundred dollars, so and I 428 00:21:22.440 --> 00:21:24.160 think if that that's going to be like, Okay, the 429 00:21:24.160 --> 00:21:27.640 six hundred dollars handheld, and maybe the five hundred dollars 430 00:21:27.640 --> 00:21:32.240 PlayStation six S that isn't portable, and then a seven 431 00:21:32.319 --> 00:21:34.960 hundred dollars PS six and then one day an eight 432 00:21:35.079 --> 00:21:38.480 hundred dollars PS six pro. You're making that face that 433 00:21:38.519 --> 00:21:40.400 I think is the correct response to all. 434 00:21:40.279 --> 00:21:43.920 Of these numbers, like making that I'm a freelancer face, yes, 435 00:21:44.079 --> 00:21:46.359 which is like, this is more money than I make 436 00:21:46.400 --> 00:21:47.279 in several months. 437 00:21:47.799 --> 00:21:48.039 Yes. 438 00:21:48.200 --> 00:21:50.920 So I mean, I mean, I don't think you're alone 439 00:21:50.920 --> 00:21:52.640 in that boat off people looking at those numbers and 440 00:21:52.720 --> 00:21:56.640 being like I'm being priced out of this hobby. I mean, 441 00:21:56.720 --> 00:21:59.799 do any of those prices sound wrong to you? I 442 00:21:59.799 --> 00:22:01.640 think that's how this is probably going to shake out. 443 00:22:01.720 --> 00:22:02.839 I feel pretty confident. 444 00:22:03.119 --> 00:22:05.920 They don't sound wrong, and that's what's so upset, you know, 445 00:22:06.359 --> 00:22:12.519 Like I'm thinking about it now and I'm like, motherfucker, yeah. 446 00:22:12.680 --> 00:22:15.079 I think that this is like going to be the 447 00:22:15.160 --> 00:22:19.960 generational problem for this this era of gaming is it's 448 00:22:19.960 --> 00:22:24.200 getting really fucking expensive to keep doing gaming in the 449 00:22:24.200 --> 00:22:28.599 way that we're doing ish and Matt was on this 450 00:22:28.680 --> 00:22:32.480 week talking about how you know, he doesn't think that 451 00:22:32.599 --> 00:22:36.480 like necessarily releasing more games quicker is the solution to things, 452 00:22:37.000 --> 00:22:39.519 and you know, part of that is also like I 453 00:22:39.519 --> 00:22:43.640 don't think making the bigger games come out quicker is 454 00:22:43.680 --> 00:22:48.000 a solution either. And you know, games being this expensive 455 00:22:48.039 --> 00:22:50.440 to make and this expensive to release and markish and 456 00:22:50.559 --> 00:22:53.440 sell to people for the return that they then make 457 00:22:53.519 --> 00:22:57.799 in turn is a problem. And it's now a problem 458 00:22:57.839 --> 00:23:01.400 that's gotten so serious that it is being like the 459 00:23:01.400 --> 00:23:04.960 people who play games are feeling that pinch and companies 460 00:23:05.000 --> 00:23:06.920 are not willing to eat the cost on it. They're 461 00:23:07.400 --> 00:23:10.480 charging through the nose for it. So yeah, I think 462 00:23:10.519 --> 00:23:15.519 that that's gonna be a real challenge of the next generation. 463 00:23:15.880 --> 00:23:18.720 Is like I don't think there's gonna be that many 464 00:23:18.759 --> 00:23:21.359 people like you and me who buy all the consoles anymore, 465 00:23:21.720 --> 00:23:23.799 because I just don't think that's gonna be realistic. 466 00:23:24.200 --> 00:23:27.200 And now we're like as we like as people like 467 00:23:27.319 --> 00:23:29.839 us occasionally do get priced out, it's not like there's 468 00:23:29.839 --> 00:23:32.599 a young person replacing us. That is that is that 469 00:23:32.599 --> 00:23:34.160 way about the hobby where they're like, I'm going to 470 00:23:34.279 --> 00:23:35.839 now get all the consoles They're like, I don't want 471 00:23:35.839 --> 00:23:36.599 to need all the consoles. 472 00:23:36.640 --> 00:23:38.720 I've never needed all the consols. What are you talking about? 473 00:23:39.039 --> 00:23:42.680 And even if there was like they don't have the money, 474 00:23:42.759 --> 00:23:45.200 like even if there were young people that excited about 475 00:23:45.240 --> 00:23:49.240 the hardware, Like what young person has as a young 476 00:23:49.279 --> 00:23:52.160 person that doesn't have money, what young person has money 477 00:23:52.160 --> 00:23:53.079 for this hobby anymore? 478 00:23:53.519 --> 00:23:53.759 Yep? 479 00:23:53.839 --> 00:23:56.759 Yeah, absolutely, all right, Well, let let's keep going with 480 00:23:56.759 --> 00:23:58.599 the headlines here. Real quick, shout out to My Life 481 00:23:58.599 --> 00:24:01.599 and Gaming. Corey did a raid real quick. I like, 482 00:24:01.640 --> 00:24:03.400 we're big fans of My Life and Gaming over here. 483 00:24:03.440 --> 00:24:05.000 I also like, Corey, when you show up in the 484 00:24:05.400 --> 00:24:07.759 Greg Sewart's videos and you do the voices on those videos, 485 00:24:07.799 --> 00:24:11.519 I appreciate that. All right, let's keep going here. Capcom 486 00:24:11.720 --> 00:24:15.880 settles it. No, Pragmata isn't a secret Mega Man game. 487 00:24:15.880 --> 00:24:17.359 This is from Andy Robinson at VEJ. 488 00:24:17.519 --> 00:24:19.519 He's like when Kojima got out there and said he 489 00:24:19.680 --> 00:24:21.960 wasn't the fucking guy. 490 00:24:21.319 --> 00:24:23.559 The bandage head guy. Yeah yeah, He's. 491 00:24:23.480 --> 00:24:26.519 Like, no, no, no, I'm not Walkie Moglin. This is 492 00:24:26.640 --> 00:24:28.200 the Pragmata. Isn't Mega Man. 493 00:24:28.799 --> 00:24:30.680 We all believe you, Capcom. 494 00:24:30.960 --> 00:24:34.440 Capcom is officially debunked the popular online fan theory that 495 00:24:34.480 --> 00:24:37.960 it's upcoming sci fi action game Pragmata is secretly a 496 00:24:38.000 --> 00:24:41.079 Mega Man revival. Online fan theory is kicked off earlier 497 00:24:41.079 --> 00:24:43.920 this year, noting the similarities between the design of Pragmata's 498 00:24:44.039 --> 00:24:47.880 robotic girls sidekick Diana and Capcom's Mega Man, as well 499 00:24:47.880 --> 00:24:50.400 as thematic connections like the game taking place on a 500 00:24:50.480 --> 00:24:54.920 moon base taken over by evil machines infected by a virus. However, 501 00:24:55.400 --> 00:24:59.400 Capcom has now officially debunked the rumor after VGC quizzed 502 00:24:59.519 --> 00:25:02.920 pragmat a producer in nyoto O Yama about the theory. 503 00:25:03.200 --> 00:25:09.160 Pragmatic asking this, but like Juic, just being like, dude, what, 504 00:25:09.160 --> 00:25:12.240 what the fuck are you talking about. I've been working 505 00:25:12.279 --> 00:25:14.400 on this game for seven years and you're asking me 506 00:25:14.400 --> 00:25:16.039 if it's a fucking Mega Man game. 507 00:25:16.480 --> 00:25:19.839 Look, she's got the buster whatever it is, the thing 508 00:25:19.880 --> 00:25:22.319 there on her arm. It looks just like it. Pragmata 509 00:25:22.440 --> 00:25:24.599 is not a Mega Man game, he laughed. It is. 510 00:25:25.039 --> 00:25:27.640 It is a completely new game from Capcom. I was 511 00:25:27.720 --> 00:25:30.160 actually one of the producers on the Mega Man Battle 512 00:25:30.160 --> 00:25:32.359 Network Legacy collection as well, so I'm happy to see 513 00:25:32.400 --> 00:25:35.599 that people who love Mega Man are passionate about Pragmata two. 514 00:25:35.799 --> 00:25:38.720 What a diplomatic answer. From my standpoint, it's nice to 515 00:25:38.720 --> 00:25:42.240 see people are being so positive about it. Give them time. 516 00:25:42.319 --> 00:25:44.880 They they're gonna get toxic about it. It's not when 517 00:25:44.880 --> 00:25:46.640 it turns out to not be the case. 518 00:25:48.240 --> 00:25:50.839 Being fucking angry. He is not happy about this ship. 519 00:25:50.920 --> 00:25:52.799 He's going to sound alighting campaign. 520 00:25:53.960 --> 00:25:56.599 Okay, so I'm not buying this ship. It's definitely a 521 00:25:56.599 --> 00:25:58.200 Mega Man game. This is what they would say. 522 00:25:58.119 --> 00:26:04.559 Right, Having played that demo twice now, I played at 523 00:26:04.640 --> 00:26:06.680 an inn Video e vent A Games Calm, and at 524 00:26:07.039 --> 00:26:12.519 Capcom itself. I just think it's a really fucking good. 525 00:26:11.440 --> 00:26:13.000 It's just good, right, it's good. 526 00:26:14.039 --> 00:26:15.920 This is how I described it. You probably have to 527 00:26:15.920 --> 00:26:17.079 see semen at some point. 528 00:26:17.440 --> 00:26:23.839 Oh look at the simple brain. Norby's uh person in 529 00:26:24.160 --> 00:26:29.240 charge said it's not thank you, Sean. We were just 530 00:26:29.319 --> 00:26:31.720 saying we weren't buying it, all right. 531 00:26:32.920 --> 00:26:35.119 But having played like this game twice, do you all 532 00:26:35.200 --> 00:26:36.799 know how I started describing it to people? 533 00:26:37.200 --> 00:26:38.599 Please? I want to hear it. 534 00:26:38.599 --> 00:26:41.880 It is the resid Evil four combat system with a 535 00:26:41.960 --> 00:26:44.359 mini game that activates the same part of your brain 536 00:26:44.400 --> 00:26:46.119 as Tetris and jet boots. 537 00:26:47.200 --> 00:26:50.519 That's yeah, that makes it sound awesome, and that works 538 00:26:50.559 --> 00:26:52.799 because it is. It really is all those things in 539 00:26:52.839 --> 00:26:55.799 a very good way. That's a very good description. I Uh. 540 00:26:56.000 --> 00:26:59.039 I like when you actually describe what you're doing. I 541 00:26:59.079 --> 00:27:01.400 see people's eyes glaze over. I start doing the ten 542 00:27:01.480 --> 00:27:04.039 year old explaining something that I'm excited about things, I'm like, oh, 543 00:27:04.039 --> 00:27:04.839 people aren't getting it. 544 00:27:04.920 --> 00:27:05.720 Let's just move on. 545 00:27:06.000 --> 00:27:09.279 What you just said there. I think should activate people's 546 00:27:09.279 --> 00:27:10.160 brains in a good way. 547 00:27:10.240 --> 00:27:14.400 Yeah, that game I'm very excited about. I was not 548 00:27:14.519 --> 00:27:16.880 expecting to like be as hot on that game as 549 00:27:16.880 --> 00:27:19.519 I was, But turns out just giving your brain like 550 00:27:19.559 --> 00:27:22.039 a low level task to do while you shoot people 551 00:27:22.599 --> 00:27:24.039 makes it so much more engaging. 552 00:27:24.559 --> 00:27:26.680 It's just like, oh, there are this is I don't 553 00:27:26.680 --> 00:27:28.680 know if it's real left brain right brain stuff. I 554 00:27:28.680 --> 00:27:30.440 don'm no expert on it, but it feels that way 555 00:27:30.440 --> 00:27:32.319 where it's like this part of my brain like shooting. 556 00:27:32.400 --> 00:27:34.359 This part of my brain likes these tiny little puzzles. 557 00:27:34.559 --> 00:27:36.720 Let's bounce back and forth, you know, the tennis ball 558 00:27:36.759 --> 00:27:39.240 between these two sides of my brain, and I just 559 00:27:39.279 --> 00:27:42.240 feel like it's tickling, you know, the receptors. 560 00:27:41.799 --> 00:27:44.200 Up there in a real nice way. 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The Communication Workers of America 613 00:30:30.680 --> 00:30:32.880 announced today that over four hundred and fifty workers at 614 00:30:32.920 --> 00:30:36.559 ACTIVISIY Blizzard who've worked on the Diablo franchise have voted 615 00:30:36.599 --> 00:30:40.480 to unionize. According to the CWA, the unit includes a 616 00:30:40.559 --> 00:30:44.519 wide swath of workers across the company, including developers, artists, engineers, 617 00:30:44.519 --> 00:30:49.000 and more. Microsoft also has also recognized the union. Blizzard staff, 618 00:30:49.039 --> 00:30:52.240 speaking about the union vote vote noted the potential workplace 619 00:30:52.279 --> 00:30:56.039 problems that the union vote would avert. Most recently, Microsoft 620 00:30:56.640 --> 00:31:00.000 laid off over nine thousand employees, which included staff at Blizzard. 621 00:31:00.319 --> 00:31:02.039 Jason Justice, president. 622 00:31:01.640 --> 00:31:04.160 Of the CWA Local nine to five to one zero, 623 00:31:04.480 --> 00:31:06.680 one of the chapters under which the Blizzard members would 624 00:31:06.680 --> 00:31:09.519 be organizing, said what's happening here is part of a 625 00:31:09.599 --> 00:31:12.400 much larger story about turning the tide in an industry 626 00:31:12.440 --> 00:31:17.319 that has long overlooked its labor. Entertainment workers across film, television, music, 627 00:31:17.480 --> 00:31:19.720 and now video games are standing together to have a 628 00:31:19.759 --> 00:31:23.200 seat at the table. And and I mean, you know, 629 00:31:23.240 --> 00:31:25.599 one of the things they mentioned is there is a 630 00:31:25.680 --> 00:31:28.400 passion text like, hey, people really want to work in 631 00:31:28.440 --> 00:31:31.880 this industry, and these companies exploit that and they always 632 00:31:31.920 --> 00:31:36.200 have and of course, like that is capitalism, right, you have, 633 00:31:36.400 --> 00:31:40.240 like you're supposed to capitalize on every opportunity. And being 634 00:31:40.240 --> 00:31:42.240 able to take advantage of someone and pay them less 635 00:31:42.319 --> 00:31:44.920 or give them give them less in exchange for their 636 00:31:44.960 --> 00:31:47.400 labor because they want to do the job is something 637 00:31:47.400 --> 00:31:50.200 that you are just supposed to do under the way, 638 00:31:50.279 --> 00:31:52.160 under the way capitalism works. The only way to sort 639 00:31:52.160 --> 00:31:56.319 of stand against that is the dismantle capitalism, which is 640 00:31:56.359 --> 00:31:58.160 not going very well. I don't know if you've paid attention, 641 00:31:58.240 --> 00:32:00.240 lex see it's not going super well that whole thing. 642 00:32:00.640 --> 00:32:04.160 Or you can thank you, I appreciate it, or we 643 00:32:04.160 --> 00:32:06.119 can have a union kind of get at the table 644 00:32:06.160 --> 00:32:09.319 and demand certain things be applied to every employee there, 645 00:32:09.839 --> 00:32:13.200 and you know, I think there is a a an 646 00:32:13.279 --> 00:32:17.920 upswell of unionization in video games because of two factors. 647 00:32:17.960 --> 00:32:20.480 I think even the people that were once resistant to it, 648 00:32:21.240 --> 00:32:23.160 Like there are a lot of old heads who grew 649 00:32:23.240 --> 00:32:25.599 up in this industry or or you know, worked this 650 00:32:25.640 --> 00:32:28.119 industry for a long time who would have never unionized 651 00:32:28.400 --> 00:32:29.960 because they're like, I like to stand on my own 652 00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:32.519 two feet and bargain just for myself, and I'm you know, 653 00:32:32.680 --> 00:32:35.839 meritocracy on all this. I think they've even learned, no, 654 00:32:36.079 --> 00:32:38.519 these companies will always take advantage of us and will 655 00:32:38.559 --> 00:32:41.440 always kind of undermine us in the end. And then 656 00:32:41.440 --> 00:32:44.200 there's a lot of younger people who just inherently knew 657 00:32:44.200 --> 00:32:46.440 this because they were properly educated about the way these 658 00:32:46.480 --> 00:32:47.359 corporations work. 659 00:32:47.680 --> 00:32:49.839 So I don't know, the tides do feel like they're turning. 660 00:32:50.200 --> 00:32:52.400 And this is a I mean, I said last night 661 00:32:52.440 --> 00:32:54.759 on Gemist Asides, the idea of a union like this 662 00:32:54.839 --> 00:32:58.200 at Blizzard ten years ago would have been completely laughable. 663 00:32:58.519 --> 00:33:01.119 So here we are, and I think you need to 664 00:33:01.160 --> 00:33:03.480 like give them big ups for like, how fucking brave 665 00:33:03.559 --> 00:33:06.599 this is under Microsoft at the moment you look at 666 00:33:06.759 --> 00:33:09.039 the stuff that they are doing to people who are 667 00:33:09.079 --> 00:33:14.440 protesting internally within the company you look at like I 668 00:33:14.440 --> 00:33:17.039 think Arkane putting out that leisure a couple of weeks 669 00:33:17.079 --> 00:33:20.920 back as part of their union is something that only 670 00:33:20.920 --> 00:33:24.319 could have happened with union protections making sure that there 671 00:33:24.359 --> 00:33:27.480 wouldn't be retaliation, and even then it's not like a 672 00:33:27.519 --> 00:33:31.519 guarantee that there wouldn't be retaliation against them. I think 673 00:33:31.559 --> 00:33:36.759 that this definitely got speeded up by what happened over 674 00:33:36.880 --> 00:33:39.519 at King or what is currently happening over at King, 675 00:33:39.960 --> 00:33:45.839 and how people are being like basically put on work 676 00:33:45.880 --> 00:33:48.720 that will get rid of their job in a couple 677 00:33:48.759 --> 00:33:51.480 of months time so that AI can do it instead. 678 00:33:52.359 --> 00:33:54.519 I think you have a lot of people within Microsoft 679 00:33:54.559 --> 00:33:57.640 and within Activision, Blizzard, King who are looking around and 680 00:33:57.720 --> 00:34:01.119 being like, we need to fucking protect ourselves, because it 681 00:34:01.200 --> 00:34:06.200 is becoming very clear that Microsoft doesn't actually care how 682 00:34:06.240 --> 00:34:09.440 these games are made. They care that the games make money, 683 00:34:09.559 --> 00:34:12.000 and if the game, no matter how bad it is, 684 00:34:12.039 --> 00:34:14.280 no matter how shitty it is for the player, no 685 00:34:14.320 --> 00:34:17.480 matter how bad it is for the developers to like 686 00:34:17.599 --> 00:34:20.719 work on, if the game keeps on making more money, 687 00:34:21.039 --> 00:34:25.519 they do not care what goes into the sausage. And 688 00:34:25.639 --> 00:34:28.440 so you have people who are banding together and are 689 00:34:29.159 --> 00:34:32.000 protecting themselves. I think that's the only sensible thing you 690 00:34:32.000 --> 00:34:34.239 can do if you work at these companies, short of 691 00:34:34.679 --> 00:34:38.599 like extra caging yourself from the company, which I also like. 692 00:34:39.480 --> 00:34:45.920 I think that everyone at every developer, every studio head 693 00:34:46.079 --> 00:34:49.000 at Microsoft at the moment should be like ringing up 694 00:34:49.079 --> 00:34:52.679 toys for Bob saying, hey, how did you get out? 695 00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:57.719 Because the vibe that you get off of Microsoft is like, 696 00:34:58.519 --> 00:35:01.119 we don't care about any of the people making all games. 697 00:35:01.119 --> 00:35:03.440 Wee care that the game division is still making money, 698 00:35:03.679 --> 00:35:05.880 and we will cut it to the bone as long 699 00:35:05.920 --> 00:35:10.000 as it still makes money. And so I would be 700 00:35:10.280 --> 00:35:12.639 trying to find ways to protect my employees, try to 701 00:35:12.679 --> 00:35:15.199 find ways to protect myself and get out of that 702 00:35:15.320 --> 00:35:20.800 system and try to actually become independent again, because Microsoft 703 00:35:20.840 --> 00:35:23.039 surely shit doesn't care about anyone underneath them. 704 00:35:23.639 --> 00:35:23.880 Yep. 705 00:35:24.000 --> 00:35:27.280 Yeah, And I mean it's just pretty obvious based on 706 00:35:27.320 --> 00:35:29.320 the way they're behaving right now, where it's like they 707 00:35:29.360 --> 00:35:33.360 got distracted by AI or that's the thing that they're 708 00:35:33.440 --> 00:35:35.119 smelling right now. That just smells the best of them, 709 00:35:35.159 --> 00:35:38.440 and that like the best opportunity, and that means cut 710 00:35:38.519 --> 00:35:41.360 everywhere else, including this huge investment you just made in 711 00:35:41.480 --> 00:35:44.199 video games, and that means cutting a lot of people. 712 00:35:44.840 --> 00:35:46.519 And yet they're still trying to put out a ton 713 00:35:46.559 --> 00:35:47.719 of games, so a lot of people are gonna have 714 00:35:47.719 --> 00:35:50.880 to do a lot more work. Yeah, you know, a 715 00:35:50.920 --> 00:35:53.239 seat at the table is really all this gets gets 716 00:35:53.280 --> 00:35:57.079 the people. You know, collective bargaining agreement is also a 717 00:35:57.159 --> 00:35:59.639 potential once they're at the table. But I see that 718 00:35:59.679 --> 00:36:01.880 the table is better than the way it was before. 719 00:36:01.960 --> 00:36:03.920 And the reason I'm putting in that way is people 720 00:36:03.960 --> 00:36:05.199 should not imagine. 721 00:36:04.800 --> 00:36:06.760 This as some silver bullet that will stop all these 722 00:36:06.760 --> 00:36:07.760 people from getting laid off. 723 00:36:07.800 --> 00:36:09.840 There will be laid off layoffs again, even if the 724 00:36:09.960 --> 00:36:15.159 union fully realizes its power. But at the very least, 725 00:36:15.280 --> 00:36:18.480 in the meantime, a union can do things like collectively 726 00:36:18.559 --> 00:36:21.320 bargained to ensure people get paid more now while they 727 00:36:21.400 --> 00:36:23.800 are employed. So it's not like, Okay, I look back 728 00:36:23.840 --> 00:36:25.719 and I don't have a job anymore, and I wasn't 729 00:36:25.719 --> 00:36:27.519 getting as much money as I should have been getting 730 00:36:28.400 --> 00:36:31.719 or deserved beginning because of that passion tax we mentioned earlier. 731 00:36:32.159 --> 00:36:35.039 I think if it can happen at Blizzard, it can 732 00:36:35.119 --> 00:36:37.719 happen anywhere, And I just hope there is a real 733 00:36:37.800 --> 00:36:40.679 domino effect going forward, because this industry just needs a 734 00:36:40.800 --> 00:36:44.559 strong unionization era to see what it can do when 735 00:36:44.599 --> 00:36:45.119 people are a. 736 00:36:45.119 --> 00:36:46.679 Little bit more protected at these jobs. 737 00:36:48.199 --> 00:36:50.440 All right, So let's keep going here. Mattel brings he 738 00:36:50.559 --> 00:36:54.079 Manned and attorneya to Fortnite via ue FM, which is 739 00:36:54.199 --> 00:36:56.960 Unreal Engine for Fortnite. This is from Rachel Kaser at 740 00:36:57.000 --> 00:36:59.920 games Beat. Mattel continues its charm offensive with Masters of 741 00:37:00.000 --> 00:37:02.320 the Universe with the Masters of the Universe franchise, this 742 00:37:02.440 --> 00:37:05.280 time by bringing it to an official island in Fortnite. 743 00:37:05.400 --> 00:37:08.840 He Manned, Tila and several other residents of Eternia, as 744 00:37:08.880 --> 00:37:11.440 well as Attorney itself, have joined the island of Masters 745 00:37:11.480 --> 00:37:14.639 of the Universe. He Man Heroes, which launched today in 746 00:37:14.800 --> 00:37:18.400 early access. Users who visit the island gathered together the 747 00:37:18.760 --> 00:37:21.519 heroes and some villains villains from the franchise to battle 748 00:37:21.559 --> 00:37:24.039 through hordes of enemies, and doing so they collect shards 749 00:37:24.039 --> 00:37:26.840 of Eternia. Blah blah blah. I actually don't care about 750 00:37:26.960 --> 00:37:28.519 how this game plays or anything like that. Really, I 751 00:37:28.559 --> 00:37:30.920 wanted to just ask you, Lexi, because I bet you 752 00:37:31.039 --> 00:37:32.599 don't have a lot of interest in he Man and 753 00:37:32.679 --> 00:37:35.119 Masters of the Universe. I don't even really It was 754 00:37:35.199 --> 00:37:37.559 like it was happening while I was a kid. But 755 00:37:37.639 --> 00:37:39.440 my little brother actually was way more into it than 756 00:37:39.480 --> 00:37:43.719 I was. We are getting a he Man game from 757 00:37:44.639 --> 00:37:47.679 a camera me the beat him up? Yeah, Audie's working 758 00:37:47.760 --> 00:37:50.559 on it. Audi who's over at Limited Run Games and 759 00:37:50.719 --> 00:37:54.519 is actually back doing stuff for Digital Foundry again. He's overseeing. 760 00:37:54.559 --> 00:37:56.559 He's like executive producer and kind of directing the game. 761 00:37:57.199 --> 00:38:02.039 And there's that game, and there's this, And I wonder 762 00:38:02.159 --> 00:38:04.280 which one do you think is getting more support from 763 00:38:04.280 --> 00:38:06.320 the people who own the ip of he Man and 764 00:38:06.400 --> 00:38:07.360 Masters of the Universe. 765 00:38:07.960 --> 00:38:09.599 I was going to say, you know that a charm 766 00:38:09.639 --> 00:38:12.519 offensive is like really working. When I didn't even realize 767 00:38:12.559 --> 00:38:14.280 that there was a charm offensive going. 768 00:38:14.079 --> 00:38:17.280 On, I was like, oh, oh they're going on and okay, 769 00:38:17.719 --> 00:38:20.039 all right, okay, ain't me. 770 00:38:20.719 --> 00:38:24.320 Yeah, I know that they're making that fucking movie, right, 771 00:38:24.400 --> 00:38:27.400 they're like rebooting the movie. I remember who's working on that. 772 00:38:29.719 --> 00:38:31.960 All I care about when it comes to he Man. 773 00:38:32.280 --> 00:38:36.599 Is that really fucking terrible live action movie from the 774 00:38:37.400 --> 00:38:42.400 early nineties. Yeah, yeah, it's it's a real the most 775 00:38:42.559 --> 00:38:47.159 hormoronic movie ever made, probably incredible and it's real good 776 00:38:48.719 --> 00:38:53.400 and has one of the best villain makeups of all 777 00:38:53.519 --> 00:38:57.840 time despite having a budget of like two dollars. So 778 00:38:58.159 --> 00:38:59.960 that's all I care about when it comes to key Man, 779 00:39:00.119 --> 00:39:04.239 everything else he Man. Here's the thing, Bob. Living in Ireland, 780 00:39:04.360 --> 00:39:06.320 I got a lot of cartoons late. I got a 781 00:39:06.360 --> 00:39:08.960 lot of things very fucking late. So I've seen a 782 00:39:09.079 --> 00:39:11.519 lot of fucking he Man because he Man was on 783 00:39:12.039 --> 00:39:17.880 the Irish national TV station a lash. He Man fucking sucks. 784 00:39:18.400 --> 00:39:22.639 He Man is a terrible cartoon. It's dreadful. It's so bad, 785 00:39:23.320 --> 00:39:27.360 and sure, why not who cares? Who cares anymore? Put 786 00:39:27.400 --> 00:39:28.039 in Fortnite? 787 00:39:28.400 --> 00:39:31.400 Yeah, it's just it's it's it is like notable to me, 788 00:39:31.480 --> 00:39:33.199 although I don't think it's strange. This is just the 789 00:39:33.239 --> 00:39:37.360 way these companies are going where like the real interest 790 00:39:37.440 --> 00:39:39.840 is honestly just like, let's take him in and we're 791 00:39:39.880 --> 00:39:42.639 not gonna like make a big triple A game. Let's 792 00:39:42.679 --> 00:39:45.159 just put them into one of these other live service games. 793 00:39:45.239 --> 00:39:47.039 This feels like the route a lot of these companies 794 00:39:47.079 --> 00:39:47.679 are taking. 795 00:39:47.960 --> 00:39:48.079 Now. 796 00:39:48.159 --> 00:39:50.280 I'm glad that we're also getting to beat them up, 797 00:39:50.480 --> 00:39:53.840 but that almost feels like, you know, the way Audie 798 00:39:53.880 --> 00:39:56.679 explained it to me, is that he really wanted to 799 00:39:56.760 --> 00:39:58.840 do this and it was his idea and he pushed 800 00:39:58.880 --> 00:40:00.480 it through and he was able to make could happen. 801 00:40:00.960 --> 00:40:04.039 Unless they you have someone passionate behind that able to, 802 00:40:04.760 --> 00:40:08.840 you know, to like oversee a project like this and 803 00:40:08.960 --> 00:40:11.840 take the reins and be in charge of it. It's 804 00:40:11.920 --> 00:40:13.840 not gonna just happen because these companies are like, we're 805 00:40:13.880 --> 00:40:16.519 not interested in any of that, just put it in Fortnite. 806 00:40:17.000 --> 00:40:19.079 And I think there was a time where we obviously 807 00:40:19.119 --> 00:40:21.880 would have gotten a lot of IP games just released 808 00:40:22.000 --> 00:40:25.519 for the Nintendo DS or whatever, the Game Boy Advance, 809 00:40:26.039 --> 00:40:28.679 and we're far removed from that, and it's like, okay, 810 00:40:28.760 --> 00:40:32.159 that is now transforming into these ips are going to 811 00:40:32.199 --> 00:40:34.920 show up in Fortnite and Roadblocks and Minecraft, and that's 812 00:40:34.960 --> 00:40:35.719 going to be where they go. 813 00:40:36.039 --> 00:40:37.960 And I don't know, do you think that is good 814 00:40:38.239 --> 00:40:41.119 for gaming? Bad for gaming? Are you indifferent? What do 815 00:40:41.159 --> 00:40:41.440 you think? 816 00:40:42.159 --> 00:40:44.119 I know, I think this comes back to some of 817 00:40:44.199 --> 00:40:46.719 what Map Piscatella was talking about last week of like 818 00:40:47.360 --> 00:40:50.760 games codifying as there being certain games that just are 819 00:40:50.880 --> 00:40:54.679 video games, and ultimately, if you're going to have that, 820 00:40:54.840 --> 00:40:57.239 if those video games that like are the Video Games 821 00:40:57.320 --> 00:41:00.440 of Record, and they're going to start in call creating 822 00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:04.719 other things, and so like, would I be mad if 823 00:41:04.760 --> 00:41:09.199 he Man started like funking up the next Alan Wake game? Yeah? 824 00:41:09.679 --> 00:41:13.880 But in Fortnite, Who gives a shit, It's Fortnite, sure, 825 00:41:14.039 --> 00:41:17.159 that's the whole platform. My favorite thing about he Man 826 00:41:17.840 --> 00:41:23.719 is when you like tell any of the older fans like, hey, 827 00:41:23.840 --> 00:41:26.880 you know, he Man's like fucking gay, right, and they 828 00:41:26.920 --> 00:41:29.079 get really mad. They're like, what do you mean? What 829 00:41:30.079 --> 00:41:31.800 do you mean? He's cool? 830 00:41:32.000 --> 00:41:35.800 It's like he's just covering for for aerodynamic reasons. 831 00:41:36.360 --> 00:41:39.800 Yeah. He Man is a very like closet hit gay character. 832 00:41:40.000 --> 00:41:41.119 Let's let's be real here. 833 00:41:42.519 --> 00:41:46.000 But it's weird because Adam super straight, his alter ego 834 00:41:46.199 --> 00:41:47.320 just the straightest guy ever. 835 00:41:47.519 --> 00:41:50.880 Right, all right, again that plays into like him being 836 00:41:50.920 --> 00:41:51.480 in the closet. 837 00:41:52.079 --> 00:41:55.000 Uh huh. Yeah, it's the whole metaphor there. 838 00:41:55.079 --> 00:41:59.440 It's fantastic. All right, let's keep going here. Steam now 839 00:41:59.519 --> 00:42:02.360 requires age verification in the UK for mature games. 840 00:42:02.559 --> 00:42:04.639 Could we have you here? Expert from the UK? Am? 841 00:42:04.679 --> 00:42:07.760 I right, oh okay, please don't kell me. I was 842 00:42:07.840 --> 00:42:08.280 just joking. 843 00:42:08.320 --> 00:42:10.199 It was Dan who said it. This is from Andy 844 00:42:10.239 --> 00:42:13.360 Robinson at VGC. Steam is rolling out the requirement for 845 00:42:13.440 --> 00:42:15.519 all users in the UK to verify their age in 846 00:42:15.639 --> 00:42:18.239 order to access store pages for games with mature content. 847 00:42:18.679 --> 00:42:21.760 The restrictions seemingly went into effect on Friday after social 848 00:42:21.840 --> 00:42:26.679 media users spotted reference to the requirement on Steam's FAQ. Thankfully, 849 00:42:26.719 --> 00:42:29.960 the process to verify your age is straightforward. UK users 850 00:42:30.039 --> 00:42:32.199 need only to add a credit card to their account, 851 00:42:32.440 --> 00:42:35.400 and those who already have one registered will face no restrictions. 852 00:42:35.800 --> 00:42:38.679 The age verification requirement comes ahead of the enforcement of 853 00:42:38.719 --> 00:42:41.159 a new Online Safety Act and Act in the UK, 854 00:42:41.639 --> 00:42:45.800 which makes online platforms responsible for their users' safety. Platforms 855 00:42:45.840 --> 00:42:48.320 will be required to prevent shoulder from accessing harmful and 856 00:42:48.480 --> 00:42:51.360 age inappropriate content and provide parents and children with clear 857 00:42:51.440 --> 00:42:54.880 and accessible ways to report problems. Other gaming platforms such 858 00:42:54.880 --> 00:42:58.400 as Xbox and Discord began discouraging users to verify their 859 00:42:58.880 --> 00:43:01.679 encouraging excuse me a user to verify their age in 860 00:43:01.880 --> 00:43:05.320 order to access certain content earlier this year. Starting early 861 00:43:05.440 --> 00:43:08.159 next year, age verification will be required for players in 862 00:43:08.199 --> 00:43:11.480 the UK to retain full access to social features on Xbox, 863 00:43:11.800 --> 00:43:14.960 including voice and text communications and game invites. 864 00:43:16.480 --> 00:43:17.079 Yeah, this is. 865 00:43:18.639 --> 00:43:21.440 Stifling and kind of stupid in my opinion, Lexi, because 866 00:43:22.079 --> 00:43:23.760 it's only going to cost headaches. 867 00:43:23.480 --> 00:43:25.159 For people who follow the rules. 868 00:43:25.679 --> 00:43:27.280 There's going to be ways to get around these things 869 00:43:27.400 --> 00:43:29.679 like always, and people who want to get around them 870 00:43:30.119 --> 00:43:32.440 will continue to get around them with that and they 871 00:43:32.480 --> 00:43:34.920 won't have the same headaches as someone who's just actually 872 00:43:35.119 --> 00:43:37.800 following all the guidelines and is of age and just 873 00:43:37.840 --> 00:43:38.920 doesn't want these hassles. 874 00:43:40.599 --> 00:43:41.920 Well, I don't know what do you make of all this. 875 00:43:43.440 --> 00:43:46.679 I should be upfront as an Irish person, like already 876 00:43:46.880 --> 00:43:52.519 kind of have my opinions on certain British lawmakers. But 877 00:43:53.760 --> 00:43:58.039 I gotta say, Kirstama, the leader of the UK, the 878 00:43:58.119 --> 00:44:03.039 head of the Labor Party, is a fucking disgrace and 879 00:44:03.199 --> 00:44:06.800 a like suspicable cunt. He is one of the worst 880 00:44:06.920 --> 00:44:11.159 humans currently on the planet and the damage that he 881 00:44:11.360 --> 00:44:14.960 has done to the queer and the trans community will 882 00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:18.679 be fucking written about for decades and he I hope 883 00:44:18.719 --> 00:44:21.280 he dies knowing that he is going to be vilified 884 00:44:21.320 --> 00:44:24.519 in the history books. But I think that this is 885 00:44:24.800 --> 00:44:30.079 another part of the UK's conservative slip into like fucking 886 00:44:30.199 --> 00:44:35.239 ethno nationalism, and that the way that they are trying 887 00:44:35.280 --> 00:44:38.880 to enact this the idea that they are putting this 888 00:44:39.000 --> 00:44:42.719 forward as like a safety thing for the country, when 889 00:44:42.800 --> 00:44:46.039 it is so clearly just to control people, When it 890 00:44:46.159 --> 00:44:48.159 is so clearly just to make it so that the 891 00:44:48.239 --> 00:44:51.519 government knows what you are accessing. And when is like, 892 00:44:52.320 --> 00:44:54.679 they think you're fucking stupid. They think you are the 893 00:44:54.800 --> 00:44:59.159 dumbest motherfuckers in the world. And in fairness, the British 894 00:44:59.239 --> 00:45:02.360 public voting for the people who think they're dumb motherfuckers. 895 00:45:02.480 --> 00:45:05.679 So like, come on, lads, I mean, well, what about 896 00:45:05.679 --> 00:45:09.480 the immigrants, LEXI? The immigrants be scared of the immigrants 897 00:45:09.480 --> 00:45:11.440 and don't pay attention to any fucking else. 898 00:45:12.400 --> 00:45:14.320 And the other part of this that like makes me 899 00:45:14.440 --> 00:45:17.280 fucking angry is as someone who lives in a country 900 00:45:17.360 --> 00:45:21.360 that is often affected by wind changes by UK politics, 901 00:45:21.800 --> 00:45:24.599 this stuff ends up affecting me. I can't log into 902 00:45:24.920 --> 00:45:29.079 twishter anymore without asking me to verify my age because 903 00:45:29.119 --> 00:45:32.159 Twitter doesn't understand the difference between Ireland and the UK. 904 00:45:32.920 --> 00:45:36.519 And I'm not gonna fucking give that website a fucking 905 00:45:36.639 --> 00:45:42.679 picture of my passport. Fuck thatsh This all fucking sucks, 906 00:45:43.559 --> 00:45:45.599 and I think that the people involved in it are 907 00:45:45.760 --> 00:45:48.880 shitty people. And I think that the way that they 908 00:45:48.920 --> 00:45:51.760 are trying like this all plays into trying to control 909 00:45:51.880 --> 00:45:54.559 what you can and can't engage with, what isn't isn't 910 00:45:54.639 --> 00:45:58.960 deemed ash and what like a government says is socially 911 00:45:59.039 --> 00:46:01.679 acceptable for you to do in the privacy of your 912 00:46:01.719 --> 00:46:05.760 own home and in your own downtime. And it's awful, 913 00:46:05.960 --> 00:46:06.920 Like I really hate this. 914 00:46:07.719 --> 00:46:11.159 Yep, this is something that is happening in Mississippi as well. 915 00:46:11.360 --> 00:46:13.880 Always good to be associated with what's going on in Mississippi. 916 00:46:13.880 --> 00:46:16.960 Although I clown I should recognize real quick. I just 917 00:46:17.039 --> 00:46:19.639 read recently Mississippi was really good at increasing the increasing 918 00:46:19.679 --> 00:46:21.960 their children's literacy. They were like second to last and 919 00:46:22.039 --> 00:46:23.360 now they're in the middle of the pack and that's 920 00:46:23.400 --> 00:46:26.119 like really impressive. So not always clowning on Mississippi, but 921 00:46:26.159 --> 00:46:30.119 Mississippi is doing this, and one of the things there 922 00:46:30.679 --> 00:46:34.760 is it's just like they it's very clear that this 923 00:46:34.920 --> 00:46:37.119 is going to be a violation of the First Amendment. 924 00:46:37.920 --> 00:46:40.519 But will that matter when it gets to the Supreme Court. 925 00:46:41.000 --> 00:46:41.519 Probably not. 926 00:46:42.119 --> 00:46:45.000 It's just on a fundamental level, there is no law 927 00:46:45.039 --> 00:46:47.360 that requires me actually to have an ID, and there 928 00:46:47.440 --> 00:46:49.960 is no law that requires me in the United States 929 00:46:50.000 --> 00:46:52.239 to have a credit card, and there is a law, 930 00:46:52.800 --> 00:46:55.639 a constitutional amendment that does dictate I can have a 931 00:46:55.760 --> 00:46:58.039 free speech when you put all those things on the table. 932 00:46:58.320 --> 00:47:00.159 The government just simply should not be allowed to do 933 00:47:00.239 --> 00:47:02.320 this in the United States. I don't know about anywhere else. 934 00:47:02.440 --> 00:47:04.280 I think it's dumb no matter where you are, and 935 00:47:04.360 --> 00:47:06.519 it's clearly it's all motivated by the same stuff that 936 00:47:06.559 --> 00:47:09.119 you're talking about, trying to control people, trying to stand 937 00:47:09.159 --> 00:47:11.960 in between people, and certain kinds of art and certain 938 00:47:12.039 --> 00:47:16.559 kinds of speech. You know, Trump this week telling school 939 00:47:16.599 --> 00:47:19.599 boards to destroy all of their educational materials related to 940 00:47:19.679 --> 00:47:24.840 transgender studies in like forty eight states or whatever it's about. 941 00:47:25.199 --> 00:47:28.559 It's just a new way of burning books. And I 942 00:47:28.719 --> 00:47:31.320 know it's about saving the children, is always the excuse 943 00:47:31.360 --> 00:47:34.360 they use always As a parent, let me tell you, 944 00:47:35.000 --> 00:47:37.039 every time, one hundred percent of the time, be skeptical 945 00:47:37.039 --> 00:47:39.519 of someone who says it's about saving the kids, it 946 00:47:39.639 --> 00:47:40.320 almost never is. 947 00:47:40.400 --> 00:47:41.440 They are almost they don't. 948 00:47:41.599 --> 00:47:43.159 You could tell they don't care about kids because they 949 00:47:43.239 --> 00:47:45.400 use kids to hurt other people or to hurt. 950 00:47:45.280 --> 00:47:47.519 Things that they don't like. And that is always the 951 00:47:47.599 --> 00:47:49.159 key to know that they are actually bad people. 952 00:47:49.360 --> 00:47:52.559 To just kids. Ye, kids that they don't like it. 953 00:47:52.920 --> 00:47:55.840 Yep, absolutely, We're moving on. 954 00:47:56.039 --> 00:47:59.239 Now, let's see your Final Fantasy fourteen boss addresses mod 955 00:47:59.320 --> 00:48:02.039 controversy after the game is review bombed. This is from 956 00:48:02.039 --> 00:48:05.239 Blair Marnell at GameSpot. The second incarnation of Final Fantasy 957 00:48:05.280 --> 00:48:07.639 fourteen debuted in twenty thirteen. It's proven to be far 958 00:48:07.719 --> 00:48:10.719 more resilient than the version that arrived in twenty ten. However, 959 00:48:10.800 --> 00:48:14.000 there's been discontent in the Final Fantasy fourteen community lately 960 00:48:14.119 --> 00:48:16.800 over the removal of a popular mod, which led to 961 00:48:16.840 --> 00:48:20.079 the game's subsequent review bombing on Steam. Now director Naoki 962 00:48:20.159 --> 00:48:23.760 Yoshida has addressed the mod controversy with an appeal to players. 963 00:48:23.920 --> 00:48:27.559 Yoshida's complete complete remarks were posted on Final Fantasy fourteen's 964 00:48:27.559 --> 00:48:30.800 official site, and he requested that excerpts from his statement 965 00:48:30.920 --> 00:48:33.039 not be used by by media outlets, but since his 966 00:48:33.159 --> 00:48:37.320 response was nearly two thousand words, a concise recap is unavoidable. 967 00:48:37.639 --> 00:48:40.400 The issue started when Square Enix's lawyers sent a letter 968 00:48:40.480 --> 00:48:44.599 to Modern dark ARCon regarding Mate Synchronos I'm sure or 969 00:48:44.679 --> 00:48:48.519 Mar excuse me, Mar Synchronos, a mod that allowed players 970 00:48:48.639 --> 00:48:51.400 customized avatars to be visible outside of their own game. 971 00:48:51.880 --> 00:48:55.840 Once mayor Synchronos was removed at squaring Enix's request, some 972 00:48:56.039 --> 00:48:59.519 fans shared their furry their fury in the form of 973 00:48:59.639 --> 00:49:05.360 negative They've shared their furry fury in the negative theme. 974 00:49:06.239 --> 00:49:07.239 I've seen the cocktails. 975 00:49:07.920 --> 00:49:09.679 That's just a feature in the game. Right. 976 00:49:09.960 --> 00:49:12.599 Although yo should have notes that he tolerates mods and 977 00:49:13.039 --> 00:49:16.480 has admiration for some fan made creations, he's against mods 978 00:49:16.480 --> 00:49:19.400 that valuate value, violate the game's intent or design in 979 00:49:19.480 --> 00:49:22.559 a negative manner. As a potential example, Yo should have 980 00:49:22.639 --> 00:49:25.039 noted that squaring x could face the legal consequences in 981 00:49:25.159 --> 00:49:28.480 some countries over nude character mods or display that on 982 00:49:28.599 --> 00:49:31.559 display in the game. He also cited customized appearances that 983 00:49:31.719 --> 00:49:34.639 made it paid content from the game as an example 984 00:49:34.679 --> 00:49:37.400 of devaluing the service and collectibles that scoring ex sells 985 00:49:37.440 --> 00:49:41.239 to provide. I bet that is the real reason is 986 00:49:41.320 --> 00:49:45.280 to you know, they want to make money. Yeah, this 987 00:49:45.480 --> 00:49:46.960 just feels like one of those ones that was probably 988 00:49:47.039 --> 00:49:50.440 made by the business side of things, and now the 989 00:49:50.599 --> 00:49:52.519 creative side of things has to sort of justify it. 990 00:49:52.599 --> 00:49:54.440 I bet on a certain level they're like, yeah, it 991 00:49:54.480 --> 00:49:56.280 would be nice to get that money instead of people 992 00:49:56.360 --> 00:49:59.800 using mods to get stuff for free. But I don't know, 993 00:50:00.079 --> 00:50:01.519 I feel like you kind of have this is one 994 00:50:01.519 --> 00:50:02.960 of those things you just kind of have to live with. 995 00:50:03.519 --> 00:50:06.519 I don't is there any reason to think Final Fantasy 996 00:50:06.559 --> 00:50:09.079 fourteen isn't making a fuck ton of money? Like it 997 00:50:09.239 --> 00:50:11.760 just it probably is doing just fine, and this seems 998 00:50:11.840 --> 00:50:15.400 like an unnecessary move to upset your most loyal players. 999 00:50:15.679 --> 00:50:17.440 What do you think, leg Si, I. 1000 00:50:17.480 --> 00:50:22.039 Think, yeah, some of this is probably uh square Enix 1001 00:50:22.119 --> 00:50:26.599 being worried about their golden goose because you look at 1002 00:50:26.639 --> 00:50:31.480 square Enix's recent financial reports for like the last five 1003 00:50:31.760 --> 00:50:34.880 ten years almost it's been like, yeah, we keep fucking 1004 00:50:34.880 --> 00:50:37.599 everything up. But Final Fantasy fourteen is keeping us afloat, 1005 00:50:38.519 --> 00:50:43.559 so they are probably extremely sensitive to any potential losses 1006 00:50:43.639 --> 00:50:47.199 that Final Fantasy four Sheen has. So if a DLC 1007 00:50:47.400 --> 00:50:50.559 doesn't hit like Dawn Trail didn't like hit as much 1008 00:50:50.599 --> 00:50:53.440 as the last one, they're going to tighten the belt 1009 00:50:53.480 --> 00:50:55.360 in other places and try to get that money in 1010 00:50:55.480 --> 00:51:01.840 from other spots. Concerning Final Fantasy four Sheen, I think 1011 00:51:01.920 --> 00:51:04.039 that like there's a lot of pressure on that team. 1012 00:51:04.199 --> 00:51:06.679 I know that Yoshida was out there being like, hey, 1013 00:51:06.880 --> 00:51:11.119 please remember where people and like, I don't envy that 1014 00:51:11.320 --> 00:51:14.679 job because it is both a job where he is 1015 00:51:14.840 --> 00:51:16.880 under like him and his team are under a lot 1016 00:51:16.920 --> 00:51:19.559 of pressure from fans like MMO fans will let you 1017 00:51:19.679 --> 00:51:23.679 know how they fucking feel, but also probably under a 1018 00:51:23.760 --> 00:51:27.039 lot of pressure at an executive level to continue to 1019 00:51:27.280 --> 00:51:29.440 bring in the same amount of money, if not more, 1020 00:51:29.599 --> 00:51:33.039 for each expansion, which as we know, is like not 1021 00:51:33.360 --> 00:51:36.599 easy to do. And so like, I do feel bad 1022 00:51:36.639 --> 00:51:39.360 for the devs in this situation, because I don't know 1023 00:51:39.480 --> 00:51:45.000 a dev who like genuinely hates model because they are like, hey, 1024 00:51:45.119 --> 00:51:48.199 people care enough about our game to create shit themselves 1025 00:51:48.280 --> 00:51:52.840 for our game. So yeah, I feel bad for them. 1026 00:51:53.400 --> 00:51:55.119 Yep, you know. 1027 00:51:55.239 --> 00:51:58.039 At the same time, I'm trying to like parse this 1028 00:51:58.480 --> 00:52:01.280 this way. This is phrase mayor synchronos a mod that 1029 00:52:01.360 --> 00:52:04.599 allowed players, customers, customers avatars to be visible visible outside 1030 00:52:04.599 --> 00:52:05.320 of their own game. 1031 00:52:05.400 --> 00:52:08.119 Does that mean, like, can I speak on this one 1032 00:52:08.199 --> 00:52:11.320 as fourteen players? So I know a little bit about this, 1033 00:52:11.599 --> 00:52:14.880 but so I might get a little wrong. The the 1034 00:52:16.000 --> 00:52:19.119 golden rule of f F fourteen mods is shut the 1035 00:52:19.159 --> 00:52:23.159 fuck up Friday, And like Yoshi dos Prey explicitly said 1036 00:52:23.199 --> 00:52:25.239 that before, as long as you are just doing things 1037 00:52:25.280 --> 00:52:29.039 within your own game, and yeah, affecting that's games. You're 1038 00:52:29.079 --> 00:52:33.280 not advertising, it's super hard, it's fine, it's chill, just 1039 00:52:33.360 --> 00:52:35.840 you know, be cool about it. But the second that 1040 00:52:35.920 --> 00:52:38.440 you start affecting other people's games, which is what this 1041 00:52:38.559 --> 00:52:39.360 does allow. 1042 00:52:39.400 --> 00:52:42.280 That's like a mod that allows avatars yet to be 1043 00:52:42.400 --> 00:52:44.440 visible outside of their own game, So it is projecting 1044 00:52:44.519 --> 00:52:45.559 it into other people's game. 1045 00:52:45.639 --> 00:52:48.400 Right, it's basically sinking the way that mods affect your 1046 00:52:48.480 --> 00:52:51.320 game to other people's game. Yeah, and it's you know, 1047 00:52:51.480 --> 00:52:53.360 that does also take away from the business they do 1048 00:52:53.599 --> 00:52:56.599 sell items and skins and stuff. So right, that's basically 1049 00:52:56.679 --> 00:53:00.000 I'm saying, hey, yeah, exactly, Hey, uh, you're gonna get 1050 00:53:00.400 --> 00:53:03.760 us our team in trouble with the Square Unix business people. 1051 00:53:04.039 --> 00:53:06.159 Y'all can't do this. So that's that's kind of why 1052 00:53:06.280 --> 00:53:08.039 he has to like practice on this. 1053 00:53:08.360 --> 00:53:10.000 Yeah, I mean to me that it's like, yeah, it 1054 00:53:10.159 --> 00:53:13.639 sounds like they've crossed a line that like, you know, 1055 00:53:13.719 --> 00:53:14.400 a lot of clearer. 1056 00:53:14.559 --> 00:53:16.719 To be clear, everyone needs the mod installed for us 1057 00:53:16.760 --> 00:53:19.000 to work, so it's not like you're forcing all other 1058 00:53:19.239 --> 00:53:22.840 users games, but it is like you are getting around 1059 00:53:22.920 --> 00:53:25.519 their systems for doing customizations and stuff. 1060 00:53:26.440 --> 00:53:29.719 Right and the right, and just like making stuff available 1061 00:53:29.800 --> 00:53:32.679 that you have to pay for in the game. It's 1062 00:53:32.719 --> 00:53:33.599 just a boneheaded move. 1063 00:53:33.840 --> 00:53:34.280 I get that. 1064 00:53:34.440 --> 00:53:37.199 Like you again, you maybe do that in your own 1065 00:53:37.280 --> 00:53:39.440 game in some way, but anytime you like make that 1066 00:53:39.480 --> 00:53:41.840 a big thing where it's like now everyone's doing this. Uh, 1067 00:53:42.360 --> 00:53:44.119 of course these companies are going to crack down on that. 1068 00:53:44.280 --> 00:53:47.800 It's like they should know better the people making the mods, honestly. 1069 00:53:47.800 --> 00:53:49.840 Especially when it comes to things like mods that give 1070 00:53:49.880 --> 00:53:52.119 you the appearance of high level gear that you didn't 1071 00:53:52.159 --> 00:53:55.000 actually like spend time in the game for, which also 1072 00:53:55.039 --> 00:53:56.920 takes money away from them for and stuff like that. 1073 00:53:57.079 --> 00:54:01.000 Yeah, yeah, exactly. So I see how we ended up here, 1074 00:54:01.280 --> 00:54:03.719 and especially like a lot of people in chat, I 1075 00:54:03.800 --> 00:54:06.440 see Christian going off about it, and you mentioned the 1076 00:54:06.480 --> 00:54:09.280 shut the fuck up fuck up Friday rule and then 1077 00:54:09.559 --> 00:54:12.840 like just like flouting that and completely standing in opposition 1078 00:54:12.880 --> 00:54:14.440 to that. It's like, of course we ended up here 1079 00:54:14.480 --> 00:54:16.679 if you did not follow that unspoken rule. 1080 00:54:17.679 --> 00:54:18.000 All right. 1081 00:54:18.159 --> 00:54:20.760 Up next, EA and two K games are beefing over 1082 00:54:20.880 --> 00:54:24.079 n C DOUBLEA college basketball exclusivity. This is from Ethan 1083 00:54:24.119 --> 00:54:27.119 Gotchak Kotaku Electronic Arts revealed earlier this year that it's 1084 00:54:27.159 --> 00:54:29.199 planning to add a college basketball game to its ever 1085 00:54:29.280 --> 00:54:32.880 expanding roster of sports franchises. Then two K Games came 1086 00:54:32.920 --> 00:54:35.760 out hours later indicated it was doing the same. Now, 1087 00:54:35.880 --> 00:54:38.559 new reportings suggest both publishers have been at war behind 1088 00:54:38.599 --> 00:54:40.519 the scenes, trying to lock up the deals and needed 1089 00:54:40.840 --> 00:54:44.000 to make an NCAA basketball game a reality. I'm glad 1090 00:54:44.000 --> 00:54:45.920 we have our expert here, Lex Lettie. What do you 1091 00:54:45.960 --> 00:54:46.559 think about all this. 1092 00:54:48.079 --> 00:54:51.119 As someone who's been following the women's Rugby World Cup recently, 1093 00:54:51.239 --> 00:54:53.519 I'm very excited EA and two K to begin that 1094 00:54:53.599 --> 00:54:59.039 bidding war for the women's rugby license. The sport has 1095 00:54:59.159 --> 00:55:02.280 never been in a better It's never been more watchable, 1096 00:55:02.360 --> 00:55:05.679 it's never been easier to access. And have you seen 1097 00:55:05.800 --> 00:55:09.400 how Canada played? They're actually good at this spash Well, really, 1098 00:55:09.519 --> 00:55:13.199 why the Canadian women are really fucking good? Canadian men 1099 00:55:13.519 --> 00:55:14.159 suck shitch? 1100 00:55:15.079 --> 00:55:15.679 That's the way show. 1101 00:55:15.760 --> 00:55:19.039 Yeah, it's right, But yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna leave 1102 00:55:19.079 --> 00:55:20.880 this one to you. What's going on? 1103 00:55:21.440 --> 00:55:23.480 Yeah, I mean there was a time where we would 1104 00:55:23.760 --> 00:55:26.280 just would have gotten multiple sports games like this. We 1105 00:55:26.280 --> 00:55:29.719 would have gotten multiple college basketball games from multiple publishers 1106 00:55:29.800 --> 00:55:31.440 in the same year, and it would have been fine, 1107 00:55:31.480 --> 00:55:33.159 you picked the one that's the best, and then next 1108 00:55:33.280 --> 00:55:34.920 year maybe a different one's the best one, you get 1109 00:55:34.960 --> 00:55:40.440 that one. It sounds like mostly because of the byzantine 1110 00:55:40.519 --> 00:55:45.000 nature of licensing these schools and the thousands of players 1111 00:55:45.199 --> 00:55:48.000 and now it's not just like college football game. It 1112 00:55:48.079 --> 00:55:49.920 was just you know, if that's men's college ball. Now 1113 00:55:49.960 --> 00:55:52.639 they're going to have men's and women's team, so double it. 1114 00:55:52.760 --> 00:55:56.360 And women's college basketball is extremely popular in a lot 1115 00:55:56.400 --> 00:55:58.639 of the country, so that like that is important to 1116 00:55:58.719 --> 00:56:00.880 get it just sounds like that is going to cause 1117 00:56:00.920 --> 00:56:02.880 some problems here where it's like all these schools and 1118 00:56:03.079 --> 00:56:05.239 all of these players are going to be like, we 1119 00:56:05.320 --> 00:56:06.800 can make a lot more money if we kind of 1120 00:56:06.800 --> 00:56:10.199 bid these have these companies bid against one another, although 1121 00:56:10.360 --> 00:56:12.119 to me it's like it's just come up with a 1122 00:56:12.159 --> 00:56:14.199 big number for both of them to pay and let 1123 00:56:14.280 --> 00:56:16.840 them both make it. But maybe these companies are like, actually, 1124 00:56:16.840 --> 00:56:18.360 if we're going to be spending all this money, we 1125 00:56:18.480 --> 00:56:21.360 want the exclusive rights. So it's just it's just a 1126 00:56:21.519 --> 00:56:23.400 reminder of like we're in a bad place with a 1127 00:56:23.440 --> 00:56:25.760 lot of these things because of business and the way 1128 00:56:25.800 --> 00:56:28.760 that these companies do business and the way the business 1129 00:56:28.920 --> 00:56:33.400 the businesses of sports in America, especially college sports, is 1130 00:56:33.760 --> 00:56:36.079 so locked down and control by entities. 1131 00:56:36.199 --> 00:56:42.000 I know someone outside, it's like unhinged. It is so weird. 1132 00:56:42.360 --> 00:56:45.039 It's there's no defend in it. I love it. I 1133 00:56:45.119 --> 00:56:45.559 do love it. 1134 00:56:45.679 --> 00:56:48.840 It's it's really exciting. It's you know, there's a lot 1135 00:56:48.920 --> 00:56:51.199 of the parallel would be like people who are super 1136 00:56:51.239 --> 00:56:54.679 into their club team, and that parallel breaks down really fast, 1137 00:56:54.840 --> 00:56:57.360 like it's like and but also it's college and they're 1138 00:56:57.360 --> 00:56:59.880 all kids for the most part or just very young 1139 00:57:00.039 --> 00:57:05.559 a dog paid although now many of them are and yeah, 1140 00:57:05.639 --> 00:57:08.239 yeah that has changed. Although they're being paid by for 1141 00:57:09.519 --> 00:57:11.400 you know, their their deals that they get their their 1142 00:57:11.719 --> 00:57:15.239 their marketing deals and not necessarily getting paid a wage 1143 00:57:15.280 --> 00:57:18.400 by the school that is also continuing to make millions 1144 00:57:18.480 --> 00:57:22.039 and millions of dollars off of these kids. We'll see how, 1145 00:57:22.119 --> 00:57:24.000 we'll see how this shakes out. There's too much money 1146 00:57:24.039 --> 00:57:25.519 on the table for this not to end up with 1147 00:57:25.559 --> 00:57:28.960 a game coming out. But what this really says to 1148 00:57:29.039 --> 00:57:30.400 me is a lot of that money will be spent 1149 00:57:30.519 --> 00:57:33.480 on getting these deals done and not necessarily on making 1150 00:57:33.519 --> 00:57:35.920 the best game, which is where this whole genre has 1151 00:57:35.960 --> 00:57:36.559 been for a while. 1152 00:57:37.360 --> 00:57:38.239 All right, last thing here. 1153 00:57:38.360 --> 00:57:41.920 United States ends low value packaged tariff exemption, raising costs 1154 00:57:41.960 --> 00:57:45.000 for online shoppers. This is from Oscar Onton on Docale 1155 00:57:45.119 --> 00:57:48.039 at Game Reactor. The latest news on the from the 1156 00:57:48.119 --> 00:57:48.639 United States. 1157 00:57:48.719 --> 00:57:51.599 They loft a you for buying a million Chinese hontels. 1158 00:57:51.880 --> 00:57:53.199 They called you a fool. 1159 00:57:55.880 --> 00:57:58.039 That's right. Come to me for those Chinese handhelds. I 1160 00:57:58.119 --> 00:58:00.280 have them all. Uh yeah. 1161 00:58:01.039 --> 00:58:03.719 The deminimus is the name of the loophole that it 1162 00:58:04.119 --> 00:58:07.719 was an official loophole. Basically, it existed because if a 1163 00:58:07.800 --> 00:58:10.679 package was worth less than eight hundred dollars, no one 1164 00:58:10.760 --> 00:58:14.159 involved on either side, whether it was a company or 1165 00:58:14.199 --> 00:58:17.360 a country or a postal service, wanted to deal with 1166 00:58:17.719 --> 00:58:21.280 customs for that package. They're like, whatever, it's not worth 1167 00:58:21.320 --> 00:58:23.239 it the amount of money we're getting from this. Just 1168 00:58:23.360 --> 00:58:27.320 let it through and let commerce flow freely. And then 1169 00:58:27.400 --> 00:58:31.360 Trump was born and was dropped on his head apparently, 1170 00:58:31.480 --> 00:58:32.880 and now we have to deal with him being like, 1171 00:58:33.440 --> 00:58:36.880 there's money there, go, dude, go in that that loophole 1172 00:58:37.079 --> 00:58:38.960 and let's try to get that money. So what has 1173 00:58:39.000 --> 00:58:41.599 been the response. It's not that we have to start 1174 00:58:41.639 --> 00:58:44.199 paying these tariffs. It's people aren't going to fucking ship 1175 00:58:44.280 --> 00:58:48.360 us stuff anymore. Like that's what's happened. Many many vendors 1176 00:58:48.480 --> 00:58:52.880 and throughout Europe and Asia have just ceased shipping products 1177 00:58:52.920 --> 00:58:55.000 to the United States because they don't know who to 1178 00:58:55.079 --> 00:58:59.320 even give the money to. It's confusing, it's poorly implemented, 1179 00:58:59.480 --> 00:59:00.719 and it's the United States. 1180 00:59:01.159 --> 00:59:03.840 We're number one baby, here we are. We're back on top. 1181 00:59:04.880 --> 00:59:07.679 So if you are struggling to like purchase stuff online 1182 00:59:07.719 --> 00:59:11.679 right now, it's because of this. So yeah, just wonderful, 1183 00:59:11.760 --> 00:59:13.000 wonderful thing we have going on here. 1184 00:59:13.079 --> 00:59:16.400 It seems great the fact that I was like offering you, like, hey, 1185 00:59:16.440 --> 00:59:18.800 if you need something in Japan, I'll be there and 1186 00:59:18.960 --> 00:59:21.199 it will probably be easier for me to ship it 1187 00:59:21.880 --> 00:59:26.440 from island because like aland will continue to have a 1188 00:59:26.639 --> 00:59:29.599 pretty good shipping relationship with the United States for as 1189 00:59:29.639 --> 00:59:32.960 long as it can because there's so many Irish people there. 1190 00:59:33.280 --> 00:59:35.880 But like that will only last so long, right. 1191 00:59:35.920 --> 00:59:38.880 Yes, And that's it's worth pointing out, Like anyone sending 1192 00:59:38.920 --> 00:59:42.000 a personal package to someone else in their life or 1193 00:59:42.039 --> 00:59:43.960 something like that, it's not going to be covered by this. 1194 00:59:44.159 --> 00:59:46.360 And I bet there's a number where it actually does 1195 00:59:46.559 --> 00:59:49.920 kick into place. But this is all about businesses in commerce. 1196 00:59:50.000 --> 00:59:51.639 So yeah, like, le see if you want, if you've 1197 00:59:51.639 --> 00:59:53.079 got me something from Japan and wanted to send. 1198 00:59:53.000 --> 00:59:54.280 It to me, you should be able to do that. 1199 00:59:54.599 --> 00:59:56.719 And again worth point, you're going to get your Japanese 1200 00:59:57.000 --> 00:59:57.840 about in wonder world. 1201 00:59:59.480 --> 01:00:01.719 Yeah, you know what, I might as well. You're right, 1202 01:00:02.239 --> 01:00:03.400 go ahead and get it and give it a. 1203 01:00:04.920 --> 01:00:05.599 Sounds great. 1204 01:00:05.920 --> 01:00:07.760 Oh shit, all. 1205 01:00:07.800 --> 01:00:09.719 Right, Why is it that everything I send you is 1206 01:00:09.800 --> 01:00:11.519 like awful or would get you in trouble. 1207 01:00:12.000 --> 01:00:14.079 No, it's I deserve it, I get it. That that 1208 01:00:14.199 --> 01:00:17.159 makes sense to me. Actually, what is what is going 1209 01:00:17.199 --> 01:00:19.639 to be the fallout from all this? That's the thing. 1210 01:00:20.039 --> 01:00:22.880 Nobody knows, nobody it's not good. 1211 01:00:23.400 --> 01:00:23.519 Uh. 1212 01:00:23.639 --> 01:00:26.440 Commerce between countries is actually a very good thing. It 1213 01:00:26.519 --> 01:00:28.119 has been. It's turned out to be the case. 1214 01:00:28.239 --> 01:00:30.039 That sounds like some cammy bullshit to me. 1215 01:00:30.519 --> 01:00:33.400 Yeah, that's the thing. It's not even it's free market bullshit. 1216 01:00:34.480 --> 01:00:36.639 But it has worked out for the most part, being 1217 01:00:36.679 --> 01:00:38.440 able to like buy stuff from people who make things 1218 01:00:38.480 --> 01:00:40.400 in other countries so that they can get money and live. 1219 01:00:41.320 --> 01:00:45.519 But we're we're against that now because we suck. All right, 1220 01:00:45.719 --> 01:00:48.280 that does over the headlines. Let's get to the poll 1221 01:00:48.400 --> 01:00:51.960 question from yesterday. We posted that earlier. Let's go ahead 1222 01:00:51.960 --> 01:00:54.320 and see what the results are at do you use 1223 01:00:54.480 --> 01:00:56.800 any cloud gaming platform? 1224 01:00:56.920 --> 01:00:57.400 Your answer? 1225 01:00:57.400 --> 01:01:00.920 Your options were yes or no, as I occasionally do, 1226 01:01:01.239 --> 01:01:03.599 so I'm going to vote yes and that means I'm 1227 01:01:03.719 --> 01:01:06.360 one of the sixteen percent of people who say yes. 1228 01:01:06.559 --> 01:01:09.400 Eighty four percent of our audience says no, they don't 1229 01:01:09.920 --> 01:01:13.360 actively use a cloud gaming platform. LEXI, are you ever 1230 01:01:13.559 --> 01:01:15.000 on that stream or whatever? 1231 01:01:15.239 --> 01:01:15.400 Guy? 1232 01:01:15.519 --> 01:01:16.559 Kai, what are you doing? 1233 01:01:16.960 --> 01:01:20.679 No, unless I like really have to know because Irish 1234 01:01:20.719 --> 01:01:22.880 internet just isn't good enough. Like I have pretty good 1235 01:01:22.920 --> 01:01:26.639 internet for Alan, but it's still there's a latency that 1236 01:01:26.760 --> 01:01:28.960 I can feel that I just kind of wounds it 1237 01:01:29.079 --> 01:01:29.239 for me. 1238 01:01:30.800 --> 01:01:35.000 So no, yeah, I'm I use it here or there, 1239 01:01:35.079 --> 01:01:38.840 but really not not in any active way too frequently. 1240 01:01:39.880 --> 01:01:41.760 And just I mean, I get that our audience was 1241 01:01:41.760 --> 01:01:44.280 always going to be pretty low for the yes on 1242 01:01:44.400 --> 01:01:48.760 this response, but I think I don't imagine outside of 1243 01:01:48.800 --> 01:01:50.400 our audience it's going to be much higher. 1244 01:01:51.000 --> 01:01:54.199 Although Worth pointing out that Matt. 1245 01:01:54.199 --> 01:01:56.079 Earlier this week did say it's growing in places like 1246 01:01:56.119 --> 01:01:58.599 Brazil in South Korea where they have good internet and 1247 01:01:58.880 --> 01:02:01.559 a strong gaming culture and they just kind of get this. 1248 01:02:02.079 --> 01:02:05.199 So maybe the long game here really is still in play, 1249 01:02:05.320 --> 01:02:07.400 but it probably has to be a very long game, 1250 01:02:07.440 --> 01:02:09.320 and they're spending a lot of money on data centers 1251 01:02:09.360 --> 01:02:11.480 in the mean one meantime, all. 1252 01:02:11.440 --> 01:02:14.880 Right, with that out of the way, let's do this, LEXI, 1253 01:02:15.199 --> 01:02:15.360 Do you. 1254 01:02:15.400 --> 01:02:16.800 Have anything you want to tell people where they can 1255 01:02:16.840 --> 01:02:18.199 find you on the internet, What you have going on 1256 01:02:18.280 --> 01:02:19.079 all that good stuff. 1257 01:02:19.920 --> 01:02:23.920 Yes, I've been super busy with games, calm stuff. All 1258 01:02:24.000 --> 01:02:26.400 of my most of my previews will be going up 1259 01:02:26.440 --> 01:02:29.760 on Shack News. So far, I have like five up. 1260 01:02:29.880 --> 01:02:31.800 There's going to be seven by the end of today. 1261 01:02:32.760 --> 01:02:36.440 I am rising like four more that are embargoed until 1262 01:02:36.599 --> 01:02:39.880 sometime next week, and I have a few others after that. 1263 01:02:40.360 --> 01:02:42.119 If you are going to seek out any of them, 1264 01:02:42.199 --> 01:02:44.719 I would highly recommend checking out my interview with Suda 1265 01:02:44.800 --> 01:02:48.639 fifty one. That dude is awesome. It was really good 1266 01:02:48.719 --> 01:02:51.480 talking to him about how he goes about like crediting 1267 01:02:51.559 --> 01:02:54.239 his team and getting everyone because he put like the 1268 01:02:54.360 --> 01:02:56.880 credits for the whole team in the trailer for Roma 1269 01:02:57.000 --> 01:02:59.039 was a dead Man, and he was like, Yeah, I 1270 01:02:59.079 --> 01:03:01.760 want everyone to get the time to like talk about 1271 01:03:01.800 --> 01:03:06.039 how cool they're workers, and he is a really nice guy. 1272 01:03:06.760 --> 01:03:10.880 He also told me which wrestler he would feature in 1273 01:03:11.000 --> 01:03:13.880 one of his video games if he could, because we 1274 01:03:14.000 --> 01:03:16.360 are talking about James Gunn and how James Gunn works 1275 01:03:16.400 --> 01:03:19.679 with a lot of wrestlers that he likes. And we 1276 01:03:20.000 --> 01:03:23.880 also talked about if James Gunn did ask him to 1277 01:03:23.960 --> 01:03:27.199 work on a DC game, what kind of thing would 1278 01:03:27.199 --> 01:03:31.679 he be interested in doing, and the answer involved black pink. 1279 01:03:32.480 --> 01:03:37.559 Oh really, yeah, yeah, that would be It's amazing. Actually, yeah, 1280 01:03:37.599 --> 01:03:41.400 it's it. He wants to make a Batman black and 1281 01:03:41.480 --> 01:03:45.000 white video game, so based off the anthology comics and 1282 01:03:45.119 --> 01:03:48.840 then do quote something stupid and put black pink in 1283 01:03:48.920 --> 01:03:50.159 this for the theme song. 1284 01:03:52.559 --> 01:03:52.960 Villains. 1285 01:03:53.559 --> 01:03:57.559 Yeah, Sudah's great, Suda's very nice guy. James Mountain as well, 1286 01:03:57.639 --> 01:04:02.320 his translator very very friendly, Andromeo is a dead man. 1287 01:04:02.480 --> 01:04:05.519 Looks fucking awesome. Really excited for more people to see 1288 01:04:05.519 --> 01:04:05.920 that game. 1289 01:04:06.400 --> 01:04:08.840 Oh that's good to hear, all right, fantastic. So yeah, 1290 01:04:08.880 --> 01:04:12.360 people look out for Lexi's coverage of games. Comment's ongoing. 1291 01:04:13.400 --> 01:04:16.599 Let's see, let's talk about what's happening on Giant Bomb. 1292 01:04:17.039 --> 01:04:19.960 We have upf is going to be happening here in 1293 01:04:20.039 --> 01:04:22.960 a little bit. That's happening first at one pm Eastern. 1294 01:04:23.360 --> 01:04:26.840 It'll be ten am Pacific time. A voicemail dump truck 1295 01:04:26.920 --> 01:04:28.679 is then happening after that. We had to move it 1296 01:04:28.719 --> 01:04:30.519 from Thursday because we had a bunch of the folks out. 1297 01:04:30.800 --> 01:04:33.440 That'll be at three pm Eastern, so look out for that. 1298 01:04:34.519 --> 01:04:37.079 Let's see here upf we're gonna probably have a bunch 1299 01:04:37.119 --> 01:04:39.159 of stuff for trying. A couple of things. I want 1300 01:04:39.199 --> 01:04:41.000 to do that that mage game where you have to 1301 01:04:41.159 --> 01:04:44.760 like use your voice to cast spells. That looks pretty dumb, 1302 01:04:45.199 --> 01:04:48.239 but maybe we'll try that Sonic Crossworlds demo as well. 1303 01:04:48.960 --> 01:04:53.440 Pick the pepper grinder, Yes, we'll get the pepperder. 1304 01:04:54.719 --> 01:04:56.880 All right. With all that out of the way, we 1305 01:04:56.960 --> 01:04:59.519 should wrap up the week with the Bomb twelve. 1306 01:04:59.679 --> 01:05:02.079 Every buddy, Sean's going to get it up up on 1307 01:05:02.159 --> 01:05:04.039 the screen for you right now so you can see 1308 01:05:04.079 --> 01:05:06.400 what the bomb twelve is for the week of August 1309 01:05:06.639 --> 01:05:10.079 twenty ninth. Let me see here. I want to take 1310 01:05:10.119 --> 01:05:12.159 a look at it myself. I have it right over 1311 01:05:12.280 --> 01:05:16.679 here in my figma. All right, the bomb twelve starting 1312 01:05:16.760 --> 01:05:19.440 with number twelve, sort of the sea once again on 1313 01:05:19.519 --> 01:05:21.639 the Bomb twelve after last week dropped a little bit, 1314 01:05:22.079 --> 01:05:25.000 but it's still hanging on there at number twelve. There 1315 01:05:25.079 --> 01:05:27.320 was a lot of movement this week, so impressive to 1316 01:05:27.360 --> 01:05:29.519 be able to hang on Street Rider six looks like 1317 01:05:29.599 --> 01:05:31.400 it's going to be a perennial hit on here. It's 1318 01:05:31.400 --> 01:05:34.159 at number eleven. The Rogue Prince of Persia was able 1319 01:05:34.199 --> 01:05:35.679 to crack its way into the Bomb twelve for the 1320 01:05:35.719 --> 01:05:39.440 first time. At number ten, Abiotic Factor number nine, that's 1321 01:05:39.519 --> 01:05:42.000 one that I've seen kind of bubbling up each week. LEXI, 1322 01:05:42.760 --> 01:05:44.320 you know, I went into one point oh recently. I 1323 01:05:44.360 --> 01:05:46.719 think that's what happened, and people are checking in on that. 1324 01:05:46.920 --> 01:05:48.000 I've been meaning to go back. 1325 01:05:48.079 --> 01:05:48.400 I have not. 1326 01:05:48.559 --> 01:05:50.039 Have you checked out Abiotic Factor? 1327 01:05:50.559 --> 01:05:52.559 I haven't. I played a bunch of Little Prince of 1328 01:05:52.599 --> 01:05:54.599 Persia the other night, though, and that game is a 1329 01:05:54.639 --> 01:05:55.079 lot of fun. 1330 01:05:55.360 --> 01:05:55.559 Yeah. 1331 01:05:55.599 --> 01:05:57.440 People seem to have really come around on the Rogue 1332 01:05:57.440 --> 01:05:59.559 Prince of Persia. I think of the response in early 1333 01:05:59.599 --> 01:06:01.920 Access with kind of muted sounds like they really got 1334 01:06:01.960 --> 01:06:05.400 it together recently. Number eight is Final Fantasy fourteen, Number 1335 01:06:05.440 --> 01:06:08.840 seven is World of Warcraft. Number six is Clear Obscure 1336 01:06:08.880 --> 01:06:12.000 Expedition thirty three. That's relatively low for that game. I 1337 01:06:12.000 --> 01:06:14.480 think it's the lowest it's ever been, and that's because 1338 01:06:14.599 --> 01:06:16.960 there again a lot of movement. Number five was Death 1339 01:06:17.079 --> 01:06:20.719 Stranding two. Number four was Hell Divers two, and that 1340 01:06:20.840 --> 01:06:24.840 means number three new game Meadow Gear, Solid Delta Snake Eater. 1341 01:06:25.760 --> 01:06:27.800 It was able to get its way on this list 1342 01:06:27.840 --> 01:06:31.519 in its first week. There's a chance that once more 1343 01:06:31.559 --> 01:06:33.679 people have like get their hands on it because it's 1344 01:06:33.880 --> 01:06:35.039 out out now. 1345 01:06:35.679 --> 01:06:39.519 Fat it was only actually released today. It was early 1346 01:06:39.639 --> 01:06:40.800 access up until. 1347 01:06:40.599 --> 01:06:44.360 Now exactly, so expected to do even better next week. 1348 01:06:44.760 --> 01:06:48.039 Number two is Hollow Night. That's not Silk Song, that's 1349 01:06:48.119 --> 01:06:50.639 just standard Hollow Night. Silk Song's got a lot of 1350 01:06:50.679 --> 01:06:52.760 people going back to this one. I'm not surprised to 1351 01:06:52.800 --> 01:06:54.760 see it here, Lexi. I've you know, I see people 1352 01:06:54.800 --> 01:06:57.800 lugging on to games on Steam or on the switch 1353 01:06:58.280 --> 01:07:00.679 in all week it was this Hollow. 1354 01:07:00.599 --> 01:07:03.079 Night, that person Hollow Night, this third person Hollow Night. 1355 01:07:03.159 --> 01:07:04.400 A lot of people playing that game. 1356 01:07:04.760 --> 01:07:05.079 I'm not. 1357 01:07:07.039 --> 01:07:07.480 Number one. 1358 01:07:08.079 --> 01:07:11.079 Donkey Kong Bananza still hanging on there at number one. 1359 01:07:11.480 --> 01:07:13.639 It has continued to be the number one game for 1360 01:07:13.719 --> 01:07:16.840 the entire run of the Bomb twelve so far. Again, 1361 01:07:17.000 --> 01:07:19.000 I still think there's a chance Delta knocks. 1362 01:07:18.719 --> 01:07:20.880 It off, but it probably won't be until next week. 1363 01:07:21.239 --> 01:07:21.679 We'll see. 1364 01:07:22.119 --> 01:07:25.000 And that's the bookby Go play Shanobi. 1365 01:07:25.119 --> 01:07:25.719 It's very good. 1366 01:07:26.079 --> 01:07:28.559 Yeah, I hope, I hope Schanobi actually cracks its way 1367 01:07:28.599 --> 01:07:31.400 on here next week. Shanobi is one that I think 1368 01:07:31.480 --> 01:07:34.199 will get some word of mouth. I'm glad you like 1369 01:07:34.239 --> 01:07:37.159 it as well. I keep asking everyone you know, Jesse 1370 01:07:37.280 --> 01:07:39.800 and I saw some other reviews had some issues with 1371 01:07:39.840 --> 01:07:40.559 the platforming. 1372 01:07:41.000 --> 01:07:43.519 Have you had any troubles with the platforming or what? 1373 01:07:43.880 --> 01:07:45.880 I only got my code last night because I asked 1374 01:07:45.920 --> 01:07:49.880 for switch code, and so I'm sorry. Yes, yeah, it 1375 01:07:49.920 --> 01:07:52.840 seems drawn fine on Switch even though it's switched one version. 1376 01:07:52.960 --> 01:07:57.000 It definitely wants better than Ninja Gaiden did. But no, 1377 01:07:57.159 --> 01:07:59.880 the platforming seems fine from what I've played so far. 1378 01:08:01.079 --> 01:08:02.280 Let me see if I got a Let me take 1379 01:08:02.320 --> 01:08:03.400 a look at the list here real quick. 1380 01:08:03.519 --> 01:08:06.159 Just to wrap things up, there was three people who 1381 01:08:06.280 --> 01:08:08.599 voted for Nine Kings, which is a game. I've been 1382 01:08:08.639 --> 01:08:10.519 hearing about it, but I've still not checked out, so 1383 01:08:11.079 --> 01:08:13.639 we'll see. Kirby in the Forgotten World had one vote, 1384 01:08:14.920 --> 01:08:16.560 but I think that'll go up next week. 1385 01:08:16.600 --> 01:08:18.039 Actually, now that that DLC is out. 1386 01:08:19.319 --> 01:08:20.920 Let's see here, I'm trying to see if there's any 1387 01:08:20.920 --> 01:08:22.960 other ones that are interesting that only got one vote. 1388 01:08:23.159 --> 01:08:25.760 Grand Turismo three A Spec had one. 1389 01:08:26.039 --> 01:08:30.840 Nice's yeah, y'all hare Tiic plus Hexan, some people playing that, 1390 01:08:31.960 --> 01:08:36.399 one person playing I Racing. Let's see a couple votes 1391 01:08:36.439 --> 01:08:39.960 for is this seat? Take in Lives of p Mafia 1392 01:08:40.039 --> 01:08:42.000 the Old Country had four or five people. 1393 01:08:41.880 --> 01:08:44.279 Give it a vote. We had about, let's. 1394 01:08:44.079 --> 01:08:46.840 See, seven hundred respondents this week, so a lot of 1395 01:08:46.880 --> 01:08:49.840 different games on here. Merge Maestro did fall off, but 1396 01:08:49.880 --> 01:08:51.920 it still had a decent showing on here from a 1397 01:08:51.960 --> 01:08:55.239 handful of people still playing that. And Yeah, that's gonna 1398 01:08:55.279 --> 01:08:57.680 do it. For the Bomb twelve, we'll do another one 1399 01:08:57.880 --> 01:09:00.359 next Friday. If you want to have your go to 1400 01:09:00.439 --> 01:09:03.119 giant bomb dot com. I'll post a blog post that 1401 01:09:03.199 --> 01:09:05.039 will have a link at the bottom to the new 1402 01:09:05.159 --> 01:09:08.079 form where you can vote and have your say, and 1403 01:09:08.119 --> 01:09:08.880 we'll get the results. 1404 01:09:09.039 --> 01:09:11.880 I'll collate that all for the end of next week. 1405 01:09:12.720 --> 01:09:14.760 All right, LEXI, thank you so much for hanging out 1406 01:09:14.760 --> 01:09:16.399 with me today and talk about video games. I really 1407 01:09:16.439 --> 01:09:17.000 appreciate it. 1408 01:09:17.720 --> 01:09:20.239 Anytime anytime, well, I say anytime, I'm going to be 1409 01:09:20.279 --> 01:09:22.640 in Japan for three weeks, so might not be as 1410 01:09:22.680 --> 01:09:26.720 available then, but I'll find a replacement for myself. I'll 1411 01:09:26.800 --> 01:09:28.399 find someone that you can draft. 1412 01:09:28.560 --> 01:09:29.960 Yeah, you could send someone my way. 1413 01:09:30.000 --> 01:09:32.319 That sounds good, my medical joker. 1414 01:09:33.359 --> 01:09:33.640 Oh no. 1415 01:09:34.479 --> 01:09:36.960 Thank you everybody for watching and listening. You are the 1416 01:09:37.000 --> 01:09:39.359 best audience in gaming. Until next time, have a good one, 1417 01:09:39.720 --> 01:09:41.479 take care of yourself, and goodbye.