Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome to game Est Mornings with Me Jeff
Speaker 1: Grab your host from giant bomb dot com. Thank you
Speaker 1: for tuning in. In this episode, we're going to be
Speaker 1: talking about what happened at that Nintendo direct. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be a good one because we have Lex Ludi on
Speaker 1: the show. Lexi, how are you doing?
Speaker 2: You know, gub I think that your co workers have
Speaker 2: left you high and dry this week. It's really unfair.
Speaker 2: And did you see those fucking jokers over on kind
Speaker 2: of funny yesday? Did you see those marks, those absolute
Speaker 2: marks wearing their own merchandise together, Miller, Mike Minati. They
Speaker 2: go they go to the concert wearing the band shirt.
Speaker 1: It's like and they're the band. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's unbelievable, unbelievable.
Speaker 1: They could at least get a shirt exchange, right, you
Speaker 1: wear my shirt, I wear your shirt.
Speaker 2: But no, they'll be like, it'll be like a sports game,
Speaker 2: you know, at the end they're like a good game
Speaker 2: and they trade shirts. But no, No, it was my
Speaker 2: birthday yesterday, Happy birthday. Nintendo decided to celebrate by giving
Speaker 2: me a direct with just things that only I'm in, Yes,
Speaker 2: no one else.
Speaker 1: The Lex Luody Direct Yeah, there was quite a few
Speaker 1: things in there for you. I enjoyed the director overall
Speaker 1: as well. My expectation, Lexi, is that overall the reception
Speaker 1: on that is going to be chilly. Yeah, cool luke
Speaker 1: maybe just luke warm even But hey, I liked a
Speaker 1: lot of those games in there, and I'm still playing
Speaker 1: Donkey Kong, so I'm still very happy with my switch
Speaker 1: to This is how it goes. Sometimes sometimes you get
Speaker 1: directs that don't have a lot of stuff in there
Speaker 1: for you, and I think the problem is the hype
Speaker 1: for this direct, as usual, got pretty out of hand,
Speaker 1: and then when it was announced to be a partner direct,
Speaker 1: that was the first little bit of oh no, this
Speaker 1: is not going to have the stuff I need. I've
Speaker 1: definitely been out there being like, I want the Metroid
Speaker 1: Prime for release date, But as soon as it was
Speaker 1: a partner director, knew that wasn't gonna happen. And now
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, if they don't have that until a
Speaker 1: September direct, which in all honesty doesn't It doesn't necessarily
Speaker 1: have to be super far away. Right We're talking five
Speaker 1: to five to eight weeks for something like that, right,
Speaker 1: Is that? Is that correct? On time. Uh, Septembers after August.
Speaker 1: That's still how it goes, so uh that doesn't seem
Speaker 1: too out of the ram of possibility. And then there's
Speaker 1: always the Nintendo Today at but we'll talk about all that.
Speaker 1: What'd you do for your birthday? I'm sure you're like, look,
Speaker 1: you're You're one of the youngest hippus people I know,
Speaker 1: so I'm sure you were partying, mingling with the supermodels
Speaker 1: and drug dealers. So what you end up doing?
Speaker 2: I mainly stay it at home and just played Tears
Speaker 2: of the Kingdom all day, which was pretty good because
Speaker 2: I'm finally beating that game.
Speaker 1: That's not true. You some art, right, didn't you do
Speaker 1: some artwork?
Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah? I played Mario Paint. I turned into I've
Speaker 2: spent too much time around fucking millennials, and it's gloving
Speaker 2: off on the to the point that I'm like, oh,
Speaker 2: Mario Paint, this is pretty good. I'm celebrating. On Saturday,
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Speaker 2: Nintendo Switch to Edition plus Jambolee TV and also Lexi
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Speaker 1: Fun Times everyone. I don't know why we're on YouTube
Speaker 1: this time. I made it live and I did switcher
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Speaker 1: not much I could do about that, And everyone who
Speaker 1: can help me fucking fucking not here. They're not doing
Speaker 1: their job. So what am I supposed to do? I'm
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Speaker 1: How are those seven people watching? How are they able
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Speaker 1: or something. I don't know. I've done what I can.
Speaker 1: Usually this fixes it, but not today. That's that's just
Speaker 1: a good time, Lexi. You know, I think what we
Speaker 1: should do is probably just get on with the show
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Speaker 1: with Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase July thirty first full recap.
Speaker 1: This comes from Go Nintendo. So this was a Partner Direct.
Speaker 1: We have a bunch of games in year from partners.
Speaker 1: There was nothing really first party. The one closest thing
Speaker 1: to first party was a Zelda game made by so
Speaker 1: is that Techmo. It would be Coey Tecmo for their
Speaker 1: their Musso game that they're making the third one of those.
Speaker 1: But let's let's go through what was there. I still
Speaker 1: think it's worth recapping everything because a lot of these
Speaker 1: games are pretty interesting to me. That starts with Monster
Speaker 1: Hunter Stories three Twisted Reflection embark on a new adventure
Speaker 1: as a rider living in harmony with monsters. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Games coming in twenty twenty six to Switch To. Have
Speaker 1: you played any of the other Stories games before.
Speaker 2: Only a little bit, But I had been looking at
Speaker 2: a bunch of months the Hunters Silies two running on
Speaker 2: a switch too, because that was one of the games
Speaker 2: that saw the biggest improvement just from the new from
Speaker 2: the Shia horsepower to Switch because I had run at
Speaker 2: a uncopped frame on Switch one and now it just
Speaker 2: once un locked sixty if you load up there, and
Speaker 2: so it looks really nice if you go play Mons
Speaker 2: Untsies two on switch To now, and I think it's
Speaker 2: on sale for like twenty bucks at the moment, so excellent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought it looked really nice in this this
Speaker 1: direct where it's like, oh, yeah, that's a pretty looking game.
Speaker 1: And I didn't necessarily remember thinking that about Monster Hunter
Speaker 1: Stories before. I mean, it looked fine, but it differently
Speaker 1: didn't stun me. I thought this was relatively stunning. Then
Speaker 1: we had High Royle Warriors, Age of Imprisonment. This is
Speaker 1: going to be based on the timeline from you know,
Speaker 1: of Tiers of the Kingdom, like Zelda getting to sit
Speaker 1: into the past, hanging out with King Rauu the Goat
Speaker 1: and his human looking wife. You know, people can do
Speaker 1: with that what they need to. They also teased Link
Speaker 1: in a way by showing that that the robot. I
Speaker 1: guess it's a spoiler now at this point, maybe a
Speaker 1: little bit.
Speaker 2: So here's how you know it's not a spoiler. I
Speaker 2: was looking up God it's for stuff and Tears of
Speaker 2: the Kingdom, and I have this spoiled for me, so
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, if it's in guides at this point,
Speaker 2: I think I think the there is no law anymore.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's right exactly, Like this is just kind of
Speaker 1: the thing that people talk about. It's a thing you
Speaker 1: get in that game, and it's going to be in
Speaker 1: this game, and Link might be piloting in it, I guess.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is the way they're going to get
Speaker 1: Link in here. I bet they're going to get Link
Speaker 1: in there as just straight up link because nothing matters
Speaker 1: in a Musso game, so they'll just do that as well.
Speaker 1: But this seems to be one of the workarounds upfront,
Speaker 1: maybe to keep it canon a little bit. All right.
Speaker 1: Let's see here, EA Sports Madden NFL twenty six. This
Speaker 1: is coming August fourteenth, to switch to, I would pre
Speaker 1: order the Delexe edition before August seventh or two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: to get it seven days early. Okay, so yeah, you
Speaker 1: can get it seven days early on August seventh, So
Speaker 1: it's effectively the release date. Man, that's not that long
Speaker 1: from now. Madden is back on a Nintendo platform. There
Speaker 1: was never a Madden on Switch one, I believe, Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was. I think I would remember that, you know,
Speaker 1: but they used to put Madden's out on a lot
Speaker 1: of Nintendo devices before that. Maybe not that we use
Speaker 1: so much, but three DS got Maden, or at least
Speaker 1: DS did. EA has not been super hot on Nintendo
Speaker 1: platforms for a minute, and then I think that seeing
Speaker 1: this was like, okay, this still feels like EA testing
Speaker 1: the waters does not feel like EA going whole hog
Speaker 1: quite yet. What do you think happens from here? Do
Speaker 1: you think this game is going to do well enough
Speaker 1: that EA will be good? We'll say to themselves, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're back in on on Nintendo. Switch to.
Speaker 2: It's interesting because you look at it now and EA
Speaker 2: does actually have a pretty big presence on the switch to,
Speaker 2: like it has FIFA, it has Madden, and then it
Speaker 2: has It Takes Two and Apex Legends. Three of those
Speaker 2: are very kind of low effort or not low effort,
Speaker 2: but like low commitment ports because they already will on
Speaker 2: switch one. Apex Legends was also on switch one, and
Speaker 2: then It Takes Two is probably one of the few
Speaker 2: games where they were like, well, this definitely couldn't run
Speaker 2: on a switch one, but it came on our switch
Speaker 2: to and they probably looked at the sales of It
Speaker 2: Takes Two on on switch one and we're like, well,
Speaker 2: we got to get this over there. So so far
Speaker 2: they've all been very low risk, moneyball kind of ports,
Speaker 2: and I'm curious to see if at any point they're like,
Speaker 2: we're gonna bring mass effect Legendary Collection over there, because
Speaker 2: like that would be a great place to have the
Speaker 2: masscost legendary collection. But do they give a shit about
Speaker 2: that anymore? Is that enough of a money maker anymore?
Speaker 2: Because like you look at Hayes Light and stuff, that's
Speaker 2: the only EA original going anymore. The originals is just
Speaker 2: Hayese Light. Now it's Joseph just it's EA. Joseph's Yeah,
Speaker 2: because they had stuff like Unravel, and they had stuff
Speaker 2: like Lost and Random, and then that sequel to Lost
Speaker 2: and Random came out and I was published by Thunderful.
Speaker 2: So clearly EA kind of lost its appetite for its
Speaker 2: indie publishing label and now just keeps it around exclusively
Speaker 2: for the Joseph Hawers games that have kind of established
Speaker 2: themselves now as multimillion sellers. So yeah, it's it's a
Speaker 2: weird situation for them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, who knows how they do the math over there? Right,
Speaker 1: Like you talked about mass effect, but Chat's pointing out
Speaker 1: often on sale for five to ten dollars right now,
Speaker 1: but you put it on switch you can raise the
Speaker 1: price back up on switch To because people are going
Speaker 1: to buy it there. They must want it on that system.
Speaker 1: Treat it like a new release and you can do
Speaker 1: close to new release pricing at least thirty to four
Speaker 1: those hours.
Speaker 2: Ko shraw Ports always sold really well on switch They
Speaker 2: were always like in and around the best sellers and
Speaker 2: going on sales and stuff that. Weirdly enough, Code or
Speaker 2: two is still not playable on switch To. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: one of the it's one of the games that is
Speaker 2: just like no, can't do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they said they would too, which was always
Speaker 1: a weird thing. In fact, I think they sold a
Speaker 1: bundle where it was eventually going to be released, and
Speaker 1: that was an odd, odd thing. But for EA, before
Speaker 1: we move on, I think it's gonna be tough because
Speaker 1: they if they are waiting to see the results of
Speaker 1: some of these other releases, it's like, oh, let's see
Speaker 1: how Apex Legends does and make our decisions from there.
Speaker 1: I just don't know if Apex Legends is the Nintendo
Speaker 1: switch to Audience's bag, and I think they might. They
Speaker 1: might have just been like, we're already playing Fortnite and
Speaker 1: we're good with that, we don't need another one.
Speaker 2: I remember there being news stories around the time of
Speaker 2: Apex's launched that it was like making surprising in roads
Speaker 2: in Japan, but that seemed to have fallen off quite drastically,
Speaker 2: so I'm curious if this kind of brings back around
Speaker 2: some of those laps players, especially in that region. But
Speaker 2: you know, those kind of multiplayer live service games on
Speaker 2: a switch to are always a weird proposition because ultimately,
Speaker 2: if someone wants to play those on the go, there
Speaker 2: is a mobile version of them already, and if you're
Speaker 2: looking to play a version of the game that is
Speaker 2: like fully featured, just gonna play the console or PC version.
Speaker 2: So it's like this weird in between between the convenience
Speaker 2: of a mobile phone and the actual power of a
Speaker 2: console or PC, and it just like, no matter which
Speaker 2: use case you use it in, you're like, well, I
Speaker 2: should just load this up on my PC, or you're like,
Speaker 2: well I could just be playing this on my phone.
Speaker 2: So unless Switch Too is your only console, it that
Speaker 2: version of that game doesn't make sense for a lot
Speaker 2: of gamers.
Speaker 1: Yep. And that's just kind of how I've heard it
Speaker 1: put to me is that games didn't make a lot
Speaker 1: of money on Switch one. Obviously, it ran like dog
Speaker 1: shit on Switch one, so that's gonna be a factor there.
Speaker 1: Maybe that suddenly solves it with Switch Too, but I
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm skeptical.
Speaker 2: I like that game honestly, going back to that game recently,
Speaker 2: I'm sure it's fine. It feels really fucking good. Those guns,
Speaker 2: the sound design is really fucking good, and every time
Speaker 2: you play them, you're like, man, what if we got
Speaker 2: a like traditional multiplayer shooter out of the studio.
Speaker 1: Imagine now they couldn't do that. That's possible, all right,
Speaker 1: let's see here. Next up is the Shadow Drop and
Speaker 1: maybe game of the year Chilling by the Fire. This
Speaker 1: is a It looks like a hangout game where you
Speaker 1: can build a fire and you can like physically set
Speaker 1: the logs on top of one another. You get the kinneling,
Speaker 1: you get the fuel, you get it all all going there,
Speaker 1: and then you can also bring in your friends and
Speaker 1: they can use game chat to have their face hovering
Speaker 1: next to the fire. You can literally sit around the
Speaker 1: fire and talk with your friends. It looks very goofy
Speaker 1: and silly, and it's definitely my kind of thing. It
Speaker 1: looks like it sports up to four players, which is
Speaker 1: funny because you're not really playing anything. But I guess
Speaker 1: it's a little bit of a game of trying to
Speaker 1: keep the fire going because it will have weather effects
Speaker 1: and you'll have to try to keep the fire going
Speaker 1: whether it starts to maybe rain a little bit, or
Speaker 1: if you're in the snow. So that's interesting. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get this. Yeah, I can't wait.
Speaker 2: This reminded me of a story that I heard from
Speaker 2: a guy who was developing vir games in the early
Speaker 2: days of vire, Like just when Oculus was being kicked
Speaker 2: out here and stuff, and he was like, at that
Speaker 2: point in time, vir was the easiest thing to sell
Speaker 2: to investors in the world, and it was basically a
Speaker 2: money facet because you could give them a demo that
Speaker 2: was them in an empty room with a ball that bounces,
Speaker 2: and they'd be like, this is blowing my mind because
Speaker 2: there's just nothing quite like it. And this is kind
Speaker 2: of that thing of like, well, you could put this
Speaker 2: in front of an investor and there's cameras on the
Speaker 2: other people's faces and it does kind of look like
Speaker 2: one of those demos that they would show them for
Speaker 2: like early vire of just like you're gathered around a
Speaker 2: fireplace and you can see each other in this virtual realm,
Speaker 2: and all the investors go virtual realm, virtual realm, some
Speaker 2: sort of synergy. So like, yeah, this is dumb in
Speaker 2: a way, I can totally get behind yep.
Speaker 1: I like, it is there a way to like connect
Speaker 1: a like virtual camera to the switch to yet if
Speaker 1: they wouldn't figure that out, because I would love to
Speaker 1: do that. My PC is a virtual camera and be
Speaker 1: able to put whatever I want into the little camera feed.
Speaker 1: But I don't know, all right, let's keep going here.
Speaker 1: The Adventures of Elliott the Millennium Tales of brand new
Speaker 1: action RPG from the creators of Octopath Traveler and Bravely Default.
Speaker 1: It's a HD two D action RPG, so you're going
Speaker 1: to be doing real time combat, run around, hitting people
Speaker 1: with swords. It's coming to twenty twenty six and it's
Speaker 1: gonna have an exclusive debut demo. I don't know if
Speaker 1: the game is going to be exclusive to switch To,
Speaker 1: although these games tend to come to switch To first,
Speaker 1: but it will have a demo that is available later
Speaker 1: today so people can try that out. I'm curious. What
Speaker 1: do you What do you make of this?
Speaker 2: The gameplay looked pretty interesting, but boy, that name reminds
Speaker 2: me of a Master System game that then got a sequel, too, Deades.
Speaker 2: It's Clay the Actions of Elliott. It was everyone's favorite
Speaker 2: game on like Old Confusions, and then they bought it
Speaker 2: back decades later and they're like, oh, this is the
Speaker 2: Dumdale's Avenges of Eli.
Speaker 1: Importantly, the game does take place in the mystical realm
Speaker 1: of Philip Bildia. Is that how you say it? Philip Beildia?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: What a what a hell of the thing that is
Speaker 1: so like the the the names of the players in
Speaker 1: the in the Japanese baseball game, trying to adapt the
Speaker 1: American names or whatever and having like Ron Dungus or
Speaker 1: whatever the hell it was.
Speaker 2: It feels like that from the people who brought you
Speaker 2: various Day Life and Dungeon Encounters comes.
Speaker 1: I mean, the best at naming really. Yeah, Bobson, Doug Nutt,
Speaker 1: there we go chat Yeah, flip flip, Philip Bedelia. I
Speaker 1: it's gonna be hard for I think any American to
Speaker 1: play this game and not just laugh at that name
Speaker 1: every single time. It's absurd. That's not a criticism. I
Speaker 1: love it. More of your insane bullshit Square Knicks, please
Speaker 1: never stop being yourself. Uh just An's twenty twenty six edition. Yep,
Speaker 1: that's well.
Speaker 2: I do have to say, it's so funny that that
Speaker 2: got announced a not Final Fantasy nine vat make It's
Speaker 2: so funny it.
Speaker 1: Would rule because like with the Chance Star, we're gonna
Speaker 1: get a lot more just dances before any Final Fantasy
Speaker 1: nine anything happens. Ever, again, it seems like, uh oh,
Speaker 1: our poor friends out there that's gonna have apt by
Speaker 1: as it Rose and Bruno Mars. I guess I've never
Speaker 1: learned how to say her name. Houdini by Dua Lipa
Speaker 1: and Counting Stars by One Republic and Hang Up by Madonna.
Speaker 1: That's coming October fourteenth. Star Wars Outlaws looked pretty okay,
Speaker 1: looked you know, for my expectations, you get there are
Speaker 1: some of these third party games that look like, wow,
Speaker 1: that just looks right on switch to and then this one.
Speaker 1: I think my expectation was always like, they're probably gonna
Speaker 1: have to scale back a lot of stuff on here,
Speaker 1: and it looks scaled back, fuzzy image, not a high
Speaker 1: frame rate, but it does it doesn't look unacceptable. At
Speaker 1: the same time, it looks like a pretty okay well play.
Speaker 2: That It's not in the realm with the witcher three
Speaker 2: on switch one where you're like, well, this looks like dogshit,
Speaker 2: but it's also a miracle.
Speaker 1: It's runic exactly.
Speaker 2: It's well, yeah, it's like, this doesn't look like the
Speaker 2: best way to play this game. But also if I'm
Speaker 2: traveling and it's on the small screen and I'm on
Speaker 2: a plane, I doubt I'm going to care Yep, this
Speaker 2: is the way I'm going to play that game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I was. I was just holding my my
Speaker 1: Steam deck and my rag ally Am. I switched to
Speaker 1: it once yesterday because I was moving things around and
Speaker 1: it was like, oh, the switch to is significantly slimmer,
Speaker 1: significantly more comfortable to just carry around as an object,
Speaker 1: and it's okay. There's clearly a reason that if if
Speaker 1: the games are going to be pretty close on switch to,
Speaker 1: you'd still want to play them on there.
Speaker 2: I found recently that out of all of the consoles
Speaker 2: that I own now, when I think about anything that
Speaker 2: I own hard where, why is the one that I'm like,
Speaker 2: I look at and it fills me with the most
Speaker 2: joy is the Retroid Pocket. Oh yeah, yeah's just nice,
Speaker 2: especially with the g with the actual grip that they
Speaker 2: sell on their website that gives it a bit of waste.
Speaker 2: It just feels like a proper dedication handheld in a
Speaker 2: way that like the switch isn't Like I like the switch,
Speaker 2: but the flat back do does make it kind of
Speaker 2: hard for long, long like handheld periods, and so I
Speaker 2: might need to get like a switch glip or something
Speaker 2: because I have been finding that my hands are getting
Speaker 2: tired hold I'm getting old glub, I'm getting so old.
Speaker 2: My hands are getting tired.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it happens. You gotta we all got we have
Speaker 1: to do our hand exercises. Everybody, get your little straps
Speaker 1: out and do the thing where you try to stretch
Speaker 1: your fingers out well with some resistance, it helps, or
Speaker 1: maybe it hurts your hands more. Who knows. Kronos the
Speaker 1: New Dawn it is from a Blueber team team did
Speaker 1: the Silent Held to remake. I think I think they're
Speaker 1: very happy now to be Blueber, the team that did
Speaker 1: Silent Hell to remake. That's gotta be nice to have
Speaker 1: that resume update for them over there.
Speaker 2: Other than being Bluebird, the team that did the Medium.
Speaker 1: A little bit better than that, that's coming September fifth
Speaker 1: to switch to as it's going to be everywhere, right,
Speaker 1: we saw that in other places before, but firm for
Speaker 1: switch to now September fifth, again not too short.
Speaker 2: I was saying, I'm washed. I'm not washed. Stop putting
Speaker 2: in the papers that I'm washed.
Speaker 1: Plants Versus Zombies replanted the classic Plants Versus Zombie's game
Speaker 1: is returning in HD. This is yeah, that's that's what
Speaker 1: I thought. This was like a remaster. This is out
Speaker 1: October twenty third. You could pre order it today. Dragon
Speaker 1: Ball Sparking zero, that is, I think that was getting
Speaker 1: They got some updates as well. I think it's coming
Speaker 1: November fourteenth. You could pre order it. Trying to see
Speaker 1: if there's anything here. You know. I thought Sparking zero
Speaker 1: was fun for what it was, but I knew what
Speaker 1: it was going to be, which was a thing I
Speaker 1: had fun with for a weekend and could put down.
Speaker 1: But I bet there are a lot of people on
Speaker 1: a switch to who will be very happy to see
Speaker 1: this game. Once Upon.
Speaker 2: Now they're saying that I'm unwashed. This is terrible.
Speaker 1: This is that's worse, That's way worse. Once Upon a Katamari,
Speaker 1: the King of all Cosmos is turning. This looked fantastic.
Speaker 1: This is a whole new Kateamari game, separate from the
Speaker 1: entirely new Katamari game that just came out on Apple
Speaker 1: Arcade a few months back. It is coming October twenty fourth.
Speaker 1: Once again, pre orders are available now. It looked looked good,
Speaker 1: looked like they are nailing it. Octopath Traveler zero one
Speaker 1: of the big games there. This is coming December fourth,
Speaker 1: So wow, man, that is out this year. Let me
Speaker 1: double check that as Octopath Traveler zero arrives for both
Speaker 1: Nintado Switch to and Nintado Switch on December fourth. Okay,
Speaker 1: now I'm gonna read everything here. Let's see if we
Speaker 1: can suss out exactly what's going on with the zero
Speaker 1: start from zero and a personal quest of restoration and retribution,
Speaker 1: and it's prequel to the first Octopath Traveler Journey to
Speaker 1: stop powerful villains using fast based, turn based combat for
Speaker 1: the first time in the series, play through the eyes
Speaker 1: of your own custom protagonist and rebuild your hometown with
Speaker 1: over thirty recruitable party members and engaging story and all
Speaker 1: new features and returning core elements like the iconic HD
Speaker 1: two D graphics and the break and Boost battle system.
Speaker 1: Players embark on a journey of their own creation when
Speaker 1: Octopath Travelers zero arrives for both blah blah blah. As
Speaker 1: we just said, this feel this does feel like it
Speaker 1: is the mobile game being adapted. It's not, maybe just
Speaker 1: like the mobile game now on switch First of all,
Speaker 1: it seems like they are making it an offline game,
Speaker 1: where the other one did have some online elements. I
Speaker 1: never touched the mobile game, so I don't know, but
Speaker 1: it seems like they're doing a little bit of work
Speaker 1: to make this feel a little bit more special, which
Speaker 1: is why it's not just that game on Switch. They
Speaker 1: gave it a new name Zero. But I think also
Speaker 1: at the same time, LEXI, maybe people should dial down
Speaker 1: the expectations a little bit because it's a mobile port.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting because I think I saw Alex Donaldson
Speaker 2: talk about this on Blue Sky. But like, Square probably
Speaker 2: has a bunch of these that they can do because
Speaker 2: they also have that Neo game that they took offline.
Speaker 2: That's right, and people who played that Neo game were like, hey,
Speaker 2: if you liked work this a little bit, it could
Speaker 2: just be a traditional video game. So I bet we
Speaker 2: see that at some point as well. So I bet
Speaker 2: we see a few of these of reworking free to
Speaker 2: play games to work for a different market, because otherwise
Speaker 2: you have those assets, you know, why not try to
Speaker 2: double dip on them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, people are saying that they really like the original
Speaker 1: mobile game here, the near game was cool, and there's
Speaker 1: that Final Fantasy Tactics mobile game, So yeah, it sounds
Speaker 1: like there's a lot they can do here, just the songs.
Speaker 1: They don't release Final Fantasy nine, right, I mean as
Speaker 1: long as that.
Speaker 2: Anything, they will do anything to not release Final Fantasy nine,
Speaker 2: and god Henix Swayx will release Foam sars to before
Speaker 2: they release Final Fantasy nine.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, let's go all right, glad you're here. Yakuza
Speaker 1: Kawami too, And also they're gonna bundle that together with
Speaker 1: Yakusa Kawami November thirteenth on Switch to In. Anyone who
Speaker 1: has the original Yakusa Kwami will get in a Nintendo
Speaker 1: Switch can purchase the Nintendo Switch to upgrade at a
Speaker 1: discounted price. Okay, cool, Yeah, this looks looks pretty good.
Speaker 1: It's one of your favorite ones, right and you're a
Speaker 1: big like a Dragon fan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this isn't like my favorite favorite. This is probably
Speaker 2: one of the community favorites. Okay, I have a couple
Speaker 2: of like quibbles with it, but like, this is a
Speaker 2: really cool game to see port it because it is
Speaker 2: one of the first games that ran on the Dragon Engine,
Speaker 2: which is the newer engine that they use that leads
Speaker 2: to all those cool physics things when you beat the
Speaker 2: shit out of people in their more decent beat them ups.
Speaker 2: So it basically means if they can get this running,
Speaker 2: they can get any of those games running because the
Speaker 2: Dragon engine was known as pretty taxing at times. So
Speaker 2: if this does run well. That being said, this might
Speaker 2: be they might have moved it over to Unreal five
Speaker 2: because they're now working on in Unreal five. But yeah,
Speaker 2: this is a really good experience, and I do like
Speaker 2: the idea of them doing these in order for this
Speaker 2: for the Nintendo.
Speaker 1: Audience makes sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like even though like a Dragon Infinite Wealth and
Speaker 2: those might be bigger sellers. I think that this is
Speaker 2: the right way to go about it to cultivation that
Speaker 2: new fan base, is to give it to them in
Speaker 2: order and not get them to have to go to
Speaker 2: different store fronts if they want to play them in order.
Speaker 2: And this is good because then Mike Manati will be
Speaker 2: able to stream all of these back to back NonStop
Speaker 2: for several years straight. It will be the only game
Speaker 2: he streams on his Twitch channel, and he'll be forced
Speaker 2: to do it.
Speaker 1: I tell you what, I would like it. I would
Speaker 1: watch that. That sounds like a good time to me. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean they've had such success building that fan base
Speaker 1: up on new platforms over and over again, so yeah,
Speaker 1: they can do that again here. They know what they're doing.
Speaker 1: I think you're right that this will work. All right,
Speaker 1: Let's see pac Man World two repack that is September
Speaker 1: twenty six. That was a PS two game, I think
Speaker 1: a PS two platformer. I never really played many of
Speaker 1: the pac Man World games, at least not to my memory,
Speaker 1: but they look they look okay, they look like another
Speaker 1: platformer from that era, so probably just pretty okay. Final
Speaker 1: Fantasy Tactics the Evils Chronicles got a little bit more
Speaker 1: information on that coming September thirtieth, looked fantastic Persona three
Speaker 1: reload that's now confirmed for switch to October twenty third.
Speaker 1: That was something that felt like that was one of
Speaker 1: your predictions that was like that one feels like definitely
Speaker 1: that's gonna happen. Here we are coming out later this year.
Speaker 2: Is that on Metaphor and Persona has the SMT fan
Speaker 2: based on Nintendo consoles, so they were probably gonna go
Speaker 2: with Persona first.
Speaker 1: Metaphor will be there like next year at the latest.
Speaker 1: It feels like, so.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Metaphor definitely is one that would take a little
Speaker 2: bit more to get running because it had like even
Speaker 2: on PS five it could drop frames and places. But
Speaker 2: if they scale it back in the right ways they
Speaker 2: could easily get running.
Speaker 1: Hella Little Mouse Platform exploration game has full four player
Speaker 1: co op so four hellas Hella, Hella, hell Hella. That
Speaker 1: is coming twenty twenty six to switch to. It looked
Speaker 1: really cool, looked really neat. I was into what I saw.
Speaker 1: Kind of had a good like prairie style to it.
Speaker 1: And the mouse walks around on two legs and just
Speaker 1: looks like human in a not mouse costume. And I
Speaker 1: liked it.
Speaker 2: When all the other animals walk on four legs, it's weird,
Speaker 2: it's upsetting.
Speaker 1: The mouse is the king and tells the other animals
Speaker 1: what to do. All right, let's see here. Anything else.
Speaker 1: There was a sizzle real Borderlands four, Romancing Saga Tube,
Speaker 1: Revenge of the Seven, Hello Killy, Hello, Chilly, Hello, Kitty
Speaker 1: Island Adventure, Wheat Flour Wonderland update that's coming in the fall.
Speaker 1: That game is doing very well on switch. Shounobi Art
Speaker 1: Love Wheat, Oh Yes, Smoke Wheat every Day Shouldoby Art
Speaker 1: of Vengeance is aut August twenty ninth. That game was
Speaker 1: really fun at Summer Game Fest. Continues to be. I'm
Speaker 1: continuing to be very sitting in anticipation of that game
Speaker 1: even as I'm playing nin Guy in Rage band and
Speaker 1: really enjoying that. And then NBA Bounce from Outright Games
Speaker 1: coming September twenty sixth Uh yeah, little arcade styles that night. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it looked a little bit I don't know, it looked
Speaker 1: a little broken, looked a little cooked to me, I
Speaker 1: don't know, not broken, but just spoiled. The character's design.
Speaker 2: I liked. Technically owned by Bandai.
Speaker 1: I think no rest like interesting. Yeah, yeah, because.
Speaker 2: I've gone to Bandai appointments in games common They're like,
Speaker 2: here's twenty minutes outline games. I'm like, oh, great, cool.
Speaker 1: Last thing here, good night. Universe and emotional adventure that
Speaker 1: puts you in the role of a six month old
Speaker 1: baby developing mysterious psychic powers. That's coming November eleventh. To
Speaker 1: switch to and switch. What was the studio behind this?
Speaker 1: You said, the Blinking.
Speaker 2: Again, Yeah, before you lies there.
Speaker 1: Which is that game where like you you have a
Speaker 1: camera or VR and it tracts your eyes and if
Speaker 1: you blink, when you open your eyes again, it's a
Speaker 1: different scene in that instance, and so it's like everything
Speaker 1: you have every time you blink, like it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: this passing moment and I'm trying not to blink because
Speaker 1: I want to stay in this moment, but if you blink,
Speaker 1: it's over. I've never played it. I need to because
Speaker 1: it sounds astonishing, but I'll play this for sure as well.
Speaker 2: There games that like I've talked to people who who
Speaker 2: like parents and have played them and they're like, yeah,
Speaker 2: these are like designed to make me cry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's I definitely can already know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be it's gonna put me in a mood
Speaker 1: where it's like, oh my god, I need to appreciate
Speaker 1: what I have right now. Yep, I'm gonna I'm in
Speaker 1: a happy place with where like my life is at.
Speaker 1: I don't need to blink and have it all go away, Lexi.
Speaker 1: That would be bad. So yeah, all right, let's see
Speaker 1: here that.
Speaker 2: Well, your life is ending one podcast at a time.
Speaker 1: Listen, I still feel like I got several thousand of
Speaker 1: those left, so that doesn't mean anything yet. I have
Speaker 1: several thousand podcasts left today, Lexi. So uh, all right,
Speaker 1: that's that's the recap that was the Nintendo Direct. I
Speaker 1: give it. I give it a B minus C plus
Speaker 1: like that might sound harsh. I guess, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's a rough thing to say. This
Speaker 1: is what a partner direct often can be. I guess
Speaker 1: I'm e grading on a curve because if it's because
Speaker 1: it's a Partner direct, I would give it a be,
Speaker 1: like a solid be because there were several games in
Speaker 1: there that I'm interested in playing, And how else should
Speaker 1: I judge one of these by like how hyped I
Speaker 1: was by something unannounced that blew blew my mind? I
Speaker 1: guess so, but these are commercials. Do I want to
Speaker 1: buy the games? Yes or no? Yes to several of them.
Speaker 1: That sounds pretty good to me.
Speaker 2: And like, in a lot of ways, this direct isn't
Speaker 2: taking away from anything, Like we know that there will
Speaker 2: most likely be a September Direct because there's always a
Speaker 2: September Direct. So there are definitely things that they are
Speaker 2: like holding on to, and so it's kind of no
Speaker 2: surprise that these are things that didn't make the cut flash.
Speaker 2: But like you look at it and they're all kinds
Speaker 2: of stuff where you're like, no, yeah, I want this
Speaker 2: on the switch, Like I kind of i'd like, I
Speaker 2: like the idea of Persona three on the switch. If
Speaker 2: I was gonna play through hours of an LPG. It
Speaker 2: would be on the Switch or something. And I thought
Speaker 2: I was saying to you before the show, I think
Speaker 2: we get a bunch more of these joint games. Calm
Speaker 2: of just like publishers quietly being like, oh, yeah, this
Speaker 2: game that we we released three years ago is coming
Speaker 2: to Switch, but we don't have a date. Yes, we're
Speaker 2: working on it.
Speaker 1: Yep, exactly so, And I just turned it up back on. Everybody,
Speaker 1: just get a break. Why would we turn off now
Speaker 1: that it should stop after this, let's see for audio listeners,
Speaker 1: the intro video started playing out of nowhere again. I
Speaker 1: know why I did that, but boy, very good at
Speaker 1: interneting here on the website. Okay, LEXI, what we should
Speaker 1: actually do is take a break so I can regain
Speaker 1: some mental health. Uh, we'll come back. Plenty of more
Speaker 1: headlines to get into, including I wanted to like do
Speaker 1: a quick rundown of what the rest of the year
Speaker 1: looked like. We'll get into that after this. If you
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Speaker 1: It's game mess warnings. Nothing has ever broken on this
Speaker 1: show once. I'm Jeff Grubb. That's Lex Lutti, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk more about video games. Yeah, we the Game
Speaker 1: and Former twenty twenty five calendar. I have no idea
Speaker 1: if they have updated this thing.
Speaker 2: They dude that good about it. They take pride in
Speaker 2: this calendar.
Speaker 1: Yes, have they updated it since the direct? Though? I
Speaker 1: was wondering about Oh, since the direct? I'm not sure, right,
Speaker 1: So they're not usual, that's ayage, Yes, exactly, someone should
Speaker 1: pay the price.
Speaker 2: If it's not Alex van Aiken specifically, he just got hired.
Speaker 2: Get him out of that is in fault.
Speaker 1: That's see. This is the problem with Game Informer. This
Speaker 1: is the problem. They already had Alex van aikin. Now
Speaker 1: they have Eric van Allen, two different human beings, both
Speaker 1: with Van in the middle of their name, So too
Speaker 1: many Vans. First of all, like no other website has
Speaker 1: one Van with the middle with them. That's not a
Speaker 1: middle name or whatever. It is a family name precursor.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it fucking means. I already confused
Speaker 1: these guys. Now they work at the same place. What's
Speaker 1: your problem, messed up? Messed up anyway, just become one
Speaker 1: person fusion dance and get it over with. Okay, So
Speaker 1: August coming up very soon. When I look at this,
Speaker 1: the things stick out to me. I mean, I guess
Speaker 1: Mafia the Old Country is in like a week. Have
Speaker 1: you heard any buzz about this right?
Speaker 2: That is? No. I know that they were reaching out
Speaker 2: to influencers recently, that they were doing their partnerships with them,
Speaker 2: so I bet we see a lot of that. This
Speaker 2: game is interesting because, like I kind of think that
Speaker 2: it's going to be more up the ali of press
Speaker 2: than it is influencers because it's a linear action game.
Speaker 2: And when you tell a press member of the press, like, hey,
Speaker 2: it's only like eight or twelve hours.
Speaker 1: Then yeah good.
Speaker 2: When you tell an influencer, they're like, shit, eight or
Speaker 2: twelve hours is one stream and they get really annoyed.
Speaker 2: So I'm kind of surprised that they have. I I
Speaker 2: haven't seen codes going out for it, but I'm not
Speaker 2: tuned in with Take two too much when it comes
Speaker 2: to review codes and stuff, so they might be going out.
Speaker 2: But I'd like a good new Mafia game, yep.
Speaker 1: I would too. I really don't know what to make
Speaker 1: of it at this moment. It's I get the because
Speaker 1: those games were always open world to a degree. Was
Speaker 1: three open world? I guess I don't. I didn't really
Speaker 1: look at The three at all.
Speaker 2: It was open world. And it's weird because that game
Speaker 2: is still totally broken on PS five, Like its shaders
Speaker 2: are totally fucked up, and you will get stuck in
Speaker 2: loading screens and a cut scene will play, and then
Speaker 2: the loading screen will start again, and the cut scene
Speaker 2: will play and you just say, in that loop forever
Speaker 2: and they haven't fixed it, even though they put that
Speaker 2: game up on sale frequently as part of a bundle
Speaker 2: with Mafia one and two, and it's like best of
Speaker 2: the PS five and it's a game that literally does
Speaker 2: not function in on your PS fantastic.
Speaker 1: Well, we'll see what happens with this one, which again
Speaker 1: is said much more linear. I seriously got the order
Speaker 1: eighteen eighty six, but hypes from it where it kind
Speaker 1: of looked like it's, you know, over the shoulder shooter
Speaker 1: with lots of set pieces, and I don't hate that.
Speaker 1: I think that's interesting, interesting take for the for the
Speaker 1: Mafia game specifically, will it make any impact? I doubt it,
Speaker 1: but Mafus never really felt like it made a huge impact.
Speaker 1: So this is like if it costs less to make
Speaker 1: and they were able to and I certainly think that's
Speaker 1: probably the case if you just look at went into
Speaker 1: making this game, because this game they started making after
Speaker 1: they had another project that got canceled and they spent
Speaker 1: a long time on that, and that was just a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, like three or four years ago,
Speaker 1: and who knows how long this game was actually in development,
Speaker 1: but it feels like it wasn't like the full six
Speaker 1: seven years that we get for a lot of games.
Speaker 1: So if they were able to save money, they with
Speaker 1: an expedited release schedule. I think that that makes sense,
Speaker 1: and now they can get this game out and if
Speaker 1: it does okay, it'll probably be fine by them. All Right,
Speaker 1: we should probably a little bit faster. Gonna run out
Speaker 1: of time otherwise, anything else stick out to you? In
Speaker 1: August that there's Gears of War reloaded, I guess.
Speaker 2: Here is a War on Hell Divers come out the
Speaker 2: same day, which is just interesting, and then Kirby and
Speaker 2: Metal Gear Solid Delta come out the same day. Yeah,
Speaker 2: could be the Switch to Patch.
Speaker 1: Yeah though the DLC for that Starland Delivers or something
Speaker 1: like that. And then yes, Middle Gear Salad Delta, Snake
Speaker 1: Eaters August twenty eighth, Chanobi Art of Vengeance is August
Speaker 1: twenty ninth. We talked about that. Let's see that Kronos
Speaker 1: game is September fifth, Borderlands for September twelfth, going through here,
Speaker 1: Silent Hill f oh yeah, Baby Steps? Yeah? When is
Speaker 1: Baby Steps? What day is that?
Speaker 2: September eighth, okay, and.
Speaker 1: Then Silent Hill F is September twenty fifth. That's one
Speaker 1: that's like, oh yeah, that's coming out this year. I'm
Speaker 1: still shocked by that. Do you think that's gonna be
Speaker 1: as good as Talent Hill two was?
Speaker 2: I don't know, but they seem confident in it. If
Speaker 2: the amount of time that they offered for a appointment
Speaker 2: like Games Calm is correct, Okay, that's because Games Calm
Speaker 2: appointments are not usually that locked, right.
Speaker 1: Okay, So maybe they got something up their sleeve there.
Speaker 1: October is really a very busy month. A lot of
Speaker 1: those games that we talked about in the direct coming
Speaker 1: in October, and then Ghost to Dyota is October second,
Speaker 1: Borderlands four for switch two is October third. That King
Speaker 1: Makers game, the one you're driving around in a pickup
Speaker 1: truck with a machine gun and shooting up a medieval soldiers,
Speaker 1: is October eighth.
Speaker 2: Let's See Those Little Nightmares games Sell like Crazy MS
Speaker 2: is October tenth.
Speaker 1: Pokemon Legends ZA is the sixteenth. Ninja Guide In four
Speaker 1: is the twentieth. Jurassic World Evolution three is October twenty first.
Speaker 1: Once Upon a kind of Mari they did, they did?
Speaker 1: Just update this October twenty fourth. Outer World's two is
Speaker 1: October twenty ninth. Art Greaders is the thirtieth Dragon Quests
Speaker 1: one plus one and two. H D two Ory Remake
Speaker 1: is the thirtieth Mina The Hollower October thirty first, and
Speaker 1: two Terminator to No Fate, that awesome looking sixteen bit
Speaker 1: throwback game is October thirty first as well.
Speaker 2: Did you say the out of Worlds too?
Speaker 1: I think so. Did I say the Outwear? I think
Speaker 1: I said the Other Worlds too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a nuts month.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. It's really bananas. Out of World's two October.
Speaker 2: And then like November has four games.
Speaker 1: It's wild. Yeah, I mean that it'll fill in a
Speaker 1: little bit, but I think people are still expecting Call
Speaker 1: of Duty to come out November and they' they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: we'll just avoid that, and then everyone's going into October.
Speaker 1: Do you feel like, I don't know if any of
Speaker 1: these October games screamed to me as like, oh, and
Speaker 1: they're gonna need to move to Q one twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five to find some breathing room. It's a busy month,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't feel busy in the way where it's
Speaker 1: like these games can't coexist necessarily. I don't know. Does
Speaker 1: that sound right to you? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think the only one that might blink is like
Speaker 2: a Ninja guid in for something. Sure, that's the only
Speaker 2: one that I because they're all of such varying sizes,
Speaker 2: they're not games that you would necessarily viewers competing with
Speaker 2: each other. It is interesting that goes to your toy
Speaker 2: and boardlands for are a day Apash, which like we
Speaker 2: don't think of as going for the same market, but
Speaker 2: kind of doing a weird way because right, yeah, that
Speaker 2: first Ghost game was like very much a casual breakthrough
Speaker 2: game with a lot of people who aren't necessary, who
Speaker 2: don't who mainly just buy you know, Call of Duty
Speaker 2: and FIFA, quite a lot of them play Ghost Tsushima
Speaker 2: and Borderlands like that thing sells like crazy to people
Speaker 2: who may not be like to do this game.
Speaker 1: Right to your friend who asks you, what's the what
Speaker 1: other games should I be getting right now? I'm playing
Speaker 1: Borderlands for what else should I be getting? That friend? Yeah,
Speaker 1: always getting Borderlines. In the December Octopath Traveler zero and
Speaker 1: Toxic Crusaders and it says here, Hollow Night Spoon Heaven
Speaker 1: doesn't exist. That's a fake game, so we'll never get
Speaker 1: a release date. And that seems that seems right to me.
Speaker 2: All right, money on the table. I bet that gets
Speaker 2: shadow dropped at game's calm on the shold floor. Yeah,
Speaker 2: which is really funny because you now have a bunch
Speaker 2: of pres being like, oh, I have to get in
Speaker 2: to see a Hollowlight Silk song, and they're like trying
Speaker 2: to schedule the whole appointment schedule around playing that on
Speaker 2: the shoal floor first, and then it's just going to
Speaker 2: wind up being playable in public anyway and everyone can
Speaker 2: get it.
Speaker 1: So do you think Hades two is kind of similar?
Speaker 1: Hades two one point could drop during that.
Speaker 2: I think hadesclude shadow drop at the Game Awards a
Speaker 2: little bit later.
Speaker 1: Okay, we'll see. All right, let's keep going. Battlefield six
Speaker 1: might cost eighty and seventy dollars, well eighty and seventy,
Speaker 1: depending on your currency. This comes from Lex Luddie and uh,
Speaker 1: let's see what's under that tenfoil cap there? Oh, it's
Speaker 1: your brain trying to protect the brain waves. You spotted
Speaker 1: something here? What's what's going on? What? What? What makes
Speaker 1: you think eighty and seventy?
Speaker 2: I was looking at the e shop after the direct
Speaker 2: and I saw that Madden NFL in Europe is going
Speaker 2: to cost eighty eurom and then I checked the US
Speaker 2: version of the shop because I have a US account
Speaker 2: for work stuff, and it's seventy dollars. And in most
Speaker 2: publishing cases, or in most cases, publishers release games kind
Speaker 2: of at a one to one race. So a seventy
Speaker 2: dollars game is a seventy YO game, an eighty dollar
Speaker 2: game is an eighty EUO game. And it seems like
Speaker 2: EA isn't doing that, that they are opping the cost
Speaker 2: of their games in the EU to eighty dollars. This
Speaker 2: is interesting because a euro ado yeah Ideo, This is
Speaker 2: interesting because eighty UO equates to about ninety one dollars,
Speaker 2: which is yeah, and seventy dollars equates to about sixty
Speaker 2: two euro so there is a big gap between those.
Speaker 2: And so basically it's just an addendum to that reporting
Speaker 2: that was going around where Bill wil Coon got out
Speaker 2: there saying that it was going to be AGU. Then
Speaker 2: it got reported on that it was going to be
Speaker 2: eighty dollars by a lot of people who just assumed
Speaker 2: it is going to be AGO. I am guessing Battlefield
Speaker 2: six is going to be Ago, and Bill wil Kuhn
Speaker 2: was probably right, and they were looking at an EU
Speaker 2: you know, shipping manifest or whatever. Bush. I think that
Speaker 2: what's happening here is that a lot of countries are
Speaker 2: going to start taking the brunt of the US tariff
Speaker 2: situation that aren't the US, and it's something you're brought
Speaker 2: up a bunch of like the US is very price
Speaker 2: sensitive and so companies will try to raise Yeah, will
Speaker 2: will raise the price in different regions to offset losing
Speaker 2: a bit of money in the US. And I think
Speaker 2: that's what's happening here is the EA games will probably
Speaker 2: be seventy dollars. If you're in the US, they will
Speaker 2: probably be getting more expensive if you're outside the US.
Speaker 1: It's it's also like this will get in a little
Speaker 1: bit of the weeds of how are the coconomies are
Speaker 1: interacting right now? But all the things that the US
Speaker 1: government has done under Trump to try to like make
Speaker 1: it more competitive and get rid of the the trade
Speaker 1: imbalances whatever, that it's a stupid thing to even try
Speaker 1: to do, and stupid because all the unintended consequences are
Speaker 1: directly working against what he wants, like because it'll be
Speaker 1: more difficult for these companies these other countries to keep
Speaker 1: American dollars because they have, like all the tariffs are
Speaker 1: causing some issues there, they're going to have to borrow
Speaker 1: American dollars when they want to make investment in America,
Speaker 1: which they still want to do, and so that will
Speaker 1: put more pressure on the dollar increase its value, which
Speaker 1: inherently makes it cheaper for Americans to buy foreign goods
Speaker 1: and makes it more difficult for foreign goods to be
Speaker 1: sold in America, the exact thing that he's trying to solve,
Speaker 1: which of course he's not trying to solve it, like
Speaker 1: that's absurd in the first place. But so the dollar
Speaker 1: is going to be worth more going forward, very likely
Speaker 1: because of all the things that are happening here. So
Speaker 1: I think these companies are inherently, intrinsically less interested in
Speaker 1: trying to get the US dollar price up immediately, and
Speaker 1: that goes hand in hand with Americans or whiny price
Speaker 1: sensitive and they don't want to deal with that, and
Speaker 1: they can raise it in Europe, and it's so desperate
Speaker 1: over there that they feel like they can get away
Speaker 1: with it. And it's proven to be true over and
Speaker 1: over again that they can treat the rest of the
Speaker 1: world like crap as long as they keep the United
Speaker 1: States happy. And I'm sorry everybody that that's the way
Speaker 1: it is.
Speaker 2: And Michael and Lily in chat asks what happened with
Speaker 2: the Mariocott announcement. What I think happened there was that
Speaker 2: game is Ago digital and then it's ninety erho for
Speaker 2: a physical a copy in Europe, and at some point
Speaker 2: that got lost in translation coming over between people trying
Speaker 2: to figure out the price, because remember they didn't announce
Speaker 2: the price for a bunch of switch stuff, and people
Speaker 2: were comparing ish and then at some point people were like,
Speaker 2: is this going to cost ninety dollars, and it wasn't Why.
Speaker 1: Would Discord be giving notifications. It always just automatically turns on.
Speaker 1: You know what, everybody, You're just gonna see Discord for
Speaker 1: a second. Let's do this. Let's make sure streamer mode
Speaker 1: is on enable. Streamer mode it's on, right there, is
Speaker 1: it coming through somewhere else? Oh boy? Okay, well that's
Speaker 1: gonna drive me bonkers. Okay, well, we're just gonna keep
Speaker 1: going and we'll hear it again, everybody. We will get
Speaker 1: a gun out and shoot this computer. Okay. I think
Speaker 1: you're probably right though. I think you've probably spotted it
Speaker 1: that this is what's gonna happen with Battlefield. So the
Speaker 1: rumor was it's going to be eighty euro and everyone
Speaker 1: just assumed that meant eighty dollars as well. And then
Speaker 1: Andrew Wilson in an investor calls like, we're not doing
Speaker 1: eighty dollars yet, we're holding back and everyone's like, oh,
Speaker 1: that means they're not doing eighty euros. And it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's like, these are two different things, and they're gonna
Speaker 1: treat them differently, all right. Xbox Content and Service Services
Speaker 1: revenue up thirteen percent year on year from vic Hood
Speaker 1: at Games Industry dot biz.
Speaker 2: Microsoft release that explains why they had to lay off
Speaker 2: all those people.
Speaker 1: Right, you just can't get by, right, it's too tough,
Speaker 1: it's money tight. It's up thirteen percent something like five
Speaker 1: billion dollars and more in revenue for this, I don't know,
Speaker 1: we'll go through this the numbers here, So this is
Speaker 1: for Q four of its fiscal twenty twenty five. Solid
Speaker 1: growth for gaming revenue and Xbox content and services. Hardware
Speaker 1: is down, but they are making more money. For the
Speaker 1: three months ended June thirtieth, twenty twenty five, revenue was
Speaker 1: seventy six point four billion dollars, up eighteen percent year
Speaker 1: over year. Net income was twenty seven point two billion,
Speaker 1: up twenty four percent year over year. More personal, including
Speaker 1: which is the side that includes Xbox, was thirteen point
Speaker 1: five billion dollars. I do believe Xbox makes up the
Speaker 1: bulk of more personal computing, but I think it also
Speaker 1: includes stuff like surface laptops and things like that, and
Speaker 1: that's up nine percent year on year. Here's the highlights,
Speaker 1: as listed by Vick Hood over at Games Industry. It
Speaker 1: was a strong close to what Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella
Speaker 1: called during the earnings call a rec fiscal year for
Speaker 1: the company. This is largely due to Microsoft's cloud services.
Speaker 1: We closed out the fiscal year with a strong quarter,
Speaker 1: highlighted by Microsoft Cloud revenue reaching forty six point seven
Speaker 1: billion dollars, up twenty seven percent. These numbers are insane.
Speaker 1: They're like making it's up double digit percentage points, and
Speaker 1: they still laid off all those people. And it's like
Speaker 1: because they think AI is gonna make them even more money,
Speaker 1: and they're just's just gonna blow up there. Actually, I
Speaker 1: can't wait for it to blow up in their goddamn faces.
Speaker 2: Genuinely. The thing I've like I've talked about on Blue
Speaker 2: Sky about like living in an unreality where it feels
Speaker 2: like even un for investors. At a certain point, when
Speaker 2: you look at business for long enough and you've probably
Speaker 2: done this too, you see them realize that the good
Speaker 2: money has turned into bad money, and they stop putting
Speaker 2: good money after bad and they stop investing in it. It
Speaker 2: happened with NFTs, it happened with Metaverse, where it became
Speaker 2: clear that this thing wasn't going to take hold. You
Speaker 2: look at like the market's view of AI even in
Speaker 2: this case example of Jurassic World Evolution getting like the
Speaker 2: shit kicked out of it by its community and having
Speaker 2: to say they're taking out any traces of AI from that.
Speaker 2: You look at the fact that like AI makes its
Speaker 2: way into Pokemon cards and they have to do a
Speaker 2: massive investigation into all of their Pokemon cards. You look
Speaker 2: at the consumer sentiment around AI and the company sentiment
Speaker 2: around AI, which is it's a fucking liability. And I
Speaker 2: just don't understand how investors and company heads haven't realized
Speaker 2: at this point that is just good money after.
Speaker 1: Bad that things they're working on. It's like, let's let's
Speaker 1: let's let's get more people working on AI so we
Speaker 1: could save money. It's like, Okay, I feel like you
Speaker 1: guys are jumping the gun here a little bit. You
Speaker 1: need to prove AI to people first. You haven't done that,
Speaker 1: and frankly, it doesn't seem like that is a concern
Speaker 1: at all. You're not working on I think they're just
Speaker 1: assuming it's gonna work, and it does. There's a poisonous
Speaker 1: sort of sentiment around AI that extends further than I expected. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of your friends are using AI and having
Speaker 1: conversations with it. And breaking their brains or using it
Speaker 1: in a bunch of monday and mundane ways, for sure,
Speaker 1: But I don't think Ask those friends that are the
Speaker 1: most into AI, are you going to pay one hundred
Speaker 1: dollars a month for your AI assistant? Here? And I
Speaker 1: bet like nine out of ten say no to that.
Speaker 2: And like grub you, you probably think about the movie
Speaker 2: The Big Short as much as I do.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm a dad. Yeah are you kidding me this?
Speaker 2: See, I'm spending too much time on how aging me.
Speaker 1: I'll give you a lost of my favorite dad movies
Speaker 1: when we're done here, don't worry.
Speaker 2: Okay, great, great, I would take you off that in
Speaker 2: Black Beery.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: But the idea of that of like the bank's getting
Speaker 2: too big to fail. That's starting to feel how AI
Speaker 2: has gotten wet. It's very clearly forming a bubble, and
Speaker 2: everyone looking in on it can see that this is
Speaker 2: a bubble being formed, and they just don't care because
Speaker 2: they think they'll get their money out of the bubble
Speaker 2: before it pops.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: And you can see that happening because like, there's no
Speaker 2: other technology that is as unuseful as AI that is
Speaker 2: still getting this much money poured into it this far
Speaker 2: into its life cycle, and like that bubble will pop.
Speaker 2: You talk to anyone who uses it, whether it be
Speaker 2: because it's so expensive to use, whether it be because
Speaker 2: like the returns aren't good enough, whether it be because
Speaker 2: they like end product isn't good enough. Yeah, the AI
Speaker 2: just isn't going to become a viable product in the future.
Speaker 2: And it is like a fad, but these massive companies
Speaker 2: aren't allowing it to appear as a fad, so they
Speaker 2: just continue to invest in it. And we've been doing
Speaker 2: it for almost a decade now. We've been investing in
Speaker 2: AI since twenty seventeen, and it still isn't profitable.
Speaker 1: And I mean all the you know, the Wonder One
Speaker 1: equivalents to the Big short as well, A lot of
Speaker 1: that stuff is there where. It's like the people that
Speaker 1: have oversight on this stuff, the media, the press, have
Speaker 1: been so bought and paid for or have been so
Speaker 1: beaten down by these billionaires that they are are afraid
Speaker 1: to be skeptical or they're afraid of being left out
Speaker 1: of AI. And you could just you know, and those
Speaker 1: the bros they're talking about, you know, selling mortgages or
Speaker 1: getting mortgages signed on Friday and sewing it by noon
Speaker 1: lunch on Monday, and those guys just being like bragging
Speaker 1: about how all the all the stuff that they're doing.
Speaker 1: Those guys exist in AI constantly and worth remembering.
Speaker 2: It's probably like a bunch of the same people. It's
Speaker 2: a bunch of the same people who were trading those
Speaker 2: same socks who were running the stock market at that time,
Speaker 2: who we all know got off scott free for tanking
Speaker 2: the global economy, and this is their new way of
Speaker 2: trying to make that quick money again, and it's going
Speaker 2: to tank like these companies and the global economy at
Speaker 2: some point. And like, I don't care about the companies.
Speaker 2: I don't like necessarily care about global markets people out
Speaker 2: of effect. Yeah, I care about the people who you know,
Speaker 2: in the case of the big draw have their houses
Speaker 2: we possess. In this case, it's loseer employment because their
Speaker 2: company goes under and it sucks.
Speaker 1: And and so like put a fine point on it.
Speaker 1: None of the AI bullshit is why Microsoft's content is
Speaker 1: making more money now than it was before. It was
Speaker 1: because people made a bunch of cool video games and
Speaker 1: they sold and they put those video games in new
Speaker 1: places and the people.
Speaker 2: Did you see the numbers that got out there for
Speaker 2: Facebook's AI initiative that they had in their earning support.
Speaker 1: I think I saw some of this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we made like thirsty million. We lost three billion yep, oops.
Speaker 1: Yep, and just and no one is really asking for
Speaker 1: AAI movies And if they are, they're asking I want
Speaker 1: the ability to just to make stuff on my own
Speaker 1: in my house, So I just want to say stuff.
Speaker 1: And you're not gonna be able to sell any sell
Speaker 1: any of those things to anyone, and all of the
Speaker 1: legal problems have not been solved yet. It is. It's
Speaker 1: just one big land mine and they're putting all their
Speaker 1: money inside of the land mine. It's crazy. Okay, let's
Speaker 1: see here. Meanwhile, though, yes, the Xbox games are saving
Speaker 1: the PS five from its midlife crisis. That is a
Speaker 1: headline from Ethan Gotcha at Kotaku. There was a list
Speaker 1: for Matt Piscatella of the best selling PlayStation five games
Speaker 1: of the second quarter, and it was a majority Microsoft games.
Speaker 1: It was like something like six of the ten were
Speaker 1: Microsoft games.
Speaker 2: It's weird to look at because there's more Microsoft games
Speaker 2: on the PlayStation list than there is on the Xbox. Yes, exactly,
Speaker 2: because the X on Xbox people just play those three
Speaker 2: game pass So the majority of like the Xbox list
Speaker 2: is take two games and EA games. It's weird.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that stuff like you know, Doom, the Dark Ages,
Speaker 1: Oblivion Remastered, forts A five let's see, I say, Indiana
Speaker 1: Jones in the Great Circle. See Yeah, and then of
Speaker 1: course you have Call of Duty and Minecraft. So between
Speaker 1: those six it's it's just in you know, people playing. Well,
Speaker 1: Microsoft bought all those stuff. Yeah, yeah, of course, definitely. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't really know what that means. I also, this
Speaker 1: just means more mining's going to Microsoft as they succeed
Speaker 1: on PlayStation. And I don't think anyone here is salty
Speaker 1: about this. No. I mean, I'm sure the fans are
Speaker 1: salty whatever, but they're salty about everything becase they're miserable people.
Speaker 1: Between Microsoft and Sony, I don't think there's anyone's going like,
Speaker 1: darn it, we're making more money. This thinks they're all
Speaker 1: happy over there. They understand what's going on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think as like a member of the press.
Speaker 2: This really highlights an interesting thing that I've been thinking
Speaker 2: about a lot, which is like when there is an
Speaker 2: active boycott against the company like Microsoft. It's very easy
Speaker 2: to say, Okay, we need to boycott them, but when
Speaker 2: Microsoft takes up a percentage of the industry that is
Speaker 2: so grayish. When Microsoft blows, the industry blows in a
Speaker 2: lot of ways. Yes, I think it's still important that
Speaker 2: press cover them in a critical manner. And that's not
Speaker 2: me saying that you like, break the boycott. I don't
Speaker 2: think you should do previews of Xbox games right now
Speaker 2: because that, let's be real, previews are free advertising, that's
Speaker 2: all they are, like, But it is still important to
Speaker 2: cover these companies in a critical manner, especially in a
Speaker 2: business manner when so much like depends on the whims
Speaker 2: of a couple of people at the top there, and
Speaker 2: so much of the role of press now has to
Speaker 2: be holding them to account for their choices that they make,
Speaker 2: because no one else is doing that, like the government
Speaker 2: isn't doing that anymore. So I think it's it's a
Speaker 2: really delicate, delicate situation that the press have been put
Speaker 2: in with the BDS boycott, which is something that like
Speaker 2: I support, but also I think we need to talk
Speaker 2: about what Microsoft does because otherwise we're ignorant to the
Speaker 2: actual scale of what's going on in the industry.
Speaker 1: Yep, it's it's unfortunately literally too large to ignore on
Speaker 1: a show like this for the news side of things.
Speaker 1: But you're right, Yeah, I'm I don't know. It's it's tough.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be one of those things where I told
Speaker 1: you know what, every time it's free Palestine, a bunch
Speaker 1: of it's it's yeah. And I think Microsoft's involvement and
Speaker 1: and and continued target by the BDS movement is completely
Speaker 1: fair and they it should be brought up every time.
Speaker 1: Uh as far as their success, well, I don't. I
Speaker 1: guess on the other side of this, really, I'm wondering,
Speaker 1: like what does what does this mean for Sony? Like
Speaker 1: where is Sony at with releasing video games? Uh, it
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like they're in They're hurting by putting out
Speaker 1: two three games a year and some of those are
Speaker 1: from like partners like Kojima. So I guess is this
Speaker 1: even a problem at all? Obviously I just said it's
Speaker 1: not problems. They're making more money, but people do want
Speaker 1: Sony to put out more games. Are they putting out enough?
Speaker 1: It's weird.
Speaker 2: It's like they keep on getting like on the handful
Speaker 2: tosses thrown to them and they just haven't like taken
Speaker 2: hit on any of them yet. They're just like, no,
Speaker 2: we're still working on stuff. We're still working on stuff.
Speaker 2: We canceled everything. We'll be back in a few years
Speaker 2: time with some actual stuff. And I think that's like,
Speaker 2: that's the thing that we won't hear about for or
Speaker 2: we'll be hearing about over the years, is like just
Speaker 2: how many games got caught up in their live service push,
Speaker 2: and like not even how many games, but like the
Speaker 2: percentage of their release schedule that was going to be
Speaker 2: live service, Because I think that's like the real problem.
Speaker 2: It wasn't that they wanted to do twelve live service games.
Speaker 2: It's that they wanted to do twelve live service games
Speaker 2: and they were maybe releasing sixteen games in the next
Speaker 2: year a couple of years, and when one of those
Speaker 2: went wrong, now you have a huge majority of their
Speaker 2: slash that has like a noose around its neck already
Speaker 2: and this bad omen aroundish because of one bad release.
Speaker 1: There was one other number here from Microsoft Worth bringing
Speaker 1: up game Pass five billion dollars in revenue for the
Speaker 1: first time, said Nodela. Yeah, I think it's probably fair
Speaker 1: to say that that is a business model that is
Speaker 1: okay and is making enough money. And at the same time,
Speaker 1: it's worth pointing out that it has also been this
Speaker 1: albatross in a lot of ways for the the you know,
Speaker 1: the fate of Microsoft and where it's going, and they
Speaker 1: they do still have to kind of fund it in
Speaker 1: some ways, like a lot of the focus internally has
Speaker 1: to go towards game Pass. But five billion dollars in revenue,
Speaker 1: I don't think they're spending five billion dollars a year
Speaker 1: on making games for a game pass. At the same time,
Speaker 1: maybe they are, but it's probably it's probably not close
Speaker 1: to that.
Speaker 2: It's weird because like game Pass was always positioned and
Speaker 2: the press always talked about game Pass as like, oh,
Speaker 2: this is Microsoft's big besh and yes it was, and
Speaker 2: but the only options that people ever really thought about
Speaker 2: was like, it's either going to hit it out of
Speaker 2: the park and will become Netflix, it's going to totally fail,
Speaker 2: and it's not done either. It's just kind of to
Speaker 2: hung out around not even the middle, but a kind
Speaker 2: of midway point to And now it's had these weird
Speaker 2: knock on effects because of that that people hadn't really expected.
Speaker 2: So it's a very nebulous thing of like, what does
Speaker 2: game pass actually mean for Microsoft on the industry?
Speaker 1: Yep. And I'm sure a big reason to got to
Speaker 1: this five billion dollar revenue number is Call of Duty,
Speaker 1: And you know some of that money comes from somewhere.
Speaker 1: You know, it's not always an even exchange. It's not
Speaker 1: always a zero sum game where it's like we're making
Speaker 1: a billion here that we would have made a billion
Speaker 1: from selling Call of Duty, or maybe a lot more
Speaker 1: because call of Duty costs more. But I still think that, yeah,
Speaker 1: you could probably look at those numbers and it's not
Speaker 1: exactly like, oh, this is just for a free five
Speaker 1: billion dollars. You have to kind of do the math
Speaker 1: there a little bit. All right, let's finish up here.
Speaker 1: Capcom's share price drops sharply in Japan following soft Monster
Speaker 1: Hunter Wild sales last quarter. Let's see. This is from
Speaker 1: Chris Culling at v GC. Capcom's share price in Japan
Speaker 1: dropped sharply because of Monster Hunter wilds. The company's share
Speaker 1: price was sitting at four two hundred and eighty three
Speaker 1: yen at the end of Wednesday, but when the market
Speaker 1: opened today the price dropped nearly ten percent nine point
Speaker 1: five percent, hitting a low point of three eight hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy four. En Capcom published its financial results for
Speaker 1: the quarterly period ending June thirtieth, and while it reported
Speaker 1: net sales were up fifty three point seven percent year
Speaker 1: on year and that operating profit was up ninety point
Speaker 1: eight percent year on year, it also noted that Mike
Speaker 1: Minecraft Monster Hunter Rises sales appeared to have hit a
Speaker 1: brick wall. That's incorrect. I think he means Wilds here.
Speaker 1: Wilds hit a brick wall because the Rise actually sold
Speaker 1: better than Wilds in the last quarter. That's so people
Speaker 1: are pretty worried about Wilds, and they should be. The
Speaker 1: sentiment around that game has been pretty rotten for quite
Speaker 1: some time, and it seems like that's showing up in
Speaker 1: the ongoing sales. The game did very great out of
Speaker 1: the gate, but now it's sort of it has fizzled
Speaker 1: and fallen off a cliff, and investors are looking at
Speaker 1: that like we were counting on this game being a
Speaker 1: perennial hit for a while and it's not doing that.
Speaker 2: It is worth noting that m Lies is on switch
Speaker 2: and therefore switched to and has been on deep discount,
Speaker 2: Like I think the bundle with Sunbreak has been like
Speaker 2: thirty thirty bucks most of this year, so like, I'm
Speaker 2: not surprised that that game is doing measure, but I
Speaker 2: do think it is notable that Wilds isn't doing better.
Speaker 1: Yeah, real quick, I just spoke its Rise only sold
Speaker 1: slightly less, actually, but it was very close. So it
Speaker 1: was four hundred and seventy seven thousand copies for Wilds
Speaker 1: and then three hundred and ninety thousand copies for Monster
Speaker 1: Hunter Rise. So okay, eighty thousand less, but it's still
Speaker 1: like really close, like their neck and neck in a
Speaker 1: lot of ways. But you're right, those are copies sold,
Speaker 1: So Wild's making a lot more revenue, making a lot
Speaker 1: more money because these are all going to be deep counting.
Speaker 1: A lot of are going to be deep discounted sales
Speaker 1: of Rise on Switch and especially on Steam. But the
Speaker 1: underlying point here is investors and fans are worried about
Speaker 1: Monster Hunter Wilds. This is like maybe one of the
Speaker 1: first blimishes on Capcom and quite some time of this
Speaker 1: game just feels off. It feels like they missed with
Speaker 1: this one in a lot of ways. Even though reviews
Speaker 1: were really it reviewed well at the time, but I
Speaker 1: think a lot of people are like, yes, this is
Speaker 1: a fun game, it's just missing a lot of what
Speaker 1: makes Monster Hunter very special. And now those problems have
Speaker 1: become exacerbated over time. They're gonna have to say time
Speaker 1: fixing this up, right. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think that was the big thing with Wilds when
Speaker 2: you looked at it, like, compared to almost every other
Speaker 2: apcom game that has come out for the last like
Speaker 2: seven or so years, it did feel unpolished. It did
Speaker 2: feel like other like Dragon Sogma two obviously had its problems,
Speaker 2: but that's such a niche game in a lot of
Speaker 2: ways that people are like, you know whatever, the Dragons
Speaker 2: Dogma Sick loved it no matter what. But you compare
Speaker 2: it to like the polish that we were seeing on
Speaker 2: those Resident Evil games, on stuff like Rise and a
Speaker 2: lot of their other output, and it did kind of
Speaker 2: feel like, oh, you've invested in a new technology and
Speaker 2: it's not quite working. Yeesh and whether and I think
Speaker 2: like maybe they've they've had to learn that lesson the
Speaker 2: hard way, Like they've gone out there and said that
Speaker 2: Lesid Evil Requiem isn't like fully open world, and I
Speaker 2: think that's them acknowledging like maybe the ORI engine can't
Speaker 2: do everything, maybe it's just not built for this, and
Speaker 2: they they kind of, you know, they they had to
Speaker 2: experiment with those things. You know, they had the technology,
Speaker 2: they had to like do something with it. So I'm
Speaker 2: not surprised that they tried to push the limits, but
Speaker 2: it just seems like it didn't. It has backfired on
Speaker 2: them in this case, and I'm sure they're like correct
Speaker 2: from it and people will be really fucking excited for
Speaker 2: the next one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's probably exactly what will happen here. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean the reality is all of these engines right
Speaker 1: now are struggling with open the scale of open world games.
Speaker 1: Unreal Engine five supposed to be the open world engine. No,
Speaker 1: it stinks that this too. A lot of games have
Speaker 1: troubling performance with Unreal Engine five, and it's just these
Speaker 1: people are trying to do too much. They're making games
Speaker 1: that are more than what Fortnite is, and it's like
Speaker 1: anything above that starts to become an issue for that. Yeah, idea,
Speaker 1: anything else.
Speaker 2: Someone up with this office just being like ha ha,
Speaker 2: not so easy now, is it.
Speaker 1: Fuck is a little bit yeah, uh huh, all right,
Speaker 1: that does it for the headlines. Let's get to the
Speaker 1: poll question. I think I have it right here, ready
Speaker 1: to go. Let's read it up all right from yesterday.
Speaker 1: Let's see what everyone said to this one. Do we
Speaker 1: get Matroid Prime for his release data tomorrow? Tomorrow's partner direct?
Speaker 1: I would have also said no, you dip? Uh, And
Speaker 1: that's seventy one percent said no, you dip and twenty
Speaker 1: one percent said yes, I have endless cope. Uh. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Look look I get it everybody, but we did not
Speaker 1: get it. So you twenty one percent lef to keep waiting,
Speaker 1: although you know that one I do like happens in September. Now,
Speaker 1: I feel like we don't get that.
Speaker 2: Cull September if it doesn't get shown at games come
Speaker 2: behind closed doores. I bet this is a Nintendo Today
Speaker 2: app reveal right, I bet that, like this is just
Speaker 2: something they put on the app and they're like, it's
Speaker 2: out then yep, exactly, also out on October twenty fourth,
Speaker 2: like every other video.
Speaker 1: Yeah, why not? Who cares put it on the same
Speaker 1: day as one of your other games? Nintendo? All right,
Speaker 1: that was the pole question from yesterday. We have a
Speaker 1: new Pole question. We'll get to here in a second.
Speaker 1: Before we do that, Lex Ludie, why don't you tell
Speaker 1: people where they can find you on the internet, what
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Speaker 2: do thirty turns in that game grub. I spent like
Speaker 2: ten minutes setting this up with with Henry the other
Speaker 2: night before, like the night before my birthday, and like
Speaker 2: just making sure that all the online stuff worked and
Speaker 2: that we can get into a game. And after one
Speaker 2: turn of like playing a mini game, I was like,
Speaker 2: I'm angry. I don't I'm not happy, Like I'm not
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Speaker 2: to up our Patreon support for rewinder. We're trying to
Speaker 2: make it sustainable so that we can keep on going
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Speaker 1: It's it works, It's worked. It's worked.
Speaker 2: In the Yes, I waste a lot of money by
Speaker 2: playing Sonic O six for trans Healthcare, So like by
Speaker 2: the transitive property, they should also work.
Speaker 1: You should have a noobs hole. Noobshole is the key.
Speaker 1: That's what always makes it happen. People give a lot
Speaker 1: of money to kids for the to put me in
Speaker 1: the nobs hole.
Speaker 2: I'll just get Taspa van Dein to call over to
Speaker 2: my house. It's fine.
Speaker 1: There you go. That's perfect, all right. New poll question
Speaker 1: is great. The Nintendo Direct, ABC or D. Those are
Speaker 1: your options. They don't have us to do more than
Speaker 1: four options on YouTube anymore, so those are it, ABC
Speaker 1: or D will get the results of the poll. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about it here on Game Mes Mornings on Giant
Speaker 1: Bomb tomorrow to close out the week, speaking a giant
Speaker 1: bomb on that game. Mess Mornings will also have the
Speaker 1: Bomb twelve, which, if you check out my Blue Sky,
Speaker 1: I posted a link where you could tell me what
Speaker 1: is your game right now getting lots of replies. Once again,
Speaker 1: if you want to get one of your favorite games
Speaker 1: on the Bomb twelve, you're gonna have to respond and
Speaker 1: we'll see what the results of that will be. Of course,
Speaker 1: this is our list of the games that matter in
Speaker 1: this moment to people. We did, We started that last week,
Speaker 1: we will continue it this week. Other than that, today Voicemail,
Speaker 1: Dump Truck, we have Vinnie and Alex on the show
Speaker 1: with me and Backlart. It's gonna be a good one.
Speaker 1: Really looking forward to that.
Speaker 2: What nice guys, What nice guys? Yeah, come podcast with
Speaker 2: them for the first time. Lovely guys.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, absolutely, they're They're fantastic and uh you know
Speaker 1: they'll work when others won't and others around here just
Speaker 1: go do whatever off and SFO. Yeah, you go get
Speaker 1: the San Francisco treat on Mike Minatti. Yeah, I we'll
Speaker 1: get that going. What else I'm probably gonna do skys
Speaker 1: for Arcadia today, But like I said, A lot's going on,
Speaker 1: so we'll see if we can make that happen.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say it right here, you shouldn't I know,
Speaker 2: I shouldn't have I.
Speaker 1: Know I shouldn't. But if I don't, I don't know
Speaker 1: what else I'm gonna do it. Yeah, But so we'll
Speaker 1: see and then uh tomorrow we'll have upf We're gonna
Speaker 1: try a couple of things on there. I might start
Speaker 1: it by doing the campfire game Chilling by the Fire.
Speaker 1: Might force everyone to play that with me. We'll see
Speaker 1: that's out today. All right, that does it for what's
Speaker 1: coming up. Let's see your lex Luddie. Thank you so
Speaker 1: much for hanging out with me today to talk about
Speaker 1: video games. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Always a pleasure, always fun.
Speaker 1: Thank you all for watching and listening wherever you're doing so.
Speaker 1: I really appreciate it. You are the best audience in gaming.
Speaker 1: Until next time, have a good one, take care of yourself,
Speaker 1: and goodbye.