WEBVTT 1 00:00:29.920 --> 00:00:33.039 Welcome to Game Breaking News with Me Jeff Grub, your 2 00:00:33.039 --> 00:00:35.079 host from Giant Bob dot com. Thank you for tuning 3 00:00:35.119 --> 00:00:36.960 in on this episode. We're going to be talking about 4 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:40.159 a massive decline in gaming hardware sales and developers are 5 00:00:40.280 --> 00:00:43.159 uniting around the industry. We have Janet Show on the program, 6 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:44.679 so it's going to be a good one. Let's get 7 00:00:44.719 --> 00:00:47.520 right into it with Janet Show and jan how are 8 00:00:47.520 --> 00:00:47.920 you doing? 9 00:00:48.240 --> 00:00:52.880 I am doing marginally better than yesterday. I can sit 10 00:00:52.920 --> 00:00:53.399 in a chair. 11 00:00:53.479 --> 00:00:54.200 Fine. 12 00:00:54.520 --> 00:00:58.640 Uh, the back is still okay. It still feels like 13 00:00:59.119 --> 00:01:03.000 a group of fur grade horses trampled over it. I 14 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:05.760 don't know if that's an actual classification of horses. 15 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:07.959 But here we are. I mean, listen to me. It 16 00:01:08.120 --> 00:01:11.799 sounded like insane lyrics from my red Hot Chili Pepper song. 17 00:01:11.959 --> 00:01:14.200 So you don't want that happening in your back. You 18 00:01:14.200 --> 00:01:15.079 don't want red Hot. 19 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:17.359 Chili Pepper songs happening back here there in those muscles. 20 00:01:17.480 --> 00:01:21.879 Yeah, right now, I'm at like Beck level lyrics. Uh huh, 21 00:01:21.879 --> 00:01:24.200 with the help of my back, which which is safe. 22 00:01:24.480 --> 00:01:26.799 We're not crossing the RHCP. 23 00:01:27.760 --> 00:01:30.319 Bridge yet. We're under it. Yeah, we're under it. 24 00:01:31.879 --> 00:01:34.439 Boom Okay. Jane how you do it. 25 00:01:34.519 --> 00:01:39.120 Otherwise, video games are coming out grub I popped into 26 00:01:39.159 --> 00:01:40.799 Assassin's Creed yesterday. 27 00:01:41.120 --> 00:01:44.760 Holy smokes, I'm enjoying that a lot. Yeah, pretty good. 28 00:01:44.879 --> 00:01:47.519 It's pretty good. You and Sean checked it out on 29 00:01:47.560 --> 00:01:51.519 the website yesterday, and that inspired me to like, all right, 30 00:01:51.599 --> 00:01:53.959 I want to I want to check out this bamboo 31 00:01:54.040 --> 00:01:56.599 that that Dan is talking about that he's so high 32 00:01:56.599 --> 00:02:00.920 on good bamboo. Good bamboo. Maybe the best bamboo of 33 00:02:00.959 --> 00:02:01.560 the year so. 34 00:02:01.560 --> 00:02:04.319 Far, I think. So. Yeah, you know, there there was 35 00:02:04.359 --> 00:02:06.000 a time in all these open world games where they 36 00:02:06.040 --> 00:02:09.520 would simulate everything and you could like shoot the trees 37 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:12.280 and the trees would fall down, and I think they're like, well, 38 00:02:12.280 --> 00:02:14.400 the wider audience doesn't care about that. They just care 39 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:16.639 about having way points to go to h and then 40 00:02:16.639 --> 00:02:18.240 so you your stuff went in that direction. I think 41 00:02:18.240 --> 00:02:21.280 they're like realizing now that having all that extra cool 42 00:02:21.319 --> 00:02:24.919 stuff in there was important, even if not everyone was 43 00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:28.039 engaging with it. So yeah, I'm glad that we're like 44 00:02:28.120 --> 00:02:30.080 kind of they seem to be dipping their toe back 45 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:32.280 in it. It's like I said on that thing with Sean, 46 00:02:32.360 --> 00:02:35.120 it's not far cry to levels of interactivity with the 47 00:02:35.159 --> 00:02:38.159 world in that game, but you can chop up the 48 00:02:38.199 --> 00:02:39.439 bamboo and it looks real nice. 49 00:02:39.560 --> 00:02:40.840 And that one, that's one where it's like, well. 50 00:02:40.759 --> 00:02:42.719 That makes sense. You have a sword, there's bamboo in 51 00:02:42.719 --> 00:02:44.080 front of you. You want to be able to chop 52 00:02:44.120 --> 00:02:45.599 it up and have it look nice. But at least 53 00:02:45.639 --> 00:02:48.400 they did actually do that. Yeah, I've been playing that. 54 00:02:48.560 --> 00:02:52.039 It's it's been pretty good. Got some other stuff. Looking 55 00:02:52.039 --> 00:02:54.680 forward to to hopping into here pretty soon. Gonna we're 56 00:02:54.680 --> 00:02:56.800 gonna play some thirty three Immortals today. I played some 57 00:02:56.840 --> 00:03:01.280 of that last night. That's strange. It's interesting, strange to 58 00:03:01.319 --> 00:03:04.039 say the least. Yeah, I kind of got in the 59 00:03:04.039 --> 00:03:06.439 flow of it though, so it will kind of we'll 60 00:03:06.439 --> 00:03:08.280 show it off here in a little bit not long 61 00:03:08.360 --> 00:03:12.159 after the show today. It is that thirty three player 62 00:03:12.479 --> 00:03:17.039 online cooperative rogue Light games. It's Hades, but thirty three players. 63 00:03:17.199 --> 00:03:19.479 You can have a crew of four and really you're 64 00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:21.199 just kind of a crew of four in an instance, 65 00:03:21.240 --> 00:03:23.919 working together with other crews, trying to accomplish an overall 66 00:03:23.960 --> 00:03:24.879 goal on any floor. 67 00:03:26.039 --> 00:03:29.039 But yeah, I was enjoying myself, so yeah, looking forward 68 00:03:29.039 --> 00:03:29.319 to playing. 69 00:03:29.400 --> 00:03:29.599 Yeah. 70 00:03:29.639 --> 00:03:33.360 I dipped into that a little bit as well this morning. 71 00:03:34.479 --> 00:03:35.800 And you're right. 72 00:03:35.919 --> 00:03:38.879 I don't enjoy the bow that they start you out with. 73 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:42.919 And I also didn't like that they started you out 74 00:03:42.960 --> 00:03:46.000 with one of those instant that you have to fail missions, 75 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:50.599 just because I spent too much time actually trying to 76 00:03:50.639 --> 00:03:53.919 play and win but totally wound up switching weapons. And 77 00:03:54.039 --> 00:03:57.280 it is an interesting premise kind of being dumped with 78 00:03:57.319 --> 00:03:59.680 a bunch of other people playing at the same time 79 00:04:00.039 --> 00:04:02.879 reminds me of I Guess Destiny in some ways. 80 00:04:03.080 --> 00:04:05.319 Yeah, for sure. It's definitely like taking some of the 81 00:04:05.400 --> 00:04:07.039 that field of feelings of playing a game like that 82 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:11.159 and applying it to a hades. And I think it's 83 00:04:11.159 --> 00:04:13.439 a cool thing to do with a popular genre right now, 84 00:04:13.479 --> 00:04:15.439 like oh, haites something there, like a lot of indie 85 00:04:15.439 --> 00:04:19.639 developers are aping. That's great, that's fantastic. I would probably 86 00:04:20.199 --> 00:04:23.600 be I'm like interested to see, Okay, what spin can 87 00:04:23.639 --> 00:04:25.120 you put on there? And this is a pretty good spin. 88 00:04:26.120 --> 00:04:30.360 All right, let's explain what we do here most weekdays, 89 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:33.079 I Jeff Grub will help piece your gaming life back together. 90 00:04:33.199 --> 00:04:35.560 That includes breaking news and maybe even some of our 91 00:04:35.600 --> 00:04:38.959 own original reporting. For all these topics, I'll get the 92 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:40.959 input of a bona fide expert who will make me 93 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:43.839 look smart. If you are watching live on Twitch welcome, 94 00:04:43.879 --> 00:04:45.920 You can always listen to the show later on podcast 95 00:04:45.959 --> 00:04:48.519 feeds by searching for Game Best Mornings, or find the 96 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:51.920 RSS on giant bomb dot com. You can also catch 97 00:04:51.920 --> 00:04:54.480 the show later with chapters and timestamps on YouTube. 98 00:04:55.240 --> 00:04:56.680 Hello YouTube. 99 00:04:56.720 --> 00:04:58.519 All right, we have a lot to get into, so 100 00:04:58.680 --> 00:05:03.000 let's break some game news with February's twenty twenty five 101 00:05:03.079 --> 00:05:06.360 US video game market highlights from Matt Piscatella over at Sircana. 102 00:05:06.759 --> 00:05:08.439 As he does each month, he dropped a bunch of 103 00:05:08.439 --> 00:05:10.839 tidbits about what's going on around the industry in terms 104 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:14.639 of performance and sales, and for February twenty twenty, twenty 105 00:05:14.680 --> 00:05:17.639 twenty five, projected US consumer spending on video game hardware, 106 00:05:18.600 --> 00:05:22.720 content and accessories. It declined six percent when compared to 107 00:05:22.759 --> 00:05:26.399 a year ago to four point five billion dollars. Spending 108 00:05:26.439 --> 00:05:28.600 so far this year is eleven percent lower than twenty 109 00:05:28.680 --> 00:05:31.519 twenty four year to date, which hit nine billion, no, 110 00:05:31.560 --> 00:05:36.800 excuse me, nine billion dollars. Even This is mostly due 111 00:05:36.879 --> 00:05:39.439 to a dip in hardware, but it's kind of across 112 00:05:39.480 --> 00:05:42.600 the board. We see everything's down. Content was down despite 113 00:05:42.600 --> 00:05:45.800 a lot of new games launching in February. Video game hardware, 114 00:05:45.839 --> 00:05:50.360 though specifically down thirty five percent, it is from like 115 00:05:50.480 --> 00:05:53.279 seven hundred and twelve million dollars spent on hardware in 116 00:05:53.279 --> 00:05:55.600 the United States last year all the way down to 117 00:05:55.600 --> 00:05:58.879 four hundred and sixty one million. You know, the biggest 118 00:05:58.879 --> 00:06:01.160 culprit with this continues to be the switch is at 119 00:06:01.160 --> 00:06:03.560 the end of its life. People are not buying switches 120 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:05.519 the way they once were. They're not buying switches the 121 00:06:05.519 --> 00:06:08.759 way Nintendo even thought they could maybe still be. So 122 00:06:08.800 --> 00:06:11.160 we know that that is like the main culprit. But 123 00:06:11.639 --> 00:06:14.199 PlayStation and Xbox. Every time we kind of get this 124 00:06:14.279 --> 00:06:18.120 info from from Mattisktela, at least throughout the last several months, 125 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:21.120 it's often been both of those systems are down double 126 00:06:21.120 --> 00:06:23.680 digit percentage wise because they are on the other side 127 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:26.279 of the hump. When we had Matt on two months ago, 128 00:06:26.360 --> 00:06:28.959 now one month ago, whatever that was, he explained, like, yeah, 129 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:32.680 we are past the tipping point of the current console 130 00:06:32.759 --> 00:06:35.959 generation where the Xbox and the PlayStation should start dipping 131 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:39.199 in terms of reaching new people to sell consoles to, 132 00:06:39.639 --> 00:06:42.399 although he did mention that it's dipping faster than he 133 00:06:42.399 --> 00:06:46.000 would have anticipated and faster than it typically does at 134 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:50.319 this point in the generation. That's continuing, so you know, whatever, 135 00:06:50.399 --> 00:06:52.879 whatever's happening there. I mean, we'll get into all of 136 00:06:52.920 --> 00:06:55.560 it here in a second, but I guess let's hit 137 00:06:55.600 --> 00:06:59.360 the top best selling games for the month. Like I said, 138 00:06:59.439 --> 00:07:01.480 a lot of new games launched in February, so that 139 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:03.519 was not like the thing holding the industry back, and 140 00:07:03.560 --> 00:07:06.800 the top four on the chart were all new games, 141 00:07:06.839 --> 00:07:08.879 and really the like six of the top eight are 142 00:07:08.959 --> 00:07:12.639 new games. So number one was Monster Hunter Wilds from Capcom. 143 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:16.600 Number two Kingdom Come Deliverance too did very well. Number 144 00:07:16.600 --> 00:07:19.680 three was Civilization seven. Number four is PGA two or 145 00:07:19.720 --> 00:07:22.879 two K twenty five. Then NBA two K twenty five. 146 00:07:23.399 --> 00:07:25.920 It was back on the chart at number five. Call 147 00:07:25.920 --> 00:07:27.879 of Duty Black Ops six was number six, and then 148 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:30.959 two other new games avowed at number seven and number 149 00:07:30.959 --> 00:07:34.920 eight is like a Dragon Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, And 150 00:07:34.959 --> 00:07:36.399 then the rest of the chart is a lot of 151 00:07:36.399 --> 00:07:39.600 the familiar faces, starting with Grand Theft, Auto, Madden, Minecraft E, 152 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:42.000 Sports Football Club twenty five, things like that. 153 00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:45.800 How is how is Hogwarts legacy still on this chart? 154 00:07:46.600 --> 00:07:48.240 I mean it's it is, it has become one of 155 00:07:48.279 --> 00:07:51.480 these games where I think we talked about the hardware 156 00:07:51.560 --> 00:07:54.160 not selling. I think the hardware when it does sell, 157 00:07:54.639 --> 00:07:57.399 it is getting picked up by people who are like, Okay, 158 00:07:57.439 --> 00:07:59.560 I'm gonna finally get that Hogwarts game, I'm gonna get 159 00:07:59.560 --> 00:08:01.759 Grand THEFTD five again for the third time on this 160 00:08:01.800 --> 00:08:05.680 new hardware and Minecraft or something like that. Yeah, the 161 00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:07.560 very familiar games and then the one new one that 162 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:09.519 has sort of entered into that pantheon. 163 00:08:09.839 --> 00:08:10.199 I don't know. 164 00:08:10.240 --> 00:08:12.439 I mean, you know, I think I got some improvements 165 00:08:12.519 --> 00:08:15.399 on the Switch not too long ago, and so it 166 00:08:15.480 --> 00:08:19.720 was selling there again. But yeah, it's it's definitely just 167 00:08:19.800 --> 00:08:23.399 has become one of these ever selling games, right, there's 168 00:08:23.480 --> 00:08:25.560 kind of no denying that. Hey, Astrobot though still on 169 00:08:25.600 --> 00:08:28.360 the chart at number twenty. That's great to see as well. Yeah, 170 00:08:28.360 --> 00:08:34.039 that's fantastic. You know, the story with this gen I 171 00:08:34.080 --> 00:08:36.679 think we've had this conversation million times now, is Hey, 172 00:08:36.679 --> 00:08:39.360 Grand Theft out of six and switch To are coming. 173 00:08:40.320 --> 00:08:43.559 And I think switched to probably does solve the hardware 174 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:46.200 sales thing, and then that may be snowballs and helps 175 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:46.879 with software. 176 00:08:48.120 --> 00:08:52.320 Yeah, I feel like a lot of people are waiting 177 00:08:52.519 --> 00:08:56.360 for Nintendo's next moves to kind of plan out financially 178 00:08:56.759 --> 00:09:01.000 the road ahead. I think with people that have already 179 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:03.559 bought a console, or we're on a fence of buying 180 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:07.879 a PS five or an Xbox are unfortunately waiting for 181 00:09:08.600 --> 00:09:13.120 GTA six to come out this year or not. And yeah, 182 00:09:13.159 --> 00:09:18.000 because I don't believe there's necessarily any if you have 183 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:20.440 been on the fence of picking up and joining this 184 00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:23.360 new generation that is what four or five years old now, 185 00:09:23.759 --> 00:09:25.960 and there hasn't been that killer app or a killer 186 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:29.679 game to convince you to jump ship from PS four 187 00:09:30.080 --> 00:09:36.440 or the Xbox one. Then because you can still play 188 00:09:36.440 --> 00:09:39.279 your Fortnite, you can still play your Call of Duties 189 00:09:39.399 --> 00:09:43.080 or your war Zone or whatever else have you, then 190 00:09:44.240 --> 00:09:46.879 you're obviously at this point waiting for GTA six, or 191 00:09:46.879 --> 00:09:50.320 you're waiting for I don't know, something like Kingdom Hearts four, 192 00:09:50.919 --> 00:09:54.879 or you have no interest in adopting this next or 193 00:09:55.000 --> 00:09:57.279 joining this current consule jen and you are waiting for 194 00:09:57.320 --> 00:10:00.600 that switch to So I can see why hardwell hardware 195 00:10:00.639 --> 00:10:04.840 sales are down overall, on top of just people being really. 196 00:10:06.320 --> 00:10:08.279 Tight with money right now. 197 00:10:08.159 --> 00:10:10.879 Just because right now, just because of the rising costs 198 00:10:10.919 --> 00:10:13.399 of everything else, I mean groceries, we don't need to 199 00:10:13.399 --> 00:10:17.200 get into it. But like I saw a roadside sign 200 00:10:17.639 --> 00:10:20.440 as I was driving yesterday that says, yo, we got eggs, 201 00:10:21.519 --> 00:10:26.200 and it was like a local farmer selling eggs astronomical prices. 202 00:10:26.639 --> 00:10:32.480 But hey, they're taking advantage of what's going on right now. Yeah, 203 00:10:31.879 --> 00:10:35.440 I don't know. Do you think with an Xbox handheld 204 00:10:35.679 --> 00:10:39.399 this year that could spike hardware sales as well? Or 205 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:43.879 are people kind of just waiting for GTA six or 206 00:10:43.960 --> 00:10:47.240 just waiting for prices to go down across the board, 207 00:10:47.600 --> 00:10:48.720 or just waiting for the switch too. 208 00:10:49.440 --> 00:10:52.679 Yeah, I mean I think switch to is the big one, clearly, 209 00:10:53.159 --> 00:10:56.799 And then I think something like an Xbox handheld is 210 00:10:57.080 --> 00:11:00.720 the tip of the sphere of introducing this kind of 211 00:11:00.759 --> 00:11:03.879 hardware to a new audience of people that maybe did 212 00:11:03.879 --> 00:11:06.960 not consider handhelds before, or maybe didn't consider video games 213 00:11:06.960 --> 00:11:09.799 because it wasn't convenient to them. And maybe the Xbox 214 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:12.000 One could be Hey, this is like a console that 215 00:11:12.000 --> 00:11:14.240 I've heard of, but now handheld I can go for that. 216 00:11:14.919 --> 00:11:16.759 Excuse me. And they're promising that all the games that 217 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:18.639 work on that system, the things I've heard of as well, 218 00:11:18.679 --> 00:11:22.840 Fortnite can work on here. But I think we've seen 219 00:11:22.879 --> 00:11:25.039 with the Steam Deck, which I think has been in 220 00:11:25.240 --> 00:11:29.600 you know, an unqualified success. It's at like five million ish, 221 00:11:29.759 --> 00:11:32.639 six million ish. That's not like it's just nothing close 222 00:11:32.679 --> 00:11:36.720 to what the consoles do, even the Xbox. So I 223 00:11:36.879 --> 00:11:38.360 just I just think the handheld is going to have 224 00:11:38.399 --> 00:11:41.759 to establish itself as a new tier off to the side, 225 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:45.320 and the Xbox Handheld is part of that lineage along 226 00:11:45.360 --> 00:11:47.120 with the Steam Deck and everything else, and then the 227 00:11:47.159 --> 00:11:49.960 Switch continues to be in its own little gully over 228 00:11:49.960 --> 00:11:53.960 there doing its own thing. But yeah, I mean hardware 229 00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:57.000 is just you mentioned it. People are tight with the 230 00:11:57.000 --> 00:12:00.919 purse strings right now. I think the uncertainty, you know, 231 00:12:01.159 --> 00:12:05.159 just absolutely you know flooding the economy right now definitely 232 00:12:05.240 --> 00:12:06.960 has caused people to be like, let's just hold off 233 00:12:06.960 --> 00:12:11.399 on any you know, unnecessary spending, and consoles are just 234 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:15.000 squarely in the unnecessary spending zone for the vast majority 235 00:12:15.039 --> 00:12:17.679 of people. And so I'm not surprised that it's it's 236 00:12:17.679 --> 00:12:19.960 getting hit a little bit hard, and it's hit harder 237 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:22.679 than it's been for quite some time. I'll read here 238 00:12:22.679 --> 00:12:26.399 more from Matt Piskutella February Video Game hardware spending fell 239 00:12:26.440 --> 00:12:28.480 by twenty five percent when compared to a year ago, 240 00:12:28.519 --> 00:12:30.879 to two hundred and fifty six million dollars. This is 241 00:12:30.919 --> 00:12:34.320 the lowest February total for video game hardware spending since 242 00:12:34.360 --> 00:12:36.600 the one hundred and eighty four million dollars reached in 243 00:12:36.639 --> 00:12:40.480 February twenty twenty, which was you know that that would 244 00:12:40.519 --> 00:12:43.240 have been before the new consoles, like right before the 245 00:12:43.279 --> 00:12:45.840 new generation of consoles, So they've kind of gone back 246 00:12:45.879 --> 00:12:48.799 to people are waiting for the new thing, That's what 247 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:50.799 they were doing in February twenty twenty. And then on 248 00:12:50.840 --> 00:12:54.639 top of that, there was the looming uncertainty of the pandemic, 249 00:12:54.639 --> 00:12:57.480 which people were beginning to recognize at this point. You know, 250 00:12:57.519 --> 00:13:01.480 obviously the economy really shut down in art, but there 251 00:13:01.519 --> 00:13:03.720 was definitely people going like, wait, what's happen? Why do 252 00:13:03.759 --> 00:13:05.600 I keep hearing this every day on the news? Is 253 00:13:05.639 --> 00:13:08.639 this really going to hit us like a wall? So yeah, 254 00:13:08.679 --> 00:13:11.000 and then you know, the consoles came out later that year, 255 00:13:11.039 --> 00:13:12.840 and then of course people were at home and wanted 256 00:13:12.879 --> 00:13:16.200 video games and things popped off. But you know, maybe 257 00:13:16.240 --> 00:13:18.159 that same thing doesn't quite happen, and that's not going 258 00:13:18.200 --> 00:13:19.919 to happen this time, people are not going to be 259 00:13:19.960 --> 00:13:22.480 rushing to get games in that same way, except for 260 00:13:22.879 --> 00:13:27.440 if they really want to switch to other like notes 261 00:13:27.440 --> 00:13:30.440 here from Matt. Monster Hunter Wilds was the best selling 262 00:13:30.480 --> 00:13:33.000 video game of February, instantly becoming the best selling title 263 00:13:33.039 --> 00:13:37.120 of twenty twenty five so far. Launch month dollar sales 264 00:13:37.159 --> 00:13:39.799 of Monster Hunter Wilds more than double the total of 265 00:13:39.960 --> 00:13:43.240 Monster Hunter Rise achieved during its March twenty twenty one debut, 266 00:13:43.639 --> 00:13:45.480 and Monster Hunter Wilds was the best selling game of 267 00:13:45.480 --> 00:13:49.399 February February across the PlayStation, Xbox, and Steam ecosystems, the 268 00:13:49.480 --> 00:13:52.200 Steam accounting for more than half of the title's total 269 00:13:52.240 --> 00:13:56.279 dollar sales. So that's that's interesting. 270 00:13:56.360 --> 00:14:01.320 Yeah, that's pretty substantial. Who knew grub launching on everything 271 00:14:02.440 --> 00:14:05.320 would boost sales perhaps. 272 00:14:05.080 --> 00:14:08.639 Yeah, And like to the point where people are like 273 00:14:08.720 --> 00:14:12.039 choosing the PC version and I mean more than half 274 00:14:12.039 --> 00:14:14.679 of dollar sales we're just on Steam. It's like, that's 275 00:14:14.679 --> 00:14:17.200 just not how these breakdowns normally happen. It's PlayStation is 276 00:14:17.240 --> 00:14:20.840 like forty percent, and then Steam is thirty percent, and 277 00:14:20.879 --> 00:14:23.080 then the other the thirty percent. 278 00:14:22.879 --> 00:14:25.519 Is maybe Xbox, and you know there's given. 279 00:14:25.360 --> 00:14:29.000 Take there, But yeah, I think that this game has 280 00:14:29.080 --> 00:14:32.480 just clearly shown that, oh, there's a huge audience everywhere, 281 00:14:32.759 --> 00:14:34.799 and the PC gamers now are ready to show up 282 00:14:34.799 --> 00:14:37.240 for this thing right away. And yeah, the right choice 283 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:39.200 to get this thing out everywhere. I mean, and we've 284 00:14:39.240 --> 00:14:41.440 heard this from every publisher now, being like, we just 285 00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:43.679 want to be everywhere we possibly can be. That seems 286 00:14:43.720 --> 00:14:46.759 to be the strategy that works best. And yeah, this 287 00:14:46.879 --> 00:14:49.519 is proving it, which maybe is like, Okay, hey, that 288 00:14:49.559 --> 00:14:52.080 next Final Fantasy when Square Enix decides let's put that 289 00:14:52.120 --> 00:14:54.519 out everywhere right away as soon as it's ready to go, 290 00:14:55.080 --> 00:14:57.200 does it have a chance of popping off in a 291 00:14:57.600 --> 00:15:00.000 similar way. It's obviously not could do Monster Hunter number 292 00:15:00.679 --> 00:15:03.440 it just isn't, but it could be a much different 293 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:06.399 story than the ooh, how's it really doing that we've 294 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:11.320 been saying with Final Fantasy sixteen and seven Part two remake. Yeah, I. 295 00:15:12.879 --> 00:15:16.639 Wonder if the multiplayer component is a big factor in 296 00:15:16.679 --> 00:15:20.279 this doing so well on PC as well, where folks 297 00:15:20.679 --> 00:15:24.879 and even on console where folks are thinking like, all right, cool, 298 00:15:25.159 --> 00:15:31.399 I don't have I'm getting tired of playing and I 299 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:36.480 hate to constantly bring it up, but Fortnite or Warzone 300 00:15:36.679 --> 00:15:40.360 with my friends or we've already gone through a season 301 00:15:40.480 --> 00:15:44.039 of whatever multiplayer game we're doing together. Now, is this 302 00:15:44.159 --> 00:15:46.559 the one we're investing in because we know that we 303 00:15:46.639 --> 00:15:49.600 can spend a lot of time in Monster Hunter and 304 00:15:49.879 --> 00:15:52.200 we will get DLC in the future. So I'm curious 305 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:56.840 if that plays a big role versus if the new 306 00:15:56.879 --> 00:16:03.440 Final Fantasy, like the third seven remake game or the 307 00:16:03.480 --> 00:16:07.519 next mainline big numbered title would do well since it 308 00:16:07.600 --> 00:16:09.120 would be a single player game. 309 00:16:10.000 --> 00:16:12.639 Yeah, I mean, there's so many, so many factors there, 310 00:16:12.639 --> 00:16:15.759 but it's I mean, one of the big things holding 311 00:16:15.759 --> 00:16:18.879 them back just was this idea that the money from 312 00:16:18.879 --> 00:16:22.440 PlayStation was worth it. And I think they've they've said 313 00:16:22.480 --> 00:16:25.679 now it wasn't. It is not. It is a hindrance 314 00:16:25.759 --> 00:16:29.279 on the long term success of these franchises, and really 315 00:16:29.320 --> 00:16:32.240 seems to be a hindrance on the immediate success as well. 316 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:34.759 They want to sell as many copies of those games 317 00:16:34.799 --> 00:16:36.960 as they possibly can, and they weren't. They just weren't. 318 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:40.320 And and you know whatever reason that, you know, the 319 00:16:40.360 --> 00:16:43.960 PlayStation audience didn't completely glom onto it, whatever, that's maybe 320 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:46.159 the game's fault. But being able to like find the 321 00:16:46.200 --> 00:16:47.960 kinds of people that want to play this game elsewhere 322 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:50.720 while you held that back yourself, excuse me by just 323 00:16:50.759 --> 00:16:53.600 taking the bag from PlayStation. And it's being like, okay, 324 00:16:53.600 --> 00:16:54.519 well we got money upfront. 325 00:16:54.559 --> 00:16:54.960 That's good. 326 00:16:55.240 --> 00:16:58.240 It's like yeah, but it seems maybe it is steering 327 00:16:58.320 --> 00:17:00.000 Final Fantasy into a little bit of a relation. 328 00:17:00.440 --> 00:17:03.279 In the meantime, Colonel Sanders twenty one in the Giant 329 00:17:03.279 --> 00:17:09.599 Bomb Chat poses an interesting pipeline where kids are kind 330 00:17:09.640 --> 00:17:13.880 of clamoring or asking for PCs more than they are 331 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:18.319 asking for consoles. And I wonder if those that generation 332 00:17:18.559 --> 00:17:22.559 of iPad kids or kids that we grew up with 333 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:27.319 screens don't want a console and they want a PC 334 00:17:27.440 --> 00:17:31.559 because maybe they grew up watching Roadblock streamers, Minecraft streamers, 335 00:17:31.599 --> 00:17:35.640 Fortnite streamers, and they were all playing on PCs. So 336 00:17:36.599 --> 00:17:39.920 maybe they aren't going for a console that can just 337 00:17:39.960 --> 00:17:42.240 do the one thing and play the games. They're looking 338 00:17:42.279 --> 00:17:44.880 for something where okay, well I can not only play 339 00:17:44.880 --> 00:17:47.680 this game, but I could stream this game. There's discord 340 00:17:47.720 --> 00:17:50.160 on this PC. It's easy to link up with friends 341 00:17:50.160 --> 00:17:54.880 this way. Yeah, who knew. Maybe at your local job 342 00:17:54.920 --> 00:17:59.839 fair or bring your your career day grub we can 343 00:18:00.200 --> 00:18:02.200 be bad YouTubers and be proud of it. 344 00:18:02.759 --> 00:18:06.720 That's right. Maybe finally uh weird pride. I don't know 345 00:18:06.920 --> 00:18:12.359 what that feels like, Yeah, yeah, gross, I yes, I 346 00:18:12.359 --> 00:18:16.119 mean they start maybe started playing Minecraft on a hand 347 00:18:16.119 --> 00:18:18.599 me down phone, but then that led them to, like 348 00:18:18.640 --> 00:18:21.640 you said, watching streamers, and those streamers are all going 349 00:18:21.720 --> 00:18:24.720 to be doing things like playing with mods, like setting 350 00:18:24.759 --> 00:18:27.640 up their own custom games. Stuff that is just much 351 00:18:27.720 --> 00:18:30.799 easier and like sort of standardized and the default on 352 00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:34.160 PC and so you know, and like every time you 353 00:18:34.200 --> 00:18:36.319 if you were watching on these streamers, it's it's probably 354 00:18:36.359 --> 00:18:38.319 hard to go through an entire stream without someone and 355 00:18:38.359 --> 00:18:39.880 chapping like what kind of PC do you have? And 356 00:18:39.920 --> 00:18:41.839 then they talk about that, and people just so absorb 357 00:18:41.920 --> 00:18:44.440 that stuff through osmosis and like, if I want to 358 00:18:44.440 --> 00:18:47.480 be like this person who is my favorite content creator, 359 00:18:47.880 --> 00:18:50.920 I shall have a PC. And I think it kind 360 00:18:50.920 --> 00:18:53.480 of has shaken out to the to the point where 361 00:18:53.480 --> 00:18:55.920 it's like, oh, that had a massive sort of shift 362 00:18:56.000 --> 00:18:59.319 on the entire landscape of where people play games. And 363 00:18:59.480 --> 00:19:02.240 you know, it seems like it's not necessarily been at 364 00:19:02.279 --> 00:19:04.559 the complete expensive consoles, but a little bit of the 365 00:19:04.599 --> 00:19:06.880 at the expensive consoles here As we get to the 366 00:19:07.480 --> 00:19:10.480 end of this generation and people that may have been like, Okay, 367 00:19:10.480 --> 00:19:12.759 I'll hop in now, like now they already have PCs 368 00:19:12.759 --> 00:19:15.480 because they were able to justify that by hey, this 369 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:17.200 is a multi use thing that I can use for 370 00:19:17.240 --> 00:19:20.359 all kinds of different stuff, including maybe making money one day, 371 00:19:20.720 --> 00:19:22.759 and so I don't need a console and a lot 372 00:19:22.759 --> 00:19:25.240 of those console games now are on PC. Yeah. 373 00:19:25.279 --> 00:19:29.519 I wonder if in the long run, this future generation 374 00:19:29.640 --> 00:19:35.000 of cameras will eventually hurt the console market. But oddly enough, 375 00:19:35.039 --> 00:19:38.039 I feel like the Switch and Nintendo, not that they're 376 00:19:38.079 --> 00:19:40.319 impervious to it, grub, but I feel like they just 377 00:19:40.880 --> 00:19:43.200 they're just so far in a different lane that they 378 00:19:43.200 --> 00:19:47.680 don't really worry about how PlayStation and Microsoft are necessarily 379 00:19:48.119 --> 00:19:49.279 doing hardware wise. 380 00:19:49.880 --> 00:19:51.880 It's a similar lane, but you're right, it is different, 381 00:19:51.920 --> 00:19:55.599 right because it's it's still kids. We're talking about families. Now. 382 00:19:55.759 --> 00:19:58.839 This is not like, oh, what is the kid's hobby? 383 00:19:59.079 --> 00:20:00.960 Should we get them a he sees so we can 384 00:20:01.000 --> 00:20:03.240 facilitate the hobby. It's like no, no, like this is 385 00:20:03.240 --> 00:20:05.400 something we're going to get for the entire family, and 386 00:20:05.440 --> 00:20:08.200 that kind of spending. It just people underestimated all the time. 387 00:20:08.240 --> 00:20:11.279 It is very, very powerful and It's like, if I 388 00:20:11.319 --> 00:20:14.440 spend this one dollar on this form of entertainment, it 389 00:20:14.480 --> 00:20:16.440 will pay dividends, and that it is something for the 390 00:20:16.559 --> 00:20:19.200 entire family can get joy out of. The Switch is 391 00:20:19.279 --> 00:20:21.680 just the thing in that butter zone there to take 392 00:20:21.720 --> 00:20:25.640 advantage of that. So yeah, I just think that it's 393 00:20:25.759 --> 00:20:27.599 it's still actually quite a bit of a different thing, 394 00:20:27.640 --> 00:20:30.079 and it's a protected thing. It's it's shielded from all 395 00:20:30.160 --> 00:20:34.119 this other guff happening because nothing else is really threatening 396 00:20:34.119 --> 00:20:35.759 to switch his position in that in that zone and 397 00:20:35.880 --> 00:20:41.799 Nintendo's position specifically. All right, here, here's some more news. 398 00:20:42.039 --> 00:20:45.119 Dan Record cut his mouth slit in an et mask 399 00:20:45.279 --> 00:20:47.279 so he can eat candy. So look forward to that 400 00:20:47.599 --> 00:20:49.880 later today. And you don't have to wear the costume. Now. 401 00:20:50.799 --> 00:20:52.839