Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome to Game Mess Mornings with Me Jeff Grubb,
your host from GiantBomb dot com. Thank you for tuning in.
In this episode, we're going to be talking about all
the news coming out of Ebo and more. It's going
to be a good one because we have Jason Finelli
on the show. Jason, how are you doing?
Speaker 2: Relaxed? Feeling very good after a week in Myrtle Beach
with the family. Weather it was great, only had rain
the last day held off to the last day, which
was nice. I did rain like hell on the way home, though,
and rain plus holiday traffic plus Washington DC It's not
a good combination.
Speaker 1: Probably not.
Speaker 2: But now I'm feeling good, getting ready, ready to get
back into the grind here. Enjoyed fishing week, really enjoyed
what y'all did last week for fishing Week. I was
also very happy to see Dan caught his white whale
on fishing Week and completed space Ace, much to the
delight of everyone.
Speaker 1: Gets fish caught that week for sure.
Speaker 2: Big week here at Giant Bomb. It was great to
watch from from poolside. You guys did some good work
and I don't know what that was Umbagari. Is that
what it's called. What the fuck is going on?
Speaker 1: Normal fishing game, just super normal. People should check out
the play through. Yeah, some stuff happened in that game,
for sure, but it's a full play through, so people
can watch that. I just did that Monday through Friday
last week for a fishing week, and uh, that was
a that was a good time. Had a fun time
hanging out with chat in the morning playing that game.
I think, uh, at that slot in the morning. Uh,
you know, it's summer, it's easier, easier to do that
when the kids are off of school. I might try
to catch up on Sky's of Arcadia. See if we
can't finish that game. I was playing that before and
encountered some airs with the emulation where every time I
would open the store the game would crash. Well, I
got to shoot game cube back there. Let's just use that.
I'll just get that out and uh yeah, well it
might have might have to start over, but maybe if
I have to, that's no big deal. We weren't that
far into it in the first place. So yeah, maybe
Sky's of Arkadia this summer. That'll be part of a
summer of grub in the morning here. But I'm gonna
take some time off first. I've got a vacation coming up,
so thank you. We'll get get into that after that.
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Speaker 2: Our vacation brain already, it happens, it's exoc I'm looking
forward to it.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be good. All right, Well, we have a
lot to get into, so let's start at the morning
mess here with that EVO news round up. Jason, you've
been paying attention to this stuff. Let's run this through,
run me through this here pretty quick. Let's start here.
Samurai Outriders join Marvel Tookon Fighting Souls.
Speaker 2: Yes, so the final team for Marvel Toocon was revealed.
We already knew Ghostwriter was the leader, but he is
bringing un with him.
Speaker 1: Ree.
Speaker 2: Yes, so Blade is one. Blade, a highly requested character
makes his debut look super cool in that brief trailer
that we stopped that we saw, Loki makes his Marvel
Fighting Game debut, I believe and no other Marvel games
before this has Loki ever been playable? He looks really neat,
looks like your classic trickster trap style character, as is befitting.
And then Deadpool marked the final part of the trailer,
voiced by Nolan North as was as it should be.
But what's interesting about Deadpool is, if you read the
PlayStation blog that came out after, it sounds like his
fourth wall breaking is him going into the real world
finding a fighting game strategy guide and using a bunch
of moves from a bunch of different fighting games in
his move sets. So in the trailer we see him
do scorpions, spear, and uppercut, and then he pops up
on the side of the screen and says, toasty, that
does Doctor Dubs does Doctor Doom's foot dive. He puts
like jet boosters on his legs and does the foot dive.
He does the toasted touts of Geky. I think it's
how you say it, the Dolphin move from Guilty Year,
Strive Doniae, Johnny Cage's nut punches in there just a
and who knows However, else there's another part where he
jumps up and he throws a bunch of stuff and
he says random bullshit. Go from that moon light that
moon might mean, but if you look real close, the
things that he's throwing are polygon man, Oh wow, PlayStation
polygon mankind knows how referential when he does the jack
O post for his crouch.
Speaker 1: You know, jack I will see that, yeah, Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: But so yeah, he's just going to be like a
love letter to fighting games, which is really really neat
and a great way to cap off which is slowly
looking like one of the premier fighting games of our era. Man,
the more that comes out from this, I hope, the
more improvements they make, it just seems really cool. Oh
and Blade will be playable in an open beta July
twenty fourth to the twenty sixth PS five and PC
cross play.
Speaker 1: Did people get their hands on any new characters?
Speaker 2: Are really anything that was on the floor at Evo?
Speaker 1: So is that the word is like, man, people are
noticing the improvements is that we're going around.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of footage bit that has been shown
from the EVO floor with a lot of big improvements
that they have made. A Lot of the reception I've
got from friends who were there say that it feels
completely different from that second Beta. There's a lot of
things that you can notice, and it's gonna be. It's
gonna be, it's gonna be fun. I really do think
it's shaping up nicely. And no Caane high Wind. I
will not say Toki like May does. I will not
do it. Sorry anyway. So that was the token news
for Fatal Fury ken Shiro from Fifth to the north Star.
Speaker 1: We knew he was in the game, yes, but they.
Speaker 2: Shadow dropped him. He's outcohol I had the opportunity to
preview him. I've been playing with him for the fast
couple of days while I was on vacation. He's pretty neat.
I don't know enough about Fist for the north Star
to get the references, but he certainly plays like really fun.
This one's wild. Art of Fighting three the Path of
the Warrior. SNK decided, Hey, we're going to revive this,
rebalance it and add a new character because you all
have been pining for Art of Fighting three for so long.
Now all five of you here you go. So they're
they're doing that. Who knows why there That was the
second of two retro revivals. They confirmed Ninja Masters, a
very obscure fighting game from SNK's library Shadow dropped onto
Steam after being announced like two weeks ago, so that's
an interesting bit of SNK information there. That's the three
things they had. Two x KO Lux and Samira are
the next two champions coming to two XKO And I
got to tell you watching high level two XKO at
this show is awesome.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: That game feels look looks really cool to watch, and
I really like the dynamic of like the final, the
final match, the Grand Final was this guy Hikaru who
was playing by himself both teams versus n Sonic Fox,
and the other guy's name eludes me. The chat can
back me up here, but they were each playing a
different character, so you can either go by yourself or
you can team it up.
Speaker 1: I love that. That's so cool.
Speaker 2: And the guy who was by himself came out on top,
ran it back and Grand finals, reset it and won
the whole thing with some awesome McCary and a replay,
very very neat. But also the what Sonic Fox and
his partner were doing in zem Thank You Salty Struggle,
what they were doing with Jinx and Timo, just filling
the screen with projectiles and saying come and get me,
that's some Marvel versus Capcom three Morgan bullshit that I
love that.
Speaker 1: I love the work.
Speaker 2: But anyway, Invincible Versus Season one was fully detailed. We
knew the two playable characters, the Immortal and Universa, were coming,
but they've also detailed some of the premium skins that
will be part of it. Basically, it's the it's the Thula,
Anissa and Luken in there, blending in costumes. Luken looks
just like Steve Harvey as is as he should, and
they gave the Immortal honest abe, so he's drest like
Abraham Lincoln.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, I was gonna say, I wondered they're gonna
do anything with that. That's such a good joke in
that book, man, I.
Speaker 2: Love that too. Yeah, so that was that was revealed there. Oh,
this is interesting. So Virtue Fighter Crossroads had a new
trailer character named the Bakanawa Killer. Right. They show some
of his fighting style, his move set. They show an
interaction between him and pie Chan where she's like, this
is not possible.
Speaker 1: Who are you?
Speaker 2: We don't know if it's her father Lao Chan, which,
considering this game is a decade or two after Virture
Fighter five, How is he even friggin' alive? Or it's
Leay Fay, who is one of their big rivals who
PI had to save Lao from in the last game.
If you're a lore nerd like myself, some people think
it's la Fay in a mask using both of their
move sets in a hybrid, or they cloned Laos as well.
How partner just put in the chat. There's a lot
of different possibilities. But it was a really cool trailer,
and that game just looks great every time I looks awesome. Yeah,
Bob was next for Teck and eight. They showed the
DLC trailer for Bob with a very fantastic teaser for
Roger Junior at the end. If you've ever seen the
video of the kangaroo holding the dog and the guy
goes over and like punches in the kangaroo in the face,
Yeah he did that. And Lee Roy comes in dressed
like the guy and Roger Junior is holding his pit
bull and he goes no sugar and he runs over.
Roger Junior stands up and Leroy just decks him. Hell yeah,
it's very it's very funny. So that was really cool.
Robocai coming to Guilty Gear Strive Guilty Gear not I'm
not the most familiar with guilty Gear. I like Strife,
but that's not like I'm not like a Lord dump
Nerd like some of these other ones. But he seems
really fun and whimsical. He can like rip his own
head off and fly it around. It's interesting. And then
finally the coolest thing I think from the whole weekend
as far as unique to the fighting game scene, Avatar
Legends detailed its first season of DLC Right iiro Tylee
and then Lynn Beifong and Bolin from Korra. So nice
to two and two. But then the fifth character can
be voted on by the community, and then they gave
the five options that you can vote for. So Tenzen Kavira,
I think is the name Aman King Boomy, who got
the loudest cheer, So I think there's a favorite there. Yeah,
and then Asami, very interesting format in letting players vote
for those characters. Now I wonder if they have done
preliminary work for all those characters, and then they'll choose
one to be in this season, and then the other
four will be season two and they'll just do it again.
You know what I'm saying. So I would hate to
see all that work be wasted when I'm very it's
gonna be the last character. So maybe they're giving themselves
enough time to work on it. Yeah, but you run
a risk of giving fans of these characters the opportunity
to have them in the game and then not get them,
and then they're gonna lead all of your who do
you want in season two? So maybe it's just like
this is what we're planning. Pick the one to come first,
and then we'll do the other four later.
Speaker 1: I mean to me, that's got to be the way
it goes down. If if they you know, they get
they follow through with the season two and and end
up doing more characters they Yeah, you just get to
the rest of these characters in that season and that
seems and then maybe have another vote, I don't know.
Speaker 2: And then do it like you're basically guaranteeing yourself future
seasons by letting people know these are what we're thinking of.
Like I said, pick one now and then season two
is already taken care of.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that makes makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 2: But based on crowd reaction to the panel from Friday,
if you go back and watch it. King Boomy. The
crowd went boomy. Not to make a bad pun, but
they were all in on Boomy, So if I had
to guess, it's going to be him.
Speaker 1: But yeah, there's a I see in chat people are
boomy and i'man is what people say a blood.
Speaker 2: Bender with the mask. Yes, I'm still I'm just getting
into Avatar now, thanks magic the gathering. But yeah, so
that's your rundown of all the big news that I
could find. I'm sure I missed some, I know. Yeah,
Rivals of eight or two was on the main stage.
Ludwig himself showed up to talk about that, So I'm
sure I missed some some news there. But these are
the things that stuck out to me.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: You'll note there's no Street Fighter six news just because
of the way it fell. Yasmin, the first DLC character
of the News next season, was playable on the floor. Uh,
so they were able to test her there. She's not
outil August though, I don't think. But they just had
the big showing at SGF. I'm not surprised, but no
real capcom new it all now that I'm looking at it. Yeah,
that's odd.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a little Yes, that's odd, right, Usually we
get at least at least something from them. You're right,
it probably is just how the timing is working out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they're just letting people now. I will say,
Yasmin is scheduled for right around the time EVO usually is.
EVO is usually that last weekend in July, first weekend
in August this year, it would have been thirty one
to one to two, and she's planned for the sixth.
So I wonder if the moving of EVO Vegas kind
of screwed up their timing. But whatever, people got to
play Yasmin.
Speaker 1: Excellent. All right, let's get on here with the other news.
You know. I'll just say, coming out of that hearing
good things about Tokon very exciting. That's I want that
game to be good, all right. Up next Platoon Raiders
Direct tomorrow, followed by a Treehouse from Nintendo. This message
does come from Nintendo. Join us on June thirtieth. Yeah,
June thirtieth. That's seven am Pacific time, three pm you
K time for the Splatoon Raiders Direct, followed by Nintendo
Treehouse Live Splatoon Raiders. The live stream will kick off
with Splatoon Raiders Direct on June thirtieth, which will run
for roughly fifteen minutes and provide more info on the
upcoming Nintendo Switch to game. Afterward, Nintendo Treehouse Live Splatoon
Raiders will showcase even more Splatoon Raiders gameplay and last
around thirty minutes. You can watch the videos on Nintendo Today,
YouTube and Twitch. They also said that Yeah, additionally, a
Splatoon Raiders prequel comic Deep Cuts Island Misadventures is now
rolling out daily until July twenty second on the Nintendo
Today app for smart devices, So another reason to run
out and get the Nintendo Today app, like all the
kids are clamoring to do. Okay, yeah, this seems to
be the strat right now from Nintendo. We knew this
game was coming, it's getting its own direct despite having
that big direct not too long ago. This is probably
what they're gonna do with with Splatoon Raiders. And I'm sorry,
excuse me with obviously they're doing the Splatoon Raiders. This
is probably what they're going to do with Zelda and
Dusk Bloods right. Like the reason we didn't get huge
amounts of information from those games at Summer Game Fest
and that Nintendo Direct at that time is because this
is the move, this is how they do things. They
want to give each game more time to breathe, and
because they have the Nintendo Did Day app, they have
this feeling, hey, we could talk to people directly through that. Yeah,
I guess let's start with Splatoon Raiders. What do you
expecting from this? Because I'm still like trying to wrap
my head around it. It seems like it might be
like just a standalone version of some of the stuff
they've done before, some of those like Rogue Late Modes
or you know, the platforming, running gun adventure games kind
of all mashed together into something slightly bigger. But this
is a discount dis kind of price game. I believe
it's like fifty dollars maybe less. So, Yeah, what are
your expectations for this direct?
Speaker 2: Well, I think they might go heavy on the what
you were saying, expanding on this single player or even
like co op mode. There's co op in this too,
right of those other games, I think the reason it's
discount is because it doesn't have the multiplayer that has
made Splatoon what it is. Right, it's sort of just
they're just focusing on these adventure or or rogue light
modes for something new, and I think that's kind of cool, right,
because I think people find the world of Splatoon, the
the the universe that they have built very interesting. So
to give fans a way to explore it without having
to force them into the multiplayer, which, as somebody or
in Chad has already said, if you're not good at online,
you're not going to have as much fun in Splatoon,
so they have they've sort of mitigated that with I
believe the opto expansion was first in Splatoon two and
then the Tower in Splatoon three. The name eludes me
of the Tower, but focusing on the single player for
this offshoot and had that be the bridge to a
I assume Splatoon four on switch to at some point
makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 1: It keeps Platoon.
Speaker 2: Fresh in the mind, and it allows them to expand
the story a little bit in a different way and
maybe even experiment with some things that they can carry
over to the multiplayer experience in that s Platoon four. Yeah,
I think they're really smart about this, and I also
agree with you that the focused directs on particular games
is going to be the move you'll probably see it
for fire emblem. You'll probably see it for the Dust
Bloods whenever that comes out. You'll see it for Zelda.
The only thing I ask Nintendo, humbly, humbly ask, is
that you don't use these focused directs to announce the
fucking game fifteen minutes before the direct airs. Don't do
the Star Fox thing again. Okay, give me a day,
a single day, to be in this chair and watch
the direct don't catch me. You know that I loved it,
Don't get me wrong. It was really cool to see
that buzz on. It looked for what they wanted to do,
but selfishly, fucking no, let me.
Speaker 1: Be home, don't don't pull that shit again. Exactly. Yeah,
I'm I'm I think I'm starting to get pretty excited
for this game. I do like Platoon's style. It's aesthetic,
it's music and stuff like that. So getting back into
that world, and you know, I like the single player
stuff a lot in those games. So to have a
game that's like, no, just do that stuff and focus
on that, that will be kind of something of a
relief where it's like, oh yeah, I instead of get
like feeling bad about missing out on some of this contents.
I keep playing the multiplayer, I can just focus on that.
You know, obviously that's on me problem. I always could
have just played that single player content, but now I
definitely will with this game, and I'm looking forward to it.
But yeah, I expect this to be the move. We'll we'll,
you know, we'll get through this. You know, these parts
of summer, the games that are coming are gonna come fire.
Emblem is we have a date and that's soon. Still,
that's before the end of summer, right, something I want
to say that's like August maybe even u Yeah, take
a look, so checking Fortunes Weave September seventeen, September seventh, okay, right,
prow that's right, it's one of those September games. Yeah,
so okay, we'll get on the other side of that,
and then they'll have to really set up their fall
and they'll probably do that with specific specific directs for
I think probably at the very least Dusk Bloods and
ok great of time. All right. Some stores are apparently
selling out of copies of star Fox. Starfox launched on Thursday,
and it's been a fantastic recreation of the classics N
sixty four game, and now people are going into stores
and finding out that it is sold out physically. The
one person a g Garlador here on I believe Twitter
said multiple stores in my area are completely sold out
of Starfox and I'm not even upset. This is great
news for the franchise. Of course, that's that's anecdotal. So
then here's something that's not anecdotal. Star Fox is the
number one best selling game in the UK for the
last week and sold double the sales of Starfox zero
on we This is her my Nintendo News. The charts
are in from the largest gaming market in Europe and
the United Kingdom, and star Fox's top the physical video
game chart landed at number one. The Game Business editor
Christopher Dring has said that the wonderfully enhanced remake of
star Fox sixty four sold double that of Starfox zero
for the WU and that sales are up seventy percent
from star Fox sixty four to three D launch on
then into No. Three DS. Sadly, we don't have digital
sales data, but on the physical front, Starfox on switch
To has proved to be a hit for switch To.
I think you could probably expect that the digital sales
make up a stronger portion of this game than either
of those previous ones. So the fact that it's doubling
the physical sales when physical sales are probably a smaller
piece of the greater hole for this game than they
were for those games, obviously, then yeah, this game's probably
doing very well, Jason. Seems to be the case. What
do you chalk that up to Glenn Powell? Yeah, Glenn
Pound moves moves the needle. Huh.
Speaker 2: Yes. I think putting Starfux in the Mario Galaxy movie
was very shrewd, especially when they knew this was coming
down the pipeline. Because now the kids are like, oh,
I remember him. He looks a little different than he
did in the movie, And I wish he looked like
he did in the movie. But I'm still gonna try it.
And now a whole new generation is playing Star Fox
sixty four the way we played it but envisioned it
in our heads back in the day. It I cannot
argue with what Nintendo did. I can't argue with it.
As much as it made me angry about the placement
of the direct I it worked. Here we are. The
proof is in the pudding.
Speaker 1: I think they lined everything up kind of perfectly. Yeah,
where it's you know, they're they're using sort of all
of their tools in the toolbox to give every game
the best chance possible. And that like really starts with
Smash Brothers. Like if something, if a character's in Smash Brothers,
they have a head start. Now, like don't just use
that though, like you have to do a little bit more.
What else can you do to sort of remind people, Hey,
that character that either I loved as a kid in
their own games or really know from Smash Brothers, which
is that's going to cover a huge population of people.
Those two things, uh, you know, look they are in
the movie and that reminds reminds me I like that
character a lot. They would be dope if there was
a game I could go by right now. And then
Nintendo follows up at the game and it's yeah, I
think that the sort of the chain there and the
direct definitely fits in that where it's like that built
up excitement really seems to have paid off. And I think,
you know, this is a good reboot for Star Fox
in terms of all, right, now can they continue this
and do something else, which seems to be the rumor,
but yeah, this is this is good news for for
Star Fox, and I think there was the question of
whether it could do this at all again, and here
we are it is it really popular?
Speaker 2: This is you have to be impressed. This is Nintendo
dabbling with Disney levels of synergy, right, It's it's not
something that we've seen from them before. To this level
of planning. We're talking months of intricately placed announcements and
pieces that all had to fall in line for this
to happen. And I wonder if they're going to use
as a test case for other properties, other opportunities. Now
I'm not going to say they're gonna drop like Marth
in the Zelda movie. That's not gonna happen. But like
now I've kind of talked myself into it, but just
but like being able to dabble with maybe maybe like
a cameo in in this in the Accamative Time remake,
like the Pictures on the Wall. If you recall in
the in the Castle you could see like Mario and
Zeld out there. Maybe they'll put somebody else up there
and see how people react to that, or just kind
of find other ways to bread crumb these other franchises
that people have wanted for a long time back into prominence.
I could see it with Zero, I could see it
with Earthbound. Perhaps there are there are ways that they
could do this with the games that are coming out.
Speaker 1: Already done it with Donkey Kong, right, so yeah, yeah,
so here, Yeah, we're gonna see it repeated a bunch
of times. I think I think it's easier for them
to do it with the Mario movies where it's animated
and they can kind of fit stuff in that Zelda
Live Action movie. I would be curious to see if
they try anything similar in there. They will probably just
try to do something within the Zelda universe in the
Zelda movie and expand stuff that way. But uh, Ingle
Tingles games are back to a remaster of Tingles Rosie
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Game Mess Mornings. I'm Jeff Grubb, that's Jason Finelli. Let's
get on to the next story. Here. Class action lawsuit
accuses the three largest RAM manufacturers of colluding to drive
up prices. This is from Lewis Parker at Kotaku. Seventeen
individual plaintiffs, including three small businesses, have launched a class
action lawsuit in the Northern District of California against the
largest RAM and chip manufacturers in the world, that being Samsung,
sk Heinex, and Micron Technology. The plaintiffs alleged that the
three tech companies are colluding to raise the prices of
RAM by keeping supplies artificially low, blaming it all on
AI data center driven rampocalypse rather than corporate policy. Let's
see here. This is. The lawsuit was filed earlier this
week on June twenty fifth, in the California's Northern District
Court and list three small computer retailers Troy's Computer LLC,
JP Tech Solutions LLC, and WNTD fab LLC among its
seventeen plaintiffs. The plaintiffs claim that Samsung, Skhnix, and Micron
Technology are essentially part of a cartel that is collaborating
to inflate DRAM and d RAM and hip prices by
controlling the overwhelming majority of the market while well. Proving
that well will obviously be a lot harder than alleging it.
It's no secret that the three companies own roughly ninety
percent of the DRAM market. I'll tell you what. Valve
just kind of suggested cartel like behavior from these companies recently,
when it's like, hey, the price is higher for the
steam machine than we wanted. We thought we were going
to get this thing at seven hundred and fifty. It's
not that price. And the reason is we went to
the three biggest ram manufacturers and they all gave us
take it or leave it prices, and those prices were
pretty similar. And say, oh, okay, so that's that's not
a smoking gun. But that does make you perk up
and go how is it so convenient that it works
out for them that, despite the fact that this massive
company is trying to get you to compete each other
for their business, you all go, no, thanks, take it
or leave it. Why is the competition between you not
competition between you you three companies? And so okay, so
let's look into it. Let's say, now we can a
class action lawsuit if it goes if it goes through,
if it doesn't get dismissed or whatever, and who knows.
I'm no expert on this, Jason. There's a million reasons
stuff like that could happen. But if we get the discovery,
all it takes is a couple of emails between companies
or even just like a statement from one company being like,
we don't have to lower prices because we can set
stuff whatever because we know we're not going to get
competition from these other companies. That could be enough to
sort of be like, Okay, something should be done here.
But am I getting my hopes up, Jason, that something
could happen to make the world feel normal again? And
that's unlikely.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wouldn't count on anything happening in this current
day and age. But but this is not the first
time these companies have been accused of these things. I
will direct you to the Blue Sky account of your
friend and mine, Lex Luddie, who brought up a couple
hours ago that memory manufacturers including Xamsung, Heinez, and Micron,
were found to be an actual Dictionary definition of cartel
back into two thousands, and we're again accused of illegal
price fixing in the twenty tens. They have been trying
to screw you for literal decades. That is her commentary,
not mine, but it is the truth. It seems so
if we have not only if we get the discovery,
we also have precedent. Maybe there could be something that
happens that where it's just so undeniable that they have to,
you know, reel it in somehow. Now what that would
look like, I don't know. I don't know that this
is something that could probably go all the way up
the chain, and who knows what happens when it gets
to the top court in the land. Stay seemed to
be busy today, but I don't know what's going on
with them specifically. I'm not confident that anything's going to happen,
But the fact that anyone has even taken the initiative
to look into it works for me. If I if
if the national hero of our time in the d
RAM crisis is Troy's computers at all, Hell, yeah, go
get them, Troy, go get.
Speaker 1: Them, do work, Troy, get them, get their ass Troy
and JB.
Speaker 2: And and when it.
Speaker 1: W uh, yeah, this this is hopefully the start of
like a c change and this sort of thing. But yeah,
like that, really what's most important is to keep the
AI speculative bubble going for the people who are actually
in charge of all this stuff. You know it like
you could and if you need evidence of like how
things favor that, what is more immutable and sort of
rock solid than I P copyright law? And yet when
it comes to AI, that's the goes out the window
and does not matter anymore. But if you try to
download an illegal song, you could go to jail like
an illegal So if you try to download a song.
Speaker 2: Illegally, you could go to prison or whatever.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of weird change in policy when it
comes to copyright law. Now that it's time to protect
this business that's really propping up the stock market, and
that's of course what it's all about.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I said, Troy. And now chat has turned
into a bunch of high school musical references. So now
I'm just thinking of.
Speaker 1: All the week we don't know, it's not the same, Troy.
Speaker 2: All these small businesses going into the courtroom being like
we're all in this together, right, Oh my god, Chatt,
you gotta stop. You're killing me.
Speaker 1: You're killing me, shouts out to Troy, and and it
all all right, let's see here Donkey Kong sixty four
recompiled for PC coming in the next few months. This
is like a real project here. It's not something that's
being slapped together with AI. But yes, this is part
of the the decompiled stuff that's been happening within sixty
four games, and now a team is going to recompile
it so you can run it natively on pretty much
anything but PC, and then it can have randomizers and
mods and widescreen support and all kinds of other stuff
that will be come excuse me, in the next few months.
They do expect to have Windows, mac Os and Linux
versions ready to go with sixty frames per second and
all that stuff. So Mike's got to play it again, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: The Donkey Kong sixty four renaissance, I feel like started
with him because right after he was done, they put
it on the switch to now he's got the recompiled Like,
what's going on with this game? Are they gonna are
we gonna get We're gonna get Blanky and Chunky back.
Speaker 1: There's just like a war room where all these people
from Nintendo and this and this recompiling project are sitting
there and they're like, we just need one more person
to one. It's been years and someone did that, all right,
h bomber guy did it? All right, who's gonna be
the next person? And then finally Mike did it and
that clicked it over and like, okay, press the button.
Here we are.
Speaker 2: And then Stephanie Brownback brown Back from another realm. I
saw she did it as well recently. So all of
a sudden, there's all these people doing one hundred one percent,
and then now these folks are going to recompile it.
I have two words. I have two things for you
that should strike fear into anyone who's familiar with this game.
One hundred and one percent randomizer.
Speaker 1: Yep, yeah, this is enough to do that.
Speaker 2: Shit.
Speaker 1: Oh man, we gotta actually maybe do that to Mike.
That would be that actually would be funny. We were
joking up until now, but that's actually really funny, all right.
GTA six has no plans for a post to launch
physical release, not at launch and not months later, insist
new report. This is from Vicky Blakett Eurogamer. A new
report has cast doubt on hopes that a physical version
with a disc for Grand Theft Auto six will follow
the digital release later this year. Earlier. Earlier this week,
the same insider who in February claimed that GT six
I didn't launch with a physical version, said that a
proper physical addition with a disc will launch in December. However,
according to The Hollywood Reporter, a source with knowledge of
the release plans says this isn't true, despite confirming the
authenticity of the emails coming from Rockstar to the Hollywood Reporter, claims,
the language is being misinterpreted by a hopeful Internet, which
is a funny way to put it. People are hoping
that we'll do something that is good for them, but
they're just being the hopeful Internet. It's system. There are
still no plans for a physical release, not at launch
and not months later. Now why would they Why would
they say one was coming. They want you to buy.
They want you to buy this version with the code
in the box so that you don't wait for the discs.
So the person most likely to want a disk for
whatever reason, either to collect or to resell, is unlikely
to get that version. They want you to just be
stuck with the version you have. I still think there's
a chance a disc version comes later, but I always
thought it would be next year or alongside. I mean,
I guess they probably are playing the long game here, right,
because the next gen consoles when they do come when
this is when they have a new version of GT
six to go alongside that, which is how they do things.
There's a strong chance the vast majority of those consoles,
if anyone can afford them, won't have a disk drive
in them at all. So they're probably just setting themselves
up for the future. So I guess maybe I'm more
fifty to fifty on this than I thought. Jason, where
are you at?
Speaker 2: I think you won't see a physical copy of GTA
six on a disc until they have sufficiently wrung the
towel dry, sure from all digital sales you could possibly get,
because because there is something to be said about repeat purchases,
there are sickos out there who will buy it digitally
just to be able to play it, and then as
soon as the physical game comes out buy it to
have a copy on their shelf, and we'll have purchased
it twice, especially if that physical version comes with a
Shark card for some extra GTA online cash, or it
comes with GTAO whenever that happens, and you need the
disc for extra data. To make GTAO run so that
you don't have two hundred gigs on your hard drive,
you know what I'm saying something like that. They will
only do that when it makes irrefutable, perfect sense, and
I do not see that happening anytime soon.
Speaker 1: I think, like I could see, like for one of
these follow up launches, especially for like the consoles, like
maybe there is like an ultimate version that is more
so than like the Collector's edition they have now the
one hundred dollars version, like a super Ultimate that is
one hundred and fifty one hundred and sixty dollars, two
hundred dollars, and that comes on a disc maybe.
Speaker 2: Like with a statue or the paper map that Chat
is now ravenous for, which yeah, there should be a
paper map. There's been a paper map I think for
every GTA ever made.
Speaker 1: Correct but also too.
Speaker 2: You then give them the idea to do what squeer
Enix does, and that's release collectors editions of games that
don't even have the friggin game in them.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: They're just extra stuff for people who are really big
fans who have maybe already bought the game. But I
don't I don't think they have to do anything physical
right now. I think this is just one of those
stories born from the controversy that came from them going
all digital. Despite them going all digital making perfect sense,
it does feel like a little bit of a slap
in the face to make a physical copy with a
digital code in it. I get the chagrin there, but
I don't see physical is slowly becoming a thing of
the past and the only people that are hanging on
to it or the old slig you and I and
the sooner the majority comes around to it, the better,
but not the better that the the sooner they'll be
completely extinct. And I think this actually could be one
of the final nails in the coffin.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean, I think this is definitely a
rockstar taking the disc games behind the shed and shooting
them and being the ones that do it. Like it
was already a sick dog, right and now they're here,
they are like, and that's like everyone's going up. We
rather you try to save the dog, like that would
have been better? Could we just like treat it nicely
and kind of give it a as long a life
as possible? And rock stars no that we make more
money this.
Speaker 2: Way it's like, yeah, well behind the woodshed.
Speaker 1: And we know we can get away with it. And
so yeah, there was all that talk of like will
Rockstar and take to set the price at eighty dollars
to sort of open up the eighty dollars window back
open for the rest of the industry, and we weren't
talking about this of like, oh yeah, they could also
be the ones to sort of set this precedent for
the industry as well, and like we know what's coming,
we know this inevitable. We've seen what happened on PC gaming,
We've seen what's happening with music and movies. Yes, we
all get it, but there's a stubbornness to gamers that
isn't actually in a lot of other markets. It's in
the big part of that is we spend more money
per copy of entertainment than all these other industries for
the most part, so we kind of feel like we
should have more say and so yeah, and part of
that's been like people want to get the disc. I
think the biggest part of that is so they can
resell it and get some of their money back. So
when they're done with it, they want to be done
with it and keep that sort of churning back into
new games, and I feel the worse for those people.
You know, it's Nintendo's got a solution for you. It
is game key cards, and while those suck, it's clearly
better than this. But yeah, I think the real sort
of thing here, not the real but one of the
other things here is, yeah, they probably do want to
keep selling these grand theft auto physical additions with the
code inside the box to the same people over and
over again for the Shark cards and actually just removing
the ten cents to print the disc. Actually it will
add up over time, so they just like, hey, we
can do this instead, and they yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 2: It runs a huge risk. They better pray that those
servers for Xbox and PlayStation are or have a preload
system in place where people can sort of mitigate that
and preload it a week before, two weeks before whatever
it is, because if you're going all digital and either
the game can't download on launch day or for whatever reason,
the servers that I imagine there's going to be some
sort of like not DRM, but like verification that it's
a legitimate copy that you purchase digitally, right.
Speaker 1: Authentication, those things If any of those are fucked.
Speaker 2: People are going to lose their goddamn minds more than
ever any other game because it's all digital. So I
hope they have the systems in place, and I hope
they're working with both Xbox and PlayStation. Chat is telling
me there's going to be a pre load, so hopefully
that people do that. Yes, that's right, Yeah, but that
show yeah, okay, good, but if that's a shit show,
I think.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a shit show. And also
it won't matter to them, like it'll they'll already have
your money and what do you what are you gonna do?
Not try to download and play it? Like that's what
they're saying to themselves over and over again. I don't
know if there's anything that they like, any sort of
rake waiting for them to step on that can actually
hurt them. But yeah, we'll see. I said ten cents
per disc, it's like fifty cents for a Blu Ray
disc actually, so yeah, that does add up over time,
but fuck you guys, keep printing the discs. Do something.
I just don't think that this is none of these
excuses or none of these reasonings are are good enough
for the person that actually spending the money. If you
want a discuse, you'd be able to get a disc
s though. All right. Xbox disputes reports of PS five
crushing GTA six pre order demand. This is from Jennifer
Young at Windows Central. Basically, there was a report from
IgM talking to They said, based on their affiliate data,
that PlayStation is out performing Xbox on GTA six pre
orders by a rate of eight to one. Windows Central
received a statement from an Xbox spokesperson who said, this
doesn't represent pre order data. We've had record preorders. People
should wait for real data and not clicks on affiliate links, which,
you know, a little bit snippy there. Maybe I don't
get why they are saying anything at all, like exactly, yeah.
Speaker 2: This is a no comment. This is a shut the
fuck up Friday.
Speaker 1: It's like, what doesn't matter. It just makes you look
weaker if you need to respond to all these things.
Speaker 2: And then if the data comes out and they're getting
smashed a to one, yeah, look real stupid, Like what
they cannot shut the fuck up? They Xbox cannot help
them right now. They have to say everything.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, all of that, all of it.
Speaker 2: What are you doing? Stop it, settle down, work on
your internal strategy about how you're gonna lay off more
people or whatever the fuck you're gonna do, and just
don't appeal to these not to Windows Central. They probably
just asked for a comment and got a comment back.
I'm more talking about the social media people. But just
don't answer, no comment, leave it alone, ignore it, don't
put in the paper that we were mad. There you go.
I don't understand, like we should not be talking about
this because they shouldn't have said anything. They should have
just left it alone. But they can't help themselves right now. Phil.
For all of Phil's apparent faults, he at least knew
when to shut the fuck up. Yeah, right, so what
are we doing here? I don't get it. Nothing about
Xbox makes any sense.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I do think like that's like that's
a culture that started to under Phil. But they're like, yeah,
you're right. I don't think they would have address this specifically.
This is like, this is a step up of being
two online. I'll jump ahead to this one real quick.
It was like, Okay, eight to one does sound a
bit extreme. It's not out of the realm of possibility,
just because maybe people are so burnt out on believing
in Xbox that they're not even going to get Grand
Theft Auto on there, They're just going to try to
get our place, get the PlayStation instead. But we do
have numbers for Andy Robinson at VGC, who actually I
think got this from Chris String again that typically PS
five captures about three out of every four copies sold
of new Triple A single player games at launch, So
it's seventy five to eighty five percent. So yeah, in
that range, and that sounds like that's what I expect
with Grand Theft Auto six as well. I expect that
to be PlayStation three to every one copy for Xbox.
But maybe that's slipping and getting worse. Jason, I don't know,
what do you think.
Speaker 2: I would not be surprised because Xboxes, as much as
they want to appear like they have have, you know,
like all this front facing, we love the fans stuff,
we can all see through that. Now there are enough
reports to show us that that's just bullshit, right, and
that bullshit erodes trust. And when you erode trust, you're
gonna go to the other side, and the other side
in this case is PlayStation. They have always been behind
in consoles except for one flash in the pan in
the mid in the mid to late two thousands with
the Xbox three sixty And even then they almost shot
themselves in the foot with red rings.
Speaker 1: Right, they lost a lot of money.
Speaker 2: They lost a lot of money doing that. They cannot
afford to do dumb shit like this. They just simply
can't afford it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And somebody somebody in the chat said, so what IGN
just gets to lie No, if it's their eternal affiliate data.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's what they're seeing, right, it's what they have.
Speaker 2: They upbeat the whole picture, but it's what they have,
and they're the biggest freaking aiming website in the world.
Speaker 1: Ye.
Speaker 2: So, like, I'm not saying it's the full picture, but
it's it's it's noteworthy data.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And I do get the sense that, I mean,
the IG and audience will like that skew towards PlayStation
and he a, So I bet this data is accurate
for IGN. Yeah, all right, let's see here within I
I'm skipped this one. Xbox reportedly pausing new third party
game pass deals. Developers say this is from Jordan Midler
at VGC. Xbox is slowing down the frequency of third
party Xbox game Pass deals. According to Fernando Rizzo, partner
at Kaboodle Games, citing conversations with fellow developers, well, Xbox
game Pass has largely sold itself on the inclusion of
first party Microsoft games at launch, the service has also
been home to many third party titles, both Triple A
and indie, specifically in the indie space. These game pass
deals have often been alauded as a way to mitigate
risk for developers, offering guaranteed money rather than facing market
uncertain uncertain now. Speaking on the Business of Video Games
podcast hosted by Shams Georgiohnny, CEO of Arrowhead Game Studio,
Rizzo alleged that those game pass deals maybe slowing down
amid an uncertain period for Microsoft Microsoft's gaming brand. They
do have a quote there, but they kind of sort
of just repeat that where they talk to other developers
and they're saying that maybe something is up here, and yeah,
that would be I guess also not too surprising. Other
than the fact that they have not really slipped on
this in the last several years, this has been pretty consistent.
You can find third party games in game Pass at
a pretty rapid clip, so then pulling back on that
probably says they're rethinking a lot of things. Jason, what
do you think.
Speaker 2: It just goes back to what we were saying earlier.
I don't think they know. I honestly don't think they
know what they're doing. If I'm being completely frank, and
they're just trying to find all these other ways to
either change up things for to make more money or
to make deals more compatible to them. The fact that
they're in these advanced discussions and quote getting the rug
pulled out from under them, it just shows an internal
chaos that we are not privy to, and it's going
to rear its ugly head in myriad ways random bullshit
go exactly, it's it's it's not. It does not look
like a company that has their head on straight. None
of this does. And when game Pass was such a
big part of your strategy from like when did a
debut twenties seventeen twenty.
Speaker 1: Eighteens sounds generally yeah.
Speaker 2: Like from from then until now, they just seem like
they're flailing. And I don't know if it's pressure from
the top that's making it do that. I don't know
if they're all just going through AI psychosis that's making
them do all these goofy things, or if they're just
listening to what co pilot tells them to do. I
don't know what the fuck it is, but none of
it makes any sense, and I don't know that it's
ever gonna start making sense with this current leadership.
Speaker 1: Will like there will always be like a move that's
been like, wait, isn't this counter to what you were
just doing? And isn't this counter to what you're saying publicly?
I think that's what you're getting at here, where it's like, oh,
all through Summer game Fest, they're so positive and they're
putting on the glitz and glam and they are like
pounding their chest and showing like just strength to the world.
And then everything since then has been has felt like
the opposite of that, and this is like, oh, this
sounds like you're deprecating game Pass to a certain extent.
And yeah, as Jordan points out here, this service has
primarily been sold on the first party games, but it
took Call of Duty out, so that's one that's out
of there. In fact, they have a big post on
Blue Sky or on on social media where it's like, hey,
call of Duty coming soon, not on game Pass and
big bold letters there. They want people to not like
associate game Pass with that game anymore. And yeah, so
they just want to save money and not saying they
want to like cut the money they're spending like crazy.
And this seems just like one of those buckets like hey,
let's put a little bit less money into there, and
that adds up quick for excuse me, a lot of
developers who are probably relying on that money, who got
used to that because it was so consistent for so
many years, and now it's evaporating an Xbox, like you said,
just there's no like public messaging on this. There's no
sort of like here's what you can expect from the
future game Pass. It's still just like, hey, yeah, everything's
going great over here. You should keep buying Xboxes for
one thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, look at this hand, not this one. Don't look
at this hands exactly.
Speaker 1: Yep, all right, let's see last story here. Sony says
it doesn't plan to sell hardware at a significant loss,
but is monitoring the market with the PS six in mind.
This is from Chris Scullion at VGC. Sony has addressed
the ongoing increase in component cost, saying it doesn't intend
to sell hardware at a loss, but is monitoring the market.
During a Q and I session held at a recent
meeting based or based around the company's game and Network
services division, one attendee asked Sony executives to provide an
update on their current thinking regarding hardware pricing and profitability,
specifically referring to the next generation platform. The attendee as
the executives whether it was reasonable to assume that your
pricing will continue to prioritize profitability of the hardware as
it does today. The official answer given by Sony's transcript
from the Q and A noted that it considers its
hardware to be one of the most important parts of
the gaming experience and that it wants to make sure
users recognize the value offered by its hardware. It also
stated that the company doesn't plan to sell hardware at
a loss as a matter of principle, but that it's
currently monitoring the market situation. First, we regard hardware as
the base for providing the gaming experience, which is kind
of repeating what we just heard. But as for pricing,
it is not realistic for us to absorb all component
cost increases, and we have already implemented some price increases
outside Japan. At present, however, sales are proceeding as planned,
and we do not believe this has led to a
declient and customer demand. It's not led to a decline
in customer demand. We know that. I think it has
led to a somewhat noticeable declient in sort of people
executing on those purchases, but we know people want to
be playing games. But yeah, speaking long term, this is
just them saying PS six is going to cost what
it's going to cost, and with the PS five pro
out there at nine hundred dollars, you can kind of
set that as the bar there for the expectation. That's
my interpretation, Jason, Is there anything else here that's worth
blowing out?
Speaker 2: Look, they're going to sell it a loss. Either it's
going to be a loss of finances by making the
price not conducive with how much it costs to make it,
or the loss of sales figures comparative to the previous generation.
Either way, there's going to be a difference between PS
five and PS six, and it's up to them to
choose which one it's going to be and they're going
to choose the lack of sales figures because they're going
to sell this thing. If I had to guess right
now sitting here, there's going to be two options. And
I have no no inside data. I am truly talking
straight out of my asshole. One thousand and twelve hundred
or eleven thirteen hundred somewhere in there. I don't think
it's gonna get up to fifteen hundred. That I think
is a little too extreme, or maybe I'm just class
half full. I don't know, but I think eleven ten
to eleven for a lesser model one hundred, and then
twelve to thirteen hundred for a larger model with like
a bigger hard drive or something like that is where
it's going to sit.
Speaker 1: It's going to be. Yes, the cheapest it's going to
be is a thousand dollars case. It says Katie Cats
up right, that is the absolute floor. It feels like,
which is it's that's going to be rough because again
I think the thing I've been talking about for years now, Jason,
is what is the gamemck you're selling this thing on?
You know, you go back to uh, go back to
the beginning, you know, PlayStation three D, gaming, PlayStation two DVDs, PlayStation.
Speaker 2: Three, that was a Blu rail processor.
Speaker 1: Yeah, cell processor, yes, exactly like a Blue rays. These
are things big gimmicks though, technological changes that people wanted
to get on board. For PlayStation four was like, okay,
well we're kind of getting back to gaming and we're
gonna do We're just gonna like make a lot of
really good first party games. But really it was like,
this is your one system that people actually feel good
about compared to the Xbox. They sort of lucked out
on that generation and it really paid off for them.
But then they went PS four and that was for
PS four Pro. That was four K and that's sort
of the last gimmick in the in the bag there,
like what can you do now? They don't have anything
there was you know, even Nvidia didn't have anything, which
is why they were making ray tracing such a big
deal for the last five years, and that hasn't really worked.
So these companies that have run out of these tricks
of like to create FOMO, to create forced obsolescence, they
need to like come up with other things, and there's
just not a lot of fertile ground to go to there,
So they're already gonna struggle to position the PS six
as something you need you need to have because it's
not gonna your games are just not gonna look that
much better than they do on the PS five in general,
and then it's gonna way more expensive, and the games
that they've been making are taking longer and longer, so
that those exclusives that are coming back, Yeah, there will
be some, but are there going to be enough. It's
especially after people feel maybe a little bit burned, like
jumping on the PS five or early and not seeing
a lot of games'll say, hey, is this generation really started?
I think that they're gonna have an uphill battle no
matter what, and this pricing is just gonna absolutely be
just throwing shit at him as they try to climb
up that hill.
Speaker 2: Jason, it's bleak, it is. I do not envy being
in their position. As someone pointed out in the chat,
the gimmick for PS five arguably was the SSD and
the way that the games read off of the SSDs directly.
Speaker 1: I think that they, yes, they tried, they tried to
make that the gammick. They also tried to make eight
K gimmick early on where like that was on the
box and stuff like that. I don't know how much
that moved the needle for people. SSD is clearly better
like than what we have for PS four, so it
did make a huge difference.
Speaker 2: But sure, yeah, yeah, I don't, Like I said, I
don't envy them having to make these decisions. No matter
what they come out at, people are going to be
you know, gone are the days of five hundred and
ninety nine US dollars being controversial? If anything? People would
hear that and be like, we're so sorry? Are we
dat in your place?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Come back, it's not It's not good, and I don't
see it getting good anytime soon. If I were them,
I would you can't really do this because you probably
spent so much on R and D, But like, shelf
the PS six for a little while and just continue
to focus on PS five until this wave passes, if
it ever passes. But again, it sounds like they're operating
on the fact that it may never pass. So do
they wait until forever or do they strike now and
just deal with it?
Speaker 1: Can't pound the market?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's impossible. It's impossible, and we all suffer as
a result.
Speaker 1: Yep, yep. That's good worth pointing out though, that you're right,
like they spend a lot of money on research and development,
and not just that, like the machining and lining up
manufacturing partners and all this stuff. Maybe with the expectation
that a PS six would come out next year, it
would just cost them a lot of money to sort
of halt that train, and they're going to probably just
be like, man, we've got to put this thing out
no matter what, and just figure this out. So this
could be a this could be a real mess. All right,
let's see here. That does it for the headlines. No
poll question to catch up on because the on the
last show we did the bomb twelve. But we do
have a new poll question. We'll get to here in
a second before we do that. Jason Finelli, why don't
you tell people where they can find you on the
internet what you have going on and all that good stuff?
Speaker 2: Uh, Jason Finelli dot com on Blue Sky, Big Man
Finale on Instagram or the two social media I am
most active on just getting back from vacation, so getting
my feet from underneath me. My SGF content is mostly
all out and I think there's one or two more
that are still lingering in the ether. Five on Kataku,
two on VGC, a couple on but Why though, and
then one coming to m M RPG. That's where the
spread is. Go check that out. I did. The EVO
roundup that we talked about at the top of the
show is going to be on Game Spot shortly. Just
have to do a couple of tweaks on that one.
A couple of things in the pipeline can't quite talk
about yet, not sure if they're going to happen, but
if they do, I will be very excited about them,
so be sure to check me out on there. And
one thing I did want to add to that EVO
roundup that I forgot. Along with the Invincible season one DLC,
they also confirmed that the fighter for season two will
be one Angstrom Levy Oh hell yeah, which will be
a very interesting addition. So I did forget about that.
But that's me Jason Finelli dot com and Blue Sky,
like I said, big Man Finely on Instagram, And yeah, man,
it's it's video games.
Speaker 1: That's what the video games. Yep, there's plenty of great
video games to play. That's the thing. That's uh people
are not going to stop playing video games no matter what,
but might just have to save money here and there
and not buy a PS six We'll see. I like
this comment from Uncle ramone PS five point five remix.
That's what they should release, Kingdom Hearts versions of your consoles.
All right, new Pool question, are you excited about Splittoon Raiders?
Yes or no. By the time we get to this poll,
that direct will have happened. So if you want to
vote now, watch that direct and change your vote. You
could always come back to the pole and do so,
but we'll get the results on Wednesday's show. Tuesday show
will be the BombCast instead, so everybody and be sure
to tune in for that. We got plenty of cool
stuff happening this week. It is a short week. We're
going to be off for Friday for the fourth Independence
Day here in the United States. But yeah, we'll make
a lot of fun stuff happen. And of course there
was all that fun Fishing Week content. Go to store
dot GiantBomb dot com. Check that out. Go to our
website right now and watch the SGF travelog video that
you together. That was a lot of fun, a lot
of cool stuff in there. We got a bunch of people,
a bunch of our friends to play Mario sixty four,
so go watch that. It was a lot of fun,
all right. See with all of that under the way,
anything else we got to do. I think what I
do is say Jason, thank you so much for hanging
out with me today and talking about video games. Man,
I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Thank you for having me Jeff always happy and looking
forward to the next one.
Speaker 1: Thank you all for watching and listening. You are the
best audience in gaming. Until next time, have a good one,
take care of yourself and goodbye.