Speaker 1: Be Ba. It's the Internet. You're busy. Let's do this
Speaker 1: for January tenth, twenty twenty four. For the next hour
Speaker 1: or so, let me help you sort through the world
Speaker 1: of gaming on gamest Mornings Live with Me Jeff Grubb Today.
Speaker 1: Nintendo actually responded to switch two weeks and Xbox has
Speaker 1: a developer direct coming up later this month with a
Speaker 1: mystery game. But first, please join me in welcoming today's
Speaker 1: co host the game Mest Mornings. It's Janet Show. Everybody,
Speaker 1: jan How are you doing? I'm doing great. It is
Speaker 1: Friday morning. There are dregs, but they're also not dregs.
Speaker 2: It's news. It it's a missing time.
Speaker 1: It's a mixture of news and drags. And you know what,
Speaker 1: I think that's my preference. I think it's the ratio
Speaker 1: that I come to Fridays for. It's like a good buffet.
Speaker 1: You need the child items like chicken nuggets and French
Speaker 1: fries and a very bad cheese pizza, but also the
Speaker 1: ability to get sushi rolls in suspect Chinese food exactly.
Speaker 1: You can have like the exciting stuff that adults are
Speaker 1: there for to roll the dice with their tummies, but
Speaker 1: you got to have the chicken nuggets, so you gotta
Speaker 1: have the chicken strips and the mac and cheese. Yep,
Speaker 1: learned that at Disney.
Speaker 3: If you see a chocolate fountain at a buffet, are
Speaker 3: you going to it?
Speaker 1: I am like like sidling up to it with suspicion
Speaker 1: in my eyes, But I probably get over that, and yeah,
Speaker 1: I will engage with the chocolate fountain. How about you.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I would, but I appreciate it
Speaker 3: being there. I'll take the things that need to be
Speaker 3: dipped in the chocolate fountain and just eat them raw.
Speaker 1: Yeah. It also gives you a good way of like
Speaker 1: knowing who's surrounding you. Because the people that are running
Speaker 1: up enthusiastically to the chocolate fountain, You're like, all right,
Speaker 1: I got to keep an eye on them. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: make sure that they don't get out of hand, because
Speaker 1: these are the people you cannot trust. They have no
Speaker 1: sense of self preservation. Yeah, I'm right there with you.
Speaker 1: I went the games got done quick last night or yesterday,
Speaker 1: I should say, that was a yeah. We saw we
Speaker 1: showed up. They were finishing the partners in time run,
Speaker 1: and we went down and played some games in the
Speaker 1: arcade there. I did the popping music. Is that's what
Speaker 1: these machines are called?
Speaker 2: Oh the washing machine?
Speaker 1: Washing machine? Yes, yeah, and it was what that was
Speaker 1: my jam. I like rhythm games a lot. That was
Speaker 1: It was very fun. There's a j Minotti got some
Speaker 1: video of me playing, so I'll find somewhere to put that.
Speaker 1: But it was Yeah, it was a good time. And
Speaker 1: then we went up and watched the entirety of the
Speaker 1: Tears of the Kingdom run, which was fantastic as well. Boy,
Speaker 1: that's a you know what, that's a good game and
Speaker 1: very fun to watch someone just tear it apart. They
Speaker 1: did great as well. We got out of there not
Speaker 1: too long after that though, because we had to go
Speaker 1: record a podcast that night. But yeah, it was a
Speaker 1: you know, a quick, quick jog over to Pittsburgh and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to make that happen again next year.
Speaker 3: Fantastic. I've always wanted to go to a games done
Speaker 3: quick and just just see the magic happen.
Speaker 1: It is magic, like they are that, you know. The
Speaker 1: magic is there's you know, so many very talented volunteers
Speaker 1: working behind the scenes making that thing very efficient at
Speaker 1: this point, and it was impressive. To just to see
Speaker 1: everybody know their job and just take care of things.
Speaker 1: And yeah, a really professional operation they have going there.
Speaker 1: So just yeah, all of the you know, every time
Speaker 1: you at these things start up and these things raise
Speaker 1: you know, a million dollars, two million dollars, it is
Speaker 1: you could tell that everyone's very proud, like they take
Speaker 1: pride in the work that they're doing to ensure that
Speaker 1: that happens, and they deserve it, and you know that
Speaker 1: it's like this is a like I said, professional operation.
Speaker 1: Real quick before we do get started, just want to
Speaker 1: you know, thoughts worth everyone in LA. It is time
Speaker 1: I glance over there, which I can only glance because
Speaker 1: it like hurts my heart to like look too deeply
Speaker 1: at it, which I apologize for. I'm a weak person.
Speaker 1: But when I do, I am thinking of people that
Speaker 1: I know and people that I don't know, and just
Speaker 1: it just seems devastating. I really like LA and I
Speaker 1: see to see this happen to it is just heartbreaking.
Speaker 1: So just shout outs to everybody out there.
Speaker 3: Yes, definitely, if you have any friends, acquaintance's family members
Speaker 3: in Los Angeles, please go and check on them. Friends
Speaker 3: of the site in Los Angeles I believe are all
Speaker 3: accounted for and okay, I've we've tried to check up
Speaker 3: on them. Believe all the homies are okay. But yeah,
Speaker 3: check on your homies folks at home.
Speaker 1: Yep, yep. I know a lot of them are you know,
Speaker 1: displaced and not able to get back to their homes
Speaker 1: quite yet, or if they are, it's just starting to happen.
Speaker 1: Glad they were safe. Boy, that sounds like a rough situation.
Speaker 1: So I just just hope everyone's able to get back
Speaker 1: to normal as soon as possible, which, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I know it's not going to be an option for many.
Speaker 3: Also, if you're in the Los Angeles area, please be safe.
Speaker 3: Please try and wear a mask as much as possible,
Speaker 3: and the N ninety five mask when you step outside.
Speaker 3: Air quality is terrible. As someone that lives in northern
Speaker 3: California has also had to deal with the fallout of fires.
Speaker 3: If thankfully you can be spared from the actual fire damage,
Speaker 3: but some of the lasting stuff and more toxic hazardous
Speaker 3: stuff can be the air quality. So stay inside when
Speaker 3: you can, or try and wear a mask as much
Speaker 3: as possible.
Speaker 1: All right, let's explain what we do here most weekdays.
Speaker 1: I Jeff Grubb will help piece your gaming life back together.
Speaker 1: That includes breaking news and maybe even some of our
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Speaker 1: All right, we have a lot to get into, so
Speaker 1: let's start the morning Mess with Nintendo. Switch To listings
Speaker 1: are popping up in retailer databases. Yes, more switch to
Speaker 1: leaks today. It's a little bit more fun because Nintendo
Speaker 1: actually acknowledged at least one of them. But you know,
Speaker 1: not that that amounted too much. Let's get into it.
Speaker 1: This is from a multiple places, so I kind of
Speaker 1: all mashed it all together here. Recent links from game
Speaker 1: Stops internal database and French retailer Finac suggest details about
Speaker 1: Nintendo's upcoming console, possibly a Switch successor, well, definitely a
Speaker 1: Switch successor. Leaks inside and leaks include listings for accessories
Speaker 1: like micro SD cards. These are micro express micro SD cards.
Speaker 1: This is maybe interesting because well, for one, they'll be faster,
Speaker 1: something I think a lot of people were anticipating. But
Speaker 1: those micro SD express cards can technically support up to
Speaker 1: five hundred terabyte maybe it was one hundred some odd
Speaker 1: terabytes on one card. Not that there's those available like
Speaker 1: at like retail. Maybe maybe if you go talk to
Speaker 1: like a specialist at one of these memory company storage companies,
Speaker 1: they might be able to provide that at an enterprise level.
Speaker 1: But eventually, you know, in several years, we might be
Speaker 1: getting these little st cards that are very fast, that
Speaker 1: work with the switch to and could have you know,
Speaker 1: fifty terabytes. Like that's not out of the realm of possibility,
Speaker 1: which is insane to me. But yeah, I'm glad that
Speaker 1: Nintendo is at least using what feels like a more
Speaker 1: next gen technology for it's it's it's you know cold
Speaker 1: storage there. Yeah, there's you know, also like carrying cases
Speaker 1: joy congrepts. The the doc has little indentations on it,
Speaker 1: so you can't slide or you can't put the switch
Speaker 1: to in a switch one dock. And you know, I
Speaker 1: think that's also something most people were anticipating that tells
Speaker 1: us that's like maybe there is some reason and like
Speaker 1: there's maybe more going on in the switch to DOC
Speaker 1: than in the switch one dock, or who knows, maybe
Speaker 1: Nintendo just wants to sell you a new dock and
Speaker 1: that's the way that goes. But yeah, this is just
Speaker 1: been an onslaught parade of leaks from every which way.
Speaker 1: We've talked about the mouse thing, like oh, maybe that's
Speaker 1: an optical sensor in those are mouse souls as they're called,
Speaker 1: like little feet, so the thing can slid on a table.
Speaker 1: We still don't know really anything for sure about this system.
Speaker 1: We are probably gonna get a lot of definitive information
Speaker 1: relatively quickly. Again, like they you know, not it will
Speaker 1: happen quickly, because they've said they are going to show
Speaker 1: this thing off before the end of March. We are
Speaker 1: midway through January. We're talking a matter of weeks now,
Speaker 1: but I think it's like we might not get out
Speaker 1: of January before like really getting all the information about this.
Speaker 1: And in this moment, like it feels like, God, we
Speaker 1: know everything, but a lot of the stuff that we
Speaker 1: have speculated and tried to piece together and feel good about,
Speaker 1: like the mouse thing, as Sean was saying games Mortis
Speaker 1: earlier this week could just look absolutely that.
Speaker 3: Shit silly very soon. Jan, how are you feeling about
Speaker 3: all this? I say, more rumors of plenty. Let's let's
Speaker 3: build up the hype factor, let's build up our expectations,
Speaker 3: and let's get weird. And I can't wait for Nintendo
Speaker 3: to release something that is still going to be pretty
Speaker 3: neat and cool, but it's not going to live up
Speaker 3: to all the wild expectations we built up, and we'll
Speaker 3: all just be.
Speaker 2: Like, oh, okay, yeah, I'll pick one up anyway.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that there. You know, I definitely saw
Speaker 1: some images of a switch to allegedly being turned on,
Speaker 1: something that we hadn't seen up to this point. But
Speaker 1: as far as I glanced at this, I only looked
Speaker 1: really quickly. It looked like it was just doing a
Speaker 1: manufacturer's like check, where like when you turn it on
Speaker 1: and be like, you know, a post. It was doing
Speaker 1: the post thing for your PC. This thing is going
Speaker 1: to post, it's going to turn on, uh, and and
Speaker 1: then we're gonna check all the systems to make sure
Speaker 1: that they're operational and something that you can the manufacturer
Speaker 1: we'll be able to do maybe before they install load
Speaker 1: on the operating system, the actual operating system. So maybe
Speaker 1: that is the switch toos that are getting out there,
Speaker 1: and uh, some some part of the operating system gets
Speaker 1: put on these devices at some other point that is
Speaker 1: not happening at the point of manufacturing. Uh, It's it's weird.
Speaker 1: We still haven't seen anything about software. We haven't seen
Speaker 1: anything about the way the system works, which is in
Speaker 1: my mind, the most important stuff, the most the most
Speaker 1: the more interesting factors about what the switch too is
Speaker 1: going to be. Uh So, yeah, there's still a lot
Speaker 1: for them to talk about.
Speaker 3: Have we seen anything grub about like the future of
Speaker 3: switch cartridges or switch to cartridges?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I I I'm not sure people are saying in
Speaker 1: chat that we have. I have not seen that. So
Speaker 1: let me see here. I'm gonna go to a website
Speaker 1: called Google and switch to card turches and I will
Speaker 1: just say cartridge even though I think they're just cards
Speaker 1: because I'm a bad person. Let's see here, I'm click
Speaker 1: on news.
Speaker 2: What about chips, let's start calling them chips.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're chips, They're they're yeah. We yeah, we'll put
Speaker 1: chips in your deck because we're cyberpunt now, yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm not seeing much about it, so yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe they'll taste better. That's probably what people are worried about. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had to. Uh, I did have that conversation with
Speaker 1: my my kid the other day, being because there was
Speaker 1: a battery that had the symbol on the package. That's like,
Speaker 1: we put the bad code in on this little taste
Speaker 1: bad And then she's like, so if it doesn't have that,
Speaker 1: does it taste good? Like no, no, no, no, no, don't
Speaker 1: go thinking that. So that was a really fun conversation. Uh. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Nintendo did respond to some of these leaks, though, Uh
Speaker 1: Nintendo responds specifically to CEES. Nintendo switched to leaks this
Speaker 1: from Alex Hopley at Game Reactor at CES despite Nintendo
Speaker 1: not being present at the show. We've heard a lot
Speaker 1: of alleged details about the Nintendo's which too from a
Speaker 1: parent from apparent logo to supposed Joycon images, a lot
Speaker 1: of this stuff is starting to look legit, but without
Speaker 1: confirmation from Nintendo, we're keeping our salt shakers out. Speaking
Speaker 1: to the sen Ke Shinbun, Nintendo made a very short
Speaker 1: statement on the supposed reveals saying the images and videos
Speaker 1: are quote not official. While this might sound like an
Speaker 1: immediate dismissal of what we've seen so far, the word
Speaker 1: official being used here seems quite key. Nintendo hasn't told
Speaker 1: us the images are false or fake, just that they're
Speaker 1: not official, which we know as they've not come from
Speaker 1: Nintendo itself. In reality, then this has cleared up little
Speaker 1: in regard to whether these images are legitimate or not. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, just the fact that Nintendo felt the need
Speaker 1: to respond is maybe a little interesting. It's more interesting
Speaker 1: for the company responsible for this, which is Ginky, which
Speaker 1: is gotten a lot of attention because of this, which
Speaker 1: you know was the goal, I'm sure, and more power
Speaker 1: to them. I have no problem with this. You know,
Speaker 1: do your thing. You've got the information, and you don't
Speaker 1: have a relationship with like a direct relationship with Nintendo,
Speaker 1: that's fine. But Nintendo has noticed, and maybe that is
Speaker 1: a little bit scary if you're them, right, Yeah, can you?
Speaker 2: I is Nintendo in.
Speaker 3: A position where they can issue like a cease and
Speaker 3: desist or some type of legal action to stop Gankey
Speaker 3: from manufacturing switch to peripherals.
Speaker 2: Is that a thing that can be done?
Speaker 1: Yeah? You know what I I don't in my head,
Speaker 1: I'm like, it seems like that would be hard to
Speaker 1: do because unless they're using like the switch to trademark
Speaker 1: or some entire proprietary piece of information, like you know,
Speaker 1: anyone's allowed to make a piece of plastic shape however
Speaker 1: they want, right And then if it happens to work
Speaker 1: with a switch to, what can we what can Nintendo
Speaker 1: do about it? But maybe there are rules in some
Speaker 1: territories that I'm not aware of, which is very likely.
Speaker 1: I'm not aware of most regulations. But it seems like
Speaker 1: the way my guess is But because Ginky is behaving
Speaker 1: this way and this is you know, it's a professional
Speaker 1: company with the you know, access to lawyers and things
Speaker 1: like that, I guess is they know that Nintendo either
Speaker 1: can't do something or what wouldn't do something because it's
Speaker 1: just not worth it to them because they would maybe
Speaker 1: just lose so that but you know, I think, you know,
Speaker 1: in the future, Ganky might want to work with Nintendo
Speaker 1: and this might be had. This might be taking that
Speaker 1: off the table.
Speaker 3: Yeah, do you think this is this is Ganky playing
Speaker 3: a little bit of chicken because they want to get
Speaker 3: ahead of the game. Versus all these other peripheral producers
Speaker 3: out there, like a mad cats, et cetera. And if
Speaker 3: Nintendo were to pursue legal action, that would kind of
Speaker 3: confirm specs, like physical specs of the switch to that
Speaker 3: Nintendo would still want to kind of keep out of there. Oh,
Speaker 3: Kanky's like, you know, they're not going to fire out
Speaker 3: on us, So we'll just keep pushing the limits and
Speaker 3: Nintendo's gonna have to play ball.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think that could be part of it,
Speaker 1: and I think it's the reality. The reality is likely
Speaker 1: the Ganky has a very limited piece of the information
Speaker 1: set and they're working from that, and Nintendo might have
Speaker 1: more bigger concerns of figuring out where those weeks were
Speaker 1: coming from in the first place, if they really care.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, the people in Shataman noting that
Speaker 1: there's rumors that thing gets the thing gets announced next week,
Speaker 1: and that sounds plausible to me. It sounds but you know,
Speaker 1: we've heard that many times. Of course, we've heard that
Speaker 1: many times, and I've said before it sounded plausible because
Speaker 1: it did. But yeah, I think that by next week
Speaker 1: we could have all these answers, and as we always say,
Speaker 1: none of the things that have happened up to this
Speaker 1: point will be remembered or mattered.
Speaker 3: Yeah, one hundred percent, grub. I feel like Nintendo has
Speaker 3: unfortunate timing with real life events. We know that a
Speaker 3: certain thing in the United States is happening in two weeks,
Speaker 3: Nintendo should just do it next week to get ahead
Speaker 3: of the curve before anything worse happens.
Speaker 1: In America exactly, Yes, which is like, you know, I
Speaker 1: get all the uncertainty, but at a certain point you
Speaker 1: just got to act and and go with the go
Speaker 1: with whatever's happening there. Yeah. People are also once again
Speaker 1: pointing out from Chat thank You that Emron Cohn Game
Speaker 1: speeds Owned noted that Nintendo pr is finding a lot
Speaker 1: of the stuff going around to be very funny and
Speaker 1: that plan that their plans have not changed. And again,
Speaker 1: you know, my hunt here is that those plans are
Speaker 1: something's happening next week.
Speaker 2: So they they're they're making the watch then huh they
Speaker 2: make that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're like it's funny because no one's mentioned the
Speaker 1: watch except for that jam guy. Uh, and everyone thinks
Speaker 1: he sounds crazy. So we got everybody right where we
Speaker 1: want them.
Speaker 2: Oh, come on, come on, Nintendo cut the check.
Speaker 1: H There's more Nintendo rumors, this time involving Xbox. Xbox
Speaker 1: is planning big Nintendo Switch to support that includes Halo
Speaker 1: and Flight sim as well as more. This is from
Speaker 1: Nintendo Everything. Rumor has it that Xbox is gearing up
Speaker 1: for a significant amount of Nintendo Switch support, including its
Speaker 1: top tier franchises like Halo. Nate They Hate Nate Drake
Speaker 1: weighed in on what to expect during a new episode
Speaker 1: of his podcast. It's claimed that at some point we'll
Speaker 1: be seeing Halo the Master Chief Collection as well as
Speaker 1: Flight Simulator on the new console, as well as PS
Speaker 1: five Halo and the Master Chief Collection. Excuse me. Is
Speaker 1: not a new package, as it's first debuted nearly a
Speaker 1: decade ago. Man, it's been that long. But it's a
Speaker 1: big release containing campaigns for Halo Reach, Halo Combat Evolved,
Speaker 1: Halo two Anniversary, Halo three, Halo three Obst the Campaign,
Speaker 1: and Halo Four. There's also a huge multiplayer component with
Speaker 1: various modes game types in over one hundred and twenty maps.
Speaker 1: In general, it sounds like there will be a good
Speaker 1: amount of Microsoft support going forward for the new system.
Speaker 1: Nate says the company will be porting and patching the
Speaker 1: current switch lineup Grounded, Pentiment and or games which were
Speaker 1: previously associated with Xbox and are already on Nintendo Switch. However,
Speaker 1: it also looks like they'll be on switch to with
Speaker 1: four K support, and cfd's in Highfi Rush could be
Speaker 1: possible as well. They're already on PS five, so Nintendo
Speaker 1: switched to versions makes sense. And of course early on
Speaker 1: there were rumors that cfieves was heading to Switch alongside
Speaker 1: the PS five version, and maybe that was just always
Speaker 1: a mix up that that would be, you know, be
Speaker 1: a switch to version down the line. Yeah, this one
Speaker 1: is like, oh yeah, I mean they've had a lot
Speaker 1: of success putting games out on the PlayStation five. Switch
Speaker 1: is just a matter of getting the development up to
Speaker 1: a point where it's like it's easier to report those
Speaker 1: games to the Switch and now switch to And for
Speaker 1: master Chief, you know, the master Chief collection, that's an
Speaker 1: older game that just will could run on Switch once
Speaker 1: they probably just launch it on that. Yeah, not too
Speaker 1: surprised to hear this, how about you?
Speaker 3: No, not surprising at all. It feels like this has
Speaker 3: been rumbling for what feels like forever now. Grub as
Speaker 3: soon as Xbox announced that they want to expand game
Speaker 3: Pass to be outside of the Microsoft ecosystem, or at
Speaker 3: least start releasing their titles on other platforms. It still
Speaker 3: feels weird to me, to be honest, grub to the
Speaker 3: thought that Halo and will be on other platforms. It
Speaker 3: also feels weird seeing Xbox moving away from having really
Speaker 3: pushing the console first and now pushing software, pushing game
Speaker 3: Pass very very hard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's you know, I think it's just recognizing that
Speaker 1: the previous trajectory, the previous strategy was not going to
Speaker 1: pan out the way they needed it to, which was,
Speaker 1: you know, putting the console first, putting game pass first.
Speaker 1: And I think they've they've tapped that out and or
Speaker 1: you know, burnt goodwill among people who are relying on
Speaker 1: the Xbox to to kind of prop itself up. Uh
Speaker 1: and like we spent a lot of money, We've got
Speaker 1: to make a lot of money. Uh. And and I think,
Speaker 1: you know, in terms of if their goal is to
Speaker 1: make a lot of money, they're going towards the PS
Speaker 1: five and switch with with video games that they're going
Speaker 1: to sell to people. It's a good way to make
Speaker 1: a lot of money. And so I think this is
Speaker 1: going to work. Kind of feels like, uh, you know
Speaker 1: the way that just things evolve naturally in the the world,
Speaker 1: where it's like you just look for the path of
Speaker 1: least resistance or the path that provides the biggest return
Speaker 1: on investment. That's what capitalism is supposed to do. And
Speaker 1: that is going to lead to a company being like,
Speaker 1: we kept trying to do this one thing where we
Speaker 1: kept things guarded for long enough, and now that we've
Speaker 1: put things out on these other systems, we are making
Speaker 1: a lot more money. We kind of have no choice
Speaker 1: and we don't feel like do anything else other than that.
Speaker 1: So yeah, they're going to keep supporting Xbox that still
Speaker 1: makes a lot of money. But yeah, this is just
Speaker 1: lines up with their current goals.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when you look at it on paper, the switch
Speaker 3: to is going to have a massive install base from
Speaker 3: the jump because of the excitement, all the rumors coming around,
Speaker 3: and maybe Nintendo won't have the software to support it
Speaker 3: other than a couple first party titles, maybe just kind
Speaker 3: of relying on that backwards compatibility that could happen, and
Speaker 3: that's where Microsoft could easily slot in and be like, hey,
Speaker 3: you got to switch to, why don't you play all
Speaker 3: of the halos.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, even in Nintendo has a pretty decent launch,
Speaker 1: it's going to only have a handful of like very
Speaker 1: big games. And so when people are getting a switch to,
Speaker 1: they're going to do what they what they did with
Speaker 1: the Switch one. They're going to pick up you know,
Speaker 1: Zelda and maybe one other thing from Nintendo or maybe
Speaker 1: you know, their second game will be one of these
Speaker 1: smaller games or a game from a third party. The
Speaker 1: a lot of people you like to pick a bit launch,
Speaker 1: like you know, a golf story did really well in
Speaker 1: the first year of the switch because everyone's just behind
Speaker 1: everything on the Switch because they were so excited. So
Speaker 1: if you have these games ready to go for the
Speaker 1: launch of the switch to, you're just gonna you're gonna
Speaker 1: benefit naturally from that.
Speaker 3: As you said, yeah, and if getting online is not
Speaker 3: that a getting online is difficult on the Switch, but
Speaker 3: maybe if it's a more streamline experience on the switch to,
Speaker 3: something like Sea of Thieves could really take off and
Speaker 3: have like Another Life. I'm still very surprised that a
Speaker 3: lot of people are playing Sea of Thieves, but geez,
Speaker 3: proof this can be very good for Microsoft. Do you
Speaker 3: think they eventually try and bring a call of duty
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm they from that court case. They promised they
Speaker 1: would bring call of duty to switch, so they have
Speaker 1: to unless they want to get in trouble with regulators.
Speaker 3: So well, with that left mouse joy con, yes, huh, yep,
Speaker 3: that's uh because that's would be kind of a story.
Speaker 1: You just said that and I like popped in my head.
Speaker 1: So okay, So wait, the left mouse joycon, you put
Speaker 1: that on your right hand and use it over here.
Speaker 1: Does that mean you're then using the right joyc on
Speaker 1: your left hand to if you want to like move
Speaker 1: around in the world. It's like, I kind of get
Speaker 1: the sense that the mouse is gonna have to be
Speaker 1: used on its own and not like simultaneously with the
Speaker 1: joy con. But who knows, And again, could we could
Speaker 1: sound very silly in a week to six weeks, uh
Speaker 1: when this thing gets revealed and maybe there is no
Speaker 1: mouse support at all. It was just something else that
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with anything.
Speaker 2: It's a grappling hook. It's a grappling hook.
Speaker 1: Duh. Come on, everybody, all right, let's take a quick break.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll talk about the Xbox Developer
Speaker 1: Direct that has a brand new mystery game in it, Setsuscreen,
Speaker 1: Shadow Delayed and more. Right after this. Okay, we're back
Speaker 1: into it. Let's get to the next story here. Xbox
Speaker 1: Developer Direct announced for this month includes a brand new game.
Speaker 1: This is Fromanda mccuwitt game Spot. The next Developer Direct
Speaker 1: event is coming up soon. Microsoft has announced a new
Speaker 1: Xbox Developer Direct broadcast for January twenty third, and we'll
Speaker 1: feature a number of games like South of Midnight and
Speaker 1: Doom the Dark Ages, as well as a brand new game.
Speaker 1: The event takes place as as I said, January twenty third,
Speaker 1: at ten am Pacific time. It's expected to stream in
Speaker 1: all the usual places, and as they say here, we'll
Speaker 1: visit Compulsion Games in Montreal, Canada. To learn more about
Speaker 1: South of Midnight, head to Montpellier, France a see Sandfall
Speaker 1: Interactive for a look at Clear Obscure Expedition thirty three,
Speaker 1: which is that uh French final fantasy looking RPG that
Speaker 1: looks very cool.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: Stopped by the legendary ID Studios in Richardson, Texas. Check
Speaker 1: in on Doom the Dark Ages, which I continue to
Speaker 1: be very excited about, and visit a surprise location to
Speaker 1: see another studios brand new game, Microsoft said. Microsoft did
Speaker 1: not say anything more about the myster what the mysterious
Speaker 1: game might be, but keep checking it back game Spot
Speaker 1: for more. Yeah, this is this is one where it's like,
Speaker 1: is this, you know, a brand new game? Is it
Speaker 1: a is it? Is it a remake? Because we did
Speaker 1: have those rumors earlier this week that something's going to
Speaker 1: be happening soon with Virtuos and the it's Unreal Engine
Speaker 1: five remake game, which is very likely Oblivion. Uh, you
Speaker 1: know that's a Microsoft joint. But they're saying brand new game,
Speaker 1: so maybe maybe this is something else. Uh, I don't
Speaker 1: know either way. I'm I'm pretty excited to watch this
Speaker 1: this this showcase later this month, mostly because of Doom,
Speaker 1: but I don't mind seem about Clare Obscure and you know,
Speaker 1: South of Midnight continues to look very fascinating as well.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it just feels like Microsoft's got a pretty
Speaker 1: decent year coming up, right in terms of games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'm curious to see when they were saying
Speaker 3: another another students brand new game that means internal studio
Speaker 3: greb or you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm I'm gonna assume so, but I there's
Speaker 1: nothing here that like definitively says that jan.
Speaker 3: Okay, because I think the first time we saw a
Speaker 3: Path of the Goddess Kunitsagami, or maybe I got that
Speaker 3: title backwards, that game was at a Microsoft event. So
Speaker 3: I'm curious, maybe is this like a It could possibly
Speaker 3: be a partnership with an external studio that they're really
Speaker 3: pushing on game pass, because when I think of Kagami
Speaker 3: Path of the Goddess, there we go, we got it, right,
Speaker 3: I think of Xbox.
Speaker 1: Yes, uh and uh. I think I would have heard
Speaker 1: is Capcom and Sega continue to have a good relationship
Speaker 1: with Microsoft that their games they are doing pretty okay
Speaker 1: on those platforms. Microsoft pays them the right amount as
Speaker 1: far as they're concerned to be in game Pass when
Speaker 1: they do put their games in game Pass, like Kanitsugami
Speaker 1: was or continues to be. I think, yeah, so, so
Speaker 1: there's a chance that it could be something along those lines.
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, if a Sega or a
Speaker 1: Capcom has a game of Kanitsugami's scale announced, it here
Speaker 1: might make sense. You're right, So this could be just
Speaker 1: about anything, But I'm I think recently There's been very
Speaker 1: few complaints about the way Xbox has been running these
Speaker 1: developer directs. They are quick and snappy, lots of fast
Speaker 1: information and looks at games, and then they do deep
Speaker 1: dives later on the blogs or on YouTube videos or whatever.
Speaker 1: So I think that, you know, developers want to be
Speaker 1: in these showcases now. And yeah, like you said, could
Speaker 1: be anybody. I the very least, though, like I said,
Speaker 1: goodyear for Xbox. Overall. We're expecting Fables still a vouts
Speaker 1: coming out in a month. Oh you know, I think
Speaker 1: South of Midnight and Doom the Dark Ages are both
Speaker 1: tentatively scheduled for twenty twenty five, I believe.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Yeah. That's four big games right there for this year,
Speaker 1: and there's probably going to be more than that when
Speaker 1: it's all said and done. And I'm sure I'm actually
Speaker 1: forgetting some off the top of my head here. So yeah,
Speaker 1: feel feel pretty good about.
Speaker 3: Uh oh yeah the Barcraft Ghost Grub Yeah, coming there
Speaker 3: it is.
Speaker 1: They said Outer Worlds was coming this year right at
Speaker 1: the Game War twenty twenty five, so we saw that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so five big games right there. Yeah cool, look looking
Speaker 1: forward to that because I feel like after Andiana Jones
Speaker 1: feeling much more positive about what Xbox is putting now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: hopefully they can kind of keep that going, all right,
Speaker 1: Assassin's Creed Shadows has been delayed again and will now
Speaker 1: launch in March, So about a month delay. This comes
Speaker 1: from Eddie or excuse me, Eric Hittleback Puru at Game Reactor.
Speaker 1: We all knew that at least one of the many
Speaker 1: high anticipated games set to launch in February or February
Speaker 1: was going to get one more delay, and the first
Speaker 1: one is decided to go into the Shadows. Ubisoft confirms
Speaker 1: that Assassin's Creed Shadows, that was originally meant to launch
Speaker 1: last November, has been delayed from the fourteenth of February
Speaker 1: to the twentieth of March. Now, what am I going
Speaker 1: to do for Valentine's Day? Jan The officially stated reason
Speaker 1: for the delay is to allow the team to better
Speaker 1: incorporate the player feedback gathered over the past three months
Speaker 1: and help create the best conditions to launch. Let's hope
Speaker 1: that means feedback from actual players and not those who
Speaker 1: keep complaining about the game being woke because it's of
Speaker 1: its playable characters. Another interesting thing in the press release
Speaker 1: is that Ubisoft also acknowledged that the company might be
Speaker 1: sold off to interested parties. Leading advisors have been appointed
Speaker 1: to review and pursue various transformational and strategic capitalistic options
Speaker 1: to extract the best value for stakeholders. And yes that's
Speaker 1: a quote from Yu's GIMIL. One of the negative consequences
Speaker 1: of this is that they were told that they are
Speaker 1: expecting to exceed two hundred million euro consequences of this
Speaker 1: in what the is that there were oh, no excuse me,
Speaker 1: in reduction of its fixed cost base. Basically, they're going
Speaker 1: to cut two hundred million euros worth of cost, which
Speaker 1: almost certainly means jobs. Jobs. Yes, I mean and you
Speaker 1: look at you be soft by the numbers they employ
Speaker 1: ooh and they make and so like this has always
Speaker 1: felt inevitable, and part of me is for as much
Speaker 1: of a trash fire that as you be soft is.
Speaker 1: Part of me is a little bit like happy that
Speaker 1: they have found ways to put off the massive layoffs
Speaker 1: the real and they've had big layoffs, but they still
Speaker 1: are nowhere near as lean as a lot of the
Speaker 1: other companies that they're competing against. UH and it feels
Speaker 1: like that's just going to break now and here it is,
Speaker 1: and again inevitable. They put it off for as long
Speaker 1: as they cook. They wanted to keep making games. They
Speaker 1: were the way they were gonna make. Uh and no,
Speaker 1: but hey, at least Eves Gamo might still be in charge.
Speaker 1: Jan Okay, let's talk about Shadows first, though. How you
Speaker 1: feel about a little bit of a delay.
Speaker 3: There, you know, I think ultimately it's going to be
Speaker 3: for the best for Shadows because that February window is
Speaker 3: already looking very very populated. The Monster Hunter audience isn't
Speaker 3: necessarily the same audience or the Avowed audience even isn't
Speaker 3: the same type of gamers that are going to flock
Speaker 3: to Assassin's Creed Shadows. But I still think it'll be
Speaker 3: best because Monster Hunter Wilds is bound to pick up
Speaker 3: a lot of mainstream hype, especially after how well World's
Speaker 3: performed Avowed. I think folks are going to go to
Speaker 3: it despite having zero marketing or zero hype for it.
Speaker 3: I forgot it was coming out next month.
Speaker 1: It's almost like, and it's weird. It's not gonna be
Speaker 1: in the developer direct but yeah, yeah, keep going.
Speaker 3: Right, oh geez, and then it's probably gonna be the
Speaker 3: best for Assassin's Creed to get out of those other
Speaker 3: big two games. I believe there's like at least two more, right, yes, yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 3: like A Dragon.
Speaker 1: Pirate, Yakuza in Hawaii, Right, incredible name.
Speaker 3: I love that team to get out of the way
Speaker 3: of that as well. Again, even though those audiences may
Speaker 3: not be similar, like A Dragon is still picking up
Speaker 3: a lot of mainstream popularity that.
Speaker 2: Maybe people are a little.
Speaker 3: Bit tired of the Ubisoft name, tired of Assassin's Creed,
Speaker 3: thinking that it may not be like a new fun thing.
Speaker 3: So getting out of that window when there are other
Speaker 3: new games could be good. But I believe they're also
Speaker 3: now going up against these Zeno Blade Chronicles re release.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're not gonna be able to avoid everything, right,
Speaker 1: and it's like and they also don't want to go
Speaker 1: into the next fiscal year, which is why March twentieth
Speaker 1: is the release date, basically essentially the last day they
Speaker 1: could release it before the end of the fiscal year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's probably maybe another Tuesday. I think that's maybe a
Speaker 1: Tuesday that they could release it on before the end there,
Speaker 1: like the March twenty seventh, But I think they want
Speaker 1: to give it like a full week of sales at
Speaker 1: least in the fiscal year, and that means okay, March twentieth,
Speaker 1: and so it's like, Okay, we got to look around
Speaker 1: and yeah, there's other games coming out, but it's a
Speaker 1: little bit lighter than it was in February. Now you
Speaker 1: say that, but it's like a lot of those games
Speaker 1: that people are buying in February are big, beefy games
Speaker 1: they're likely still to be playing in. I mean, especially
Speaker 1: Monster Hunter, but who knows about a vowed and like
Speaker 1: a Dragon. I know it's going to be a side story,
Speaker 1: but those games traditionally have still been pretty beefy. People
Speaker 1: might still be busy and not ready yeah for this
Speaker 1: game still, but you know, it's maybe still better than
Speaker 1: just being in the Maelstrom. Now on the other side
Speaker 1: of it, them wanting to maybe like put this off
Speaker 1: because they're exploring strategic options and capitalistic options. That is
Speaker 1: sounds like, hey, we want to try to make a
Speaker 1: deal before this game comes out. And I've said this,
Speaker 1: I said this on the Blue Sky a little bit,
Speaker 1: but it seems to me that they're saying that we
Speaker 1: want to make a deal with someone like a ten
Speaker 1: cent or whoever before this game comes out, because we
Speaker 1: are we have a little bit more leverage in that case.
Speaker 1: Once it's out, whoever we're talking to, we'll just know
Speaker 1: what we are, know what we have, and we won't
Speaker 1: be able to sort of say, but hey, sure this
Speaker 1: is what we're doing. But we still have that coming.
Speaker 1: There's no real we still have that coming. After this
Speaker 1: game comes out. For Ubisoft, they have to reload and
Speaker 1: there's nothing going to be quite as big for them
Speaker 1: and maybe a couple of years. So it sounds like
Speaker 1: they're just trying to solidify and finalize whatever conversations they've
Speaker 1: been having, likely with Tencent. We'll talk about this more
Speaker 1: here in a second, before this game comes out. So
Speaker 1: it's like they're gonna give this game a little extra
Speaker 1: time and try to give themselves a little extra time
Speaker 1: to make a deal. Ubiself just continues to feel like
Speaker 1: it is, you know, spinning in every direction right.
Speaker 3: I can't help it's a grub I'm not a business man.
Speaker 3: I'm a business damn Sorry. It seems like there is
Speaker 3: one common denominator here despite all of Ubisoft's efforts, and
Speaker 3: after they've laid off people, several people, massive chunks of
Speaker 3: the team and remained lean and game after game and
Speaker 3: effort after effort not quite sticking the landing. Maybe the
Speaker 3: problem is they are very very top heavy, yes, yep.
Speaker 3: And maybe the capitalistic whatever efforts is perhaps the lack
Speaker 3: of effort to adapt from the tippy top.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think that this top down strategy they had.
Speaker 1: I remember a what was the Grub Snacks The Grub
Speaker 1: Snacks Show to do. There was an episode where we
Speaker 1: talked about you Be Soft and sort of its strategy
Speaker 1: of shifting from having these big blueprint games, which is, hey,
Speaker 1: we're going to make we have a way that we
Speaker 1: make a game. We have way we make a far Cry,
Speaker 1: we have a way that we make an Assassin's Creed
Speaker 1: and a Ghost Recon, and we are going to stick
Speaker 1: to that formula, that blueprint, and we're going to make
Speaker 1: big Triple A games using that blueprint for years. And
Speaker 1: then they switched to, Okay, we're gonna have this mothership
Speaker 1: strategy where it is we have these big games that
Speaker 1: sort of have their own orbit, these massive ones similar
Speaker 1: to Rainbow six Siege, and then we'll have smaller games
Speaker 1: around it that sort of play on that theme like
Speaker 1: Rainbow six extraction and when and everyone's going, wait, what
Speaker 1: was it Rainbow six extraction And that's, you know, a
Speaker 1: very good example of why that wasn't going to work
Speaker 1: and hasn't worked. And they're kind of like shifting back
Speaker 1: to the blueprint strategy a little bit. These are like
Speaker 1: big brain ideas of like how we're going to take
Speaker 1: Ubisoft into the future, and they're not. It doesn't feel
Speaker 1: led by the creative teams that work at you'd be stopped.
Speaker 1: A lot of great creative people do work there, and
Speaker 1: I think that that speaks to what you're talking about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think in any of our criticism, Grub, I
Speaker 3: don't think it has really been levied at the folks
Speaker 3: the developer side of things. That has primarily been at management, right,
Speaker 3: And I just think you Bisoft had such a cult
Speaker 3: hit like Rainbow six Siege and never really in my eyes,
Speaker 3: really capitalized off of it where they could have easily
Speaker 3: spun that out in maybe not to something at Fortnite
Speaker 3: caliber of levels, but like at least trying to capture
Speaker 3: like the Overwatch style of hype, because it is like
Speaker 3: a team v team type of game. Also, it's just insane,
Speaker 3: Grub how they fumbled the bag so hard with Prince
Speaker 3: of Persia as well. Where's Splinter said, well, where is
Speaker 3: Rayman grub Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean, and I think it's kind of thing where
Speaker 1: it's like, hey, they let they let a team that
Speaker 1: was sick of a group of people within UBI stuff
Speaker 1: that was sick of working on Assassin's Screed games go
Speaker 1: work on Prince of Persia, and boy, look at what
Speaker 1: they could do.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: When that when they were able to just like sort
Speaker 1: of spread their wings and do their thing. Uh, And
Speaker 1: Ubisoft didn't support them, didn't know what to do with them,
Speaker 1: didn't know what to do with that game. And all
Speaker 1: of the successes for that game can be credited to
Speaker 1: the people working on it directly. All of the failures
Speaker 1: of that game can be credited to everyone above them.
Speaker 1: And it's just this stark contrast. This this like very
Speaker 1: good illustration of everything wrong with Ubisoft. And you know,
Speaker 1: now they have so much writing on Assassin's Creed Shadows,
Speaker 1: a game that could do very well or could just
Speaker 1: crash and burn. Feels like there's no in between. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I don't endy them being in this position. They
Speaker 1: were victims a little bit of their own success. You
Speaker 1: know Whenchep pointed out that the blueprint format of making
Speaker 1: games in this style for Far Cry and Assassin's Creed
Speaker 1: worked for a very long time, a very long time,
Speaker 1: and so that's when and then they're like starting to
Speaker 1: see the right ingw on the wall that they couldn't
Speaker 1: do it forever. That is why they tried to switch
Speaker 1: to the mothership strategy. I get a weird name, but
Speaker 1: it was like the blueprint strategy did come from. Hey,
Speaker 1: there was some creative people working on Assassin's Creed that
Speaker 1: came up with some really cool ideas. They wanted to
Speaker 1: make this game. They were dead set on making this game.
Speaker 1: And then you had some new creative people who are like,
Speaker 1: now we're going to make Assassin's Creed too, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna make it even better, a better video game, just
Speaker 1: a video game, ass video game. And then that's going
Speaker 1: to set us up for a long time. All that
Speaker 1: stuff was driven by the creatives, and I just don't
Speaker 1: think you'd be soft has that operating at this moment.
Speaker 2: No, not at all.
Speaker 3: Grub Also, unfortunately, there's the public opinion as well. Whenever
Speaker 3: a triple a Ubisoft game comes out, gamers and players
Speaker 3: will just wait for that eventually go on sale, even
Speaker 3: maybe like a month later.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they'll wait or they just won't even
Speaker 1: want to play it at all because it's Ubi Soft.
Speaker 1: There's too there's those two groups and they're equally loud
Speaker 1: to the groups that's like, I'm gonna wait till this
Speaker 1: thing is twenty five bucks, and then there's a group
Speaker 1: that's like, it's Ubisoft. I don't want ub slop.
Speaker 3: Right Yeah, And unfortunately, I'm hoping that they drop some
Speaker 3: of the you play stuff and just release things on Steam.
Speaker 1: Because they did say that that hasn't started yet, but
Speaker 1: they've said that they've been going forward they will begin
Speaker 1: doing that because it has been not successful.
Speaker 3: Right God, And like the problem is, I feel like
Speaker 3: a lot of people that have their criticisms against Ubi
Speaker 3: Soft Shadows, whether they're warranted or not, will still eventually
Speaker 3: pick it up, but they will one hundred percent wait
Speaker 3: for that game to go on sale a month if
Speaker 3: not six months down the line, or wait till the
Speaker 3: holiday season. Because, like I believe, there was a pretty
Speaker 3: not big, but a sizable bump Star Wars Outlaws during
Speaker 3: the holiday season.
Speaker 2: It had better because it was on.
Speaker 3: Sale because all that extra work had been done to
Speaker 3: kind of streamline loud about it.
Speaker 1: Yep, yep, very good point. Yeah, just real quick. Ubisoft
Speaker 1: was asked about the ten cent rumors and has been
Speaker 1: very quiet about them, So that probably is what's happening. Probably,
Speaker 1: and they, you know, they're in that silent period where
Speaker 1: they can't legally say In many regions, they can't say
Speaker 1: anything because they would affect the stock prices of both companies.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I wouldn't be surprised to find something has
Speaker 1: happened here pretty soon the next couple of weeks before
Speaker 1: March twentieth, unless it falls apart, we'll see. Uh okay,
Speaker 1: Nintendo and Lego are collaborating on a new game Boy set.
Speaker 1: This is from Ali Reynolds at Nintendo Life. Nintendo has
Speaker 1: announced that it is collaborating with Lego to launch a
Speaker 1: brand new set based on the classic game Boy handheld,
Speaker 1: currently scheduled to launch in October twenty twenty five. The
Speaker 1: set follows on from the Lego NYS set that the
Speaker 1: companies launched back in twenty twenty. Presumably, however, it probably
Speaker 1: won't be quite so ludicrously ludicrously expensive, but we'll see
Speaker 1: you never know. Further details have not been announced to
Speaker 1: this time. They've basically just said this is happening in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five and that's it. I'm not really great,
Speaker 1: a great any great images of it, no price, nothing
Speaker 1: like that. So we'll have to wait for all those details.
Speaker 1: But in the meantime, Jen, I'm I'm excited about this.
Speaker 1: I'm glad that they're continuing this partnership because I like
Speaker 1: that in any set. Even though I never ended up buying.
Speaker 2: It, I hate this, Grub. I have no money right now.
Speaker 2: That's why I want one, and I want this. I
Speaker 2: thought i'd be.
Speaker 3: I thought i'd be impervious to all of these stuff
Speaker 3: because like I saw that this thing. I saw that
Speaker 3: there's like a Lego Xbox. I'm like, oh, that's really cool. Well,
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna pick it up. But then they're going
Speaker 3: to do these handhilds, Grub. Yeah, these handhelds your boy
Speaker 3: loves and I just want to pick up a Lego
Speaker 3: game Boy.
Speaker 2: That sounds so cool, Grub.
Speaker 1: It's wild that they're like they hand the nes and
Speaker 1: just a few years later they made the game Boy.
Speaker 1: That's I mean, I know that they had been making
Speaker 1: the handhelds of like the game and watches and stuff
Speaker 1: like that before the NES. Even still in my mind
Speaker 1: it's like man making a dedicated cartridge based console handheld
Speaker 1: right after the NES and like now ever since it's
Speaker 1: just been handheld and a consolant all the switch which
Speaker 1: is which is both? Uh, boy, they got started early on.
Speaker 2: That, you know.
Speaker 3: The best part, grub is that the best and worst part.
Speaker 3: I've been fairly quiet about this. Uh. The best part
Speaker 3: is whenever they Nintendo or not Nintendo, Lego makes one
Speaker 3: of these fun sets specific like the NEYS one, this
Speaker 3: upcoming game Boy set, And if you look at any
Speaker 3: of their plant based not Lego's made out of plants,
Speaker 3: but they're they're like bouquet stuff. They're all pre existing
Speaker 3: Lego parts that have just been collared a different way.
Speaker 3: So if y'all want to, uh, just wait a bit,
Speaker 3: y'all can look at the Lego game Boy set that
Speaker 3: drops and you can get all the different pieces and
Speaker 3: order those piecemeal in a different caller, so you can
Speaker 3: get ahead of the game and get your purple game Boy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's like the price per Lego is like
Speaker 1: for a generic Lego is like seven cents eight cents
Speaker 1: maybe now, and then if it's licensed, if it's like
Speaker 1: related to a property, it's like eleven cents, right, And
Speaker 1: that adds up very quickly when we're talking about one
Speaker 1: thousand plus pieces.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'll be right back, rub I need to
Speaker 3: show people this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, please, absolutely all right, he's going to go get
Speaker 1: a show and tell I am. I'm glad they're they're
Speaker 1: doing this. I hope they continue to do it. This
Speaker 1: is probably one I will pick up myself. I also
Speaker 1: have just vast fondness for the original game Boy, the toaster,
Speaker 1: the DMG, the Dot Matrix gaming device. So I am
Speaker 1: definitely going to be picking this up, and then I
Speaker 1: hope they continue to go through with the follow up.
Speaker 1: I would love a game Boy Advanced one. A game
Speaker 1: Boy Advanced sp an En sixty four Lego one would
Speaker 1: almost certainly be something that I would make as well.
Speaker 1: Janis back, Okay, yeah, he's got the plant based lego.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 3: For folks at home watching the audio, I have the
Speaker 3: Birds of Paradise set in front of me.
Speaker 2: Botanical that's what That's what it was is.
Speaker 3: The fun thing is like this has the lego dirt
Speaker 3: in the pot and that's just a bunch of loose
Speaker 3: statt puns.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I just saw it as you were saying,
Speaker 1: And that's crazy.
Speaker 3: But like the birds of Paradise here, if you look
Speaker 3: like these are, this pointy part is just like what
Speaker 3: I believe was a walkie talkie from like a Star
Speaker 3: Wars set a couple of years ago. But also another
Speaker 3: part of their botanical collection is like one of these roses.
Speaker 3: They had three different designs for the roses here, and
Speaker 3: if you look on the inside, that is Indiana Jones's whip,
Speaker 3: but it's been colored red.
Speaker 1: That's amazing. Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So hey, folks at home, if you want to save
Speaker 3: a little little bit of change, you know, just wait
Speaker 3: for someone to drop the part set and then just
Speaker 3: order it from there.
Speaker 1: And yeah, that's and that's something that does happen in
Speaker 1: the community, right though the people people have frequently done
Speaker 1: that before.
Speaker 2: Yeah, those freaks do that.
Speaker 1: I love those freaks.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Let's see here, last story, I have half life three
Speaker 1: fans think they finally found proof quote unquote that the
Speaker 1: game is coming. This is from Alex Hopley, a game reactor,
Speaker 1: and we've got folks who are down bad Jan, Let's
Speaker 1: help him out here. We've seen a fair few Half
Speaker 1: Life three rumors over the past few weeks. Now, while
Speaker 1: the game's existence has become more of a myth than
Speaker 1: anything else in the decades since the how since Half
Speaker 1: Life twos release, there is fresh belief that something is coming.
Speaker 1: And I will admit I am a believer, so I'm
Speaker 1: right there with these folks. I believe something's happening. But
Speaker 1: when you see stories like this, you got to be like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, are we all losing our mind now?
Speaker 1: As spied by eagle Eyed fans on the Valve Reddit,
Speaker 1: thanks to Eurogamer for spotting that, it appears that within
Speaker 1: steams back end, there are two games by Valve listed
Speaker 1: as upcoming. One is the hero shooter Deadlock, while the
Speaker 1: other is invisible. And I think there were rumors a
Speaker 1: few weeks back that there was a like friends and
Speaker 1: family test happening with this mystery game. Despite Valve's upcoming
Speaker 1: release section having two games, the second is nowhere to
Speaker 1: be seen. It's completely hidden. Well, this doesn't prove Half
Speaker 1: Life three's existence, It certainly does not. It doesn't disprove
Speaker 1: it either, which is all the excuse Valve fans need
Speaker 1: to go wild with conspiracy theories once more. Yeah, Jane,
Speaker 1: I don't know where you're at with all this. Does
Speaker 1: this sound crazy to you?
Speaker 2: You know what?
Speaker 3: I just let the half Life freaks get what they want.
Speaker 3: They've been waiting for so long grub. Yeah, And it's
Speaker 3: one of those things where I feel bad that we've
Speaker 3: had so many switch to rumors. And we'll eventually get
Speaker 3: the answers very soon. We're going to and then you
Speaker 3: know what, the Talent Hill freaks they got something last year, right,
Speaker 3: The half Life people need something.
Speaker 1: It's you know, Mike says this, Everything comes back eventually,
Speaker 1: especially something this large, this huge, that's important, And yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's happening. Is that Is that the game
Speaker 1: that is in the back end that's being tested right now?
Speaker 1: You know what? I think so? I think so. But
Speaker 1: this is certainly not proof of anything. We'll we'll see, boy,
Speaker 1: we will see here pretty soon. Okay, we got the
Speaker 1: Internet's Mike Minatti.
Speaker 3: I don't think he knows it's Do you think he's
Speaker 3: just here for the BCR. I think he's here for BCR.
Speaker 3: Let's find out it's true. Okay, Well, we're still doing
Speaker 3: gay mess I.
Speaker 4: Thought you might be. And I saw Mitch come in
Speaker 4: here and I was like, oh, it must be over.
Speaker 4: Thanks Mitch, and show myself out. They got a showed
Speaker 4: to new Mitch.
Speaker 1: Thank you Dan Ryk here for being so considerate.
Speaker 2: Mike still hasn't left.
Speaker 1: Let's yeah, you can just hang out bye. All right,
Speaker 1: let's do the poll question from Uh, let's see it
Speaker 1: was a Wednesday, it was post it. Okay, let's not
Speaker 1: do the pull question. Then what was this? What do
Speaker 1: we yeah? What do we do? This one?
Speaker 2: This?
Speaker 1: Do you like the idea of using a switch to
Speaker 1: a joy con as a mouse? I don't remember if
Speaker 1: we did this one? Was that from how many episodes
Speaker 1: we do this week? We did that? And then ye yesterday? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that was from earlier this week. Uh. Still
Speaker 1: I'm in the minority on that one. I remember that.
Speaker 1: Now forty three said yes, okay, so we'll do we'll
Speaker 1: double up on the poll questions, the new one that
Speaker 1: we'll get posted here. That will be doubling up on
Speaker 1: for Monday. That's not Martin Luther King Junior Day. That's
Speaker 1: the following week, right, So yeah, for Monday, are you
Speaker 1: more likely to play Assassin's Creed Shadows with its new
Speaker 1: March release date. Yes or no. You know, even if
Speaker 1: it's like no, I'm gonna was gonna play it, just
Speaker 1: like I was gonna play before, that's still a no.
Speaker 1: So just yes or no. We'll get that up and
Speaker 1: you guys can vote for that on the giant Bomb
Speaker 1: page on YouTube. Go to YouTube dot com slash at
Speaker 1: giant Bomb. There's a community tab there. Click on that
Speaker 1: that'll get you there. You can vote on that. We'll
Speaker 1: get the results. We'll discuss them on games Morning's here
Speaker 1: on giant Bomb. Speaking a Giant Bomb, we are going
Speaker 1: to be doing a BCR here pretty soon. We got
Speaker 1: some fun stuff happening with that. We'll have a voicemail
Speaker 1: dump truck after that, we'll have a UPF after that.
Speaker 1: It's a busy Friday. We're gonna make up for a
Speaker 1: lack of stuff yesterday. So hang out with this all
Speaker 1: day to day. It's gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Anything else that we should mention, jan.
Speaker 3: I hope, like we said at the tip top, I
Speaker 3: hope everyone affected by the LA fires is doing okay.
Speaker 3: I woke up to an earthquake today and almost pooped
Speaker 3: to my pants.
Speaker 1: There you go. Everyone in California's being punished or something, so.
Speaker 2: Sorry for being so hot.
Speaker 1: It's just because they're too hot. And and God is
Speaker 1: punishing you for it. Uh yep, with thoughts with everybody
Speaker 1: in La and uh and and now apparently the earthquake
Speaker 1: people in San Francisco.
Speaker 2: Okay, do not pity us.
Speaker 1: Alright, fair enough, all right, I think that's gonna do
Speaker 1: it Forst. Janet show. And thank you so much for
Speaker 1: hanging out with me today and talk about video games. Man,
Speaker 1: I super appreciate it. Drugs mate, thank you everybody for
Speaker 1: watching and listening. You're the best audience in gaming. Until
Speaker 1: next time, have a good one, take care of yourself
Speaker 1: and goodbye.