Speaker 1: He'll be like, go'll be bed.
Speaker 2: It's the internet, you're busy. Let's do this for September sixth,
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. For the next hour or so, let
Speaker 2: me help you sort through the world of gaming on
Speaker 2: Games Mornings Live with Me Jeff Grubb. Today, did Sony
Speaker 2: just reveal the PS five pro design?
Speaker 3: And what if.
Speaker 2: Potato just announces a new switch one in September instead?
Speaker 2: But first please join me and welcoming today's co host,
Speaker 2: the Game mess Mornings.
Speaker 1: It's two more. Who's saying, everybody, dam how are you doing?
Speaker 3: I thought you were gonna say, is COVID you're busy?
Speaker 3: Or is COVID you're sick? Let's do this? Yes, I
Speaker 3: I would have been pretty funny.
Speaker 2: Feeling better than a little worse than sneezing a bunch
Speaker 2: than feeling better.
Speaker 1: And then I have the Tommy Rumbles this morning.
Speaker 3: Are you on the gaba Gaba? Pinton? What was it?
Speaker 3: What's the other one called pa pack? Slovan Paslov?
Speaker 1: I'm not on packs.
Speaker 3: I'm taking.
Speaker 2: I have not felt bad enough to like seek medical
Speaker 2: attention about this yet, so I'm just kind of right.
Speaker 2: I'm raw dog in COVID, you know, it's I feel
Speaker 2: like the booster did its job. I haven't gotten that
Speaker 2: latest one, but I've got the one before that and
Speaker 2: all the ones before that, and it feels it feels
Speaker 2: like that did a lot of the work there on this.
Speaker 2: You know, sometimes you just get a mild case. Sometimes
Speaker 2: you don't, and this is a relatively mild case. I'm
Speaker 2: hoping things clear up because I got a trip coming
Speaker 2: up I don't want to miss.
Speaker 1: But it's it's looking pretty shaky at the moment.
Speaker 3: Is this your first time?
Speaker 1: It's my first time I'm getting COVID?
Speaker 3: Yeah, do you think?
Speaker 1: Do you think the palace transferred? Now?
Speaker 2: I'm going to get it five times in a row,
Speaker 2: and you you won't get it for four years.
Speaker 3: I'm still the five time COVID. And you know I
Speaker 3: treat that as if you know, I am a wrestler
Speaker 3: in the yeah, right times. I wait for them, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I wait for them the weakest moments and then suddenly
Speaker 3: kick a door in and a pit and I'm like
Speaker 3: punching them, and I'm like, no, I'm still the five
Speaker 3: time COVID. Hemp's beautiful.
Speaker 1: Yeah you threaten COVID's wife.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely exactly.
Speaker 1: It's just the way wrestler does it.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I'm feeling Okay, I definitely like in the
Speaker 2: middle of the day need a little bit more rest
Speaker 2: than normal.
Speaker 1: It's kind of how it's going right now.
Speaker 3: You know what these days I have I am now
Speaker 3: encouraging people to take naps. Yeah, unfortunately I'm not able
Speaker 3: to take naps, but I've seen the impact that naps
Speaker 3: can have people for people who can, Like I've just
Speaker 3: seen people take naps and like it changes the way
Speaker 3: they are on a day to day basis.
Speaker 1: Why can't you nap?
Speaker 3: Is it? It just doesn't just sleep problems?
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, sure, yes, I the nappy things changed my game.
Speaker 2: I've thought we talk about this all the time, but
Speaker 2: the caffeine naps where it's like I'll drink a couple
Speaker 2: of shots of espresso and you know, everyone whatever you
Speaker 2: got to do, but you know, you don't have to
Speaker 2: do the caffeine. But like laying down and not expecting
Speaker 2: myself to fall asleep, just saying it's okay to rest
Speaker 2: my eyes. That that changed it because it's like just
Speaker 2: fifteen minutes to twenty five minutes, no longer than that.
Speaker 2: If I do fall asleep, whatever. If I don't whatever,
Speaker 2: it's okay. This is about resting, and that has helped
Speaker 2: a lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like people Obviously, when we lived in
Speaker 3: a WARLD where everyone had to go into the office,
Speaker 3: we were it was difficult to do that. Having said that,
Speaker 3: when I used to work in the UK, my my
Speaker 3: and my sleep was still bad. I could nap, so
Speaker 3: I would end up napping during the day in the office.
Speaker 3: And obviously, like the good friends they are good friends
Speaker 3: and colleagues there, everyone used to take fucking pictures of
Speaker 3: me and post them on the Internet. Yeah, of course
Speaker 3: I'd expect that from uh like can Dave Jewett from
Speaker 3: Lucy James?
Speaker 1: Right, Lucy James should should be better disgusting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but now I'm just like, oh, we live in
Speaker 3: a world where you can nap. You can nap, and
Speaker 3: you know what, your employees have taken the piss every
Speaker 3: moment with you, Like it's fine for you to take
Speaker 3: twenty minute nap.
Speaker 1: Parent put is getting done. Is how I've always looked
Speaker 1: at it.
Speaker 3: If someone I manage message me and was like, Yo,
Speaker 3: I'm going for a nap, I would be.
Speaker 1: Like, hell, yeah, bro, yeah fuck go do you can
Speaker 1: go do it do it. It's like it really is
Speaker 1: for me.
Speaker 2: It's I don't care about anything that happens between starting
Speaker 2: the task and the task getting completed when it's supposed
Speaker 2: to be completed.
Speaker 1: Whatever happens in between there, that's your.
Speaker 3: Business, your problem. Yeah, it's a problem.
Speaker 1: That's you. It's your it's your realm.
Speaker 2: You own it. Do what you need to do in there.
Speaker 2: That's a nap. That's what I don't give us.
Speaker 3: That is how I operate as a manager, Like I'll
Speaker 3: tell you when this needs to be done ideally because
Speaker 3: stuff like reviews, I'm like, hey, this is when I
Speaker 3: would like it to be done. But I know how
Speaker 3: it's how difficult it can be. So if you're reaching
Speaker 3: this period and you don't think you're gonna make it,
Speaker 3: just let me know and we'll figure it out. But
Speaker 3: in all of the cases, it's like I'm gonna tell
Speaker 3: you what it's done in between that, go well, do
Speaker 3: what you need you to do, and just make sure
Speaker 3: you're paying attention to like various other things that could
Speaker 3: pop up, because if it's like, oh great, but then
Speaker 3: you know, a new story breaks and everyone's sleeping, be
Speaker 3: like what.
Speaker 2: Ideally not everyone napping at the same time. We don't
Speaker 2: have any company nap time yet.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: I did see the headliner at it.
Speaker 2: Not gonna including the stories here, but uh, the Yakuza team,
Speaker 2: the like a Dragon Team's like, we're going to continue
Speaker 2: focusing on the problems of middle aged men, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: I think that's what this podcast is. Kind of turned
Speaker 2: it into a little bit like we're talking about our
Speaker 2: health and napping and things like that Fridays, especially.
Speaker 1: Me, and you were just like, yeah, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: I h I did.
Speaker 2: I'm down in the two thirties for the first time
Speaker 2: in a couple of years, and uh, you know, obviously
Speaker 2: I'm I did get on the ozampic.
Speaker 1: I talked about that.
Speaker 2: Uh so you want it, Yeah, I got on it.
Speaker 2: I did one of the the you know, one of
Speaker 2: those subscription companies, you know they have you talk to
Speaker 2: a doctor through the telehealth stuff like that, and they
Speaker 2: send it out and I do it one shot in
Speaker 2: the tummy per week, and it's made a huge difference.
Speaker 1: It really happened.
Speaker 3: How long was it before I kicked in.
Speaker 1: For you, I mean it was essentially immediate, like within
Speaker 1: the first day or two.
Speaker 2: Now, that was like I was also feeling some of
Speaker 2: the side effects early on of like a little bit
Speaker 2: increased heartburn and things like that. That is all subsided,
Speaker 2: and now now I'm like, it's weird. So I'm like,
Speaker 2: I don't know if this is working. And then I'll
Speaker 2: try to eat and I'll take four bites and oh, okay,
Speaker 2: I'm already full. Uh yeah, that it's got After a
Speaker 2: life of just consuming everything in front of me like
Speaker 2: it is the last me I'm going to have, it
Speaker 2: is a relief to kind of be this way.
Speaker 1: So it's real nice.
Speaker 2: Uh but yeah, I mean ship works. Uh, it's it's
Speaker 2: out there. I can't recommended enough. Again, no medical professional here,
Speaker 2: but uh, talk to your doctor about it.
Speaker 1: I did. I say that. I talked to my doctor
Speaker 1: about it and they were no help at all. They
Speaker 1: stalked us.
Speaker 3: I never help. How do we get how do we
Speaker 3: do that?
Speaker 1: I know?
Speaker 2: I was like, uh, yeah, I went to hymns and
Speaker 2: him should get cut the check for real?
Speaker 3: Actually does zem pic?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, they do it.
Speaker 2: It's you know, it's somebody, Yeah, yes, they right, it's
Speaker 2: their own that's yes.
Speaker 1: So yeah, why don't your companies started doing it? Actually?
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's out there across the board thing.
Speaker 2: All right, let's explain what we do here most weekdays, I,
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Speaker 2: Uh all right, we have a lot to get to
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Speaker 2: I did mention I'm using the other do go accelerate
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Speaker 1: After this episode, let me know how the audio sounds.
Speaker 2: If it sounds weird at all, if there's any sort
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Speaker 3: I appreciate so far sounding crispy good.
Speaker 2: I think it's sounding pretty good. But I just want
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Speaker 2: some point, all right. Sony shares its plans for PlayStation's
Speaker 2: thirtieth anniversary. This is from Blair Marnell at game spot
Speaker 2: On December third, nineteen ninety four, Sony launched the original
Speaker 2: PlayStation in Japan and change the video game industry forever.
Speaker 2: American gamers didn't get their hands on PlayStation until September
Speaker 2: ninth and nineteen ninety five. But Sony's not going to
Speaker 2: make us wait another year to start the celebration of
Speaker 2: PlayStation's thirtieth anniversary.
Speaker 3: Can we get a round of applus PlayStation?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well done? They did it. They didn't they didn't die.
Speaker 1: They made it.
Speaker 3: They did it.
Speaker 1: If you make it this party, the.
Speaker 2: Math is like, you're probably going to make it the
Speaker 2: sixty So yeah, got got chab good, well done. But
Speaker 2: from October to the end of January, Sony Music will
Speaker 2: release classic PlayStation game scores on Spotify and digital music storefronts.
Speaker 1: The should have done that a while ago.
Speaker 2: The confirmed titles include God of War, God of War two,
Speaker 2: God of War, Chains of Sparta, Twisted Metal, Starhawk, and
Speaker 2: Unit thirteen, a free trial version. I don't know what
Speaker 2: Unit thirteen. It is I didn't want to I didn't
Speaker 2: want to be spa. That's isn't that one of the Wait?
Speaker 2: Is that not one of the PSP ones?
Speaker 3: Oh no, that's ghost as far that's Ghost Spartan.
Speaker 1: What's the other one? Wasn't what?
Speaker 3: There was the Chains of Olympus, Chains of Olympus right?
Speaker 3: I will not have my part of war games miss named?
Speaker 1: Did you think?
Speaker 2: Do you think this is an album? That's the name
Speaker 2: for the music from both the games? Yeah, that's only
Speaker 2: or this is a TYPEO from Blair Marnow and we
Speaker 2: got on games.
Speaker 3: Dot com dot com. Yep, I'm gonna I'm gonna be
Speaker 3: fucking get my Chains of Olympus out.
Speaker 2: A free trial version of Grand Christmas seven called My
Speaker 2: First GT will also be released.
Speaker 1: That's pretty neat.
Speaker 2: Sony hasn't set a date for the trial yet, but
Speaker 2: it will be released this holiday season for PlayStation four
Speaker 2: and PlayStation five users, with some of the fan favorite
Speaker 2: cars tracks and more from Grand Trismos seven. Sports gaming
Speaker 2: enthusiast should take note that September twenty first to twenty
Speaker 2: second will be a free online multiplayer weekend for multiple
Speaker 2: sports tournaments for games like Madden mL and will be
Speaker 2: the show NBA two K twenty five, NBA two K
Speaker 2: twenty four as well, and even fighting games like tech
Speaker 2: and eight, Guilty Year, STRIVEE and EA UFC five. I
Speaker 2: don't know if you e a UFC five gets the
Speaker 2: benefit of being with tech in instead of the sports games.
Speaker 2: You won't need a paid PlayStation plus membership to compete
Speaker 2: in PlayStation thirtieth Anniversary Themed Avatar for these themed avatars
Speaker 2: and other prizes, but you will need a copy of
Speaker 2: the previously mentioned titles. This is just the beginning, as
Speaker 2: additional plants for PlayStation's thirtieth anniversary will be announced at
Speaker 2: a later time. They had like like a board game,
Speaker 2: dam I don't.
Speaker 1: I mean, I didn't really see the details of how
Speaker 1: it works. But there's and there's also like.
Speaker 2: This little little toy set that is the face buttons,
Speaker 2: the PlayStation symbols that come apart in their magnets and
Speaker 2: you can piece them together in different ways, and like
Speaker 2: it looks like a cool.
Speaker 3: Little I know, how do they work.
Speaker 2: They're like they look like a cool little desk toy
Speaker 2: and stuff like that. But I don't what do you
Speaker 2: want from a PlayStation thirtieth anniversary, because I would.
Speaker 3: Like them to release Bloodborne in a playable capacity. That
Speaker 3: is what I would like from play station thirtieth anniversary.
Speaker 3: Oh your fuck, how old you are? Do the one
Speaker 3: thing that people want from you? What is all this
Speaker 3: guff fucking ghosts of SPAA, chains of Olympus soundtrack? Ain't
Speaker 3: nobody want that?
Speaker 1: I don't know people want.
Speaker 3: They want Bloodborn on PC, or they went after my
Speaker 3: for PlayStation. I don't give a show about that. Fucking
Speaker 3: I don't want to know. Wallpaper for my not your
Speaker 3: twenty two thirty or whatever the fuck the shares that
Speaker 3: would be pretty cool, But a new controller would be
Speaker 3: pretty cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, Yes, I think there's those drug chance
Speaker 2: we get a themed controller. They sell a lot of
Speaker 2: those things. They'll price slaps my style paint on there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, here's what they should do. They should take a
Speaker 3: queue from astrobart and do like a thirtieth anniversary controller
Speaker 3: series where it's like control a series of controllers or
Speaker 3: a collection of controllers that are based on like iconic
Speaker 3: like landmark PlayStation rains.
Speaker 2: Do you like the like a very handsome, sort of upscale,
Speaker 2: up class version of those right where it's like it's
Speaker 2: not doesn't it's not plastered with the name of Twisted Metal,
Speaker 2: but it's suggests twisted metal.
Speaker 3: Right yeah. Yeah, So you have like a God of
Speaker 3: War themed one. I'm sure they have these already for
Speaker 3: a bunch of them.
Speaker 1: But there's a team there that just designed ship like
Speaker 1: that out all the time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but like do that and you know have like
Speaker 3: a oh here's a we worked with Naughty Dog to
Speaker 3: do an uncharted one, or like has A has a
Speaker 3: PlayStation two themed one, and here is a bloodborn controller.
Speaker 1: Yep, that's right, that's I agree.
Speaker 2: That's that's kind of the like keeping things reasonable, that's what.
Speaker 1: I want as well, And those are my expectations that
Speaker 1: that's probably probably where this will go.
Speaker 2: Now they did do that, uh that was it the
Speaker 2: twentieth anniversary PS four, Like in the style the PS one,
Speaker 2: that thing was really really nice looking, uh great popular?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, right exactly.
Speaker 2: People gobbled that thing up as quickly as poss But
Speaker 2: you think there's a chance we get something like that.
Speaker 3: There could be. I feel like the shape of the
Speaker 3: PlayStation five makes it a bit weird to do that
Speaker 3: kind of stuff, Like it doesn't look as as crispy.
Speaker 3: You know, it's like me when I'm in a suit,
Speaker 3: I'm overweight. So people are like, that suit does not
Speaker 3: look good. It's not sea. Yeah, exactly, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: They're like that fire guy shouldn't be wearing that suit.
Speaker 3: I think we're in a moo moo.
Speaker 2: But yeah, don't go you know, don't let you measure
Speaker 2: yourself and then make it fit your body. Uh yeah,
Speaker 2: I I I hope that they still have I guess.
Speaker 2: I guess what they could do is face plates, right,
Speaker 2: they got the plates, it'll do something like that, and
Speaker 2: I got you know they make those with gray. Maybe
Speaker 2: make the a couple of accents on there that remind
Speaker 2: you of PS one.
Speaker 3: Do you think they could I guess they could replace
Speaker 3: the like the boot up sequence quite easily put on
Speaker 3: a console like that. But I was like, maybe I
Speaker 3: was kind of hoping that they would be able to
Speaker 3: replace the beep, you know, the beep on the PlayStation.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I feel like that's like a hardware level thing that
Speaker 3: is beeping.
Speaker 2: Probably what you want that to be, like the PS
Speaker 2: one beep, but the PS one beep sound.
Speaker 3: Like the PS one didn't have a didn't have a toll.
Speaker 3: They should make it that clunking sound when I love that.
Speaker 1: That'd be good.
Speaker 3: You're taking a plunge audeo games console to tend it on.
Speaker 2: One of my favorite things about the Steam Deck is
Speaker 2: you can replace the boot up video that plays. They
Speaker 2: just have a store where they make them for you.
Speaker 2: And of course you can get customers if you want.
Speaker 3: I would My favorite one is someone but the opening
Speaker 3: of scrubs on them, like gave new all this stuff.
Speaker 2: It's so good, ye exactly, and I want to be like,
Speaker 2: I think if they had an option like that on
Speaker 2: the PlayStation and you could get the PlayStation get any
Speaker 2: PlayStation boot up on there, that'd be pretty cool.
Speaker 1: But yeah, things like that. Not expecting the world on
Speaker 1: all this stuff.
Speaker 2: But uh, this PlayStation thirtieth anniversary stuff might have revealed
Speaker 2: something bigger coming. Fans think Sony just revealed the PS
Speaker 2: five pro design. This is from Eddie McCoo at GameSpot
Speaker 2: and in interesting development, it appears Sony may have just
Speaker 2: revealed the rumored PlayStation five pros design.
Speaker 1: As people are.
Speaker 2: Discovering the PlayStation thirtieth anniversary imagery released today on September fifth,
Speaker 2: seems to include an image of some kind of product
Speaker 2: that matches up with that leaked design of the rumored
Speaker 2: PS five Pro. People were listening to the show last
Speaker 2: week or earlier this week, I can't remember anymore. Bill
Speaker 2: bil Koon, that leaker had an image of the PS
Speaker 2: five Pro box and they didn't want to post a
Speaker 2: direct image of that, so they posted an illustration of
Speaker 2: what the PS five Pro looks like online. They just
Speaker 2: drew it and it was a PS five but instead
Speaker 2: of like that one line that the slim model has
Speaker 2: or that separates the two face plates on one side,
Speaker 2: there are like four lines. And it's like, oh, okay,
Speaker 2: so they're going to kind of do what they did
Speaker 2: with the PS four Pro, but on the side instead
Speaker 2: of like for the whatever.
Speaker 1: It just yeah, that's what it looks like.
Speaker 2: And now this artwork inside of the PS PlayStation thirtieth
Speaker 2: anniversary logo looks exactly the same, and people are like, well,
Speaker 2: what else could this possibly be, And.
Speaker 1: The answer is that's almost certainly the PS five Pro.
Speaker 3: Yeah, probably it probably does look like that. I would.
Speaker 3: The thing about it that that interests me is it
Speaker 3: looks just straight flat and like it just looks like
Speaker 3: a square yeah, or a rectangle as opposed to like
Speaker 3: the weird wobbly thing, yeah, which I have. I have
Speaker 3: no real issue other than I thought about taking my
Speaker 3: PlayStation with me to on my travels recently in case
Speaker 3: astrobot came in so it could play it, which I
Speaker 3: just said. Took a PlayStation port was one of the
Speaker 3: biggest mistakes in my life.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 3: It's lugged that thing around the world for no useless
Speaker 3: It was useless.
Speaker 1: So I just bought a new round. I bought it.
Speaker 2: I think the last time we talked about when you
Speaker 2: were buying a router and I got just bought and
Speaker 2: I was so happy with it. Now I hate this
Speaker 2: fucking thing. I'm gonna be like one of those people
Speaker 2: that buys a new router every six months.
Speaker 3: Told you hate the route, the poll I I hate.
Speaker 1: I'm my router. I haven't.
Speaker 2: I haven't really used the portal, but I used the
Speaker 2: Chiocky for deck on the steam deck and it was
Speaker 2: working fine on Wi Fi six E for a little bit.
Speaker 2: And now that sixty signal just never is reliable anymore.
Speaker 2: It's driving me crazy. So yeah, I honestly I should
Speaker 2: go get like an industrial router. Because we have a
Speaker 2: lot of advice. Yet if it's just overwhelming the network,
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 3: I got one of those routes that sounds like is
Speaker 3: named after a crime credit or something like that. All right, uh,
Speaker 3: I know, I got the asis r T A x
Speaker 3: A eight U pro.
Speaker 2: Okay, I got the I have the ass r RT
Speaker 2: ax C seventy eight hundred or something like that, and
Speaker 2: then I I must have bought it before really doing
Speaker 2: enough research. The reviews for that thing are not good.
Speaker 2: So that's why I'm like, all right, I'm gonna buy
Speaker 2: a new one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the one that I got is really good. I
Speaker 3: actually have two of them, and I used like the
Speaker 3: other one to create a mesh network, which, let me
Speaker 3: tell you this does not fucking work.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it has a mesh network ever worked for anybody,
Speaker 1: because I did the Google one.
Speaker 3: And it does work in that in the areas that
Speaker 3: I had really lose, like signal, I have much higher signal.
Speaker 3: But it also feels a little more unreliable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it feels like yeah, like it becomes like things
Speaker 2: just when they don't get now it's like, yeah, is
Speaker 2: it breaking?
Speaker 3: Well, I'm saying is sometimes when I'm shitting on the toilet,
Speaker 3: my video starts to load, and you know what, that's
Speaker 3: not what I want.
Speaker 1: Not acceptable? Is that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that we're trying to avoid that wherever possible. I
Speaker 2: don't want to think about the fact that I'm pooping,
Speaker 2: and I.
Speaker 3: Want to be able to watch my video in Tenna
Speaker 3: ep while I dropped the kids off at the pool.
Speaker 2: Exactly, what's drop Jimmy Olsen off at the thunder arena,
Speaker 2: as we say in the Blake Club parlance.
Speaker 3: Exactly?
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, that looks like the PS five pro
Speaker 2: this thing, if it's in the thirtieth anniversary stuff, it
Speaker 2: feels like a little bit of a suggestion of a.
Speaker 1: Confirmation that this thing's gonna get it nownce soon.
Speaker 2: We've heard it could happen before Tokyo Game Show, so
Speaker 2: that means between today and the end of the month,
Speaker 2: and really it kind of means next week. If this
Speaker 2: is gonna happen, that sounds pretty pretty reasonable to me.
Speaker 3: Your gama hasn't like a leaked PS five pro design
Speaker 3: story by Matt Wales, And in that I think it's
Speaker 3: showing the original, the older piece of art that surface
Speaker 3: and that still has the weird callers up design right,
Speaker 3: And I wonder how fundamental to the airflow that design is,
Speaker 3: because if they are doing a PS five PRO, I
Speaker 3: would like them to take a different approach to design.
Speaker 3: The one that we've seen now or the one that
Speaker 3: we've seen now in the background of the thirtieth anniversary
Speaker 3: are just looks like a straight up square, which I
Speaker 3: guess they're always to like indicate the kind of weird
Speaker 3: like shape on a side on profile. But it doesn't
Speaker 3: do that. So I'm I'm secretly hoping that they figured
Speaker 3: out a way to like just make it flat.
Speaker 2: My expectation is they wanted to do more in terms
Speaker 2: of changing the design language of the PS five Pro.
Speaker 2: But when they when they suggested that idea, Mark Serney
Speaker 2: threatened to quit and burn the place down.
Speaker 3: He's like absolutely came in with a gun, and the
Speaker 3: gun the dollars. Well, it's a PlayStation thy fin of it? Ready? Gun?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: So what's the fucking thing called the PlayStation aim controller?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, just Mark, please calm down, put it down, bud.
Speaker 2: Uh Yeah, I uh, it's probably gonna look a lot
Speaker 2: like a PS five slim uh. You know, if that is,
Speaker 2: if that thing's even actually called the swim. I think
Speaker 2: it's just called the PS five and uh and it
Speaker 2: will just have more lines on the side. That's probably
Speaker 2: what's gonna be. So yeah, a little disappointed for someone
Speaker 2: like I'm with you. I don't have a lot of
Speaker 2: problems the way the PS five looks overall. I just
Speaker 2: wish more slim looks looks great, but I also want
Speaker 2: to get excited and have other reasons to justify purchasing
Speaker 2: this thing, and if it looked at me even more
Speaker 2: different that would help with that. I think we probably
Speaker 2: get to the end of next week and this thing
Speaker 2: gets announced, That's where I'm like putting my money.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but that seems to be with the
Speaker 1: way the wind is blowing.
Speaker 3: Yeah late as tgs.
Speaker 1: Yes, right, that sounds exactly right.
Speaker 3: But I don't think. I don't think Sony would like
Speaker 3: have such a narrow focused event be the place where
Speaker 3: they show off there or reveal their brand new, grobberly
Speaker 3: available piece of hardware.
Speaker 2: Right, Tokyo Game Show seems like the place where it's like,
Speaker 2: once something is announced, you have meetings and updates about it,
Speaker 2: but it's maybe maybe not the place to do the
Speaker 2: initial reveal.
Speaker 3: Maybe you announce it before Kajima shows off Death Stranding too,
Speaker 3: and it's like, well, look what this thing can do,
Speaker 3: and it's just an even higher polygon version of Sam Norman.
Speaker 2: Readers, we do have that picture of Hideo Kajima recently
Speaker 2: like posting himself playing something on a PlayStation and he
Speaker 2: has a black tarp over what looks like that big
Speaker 2: U shaped PlayStation pro box that's been rumored to be
Speaker 2: out there for a while. Uh so, yeah, he's he's
Speaker 2: been working on the PS five Pro. It seems like, so, yeah,
Speaker 2: I would expect him to be a marquee game that
Speaker 2: that shows off what that.
Speaker 1: Thing can do.
Speaker 3: I was like, anecdotally, I got a lot of folks,
Speaker 3: like not folks, but like a lot of the games
Speaker 3: that I saw Games Come with like running a bit weird,
Speaker 3: and I was like, have we reached here this quickly? Yep,
Speaker 3: that's very strange. So it feels like the right time
Speaker 3: for like a revision, a hardware revision to come, right,
Speaker 3: that's a little more powerful.
Speaker 1: And that's that.
Speaker 2: That was also some of the reporting. Its like when
Speaker 2: developers were talking to each other at Games Come, they
Speaker 2: were openly talking about the PS five Pro. So that
Speaker 2: says to me that everyone there is expecting this thing
Speaker 2: to be here anytime now. And then, you know the
Speaker 2: other side of the reporting is no Vembers when this
Speaker 2: thing actually comes out, So you kind of can't wait
Speaker 2: much longer to nsin.
Speaker 3: No shop for the old one new one available for Christmas?
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, how much of a price drop do you think, though?
Speaker 3: I think it's going to be like a minuscule price.
Speaker 3: PROP five dollars cheap of good job. Yeah, Uh, fifty
Speaker 3: dollars is probably the max.
Speaker 1: You know what we got this next story here.
Speaker 3: They keep it at the same price and like packing
Speaker 3: more stuff, like, oh, it's got a Proba on it,
Speaker 3: it's got all the uncharted not it's got Lost of
Speaker 3: Us on the.
Speaker 2: Right, the last it's there's a Last of Us bundle,
Speaker 2: and there's a Horizon bundle and it.
Speaker 1: Has all of those games. And yeah, I think that's
Speaker 1: very likely.
Speaker 2: Uh, speaking of price, next story PS five pro could
Speaker 2: be six hundred and fifty dollars. An analyst says this
Speaker 2: is This is from Eddie mcowitt game spot. A new,
Speaker 2: more powerful, powerful version of the PS five is reportedly
Speaker 2: primed for announcement soon, and while the rumor PS five
Speaker 2: Pro system has been officially confirmed. Video game industry analysts
Speaker 2: are weighing in with their thoughts about it. Thirk In
Speaker 2: Toto of Canton Games told ig In that there is
Speaker 2: no doubt that a PS five Pro is on the way.
Speaker 2: What form it takes, what upgrades it might offer over
Speaker 2: the existing PS five remains a mystery. But it will
Speaker 2: be more expensive than the PS five, the analyst noted.
Speaker 2: Toto said the PS five Pro is likely to cost
Speaker 2: six hundred or six hundred and fifty dollars when it's released,
Speaker 2: and that the existing PS five, which costs five hundred dollars,
Speaker 2: will not receive a price cut. Michael Wagner of New
Speaker 2: Zoo said historically history suggests that the PS five will
Speaker 2: receive a price cut when the PS five Pro launches,
Speaker 2: citing the precedent of the PS four getting a price
Speaker 2: cut when the PS four Pro came out. Daniel A
Speaker 2: mod of Nico Partners said this generation isn't the same
Speaker 2: as past ones, in part because production and shipping costs
Speaker 2: are not declining like they did with previous generations. Yeah,
Speaker 2: all that stuff remains very high, and also I just
Speaker 2: think the people showing up to buy these things are
Speaker 2: the least price sensitive customers because they're the biggest fans
Speaker 2: and this is their primary source of their primary hobby,
Speaker 2: their primary source of entertainment.
Speaker 1: They're the ones who could charge the most.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I think I tend to still agree with you,
Speaker 2: Tam that while maybe the price doesn't go down, they
Speaker 2: find ways to increase the perceived you by bundling and
Speaker 2: more stuff this holiday that feels right to me, and
Speaker 2: then that helps them tell the story of and then
Speaker 2: if you want all the new bells and whistles, forty
Speaker 2: five percent improved rasterization performance and twice the performance for
Speaker 2: rad tracing all that stuff, well, boy, do we have
Speaker 2: the box for you. And the people that care about
Speaker 2: that stuff are the people that will spend six hundred
Speaker 2: fifty dollars or they'll trade in their oldps for five
Speaker 2: and save a little bit and spend three hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty dollars on this. That sounds like that's how it's
Speaker 2: going to go.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like the value proposition changing is where
Speaker 3: it's uh, especially given everything that people are saying about
Speaker 3: cost of the stuff. Excuse me, yeah, no problem. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I feel like there's a good chance. I wonder if
Speaker 3: they like do bundles with the slim one as well, yeah,
Speaker 3: or if it's just the dog unit that I guess.
Speaker 2: I guess they do, do they they still sell the
Speaker 2: original PS five I haven't paid attention.
Speaker 3: I think they do. I have seen it in few
Speaker 3: places still, And I assume stye, because they did a
Speaker 3: revision of the original model, which was in the same
Speaker 3: kind of like form factor, right, right, So maybe I
Speaker 3: assume that's the one that's being sold.
Speaker 2: Right, So yeah, right, But I'm yeah, they could have
Speaker 2: like step pricing for all these various models or whatever,
Speaker 2: and they could introduce an original PS five slim model
Speaker 2: with more storage, right, and that could be five fifty,
Speaker 2: or that could even be six hundred if they put
Speaker 2: like two terabytes of storage in it.
Speaker 1: And then that makes it very easy to say, well,
Speaker 1: then the PS five pro is six fifty or even
Speaker 1: seven hundred.
Speaker 2: I mean, we'll see, this thing could be very expensive
Speaker 2: when it comes out.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: I think what we'll do now is we'll take a
Speaker 2: quick break. When we get back, plenty more news kind
Speaker 2: of a victory lap for Astro bought up next right
Speaker 2: after this. All right, let's get right back into it.
Speaker 2: Astrobot is the best reviewed.
Speaker 1: Game of the year so far. This is from Darren
Speaker 1: bond Dus at GameSpot.
Speaker 2: Between New Warhammer, forty K, Harry Potter and soccer simulator game.
Speaker 2: September is shaping up to be a packed month on
Speaker 2: the gaming calendar, but the best reviewed game of the
Speaker 2: month and the year thus far has just launched in
Speaker 2: the form of Astrobot, a new adventure starring Sony's adorable
Speaker 2: mechanical I'm at Mascot.
Speaker 1: Astrobot has been a critical smash hit.
Speaker 2: As numerous reviews have praised it for being an exciting
Speaker 2: platformer that is a joy to play and uses the dual.
Speaker 1: Sense controller to create immersive gameplay.
Speaker 2: Has a ninety four on Metacritic, which makes it the
Speaker 2: best like standalone game. I think Shadow of the Tree
Speaker 2: is higher, but that's DLC. But other than outside of
Speaker 2: Shadow of the r Tree, there is no better reviewed
Speaker 2: game released this year than Astrobot, and I think we
Speaker 2: see there have not been many games in the nineties
Speaker 2: on Metacritic this entire year. It's very hard to get
Speaker 2: in the nineties, let alone all the way up to
Speaker 2: ninety four if you sort by genre. And on Metacritic,
Speaker 2: and you go to platformers, I think you can think
Speaker 2: you can be doing it by three D platformers. I
Speaker 2: think it's right now it's Mario Galaxy one at A
Speaker 2: ninety seven, the Moro Galaxy two at A ninety six,
Speaker 2: and then Mario Odyssey three at A ninety seven. Then
Speaker 2: the fourth best reviewed platformer of all time is now Astrobot.
Speaker 2: That while that is the conversation that game is entered into. Uh,
Speaker 2: and I mean, I think it's earned it. I really
Speaker 2: really love this game, tam. Do you think that this
Speaker 2: thing is on the precipice of being able to break
Speaker 2: through to an audience beyond maybe what even Sony was expecting.
Speaker 3: I think so, I don't. I'm actually familiar not Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm not super aware of how much an Astrobot has
Speaker 3: pushed into the rate conscious.
Speaker 2: Astro's playroom came with every PS five. But did people
Speaker 2: E didn't realize.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the thing where it's like Astro astro is
Speaker 3: like something that we definitely took too. But we're like
Speaker 3: gaming widows, and it's unclear whether people who are just
Speaker 3: like normal gaming widows are like, yeah, this is great.
Speaker 3: I'm obsessed with this little robot thing now, or if
Speaker 3: it's it's like, oh that was nice, moving on, where's
Speaker 3: my call of duty? But I do feel like Astro
Speaker 3: has that potential can that can be pushed into like
Speaker 3: the mainstream or like pushed into the wider consciousness right now,
Speaker 3: and I feel like it's going to continue to sell
Speaker 3: really well. I think is the word of mouth is
Speaker 3: going to do a lot of good work for it,
Speaker 3: especially as like we come into like the holiday period
Speaker 3: where there's potentially a new console available and a cheaper
Speaker 3: version of the PlayStation five. The word of mouth of
Speaker 3: people saying this Astro game is unreal. You've got to
Speaker 3: play this. If you're getting a PlayStation five, You've got
Speaker 3: to have this for your kid, or for yourself, if
Speaker 3: you're you know, whatever age you are. It works for everyone.
Speaker 3: That's the genius of that game. It's like regard it
Speaker 3: doesn't matter how old you are. It's a joy to
Speaker 3: play regardless. So I feel like it will definitely benefit
Speaker 3: I think that by the end of the year or
Speaker 3: like early next year, when the financials are coming out,
Speaker 3: we're going to be surprised with how much of a
Speaker 3: leap that was between like release and like the holiday
Speaker 3: period in terms of sales.
Speaker 1: Yep. I think you're right, and I think it's standing
Speaker 1: here right now.
Speaker 2: I am finding it very easy to be optimistic about
Speaker 2: this game's outlook in terms of being able to just
Speaker 2: win people over that give it a chance. And I
Speaker 2: think every time someone looks at that that these reviews,
Speaker 2: reads the reviews, reads the response on Twitter. I think
Speaker 2: very soon, you know, starting today, really last night, people
Speaker 2: have begun playing it publicly and streaming it, and they're
Speaker 2: going to start sharing gameplay clips, and a lot of
Speaker 2: those are going to take the form of oh my god,
Speaker 2: I can't believe it, they believe they made a reference
Speaker 2: to this character.
Speaker 1: But I think very quickly.
Speaker 2: It's going to turn into look how amazingly fun this is.
Speaker 2: Look at this incredible moment. And I think that the
Speaker 2: combination of those two sides of very shareable clips is
Speaker 2: going to be the kind of thing that people go,
Speaker 2: I need to experience.
Speaker 1: This for myself.
Speaker 2: And you know, I don't know if that turns into
Speaker 2: a game that that is able to sell ten million copies,
Speaker 2: which I think is like a very very very high
Speaker 2: eybar for it, but I do think it could easily
Speaker 2: catch on and do like the seven eight nine million
Speaker 2: if things really get going for it. And yeah, I
Speaker 2: also think it'll have a long tail. I think it's
Speaker 2: the kind of game where if you're picking up a
Speaker 2: POS five, maybe it's the other game you get besides
Speaker 2: you know, Spider Man, and then your flavor of game
Speaker 2: that you always get, which is whether that's a sports
Speaker 2: game or a shooter or something like that. This is like, hey,
Speaker 2: this is a good thing I'll get for this and
Speaker 2: me and my kids might play it. I think there's
Speaker 2: a chance at pulse into that category, and I hope
Speaker 2: it does. Yeah, all right, Nintendo may just launch a
Speaker 2: new Switch O led bundle with Mario Wonder this month
Speaker 2: instead of a instead of announcing the switch to This
Speaker 2: is from Alie Reynolds at Nintendo Life.
Speaker 1: Excuse me.
Speaker 2: With rumors of a Switch successor announcement ramping up, it's
Speaker 2: worth keeping in mind that Nintendo still has lofty ambitions
Speaker 2: when it comes to its current hardware. According to its
Speaker 2: most recent financial data, Nintendo is still aiming to shift
Speaker 2: thirteen million switched consoles before the end of the current
Speaker 2: fiscal year. How will it achieve this, Well, we know
Speaker 2: a new special edition switch Light is on the way
Speaker 2: to accompany the legend of Zelda Echoes of Wisdom, but
Speaker 2: according to deal Labs, which is known to provide reliable
Speaker 2: information on unannounced projects, Nintendo is also preparing a new
Speaker 2: hardware bundle for the upcoming holiday season, currently slated for
Speaker 2: release in Europe. The bundle will consist of a Nintendo
Speaker 2: Switch O led model console with a digital copy of
Speaker 2: Super Mario Brothers Wonder and a three month subscription to
Speaker 2: Nintendo Switch Online priced at three hundred and fifty euros.
Speaker 1: And this would.
Speaker 2: Launch in October. Yes, basically launch a little bit later
Speaker 2: this year. Yeah, there's the chance that all this, like
Speaker 2: the rumors that have happened recently of hey, they've moved
Speaker 2: things around because something's happening with the switch To. Maybe
Speaker 2: there was some miscommunication there, And what we're actually just
Speaker 2: going to get is another switch announcement in September. Are
Speaker 2: you losing the faith about switch To or if you
Speaker 2: just blocked out this noise?
Speaker 3: I have locked out. It's nice because, like I hardware
Speaker 3: timing is so fickle that I try. It's very different
Speaker 3: from like when you hear our video game is going
Speaker 3: to be released at this time there's there's a little
Speaker 3: more weight to that, and it usually takes I think,
Speaker 3: I would say, like a lot more for it to
Speaker 3: be shifted. And when that stuff, when those factors are
Speaker 3: coming into play, one people who are paying attention can
Speaker 3: kind of read the tea leaves. And then also like
Speaker 3: we start hearing things that are like this is looking
Speaker 3: like it's gonna it's gonna change, whereas it feels like
Speaker 3: with hardware, we're just kind of guessing a lot of times,
Speaker 3: and the things that we do here are so vague.
Speaker 3: Like I've heard multiple times, ex console is coming out
Speaker 3: this time, and then for some whatever reason, it's been delayed,
Speaker 3: and it's like, why was it delayed, and people are
Speaker 3: just like, I don't know. It could be any number
Speaker 3: of things, And I think.
Speaker 2: It's right that it's It is more malleable than people
Speaker 2: I think realize.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of the finalized.
Speaker 2: Details of what a console launch is going to look
Speaker 2: like are decided very decided, very last minute, Like maybe
Speaker 2: not the name, but like the pricing is something that
Speaker 2: they like have a range that they're working in, and
Speaker 2: that the last minute, okay, the market feels like they'd
Speaker 2: be okay with this we're gonna go with as much
Speaker 2: as we could possibly get away with.
Speaker 3: And that PlayStation Xbox digital thing reactive style, like the
Speaker 3: history that they have where you know they undercut each other.
Speaker 3: Was it PlayStation that came in lower or the Xbox
Speaker 3: that came in yeahs four.
Speaker 2: Xbox was early in the day at five hundred dollars
Speaker 2: with the you know, the connect built in, and then
Speaker 2: later that day Sony went four hundred dollars for this
Speaker 2: sense for the gamers to share you could just show
Speaker 2: your games by handed to copy over to someone else.
Speaker 3: It was and that was probably decided.
Speaker 2: Like we know for a fact that the game sharing
Speaker 2: thing was was made last minute as a reaction.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's all that stuff was right there.
Speaker 2: And the pricing, like going back to the beginning of
Speaker 2: PlayStation we know that the pricing was something that they
Speaker 2: were using as a tool to fight against Safe because
Speaker 2: they were like, we want to push Sega out as
Speaker 2: much as possible because we know we're not going to
Speaker 2: get be able to get rid of the Nintendo necessarily,
Speaker 2: but if we can take over what Sega has, and
Speaker 2: the way we're going to do that is we will
Speaker 2: always be one hundred dollars cheaper than the Saturn, And
Speaker 2: so when you know, Sander gets announced this price, well,
Speaker 2: we're just gonna come.
Speaker 1: Out and say two ninety nine.
Speaker 2: And then when Saturn tries to make a price cut happen,
Speaker 2: even though it was losing a ton of money, PlayStation
Speaker 2: was cheaper enough to manufacture. They're like, every time that
Speaker 2: would happen, Sony would cut their price again and cut
Speaker 2: their price again, And it was a tool that they
Speaker 2: wielded against Sega, and nothing's changed in that stuff. So
Speaker 2: I think that these companies try to keep as many
Speaker 2: of those tools in their kit as they can when
Speaker 2: it comes to launching a system of any stripe. And
Speaker 2: that means like we have a marketing plan, but every
Speaker 2: beat in this marketing plan can be slotted in to
Speaker 2: a different.
Speaker 1: Date depending on what we need and when we need it.
Speaker 2: So I like once it kicks off, once it starts,
Speaker 2: the machine begins rolling a little bit automatically. But they
Speaker 2: kind they're like holding back on when they announced it.
Speaker 2: I think because they're like, we want to pick our
Speaker 2: time on that, and I think we're still in that
Speaker 2: phase right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I feel like if I had to place a bet,
Speaker 3: I would say like the we're more likely to get
Speaker 3: an O lead switch than a switch to announce at
Speaker 3: the end of the year. It feels like Nintendo would
Speaker 3: want a little more of a runway than that.
Speaker 2: I think we know they want. They have still high
Speaker 2: like this story says, they want to sell. They sold
Speaker 2: like two million switches in that one quarter that they've
Speaker 2: reported so far for their fiscal year.
Speaker 1: They still have to sell another thirteen million this year.
Speaker 1: How do they do that?
Speaker 2: Some aggressive bundling seems like the answer, and that's probably
Speaker 2: what they're going to focus on.
Speaker 1: Before they start getting people too excited about the switch too.
Speaker 3: I laughed earlier because when you mentioned the switch, that's
Speaker 3: the Zelda switch. Because during packs, we took our good
Speaker 3: good friend friend of the show, Ben Star with us
Speaker 3: to a bunch of appointments, right, and one of the
Speaker 3: one of them was Zelda appointment. And we're in the
Speaker 3: room getting a presentation, and then the person giving a
Speaker 3: presentation like was like, oh, and we'll have this new,
Speaker 3: old switch which has got the Zelda stuff on it,
Speaker 3: and they step aside and the switch was behind him
Speaker 3: the entire time, and all your hair his Ben go wow. Literally,
Speaker 3: no one else in the room. No one else in
Speaker 3: the room made any noises, just him.
Speaker 1: Going wow, oh the wonder of a child.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sweet sweet boy. Bat was so funny. I wish
Speaker 3: I could have captured that moment. Everyone like turned like
Speaker 3: look at him and he was like.
Speaker 2: Security footage somewhere has that and they watch it all
Speaker 2: the time when they're feeling down.
Speaker 3: It was so cute and so funny.
Speaker 1: That's incredible, all right.
Speaker 2: So we don't know when Nintendo's gonn announce anything. There's
Speaker 2: still a chance a switch to could get anounced this month,
Speaker 2: even if there is an old model coming as well,
Speaker 2: or you know, there's a chance that we don't hear
Speaker 2: about a switch to until March. Like that, both things
Speaker 2: are possible, but it's coming, and Nintendo has spent a
Speaker 2: lot of money investing in like getting this thing up
Speaker 2: and off the ground. In fact, Nintendo R and D
Speaker 2: spending peaks at to nearly one billion dollars.
Speaker 1: In the lead up to the switch to. It's a
Speaker 1: headline from Ryan Parino at Game Ranks.
Speaker 2: As reported by Tweaked Town, Nintendo has increased their spending
Speaker 2: on research and development this year at a staggering twenty
Speaker 2: two year peak in fiscal year April two thousand and
Speaker 2: one to March two thousand and two, at the start
Speaker 2: of the GameCubes lifetime, Nintendo spent seventeen billion yen. In
Speaker 2: fiscal year's fiscal year April twenty twenty three to March
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, Nintendo spent one hundred and thirty seven
Speaker 2: point seven billion yen or about nine hundred and eleven
Speaker 2: million dollars. This amount also accounts for eight percent of
Speaker 2: Nintendo's net sales for the past fiscal year, so it
Speaker 2: is a significant amount that was taken from their cash reserves.
Speaker 2: Nintendo has been slowly increasing their R and D through
Speaker 2: the decades. The fact that they are now reaching nearly
Speaker 2: a billion indicates that even the company's conservative methods of
Speaker 2: keeping up with the industry has still force them to
Speaker 2: reach an obscenely high amount of spending. This also lines
Speaker 2: up with the rumors that have recently come up in
Speaker 2: relation to the switch to. Last month, we reported on
Speaker 2: well Tranned stating stating production of switch to components has begun. Yesterday,
Speaker 2: business an analyst David Gibson pointed out that another Nintendo partner,
Speaker 2: post Sidon, has spent two billion yen on production equipment
Speaker 2: and one billion yen on automation.
Speaker 1: C what's that? Yes, the King because it's host side
Speaker 1: and not post sidon.
Speaker 2: I feel like there's a The King, but slightly. Yes,
Speaker 2: thank you, that's the joke. I was looking for it,
Speaker 2: thank you very much. And that's solely for the manufacture of.
Speaker 1: Nintendo products, So they spent a lot of money on
Speaker 1: that stuff. Whatever.
Speaker 2: A lot of money's being spent on this thing. A
Speaker 2: billion dollars on research and development, the highest they've have
Speaker 2: had in twenty two years at Nintendo.
Speaker 3: I I just they're gonna come out with something insane
Speaker 3: and they're gonna do I feel like we're due for
Speaker 3: a Nintendo like crazy move right.
Speaker 1: It's a crazy move right, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I feel like we're gonna get like, oh, Nintendo
Speaker 3: announces new product that will analyze you all ship yep,
Speaker 3: your poops to tell you how healthy you are, and
Speaker 3: everyone's gonna be like, excuse me, stool vitality sensor. Yes, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: they're gonna do something insane like that. People are gonna
Speaker 3: be like what the fuck then, and then it won't
Speaker 3: come out it just like adapt it into something else.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I mean I think that this is probably
Speaker 2: gonna be some like big move that is sort of
Speaker 2: a side show to the switch to being like probably
Speaker 2: a lot of the stuff that we're predicting, But I
Speaker 2: think they want to have a rob the robot style
Speaker 2: and here's something flashy to make you forget that basically
Speaker 2: buying the same thing again, but it's more powerful.
Speaker 1: Not that any of us really care that that's the case.
Speaker 1: I think that's what we.
Speaker 2: Want, but I think Nintendo thinks the wider audience needs
Speaker 2: that the keys dangling in front of them to get
Speaker 2: distracted from that.
Speaker 3: I think what they're gonna make is that what they
Speaker 3: should make is an all round fitness and health app
Speaker 3: that combines all of their like initiatives into one, like
Speaker 3: Pokemon Sleep and Pokemon Goal and all this kind of
Speaker 3: stuff and being like, oh, here's this thing where you
Speaker 3: put it on yourself and it will measure your sleep,
Speaker 3: it will measure your steps, your health, it will give
Speaker 3: you pings about you know you need to do this
Speaker 3: much amount of activity. Why don't you pick up Pokemon
Speaker 3: Goal or try playing what's that fitness game Switching adventure
Speaker 3: and you know it's also monitoring your blood sugar levels
Speaker 3: and crazy shit like that, and then I feel like
Speaker 3: every now and then Nintendo tries to appeal to the
Speaker 3: like worldwide health market in a very Nintendo way, and
Speaker 3: with you one of.
Speaker 2: Those, yeah, I think that you are probably exactly right.
Speaker 1: It is going to be something I think they are.
Speaker 2: I think they always want to have a health app
Speaker 2: ready to go, and maybe maybe that's ring Fit Adventure too,
Speaker 2: But I think I wouldn't surprised if a lot.
Speaker 1: Of the spending is we're gonna try to do something
Speaker 1: really bold in that space.
Speaker 3: And unwearables are a big thing right now, like between
Speaker 3: like I'm wearing two wearables right now, like this one
Speaker 3: for like sleep and stuff, this one for like fitness,
Speaker 3: and like.
Speaker 2: If I didn't know that you've never done anything illegal,
Speaker 2: I would say you look like a drug dealer right now.
Speaker 3: Maybe. But like also like there's there's there's like rings
Speaker 3: and stuff as well. Now the measure it feels like
Speaker 3: Nintendo is could get in there and be like we've
Speaker 3: got something.
Speaker 2: Like yeah, it's like you're gonna feel like you're in
Speaker 2: a cult, but it's Nintendo, so it's fun.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, there's a chance of that.
Speaker 2: There's also a shot here that a lot of the
Speaker 2: spending is just figuring out stuff like backward compatibility layers
Speaker 2: and things like that. Although my guess has been that
Speaker 2: Nintendo and has had in video work on that stuff
Speaker 2: for them, and Nintendo is researching other like the fun stuff.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry we said wearables. I just came up with
Speaker 4: a million dollar idea. Good morning, Tam, Hello, Hi, all right,
Speaker 4: I know I've been talking out the butt about the
Speaker 4: Nintendo Watch. Right, okay, here we go. Instead of a watch,
Speaker 4: watches are out of vogue. No one likes watches anymore.
Speaker 4: No one wears watches. Apple watches out the window. You
Speaker 4: know what we need to track all of our vitals
Speaker 4: and everything.
Speaker 3: A power glove.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, listen, I would like.
Speaker 3: Oh that would be pretty pretty cool, man.
Speaker 2: I would a power glove, wearable computer, wearable game console. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm all aboard that. Let's make that happen.
Speaker 3: You know what's gonna happen, isn't it. We're gonna look
Speaker 3: back on this and we're gonna realize, Oh, they spent
Speaker 3: one billion dollars and they're gonna come out and they're
Speaker 3: gonna be like, we've come up with a way to
Speaker 3: revolutionize online play. Yeah, oh no, we are gonna allow
Speaker 3: you to give yourself any sort of username followed by
Speaker 3: it both digit code, and it's gonna be perfect.
Speaker 2: Uh huh right, yeah, it's gonna be basically purchased.
Speaker 3: We have purchased a second server.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and we we have also acquired MySpace and
Speaker 2: all our gaming will be done through that.
Speaker 1: Actually, friends there, that'd be more of their speed.
Speaker 3: All right, we will need your social Security number because
Speaker 3: we will be pinging your credit history to see whether
Speaker 3: you're allowed to be on the internet to play tetris.
Speaker 1: Right, we've come up with Nintendo credit scores.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, we need you every Then we need your
Speaker 3: the phone numbers of at least three family members so
Speaker 3: we can check that you're not five years old.
Speaker 2: And of course, the better your stool sample, the higher
Speaker 2: your score will be.
Speaker 3: Exactly. All right.
Speaker 2: Last thing I put here is, hey, tam iss gonna
Speaker 2: be okay.
Speaker 1: Do you remember fair Game? Yeah?
Speaker 3: I'm is that the Jade Raymond one.
Speaker 1: That's the Jade Raymond one.
Speaker 3: I feel like fair Games has a lot of issues already,
Speaker 3: purely because it has a dollar sign in the name,
Speaker 3: which I think is a fucking catastrophe. What are you doing?
Speaker 1: Do you guys respect that? Do you do?
Speaker 3: I have respect for your stylized thing? Cabs kiss my ass?
Speaker 3: Like it I put a space in between from and software.
Speaker 3: If I'm putting a space between from and software, it's
Speaker 3: all bets are.
Speaker 2: Off intercap one camel case in the middle. I will
Speaker 2: you know what the issue.
Speaker 3: With this is? Do you know the reason why I
Speaker 3: say this is a catastrophe because you know what? You
Speaker 3: know what kind of people and what other like market
Speaker 3: does a symbol in the middle of the name of something,
Speaker 3: the fucking crypto market?
Speaker 1: Do you do that? It looks like it does?
Speaker 3: It looks like a crypto name, and people are and
Speaker 3: I look at it. I'm like a crypto game, Yes,
Speaker 3: Why why are you doing this? Is insane?
Speaker 1: Like the of a crypto bot? Yes?
Speaker 3: Is a dollar sign so important to the game experience
Speaker 3: that it needs to be there?
Speaker 1: Dam I think I don't just like this. I hate it.
Speaker 1: I hate look at I dislike that. Yeah, I detely
Speaker 1: hate it. Actually so and like based.
Speaker 3: On that, I'm like, it's not a great stuff for you.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 2: Apparently the Christopher Dring said on I think he was
Speaker 2: on the VGC podcast that internally they're happy with the game.
Speaker 1: Does that even matter, because I mean.
Speaker 3: I feel like we live in a world where we
Speaker 3: live in a post quality world where the quality the
Speaker 3: quality of a game is not a good indicator of
Speaker 3: whether it's gonna succeed. But I do feel like one
Speaker 3: of these bets for a like a lifestyle like games
Speaker 3: of service type game is gonna land. I feel like
Speaker 3: fair Game could be it. I'm more interested in fair
Speaker 3: Game then whatever else they're doing with like trying to
Speaker 3: make Horizon a multiplayer lifestyle games and service game, I'm
Speaker 3: very little interested in that. But I also like don't
Speaker 3: know enough about this game to say either way. It's
Speaker 3: got a very strange vibe, Like it's got like a
Speaker 3: weird hacker vibe, then it's got like a Payday vibe,
Speaker 3: and then it's got like a like a cop head
Speaker 3: like anarchy vibe. And I'm just like, it's very unclear
Speaker 3: what the aesthetic and the vibe of this game is
Speaker 3: meant to be.
Speaker 1: A competitive heist experience is how they describe it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like that could be a I mean,
Speaker 3: like Payday has been good in the past, and it
Speaker 3: seems like a fun experience. But I feel like no
Speaker 3: one's done a good heist game properly. Like the closest
Speaker 3: you get is GTA, I guess. But but like and Payday,
Speaker 3: but there is an opportunity here, But the market for
Speaker 3: this stuff is so fickle man Like, Yes, you could
Speaker 3: make the best game ever and people be like, no,
Speaker 3: I'm okay, I've got Fortnite. Yeah, I think it's going
Speaker 3: to be.
Speaker 2: Maybe there was a chance this game was going to
Speaker 2: be seventy forty dollars at this point.
Speaker 1: They just got to start us free to play, right.
Speaker 2: They cannot at least in PlayStation Plus Day one at
Speaker 2: the very least.
Speaker 3: I think if this is a game that has a
Speaker 3: roadmap where people need to pay more money for additional content,
Speaker 3: they cannot put a price tag on the entry point
Speaker 3: of this that is in this day and age, that
Speaker 3: is slowly plunging a knife into your game. It's rough,
Speaker 3: and chances are people are going to reply and be like,
Speaker 3: that is so unrealistic. We have to put a price.
Speaker 3: It's so expensive. I might completely understand. I completely understand,
Speaker 3: but you know who doesn't care? The people who are
Speaker 3: you're relying on paying to pay money. They do not
Speaker 3: give a shit how much money you have spent making
Speaker 3: this game. They don't care how much of years of
Speaker 3: your life has gone into this, which is incredibly sad.
Speaker 3: But ultimately they will make a snap decision in a
Speaker 3: moment to be like, yeah, check this out. And the
Speaker 3: barrier to making that moment to happen to yell, check
Speaker 3: this out is a price tag. That is where thought
Speaker 3: starts to come into it. And at that point they think, well,
Speaker 3: I could play this, but I am spending money on
Speaker 3: Destiny war Frame, water Warcraft, whatever it may be, and
Speaker 3: then that is a very very very high wall to
Speaker 3: get over.
Speaker 2: Yep, I yeah, I think you know that. Like that,
Speaker 2: you could spend six, seven, eight years on a game,
Speaker 2: and that snap decision people make, there's just no you know,
Speaker 2: crossing that gap. The people are the people consuming the game,
Speaker 2: the people make the game. They're so far apart, and
Speaker 2: I just don't end being on the side of trying
Speaker 2: to figure out what that fickle market is going to
Speaker 2: be looking for.
Speaker 3: He has an idea. If you want Sony, if you
Speaker 3: want a lifestyle game, you'll want me think about this
Speaker 3: one hundred hunters parachute into Yarnham go from there.
Speaker 2: I think you might have something. I think you yeah,
Speaker 2: get going on that. You own that shit, Sony. You
Speaker 2: could do that if you want. All right, I got
Speaker 2: a pull question from yesterday. Let me bring it up
Speaker 2: here and then put it there and then put it
Speaker 2: in front of your eyeballs and your ear holes. All right,
Speaker 2: are you getting astrobot?
Speaker 3: See?
Speaker 2: Sixty percent said yes, forty percent no on three thousand votes.
Speaker 3: It's going to have the saddest next couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: I think so, yeah, I bet, I think you're right
Speaker 2: that word of mouth people will be one over here
Speaker 2: in the next couple of days, and well they will
Speaker 2: feel bad about missing out on the party. All right,
Speaker 2: we have a new poll question coming up in a second.
Speaker 2: Before we do that, Tam, where can people find you
Speaker 2: on the internet?
Speaker 1: What do you have going on? All that good stuff?
Speaker 3: Uh, I'm feeling we're recording a Jeff Ches today. We
Speaker 3: had a breach of like scheduling snaffoos recently because we've
Speaker 3: been traveling and various other projects have come in and
Speaker 3: got in the way, and it's been very busy. So
Speaker 3: we're filmed where according that today, So hopefully that'll be
Speaker 3: up early next week and then beyond that. Do we
Speaker 3: have ups today?
Speaker 2: We have upf We're gonna be playing Astro. We're playing
Speaker 2: Astro on the website today. Uh look really looking forward
Speaker 2: to that.
Speaker 1: We we were it was my it's my fault.
Speaker 2: We were gonna do a ketchup stream where he played
Speaker 2: a bunch of games yesterday, but we did the BCR
Speaker 2: yesterday instead. Uh so we'll play some Master today. Next
Speaker 2: week we'll try to do ketchup stream. Also want to
Speaker 2: play some of that multiplayer. Uh Space Marine two. I
Speaker 2: started that game. Yeah, it's really solid.
Speaker 3: It feels like they were like, what if we made
Speaker 3: a Gears of War game?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I agree.
Speaker 2: You have to be careful whenever you compare the Space
Speaker 2: war Hammer forty K to Gears of War, because Dean
Speaker 2: did that once. Now Dean did it being like they
Speaker 2: were copying Gears of War. Dan, who's Dan, Dean Takahashi
Speaker 2: from games Beat, He said it once.
Speaker 1: And the Space Marine France.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the pup bad guy and they lost their mind
Speaker 2: at him for weeks and weeks and weeks, and so
Speaker 2: I'm always like afraid to be like this kind of
Speaker 2: reminds me of Gears of war I say anything, and
Speaker 2: people will be like the cophead guys saying stuff, let's
Speaker 2: get is going.
Speaker 1: To show up and beat him down.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah exactly. I mean like also, like if you're
Speaker 3: crying because someone said that the Space Marine is like
Speaker 3: years before, you're the worst kind of Warhammer pervert, and
Speaker 3: I live to see you cry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we have no respect for you.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, nor I respect people who like Warhammer. Respect
Speaker 3: I have. I'm one of those people who eternally wants
Speaker 3: to get into Warhammer, but instead just looks from a
Speaker 3: distance and goes, that seems nice over there, seems really cool.
Speaker 3: I'll have like a little taste when I reckon get
Speaker 3: in this. For the people who coming, like you don't
Speaker 3: know Warhammer, you cannot say, I'm like, eat my ass.
Speaker 2: I think this is the good game to get that taste,
Speaker 2: because they are doing a lot of good stuff with
Speaker 2: that that.
Speaker 3: Dark sci fi dark it's called don't care, it's called
Speaker 3: grim Dark.
Speaker 2: I remember the brand, all right, New polk question, how
Speaker 2: are you feeling about fair games?
Speaker 3: Why are there so many Marvel versus Capcom gifts in
Speaker 3: the chat? I just looked over it. It must they
Speaker 3: must have just absolutely must have just.
Speaker 2: Added it, usually showing ADS one and or ADS one. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's a new one.
Speaker 3: Incredible, incredibstic. It looks a really good one.
Speaker 1: That looks so good for audio listeners. It is real.
Speaker 3: It was right about the dab moment. Yeah, the dab
Speaker 3: moment in that one. It's if you watch it, there's
Speaker 3: a slight pause before the dab actually begins, and the
Speaker 3: energy that is like built up in that policy energy level.
Speaker 1: You can feel it. It's your hair stands up.
Speaker 3: You can hear it. When it You're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's good.
Speaker 2: How do you feeling about fair games? Optimistic, cautious, pessimistic, and
Speaker 2: uh what is fair games? Those are your options. We
Speaker 2: will get the results of this poll on Games Mornings
Speaker 2: on Giant Bomb on Monday.
Speaker 1: Uh. Well, okay, there's a chance I might be traveling.
Speaker 2: We'll see. Right now, feels like I probably won't be
Speaker 2: traveling because of the COVID, but we'll see. If not,
Speaker 2: we'll get it sometime next week.
Speaker 3: Uh. The thing I'll say about your COVID as a
Speaker 3: five time COVID champion, the first time, there's going to
Speaker 3: be a day where you think you're better, right, you
Speaker 3: need at least three more days after then.
Speaker 2: After that, I'm hoping that day is today because I
Speaker 2: do feel a lot better and.
Speaker 3: You will know when that day is. And if you
Speaker 3: if you're not sure if it's today, it's not today.
Speaker 3: There's going to be a day where you wake up
Speaker 3: and you're like, oh, I feel good. That is the
Speaker 3: day where you need to like that today now, yeah,
Speaker 3: you need to add two to three days on top,
Speaker 3: because that is where I've had that mistake. First couple
Speaker 3: of times I was like I feel good and then
Speaker 3: like this backslide hard and I was like I should
Speaker 3: have prepared for that. So you don't want to be
Speaker 3: on a travel thing and then being like oh shit,
Speaker 3: this is getting bad again.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean I haven't even had any negative tests yet,
Speaker 2: so the idea of me traveling by Monday seems really
Speaker 2: really slimm In this moment.
Speaker 3: That doesn't seem like a good end. Everyone's body is
Speaker 3: are different, so there's a chance that you wake up
Speaker 3: and you're like, oh this, I feel great. I'm fine.
Speaker 2: Well see, but either way, we'll get the results next week.
Speaker 2: In the meantime, dam thank you so much for hanging
Speaker 2: out with me and talking about video games Man. It
Speaker 2: really capped off the week in a great way.
Speaker 3: Thank you for having me as always. Hopefully I'll be
Speaker 3: back next Friday. Maybe if I'm around, you know, I
Speaker 3: sure get around. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well see, we've been making it happen again as always, everybody.
Speaker 2: A lot of great stuff happened on the website this week.
Speaker 2: Go watch those paxt videos. The panels were great. Uh,
Speaker 2: there was just a ton of fun in the meantime.
Speaker 2: Thank you for listening, Thank you for the for watching.
Speaker 2: You're the best audience in gaming. Until next time, have
Speaker 2: a good one, take care of yourself and goodbye, goodbye.