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Speaker 1: welcome to game Breaking News with Me Jeff Grub, your
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Speaker 1: In this episode, we're going to be talking about the
Speaker 1: switch to and nothing else. It's going to be a
Speaker 1: good one. We have Lucy James on the show. Lucy,
Speaker 1: how are you doing?
Speaker 2: I'm doing well? Thank you. I watched the direct went
Speaker 2: back to sleep. Yeah, I got it.
Speaker 1: Let's let's do it. Did you watch it from bed?
Speaker 2: It?
Speaker 1: Did you watch it from bed?
Speaker 2: Absolutely?
Speaker 1: Yes, good good, good moves. Yeah. Sorry, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: we're piecing everything together. Jan is on assignment right now,
Speaker 1: so we are. Me and Sean are kind of figuring
Speaker 1: everything out. I didn't have the right intro, so you
Speaker 1: might have heard you mean like a gummy bear there
Speaker 1: for a couple of seconds. All right, though, you know
Speaker 1: what it is. It's a big episode. There's a ton
Speaker 1: of switch to stuff, Lucy. I say, let's just get
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Speaker 1: have a lot to get into. Yeah, I set the
Speaker 1: thing and now let's do the damn thing. We got
Speaker 1: a lot to get into here. It is switch to
Speaker 1: is here or in so much as it's here. With
Speaker 1: they direct, they gave us a ton of info and
Speaker 1: then they gave us even more info after the direct,
Speaker 1: which we are going to be sifting through. All that
Speaker 1: stuff is coming in real hot. But let's go through
Speaker 1: everything we do know, and as more information comes in,
Speaker 1: we'll do our best to stay on top of it.
Speaker 1: If anyone in chat has any questions or concerns that
Speaker 1: you want us to bring up as we're talking about stuff,
Speaker 1: we'll keep an eye on that. I got Sean here
Speaker 1: helping me as well on the ones in the twos
Speaker 1: to throw it, So if you guys have questions, maybe
Speaker 1: you can ping him directly and he could jump in
Speaker 1: and give us some more insight as we're talking. Yes,
Speaker 1: they're making another switch, Lucy James. Do you want to
Speaker 1: know how much it costs?
Speaker 2: I actually do, because they did not reveal it within
Speaker 2: the direct.
Speaker 1: They did not reveal it in the direct, and you know,
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of reasons for that, but they didn't.
Speaker 1: They waited until afterward. They did give the price right
Speaker 1: away afterward, though. It is okay, four hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: dollars for the hardware, and then there is a bundle
Speaker 1: with Mario Kart World for five hundred dollars. What's your
Speaker 1: initial reaction to those prices?
Speaker 2: Sorry for audio listeners, because my initial reaction was a face,
Speaker 2: a little bit of not akin to the kind of
Speaker 2: face you make when you kind of suck a lemon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you made a grimace. Yeah, let's be honest, it
Speaker 1: was a grimace.
Speaker 2: It's yeah. I think overall that direct was a bit surprising.
Speaker 2: There were obviously some highlights in there. I was expecting
Speaker 2: way more first party. It was very interesting to see
Speaker 2: them focus so much on third party. Ooh, yeah, that's
Speaker 2: not a day one purchase for me at this point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it will be for me, but I'm
Speaker 1: a sucker for Nintendo stuff, so of course, But I
Speaker 1: do think that that price is high and yet not
Speaker 1: that surprising. As we were going through the direct I
Speaker 1: think we had like one more chance to all give
Speaker 1: our guests on what we thought the price was going
Speaker 1: to be, and I did was like, yeah, four fifty
Speaker 1: sounds right, And then I think we might have been
Speaker 1: on this show last week. It was recently, you know,
Speaker 1: we constantly we're discussing the prices. Like I got to
Speaker 1: point in my head it was like, because of all
Speaker 1: the uncertainty with tariffs and the global economic situation and
Speaker 1: uncertainty about even like you know, the value of the
Speaker 1: yen and all this other stuff, they probably would do
Speaker 1: some version of the of the switch To bundled with
Speaker 1: Mario Kart and try to get that price as high
Speaker 1: as possible. And that's exactly what they're doing. Five hundred
Speaker 1: dollars four Mario Kart World bundled in with switch To,
Speaker 1: and we'll go over what Mario Kart World is and
Speaker 1: all this other stuff. And the system's out. It's out
Speaker 1: July or I'm sorry, June. What was the date exactly? Fifth? Yeah,
Speaker 1: June fifth, June fifth, twenty twenty five, so about two
Speaker 1: months exactly from now that system will be out. I
Speaker 1: think that the Mario Kart move is especially smart because
Speaker 1: they are I mean, it's smart in one way and
Speaker 1: another way, it's kind of Oh, it's got people worried.
Speaker 1: They're charging eighty dollars for Mario Kart World, which is
Speaker 1: in open world Mario Kart game. It is looks big
Speaker 1: and new and shiny, and I'm definitely interested in it.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of features, and we're going to
Speaker 1: go through the direct here, you know, beat by beat
Speaker 1: here in a moment. But yeah, I think saying, okay,
Speaker 1: this game is eighty dollars, and I think it's is
Speaker 1: it seventy dollars digitally? If you get it separately, yeah,
Speaker 1: digitally so, but if you get it bundled in with
Speaker 1: the switch to, you are going to be saving money
Speaker 1: on day one. I think a lot of people are
Speaker 1: just gonna end up going for that five hundred dollars
Speaker 1: bundle and spend five hundred dollars on a switch to
Speaker 1: and not be too mad about it because they're going
Speaker 1: to feel they're getting a deal because of Mario Kart.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, I mean, Mariocott is what is these sales
Speaker 2: figures on Maricott eight at the moment.
Speaker 1: It's like it's approaching like sixty million, it's fifty million.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's wilde And I mean looking at the stuff
Speaker 2: that we saw in Maricott will today. Yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 2: know what They've got me. I will be playing a lot.
Speaker 2: You know what. The thing that got me was when
Speaker 2: they had different costumes And I really didn't expect that
Speaker 2: to learn that about myself this morning, when I was like, Peach,
Speaker 2: but she's in a new hat. Okay, Yeah, it's a shame.
Speaker 2: Like the ten dollars more for physical media. Man, are
Speaker 2: these just the times that we live in now? I
Speaker 2: guess so.
Speaker 1: I mean they are, they're hedging and for all these
Speaker 1: things that are so uncertain. You know, last month it
Speaker 1: was Trump's saying that he's going to put tariffs on
Speaker 1: imports from Mexico. A lot of these games are physically
Speaker 1: manufactured in places like Mexico and then they get imported
Speaker 1: in the United States. And if that if there was
Speaker 1: a tariff on that those games and it was like
Speaker 1: a twenty twenty five percent arif it was some insane number,
Speaker 1: that is something that they just couldn't. That is their
Speaker 1: margin right there, Like that's their entire margin. So it
Speaker 1: was going to be a problem no matter what. So
Speaker 1: they're kind of hedging against that. And really this is
Speaker 1: the saying, hey, just go buy digital, like it's going
Speaker 1: to just say it like it's gonna save us all money.
Speaker 1: In the end, it's gonna save us money. So we
Speaker 1: are actually finally for the first time, really going to
Speaker 1: pass down savings to you, at least initially. Obviously that
Speaker 1: is the sticker price. People who buy physical find other
Speaker 1: ways to save money by trading games in buying used
Speaker 1: and more people are going digital, that'll be a little
Speaker 1: bit more difficult, but you know, at least we did.
Speaker 2: Come out the other day and say that they have
Speaker 2: the game call trading thing.
Speaker 1: Yes, the family sharing, Yes, I'm sharing. That's part of this.
Speaker 2: All of this stuff, a lot of this stuff, and
Speaker 2: we'll talk about what they showed today is very reminiscent
Speaker 2: of how Xbox and PlayStation was showcasing the one and
Speaker 2: the PS four.
Speaker 1: YEP.
Speaker 2: Definitely, you know, it just kind of does kind of
Speaker 2: feel like going back in time ten years ago. But
Speaker 2: that's that's kind of Nintendo when you think about their
Speaker 2: approach to online and even even the chat stuff that
Speaker 2: they announced today, like that was very.
Speaker 1: Xbox three sixty. Yes, we'll get like I said, we'll
Speaker 1: go on.
Speaker 2: Yeah. My feelings about those guided like fake little multiplayer
Speaker 2: videos aside, it felt really strange for them to put
Speaker 2: that if so high up in the director be like, look,
Speaker 2: we're doing something new, like this is new, that's just
Speaker 2: discord Yeah, I anyway, yeah, it's expensive. And then I
Speaker 2: did say the end of the director you know there
Speaker 2: will be more announcements to come. We have a Mariocott
Speaker 2: direct in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Wow. So it's uh yeah, I think that
Speaker 1: they you know, they're passing on the savings for the
Speaker 1: digital games, but really they're raising the prices. Right. That's
Speaker 1: another thing that all these things are maneuvers from Nintendo
Speaker 1: to get away with as much as possible, which is
Speaker 1: what all these companies do. But like I you know,
Speaker 1: I'm catching myself. I'm sitting here saying like they're passing
Speaker 1: on the savings and really they raise the prices of games.
Speaker 1: That's what they did, even on the digital side. The
Speaker 1: game's going to be you know, more more expensive than
Speaker 1: the last Mario Kart. And yet I'm saying, thank you
Speaker 1: Nintendo for not charging me as much as the physical version.
Speaker 1: So it's like that they they understand what they're doing,
Speaker 1: they understand the psychology, and that is clearly what they've
Speaker 1: done with the five hundred dollars bundle and this very
Speaker 1: variable pricing between digital and physical.
Speaker 2: And I mean Nintendo as well, of all the companies,
Speaker 2: they're the ones whose games physically hold their value way
Speaker 2: more than anyone else like that, and digitally, you know,
Speaker 2: it's so rare that you will have a huge, huge
Speaker 2: sale on Nintendo products. And so yeah, I guess this
Speaker 2: is just it's just the future.
Speaker 1: All right, let's let's just go through it. So they
Speaker 1: did open with Mario Kart World. I got all this
Speaker 1: from Matt Pass at Polygon, although we'll sprinkle in some
Speaker 1: Jordan Midler here and there from VGC and a few
Speaker 1: other things as well. I don't know, first to himself
Speaker 1: as the Scotsman, it's kind of embarrassing, all right. A
Speaker 1: new Mario Kart game was teas during the Switch Tos
Speaker 1: initial reveal, but now it's official. Mario Kart World is
Speaker 1: arriving for the console's launch. This version's twist twist the
Speaker 1: weather changes, off roading is highly encouraged, and you can
Speaker 1: keep on driving to the next course. It packs twenty
Speaker 1: four racers into each race, making this the most open
Speaker 1: world experience of any Mario Kart. And then there's the
Speaker 1: promise of tons of social multiplayer modes. It's eighty dollars, yes,
Speaker 1: and it's it's so this one. I was like kind
Speaker 1: of like also hoping for it would be open world
Speaker 1: Mario Kart because I'm a big fan of Burnout Paradise.
Speaker 1: I could imagine driving around in karts with friends could
Speaker 1: be a very good time. I hope that Togeah, yeah exactly,
Speaker 1: like you're right. They made him very feel very social
Speaker 1: where it wasn't just about racing. It was like, let's
Speaker 1: get all together and we those. It was yeah, of course,
Speaker 1: very forts the horizon. I think this is a pretty
Speaker 1: good hook for Mario Kart, like for the tenth Mario Kart,
Speaker 1: however they count it. Uh, it's one that I'm at
Speaker 1: least like, oh this, I need to check this out,
Speaker 1: as opposed to if it was just Mario Kart eight again.
Speaker 1: I played so much of that. I mean of course
Speaker 1: again I would get it, but I wouldn't be quite
Speaker 1: as excited as I am for this version of this.
Speaker 1: Do you think this can work?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, absolutely Well, like Maricott eight, what, they can't
Speaker 2: release it for the fourth time, that's right, because it
Speaker 2: was you uh no, yeah, we you switch and then
Speaker 2: there was like an expanded version or something.
Speaker 1: Yep, that right.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's been around for like almost ten
Speaker 2: years for Maria Coott eight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, from the WU version. Yeah, I think it's been
Speaker 1: almost exactly ten years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, God, But no, I mean Marincott World makes sense,
Speaker 2: especially as they're pushing a lot of more multiplayer online functionality.
Speaker 2: It makes sense to really show off game that is
Speaker 2: going to take full advantage of that, which is Mariokott.
Speaker 2: So they got to show off game chat, They get
Speaker 2: to show off hopefully an easier way to link up
Speaker 2: with people, because man, I remember trying to get in
Speaker 2: with your friends on Nintendo Switch was an absolute pain
Speaker 2: in the ass. So I hope that they fixed that.
Speaker 2: But no, I mean, like why they're changing off roads
Speaker 2: kind of reducing that. It's to keep you playing, all right,
Speaker 2: because it kind of reduces that friction of like Hey,
Speaker 2: I'll go in, I'll play a course, and then I'm
Speaker 2: boot back up into a menu and then oh well
Speaker 2: I'm in a menu. Maybe I'll just go play something else, right,
Speaker 2: But if it's in this big, open world, you just
Speaker 2: want to drive to the next thing and keep people
Speaker 2: engaged and keep up having fun. And so I'm interested
Speaker 2: to see what else they're putting. I want to see
Speaker 2: the courses. But I mean it was a good showing
Speaker 2: for mariocartt World.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I think you're right that keeping people
Speaker 1: playing really giving people more to do in between when
Speaker 1: their friends aren't available to play online, because I think
Speaker 1: Mario or to play in person obviously Nintendo, which was
Speaker 1: a big local multiplayer system for a lot of families,
Speaker 1: I think that if they could build out a game
Speaker 1: where it's like, Okay, yes you're playing with your friends
Speaker 1: a lot of the time you're hanging out, but in
Speaker 1: between that, let's go set the fastest speed record on
Speaker 1: this one road the way burnout or fortsa works so
Speaker 1: that there's this asynchronous multiplayer element to it as well
Speaker 1: to kind of keep things interesting for a longer period
Speaker 1: of time. I find that very enticing, and I thought
Speaker 1: the game looked really good and kind of this big
Speaker 1: wet map where you drive between all the regular Mario biomes.
Speaker 1: That totally works for me. You mentioned wanting more seamless online. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll see how it actually ends up working. I bet
Speaker 1: Frien codes will still be involved in some way. But
Speaker 1: they introduce game chat, which seems to be the primary
Speaker 1: function chat. Yes, this seems to be the primary function
Speaker 1: for that Sea button. Is you press the Sea button
Speaker 1: and it's going to take you to the Nintendo version
Speaker 1: of Discord. Is exactly what it looked like with you
Speaker 1: complete with like cameras being in an overlay on top
Speaker 1: of the game that you're playing.
Speaker 2: In it in a little circle.
Speaker 1: Yes, right there. So there was a lot of like
Speaker 1: integration into the games themselves with this. So that's like
Speaker 1: the maybe some of the cool aspects of this, but
Speaker 1: at its most based level, it is a chat system
Speaker 1: so that you can communicate with other people online while
Speaker 1: you're playing games without having to use a separate phone app,
Speaker 1: which wasn't just.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say oh yeah wait, no, I'm just I'm story.
Speaker 2: We'd just play play Myra card together. Yeah, yeah, that was.
Speaker 1: Yep, absolutely, I figured that one out. Uh, yeah, and
Speaker 1: I think that it's we're going to see people probably
Speaker 1: use this, but I do wonder how that microphone is
Speaker 1: going to work. So they showed like, if you're holding
Speaker 1: the system, there's a microphone built into the switch to
Speaker 1: just like the Steam Deck, and that works pretty well
Speaker 1: on the Steam Deck. I bet it's going to work
Speaker 1: pretty good here. But it's also that same microphone that
Speaker 1: you will be using but when it's on the dock
Speaker 1: by your TV, so yeah, you're going to be kind
Speaker 1: of shouting at a mic that's of room away. Now
Speaker 1: they are promised some like noise canceling features, which hey,
Speaker 1: they are partners with Nvidia, who happens to have very
Speaker 1: good noise canceling features, so I suspect that will work fine.
Speaker 1: But I do think it's like, man, it would have
Speaker 1: been better if you could have put the microphone in
Speaker 1: the JOYCN instead, although I guess people are gripping that
Speaker 1: maybe that would sound terrible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess if your hands are all over.
Speaker 1: It PlayStation, the door sense works that way, right, it's
Speaker 1: got a microphone built in, although I bet most people don't.
Speaker 2: In between the sticks, you don't. There is no way
Speaker 2: that you would unless you are doing something mad. Yep,
Speaker 2: you would be rubbing on that one. But yeah, with
Speaker 2: the Joycon where your hands are either it's in the
Speaker 2: little connection thing or yeah, it would just be difficult
Speaker 2: to place. I did like the example with the like,
Speaker 2: oh you get this guy making a smoothie or whatever.
Speaker 2: It's okay, it'll gill get rid of that.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Yeah, because we mentioned it, like you're going
Speaker 1: to have like the little circles with your camera feed.
Speaker 1: There is a separate Nintendo switch to camera. It's going
Speaker 1: to be fifty dollars. You plug that into the USB
Speaker 1: sport on top of the switch. So there's one on
Speaker 1: the bottom where you can still charge it in the dock,
Speaker 1: and then there's one on top of the switch so
Speaker 1: you can add other accessories like this, and that enables
Speaker 1: people to see your video as well in the switch
Speaker 1: to game chat function. But also it'll work inside some games.
Speaker 1: You know, we'll talk about it more here, but they
Speaker 1: showed like some Mario Party mini games.
Speaker 2: Where eye Toy ask gaming.
Speaker 1: It looked like eye Toy, it looked like EyeToy and
Speaker 1: connected like it's great, yeah, And I was like for
Speaker 1: Mario Party, that sounds like a good time to me.
Speaker 1: And then there are other elements where it's like maybe
Speaker 1: it wasn't how you were interacting with the game, but
Speaker 1: it still had your little head in a bubble next
Speaker 1: to your character inside the game, so you could like
Speaker 1: see each other's facial expressions and things like that. And again,
Speaker 1: Mario Party was a pretty good use case for that,
Speaker 1: where it's like, I do want to see the misery
Speaker 1: on my friend's faces when we're playing Mario Party. That's
Speaker 1: half the fun.
Speaker 2: So I wanted to be able to make my me
Speaker 2: by scanning my face. Again, if we're gonna using the camera, wow,
Speaker 2: couch of you. I'm really interested in, as a parent,
Speaker 2: what you think about the increased social capabilities of switched
Speaker 2: to camera, because I don't know when I was playing.
Speaker 2: When I was watching the director, I was like, I
Speaker 2: don't know if I would want that for my kid
Speaker 2: to have access to you and there will be parental controls.
Speaker 2: They did say that, but it just I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm personally it's playing with random people online.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't need them seeing what people see when
Speaker 1: they play Uno on Xbox three sixty for sure, which
Speaker 1: is all just like my understand it's just mostly penises
Speaker 1: in cocaine, and so yeah, I want to keep that
Speaker 1: away from the kiddos. I'm gonna set that parental thing,
Speaker 1: so cameras are just not going to work no matter
Speaker 1: what in games for them, just period. Like that's how
Speaker 1: I would set that. And then it's like if they're
Speaker 1: in a friend group and it's like, as long as
Speaker 1: it's white list, that's how I'll do it. If it's
Speaker 1: a whiteless situation where it's like here's your cousin, they
Speaker 1: got this too, let's I will whitelist them so the
Speaker 1: camera and speech functionality works for them. Yeah, that's okay,
Speaker 1: and I expect with Nintendo that's probably how it's going
Speaker 1: to work. Like you have to be explicitly friends to
Speaker 1: make sure that that is going to go through.
Speaker 2: I think it is well because even my sister when
Speaker 2: she was setting up her like I gave it, I
Speaker 2: gave a switch to my nieces and she was like, oh,
Speaker 2: there was even an app for me to set it up.
Speaker 2: And so I would assume that parental guidance and controls
Speaker 2: would go in that. But unless you get a kid
Speaker 2: who's like, you know, nine, and then's just like I'm
Speaker 2: just going to set it up by myself.
Speaker 1: Oh dude, that's right. Yes, that's going to be a
Speaker 1: concerned for someone. But the like, the first video that
Speaker 1: wasn't in the direct they uploaded to the Nintendo YouTube
Speaker 1: channel was two videos about parental control apps. So they
Speaker 1: understand it's Nintendo. Of course, they like, there's a reason
Speaker 1: they haven't done this until this point other than the
Speaker 1: fact that they always do these things ten to fifteen
Speaker 1: to in this case, like twenty years later. How holds
Speaker 1: the Xbox three sixty actually, and tell me I don't
Speaker 1: need to know?
Speaker 2: No, the ioy was PS two man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and ioys PS PS two. That's right, it's easy,
Speaker 1: crazy all right. Then there was then Nintendo excuse me, local,
Speaker 1: let's do this one first, local play via game share.
Speaker 1: While the Switch allowed for local play on one console
Speaker 1: using two joy cons the Switch two's game share function
Speaker 1: will allow pals to play each other in a local
Speaker 1: setting using a single shared game even if the friend
Speaker 1: doesn't own a copy. That's something they've done on previous
Speaker 1: Nintendo consoles, so it'll be back. There will be basically
Speaker 1: share play.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, share play remember that one?
Speaker 1: Yep?
Speaker 2: PS four Yeah, still do that they do.
Speaker 1: We tried to do it for something the other day
Speaker 1: and eventually we got it work, and it was a hassle.
Speaker 1: We did not know what we were doing.
Speaker 2: So I remember Far Cry was the one that they
Speaker 2: show four Far Cry four where you could like pop
Speaker 2: into people's games and you'd have the oh keys, the kirat.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah right yes, where you can like see yeah.
Speaker 1: Didn't they eventually they did something like that with Google
Speaker 1: Stadia whatever. Either way, it's cool that that's functionalities back. Uh.
Speaker 1: Nintendo switched to Welcome to Her, so they have their
Speaker 1: own version of like Astro's Playroom or one of these
Speaker 1: introductory demo collections, and it's gonna cost money. It's not free.
Speaker 1: It's so weird, like basically you play, it's like a
Speaker 1: little character that I don't know this is gonna be
Speaker 1: in reference to that Nintendo fans get, but it looks
Speaker 1: like the same characters from like Clubhouse Games, that one
Speaker 1: that came out for Switch. But he's like shrunk down
Speaker 1: and walking around the face of a switch to joy
Speaker 1: Con and he's saying things like where are the magnets?
Speaker 1: And then the switch to the switch to Welcome to
Speaker 1: Her will show.
Speaker 2: You like Dan rik it when he said all of my.
Speaker 1: Weird characters sound like either Dan Ryker or Daffy Duck
Speaker 1: or both, and my Dan Rekord impression does sound like
Speaker 1: Daffy Duck. Yeah, I think that this is a neat thing.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine why the hair charchie. Why is this
Speaker 1: just not included in the switch to Like, you know,
Speaker 1: you get a steam Deck Lucy and that you get
Speaker 1: that little introductory thing from Valve, or you get their
Speaker 1: our headset and you get the introductory games that show
Speaker 1: you like what all the stuff does, and it's like
Speaker 1: you're in aperture science labs and your restaurant with stuff,
Speaker 1: and all that stuff's always free. What is wrong with Nintendo?
Speaker 1: Other than everything.
Speaker 2: They want money.
Speaker 1: They do seem to want money.
Speaker 2: Times they just want money.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't like just include it, Nintendo, don't be
Speaker 1: so weird. It's not just like educational. There were some
Speaker 1: like here's here take those switch to joycon move like
Speaker 1: a mouse, and you could do some putting minigames and
Speaker 1: things like that, but it's like nowhere even close to
Speaker 1: an Astros play room, and yet Astros Playroom included in
Speaker 1: every PS five. So very weird company doing very weird things.
Speaker 1: We mentioned this earlier. Mario Party Jamboree is getting an upgrade.
Speaker 1: This will be a new addition to Mario Party. It's
Speaker 1: Super Mario Party Jamboree. It'll have new games, new minigames.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they said new boards, but it
Speaker 1: will have a new function and this is to bring
Speaker 1: in all of that stuff with the camera and the
Speaker 1: game chat and all this stuff will be exclusive to
Speaker 1: Switch To, and I think they are planning to have
Speaker 1: there's an upgrade path and then there's also they're selling
Speaker 1: the game separately for switch To with all this stuff included.
Speaker 1: So it'll be a Switch two box on the shelf
Speaker 1: with this for the upgrade path, Lucy, so far as
Speaker 1: far as I can see, and again, Chat, we're keeping
Speaker 1: an eye on you. If you have more details, if
Speaker 1: you've seen anything more, let us know. They haven't really
Speaker 1: said what that upgrade path will be. If you want
Speaker 1: to buy it a la carte, if you want to
Speaker 1: go out there and get upgrade for the game that
Speaker 1: you own, they haven't said. But if you're a Nintendo
Speaker 1: Switch Online Expansion Pack member, that fifty dollars a year
Speaker 1: tier you get all of you get not all of them,
Speaker 1: you get many of these upgrades for free or included.
Speaker 2: I should say, yeah, to me, this feels like a
Speaker 2: ten dollar I think.
Speaker 1: That's probably going to be right, and then the switch
Speaker 1: to version is just seventy dollars, right, Like that's how
Speaker 1: they do that. Yeah, that's the way PlayStation's done it
Speaker 1: many times. I think Nintendo copying that, at least in
Speaker 1: the case of games where they have upgrades. That makes
Speaker 1: some sense. Yeah, I thought that. I thought all those
Speaker 1: Mario Party things looked pretty fun. They looked pretty cool.
Speaker 2: I genuine it was like icon't wait.
Speaker 1: Yeah, where they did even the eye toy stuff where
Speaker 1: they were balancing the goomers on their head. I thought
Speaker 1: that was very cute. And yeah, I kind of can't wait.
Speaker 1: Enhanced Zelda games and they're so they're enhancing both Breadth
Speaker 1: of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom with like
Speaker 1: things like HDR, upgraded graphics, improved frame rate. They showed
Speaker 1: it off. It looked really good. I guess this is
Speaker 1: the time to point out this is the first time
Speaker 1: Nintendo has ever done one of these streams or maybe
Speaker 1: uploaded anything to YouTube in four K. It was so
Speaker 1: oh wow. Yeah, and so it was like streaming at
Speaker 1: four K. A lot of these games are gonna output
Speaker 1: it four K and then you know, probably Zelda's case,
Speaker 1: get uprest like ten ADP and then or at least
Speaker 1: they'll render it at ten ADP and then upreds it
Speaker 1: to four K. But it looked really, really nice, and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh man, I would like to play
Speaker 1: these games again with improved visuals. That's really promising. As
Speaker 1: we mentioned there is the mouse functionality has been confirmed.
Speaker 1: They showed it off a bunch of times.
Speaker 2: They invented smart glass.
Speaker 1: Yes, they also that's right, that's right. Yeah. The app
Speaker 1: was that the Nintendo Today app? Or is it a
Speaker 1: separate app? Either way, there's a separate app can give
Speaker 1: you details about Zelda as you're playing the game, and
Speaker 1: you can then get QR codes when you create something
Speaker 1: using ultrahand uh to like when you create your various contraptions.
Speaker 1: You could share it with your friends using the app,
Speaker 1: or they could share it with you, or you can
Speaker 1: go online and find a resource so you don't have
Speaker 1: to build things yourself. But it was very smart glass.
Speaker 2: It's very do you remember the Pallenteer app?
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 2: They had Full Shadow of Mordel.
Speaker 1: That sounds familiar.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, they had like a smart glass kind of
Speaker 2: similar app where it was like tracking where you were,
Speaker 2: give you lore, give you a bunch of stuff. So yeah,
Speaker 2: very very nice mix of those.
Speaker 1: There are people who are like trying to help us
Speaker 1: find sources saying that the upgrades will be about ten dollars,
Speaker 1: but you know it's it's eighty five hundred yen in Japan,
Speaker 1: which is eight dollars and fifty cents. Ish. It gets
Speaker 1: very hard these days to do these conversions with you know, everything,
Speaker 1: I'm waving at the world everybody.
Speaker 3: That's for the full game. They're looking at, oh, one
Speaker 3: thousand for the while they're looking at twenty or sorry,
Speaker 3: two thousand yen for Kirby. So that's presumably going to
Speaker 3: translate to like ten dollars and twenty dollars depending.
Speaker 1: On the game, right, Okay, yes, thank you? Eighty five hundred, Yes,
Speaker 1: that would be eighty, like eighty five dollars.
Speaker 2: Jeez, you can get a text free if it's over
Speaker 2: fifty five.
Speaker 1: That's right. I just write it all off. I just
Speaker 1: buy it with the game mess account. I was all right.
Speaker 1: The next one was Drag and Drive, which Mike Minatti
Speaker 1: referred to as woke Rocket League. It's you.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, No he didn't.
Speaker 1: He did, and then he said, I'm not even sorry.
Speaker 1: It is a new game to show off the mouth
Speaker 1: less He's shocked. It worked in the moment. Let me see,
Speaker 1: I don't worry. It's he got away with it. They
Speaker 1: show basically, this is a way for them to have
Speaker 1: mouse functionality in one game, so that it could be like,
Speaker 1: here's something you can do, and it is characters in
Speaker 1: wheelchairs like dunking and basketball, and as you are moved,
Speaker 1: both joycon as mice. On its surface, it is like
Speaker 1: you're controlling the wheels of the wheelchair. It's neat.
Speaker 2: It looked really cool, like especially the way where you
Speaker 2: could wave to get someone to throw the ball at you,
Speaker 2: like to dung like. I thought there was a really
Speaker 2: fun implementation of those motion controls and the little mouse
Speaker 2: watching out.
Speaker 1: I did too. I think that this would have been
Speaker 1: better if it was like one of the games in
Speaker 1: like a new Pilot Wings or like a variation on
Speaker 1: that series where it's like, let's put a bunch of
Speaker 1: ideas into one game. I don't know how much this
Speaker 1: can sort of stand. Oh, I can't. That didn't mean
Speaker 1: to do that. I swear to God, I didn't to
Speaker 1: do it. I didn't mean it. Lucy, No, don't cancel me.
Speaker 1: Oh she's a shaved just to be on the show.
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't want to get trigged down.
Speaker 1: I don't believe you. I don't know if this one
Speaker 1: can sort of survive on its own. It does remind
Speaker 1: me of like Destruction All Stars, and honestly, Destruction all
Speaker 1: Stars look better than this, so we'll see, yeh. Then
Speaker 1: there was a bunch of third party games. Let's go
Speaker 1: through them here. Delta Rune is going to be coming
Speaker 1: to the system. That's the complete game. Trappers one, two, three,
Speaker 1: and four all in one bundle yep, yep, Borderlands four yep.
Speaker 1: And then let's see.
Speaker 2: Was Randy Pittford in a shiny jacket?
Speaker 1: Oh weird he wears shiny jackets now, a very interesting
Speaker 1: character development for him. Sidmeyers Civilization seven Nintendo Switch to edition.
Speaker 1: That mouse functionality added, as many predicted it would, w
Speaker 1: w E two K, NBA two K, Survival Kids Enter
Speaker 1: the Gungeon two Star Seeker Steer Expeditions, a new asterneer game,
Speaker 1: Cyber Cyberpunk twenty seventy seven Ultimate Edition, Final Final Fantasy
Speaker 1: seven remake, Integrate elden Ring Tarnished Edition, Hadis two Street
Speaker 1: Fighters six and then as I think Sean added here,
Speaker 1: local wireless matches are so back, baby, that will be
Speaker 1: pretty cool. Actually, let's see Damon X Machina Titanic Zion
Speaker 1: Split Fiction, EA Sports Football Club, EA Sports, Madden NFL,
Speaker 1: Hogwarts Legacy.
Speaker 2: Funny to me that they put EA Sports on that
Speaker 2: because those versions of FIFA are what was it? IGN
Speaker 2: would give them two out of ten every year and
Speaker 2: they would copy paste their own review because EA would
Speaker 2: just copy paste every year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we I don't know if we know
Speaker 1: that's going to be the case anymore. This could be
Speaker 1: full fat FIFA.
Speaker 2: But it's still one of my favorite things. I jenas
Speaker 2: I've done Simon Cotty Special.
Speaker 1: It was a good move, and that's very fair to
Speaker 1: that game because those were just roster updates and that's it,
Speaker 1: and they were charging for it new every year. Hit
Speaker 1: Man World of Assassination Signature Edition, and they showed off
Speaker 1: a glimpse, a sort of tease of Project Double O seven,
Speaker 1: which is coming to switch to as well, from IOI
Speaker 1: Interactive Bravely to.
Speaker 2: All the places I thought we would see. Yeah, Project
Speaker 2: double O seven, I would not have been the switch
Speaker 2: to reveal.
Speaker 1: I know that I felt the same way. And then
Speaker 1: it's like once it's going, It's like James Bond and
Speaker 1: Nintendo have a long history. That's where a lot of
Speaker 1: gamers still associate James Bond with Golden I Double oh
Speaker 1: seven on N sixty four, So I guess it does fit.
Speaker 1: But you're right, I was not expecting that to be
Speaker 1: at this showcase. Bravely, Default, Flying Fairy HD remaster, Yakaza
Speaker 1: zero Director's Cut, can Itsugami brow Yeah.
Speaker 2: New cut scenes. Yeah, I'm gonna be playing. Let's genuinely,
Speaker 2: I tweet I posted this on Blue Sky, but I
Speaker 2: was like, why is it. I'm forty minutes into the
Speaker 2: direct and Yakaza is the killer app for the switch
Speaker 2: to for me?
Speaker 1: Yeah, It's that was surprising and really that you know.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep going through this list in a second,
Speaker 1: but let's talk about this real quick. A lot of
Speaker 1: these versions coming to switch to are like Colon New Edition,
Speaker 1: Director's Cut, Tarner's Edition. They're doing the Batman Arkham Knight
Speaker 1: Armored Edition. But it feels like in a lot of
Speaker 1: these cases, this is like pretty robust, like there's a
Speaker 1: lot of extra stuff in there, or at least a
Speaker 1: little something extra here and there. I think there are,
Speaker 1: For example, in the Tarnished edition of Elden Ring, it's
Speaker 1: going to include some Nintendo stuff in there. I think
Speaker 1: it's what people are saying, not a ton, but maybe
Speaker 1: a few items that are inspired by Nintendo.
Speaker 2: Well, so you'll have the Master Sault.
Speaker 1: Something like that.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Again, I'm working, I'm trying to keep up here, but
Speaker 1: if people want to put exactly what that was, I
Speaker 1: thought that's what I saw. But a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: does have or a lot of these games do have
Speaker 1: things like that.
Speaker 2: I can of love that, but it's also very surprising
Speaker 2: to me that the Hitline stuff especially, It is so
Speaker 2: surprising to me that Nintendo would allow their properties to
Speaker 2: be used in such violent games like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, you know, I think Nintendo probably got
Speaker 1: sold on to be like it's kind of slapstick, but
Speaker 1: also Nintendo, you know, working with frum Off where we'll
Speaker 1: get to that in a little bit on an M
Speaker 1: rated Yeah, so I don't know, maybe they've changed their
Speaker 1: tune a little bit, but yes, the hit Man World
Speaker 1: of Sassin Assassination Signature edition also has Nintendo inspired stuff.
Speaker 1: Uh so yeah, I hope you get to play with
Speaker 1: Louis act.
Speaker 2: I just thought I could be playing the Cabaret Club
Speaker 2: mini game on the go all the time exactly.
Speaker 1: That's this will be how I actually fully finally play.
Speaker 1: Yeahcuz Zero, I believe.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, we should play through.
Speaker 1: That would be fantastic.
Speaker 2: Uh Colleen, you me Madima.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Hollow Night's Silk Song. I actually did appear in
Speaker 1: a sizzle reel for like five seconds they said coming
Speaker 1: out this year.
Speaker 2: Saying to me, yep, that was insane. I was like,
Speaker 2: if you're going to put silk Song in something and
Speaker 2: still say that it's twenty twenty five, and the krum
Speaker 2: that you give people, it's just boy, it's just it's
Speaker 2: just funny. Now, it's just funny.
Speaker 1: Yep, chat is right. I was mixing up hit Man
Speaker 1: and Elden ring a hit Man is the thing with
Speaker 1: the items that are inspired by Ninten. Let's see if
Speaker 1: I have you bring this in here real quick so
Speaker 1: people could.
Speaker 2: Just I was gonna say because there's Yeah, I don't
Speaker 2: I met where would where would they? That would be
Speaker 2: so out of character for yeah, got the moonlight great swords.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm the big reference. I'm just seeing these
Speaker 1: Mario items in Hitman for the first time.
Speaker 2: Oh wait, wait you.
Speaker 1: I We'll see here if you to shoot catch up
Speaker 1: watching the video version on the site. That is hit
Speaker 1: Man Agent forty seven in a red suit with a mustache.
Speaker 1: And then you can get a mushroom apparently in a
Speaker 1: golden wrench maybe that he could throw at people I
Speaker 1: don't know. And then let's see here there is also
Speaker 1: a Luigi one. You can dress him up as Hitman
Speaker 1: Luigi and kill maybe. There's definitely levels with CEOs and
Speaker 1: at everybody.
Speaker 2: So oh, I mean the final one on this signature
Speaker 2: pack where he has the white suit with the red shirt,
Speaker 2: and I was like, that's giving hear you?
Speaker 1: Oh for sure? Yes, I see that too. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a curio look for sure. All right, let's get through
Speaker 1: the rest of this. Let me bring it back here
Speaker 1: real quick. Uh okay, so Hogwarts Legacy I left off
Speaker 1: there no story of seasons, Grand Bizarre, good Night Universe
Speaker 1: two point Museum, Wild Hearts, Witchbrook, Puyo Puyo, Tetris Two
Speaker 1: S Run Factory, Guardians of Asthma, Marvel Cosmic, Marvel Cosmic Invasion,
Speaker 1: Star Wars Outlaws, which was the only Ubi Soft game
Speaker 1: at this entire event. Normally UBI Soft's are right there
Speaker 1: day and day, ready to go with a ton of support.
Speaker 1: Seems like they just dance. There was no just dance,
Speaker 1: nothing like that now. I mean that doesn't mean they
Speaker 1: don't doesn't show up somewhere else eventually, but Ubi stuft
Speaker 1: is maybe not in the place where they once were,
Speaker 1: where they could be ready to go with a bunch
Speaker 1: of support for new hardware. I think that says more
Speaker 1: about UBI Soft than anything else, because you got EA
Speaker 1: bringing games to this thing, and ub stuff can only
Speaker 1: do Outlaws, but Outlaws on the switch to That's pretty exciting.
Speaker 1: I like that game. No Bonaga's Ambition Awakening Complete addition,
Speaker 1: Fast Fusion, Shadow Labyrinth, Rado remastered The Mystery of the
Speaker 1: soulas Army No Sleep for Economy Date from AI. The
Speaker 1: Somnium Files. I'm gonna say I the Somnium Files as
Speaker 1: how I think they said it in the direct re
Speaker 1: Animal Fortnite, Arcade Archives two, Ridge Racer coming out launch day.
Speaker 1: This was a big one for Mikey. He's wanted some
Speaker 1: more Ridge Racer stuff. I'm also pretty excited about the
Speaker 1: idea of Arcade Archives two, implying that we'll get like
Speaker 1: sort of the next gen of Arcade ports to the
Speaker 1: switch To. That's that's pretty fun. Professor Layton and the
Speaker 1: New World of Steam. First time seeing that in a minute,
Speaker 1: I like Pressure Layton quite a bit, Tamago Chi Plaza,
Speaker 1: Human Fall Flat two, and then there was a bunch
Speaker 1: of other things that kind of like had some smaller
Speaker 1: upgrades from Switch one games like SIEV seven, which will
Speaker 1: now support the mouse, as we talked about earlier. Alright,
Speaker 1: let's keep going here. High Rule Warriors, Age of Imprisonment.
Speaker 1: Zelda is back for switch To in the classic way
Speaker 1: Nintendo is known for before before Temple Zelda releases, they've
Speaker 1: had games like this in the past. Is that this
Speaker 1: is the third one. It's going to take place before
Speaker 1: Tiers of the Kingdom, and it's going to tell the
Speaker 1: sort of history of Zelda. Being stuck in the past
Speaker 1: is the implication here. So that's pretty cool. Although I'm
Speaker 1: i don't know. I'm not super hot on these games.
Speaker 1: I get pretty bored with them kind of fast. Although
Speaker 1: for this one it should run a lot better than
Speaker 1: those games did on the Switch one, which were notorious
Speaker 1: for having bad frame rates.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I tried to play Pasona five Strikers
Speaker 2: and that was not a not a fun muso experience.
Speaker 1: Out Chilli Bean, Chilli Bean, chill.
Speaker 2: Just excited about Professor Layton.
Speaker 1: I don't blame her, me too. GameCube games so coming
Speaker 1: to Nintendo Switch Online, this is something that I think
Speaker 1: I was hoping for, but it was hard to get
Speaker 1: my hopes up too high. They had games announced like
Speaker 1: during this thing, including the Legend of Zelda, The wind Waker,
Speaker 1: Soul Caliber two, and F Zero g X. All these
Speaker 1: things will support that sort of online mode where it's
Speaker 1: basically they are faking local multiplayer with multiple systems online
Speaker 1: so it feels like you can actually play online against
Speaker 1: one another. You can. And then games announced to come
Speaker 1: later include Super Mario Sunshine Fire Emblem, Path of Radiance,
Speaker 1: Pokemon Coliseum, Pokemon XD, Gale of Darkness, Super Mario Strikers,
Speaker 1: Chibi Robo, Luigi's Mansion. Now I do some point it
Speaker 1: put this here and I want to thank them. Metroit
Speaker 1: Prime too not announced for this, and that makes me
Speaker 1: think maybe there's still a chance. Because Metroit Prime did
Speaker 1: not get a release date. During this event, they did
Speaker 1: show off improvements for Metro Prime four, which included like
Speaker 1: it's going to run at ten eighty one and twenty
Speaker 1: frames per second, which is a really wild thing for
Speaker 1: the Nintendo system. But I'm hoping that it's going to
Speaker 1: go like Pickman did, where a month before Pickman four
Speaker 1: came out they put two or one and two on
Speaker 1: Switch and that's long after they are had three to looks.
Speaker 1: So I'm hoping this situation is similar here where a
Speaker 1: month out from Metro Prime four, whenever that comes out,
Speaker 1: now it's the only like that's coming out. Later this
Speaker 1: year we get Metro Prime two and three. That's definitely
Speaker 1: copium dream. Yes, maybe it's opium, and maybe that's all
Speaker 1: it really is, but I will we'll see. I think
Speaker 1: there's a chance that that's the way it could go down.
Speaker 1: But hey, GameCube games on Nintendo Switch Online, Lucy, they
Speaker 1: probably let you pick and choose which ones you download
Speaker 1: the other. The way it works right now is with
Speaker 1: like the Super Nintendo app. It just downloads all those
Speaker 1: ROMs onto your switch when you have that app, so
Speaker 1: they're just ready to go. But those are megabytes. This
Speaker 1: is each one of these games is going to be
Speaker 1: about a gigabyte. Like you probably don't want all of
Speaker 1: them taking up your space on your switch to right.
Speaker 2: Well, because also didn't they say that the SD cards
Speaker 2: aren't going to work.
Speaker 1: The original SD cards from the switch one will work
Speaker 1: right like you know, I said, like from the switch one,
Speaker 1: the ones that worked on the switch one, like old
Speaker 1: technology of SD cards. There's a new generation of SD
Speaker 1: card extreme that will work on switch to you, and
Speaker 1: those are going to be faster and support larger sizes.
Speaker 1: But this system also if.
Speaker 2: You already have a bunch yeah, if you already have
Speaker 2: like a bunch of storage options and then they're not
Speaker 2: going to work, it would suck if this new system
Speaker 2: just automatically downloaded stuff for you, that would blow. So
Speaker 2: I really hope they don't do that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I they probably won't. I think that makes sense.
Speaker 1: But hey, overall, I'm excited about this. There are a
Speaker 1: ton of GameCube games that really stand no chance of
Speaker 1: getting remastered that they can put in here. There's even
Speaker 1: more that, like, we'll have licenses that will make it
Speaker 1: difficult for them to even end up in this thing,
Speaker 1: but this is a good middle ground of hey, like
Speaker 1: star Fox Assault should end up in here eventually, so
Speaker 1: looking forward to it. All right, you know we mentioned
Speaker 1: all those third party games that's this is kind of
Speaker 1: like when they were happening, and then we got on
Speaker 1: the other side of that and they sort of did
Speaker 1: the you know, the home stretch with from softwarares The
Speaker 1: Dusk Bloods, which really came out of nowhere. For me,
Speaker 1: I was not expecting this. Really, we were watching it
Speaker 1: and while while I was looking at I'm like, it
Speaker 1: looks like a from Soft game, But a lot of
Speaker 1: games look like from Soft games these days because everyone's
Speaker 1: inspired by them. And so I was like, maybe maybe
Speaker 1: this is that Castlevania game that has been rumored for
Speaker 1: a long time, And then.
Speaker 2: It I wondered if it was Castlevania, it.
Speaker 1: Would have made a ton of sense. In fact, it
Speaker 1: would make more sense than what this actually is, which
Speaker 1: is from software to the Dusk Bloods. It is separate
Speaker 1: from that Eldering Night Ring game, but this is also
Speaker 1: kind of focused on multiplayer It is an eight player
Speaker 1: PVPVE title with online multiplayer at its core. Now, PVPVE
Speaker 1: makes it sound like something inspired by like an extraction
Speaker 1: shooter or something like that.
Speaker 2: Well, Nightrain has PV Yeah, that's PvE.
Speaker 1: Yes, this is PVPVP. Yes, So this is going to
Speaker 1: be player versus player versus environment based. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of a good example of.
Speaker 2: Coll theme in elden Ring, right, you can't you can
Speaker 2: do PV. You can't obviously do PvP a lot of
Speaker 2: prom games. So is it like what Night Rain meets
Speaker 2: the Colors theum?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean here's my but do you do you?
Speaker 2: I wonder if you spend like similar to the night
Speaker 2: Rain loop, but you spend the day, you spend the
Speaker 2: day collecting, battling AI enemies whatever, and then you face
Speaker 2: off against someone else at night or I don't know,
Speaker 2: it's interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah. My expectation here is it's two teams of four
Speaker 1: going in and competing for a big prize that you
Speaker 1: have to fight, you know, in game enemies to get.
Speaker 1: But then if you run into each other, you need
Speaker 1: to take the other team out. And there's there have
Speaker 1: been other games like that. I mean the one that
Speaker 1: keeps coming to mind. I think there was like a
Speaker 1: Robin Hood game or something like that that didn't Yeah,
Speaker 1: baby back and from making it. That's a good example. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think from Soft really nail this, but also from
Speaker 1: Soft's online is often weird and and you know, byzantine
Speaker 1: and weird. As I was saying how I want Nintendo
Speaker 1: system to work, but I mean that doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: wouldn't it wouldn't be fun. So I'm hopeful, and it
Speaker 1: looks really interesting. This game is exclusive to the switch To.
Speaker 1: They are saying this is a switch to game only.
Speaker 2: Is it time exclusive?
Speaker 1: They aren't saying that, but I bet it ends up
Speaker 1: on PC eventually, maybe not that long afterward.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm on, I'm on the Dust Bloods official website. Yeah,
Speaker 2: is it me Zaki? I don't know. He's referenced. He's
Speaker 2: referenced in the press release as just the president of
Speaker 2: from Software.
Speaker 1: He's doing, uh their they have they're having some conversation
Speaker 1: with him. Nintendo is, but I don't think he's directing this.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's involved. He's involved in all their games,
Speaker 1: but I don't think this is a.
Speaker 2: Go ahead plays the buzz one a group that has
Speaker 2: transcended human strength thanks to their special blood, and throw
Speaker 2: yourself into a violent pray for first blood as the
Speaker 2: twilight of humanity approaches.
Speaker 1: I mean it sounds like a party to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, eight players vie for supremacy among themselves and against
Speaker 2: challenging those.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I would have to find the source, Jeff.
Speaker 3: I believe when they announced the talking to the director thing,
Speaker 3: I believe he was mentioned as director of Miyazaki.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I thought I heard that as well, Sean So, so, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's let's look into that. At the very least, you know,
Speaker 1: this is a from Soft game, just like Armored Corps
Speaker 1: or Dark Souls too, where it's even when he's not involved,
Speaker 1: he's there, very much involved in development. Uh, in a
Speaker 1: way those watch it, Yes, he's watching. It's not like
Speaker 1: even like a Meamoto situation these days, where Miyamoto is there,
Speaker 1: but he's very much in the background, and it's sort
Speaker 1: of just like understanding, like maybe he could show up
Speaker 1: one day and we want to make sure he's impressed.
Speaker 1: It's not like that he is there giving advice to
Speaker 1: all the people making these games by guiding them.
Speaker 3: I can't find what we say all, but on the
Speaker 3: Nintendo YouTube channel is mentioned has learn more about the
Speaker 3: Dust Bloods and creators voice interview with director Miyazaki available
Speaker 3: on the Fishing Nintendo website in April fourth.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, all right, then this is Miyazaki's new game.
Speaker 1: I think that the way I read this, Lucy, is
Speaker 1: from Software does like working with partners, and they've had
Speaker 1: some really good U success working with Vanda Nanco for
Speaker 1: a long time. I don't think they have this what's that.
Speaker 1: I don't think band MKO is involved in this, that
Speaker 1: this is all this is just between Nintendo and from Soft.
Speaker 1: But I think the way I read it is Fromsoft
Speaker 1: did not necessarily love the way things went down with Bloodborne,
Speaker 1: and I think that they're like happy to go work
Speaker 1: with another big company on something like this and uh
Speaker 1: and Nintendo was apparently ready and willing to make that happen.
Speaker 1: That's the weird side of it to me, is Nintendo
Speaker 1: being like, yes, we'll help from Software make an exclusive
Speaker 1: game for the Switch too. But in terms of like
Speaker 1: you know, coming on this direct, Lucy, I think you
Speaker 1: mentioned it's like you know that's this isn't a day
Speaker 1: one thing for me and it was always going to
Speaker 1: be day one thing for me. But I think if
Speaker 1: it didn't have this game, I would have been, like,
Speaker 1: you know that direct felt like it was it didn't
Speaker 1: quite have everything it needed. It wasn't fully there. Clearly
Speaker 1: still not enough first party games announced for early the
Speaker 1: early part of the Switch to His Life, but the
Speaker 1: fact that it's like they have a Frumsoft game that's exclusive,
Speaker 1: I kind of can't miss that. So this is interesting.
Speaker 2: But it's not until twenty six, so that's right.
Speaker 1: This is not until twenty six, yes, so people have
Speaker 1: plenty of time to get their hands on a Switch
Speaker 1: to before this comes out. I'm sorry. There are so
Speaker 1: many cool images in this trailer, like that insane moon
Speaker 1: that looks like Yoko Taro and then that flying ten
Speaker 1: men who had like a rocket pack steam thing. I
Speaker 1: don't know, it's pretty wild, all right.
Speaker 2: Some way Vassi video is shaken.
Speaker 1: Yep, he's got a lot of work to do. Okay.
Speaker 1: They didn't end it there. There were still two more
Speaker 1: our first party games from Nintendo to talk about. The
Speaker 1: first one was the new game from mast Hero Sakarai
Speaker 1: Kirby air Riders, which will launch this year. It is
Speaker 1: a sequel to the Kirby Air Ride game for the GameCube.
Speaker 1: I think that uh Sakai always I say it's a
Speaker 1: soft spot for this game. He is a soft spot
Speaker 1: for all of his games, So the fact that he
Speaker 1: returned to this franchise isn't too surprising. But maybe it's
Speaker 1: a little surprising because of how it fits into the
Speaker 1: lineup of the Switch to Lucy. They have Mario Kart
Speaker 1: and then they have another racing game in Kirby Air Riders.
Speaker 1: That's a little strange, but they will play very differently,
Speaker 1: And I think Sakarai probably at this point is like
Speaker 1: saying to Nintendo, I'm just gonna make what I want
Speaker 1: to make, and you guys can say yes or no,
Speaker 1: But if you say no, I'm just not going to
Speaker 1: work on anything for you. So I think he kind
Speaker 1: of can write his own checks at this point.
Speaker 2: I think so too, And I don't know, I'm excited
Speaker 2: to see him work on something that he's also very
Speaker 2: passionate about, and like, I don't know, you could tell
Speaker 2: that by the end of Smash he was just very
Speaker 2: over it. Oh yeah, so yeah, I hope he just
Speaker 2: doesn't get run into the ground. I hope he's working
Speaker 2: on something that he's enjoying.
Speaker 1: Yep, and showing the trailer here. It's so they don't
Speaker 1: show too much. Eventually we get to I mean, these
Speaker 1: this is all CG and stuff. But the game's coming
Speaker 1: out this year, so we'll see more of it at
Speaker 1: some point. But yeah, even does the thing where it's
Speaker 1: like Kirby Air Ride and then they put the RS
Speaker 1: on the end to make it Kirby Air Riders. It's like,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? That's like, that's a weird way
Speaker 1: to introduce this game. But it definitely was a saccharai
Speaker 1: style trailer. Yeah, all right, and then the final thing
Speaker 1: was what I am presuming and maybe I could be corrected,
Speaker 1: but I think this is the new game from the
Speaker 1: three D Mario team, Donkey Kong Bonanza, a Donkey Kong
Speaker 1: three D platformer where that is using the new Donkey
Speaker 1: Kong design that we saw in uh when we first
Speaker 1: were seeing Mario Kart World. This game looks really good.
Speaker 2: It's it looks really fun. It looks not a Donkey
Speaker 2: Kong person.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think that's going to matter for that.
Speaker 1: This seems like Nintendo kind of taking Donkey Kong back
Speaker 1: and doing their own thing with it. So like if
Speaker 1: you have a history of like Donkey Kong sixty four
Speaker 1: and Donkey Kong Country, those are all rare games, and
Speaker 1: I don't think that Nintendo ever felt felt like they
Speaker 1: those were fully their So obviously those games sold very well,
Speaker 1: especially the Country game, so Nintendo adopted them. But I
Speaker 1: think there's a reason that this is a redesigned Donkey Kong.
Speaker 1: It's meant to be like this is a new fresh start,
Speaker 1: and I yeah, I think it looks fantastic, especially all
Speaker 1: these things that they're doing with like Donkey Kong punching
Speaker 1: the ground, picking up chunks of earth and deforming the
Speaker 1: land like geomotting in Red Faction. It is a pretty
Speaker 1: wild thing to see. I mean, I'm seeing this. It
Speaker 1: looks like when you were punching all the bits in
Speaker 1: Astrobot and how fun that was, but now on a
Speaker 1: scale where you can deform the entire terrain. And we
Speaker 1: don't know like what the limitations are, but they definitely
Speaker 1: are showing a lot of that in this trailer, so
Speaker 1: it's going to be a focus. I am super excited
Speaker 1: about this, and this game is not some far away thing,
Speaker 1: it's not even holiday if this is coming out in July,
Speaker 1: so switch to will come out in June. Donkey Kung
Speaker 1: Binanza will be there in July. To me, that feels
Speaker 1: like a pretty good one two punch between Mario Kart
Speaker 1: and this. How do you feel about the launch window
Speaker 1: from Nintendo?
Speaker 2: One hundred percent? I mean, I'm excited to see more things,
Speaker 2: and especially like Third Party as they lock in releases
Speaker 2: a lot of them. I almost posted it because it
Speaker 2: became kind of a meme to me even halfway through
Speaker 2: the direct where it was like, will be available on
Speaker 2: Nintendo switch too when it launches later this year, or
Speaker 2: like day one when it launches later this year, because
Speaker 2: it was so funny that clearly the partners had not
Speaker 2: really were not allowed to say yep, and so it
Speaker 2: was like very clear. But no, I think that's a
Speaker 2: really good window.
Speaker 1: Forum.
Speaker 2: I think you are kind of giving different audiences what
Speaker 2: they want. You know, you are really keying in on
Speaker 2: people who want to play the multiplayer, who want to
Speaker 2: just unbox it around the TV, have that family time
Speaker 2: like it's a Christmas morning kind of vibe Christmas in July,
Speaker 2: Christmas in June, and then yeah, you've got the single
Speaker 2: play stuff kind of start to roll out, and I
Speaker 2: like that they are giving it, you know, like a
Speaker 2: month between these two releases, because yeah, I just honestly,
Speaker 2: both of them really appealed to me, and I wouldn't
Speaker 2: know which one to jump into first. Yeah, I'm glad.
Speaker 1: I think when I look at this trail, the reason
Speaker 1: I think it's the Mario team and I have not
Speaker 1: had that confirmed, but there are character designs that look
Speaker 1: just like the enemies right here, this guy maybe we'll
Speaker 1: get on this, say, maybe he'll make his face again.
Speaker 1: One of these bosses. Look. Oh yeah, this guy right
Speaker 1: here looks a lot like the brutals from Super Mario Odyssey.
Speaker 1: I feel like the same. Maybe you know, maybe it's
Speaker 1: same artists, different team, but I doubt it. I think
Speaker 1: this is a three D Mario team, So Lucy, that means,
Speaker 1: are we not getting a three D Mario anytime soon?
Speaker 1: I kind of can't see how that would happen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that means that's bizarre because it's like it's been
Speaker 1: a long time since Odyssey.
Speaker 2: It's yeah, twenty seventeen was Odyssey.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh, I'm just catching up on the stream to see
Speaker 2: where you paused it. There is there's that, man. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean I really I think part of me we
Speaker 2: just really hoped for it because I loved, honestly so
Speaker 2: much that I was hoping for for all the next one. Yes, however,
Speaker 2: if this is going to be kind of a gateway
Speaker 2: game for me to get more into Donkey Kong, because
Speaker 2: I didn't really grow up a Nintendo and so it's
Speaker 2: more like I'm siphoning the excitement that I had about
Speaker 2: a new three D Mario into this three D Donkey Kong.
Speaker 2: And also the name fantastic. Yes, I love it.
Speaker 1: Bonanza Bananza, he likes bananas. Someone mentioned Red Faction Gorilla,
Speaker 1: as in this is a Gorilla and it's the same
Speaker 1: text tech as a Red Faction game, which very funny. Yeah, listen,
Speaker 1: I am I want a new three D Mario, But this,
Speaker 1: in my eye eyes is basically that it's basically that,
Speaker 1: just with a slightly different character. And frankly, you know,
Speaker 1: Donkey Kong and Mario they're in the same universe. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if Mario shows up and some like
Speaker 1: tertiary way in this game, like where he's just kind
Speaker 1: of on the side and then you know, maybe at
Speaker 1: some point he becomes a playable character. I doubt it,
Speaker 1: but I'm completely happy with this. I think it looks
Speaker 1: fantastic and maybe gives them the freedom to do some
Speaker 1: stuff that is very different that they were like, Hey,
Speaker 1: let's try to get outside the box of the Mario,
Speaker 1: and they get so outside the box. Look, actually, let's
Speaker 1: just use Donkey Kong instead. And this lines up with
Speaker 1: the Donkey Kung movie and the Donkey Kong Ride. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's opening up universal there's a Donkey Kung Ride, So
Speaker 1: this is all kind of working in that direction. All right.
Speaker 1: There are plenty of other things to talk about, and
Speaker 1: we are running out of time, so let's do our
Speaker 1: best to get through some other elements about the switch
Speaker 1: to an info that has dropped since the direct has ended.
Speaker 1: It ended with Donkey Kong bananza. That was their one
Speaker 1: last thing. They gave us the release date. They didn't
Speaker 1: give us the price on stream. We talked about that
Speaker 1: already though, So let's get to some of these tidbits.
Speaker 1: People are a little concerned about this thing called game
Speaker 1: key cards that really kind of just add some clarity
Speaker 1: to how some things are gonna work where when a
Speaker 1: game is either too big for the game card or
Speaker 1: they don't want to use a larger game card to
Speaker 1: save money for whatever reason. So instead of getting a
Speaker 1: box with like a download code in it, you're you're
Speaker 1: gonna get a game card for so you'll have a
Speaker 1: physical game, but before the game may function, you will
Speaker 1: have to download more data. That has already been the
Speaker 1: case for some games like Mortal Kombat one I think,
Speaker 1: on the Switch one and Ellie Noir. Yeah, and then
Speaker 1: there's that big label on the on the box to
Speaker 1: let you know that's how it's gonna work. This feels
Speaker 1: like a sort of building on that and just kind
Speaker 1: of of making that an official thing and just calling
Speaker 1: them game key cards as opposed to here's a game
Speaker 1: card and also it won't work. So it feels like
Speaker 1: that them just kind of maybe legally positioning themselves to
Speaker 1: have a very specific form and maybe to encourage developers
Speaker 1: who are like, hey, we have huge games that aren't
Speaker 1: gonna make sense on even your largest game card. Can
Speaker 1: we just make this official? And that seems like what
Speaker 1: they're doing here. There's going to be a meebo for Luke,
Speaker 1: Jamie and Kimberly from street Fighter six, So Amiba are
Speaker 1: not going away. I would not have predicted predicted it
Speaker 1: would have been street Fighter characters. And then they're gonna
Speaker 1: have Ambo cards for the rest of right here, and
Speaker 1: then a bunch of Amiabo cards which are bullshit in
Speaker 1: my opinion. And then Sean here he agrees with the
Speaker 1: person above, Yeah, that's right. Let's see Mario Odyssey, Pokemon, Scarlett,
Speaker 1: and Violet are getting free switch to updates, so there
Speaker 1: will be alternatives to the big upgrades that are going
Speaker 1: to cost money or maybe be included a Nintendo Switch Online.
Speaker 1: People in chat were saying only the Zelda games might
Speaker 1: be included in the expansion pack, and you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to pay for stuff like the Mario Party Jamboree update.
Speaker 1: But we'll see how that all shakes out. A separate
Speaker 1: from that, Lucy that games like Super Mario Odissey are
Speaker 1: now just gonna run a little bit better. This is
Speaker 1: from Jordan Midler at VGC. Nintendo release the list of
Speaker 1: games that will receive free updates for switch To but
Speaker 1: won't receive full switch To addition upgrades. During Wednesday's Nintendo Directed,
Speaker 1: Nintendo announced that several games would receive Nintendo Switch To additions.
Speaker 1: Switch To Edition games are separate from standard Switch to
Speaker 1: backwards compatibility and need to be either purchased separately or
Speaker 1: upgraded to for owners of Switch one versions. However, following
Speaker 1: the event, Nintendo has announced that many Switch one games,
Speaker 1: including some of the consol's most popular titles, will receive
Speaker 1: free updates, which Nintendo says will improve the playability of
Speaker 1: select games. By connecting your switch Nintendo switch To to
Speaker 1: the Internet, you can download free updates that may improve
Speaker 1: performance or at support for features such as game Share
Speaker 1: and select games. The content of these free updates will
Speaker 1: differ depending on the game. The list includes Arms, Captain Toad,
Speaker 1: Treasure Tracker, Super Mario Odyssey, Super Mario three D World Plus,
Speaker 1: Bowser's Fury, Clubhouse Games fifty one Worldwide Classics, The Legend
Speaker 1: of Zelda, Links Awakening, The Legend of Zelda, Echoes of Wisdom,
Speaker 1: Game Builder Garage. Oh I bet that's going to get
Speaker 1: mouse support, New Super Mario Brothers, View, De Luxe, Pokemon Scarlet,
Speaker 1: Pokemon Violet, and Big Brain Academy Brain versus Brain Not
Speaker 1: Super Mario Maker two with mouse support. Come on, what
Speaker 1: do you do? Please? Please? Nintendo I need that very bad.
Speaker 1: That's a shame they might not be doing that. Maybe
Speaker 1: they're doing a new one. I doubt it though, So yeah,
Speaker 1: this is kind of part of a larger understanding of
Speaker 1: how backward compatibility is working with the switch to Interestingly,
Speaker 1: they did provide some details about how they are actually
Speaker 1: pulling this off, and they said it's a combination of
Speaker 1: software emulation and hardware emulation. The implication there being like
Speaker 1: maybe there is a specialized chip on the system, on
Speaker 1: a chip in there that is close to a switch
Speaker 1: one and is handling maybe a lot of the work,
Speaker 1: and then some of the improvements to relate it over
Speaker 1: to the power of the switch too is being done
Speaker 1: by software, and that's connecting the two things. Nintendo has
Speaker 1: frequently just included the same hardware from last generation in
Speaker 1: the new generation on its handhelds, where you know, the
Speaker 1: DS just had a game Boy Advance inside of it.
Speaker 1: So that's something they've done a bunch before. It sounds
Speaker 1: like that this hybrid solution is offering them a little
Speaker 1: bit more flexibility, But they said they tried to do
Speaker 1: it with just software and that was going to cause
Speaker 1: battery life to be really bad on the switch to
Speaker 1: because it just needed to use all of its power juice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all the juice just to emulate Switch one games and
Speaker 1: they didn't want to just go that route. Switch to
Speaker 1: GameCube controller will be will only be offered to those
Speaker 1: who pre order the console, at least in some territories.
Speaker 1: This is from Jordan Miller, a FGC as well. Nintendo
Speaker 1: has announced that the switch to GameCube controller will only
Speaker 1: be offered to those who pre ordered the console via
Speaker 1: the min Nintendo Store. You can register with the mid
Speaker 1: Nintendo Store now say hey, I'm interested to pre order
Speaker 1: this thing when it's available, and eventually they're going to
Speaker 1: contact you and say go for it, here's your best
Speaker 1: or here's a chance to try to do that, and
Speaker 1: then in that moment, it sounds like they will offer
Speaker 1: people the chance to buy the GameCube controller. They've sold
Speaker 1: these controllers through the mind Nintendo Store in the past
Speaker 1: when it was for the NES or the Super Nintendo
Speaker 1: or the N sixty four, and they sell up fast.
Speaker 1: So I bet the game couch is gotta be.
Speaker 2: The worst left. Really, Yeah, to whip those up.
Speaker 1: The pricing was announced for other switch to accessories. The
Speaker 1: camera is going to be fifty dollars. The switch to
Speaker 1: pro controller, which is new and has like the C button,
Speaker 1: for example, is eighty dollars. Let's see here, that GameCube
Speaker 1: controller is going to be sixty five dollars. And then
Speaker 1: they're gonna have a Nintendo branded micro SD express cards
Speaker 1: with the capacity of two hundred and fifty six gigabytes
Speaker 1: for fifty five dollars. You'll be able to buy express
Speaker 1: cards on Amazon, you know, for that price and lower. Yeah,
Speaker 1: much cheaper.
Speaker 2: But this one has the Mario style m on it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how do you feel about that? When the SD
Speaker 1: cards are branded? I always find that pretty silly.
Speaker 2: I those some witch had Pokemon on it, and I
Speaker 2: thought they were really cute. But at the same time,
Speaker 2: it will be in my machine war. We'll never see it,
Speaker 2: right exactly.
Speaker 1: That's the thing is, like you never see these things,
Speaker 1: so it's like hard to care too much, all right.
Speaker 1: A couple more things. The switch to home screen. We
Speaker 1: gotta look at that. It looks a lot like a
Speaker 1: switch one home screen with some more rounded elements, and
Speaker 1: that's about it. We don't know if personalization is going
Speaker 1: to be in this or not, Like maybe you can
Speaker 1: have themes now or add your own screenshots to the background.
Speaker 1: As it looks right now, it looks a lot like
Speaker 1: a switch one. Does that bum you out?
Speaker 2: Not really, I don't think I was expecting anything like
Speaker 2: two huge in terms of change. I mean, the whole
Speaker 2: time people have been talking about switch To, it's very
Speaker 2: much been in the same vein as this is not
Speaker 2: the big generational upgrade. This is more like a switch Pro.
Speaker 2: And I think that's very much in line with what
Speaker 2: we're seeing here. And with regards to the home screen two.
Speaker 1: Yep, and I'm like, yeah, that's what I mean. Yep, totally.
Speaker 1: A lot of these games look good enough to me
Speaker 1: by you know, really, a lot of them looks good
Speaker 1: enough to be on the switch one. The fact that
Speaker 1: we're now going to get a lot of those games
Speaker 1: and sixty frames per second, I'm fine with that. And
Speaker 1: then when it comes to the interface, I just need
Speaker 1: something to be hey, we can get you into the
Speaker 1: games quickly. I hope that what the real reason behind
Speaker 1: all this is so that it's super snappy to use,
Speaker 1: and the real thing is that e Shop better be
Speaker 1: running flawlessly on the switch To. I am so sorry
Speaker 1: to bring back the song.
Speaker 2: God damn it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, bring back the song for sure, as do. That's
Speaker 1: number two. That's step two after Just get it to
Speaker 1: a point where when I try to load something, it
Speaker 1: happens relatively instantly, as opposed to what it is now,
Speaker 1: which is a kind of just gruesome weight that drives
Speaker 1: me crazy every time I try to use the switch
Speaker 1: to E shop ruesome. Yeah, Nintendo will sell a cheaper
Speaker 1: three hundred and thirty dollars switch to in Japan. That's
Speaker 1: region locked. I know we'll run out of time, but
Speaker 1: my show's next, right, Sean, So we're not cutting in
Speaker 1: anything else like that, even go as long as you want.
Speaker 3: Man, you're cutting into your own time.
Speaker 1: Fantastic. And then Lucy, if you got to get out
Speaker 1: of here, let me know, we can just have Sean
Speaker 1: hop in instead. If you got anything going on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I gotta go. I gotta thing, and I can
Speaker 2: I can stay for a moment. Okay, great, So I
Speaker 2: want to talk about the box off, which is why.
Speaker 1: Yes, oh okay, we'll get to that next uh switch
Speaker 1: to in Japan three hundred and thirty dollars that is
Speaker 1: significantly discounted, and it's lot I have a couple of
Speaker 1: guesses why this is happening obviously, the big one being
Speaker 1: they need tariffs, right, they can ship it to Japan,
Speaker 1: no problem there. The Japan's not gonna put tear off
Speaker 1: some one of their own companies to ship something into
Speaker 1: that country so they can charge a lot less and
Speaker 1: then the region Locke prevents people from being like, well,
Speaker 1: I'll go buy a Japanese version and have it shipped
Speaker 1: to me in the United States, and even with the
Speaker 1: added cost on top of that, it's still going to
Speaker 1: be less money than if I bought it in the
Speaker 1: United States. No, you're not gonna be able to do that,
Speaker 1: not really. I also think this might have something to
Speaker 1: do with with China. I think there was a this
Speaker 1: is kind of on the ground reporting or some maybe
Speaker 1: theorizing that a lot of hardware in Japan gets purchased
Speaker 1: and then immediately shipped to China. That's definitely true for
Speaker 1: PlayStation fives for sure. I don't know how true that
Speaker 1: is for switch, But I wonder if Nintendo was like
Speaker 1: having that in mind here and that's why this was
Speaker 1: ready to go, even because I don't know how quickly
Speaker 1: they could have gone from hey, we're making a switch
Speaker 1: to to oh my God Trump is elected and he's
Speaker 1: talking about all these crazy tariffs. We got to come
Speaker 1: up with a region locked switch to that seems a
Speaker 1: bit like a bit of a quick turnaround. Either way,
Speaker 1: it is helping them in a situation where they want
Speaker 1: to have something affordable for their domestic market and then
Speaker 1: something that they can then export at a much higher price.
Speaker 1: But I mean it does make me think that I
Speaker 1: don't I don't think Nintendo wanted to charge four hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty slash five hundred dollars for the switch to
Speaker 1: in the United States. I think they're doing that because
Speaker 1: of all of the economic situations that are happening with
Speaker 1: tariffs and with the global economic situation. So yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a real bummer that we could probably could have got
Speaker 1: the system at a much more affordable price, and now
Speaker 1: we just won't have that opportunity. Yeah, all right, the
Speaker 1: I think the box art looks terrible. I'll bring it
Speaker 1: up for everybody.
Speaker 2: It looks uneven, like, it's not pleasing to the eye.
Speaker 1: Where is it? Whered? I put it? All right, I'll
Speaker 1: find it.
Speaker 2: It's in this It's in the Wednesday Doc.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got it there. But I wanted to bring
Speaker 1: it up for everybody else. Let me see if I
Speaker 1: can find it real quick. It's like, I know, especially
Speaker 1: that like when it ever has the fine print on it,
Speaker 1: that looks especially ugly, but that's true of all game
Speaker 1: cases when they have like a big block of fine print.
Speaker 2: But I think even without it, the amed edition, never
Speaker 2: forget yes.
Speaker 1: Yes, even without that, I think that the switch to
Speaker 1: band at the top is big and bold in a
Speaker 1: way that I just don't like. Let's see, I think
Speaker 1: I do undertand.
Speaker 2: Why they just talk about with a little thing in
Speaker 2: the corner. I guess maybe to really differentiate it, to
Speaker 2: be like so clear that it's switched to yes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, here you go, everybody take a look. Yeah, listen.
Speaker 1: I think that this Donkey Kong Bonanza art is fantastic,
Speaker 1: and then this it's a big ugly strip at the
Speaker 1: top just isn't right. And you're right, there's something unbalanced
Speaker 1: about it, like the feng shue is off because there's
Speaker 1: this huge negative red space next to the switch to logo, Like,
Speaker 1: just do something with all this, or make this a
Speaker 1: small badge at the top left. I don't know. I'm
Speaker 1: no designer. I just know I don't like looking at
Speaker 1: this No, yeah, and then like yeah, the case itself
Speaker 1: underneath is red as well, so you have like this
Speaker 1: border that sort of joins up with the band. I
Speaker 1: don't know, it's rough stuff. Okay, we got a handful
Speaker 1: more things to talk about. We'll keep going here. When
Speaker 1: they were picking the switch to name, they said there
Speaker 1: were a lot of ideas for the name, and we
Speaker 1: really struggled to find the right one. We even considered
Speaker 1: ideas like Super Nintendo Switch. However, Super NES, which came
Speaker 1: out after the Nes, couldn't play Anys games. Since the
Speaker 1: Switch two can play Switch games, it didn't feel right
Speaker 1: to use the same name and convention as the Super NES.
Speaker 1: Switch To is a new system with improved performance, but
Speaker 1: we'd like players to get their hands on it and
Speaker 1: not focus on the specs, but rather to think of
Speaker 1: it as the latest system developed by Nintendo. I think
Speaker 1: switch To gets that across, and I think we all
Speaker 1: kind of felt that way.
Speaker 2: Right, I think that works? Yeah, I mean Siper switch
Speaker 2: would have been fun. Yes, yeah, they wanted to get
Speaker 2: a Nintendo in there, so I get it.
Speaker 1: Yep. Let's see here, Dizzy Hippos and Chets's Warrior sixty
Speaker 1: four posted Australian something from Australia that says street Fighter
Speaker 1: six is fifty gigabytes on Switch to that two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty six gigabytes is going to fill up fast.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you're gonna need an SD card. The good
Speaker 1: news though, is.
Speaker 2: The worry can buy one with a little Mario am on.
Speaker 1: It exactly, and it'll be quite expensive. You'll be able
Speaker 1: to put a terrorbyte in this thing, a terabyte SD
Speaker 1: card and it'll be fast. That the extreme version of
Speaker 1: that's going to be pretty expensive, So it might be
Speaker 1: a while before you want to buy one of those.
Speaker 1: But as you are filling up that two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty six two hundred and fifty six gigabytes, maybe wait
Speaker 1: till Black Friday this year and get like a five
Speaker 1: hundred gigabyte SD extreme. I'm sorry, express, I keep saying extreme,
Speaker 1: all right. Zelda, Breath of the Wild Teers the Kingdom
Speaker 1: will have achievements on Nintendo Switch too. This is from
Speaker 1: Jordan Miller at VGC. This is my first time seeing this.
Speaker 1: I had the boys add some stuff in here as
Speaker 1: we were working on this, so let me read this.
Speaker 1: The legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom and the
Speaker 1: Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild will both get
Speaker 1: switched to editions, as well as a new app, Zelda Notes.
Speaker 1: That's right, it was a new app, which will be
Speaker 1: part of the Nintendo app. Also on the way is
Speaker 1: an update to the Nintendo Switch app called Yeah this
Speaker 1: is just them, repeating that this game specific service is
Speaker 1: exclusive to the switch to editions of the games and
Speaker 1: helps players navigate to various locations like the difficult to
Speaker 1: find shrine or hitting Coorac, and will even feature commentary
Speaker 1: from Princess Zelda herself that was not part of the
Speaker 1: original games, not the developers, from a fictional character the
Speaker 1: Zelda Notes. Yeah go ahead, Yeah, I hear it.
Speaker 2: When I was in this, when I was falling from
Speaker 2: the sky, I was really thinking about.
Speaker 1: Think about the performance. So I'm just working on the
Speaker 1: seat plus them at all, all right. The Zelda Notes
Speaker 1: app will also feature a long requested feature for Nintendo consoles, achievements.
Speaker 1: The achievement like weapons collected, the number of shrines completed
Speaker 1: in other in game metrics. Another achievement system, metals, will
Speaker 1: be awarded for reaching certain in game milestones, but it's
Speaker 1: just for the Zelda app. Are they going to have
Speaker 1: this for every game? It doesn't sound like it is
Speaker 1: there going to be a Mario Kart app where you
Speaker 1: can get achievements. It's a weird way to do this.
Speaker 2: That is a weird way to do achievements. It's kind
Speaker 2: of more like I'm trying to think of the games
Speaker 2: that would do it, but yeah, they would just kind
Speaker 2: of let you know how many things you've got to go,
Speaker 2: rather than trying to play the guessing game.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean it's going to be useful for these
Speaker 1: games for sure, and I bet people will be excited
Speaker 1: that there's any form of achievement. But this does not
Speaker 1: sound like system level achievements that people ever really been
Speaker 1: asking for.
Speaker 3: All right, this is a fairly common thing on Switch nowadays.
Speaker 3: Our games have just platform agnostic built and achievements. I
Speaker 3: guess Nintendo's just doing it themselves. I wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 3: if the Nintendo reasoning is because other vee system level achievements.
Speaker 3: Every game needs to do it, and they'll oft for
Speaker 3: sound developers.
Speaker 1: Yep. Probably fine. I'm personally I'm fine with that, you
Speaker 1: know me. I do not care about achievements, all right,
Speaker 1: And that they're renaming Nintendo Switch online games. They're now
Speaker 1: called Nintendo Classics. Okay, I liked that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes no sense.
Speaker 1: Definitely works for me. All Right, There's plenty more to
Speaker 1: talk about, but I think what we're gonna do now
Speaker 1: is let's wrap up this show. We'll go into grubs
Speaker 1: gimmicks and we'll keep talking about the Nintendo Switch to everybody.
Speaker 1: We'll make it a switch to sort of chat where
Speaker 1: we're trying to figure out everything, seeing how people are feeling.
Speaker 1: Maybe watch some of these trailers again in the meantime.
Speaker 2: Then you and I are playing Enzoy, buddy, Yes.
Speaker 1: Then we're playing Enzoy. That's right. Look out for that, everybody.
Speaker 1: If you're watching the Power Block, watch that. You know
Speaker 1: what we're gonna do is we're gonna skip the pole.
Speaker 1: We'll get back to the poll tomorrow with tomorrow's show,
Speaker 1: get back on track with a normal episode of game
Speaker 1: breaking news. This was a special report just dedicated to
Speaker 1: the Switch too, So let's wrap things up. Sean, thanks
Speaker 1: for your help, Lucy James, thank you for hanging out
Speaker 1: with me today and talking about video games. I really
Speaker 1: appreciate it, of course, anytime, and you know what, we'll
Speaker 1: do let's do another poll. That's actually we'll have two
Speaker 1: polls on tomorrow's episode, grade that direct, How do you
Speaker 1: feel about the switch to direct ABC or D and lower.
Speaker 1: We'll get that up there on YouTube dot com slash
Speaker 1: at giant bomb the community tab. You can vote there.
Speaker 1: We'll get the results for tomorrow's game breaking news in
Speaker 1: the meantime. Thank you all so much for listening and watching.
Speaker 1: You are the best audience in gaming. Until next time,
Speaker 1: have a good one, take care of yourself, and goodbye.