WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.159 --> 00:00:12.359 You'll be all right there. We got sorry about that everybody. Hey, 2 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:14.919 welcome to game Breaking News with Me Jeff Grub, your 3 00:00:14.919 --> 00:00:17.440 host from giant bomb dot com. Thank you for tuning in. 4 00:00:17.440 --> 00:00:19.039 In this episode, we're going to be talking about the 5 00:00:19.079 --> 00:00:22.039 switch to and nothing else. It's going to be a 6 00:00:22.079 --> 00:00:24.960 good one. We have Lucy James on the show. Lucy, 7 00:00:25.039 --> 00:00:25.800 how are you doing? 8 00:00:26.600 --> 00:00:29.600 I'm doing well? Thank you. I watched the direct went 9 00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:31.280 back to sleep. Yeah, I got it. 10 00:00:31.600 --> 00:00:33.640 Let's let's do it. Did you watch it from bed? 11 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:35.079 It? 12 00:00:35.119 --> 00:00:36.119 Did you watch it from bed? 13 00:00:36.640 --> 00:00:37.119 Absolutely? 14 00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:40.159 Yes, good good, good moves. Yeah. Sorry, it's gonna be 15 00:00:40.280 --> 00:00:43.799 we're piecing everything together. Jan is on assignment right now, 16 00:00:43.840 --> 00:00:46.280 so we are. Me and Sean are kind of figuring 17 00:00:46.280 --> 00:00:48.000 everything out. I didn't have the right intro, so you 18 00:00:48.039 --> 00:00:50.520 might have heard you mean like a gummy bear there 19 00:00:50.560 --> 00:00:52.960 for a couple of seconds. All right, though, you know 20 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:55.679 what it is. It's a big episode. There's a ton 21 00:00:55.719 --> 00:00:58.679 of switch to stuff, Lucy. I say, let's just get 22 00:00:58.679 --> 00:01:00.880 into it. Let's explain what we do most weekdays. I 23 00:01:01.000 --> 00:01:03.679 Jeff Greb will help peace your gaming life back together. 24 00:01:04.200 --> 00:01:07.000 That includes breaking news and maybe even some of our 25 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:09.959 own original reporting for all these topics, I'll get the 26 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:12.239 input of a bona fide expert who will make me 27 00:01:12.280 --> 00:01:15.719 look smart. If you are watching live on twitch welcome, 28 00:01:15.760 --> 00:01:17.760 You can always listen to the show later on podcast 29 00:01:17.760 --> 00:01:20.439 feeds by searching for Game Mass Mornings, or find the 30 00:01:20.680 --> 00:01:24.040 RSS feed on GiantBomb dot com. You can also catch 31 00:01:24.079 --> 00:01:28.640 the show later on YouTube. Hello YouTube, all right, we 32 00:01:28.719 --> 00:01:30.879 have a lot to get into. Yeah, I set the 33 00:01:30.959 --> 00:01:33.319 thing and now let's do the damn thing. We got 34 00:01:33.319 --> 00:01:35.519 a lot to get into here. It is switch to 35 00:01:36.079 --> 00:01:38.599 is here or in so much as it's here. With 36 00:01:38.680 --> 00:01:41.280 they direct, they gave us a ton of info and 37 00:01:41.319 --> 00:01:43.560 then they gave us even more info after the direct, 38 00:01:43.599 --> 00:01:45.280 which we are going to be sifting through. All that 39 00:01:45.319 --> 00:01:47.959 stuff is coming in real hot. But let's go through 40 00:01:47.959 --> 00:01:50.280 everything we do know, and as more information comes in, 41 00:01:50.439 --> 00:01:52.000 we'll do our best to stay on top of it. 42 00:01:52.120 --> 00:01:55.239 If anyone in chat has any questions or concerns that 43 00:01:55.280 --> 00:01:57.280 you want us to bring up as we're talking about stuff, 44 00:01:57.480 --> 00:01:59.200 we'll keep an eye on that. I got Sean here 45 00:01:59.200 --> 00:02:01.040 helping me as well on the ones in the twos 46 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:02.760 to throw it, So if you guys have questions, maybe 47 00:02:02.760 --> 00:02:04.840 you can ping him directly and he could jump in 48 00:02:04.879 --> 00:02:07.359 and give us some more insight as we're talking. Yes, 49 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:10.039 they're making another switch, Lucy James. Do you want to 50 00:02:10.039 --> 00:02:11.120 know how much it costs? 51 00:02:12.120 --> 00:02:14.599 I actually do, because they did not reveal it within 52 00:02:14.639 --> 00:02:15.199 the direct. 53 00:02:15.400 --> 00:02:17.639 They did not reveal it in the direct, and you know, 54 00:02:17.879 --> 00:02:19.919 there's a bunch of reasons for that, but they didn't. 55 00:02:20.159 --> 00:02:23.039 They waited until afterward. They did give the price right 56 00:02:23.080 --> 00:02:25.759 away afterward, though. It is okay, four hundred and fifty 57 00:02:25.800 --> 00:02:28.560 dollars for the hardware, and then there is a bundle 58 00:02:28.639 --> 00:02:32.960 with Mario Kart World for five hundred dollars. What's your 59 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:34.759 initial reaction to those prices? 60 00:02:35.560 --> 00:02:38.639 Sorry for audio listeners, because my initial reaction was a face, 61 00:02:38.840 --> 00:02:40.599 a little bit of not akin to the kind of 62 00:02:40.599 --> 00:02:43.000 face you make when you kind of suck a lemon. 63 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:45.120 Yeah, you made a grimace. Yeah, let's be honest, it 64 00:02:45.199 --> 00:02:45.680 was a grimace. 65 00:02:45.759 --> 00:02:51.479 It's yeah. I think overall that direct was a bit surprising. 66 00:02:51.520 --> 00:02:54.280 There were obviously some highlights in there. I was expecting 67 00:02:54.319 --> 00:02:56.639 way more first party. It was very interesting to see 68 00:02:56.639 --> 00:03:01.719 them focus so much on third party. Ooh, yeah, that's 69 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:04.719 not a day one purchase for me at this point. 70 00:03:04.960 --> 00:03:07.159 Yeah, I mean it will be for me, but I'm 71 00:03:07.159 --> 00:03:09.479 a sucker for Nintendo stuff, so of course, But I 72 00:03:09.479 --> 00:03:12.400 do think that that price is high and yet not 73 00:03:12.520 --> 00:03:14.680 that surprising. As we were going through the direct I 74 00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:17.919 think we had like one more chance to all give 75 00:03:18.000 --> 00:03:19.599 our guests on what we thought the price was going 76 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:21.360 to be, and I did was like, yeah, four fifty 77 00:03:21.439 --> 00:03:24.560 sounds right, And then I think we might have been 78 00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:27.280 on this show last week. It was recently, you know, 79 00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:30.439 we constantly we're discussing the prices. Like I got to 80 00:03:30.680 --> 00:03:32.400 point in my head it was like, because of all 81 00:03:32.439 --> 00:03:36.240 the uncertainty with tariffs and the global economic situation and 82 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:39.039 uncertainty about even like you know, the value of the 83 00:03:39.120 --> 00:03:41.360 yen and all this other stuff, they probably would do 84 00:03:41.439 --> 00:03:43.960 some version of the of the switch To bundled with 85 00:03:44.039 --> 00:03:46.719 Mario Kart and try to get that price as high 86 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:49.639 as possible. And that's exactly what they're doing. Five hundred 87 00:03:49.680 --> 00:03:53.759 dollars four Mario Kart World bundled in with switch To, 88 00:03:53.840 --> 00:03:56.000 and we'll go over what Mario Kart World is and 89 00:03:56.039 --> 00:04:00.520 all this other stuff. And the system's out. It's out 90 00:04:00.759 --> 00:04:05.080 July or I'm sorry, June. What was the date exactly? Fifth? Yeah, 91 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:08.360 June fifth, June fifth, twenty twenty five, so about two 92 00:04:08.360 --> 00:04:13.479 months exactly from now that system will be out. I 93 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:17.240 think that the Mario Kart move is especially smart because 94 00:04:17.319 --> 00:04:20.480 they are I mean, it's smart in one way and 95 00:04:20.519 --> 00:04:22.439 another way, it's kind of Oh, it's got people worried. 96 00:04:22.560 --> 00:04:25.240 They're charging eighty dollars for Mario Kart World, which is 97 00:04:25.399 --> 00:04:28.800 in open world Mario Kart game. It is looks big 98 00:04:28.839 --> 00:04:31.160 and new and shiny, and I'm definitely interested in it. 99 00:04:31.560 --> 00:04:33.199 There are a lot of features, and we're going to 100 00:04:33.279 --> 00:04:35.519 go through the direct here, you know, beat by beat 101 00:04:36.160 --> 00:04:39.040 here in a moment. But yeah, I think saying, okay, 102 00:04:39.079 --> 00:04:41.079 this game is eighty dollars, and I think it's is 103 00:04:41.079 --> 00:04:43.920 it seventy dollars digitally? If you get it separately, yeah, 104 00:04:44.120 --> 00:04:47.160 digitally so, but if you get it bundled in with 105 00:04:47.199 --> 00:04:49.399 the switch to, you are going to be saving money 106 00:04:49.439 --> 00:04:51.720 on day one. I think a lot of people are 107 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:53.480 just gonna end up going for that five hundred dollars 108 00:04:53.519 --> 00:04:55.519 bundle and spend five hundred dollars on a switch to 109 00:04:55.680 --> 00:04:57.279 and not be too mad about it because they're going 110 00:04:57.279 --> 00:04:59.160 to feel they're getting a deal because of Mario Kart. 111 00:04:59.240 --> 00:05:03.839 Right, Yeah, I mean, Mariocott is what is these sales 112 00:05:03.879 --> 00:05:05.879 figures on Maricott eight at the moment. 113 00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:10.279 It's like it's approaching like sixty million, it's fifty million. 114 00:05:10.360 --> 00:05:13.000 Yeah, it's wilde And I mean looking at the stuff 115 00:05:13.000 --> 00:05:17.360 that we saw in Maricott will today. Yeah, yeah, you 116 00:05:17.360 --> 00:05:20.120 know what They've got me. I will be playing a lot. 117 00:05:20.639 --> 00:05:22.360 You know what. The thing that got me was when 118 00:05:22.600 --> 00:05:25.240 they had different costumes And I really didn't expect that 119 00:05:25.639 --> 00:05:28.600 to learn that about myself this morning, when I was like, Peach, 120 00:05:28.839 --> 00:05:33.920 but she's in a new hat. Okay, Yeah, it's a shame. 121 00:05:34.040 --> 00:05:37.600 Like the ten dollars more for physical media. Man, are 122 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:39.439 these just the times that we live in now? I 123 00:05:39.439 --> 00:05:39.879 guess so. 124 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:42.360 I mean they are, they're hedging and for all these 125 00:05:42.399 --> 00:05:45.279 things that are so uncertain. You know, last month it 126 00:05:45.399 --> 00:05:47.639 was Trump's saying that he's going to put tariffs on 127 00:05:47.800 --> 00:05:51.399 imports from Mexico. A lot of these games are physically 128 00:05:51.480 --> 00:05:54.879 manufactured in places like Mexico and then they get imported 129 00:05:54.879 --> 00:05:57.199 in the United States. And if that if there was 130 00:05:57.240 --> 00:05:59.240 a tariff on that those games and it was like 131 00:05:59.240 --> 00:06:01.879 a twenty twenty five percent arif it was some insane number, 132 00:06:02.199 --> 00:06:04.399 that is something that they just couldn't. That is their 133 00:06:04.399 --> 00:06:07.759 margin right there, Like that's their entire margin. So it 134 00:06:07.879 --> 00:06:09.600 was going to be a problem no matter what. So 135 00:06:09.639 --> 00:06:12.040 they're kind of hedging against that. And really this is 136 00:06:12.920 --> 00:06:15.160 the saying, hey, just go buy digital, like it's going 137 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:16.879 to just say it like it's gonna save us all money. 138 00:06:16.879 --> 00:06:18.600 In the end, it's gonna save us money. So we 139 00:06:18.680 --> 00:06:21.279 are actually finally for the first time, really going to 140 00:06:21.319 --> 00:06:24.279 pass down savings to you, at least initially. Obviously that 141 00:06:24.439 --> 00:06:28.600 is the sticker price. People who buy physical find other 142 00:06:28.639 --> 00:06:31.360 ways to save money by trading games in buying used 143 00:06:31.879 --> 00:06:34.920 and more people are going digital, that'll be a little 144 00:06:34.920 --> 00:06:37.519 bit more difficult, but you know, at least we did. 145 00:06:37.439 --> 00:06:38.920 Come out the other day and say that they have 146 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:42.079 the game call trading thing. 147 00:06:42.399 --> 00:06:46.240 Yes, the family sharing, Yes, I'm sharing. That's part of this. 148 00:06:46.519 --> 00:06:49.160 All of this stuff, a lot of this stuff, and 149 00:06:49.199 --> 00:06:52.519 we'll talk about what they showed today is very reminiscent 150 00:06:52.560 --> 00:06:56.120 of how Xbox and PlayStation was showcasing the one and 151 00:06:56.199 --> 00:06:57.160 the PS four. 152 00:06:57.360 --> 00:06:57.600 YEP. 153 00:06:58.040 --> 00:07:00.319 Definitely, you know, it just kind of does kind of 154 00:07:00.319 --> 00:07:03.360 feel like going back in time ten years ago. But 155 00:07:03.399 --> 00:07:05.720 that's that's kind of Nintendo when you think about their 156 00:07:05.720 --> 00:07:11.000 approach to online and even even the chat stuff that 157 00:07:11.000 --> 00:07:12.360 they announced today, like that was very. 158 00:07:12.399 --> 00:07:14.879 Xbox three sixty. Yes, we'll get like I said, we'll 159 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:15.160 go on. 160 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:22.000 Yeah. My feelings about those guided like fake little multiplayer 161 00:07:22.439 --> 00:07:26.199 videos aside, it felt really strange for them to put 162 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:28.879 that if so high up in the director be like, look, 163 00:07:28.879 --> 00:07:31.360 we're doing something new, like this is new, that's just 164 00:07:31.399 --> 00:07:36.000 discord Yeah, I anyway, yeah, it's expensive. And then I 165 00:07:36.040 --> 00:07:37.519 did say the end of the director you know there 166 00:07:37.560 --> 00:07:40.000 will be more announcements to come. We have a Mariocott 167 00:07:40.079 --> 00:07:44.160 direct in a couple of weeks. 168 00:07:45.240 --> 00:07:48.879 Yeah. Yeah. Wow. So it's uh yeah, I think that 169 00:07:48.959 --> 00:07:53.079 they you know, they're passing on the savings for the 170 00:07:53.079 --> 00:07:55.839 digital games, but really they're raising the prices. Right. That's 171 00:07:55.879 --> 00:07:59.399 another thing that all these things are maneuvers from Nintendo 172 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:01.560 to get away with as much as possible, which is 173 00:08:01.560 --> 00:08:04.040 what all these companies do. But like I you know, 174 00:08:04.040 --> 00:08:07.360 I'm catching myself. I'm sitting here saying like they're passing 175 00:08:07.399 --> 00:08:10.439 on the savings and really they raise the prices of games. 176 00:08:10.439 --> 00:08:12.920 That's what they did, even on the digital side. The 177 00:08:13.160 --> 00:08:15.480 game's going to be you know, more more expensive than 178 00:08:15.519 --> 00:08:17.800 the last Mario Kart. And yet I'm saying, thank you 179 00:08:17.839 --> 00:08:20.360 Nintendo for not charging me as much as the physical version. 180 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:22.800 So it's like that they they understand what they're doing, 181 00:08:22.839 --> 00:08:25.720 they understand the psychology, and that is clearly what they've 182 00:08:25.720 --> 00:08:29.839 done with the five hundred dollars bundle and this very 183 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:32.639 variable pricing between digital and physical. 184 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:36.120 And I mean Nintendo as well, of all the companies, 185 00:08:36.120 --> 00:08:40.879 they're the ones whose games physically hold their value way 186 00:08:40.919 --> 00:08:42.919 more than anyone else like that, and digitally, you know, 187 00:08:42.919 --> 00:08:44.879 it's so rare that you will have a huge, huge 188 00:08:44.919 --> 00:08:49.200 sale on Nintendo products. And so yeah, I guess this 189 00:08:49.320 --> 00:08:52.279 is just it's just the future. 190 00:08:53.240 --> 00:08:56.159 All right, let's let's just go through it. So they 191 00:08:56.200 --> 00:08:59.360 did open with Mario Kart World. I got all this 192 00:08:59.399 --> 00:09:02.200 from Matt Pass at Polygon, although we'll sprinkle in some 193 00:09:02.320 --> 00:09:04.840 Jordan Midler here and there from VGC and a few 194 00:09:04.840 --> 00:09:08.600 other things as well. I don't know, first to himself 195 00:09:08.679 --> 00:09:12.679 as the Scotsman, it's kind of embarrassing, all right. A 196 00:09:12.679 --> 00:09:14.960 new Mario Kart game was teas during the Switch Tos 197 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:17.320 initial reveal, but now it's official. Mario Kart World is 198 00:09:17.399 --> 00:09:20.879 arriving for the console's launch. This version's twist twist the 199 00:09:20.879 --> 00:09:23.639 weather changes, off roading is highly encouraged, and you can 200 00:09:23.720 --> 00:09:26.639 keep on driving to the next course. It packs twenty 201 00:09:26.639 --> 00:09:29.200 four racers into each race, making this the most open 202 00:09:29.240 --> 00:09:31.440 world experience of any Mario Kart. And then there's the 203 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:37.440 promise of tons of social multiplayer modes. It's eighty dollars, yes, 204 00:09:37.519 --> 00:09:40.600 and it's it's so this one. I was like kind 205 00:09:40.600 --> 00:09:42.519 of like also hoping for it would be open world 206 00:09:42.600 --> 00:09:45.919 Mario Kart because I'm a big fan of Burnout Paradise. 207 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:50.200 I could imagine driving around in karts with friends could 208 00:09:50.200 --> 00:09:55.080 be a very good time. I hope that Togeah, yeah exactly, 209 00:09:55.080 --> 00:09:57.440 like you're right. They made him very feel very social 210 00:09:57.440 --> 00:09:59.000 where it wasn't just about racing. It was like, let's 211 00:09:59.000 --> 00:10:01.759 get all together and we those. It was yeah, of course, 212 00:10:01.919 --> 00:10:05.080 very forts the horizon. I think this is a pretty 213 00:10:05.080 --> 00:10:09.039 good hook for Mario Kart, like for the tenth Mario Kart, 214 00:10:09.080 --> 00:10:11.879 however they count it. Uh, it's one that I'm at 215 00:10:11.960 --> 00:10:14.399 least like, oh this, I need to check this out, 216 00:10:14.399 --> 00:10:16.679 as opposed to if it was just Mario Kart eight again. 217 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:19.440 I played so much of that. I mean of course 218 00:10:19.480 --> 00:10:21.440 again I would get it, but I wouldn't be quite 219 00:10:21.480 --> 00:10:24.039 as excited as I am for this version of this. 220 00:10:24.120 --> 00:10:24.960 Do you think this can work? 221 00:10:25.840 --> 00:10:28.600 Oh yeah, absolutely Well, like Maricott eight, what, they can't 222 00:10:28.639 --> 00:10:31.919 release it for the fourth time, that's right, because it 223 00:10:31.960 --> 00:10:35.759 was you uh no, yeah, we you switch and then 224 00:10:35.799 --> 00:10:38.159 there was like an expanded version or something. 225 00:10:38.440 --> 00:10:39.399 Yep, that right. 226 00:10:41.159 --> 00:10:42.639 I don't know. It's been around for like almost ten 227 00:10:42.720 --> 00:10:44.240 years for Maria Coott eight. 228 00:10:44.720 --> 00:10:47.399 Yeah, from the WU version. Yeah, I think it's been 229 00:10:47.519 --> 00:10:49.240 almost exactly ten years. 230 00:10:49.519 --> 00:10:54.240 Yeah, God, But no, I mean Marincott World makes sense, 231 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:57.679 especially as they're pushing a lot of more multiplayer online functionality. 232 00:10:57.759 --> 00:11:00.679 It makes sense to really show off game that is 233 00:11:00.759 --> 00:11:03.039 going to take full advantage of that, which is Mariokott. 234 00:11:03.120 --> 00:11:05.600 So they got to show off game chat, They get 235 00:11:05.639 --> 00:11:09.240 to show off hopefully an easier way to link up 236 00:11:09.240 --> 00:11:12.759 with people, because man, I remember trying to get in 237 00:11:12.759 --> 00:11:15.799 with your friends on Nintendo Switch was an absolute pain 238 00:11:15.840 --> 00:11:18.120 in the ass. So I hope that they fixed that. 239 00:11:18.200 --> 00:11:21.320 But no, I mean, like why they're changing off roads 240 00:11:22.759 --> 00:11:25.960 kind of reducing that. It's to keep you playing, all right, 241 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:28.000 because it kind of reduces that friction of like Hey, 242 00:11:28.039 --> 00:11:29.759 I'll go in, I'll play a course, and then I'm 243 00:11:29.759 --> 00:11:31.919 boot back up into a menu and then oh well 244 00:11:32.159 --> 00:11:34.639 I'm in a menu. Maybe I'll just go play something else, right, 245 00:11:34.639 --> 00:11:36.919 But if it's in this big, open world, you just 246 00:11:36.960 --> 00:11:38.559 want to drive to the next thing and keep people 247 00:11:38.600 --> 00:11:40.960 engaged and keep up having fun. And so I'm interested 248 00:11:40.960 --> 00:11:44.000 to see what else they're putting. I want to see 249 00:11:44.000 --> 00:11:46.919 the courses. But I mean it was a good showing 250 00:11:46.960 --> 00:11:47.879 for mariocartt World. 251 00:11:47.879 --> 00:11:50.519 I think, yeah, I think you're right that keeping people 252 00:11:50.519 --> 00:11:53.480 playing really giving people more to do in between when 253 00:11:53.519 --> 00:11:56.919 their friends aren't available to play online, because I think 254 00:11:56.960 --> 00:12:00.240 Mario or to play in person obviously Nintendo, which was 255 00:12:00.279 --> 00:12:03.120 a big local multiplayer system for a lot of families, 256 00:12:03.840 --> 00:12:05.600 I think that if they could build out a game 257 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:08.320 where it's like, Okay, yes you're playing with your friends 258 00:12:08.360 --> 00:12:10.320 a lot of the time you're hanging out, but in 259 00:12:10.360 --> 00:12:14.639 between that, let's go set the fastest speed record on 260 00:12:14.679 --> 00:12:18.120 this one road the way burnout or fortsa works so 261 00:12:18.159 --> 00:12:21.240 that there's this asynchronous multiplayer element to it as well 262 00:12:21.279 --> 00:12:23.120 to kind of keep things interesting for a longer period 263 00:12:23.200 --> 00:12:25.759 of time. I find that very enticing, and I thought 264 00:12:25.759 --> 00:12:28.360 the game looked really good and kind of this big 265 00:12:28.360 --> 00:12:31.759 wet map where you drive between all the regular Mario biomes. 266 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:37.399 That totally works for me. You mentioned wanting more seamless online. Well, 267 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:39.120 we'll see how it actually ends up working. I bet 268 00:12:39.159 --> 00:12:41.120 Frien codes will still be involved in some way. But 269 00:12:41.159 --> 00:12:44.200 they introduce game chat, which seems to be the primary 270 00:12:44.200 --> 00:12:47.600 function chat. Yes, this seems to be the primary function 271 00:12:47.720 --> 00:12:50.039 for that Sea button. Is you press the Sea button 272 00:12:50.039 --> 00:12:53.320 and it's going to take you to the Nintendo version 273 00:12:53.320 --> 00:12:55.840 of Discord. Is exactly what it looked like with you 274 00:12:56.080 --> 00:13:00.440 complete with like cameras being in an overlay on top 275 00:13:00.480 --> 00:13:01.840 of the game that you're playing. 276 00:13:02.279 --> 00:13:04.120 In it in a little circle. 277 00:13:03.960 --> 00:13:06.320 Yes, right there. So there was a lot of like 278 00:13:06.720 --> 00:13:09.200 integration into the games themselves with this. So that's like 279 00:13:09.240 --> 00:13:11.759 the maybe some of the cool aspects of this, but 280 00:13:12.639 --> 00:13:14.840 at its most based level, it is a chat system 281 00:13:14.840 --> 00:13:17.720 so that you can communicate with other people online while 282 00:13:17.720 --> 00:13:20.840 you're playing games without having to use a separate phone app, 283 00:13:21.000 --> 00:13:21.720 which wasn't just. 284 00:13:21.759 --> 00:13:23.960 I'm gonna say oh yeah wait, no, I'm just I'm story. 285 00:13:23.960 --> 00:13:26.799 We'd just play play Myra card together. Yeah, yeah, that was. 286 00:13:28.440 --> 00:13:32.600 Yep, absolutely, I figured that one out. Uh, yeah, and 287 00:13:32.720 --> 00:13:36.799 I think that it's we're going to see people probably 288 00:13:36.919 --> 00:13:39.320 use this, but I do wonder how that microphone is 289 00:13:39.360 --> 00:13:41.559 going to work. So they showed like, if you're holding 290 00:13:41.600 --> 00:13:43.639 the system, there's a microphone built into the switch to 291 00:13:43.879 --> 00:13:45.720 just like the Steam Deck, and that works pretty well 292 00:13:45.720 --> 00:13:47.240 on the Steam Deck. I bet it's going to work 293 00:13:47.240 --> 00:13:50.480 pretty good here. But it's also that same microphone that 294 00:13:50.519 --> 00:13:53.120 you will be using but when it's on the dock 295 00:13:53.240 --> 00:13:56.200 by your TV, so yeah, you're going to be kind 296 00:13:56.200 --> 00:13:59.159 of shouting at a mic that's of room away. Now 297 00:13:59.200 --> 00:14:03.240 they are promised some like noise canceling features, which hey, 298 00:14:03.279 --> 00:14:06.039 they are partners with Nvidia, who happens to have very 299 00:14:06.080 --> 00:14:09.679 good noise canceling features, so I suspect that will work fine. 300 00:14:10.159 --> 00:14:11.960 But I do think it's like, man, it would have 301 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:13.600 been better if you could have put the microphone in 302 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:16.240 the JOYCN instead, although I guess people are gripping that 303 00:14:16.279 --> 00:14:17.519 maybe that would sound terrible. 304 00:14:18.399 --> 00:14:21.320 Yeah, I guess if your hands are all over. 305 00:14:21.200 --> 00:14:24.000 It PlayStation, the door sense works that way, right, it's 306 00:14:24.039 --> 00:14:26.159 got a microphone built in, although I bet most people don't. 307 00:14:26.720 --> 00:14:29.879 In between the sticks, you don't. There is no way 308 00:14:29.879 --> 00:14:32.600 that you would unless you are doing something mad. Yep, 309 00:14:32.799 --> 00:14:35.120 you would be rubbing on that one. But yeah, with 310 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:38.840 the Joycon where your hands are either it's in the 311 00:14:38.840 --> 00:14:41.879 little connection thing or yeah, it would just be difficult 312 00:14:41.879 --> 00:14:44.480 to place. I did like the example with the like, 313 00:14:44.639 --> 00:14:47.039 oh you get this guy making a smoothie or whatever. 314 00:14:47.200 --> 00:14:49.039 It's okay, it'll gill get rid of that. 315 00:14:49.440 --> 00:14:54.320 Mm hmm. Yeah, because we mentioned it, like you're going 316 00:14:54.399 --> 00:14:56.840 to have like the little circles with your camera feed. 317 00:14:56.840 --> 00:14:59.360 There is a separate Nintendo switch to camera. It's going 318 00:14:59.399 --> 00:15:01.919 to be fifty dollars. You plug that into the USB 319 00:15:02.080 --> 00:15:04.679 sport on top of the switch. So there's one on 320 00:15:04.679 --> 00:15:06.399 the bottom where you can still charge it in the dock, 321 00:15:06.440 --> 00:15:07.799 and then there's one on top of the switch so 322 00:15:07.799 --> 00:15:12.360 you can add other accessories like this, and that enables 323 00:15:12.360 --> 00:15:14.559 people to see your video as well in the switch 324 00:15:14.600 --> 00:15:19.759 to game chat function. But also it'll work inside some games. 325 00:15:20.679 --> 00:15:22.559 You know, we'll talk about it more here, but they 326 00:15:22.559 --> 00:15:26.240 showed like some Mario Party mini games. 327 00:15:26.200 --> 00:15:27.919 Where eye Toy ask gaming. 328 00:15:28.039 --> 00:15:29.840 It looked like eye Toy, it looked like EyeToy and 329 00:15:29.840 --> 00:15:33.440 connected like it's great, yeah, And I was like for 330 00:15:33.559 --> 00:15:35.600 Mario Party, that sounds like a good time to me. 331 00:15:36.960 --> 00:15:38.840 And then there are other elements where it's like maybe 332 00:15:38.879 --> 00:15:40.879 it wasn't how you were interacting with the game, but 333 00:15:40.919 --> 00:15:43.639 it still had your little head in a bubble next 334 00:15:43.679 --> 00:15:45.799 to your character inside the game, so you could like 335 00:15:45.840 --> 00:15:49.120 see each other's facial expressions and things like that. And again, 336 00:15:49.759 --> 00:15:53.360 Mario Party was a pretty good use case for that, 337 00:15:53.360 --> 00:15:55.279 where it's like, I do want to see the misery 338 00:15:55.320 --> 00:15:57.519 on my friend's faces when we're playing Mario Party. That's 339 00:15:57.559 --> 00:15:58.200 half the fun. 340 00:15:58.759 --> 00:16:00.879 So I wanted to be able to make my me 341 00:16:01.240 --> 00:16:04.200 by scanning my face. Again, if we're gonna using the camera, wow, 342 00:16:04.360 --> 00:16:08.919 couch of you. I'm really interested in, as a parent, 343 00:16:09.519 --> 00:16:14.240 what you think about the increased social capabilities of switched 344 00:16:14.240 --> 00:16:16.960 to camera, because I don't know when I was playing. 345 00:16:17.000 --> 00:16:20.120 When I was watching the director, I was like, I 346 00:16:20.200 --> 00:16:22.039 don't know if I would want that for my kid 347 00:16:22.639 --> 00:16:24.840 to have access to you and there will be parental controls. 348 00:16:24.879 --> 00:16:27.279 They did say that, but it just I don't know. Yeah, 349 00:16:27.320 --> 00:16:30.080 I'm personally it's playing with random people online. 350 00:16:30.200 --> 00:16:32.120 Yeah, I don't need them seeing what people see when 351 00:16:32.120 --> 00:16:35.759 they play Uno on Xbox three sixty for sure, which 352 00:16:35.799 --> 00:16:37.919 is all just like my understand it's just mostly penises 353 00:16:37.960 --> 00:16:40.519 in cocaine, and so yeah, I want to keep that 354 00:16:40.519 --> 00:16:45.039 away from the kiddos. I'm gonna set that parental thing, 355 00:16:45.159 --> 00:16:48.200 so cameras are just not going to work no matter 356 00:16:48.240 --> 00:16:51.480 what in games for them, just period. Like that's how 357 00:16:51.519 --> 00:16:53.320 I would set that. And then it's like if they're 358 00:16:53.320 --> 00:16:55.360 in a friend group and it's like, as long as 359 00:16:55.399 --> 00:16:57.840 it's white list, that's how I'll do it. If it's 360 00:16:57.840 --> 00:17:00.679 a whiteless situation where it's like here's your cousin, they 361 00:17:00.679 --> 00:17:03.759 got this too, let's I will whitelist them so the 362 00:17:03.840 --> 00:17:07.480 camera and speech functionality works for them. Yeah, that's okay, 363 00:17:07.559 --> 00:17:10.680 and I expect with Nintendo that's probably how it's going 364 00:17:10.680 --> 00:17:13.960 to work. Like you have to be explicitly friends to 365 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:16.319 make sure that that is going to go through. 366 00:17:17.599 --> 00:17:19.559 I think it is well because even my sister when 367 00:17:19.599 --> 00:17:21.960 she was setting up her like I gave it, I 368 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:24.359 gave a switch to my nieces and she was like, oh, 369 00:17:24.400 --> 00:17:26.160 there was even an app for me to set it up. 370 00:17:26.480 --> 00:17:29.960 And so I would assume that parental guidance and controls 371 00:17:29.960 --> 00:17:31.279 would go in that. But unless you get a kid 372 00:17:31.279 --> 00:17:33.359 who's like, you know, nine, and then's just like I'm 373 00:17:33.400 --> 00:17:34.519 just going to set it up by myself. 374 00:17:34.519 --> 00:17:36.599 Oh dude, that's right. Yes, that's going to be a 375 00:17:36.599 --> 00:17:40.880 concerned for someone. But the like, the first video that 376 00:17:41.000 --> 00:17:43.680 wasn't in the direct they uploaded to the Nintendo YouTube 377 00:17:43.759 --> 00:17:47.200 channel was two videos about parental control apps. So they 378 00:17:47.319 --> 00:17:50.359 understand it's Nintendo. Of course, they like, there's a reason 379 00:17:50.359 --> 00:17:52.720 they haven't done this until this point other than the 380 00:17:52.720 --> 00:17:55.200 fact that they always do these things ten to fifteen 381 00:17:55.200 --> 00:17:57.880 to in this case, like twenty years later. How holds 382 00:17:57.880 --> 00:18:00.680 the Xbox three sixty actually, and tell me I don't 383 00:18:00.680 --> 00:18:01.039 need to know? 384 00:18:01.519 --> 00:18:03.319 No, the ioy was PS two man. 385 00:18:03.240 --> 00:18:05.920 Yeah, and ioys PS PS two. That's right, it's easy, 386 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:09.880 crazy all right. Then there was then Nintendo excuse me, local, 387 00:18:09.960 --> 00:18:12.359 let's do this one first, local play via game share. 388 00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:14.759 While the Switch allowed for local play on one console 389 00:18:14.839 --> 00:18:18.039 using two joy cons the Switch two's game share function 390 00:18:18.119 --> 00:18:20.359 will allow pals to play each other in a local 391 00:18:20.359 --> 00:18:23.359 setting using a single shared game even if the friend 392 00:18:23.359 --> 00:18:25.400 doesn't own a copy. That's something they've done on previous 393 00:18:25.440 --> 00:18:28.240 Nintendo consoles, so it'll be back. There will be basically 394 00:18:28.359 --> 00:18:28.920 share play. 395 00:18:30.079 --> 00:18:31.640 Yeah, oh, share play remember that one? 396 00:18:31.720 --> 00:18:31.920 Yep? 397 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:33.920 PS four Yeah, still do that they do. 398 00:18:34.039 --> 00:18:35.839 We tried to do it for something the other day 399 00:18:35.920 --> 00:18:38.240 and eventually we got it work, and it was a hassle. 400 00:18:38.319 --> 00:18:39.640 We did not know what we were doing. 401 00:18:40.559 --> 00:18:42.599