Speaker 1: Everybody. Welcome to Games Mornings with Me Jeff Grub, your
Speaker 1: host from giant bomb dot com. Thank you for tuning in.
Speaker 1: In this episode, we're gonna be talking about price increases
Speaker 1: for old consoles because everything is broken. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: a good one because we have Jason Binelli on the show. Jason,
Speaker 1: how are you doing? Doing great? It's a Friday. Uh
Speaker 1: been on this been on this channel a lot this week,
Speaker 1: helping you guys out. So I thought I'd balanced my
Speaker 1: ugly mug with some cuteness to get us started.
Speaker 2: Uh. They say hello to Cooper. He was just outside
Speaker 2: parking at somebody. So I hated to bring him in
Speaker 2: real fast figured out let him say hello, Hello, Wow,
Speaker 2: all right Cooper, but no, we're Cooper loves you, good
Speaker 2: Cooper chat loves you, and uh and Kitty in your
Speaker 2: background too, over your shoulder. There she's doing her things,
Speaker 2: going to the dogs on a Friday. Yeah, we're having
Speaker 2: we're having a good time, telling her about uh video
Speaker 2: games and getting ready to uh close out the week. No,
Speaker 2: I am not the new Mike. Mike is still travel
Speaker 2: Does he get home? Okay? Is he? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You know what, it's my new thing that he likes that,
Speaker 1: I say, who cares or whatever. No, I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: you got home just fine. He should be on later today,
Speaker 1: I think so. If he has a little bit of time,
Speaker 1: he might drop by for upf But like I said before,
Speaker 1: if he wants to relax, take it easy today, we'll
Speaker 1: also let him do that. Yeah, we're gonna get back
Speaker 1: with the whole crew next week, everybody. But it's been
Speaker 1: great having Jason on so much stuff. So thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you for hanging out. I appreciate it. As it
Speaker 1: says below here on the ticker, the Prince of Philip Buildia. Yeah,
Speaker 1: PHILLIPILDI own Philip building his own again. Glad, glad, you
Speaker 1: can do the show. Yeah, it's uh, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a we're gonna take it easy this week. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be good, wrap up, wrap up the week with the
Speaker 1: kind of just some conversations. There's plenty to talk about.
Speaker 1: But also it's it's been a long week, so let's
Speaker 1: just you and I hang out, have some fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I love that idea. Get ease into the weekend,
Speaker 2: and it's going to be a crazy weekend for me,
Speaker 2: not crazy in that I have a lot going on
Speaker 2: crazy in that It's EVO Baby. Happy EVO to you
Speaker 2: and yours to those that celebrate Evolution Championship Series Day one,
Speaker 2: kicking off in about an hour and forty five minutes
Speaker 2: from the Las Vegas Convention Center. Ten streams three days
Speaker 2: of fisticuffs and I am all about it. It's gonna
Speaker 2: be a good time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what, let's do it now. So what
Speaker 1: should people look for from EVO this weekend? I know
Speaker 1: you have some hot tips that people could find on
Speaker 1: some stuff you've written up. If you want to point
Speaker 1: people in that direction, let's do that. Like where should
Speaker 1: people go? What should they be looking for?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so if you go to GameSpot dot com, right
Speaker 2: in the top ten articles on the homepage, right there,
Speaker 2: you will see EVO twenty twenty five, how to watch
Speaker 2: every tournament, every announcement at every exhibition that they We'll
Speaker 2: be having throughout the weekend. Thirteen thousand unique entries across
Speaker 2: sixteen different games will be descending on Las Vegas this week.
Speaker 2: Eight are in the main EVO lineup that they been
Speaker 2: doing for years. This year, they've started a new extended
Speaker 2: lineup with games that are a little more legacy or
Speaker 2: or maybe have been replaced in the main lineup by
Speaker 2: the company that makes them. So. In your arena lineup,
Speaker 2: you have Street Fighter six, which has forty two hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty eight entries, Tech and eight at twenty five
Speaker 2: twenty one, Fatal Fury, City of the Wolves making its
Speaker 2: EVO debut at fifteen seventy six. Strong number there, Guilty
Speaker 2: Gear Strive fifteen oh eight, Grand Blue, Fantasy Versus Rising
Speaker 2: at nine thirty six. The classic game this year is
Speaker 2: Marvel versus Capcom two at five hundred and seventy entrance
Speaker 2: Saturday Night Finals for Marvel two. That's gonna be fun.
Speaker 2: That'll be under night stream at that point. I'm under
Speaker 2: Night under Night, m Birth two cis Celess at five
Speaker 2: forty seven that word salad, good Lord, and then Mortal
Speaker 2: Kombat one rounds things out at three seventy seven. That's
Speaker 2: the main arena lineup. They will be featured on the
Speaker 2: main streams and I'll get into that schedule in a second.
Speaker 2: And then your extended lineup is Rivals of eight or
Speaker 2: two at three fifty eight, Blaze Brew Central Fiction at
Speaker 2: two forty seven, Capcom versus S and K two. This
Speaker 2: is true Love we're making at two thirty six, Vertu
Speaker 2: Fighter five Revo to twelve, King of Fighters fifteen one
Speaker 2: sixty nine, Samurai Show Down one fifty five, Guilty Gear
Speaker 2: Zird Rev two, Word Salad again at one thirty four,
Speaker 2: and the Very Underrated in twenty twenty five at least
Speaker 2: Killer Instinct from the twenty thirteen reboot. Uh is one
Speaker 2: hundred and eighteen entrants. All of these will be streamed.
Speaker 2: I believe almost every match will be streamed somewhere, maybe
Speaker 2: not in the ten official Evo channels, which I'll get into,
Speaker 2: like I said in a second, but there will be
Speaker 2: plenty of fighting games to watch. So if you're looking
Speaker 2: for news, right, if you're looking for news and updates
Speaker 2: on the games, you should be focusing today on the
Speaker 2: main Evo channel, EVO. It's just called EVO. Now, I
Speaker 2: do want to say there isn't a channel called Evo
Speaker 2: and a channel called Evo one. There are two different channels.
Speaker 2: This is just EVO with no number. Today is going
Speaker 2: to be be their showcase, so panels discussions potential news
Speaker 2: things like that. They go from ten AMPT to the
Speaker 2: last schedule thing is eight thirty PMPT, So all day long.
Speaker 2: They have panels and things like that Virtual Fighter Developer
Speaker 2: panel at three pm Eastern twelve PM's Pacific time. If
Speaker 2: you're looking forward to that Mortal Kombat Legacy Collection panel
Speaker 2: right afterwards at twelve thirty pm Pacific time, you may
Speaker 2: have already seen the news that Mortal Kombat Trilogy is
Speaker 2: being added to that Legacy collection. Plus pre orders went
Speaker 2: live today for the regular and Collector's editions and stuff
Speaker 2: like that, So if you're into that, go check that
Speaker 2: out there. Side Games, if you like Grand Blue, that'll
Speaker 2: be at two pm Eastern. SNK hits the stage at
Speaker 2: four pm I'm sorry, two pm Pacific. Snk hits the
Speaker 2: stage at four pm Pacific Invisible Invincible Versus which I'm
Speaker 2: very personally excited for five PMCI for an hour and
Speaker 2: a half, they have the stage which is pretty wild,
Speaker 2: and then the as far as panels go for me,
Speaker 2: Marvel Tocon Fighting Soul's panel at eight pm Pacific time
Speaker 2: eleven Eastern. That is the highlight of the day. So
Speaker 2: that is all of the news you can expect on
Speaker 2: that main EVO channel the rest of the weekend. That
Speaker 2: Maine ev channel will also be wall the top eights
Speaker 2: play out. So Saturday it's Mortal Kombat Undernight, Marvel and
Speaker 2: Grand Blue, and then Sunday it's Guilty Year, Fatal Fury,
Speaker 2: Tech and Eight and street Fighter, And in between those
Speaker 2: tournaments they mix in the announcements. They've said Invincible Verses
Speaker 2: will be featured at these, Marvel TOCN will be featured
Speaker 2: at these two x KO should make it appearance. I
Speaker 2: believe it's it's gonna be a bonanza, yeah, of fighting
Speaker 2: game stuff. It's just gonna be wild. And then every
Speaker 2: one of the channels, the subsequent channels will have specific
Speaker 2: games like, for example, if you just want to watch
Speaker 2: street Fighter, ev O two has nothing but street Fighter
Speaker 2: Friday and Saturday, and it doesn't do anything because it
Speaker 2: doesn't need to. On Sunday, if it's Tech and eight
Speaker 2: you want to watch, that's EVO three, and then EVO four, five, six,
Speaker 2: and seven will be mixing things up depending on what's
Speaker 2: going on. And then they do have two dedicated channels
Speaker 2: just to the extended lineup, Virtual Fighter, Arrivals of a
Speaker 2: third Guilty Gear on Friday, Oh sorry, on EVO Extended one,
Speaker 2: and then EVO Extended too will be cap con Versus
Speaker 2: SNK two, King of Fighters fifteen and Blaze Blue and
Speaker 2: a little bit of Killer Instinct as well. That that
Speaker 2: schedule is extensive. The whole thing is on the game
Speaker 2: spot article that I wrote. If you want to look
Speaker 2: for a specific game, that's where you go. It's going
Speaker 2: to be fighting, fighting, fighting, and it's and I have
Speaker 2: always said that if you want to know what competitive
Speaker 2: gaming is like, if you're not familiar with it, the
Speaker 2: fighting game community is the purest way for a casual
Speaker 2: for a casual video game fan, for a casual fighting
Speaker 2: game fan, or for someone who doesn't play video games
Speaker 2: to experience competitive gaming, because I think it is the
Speaker 2: easiest for a layman, someone who doesn't know, to get
Speaker 2: all the information they need translated to them, translated to
Speaker 2: them as soon as possible. And if you don't believe me,
Speaker 2: take a still screenshot from Tech and eight or Street
Speaker 2: Fighter six from a broadcast of that game and put
Speaker 2: it next to a still screenshot from a broadcast of
Speaker 2: League of Legends. No disrespect to League of Legends, I
Speaker 2: would agree with this. Yeah, yeah, the amount of information
Speaker 2: on the screen is absurd, And even like Overwatch or
Speaker 2: Call of Duty, if you're motion sick, you have no
Speaker 2: chance you can't watch that. So I think if FGC
Speaker 2: is indeed the greatest depiction of competitive gaming, as the
Speaker 2: chat says, it just is. It has that like ufcwwe
Speaker 2: sort of feel, especially when someone's popping off, if you
Speaker 2: need a highlight from last year to give you the full, uh,
Speaker 2: the full idea, go watch Street Fighter three Third Strike
Speaker 2: with heyau.
Speaker 1: Go watch moment. Just google moment thirty eight. Yeah, EVO
Speaker 1: moment eight.
Speaker 2: That's it. That's it. That's oh man, that shit was awesome.
Speaker 2: That's but yeah. Yeah. But and if you're out there,
Speaker 2: if you're going to EVO, there's a full convention surrounding it.
Speaker 2: You'll be able to play Token, You'll be able to
Speaker 2: play Invincible Verses, You'll be able to play Mortal Kombat
Speaker 2: Legacy Collection two x KO is there again. There's there's
Speaker 2: meet and greets. One of my favorite fighting game artists
Speaker 2: of all time, Shinkiro, who did all the capcom and
Speaker 2: S and k Art, he made this wonder He made
Speaker 2: this wonderful poster of the EVO thirty seven Parry where
Speaker 2: it's Ken Parry and and my interrior in the background.
Speaker 2: The crossover characters Terry and Maida Street Fighter, Ken and
Speaker 2: Chunley to fail Fury. It's wonderful stuff. No, we know
Speaker 2: it's more than thirty seven. The parry Is Moment thirty
Speaker 2: seven is the one from last year.
Speaker 1: We're talking about moment thirty eight. Yeah, it's a different thing.
Speaker 2: Don't you. Don't you fact check me chat at least
Speaker 2: not yet. Let's let's wait toward the stuff. I don't
Speaker 2: know what I'm talking about this week. Check me yet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Moment thirty seven, Moment thirty eight are different.
Speaker 2: And the moment.
Speaker 1: The moment thirty eight lived up to such hype that
Speaker 1: everyone said, you know your moment thirty eight, now, like
Speaker 1: that's that's how good it was.
Speaker 2: It's heyau is awesome. But yeah, if if you have
Speaker 2: any passing interest in fighting games at all, this is
Speaker 2: this is the super Bowl. This is the the fighting
Speaker 2: game super Bowl for all of these games and the
Speaker 2: news that surrounds it. Honestly, fighting games are a pretty
Speaker 2: good spot. I have three storylines that I think are
Speaker 2: important this year. One is the declining attendance. I do
Speaker 2: want to bring up Marino had a the decline in attendance,
Speaker 2: I should say Marino, the veritable Marino who is out there.
Speaker 2: I did see that he picked up his badge wearing
Speaker 2: a wearing a Sir Daniel Fortescue from PlayStation All Stars
Speaker 2: Battle Royale T shirt. What a guy he had posted?
Speaker 2: Where is that I'd meant to have ready and that
Speaker 2: I didn't?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 2: Yes, So if you look at the numbers in the
Speaker 2: games that were in last year's EVO and this year's EVO,
Speaker 2: there is a trend down. I mentioned Street Fighter had
Speaker 2: forty two eighty eight last year, it was fifty two
Speaker 2: to sixty five. That's a twenty percent drop. Guilty Gear
Speaker 2: was a twenty six percent drop. Grand Blue thirty two
Speaker 2: word Salid Undernight is thirty percent, Mortal Kombat one is
Speaker 2: forty six percent. King of Fighters is fifty four percent,
Speaker 2: and Tech in which I skipped on purpose forty five percent.
Speaker 2: Down right, there is a definite reason for this. A
Speaker 2: couple of laces, right, Yeah, Yeah, Well, I mean the
Speaker 2: main one I come I think if you look at
Speaker 2: the picture as a whole is the political climate we
Speaker 2: live in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and hard to travel to the United States right now?
Speaker 1: Are justified traveling here? For sure?
Speaker 2: Yeah? It just is? And I wonder how I don't
Speaker 2: think it's going to affect the viewing experience, but I
Speaker 2: am genuinely curious how it's going to affect the competition itself. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the second storyline kind of builds off of that, and
Speaker 2: that's Tech and eight specifically. That drop is considerable, but
Speaker 2: that particular game, I think is just as much because
Speaker 2: of how mad people are at the state of that
Speaker 2: game at the moment. Ever since season two launched, it
Speaker 2: has just been fumble after fumble and they just can't
Speaker 2: dig out of it. I'm hoping they can do it soon.
Speaker 2: I'm hoping it has a good showing here and starts
Speaker 2: to get them good graces back because I love teching.
Speaker 2: I like teching a a lot. It's just not in
Speaker 2: a very good spot right now. All they have to
Speaker 2: do is put the waffle house, the waffle House stage in.
Speaker 1: There and all the problems. Yep, it's all good from there.
Speaker 2: Call it pancake punch. That's it. Put it in there.
Speaker 2: But I think that's second one and the third one
Speaker 2: is more for the convention as a whole, and that's
Speaker 2: the burgeoning tag Fighter scene two XKO.
Speaker 1: It feels like the next year's lineup is going to
Speaker 1: look very different. Than this year's lineup, right, because a
Speaker 1: lot of those games are going to come out and
Speaker 1: kind of dominate this space, I think very quickly.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I agree with that to the point where I
Speaker 2: think maybe they're putting the extended lineup in this year
Speaker 2: just to have it for next year, right, Yeah, because
Speaker 2: a lot of these games still are still the current game,
Speaker 2: so they're going to bleed into that. But the burgeoning
Speaker 2: tag scene, specifically, Marvel took on two XKO Invincible Versus
Speaker 2: two x KO, like I said, had a two your lead,
Speaker 2: a two year head start, and it's and it evaporated
Speaker 2: in a week span with Marvel Token and that stay
Speaker 2: to play and Invincible Versus four days later at Xbox.
Speaker 2: It's that is an interesting scene all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: three games that offer completely different things. One's more of
Speaker 2: a traditional tag and Invincible Versus two XKO does some
Speaker 2: interesting things with their like link system. And now Marvel
Speaker 2: TOCN based on that video yesterday is completely wild.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I am very curious to see what opinions are coming
Speaker 2: out of EVO based on those three games. So that's it.
Speaker 1: That's EVO, baby, Make sure you watch them Fighting games.
Speaker 2: Ready, Welcome to Evo mess Mornings all of a sudden
Speaker 2: and we'll take it from there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm really really looking forward to it. You got
Speaker 1: me more hype than I was before. And I had
Speaker 1: such a good time watching last year. It was that
Speaker 1: that Hayo moment really has stuck with me. But there
Speaker 1: was so much cool stuff from last year, So looking
Speaker 1: forward to watching again. And I think it's interesting year
Speaker 1: because everything is kind of like in a weird space
Speaker 1: with some of these games, especially something like a tech
Speaker 1: n and it's like, I bet there's gonna be something.
Speaker 1: We come out here and be like, you know what,
Speaker 1: Everything's just fine and look at all these games that
Speaker 1: are coming down the pike. So yeah, playing games in
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Speaker 1: All right. We have a lot to get into, so
Speaker 1: let's start the morning mess with Nintendo increasing price of
Speaker 1: Switch and other products in the US. This is from
Speaker 1: Eddie McCoo, a game spot. Okay, let's just get into it.
Speaker 1: Nintendo has announced that it's raising the price of the
Speaker 1: original switch and other Nintendo products in the United States.
Speaker 1: Switch to pricing, however, will remain unchanged at least for now.
Speaker 1: Beginning August third, the price of the switch will go
Speaker 1: up based on market conditions, and that's in quote the
Speaker 1: regular switch, switch, O, led switch light, and Select, and
Speaker 1: that's in quotes as well. Accessories will get unspecified pricing increases.
Speaker 1: That's right, the price is going up, and Nintendo is
Speaker 1: not telling us by how much. They're just warning us
Speaker 1: that on August third, the price is going to go up.
Speaker 1: So if you have been meaning to buy a switch
Speaker 1: light or whatever for some reason this week, I guess
Speaker 1: they've created a sense of urgency and now with the
Speaker 1: time to go, do that. Look, Jason, I get the
Speaker 1: reality of market conditions, and the tariffs really are still there.
Speaker 1: It feels like we've moved past them. He like, just
Speaker 1: today Trump was putting a thirty five percent tariff on Canada.
Speaker 1: There's more being placed on Brazil. But like, don't forget
Speaker 1: that there are still tariffs on China, Vietnam, Taiwan, these
Speaker 1: places all have their own significant tariffs that are more
Speaker 1: than just like ten percent, which also already would have
Speaker 1: been too much and would probably force these companies to
Speaker 1: increase prices. They're at like twenty five to thirty percent
Speaker 1: for these tariffs. So that stuff is still there. But
Speaker 1: the switch one could just kind of fizzle out, like Nintendo,
Speaker 1: just let it like not make as much. I struggle
Speaker 1: to see, like how they aren't making a profit on
Speaker 1: that thing still because they it's an old it's old hardware.
Speaker 1: At the price on manufacturing has to have come down now,
Speaker 1: I say that, And the reality is we know that
Speaker 1: there's been a lot of issues with manufacturing and sourcing
Speaker 1: parts and it becomes more difficult every year seemingly, and
Speaker 1: so that and combine that with the tariffs. Maybe not,
Speaker 1: maybe they do feel like they need to raise the price,
Speaker 1: but it still why not just take the hit, let
Speaker 1: the switch one sort of move into the bush like
Speaker 1: Homer Simpson, and let the switch to take the spotlight.
Speaker 1: This is insane to me that we're raising the price
Speaker 1: of a switch one after the switch too is out.
Speaker 2: It's it is insane to me, But I do sort
Speaker 2: of see a small strain of logic to it, sure,
Speaker 2: and that that being if you are going to raise
Speaker 2: a price to recoup costs you are going, and it
Speaker 2: makes sense to reduce the current stock of the previous
Speaker 2: generation because A either you get the extra for those sales,
Speaker 2: or B they just say, well, for one hundred dollars more,
Speaker 2: I can just get the switch to and be caught up,
Speaker 2: and then you may push people to the switch to
Speaker 2: that way, right, I don't like it. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you saw the target does have the new prices up.
Speaker 2: Switch lights are now two twenty nine, up from two
Speaker 2: twenty nine, up from one to ninety nine. Non o
Speaker 2: leads are three thirty nine, up from two ninety nine,
Speaker 2: and switch O leads are four hundred up from three
Speaker 2: point fifty. So I could definitely see a parent being like, wait,
Speaker 2: the old one's four hundred, the new one's five hundred.
Speaker 2: I can make I can do the under extra hundred
Speaker 2: bucks and then four to fifty if they don't untle
Speaker 2: game in with it, if that's a good point and
Speaker 2: just say, oh, I'll just I'll do the upgrade and
Speaker 2: now we're switch to owners and that'll be that. I'm
Speaker 2: also and I said this in uh I think one
Speaker 2: of the one of my group chats, never underestimate the
Speaker 2: ignorance of your fellow man or the capability for ignorance
Speaker 2: in your fellow man. And some parent is gonna miss
Speaker 2: the big two. They're gonna be set in for a
Speaker 2: switch to and they're gonna see this one and see
Speaker 2: that price and that it's not gonna be much different,
Speaker 2: and they're gonna be like, oh, this is what they want. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they're gonna get the first.
Speaker 1: You can't be banking on that, right, That can't be
Speaker 1: the strategy. That can't be the kind of thing where
Speaker 1: it's like we are gonna be sneaky and try to
Speaker 1: make a little bit more money by fooling people. I mean,
Speaker 1: I do think that will be a byproduct of this.
Speaker 1: I also think of by product this is the medium
Speaker 1: popcorn effect of oh this is only one hundred dollars more.
Speaker 1: Now let's go over the switch too. Definitely, But I
Speaker 1: think they can't be like using those as primary strategies
Speaker 1: for selling the switch too, because it just looks really odd.
Speaker 1: It speaks volumes, right, this is screaming to us get
Speaker 1: used to this kind of thing. The switch two's price
Speaker 1: is probably going to go up, Like, honestly, you should
Speaker 1: be feeling anxious about if you haven't got a Switch To.
Speaker 1: Yet then this is Nintendo talking now. You should be
Speaker 1: feeling anxious because we're going to raise the price at
Speaker 1: any minute. And they said that they reserve the right
Speaker 1: to do that, so that like basically they are doing
Speaker 1: everything except for confirming there will be a switch to
Speaker 1: price increase at some point. So you know, there was
Speaker 1: a time where this was the exact opposite or what happened,
Speaker 1: where we would get price decreases when the new console
Speaker 1: came out, and to live in this very very opposite world,
Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, this whole system feels broken. Obviously, the
Speaker 1: market effects are real and and and the reality is
Speaker 1: this is us just kind of catching up, like we're
Speaker 1: like I'm a gas at this or whatever. But the
Speaker 1: price went up in Canada I think for the Switch
Speaker 1: one a few months ago, right, and now we're just
Speaker 1: getting the price increase here like they spared us for.
Speaker 2: A little bit.
Speaker 1: So yeah, but still it is a weird timing, you
Speaker 1: know at certain points, oh well, they didn't get the
Speaker 1: price increased for the Switch one done by the time
Speaker 1: to Switch two launched. Obviously, the move here now is
Speaker 1: just kind of leave everything alone, move on and focus
Speaker 1: on the switch too. And they're not even doing that,
Speaker 1: So I kind it's hard to read this in any
Speaker 1: other way other than Nintendo screaming to everybody that we
Speaker 1: are going to take every opportunity we have to increase
Speaker 1: the price because you know, if the tariffs go away.
Speaker 1: I suppose maybe the switch one. I was going to say, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, the switch one won't go back down in price,
Speaker 1: But again, who knows, maybe they would bring it back
Speaker 1: down because it's the switch one. Who cares. They're not
Speaker 1: going to sell it to one more of those now
Speaker 1: they are going to sell some more of those, and
Speaker 1: they have to manufacture them. And Nintendo's very conservative and
Speaker 1: wants to cover their costs if it comes from a
Speaker 1: place like that. I guess I get it, but I
Speaker 1: really still don't because it just looks so strange. Do
Speaker 1: you think, like, Okay, Nintendo's doing this, and Nintendo's try
Speaker 1: to trail or has successfully like charged eighty dollars for
Speaker 1: one of its games. They have this new console that
Speaker 1: is is relatively expensive for what people thought it would cost.
Speaker 1: A lot of people thought it would cost a little
Speaker 1: bit less than that four fifty four hundred. The other
Speaker 1: companies around Nintendo seem to keep taking like, Okay, Nintendo's
Speaker 1: doing it, so maybe we can get away with it.
Speaker 1: Do you think this leads back to even more price
Speaker 1: increases from Xbox and Sony or did they already get
Speaker 1: thirs in and this is Nintendo catching up?
Speaker 2: I think I think the ladder. I think Nintendo is
Speaker 2: just kind of I think Nintendo sat back was a
Speaker 2: little bit patient and is now trying to pull every
Speaker 2: lever they can other than the switch to one before
Speaker 2: they are forced to pull the switch to one. I
Speaker 2: don't I mean, maybe you see a series s increase, perhaps, Yeah,
Speaker 2: because that is that there is some room to move there.
Speaker 2: As much as I don't want to say that, but
Speaker 2: if anything's gonna go up, I think it's going to
Speaker 2: be that. I don't. I don't know that that the
Speaker 2: Microsoft and Sony really have a lot of room to
Speaker 2: follow suit, right, And and that's from a financial standpoint
Speaker 2: and from a good will standpoint. Right Xbox, in prontarticular,
Speaker 2: if they come out with a price increase for their consoles,
Speaker 2: they basically just say we prefer them to sell on
Speaker 2: the shelf, then be in your house, because that's what
Speaker 2: they're going to do. I would be absolutely aghast if
Speaker 2: either of those companies announced an increase in America. But
Speaker 2: then again, we are do we do live in bizarro world? Now?
Speaker 1: Everything is weird.
Speaker 2: Everybody who Every decision that's ever been made in the
Speaker 2: last like who, however long has been the opposite of
Speaker 2: what it should have been or I thought it would be,
Speaker 2: So who the hell knows?
Speaker 1: Jeff Right, I'm trying to like remember it. I think
Speaker 1: the timeline for Sony is they raised the price of
Speaker 1: the PlayStation five everywhere except for the United States, or
Speaker 1: did we eventually get one in the United because I think.
Speaker 2: You could say, I don't think we ever did. I
Speaker 2: don't think. I think it's still for I think are
Speaker 2: the prices right?
Speaker 1: But they raised it everywhere else, so it's like we've
Speaker 1: all been kind of like, don't touch it because it
Speaker 1: might fall apart, And then what falls out is price increases.
Speaker 1: And I think that this might convince Sony to move
Speaker 1: on that, but there's also been some backlash. The eighty
Speaker 1: dollars price hasn't seemed to work for anything else other
Speaker 1: than Mario Kart, so maybe everyone's like Nintendo can touch
Speaker 1: the hot stove, maybe we can't get away with it.
Speaker 1: As much. I think Sony feels like it probably would
Speaker 1: be able to get away with it. But the PlayStation
Speaker 1: fives at a weird point in its life cycle where
Speaker 1: people are looking at it be like, oh, all the
Speaker 1: games are from Microsoft, and well, you know, why do
Speaker 1: I buy this system, Sony? I want your games, And
Speaker 1: so I think they might wait until they have a
Speaker 1: few more things out there coming out in the next
Speaker 1: couple of years, but even then it's like, what are
Speaker 1: we talking about. They're waiting to increase the price. This
Speaker 1: to me speaks to the somewhat rotten foundation of console
Speaker 1: gaming as a whole right now, where these companies the
Speaker 1: strategy is get more money from the same people. They
Speaker 1: don't necessarily think about growing their their market share and
Speaker 1: not versus you know, not when I'm not talking about
Speaker 1: market share versus like Sony, micros Oft and Nintendo, but
Speaker 1: their market share versus like TikTok and other things that
Speaker 1: take people's leisure time. So now does Nintendo feel that way?
Speaker 1: They grew a lot with the Switch one. I bet
Speaker 1: they have like a relatively good understanding that the Switch
Speaker 1: too is going to do maybe as good as the
Speaker 1: Switch one or slightly worse. Like, it'll be very difficult
Speaker 1: for them to do better than the Switch one, so
Speaker 1: for them to increase profits this generation, price increases is
Speaker 1: kind of the thing they got to rely on. So again,
Speaker 1: I think this goes back to them understanding that the
Speaker 1: console generation or the console market not growing with bringing
Speaker 1: in a lot of new young people, and then Nintendo
Speaker 1: using the switch one as a way of getting us
Speaker 1: used to the idea of even more price increases than
Speaker 1: we have become accustomed to. And it's just a bummer
Speaker 1: all around, very strange. Now Nintendo's had some earnings reports
Speaker 1: it's doing very well. The switch to has sold five
Speaker 1: point eight two million units worldwide. That's from my Nintendo
Speaker 1: news and then to Know has confirmed this morning that
Speaker 1: the recently released Nintendo switched To has sold five point
Speaker 1: eight two million units worldwide since the console launched on
Speaker 1: the fifth of June. This sales figure counts hardware sales
Speaker 1: up to June thirtieth, twenty twenty five, so no doubt
Speaker 1: has now sold a fair few more units since I
Speaker 1: think Nintendo confirmed, like it's more than six million now
Speaker 1: if you go up to like today's sales something like that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, five point six three million or uh, yes,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, that's for Mario Kart. Five point five point
Speaker 1: eight two million for Switch to and then Mario Kart
Speaker 1: has sold five point six three million, almost a one
Speaker 1: to one attach rate.
Speaker 2: That's crazy to me.
Speaker 1: Crazy.
Speaker 2: I would love I would love to know the split
Speaker 2: of bundles versus non bundles and why someone would buy
Speaker 2: a non bundle unless they had to.
Speaker 1: Right, you can't find if you can't find it. Yes,
Speaker 1: I think that's going to be the only reason most
Speaker 1: people did, because it seems like everyone just like says, yeah,
Speaker 1: I should have that game, and it makes sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, I think to the one thing to
Speaker 2: take from this is and I said this the last
Speaker 2: time we talked about Switch sales figures. The fact that
Speaker 2: the stock this amount of stock was available for them
Speaker 2: to reach these heights so soon is commendable Like that's
Speaker 2: they clearly were ready with all the rumors in time
Speaker 2: that we had between you know, when we thought it
Speaker 2: was coming, when it actually came, they were just probably
Speaker 2: stockpiling consoles, and I think it paid off for them, clearly.
Speaker 2: I would love all of the people who have bought
Speaker 2: the Switch and don't own Marricart to buy it just
Speaker 2: because I want to see a one to one attach
Speaker 2: rate and go like that. But yeah, I mean, what
Speaker 2: else can you say? That's the the early strategy is
Speaker 2: paid off. Now it's time for the long term strategy
Speaker 2: to show its hand here and let us know when
Speaker 2: things are coming out and what you're going to do
Speaker 2: to support these near these now six million plus people
Speaker 2: who bought in on day one month, one month, two,
Speaker 2: what's next? How are you going to keep us? You
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Yep, And on that point has been rated for switch
Speaker 1: to one of the games coming up for that system.
Speaker 1: This is from Liam Dulan at Nintendo Life. Masahiro Sakarai
Speaker 1: Sean made me say that that that way everybody. By
Speaker 1: the way, mas Hero's latest project, Kirby aer Riders sores
Speaker 1: on Tonindudo switch to at some point later this year.
Speaker 1: While we haven't heard all that much about it since
Speaker 1: the initial announcement in April, the game has reportedly been
Speaker 1: rated in Saudi Arabia, recently receiving an AGE rating in
Speaker 1: the location of seven and above. Whatever details don't matter
Speaker 1: here really what matters is the game, people speculated I
Speaker 1: think based on this news looking at other Saudi Arabia
Speaker 1: Arabia Ratings that they only rate games once they're completed,
Speaker 1: once they've completed development. That's probably actually true. I think
Speaker 1: that's probably true. I think I think that's that tends
Speaker 1: to be how it works, where these ratiing ratings agencies
Speaker 1: are like, you got to send us some material, but
Speaker 1: the game has to be ready to go, so no
Speaker 1: changes can sneak in underneath us. But maybe that's not
Speaker 1: how it works either way. I think we can assume
Speaker 1: this game is probably pretty close to going, and when
Speaker 1: it gets rated like this, okay, that means it can
Speaker 1: come any minute now.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: At the same time, this is Nintendo, Jason, they do
Speaker 1: the thing of holding onto games for longer than you
Speaker 1: would expect. I don't necessarily think that's gonna happen here.
Speaker 1: This game is coming. We still haven't got a date, though,
Speaker 1: So do you think this is one of those ones
Speaker 1: where it's like, Okay, we just had that partner direct
Speaker 1: and now we are expecting a September direct although they
Speaker 1: haven't said anything about that. But it usually happens. I
Speaker 1: think it's always happened for like the last ten years
Speaker 1: or something like that. But whatever, we can expect one.
Speaker 1: So do you think this is another one of these
Speaker 1: game date announcements that get saved for that or is
Speaker 1: this one that could pop up on Nintendo Today App
Speaker 1: anytime between now and then.
Speaker 2: Of all the games that we know that Nintendo has
Speaker 2: in first party development, I think this is the one
Speaker 2: that has the highest chance of you just wake up
Speaker 2: on a Monday morning and you're like, oh, by the way,
Speaker 2: Kirby aer Riders launching blah blah blah on Nintendo Switch
Speaker 2: to on your Nintendo Today app. It's this is the one.
Speaker 2: If they're gonna if they announced the METROI Prime four
Speaker 2: release date on Nintendo Today, they're gonna have to replace
Speaker 2: a lot of phones from people going holy sit and throwing.
Speaker 1: It across the room.
Speaker 2: So you do it on Kirby air Riders, you go
Speaker 2: all right, sure, that's fine, and then you move on
Speaker 2: to the next announcement. But yes, I do also think
Speaker 2: that the routine September direct usually sometimes as early as
Speaker 2: the Wednesday after Labor Day. Sometimes it goes a little
Speaker 2: later into September. The latest the latest ever been was
Speaker 2: the twenty first of September. It was supposed to be
Speaker 2: the fourteenth, and then that earthquake happened, so they delayed
Speaker 2: it a week. So I yeah, I wholeheartedly expect there
Speaker 2: to be a direct and for this game to be
Speaker 2: there in some capacity, but I also would not be
Speaker 2: surprised if we know the release date for it before
Speaker 2: that direct happens, and sometime in August, Nintendo's like, oh,
Speaker 2: by the way, we're still awaken. This is when this
Speaker 2: game's coming out. Thanks you'all.
Speaker 1: We're it's August now, Like July does feel like a
Speaker 1: time where okay, they did do a direct in July,
Speaker 1: but that you know, we don't get a ton of
Speaker 1: news about this industry in July. Typically that's changed a
Speaker 1: little bit, but typically August we do start to hear things.
Speaker 1: They start to go like, oh, I can see the
Speaker 1: holiday season. We should be ready for that. And so
Speaker 1: I think this is like things start to shake loose
Speaker 1: this month. I'm good. I think that is probably what
Speaker 1: is going to happen with the Nintendo Today app this month,
Speaker 1: where some of these things we keep asking about do
Speaker 1: shake loose in the next couple of weeks, and then
Speaker 1: they could put everything else in the end of September
Speaker 1: direct and they can also remind us about these dates
Speaker 1: in the September Direct. So it's like, if Kirby Air
Speaker 1: Riders does get a date between now in September, that
Speaker 1: game will also probably just be in the September Direct
Speaker 1: with even more information in that at that point. So
Speaker 1: I think Nintendo will probably have some information dropping about
Speaker 1: many of these games here very soon. Agreed, All right,
Speaker 1: Here are the top ten best selling Switch games as
Speaker 1: of June twenty twenty five. Kind of another check in
Speaker 1: on just how well some of these games have sold.
Speaker 1: Mario Kart eight Deluxe is now at sixty point eight
Speaker 1: six million units, almost seventy million it's sold that that's
Speaker 1: another six hundred thousand units there, I believe or not? No,
Speaker 1: maybe that's sixty thousand excuse me, another sixty thousand thousand
Speaker 1: units in the last quarter Mario Kart, Yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Animal Crossing New Horizons is at forty point one to
Speaker 1: nine million. Super Smash Brothers Ultimate is at thirty six
Speaker 1: point five to five million. These are just massive numbers.
Speaker 1: As a reminder, the exclusives for like an Xbox or
Speaker 1: a PlayStation console game, typically honestly, for anything that's not
Speaker 1: Spider Man is around ten, twelve million, fifteen million. That's
Speaker 1: really really, really good for a PlayStation exclusive. Spider Man
Speaker 1: gets up to like twenty million. I think some in
Speaker 1: that range. But you have several games here from Nintendo
Speaker 1: that are above twenty million, including Super Mario Party at
Speaker 1: twenty one point nineteen million. Now, one thing that I
Speaker 1: did find interesting here, Jason, is the Zelda games. So
Speaker 1: Breadth of the Wail was that thirty two point eight
Speaker 1: million last quarter and it sold another Let's see is
Speaker 1: that twenty thousand units?
Speaker 2: One hundred thousand? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, yes, and okay, so then and then Tiers of
Speaker 1: the Kingdom was at twenty one point seventy three million units,
Speaker 1: and let's see that is it didn't again? Yep. They're
Speaker 1: growing at about the same rate, right, So it's like
Speaker 1: those games they just kind of I don't know, they're
Speaker 1: in parallel. But people have not slowed down on buying
Speaker 1: Breath of the Wild because Tiers of the Kingdom's out there.
Speaker 1: It's it's a little weird thing to see. I don't know,
Speaker 1: what do you think, hi, Gruth?
Speaker 2: And I wonder too, this is sales, not unit movements.
Speaker 2: I wonder a are they including Nintendo Switch to edition,
Speaker 2: and b how do the how do the free online
Speaker 2: expansion upgrades factor into this?
Speaker 1: Right, you're looking through these numbers and trying to see
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, what games did get like significant updates?
Speaker 1: You know, Scarlet and Violet. That that one looks like
Speaker 1: it did another what three hundred thousand? No more than
Speaker 1: that four hundred thousand? Yeah, yeah, that's like really good
Speaker 1: for that, And I think that that's probably one that
Speaker 1: was like people were legitimately waiting. That sounds like the
Speaker 1: kind of spike in sales you can expect from something
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Surprisingly, I think the biggest jump in sales of
Speaker 2: all of these is Mario Kart eight Deluxe. It's six
Speaker 2: hundred thousand unit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right, it was six hundred thousand, yeah, sixteen
Speaker 1: The World is Out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean this game cannot be stopped.
Speaker 1: It literally just has a momentum all its ome. It
Speaker 1: is self perpetuating machine at this point. And yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's bananas to see that it can continue to sell
Speaker 1: that well, even like even if you consider like part
Speaker 1: of that quarter was before the switch to is out,
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, so it's sold all right before that. No,
Speaker 1: that's a number that you only do if it just
Speaker 1: continues to sell. Like people probably bought a switch to
Speaker 1: and got Mario Kart wrote and bought Mario Kart eight Deluxe.
Speaker 1: They got both. It's like a very wild thing to see.
Speaker 1: Nintendo's trying to recreate that with World. I think they
Speaker 1: probably will end up doing so because despite like any
Speaker 1: like of the specific issues I might have with that game,
Speaker 1: the general audience seems pretty happy with it.
Speaker 2: So and hot dogs suit in chat. I heard that
Speaker 2: as well, even though it's not what he said. You
Speaker 2: said bananas to see, but we all heard bonanzas to say.
Speaker 1: Hey, bonanzas to see. That's all right, all right, let's
Speaker 1: take a quick break, go to our ad. When we
Speaker 1: come back, plenty more headlines will get into, including let's
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Speaker 1: I'm Jeff Grubb. That's Jason Finelli. All right, Jason, what
Speaker 1: are we talking about?
Speaker 2: All right? So I would like to shout out Blaine.
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Speaker 1: That's aw.
Speaker 2: That is so cool. So Blaine, well done, mate, Oh man,
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 1: All right, look at that, good man. That's it's an
Speaker 1: old trender Tron two. That's the shit. Okay, very cool, Blaine.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get back into the into the headlines
Speaker 1: here with Battlefield six is a spiritual successor to Battlefield
Speaker 1: three and four. Vince Zampella says, this is from Jordan
Speaker 1: Miller at VGCUH, but this is really just a kick
Speaker 1: off for us to talk about the previews and everything
Speaker 1: like that, but real quick. Battlefield six is set to
Speaker 1: release on October tenth, and this week, EA showed off
Speaker 1: the game's multiplayer for the first time at preview events
Speaker 1: across the world. The thing I've been hearing mostly from
Speaker 1: people is they're pretty excited about it, and it does
Speaker 1: remind them of Battlefield three and four, or it feels like,
Speaker 1: you know, the real Battlefield five is what people are saying. Now.
Speaker 1: I haven't played it, I will say, And I saw
Speaker 1: someone in chap point out that Steven till Totilla made
Speaker 1: the same point by retweeting and reposting a bunch of
Speaker 1: previews for Battlefield twenty forty two where people sounded very
Speaker 1: similar to how they sound now. Battlefield is back. It's
Speaker 1: going back to its roots. This is the Battlefield we've
Speaker 1: been waiting for, so we can get our hopes up. Still.
Speaker 1: I think that there's nothing wrong with that, and this
Speaker 1: is still the game that people have been asking for
Speaker 1: from Dice. But do you think we're setting ourselves up
Speaker 1: for disappointment or what? Is? It hard to say now.
Speaker 2: It's hard to say right now because a lot of
Speaker 2: the enthusiasm that you're hearing is from people who were
Speaker 2: in the room and potentially flown out there to do it.
Speaker 2: I don't want to say that they're compromised, but you know,
Speaker 2: they're the content creators, the YouTubers who will go out
Speaker 2: there and play this game, and you know, we're in
Speaker 2: the room being interviewed by EA on the official live
Speaker 2: stream while they're playing it. What are they going to say, No,
Speaker 2: your game sucks. Like you have to take all of
Speaker 2: those impressions with a grain of fatal It's easy to.
Speaker 1: Get caught up in the hype, right like it is
Speaker 1: like you're there. Yeah, in fashions, have all met?
Speaker 2: Have y'all met me? I am a hype machine. I
Speaker 2: think I think I got out of my chair yesterday
Speaker 2: for a mouse game that let's not let's not say
Speaker 2: that I'm immune to this, but I have read some
Speaker 2: articles and some interviews and things like that where they've
Speaker 2: talked about I think the guy from Ripple Effect said
Speaker 2: they went back and looked at three and four and
Speaker 2: really tried to enhance that experience in this new game.
Speaker 2: And I think that is the way to go, right.
Speaker 2: You go back to why did people gravitate towards those
Speaker 2: games so much and see if you can how you
Speaker 2: can translate that or improve on it. Just get five
Speaker 2: and twenty forty two out of your view and just
Speaker 2: focus on three and four. If that's what they did
Speaker 2: I think that's the right approach to take. Honestly, we
Speaker 2: won't know for sure until the open bait has happened
Speaker 2: next weekend and the weekend after, But for now, I like,
Speaker 2: I like what I'm hearing. I like the direction it
Speaker 2: sounds like they're taking. But until I am holding a
Speaker 2: controller checking it out, I cannot in good conscience say
Speaker 2: Battlefield's back, because.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, yeah, that's where I'm at too.
Speaker 1: But I can imagine that this game is in a
Speaker 1: better place than that even twenty forty two was, because
Speaker 1: it's like twenty forty two is it did feel like
Speaker 1: the Pepsi Challenge, where like people tried it and it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is this does taste the sweetness that I want.
Speaker 2: It's right there.
Speaker 1: They are delivering the game I want, and then it
Speaker 1: just didn't have everything behind it to sort of support that. Hopefully,
Speaker 1: it's like this is just them being like, Okay, let's
Speaker 1: go even more back to Battlefield three and four and
Speaker 1: learn from our lessons from twenty forty two. It's entirely
Speaker 1: possible that all that has happened and this is really
Speaker 1: the game that people have been waiting for so Beta
Speaker 1: starts next week. I believe people are going to get
Speaker 1: a chance to get their hands on with this thing.
Speaker 1: Hopefully I will go on hands on as well and
Speaker 1: be able to form my own opinion. But I bet
Speaker 1: a lot of people will come out of that, and
Speaker 1: you know, at the very least, we will know a
Speaker 1: lot more at that point, although it will still be
Speaker 1: easy to get caught up in the hype from a beta,
Speaker 1: I do.
Speaker 2: Want to make a point that Lexi made in chat
Speaker 2: here giant bomb dot com slash chat if you're not
Speaker 2: there yet. Also kind of weird that no one has
Speaker 2: covered the game's pretty American nationalist, wet dreamy story concept,
Speaker 2: which is, hey, there was an assassination. She didn't write
Speaker 2: that I did because I did cover it, Lexi gatesbot
Speaker 2: dot com article A. Basically, there's a major assassination that
Speaker 2: breaks up NATO, and this PMC tries to fill the void,
Speaker 2: and that's who you're fighting against in the single player campaign.
Speaker 2: The thirty second teaser was just a woman given this
Speaker 2: speech about how the allegiances you thought you had you
Speaker 2: don't have and blah blah blah, and then she quotes
Speaker 2: a little finger from Game of Thrones for some.
Speaker 1: And Jason, we're losing you a little bit. Maybe you're
Speaker 1: just like robody while like a robot cursing. Hang on,
Speaker 1: let's go Okay, let's give it a second. Let's see
Speaker 1: if it comes back. All right, yep, names Nato got
Speaker 1: him a Rascal's dad. Nato came for Jason Fidelli. Everybody,
Speaker 1: you're you're still you're still breaking up. Maybe maybe try
Speaker 1: to leaving the call coming back, you know what. Hang on,
Speaker 1: let me change the region of the call. Let me
Speaker 1: see if that'll fix it real quick. Uh, let's do this. Okay,
Speaker 1: it does sound like you're back, but let's go to
Speaker 1: US Central. Oh here, so changes. Okay, all right, I
Speaker 1: think we're back. Okay, got him, everybody, we saved him,
Speaker 1: despite the cruelty that everyone knows from Nato. Uh, Jason,
Speaker 1: Jason Finelli has survived and we got back on the show.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be all right back. I live.
Speaker 1: You did you did put Yeah, you pointed this to
Speaker 1: me yesterday that they quoted little Finger. But they say
Speaker 1: as the man says, that's.
Speaker 2: As the man says, Chaos is a ladder. And I'm like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, that's just a couple on guys. Some
Speaker 2: some of must have just watched that episode and was like,
Speaker 2: you know what, this works in our trailer, but you
Speaker 2: know whatever, Sure, let's uh, let's let's let's quote Little
Speaker 2: Finger and see what the single player campaign has to do.
Speaker 1: Honestly, going back to a nationalistic dream story scenario also
Speaker 1: sounds kind of like going back to the heyday for
Speaker 1: this genre. It's like, yeah, we want to feel like
Speaker 1: it's the James Bond thing, right. James Bond came about
Speaker 1: from the UK because the UK was once an empire
Speaker 1: and then they weren't anymore, and it and and there's
Speaker 1: presence on the world stage had diminished, and so they
Speaker 1: created a character to make it feel like we could
Speaker 1: still affect global events. America is far along that timeline
Speaker 1: as well. That's why like the Mission Impossible movies have
Speaker 1: been have been doing better and better over time, and
Speaker 1: it's why we create, Like the general audience craves games
Speaker 1: like this because they want to feel like, Okay, the
Speaker 1: military that we spend all this money on has this
Speaker 1: value that we don't even fully understand, and we need
Speaker 1: them here and to protect us from the worst case scenarios.
Speaker 1: And that's what this could look like, look what happens
Speaker 1: if NATO goes away. So I think people crave it
Speaker 1: the way they crave Tom Clancy novels, and now we
Speaker 1: crave it even more because of the position the United
Speaker 1: States has on the global stage. Rainbow six Patriots, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean we've got a time of still trying to
Speaker 1: make that game. Yep, all right, let's see here. I
Speaker 1: think we're sticking with Battlefield six for a second. Battlefield
Speaker 1: six will have grounded skins, not from the video game grounded.
Speaker 1: There'll have skins that are grounded in reality. They say,
Speaker 1: I don't think it needs Nicki Minaj. This is from
Speaker 1: Eddie McCoo at game Spot. In an interview with comic
Speaker 1: book producer Alexia CHRISTOFFI said much the same thing, explaining
Speaker 1: that Battlefield Studios is hoping to make Battlefield six's skins
Speaker 1: feel grounded. We want people to express themselves in to
Speaker 1: have cool skins and peacock in a way like I
Speaker 1: look pretty cool and I have great weapons skins. What
Speaker 1: we wanted to feel authentic to the franchise. That's the
Speaker 1: approach which worth thinking. I think that this is the
Speaker 1: right thing to say right now, and if this game
Speaker 1: does end up getting one hundred million players, this will
Speaker 1: be laughed at one day when it does have all
Speaker 1: of the insane skins. I think it's both are true
Speaker 1: that they want to serve this audience of people who
Speaker 1: like Battlefield and want it to feel serious, and that's fine,
Speaker 1: they should do that, but I do think it's a
Speaker 1: little incompatible with their long term plans for this game.
Speaker 1: But the reality is it doesn't have to be incompatible
Speaker 1: for the launch. They could do this and mean it
Speaker 1: for now, and if it changes one day, so be it,
Speaker 1: and people will complain about it then, But if they've
Speaker 1: been playing that whole time, it's because they really like
Speaker 1: the game, and at that point Dice will probably save themselves.
Speaker 1: We can get away with a little bit more.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Now, does that mean one day SpongeBob is in the game.
Speaker 1: Probably not, But like look at like just look at
Speaker 1: like counter Strike weapon skins, right, those that like gets
Speaker 1: so wild over time they end up just like being
Speaker 1: like all tai die and stuff like that. That happen
Speaker 1: here for sure, And people are saying they don't even
Speaker 1: want that, so let's wait and see what happens. But
Speaker 1: I do I think this is the right thing to
Speaker 1: say for now? What do you think, Jason?
Speaker 2: I think so too, And I wonder if they're just
Speaker 2: saying this to cover their ass in case all the
Speaker 2: licenses are gobbled up by activision and there's no crossovers
Speaker 2: left to do. Right?
Speaker 1: Have you seen that the videos going around of Call
Speaker 1: of Duty recently of like a teenage mutant Ninja Turtle
Speaker 1: going up to a terminator and then pointing at the
Speaker 1: terminator and then Beavis comes out and kicks the terminator
Speaker 1: in the nuts, and it's like, wait, what is this?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: This is call of duty? Okay? Now to me, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm like, hell, yeah, this rule is. And everyone else
Speaker 1: is like, holy shit, this is miserable. But I get it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So people don't want that for sure, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think they want that, But I think
Speaker 2: there's a way you can thread the needle here, Right.
Speaker 2: You can give them famous skins of fictional characters or whatever,
Speaker 2: but also have them grounded in some sort of reality.
Speaker 2: I am shocked that Call of Duty or Fortnite or
Speaker 2: count Strike or whatever hasn't gone Fox and said, hey,
Speaker 2: what are you doing with Jack Bauer? Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, cool?
Speaker 2: In one of these you know, I'm saying Reacher would
Speaker 2: be perfect or something like that. There are characters that
Speaker 2: you could license that fit into the aesthetic, But are
Speaker 2: that still kind of scratch that? Do you think it's
Speaker 2: like the Mortal Kombat.
Speaker 1: Guest character sort of thing where it's like, oh, you
Speaker 1: know what, at the end of the day, all these
Speaker 1: kind of makes sense.
Speaker 2: Yes, so some of them do, right, like I I mean,
Speaker 2: Omni Man did not, and Homelander didn't make any sense
Speaker 2: to me other than the fact that they were over
Speaker 2: the violent. But then when they came into the game
Speaker 2: and they found a way to fit them into those lures.
Speaker 2: Sure they gave them their own lure within the franchise,
Speaker 2: I should say that made sense. The horror franchise Monsters
Speaker 2: didn't make any goddamn sense, but they made them work.
Speaker 2: The way that they put a ghostface into Mortal Kombat one,
Speaker 2: I still think is brilliant. And then like as somebody
Speaker 2: puts in chat you could mess with the you know,
Speaker 2: you get your realistic Jack Bauer, but then you get
Speaker 2: you know, Johnny English, the guy who played mister Beady.
Speaker 2: You have fun with that.
Speaker 1: Liam Neeson and the Naked Gun would be hysterical just
Speaker 1: him bumbling around in a game like this, so there
Speaker 1: are ways to do it.
Speaker 2: I think. I don't think people are against guest characters
Speaker 2: or guest skins. I think people are against like an
Speaker 2: internal pointing at the terminator and then Beavis kick him
Speaker 2: in the nuts in Call of Duty. I would expect
Speaker 2: that in Fortnite. I would not expect that in Call
Speaker 2: of Duty.
Speaker 1: There's a reason they keep selling it in Call of Duty, though.
Speaker 1: That audience, I still think is like they don't care.
Speaker 1: They've had their weed, the Red Sight weed skin for
Speaker 1: fifteen years now, so they're all aboard all all this stuff.
Speaker 2: I need to self correct. I forgot his name. I
Speaker 2: knew his first name is Rowan, I could not remember
Speaker 2: his last name, so I didn't say it at all.
Speaker 2: Rowan Atkinson is mister Bean's name, and I thank you
Speaker 2: for correcting me. I do appreciate that.
Speaker 1: All right, let's see here finally with the EA stuff.
Speaker 1: EA doesn't currently have plans to bring Battlefield six to
Speaker 1: Switch to. I think this is something like they're not
Speaker 1: going to have that ready to go at launch. Why
Speaker 1: not just take your time? Nintendo Switch two's partner showcase
Speaker 1: is just revealed. What's ahead for new hybrid platforms in
Speaker 1: the hybrid platform in terms of third party offerings, but
Speaker 1: it seems one series that won't be showing up anytime
Speaker 1: soon is EA's popular military shooter Battlefield. Eurogamer spoke to
Speaker 1: Battlefield's head Vince Sampella as part of Battlefield six is
Speaker 1: multiplayer reveal today, and it's been officially confirmed that the
Speaker 1: company doesn't currently have plans to bring the game to
Speaker 1: Nintendo's new system. The team is focused on delivering the
Speaker 1: game where the core Battlefield audience is at present. According
Speaker 1: to the same story, yeah, this is another one who's like,
Speaker 1: you definitely do this for now, and then if you
Speaker 1: have the capacity later, if it makes sense, it can
Speaker 1: come to switch to it at any point. I don't
Speaker 1: think anyone who's buying the Switch to expecting this game
Speaker 1: to be there, and there aren't a lot of Battlefield
Speaker 1: fans currently demanding it there. But that could change if
Speaker 1: the game becomes very popular and people are like, I
Speaker 1: wish I could play that on the Switch too, and
Speaker 1: then they could do it then. Although maybe it'll never
Speaker 1: be a perfect fit. I do think like we'll test
Speaker 1: things out with Madden for see how things go. And
Speaker 1: then determine whether they can find an audience for other
Speaker 1: kinds of games as they see what that does in
Speaker 1: Apex legends. So maybe it'll be a couple of years
Speaker 1: before Battlefield six shows up on switch to, but I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if it happens.
Speaker 2: Don't get hasty here. EA is already supporting the switch
Speaker 2: to with four games. They can't, they can't stretch themselves
Speaker 2: out any further. But no, but I I'm with you
Speaker 2: on that. Also, I'm seeing a lot in chat that,
Speaker 2: you know, maybe the switch to simply can't run Battlefield six.
Speaker 2: But I send you to yet another article that I
Speaker 2: wrote myself. I'm so sorry. I keep I keep tooting
Speaker 2: my own horn here. The PC specs were some of
Speaker 2: the news that came out from Okay, I'll bring them
Speaker 2: up right now, let's do it. Come on, and as
Speaker 2: my headline says, Battlefield PC specs revealed, and you won't
Speaker 2: need a military grade PC to run it. The recommended
Speaker 2: the minimum PC requirements are a I five processor, sixteen
Speaker 2: gigs of memory, and a twenty sixty or fifty six
Speaker 2: hundred radion or equivalent. That's not terrible.
Speaker 1: I would say that that like, for the GPU side
Speaker 1: of things, that probably sounds pretty promising. For the switch to,
Speaker 1: it will come down to the CPU. The CPU is
Speaker 1: a little PS four E inside the switch to Battlefield
Speaker 1: six is next gen only? Is that what?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Because it just let's let me double check that. I
Speaker 1: guess I didn't even think that the.
Speaker 2: Next gen only. There was a whole article about how
Speaker 2: they were skipping PS four and I'm saying next gen.
Speaker 1: I know it's current gen everybody, but god, it's you know,
Speaker 1: we still have that other gin that's current as well,
Speaker 1: So it's a weird thing to talk about. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: imagine the CPU would probably be the issue because they
Speaker 1: are going to have like sixty four on sixty four
Speaker 1: battles or something like that. Is it one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty eight players, or even if it's sixty four players
Speaker 1: total thirty two on thirty two, that might be a
Speaker 1: little difficult for the switch two's CPU with everything else
Speaker 1: going on. And if there's a lot of destruction that
Speaker 1: runs on the CPU as well, more than likely and
Speaker 1: simulating that with everything else going on, so I could
Speaker 1: see there just be an issues there. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's going to be impossible to solve though. If they
Speaker 1: wanted to get Battlefield six on switch to, I think
Speaker 1: they could, But would it be worth it. That'll be
Speaker 1: a conversation. Honestly, The answer might on a probably be
Speaker 1: no in a couple of years, even where it's like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: the game is super popular, but it would just take
Speaker 1: too much work to get it on the switch to.
Speaker 1: That could be possible, all right, let's do this. Next one.
Speaker 1: Mortal Kombat Legacy Collection physical editions announced. This is from
Speaker 1: sal Ramano at Kamatsu. Publisher Atari and developer Digital Eclipse
Speaker 1: have announced physical editions of Mortal Kombat Legacy Collection for
Speaker 1: PlayStation five, Xbox Series X, and Xbox One consoles, switch
Speaker 1: to and PC. Mortal Kombat Trilogy has also been confirmed
Speaker 1: as playable game in the collection. You were telling me
Speaker 1: this that the Mortal Kombat Collection are mort kind Bat Trilogy.
Speaker 1: Excuse me of fan favor, right, In a lot of ways,
Speaker 1: it's a weird game. It's got a lot of quirks
Speaker 1: to it, but people love those quirks, and so this
Speaker 1: wasn't confirmed up until this point, and now it's in
Speaker 1: there and people seem to be pretty happy about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's It came out in like ninety six. It
Speaker 2: was on PS, Dreamcast and N sixty four, and it
Speaker 2: basically mashed all of the two D Mortal Kombat characters
Speaker 2: into one big game. It's wild, it's dumb, it's unbalanced,
Speaker 2: but yeah, it's fun. If you're going to make a
Speaker 2: legacy collection, you have to include it, simply for the
Speaker 2: sheer insanity. I do think they're using the PlayStation or
Speaker 2: Dreamcast addition, not the N sixty four because if you
Speaker 2: look at there was a thirty second trailer teaser that
Speaker 2: came out with the announcement, and if you look at it,
Speaker 2: it shows the character select screen for trilogy and it
Speaker 2: has the full it wasn't it wasn't dream castor and
Speaker 2: I'm sorry it was Saturn. Sorry right right right, my
Speaker 2: dream kid, thank you for the correction. But it has
Speaker 2: the full uh character select screen that the N sixty
Speaker 2: four characters were missing a row, and the one in
Speaker 2: this in this game, in this trailer was not missing it.
Speaker 2: So we're getting PS one and Saturn specifically. I don't
Speaker 2: know if that means we'll get both versions, because they
Speaker 2: do like to put the handheld versions and Superintendo versions
Speaker 2: and the arcade versions of the older games that remains
Speaker 2: to be seen. Maybe we'll get that answer on the
Speaker 2: EBO show floor. Maybe they'll have options and you can
Speaker 2: play whichever one you want. But I think it's neat.
Speaker 2: I think it's really cool that it's here and it's
Speaker 2: and we're now at the precipice not to ignore, not
Speaker 2: to like brush over this announcement, because it is cool,
Speaker 2: but now we're at the precipice of what's next, because
Speaker 2: all you really have left now is the PS two era?
Speaker 2: Is the PS two? Are you going to put the
Speaker 2: PS two era in here? Are you going to get
Speaker 2: weird and put and put Mortal Kombat? Mitch ologies, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you bet it? What do you? What are you gonna do? Like,
Speaker 2: but there's there's some weird directions you could take this
Speaker 2: legacy collection, and I'm genuinely curious where that's going to go.
Speaker 2: But like this was like the last hurdle before you
Speaker 2: got to that era, and now that this isn't it,
Speaker 2: it's sky's limit? Man, what do you got for us?
Speaker 2: I'm slowly getting more excited as the uh, as the
Speaker 2: release gets closer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's uh, it's definitely one of those things
Speaker 1: where I look at this and it's like, I hope
Speaker 1: they just kind of put everything in here. But Digital
Speaker 1: Eclipse recently has been updating Atari fifty with like expansion packs.
Speaker 1: DLC drops, Yes, it's so cool, and it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: now we're gonna do a bunch of I think they're
Speaker 1: doing Namco games that came out on the Atari, and
Speaker 1: they have a whole dedicated thing for that. I wonder
Speaker 1: if that like might be one of plans here is Okay,
Speaker 1: make this initial package really enticing, get a lot of
Speaker 1: people in there, for sure, But what if we did
Speaker 1: Mortal Kombat spin offs as its own thing later as
Speaker 1: DLC so we can continue to support this game, or
Speaker 1: even potentially a Mortal Kombat a Legacy Collection two which
Speaker 1: then does like maybe talk about the PS two games
Speaker 1: and some of the other stuff, and it tries to
Speaker 1: get them all collected. I hope at the very least
Speaker 1: we get one or the other. Just one thing I
Speaker 1: hope here is that it doesn't end with this. I
Speaker 1: want them to just keep mining the history of Mortal
Speaker 1: Kombat and then when you get done with that, move
Speaker 1: on to the next awesome big thing after proving what
Speaker 1: you can do, because I think they've already proven to
Speaker 1: a certain extent just how cool this can be with
Speaker 1: Atari fifty and several of the other things that they've
Speaker 1: done that. But this does feel like a step up
Speaker 1: in terms of, oh, we're getting a legacy collection from
Speaker 1: this generation of stuff of Mortal Kombat games that does
Speaker 1: feel like even more current or like that's going to
Speaker 1: hit nostalgia for a lot more players, And so that
Speaker 1: is exciting, and I hope that this kind of just
Speaker 1: is a springboard for them to do this exact strategy
Speaker 1: with a ton of other franchises. Mortal Kombat is such
Speaker 1: a good first one though, in that.
Speaker 2: It really really is. And if you go back to
Speaker 2: like the Legend of Karatica, they did that too in
Speaker 2: that gold Master series that the Jeff minter Lamasoft game.
Speaker 2: They I love these little interactive museums that they're doing.
Speaker 2: It's incredible for wild stuff.
Speaker 1: All Right, that does it for the headlines. We have
Speaker 1: a poll question from yesterday. We need to wrap up.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and get that real quick, do we go?
Speaker 1: Let me prefer oh did I not post the poll question?
Speaker 1: Of course? Jans out and I forget to do this
Speaker 1: all right, so we'll catch you on that next week.
Speaker 1: That's how it goes. Everybody's too much other things going on, right.
Speaker 1: We did a good job yesterday of holding on to everything,
Speaker 1: but there definitely some things fall through the cracks like that.
Speaker 1: So we'll get that updated. We'll do that next week.
Speaker 1: But that means we'll get to the bomb twelve here
Speaker 1: pretty soon before we do that, though, Jason Finelli, why
Speaker 1: don't you tell people where they could find you on
Speaker 1: the internet what you have going on and all that good.
Speaker 2: Stuff at Jasonfinelli dot com, on Blue Sky, big Man Finella,
Speaker 2: everywhere else was covering the battlefield stuff. We'll be looking
Speaker 2: at EVA all week. If anything's breaking, I will post
Speaker 2: it on social and then probably get an article up
Speaker 2: on game Spot at some point MMORPG. I do moonlight
Speaker 2: there every once in a while. I do. I do
Speaker 2: owe them some articles as well. I'm still still behind
Speaker 2: on my Banansa review. I've gotta get that in. It's
Speaker 2: just been doing some other things here and there. If
Speaker 2: you follow me on social media, you'll get wrestling. You'll
Speaker 2: get your Pro wrestling Summer Slam is this weekend too.
Speaker 2: Let's not forget so Evo this weekend, Summer Slam this weekend,
Speaker 2: and I like to post cute pictures of my kids
Speaker 2: and my wife and my family, like this one here
Speaker 2: who thinks we don't see her, Absolutely do sneak it
Speaker 2: up there. I see you. But yeah, so we'll well
Speaker 2: and now she's gonna cheese the rest of the day.
Speaker 2: That's fine. So yeah, so you know that's that's wrestling,
Speaker 2: video games, nerd stuff, magic gathering once in a while
Speaker 2: and we have a good time. So Hidden Gimmick, that's right,
Speaker 2: Hidden and Gimmick up there, Hiding Gimmicks out now on Steam.
Speaker 2: There's a fifty of them, actually long series. Yeah, we
Speaker 2: could make that. We should.
Speaker 1: We should just to make a video game for Giant Bomb,
Speaker 1: another one, a second one.
Speaker 2: I mean, hidden gimmicks. Just take fruits and pictures of
Speaker 2: like different shows and hide gimmicks.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: I love that. But yeah, so that's what I'm doing.
Speaker 2: That's what I have going on.
Speaker 1: But this weekend it's EVO and wrestling baby hell yeah.
Speaker 1: All right, fantastic Chason, thank you so much for this
Speaker 1: whole week. It's been awesome to hang out with you
Speaker 1: and you, like, like I was saying, last night. Easy
Speaker 1: to have someone on that I can trust to like
Speaker 1: know what they're talking about. Very good time. All right,
Speaker 1: let's do the Bomb twelve everybody, I have it ready
Speaker 1: on this screen. There we go. The Bomb twelve is
Speaker 1: the event of the week where we ask you, hey,
Speaker 1: what are the games that matter to you right now? Actually,
Speaker 1: what's your game? The one game that you want to
Speaker 1: put on this list? We got some responses. Let's you
Speaker 1: know what, let's kind of do the top three because
Speaker 1: that hasn't changed much from last week. It did flip
Speaker 1: a little bit. Claire Obscure Expedition thirty three does need
Speaker 1: to pick up momentum. It's number two, while Donkey Kong
Speaker 1: Binanza remains at number one. That does mean destraating too,
Speaker 1: which still has a lot of players on this list,
Speaker 1: dropping down to number three. But man, Jason claib Scare
Speaker 1: just feels like this thing is going to turn into
Speaker 1: a moment for a lot of people, Like I remember
Speaker 1: where I was when I first played that first claib
Speaker 1: Scare game, because more and more people are playing it
Speaker 1: each week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's we talked about this last night. It's
Speaker 2: on my it's on my next list. I am did
Speaker 2: you see it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna pick alphix it right now. Yes, let's
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okaylet to say anything. I like saying Wu Chong
Speaker 2: at number four. I was not sure if people would
Speaker 2: really cling on to that, but it's cool to see
Speaker 2: it on this list. Grounded two, which I believe hit
Speaker 2: early access earlier this week. Nice to see that there
Speaker 2: one hundred line Last Defense Academy, which is another big
Speaker 2: gaping hole in my backlog because I loved Dangan Rampa,
Speaker 2: so I think that one will be very much my shit.
Speaker 2: Tony pro Skater three and four, that's cool. That's stranding
Speaker 2: too holding on to that top spot. No, it's just
Speaker 2: just chat help me figure out what should go a
Speaker 2: number five.
Speaker 1: So what we The problem we have right now is
Speaker 1: I forgot to swap out one of the Monster Trained twos,
Speaker 1: so it's at five and seven. So I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: chat the opportunity to right now determine live what's gonna
Speaker 1: go at number five, and we'll see if we can
Speaker 1: come up with consensus really quick. So shout it out.
Speaker 1: What do you got anthem? Fortnite?
Speaker 2: We killed the game?
Speaker 1: Oh? Yes, you know what that is? The one. Everyone's
Speaker 1: got it all right there, because there were a lot
Speaker 1: of people in the list who were playing this, and
Speaker 1: I probably did mean to intend to get in on there.
Speaker 1: Uma masum, there you go. And then I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: callen pretty Derby because that's the subtitle that game. All right,
Speaker 1: So let's recap the whole list now. Number twelve is
Speaker 1: the one hundred line Last Defense Academy Number eleven, No
Speaker 1: Sleep for Economy Dotte from I the Sosomdium files. Yes,
Speaker 1: you freaks made it happen. I know there was a
Speaker 1: concerted effort. I know there were yes words. I know
Speaker 1: there was a concerted effort to get this on here.
Speaker 1: But there were a couple of those. And I'll tell
Speaker 1: you one thing I noticed that well I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: tell people how. I noticed that they were trying to
Speaker 1: cheat the system so they don't try to do it
Speaker 1: or try to figure a way around it. But no
Speaker 1: Sleep for Economy Dotte. That one seemed legitimate. So congratulations
Speaker 1: to you freaks for getting on here. Number ten is
Speaker 1: wheel World Number nine Tony Yuks frost Kitter three plus
Speaker 1: four dropped quite a bit, but still in the bomb twelve,
Speaker 1: so good for it grounded at number eight grind this
Speaker 1: is grounded two. This just popped off in early access.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be interested to see if this moves up
Speaker 1: or down, Jason, because this feels like one of those
Speaker 1: games that you know, it's a survival, a crafting game.
Speaker 1: Those things when they pop off, they pop off. So really,
Speaker 1: do is this going to be one of those or
Speaker 1: is it going to be like kind of you know,
Speaker 1: middle of the road. We'll see number seven Monster Trained
Speaker 1: to number six Final Fantasy fourteen there are is this
Speaker 1: just the game that I think this might be the
Speaker 1: game some people just play because there were so much
Speaker 1: freaks there, Yes, talk about breaks. More respondents this week
Speaker 1: for this game than last week. I think Final Fantasy
Speaker 1: fourteen might be a permanent thing on here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think that's going anywhere. It's just it
Speaker 2: when people, people get and when it gets in the
Speaker 2: hooks it's hooks into people. It gets its hooks into people.
Speaker 2: And there are I know, many, many dozens of people
Speaker 2: who play it hours still every week just love it,
Speaker 2: love it, love it and get you know, all all
Speaker 2: sorts of pleasure out of it. That's you know, I
Speaker 2: would not be surprised to see that in like lowell
Speaker 2: moments throughout the year. As you keep doing this, bump
Speaker 2: its way up into the top three.
Speaker 1: Number five Uma Masume pretty derby. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I spilled Uma Masume correct, but whatever. Number four Wuchong
Speaker 1: Fallen Feathers. Yeah, there were quite a few respondents for that.
Speaker 1: That's awesome, you know, new game popping off. People seem
Speaker 1: to be into it. And then again number three Death
Speaker 1: Stranding to number two Clare Obscure Expedition thirty three and
Speaker 1: number one Donkey Kong Bonanza. Let's be clear the on
Speaker 1: the spreadsheet when I'm just kind of like eyeballing it, Jason,
Speaker 1: Donkey Kong Bonanza goes on for pages and pages. It
Speaker 1: is a ton of people playing that game. Seems like
Speaker 1: a smash hit based on the early still anecdotal evidence
Speaker 1: that we're collecting over here, but it definitely deserves to
Speaker 1: still be number one. I will be interested to see, like,
Speaker 1: you know, what do we have a good idea of,
Speaker 1: like what could replace it? Jason, Like what is the
Speaker 1: next big game that you think is going to be
Speaker 1: number one on the bomb twelve?
Speaker 2: I mean short term, I think it's going to be
Speaker 2: clear obscure. I think it's going to keep going. Oh
Speaker 2: I like that, okay eventually, but once once bonanza kind
Speaker 2: of you know, tapers off here. But man, that's tough.
Speaker 2: Like what Metal Delta?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Delta? Is it Delta?
Speaker 2: I think it could, yeah, because it's just you get
Speaker 2: the nostalgia people and the people who have never played
Speaker 2: a Melagyear before and people who haven't played Medal Gear
Speaker 2: Solid three. Jeff, Yeah, that they are going to play that.
Speaker 2: So that based on the previews, this little ether in
Speaker 2: the year. But that's Silent Hill out f seems really crazy. Yep,
Speaker 2: that perfectly one.
Speaker 1: I mean you know the horror game freaks will show
Speaker 1: up for that one, as well as the Silent Hill fans,
Speaker 1: which there are are legion. So yeah, that feels like
Speaker 1: one that's guaranteed to hit one when when it comes
Speaker 1: out for sure. So yeah, I think Delta probably sounds right.
Speaker 1: But who knows, we'll be surprised. That's the possibilities with
Speaker 1: the with the Bomb twelve, we never know what's going
Speaker 1: to happen. So I will put out a new call
Speaker 1: for Hey, what is your game this week? I'll probably
Speaker 1: do that on Sunday, or Monday. That's going to be
Speaker 1: on my Blue Sky. I'll try to pin that so
Speaker 1: people can find it pretty easily. But we might also
Speaker 1: put that up on giant bomb dot com. I might
Speaker 1: start writing a up a a blog post version for
Speaker 1: the Bomb twelve and people can find the details there.
Speaker 1: All right, it's exciting. I like doing this. This is
Speaker 1: a fun thing to kind of keep track of. If
Speaker 1: people are into this, let me know, and if you
Speaker 1: have any ideas for the Bomb twelve, I'd love to
Speaker 1: hear them when we want to keep making this an
Speaker 1: exciting way to end the week. One more time. Jason Fonelli,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for hanging out with me today.
Speaker 1: Man talking about video games. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. I love doing it. I love talking about games.
Speaker 2: I love being on this show with you, with you,
Speaker 2: Mook's here a giant bomb. It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: Regular week next week, unofficial Faily week is over. Uff
Speaker 2: is done. Everybody will be back, but I am here.
Speaker 2: If you ever need me, let's talk about games with me.
Speaker 1: Hell yeah, that sounds fantastic. We will do exactly that.
Speaker 1: Thank you all for hanging out with us this week
Speaker 1: as well. We're not done. UPF, will be later, might
Speaker 1: do something between now and then as well, kind of
Speaker 1: depending on how how fast I can get it set
Speaker 1: up for UPF, because again I got to run everything myself.
Speaker 1: That's what happened yesterday, Jason. I was like, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: try to play some skies at Arcadia, and then it
Speaker 1: took me an hour and a half to get things
Speaker 1: set up for voicemail dump truck on the VM. But
Speaker 1: we got there eventually. So we'll see what happens today,
Speaker 1: looking forward to make it all happen. Yes, and then, Jason,
Speaker 1: anything else looks like you were gonna say something.
Speaker 2: And chat said, had a great idea where you show
Speaker 2: some of the games that get one vote every week.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's right. We were going to do that yet
Speaker 1: call it the dou twelve. Yes. I wanted to put
Speaker 1: them in the graphic, which is why they're like, we
Speaker 1: don't have it here, but there is uh okay, one
Speaker 1: person for mic Opunk. We played that a little bit ago.
Speaker 1: I enjoyed it. But one person for mico Punk. Let's
Speaker 1: see here, h only a couple of people for Peak.
Speaker 1: You know, Peak is like this dominant thing, but you know,
Speaker 1: I think the way we have it phrased. The question
Speaker 1: is what is your game? I think there's gonna be
Speaker 1: a lot of games that are like, well, of course
Speaker 1: I go play Peak with my friends already, but my
Speaker 1: game right now is and they want to like, say
Speaker 1: something cool, That's how I would feel about it. And
Speaker 1: I want that to be the energy that goes into
Speaker 1: the Bomb twelve. I want it to be something you're
Speaker 1: like proud to tell people about, because like, you've got
Speaker 1: to try this game. That's what the Bomb twelve should be.
Speaker 1: So Peak not being exactly that, but still being like
Speaker 1: this monster thing makes sense to me. Let's see here,
Speaker 1: uh see if I can find a couple other one
Speaker 1: vote getters a Stalker two. One vote for Stalker two,
Speaker 1: one vote for Stellar Blade actually soon the one Gooners
Speaker 1: still out there, one vote for UFO fifty. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: gonna be games that were like probably a lot of
Speaker 1: people's one game last year, and there's a few people
Speaker 1: getting around to it right now. And of course how
Speaker 1: do we miss this one one vote for it, but
Speaker 1: it's maybe the most important vote for wet Tricks. For
Speaker 1: wet Tricks, everybody the wet Tetris. We'll get, you know,
Speaker 1: What this means is we're gonna get a lot more
Speaker 1: wet Tricks votes next month.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I know you're skewing the vote. Poor poor
Speaker 2: Ninja Guiden rage Bound has an actual claim on this list,
Speaker 2: and now we're just gonna get a bunch of wetriss.
Speaker 1: Yep, let's uh rage bound. I'm sure we'll probably be
Speaker 1: represented next week for uh wet tricks and stuff like this.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to come up with some threshold for
Speaker 1: like when I can tell it's a joke and there's
Speaker 1: a bunch of people are trying to get on the list,
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, you have more than this number, the
Speaker 1: joke worked, and I'll put it on the list. But
Speaker 1: anything anything below that, it's like, no, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to even acknowledge it. We'll see all right. We were
Speaker 1: wrapping this show up. Thank you once again to everybody
Speaker 1: for watching and listening. You are the best audience in gaming.
Speaker 1: Until next time, have a good one, take care of
Speaker 1: yourself and goodbye. All right, everybody, we're gonna raid. We
Speaker 1: also got a couple of super chats to see.
Speaker 2: If we can.
Speaker 1: If I can find those real quick.
Speaker 2: You're gonna have to read those. I don't think you're
Speaker 2: gonna yes.
Speaker 1: Noah the way I'm like, you could be a mod
Speaker 1: on giant bomb. That wouldn't make good difference. But I
Speaker 1: got him right here, so I'll just read them. Actually
Speaker 1: it was just okay. The one I can find here
Speaker 1: is from X Marty ninety seven. The prices are on
Speaker 1: Warrio sixty four. Love the show, Thank you, ex Marty. Yeah,
Speaker 1: those are the price increases for the switch stuff that
Speaker 1: Target finally put up, and so we got the information
Speaker 1: on that.
Speaker 2: All right, let's see anybody we should raid. I think
Speaker 2: Melyssa Murk just started to all right, perfect, I got
Speaker 2: that alert right right at the top of the hour,
Speaker 2: so I'm assuming she's she's on now yeah there.
Speaker 1: When does uh when does Max dude start streaming ebos?
Speaker 1: He kind of you know what I.
Speaker 2: Think he did. Let me let me check that. I
Speaker 2: know the floor doesn't open till one, but I'm not
Speaker 2: sure if they let him.
Speaker 1: Okay, let me know he did. He is, he's there,
Speaker 1: he is, he's on now and he's playing to con Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll go there, we'll get We're gonna listen next week, everybody,
Speaker 1: or just go there yourself if you want to right now,
Speaker 1: let's see here, so dashboard, this is important. Yeah, this,
Speaker 1: this is this is it. It's can you tell me
Speaker 1: his handle? H he is Maximilian M A x I
Speaker 1: M I L I A N underscore D O O
Speaker 1: D dude. That's one L for Maximilian, one L. Yes,
Speaker 1: thank you, all right, yep, that looks like it's gonna
Speaker 1: take fantastic. All right, cool, all right, so h three
Speaker 1: M for UPF. Everybody will definitely be back by then.
Speaker 1: Me and Backlar were talking like there's this game Paddle,
Speaker 1: Paddle Paddle, we might play some of that. There's also
Speaker 1: a word game we were gonna check out. We're just
Speaker 1: gonna hang out. It's gonna be very chill today, all right,
Speaker 1: see all then bye everybody,