WEBVTT 1 00:00:13.400 --> 00:00:17.359 You are listening to Video Games to the Max. Hello, 2 00:00:17.559 --> 00:00:20.320 and welcome to another edition of Video Games to the Max. 3 00:00:20.359 --> 00:00:23.000 I'm your host Seun Gomery with me as usual mister 4 00:00:23.039 --> 00:00:26.559 Mark Morrison at it and this is episode four hundred 5 00:00:26.559 --> 00:00:31.480 and fifty six of the show. And well, it was 6 00:00:31.600 --> 00:00:34.840 a kind of a weird week in games. We had 7 00:00:34.880 --> 00:00:39.359 the Nintendo Indie World. I will go through that. I 8 00:00:39.399 --> 00:00:42.439 got to play the Men of the Hollower demo, so 9 00:00:43.079 --> 00:00:48.920 I will discuss that as well. We got some fun 10 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:53.679 things with Embracer bringing back red octane. I mean, Guitar 11 00:00:54.280 --> 00:00:58.000 Rhythm Games are making a comeback, sold those rumors about 12 00:00:58.240 --> 00:01:01.479 if you know, activations and back Guitar Hero or not, 13 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:06.159 but we'll see. And then you got a far Cry 14 00:01:06.239 --> 00:01:10.280 TV show to go along with that Assassin's Creed TV show. 15 00:01:10.359 --> 00:01:13.000 So I guess you yourself is ramping it up on 16 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:18.959 games and TV shows. Why not. Sony's PlayStation five keep 17 00:01:19.079 --> 00:01:22.359 selling well. But you got some interesting comments from their 18 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:26.959 CFO this week about live service and one that made 19 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:33.000 everybody go nuts on the whole internet as far as 20 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:36.920 those you know, console warriors go. And there's a few 21 00:01:36.959 --> 00:01:40.200 other things as well, so we'll get into all that 22 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:44.120 and more a right, so really quickly here, let's get 23 00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:50.680 into the housekeeping. We do appreciate anybody that watches live, 24 00:01:51.040 --> 00:01:55.519 watches later listens on podcasts. You can go find us 25 00:01:55.560 --> 00:01:58.120 on video against to the max there if you subscribe 26 00:01:58.159 --> 00:02:00.680 to the YouTube channel. Not only you get to know 27 00:02:00.719 --> 00:02:02.599 when we go live, which we did a little bit 28 00:02:02.680 --> 00:02:07.280 late today technical issues and also work was in kind 29 00:02:07.359 --> 00:02:09.159 so we didn't get to start out at nine o'clock 30 00:02:09.199 --> 00:02:12.400 Eastern normal time. Started a little bit later, but we're 31 00:02:12.439 --> 00:02:15.800 here doing this thing. Also, just go out of the channel, 32 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:17.960 you get our other shows that are on the network 33 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:22.319 as well. Rales are broadcasting handle all the entertainment TV 34 00:02:22.680 --> 00:02:28.000 show stuff and they are reviewing the not so great 35 00:02:28.039 --> 00:02:31.879 ice Cube World of the World movie, so that's let's 36 00:02:31.879 --> 00:02:34.039 you know, they don't just go after the big ticket items. 37 00:02:34.039 --> 00:02:37.000 They would definitely going to the even the ones that 38 00:02:37.039 --> 00:02:41.759 you don't expect to probably be reviewed or not. Although 39 00:02:41.960 --> 00:02:43.919 you know, you got the anime side of things, which 40 00:02:43.960 --> 00:02:46.560 the Otago Cafe folks are doing a great job covering 41 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:49.120 the summer season, so if you like to keep up 42 00:02:49.120 --> 00:02:53.840 with that weekly or just you know, seasonal type of anime, 43 00:02:54.479 --> 00:02:56.680 they do a great job of like reviewing kind of 44 00:02:57.159 --> 00:02:59.479 what they think is the cream of the crop on 45 00:02:59.520 --> 00:03:03.439 their end, and they have a different cast each week, 46 00:03:03.479 --> 00:03:06.840 so it's interesting on that front too, And you of 47 00:03:06.879 --> 00:03:09.800 course cannot listen to those shows on podcasts as well. 48 00:03:09.879 --> 00:03:12.879 Prout to broadcast Single tal Cafe or just us video 49 00:03:12.919 --> 00:03:14.400 games to the max. We want to stick with that. 50 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:21.039 So yeah, that's about it here for the housekeeping. Let's 51 00:03:21.439 --> 00:03:25.800 do something a little bit differently because Mean of the 52 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:28.879 Hollower has to do. I wouldn't be able to play 53 00:03:28.879 --> 00:03:32.800 this demo if it wasn't for the Nintendo Indie World 54 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:39.479 Showcase that happened on Thursday. This was not anything, you know, 55 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:42.840 big deal to ride home. Did you end up watching 56 00:03:42.840 --> 00:03:43.599 this or no? 57 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:46.719 I wat took a part of it, but a lot 58 00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:48.879 of stuff seemed not great. 59 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:52.960 I'll say, yeah, it's fifteen minutes, not gonna you know, 60 00:03:54.039 --> 00:03:55.759 take a up a lot of your time. But you 61 00:03:55.800 --> 00:03:59.759 also really don't need to go in and go nuts 62 00:03:59.759 --> 00:04:02.800 from watch it. Honestly, we can give you the highlights 63 00:04:02.879 --> 00:04:05.599 right here. Mean to the Hollower is the gem of 64 00:04:05.840 --> 00:04:08.840 the whole thing. I'll talk about the demo in a second. 65 00:04:10.599 --> 00:04:13.400 Never way has a twenty twenty sixth release date. That's 66 00:04:13.599 --> 00:04:16.879 a I was shown at the Latin Game Showcase. I 67 00:04:16.879 --> 00:04:21.319 think I talked about it during the Summer game Fest week. 68 00:04:21.720 --> 00:04:27.879 It's like a horror like farming sim kind of thing, 69 00:04:27.959 --> 00:04:30.519 which is kind of cool because you don't see that 70 00:04:30.720 --> 00:04:33.079 genre mixed hardly. 71 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:37.800 It looks like Craft made Stardi Valley. 72 00:04:38.199 --> 00:04:42.199 Yeah, and it looks cool, has that sort of you know, 73 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:47.720 the pixel arse and all that stuff. Is This seat 74 00:04:47.759 --> 00:04:53.040 taken is an interesting take on the whole simulation thing, 75 00:04:53.079 --> 00:04:56.079 except for now you're doing the seating arrangements instead of 76 00:04:56.160 --> 00:04:59.560 the things you normally do in a restaurant or why not. 77 00:04:59.759 --> 00:05:05.199 So that's an interesting take there too. Ball Pit, which 78 00:05:05.240 --> 00:05:11.439 continues to be a surprising hit every time I see it, 79 00:05:11.480 --> 00:05:13.600 and also exciting news that it's going to be day 80 00:05:13.600 --> 00:05:16.399 one game Pass, so I was already excited to play 81 00:05:16.399 --> 00:05:20.199 it without game Pass being there. Definitely going to be 82 00:05:20.360 --> 00:05:23.480 checking that out now that it is on game Pass 83 00:05:23.519 --> 00:05:30.240 as well. Hurdling also kind of neat, interesting look on 84 00:05:30.279 --> 00:05:32.639 a different kind of simulation type game is going to 85 00:05:32.680 --> 00:05:35.839 probably be one of those like have those touching narratives 86 00:05:35.920 --> 00:05:41.199 kind of thing, I'm sure. And UFO fifty is on 87 00:05:41.240 --> 00:05:46.360 Switch now. That game was a hit last year on PC. 88 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:48.319 Great to see it on his Man. It feels like 89 00:05:48.360 --> 00:05:51.000 I should have been on Switch a while ago, but 90 00:05:51.120 --> 00:05:53.040 glad to see it finally is going to be on 91 00:05:53.120 --> 00:05:55.959 there and you can go, you know, play that now 92 00:05:56.319 --> 00:06:00.279 if you want, which I definitely recommend. It's literally like 93 00:06:00.319 --> 00:06:03.319 fifty different games that feel like they're in the nes 94 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:07.240 era and then they they get better as they go along. 95 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:09.759 It's kind of like almost like a history thing as well, 96 00:06:09.800 --> 00:06:15.759 which is neat. So yeah, I'm looking into whether I 97 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:19.480 want to get it or not, since I don't know 98 00:06:19.519 --> 00:06:23.319 if I have anything until the end of the month, 99 00:06:23.399 --> 00:06:28.759 and even then Lost Suicide. It's such like a every 100 00:06:28.800 --> 00:06:31.199 time it feels like it's a mixed bag. Every time 101 00:06:31.240 --> 00:06:35.040 somebody talks about it, it's like it just went gold, 102 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:37.279 so we know it is not going to get delayed again. 103 00:06:37.360 --> 00:06:42.000 But then also people keep like saying, maybe you need 104 00:06:42.040 --> 00:06:44.800 to wait for reviews. Don't go out and just buy 105 00:06:44.839 --> 00:06:48.439 it immediately. I don't know. It doesn't give me good 106 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:53.199 good vibes. Usually you want people being like, yeah, just 107 00:06:53.240 --> 00:06:56.240 go buy the same day one. Speaking of that, a 108 00:06:56.319 --> 00:06:58.839 game you might want to go by day one when 109 00:06:58.839 --> 00:07:04.040 it comes out. Theist Ah I think from Yacht Club games, 110 00:07:04.079 --> 00:07:08.879 and it does not involved shovel minas the Hollower, which 111 00:07:09.920 --> 00:07:13.680 if you've probably seen this game in some form, it's uh. 112 00:07:14.439 --> 00:07:17.360 You play as a mouse named Mina. She is a 113 00:07:17.360 --> 00:07:22.519 hollower and she literally you burrow underground with her, and 114 00:07:22.560 --> 00:07:26.839 then you can also have different weapons. I love Zelda, 115 00:07:28.040 --> 00:07:30.879 and very much plays like a mixture between, like a 116 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:35.920 Zelda game with a bit more action to it obviously, 117 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:39.639 and then it has some kind of solsy type elements 118 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:44.839 like when you die, you lose some gold or they 119 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:50.800 call it bones here the currency, and you know, I 120 00:07:50.839 --> 00:07:53.120 had a lot that I don't know exactly how long 121 00:07:53.199 --> 00:07:55.560 the demo is. I played quite a bit of it. 122 00:07:56.360 --> 00:07:59.319 Also died quite a few times too. 123 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:00.319 Uh. 124 00:08:00.439 --> 00:08:03.879 Thankfully, it's not like, oh, you have to repeat the 125 00:08:03.879 --> 00:08:07.160 whole beginning of the level or whatever. At least maybe 126 00:08:07.319 --> 00:08:09.319 I don't know if the actual game is gonna be 127 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:12.120 a bit more harsh as far as that goes, but 128 00:08:12.160 --> 00:08:15.639 they do have like a easy mode for the people 129 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:20.319 that you know, I just kind of want to play 130 00:08:20.360 --> 00:08:25.439 through the game and not be bothered too much with 131 00:08:26.079 --> 00:08:29.519 having to repeat sections because some of the enemies are 132 00:08:31.040 --> 00:08:36.799 rather tough, you know, or at least they're kind of 133 00:08:37.279 --> 00:08:40.600 they definitely get in the way and make it difficult 134 00:08:40.639 --> 00:08:47.679 for you, So I would say that, you know, I 135 00:08:48.039 --> 00:08:50.399 don't think you're just gonna walk in and cake walk 136 00:08:50.480 --> 00:08:54.440 this thing. It's it's definitely one to make sure you 137 00:08:54.519 --> 00:08:58.399 got the guard up and ready to take out. I 138 00:08:58.480 --> 00:09:02.039 like the they way, the different d the the puzzles 139 00:09:02.080 --> 00:09:05.080 and the different they have little secret areas things like 140 00:09:05.159 --> 00:09:11.480 that too, So it is I think it's definitely gonna 141 00:09:11.480 --> 00:09:16.960 be one of those indie darlings or whatnot when it 142 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:21.279 finally comes right. Hopefully it does not. Hopefully it hits 143 00:09:21.279 --> 00:09:26.519 on time and everything that's what you want. Yaka Glames 144 00:09:26.519 --> 00:09:29.120 has done such a great job with Double nine as 145 00:09:29.120 --> 00:09:31.279 far as like it's probably one of the first like 146 00:09:31.399 --> 00:09:37.080 indies that they kind of made it its own thing, like, 147 00:09:37.960 --> 00:09:40.600 oh it's shovel Knight was in this, Shovel Knight was in. 148 00:09:40.600 --> 00:09:44.320 That, and yeah, they hold the character at pretty well. 149 00:09:45.320 --> 00:09:48.919 So I think Mina has the potential to kind of 150 00:09:48.919 --> 00:09:52.440 similarly do the same thing. Gonna be interesting that they 151 00:09:52.480 --> 00:09:57.000 have other characters that maybe they can adapt into being 152 00:09:59.120 --> 00:10:01.840 other characters play as if they add DLC or whatnot. 153 00:10:02.320 --> 00:10:06.039 But you know, having the three different weapons and all 154 00:10:06.080 --> 00:10:08.480 that does add like variety of the play style too, 155 00:10:08.679 --> 00:10:12.440 so it's cool. And also love the music in this thing, 156 00:10:12.559 --> 00:10:14.879 so that's always been a positive with the Yacht Club 157 00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:20.600 as well. So yeah, definitely go check out the demo. 158 00:10:21.440 --> 00:10:27.600 Apparently it's also like limited time as well, so you know, 159 00:10:27.919 --> 00:10:29.799 am I going to go download it even if you're 160 00:10:29.840 --> 00:10:32.080 not going to play it immediately and then just kind 161 00:10:32.080 --> 00:10:34.600 of give it a whirl whenever you feel like it. 162 00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:40.039 But unless you know after a certain day, the demo 163 00:10:40.120 --> 00:10:41.120 just won't work anymore. 164 00:10:42.200 --> 00:10:44.879 I don't think that's I think it's more of a 165 00:10:44.960 --> 00:10:49.480 limited like eventually it just won't be available unless it's 166 00:10:49.480 --> 00:10:51.519 supposed to be like a Steam next Best thing, But 167 00:10:52.200 --> 00:10:56.399 that's not the indication that I kind of get from it. 168 00:10:56.480 --> 00:10:59.759 But who knows. Yeah, I hope not hope it's not 169 00:11:00.039 --> 00:11:06.279 the Ladder because you still got almost what three months 170 00:11:06.799 --> 00:11:11.720 before that thing comes out. So yeah, that's pretty much 171 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:17.759 like the only game I've been playing this week? H 172 00:11:18.639 --> 00:11:21.559 what uh have you been checking out here? 173 00:11:22.919 --> 00:11:26.639 I finished Party and I went I mean finished, I 174 00:11:26.639 --> 00:11:31.120 mean and got the Platinum trophy in nice. Yeah I 175 00:11:31.120 --> 00:11:34.879 didn't you, I did not whatever Xbox I. 176 00:11:34.840 --> 00:11:37.919 Got a lot of trophy. No, uh no, I got 177 00:11:37.919 --> 00:11:38.519 it on PSI. 178 00:11:39.320 --> 00:11:43.919 Okay, I don't know. It ain't hard, you know, some 179 00:11:44.000 --> 00:11:45.720 of them are kind of busy work, I guess, but 180 00:11:46.879 --> 00:11:48.759 it was you know, I don't have to learn to 181 00:11:48.759 --> 00:11:55.679 play Majong or whatever. The other one, uh the chess game, 182 00:11:55.720 --> 00:11:58.879 you know, the Chess Japanese game, So that was a 183 00:11:58.960 --> 00:12:04.600 lot easier. What else? So yeah, I went back to 184 00:12:04.639 --> 00:12:06.440 dust rain in two. I did the hard There was 185 00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:10.120 one very hard delivery, so I haven't managed to do 186 00:12:10.159 --> 00:12:14.320 that finally, where it is a you have to visit 187 00:12:14.360 --> 00:12:18.039 seven enemy bases and pick stuff up at them and 188 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:21.000 then deliver it to like this guy or these two guys, 189 00:12:21.519 --> 00:12:23.639 and you have a time limit of fifty minutes and 190 00:12:23.720 --> 00:12:31.879 you can't save Uh that's annoying too. Yeah, I'm actually 191 00:12:31.919 --> 00:12:33.080 do that, Like there's a kind of a way and 192 00:12:33.159 --> 00:12:35.120 just kind of cheat it with like the you know, 193 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:40.399 the teleporting ship we have what else? Picked up a 194 00:12:40.480 --> 00:12:43.320 cheap Captain Marvelars Capcom two for the Dreamcast. That's fun, 195 00:12:44.320 --> 00:12:50.039 and I bought a I bought two uh old game 196 00:12:50.080 --> 00:12:52.919 boys recently, well like I got one of them like 197 00:12:53.000 --> 00:12:56.039 last week, I think Monday, And then I got another one, 198 00:12:56.120 --> 00:13:05.600 Like Wednesday picked up a game Boy Micro Wow, and 199 00:13:07.000 --> 00:13:12.279 like it's a it's not great, like yeah, the screens, 200 00:13:12.399 --> 00:13:14.120 like the size is kind of cool, but the screens 201 00:13:14.200 --> 00:13:14.759 is too small. 202 00:13:16.360 --> 00:13:18.039 But my mad is not great for you. 203 00:13:18.759 --> 00:13:21.039 All right, you know battery works. I had to buy 204 00:13:21.039 --> 00:13:23.360 a charger, but it you know, it actually seems to 205 00:13:23.399 --> 00:13:27.720 work fine. And the know one I bought is a 206 00:13:27.720 --> 00:13:31.399 game Boy Light. Do you know? 207 00:13:32.200 --> 00:13:34.440 No, I don't know what the game Boy light is. 208 00:13:35.120 --> 00:13:37.480 So the game Boy Light was a Japanese only game 209 00:13:37.519 --> 00:13:41.159 Boy Ah. It kind of looks like a game Boy 210 00:13:41.200 --> 00:13:46.279 pocket except the bigger. Ah. And it has remember like 211 00:13:46.279 --> 00:13:49.279 in like the mid to early nineties, they had like 212 00:13:49.879 --> 00:13:52.279 watches with like a black or I watched it like 213 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:57.639 a blue indigo back light. Yes, that is this, Like 214 00:13:57.720 --> 00:14:02.480 it has a blue indigo back light. Like oh, like 215 00:14:02.559 --> 00:14:05.039 it has a it has a go on off switch 216 00:14:05.039 --> 00:14:07.120 with it, like it can go further right to like 217 00:14:07.159 --> 00:14:10.559 the light switch and yeah, like lights to screen up. 218 00:14:10.960 --> 00:14:13.879 It's still a bad light, but you can technically use it. 219 00:14:17.240 --> 00:14:20.600 I always kind of wanted one, like I I'm aware 220 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:22.639 that like you don't need a game Boy anymore. Or 221 00:14:23.360 --> 00:14:26.080 I have three other things that could do this better 222 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:31.360 than what you know, but it's still cool and I 223 00:14:31.480 --> 00:14:32.679 like collecting this weird crap. 224 00:14:33.039 --> 00:14:38.320 So did you ever get the uh the analog thing? 225 00:14:39.159 --> 00:14:40.919 Oh yeah, the analog pocket? Oh yeah, I got that. 226 00:14:41.120 --> 00:14:45.120 Like Launch okay, yeah, that exit she has like a 227 00:14:45.120 --> 00:14:48.960 good screen. This is still like the game Boy screen. 228 00:14:49.159 --> 00:14:51.799 It just has a blue back light that's like not 229 00:14:52.120 --> 00:14:54.960 that bright. I mean, if you're in like a total 230 00:14:55.039 --> 00:14:58.840 pitch black, it's fine. But other than that, like it's 231 00:14:58.879 --> 00:15:01.080 not like, oh, this is a big improvement. It's like no, 232 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:08.360 just it's okay, but not really you know, but you know, 233 00:15:08.919 --> 00:15:13.000 it's a kind of an obscure console, so I like it. 234 00:15:13.799 --> 00:15:17.559 Yeah, I'm looking at its basically like a light coming 235 00:15:17.600 --> 00:15:20.639 through on a Yeah, looks like a game Boy color 236 00:15:20.679 --> 00:15:21.519 but they made a light. 237 00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:24.440 Yeah, and it's kind of it almost is kind of 238 00:15:24.480 --> 00:15:27.279 like the shape of a game Boy color like that, 239 00:15:27.440 --> 00:15:31.120 you know. Yes, except this only takes two batteries, like 240 00:15:31.120 --> 00:15:32.759 two double a's and like the back. 241 00:15:34.320 --> 00:15:35.120 Yeah, I can see that. 242 00:15:35.759 --> 00:15:40.240 But yeah, it's cool. Uh. I guess it's about. 243 00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:48.080 It all right. Uh yeah, shorter section on the this here, 244 00:15:50.759 --> 00:15:54.480 but hey, at least we'll get into the news faster here. 245 00:15:54.639 --> 00:15:59.080 Might as well start with Sony, and they had some 246 00:16:00.399 --> 00:16:06.159 good financial results, including eighty million PS fives have been 247 00:16:06.799 --> 00:16:13.399 shipped to sold in all this time, so they are 248 00:16:13.519 --> 00:16:20.399 right there with the PS four, so that's that's good. 249 00:16:20.480 --> 00:16:23.159 They're at least keeping up with the former and also 250 00:16:23.320 --> 00:16:25.360 like a right around with the PS three as well, 251 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:29.919 So again that whole idea of you're still selling, you're 252 00:16:29.960 --> 00:16:32.080 selling to the same people, but those same people are 253 00:16:32.080 --> 00:16:36.360 still buying the consoles, so that's that's good. That's positive. 254 00:16:36.360 --> 00:16:40.080 At least you're not seeing a drop, so right, it 255 00:16:40.159 --> 00:16:43.320 helps a lot that you as far as the space 256 00:16:43.399 --> 00:16:47.639 that the PS five occupies, you don't have competition really anymore. 257 00:16:48.679 --> 00:16:55.080 There's rumors going around that a combination of Xbox Series 258 00:16:55.360 --> 00:17:02.519 X and S has only led to thirty million sales. 259 00:17:02.600 --> 00:17:05.559 Now that's not official Xbox number or Microsoft numbers, and 260 00:17:05.559 --> 00:17:07.680 we probably won't ever get that until maybe the end 261 00:17:07.680 --> 00:17:11.680 of the generation, perhaps when they don't care anymore what 262 00:17:11.799 --> 00:17:15.920 the Series XS sales at all, not that they really 263 00:17:15.960 --> 00:17:23.519 care that much now, but you know, comparatively, Sony is 264 00:17:23.559 --> 00:17:27.559 doing wonderfully in that category. The PlayStation Nework currently has 265 00:17:27.559 --> 00:17:29.839 one hundred and twenty three million active views which is 266 00:17:29.880 --> 00:17:34.519 seven million more since the same time last year. Sixty 267 00:17:34.759 --> 00:17:37.759 six million PS four and PS five games were sold 268 00:17:37.799 --> 00:17:41.200 between April and June, which is up twelve million on 269 00:17:41.319 --> 00:17:46.000 last year as well. Only six point nine million of 270 00:17:46.039 --> 00:17:51.759 those were first party titles though, but I mean they 271 00:17:51.759 --> 00:17:55.079 bealely didn't have any first party Yeah, titles will be 272 00:17:55.160 --> 00:17:55.559 the show. 273 00:17:55.839 --> 00:17:59.480 So it's kind of a week year for first party stuff. 274 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:06.000 That's when you attach all your your eggs in one 275 00:18:06.039 --> 00:18:09.440 basket essentially, and most of them don't hit. 276 00:18:09.759 --> 00:18:11.960 You the day is gone, remastered it and blow the 277 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:13.519 doors off the sales charts. 278 00:18:14.039 --> 00:18:16.759 Yeah, I mean that that was the one everybody was 279 00:18:17.480 --> 00:18:24.000 waiting on for sure. You know, of course they the 280 00:18:24.039 --> 00:18:26.599 thing that that helps Sony obviously is that they aren't 281 00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:30.279 just like Microsoft. They aren't all about PlayStation. But the 282 00:18:30.359 --> 00:18:36.240 difference between Xbox and PlayStation is that PlayStation makes up 283 00:18:36.319 --> 00:18:42.839 like sixty percent of Sony's revenue compared to you know, 284 00:18:43.039 --> 00:18:46.799 I think it's like twenty or like they're in the 285 00:18:46.839 --> 00:18:51.799 same line as was it Office or something or not, 286 00:18:52.160 --> 00:18:57.640 like a smaller much smaller portion of whatever Microsoft's. Right 287 00:18:57.799 --> 00:19:01.400 thing is, I don't want member offhand the chart that 288 00:19:01.480 --> 00:19:03.960 I saw that was like they're in the same realm 289 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:12.359 with some other Microsoft software thing. But still the fact 290 00:19:12.440 --> 00:19:16.079 that you are the big leader when you you know, 291 00:19:16.160 --> 00:19:18.559 Sony has their own movie studio, Sony has their own 292 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:23.920 music group, all of that stuff. Hey, it says a 293 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:27.680 lot about this company and what they've relied on all 294 00:19:27.680 --> 00:19:30.920 these years. You know, being number one has definitely helped. 295 00:19:32.880 --> 00:19:35.359 I mean it also helps that, I mean Microsoft is 296 00:19:35.440 --> 00:19:37.920 much bigger company still, but it helps that, like Sony 297 00:19:37.960 --> 00:19:41.400 diversifies its holdings like you just said, and then it's 298 00:19:41.400 --> 00:19:42.440 focusing all on AI. 299 00:19:43.440 --> 00:19:51.319 Yeah, definitely. So, and that being said, they Sony's CFO 300 00:19:51.440 --> 00:19:57.599 had some interesting comments to make. We'll get into the 301 00:19:57.640 --> 00:20:01.039 ones that got people in a tizzy and a little 302 00:20:01.079 --> 00:20:07.440 bit here. But Sony's CFO Lin Tao replied when asked 303 00:20:07.480 --> 00:20:11.319 about you know why Sony's live service has been you know, 304 00:20:11.480 --> 00:20:15.400 negative and what they're looking at when it comes to 305 00:20:15.519 --> 00:20:22.799 their live service plan going forward. Yeah, and he says 306 00:20:23.480 --> 00:20:29.440 that despite that negativity, he still thinks that, you know, 307 00:20:29.599 --> 00:20:32.240 they're not going to have another concord again. They have Marathon. 308 00:20:34.680 --> 00:20:36.799 They have added a revenue stream that didn't exist for 309 00:20:36.839 --> 00:20:41.319 the company five years ago. So you know, if we 310 00:20:41.359 --> 00:20:43.319 look in the past five years. Five years ago, live 311 00:20:43.359 --> 00:20:45.960 service games were almost on existible questions in studios. We 312 00:20:46.079 --> 00:20:48.119 now have hell Divers too and will be at the show, 313 00:20:48.640 --> 00:20:51.079 and grants as WIST seven and Budget's Destiny too, So 314 00:20:51.160 --> 00:20:54.160 we have all these four live service contributing to sales 315 00:20:54.160 --> 00:20:56.960 and profits in a stable manner. In fact, he noted 316 00:20:57.000 --> 00:21:01.799 that Sony's the live service games are kind of for 317 00:21:01.799 --> 00:21:05.240 forty percent of first party software revenue for the past quarter. 318 00:21:08.319 --> 00:21:12.279 So you know, wait, he calls MLB the show a 319 00:21:12.319 --> 00:21:13.920 life service game, So it is. 320 00:21:15.799 --> 00:21:17.599 Games are live service games. We know that. 321 00:21:17.640 --> 00:21:19.680 Come on, then I can make new versions of it 322 00:21:19.720 --> 00:21:20.440 then for next year. 323 00:21:20.920 --> 00:21:24.039 No, I mean it is like lives those things continue 324 00:21:24.079 --> 00:21:27.599 on people. You know, those servers are still up playing 325 00:21:27.640 --> 00:21:29.599 those games that they just count them all as one. 326 00:21:29.680 --> 00:21:32.480 They don't. They they're kind of as different skews for 327 00:21:32.519 --> 00:21:34.680 the you know, yearly sales data, but they counted all 328 00:21:34.680 --> 00:21:35.039 as one. 329 00:21:36.079 --> 00:21:39.039 Also, I wouldn't. I wouldn't count Grand Troops for seven 330 00:21:39.039 --> 00:21:40.240 of the Licerice game either. 331 00:21:42.160 --> 00:21:45.480 I guess they do because it's a continual thing and 332 00:21:45.599 --> 00:21:50.440 that's actually been positive right for them, So of course, uh, 333 00:21:51.559 --> 00:21:55.599 why not when you can interesting that two of those, 334 00:21:57.279 --> 00:22:01.119 you know, are on Xbox or three of them are 335 00:22:01.160 --> 00:22:04.720 on Xbox. Destiny to held ivers too as soon to 336 00:22:04.720 --> 00:22:07.279 be and you got to be the show even though 337 00:22:07.279 --> 00:22:08.880 I will be the show is not there doing that 338 00:22:09.039 --> 00:22:14.039 was that will be that made that coright. But still, 339 00:22:14.160 --> 00:22:17.480 I mean he is right in that that is a 340 00:22:17.519 --> 00:22:21.440 revenue source that they didn't have, you know. 341 00:22:21.720 --> 00:22:26.119 Yeah, but like the problem is like the direction the 342 00:22:26.119 --> 00:22:29.559 company went into. They went all in the life service games. Yeah, 343 00:22:29.680 --> 00:22:32.759 or you know they had the twelve game. You know, 344 00:22:33.039 --> 00:22:36.240 you want twelve live service games. It's like, okay, but 345 00:22:36.319 --> 00:22:38.200 now you don't have any money to really invest in 346 00:22:38.319 --> 00:22:43.160 single player stuff, which I think people like more or 347 00:22:43.240 --> 00:22:46.960 you know, I think some people like more or it's 348 00:22:47.000 --> 00:22:50.720 not it's not a small factor. And that's that's what's 349 00:22:50.759 --> 00:22:57.799 kind of like not doing great at the moment. Yeah, 350 00:22:58.200 --> 00:23:01.240 like Astrobot was good, don't get me wrong, but you 351 00:23:01.240 --> 00:23:03.000 know that came out. They're not making a new after 352 00:23:03.000 --> 00:23:06.839 about every year. They're not going to make you know, 353 00:23:06.839 --> 00:23:09.400 a new got a War every year or you know whatever. 354 00:23:09.680 --> 00:23:15.480 So yeah, then I'm making a new Horizon every year. 355 00:23:15.519 --> 00:23:18.480 And know that they have the multiplayer projects right right, 356 00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:25.200 so you know they're they're I'm. 357 00:23:23.440 --> 00:23:26.440 Not like opposed to a live service game necessarily, like, 358 00:23:26.799 --> 00:23:30.359 but I think the problem is just Sonny got a 359 00:23:30.359 --> 00:23:33.839 little little too I wouldn't say ahead of the game, 360 00:23:33.880 --> 00:23:35.519 but a little too. It's overly excited. 361 00:23:36.519 --> 00:23:38.319 Yeah, a little bit too excited, you know. 362 00:23:39.000 --> 00:23:41.720 So that's what led to Concord and you know Marathon. 363 00:23:41.799 --> 00:23:43.599 And also I think a lot of live service games, 364 00:23:43.759 --> 00:23:47.759 like the traditional ones or like the ones that people 365 00:23:49.240 --> 00:23:52.160 would consider like more life service games, that's more of 366 00:23:52.200 --> 00:23:56.680 a natural process to get into or like, you know, 367 00:23:57.400 --> 00:24:02.119 a natural ground swell of interest or support, like when 368 00:24:02.160 --> 00:24:06.400 Fortnite came out initially, like it wasn't like the biggest 369 00:24:06.400 --> 00:24:11.079 thing ever or but it grew that audience and not 370 00:24:11.279 --> 00:24:17.039 kind of is or even you know, I guess itex 371 00:24:17.039 --> 00:24:19.799 did okay, but I mean it grew its audience. And 372 00:24:20.680 --> 00:24:22.880 but I think like when they're when they try to 373 00:24:22.880 --> 00:24:25.720 pump it up too fast or too much, then that's 374 00:24:25.720 --> 00:24:28.519 what you know, players just get like this is a 375 00:24:28.519 --> 00:24:31.720 fake thing, and then they stop playing it or they 376 00:24:32.160 --> 00:24:33.480 like look at like confinnity Nikki. 377 00:24:35.400 --> 00:24:40.559 Yeah, when you mess up your game, it doesn't at all. Uh, 378 00:24:41.960 --> 00:24:44.160 it sucks. I mean that sucks that you know, you 379 00:24:44.240 --> 00:24:46.519 really liked that game, and then they they found a 380 00:24:46.519 --> 00:24:47.359 way to mess it up. 381 00:24:48.519 --> 00:24:50.319 Yeah, I didn't actually boot it up a few days ago. 382 00:24:51.640 --> 00:24:56.000 First of all, the patching for that game takes forever. Ah, 383 00:24:56.160 --> 00:24:58.519 it took me like a half hour, and I see, 384 00:24:58.519 --> 00:25:01.160 this is only a twelve gigabyte pat and I got 385 00:25:01.160 --> 00:25:04.599 good internet, like, so, what's the most problem here? And 386 00:25:04.640 --> 00:25:08.519 then I just like loaded up like the quest screen 387 00:25:09.799 --> 00:25:13.359 and just shut the game off because I don't I 388 00:25:13.359 --> 00:25:15.359 don't even understand this anymore, you know. 389 00:25:16.880 --> 00:25:20.039 So what what have they changed? Oh? 390 00:25:20.079 --> 00:25:21.920 They had like not they had like at least three 391 00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:25.799 or four different time events going off at once, like 392 00:25:27.200 --> 00:25:31.400 so there were like multiple quests, like multiple quests you 393 00:25:31.440 --> 00:25:34.039 can do to like unlock other ship, and you know 394 00:25:34.920 --> 00:25:39.559 it's like, oh, there's this sunrise or like this like 395 00:25:39.680 --> 00:25:43.599 weather quest, and you know, there was like this main 396 00:25:43.720 --> 00:25:47.119 quest and I'm like I I didn't even know where 397 00:25:47.160 --> 00:25:54.799 to what to do, Like, wow, yeah, I'll probably I'll 398 00:25:54.839 --> 00:25:57.680 probably be deleting that at some point. Even though. What's 399 00:25:57.720 --> 00:26:00.160 funny is like right before they ruined the game, you 400 00:26:00.200 --> 00:26:02.880 put money into it, like twenty bucks, so I have 401 00:26:03.039 --> 00:26:07.599