WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.960 --> 00:00:05.839 Hello, and welcome to another episode of Video Games to 2 00:00:05.879 --> 00:00:10.759 the Maxis is number four hundred and fifty four of 3 00:00:10.759 --> 00:00:15.320 the show, and you're with me as usually, mister Mark 4 00:00:15.359 --> 00:00:19.559 Morrison did it. I'm your host Seana Garmery, And well, 5 00:00:20.559 --> 00:00:25.239 there is a lot to talk about here today. You 6 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:31.440 have a backpedal from Xbox on eighty dollars games? Does 7 00:00:31.480 --> 00:00:34.520 that mean that gamers win? We're gonna go back to 8 00:00:34.600 --> 00:00:39.399 seventy dollars for everything now? Sony has a mysterious job 9 00:00:39.479 --> 00:00:43.759 listing about multi platform strategy. What is that? They about 10 00:00:43.759 --> 00:00:47.520 to turn the Xbox number two? And Nintendo has amazing 11 00:00:47.560 --> 00:00:51.000 sales for the switch to not to mention EA finally 12 00:00:51.039 --> 00:00:56.359 announced bottle Field six and a whole bunch of other stuff. 13 00:00:56.399 --> 00:00:59.079 Sony's even suing ten set in what feels like it 14 00:00:59.119 --> 00:01:02.759 should have happened like a year ago, and it's opening now. 15 00:01:03.320 --> 00:01:08.680 More down Doci hang Bonanza and that's funny. More to discuss, 16 00:01:08.799 --> 00:01:11.959 but let's do that right after this. 17 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:28.519 You are listening to Video Games to the Max. 18 00:01:31.959 --> 00:01:35.359 All right, Well, how was your weekend? 19 00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:39.640 Good? So Fantastic four and finished The Sandmoon. 20 00:01:40.760 --> 00:01:51.200 Sweet I'm watching that tomorrow. Yeah, he uh, I watched 21 00:01:51.200 --> 00:01:57.159 Happy Gilmour two twice. Also is my girlfriend's birthday, so 22 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:01.319 we went to the We both Gordon Ramsey fans, So 23 00:02:01.359 --> 00:02:04.519 we went to the House Kitchen that's in downtown Miami. 24 00:02:06.200 --> 00:02:13.599 Afty price tag for the what they serve there, but 25 00:02:14.159 --> 00:02:17.599 you know, it was a cool experience, at least you 26 00:02:17.599 --> 00:02:22.599 could say you went there and then I we went 27 00:02:22.680 --> 00:02:23.080 to go. 28 00:02:23.639 --> 00:02:33.159 I don't really know what the English term for this, Okay, yeah, 29 00:02:35.159 --> 00:02:41.080 so apparently it's called the Spanish line. In English we 30 00:02:41.199 --> 00:02:43.759 call it moan and I will see you. It's like 31 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:48.639 these really small green fruits that are like hanging really 32 00:02:48.680 --> 00:02:51.680 high up on trees to the point where you have 33 00:02:51.719 --> 00:02:54.080 to have like basically a hook or something to get 34 00:02:54.120 --> 00:02:54.560 them off. 35 00:02:55.439 --> 00:02:58.199 And so we went. You know, my girlfriend has a 36 00:02:58.240 --> 00:03:01.520 friend that like they have like a big like a 37 00:03:01.719 --> 00:03:07.919 ranch and they have them there and her dad had 38 00:03:07.960 --> 00:03:10.000 built this like hook thing to try to get them off. 39 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:13.039 It wasn't working. So I got on the ladder and 40 00:03:13.240 --> 00:03:15.120 the first time was able to pull a branch down 41 00:03:15.120 --> 00:03:16.800 and get a bunch of them off or whatever, and 42 00:03:16.840 --> 00:03:21.280 the second time didn't go so well for me. I 43 00:03:21.319 --> 00:03:25.240 fell off the ladder and had this big bruise on 44 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:30.240 my on my left side and like the right side 45 00:03:30.280 --> 00:03:35.240 of my leg like hurts really bad. So it's been 46 00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:39.919 feeling better today, but it's uh yeah, I get the 47 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:44.800 reminder of it feels like, you know, the the bad 48 00:03:44.879 --> 00:03:48.800 memory of my wrestling days of hey, I don't remember 49 00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:51.039 this is hurting that bad. But at least it was 50 00:03:51.039 --> 00:03:54.280 in the grass and not you know, but whatever it was, 51 00:03:54.919 --> 00:03:58.400 I guess a memory now I will have from going 52 00:03:58.479 --> 00:04:03.479 to uh go picks fruit so right, but hey, at 53 00:04:03.520 --> 00:04:06.199 least we got a bunch of them, so everybody's happy. 54 00:04:06.199 --> 00:04:09.639 Everybody got the eat and then that's all that matters 55 00:04:09.639 --> 00:04:15.439 in the end. But all right, talking about video games here, 56 00:04:17.160 --> 00:04:24.079 let's go ahead and get the housekeeping out of the way. Yeah, 57 00:04:24.279 --> 00:04:27.720 do appreciate everybody that watch us, whether you watch live 58 00:04:27.959 --> 00:04:31.959 watch later on the YouTube channel. 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So if anything, 79 00:05:50.439 --> 00:05:53.199 you can always listen to them on podcasts as well. 80 00:05:54.639 --> 00:05:58.399 But all right, let's get into the video games side 81 00:05:58.439 --> 00:06:01.759 of things, the things that were playing, any anything else 82 00:06:01.879 --> 00:06:04.360 you've been playing, Mark. 83 00:06:05.360 --> 00:06:07.879 I'm still staying away just brainion Tube. 84 00:06:09.439 --> 00:06:13.920 That sounds like more like work than enjoyment. 85 00:06:13.439 --> 00:06:18.480 There, Yeah it is, because I mean that's kind of 86 00:06:18.480 --> 00:06:22.040 the whole game also, But like this is so repetitive, 87 00:06:22.279 --> 00:06:26.800 you know, I saw something like that like eighty of 88 00:06:26.879 --> 00:06:31.120 players keep playing it after the credits roll and it's like, yeah, 89 00:06:33.160 --> 00:06:36.079 like the game isn't like it's not like you finish. 90 00:06:36.319 --> 00:06:38.199 I mean, the game is kind of goes endlessly really 91 00:06:38.199 --> 00:06:41.399 because it just it's just the same you know, thirty 92 00:06:41.480 --> 00:06:44.600 or forty repetitive tasks over and over and when I 93 00:06:44.600 --> 00:06:47.399 get that Vitam trophy and that takes a while. So, 94 00:06:50.319 --> 00:06:55.160 uh see, I got I haven't put it in yet. 95 00:06:55.439 --> 00:06:58.160 I got a WWE co which was switched to. 96 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:01.839 I was wondering if you got that or or he 97 00:07:01.879 --> 00:07:06.040 gave it to somebody else. Adam asked me and I 98 00:07:06.079 --> 00:07:09.920 was like, no, really not looking. 99 00:07:09.639 --> 00:07:11.759 Forward to I haven't said that to him. Well he 100 00:07:11.959 --> 00:07:13.639 asked me, and I was like this is this is 101 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:15.639 more something that Sean did want and he's like, no, 102 00:07:15.720 --> 00:07:19.199 he's been to his girlfriend. I was like, yeah, that'll 103 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:21.920 do it every time. Uh. 104 00:07:22.959 --> 00:07:25.240 I told him that I wouldn't be able to start 105 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:28.279 playing until Wednesday, and he's kind of like, man, I 106 00:07:28.319 --> 00:07:31.680 need that thing like reviewed fast because you know I 107 00:07:31.759 --> 00:07:34.480 didn't ones number one game or whatever. 108 00:07:35.160 --> 00:07:37.959 Okay, I guess I should actually start. 109 00:07:38.360 --> 00:07:40.920 And well, I don't know if I mean, I guess 110 00:07:40.959 --> 00:07:43.199 that means they didn't get an Xbox. 111 00:07:42.920 --> 00:07:47.279 Or yeah, he sent me a switch code or switch 112 00:07:47.319 --> 00:07:47.879 to good. 113 00:07:47.800 --> 00:07:49.800 So well, man, like they don't have another review of 114 00:07:49.800 --> 00:07:53.319 the game on the site they right now? Yeah, so 115 00:07:53.439 --> 00:07:56.480 I mean they kind of want that probably reviewed quickly. 116 00:07:57.079 --> 00:08:00.319 I guess I'll open up my switch to Uh. 117 00:08:00.680 --> 00:08:01.439 That's a good reason. 118 00:08:03.879 --> 00:08:07.000 Yeah, I wasn't gonna get Donkey Kong, but that doesn't 119 00:08:07.079 --> 00:08:10.040 hit Costco yet. I went to it, but kind of 120 00:08:10.040 --> 00:08:11.560 had a turnback, so I was okay. 121 00:08:13.279 --> 00:08:13.959 Uh. 122 00:08:14.399 --> 00:08:18.439 And then Yen's got a double dose of good games 123 00:08:19.000 --> 00:08:22.759 that I might check out. He got Wu Chong which 124 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:26.920 I downloaded, which I'll give a shot eventually. And then 125 00:08:26.920 --> 00:08:28.759 he and then he bought the other his other, his 126 00:08:28.839 --> 00:08:32.559 game of the year, the Mind's Eye Mind. 127 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:39.600 Why he likes bad stuff, Okay, I guess. 128 00:08:39.639 --> 00:08:42.519 I mean he loved Right to Hell Retribution, remember that 129 00:08:42.559 --> 00:08:46.000 piece of Ship? And you know he likes he keeps 130 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:50.759 he keeps trying to guilt Slash Talking into playing Earth 131 00:08:50.840 --> 00:08:52.519 Defense for six And I'm like. 132 00:08:52.720 --> 00:08:55.039 Oh, well, yeah, it wasn't like one of his favorite 133 00:08:55.080 --> 00:08:57.399 franchises or whatever. That doesn't. 134 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:03.919 I mean it should, I guess, but they're all bad games, 135 00:09:04.039 --> 00:09:08.080 so or like, you know, if bad might be pushing 136 00:09:08.080 --> 00:09:10.519 it a little, but they're all like extremely mediocre. 137 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:14.799 But at least that one you can enjoy with him. 138 00:09:15.039 --> 00:09:19.039 Yeah, we played Iron Angel or ironn Where the fuck 139 00:09:19.080 --> 00:09:22.759 that one was? We hated that one. Yeah, that turned 140 00:09:22.759 --> 00:09:28.799 me out. I mean they're all like that. So yeah, 141 00:09:29.279 --> 00:09:31.759 but yeah, I'll give Utong a shot eventually. 142 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:36.399 I play that for a little bit, but I can't, 143 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:39.480 like I'm literally in the beginning areas. 144 00:09:40.360 --> 00:09:42.559 Yeah, i mean your type of game. It's also like 145 00:09:43.399 --> 00:09:48.720 not multiplayer, which kind of makes me less interested in it. 146 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:51.120 It's funny to hear him rant about so it's like, so, 147 00:09:51.120 --> 00:09:54.440 I mean he's the huge talk about that stuff, but 148 00:09:54.519 --> 00:09:58.519 he hates the Surge and the Searge too because. 149 00:09:59.519 --> 00:10:03.840 Because isn't it because it has its weapon base as 150 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:05.519 a shooter base and. 151 00:10:06.279 --> 00:10:10.240 No search shoot or both of them are like melee focused. 152 00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:13.759 But I mean his main criticism of like the search 153 00:10:13.840 --> 00:10:15.759 one was it just takes place in a bunch of 154 00:10:16.039 --> 00:10:20.639 like gray warehouses, and I'm like, yo, dog, most of 155 00:10:20.720 --> 00:10:23.399 Dark Souls takes place in you know, dark black. 156 00:10:23.639 --> 00:10:27.679 Yeah, like a lot of Dark Souls. It's not like 157 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:31.919 I wouldn't say it's you know, some amazing level design 158 00:10:32.000 --> 00:10:32.440 or anything. 159 00:10:32.919 --> 00:10:37.399 I mean, hey, there are like iconic or very cool 160 00:10:37.399 --> 00:10:40.840 looking locations in every Dark Souls game, but yeah, you're 161 00:10:40.879 --> 00:10:43.639 still going through a dark cave sooner or later. So 162 00:10:44.759 --> 00:10:47.840 and even even like the Search one, I could, I 163 00:10:47.840 --> 00:10:51.120 could accept that criticism of that game, but the Search 164 00:10:51.200 --> 00:10:54.600 Too actually did do something about it, like it actually 165 00:10:54.600 --> 00:11:00.159 has very different locations, right, and he still won't it. 166 00:11:00.559 --> 00:11:03.879 And meanwhile he loves this fuck that one. This one's 167 00:11:03.919 --> 00:11:08.440 stupid castle from the Vampire Souls, like I forget the 168 00:11:08.480 --> 00:11:12.639 name of it, god Eater or not God Eater. Oh 169 00:11:12.759 --> 00:11:16.600 damn it. They just announced the sequel, which baffled me. 170 00:11:17.279 --> 00:11:26.639 Uh oh, I think I oh, the the Capcom one. 171 00:11:26.840 --> 00:11:30.679 The cod Vain ye vein. Yeah, I don't think that's Capcom, 172 00:11:30.759 --> 00:11:31.120 is it? 173 00:11:31.759 --> 00:11:32.279 Mm hmm. 174 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:38.919 Wow? Okay, uh but he defends that, No, that's Bandynamico. 175 00:11:40.279 --> 00:11:41.639 Oh yeah, you're right. I'm sorry. 176 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:45.559 But he defends this one level in that game, which 177 00:11:45.559 --> 00:11:48.399 is like this big cathedral looking maze that is like 178 00:11:48.440 --> 00:11:54.039 completely untextured. It's just like white, you know, And I'm like, yeah, 179 00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:55.639 this is real artistic, you know. 180 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:02.919 Hey, but you know, he got the Anime Souls game 181 00:12:02.960 --> 00:12:03.679 that he wanted to. 182 00:12:04.240 --> 00:12:06.559 I'd rather play the I even told him I'd rather 183 00:12:06.600 --> 00:12:14.519 play the stupid bloody mazes from Max Paine one. But yeah, 184 00:12:14.519 --> 00:12:19.519 that's about it for me. How's the Banana Banana? 185 00:12:20.759 --> 00:12:25.519 Uh? Yeah, I did play on for a little bit. 186 00:12:25.879 --> 00:12:31.679 Uh beat the the tutorial boss. 187 00:12:32.279 --> 00:12:36.159 I can tell you right now that any type of game, but. 188 00:12:36.200 --> 00:12:38.840 It's game pass. So I said, why not give it 189 00:12:38.879 --> 00:12:44.440 a whirl? You know? Yeah? I like the like set 190 00:12:44.519 --> 00:12:48.960 up for it, the the whole like story and the 191 00:12:49.000 --> 00:12:53.080 you know, Chinese like history part of it. They do 192 00:12:53.159 --> 00:12:56.399 a long, like drawn out part before you get to 193 00:12:56.480 --> 00:12:59.600 the area where you're actually fighting enemies to kind of 194 00:12:59.639 --> 00:13:02.919 let you like entered, get whatever you want out of 195 00:13:02.919 --> 00:13:04.879 the story at your own pace kind of thing. 196 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:10.200 Right, Yeah, I will say that is my as I 197 00:13:10.279 --> 00:13:13.320 keep playing Death Training too. My real hope for that 198 00:13:13.399 --> 00:13:16.639 game is when they make Death Training three. Like the 199 00:13:16.679 --> 00:13:18.879 whole concept of Death Raining two is like, oh, a 200 00:13:18.919 --> 00:13:23.600 portal opened to Australia and now you're over there. I 201 00:13:23.639 --> 00:13:26.000 help for Death Training three is a portal opens to 202 00:13:26.120 --> 00:13:30.440 like the Congo or somewhere in Africa, and Sam goes 203 00:13:30.480 --> 00:13:34.360 through it, and you know, a guy, an African American 204 00:13:34.399 --> 00:13:37.960 guy shows up and is like, hey, not white people, 205 00:13:38.720 --> 00:13:43.840 We're cool. In the title network go Away, it's like 206 00:13:43.960 --> 00:13:50.039 we've built Wakanda. We're good because like isn't like part 207 00:13:50.039 --> 00:13:52.399 of like Whu Chong is a story like like part 208 00:13:52.399 --> 00:13:56.360 of China or part of like the areas like corrupted. 209 00:13:56.120 --> 00:13:59.440 Or yeah, yeah exactly, that's why they had the feathers 210 00:13:59.600 --> 00:14:06.039 or right, yeah, and the powers are cool. So I 211 00:14:06.159 --> 00:14:08.120 like that part of it. Just like again, you know, 212 00:14:08.480 --> 00:14:12.759 I'm not a very was like familiar. So it took 213 00:14:12.759 --> 00:14:15.519 a while to beat the freaking big boss. 214 00:14:15.559 --> 00:14:17.879 At the beginning, I remember a view that was like 215 00:14:18.279 --> 00:14:20.600 maybe it kind of seemed like the combats like very repetitive, 216 00:14:20.919 --> 00:14:23.320 Like it's just like, oh, just keep hitting the boss 217 00:14:23.360 --> 00:14:27.879 and dodging. Yeah, build up, well, build up the power thing, 218 00:14:28.159 --> 00:14:30.919 use it, and then do it all over again. And 219 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:34.080 it's like that, Okay, I mean I guess. 220 00:14:33.879 --> 00:14:38.320 Yeah, because there's there's just dodging, right, It's you're dodging everything. 221 00:14:40.120 --> 00:14:44.000 And then it's like that kind of like, uh, it's 222 00:14:44.039 --> 00:14:46.720 not a rock dodge roll. It's like a just like 223 00:14:46.799 --> 00:14:50.840 a side Yeah, you're just dodging over there, dodging over here, 224 00:14:51.759 --> 00:14:58.039 and that's kind of it. So yeah, he is really 225 00:14:58.080 --> 00:15:01.759 freaky looking. I like the like art design of him, 226 00:15:02.120 --> 00:15:07.399 of that first boss that you meet. But yeah, pretty 227 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:10.639 pretty typical, you know, soul Stuf. Apparently on PC it 228 00:15:10.799 --> 00:15:14.279 doesn't run very well, which is getting a lot of 229 00:15:15.360 --> 00:15:18.159 negative reviews on that end. And then also, you know, 230 00:15:18.919 --> 00:15:21.240 people have discovered that apparently you can just have her 231 00:15:21.320 --> 00:15:25.039 wear like bathing suits, so that's that's getting that crowd 232 00:15:25.080 --> 00:15:26.320 all hyped up about that. 233 00:15:27.039 --> 00:15:27.279 Yep. 234 00:15:29.960 --> 00:15:33.279 And then yeah, most of most of my times with 235 00:15:33.360 --> 00:15:38.120 Don Combananza again, uh right, I don't I don't know 236 00:15:38.120 --> 00:15:41.600 where I am, and like I I would imagine I'm 237 00:15:41.639 --> 00:15:46.480 like halfway uh through, but I don't know, because I 238 00:15:46.519 --> 00:15:48.960 heard some folks said that they were they thought they 239 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:50.279 were like at the end of the game, and then 240 00:15:50.279 --> 00:15:53.879 they still had a ton to go through. But that 241 00:15:53.960 --> 00:15:56.679 the ending is very rewarding, so it's well worth you know, 242 00:15:56.799 --> 00:16:00.279 getting through that. So I'm definitely when in make my 243 00:16:00.399 --> 00:16:03.399 marshal there. But it's it's just fun. I get constantly 244 00:16:03.440 --> 00:16:05.879 go off the beaten path to go break something or 245 00:16:06.519 --> 00:16:09.399 find something or find a banana or get into one 246 00:16:09.399 --> 00:16:12.279 of those like you know, like little levels that they 247 00:16:12.320 --> 00:16:14.399 have that you know you're either doing the two D 248 00:16:14.600 --> 00:16:19.399 platforming or you're finding something or beating up something or 249 00:16:19.440 --> 00:16:24.000 what you know, So it's it's constant dopamine. Which I've 250 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:27.440 seen a lot of people that are kind of old 251 00:16:27.440 --> 00:16:30.799 school gamers that that are not like they don't play 252 00:16:30.840 --> 00:16:34.039 a lot of the modern games apparently do not like 253 00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:37.960 the game because of that. Like it's like Donkey Kong 254 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:44.200 doesn't have an main objective because he's you're constantly finding something, right, 255 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:50.519 Whereas you know, in the two D Donkey Kong's you 256 00:16:50.600 --> 00:16:52.879 have the okay, I gotta get to it in the levels, 257 00:16:52.960 --> 00:16:56.200 but all out Kong that kind of thing, and you know, 258 00:16:56.240 --> 00:16:59.279 you're getting to the boss at the end and whatever, 259 00:16:59.320 --> 00:17:03.879 Whereas this game it's like the bosses are laughable. It 260 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:06.359 really is just about kind of just exploring the world 261 00:17:06.400 --> 00:17:11.000 and enjoying it. And uh, you know for that really, 262 00:17:11.039 --> 00:17:15.359 you know, Nintendo has a magic about that recently. You know, 263 00:17:15.640 --> 00:17:18.000 I mentioned all the different ones that are kind of 264 00:17:18.119 --> 00:17:21.720 very you could tell that they took from from Kirby 265 00:17:21.960 --> 00:17:26.400 Zelda and and definitely obviously Mario has all kinds of 266 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:32.039 Mario touches in it, and they do a great job 267 00:17:32.079 --> 00:17:34.880 with that. It's funny because I don't like the Zelda games, 268 00:17:34.920 --> 00:17:40.359 but I will play Donkey Kong and go explore places well. 269 00:17:40.119 --> 00:17:47.799 Like Zelda like like I would say, probably more complex systems. Yeah, 270 00:17:48.279 --> 00:17:51.119 I mean to some people's it's it's a good thing, 271 00:17:51.160 --> 00:17:54.000 but to some people it's bad, you know, like weapon durability, 272 00:17:54.359 --> 00:17:57.160 like having like I doubt there's a cooking minigame in 273 00:17:57.240 --> 00:17:57.839 Donkey Kong. 274 00:17:59.319 --> 00:18:01.839 No, there's, I mean so, and you know, like they 275 00:18:01.880 --> 00:18:05.400 do have the some of those little off the beaten 276 00:18:05.640 --> 00:18:08.960 things or kind of like the shrines, right and so 277 00:18:09.359 --> 00:18:13.000 so you know that kind of has that and it's fun. 278 00:18:13.960 --> 00:18:18.920 But yeah, I'll keep plugging away at it. Let's see 279 00:18:18.960 --> 00:18:21.400 how far I get. 280 00:18:20.319 --> 00:18:24.920 So let's can better respective game first, you or me? Yeah? 281 00:18:25.599 --> 00:18:31.160 Right, yeah, So we'll see how far I get till 282 00:18:31.240 --> 00:18:34.920 next week. But we'll talk about more Nintendal stuff later. 283 00:18:35.599 --> 00:18:41.160 I guess we should go ahead and start with Xbox 284 00:18:41.599 --> 00:18:47.119 and their big change from what seemed like we were 285 00:18:47.119 --> 00:18:52.240 headed to the outer worlds too, coming out at eighty dollars. 286 00:18:52.359 --> 00:18:59.000 Just randomly, report came out from my GN that Microsoft 287 00:18:59.160 --> 00:19:02.119 was changing cores and they are now going back to 288 00:19:03.079 --> 00:19:06.720 sixty nine ninety nine seventy dollars seventy US dollars whatever 289 00:19:06.759 --> 00:19:10.680 you want to call it. Obviously this works out for 290 00:19:11.000 --> 00:19:13.079 you know, the whole premise of the Outer World two 291 00:19:13.920 --> 00:19:18.400 whole uh you know, going against the corporation capitalism bad 292 00:19:18.519 --> 00:19:21.400 thing where they're like I like that they had that 293 00:19:21.480 --> 00:19:26.119 whole post of in character where they they're kind of like, oh, 294 00:19:26.160 --> 00:19:28.759 we we were able to take out redacted and be 295 00:19:28.799 --> 00:19:33.359 able to lower the price for you or whatever. 296 00:19:33.559 --> 00:19:36.079 They were able to cut nine thousand jobs. The game 297 00:19:36.160 --> 00:19:36.960 is now cheaper. 298 00:19:39.000 --> 00:19:42.240 Yeah, I'd imagine that most of this is due to 299 00:19:42.480 --> 00:19:47.720 low pre orders. Also, you know I. 300 00:19:47.640 --> 00:19:51.759 Think I mean, yeah, well yeah, no no pre orders 301 00:19:51.880 --> 00:19:53.039 or yeah, like. 302 00:19:53.680 --> 00:19:56.920 Well there was a lot of backlash about this, right, 303 00:19:57.039 --> 00:20:01.119 people just being upset of like, hey, you know, this 304 00:20:01.200 --> 00:20:03.400 is not the game you really needed to do the 305 00:20:03.440 --> 00:20:05.599 whole eighty. 306 00:20:05.440 --> 00:20:08.720 Dollars with, I mean, well a of the games on 307 00:20:08.799 --> 00:20:11.160 game paths, so no one's gonna bite on the Xbox 308 00:20:11.920 --> 00:20:13.839 and then be like I don't think it was a 309 00:20:13.920 --> 00:20:16.839 huge seller on the PlayStation, like The First, Final Last 310 00:20:16.920 --> 00:20:19.079 or you know, but. 311 00:20:19.119 --> 00:20:22.440 Even then, the whole point is like you're not You're 312 00:20:22.480 --> 00:20:26.240 gonna get even less sales if it's eighty bucks, right, 313 00:20:26.279 --> 00:20:31.440 oh yeah, so you know, I think that's what they 314 00:20:31.480 --> 00:20:33.359 they saw. I saw a lot of people that you know, 315 00:20:33.400 --> 00:20:35.319 as soon as it changed, they went and pre ordered 316 00:20:35.359 --> 00:20:38.440 it at seventy. You know, they were okay with paying seventy, 317 00:20:38.440 --> 00:20:41.680 but they were kind of like doing the whole you know, 318 00:20:41.839 --> 00:20:45.519 rebuffing let's all go to eighty thing, which I applaud, 319 00:20:46.200 --> 00:20:48.200 you know. And it also doesn't help that. I think 320 00:20:48.240 --> 00:20:52.759 that I really do think Xbox thought, or you know, 321 00:20:52.799 --> 00:20:55.640 Microsoft thought, Okay, Nintendo opened the door, more people are 322 00:20:55.640 --> 00:20:58.240 gonna go to eighty. There's probably still gonna be people 323 00:20:58.279 --> 00:20:59.920 that are gonna do it. There's rumors that you know, 324 00:21:00.359 --> 00:21:05.160 is going to try with Battlefield six. We'll see how 325 00:21:05.400 --> 00:21:06.519 that turns out. 326 00:21:06.920 --> 00:21:10.000 Yeah, met him that that population they want. 327 00:21:11.039 --> 00:21:13.480 Like, I'm surprised they didn't say they didn't try to 328 00:21:13.519 --> 00:21:15.279 keep it with Call of Duty, but I guess they're 329 00:21:15.920 --> 00:21:18.880 smart in that, like, let's not try to get people 330 00:21:18.920 --> 00:21:21.079 against the one game that we for sure need to 331 00:21:21.079 --> 00:21:25.240 make sure sales right, so, you know, and they said 332 00:21:25.240 --> 00:21:27.440 it's not just out of Worlds too, it's also you know, 333 00:21:27.559 --> 00:21:30.559 Ninja goutt in four and you know the rest of 334 00:21:30.559 --> 00:21:35.559 the holiday lineup. So that's positive to you because I Yeah. 335 00:21:35.160 --> 00:21:38.480 I mean, here's the thing Nintendo can get away with 336 00:21:38.480 --> 00:21:42.640 with a theoretical eighty dollars game. You can, right, most 337 00:21:42.640 --> 00:21:44.599 people would argue there's more value there. 338 00:21:46.359 --> 00:21:49.519 Well. Also, you have the option of buying the bundle 339 00:21:49.599 --> 00:21:53.880 and saving thirty dollars, right, So, and they knew that 340 00:21:53.920 --> 00:21:56.279 they were going to have enough quantity for people that 341 00:21:56.359 --> 00:21:58.119 wanted to buy the bundle and say the thirty dollars, 342 00:21:58.200 --> 00:22:01.839 you definitely could do that, right, Yeah. I did that 343 00:22:01.920 --> 00:22:08.160 because I already had a fifty dollars enough in points 344 00:22:09.160 --> 00:22:12.039 or credits or whatever on my switch one. So I said, 345 00:22:12.160 --> 00:22:14.319 I'm only going to pay thirty bucks, So who cares, 346 00:22:14.359 --> 00:22:16.920 I'll just get the switched to with without the game 347 00:22:17.000 --> 00:22:22.839 in it. But you know it, hey, people are being 348 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:26.359 very budget conscious right now, and I think that's the 349 00:22:26.400 --> 00:22:28.599 thing is like you can you can raise the price 350 00:22:28.640 --> 00:22:30.720 of your console and nobody's buying and it doesn't really 351 00:22:30.799 --> 00:22:34.200 make a difference. But when you need people to buy 352 00:22:34.200 --> 00:22:38.640 your games, it doesn't make sense for you to do 353 00:22:38.759 --> 00:22:43.160 this with with the Outer Rules two and Ninja Guid 354 00:22:43.160 --> 00:22:45.920 and then you know the rest of the the games 355 00:22:45.920 --> 00:22:48.200 that you're you know, I don't know if keeper is 356 00:22:48.200 --> 00:22:51.039 going to be even seventy That game should be budget. 357 00:22:51.720 --> 00:22:53.079 Should be a budget title, I don't. 358 00:22:53.440 --> 00:22:56.119 Yeah, well it shouldn't be twenty bucks, but it should 359 00:22:56.119 --> 00:22:57.079 put I'd say, like shift. 360 00:22:59.599 --> 00:23:03.400 I think that they haven't even revealed though, how much 361 00:23:03.440 --> 00:23:07.319 this gonna cost or right, I think it's still just 362 00:23:07.720 --> 00:23:10.640 says okay, this is it's coming out this day on 363 00:23:10.680 --> 00:23:17.160 October seventeen, but it doesn't have a price. But yeah, 364 00:23:17.279 --> 00:23:22.400 I do think it's interesting that they kind of self 365 00:23:22.400 --> 00:23:25.400 admitted that, hey, we need to kind of go backwards 366 00:23:25.440 --> 00:23:31.000 on this. Right, It's fun, you know, I mean, like 367 00:23:31.000 --> 00:23:32.799 they always do with their stuff, they can make it 368 00:23:32.839 --> 00:23:35.000 look like they meant to do this the whole time. 369 00:23:35.319 --> 00:23:39.480 But whatever, let me ask you this theoretically, I mean, 370 00:23:39.519 --> 00:23:41.359 I don't you're gonna play. You don't even play the 371 00:23:41.359 --> 00:23:44.319 game on game pass, so it's kind of moved. But 372 00:23:44.400 --> 00:23:46.960 let's say you were going to buy the game. Would 373 00:23:46.960 --> 00:23:50.240 you rather have paid seventy for it and had all 374 00:23:50.240 --> 00:23:54.000 the people laid off or eighty for it and had 375 00:23:54.039 --> 00:23:55.920 them not be laid off? Well? 376 00:23:55.960 --> 00:23:58.079 Would? I mean, if you're telling me that's what it is, 377 00:23:58.119 --> 00:23:59.880 I'll pay the ten next one dollars today? Have people 378 00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:02.160 x keep their job. But that has nothing to do 379 00:24:02.279 --> 00:24:05.319 with why the civil lost their jobs. Let's be honest. 380 00:24:07.359 --> 00:24:09.880 That has more to do with the other story that 381 00:24:09.920 --> 00:24:12.359 we have in conjunction with us with Sati Nadello. Basically, 382 00:24:12.599 --> 00:24:17.400 since he's saying that the you know, the layoffs way 383 00:24:17.480 --> 00:24:21.599 on him, that he feels bad, but almost aping the 384 00:24:21.680 --> 00:24:25.720 same stupid thing that Phil Spencer said that like, well, 385 00:24:25.799 --> 00:24:31.000 we've never been better. You know, we're doing great. It's 386 00:24:31.039 --> 00:24:34.319 like we're thriving. It's like, again, I get that you're 387 00:24:34.319 --> 00:24:36.920 talking to shareholders here, but good lord, that just sounds 388 00:24:36.960 --> 00:24:37.839 so tone deaf. 389 00:24:38.559 --> 00:24:40.799 I'm sure, I'm sure it's really weigne heavily as he 390 00:24:40.839 --> 00:24:43.640 gets in his private jet jets out to his mansion. 391 00:24:43.920 --> 00:24:44.079 You know. 392 00:24:44.400 --> 00:24:48.640 Yeah. He called it the enigma of success, saying that 393 00:24:48.680 --> 00:24:51.440 the layouts and opportunity for the company to shape lead 394 00:24:51.519 --> 00:24:53.480 through and have a greater impact than her before. 395 00:24:54.160 --> 00:24:59.160 Yeah again number their number two in the world, like. 396 00:25:01.559 --> 00:25:04.440 Yeah, and you know again he has a point about 397 00:25:04.440 --> 00:25:06.720 AI and all that stuff, and that he can't just 398 00:25:06.799 --> 00:25:12.480 let that, you know, pass them by. They have to 399 00:25:12.480 --> 00:25:15.279 make sure that they're at the forefront. They can't let 400 00:25:15.960 --> 00:25:18.839 let it happen again where Google is the leader in 401 00:25:18.960 --> 00:25:22.039