WEBVTT 1 00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:17.320 It's the Internet. You're busy, Let's do this. It's Day's Grub. 2 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:24.320 Welcome everybody, I'm gonna I'm I'm Deacon Saint Sean. Now, hello, 3 00:00:24.879 --> 00:00:29.600 welcome to the show for confused audio listeners. I'm in 4 00:00:29.800 --> 00:00:33.399 I'm dressed up, like in my biker gear because because 5 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:37.039 I'm now now I'm in the Day's Sean slot. 6 00:00:37.600 --> 00:00:41.119 I actually, so I was like looking at something else 7 00:00:41.240 --> 00:00:43.840 that is relevant to later in my day today when 8 00:00:43.880 --> 00:00:45.320 you were getting in that get up. 9 00:00:45.640 --> 00:00:48.000 So I had clicked away from this board because I'm 10 00:00:48.039 --> 00:00:51.079 on my laptop at my parents right now. 11 00:00:51.240 --> 00:00:52.759 And so I came. 12 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:55.880 Back and I was like, oh, there's been a wardrobe change. 13 00:00:56.119 --> 00:00:57.759 I noticed that when I when I when I was 14 00:00:57.759 --> 00:01:00.719 putting on this absurdity, there's no reaction. Yeah, you no 15 00:01:00.880 --> 00:01:03.000 sold it. I'm like, she's gonna come back, and I'm 16 00:01:03.479 --> 00:01:05.480 like trying to make sureshy noise to see don't blow 17 00:01:05.519 --> 00:01:09.920 the surprise. Yeah, it must have been very confusing. Yeah, 18 00:01:10.959 --> 00:01:11.799 normal human being. 19 00:01:12.359 --> 00:01:12.719 Yeah. 20 00:01:12.799 --> 00:01:15.040 I figured that you were going for a surprise though, 21 00:01:15.079 --> 00:01:16.959 So I knew when I saw it to like play 22 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:17.359 it cool. 23 00:01:17.519 --> 00:01:19.519 Yes, exactly, yes, and I figured you would. But here 24 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:23.079 we are. Uh. Yeah, it's not not my shoot hair, 25 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:28.439 not anymore anyhow. Yeah, absolutely not. I everybody, I'm back today. 26 00:01:28.519 --> 00:01:31.159 It's Sonya gonna make another play station portable in gamesales 27 00:01:31.239 --> 00:01:33.040 bounce back in October, but first please join me and 28 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:36.879 welcome today's ghost. It's Emma Fife. Everybody, Emma, how are 29 00:01:36.879 --> 00:01:37.280 you doing? 30 00:01:37.560 --> 00:01:38.280 I'm great. 31 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:42.920 I'm coming to you live from my mother's sewing Yeah. 32 00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:45.840 And for so, who was asking a child? Oh, cosbon 33 00:01:46.239 --> 00:01:48.000 so this No, my parents retired. 34 00:01:48.040 --> 00:01:50.879 So my cosbot asked if my mom turned my bedroom 35 00:01:50.879 --> 00:01:54.000 into a sewing room. No, my parents retired. They live 36 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:56.879 in a house where this has always been her sewing room. 37 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:02.719 And and yeah, out out to el Gato for the 38 00:02:03.879 --> 00:02:07.079 all the neo gears. So today I am using the 39 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:10.080 El Gatto key Light Neo as well as the. 40 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:14.080 Facecam Neo and the Wave Neo microphone. 41 00:02:14.719 --> 00:02:17.199 So thank you very much el Gato for sending me 42 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:19.879 these things for review for holiday gift guides. 43 00:02:20.520 --> 00:02:22.240 I gotta say they're working really well, you. 44 00:02:22.199 --> 00:02:24.479 Know, really, yeah, they work really well. I assume you 45 00:02:24.520 --> 00:02:25.159 got to set too. 46 00:02:26.319 --> 00:02:28.560 I don't. I'm just saying, like heaven you on the show, 47 00:02:28.800 --> 00:02:31.599 show here talking to you, and no complaints for me 48 00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:34.960 as someone who's like producing the show live. Yeah, no, but. 49 00:02:35.599 --> 00:02:39.599 Yeah, I use recently, I was having, yeah, some issues 50 00:02:39.639 --> 00:02:42.719 with my CAMELNK, so I like switched to the Algatto 51 00:02:42.800 --> 00:02:46.120 Facecam Mark two, which, like I do recommend the Mark 52 00:02:46.159 --> 00:02:46.800 two over. 53 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:47.840 The Neo Facecam. 54 00:02:47.960 --> 00:02:51.479 It's not very much more expensive, and it just has 55 00:02:51.639 --> 00:02:53.800 a lot more features than the than the Neo does. 56 00:02:53.840 --> 00:02:56.680 But the Neo's are really solid webcam, and the the 57 00:02:56.719 --> 00:02:59.879 key light and the microphone are fantastic, and the mini 58 00:03:00.439 --> 00:03:03.599 stream deck is so satisfying and it's so much like 59 00:03:03.680 --> 00:03:05.439 clickier than regular steam deck. 60 00:03:05.479 --> 00:03:06.800 It's really fun. I love it. 61 00:03:07.039 --> 00:03:10.240 Yep. But yeah, we're back. We're back at the swing 62 00:03:10.280 --> 00:03:12.919 of things. Disney was great. I don't know, I'll probably 63 00:03:12.919 --> 00:03:15.919 talk about it somewhere in various places, maybe some of 64 00:03:15.960 --> 00:03:19.479 the bombcasts, maybe someone voicemail dump Truck, but it was. 65 00:03:19.560 --> 00:03:21.479 It was a very good time. It was one of 66 00:03:21.479 --> 00:03:23.680 those things where it's like you plan it for so 67 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:25.719 long and you look forward to it for such a 68 00:03:25.719 --> 00:03:27.520 long time, and you spend so much money on it, 69 00:03:27.560 --> 00:03:29.400 you're like, man, this better be worth it, and it 70 00:03:29.439 --> 00:03:31.560 totally was. Yeah. I was like, Okay, I feel like 71 00:03:31.639 --> 00:03:33.039 I got my money's worth, which. 72 00:03:33.000 --> 00:03:34.759 It looks like y'all had a lot of fun. 73 00:03:34.840 --> 00:03:37.919 Yeah, and while you were I feel like on voicemail 74 00:03:37.960 --> 00:03:41.080 down truck, we did have some pretty extensive theme mark 75 00:03:41.479 --> 00:03:43.240 discussions in your absence. 76 00:03:43.800 --> 00:03:46.759 Well, I'm ready to comment on everything now. We definitely 77 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:49.800 did just about everything we could. I didn't I didn't 78 00:03:49.800 --> 00:03:52.080 see the Dapper dance. How about that. I missed them, 79 00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:55.000 but I don't think I went to the enchanted Teki 80 00:03:55.120 --> 00:03:57.520 lounge things like that. But most stuff we got a 81 00:03:57.599 --> 00:04:01.039 chance to check out. So yeah, it was very very 82 00:04:01.280 --> 00:04:04.919 very very fun. You know, shout outs to everybody that 83 00:04:04.919 --> 00:04:07.039 that did help me make that happen in terms of 84 00:04:07.080 --> 00:04:09.719 planning or you know, we're able to you know, slide 85 00:04:09.759 --> 00:04:11.719 me a fast pass here and there, things like that, 86 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:13.879 So I really appreciate, you know, like a name, names 87 00:04:13.919 --> 00:04:15.840 or anything like that. But everyone knows who they are 88 00:04:16.120 --> 00:04:18.879 that helped make this trip even more special. So thanks, 89 00:04:18.920 --> 00:04:23.160 so thanks to everybody. But yeah, I'm how what happened 90 00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:25.560 in games last week? I was completely busy, so I 91 00:04:25.680 --> 00:04:29.720 was pretty tuned out. Seemed like uh yeah, yeah, it 92 00:04:29.759 --> 00:04:30.759 seemed like not much. 93 00:04:31.319 --> 00:04:33.120 Yeah, not really, nothing happened. 94 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:39.439 There were no announcements, uh, regarding a particular award show. 95 00:04:39.959 --> 00:04:42.399 Uh yeah, it was. It was pretty much just day Sean. 96 00:04:42.680 --> 00:04:46.000 Yeah yeah, well it sounds like day Sean is over 97 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:46.839 with the kids. 98 00:04:47.279 --> 00:04:47.399 Uh. 99 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:51.079 I didn't. I was not able to really catch a minute. 100 00:04:51.120 --> 00:04:53.040 I tried to, like one morning, I was like, oh, yeah, 101 00:04:53.079 --> 00:04:54.920 that's happened. I should see if I can check it out. 102 00:04:54.920 --> 00:04:57.639 And I was like walking like into Disney or something 103 00:04:57.680 --> 00:04:59.800 like that, and uh, and I was like trying to 104 00:04:59.800 --> 00:05:02.920 hear and I couldn't really hear anything, but I was like, Okay, 105 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:05.240 this looks fun. I could see Sean doing some stuff 106 00:05:05.240 --> 00:05:08.560 in here. But yeah, everyone seems to love it. How 107 00:05:09.160 --> 00:05:11.360 how chat how far did he get in it? Was 108 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:14.800 he played every day for several hours? Uh yeah, okay, 109 00:05:14.800 --> 00:05:16.800 Sean says, He's gone. Is a very okay. 110 00:05:16.600 --> 00:05:18.000 Video, very okay video game. 111 00:05:18.319 --> 00:05:22.480 Yeah, fantastic, I will we learned something new. Uh, I 112 00:05:22.480 --> 00:05:24.519 assume a quarter of the quarter of the way through 113 00:05:24.600 --> 00:05:27.839 one fourth ish okay, well that's uh, you know, many 114 00:05:27.839 --> 00:05:30.279 more days Sean yet to come. I don't know did 115 00:05:30.279 --> 00:05:32.040 he ever commit to beating it or anything like that, 116 00:05:32.199 --> 00:05:34.480 or was it just uh just you know, play some 117 00:05:34.639 --> 00:05:37.000 of it. So I don't know. I guess. I guess 118 00:05:37.040 --> 00:05:38.120 we'll see, but I. 119 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:42.519 Think it was a he just played, uh what he 120 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:46.120 could for the good of the people, he. 121 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:50.120 Said, play he said, a playthrough on Extra Life, Sean says, 122 00:05:50.120 --> 00:05:53.000 I did commit that. Okay, so plenty more day Sean 123 00:05:53.079 --> 00:05:57.519 to come, you dumb bastard. Oh man, that's very good 124 00:05:57.560 --> 00:06:01.000 for the kids, though, it was. It was for the kids. Yeah. 125 00:06:01.040 --> 00:06:03.800 All right, let's explain what we do here most weekdays. I, 126 00:06:03.920 --> 00:06:06.279 Jeff Greb will help piece your gaming life back together. 127 00:06:06.360 --> 00:06:08.680 That includes breaking news and maybe even some of our 128 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:11.720 own original reporting. For all these topics, I'll get the 129 00:06:11.720 --> 00:06:13.519 input of a bona fide expert who will make me 130 00:06:13.560 --> 00:06:17.040 look smart. If you're watching live on twitch welcome. You 131 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:19.800 could always listen to the show later on podcast feeds 132 00:06:19.800 --> 00:06:23.240 by searching for game Mes Mornings, or find the RSS 133 00:06:23.240 --> 00:06:25.920 on giant bomb dot com. You can also catch the 134 00:06:25.920 --> 00:06:30.800 show later with chapters and timestamps on YouTube. Hello YouTube. 135 00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:32.240 All right, we have a lot to get into, so 136 00:06:32.319 --> 00:06:36.040 let's start the morning mess with Sony reportedly developing a 137 00:06:36.040 --> 00:06:40.040 PS five portable system. This is from Evan Campbell at GameSpot, 138 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:44.000 a successor of sorts to play to the PlayStation portable 139 00:06:44.040 --> 00:06:47.720 and PlayStation Vita is reportedly in development at Sony. The 140 00:06:47.759 --> 00:06:50.920 company is apparently working on a handheld PS five system 141 00:06:51.160 --> 00:06:54.439 that would seemingly compete with Nintendo's upcoming switch to and 142 00:06:54.600 --> 00:06:58.600 Valves steam Deck. According to bloom a report from Bloomberg, 143 00:06:58.879 --> 00:07:01.920 a PS five portable system is years away from hitting 144 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:04.279 the market. If it does at all, there's still a 145 00:07:04.279 --> 00:07:06.920 possibility Sony decides to pull the plug on the handheld. 146 00:07:07.040 --> 00:07:10.560 The report states that the PlayStation Portal was originally planned 147 00:07:10.600 --> 00:07:12.959 as a similar product to the Steam Deck, before becoming 148 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:16.360 dependent on streaming via a PS five console. However, a 149 00:07:16.399 --> 00:07:20.360 new PlayStation Portal update has introduced a cloud streaming beta 150 00:07:20.639 --> 00:07:23.519 for PS plus Premium members. This means a PS five 151 00:07:23.720 --> 00:07:26.920 isn't required to play games on the device. Sony isn't 152 00:07:26.920 --> 00:07:29.279 alone and wanting to expand to the handheld market. Microsoft 153 00:07:29.279 --> 00:07:32.639 Gaming CEO Phil Spencer has been very open about his 154 00:07:32.720 --> 00:07:36.199 desires for an Xbox handheld, though it too is quote 155 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:39.519 a few years out if it ever releases as well. 156 00:07:42.279 --> 00:07:44.680 We know this right that all these companies are looking 157 00:07:44.720 --> 00:07:47.399 at the space, seeing the growth there, seeing the success 158 00:07:47.439 --> 00:07:50.040 that Nintendo has had, and I think you know the 159 00:07:50.319 --> 00:07:53.959 dual pronged approach of the success of Nintendo and then 160 00:07:54.120 --> 00:07:56.519 Valve being able to replicate that in its own way 161 00:07:57.000 --> 00:07:59.040 has proven to these companies that oh, this is now 162 00:07:59.079 --> 00:08:01.040 a space we cannot sit out in the way that 163 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:03.279 Sony was is now has been sitting out for the 164 00:08:03.319 --> 00:08:04.120 last several years. 165 00:08:04.199 --> 00:08:08.000 Right absolutely, And I mean, you know, I do think 166 00:08:08.040 --> 00:08:10.800 that anything Sony does is going to be more similar 167 00:08:10.920 --> 00:08:13.639 to Valve and the Steam Deck because it is an 168 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:18.360 additional piece of hardware. I think what we're underestimating here 169 00:08:18.839 --> 00:08:24.360 is the success of Nintendo in the respect that their 170 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:30.879 console is both handheld and playable on a TV monitor 171 00:08:30.879 --> 00:08:33.960 what have you in one package. You're not paying for 172 00:08:34.039 --> 00:08:37.480 additional hardware in order to use the switch handheld. So 173 00:08:38.080 --> 00:08:41.480 it's one of those things where yes, I definitely do 174 00:08:41.840 --> 00:08:44.480 want to be able to play a lot of my 175 00:08:44.759 --> 00:08:48.759 PlayStation games handheld now PlayStation or I should say, very 176 00:08:48.759 --> 00:08:52.039 more specifically, there are companies that make very large RPGs, 177 00:08:52.039 --> 00:08:53.720 of which I am a fan, that are moving away 178 00:08:53.960 --> 00:09:00.600 from their exclusive exclusivity partnership with Sony. You know, RPGs 179 00:09:00.600 --> 00:09:03.639 are long games. They're like, you know, yes, you lose 180 00:09:03.639 --> 00:09:06.200 some of the fidelity of seeing it on a big, 181 00:09:06.240 --> 00:09:08.200 beautiful monitor. But at the end of the day, it's like, 182 00:09:08.279 --> 00:09:10.759 sometimes I want to be able to play laying down, 183 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:14.679 And you know, there are a bunch of games that 184 00:09:14.799 --> 00:09:18.120 I make the decision to get on Switch because I 185 00:09:18.200 --> 00:09:20.279 know I want to play them handheld, and I know 186 00:09:20.559 --> 00:09:24.200 that if I want to play them on a larger screen, 187 00:09:24.600 --> 00:09:27.000 I can just do that. I don't have to have 188 00:09:27.039 --> 00:09:29.480 another piece of hardware to do that. I simply need 189 00:09:29.480 --> 00:09:31.879 what the Switch comes with. So I do think that 190 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:34.200 Sony needs to get into the handheld market, and I 191 00:09:34.240 --> 00:09:38.000 feel like I am the target audience. But I think 192 00:09:38.039 --> 00:09:43.000 that again, like part of what has made the Switch 193 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:47.399 so incredibly successful is that it was sold at a 194 00:09:47.399 --> 00:09:50.720 appealing price point and you were getting two for one. 195 00:09:51.440 --> 00:09:53.919 Yeah, I mean, I think that really just kind of 196 00:09:53.919 --> 00:09:56.759 brings up all of the complications here of doing a 197 00:09:56.759 --> 00:10:00.000 system like this where it's just not as simple as 198 00:10:00.200 --> 00:10:02.120 do one of those and make it a portable. Let's 199 00:10:02.120 --> 00:10:03.960 take the bus five and make it portable, right, It's 200 00:10:04.039 --> 00:10:06.440 there's so much more that goes into that of what 201 00:10:06.480 --> 00:10:09.519 does that look like? And there's complications that we talk 202 00:10:09.559 --> 00:10:10.799 about on this show all the time when we talk 203 00:10:10.840 --> 00:10:13.360 about like Microsoft, so they're gonna have a handheld and 204 00:10:13.960 --> 00:10:15.600 are they going to have is that going to be 205 00:10:15.639 --> 00:10:18.320 based on X eighty six or arm architecture all this stuff, 206 00:10:18.360 --> 00:10:20.360 and that's complicated, it's in the weeds. I think this 207 00:10:20.440 --> 00:10:22.440 audience can handle this stuff. I think you guys know 208 00:10:22.559 --> 00:10:24.679 who can can like understand what we're talking about when 209 00:10:24.679 --> 00:10:26.120 we when we do get into that stuff. And that's 210 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:29.360 the same problem here for Sony for sure. But Sony 211 00:10:29.399 --> 00:10:33.679 also just has a track record of having the PlayStation 212 00:10:34.279 --> 00:10:38.120 and then another device and what is this new EMO? Whatever? 213 00:10:38.120 --> 00:10:39.000 I got it, I got a lot. 214 00:10:38.919 --> 00:10:41.879 To catch up on today's Shawn memorial. 215 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:46.960 Fantastic, Like Sony is the track record of Okay, we 216 00:10:47.000 --> 00:10:49.399 have the main the main platform, the PlayStation, and then 217 00:10:49.440 --> 00:10:52.480 a secondary platform, be that be that the PSP, the 218 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:56.200 PlayStation Vita, the PSVR or the PSVR two. And in 219 00:10:56.240 --> 00:10:59.279 all those cases, the PlayStation gets plenty of great support, 220 00:10:59.519 --> 00:11:02.679 tons of games, first party, third party, and then these 221 00:11:02.679 --> 00:11:07.080 secondary devices sometimes get pretty good support, but it's not 222 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:10.519 it's always felt like second string teams at best, and 223 00:11:10.559 --> 00:11:15.799 then not occasionally, very frequently for these devices via PSVR 224 00:11:15.879 --> 00:11:19.240 two especially, they feel like they don't get anything from 225 00:11:19.240 --> 00:11:21.360 the first party teams if they get you know, if 226 00:11:21.360 --> 00:11:25.200 they do, it's morsels here and there, and and then 227 00:11:25.360 --> 00:11:27.919 you know, then they get maybe has spattered, you know, 228 00:11:28.039 --> 00:11:32.000 a small sprinkle of third party games. Now what we're 229 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:35.480 talking about here is a portable PS five though, apparently, 230 00:11:35.559 --> 00:11:39.360 which would mean, hey, this just plays all PS five game. 231 00:11:39.480 --> 00:11:41.639 This just is a PS five with a screen on it. 232 00:11:41.679 --> 00:11:44.759 Is that what they're saying, because that's not going to 233 00:11:44.840 --> 00:11:47.039 be very easy or cost effective to be able to 234 00:11:47.080 --> 00:11:47.519 pull off. 235 00:11:47.759 --> 00:11:51.200 No, it is not. Yeah, I mean especially when you think. 236 00:11:51.000 --> 00:11:54.799 About the fact that, yes, they I believe they have 237 00:11:54.960 --> 00:11:59.399 made slimmer versions of the PS five, but the PS 238 00:11:59.440 --> 00:12:02.639 five visiting incredibly powerful console. 239 00:12:02.720 --> 00:12:03.879 And I mean this like. 240 00:12:04.080 --> 00:12:07.960 Again goes back to the conversations around Nintendo of Nintendo 241 00:12:08.080 --> 00:12:12.360 is never trying to keep up with the hardware per se. 242 00:12:12.480 --> 00:12:15.000 They are always trying to Nintendo and do something a 243 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:16.600 little bit different Nintendo. 244 00:12:17.080 --> 00:12:18.080 You know they don't. 245 00:12:19.039 --> 00:12:22.720 Yes, I think that they will make the next switch 246 00:12:22.799 --> 00:12:27.279 able to do sixty fps, but that's like not, but 247 00:12:27.399 --> 00:12:29.519 that's just because like that's what the market is doing 248 00:12:29.559 --> 00:12:31.080 and if they have the capability to. 249 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:31.639 Do it, they'll do it. 250 00:12:31.679 --> 00:12:34.840 Like that's not Nintendo's thing, whereas Sony is so much 251 00:12:34.919 --> 00:12:38.600 built on the fidelity of this system being able to 252 00:12:38.720 --> 00:12:44.279 run at incredibly fast speeds and handle very high levels 253 00:12:44.320 --> 00:12:47.600 of you know, graphics, input data, et cetera. 254 00:12:47.960 --> 00:12:50.080 How are you going to shrink that into a handheld console. 255 00:12:50.360 --> 00:12:53.360 Yeah, And the answer is it's like time, They'll just 256 00:12:53.399 --> 00:12:57.080 need a lot more time, you know, at minimum three years. 257 00:12:57.120 --> 00:12:59.200 And at that point it's still going to be pretty expensive. 258 00:12:59.240 --> 00:13:01.799 And you know, you can do this like this is 259 00:13:01.840 --> 00:13:05.240 possible now, Yeah, but then you would be sacrificing almost 260 00:13:05.240 --> 00:13:07.679 certainly battery life and costs. It would be very expensive 261 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:10.080 and the battery life wouldn't be very good. If you 262 00:13:10.159 --> 00:13:12.360 just took the PS five as it is now and 263 00:13:12.440 --> 00:13:15.000 tried to, you know, shrink it down as as small 264 00:13:15.039 --> 00:13:17.120 as possible and put a screen on it, it probably probably 265 00:13:17.320 --> 00:13:21.039 be pretty bulky and would need some very effective cooling. 266 00:13:21.519 --> 00:13:24.720 These are things that as they get smaller and smaller processes, 267 00:13:24.759 --> 00:13:27.519 you know where the god the PlayStation five is already 268 00:13:27.559 --> 00:13:30.519 on and this is like you know, the lithograph of 269 00:13:30.679 --> 00:13:33.639 actually drawing the circuits on integrated circuits. It's on like 270 00:13:33.639 --> 00:13:36.679 a five nanometer process, which just means there's a tiny, 271 00:13:36.759 --> 00:13:40.320 little imagine a pen drawing these circuits on the circuit board, 272 00:13:40.639 --> 00:13:43.000 and that's smaller than like I think the seven or 273 00:13:43.039 --> 00:13:45.320 six nanimeter process they use when they started the generation, 274 00:13:45.679 --> 00:13:48.039 which every time they make it smaller, it produces less heat, 275 00:13:48.080 --> 00:13:51.679 makes it more energy efficient. That's good. They are already 276 00:13:51.799 --> 00:13:54.360 kind of bumping up against what is physically possible to 277 00:13:54.360 --> 00:13:56.720 shrink it down to, Like they don't think getting down 278 00:13:56.720 --> 00:13:58.679 to like one nanometer is going to be possible. Maybe 279 00:13:58.679 --> 00:14:01.679 it will be. There are some I think Apple's beginning 280 00:14:01.679 --> 00:14:03.960 to use three nanimeter again, just the smaller than number 281 00:14:03.960 --> 00:14:07.240 of the more efficient, less heat. These are good things. 282 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:09.360 As if they can get like that down to a 283 00:14:09.399 --> 00:14:13.039 three nanometer two nanimeter process, they probably can have this 284 00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:15.519 in a situation where it produces it like runs just 285 00:14:15.519 --> 00:14:19.200 like a PS five with a very high UH frequency. 286 00:14:19.200 --> 00:14:21.759 If people remember like the PS five GPU or CPU 287 00:14:21.759 --> 00:14:23.639 when it like runs at like you know, two point 288 00:14:24.159 --> 00:14:27.679 something like gig hurts. It's it's a very high process 289 00:14:27.879 --> 00:14:30.279 or frequency for a processor. I mean like shocked people 290 00:14:30.279 --> 00:14:32.799 when it first got announced. But AMD stuff is very 291 00:14:32.919 --> 00:14:35.720 energy efficient, so it was okay in a big console 292 00:14:35.960 --> 00:14:39.679 with a massive cooling structure, uh, but you know, they 293 00:14:39.720 --> 00:14:41.600 have been able to shrink that already. We've seen in 294 00:14:41.639 --> 00:14:44.639 the revised PS five, especially in the slim in the Pro, 295 00:14:44.720 --> 00:14:47.360 they've been able to shrink that already. So over time 296 00:14:47.360 --> 00:14:49.440 they're gonna be able to do this, but it is 297 00:14:49.559 --> 00:14:52.120 it's gonna take time. And by that and that point, 298 00:14:52.240 --> 00:14:53.639 you know, at that point, it's gonna take the time 299 00:14:53.679 --> 00:14:55.519 to make it a consumer product, right, and by that 300 00:14:55.559 --> 00:14:57.879 point it feels like this market could be settled in 301 00:14:57.919 --> 00:15:01.039 a lot of ways. And then who we'll be asking 302 00:15:01.080 --> 00:15:03.279 for a portable PS five. I guess, hey, a new 303 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:05.559 way to play your library of games that you already 304 00:15:05.559 --> 00:15:08.960 owns always going to be welcome. Yeah, yeah, but I 305 00:15:09.440 --> 00:15:11.799 just don't know if how it really fits in to 306 00:15:11.840 --> 00:15:15.799 be like an exciting new on the market. 307 00:15:16.279 --> 00:15:18.919 Yeah, I mean, as you say, just it sounds like it. 308 00:15:19.279 --> 00:15:20.679 And and look, I'm very. 309 00:15:20.639 --> 00:15:22.360 Much of the opinion that like we don't need a 310 00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:23.720 next generation of consoles. 311 00:15:23.799 --> 00:15:24.279 I don't know what. 312 00:15:24.279 --> 00:15:28.200 They're going to do, sure, because like I can't see 313 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:31.360 better than four K, but the vast majority of human 314 00:15:31.360 --> 00:15:33.759 beings cannot The vast majority of human beings can't even 315 00:15:33.879 --> 00:15:37.799 see fully in four K, So like, what are we 316 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:42.840 going to do next yeah. I But that being said, 317 00:15:42.919 --> 00:15:44.799 we know that they are going to continue to innovate 318 00:15:44.840 --> 00:15:47.480 and there are going to be new consoles. 319 00:15:48.039 --> 00:15:50.679 So again, by the. 320 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:57.240 Time a PlayStation five handheld is on the market, it 321 00:15:57.279 --> 00:15:58.679 feels like the moment will be passed. 322 00:15:59.240 --> 00:16:01.399 Now, you know. That is how does it make sense 323 00:16:01.440 --> 00:16:04.360 for Sony in terms of growing their business, which is 324 00:16:04.399 --> 00:16:07.039 you know, something we talk about a lot and something 325 00:16:07.120 --> 00:16:09.200 Sony's talked about a lot. Hey, they were trying all 326 00:16:09.200 --> 00:16:11.039 these live service games because they wanted to grow the 327 00:16:11.039 --> 00:16:14.679 market reachboard people, and the handhelds feel like a way 328 00:16:14.720 --> 00:16:20.240 to grow while maintaining this console business in a way 329 00:16:20.240 --> 00:16:22.679 that it always has traditionally been of. You sell a 330 00:16:23.360 --> 00:16:25.360 piece of hardware to a consumer, they buy games for 331 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:28.840 that thing, and that business just isn't growing. When it 332 00:16:28.840 --> 00:16:31.200 comes to selling big boxes that go under TVs, that 333 00:16:31.240 --> 00:16:34.480 audience is pretty you know, it's static in a lot 334 00:16:34.519 --> 00:16:36.840 of ways. But maybe handheld is a way to grow 335 00:16:36.840 --> 00:16:39.240 that and that's why Sony's interested in it. But let's 336 00:16:39.240 --> 00:16:41.720 look at the flip side. Would we be interested? I 337 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:44.600 think I would. I want this thing. I want it 338 00:16:44.639 --> 00:16:47.120 to work, just just as they say it could work, 339 00:16:47.200 --> 00:16:49.679 which is a PS five that plays all the games 340 00:16:49.679 --> 00:16:52.879 of the PS five runs, and if you you know, 341 00:16:52.960 --> 00:16:55.080 present that in a way where it's it's it's sleek, 342 00:16:55.120 --> 00:16:56.519 and it does have a good battery life and a 343 00:16:56.559 --> 00:17:01.039 good screen, and it's reasonably rice, which I'm like, I 344 00:17:01.279 --> 00:17:03.679 don't know what that looks like. Five hundred six hundred dollars, 345 00:17:03.679 --> 00:17:07.440 I guess about as much as a new console may maybe, 346 00:17:07.480 --> 00:17:09.680 I mean a news you know, PSVR two, I think 347 00:17:09.759 --> 00:17:12.279 is probably the price level to look at. They'll probably 348 00:17:12.279 --> 00:17:16.200 place it around that level. I would consider this for sure, 349 00:17:16.279 --> 00:17:18.599 because I'm someone who likes all of the games in 350 00:17:18.599 --> 00:17:20.480 the PlayStation, but I'm just not sit in front of 351 00:17:20.519 --> 00:17:24.119 the TV by myself very frequently a frequently these days, 352 00:17:24.119 --> 00:17:26.160 so I would be excited about this. 353 00:17:26.799 --> 00:17:29.640 Yeah, I mean, look, as I say, I feel like 354 00:17:29.720 --> 00:17:32.880 I am the target audience for this. I'm a I 355 00:17:32.920 --> 00:17:36.160 am a PlayStation gal through and through have been since 356 00:17:36.319 --> 00:17:41.880 the OG PlayStation came out, And yeah, but I guess 357 00:17:41.920 --> 00:17:45.480 that for me, my question is how does this play 358 00:17:45.759 --> 00:17:49.359 on the market at large, or is this more for 359 00:17:49.680 --> 00:17:54.039 as you mentioned grub, the consumer who is already into 360 00:17:54.039 --> 00:17:57.559 PlayStation and just has a bunch of games on their 361 00:17:57.559 --> 00:18:00.240 PlayStation that they want to play handheld so much much 362 00:18:00.599 --> 00:18:02.960 that they're willing to shell out the money to get 363 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:04.160 an additional piece of hardware. 364 00:18:04.599 --> 00:18:07.319 Yeah, and I you know, I think the benefit here 365 00:18:07.440 --> 00:18:09.759 is as long as they don't need to make bespoke 366 00:18:09.880 --> 00:18:13.400 software for if they could just be PlayStation games run 367 00:18:13.440 --> 00:18:16.839 on this thing. And I think you nailed it, Like 368 00:18:17.039 --> 00:18:19.079 do We're not in a place where we are pining 369 00:18:19.119 --> 00:18:20.920 for a new generation. I mean, there's always going to 370 00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:22.799 be people that do like you said, and then they 371 00:18:22.839 --> 00:18:25.599 are always going to keep doing that because forced obsolescence 372 00:18:25.640 --> 00:18:27.359 is a huge part of the business model, Like they 373 00:18:27.359 --> 00:18:29.319 have to have the beginning. They're addicted to it. There's 374 00:18:29.359 --> 00:18:32.000 no way they're going to throw that away. But they 375 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:34.519 don't have to rush into it. And as they are 376 00:18:34.559 --> 00:18:36.839 making games like on the PS like already on the 377 00:18:36.839 --> 00:18:39.079 PS five, every game they're making and they're like, should 378 00:18:39.119 --> 00:18:40.680 we be just doing a PS four version of this 379 00:18:40.759 --> 00:18:43.680 as well? That's going to be doubly true for PS 380 00:18:43.720 --> 00:18:47.200 five to PS six because PS five is already at 381 00:18:47.200 --> 00:18:51.119 a point where it's capabilities surpass the budget in time 382 00:18:51.200 --> 00:18:54.680 most developers have to make games, and so as they 383 00:18:54.680 --> 00:18:56.559 go to PS six and if they have a PS 384 00:18:56.640 --> 00:18:59.680 five handheld over here. Every game they make for the 385 00:18:59.720 --> 00:19:02.480 PSI probably they could just have a PS five version 386 00:19:02.640 --> 00:19:05.039 ready to go, and then they have both audiences that 387 00:19:05.079 --> 00:19:07.480 can play that game and it works on this new handheld. 388 00:19:07.799 --> 00:19:09.519 That part makes a lot of sense to me, right, 389 00:19:09.920 --> 00:19:11.079 you know? Yeah? 390 00:19:11.079 --> 00:19:14.480 I was like, maybe I'm gonna backpedal a little bit here, 391 00:19:14.599 --> 00:19:18.240 which is is it going to be an exciting addition 392 00:19:19.079 --> 00:19:21.839 to the market where a new console is coming out? 393 00:19:21.960 --> 00:19:22.599 I don't know. 394 00:19:23.119 --> 00:19:25.920 Am I more likely as somebody that's like, I don't 395 00:19:25.960 --> 00:19:28.680 think we need another generation of consoles for until we 396 00:19:28.799 --> 00:19:34.440 like get full Holiday Star Trek. I think I actually 397 00:19:34.519 --> 00:19:37.480 might be more inclined to purchase a handheld PS five 398 00:19:37.559 --> 00:19:38.599 than a PS six. 399 00:19:39.039 --> 00:19:41.279 Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, No, for real, I get 400 00:19:41.279 --> 00:19:43.920 that dark Kileron wants me to mention that the portal exists, 401 00:19:43.960 --> 00:19:45.880 So yeah, I mean, I think that almost goes to 402 00:19:45.960 --> 00:19:48.119 that same But I also know that's saying like, yeah, 403 00:19:48.119 --> 00:19:51.000 the PlayStation portal exists. This is a thing that enabled 404 00:19:51.039 --> 00:19:53.960 you know, as the story said, it's there. It lets 405 00:19:54.000 --> 00:19:57.039 you play games from your PS five, you stream games 406 00:19:57.079 --> 00:19:59.680 from the PS five that you own. Although now for 407 00:19:59.720 --> 00:20:04.000 pre subscribers to PlayStation Plus. Apparently they're testing I don't 408 00:20:04.039 --> 00:20:05.759 remember this, so this is something that must have happened 409 00:20:06.079 --> 00:20:08.599 recently and I just wasn't looking, But apparently they're testing 410 00:20:08.640 --> 00:20:11.240 this where you could stream games from the cloud directly 411 00:20:11.279 --> 00:20:14.200 to the portal if you're a PlayStation Plus Premium subscriber, 412 00:20:14.279 --> 00:20:16.119 so you wouldn't need a PS five, although I can't 413 00:20:16.119 --> 00:20:19.519 imagine who's really subscribing to PlayStation Plus Premium, who doesn't 414 00:20:19.519 --> 00:20:19.759 own a. 415 00:20:19.720 --> 00:20:21.440 PA, doesn't own AS five. 416 00:20:21.720 --> 00:20:24.160 Yeah, but you know, maybe they're out there and in 417 00:20:24.200 --> 00:20:27.599 a portal, so effectively they have one of these things already, 418 00:20:27.680 --> 00:20:30.640 just not running the games natively. And I think PlayStation's 419 00:20:30.680 --> 00:20:33.160 cloud stuff is pretty decent, and even streaming from the 420 00:20:33.160 --> 00:20:36.640 PS five has been a pretty okay experience. Here or there. 421 00:20:36.640 --> 00:20:38.640 It's spotty, but there's times where it works really well. 422 00:20:39.000 --> 00:20:41.720 So they have this thing where it's like people want 423 00:20:41.759 --> 00:20:45.759 this experience. Yeah, the PlayStation portal has sold very well, 424 00:20:46.880 --> 00:20:48.440 and so if they could do it where the games 425 00:20:48.480 --> 00:20:51.799 run natively, and then that would also have all the 426 00:20:51.839 --> 00:20:55.000 same probably features as the portal. Yeah, I mean, I 427 00:20:55.079 --> 00:20:57.000 think I think the proof is already there that this 428 00:20:57.079 --> 00:20:59.720 is something that the market wants, and we know that 429 00:21:01.519 --> 00:21:04.799 you're right going back to it. Just Nintendo's built their 430 00:21:04.799 --> 00:21:07.640 whole business around having this thing that is both and 431 00:21:07.680 --> 00:21:10.519 that seems to have worked really well. Valve is like, hey, 432 00:21:10.599 --> 00:21:12.920 the one piece of hardware that we have that plays 433 00:21:12.920 --> 00:21:15.960 games other than a VR headset is this is this 434 00:21:16.000 --> 00:21:18.079 device where you just buy it from us and it's handheld, 435 00:21:18.119 --> 00:21:19.440 and we're going to do all this work to make 436 00:21:19.480 --> 00:21:20.880 sure the game's run and we're going to tell you 437 00:21:20.920 --> 00:21:23.759 if they don't. And here it is. It's PC. It's 438 00:21:23.759 --> 00:21:26.039 a little bit messy, but it works really well. We're 439 00:21:26.039 --> 00:21:28.160 gonna make it feel like a console experience, and that 440 00:21:28.200 --> 00:21:30.640 feels like a really distinct option from a lot of 441 00:21:30.720 --> 00:21:33.559 the other options in PC gaming. So it has made sense. 442 00:21:34.079 --> 00:21:35.960 And I just think when it comes to PS five, 443 00:21:36.039 --> 00:21:38.720 it's like they're gonna have to figure out what it 444 00:21:38.759 --> 00:21:43.160 looks like and set themselves up for the future. But 445 00:21:43.440 --> 00:21:45.680 still I want it. I think most people will want 446 00:21:45.720 --> 00:21:47.599 something like this, and I think Sony for them it 447 00:21:47.599 --> 00:21:50.440 makes sense. It's just at the same time, it's just 448 00:21:50.519 --> 00:21:53.480 not the big answer to the big problems that hover 449 00:21:53.559 --> 00:21:55.599 over Sony and Microsoft and a lot of these game 450 00:21:55.599 --> 00:21:59.039 making companies, which is what does future growth really look like. 451 00:21:59.279 --> 00:22:01.359 This is still making a device for people like us 452 00:22:01.359 --> 00:22:04.440 and people that listen to the show and so hey, 453 00:22:04.480 --> 00:22:06.160 but I'm not complaining. I do want it. 454 00:22:06.200 --> 00:22:08.960 Look, I'm going to buy it, yep, absolutely if it happens, 455 00:22:09.200 --> 00:22:10.240 I own it already. 456 00:22:10.559 --> 00:22:12.559 I want all these companies to have their own handhelds 457 00:22:12.839 --> 00:22:14.599 at the very least. You know, we get to a 458 00:22:14.599 --> 00:22:16.799 point where every time they come up with a new 459 00:22:16.839 --> 00:22:20.200 feature that finds us way back into the Roger Allies 460 00:22:20.240 --> 00:22:22.240 and the Steam decks and all these PC ones and 461 00:22:22.319 --> 00:22:25.359 it proves everything. So yeah, I hope that competition is 462 00:22:25.400 --> 00:22:28.319 really heated in that space for quite some time. And 463 00:22:28.640 --> 00:22:31.640 you know that's Sony and microsoftware Al's companies that could 464 00:22:31.680 --> 00:22:34.799 subsidize the pricing for these things so keeps the overall 465 00:22:34.880 --> 00:22:40.039 price down, whereas these third party companies, the oecs whatever, 466 00:22:40.359 --> 00:22:42.440 they would have to continue to sell it at a 467 00:22:42.519 --> 00:22:46.599 higher price because they are only making money from the hardware. Okay, 468 00:22:46.680 --> 00:22:49.640 let's get over to the Sircana report for October twenty 469 00:22:49.680 --> 00:22:52.240 twenty four. Matt Piscatello did this last week at the 470 00:22:52.319 --> 00:22:54.279 very end of last week, so let's catch up on it. 471 00:22:54.519 --> 00:22:58.000 October twenty twenty four. US video game market highlights from Sircana. 472 00:22:58.400 --> 00:23:01.519 Projected October twenty twenty four, total US spending on video 473 00:23:01.519 --> 00:23:05.240 game hardware, content and accessories grew ten percent when compared 474 00:23:05.240 --> 00:23:08.240 to a year ago to four point seven billion dollars. 475 00:23:08.640 --> 00:23:11.119 Year to date spending is now one percent above a 476 00:23:11.160 --> 00:23:13.880 year ago at forty five point four billion dollars, So 477 00:23:14.559 --> 00:23:17.480 those are both marks. League one percent year to date 478 00:23:17.640 --> 00:23:20.720 might not sound great, but the estimation from Matt and 479 00:23:20.799 --> 00:23:25.279 others about this about this whole year was Yay, things 480 00:23:25.319 --> 00:23:26.599 are going to be down this year. It's going to 481 00:23:26.640 --> 00:23:29.599 be down two to four, maybe five percent. In a 482 00:23:29.599 --> 00:23:31.279 really worst case scenario, could be down as much as 483 00:23:31.279 --> 00:23:34.079 five percent. And that explains why we had so many layoffs, 484 00:23:34.079 --> 00:23:36.079 because the industry is not just not making as much 485 00:23:36.119 --> 00:23:39.680 money as it was. It's up one percent. We're actually 486 00:23:39.880 --> 00:23:42.559 now it's sir, Kana, this is just the US. This 487 00:23:42.640 --> 00:23:45.480 is just the US where consumer spending has continued to 488 00:23:45.480 --> 00:23:49.559 be very strong in a way that has defied all expectations, 489 00:23:49.640 --> 00:23:51.440 and the rest of the world has just not had 490 00:23:51.440 --> 00:23:54.400 that same experience. So it does not tell the whole 491 00:23:54.400 --> 00:23:57.039 story of what these companies are experiencing. But in the 492 00:23:57.119 --> 00:24:00.599 United States, the biggest gaming market still goes back and 493 00:24:00.599 --> 00:24:03.160 forth with China these days, but for the most part 494 00:24:03.200 --> 00:24:06.400 the number one market. Overall spending for the entire year 495 00:24:06.480 --> 00:24:09.359 so far is one up one percent, and probably we'll 496 00:24:09.359 --> 00:24:12.119 finish the year either even or about one percent up. 497 00:24:12.240 --> 00:24:17.079 And of course you got to take into effect the 498 00:24:17.200 --> 00:24:20.160 increases in prices and stuff like that inflation, so it's 499 00:24:20.160 --> 00:24:22.079 not really going to keep up with what it was 500 00:24:22.119 --> 00:24:24.119 doing last year. But overall this is good sign and 501 00:24:24.200 --> 00:24:28.039 especially up ten percent for October. A lot of that. 502 00:24:28.160 --> 00:24:30.920 As Matt says here, Emma is Call of Duty did 503 00:24:31.079 --> 00:24:32.720 very very well, but there's a lot of new games 504 00:24:32.759 --> 00:24:33.279 on this list. 505 00:24:34.119 --> 00:24:39.599 Yeah, I mean, you know, I think that we're still 506 00:24:39.680 --> 00:24:41.240 kind of seeing this. 507 00:24:42.759 --> 00:24:46.559 Waterfall. Waterfall is not the right word for it, because 508 00:24:46.559 --> 00:24:47.880 there's like an up and down to it. 509 00:24:48.000 --> 00:24:51.400 It's like waves on the show. That's like the high 510 00:24:51.440 --> 00:24:52.720 tide low tide, right, like. 511 00:24:52.640 --> 00:24:53.559 The high tide low tide. 512 00:24:53.599 --> 00:24:55.920 Yeah, exactly, it's like the tide is starting to come 513 00:24:55.920 --> 00:24:58.759 back in because it's like, okay, so twenty twenty, the 514 00:24:58.759 --> 00:25:05.200 tide came way because you know, people and we saw 515 00:25:05.240 --> 00:25:09.960 it across a lot of businesses that are in the 516 00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:17.440 business of consumers doing things at home, and and internet companies, 517 00:25:17.960 --> 00:25:20.319 because again people were at home, they had a bunch 518 00:25:20.319 --> 00:25:24.039 of time to just be looking at stuff on the internet, 519 00:25:24.079 --> 00:25:27.200 be playing video games. So we see this huge, huge 520 00:25:27.279 --> 00:25:32.160 increase in the market and companies were rushing to meet that. 521 00:25:32.279 --> 00:25:34.200 And then of course that is not sustainable. 522 00:25:34.839 --> 00:25:39.559 So the money starts going away and the consumerism is. 523 00:25:39.480 --> 00:25:42.279 Still present, but it's not at the level that it was. 524 00:25:42.599 --> 00:25:44.799 So all this money starts going away and away, and 525 00:25:44.799 --> 00:25:47.279 a way, we get to an extreme low tide, and 526 00:25:47.319 --> 00:25:50.400 now it feels like we're starting to we're starting to 527 00:25:50.400 --> 00:25:51.519 see the tide come back in. 528 00:25:51.839 --> 00:25:55.240 Yeah. I mean it's you know, these events, they are 529 00:25:55.279 --> 00:25:57.720 things we can't control. We just we moved through them. 530 00:25:58.200 --> 00:26:02.599 And as we do, these companies make estimations of like, okay, 531 00:26:02.720 --> 00:26:04.720 the water level, it keeps going up, so it's going 532 00:26:04.799 --> 00:26:07.279 to keep going up. And it's like, okay, you just 533 00:26:07.519 --> 00:26:11.200 you know, we know just by living through our experiences 534 00:26:11.240 --> 00:26:13.680 that that's not going to be the case. Not nope, 535 00:26:13.680 --> 00:26:16.759 But these companies were, they were borrowing lots of money, 536 00:26:16.799 --> 00:26:18.720 they were making a lot of big bets because they 537 00:26:18.720 --> 00:26:22.160 were trying to say Hey, we had growth, and where 538 00:26:22.160 --> 00:26:24.279 they're going to say to their investors, Well, we just 539 00:26:24.319 --> 00:26:26.200 had the growth, so we don't need growth. That's no, 540 00:26:26.519 --> 00:26:29.519 that's not allowed. You can't do that. So they made 541 00:26:29.519 --> 00:26:32.160 the big bets. Those big bets obviously just weren't going 542 00:26:32.200 --> 00:26:34.160 to work out in that time because we were coming 543 00:26:34.160 --> 00:26:36.519 off of a lot of growth that was boosted for 544 00:26:36.519 --> 00:26:38.599 a number of reasons. We get on the other side 545 00:26:38.599 --> 00:26:40.960 of it and all those layoffs happened, and now we're 546 00:26:41.000 --> 00:26:43.400 here and it's like, oh, the industry is doing pretty well. 547 00:26:43.519 --> 00:26:47.640 Actually it's doing pretty solid. Yeah, the five to fifteen 548 00:26:47.680 --> 00:26:51.960 percent growth isn't happening right now, but it's not. All 549 00:26:52.079 --> 00:26:54.640 the gains you made didn't suddenly slip away. So if 550 00:26:54.680 --> 00:26:56.480 you could have found out an equilibrium, which you know, 551 00:26:56.480 --> 00:26:58.680 they'll argue that's what the layouts were. We were finding 552 00:26:58.720 --> 00:27:03.240 this equilibrium. But regardless, industry doing very well. But it 553 00:27:03.279 --> 00:27:05.720 does go back to call Duty Black Ops six being 554 00:27:05.880 --> 00:27:08.839 very successful. So it's one, two, three, four games here 555 00:27:08.960 --> 00:27:09.440 and there. 556 00:27:10.039 --> 00:27:12.039 Yeah, and it's. 557 00:27:11.880 --> 00:27:14.160 Like, you know, when we do see growth coming, like oh, 558 00:27:14.200 --> 00:27:16.119 this company handle that was doing very well, now they're 559 00:27:16.119 --> 00:27:18.359 doing even better. It's because of something like NCAA College 560 00:27:18.400 --> 00:27:21.039 Football twenty five, which is still a year to date 561 00:27:21.079 --> 00:27:23.039 the best selling game so far. And it's like, well, 562 00:27:23.039 --> 00:27:24.799 they didn't have a college football game last year, and 563 00:27:24.839 --> 00:27:28.200 now they do and it's massively successful. So HbA is 564 00:27:28.240 --> 00:27:29.839 seeing a lot of growth things like that. 565 00:27:29.920 --> 00:27:33.519 Yeah, yeah, I mean it's really interesting having this conversation 566 00:27:34.119 --> 00:27:36.599 with Gabe, my husband, when we were driving out to 567 00:27:37.440 --> 00:27:42.160 Arizona for Thanksgiving and we yeah, we were like talking 568 00:27:42.160 --> 00:27:46.920 about the fact that the concept of a game of 569 00:27:46.960 --> 00:27:52.000 the year, let's say, is super different than say a 570 00:27:52.079 --> 00:27:54.559 like best picture or an album of the year. 571 00:27:54.680 --> 00:28:00.640 Sure, because games take a lot. It's also like saying, oh, 572 00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:01.960 the best book of the year. 573 00:28:02.279 --> 00:28:05.920 These are things that take a commitment, they take time, 574 00:28:06.720 --> 00:28:12.480 they take strong consideration, and I think that like people 575 00:28:13.039 --> 00:28:16.359 will come back to some of these games. It's just again, 576 00:28:16.400 --> 00:28:19.079 it's like it's an oversaturated market, the way that like 577 00:28:19.359 --> 00:28:23.519 television with the streaming services is an oversaturated market. 578 00:28:23.559 --> 00:28:25.000 And so unfortunately, I. 579 00:28:24.960 --> 00:28:27.440 Think that, you know, in some cases, people will end 580 00:28:27.519 --> 00:28:30.480 up coming back to these things that they have missed 581 00:28:30.519 --> 00:28:32.279 because they were a big time commitment. 582 00:28:31.880 --> 00:28:33.680 And it's like Okay, cool, now I have the time 583 00:28:33.720 --> 00:28:37.519 to play this thing that came out that interested me, and. 584 00:28:39.039 --> 00:28:41.759 But yeah, it's not the same as like you can 585 00:28:41.799 --> 00:28:44.559 really tell with a movie or an album very quickly 586 00:28:44.640 --> 00:28:48.519 because that's a ninety minute watch. That's a ninety minute listen, 587 00:28:49.400 --> 00:28:52.000 you know, or say between ninety minutes and two. 588 00:28:51.920 --> 00:28:55.880 And a half hours. But still that is very different than. 589 00:28:56.200 --> 00:28:59.400 Even a short video game, which these days clocks in 590 00:28:59.440 --> 00:29:01.480 around I would say, like what ten eleven hours? 591 00:29:01.680 --> 00:29:05.160 Yeah, yeah, like there's any games they'll do the very 592 00:29:05.160 --> 00:29:07.279 short thing of like here's two hours and it's like 593 00:29:07.279 --> 00:29:10.440 what that's word? That's crazy. One of those a couple 594 00:29:10.440 --> 00:29:12.400 of years like there about, and it's like, yeah, so 595 00:29:12.880 --> 00:29:16.400 we're talking these days, especially from big companies, ten fifteen 596 00:29:16.440 --> 00:29:18.759 hours for a lot of them. Yeah, and I think 597 00:29:18.759 --> 00:29:20.720 that makes it like it's always so hard to keep 598 00:29:20.799 --> 00:29:24.119 up with the different zeitgeist that are happening because of that. Yeah, 599 00:29:24.720 --> 00:29:27.079 but yeah, look at it again please. Yeah. 600 00:29:27.160 --> 00:29:29.039 That's what I was going to say, is then that 601 00:29:29.240 --> 00:29:33.160 is why you see a lot of success with the 602 00:29:33.200 --> 00:29:36.200 core fan base of these games like Call of Duty 603 00:29:36.359 --> 00:29:38.920 or like you know, a college. 604 00:29:38.720 --> 00:29:41.480 Football dragon Ball, Yeah, dragon. 605 00:29:41.160 --> 00:29:45.039 Ball totally, because there's more of a pick up and 606 00:29:45.119 --> 00:29:47.759 play element to it, whereas I think there are a 607 00:29:47.960 --> 00:29:52.359 huge number of gamers like myself who are narrative gamers. 608 00:29:52.400 --> 00:29:55.559 Like I like narrative games, I also love platformers. 609 00:29:56.039 --> 00:29:56.880 But you know what I mean. 610 00:29:57.000 --> 00:30:02.200 So you know, that's a commitment in a way that 611 00:30:02.400 --> 00:30:06.519 like if I was just into some FPS that I 612 00:30:06.519 --> 00:30:10.079 could pick up and play, then maybe I get it, 613 00:30:10.119 --> 00:30:12.000 Like I get why those games see the amount of 614 00:30:12.039 --> 00:30:12.720 success that they do. 615 00:30:12.839 --> 00:30:15.440 Yep, absolute, yeah, absolutely, And that's a huge part of 616 00:30:15.480 --> 00:30:17.880 the top part of this list. Call of Duty Black 617 00:30:17.880 --> 00:30:20.079 Ops six at number one, the whole like there are 618 00:30:20.920 --> 00:30:23.680 eight new games just in the top ten, and then 619 00:30:23.720 --> 00:30:26.799 another new game in the top twenty behind those. So 620 00:30:26.839 --> 00:30:28.640 Call of Duty Black Ops six at number one, then 621 00:30:28.720 --> 00:30:31.200 Dragon Ball Sparking zero at number two. That is already 622 00:30:31.240 --> 00:30:34.519 the number four best selling game year the year, huge, 623 00:30:35.640 --> 00:30:39.000 very similar to what college football did. It's the college 624 00:30:39.039 --> 00:30:41.559 football games for weves. 625 00:30:41.480 --> 00:30:43.839 Is yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. 626 00:30:44.640 --> 00:30:46.839 Silent Hill two is at number three. That's another new 627 00:30:46.880 --> 00:30:50.880 one undisputed as number four is that the boxing game. 628 00:30:50.920 --> 00:30:55.000 I can't, I don't maybe that's from play on. I 629 00:30:54.680 --> 00:30:57.640 don't like trying to place that. Number five was metaphor 630 00:30:57.640 --> 00:31:01.000 refontasio or sorry, number five that was number number six, 631 00:31:01.240 --> 00:31:04.839 Dragon Age the Veilguard. Number seven Super Mario Party Jamboree 632 00:31:04.880 --> 00:31:08.319 that doesn't include digital sales. Then number eight was Madden. 633 00:31:08.759 --> 00:31:12.160 Then number nine was Sonic Shadow Generations and yet another 634 00:31:12.240 --> 00:31:15.279 new game, and then E Sports College Football I'm sorry, 635 00:31:15.279 --> 00:31:17.920 E Sports Football Club twenty five. It was ten and 636 00:31:17.960 --> 00:31:21.160 College Football was eleven. So yeah, and then Echoes of 637 00:31:21.160 --> 00:31:24.359 Wisdom and it's second month still number twelve, again without 638 00:31:24.559 --> 00:31:26.200 digital sales for that one. 639 00:31:26.480 --> 00:31:28.680 The Echoes of Wisdom, I rolled credits on it. I 640 00:31:28.720 --> 00:31:29.759 feel so proud of myself. 641 00:31:29.799 --> 00:31:30.519 It was so fun. 642 00:31:30.640 --> 00:31:33.359 Yes. Yeah, Now that I'm back home, that was the 643 00:31:33.359 --> 00:31:34.920 first game I picked up. I'm like, I'm gonna finish 644 00:31:35.000 --> 00:31:37.440 that one. Finished thousand your doors, Mike Manady will stop 645 00:31:37.519 --> 00:31:41.079 yelling at me, and then I'm gonna try to two. 646 00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:44.359 I'm on Plucky Squire. Now, how do. 647 00:31:44.319 --> 00:31:46.559 You like a Plucky Square? It's when we're like, my. 648 00:31:46.319 --> 00:31:48.759 God, I love it. 649 00:31:49.079 --> 00:31:51.960 I love it. Yeah, it's just so charming. 650 00:31:52.279 --> 00:31:55.960 Uh yeah, I mean, look, it's it's certainly like not 651 00:31:56.200 --> 00:32:01.799 as big and sophisticated as say an Echoes of but 652 00:32:02.200 --> 00:32:06.519 you know it has such good ideas and it's just 653 00:32:06.599 --> 00:32:09.759 so charming the way that it's executed, I'm having a 654 00:32:09.799 --> 00:32:10.920 really really great time. Good. 655 00:32:11.039 --> 00:32:12.559 Yeah, it was just I was playing on was like, 656 00:32:14.279 --> 00:32:16.160 I like this and I like the charm that's like, 657 00:32:16.759 --> 00:32:18.359 and I just was like, the things I'm doing aren't 658 00:32:18.359 --> 00:32:20.359 really sparking joy in me and all that stuff, but 659 00:32:20.519 --> 00:32:22.799 I'm like, I want to like this. So whenever someone does, 660 00:32:22.839 --> 00:32:25.559 I'm like, good, I'm glad there's this ye out there. 661 00:32:25.599 --> 00:32:27.519 And some people are really jibing with it. Seems to 662 00:32:27.519 --> 00:32:30.799 be that's case. Some people it's working for it totally, 663 00:32:30.839 --> 00:32:32.599 and then some people like, this is fine, but I'm 664 00:32:32.640 --> 00:32:34.240 gonna put it down and probably not play anymore because 665 00:32:34.279 --> 00:32:36.319 I get it. I like the tricks, but I don't 666 00:32:36.319 --> 00:32:37.079 need to play the whole game. 667 00:32:37.079 --> 00:32:39.839 Geah, but I'm not Yeah totally, Yeah, nope, I get it. 668 00:32:39.920 --> 00:32:43.559 I fully see that perspective. Even though it is working 669 00:32:43.559 --> 00:32:43.799 for me. 670 00:32:44.079 --> 00:32:47.720 Yep, Astrobot's still in the top twenty at number fifteen 671 00:32:47.960 --> 00:32:50.480 after being number two last month. Okay, that's something. Yeah, 672 00:32:50.519 --> 00:32:52.319 I open it as a little bit better legs than that. 673 00:32:52.400 --> 00:32:54.960 Even if it gets stay in the top twenty in 674 00:32:55.039 --> 00:32:58.480 November and December, I'll be very happy personally. Yeah. So 675 00:32:58.519 --> 00:33:01.160 that year to date, as we mentioned the EA Sports 676 00:33:01.160 --> 00:33:03.359 College Football is still at number one, Hell Divers two 677 00:33:03.920 --> 00:33:05.839 still at number two. Had a Call of Duty Black 678 00:33:05.880 --> 00:33:08.200 Ops six. That is the biggest indication to be that 679 00:33:08.200 --> 00:33:11.319 that game really was as big as everyone was saying 680 00:33:11.480 --> 00:33:15.119 when it was happening, because that's a forty dollars game 681 00:33:15.319 --> 00:33:17.720 and this chart is done by dollar sales. So the 682 00:33:17.720 --> 00:33:19.519 fact that Call of Duty Black Ops six, you know, 683 00:33:19.599 --> 00:33:20.920 I think that was at the end of its month, 684 00:33:20.920 --> 00:33:22.720 at the end of the month, right, so a couple 685 00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:24.720 of days of sales, But that usually doesn't matter in 686 00:33:24.759 --> 00:33:26.519 the past, a Call of Duty game came out and 687 00:33:26.519 --> 00:33:29.400 then the first report even at the end of the month, 688 00:33:29.440 --> 00:33:30.880 Even if it came out the end of the month, 689 00:33:31.079 --> 00:33:33.119 it would be number one for the year with just 690 00:33:33.119 --> 00:33:35.279 a couple of days of sales. So the fact that 691 00:33:35.599 --> 00:33:37.799 hell Divers two has made more money than a couple 692 00:33:37.799 --> 00:33:39.519 of days of Call of Duty Black Ops six one 693 00:33:39.519 --> 00:33:42.000 of the biggest launches in Call of Duty history. Very 694 00:33:42.079 --> 00:33:45.160 good signed for that game. Then number four, Dragon Ball 695 00:33:45.240 --> 00:33:48.599 Sparking zero, as we mentioned for the year, already out 696 00:33:48.599 --> 00:33:53.079 selling games like Madden Elden you know, the research and 697 00:33:53.160 --> 00:33:56.000 Eldering after it had its DLC. Dragon's Dogma two things 698 00:33:56.039 --> 00:34:00.240 like that. So man, Dragon's Dogma two is still number nine, 699 00:34:00.400 --> 00:34:02.119 the best selling game of the year so far. That 700 00:34:02.279 --> 00:34:05.119 is really good, and cap comes crushing it. I think 701 00:34:05.119 --> 00:34:06.359 we say that every time we do one of these, 702 00:34:06.400 --> 00:34:09.880 but really just crushing it all right. Some other details 703 00:34:09.920 --> 00:34:12.559 here from Matt He mentions about dragon Ball Sparking Zero 704 00:34:12.639 --> 00:34:14.320 was the number two best selling game. As we said, 705 00:34:14.519 --> 00:34:16.440 after just one month in the market, spark and Zero 706 00:34:16.480 --> 00:34:20.239 became among became the best selling dragon Ball game in 707 00:34:20.280 --> 00:34:23.119 the US lifetime dollar sales, and ranked third among all 708 00:34:23.199 --> 00:34:27.480 Bandy Namco Entertainment published titles in history, trailing Old and 709 00:34:27.599 --> 00:34:31.519 Only Elden Ring and Dark Souls Three. So very very 710 00:34:31.559 --> 00:34:34.360 good results for that game. It's one where it's like 711 00:34:34.400 --> 00:34:37.760 I came back from the vacation, I saw this story, 712 00:34:37.840 --> 00:34:40.159 saw dragon Ball spark and Zero. I'm like, oh, yeah, 713 00:34:40.280 --> 00:34:43.079 that game. And meanwhile it's got this massive audience of 714 00:34:43.079 --> 00:34:45.679 people who are just obsessed with it. So that could 715 00:34:45.679 --> 00:34:49.320 still happen. When it comes to Silent Hill two, it debuted. 716 00:34:49.320 --> 00:34:51.760 It's the number two best selling Silent Hill game in 717 00:34:51.800 --> 00:34:55.639 lifetime dollar sales, trailing only the original Silent Hill two. 718 00:34:55.719 --> 00:34:58.599 It ranked third among all video games in October full 719 00:34:58.599 --> 00:35:00.960 game dollar sales and it number twenty eight for the 720 00:35:01.119 --> 00:35:03.679 for twenty twenty four a year to date, so it's 721 00:35:03.719 --> 00:35:05.920 already in the top thirty. Very good for Silent Hill two. 722 00:35:06.360 --> 00:35:09.480 And then video game hardware spending dropped twenty three percent 723 00:35:09.480 --> 00:35:12.199 in October when compared to a year ago. Switch dollar 724 00:35:12.280 --> 00:35:14.960 sales fell thirty eight percent year on year during October, 725 00:35:15.320 --> 00:35:17.000 which will relate to a story we'll get to here 726 00:35:17.559 --> 00:35:20.840 very shortly. While PS five declined by twenty percent, an 727 00:35:20.960 --> 00:35:25.599 Xbox series showed in eighteen percent decrease, so again everything 728 00:35:25.679 --> 00:35:28.760 is down. This story says there's a six hundred and 729 00:35:28.800 --> 00:35:32.320 four thousand units of new video game hardware sold in October, 730 00:35:33.400 --> 00:35:36.440 that is down from seven hundred and fifty nine thousand units. 731 00:35:36.480 --> 00:35:38.559 And this has a crossed all the devices, including plug 732 00:35:38.559 --> 00:35:41.119 and play devices, which do you think this is notable? 733 00:35:41.159 --> 00:35:44.880 Because this is how Matt listed it. He said across Arcade, 734 00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:48.079 Nintendo Switch, PlayStation four, PlayStation five, plug and play, and 735 00:35:48.280 --> 00:35:51.239 Xbox series PLAYTF never mind, he's doing it an alphabetical order. 736 00:35:51.360 --> 00:35:54.039 I got. I was like, is he putting Xbox last 737 00:35:54.079 --> 00:35:55.679 because it was in last place? Nope, he just put 738 00:35:55.719 --> 00:35:58.840 in alpabetical order because Matt Piskotella is smart and doesn't 739 00:35:58.840 --> 00:35:59.920 want to give away the goat there. 740 00:36:00.119 --> 00:36:03.639 So yes, yeah, I mean, look, the thing about hardware 741 00:36:03.719 --> 00:36:07.760 spending is it's not I mean, we had a whole 742 00:36:08.119 --> 00:36:09.639 you and I had a hole back and forth about 743 00:36:09.639 --> 00:36:11.880 the you know, PS five pro and who that's for. 744 00:36:13.119 --> 00:36:14.880 It doesn't surprise me at all that hardware spending is 745 00:36:14.880 --> 00:36:16.800 down because at this point, you know, these consoles have 746 00:36:16.880 --> 00:36:19.239 been out for an extended period of. 747 00:36:19.199 --> 00:36:23.679 Time, and that bubble at the beginning of the bulge 748 00:36:23.719 --> 00:36:26.519 of everyone jumping on early on the generation they felt 749 00:36:26.559 --> 00:36:29.239 fomo and they ran indoor, the you know, the generation 750 00:36:29.280 --> 00:36:31.960 began in twenty twenty. Yeah, so all of those factors, 751 00:36:31.960 --> 00:36:34.639 it's like, this is actually just a correction, and it 752 00:36:34.840 --> 00:36:37.440 probably will bounce back up here as we get into 753 00:36:37.480 --> 00:36:40.159 the next couple of years of these consoles, where it'll 754 00:36:40.159 --> 00:36:43.320 correct again as this wobble of coming out of the 755 00:36:43.360 --> 00:36:45.559 pandemic continues, which I know people don't don't feel like 756 00:36:45.559 --> 00:36:47.840 we're in that, but there's still a wobble to all 757 00:36:47.880 --> 00:36:51.039 of this. All right, we have plenty more stories to 758 00:36:51.039 --> 00:36:52.239 get to. What we're gonna do now is take a 759 00:36:52.280 --> 00:36:54.920 quick break. When we get back, we'll talk about just 760 00:36:55.039 --> 00:36:57.960 the completely shit luck that you'd be softest hat with 761 00:36:58.000 --> 00:37:06.559 its games, and that has continued right after this. All right, 762 00:37:06.639 --> 00:37:09.079 let's get into it. Star Wars Outlaws and Assassin's Creed 763 00:37:09.159 --> 00:37:12.719 Valhalla don't work with the latest Windows update at the 764 00:37:12.760 --> 00:37:15.840 worst possible time. This is where Ethink gotcha at Kotaku. 765 00:37:16.480 --> 00:37:20.440 Star Wars Outlaws finally came to Steam last week. Unfortunately, 766 00:37:20.480 --> 00:37:22.519 there's also an issue with the latest version of Windows 767 00:37:22.639 --> 00:37:25.000 that makes it. It makes it so the sci fi 768 00:37:25.079 --> 00:37:29.079 Open World Adventure and other Ubisoft games don't work Microsoft. 769 00:37:29.159 --> 00:37:32.400 Microsoft has acknowledged the issue and is pausing the update 770 00:37:32.480 --> 00:37:35.920 in the meantime. So it's like, man, they like updated 771 00:37:35.920 --> 00:37:37.840 this game, trying to get it ready for the Steam launch. 772 00:37:37.920 --> 00:37:40.400 They did all this work, They're trying to relaunch the game, 773 00:37:40.480 --> 00:37:43.239 and they just immediately crashed into a brick wall not 774 00:37:43.360 --> 00:37:46.679 caused by them. I don't know, maybe there's maybe there's 775 00:37:46.679 --> 00:37:49.599 some responsibility here, but the bug does seem to be 776 00:37:49.639 --> 00:37:50.679 on Microsoft side. 777 00:37:50.880 --> 00:37:51.000 Uh. 778 00:37:51.880 --> 00:37:54.639 That is just so unfortunate. What I mean, is this 779 00:37:54.760 --> 00:37:56.880 just karma for Ubi stuft at this point? Are they 780 00:37:56.920 --> 00:37:58.400 just paying some carmeic price? 781 00:37:58.679 --> 00:37:59.320 I don't know. 782 00:37:59.559 --> 00:38:02.719 Yeah, maybe the video game gods were like too many. 783 00:38:02.800 --> 00:38:03.719 Assassin's Creed. 784 00:38:04.519 --> 00:38:08.679 You just have to like make make a ray Man 785 00:38:08.760 --> 00:38:12.000 game or I will spite the Yes. 786 00:38:12.760 --> 00:38:16.480 Yeah, ah Man, Ubisoft just cannot win. 787 00:38:17.480 --> 00:38:20.719 Yeah, it's just can't. Yeah, everything they do is just 788 00:38:20.800 --> 00:38:23.880 kind of like they've just there's rakes in every direction 789 00:38:24.320 --> 00:38:27.079 and they just jump on them and slap their own 790 00:38:27.079 --> 00:38:31.199 faces constantly. I could. I'm caninue to be someone who 791 00:38:31.280 --> 00:38:33.440 really enjoys Star Wars Outlaws. It's another game I want 792 00:38:33.440 --> 00:38:35.880 to go back and spend more time with. I did 793 00:38:35.960 --> 00:38:39.159 just added on Steam, so I will try to see 794 00:38:39.159 --> 00:38:41.199 how it works on Steam Deck, not expecting too much. 795 00:38:41.199 --> 00:38:43.199 I never did the work to get the you play 796 00:38:43.280 --> 00:38:45.519 version working on Steam Deck. I just played that on 797 00:38:45.519 --> 00:38:48.360 the Roger ally. But if I can get that working 798 00:38:48.360 --> 00:38:50.679 in a so so state on the Steam Deck, I 799 00:38:50.719 --> 00:38:53.000 might continue more of it, because again, the battery life 800 00:38:53.000 --> 00:38:54.239 on the Steam Deck is just the way I want 801 00:38:54.239 --> 00:38:57.360 to be playing that game. Yeah. This this problem has 802 00:38:57.360 --> 00:39:01.599 affected Assassin's Creed, Valhalla, Odyssey, Tar Frontiers of Pandora, Star 803 00:39:01.639 --> 00:39:04.679 Wars Outlaws, and Assassin's Creed Origins and nothing else. So 804 00:39:04.719 --> 00:39:07.519 it's just a bunch of recent BBI soft open world 805 00:39:07.559 --> 00:39:10.239 games that's done. It sounds like they're all the same 806 00:39:10.280 --> 00:39:14.599 engine right there, because like Avatar and Star Wars are 807 00:39:15.159 --> 00:39:18.119 the I can't remember the name of the engine, but 808 00:39:18.199 --> 00:39:20.400 the Assassin's Creed games are a different engine. So it's 809 00:39:20.480 --> 00:39:22.559 like some thing that they're sharing that they both happen 810 00:39:22.639 --> 00:39:26.840 to use. That's just weird. But again, Microsoft pausing the update, 811 00:39:26.920 --> 00:39:28.840 going to try to fix it then reissue it. So 812 00:39:29.039 --> 00:39:32.360 hopefully this gets fixed pretty fast. Yeah, somebungus and chat 813 00:39:32.400 --> 00:39:35.559 says it's probably their DM or their DRM. Excuse me. Yeah. 814 00:39:36.119 --> 00:39:36.239 Uh. 815 00:39:36.440 --> 00:39:39.760 Square Enix is worried about oversaturating the games market with 816 00:39:40.000 --> 00:39:42.960 HD two D games. The headline is pretty much the 817 00:39:43.280 --> 00:39:47.360 story here. How does that strike you as something that 818 00:39:47.400 --> 00:39:49.480 could happen, ex am, I I think so. I think 819 00:39:49.519 --> 00:39:53.559 they're like kind of being a little judicious with this effect. Yeah, 820 00:39:53.840 --> 00:39:54.639 it's a smart thing. 821 00:39:55.199 --> 00:39:58.119 I think they should be judicious with it because you 822 00:39:58.280 --> 00:40:04.199 look at something like Star Ocean whatever they called Stars 823 00:40:04.280 --> 00:40:05.440 of the Second Story. 824 00:40:05.320 --> 00:40:07.719 And it's like HD two D remake. 825 00:40:07.960 --> 00:40:10.360 Right. No, but Samo, you're right, it feels like there's 826 00:40:10.440 --> 00:40:16.760 not that many yet, and that's good because I again, 827 00:40:16.800 --> 00:40:19.760 it was like when I played that Star Ocean game, 828 00:40:19.960 --> 00:40:22.400 I was like, what Psychopath did this? 829 00:40:22.599 --> 00:40:23.199 In a good way? 830 00:40:23.400 --> 00:40:29.039 Like who took this game and decided to reconfigure all 831 00:40:29.119 --> 00:40:32.119 of the perspective like it's it's so well done. And 832 00:40:32.960 --> 00:40:36.960 the Dragon Quest remake that came out recently is also fabulous. 833 00:40:37.039 --> 00:40:39.119 Same thing where you're like, what psychopath took the time 834 00:40:39.199 --> 00:40:41.519 to do this? And again I mean that in a 835 00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:44.800 totally positive way and. 836 00:40:46.440 --> 00:40:49.079 Like, yeah, let's get maybe one a year. 837 00:40:49.159 --> 00:40:53.400 Don't go crazy, like you're doing them extremely well, so 838 00:40:53.800 --> 00:40:57.280 just keep doing it the way that you are and 839 00:40:57.440 --> 00:41:00.159 don't oversaturate, and the people will keep coming and you 840 00:41:00.199 --> 00:41:04.519 will keep getting these sort of like almost I don't 841 00:41:04.519 --> 00:41:07.280 want to say sleeper hit, because there's obviously a lot 842 00:41:07.320 --> 00:41:10.119 of popularity, but for me it has mostly been like 843 00:41:10.280 --> 00:41:12.679 word of mouth of other people I know playing them, 844 00:41:12.719 --> 00:41:14.880 being like damn, they like, it's really worth playing this 845 00:41:15.039 --> 00:41:16.599 even if you've played this game before. 846 00:41:16.920 --> 00:41:21.280 Yep. I think and I think that they have found 847 00:41:21.360 --> 00:41:25.840 a good sort of they've taken an editor's eye to 848 00:41:26.280 --> 00:41:28.280 all of what they're doing with HD two D, where 849 00:41:28.320 --> 00:41:31.280 it's like at first they just had all these effects 850 00:41:31.360 --> 00:41:34.119 that made the games look eye popping, and they turn 851 00:41:34.199 --> 00:41:36.239 them all up to ten on all the games. And 852 00:41:36.440 --> 00:41:39.840 I like that because I'm someone who will kind of 853 00:41:39.880 --> 00:41:41.400 do that. When I have like little gizmos to play 854 00:41:41.440 --> 00:41:43.079 within the game that make it look funny, I might 855 00:41:43.159 --> 00:41:44.400 turn it up a lot and just see what it 856 00:41:44.440 --> 00:41:46.199 looks like, and then I'll keep it on because I'm 857 00:41:46.239 --> 00:41:48.360 not I don't have an editor's eye. But I think 858 00:41:48.960 --> 00:41:51.880 by then like going back to this well several times now, 859 00:41:51.960 --> 00:41:54.960 but not like constantly, they'd be like, Okay, let's adjust 860 00:41:55.000 --> 00:41:56.880 things here a little bit, Let's pull back a little 861 00:41:56.880 --> 00:41:59.079 bit and see what let's do what looks the best. 862 00:41:59.599 --> 00:42:01.760 And with Dragon Quest three HD two D, I think 863 00:42:01.800 --> 00:42:05.199 they've really really honed in on that. Oh yeah, and 864 00:42:05.360 --> 00:42:07.960 now it's like, okay, well now it still feels special 865 00:42:08.440 --> 00:42:11.159 but also got but we've still gotten does feel like 866 00:42:11.199 --> 00:42:12.800 we've gotten quite a few of these, and you've made 867 00:42:12.800 --> 00:42:16.320 it look very good. Let's just use it here or 868 00:42:16.440 --> 00:42:18.559 there where. I think it probably probably it's probably like 869 00:42:18.639 --> 00:42:21.199 here is a remake and then here's an original, and 870 00:42:21.360 --> 00:42:23.719 just kind of go back and forth every year or 871 00:42:23.800 --> 00:42:27.079 so with with with on that schedule and on that cadence. 872 00:42:27.400 --> 00:42:29.079 And I think that this can continue to work for 873 00:42:29.159 --> 00:42:31.400 a very long time, and if they were to do 874 00:42:32.199 --> 00:42:35.280 six of these a year, it would very quickly begin 875 00:42:35.360 --> 00:42:38.280 to feel like, oh, exhausting or just like, you know, 876 00:42:38.519 --> 00:42:40.119 a big muck of a soup. 877 00:42:40.280 --> 00:42:43.199 Yeah, not special, Yeah, yeah exactly. Yeah. 878 00:42:43.239 --> 00:42:45.079 I agree that the pace they're going out is perfect. 879 00:42:45.119 --> 00:42:47.320 I think that Square should be concerned about this and 880 00:42:47.440 --> 00:42:50.760 they should behave accordingly because they're doing. 881 00:42:50.639 --> 00:42:51.119 A great job. 882 00:42:51.840 --> 00:42:54.280 Did Dan learn how to add emotes? Is that? What's happening? 883 00:42:54.679 --> 00:42:57.639 Is that I'm just seeing Dan's dog? 884 00:42:58.039 --> 00:42:58.280 Yeah? 885 00:42:58.800 --> 00:42:59.559 Keep coming up. 886 00:42:59.519 --> 00:43:04.519 Here, yeah, becaulet's see. Is that that's his dog? Right? Yeah? 887 00:43:05.079 --> 00:43:09.800 Yes he did? Yes, lay damn Grub said Gizmo and 888 00:43:10.159 --> 00:43:13.000 that's my dog. Yeah, okay, I did say that, so 889 00:43:13.079 --> 00:43:18.079 you better put it in chat. Uh sweet Jpe, says Grub. 890 00:43:18.159 --> 00:43:19.800 Oh my god, it was so bad with that. Oh 891 00:43:20.000 --> 00:43:23.519 my god, Oh no, what has happened here? Oh Grub? 892 00:43:23.599 --> 00:43:26.480 He quote learned how to add emotes last week without 893 00:43:26.599 --> 00:43:33.599 resizing fantastic, you missed emote breaking chat last week? Oh? 894 00:43:33.679 --> 00:43:35.920 Did is that what you meant, Sean when you said 895 00:43:36.000 --> 00:43:38.239 nicking Dan broke chat? I thought you were saying that 896 00:43:38.360 --> 00:43:41.239 in a sort of a way where that was the 897 00:43:41.559 --> 00:43:43.360 lady with the butt she did that magazine cover that 898 00:43:43.360 --> 00:43:46.679 they said was going to break the internet. Uh, Kardashian, 899 00:43:46.760 --> 00:43:48.960 Kim Kardashian, I thought you meant like they did something 900 00:43:49.599 --> 00:43:52.039 like outrageous and it broke the chat. 901 00:43:52.360 --> 00:43:57.679 You mean they literally broke the chat the functionality of chat. 902 00:44:00.079 --> 00:44:05.400 That Mike Manadi emotes too big, guys, is too big? No, 903 00:44:06.440 --> 00:44:07.960 what have you done? I didn't know we can make 904 00:44:08.000 --> 00:44:10.519 them that bit? All right, this is horrible, this is good. 905 00:44:10.519 --> 00:44:13.320 They're gonna try to break the chat again. Sean, just 906 00:44:13.360 --> 00:44:16.079 start just start banning people. Just start banning them. You 907 00:44:16.159 --> 00:44:20.199 do what you gotta do. That that's not big, apparently 908 00:44:20.239 --> 00:44:22.800 compared to what we we had. Okay, I need to 909 00:44:22.800 --> 00:44:25.039 get caught up on what has happened at Giant Bomb. 910 00:44:25.199 --> 00:44:30.280 Naughty big, naughty all right. Microsoft announces edge game is 911 00:44:30.360 --> 00:44:32.559 just a way to bring up guides while playing PC games. 912 00:44:32.639 --> 00:44:36.440 Is from Chris Calling at VGC. Microsoft is announced edge 913 00:44:36.559 --> 00:44:38.840 Game assists a way for players to get tips and 914 00:44:38.840 --> 00:44:41.920 guides while playing PC games. Described as a seamless, full 915 00:44:41.960 --> 00:44:45.039 featured in game browser. Game assist lets players bring up 916 00:44:45.079 --> 00:44:47.159 a spoke versions of the edge browser as part of 917 00:44:47.199 --> 00:44:50.719 the game bar overlay. The browser is game aware, meaning 918 00:44:50.840 --> 00:44:52.719 if the player has a compatible game running the bow, 919 00:44:52.880 --> 00:44:55.840 the browser will automatically suggest tips and guides for that 920 00:44:55.920 --> 00:44:58.599 particular game. And when it comes to this sort of thing, 921 00:44:58.639 --> 00:45:01.280 I'm like, if I a button that I was gonna 922 00:45:01.320 --> 00:45:03.719 hit anyway, and this is there and it just works 923 00:45:03.800 --> 00:45:05.519 and I don't have to think about it, there is 924 00:45:05.719 --> 00:45:09.400 chance there's a chance I might use it. I am 925 00:45:09.679 --> 00:45:12.320 never gonna seek this out. I am never I'm never 926 00:45:12.440 --> 00:45:14.400 gonna even gonna think about the fact that it's the 927 00:45:15.159 --> 00:45:18.679 you know, EDGE trademark game assist, where it's like, oh, 928 00:45:18.760 --> 00:45:21.360 this is going to improve my relationship with Microsoft. Edge 929 00:45:21.360 --> 00:45:23.360 a browser I use, but I just use it because 930 00:45:23.360 --> 00:45:26.639 it's it's there. It's basically Chrome and it's default, and 931 00:45:26.800 --> 00:45:31.800 it hasn't been a problem for me, so I'm okay, yeah, cool, Yeah. 932 00:45:32.280 --> 00:45:33.760 I always have to make it every like everything has 933 00:45:33.800 --> 00:45:35.960 to be like Games for Windows Live still in a 934 00:45:36.000 --> 00:45:37.679 lot of ways where it's like, here's our new initiative 935 00:45:37.719 --> 00:45:40.159 to improve our relationship with PC gamers. I don't know, 936 00:45:40.320 --> 00:45:43.079 just at the feature. Don't don't give it a brand name, 937 00:45:43.119 --> 00:45:46.920 I guess, but whatever. Yeah, I mean, look, I. 938 00:45:49.079 --> 00:45:51.800 There are just so many giant minis. 939 00:45:54.920 --> 00:46:02.440 Guys, guys, no, this we can't can't do that, THAT'SAI 940 00:46:02.559 --> 00:46:04.960 that Manati is far too big, and. 941 00:46:06.960 --> 00:46:08.320 Yeah we uh. 942 00:46:08.440 --> 00:46:13.719 Anyway, uh but Microsoft Edge and Game Guides, Yeah, I'm 943 00:46:13.760 --> 00:46:16.280 with you if I just can If it's a button, 944 00:46:16.320 --> 00:46:19.280 I'm gonna press anyway and it's easy to bring up, sure, 945 00:46:19.440 --> 00:46:22.599 maybe I'll use it otherwise, like what's the what how 946 00:46:22.760 --> 00:46:26.719 is that any different than me like going to a 947 00:46:26.920 --> 00:46:29.760 guide on another gaming website. 948 00:46:29.920 --> 00:46:32.400 I also just you know, I think a. 949 00:46:32.400 --> 00:46:35.079 Lot of games now are are good at like building 950 00:46:35.159 --> 00:46:38.960 in a system to help you discover things on your own. 951 00:46:39.760 --> 00:46:41.639 I feel that older games. 952 00:46:41.519 --> 00:46:44.519 There was more need for a guide because sometimes you 953 00:46:44.639 --> 00:46:45.840 just get dropped in the middle. 954 00:46:45.639 --> 00:46:49.000 Of the world and be like, what do I do 955 00:46:49.360 --> 00:46:53.880 now where I don't know? Like I'm a I also 956 00:46:54.000 --> 00:46:56.519 like love puzzle solving games, so like I'm going to 957 00:46:56.519 --> 00:46:57.559 figure that out on my own. 958 00:46:58.320 --> 00:47:03.599 Right exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm like, you know, I said, 959 00:47:04.119 --> 00:47:05.760 if it's there, it's but I'm gonna hit it anyhow, 960 00:47:06.000 --> 00:47:08.960 and it's like I'll use it. But I mean it 961 00:47:09.039 --> 00:47:11.079 does work that way a little bit on PlayStation five, 962 00:47:11.199 --> 00:47:12.679 right where you're the button you hit the button, and 963 00:47:12.760 --> 00:47:16.000 they have like the game tip thing. Maybe I've never 964 00:47:16.119 --> 00:47:16.639 used that, so. 965 00:47:17.199 --> 00:47:20.280 I've never used it either. I'm now that you mentioned it. 966 00:47:20.400 --> 00:47:22.519 I remember it exists, but I've never used it. 967 00:47:22.760 --> 00:47:24.000 Yeah, I don't know. You know, maybe this is a 968 00:47:24.039 --> 00:47:27.320 better implement implementation. I doubt it, but maybe it is. 969 00:47:27.559 --> 00:47:30.360 And then maybe that case, I do use it here 970 00:47:30.400 --> 00:47:32.880 and there, and it's very much for like what does 971 00:47:32.920 --> 00:47:35.440 this thing do if I get a new item and 972 00:47:35.840 --> 00:47:37.639 and I hit a button and it tells me all 973 00:47:37.679 --> 00:47:39.519 the like you know, the quick tip, quick and dirty 974 00:47:39.519 --> 00:47:40.800 tips of like how to get the most out of 975 00:47:40.840 --> 00:47:43.559 that item. I could see that being a thing, But 976 00:47:43.840 --> 00:47:45.679 beyond that, I don't know. Like you said, I'm gonna 977 00:47:45.679 --> 00:47:48.920 want to solve puzzles myself, and I don't feels that way. 978 00:47:50.199 --> 00:47:54.440 All right, last couple of stories here. Switch Black Friday 979 00:47:54.440 --> 00:47:58.400 Bundle Bundle is now Nintendo's best console deal ever, you know, 980 00:47:58.480 --> 00:48:01.840 for the Switch. It's from Robert Anderson at IGN essentially 981 00:48:02.960 --> 00:48:05.320 at a handful of retailers. The Switch o lead is 982 00:48:05.400 --> 00:48:08.559 now two seventy five for the bundle with Mario Kart 983 00:48:08.639 --> 00:48:12.480 eight Deluxe, and the original standard Switch bundle is two 984 00:48:12.599 --> 00:48:16.360 hundred and twenty five dollars. So that's that's seventy five 985 00:48:16.440 --> 00:48:20.119 dollars off of each and and that like you know, 986 00:48:20.480 --> 00:48:24.119 includes the game, right, so you're already saving money for 987 00:48:24.159 --> 00:48:26.320 the first time. Really because they could. They weren't selling 988 00:48:26.320 --> 00:48:27.679 it for three hundred and fifty or three hundred and 989 00:48:27.679 --> 00:48:30.039 sixty dollars for the standard switch model. They were selling 990 00:48:30.039 --> 00:48:31.920 it for three hundred. So okay, you get Mario cart 991 00:48:31.960 --> 00:48:35.119 eight at no additional cost. Hey, that's nice. Now it's 992 00:48:35.159 --> 00:48:39.360 seventy five additional dollars off. This feels like the price 993 00:48:39.440 --> 00:48:42.320 where this thing really starts moving to people who were 994 00:48:42.920 --> 00:48:45.280 so price sensitive for so long that maybe they maybe 995 00:48:45.320 --> 00:48:47.000 they do have a switch and they've been like looking 996 00:48:47.079 --> 00:48:49.800 for a reason to justify getting an O lead. Maybe 997 00:48:49.840 --> 00:48:54.079 this does move some of them, but I don't know, not. 998 00:48:54.280 --> 00:48:57.599 Me immediately looking up that deal, because I do not 999 00:48:57.840 --> 00:49:01.280 have an O LED yeah switch, and I'm thinking maybe 1000 00:49:01.320 --> 00:49:02.159 it's time to get one. 1001 00:49:02.760 --> 00:49:04.440 Two seventy five. It's like a number where it's like 1002 00:49:04.519 --> 00:49:07.199 I can't okay, that's almost pulse. 1003 00:49:08.599 --> 00:49:10.719 Yeah, I mean, game's complaining to me that his switch 1004 00:49:10.800 --> 00:49:13.679 is broken, so maybe I'll just get him an old 1005 00:49:13.760 --> 00:49:15.159 leg with Mario gard eate Deluxe. 1006 00:49:15.280 --> 00:49:19.880 There you go. Yeah, absolutely, Christmas, oh boy? Yeah. Okay, 1007 00:49:19.960 --> 00:49:22.199 So someone just put this in chat. This is Insider 1008 00:49:22.280 --> 00:49:25.000 Gaming Mike Starlotte and Nintendo Switch to releasing March twenty 1009 00:49:25.079 --> 00:49:29.199 twenty five. The rumors claim. This is from the fama 1010 00:49:29.280 --> 00:49:33.239 boards gaming forum, which has just been obsessively tracking all 1011 00:49:33.320 --> 00:49:36.360 this stuff for years now, but especially in the last 1012 00:49:36.360 --> 00:49:39.000 several months, and then Nintendo Switch to release in March 1013 00:49:39.039 --> 00:49:41.559 twenty twenty five. That's according to the latest rumors published 1014 00:49:41.559 --> 00:49:45.000 by a popular Nintendo deuced channel, Nintendo Prime. All right, well, hey, 1015 00:49:45.880 --> 00:49:50.559 no insultant inintindal Prime. He covers all these things not judiciously, 1016 00:49:50.760 --> 00:49:54.239 so I don't know. I'm still like, yeah, that seems unlikely, 1017 00:49:54.360 --> 00:49:56.360 but we'll see. If it's coming out in March. They 1018 00:49:56.400 --> 00:50:00.840 got to talk about it soon though, right yeah, yeah, yeah, 1019 00:50:01.000 --> 00:50:02.480 I don't know. I think we'll probably get on the 1020 00:50:02.519 --> 00:50:05.199 other side of March before we get this thing, so 1021 00:50:05.239 --> 00:50:08.480 at least in April, but who knows. All right, let's 1022 00:50:08.519 --> 00:50:10.639 get back to it. Last, Like I said last couple 1023 00:50:10.639 --> 00:50:14.119 of stories, Virtual Fighter five Revo announced for PC. This 1024 00:50:14.239 --> 00:50:17.440 is from sal Ramano at Gamatsu. Sega has announced Virtual 1025 00:50:17.480 --> 00:50:20.480 Fighter five, which came out like fifteen years ago now 1026 00:50:20.559 --> 00:50:24.360 or something like that. But they have you know, made, 1027 00:50:24.559 --> 00:50:27.559 remade and remastered this game several times. They are now 1028 00:50:28.199 --> 00:50:31.400 taking one of those remastered versions, this revo version, putting 1029 00:50:31.480 --> 00:50:34.639 it on Steam and giving it like, you know, another 1030 00:50:34.719 --> 00:50:38.599 sprucing up. It'll add rollback net code, fantastic four K 1031 00:50:38.760 --> 00:50:42.639 graphics at sixty frames per second. Yeah, that sounds great. 1032 00:50:42.880 --> 00:50:46.119 New balance adjustments. Sure, give us all that. I like 1033 00:50:46.239 --> 00:50:49.400 Virtual Fighter a whole bunch. I'll play some more Virtual 1034 00:50:49.480 --> 00:50:51.840 Fighter five. There were those rumors though, that a new 1035 00:50:52.440 --> 00:50:54.519 Virtual Fighter game, and maybe not have rumors. I think 1036 00:50:54.559 --> 00:50:56.880 Sega might have kind of like teased it themselves that 1037 00:50:56.960 --> 00:50:59.199 a new Virtual Fighter game is coming. I hope that's 1038 00:50:59.239 --> 00:51:02.000 still coming, and that this isn't what wasn't mixed signals 1039 00:51:02.039 --> 00:51:04.440 and this is what they were talking about. Yeah. 1040 00:51:04.480 --> 00:51:05.800 I have played Virtual Fighter. 1041 00:51:05.920 --> 00:51:09.239 I was a tech end kid, but you know, to me, 1042 00:51:09.320 --> 00:51:11.639 I was like, oh, Virtual Fighter, it's the other three 1043 00:51:11.719 --> 00:51:13.039 D fighting game. 1044 00:51:13.519 --> 00:51:19.519 Mm hmm yeah right, yeah, I'm playing Virtual Fighter five. Yeah, exactly. 1045 00:51:19.920 --> 00:51:22.239 After that, that's perfect, that's the way to do it. 1046 00:51:23.119 --> 00:51:27.079 And then finally, Christopher Judge on rumored Imminent God of Ward, 1047 00:51:27.320 --> 00:51:30.880 God of War announcements, says absolutely not true from ben 1048 00:51:30.960 --> 00:51:34.599 Lyon said Game Reactor. Recently, Christopher Judge, perhaps best known 1049 00:51:34.719 --> 00:51:37.679 as of late as the man behind Kratos in Sony 1050 00:51:37.760 --> 00:51:41.079 Santa Monica Studio's God of War reboot, mentioned that he 1051 00:51:41.119 --> 00:51:43.440 would be making announcements in the next couple of weeks, 1052 00:51:43.719 --> 00:51:45.679 and this led many into a flurry, thinking that the 1053 00:51:45.719 --> 00:51:49.280 actor would reveal something about the future of God of War. However, 1054 00:51:49.400 --> 00:51:52.280 this is simply false, and as it stands, Judge is 1055 00:51:52.480 --> 00:51:54.360 just as in the dark about the future of the 1056 00:51:54.400 --> 00:51:57.360 popular series as we are at the moment. Essentially, I 1057 00:51:57.440 --> 00:52:00.679 think he tweeted that he's like, this has nothing to 1058 00:52:00.760 --> 00:52:03.599 do with God of War. You can't. I can't tease 1059 00:52:03.679 --> 00:52:06.360 something that even I don't know about. I am waiting 1060 00:52:06.440 --> 00:52:08.480 for news about this game like the rest of you are. 1061 00:52:08.760 --> 00:52:12.400 That's basically what he tweeted. So he yea waited it. 1062 00:52:12.519 --> 00:52:18.559 But it was a twenty five tweet long thread where 1063 00:52:18.760 --> 00:52:22.920 he got into the philosophy about the state of the 1064 00:52:23.039 --> 00:52:27.559 industry and the psychology behind the character of Creato. 1065 00:52:27.719 --> 00:52:32.800 Music began playing them off. Yeah exactly, yeah, absolutely, Hey, 1066 00:52:33.400 --> 00:52:35.599 I think that they will make another God of War. 1067 00:52:35.760 --> 00:52:39.559 I think they will bring Christopher Judge back to voice Creatos. 1068 00:52:40.519 --> 00:52:42.199 There's always, you know, the chance that the next one 1069 00:52:42.239 --> 00:52:44.639 could even be like an expand alone that focuses on 1070 00:52:46.159 --> 00:52:50.079 the kid, the boy I can't remember his name, Yeah, Treas, 1071 00:52:50.119 --> 00:52:54.760 thank you, And so they might deemphasize Creatos's character a 1072 00:52:54.800 --> 00:52:56.159 little bit. But I bet even in that case, he 1073 00:52:56.199 --> 00:52:59.719 would still be there, be around, be a voice. So yeah, 1074 00:53:00.000 --> 00:53:02.400 something will happen there. I don't think it's like, I 1075 00:53:02.440 --> 00:53:04.760 don't think we're rushing towards the release of a new 1076 00:53:04.920 --> 00:53:06.880 entry in the God of War franchise within the next 1077 00:53:06.960 --> 00:53:11.679 year or anything like that, right, No, yeah, no, absolutely not. 1078 00:53:12.000 --> 00:53:15.639 They If they do do that, it will be some time, 1079 00:53:15.719 --> 00:53:17.000 and they have a lot of other stuff they would 1080 00:53:17.000 --> 00:53:22.239 put out first. I think, yeah, all right, all right, 1081 00:53:22.400 --> 00:53:24.920 that does it for the headlines. I have a poll 1082 00:53:25.400 --> 00:53:29.679 question from many moons ago that I will get set 1083 00:53:29.800 --> 00:53:32.000 up here. Well, I do that though, Emma Fife, why 1084 00:53:32.000 --> 00:53:33.440 don't you tell people where they could find you on 1085 00:53:33.519 --> 00:53:36.800 the internet what you have going on? All that good stuff? 1086 00:53:38.039 --> 00:53:39.960 Oh my goodness, this God of War talk just made 1087 00:53:40.000 --> 00:53:42.039 me think of a project that I did for the 1088 00:53:42.199 --> 00:53:45.840 FDA a few years ago, where we had teenagers. 1089 00:53:45.280 --> 00:53:47.239 React to video game spoilers. 1090 00:53:47.440 --> 00:53:50.320 And one of the kids who we had was he'd 1091 00:53:50.360 --> 00:53:51.960 already played God of War, and God of War was 1092 00:53:51.960 --> 00:53:53.320 one of the games that we were doing. 1093 00:53:53.360 --> 00:53:55.400 And he had this great quote about God of. 1094 00:53:55.440 --> 00:53:59.920 War basically being a heartwarming father sontail like a Lifetime movie, 1095 00:54:00.079 --> 00:54:03.920 and my editor made a title screen for Lifetime Presents 1096 00:54:03.960 --> 00:54:05.360 God of War and it was hilarious. 1097 00:54:05.440 --> 00:54:06.480 So I will have to find a. 1098 00:54:06.559 --> 00:54:10.039 Link to that video so y'all can see it's it's great. 1099 00:54:10.719 --> 00:54:15.360 Shout out to the wonderful Randy who edits a lot 1100 00:54:15.440 --> 00:54:15.960 of our stuff. 1101 00:54:16.000 --> 00:54:19.840 He's fantastic. Yeah, what do I have going on? Well, guys, 1102 00:54:19.920 --> 00:54:22.559 I'm all up on Blue Sky now, okay, blue Sky rules. 1103 00:54:23.519 --> 00:54:27.679 It's I'm having a fun time, which so I'm trying 1104 00:54:27.719 --> 00:54:29.719 to get it to I'm doing the thing where I'm 1105 00:54:29.719 --> 00:54:32.679 trying to change the So it's at mmafif dot com 1106 00:54:32.719 --> 00:54:34.519 because I do own that domain name. 1107 00:54:34.599 --> 00:54:38.599 So anyway, and then look, I'm working on a lot 1108 00:54:38.639 --> 00:54:42.079 of stuff for the Game Awards. 1109 00:54:42.039 --> 00:54:45.760 This year, so please please please tune into our very 1110 00:54:45.840 --> 00:54:49.920 cool stream that will be happening for the exact two 1111 00:54:50.000 --> 00:54:53.119 hours before the Game Awards on Thursday, December twelfth, that's 1112 00:54:53.159 --> 00:54:55.719 two thirty to four to thirty pm Pacific time. We 1113 00:54:55.840 --> 00:54:58.039 will be on site at LA Live. It's going to 1114 00:54:58.039 --> 00:55:01.079 be amazing. I have a lot great guestbook. If you 1115 00:55:01.119 --> 00:55:05.280 watched Voicemail Dump Truck you last week, you heard me 1116 00:55:05.400 --> 00:55:08.719 listen off. Square Enix is basically like Final Fantasy seven rebirth. 1117 00:55:08.840 --> 00:55:11.280 You want everybody that worked on the game here you go. 1118 00:55:12.000 --> 00:55:16.119 So, yeah, it's gonna be awesome. I'm very excited. Yeah, 1119 00:55:16.280 --> 00:55:17.480 and then like that's yeah. 1120 00:55:17.840 --> 00:55:21.159 If you're bopping around fandom websites, you might see me 1121 00:55:21.280 --> 00:55:25.079 interviewing Michelle Yo and Jeff Goldbloom for Wicked. I've seen 1122 00:55:25.079 --> 00:55:29.760 Wicked three times, so yeah, fine, find me in the 1123 00:55:29.840 --> 00:55:33.039 movie theater again watching Wicked for a fourth time. 1124 00:55:33.840 --> 00:55:36.519 People seem to really be happy with it. Wick. It's good, 1125 00:55:36.760 --> 00:55:39.599 so good, Okay, I'm gonna check it. I think it 1126 00:55:39.639 --> 00:55:42.480 looks very fun. Wait, so I come back. We could 1127 00:55:42.480 --> 00:55:44.679 talk about this. We're doing something before the Game Awards. 1128 00:55:44.719 --> 00:55:47.360 Hey everybody, Yeah, that's yeah, we can talk about it. 1129 00:55:47.400 --> 00:55:49.559 We announced it on Wednesday last week. 1130 00:55:49.559 --> 00:55:52.440 Okay, yeah, fantastic. Yeah, everybody, we're gonna be helping out 1131 00:55:52.480 --> 00:55:55.199 a little bit. You'll see us on there at least 1132 00:55:55.360 --> 00:55:58.280 me and Dan, maybe a few others. It'll be it'll 1133 00:55:58.320 --> 00:56:01.800 be a good time. I think I will already be 1134 00:56:01.880 --> 00:56:03.920 done with GB at night, so I'll be like a whatever, 1135 00:56:03.960 --> 00:56:05.679 this is everyone else's problem now, and I'll just be 1136 00:56:05.760 --> 00:56:07.719 like show up in goof Off. But it'll be a 1137 00:56:07.760 --> 00:56:11.679 good time, everybody. So all the stars will indeed be here. 1138 00:56:12.519 --> 00:56:13.639 All right, all the stars. 1139 00:56:14.079 --> 00:56:18.840 Let's see here. Pull question from says nine days ago, 1140 00:56:19.239 --> 00:56:22.119 which game are you most looking forward to in February, 1141 00:56:22.199 --> 00:56:26.719 Civilization seven, Assassin's Creed Shadows avowed or Monster Hunter Wilds. 1142 00:56:27.920 --> 00:56:30.440 Monster Hunter Wilds was the number one response, with thirty 1143 00:56:30.480 --> 00:56:34.400 four percent of the respondents voting for that. Excuse me 1144 00:56:34.519 --> 00:56:38.199 then avowed at thirty one percent, eighteen percent for Assassin's 1145 00:56:38.239 --> 00:56:42.320 Creed Shadows, and seventeen percent for Civilization seven. I think 1146 00:56:42.360 --> 00:56:44.599 that's always interesting because there is a strong chance that 1147 00:56:44.639 --> 00:56:47.559 Civilization seven out sells all of those in the on 1148 00:56:47.639 --> 00:56:50.159 the grand scale of time, because those games just continue 1149 00:56:50.239 --> 00:56:53.320 to sell and continue to have more players than just 1150 00:56:53.360 --> 00:56:56.800 about any other game concurrently on Steam. So we'll see. 1151 00:56:57.440 --> 00:57:00.519 But yeah, hey, I voted for Civilizations Evan, but I'm 1152 00:57:00.519 --> 00:57:02.559 looking forward to all these games. Actually, I want to 1153 00:57:02.639 --> 00:57:05.039 try to fit them all in. Maybe not in February, 1154 00:57:05.440 --> 00:57:07.880 but i'll dourly again. 1155 00:57:07.960 --> 00:57:13.079 We were talking about the Ubisoft Curse. I'm actually intrigued 1156 00:57:13.119 --> 00:57:14.159 by Assassin's Creed Chef. 1157 00:57:14.239 --> 00:57:15.960 Yes, I absolutely am. 1158 00:57:16.519 --> 00:57:19.039 The two characters have completely different gameplay, which I think 1159 00:57:19.119 --> 00:57:19.840 is really cool. 1160 00:57:20.039 --> 00:57:24.480 So yeah, anyway, yepus they keep making more old people 1161 00:57:24.519 --> 00:57:26.800 to play SIEV. Yeah, there's new old people every day. 1162 00:57:26.920 --> 00:57:28.320 Yeah, there's new old people every day. 1163 00:57:28.440 --> 00:57:31.719 That's how it works. That's just linding your time, everybody. 1164 00:57:32.119 --> 00:57:35.440 All right, new poll question would I write down here? Yeah? Okay. 1165 00:57:35.519 --> 00:57:37.519 Does a new PSP need to be able to play 1166 00:57:37.599 --> 00:57:41.199 all PS five games? Natively? Yes? No, but it needs 1167 00:57:41.239 --> 00:57:43.719 to support most No, I'm okay if it's a completely 1168 00:57:43.760 --> 00:57:46.800 separate library. I know it's not exactly the story that 1169 00:57:46.840 --> 00:57:48.400 they were talking about there, but I'm just curious to 1170 00:57:48.400 --> 00:57:51.360 see what people think about this, if you want separate 1171 00:57:51.440 --> 00:57:53.360 games made for this device, or if it's just a 1172 00:57:53.440 --> 00:57:56.960 portable PS five if that's what you want. So yeah, 1173 00:57:57.119 --> 00:57:59.159 we'll get the responses to that. We'll talk about it 1174 00:57:59.320 --> 00:58:02.559 on Game mess Morning's here on Giant Bomb to not 1175 00:58:02.639 --> 00:58:05.639 tomorrow Tomorrow's Tuesday, there will be the BombCast on Wednesday, 1176 00:58:06.320 --> 00:58:09.000 which will be the last episode this week. Because American 1177 00:58:09.039 --> 00:58:12.760 Thanksgiving begins on Thursday. We're taking Friday off, so long weekend, everybody, 1178 00:58:12.960 --> 00:58:15.119 short week. But I'm glad I was able to get 1179 00:58:15.119 --> 00:58:18.239 back and do this episode. Speaking of Giant Bomb, we're 1180 00:58:18.239 --> 00:58:19.920 gonna figure out what else we're gonna do this week. 1181 00:58:20.159 --> 00:58:21.599 I don't know. I'm gonna go tell. I think it 1182 00:58:21.639 --> 00:58:24.280 should be all day sean other than anything else we do, 1183 00:58:24.599 --> 00:58:27.039 So we'll see if he's got time for that. Who knows. 1184 00:58:27.079 --> 00:58:29.960 He's probably gonna be busy. And is Jan back? I 1185 00:58:30.000 --> 00:58:32.559 think Jan's not back yet, right, Jan still out? I 1186 00:58:32.599 --> 00:58:33.519 think Jan. 1187 00:58:34.280 --> 00:58:37.480 I know he returned from the wilds, but I don't 1188 00:58:37.519 --> 00:58:38.800 know if he's like back at work. 1189 00:58:38.639 --> 00:58:40.519 Back right, He's probably got He probably has to sleep 1190 00:58:40.519 --> 00:58:42.960 a little bit, so ye see if he's back and 1191 00:58:43.280 --> 00:58:45.599 ready to get into things as well. Looking forward to 1192 00:58:45.639 --> 00:58:47.800 talking to everybody from Giant Bomb. I'm glad I was 1193 00:58:47.840 --> 00:58:49.880 able to talk to you, Emma. Thank you so much 1194 00:58:49.880 --> 00:58:51.679 for hanging out with me today and talking about video games. 1195 00:58:51.719 --> 00:58:55.119 I really appreciate that of course, anytime, ma'am. 1196 00:58:55.760 --> 00:58:59.360 And thank you. Okay, check slack. Jan has something today, fantastic. 1197 00:59:00.199 --> 00:59:03.519 Thank you all for watching and listening. You are the 1198 00:59:03.599 --> 00:59:07.079 best audience in gaming. Until next time, have a good one, 1199 00:59:07.320 --> 00:59:09.239 take care of yourself and thank you for all of 1200 00:59:09.320 --> 00:59:10.480 the big Mike Manatis