Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome to Game Mess Mornings with Me Jeff Grubb,
Speaker 1: your host from giant bomb dot com.
Speaker 2: Thank you for tuning in.
Speaker 1: In this episode, we're going to be talking about Nintendo
Speaker 1: giving an insight into some of its future plans and
Speaker 1: why a recent big game won't come to switch to
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a big one because we have John
Speaker 1: Martin on the show.
Speaker 2: John, how are you doing.
Speaker 3: I'm doing well, Jeff. Happy, Happy New Year.
Speaker 1: How's it going too, Yeah, it's going all right so far.
Speaker 2: Busy.
Speaker 1: I've been trying to like get all the Christmas stuff
Speaker 1: put away. That was my entire weekend. You can see
Speaker 1: if people probably can't see on the thing, but I
Speaker 1: got you could see John, there's like, oh like ten
Speaker 1: bends over there Christmas stuff, well in various other things.
Speaker 1: I got to get those put away in a closet.
Speaker 1: It's a whole thing. I didn't finish the projects. So yeah,
Speaker 1: been busy, like every minute of the weekend. But when
Speaker 1: I wasn't, I would still sneak in some more secretory time.
Speaker 1: Like we've cracked the code on that one a little
Speaker 1: bit in terms of learning how the scoring system works,
Speaker 1: and now it's made the game even more difficult and
Speaker 1: less capable of like enabling me to think about anything else.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's going to continue to probably be my
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six so far.
Speaker 2: How about you, You've been doing anything, playing anything?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I've been bouncing through a couple of things.
Speaker 3: I've kind of decided that for a number of other reasons,
Speaker 3: a number of reasons just in general, this is going
Speaker 3: to be a big backlog year for me. Currently on
Speaker 3: the horizon, there's some stuff I'm looking forward to, but
Speaker 3: I really just got to dig into my backlog this year.
Speaker 3: So this year has been all about finishing in the
Speaker 3: games that I should have beaten years ago, going into
Speaker 3: this new year and like you know, just getting ready
Speaker 3: for the future. Have a couple of games already under
Speaker 3: my belts. I beat Final Fantasy Tactics. That was like
Speaker 3: the big game of the holiday break for me. That
Speaker 3: game is fantastic, phenomenal. It was a game where I
Speaker 3: wanted to focus and just beat the story and then
Speaker 3: just grinding for job points, job stuff, making the teen
Speaker 3: pump work. Well, it's it was such a it was
Speaker 3: such a treat. But yeah, that's behind me now, looking
Speaker 3: for a couple of things. Control and BioShock one are
Speaker 3: very big ten polls. I got a hit earlier this year. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and then I'm also trying the Trails in the Sky remake.
Speaker 3: My friend has been telling me to get into these
Speaker 3: games for decades, that we're finally doing that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, here's your chance, now's the time, your backlog era.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: Yes, all right, Well, twenty twenty six is not going
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Speaker 1: All right, we have a lot to get into, so
Speaker 1: let's start the Morning Mess with Nintendo's president shares an
Speaker 1: update on the company's plans. This is from my Nintendo News,
Speaker 1: which writes an intro here before They kind of like
Speaker 1: have a small bulleted list of the ideas that they
Speaker 1: touched on. Nintendo's president Shuntaro for Akawa, has shared more
Speaker 1: information about the state of the company and its plans
Speaker 1: for a twenty twenty six and its plans for twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six in an interview with Japanese news site Kyoto Shimbun.
Speaker 1: There were a lot of points discussed, but one important
Speaker 1: thing is that the stock of the Nintendo switch To
Speaker 1: has now stabilized on a global scale, meaning that it
Speaker 1: should now be easy to go to a store and
Speaker 1: get a unit. Those hoping for more news about the
Speaker 1: upcoming Legends all the movie should being made aware that
Speaker 1: they're going to drip feed it. Let's get into these
Speaker 1: points bit by bit. Yes, the switch to supply has stabilized. Basically,
Speaker 1: it's good to go everywhere except for Japan, really, but
Speaker 1: if you want to walk into a store just about
Speaker 1: anywhere else and get one, you can do so.
Speaker 2: Which John, that's like, that's pretty quick.
Speaker 1: I think they kind of that was like a big
Speaker 1: priority for them, it seems like, and I think that's
Speaker 1: it's probably pretty smart that that is that was their focus.
Speaker 2: They succeeded there and it kind of made.
Speaker 1: This whole, this whole situation of launching the switch to
Speaker 1: a little bit less stressful than some of these other
Speaker 1: recent consoles, right, And I kind of appreciate that that's
Speaker 1: what they did, not that it's like some great favor
Speaker 1: They're giving me this opportunity to spend hundreds of dollars
Speaker 1: on their stuff. But all these companies have been doing that,
Speaker 1: and then a lot of times it was also and
Speaker 1: it's impossible to get so good, good fucking luck. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that was probably benefited them quite a bit, though, now
Speaker 1: that this thing just feels like, oh right, it's going
Speaker 1: to be there when people want to make impulse purchases, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely. I mean that was the biggest thing about
Speaker 3: the PS five and the Xbox Series X back in
Speaker 3: like twenty twenty, Like it was kind of a lottery
Speaker 3: to get it if you were not like paying attention
Speaker 3: to like stock alerts or like why are you sixty
Speaker 3: four on Twitter? Now Blue Sky, It was kind of
Speaker 3: just impossible. Switch to is considerably easier, in fact, like
Speaker 3: I feel like I'm more shocked that I don't see
Speaker 3: a switch to in stock at a. I guess best
Speaker 3: Buy is the place I've been going to for a
Speaker 3: couple of weeks now for a couple of projects. But yeah,
Speaker 3: like it is big. I don't know what it says
Speaker 3: to about the consistency of buying it, Like, are people
Speaker 3: forcing it to get into a position where they needed
Speaker 3: to be super well stocked in the future. It's it
Speaker 3: seems like we're in a really good place for Switch to.
Speaker 3: It seems like they're happy about it. But it's going
Speaker 3: to be interesting to see next moves, like what games
Speaker 3: are going to like entice people to get in the
Speaker 3: near future.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so they kind of do talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about that a couple of times.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about this first one here, Nintendo aims to
Speaker 1: make switch to an accommodating, generous, and forgiving piece of hardware.
Speaker 1: A gentle lover is what I think they're describing here.
Speaker 1: Nintendo says taking this approach will help to realize first
Speaker 1: and third party dev ideas.
Speaker 2: I think, you know, I've never.
Speaker 1: Made a game, but you always hear, you always, you
Speaker 1: would always hear stories from developers over time about oh,
Speaker 1: this console was a nightmare to work with, or this
Speaker 1: one had its intricacies and things that required us to
Speaker 1: kind of get in there and figure things out. And
Speaker 1: then this other one over here was just so easy
Speaker 1: to work with. And so you notice a lot of games,
Speaker 1: a lot more games get made for that hardware. Sounds
Speaker 1: like Nintendo was mindful of that this time, and is
Speaker 1: you know, they made the hard they made the hardware,
Speaker 1: they made the development kit already, it sounds like they're
Speaker 1: not done. Sounds like they're like, we want to keep
Speaker 1: improving that, which I find also pretty encouraging.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, absolutely, Like even for granted, we haven't had
Speaker 3: the most amount of switch to ports yet, a lot
Speaker 3: of games are doing just custom switch one patches, but
Speaker 3: for the most part, like with a couple exceptions in
Speaker 3: like some heavier moments, most of the switch to games
Speaker 3: run really well. And I think it is that It's
Speaker 3: interesting because I feel like it is in the benefit
Speaker 3: of the switch to to be a more powerful switch
Speaker 3: because it just kind of did kind of put it
Speaker 3: on the right path. You kind of know how the
Speaker 3: ecosystem and how that way that the layouts and the
Speaker 3: UI works with that, it's kind of just a known
Speaker 3: quantity which is very different than typical Nintendo. But yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean, and as we're seeing more and more people
Speaker 3: get their hands on dev kits, like I know that
Speaker 3: was a big story that people didn't have dev kits.
Speaker 3: Now they might have devkates. It's going to be interesting
Speaker 3: to see, and I just am assuming that we're just
Speaker 3: going to get a wave of the switch to editions.
Speaker 3: I honestly think that's going to be a large chunk
Speaker 3: of the games that are pushed for this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they'll talk about that here in a in a second.
Speaker 1: There's you know, kind of multiple things where they're talking
Speaker 1: about their plans for what sort of stuff they're going
Speaker 1: to have here.
Speaker 2: But first Nintendo says.
Speaker 1: There are people who pick up their first console when
Speaker 1: reaching a certain age, and Nintendo wants to make sure
Speaker 1: the switch to is accessible for them. You know, this
Speaker 1: is this, this has been the strategy, right to be
Speaker 1: the console. When a kid gets to a certain age
Speaker 1: and wants that sort of thing, what do they ask for?
Speaker 1: They ask for the Nintendo device. You know, it kind
Speaker 1: of seems like that's still the case. I imagine that
Speaker 1: their competition there is not Microsoft or even Sony. It
Speaker 1: is tablets and phones, right, and maybe some other devices,
Speaker 1: but maybe maybe the PC even a little bit, because
Speaker 1: kids will watch YouTubers and they be like, oh, they're
Speaker 1: planning on a PC.
Speaker 2: I want to do that as well.
Speaker 1: But you know, it's probably just mostly phones and tablets
Speaker 1: and that space hasn't changed too much and Nintendo still
Speaker 1: feels like a really safe place for adults who want
Speaker 1: it gets to for their children, parents who want to
Speaker 1: get stuff for their kids, where it's like, oh, I
Speaker 1: can feel comfortable that this is a safe place to
Speaker 1: send my children to go, you know, spend their time.
Speaker 1: Uh that you know, what can they even do there
Speaker 1: to grow that? I guess it goes back to having
Speaker 1: the right games, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's a big thing right now, is
Speaker 3: that I feel like on the whole when people are
Speaker 3: asking me because I'm at the age where people are
Speaker 3: starting to have kids. I'm at the age where my
Speaker 3: kid cousins are starting to get like old enough to
Speaker 3: be playing games that are a little bit more mature
Speaker 3: than something you would just find on an iPad. So
Speaker 3: a lot of cousins do ask me what's the best
Speaker 3: place for him? He likes this, this and this, and
Speaker 3: then just like what is where's the Mario? Where's this?
Speaker 3: All the Wars of the Pokemon It's always been that
Speaker 3: kind of recommendation, like switch to year one is kind
Speaker 3: of interesting because we didn't really have a traditional one
Speaker 3: of any of those Big three, like Legendsza with standing,
Speaker 3: but that's not like the uh, We're introducing a whole
Speaker 3: lot of new creatures and stuff. So it's funny because
Speaker 3: like I feel like in a weird away and Nintendo
Speaker 3: is now kind of like competing with themselves, like, how
Speaker 3: are you going to entice people to switch? Oh that
Speaker 3: that was non intended. How are you going to move
Speaker 3: people from Switch one to switch too? I think that's
Speaker 3: going to be the biggest message or what they need
Speaker 3: their twenty twenty six messaging to be. We have some
Speaker 3: good games that are only on switch to. We got
Speaker 3: to see more of those in some of those big
Speaker 3: heavy hitters.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that it's the kind of thing where
Speaker 1: it's like, yeah, they'll they do seem to be thinking
Speaker 1: about a pipeline of bringing young people into their stuff.
Speaker 1: That's what like My Mario stuff is definitely about how
Speaker 1: effective that's actually going to be.
Speaker 2: And again My.
Speaker 1: Mario is a series of products for very young kids,
Speaker 1: toddlers and stuff. There's like blocks that are ambo supported
Speaker 1: all this weird stuff. Again, I don't I don't know
Speaker 1: how effective that that is actually going to be, but
Speaker 1: it does show Nintendo's thinking about that so that they
Speaker 1: can introduce Mario to them while they're young, and then
Speaker 1: they'll be ready to go for Mario. And then there's
Speaker 1: you know, there's that Mario movie coming later this year, right,
Speaker 1: that's later this year.
Speaker 2: That's yeah, I keep forgetting that.
Speaker 1: So it's like okay, and then yeah, and it's it's
Speaker 1: likely they'll probably have some Mario stuff to go alongside that,
Speaker 1: or make a big deal about all the Mario games.
Speaker 2: That are already here.
Speaker 1: But it really will come down to that next big
Speaker 1: Mario game and that will get the kids excited again.
Speaker 1: So how close is that, we don't know. But they
Speaker 1: do talk about some of these other things.
Speaker 2: Let's see here.
Speaker 1: The h they well, first they talk about the memory stuff,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna have a full story about that here
Speaker 1: in a moment.
Speaker 2: So let's see here.
Speaker 1: Nintendo will further enhance their software offerings from twenty twenty
Speaker 1: six onwards. I got to take that to mean that's
Speaker 1: the Nintendo switch to editions. That's that's got to be
Speaker 1: what that is talking about. There's a lot of like
Speaker 1: obvious candidates for that. Still, the Zeno Blade games come
Speaker 1: up every single time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the wildest one to me that's been That
Speaker 3: was like, one of the best things to have happened
Speaker 3: with the switch To is that Xeno Blade as a series,
Speaker 3: like got to a level where it is now not
Speaker 3: just like the guy from Smash like it is its
Speaker 3: own franchise, has its own consistent fan base. It's just
Speaker 3: those games run so poorly, especially in handheld mode, and
Speaker 3: there was even like I remember people talking about x
Speaker 3: having a sixty fps toggle. It's just they never unlocked
Speaker 3: that for switch To. So that's I assume that's going
Speaker 3: to tie in with maybe they announced a new big game.
Speaker 3: But yeah, that and Pickment are probably the two that
Speaker 3: I want the most personally. But yeah, we have no
Speaker 3: shortage of games that they can re release for ten
Speaker 3: to twenty dollars and people will pay for it.
Speaker 2: Chat.
Speaker 1: Did they officially announced that Pickment three Deluxe Nintendo switch
Speaker 1: To Edition?
Speaker 3: I think that's just like a rating spoort right now?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: I've been mating to do the co op campaign with
Speaker 3: one of my friends who's never played a Pickman game,
Speaker 3: and that's always the one I go to just because
Speaker 3: it's gorgeous and fully co op. But I don't think
Speaker 3: it's officially yet.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, So, like as you say, that's oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: like they they've not done like a switch to edition
Speaker 1: of Luigi's Mansion three, right, that feels like that could happen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's even like arms feels like that it might be
Speaker 1: a candidate for this sort of thing. So there's plenty
Speaker 1: of stuff they can go back to, and then they
Speaker 1: you know, could even work with some third party partners
Speaker 1: or whatever. The Hades won Nintendo switch to edition that
Speaker 1: sort of stuff, all right, and then yes, they do
Speaker 1: get to like the big stuff here. Frokawas said, Nintendo
Speaker 1: is developing popular series titles that many fans are waiting for,
Speaker 1: but also completely new software.
Speaker 2: The company that has made.
Speaker 1: Zelda and Mario for years will make Zelda and Mario again,
Speaker 1: but you know, also promising completely new software. Who knows
Speaker 1: what that means. That could they could be talking about
Speaker 1: some weird small thing or whatever. But yeah, they this
Speaker 1: is this is the big thing for them. They have
Speaker 1: to deliver on Mario and Zelda, and the big I mean,
Speaker 1: Smash Brothers is one that I'm sure they're thinking about.
Speaker 1: So this is them saying, hey, we know this and
Speaker 1: we're gonna get to it.
Speaker 2: But it has been a lot.
Speaker 1: Of switch to editions so far supporting their lineup that
Speaker 1: switch where it's like it feels like the balance is
Speaker 1: on updating older games versus switch to games. Twenty twenty
Speaker 1: six should be the year where we feel that balance shift, right.
Speaker 1: We can't go through all twenty twenty six where it's like, no,
Speaker 1: that's gonna happen next year.
Speaker 2: At least that's how I feel. What do you think?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think. I mean a big chunk of my
Speaker 3: thought process is just how many ports there were in
Speaker 3: like the first real big year or like year twenty
Speaker 3: eighteen basically was like the year of we U ports
Speaker 3: and stuff. I'm expecting to see something similar to that.
Speaker 3: But it also is like compound with like there's so
Speaker 3: many game anniversaries that they might want to like make
Speaker 3: a big deal about it and finally re release ports
Speaker 3: we've been waiting for forever. But yeah, I think this
Speaker 3: is the year where they really need to show new
Speaker 3: things coming up. Like I was trying to prepare for
Speaker 3: for like a Fantasy critic, and I was really thinking
Speaker 3: that Splatoon Raiders is really the only big game that
Speaker 3: I can think of besides like a fire Rumbum, which
Speaker 3: already has like a date. Those are like the two
Speaker 3: big ones, and I feel like that can't be the
Speaker 3: only like big games for this year. We're gonna need
Speaker 3: to like actually separate the Switch one for the switch too,
Speaker 3: especially as there's going to be reasons why people might
Speaker 3: just straight up go for a Switch one due to
Speaker 3: price and availability versus the switch too. Yeah, I'm not
Speaker 3: really sure what to expect from Nintendo. Like I'm assuming
Speaker 3: we're going to get like that one huge game at
Speaker 3: the end of the year, and I don't think it's
Speaker 3: gonna be a fire embum And I don't think Splatoon
Speaker 3: Raiders effectively fits that billing, whether we hear it now
Speaker 3: or and halfway through the year. That's my biggest question.
Speaker 3: Is it going to be a very slow first half
Speaker 3: of the year and then it's just gonna go balls
Speaker 3: of the walls?
Speaker 2: Then?
Speaker 3: What do you think?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, Mike always plaints that, like second year
Speaker 1: is often when we get the Smash game. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that happens the time around, but they're certainly
Speaker 1: noticing that. They're certainly talking about that Nintendo of like
Speaker 1: this is when we would normally have a Smash and
Speaker 1: that like reaches that specific audience, and we would like
Speaker 1: to do that again.
Speaker 2: So they probably are.
Speaker 1: They're formulating that plan whether or not that that I mean,
Speaker 1: it probably doesn't because it's going to require a lot
Speaker 1: of effort, and even if it's a deluxe version of
Speaker 1: the last game, they probably going to want to give
Speaker 1: it some time and really develop that stuff.
Speaker 2: So it's probably always off.
Speaker 1: And then beyond that, it's like, you know, what I
Speaker 1: imagine is, yeah, there's maybe something really big, and then
Speaker 1: the other games, the new software might be, oh, the
Speaker 1: follow up to a Ring Fit Adventure, Right, maybe it's
Speaker 1: a Ring Fit Adventure too, or maybe it's a new
Speaker 1: exercise fitness game. But they'll probably want to have something
Speaker 1: like that just because they have had such success with
Speaker 1: that multiple times now with We Fit and Ring Fit Adventure.
Speaker 2: And it's like, you know.
Speaker 1: Especially if you are in a situation where you're trying
Speaker 1: to continue to make these higher prices feel like they
Speaker 1: make sense, underling a big peripheral like the ring thing
Speaker 1: or something like that always helps with that helps them
Speaker 1: charge more.
Speaker 2: So they would love that.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's see here they talked about the RAM,
Speaker 1: but we'll talk about that in a bit. They also
Speaker 1: talked about like their movie strategy, their film strategy for
Speaker 1: a Kya wants to build excitement leading up to the
Speaker 1: Super Mario Galaxy movie.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, who wouldn't.
Speaker 1: Nintendo will share info regarding the legend of Zelda film,
Speaker 1: but we'll do so gradually. Nintendo's focus for movies, he
Speaker 1: keeps reiterating this. I'm starting to believe it to a
Speaker 1: certain extent, is not short term profits.
Speaker 2: But character exposure.
Speaker 1: I bet that's not like it's probably not that simple,
Speaker 1: but I do think they are treating as like the
Speaker 1: guiding light here is we just want to make sure
Speaker 1: that this continues to grow the profile of our characters
Speaker 1: and so that when we have our traditional products, people
Speaker 1: care more.
Speaker 2: That clearly worked.
Speaker 1: For the Mario movie, and I think that they feel like, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is something we can replicate over and over again,
Speaker 1: and as long as we continue to like build our
Speaker 1: strategy around that, we will probably be in some safe
Speaker 1: place where we are not like driving these characters into
Speaker 1: the ground with movies and TV shows so that they
Speaker 1: feel cheap and disposable.
Speaker 2: Is that something that you think they are achieving so far?
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, Mario is the biggest example of that
Speaker 3: before the Mario movie, Like obviously everyone knew Mario Mario
Speaker 3: was always very big, but is not consistently making like
Speaker 3: the Macy six stick Thanksgiving Day Parade or something along
Speaker 3: those lines, Like when I go to like like I
Speaker 3: don't shop at Target that much anymore, but like when
Speaker 3: I go to Target and there's just a wall of
Speaker 3: like like Mario merch, Minecraft merch, like it being more
Speaker 3: of a presence than like some like Disney characters and stuff.
Speaker 3: They're definitely like reaching that market saturation. Like I feel
Speaker 3: like Mario has been on top of mind more than
Speaker 3: ever before. I think Zelda can very easily get to
Speaker 3: that point. It's in its biggest like growth period I
Speaker 3: think they've had since like the N sixty four. There
Speaker 3: hasn't been something that I feel like has gotten that bigger.
Speaker 3: And yeah, like when we get to the point where
Speaker 3: people know about Isabelle from Animal Crossing more than just
Speaker 3: like being a character from Animal Crossing, but being this
Speaker 3: mascot character, like being this analogous to some other big
Speaker 3: franchise character, Like like when people know about Isabelle in
Speaker 3: the way that people know Chewbacca, I think that's that's
Speaker 3: when they're gonna be happy, like Isabelle is there, Chewbacca,
Speaker 3: I think is what we're trying to get to the point.
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, you've always said that, and I thought
Speaker 1: you were crazy, but I'm starting to believe finally. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: Nintendo would like to establish a system to release more
Speaker 1: films beyond these Mario and Zeldagame movies, Like yeah, that
Speaker 1: that feels pretty obvious as well. Of course, I mean
Speaker 1: we've already the rumors long time for a Donkey Kong film. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it feels like that will probably happen. But I think
Speaker 1: they expand even beyond that. And it's like, yeah, i
Speaker 1: mean something probably happens with animal crossing, but maybe animal
Speaker 1: Crossing is this next thing. On the topic of creating
Speaker 1: anime for a Cowa said, if we can create works
Speaker 1: uniquely Nintendo, it'd be good in the future.
Speaker 2: So they're open to that as well.
Speaker 1: So it's like, yeah, I think they are continuing to
Speaker 1: move at Nintendo's pace into these things, but that that
Speaker 1: probably I don't know. There's the way of doing things
Speaker 1: of like Activision or a Marvel where it's like something worked.
Speaker 1: Let's I mean, there should be one of these every year,
Speaker 1: maybe sometimes there should be two or three of these
Speaker 1: things a year. And yeah, sometimes when I'm in the
Speaker 1: mood for that, that's great, But long term, like I
Speaker 1: burn out on these things. I think a lot of
Speaker 1: people burn out on these on these things kind of
Speaker 1: making them feel precious still does like feedback into that
Speaker 1: idea of making these characters make me care more about
Speaker 1: the characters and then make me care more about the games. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I think the idea of an anime would be cool,
Speaker 1: but them not rushing into it doesn't surprise me, how
Speaker 1: about you?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that takes time. I mean, when you're
Speaker 3: creating like a whole series, you're gonna want to like
Speaker 3: kind of intricately place characters who keep people invested for
Speaker 3: long periods of time. Like if they can achieve anything
Speaker 3: close to like what that Fallout show is doing for
Speaker 3: the fall Out series right now, like being able to
Speaker 3: create news stories in their world and just expand it
Speaker 3: a lot more, I think that'll be great.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean anime is interesting because I mean Zelda is
Speaker 3: being made by Sony. Sony pretty much owns the anime
Speaker 3: community or like the industry at this point, which is
Speaker 3: kind of nuts. But yeah, I mean, Animal Crossing is
Speaker 3: such a perfect lay up for like a Slice of
Speaker 3: Life and you can make like a splatoon like Kids
Speaker 3: Boy cartoon. Uh, definitely seems like things that could go
Speaker 3: in the right direction. But yeah, who are you gonna
Speaker 3: partner with? I feel like for the most part, Nintendo
Speaker 3: has always been very very picky and choosy on who
Speaker 3: they're gonna align themselves with. Who are who's not going
Speaker 3: to create a Bob Hoskins Mario movie? Like how are you?
Speaker 3: How are we going to avoid this like catasgraphic scenario?
Speaker 3: And I mean they've made an animal Crossing anime in
Speaker 3: the past, like and that's pretty good. So yeah, I
Speaker 3: think that's coming. It's just like what franchise are we
Speaker 3: ready to do the push of? And obviously they have
Speaker 3: to line up their dominoes, what games are coming, what
Speaker 3: outside content are they are they making? But yeah, I
Speaker 3: think we will see this.
Speaker 2: I think you're right.
Speaker 1: They're like they're like feeling it out coming up, like
Speaker 1: what is the strategy, Like how do we maximize every
Speaker 1: decision that we make? And it's like it's it's a
Speaker 1: learning process probably where they and they want where they
Speaker 1: don't want to make any mistake, So it's like, let's
Speaker 1: just really think about this, do it one step at
Speaker 1: a time. Uh, let's uh, let's get this next story.
Speaker 1: Call of Duty on Nintendo switch to question mark. It
Speaker 1: could happen sooner than we thought, according to the latest
Speaker 1: Call of Duty HQ data mind. This is from frand
Speaker 1: Ruiz at Eurogamer. Call of Duty is coming to switch
Speaker 1: to that we know for sure, Key Xbox and Activision
Speaker 1: figures excuse me have underlined how important Nintendo's hardware is
Speaker 1: for the brand moving forward with their latest with their
Speaker 1: last comments on the matter happening last year following Black
Speaker 1: Ops seven's reveal. The more important question now is when
Speaker 1: that's actually happening. We've heard all sorts of rumblings over
Speaker 1: the past few months, with insiders and other industry figures
Speaker 1: pointing to a big release coming at some point in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. Now a data mine that was happening
Speaker 1: over on Twitter could point to it happening sooner rather
Speaker 1: than later. The account has a history of looking through
Speaker 1: Call of Duty files in the latest updates and share
Speaker 1: and shared this new finding on the eleventh of January.
Speaker 1: Several lines added with a recent Call of Duty HQ
Speaker 1: reference the Nintendo platform family and account type, along consoles
Speaker 1: and PC platforms, along with the platforms.
Speaker 2: That have already been in the game.
Speaker 1: So it's like, okay, does sound like they are laying
Speaker 1: the groundwork to make sure that all these systems can
Speaker 1: play together.
Speaker 2: They're just adding it in there.
Speaker 1: I mean to this, to you, does this sort of
Speaker 1: thing say, oh, we should be expecting this really soon?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's kind of what are we talking
Speaker 3: about when we're talking about Call of Duty? Like I
Speaker 3: can't imagine that they'll put the full launcher on there,
Speaker 3: because then you would have to backboard all of the
Speaker 3: games that are on there.
Speaker 2: But right, we're probably just talking about war Zone at first.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking, because it's
Speaker 3: like that they already have a mobile version of that.
Speaker 3: You can easily upscale that, and I think it still
Speaker 3: has cross play with like all the other versions or
Speaker 3: is mobile its own thing? Might be its own thing,
Speaker 3: but yeah, gotcha, Okay, Like.
Speaker 1: But I mean it's on PS the game's on PS four, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the end, like the switch to is already better
Speaker 1: than the PS four by by a pretty long shot,
Speaker 1: especially when you consider the fact that it's not coming
Speaker 1: off of a hard drive.
Speaker 2: You're not playing any games off hard drive, So yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But I mean it's kind of interesting this happening
Speaker 3: right after Black Oup seven kind of like dropping the
Speaker 3: ball a little bit, not getting the amount of sales
Speaker 3: that they wanted. And it's kind of similar because this
Speaker 3: happened with Capcom, Like Capcom was all up on the
Speaker 3: switch to like hype Train when Monster Renter Wilds didn't
Speaker 3: really perform at past it's like initial launch. Yeah, to
Speaker 3: go back to Call of Duty. I think war Zone
Speaker 3: probably is the thing that's the most imminent, but like
Speaker 3: when are we doing that? Like have they figured out
Speaker 3: how to scale games to a switch to yet? Like
Speaker 3: it feels like it is still kind of early when
Speaker 3: we're still waiting on a million ports to this console.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yep. You know.
Speaker 1: Check continues to talk about the install sized problem and
Speaker 1: how that will be a real pass on the switch too,
Speaker 1: and like if we're talking about you know, just war Zone,
Speaker 1: maybe it's not as much of a problem. I bet
Speaker 1: it's still a pretty big problem. But if we're talking
Speaker 1: about war Zone and like a Black Ops seven port
Speaker 1: or something like that, then it's going to be enormous
Speaker 1: even with just those those two things, and it's like, oh, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: two hundred gigabytes, one hundred gigabytes, even that takes up
Speaker 1: a huge section of well, the internal storage would be
Speaker 1: saturated for sure.
Speaker 2: But even if we're talking about like an.
Speaker 1: SD card, not everyone has one of those micro SD
Speaker 1: express cards because they have been expensive so far. It's
Speaker 1: the new generation of those, or the newer relative to
Speaker 1: what we had on the switch, and it's like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: even then, I've only gotten recently, I purchased i should say,
Speaker 1: a five hundred gigabyte card that would be mostly just
Speaker 1: a call of duty machine. If I were to install
Speaker 1: that on the switch too, that's going to be a
Speaker 1: roadblock a little bit. I wonder if there's any effort
Speaker 1: to like really shrink the install size for the switch version,
Speaker 1: you would hope.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean that's just kind of a constant
Speaker 3: concern just in general right now. I feel like both
Speaker 3: on PC and on the console side of things, that
Speaker 3: has been a big talking point since I mean probably
Speaker 3: since the PS four, but like the PS five, I
Speaker 3: remember being very vocal just because like when you're inside
Speaker 3: all the all the time and you're playing games with friends.
Speaker 3: That was a big deal that it was taking up
Speaker 3: like the entire hard drive. And I think they have
Speaker 3: talked about that activision. I should say in the background
Speaker 3: that that is that is a priority, maybe finding a
Speaker 3: way to actually separate the installs. But with them wanting
Speaker 3: to push that launcher, it's like, I don't know how
Speaker 3: what the data is to create that, Like, I don't
Speaker 3: know that infrastructure there. It's hard to know. Good thing.
Speaker 3: Memory is easily too easy to come by these days,
Speaker 3: and you know, affordable when everyone has enough money to
Speaker 3: expand things at.
Speaker 1: The Yeah, ennemy mess there will be cleaned up instantly.
Speaker 1: I'm sure we will talk about all that here in
Speaker 1: a second. We're going to take a break real quick.
Speaker 1: When we come back, yeah, we're going to be talking
Speaker 1: about how long is that memory shortage really going to be?
Speaker 1: Where is there any end in sight? Any relief on
Speaker 1: the way? Well, probably not. We'll talk about that after this.
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Speaker 1: We will be right back. It's Game Mess Mornings. We're
Speaker 1: back at it. Jeff Grub, John Martin. Let's continue here
Speaker 1: with the next headline, why memory shortages will continue for years.
Speaker 1: This is from WCCF Tech who's got like a whole
Speaker 1: conversation with Micron's VP of Marketing, Mobile and Client Business
Speaker 1: Unit blah blah blah, Christopher Moore. They asked him a
Speaker 1: ton of stuff and he kind of lays out like, look,
Speaker 1: we think we're still doing right by consumers, but we
Speaker 1: just can't ignore.
Speaker 2: The AI demand.
Speaker 1: And it's like, okay, well you did recently close crucial,
Speaker 1: but they're like their their argument continues to be like, well,
Speaker 1: we're talking to every PC vendor to make sure we
Speaker 1: can provide them with stuff directly and whatever, like they
Speaker 1: always have. Yeah, okay, that's that's we know what's happening there.
Speaker 1: We talked about a million times. The question is like, Okay,
Speaker 1: when can we expect relief in terms of of more
Speaker 1: supply of DDR d RAM storage here anytime soon and
Speaker 1: the like. Basically he goes here to say, you're right
Speaker 1: that we are. We're trying to come out with more supply,
Speaker 1: uh and that. But you're also right to point out
Speaker 1: that it's going to take a long time for that
Speaker 1: stuff to come on come online. He says, that takes
Speaker 1: a lot of time. We broke ground in Idaho in
Speaker 1: our ID one facility three years ago, and that's going
Speaker 1: to finally come online in mid twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 2: We pulled that it was the it was they said,
Speaker 2: they pushed that.
Speaker 1: Actually, so now it's to the end of twenty twenty
Speaker 1: seven or no, I'm sorry, that's flipped. They were gonna
Speaker 1: have it at the end of twenty twenty seven. They
Speaker 1: moved it up to mid twenty twenty seven to try
Speaker 1: to get things going faster. But you're not going to
Speaker 1: really see real output, meaningful output by the time we
Speaker 1: get all the qualification done and customers are accepting it
Speaker 1: and you get the tools and everything up and running
Speaker 1: until twenty twenty eight. So this is just like one
Speaker 1: of the hopeful things here of like maybe this can
Speaker 1: address things, you know. The other is AI demand falls
Speaker 1: through and then the supply is there. But it's like
Speaker 1: we've got to keep in mind the memory they're using
Speaker 1: for AI is different than the memory that has been
Speaker 1: used in GPUs, and of course then we ask like, well,
Speaker 1: why can't we get that other memory then for our stuff? Well,
Speaker 1: they just aren't investing in making enough of that stuff.
Speaker 1: And they're still pretty high demand on DRAM and stuff
Speaker 1: like that that we've been using up to this point,
Speaker 1: and so they're gonna have to fix the supply.
Speaker 2: But even that is.
Speaker 1: Not going to come until twenty twenty eight and so,
Speaker 1: and if things fall through with AI, things could get
Speaker 1: really worse for these companies. And they're not going to
Speaker 1: suddenly just be like, let's go fix all these things,
Speaker 1: because they're saying it takes years to addressed to address
Speaker 1: fixing or to building one of these fabrication facilities, we
Speaker 1: should probably expect we're going through another one of these periods.
Speaker 1: We've had a bunch of them over the last several
Speaker 1: like ten to fifteen years, of one reason or another
Speaker 1: that prices are high for computer components.
Speaker 2: And whether that is crypto Bros.
Speaker 1: Mining for bitcoin using GPUs, or whether it is the
Speaker 1: COVID pandemic causing a huge surge in demand for all
Speaker 1: these devices here it is. This is going to be
Speaker 1: another year's long point where we are looking around going, man,
Speaker 1: I wish I could buy this device, But it's just
Speaker 1: so expensive and we're just gonna have to live through it.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the alternative is here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for a long time, semiconductor was just a term
Speaker 3: that would just give me stress for hours on end,
Speaker 3: And now it seems like we're replacing that with memory.
Speaker 3: Yeah it is. It's not looking great, and I wish
Speaker 3: I could spin that with some hopeful optimism. But when
Speaker 3: even like internal companies, different departments can't get access to
Speaker 3: your own internally made memory storage, like that's not great.
Speaker 3: And even if like something happens to the AA bubble,
Speaker 3: I mean, like Web three took so so many years
Speaker 3: to just become like effectively a overall joke as opposed
Speaker 3: to us clowning on it for years, like the AI bubble,
Speaker 3: we have no idea where that's gonna go. I mean
Speaker 3: people are still fighting over that. I saw like there
Speaker 3: was a new Donald Mustard thing that was happening earlier.
Speaker 3: Today it's it's not great. And I mean, even if
Speaker 3: different types of memory are not used for different the
Speaker 3: same products, it's still going to affect everything because then
Speaker 3: like where is that output gonna be focusing on? You know,
Speaker 3: like where are we gonna have to focus the where
Speaker 3: are we gonna have to like first work on and
Speaker 3: develop memory for a particular audience. Are we gonna focus
Speaker 3: on phones? Are we gonna focus on TVs?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 3: Where are we going with this thing? Like to the
Speaker 3: point of, like in the video bringing back the thirty
Speaker 3: seventy X T it's just or the thirty sixty GPU.
Speaker 3: We're kind of in the phase of like people are
Speaker 3: running on fumes right now as is, and when it's
Speaker 3: totally just like not an option to get that stuff anymore,
Speaker 3: it's going to be very scary. And I'm only now
Speaker 3: starting to see more and more people start to get
Speaker 3: that in the real world. I've been personally telling people, Hey,
Speaker 3: if you need to get an electronic advice jet it
Speaker 3: soon because yeah, I don't know yep, colass forever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the panic buying is already set in, but that
Speaker 1: doesn't mean it's going to settle down, because that is
Speaker 1: going to eat up all the supply and there won't
Speaker 1: be any to replace it. Really, so when people continue
Speaker 1: to need stuff, it's just going to get worse and worse.
Speaker 2: So it's like, yeah, well people.
Speaker 1: Panic buying now, it probably still is time to move
Speaker 1: on anything that you absolutely are going to need for
Speaker 1: the next year or two.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, we just we don't know what's what's gonna
Speaker 1: happen to AI. It's it probably will have a correction
Speaker 1: at some point. It could have a crash, it could
Speaker 1: have a bubble burst. It also could just chug along.
Speaker 2: It really could.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because it's this it's this black hole where they
Speaker 1: can keep making it deeper and deeper and deeper in
Speaker 1: terms of the amount of.
Speaker 2: Compute that it can use. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's it's really it's a huge, terrible bummer and uh
Speaker 1: uh we're gonna and like, like I said, if it
Speaker 1: does burst this bubble. Uh, these companies are a couple
Speaker 1: of them could like just collapse and they don't make
Speaker 1: memory at all anymore.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's it's going to be a rough situation.
Speaker 1: Uh all right, Nintendo is monitoring, monitoring high ram prices
Speaker 1: and tariff impacts very closely.
Speaker 2: President Hinturo for A.
Speaker 1: Kawa says this is a from that story earlier, but
Speaker 1: kind of bring in his comments here.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: He says hardware profitability depends on factors like a component
Speaker 1: procure condition, cost reductions through mass production and the impact
Speaker 1: of exchange rates in tariffs, it's difficult to generalize. Fundamentally,
Speaker 1: we aim to address this by advancing component procurement over
Speaker 1: the medium to long term. He does say that like
Speaker 1: current cost increase like right now are not causing or
Speaker 1: not like having a big impact on their profitability.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And then he also says like any talk of a
Speaker 1: price increase is some hypothetical that they they don't have
Speaker 1: any plans in this moment that could change fast, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think just the fact that the Mario Ka
Speaker 3: Bundle is kind of like done for right now. I
Speaker 3: think it is something that they need to weather the
Speaker 3: storm of this too, because they're trying to push this
Speaker 3: console to be their new flagship title, but it is
Speaker 3: more powerful and that requires more memory. So yeah, I
Speaker 3: can see the price increase coming for a long time.
Speaker 3: Like even I forget who said it after the tariff
Speaker 3: situation was going on, like the day of the switch presentation,
Speaker 3: but they said that the pre increase to or four
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty and five hundred is not taking the
Speaker 3: tariffs into account. Nintendo is not known to be a
Speaker 3: company that is going to take the brunt of that cost.
Speaker 3: It usually is on us consumers, whether it is either
Speaker 3: in terms of the hardware itself or if we do
Speaker 3: see accessories and other things raised, they're going to try
Speaker 3: to find a you know, raise the price, raise their
Speaker 3: profit margin in some way. Online account seems like another
Speaker 3: way you could easily do that. Like I've had the
Speaker 3: family plan with expansion past because I have eight people
Speaker 3: who all love to play on Nintendo. We love playing
Speaker 3: with each other. But it's currently eight dollars for a
Speaker 3: year or ten dollars for a year. I don't know
Speaker 3: how long that that is going to last, if like
Speaker 3: Microsoft and Sony are any metric, but yeah, it's it
Speaker 3: has been the worst possible time to release a new console,
Speaker 3: especially one that is going to follow up their biggest
Speaker 3: success story. A lot of it. I feel like a
Speaker 3: lot of their business plan has been just like taking
Speaker 3: into account, Hey, the switch is really doing wonders for us,
Speaker 3: We can actually afford to do these things and like
Speaker 3: move our move our characters into just the wide popular
Speaker 3: culture beyond gaming. And maybe that is why they are
Speaker 3: focusing on external media to kind of make ends meet.
Speaker 3: But yeah, this is this is one of the things
Speaker 3: I think we will probably see this year, I've been
Speaker 3: telling all my friends, Hey, if you want to switch
Speaker 3: to get it now, it's not going to stay at
Speaker 3: four to fifty five hundred for long.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's and it's like, yeah, you made a couple
Speaker 1: good point, like everything is going to get more expensive
Speaker 1: in this space and people the devices that you need,
Speaker 1: like a phone or laptop, those are gonna get more expensive.
Speaker 1: Like it going back to that last story, micround, the
Speaker 1: guy was saying, one of the things that's like frustrating
Speaker 1: for us is we have to build all these different
Speaker 1: units sizes.
Speaker 2: We have to have eight gigabytes.
Speaker 1: And twelve gigabytes and sixteen gigabyte modules and for.
Speaker 2: AI we don't have to do that.
Speaker 1: We could just have the big chunks and they link
Speaker 1: them all together and so then that's great for us.
Speaker 1: And so having to serve all this stuff that Apple
Speaker 1: once is kind of annoying. So okay, and it's like
Speaker 1: Apple's like one of your biggest customers, Like what about
Speaker 1: any of these other places. It's like if an Apple's
Speaker 1: annoying you with that, it's got to be across the board.
Speaker 1: So it's like, yeah, like these companies are probably that
Speaker 1: are making devices are probably going to have to like
Speaker 1: just put in larger RAM modules because those would be
Speaker 1: what are available, and that's going to necessarily push up
Speaker 1: the price.
Speaker 2: It's like the.
Speaker 1: More expensive phones and stuff like that will be the
Speaker 1: ones that they can afford to make, and that's.
Speaker 2: Going to be very frustrating, you know.
Speaker 1: And then you saw that story maybe over the weekend
Speaker 1: about the leaked Steam machine prices are that they probably
Speaker 1: weren't real, but I won't be surprised.
Speaker 2: If that is pretty close to what happens.
Speaker 1: The prices are like nine hundred and one thousand dollars
Speaker 1: something like that for the various models.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm hoping not that. That's something I was actually
Speaker 3: looking forward to this year. I only I built my
Speaker 3: PC last year, but having a like TV Central PC
Speaker 3: would be super cool for me. I would love that.
Speaker 3: I think the docking experience on the Steam deck is
Speaker 3: kind of rough, even though I did play a lot
Speaker 3: of like most of the residente Evil series like that
Speaker 3: on my TV. But this was going to be a
Speaker 3: really cool thing. And I have all this money on Steam,
Speaker 3: and yeah, nine hundred dollars is a big pill to swallow.
Speaker 3: I was really hoping around like seven point fifty would
Speaker 3: be the place for the bottom model. And yeah, I
Speaker 3: mean like there's also like the memory in there is
Speaker 3: like double the price for only like one hundred bucks more.
Speaker 3: I'm excited to see when that what happens with that.
Speaker 3: I'm very exciting to see any outdate from Valve. But yeah,
Speaker 3: it is. It's not looking great right now for any
Speaker 3: of the big hardware developers in this base or just
Speaker 3: tech in general.
Speaker 1: Why yep, yeah, yeah, And like I said, that price
Speaker 1: is probably not real. We don't know, but we but
Speaker 1: we'll see, we'll see. I bet it could be close,
Speaker 1: even though we don't think it was real. Nintendo is monitoring.
Speaker 1: That's the wrong story, let's see here. Next one is
Speaker 1: Final Fantasy seven remake director says younger employees state that
Speaker 1: Final Fantasy thirteen is their favorite.
Speaker 2: This is from my Nintendo News.
Speaker 1: Final Fantasy seven remake director in Aoki Hamaguchi has stated
Speaker 1: in a new interview that newcomers to Square Innix tell
Speaker 1: him that Final Fantasy thirteen is their favorite Final Fantasy game,
Speaker 1: and this is causing them to feel slightly old. Final
Speaker 1: Fantasy thirteen launched back in two thousand and nine for
Speaker 1: Xbox three.
Speaker 2: Sixty and PlayStation three.
Speaker 1: And was a big deal at the time, not just
Speaker 1: because this was the first Final Fantasy game launching on
Speaker 1: an Xbox console so recently because the company, this is
Speaker 1: a quote, has been growing and changing as new employees
Speaker 1: come in and the company just keeps going on. The
Speaker 1: younger folk who come in don't say Final Fantasy six anymore.
Speaker 1: They say, oh, yeah, Final Fantasy thirteen was my favorite.
Speaker 1: So I really do feel the passing of the ages. Look,
Speaker 1: I'm not a Final Fantasy guy, but my understanding, based
Speaker 1: on the reaction to chat here, is.
Speaker 2: This is one of those things.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh my god, this does feel like a
Speaker 1: weird thing that people could be saying, because it's like
Speaker 1: that was at the time a completely insane thing to say.
Speaker 1: But Final Fantasy thirteen constantly being reappraised does feel like
Speaker 1: we are coming up to a moment where, oh, they
Speaker 1: could bring back Final Fantasy thirteen in some way, and
Speaker 1: that would be welcome. I think it'd actually be very
Speaker 1: welcome from a lot of people.
Speaker 3: What do you think, Yeah, that's a game I actually
Speaker 3: do want to play. This year, when I got my
Speaker 3: PS three, my dad got me PS three, I got
Speaker 3: three D Dot Game Hero some other game, and then
Speaker 3: Final Fantasy thirteen because he knew I liked Final Fantasy
Speaker 3: and game maarts and stuff. So yeah, that was one
Speaker 3: of the first ones that I really sunk time into
Speaker 3: and then I never finished it. It's also funny now, well,
Speaker 3: because I remember Rebirth had one of those. One of
Speaker 3: the big things about Rebirth Final Fantasy seven Rebirth was that,
Speaker 3: like there was the yellow paint all over the place.
Speaker 3: And now it kind of makes sense because if the
Speaker 3: dev base is their favorite game is the one that's
Speaker 3: literally just a hallway for the first like fifteen hours
Speaker 3: of the game, it makes sense why, like, oh, I
Speaker 3: can't figure out like how to actually traverse this kind
Speaker 3: of funny there. I think thirteen is getting to the
Speaker 3: point where, yeah, people do have nostalgia, people are constantly reevaluating,
Speaker 3: and I think a lot of people forget that there
Speaker 3: were three games in the thirteen like series, so that
Speaker 3: that was the final Fantasy for an entire generation. Like
Speaker 3: we didn't get fifteen until like PS four, and like
Speaker 3: we were supposed to have so many games coming out
Speaker 3: of the Nebula Christalis bullshit. I don't I don't remember
Speaker 3: what it's called anymore. But like, yeah, for a lot
Speaker 3: of people growing up in the three sixty, in the
Speaker 3: PS three, this was really the only place to or
Speaker 3: Final Fantasy game that was accessible, like you had like
Speaker 3: Type zero and stuff, but like unless you were on
Speaker 3: PlayStation three as well, like you couldn't play the classic
Speaker 3: ones either. So it kind of does make sense why
Speaker 3: this is, but it's just really crazy coming back from
Speaker 3: the age where this was like the big hated Final Fantasy,
Speaker 3: where I feel like now things are constantly shifting. It's
Speaker 3: kind of like how Zelda, like your favorite Zelda is
Speaker 3: the first one you play, and then you just hate
Speaker 3: two Zelda's after that and then just constantly refresh.
Speaker 2: It does seem very good.
Speaker 1: I think one thing I would like to see here
Speaker 1: is it's it won't happen, but like Final Fantasy seven
Speaker 1: ever Crisis, the mobile one that kind of like retells
Speaker 1: the story with simpler visuals or whatever, so it could
Speaker 1: be on phone.
Speaker 2: I would like to see something like that.
Speaker 1: It just takes the whole thirteen trilogy and whatever other
Speaker 1: games and just puts it into one little package that
Speaker 1: I could play through.
Speaker 2: But they probably aren't going to do that. I don't know.
Speaker 2: At the very least they got it. They're not going
Speaker 2: to like give.
Speaker 1: This game the Final Thing Fantasy seven remake treatment, obviously,
Speaker 1: But even if they were to like remake those games,
Speaker 1: it's like, that's three games. That's a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1: They probably aren't even gonna do that. So it's like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, find some cost effective way to spruce
Speaker 1: up all three games. Put him out in one package.
Speaker 1: Maybe that could be cool. Who knows, modernize something in there,
Speaker 1: make it just feel slightly like edit the beginning of
Speaker 1: Final Fantasy thirteen so I never have to hear the
Speaker 1: phrase it gets good after thirty hours ever again, that
Speaker 1: would be that.
Speaker 2: Would be cool.
Speaker 1: All right, let's hit these last handful of stories pretty
Speaker 1: quick here. Boulders Game three won't be coming to switch
Speaker 1: to blare Maarno. Game spot basically explains that spinnvink in
Speaker 1: that Ama was asked about it, and he's just like,
Speaker 1: our relationship with Wizards of the Coast Slash Hasbro is
Speaker 1: such that this isn't gonna happen, and it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I guess, I guess we should have realized that that's
Speaker 1: where things are. But also, you know, they say they
Speaker 1: would like to do it at a certain point. Money
Speaker 1: talks right, because that game would do just fine on
Speaker 1: a switch to right.
Speaker 3: Absolutely. I feel like the big telling point, if there
Speaker 3: is a chance, is whether that new Wizards of the
Speaker 3: Coast game comes to switch to like it definitely seems
Speaker 3: like it's not gonna be a Larian thing at this point.
Speaker 3: It is going to be like a Wizards of the Coast,
Speaker 3: like not in Houseport, but getting someone support that there,
Speaker 3: and that comes with all of all these sets of problems,
Speaker 3: and it'll be interesting to see if that does happen.
Speaker 3: I mean, I know Divinity Original Sin two just got
Speaker 3: updated to switch to along with I think like PS
Speaker 3: five and Xbox, but that's been very big on the
Speaker 3: E shop the last couple of weeks, so I think
Speaker 3: a ton of people would even just rebuy Balder's Gate
Speaker 3: three to play it handheld. But yeah, it seems like
Speaker 3: it was a timing thing for Balder'sgate or for Larian rather.
Speaker 3: I don't know the timeline of like when that relationship soured,
Speaker 3: but seems pretty clear we're not going to see that
Speaker 3: partnership anytime.
Speaker 1: In h And the last couple of things here, Dragon
Speaker 1: Quest nine has sold over nine million copies. So oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that that series just finds a way, and that especially
Speaker 1: that game, people really really have liked to go back,
Speaker 1: have enjoyed going back to that game over the years,
Speaker 1: and it's one of those ones that's been on sale
Speaker 1: a million times and has had a bunch of improvements reports.
Speaker 1: So yeah, not surprising to see that they talked about
Speaker 1: that as they're talking about Dragon Quest seven demo being
Speaker 1: out everywhere, the updated version of that, and that that
Speaker 1: carries forward your progress.
Speaker 2: That you make in the demo, so people should go
Speaker 2: check that out. A lot of people seem to.
Speaker 1: Be enjoying it, and then Anthem is shutting down today.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, this is it. That's all it for for Anthem.
Speaker 1: My I can't get into my old Eaga account because
Speaker 1: it was tied to my old work email address, and
Speaker 1: I don't want to deal with support, so I'm just
Speaker 1: like I can't get it, so I'm not gonna be able.
Speaker 2: To play this.
Speaker 1: We were going to play this on the site, but
Speaker 1: no one, no one had a copy really anymore, and
Speaker 1: it's like, uh, you can't buy it right now.
Speaker 2: They won't won't let you buy it.
Speaker 1: I honestly, I think people are even saying, even if
Speaker 1: you did own it, people were struggling to download it through.
Speaker 2: The EA app on PC. So yeah, fun, but that'll
Speaker 2: be done for good today.
Speaker 1: I bet fan servers pop up, but you know that's
Speaker 1: for the real secos out there. All right, let's see here,
Speaker 1: we don't have a poll question because we had the
Speaker 1: Bomb twelve on Friday.
Speaker 2: Update.
Speaker 1: I updated the link on the Bomb twelve before the show.
Speaker 1: The games will be updated on the bomb excuse me,
Speaker 1: the Bomb twelve here pretty soon. But if you want
Speaker 1: to vote for this week's the Bomb twelve, you should
Speaker 1: be able to do that right now by going to
Speaker 1: giant bomb dot com. Just scroll down a little bit,
Speaker 1: a little bit, you'll see the Bomb twelve. You see
Speaker 1: a link there on the left. Find it there. Go
Speaker 1: ahead and let us know what your game is this week.
Speaker 1: Can't wait to find out? Can't wait to do the
Speaker 1: next Bomb twelve here in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: We do have a new poll question. We'll get to
Speaker 2: here in a second.
Speaker 1: Before we do that, though, John Martin, why don't you
Speaker 1: tell people where they can find you on the internet,
Speaker 1: what you have going on and all that good stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, as mentioned earlier. Yeah, you can follow me
Speaker 3: on at John Martin dot Bluesky dot social on there
Speaker 3: all the time posting stuff. This week, I'm not going
Speaker 3: to be streaming. I will be coming back and like
Speaker 3: working on my backlog if there's a whole series there,
Speaker 3: But gonna be away till next Wednesday, starting this week,
Speaker 3: and I'm going to Florida just with some friends and
Speaker 3: that should be a good time. But yeah, when I
Speaker 3: come back, a big streaming initiative to get backlog busters,
Speaker 3: which is a thing me and some friends are going
Speaker 3: to be doing. We're going to be podcasting about all
Speaker 3: the games in our backlog this year, so that's going
Speaker 3: to be pretty big. So make sure you follow for that.
Speaker 3: And yeah, I will say one one other shout out
Speaker 3: is seems for me, my game of the week will
Speaker 3: be big hops. Chuck's great reviews already on the site.
Speaker 3: I loved that reading that a lot, but.
Speaker 2: A four out of five. Everybody go read it right now. Though.
Speaker 2: It's He's got a lot of cool stuff to say
Speaker 2: about the game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a customization and platformers. That's that's one of
Speaker 3: my newte Like that is just so good for me.
Speaker 3: I love the characterization in platform and games. We need
Speaker 3: more of that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's see here.
Speaker 1: I'm going to see if the Open Critic has the
Speaker 1: details on that. Yeah, it's had a seventy two on there,
Speaker 1: let's see six. Access gave it a seven out of ten.
Speaker 1: Big Ops is a good new three D platformer that
Speaker 1: will draw plenty of fans with its fundabilities and locations
Speaker 1: to explore.
Speaker 2: My playthrough was affected by.
Speaker 1: Bugs, which is something I've been hearing with patches coming
Speaker 1: to address some of these issues and the run up
Speaker 1: to launch, but there seems to be some teething issues
Speaker 1: that remain people yet a lot of these reviews talk
Speaker 1: about stability issues and things like that. Big Ops is
Speaker 1: a charming and scrappy and charming and scrappy and equal
Speaker 1: measure for all the issues I faced during my playthrough,
Speaker 1: some squash by patchwork and others more fundamental, It's ultimately
Speaker 1: one of the most charming, playful, exhilarating, and deeply fun
Speaker 1: adventures I've embarked on at some time. Yeah, it just
Speaker 1: sounds like it has some rough edges, but that movement
Speaker 1: system is so good and it just makes you feel
Speaker 1: so capable that I just can't help.
Speaker 2: But continue to love it.
Speaker 1: All right, We'll talk about that more on the BombCast tomorrow. Everybody,
Speaker 1: can you poll question, what is your childhood final Fantasy game?
Speaker 1: Is it Final Fantasy six? Is it Final Fantasy seven?
Speaker 1: Is it Final Fantasy thirteen? Is it other? I guess
Speaker 1: that can also be none. Just don't vote in it
Speaker 1: if it's none. But if you have to vote other,
Speaker 1: we'll get the results of that. Talk about it on
Speaker 1: Giant Bomb here tomorrow, well, Wednesday, excuse me, tomorrow's the BombCast.
Speaker 1: That's what's happening here on Giant Bomb for the rest
Speaker 1: of the week. We got the BombCast, we'll have Blake Club.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we're gonna be able to do
Speaker 1: Monday Mornings Miss with Mitch today because I have an
Speaker 1: appointment I have to run too, so Mike's not gonna
Speaker 1: be without me. We'll see if he wants to do
Speaker 1: something else, we'll let you all know. But yeah, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a good week here. In the meantime, though,
Speaker 1: I think we might be all done. John Martin, thank
Speaker 1: you so much for hanging out with me today and
Speaker 1: talk about video games.
Speaker 2: Man. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 3: It's always a pleasure, Jeff, I'm excited to ring in
Speaker 3: the new year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this was great. Glad to get you back on
Speaker 1: the show. We'll do it again soon. Thank you all
Speaker 1: for watching and listening. Look, if you're upset about Monday
Speaker 1: Morning Smiths with mitche maybe I can move it to
Speaker 1: a later time today. It just depends on their schedule.
Speaker 1: I don't want to move these guys around. Look, we'll
Speaker 1: try to make it happen for you. Until next time,
Speaker 1: have a good one, take care of yourself and goodbye.