WEBVTT 1 00:00:07.599 --> 00:00:10.640 Hey, everybody, welcome to Game Best Mornings with Me Jeff Grub, 2 00:00:10.679 --> 00:00:12.560 your host from giant bomb dot com. 3 00:00:12.599 --> 00:00:13.640 Thank you for tuning in. 4 00:00:13.640 --> 00:00:16.480 In this episode, we're gonna be talking about new Nintendo 5 00:00:16.519 --> 00:00:18.519 hardware because I'll die if we don't have new Nintendo 6 00:00:18.559 --> 00:00:21.960 hardware rumors. I will just I'll suffocate on the show. Also, 7 00:00:22.879 --> 00:00:26.320 Resident Evil Requiem's latest reveals looking really good. It's gonna 8 00:00:26.320 --> 00:00:27.920 be a good one because we have Lex Luddy on 9 00:00:27.960 --> 00:00:29.679 the show. LEXI, how are you doing. 10 00:00:30.559 --> 00:00:34.280 Bob, other than my entire culture being diminished by one 11 00:00:34.320 --> 00:00:37.679 of this website's owners, I'm doing two. 12 00:00:37.920 --> 00:00:41.000 Two of the owners have done this now. Yeah, it's 13 00:00:41.039 --> 00:00:41.960 all five eventually. 14 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:45.560 Yeah, you're really just whiffing your way through, you know, 15 00:00:46.479 --> 00:00:50.719 all the countries, all the owners. Yep, that's right, true, 16 00:00:50.920 --> 00:00:53.479 your true Americans. I'll give you that. 17 00:00:53.640 --> 00:00:56.399 Oh thank you. Oh that's the nicest thing anyone's ever 18 00:00:56.439 --> 00:01:00.439 said about us. Yeah, Mike uh did not know. Well, 19 00:01:01.359 --> 00:01:05.920 he mistook the Irish accents in Dragon Quest seven for 20 00:01:06.319 --> 00:01:09.000 English accents, which which. 21 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:13.079 I can I can accept. I can accept being accent deaf. 22 00:01:13.400 --> 00:01:16.799 It's seeing a character named Patrick and seeing a character 23 00:01:16.879 --> 00:01:20.519 named Mayve and calling those the most British names possible, 24 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:21.599 that's not. 25 00:01:22.680 --> 00:01:24.040 That's he said that. 26 00:01:25.359 --> 00:01:29.719 He said that a town called like bally Gohan or something, 27 00:01:29.799 --> 00:01:32.400 and him being like, yeah, that's a really British sounding town. 28 00:01:32.840 --> 00:01:34.079 What's Brittish about the name? 29 00:01:34.159 --> 00:01:34.560 Patrick? 30 00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:36.480 I can't think of a single thing. I don't know 31 00:01:36.519 --> 00:01:40.159 what you're talking about. Oh no, even something that Americans would. 32 00:01:39.920 --> 00:01:40.640 Be familiar with. 33 00:01:41.560 --> 00:01:43.959 Look, he's gonna hear this, and he's gonna get mad 34 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:45.000 that I'm not defending him. 35 00:01:45.599 --> 00:01:46.680 Too fucking bad, Mike. 36 00:01:47.079 --> 00:01:51.879 Yeah, right next time. I don't know what to tell you, Bud. Yeah, 37 00:01:52.040 --> 00:01:54.000 glad you're on the show. Though I have a it's 38 00:01:54.879 --> 00:01:57.719 it's been a good week. No one to blame but 39 00:01:57.879 --> 00:02:00.640 myself for my state of mind. I just am not 40 00:02:01.079 --> 00:02:03.879 I mean, obviously it's the goddamn world, but I'm not 41 00:02:03.959 --> 00:02:06.840 sleeping real well, and I'm just I'm feeling it. It's Friday, 42 00:02:06.959 --> 00:02:08.759 lucky to have. We're gonna have a long weekend over here. 43 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:11.800 I'm gonna take that. Although I say that, and there's 44 00:02:11.840 --> 00:02:13.800 so many things I tried to get done last weekend. 45 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:15.719 I didn't finish someone to spend all week in doing that. 46 00:02:15.879 --> 00:02:18.719 But whatever that'll be, it's not neither here nor there. 47 00:02:19.039 --> 00:02:21.240 I just need to start getting my sleep schedule back 48 00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:24.120 on track and then I'll think I'll mostly be fine. 49 00:02:24.280 --> 00:02:26.199 But yeah, I'm glad you're here to help me get 50 00:02:26.199 --> 00:02:27.199 through this this episode. 51 00:02:27.560 --> 00:02:30.719 Speaking of sleep schedule, I mentioned this in a super 52 00:02:30.719 --> 00:02:34.960 shot to you the other Nie. I was at a 53 00:02:35.039 --> 00:02:41.520 Yakuza three preview event on Tuesday in London. Problem is 54 00:02:41.639 --> 00:02:46.560 I live for that Yakuza three preview event on Monday. 55 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:50.680 Yeah, So I mean that is a very also a 56 00:02:50.719 --> 00:02:55.159 micro minatti thing to do. I gotta say, I think 57 00:02:55.240 --> 00:02:57.120 we could see why you're lashing out a little bit, 58 00:02:57.240 --> 00:02:58.800 all right, your embarrassed. 59 00:02:59.479 --> 00:03:02.599 I the thirteenth of January as the twelfth of January 60 00:03:02.680 --> 00:03:06.360 just misread it, totally fucking misread it alive there as 61 00:03:06.400 --> 00:03:10.280 they were setting up the event space in London, and 62 00:03:10.319 --> 00:03:13.319 the guy was like, are you a journalist? And I 63 00:03:13.319 --> 00:03:14.879 was like yeah, and he was like, that isn't on 64 00:03:15.080 --> 00:03:17.719 until tomorrow. I was like oh, and he's like you 65 00:03:17.759 --> 00:03:20.159 look pretty upset. Like I'm a little bit upset. He's like, 66 00:03:20.159 --> 00:03:21.439 do you want a cup of coffee? I was like, yeah, 67 00:03:21.479 --> 00:03:22.879 I could do a cup of coffee. 68 00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:26.159 And I spent that whole day surrounded by Patricks. 69 00:03:25.960 --> 00:03:30.240 It was off in fairness. Shout out to Sega Pire. 70 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:32.800 They were very understanding and they were like, we'll get 71 00:03:32.840 --> 00:03:37.400 you a hotel for the night. And then yeah, I 72 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:41.240 rebooked my flight, so I'm paying like the flight stuff myself, 73 00:03:41.280 --> 00:03:44.000 which is fine, but you know, it's my own idiocy. 74 00:03:44.360 --> 00:03:47.319 And that event itself went pretty well. I met a 75 00:03:47.319 --> 00:03:48.199 cat cold Chicken. 76 00:03:48.719 --> 00:03:51.120 Yeah, there's you. So you got to take a look 77 00:03:51.120 --> 00:03:52.960 at this game. You get to meet a cat named Chicken. 78 00:03:53.560 --> 00:03:56.319 Was the cat just like protecting the hotel the event? 79 00:03:56.360 --> 00:03:56.960 What was it doing? 80 00:03:57.319 --> 00:04:00.280 So the event was on in in like an indoor market, 81 00:04:00.479 --> 00:04:04.000 and the indoor market had they rented out like two 82 00:04:04.080 --> 00:04:06.639 stores there in the corner. One of them was a 83 00:04:06.680 --> 00:04:08.280 retro video game store and the other one was a 84 00:04:08.360 --> 00:04:11.120 ramen shop, and so they just cording that off from 85 00:04:11.159 --> 00:04:13.599 the rest of the market. And the people who owned 86 00:04:13.599 --> 00:04:17.240 the Ramen shop had a cash So the demo section 87 00:04:17.360 --> 00:04:19.639 was upstairs and the cat was just wandering around upstairs 88 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:23.839 with us. Yeah, and the cat was very chill, sat 89 00:04:23.879 --> 00:04:25.759 next to me for almost the entire three hours of 90 00:04:25.800 --> 00:04:28.120 the event. It was very hard to actually bother playing 91 00:04:28.160 --> 00:04:31.279 the game. But yeah, it was a good event it 92 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:35.279 was I. You can read my preview up now on 93 00:04:35.319 --> 00:04:37.199 gam of Guides. It's on my Blue Sky as well. 94 00:04:38.439 --> 00:04:42.439 That game's really frustrating already because in some ways it 95 00:04:42.519 --> 00:04:45.240 is everything I want from a Yakuza three remake. It 96 00:04:45.319 --> 00:04:48.000 fixes pretty much all of the major problems that I 97 00:04:48.040 --> 00:04:50.800 have with that game. But it was alluded to, I 98 00:04:50.839 --> 00:04:52.800 think it was yesterday or the day before that you 99 00:04:52.879 --> 00:04:55.680 talked about it on this show. And the recasting is 100 00:04:55.720 --> 00:04:59.800 really bad. It's really like naughty, right, Yes, So there's 101 00:04:59.800 --> 00:05:03.399 two bits of recasting. One of them is they recasted 102 00:05:03.399 --> 00:05:06.040 a kind of your main sidekick in this game who's 103 00:05:06.079 --> 00:05:08.120 kind of meant to be a country He's meant to 104 00:05:08.120 --> 00:05:10.519 be like a bit of a country bumpkin who's acting 105 00:05:10.600 --> 00:05:13.000 like a big Yakuza big shot. And the whole idea 106 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:15.240 of his side character is that like he's a bit 107 00:05:15.279 --> 00:05:18.040 of a like loser, but you learn to love him 108 00:05:18.279 --> 00:05:22.600 because he does have a like a good harsh they've 109 00:05:22.680 --> 00:05:25.160 recast him and they've used the face of the guy 110 00:05:25.160 --> 00:05:27.959 that they recast him as. Originally, he was like an 111 00:05:27.959 --> 00:05:31.560 original design character wasn't based off of anyone's face, and 112 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:33.399 he was meant to look like a bit of a dog. 113 00:05:33.480 --> 00:05:34.720 He was meant to look like a bit of a 114 00:05:34.759 --> 00:05:39.879 try hard poser. Now he is a like Hollywood pretty boy, 115 00:05:40.040 --> 00:05:44.839 he really is, and it just it's a weird choice. 116 00:05:45.319 --> 00:05:47.720 The other bit of recasting is one of the game's 117 00:05:47.720 --> 00:05:53.040 main villains is a guy called Go Hamazaki, and he 118 00:05:53.160 --> 00:05:55.199 is meant to be a brickshit acuse he is meant 119 00:05:55.240 --> 00:05:58.199 to be one of the most imposing physical figures in 120 00:05:58.199 --> 00:06:02.439 the Yakuza franchise. And again, he wasn't based off of 121 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:05.560 real life person model wise, which allowed them to really 122 00:06:05.600 --> 00:06:07.920 make them look like a fucking brick shit house. 123 00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:08.319 Right. 124 00:06:08.399 --> 00:06:12.279 They've recast him with a real world actor and based 125 00:06:12.279 --> 00:06:14.000 it off of him, and now he kind of just 126 00:06:14.079 --> 00:06:18.000 looks like a seventy year old Japanese man, a sixty 127 00:06:18.079 --> 00:06:21.199 year old Japanese man. And the other problem is who 128 00:06:21.199 --> 00:06:26.959 they recast him as. And that's where it gets. Yeah, 129 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:32.399 they were in twenty twenty two, this actor Kadagawa, I 130 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:34.480 can't remember his first name now off the top of 131 00:06:34.480 --> 00:06:37.839 my head without looking at my article. A video came 132 00:06:37.879 --> 00:06:42.439 out of him basically sexually harassing a woman in a 133 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:46.160 hostess club. Shortly after that, a newspaper spoke to the 134 00:06:46.199 --> 00:06:48.680 woman and obtained that video and released dish. They also 135 00:06:48.680 --> 00:06:51.800 spoke to a second hostess who claimed that similar things 136 00:06:51.800 --> 00:06:53.439 happened to her on the same night, but there we're 137 00:06:53.480 --> 00:06:58.279 not videos of that. His agency came out and basically 138 00:06:58.319 --> 00:07:02.680 acknowledged Ith and apologized. They only acknowledged and apologized to 139 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:05.439 the woman who there was video recording of. The other 140 00:07:05.480 --> 00:07:09.600 woman never received an apology, and within four months he 141 00:07:09.680 --> 00:07:12.199 was back acting again on stage. And now he's back 142 00:07:12.240 --> 00:07:19.560 acting on screen and Orgig have chosen to cast him. 143 00:07:20.040 --> 00:07:23.720 I understand the argument of hey, it's hard to replace 144 00:07:23.879 --> 00:07:29.920 people in video games. But also in twenty nineteen, Judgment 145 00:07:29.959 --> 00:07:33.639 came out This is why Yeah, go ahead, and shortly 146 00:07:33.680 --> 00:07:36.680 after the INU I think it was a month after 147 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:39.120 the release of Judgment in Japan. It came out in Japan. 148 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:42.319 First one of the actors was caught with possession of 149 00:07:43.920 --> 00:07:47.240 Yeah Yeah tacky, and he was caught with possession of cocaine. 150 00:07:47.480 --> 00:07:52.000 He was arrested and actually I was even caught with possession. 151 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:55.240 I understand was like he had a positive drug test 152 00:07:55.279 --> 00:07:57.439 and they didn't find anything, so. 153 00:07:57.439 --> 00:08:03.360 They charged him with possession and testing cars and the 154 00:08:03.560 --> 00:08:08.000 ORGG basically said that for the Western release, which came 155 00:08:08.040 --> 00:08:10.319 out a couple of months later, they would be replacing 156 00:08:10.360 --> 00:08:12.279 him and it would no longer be his likeness. It 157 00:08:12.279 --> 00:08:16.319 would just be a random character facial likeness. And they 158 00:08:16.360 --> 00:08:20.480 also changed the voice actor, and then they patched the 159 00:08:20.600 --> 00:08:25.680 Japanese version later on to also remove the actor, and 160 00:08:25.720 --> 00:08:28.600 then subsequent like the PS five version, the PC version 161 00:08:28.759 --> 00:08:31.279 all don't have Pierre Taki's name. So I actually have 162 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:34.080 a copy of the PS four version, the unpatched PS 163 00:08:34.080 --> 00:08:36.720 four version, that I picked up in Japan with this guy 164 00:08:36.720 --> 00:08:39.360 in Ish, because I thought it was an interesting novelty. 165 00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:44.360 So ORGG has been able to do this in the past. 166 00:08:44.360 --> 00:08:44.919 They also do it. 167 00:08:45.080 --> 00:08:47.360 Don't do it pagonist and do it for something that's 168 00:08:47.480 --> 00:08:49.799 just doesn't I mean, I know in Japan the culture 169 00:08:49.840 --> 00:08:53.159 around drug use is very severe and like this is 170 00:08:53.159 --> 00:08:55.919 what they do. Like when people get caught with drugs 171 00:08:56.039 --> 00:08:59.679 or using drugs, it's like, well, no, we're deleting you 172 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:06.919 from society, okay, but keep that same energy for abuse. 173 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:08.279 What are we talking about here? 174 00:09:08.960 --> 00:09:13.399 So the really frustrating thing about this is playing that demo. 175 00:09:13.799 --> 00:09:15.799 There is a whole side mission. One of the main 176 00:09:15.960 --> 00:09:17.960 side Substoris you know, the way that there's always kind 177 00:09:17.960 --> 00:09:19.960 of like a main side thing that you can do. 178 00:09:20.080 --> 00:09:22.960 In one of in zero it's like the cabaret club. 179 00:09:23.639 --> 00:09:25.360 In some of the other ones, it's you know, go 180 00:09:25.480 --> 00:09:28.679 kart racing or whatever. In this one it's, oh, you're 181 00:09:28.799 --> 00:09:30.799 helping out with a biker gang, and it's an all 182 00:09:30.919 --> 00:09:34.120 it's a women led biker gang. And the section that 183 00:09:34.159 --> 00:09:38.480 they showed us features basically the dad of the woman 184 00:09:38.480 --> 00:09:41.080 who runs the biker gang being to cure you, like, hey, 185 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:43.080 take care of my daughter and you know, help her 186 00:09:43.080 --> 00:09:44.559 out with the biker gang. And here you kind of 187 00:09:44.600 --> 00:09:47.279 side steps the question. And then when he goes outside, 188 00:09:47.320 --> 00:09:48.879 the daughter is like, I want you to be the 189 00:09:48.919 --> 00:09:51.080 boss of the biker gang. And here you says, I 190 00:09:51.080 --> 00:09:52.799 don't want to be the boss. I want you to 191 00:09:52.840 --> 00:09:55.799 fight your own battles, but I'll support you. And it's 192 00:09:55.799 --> 00:09:58.000 a really good bit of a fighting. It's a really 193 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:01.879 good bit of like actually acknowledging like, hey, this woman 194 00:10:01.919 --> 00:10:05.759 should empower herself and qu is trying to enable that. 195 00:10:06.080 --> 00:10:09.039 And it's fucking baffling and so at odds with what 196 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:13.000 the studio is doing in real life, and it is 197 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:17.360 so frustrating. It is so hard to like unequivocally recommend 198 00:10:17.399 --> 00:10:22.559 this game when those two casting decisions, like even without 199 00:10:23.039 --> 00:10:27.360 the questionableness nature to them, are just bad casting decisions. 200 00:10:27.360 --> 00:10:31.960 They're just not They don't improve the story, they take 201 00:10:32.000 --> 00:10:35.480 away from the story. And then when you factor in 202 00:10:35.639 --> 00:10:40.000 the actual like personalities involved, it feels so at odds 203 00:10:40.039 --> 00:10:43.240 with what the franchise wants to represent and tries to 204 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:47.799 represent so often it's deeply frustrating as someone who really 205 00:10:47.799 --> 00:10:48.720 loves those games. 206 00:10:49.159 --> 00:10:52.159 Yeah, yeah, and it's uh and I certainly don't want 207 00:10:52.159 --> 00:10:54.279 to like make this from my point of view like 208 00:10:54.279 --> 00:10:57.879 a criticism of Japanese culture, but I just I uh. 209 00:10:57.960 --> 00:10:59.879 One of the things I respect so much about rgg's 210 00:10:59.879 --> 00:11:02.600 games is they do seem like they are considerate and 211 00:11:02.879 --> 00:11:07.120 capable of examining their culture and having some critical thinking 212 00:11:07.159 --> 00:11:08.720 about it, uh, in a way that. 213 00:11:08.879 --> 00:11:16.240 Like Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii has a whole sub story 214 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:20.960 where basically you help out a woman who used to 215 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:23.080 be a sex worker and she decides to become an 216 00:11:23.080 --> 00:11:26.360 author to write about like safe sex and working in 217 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:29.120 the sex work industry and like how to do it 218 00:11:29.159 --> 00:11:32.360 more safely. Like that's a whole sub story in pirate 219 00:11:32.440 --> 00:11:36.360 Yakuza in uh in Hawaii, and so this just feels 220 00:11:36.399 --> 00:11:38.720 so at odds with that stuff. 221 00:11:38.759 --> 00:11:41.720 Right, And so yes, I'm chat writers versus executives. Yeah, 222 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:43.080 you kind of. I kind of have to assume it's 223 00:11:43.080 --> 00:11:45.159 something along those lines. Either way. 224 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:48.919 It's that this is a shame and and they should 225 00:11:49.000 --> 00:11:49.840 they should fix this. 226 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:52.120 They should, they should get rid of this guy. 227 00:11:52.480 --> 00:11:55.240 And like I do know in the grand scheme, this 228 00:11:55.360 --> 00:11:58.200 is like a pretty small problem. There's other thing, like 229 00:11:58.360 --> 00:12:00.240 you have to consider a game on the whole, but 230 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:02.919 also like hold that feet to the file on this stuff, 231 00:12:02.960 --> 00:12:06.200 like there's no reason not to as pressed, like we 232 00:12:06.279 --> 00:12:10.639 should like actually interrogate these decisions and call attention to 233 00:12:10.679 --> 00:12:12.399 them when they happen exactly. 234 00:12:12.919 --> 00:12:15.120 All right, thanks for that, Lex, I'm glad you were 235 00:12:15.120 --> 00:12:16.879 able to make that trip work. 236 00:12:17.159 --> 00:12:18.840 And I hope you get the sea chicken again one day. 237 00:12:19.240 --> 00:12:22.759 All right, let's explain ourselves for Giant Bomb Independent Games Media. 238 00:12:23.279 --> 00:12:26.320 You could support independent games Media though yourself. 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You can also catch the show later 262 00:13:26.039 --> 00:13:30.879 with chapters and timestamps on YouTube. Hello YouTube, all right, 263 00:13:30.919 --> 00:13:32.519 we all love to get into four quick. 264 00:13:32.519 --> 00:13:35.159 Jump into souff. Just quick shout out to all the 265 00:13:35.159 --> 00:13:39.279 people at Inverse that have just lost their jobs. 266 00:13:39.559 --> 00:13:42.480 Oh really, that's terrible. Okay, I didn't see. 267 00:13:42.519 --> 00:13:48.200 Yeah, they're divesting from the gaming industry. So huge shout 268 00:13:48.240 --> 00:13:53.039 out to folks like Willowow and Hayes Madsen. There's some 269 00:13:53.080 --> 00:13:56.240 really great people over at Inverse. I've worked with a 270 00:13:56.240 --> 00:13:57.720 bunch of them before in the past, and they're all 271 00:13:57.759 --> 00:14:00.639 really nice. So if you see any of them out 272 00:14:00.639 --> 00:14:03.840 there on Blue Sky or whatever talking about being out 273 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:06.240 of work, go follow them, Go sport them, go check 274 00:14:06.279 --> 00:14:06.840 out that work. 275 00:14:07.320 --> 00:14:07.559 Yep. 276 00:14:07.600 --> 00:14:09.879 The industry is better with them, So hopefully you can 277 00:14:09.919 --> 00:14:12.759 find a home for all these people. All right, let's 278 00:14:12.840 --> 00:14:16.440 get into it. A potential new Nintendo switch two model 279 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:19.600 has been discovered. This is for my Nintendo News. A 280 00:14:19.679 --> 00:14:22.519 Blue Sky user has discovered what appears to be potentially 281 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:26.720 a new Nintendo switch to model code on Nintendo's internal website. 282 00:14:26.759 --> 00:14:29.240 So there's like a code name for all these things, 283 00:14:29.240 --> 00:14:31.120 not even a cod name, it's like three code letters. 284 00:14:31.519 --> 00:14:34.639 For example, the original switch was HAC, the switch O 285 00:14:34.840 --> 00:14:39.279 led was h EG, the switch light was HGH, and 286 00:14:39.320 --> 00:14:42.720 then the switch to was b EE. This new one 287 00:14:43.240 --> 00:14:47.080 that is now referenced is OSM and it does seem 288 00:14:47.159 --> 00:14:51.480 to be an entirely new model of switch or switch 289 00:14:51.519 --> 00:14:54.960 to I should say what that means, though no one 290 00:14:55.399 --> 00:14:58.879 seems to be exactly sure, although the speculation right now 291 00:14:58.919 --> 00:15:02.200 everyone is immediately jump into oh, this is the switch 292 00:15:02.320 --> 00:15:07.080 to light, which I gotta say, LEXI, that sounds right 293 00:15:07.120 --> 00:15:11.039 to me. Because Nintendo knows what happened with the switch 294 00:15:11.080 --> 00:15:13.399 light last time, they probably are going to be able 295 00:15:13.399 --> 00:15:15.240 to get this next one ready quicker because they are 296 00:15:15.279 --> 00:15:17.600 preparing to do it, probably right out the gate they're like, well, 297 00:15:17.840 --> 00:15:19.440 we know when we want the switch to light, let's 298 00:15:19.440 --> 00:15:19.679 get it. 299 00:15:19.840 --> 00:15:20.440 Get it ready. 300 00:15:21.320 --> 00:15:23.320 And then also the switch to light can do some 301 00:15:23.440 --> 00:15:26.840 key things in terms of price reduction. Are cost reduction 302 00:15:27.039 --> 00:15:29.240 so that Nintendo can sell it at a lower price 303 00:15:29.360 --> 00:15:32.200 if they could get a switch to light out there. 304 00:15:32.679 --> 00:15:36.000 That serves a couple of purposes. For one, anytime that 305 00:15:36.080 --> 00:15:37.799 there is a Pokemon game that comes out that is 306 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:40.399 exclusive the switch to you sort of match it up 307 00:15:40.440 --> 00:15:42.120 with this thing, and that's the thing that you can 308 00:15:42.120 --> 00:15:44.840 tell families to get for kids. And then the other 309 00:15:45.120 --> 00:15:47.360 key thing here that's going to be important very soon 310 00:15:47.480 --> 00:15:51.080 is Nintendo will eventually want to move on from the 311 00:15:51.159 --> 00:15:53.879 switch one, which has been there like, hey, if you 312 00:15:53.879 --> 00:15:55.799 can't afford to switch To, go get a Switch one. 313 00:15:56.120 --> 00:15:58.519 And that's been kind of a fair proposition because there's 314 00:15:58.519 --> 00:16:00.240 been a ton of Switch one games. They have Switch 315 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:03.960 one game's coming soon still, but they're gonna want to 316 00:16:04.000 --> 00:16:06.960 move on from that soon and having a more affordable 317 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:10.039 switch To would help them kind of put that in. 318 00:16:10.080 --> 00:16:11.600 Their rear view mirror a little bit. 319 00:16:12.120 --> 00:16:14.559 Uh, I'm buying into this a little bit. I guess 320 00:16:14.600 --> 00:16:18.240 the question would be when does this happen? And there's 321 00:16:18.279 --> 00:16:19.919 no reason to assume just because it's popping on the 322 00:16:19.960 --> 00:16:22.240 web on the website that it's imminent, as in like 323 00:16:22.399 --> 00:16:24.480 the next three months or something like that. We are 324 00:16:24.519 --> 00:16:26.679 not even yet a year out from the release of 325 00:16:26.720 --> 00:16:27.159 the switch To. 326 00:16:28.440 --> 00:16:32.759 I if the big question is when it holiday, right 327 00:16:32.919 --> 00:16:36.480 they holiday? Yeah, I agree, they do, like a September release, 328 00:16:36.720 --> 00:16:42.039 get it like in in store shelves and like they'll 329 00:16:42.080 --> 00:16:47.440 know where their pricing situation is ash by then, and yeah, 330 00:16:47.440 --> 00:16:49.240 this makes all the sense in the world. I think 331 00:16:49.440 --> 00:16:51.840 it will be interesting to see if it's the same 332 00:16:52.360 --> 00:16:57.639 screen because there's been so much back and forth on 333 00:16:57.679 --> 00:17:01.480 the quality of the switch To, who's built in screen 334 00:17:02.039 --> 00:17:06.440 and more so the lack equality of that screen, and 335 00:17:06.960 --> 00:17:09.799 if you have a handheld only device, I think people 336 00:17:09.799 --> 00:17:12.960 are going to notice the problems with that screen a 337 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:18.720 lot more. And yeah, I I wish that screen was better. 338 00:17:18.759 --> 00:17:20.960 Every time I take my switch and travel with me, 339 00:17:21.039 --> 00:17:25.200 I'm like, this is fine. But also, man, that old 340 00:17:25.319 --> 00:17:27.400 ed was nice. It was really nice. It was crisp. 341 00:17:27.480 --> 00:17:30.359 It was it was so crisp, and it looks so 342 00:17:30.599 --> 00:17:33.839 sharp and like there are certain games where you play 343 00:17:33.880 --> 00:17:36.839 them on the switch one and you're like, oh this 344 00:17:36.839 --> 00:17:39.839 this does look better and handheld moch like this, this 345 00:17:39.920 --> 00:17:43.680 is a better handheld experience in some ways. So yeah, 346 00:17:44.119 --> 00:17:46.079 it would be. It will be weird if it winds 347 00:17:46.160 --> 00:17:48.319 up having a different screen and it's like better than 348 00:17:48.480 --> 00:17:52.880 the premiere model screen. But yeah, I can I can 349 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:57.039 see it happening. Yeah, what what do you think that 350 00:17:57.119 --> 00:18:00.279 they would have any reason to like hold on this 351 00:18:00.319 --> 00:18:01.799 for longer than holiday? 352 00:18:02.400 --> 00:18:06.240 I mean again, obviously the question marks around like components 353 00:18:06.240 --> 00:18:08.480 sourcing will be an issue, Like, yeah, this will be. 354 00:18:08.880 --> 00:18:10.759 They will try to reduce the costs on this thing, 355 00:18:11.079 --> 00:18:13.319 but that comes down to actually being able to get 356 00:18:13.359 --> 00:18:16.759 the components at a decent price, and it's like, you know, 357 00:18:17.200 --> 00:18:21.359 there's a reason like Valve stops selling the lowest version 358 00:18:21.599 --> 00:18:25.640 of the Steam Deck, right because, yeah, that was the 359 00:18:25.720 --> 00:18:27.720 cheapest one for them to manufacture, but it also had 360 00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:31.640 the slimmest margins, So they like selling the more expensive 361 00:18:31.640 --> 00:18:34.039 ones because that gives them more margins even as RAM 362 00:18:34.119 --> 00:18:37.680 goes up in price. So that's the one thing that 363 00:18:37.720 --> 00:18:41.039 I think could hold this up is Nintendo going if 364 00:18:41.039 --> 00:18:42.920 we launch it this year actually at the price we 365 00:18:42.960 --> 00:18:45.400 wanted to launch it at, we are going to be 366 00:18:45.400 --> 00:18:47.799 in a situation where we're actually losing money on this device, 367 00:18:47.839 --> 00:18:49.240 and we don't want to do that. But we also 368 00:18:49.279 --> 00:18:52.279 do not want to sell it for more than three dollars, 369 00:18:52.559 --> 00:18:56.240 you know, three fifty No, that's crazy. I switched to 370 00:18:56.319 --> 00:18:58.319 OLED has kind of has to be three hundred dollars, 371 00:18:58.319 --> 00:18:59.119 But I don't know. 372 00:18:59.160 --> 00:19:00.559 We'll see what Nintendo doing. 373 00:19:00.920 --> 00:19:03.359 So yeah, I think this comes out in the holiday, 374 00:19:03.599 --> 00:19:06.079 And I agree with your assessment about like the screen 375 00:19:06.200 --> 00:19:08.359 is going to be kind of a key point here. 376 00:19:08.640 --> 00:19:10.720 It's not going to be an O lead, you know, 377 00:19:10.799 --> 00:19:14.079 it's it'll probably be a smaller screen. So therefore they'll 378 00:19:14.079 --> 00:19:18.400 have to source a different model and that will give 379 00:19:18.440 --> 00:19:20.160 them the chance to fix some of the stuff, like 380 00:19:20.200 --> 00:19:24.000 the ghosting that I don't notice, but like when I'm 381 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:26.480 playing and I don't, I'm not. I be honest, I've 382 00:19:26.559 --> 00:19:28.640 not tried to look into it because I know once 383 00:19:28.680 --> 00:19:30.759 I notice it, I won't be able to not notice it, 384 00:19:30.759 --> 00:19:33.359 and that'll drive me crazy. So for people who have 385 00:19:33.480 --> 00:19:35.720 noticed it, it is driving them crazy. Maybe this will 386 00:19:35.720 --> 00:19:37.400 be the kind of thing where it's like, Okay, yeah, 387 00:19:37.440 --> 00:19:40.400 it's still LCD. It's it's still maybe even from the 388 00:19:40.440 --> 00:19:44.160 same company or whatever, but it is an improved model 389 00:19:44.240 --> 00:19:49.279 or whatever, which is entirely possible. Really though, it's like, yeah, 390 00:19:48.799 --> 00:19:51.880 I really, I'm really happy with the switch to as 391 00:19:52.039 --> 00:19:55.680 it is. I remember very much enjoying the switch light 392 00:19:55.720 --> 00:19:57.920 when that launched, just because the switch one felt so 393 00:19:58.039 --> 00:20:00.799 flimsy in my hands, and the switch one being one 394 00:20:01.200 --> 00:20:03.799 or the switch one light being an all in one 395 00:20:03.920 --> 00:20:04.559 unit was. 396 00:20:04.519 --> 00:20:05.440 A big improvement to me. 397 00:20:05.480 --> 00:20:07.759 This time rout, it's like, that's a little bit less necessary, 398 00:20:07.759 --> 00:20:09.559 but maybe they'll have some other things in their pocket 399 00:20:09.599 --> 00:20:12.599 to make this thing feel extra cool. At the very least, though, 400 00:20:12.640 --> 00:20:16.920 they're they're gonna want something to sell to younger, younger players, 401 00:20:17.359 --> 00:20:19.359