WEBVTT 1 00:00:31.079 --> 00:00:34.679 Hey, everybody, welcome to Game Breaking News with me Jeff Grub, 2 00:00:34.679 --> 00:00:37.600 your host from GiantBomb dot com. Thank you for tuning 3 00:00:37.640 --> 00:00:40.079 in on this episode, we're gonna be talking about Nintendo 4 00:00:40.320 --> 00:00:43.520 actually announcing a new Direct just six days before the 5 00:00:43.560 --> 00:00:46.560 switch to Direct. We have Lucy James on the program, 6 00:00:46.679 --> 00:00:48.399 so you know it's gonna be a good one. Let's 7 00:00:48.399 --> 00:00:51.640 get right into it by saying hello to said Lucy 8 00:00:51.759 --> 00:00:53.079 James games. How's it going? 9 00:00:53.799 --> 00:00:55.640 I E it is going well. Thank you. 10 00:00:56.000 --> 00:00:59.399 I just want to give a shout out to past 11 00:00:59.640 --> 00:01:01.920 Lucy James because she really. 12 00:01:01.799 --> 00:01:04.719 Really helped out present Lucy James when she was setting 13 00:01:04.760 --> 00:01:06.040 up her office yesterday. 14 00:01:06.560 --> 00:01:10.120 Good job. Yeah, that's a that's a bit a big one. 15 00:01:10.159 --> 00:01:12.840 I always count on past and present Lucy James. I'm 16 00:01:12.840 --> 00:01:15.239 glad that you can also count on past Lucy James. 17 00:01:15.560 --> 00:01:20.760 She labeled every single wire every. 18 00:01:21.319 --> 00:01:24.400 Okay, one okay, So I didn't know we were getting 19 00:01:24.400 --> 00:01:25.000 that serious. 20 00:01:25.319 --> 00:01:26.079 Oh yeah yeah. 21 00:01:26.719 --> 00:01:28.959 And then this is the first time I've had a 22 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:32.200 camera like directly above my screen since maybe twenty twenty, 23 00:01:32.239 --> 00:01:34.200 and it feels weird that I'm not like looking off 24 00:01:34.200 --> 00:01:34.760 to the side. 25 00:01:34.959 --> 00:01:37.519 But we will. We'll get there. 26 00:01:37.879 --> 00:01:41.480 Looks good. What's the plans for, you know, decorating, getting 27 00:01:41.480 --> 00:01:43.719 everything set up in there. You know, to be fair, 28 00:01:43.760 --> 00:01:44.959 you know that you don't. It's not like there's an 29 00:01:44.959 --> 00:01:45.879 echo in there or anything. 30 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:48.280 So oh I'm using. I'm using in video broadcasts. 31 00:01:48.319 --> 00:01:50.519 That's why. Is that helping listen? It is? 32 00:01:50.599 --> 00:01:52.719 Yeah, they just updated it and it is very good. 33 00:01:53.719 --> 00:01:55.799 Green Wayne Scotting cream top. 34 00:01:56.480 --> 00:01:59.519 Nice comfortable chair is going in that corner, and at 35 00:01:59.519 --> 00:02:01.120 some point the next couple of days, I'm going to 36 00:02:01.159 --> 00:02:03.879 be putting my junk on these shelves. Shout out to 37 00:02:03.959 --> 00:02:05.319 the miller's forgiving me that junk. 38 00:02:05.359 --> 00:02:07.959 By the way, Oh fantastic you were painting right. This 39 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:10.800 is a fresh paint job, it is. It looks great, 40 00:02:10.879 --> 00:02:12.159 so thank you. 41 00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:15.759 The one problem is is that it was I painted 42 00:02:15.759 --> 00:02:20.759 this like a salmon pink, which you know, there was 43 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:23.960 a vision and I'm totally fine in saying that the 44 00:02:24.080 --> 00:02:26.719 vision didn't work. But I've just kind of gone back 45 00:02:26.719 --> 00:02:28.879 to an ice cream. Someone's telling me to turn on 46 00:02:28.879 --> 00:02:31.240 the Nvidia blank no blank mode. 47 00:02:31.280 --> 00:02:31.919 Shall I do it? 48 00:02:32.759 --> 00:02:36.080 Yeah, I'm listening. I'll look away, but chat can't. So yeah, 49 00:02:36.319 --> 00:02:37.159 that's finely me. 50 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:40.240 Oh wait, I have to change it in here. 51 00:02:42.479 --> 00:02:45.800 That's always a good thing to do to yourself as 52 00:02:45.800 --> 00:02:48.039 a lady on the internet is give yourself crazy eyes. 53 00:02:48.080 --> 00:02:49.159 I think that's what people like. 54 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:51.680 So it just it just it just flat out breaks everything. 55 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:52.919 It did just break everything. 56 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:54.039 It just breaks everything. 57 00:02:54.080 --> 00:02:59.080 So I guess with the thirty ninety and so all. 58 00:02:59.080 --> 00:03:01.919 Right, well you know what, We'll try the no blink 59 00:03:02.039 --> 00:03:04.599 next time. Everybody, all right, let's explain what we do 60 00:03:04.599 --> 00:03:07.240 here most weekdays, I, Jeff Grub willhelp pece your gaming 61 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:10.520 life back together. 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Okay, 70 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:35.560 we have a lot to get into, so let's start 71 00:03:35.560 --> 00:03:36.240 the morning mess. 72 00:03:36.919 --> 00:03:38.439 You didn't say it, you didn't say it, you didn't 73 00:03:38.479 --> 00:03:38.840 say it. 74 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:42.360 Hello YouTube, Thank you man. That I do people do 75 00:03:42.360 --> 00:03:44.280 get mad if I forget to say it, so it's. 76 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:46.719 Never you didn't say it. 77 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:48.919 It's never been written down. I just you know, it 78 00:03:49.039 --> 00:03:52.960 just happens, so yeah, or if it is written out, 79 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:55.360 it's not on this Wednesday, doc anyhow, give different docks 80 00:03:55.400 --> 00:03:57.439 reach day of the week. Everybody a little. 81 00:03:57.159 --> 00:03:58.680 But that's how that's how we do things. 82 00:03:59.199 --> 00:04:02.479 That's all we do things over here. That's called efficiency. 83 00:04:02.560 --> 00:04:05.240 I don't think it is all right. Let's get into 84 00:04:05.240 --> 00:04:09.199 some headlines. Lucy James tomorrow. It's been confirmed and Nintendo 85 00:04:09.319 --> 00:04:12.120 announced it. It's not they're not really holding back in 86 00:04:12.159 --> 00:04:15.000 terms of like setting expectation expectations even I suppose they 87 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:17.480 can do that because they do have switched to Direct 88 00:04:17.480 --> 00:04:20.800 coming next week. But a Nintendo Direct is happening tomorrow. 89 00:04:21.519 --> 00:04:24.319 The Kennis Shepherd headline over at Kotaka reads sounds like 90 00:04:24.360 --> 00:04:27.040 it could be the switch's last hurrah. Don't know why 91 00:04:27.079 --> 00:04:30.839 it wouldn't be. I think the numbers on this it'll be. 92 00:04:30.959 --> 00:04:35.360 It'll start at seven am Pacific time, ten am Eastern. 93 00:04:35.800 --> 00:04:41.839 We will find somewhere seven am Pacific time is like 94 00:04:41.920 --> 00:04:44.879 man just one hour later, and that's like actually kind 95 00:04:44.879 --> 00:04:48.319 of reasonable. Seven am is not their. 96 00:04:47.560 --> 00:04:50.000 American offices in Seattle. I'm sure they love it. 97 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:53.160 Yeah. I wonder if they ever like try to like 98 00:04:53.160 --> 00:04:55.319 get them to moving around, and that's like, now you're American. 99 00:04:55.360 --> 00:05:00.240 We don't care. So thirty minutes is the time we've 100 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:02.959 been given. And of course they did say that there 101 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:05.199 wouldn't be any Switch to stuff here, so that is 102 00:05:05.759 --> 00:05:08.120 as far as like the setting expectations, that's the one 103 00:05:08.120 --> 00:05:11.600 thing they have done. Beyond that, Nintendo doesn't go into 104 00:05:11.600 --> 00:05:14.040 any specifics about what games we might be seeing during 105 00:05:14.040 --> 00:05:16.399 the showcase. Usually the company says if a stream will 106 00:05:16.399 --> 00:05:18.759 be made up of third party partner games rather than 107 00:05:18.759 --> 00:05:21.439 its own in house projects, but it makes no such 108 00:05:21.480 --> 00:05:23.839 distinction here. So we may see some of Nintendo's last 109 00:05:23.839 --> 00:05:26.120 big Switch games before we move on to Switch too. 110 00:05:26.519 --> 00:05:28.759 As far as we know, Nintendo is winding down first 111 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:31.439 party games for the Switch, but some big games like 112 00:05:31.560 --> 00:05:35.759 Metroid Prime for Beyond and Pokemon Legends ZA are still 113 00:05:35.759 --> 00:05:40.040 coming to the console this year, So okay. There's been 114 00:05:40.120 --> 00:05:43.720 some other like developments recently Lucy that have like definitely 115 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:46.199 thrown a little bit of muck in our understanding what 116 00:05:46.600 --> 00:05:49.079 might be happening in which direct there was a report 117 00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:51.959 a week or so ago that said there would be 118 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:54.879 this big Metroid Prime four blowout, it would take up 119 00:05:54.879 --> 00:05:57.480 a lot of the spotlight in the Switch To Direct. 120 00:05:57.519 --> 00:06:01.120 On April second, now we're hearing that from someone else 121 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:03.720 that Metroid Prime four won't be in the switch to 122 00:06:03.800 --> 00:06:06.680 Direct at all. So I'm thinking you told me, if 123 00:06:06.680 --> 00:06:08.199 this sounds right to you, that maybe there were some 124 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:10.720 cross wires there, and METROI Prime four is going to 125 00:06:10.759 --> 00:06:13.360 be a big thing in this direct, and then maybe 126 00:06:13.399 --> 00:06:17.240 it gets a mention or something, or Nintendo refers to this. 127 00:06:17.319 --> 00:06:19.519 Director says all those games that are for Switch one, yeah, 128 00:06:19.519 --> 00:06:22.279 they'll run great on Switch too, and that's it. But 129 00:06:22.360 --> 00:06:25.920 METROI Prime four is probably in this one, right, Yeah. 130 00:06:25.759 --> 00:06:29.120 I hope it's in this one, just because yes, all 131 00:06:29.160 --> 00:06:31.720 eyes will be on the Switch too thing. But if 132 00:06:31.720 --> 00:06:35.439 you're talking about giving Metroid like a chance to have 133 00:06:35.519 --> 00:06:38.240 its flowers, you know, and also just like be the 134 00:06:38.279 --> 00:06:41.360 star of its own it's own direct that a lot 135 00:06:41.399 --> 00:06:43.439 of people are going to be watching without having to 136 00:06:43.439 --> 00:06:45.040 compete with all the Switch To stuff. And then you 137 00:06:45.079 --> 00:06:46.639 get the good news a week later that hey, it 138 00:06:46.759 --> 00:06:48.759 is going to be able to come in the it 139 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:49.959 will be playable in the Switch Too. 140 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:53.279 I think that's great. Switch has an incredibly large install base, 141 00:06:54.040 --> 00:06:54.600 and hey. 142 00:06:54.439 --> 00:06:57.160 If Metroid is coming, you gets to play it on 143 00:06:57.160 --> 00:06:58.319 either console hopefully. 144 00:06:58.920 --> 00:07:02.399 Yeah. And I think they definitely have talked about it 145 00:07:02.480 --> 00:07:04.639 as a Switch one game up, you know, until the 146 00:07:04.759 --> 00:07:07.759 very last minute their last earnings call, they made a 147 00:07:07.800 --> 00:07:10.279 big deal about it being Switch one. It is a 148 00:07:10.279 --> 00:07:12.839 Switch one game. I think the question up until this 149 00:07:12.879 --> 00:07:17.319 point has been, Okay, does it become a cross generational launch, 150 00:07:17.519 --> 00:07:19.879 like similar to the last couple or a handful of 151 00:07:19.879 --> 00:07:22.120 the last couple of a couple of Zelda games. Yes, 152 00:07:22.480 --> 00:07:26.120 Breath of the Wild and Twilight Princess, those came out 153 00:07:26.160 --> 00:07:28.759 the end of one generation, launched on both essentially as 154 00:07:29.160 --> 00:07:32.199 dual skews. Is that going to happen here or is 155 00:07:32.240 --> 00:07:34.360 this going to be as you know, I theorized on 156 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:36.480 I think this show, or maybe it was a BombCast 157 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:40.839 somewhere that maybe this becomes the poster child for here's 158 00:07:40.879 --> 00:07:43.319 how a Switch one game is going to be improved 159 00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:46.879 on switch to. That could still happen, although you know, 160 00:07:46.879 --> 00:07:48.839 if it's if they're not going to talk about it 161 00:07:48.839 --> 00:07:50.800 in the switch To direct and they're not going to 162 00:07:50.879 --> 00:07:52.959 mention switch To. Here are they going to make a 163 00:07:52.959 --> 00:07:55.120 big deal out of that. I kind of don't see 164 00:07:55.120 --> 00:07:57.600 why they wouldn't they did? You know, they want you 165 00:07:57.639 --> 00:08:00.759 to go into the store by a switch To, especially 166 00:08:00.759 --> 00:08:03.120 if you're someone who's elapsed as a switch gamer, because 167 00:08:03.199 --> 00:08:04.560 you're you know, there's a lot of people out there 168 00:08:04.600 --> 00:08:06.519 who enjoyed the switch, but they're not like me where 169 00:08:06.560 --> 00:08:09.040 they're like, oh, Nintendo, I just like Nintendo. They're like, oh, 170 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:10.800 I liked some of those games. I like the Switch 171 00:08:10.959 --> 00:08:13.720 when it felt fresh and new. It's felt old for 172 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:16.399 a hell a long time now. I kind of want 173 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:19.120 to be excited about something new. So I have not 174 00:08:19.199 --> 00:08:21.040 bought a lot of switch games recently. So I'm gonna 175 00:08:21.040 --> 00:08:22.439 go in the store. I'm gonna get the switch To. 176 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:25.439 I'm gonna get the new Mario Kart because everyone's just 177 00:08:25.519 --> 00:08:28.000 gonna get that. It's the law. And then what else 178 00:08:28.040 --> 00:08:30.160 do I want to get there? Well, Metroid Prime two 179 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:32.799 or Metro Prime four beyond is just waiting for you 180 00:08:33.159 --> 00:08:36.039 on the shelf, and I think anything that you can 181 00:08:36.360 --> 00:08:39.399 tell yourself about, oh, well, this will take advantage of 182 00:08:39.879 --> 00:08:42.759 you know, up the upscaling technology on the switch to 183 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:45.320 and it runs at a higher, more steady frame rate. 184 00:08:45.360 --> 00:08:47.360 Although I expect this game to run just fine on 185 00:08:47.440 --> 00:08:50.000 Switch one, anything you could say to yourself, bless you, 186 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:57.879 Jan is going to help I think so. I don't 187 00:08:57.919 --> 00:09:01.039 know if Chat can hear him. Actually so, I might 188 00:09:01.039 --> 00:09:03.399 just sound like a crazy person. But anything you can 189 00:09:03.440 --> 00:09:05.919 tell yourself when you're going to buy these games, especially 190 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:08.000 for like a cross gen you know, a game like 191 00:09:08.039 --> 00:09:09.639 this or last Gen game, I should say, we don't 192 00:09:09.639 --> 00:09:11.519 know if it's cross Gen, is going to help it. 193 00:09:11.639 --> 00:09:15.080 So I'm still very curious about how they position this thing, 194 00:09:15.279 --> 00:09:17.879 although in this moment it does seem like they're gonna 195 00:09:17.879 --> 00:09:20.519 be like Metro Prime four rules on its own merits 196 00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:21.799 and you should just go get it because it's going 197 00:09:21.840 --> 00:09:22.480 to be a good game. 198 00:09:23.159 --> 00:09:26.240 Yeah, I mean, hey, look, I'm just excited from one 199 00:09:26.320 --> 00:09:29.279 Nintendo stuff. At this point, my switch has been gathering 200 00:09:29.360 --> 00:09:32.519 dust for do you know the last game I think 201 00:09:32.519 --> 00:09:33.399 I played on my switch. 202 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:34.240 Oh, I'm curious. 203 00:09:34.240 --> 00:09:36.840 I have no idea, right dead Redemption. 204 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:41.919 Well that's fucking weird. That's that's whole that was. I 205 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:45.039 would not have guessed that I would know, right, Yeah, 206 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:47.159 but I guess that. I mean, that was interesting to 207 00:09:47.200 --> 00:09:50.200 see that on the switch although that was when We're Great. Yeah, no, 208 00:09:50.480 --> 00:09:52.519 I mean it should should better run. Great's you know 209 00:09:52.559 --> 00:09:55.600 an older game. It's an Xbox three sixty games. 210 00:09:55.720 --> 00:09:58.480 It is three sixty. It was May game. 211 00:09:58.600 --> 00:10:00.000 Yeah you should. 212 00:10:00.600 --> 00:10:03.039 Why is why I bought my Xbox three sixty It 213 00:10:03.240 --> 00:10:04.879 was red down. 214 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:08.799 I uh. In terms of what else people might be 215 00:10:08.799 --> 00:10:12.480 able to expect from this Nintendo direct, I you know. 216 00:10:13.120 --> 00:10:16.840 So give people, give people a crumb gone. 217 00:10:16.759 --> 00:10:20.519 Have Everybody still thinks that, And I'm you know, if 218 00:10:20.600 --> 00:10:22.200 if not here, you know where else, I guess it 219 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:23.879 could be in the switch to one. It could be, 220 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:27.960 it could be anywhere. I think there's no reason to 221 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:30.360 assume like this one makes more sense than anything else. 222 00:10:30.679 --> 00:10:33.240 So if you want to be skeptical, sure go ahead. 223 00:10:33.799 --> 00:10:36.679 And at the same time, it's like this feels like 224 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:39.159 all the eyes will be on Nintendo for these next 225 00:10:39.159 --> 00:10:41.519 two directs. So if you are a game that is 226 00:10:41.559 --> 00:10:44.360 coming out soonish, and that game, you know, there's been 227 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:47.120 a lot of like movement on that game recently, tiny 228 00:10:47.159 --> 00:10:49.399 little movement, but you know there's a lot of it. 229 00:10:49.399 --> 00:10:53.080 It's voluminous. It's like, Okay, if that game is ready 230 00:10:53.159 --> 00:10:55.159 to go, what showcase of what like, if you could 231 00:10:55.200 --> 00:10:57.960 choose any showcase to be in, the Nintendo Direct just 232 00:10:58.159 --> 00:11:01.720 is the biggest one because you can get excitement from 233 00:11:01.799 --> 00:11:04.600 and I've said this before, from PlayStation and Xbox or 234 00:11:04.639 --> 00:11:07.720 a PlayStation, yeah, an Xbox, m PC gamers sort of 235 00:11:07.799 --> 00:11:09.879 just by getting out there in the news cycle and 236 00:11:09.919 --> 00:11:12.080 making your announcement. Nintendo gamer is a little bit more 237 00:11:12.120 --> 00:11:14.320 siloed off to the side and don't pay as much attention. 238 00:11:14.360 --> 00:11:16.519 If you can get into a direct, you'll get their 239 00:11:16.519 --> 00:11:19.840 attention immediately, and then that also gets everyone else's attention. 240 00:11:19.919 --> 00:11:22.679 So it's the place. It's the place to be. So 241 00:11:22.759 --> 00:11:25.000 I get that, but I don't know. I wouldn't want 242 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:26.919 to get people's hopes up anymore. That game's not real. 243 00:11:27.360 --> 00:11:28.759 I think that's where we've settled on it. 244 00:11:29.039 --> 00:11:30.759 Well, didn't want to pick it the fan secretic. I 245 00:11:30.759 --> 00:11:31.480 don't think they did. 246 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:34.399 I don't know if they've maybe at this point maybe 247 00:11:34.639 --> 00:11:36.720 you know, If they haven't, I'll go pick it real quick. 248 00:11:38.960 --> 00:11:42.639 Other than that, you know, there's a fire Emblem game 249 00:11:42.679 --> 00:11:46.679 that Nintendo. It's a remake. I think of Genealogy of 250 00:11:46.679 --> 00:11:49.159 the Holy War, which is a Super Nintendo game. Uh 251 00:11:49.360 --> 00:11:52.399 that was a Japan only Japan only. It's never been 252 00:11:52.440 --> 00:11:56.440 localized for the for the West at all. And so 253 00:11:56.519 --> 00:11:59.399 it's like, Okay, that's been finished for going on like 254 00:11:59.440 --> 00:12:02.559 two years now. It's been a long time. It's just 255 00:12:02.600 --> 00:12:06.639 been sitting there. So, uh, does it pop off here 256 00:12:06.879 --> 00:12:09.039 or is yeah, I don't know how Nintendo thinks about 257 00:12:09.080 --> 00:12:10.840 these sorts of things, like does it make more sense 258 00:12:10.879 --> 00:12:13.679 to announce it now and launch it and risk it 259 00:12:13.759 --> 00:12:15.759 kind of getting lost in the shuffle of people getting 260 00:12:15.759 --> 00:12:18.519 more excited about things that are switched to exclusive or 261 00:12:18.559 --> 00:12:20.480 do you save it and be like, uh, that is 262 00:12:20.519 --> 00:12:23.360 going to be for switch to instead? That fire on 263 00:12:23.679 --> 00:12:28.879 fire emblem game certainly probably doesn't need switch to. So 264 00:12:29.120 --> 00:12:31.279 and then you know, there has been rumors of a 265 00:12:31.399 --> 00:12:35.399 new Mario sports game, this time baseball. Uh, there is 266 00:12:35.559 --> 00:12:38.000 a you know they had that story Nintendo switch to 267 00:12:38.120 --> 00:12:40.240 logos are going to be on the shoulder of Seattle 268 00:12:40.279 --> 00:12:43.360 Mariners players for this uh baseball season. 269 00:12:43.720 --> 00:12:48.879 Yeah, the did you see the New York like there 270 00:12:48.919 --> 00:12:50.440 was a big switch to thing in New York. 271 00:12:50.720 --> 00:12:53.519 No, I didn't say, Yeah. 272 00:12:52.799 --> 00:12:54.639 I opened up Blue Skirt and I didn't save it. 273 00:12:56.000 --> 00:12:59.720 This is like a like a big sign. Okay, and 274 00:13:00.039 --> 00:13:00.919 times square. 275 00:13:01.279 --> 00:13:03.080 Ah, yeah, I think so. 276 00:13:05.039 --> 00:13:07.840 But you know, we're right there for that direct. So 277 00:13:08.360 --> 00:13:11.600 the advertising kicking in feels right and all, okay, all 278 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:14.960 the rumors right now, and you know it sounds right 279 00:13:14.960 --> 00:13:17.480 to me. June is kind of when this thing is 280 00:13:17.480 --> 00:13:22.000 probably coming, uh at this point. That's what everyone is saying, 281 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:26.519 and I tend to agree. And so that they as 282 00:13:26.519 --> 00:13:28.919 soon as we get out of this direct, the marketing 283 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:31.279 campaign will be in full effect, because it'll be the 284 00:13:31.320 --> 00:13:34.000 beginning of April and let's say like this goes all 285 00:13:34.000 --> 00:13:35.320 the way through the end of June. They want it 286 00:13:35.360 --> 00:13:36.840 to give themselves a little a little bit of time. 287 00:13:36.840 --> 00:13:38.519 That's you know, two full months. 288 00:13:38.840 --> 00:13:44.600 And me head down to Union Square. Yeah yeah, Union Square. 289 00:13:44.679 --> 00:13:44.960 Baby. 290 00:13:45.039 --> 00:13:48.519 Get that that new Nintendo store that I still cannot 291 00:13:48.519 --> 00:13:52.240 believe is happening in some Francis Yeah, all the places 292 00:13:52.759 --> 00:13:53.440 San Francisco. 293 00:13:53.960 --> 00:13:56.799 Yeah, that's that's I'm excited for you all. That's I'm 294 00:13:56.799 --> 00:13:59.399 gonna definitely visit that Nintendo story. 295 00:13:59.679 --> 00:14:03.759 I'm to become so popular. Yes, for the for the 296 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:06.559 all of the exclusive stuff. I've already had Jordan Midler 297 00:14:07.360 --> 00:14:08.320 already had him. 298 00:14:08.759 --> 00:14:10.440 But are they even gonna have a lot of Pokemon 299 00:14:10.440 --> 00:14:11.000 stuff there? 300 00:14:11.639 --> 00:14:14.480 No, but they'll have they have exclusive stuff for the 301 00:14:14.600 --> 00:14:20.039 store in general. Okay, Like the Pokemon store in Shibuyah 302 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:24.039 was oh my god, like everything was sold out like. 303 00:14:25.519 --> 00:14:26.799 An opening, Like it was ridiculous. 304 00:14:26.840 --> 00:14:28.519 So it's it's going to be the same for that store. 305 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:30.840 But hey, we better to have a store than no 306 00:14:30.919 --> 00:14:31.600 store at all. 307 00:14:32.720 --> 00:14:35.080 Those things saved downtown Town Francisco. 308 00:14:35.440 --> 00:14:38.879 Yeah, and they that they do a good job just 309 00:14:38.960 --> 00:14:40.799 like making those places of fun place to go and visit. 310 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:44.120 Any like other games, I'm like they gonna like they 311 00:14:44.159 --> 00:14:45.799 could show up here. 312 00:14:47.080 --> 00:14:49.279 We think in like third party. 313 00:14:50.120 --> 00:14:54.240 Yes, I'll say, God, I wonder how I can phrase this. 314 00:14:54.399 --> 00:14:57.679 The reason I heard about it direct originally is because 315 00:14:57.720 --> 00:15:01.919 of a partner game. And I think that when we 316 00:15:01.960 --> 00:15:04.600 get out of this direct if no matter like what 317 00:15:04.720 --> 00:15:07.519 is the most exciting game, there will be one game 318 00:15:07.639 --> 00:15:11.320 that causes the most conversation and it won't be about 319 00:15:11.399 --> 00:15:14.639 Nintendo necessarily. That's all I can say. I'm sorry for 320 00:15:14.679 --> 00:15:17.679 teasing it, but that like I know, I'll tell you 321 00:15:17.879 --> 00:15:21.080 when we're done here, Yeah, I'll tell you. But yeah, 322 00:15:21.080 --> 00:15:23.879 it's because you know this, it's happening tomorrow, So it 323 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:28.799 all goes down the way I think we'll see all right, Yeah. 324 00:15:28.679 --> 00:15:30.879 Go ahead it No, No, I don't want I don't 325 00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:32.720 want to play the guests and game almost Yeah. 326 00:15:32.600 --> 00:15:36.639 That's ever fun for old Jeffy. Yeah. See if I'm 327 00:15:36.639 --> 00:15:38.240 looking at chatting now to see if anyone has any 328 00:15:38.240 --> 00:15:41.559 other guesses for what they want to see, I don't. 329 00:15:42.120 --> 00:15:45.240 I don't know, Like, is there any other franchise like 330 00:15:45.279 --> 00:15:48.320 I wouldn't be surprised if like a weird franchise from 331 00:15:48.360 --> 00:15:53.240 Nintendo comes back, like an Excite Bike or I don't know, 332 00:15:53.360 --> 00:15:56.120 something along those lines. We could see something like that, 333 00:15:56.159 --> 00:15:58.080 but they're not gonna have it would have to be 334 00:15:58.120 --> 00:15:59.840 a lot of these games that have just kind of 335 00:15:59.879 --> 00:16:02.639 been cooking for a long time. Anything that was in 336 00:16:02.720 --> 00:16:05.320 development in the last two years almost certainly was getting 337 00:16:05.360 --> 00:16:08.240 ready for the Switch two, and at one point they 338 00:16:08.240 --> 00:16:10.320 were gonna be really, we're gonna do a Switch pro. 339 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:12.879 So they probably were making a lot of games with 340 00:16:12.919 --> 00:16:15.519 that thing in mind, and maybe they were holding onto 341 00:16:15.559 --> 00:16:19.360 some of these because of that. So we'll see looking 342 00:16:19.399 --> 00:16:21.519 forward to it, though, we will talk over it one 343 00:16:21.519 --> 00:16:25.399 way or another. Everybody, Oh, thank you, Mike Manati. Metroid 344 00:16:25.399 --> 00:16:28.159 Prime two, Yes, Metroid Prime two and three, those remasters 345 00:16:28.200 --> 00:16:31.080 are also done in a similar way to Fire Emblem, 346 00:16:31.480 --> 00:16:34.679 so they're not as big of a remaster as Metroid 347 00:16:34.679 --> 00:16:38.639 Prime one was, but still that would be very cool 348 00:16:38.679 --> 00:16:41.639 to get those games with dual analog stick controls on 349 00:16:41.720 --> 00:16:46.159 Switch one. They should run really good on that system, 350 00:16:46.639 --> 00:16:49.440 So I'm hoping we get at least two, but boy, 351 00:16:49.440 --> 00:16:51.679 I wouldn't be surprised if they just say, hey, here's two, 352 00:16:51.720 --> 00:16:53.399 and then a week later you can get three or 353 00:16:53.480 --> 00:16:55.639 something like that, or just maybe drop them as a 354 00:16:55.639 --> 00:16:58.720 bundle all in one go. And then of course everyone 355 00:16:58.759 --> 00:17:03.080 always wonders about Zelda, Twilight Princess and win Waker HD 356 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:08.359 been ONU. Do they have anything else Zelda announced for 357 00:17:08.440 --> 00:17:10.440 this year? They always want to do one Zelda thing 358 00:17:10.519 --> 00:17:14.759 per year, and I don't think so. They had the 359 00:17:15.039 --> 00:17:18.640 Zelda Game, the Zelda Zelda Game last year, and so 360 00:17:19.200 --> 00:17:21.039 I don't think they have anything announced for this year. 361 00:17:21.119 --> 00:17:23.400 If they have a gap, that thing could pop off, 362 00:17:23.440 --> 00:17:27.160 but I don't know at this point they have a gap. Yep, 363 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:29.039 they have not had a gap so far, so I 364 00:17:29.079 --> 00:17:32.759 don't know. We'll see, Okay, let's keep going here. Game 365 00:17:32.799 --> 00:17:35.599 Informer returns after being shut down by Game Stop. This 366 00:17:35.640 --> 00:17:38.400 is from Sophie McAvoy at games industry dot biz. Game 367 00:17:38.440 --> 00:17:40.839 Informer has returned after being shut down by GameStop in 368 00:17:40.839 --> 00:17:42.799 August twenty twenty four. We wanted to talk about this 369 00:17:42.839 --> 00:17:45.839 on the BombCast just yesterday everybody, but they just took 370 00:17:46.039 --> 00:17:48.400 a little bit longer to get the official announcement out 371 00:17:48.400 --> 00:17:51.200 there and actually launched the website. The website's been getting 372 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:53.039 a lot of attention. I've been trying to register. I 373 00:17:53.039 --> 00:17:56.599 can't even register because it's, uh, it's getting so much traffic. 374 00:17:57.359 --> 00:17:59.680 In a letter from editor in chief Matt Miller, he 375 00:17:59.759 --> 00:18:03.519 review that the publication had been purchased by Gunzilla Games, 376 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:07.240 which is, you know, their Web three company. But we've 377 00:18:07.279 --> 00:18:09.519 talked to some of the Game Informer people and they've 378 00:18:09.599 --> 00:18:13.000 said we're independent, Like they're not gonna you know, you know, 379 00:18:13.359 --> 00:18:15.720 of course they say this, but I believe it so far. 380 00:18:16.079 --> 00:18:18.599 It could always change, but I believe that they're gonna 381 00:18:18.599 --> 00:18:20.960 be independent. And the good news is like everyone working 382 00:18:21.000 --> 00:18:23.880 there got a pretty good pay raise and the back 383 00:18:24.960 --> 00:18:29.039 they all are all rehired. It is such an overall 384 00:18:29.079 --> 00:18:31.359 a feel good story, and we'll talk about I got 385 00:18:31.400 --> 00:18:34.759 another story right after this about game stops plans, you know, sure, 386 00:18:34.920 --> 00:18:37.359 like we don't have to do a competition for you 387 00:18:37.359 --> 00:18:41.720 know what's like less evil. But it's not like they 388 00:18:41.720 --> 00:18:45.440 were completely free from interference before in terms of like 389 00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:49.079 working for a terrible company. But Gunzilla, I really don't 390 00:18:49.079 --> 00:18:51.960 didn't know much about them other than people saying they're 391 00:18:52.039 --> 00:18:54.480 you know, it's so kind of a Russian Web three company. 392 00:18:54.799 --> 00:18:56.799 But they're given money to Game Informer to get back 393 00:18:56.880 --> 00:18:59.680 up and running. And I think in the end, the 394 00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:01.920 magazine it's just gonna be its own business that will 395 00:19:01.920 --> 00:19:05.200 have to justify itself. And it sounds like they also 396 00:19:05.279 --> 00:19:07.480 have a couple of years to build up that business, 397 00:19:07.960 --> 00:19:10.440 so it's not like they have to like begin churning 398 00:19:10.480 --> 00:19:12.440 out a profit immediately and if they don't, they're all 399 00:19:12.440 --> 00:19:16.400 screwed again. So having some runway, having their jobs, getting 400 00:19:16.400 --> 00:19:18.920 a raise, that's a bunch of green lights to me. 401 00:19:19.079 --> 00:19:21.200