Sony Reportedly Making a Handheld, Dockable PS6

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<v Speaker 1>that sounds a lot like the Switch. It's gonna be
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<v Speaker 1>All right, we have a lot to get into, so
<v Speaker 1>let's start the Morning Mess with Sony is gunning for
<v Speaker 1>the switch to with a handheld dockable PS six.
<v Speaker 3>This is from Ali Reynolds at Nintendo Life.
<v Speaker 1>Despite Sony's PS five being on the market for nearly
<v Speaker 1>five years at this point, it still somehow feels way
<v Speaker 1>too soon to be talking about the inevitable PlayStation six.
<v Speaker 1>Who even wants or needs one yet? But all last,
<v Speaker 1>here we are the latest rumor from YouTube channels A
<v Speaker 1>channel Moore's Law is Dead via push Square. Is particularly
<v Speaker 1>significant because it seems to hint that Sony is planning
<v Speaker 1>to launch a variant of the PS six that will
<v Speaker 1>not only be a handheld, but can also be docked,
<v Speaker 1>just like the Switch and switch to. Code named CANNIS,
<v Speaker 1>the handheld is suppose one of three skews play planned
<v Speaker 1>for the PlayStation six. The main one will be Orion,
<v Speaker 1>which will be your bog standard flagship console with all
<v Speaker 1>of the specs. The second is the Canus handheld, and
<v Speaker 1>the third is the Canus console or the PS six S.
<v Speaker 1>The latter two will share similar specs and will likely
<v Speaker 1>lean closer to what Sony is currently offering with the
<v Speaker 1>PS five slash PS five Pro, albeit with a few
<v Speaker 1>minor upgrades here and there. So essentially, rather than focusing
<v Speaker 1>on sheer power, because if it ain't obvious by now,
<v Speaker 1>we're very much past the area of the era of
<v Speaker 1>power and we're into diminishing returns, Sony is seemingly looking
<v Speaker 1>to capture both the console and handle and handheld market.
<v Speaker 3>Hopefully.
<v Speaker 1>This might also mean that it's able to offer slightly
<v Speaker 1>cheaper options because of the so called Orion uh is
<v Speaker 1>going to retail at a similar price to the PS
<v Speaker 1>five Pro.
<v Speaker 3>We'll see if that happens.
<v Speaker 1>Uh yeah, yeah, Okay, So there's a couple of things here.
<v Speaker 1>Uh you know, this comes from Moore's Law is dead
<v Speaker 1>who you know, is kind of all over the place
<v Speaker 1>with rumors, but it has had some rumors that have
<v Speaker 1>been born out when it comes to PlayStation stuff specifically,
<v Speaker 1>and especially anything that uses the AMD chipset inside of
<v Speaker 1>the PlayStation. So let's just kind of take this as
<v Speaker 1>all right, maybe this is happening. Let's discuss it as
<v Speaker 1>a possibility here. This is going to apparently have a
<v Speaker 1>system where it'll have a handheld mode and it'll run
<v Speaker 1>at a certain power level and then you can dock it,
<v Speaker 1>and when it's docked, it will run at a higher
<v Speaker 1>power level, so you get more performance out of there.
<v Speaker 1>That's a little bit different than how some things work,
<v Speaker 1>like the Steam deck can get more power if you
<v Speaker 1>like plug it in or whatever. Switch tends to not
<v Speaker 1>give you too many more differences other than games will
<v Speaker 1>have different profiles in certain situations, but it's not like
<v Speaker 1>all of a sudden a ton more power is unlocked.
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, I am curious to see what Sony's thinking
<v Speaker 1>internally about running another handheld out there. This is a
<v Speaker 1>company that has done this multiple times before, not exactly
<v Speaker 1>like this pretty different from a PlayStation portable or PlayStation
<v Speaker 1>VDA in some key ways, but they are going to
<v Speaker 1>be going into a space that Nintendo dominates and is
<v Speaker 1>also pretty busy with PC handhelds.
<v Speaker 3>So what do you think when you hear all this.
<v Speaker 2>The thing that gives me a bit of hesitancy about
<v Speaker 2>this rumor is the idea of launching three console skews
<v Speaker 2>at once, Like that seems nuts. And also you look
<v Speaker 2>at the history of multiple console skews in recent years
<v Speaker 2>and the like how the Xbox Series S has affected
<v Speaker 2>development on that platform. It hasn't made life easier, it's
<v Speaker 2>made it harder for them to get games running at Parashee.
<v Speaker 2>It's made some games just haven't come to Xbox because
<v Speaker 2>they don't want to deal with the series s And like, yes,
<v Speaker 2>the PS six that has the handheld version will probably
<v Speaker 2>wind up becoming the version that the most people want
<v Speaker 2>to buy. But also if they're saying that the PS
<v Speaker 2>six that is just a traditional console is the flagship version,
<v Speaker 2>then they will also be trying to incentivize developers to
<v Speaker 2>make their games look better on that, And I think
<v Speaker 2>it's a very weird place to stash a console generation
<v Speaker 2>with a like lineup that is already that splitsh It
<v Speaker 2>makes sense as a generation goes on to give people
<v Speaker 2>more options and to kind of be like, well, now
<v Speaker 2>you can buy the Switch lighth which you know you
<v Speaker 2>can't dark, but it's cheaper. Or now you can buy
<v Speaker 2>the PS five Pro, which is more expensive, but you
<v Speaker 2>know it's for the premium user. And starting out like
<v Speaker 2>that it seems I don't know, it seems risky because
<v Speaker 2>people already like the switch because they can just plug
<v Speaker 2>it in and play, like that's the convenience of the switch,
<v Speaker 2>that's the convenience of consoles, and the idea of instead
<v Speaker 2>of playing Interlash and just being like, no, we're just
<v Speaker 2>doing a handheld hybrid and this is going to be
<v Speaker 2>what we do. And I think they're almost scared to
<v Speaker 2>put all their chips down on just doing a handheld hybrid,
<v Speaker 2>even if they think that is the way forward for
<v Speaker 2>the console markers. But also like, I don't know how
<v Speaker 2>much effort they're going to put into a fully traditional
<v Speaker 2>console system if the handheld hybrid is where they want
<v Speaker 2>their eggs to eventually wind up. So, yeah, what do
<v Speaker 2>you think of this, because like I'm super split on it.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean, I think that they are right that
<v Speaker 1>they do need to have some presence in this space,
<v Speaker 1>whether or not they can figure that out, whether or
<v Speaker 1>not they can sort of make that make sense and
<v Speaker 1>present it in a right way that won't sort of
<v Speaker 1>degrade what happens with the core PlayStation six console and
<v Speaker 1>at the same time, is enough to compete and you know,
<v Speaker 1>get a little bit of the market share from Nintendo
<v Speaker 1>something that will be difficult, and then if it's like,
<v Speaker 1>if that's not the strategy, then then them being able
<v Speaker 1>to find a way to kind of set themselves to the.
<v Speaker 3>Side of that. I mean, I think that they're right
<v Speaker 3>that there is.
<v Speaker 1>Going to be a lot of people who have grown
<v Speaker 1>up playing handhelds their whole lives because of Nintendo, and
<v Speaker 1>we'll be like looking at stuff like the Steam Deck
<v Speaker 1>and all these other things and going that's maybe that's
<v Speaker 1>where I should be. I mean, I'll probably still have
<v Speaker 1>a Nintendo system, but I want to have something else
<v Speaker 1>that could play all these other games. And Sony can
<v Speaker 1>offer that and in a really compelling way, and a
<v Speaker 1>big and a big part of that is they can
<v Speaker 1>still make it a console where it's like just very
<v Speaker 1>simple to use and people still really want that. I
<v Speaker 1>just think that every time that they've done this before,
<v Speaker 1>it has been dragged down because they try to have
<v Speaker 1>two separate like pathways, you know, parallel pathways. So if
<v Speaker 1>we're developing the big games over here and we're developing
<v Speaker 1>the smaller games over here, and they can't support.
<v Speaker 2>Team was always on Visa. The B teams team always
<v Speaker 2>put on always put on Visa games.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, that's right, I mean, and really the B team
<v Speaker 1>was put on a lot of PSP games, and then
<v Speaker 1>no team was put on a lot of Vita stuff
<v Speaker 1>where it's like on the Vida the support kind of
<v Speaker 1>dried up like pretty quickly from Sony, uh and some
<v Speaker 1>other you know, third parties. There was a lot of
<v Speaker 1>indies and visual novel games that supported the Vita for
<v Speaker 1>a very long time, so it did have some games
<v Speaker 1>coming to it. But uh, that might not be a
<v Speaker 1>problem this time with this thing, because the idea would
<v Speaker 1>be that this is just also a PS six that
<v Speaker 1>brings you that brings it up, like to your problem
<v Speaker 1>that you mentioned, like the Xbox Series S has not
<v Speaker 1>caused or has caused some headaches, and so does that
<v Speaker 1>sort of replicate here. I think probably, And I wonder
<v Speaker 1>if like this is Sony just kind.
<v Speaker 3>Of big yeah, go ahead.
<v Speaker 2>The really big headache that they are gonna one up
<v Speaker 2>against is like you look at the feature set on
<v Speaker 2>the PS five and this would have to have backwards
<v Speaker 2>compatibility on old Dash like PlayStation five controllers run out
<v Speaker 2>of battery in two hours. And that's just because there's
<v Speaker 2>so much shitting them. There is the with their version
<v Speaker 2>of HD Rumble, there is their gyroroscope, there's their touch pad,
<v Speaker 2>there's their light bars, there's all of this, and I
<v Speaker 2>think that all that stuff being put into a handheld
<v Speaker 2>is going to be a huge battery drain like the
<v Speaker 2>Switch and Steam Deck. They don't have the battery drain
<v Speaker 2>just in a controller that the PlayStation stuff will demand
<v Speaker 2>because people will expect this to be backwards compatible. So
<v Speaker 2>I think that, like already, they're going to have a
<v Speaker 2>real challenge with getting this thing to be power efficient.
<v Speaker 3>Yep.
<v Speaker 1>I think yeah, And they're going to face a lot
<v Speaker 1>of other companies and now have a ton of experience
<v Speaker 1>in the space and might have a little bit more
<v Speaker 1>room to work with because they aren't going to be
<v Speaker 1>anchored to something like a PS six. If they do
<v Speaker 1>this and they can position this as a PS six,
<v Speaker 1>every game is going to have to work, right, Like,
<v Speaker 1>is there any way that they could try to find
<v Speaker 1>a way through messaging to be like, these are the
<v Speaker 1>games that don't work on your PS six because it's
<v Speaker 1>the handheld PS six that just can't work right.
<v Speaker 2>No, I don't think you can get away with that, especially,
<v Speaker 2>you know, if your call if you also have a
<v Speaker 2>PS six S model, which is apparently a not like
<v Speaker 2>a traditional console style that is as powerful as the handheld.
<v Speaker 2>I don't think like the idea having two consoles on
<v Speaker 2>the market and one of the games like games can
<v Speaker 2>play on only one of them. Seems nuts, like that
<v Speaker 2>would never that would never fly. So yeah, I think
<v Speaker 2>that we've seen this as platforms open up and democracy
<v Speaker 2>take democracization of tools and all of that, developers have
<v Speaker 2>really struggled with getting things running on every single platform
<v Speaker 2>and they have to pick their battles more than ever.
<v Speaker 2>And it I think that one of the real like
<v Speaker 2>luxuries of the console market was if you were a
<v Speaker 2>PlayStation exclusive developer, you could just build your games for PlayStation.
<v Speaker 2>You know, you start with like the cell processor on
<v Speaker 2>the PS three, games that were just built for that
<v Speaker 2>could look really fucking good. Whereas now you're gonna have
<v Speaker 2>a situation where they're at least building for three console SKUs.
<v Speaker 2>Most of these games will probably also be making their
<v Speaker 2>way to Xbox and Switch by this time. And also
<v Speaker 2>they're doing all their porching to PC now, I think
<v Speaker 2>it's gonna like really strain their pipeline. And like they
<v Speaker 2>recently gushed what was it, the PlayStation Support Studio, the
<v Speaker 2>Sony Arts Studio or whatever it was, but like they
<v Speaker 2>have Nixy's, but they're kind of a PC porching house,
<v Speaker 2>So I just wonder where the extra support comes from
<v Speaker 2>for them to be able to get these games running
<v Speaker 2>at like acceptable qualities, not just on their souls, but
<v Speaker 2>on all the other platforms that they want to be
<v Speaker 2>releasing on.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I mean, I think you're kind of getting that. Really.
<v Speaker 1>The maybe the Achilles steel here is, you know, the
<v Speaker 1>reason people buy the Nintendo handheld is to play Nintendo games.
<v Speaker 1>And matt on mapis Catel from Mister Kana earlier this week,
<v Speaker 1>and it's like, yeah, never forget that, that's why people
<v Speaker 1>buy the Nintendo handheld. And I think people buy the
<v Speaker 1>Sony system for Sony games, but there are fewer of
<v Speaker 1>those right these days that it feels like there's fewer
<v Speaker 1>of those that are really moving the needle, at least
<v Speaker 1>the big ones that everyone does talk about.
<v Speaker 3>Sony PlayStation is out now, while Soulicides out this week.
<v Speaker 1>Is that what we're talking about here, That's not what
<v Speaker 1>I'm talking about when I'm when I'm mentioning this concept here,
<v Speaker 1>other than the Shawn's of the world, I think that,
<v Speaker 1>you know, when people go to buy this thing, they'll
<v Speaker 1>be like, Okay, well, why am I getting a PlayStation?
<v Speaker 3>It's to play Madden Call of Duty Fortnite it's.
<v Speaker 1>To play all these games that are available on a
<v Speaker 1>lot of different places, and there's going to be other
<v Speaker 1>handhelds that will likely be maybe more affordable and or
<v Speaker 1>more powerful, and or have more stores on them, so
<v Speaker 1>you can more easily access some of this stuff, maybe
<v Speaker 1>a place where you've already been playing this stuff. I
<v Speaker 1>guess that's the thing that maybe Sony's trying to do
<v Speaker 1>here is there are a lot of people who already
<v Speaker 1>play those games on PlayStation and they want to take
<v Speaker 1>their save file on their account, and they want to
<v Speaker 1>have that be seamless, and they want to serve that
<v Speaker 1>audience over here, and they have evidence that people that
<v Speaker 1>audience does want to play on a handheld because the
<v Speaker 1>PlayStation portal sold way better than they were ever expecting.
<v Speaker 1>Whether that means that that audience can now support a
<v Speaker 1>PS six handheld, we'll see. I just think that they
<v Speaker 1>are in such a different situation because Nintendo's had thirty
<v Speaker 1>years of an audience trained that, hey, our handhelds maybe
<v Speaker 1>your primary way that you're interacting with our stuff because
<v Speaker 1>of Pokemon, and the Sony audience is a little bit
<v Speaker 1>different there. That doesn't mean they shouldn't try this. I
<v Speaker 1>think they probably should. I just wonder if the final
<v Speaker 1>product that we see is actually a lot what this
<v Speaker 1>sounds like, or if it's like scaled back, maybe it's
<v Speaker 1>an improved PlayStation portals what they end up settling on.
<v Speaker 2>You know, I will say, I super hope this works
<v Speaker 2>because laystation portable PSVSA they are great handhelds. They feel
<v Speaker 2>really good to hold. Yeah, they like look really nice.
<v Speaker 2>They there is something about those handhelds where it's like,
<v Speaker 2>this is what on the go gaming should feel like,
<v Speaker 2>because some of those experiences really were like pushing that
<v Speaker 2>hardware to its limits and were really impressive for what
<v Speaker 2>they are. Like I have Alectroid pocket and the thing
<v Speaker 2>that I play the most on it is PSP games
<v Speaker 2>because they still look fucking awesome and they like are
<v Speaker 2>genuinely really fucking good gaming experiences. So like, I want
<v Speaker 2>it to work, but I'm just hesitant of this idea
<v Speaker 2>of like three console skews and it it doesn't seem
<v Speaker 2>like a very clear direction, Like I would get it
<v Speaker 2>if they were like, no, we are just doing a
<v Speaker 2>handheld hybrid now, but the idea of being like we're
<v Speaker 2>doing a handheld and two traditional consoles at launch it's
<v Speaker 2>it seems.
<v Speaker 3>Like a law.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it seems it seems like too much, and like
<v Speaker 1>they're setting themselves up for I don't know, not like
<v Speaker 1>if you bear, you focus down on the one thing
<v Speaker 1>you really want to sell, and then over time maybe
<v Speaker 1>you expand.
<v Speaker 3>If they were going to launch all this right away,
<v Speaker 3>I I.
<v Speaker 1>It's the kind of thing where this is the kind
<v Speaker 1>of thing that could cause a console launch delay.
<v Speaker 3>We'll see.
<v Speaker 1>Not that that's any concern, because, as the story rightfully
<v Speaker 1>points out, I am not aching for a PS six
<v Speaker 1>in any way, just like it's not at zero percent,
<v Speaker 1>but it's at like five percent desire level right now
<v Speaker 1>for me.
<v Speaker 3>Uh.
<v Speaker 1>You know, in most new consoles at this point in
<v Speaker 1>their their life, I'm getting up there like, oh yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I'm really looking forward to maybe something new. I think
<v Speaker 1>last gen also took a couple more years than normal
<v Speaker 1>because it was like, yeah, this, there's been plenty of
<v Speaker 1>good games. I'm not necessarily aching for a PS five,
<v Speaker 1>But once they showed it off, I was ready and
<v Speaker 1>rare and to go.
<v Speaker 3>Now it's like, I don't know.
<v Speaker 2>It doesn't feel like we've had our twenty seventeen equivalent.
<v Speaker 2>This generation, you know, it doesn't feel like there's been
<v Speaker 2>a year where you're like, man, what a fucking back
<v Speaker 2>to back bangers throughout the year? Like, there's been great games,
<v Speaker 2>and I think like the overall quality of games has
<v Speaker 2>been excellent recently, but like we haven't had that year
<v Speaker 2>where like literally no one could figure out what game
<v Speaker 2>of the year would be because there's like four games
<v Speaker 2>that are like eligible or like could be some of
<v Speaker 2>the greatest games of all time coming out in the
<v Speaker 2>same year.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, there's been, Yeah, there has been a lot of
<v Speaker 1>great games. It just has not felt like the PlayStation five,
<v Speaker 1>Xbox Series X, they've not felt like they've had their
<v Speaker 1>definitive year like you're suggesting. And I agree with that
<v Speaker 1>last thing before we move on from this topic. So
<v Speaker 1>PS five pro is seven and fifty dollars. Now all
<v Speaker 1>of their consoles went up like fifty dollars.
<v Speaker 3>I think.
<v Speaker 1>I think when I look at that pricing, part of
<v Speaker 1>me does make me. Part of me does think that
<v Speaker 1>they're setting up the next gin so that they can
<v Speaker 1>step up from these prices, And honestly, having a handheld
<v Speaker 1>in the mix makes it make even more sense to
<v Speaker 1>me because that this thing that the way it's described
<v Speaker 1>can't be less than six hundred dollars, so and I
<v Speaker 1>think if that that's going to be like, Okay, the
<v Speaker 1>six hundred dollars handheld, and maybe the five hundred dollars
<v Speaker 1>PlayStation six S that isn't portable, and then a seven
<v Speaker 1>hundred dollars PS six and then one day an eight
<v Speaker 1>hundred dollars PS six pro. You're making that face that
<v Speaker 1>I think is the correct response to all.
<v Speaker 2>Of these numbers, like making that I'm a freelancer face, yes,
<v Speaker 2>which is like, this is more money than I make
<v Speaker 2>in several months.
<v Speaker 3>Yes.
<v Speaker 1>So I mean, I mean, I don't think you're alone
<v Speaker 1>in that boat off people looking at those numbers and
<v Speaker 1>being like I'm being priced out of this hobby. I mean,
<v Speaker 1>do any of those prices sound wrong to you? I
<v Speaker 1>think that's how this is probably going to shake out.
<v Speaker 1>I feel pretty confident.
<v Speaker 2>They don't sound wrong, and that's what's so upset, you know,
<v Speaker 2>Like I'm thinking about it now and I'm like, motherfucker, yeah.
<v Speaker 2>I think that this is like going to be the
<v Speaker 2>generational problem for this this era of gaming is it's
<v Speaker 2>getting really fucking expensive to keep doing gaming in the
<v Speaker 2>way that we're doing ish and Matt was on this
<v Speaker 2>week talking about how you know, he doesn't think that
<v Speaker 2>like necessarily releasing more games quicker is the solution to things,
<v Speaker 2>and you know, part of that is also like I
<v Speaker 2>don't think making the bigger games come out quicker is
<v Speaker 2>a solution either. And you know, games being this expensive
<v Speaker 2>to make and this expensive to release and markish and
<v Speaker 2>sell to people for the return that they then make
<v Speaker 2>in turn is a problem. And it's now a problem
<v Speaker 2>that's gotten so serious that it is being like the
<v Speaker 2>people who play games are feeling that pinch and companies
<v Speaker 2>are not willing to eat the cost on it. They're
<v Speaker 2>charging through the nose for it. So yeah, I think
<v Speaker 2>that that's gonna be a real challenge of the next generation.
<v Speaker 2>Is like I don't think there's gonna be that many
<v Speaker 2>people like you and me who buy all the consoles anymore,
<v Speaker 2>because I just don't think that's gonna be realistic.
<v Speaker 1>And now we're like as we like as people like
<v Speaker 1>us occasionally do get priced out, it's not like there's
<v Speaker 1>a young person replacing us. That is that is that
<v Speaker 1>way about the hobby where they're like, I'm going to
<v Speaker 1>now get all the consoles They're like, I don't want
<v Speaker 1>to need all the consoles.
<v Speaker 3>I've never needed all the consols. What are you talking about?
<v Speaker 2>And even if there was like they don't have the money,
<v Speaker 2>like even if there were young people that excited about
<v Speaker 2>the hardware, Like what young person has as a young
<v Speaker 2>person that doesn't have money, what young person has money
<v Speaker 2>for this hobby anymore?
<v Speaker 3>Yep?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, absolutely, all right, Well, let let's keep going with
<v Speaker 1>the headlines here. Real quick, shout out to My Life
<v Speaker 1>and Gaming. Corey did a raid real quick. I like,
<v Speaker 1>we're big fans of My Life and Gaming over here.
<v Speaker 1>I also like, Corey, when you show up in the
<v Speaker 1>Greg Sewart's videos and you do the voices on those videos,
<v Speaker 1>I appreciate that. All right, let's keep going here. Capcom
<v Speaker 1>settles it. No, Pragmata isn't a secret Mega Man game.
<v Speaker 1>This is from Andy Robinson at VEJ.
<v Speaker 2>He's like when Kojima got out there and said he
<v Speaker 2>wasn't the fucking guy.
<v Speaker 3>The bandage head guy. Yeah yeah, He's.
<v Speaker 2>Like, no, no, no, I'm not Walkie Moglin. This is
<v Speaker 2>the Pragmata. Isn't Mega Man.
<v Speaker 3>We all believe you, Capcom.
<v Speaker 1>Capcom is officially debunked the popular online fan theory that
<v Speaker 1>it's upcoming sci fi action game Pragmata is secretly a
<v Speaker 1>Mega Man revival. Online fan theory is kicked off earlier
<v Speaker 1>this year, noting the similarities between the design of Pragmata's
<v Speaker 1>robotic girls sidekick Diana and Capcom's Mega Man, as well
<v Speaker 1>as thematic connections like the game taking place on a
<v Speaker 1>moon base taken over by evil machines infected by a virus. However,
<v Speaker 1>Capcom has now officially debunked the rumor after VGC quizzed
<v Speaker 1>pragmat a producer in nyoto O Yama about the theory.
<v Speaker 2>Pragmatic asking this, but like Juic, just being like, dude, what,
<v Speaker 2>what the fuck are you talking about. I've been working
<v Speaker 2>on this game for seven years and you're asking me
<v Speaker 2>if it's a fucking Mega Man game.
<v Speaker 3>Look, she's got the buster whatever it is, the thing
<v Speaker 3>there on her arm. It looks just like it. Pragmata
<v Speaker 3>is not a Mega Man game, he laughed. It is.
<v Speaker 1>It is a completely new game from Capcom. I was
<v Speaker 1>actually one of the producers on the Mega Man Battle
<v Speaker 1>Network Legacy collection as well, so I'm happy to see
<v Speaker 1>that people who love Mega Man are passionate about Pragmata two.
<v Speaker 1>What a diplomatic answer. From my standpoint, it's nice to
<v Speaker 1>see people are being so positive about it. Give them time.
<v Speaker 1>They they're gonna get toxic about it. It's not when
<v Speaker 1>it turns out to not be the case.
<v Speaker 2>Being fucking angry. He is not happy about this ship.
<v Speaker 2>He's going to sound alighting campaign.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, so I'm not buying this ship. It's definitely a
<v Speaker 1>Mega Man game. This is what they would say.
<v Speaker 2>Right, Having played that demo twice now, I played at
<v Speaker 2>an inn Video e vent A Games Calm, and at
<v Speaker 2>Capcom itself. I just think it's a really fucking good.
<v Speaker 3>It's just good, right, it's good.
<v Speaker 2>This is how I described it. You probably have to
<v Speaker 2>see semen at some point.
<v Speaker 3>Oh look at the simple brain. Norby's uh person in
<v Speaker 3>charge said it's not thank you, Sean. We were just
<v Speaker 3>saying we weren't buying it, all right.
<v Speaker 2>But having played like this game twice, do you all
<v Speaker 2>know how I started describing it to people?
<v Speaker 3>Please? I want to hear it.
<v Speaker 2>It is the resid Evil four combat system with a
<v Speaker 2>mini game that activates the same part of your brain
<v Speaker 2>as Tetris and jet boots.
<v Speaker 1>That's yeah, that makes it sound awesome, and that works
<v Speaker 1>because it is. It really is all those things in
<v Speaker 1>a very good way. That's a very good description. I Uh.
<v Speaker 1>I like when you actually describe what you're doing. I
<v Speaker 1>see people's eyes glaze over. I start doing the ten
<v Speaker 1>year old explaining something that I'm excited about things, I'm like, oh,
<v Speaker 1>people aren't getting it.
<v Speaker 3>Let's just move on.
<v Speaker 1>What you just said there. I think should activate people's
<v Speaker 1>brains in a good way.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that game I'm very excited about. I was not
<v Speaker 2>expecting to like be as hot on that game as
<v Speaker 2>I was, But turns out just giving your brain like
<v Speaker 2>a low level task to do while you shoot people
<v Speaker 2>makes it so much more engaging.
<v Speaker 1>It's just like, oh, there are this is I don't
<v Speaker 1>know if it's real left brain right brain stuff. I
<v Speaker 1>don'm no expert on it, but it feels that way
<v Speaker 1>where it's like this part of my brain like shooting.
<v Speaker 3>This part of my brain likes these tiny little puzzles.
<v Speaker 1>Let's bounce back and forth, you know, the tennis ball
<v Speaker 1>between these two sides of my brain, and I just
<v Speaker 1>feel like it's tickling, you know, the receptors.
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<v Speaker 1>Mess Mornings. I am Jeff Grubb. That's Lex Luddy. Let's
<v Speaker 1>get back into the headlines here with Diablo devs vote
<v Speaker 1>to create four hundred and fifty plus strong union. This
<v Speaker 1>is from Rachel Kaser GamesBeat. The Communication Workers of America
<v Speaker 1>announced today that over four hundred and fifty workers at
<v Speaker 1>ACTIVISIY Blizzard who've worked on the Diablo franchise have voted
<v Speaker 1>to unionize. According to the CWA, the unit includes a
<v Speaker 1>wide swath of workers across the company, including developers, artists, engineers,
<v Speaker 1>and more. Microsoft also has also recognized the union. Blizzard staff,
<v Speaker 1>speaking about the union vote vote noted the potential workplace
<v Speaker 1>problems that the union vote would avert. Most recently, Microsoft
<v Speaker 1>laid off over nine thousand employees, which included staff at Blizzard.
<v Speaker 3>Jason Justice, president.
<v Speaker 1>Of the CWA Local nine to five to one zero,
<v Speaker 1>one of the chapters under which the Blizzard members would
<v Speaker 1>be organizing, said what's happening here is part of a
<v Speaker 1>much larger story about turning the tide in an industry
<v Speaker 1>that has long overlooked its labor. Entertainment workers across film, television, music,
<v Speaker 1>and now video games are standing together to have a
<v Speaker 1>seat at the table. And and I mean, you know,
<v Speaker 1>one of the things they mentioned is there is a
<v Speaker 1>passion text like, hey, people really want to work in
<v Speaker 1>this industry, and these companies exploit that and they always
<v Speaker 1>have and of course, like that is capitalism, right, you have,
<v Speaker 1>like you're supposed to capitalize on every opportunity. And being
<v Speaker 1>able to take advantage of someone and pay them less
<v Speaker 1>or give them give them less in exchange for their
<v Speaker 1>labor because they want to do the job is something
<v Speaker 1>that you are just supposed to do under the way,
<v Speaker 1>under the way capitalism works. The only way to sort
<v Speaker 1>of stand against that is the dismantle capitalism, which is
<v Speaker 1>not going very well. I don't know if you've paid attention,
<v Speaker 1>lex see it's not going super well that whole thing.
<v Speaker 1>Or you can thank you, I appreciate it, or we
<v Speaker 1>can have a union kind of get at the table
<v Speaker 1>and demand certain things be applied to every employee there,
<v Speaker 1>and you know, I think there is a a an
<v Speaker 1>upswell of unionization in video games because of two factors.
<v Speaker 1>I think even the people that were once resistant to it,
<v Speaker 1>Like there are a lot of old heads who grew
<v Speaker 1>up in this industry or or you know, worked this
<v Speaker 1>industry for a long time who would have never unionized
<v Speaker 1>because they're like, I like to stand on my own
<v Speaker 1>two feet and bargain just for myself, and I'm you know,
<v Speaker 1>meritocracy on all this. I think they've even learned, no,
<v Speaker 1>these companies will always take advantage of us and will
<v Speaker 1>always kind of undermine us in the end. And then
<v Speaker 1>there's a lot of younger people who just inherently knew
<v Speaker 1>this because they were properly educated about the way these
<v Speaker 1>corporations work.
<v Speaker 3>So I don't know, the tides do feel like they're turning.
<v Speaker 1>And this is a I mean, I said last night
<v Speaker 1>on Gemist Asides, the idea of a union like this
<v Speaker 1>at Blizzard ten years ago would have been completely laughable.
<v Speaker 2>So here we are, and I think you need to
<v Speaker 2>like give them big ups for like, how fucking brave
<v Speaker 2>this is under Microsoft at the moment you look at
<v Speaker 2>the stuff that they are doing to people who are
<v Speaker 2>protesting internally within the company you look at like I
<v Speaker 2>think Arkane putting out that leisure a couple of weeks
<v Speaker 2>back as part of their union is something that only
<v Speaker 2>could have happened with union protections making sure that there
<v Speaker 2>wouldn't be retaliation, and even then it's not like a
<v Speaker 2>guarantee that there wouldn't be retaliation against them. I think
<v Speaker 2>that this definitely got speeded up by what happened over
<v Speaker 2>at King or what is currently happening over at King,
<v Speaker 2>and how people are being like basically put on work
<v Speaker 2>that will get rid of their job in a couple
<v Speaker 2>of months time so that AI can do it instead.
<v Speaker 2>I think you have a lot of people within Microsoft
<v Speaker 2>and within Activision, Blizzard, King who are looking around and
<v Speaker 2>being like, we need to fucking protect ourselves, because it
<v Speaker 2>is becoming very clear that Microsoft doesn't actually care how
<v Speaker 2>these games are made. They care that the games make money,
<v Speaker 2>and if the game, no matter how bad it is,
<v Speaker 2>no matter how shitty it is for the player, no
<v Speaker 2>matter how bad it is for the developers to like
<v Speaker 2>work on, if the game keeps on making more money,
<v Speaker 2>they do not care what goes into the sausage. And
<v Speaker 2>so you have people who are banding together and are
<v Speaker 2>protecting themselves. I think that's the only sensible thing you
<v Speaker 2>can do if you work at these companies, short of
<v Speaker 2>like extra caging yourself from the company, which I also like.
<v Speaker 2>I think that everyone at every developer, every studio head
<v Speaker 2>at Microsoft at the moment should be like ringing up
<v Speaker 2>toys for Bob saying, hey, how did you get out?
<v Speaker 2>Because the vibe that you get off of Microsoft is like,
<v Speaker 2>we don't care about any of the people making all games.
<v Speaker 2>Wee care that the game division is still making money,
<v Speaker 2>and we will cut it to the bone as long
<v Speaker 2>as it still makes money. And so I would be
<v Speaker 2>trying to find ways to protect my employees, try to
<v Speaker 2>find ways to protect myself and get out of that
<v Speaker 2>system and try to actually become independent again, because Microsoft
<v Speaker 2>surely shit doesn't care about anyone underneath them.
<v Speaker 3>Yep.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, And I mean it's just pretty obvious based on
<v Speaker 1>the way they're behaving right now, where it's like they
<v Speaker 1>got distracted by AI or that's the thing that they're
<v Speaker 1>smelling right now. That just smells the best of them,
<v Speaker 1>and that like the best opportunity, and that means cut
<v Speaker 1>everywhere else, including this huge investment you just made in
<v Speaker 1>video games, and that means cutting a lot of people.
<v Speaker 1>And yet they're still trying to put out a ton
<v Speaker 1>of games, so a lot of people are gonna have
<v Speaker 1>to do a lot more work. Yeah, you know, a
<v Speaker 1>seat at the table is really all this gets gets
<v Speaker 1>the people. You know, collective bargaining agreement is also a
<v Speaker 1>potential once they're at the table. But I see that
<v Speaker 1>the table is better than the way it was before.
<v Speaker 1>And the reason I'm putting in that way is people
<v Speaker 1>should not imagine.
<v Speaker 3>This as some silver bullet that will stop all these
<v Speaker 3>people from getting laid off.
<v Speaker 1>There will be laid off layoffs again, even if the
<v Speaker 1>union fully realizes its power. But at the very least,
<v Speaker 1>in the meantime, a union can do things like collectively
<v Speaker 1>bargained to ensure people get paid more now while they
<v Speaker 1>are employed. So it's not like, Okay, I look back
<v Speaker 1>and I don't have a job anymore, and I wasn't
<v Speaker 1>getting as much money as I should have been getting
<v Speaker 1>or deserved beginning because of that passion tax we mentioned earlier.
<v Speaker 1>I think if it can happen at Blizzard, it can
<v Speaker 1>happen anywhere, And I just hope there is a real
<v Speaker 1>domino effect going forward, because this industry just needs a
<v Speaker 1>strong unionization era to see what it can do when
<v Speaker 1>people are a.
<v Speaker 3>Little bit more protected at these jobs.
<v Speaker 1>All right, So let's keep going here. Mattel brings he
<v Speaker 1>Manned and attorneya to Fortnite via ue FM, which is
<v Speaker 1>Unreal Engine for Fortnite. This is from Rachel Kaser at
<v Speaker 1>games Beat. Mattel continues its charm offensive with Masters of
<v Speaker 1>the Universe with the Masters of the Universe franchise, this
<v Speaker 1>time by bringing it to an official island in Fortnite.
<v Speaker 1>He Manned, Tila and several other residents of Eternia, as
<v Speaker 1>well as Attorney itself, have joined the island of Masters
<v Speaker 1>of the Universe. He Man Heroes, which launched today in
<v Speaker 1>early access. Users who visit the island gathered together the
<v Speaker 1>heroes and some villains villains from the franchise to battle
<v Speaker 1>through hordes of enemies, and doing so they collect shards
<v Speaker 1>of Eternia. Blah blah blah. I actually don't care about
<v Speaker 1>how this game plays or anything like that. Really, I
<v Speaker 1>wanted to just ask you, Lexi, because I bet you
<v Speaker 1>don't have a lot of interest in he Man and
<v Speaker 1>Masters of the Universe. I don't even really It was
<v Speaker 1>like it was happening while I was a kid. But
<v Speaker 1>my little brother actually was way more into it than
<v Speaker 1>I was. We are getting a he Man game from
<v Speaker 1>a camera me the beat him up? Yeah, Audie's working
<v Speaker 1>on it. Audi who's over at Limited Run Games and
<v Speaker 1>is actually back doing stuff for Digital Foundry again. He's overseeing.
<v Speaker 1>He's like executive producer and kind of directing the game.
<v Speaker 1>And there's that game, and there's this, And I wonder
<v Speaker 1>which one do you think is getting more support from
<v Speaker 1>the people who own the ip of he Man and
<v Speaker 1>Masters of the Universe.
<v Speaker 2>I was going to say, you know that a charm
<v Speaker 2>offensive is like really working. When I didn't even realize
<v Speaker 2>that there was a charm offensive going.
<v Speaker 3>On, I was like, oh, oh they're going on and okay,
<v Speaker 3>all right, okay, ain't me.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I know that they're making that fucking movie, right,
<v Speaker 2>they're like rebooting the movie. I remember who's working on that.
<v Speaker 2>All I care about when it comes to he Man.
<v Speaker 2>Is that really fucking terrible live action movie from the
<v Speaker 2>early nineties. Yeah, yeah, it's it's a real the most
<v Speaker 2>hormoronic movie ever made, probably incredible and it's real good
<v Speaker 2>and has one of the best villain makeups of all
<v Speaker 2>time despite having a budget of like two dollars. So
<v Speaker 2>that's all I care about when it comes to key Man,
<v Speaker 2>everything else he Man. Here's the thing, Bob. Living in Ireland,
<v Speaker 2>I got a lot of cartoons late. I got a
<v Speaker 2>lot of things very fucking late. So I've seen a
<v Speaker 2>lot of fucking he Man because he Man was on
<v Speaker 2>the Irish national TV station a lash. He Man fucking sucks.
<v Speaker 2>He Man is a terrible cartoon. It's dreadful. It's so bad,
<v Speaker 2>and sure, why not who cares? Who cares anymore? Put
<v Speaker 2>in Fortnite?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's just it's it's it is like notable to me,
<v Speaker 1>although I don't think it's strange. This is just the
<v Speaker 1>way these companies are going where like the real interest
<v Speaker 1>is honestly just like, let's take him in and we're
<v Speaker 1>not gonna like make a big triple A game. Let's
<v Speaker 1>just put them into one of these other live service games.
<v Speaker 1>This feels like the route a lot of these companies
<v Speaker 1>are taking.
<v Speaker 2>Now.
<v Speaker 1>I'm glad that we're also getting to beat them up,
<v Speaker 1>but that almost feels like, you know, the way Audie
<v Speaker 1>explained it to me, is that he really wanted to
<v Speaker 1>do this and it was his idea and he pushed
<v Speaker 1>it through and he was able to make could happen.
<v Speaker 1>Unless they you have someone passionate behind that able to,
<v Speaker 1>you know, to like oversee a project like this and
<v Speaker 1>take the reins and be in charge of it. It's
<v Speaker 1>not gonna just happen because these companies are like, we're
<v Speaker 1>not interested in any of that, just put it in Fortnite.
<v Speaker 1>And I think there was a time where we obviously
<v Speaker 1>would have gotten a lot of IP games just released
<v Speaker 1>for the Nintendo DS or whatever, the Game Boy Advance,
<v Speaker 1>and we're far removed from that, and it's like, okay,
<v Speaker 1>that is now transforming into these ips are going to
<v Speaker 1>show up in Fortnite and Roadblocks and Minecraft, and that's
<v Speaker 1>going to be where they go.
<v Speaker 3>And I don't know, do you think that is good
<v Speaker 3>for gaming? Bad for gaming? Are you indifferent? What do
<v Speaker 3>you think?
<v Speaker 2>I know, I think this comes back to some of
<v Speaker 2>what Map Piscatella was talking about last week of like
<v Speaker 2>games codifying as there being certain games that just are
<v Speaker 2>video games, and ultimately, if you're going to have that,
<v Speaker 2>if those video games that like are the Video Games
<v Speaker 2>of Record, and they're going to start in call creating
<v Speaker 2>other things, and so like, would I be mad if
<v Speaker 2>he Man started like funking up the next Alan Wake game? Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>But in Fortnite, Who gives a shit, It's Fortnite, sure,
<v Speaker 2>that's the whole platform. My favorite thing about he Man
<v Speaker 2>is when you like tell any of the older fans like, hey,
<v Speaker 2>you know, he Man's like fucking gay, right, and they
<v Speaker 2>get really mad. They're like, what do you mean? What
<v Speaker 2>do you mean? He's cool?
<v Speaker 3>It's like he's just covering for for aerodynamic reasons.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. He Man is a very like closet hit gay character.
<v Speaker 2>Let's let's be real here.
<v Speaker 1>But it's weird because Adam super straight, his alter ego
<v Speaker 1>just the straightest guy ever.
<v Speaker 2>Right, all right, again that plays into like him being
<v Speaker 2>in the closet.
<v Speaker 3>Uh huh. Yeah, it's the whole metaphor there.
<v Speaker 1>It's fantastic. All right, let's keep going here. Steam now
<v Speaker 1>requires age verification in the UK for mature games.
<v Speaker 3>Could we have you here? Expert from the UK? Am?
<v Speaker 3>I right, oh okay, please don't kell me. I was
<v Speaker 3>just joking.
<v Speaker 1>It was Dan who said it. This is from Andy
<v Speaker 1>Robinson at VGC. Steam is rolling out the requirement for
<v Speaker 1>all users in the UK to verify their age in
<v Speaker 1>order to access store pages for games with mature content.
<v Speaker 1>The restrictions seemingly went into effect on Friday after social
<v Speaker 1>media users spotted reference to the requirement on Steam's FAQ. Thankfully,
<v Speaker 1>the process to verify your age is straightforward. UK users
<v Speaker 1>need only to add a credit card to their account,
<v Speaker 1>and those who already have one registered will face no restrictions.
<v Speaker 1>The age verification requirement comes ahead of the enforcement of
<v Speaker 1>a new Online Safety Act and Act in the UK,
<v Speaker 1>which makes online platforms responsible for their users' safety. Platforms
<v Speaker 1>will be required to prevent shoulder from accessing harmful and
<v Speaker 1>age inappropriate content and provide parents and children with clear
<v Speaker 1>and accessible ways to report problems. Other gaming platforms such
<v Speaker 1>as Xbox and Discord began discouraging users to verify their
<v Speaker 1>encouraging excuse me a user to verify their age in
<v Speaker 1>order to access certain content earlier this year. Starting early
<v Speaker 1>next year, age verification will be required for players in
<v Speaker 1>the UK to retain full access to social features on Xbox,
<v Speaker 1>including voice and text communications and game invites.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, this is.
<v Speaker 1>Stifling and kind of stupid in my opinion, Lexi, because
<v Speaker 1>it's only going to cost headaches.
<v Speaker 3>For people who follow the rules.
<v Speaker 1>There's going to be ways to get around these things
<v Speaker 1>like always, and people who want to get around them
<v Speaker 1>will continue to get around them with that and they
<v Speaker 1>won't have the same headaches as someone who's just actually
<v Speaker 1>following all the guidelines and is of age and just
<v Speaker 1>doesn't want these hassles.
<v Speaker 3>Well, I don't know what do you make of all this.
<v Speaker 2>I should be upfront as an Irish person, like already
<v Speaker 2>kind of have my opinions on certain British lawmakers. But
<v Speaker 2>I gotta say, Kirstama, the leader of the UK, the
<v Speaker 2>head of the Labor Party, is a fucking disgrace and
<v Speaker 2>a like suspicable cunt. He is one of the worst
<v Speaker 2>humans currently on the planet and the damage that he
<v Speaker 2>has done to the queer and the trans community will
<v Speaker 2>be fucking written about for decades and he I hope
<v Speaker 2>he dies knowing that he is going to be vilified
<v Speaker 2>in the history books. But I think that this is
<v Speaker 2>another part of the UK's conservative slip into like fucking
<v Speaker 2>ethno nationalism, and that the way that they are trying
<v Speaker 2>to enact this the idea that they are putting this
<v Speaker 2>forward as like a safety thing for the country, when
<v Speaker 2>it is so clearly just to control people, When it
<v Speaker 2>is so clearly just to make it so that the
<v Speaker 2>government knows what you are accessing. And when is like,
<v Speaker 2>they think you're fucking stupid. They think you are the
<v Speaker 2>dumbest motherfuckers in the world. And in fairness, the British
<v Speaker 2>public voting for the people who think they're dumb motherfuckers.
<v Speaker 1>So like, come on, lads, I mean, well, what about
<v Speaker 1>the immigrants, LEXI? The immigrants be scared of the immigrants
<v Speaker 1>and don't pay attention to any fucking else.
<v Speaker 2>And the other part of this that like makes me
<v Speaker 2>fucking angry is as someone who lives in a country
<v Speaker 2>that is often affected by wind changes by UK politics,
<v Speaker 2>this stuff ends up affecting me. I can't log into
<v Speaker 2>twishter anymore without asking me to verify my age because
<v Speaker 2>Twitter doesn't understand the difference between Ireland and the UK.
<v Speaker 2>And I'm not gonna fucking give that website a fucking
<v Speaker 2>picture of my passport. Fuck thatsh This all fucking sucks,
<v Speaker 2>and I think that the people involved in it are
<v Speaker 2>shitty people. And I think that the way that they
<v Speaker 2>are trying like this all plays into trying to control
<v Speaker 2>what you can and can't engage with, what isn't isn't
<v Speaker 2>deemed ash and what like a government says is socially
<v Speaker 2>acceptable for you to do in the privacy of your
<v Speaker 2>own home and in your own downtime. And it's awful,
<v Speaker 2>Like I really hate this.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, this is something that is happening in Mississippi as well.
<v Speaker 1>Always good to be associated with what's going on in Mississippi.
<v Speaker 1>Although I clown I should recognize real quick. I just
<v Speaker 1>read recently Mississippi was really good at increasing the increasing
<v Speaker 1>their children's literacy. They were like second to last and
<v Speaker 1>now they're in the middle of the pack and that's
<v Speaker 1>like really impressive. So not always clowning on Mississippi, but
<v Speaker 1>Mississippi is doing this, and one of the things there
<v Speaker 1>is it's just like they it's very clear that this
<v Speaker 1>is going to be a violation of the First Amendment.
<v Speaker 1>But will that matter when it gets to the Supreme Court.
<v Speaker 3>Probably not.
<v Speaker 1>It's just on a fundamental level, there is no law
<v Speaker 1>that requires me actually to have an ID, and there
<v Speaker 1>is no law that requires me in the United States
<v Speaker 1>to have a credit card, and there is a law,
<v Speaker 1>a constitutional amendment that does dictate I can have a
<v Speaker 1>free speech when you put all those things on the table.
<v Speaker 1>The government just simply should not be allowed to do
<v Speaker 1>this in the United States. I don't know about anywhere else.
<v Speaker 1>I think it's dumb no matter where you are, and
<v Speaker 1>it's clearly it's all motivated by the same stuff that
<v Speaker 1>you're talking about, trying to control people, trying to stand
<v Speaker 1>in between people, and certain kinds of art and certain
<v Speaker 1>kinds of speech. You know, Trump this week telling school
<v Speaker 1>boards to destroy all of their educational materials related to
<v Speaker 1>transgender studies in like forty eight states or whatever it's about.
<v Speaker 1>It's just a new way of burning books. And I
<v Speaker 1>know it's about saving the children, is always the excuse
<v Speaker 1>they use always As a parent, let me tell you,
<v Speaker 1>every time, one hundred percent of the time, be skeptical
<v Speaker 1>of someone who says it's about saving the kids, it
<v Speaker 1>almost never is.
<v Speaker 3>They are almost they don't.
<v Speaker 1>You could tell they don't care about kids because they
<v Speaker 1>use kids to hurt other people or to hurt.
<v Speaker 3>Things that they don't like. And that is always the
<v Speaker 3>key to know that they are actually bad people.
<v Speaker 2>To just kids. Ye, kids that they don't like it.
<v Speaker 3>Yep, absolutely, We're moving on.
<v Speaker 1>Now, let's see your Final Fantasy fourteen boss addresses mod
<v Speaker 1>controversy after the game is review bombed. This is from
<v Speaker 1>Blair Marnell at GameSpot. The second incarnation of Final Fantasy
<v Speaker 1>fourteen debuted in twenty thirteen. It's proven to be far
<v Speaker 1>more resilient than the version that arrived in twenty ten. However,
<v Speaker 1>there's been discontent in the Final Fantasy fourteen community lately
<v Speaker 1>over the removal of a popular mod, which led to
<v Speaker 1>the game's subsequent review bombing on Steam. Now director Naoki
<v Speaker 1>Yoshida has addressed the mod controversy with an appeal to players.
<v Speaker 1>Yoshida's complete complete remarks were posted on Final Fantasy fourteen's
<v Speaker 1>official site, and he requested that excerpts from his statement
<v Speaker 1>not be used by by media outlets, but since his
<v Speaker 1>response was nearly two thousand words, a concise recap is unavoidable.
<v Speaker 1>The issue started when Square Enix's lawyers sent a letter
<v Speaker 1>to Modern dark ARCon regarding Mate Synchronos I'm sure or
<v Speaker 1>Mar excuse me, Mar Synchronos, a mod that allowed players
<v Speaker 1>customized avatars to be visible outside of their own game.
<v Speaker 1>Once mayor Synchronos was removed at squaring Enix's request, some
<v Speaker 1>fans shared their furry their fury in the form of
<v Speaker 1>negative They've shared their furry fury in the negative theme.
<v Speaker 2>I've seen the cocktails.
<v Speaker 3>That's just a feature in the game. Right.
<v Speaker 1>Although yo should have notes that he tolerates mods and
<v Speaker 1>has admiration for some fan made creations, he's against mods
<v Speaker 1>that valuate value, violate the game's intent or design in
<v Speaker 1>a negative manner. As a potential example, Yo should have
<v Speaker 1>noted that squaring x could face the legal consequences in
<v Speaker 1>some countries over nude character mods or display that on
<v Speaker 1>display in the game. He also cited customized appearances that
<v Speaker 1>made it paid content from the game as an example
<v Speaker 1>of devaluing the service and collectibles that scoring ex sells
<v Speaker 1>to provide. I bet that is the real reason is
<v Speaker 1>to you know, they want to make money. Yeah, this
<v Speaker 1>just feels like one of those ones that was probably
<v Speaker 1>made by the business side of things, and now the
<v Speaker 1>creative side of things has to sort of justify it.
<v Speaker 1>I bet on a certain level they're like, yeah, it
<v Speaker 1>would be nice to get that money instead of people
<v Speaker 1>using mods to get stuff for free. But I don't know,
<v Speaker 1>I feel like you kind of have this is one
<v Speaker 1>of those things you just kind of have to live with.
<v Speaker 1>I don't is there any reason to think Final Fantasy
<v Speaker 1>fourteen isn't making a fuck ton of money? Like it
<v Speaker 1>just it probably is doing just fine, and this seems
<v Speaker 1>like an unnecessary move to upset your most loyal players.
<v Speaker 3>What do you think, leg Si, I.
<v Speaker 2>Think, yeah, some of this is probably uh square Enix
<v Speaker 2>being worried about their golden goose because you look at
<v Speaker 2>square Enix's recent financial reports for like the last five
<v Speaker 2>ten years almost it's been like, yeah, we keep fucking
<v Speaker 2>everything up. But Final Fantasy fourteen is keeping us afloat,
<v Speaker 2>so they are probably extremely sensitive to any potential losses
<v Speaker 2>that Final Fantasy four Sheen has. So if a DLC
<v Speaker 2>doesn't hit like Dawn Trail didn't like hit as much
<v Speaker 2>as the last one, they're going to tighten the belt
<v Speaker 2>in other places and try to get that money in
<v Speaker 2>from other spots. Concerning Final Fantasy four Sheen, I think
<v Speaker 2>that like there's a lot of pressure on that team.
<v Speaker 2>I know that Yoshida was out there being like, hey,
<v Speaker 2>please remember where people and like, I don't envy that
<v Speaker 2>job because it is both a job where he is
<v Speaker 2>under like him and his team are under a lot
<v Speaker 2>of pressure from fans like MMO fans will let you
<v Speaker 2>know how they fucking feel, but also probably under a
<v Speaker 2>lot of pressure at an executive level to continue to
<v Speaker 2>bring in the same amount of money, if not more,
<v Speaker 2>for each expansion, which as we know, is like not
<v Speaker 2>easy to do. And so like, I do feel bad
<v Speaker 2>for the devs in this situation, because I don't know
<v Speaker 2>a dev who like genuinely hates model because they are like, hey,
<v Speaker 2>people care enough about our game to create shit themselves
<v Speaker 2>for our game. So yeah, I feel bad for them.
<v Speaker 3>Yep, you know.
<v Speaker 1>At the same time, I'm trying to like parse this
<v Speaker 1>this way. This is phrase mayor synchronos a mod that
<v Speaker 1>allowed players, customers, customers avatars to be visible visible outside
<v Speaker 1>of their own game.
<v Speaker 5>Does that mean, like, can I speak on this one
<v Speaker 5>as fourteen players? So I know a little bit about this,
<v Speaker 5>but so I might get a little wrong. The the
<v Speaker 5>golden rule of f F fourteen mods is shut the
<v Speaker 5>fuck up Friday, And like Yoshi dos Prey explicitly said
<v Speaker 5>that before, as long as you are just doing things
<v Speaker 5>within your own game, and yeah, affecting that's games. You're
<v Speaker 5>not advertising, it's super hard, it's fine, it's chill, just
<v Speaker 5>you know, be cool about it. But the second that
<v Speaker 5>you start affecting other people's games, which is what this
<v Speaker 5>does allow.
<v Speaker 1>That's like a mod that allows avatars yet to be
<v Speaker 1>visible outside of their own game, So it is projecting
<v Speaker 1>it into other people's game.
<v Speaker 5>Right, it's basically sinking the way that mods affect your
<v Speaker 5>game to other people's game. Yeah, and it's you know,
<v Speaker 5>that does also take away from the business they do
<v Speaker 5>sell items and skins and stuff. So right, that's basically
<v Speaker 5>I'm saying, hey, yeah, exactly, Hey, uh, you're gonna get
<v Speaker 5>us our team in trouble with the Square Unix business people.
<v Speaker 5>Y'all can't do this. So that's that's kind of why
<v Speaker 5>he has to like practice on this.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean to me that it's like, yeah, it
<v Speaker 1>sounds like they've crossed a line that like, you know,
<v Speaker 1>a lot of clearer.
<v Speaker 5>To be clear, everyone needs the mod installed for us
<v Speaker 5>to work, so it's not like you're forcing all other
<v Speaker 5>users games, but it is like you are getting around
<v Speaker 5>their systems for doing customizations and stuff.
<v Speaker 1>Right and the right, and just like making stuff available
<v Speaker 1>that you have to pay for in the game. It's
<v Speaker 1>just a boneheaded move.
<v Speaker 3>I get that.
<v Speaker 1>Like you again, you maybe do that in your own
<v Speaker 1>game in some way, but anytime you like make that
<v Speaker 1>a big thing where it's like now everyone's doing this. Uh,
<v Speaker 1>of course these companies are going to crack down on that.
<v Speaker 1>It's like they should know better the people making the mods, honestly.
<v Speaker 5>Especially when it comes to things like mods that give
<v Speaker 5>you the appearance of high level gear that you didn't
<v Speaker 5>actually like spend time in the game for, which also
<v Speaker 5>takes money away from them for and stuff like that.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, exactly. So I see how we ended up here,
<v Speaker 1>and especially like a lot of people in chat, I
<v Speaker 1>see Christian going off about it, and you mentioned the
<v Speaker 1>shut the fuck up fuck up Friday rule and then
<v Speaker 1>like just like flouting that and completely standing in opposition
<v Speaker 1>to that. It's like, of course we ended up here
<v Speaker 1>if you did not follow that unspoken rule.
<v Speaker 3>All right.
<v Speaker 1>Up next, EA and two K games are beefing over
<v Speaker 1>n C DOUBLEA college basketball exclusivity. This is from Ethan
<v Speaker 1>Gotchak Kotaku Electronic Arts revealed earlier this year that it's
<v Speaker 1>planning to add a college basketball game to its ever
<v Speaker 1>expanding roster of sports franchises. Then two K Games came
<v Speaker 1>out hours later indicated it was doing the same. Now,
<v Speaker 1>new reportings suggest both publishers have been at war behind
<v Speaker 1>the scenes, trying to lock up the deals and needed
<v Speaker 1>to make an NCAA basketball game a reality. I'm glad
<v Speaker 1>we have our expert here, Lex Lettie. What do you
<v Speaker 1>think about all this.
<v Speaker 2>As someone who's been following the women's Rugby World Cup recently,
<v Speaker 2>I'm very excited EA and two K to begin that
<v Speaker 2>bidding war for the women's rugby license. The sport has
<v Speaker 2>never been in a better It's never been more watchable,
<v Speaker 2>it's never been easier to access. And have you seen
<v Speaker 2>how Canada played? They're actually good at this spash Well, really,
<v Speaker 2>why the Canadian women are really fucking good? Canadian men
<v Speaker 2>suck shitch?
<v Speaker 3>That's the way show.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's right, But yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna leave
<v Speaker 2>this one to you. What's going on?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean there was a time where we would
<v Speaker 1>just would have gotten multiple sports games like this. We
<v Speaker 1>would have gotten multiple college basketball games from multiple publishers
<v Speaker 1>in the same year, and it would have been fine,
<v Speaker 1>you picked the one that's the best, and then next
<v Speaker 1>year maybe a different one's the best one, you get
<v Speaker 1>that one. It sounds like mostly because of the byzantine
<v Speaker 1>nature of licensing these schools and the thousands of players
<v Speaker 1>and now it's not just like college football game. It
<v Speaker 1>was just you know, if that's men's college ball. Now
<v Speaker 1>they're going to have men's and women's team, so double it.
<v Speaker 1>And women's college basketball is extremely popular in a lot
<v Speaker 1>of the country, so that like that is important to
<v Speaker 1>get it just sounds like that is going to cause
<v Speaker 1>some problems here where it's like all these schools and
<v Speaker 1>all of these players are going to be like, we
<v Speaker 1>can make a lot more money if we kind of
<v Speaker 1>bid these have these companies bid against one another, although
<v Speaker 1>to me it's like it's just come up with a
<v Speaker 1>big number for both of them to pay and let
<v Speaker 1>them both make it. But maybe these companies are like, actually,
<v Speaker 1>if we're going to be spending all this money, we
<v Speaker 1>want the exclusive rights. So it's just it's just a
<v Speaker 1>reminder of like we're in a bad place with a
<v Speaker 1>lot of these things because of business and the way
<v Speaker 1>that these companies do business and the way the business
<v Speaker 1>the businesses of sports in America, especially college sports, is
<v Speaker 1>so locked down and control by entities.
<v Speaker 2>I know someone outside, it's like unhinged. It is so weird.
<v Speaker 3>It's there's no defend in it. I love it. I
<v Speaker 3>do love it.
<v Speaker 1>It's it's really exciting. It's you know, there's a lot
<v Speaker 1>of the parallel would be like people who are super
<v Speaker 1>into their club team, and that parallel breaks down really fast,
<v Speaker 1>like it's like and but also it's college and they're
<v Speaker 1>all kids for the most part or just very young
<v Speaker 1>a dog paid although now many of them are and yeah,
<v Speaker 1>yeah that has changed. Although they're being paid by for
<v Speaker 1>you know, their their deals that they get their their
<v Speaker 1>their marketing deals and not necessarily getting paid a wage
<v Speaker 1>by the school that is also continuing to make millions
<v Speaker 1>and millions of dollars off of these kids. We'll see how,
<v Speaker 1>we'll see how this shakes out. There's too much money
<v Speaker 1>on the table for this not to end up with
<v Speaker 1>a game coming out. But what this really says to
<v Speaker 1>me is a lot of that money will be spent
<v Speaker 1>on getting these deals done and not necessarily on making
<v Speaker 1>the best game, which is where this whole genre has
<v Speaker 1>been for a while.
<v Speaker 3>All right, last thing here.
<v Speaker 1>United States ends low value packaged tariff exemption, raising costs
<v Speaker 1>for online shoppers. This is from Oscar Onton on Docale
<v Speaker 1>at Game Reactor. The latest news on the from the
<v Speaker 1>United States.
<v Speaker 2>They loft a you for buying a million Chinese hontels.
<v Speaker 2>They called you a fool.
<v Speaker 3>That's right. Come to me for those Chinese handhelds. I
<v Speaker 3>have them all. Uh yeah.
<v Speaker 1>The deminimus is the name of the loophole that it
<v Speaker 1>was an official loophole. Basically, it existed because if a
<v Speaker 1>package was worth less than eight hundred dollars, no one
<v Speaker 1>involved on either side, whether it was a company or
<v Speaker 1>a country or a postal service, wanted to deal with
<v Speaker 1>customs for that package. They're like, whatever, it's not worth
<v Speaker 1>it the amount of money we're getting from this. Just
<v Speaker 1>let it through and let commerce flow freely. And then
<v Speaker 1>Trump was born and was dropped on his head apparently,
<v Speaker 1>and now we have to deal with him being like,
<v Speaker 1>there's money there, go, dude, go in that that loophole
<v Speaker 1>and let's try to get that money. So what has
<v Speaker 1>been the response. It's not that we have to start
<v Speaker 1>paying these tariffs. It's people aren't going to fucking ship
<v Speaker 1>us stuff anymore. Like that's what's happened. Many many vendors
<v Speaker 1>and throughout Europe and Asia have just ceased shipping products
<v Speaker 1>to the United States because they don't know who to
<v Speaker 1>even give the money to. It's confusing, it's poorly implemented,
<v Speaker 1>and it's the United States.
<v Speaker 3>We're number one baby, here we are. We're back on top.
<v Speaker 1>So if you are struggling to like purchase stuff online
<v Speaker 1>right now, it's because of this. So yeah, just wonderful,
<v Speaker 1>wonderful thing we have going on here.
<v Speaker 2>It seems great the fact that I was like offering you, like, hey,
<v Speaker 2>if you need something in Japan, I'll be there and
<v Speaker 2>it will probably be easier for me to ship it
<v Speaker 2>from island because like aland will continue to have a
<v Speaker 2>pretty good shipping relationship with the United States for as
<v Speaker 2>long as it can because there's so many Irish people there.
<v Speaker 2>But like that will only last so long, right.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, And that's it's worth pointing out, Like anyone sending
<v Speaker 1>a personal package to someone else in their life or
<v Speaker 1>something like that, it's not going to be covered by this.
<v Speaker 1>And I bet there's a number where it actually does
<v Speaker 1>kick into place. But this is all about businesses in commerce.
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, like, le see if you want, if you've
<v Speaker 1>got me something from Japan and wanted to send.
<v Speaker 3>It to me, you should be able to do that.
<v Speaker 2>And again worth point, you're going to get your Japanese
<v Speaker 2>about in wonder world.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, you know what, I might as well. You're right,
<v Speaker 3>go ahead and get it and give it a.
<v Speaker 2>Sounds great.
<v Speaker 3>Oh shit, all.
<v Speaker 2>Right, Why is it that everything I send you is
<v Speaker 2>like awful or would get you in trouble.
<v Speaker 3>No, it's I deserve it, I get it. That that
<v Speaker 3>makes sense to me. Actually, what is what is going
<v Speaker 3>to be the fallout from all this? That's the thing.
<v Speaker 3>Nobody knows, nobody it's not good.
<v Speaker 2>Uh.
<v Speaker 3>Commerce between countries is actually a very good thing. It
<v Speaker 3>has been. It's turned out to be the case.
<v Speaker 2>That sounds like some cammy bullshit to me.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that's the thing. It's not even it's free market bullshit.
<v Speaker 1>But it has worked out for the most part, being
<v Speaker 1>able to like buy stuff from people who make things
<v Speaker 1>in other countries so that they can get money and live.
<v Speaker 1>But we're we're against that now because we suck. All right,
<v Speaker 1>that does over the headlines. Let's get to the poll
<v Speaker 1>question from yesterday. We posted that earlier. Let's go ahead
<v Speaker 1>and see what the results are at do you use
<v Speaker 1>any cloud gaming platform?
<v Speaker 3>Your answer?
<v Speaker 1>Your options were yes or no, as I occasionally do,
<v Speaker 1>so I'm going to vote yes and that means I'm
<v Speaker 1>one of the sixteen percent of people who say yes.
<v Speaker 1>Eighty four percent of our audience says no, they don't
<v Speaker 1>actively use a cloud gaming platform. LEXI, are you ever
<v Speaker 1>on that stream or whatever?
<v Speaker 2>Guy?
<v Speaker 3>Kai, what are you doing?
<v Speaker 2>No, unless I like really have to know because Irish
<v Speaker 2>internet just isn't good enough. Like I have pretty good
<v Speaker 2>internet for Alan, but it's still there's a latency that
<v Speaker 2>I can feel that I just kind of wounds it
<v Speaker 2>for me.
<v Speaker 1>So no, yeah, I'm I use it here or there,
<v Speaker 1>but really not not in any active way too frequently.
<v Speaker 1>And just I mean, I get that our audience was
<v Speaker 1>always going to be pretty low for the yes on
<v Speaker 1>this response, but I think I don't imagine outside of
<v Speaker 1>our audience it's going to be much higher.
<v Speaker 3>Although Worth pointing out that Matt.
<v Speaker 1>Earlier this week did say it's growing in places like
<v Speaker 1>Brazil in South Korea where they have good internet and
<v Speaker 1>a strong gaming culture and they just kind of get this.
<v Speaker 1>So maybe the long game here really is still in play,
<v Speaker 1>but it probably has to be a very long game,
<v Speaker 1>and they're spending a lot of money on data centers
<v Speaker 1>in the mean one meantime, all.
<v Speaker 3>Right, with that out of the way, let's do this, LEXI,
<v Speaker 3>Do you.
<v Speaker 1>Have anything you want to tell people where they can
<v Speaker 1>find you on the internet, What you have going on
<v Speaker 1>all that good stuff.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, I've been super busy with games, calm stuff. All
<v Speaker 2>of my most of my previews will be going up
<v Speaker 2>on Shack News. So far, I have like five up.
<v Speaker 2>There's going to be seven by the end of today.
<v Speaker 2>I am rising like four more that are embargoed until
<v Speaker 2>sometime next week, and I have a few others after that.
<v Speaker 2>If you are going to seek out any of them,
<v Speaker 2>I would highly recommend checking out my interview with Suda
<v Speaker 2>fifty one. That dude is awesome. It was really good
<v Speaker 2>talking to him about how he goes about like crediting
<v Speaker 2>his team and getting everyone because he put like the
<v Speaker 2>credits for the whole team in the trailer for Roma
<v Speaker 2>was a dead Man, and he was like, Yeah, I
<v Speaker 2>want everyone to get the time to like talk about
<v Speaker 2>how cool they're workers, and he is a really nice guy.
<v Speaker 2>He also told me which wrestler he would feature in
<v Speaker 2>one of his video games if he could, because we
<v Speaker 2>are talking about James Gunn and how James Gunn works
<v Speaker 2>with a lot of wrestlers that he likes. And we
<v Speaker 2>also talked about if James Gunn did ask him to
<v Speaker 2>work on a DC game, what kind of thing would
<v Speaker 2>he be interested in doing, and the answer involved black pink.
<v Speaker 2>Oh really, yeah, yeah, that would be It's amazing. Actually, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>it's it. He wants to make a Batman black and
<v Speaker 2>white video game, so based off the anthology comics and
<v Speaker 2>then do quote something stupid and put black pink in
<v Speaker 2>this for the theme song.
<v Speaker 3>Villains.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Sudah's great, Suda's very nice guy. James Mountain as well,
<v Speaker 2>his translator very very friendly, Andromeo is a dead man.
<v Speaker 2>Looks fucking awesome. Really excited for more people to see
<v Speaker 2>that game.
<v Speaker 1>Oh that's good to hear, all right, fantastic. So yeah,
<v Speaker 1>people look out for Lexi's coverage of games. Comment's ongoing.
<v Speaker 1>Let's see, let's talk about what's happening on Giant Bomb.
<v Speaker 1>We have upf is going to be happening here in
<v Speaker 1>a little bit. That's happening first at one pm Eastern.
<v Speaker 1>It'll be ten am Pacific time. A voicemail dump truck
<v Speaker 1>is then happening after that. We had to move it
<v Speaker 1>from Thursday because we had a bunch of the folks out.
<v Speaker 1>That'll be at three pm Eastern, so look out for that.
<v Speaker 1>Let's see here upf we're gonna probably have a bunch
<v Speaker 1>of stuff for trying. A couple of things. I want
<v Speaker 1>to do that that mage game where you have to
<v Speaker 1>like use your voice to cast spells. That looks pretty dumb,
<v Speaker 1>but maybe we'll try that Sonic Crossworlds demo as well.
<v Speaker 2>Pick the pepper grinder, Yes, we'll get the pepperder.
<v Speaker 3>All right. With all that out of the way, we
<v Speaker 3>should wrap up the week with the Bomb twelve.
<v Speaker 1>Every buddy, Sean's going to get it up up on
<v Speaker 1>the screen for you right now so you can see
<v Speaker 1>what the bomb twelve is for the week of August
<v Speaker 1>twenty ninth. Let me see here. I want to take
<v Speaker 1>a look at it myself. I have it right over
<v Speaker 1>here in my figma. All right, the bomb twelve starting
<v Speaker 1>with number twelve, sort of the sea once again on
<v Speaker 1>the Bomb twelve after last week dropped a little bit,
<v Speaker 1>but it's still hanging on there at number twelve. There
<v Speaker 1>was a lot of movement this week, so impressive to
<v Speaker 1>be able to hang on Street Rider six looks like
<v Speaker 1>it's going to be a perennial hit on here. It's
<v Speaker 1>at number eleven. The Rogue Prince of Persia was able
<v Speaker 1>to crack its way into the Bomb twelve for the
<v Speaker 1>first time. At number ten, Abiotic Factor number nine, that's
<v Speaker 1>one that I've seen kind of bubbling up each week. LEXI,
<v Speaker 1>you know, I went into one point oh recently. I
<v Speaker 1>think that's what happened, and people are checking in on that.
<v Speaker 1>I've been meaning to go back.
<v Speaker 2>I have not.
<v Speaker 3>Have you checked out Abiotic Factor?
<v Speaker 2>I haven't. I played a bunch of Little Prince of
<v Speaker 2>Persia the other night, though, and that game is a
<v Speaker 2>lot of fun.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>People seem to have really come around on the Rogue
<v Speaker 1>Prince of Persia. I think of the response in early
<v Speaker 1>Access with kind of muted sounds like they really got
<v Speaker 1>it together recently. Number eight is Final Fantasy fourteen, Number
<v Speaker 1>seven is World of Warcraft. Number six is Clear Obscure
<v Speaker 1>Expedition thirty three. That's relatively low for that game. I
<v Speaker 1>think it's the lowest it's ever been, and that's because
<v Speaker 1>there again a lot of movement. Number five was Death
<v Speaker 1>Stranding two. Number four was Hell Divers two, and that
<v Speaker 1>means number three new game Meadow Gear, Solid Delta Snake Eater.
<v Speaker 1>It was able to get its way on this list
<v Speaker 1>in its first week. There's a chance that once more
<v Speaker 1>people have like get their hands on it because it's
<v Speaker 1>out out now.
<v Speaker 2>Fat it was only actually released today. It was early
<v Speaker 2>access up until.
<v Speaker 1>Now exactly, so expected to do even better next week.
<v Speaker 1>Number two is Hollow Night. That's not Silk Song, that's
<v Speaker 1>just standard Hollow Night. Silk Song's got a lot of
<v Speaker 1>people going back to this one. I'm not surprised to
<v Speaker 1>see it here, Lexi. I've you know, I see people
<v Speaker 1>lugging on to games on Steam or on the switch
<v Speaker 1>in all week it was this Hollow.
<v Speaker 3>Night, that person Hollow Night, this third person Hollow Night.
<v Speaker 3>A lot of people playing that game.
<v Speaker 2>I'm not.
<v Speaker 3>Number one.
<v Speaker 1>Donkey Kong Bananza still hanging on there at number one.
<v Speaker 1>It has continued to be the number one game for
<v Speaker 1>the entire run of the Bomb twelve so far. Again,
<v Speaker 1>I still think there's a chance Delta knocks.
<v Speaker 3>It off, but it probably won't be until next week.
<v Speaker 3>We'll see.
<v Speaker 2>And that's the bookby Go play Shanobi.
<v Speaker 3>It's very good.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I hope, I hope Schanobi actually cracks its way
<v Speaker 1>on here next week. Shanobi is one that I think
<v Speaker 1>will get some word of mouth. I'm glad you like
<v Speaker 1>it as well. I keep asking everyone you know, Jesse
<v Speaker 1>and I saw some other reviews had some issues with
<v Speaker 1>the platforming.
<v Speaker 3>Have you had any troubles with the platforming or what?
<v Speaker 2>I only got my code last night because I asked
<v Speaker 2>for switch code, and so I'm sorry. Yes, yeah, it
<v Speaker 2>seems drawn fine on Switch even though it's switched one version.
<v Speaker 2>It definitely wants better than Ninja Gaiden did. But no,
<v Speaker 2>the platforming seems fine from what I've played so far.
<v Speaker 3>Let me see if I got a Let me take
<v Speaker 3>a look at the list here real quick.
<v Speaker 1>Just to wrap things up, there was three people who
<v Speaker 1>voted for Nine Kings, which is a game. I've been
<v Speaker 1>hearing about it, but I've still not checked out, so
<v Speaker 1>we'll see. Kirby in the Forgotten World had one vote,
<v Speaker 1>but I think that'll go up next week.
<v Speaker 3>Actually, now that that DLC is out.
<v Speaker 1>Let's see here, I'm trying to see if there's any
<v Speaker 1>other ones that are interesting that only got one vote.
<v Speaker 3>Grand Turismo three A Spec had one.
<v Speaker 1>Nice's yeah, y'all hare Tiic plus Hexan, some people playing that,
<v Speaker 1>one person playing I Racing. Let's see a couple votes
<v Speaker 1>for is this seat? Take in Lives of p Mafia
<v Speaker 1>the Old Country had four or five people.
<v Speaker 3>Give it a vote. We had about, let's.
<v Speaker 1>See, seven hundred respondents this week, so a lot of
<v Speaker 1>different games on here. Merge Maestro did fall off, but
<v Speaker 1>it still had a decent showing on here from a
<v Speaker 1>handful of people still playing that. And Yeah, that's gonna
<v Speaker 1>do it. For the Bomb twelve, we'll do another one
<v Speaker 1>next Friday. If you want to have your go to
<v Speaker 1>giant bomb dot com. I'll post a blog post that
<v Speaker 1>will have a link at the bottom to the new
<v Speaker 1>form where you can vote and have your say, and
<v Speaker 1>we'll get the results.
<v Speaker 3>I'll collate that all for the end of next week.
<v Speaker 3>All right, LEXI, thank you so much for hanging out
<v Speaker 3>with me today and talk about video games. I really
<v Speaker 3>appreciate it.
<v Speaker 2>Anytime anytime, well, I say anytime, I'm going to be
<v Speaker 2>in Japan for three weeks, so might not be as
<v Speaker 2>available then, but I'll find a replacement for myself. I'll
<v Speaker 2>find someone that you can draft.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, you could send someone my way.
<v Speaker 2>That sounds good, my medical joker.
<v Speaker 3>Oh no.
<v Speaker 1>Thank you everybody for watching and listening. You are the
<v Speaker 1>best audience in gaming. Until next time, have a good one,
<v Speaker 1>take care of yourself, and goodbye.