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<v Speaker 1>Hey, everybody, welcome to Game Breaking News with me Jeff Greb,
<v Speaker 1>your host from giant bomb dot com.
<v Speaker 2>Thank you for tuning in.
<v Speaker 1>On this episode, we're going to be talking about another
<v Speaker 1>classic console making a comeback, and a former PlayStation executive
<v Speaker 1>has hidden treasures in his cupboard. We also have Emma
<v Speaker 1>Fife on the show today, so it's going to be
<v Speaker 1>a good one. Let's get right into it by saying
<v Speaker 1>hi to Emma Fife.
<v Speaker 2>Emma, how are you doing?
<v Speaker 3>Hey? I am great.
<v Speaker 4>I was on my honeymoon, which was delayed after my
<v Speaker 4>actual wed and we were in Thailand for over two weeks. Uh,
<v Speaker 4>it's not it's not Monday. Chat no, no, no, no,
<v Speaker 4>I'm here on a Thursday.
<v Speaker 1>Uh, it's day Honorary Monday. Everybody, you don't work the
<v Speaker 1>next five days.
<v Speaker 3>I don't know what time it is where I am.
<v Speaker 4>Like, I crossed something like six time zones and the
<v Speaker 4>international date line, so I just like, I genuinely you know,
<v Speaker 4>I woke up in the middle of the night last
<v Speaker 4>night because my stomach was like, it's time to have lunch.
<v Speaker 3>But I'm so messed up right now.
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, I mean, here's we've all been at home
<v Speaker 1>not traveling, and we've all stopped caring about that stuff
<v Speaker 1>as well, and there what's the anymore. So exactly, I'm
<v Speaker 1>glad that you had a good trip.
<v Speaker 2>It sounds like it was a good time.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it was awesome.
<v Speaker 4>I stayed at an elephant sanctuary for part of it,
<v Speaker 4>and I got to like feed elephants, and elephants came
<v Speaker 4>to our little like bungalow that we were staying in
<v Speaker 4>it breakfast time every morning and we got to feed
<v Speaker 4>them their breakfast.
<v Speaker 3>So it was red.
<v Speaker 2>Did you play any of Indiana Jones last year?
<v Speaker 1>Because that has one thing that place in that region,
<v Speaker 1>so that is not I'm definitely someone who like, we'll
<v Speaker 1>play a game, learn about a place a little bit,
<v Speaker 1>not a ton.
<v Speaker 2>I'm not. I'm not a learner everybody. I think we've started,
<v Speaker 2>but I'll learn a little.
<v Speaker 1>I'll get a little curious and so will make me
<v Speaker 1>want to explore certain things once I travel to these places.
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, now that you've traveled there, though, maybe you
<v Speaker 1>could play that game.
<v Speaker 4>Well, I will say that, you know, the current season
<v Speaker 4>of White Lotus takes place in Thailand in Kostam. We
<v Speaker 4>did not go to Kosta Moi, but we did when
<v Speaker 4>we were in Paquette decide to not go to the
<v Speaker 4>island that we were going to go to because just
<v Speaker 4>we'd been we were moving around so much and we're like,
<v Speaker 4>it's going to take four hours to get to this
<v Speaker 4>island on a boat, Like, let's just stay in Paquette.
<v Speaker 4>And so because it was super last minute, I was like,
<v Speaker 4>I'm I'm into the idea of like staying at a
<v Speaker 4>nice resource. So we like literally stayed at a five
<v Speaker 4>star wars ort and poo cut for I don't know,
<v Speaker 4>like two hundred bucks a night. And yeah, I was
<v Speaker 4>living by white Lotus fantasy for.
<v Speaker 2>A couple of days.
<v Speaker 3>A lot, a lot less murder.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, so well, but hopefully a lot more Sam Rockwell.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, yeah, I wish, yeah, I.
<v Speaker 1>Wish for that for everybody. We all deserve more Sam
<v Speaker 1>Rockwell in our lives. All right, let's explain what we
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<v Speaker 1>we have a lot to get into, so let's break
<v Speaker 1>some gaming news, starting with another FPGA in sixty four
<v Speaker 1>gets teased by this time by a opian weapons merchant.
<v Speaker 1>A soul patch on legs tweeted with a tweeted a
<v Speaker 1>misunderstanding of the matrix to try to get people to
<v Speaker 1>buy his new FPGA in sixty four instead of analogs,
<v Speaker 1>which got delayed. That human flip flop that someone left
<v Speaker 1>in the teenage mutant Ninja Turtle Ooz previously released the
<v Speaker 1>mod Retro Chromatic, which is an FPGA game Boy Color.
<v Speaker 1>Now it seems like he is going to be actually
<v Speaker 1>released to something called the m sixty four, which is
<v Speaker 1>probably going to be the equivalent but for the Nintendo
<v Speaker 1>sixty four. It was a pretty embarrassing post because it's
<v Speaker 1>just like, join me down the rabbit hole. But I
<v Speaker 1>think we're in a space now where we're going to
<v Speaker 1>get quite a few of these We didn't get any
<v Speaker 1>details from what I'm described here as what if the
<v Speaker 1>word milady got turned into a person.
<v Speaker 2>He did not have pricing or release date or anything.
<v Speaker 1>Seems like he was just trying to capitalize on the
<v Speaker 1>fact that the Analog Analog three D is what they
<v Speaker 1>call it, got delayed till July, and so he's like, oh,
<v Speaker 1>what's hopping now, Tell people we're making one of those,
<v Speaker 1>so maybe they'll hold off and buying the Analect Trinty
<v Speaker 1>and get mine instead. I'm all for more of these
<v Speaker 1>things coming back, although I'm personally just not going to
<v Speaker 1>buy the one from the guy making AI missiles for
<v Speaker 1>the government, especially if it's like he's the one that
<v Speaker 1>is teaming up with game Stop because he's friends with
<v Speaker 1>Ryan Cohen, who is a nightmare person himself, the current.
<v Speaker 2>CEO of game Stop.
<v Speaker 1>So it's like, oh yeah, two shitheads working together to
<v Speaker 1>kind of corner this space a little bit. I'm not interested,
<v Speaker 1>but I think we are at least at a point
<v Speaker 1>where someone with a little bit of interest in this
<v Speaker 1>space can start up one of these companies, and I
<v Speaker 1>think I welcome more competition overall, but I'm going to
<v Speaker 1>be turning to someone like taki Udon on YouTube, who
<v Speaker 1>is making a bunch of these. He's making the PS
<v Speaker 1>one equivalent of these, and I'm very happy to see
<v Speaker 1>this continue to grow. Do you have any interest in
<v Speaker 1>old FPGA consoles or you kind of wait until maybe
<v Speaker 1>they get more powerful or two?
<v Speaker 4>I mean again, it's like here, here's the thing is
<v Speaker 4>that you know the the FJ consoles is I'm totally
<v Speaker 4>with you that alto at the end of the day,
<v Speaker 4>they are emulators and.
<v Speaker 2>D hardware emulators.
<v Speaker 3>But yes, hardware emulators, yeah, exactly.
<v Speaker 4>And I came into the emulation scene pretty early on,
<v Speaker 4>you know, using emulators like an like a Supernintendo emulator
<v Speaker 4>on the PC when I was a kid, because we
<v Speaker 4>didn't have a Super Nintendo and it was beyond Super
<v Speaker 4>Nintendo's era at that point. We were already into the PlayStations,
<v Speaker 4>the N sixty fours. We might have even been on
<v Speaker 4>the cusp of like PS two at that point that
<v Speaker 4>my brother and I were using this emulator.
<v Speaker 3>So it's like this stuff is all fair game.
<v Speaker 4>But you know, and in this case, as you say,
<v Speaker 4>it is actually emulating the hardware itself so that you
<v Speaker 4>can play the games that you you can play like
<v Speaker 4>the physical games rather than like running ROMs of the
<v Speaker 4>games on the emulator.
<v Speaker 3>But yeah, I mean it's cool.
<v Speaker 4>I think it's it's fair game for the open market
<v Speaker 4>to be able to like do whatever they want and ultimately,
<v Speaker 4>you know somebody is going to do it the best.
<v Speaker 4>And this is one of the positive things of the
<v Speaker 4>free market is that competition does lead to people innovating
<v Speaker 4>and you have to make.
<v Speaker 1>You have to make a cool one of these, rightly,
<v Speaker 1>you kind of can't. It can't be like it was
<v Speaker 1>in mid two thousands where we were getting the Retron
<v Speaker 1>five and it worked, but it was kind of janky
<v Speaker 1>and crappy and cheap materials and it just didn't feel
<v Speaker 1>very good to use, and the interface was crappy, but
<v Speaker 1>it was the only option if you wanted to just
<v Speaker 1>have a cheap one of these things, you could plug
<v Speaker 1>any cartridge into or maybe do some hacking to play
<v Speaker 1>off of an SD card or something like that. And
<v Speaker 1>you know, it was cool for the time, but now
<v Speaker 1>it's we have come a long way, and because there
<v Speaker 1>is so much interest in this and there is money
<v Speaker 1>to be made, a company like Analog can just full
<v Speaker 1>time employ someone from the scene of producing these FPGA corps,
<v Speaker 1>which I mean.
<v Speaker 2>A quick explanation. I always feel like I should explain FPGA.
<v Speaker 1>Hardware relation just becaf. There's a field program programmable gate
<v Speaker 1>array chip. That's what FPGA stands for, and you could
<v Speaker 1>just tell that chip to behave in a certain way
<v Speaker 1>to mimic the behavior of something like a Nintendo sixty four.
<v Speaker 2>That's what the mister device is all about.
<v Speaker 1>Now these companies are making their productized version of it
<v Speaker 1>so they could sell it to consumers. And you know,
<v Speaker 1>it's a little bit different than the open source projects
<v Speaker 1>that the myster is, but there's some benefits. They're like
<v Speaker 1>having a full time employee of keptrists was the guy
<v Speaker 1>that is a savant at creating these cores, and he's
<v Speaker 1>getting paid to do this work, which is I think
<v Speaker 1>we all benefit benefit from that in the long run.
<v Speaker 1>He often puts out his work as like jailbroken source
<v Speaker 1>code later so that that's where the benefit comes from.
<v Speaker 2>But so I enjoy that.
<v Speaker 1>And then also I do think like this analog three
<v Speaker 1>D looks very cool. They do a really good job
<v Speaker 1>with the materials and stuff like that. And then the
<v Speaker 1>superstation from TECHU, which is the PlayStation one equivalent same thing.
<v Speaker 1>They just look so handsome, and you know that, like
<v Speaker 1>they feel like they could capitalize on this because there
<v Speaker 1>is so much nostalgia and so much interest in these things.
<v Speaker 1>And yeah, like you said, more competition in the space
<v Speaker 1>is probably gonna lead to even better innovations and improvements
<v Speaker 1>in lower prices, and maybe they buy enough of these
<v Speaker 1>FPGA chips that the companies that produce the FPGA chips say, Okay, well,
<v Speaker 1>let's start a new round of more powerful FPGA processors
<v Speaker 1>that can eventually lead to a world where we do
<v Speaker 1>get the equivalent for a PS two or a GameCube
<v Speaker 1>or a Dreamcast, which are all a bit too much
<v Speaker 1>for the current crop of FPGA chips that are achievable
<v Speaker 1>to be acquired by these companies. There probably are powerful
<v Speaker 1>enough chips, but not ones that are affordable enough.
<v Speaker 2>These are all pretty expensive.
<v Speaker 1>And for a while there they like the mister was
<v Speaker 1>using a subsidized one. I think Intel was personal like
<v Speaker 1>that company was subsidizing the so people would get used
<v Speaker 1>to using these things. It's like that subsidy ever went away,
<v Speaker 1>they wouldn't be able to do this stuff anymore. Unless,
<v Speaker 1>you know, we make so many of them that the
<v Speaker 1>scaling begins to kick in, and that's the hope.
<v Speaker 2>With all of these devices.
<v Speaker 1>So I continue to be very interested in these things,
<v Speaker 1>even as I find other ways to play old games.
<v Speaker 2>Emma. I mean there's aily ways to do that now.
<v Speaker 1>I'm using my steam deck, still, I'm using I'm using
<v Speaker 1>emulators on the PC. Still, I use RetroArch like once
<v Speaker 1>a week at least, I am. I'm buying shoot hardware.
<v Speaker 1>I'm buying the real hardware. And I got a retrocinc
<v Speaker 1>on the way, the retro Tink four ksee, which is
<v Speaker 1>an upscaler. I'm planning to plug the real N sixty
<v Speaker 1>four I got right back here in the GameCube, and
<v Speaker 1>the PS one that I just got out because I
<v Speaker 1>have to.
<v Speaker 2>Play over Blood next week. So there's a lot of
<v Speaker 2>ways for me to play old games.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I think this work still is important, and I
<v Speaker 1>think it's maybe one of the easier ways to get.
<v Speaker 2>A really good version of the N.
<v Speaker 1>Sixty four because in sixty four, emulation actually is still
<v Speaker 1>kind of problematic.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>And the other thing too that I sort of think
<v Speaker 4>about this in terms of kind of the future of
<v Speaker 4>where this goes is if you do end up with
<v Speaker 4>a market where.
<v Speaker 3>You have all of these really good.
<v Speaker 4>PGA driven hardware and you're able to play the physical
<v Speaker 4>copies of the old games. Does that then put pressure
<v Speaker 4>on the companies who originally publish the games, Would it
<v Speaker 4>perhaps revive their interest in preserving these games, because it
<v Speaker 4>is a real issue that there are so many video
<v Speaker 4>games that unless you have some sort of hardware and
<v Speaker 4>a physical copy of the game and the hardware that
<v Speaker 4>can run it, it is lost to time. So and
<v Speaker 4>also there's sort of the interesting side of the used
<v Speaker 4>game market, which is the Japanese used game market, where
<v Speaker 4>they're a lot less because like I feel like in
<v Speaker 4>the US a lot of the time, the used game
<v Speaker 4>market is very much like a collector's market.
<v Speaker 3>And in Japan the same is true.
<v Speaker 4>However, they're not as like precious about it. Like basically
<v Speaker 4>you can go to you know, any any given sort
<v Speaker 4>of game store in Japan. Of course Super Potato being
<v Speaker 4>a super famous one of them that you know, has
<v Speaker 4>these retro games, and they if they're not in like
<v Speaker 4>some nice pristine collector condition, like if they just basically
<v Speaker 4>exist as a game, they're not expensive to buy. And
<v Speaker 4>so if you have the hardware that can run it.
<v Speaker 4>I mean, obviously the games would be in Japanese. So yeah,
<v Speaker 4>I'm just I'm curious to see like how this influences
<v Speaker 4>the retro games market and just the general preservation of
<v Speaker 4>retro games overall.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's it took the Nintendo and Sega and those
<v Speaker 1>companies quite some time before they hopped on the very
<v Speaker 1>cheap computer that can emulate old old game consoles and
<v Speaker 1>just turn that into a product. They were five to
<v Speaker 1>ten years behind, maybe longer. It's like when that would
<v Speaker 1>have made sense and they're like, okay, finally, now these
<v Speaker 1>companies are like, oh, it is five dollars for one
<v Speaker 1>of these chips that we could put in a box
<v Speaker 1>that looks like an old nes and then we just
<v Speaker 1>put you know, five hundred.
<v Speaker 2>Megabytes of storage cold storage.
<v Speaker 1>On this thing, put the games on there, and we
<v Speaker 1>got something that we could build for fifteen dollars that
<v Speaker 1>we could sell for one hundred dollars.
<v Speaker 2>And FPGA is a long way away from that.
<v Speaker 1>But again, it is a process as these things become
<v Speaker 1>more popular and more common in devices. If it does
<v Speaker 1>hit a certain scale in ten years, this current crop
<v Speaker 1>of like FPGA could get to a point where it
<v Speaker 1>does make sense for a nintend to be like, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>now we will do the N sixty four equivalent of
<v Speaker 1>the SNS micro consoles that we made, and that would
<v Speaker 1>I'm all in favor of that. But you know, like
<v Speaker 1>in the meantime, as you say, like, what do they
<v Speaker 1>do to set themselves apart when they are doing their
<v Speaker 1>own retro offerings, I think we have they've kind of
<v Speaker 1>tapped out what they could do with what they've established
<v Speaker 1>as their retro games. So far, it kind of feels
<v Speaker 1>like they need to start adding for the switch to
<v Speaker 1>at least adding other options in there. I would still
<v Speaker 1>be kind of surprised if they did GameCube, despite the
<v Speaker 1>fact that those rumors have been out there that they've
<v Speaker 1>considered it, considered it. I mean, I'm just up two
<v Speaker 1>minds about that it could happen. I would just still
<v Speaker 1>be surprised because I think they want to sell us
<v Speaker 1>GameCube games still individually that they remastered, But there's probably
<v Speaker 1>a lot of GameCube games that aren't really on the
<v Speaker 1>table for that. There's like middle of the road ones.
<v Speaker 1>They're like, we're not going to remake Mario Golf the
<v Speaker 1>GameCube one, right, We're going to make a new game
<v Speaker 1>or a new Mario Golf. So maybe maybe they like
<v Speaker 1>put those kinds of games end end up in that
<v Speaker 1>sort of thing. But again I would just kind of
<v Speaker 1>be shocked, but that like they have nowhere else left
<v Speaker 1>to go to like really sort of beef up the
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo Switch online retro offerings, right, so then they might
<v Speaker 1>get into that game.
<v Speaker 4>Right, Yeah, absolutely, yeah, Yeah, as you say, it's a it,
<v Speaker 4>it all is positive. I don't really see any bad
<v Speaker 4>side to this particular.
<v Speaker 1>Practice, yes, right, and inside you know, and it's you know,
<v Speaker 1>there's always the question like, oh is this legal? Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>remaking the hardware is is you know, covered under patent
<v Speaker 1>not copyright. If there was any like copyrighted code in there,
<v Speaker 1>that would be a little bit different. But that's just
<v Speaker 1>how these older consoles generally work. And then you could
<v Speaker 1>also reverse engineer things like the bios and a clean
<v Speaker 1>room and make all that stuff Legalden. You could think,
<v Speaker 1>you know, the early Windows IBM PC compatible lawsuits that
<v Speaker 1>happen the way back then for all of that.
<v Speaker 2>That's why we get all this good stuff. All right.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, let's move ahead, although I'll keep an eye on
<v Speaker 1>the on the M sixty four. I'll be interested to
<v Speaker 1>see how like where the price comes in for the Chromatic,
<v Speaker 1>it was about two hundred dollars. It was pretty close
<v Speaker 1>to an analog the analog pocket, and the analog pocket
<v Speaker 1>has more features than the Chromatic. So I wonder if they,
<v Speaker 1>I bet the same thing happens here where this is
<v Speaker 1>about the same price. They make it look really handsome,
<v Speaker 1>and then the feature set is a little bit more
<v Speaker 1>limited than the analog equivalents, which have like open.
<v Speaker 2>FPGA that you or some of the devices do that
<v Speaker 2>you could.
<v Speaker 1>Put other coreson so you could emulate other consoles on
<v Speaker 1>your pocket, for example, which can do a bunch of
<v Speaker 1>stuff and.
<v Speaker 2>Chromatic just can't all right.
<v Speaker 1>Plants Versus Zombies Reloaded has been rated in Brazil. This
<v Speaker 1>comes from Mustafa Mustapha Machmood at kit Guru, as discovered
<v Speaker 1>by the publication Gamatsu. A new game listed as Plants
<v Speaker 1>Versus Zombies Reloaded has appeared on the Brazilian ratings board,
<v Speaker 1>said to be coming to PS five, Xbox series consoles,
<v Speaker 1>Switch PCIOs and as well as Android. Little else can
<v Speaker 1>be gleaned from the listing currently Plants Versus Zombies Reloaded.
<v Speaker 1>It says interestingly for the game, well, the PS five
<v Speaker 1>Xbox series and Switch would be getting the classic for
<v Speaker 1>the first time. Plants Versus Zombies has been available on
<v Speaker 1>PC since two thousand and nine and on iOS and
<v Speaker 1>Android since twenty ten and eleven, respectively. That said, the
<v Speaker 1>current version is rife with ads and various in that purchases,
<v Speaker 1>and so hopefully the reloaded release serves as a nice
<v Speaker 1>way to play the original Plants Versus Zombies with little
<v Speaker 1>to no interruptions at a reasonable price.
<v Speaker 2>I really enjoyed Plants Versus Zombies, and it is.
<v Speaker 1>A franchise that has a very huge global audience, really
<v Speaker 1>call it China.
<v Speaker 2>It was very popular in China.
<v Speaker 1>So I've been surprised that they haven't done more with it.
<v Speaker 1>Do you think this is like the like a gesture,
<v Speaker 1>like a sort of okay, yeah, let's just do something
<v Speaker 1>with plants for the zombies to keep it somewhat relevant.
<v Speaker 1>Or do you think this is at the start of them, like, hey,
<v Speaker 1>let's go all out on this series again and maybe
<v Speaker 1>get another one of those the shooters that were like
<v Speaker 1>surprisingly popular and things like that.
<v Speaker 4>I think what this is is like a dipping the
<v Speaker 4>toe in the water to see if they garner a
<v Speaker 4>new audience.
<v Speaker 3>Because again, it's like, you know, like, as you say.
<v Speaker 4>Mobile gaming in general is incredibly popular basically everywhere except
<v Speaker 4>the US.
<v Speaker 3>It's gaining popularity.
<v Speaker 4>In the US, but in a lot of other countries
<v Speaker 4>mobile gaming is it? And yeah one hundred percent and
<v Speaker 4>and plants versus zombies again like I did, I don't.
<v Speaker 4>I didn't really play it myself, but I certainly was
<v Speaker 4>aware of it peripherally. I saw a lot of ads
<v Speaker 4>for it, and I knew that there was this incredibly
<v Speaker 4>dedicated global audience. Now I like the idea of it.
<v Speaker 4>I think it looks like the art is cute, and
<v Speaker 4>it seems like it is, you know, one of the
<v Speaker 4>more solid mobile titles that was in kind of that
<v Speaker 4>earlier crop of saying, oh okay, well these mobile games
<v Speaker 4>are truly video games, like and and you know, I
<v Speaker 4>am somebody that I'm a huge proponent of if you
<v Speaker 4>play the you know, New York Times spelling Bee or
<v Speaker 4>wordle or connections like those are those are videos you're
<v Speaker 4>playing games?
<v Speaker 1>Saw? I saw BDG on Instagram making that argument Brian
<v Speaker 1>David Gilbert and getting shut down, and I wanted to
<v Speaker 1>rush to his defense and say, absolutely, world Wordle is
<v Speaker 1>a video game. Absolutely, he said, said, what's the other
<v Speaker 1>the fitbit, that's a video game.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, he's right, it's a video game.
<v Speaker 3>He's totally right, He's totally right.
<v Speaker 2>It's check out.
<v Speaker 1>What's the what's the show called that they were having
<v Speaker 1>that conversation on.
<v Speaker 2>I'm actually on Actually go go look at that clip
<v Speaker 2>on Instagram or just go watch the show everybody.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's a great show. Stay tuned later this season.
<v Speaker 4>Myself and Bailey Myers are on the same episode, my
<v Speaker 4>favorite episode.
<v Speaker 2>I haven't seen it yet.
<v Speaker 3>I camera it was it was a blast. Yeah, we
<v Speaker 3>had a really good time. But yeah, I mean again,
<v Speaker 3>it's like, I think that.
<v Speaker 4>Now that the mobile games market is getting more respect
<v Speaker 4>in the US, why not try again with plants versus
<v Speaker 4>zombies and put it in such a form that it's like, Okay,
<v Speaker 4>I can play pay twenty dollars and just play this game.
<v Speaker 4>Because that was a lot of my frustration with some
<v Speaker 4>mobile games that I did try to get into. You know,
<v Speaker 4>I have huge issues with the creator of the series's
<v Speaker 4>she should have just tweeted every once in a while.
<v Speaker 4>Hagrid hopes all the little witches and wizards have a great.
<v Speaker 3>Summer and just shut up.
<v Speaker 4>Much better, Yeah, would have been much better. But there
<v Speaker 4>was this Harry Potter mobile game. I remember that you
<v Speaker 4>basically it took place before Harry Potter was at Hogwarts
<v Speaker 4>and you were a witch wizard whose like brother was
<v Speaker 4>in some kind of trouble blah blah blah. Like I remember,
<v Speaker 4>Ninfidora Tonks was like of your age. You were like
<v Speaker 4>in the same kind of like class era as her,
<v Speaker 4>but you made your own original Harry Potter character and
<v Speaker 4>it was super fun. But you had to like earn
<v Speaker 4>gems to play more. And I was like, can I
<v Speaker 4>just pay somebody twenty dollars and play this game instead
<v Speaker 4>of having to like wait for stuff to regenerate? And
<v Speaker 4>I don't even think they have the option of it
<v Speaker 4>at purchases. So if you are gonna make mobile games
<v Speaker 4>in such a way that they can function like a
<v Speaker 4>Nintendo Switch game in that I can just buy it
<v Speaker 4>and play it, that is interesting to me. I mean,
<v Speaker 4>we talked about this a little bit with Animal Crossing
<v Speaker 4>Pocket Camp coming back and how it's like, yeah, I'm
<v Speaker 4>gonna pay for the promotional deal just in case I
<v Speaker 4>want to get into that because I.
<v Speaker 2>Just have it for ten dollars.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, exactly, yep, it's I think.
<v Speaker 1>I'm with you that this The sense I get here
<v Speaker 1>is that this will be more of a console game
<v Speaker 1>that they are also releasing on mobile than a mobile
<v Speaker 1>game that they're also.
<v Speaker 2>Releasing on console.
<v Speaker 1>And by that I mean I think we're gonna be
<v Speaker 1>able to just pay for this game and it won't
<v Speaker 1>have all the micro transactions, or if it does, they
<v Speaker 1>won't be as in your face with the advertisements and
<v Speaker 1>things like that. It'll be toned down so that it
<v Speaker 1>could feel more like what PopCap games originally were, which
<v Speaker 1>were video games released on the PC. I think it's
<v Speaker 1>the history there is a little bit muddled because we
<v Speaker 1>do I do associate Plans versus Zombies with mobile, but no,
<v Speaker 1>it came out on PC first, just like pegl these
<v Speaker 1>were casual PC games that had a huge audience among
<v Speaker 1>like like you know, the hardcore gaming crowd, and we
<v Speaker 1>were worried about I remember at the time, like talking
<v Speaker 1>when Jeff Green went to go work at PopCap, I
<v Speaker 1>had a conversation with the matpacks where like, come on, man,
<v Speaker 1>these games that you're now making for mobile you guys
<v Speaker 1>are gonna go crazy with micro transactions it, right, And
<v Speaker 1>he's like he kind of like danced around it.
<v Speaker 2>But that's exactly what happened. And now PopCap is this.
<v Speaker 1>Mostly forgotten thing among the crowd that once really cared
<v Speaker 1>about it because they just haven't made games for us
<v Speaker 1>in a long time. So I think the hope here
<v Speaker 1>is that take Plants Versus Zombies the game that we
<v Speaker 1>had back then, remaster it and release it as a
<v Speaker 1>you know, quote unquote real video game with a premium price.
<v Speaker 1>And I think that we would all welcome the return
<v Speaker 1>of that, and.
<v Speaker 2>You know, do Pegl next.
<v Speaker 1>Let's do Pegl and you know Pegel two, Pegel Knights,
<v Speaker 1>do a collection, a big Pegl HD collection. I think
<v Speaker 1>that could also hit very hard as well, and then
<v Speaker 1>do a new Pegl that brings in some of these
<v Speaker 1>new features that have happened in a lot of the
<v Speaker 1>Pegel like since then, where it's like, let's turn them
<v Speaker 1>into RPGs and things like that. I mean, there's there's
<v Speaker 1>space for EA to do more with PopCap, clearly, and
<v Speaker 1>I hope they could sort of walk this fine line
<v Speaker 1>of taking these casual games making them appeal to the
<v Speaker 1>audience that once loved them while still making enough money,
<v Speaker 1>I guess to justify them without crossing that line into
<v Speaker 1>every thirty seconds you're getting an ad because most people
<v Speaker 1>aren't going to pay for this game. I don't know
<v Speaker 1>if that's the world we live in, but I'm glad
<v Speaker 1>they're I'm glad they're trying, even if we're maybe talking
<v Speaker 1>about the most hopeful version. Because they have not officially
<v Speaker 1>announced this, I don't know the details yet.
<v Speaker 4>I feel like the gen Z kids, they must all
<v Speaker 4>know some way to hack around the various ads that
<v Speaker 4>you get in these games, because they are just pros.
<v Speaker 3>That not paying for stuff.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah so, yeah, you could use your like a retro pie,
<v Speaker 1>like the Raspberry pie to like be puttered into a
<v Speaker 1>pie hole and capture all ads that like, so when
<v Speaker 1>it like sends out a call for ads like in
<v Speaker 1>the app, it'll just get It'll reach nothing, and it
<v Speaker 1>will return back. Now this breaks some games or like
<v Speaker 1>I have to set up on my kids devices because
<v Speaker 1>I don't.
<v Speaker 2>Want them innovator with this stuff.
<v Speaker 3>Of course.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah so, but then they'll be they'll get the one button.
<v Speaker 1>It's like hit this button to get free gyms if
<v Speaker 1>you just watch this thirty second ad and they're like, Dad,
<v Speaker 1>this isn't working.
<v Speaker 2>Nothing's happening.
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, all right, let's just turn on ads for
<v Speaker 1>a second, I guess, and then you can watch it
<v Speaker 1>real quick, I guess, and then I'll turn it right
<v Speaker 1>back off.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>So it's not it's not perfect, but uh yeah, I
<v Speaker 1>definitely recommend that.
<v Speaker 4>I had so many of those games of the click
<v Speaker 4>on this ad and you get gems or stars or
<v Speaker 4>whatever it is you need to continue to play. When
<v Speaker 4>I was a babysitting for my downstairs neighbor's daughter, like
<v Speaker 4>because she always wanted to play games on my phone
<v Speaker 4>and they were always awful mobile games. So when I
<v Speaker 4>would find one that didn't have ads every thirty seconds,
<v Speaker 4>but then she would like con me into buying her
<v Speaker 4>more like packs for this hair cutting game.
<v Speaker 2>They love the haircutting Yeah, they love.
<v Speaker 3>The hair cutting games.
<v Speaker 2>All right. Animal Crossing New Horizons turns five today.
<v Speaker 1>Oh mostly mostly, I mean, nothing else was happening that
<v Speaker 1>week of March twentieth, twenty twenty.
<v Speaker 3>No, no, not at all.
<v Speaker 1>That's the only anniversary that we were talking about a
<v Speaker 1>crucially important game for a very weird time. I think
<v Speaker 1>I think really, I think the way this conversation usually
<v Speaker 1>goes with people is Animal Crossing New Horizons, that game
<v Speaker 1>that Nintendo made and then abandoned.
<v Speaker 2>It's like, well, that's how they make Animal Crossing games.
<v Speaker 1>They make them, release them and they have some extra content,
<v Speaker 1>but they're never going to be live service games, or
<v Speaker 1>at least they have not been so far. Mostly bringing
<v Speaker 1>this up, Emma, because I continue to be like that
<v Speaker 1>next game is probably not as far off as worth thinking,
<v Speaker 1>and oh yeah, we could be getting a new one
<v Speaker 1>of these, like within the next year. Even do you
<v Speaker 1>think that Nintendo could do, Like do you think Animal
<v Speaker 1>Crossing could be a launch window game for a new console?
<v Speaker 4>Well, I don't know that it's going to be that soon,
<v Speaker 4>but I could see it as something that we get
<v Speaker 4>within the first year of the new console's lifespan, because,
<v Speaker 4>as you say, this is not really a live service
<v Speaker 4>kind of game. It's like, here's the game, and you know,
<v Speaker 4>make your bells, and you know, you unlock all of
<v Speaker 4>the features, and then the people who are really really
<v Speaker 4>good at designing islands and are really really patient they
<v Speaker 4>continue to play and they have a great time, and
<v Speaker 4>I would visit their Islands and be like, dang, I'm
<v Speaker 4>actually bad at Animal Crossing. But yeah, because but as
<v Speaker 4>you say, that means that that does give the team
<v Speaker 4>behind Animal Crossing the time to be developing this. And
<v Speaker 4>if you think about kind of the life cycle of
<v Speaker 4>other games that came out at approximately the same time
<v Speaker 4>in twenty twenty, I e. Final Fantasy seven remake Rebirth
<v Speaker 4>came out last year, So it is very likely that
<v Speaker 4>there is a new Animal Crossing that it.
<v Speaker 3>Could be one of those. You know how Nintendo directs
<v Speaker 3>a lot of time.
<v Speaker 4>I think of the example of Super Mario Brothers Wonder
<v Speaker 4>or the most recent Zelda game, Echoes of Wisdom, and
<v Speaker 4>how both of those were games that were revealed in
<v Speaker 4>a Nintendo Direct and they're like, it comes out in
<v Speaker 4>six months. I feel like that's what we could be
<v Speaker 4>getting with an Animal Crossing.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>I think we could go into this Nintendo Direct, which
<v Speaker 1>is thirteen ish days away really soon, yes, yes, within
<v Speaker 1>two weeks, and we get all the details about the
<v Speaker 1>switch to and I think, you know, Mario Kart definitely,
<v Speaker 1>I think is the launch game for them, And if
<v Speaker 1>they have other launch games, I think they won't be
<v Speaker 1>of the biggest scale they'll be like the three D
<v Speaker 1>Mario team almost certainly working on a game, but that
<v Speaker 1>could be the holiday game. But I could see them
<v Speaker 1>being like, I just think there's a good chance, a
<v Speaker 1>strong chance, that they announced the Animal Crossing during this
<v Speaker 1>direct and it is for you're right, the next six
<v Speaker 1>months to a year, and that's that's sort of the window.
<v Speaker 2>We're talking about, not immediately.
<v Speaker 1>But I don't think they're worried about having enough consoles
<v Speaker 1>for that game, because what they saw with Animal Crossing
<v Speaker 1>New Horizons is that is one of the games that's
<v Speaker 1>sold by far the best month of the month throughout
<v Speaker 1>the entire the entirety of the Switches life cycle, like
<v Speaker 1>better than just about any other game other other than
<v Speaker 1>Mario Kart. You know, there's a few others that would
<v Speaker 1>frequently frequently outsell it.
<v Speaker 2>But if you kind of like do the average month
<v Speaker 2>of month, I think it's.
<v Speaker 1>Like probably that maybe Zelda Breath of the Wild and
<v Speaker 1>then Animal Crossing, but it's right up there. And honestly,
<v Speaker 1>I think it's sold more than is the Breath of
<v Speaker 1>the Wild at this point. So yeah, it is a
<v Speaker 1>massive success for them. So I think they're like, this
<v Speaker 1>is something that could be a perennial hit, and it
<v Speaker 1>might be the kind of thing we need to like
<v Speaker 1>establish that blue ocean audience that we have maybe found
<v Speaker 1>a way to get to without having to have the
<v Speaker 1>gimmicks of the Wii with the switch, which is this
<v Speaker 1>is gonna have family games.
<v Speaker 2>It's gonna have games for a variety of different tastes.
<v Speaker 1>And that is a euphemism for women and families, and
<v Speaker 1>Animal Crossing is like a gamer. It's like, Okay, we
<v Speaker 1>can get that audience, let them know right away we
<v Speaker 1>have something for them, and then it can it will
<v Speaker 1>continue to sell forever. We could do bundles every holiday forever.
<v Speaker 1>I mean it just it feels like one of those
<v Speaker 1>games that is super crucial to them selling a switch
<v Speaker 1>to and making it a success out of the gate for.
<v Speaker 2>Them, or at least making the promise that it's coming soon.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. Absolutely, Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>As you say, animal crossing is such a broad audience,
<v Speaker 4>I argue animal Crossing is for everybody. But certainly there
<v Speaker 4>are people who play Animal Crossing and they play animal
<v Speaker 4>Crossing for eight hundred hours and they have those most
<v Speaker 4>immaculately landscaped island and perfect neighbors and decor everywhere and
<v Speaker 4>they're like, I'm a casual gamer.
<v Speaker 2>Yep, yep, come up, come on, you are maybe the
<v Speaker 2>most gamer.
<v Speaker 1>That's what I want to think of, Like the people
<v Speaker 1>that played the SIMS the way they do. I'm like,
<v Speaker 1>you are more hardcore, more hardcore than I am.
<v Speaker 2>The way that you obsess over this stuff. I'm impressed.
<v Speaker 4>We need a different name for non competitive gamer.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Yeah, like just you know, the self expression gamer.
<v Speaker 1>Like the way that they just can like go in
<v Speaker 1>there and really make the game their own. That to me,
<v Speaker 1>I to you be more impressed by that than someone
<v Speaker 1>who's like really good at games. If you like to
<v Speaker 1>a mastery over like making a game your own, that's
<v Speaker 1>way cooler in my opinion.
<v Speaker 3>I think the SIMS for three hours and I was like,
<v Speaker 3>this is deep. You could go really deep into this.
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna yeah, a fun gamer, says doctor Ryan. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>a single issue gamers. Frank's real good, uh, the real
<v Speaker 1>real quick. Animal Crossing is a game from Nintendo's ep
<v Speaker 1>D five team. EPD is like Entertainment and Planning Division.
<v Speaker 1>It's the name of all their studios. They have a
<v Speaker 1>number behind them. EPD five does we Sports, Splatoon and
<v Speaker 1>Animal crossing, they have a few other things, but uh, okay,
<v Speaker 1>so maybe the reason animal Crossing doesn't happen right away
<v Speaker 1>is actually Splatoon might be even more important to them
<v Speaker 1>because that is a cultural phenomenon in Japan, and they
<v Speaker 1>might want to.
<v Speaker 2>Have Splatoon four ready to go.
<v Speaker 1>But you know, the less Splatoon happened, Splatoon three happens
<v Speaker 1>like in between now and animal crossing horizons, right, so
<v Speaker 1>I think they probably would have fliped.
<v Speaker 2>Back over to animal crossing in the meantime. So we'll see.
<v Speaker 1>Just glancing at this list, I have all the other
<v Speaker 1>times and what they might be making. I wonder what
<v Speaker 1>the EPD four is, which is I wrote down here
<v Speaker 1>is the weird team they made game Builder, Garage labbo, Ring,
<v Speaker 1>Fit Adventure, and brain Age.
<v Speaker 2>I hope they have some real weird shit ready to
<v Speaker 2>go for Switch too.
<v Speaker 1>Lunch that honestly, that could be the team that did
<v Speaker 1>that online play test MMO game.
<v Speaker 2>That they tested for a few weeks, which I think
<v Speaker 2>is probably gonna launch with the Switch too as well.
<v Speaker 2>I hope it does.
<v Speaker 1>All right, let's keep going here and got to get
<v Speaker 1>back to my list. Actually, you know what, let's take
<v Speaker 1>a quick break then, we'll come back. We'll talk about
<v Speaker 1>Microsoft's commitment to TV and movies and a whole lot
<v Speaker 1>more right after this. All right, let's get right back
<v Speaker 1>into it. Microsoft is committed to more Xbox TV shows
<v Speaker 1>and movies. This is from Eddie McCoo at GameSpot. While
<v Speaker 1>Microsoft's Halo TV show did not become a huge success,
<v Speaker 1>that hasn't stopped the company from seeking to adapt its
<v Speaker 1>franchises for film and TV. The next release is a
<v Speaker 1>Minecraft movie, which comes to theaters on April fourth and
<v Speaker 1>looks like a hell of a thing. After that, there's
<v Speaker 1>season two of the Fallout TV show on the Prime
<v Speaker 1>on Prime Video. Then there's a Gears of War movie
<v Speaker 1>and TV show. You can expect Microsoft to do even
<v Speaker 1>more as it relates to trans media opportunities for Xbox franchises.
<v Speaker 1>Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer said he was talking to
<v Speaker 1>Variety when he said all this, and I think we're
<v Speaker 1>at a point now, Emma, where sure Halo didn't work,
<v Speaker 1>and we know it's not like, oh, you know, it's
<v Speaker 1>just it didn't vibe with people. It's like, no, we've
<v Speaker 1>seen what a TV show in a movie based on
<v Speaker 1>a video game can be, and it can be a
<v Speaker 1>whole bunch of different things that work.
<v Speaker 3>I think, sure it can.
<v Speaker 1>I think Sonic is very different from Mario in terms
<v Speaker 1>of the movie adaptations, which are very different from the
<v Speaker 1>Fallout TV show, which is actually even different than the
<v Speaker 1>Last of Us TV show. And all of those things
<v Speaker 1>work and for different reasons, and all of them are
<v Speaker 1>are very, very very successful. So Halo compared to that
<v Speaker 1>did not work. However you wanted to find, it did
<v Speaker 1>not work. But we are in a place with adaptations
<v Speaker 1>now where if you are a company that owns a
<v Speaker 1>lot of very popular video game ip y, you kind
<v Speaker 1>of can't not be in this game, right.
<v Speaker 2>You have to be in the trans media game, right.
<v Speaker 2>It's it's unignorable.
<v Speaker 3>Well that's the world that we live in, you know
<v Speaker 3>what I mean.
<v Speaker 4>And look, I'm all for mining video games for potent
<v Speaker 4>sholl knew ip on TV in movies rather than you
<v Speaker 4>know U. And look, I understand that the reason that
<v Speaker 4>Disney is doing this is because they're trying to keep
<v Speaker 4>their their like copyright on those characters, which is why
<v Speaker 4>they keep remaking all of their animated films.
<v Speaker 3>But listen to me for just a second.
<v Speaker 4>Here, snow White was Disney's first full length animated feature.
<v Speaker 3>It was their first full length animated feature.
<v Speaker 2>Is Cinema. Let's the live action remake? God damn it.
<v Speaker 4>Should be their last live action remake, all of their
<v Speaker 4>live actions.
<v Speaker 2>Prison.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, they're just some bullshit. I just I saw somebody
<v Speaker 3>post something.
<v Speaker 4>They were like, snow white, it's at least as good
<v Speaker 4>as Beauty and the Beast and the Lion King.
<v Speaker 3>I'm like, so terrible. So it's bad, it's boring, it's lifeless.
<v Speaker 3>Everybody is dead in the eyes.
<v Speaker 4>So again, it's like, look if we can do things
<v Speaker 4>like so, I look at Fallout as a really good
<v Speaker 4>example of taking something where the world is extremely interesting
<v Speaker 4>and the stories within the video games are just fine.
<v Speaker 3>They're fine, uh, And what they nail is the vibe
<v Speaker 3>of Fallout.
<v Speaker 4>And so instead of trying to be like, we're going
<v Speaker 4>to make an accurate adaptation of these characters and blah
<v Speaker 4>blah blah, they just go, this is an interesting world,
<v Speaker 4>let's play in it. And I think that there's a
<v Speaker 4>lot of opportunity to do that. And then you do
<v Speaker 4>take something like the Last of Us that has an
<v Speaker 4>incredible narrative and you just make a good adaptation of
<v Speaker 4>that narrative and people are really happy. How have we
<v Speaker 4>fucked up Resident Evil so many times? You know, like
<v Speaker 4>so again, it's like this, this totally makes sense to
<v Speaker 4>me from the point of view of Microsoft leaning into
<v Speaker 4>the because but this is one area where Microsoft can
<v Speaker 4>gain some ground. Obviously, they're hugely established within the PC market.
<v Speaker 3>They have a.
<v Speaker 4>Large contingency in the console gaming world with Xbox, even
<v Speaker 4>though they're really in the market of selling game pass
<v Speaker 4>not Xboxes. But you know what, that's working for them,
<v Speaker 4>and so yeah, TV, what else where else are they
<v Speaker 4>going to expand to novels? There's already a bunch of
<v Speaker 4>Halo yes exactly.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, And it's like, yeah, that has worked so
<v Speaker 1>clearly it can be adapted to the mediums.
<v Speaker 2>All right.
<v Speaker 1>So like some of the big name Microsoft or Xbox
<v Speaker 1>game studios properties, you know, I think we could expect
<v Speaker 1>the Festa stuff.
<v Speaker 2>Would easily translate.
<v Speaker 1>They could make an Elder Scroll show for Prime video
<v Speaker 1>and you could just easily imagine that. But like, let's
<v Speaker 1>say Forts, could you imagine a fortsa show or movie
<v Speaker 1>and what would that look like. I'm like, I would
<v Speaker 1>take that like a USA Network characters welcome show, like
<v Speaker 1>based on people hanging out on an island having a
<v Speaker 1>like trying to put together the big event and stuff
<v Speaker 1>like that.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it could totally work.
<v Speaker 2>What about I mean, see of Thieves?
<v Speaker 3>What should see the Thieves? Oh?
<v Speaker 4>Man, okay, so what we really need? You know what
<v Speaker 4>Sea Thieves should be? It should be a really good
<v Speaker 4>week to week in the vibe of like a zena
<v Speaker 4>warrior princess has a good sense of humor, you know
<v Speaker 4>what I mean, like like an episodic show. We don't
<v Speaker 4>get episodic shows hardly anymore, some sitcoms, but.
<v Speaker 3>It would be really fun to have, you know, just
<v Speaker 3>like an adventure the week.
<v Speaker 1>See If Thieves that I would I would totally that
<v Speaker 1>one feels like what would actually happen is they would
<v Speaker 1>partner up with mister Beast for some reality game show.
<v Speaker 2>Or something like that. That's just See If Thieves themed.
<v Speaker 1>And you see that tweet from that man about the
<v Speaker 1>people he's got locked up in rooms so they can
<v Speaker 1>win money.
<v Speaker 3>I don't look at Twitter.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it was like I got a pilot living in
<v Speaker 1>a jet for like half a year to win five
<v Speaker 1>hundred thousand dollars and a fat person and a Jim
<v Speaker 1>until he loses one hundred pounds for five hundred thousand dollars.
<v Speaker 2>I can't wait to share these videos. I'm just like,
<v Speaker 2>how did we get here?
<v Speaker 3>Down here?
<v Speaker 2>We have messed up bad somewhere along the way. All right,
<v Speaker 2>let's keep going.
<v Speaker 1>Sony vet Kim Kudaragi has a Super Nintendo PlayStation sitting
<v Speaker 1>in his cupboard, or as Jim would have you.
<v Speaker 2>Say, cupboard. Oh no, he was no, he says, clippered
<v Speaker 2>and cupboard.
<v Speaker 1>From Jim Mormon at Nintendo Life. Ah, the Super Nintendo PlayStation.
<v Speaker 1>It's commonly held up as one of the biggest what
<v Speaker 1>ifs in gaming, but this once mooted and later portrayed
<v Speaker 1>collaboration between Sony and Nintendo could have changed the industry
<v Speaker 1>landscape forever.
<v Speaker 2>We got to peek at the fabled crossover.
<v Speaker 1>Back in twenty sixteen when someone like dug it out
<v Speaker 1>of their addict, like I have one of those, and
<v Speaker 1>no one believed him until he got it out and
<v Speaker 1>showed it off and it got auctioned off for three
<v Speaker 1>hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
<v Speaker 2>It was a big deal.
<v Speaker 1>And then people have been like working on trying trying
<v Speaker 1>to get it running and things like that, trying to
<v Speaker 1>run shoot games on it. Well, Kim Kudaragi just apparently
<v Speaker 1>also has one sitting in storage and he got it
<v Speaker 1>out to let Canton Japan on Twitter take images of it,
<v Speaker 1>and you can see it right over here.
<v Speaker 2>It looks real, real nice. They this thing has been preserved.
<v Speaker 1>Now we have seen it before though, So the one
<v Speaker 1>I think the one thing here is, like Kim, if
<v Speaker 1>anyone knows how to get this thing up and running
<v Speaker 1>and doing stuff with it, it's probably you.
<v Speaker 2>Do you have anything else? Can we plug this thing
<v Speaker 2>into a TV and see if it works? And I don't.
<v Speaker 2>I don't think we're getting that quite from him.
<v Speaker 1>And really the reality is the probably probably isn't enough
<v Speaker 1>there to actually get it to do much.
<v Speaker 2>Even if you do get pulled into a TV.
<v Speaker 3>Ando does it have games.
<v Speaker 1>It's gonna have some prototype stuff something, and that's it.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, you could probably run like super Famicom games
<v Speaker 1>just through hardware without any of the CD stuff, But
<v Speaker 1>oh god, I just I want as much of this
<v Speaker 1>like preserved as possible.
<v Speaker 4>So, I mean, truly, my favorite story in the world
<v Speaker 4>is how Nintendo backstabbed Sony at CS and was like, actually,
<v Speaker 4>we're making a console with Phillips.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah phil.
<v Speaker 1>What Yeah, and so we just know we're gonna let
<v Speaker 1>them like license some of our stuff.
<v Speaker 2>I guess yeah, yeah yeah. And then and then the
<v Speaker 2>PlayStation happened. There you go, and the relation happened.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, I don't know if history would have been
<v Speaker 1>all that different because the way the PlayStation was going
<v Speaker 1>to work the Super Nintendo PlayStation was it was gonna
<v Speaker 1>basically be a Sony thing with like Super Nintendo built
<v Speaker 1>into it, and Sony.
<v Speaker 2>Was gonna get like all of the licensing fees. I
<v Speaker 2>don't know.
<v Speaker 1>They might have split some of it with Nintendo, but
<v Speaker 1>I think they were supposed to get the bulk of it,
<v Speaker 1>if not all of it. And I think that's the
<v Speaker 1>real reason Nintendo pulled out is yeah, wait, why why
<v Speaker 1>are we doing this?
<v Speaker 3>They were going to give way too much to Sony?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, they're gonna take all the money, like, we
<v Speaker 1>hate this actually, and also the CD thing the low times,
<v Speaker 1>we hate that, and they hated that.
<v Speaker 2>Through the N sixty four.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, very cool just to see this thing, though, I
<v Speaker 1>would I would look at pictures of this device for
<v Speaker 1>a long time.
<v Speaker 2>Dan you're in chat.
<v Speaker 1>You went to the Super Nintendo or the Nintendo Museum,
<v Speaker 1>did they have I doubt they have one of these
<v Speaker 1>at the museum.
<v Speaker 4>I'm sure that this is buried in Nintendo's Like, what
<v Speaker 4>are you talking about?
<v Speaker 3>We never were gonna work with Sony.
<v Speaker 1>Right because it's a Sony device really, so that it
<v Speaker 1>just would not be at the Nintendo Museum.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, all right.
<v Speaker 1>Up next, Hollow Night Silk Song gets surprised mentioned by
<v Speaker 1>Xbox Will it finally released this year? Is the headline
<v Speaker 1>you are allowed to write? But uh, I get it.
<v Speaker 1>This is from Liam Dulan at Nintendo Life. It looks
<v Speaker 1>like we've got a small update on the status of
<v Speaker 1>Hollow Night Silk Song, and this time it comes from
<v Speaker 1>the world of Xbox. Fans of this long awaited title
<v Speaker 1>have been given some hope recently with the Idea at
<v Speaker 1>Xbox director Guy Richards acknowledging how the title is still
<v Speaker 1>part of the.
<v Speaker 2>Company's future lineup.
<v Speaker 1>Unfortunately, there's no mention of an exact date or time
<v Speaker 1>frame as to win it might drop in this latest
<v Speaker 1>Xbox Wire post. But hey, plenty of fans seem to
<v Speaker 1>appreciate the shout out, you know, regardless.
<v Speaker 2>Here's what they said.
<v Speaker 1>Xbox said, looking ahead, our lineup is incredible, with upcoming
<v Speaker 1>games like Claire Obscure Expedition thirty three, Descenders Next and
<v Speaker 1>FPC FBC Firebreak to play across the whole Xbox universe,
<v Speaker 1>and of course Hollow Night Silk Song two also is
<v Speaker 1>what they mean?
<v Speaker 2>They're not too.
<v Speaker 3>To Silk Song, the game that does not exist. It's
<v Speaker 3>not right.
<v Speaker 2>I know, go ahead, I'm just wondering.
<v Speaker 4>I know that Mike Manatti claims that he has seen
<v Speaker 4>and or played some.
<v Speaker 2>Of this game.
<v Speaker 3>I still don't think it's real.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, I don't trust him.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. Is Mike Manatti even real?
<v Speaker 2>You know? Like, very good question.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I I I like Hollow Nights.
<v Speaker 2>I played it.
<v Speaker 3>No, there's no yeah, it's like, yeah, it.
<v Speaker 4>Was a it was a shared hallucination between him and
<v Speaker 4>several other side think.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so anyone.
<v Speaker 2>Can say their game was Hollow Night's Silk Song.
<v Speaker 1>You just played some like knockoff game or something, and
<v Speaker 1>he's been lying to us ever since about it being real.
<v Speaker 2>Look, I mean this whole.
<v Speaker 1>The whole story here is people freak out when they
<v Speaker 1>hear this thing even mentioned in any official capacity by
<v Speaker 1>anyone that has a job at a video game company,
<v Speaker 1>and whether that it has nothing to do with the
<v Speaker 1>people making the game. That Team Cherry Microsoft said the game,
<v Speaker 1>and and you know, are they allowed to do that
<v Speaker 1>if it's not coming out soon. It's like, well, yes,
<v Speaker 1>they mentioned it a long time ago and it hasn't
<v Speaker 1>come out this entire time. I'm going to continue going
<v Speaker 1>back to Team Cherry, as with any creative endeavor in
<v Speaker 1>any team that made something that people love and they're
<v Speaker 1>following up. They have almost certainly put the entire world
<v Speaker 1>of Pure on themselves and.
<v Speaker 2>They want to get it perfect.
<v Speaker 1>And who can blame them because you know there will
<v Speaker 1>be backlash, yef, it's not perfect.
<v Speaker 2>There just will be.
<v Speaker 1>That's how people are, and so they're trying to avoid
<v Speaker 1>that by taking as much time as they possibly can't,
<v Speaker 1>and Hollow Night probably ends up making them more than
<v Speaker 1>enough money to justify spending it as much time as
<v Speaker 1>they need on this for the size of team that
<v Speaker 1>they are. The game is always selling and it's always
<v Speaker 1>on sale, and then people buy a million more copies
<v Speaker 1>all the time, So why not take as much time
<v Speaker 1>as possible?
<v Speaker 2>But do you think we will be playing this game
<v Speaker 2>this year.
<v Speaker 3>No, absolutely not.
<v Speaker 2>Most people agree with you.
<v Speaker 1>I think I saw a poll on YouTube this morning
<v Speaker 1>that's like eighty five percent think the game is not
<v Speaker 1>coming out this year.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know.
<v Speaker 1>It's at a certain point. It's like, man, if it's
<v Speaker 1>not coming out this year, is it ever really coming out?
<v Speaker 1>And I think it's a lot of people like, no,
<v Speaker 1>it's never coming out, and they just don't want to
<v Speaker 1>believe anymore.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>I do think that you do bring up an extremely
<v Speaker 4>good point about the pressure that is on this game
<v Speaker 4>to be spectacular. It's kind of like when a musical
<v Speaker 4>artist puts out an album that is just so good
<v Speaker 4>from top to bottom, and then they kind of do some.
<v Speaker 3>Side projects and.
<v Speaker 4>The flounder around because there's a lot of pressure for
<v Speaker 4>their next album to be perfect and obviously perfection is
<v Speaker 4>not real. It's I but I do.
<v Speaker 3>I do feel for the team that is working on
<v Speaker 3>this game, yep.
<v Speaker 1>And I also feel for anyone who puts together any
<v Speaker 1>sort of showcase for anything, because you know, as as always,
<v Speaker 1>I'm guilty of it just like everyone else. It's like,
<v Speaker 1>this is the thing that probably has a Hollow Night's
<v Speaker 1>Silk song in it that makes a lot of sense,
<v Speaker 1>and people are doing that with the switch to Direct now,
<v Speaker 1>and I don't blame you.
<v Speaker 2>It could show up there.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I just think though, that there is a level
<v Speaker 4>of underestimating that because there's such a vocal.
<v Speaker 3>Group of critics. And I don't mean that as.
<v Speaker 4>People who are professionally critics. I mean that as people
<v Speaker 4>whose inclination is to be critical, and we're underestimating I
<v Speaker 4>think the general public fan base of anything and.
<v Speaker 3>Their desire to enjoy the thing.
<v Speaker 4>You know, I think most people who are looking forward
<v Speaker 4>to this game are rooting for it to be good
<v Speaker 4>as opposed to demanding it to be good.
<v Speaker 3>But the people who put the.
<v Speaker 4>Demands of the pressure on are very loud, and so, yeah,
<v Speaker 4>they found themselves in a challenging position.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, and at a certain point they're gonna have to
<v Speaker 1>just tune that out and put out the game and yep, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>it's but they are also just gonna want to take
<v Speaker 1>their time.
<v Speaker 2>That's clearly where we're at. Still. Ye, yeah, we'll.
<v Speaker 1>See Nintendo Direct in two weeks, could end up here
<v Speaker 1>or you know, last time we saw it was on
<v Speaker 1>an Xbox show, and that could be at that next
<v Speaker 1>Xbox showcase over the summer. You know, if I were them,
<v Speaker 1>and it's like, if the game is ready, you know,
<v Speaker 1>let's just assume it's ready, and they are like looking
<v Speaker 1>for the perfect opportunity switch to launch game. For this
<v Speaker 1>feels like the best chance to just have the biggest
<v Speaker 1>launch imaginable, Like people would associated with this new console
<v Speaker 1>and they'd be like, I'm gonna get the big game.
<v Speaker 1>And then I'm taking home and I'm gonna look at
<v Speaker 1>the shop and the first thing I see is Hollow
<v Speaker 1>Nights Silk Song.
<v Speaker 2>Is available, ready to go. Yeah, I think that's that's
<v Speaker 2>a good match.
<v Speaker 1>But who knows.
<v Speaker 2>If the game is ready, it might very well come
<v Speaker 2>out all right. Last couple of headlines here.
<v Speaker 1>Assassins Creed Shadows Day one patch seemingly addresses Japanese government
<v Speaker 1>concern over destructible shrines.
<v Speaker 2>This is from Nicole Carpenter at Polygon.
<v Speaker 1>As Assassin's Creed Shadows launches on Thursday, developer Ubisoft snuck
<v Speaker 1>in a last minute patch that makes several adjustments to
<v Speaker 1>the game's temples and shrines. The update comes just a
<v Speaker 1>day after Japanese politician hiro Yuki Kada brought concerns to
<v Speaker 1>Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba during a government meeting. According to IGN,
<v Speaker 1>Kada's concerns per IGN's translation are centered on how in
<v Speaker 1>game acts could inspire violence towards shrines in real life.
<v Speaker 2>Of course this is a quote.
<v Speaker 1>Of course, freedom of expression must be respected, but acts
<v Speaker 1>that demean local cultures should be avoided, he said. Ishiba
<v Speaker 1>responded that it's something to discuss with Japan's Ministry of Economy,
<v Speaker 1>Trade and Industry, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science
<v Speaker 1>and Technology, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but that
<v Speaker 1>the defacement of actual Japanese shrines would not be tolerated.
<v Speaker 1>Ubisoft has gone in there, it seems like, and made
<v Speaker 1>a day one patch seemingly to address this exact concern.
<v Speaker 2>Earn players will no.
<v Speaker 1>Longer be able to do to destroy shrines by like
<v Speaker 1>hitting it with a sword or running into it and
<v Speaker 1>things like that.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean, I mean, here's the thing.
<v Speaker 1>You play that game, and all these shrines are replicas
<v Speaker 1>of real life shrines, and they have the history in
<v Speaker 1>there where you can like find a little shimmery object.
<v Speaker 2>I was talking about this on the bombcasts.
<v Speaker 1>And when we were when Shan was playing it, and
<v Speaker 1>it's one of the that's how I'm playing it now,
<v Speaker 1>is a tool to learn about Japanese culture and history
<v Speaker 1>and you and you discover like these things are super
<v Speaker 1>important to people, and they have elaborate routines and cultural
<v Speaker 1>you know, displays that they go through to show respect
<v Speaker 1>to these places, and I think maybe protecting them in
<v Speaker 1>the game is a completely fine choice to be, like, no,
<v Speaker 1>that they these are important to real people, and we
<v Speaker 1>have taken them and borrowed them to make our game
<v Speaker 1>feel more alive and more important. And in doing so,
<v Speaker 1>let's just make that respect two ways and say, okay,
<v Speaker 1>now we're not gonna let players be you know, jerk
<v Speaker 1>off to these things in the.
<v Speaker 3>Game, right, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
<v Speaker 4>Meanwhile, in America we have GTA.
<v Speaker 1>Or you can just destroy anything to be fair, that
<v Speaker 1>that is how we want our culture to be treated.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think that this.
<v Speaker 1>Triumplate please yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>The physics interaction in that game are really fun. So
<v Speaker 1>I don't blame that the developers for being like, well,
<v Speaker 1>you know, just we're building everything out of these things
<v Speaker 1>that can be broken apart, so we're going to build
<v Speaker 1>the temples out of that as well, and not think
<v Speaker 1>much more about it beyond that, so they're like, no,
<v Speaker 1>it's going to really do this maliciously. They're going to
<v Speaker 1>do it because they're you know, playing the game. And
<v Speaker 1>then when someone mentions like this makes me not feel great, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>well that's an easy change to be like, Okay, well
<v Speaker 1>we're not trying.
<v Speaker 2>That's not what we're going for.
<v Speaker 1>Also, this game is in a precarious position with you
<v Speaker 1>know a lot of people like wanting to be mad
<v Speaker 1>at it, So anything they can do to avoid that,
<v Speaker 1>to avoid that would be helpful.
<v Speaker 2>Have you played this at all?
<v Speaker 3>I haven't.
<v Speaker 4>I oversaw a project that we did with Ubisoft around
<v Speaker 4>the game, and I had the wonderful Zach Wilson, who
<v Speaker 4>tech directs all of the Giant Bombit Night stuff that
<v Speaker 4>we do during the semming events. He played it, and
<v Speaker 4>he wrote the scripts for it and did the vo
<v Speaker 4>for it, and he did a fantastic job.
<v Speaker 3>And he said it was He said he had a
<v Speaker 3>really nice time.
<v Speaker 2>I think it's a good game. It's a good game.
<v Speaker 1>I think some people are like it's just fine, I
<v Speaker 1>go beyond. I think it is a good, solid, fun,
<v Speaker 1>open world game. As long as you know what you're
<v Speaker 1>getting from Assassin's Creed. Yeah, you should be able to
<v Speaker 1>like find the fun there, and there's plenty of it
<v Speaker 1>to be had. The story is routine, and if you
<v Speaker 1>come to these games for the story, maybe maybe this
<v Speaker 1>isn't the one for you, right because that stuff is
<v Speaker 1>just very boilerplate. But I think, like, here's a revenge
<v Speaker 1>story and then here's a bunch of cool people to
<v Speaker 1>kill because you need revenge against them.
<v Speaker 2>That works.
<v Speaker 1>I think that actually is a pretty positive. It's a
<v Speaker 1>mark in the positive for me for this game.
<v Speaker 2>All right.
<v Speaker 1>Last thing here, switch to logo is going to appear
<v Speaker 1>on pro baseball team's jerseys this year.
<v Speaker 2>This is from Eddie McCoo at GameSpot.
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo and the Seattle Mariners have been partners for a
<v Speaker 1>long time and the collaboration is expanding in a big
<v Speaker 1>way with this year or this year with the professional
<v Speaker 1>baseball team adding the switch or switch to logos to
<v Speaker 1>its jerseys. As you can see over there in this video,
<v Speaker 1>the Mariners are going to begin their season on March
<v Speaker 1>twenty seventh, and they will have the switch to logo
<v Speaker 1>on that I think it was their left shoulder right there.
<v Speaker 1>This is you know, if there's a lot of reasons
<v Speaker 1>this makes sense. Mariners and Nintendo I do have a
<v Speaker 1>long history. Hiroshi Yamauchi, the former president of Nintendo, was
<v Speaker 1>a minority owner of the Seattle Mariners for a very
<v Speaker 1>long time. Nintendo no longer has a stake in the Mariners,
<v Speaker 1>but they still the close partnership. Like you used to
<v Speaker 1>be able to like take your DS to Mariners games
<v Speaker 1>and order refreshments, hot dogs and stuff there after the
<v Speaker 1>Wi Fi, like that's the they had that sort of relationship.
<v Speaker 1>But it also makes sense because baseball is one of
<v Speaker 1>the most popular sports in Japan.
<v Speaker 2>Oh my god.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, when the when the Mariners play the Dodgers, uh
<v Speaker 1>and Shohei Otani is there, everyone expand is going to
<v Speaker 1>be watching, and so it's like you're like, there's a
<v Speaker 1>ton of Japanese fans of the Mariners as well because
<v Speaker 1>Iro used to play for them. So it's just there's
<v Speaker 1>a lot of reasons that this makes sense, and I'm
<v Speaker 1>I'm not surprised to see it.
<v Speaker 2>Very cool.
<v Speaker 4>I got to tell you there is more Dodgers gear
<v Speaker 4>in Tokyo because of Otani than there is in Los Angeles. Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>of course, yeah, I mean, yeah, this this makes perfect
<v Speaker 4>sense this is cool. I would love to, you know,
<v Speaker 4>I would love to see more gaming companies getting involved
<v Speaker 4>with with professional sports teams because I think that there is, uh,
<v Speaker 4>there's a lot of crossover there actually that I think
<v Speaker 4>would excite gamers and perhaps entice gamers to be like, oh,
<v Speaker 4>baseball is cool or whatever the sport may be.
<v Speaker 1>So I'm just saying, last story we're speaking to switch to,
<v Speaker 1>let's let's hit this one that someone just shared it.
<v Speaker 1>Thank you so much, Kane, high wind and chat. This
<v Speaker 1>comes from WCCF Tech and it's Zeno. Blake Chronicles X
<v Speaker 1>Definitive Edition features a hidden sixty frames per second mode.
<v Speaker 2>This comes from Francesco de.
<v Speaker 1>Mayo Demeyo, I should say, who writes Xena Blake Chronicles
<v Speaker 1>X Definitive Edition has a hidden sixty FPS mode, which
<v Speaker 1>suggests the recent game may have been future proofed ahead
<v Speaker 1>of the launch of the Nintendo switch to, as confirmed
<v Speaker 1>by known modern Massa grad Massa grader. This sixty frames
<v Speaker 1>per second mode.
<v Speaker 2>I'm sorry, jan, I can hear that. My bad.
<v Speaker 1>The sixty frames per second mode is hidden in the
<v Speaker 1>games executable shout USTI will Smith, but doesn't function properly
<v Speaker 1>as enabling it causes some unspecified issues. While this mode
<v Speaker 1>could be some development left over, it would definitely make
<v Speaker 1>more sense if it is a faulty implementation or if
<v Speaker 1>it's a future implementation that could be featured on the
<v Speaker 1>switch to that you know, this makes if you're releasing
<v Speaker 1>the game right now, you know what the switch two is,
<v Speaker 1>and you know what's backward compatible. This sounds like the
<v Speaker 1>exact kind of thing that just ends up being like
<v Speaker 1>unlocked on the switch to and just works right completely.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, no, I totally agree.
<v Speaker 4>I mean, look, Nintendo, they like to live in their
<v Speaker 4>own timeline, but one of the things that the switch
<v Speaker 4>to is definitely going to have to be able to
<v Speaker 4>do a sixty FPS. So there you go, just put
<v Speaker 4>it on switch to and it'll work.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, exact, And it's like it's already got like dynamic resolution.
<v Speaker 1>So it's like this game should be able to run
<v Speaker 1>at like a consistent seven to twenty p on handheld
<v Speaker 1>mode or ten ADP in on your when doc, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>which it's probably not doing now. And then you know,
<v Speaker 1>maybe also sixty frames per second as well in this
<v Speaker 1>mode that doesn't really function. It's weird on switch one
<v Speaker 1>maybe it's weird on Switch one because it's gonna it
<v Speaker 1>makes more sense for switch to.
<v Speaker 2>Or maybe it is a development left over and it
<v Speaker 2>will it won't work at all. That's also a possibility.
<v Speaker 2>I don't want to get people's hopes up.
<v Speaker 1>But if I'm buying Zeno Big Chronicles X Definitive Edition
<v Speaker 1>right now for the Switch one, I'm doing so with
<v Speaker 1>the expectation that it's going to run better on the
<v Speaker 1>switch To.
<v Speaker 2>I think that's a fair expectation to have.
<v Speaker 3>I think that's a completely fair execution to have.
<v Speaker 2>All right, and then let's see, let's doctor Ryan's got
<v Speaker 2>one more for me, and then we'll wrap everybody.
<v Speaker 1>Let's see here two years Okay, So it says someone
<v Speaker 1>found the registration of.
<v Speaker 2>A Persona four remake website this morning. That feels inevitable.
<v Speaker 3>That feels right, that's inevitable every.
<v Speaker 1>Time, so much that that game came out on PS
<v Speaker 1>two originally, that is that every time I say that, Yeah, true, but.
<v Speaker 4>It is, yeah, yeah, I mean it's it's had a
<v Speaker 4>new life obviously with Persona four Golden yes, but I
<v Speaker 4>mean it's it's due for the Persona five, you know,
<v Speaker 4>like they did with Persona re reload. It's basically due
<v Speaker 4>for that treatment being you know, Persona five to five,
<v Speaker 4>And yeah, yeah, I think that, as you say, that
<v Speaker 4>is inevitable. And I am curious because obviously I remember
<v Speaker 4>there was a lot of conversation, particularly because that Muso
<v Speaker 4>Persona five came to the Switch and it was announced
<v Speaker 4>it was coming to the Switch, but you couldn't play
<v Speaker 4>per Soona five on the Switch at the time, So
<v Speaker 4>I'm curious if this is a switch title. But also
<v Speaker 4>obviously we know that there's that ongoing partnership with Atlas
<v Speaker 4>and Game Pass, So yeah, I'm curious. I'm curious to
<v Speaker 4>see where this all ends up.
<v Speaker 1>Me too, And I'm curious to see the results of
<v Speaker 1>our poll from yesterday, which was who do you want
<v Speaker 1>to play us in Sonic Racing Crossworlds Sonic Shadow, Cream
<v Speaker 1>the Rabbit or Danic Kapatrick, and forty four percent went
<v Speaker 1>went with dani Ka Patrick, twenty seven percent went with
<v Speaker 1>Cream the Rabbit, seventeen percent went with a Shadow, and
<v Speaker 1>eleven percent went with Sonic, which just goes to show
<v Speaker 1>you that polls are not reliable. Because the data from
<v Speaker 1>SEGA yesterday, I said the exact.
<v Speaker 2>Opposite it was number one, was Sonic. Number two was Shadow.
<v Speaker 1>Number three was Cream the Rabbit, Cream and cheese apparently,
<v Speaker 1>and then dan Ka Patrick's not in the game.
<v Speaker 2>I don't think so. So there you go.
<v Speaker 1>But most people in the Giant Bomb audience want to
<v Speaker 1>represent Danica apparently. All right, new poll question here in
<v Speaker 1>a second, before we get to that, Emma Fife, why
<v Speaker 1>don't you tell people where they can find you on
<v Speaker 1>the internet, what work you have going on, or you
<v Speaker 1>can catch you anywhere.
<v Speaker 3>I'm on Blue Sky at M five.
<v Speaker 4>I still need to get my Ma Fife dot com
<v Speaker 4>situated there. But for just look, there's me. I'm sort
<v Speaker 4>of back on Instagram. I don't really look at it
<v Speaker 4>very much. I just generally am not super participating in
<v Speaker 4>social media.
<v Speaker 3>And it's real nice. Yeah, I got lots of it.
<v Speaker 4>You know, if you click on thosefandom dot coms dot
<v Speaker 4>fandom dot coms, chances.
<v Speaker 3>Are you will see my face in a video.
<v Speaker 4>Because I've done a lot of things for our partners
<v Speaker 4>and gaming news thing for Verizon that might still be running.
<v Speaker 4>We got an H and R block thing that's running,
<v Speaker 4>but I think that might be in Canada, where I
<v Speaker 4>previously mentioned that I played the Sims.
<v Speaker 3>It was really fun.
<v Speaker 4>It was me and and Montgomery aka neg Orix, who's
<v Speaker 4>a wonderful, wonderful Simms player and just has a cool,
<v Speaker 4>lovely community.
<v Speaker 3>But yeah, I mean, I'm around you guys.
<v Speaker 1>You'll find me, well, hopefully we'll find you back here
<v Speaker 1>on Monday, right, I think we'll kind of get back
<v Speaker 1>to the normal schedule.
<v Speaker 3>And we'll get back to the normal schedule.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, everyone can relax, like, Okay, no, it actually is money.
<v Speaker 3>It really is Monday. The next time it will be
<v Speaker 3>not done this time, it's Thursday.
<v Speaker 1>Still not Monday yet, yes, exactly, all right, new poll question?
<v Speaker 1>Can you hold off on doing that, kidd until we're
<v Speaker 1>done and then I'll get the batteries for you. Have
<v Speaker 1>you ever played plants versus Zombies?
<v Speaker 2>Yes or no?
<v Speaker 1>Kind of just seeing what our audience says. I imagine
<v Speaker 1>most people probably have. You can answer this however you want.
<v Speaker 1>That could also mean Garden Warfare if you needed to
<v Speaker 1>mean that, just say yes today. I expect Garden Warfare
<v Speaker 1>to return as well. That's a franchise that just always
<v Speaker 1>had way more popularity than I ever realized. All right,
<v Speaker 1>we'll get that pull question answered on tomorrow's show here
<v Speaker 1>on Giant Bomb and game Spot for the Power Block.
<v Speaker 1>Game Breaking news will return then at noon eastern nine
<v Speaker 1>am Pacific.
<v Speaker 2>In the meantime, see what else do we have going on?
<v Speaker 1>It's Thursday, so I think we got we should have
<v Speaker 1>something happened with the GameSpot crew. They've been at GDC
<v Speaker 1>all week, so I think the plan was throw some
<v Speaker 1>GDC stuff into this next block. I don't know, we'll
<v Speaker 1>see what it is, and then later today the voicemail
<v Speaker 1>down truck will be happening. That is today, right, jan
<v Speaker 1>I think so. I think next week is the one
<v Speaker 1>where we're not we might not be doing it on Thursday.
<v Speaker 2>All right.
<v Speaker 1>In the meantime, thank you all for watching and listening.
<v Speaker 1>Em Fife, thank you so much for hanging out with
<v Speaker 1>me and talk about video games. I really appreciate it.
<v Speaker 3>Thanks for having me.
<v Speaker 2>We'll catch you all next time.
<v Speaker 1>Until then, have a good one, take care of yourself,
<v Speaker 1>and goodbye.