New Crash Team Racing Game Coming?

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<v Speaker 1>let's start the morning mess with State of Play Japan,
<v Speaker 1>set for November eleventh, featuring updates on games from Japan
<v Speaker 1>and Asia.
<v Speaker 3>This is from Salamano at.
<v Speaker 1>Kamatsu Sony Interactive Entertainment will host State of Play Japan,
<v Speaker 1>a special broadcast focused on games created in Japan and Asia,
<v Speaker 1>on November eleventh at two pm Pacific time five pm
<v Speaker 1>Eastern November twelfth, and that's seven am Japan summertime.
<v Speaker 3>I think they might still be on.
<v Speaker 1>The company announced you will be able to watch it
<v Speaker 1>on YouTube English subtitles Japanese with Japanese audio. The broadcast
<v Speaker 1>will run for over forty minutes, will feature announcements and
<v Speaker 1>updates for games created in Japan and across Asia. So
<v Speaker 1>we've said like seven times now, including interviews and new
<v Speaker 1>looks at anticipated titles from beloved series to distinctive indie
<v Speaker 1>creator Creatures Sess You're Not Creation Creatures, along with a
<v Speaker 1>few other exciting updates. It will be hosted by voice
<v Speaker 1>actor Yuki kaji uh this came out of nowhere. John,
<v Speaker 1>what do you think about this?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's very interesting because honestly, whenever I think about
<v Speaker 2>state of place correlating to Japan as a region, it
<v Speaker 2>is around Tokyo Game Show. So this is kind of
<v Speaker 2>a in my opinion, a welcome surprise. Definitely has felt
<v Speaker 2>over the years. It's moved away from the quirkiness and
<v Speaker 2>like history that PlayStation has, like those roots in a
<v Speaker 2>Japan's studios and those that history in all those iconic franchises.
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, this is super interesting, especially so close to
<v Speaker 2>Game of the Year season. The Game Awards is very close,
<v Speaker 2>so I'm wondering if there will be some overlap here
<v Speaker 2>or if this is like an opportunity for games that
<v Speaker 2>probably wouldn't get that spotlight otherwise, those are kind of
<v Speaker 2>the biggest names that show up at the Game Awards,
<v Speaker 2>So seeing smaller quote unquote smaller games, like it's bigger
<v Speaker 2>for me than a lot of other Triple A games.
<v Speaker 2>But I'm super excited to see this. There's definitely a
<v Speaker 2>lot of games I can think of that could show
<v Speaker 2>up here, So I'm getting more excited the more I
<v Speaker 2>think about this.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, to me, it's like Yeah, there's two sides of it.
<v Speaker 1>The side of, oh, they're gonna announce some cool games,
<v Speaker 1>Like the stuff could really pop off here real soon
<v Speaker 1>from this. There could be shadow drops. You're right, there's
<v Speaker 1>things that could pop up here then show up again
<v Speaker 1>at the Game Awards, and then we're playing them early
<v Speaker 1>next year. And I'm excited about all that. And then
<v Speaker 1>there's this idea that I hope this is Sony being like,
<v Speaker 1>you know what we did sort of forsake are Japanese
<v Speaker 1>roots a little bit in terms of like seeding that
<v Speaker 1>ground to Nintendo and saying that the global market is
<v Speaker 1>much more important. And I think what they've found is
<v Speaker 1>that for the video game business, the people who spend
<v Speaker 1>a lot of time playing video games, a focus on
<v Speaker 1>Japan is a focus on the global gaming market because
<v Speaker 1>those games are globally appealing. Now. I mean we see
<v Speaker 1>that with Persona and a million other things, you know
<v Speaker 1>from soft games. These games that that feel very Japanese
<v Speaker 1>and never am I going to use that pejoratively. They
<v Speaker 1>feel very Japanese is something that people go, Hey, that's
<v Speaker 1>cool to me. That's like it's like all these other things.
<v Speaker 1>I like, it's like these animes. It's it's like anything else.
<v Speaker 1>I'm super into this, and I think Sony maybe regrets
<v Speaker 1>a little bit, you know, getting rid of Japan Studio
<v Speaker 1>and stuff like that. So I'm hoping what this is
<v Speaker 1>is an indicator that they are all back in on
<v Speaker 1>saying hey, there is so much more important video games
<v Speaker 1>to be found and promoted and championed by us from Japan,
<v Speaker 1>and we should be getting in on that business now.
<v Speaker 3>My you know, hesitation here.
<v Speaker 1>John would be like, oh, this could also just be
<v Speaker 1>them gesturing at it, like, hey, yeah, we're not really
<v Speaker 1>going to be making a lot of Japanese games ourselves,
<v Speaker 1>but we'll find some partners and we'll promote them a
<v Speaker 1>little bit.
<v Speaker 3>This doesn't cost us all that much.
<v Speaker 1>But even in that case, I'm still hopeful because I
<v Speaker 1>think what would happen if that's what they're doing, if
<v Speaker 1>they're just gesturing at it, is that this is going
<v Speaker 1>to go really well for them, and it'll this will
<v Speaker 1>be an initiative that grows over time if they are
<v Speaker 1>not like all in at this moment. So I'm hopeful
<v Speaker 1>kind of no matter what, how about you.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, No, I'm definitely all in, I think, And it's
<v Speaker 2>very interesting that they did the strategy on the game side,
<v Speaker 2>and then on the overall Sony landscape, they have been
<v Speaker 2>trying to diversify what their business is beyond just PlayStation
<v Speaker 2>as like the tides are kind of shifting in a
<v Speaker 2>way of more of a like a blue open sea
<v Speaker 2>kind of space where everything is sold everywhere, And the
<v Speaker 2>quadrupling down on anime has definitely made me think about, like,
<v Speaker 2>why did you really gut japan Studios? Like, yeah, Postorbot's
<v Speaker 2>still my favorite PlayStation five game, but it's like, what
<v Speaker 2>could that output have been had they not gutted that
<v Speaker 2>at the beginning of this generation. It was like kind
<v Speaker 2>of in the transition period, right, I forget when Japan
<v Speaker 2>Studio is actually hit the acts, But yeah, yeah, no,
<v Speaker 2>I mean this this kind of gives me a lot
<v Speaker 2>more hope for the future, because yeah, I mean a
<v Speaker 2>lot of their games have been but you could put
<v Speaker 2>them into a box if you wanted to, You could
<v Speaker 2>shave off some of the edges, and you could kind
<v Speaker 2>of define their slate for the most part, into a
<v Speaker 2>couple of different categories. Astrobot was one of the games
<v Speaker 2>that made me realize why I like to PlayStation in
<v Speaker 2>the first place, and so kind of getting that character,
<v Speaker 2>getting that feel beyond these brand epic stories. Sometimes you
<v Speaker 2>just want silly gameplay and that's kind of just what
<v Speaker 2>I'm hoping to see in the future for that. But yeah,
<v Speaker 2>for the time being, it doesn't seem I think this
<v Speaker 2>You're right, like, these are steps forward to that goal,
<v Speaker 2>but this particular showcase probably won't go super that way,
<v Speaker 2>considering like Astro is still getting if not it's final LC,
<v Speaker 2>then like it's still getting support. So it's gonna be
<v Speaker 2>a while before us Timusobi like actually something of the
<v Speaker 2>show for it, right.
<v Speaker 3>Yep, yep, definitely.
<v Speaker 1>I h you know, I don't think we're gonna go
<v Speaker 1>into this and we're gonna get like ten Incredible Crisises
<v Speaker 1>or ten Mister Mosquitoes.
<v Speaker 3>I'll be happy if we get.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, if we got like one or two games that
<v Speaker 1>were like, oh, this is weird and awesome, this reminds
<v Speaker 1>me of Katamari Dimashi or whatever, I will I will
<v Speaker 1>consider that a win for me personally as someone who
<v Speaker 1>loves that kind of that kind of thing and thinks
<v Speaker 1>that Japan does it in a way that no one
<v Speaker 1>else really does. So it's something that is important to champion.
<v Speaker 1>At the same time, it's like, you know, Okay, if
<v Speaker 1>we don't get anything weird like that, that's I don't
<v Speaker 1>I'm not gonna consider this a failure. I think in
<v Speaker 1>Japan makes every kind of game, of course they do.
<v Speaker 1>So if if that means finding a bunch of just
<v Speaker 1>cool looking, slick, a global appealing games, that's going to
<v Speaker 1>be just fined, fine as well. I think that Nintendo certainly,
<v Speaker 1>I think proved over the last ten years to Sony
<v Speaker 1>that it was a bit of a misstep to sort
<v Speaker 1>of put Japan in the rear view mirror because Nintendo
<v Speaker 1>didn't do that, and they're games like the ones that
<v Speaker 1>hit hard, hit harder than they've ever hit in Japan
<v Speaker 1>right now. That includes Pickman four and the Splatoon series,
<v Speaker 1>these games that went on to sell like five million
<v Speaker 1>copies or something like that in Japan alone because they
<v Speaker 1>just became these phenomenons. So I don't know if this
<v Speaker 1>necessarily like feeds back into that, but I think this
<v Speaker 1>is them planting their flag in the ground, going hey,
<v Speaker 1>we're also the Japanese video game console company and we're
<v Speaker 1>going to own that.
<v Speaker 3>I hope that we're getting back to that would be fantastic,
<v Speaker 3>all right.
<v Speaker 1>Fans believe that a new Crash Team Racing could be
<v Speaker 1>in the works. This is from my Nintendo News. B Knox,
<v Speaker 1>the studio behind Crash Team Racing Nitro Field, could be
<v Speaker 1>working on a new game in the series. This all
<v Speaker 1>emerged due to a new profile image the company used,
<v Speaker 1>which featured crash Bandicoot in his cart. The notable thing
<v Speaker 1>is that crash Bandicoot was used was from crash Bandicoot
<v Speaker 1>for It's About Time, which launched after Crash Team Racing.
<v Speaker 1>Nitro fueled. Whether a new game in the series is
<v Speaker 1>under development remains to be seen. Like I like this
<v Speaker 1>kind of like theorizing right where it's like, okay, wait
<v Speaker 1>that that's not the crash that was in Crash Team Racing.
<v Speaker 3>They have there.
<v Speaker 1>They went to the through the effort of putting this
<v Speaker 1>crash into a cart and made that their profile picture.
<v Speaker 1>Uh I'm I'm buying into this mostly because if you
<v Speaker 1>are b nux and you're working under Activision under Microsoft
<v Speaker 1>and the last thing you did, I think it was
<v Speaker 1>b nux that did that Crash Party like weird multiplayer game.
<v Speaker 3>I can't remember.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, like live service game. I don't even remember
<v Speaker 2>that was.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yes, And the one that it was like Party
<v Speaker 1>Bash or something like that, I can't remember. Either way
<v Speaker 1>it was sent out to die or just no one
<v Speaker 1>paid attention to it and it was a fine game whatever.
<v Speaker 2>Uh.
<v Speaker 3>But Crash Team Racing did incredibly well.
<v Speaker 1>And if you're looking to bounce back from a misstep,
<v Speaker 1>you know, miscalculation like that last Crash game, the safe
<v Speaker 1>thing to do is a new Crash Team Racing even
<v Speaker 1>before like a new Crash platformer. Crash four was a
<v Speaker 1>really good game, and I'm someone who does not necessarily
<v Speaker 1>love the previous Crash Bandicoot games, and I thought four
<v Speaker 1>was excellent.
<v Speaker 3>So even with.
<v Speaker 1>That in mind, if we get a five, and that
<v Speaker 1>would be you know, obviously there's a bunch of other ones,
<v Speaker 1>so this wouldn't really be the fifth one, but they
<v Speaker 1>started numbering of them again. If they did Crash Bandicoot five,
<v Speaker 1>I would be happy. But I think in terms of
<v Speaker 1>like what could get the most attention and kind of
<v Speaker 1>what the hunger out there is right now, a Crash
<v Speaker 1>Team Racing would hit hard.
<v Speaker 3>So I bet b Knox is working on this. What
<v Speaker 3>do you think?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean That's definitely my hope. I've always ever since,
<v Speaker 2>like first playing the Crash games on PS one, I've
<v Speaker 2>always preferred team racing to the other the traditional platformer games.
<v Speaker 2>It is a hot time to get into kart racing
<v Speaker 2>right now, and I think there is the foundation there
<v Speaker 2>that can make a really stellar stand apart cart racing game.
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, no, I think this is probably likely. This
<v Speaker 2>is kind of similar to like how Donkey Kong got
<v Speaker 2>that redesign and then people were looking for that everywhere,
<v Speaker 2>and the scavenger hunt definitely leads to a bonfire. Like
<v Speaker 2>there's smoke. Where there's smoke, there's fire. I think this
<v Speaker 2>will probably happen, especially because like when you think about, well,
<v Speaker 2>what would be not to be working on a cart
<v Speaker 2>racer or were they working on a platform er. I
<v Speaker 2>would almost think that that Toys for Bob project could
<v Speaker 2>be that Crash Bandedgoop platform. Yeah, I mean that's kind
<v Speaker 2>of just speculation, but yeah, I think this is incredibly likely.
<v Speaker 2>That first one did insanely well, like the Insane Trilogy
<v Speaker 2>did insanely well, and four did insanely well. It would
<v Speaker 2>be kind of a shame to put down a mascot
<v Speaker 2>like that, especially when it is that kind of answer
<v Speaker 2>to what Sony has been missing, is like, we have
<v Speaker 2>we have a cute character that could appeal to all
<v Speaker 2>different audiences. They are the Xbox I guess this entire
<v Speaker 2>needed icons and franchises that aren't just Call of Duty
<v Speaker 2>and other rare franchises to silence and shove them into
<v Speaker 2>the back of a car and we never hear from
<v Speaker 2>them again.
<v Speaker 1>But yep, yeah, Crash Team Racing is another one that
<v Speaker 1>a gat I really liked that game, the original Crash
<v Speaker 1>Team Racing on PlayStation back in the day is I
<v Speaker 1>played that on my first real date. I had my
<v Speaker 1>had the girl come over to my friend's house and
<v Speaker 1>we went in the basement and played Crash Team Racing
<v Speaker 1>because she wented to play Mario Kart and that's all
<v Speaker 1>we had, so we had fun.
<v Speaker 3>It was a good time, good game.
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, I think that let me ask you, is
<v Speaker 1>there a chance that because this is like Microsoft now
<v Speaker 1>and that would they would they try to do the
<v Speaker 1>thing of like expanding Crash Team Racing into being more
<v Speaker 1>Could you know, Banjo show up in Crash Team Racing?
<v Speaker 1>Could could Minecraft Steve show up in Crash Team Racing?
<v Speaker 1>Or Crash not really have the sort of scaffolding to
<v Speaker 1>support that.
<v Speaker 2>It's it's weird, right because, like, I mean, Crash and
<v Speaker 2>Spiro were always so separate for a long time. Then
<v Speaker 2>they had like a couple of crossovers here and there,
<v Speaker 2>like GBA, and then he Spiral was straight up in
<v Speaker 2>that Nitro fueled remake. So I don't think it's so like,
<v Speaker 2>I don't think it's so far fetched that that could happened.
<v Speaker 2>I would love to see it. I mean, micro Steve's
<v Speaker 2>already in that Sonic game, and I mean Banjo debuted
<v Speaker 2>in a freaking cart racer with diddycong racing, so it
<v Speaker 2>would feel like a full circle thing. Whether they whether
<v Speaker 2>they have their like sights and scopes and timelines like
<v Speaker 2>kind of focus, or if they're just trying to pump
<v Speaker 2>out whatever they can without a costing too much. That's
<v Speaker 2>the big question. But for something like that, like, I
<v Speaker 2>think that is a cool and easy way to get
<v Speaker 2>even more people excited for a cart racing game. I mean,
<v Speaker 2>Sonic has kind of just been elevated because of that,
<v Speaker 2>and that's the reason why the Sonic racing games were
<v Speaker 2>cool in the first place. They were literally Sega crossover games,
<v Speaker 2>So I think it would be very smarter they did that,
<v Speaker 2>and yeah, I don't know it. I want to say
<v Speaker 2>it's likely, but I guess we shall see put Joanna Dark.
<v Speaker 3>Exactly.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, right, that would be like when Conquer showed up
<v Speaker 1>in Diddy Kong Racing.
<v Speaker 3>You're like, who is this?
<v Speaker 1>I thought they canceled this game, and of course it
<v Speaker 1>came out later, but yeah, that'd be great. Like that's
<v Speaker 1>the only way you get Joe Joanna Dark these days
<v Speaker 1>is in Crash Team Racing.
<v Speaker 3>Really slap us in the face.
<v Speaker 1>You know. Yeah, I think in terms of like where
<v Speaker 1>Microsoft is at and again, how are they making these decisions?
<v Speaker 1>Is it all under the activision side? Who knows? And
<v Speaker 1>actually who cares? But if they are like talking the
<v Speaker 1>way they've been talking about we are looking to double
<v Speaker 1>down on our biggest hits. We want to make sure
<v Speaker 1>that we are are like going after the biggest chances
<v Speaker 1>for the home runs, Crash Team Racing really fits with that.
<v Speaker 1>Crash Team Racing nitro Fuel sold over ten million units
<v Speaker 1>and that was as of June of this year. They
<v Speaker 1>don't have a lot of games that sell that well,
<v Speaker 1>they really really don't, so it's kind of like, why
<v Speaker 1>the In fact, it'd be crazy if they.
<v Speaker 3>Weren't making this at a certain point.
<v Speaker 1>It would be like, I don't understand your thought process
<v Speaker 1>over there if you aren't pursuing this. So yeah, I
<v Speaker 1>bet Crash Team Racing is happening when we see it.
<v Speaker 1>Who knows. But I wouldn't expect them to have believed
<v Speaker 1>that last Crash game to have done super well. So
<v Speaker 1>I bet they were working on this in tandem, ready
<v Speaker 1>for this to kind of replace that game when that
<v Speaker 1>game of Sunsets, which probably has already happened.
<v Speaker 3>I'm not paying attention to it, Okay.
<v Speaker 1>Seventy two percent of devs believe Steam has a monopoly
<v Speaker 1>on PC games, according to study.
<v Speaker 3>This is from Sophie McAvoy at Games Industry Dot.
<v Speaker 1>Is more than half of game developers feel they rely
<v Speaker 1>too heavily on Steam to distribute their games, with seventy
<v Speaker 1>two percent believing the platform has a monopoly on the
<v Speaker 1>PC games market. That's according to a new white paper
<v Speaker 1>from PC distribution platform Rocky Roque titled the State of
<v Speaker 1>PC Game Distribution. The independent study conducted by Atomic Research
<v Speaker 1>survey three hundred and six industry executives across the UK
<v Speaker 1>and USA between May eighteenth and May twenty second, twenty
<v Speaker 1>twenty five. Seventy five percent of those respondents were senior
<v Speaker 1>managers of C suite level was seventy seven percent from
<v Speaker 1>studios with more than fifty employees, so a lot of
<v Speaker 1>like people who own game studios or run game studios,
<v Speaker 1>and not necessarily a ton of developers. The study found
<v Speaker 1>that a majority of studios, the people in these positions
<v Speaker 1>believe that Steam or Steam accounts for over seventy five
<v Speaker 1>percent of the revenue. Is what they said, and a
<v Speaker 1>majority of them I had the number here, Yes, seventy
<v Speaker 1>two percent believe that's a monopoly. That is, you know,
<v Speaker 1>the kind of thing where it's like, yeah, you hear that.
<v Speaker 3>It's like, I is that right?
<v Speaker 1>And I am of the opinion John that Steam is
<v Speaker 1>a monopoly, but not maybe a monopoly that could be
<v Speaker 1>very easily legally pursued. And that's just because they position
<v Speaker 1>themselves in a very non anti competitive way. They try
<v Speaker 1>to do everything they can to avoid that, because I
<v Speaker 1>think Valve knows that Steam is a monopoly. Now people
<v Speaker 1>point out, Hey, there's EPI game Store, there's God, there's
<v Speaker 1>a lot of competition. Yeah, but Steam has about seventy
<v Speaker 1>five percent of the market, and for something to be
<v Speaker 1>considered a monopoly, like one of the checks they do
<v Speaker 1>is like is it more than seventy percent of the market,
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, that would be the first trigger. But the
<v Speaker 1>reality also, John is like there is no hard and
<v Speaker 1>fast definition. You're supposed to sue, take it to court,
<v Speaker 1>make your arguments, and then a jury or judge kind
<v Speaker 1>of looks at it and goes, yeah, this you've won
<v Speaker 1>me over, Like there's and we haven't had a case
<v Speaker 1>like this in a very long time. If someone were
<v Speaker 1>to try to sue Valve for having Steam be in
<v Speaker 1>a monopoly, so it's like a lot of these arguments
<v Speaker 1>would be being made fresh for the first time in
<v Speaker 1>quite some time in a very different world. So we
<v Speaker 1>just don't know like what would actually satisfy that definition
<v Speaker 1>these days. Let me ask you, though, how do you
<v Speaker 1>feel about it?
<v Speaker 2>It's weird, right because it's it. I mean, obviously it
<v Speaker 2>is a monopoly. People. My brain immediately goes to when
<v Speaker 2>Allen Wake two came out and it was this incredible game,
<v Speaker 2>but people didn't play it because it was not on Steam.
<v Speaker 2>It's a very weird situation where the monopoly is fully
<v Speaker 2>backed by the users. It feels like most of the time,
<v Speaker 2>like I feel like obviously like places like Gog like
<v Speaker 2>have that like Okay, there's like no DRM, it's like free.
<v Speaker 2>So a lot of people find that appeal. But on
<v Speaker 2>the most part, like most people are playing on Steam
<v Speaker 2>because it's just been around forever, like it is where
<v Speaker 2>people built their libraries. It's literally I think to that conversation,
<v Speaker 2>I think it was on kind of funny where like
<v Speaker 2>Phil Spencer says, hey, the PS four generation was the
<v Speaker 2>worst to lose because that's where everyone built their libraries.
<v Speaker 2>But I mean Steam had been doing that for over
<v Speaker 2>twenty years at this point. It feels like so not
<v Speaker 2>to mention like bringing people in with their games, like
<v Speaker 2>it's a monopoly shore, but there was a reason to
<v Speaker 2>come in in the first place, Like there was Half Life,
<v Speaker 2>there was like Team Fortress Classic, and then they just
<v Speaker 2>kept building and building and so yeah, so it is weird,
<v Speaker 2>and in that sense, I do see it kind of
<v Speaker 2>be a market. And the biggest negative to that is
<v Speaker 2>the revenue share. I think it's did they revise it
<v Speaker 2>or is it still thirty percent? Goes to valve, So.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it works a little bit differently.
<v Speaker 1>The fast and like you know, easy rule is thirty
<v Speaker 1>percent still for the most part, but if you are
<v Speaker 1>let's see, I think if your game makes a certain
<v Speaker 1>amount of money, it drops to like twenty percent or
<v Speaker 1>something like that after a million or five million, something
<v Speaker 1>like that. I don't know the exact details, but they
<v Speaker 1>when Epic was first coming at them, they revised things
<v Speaker 1>a little bit and made things more favorable for the
<v Speaker 1>biggest companies. I don't know how it worked out for
<v Speaker 1>the smaller studios. In fact, I think it's still just
<v Speaker 1>kind of thirty percent across the boards until you get
<v Speaker 1>across a certain threshold.
<v Speaker 3>But it is worth always pointing.
<v Speaker 1>Out that while it like if like in a vacuum,
<v Speaker 1>when you look at it, like they're just taking thirty
<v Speaker 1>percent and for what Well, back in two thousand and five,
<v Speaker 1>two thousand and six, two thousand and seven, when Steam
<v Speaker 1>was taking off, if you wanted to sell your game
<v Speaker 1>on the internet, it was a major hassle. You had
<v Speaker 1>to do handle the distribution yourself. For the most part.
<v Speaker 1>You had to do all of the customer support stuff yourself.
<v Speaker 1>So it's like all these costs that add it up,
<v Speaker 1>and if you talk to developers who were there during
<v Speaker 1>the transition, not all, but many will tell you the
<v Speaker 1>amount of money that Steam saved us by taking all
<v Speaker 1>of these things off our hands is easily worth thirty percent.
<v Speaker 1>We were spending way Our revenue or our profit margins
<v Speaker 1>were way worse before this. Now it's been twenty years
<v Speaker 1>and it's established. So it's hard to like for people
<v Speaker 1>to hear that argument because it's like, well, no, I
<v Speaker 1>grew up in a world. I'm twenty five years old,
<v Speaker 1>what are you talking about? This doesn't mean anything to me.
<v Speaker 1>But I don't think you could really point to Steam
<v Speaker 1>being an obvious monopoly in the illegal sense because they
<v Speaker 1>aren't doing the anti competitive thing. They're a monopoly because
<v Speaker 1>they have the better product. Like it's a better service
<v Speaker 1>than Epic Game Store, it's a better service than God.
<v Speaker 1>Now I agree with you when you said people built
<v Speaker 1>their library there. I think that's the main reason Steam
<v Speaker 1>is successful is momentum.
<v Speaker 3>That's just human nature.
<v Speaker 1>Once we start down a path, the path of least
<v Speaker 1>resistance is just to keep walking down that same exact path,
<v Speaker 1>and people are on Steam. That's the reason it has
<v Speaker 1>such a stranglehold on the market, but at the same
<v Speaker 1>time it is obviously and demonstrably a better platform in
<v Speaker 1>a lot of ways, in a better product. And then
<v Speaker 1>they do things like, if you are a developer and
<v Speaker 1>you want to sell your games on another platform, you
<v Speaker 1>can produce infinite Steam codes and sell those codes on
<v Speaker 1>other platforms and completely cut Valve out of the thirty
<v Speaker 1>percent cut if you want to do the work to
<v Speaker 1>do that. Now, of course that does feed people back
<v Speaker 1>into Steam because they're getting Steam codes, so Valve does
<v Speaker 1>benefit some thing there, but it's like that is one
<v Speaker 1>move to sort of say, hey, we're trying to be
<v Speaker 1>as non anti competitive as possible, and they make a
<v Speaker 1>lot of choices that way. I think their whole thing
<v Speaker 1>about a few years back when they got very permissive
<v Speaker 1>about what games could be submitted to Steam when they
<v Speaker 1>open it up, and like, we shouldn't be the ones
<v Speaker 1>judging whether a game should be allowed to be sold
<v Speaker 1>on Steam and your Valve that's you absolutely should be
<v Speaker 1>doing that.
<v Speaker 3>They're like, we don't.
<v Speaker 1>Think so, and that includes some games with risk ay
<v Speaker 1>content and some subject matter that might be a bit touchy.
<v Speaker 1>I think that was also about them being like, we
<v Speaker 1>don't want to be exercising our ability to to pick
<v Speaker 1>winners and losers, because if we do that, someone could
<v Speaker 1>sue us for being for.
<v Speaker 3>Anti competitive practices.
<v Speaker 1>I think they had a lawyer tell them that, and
<v Speaker 1>that's informed everything since then. So I think they're very
<v Speaker 1>aware of the possibility that if they do certain things
<v Speaker 1>it will trigger Valve into to being a monopoly or
<v Speaker 1>Steam into being a monopoly, and they've done a decent
<v Speaker 1>job of avoiding that. And then finally, I think it
<v Speaker 1>just innovation happens almost.
<v Speaker 3>Primarily on Steam in the video game market.
<v Speaker 1>Like if something cool is popping off, something new, something different,
<v Speaker 1>it's probably happening in early access on Steam. So it's
<v Speaker 1>hard to like be like this is the problem in
<v Speaker 1>the industry. It clearly is, and it's like the factory
<v Speaker 1>for new ideas, and to my mind, that really puts
<v Speaker 1>it pretty far away from being some problem that needs
<v Speaker 1>to be dealt with.
<v Speaker 3>I don't know any other thoughts on this.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean, I also don't really think it's something
<v Speaker 2>you could really deal with or needs to be dealt with.
<v Speaker 2>I think it's only a monopoly just by people wanting
<v Speaker 2>to be on there, Like the community aspect of it
<v Speaker 2>being able to see what people are playing like workshop alone,
<v Speaker 2>like adds so much replayability to a lot of different games.
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, I like you said, like this only helps competition.
<v Speaker 2>I don't think I would have any use to any
<v Speaker 2>reason beyond Fortnite to use the Epic Game Store, but
<v Speaker 2>because they wanted to stay competitive, wanted to help build
<v Speaker 2>those right libraries. I have so many free games on
<v Speaker 2>Epic Game Store that it's kind of only helping. And
<v Speaker 2>this is kind of what we see in the console market,
<v Speaker 2>like people are going out of the way to make
<v Speaker 2>themselves the most appealing platform to play on, and Steam
<v Speaker 2>more honestly, most likely probably was the template for them
<v Speaker 2>doing that kind of came in.
<v Speaker 1>Outa time, I think so Breezy Caesar with the Super
<v Speaker 1>Chest says Gog has a monopoly on dese nuts. That
<v Speaker 1>is all I wanted to say, much love, thank you,
<v Speaker 1>Breezy Caesar. I appreciate the insight there. Yeah, I think
<v Speaker 1>Epic is also kind of doing them some favors by
<v Speaker 1>having that alternative. At the same time, they also might
<v Speaker 1>be proving that you could spend all the money in
<v Speaker 1>the world and you kind of can't make a dent.
<v Speaker 3>So it goes both ways. If they were to.
<v Speaker 1>Present this argument in a court to try to prove
<v Speaker 1>that Steam is a monopoly. Doesn't seem like the very
<v Speaker 1>litigious Tim Sweeney is going to try to make that happen.
<v Speaker 1>Or maybe is in the background. I don't know, because
<v Speaker 1>he's soon and everyone else he dis'gree' with. He has
<v Speaker 1>ensued valve, and I think he probably knows that that
<v Speaker 1>would not work very well.
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<v Speaker 1>It's Game as Mornings, Jeff Grab John Martin, We're getting
<v Speaker 1>back into it with new headline here seven years after
<v Speaker 1>it was announced, The Elder Scroll six is still a
<v Speaker 1>long way off.
<v Speaker 3>Says Todd Howard.
<v Speaker 1>This is from Jordan Midber at VGC, but as the
<v Speaker 1>Games director, Todd Howard has said that the Elder Scroll
<v Speaker 1>six is still quote a long way off. The Elder
<v Speaker 1>Scroll six was announced at E three to eighteen with
<v Speaker 1>a brief teaser trailer which confirmed it was in pre
<v Speaker 1>production at Bethesda Game Studios. Nothing has been seen of
<v Speaker 1>the game since, and now bethes the Game Studio's boss,
<v Speaker 1>Todd Howard said that fans shouldn't expect the game soon.
<v Speaker 1>Speaking to GQ, Howard said that the game is still
<v Speaker 1>a long way off, adding I'm preaching patients. I don't
<v Speaker 1>want fans to feel anxious. Howard also noted that he
<v Speaker 1>doesn't like announcing release dates for games then having players
<v Speaker 1>wait a long time for that date to arrive.
<v Speaker 3>I like to just announce stuff and release it. He explained.
<v Speaker 1>My perfect vision, and I'm not saying this is going
<v Speaker 1>to happen, is that it's going to be a while
<v Speaker 1>and then one day the game will just appear. Asked
<v Speaker 1>if you wanted Pethesta to shadow drop the Elder Scroll
<v Speaker 1>six like it did with the Oblivion Remastered, he replied,
<v Speaker 1>you might say that was a test run. It worked
<v Speaker 1>out well. Elsewhere in the interview, Howard claimed that Bethesta
<v Speaker 1>Games Studios has hundreds of people on Fallout right now
<v Speaker 1>with seventy six and some other things we're doing. One
<v Speaker 1>of the other things Howard is referring to VGI understand
<v Speaker 1>VGC Understands is a remaster of Fallout three, similar to
<v Speaker 1>this year's the Elder Scrolls Oblivion Remastered, which makes sense.
<v Speaker 1>That was like the next game, same engine, all the
<v Speaker 1>tools they built for that Oblivion Remastered would just work
<v Speaker 1>on fall That three for the most part, I'm betting,
<v Speaker 1>so yeah, that makes a lot of sense, not surprising,
<v Speaker 1>and also a little bit like, Okay, I guess how
<v Speaker 1>long of a wait are we in for? Really? And
<v Speaker 1>I'm saying that, like, are there fewer people waiting for
<v Speaker 1>Elder Scrolls six now than ever before?
<v Speaker 2>It?
<v Speaker 3>Is it maybe.
<v Speaker 1>Losing some of it's appeal after Starfield and all this
<v Speaker 1>other stuff, and people are like, maybe I'm not going
<v Speaker 1>to get my hopes up for this one. What do
<v Speaker 1>you think?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's a very weird question in the wake of Starfield,
<v Speaker 2>but I think the thing that older Skulls five or
<v Speaker 2>six rather has is that Skyrim became a household name
<v Speaker 2>for those kinds of really open world Western RPGs, and
<v Speaker 2>so that game is a game that for a lot
<v Speaker 2>of people is the only game they need. It will
<v Speaker 2>last them a lifetime. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Good point.
<v Speaker 2>That it's really the only reason why I'm fine with
<v Speaker 2>it taking as long as it does to really polish
<v Speaker 2>it off in a way that is still true to
<v Speaker 2>the Bethesda experience, where there's still gonna be a lot
<v Speaker 2>of glitches, but it's just going to be an overall
<v Speaker 2>fun time and that adds to it.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>I mean it's been thirteen years since scrim That was
<v Speaker 2>twenty twelve, so I mean seven years fields go drop
<v Speaker 2>in the bucket. But yeah, I mean that game has
<v Speaker 2>been released and release time and time again. I think
<v Speaker 2>the big difference is that, yeah, Elder Sculls is still big.
<v Speaker 2>People have Elder Scrolls online, but there are a lot
<v Speaker 2>of people who are just waiting for that new big
<v Speaker 2>thing and it's not It's not a time commitment in
<v Speaker 2>the sense that you can pace yourself, unlike online where
<v Speaker 2>you feel like you have to catch you up. The
<v Speaker 2>thing I want to ask you is that do you
<v Speaker 2>really think it would be at all smart to not
<v Speaker 2>market an Elder Scroll six coming out. When he says
<v Speaker 2>like the Oblivion Room Mastered was the test, I feel
<v Speaker 2>like that has to be talking about the Fallout three remake,
<v Speaker 2>like remaster, Like I cannot imagine a world in which
<v Speaker 2>Elder Scroll six is not constantly listed on like the
<v Speaker 2>years most talked about games, most anticipated games. That that
<v Speaker 2>seems ridiculous to me.
<v Speaker 1>I don't think it will happen. I don't think that
<v Speaker 1>they will do that with Elder Scroll six, but I
<v Speaker 1>do think he means it right now. But I you know,
<v Speaker 1>as much as he is in control of everything, he's
<v Speaker 1>not in control of everything. And Microsoft will be like, no, no, no,
<v Speaker 1>let's maybe do something bigger with this very important, big game.
<v Speaker 1>But you know this is this is the studio. The studio,
<v Speaker 1>not the company, and not the publisher. The studio that
<v Speaker 1>really established the much much shorter promotional marketing run up
<v Speaker 1>to a game, and that was with Fallout four. Fallout
<v Speaker 1>four got announced in the summer and then came out
<v Speaker 1>later that fall. It was like six months of promotion
<v Speaker 1>and then and then it came out. And before that,
<v Speaker 1>the standard was like the game would get announced and
<v Speaker 1>it would get a release date like a year out,
<v Speaker 1>two years out, and then it was just NonStop like Okay,
<v Speaker 1>here's a big marketing push now, and then here's another trailer,
<v Speaker 1>and here's all this other stuff. And when Fallout four
<v Speaker 1>did it. Fallout four sold very very very well, and
<v Speaker 1>they didn't see any repercussions from not having a longer
<v Speaker 1>marketing period, and I think like that worked, and since
<v Speaker 1>then that timeline's only been compressed more and more. And
<v Speaker 1>I do believe them that they were testing things out
<v Speaker 1>with Abliving and to see how that went. Now, I
<v Speaker 1>think it would be fine actually personally if Elder Scroll
<v Speaker 1>six came out and just popped out of nowhere, because one,
<v Speaker 1>it's gonna leak, and that will that will begin the
<v Speaker 1>like the hushed sort of conversations so like is this
<v Speaker 1>really happening, I don't know, I don't And so the
<v Speaker 1>people in the know will begin like getting things like
<v Speaker 1>okay primed and people will be like, maybe we should
<v Speaker 1>get excited about this. And then once it's out there,
<v Speaker 1>that name is so big, I think it would set
<v Speaker 1>off like a bomb and it would just immediately people
<v Speaker 1>be like, oh my god, this is available. Now I'm gonna.
<v Speaker 1>I I think the excitement would be palpable and people
<v Speaker 1>would be like, I need to get in on this,
<v Speaker 1>especially if they don't know anything about it, and the
<v Speaker 1>conversation isn't about the reviews or anything like that, it's
<v Speaker 1>just the game is there.
<v Speaker 3>But I don't think that will end up happening with
<v Speaker 3>this game.
<v Speaker 1>And who knows the meta for how to market a
<v Speaker 1>game by the time this game comes out, because what
<v Speaker 1>are we talking about, John, were talking twenty twenty eight
<v Speaker 1>or are we talking twenty thirty here?
<v Speaker 2>Twenty thirty would probably be my guess if I'm going to.
<v Speaker 3>Be five years from now, four or five years from now.
<v Speaker 2>Like the way they haven't really discussed anything. And to
<v Speaker 2>be honest like that, I followed Starfield enough at the time,
<v Speaker 2>but now that it came out, and it was just
<v Speaker 2>kind of like, oh that was cool, Like I completely
<v Speaker 2>forget the marketing cycle of that game. But yeah, I mean,
<v Speaker 2>were they announced that the were they both announced at
<v Speaker 2>twenty eighteen or do we know about Starfield beforehand? Because Starfield,
<v Speaker 2>I feel like had been that thing. They always talked
<v Speaker 2>about making that like Space Odyssey kind of game for
<v Speaker 2>a long time. But I'm it just takes so long
<v Speaker 2>to make a game. I mean, they're the GTA five
<v Speaker 2>in the room, Like that only came out a year
<v Speaker 2>after Skyrim, and like that's still something that we're thinking about.
<v Speaker 2>And granted, like Rockstar on a completely different level in
<v Speaker 2>terms of the workforce that they have in the global
<v Speaker 2>the entire globe is kind of working on those kinds
<v Speaker 2>of games with naractors and such, but like Bethesda is
<v Speaker 2>a lot smaller, They're focusing on multiple different things. I
<v Speaker 2>And when you're following up a game like Skyrim, you
<v Speaker 2>would think you want to be careful because that that's
<v Speaker 2>a game that it's subtitle. It's kind of like out
<v Speaker 2>Persona became bigger than Shimagama Tense. It's like, oh, the
<v Speaker 2>Persona franchise, like Skyrim is kind of a franchise of itself.
<v Speaker 2>So I don't know, man, Like I feel like they
<v Speaker 2>need to take their time with that. In another five
<v Speaker 2>years seems like what they would want to do. But
<v Speaker 2>now they're also having to contemplate with the next Fallout
<v Speaker 2>game of the shows, so.
<v Speaker 1>I know.
<v Speaker 3>You're right.
<v Speaker 1>They can't rush it though, Like they can't get this
<v Speaker 1>one wrong. Elder Scroll six is the one they absolutely
<v Speaker 1>have to get right because well, I mean, if they don't,
<v Speaker 1>it's like, well, what's the point of that studio anymore. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I could see it taking you know, twenty thirty if.
<v Speaker 1>If that's the case, though, that does put it nineteen
<v Speaker 1>years since Skyrim, because eleven eleven eleven is when that
<v Speaker 1>game came out.
<v Speaker 3>That is that would be bananas. Yeah, we'd get to
<v Speaker 3>that point.
<v Speaker 1>And you know, I think that you're probably right that
<v Speaker 1>it'll take a little bit longer because after Starfield, which
<v Speaker 1>was sort of them resetting their technology and investing in
<v Speaker 1>a lot of their technology, well that didn't necessarily pay off. Again,
<v Speaker 1>that's a game I think is fine, but it did
<v Speaker 1>not live up to the hype certainly. But they will
<v Speaker 1>need to do even more. Like they can't be like,
<v Speaker 1>all right, we did all that really hard work. Now
<v Speaker 1>we could just get Elder Scroll six out. It's like, no,
<v Speaker 1>we're going to have to continue to find new ways
<v Speaker 1>to improve our technology so that things feel even more
<v Speaker 1>robust and like the possibility space opens up even more.
<v Speaker 1>And then they'll have to account for that as designers,
<v Speaker 1>and that will take even more time. It's gonna be
<v Speaker 1>a big complicated game, and they really actually only just
<v Speaker 1>kind of finished Starfield, so yeah, it's gonna take take
<v Speaker 1>a minute. Yeah, Starfield and Elder Scroll six were announced
<v Speaker 1>at the same time. I believe in that twenty eighteen.
<v Speaker 1>I was in that theater when that when that happened,
<v Speaker 1>and just be like, all right, okay, the Starfield, but
<v Speaker 1>I can't wait to go get to Elder Scroll six.
<v Speaker 1>Well that'll be out in like twenty twenty two, twenty
<v Speaker 1>twenty three. But dumb bastard, that is what I am.
<v Speaker 3>All right. Whoops.
<v Speaker 1>Pillsbury just gave us a look at Yoshi in the
<v Speaker 1>Super Mario Galaxy movie. This is from Evan Campbell at GameSpot.
<v Speaker 1>While we still await the first trailer for the Super
<v Speaker 1>Mario Galaxy Movie and unlikely source has provided a great
<v Speaker 1>look at Yoshi in the sequel. A Pillsbury box showcases
<v Speaker 1>the Green Dinosaur along alongside Mario as part of a
<v Speaker 1>promotional collaboration for the film. Top's Friendly Markets, a supermarket
<v Speaker 1>chain in the northeastern US, listed the Pillsbury Sugar cookies
<v Speaker 1>shaped like Yoshi eggs over the weekend. The cute character
<v Speaker 1>was teased at the end of the Super Mario Brothers movie.
<v Speaker 1>But this retailer leak seemingly confirms Yoshi will play a
<v Speaker 1>big role in the Super Mario Galaxy movie. Not only that,
<v Speaker 1>but the back of the Pillsbury box heavily implies that Bowser.
<v Speaker 3>Junior will be a new addition to the movie's cast.
<v Speaker 1>There is a kid friendly activity to trace the path
<v Speaker 1>for Mario, Mario and Yoshi across the Galaxy on the packaging. Intriguingly,
<v Speaker 1>Bowser Junior's mark serves as a dead end option.
<v Speaker 3>It looks like Yoshi. It looks a lot, a lot
<v Speaker 3>like Yoshi.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean, he looks like Yoshi in the Mario movies,
<v Speaker 1>where like the eyes are just a little bit I
<v Speaker 1>don't know, I don't even want to call it more emotive,
<v Speaker 1>but more friendly, probably for animating in a film setting.
<v Speaker 1>And that's about the only change that I would notice.
<v Speaker 1>I guess maybe the smile looks a little bit different
<v Speaker 1>than the standard version that I've been used to for
<v Speaker 1>my entire life. But yeah, that look like what Yoshi
<v Speaker 1>would look like in the Mario Brothers movies. I'm hey, cool, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I want to see this.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I also want to see this. I just think
<v Speaker 2>it's crazy that Pillsbury brought Yoshi Cookies to supermarkets before
<v Speaker 2>Nintendo brought Yoshi Cookie to any of the virtual console
<v Speaker 2>at Yeah, that's right crazy, but yeah, I mean it
<v Speaker 2>looks like Yoshi. He's a little scalier than I've ever
<v Speaker 2>seen him as the I mean, the back of the
<v Speaker 2>box even is just showing up like the Mario Galaxy
<v Speaker 2>to Box art pose with Mario riding Yoshi. Yeah, my
<v Speaker 2>girlfriend's very excited this for this. Her favorite game on
<v Speaker 2>my friend and I we backlit a game Boy color
<v Speaker 2>for her and the game she plays the most is
<v Speaker 2>Yoshi Cookie. So I'm very excited for this. She's very
<v Speaker 2>excited for this. Everyone I know is pretty excited for
<v Speaker 2>this because it was just a fun time in the theaters.
<v Speaker 2>It's it's just hilarious that we're getting looks at this
<v Speaker 2>in like cookie form and old spice form.
<v Speaker 1>Before Breezy Caesar, with another super chat says, place your bets.
<v Speaker 3>Does Yoshi talk in the movie? John, What do you think.
<v Speaker 2>He's got to talk?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah?
<v Speaker 1>It has to talk.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, like he doesn't have to talk, but he need
<v Speaker 2>there needs to be some like garbled kind of language
<v Speaker 2>that people sure can decipher, like I don't want to
<v Speaker 2>say this, but I is illumination gonna position Yoshi as
<v Speaker 2>the minions of the Mario movie, because that would be
<v Speaker 2>such a downgrade from Yoshi being his own cool character.
<v Speaker 1>There there are multiple Yoshi's, right, so they could do that,
<v Speaker 1>and like each of the different colored Yoshi's could have
<v Speaker 1>a different personality like the three main minions. But I
<v Speaker 1>don't think so. I think if they're gonna manionize anybody,
<v Speaker 1>I don't know. I guess they maybe did it a
<v Speaker 1>little bit to the toads, but no, I don't know.
<v Speaker 3>I don't think they're gonna do that the Yoshi.
<v Speaker 1>I think they're saving that maybe for eventually getting to
<v Speaker 1>a Pickman movie or something like that. I don't know
<v Speaker 1>if he talks like I don't know if he has
<v Speaker 1>full sentences, but I do think you're right that'll he'll
<v Speaker 1>at least grunt out some sort of language where it's like, oh,
<v Speaker 1>he's obviously saying this, and as the audience, we all
<v Speaker 1>know what he's referencing. And maybe he has a couple
<v Speaker 1>of phrases or small words that he repeats. But I
<v Speaker 1>don't know. I don't know what you gain as a
<v Speaker 1>storyteller from making Yoshi talk, like do we need the
<v Speaker 1>pathos of Yoshi like missing his egg or something and
<v Speaker 1>he has to like talk about what it meant to
<v Speaker 1>his family.
<v Speaker 3>I don't think so. I think I think that sounds bad.
<v Speaker 2>Look, man, I've I grew up in the age of
<v Speaker 2>the Internet. There are so many Mama Luigi jokes, there's
<v Speaker 2>so many Yoshi talking clips out there that is perverse
<v Speaker 2>in my head, and it is I fear for the
<v Speaker 2>worst with these movies, Like I want the first one,
<v Speaker 2>but there's something about it that if Yoshi doesn't talk,
<v Speaker 2>then Bazzard Junior is gonna be the most annoying character
<v Speaker 2>in the entire movie.
<v Speaker 3>Oh that's for sure, Mama.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know how they're gonna talk about that. I
<v Speaker 2>don't want to know who his mom is, but they're
<v Speaker 2>gonna they're gonna talk about it, and it's gonna it's
<v Speaker 2>gonna make me weird. It's gonna make me feel really
<v Speaker 2>really weird.
<v Speaker 1>H O G. Kawangi in chat says, will Yoshi make
<v Speaker 1>a six seven six seven? Reference? No, but I bet
<v Speaker 1>Bowser Junior does. I bet I bet Bowser Junior does.
<v Speaker 1>And you got he is good.
<v Speaker 3>You're right.
<v Speaker 1>He's gonna be so annoying. I kind of can't wait
<v Speaker 1>to see it. It's gonna be a lot of fun.
<v Speaker 1>U That movie is out in May May. Then.
<v Speaker 3>I don't have a release state in here, but I
<v Speaker 3>think I remember March. I think is March? Think April third,
<v Speaker 3>April third?
<v Speaker 2>No, What the heck? I'm getting so many mixed messages
<v Speaker 2>from chap Where when is this movie coming out?
<v Speaker 1>Uh? Yeah, I think I think it's May sometime, but
<v Speaker 1>I don't remember the exact date. But you know, I'll
<v Speaker 1>take the kids to see it. We had a really
<v Speaker 1>good time watching the first one, and you know, I do.
<v Speaker 3>Oh it is April third, man April then?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, April third, twenty twenty six. That's soon. That's
<v Speaker 2>so really soon.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, Then here we go, all right, well, now here
<v Speaker 1>we go, Here we go, there we go. Shagaru Miyamoto
<v Speaker 1>on taking further steps away from development. This is Sirmali
<v Speaker 1>Reynolds at Nintendo Life. It's no secret that Shagiro Miyamoto
<v Speaker 1>has taken a bit of a back seat when it
<v Speaker 1>comes to game development. The last Mario game he personally
<v Speaker 1>oversaw as director was Super Mario Run and after his
<v Speaker 1>most recent experience as general producer on Pickman four, the
<v Speaker 1>creator has largely shifted over to the world of movies
<v Speaker 1>and theme parks, and a new interview with Casa Brutus
<v Speaker 1>thanks for VGC for capturing this. Miyamoto hence toward taking
<v Speaker 1>even further steps away from game development. He states that
<v Speaker 1>while Nintendo currently has other developers leading the charge on
<v Speaker 1>new Mario titles, he nevertheless endeavors to play them and
<v Speaker 1>deliver feedback on the overall interface. Nowadays, I have teammates
<v Speaker 1>who helped maintain the world of Mario, so I entrust
<v Speaker 1>much of it to them. Even so, I always personally
<v Speaker 1>play through about the first thirty minutes of the game
<v Speaker 1>and check the inter thoroughly to make sure it really
<v Speaker 1>feels like Mario. He then perhaps jokingly hints that he
<v Speaker 1>might he may not even do this in the future
<v Speaker 1>and simply leave everything to his colleagues, before expressing his
<v Speaker 1>wish to remain healthy until Mario's inevitable fiftieth anniversary in
<v Speaker 1>ten years time. Up through Super Mario Odyssey, I feel
<v Speaker 1>we've done just about everything we could on the switch
<v Speaker 1>in the past, whenever a new console came out, we
<v Speaker 1>always released a new Mario game, So I do wonder
<v Speaker 1>how the current team will take on that challenge. Maybe
<v Speaker 1>I'll say I won't look anymore laughs apparently in parentheses there.
<v Speaker 1>I just hope to stay healthy until Mario's fiftieth anniversary.
<v Speaker 1>Seems like he's doing just fine. I think he'll probably
<v Speaker 1>make it. But yeah, I he has done an admirable
<v Speaker 1>job of producing a new generation behind him, and really
<v Speaker 1>he produced a new generation that was capable of then
<v Speaker 1>themselves mentoring the generation after them, because that's really at
<v Speaker 1>what we're at at this point for Nintendo. And throughout
<v Speaker 1>all of that, they my opinion, have maintained that certain
<v Speaker 1>level of magic and people that understand what what Mario
<v Speaker 1>needs to be and what Zelda needs to be, and
<v Speaker 1>for him to be like I'm stepping back even further.
<v Speaker 1>I think, yeah, he's earned that and it's working. His
<v Speaker 1>stuff with the movies and the theme parks is certainly
<v Speaker 1>successful for Nintendo, and I like, you know, I think
<v Speaker 1>last night I was kind of humming Mario music to
<v Speaker 1>myself and like kind of magice. Oh man, I would
<v Speaker 1>like to go back to Super Nintendo World. That was
<v Speaker 1>That was That's a really cool place, and that's he's
<v Speaker 1>directly involved in that stuff, and if he wants to
<v Speaker 1>expand it and do even more, I'm all for it,
<v Speaker 1>how about you.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean, for the longest time, he's been like
<v Speaker 2>Nintendo's I guess parenthesis positive fun police, like, Yeah, he
<v Speaker 2>has been like playing every single game, finds finds the
<v Speaker 2>joy in, that gives advice. And I mean for the
<v Speaker 2>longest time, Miamoto has been hands off. I know, in
<v Speaker 2>the three DS era, a lot of people thought he
<v Speaker 2>was like two hands on paper. Mario definitely took a
<v Speaker 2>big hit because of the lesser focus on original characters
<v Speaker 2>and stories, and then honestly kind of brought that back.
<v Speaker 2>So I've just been in a really good place with
<v Speaker 2>Mario for a good long while at this point. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I mean to say anyone deserves it more than Miyamoto,
<v Speaker 2>I think would be kind of crazy. He has created
<v Speaker 2>all of these like crazy franchises, and I think he
<v Speaker 2>is in that position where he has created that next
<v Speaker 2>generation and like they proved theirselves worthy, like even as
<v Speaker 2>early as the Game Boy, like Koizumi working on Links
<v Speaker 2>Awakening and really being able to be like no, the
<v Speaker 2>story here could enhance that game, he really knew how
<v Speaker 2>to pick people. And if he just wants to sit
<v Speaker 2>to the sidelines and just kind of market the public
<v Speaker 2>perception about certain franchises through like shorts, movies, like theme parks,
<v Speaker 2>I think that's great. He should get to run on
<v Speaker 2>this victory lap because he's the one who knows those
<v Speaker 2>games the best. So yeah, I don't know, it's I
<v Speaker 2>I love Miamoto. He is a fantastic game creator and
<v Speaker 2>just a wonderful person to hear about.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, he's certainly earned the right to like under set
<v Speaker 1>under his own vineom fig Tree and all that, And.
<v Speaker 3>I think he's like he wants to keep doing something.
<v Speaker 1>But I do think he's like acknowledges day to day
<v Speaker 1>game development as long past him. He is past retirement age.
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo at the same time does not want to lose him.
<v Speaker 1>They want him to be involved in some day to
<v Speaker 1>day operations, and I think recently he said himself as
<v Speaker 1>much that he's he also wants that he wants to
<v Speaker 1>keep working. He really enjoys and he's found this enjoyment
<v Speaker 1>and producing the movies, and I think that's more than
<v Speaker 1>fair because again, like that Super Mario wonder came out,
<v Speaker 1>Super Mario Brothers Wonder came out last year, two years ago,
<v Speaker 1>whatever it was, and that had almost all of the
<v Speaker 1>names from the original Super Mario Brothers in its credits. Like,
<v Speaker 1>they still have so much continuity, so much ingrained institutional knowledge.
<v Speaker 1>It can't all just come down to Viamoto and yeah,
<v Speaker 1>right real quick, Like if he were like to like
<v Speaker 1>actually retire and no longer be involved and Nintendo's culture
<v Speaker 1>would remain intact, I do. We were talking about it earlier, Steam.
<v Speaker 1>I think if Gabe Newle were to, like, if he
<v Speaker 1>were to die, you know that's gonna happen. It happens
<v Speaker 1>to everybody. I don't want to scare anyone, but happens
<v Speaker 1>to everybody. If you were to die, I'd be like, oh,
<v Speaker 1>there's like a significantly increased chance that Valve gets sold
<v Speaker 1>off to like Microsoft or to Saudi Arabia, and then
<v Speaker 1>what happens, what happens then?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I don't like for as much as we were
<v Speaker 3>talking about.
<v Speaker 1>It not being necessarily an an antagonistic monopoly or an
<v Speaker 1>anti competitive monopoly, that could change on a fucking dime
<v Speaker 1>if something, if some things were to change at the
<v Speaker 1>top over.
<v Speaker 2>There there's a lot of ways that could happen.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yep, all right, let's see yep.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, last couple of stories here, Star Wars, Outlaws in
<v Speaker 1>Avatar front Actually, Mike min and I, you need to
<v Speaker 1>stop listening. If you're listening, I want to save you
<v Speaker 1>from this story. I don't want you get upset. Star Wars,
<v Speaker 1>Outlaws in Avatar, Frontiers in Pandora, DLC's Beat Claire Obscure
<v Speaker 1>Expedition thirty three to Grammy nomination. This is from Ben
<v Speaker 1>Lyons at Game Reactor. Basically, the story is the headline.
<v Speaker 1>They announced the nominations for the Video Game category in
<v Speaker 1>the Grammys. The category has nominated Avatar Frontier, Frontiers of
<v Speaker 1>Pandora's Secret Spires, DLC, Star Wars, Outlaws, Wildcard in Pirate's Fortune,
<v Speaker 1>DLC's Hell Divers two.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, there's a handful of out their things.
<v Speaker 1>I think Indiana Jones in the Great Circle and Sort
<v Speaker 1>of the Sea are the other two games nominated. Expedition
<v Speaker 1>thirty three Claar Obscura, which does it just have like
<v Speaker 1>really great music? It has a metric fuck ton of
<v Speaker 1>really great music, Like it has the most music and
<v Speaker 1>it's all really good. Not nominated, And I think we
<v Speaker 1>could all chalk this up to it's the Grammys.
<v Speaker 3>They don't know, they don't know, right.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, they're skimming off the top of like what are
<v Speaker 2>the game releases we could release and what is so much.
<v Speaker 3>Like what do we recognize?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Yeah, it's like they're going to like what is
<v Speaker 2>closest to a film score, because that's how we're judging
<v Speaker 2>these metrics as opposed to really assessing how the music
<v Speaker 2>does play a part in the game. That to me,
<v Speaker 2>that's why I feel like Sort in the Seat is
<v Speaker 2>kind of surprising that that got no many to because
<v Speaker 2>that is what I would like a Grammy nomination to
<v Speaker 2>kind of reflect, Like so much of that is getting
<v Speaker 2>the mood across and I'm not saying any of these
<v Speaker 2>other soundtracks don't do that. Grants that I haven't played
<v Speaker 2>either of the DLCs for Avatar and Pirate's Fortune, but
<v Speaker 2>Indiana Jones is that one exception where I feel like
<v Speaker 2>it is so close to the movies that it like
<v Speaker 2>it works because that's kind of what it is trying
<v Speaker 2>to be, is trying to be that like intevral. But yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I mean it's it's gonna be unfortunate for a long
<v Speaker 2>time until we get more people in the Grammy s
<v Speaker 2>board who actually recognize what gamers are actually listening to.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, yeah, Expedition thirty three is top five probably
<v Speaker 2>soundtracks for me at this point, Like there's there's so
<v Speaker 2>many like great songs in there that I'm still listening to.
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, it's I don't know, kind of a fool's
<v Speaker 2>errand to expect it to go another way. I'm surprised
<v Speaker 2>Kirby Ever got nominated for one of these Grammys. That's
<v Speaker 2>still still yeah.
<v Speaker 1>I think the one thing that Ever gave me hope
<v Speaker 1>was early on I think the first winner of this category.
<v Speaker 1>Maybe it wasn't this category, but the Grammys gave a
<v Speaker 1>Grammy to Christopher Ten for Baba Yet Too from a
<v Speaker 1>Civilization four. I think he really sad on his own
<v Speaker 1>album Later and that's where it won. I'm like, oh,
<v Speaker 1>game recognized game. That's one of the best video game
<v Speaker 1>songs ever made, and they recognized and gave it a Grammy.
<v Speaker 3>I'm like, okay, so they know.
<v Speaker 1>Ball, but I think that was just Actually, Christopher Ten
<v Speaker 1>has cachet beyond video games and so like he's a
<v Speaker 1>name that they would be like, oh, we should be
<v Speaker 1>listening to his music and then we can check it out.
<v Speaker 1>I think that's what happened with sort Of the See
<v Speaker 1>Austin Wintery is a name in the space of people
<v Speaker 1>who make music. They have reck like he has established
<v Speaker 1>himself so and he did sort of the Sea. I
<v Speaker 1>think that's probably why he got nominated. All right, last
<v Speaker 1>couple of stories and its second week in arc Raders
<v Speaker 1>has reached a new peak player count. It was, let's see,
<v Speaker 1>I think over four hundred, yeah, four hundred and sixty
<v Speaker 1>two thousand players.
<v Speaker 3>All at one time at one point.
<v Speaker 1>That puts it above Hell Divers two, which I think
<v Speaker 1>was a little pretty close to that. But this game
<v Speaker 1>is massive, massive, massive, and again not a free to
<v Speaker 1>play game. People showed up paid I think it was
<v Speaker 1>forty bucks for it, and yeah, and it's really popping off.
<v Speaker 3>Is this when you've checked out?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean I was a part of this. This
<v Speaker 2>was the first weekend. Then I bought into it because
<v Speaker 2>one of my friends was super addicted already has like
<v Speaker 2>fifty hours in it or something, so we were playing
<v Speaker 2>over the past weekend. It's the first extraction shooter I've
<v Speaker 2>really gotten into and that loop is very addictive. It's
<v Speaker 2>very easy to get other people into it. So yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I have been having a lot of fun with this.
<v Speaker 2>This has kind of become the main multiplayer game for
<v Speaker 2>me right now, and something I play solo, which I
<v Speaker 2>never thought I was gonna do.
<v Speaker 1>Uh. I want to speak directly to people playing this game.
<v Speaker 1>If you chicken shits, make them create a server where
<v Speaker 1>there's no PvP, I will go insane. That is the
<v Speaker 1>whole point of this game is not that not every
<v Speaker 1>encounter needs to be PvP, but you need the threat
<v Speaker 1>of that in every encounter to make them interesting. It
<v Speaker 1>doesn't like talking to someone and and convincing them not
<v Speaker 1>to kill you, or having Kayla scream her head off
<v Speaker 1>to the point where we're like, this isn't worth it,
<v Speaker 1>This isn't worth it. This lady's insane. Even if we
<v Speaker 1>kill her, who knows what we're gonna get, It's just
<v Speaker 1>not worth it. That interaction is so crucial to this
<v Speaker 1>game that if you see of thieves this ship and
<v Speaker 1>make them create a server where you have your your
<v Speaker 1>safe space, and you make the game woke, I'm gonna
<v Speaker 1>be pretty mad. We need we need this thing to
<v Speaker 1>continue to be a dangerous space. I got shot in
<v Speaker 1>the back last night. I made a friend. I made
<v Speaker 1>a friend and then we I call the elevator and
<v Speaker 1>it's all good. And I open the elevator and go
<v Speaker 1>in and I see a dead body on the ground.
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, huh, I wonder how that got there. And
<v Speaker 1>it was obvious that second. I'm like, oh shit, And
<v Speaker 1>I turned around and the guys just popping me because
<v Speaker 1>obviously this is what he's been doing for the last hour.
<v Speaker 3>So hey, lesson learned.
<v Speaker 1>I love that. That's a story. That's the whole point
<v Speaker 1>of the game. Please don't don't defang it. I need
<v Speaker 1>this game to stay the way the way it is.
<v Speaker 2>Trust no one. And I was hyperventilating at the UPF
<v Speaker 2>last week. Yeah, that was incredible. Kayla, Kayla kills it.
<v Speaker 1>Really really enjoyed that. It was a good time. I
<v Speaker 1>can't wait up. I'll be hanging out with Kayla in
<v Speaker 1>less than a week's time at dance House for Extra
<v Speaker 1>Life everybody. That's this Saturday, so look out for that.
<v Speaker 1>Halo Infinite receives last currently planned major update.
<v Speaker 3>This is from Sophie McAvoy at Games in the Street.
<v Speaker 1>Up is Uh, but yeah, basically they're just saying the
<v Speaker 1>Tenure plan, well that was, that's not real.
<v Speaker 3>We're not doing that.
<v Speaker 1>We are doing that Halo Campaign Evolved game next year.
<v Speaker 3>But obviously they're going to need a new Halo multiplayer game.
<v Speaker 1>So the last update for Infinite it's happening, and its
<v Speaker 1>replacement is well on its way. I bet, what do
<v Speaker 1>you want them to do with this? What can they
<v Speaker 1>do with a new Halo multiplayer game?
<v Speaker 2>It's a hard question for me as someone who actually
<v Speaker 2>did really like Infinite I thought that was pretty fun.
<v Speaker 2>I guess too. The one thing I think you could
<v Speaker 2>probably go back to is having that like kind of
<v Speaker 2>playlist of different game modes. The shuffle factor has always
<v Speaker 2>been one of my favorite things in Halo because it
<v Speaker 2>is completely changing the game. We never did get that
<v Speaker 2>Halo Battle Royale. It's not something I personally really want
<v Speaker 2>from a Halo game, but it could be there. It
<v Speaker 2>could be that free alternative. Yeah, it's really hard. We
<v Speaker 2>were on I think we were hosts. I was co
<v Speaker 2>hosting last time when it got announced a couple of
<v Speaker 2>weeks and I really thought that that Campaign Evolved was
<v Speaker 2>going to have multiplayer. That was my big assumption, and
<v Speaker 2>to the fact that it didn't kind of made me
<v Speaker 2>lose a lot of interest in that. Halo multiplayer just
<v Speaker 2>means a lot to a lot of people because of
<v Speaker 2>it being like the forefather of all those online ATPs
<v Speaker 2>games on console. I guess, so that huge memories for me.
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, I really don't. I don't even know at
<v Speaker 2>this point. I think they put a lot of their
<v Speaker 2>eggs in the Infinite basket and it still didn't go
<v Speaker 2>their way. It's going to be an uphill battle. I
<v Speaker 2>guess skill based matchhaking. Maybe that's the only thing I
<v Speaker 2>could really think of or removing that. I don't know,
<v Speaker 2>what about.
<v Speaker 1>You, Yeah, I mean I also really liked Infinite, and
<v Speaker 1>it's like, oh, well, if that's not gonna work, what
<v Speaker 1>can work? I that if they were to basically do
<v Speaker 1>an all my multiplayer that was similar to Infinite, but
<v Speaker 1>they did it with unreal engines so that it was
<v Speaker 1>much easier for them to burn use content at a
<v Speaker 1>rapid pace and the game was really filled, like filled
<v Speaker 1>with support. Did Halo Infinite launch without Team Slayer? I
<v Speaker 1>think it did. That's crazy, Uh. I think that's the
<v Speaker 1>sort of thing where it's like you can't don't launch
<v Speaker 1>in a reduced state. Launch is like just oh man,
<v Speaker 1>this is Halo and it's back and it's got everything
<v Speaker 1>and it's ready to go. I bet that would hit
<v Speaker 1>really well. By the time this game is out. I
<v Speaker 1>think people will be craving that and it just needs
<v Speaker 1>to then immediately have a ton of support ready to go.
<v Speaker 1>And that's just the world we live in now, so
<v Speaker 1>that would be my hope.
<v Speaker 3>All right, that does it for the headlines.
<v Speaker 1>Uh, let's we're gonna get to the poll question Before
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<v Speaker 1>to let's see we have a new pool qushion we're
<v Speaker 1>going to talk about here in a second. Still before
<v Speaker 1>we do that, though, John Martin, why don't you tell
<v Speaker 1>people where they can find you on the internet, what
<v Speaker 1>you have going on and all that good stuff.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so yeah, you can follow me on Blue Sky
<v Speaker 2>at John Martin blue sky dot com. This week, I'm
<v Speaker 2>going to be going back to f F seven remake we're
<v Speaker 2>doing a one hundred percent play through, kind of hoping
<v Speaker 2>we get news at that state of play. Is it
<v Speaker 2>tomorrow the Japanese.
<v Speaker 3>Date of play?
<v Speaker 2>We got going to the information on part three maybe
<v Speaker 2>at the Game Awards, but I'm trying to kind of
<v Speaker 2>like manifest that the develop director be talking about that.
<v Speaker 2>So that's the focus of this week. So Wednesday, Wednesday, Friday,
<v Speaker 2>that's going to be a lot of fun. And then yeah,
<v Speaker 2>quick wanted to shout out everyone who did their Extra
<v Speaker 2>Life streams over the weekend. It was very fun to
<v Speaker 2>bopping around. Everyone killed it and so just making good
<v Speaker 2>shit happen. That's why we love the community.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, absolutely, everyone really came through. It was a lot
<v Speaker 1>of fun hanging out in GiantBomb dot com slash Extra
<v Speaker 1>Life where people were in there with their streams and
<v Speaker 1>we were We even had old chat going for what
<v Speaker 1>is like very likely last time. So good send off
<v Speaker 1>for that, for a good effort for a good cause
<v Speaker 1>and a good effort from the community. We really appreciate
<v Speaker 1>that stuff. We'll be doing our extra Life stuff this weekend.
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, absolutely impressed by all of the work and
<v Speaker 1>all of the effort that people put in from the community.
<v Speaker 2>I see Giant Bomb in chat saying what about Kingdom
<v Speaker 2>Hearts For? Maybe we should get bad news? Do you
<v Speaker 2>think in the marts for is happening?
<v Speaker 1>There is a very strong chance that we'll hear about
<v Speaker 1>that game soon. I don't know if it's tomorrow, but yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I think we probably hear about that within the next year.
<v Speaker 1>Is what soon is to me?
<v Speaker 4>There?
<v Speaker 1>All right, new pole question, what do you want more
<v Speaker 1>new Crash bandicoot platformer or new Crash Team racing.
<v Speaker 3>We'll get the results.
<v Speaker 1>Talk about that on Game this Morning's here on Giant
<v Speaker 1>Bomb on Wednesday, speaking a Giant Bomb, I believe Mikey's out,
<v Speaker 1>so still no Monday Morning's missed with Mitch, but I
<v Speaker 1>do believe that should return next week, and when it does,
<v Speaker 1>we're probably starting out starting a miss three or whatever
<v Speaker 1>the hell that's called.
<v Speaker 3>Let's see everyone's yelling at jan and then.
<v Speaker 1>But with Mike being out, me and Jam might have
<v Speaker 1>some stuff popping off today. Jam might play something, I
<v Speaker 1>might play something. We'll figure it out. I want to
<v Speaker 1>play Dispatch. I didn't play one this morning. I was
<v Speaker 1>kind of busy this morning. The kids are off school,
<v Speaker 1>so somehow that makes me busier. It's weird, but I will. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>so I'll probably do a new episode of that. If
<v Speaker 1>I don't do that today, I'll get back on it
<v Speaker 1>tomorrow morning. But I'll probably try to do that today,
<v Speaker 1>and then yeah, the rest of the week is going
<v Speaker 1>to be the BombCast Tomorrow game as Morning's returns to
<v Speaker 1>the rest of the week. On Wednesday, we should have
<v Speaker 1>I believe a new season of Blight Club. I think
<v Speaker 1>it's the Blightning Round. I'm up first, we'll see. I
<v Speaker 1>think my costume's arriving soon, So I guess. I guess
<v Speaker 1>I gotta play a game. I'm afraid, but that's the
<v Speaker 1>way it goes sometimes, all right, and then you know,
<v Speaker 1>the rest of the week will be, you know, business
<v Speaker 1>as usual. Well, I'll see about talking over the PlayStation thing.
<v Speaker 1>We're gonna go to a meeting right now. We'll figure
<v Speaker 1>that out. But I think of the time was five pm.
<v Speaker 1>If that's the case, we'll probably talk over it all right, John,
<v Speaker 1>thank you so much for hanging out with me today
<v Speaker 1>and talking about video games. Man, I really appreciate it.
<v Speaker 2>Anytime, Jeff, this is always the highlight any week that
<v Speaker 2>it happens, and so thank you again for having me
<v Speaker 2>and much love to the community.
<v Speaker 3>Thank you.
<v Speaker 1>It's a highlight for us as well. Thank you everybody
<v Speaker 1>for watching and listening. You are the best audience in gaming.
<v Speaker 1>Until next time, have a good one, take care of
<v Speaker 1>yourself and goodbye.