Microsoft Planning on Launching Starfield on PS5

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a lot to get into, so let's start the Morning Mess with Microsoft plans
Starfield launch for PlayStation five. This is a headline from John Sick of Mechanico
Clark at Xbox Era, which has kind of kicked off this latest batch of
reporting. It's wild out there, everybody. For many weeks now, you
know what, I'm gonna read these first two stories. We've got one from
the Virgeness. Well, I'm just gonna read these stories and then we'll talk
about it. For many weeks now, rumors have persisted regarding Microsoft's intentions to
release a number of first party games, namely High Fi Russian Sea of Thieves
on rival platforms. According to our sources, who have asked to remain anonymous
because they were not authorized to talk about company plans, that list of games
also includes Bethesda Game Studios Starfield. Starfield released back in August of twenty twenty
three to fairly positive versts option despite the narrative that now exists online, and
it was the biggest meath'stic game. Yeah John, you throw your punches and
what's the biggest fathastic game launch of all time, surpassing six million players within
a week of release. Now it looks as though Microsoft is planning on bringing
but aesa's newest RPG universe to an entirely new platform, the PlayStation five.
According to sources, we understand that currently Microsoft is planning to launch Starfield on
PlayStation five post the release of the already announced Shattered Space expansion for Xbox and
PC, which is on target to arrive at some point later this year.
It's basically like a year of exclusivity on Xbox and then goes to PlayStation five
a year or more around a year basically as the as the already existing rumors
have suggested, the idea of bringing first party titles to competing console platforms marks
a massive change in strategy for Microsoft, and from what I understand, it's
not been without fierce internal debate on this new direction. That's also something that
we've begun hearing a little bit more about Uh. The Verge added to this,
and I actually got the story by way of Darren Bonteus at GameSpot.
Indiana Jones and other Xbox first party games could be coming to PS five,
Xbox and PC platform exclusivity for games from Microsoft's first party studios could be coming
to an end, as a new report indicates that the company is looking to
take a multi platform approach moving forward. According to a report from The Verge,
Microsoft is weighing up which titles will remain exclusive in others that will appear
on Switch or PS five in the future. Indiana Jones in the Great Circles
reportedly being considered for a PS five launch, but only after the game has
had a rather short short period of exclusivity on Microsoft platforms, possibly launching in
December twenty twenty four that be on Xbox, and then sometime early next year,
I suppose on PS five. Meanwhile, xbox Er claims that Starfield could
also make the jump to other platforms. All right, let's see kind of
where to start on all of this. Yeah, this is definitely a big
change, because here's in the early part of acquiring Zinnimax. Mike, I
remember like looking into this and there was a ton of conversation, is Starfield
going to be exclusive? That was like a conversation for years and years,
and eventually I got I got like to look at some of the math they
did when they decided, Hey, we are going to make these things exclusive
to Xbox because that's going to be beneficial to game Pass. That was the
reasoning then, and that meant no, for real like real deal exclusive never
come into PlayStation at that time. That's what it meant. Something has obviously
changed, Mike. If I had to point at one one key thing here,
I would say they were probably hoping that Starfield would have done better than
it did. They are now looking at like, Okay, Starfield can't even
that exists online. I'm sorry, yeah, fair enough. Yeah, it's
like this. I think they were expecting more from Starfield, and even if
Starfield did do all right, I'm sure it did do all right. I
think they're looking at the slate of games internally. One of the common things
people a say online right now is Microsoft didn't even give their twenty eighteen acquisitions
a chance. Those studios never really got to release the big games that we're
gonna turn everything around. My guess here is they are looking at the games
being made and be like, man, it's gonna be very hard to put
the time and money and effort into these things to turn them into the kinds
of Game of the Year contenders that would actually change things. And we're gonna
we can't just keep chasing that because it's actually really really hard to do and
we couldn't even do it with Starfield. So now here we are, So
something's changed. Mike, how are you feeling about all this? I'm weirded
out, I guess, And maybe I'm just as Sean suggested, old big
PlayStation Nintendo Xbox are a pretty long time now, and maybe this is is
be really freaking out and being like, well, this is the end of
Xbox as we know it. Anyways, I don't know if this is like
a fool Sega moment for them. It's if it does get to a point
where if Xbox is just really leasing its games on PlayStation, it gets pretty
hard to imagine why people buy an Xbox instead of a PlayStation. Maybe does
I think I'm just saying it's like I think that's it's a slippery slope argument,
but it's what I fully am on board with. I think you're right,
like, I think we're already on that path right where it's becoming more
and more difficult to convince people to buy xboxes. Uh. And I think
Microsoft said is a kind of situation where it's like, we have to continue
investing in trying to get people to buy xboxes or do we have to figure
something else out? And I don't know what the other thing is, but
it does feel like they are choosing that rather than trying to get the Xbox
back up to someplace where it can compete with the PS five. I guess
it does color my perception of all those acquisitions a bit differently. It was
one thing when yeah, we're doing all this so we can really you know,
compete with PlayStation and have you know, better first party content. And
now it's like, oh, we did all that and we're just going to
become some giant third party publisher, right, I mean, well, what
here with that? And Embracer Group, this the whole acquisition season right in
with this giant deal, and now we're here and it's like, oh,
that that didn't work. I guess yeah, I mean I do know internally
that they're just they are not happy with the amount of money that all this
stuff is making. And I think we definitely know that about Embracer. I
think the kind of a similar thing happened with Microsoft, not probably to that
extreme, but game Pass has installed. Essentially, that was the big the
differentiator, that was going to be the thing that was going to disrupt everything,
and it's stalled and they were going to grow. Now they're going to
like, hey, they're talking about growth on PC. That's not really doing
it. That's not it's just the reality is that that that's actually not going
to like replace the amount of growth that they were getting from console. And
so I mean they're looking down the barrel of several years of figuring out,
Okay, how do we piece together some relatively big jumps in growth for game
Pass and they'll probably find it here and there, But it's not like this
inevitable thing the way Netflix felt like it was. And so I think they
they have to kind of drastically change things. And or do they have to?
I mean, I think you said, like, hey, they have
enough money to keep competing the way that they have, and I think that
that's right, But at a certain point, it's like they keep doing the
same thing over and over again and it doesn't work out, and they I
think they're looking at this as an opportunity to be like, hey, we
just made a bunch of big acquisitions. We can change things and maybe start
thinking like trying to leap frog into a future that is possible instead of just
being like, Okay, well we're here. We got to keep trying to
do exactly what PlayStation's doing, but a lot of times just kind of a
little bit worse or without a lot of the software support. And so I
get the need internally for them to be like, listen, we got to
change something. I just yeah, I guess, but you know, like
with Nintendo when like the GameCube did so very well and they had to change
something, even though even back then people were like, oh, we're going
to see Mario games on PlayStation. Well no, they just like made an
interesting console. When the WU didn't do well, then they made an interesting
console. I guess I would hope that maybe that's where x what Xbox is
thinking here, like what are something we can do to differentiate and really come
back and compete. I guess I find this perhaps completely throwing in the towel
situation a bit weird and a bit concerning, and not that you know,
we talked about competition and places will have competition from other sources. It's all
really weird. I do think there was some value in having Xbox without it
very direct competition, and I am worried what missing that is going to look
like. Yeah, and I mean I don't think it's impossible to argue that.
You're right, there's definitely like, there's no way the PlayStation five would
have been just five hundred dollars at launch had there not been an Xbox right
there. They held each other's prices down, like we witnessed it, like
we're like, what's the price going to be? And we like it was
up to the last minute. And it's because those two companies were playing chicken.
It is clear as day that that was advantageous for consumers. At the
end of the day, that these two companies were going head to head.
I think that, yeah, I mean, the prices are going to go
up for PlayStation stuff. I think it was it's probably what this is gonna
mean, It was already happening a little bit. It probably will get a
little bit worse. But I think that for like, thinking from the perspective
of these companies trying to out PlayStation PlayStation. When PlayStation is like kind of
like, we don't know what we're doing next, and we're spending three hundred
million dollars on these games, It's like, to what end are we fighting?
At a certain point, I think that's like the underlying story here is
that these two companies were fighting a console war and now they're like looking around,
and sure, Sony definitely won it, but I think they're both looking
at it like why wait, why do we do all this? Like we're
kind of in a situation where we don't know what is next and we we're
gonna have to figure this out regardless of what happens with our competition. So
I think they're like both like looking at their own risks as the number one
priority of figuring that out rather than looking at their competition, and that is
causing them to like rethink a lot of these things that they just held as
true based on habit from a very long time. You know, if we
start like trying to figure out, Okay, so what does this look like
for the future of Xbox, I think they are still figuring it out.
That is like, there does seem to be internal debate about what this should
look like and what this should be, but the kinds of games that are
being considered, It's like when we first started talking about this a few weeks
ago, Mike, it was, hey, yeah, Hi Fi Rush makes
a lot of sense. CEF Thieves that's six years old. That makes a
ton of sense. And I think we said Pentiment at the time. Well,
Pentiment also being considered. That's an obvious one, right, Okay,
But the other one that I've heard is definitely under consideration. Doesn't mean it's
going to happen, but it's in talks is Gears of War. Gears of
War is like being considered for this, and that's like it's hagelo than Gears
of War, right in terms of like icons of Xbox of actual legacy Xbox
franchises like Forts are Sure, Yeah, that would be that's the I mean,
that would just be signaling that this is the way things are, right,
that's what you do. If you put Gears on PlayStation, I mean,
then yeah, you're not holding anything back. You're not holding anything back.
You might as well just put Halo on PlayStation. Two, and they
probably would. They probably will, So for me, it does feel like
this is happening though. And yeah, while they're debating exactly what it's going
to look like, I do feel like Xbox is not going to go back
to just being the x Xbox console is not going to just be a PS
five but with an Xbox logo on it, the way the Xbox Series X
is in many ways. Yeah, there's some slight differences, but I think
they are going to go for some drastic changes. I still think there will
be Xbox hardware. Whether or not people want to buy that hardware, well,
I think that. I think this forces into a situation where they need
to make that hardware compelling on its own. Maybe not. They probably won't
be able to do it in the way that the Switch did, where it's
just like man having the Switch with me all the time. That is such
a benefit. I want this thing, But they have to find something.
I mean, you know, while you're gone. There's a lot of rumors
about PlayStation and too some rumors about Xbox kind of both racing and try to
make a new porta ball you say, a new portable these days. I
don't think Vita too I think just a portable version of your hardware that can
be docked. I think, you know, you want to make a switch
yep. And I think these wonder if there's a race of that. I
think there probably is. I think that's it's like a pretty challenging race because
you know, we've talked about this before in some of our other shows.
The hardware is not there yet for that at least to get to like Xbox
Series S power levels. The system was just you can't None of the chips
out there are close to that yet. In the next couple of years,
things could change very fast. We probably will be. AMD is definitely trying
to race to have more efficiency on their chips so they can get to that
point. At the same time, I think that in Vidia is going to
keep trying to push into this area, and I think that will like reveal
their architecture of like, hey, we're gonna start building some of our own
CPUs. CPUs like that that came out of us trying to acquire arm and
when we didn't do that, we've found an alternative path. Maybe that alternative
path manifest and then being like, hey, we have a system on a
chip that a lot of these companies can use similar to what we do with
Nintendo, but maybe even more powerful and a lot more expensive. That definitely
could be possible for people that are like worried about the slippery slope of Hey,
people are going to stop buying xboxes, and that means Microsoft's going to
stop making xboxes, and that means the ecosystem is going to go away,
and all that money I invested into this ecosystem is going to evaporate overnight one
day. And I like they're looking several steps ahead. But I don't blame
them. I mean, it does feel like we could potentially be on that
path, right right, And I guess, you know, it's not like
in you know, the old days, Jeff, where an Xbox just come
out and suddenly be in the race or a PlayStation. If Xbox goes out,
it's not like anything is ever going to be able to come in and
suddenly be places you get better or be one of those ever again in right.
So in some ways that's what makes I guess the Xbox and Polication brands
a bit precious these days. And maybe that doesn't matter. Maybe it's all
just heading towards everything basically being computers now anyways. I mean that is kind
of happening. It's happening with things like steam Deck, right. Yeah,
at some point, it's all probably just going to be PC based in some
way or another. I don't know how many bespoke consoles are going to exist.
I mean, I mean, I think you started it off, right,
Mike. We're old. We are used to things working in a certain
way for a very long time now, and I think what is really happening
here is these companies are looking around and being like, we actually can't keep
we can't compete in the way that we used to. And you know,
once again goes back to that letter Phil Spencer wrote about, Hey, when
you had retail and you had a shelf space in a store and you had
access to that, that is what kept you separate from all these other indie
developers that were just trying to break in the scene in the early digital Internet,
and so that advantage was huge and that has gone away, and now
it's like there is no advantage at all anymore. Retail completely deprecated. There
are fourteen thousand games coming on on Steam every year, these things, and
like if one percent of those is good, that's a huge number of games,
probably equivalent about equivalent to the number of games that were getting released on
consoles in the early days of our lives, like when we were like a
neees and stuff like that. So the industry has already changed. It's already
changed. The big companies reliably releasing games at a regular cadence just feels like
there are few that have figured it out. Capcom, Ubi stuff just like
struggling to like figure it out. They're like they can continue to like have
these fits and starts, and now they're like they're in a bad way again.
So it's like these Nintendo and the Nintendo has figured it out right,
and but for a company like Microsoft, they're like trying to buy their way
into figuring that out. And I still think they probably will get to that
point in some way, but there's still have to compete with games coming out
on Steam and probably very soon in a world where mobile is just going to
be as powerful as a console and it's gonna really it's going to be very
difficult for them to stand out. And I think they are looking ahead to
that future and they're trying to plan for that. I just don't know how
when once you get past the hardware. How does an Xbox ecosystem matter.
I think it's very hard to make that case. I don't know how they
do it right. And I mean, I guess game pass is something.
Do you think PlayStation will ever allow game pests on their service? You think
they'll lighten up to that if there's a world where there is no like Xbox
Box or you think they're still like, well, why would we do that?
We want to sell people ps now subscriptions. I think they would do
it, but it would have to be like the more limited version that only
has stuff that's owned via Xbox, so similar to like you play or you'd
be soft play or whatever they call it. And these days I can't remember
anymore that's possible. But again it's just like, yeah, PlayStation is very
successful, has it sells very well, but I think Microsoft just trying to
look beyond console. And I mean, we know that's what I mean.
He said as much to you at Summer Game Fest, you know, GBA
night, That's what he told you that right then, And my ears,
I I think I told you right afterwards how I was a little surprised and
I was freaked out by how then he was deemphasizing the box. I mean,
this has been something clearly on Phil's mind. I would guess he's the
one that's driving this conversation a lot, probably from opposition to some of the
company, like you said, but I definitely think that this is his vision.
Yeah, I mean, was this the original vision or is this the
one that's born out of the reality that he finds himself in. I probably
a little bit of both, but but yeah, I mean I think they've
been saying this for a while and a lot of us I think, you
know, you definitely heard it then, and I was like hearing it then,
I'm like, I was trying to like find the wiggle room. Well,
yeah, of course, but Xbox still right, and it's like maybe
not. Things are changing pretty fast, and I think Xbox is going to
try to figure out what that looks like and it's going to be pretty messy
going forward. Now. The other thing I can I corroborate is that a
rumor that there will be something at the end of February where they're going to
explain this change. That is something that they definitely were talking about. Do
they move that up? They probably should, because the fallout online from this
really has been a lot of people being like, I am now afraid to
buy games digitally on my Xbox or just to invest any more money in Xbox
because people are seeing that future and they're like, I don't know if I
trust this anymore because I was buying this under the assumption that there would be
hardware to support all this and that would be the central hub, and I
can come back to that, and that offers a sense of security as someone
who's buying something that you're you're invested in the hardware platform, Well, I'll
invest as well, and then I'll spend buy some games on there. Once
you take away that, that, like Keystone, a lot of people's faith
and they begin to get shaken pretty fast. Do you think that they're gonna
have to talk about this like this week or do you think they just keep
letting the conversation happen and they stick to their plans. I think Singer might
be better, but I feel like that there's just maybe still a debate happening.
I don't think the plans are settled, and now you don't want to
be a situation where you're racing to figure out the plans so you can explain
it to people, then that can get messy. But yeah, I mean,
god thinks are gonna move fast, right, I mean we all think
a Placation five pro is coming, and we don't think a mid jener refresh
from Xbox is happening, right, I mean you know, so that's already
going to tip things further one way. But then you talk about Gears of
War. I mean that's true. Then Gears of War will look better on
PlayStations than it will on the Xbox, right, Like this is going to
move very fast. If this starts happening like this. Yeah, and those
little things like we say that, it's like, okay, we'll sew what
I mean, it'll look better on PC. I mean those stories add up
fast, and it just makes it feel like the Xbox brand is not valuable
and it is easy to ignore. And that's kind of death and I in
a lot of ways for a brand when it's like, oh well, I
mean you're not investing in it. Why would I? And so it's like
again you come right back to that to people thinking it's going to go away,
and some it is going to go the way of Sega. It's easy
to assume that based on like what like we're sniffing out of these things.
They could come out and clear this up and I think set people's minds at
ease. But they could also continue doing what Microsoft has been doing for a
very long time now, which is like saying one thing and then a few
months later kind of doing something that feels like the opposite. So we'll see,
all right, we're gonna take a quick break. When we get back,
we'll start speculating about what's gonna happen with with a Nintendo direct. If
one's gonna happen, we'll see right after this, all right, getting right
back into it, Mike, Nintendo Switches Online service spotlights Donkey Kong with a
new hub. Nintendo seems to be slowly putting the spotlight back on Donkey Kong
with a series of announcements in recent times. He will also start on the
upcoming release of Mario versus Donkey Kong Do Out on Switch later this month.
With this in mind, Nintendo has now launched a special section and then Nintendo
Switch Online Hub highlighting Donkey Kong's retro series You've Got the Arcade and nes Classics,
followed by Rarest Donkey Kong Country Trilogy for the Super Nintendo DK VI,
and a Donkey Kong fan site pointed this out, and people are speculating that
maybe they're doing this because they want to bring more attention to Donkey Kong because
there is a maybe a new Donkey Kong game coming. At the very least,
we know Donkey Kong is getting a lot of focus because he seems to
be He's gonna be a big part of the movies, and they have the
ride happening at Universal, but also that stuff could also be part of and
there's a game, Well, how do you feel about it? I mean,
I don't know if this is necessarily about that. I think this could
just be about Mario and Donkey versus Donkey Kong. That's what I mentioned.
But also, of course the Donkey Kong game is coming. That is a
big name, It is a big franchise. It's kind of the one that
was missing in terms of a completely new outing on the switch. At least
so far, they can still squeeze one in there. Some of that was
just kind of a victim of circumstance because Retro was making those games and they
obviously got tied up into Metro point four, which is a very big project.
But you know, whether it is that rumor about Donkey Kong being a
part of the next three D Mario game or somebody else making a Donkey Kong
country, there's going to be a new Donkey Kong game within the next couple
of years, I imagine, Yeah, I think that's probably right. Do
you think that this is something that could show up at a direct maybe in
the next couple of days or next week by the latest. Well, at
this point, I imagine whatever that Donkey Kong something is is a switch to
game. And I'm still just not sure how much they're talking about that yet
at the direct. I know before you told me you didn't think they would
talk about the switch to at all in the kind of first direct guess the
year because the guess and I'm trying to suss that out now myself, and
it is this question of what, well do you talk about then? And
there are things like, obviously you saw this Peace Show time coming out,
you do have a Metro Prime four. Let's let's just talk about it,
all right. So if metroy Prime four isn't at this direct mic and isn't
like, oh, Metro Prime four is coming out soon, for the Switch
You've won the bet, like it's definitely gonna be I agree, Yes,
I think you got it's in terms of that being a Switch one game primarily
right, And so I'm like when I say stuff like, I don't think
the Switch two will be like get listen. It might get mentioned, It
could get mentioned, but I don't think it'll It probably won't get mentioned in
my opinion, because I'm working backwards from I still think metroy Prime four to
Switch one game, and it stars at this direct and that sets them up
until they get, you know, past that, and then they really go
all in on Switch To. That may or may not happen. If it
doesn't happen, then I think the rollout of what's happening with Ninton over the
next several months looks very different. It probably does involve Metro Prime four being
a cross gen game, and they start talking about switch To relatively quickly.
The timing does make some sense, right because we're in February, so that
gives you what like six to nine months of marketing time, and that is
a window in which launch you new hardware. You could definitely start talking about
it at any moment during that time, but we'll see, Like if they
don't mention Switch to and they don't have Metro Prime four, I guess there's
a chance it could just be like kind of a fart of a Nintendo Direct.
But what is there anything else that could show up that would make you
feel better? Now? I mean they will. I kind of hope we
get Metric Prime two. We mastered Shadow Dropped. I've been really looking forward
you playing that one. There are things like that fire remblem when you make
of the geneology, genealogy, genealogy of the Holy Wars, there's that.
So there are things like other ports like there, I say, Win Waker
or or you know, stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, I know,
I know. But I don't think we're going to be getting I don't.
I don't think there's going to be another Giant Switch only game on the
level of maybe even a Pigment four again anymore. I think we are going
to be getting some like cool things like Princess Peach and some really nice remakes
or remasters like Thousand Your Door or or Metally Prime two. But otherwise I
think it's coasting a little bit. But I don't know. There's gotta be
something for the summer. That's that's a big excite. I think that's I
know, that's where you think much right, prime for could a lot in
here? Could it? Could? It could? So maybe there's something else
happening then. But we know how badly they were burnch trying to support the
three DS kind of leading up to and past the switch coming out, and
how people just kind of stopped caring and obvious, I don't think people are
there with the switch. No, when people talk about the switch right now,
they are talking about what's next, what is switched to? That is
the conversation. This entire direct is going to be shaped around that conversation,
right and then with there when there, when there is the switch to,
which is a possibility that's gonna be what people are talking about. Is this
anxiety is still not really knowing what that is, what that looks like.
Am I gonna be able to play my old games? Is gonna have an
all it and all almost the price, all this ot of stuff. I
do think at some point, just officially acknowledging it is going to help them.
Yeah, And I think I do think the direct probably is gonna happen
this week. Well, hopefully we find out by tomorrow whether or not that's
true. Uh, but they have their earnings happening. A lot of stuff
is lining up where it's like, hey, they could start talking about that
hardware. And when I think back the Metroid Prime four, there's really there's
two big options. You do treat it like, hey, this is equivalent
to Zelda in our mind, and we do want it to be crossjenks.
We want it to be a launch game for the next platform and it's that
important to us. And then still it's on the old hardware, so I
can still sell to that huge audience. At the same time, I think
that Nintendo knows the reality and the limits of Metroid and they're like, we
should just sell it on the system that has the most people and just make
it like clear that it's for that and try to keep people excited about the
switch while we still have them buying games on the switch. So it's it's
tough to figure out, like which way they're going to go. They could
easily choose the route of making it a cross gym game. I just think
it it won't be like a Zelda or a Mario where it's like a huge
system seller. At least it doesn't seem like it could be, So that
don't even you don't even entertain the possibility of it just being out right switch
to exclusive, because I still think that's a possible. No, that's possible
to it definitely is, but I hope it's not, because that means it's
probably a much further off than what we're talking about here. I want to
play it now. Other things, you know, Geniality at Holy War,
Metroid Prime two three remasters could could come. Uh, do you want to
get excited about Spoon Heaven Hollow Night with whoever? The game is silk so
so sauce, Yeah, soak songs, they're big suckery. I don't know.
It's so weird at this point. It's like that game's got to come
out eventually, right, it's definitely big enough at this point to just show
up at a direct proper But it's such a fools there and at this point
it's weird. Is even when we do finally see it, Like we did
finally see it at that Xbox they got some point and it was like,
okay, well, still is it coming out any times soon? I guess
it was nice to see it. Yeah, the Xbox was like the one
where it's like everything's coming in the next twelve months too. That one especially
hurts. That's good stuff, man, right, So uh, I mean,
Ben, that's that's gonna be probably a pretty big game. I mean
I get it in some sense because Hollow Night is like the giant metro Vinya.
That's kind of like part of its whole shtick. And once, uh,
once Silk Song became a full game set of DLC, I could see
while they kept having to sort of add ad ad and add to it to
make it as massive, still still a little surprising it is taking that long.
And then as some of chat here, let's see see if I can
find their name. Yeah, ham Sorrow says, where is Mario Baseball?
That could easily be a big summer game? Well big, that could be
a summer game for Nintendo pretty easily. Yeah, although usually you want to
line those things up with with like April baseball season, which I guess could
still happen. Maybe it just comes down the summer. Anyway, it's Mario
baseball. I don't think it's Mario baseball. Just shit it out. Whenever
somebody's playing baseball somewhere, will hit a ball with his arm again. It'll
be great, It'll be fantastic. Uh hey again, if if a direct
happens, we'll talk over it. And if it doesn't, that'd be really
weird. Actually, so let's move on here. Suicide Squad tops the UK
physical charts this week. This is from Chris Scullion at VGC and we have
the two dogs inside of all of us of stories for Suicide Suicide Squad.
Here in a second, Suicide Squad Killed the Justice League is the number one
best selling physical game in this week's UK chart. It's according to Games Industry
that Business Chris Dring, the game took the number one spot this week,
ahead of Persona three Reload. During also points out the Suicide Squad sold a
fewer physical games at launch in the UK than Tech and eight did, but
sold more than the last of US two Remastered. It should, of course
be noted that the last of US two Remastered offered a ten pound ten dollars
upgrade for owners of the PS four version, which would have which would make
a clear impact on sales. I think, oh okay. According to Drink
Stats, Suicide Squad's physical UK launch is about half of what the Guardians of
the Galaxy game sold in a first week in the country. Oh yeah,
that's that's it, right, that's I mean, that's the whole story right
there. We know that that game was pretty disappointing in terms of sales.
I mean it probably got to, like I'm disappointing. It sold millions of
copies, probably like two three million. Honestly, I don't know, but
half that's my dread numbers. Oh no, yeah, right, that's exactly.
That's not an option for Suicide Squad. Seven years of development or whatever
the hell. It was very long time since Rex Studies last game. Yeah,
that you know. The other story is that Suicide Squad sees less than
half the day one Steam players of Avengers. That's from Jordan Miller at VGC.
Suicide Squad Killed the Justice League has seen less than half of the day
one Steam players as Marvel's Adventures. Yeah, it had thirteen, four and
fifty nine, and Avengers at launch had twenty nine, nine and sixteen.
And that's good current players. I mean, Dead on Arrival maybe feels a
bit harsh, But people don't love this game. Some people like it.
The writing seems to be like some people's favorite I saw some jokes that actually
I thought were very funny, but that's not enough to get me excited to
play the game. And the people who are playing the game that I would
expect to be the most gentle on it, like Greg Miller, he gave
it a two out of five, Sony, Any chance you're going to go
play Suicide Squad here, Mike, Oh yeah, I definitely want to jump
in and at least see it for myself. I suppose. I mean,
I don't know, Jeff. It seems to kind of just be shaking out,
like I think we thought it would shake out. Yeah, almost from
the moment this game was announced, we're just sort of feel like, I
don't know if that's a good fit. Yep, And it seems like it
wasn't a good fit. And like we you know, it was very clear
over the last year and a half or so when it's like live service games
were kind of entering this shaky period and in the last several months where a
bunch of live service games shut down and big ones, small ones, all
different sizes, they just like we're going away, and you're like, oh
man, this is gonna be a rough time for Suicide Squad to end or
the world when we kind of already know what the reality is for for for
live service games, you know, some games have something for everyone. It's
like Suicide Squad has something for everyone to probably hate. If everyone's gonna find
something for some people will be just kind of that that tone it cares for
some people, it'll be all the live service elements. For some people's gonna
be like you're doctor Batman, and you know, like there's just a lot
here that somebody is going to find repulsive in some way or off putting.
I suppose, you know, it's a shame because I it's even with the
reviews, right, everybody kind of has like the one thing that they do,
Like they always point out what I do like this, and then other
things not so much. Oh hey, where'd my camera go to? My
camera? Oh no, that was you. I killed you. Okay,
let's see here. The people are like, hey, the Suicide Squad is
just boring and it's all to play, and it's like, yeah, I
don't even know if like I want to play it, but I might play
it mostly on my own time. I guess maybe we will try to do
something on the site with it, but like no, I mean, but
like again as a co op thing because it is so cutscene heavy. I'm
like that right, and like hell Hell Divers is out this week, and
I'm like, well we'll do that for UPF. That's like, that'll be
a good time because that's doine I could see how like I know we should
play on the site, and we should. It's gonna be like we're gonna
get bored and talk with cuts these and people are gonna get mad at us.
Right, Well, we'll find some way to do something with Suicide Squad
probably, but like for when we have like a thought like oh hey,
UPF, let's get four of us together play a game Suicide Squad. Now
we're going with Hell Divers. I want to play Hell Divers instead. So
it does feel like Suicide Squad's already come and gone. I think you're gonna
be in a situation where Huge Games Final Fantasy seven Rebirth is out in a
little bit, and I don't think a lot of people are going to look
back and even be like, oh I should go back to Suicide Squad or
if I was playing it and having an okay time, I think a lot
of people are gonna be like I put it down I'm not going to go
back to it. The game feels like a huge, huge, like tragedy
for rock Steady. This feels like a lot of wasted time, a lot
of wasted money, and now what the hell does that studio go and do
next? To the leadership left like about a year ago. I think maybe
it was a little bit longer than that. They I think they probably at
the time I was, we were all saying, like, this is not
some special insight, man, they probably know something that we don't, And
by looking at it, most of us did know like what this game was
going to be. So it's like, God, how do you screw this
up this bad? And I think it's just chasing. It really is just
chasing after live service stuff and then not knowing how to do that and making
these weird decisions like people want to play as the Suicide Squad instead of as
Batman. I mean, I guess they had Gotham nights and stuff, but
him, you couldn't play Batman in that either. How do they do this,
Mike? How do they fuck this up so bad? Honestly, it's
like it's like, okay, so you can't plays Batman, so who should
we play? As of all these characters like Wonder Woman and and bat at
Superman. If it's like first one was like night Wing, right, then
they're like get Boomerang. There's a lot of fans who love these characters.
But guys, come on, Yeah, I don't want to say DC fans
don't matter, but I don't say they're not real people don't deserve right though,
Like it's yeah, it's like, uh, it's like what a bunch
of people yelled at me when you're playing that Batman game, because some like
the person who was like the fifth Batman protege, did your ladies show up?
I was like, who's that? Then? Obviously that's like Cassandra,
Obviously these aren't real Batman fans like you got me, You're right, Yeah,
And Suicide Squad does just feel like one that was such a risky choice
at the time, because yeah, that movie made a lot of money on
like wishes and farts and and and then the second trailer trailer right and then
because a bunch of people like dressing up as Hardy Quid for Halloween that exactly,
and then it's like the it's a terrible movie, and that poisoned the
second movie which did nothing even though it's actually very good. And so it's
like, man, they are stuck on this. They have to keep making
a suicide squad. They can't change it now. But hey, here we
are. I mean, I think that's why you're going to see like,
yeah, we're talking about how license games are. Fact, Jeff, it
is going to be very safe licenses. It's going to be stuff that has
been around since dinosaurs, like us, we're watching VHS tapes. I'm sorry,
Yeah, we apologize everybody you're stuck with. Uh huh. You know,
the EA's got those several Marvel games, no guarantee that any of those
hit like a Spider Man does. It's like it really is like, yeah,
spider Man can work, and that's set the internet. Man. That's
the end of the list. I don't know what else can work like Superman,
Like that's a challenging thing on its own. But I don't think like
people don't are just not going to get out of bed because there's a Superman
game, Like it has to be a great game. It has to be.
It was Batman and it was Spider Man, and that's the list,
and I think everything after that is going to be kind of a big risk.
It's some of that is legacy because they're just there hasn't been a good
Superman game, right, Yeah, there's like what the death of Superman,
the weird beat him up that Blizzard made that was okay, Yeah, like
a bunch of really bad stuff. All right, let's keep moving here.
Star Wars Jedi Survivor won a Grammy beating out Stray Gods. This is from
Darren Bonfuse at game Spot. Star Wars Jedi Survivor has picked up a big
wins. The game's soundtrack was honored with a Grammy during this year's Music Industry
Awards event, recognized for Best Score Soundtrack for Video Games and Other Interactive Media.
The award went to composers Steven Barton and Gordy Habe. Mike, you
want to yell about this. I'm sure this is not your choice for best
music from a game. A little I gos a little confusing, because I
mean, we did a whole day talking about video game music from that year
on this site. I don't know if we talked about Star Wars Jedi Survivor.
I guess I shouldn't be shocked that the people from the Grammys weren't heavily
considering the Octopath Draft sound draft. Yeah. I don't know. It's like,
here's from a bunch of people who probably didn't play very manyvideo games thought
was the best video game sound trick of the year. Okay, if I
could eliminate any one award show, it probably would be the Grammys. Like
the music like until we Got Fast Card okay, listen, yes, and
actually the show itself, like that was pretty and entertaining. I suppose,
just like music awards are so weird because it's such a subjective thing. Like
in video games. It's like there's there's this on the screen craft that goes
along with the artistry and all that stuff. Music, it's just like you
like it or you don't. I don't know what else to say. I
mean, obviously there's craft in it, but there's well crafted songs that people
are like, I don't like this at all. It just doesn't vibe with
me, and so I'm gonna give it award to something else. It's just
weird, uh, all right. Japanese celebrities have reportedly been told not to
mention Power World to avoid Pokemon backlash. This is from Jordan Midler at VGC.
It's like Mitcheining and the Mafia. Japanese entertainment professionals have been reportedly told
to refrain from mentioning Powell World in public or on social media to avoid potential
backlash from the Pokemon company. Tokyo Sports reports that, according to a talent
talent agency source, talent have been advised not to mention the game in case
there are are issues. We have told our talent not to mention Power World
on social media or in public. The source said this was done out of
consideration for the Pokemon side as an agency. This decision was made in consideration
of future potential collaborations. And that's power right there is the Pokemon coming.
Didn't have to say anything, and they're just like the fear struck into its
literally like Mafia power It really is. Yeah, I can change the way
we talk about things as we're worried about upsetting you talking about normal things just
going on. And that also I think it also speaks to just how popular
and powerful Power World has become because they probably didn't need to say this about
Robopond or Meta Box. I don't think no, probably it was just fine.
I mean Powerld's on h on Game Pass and it's doing very well.
They're like, I mean, is that a boost for them at all?
Is it? Or is it still just not really anything for them to get
super excited about. Uh for for Xbox, I mean, I think it's
every little bit helps, But I mean, I think it really comes down
to how many new subscriptions they're adding. I think they were expecting a significant
boost due to Starfield, and I don't think Starfield led to that significant boost
in the way that they thought it would. And now everything else is kind
of like, well, Okay, even Powerworld's working better than we expected.
There's no way Power World is driving the kind of thing that they expected Starfield
to do for them. Yeah, I guess the good news is, you
know why with Starfield it maybe just wasn't quite good enough. But again,
are you fee looking at your pipeline, like, well, what that was
our shot in terms of like potentially being this mass appealing thing, Like,
yeah, we have help Blake too this year, and but that's you know,
maybe a bit more niche. We have Indiana Jones that's gonna be hit,
But man, nobody saw that last movie. Is that going to really
be able to be some of some absolutely massive, massive thing. Who knows.
Yeah, I guess I could see why if Starfield didn't do what they
did for them, I could see that being so disheartening and so big that
it can change your entire strategy. Yeah, I mean, and again,
like you know, people will say, when like we're talking, when I'm
talking about this on Twitter, well what about all the other games that got
announced that had to come out there in a perfect dark and avowed and all
these other ones. And I mean, let's just like, let's be realistic,
realistic, and let's like think what what is probably happening. What's probably
happening is the people in charge of Xbox are going and looking at these games
and saying, well, we don't expect any of these things to do what
we expected Starfield to do. And even if the ones might suddenly break out,
one breakout hit is not enough. It has to be a consistent string
of massive successes to do any dentt into what we need to dent in order
to make a change in the industry in terms of our market share and things
like that. And so it's like it's an uphill climb, it's one that
might actually be impossible, and They're just that they haven't been good at it
so far, and so to expect like, oh, it's suddenly going to
change because all these other unknown games. Why not put yourself in a situation
where just releasing pretty good games is a huge win on its own. Now,
what does that look like? Again? Who knows, But just the
idea that they're like, oh, all these games waiting in the wings to
change Microsoft's fortune, I think the reality is, no, that's not happening,
and that could be I think that should be disheartening to a certain extent,
but I think it's also reckoning with reality, all right. Finally,
Nintendo expects to announce thirteen percent rise in third card third quarter net profit tomorrow.
That's according to industry analysts that are looking at when Nintendo might report their
earnings. Will be announced this week. This is from my Nintendo News.
Nintendo is set to announce it's third quarter results tomorrow, and there's a number
of things to look for. Market Watch says that they expect Nintendo to announce
a hefty thirteen percent rise in net profit to one hundred and thirty point three
seven billion yen. Nintendo previously made around one hundred and fifteen point seven eight
billion net. Basically, the industry is expecting big, a big boost for
Nintendo in terms of profitability across the board, and that's a pretty good sign,
especially for a time when like you would expect profits to be dripping off
because they're investing so much in the next gen hardware. It seems like Nintendo
is saving money by making fucking LCDs instead of O leads. But yeah,
uh, Nintendo in terms of like where they're at financially, they are very
strong, but they want to invest in making a lot more games. Mike,
do you think that they are going to be able to do that in
a way that's sustainable and like, while a lot of these other companies have
struggled, do you think there's a Nintendo way of doing things where they're going
to be able to maintain this as they go into the switch to I don't
think it's going to come for Nintendo, oh little bit here, I think,
you know, I mean it has already in some ways, right,
I mean Tiers of the Kingdom took a very long time to make, and
that was a Zelda game that was using a lot from its predecessor, I
mean, probably specifically to save time too write like they probably did that to
save time and it was still like seven years. Yeah, I think that,
you know, that's just the reality of making games, especially certain kind
of games. And for a while they got, okay, we're making like
a Pigment four, so that that's okay, it won't take quite as long.
We could still make that somehow beat this million dollar soellar and have an
advantage there that they can present games of that kind of investments as big deals
in a way that Microsoft struggles to with something like a High Fi Rush,
Right, But no games are going to get longer to make it. Eventually,
it is going to feel like, oh, we don't get as many
big matel games as we used to now. I think they're aware of that,
and that's why we do get things. And they have the benefit of
being able to do things like remasters and remakes, or like what people were
saying La too long ago, maybe partnering with more indie studios or just other
third party publishers and giving them kind of the keys of the kingdom, letting
them play with your characters, just so that you are constantly releasing these franchises.
I mean, that's so much of it is that Nintendo has invested in
all these franchises and kind of diagnosing what happened with Xbox. I think they
really lost a trick where you know, we talk about actual Xbox franchises.
They're still going on that people care about. It's like Halo, which took
just taking a big beating lately. It's Gears, which has been gone for
a while, and Fortza, which is fortsa like that that's nice, but
you know, like and Nintendo was able to do things like keep making fire
emblems when it wasn't the biggest do in the world until suddenly it is a
big deal, like it was Installment eleven or something like that. Yeah,
whereas microsofts will make two Crimson skies and like both of them are are good
and do okay, and they're like, well, we're not doing that ever
again anymore because it wasn't some giant hit right away, or you mean,
you know, like, you know, we joked about Blinks the Time Sleeper,
but like why not like make new blinks of time Sleep for every five
six years and eventually just kind of by proxy, it becomes beloved and then
it can blow up at any point, you know. PlayStation time this problem
to a lesser degree two of losing a lot of its legacy franchises just because
they don't have those Japanese studios who made those games anymore. That is Nintendo's
biggest strength is that it has a lot of legacy and it still capitalizes on
that legacy. Yeah, I mean, I think there's something to what you're
saying about sticking to things. Like I think a few years back, maybe
five ten years, people looking at the Japanese video game and industry would be
like, well, we should probably like kind of really deemphasize that, and
Sony definitely has they like, we want to sell games globally and that means
not worrying so much about what the Japanese audience wants, and Nintendo's like,
well, I'm just gonna keep doing me. And now their Japanese sales continue
to grow year over year, and it's it's in a situation where like they
dominate the chart. There was like the best selling games in Japan and you
know the the fifteen sixteen of them are just Nintendo games, and a lot
of that is Nintendo does have a longer legacy and then that stuff is paying
off. But a lot of it's just like No, Nintendo slowly sort of
just molded itself into the kind of company that fit with the way Japanese gamers
are playing, and then they are at the same time, they just kept
making the games that they've always made, and like, oh, those two,
those two things wrapped back around, and now the Japanese audiences are showing
up and droves for like Splatoon and for Pickman four, a game that sold
a million copies physically in Japan alone or something like that. Maybe it's like
physical and digital, but a million copies for Pickman four alone in Japan.
That's something that we just don't see many of these other companies even attempting,
let alone succeeding at So yeah, all right, I mean, you know,
like an Xbox like does like find itself in position of Benja Kazui and
they make kind of like one weird game with it. It's like, oh,
oh, well, yeah, then never ever again. And I mean
I think that's that that fear during that portion of like the Xbox era was
definitely real. And and I remember Phil Spencer talking a bunch of times about
like getting into destiny and like looking at telemetry data and saying people are watching
a lot of TV, and they're and they're playing one game a lot,
or playing one or two games a whole bunch. Uh So why are we
making all these games that these people aren't playing? So you can't, I
don't think you can think that way. And their answer to that was game
pass. They did to the to the you know, to their point.
To their credit, they came up with their own solution to that problem that
they created in their heads. But maybe maybe at a certain point it was
too little, too late. And now we're like, okay, so you
put out pentiment and all these other things that are kind of beloved, but
they they do feel like they are. People are asking where are the big
games in this service? And and it's just, I don't know, too
little, too late in a lot of ways. All right, let's start
wrapping things up. I got the pull question from well Man more than a
week. I said the Xbox series X was a really bad name and it
might have like an impact of the kind. Do you think I was right
there? Do you think that name is bad? And that didn't help?
I think I'm right. Yes, I was gonna say I think that you
have to look at all the factors and I don't think that that is not
a fact. That definitely is something that contributed in some ways. I don't
think it's the only thing, and definitely not the dely not, but yeah,
you bet he back going back to Xbox One and you know the whole
everything with Halo first, it wasn't a lunch Ago was supposed to do that.
It came out and it didn't do what it needed to do. Well
of things just didn't do what they needed to do, all right. Poll
question from last week, what update cycle do you want to see for handheld
PCs? Uh seven percent say they want a major annual update like phones,
twenty five percent say they don't care about handheld PCs, and sixty eight percent
say they want an update about every three years or so, which seems to
be what steam deck is going to do. And I've I've been playing that
percent of three reload on my raw ally and it's been kind of amazing.
I've been having such a good time with that because I have not been using
the handheld pieces too much. I've had so much stuff to play on my
switch that I had just been doing that, and here it was finally like
okay, well, persona it's such as a big kind of grinding, but
in a nice way DRPG And I'm going to sit on my computer and do
that. I want to do that and cozy Betty by time, and god,
it works really well on that machine. It's fantastic. Yeah, I
was touched out the Neo slide for a while and and I like that thing,
but I went back to the steam deck o led boy boy, that
think's very good. And honestly, using the slide and finding it a bit
uncomfortable made me really appreciate how comfortable the rog is at the battery life.
When the thing it's just kind of rough. That's it is it is,
and it's like it's a good thing. I'm literally just right by its charger
in the bed there, or I am playing in a way where I am
probably just going to play an hour to ninety minutes at night. But yes,
it's not the battery. And when you have that thing plugged in,
you actually get the better formats anyhow, because as long as you use the
charger when it comes with it, it like boosts even higher than turbo.
So that's that's pretty cool. You know where I wonder where in that charger
find I think you get that. I didn't get like thirty watts instead of
twenty five. What's there's probably a way to customize it so that you can
do that with any charger, but it definitely just automatically does it with the
charger that came in the box. All right, I have a new poll
question. We'll get that up in a second, but before well, while
we get that set up, Mike, why don't you tell people where they
can find you where, like what we have going on? All that good
stuff? Yeah? Yeah, do check out games Beats where I am managing
editor. Nineties Disney had a new episode go up to start the month about
Castle of Illusions starring Mickey Mouse. They're talking about some Mickey Mouse video games
on nineties Disney, So uh yeah, take take a listen if you haven't.
It was a lot of fun for me. Good stuff. How about
you, Jeff, what do you have going on? Do you have a
nice week off? Yeah? It was nice, It was it was yeah.
I mean it was fun to like hop pop back in on stuff and
help out. It was a lot of fun doing Dan Doko there and people
should go watch that. I had a really good time obviously. Blake Club
was tremendous. Uh continues to be a really great season. Looking forward to
doing more of that this week. So yeah, Giant Bomb will have a
whole bunch of stuff this week. Well, we're gonna go in the MEETI
and figure that out. But like I said, we'll probably play hell Divers
on Friday. Maybe that could change, could shift around, but probably Helldivers
on Friday, Blake Club on Wednesday. We'll get a few other things in
there. I'll probably finish off a Tale of the Sun. I want to
do that, So maybe maybe we could do that today, even it depends
on whether or not I take the kid this speech. Yeah, you've been
doing a lot of mammos. You can't be too far off right exactly.
I think we are. We're on our on our way to get in there.
Come. Every time I talked to you on Twitter, I get all
these replies about like something to do with foreign governments and something. I don't
know. There's a lot of that idea. You don't take a lot of
Russian bots or I think it's German. Actually, I know, why did
the German all up in your mention? I have no idea. I did
not notice this. I might have them filtered out because I talk to you
on Twitter. I get a bunch of Yeah, one of them literally as
a bored ape profile. A lot of them too, actually weird. No,
I seriously have not seen this. I see the porn ebots find everything.
Yeah, I see that. You know, you know what's in bio
all of the time. I don't know. I know. Maybe I'm just
very popular with people trying to manipulate governments. It makes sense if you think
about it. I like that. All right. A new pole question.
Are you concerned about the future of your Xbox purchases? Yes? Or no?
We'll get that up there and we'll discuss that on Games Mornings on Wednesday,
which will be in the next episode tomorrow is the Giant BombCast. Be
sure to tune in for that. I can't wait to get back on that
show and get everything going again this week. All right, Mikey, thank
you so much for hanging out with me today and talking about video games.
I really appreciate it. Yeah, yeah, I thought i'd switch it up
and talk to you about these things for a change. Yeah. You know,
we always like to keep people on their toes. I was I was
actually very I was like almost axious to talk to you about. So I
was very happy I could be. Yeah, me too. I was like,
yeah, but if I can get Mikey, that'd be great. So
we hadn't talked about this stuff, and I got miss game mess and stuff
last week, so the our podcast. So yeah, it's been a minute.
All right, everybody, thank you for watching your the best audience in
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