The Legend of Zelda Movie Coming in 2027

<v Speaker 1>Hey, everybody, welcome to game Breaking News with me Jeff Grubb,
<v Speaker 1>your host from GiantBomb dot com. Thank you for tuning in.
<v Speaker 1>In this episode, we're gonna be talking about Switch To
<v Speaker 1>pre order details leaking a little early, and Nintendo dropping
<v Speaker 1>news about the Zelda movie and its release date. It's
<v Speaker 1>gonna be a good one because we have more. Who's
<v Speaker 1>saying on the show, everybody, Tam, how are you doing?
<v Speaker 2>You know? I am awake. I am it's always ready
<v Speaker 2>to talk about games. I think that should be acceptable
<v Speaker 2>as a state for Friday.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean really, I think it's kind of overshooting
<v Speaker 1>things even Yeah, I don't think being awake is maybe much. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>glad you're here. Though it's been a busy week. We
<v Speaker 1>got some more busy weeks coming up. Gonna kind of
<v Speaker 1>be maybe a little NonStop here over the next little bit,
<v Speaker 1>especially as we get closer to things like Summer Game
<v Speaker 1>Fest and the launch wherever that may be of the
<v Speaker 1>Switch To. But I'm enjoying it. It's been it's been
<v Speaker 1>fun so far. But looking forward to a weekend of
<v Speaker 1>maybe taking it a little bit easy. I'm gonna I'm
<v Speaker 1>gonna beat Grim Fandango this weekend, Tam, that's my big plan.
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, admirable, admirable goal, yank, thank you yes on
<v Speaker 2>the last chat.
<v Speaker 1>Actually yeah, I've never played it before up until this point,
<v Speaker 1>so this will be this will be our first time.
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, I am, like I said, glad to have
<v Speaker 1>you here. How have you been? You've been playing anything
<v Speaker 1>fun that you could talk about? Anything along those lines?
<v Speaker 2>Have I been?
<v Speaker 1>So?
<v Speaker 2>I've been playing, Well, I've been playing. I've been playing Kazan. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>played that on the stream earlier this week, enjoyed, which
<v Speaker 2>was fun. That was a good time. Beyond that, I
<v Speaker 2>am playing not as much as I want to be
<v Speaker 2>because I was busy with GDC and various other things,
<v Speaker 2>so I haven't been playing as many games as I
<v Speaker 2>would like to. Hopefully I'll be able to spend this
<v Speaker 2>weekend playing some games you know that would be fun.
<v Speaker 2>I've got a few. I've got a few lined up,
<v Speaker 2>some old, older, some embargoed to hell, So I'm excited
<v Speaker 2>to sit down and do that.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, same here. Absolutely.
<v Speaker 2>My me You mini flip might arrive today.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, did you see that? I think there's a me
<v Speaker 1>You many Flip V two. Now I'm so pissed.
<v Speaker 2>I'm so mad.
<v Speaker 1>I think that's new ones every week, but it's like
<v Speaker 1>the me and Mini Flip had been there for a while.
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, yeah, they're just gonna keep stick with that thing.
<v Speaker 1>Apparently not nope.
<v Speaker 2>V two So yeah, I saw that while this morning.
<v Speaker 2>I saw it while sitting on the toilet. That retro
<v Speaker 2>game called a new video with it, and I was like, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>what I saw, and like, the thing is like, it's
<v Speaker 2>taken my flip has I ordered it like months ago
<v Speaker 2>and it's been out of stock. What other chances is
<v Speaker 2>that the one that I was sent, which dispatched like
<v Speaker 2>two days ago, is one of the new ones.
<v Speaker 1>I guess it's not impossible, but I wonder, like, I
<v Speaker 1>don't know how these companies are. Do they continue selling
<v Speaker 1>the older models for long after they have the newer models,
<v Speaker 1>so they get like different price tiers. I haven't been
<v Speaker 1>paying that close attention. I just kind of whack out
<v Speaker 1>buy something and then it shows up a few weeks later.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so it's the same price from what I can tell.
<v Speaker 2>I'm just praying that they like, it's not the end
<v Speaker 2>of the world. If should I get the original one.
<v Speaker 1>It's gonna play all the games you want to play
<v Speaker 1>on it.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, exactly, And I already have like the RG I'm
<v Speaker 2>a nick thingy as well, so this is more of
<v Speaker 2>a nice to have as well. And it also, like
<v Speaker 2>Russ says it in the retro game called Video, the
<v Speaker 2>plastic key hinged type thing is part of the charm
<v Speaker 2>of having an authentic kind of game by advanced sp experience.
<v Speaker 2>I would like, I hope that it's not one of
<v Speaker 2>the ones that breaks because I'm using it in such
<v Speaker 2>a vigorous way, But otherwise it's pretty much all the same,
<v Speaker 2>which is fine by me.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, I am I could you keep considering getting a
<v Speaker 1>more expensive one of these handhelds for some reason to
<v Speaker 1>play game Cube and PS two games, But then I
<v Speaker 1>just keep having to remind myself I have a Steam
<v Speaker 1>Deck and that is perfectly okay for that, and I
<v Speaker 1>should just be getting these smaller ones to play older,
<v Speaker 1>older games more portably than the Steam deck can be
<v Speaker 1>and not go insane. But I am so I keep
<v Speaker 1>doing that. I'm also hoping my retro tank shows back
<v Speaker 1>up this weekend. That would be nice. I sent it
<v Speaker 1>in like last weekend, so it's been about a week
<v Speaker 1>maybe it's a bit quick, but yeah, it broke or
<v Speaker 1>showed up broken. It never worked. So I'm hoping that
<v Speaker 1>the RMA gets returned here pretty quick. We'll see. I might.
<v Speaker 2>I might just email the people that I bought the
<v Speaker 2>me you from. I just ask which one did you
<v Speaker 2>send me? Is keep Retro?
<v Speaker 1>I used keep Retro keep Retro? Okay? There. They probably
<v Speaker 1>have pretty good customer sup support. Honestly, if you just
<v Speaker 1>say can I I mean, I don't know how much,
<v Speaker 1>because I would be like a I don't know if
<v Speaker 1>I want to swap it out, even if they give
<v Speaker 1>me the opportunity to. But maybe if you want to
<v Speaker 1>be like, hey, can I just send this back and
<v Speaker 1>get the V two?
<v Speaker 2>They'd probably I think if I get, I'll keep what
<v Speaker 2>I get. But if I yeah, I'd.
<v Speaker 1>Be the same way. Yeah. All right, let's explain what
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<v Speaker 2>on deplay.
<v Speaker 1>And I was about to say, what, oh yeah, hey,
<v Speaker 1>we got acquired by ten Cent and you be Soft.
<v Speaker 1>That's right, We're gonna be on you play or you
<v Speaker 1>be Soft connect. Now get the branding right, tam. Now
<v Speaker 1>as far to say, you know that the time stamps
<v Speaker 1>and all that stuff, we'll get all that stuff here
<v Speaker 1>fixed soon. We have a lot to get into, so
<v Speaker 1>let's start the show with Ubi Soft pumps as much
<v Speaker 1>as twelve or Ubi Soft jumps It's stock price as
<v Speaker 1>much as twelve percent after ten Cent invests eight into
<v Speaker 1>the a new unit as a subsidiary. This is from
<v Speaker 1>Johann Bodener and Alessandro Paroti at Reuters. You Be Soft
<v Speaker 1>rose as much as twelve percent on Friday after it
<v Speaker 1>announced plans to set up a subsidiary in which ten
<v Speaker 1>Cent will invest one point sixteen billion euros as the
<v Speaker 1>French video game maker seeks to recover from a week
<v Speaker 1>performance in twenty twenty four. In a bid to recover
<v Speaker 1>from underperformance by some of the company's main titles, the
<v Speaker 1>Gimo Family, Ubisoft's founder and largest shareholder, began exploring talks
<v Speaker 1>with the Chinese tech giant in September. Ubisoft, the creator
<v Speaker 1>of Assassin's Creed, set on Thursday that the new unit
<v Speaker 1>would be valued at around four billion euros or four
<v Speaker 1>point three two billion dollars, and will bring together the
<v Speaker 1>Assassin's Creed, far Krak and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six brands.
<v Speaker 1>It will develop the three franchises and help Ubisoft strengthen
<v Speaker 1>its its balance sheets. ICE CEO Yiuskimo said in a
<v Speaker 1>statement on Thursday. Should the deal closed by the end
<v Speaker 1>of twenty twenty five, the group's debt situation will become
<v Speaker 1>much more comfortable. Barclay's analyst said on Friday, Ubisoft's had
<v Speaker 1>growing debt for the last several quarters, hasn't been able
<v Speaker 1>to service it at all. In fact, it's just continued
<v Speaker 1>to grow. Ubisoft gain's financial flexibility with the cash infusion,
<v Speaker 1>which equates to about two thirds of the firm's pre
<v Speaker 1>announcement market capitalization. I think basically they're saying that of
<v Speaker 1>that four billion dollars, Ubisoft should get about two thirds
<v Speaker 1>of that in cash to make moves here and continue
<v Speaker 1>making games. After climbing around twelve percent earlier in the session,
<v Speaker 1>the Paris listed stock remained up eight point seven percent
<v Speaker 1>at fourteen euros per share as of ten to fifty
<v Speaker 1>nine GMT, for a total market capitalization of one point
<v Speaker 1>eight billion euros. This operation highlights the group's significant undervaluation,
<v Speaker 1>which could lead to a slimming down of the rest
<v Speaker 1>of its business. Broker MidCap Partners said, Okay, so yeah,
<v Speaker 1>they a new subsidiary that ten Cent owns a quarter of.
<v Speaker 1>You know, our Tencent already owned a significant portion of
<v Speaker 1>Ubisoft proper, so that and that is not going away.
<v Speaker 1>It and this you know, subsidiary tam is like they said,
<v Speaker 1>Assassin's Creed, far Cry, Tom Clancy's Rainbow six. It sounds
<v Speaker 1>like this is the recent sort of like rebounding of
<v Speaker 1>this strategy of doing more I'm sorry, bigger games, but
<v Speaker 1>fewer of them. We've heard this from Warner Brothers and
<v Speaker 1>a handful of other big corporations. Sounds like that's the
<v Speaker 1>plan for Ubisoft as well. What do you think let's
<v Speaker 1>start with these three franchises first, how do you think
<v Speaker 1>Ubisoft approaches this? Is this just like hey, these this
<v Speaker 1>is what we're working on now, and we will make
<v Speaker 1>big games based on them going forward.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I suspect. So I'm kind of confused that like
<v Speaker 2>spin a Cell isn't there. I guess I mean it
<v Speaker 2>under Tom Clancy. This is Rainbow six, says Rainbow six, Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>which is a if they just said Tom Clancy, that's
<v Speaker 2>a different matter.
<v Speaker 1>It doesn't even like it's not even the division.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's like specifically Rainbow six. I wonder if internally
<v Speaker 2>they just use Rainbow six as an umbrella brand for
<v Speaker 2>all Tom Clancy.
<v Speaker 1>I don't think so. I think this is like Rainbow
<v Speaker 1>six is the one that can make money as a
<v Speaker 1>live service game because it has done that.
<v Speaker 2>For a Siege, Right, that's the thing that they're probably
<v Speaker 2>talking about, not like you know, Gooserycon or any of that.
<v Speaker 1>Vegas and yes, or a Siege follow up, but yes,
<v Speaker 1>Siege is the thing they're really talking about. Yah.
<v Speaker 2>So it's it's yeah, So it seems like Tom Clancy's
<v Speaker 2>splinter Cell is out of out of Luck. But if
<v Speaker 2>not necessarily doesn't mean it's not happening. They said they
<v Speaker 2>were making a remake of it. It could be the difference.
<v Speaker 2>I'm not sure whether it's like now there's a subsidiary
<v Speaker 2>of Ubisoft which is tied up with ten Cent for
<v Speaker 2>certain franchises that ten Cent has agreed to contribute funding for. Meanwhile,
<v Speaker 2>the existing Ubisoft also continues, and that's where their franchises
<v Speaker 2>or games that are none of the three mentioned happen.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know if that's the case, because in that case,
<v Speaker 2>we could have a situation where ten cents Ubisoft ten
<v Speaker 2>cents presents Ubisoft is funding Assassins, far Kray and Rainbow six,
<v Speaker 2>while eve Gimo's Family Presents Ubisoft is doing the other
<v Speaker 2>stuff like splinter Cell, like Prince of Persia. That can
<v Speaker 2>good and evil to games never have. It's a myth.
<v Speaker 2>I watched, like I said, I keep saying this, I
<v Speaker 2>watched the presentation live in person for that and it
<v Speaker 2>was like seeing a bad magician do a trick and
<v Speaker 2>knowing exactly how it's happening. And I was like, you guys,
<v Speaker 2>are this only this is only going to work on
<v Speaker 2>stupid people, And I was right. Ah, but uh, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I'm not. I'm not sure what the arrangement is there.
<v Speaker 2>I also don't know what the benefit is in a
<v Speaker 2>meaningful like if they're making fewer games but bigger, they're
<v Speaker 2>still in the same situation where they're spending a lot
<v Speaker 2>of money. Now it's not just entirely their own money,
<v Speaker 2>which I guess that's the appeal of it, but is
<v Speaker 2>it Is it now at a state where because the split,
<v Speaker 2>they will make a profit on these games, or they
<v Speaker 2>will break even or whatever it may be, you know,
<v Speaker 2>just to tick the box that is this is a success.
<v Speaker 2>I'm still not one hundred percent how this changes. It's
<v Speaker 2>unclear to me currently how this changes Ubisoft's fortunes for
<v Speaker 2>the better. Because right now it's clear that this has
<v Speaker 2>changed ten cents fortunes for the better. They now have
<v Speaker 2>their finger in another pie. Currently, I've not seen any
<v Speaker 2>immediately kind of recallable success stories coming out of ten Cents.
<v Speaker 2>So it just feels like ten Cent getting you know,
<v Speaker 2>entry into another part of the gaming industry where it's
<v Speaker 2>being treated like this as a savior, but we've not
<v Speaker 2>actually seen what the lasting impact of ten Cent getting
<v Speaker 2>in everything is.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you know, the way I read it is the
<v Speaker 1>way that this helps you be Soft in the immediate
<v Speaker 1>term is a lot of money, and they do need
<v Speaker 1>money to help with the debt and then to fund
<v Speaker 1>games going forward, and that money does come from ten
<v Speaker 1>Cent the other side of it. The reason that it's
<v Speaker 1>difficult to see how this helps TAM is because we
<v Speaker 1>look at it from what does this mean for the games?
<v Speaker 1>And then you know, also importantly the people who make
<v Speaker 1>the games, the people who work at ub soft and
<v Speaker 1>make all this stuff happen, and that is not what
<v Speaker 1>this is about. This is about helping the Gimo family
<v Speaker 1>stay in charge. And that's what this is. This is
<v Speaker 1>a subsidiary of the existing You Be Soft and ten
<v Speaker 1>Cent can just like slice off that and be like,
<v Speaker 1>if we're gonna put more money into you, we're gonna
<v Speaker 1>just put money into the franchises that we believe in
<v Speaker 1>and that's where that money should live. And yourself. That's
<v Speaker 1>great as long as we would stay in charge. And
<v Speaker 1>because it's a subsidiary, that's exactly how it's structured. The
<v Speaker 1>long term, you know, the need for you Be Soft
<v Speaker 1>here is still going to be having to make successful
<v Speaker 1>games based on all this stuff so that that's really
<v Speaker 1>where the money comes from long term. But so it
<v Speaker 1>hasn't really changed all that much other than for now,
<v Speaker 1>you be soft is safe. But if by that you
<v Speaker 1>mean you know, they'll keep making games from very recognizable
<v Speaker 1>brands here and there. If you talk about the rest
<v Speaker 1>of the people working at you BE soft on stuff
<v Speaker 1>like Beyond Good and Evil too, or on anything you know,
<v Speaker 1>splinter sell, who the hell knows is is anyone on
<v Speaker 1>any of those projects safe? I wouldn't expect so, And
<v Speaker 1>that is kind of the real bummer here is there
<v Speaker 1>was probably a situation where they could have sold off
<v Speaker 1>Ubisoft or done some maneuver here where the Gimo family
<v Speaker 1>stepped down and other people stepped in, and then investors
<v Speaker 1>had a chance to be like, Okay, we didn't have
<v Speaker 1>confidence in the previous regime. Someone else can come in,
<v Speaker 1>the board of directors, can appoint someone new, and now
<v Speaker 1>we can have a new vision here, and we can
<v Speaker 1>feel good about that and also kind of take that
<v Speaker 1>and be like, all right, because we're investing again, everyone
<v Speaker 1>who's been working here can continue to do so for
<v Speaker 1>the most part, and try to make something of all
<v Speaker 1>these games that you have in the works, but that
<v Speaker 1>is not how this is going to shake out, it
<v Speaker 1>seems like. So it's an odd situation for sure. And
<v Speaker 1>as far as like ten cents involvement, it's always worth
<v Speaker 1>pointing out that, you know, ten Cents not trying to
<v Speaker 1>be like we are gonna you be soft, like we're
<v Speaker 1>going to appoint people from Tencent. They're going to come
<v Speaker 1>and control this company. That's never really usually how they operate.
<v Speaker 1>They like to be an investment company. They want to
<v Speaker 1>put their money in and then one day they want
<v Speaker 1>to take their money out by selling off what that
<v Speaker 1>is worth or if the company gets spun out, you know,
<v Speaker 1>And this gets a new sort of injection to cash
<v Speaker 1>from people who can invest in the subsidiary at some
<v Speaker 1>point down the road because it becomes a different company. Well,
<v Speaker 1>you are, a Tencent will benefit hugely at that point.
<v Speaker 1>So this is just about them continuing to invest in
<v Speaker 1>the video game video game business from a distance and
<v Speaker 1>then kind of standing back and letting these investments mature
<v Speaker 1>over time.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. For me, I mean, I think the next big
<v Speaker 2>question is like what does this do to the workforce?
<v Speaker 2>And you would think that having a cash injection from
<v Speaker 2>a company like Tencent would preserve the kind of existing
<v Speaker 2>staffing and and you know, people won't be subjected layoffs,
<v Speaker 2>but I feel like that's naive thinking. So a lot
<v Speaker 2>of like my feelings on this are going to also
<v Speaker 2>be dependent on what Ubisoft and Tencent does to the
<v Speaker 2>workforce because it was often as a big, big footprint globally,
<v Speaker 2>and I imagine that this cash injection came with some
<v Speaker 2>guarantees about reducing workforce or reducing expenditure on in that regard.
<v Speaker 2>So I'm kind of waiting for the other shoe to
<v Speaker 2>drop currently too. That is going to be really what
<v Speaker 2>defines kind of like the sentiment around this. I think
<v Speaker 2>people I'm not overly you know, joyous about the fact
<v Speaker 2>that they spun out a subsidiary that's going to make
<v Speaker 2>more Assassin's Creed games. Great, Like I that's good for
<v Speaker 2>people who love Assassin's Creed and I'm glad that franchise
<v Speaker 2>is the future, but it's hardly exciting for me. But
<v Speaker 2>I will be kind of less kind to this. My
<v Speaker 2>center would be less positive towards this if it means
<v Speaker 2>like mass layoffs.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, I think that's you know, that's what this
<v Speaker 1>one analysts saying that the expectation is is that outside
<v Speaker 1>of these three brands that are being preserved within this subsidiary,
<v Speaker 1>the expectation is they will slim down everywhere else. And
<v Speaker 1>that is just a euphemism for mass layoffs. I think
<v Speaker 1>the rest of Ubisoft that did not actually get a
<v Speaker 1>cash injection, because I think all this cash is but
<v Speaker 1>meant to be spent on the subsidiary. H every like
<v Speaker 1>everyone else's kind of seems to be on the chopping block.
<v Speaker 1>And it's like, unless you are making something that has
<v Speaker 1>a guaranteed expectation of profitability, UBI stuff doesn't. It doesn't
<v Speaker 1>seem interesting. I don't think.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and is big enough that it has a bunch
<v Speaker 2>of those departments in existence. They have mass such teams
<v Speaker 2>that have editorial teams.
<v Speaker 1>That fourteen people several years ago. I think it's grown
<v Speaker 1>since then, but I remember the last time I remember
<v Speaker 1>looking at the number, they have fourteen thousand people globally,
<v Speaker 1>one of the biggest employers in the space via a
<v Speaker 1>large margin in some ways, and then also the least
<v Speaker 1>profitable in some other ways. It's been a bad mix
<v Speaker 1>for quite some time. So this has been them racing
<v Speaker 1>at a wall and then they got this cash, and
<v Speaker 1>I think you're right like to assume this cash should
<v Speaker 1>be there to help keep those people employed. Because what
<v Speaker 1>is really the answer to this is not actually making
<v Speaker 1>fewer but bigger games. It is timing out the market
<v Speaker 1>a little bit better so that you, like, when you
<v Speaker 1>do have a bunch of games, you're hitting at a
<v Speaker 1>good time when like the switch to is going and
<v Speaker 1>maybe there's some new consoles from Sony or Microsoft or
<v Speaker 1>PC gaming is kind of flourishing again, or maybe you
<v Speaker 1>have a mobile game even and it kind of comes
<v Speaker 1>at a time when people like forgotten about Monopoly Go.
<v Speaker 1>It's being able to time it a little bit better
<v Speaker 1>and having new games that are exciting in that moment.
<v Speaker 1>And the only way you can really hit the market
<v Speaker 1>with that kind of timing is if you have a
<v Speaker 1>lot of projects in the works and give a lot
<v Speaker 1>of creative people a lot of space to make stuff.
<v Speaker 1>And it's just like they're going in the opposite direction.
<v Speaker 1>So this is not a long term solution. It does
<v Speaker 1>not look that way to me. This is a immediate
<v Speaker 1>answer to how can the Gimo family stay in charge?
<v Speaker 1>And I frankly am sick of that they should not
<v Speaker 1>be in charge of that company anymore.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean it's people who don't want to let
<v Speaker 2>go of control wealth and you know, privilege in a
<v Speaker 2>lot of ways like it is. I would like I
<v Speaker 2>don't think it's unfair to say Assassin's Creed has reached
<v Speaker 2>market saturation in a major way and there is an
<v Speaker 2>audience for it, which Shadows is showing that it's they're
<v Speaker 2>there and they're willing to play the game and buy
<v Speaker 2>the game. But it feels like Shadows was a Hail
<v Speaker 2>Mary kind of like also kind of like a break
<v Speaker 2>glass in emergency type of game, where it's like people
<v Speaker 2>have been desperate to play an Assassin's Creed game in
<v Speaker 2>Japan for so long. This is basically the beginning. Next
<v Speaker 2>game have as much pull and as much excitement around
<v Speaker 2>it as this one. I don't think so, Like I
<v Speaker 2>think of the all the projects, I think Hex is
<v Speaker 2>the one that I'm more intrigued by. But at the
<v Speaker 2>same time, I know that the vast majority of the
<v Speaker 2>broader audience isn't going to be in the same position.
<v Speaker 2>There's something kind of uniquely appealing about Assassin's Creed in Japan,
<v Speaker 2>and especially now when there is a increased appetite for
<v Speaker 2>game set in Japan, especially one that kind of is
<v Speaker 2>in that Shogun era thanks to the HBO series and
<v Speaker 2>various other things. I feel like this is a good
<v Speaker 2>kind of like perfect storm of things that would make
<v Speaker 2>this game popular and successful, and I don't think they
<v Speaker 2>can count on that for the next one. So like
<v Speaker 2>the the strategy of making more Assassin's Creed games is
<v Speaker 2>I don't think a sound one. It kind of is
<v Speaker 2>a reflection of where I think Marvel as a movie
<v Speaker 2>making businesses right now, Like they're putting out stuff it's
<v Speaker 2>largely dog shit and no one cares like and I'm
<v Speaker 2>a Marvel fan, like I'm a lapsed MCU fan, but
<v Speaker 2>like now I'm seeing stuff about like doomsday, and I'm
<v Speaker 2>just like, yeah, all right, man, I've seen all of
<v Speaker 2>these people in movies many times. Like it's not that
<v Speaker 2>exciting to me that they're being brought together again. For
<v Speaker 2>another thing, there's hardly any excitement around anything new, like
<v Speaker 2>who's the latest superhero movie that they're like, this is
<v Speaker 2>a brand new superhero in our well and it's not.
<v Speaker 2>It's like, oh, I thought it was gonna be in
<v Speaker 2>the same movie as Iron Man. Or you know, the
<v Speaker 2>Doctor Doom, Iron Man or whatever, and maybe it's just
<v Speaker 2>like you don't really have any fresh ideas. You're just
<v Speaker 2>kind of pushing this boulder up a hill because you know,
<v Speaker 2>people have some familiarity and a fondness for it before,
<v Speaker 2>and you're just hoping for the best. There's not really
<v Speaker 2>any interesting risks being taken. And I think the Assassin's
<v Speaker 2>Creed franchise is so far into a plan where this
<v Speaker 2>you know, kind of hub system where more games are
<v Speaker 2>going to be feeding into it, that it's hard to
<v Speaker 2>pivot into something that's completely unique and take a risk
<v Speaker 2>with it. I think Mirage is probably the closest they
<v Speaker 2>got to that, and it didn't really set the world
<v Speaker 2>on fire.
<v Speaker 1>Yep. I think mentioning that Shadows is kind of a
<v Speaker 1>benchmark for like what Assassin's Creed can do right now
<v Speaker 1>is a really good point. The next one is hex
<v Speaker 1>is the rumor. I think it's pretty well confirmed at
<v Speaker 1>this point, which.
<v Speaker 2>Is so it's got some gaming people juice behind.
<v Speaker 1>It exactly, and I will always check out Clint Hockeens game,
<v Speaker 1>so absolutely. The next one is supposed to be set
<v Speaker 1>in the Holy Roman Empire in like the Germanic region.
<v Speaker 1>I think I'm not very good at that kind of history,
<v Speaker 1>but that's kind of what I recall from some early
<v Speaker 1>reporting and whatever the setting, who knows. It takes so
<v Speaker 1>many confluences, the confluence of elements to make these games
<v Speaker 1>really pop off and find a massive audience. Maybe that
<v Speaker 1>does work for a lot of people. I don't know,
<v Speaker 1>but I think you're right to be like, I think
<v Speaker 1>the current ceiling is what Shadows is doing. And we
<v Speaker 1>had Ree Elliott on the show yesterday from media research,
<v Speaker 1>and it's like, you know, it's doing really good. It's
<v Speaker 1>just not the silver ball that you'd be soft needs.
<v Speaker 1>And I think we all knew that would be the case.
<v Speaker 1>And it's like, well, that means the next Assassin's Creed
<v Speaker 1>probably isn't as well. I guess five Assassin Creed Assassin's
<v Speaker 1>Creeds in a row that are as successful as Shadows
<v Speaker 1>is maybe it, But that's way easier said than done.
<v Speaker 1>I don't expect that to be the case.
<v Speaker 2>I if I had to predict where they're gonna go,
<v Speaker 2>I think they will start remaking Assassin's Creed games from
<v Speaker 2>the earlier era. Like I am bracing for Assassin's Creed
<v Speaker 2>to remake to happen, where it's like more modern, more
<v Speaker 2>up to date, and that is what they put in
<v Speaker 2>between these bigger witcher NV games where it's like those
<v Speaker 2>are the ones that they hope will do like crazy numbers,
<v Speaker 2>and they spend a lot of time on, whereas the
<v Speaker 2>stuff in between, whatever support studios remain or whoever it
<v Speaker 2>may be. I think the next I don't think it's
<v Speaker 2>going to be too far or I don't think it's
<v Speaker 2>too far fetched to think that there's going to be
<v Speaker 2>a modern engine remake of Assassin's Creed too, Brotherhood and Revelations.
<v Speaker 1>Maybe Yep, all right, let's move along. Nintendo's Legend of
<v Speaker 1>Zelda movie gets a twenty twenty seven release date. This
<v Speaker 1>is Sir Michael mcwerder at Polygon. The live action Legend
<v Speaker 1>of Zelda Movie will be released worldwide on March twenty sixth,
<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty seven. Nintendo announced Friday, how to Nintendo reveal
<v Speaker 1>the date through its new smart device app, Nintendo Today,
<v Speaker 1>which is not a website. It's just an app you
<v Speaker 1>have to download to get a little tidbit of information
<v Speaker 1>that I actually got first on social media because someone
<v Speaker 1>else just reposted it. Nintendo's weird. I guess we could
<v Speaker 1>talk about that as well, but.
<v Speaker 2>What are you doing? Dog?
<v Speaker 1>Like?
<v Speaker 2>What is this?
<v Speaker 1>I mean here, we know why they're doing it. Like,
<v Speaker 1>it's very clear to me that they saw a toxic
<v Speaker 1>Nazi billionaire buy a social med the platform that they
<v Speaker 1>used most frequently to reach out to people, and Nintendo's like, well,
<v Speaker 1>we don't like that. I don't care for that at all,
<v Speaker 1>is what I think Doug Bowser said. And then they're like, Okay, well,
<v Speaker 1>how can we avoid this situation in the future. But
<v Speaker 1>then the next thing is make our own app. I
<v Speaker 1>still think that's crazy, even if I understand how they
<v Speaker 1>got themselves there. Just make a website. Why is this
<v Speaker 1>not a website? I don't understand the Internet. Internet is
<v Speaker 1>still there. Can't it just be a website?
<v Speaker 2>I guess it can be, but they want to do.
<v Speaker 2>Websites don't traditionally come with notifications, right they don't. They
<v Speaker 2>won't ping anyone be like.
<v Speaker 1>Hey, they can, but you're right everyone says no to those. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I mean, listen, it can be an app as well.
<v Speaker 1>It can be, but also a website. I mean just websites.
<v Speaker 2>I think, like I didn't think about the whole being
<v Speaker 2>a response to the worst game of Biggest Gooner owning. Yes,
<v Speaker 2>social platform.
<v Speaker 1>Intendo love Twitter, I think. And then he's like, we
<v Speaker 1>need to establish a month for you to to post
<v Speaker 1>clips that make our website popular, and Nintendo.
<v Speaker 2>Like, if you're gonna, if you're gonna do that. As
<v Speaker 2>a response, make a full like, go all in, make
<v Speaker 2>an actual social network like bring back me Verse? Do it?
<v Speaker 1>Do it? You mean? Yeah? Or on year?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah? Exactly? On year? Like, do do go hand with it?
<v Speaker 2>Don't just give me another website, fake website and an
<v Speaker 2>app like, give me a social network, even if it's bad,
<v Speaker 2>I'll take that over. Just a annoying app that just
<v Speaker 2>tells you, hey, I know you've seen this literally everywhere else,
<v Speaker 2>but there's gonna be a Zelda movie in two years
<v Speaker 2>or whatever. Do do the dumb thing you've Toma Duchy
<v Speaker 2>life is back, you know, Metro is back, bring back
<v Speaker 2>Street Pass, bring back me vers properly on on phones
<v Speaker 2>and just you know, let us yeah and on year.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, I listen. I'm a Nintendo fan boy from when
<v Speaker 1>I was from when I was young, but someone something
<v Speaker 1>needs to be done about us tam. I opened up
<v Speaker 1>Google Play on my for a device to install Nintendo
<v Speaker 1>Today exclamation point, and it has a four point seven
<v Speaker 1>star out of five rating on the store. Like, who
<v Speaker 1>is just like so enthusiastic that they're giving us thing
<v Speaker 1>five stars.
<v Speaker 2>I opened it. It's just the date.
<v Speaker 1>It's yeah, it's a calendar where it was occasionally you
<v Speaker 1>get news.
<v Speaker 2>This is this is terrible Nintendo d right, five days
<v Speaker 2>to go. Like, imagine opening this and just seeing the
<v Speaker 2>same shit day off today and being like, I guess
<v Speaker 2>there's no Nintendo news today.
<v Speaker 1>I got to sign it to my Nintendo account.
<v Speaker 2>Oh no, I think that's pretty stick. That's a that's
<v Speaker 2>a good sign.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, Sam, I'll look at pictures of Samus all
<v Speaker 1>day long. I don't even worry about that.
<v Speaker 2>Even off of.
<v Speaker 1>That, of course, exactly, I have websites for that, all right.
<v Speaker 1>Zelda March twenty seven. We still don't know much about this.
<v Speaker 1>We've not heard much about We know the director is
<v Speaker 1>still west Ball, who was the director of May's Runner
<v Speaker 1>and Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, which was
<v Speaker 1>pretty okay, pretty good, is my understanding. I still haven't
<v Speaker 1>seen it. I don't think it's just good. Extremely Okay,
<v Speaker 1>yes it's not as good as the No director of
<v Speaker 1>The Batman, what's his name?
<v Speaker 2>It's not the Matt Reeves Matt.
<v Speaker 1>Thank you Matt Reeves, which which I think are fantastic.
<v Speaker 1>I love the planet. But okay, that's what we know
<v Speaker 1>about this. And now we have a date, which is
<v Speaker 1>how Hollywood works, like we get dates from movies pretty
<v Speaker 1>early on before we get a lot of other information.
<v Speaker 1>Does hearing this date make you think that this movie
<v Speaker 1>is somehow more real because I'm still struggling with it.
<v Speaker 2>No, I know all until I see a trailer. Even
<v Speaker 2>then I'm gonna be letting. But until I see a trailer,
<v Speaker 2>this thing doesn't exist to me. Well, so I don't.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know why people want this, Like is Link
<v Speaker 2>gonna talk in this? Because I really don't want Link
<v Speaker 2>to talk? He's gonna I don't want Yeah, he's I
<v Speaker 2>don't like that man. I just don't want to hear
<v Speaker 2>him chatting away, Like I think he just needs to
<v Speaker 2>look stare at people and be like huh and then
<v Speaker 2>just do what they tell them.
<v Speaker 1>I really want it to happen, just because it continues
<v Speaker 1>to be funny and funny to me, that Sony is
<v Speaker 1>making Zelda, and.
<v Speaker 2>That's why I want that pretty funny.
<v Speaker 1>I want this Sony made Zelda thing to come out.
<v Speaker 1>And that's kind of where I'm at with it. That's
<v Speaker 1>all I'm really excited about in this moment. I listen,
<v Speaker 1>there's a chance this is good. I think it's a
<v Speaker 1>slim chance, but you're right that I think it's gonna
<v Speaker 1>be weird when Link talks. But people have wanted Link
<v Speaker 1>to talk in the games for a long time. I'm
<v Speaker 1>not one of those.
<v Speaker 2>People who are these people. I know, what do you
<v Speaker 2>think Link has interesting to say? You're gonna say something
<v Speaker 2>that dude has one brain cell knocking about and it's
<v Speaker 2>entirely focused on swinging sword. That is it. That's all
<v Speaker 2>he can He's got nothing of interesting.
<v Speaker 1>When he makes his sound like he actually stops breathing
<v Speaker 1>because he can't.
<v Speaker 2>Do him dying, He's momentarily dying because his brain cell
<v Speaker 2>wasn't focused entirely on key body alive for a second.
<v Speaker 2>Like that is it. I just don't think Link has
<v Speaker 2>got anything interesting to say. Like the best we'll get
<v Speaker 2>is him just going like okay and then like running
<v Speaker 2>off and doing this thing that he's told him. It's
<v Speaker 2>like he's also he's a chump. Isn't a world of
<v Speaker 2>like divine beings and shit like that? You think it's
<v Speaker 2>just gonna be like you think he's got something to say. No,
<v Speaker 2>he's got nothing to say. He wants he wants to
<v Speaker 2>he wants to get in bed with Princess Zelda, and
<v Speaker 2>he's entirely focused on doing whatever it takes on that,
<v Speaker 2>so he ain't saying anything interesting. Although I think it
<v Speaker 2>would be funny if they did make him talk and
<v Speaker 2>they just used Mario voice from the Mario movies.
<v Speaker 1>Sure he actually again, this one's actually Charles Martine, Like yeah,
<v Speaker 1>they like he wasn't able to voice Mario and he
<v Speaker 1>doesn't voice mar anymore because now he's voicing Link in
<v Speaker 1>the movie.
<v Speaker 2>I just it's gonna end up being full on will
<v Speaker 2>excuse me, Princess and she just I hate it? Yep,
<v Speaker 2>Oh I kind of love that.
<v Speaker 1>I I mean, I think they'll probably do like one
<v Speaker 1>reference to the cartoon. He probably will be like excuse me,
<v Speaker 1>Princess at one point, and it's like okay, as long
<v Speaker 1>as the whole attitude is in that way, because that
<v Speaker 1>would be too much snark these days. But I don't whatever.
<v Speaker 1>This movie's gonna come out, and if it's bad, I
<v Speaker 1>will forget about it. Like that's it'll be completely fine.
<v Speaker 2>It's gonna be a Zelda movie. I think that's what
<v Speaker 2>it's gonna be. Like, it's gonna be Zelda, right, the
<v Speaker 2>movie not Linked. I think Link is gonna get like,
<v Speaker 2>not as much. I think when that movie is done,
<v Speaker 2>if it comes out, people are gonna be like, wow,
<v Speaker 2>Chike is so cool.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you're right. And then is there also? Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>Link is there also? But we know the real real
<v Speaker 2>work is being done by Zelda in disguise, which is
<v Speaker 2>that great. I'll take that.
<v Speaker 1>Let's hit these other Nintendo stories, then we'll take a break.
<v Speaker 1>Switch to his mysterious Sea button confirmed in Nintendo Today
<v Speaker 1>app promo weet getting lots of news from Nintendo Today. Damn.
<v Speaker 1>This is from Chris calling at BGC. But basically the
<v Speaker 1>story is they had an unedited image of the switch
<v Speaker 1>to joy Con in Nintendo Today as part of like
<v Speaker 1>the promo imagery when you first opened it up and
<v Speaker 1>it showed the right joy con and that button that
<v Speaker 1>was blank in the first reveal of the Switch to
<v Speaker 1>now says has the letter C on it, which we
<v Speaker 1>had known about from from rumors and leaks elsewhere. We
<v Speaker 1>still don't know what it does. So this is just
<v Speaker 1>a button, says see Tam, I don't know what we
<v Speaker 1>do with that. We're gonna find out what the bud
<v Speaker 1>does next week. All right, What does it do?
<v Speaker 2>When you press it? It launches the Nintendo Today app?
<v Speaker 1>Hey, honestly, the Nintendo Today app on the switch itself.
<v Speaker 1>That'd be cool. That doesn't that's that doesn't work right now.
<v Speaker 1>That's not a thing.
<v Speaker 2>Why would that be cool? Jeff Grubb explain to me
<v Speaker 2>why it would be cool?
<v Speaker 1>Okay, I don't have an answer to that.
<v Speaker 2>It's not cool. But is this okay?
<v Speaker 1>Launch the But they do have like that news thing
<v Speaker 1>on the switch right now when you like load it
<v Speaker 1>up or whatever, and sometimes they'll give you a tidbit.
<v Speaker 1>It's like, why is the Zelda movie thing not in there?
<v Speaker 1>I guess because more people have phones than switches, but
<v Speaker 1>not by a lot. I don't know.
<v Speaker 2>It's gonna be something insane. It's going to be like,
<v Speaker 2>this is the clothes button. This will help you close
<v Speaker 2>apps quicker, and why did you do this? That's insane?
<v Speaker 2>I think it's going to do closing my game while
<v Speaker 2>I'm playing it.
<v Speaker 1>I think it's going to like open up a suite
<v Speaker 1>of like community tools and uh, or maybe it's like
<v Speaker 1>a creativity suite. Like you press that button and it's like, okay,
<v Speaker 1>you open this up, and it'll you can get a clip,
<v Speaker 1>you can get a screenshot. But also it activates the
<v Speaker 1>mouse functionality, so you can go and like mark these
<v Speaker 1>things up if you want, and draw some stuff on
<v Speaker 1>these on these images, or edit your clips very quickly.
<v Speaker 1>With the Nintendo Filmmaker Pro app that we're building into
<v Speaker 1>the thing, I think they'll do a bunch of bullshit
<v Speaker 1>like that. No, I know it's gonna be too.
<v Speaker 2>Much, but I don't want to know. I don't need
<v Speaker 2>Nintendo fans to have a video editing suite that is
<v Speaker 2>only available to them on the switch, which means you
<v Speaker 2>will be seeing videos from Nintendo fans on your switch.
<v Speaker 2>I don't want that. Okay, the best Nintendo fans if
<v Speaker 2>with video editing like capabilities and access or on YouTube
<v Speaker 2>making awesome stuff. When you put them on an actual
<v Speaker 2>Nintendo platform, they just do the dumbest, most awful, annoying
<v Speaker 2>ship possible like hair is a splatoon, but it's like
<v Speaker 2>poverty in a liquid that we're not going to talk about.
<v Speaker 1>Sure fluid, great, yep. I did prefer social media when
<v Speaker 1>you could just share video from the Switch directly to
<v Speaker 1>Twitter or whatever. That was all right. There was a
<v Speaker 1>lot of good clips of Breath of the Wild, but
<v Speaker 1>I don't know where these things go now.
<v Speaker 2>I enjoyed it when it was like restricted to the
<v Speaker 2>Switch itself where you'd open or the Nintendo platform you'd
<v Speaker 2>open the the we meversus and behind the craziest.
<v Speaker 1>Like trying love me Versus. I hate the day that
<v Speaker 1>they got rid of that. They should bring back Me Verse.
<v Speaker 2>It was essentially a building that had been filled with clowns. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>and every time you went in there, a clown had
<v Speaker 2>come up with some other ridiculous thing to try and
<v Speaker 2>make someone else laugh. Right, That's how I like my platforms.
<v Speaker 1>You walk in the door of of the Me Verse
<v Speaker 1>and there are a bunch of robot hands come out
<v Speaker 1>and apply the clown makeup to you as well. You've
<v Speaker 1>become a clown when you enter me Verse.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and then you walk around a corner and it's
<v Speaker 2>just like a picture of Samus taking a shit.
<v Speaker 1>Or a kid talking about the troubles in his home,
<v Speaker 1>and I'm like, I kind of get why Nintendo doesn't
<v Speaker 1>want to.
<v Speaker 2>Like now, and then the messages I haven't been fed
<v Speaker 2>in two years, and You're like, well, what's going on?
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo may have given away a clue about how some
<v Speaker 1>switch To games will work. This is from jfan at GameSpot.
<v Speaker 1>Jason Finelli shout out. The most recent Nintendo Direct presentation
<v Speaker 1>introduced virtual game cards, or the ability to share digital
<v Speaker 1>games between multiple Nintendo Switch consoles in one household or
<v Speaker 1>under one family account. However, the official official website explaining
<v Speaker 1>the concept makes an interesting reference in the fine print
<v Speaker 1>that may shed light on how the company will define
<v Speaker 1>enhanced Switch one games going forward. Hidden among the asterisks
<v Speaker 1>on the bottom of the page, the website refers to
<v Speaker 1>here to four unannounced term called Nintendo Switch To Edition games. Specifically,
<v Speaker 1>the site reads and Nintendo switch to exclusive games and
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo switch To Addition games emphasis added can only be
<v Speaker 1>loaded on a Nintendo Switch to system. The capitalization of
<v Speaker 1>addition in the phrase is what's interesting when Nintendo has
<v Speaker 1>mentioned that the switch to will be backward compatible with switch,
<v Speaker 1>so select to switch one games. The company hasn't elaborated
<v Speaker 1>further on how that will work. This new phrase and
<v Speaker 1>the way it's presented on the official Nintendo website implies
<v Speaker 1>that it is an official term to distinguish between switch
<v Speaker 1>to only games and switch to versions of other games.
<v Speaker 1>So switch one games that gets some sort of update
<v Speaker 1>to run better on switch to that is bespoke and
<v Speaker 1>different from just running the game in backward compatibility mode.
<v Speaker 1>This is something we see on stuff like PlayStation right
<v Speaker 1>TAM where every time I go to install a game,
<v Speaker 1>it feels like every time it's like, do you want
<v Speaker 1>the PS five version or the PS four version? Thankfully
<v Speaker 1>it always defaults to the PS five version. Now it
<v Speaker 1>didn't for a while there. Whatever they figured that out.
<v Speaker 1>I'm complaining about something that's been fixed on I'm doing that,
<v Speaker 1>and but we've seen this. This is a solution to
<v Speaker 1>a problem that is created by having robust backward compatibility.
<v Speaker 1>The assumption here is there's gonna be switched one games
<v Speaker 1>that get switched to exclusive updates by just plugging in
<v Speaker 1>the switch one game. And I think this is kind
<v Speaker 1>of what we're expecting. I think we still don't fully
<v Speaker 1>know how this is gonna play out.
<v Speaker 2>Though, right, No, it's kind of I mean that would
<v Speaker 2>make sense. I don't expect that is exactly how it's
<v Speaker 2>gonna be because it's far too simple a solution and
<v Speaker 2>Nintendo loves to slightly over complicate things. But I think
<v Speaker 2>it's really fascinating that it's like select switch games will
<v Speaker 2>run on on the switch to, which again could be
<v Speaker 2>what you're saying, where it's like select switch one games,
<v Speaker 2>we'll have a switch to upgrade. That's why pope it
<v Speaker 2>is and what I'm treating itself. But it could be
<v Speaker 2>a situation where it's like, oh no, we have to
<v Speaker 2>something in the tech has changed and we have to
<v Speaker 2>manually go in and create a emulation environment for switch one,
<v Speaker 2>like the Xbox had to do for Xbox three sixty
<v Speaker 2>games for a really long time. Like, if that's the case,
<v Speaker 2>it's going to be wild and weird. But I think
<v Speaker 2>you're right and that it's just they're gonna be like
<v Speaker 2>and I get I bet you they charge for it
<v Speaker 2>as well. It'll be like ten dollars for the.
<v Speaker 1>Other I think there's yes, we don't know, but there's
<v Speaker 1>I think you're right that that is a likely scenario
<v Speaker 1>here that we come out of this on next Tuesday,
<v Speaker 1>I think it is, and we find out what's going
<v Speaker 1>with the switch to, and that direct ends with them
<v Speaker 1>giving us all a bunch of details about this kind
<v Speaker 1>of stuff. It says, Hey, something like Breath of the
<v Speaker 1>Wild is gonna be a lot better on switch to
<v Speaker 1>if you have the original game, though, you can update
<v Speaker 1>that for ten dollars. I mean, so he does that
<v Speaker 1>for a lot of games. Nintendo likes money, They're gonna
<v Speaker 1>want to do that too.
<v Speaker 2>I wouldn't be I wouldn't be mad if they were, like,
<v Speaker 2>if you want to update this game, just this game
<v Speaker 2>individually paid a ten dollars or whatever, but if you
<v Speaker 2>have a Nintendo Online Switch Online subscription subscription in this category,
<v Speaker 2>you'll get that upgrade for free. That is, I'll take that,
<v Speaker 2>but h I doubt I do that.
<v Speaker 1>I think, you know, for backward compatibility for Switch one
<v Speaker 1>games running the Switch one edition on switch to, if
<v Speaker 1>that's how it gets referred to as I think that
<v Speaker 1>there will be a handful of games that do have
<v Speaker 1>maybe more than a handful that see improvements running on
<v Speaker 1>switch To, but that a lot of that depends on
<v Speaker 1>how the technology actually works, because this is, you know,
<v Speaker 1>for as much as this is a switch to and
<v Speaker 1>it just looks like a switch again, the innards are
<v Speaker 1>different enough that it wasn't I bet it wasn't a
<v Speaker 1>simple process to get backward compatibility working on here. So
<v Speaker 1>it's not like this is just a more powerful Switch one.
<v Speaker 1>It is a new system that has a backward compatibility
<v Speaker 1>layer that enables Switch one games to run. Now, Nvidia
<v Speaker 1>probably did a lot of that work, and in that
<v Speaker 1>process likely had features to like be like, hey, if
<v Speaker 1>a game has an unlocked frame rate, we're going to
<v Speaker 1>give it as much juice as we can possibly give it,
<v Speaker 1>and maybe it's going to run way better than it
<v Speaker 1>did on Switch one. That's possible, but we just don't
<v Speaker 1>know yet, so we can get our hopes up. I
<v Speaker 1>am getting my hopes up a little bit that a
<v Speaker 1>lot of these things will make some Switch one games
<v Speaker 1>run better than ever. But I'm not expecting the world either.
<v Speaker 2>We switched one games, are you excited to have running
<v Speaker 2>better than ever so you can play?
<v Speaker 1>I mean, really, it is the ones that come to
<v Speaker 1>mind are the Zelda games. You know, those are the
<v Speaker 1>ones that have the performance issues, you know, and they
<v Speaker 1>weren't they didn't kill anything for me. I will very
<v Speaker 1>much like to see Breath of the Wild running at
<v Speaker 1>sixty frames per second just on Nintendo hardware. Yeah, but
<v Speaker 1>it's uh. And then Tiers of the Kingdom as well,
<v Speaker 1>which did I think you know overall run more smoothly,
<v Speaker 1>but it was thirty frames per second. I'd like to
<v Speaker 1>see sixty frames per second. So yeah, I'll be honest,
<v Speaker 1>a lot of other Nintendo first party games, we're a
<v Speaker 1>lot of more like seven to twenty p and sixty
<v Speaker 1>frames per second. I guess seeing them at a higher
<v Speaker 1>resolution would be cool, but I don't really care about
<v Speaker 1>that all that.
<v Speaker 2>Haven't they haven't outright confirmed to what Metroid is coming
<v Speaker 2>out on right, like they just said it's coming.
<v Speaker 1>The Metric Prime four is diffinitely coming to Switch one.
<v Speaker 2>Like that's one of them as well, with like this
<v Speaker 2>is gonna be much better on Switch too.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, seeing Play Chronicles X also has that like just
<v Speaker 1>that mode that people discovered where it can run at
<v Speaker 1>sixty frames per second. It doesn't doesn't work very well
<v Speaker 1>on Switch one when people tried to enable it, but
<v Speaker 1>maybe it works better on Switch too. And that's a
<v Speaker 1>game that just came out, so they would know how
<v Speaker 1>to take advantage of the switch to. All that is speculation,
<v Speaker 1>but I think it's safe speculation because if you're making
<v Speaker 1>games that you're selling this year and you know switch
<v Speaker 1>To is coming a few months later, you probably do
<v Speaker 1>try to make sure it can be ready so people
<v Speaker 1>can buy for a switch to and take advantage of that.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, because I watched that Metro tread and I was like,
<v Speaker 2>I'm not sure about that one. I'm not sure if
<v Speaker 2>there's running on the device I have in my hand
<v Speaker 2>to hit.
<v Speaker 1>Oh sure, okay, yes, yeah, I you know Metro Prime
<v Speaker 1>one remaster. It's probably it's using the same tech as that,
<v Speaker 1>And that looks really good and ran at sixty frames
<v Speaker 1>per second. But I get I get it. You know,
<v Speaker 1>that's definitely not an open world game. It's like they
<v Speaker 1>can build the rooms to be confined at how they need.
<v Speaker 1>But you're right. I think I'm still surprised at how
<v Speaker 1>good that looked personally. And then I saw some bad
<v Speaker 1>takes about Metrod out there, and people should just be quiet,
<v Speaker 1>I think saying about Metrod there, uh there, here's one.
<v Speaker 1>I can't remember the exact wording, but Mike read it
<v Speaker 1>to me from reset era where someone's like the enemies
<v Speaker 1>in the Metric Prime for trailer weren't stoic enough. I
<v Speaker 1>just can't take this game seriously in a post Dark
<v Speaker 1>Souls world, and I'm yeah that, yes, I I've kind
<v Speaker 1>of went. I'm like, I need to go what if
<v Speaker 1>I need to go start a flame war. I need
<v Speaker 1>to get back on the message boards. I got to
<v Speaker 1>go back to the old me and saying about these
<v Speaker 1>goddamn nerds as.
<v Speaker 2>A note it Dark Souls fan, I would just like
<v Speaker 2>to say, what the fuck are you talking about? Talking?
<v Speaker 2>What did you say? That's insane, maybe the dumbest thing
<v Speaker 2>I've ever heard in a long time. And it is
<v Speaker 2>anything that if there's if you need a case made
<v Speaker 2>for thing of Rise, that is it talking about it? Dude?
<v Speaker 2>Like those are the woods? Those are definitely woods put together.
<v Speaker 2>They didn't say anything, No, yeah.
<v Speaker 1>It's nothing, and but you know they thought they were cooking,
<v Speaker 1>you know, they thought they were fuing, just dropping.
<v Speaker 2>I woke up this morning and opened my Wood of
<v Speaker 2>the Day app and it gave me the words stoic.
<v Speaker 2>So I'm gonna I'm gonna make this work. And this
<v Speaker 2>is like a dog what you China about Home Boy.
<v Speaker 1>I'll read the exact quote. We're gonna be mad about it,
<v Speaker 1>we might as well be accurately and not crazy about it.
<v Speaker 1>There's a lack of elegance and stoicism and the enemies
<v Speaker 1>that makes the game feel off to me. It's very
<v Speaker 1>hard to take it seriously in a post Dark Souls world. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>that's it's like copy pasta. It's embarrassing.
<v Speaker 2>There's no way that's not bait. That is Can you
<v Speaker 2>say that again one more time?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah? Yeah, let me get it right here, all right here,
<v Speaker 1>it is uh, not crazy about it. There's a lack
<v Speaker 1>of elegance and stoicism in the enemies that makes the
<v Speaker 1>game feel off to me. It's very hard to take
<v Speaker 1>it seriously in a post Dark Soul's world.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, so every time damn what what part of Dark
<v Speaker 2>Cell's enemies exude elegance? Yeah, because I mean I have
<v Speaker 2>played those games many times. Those are mindless, emaciated zombie
<v Speaker 2>like creatures that literally they just thrash with their swords
<v Speaker 2>in their hands.
<v Speaker 1>Out enemies, which is what is whates like.
<v Speaker 2>There's very few enemies in the Dark Soul's universe or
<v Speaker 2>the from software universe that I would describe as elegant,
<v Speaker 2>maybe like the Dancer of the Boreal Valley from three
<v Speaker 2>or Lady Maria or something. Most of the Dark Cells
<v Speaker 2>enemies are like slobbering gross other worldly ship that is
<v Speaker 2>like falling over each other, and they're hairy and sweaty,
<v Speaker 2>covered in blood and they's just like manic monsters. And
<v Speaker 2>this dude is looking at and going, that's elegance, baby,
<v Speaker 2>I need In.
<v Speaker 1>My Metroid Prime, there was there was there was one
<v Speaker 1>other take where then Mike was finally and just sharing
<v Speaker 1>them all with me, and I was begging him to stop,
<v Speaker 1>but he didn't. Another one's like, why would anyone play
<v Speaker 1>this in a world with like Doom twenty sixteen. I'm
<v Speaker 1>just like you, damn children, this is not a shooter,
<v Speaker 1>It's a metro.
<v Speaker 2>I'll say right if you if you are, if you
<v Speaker 2>read this comment and you go, I want to see
<v Speaker 2>what the what this elegance is, and then you stick
<v Speaker 2>on Dark Souls for the first time. The first major
<v Speaker 2>enemy you fight is a giant fat bat thing that
<v Speaker 2>jumps in the air and tries to butt stomp you,
<v Speaker 2>and it's like, you know, and the stiffness has got
<v Speaker 2>any Little Black Peen on show as well. I think, well,
<v Speaker 2>how is that elegant?
<v Speaker 1>It darksos like it has a stiffness to it that
<v Speaker 1>is part of the gameplay and part of the mechanics
<v Speaker 1>that makes it fun to play for me. But I
<v Speaker 1>would not describe that as elegant. Maybe that's the stoicism.
<v Speaker 1>I don't God damn.
<v Speaker 2>Now, all right, this person is out there, guaranteed, making
<v Speaker 2>explicit art of the asylum deal, just mating with him
<v Speaker 2>and like he's doing growth only fans dark souls pornography guaranteed.
<v Speaker 1>All right, Well, it's a late break, but we're doing
<v Speaker 1>it any now, let's take a quick break. We'll come
<v Speaker 1>back and we'll get through the rest of the headlines
<v Speaker 1>right after this. We're back, and as promised, here's the
<v Speaker 1>rest of the headlines. EU introduces requirements for clearer pricing
<v Speaker 1>of virtual currencies. This is from Marcus Person at Game Reactor.
<v Speaker 1>The EU Consumer Protection Network has issued new guidelines on
<v Speaker 1>the handling of virtual currencies and games, which will require
<v Speaker 1>a clearer transparency to protect consumers. These guidelines require that
<v Speaker 1>games offering the purchase of virtual currencies with real money
<v Speaker 1>also display the actual price whether it's impounds, euro corona,
<v Speaker 1>or another currency. The initiative follows a review of the
<v Speaker 1>game's Star Stable Online, which found that the game encourages
<v Speaker 1>children to make purchases with real money organizations. Organizations such
<v Speaker 1>as the Swedish Consumers Association argue that many popular games
<v Speaker 1>such as Roadblocks, Fortnite, and FIFA do not meet these
<v Speaker 1>new requirements and may need to change their business models.
<v Speaker 1>This is like old school obfuscation to encourage people to
<v Speaker 1>spend more money in a game so they don't think
<v Speaker 1>about the direct relation between what they're doing and the
<v Speaker 1>price that it's costing them. You know. Already, like people
<v Speaker 1>have a disconnect from spending money online or like with
<v Speaker 1>a credit card as opposed to spending cash. So that's
<v Speaker 1>like one layer, and then all these games are like,
<v Speaker 1>let's go another layer deep and make you buy currency,
<v Speaker 1>and then the currency can be called something else, so
<v Speaker 1>you don't relate it directly to the money that you own.
<v Speaker 1>And also, once it's in our system, it's in our system,
<v Speaker 1>and even if you don't spend it on something, we
<v Speaker 1>have it. We've captured the value and we've given you
<v Speaker 1>fake value in return. It's always been like obvious that
<v Speaker 1>this should just be put the real dollar amount next
<v Speaker 1>to all this stuff. We don't need your Microsoft points,
<v Speaker 1>get out of here with that. Just tell us how
<v Speaker 1>much money this stuff actually costs. No more twelve hundred
<v Speaker 1>points is actually ten dollars or anything like that, or
<v Speaker 1>so you feel like you're getting twelve Oh I'm getting
<v Speaker 1>twelve hundred points. It's like, no, that's actually ten dollars.
<v Speaker 1>It's frustrating and they need to do something about it,
<v Speaker 1>and I'm glad that someone is. It's Europe as usual.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Europe. I think it's going to have a noticeable impact.
<v Speaker 2>Considering FIFA and the EA sports games, the popularity of
<v Speaker 2>sports games out there and stuff like Ultimate Team, that's
<v Speaker 2>been a kind of fertile ground to confuse and bamboos
<v Speaker 2>or consumers so that they're spending money in ways that
<v Speaker 2>are like desensitizing them to the value of that stuff.
<v Speaker 2>And I feel like it's going to have a good
<v Speaker 2>impact for that, I think, I hope, And it needs
<v Speaker 2>to be there because some of that stuff is like
<v Speaker 2>very predatory, especially in the EA EA realms when it
<v Speaker 2>comes to sports. I think two K has some as well,
<v Speaker 2>but like the between the FIFA staff or the EA
<v Speaker 2>Soccer Club, whatever it's.
<v Speaker 1>Called, alternate team or whatever it is.
<v Speaker 2>Y yeah, and Fortnite Buck. I think there's going to
<v Speaker 2>be a noticeable impact of this, which is good.
<v Speaker 1>It's welcome, yep, absolutely real quick hit. Hogwarts Legacy Paid
<v Speaker 1>DLC is reportedly canceled by w B. They're probably just
<v Speaker 1>going to go move on to Hogwarts Legacy two, which
<v Speaker 1>maybe makes sense. Also, PS five exclusive Ghost of Yota
<v Speaker 1>is still on track for twenty twenty five releases from
<v Speaker 1>Robert Ramsey at push Square. Just in case anyone was
<v Speaker 1>starting to worry about the fact that we've seen nothing
<v Speaker 1>from Ghost of yotasince revealed last year, a quick social
<v Speaker 1>media post has reiterated that the PS five exclusive is
<v Speaker 1>still on course for this year. It comes from I
<v Speaker 1>don't this is a pretty untrustworthy person. So I don't
<v Speaker 1>know Andrew Goldfarb. I just don't think we can trust
<v Speaker 1>that man at all. So say it's coming out this
<v Speaker 1>year still, but really, how far throw that much I
<v Speaker 1>trust him?
<v Speaker 2>I've seen that guy posting on reset Era. He keeps
<v Speaker 2>talking about like elegance and shit, and I don't think
<v Speaker 2>anyone should trust that guy.
<v Speaker 1>He's a scoundrel.
<v Speaker 2>He seems like a he seems like he likes to
<v Speaker 2>fib Yeah you online, she likes a goof and a gaff,
<v Speaker 2>So this might be either a goof for a gaff
<v Speaker 2>from Andrew Goldfob.
<v Speaker 1>That's that sound right to me anyway, the games probably
<v Speaker 1>coming out.
<v Speaker 2>I don't trust anything that isn't revealed to me by
<v Speaker 2>way of being invited to a signal group chat anymore.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I know, and especially if it's I'm not supposed
<v Speaker 1>to be there, then I know it's a real ship.
<v Speaker 2>And that's the if you're gonna try and reveal information,
<v Speaker 2>that's the only way I'm accepting it.
<v Speaker 1>Yep. GOT probably is trying to you know, skirt around
<v Speaker 1>GT six like everything else. Although I don't know that
<v Speaker 1>game is gonna do just find no matter when it
<v Speaker 1>comes out, even if it did come out within a
<v Speaker 1>week of g t A six.
<v Speaker 2>I I understand the kind of launch around Grand Theft
<v Speaker 2>or I think people are taking it way too far though,
<v Speaker 2>like it is, it is like both the most dumbing
<v Speaker 2>down of consumers possible and and like it is, it
<v Speaker 2>does make some sense, but like people are going to
<v Speaker 2>buy the games that they're interested in, regardless of whether
<v Speaker 2>another game they're interested in exists, like tice to what
<v Speaker 2>you're doing, Like how long are you gonna do this for?
<v Speaker 2>Just release your game and if Grand Theft are All
<v Speaker 2>comes out, trust people to go. I would rather play
<v Speaker 2>this one, or I'm gonna play Grand Theft or and
<v Speaker 2>this one. It's fine because like I don't think Ghosts
<v Speaker 2>of Yota. I mean, I understand the economics behind it,
<v Speaker 2>and I understand there's probably people in business divisions going
<v Speaker 2>don't put it out at the same time a theft Well,
<v Speaker 2>but like if just I just imagine people are gonna
<v Speaker 2>be like, yeah, I'm gonna play Ghost Yota, I'm gonna
<v Speaker 2>buy that, or Grand Theft All was coming at the
<v Speaker 2>same time, I'll figure out way to get that, or
<v Speaker 2>I'll just wait because you know, Grand Theft All was
<v Speaker 2>gonna be around for the next ten years, right.
<v Speaker 1>You know. It's it is definitely a situation of like
<v Speaker 1>to a hammer, everything looks like a nail. To a marketer,
<v Speaker 1>Grand Theft Auto six always looks like this impossible, impenetrable
<v Speaker 1>storm that's gonna take out everything and there's just no
<v Speaker 1>way to get around it. It's like that's you're you're
<v Speaker 1>probably overthinking it, although I get it. You're doing your
<v Speaker 1>job all right. Last thing here, Best by Canada announces
<v Speaker 1>that switch To pre orders will go live on April second.
<v Speaker 1>Not too surprising Jake Randall over on Twitter, who does
<v Speaker 1>a great job of on YouTube of doing live streams.
<v Speaker 1>I think maybe actually maybe on Twitch, but he does
<v Speaker 1>live streams where he tells people, here's like all the
<v Speaker 1>links for where you should go to get pre orders.
<v Speaker 1>Here it's live. Here's the exact process you should go
<v Speaker 1>through to make sure that your pre order actually goes
<v Speaker 1>through when everyone's slamming the servers at the same time.
<v Speaker 1>If you want to get a switch to with the
<v Speaker 1>best chance of actually succeeding of getting a pre order placed,
<v Speaker 1>watch Drake Jake Randall's stuff on April second. But April second.
<v Speaker 2>Is what this guy's live streams pre order is, Yes,
<v Speaker 2>and it's huge.
<v Speaker 1>He's hugely successful doing it, like he live streams like
<v Speaker 1>he's like, here's and you know what he's doing is
<v Speaker 1>he's giving everyone the tips and the tricks to help
<v Speaker 1>make sure that your pre order goes through. And he
<v Speaker 1>knows kind of how all these systems work. He's an
<v Speaker 1>expert on this stuff. So I'm going to be I'll
<v Speaker 1>be watching Jake on that day because I will be
<v Speaker 1>trying to pre order this thing. I'm not gonna listen.
<v Speaker 2>We should get him in, Oh yeah for sure about
<v Speaker 2>this stuff, because.
<v Speaker 1>That's a good idea. Yeah, maybe I can get him
<v Speaker 1>in next week before even we'll yeah, we'll see if
<v Speaker 1>we can make that happen next week.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, we'll do a feature where's like we are the
<v Speaker 2>general rules that you think are worth keeping in mind
<v Speaker 2>when you're trying to do this stuff, and then yeah,
<v Speaker 2>chat to about that stuff because that's fascinating. I've never
<v Speaker 2>heard of that.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, there's a couple of people out there that are
<v Speaker 1>doing that, but Jake Randall's definitely might go to guy anyway.
<v Speaker 1>He found that Best Buy Canada announced essentially that they
<v Speaker 1>will open up pre orders for the switch to on
<v Speaker 1>April second. You know, it's possible Best Buys getting out
<v Speaker 1>ahead of the jumping the gun here, and they do
<v Speaker 1>know something. It's also possible they're just saying we're going
<v Speaker 1>to put up a placeholder on that day no matter what.
<v Speaker 1>Just give us five dollars to hold your place and
<v Speaker 1>the price doesn't get announced for some reason, which it
<v Speaker 1>almost certainly will. But if it doesn't, we'll still take
<v Speaker 1>your money and we'll sell you a switch to when
<v Speaker 1>it's ready to go.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's as someone who worked in retail, getting in
<v Speaker 2>as soon as possible and just giving people, even if
<v Speaker 2>it's a low place on mind. Yeah, yeah, just give
<v Speaker 2>us like five dollars. It could be like I remember
<v Speaker 2>I went back in the day when consoles were coming
<v Speaker 2>out and I was working, they will be like two
<v Speaker 2>pounds fifty. It's not, it's not. It's just a way
<v Speaker 2>to get people to commit to you more than anything else,
<v Speaker 2>so that whenever the price is announced, they just think, oh,
<v Speaker 2>I've already paid a little bit at this place, so
<v Speaker 2>I'll just go back there and buy there. They're trying
<v Speaker 2>to get you locked in on a purchase as soon
<v Speaker 2>as possible. So like there's a lot of times when
<v Speaker 2>when I was working in retail, we'd put it up
<v Speaker 2>a suit. We had no information on any consoles that
<v Speaker 2>were coming out, We had zero information, but we'd still
<v Speaker 2>put up pre orders. We just needed the ability to
<v Speaker 2>print the name of the console onto a piece of
<v Speaker 2>paper and say like pre order now it doesn't require
<v Speaker 2>any sort of like well back then it didn't require
<v Speaker 2>liaising with PlayStation or Xbox or Nintendo in any way.
<v Speaker 2>It's all retailer side, and it's just to build some
<v Speaker 2>sort of like obligation towards or are like a perception
<v Speaker 2>of obligation to hold that retailer's say, you go there
<v Speaker 2>when it's time.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's uh one of the things I enjoy about markets.
<v Speaker 1>I have a lot of criticisms of capitalism, but I
<v Speaker 1>think markets are pretty interesting tools. And being like, you know,
<v Speaker 1>two dollars and fifty cents or five dollars, just being
<v Speaker 1>like you got to give us something. It just makes
<v Speaker 1>sure that the person making the pre order is serious. Right,
<v Speaker 1>you're actually wanting to put a little bit of money
<v Speaker 1>in there to show that you are. You have stakes,
<v Speaker 1>so you're not someone who's just taking up one of
<v Speaker 1>these pre orders and isn't serious and isn't going to
<v Speaker 1>follow through. You are. If you give us five dollars,
<v Speaker 1>it's proof that you're much more likely to actually follow through.
<v Speaker 1>So we know we're saving one of these systems for
<v Speaker 1>someone who is serious. And then, like you said, if
<v Speaker 1>you give money to someone, even if it's just five dollars.
<v Speaker 1>You remember that. You don't forget that any little bit
<v Speaker 1>about amount of money. You're like, no, I already gave
<v Speaker 1>five dollars. I have my place in line. It's not
<v Speaker 1>like just oh, I don't know, I registered for free
<v Speaker 1>at a bunch of places, and whichever one I remember
<v Speaker 1>to go to, I will just go get my actual
<v Speaker 1>system through them later. It's like, no, it works from
<v Speaker 1>both sides, kind of just locks everyone into a deal.
<v Speaker 1>It's a smart thing. I like that. All right. Anyway,
<v Speaker 1>we'll find out more about what's going on. Oh you
<v Speaker 1>know what here The formorial sixty four Best by Canada
<v Speaker 1>took down their blog post about switch to preorders going
<v Speaker 1>up on April second. Also was told from another retailer
<v Speaker 1>that April second pre order info is in air, so
<v Speaker 1>maybe preorders won't launch that day. I think we get
<v Speaker 1>the info about pre orders, but maybe it doesn't happen
<v Speaker 1>that day. Maybe yeah, I mean, I think we get price,
<v Speaker 1>release date, preorder information, but maybe preorders start, like I
<v Speaker 1>don't know, a week later or something like that. We'll see.
<v Speaker 1>All right, that does it for the headlines. Let's get
<v Speaker 1>to the poll from yesterday. Wrap up this week there
<v Speaker 1>it is. How many things were for you in the
<v Speaker 1>in today's Nintendo Direct Let's see here. Seven percent said
<v Speaker 1>five plus that's me. I there's easily five things in
<v Speaker 1>there that I was interested in. Fifteen percent SAIDs zero things,
<v Speaker 1>which I'm gonna say embarrassing. If you're wanting spending your
<v Speaker 1>time watching one of these things, you're like, I don't know,
<v Speaker 1>video games interest me. Maybe it's maybe that's a you thing. Uh.
<v Speaker 1>Twenty seven percent said three to four things were for them,
<v Speaker 1>and fifty one percent said they found one to two
<v Speaker 1>things in that direct that they were interested in. I
<v Speaker 1>bet for most people that was probably Metroid maybe one
<v Speaker 1>of the other things. But hey, everyone, Tritomadacci life it's good.
<v Speaker 1>It's real good.
<v Speaker 2>It's very good. Rhythm rhythm, rhythm.
<v Speaker 1>Rhythm, rhythm, Heave and groove is gonna be one, Like
<v Speaker 1>golf is.
<v Speaker 2>Great, Like, yes, it's a good golf game.
<v Speaker 1>Yep. And then that Marvel Cosmic whatever it was.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, I'm excited about that. I love that they've
<v Speaker 2>basically ripped off animations from Marvel versus Capcom two and
<v Speaker 2>like brilliant.
<v Speaker 1>I read them, Yes, absolutely brilliant.
<v Speaker 2>Move.
<v Speaker 1>I'm so excited by that.
<v Speaker 2>Good job. I'm done with that.
<v Speaker 1>Let's see, do we Yes, there we go. Okay, we
<v Speaker 1>will come up with a new poole question between me,
<v Speaker 1>Tam and Jan here in the next thirty seconds. But
<v Speaker 1>while we come up with something, Tam, why don't you
<v Speaker 1>tell people where they could find you on the internet
<v Speaker 1>and all that good stuff?
<v Speaker 2>Would you should just do? You should link talk? Yes? No,
<v Speaker 2>perfect perfect yes, no Italian acts. You can find me
<v Speaker 2>at two more h on everything. I'm on Twitch. I
<v Speaker 2>keep saying I'm gonna be streaming soon. I will be
<v Speaker 2>streaming soon. You find me on giant bomb dot com.
<v Speaker 2>You can find me on GameSpot dot com. You can
<v Speaker 2>watch the Power Block. We've been filming a bunch of
<v Speaker 2>stuff for that, working on piloting some shows. I believe
<v Speaker 2>we have revengeance happening today and UPF what we're doing
<v Speaker 2>with what's going on? UPF? Is it the drug game.
<v Speaker 1>I think I'm gonna play the drug game, although I might.
<v Speaker 1>We might open up the floor if anyone else wants
<v Speaker 1>to bring something and come hang out. We could do
<v Speaker 1>that as well. Although the drug game is cooperative, so
<v Speaker 1>I'm sure they could fill up two hours.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean, I'm trying to stay away from drug games.
<v Speaker 2>I don't think I should be associated with.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, you stay safe. So if you want, if
<v Speaker 1>you want to stop playing the drug game and coming
<v Speaker 1>there and we can play something else.
<v Speaker 2>Don't do what you want. But if you know, if
<v Speaker 2>suddenly you decide you want to play like a.
<v Speaker 1>Schedule one like it's named after the most illegal level
<v Speaker 1>of drug. So yeah, I get it.
<v Speaker 2>I'm just saying, like we had a great time playing repo,
<v Speaker 2>No anything could happen. Maybe maybe you want to play.
<v Speaker 1>All you have to literally, all you have to say
<v Speaker 1>is can we play more repo? And my answer is
<v Speaker 1>always going to be yes. I want to play more
<v Speaker 1>repo so bad. So if you go and tell people
<v Speaker 1>are playing repo, we'll do it. All right, Well, we'll
<v Speaker 1>figure we'll figure out what's going on for UPF, for everybody,
<v Speaker 1>We'll figure out you know, BCR is happening. We'll get
<v Speaker 1>all that going for here pretty soon. In the meantime,
<v Speaker 1>new pool question, should you link talk Yes? No in
<v Speaker 1>an Italian accent like that Mario. You can vote now
<v Speaker 1>by going to YouTube dot com slash at giant bomb
<v Speaker 1>under the community tab. There we'll get the results. We'll
<v Speaker 1>talk about it on game Breaking News here on the
<v Speaker 1>Power Block featuring Giant Bomb and Game Spot on Monday.
<v Speaker 1>Speaking of the Power Block, stay tuned right after this,
<v Speaker 1>we'll be BCR all right, Tam, thank you.
<v Speaker 2>Please say to the American government that I have not
<v Speaker 2>don't drug you have no interest in drugs. I never
<v Speaker 2>committed a crime, I don't do, not intend to commit
<v Speaker 2>a crime. I am a law abiding citizen. I've paid
<v Speaker 2>my taxes.
<v Speaker 1>Thank you paid them twice. All right, Tam, thank you
<v Speaker 1>so much for hanging out with me to today and
<v Speaker 1>talking about video games. Man, I really appreciate it.
<v Speaker 2>Thank you for having me. I'm not sure if I'm
<v Speaker 2>going to be here next week. I might be traveling.
<v Speaker 2>But we'll figure it out.
<v Speaker 1>You know, we'll figure it out. We'll make it work.
<v Speaker 1>In the meantime, thank you all for watching and listening.
<v Speaker 1>You're the best audience in gaming. Until next time, have
<v Speaker 1>a good one, take care of yourself, and goodbye. Power Block.