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<v Speaker 1>Don't bit, it's the Internet. You're busy. Let's do this
<v Speaker 1>for what's the date, February twenty first, twenty twenty five.
<v Speaker 1>For the next hour or so, let me help you
<v Speaker 1>sort through the world of gaming on Game Mess Mornings
<v Speaker 1>Live with me Jeff Grubb. Today, game sales continue to
<v Speaker 1>skid in the United States, and Microsoft is using the
<v Speaker 1>power of call of Duty to hype up Tony Hawk.
<v Speaker 1>But first, please join me and welcoming today's co host
<v Speaker 1>the Game Mess Mornings. It's two more. Who's saying? Everybody, Tam,
<v Speaker 1>how are you doing? You know?
<v Speaker 2>Remember when I said everything's good? Oh no, ye highlight,
<v Speaker 2>I can't see you. I can't see you.
<v Speaker 1>Oh no, my bad. Let me I can fix that
<v Speaker 1>real quick, and then that's gonna break things.
<v Speaker 2>But now everything is fine. Now, yeah, I can see
<v Speaker 2>a ho It's very cute. That's why I'm supposed to
<v Speaker 2>got kind of how.
<v Speaker 1>You know, I don't know. I don't know the name
<v Speaker 1>of it. In my head, it's just the hat they
<v Speaker 1>wear in Soviet Russia. That's what I think of when
<v Speaker 1>I say.
<v Speaker 2>I call it, I call it the Batman red Son hat. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>Batman is one of those in red Song.
<v Speaker 1>Fargo hat. There we go. Yeah, Fargo hat TM, that's
<v Speaker 1>your Canadian bacon hat. Yeah, lots of good names for
<v Speaker 1>this thing.
<v Speaker 2>Brown hat sometimes yep.
<v Speaker 1>Absolutely. Now, of course, somehow I have the cameras getting
<v Speaker 1>messed up. I think discords being weird. It's normally fix you.
<v Speaker 1>We got to bring you down a little bit. There
<v Speaker 1>we go. Now we're all framed up. Damn, you've been
<v Speaker 1>You've been traveling, You're back home. You've been able to
<v Speaker 1>keep up with any games recently. You've been kind of
<v Speaker 1>out there doing a bunch of stuff. Anything that you
<v Speaker 1>are enjoying right now.
<v Speaker 2>I am just preparing to go on another trip tomorrow.
<v Speaker 2>What if I ever been enjoying? What can I I'm
<v Speaker 2>trying to compartment lies into what I can talk about about. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I think I finished Silent Hill. That was fantastic. Oh.
<v Speaker 2>I've been playing the Warriors game, uh, the rock No Warriors, Uh,
<v Speaker 2>the Dynasty Warriors game. That's pretty fun. That's a good time.
<v Speaker 1>I kind of wish your Warriors from Rockstar.
<v Speaker 2>I've already played that. I mean, if they made that
<v Speaker 2>failable to play on a modern console or a platform,
<v Speaker 2>I would one hundred play it.
<v Speaker 1>All right, Well, how is that that new Dynasty Warriors.
<v Speaker 2>It's fun. It's it's a it's a hades like I
<v Speaker 2>call it. But yeah, it's it's like it's got the
<v Speaker 2>old Like you you're getting attacked by one trillion enemies
<v Speaker 2>and you press the button once and it kills about
<v Speaker 2>five hundred million of them in one sweep, and that
<v Speaker 2>feels good. Yeah, yeah, it's it's good, and it's got like, Oh,
<v Speaker 2>they made a good design decision in the way that
<v Speaker 2>they implemented you know, all the many characters that are
<v Speaker 2>in the Warriors games and in you know, Chinese mythology
<v Speaker 2>or wherever they pull from by like integrating a like
<v Speaker 2>a relationship system, like you can make form bonds with
<v Speaker 2>different characters and that gives you buffs and that kind
<v Speaker 2>of thing. So it's it's cool. I enjoyed that quite
<v Speaker 2>a bit. But yeah, beyond that, I I've been mainly
<v Speaker 2>playing that. I'm playing a few other games for that
<v Speaker 2>are under embargo, but yeah, it's been a good time.
<v Speaker 2>I got I'm playing Castlevania on my little ambiniic device still,
<v Speaker 2>which is a good time, and still doing nothing in
<v Speaker 2>Castlevania where if I encounter a new enemy. I cannot
<v Speaker 2>go past it until I collected soul true behavior.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I love it.
<v Speaker 2>It's real nasty, man. Sometimes I'm just nasty bombing the
<v Speaker 2>same enemy for an hour. It's cool.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, it's worth it because I like a lot
<v Speaker 1>of those powers are really interesting. A lot of them
<v Speaker 1>don't do shit, but when you get that's really cool.
<v Speaker 2>I just wish that in the original. I think I'm
<v Speaker 2>playing the one in Uh the original version doesn't have
<v Speaker 2>like a tracker that when you hit them, like it
<v Speaker 2>tells you, oh, you've got this one. It's like, Okay,
<v Speaker 2>you just have to keep going into it that by
<v Speaker 2>can I get this one? Yeah? Yeah, it's good time.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I've been. I'm planning to start the thing. We
<v Speaker 1>did have punishment because we we did a stream about
<v Speaker 1>a game about a game about digging a hole and
<v Speaker 1>I won, so I handed out punishments and told everyone
<v Speaker 1>they have to play the thing remastered. But I haven't
<v Speaker 1>played it either, so I'm like, okay, a game close.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I'm moving forward to play the original.
<v Speaker 1>No, no, I haven't so yeah, the.
<v Speaker 2>Sac it was surprisingly good. I haven't played that since,
<v Speaker 2>but like I remember it being quite short as well
<v Speaker 2>as like four or five hours and and yeah it was.
<v Speaker 2>It was enjoyable. I remember back in the day thinking, wow,
<v Speaker 2>this is this has no right being as good as
<v Speaker 2>it is.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, absolutely, ushankas ch That's what the hats are called,
<v Speaker 1>and that's I've heard that before, So that makes sense.
<v Speaker 1>That lines up with what I've heard on the street, Tam.
<v Speaker 1>In the meantime, let's explain what we do here most weekdays. I,
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<v Speaker 1>Hello YouTube. All right, we have a lot to get into,
<v Speaker 1>so let's start the Morning Mess with January twenty twenty
<v Speaker 1>five US video game market highlights from Matt Piscatela at Sirkana. Basically,
<v Speaker 1>the short version of all this is that everything is
<v Speaker 1>down sales are down across the board. Total video game
<v Speaker 1>sales dropped to four point five billion for and that's
<v Speaker 1>just the entire video game market in the United States
<v Speaker 1>from five point three billion last year. That's a fifteen
<v Speaker 1>percent decline. Content was down twelve percent, accessories down twenty
<v Speaker 1>eight percent, and hardware down a massive forty five percent.
<v Speaker 1>Just yeah, people are not spending as much money on
<v Speaker 1>hardware as they were last year.
<v Speaker 2>Do you know the do you know the poll Johnson
<v Speaker 2>song Down Down Down, No, I do not. I feel
<v Speaker 2>like that should be playing right now because it's a
<v Speaker 2>perfect song for this jam.
<v Speaker 1>Make it happen. Just put in the back yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, put on now down Down Down by Paul Johnson's
<v Speaker 2>skipped to the minute mark. Yeah, just went not and
<v Speaker 2>in I'm classic yep.
<v Speaker 1>Right, So yeah, he Matpisktello over there at Sirkana did
<v Speaker 1>a whole rundown of what's going on over there. You
<v Speaker 1>could kind of see some trends. It's it's you know,
<v Speaker 1>we are in the back half of the console generation
<v Speaker 1>for the most part. Obviously we are at the very
<v Speaker 1>end end of the console generation for the Nintendo system,
<v Speaker 1>but both the PS five and the Xbox series consoles
<v Speaker 1>have been declining for years. Matt pointed out that Xbox
<v Speaker 1>hit its peak in twenty twenty two, PlayStation five hit
<v Speaker 1>its peak in twenty twenty three, and both are declining.
<v Speaker 1>And when I talked to him, when asked him about
<v Speaker 1>this when he was on this show a few weeks back,
<v Speaker 1>probably would have been a month ago because it was
<v Speaker 1>right around the time of his last report, I asked
<v Speaker 1>if it was normal for his for consoles to drop
<v Speaker 1>this harshly at this point in the generation. He says,
<v Speaker 1>it's normal for them to drop at this point. Yes,
<v Speaker 1>we are on the decline for both these consoles. That's normal.
<v Speaker 1>They are declining faster than he was expecting. And I think,
<v Speaker 1>dam that just goes back to a lot of people
<v Speaker 1>bought consoles very quickly during the pandemic, when you know,
<v Speaker 1>getting when everyone was trying to get them and making
<v Speaker 1>sure they had them, and the fomo was at its height,
<v Speaker 1>and so maybe there are fewer people waiting in the wings,
<v Speaker 1>but I think it's still not a great sign that
<v Speaker 1>there's not like not a lot of people looking to
<v Speaker 1>still get on board to the console the consoles, and
<v Speaker 1>I think that is what's driving a lot of the
<v Speaker 1>anxiety from these companies, even Sony, who had a really
<v Speaker 1>good earning support report recently. They're making a lot of money,
<v Speaker 1>more money than ever before in a lot of ways,
<v Speaker 1>even though they still seem to have this anxiety about
<v Speaker 1>the future. And it's because console sales aren't really growing.
<v Speaker 1>Uh you know, PSI pros out, now, why is this
<v Speaker 1>fever not breaking?
<v Speaker 2>I suppose it is absolutely wild that we're like already
<v Speaker 2>in the conversation about these consoles being on the decline,
<v Speaker 2>which presumably segues into what's next for the for the
<v Speaker 2>both the brands, But because I do not feel like
<v Speaker 2>they have earned their existence in any meaningful way, Like
<v Speaker 2>I can't think of yeah, like I if this, if
<v Speaker 2>we closed you know, releases right now and weighed them
<v Speaker 2>and like assess them on what they have available, I
<v Speaker 2>think they probably both get like a fail grade. Like
<v Speaker 2>it is. I can't think of at least a less
<v Speaker 2>impactful console generation than this one. I think personally, like
<v Speaker 2>even the PS three back in the day, it was
<v Speaker 2>like probably my least favorite release or like life cycle
<v Speaker 2>of a console. But it's still you can name like
<v Speaker 2>twenty thirty bangers off the PS three as well, but
<v Speaker 2>like PS five, like I Demon Souls is the one
<v Speaker 2>that comes to mind for me, Like what else Astrobot?
<v Speaker 2>Those are two games that I'm like, oh, great, fantastic.
<v Speaker 2>On the Xbox side, is is brutal. I can't think
<v Speaker 2>of a single like amazing Xbox game that I would
<v Speaker 2>like be like, this is a this is incredible. Like
<v Speaker 2>the most fun I've had recently is avowed. I guess actually,
<v Speaker 2>now that I think about PlayStation there's like return or
<v Speaker 2>as well as is a pretty big one on that.
<v Speaker 1>There are games on these consoles for sure, but I
<v Speaker 1>just not yeah, yeah, not yeah.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, like I do think it is partly the
<v Speaker 2>fever hasn't broken because one, as you said, people were
<v Speaker 2>buying consoles in the moment for this for the purpose of,
<v Speaker 2>you know, taking their mind off things at that time
<v Speaker 2>during the pandemic, and probably we're just like after that
<v Speaker 2>once it passed it past, you know, it was an
<v Speaker 2>expensive thing to kind of like splash out on a
<v Speaker 2>bit and move on. So a lot of people are
<v Speaker 2>also like one one type of gamers, you know, like
<v Speaker 2>they've got their MLB game, they've got their FIFA, they've
<v Speaker 2>got whatever, and it's like, I'm fine, got my call
<v Speaker 2>of duty and not touching any of this. I also
<v Speaker 2>feel like the other thing is like console is down
<v Speaker 2>for sure. I would love to see how PC gaming
<v Speaker 2>is doing. I know it's hard to get a grasp
<v Speaker 2>of that, but like PC gaming as has got a
<v Speaker 2>lower barrier to entry than ever before, both in like
<v Speaker 2>the towers that you can buy, pre build or build yourself,
<v Speaker 2>but also the and held devices. I know a lot
<v Speaker 2>of people this is completely anecdotal, so it's not indicative
<v Speaker 2>or representative of an overall trend, but like I know
<v Speaker 2>a lot of people who now more than ever, they're
<v Speaker 2>just like, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna buy a
<v Speaker 2>console anymore because I can spy a PC. Everything comes
<v Speaker 2>there eventually, and it's just more versatile. I can have
<v Speaker 2>you know, and it it can do so many things.
<v Speaker 2>And also I can plug it into my living room TV,
<v Speaker 2>which is like I feel like the barrier to entry
<v Speaker 2>to that and the versatility of PC as a platform
<v Speaker 2>is lower than ever. And I just got to imagine
<v Speaker 2>that a significant chunk of people are just moving away
<v Speaker 2>from consoles and going to devices a little more ubiquitous.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I think it's I think that's it, and I
<v Speaker 1>think the argument that the console has made for a
<v Speaker 1>long time of being easier to use. You know, they
<v Speaker 1>are still easier to use than a PC in a
<v Speaker 1>lot of way. It's a lot more standardized, but they
<v Speaker 1>are not as easy as they once were, and a PC,
<v Speaker 1>like you're right, ubiquitous and versatile, and in the meantime,
<v Speaker 1>you know, the consoles are looking a lot more like PCs,
<v Speaker 1>and so they have to make the argument of, hey,
<v Speaker 1>well you could still get a lot of power out
<v Speaker 1>of these things. And so here's the PS five pro
<v Speaker 1>to compete with your PCs, and it's you know, really
<v Speaker 1>powerful for seven hundred and fifty dollars, but that is
<v Speaker 1>a big price tag, and once people start seeing that
<v Speaker 1>big of a number, you are going to automatically cut
<v Speaker 1>a lot of the audience out. And then at the
<v Speaker 1>same time, it's still not quite as powerful as the
<v Speaker 1>most powerful PCs, which maybe are order of magnitude maybe
<v Speaker 1>like twice as expensive, possibly if you want to get
<v Speaker 1>like the most power or whatever. But either way, once
<v Speaker 1>you're in that argument, I think consoles begin to look
<v Speaker 1>a little bit more questionable, and a lot of people
<v Speaker 1>are just not going to be able to talk themselves
<v Speaker 1>into spending that much money. And we're seeing that, according
<v Speaker 1>to Matt Biscuitella, PS five Pro is fallen behind PS
<v Speaker 1>four pros pace, So people are just not as into
<v Speaker 1>the PS five pros they were into the PS four Pro.
<v Speaker 1>PS four Pro was never like a massive seller, did
<v Speaker 1>pretty well, but in the PS four Standard edition always
<v Speaker 1>outsold it and alsold it by a wide margin by
<v Speaker 1>the end. Of course, it was around for a lot longer,
<v Speaker 1>but even when they were out with when they were concurrent,
<v Speaker 1>the PS four Standard was out selling the PS four Pro.
<v Speaker 1>That's obviously true for the PS five Pro as well,
<v Speaker 1>but fewer people are interested in the pro model. I
<v Speaker 1>think that goes back to what you were saying Tam
<v Speaker 1>about people just not really feeling that need to upgrade,
<v Speaker 1>because a lot of people feel like this generation hasn't
<v Speaker 1>fully started in earnest yet, right.
<v Speaker 2>I yeah, it still feels like you hasn't. The other
<v Speaker 2>thing that I've been really thinking about recently and trying
<v Speaker 2>to figure out like a good through line to maybe
<v Speaker 2>turn it into an arcor or a video or something
<v Speaker 2>like that, is and this is just a dumb thought
<v Speaker 2>that I had but do kids ask for consoles anymore?
<v Speaker 2>I don't, Like, I don't think so, right, Like I mean,
<v Speaker 2>like you've got kids, say you wouldn't know. I just
<v Speaker 2>think about it from like my personal perspective and think
<v Speaker 2>about too when I was like getting into games as
<v Speaker 2>a kid. I think we're now in a world where
<v Speaker 2>things are that the circumstances of the world we live
<v Speaker 2>in are so that people just I kind of get
<v Speaker 2>the feeling that kids aren't really interested in consoles as
<v Speaker 2>much because back in the day, I'd be like someone
<v Speaker 2>would be like, oh, this is game on PlayStation two
<v Speaker 2>called God of War, and then you would see it
<v Speaker 2>or you'd hear about it, and then you just speak
<v Speaker 2>obsessed with trying to get that console. Now I don't
<v Speaker 2>hear much about like teenagers younger being like, oh, I
<v Speaker 2>play this game called you know, Astrobot on the PlayStation five.
<v Speaker 2>You got to check it out, because their time is
<v Speaker 2>and their kind of attention is eaten up by singular
<v Speaker 2>games where it's like Roadblocks or Fortnite, Call of Douty
<v Speaker 2>like that. That is, people don't with those games kind
<v Speaker 2>of taking up all your mental attention and desire and
<v Speaker 2>them having their own economies and that kind of stuff.
<v Speaker 2>I just wonder if like the idea of a kid
<v Speaker 2>going up to their parents or whoever it may be
<v Speaker 2>and being like, I want to PlayStation is gone now
<v Speaker 2>beca because people are like I want Fortnite Bucks V
<v Speaker 2>Bucks or I want Roadblocks Box instead, And how much
<v Speaker 2>of that I would love to know from people, like
<v Speaker 2>to be like, what's the what's the kind of adoption
<v Speaker 2>rate for consoles among youngsters or people who traditionally would
<v Speaker 2>have been the engine behind console sales in the PS
<v Speaker 2>two Xbox three sixty era.
<v Speaker 1>You know, yeah, I mean my kids have asked for
<v Speaker 1>a PlayStation before, but they're weird. They live in their
<v Speaker 1>house with me, right, so yeah, it's a little bit different.
<v Speaker 1>The since I get is that no, that generation is
<v Speaker 1>definitely not asking for consoles, And really I think it's
<v Speaker 1>like pretty similar to the way music worked over time,
<v Speaker 1>where you know, you had your stereo. There was a
<v Speaker 1>stereo that that you know, everyone was really into, and
<v Speaker 1>everyone got their stereo, and eventually the stereo became something
<v Speaker 1>that dads have. It's something that the dad has, And
<v Speaker 1>I have my Walkman and this is my personal music
<v Speaker 1>device and it ain't as powerful or whatever. It's that stereo.
<v Speaker 1>Who care? This is my little device? And I think
<v Speaker 1>we're seeing that happening. You know, obviously it's not one
<v Speaker 1>to one, but the switch being a personal you know,
<v Speaker 1>a handheld, and now the steam deck and people seeing
<v Speaker 1>that the like everything come to steam and being like,
<v Speaker 1>I just get a steam deck. I think something similar
<v Speaker 1>has happened. And of course, really that is smartphones. I
<v Speaker 1>have my smartphone. I don't need a console U And
<v Speaker 1>so yeah, I just think consoles are for dads, right,
<v Speaker 1>you know, or for for old older folks, and if
<v Speaker 1>they're in the house with you, you might use one,
<v Speaker 1>but like you said, you're gonna use it to get
<v Speaker 1>on roadblocks and things that are like your friends are
<v Speaker 1>already on and you just don't view it as this
<v Speaker 1>important walled garden the way we did, because they really
<v Speaker 1>aren't anymore.
<v Speaker 2>No, no, And I think this is one of the
<v Speaker 2>acceleing factors in you know, consoles becoming less and less
<v Speaker 2>obvious walled gardens, with you know, Microsofts being like, hey,
<v Speaker 2>this is a Xbox. That is an Xbox that you
<v Speaker 2>see that man walking down the road, He's an Xbox.
<v Speaker 2>That kind of thing, and Sony being like, hell, no,
<v Speaker 2>we're not keeping all of our games on PlayStation anymore.
<v Speaker 2>Everyone can have them. We're going to put them on
<v Speaker 2>PC whatever, and you know, presumably leading up to Xbox
<v Speaker 2>will have PlayStation games. So I definitely see where this
<v Speaker 2>is going, and it is a wild state of affairs.
<v Speaker 2>But I think that's, like I said, I think, I say,
<v Speaker 2>there's definitely some level of contributing factor to the decline
<v Speaker 2>of consoles, and I think it's going to carry on
<v Speaker 2>continuing this way until sadly we reach a place where,
<v Speaker 2>you know, the ways we experience games no longer happen anymore.
<v Speaker 2>We won't be buying hardware. We'll be you know, downloading
<v Speaker 2>an application, and internet will be fast in our subscription
<v Speaker 2>service will be like accessible enough for the target audience
<v Speaker 2>that it's just we're just streaming everything. And I hate
<v Speaker 2>the sound of that. But also it seems inevitable, you know,
<v Speaker 2>Like my kids never asked for a console anymore, so
<v Speaker 2>it's just like, no, they've never They just want our
<v Speaker 2>he tuna in a can, all right, right, I'll get
<v Speaker 2>you the of course.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, my cat, we got them those cheesy treats and
<v Speaker 1>he is a crack addict for those things it is.
<v Speaker 1>It's a bad thing. I got it. Once he's done,
<v Speaker 1>I'm cutting them off, all right. Yeah, so hardware down
<v Speaker 1>forty five percent. As far as game sales go, this
<v Speaker 1>is like, you know, the top twenty best selling games
<v Speaker 1>physical and full games digital from the E Shop, PlayStation Steam,
<v Speaker 1>Xbox platformers at platforms for publishers in the digital leader panel,
<v Speaker 1>which is their way of saying the the publishers that
<v Speaker 1>share the data with them over there. At Sircana, Call
<v Speaker 1>of Duty Black Ops six was number one again, Madden
<v Speaker 1>NFL twenty five was number two again. Final Fantasy seven
<v Speaker 1>Rebirth meanwhile, which that just dropped on PC? Right, is
<v Speaker 1>that what happened there? That went from fifty six to
<v Speaker 1>number three? So big jump there. The only new game
<v Speaker 1>on this list like new four the month is Donkey
<v Speaker 1>Kong Country returns at number eight, and of course that
<v Speaker 1>doesn't include digital does not share digital.
<v Speaker 2>Yeahs back, baby.
<v Speaker 1>Yes he is. It's it's well, I'm trying to like
<v Speaker 1>see if there's even anything else like relatively new on
<v Speaker 1>this list.
<v Speaker 2>The other thing is like, and Jeff, you can if
<v Speaker 2>at any point you feel like it's getting awkward too, weird.
<v Speaker 2>Like I'm just gonna say it, but you can cut
<v Speaker 2>me off. The other thing that I think really impact
<v Speaker 2>the impact is games himself. You know, let's talk about wokeness, Okay,
<v Speaker 2>in video games.
<v Speaker 1>I would never cook it off. That'd belation of your
<v Speaker 1>freedom of speech.
<v Speaker 2>I'm not talking about wokeness.
<v Speaker 1>Yep. The rest of this list is like a Super
<v Speaker 1>Mario Party Jamboree at number fourteen and elden Ring at fifteen.
<v Speaker 1>There are so many games on the line.
<v Speaker 2>Still, the.
<v Speaker 1>Crew Motorfest jumped to eighteen. What happened there is the
<v Speaker 1>Crew Motorfest having like a resurgence. Tam hard to play
<v Speaker 1>a Crew Motorfest. I haven't played the.
<v Speaker 2>Crew Modelfest has just in the background quietly been good.
<v Speaker 2>I guess, funny, Okay, it's a it's a it's a
<v Speaker 2>good game. They clearly have like zeroed in on a
<v Speaker 2>sustainable community and they're just serving that community, and like
<v Speaker 2>it's a Like I said back then, it's not my
<v Speaker 2>kind of game that I would play play like long term.
<v Speaker 2>But when I played it back in the day, I
<v Speaker 2>was like, oh, this is pretty good. This is it's
<v Speaker 2>doing the same thing that like four Honor did where
<v Speaker 2>people some people played it are like nah, and they
<v Speaker 2>moved on, but like quietly in the background, things just
<v Speaker 2>been popular, you know. And as far also like there's
<v Speaker 2>not a lot of racing games coming out, you know
<v Speaker 2>that there's a big turnover of audiences where you're going
<v Speaker 2>from one game to the next in the genre. You
<v Speaker 2>pick a racing game and at this point you've probably
<v Speaker 2>played Forzer or Grand Turismo, and the crew is the
<v Speaker 2>one that feels most alive. So makes sense, yep.
<v Speaker 1>I think the last point I would take away from
<v Speaker 1>the Sikana report, and of course this was January. Not
<v Speaker 1>a toime happened in January. That's the reality. That's why
<v Speaker 1>they aren't a lot of new games on the list,
<v Speaker 1>And if there were new games that popped off, they
<v Speaker 1>probably weren't from publishers that Sir Kana gets data from.
<v Speaker 1>That's probably what happened there. But the accessories one is
<v Speaker 1>always one I like to look at. During the pandemic,
<v Speaker 1>accessory sales were growing every month, massive, like leaps and bounds.
<v Speaker 1>They were growing, and that was because people were planning
<v Speaker 1>to spend a lot of time playing video games, and
<v Speaker 1>accessories is something people spend money on even if they're
<v Speaker 1>playing the same game over and over. If you're playing Fortnite,
<v Speaker 1>maybe you do go get a new controller, Maybe you
<v Speaker 1>do go get a headset, maybe you invest in one
<v Speaker 1>of those expensive controllers, things like that. That accessory category
<v Speaker 1>has been dropping pretty consistently now for a while, and
<v Speaker 1>now it's kind of, you know, plummeting a little bit
<v Speaker 1>down twenty eight percent versus last year. Yeah, so in
<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty three it was one hundred Yeah. January twenty three,
<v Speaker 1>who there was one hundred ninety two million. Yeah, and
<v Speaker 1>it must have dropped. There must be a typo here
<v Speaker 1>because he said one hundred ninety four million that would
<v Speaker 1>be up for this year. So yeah, he doesn't have
<v Speaker 1>the right numbers here, but he says that you fell
<v Speaker 1>twenty eight percent. PlayStation portal A portal, excuse me, was
<v Speaker 1>the month's best selling accessory. But beyond that, people are
<v Speaker 1>not buying headsets of controllers the way they once were,
<v Speaker 1>And I think that is looking into the data if
<v Speaker 1>you want to find some evidence that people are not
<v Speaker 1>as hot on live service games as they once were.
<v Speaker 1>I think this is like your best bet when you
<v Speaker 1>look at like what hardware sells because this is the
<v Speaker 1>category ware controllers and headsets sell because of those kinds
<v Speaker 1>of games, and people are just not planning to spend
<v Speaker 1>much time playing those games anymore. So it really does
<v Speaker 1>feel like all everything is pointing towards and obviously we're
<v Speaker 1>seeing this with games like Concord Crashing and burning. But
<v Speaker 1>if people are still like, hey, maybe our live service
<v Speaker 1>game could do well, I would be like, I don't,
<v Speaker 1>I don't know. The temperature seems wrong for those kinds
<v Speaker 1>of games. Right now. Is that something that sounds right
<v Speaker 1>to you?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah? I right now. I would not be trying to
<v Speaker 2>get into the live service market, as I think it's
<v Speaker 2>fairly obvious that that that you better have something exceptional
<v Speaker 2>if you think you can kick it in that market anymore.
<v Speaker 2>I just don't think that it's a small businession these days.
<v Speaker 2>But that's not going to stop people from trying to
<v Speaker 2>make it. Definitely gonna still happen, but yeah, got it.
<v Speaker 1>Someone a chat points out that they got a Hall
<v Speaker 1>effect controller, which is, you know, the sensors don't use
<v Speaker 1>the mechanical things, they use magnetic fields, so you don't
<v Speaker 1>get stick drift, and stick drift happens on everything, not
<v Speaker 1>just switch. But it happened especially bad on switch, but
<v Speaker 1>it happens on everything. And they're saying, I got a
<v Speaker 1>Hall Effect controller. It's not drifting, it's not breaking, it's
<v Speaker 1>lasting a lot longer. So I'm buying fewer controllers than
<v Speaker 1>I once was. I'd say, oh man, that model of
<v Speaker 1>just letting these like using cheap components so they break
<v Speaker 1>on a regular schedule so people have to buy a
<v Speaker 1>new one. That really that was a real thing. And
<v Speaker 1>it does feel like it's finally over. I finally broke it.
<v Speaker 2>This is the one. Okay, this is the controller.
<v Speaker 1>This is that thing, the ultimately the eight big differentdim
<v Speaker 1>is what TAM's holding up.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I've got another one over there is so good.
<v Speaker 1>Yep.
<v Speaker 2>I just it's this is the one I talked about
<v Speaker 2>on the Game of the stuff.
<v Speaker 1>Yep.
<v Speaker 2>Just whenever I need it, it works. It just works.
<v Speaker 1>Every one chats popping off for it too, yep.
<v Speaker 2>And like it works better than Microsoft's official Microsoft Gaming
<v Speaker 2>Controller for the Microsoft platform on the Microsoft operating system,
<v Speaker 2>which cannot maintain a connection yeah more than like three
<v Speaker 2>minutes at a time. Absolutely dog shit behavior.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, I think, having especially when the ultimate comes with
<v Speaker 1>the dock and the dock you could put the you
<v Speaker 1>could plug the dock into your PC with the USB cord,
<v Speaker 1>and then the dongle sits in the dock, so it's
<v Speaker 1>right there, pretty close to probably where you're gonna be playing.
<v Speaker 1>It's such a good idea and it is such a
<v Speaker 1>strong connection. I've never had any issues with it. I know,
<v Speaker 1>I talk about this thing all the time, so Droia,
<v Speaker 1>we get it, we get it. But man, I really
<v Speaker 1>do love it. So it's so good, yep, so good.
<v Speaker 1>And I do not feel the need to get new
<v Speaker 1>controllers unless it's like I could get a couple more
<v Speaker 1>of those for when like the girls want to play
<v Speaker 1>or something. That's where I'm at with that, all right,
<v Speaker 1>Let's move along here. Call of Duty's new update is
<v Speaker 1>apparently teasing a Tony Hawk's pro skater reveal. This is
<v Speaker 1>from Eddie McCoo at GameSpot. Call of Duty's big new
<v Speaker 1>season two reloaded update is out now, and fans quickly
<v Speaker 1>discovered that one of the maps added to Black Black
<v Speaker 1>Ops six appears to point to a Tony Hawks pro
<v Speaker 1>skater reveal soon the Grind map I Get It, which
<v Speaker 1>takes place at a skate Park. I get it includes
<v Speaker 1>a banner that says three four twenty five with the
<v Speaker 1>iconic pro Skater logo above, and that as in March fourth,
<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty five, but also three to four, as in
<v Speaker 1>Tony Hawk's pro Skater three plus four. I don't think
<v Speaker 1>that's coincidence. Assuming it's styled for America, this would put
<v Speaker 1>point to March fourth, twenty twenty five. Exactly what could
<v Speaker 1>happen on that day, however, is unknown. It was previously
<v Speaker 1>reported that a new Tony Hawks pro Skater remaster would
<v Speaker 1>launch this summer, and if that's true, then March fourth
<v Speaker 1>could be when the game is revealed or at least
<v Speaker 1>teased further. Yeah, I am yeah, okay, I get Europeans
<v Speaker 1>in chat think it's April third, but it's not March
<v Speaker 1>March fourth. We're gonna get some more details here. I've
<v Speaker 1>heard Tony Hawk's pro Skater three plus four before, like
<v Speaker 1>a year ago, that that it's been like an open
<v Speaker 1>secret of being rumored online very frequently. Tony Hawk himself
<v Speaker 1>has like said something that's gonna happen in the future
<v Speaker 1>when this uh uh yeah, and then Tony Hawk like
<v Speaker 1>responded with the eyes emoji on social media. Uh so, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>feeling pretty good about this one at this point, Tam,
<v Speaker 1>I am excited, how about you.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, I'm excited for people who love the Tony
<v Speaker 2>Hawk's games and me one of those people. Like I'm
<v Speaker 2>I've been a passing Tony Hawk enjoyer, like I said,
<v Speaker 2>just educational enjoyer of it. Like I was never super
<v Speaker 2>into those games. I was. I was. I was an
<v Speaker 2>SSX boy. Okay, I played sex Tricky those are my
<v Speaker 2>That was my trick based game series that I was into.
<v Speaker 1>I'm out rushmore of this genre for sure.
<v Speaker 2>Hell yeah. And I I just kind of like playing
<v Speaker 2>Tony Hawk heron there just to be like, well these
<v Speaker 2>games about why do people love them? And I got
<v Speaker 2>it just wasn't for me. It makes perfect sense that
<v Speaker 2>they would want to release the first like re release
<v Speaker 2>complition was well received, right so, and there's a desire
<v Speaker 2>for it. I just do wonder are they building up
<v Speaker 2>to a new Anthony Hawk game, because I would be
<v Speaker 2>I would be fascinated to see if that's that would
<v Speaker 2>have happened, especially in a world where skate is kind
<v Speaker 2>of existing.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I think that they will definitely have that as
<v Speaker 1>a consideration. My big question, I think it is the
<v Speaker 1>question has been surrounding this project since we since it's
<v Speaker 1>been rumored, is who is making it? Because Vicarious Visions
<v Speaker 1>is now Blizzard Albany, they work on Diablo. There's no
<v Speaker 1>way that they're going to like let those people reform
<v Speaker 1>a studio outside of that to go make this game.
<v Speaker 1>At least I don't think that's possible. So like, what
<v Speaker 1>is that studio, Like, what is the sustainability of that
<v Speaker 1>studio to continue working on Tony Yawk projects after this?
<v Speaker 1>Is it? Like, No, we have a team that's making
<v Speaker 1>this game, and we're going to keep them together and
<v Speaker 1>they're going to keep working on stuff like this going forward,
<v Speaker 1>and stuff like this could mean you know, Thug one
<v Speaker 1>plus two remasters or remakes and then eventually a new
<v Speaker 1>Tony Hawk game. I mean, I think that's possible. I
<v Speaker 1>think they are maybe building up to that, but there's
<v Speaker 1>no guarantee at all that that is what they're different.
<v Speaker 1>That's not their plan. It is just maybe one thing
<v Speaker 1>that could happen coming out of this. I think, do.
<v Speaker 2>You reckon they keep it like oh internal where it's like, oh,
<v Speaker 2>this is the this Call of Duty team is currently
<v Speaker 2>not that busy, so we just put them on this
<v Speaker 2>or do you reckon they work with a third party?
<v Speaker 1>Are you asking you like they work for like an
<v Speaker 1>outside studio on this? Is that what you're asking Yeah? Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>yeah yeah so uh Turbo Shawn and Chad has a
<v Speaker 1>great idea toys for Bob, toys for Bob.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I was gonna say, toys Bob? And is it?
<v Speaker 2>Did b NOx still exist?
<v Speaker 1>I think b Knox still But isn't bnox the one
<v Speaker 1>that did? Who did Tony Ox pro Skater five? Was
<v Speaker 1>that b Knox? Let me see here. I just got
<v Speaker 1>to know for my own personal edification. They don't get
<v Speaker 1>they did help with Tony OOKX pro Skater one plus two?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, one and two. So that's who I would think
<v Speaker 2>it would be.
<v Speaker 1>And like the yes, thank you Robomoto did tony Ex
<v Speaker 1>pro Skater five? Okay?
<v Speaker 2>So be.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yes, And I think maybe that's possible that that's
<v Speaker 1>the kind of team that they'd be able to be. Like, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>you're helping call of duty still, but you can have
<v Speaker 1>a team inside of there. Take the technology that was
<v Speaker 1>already established by Vicarious Visions and yourself, and because you're
<v Speaker 1>familiar with it just take that same exact thing and
<v Speaker 1>just make the content from three plus four instead, and
<v Speaker 1>then we have a game again if that's If that's
<v Speaker 1>the case, I think they probably like wrap things up
<v Speaker 1>here for now and then they wait a long time,
<v Speaker 1>kind of like they did this time, and maybe come
<v Speaker 1>back to Thug one plus two. But I don't think
<v Speaker 1>they try to spool that up to a new Tony
<v Speaker 1>OKX pro Skater game anytime soon. That's just me trying
<v Speaker 1>trying to avoid myself from getting hurt, because I would
<v Speaker 1>like them to just keep doing tonyak games every every
<v Speaker 1>handful of years. You know. It doesn't have to be
<v Speaker 1>like it once was, where we got a new one
<v Speaker 1>every year. That'd be crazy, But every four to five
<v Speaker 1>years a new Tony Hawk game would be fantastic. And
<v Speaker 1>I'm fine with sometimes their remakes and sometimes they're a
<v Speaker 1>new game. But we'll see what the appetite is from
<v Speaker 1>Microsoft for that after this. Because Tony Hawk's pro Skater
<v Speaker 1>one plus two was the best selling Tony Hawk game
<v Speaker 1>franchise that has always done very well, so that must
<v Speaker 1>mean it sold very well, and I'm sure it did.
<v Speaker 1>It's a fantastic remake. Well three plus four replicate that.
<v Speaker 1>I think that's a good chance of doing very well.
<v Speaker 1>I doubt it's as it sells as well as one
<v Speaker 1>plus two, just because that was pent up demand. But
<v Speaker 1>if it sells very well, I think Microsoft will find
<v Speaker 1>a way to continue to justify because I think they
<v Speaker 1>want to still want to be a diversified publishing environment.
<v Speaker 1>Even though they are less interested in game Pass these
<v Speaker 1>days than maybe they once were, they're not so much
<v Speaker 1>less interested in it that they don't want to have
<v Speaker 1>a bunch of variety of content in there. So Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I think Tony Hawk fits very nicely with everything they're
<v Speaker 1>trying to do.
<v Speaker 2>I think it's one of the wilder parts of this
<v Speaker 2>story is announced through Call of Duty.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, which is crazy, very good points.
<v Speaker 2>I don't I mean, like, I don't really care that much,
<v Speaker 2>but it's just like it's kind of weird that Activision
<v Speaker 2>is announcing a brand new game and a well known
<v Speaker 2>franchise that has some motion behind it in Call of Duty.
<v Speaker 2>It's like, why, what, why is it the only thing
<v Speaker 2>that like they can see anymore. It's like, the only
<v Speaker 2>way we exist is Call of Duty. If we do
<v Speaker 2>anything in need to somehow be filtered through Call of Duty.
<v Speaker 1>It's like wild again. But I mean I think, uh,
<v Speaker 1>they're right. They're thinking is the Tony Hawk people will
<v Speaker 1>find out about this. The people who care about this
<v Speaker 1>will find about it, find out out about one way
<v Speaker 1>or another, that doesn't matter. We're going to try to
<v Speaker 1>reach out to a wider audience. And what is the
<v Speaker 1>widest audience that we like have captivated Call of Duty
<v Speaker 1>players in our live service Call of Duty games. So yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I think that is then being like, let's like try
<v Speaker 1>to really push this Tony Hawk game, make a big
<v Speaker 1>deal about it, Let's tell the Call of Duty people
<v Speaker 1>about it. And uh, I'm I'm in favor of it.
<v Speaker 1>I think it's a good move. We'll see if it
<v Speaker 1>pans out, we'll see people care. But you're I think
<v Speaker 1>you're definitely right that when they're when they start thinking about, hey,
<v Speaker 1>how can we reach out to people, all they see
<v Speaker 1>is Call Duty because it really is, it's much bigger
<v Speaker 1>than anything else they have other than Minecraft, I guess,
<v Speaker 1>And that's not really the way Microsoft works. That's like
<v Speaker 1>Activision is kind of a silo over here in Minecraft's
<v Speaker 1>over there, they can tease another Activision game, Tony Hawk
<v Speaker 1>inside of Call of Duty pretty easily. Doing that with
<v Speaker 1>their other things that are under the Microsoft umbrella a
<v Speaker 1>little bit more difficult for those teams. So yeah, I
<v Speaker 1>think this fit well and we'll see if it actually
<v Speaker 1>pays off. But I'm glad they're trying to make call
<v Speaker 1>or make Tony Hawk feel like a big deal, even
<v Speaker 1>to the Call of Duty people.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, good for them.
<v Speaker 1>Wed Yep, it's it's definitely not not not weird, it's weird.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I think it'll be funny if they announced another
<v Speaker 2>Activision game. It's like, oh, X game is back, but
<v Speaker 2>it's announced for Call of Duty again. All of the
<v Speaker 2>announcement should go for Call of dutey know, no matter ways,
<v Speaker 2>it should be fire us back via Call of Duty.
<v Speaker 1>Should I worry that what's actually happening here is that
<v Speaker 1>there's going to be ninety dollars worth of Tony Hawk's
<v Speaker 1>skins in Call of Duty instead of a new Tony
<v Speaker 1>Hawk game.
<v Speaker 2>I would be slightly worried, But I also feel like
<v Speaker 2>that the fact that we've had a Tony Hawk one
<v Speaker 2>plus two means that, yeah, they come out and they're like,
<v Speaker 2>we've made Tony Hawk three and four, but it's only
<v Speaker 2>available through Call of Duty. That would be insane if
<v Speaker 2>it's like a corner of the is it still for
<v Speaker 2>densk corner? Like people are just like fucking skating over
<v Speaker 2>there and dudes with guns are like, well, nerds, dude,
<v Speaker 2>we're dying over here.
<v Speaker 1>I kind of hope it's like they do both. I
<v Speaker 1>hope it's that that the game comes out and Tony
<v Speaker 1>Hawk is in Call of Duty and they kind of
<v Speaker 1>like recognize that they have this Smash Brothers like effect
<v Speaker 1>that they can have, where it's like people discover games
<v Speaker 1>because a character was in Smash Brothers start putting characters
<v Speaker 1>into Call of Duty to sell other games, and I
<v Speaker 1>think that, yeah, I think that can work. It would
<v Speaker 1>annoy me though, that you think about, like there's kids
<v Speaker 1>out there that only discover Tony Hawk cous of Call
<v Speaker 1>of Duty. That would bother me. But I'm an old man.
<v Speaker 1>Lots of things bother me. All Right, I'm gonna fade
<v Speaker 1>to black for a real quick break. Everybody. We're gonna
<v Speaker 1>come right back after this to talk about Samurai pizza cats.
<v Speaker 2>For some reason, we actually have time for a break
<v Speaker 2>because I need to run and pe.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, we could take a real break. Go take away. Well,
<v Speaker 1>you know what, I'm just gonna start talking about it.
<v Speaker 1>You just hop back in when you get back.
<v Speaker 2>Okay. I don't know anything about Pizza Cats.
<v Speaker 1>Or Tam. Go ah, Tam, where'd you go? Don't worry everybody,
<v Speaker 1>He'll be all right. It's okay. Yeah, the hot mics
<v Speaker 1>during the breaks, it's how we run this show. A
<v Speaker 1>game based on cal anime Samurai Piza the Cats is
<v Speaker 1>in development and Tam doesn't care, so I let him
<v Speaker 1>go take a walk for a little bit. He'll be
<v Speaker 1>back soon. This is from Chris Scullion at VGC. A
<v Speaker 1>new video game based on anime Samurai Pizza Cats is
<v Speaker 1>in development. Samurai Pizza Cats Blasts from the Past is
<v Speaker 1>coming to all major platforms in twenty twenty six, with
<v Speaker 1>a Steam page already up. Set to be published by
<v Speaker 1>Red Dune Games. The game is being developed by Dutch
<v Speaker 1>studio Blast Zero, best known for the anime inspired Beat
<v Speaker 1>Them Up Jitsu Squad. The game is described as a
<v Speaker 1>two D action RPG, and we'll see players able to
<v Speaker 1>switch between the members of the Pizza Cats has to
<v Speaker 1>explore the world of Little Tokyo. Each cat will have
<v Speaker 1>the abilities. Yeah, we're still on Samurai Pizza Cats, Tam,
<v Speaker 1>You're my Samurai Pizza my favorite. It's an anime, so
<v Speaker 1>you should know about it.
<v Speaker 2>I know of it, but I don't know about it.
<v Speaker 2>If you know I'm not about it, I am. I'm
<v Speaker 2>also now of that. I don't know what that means.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, this looks like it's for people who I
<v Speaker 2>wouldn't us around children.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean it looks like it is one of
<v Speaker 1>those cartoons that got made because teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
<v Speaker 1>is a big thing, and you got, yeah what were like,
<v Speaker 1>what were the sharks? It's not Sewer Sharks, that's us.
<v Speaker 2>I know. No, the sewer Sharks is a thing, but
<v Speaker 2>it's like radical skating shots. Yeah, street thank you. Yes, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I think it's three Sharks. Because I was a Street
<v Speaker 2>Sharks was fine. I was more of a gargoyles person.
<v Speaker 2>But man, the anime series, those are the those are the.
<v Speaker 1>Top tier works of fiction of all time, Tam. Those
<v Speaker 1>are fantastic things. Biker mice from Mars, thank you. That's
<v Speaker 1>another good example, Tom, Tom, this is like, I think
<v Speaker 1>one of those. But people like Samurai Pizza Cats. I
<v Speaker 1>do remember it, like get getting brought up pretty frequently. Uh,
<v Speaker 1>it is still incredibly weird that they're making a game
<v Speaker 1>based on this A two d's it's made by Red
<v Speaker 1>Dune Games that's supposed publishing it, and Dutch studio Blast
<v Speaker 1>Zero that's known for the anime inspired Beat Them Up.
<v Speaker 1>Jitsu Squad is developing it.
<v Speaker 2>Cool man, good luck to you.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>I like Summariz, I like pizza, and I like cats. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>so winning formula.
<v Speaker 1>It's also got a good look. I like the way
<v Speaker 1>it looks.
<v Speaker 2>It's like, look like Mega Man.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's exactly what it is. Tim, that's one, right,
<v Speaker 1>And I like cats and I like things that look
<v Speaker 1>like Mega Man. So fantastic. Yeah, and Sashawn says Jitsu
<v Speaker 1>Squad was pretty solid. So yeah, I'm sure. I bet
<v Speaker 1>this is going to be surprisingly good. Still to the
<v Speaker 1>action RPG, you would just kind of assume it's going
<v Speaker 1>to be a beat him up. But hey, cool, that's
<v Speaker 1>that sounds neat. It sounds like maybe like one of
<v Speaker 1>those GBA Dragon ball Z games or something like that.
<v Speaker 1>We'll see.
<v Speaker 2>I forgot there's another TM and T game coming out.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, there's a man just happened constantly. I think we're
<v Speaker 1>going to talk about that. I put that in the story.
<v Speaker 1>I did not put that in the rundown.
<v Speaker 2>From strange scaffold, which is the wildless part of it.
<v Speaker 1>Strange scaffold? Would they do?
<v Speaker 2>Uh so, what do you call it? Strange scaffold? The
<v Speaker 2>xavan and Nelson's.
<v Speaker 1>Oh right, right right, Oh that's right. Yeah, man, prolific
<v Speaker 1>person that does that wild here, that's wild. Teenage mutant
<v Speaker 1>ja turtles. The skins are in call of duty. If
<v Speaker 1>you want to get all the skins, ninety dollars, ninety
<v Speaker 1>dollars for all the teenage mutan ninja turtles.
<v Speaker 2>Come good, which I mean it looks like Michael bay Ones.
<v Speaker 1>I mean that's the that's the thing that like, just
<v Speaker 1>to go back to Tony Hawk real quick. If they
<v Speaker 1>put Tony Hawk's skins in call of duty, what do
<v Speaker 1>you think makes more money for activision tam Tony Hawk's
<v Speaker 1>pro skater pre plus four or the Tony Hawks skins
<v Speaker 1>and call of duty?
<v Speaker 2>Uh? Neither is making them a crazy amount of money
<v Speaker 2>because the people to play that call of duty they're
<v Speaker 2>not of the Tony Hawk generation.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, but everybody just played call of duty from all
<v Speaker 1>these like just across the board.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know what it was the last time you
<v Speaker 2>played it.
<v Speaker 1>You're right, Yeah, I only play it.
<v Speaker 2>When you're talking about Tony Hawk.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, okay, you're right. I still think I think there's
<v Speaker 1>a chance that the Skins make more money though. That's
<v Speaker 1>that's the scary thing.
<v Speaker 2>Do people believe I just looked at the chat, which
<v Speaker 2>I rarely do, but like, do people believe that people
<v Speaker 2>who are playing Call of Duty war Zone give a
<v Speaker 2>shit about Tony Hawk? Because you are delusional if you
<v Speaker 2>think that it is true. That's insane. Like the the
<v Speaker 2>the audience of Call of Duty war Zone is so
<v Speaker 2>far beyond the people who know who Tony Hawk is.
<v Speaker 1>To me, like, Call of Duty is just like every
<v Speaker 1>Like there's so many playing people playing Call of Duty
<v Speaker 1>that you're gonna be able to sell something about anything
<v Speaker 1>to the audience because that it's basically the audience of
<v Speaker 1>the world at a certain point. Like a lot of
<v Speaker 1>older like a lot of older gamers have been playing
<v Speaker 1>Call of Duty their entire life and still play. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>but yeah, like when Spider Man is in a game
<v Speaker 1>like this, for sure.
<v Speaker 2>The international audience for Call of Duty, like Call of
<v Speaker 2>Duty is is bolstered by abroad by so many different
<v Speaker 2>people than what people think. You know, in America equalities
<v Speaker 2>for old boomers, but like around the world, it's not
<v Speaker 2>the same man Like, it is very different.
<v Speaker 1>Right, Tony Hawk is like well, okay, maybe not Tonyak specifically,
<v Speaker 1>but Tonyaka is looked upon as a figure of skating.
<v Speaker 1>Skating is more popular globally than it's ever been. It
<v Speaker 1>is massive in Japan, massive in South America, like national
<v Speaker 1>sport level of popularity in Brazil, in Japan.
<v Speaker 2>So I end up, Yeah, Tony Hawks still still that
<v Speaker 2>is he like in.
<v Speaker 1>Those communities, So I think that, So I think that
<v Speaker 1>might translate like he's not like you're You're right, they
<v Speaker 1>don't know him the way that I know Tony Hawk.
<v Speaker 1>Where I was like, I was watching the X Games,
<v Speaker 1>which is a thing that was a TV show on
<v Speaker 1>linear cable in the nineties, Like definitely not having that experience.
<v Speaker 1>But those kids still make jokes about like, oh I
<v Speaker 1>met a guy that looks like kind of like Tony Hawk,
<v Speaker 1>and it'll they'll take a picture of themselves with Tony
<v Speaker 1>Hawk and stuff like that.
<v Speaker 2>He's an im I don't think. I don't think Tony
<v Speaker 2>Hawk stuff in call of Duty makes crazy amount of
<v Speaker 2>like a dozen more numbers. I think it does more
<v Speaker 2>than the three and four game would. I think together
<v Speaker 2>they won't do any like blockbuster numbers or anything like
<v Speaker 2>to get excited about. They will just break even maybe
<v Speaker 2>a little bit higher, have a long tail. But I
<v Speaker 2>just don't think there's a massive overlap between people on
<v Speaker 2>on on like Call of Duty and people who care
<v Speaker 2>about Tony Hawk.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. I do wonder about like that number of like
<v Speaker 1>tonyok Skater one plus two sold better than any Tony
<v Speaker 1>Ooks game, tonyok Skinner game before that. I'm like, is
<v Speaker 1>that just part that there are more people in the
<v Speaker 1>world now, like I think just a large numbers game.
<v Speaker 2>I mean that's a big part of it. Yeah, that's
<v Speaker 2>a huge part of it.
<v Speaker 1>More people playing games than ever, so that just kind
<v Speaker 1>of helps that. Yeah, yeah, all right, let's keep going here.
<v Speaker 1>Split fiction supports games sharing between formats. This is from
<v Speaker 1>Jonas mackiet Game Reactor. We already knew that Hayes Light's
<v Speaker 1>upcoming Split Fiction. Just like the studio's previous game, It
<v Speaker 1>Takes Two, can be played online with a friend, even
<v Speaker 1>if only one of you owns the title. Basically, you
<v Speaker 1>got like a cub on to share with someone else,
<v Speaker 1>and you can both play this game at the same time.
<v Speaker 1>Now it's been clarified via Instagram that this concept is
<v Speaker 1>not only back in Split Fiction, something we knew before,
<v Speaker 1>but it has been further improved. The offer also applies
<v Speaker 1>to cross play. Anyone who owns the game for Xbox
<v Speaker 1>can play with someone who has a PC or PlayStation
<v Speaker 1>five but does not own the title. We can only
<v Speaker 1>hope that more developers will follow this concept. Split Fiction
<v Speaker 1>will be released on March sixth, and now we're looking
<v Speaker 1>forward to it even more.
<v Speaker 2>Joseph Ferris is wilding house Someway just like doing.
<v Speaker 1>Like Randy Pitchford was like freaking out trying to get
<v Speaker 1>cross play to happen on like with PlayStation and he
<v Speaker 1>couldn't make it happen. And then Joseph Ferris is just
<v Speaker 1>make put.
<v Speaker 2>Off magic tricks. Joseph first is who Randy Pichford thinks.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, yeah, yeah, and is like.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Joseph ferrist is, I think like he's doing what
<v Speaker 2>Elon Randy Patremord thinks he's doing, like he thinks he
<v Speaker 2>has that presence, you know, I understanding these magic tricks
<v Speaker 2>you know, yeah, he makes well he has like has
<v Speaker 2>an Elon energy on special K all the time. Yeah, absolutely,
<v Speaker 2>and and like compared to like, you know, josepheris being
<v Speaker 2>a little more legitimate. I was trying to figure out
<v Speaker 2>who would be the equivalent in in you know, in
<v Speaker 2>the tech industry, but all the tech people are bad,
<v Speaker 2>so I didn't want to be like they're bad, yeah
<v Speaker 2>Bill Gates, because Bill Gates is suck all the like,
<v Speaker 2>no one really good. But yeah, it shot to Joseph
<v Speaker 2>just being like I'm doing I don't care. I mean also,
<v Speaker 2>like I mean.
<v Speaker 1>Right, like this is this is a game. You're going
<v Speaker 1>to be like, am I gonna buy this game? I
<v Speaker 1>gotta find someone to play with. That's annoying and they
<v Speaker 1>have to convince them by it as well, that's a
<v Speaker 1>non starter. But this like really solves all of their problems.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, So during this spolit fiction event, I got to
<v Speaker 2>talk to him, and like his whole thing is like
<v Speaker 2>if no one just tries to do it, it's never
<v Speaker 2>gonna happen, and you have to be basically it was
<v Speaker 2>like you have to be an asshole about it, and
<v Speaker 2>that's exactly what I'm doing. Like I just go in there,
<v Speaker 2>say what I want, stand my ground, and sometimes it works,
<v Speaker 2>and this is one of those situations. But I think
<v Speaker 2>I talked about this before as well, but like it
<v Speaker 2>also benefits them because they have an ecosystem which is
<v Speaker 2>like self sustaining at this point, it's almost like I
<v Speaker 2>talked to him about it and I was like, you
<v Speaker 2>have your own like Haze like ecosystem where you're one
<v Speaker 2>of the few developers who are actively making co op games.
<v Speaker 2>Even a fewer subset of them are making split screen
<v Speaker 2>co op games, and even few of them are making
<v Speaker 2>it on a scale and budget that you have access
<v Speaker 2>to with the backing of EA, which means if you
<v Speaker 2>do them right, you have this unique type of game
<v Speaker 2>that people play, and if they're good, the first thought
<v Speaker 2>is I had such a good time with that playing
<v Speaker 2>with someone, I want to do more of that. And
<v Speaker 2>when they want to do more of that, and they
<v Speaker 2>look what other games are like it, it's all Haze
<v Speaker 2>like games for the most part yep. So like it
<v Speaker 2>behooves them to keep trying to speak to as many
<v Speaker 2>people as possible because ultimately, when they decide they want
<v Speaker 2>to spend more money on something like that, Either past
<v Speaker 2>present or future. They look at what's available to them.
<v Speaker 2>It's more of the hazel like games for the most part,
<v Speaker 2>so it makes perfect sense for them.
<v Speaker 1>Yep. I think it's clearly early on. I think I
<v Speaker 1>was skeptical of this whole thing. I'm like, all right,
<v Speaker 1>that's a cool little trick you're doing with a way out.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Oh, they're doing it again with it takes two g
<v Speaker 1>And then of course that game goes on to win
<v Speaker 1>Game of the Year. And I still never played it
<v Speaker 1>because I don't it's hard for me to like schedule
<v Speaker 1>time to play a game with other people in general.
<v Speaker 1>But I like, okay, fair enough, they figure up, they
<v Speaker 1>found something that works, and they've conquered this idea. Clearly
<v Speaker 1>they'll move on. And now that they've tripled down, I'm like, oh,
<v Speaker 1>I finally kind of understand it. It's what you just described,
<v Speaker 1>this path of like building something and being the only
<v Speaker 1>ones in that space and then when people look for it,
<v Speaker 1>you're the only vendor that can provide that sort of experience. Oh,
<v Speaker 1>I get it now.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. And you know the article said, oh, we hope
<v Speaker 2>other developers learn from this. They won't. Yes, I don't
<v Speaker 2>think it's sustainable for a lot of a lot of
<v Speaker 2>most companies and developers at the type with the types
<v Speaker 2>of games that they are making. I feel like even
<v Speaker 2>if Hazeler and Joseph Astone I admit, they are somewhat kind
<v Speaker 2>of careful about the scale and type of game that
<v Speaker 2>they make because they have to factor in the fact
<v Speaker 2>that they're going to be giving a bunch of these
<v Speaker 2>games away. I don't think it's a business model that
<v Speaker 2>you can quickly apply to all games or a bunch
<v Speaker 2>of other games without changing the type of game, the
<v Speaker 2>budget that you have, the scale of the game, and
<v Speaker 2>like various other factors that will change the overall experience
<v Speaker 2>to be different. So yeah, I don't think many others
<v Speaker 2>are going to be learning for it. It might be
<v Speaker 2>a few situations where others are in a position to
<v Speaker 2>also adopt this, but yeah, I don't think it's likely.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, I think you're You're also right in that
<v Speaker 1>you know they're in a very unique position, right because
<v Speaker 1>think about the kinds of studios that would think that
<v Speaker 1>this idea, that this is something they could pull off.
<v Speaker 1>If you're an indie studio, you got to get kind
<v Speaker 1>of a little bit bigger to compete in this space now,
<v Speaker 1>because these like split fiction doesn't look indistinguishable from a
<v Speaker 1>lot of like I guess Double A games. For as
<v Speaker 1>useful as that term is, it's not very useful. It
<v Speaker 1>looks it looks like a pretty high budget game. It
<v Speaker 1>takes two, it's like a full fledged massive game with
<v Speaker 1>like a lot of content in there. But then if
<v Speaker 1>you're on the other side, if you're like this big
<v Speaker 1>Triple A studio, you're like that this will limit our
<v Speaker 1>our potential audience if we can only sell to people
<v Speaker 1>who are going to play cooperatively. So we're not going
<v Speaker 1>to do that either. But you know, Hayslight is, you know,
<v Speaker 1>basically an independent studio that constantly works with EA now
<v Speaker 1>and has had a lot of success doing so. So
<v Speaker 1>they have this backing of a major publisher, and so
<v Speaker 1>it's a unique position that where they can kind of
<v Speaker 1>do this and can be the only ones that can
<v Speaker 1>really make this make sense.
<v Speaker 2>All right, agreed?
<v Speaker 1>All right, let's move on here to the switch O
<v Speaker 1>led Mario Wonder bundle revealed ahead of Mario Days from
<v Speaker 1>Liam Dulan and Nintendo Life. We talked about this before,
<v Speaker 1>but now it's confirmed. Nintendo is releasing this thing. It's
<v Speaker 1>basically already up for sale. It will launch on March first,
<v Speaker 1>so about a week from now. That leads into Mario
<v Speaker 1>Day on March tenth, So they're not holding this back
<v Speaker 1>for a Mario Day presentation or anything like that. But
<v Speaker 1>that doesn't mean they won't have something to talk about
<v Speaker 1>on Mario Day. They usually do. But obviously Nintendo in
<v Speaker 1>a little bit of a weird spot because switch To
<v Speaker 1>is coming, and a lot of people assume because switch
<v Speaker 1>To is coming, a new three D Mario, or at
<v Speaker 1>least a new game from that three D Mario team
<v Speaker 1>will be coming as well. And with that in mind,
<v Speaker 1>it's like, oh, well, you know, what are they going
<v Speaker 1>to be able? What are they going to actually have
<v Speaker 1>for this Mario Day. Well, it might be stuff like
<v Speaker 1>this little gestures towards that huge audience that has come
<v Speaker 1>into Nintendo gaming and Mario, an interest in Mario since
<v Speaker 1>the movie popped off so hard, and Nintendo has a
<v Speaker 1>product targeted right at that audience and could take advantage
<v Speaker 1>of that. Do you expect Nintendo to have any like,
<v Speaker 1>I don't like a Mario thirty five equivalent like they
<v Speaker 1>had a few years ago, because we are I think
<v Speaker 1>we are at the fortieth anniversary right for Mario this year?
<v Speaker 1>Is that right? Yeah, it's something like that.
<v Speaker 2>I think so. I honestly don't know where Nintendo is
<v Speaker 2>at these days with this kind of celebratory stuff because
<v Speaker 2>it was it was pretty much the only thing they
<v Speaker 2>were doing for a really long time, right, Like those
<v Speaker 2>are a pair of where it's just like, oh, another
<v Speaker 2>anniversary style thing is coming out, which is like, oh great.
<v Speaker 2>I think for with a new platform on the horizon,
<v Speaker 2>it might behoove them to focus on building momentum with
<v Speaker 2>new things, but I wouldn't be surprised if they sprinkle
<v Speaker 2>in some of this like remember us we go, We've
<v Speaker 2>got the Mario he's still knocking about.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah. I think the other thing here is, you know,
<v Speaker 1>just something that didn't get announced at like a mini
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo director or something that could be happening still. Like
<v Speaker 1>I said, I've heard something might happen, but that was
<v Speaker 1>vague and odd, and pH Brasil from who has had
<v Speaker 1>these rumors before, keeps saying he's hearing something. We'll see.
<v Speaker 1>At this point, I don't expect to be anything major
<v Speaker 1>because if it's gonna happen, in February. That would mean
<v Speaker 1>next week now, and next week is I think there's
<v Speaker 1>an Xbox showcase of some kind, Like are they doing
<v Speaker 1>like I think they're doing other indie things, right, I
<v Speaker 1>meant to look into that. Let's see Xbox already, Xbox
<v Speaker 1>show let's see here news. Yeah, I'm meant to. I'm
<v Speaker 1>meant to double check on this, but I think, okay,
<v Speaker 1>for sure, Pokemon Direct is happening next week, ID in Xbox. Yes,
<v Speaker 1>the indie Xbox Showcase happened next week, and there's I
<v Speaker 1>think there's like one other show happening, so maybe a
<v Speaker 1>bunch of stuff will happen, and Nintendo we'll have something
<v Speaker 1>as well. At the very least Pokemon Direct will happen.
<v Speaker 2>And yeah, what what is this story that you never mentioned?
<v Speaker 2>Elden Ring movie.
<v Speaker 1>There's an elden Ring movie. I'm sorry, Cam, I'm dying. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>you're dying. Elder Ring movie, all right, let's see.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, I.
<v Speaker 1>Can see this, and I sort of like, I'm like, well,
<v Speaker 1>that's that thing. George, Yeah, George r R. There is
<v Speaker 1>some talk about making a movie out of elder Ring,
<v Speaker 1>but there's one big obvious thing that could limit his
<v Speaker 1>involvement with it. That's cotdy Nyegan. I don't know.
<v Speaker 2>There's no way this gets made. However, if it does, George,
<v Speaker 2>I would like to play the role of I'll record,
<v Speaker 2>but if you can get me in as Buck the seams,
<v Speaker 2>so I'll take that as well.
<v Speaker 1>You know. I would just like to do some of
<v Speaker 1>the motion capture for some of the bosses. That's just
<v Speaker 1>something in there, and I will just do some freaky
<v Speaker 1>stuff with my body for you.
<v Speaker 2>I'll do that regardless.
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna do that. I'm gonna do that no matter what.
<v Speaker 1>But if you want to point a camera at it
<v Speaker 1>and capture some data for a computer, but I'll give
<v Speaker 1>you full permission right now, all right. Last thing here,
<v Speaker 1>among Us VR is getting a non VR release called
<v Speaker 1>among Us three D. Basically, they're just adapting the VR
<v Speaker 1>game that they made two three D so that they
<v Speaker 1>any everyone could play together VR people will be able
<v Speaker 1>to play with people on PC. Now cool. Yeah, among
<v Speaker 1>Us still a pretty big game.
<v Speaker 2>Among Us became a VR game and now it's being
<v Speaker 2>on the VR. But somehow it's a different game, a
<v Speaker 2>different game.
<v Speaker 1>Yep. I I like among Us. I don't play it
<v Speaker 1>like all the time, but like, that's the game I
<v Speaker 1>want to check in on like once a year. So
<v Speaker 1>maybe maybe we'll use this as as an excuse to
<v Speaker 1>play some among us.
<v Speaker 2>I would I would, I would be done for that
<v Speaker 2>would be fun.
<v Speaker 1>Well, last thing, you know, that was the last headline
<v Speaker 1>I have here, But there was that story that Super
<v Speaker 1>Giant was going to replace some actors voice actors because
<v Speaker 1>of the strike. They just came out and said, we're
<v Speaker 1>not doing that. So I'm like, that's it sounds like
<v Speaker 1>it's not really a story, but you know, that's that's
<v Speaker 1>you all caught up on that. Now. If anything does
<v Speaker 1>change there, we'll we'll cover it. But I just don't
<v Speaker 1>think there's much happening there.
<v Speaker 2>Oh game Boy, what's going on?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, we talked about that yesterday. So the Lego game
<v Speaker 1>Boy they announced that previously, but they haven't given us
<v Speaker 1>any details about it. They gave us a price. It's
<v Speaker 1>like sixty dollars for a four hundred and twenty one
<v Speaker 1>piece set something like that, and it's coming out soonish, yes,
<v Speaker 1>so yeah, it's a little bit more expensive per Lego
<v Speaker 1>brick than other licensed kits from Lego. So it's like, oh,
<v Speaker 1>what's going on? There. But other than that, Hey, cool
<v Speaker 1>lego game boy, I want one.
<v Speaker 2>Can you tell how busy I've been lately, because I'm
<v Speaker 2>just seeing news from like two days gonna be like
<v Speaker 2>what buff?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah? I was like, I'm like, I know you said
<v Speaker 1>you were okay for today, but I'm like, is he
<v Speaker 1>going to be there? I thought he was still traveling?
<v Speaker 1>So okay, there we go. All right, let's get to
<v Speaker 1>the poll question. This one's from yesterday. I have it
<v Speaker 1>right there if it loads in fantastic. Do you use
<v Speaker 1>AI tools for work? You had all those AI news
<v Speaker 1>that AI news from Microsoft talking about how they're going
<v Speaker 1>to have their.
<v Speaker 2>Developers use series of announcements. But it's like, dog, this
<v Speaker 2>is the worst time for you to do this. Ship man.
<v Speaker 1>I know, and I don't get why they all these
<v Speaker 1>companies still come out and I mean, I guess they're
<v Speaker 1>talking to people who don't immediately rollerrize to that stuff.
<v Speaker 2>But investors, Yeah, they're told to investors. I don't think
<v Speaker 2>there's a single group of people outside of investors. And
<v Speaker 2>like the bubble, I air bubble that needs to know
<v Speaker 2>when you're doing an AI product because otherwise it has
<v Speaker 2>a net negative effect on anything that you're doing.
<v Speaker 1>If it's good, If it's good, just put it out
<v Speaker 1>and people will adopt it, right, Like, let it just
<v Speaker 1>speak for itself at a certain point.
<v Speaker 2>Don't just do it if you're out there being like investors,
<v Speaker 2>if you're going like AI, it's just for people who
<v Speaker 2>have money investing and start stunks and stuff like that.
<v Speaker 2>Because let me tell you, I've been using AI unfortunately
<v Speaker 2>for a bunch of things, because it's forced into my
<v Speaker 2>workflow via just you know, suddenly you open email application
<v Speaker 2>and it's got a and you're like, oh fucking do
<v Speaker 2>you even get a choice? I got the new I've phone.
<v Speaker 2>Apple Intelligence the most useless a joke I encountered life. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>it is like offensively annoying with how unusable it is
<v Speaker 2>and pointless is and it's like they're using it to
<v Speaker 2>market the new phones is a big thing. I'm like,
<v Speaker 2>is crap. It has not made my life easier in
<v Speaker 2>any way. Yep, this is bizarre.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, Apple Intelligence is especially bad, but that's the
<v Speaker 1>truth for a lot of them. Uh. The result the
<v Speaker 1>results here are seventy four percent said no, twenty six
<v Speaker 1>percent said yes. I don't use AI for this job ever.
<v Speaker 1>I have used AI for when I have a bunch
<v Speaker 1>of thoughts that I write down in a notebook or
<v Speaker 1>like a notepad notepad app, and I'm like, oh, I
<v Speaker 1>wish I like, all this is kind of a mess.
<v Speaker 1>I wish I could just have something organize it. I
<v Speaker 1>use it for that. And then yesterday I was making
<v Speaker 1>homemade slime with my daughters and my hands were covered
<v Speaker 1>in sticky slime and like, I'm like trying to get
<v Speaker 1>the instructions out because there's a little thing that says
<v Speaker 1>how to make it less sticky. But first of all,
<v Speaker 1>it was poorly translated, probably by AI, and I couldn't
<v Speaker 1>understand a thing that was same. Also, it was hard
<v Speaker 1>to like turn the pages because my hands were sticky.
<v Speaker 1>So I met my phone there I'm like, uh, okay,
<v Speaker 1>you know the company that owns everything, Uh, how do
<v Speaker 1>like what like what should I do if the slime
<v Speaker 1>is too sticky? Can you explain it? And the AI
<v Speaker 1>voice came up and it's like it just explained it
<v Speaker 1>because I that's the case where the Internet is going
<v Speaker 1>to have that over and overgain the answer for that.
<v Speaker 1>It is a decided known thing. I can trust that
<v Speaker 1>the results for that will probably be accurate, and if
<v Speaker 1>they're not, the worst case scenario is my hands are
<v Speaker 1>still sticky from slime.
<v Speaker 2>It's low stakes as the most insane anecdote and context
<v Speaker 2>for using I've ever heard.
<v Speaker 1>I think it's going to be way more common. Everybody's
<v Speaker 1>going to be covered in slime. Do you know how
<v Speaker 1>popular slime is with kids? Damn? Kids love slim. Elmer's Glue,
<v Speaker 1>the company that owns Elmer's Glue started selling like the
<v Speaker 1>old out of Elmer's glue because that's the basis for
<v Speaker 1>home for homemade slime, to the point where they had
<v Speaker 1>their best earnings ever after this began to pop off.
<v Speaker 1>It's it's nuts.
<v Speaker 2>What's going with people?
<v Speaker 1>Aither way?
<v Speaker 2>Listen.
<v Speaker 1>I don't love it. I hate my hands being sticky.
<v Speaker 1>It was very uncomfortable, But my kids really love it,
<v Speaker 1>so whatever, I bear it for them. All Right, we
<v Speaker 1>got a new pole question. We'll get to here in
<v Speaker 1>a second. But first, dam why don't you tell people
<v Speaker 1>we have going on where they could find you on
<v Speaker 1>the internet, like where the results and a lot of
<v Speaker 1>this cool stuff you've been doing recently will pop up?
<v Speaker 1>All that good stuff.
<v Speaker 2>The only a I like is Alan iverson I am
<v Speaker 2>on as tomorrehtomorrow dot com on Blue Sky. The stuff
<v Speaker 2>that we're working on is still kind of behind the scenes,
<v Speaker 2>is slowly going to be start to get a rollout.
<v Speaker 2>We've been triling new styles of content that will hopefully
<v Speaker 2>make their way out in a in an interesting way
<v Speaker 2>for folks to enjoy. You know, we're gonna have Giant
<v Speaker 2>Pollman Games working closer together on a bunch of things.
<v Speaker 2>You'll you'll see a lot more collaboration happening because we're
<v Speaker 2>all very good friends and it doesn't make sense for
<v Speaker 2>us to try and make two polls of content when
<v Speaker 2>we can make, you know, a singular pool that's even
<v Speaker 2>better while still maintaining our kind of unique identities. It
<v Speaker 2>should be fun, it should be enjoyable.
<v Speaker 1>It's gonna be We have a lot more to say
<v Speaker 1>about it soon, like all the details and stuff like that.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and yeah, Giant Bomb isn't going away. Game Spot
<v Speaker 2>isn't going away. We're not forming into one. We just
<v Speaker 2>realized that we have the most fun when we're in
<v Speaker 2>the same space is working together. Because we would go
<v Speaker 2>to like a game fest and work together and it's
<v Speaker 2>such a good time and we're like, oh, we came
<v Speaker 2>up with we came up with these amazing ideas. So
<v Speaker 2>now it's just like, oh, let's let's just you know,
<v Speaker 2>break down that barrier as much as we can and just.
<v Speaker 1>Trying to people there I want to work with more
<v Speaker 1>frequently exactly.
<v Speaker 2>So it's going to be interesting and it's going to
<v Speaker 2>be a kind of iterative process where we work with
<v Speaker 2>you know, the people who are watching the audience, uh,
<v Speaker 2>both live, vo social, whatever it may be, to kind
<v Speaker 2>of iterate on on this stuff. It's going to be
<v Speaker 2>very live focused, but there will be vod elements of it,
<v Speaker 2>and we're trying to strengthen the community and build a
<v Speaker 2>more creative output of you know, shows and content, and
<v Speaker 2>it's going to be enjoyable. I hope people look forward
<v Speaker 2>to it.
<v Speaker 1>That's right. I'm yeah, and like, like, like I said,
<v Speaker 1>we love a lot more to say. Soon it will
<v Speaker 1>be pretty obvious how things are different, but it's not
<v Speaker 1>going to be massive change. And if you like shows
<v Speaker 1>like this, you have nothing to worry about. I'm not
<v Speaker 1>going anywhere.
<v Speaker 2>I've seen some stuff about this show. Yeah, yes, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I've given approval on some things on this show, and
<v Speaker 2>it's gonna be good.
<v Speaker 1>It's gonna be a good time. All right. Let's see here,
<v Speaker 1>new poll question. Did you ever watch Samurai Pizza Cats?
<v Speaker 1>Yes or no? I just want to get your response
<v Speaker 1>on that, which will be very informative to me based
<v Speaker 1>on like my assumptions on this audience. I have no
<v Speaker 1>idea like what the results of this are going to be.
<v Speaker 1>So we'll talk about this on Game Best Mornings on
<v Speaker 1>Giant Bomb on Monday, speaking a Giant Bomb. Uh. We
<v Speaker 1>don't have a plan for BCR and UPF, so I'm
<v Speaker 1>gonna go figure that out right after this, everybody, we're
<v Speaker 1>gonna do something today. Watch play more Overwatch. I might
<v Speaker 1>because we don't have a plan. I might try to
<v Speaker 1>get Thug Pro going, okay, because we it's it was
<v Speaker 1>very easy to install, and if I can like gather
<v Speaker 1>together people to play that, we might make that happen.
<v Speaker 1>But we'll see. All right, let's see so kan hig
<v Speaker 1>Wen just said play this. I'm a click on that.
<v Speaker 1>Whatever it is, I'm gonna play at Whisker Squadron Survivor
<v Speaker 1>sounds like a pornography game, so I'll say that.
<v Speaker 2>Is this stoughtbox?
<v Speaker 1>It looks like a Starbucks. Actually, yeah, there's a hand.
<v Speaker 2>In the chat, relaxed. Brad is not leaving. Brad is fine,
<v Speaker 2>He's not going anywhere.
<v Speaker 1>Do you guys get that idea? All right, let's see here.
<v Speaker 1>Anything else that we should point out. Uh, we'll be
<v Speaker 1>back next week. Last last Friday, I'm like, i'll see
<v Speaker 1>you on Monday, and then we had Monday off. I
<v Speaker 1>had no idea. This Monday, I'm pretty sure we'll be back.
<v Speaker 2>I will not be here next Friday.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, yeah, that's right, Yes, I will be traveling. All right,
<v Speaker 1>no problem. Well, we'll get someone to stand in for
<v Speaker 1>you as best we can, which is never very good.
<v Speaker 2>But in the meantime, I find my my find my
<v Speaker 2>official replace replacement, Jordan Middler.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, we'll just get him. It's been a minute, so
<v Speaker 1>we'll get Jordan back all right tomorrow. Who's saying? Thank
<v Speaker 1>you so much for hanging out with me today and
<v Speaker 1>talking about video games. Man, I really appreciate it.
<v Speaker 2>Thank you for having me, love doing it. I know
<v Speaker 2>we'll see you again very soon.
<v Speaker 1>See you again. Thank you all for watching, thank you
<v Speaker 1>for listening. Until next time, have a good one, take
<v Speaker 1>care of yourself, and goodbye.