Sony Files Patent for New PlayStation Touchscreen Controller

<v Speaker 1>Hey, everybody, welcome to Game This Mornings with Me Jeff Greb,
<v Speaker 1>your host from giant bomb dot com. Thank you for
<v Speaker 1>tuning in. In this episode, we're going to be talking
<v Speaker 1>about reviews for a much anticipated RPG reimagination and did
<v Speaker 1>Sony just patent its next gin controller. It's gonna be
<v Speaker 1>a good one because we have lex Selati on the show. LEXI,
<v Speaker 1>how are you doing well?
<v Speaker 2>Before we talk about how I'm doing, Let's take a
<v Speaker 2>second to celebrate y'all. What a weekend?
<v Speaker 3>What thank you?
<v Speaker 2>What a level stream? And I had one of those
<v Speaker 2>nights where I just wasn't able to sleep. I've been
<v Speaker 2>having a lot of like sleeping stuff recently, and I
<v Speaker 2>wound up just having that stream open most of the night.
<v Speaker 2>And boy, the vibes were really good. And you ate
<v Speaker 2>so much money for such a good cause, and Dan
<v Speaker 2>looked like a bit of a fool, which was also.
<v Speaker 3>Just the joy. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and I have good news for you.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Then the Perfect Weapon or whatever the name of that
<v Speaker 2>game was is ongog.
<v Speaker 1>I think I've decided I will find some way to
<v Speaker 1>actually play through that game on content. Yeah, yes, I
<v Speaker 1>want to see it through. It is way longer than
<v Speaker 1>our friend Ben Hansen thought. But that's ain't that the
<v Speaker 1>way with Blake Club game.
<v Speaker 2>You know that game is good because trying to find
<v Speaker 2>any reviews for it is near impossible. Because I was
<v Speaker 2>trying to send stuff to Dan over discord that you
<v Speaker 2>could like read out to annoy you. And I was
<v Speaker 2>trying to find clips of like reviews or stuff from
<v Speaker 2>the time, and they were pretty much only in European magazines,
<v Speaker 2>so most of them were like French or German.
<v Speaker 1>I was like, it is really difficult to play, Like
<v Speaker 1>just getting that character to move around is. It's not
<v Speaker 1>just frustrating, it is truly infuriating, especially when everyone's watching,
<v Speaker 1>like why don't you just go do that?
<v Speaker 3>It's at The controls are bad. They change.
<v Speaker 1>From tank controls to something else when you're in combat,
<v Speaker 1>and it's not like it's locked on and suddenly it's
<v Speaker 1>direct controls.
<v Speaker 3>It just doesn't make any sense.
<v Speaker 1>So I think I need quite a bit more time
<v Speaker 1>to actually get used to that whole thing, and really
<v Speaker 1>I don't think I'll ever get.
<v Speaker 3>Used to it.
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, that was the really bad game I played.
<v Speaker 1>Ben Hansen selected for selected at it for me to
<v Speaker 1>play as the Blake club that we did during the
<v Speaker 1>men Max Giant Bomb ice out stream. Oh yeah, we
<v Speaker 1>ended up raising a little over two hundred and sixty
<v Speaker 1>thousand dollars. That link is still live if anyone missed it.
<v Speaker 1>If you want to go back and watch it, and
<v Speaker 1>then you want to contribute still, you go to Bitley
<v Speaker 1>Slash Ice out Minneapolis Now Minnesota, Minneapolis, you can donate
<v Speaker 1>and keep inflating that number. It's all going to an
<v Speaker 1>organization called Veep Veap in Minneapolis that is helping to
<v Speaker 1>feed people who are afraid to leave their houses, but
<v Speaker 1>also providing rent assistance for people that, like are afraid
<v Speaker 1>to go to their jobs. So it's going to make
<v Speaker 1>a huge difference. We're really proud of it, and we're
<v Speaker 1>really proud of the communities coming through. And I got
<v Speaker 1>to say, Lexie, I'm I'm of the suspicion that it
<v Speaker 1>was the community coming out and the video game industry.
<v Speaker 2>I think there's a lot of I saw a lot
<v Speaker 2>of people outside of the usual Giant Bomb family resharing
<v Speaker 2>those posts.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, and yeah, I think there's a lot of will
<v Speaker 1>and desire in video games the people who make video
<v Speaker 1>games to do more, and they are locked down in
<v Speaker 1>a bunch of ways so when they see something like this,
<v Speaker 1>they can feel comfortable coming to support through us. And
<v Speaker 1>we're just glad we can kind of be a little
<v Speaker 1>sign post and point people in the right direction.
<v Speaker 3>And get something done there.
<v Speaker 1>So just yeah, in love with everyone who who contributed,
<v Speaker 1>everyone who watched, everyone who shared.
<v Speaker 3>So thank you for saying that. I really appreciate it.
<v Speaker 2>I will also say that my rabbit hole of research
<v Speaker 2>led me to another PS one game that I sent
<v Speaker 2>on to Mike Manari. But I'm going to send on
<v Speaker 2>to you too because I I think it might be
<v Speaker 2>like kryptonite for a certain Dan leikush So and this
<v Speaker 2>game has even less coverage of it online.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, all right there.
<v Speaker 1>I have been getting a lot of people being like,
<v Speaker 1>here's something that will hurt Dan, and I welcome it.
<v Speaker 3>Everybody keep sending it my way.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, let's be real, he's due, he's do one.
<v Speaker 3>Oh yes, exactly, Yeah, yeah, that's what Mike. He said.
<v Speaker 1>We should both be punished. It's a two person job
<v Speaker 1>picking the game. Oh whatever, I think I can handle it.
<v Speaker 1>I've been able to handle it before, so we'll see.
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<v Speaker 3>Hello YouTube. All right, we have a lot to.
<v Speaker 1>Get into, so let's start the morning mess with dragon
<v Speaker 1>Quest seven Reimagined reviews.
<v Speaker 3>I believe they started to hit this morning.
<v Speaker 1>It has an eighty six out of one hundred on
<v Speaker 1>Open Critic. I want to say I didn't write that down,
<v Speaker 1>but that's what it was this morning. Pretty sure it
<v Speaker 1>is still there. Got a seven out of ten from
<v Speaker 1>Ali barter At, who's a contributor at Forbes, who said, overall,
<v Speaker 1>dragon Quest seven Reimagined is a stunning rebuild of a
<v Speaker 1>classic PlayStation role playing game. The stop start aspect of
<v Speaker 1>the short story structure is still there, but definitely improved. However,
<v Speaker 1>despite its technical brilliance, it feels a little solace at
<v Speaker 1>times and doesn't hit you the way most dragon Quest
<v Speaker 1>games do, so I can only really recommend this to
<v Speaker 1>diehard fans of the original game, who will no doubt
<v Speaker 1>love it. Got a nine out of ten from Nick
<v Speaker 1>Buntz at The six Axis, who said Dragon Quests seven
<v Speaker 1>Reimagined is a very very impressive remake. Twenty six years
<v Speaker 1>after its original release, This modernized edition of the game
<v Speaker 1>is everything I want from an RPG, and I can
<v Speaker 1>tell and I can imagine it landing very well with
<v Speaker 1>people who grew up partying with Kiefer and Marabell. It's
<v Speaker 1>held back from a perfect score by only the smallest
<v Speaker 1>of gripes around pacing, and then eight out of ten
<v Speaker 1>from Robert Ramsey at Push Square.
<v Speaker 3>Dragon Quest seven.
<v Speaker 1>Reimagined is a very high quality remake and a potent
<v Speaker 1>reminder of just how endlessly charming the long standing series
<v Speaker 1>can be. Well, the story does still drag. It drag,
<v Speaker 1>its feats, its feats its feet at times. Sweeping gameplay
<v Speaker 1>improvements and some welcome streamlining make Reimagined a must for
<v Speaker 1>anyone with a hankering for old school JRPGs. Yeah, I've
<v Speaker 1>talked to a few people have played it. I played
<v Speaker 1>a little bit of the final version. I enjoyed it
<v Speaker 1>so far. I continue to think it looks really stunning,
<v Speaker 1>and I early on was not being put off by
<v Speaker 1>the pacing too much, but I could see it like, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>I was kind of expecting things to pick up at
<v Speaker 1>a certain point, and if it doesn't, then I could
<v Speaker 1>see that still being a problem. That was always the
<v Speaker 1>original complaint with this, right, right, let's see is that
<v Speaker 1>it just really dragged on in its original iteration and
<v Speaker 1>even in the previous re release, where they edited it
<v Speaker 1>down somewhat. This one did a lot more, and yet
<v Speaker 1>that's still kind of fundamental to what this game is.
<v Speaker 2>Right, Yeah, I'm playing another game at the moment where
<v Speaker 2>the pacing is kind of a divisive topic, and I
<v Speaker 2>think that with this game, one of the few negatives
<v Speaker 2>I have heard coming out of people is less that
<v Speaker 2>like like, oh, they you know, they really slim down
<v Speaker 2>the pacing and maybe it lost some of its charm
<v Speaker 2>in that regard, Like they seem to have done very
<v Speaker 2>well with that. The stuff that I've seen a little
<v Speaker 2>bit about is like, hey, maybe these quality of life
<v Speaker 2>improvements are sound like standing off edges that gave these
<v Speaker 2>games personality to begin with, because I know the two
<v Speaker 2>and three and or the three and the one and
<v Speaker 2>two remakes both kind of had a lot of quality
<v Speaker 2>of life things, but it seems like a lot of
<v Speaker 2>those are on by default in this and so yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I'm curious to see how people wind up feeling about
<v Speaker 2>the difficulty of this game when it comes down to us.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I you know, it's a concept I always go
<v Speaker 1>back to and discussing this sort of idea, But like
<v Speaker 1>the Pepsi challenge of is this game that like, initially
<v Speaker 1>just hits really hard for people, and it's like, oh,
<v Speaker 1>this is sweet and easy to go back to and
<v Speaker 1>kind of makes things a lot more friendly, and then
<v Speaker 1>in the long term it doesn't quite like you don't
<v Speaker 1>like it as much because it doesn't have that same
<v Speaker 1>character to it.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I could see that happening here.
<v Speaker 1>Although it does sound like you know, in eighty six
<v Speaker 1>is hard to get on open critic. People who showed
<v Speaker 1>up to review this game certainly knew what they were
<v Speaker 1>getting into. I do wonder, hey, can new people come
<v Speaker 1>to this, and and the reviewers themselves are saying that
<v Speaker 1>they can't really tell this is going to be the
<v Speaker 1>Dragon Quest seven that people will be able to go
<v Speaker 1>back to and be like, oh no, now I like
<v Speaker 1>this game when I never even tried it before.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I'm also you know, I'm curious to see how
<v Speaker 2>it does sales wise, just because it is in a
<v Speaker 2>lot of ways the like the Dragon Quest one in
<v Speaker 2>two and three remakes are still ultimately, you know, very
<v Speaker 2>eight bit looking games, whereas this is the first modern
<v Speaker 2>looking dragon Quest or turn based wall PG since eleven
<v Speaker 2>and eleven kind of wants the big breakout outside of Japan.
<v Speaker 2>And I've interviewed a few Dragon Quests people over the
<v Speaker 2>last few years and certainly have high hopes for expanding
<v Speaker 2>the franchise and continuing to push it outside of Japan.
<v Speaker 2>But like it's it's worth noting this is the first
<v Speaker 2>time that Dragon Quest seven has like officially released in Europe,
<v Speaker 2>which is wild to think about. So all the previous
<v Speaker 2>versions never got power releases at the time, So yeah,
<v Speaker 2>it's it's definitely a game that's going to be played
<v Speaker 2>by people for the first time as well, which is
<v Speaker 2>worth bearing in mind.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you're right that they definitely saw the response through
<v Speaker 1>Dragon Quest eleven and that sort of shifted their thinking
<v Speaker 1>about what the ceiling globally for this franchise could be.
<v Speaker 1>And and you know, I think they have plans to
<v Speaker 1>do something like this or the one, two three remakes,
<v Speaker 1>remasters whatever in it for all of the games eventually,
<v Speaker 1>and it will be like interesting to see how they
<v Speaker 1>take this going forward. I bet everything after seven gets
<v Speaker 1>something along the lines of these, Although I don't know.
<v Speaker 2>What long this game did come out in Europe. It
<v Speaker 2>was Dragon Quest two that never came out or dragon
<v Speaker 2>that never came out on you up. Sorry, I mixed
<v Speaker 2>up who I interviewed. I interviewed like three Dragon Quest
<v Speaker 2>people at games Calm last year, and I felt very confusing.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, yeah, don't I get that, But yeah, I am.
<v Speaker 1>I think that they will continue to figure out this
<v Speaker 1>this series in terms of how to make it as
<v Speaker 1>widely appealing, and then hopefully the like going forward Dragon
<v Speaker 1>Quest twelve, which they which they've talked about saying that
<v Speaker 1>that would be the most welcoming or kind of the
<v Speaker 1>having the least rough edges of any dragon Quest, and
<v Speaker 1>it's like, oh, I wonder what that means.
<v Speaker 3>And they kind of even even talked about maybe limiting
<v Speaker 3>the turn.
<v Speaker 1>Based battle a little bit. So I don't really know
<v Speaker 1>what any of that's going to mean. We haven't seen
<v Speaker 1>that game in any real way. So I just hope
<v Speaker 1>this game, this series can maintain its character while also
<v Speaker 1>growing like a resident Evil has which kind of goes
<v Speaker 1>back and forth on maintaining its character versus kind of
<v Speaker 1>being big and bombastic.
<v Speaker 3>But yeah, we'll see, all right.
<v Speaker 1>Numerous video game companies share prices dropped following Google's Project
<v Speaker 1>Genie AI rollout because investors are just goofballs, goofballs.
<v Speaker 3>Dumb, just dead rat dumb.
<v Speaker 1>Just dumb as a hat that's been run over on
<v Speaker 1>the road that's sitting in a mud puddle.
<v Speaker 3>That's what their brains are. Just nothing. This is from
<v Speaker 3>Chris Calling at VGC.
<v Speaker 1>A number of video game companies have seen their share
<v Speaker 1>prices fall in the wake of Google's rollout of Project Genie.
<v Speaker 1>The company announced last week that it had started rolling
<v Speaker 1>out a prototype version of Project Genie, an AI tool
<v Speaker 1>that lets users generate their own playable worlds. According to Google,
<v Speaker 1>users can create worlds by either typing imprompts or uploading
<v Speaker 1>images they can. They then create their character in a
<v Speaker 1>similar way. Users can also define certain other properties, such
<v Speaker 1>as how the characters.
<v Speaker 3>Move or whether the world is explored in first person
<v Speaker 3>or third person.
<v Speaker 1>As players explore the world, the tool generates it generates
<v Speaker 1>it in real time depending on the actions the players
<v Speaker 1>makes and where they move the camera. People did this
<v Speaker 1>said what the results weren't very fun? Look whatever? Cool
<v Speaker 1>magic trick the idea that investors saw this lexi and
<v Speaker 1>then that day Take two, the publisher of Grand Theft
<v Speaker 1>Auto six, their stock price dropped ten percent. As if
<v Speaker 1>this is a threat to Grand Theft Auto six is
<v Speaker 1>a joke. These people don't know they controlled trillions of dollars.
<v Speaker 1>They don't know what they're they don't know their ass
<v Speaker 1>from a rat hole, what is happening?
<v Speaker 2>And so I wound up with like something of a
<v Speaker 2>populos skiche where I reposted Shnobi's reporter or like just
<v Speaker 2>run down of this, saying like when I explain to
<v Speaker 2>people that like investors are really really stupid, this is
<v Speaker 2>what I mean. And then I had a load of
<v Speaker 2>people in the applies being like, but now it's a
<v Speaker 2>great time to buy low, and I had this moment
<v Speaker 2>to like, no, you've missed the point here. I don't
<v Speaker 2>want to play the game. I'm not here because I'm
<v Speaker 2>looking for a good in I'm here to tell you
<v Speaker 2>the game fucking sucks. This game like it's like when
<v Speaker 2>you're halfway through a Mario party and someone's like anyone
<v Speaker 2>could win, Yeah, anyone could win. I don't want to
<v Speaker 2>fucking be here. I'm done, Like what are you talking about?
<v Speaker 2>This is ah Jesus Christ. This is so frustrating as
<v Speaker 2>anyone even if you know the if you know anything
<v Speaker 2>about like what AI is capable of, if you even
<v Speaker 2>use this Gemini demo, or you looked at someone use it,
<v Speaker 2>you could instantly go like, well, we can't sell that
<v Speaker 2>because like it's fourteen seconds, it doesn't last long enough
<v Speaker 2>to be a viable product. It is, like you said,
<v Speaker 2>a magic trick and nothing more. And the idea of
<v Speaker 2>people being like, well this is a sign of the times.
<v Speaker 2>Everything's gonna be gone for the games industry is like,
<v Speaker 2>oh honey. But the thing that really concerns me is
<v Speaker 2>that when the market shifts like this by idiots and
<v Speaker 2>being idiots with their money, does it is it a
<v Speaker 2>self fulfilling prophecy Because we've seen that before. We've seen
<v Speaker 2>as one Dan like it would say, people work themselves
<v Speaker 2>into a shoesh where they're like, well, if I believe
<v Speaker 2>this hard enough, then it has to be what the
<v Speaker 2>future is. I hope not AI reminds me a lot
<v Speaker 2>of I had a conversation with someone who was a
<v Speaker 2>very early developer in the vir space and kind of
<v Speaker 2>when it was like before the Oculus Swift came out,
<v Speaker 2>when it was still like dev tools were the only
<v Speaker 2>versions of your that you would be seeing, and they
<v Speaker 2>described me how easy it was to get investor money
<v Speaker 2>at the time, which was basically if you booked a
<v Speaker 2>meeting with a venture capital guy, and you put them
<v Speaker 2>in a room and you said, okay, here's a VI
<v Speaker 2>your head set, And the demo was just a your
<v Speaker 2>headset where there was a ball in an empty room
<v Speaker 2>and you could bounce the ball in view. They would
<v Speaker 2>open their check book and give you whatever you wanted
<v Speaker 2>because they were just so dumbfounded by the thing in
<v Speaker 2>front of them, because on paper they were like, they're
<v Speaker 2>investors' imaginations must be fucking magical because they are just like, well,
<v Speaker 2>this could be fucking anything. This could be like revolutionary
<v Speaker 2>for fucking anything. So yeah, obviously not financial advice, but
<v Speaker 2>I guess a bunch of video games soccer is cheaper
<v Speaker 2>than it is usually, so you know, maybe bare that
<v Speaker 2>in mine at the moment.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, exactly, not investment advice, talk to an expert. But uh,
<v Speaker 1>it seems like take twos on discount and if Grand
<v Speaker 1>Theft Thought of six comes.
<v Speaker 3>Out later this year, I bet that will reverse. But
<v Speaker 3>that's just a guess. I don't know.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I was joking with someone and glub you my
<v Speaker 2>enjoy this. You know the guy the two guys in
<v Speaker 2>the big short who are kind of like the nerdy
<v Speaker 2>kids who work with bad Kit Pitt's character.
<v Speaker 3>Huh.
<v Speaker 2>The thing about The Big Short is that that movie
<v Speaker 2>is about how the system is rigged and you can't
<v Speaker 2>actually winish and they're a large parts of like, hey,
<v Speaker 2>there's only so much they could actually win because they
<v Speaker 2>were outsiders and they were basically told like, hey, you're
<v Speaker 2>not alout play the game. But the problem is everyone
<v Speaker 2>watched The Big Short and they thought that if they
<v Speaker 2>set up an e Toro account, they could be the
<v Speaker 2>next Michael Bowie. And it's so fucking miserable. I hate
<v Speaker 2>it so fucking much.
<v Speaker 3>So yeah, yep, that's what that's the that it was.
<v Speaker 1>The story that we took away from all this was
<v Speaker 1>that a, instead of changing the system, you can just
<v Speaker 1>go in there. Maybe maybe you should be winning it
<v Speaker 1>instead of the people who always win it. And it's like, oh,
<v Speaker 1>that's I don't think that's gonna work out in the end.
<v Speaker 1>It might, you might get the game Stop story out
<v Speaker 1>of it, and they'll make a movie about that as well.
<v Speaker 3>But I tell you what's probably.
<v Speaker 1>Gonna happen in the end is things we'll return to the
<v Speaker 1>status quo and the people who always win will win
<v Speaker 1>in the long run. Yeah, it's like I get the
<v Speaker 1>idea of being mesmerized by new technology whatever. Like if
<v Speaker 1>you're if you're dumb and you don't understand that you're
<v Speaker 1>dumb and you don't understand it to then be like, well,
<v Speaker 1>this means that Grand Theft Auto six is screwed. Is
<v Speaker 1>just a leap in logic that can only happen if
<v Speaker 1>you are like your brain is completely focused on just
<v Speaker 1>making sure you take your next breath, like ninety nine
<v Speaker 1>percent of your brain powers.
<v Speaker 3>Just like, don't forget to breathe.
<v Speaker 1>Don't forget to breathe, because like all you have to
<v Speaker 1>do is talk to your nephew and be like, hey,
<v Speaker 1>what do you how do you feel about Ubisoft games?
<v Speaker 1>And it's like, well, I mean they used to be
<v Speaker 1>pretty cool, but then they kind of follow a cookie
<v Speaker 1>color formula.
<v Speaker 3>They all start to feel the same.
<v Speaker 1>I know, they go on sale because they're just following
<v Speaker 1>that formula, and that formula includes their business model. So
<v Speaker 1>I'll just show up a few weeks later, get it
<v Speaker 1>for cheap, and then I'm probably not even gonna like
<v Speaker 1>it that much, and I'll move on, and then I
<v Speaker 1>won't even buy the next game because it's gonna be
<v Speaker 1>the same thing again, and we're expecting, like the only
<v Speaker 1>thing best case scenario this genie AI does turn into
<v Speaker 1>something that can create a full game. The best case
<v Speaker 1>scenario is it can make something akin to like a
<v Speaker 1>Ubisoft game, and probably the worst version of one of those,
<v Speaker 1>because it's just like, build me a side quest, build
<v Speaker 1>me this where I do this, and the people look
<v Speaker 1>like that, and it's going on like this particularly listed.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's pretty much like it's really good if you
<v Speaker 2>wanted to play a version of like Claire Obscure, but
<v Speaker 2>all the characters were anime wife who's with big boobs
<v Speaker 2>and you didn't have the brain power to like insall
<v Speaker 2>some mods. That's about it.
<v Speaker 3>It is for real and it's oh man.
<v Speaker 1>And like the other side of this is that these
<v Speaker 1>video game companies that have been investing in AI also
<v Speaker 1>look like dipshits because of this, because look, the second
<v Speaker 1>that these investors thought they wouldn't need you anymore, they
<v Speaker 1>devalued your devalid your your stock immediately, like they were
<v Speaker 1>just like, oh we can we don't need the people
<v Speaker 1>who make the game games at all, like and the
<v Speaker 1>people that own the games, we don't need them.
<v Speaker 3>Anymore because we couldn't.
<v Speaker 2>It's not even we don't need the workers, we don't
<v Speaker 2>need the publishers. We could do it. We could make
<v Speaker 2>a fucking game, mean you, we could just make a game.
<v Speaker 1>We could win, We could win, we could be the winners, right,
<v Speaker 1>That's what they held themselves.
<v Speaker 3>It's like this, like and.
<v Speaker 1>If the way that these people were talking about AI,
<v Speaker 1>It's like, well, wasn't that, of course the end goal
<v Speaker 1>that someone could just say to the machine, make this
<v Speaker 1>for me, and they'll and they'll do it.
<v Speaker 3>Why do you think we need you? You be soft?
<v Speaker 3>Why do you think we need you? Ea?
<v Speaker 1>And it's like they don't have an answer to that question.
<v Speaker 1>It's just they assume they would be the winners because
<v Speaker 1>they always have been. Yeah, maybe it'll work for us.
<v Speaker 1>Is a strategy that these companies just keep going back to.
<v Speaker 3>And good luck with that. Uh.
<v Speaker 1>The company's stock prices are already rebounding today. I think
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo is up like five percent and Take two is
<v Speaker 1>up at like three percent and growing fast here.
<v Speaker 3>So uh yeah, that discount of isn't going to last.
<v Speaker 3>All right, let's take a break.
<v Speaker 1>When we come back, let's talk about Sony has a
<v Speaker 1>new patent for a touch screen controller. We'll talk about
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<v Speaker 1>this next one. Sony has patent and it did. I
<v Speaker 1>can never say that word. A touch screen PlayStation controller
<v Speaker 1>that lets players choose where to put the buttons. This
<v Speaker 1>comes from Chris Scullion at BGC. Sony has obtained a
<v Speaker 1>patent for special controller with a touch screen that lets
<v Speaker 1>players choose where the buttons should go. The patent was
<v Speaker 1>filed back in February twenty twenty three, but was issued
<v Speaker 1>last week and it's described as designs and Methods for
<v Speaker 1>a game controller. According to the patents description for accompanying images,
<v Speaker 1>the controller would have a large touch screen covering most
<v Speaker 1>of the top surface where the buttons usually go. The
<v Speaker 1>idea is that players would be able to customize where
<v Speaker 1>the dpad sticks or action buttons should be positioned on
<v Speaker 1>the controller to best suit their personal tastes, accessibility needs,
<v Speaker 1>or what best suits each specific game. It appears that
<v Speaker 1>players can also choose to resize the buttons, or even
<v Speaker 1>remove some buttons altogether for certain games. I don't want
<v Speaker 1>to immediately fall into the brunt of a person on
<v Speaker 1>podcasts without imagination who can't imagine the use case or
<v Speaker 1>something like this, So it's like, Okay, yeah, I could
<v Speaker 1>see accessibility. There's probably some potential there. I would imagine
<v Speaker 1>in most cases accessibility, probably it's desirable to have tactile buttons,
<v Speaker 1>buttons that you can feel out, but maybe that's not
<v Speaker 1>every case.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you know, I could certainly imagine accessibility cases where
<v Speaker 2>you don't want someone to have to put a lot
<v Speaker 2>of force on physical things. So like that, in that case,
<v Speaker 2>I totally see it. In every other case, I'm.
<v Speaker 3>Like, I don't know.
<v Speaker 2>I think the booming aftermarket for controller grips for phones
<v Speaker 2>is a pretty good like signal that people don't love
<v Speaker 2>using buttons on that or don't love using you know,
<v Speaker 2>buttons that aren't there on their phone. And I was
<v Speaker 2>gonna say digital buttons, but that's a different thing. But like, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I could. I think what we're gonna we might see
<v Speaker 2>more of is did you see all the stuff around
<v Speaker 2>the Retroid Pocket six.
<v Speaker 3>I know, I don't know if I saw it specifically
<v Speaker 3>what you're talking about.
<v Speaker 2>Basically, they released like, hey, this is what the RETROI
<v Speaker 2>Pocket six is gonna look like. And people were like
<v Speaker 2>really upset because the two sticks were on the bottom
<v Speaker 2>like a jewel sense and they were like, we want
<v Speaker 2>the stick where the dpad is. And they're also annoyed
<v Speaker 2>because they had a bit of a bezel, and that
<v Speaker 2>bezel actually made sense because it was where they were
<v Speaker 2>going to put the speakers, so the speakers would be
<v Speaker 2>in a better spot. But it was a whole thing.
<v Speaker 2>But basically they got out there and they were like, okay,
<v Speaker 2>well in that case, we'll let you buy one of
<v Speaker 2>two models, one that is a Xbox configuration and one
<v Speaker 2>that's a PlayStation configuration. I could see within the next
<v Speaker 2>couple of years Sony being like, we understand that there
<v Speaker 2>are people who do just prefer the Xbox button placement,
<v Speaker 2>and we're going to put out a controller that is
<v Speaker 2>like flash. I could see that, but I digital like
<v Speaker 2>touchscreen buttons. I know the feedback on them is so
<v Speaker 2>bad for the majority of players that people just don't
<v Speaker 2>like them. I could see it maybe as a replacement
<v Speaker 2>for the touchpad on the Jewel Sense itself, but also
<v Speaker 2>Sonya probably at a point where they're like, these controllers
<v Speaker 2>are fucking expensive as is. We don't want to be
<v Speaker 2>pushing like this anymore because people will stop buying them
<v Speaker 2>at a certain point, like they are a luxury item.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and you know, I screens cost how much these days?
<v Speaker 3>I don't know.
<v Speaker 1>Maybe this wouldn't add too much to the cost or whatever,
<v Speaker 1>but maybe it will, I will say, I don't I
<v Speaker 1>don't know. This doesn't feel like it makes a lot
<v Speaker 1>of sense. If you do want to use a touch
<v Speaker 1>screen controller, doesn't everyone already own one and it's a phone.
<v Speaker 1>I guess what's the benefit. I guess the benefit is
<v Speaker 1>you add some handles to something and make it a
<v Speaker 1>dedicated touch screen controller.
<v Speaker 3>At that point I have begin.
<v Speaker 2>To lose I mean, using a phone as a controller
<v Speaker 2>works so well for everybody's one to switch, so I
<v Speaker 2>can see why more companies would want.
<v Speaker 3>To do it.
<v Speaker 1>They want to be like, we're gonna put a patent
<v Speaker 1>on this, We own that idea now because everybody's want
<v Speaker 1>to switch is the future? Uh Yeah, I am. I'm
<v Speaker 1>skeptical we'll ever really see anything with this. This always
<v Speaker 1>feels like, oh yeah, it's Sony. They have a massive
<v Speaker 1>research and development team. They're always constantly looking at ideas.
<v Speaker 1>This is something that they saw through to the end.
<v Speaker 1>They spotted the opportunity for some patents and now they're
<v Speaker 1>protecting themselves and they don't actually intend to ever turn
<v Speaker 1>this into a product like this certainly is not the
<v Speaker 1>controller for the PS six, right, that doesn't make any sense.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I will say that having now picked up I
<v Speaker 2>picked up a Jewel Sense Edge, the like fancy one
<v Speaker 2>and having the four extra buttons, the buttons on the
<v Speaker 2>back that you can rebind and the ones on the front,
<v Speaker 2>it's going to be hard to go back to controllers
<v Speaker 2>that don't have just a couple of extra buttons that
<v Speaker 2>you can rebind to off especially in my use case
<v Speaker 2>of playing things on PC and having a button that
<v Speaker 2>I can just bind to screenshop for the viewing things
<v Speaker 2>or guiding things. It makes life so much easier. It's
<v Speaker 2>it's real nice.
<v Speaker 3>Yep.
<v Speaker 1>I've become a big fan of the back paddles on
<v Speaker 1>the switch to pro controller. Those are the very well
<v Speaker 1>placed the buttons feel good depressed, and they're very very
<v Speaker 1>easy to program so well that you know, even I
<v Speaker 1>will do it. I don't do it for just about
<v Speaker 1>any other controller. About do it for that one because
<v Speaker 1>the US makes it so simple.
<v Speaker 2>And yeah, when you're playing something on PC, do you
<v Speaker 2>use Bluetooth or do you just keep your controller plugged in?
<v Speaker 2>Because I just keep mine plugged in. Why because I'm
<v Speaker 2>so close to the computer that.
<v Speaker 1>Anyway, Yeah, I use wireless, but it's not Bluetooth.
<v Speaker 3>It's a two point four giga Hurtz dongle.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, yeah, almost always, because it's just you know, Bluetooth
<v Speaker 1>is fine if you're close and you don't have a
<v Speaker 1>ton of controllers connected, you're not doing audio and all
<v Speaker 1>that stuff, you know, But if you sit far away, ever,
<v Speaker 1>Bluetooth is always well, it's becoming more un reallyble in
<v Speaker 1>my experience, maybe that's my personal case. Maybe other people
<v Speaker 1>having better experiences, I don't know. Yeah, probably not the
<v Speaker 1>PS six controller. I could see them doing something with this,
<v Speaker 1>maybe some sort of hybrid controller that has dedicated buttons
<v Speaker 1>or maybe modular buttons, and then the screen around it
<v Speaker 1>can have like modifying effects, or there's a big screen
<v Speaker 1>in the middle, Like, replace that touch bad with the
<v Speaker 1>screen straight up and have that be programmable.
<v Speaker 3>You can put buttons on there depending on what you're hitting.
<v Speaker 1>Something like that could happen eventually, but I doubt they
<v Speaker 1>will have a dedicated touchscreen only controller. All right, let's
<v Speaker 1>see here Nintendo's Virtual Boy accessory sells out ahead of
<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty six releases. From Brandon Key at Men's Journal.
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo is one of the juggernauts of the video game industry.
<v Speaker 1>The company this is so ai written, isn't it a
<v Speaker 1>company with the company. With the release of Nintendo Switch Too,
<v Speaker 1>dominated a lot of sales charts and casual conversations. Blah
<v Speaker 1>blah blah. Cording to Nintendo's website, the Virtual Boy for
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo Switch and Switch to is currently sold out. Experienced
<v Speaker 1>Virtual Boy blah blah blah. They talked about the description here,
<v Speaker 1>but yeah, you can't get this thing at the moment. Uh,
<v Speaker 1>and so people are taking this to eBay and selling
<v Speaker 1>it on there for a big markup. I think they're
<v Speaker 1>also doing that with the the cardboard, because the cardboard
<v Speaker 1>is also sold out.
<v Speaker 3>Uh.
<v Speaker 1>That's a weird thing that Nintendo ran out of cardboard
<v Speaker 1>LEXI can.
<v Speaker 2>You imagine like, don't pay your coy. God bless his soul.
<v Speaker 2>Imagine telling him after his biggest failure and like partially
<v Speaker 2>why he, you know, stopped doing hardware stuff. Like imagine
<v Speaker 2>being like, listen, in year's time, there's gonna be this
<v Speaker 2>thing called eBay and people are gonna be fucking losing
<v Speaker 2>their minds for your shit on there. Mm hmm replications
<v Speaker 2>of your shit.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, He's like from his great joke to you, like
<v Speaker 3>what like what is this? Yeah?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, a little bit like this has always been kind
<v Speaker 1>of a meme.
<v Speaker 3>Now and we are about.
<v Speaker 1>To see, like if this thing is really going to
<v Speaker 1>pick up any sort of attention from anyone who's not
<v Speaker 1>a boomer.
<v Speaker 3>When the virtual voice service goes live.
<v Speaker 1>I imagine some kids are going to be curious, but not
<v Speaker 1>so curious to get that one hundred dollars one. It's
<v Speaker 1>odd that Nintendo doesn't have enough cardboard to satisfy the demand.
<v Speaker 3>Because it's like just overpaid. Use it all on Labo.
<v Speaker 3>They use it all on Labbo, so you know they
<v Speaker 3>just ran out.
<v Speaker 1>I guess so they like they buy cardboard once every
<v Speaker 1>ten years, and that was it.
<v Speaker 3>That was the end of their stock.
<v Speaker 2>I will say I I was in Japan at the time,
<v Speaker 2>and I was like, I should find a real virtual
<v Speaker 2>boy instead.
<v Speaker 3>When they announced this.
<v Speaker 2>I was like, I should go out and find a
<v Speaker 2>real fucking virtual boy.
<v Speaker 3>Any idea how much they go for in Japan?
<v Speaker 2>No idea. Honestly, I didn't even see one. It was
<v Speaker 2>one of the few bits of hard Way that I
<v Speaker 2>didn't see because we went to a lot of like
<v Speaker 2>retro stores while I was there. But this is this
<v Speaker 2>is cheaper everywhere else in the world other than the US.
<v Speaker 2>In the so the world, it's like seventy EULO on
<v Speaker 2>sixty pounds, I want to say, So it is like
<v Speaker 2>definitely noticeably cheaper outside of the US.
<v Speaker 1>That's right, Yeah, we get this is like one of
<v Speaker 1>those things that happened right in the tariff times when
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo wasn't exactly sure how much it would cost to
<v Speaker 1>bring this to the United States. So yeah, we're paying
<v Speaker 1>more on that and the cardboard is sold out. People
<v Speaker 1>are asking, do you is this stuff required to play
<v Speaker 1>the Virtual Boy stuff? Yes, according to Nintendo, there's probably
<v Speaker 1>gonna be some third party thing that makes it possible.
<v Speaker 1>People will find out whatever the the near field communication
<v Speaker 1>stuff is in there that like tells it like okay,
<v Speaker 1>it's okay to play the Virtual Boy games, and people
<v Speaker 1>will be able to figure that out.
<v Speaker 2>I want to see the fucking Mad Cat's Virtual Boy.
<v Speaker 2>That sounds fucking cursed as shit.
<v Speaker 1>That's that is actually what makes your brain begin to
<v Speaker 1>vibrate with the rhythms of the universe and then explode.
<v Speaker 3>It's the Mad Cat's Virtual Boy a third party helmet.
<v Speaker 2>You know, you know the movie Scanners. Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>that's what happens if you use that.
<v Speaker 3>That's what happened to the guy mad catch Virtual Boy helmet.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah all right, yeah, February sixteenth. This is all happening,
<v Speaker 1>so a couple of weeks, not even uh and if
<v Speaker 1>you want to get in on it, and you're gonna
<v Speaker 1>have to either build your own or wait, we I think.
<v Speaker 3>Thank me, Van and Mike all ordered one so we'll
<v Speaker 3>have coverage.
<v Speaker 1>It doesn't sound like you at all, I know, right,
<v Speaker 1>it was different for us to drop money on piece
<v Speaker 1>of plastic from Nintendo.
<v Speaker 2>Did you buy the Talking Flower?
<v Speaker 3>Not yet?
<v Speaker 1>I'm going to though, Yeah, absolutely will yeah, don't worry.
<v Speaker 2>And I geting shot almost instantly. I absolutely did, thank you, Yes,
<v Speaker 2>of course we did.
<v Speaker 3>Uh.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, let's see here. Rumor a Metroid movie is in development.
<v Speaker 1>This is from Ryan Parento at Game Ranks. Daniel Rickman
<v Speaker 1>has reportedly revealed on his latest Patreon post that a
<v Speaker 1>Metroid movie is in development. No further details were revealed,
<v Speaker 1>but there's already a lot of talk about talk about it.
<v Speaker 1>Brie Larson, who voices Roselina in the Super Mario Galaxy movie,
<v Speaker 1>once said in an interview that she would love to
<v Speaker 1>play met Metroid. Samus Aran. Uh so you can already
<v Speaker 1>expect fast a fascinating role.
<v Speaker 3>I don't know.
<v Speaker 1>They didn't finish their sentence here. People will be trying
<v Speaker 1>to guess who's gonna be Samos.
<v Speaker 3>Of course.
<v Speaker 1>I saw a really great post someone saying it should
<v Speaker 1>be Ria Seahorn from Pluribus and from Bob.
<v Speaker 2>That would be good.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I would be a.
<v Speaker 1>Better call, Saul. I think she would be fantastic. Oh
<v Speaker 1>my god, that would rule.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. How are you feeling about this?
<v Speaker 2>I love Brie Larsen. Short Term twelve is one of
<v Speaker 2>my favorite movies of all time. I think Bree's fantastic actor.
<v Speaker 2>I really like the idea that like John Cena when
<v Speaker 2>he was in the desert and bre Larson doing voice recordings,
<v Speaker 2>both kept on just trying to find people from Nintendo
<v Speaker 2>and be like, hey, can come back Metroid and the
<v Speaker 2>Nintendo people are like, who what back on your cube?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, that's that's funny. I don't I don't see
<v Speaker 2>this happening. Maybe at one point, maybe some point last year,
<v Speaker 2>this was an ideana drawing board and now it's making
<v Speaker 2>its way out there, and I don't.
<v Speaker 3>I don't see that happening now.
<v Speaker 1>It's definitely less likely, although you know, I wouldn't be
<v Speaker 1>surprised if it's like, you know, the tail wagging the
<v Speaker 1>dog a little bit where Nintendo's like, no, we think
<v Speaker 1>Metroid is one of the franchises, the ip that we
<v Speaker 1>own that we want to bring to Hollywood and have
<v Speaker 1>a movie made, and therefore we're going to keep making
<v Speaker 1>Metroid games. I could see that happening a little bit,
<v Speaker 1>just because the way Nintendo's been behaving recently. It's definitely
<v Speaker 1>less likely now. And real quick, yeah, okay.
<v Speaker 3>It's ray Seahorn, Ray ray Sehorn. Okay, good to know. Also,
<v Speaker 3>so it's like the lady in her mid fifties.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, that would own she's she's studdying, yeah and like badass.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, the lady in her mid fifties Gramus.
<v Speaker 2>Grant NP and chat says Joe Latrugio. Please, I'm not
<v Speaker 2>too but sure.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>No, maybe Joeltruo could be Silux.
<v Speaker 1>Uh no, I want Joe's as Samus. Yes, that's a
<v Speaker 1>funny guy.
<v Speaker 3>Okay.
<v Speaker 1>Anyway, sorry to get to shoo high about Seahorn, but
<v Speaker 1>that's what we do around here.
<v Speaker 3>Uh yeah, if they look.
<v Speaker 1>I think if they took this concept to enough studios,
<v Speaker 1>they would find someone in Hollywood that would definitely want
<v Speaker 1>to work on this because it's a recognizable sci fi brand.
<v Speaker 1>And I think big companies are always looking for something
<v Speaker 1>to do with or looking for something like that, because
<v Speaker 1>they've mined you know, Aliens to Death and all these
<v Speaker 1>other franchises Predator over and over again, and someone's like,
<v Speaker 1>can we get a new one of these that has
<v Speaker 1>some recognition that would be nice to have? So it
<v Speaker 1>will really come down to is Nintendo like curious enough
<v Speaker 1>to see this through? And right now does seem like
<v Speaker 1>they are looking for the next thing outside of Mario.
<v Speaker 3>Maybe Donkey Kong?
<v Speaker 1>Really the Mario Universe and then Zelda to turn into
<v Speaker 1>a movie to see if that can work. I think
<v Speaker 1>Metro would would be a good testing ground to be like,
<v Speaker 1>can something beyond Mario and Zelda succeed as a Hollywood
<v Speaker 1>movie or maybe maybe the sense up as like a
<v Speaker 1>Netflix like eight episode show or something like that.
<v Speaker 2>I was gonna say, yeah, I think they might be
<v Speaker 2>waiting until they get dailies back on the live action
<v Speaker 2>Zelda to see how much this makes sense. But Dan
<v Speaker 2>could and shot makes a really good point. They need
<v Speaker 2>to capitalize on all the game of the year stuff
<v Speaker 2>that Metroid Prime four one, so they might not be waiting.
<v Speaker 1>Some were saying a perfect game out there is what
<v Speaker 1>some are saying. So that's what five stars means. They
<v Speaker 1>were very very serious about that. Okay, let's see here.
<v Speaker 1>Next story, Xbox. This new dashboard is going down well
<v Speaker 1>and some people want it on console and PC. From
<v Speaker 1>Fraser Gilbert at Pure Xbox. Earlier this week, Xbox unveiled
<v Speaker 1>a new dashboard for Xbox Cloud gaming on the web,
<v Speaker 1>and it quickly attracted a bunch of attention, not only
<v Speaker 1>because it includes an achievement redesign, but because some people
<v Speaker 1>really like the UI in general. The likes of the
<v Speaker 1>Verge and Window Central have been highlighting this dashboard further
<v Speaker 1>over the past few days, as you could see in
<v Speaker 1>the video above. The comments for that video are full
<v Speaker 1>of people suggesting the same design should apply to console,
<v Speaker 1>PC or both. Basically, it does look like a sleeker
<v Speaker 1>design kind of just puts everything more cleaner up front.
<v Speaker 3>It's hard to describe. You kind of have to see
<v Speaker 3>it for yourselves.
<v Speaker 1>I will say, I think one of the reasons people
<v Speaker 1>like it so much Lexi is something that will It
<v Speaker 1>doesn't have ads.
<v Speaker 3>There are no ads right now.
<v Speaker 1>Like there's no like thing where it's like, oh, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>here's your games, your own and here's a game you
<v Speaker 1>should own.
<v Speaker 3>If you were a real gamer, you would buy this.
<v Speaker 3>There's none of that so far.
<v Speaker 1>So I bet once that shows up, people will go
<v Speaker 1>back to feeling pretty similar to how.
<v Speaker 3>They felt before.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know, they're probably testing this for that next
<v Speaker 1>gen Xbox cause it's going to be more of a
<v Speaker 1>device that handles PC launchers as well.
<v Speaker 2>Right yeah, I will say, like I haven't booted up
<v Speaker 2>my last time I booted up my Xbox was to
<v Speaker 2>play Lost Artistsey via backwards compatability, and then before that
<v Speaker 2>it was to play fifty cent Blood on the Sand
<v Speaker 2>and yeah, so you know, I'm not exactly entrenched in
<v Speaker 2>the Xbox ecosystem at the moment, but I will say
<v Speaker 2>those dashboards always pretty Yeah, I've like, I get that
<v Speaker 2>some people were like, oh, this is the series X
<v Speaker 2>one is like utilitarian and easy to use. M I
<v Speaker 2>found some of the menus kind of like you had
<v Speaker 2>to go pretty deep into them to find what you
<v Speaker 2>were looking for sometimes, and the pop up quick menu
<v Speaker 2>was like not the best. But yeah, like fine, maybe
<v Speaker 2>I know they make such a big deal of unifying
<v Speaker 2>the experience and then it's different on every single platform still,
<v Speaker 2>and I'm like, I don't know, It's it's hard to
<v Speaker 2>be enthusiastic about them at the moment for many reasons.
<v Speaker 2>Let's say, yep exactly.
<v Speaker 1>And you know, there was a time where it's like
<v Speaker 1>a big O U exchange would have been a much
<v Speaker 1>bigger deal. And there is no confirmation that this is
<v Speaker 1>coming to console yet or PC yet. It is just
<v Speaker 1>in the cloud version, but it does seem like they're
<v Speaker 1>probably testing it there and yeah, they can try to
<v Speaker 1>figure that out. I just don't it's hard to have
<v Speaker 1>any sort of desire to turn on an Xbox let alone.
<v Speaker 1>I gotta imagine show up to purchase an Xbox and
<v Speaker 1>a new UX is not going to be the thing there.
<v Speaker 2>That's remember when they released the Xbox log ally with
<v Speaker 2>two launchers, like two UI launchers, right, they were like,
<v Speaker 2>you can use the Asis fucking mouth, you can Armori Krash,
<v Speaker 2>or you can use Xbox Thing, which is somehow worse
<v Speaker 2>than Amori Krash and something I didn't think was possible.
<v Speaker 1>Now you can log into Xbox Cloud Gaming and use
<v Speaker 1>a third different launcher.
<v Speaker 3>There you go. So they just keep piling them on
<v Speaker 3>over there.
<v Speaker 1>I will be curious to see how this plays out
<v Speaker 1>for whatever device they have coming down the line. But
<v Speaker 1>in this time, it's like, okay, yeah, update the UX.
<v Speaker 1>I'm not really turning on my consoles at all. I'm
<v Speaker 1>on switch to console, I guess, and then PC gaming
<v Speaker 1>almost exclusively these days.
<v Speaker 3>All right, Xbox, this new dashboard, I just read that one.
<v Speaker 1>Sega talks Sonic Racing Crossworld sales, says initial performance it
<v Speaker 1>didn't meet expectations.
<v Speaker 3>This is from Nintendo Everything.
<v Speaker 1>Sega shared a few words about the sales of Sonic
<v Speaker 1>Racing Crossworlds. This comes as part of the comp of
<v Speaker 1>the company's latest financial results presentation toward the end of
<v Speaker 1>last year, but it's making.
<v Speaker 3>The rounds just now.
<v Speaker 1>It was previously announced that the game had sold over
<v Speaker 1>one million copies worldwide. Although that's an important milestone, this
<v Speaker 1>isn't enough for Sega. Executive Koichi Fukuzawa said that the
<v Speaker 1>initial performance did not meet our expectations. Sega intends to
<v Speaker 1>give the title further support, including additional DLC to a
<v Speaker 1>whole to sell another million copies within the fiscal year.
<v Speaker 3>That's the goal. Anyhow, Yeah, it's the game did alright
<v Speaker 3>with critics. He pointed.
<v Speaker 1>Points that out actually and says, hey, yeah, we were
<v Speaker 1>happy with that, and then this is not meeting sales expectations.
<v Speaker 3>What do you think happened here?
<v Speaker 1>You think it was too close to Mario Kart if
<v Speaker 1>it's still still not capturing the excitement that people had
<v Speaker 1>for Sonic All Stars Racing Transform back in the day,
<v Speaker 1>like what it went down.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I think some of it is close to Mario Kart, definitely.
<v Speaker 2>I also think that some of it is probably that
<v Speaker 2>thing like listen not to shit on Sonic Team because
<v Speaker 2>That's not something I'd ever do. But I think those
<v Speaker 2>Sumo games were just felt better. Like I've played both
<v Speaker 2>of them, those Sumo games feel a lot sharper to play.
<v Speaker 2>And Ali Miracle is going to be really pissed off
<v Speaker 2>with me for saying that, because she's played like three
<v Speaker 2>thousand hours of that game. But yeah, I don't know
<v Speaker 2>that game pretty good. It's okay, But in a world
<v Speaker 2>where there's so many great games to play, pretty good
<v Speaker 2>and okay is hard to hang your hat on. I
<v Speaker 2>think Sega had a real resurgence over the last like,
<v Speaker 2>let's say seven years, and probably a bit more going
<v Speaker 2>back to like twenty seventeen. If you think about twenty seventeen,
<v Speaker 2>when Yakuza Zero came out, things really swung in a
<v Speaker 2>different direction. They struggled on the three sixty, and they
<v Speaker 2>were struggling out the blocks on the new consoles, and
<v Speaker 2>then Yakuza Zero started to gain momentum, and then Sonic
<v Speaker 2>Mania came out and suddenly Sega could do no wrong.
<v Speaker 2>And I'm not sure how much longer that's going to last.
<v Speaker 2>I think they've been out there saying some real questionable stuff.
<v Speaker 2>There was a rumor late last year that they wanted
<v Speaker 2>both Persona and Like a Dragon to be a yearly franchise,
<v Speaker 2>which is something that as a fan of both those franchises,
<v Speaker 2>I would not like them to be yearly franchises because
<v Speaker 2>I know people have talked a lot about, you know,
<v Speaker 2>the accuses the games being able to get out games
<v Speaker 2>in quick succession by reusing assets, and that only goes
<v Speaker 2>so far, and at some point you do start to
<v Speaker 2>lose quality. And yeah, I don't know. I worry a
<v Speaker 2>bit about Sega that they have kind of lost track
<v Speaker 2>of the quality that got them back to where they were.
<v Speaker 2>But I guess that's the eternal plight to Sega is
<v Speaker 2>that you have these cycles of great success followed by hubers,
<v Speaker 2>followed by great success followed by hubers, and so we'll see.
<v Speaker 3>Yep.
<v Speaker 1>I hope that this doesn't necessarily turn them off of
<v Speaker 1>like continuing down this path of of Sega or Sonic spinoffs,
<v Speaker 1>like like racing Crossworlds and like putting a lot of
<v Speaker 1>effort into it. They seem like they put a lot
<v Speaker 1>of time, effort and money into this game, and I
<v Speaker 1>think it paid off in terms of making a quality product.
<v Speaker 1>But they just need to I don't know, I'm not
<v Speaker 1>exactly sure what the solution is, Like, do you kind
<v Speaker 1>of make it more like an All Star transformed? Do
<v Speaker 1>I bring in even more Yakus's stuff and persona stuff
<v Speaker 1>and the classic Sega stuff, Like, Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>There's been a real sense of recent Saga games of
<v Speaker 2>like cheapness about them. I think you saw that a
<v Speaker 2>lot in Cross Worlds, where like none of the crossover
<v Speaker 2>characters are voiced, that totally silent. That might be an
<v Speaker 2>ongoing trend. Yeah, just the thought.
<v Speaker 3>Oh, now, well, we'll see what happens with Sega going forward.
<v Speaker 3>I'm sure it all be all right. I'm sure it will.
<v Speaker 1>The Switch version of Apex Legends will shut down this summer.
<v Speaker 1>This is from Chris Culling into VGC. I'm surprised this
<v Speaker 1>game was even still going LEXI. I thought it shut
<v Speaker 1>down on Switch a long time ago. But the game
<v Speaker 1>originally launched on PS four, Xbox one, and PC in
<v Speaker 1>twenty nineteen before being important to Switch in twenty twenty one.
<v Speaker 1>It might have done all right for a very little bit,
<v Speaker 1>but it never really made any money on the Switch.
<v Speaker 1>I think a big reason for that is it ran
<v Speaker 1>like garbage on the Switch one yeah.
<v Speaker 2>I remember hearing it did well out the gates, like
<v Speaker 2>it got a lot of downloads, and then people played
<v Speaker 2>it and they were like, oh, this is very aspirational,
<v Speaker 2>thirst y fps.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, okay, so okay, Like it's interesting maybe because they
<v Speaker 1>do seem like they want to keep Apex Legends going
<v Speaker 1>for even longer than they were thinking maybe a couple
<v Speaker 1>of years ago, and that that is not turning into
<v Speaker 1>them being like, Okay, let's get this spruced up for
<v Speaker 1>Switch two. It's instead it's let's get this shut down
<v Speaker 1>Switch one. We are going to be going into what
<v Speaker 1>is rumored to be a Nintendo partner direct this week, Lexi,
<v Speaker 1>where you know it really should be this should be
<v Speaker 1>the partner direct that sets the tone for what kind
<v Speaker 1>of third party support Nintendo Switch two is going to have,
<v Speaker 1>probably in like the first half of its life. Like
<v Speaker 1>this is the director where we'll kind of know what
<v Speaker 1>that's going to look like. This is a sign that
<v Speaker 1>like EA is not like trying to like burst through
<v Speaker 1>a wall to like figure out the Switch ecosystem. But
<v Speaker 1>do you expect like that third parties will be showing
<v Speaker 1>up in droves or what for this thing coming out
<v Speaker 1>of this next direct.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's been interesting. The it's an overuse phrase, but
<v Speaker 2>like the the third party support on't switched to has
<v Speaker 2>been like the epishame of mixed back. We have seen
<v Speaker 2>some incredible ports, we've seen some really impressive ones, and
<v Speaker 2>we've seen someones where you're like, fucking Skyrim has like
<v Speaker 2>two hundred milliseconds of input delay, what the fuck is
<v Speaker 2>going on? And you know, I think some of that
<v Speaker 2>is like people getting up to speed with maybe a
<v Speaker 2>hardware that they haven't used before, especially switched.
<v Speaker 3>To his arm as well, right, or switch to his
<v Speaker 3>arm YEP.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so you know, there's probably plenty of developers who
<v Speaker 2>haven't worked a whole lot on arm compared to X
<v Speaker 2>eighty six. But yeah, I think that Nintendo were very
<v Speaker 2>smart to get panic botun involved in their in house
<v Speaker 2>stuff because panic bohun did some real good switch two
<v Speaker 2>ports or some real impressive switch two ports. A lot
<v Speaker 2>of those ports are still like this isn't how I
<v Speaker 2>play the game, but they definitely showed a lot of like,
<v Speaker 2>oh no, we're squeezing a lot out of this in
<v Speaker 2>a way that seemed like a very moneyball partnership. And
<v Speaker 2>so I think that when it comes to like the
<v Speaker 2>companies that we're gonna see partnering with Nintendo going forward.
<v Speaker 2>And yeah, already have the switch to version of APEX
<v Speaker 2>and I played a little bit of that and it
<v Speaker 2>looks okay. It's like a locked thirty FPS, which is good,
<v Speaker 2>and it looks sharper. And the main problem with getting
<v Speaker 2>back into that game now is that it's so different
<v Speaker 2>to when I played one hundred hours of it, like
<v Speaker 2>back in twenty nineteen twenty eight or twenty twenty and
<v Speaker 2>so yeah, and the other challenge it was just mentioned
<v Speaker 2>in chat there, like the storage space will be an
<v Speaker 2>ongoing challenge for the switch. Some of these games like
<v Speaker 2>use Out with Final Fantasy remake, they are just very big,
<v Speaker 2>and how do you get that onto a console that
<v Speaker 2>its internal storage is pretty small? And then the external
<v Speaker 2>storage or the you know, SD cards that you buy
<v Speaker 2>for it are still pretty expensive. They're not going down
<v Speaker 2>in price like people are kind of expecting, and they
<v Speaker 2>probably won't if trends continue. So it's gonna be an
<v Speaker 2>interesting thing where like suddenly, I think you're gonna see
<v Speaker 2>this across the games industry is a reevaluation on what
<v Speaker 2>like optimization looks like optimization is going to start, meaning
<v Speaker 2>stuff like how much space does it take up in
<v Speaker 2>a way that we haven't really had to deal with,
<v Speaker 2>you know, since the cartridge days, or since the PS
<v Speaker 2>two days, or since well online downloads for patches became
<v Speaker 2>a thing. So yeah, it's gonna be an interesting couple
<v Speaker 2>of years when it comes to that stuff. I'm very
<v Speaker 2>curious to see what does show up with that partner
<v Speaker 2>direct and I'm pretty hopeful that will be some interesting Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>I think I think, you know, people in CHET Expedition
<v Speaker 1>thirty three, you can easily show up at this thing.
<v Speaker 1>I think we'll get the update on like, hey, what's
<v Speaker 1>going on with elden Ring, a bunch of games that
<v Speaker 1>have been on you know, Steam deck in one way
<v Speaker 1>or the other.
<v Speaker 3>We'll certainly have to come to switch here.
<v Speaker 1>The question will be, okay, does EA put like NHL,
<v Speaker 1>not just FIFA, and not just Madden at least for now,
<v Speaker 1>but do just like n CUAA Football come to the
<v Speaker 1>switch too? And then do they like they're like, okay,
<v Speaker 1>do we start like bringing some of these other games
<v Speaker 1>we've released released recently, like Star Wars Jedi Survivor that
<v Speaker 1>got downpoorded to Xbox one and PlayStation four. Why did
<v Speaker 1>they do that if not to put it on switch
<v Speaker 1>to Well, let's see that that should probably show up
<v Speaker 1>here at this then. So I'm curious about that level
<v Speaker 1>of third party support, and I expect some of it.
<v Speaker 1>I'm not expecting all of it, but we'll see. All right,
<v Speaker 1>that does it for the headlines. Last Friday was the
<v Speaker 1>bomb twelve, so of course we don't have a pull question, right, right,
<v Speaker 1>Jan Mike Vanatti would not have just gone off the
<v Speaker 1>rails and done his own thing when he hosted the
<v Speaker 1>show on Friday. Rights, Sorry, grub.
<v Speaker 3>I asked you to rain him in to control that boy,
<v Speaker 3>all right?
<v Speaker 1>His poll question from Friday, are you excited about Nintendo's
<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty six lineup so far? Seventy eight percent said no,
<v Speaker 1>twenty two percent said yes.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>I think Nintendo's got a lot of work to do
<v Speaker 1>to kind of convince people that that five hundred dollars
<v Speaker 1>purchase was worth it, and it'll start here with this direct.
<v Speaker 3>But a partner direct is only going to go so far.
<v Speaker 1>Like it's important, it's still important early on to show
<v Speaker 1>the third party sport is going to be there, But
<v Speaker 1>the reason there's a reason people bought this thing.
<v Speaker 3>It was to play Nintendo games.
<v Speaker 1>There's like early rumors that there's going to be yet
<v Speaker 1>another direct soon that will be a regular direct.
<v Speaker 3>And I'm like, I don't think they're going to do
<v Speaker 3>a what they had.
<v Speaker 1>They had the Tomadacci Life Direct last week, this rumored
<v Speaker 1>partner Direct this week, and then next week or the
<v Speaker 1>week after they're going to have another.
<v Speaker 3>Like, I don't know.
<v Speaker 1>That seems like a bit much, but it's Nintendo. They
<v Speaker 1>could be weird. All right, we have a new poll question.
<v Speaker 1>We'll get to here in a second. But before we
<v Speaker 1>do that, Lexie, why don't you tell people where they
<v Speaker 1>can find you on the internet what you have going
<v Speaker 1>on and all that good stuff.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you can find me on Blue Sky at Lexlody
<v Speaker 2>dot xyz. I'm currently reviewing a bunch of games for
<v Speaker 2>Game of Guides. My most recent review is a review
<v Speaker 2>of Karen, Karen, Karen and You're Getna Write with Karen, Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>which I gave a ninety five too. I really really
<v Speaker 2>liked that game. I was very impressed by it and
<v Speaker 2>that game Yeah, that game is worth playing. Real interesting.
<v Speaker 2>Go check out my review of it. And I'm reviewing
<v Speaker 2>two other games for them at the moment, which should
<v Speaker 2>be sometime next week in bargos for those And yeah,
<v Speaker 2>you can catch me around here every now and again,
<v Speaker 2>and I'm doing my thing excellent.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, we'll get back on the show again real soon.
<v Speaker 1>In the meantime, new poll question, did you get Sonic
<v Speaker 1>Racing Cross Worlds?
<v Speaker 3>Yes? No, not yet but soon. Those are your three options.
<v Speaker 1>We will get the results of this poll all rounded
<v Speaker 1>up on YouTube dot com slash at Giant Bomb.
<v Speaker 3>If you go to the posts tab there you can
<v Speaker 3>find it and.
<v Speaker 1>We will report the results on Wednesday's show of Game
<v Speaker 1>Mest Mornings here on Giant Bomb.
<v Speaker 3>Speaking to Giant.
<v Speaker 1>Bomb, we are going to determine what's happening for the
<v Speaker 1>rest of the week. But you know, tomorrow's the BombCast.
<v Speaker 1>Wednesday will have a Blake Club.
<v Speaker 3>It is still Mike's turn. It might be for quite
<v Speaker 3>some time. He's playing Virtuo So why that doesn't make sense.
<v Speaker 2>It's it's a blightening round.
<v Speaker 3>Blake and you'll miss it, everybody.
<v Speaker 1>It's yeah, Virtuoso is looking like it's going to be
<v Speaker 1>here to stay for quite some time. And then it'll
<v Speaker 1>be Dan's turn and I've I've given. I'm like handing
<v Speaker 1>it over to my like I I will support Mike.
<v Speaker 1>I'm not gonna be like Mike, you're on your own,
<v Speaker 1>But I'm leeving it up to Mike.
<v Speaker 3>About whether or not now is the time to punish Dan.
<v Speaker 1>Like there's one he could do that would be Oh,
<v Speaker 1>you know, here's a long play of it on the
<v Speaker 1>internet where someone finished it in an hour.
<v Speaker 3>I don't think Dan would finish this game in an hour.
<v Speaker 1>But this look, I'm not gonna say anything else. It's
<v Speaker 1>up to Mike. We'll see what he thinks. Everyone, there's
<v Speaker 1>still time to change up Dan's game. In the meantime, though,
<v Speaker 1>the rest of this week on Jibob's gonna be great.
<v Speaker 1>Be sure to turn out once again. Thank you to
<v Speaker 1>everybody who helped us out with my ice out Minneapolis.
<v Speaker 3>The stream was so much fun. It was absolutely worth
<v Speaker 3>it to get out there.
<v Speaker 1>I was telling Dan it's actually kind of a breeze
<v Speaker 1>to get out to Minneapolis, and I was happy to
<v Speaker 1>show up and support that town and support the immigrant
<v Speaker 1>community there that it's just wonderful. Every time I've been there,
<v Speaker 1>it is. They're always so warm and so welcoming. It
<v Speaker 1>is hard not to interact with them. They make that
<v Speaker 1>city work, and it works. It's a beautiful place, and
<v Speaker 1>I just you all know that now, obviously you do.
<v Speaker 1>And thanks to everybody from the game's industry that that
<v Speaker 1>did show up.
<v Speaker 2>And a shout out to the community for like doing
<v Speaker 2>crazy shit like donating twenty five thousand dollars anonymously on
<v Speaker 2>the person who donated ten thousand dollars just to make
<v Speaker 2>Jacob play The Jump a video game, which I am
<v Speaker 2>very excited for.
<v Speaker 3>Yep, that's right.
<v Speaker 1>So that is a special Blake Club coming up soon.
<v Speaker 1>We're figuring out the details. Surprisingly, Ben Hanson is very
<v Speaker 1>good at a lot of things. Details sometimes a little
<v Speaker 1>bit difficult. We're probably going to get that in after
<v Speaker 1>the Blightning round, but it'll depend on Jacob's schedule.
<v Speaker 3>We're gonna have.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I'm going to be honest, as someone who's like
<v Speaker 2>a really big fan of Jacob, he should have to
<v Speaker 2>write a video essay on this.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, I'm assuming that he won't be able to
<v Speaker 1>help himself, right, They just fall out of him at
<v Speaker 1>a certain point. So yeah, he'll play that game and
<v Speaker 1>next thing you know, he's going to be a Jumperhead
<v Speaker 1>and it's jumper Griffin's story. Please no hat in Christians.
<v Speaker 2>Right sorry?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, all right, excuse me. We did the poll question,
<v Speaker 1>we talked about what's coming up. I think what I
<v Speaker 1>should do now is say LEXI, thank you so much
<v Speaker 1>for hanging out with me today and talk about video games. Man.
<v Speaker 3>I really appreciate it.
<v Speaker 2>Anytime Globe always a pleasure.
<v Speaker 3>And thank you all for watching and listening. You are
<v Speaker 3>the best audience in gaming.
<v Speaker 1>Until next time, have a good one, take care of
<v Speaker 1>yourself and goodbye.