Nintendo is raising prices

<v Speaker 1>Everybody. Welcome to Games Mornings with Me Jeff Grub, your
<v Speaker 1>host from giant bomb dot com. Thank you for tuning in.
<v Speaker 1>In this episode, we're gonna be talking about price increases
<v Speaker 1>for old consoles because everything is broken. It's gonna be
<v Speaker 1>a good one because we have Jason Binelli on the show. Jason,
<v Speaker 1>how are you doing? Doing great? It's a Friday. Uh
<v Speaker 1>been on this been on this channel a lot this week,
<v Speaker 1>helping you guys out. So I thought I'd balanced my
<v Speaker 1>ugly mug with some cuteness to get us started.
<v Speaker 2>Uh. They say hello to Cooper. He was just outside
<v Speaker 2>parking at somebody. So I hated to bring him in
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<v Speaker 2>all right Cooper, but no, we're Cooper loves you, good
<v Speaker 2>Cooper chat loves you, and uh and Kitty in your
<v Speaker 2>background too, over your shoulder. There she's doing her things,
<v Speaker 2>going to the dogs on a Friday. Yeah, we're having
<v Speaker 2>we're having a good time, telling her about uh video
<v Speaker 2>games and getting ready to uh close out the week. No,
<v Speaker 2>I am not the new Mike. Mike is still travel
<v Speaker 2>Does he get home? Okay? Is he? Yeah?
<v Speaker 1>You know what, it's my new thing that he likes that,
<v Speaker 1>I say, who cares or whatever. No, I'm pretty sure
<v Speaker 1>you got home just fine. He should be on later today,
<v Speaker 1>I think so. If he has a little bit of time,
<v Speaker 1>he might drop by for upf But like I said before,
<v Speaker 1>if he wants to relax, take it easy today, we'll
<v Speaker 1>also let him do that. Yeah, we're gonna get back
<v Speaker 1>with the whole crew next week, everybody. But it's been
<v Speaker 1>great having Jason on so much stuff. So thank you,
<v Speaker 1>thank you for hanging out. I appreciate it. As it
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<v Speaker 1>PHILLIPILDI own Philip building his own again. Glad, glad, you
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<v Speaker 1>a we're gonna take it easy this week. It's gonna
<v Speaker 1>be good, wrap up, wrap up the week with the
<v Speaker 1>kind of just some conversations. There's plenty to talk about.
<v Speaker 1>But also it's it's been a long week, so let's
<v Speaker 1>just you and I hang out, have some fun.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. I love that idea. Get ease into the weekend,
<v Speaker 2>and it's going to be a crazy weekend for me,
<v Speaker 2>not crazy in that I have a lot going on
<v Speaker 2>crazy in that It's EVO Baby. Happy EVO to you
<v Speaker 2>and yours to those that celebrate Evolution Championship Series Day one,
<v Speaker 2>kicking off in about an hour and forty five minutes
<v Speaker 2>from the Las Vegas Convention Center. Ten streams three days
<v Speaker 2>of fisticuffs and I am all about it. It's gonna
<v Speaker 2>be a good time.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you know what, let's do it now. So what
<v Speaker 1>should people look for from EVO this weekend? I know
<v Speaker 1>you have some hot tips that people could find on
<v Speaker 1>some stuff you've written up. If you want to point
<v Speaker 1>people in that direction, let's do that. Like where should
<v Speaker 1>people go? What should they be looking for?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so if you go to GameSpot dot com, right
<v Speaker 2>in the top ten articles on the homepage, right there,
<v Speaker 2>you will see EVO twenty twenty five, how to watch
<v Speaker 2>every tournament, every announcement at every exhibition that they We'll
<v Speaker 2>be having throughout the weekend. Thirteen thousand unique entries across
<v Speaker 2>sixteen different games will be descending on Las Vegas this week.
<v Speaker 2>Eight are in the main EVO lineup that they been
<v Speaker 2>doing for years. This year, they've started a new extended
<v Speaker 2>lineup with games that are a little more legacy or
<v Speaker 2>or maybe have been replaced in the main lineup by
<v Speaker 2>the company that makes them. So. In your arena lineup,
<v Speaker 2>you have Street Fighter six, which has forty two hundred
<v Speaker 2>and twenty eight entries, Tech and eight at twenty five
<v Speaker 2>twenty one, Fatal Fury, City of the Wolves making its
<v Speaker 2>EVO debut at fifteen seventy six. Strong number there, Guilty
<v Speaker 2>Gear Strive fifteen oh eight, Grand Blue, Fantasy Versus Rising
<v Speaker 2>at nine thirty six. The classic game this year is
<v Speaker 2>Marvel versus Capcom two at five hundred and seventy entrance
<v Speaker 2>Saturday Night Finals for Marvel two. That's gonna be fun.
<v Speaker 2>That'll be under night stream at that point. I'm under
<v Speaker 2>Night under Night, m Birth two cis Celess at five
<v Speaker 2>forty seven that word salad, good Lord, and then Mortal
<v Speaker 2>Kombat one rounds things out at three seventy seven. That's
<v Speaker 2>the main arena lineup. They will be featured on the
<v Speaker 2>main streams and I'll get into that schedule in a second.
<v Speaker 2>And then your extended lineup is Rivals of eight or
<v Speaker 2>two at three fifty eight, Blaze Brew Central Fiction at
<v Speaker 2>two forty seven, Capcom versus S and K two. This
<v Speaker 2>is true Love we're making at two thirty six, Vertu
<v Speaker 2>Fighter five Revo to twelve, King of Fighters fifteen one
<v Speaker 2>sixty nine, Samurai Show Down one fifty five, Guilty Gear
<v Speaker 2>Zird Rev two, Word Salad again at one thirty four,
<v Speaker 2>and the Very Underrated in twenty twenty five at least
<v Speaker 2>Killer Instinct from the twenty thirteen reboot. Uh is one
<v Speaker 2>hundred and eighteen entrants. All of these will be streamed.
<v Speaker 2>I believe almost every match will be streamed somewhere, maybe
<v Speaker 2>not in the ten official Evo channels, which I'll get into,
<v Speaker 2>like I said in a second, but there will be
<v Speaker 2>plenty of fighting games to watch. So if you're looking
<v Speaker 2>for news, right, if you're looking for news and updates
<v Speaker 2>on the games, you should be focusing today on the
<v Speaker 2>main Evo channel, EVO. It's just called EVO. Now, I
<v Speaker 2>do want to say there isn't a channel called Evo
<v Speaker 2>and a channel called Evo one. There are two different channels.
<v Speaker 2>This is just EVO with no number. Today is going
<v Speaker 2>to be be their showcase, so panels discussions potential news
<v Speaker 2>things like that. They go from ten AMPT to the
<v Speaker 2>last schedule thing is eight thirty PMPT, So all day long.
<v Speaker 2>They have panels and things like that Virtual Fighter Developer
<v Speaker 2>panel at three pm Eastern twelve PM's Pacific time. If
<v Speaker 2>you're looking forward to that Mortal Kombat Legacy Collection panel
<v Speaker 2>right afterwards at twelve thirty pm Pacific time, you may
<v Speaker 2>have already seen the news that Mortal Kombat Trilogy is
<v Speaker 2>being added to that Legacy collection. Plus pre orders went
<v Speaker 2>live today for the regular and Collector's editions and stuff
<v Speaker 2>like that, So if you're into that, go check that
<v Speaker 2>out there. Side Games, if you like Grand Blue, that'll
<v Speaker 2>be at two pm Eastern. SNK hits the stage at
<v Speaker 2>four pm I'm sorry, two pm Pacific. Snk hits the
<v Speaker 2>stage at four pm Pacific Invisible Invincible Versus which I'm
<v Speaker 2>very personally excited for five PMCI for an hour and
<v Speaker 2>a half, they have the stage which is pretty wild,
<v Speaker 2>and then the as far as panels go for me,
<v Speaker 2>Marvel Tocon Fighting Soul's panel at eight pm Pacific time
<v Speaker 2>eleven Eastern. That is the highlight of the day. So
<v Speaker 2>that is all of the news you can expect on
<v Speaker 2>that main EVO channel the rest of the weekend. That
<v Speaker 2>Maine ev channel will also be wall the top eights
<v Speaker 2>play out. So Saturday it's Mortal Kombat Undernight, Marvel and
<v Speaker 2>Grand Blue, and then Sunday it's Guilty Year, Fatal Fury,
<v Speaker 2>Tech and Eight and street Fighter, And in between those
<v Speaker 2>tournaments they mix in the announcements. They've said Invincible Verses
<v Speaker 2>will be featured at these, Marvel TOCN will be featured
<v Speaker 2>at these two x KO should make it appearance. I
<v Speaker 2>believe it's it's gonna be a bonanza, yeah, of fighting
<v Speaker 2>game stuff. It's just gonna be wild. And then every
<v Speaker 2>one of the channels, the subsequent channels will have specific
<v Speaker 2>games like, for example, if you just want to watch
<v Speaker 2>street Fighter, ev O two has nothing but street Fighter
<v Speaker 2>Friday and Saturday, and it doesn't do anything because it
<v Speaker 2>doesn't need to. On Sunday, if it's Tech and eight
<v Speaker 2>you want to watch, that's EVO three, and then EVO four, five, six,
<v Speaker 2>and seven will be mixing things up depending on what's
<v Speaker 2>going on. And then they do have two dedicated channels
<v Speaker 2>just to the extended lineup, Virtual Fighter, Arrivals of a
<v Speaker 2>third Guilty Gear on Friday, Oh sorry, on EVO Extended one,
<v Speaker 2>and then EVO Extended too will be cap con Versus
<v Speaker 2>SNK two, King of Fighters fifteen and Blaze Blue and
<v Speaker 2>a little bit of Killer Instinct as well. That that
<v Speaker 2>schedule is extensive. The whole thing is on the game
<v Speaker 2>spot article that I wrote. If you want to look
<v Speaker 2>for a specific game, that's where you go. It's going
<v Speaker 2>to be fighting, fighting, fighting, and it's and I have
<v Speaker 2>always said that if you want to know what competitive
<v Speaker 2>gaming is like, if you're not familiar with it, the
<v Speaker 2>fighting game community is the purest way for a casual
<v Speaker 2>for a casual video game fan, for a casual fighting
<v Speaker 2>game fan, or for someone who doesn't play video games
<v Speaker 2>to experience competitive gaming, because I think it is the
<v Speaker 2>easiest for a layman, someone who doesn't know, to get
<v Speaker 2>all the information they need translated to them, translated to
<v Speaker 2>them as soon as possible. And if you don't believe me,
<v Speaker 2>take a still screenshot from Tech and eight or Street
<v Speaker 2>Fighter six from a broadcast of that game and put
<v Speaker 2>it next to a still screenshot from a broadcast of
<v Speaker 2>League of Legends. No disrespect to League of Legends, I
<v Speaker 2>would agree with this. Yeah, yeah, the amount of information
<v Speaker 2>on the screen is absurd, And even like Overwatch or
<v Speaker 2>Call of Duty, if you're motion sick, you have no
<v Speaker 2>chance you can't watch that. So I think if FGC
<v Speaker 2>is indeed the greatest depiction of competitive gaming, as the
<v Speaker 2>chat says, it just is. It has that like ufcwwe
<v Speaker 2>sort of feel, especially when someone's popping off, if you
<v Speaker 2>need a highlight from last year to give you the full, uh,
<v Speaker 2>the full idea, go watch Street Fighter three Third Strike
<v Speaker 2>with heyau.
<v Speaker 1>Go watch moment. Just google moment thirty eight. Yeah, EVO
<v Speaker 1>moment eight.
<v Speaker 2>That's it. That's it. That's oh man, that shit was awesome.
<v Speaker 2>That's but yeah. Yeah. But and if you're out there,
<v Speaker 2>if you're going to EVO, there's a full convention surrounding it.
<v Speaker 2>You'll be able to play Token, You'll be able to
<v Speaker 2>play Invincible Verses, You'll be able to play Mortal Kombat
<v Speaker 2>Legacy Collection two x KO is there again. There's there's
<v Speaker 2>meet and greets. One of my favorite fighting game artists
<v Speaker 2>of all time, Shinkiro, who did all the capcom and
<v Speaker 2>S and k Art, he made this wonder He made
<v Speaker 2>this wonderful poster of the EVO thirty seven Parry where
<v Speaker 2>it's Ken Parry and and my interrior in the background.
<v Speaker 2>The crossover characters Terry and Maida Street Fighter, Ken and
<v Speaker 2>Chunley to fail Fury. It's wonderful stuff. No, we know
<v Speaker 2>it's more than thirty seven. The parry Is Moment thirty
<v Speaker 2>seven is the one from last year.
<v Speaker 1>We're talking about moment thirty eight. Yeah, it's a different thing.
<v Speaker 2>Don't you. Don't you fact check me chat at least
<v Speaker 2>not yet. Let's let's wait toward the stuff. I don't
<v Speaker 2>know what I'm talking about this week. Check me yet.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Moment thirty seven, Moment thirty eight are different.
<v Speaker 2>And the moment.
<v Speaker 1>The moment thirty eight lived up to such hype that
<v Speaker 1>everyone said, you know your moment thirty eight, now, like
<v Speaker 1>that's that's how good it was.
<v Speaker 2>It's heyau is awesome. But yeah, if if you have
<v Speaker 2>any passing interest in fighting games at all, this is
<v Speaker 2>this is the super Bowl. This is the the fighting
<v Speaker 2>game super Bowl for all of these games and the
<v Speaker 2>news that surrounds it. Honestly, fighting games are a pretty
<v Speaker 2>good spot. I have three storylines that I think are
<v Speaker 2>important this year. One is the declining attendance. I do
<v Speaker 2>want to bring up Marino had a the decline in attendance,
<v Speaker 2>I should say Marino, the veritable Marino who is out there.
<v Speaker 2>I did see that he picked up his badge wearing
<v Speaker 2>a wearing a Sir Daniel Fortescue from PlayStation All Stars
<v Speaker 2>Battle Royale T shirt. What a guy he had posted?
<v Speaker 2>Where is that I'd meant to have ready and that
<v Speaker 2>I didn't?
<v Speaker 1>So?
<v Speaker 2>Yes, So if you look at the numbers in the
<v Speaker 2>games that were in last year's EVO and this year's EVO,
<v Speaker 2>there is a trend down. I mentioned Street Fighter had
<v Speaker 2>forty two eighty eight last year, it was fifty two
<v Speaker 2>to sixty five. That's a twenty percent drop. Guilty Gear
<v Speaker 2>was a twenty six percent drop. Grand Blue thirty two
<v Speaker 2>word Salid Undernight is thirty percent, Mortal Kombat one is
<v Speaker 2>forty six percent. King of Fighters is fifty four percent,
<v Speaker 2>and Tech in which I skipped on purpose forty five percent.
<v Speaker 2>Down right, there is a definite reason for this. A
<v Speaker 2>couple of laces, right, Yeah, Yeah, Well, I mean the
<v Speaker 2>main one I come I think if you look at
<v Speaker 2>the picture as a whole is the political climate we
<v Speaker 2>live in.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and hard to travel to the United States right now?
<v Speaker 1>Are justified traveling here? For sure?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah? It just is? And I wonder how I don't
<v Speaker 2>think it's going to affect the viewing experience, but I
<v Speaker 2>am genuinely curious how it's going to affect the competition itself. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>the second storyline kind of builds off of that, and
<v Speaker 2>that's Tech and eight specifically. That drop is considerable, but
<v Speaker 2>that particular game, I think is just as much because
<v Speaker 2>of how mad people are at the state of that
<v Speaker 2>game at the moment. Ever since season two launched, it
<v Speaker 2>has just been fumble after fumble and they just can't
<v Speaker 2>dig out of it. I'm hoping they can do it soon.
<v Speaker 2>I'm hoping it has a good showing here and starts
<v Speaker 2>to get them good graces back because I love teching.
<v Speaker 2>I like teching a a lot. It's just not in
<v Speaker 2>a very good spot right now. All they have to
<v Speaker 2>do is put the waffle house, the waffle House stage in.
<v Speaker 1>There and all the problems. Yep, it's all good from there.
<v Speaker 2>Call it pancake punch. That's it. Put it in there.
<v Speaker 2>But I think that's second one and the third one
<v Speaker 2>is more for the convention as a whole, and that's
<v Speaker 2>the burgeoning tag Fighter scene two XKO.
<v Speaker 1>It feels like the next year's lineup is going to
<v Speaker 1>look very different. Than this year's lineup, right, because a
<v Speaker 1>lot of those games are going to come out and
<v Speaker 1>kind of dominate this space, I think very quickly.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. I agree with that to the point where I
<v Speaker 2>think maybe they're putting the extended lineup in this year
<v Speaker 2>just to have it for next year, right, Yeah, because
<v Speaker 2>a lot of these games still are still the current game,
<v Speaker 2>so they're going to bleed into that. But the burgeoning
<v Speaker 2>tag scene, specifically, Marvel took on two XKO Invincible Versus
<v Speaker 2>two x KO, like I said, had a two your lead,
<v Speaker 2>a two year head start, and it's and it evaporated
<v Speaker 2>in a week span with Marvel Token and that stay
<v Speaker 2>to play and Invincible Versus four days later at Xbox.
<v Speaker 2>It's that is an interesting scene all of a sudden,
<v Speaker 2>three games that offer completely different things. One's more of
<v Speaker 2>a traditional tag and Invincible Versus two XKO does some
<v Speaker 2>interesting things with their like link system. And now Marvel
<v Speaker 2>TOCN based on that video yesterday is completely wild.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>I am very curious to see what opinions are coming
<v Speaker 2>out of EVO based on those three games. So that's it.
<v Speaker 1>That's EVO, baby, Make sure you watch them Fighting games.
<v Speaker 2>Ready, Welcome to Evo mess Mornings all of a sudden
<v Speaker 2>and we'll take it from there.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I'm really really looking forward to it. You got
<v Speaker 1>me more hype than I was before. And I had
<v Speaker 1>such a good time watching last year. It was that
<v Speaker 1>that Hayo moment really has stuck with me. But there
<v Speaker 1>was so much cool stuff from last year, So looking
<v Speaker 1>forward to watching again. And I think it's interesting year
<v Speaker 1>because everything is kind of like in a weird space
<v Speaker 1>with some of these games, especially something like a tech
<v Speaker 1>n and it's like, I bet there's gonna be something.
<v Speaker 1>We come out here and be like, you know what,
<v Speaker 1>Everything's just fine and look at all these games that
<v Speaker 1>are coming down the pike. So yeah, playing games in
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<v Speaker 1>let's start the morning mess with Nintendo increasing price of
<v Speaker 1>Switch and other products in the US. This is from
<v Speaker 1>Eddie McCoo, a game spot. Okay, let's just get into it.
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo has announced that it's raising the price of the
<v Speaker 1>original switch and other Nintendo products in the United States.
<v Speaker 1>Switch to pricing, however, will remain unchanged at least for now.
<v Speaker 1>Beginning August third, the price of the switch will go
<v Speaker 1>up based on market conditions, and that's in quote the
<v Speaker 1>regular switch, switch, O, led switch light, and Select, and
<v Speaker 1>that's in quotes as well. Accessories will get unspecified pricing increases.
<v Speaker 1>That's right, the price is going up, and Nintendo is
<v Speaker 1>not telling us by how much. They're just warning us
<v Speaker 1>that on August third, the price is going to go up.
<v Speaker 1>So if you have been meaning to buy a switch
<v Speaker 1>light or whatever for some reason this week, I guess
<v Speaker 1>they've created a sense of urgency and now with the
<v Speaker 1>time to go, do that. Look, Jason, I get the
<v Speaker 1>reality of market conditions, and the tariffs really are still there.
<v Speaker 1>It feels like we've moved past them. He like, just
<v Speaker 1>today Trump was putting a thirty five percent tariff on Canada.
<v Speaker 1>There's more being placed on Brazil. But like, don't forget
<v Speaker 1>that there are still tariffs on China, Vietnam, Taiwan, these
<v Speaker 1>places all have their own significant tariffs that are more
<v Speaker 1>than just like ten percent, which also already would have
<v Speaker 1>been too much and would probably force these companies to
<v Speaker 1>increase prices. They're at like twenty five to thirty percent
<v Speaker 1>for these tariffs. So that stuff is still there. But
<v Speaker 1>the switch one could just kind of fizzle out, like Nintendo,
<v Speaker 1>just let it like not make as much. I struggle
<v Speaker 1>to see, like how they aren't making a profit on
<v Speaker 1>that thing still because they it's an old it's old hardware.
<v Speaker 1>At the price on manufacturing has to have come down now,
<v Speaker 1>I say that, And the reality is we know that
<v Speaker 1>there's been a lot of issues with manufacturing and sourcing
<v Speaker 1>parts and it becomes more difficult every year seemingly, and
<v Speaker 1>so that and combine that with the tariffs. Maybe not,
<v Speaker 1>maybe they do feel like they need to raise the price,
<v Speaker 1>but it still why not just take the hit, let
<v Speaker 1>the switch one sort of move into the bush like
<v Speaker 1>Homer Simpson, and let the switch to take the spotlight.
<v Speaker 1>This is insane to me that we're raising the price
<v Speaker 1>of a switch one after the switch too is out.
<v Speaker 2>It's it is insane to me, But I do sort
<v Speaker 2>of see a small strain of logic to it, sure,
<v Speaker 2>and that that being if you are going to raise
<v Speaker 2>a price to recoup costs you are going, and it
<v Speaker 2>makes sense to reduce the current stock of the previous
<v Speaker 2>generation because A either you get the extra for those sales,
<v Speaker 2>or B they just say, well, for one hundred dollars more,
<v Speaker 2>I can just get the switch to and be caught up,
<v Speaker 2>and then you may push people to the switch to
<v Speaker 2>that way, right, I don't like it. I don't know
<v Speaker 2>if you saw the target does have the new prices up.
<v Speaker 2>Switch lights are now two twenty nine, up from two
<v Speaker 2>twenty nine, up from one to ninety nine. Non o
<v Speaker 2>leads are three thirty nine, up from two ninety nine,
<v Speaker 2>and switch O leads are four hundred up from three
<v Speaker 2>point fifty. So I could definitely see a parent being like, wait,
<v Speaker 2>the old one's four hundred, the new one's five hundred.
<v Speaker 2>I can make I can do the under extra hundred
<v Speaker 2>bucks and then four to fifty if they don't untle
<v Speaker 2>game in with it, if that's a good point and
<v Speaker 2>just say, oh, I'll just I'll do the upgrade and
<v Speaker 2>now we're switch to owners and that'll be that. I'm
<v Speaker 2>also and I said this in uh I think one
<v Speaker 2>of the one of my group chats, never underestimate the
<v Speaker 2>ignorance of your fellow man or the capability for ignorance
<v Speaker 2>in your fellow man. And some parent is gonna miss
<v Speaker 2>the big two. They're gonna be set in for a
<v Speaker 2>switch to and they're gonna see this one and see
<v Speaker 2>that price and that it's not gonna be much different,
<v Speaker 2>and they're gonna be like, oh, this is what they want. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>they're gonna get the first.
<v Speaker 1>You can't be banking on that, right, That can't be
<v Speaker 1>the strategy. That can't be the kind of thing where
<v Speaker 1>it's like we are gonna be sneaky and try to
<v Speaker 1>make a little bit more money by fooling people. I mean,
<v Speaker 1>I do think that will be a byproduct of this.
<v Speaker 1>I also think of by product this is the medium
<v Speaker 1>popcorn effect of oh this is only one hundred dollars more.
<v Speaker 1>Now let's go over the switch too. Definitely, But I
<v Speaker 1>think they can't be like using those as primary strategies
<v Speaker 1>for selling the switch too, because it just looks really odd.
<v Speaker 1>It speaks volumes, right, this is screaming to us get
<v Speaker 1>used to this kind of thing. The switch two's price
<v Speaker 1>is probably going to go up, Like, honestly, you should
<v Speaker 1>be feeling anxious about if you haven't got a Switch To.
<v Speaker 1>Yet then this is Nintendo talking now. You should be
<v Speaker 1>feeling anxious because we're going to raise the price at
<v Speaker 1>any minute. And they said that they reserve the right
<v Speaker 1>to do that, so that like basically they are doing
<v Speaker 1>everything except for confirming there will be a switch to
<v Speaker 1>price increase at some point. So you know, there was
<v Speaker 1>a time where this was the exact opposite or what happened,
<v Speaker 1>where we would get price decreases when the new console
<v Speaker 1>came out, and to live in this very very opposite world,
<v Speaker 1>it's like, Okay, this whole system feels broken. Obviously, the
<v Speaker 1>market effects are real and and and the reality is
<v Speaker 1>this is us just kind of catching up, like we're
<v Speaker 1>like I'm a gas at this or whatever. But the
<v Speaker 1>price went up in Canada I think for the Switch
<v Speaker 1>one a few months ago, right, and now we're just
<v Speaker 1>getting the price increase here like they spared us for.
<v Speaker 2>A little bit.
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, but still it is a weird timing, you
<v Speaker 1>know at certain points, oh well, they didn't get the
<v Speaker 1>price increased for the Switch one done by the time
<v Speaker 1>to Switch two launched. Obviously, the move here now is
<v Speaker 1>just kind of leave everything alone, move on and focus
<v Speaker 1>on the switch too. And they're not even doing that,
<v Speaker 1>So I kind it's hard to read this in any
<v Speaker 1>other way other than Nintendo screaming to everybody that we
<v Speaker 1>are going to take every opportunity we have to increase
<v Speaker 1>the price because you know, if the tariffs go away.
<v Speaker 1>I suppose maybe the switch one. I was going to say, oh,
<v Speaker 1>you know, the switch one won't go back down in price,
<v Speaker 1>But again, who knows, maybe they would bring it back
<v Speaker 1>down because it's the switch one. Who cares. They're not
<v Speaker 1>going to sell it to one more of those now
<v Speaker 1>they are going to sell some more of those, and
<v Speaker 1>they have to manufacture them. And Nintendo's very conservative and
<v Speaker 1>wants to cover their costs if it comes from a
<v Speaker 1>place like that. I guess I get it, but I
<v Speaker 1>really still don't because it just looks so strange. Do
<v Speaker 1>you think, like, Okay, Nintendo's doing this, and Nintendo's try
<v Speaker 1>to trail or has successfully like charged eighty dollars for
<v Speaker 1>one of its games. They have this new console that
<v Speaker 1>is is relatively expensive for what people thought it would cost.
<v Speaker 1>A lot of people thought it would cost a little
<v Speaker 1>bit less than that four fifty four hundred. The other
<v Speaker 1>companies around Nintendo seem to keep taking like, Okay, Nintendo's
<v Speaker 1>doing it, so maybe we can get away with it.
<v Speaker 1>Do you think this leads back to even more price
<v Speaker 1>increases from Xbox and Sony or did they already get
<v Speaker 1>thirs in and this is Nintendo catching up?
<v Speaker 2>I think I think the ladder. I think Nintendo is
<v Speaker 2>just kind of I think Nintendo sat back was a
<v Speaker 2>little bit patient and is now trying to pull every
<v Speaker 2>lever they can other than the switch to one before
<v Speaker 2>they are forced to pull the switch to one. I
<v Speaker 2>don't I mean, maybe you see a series s increase, perhaps, Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>because that is that there is some room to move there.
<v Speaker 2>As much as I don't want to say that, but
<v Speaker 2>if anything's gonna go up, I think it's going to
<v Speaker 2>be that. I don't. I don't know that that the
<v Speaker 2>Microsoft and Sony really have a lot of room to
<v Speaker 2>follow suit, right, And and that's from a financial standpoint
<v Speaker 2>and from a good will standpoint. Right Xbox, in prontarticular,
<v Speaker 2>if they come out with a price increase for their consoles,
<v Speaker 2>they basically just say we prefer them to sell on
<v Speaker 2>the shelf, then be in your house, because that's what
<v Speaker 2>they're going to do. I would be absolutely aghast if
<v Speaker 2>either of those companies announced an increase in America. But
<v Speaker 2>then again, we are do we do live in bizarro world? Now?
<v Speaker 1>Everything is weird.
<v Speaker 2>Everybody who Every decision that's ever been made in the
<v Speaker 2>last like who, however long has been the opposite of
<v Speaker 2>what it should have been or I thought it would be,
<v Speaker 2>So who the hell knows?
<v Speaker 1>Jeff Right, I'm trying to like remember it. I think
<v Speaker 1>the timeline for Sony is they raised the price of
<v Speaker 1>the PlayStation five everywhere except for the United States, or
<v Speaker 1>did we eventually get one in the United because I think.
<v Speaker 2>You could say, I don't think we ever did. I
<v Speaker 2>don't think. I think it's still for I think are
<v Speaker 2>the prices right?
<v Speaker 1>But they raised it everywhere else, so it's like we've
<v Speaker 1>all been kind of like, don't touch it because it
<v Speaker 1>might fall apart, And then what falls out is price increases.
<v Speaker 1>And I think that this might convince Sony to move
<v Speaker 1>on that, but there's also been some backlash. The eighty
<v Speaker 1>dollars price hasn't seemed to work for anything else other
<v Speaker 1>than Mario Kart, so maybe everyone's like Nintendo can touch
<v Speaker 1>the hot stove, maybe we can't get away with it.
<v Speaker 1>As much. I think Sony feels like it probably would
<v Speaker 1>be able to get away with it. But the PlayStation
<v Speaker 1>fives at a weird point in its life cycle where
<v Speaker 1>people are looking at it be like, oh, all the
<v Speaker 1>games are from Microsoft, and well, you know, why do
<v Speaker 1>I buy this system, Sony? I want your games, And
<v Speaker 1>so I think they might wait until they have a
<v Speaker 1>few more things out there coming out in the next
<v Speaker 1>couple of years, but even then it's like, what are
<v Speaker 1>we talking about. They're waiting to increase the price. This
<v Speaker 1>to me speaks to the somewhat rotten foundation of console
<v Speaker 1>gaming as a whole right now, where these companies the
<v Speaker 1>strategy is get more money from the same people. They
<v Speaker 1>don't necessarily think about growing their their market share and
<v Speaker 1>not versus you know, not when I'm not talking about
<v Speaker 1>market share versus like Sony, micros Oft and Nintendo, but
<v Speaker 1>their market share versus like TikTok and other things that
<v Speaker 1>take people's leisure time. So now does Nintendo feel that way?
<v Speaker 1>They grew a lot with the Switch one. I bet
<v Speaker 1>they have like a relatively good understanding that the Switch
<v Speaker 1>too is going to do maybe as good as the
<v Speaker 1>Switch one or slightly worse. Like, it'll be very difficult
<v Speaker 1>for them to do better than the Switch one, so
<v Speaker 1>for them to increase profits this generation, price increases is
<v Speaker 1>kind of the thing they got to rely on. So again,
<v Speaker 1>I think this goes back to them understanding that the
<v Speaker 1>console generation or the console market not growing with bringing
<v Speaker 1>in a lot of new young people, and then Nintendo
<v Speaker 1>using the switch one as a way of getting us
<v Speaker 1>used to the idea of even more price increases than
<v Speaker 1>we have become accustomed to. And it's just a bummer
<v Speaker 1>all around, very strange. Now Nintendo's had some earnings reports
<v Speaker 1>it's doing very well. The switch to has sold five
<v Speaker 1>point eight two million units worldwide. That's from my Nintendo
<v Speaker 1>news and then to Know has confirmed this morning that
<v Speaker 1>the recently released Nintendo switched To has sold five point
<v Speaker 1>eight two million units worldwide since the console launched on
<v Speaker 1>the fifth of June. This sales figure counts hardware sales
<v Speaker 1>up to June thirtieth, twenty twenty five, so no doubt
<v Speaker 1>has now sold a fair few more units since I
<v Speaker 1>think Nintendo confirmed, like it's more than six million now
<v Speaker 1>if you go up to like today's sales something like that.
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, five point six three million or uh, yes,
<v Speaker 1>I'm sorry, that's for Mario Kart. Five point five point
<v Speaker 1>eight two million for Switch to and then Mario Kart
<v Speaker 1>has sold five point six three million, almost a one
<v Speaker 1>to one attach rate.
<v Speaker 2>That's crazy to me.
<v Speaker 1>Crazy.
<v Speaker 2>I would love I would love to know the split
<v Speaker 2>of bundles versus non bundles and why someone would buy
<v Speaker 2>a non bundle unless they had to.
<v Speaker 1>Right, you can't find if you can't find it. Yes,
<v Speaker 1>I think that's going to be the only reason most
<v Speaker 1>people did, because it seems like everyone just like says, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I should have that game, and it makes sense.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I think, I think to the one thing to
<v Speaker 2>take from this is and I said this the last
<v Speaker 2>time we talked about Switch sales figures. The fact that
<v Speaker 2>the stock this amount of stock was available for them
<v Speaker 2>to reach these heights so soon is commendable Like that's
<v Speaker 2>they clearly were ready with all the rumors in time
<v Speaker 2>that we had between you know, when we thought it
<v Speaker 2>was coming, when it actually came, they were just probably
<v Speaker 2>stockpiling consoles, and I think it paid off for them, clearly.
<v Speaker 2>I would love all of the people who have bought
<v Speaker 2>the Switch and don't own Marricart to buy it just
<v Speaker 2>because I want to see a one to one attach
<v Speaker 2>rate and go like that. But yeah, I mean, what
<v Speaker 2>else can you say? That's the the early strategy is
<v Speaker 2>paid off. Now it's time for the long term strategy
<v Speaker 2>to show its hand here and let us know when
<v Speaker 2>things are coming out and what you're going to do
<v Speaker 2>to support these near these now six million plus people
<v Speaker 2>who bought in on day one month, one month, two,
<v Speaker 2>what's next? How are you going to keep us? You
<v Speaker 2>know what I'm saying.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, And on that point has been rated for switch
<v Speaker 1>to one of the games coming up for that system.
<v Speaker 1>This is from Liam Dulan at Nintendo Life. Masahiro Sakarai
<v Speaker 1>Sean made me say that that that way everybody. By
<v Speaker 1>the way, mas Hero's latest project, Kirby aer Riders sores
<v Speaker 1>on Tonindudo switch to at some point later this year.
<v Speaker 1>While we haven't heard all that much about it since
<v Speaker 1>the initial announcement in April, the game has reportedly been
<v Speaker 1>rated in Saudi Arabia, recently receiving an AGE rating in
<v Speaker 1>the location of seven and above. Whatever details don't matter
<v Speaker 1>here really what matters is the game, people speculated I
<v Speaker 1>think based on this news looking at other Saudi Arabia
<v Speaker 1>Arabia Ratings that they only rate games once they're completed,
<v Speaker 1>once they've completed development. That's probably actually true. I think
<v Speaker 1>that's probably true. I think I think that's that tends
<v Speaker 1>to be how it works, where these ratiing ratings agencies
<v Speaker 1>are like, you got to send us some material, but
<v Speaker 1>the game has to be ready to go, so no
<v Speaker 1>changes can sneak in underneath us. But maybe that's not
<v Speaker 1>how it works either way. I think we can assume
<v Speaker 1>this game is probably pretty close to going, and when
<v Speaker 1>it gets rated like this, okay, that means it can
<v Speaker 1>come any minute now.
<v Speaker 2>Now.
<v Speaker 1>At the same time, this is Nintendo, Jason, they do
<v Speaker 1>the thing of holding onto games for longer than you
<v Speaker 1>would expect. I don't necessarily think that's gonna happen here.
<v Speaker 1>This game is coming. We still haven't got a date, though,
<v Speaker 1>So do you think this is one of those ones
<v Speaker 1>where it's like, Okay, we just had that partner direct
<v Speaker 1>and now we are expecting a September direct although they
<v Speaker 1>haven't said anything about that. But it usually happens. I
<v Speaker 1>think it's always happened for like the last ten years
<v Speaker 1>or something like that. But whatever, we can expect one.
<v Speaker 1>So do you think this is another one of these
<v Speaker 1>game date announcements that get saved for that or is
<v Speaker 1>this one that could pop up on Nintendo Today App
<v Speaker 1>anytime between now and then.
<v Speaker 2>Of all the games that we know that Nintendo has
<v Speaker 2>in first party development, I think this is the one
<v Speaker 2>that has the highest chance of you just wake up
<v Speaker 2>on a Monday morning and you're like, oh, by the way,
<v Speaker 2>Kirby aer Riders launching blah blah blah on Nintendo Switch
<v Speaker 2>to on your Nintendo Today app. It's this is the one.
<v Speaker 2>If they're gonna if they announced the METROI Prime four
<v Speaker 2>release date on Nintendo Today, they're gonna have to replace
<v Speaker 2>a lot of phones from people going holy sit and throwing.
<v Speaker 1>It across the room.
<v Speaker 2>So you do it on Kirby air Riders, you go
<v Speaker 2>all right, sure, that's fine, and then you move on
<v Speaker 2>to the next announcement. But yes, I do also think
<v Speaker 2>that the routine September direct usually sometimes as early as
<v Speaker 2>the Wednesday after Labor Day. Sometimes it goes a little
<v Speaker 2>later into September. The latest the latest ever been was
<v Speaker 2>the twenty first of September. It was supposed to be
<v Speaker 2>the fourteenth, and then that earthquake happened, so they delayed
<v Speaker 2>it a week. So I yeah, I wholeheartedly expect there
<v Speaker 2>to be a direct and for this game to be
<v Speaker 2>there in some capacity, but I also would not be
<v Speaker 2>surprised if we know the release date for it before
<v Speaker 2>that direct happens, and sometime in August, Nintendo's like, oh,
<v Speaker 2>by the way, we're still awaken. This is when this
<v Speaker 2>game's coming out. Thanks you'all.
<v Speaker 1>We're it's August now, Like July does feel like a
<v Speaker 1>time where okay, they did do a direct in July,
<v Speaker 1>but that you know, we don't get a ton of
<v Speaker 1>news about this industry in July. Typically that's changed a
<v Speaker 1>little bit, but typically August we do start to hear things.
<v Speaker 1>They start to go like, oh, I can see the
<v Speaker 1>holiday season. We should be ready for that. And so
<v Speaker 1>I think this is like things start to shake loose
<v Speaker 1>this month. I'm good. I think that is probably what
<v Speaker 1>is going to happen with the Nintendo Today app this month,
<v Speaker 1>where some of these things we keep asking about do
<v Speaker 1>shake loose in the next couple of weeks, and then
<v Speaker 1>they could put everything else in the end of September
<v Speaker 1>direct and they can also remind us about these dates
<v Speaker 1>in the September Direct. So it's like, if Kirby Air
<v Speaker 1>Riders does get a date between now in September, that
<v Speaker 1>game will also probably just be in the September Direct
<v Speaker 1>with even more information in that at that point. So
<v Speaker 1>I think Nintendo will probably have some information dropping about
<v Speaker 1>many of these games here very soon. Agreed, All right,
<v Speaker 1>Here are the top ten best selling Switch games as
<v Speaker 1>of June twenty twenty five. Kind of another check in
<v Speaker 1>on just how well some of these games have sold.
<v Speaker 1>Mario Kart eight Deluxe is now at sixty point eight
<v Speaker 1>six million units, almost seventy million it's sold that that's
<v Speaker 1>another six hundred thousand units there, I believe or not? No,
<v Speaker 1>maybe that's sixty thousand excuse me, another sixty thousand thousand
<v Speaker 1>units in the last quarter Mario Kart, Yeah, I'm sorry.
<v Speaker 1>Animal Crossing New Horizons is at forty point one to
<v Speaker 1>nine million. Super Smash Brothers Ultimate is at thirty six
<v Speaker 1>point five to five million. These are just massive numbers.
<v Speaker 1>As a reminder, the exclusives for like an Xbox or
<v Speaker 1>a PlayStation console game, typically honestly, for anything that's not
<v Speaker 1>Spider Man is around ten, twelve million, fifteen million. That's
<v Speaker 1>really really, really good for a PlayStation exclusive. Spider Man
<v Speaker 1>gets up to like twenty million. I think some in
<v Speaker 1>that range. But you have several games here from Nintendo
<v Speaker 1>that are above twenty million, including Super Mario Party at
<v Speaker 1>twenty one point nineteen million. Now, one thing that I
<v Speaker 1>did find interesting here, Jason, is the Zelda games. So
<v Speaker 1>Breadth of the Wail was that thirty two point eight
<v Speaker 1>million last quarter and it sold another Let's see is
<v Speaker 1>that twenty thousand units?
<v Speaker 2>One hundred thousand? Yeah?
<v Speaker 1>Okay, yes, and okay, so then and then Tiers of
<v Speaker 1>the Kingdom was at twenty one point seventy three million units,
<v Speaker 1>and let's see that is it didn't again? Yep. They're
<v Speaker 1>growing at about the same rate, right, So it's like
<v Speaker 1>those games they just kind of I don't know, they're
<v Speaker 1>in parallel. But people have not slowed down on buying
<v Speaker 1>Breath of the Wild because Tiers of the Kingdom's out there.
<v Speaker 1>It's it's a little weird thing to see. I don't know,
<v Speaker 1>what do you think, hi, Gruth?
<v Speaker 2>And I wonder too, this is sales, not unit movements.
<v Speaker 2>I wonder a are they including Nintendo Switch to edition,
<v Speaker 2>and b how do the how do the free online
<v Speaker 2>expansion upgrades factor into this?
<v Speaker 1>Right, you're looking through these numbers and trying to see
<v Speaker 1>it's like, okay, what games did get like significant updates?
<v Speaker 1>You know, Scarlet and Violet. That that one looks like
<v Speaker 1>it did another what three hundred thousand? No more than
<v Speaker 1>that four hundred thousand? Yeah, yeah, that's like really good
<v Speaker 1>for that, And I think that that's probably one that
<v Speaker 1>was like people were legitimately waiting. That sounds like the
<v Speaker 1>kind of spike in sales you can expect from something
<v Speaker 1>like that.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Surprisingly, I think the biggest jump in sales of
<v Speaker 2>all of these is Mario Kart eight Deluxe. It's six
<v Speaker 2>hundred thousand unit.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you're right, it was six hundred thousand, yeah, sixteen
<v Speaker 1>The World is Out.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean this game cannot be stopped.
<v Speaker 1>It literally just has a momentum all its ome. It
<v Speaker 1>is self perpetuating machine at this point. And yeah, it's
<v Speaker 1>it's bananas to see that it can continue to sell
<v Speaker 1>that well, even like even if you consider like part
<v Speaker 1>of that quarter was before the switch to is out,
<v Speaker 1>It's like, okay, so it's sold all right before that. No,
<v Speaker 1>that's a number that you only do if it just
<v Speaker 1>continues to sell. Like people probably bought a switch to
<v Speaker 1>and got Mario Kart wrote and bought Mario Kart eight Deluxe.
<v Speaker 1>They got both. It's like a very wild thing to see.
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo's trying to recreate that with World. I think they
<v Speaker 1>probably will end up doing so because despite like any
<v Speaker 1>like of the specific issues I might have with that game,
<v Speaker 1>the general audience seems pretty happy with it.
<v Speaker 2>So and hot dogs suit in chat. I heard that
<v Speaker 2>as well, even though it's not what he said. You
<v Speaker 2>said bananas to see, but we all heard bonanzas to say.
<v Speaker 1>Hey, bonanzas to see. That's all right, all right, let's
<v Speaker 1>take a quick break, go to our ad. When we
<v Speaker 1>come back, plenty more headlines will get into, including let's
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<v Speaker 1>I'm Jeff Grubb. That's Jason Finelli. All right, Jason, what
<v Speaker 1>are we talking about?
<v Speaker 2>All right? So I would like to shout out Blaine.
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<v Speaker 2>know how you did it. I reposted it. If you're
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<v Speaker 1>That's aw.
<v Speaker 2>That is so cool. So Blaine, well done, mate, Oh man,
<v Speaker 2>I love that.
<v Speaker 1>All right, look at that, good man. That's it's an
<v Speaker 1>old trender Tron two. That's the shit. Okay, very cool, Blaine.
<v Speaker 1>All right, let's get back into the into the headlines
<v Speaker 1>here with Battlefield six is a spiritual successor to Battlefield
<v Speaker 1>three and four. Vince Zampella says, this is from Jordan
<v Speaker 1>Miller at VGCUH, but this is really just a kick
<v Speaker 1>off for us to talk about the previews and everything
<v Speaker 1>like that, but real quick. Battlefield six is set to
<v Speaker 1>release on October tenth, and this week, EA showed off
<v Speaker 1>the game's multiplayer for the first time at preview events
<v Speaker 1>across the world. The thing I've been hearing mostly from
<v Speaker 1>people is they're pretty excited about it, and it does
<v Speaker 1>remind them of Battlefield three and four, or it feels like,
<v Speaker 1>you know, the real Battlefield five is what people are saying. Now.
<v Speaker 1>I haven't played it, I will say, And I saw
<v Speaker 1>someone in chap point out that Steven till Totilla made
<v Speaker 1>the same point by retweeting and reposting a bunch of
<v Speaker 1>previews for Battlefield twenty forty two where people sounded very
<v Speaker 1>similar to how they sound now. Battlefield is back. It's
<v Speaker 1>going back to its roots. This is the Battlefield we've
<v Speaker 1>been waiting for, so we can get our hopes up. Still.
<v Speaker 1>I think that there's nothing wrong with that, and this
<v Speaker 1>is still the game that people have been asking for
<v Speaker 1>from Dice. But do you think we're setting ourselves up
<v Speaker 1>for disappointment or what? Is? It hard to say now.
<v Speaker 2>It's hard to say right now because a lot of
<v Speaker 2>the enthusiasm that you're hearing is from people who were
<v Speaker 2>in the room and potentially flown out there to do it.
<v Speaker 2>I don't want to say that they're compromised, but you know,
<v Speaker 2>they're the content creators, the YouTubers who will go out
<v Speaker 2>there and play this game, and you know, we're in
<v Speaker 2>the room being interviewed by EA on the official live
<v Speaker 2>stream while they're playing it. What are they going to say, No,
<v Speaker 2>your game sucks. Like you have to take all of
<v Speaker 2>those impressions with a grain of fatal It's easy to.
<v Speaker 1>Get caught up in the hype, right like it is
<v Speaker 1>like you're there. Yeah, in fashions, have all met?
<v Speaker 2>Have y'all met me? I am a hype machine. I
<v Speaker 2>think I think I got out of my chair yesterday
<v Speaker 2>for a mouse game that let's not let's not say
<v Speaker 2>that I'm immune to this, but I have read some
<v Speaker 2>articles and some interviews and things like that where they've
<v Speaker 2>talked about I think the guy from Ripple Effect said
<v Speaker 2>they went back and looked at three and four and
<v Speaker 2>really tried to enhance that experience in this new game.
<v Speaker 2>And I think that is the way to go, right.
<v Speaker 2>You go back to why did people gravitate towards those
<v Speaker 2>games so much and see if you can how you
<v Speaker 2>can translate that or improve on it. Just get five
<v Speaker 2>and twenty forty two out of your view and just
<v Speaker 2>focus on three and four. If that's what they did
<v Speaker 2>I think that's the right approach to take. Honestly, we
<v Speaker 2>won't know for sure until the open bait has happened
<v Speaker 2>next weekend and the weekend after, But for now, I like,
<v Speaker 2>I like what I'm hearing. I like the direction it
<v Speaker 2>sounds like they're taking. But until I am holding a
<v Speaker 2>controller checking it out, I cannot in good conscience say
<v Speaker 2>Battlefield's back, because.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know. Yeah, yeah, that's where I'm at too.
<v Speaker 1>But I can imagine that this game is in a
<v Speaker 1>better place than that even twenty forty two was, because
<v Speaker 1>it's like twenty forty two is it did feel like
<v Speaker 1>the Pepsi Challenge, where like people tried it and it's like, oh,
<v Speaker 1>this is this does taste the sweetness that I want.
<v Speaker 2>It's right there.
<v Speaker 1>They are delivering the game I want, and then it
<v Speaker 1>just didn't have everything behind it to sort of support that. Hopefully,
<v Speaker 1>it's like this is just them being like, Okay, let's
<v Speaker 1>go even more back to Battlefield three and four and
<v Speaker 1>learn from our lessons from twenty forty two. It's entirely
<v Speaker 1>possible that all that has happened and this is really
<v Speaker 1>the game that people have been waiting for so Beta
<v Speaker 1>starts next week. I believe people are going to get
<v Speaker 1>a chance to get their hands on with this thing.
<v Speaker 1>Hopefully I will go on hands on as well and
<v Speaker 1>be able to form my own opinion. But I bet
<v Speaker 1>a lot of people will come out of that, and
<v Speaker 1>you know, at the very least, we will know a
<v Speaker 1>lot more at that point, although it will still be
<v Speaker 1>easy to get caught up in the hype from a beta,
<v Speaker 1>I do.
<v Speaker 2>Want to make a point that Lexi made in chat
<v Speaker 2>here giant bomb dot com slash chat if you're not
<v Speaker 2>there yet. Also kind of weird that no one has
<v Speaker 2>covered the game's pretty American nationalist, wet dreamy story concept,
<v Speaker 2>which is, hey, there was an assassination. She didn't write
<v Speaker 2>that I did because I did cover it, Lexi gatesbot
<v Speaker 2>dot com article A. Basically, there's a major assassination that
<v Speaker 2>breaks up NATO, and this PMC tries to fill the void,
<v Speaker 2>and that's who you're fighting against in the single player campaign.
<v Speaker 2>The thirty second teaser was just a woman given this
<v Speaker 2>speech about how the allegiances you thought you had you
<v Speaker 2>don't have and blah blah blah, and then she quotes
<v Speaker 2>a little finger from Game of Thrones for some.
<v Speaker 1>And Jason, we're losing you a little bit. Maybe you're
<v Speaker 1>just like robody while like a robot cursing. Hang on,
<v Speaker 1>let's go Okay, let's give it a second. Let's see
<v Speaker 1>if it comes back. All right, yep, names Nato got
<v Speaker 1>him a Rascal's dad. Nato came for Jason Fidelli. Everybody,
<v Speaker 1>you're you're still you're still breaking up. Maybe maybe try
<v Speaker 1>to leaving the call coming back, you know what. Hang on,
<v Speaker 1>let me change the region of the call. Let me
<v Speaker 1>see if that'll fix it real quick. Uh, let's do this. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>it does sound like you're back, but let's go to
<v Speaker 1>US Central. Oh here, so changes. Okay, all right, I
<v Speaker 1>think we're back. Okay, got him, everybody, we saved him,
<v Speaker 1>despite the cruelty that everyone knows from Nato. Uh, Jason,
<v Speaker 1>Jason Finelli has survived and we got back on the show.
<v Speaker 2>It's gonna be all right back. I live.
<v Speaker 1>You did you did put Yeah, you pointed this to
<v Speaker 1>me yesterday that they quoted little Finger. But they say
<v Speaker 1>as the man says, that's.
<v Speaker 2>As the man says, Chaos is a ladder. And I'm like,
<v Speaker 2>oh my god, that's just a couple on guys. Some
<v Speaker 2>some of must have just watched that episode and was like,
<v Speaker 2>you know what, this works in our trailer, but you
<v Speaker 2>know whatever, Sure, let's uh, let's let's let's quote Little
<v Speaker 2>Finger and see what the single player campaign has to do.
<v Speaker 1>Honestly, going back to a nationalistic dream story scenario also
<v Speaker 1>sounds kind of like going back to the heyday for
<v Speaker 1>this genre. It's like, yeah, we want to feel like
<v Speaker 1>it's the James Bond thing, right. James Bond came about
<v Speaker 1>from the UK because the UK was once an empire
<v Speaker 1>and then they weren't anymore, and it and and there's
<v Speaker 1>presence on the world stage had diminished, and so they
<v Speaker 1>created a character to make it feel like we could
<v Speaker 1>still affect global events. America is far along that timeline
<v Speaker 1>as well. That's why like the Mission Impossible movies have
<v Speaker 1>been have been doing better and better over time, and
<v Speaker 1>it's why we create, Like the general audience craves games
<v Speaker 1>like this because they want to feel like, Okay, the
<v Speaker 1>military that we spend all this money on has this
<v Speaker 1>value that we don't even fully understand, and we need
<v Speaker 1>them here and to protect us from the worst case scenarios.
<v Speaker 1>And that's what this could look like, look what happens
<v Speaker 1>if NATO goes away. So I think people crave it
<v Speaker 1>the way they crave Tom Clancy novels, and now we
<v Speaker 1>crave it even more because of the position the United
<v Speaker 1>States has on the global stage. Rainbow six Patriots, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I mean we've got a time of still trying to
<v Speaker 1>make that game. Yep, all right, let's see here. I
<v Speaker 1>think we're sticking with Battlefield six for a second. Battlefield
<v Speaker 1>six will have grounded skins, not from the video game grounded.
<v Speaker 1>There'll have skins that are grounded in reality. They say,
<v Speaker 1>I don't think it needs Nicki Minaj. This is from
<v Speaker 1>Eddie McCoo at game Spot. In an interview with comic
<v Speaker 1>book producer Alexia CHRISTOFFI said much the same thing, explaining
<v Speaker 1>that Battlefield Studios is hoping to make Battlefield six's skins
<v Speaker 1>feel grounded. We want people to express themselves in to
<v Speaker 1>have cool skins and peacock in a way like I
<v Speaker 1>look pretty cool and I have great weapons skins. What
<v Speaker 1>we wanted to feel authentic to the franchise. That's the
<v Speaker 1>approach which worth thinking. I think that this is the
<v Speaker 1>right thing to say right now, and if this game
<v Speaker 1>does end up getting one hundred million players, this will
<v Speaker 1>be laughed at one day when it does have all
<v Speaker 1>of the insane skins. I think it's both are true
<v Speaker 1>that they want to serve this audience of people who
<v Speaker 1>like Battlefield and want it to feel serious, and that's fine,
<v Speaker 1>they should do that, but I do think it's a
<v Speaker 1>little incompatible with their long term plans for this game.
<v Speaker 1>But the reality is it doesn't have to be incompatible
<v Speaker 1>for the launch. They could do this and mean it
<v Speaker 1>for now, and if it changes one day, so be it,
<v Speaker 1>and people will complain about it then, But if they've
<v Speaker 1>been playing that whole time, it's because they really like
<v Speaker 1>the game, and at that point Dice will probably save themselves.
<v Speaker 1>We can get away with a little bit more.
<v Speaker 2>Now.
<v Speaker 1>Now, does that mean one day SpongeBob is in the game.
<v Speaker 1>Probably not, But like look at like just look at
<v Speaker 1>like counter Strike weapon skins, right, those that like gets
<v Speaker 1>so wild over time they end up just like being
<v Speaker 1>like all tai die and stuff like that. That happen
<v Speaker 1>here for sure, And people are saying they don't even
<v Speaker 1>want that, so let's wait and see what happens. But
<v Speaker 1>I do I think this is the right thing to
<v Speaker 1>say for now? What do you think, Jason?
<v Speaker 2>I think so too, And I wonder if they're just
<v Speaker 2>saying this to cover their ass in case all the
<v Speaker 2>licenses are gobbled up by activision and there's no crossovers
<v Speaker 2>left to do. Right?
<v Speaker 1>Have you seen that the videos going around of Call
<v Speaker 1>of Duty recently of like a teenage mutant Ninja Turtle
<v Speaker 1>going up to a terminator and then pointing at the
<v Speaker 1>terminator and then Beavis comes out and kicks the terminator
<v Speaker 1>in the nuts, and it's like, wait, what is this?
<v Speaker 2>Oh?
<v Speaker 1>This is call of duty? Okay? Now to me, I'm like,
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, hell, yeah, this rule is. And everyone else
<v Speaker 1>is like, holy shit, this is miserable. But I get it.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>So people don't want that for sure, right.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I don't think they want that, But I think
<v Speaker 2>there's a way you can thread the needle here, Right.
<v Speaker 2>You can give them famous skins of fictional characters or whatever,
<v Speaker 2>but also have them grounded in some sort of reality.
<v Speaker 2>I am shocked that Call of Duty or Fortnite or
<v Speaker 2>count Strike or whatever hasn't gone Fox and said, hey,
<v Speaker 2>what are you doing with Jack Bauer? Oh?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, cool?
<v Speaker 2>In one of these you know, I'm saying Reacher would
<v Speaker 2>be perfect or something like that. There are characters that
<v Speaker 2>you could license that fit into the aesthetic, But are
<v Speaker 2>that still kind of scratch that? Do you think it's
<v Speaker 2>like the Mortal Kombat.
<v Speaker 1>Guest character sort of thing where it's like, oh, you
<v Speaker 1>know what, at the end of the day, all these
<v Speaker 1>kind of makes sense.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, so some of them do, right, like I I mean,
<v Speaker 2>Omni Man did not, and Homelander didn't make any sense
<v Speaker 2>to me other than the fact that they were over
<v Speaker 2>the violent. But then when they came into the game
<v Speaker 2>and they found a way to fit them into those lures.
<v Speaker 2>Sure they gave them their own lure within the franchise,
<v Speaker 2>I should say that made sense. The horror franchise Monsters
<v Speaker 2>didn't make any goddamn sense, but they made them work.
<v Speaker 2>The way that they put a ghostface into Mortal Kombat one,
<v Speaker 2>I still think is brilliant. And then like as somebody
<v Speaker 2>puts in chat you could mess with the you know,
<v Speaker 2>you get your realistic Jack Bauer, but then you get
<v Speaker 2>you know, Johnny English, the guy who played mister Beady.
<v Speaker 2>You have fun with that.
<v Speaker 1>Liam Neeson and the Naked Gun would be hysterical just
<v Speaker 1>him bumbling around in a game like this, so there
<v Speaker 1>are ways to do it.
<v Speaker 2>I think. I don't think people are against guest characters
<v Speaker 2>or guest skins. I think people are against like an
<v Speaker 2>internal pointing at the terminator and then Beavis kick him
<v Speaker 2>in the nuts in Call of Duty. I would expect
<v Speaker 2>that in Fortnite. I would not expect that in Call
<v Speaker 2>of Duty.
<v Speaker 1>There's a reason they keep selling it in Call of Duty, though.
<v Speaker 1>That audience, I still think is like they don't care.
<v Speaker 1>They've had their weed, the Red Sight weed skin for
<v Speaker 1>fifteen years now, so they're all aboard all all this stuff.
<v Speaker 2>I need to self correct. I forgot his name. I
<v Speaker 2>knew his first name is Rowan, I could not remember
<v Speaker 2>his last name, so I didn't say it at all.
<v Speaker 2>Rowan Atkinson is mister Bean's name, and I thank you
<v Speaker 2>for correcting me. I do appreciate that.
<v Speaker 1>All right, let's see here finally with the EA stuff.
<v Speaker 1>EA doesn't currently have plans to bring Battlefield six to
<v Speaker 1>Switch to. I think this is something like they're not
<v Speaker 1>going to have that ready to go at launch. Why
<v Speaker 1>not just take your time? Nintendo Switch two's partner showcase
<v Speaker 1>is just revealed. What's ahead for new hybrid platforms in
<v Speaker 1>the hybrid platform in terms of third party offerings, but
<v Speaker 1>it seems one series that won't be showing up anytime
<v Speaker 1>soon is EA's popular military shooter Battlefield. Eurogamer spoke to
<v Speaker 1>Battlefield's head Vince Sampella as part of Battlefield six is
<v Speaker 1>multiplayer reveal today, and it's been officially confirmed that the
<v Speaker 1>company doesn't currently have plans to bring the game to
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo's new system. The team is focused on delivering the
<v Speaker 1>game where the core Battlefield audience is at present. According
<v Speaker 1>to the same story, yeah, this is another one who's like,
<v Speaker 1>you definitely do this for now, and then if you
<v Speaker 1>have the capacity later, if it makes sense, it can
<v Speaker 1>come to switch to it at any point. I don't
<v Speaker 1>think anyone who's buying the Switch to expecting this game
<v Speaker 1>to be there, and there aren't a lot of Battlefield
<v Speaker 1>fans currently demanding it there. But that could change if
<v Speaker 1>the game becomes very popular and people are like, I
<v Speaker 1>wish I could play that on the Switch too, and
<v Speaker 1>then they could do it then. Although maybe it'll never
<v Speaker 1>be a perfect fit. I do think like we'll test
<v Speaker 1>things out with Madden for see how things go. And
<v Speaker 1>then determine whether they can find an audience for other
<v Speaker 1>kinds of games as they see what that does in
<v Speaker 1>Apex legends. So maybe it'll be a couple of years
<v Speaker 1>before Battlefield six shows up on switch to, but I
<v Speaker 1>wouldn't be surprised if it happens.
<v Speaker 2>Don't get hasty here. EA is already supporting the switch
<v Speaker 2>to with four games. They can't, they can't stretch themselves
<v Speaker 2>out any further. But no, but I I'm with you
<v Speaker 2>on that. Also, I'm seeing a lot in chat that,
<v Speaker 2>you know, maybe the switch to simply can't run Battlefield six.
<v Speaker 2>But I send you to yet another article that I
<v Speaker 2>wrote myself. I'm so sorry. I keep I keep tooting
<v Speaker 2>my own horn here. The PC specs were some of
<v Speaker 2>the news that came out from Okay, I'll bring them
<v Speaker 2>up right now, let's do it. Come on, and as
<v Speaker 2>my headline says, Battlefield PC specs revealed, and you won't
<v Speaker 2>need a military grade PC to run it. The recommended
<v Speaker 2>the minimum PC requirements are a I five processor, sixteen
<v Speaker 2>gigs of memory, and a twenty sixty or fifty six
<v Speaker 2>hundred radion or equivalent. That's not terrible.
<v Speaker 1>I would say that that like, for the GPU side
<v Speaker 1>of things, that probably sounds pretty promising. For the switch to,
<v Speaker 1>it will come down to the CPU. The CPU is
<v Speaker 1>a little PS four E inside the switch to Battlefield
<v Speaker 1>six is next gen only? Is that what?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah?
<v Speaker 1>Because it just let's let me double check that. I
<v Speaker 1>guess I didn't even think that the.
<v Speaker 2>Next gen only. There was a whole article about how
<v Speaker 2>they were skipping PS four and I'm saying next gen.
<v Speaker 1>I know it's current gen everybody, but god, it's you know,
<v Speaker 1>we still have that other gin that's current as well,
<v Speaker 1>So it's a weird thing to talk about. Yeah, I
<v Speaker 1>imagine the CPU would probably be the issue because they
<v Speaker 1>are going to have like sixty four on sixty four
<v Speaker 1>battles or something like that. Is it one hundred and
<v Speaker 1>twenty eight players, or even if it's sixty four players
<v Speaker 1>total thirty two on thirty two, that might be a
<v Speaker 1>little difficult for the switch two's CPU with everything else
<v Speaker 1>going on. And if there's a lot of destruction that
<v Speaker 1>runs on the CPU as well, more than likely and
<v Speaker 1>simulating that with everything else going on, so I could
<v Speaker 1>see there just be an issues there. I don't think
<v Speaker 1>it's going to be impossible to solve though. If they
<v Speaker 1>wanted to get Battlefield six on switch to, I think
<v Speaker 1>they could, But would it be worth it. That'll be
<v Speaker 1>a conversation. Honestly, The answer might on a probably be
<v Speaker 1>no in a couple of years, even where it's like, oh, okay,
<v Speaker 1>the game is super popular, but it would just take
<v Speaker 1>too much work to get it on the switch to.
<v Speaker 1>That could be possible, all right, let's do this. Next one.
<v Speaker 1>Mortal Kombat Legacy Collection physical editions announced. This is from
<v Speaker 1>sal Ramano at Kamatsu. Publisher Atari and developer Digital Eclipse
<v Speaker 1>have announced physical editions of Mortal Kombat Legacy Collection for
<v Speaker 1>PlayStation five, Xbox Series X, and Xbox One consoles, switch
<v Speaker 1>to and PC. Mortal Kombat Trilogy has also been confirmed
<v Speaker 1>as playable game in the collection. You were telling me
<v Speaker 1>this that the Mortal Kombat Collection are mort kind Bat Trilogy.
<v Speaker 1>Excuse me of fan favor, right, In a lot of ways,
<v Speaker 1>it's a weird game. It's got a lot of quirks
<v Speaker 1>to it, but people love those quirks, and so this
<v Speaker 1>wasn't confirmed up until this point, and now it's in
<v Speaker 1>there and people seem to be pretty happy about it.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's It came out in like ninety six. It
<v Speaker 2>was on PS, Dreamcast and N sixty four, and it
<v Speaker 2>basically mashed all of the two D Mortal Kombat characters
<v Speaker 2>into one big game. It's wild, it's dumb, it's unbalanced,
<v Speaker 2>but yeah, it's fun. If you're going to make a
<v Speaker 2>legacy collection, you have to include it, simply for the
<v Speaker 2>sheer insanity. I do think they're using the PlayStation or
<v Speaker 2>Dreamcast addition, not the N sixty four because if you
<v Speaker 2>look at there was a thirty second trailer teaser that
<v Speaker 2>came out with the announcement, and if you look at it,
<v Speaker 2>it shows the character select screen for trilogy and it
<v Speaker 2>has the full it wasn't it wasn't dream castor and
<v Speaker 2>I'm sorry it was Saturn. Sorry right right right, my
<v Speaker 2>dream kid, thank you for the correction. But it has
<v Speaker 2>the full uh character select screen that the N sixty
<v Speaker 2>four characters were missing a row, and the one in
<v Speaker 2>this in this game, in this trailer was not missing it.
<v Speaker 2>So we're getting PS one and Saturn specifically. I don't
<v Speaker 2>know if that means we'll get both versions, because they
<v Speaker 2>do like to put the handheld versions and Superintendo versions
<v Speaker 2>and the arcade versions of the older games that remains
<v Speaker 2>to be seen. Maybe we'll get that answer on the
<v Speaker 2>EBO show floor. Maybe they'll have options and you can
<v Speaker 2>play whichever one you want. But I think it's neat.
<v Speaker 2>I think it's really cool that it's here and it's
<v Speaker 2>and we're now at the precipice not to ignore, not
<v Speaker 2>to like brush over this announcement, because it is cool,
<v Speaker 2>but now we're at the precipice of what's next, because
<v Speaker 2>all you really have left now is the PS two era?
<v Speaker 2>Is the PS two? Are you going to put the
<v Speaker 2>PS two era in here? Are you going to get
<v Speaker 2>weird and put and put Mortal Kombat? Mitch ologies, Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>you bet it? What do you? What are you gonna do? Like,
<v Speaker 2>but there's there's some weird directions you could take this
<v Speaker 2>legacy collection, and I'm genuinely curious where that's going to go.
<v Speaker 2>But like this was like the last hurdle before you
<v Speaker 2>got to that era, and now that this isn't it,
<v Speaker 2>it's sky's limit? Man, what do you got for us?
<v Speaker 2>I'm slowly getting more excited as the uh, as the
<v Speaker 2>release gets closer.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, so it's uh, it's definitely one of those things
<v Speaker 1>where I look at this and it's like, I hope
<v Speaker 1>they just kind of put everything in here. But Digital
<v Speaker 1>Eclipse recently has been updating Atari fifty with like expansion packs.
<v Speaker 1>DLC drops, Yes, it's so cool, and it's like, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>now we're gonna do a bunch of I think they're
<v Speaker 1>doing Namco games that came out on the Atari, and
<v Speaker 1>they have a whole dedicated thing for that. I wonder
<v Speaker 1>if that like might be one of plans here is Okay,
<v Speaker 1>make this initial package really enticing, get a lot of
<v Speaker 1>people in there, for sure, But what if we did
<v Speaker 1>Mortal Kombat spin offs as its own thing later as
<v Speaker 1>DLC so we can continue to support this game, or
<v Speaker 1>even potentially a Mortal Kombat a Legacy Collection two which
<v Speaker 1>then does like maybe talk about the PS two games
<v Speaker 1>and some of the other stuff, and it tries to
<v Speaker 1>get them all collected. I hope at the very least
<v Speaker 1>we get one or the other. Just one thing I
<v Speaker 1>hope here is that it doesn't end with this. I
<v Speaker 1>want them to just keep mining the history of Mortal
<v Speaker 1>Kombat and then when you get done with that, move
<v Speaker 1>on to the next awesome big thing after proving what
<v Speaker 1>you can do, because I think they've already proven to
<v Speaker 1>a certain extent just how cool this can be with
<v Speaker 1>Atari fifty and several of the other things that they've
<v Speaker 1>done that. But this does feel like a step up
<v Speaker 1>in terms of, oh, we're getting a legacy collection from
<v Speaker 1>this generation of stuff of Mortal Kombat games that does
<v Speaker 1>feel like even more current or like that's going to
<v Speaker 1>hit nostalgia for a lot more players, And so that
<v Speaker 1>is exciting, and I hope that this kind of just
<v Speaker 1>is a springboard for them to do this exact strategy
<v Speaker 1>with a ton of other franchises. Mortal Kombat is such
<v Speaker 1>a good first one though, in that.
<v Speaker 2>It really really is. And if you go back to
<v Speaker 2>like the Legend of Karatica, they did that too in
<v Speaker 2>that gold Master series that the Jeff minter Lamasoft game.
<v Speaker 2>They I love these little interactive museums that they're doing.
<v Speaker 2>It's incredible for wild stuff.
<v Speaker 1>All Right, that does it for the headlines. We have
<v Speaker 1>a poll question from yesterday. We need to wrap up.
<v Speaker 1>Let's go ahead and get that real quick, do we go?
<v Speaker 1>Let me prefer oh did I not post the poll question?
<v Speaker 1>Of course? Jans out and I forget to do this
<v Speaker 1>all right, so we'll catch you on that next week.
<v Speaker 1>That's how it goes. Everybody's too much other things going on, right.
<v Speaker 1>We did a good job yesterday of holding on to everything,
<v Speaker 1>but there definitely some things fall through the cracks like that.
<v Speaker 1>So we'll get that updated. We'll do that next week.
<v Speaker 1>But that means we'll get to the bomb twelve here
<v Speaker 1>pretty soon before we do that, though, Jason Finelli, why
<v Speaker 1>don't you tell people where they could find you on
<v Speaker 1>the internet what you have going on and all that good.
<v Speaker 2>Stuff at Jasonfinelli dot com, on Blue Sky, big Man Finella,
<v Speaker 2>everywhere else was covering the battlefield stuff. We'll be looking
<v Speaker 2>at EVA all week. If anything's breaking, I will post
<v Speaker 2>it on social and then probably get an article up
<v Speaker 2>on game Spot at some point MMORPG. I do moonlight
<v Speaker 2>there every once in a while. I do. I do
<v Speaker 2>owe them some articles as well. I'm still still behind
<v Speaker 2>on my Banansa review. I've gotta get that in. It's
<v Speaker 2>just been doing some other things here and there. If
<v Speaker 2>you follow me on social media, you'll get wrestling. You'll
<v Speaker 2>get your Pro wrestling Summer Slam is this weekend too.
<v Speaker 2>Let's not forget so Evo this weekend, Summer Slam this weekend,
<v Speaker 2>and I like to post cute pictures of my kids
<v Speaker 2>and my wife and my family, like this one here
<v Speaker 2>who thinks we don't see her, Absolutely do sneak it
<v Speaker 2>up there. I see you. But yeah, so we'll well
<v Speaker 2>and now she's gonna cheese the rest of the day.
<v Speaker 2>That's fine. So yeah, so you know that's that's wrestling,
<v Speaker 2>video games, nerd stuff, magic gathering once in a while
<v Speaker 2>and we have a good time. So Hidden Gimmick, that's right,
<v Speaker 2>Hidden and Gimmick up there, Hiding Gimmicks out now on Steam.
<v Speaker 2>There's a fifty of them, actually long series. Yeah, we
<v Speaker 2>could make that. We should.
<v Speaker 1>We should just to make a video game for Giant Bomb,
<v Speaker 1>another one, a second one.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, hidden gimmicks. Just take fruits and pictures of
<v Speaker 2>like different shows and hide gimmicks.
<v Speaker 1>I love it.
<v Speaker 2>I love that. But yeah, so that's what I'm doing.
<v Speaker 2>That's what I have going on.
<v Speaker 1>But this weekend it's EVO and wrestling baby hell yeah.
<v Speaker 1>All right, fantastic Chason, thank you so much for this
<v Speaker 1>whole week. It's been awesome to hang out with you
<v Speaker 1>and you, like, like I was saying, last night. Easy
<v Speaker 1>to have someone on that I can trust to like
<v Speaker 1>know what they're talking about. Very good time. All right,
<v Speaker 1>let's do the Bomb twelve everybody, I have it ready
<v Speaker 1>on this screen. There we go. The Bomb twelve is
<v Speaker 1>the event of the week where we ask you, hey,
<v Speaker 1>what are the games that matter to you right now? Actually,
<v Speaker 1>what's your game? The one game that you want to
<v Speaker 1>put on this list? We got some responses. Let's you
<v Speaker 1>know what, let's kind of do the top three because
<v Speaker 1>that hasn't changed much from last week. It did flip
<v Speaker 1>a little bit. Claire Obscure Expedition thirty three does need
<v Speaker 1>to pick up momentum. It's number two, while Donkey Kong
<v Speaker 1>Binanza remains at number one. That does mean destraating too,
<v Speaker 1>which still has a lot of players on this list,
<v Speaker 1>dropping down to number three. But man, Jason claib Scare
<v Speaker 1>just feels like this thing is going to turn into
<v Speaker 1>a moment for a lot of people, Like I remember
<v Speaker 1>where I was when I first played that first claib
<v Speaker 1>Scare game, because more and more people are playing it
<v Speaker 1>each week.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's it's we talked about this last night. It's
<v Speaker 2>on my it's on my next list. I am did
<v Speaker 2>you see it?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I'm gonna pick alphix it right now. Yes, let's
<v Speaker 1>do it.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, okaylet to say anything. I like saying Wu Chong
<v Speaker 2>at number four. I was not sure if people would
<v Speaker 2>really cling on to that, but it's cool to see
<v Speaker 2>it on this list. Grounded two, which I believe hit
<v Speaker 2>early access earlier this week. Nice to see that there
<v Speaker 2>one hundred line Last Defense Academy, which is another big
<v Speaker 2>gaping hole in my backlog because I loved Dangan Rampa,
<v Speaker 2>so I think that one will be very much my shit.
<v Speaker 2>Tony pro Skater three and four, that's cool. That's stranding
<v Speaker 2>too holding on to that top spot. No, it's just
<v Speaker 2>just chat help me figure out what should go a
<v Speaker 2>number five.
<v Speaker 1>So what we The problem we have right now is
<v Speaker 1>I forgot to swap out one of the Monster Trained twos,
<v Speaker 1>so it's at five and seven. So I'm gonna give
<v Speaker 1>chat the opportunity to right now determine live what's gonna
<v Speaker 1>go at number five, and we'll see if we can
<v Speaker 1>come up with consensus really quick. So shout it out.
<v Speaker 1>What do you got anthem? Fortnite?
<v Speaker 2>We killed the game?
<v Speaker 1>Oh? Yes, you know what that is? The one. Everyone's
<v Speaker 1>got it all right there, because there were a lot
<v Speaker 1>of people in the list who were playing this, and
<v Speaker 1>I probably did mean to intend to get in on there.
<v Speaker 1>Uma masum, there you go. And then I'm gonna go
<v Speaker 1>callen pretty Derby because that's the subtitle that game. All right,
<v Speaker 1>So let's recap the whole list now. Number twelve is
<v Speaker 1>the one hundred line Last Defense Academy Number eleven, No
<v Speaker 1>Sleep for Economy Dotte from I the Sosomdium files. Yes,
<v Speaker 1>you freaks made it happen. I know there was a
<v Speaker 1>concerted effort. I know there were yes words. I know
<v Speaker 1>there was a concerted effort to get this on here.
<v Speaker 1>But there were a couple of those. And I'll tell
<v Speaker 1>you one thing I noticed that well I'm not gonna
<v Speaker 1>tell people how. I noticed that they were trying to
<v Speaker 1>cheat the system so they don't try to do it
<v Speaker 1>or try to figure a way around it. But no
<v Speaker 1>Sleep for Economy Dotte. That one seemed legitimate. So congratulations
<v Speaker 1>to you freaks for getting on here. Number ten is
<v Speaker 1>wheel World Number nine Tony Yuks frost Kitter three plus
<v Speaker 1>four dropped quite a bit, but still in the bomb twelve,
<v Speaker 1>so good for it grounded at number eight grind this
<v Speaker 1>is grounded two. This just popped off in early access.
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna be interested to see if this moves up
<v Speaker 1>or down, Jason, because this feels like one of those
<v Speaker 1>games that you know, it's a survival, a crafting game.
<v Speaker 1>Those things when they pop off, they pop off. So really,
<v Speaker 1>do is this going to be one of those or
<v Speaker 1>is it going to be like kind of you know,
<v Speaker 1>middle of the road. We'll see number seven Monster Trained
<v Speaker 1>to number six Final Fantasy fourteen there are is this
<v Speaker 1>just the game that I think this might be the
<v Speaker 1>game some people just play because there were so much
<v Speaker 1>freaks there, Yes, talk about breaks. More respondents this week
<v Speaker 1>for this game than last week. I think Final Fantasy
<v Speaker 1>fourteen might be a permanent thing on here.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I don't think that's going anywhere. It's just it
<v Speaker 2>when people, people get and when it gets in the
<v Speaker 2>hooks it's hooks into people. It gets its hooks into people.
<v Speaker 2>And there are I know, many, many dozens of people
<v Speaker 2>who play it hours still every week just love it,
<v Speaker 2>love it, love it and get you know, all all
<v Speaker 2>sorts of pleasure out of it. That's you know, I
<v Speaker 2>would not be surprised to see that in like lowell
<v Speaker 2>moments throughout the year. As you keep doing this, bump
<v Speaker 2>its way up into the top three.
<v Speaker 1>Number five Uma Masume pretty derby. I don't know if
<v Speaker 1>I spilled Uma Masume correct, but whatever. Number four Wuchong
<v Speaker 1>Fallen Feathers. Yeah, there were quite a few respondents for that.
<v Speaker 1>That's awesome, you know, new game popping off. People seem
<v Speaker 1>to be into it. And then again number three Death
<v Speaker 1>Stranding to number two Clare Obscure Expedition thirty three and
<v Speaker 1>number one Donkey Kong Bonanza. Let's be clear the on
<v Speaker 1>the spreadsheet when I'm just kind of like eyeballing it, Jason,
<v Speaker 1>Donkey Kong Bonanza goes on for pages and pages. It
<v Speaker 1>is a ton of people playing that game. Seems like
<v Speaker 1>a smash hit based on the early still anecdotal evidence
<v Speaker 1>that we're collecting over here, but it definitely deserves to
<v Speaker 1>still be number one. I will be interested to see, like,
<v Speaker 1>you know, what do we have a good idea of,
<v Speaker 1>like what could replace it? Jason, Like what is the
<v Speaker 1>next big game that you think is going to be
<v Speaker 1>number one on the bomb twelve?
<v Speaker 2>I mean short term, I think it's going to be
<v Speaker 2>clear obscure. I think it's going to keep going. Oh
<v Speaker 2>I like that, okay eventually, but once once bonanza kind
<v Speaker 2>of you know, tapers off here. But man, that's tough.
<v Speaker 2>Like what Metal Delta?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Delta? Is it Delta?
<v Speaker 2>I think it could, yeah, because it's just you get
<v Speaker 2>the nostalgia people and the people who have never played
<v Speaker 2>a Melagyear before and people who haven't played Medal Gear
<v Speaker 2>Solid three. Jeff, Yeah, that they are going to play that.
<v Speaker 2>So that based on the previews, this little ether in
<v Speaker 2>the year. But that's Silent Hill out f seems really crazy. Yep,
<v Speaker 2>that perfectly one.
<v Speaker 1>I mean you know the horror game freaks will show
<v Speaker 1>up for that one, as well as the Silent Hill fans,
<v Speaker 1>which there are are legion. So yeah, that feels like
<v Speaker 1>one that's guaranteed to hit one when when it comes
<v Speaker 1>out for sure. So yeah, I think Delta probably sounds right.
<v Speaker 1>But who knows, we'll be surprised. That's the possibilities with
<v Speaker 1>the with the Bomb twelve, we never know what's going
<v Speaker 1>to happen. So I will put out a new call
<v Speaker 1>for Hey, what is your game this week? I'll probably
<v Speaker 1>do that on Sunday, or Monday. That's going to be
<v Speaker 1>on my Blue Sky. I'll try to pin that so
<v Speaker 1>people can find it pretty easily. But we might also
<v Speaker 1>put that up on giant bomb dot com. I might
<v Speaker 1>start writing a up a a blog post version for
<v Speaker 1>the Bomb twelve and people can find the details there.
<v Speaker 1>All right, it's exciting. I like doing this. This is
<v Speaker 1>a fun thing to kind of keep track of. If
<v Speaker 1>people are into this, let me know, and if you
<v Speaker 1>have any ideas for the Bomb twelve, I'd love to
<v Speaker 1>hear them when we want to keep making this an
<v Speaker 1>exciting way to end the week. One more time. Jason Fonelli,
<v Speaker 1>thank you so much for hanging out with me today.
<v Speaker 1>Man talking about video games. I really appreciate it.
<v Speaker 2>Absolutely. I love doing it. I love talking about games.
<v Speaker 2>I love being on this show with you, with you,
<v Speaker 2>Mook's here a giant bomb. It's a lot of fun.
<v Speaker 2>Regular week next week, unofficial Faily week is over. Uff
<v Speaker 2>is done. Everybody will be back, but I am here.
<v Speaker 2>If you ever need me, let's talk about games with me.
<v Speaker 1>Hell yeah, that sounds fantastic. We will do exactly that.
<v Speaker 1>Thank you all for hanging out with us this week
<v Speaker 1>as well. We're not done. UPF, will be later, might
<v Speaker 1>do something between now and then as well, kind of
<v Speaker 1>depending on how how fast I can get it set
<v Speaker 1>up for UPF, because again I got to run everything myself.
<v Speaker 1>That's what happened yesterday, Jason. I was like, I'm gonna
<v Speaker 1>try to play some skies at Arcadia, and then it
<v Speaker 1>took me an hour and a half to get things
<v Speaker 1>set up for voicemail dump truck on the VM. But
<v Speaker 1>we got there eventually. So we'll see what happens today,
<v Speaker 1>looking forward to make it all happen. Yes, and then, Jason,
<v Speaker 1>anything else looks like you were gonna say something.
<v Speaker 2>And chat said, had a great idea where you show
<v Speaker 2>some of the games that get one vote every week.
<v Speaker 1>Oh, that's right. We were going to do that yet
<v Speaker 1>call it the dou twelve. Yes. I wanted to put
<v Speaker 1>them in the graphic, which is why they're like, we
<v Speaker 1>don't have it here, but there is uh okay, one
<v Speaker 1>person for mic Opunk. We played that a little bit ago.
<v Speaker 1>I enjoyed it. But one person for mico Punk. Let's
<v Speaker 1>see here, h only a couple of people for Peak.
<v Speaker 1>You know, Peak is like this dominant thing, but you know,
<v Speaker 1>I think the way we have it phrased. The question
<v Speaker 1>is what is your game? I think there's gonna be
<v Speaker 1>a lot of games that are like, well, of course
<v Speaker 1>I go play Peak with my friends already, but my
<v Speaker 1>game right now is and they want to like, say
<v Speaker 1>something cool, That's how I would feel about it. And
<v Speaker 1>I want that to be the energy that goes into
<v Speaker 1>the Bomb twelve. I want it to be something you're
<v Speaker 1>like proud to tell people about, because like, you've got
<v Speaker 1>to try this game. That's what the Bomb twelve should be.
<v Speaker 1>So Peak not being exactly that, but still being like
<v Speaker 1>this monster thing makes sense to me. Let's see here,
<v Speaker 1>uh see if I can find a couple other one
<v Speaker 1>vote getters a Stalker two. One vote for Stalker two,
<v Speaker 1>one vote for Stellar Blade actually soon the one Gooners
<v Speaker 1>still out there, one vote for UFO fifty. Yeah, there's
<v Speaker 1>gonna be games that were like probably a lot of
<v Speaker 1>people's one game last year, and there's a few people
<v Speaker 1>getting around to it right now. And of course how
<v Speaker 1>do we miss this one one vote for it, but
<v Speaker 1>it's maybe the most important vote for wet Tricks. For
<v Speaker 1>wet Tricks, everybody the wet Tetris. We'll get, you know,
<v Speaker 1>What this means is we're gonna get a lot more
<v Speaker 1>wet Tricks votes next month.
<v Speaker 2>Oh no, I know you're skewing the vote. Poor poor
<v Speaker 2>Ninja Guiden rage Bound has an actual claim on this list,
<v Speaker 2>and now we're just gonna get a bunch of wetriss.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, let's uh rage bound. I'm sure we'll probably be
<v Speaker 1>represented next week for uh wet tricks and stuff like this.
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna have to come up with some threshold for
<v Speaker 1>like when I can tell it's a joke and there's
<v Speaker 1>a bunch of people are trying to get on the list,
<v Speaker 1>It's like, okay, you have more than this number, the
<v Speaker 1>joke worked, and I'll put it on the list. But
<v Speaker 1>anything anything below that, it's like, no, I'm not going
<v Speaker 1>to even acknowledge it. We'll see all right. We were
<v Speaker 1>wrapping this show up. Thank you once again to everybody
<v Speaker 1>for watching and listening. You are the best audience in gaming.
<v Speaker 1>Until next time, have a good one, take care of
<v Speaker 1>yourself and goodbye. All right, everybody, we're gonna raid. We
<v Speaker 1>also got a couple of super chats to see.
<v Speaker 2>If we can.
<v Speaker 1>If I can find those real quick.
<v Speaker 2>You're gonna have to read those. I don't think you're
<v Speaker 2>gonna yes.
<v Speaker 1>Noah the way I'm like, you could be a mod
<v Speaker 1>on giant bomb. That wouldn't make good difference. But I
<v Speaker 1>got him right here, so I'll just read them. Actually
<v Speaker 1>it was just okay. The one I can find here
<v Speaker 1>is from X Marty ninety seven. The prices are on
<v Speaker 1>Warrio sixty four. Love the show, Thank you, ex Marty. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>those are the price increases for the switch stuff that
<v Speaker 1>Target finally put up, and so we got the information
<v Speaker 1>on that.
<v Speaker 2>All right, let's see anybody we should raid. I think
<v Speaker 2>Melyssa Murk just started to all right, perfect, I got
<v Speaker 2>that alert right right at the top of the hour,
<v Speaker 2>so I'm assuming she's she's on now yeah there.
<v Speaker 1>When does uh when does Max dude start streaming ebos?
<v Speaker 1>He kind of you know what I.
<v Speaker 2>Think he did. Let me let me check that. I
<v Speaker 2>know the floor doesn't open till one, but I'm not
<v Speaker 2>sure if they let him.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, let me know he did. He is, he's there,
<v Speaker 1>he is, he's on now and he's playing to con Okay,
<v Speaker 1>we'll go there, we'll get We're gonna listen next week, everybody,
<v Speaker 1>or just go there yourself if you want to right now,
<v Speaker 1>let's see here, so dashboard, this is important. Yeah, this,
<v Speaker 1>this is this is it. It's can you tell me
<v Speaker 1>his handle? H he is Maximilian M A x I
<v Speaker 1>M I L I A N underscore D O O
<v Speaker 1>D dude. That's one L for Maximilian, one L. Yes,
<v Speaker 1>thank you, all right, yep, that looks like it's gonna
<v Speaker 1>take fantastic. All right, cool, all right, so h three
<v Speaker 1>M for UPF. Everybody will definitely be back by then.
<v Speaker 1>Me and Backlar were talking like there's this game Paddle,
<v Speaker 1>Paddle Paddle, we might play some of that. There's also
<v Speaker 1>a word game we were gonna check out. We're just
<v Speaker 1>gonna hang out. It's gonna be very chill today, all right,
<v Speaker 1>see all then bye everybody,