GTA 6 And Switch 2 Will Help Video Game Industry Rebound In 2025, Analyst Predicts

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
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<v Speaker 3>a good long time doing reviews. Lately I've been way
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<v Speaker 3>I'm actually working for Chicago Public Media. So if you're
<v Speaker 3>in Chicago and you read the Chicago Sun Times or
<v Speaker 3>you listen to WBEZ on the radio, I'm doing a
<v Speaker 3>lot of tech stuff behind the scenes there, working with
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<v Speaker 3>this week. But I'm alive, I'm here, happy about it.
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<v Speaker 1>with the July twenty twenty four US video game Market
<v Speaker 1>highlights from Matt Piscateella over at Sircana, which was once
<v Speaker 1>the NPD Group. July twenty twenty four US Market Highlights
<v Speaker 1>projected US spinning on video game hardware, content and accessories
<v Speaker 1>reached four point eight billion in July twenty twenty four.
<v Speaker 1>What's notable there is that that's up ten percent when
<v Speaker 1>compared to a year ago, pretty big, like one of
<v Speaker 1>the first double digits increases we've seen year over year
<v Speaker 1>this year and year to date, spending is now two
<v Speaker 1>percent higher than a year ago at thirty two point
<v Speaker 1>one billion dollars. Although so elsewhere, Matt said he still
<v Speaker 1>thinks for the whole year, once we're fully through December,
<v Speaker 1>spending is probably going to be down. This holiday may
<v Speaker 1>may not be as strong as last holiday. He's got
<v Speaker 1>charts on his Twitter profile where he puts a lot
<v Speaker 1>of the stuff where it shows hey, yeah, the ten
<v Speaker 1>percent increase for the total market, ten percent increase for
<v Speaker 1>video game content, twelve percent increase year over year for
<v Speaker 1>video game hardware, and four percent increase for video game accessories.
<v Speaker 1>Big part of that is the video game content spending
<v Speaker 1>increased ten percent in July compared to a year ago,
<v Speaker 1>as twenty nine percent growth in console content spending and
<v Speaker 1>an eight percent increase in buobule was partially offset by
<v Speaker 1>offset by a six percent drop in spending on PC
<v Speaker 1>cloud and non console VR content. A lot of numbers.
<v Speaker 1>We'll get into the big reason why here in a second.
<v Speaker 1>EA Sports college football twenty five Other big things on
<v Speaker 1>the chart, though Number one was EA Sports College Football
<v Speaker 1>twenty five. What's incredible is that it was also number
<v Speaker 1>two technically because EA Sports MVP bundle, which is a
<v Speaker 1>College Football twenty five and Madden NFL twenty five or
<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty five, whatever they're going to call that, that
<v Speaker 1>was they put the ultimate editions of both games in
<v Speaker 1>one bundle and sold that, and so it was pretty expensive.
<v Speaker 1>I think it was like one hundred and some odd
<v Speaker 1>dollars to get both these things together, but it was
<v Speaker 1>a big discount if you want to play both these
<v Speaker 1>games early and get all the extra content. But yeah,
<v Speaker 1>that was number two, And of course this chart is
<v Speaker 1>sorted by dollar sales Britain. Are you someone that enjoys
<v Speaker 1>sports video games? College football? Is that's something you were
<v Speaker 1>looking forward to? Do you have anyone in your life
<v Speaker 1>that does?
<v Speaker 2>I do have people in my life that do. I
<v Speaker 2>definitely have.
<v Speaker 3>Actually an old newspaper colleague who like to until very recently,
<v Speaker 3>probably until this release, he would bust out his Xbox
<v Speaker 3>three sixty and just play whatever, you know the last
<v Speaker 3>college football game was, and who like post on Facebook
<v Speaker 3>about it, talk about how his season was going, like
<v Speaker 3>he was invested it was.
<v Speaker 1>There's a community still for that, and they'd like some
<v Speaker 1>people would like update their game with the current rosters
<v Speaker 1>and stuff like that because you could do that just
<v Speaker 1>in the game. Yeah, it was. It was huge still totally.
<v Speaker 3>And so yeah, when he would try to talk to
<v Speaker 3>me about games, you'd be like, well, I've got my game,
<v Speaker 3>my one game that I'm play. So I'm very happy
<v Speaker 3>for him and the people like him. It seems like
<v Speaker 3>there's a lot of people like him who were just
<v Speaker 3>clamoring for this because yeah, the sales are kind of.
<v Speaker 1>And it's actually way more than even that. We'll get
<v Speaker 1>into it, like, because Matt's going to have his take
<v Speaker 1>on it here in a second. There's some pretty astonishing
<v Speaker 1>numbers for just how well this thing did. But let's
<v Speaker 1>the rest of the chart real quick. Elder Ring number three,
<v Speaker 1>after being number one last month when the expansion dropped.
<v Speaker 1>Call of Duty Modern Warfare three, the twenty twenty three
<v Speaker 1>edition was number four, Minecraft number five, and number six
<v Speaker 1>was the other basically the only other new release in
<v Speaker 1>the chart the physical only version of Nintendo World Championship
<v Speaker 1>Ans Edition, which is pretty impressive for that game because
<v Speaker 1>it's technically a thirty dollars game and you were supposed
<v Speaker 1>to get it digitally only if that's what you wanted,
<v Speaker 1>but if you wanted the premium edition, it came with
<v Speaker 1>a bunch of extra stuff. It was sixty dollars. It
<v Speaker 1>was a pretty clever move by Nintendo. I thought to
<v Speaker 1>be like, price it at the normal price of a
<v Speaker 1>video game. Call it a collector's edition. Add some really
<v Speaker 1>cool stuff in there. Not as cool as the Japanese version,
<v Speaker 1>which got the Famicom controllers, but still pretty cool stuff.
<v Speaker 1>And it's still it did really well on the chart,
<v Speaker 1>all things considered, better than I was expecting. What do
<v Speaker 1>you think?
<v Speaker 3>Uh, yeah, I'd echo everything you said. Better than I
<v Speaker 3>was expecting for sure. I was one of the people
<v Speaker 3>who bought that sixty dollars edition.
<v Speaker 1>Thought yes about that and the thirty dollars digital editions,
<v Speaker 1>so because I wanted it as soon as possible, and
<v Speaker 1>then I knew the physical edition would come a couple
<v Speaker 1>days later. So yeah, just say, but yeah, I knew.
<v Speaker 3>You know, I have not been as obsessed as like
<v Speaker 3>you know, you and Dan. I've you know, watched some
<v Speaker 3>of y'all's videos on that, but I have checked like
<v Speaker 3>the leaderboards and stuff like that, and been kind of
<v Speaker 3>wondering in the back of my mind, like, how how
<v Speaker 3>is this doing because is it just appealing to freaks
<v Speaker 3>like us who really care about the old stuff and
<v Speaker 3>wants to get every millisecond off our time, or is
<v Speaker 3>it actually going to have some broader appeal.
<v Speaker 2>So I was pleasantly just surprised to see it on
<v Speaker 2>this list.
<v Speaker 1>Yep. The rest of the list is a lot of
<v Speaker 1>like basically the you know regular Rogues Gallery, Hogwarts, Legacy
<v Speaker 1>than you know, a lot of sports games MLB, The
<v Speaker 1>Show E, SPORTSFC, Spider Man two, Mortal Kombat one, Mario
<v Speaker 1>Kart eight, you know again Physical only for a Switch
<v Speaker 1>game is number twelve. Hell Divers two is still number
<v Speaker 1>thirteen after being eleventh last month, Tech and eight jumped
<v Speaker 1>from thirtieth to fourteenth. Luigi's Mansion two number fifteen, see
<v Speaker 1>If Thieves, UFC five, Rainbow six Siege to the Tom
<v Speaker 1>Clancy's Rainbow six Siege, The Crew, motor Fest, and Ghost
<v Speaker 1>of Sushima at number twenty. You know, this is kind
<v Speaker 1>of how it goes right now, Brittain, where there are
<v Speaker 1>a handful of new games that do pop onto the list,
<v Speaker 1>and then the rest of the rest of the chart
<v Speaker 1>usually is stuff that's been selling since at least last year,
<v Speaker 1>but in a lot of cases for like the last three,
<v Speaker 1>four or five, and you know, in case of Mario
<v Speaker 1>cart and Grand Theft Auto the last ten years. So yeah,
<v Speaker 1>although Grand Theft Auto is that on the list, I forget.
<v Speaker 1>I feel like they stopped reporting fiscals sales on that
<v Speaker 1>or digital sales on that, so they don't actually have
<v Speaker 1>it on here.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, even some of the new stuff, you know, Luiz's
<v Speaker 3>Mansion two new but not not new, right, Yeah, it's
<v Speaker 3>an interesting time for like three.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, at least mentioned two. You're right, that's the remake. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I was thinking three, yes, right, new, but yeah, that's
<v Speaker 1>just kind of a re release, all right. Ea. Sports
<v Speaker 1>College Football twenty five debuted as the best selling game
<v Speaker 1>of twenty twenty four year to date and was the
<v Speaker 1>primary driver of both content and hardware growth on console platforms. Like, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>that's like, realize what happened this month is this game
<v Speaker 1>immediately became the best selling game of the year, like
<v Speaker 1>out selling Hell Divers two. Hell Divers two a forty
<v Speaker 1>dollars game, and a lot of those sales, and I
<v Speaker 1>think they probably did report the steam sales, so that
<v Speaker 1>would include that, but still a forty dollars game. Obviously
<v Speaker 1>A sports college football was going to have advantage there.
<v Speaker 1>But that's that's just not what was happening. It's this
<v Speaker 1>game was a unprecedented success in a lot of ways
<v Speaker 1>where it was enough to juice the numbers for everything
<v Speaker 1>across the board. The reason console sales were up in
<v Speaker 1>the month was EA Sports College Football. The reason accessory
<v Speaker 1>sales were up four percent is because of college football
<v Speaker 1>and people buying new controllers. It's that big of a deal.
<v Speaker 1>Mampus Cantel continues and says launch month dollar sales of
<v Speaker 1>E Sports College Football twenty five more than tripled the
<v Speaker 1>total lifetime dollar sales of the previous best selling college
<v Speaker 1>football game NCUBA College Football seven. The lifetime sales tripled
<v Speaker 1>for the best selling previous version of this series. It
<v Speaker 1>is enormous for one month. That speaks to a couple
<v Speaker 1>of things, right, Britain, more people playing games than ever,
<v Speaker 1>and really college football more popular than ever, right.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, totally.
<v Speaker 3>I mean I'm in Texas, so I have to acknowledge
<v Speaker 3>that football has a lot of power. Yeah, it'll get
<v Speaker 3>people out of their seats. And buying things. So I
<v Speaker 3>guess not a shock, but yeah, those numbers are are massive,
<v Speaker 3>especially when you consider how many people probably did need
<v Speaker 3>to go out and buy a new console.
<v Speaker 1>That's right, it's not or not on Xbox one. It's
<v Speaker 1>only on the Xbox series XS and PS five.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that's wild, but good on them for seeing the
<v Speaker 3>opportunity taking it.
<v Speaker 1>Finally, Britain, do you think this what do you think
<v Speaker 1>this says about where video games are at in twenty
<v Speaker 1>twenty four in terms of, you know, we have a
<v Speaker 1>story coming up next. It's a story we've done a
<v Speaker 1>bunch of times actually, and we're just going to kind
<v Speaker 1>of check in on it that Hey, everyone's waiting for
<v Speaker 1>Grand Theft, Auto six and Switch to to save the industry.
<v Speaker 1>But you know, this game comes along, it just completely dominates.
<v Speaker 1>It seems like people want to be playing video games,
<v Speaker 1>They really want to be Do you think that this
<v Speaker 1>speaks to that and that kind of people are just
<v Speaker 1>waiting for the thing that does speak to them.
<v Speaker 2>I certainly hope that's the case, at least, because I
<v Speaker 2>love video games and I want everyone else to love
<v Speaker 2>them too. The college football stuff might be a little
<v Speaker 2>bit of more of an edge case, just because you
<v Speaker 2>know that there are those sports gamers that like, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>that is all they're going to play. But once you
<v Speaker 2>have them in that ecosystem and they've got the console already,
<v Speaker 2>it is easier to maybe entice them and say, hey,
<v Speaker 2>you know, while you're here, we've got this other thing.
<v Speaker 2>And what that other thing is could be surprising.
<v Speaker 3>A buddy of mine that I've known for a long time,
<v Speaker 3>who is this more like very mainstream casual gamer who
<v Speaker 3>usually only plays like the sports games and so on,
<v Speaker 3>also a really big Civilization fan. So maybe when SIV
<v Speaker 3>seven comes out, some of those people will be like, hey, actually.
<v Speaker 2>I remember playing SIEV years ago.
<v Speaker 3>Maybe I'll get that too, And now you at least
<v Speaker 3>have a second game that they're invested in.
<v Speaker 1>Yep. And I think that's why Take two is like
<v Speaker 1>our next year is going to be huge, because when
<v Speaker 1>I have Grand Theft Auto five or a Grinth of six,
<v Speaker 1>Civilization seven and Borderlands for and all of those are
<v Speaker 1>just like kind of like four quadrant games in a
<v Speaker 1>lot of ways for their respective genres. Right Civilizations is
<v Speaker 1>just the strategy game for a lot of people. And
<v Speaker 1>you can always see that by seeing the concurrent player
<v Speaker 1>numbers on Steam or whatever, which is always in the
<v Speaker 1>multiple tens of thousands. Real quick. EA Sports MVP Bundle.
<v Speaker 1>The dual pack that we talked about, which includes EA
<v Speaker 1>Sports College Football twenty five Deluxe Edition and Madden NFL
<v Speaker 1>twenty five Deluxe Edition, ranked second among July's best selling titles,
<v Speaker 1>but also placed it as fifth for the for twenty
<v Speaker 1>twenty four's best selling games so far this year, So yeah,
<v Speaker 1>just wild stuff there. The only other new release to
<v Speaker 1>rank among the top twenty was the Nintendo World Championship.
<v Speaker 1>July video game hardware spending This is for hardware now
<v Speaker 1>grew twelve percent when compared to a year ago to
<v Speaker 1>three hundred and twenty six million. Growth in spending on
<v Speaker 1>PlayStation five, which was up twenty five percent versus a
<v Speaker 1>year ago. Xbox Series, which is up forty eight percent
<v Speaker 1>compared to a year ago, was partially offset by a
<v Speaker 1>forty four percent drop in spending on switch. Everyone has
<v Speaker 1>a switch. We know that's the story. That's not some
<v Speaker 1>like sound the alarms. Everyone gets what's happening there. Pretty
<v Speaker 1>impressive for the Xbox though, to be up forty four percent,
<v Speaker 1>I think, you know, I think what you mentioned about
<v Speaker 1>like some people still just playing Madden are in CAA
<v Speaker 1>college football fourteen. I think it was on their three
<v Speaker 1>to sixty. I think a lot of those people still
<v Speaker 1>associate college football with Xbox, and that might have helped
<v Speaker 1>the Xbox. Of course, the other factor is the Xbox
<v Speaker 1>just has more room to grow because it wasn't selling
<v Speaker 1>as fast as the PS five last year, but pretty
<v Speaker 1>good for that. Yeah, so PlayStation five led the month's
<v Speaker 1>a hardware market and unit and dollar sales, with the
<v Speaker 1>Xbox series ranking second across both measures. July twenty twenty
<v Speaker 1>four is the first month with year on year growth
<v Speaker 1>in video game hardware spending since the two percent increase
<v Speaker 1>seen during December twenty twenty three, So first time this
<v Speaker 1>year we've actually seen hardware sales grow faster than they
<v Speaker 1>did last year. But a big part of that is
<v Speaker 1>it's not just that's just not the switch, Like the
<v Speaker 1>switch is definitely dragging it down the most. But we've
<v Speaker 1>seen each month both the Xbox and PlayStation be down
<v Speaker 1>year over year in terms of the number of systems sold.
<v Speaker 1>Consumer spending on accessories grew four percent in July when
<v Speaker 1>compared to a year ago to one hundred and eighty
<v Speaker 1>four million dollars, leading the year on year spending games
<v Speaker 1>for accessories, we're the remote play device segment like the
<v Speaker 1>PlayStation Portal and game pads, which game pads were up
<v Speaker 1>six percent. Again, that's I think that's all in Cuba
<v Speaker 1>or College of plushes a suitable aze. Basically did PlayStation
<v Speaker 1>Portal was the best selling accessory and dollar sales for
<v Speaker 1>both July and twenty twenty four, a year to date.
<v Speaker 1>That thing seems like a stealth success at this point.
<v Speaker 3>What do you think I was thinking about that, because
<v Speaker 3>you know, the only other time I've been on this
<v Speaker 3>show was showing off the PlayStation Portal, and I'm pretty
<v Speaker 3>sure I set the time, like I like this thing,
<v Speaker 3>but I don't know who it's for, Like it seems
<v Speaker 3>like a very niche product, and then it's always sold
<v Speaker 3>out everywhere, So it's really been I think, a pleasant surprise,
<v Speaker 3>because I do think it's got its problems.
<v Speaker 2>For sure, But like I played a lot of.
<v Speaker 3>Offhicey seven Rebirth on my portal, and you know, I'll
<v Speaker 3>use it every now and then just to play games
<v Speaker 3>in a different room because it helps me anyway that
<v Speaker 3>I don't have a Steam Deck. So like, I rely
<v Speaker 3>on the Switch, and if I want to play something
<v Speaker 3>beefier than the Switch, I need something like the portal
<v Speaker 3>and it works well for my use case. So yeah,
<v Speaker 3>it's interesting that it's seeing the success that it is.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. I was going to say, yeah, I keep thinking
<v Speaker 1>I should get a PlayStation portal, and every time I
<v Speaker 1>think that, like, no, save your money, you b iddy,
<v Speaker 1>or you have the Steam Deck and it works great
<v Speaker 1>on there. Of course, Chuck task in chats like PlayStation
<v Speaker 1>portal for normal people and Steam Deck for nerds. So
<v Speaker 1>you got me, Sure, you got me. But that's true,
<v Speaker 1>and the Steam Deck does require a little bit of finagling,
<v Speaker 1>So of course I'm not going to recommend that to
<v Speaker 1>anyone who's just like, hey, I want to be able
<v Speaker 1>to have a way to play some of the stuff,
<v Speaker 1>either in another room or limited to a limited aspect
<v Speaker 1>on the go. Yeah, I think the PlayStation Portal is
<v Speaker 1>definitely punching above its weight, it seems like at this point,
<v Speaker 1>and it's pretty impressive they were able to kind of
<v Speaker 1>get to this point. All right, let's move ahead here
<v Speaker 1>to the next story. GTA six and switch to will
<v Speaker 1>help video game industry rebound in twenty twenty five. Analyst predicts.
<v Speaker 1>This is from Eddie McCoo at Game Spot. I know,
<v Speaker 1>I know, we've done the story a lot everybody. I
<v Speaker 1>just want to like always kind of keep checking in
<v Speaker 1>on this see how we're feeling. The US video game
<v Speaker 1>industry is expected to experience revenue declients in twenty twenty four,
<v Speaker 1>but a new report predicts twenty twenty five will see
<v Speaker 1>the business bounce back, do in part to grand theft,
<v Speaker 1>Auto six and switch to Sircana's Future of Games report
<v Speaker 1>released today said the video game industry matured in twenty
<v Speaker 1>twenty and twenty twenty one as people turn to games
<v Speaker 1>to have fun and stay connected with friends and family
<v Speaker 1>during the pandemic. The number of people playing video games
<v Speaker 1>in the time spent plane continues to fall behind the
<v Speaker 1>all time highs achieved in twenty twenty one. Sircana said
<v Speaker 1>the downturn is attributable in part to inflation on everyday
<v Speaker 1>items people need to live, like groceries, which in turn
<v Speaker 1>has left less money available to the average person to
<v Speaker 1>spend on gaming. Sircana said for twenty twenty four, video
<v Speaker 1>game hardware revenue is expected to continue to decline due
<v Speaker 1>in part to the total number of units sold and
<v Speaker 1>their average prices declining. People have shifted some of their
<v Speaker 1>playtime to more accessible platforms like PC and mobile, and
<v Speaker 1>this has helped offset some of the declines in the
<v Speaker 1>console market. Sircana said this will continue to be a
<v Speaker 1>difficult year for video game manufacturers and publishers as an
<v Speaker 1>overall spiddy decline, albeit in the low single digits, is expected.
<v Speaker 1>Piscatela said he said he's still thinking down two point
<v Speaker 1>two percent. I think I said that earlier, but still
<v Speaker 1>re rate. On Twitter, he was like, hey, really good
<v Speaker 1>month this month. Things are looking, you know, brighter than
<v Speaker 1>they were, but overall still expecting down two point two percent.
<v Speaker 1>Looking ahead to twenty twenty five, though, Piscitel has said
<v Speaker 1>the US video game industry is poised for a rebound.
<v Speaker 1>GTA six, which is among the most anticipated games of
<v Speaker 1>all time, along with the massively hyped switch To, should
<v Speaker 1>help the video game industry's fortunes fortunes in twenty twenty five.
<v Speaker 1>Piscitella said, Brittan, I don't think there's any argument that
<v Speaker 1>the switch to and Grand Theft Out of six won't
<v Speaker 1>be an inflection point for the industry in some way,
<v Speaker 1>clearly we're headed towards that. I think the underlying question
<v Speaker 1>that I have is is this industry really in a
<v Speaker 1>decent place. If this is what we're talking about, If
<v Speaker 1>if we continue coming back to we're waiting on these
<v Speaker 1>games to sort of solve our problems or new systems,
<v Speaker 1>is that is that good? Because it feels like we
<v Speaker 1>have so many good games coming out all the time,
<v Speaker 1>so much work going into every single release, and there's
<v Speaker 1>multiple a month. It felt like this entire year that
<v Speaker 1>just are like amazing and blowing me away, and it
<v Speaker 1>feels like the growth should just be organically coming from
<v Speaker 1>people like looking over and seeing that looks amazing and
<v Speaker 1>wanting to be a part of that. And yet we
<v Speaker 1>keep talking about needing Grand Theft Auto six. How do
<v Speaker 1>you read this situation?
<v Speaker 3>I don't love it when, you know, looked at through
<v Speaker 3>that lens, because it's it feels like we're kind of
<v Speaker 3>back in where we were early two thousands and nineties.
<v Speaker 3>We're like, oh, there's just a few tent pole things
<v Speaker 3>that the big developers release, and you don't have all
<v Speaker 3>these amazing indie games, and like there's there's just so
<v Speaker 3>much to play now, and so much of it is incredible,
<v Speaker 3>and the barrier of entries, usually at least to us,
<v Speaker 3>feel so low. Right. We can say like, hey, this
<v Speaker 3>great thing on Steam is fifteen bucks, go check it out.
<v Speaker 3>But then there are the people that you have to explain, like, well,
<v Speaker 3>what is Steam?
<v Speaker 1>What is the like?
<v Speaker 3>Even if it's something like that's on Flix's service, you
<v Speaker 3>have to explain, Okay, well if you use the Netflix
<v Speaker 3>app on your phone, then you can download this like
<v Speaker 3>Golden IDL thing.
<v Speaker 2>It's really cool, Like just trust me.
<v Speaker 3>And I don't know, as someone who like thinks about
<v Speaker 3>the mainstream non gaming market a lot, since that's who
<v Speaker 3>I used to write for all that, it's it's tough.
<v Speaker 2>To imagine how to fix the problem there.
<v Speaker 3>I guess like the Nintendo usually does it better than
<v Speaker 3>almost anyone else, and it's great to me when I
<v Speaker 3>think they have branched out a little bit more where
<v Speaker 3>you see stuff like Haitis being a huge success on
<v Speaker 3>the Switch that you know, where usually you think of
<v Speaker 3>just Nintindo stuff as the Nintendo games. So I can
<v Speaker 3>see why so many people are looking to the Switch
<v Speaker 3>to as yeah, you know, Gandalf coming over the ridge like,
<v Speaker 3>get We're it's gonna be okay, everybody, We're good. But
<v Speaker 3>I also agree with you that's it feels like maybe
<v Speaker 3>we we shouldn't be resting all our hopes on one
<v Speaker 3>or two things that's not it's not great, And I
<v Speaker 3>don't know what the solution is.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and really maybe there is no solution. I think
<v Speaker 1>what I'm starting to realize as we even have this
<v Speaker 1>conversation is to most people, video games is not the
<v Speaker 1>thing where it's like, hey, that new system comes out,
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna go get that system and whatever comes out
<v Speaker 1>for it, I'm going to be looking out for that.
<v Speaker 1>To them, video games has always been actually, and I
<v Speaker 1>think we've seen this with Fortnite, in Call of Duty
<v Speaker 1>and a number of games that like become people's hobbies.
<v Speaker 1>It's that one game that they want to go be playing.
<v Speaker 1>That's why Grand Theft Auto six is this massive thing,
<v Speaker 1>this lightning rod, because that's been the game for so
<v Speaker 1>many people for so long now that they're like, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>when that new one comes out, I will reappear and
<v Speaker 1>be ready to play games again because I'm thinking about
<v Speaker 1>that game. They're not thinking about the way that I
<v Speaker 1>think I have throughout most of my life where it's
<v Speaker 1>like this is the hobby. I'm excited to have the hardware.
<v Speaker 1>The new thing comes out for the hardware, that's just
<v Speaker 1>the new thing that makes this thing feel special to me.
<v Speaker 1>Except for I think the one exception is the switch.
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo has been able to maintain that sort of aura
<v Speaker 1>about it. It's hardware, which is why the switch too
<v Speaker 1>is also another thing. Obviously, PlayStation was huge, and there's
<v Speaker 1>a huge community there that also happens there. Xbox maybe
<v Speaker 1>to a lesser extent that stuff does happen there. But
<v Speaker 1>I think what we're seeing when we compare like how
<v Speaker 1>people treat Fortnite in Call of Duty and Grand Theft Auto.
<v Speaker 1>That feels like the future, and the way people treat
<v Speaker 1>the consoles feels a little bit like the past.
<v Speaker 3>Right Yeah, I think though I realized as you were
<v Speaker 3>talking a little bit too, there's some stuff that gives me.
<v Speaker 2>Hope, and that's it.
<v Speaker 3>There are those big tempole games that we don't always
<v Speaker 3>anticipate being the big tempole games. I think boulders Gate
<v Speaker 3>III was a good example of that, where obviously there
<v Speaker 3>us big nerds were very excited about it.
<v Speaker 2>We knew it would be a big deal, but you maybe.
<v Speaker 3>Wouldn't have thought it would be the huge, like mainstream
<v Speaker 3>success that it was. And I think, you know, look
<v Speaker 3>back to the sales figures from earlier elden Ring high
<v Speaker 3>on the list that also obviously from Software has been
<v Speaker 3>building their fan base steadily for a very long time.
<v Speaker 3>But the way elden Ring was just all over my
<v Speaker 3>TikTok for ye so long was a big deal. I
<v Speaker 3>feel it felt like a moment where a lot of
<v Speaker 3>people were asking, like, hey, you know, maybe I should
<v Speaker 3>get into video games, Maybe I should actually get one
<v Speaker 3>of these newer consoles so I can be part of
<v Speaker 3>this group that's playing this stuff. So uh, I think
<v Speaker 3>some stuff can still come around to surprise us. I do,
<v Speaker 3>and you know, maybe I'm naive. I do still think
<v Speaker 3>a lot of it is tied to the consoles. As
<v Speaker 3>great as PC gaming is, anytime I talk to someone
<v Speaker 3>who is just a casual gamer or isn't really into
<v Speaker 3>it at all, it's always like, well, what's the easiest
<v Speaker 3>way for me to get into this?
<v Speaker 2>And that's that PC is never the answer for that.
<v Speaker 3>Maybe Steam Deck at some point, yeah, but it's but
<v Speaker 3>if I can and it Historically, I've usually said, well,
<v Speaker 3>you probably want the Switch, especially if you have a family.
<v Speaker 3>They have the most family friend of the games. They
<v Speaker 3>also have all this other great stuff. And as the
<v Speaker 3>Switch has been at the end of its life, it's
<v Speaker 3>been harder to say, yeah, just go get a switch
<v Speaker 3>right now, because I can say, well, if you wait,
<v Speaker 3>I don't know, like less than twelve months at least,
<v Speaker 3>probably right, maybe you can get another one help.
<v Speaker 1>So yep, yeah, I think kind of going forward, it's
<v Speaker 1>mostly gonna be this messy period where clearly we need hardware,
<v Speaker 1>but the industry just feels like it is brute forcing
<v Speaker 1>and moving its way toward just games being the platform.
<v Speaker 1>And while that can work on PC, You're right a
<v Speaker 1>lot of people, it's just not gonna More people than
<v Speaker 1>ever are adopting it. More people are appreciaing that, appreciating
<v Speaker 1>that it's that it's open and it's just going to
<v Speaker 1>be what it's always been and doesn't need a company's
<v Speaker 1>interest to make it feel you know, viable and valuables.
<v Speaker 1>That does start to feel like the weakness was something
<v Speaker 1>like the Xbox at this point, because it's like, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>they just feel like they have other priorities, and that
<v Speaker 1>taints the way I think the Xbox feels to many people,
<v Speaker 1>and so well, you know, that could happen any of
<v Speaker 1>these companies. Eventually, they just lose interest in this thing
<v Speaker 1>and or they see something on the horizon that kind
<v Speaker 1>of makes them put the hardware in the rearview mirror.
<v Speaker 1>But regardless, people need a way to play these games
<v Speaker 1>because the games are the star of the show, and
<v Speaker 1>so consoles will still find a way to sell. But
<v Speaker 1>I think we are just going to be moving towards
<v Speaker 1>a place where people think about the games first and
<v Speaker 1>the consoles a distant, distant second. All Right, Nintendo ending
<v Speaker 1>support for Animal Crossing Pocket Camp and it will release
<v Speaker 1>an offline only version. That's very cool from Haley Williams
<v Speaker 1>at GameSpot. Almost seven years after it launched, and Nintendo's
<v Speaker 1>free to play mobile spinoff, Animal Crossing Pocket Camp is
<v Speaker 1>shutting down. Well. The current version of the game will
<v Speaker 1>be taken on November twent take it offline on November
<v Speaker 1>twenty ninth, twenty twenty four. Players will be able to
<v Speaker 1>continue their progress in an offline version of the game,
<v Speaker 1>requiring a one off purchase obadye. The announcement today excuse me,
<v Speaker 1>giving players just over three months to wrap up their
<v Speaker 1>affairs in Animal Crossing Pocket Camp. We would like to
<v Speaker 1>express our deepest gratitude to everyone who has supported the
<v Speaker 1>title since service began. Nintendo's message to players reads, despite
<v Speaker 1>the game nearing the end of its lifespan, the announcement
<v Speaker 1>added that it will continue to hold events and add
<v Speaker 1>items up until the end of service. Unlike other live
<v Speaker 1>service games that have been taken offline in recent years,
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo is giving players the option to transfer their save
<v Speaker 1>data to an offline only version of the app through
<v Speaker 1>the new version, although though the new version will require
<v Speaker 1>a one time purchase. Hey, this is what I always
<v Speaker 1>ask for. I like that some games are live services.
<v Speaker 1>That's fine. I enjoy the idea of something feeling like, hey,
<v Speaker 1>every time you check on check in on it, there
<v Speaker 1>could be something new, but nothing less forever. Eventually we
<v Speaker 1>get to a point where they take these things offline.
<v Speaker 1>I want them to be able to like just build
<v Speaker 1>in from the beginning. A button you pressed, it says
<v Speaker 1>now here's the offline version. Doesn't sound like that's even
<v Speaker 1>necessarily the case. Here sounds like they're kind of updating it,
<v Speaker 1>building it to be offline, but they're doing the work
<v Speaker 1>and I think that's fantastic. What do you think, Britain?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, absolutely, I thought, you know, I do.
<v Speaker 3>I'm curious what this price is going to because I
<v Speaker 3>say it's going to be a paid app, and what
<v Speaker 3>if you have someone who's either spent a ton of
<v Speaker 3>money on it, and are they going to say, well,
<v Speaker 3>now you want to spend more money to keep all
<v Speaker 3>the stuff I already cost yeah yeah, or all the
<v Speaker 3>people who never spent a cent and like, well now
<v Speaker 3>I have to actually pay money to play. I don't know,
<v Speaker 3>you know, it's I think it's going to depend a
<v Speaker 3>lot on what that price is, but overall, I do think, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>this is a great thing that more live service games
<v Speaker 3>should have the ability to do. I understand that with
<v Speaker 3>a lot of them that are very multiplayer focused, that's
<v Speaker 3>a bit trickier.
<v Speaker 2>But you know, I would love ten years.
<v Speaker 3>From now, maybe more ten years from now, but at
<v Speaker 3>some point in the future I would love to be
<v Speaker 3>able to say, hey, I can just go experience all
<v Speaker 3>that file Fantasy fifteen or fourteen content that I never played,
<v Speaker 3>you know, now the games offline, I want to just
<v Speaker 3>like play it as a single player file fancy game.
<v Speaker 3>I want, you know, I would love to be able
<v Speaker 3>to do that sort of thing all the time, like
<v Speaker 3>long after a game.
<v Speaker 1>I'm the publishers and developed developers to like expect this
<v Speaker 1>to happen eventually and have some contingency plan a trapdoor
<v Speaker 1>where once you pull the lever, the game can just
<v Speaker 1>exist down in that little space from now on. That
<v Speaker 1>would be ideal. This, this is, this kind of feels
<v Speaker 1>like it should be the standard practice is going forward.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know how realistic that is. I understand there's
<v Speaker 1>probably a lot of developers listening and being like, here's
<v Speaker 1>abc D and many more reasons why we can't do that.
<v Speaker 1>But from my perspective of someone that plays these games,
<v Speaker 1>I'm sorry, I don't care. I think there there is
<v Speaker 1>an expectation that these things should. Like you know, we
<v Speaker 1>were talking, we started the show by talking about playing
<v Speaker 1>old games. I like, we're visiting these games. I think
<v Speaker 1>that history is important. I think that providing a way
<v Speaker 1>for people to see these things in like one way
<v Speaker 1>or the other, so that those people can go on
<v Speaker 1>and take those lessons and apply it to future games
<v Speaker 1>when they become game designers. That stuff's important to me,
<v Speaker 1>and I hope that we just see more of this.
<v Speaker 1>At that said, yeah, absolutely, do you think like a
<v Speaker 1>lot of people will actually pull the trigger on making
<v Speaker 1>this purchase, even if they like were big into it
<v Speaker 1>a long time ago, maybe they haven't played it in
<v Speaker 1>a couple of years. Do you think they like come
<v Speaker 1>back like, oh, let me just pay the money to
<v Speaker 1>keep this, or they don't even think about it.
<v Speaker 3>I think there's a good chance that a large number
<v Speaker 3>of people will, especially if there's no time limit, like
<v Speaker 3>if they say, hey, you have you know, six months
<v Speaker 3>to transfer your stuff and then it's done, and then
<v Speaker 3>that may be a problem. But I wouldn't be surprised
<v Speaker 3>if a year from now some people are like, you
<v Speaker 3>know what, was really fine that animal crossing game on
<v Speaker 3>the phone? I should go just pick that up and
<v Speaker 3>play it again, especially if it takes for to know
<v Speaker 3>to put out a new animal crossing on the next
<v Speaker 3>switch or whatever. I could definitely see there being an
<v Speaker 3>audience for that, And I saw in the comments of
<v Speaker 3>this story elsewhere online this morning, people talk about other
<v Speaker 3>games where like they had invested time and like, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>I was really upset when I just lost all of
<v Speaker 3>that you know, progress, all that stuff I had done
<v Speaker 3>and the game which has gone forever.
<v Speaker 2>So this is music to my ears. This is such
<v Speaker 2>great news.
<v Speaker 1>Yep. And I know there was a little bit of
<v Speaker 1>an effort made, I think in one of the countries
<v Speaker 1>in Europe or maybe the EU as a whole, to
<v Speaker 1>sort of make this thing that's happening here something that
<v Speaker 1>game developers have to consider and maybe even make it
<v Speaker 1>required and mandatory. And I think there was a judge
<v Speaker 1>that was like, no, they have no obligation to make
<v Speaker 1>this stuff available forever, and say, man, okay, we're even
<v Speaker 1>losing in Europe on this. So, like I get, it's
<v Speaker 1>an uphill battle, probably very unlikely that this does become
<v Speaker 1>the default or the norm, but I want to celebrate
<v Speaker 1>it where it does happen, and I just want to
<v Speaker 1>see it a little bit more frequently. That would be great.
<v Speaker 1>It's some of these games now, yeah, not everything's not
<v Speaker 1>everything's going to get treated this way, but uh, and
<v Speaker 1>and I don't even like to play most of these,
<v Speaker 1>but yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Go ahead, yeah, I will say, ask someone we were
<v Speaker 3>talking earlier about how I'm like on the product side
<v Speaker 3>of things now now you know, working with engineers on
<v Speaker 3>daily basis. There's so much stuff, even just in terms
<v Speaker 3>of how websites work. They're like, yeah, this seems stupid
<v Speaker 3>simple and it like should just be like, it should
<v Speaker 3>just work this way, and there's just weird, complex reasons
<v Speaker 3>why it can't. So I get it from the development
<v Speaker 3>side of things, like you were saying, yeah, there's probably
<v Speaker 3>developers listening that are like, yeah, I would love to make,
<v Speaker 3>you know, an offline mode of this game, but here's
<v Speaker 3>the long list that can happen. But I would love
<v Speaker 3>going forward, if you know, if someone's making a live
<v Speaker 3>service like mobile game or whatever today, yeah, it would
<v Speaker 3>be great if they could build in that switch. You know,
<v Speaker 3>start thinking now, Okay, at no game lasts forever, no
<v Speaker 3>matter what it is, So at some point this.
<v Speaker 2>Will have to be shut off. What is the contingency
<v Speaker 2>plan when that happens?
<v Speaker 1>Exactly? And yeah, speaking of websites being weird, like, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>only Jan can upload premium podcast to the premium feed.
<v Speaker 1>We don't know why. Talk to the engineers. They know
<v Speaker 1>it's a problem, but he's still the only one that
<v Speaker 1>can so one computer in the world, everybody. If that
<v Speaker 1>gets shut down, who knows what happens. All right, let's
<v Speaker 1>see here. Microsoft announces you know, actually real quick, Sorry
<v Speaker 1>about that. We're gonna take a quick break. We'll come
<v Speaker 1>back right after this. Good at podcasting, good at hosting shows.
<v Speaker 1>Let's keep it going here. Microsoft announces new Xbox Adaptive Joystick.
<v Speaker 1>This is from Blair Marnell at GameSpot. Gamescom has already
<v Speaker 1>unleashed new trailers and game reveals, but for some players,
<v Speaker 1>the big attraction was a new Xbox Adaptive Joystick, Microsoft's
<v Speaker 1>new controllers designed to help players with limited mobility jump
<v Speaker 1>back into the world of video games. Via the Xbox
<v Speaker 1>official site, the x Box Adaptive Joystick is a simplified
<v Speaker 1>version of the standard Xbox controller that has four regular buttons,
<v Speaker 1>as well as two more buttons that handle the bumper
<v Speaker 1>and trigger commands. However, the thumbstick is truly customizable for
<v Speaker 1>the needs of individual gamers. Microsoft has already designed a
<v Speaker 1>number of different thumbsticks that could be three D printed
<v Speaker 1>and inserted into the Xbox Adaptive Joystick. At least one
<v Speaker 1>of the options allows players to use their chin to
<v Speaker 1>control the movement if their hands aren't able to do so.
<v Speaker 1>This is pretty neat. They had they already had the
<v Speaker 1>adaptive controller. Obviously, this adaptive joystick now is like you know,
<v Speaker 1>it really is just what it says. Instead of like
<v Speaker 1>mimicking analog handheld game pad controls, this is like a
<v Speaker 1>full joystick and then you can swap in different joysticks,
<v Speaker 1>and they showed how it can easily mount on the
<v Speaker 1>equipment that many people that need these sorts of devices
<v Speaker 1>already have and then they can just kind of fit
<v Speaker 1>it into there. So like there are many people that
<v Speaker 1>like you that do control like their their wheelchairs with joysticks,
<v Speaker 1>like with their chin, they could just swap that out,
<v Speaker 1>swap this in and start playing games that way. A
<v Speaker 1>very cool thing. I'm I'm like, I always appreciated the
<v Speaker 1>adaptive controller, but part of me is like, Okay, they'll
<v Speaker 1>do this, and then maybe the community was sort of
<v Speaker 1>sort of adopt it and take it over and provide
<v Speaker 1>the expansions that needed. Because one of the big things
<v Speaker 1>with that is it uses that the three point five
<v Speaker 1>millimeter headphone check that a lot of these accessibility devices
<v Speaker 1>already use, so people are going to be able to
<v Speaker 1>customize it to their own needs. It is sort of
<v Speaker 1>encouraging for me to see now these companies, especially Microsoft,
<v Speaker 1>continue to show up and provide new ways and new
<v Speaker 1>things of their own. And it's not like they're you know,
<v Speaker 1>doing this because it's a massive business. They charge and
<v Speaker 1>thirty dollars for this thing. It's a very affordable price.
<v Speaker 1>So just a really cool, nice thing to keep more
<v Speaker 1>people involved in gaming. What do you think, Very very good,
<v Speaker 1>very affordable. I think I saw that the attachments also there.
<v Speaker 1>They'll just give you the pattern of three D print
<v Speaker 1>you know what you need, which is fantastic, Like that's
<v Speaker 1>exactly how that sort of thing should be.
<v Speaker 2>Just if you need a thing, let get the thing.
<v Speaker 2>I think this is awesome.
<v Speaker 3>Every time one of the big companies does stuff like this,
<v Speaker 3>it warms my heart because, yeah, gaming should be for everybody,
<v Speaker 3>as they say in the video announcing this thing, and
<v Speaker 3>it's you know, talking about the future a little bit again.
<v Speaker 3>It has also made me think a little bit this morning.
<v Speaker 3>I feel like Nintendo needs to do this with their
<v Speaker 3>next stuff because Microsoft's been killing it PlayStation has been
<v Speaker 3>edging in there a little bit with their own hardware,
<v Speaker 3>and then on the software side, they've been doing a
<v Speaker 3>really good job. From my understanding, it seems like Nintendo,
<v Speaker 3>weirdly is the one that hasn't been spending as much time,
<v Speaker 3>especially given how much of their history, like with the
<v Speaker 3>Wei and everything else, like now everyone should play games,
<v Speaker 3>it's surprising that Microsoft is the one that's like really
<v Speaker 3>leading the charge here, but really happy to see it
<v Speaker 3>and love what they're doing so far.
<v Speaker 1>Yep. And Nintendo's sort of a you know, accessibility stuff.
<v Speaker 1>It's never in the games themselves. Even they have some
<v Speaker 1>stuff at system level and when you ask them about
<v Speaker 1>as Steven Tatilo ask them about it a couple of
<v Speaker 1>weeks ago, and they look, they're like, hey, no, we
<v Speaker 1>we've added stuff. Here's this and this, and it's the
<v Speaker 1>stuff that's been at the system level for a long time.
<v Speaker 1>In terms of hardware, like, it's strange because it's not
<v Speaker 1>like people won't find ways to get these things working
<v Speaker 1>on Nintendo hardware. You know, a bit do does have
<v Speaker 1>that device that you could plug in the USB dongle,
<v Speaker 1>you could plug into the switch that allows you to
<v Speaker 1>use other controllers on different devices and stuff like that.
<v Speaker 1>So people are probably doing something yes, there it is.
<v Speaker 1>They're either doing that or they're doing something like that
<v Speaker 1>probably to get many of these things working on switch
<v Speaker 1>where possible, But that's like there's barriers there, and there's
<v Speaker 1>complications and remapping stuff. I'm sure as a pain. It
<v Speaker 1>would just make sense if Nintendo would just adopt these things.
<v Speaker 1>They don't even have to make their own. Just go
<v Speaker 1>talk to Microsoft, say hey, can we just have a
<v Speaker 1>thing where this works on our stuff? Whatever that requires,
<v Speaker 1>if that does require its own specific dongle, whatever, But
<v Speaker 1>then once to plug in, everything just knows what's happening
<v Speaker 1>and it just works. We should just be there. But
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo can be weird about these things.
<v Speaker 3>It was, and especially as Microsoft, as we've seen during
<v Speaker 3>games comm is getting more and more open to like, hey, no,
<v Speaker 3>we're really just going to put our stuff everywhere. It's okay, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>I would love to see if they just adapt this
<v Speaker 3>as like, no, this is part of our mission. We're
<v Speaker 3>going to make this great hardware that benefits a lot
<v Speaker 3>of people. And you know, if PlayStation wants to talk
<v Speaker 3>to us about using it, great, If Nintendo wants to
<v Speaker 3>use it, great, Like let the people who need to
<v Speaker 3>use this stuff use it wherever they want.
<v Speaker 2>I think that would be the best case scenario.
<v Speaker 1>And it's and it's not like they even need to
<v Speaker 1>necessarily go through Microsoft APE. But Dough is working with
<v Speaker 1>Microsoft to make the light se controller, which is kind
<v Speaker 1>of a flat GamePad that has all of the buttons
<v Speaker 1>for an Xbox controller right there on the face, right
<v Speaker 1>next to each other, including the bumpers and stuff, and
<v Speaker 1>there's some customizability with that as well. But it's just
<v Speaker 1>this is another option, and it's like, Okay, yeah, Api,
<v Speaker 1>do's already doing this work with with with the Xbox.
<v Speaker 1>Just have them take that thing, put a Nintendo logo
<v Speaker 1>on it, put the right you know, radio receiver in there,
<v Speaker 1>and you're in business at least, and then you at
<v Speaker 1>least have some option. But again, Nintendo could be very
<v Speaker 1>weird and sort of just I think mostly they just
<v Speaker 1>don't think about these things, and it's obvious, and it
<v Speaker 1>becomes more obvious when the thinking of these things is
<v Speaker 1>like ramped up at these other companies to the point
<v Speaker 1>where the list of accessibility settings in a PlayStation games
<v Speaker 1>these days is a mile long and has every consideration
<v Speaker 1>under the sun, whether it's you know, color blindness or
<v Speaker 1>anything else. And then it just makes a Nintend to
<v Speaker 1>look even more old fashioned, which of course we know
<v Speaker 1>they are so.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I hope we up a bit dough stuff though,
<v Speaker 3>because their Ultimate controller or whatever is so great about
<v Speaker 3>being able to I use that for my switch controller
<v Speaker 3>and I use it on the PC. So it's super
<v Speaker 3>great to be able to just use the same thing
<v Speaker 3>both places. If they could do that same sort of
<v Speaker 3>thing and make some accessibility accessories that like there's just
<v Speaker 3>a switch on the back that now I'm using this
<v Speaker 3>on my Xbox, now I'm using it on the Nintendo platform,
<v Speaker 3>that would be awesome.
<v Speaker 1>That would be fantastic. All right, we'll move along here
<v Speaker 1>to this next story. C F Thieves has reportedly surpassed
<v Speaker 1>one million copies sold on PlayStation five. This is from
<v Speaker 1>Tom Iban at VGC. Microsoft. Microsoft's See of Thieves has
<v Speaker 1>reportedly topped one million sales on Sony's system. That's according
<v Speaker 1>to Windows Central sources. The rare developed game hit the
<v Speaker 1>significant sales milestone on Sony's console some time ago. Well,
<v Speaker 1>Xbox hasn't announced sales figures for the game on PS five,
<v Speaker 1>There's been plenty of evidences to suggest the forty dollars
<v Speaker 1>game has performed strongly since its release in late April.
<v Speaker 1>According to Sony, was the most downloaded PS five game
<v Speaker 1>in both the US and Canada and Europe and Europe
<v Speaker 1>in May. In June it ranked among the top five
<v Speaker 1>most downloaded games, and in July it remained. In June
<v Speaker 1>and then in July it remained in the top ten.
<v Speaker 1>The Pirate themed co op multiplayer game was originally released
<v Speaker 1>for Xbox and PC in March twenty eighteen, when it
<v Speaker 1>became the first exclusive title for Microsoft to launch on
<v Speaker 1>Xbox Game Past Day and Date. With its retail release,
<v Speaker 1>the game has done very well ever since, and it
<v Speaker 1>has It's one of those massive streaming games, so when
<v Speaker 1>it came to PlayStation, a lot of that audience was
<v Speaker 1>already aware. I think what we could say here, though,
<v Speaker 1>is when on the show yesterday Philip Spencer talked about, hey,
<v Speaker 1>we learned a lot from putting games on PlayStation. I
<v Speaker 1>think what he learned is we could sell a million
<v Speaker 1>copies to see a Thieves. We should do that for
<v Speaker 1>more games. I mean, how do you argue against that
<v Speaker 1>At a certain point when it's like, okay, well, the
<v Speaker 1>alternative is keep these things exclusive, excuse me, and we
<v Speaker 1>can sell more Xboxes and then that will bolster our ecosystem.
<v Speaker 1>Well They've done that for a really long time and
<v Speaker 1>things sort of haven't changed, And now they've changed their
<v Speaker 1>strategy and they're selling more video games. It's like, well,
<v Speaker 1>one thing works and the other thing kind of had
<v Speaker 1>reached its limit of what was possible and what it
<v Speaker 1>could do. I think we could all argue maybe the
<v Speaker 1>games they were putting out weren't as world shattering as
<v Speaker 1>they needed to be to make the exclusive strategy work.
<v Speaker 1>But whatever, So they don't have those games. They do
<v Speaker 1>have this game they could sell right now on PlayStation
<v Speaker 1>and sell a million copies in no time. What do
<v Speaker 1>you think?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I think it's a good indication that they're doing
<v Speaker 3>the right thing by dipping their toes into putting their
<v Speaker 3>stuff elsewhere. I think back a little bit too, when
<v Speaker 3>Persona five, I think it was finally left PlayStation and
<v Speaker 3>like immediately became a bestseller, and it seemed like Sega
<v Speaker 3>and Outlas were like, oh okay.
<v Speaker 1>And everyone it's like, yeah, why didn't you do this before?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah exactly.
<v Speaker 3>So hopefully Microsoft's taken the same lesson and realize it. Okay, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>maybe maybe this is a good idea after all, and
<v Speaker 3>we should just do more of this.
<v Speaker 2>I think would be good, and I think c if
<v Speaker 2>Thieves is a good fit.
<v Speaker 3>I didn't play it as much as I wanted to
<v Speaker 3>because I don't have friends, but like it. You know.
<v Speaker 3>I'm really happy for Rare because they make good games
<v Speaker 3>typically that I enjoy and someday we'll go play that
<v Speaker 3>Monkey Island stuff because that sounded fun, good time. Yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>I'm happy that people are enjoying it at more places.
<v Speaker 1>Exactly just makes sense. Lego announces first Lego Super Mario
<v Speaker 1>Kart sets at games Com. It's Super Mario Colon Mario
<v Speaker 1>Kart sets at games Come. That's weird. This is from
<v Speaker 1>Alberto Garrito at game a Game Reactor. Interestingly, despite the
<v Speaker 1>fact that they have long since confirmed that they would
<v Speaker 1>not be attending this year's Colenamus Nintendo, which games Come
<v Speaker 1>and Nintendo had quite a morning on the first day
<v Speaker 1>of games Com well, the Lego Animal Crossing sets may
<v Speaker 1>have been presented in other ways. There are also more
<v Speaker 1>Lego Animal Crossing sets. The Lego group did show off
<v Speaker 1>the first sets in Legos history with Mario Kart. These
<v Speaker 1>sets had already been previewed at the March tenth Day celebrations,
<v Speaker 1>but now we have the full list of sets, pricing
<v Speaker 1>and components. All Lego Super Mario, Coole and Mario Kart sets.
<v Speaker 1>We'll go on sale on the first of next year,
<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty five. The sets are as follows. There's a
<v Speaker 1>Yoshi Bike Standard Cart Monkey or a Monkey Donkey, Kong
<v Speaker 1>Monkey Kong and DK Jumbo, Baby Mario Versus Baby Luigi,
<v Speaker 1>Toad's Garage, and Baby Peach and Grand Prix set, and
<v Speaker 1>I think all of those are on the Lego site
<v Speaker 1>now if you want to go check them out. I
<v Speaker 1>always wanted to to to Lego, and now there's so
<v Speaker 1>many options. I'm like, man, this is kind of too much.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know which ones to get. I don't feel
<v Speaker 1>like I can get everything. I can't justify that. But
<v Speaker 1>it's still cool that they're doing this. How do you
<v Speaker 1>feel about it?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I think it's great.
<v Speaker 3>I'm a bit surprised and personally disappointed at that it's
<v Speaker 3>not going to be in time for Christmas, because it's
<v Speaker 3>been perfect. I've got a five year old who literally
<v Speaker 3>this morning was building Luigi's mansion Lego stuff. He's obsessed
<v Speaker 3>with Loui's mansion. I hear king Boo's name more than
<v Speaker 3>any other name in this house right now. But so
<v Speaker 3>that Mario Lego stuff has been fantastic for him and
<v Speaker 3>for me because I'm a you know, bignton No fan,
<v Speaker 3>and he's the perfect age for it, being five. So yeah,
<v Speaker 3>when I saw this stuff announced, I was like, Oh,
<v Speaker 3>this will be perfect for Christmas, and then realize it's
<v Speaker 3>not coming until after Christmas, but uh, it'll it'll be
<v Speaker 3>good when it finally comes out. I think some of
<v Speaker 3>the Mario stuff, you know, it's it's tricky for like
<v Speaker 3>you and me as people have also like collecting because
<v Speaker 3>the Mario stuff is like not as good. It's really
<v Speaker 3>geared towards the younger audience, and I think this Mario
<v Speaker 3>Kart stuff is going to be in the same vein.
<v Speaker 3>But since we also have kids who can enjoy like
<v Speaker 3>actually playing with.
<v Speaker 1>The stuff, that's how I justify it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely,
<v Speaker 1>My god, I'm just getting for the kids in the
<v Speaker 1>They're like, don't I don't care as much as you do, Dad,
<v Speaker 1>You don't tell anyone that, all right, that's between Yes.
<v Speaker 3>I worried that was going to be the case. When
<v Speaker 3>I first started buying this Mario Lego stuff. I was like,
<v Speaker 3>I don't know if you know this is gonna fly,
<v Speaker 3>but no, he'll he'll my son will totally switch out
<v Speaker 3>Mario suits. And it's like they're surprisingly interactive when you
<v Speaker 3>got stuff turned on and he's catching ghosts and like
<v Speaker 3>playing out his own little Luigian mansion.
<v Speaker 2>Story with those legos. So it's, uh, it's cool that
<v Speaker 2>they're still doing it.
<v Speaker 1>Well. Yeah, we I think they do a good job
<v Speaker 1>hitting the whole spectrum, right because like some of those
<v Speaker 1>toys are very good for young kids, like these builds
<v Speaker 1>slightly older. Uh, and then they have the you know,
<v Speaker 1>the catnip for us old with like here's the NES
<v Speaker 1>and the TV that you can crank and stuff like that. Yeah. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>there's the right exactly built though. The lego and stuff, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>that's that stuff is great too. And I'm like, okay,
<v Speaker 1>Mike got me the big Super Mario sixty four question
<v Speaker 1>block and things like that, so it's like, okay, I
<v Speaker 1>have that for me and the kids have their. So yeah,
<v Speaker 1>they do a good drub hitting at all. And yeah,
<v Speaker 1>the kids who just want to squid word, don't worry.
<v Speaker 1>Squid word officially gets here tomorrow. Everybody. I ordered a
<v Speaker 1>squid word it's coming all right. Next story, Go Retro
<v Speaker 1>Retroid reveals new Retroid Pocket Mini, a four x three handheld.
<v Speaker 1>This is from Brendan Sala to Machia. Yeah, sell the
<v Speaker 1>Machia at Retro Dodo. And it's been a while since
<v Speaker 1>Go Retro has launched a product if you ignore the doc.
<v Speaker 1>Their latest being the Retroid Pocket for Pro that went
<v Speaker 1>down a treat earlier in the year, but now with
<v Speaker 1>the onslought of many retro handhelds, Go Retro wants a
<v Speaker 1>piece of the pie and has revealed the Go Retro
<v Speaker 1>Pocket Mini. This is a four x three device featuring
<v Speaker 1>what looks like a borderless display similar to that of
<v Speaker 1>the Ia Neo Pocket Micro. It has a glass surrounding
<v Speaker 1>the whole face and uh yeah, it's basically they give
<v Speaker 1>some info. This is an lled Scream four x three.
<v Speaker 1>It looks really cool. I love these things. They have
<v Speaker 1>not said how powerful it is, so my my concern
<v Speaker 1>is can I play Dreamcast and GameCube on here. If
<v Speaker 1>I can do that and maybe even like a handful
<v Speaker 1>of PS two games, I'll be very happy. Because a
<v Speaker 1>four x three screen on one of these handhelds, I'm like,
<v Speaker 1>I think I'm set on my sixteen by nine ones
<v Speaker 1>or the ones that like are closer to a game
<v Speaker 1>Boy Advance a screen. I'm like, I'm good on those. Now.
<v Speaker 1>I am like now looking around for some that would
<v Speaker 1>be good to play some of these home console games,
<v Speaker 1>re retro games, and for those, I think I do
<v Speaker 1>want a four y three screen, and I think a
<v Speaker 1>lot of these it will make a lot of sense
<v Speaker 1>if they are if it's powerful enough. Now they're not saying,
<v Speaker 1>but I don't know, are you interested in these devices
<v Speaker 1>at all? Do you have any I got one right there, Yes,
<v Speaker 1>I've got say the three, yes, the Rich Ray Pocket
<v Speaker 1>three excellent, yes.
<v Speaker 3>Which I love and I do a lot of that
<v Speaker 3>retro achievement stuff on, so it's fantastic. It is like
<v Speaker 3>it's not powerful enough to play like some in sixty
<v Speaker 3>four games like Mystical Ninja Staring going on is the
<v Speaker 3>one that I keep trying to get working and it
<v Speaker 3>won't work. It frustrates me. So I like every time
<v Speaker 3>they announce one of these new ones, I'm like, maybe
<v Speaker 3>it's time to get new one. And I have the
<v Speaker 3>exact same requirement where I really i'd like to play
<v Speaker 3>GameCube stuff. So yeah, that We'll have to wait and see,
<v Speaker 3>I guess, but I think they're cool devices in general,
<v Speaker 3>and I do think the four x three screen will
<v Speaker 3>be good for a lot of That's like I play
<v Speaker 3>a lot of Nass and yes stuff online game with.
<v Speaker 2>Stuff too also, but.
<v Speaker 3>Especially with and maybe it's because I'm just a retro
<v Speaker 3>treatment freak at this point, but now that GameCube and
<v Speaker 3>PS two are both in there, I'm like, okay, yeah, like,
<v Speaker 3>give me a good handheld that I'll play that stuff.
<v Speaker 3>And I will spend a lot of time playing those
<v Speaker 3>games on a handheld. Once I find the perfect one, yep.
<v Speaker 1>I and I say, I'm like, I'll get this and
<v Speaker 1>this to solve all my problems, and then of course
<v Speaker 1>I'll start looking for the next one. That's just how
<v Speaker 1>it goes. Shout out to Billy Myers in chat, saying
<v Speaker 1>this is the first time that she's been awake for
<v Speaker 1>Game Mess mornings because usually she's on Pacific time that's
<v Speaker 1>way too early. But now she's in Germany so she's
<v Speaker 1>able to catch it there because it's probably almost dinner
<v Speaker 1>time there. Congratulations Bailey on crushing Dan and the spelling Bee.
<v Speaker 1>We all knew you could do it. We all knew
<v Speaker 1>you would do it. In fact, I don't even need
<v Speaker 1>to check the results to know that you are the winner.
<v Speaker 1>Well done, everybody. If we get a be's in chat
<v Speaker 1>for Bailey. All right? Final story here. Vice presidential candidate
<v Speaker 1>Tim Walls noted Dreamcast lover was apparently a crazy taxi guy.
<v Speaker 1>This is from Steve Watts at game Spot. Nintendo Governor
<v Speaker 1>Tim Wallas is preparing to formally accept the Democratic Party
<v Speaker 1>national nomination for vice president this week at the Democratic
<v Speaker 1>National Convention, and just before that happens, we may have
<v Speaker 1>learned about his classic gaming habits. Following his selection as
<v Speaker 1>the running mate for presumptive nominee Kamala Harris. A profile
<v Speaker 1>on The New York Times outed Walls as a Dreamcast fan.
<v Speaker 1>Players on the high school football team where he coached
<v Speaker 1>recalled him sharing stories that the kids found relatable, like
<v Speaker 1>when his wife took away his Dreamcast because he played
<v Speaker 1>it too much. Naturally, the smart speculation about what game
<v Speaker 1>had hooked him so deeply ign reports that it tracked
<v Speaker 1>down a series of subsequent owners of Walls's Dreamcast, tracing
<v Speaker 1>it back to a man named Tom Johnson. Johnson worked
<v Speaker 1>as an intern for Wallas's congressional campaign, and one day
<v Speaker 1>Walls brought in a box of personal items he had
<v Speaker 1>planned to donate but that the interns might like to
<v Speaker 1>use instead. Among them was a dreamcast which was which
<v Speaker 1>went mostly unused in the congressional office, which you know,
<v Speaker 1>it's a red flag right there. If the Dreamcast is
<v Speaker 1>sitting there, someone needs to be playing it. Johnson ultimately
<v Speaker 1>took the dreamcast home with him and then to college
<v Speaker 1>and said that he recalls seeing a copy of Crazy
<v Speaker 1>Taxi already sitting in the system when he took it,
<v Speaker 1>so the idea of being Tim Waughs brought it in
<v Speaker 1>it had Crazy Taxi in it. No one played it
<v Speaker 1>until Tom Johnson took it home and saw that Crazy
<v Speaker 1>Taxi was in there. And that sounds about right to me.
<v Speaker 1>Tim Walls seems like a guy that'd be like, man,
<v Speaker 1>I always wanted to be a cabby. This is fun
<v Speaker 1>and I'll just get in here and drive around. What
<v Speaker 1>do you think he does have that energy?
<v Speaker 3>For sure? I was personally hoping he'd be a big
<v Speaker 3>chew chew rocket fan, So I mean maybe, still, we
<v Speaker 3>don't know for sure, so I can keep that dream
<v Speaker 3>alive a little bit maybe not a PSO player.
<v Speaker 1>I definitely shouldn't move though, right, who wasn't.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, of course the big, biggest thing in the world. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>but this story is true journalism.
<v Speaker 1>Like this is what did all this just incredible work.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, very happy that this work was done and exciting
<v Speaker 3>to see it is kind of I think the safest
<v Speaker 3>bet was probably the two K football games, right, but
<v Speaker 3>that was the boring answer. So it's it's actually exciting
<v Speaker 3>that there's something in there, like a crazy Taxi. Okay, yeah, cool,
<v Speaker 3>it's that's a good thing to be spending your time with.
<v Speaker 1>Yep. Christy text is when I actually played in the
<v Speaker 1>arcade more than I actually played it at home, But
<v Speaker 1>I should go back and play those crazy tax games somemow.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. I don't know what it was how it was
<v Speaker 3>for you, But with me having such a limited budget,
<v Speaker 3>I was like, I'm not going to get an arcade game.
<v Speaker 1>That's always when I said to myself, yes.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that's why I got so into RPGs, Like, no,
<v Speaker 3>I'm going to get a good fifty hours out of.
<v Speaker 2>This thing if I'm going to spend the money. Yep,
<v Speaker 2>and Crazy Taxi yet didn't fit that bill.
<v Speaker 1>It was always hard to argue to get arcade games
<v Speaker 1>at home. Absolutely, I love Crazy taxing the arcade though.
<v Speaker 1>All right, let's see here, I have the poll question.
<v Speaker 1>Let me even refresh this real quick, make sure that
<v Speaker 1>we are fully updated. There, yes, there we go. All right,
<v Speaker 1>this is the one that Sean said I was going
<v Speaker 1>to start a console war with. But I just I'm
<v Speaker 1>just curious, everybody, where are you going to be playing
<v Speaker 1>Indiana Jones in the Great Circle. Well, thirty one percent
<v Speaker 1>said they're going to wait for the PS five version
<v Speaker 1>next year, quite a big response. But also thirty one
<v Speaker 1>percent sai they're going to get on PC this holiday,
<v Speaker 1>and thirty nine percent are going to get it on Xbox.
<v Speaker 1>And that's from two to two point two two thousand
<v Speaker 1>votes there. How about you, Britain? Are you in Indiana
<v Speaker 1>Jones person? Is this something you're interested in?
<v Speaker 3>I'm sometimes an Indian Jones sureson, Like when I see
<v Speaker 3>one of the movies, usually I'm like, yeah, Indiana Jones
<v Speaker 3>is cool.
<v Speaker 2>And then like even after Crystal Skull came out, I
<v Speaker 2>was like, I'm gonna go buy that Lego Indiana Jones game,
<v Speaker 2>Like it wasn't even that great of a movie.
<v Speaker 3>It's just like the vibes were good, right, So I'll
<v Speaker 3>probably play it. I've got game pass, so I'll most
<v Speaker 3>likely just play it there. But yeah, and I love
<v Speaker 3>you know what that studio has done before. I love
<v Speaker 3>punching Nazis, so it'll probably be a good time yep.
<v Speaker 1>And the previous keep coming out and making it sound
<v Speaker 1>more and more promising all the time. Everyone seems to
<v Speaker 1>think it's it's quite impressive so far, so I am
<v Speaker 1>building up my hopes. So I'm really looking forward to it,
<v Speaker 1>all right, new pole question in a second before we
<v Speaker 1>do that, though, written Peel, why don't you tell people
<v Speaker 1>one more time where they can find you on the
<v Speaker 1>internet what you have going on and all that good stuff.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so I try to get the you know, the
<v Speaker 3>Britain Peel handle b R I T T O N
<v Speaker 3>P E E l e uh just about everywhere.
<v Speaker 2>I'm still on X as it sinks.
<v Speaker 3>I'm on Threads, Blue Sky all the places, and that's
<v Speaker 3>usually where you can find me like actually talking about
<v Speaker 3>stuff when I don't bug my giant bomb friends to
<v Speaker 3>let me on here on occasion, come on, yeah, which
<v Speaker 3>I will keep doing as long as you will have me.
<v Speaker 1>I always tell people it's the best way to like.
<v Speaker 1>It helps me when people are like, hey, I'm available,
<v Speaker 1>because I'm like, I can't keep a roster in my
<v Speaker 1>head of people who could be on the show. And
<v Speaker 1>then someone's like I could do them. Oh thank god,
<v Speaker 1>that's always the best. So yeah, I keep doing that.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I will take advantage of that for sure, because
<v Speaker 3>I love talking about games. I don't get enough opportunity
<v Speaker 3>to do it. I will also, you know, just not
<v Speaker 3>as an employee, but just as a you know, person
<v Speaker 3>who likes likes the media industry, you know, for.
<v Speaker 2>For better and worse, my employer.
<v Speaker 3>Now, Chicago Public Media is a nonprofit, so if you're
<v Speaker 3>in Chicago and you want to get coverage like the
<v Speaker 3>DNC and stuff, there's no payball. We're you know, trying
<v Speaker 3>to do the public media thing of taking donations and
<v Speaker 3>writing service. Yeah, just getting the journalism out to everybody
<v Speaker 3>as much as we can. So yeah, if you're in Chicago,
<v Speaker 3>pick up copy of the sometimes listen to WBZ and
<v Speaker 3>you won't see me or hear me there, but I'll
<v Speaker 3>be there in spirit because I work my disease.
<v Speaker 1>Whenever I was a huge public radio listener. When I
<v Speaker 1>was a driver, it was like the default in my
<v Speaker 1>car usually, And yeah, I listened to a lot of
<v Speaker 1>podcasts and stuff and books on tape, but I would
<v Speaker 1>I would audio books. I said, books on tape. I
<v Speaker 1>wasn't actually listening to books on tape. I'm not that
<v Speaker 1>old everybody, but it was a public radio was my
<v Speaker 1>my default. But these days I'm like always was like, hey, man,
<v Speaker 1>I haven't heard some some stuff like that in a while,
<v Speaker 1>or I'm doing some work around the house. When I
<v Speaker 1>do want to listen to something like that, I do
<v Speaker 1>just tell Google, Hey, Google, play wb Easy Chicago and
<v Speaker 1>it plays. Because that's a really reliable way to get
<v Speaker 1>one that I know is a good radio, and we'll
<v Speaker 1>have all the shows I like. So yep, thank you
<v Speaker 1>for doing that work. I appreciate it. Thank you for
<v Speaker 1>coming on here. By the way, we'll get out here
<v Speaker 1>in a second. But first pull question for tomorrow. When
<v Speaker 1>is the last time you played a Nintendo game on
<v Speaker 1>a phone or a tablet? Was it this year, last year,
<v Speaker 1>two plus years ago, I don't remember, or never. Those
<v Speaker 1>are your options. We'll get the results. We'll talk about
<v Speaker 1>them on Games Mornings tomorrow. Here on Giant Bomb. Speaking
<v Speaker 1>to Giant Bomb, it's gonna be shaky for the rest
<v Speaker 1>of the day. I got a thing with the kid
<v Speaker 1>right in the middle of the day schools. That's weird
<v Speaker 1>when it starts. Got to like take them to stuff
<v Speaker 1>at two PM. I don't know what's going on there,
<v Speaker 1>but I got to handle that. So schedule is gonna
<v Speaker 1>be pretty shaky.
<v Speaker 3>Day.
<v Speaker 1>Might pop back on later if I find the time
<v Speaker 1>and the energy to do so. But voicemail dump Truck
<v Speaker 1>will be happening from Germany. Jan hasn't said he's not
<v Speaker 1>doing it, so you must have figured out something there.
<v Speaker 1>He was gonna try to figure out how to do
<v Speaker 1>that from the road. That BombCast they did earlier from
<v Speaker 1>his hotel room is spectacular. They did such a good job.
<v Speaker 1>There's a lot of great stories from their travel to
<v Speaker 1>kick off. The first thirty minutes of that episode. You're
<v Speaker 1>not gonna miss I want to miss any of that,
<v Speaker 1>so go listen to that. In the meantime. Tomorrow Killer
<v Speaker 1>Clowns from Outer Space, we'll be playing that at Emma
<v Speaker 1>on there with me, Sean and Nikki. We're gonna play
<v Speaker 1>through some of that probably around one pm. Eastern tomorrow.
<v Speaker 1>Of course, games mornings as well, and then let's see,
<v Speaker 1>we'll probably do a BCR as well. Yeah, I think
<v Speaker 1>I will. I'll figure out how to throw that together,
<v Speaker 1>all right, Britton Peele, thank you so much for hanging
<v Speaker 1>out with me today and talking about video games.
<v Speaker 3>Man.
<v Speaker 1>I really appreciate it.
<v Speaker 2>I really appreciate you. It's always a blast. Hope to
<v Speaker 2>come back someday absolutely.
<v Speaker 1>Thank you all for listening, Thank you all for watching.
<v Speaker 1>You're the best audience in gaming. Until next time, have
<v Speaker 1>a good one, take care of yourself and goodbye. DJ
<v Speaker 1>ass Hits.