PlayStation 5 Gets a Price Increase

<v Speaker 1>Hey, everybody, welcome to Game Mess Mornings with Me Jeff Greb,
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<v Speaker 1>thank you for tuning in. In this episode, we're going
<v Speaker 1>to be talking about what happened at games Com and
<v Speaker 1>switch to getting a beloved final Fantasy. It's gonna be
<v Speaker 1>a good one because we have Jason.
<v Speaker 2>Bonelli on the show. Jason, how are you doing?
<v Speaker 3>Hey, I'm feeling good. It was very productive yesterday during
<v Speaker 3>opening night live covering it over on Game Spot. I
<v Speaker 3>think I had seven six or seven articles all told,
<v Speaker 3>go up throughout the day.
<v Speaker 2>Wow, Okay.
<v Speaker 3>I had a couple of pre rights that I was
<v Speaker 3>able to do, and then I covered some of the
<v Speaker 3>big things during the show. It was there was a lot.
<v Speaker 3>There was a lot coming at here from different angles.
<v Speaker 3>Some people, you know, they love to say that the
<v Speaker 3>shows like this are bad or whatever grade this show,
<v Speaker 3>but honestly, as far as like quantity is concerned, there
<v Speaker 3>was a lot of take in quality obviously, give or take,
<v Speaker 3>but there were some things I was excited about. How
<v Speaker 3>about you, Bubsy, Yeah, no, there it is.
<v Speaker 1>I am well listen at least that Bubbsy game looks
<v Speaker 1>all right. So if I'm if this is gonna be
<v Speaker 1>my lot in life, I'll maybe I don't have to
<v Speaker 1>suffer quite as much. Yeah, I I like, well, that'll
<v Speaker 1>be the poll question Today'm gon to. We are gonna
<v Speaker 1>ask people who grade the show I do. I always
<v Speaker 1>do wonder like what rubric people use when they are
<v Speaker 1>deciding that, because it's going to be a very personal thing. Right,
<v Speaker 1>do you want to be entertained during the show? Do
<v Speaker 1>you only care about making a list of games that
<v Speaker 1>you're excited about? Like for me, it's like, you know,
<v Speaker 1>it's always a combination of those factors. I just never
<v Speaker 1>want to feel like we're like we're wasting our time,
<v Speaker 1>And sometimes those shows can have that that sensation of like, oh,
<v Speaker 1>you know, a lot of this feels like it was
<v Speaker 1>a waste or filling in a filling in time when
<v Speaker 1>I have other stuff I could be doing. But there
<v Speaker 1>are plenty of games that I'm like, Okay, at the
<v Speaker 1>very least I want to try those, not a ton
<v Speaker 1>of like, well, I know I'm gonna love that, but
<v Speaker 1>you know that that's fine, that's completely okay.
<v Speaker 3>So yeah, I at the end of the day.
<v Speaker 1>At the end of the day, we always get to
<v Speaker 1>a point with these KILLI shows where it's like, you know, oh, Killey,
<v Speaker 1>what is he doing.
<v Speaker 2>He can only show off.
<v Speaker 1>The games that are actually ready that the companies actually
<v Speaker 1>want to show off. So this is what was available,
<v Speaker 1>and you know, at a certain point, maybe, okay, maybe
<v Speaker 1>he was charging too much. I don't think so, because
<v Speaker 1>people keep coming back to him, they keep paying that money,
<v Speaker 1>and the price keeps going up, which to me tells
<v Speaker 1>me that people in these companies do believe that going
<v Speaker 1>to a Jeff Keey show is worth it and it
<v Speaker 1>gets them the attention they need.
<v Speaker 2>So yeah, I think you should still have the pick
<v Speaker 2>of the litter.
<v Speaker 1>And at that point, I'm like, yeah, this just comes
<v Speaker 1>down to there's not enough games from these big companies
<v Speaker 1>to like make one of these shows completely shine. So
<v Speaker 1>for what it is, I get it. But yeah, it
<v Speaker 1>sounds like you were busy yesterday. I'm glad you were
<v Speaker 1>able to get a bunch of stuff written up. We have,
<v Speaker 1>you know, I think kind of setting up the table
<v Speaker 1>for the rest of the year with shows like this.
<v Speaker 1>Are you how are you feeling about gaming for the
<v Speaker 1>rest of the year. I'm like, oh, you have plenty
<v Speaker 1>of games for me to look forward to.
<v Speaker 3>I'm not like there's not anything that really sticks out
<v Speaker 3>to me as like I need to play this right now,
<v Speaker 3>at least until Metroid Prime gets a date. Right, But
<v Speaker 3>I'm excited for Pokemon, I am now excited for Kirby
<v Speaker 3>Air Riders. Holy crap, that was nice. Looked like a
<v Speaker 3>lot of fun. There's a couple of other things here
<v Speaker 3>and there that I remember is coming out this year
<v Speaker 3>and I'm like, oh, that looks like that looks like
<v Speaker 3>it could be a lot of fun. But I'm not
<v Speaker 3>in a spot where I'm like desperate for games, right
<v Speaker 3>because if it's not something that's coming out like brand new,
<v Speaker 3>my backlog is so full. I can chip away at
<v Speaker 3>some things, like as Claire Obscure is still staring me
<v Speaker 3>in the face, like come on, man, when are you
<v Speaker 3>going to play this? And we don't know if any
<v Speaker 3>of the games in this presentation could be the next
<v Speaker 3>Claire Obscure, right, Like Claire Obscure debut at the Xbox
<v Speaker 3>Showcase last year and then became a smash hit. So
<v Speaker 3>we might have seen like the people who did a
<v Speaker 3>No Trea, right, Geama Games. They threw me a curveball
<v Speaker 3>because when I saw that fella from La vi in
<v Speaker 3>a Comedia come out, I thought it was Ea bringing
<v Speaker 3>back Dante's Inferno. He had the same little thing on
<v Speaker 3>his head, which is all from Dante's Divine Comedy. But
<v Speaker 3>like to see a souls like approach on that and
<v Speaker 3>plus a Notrea is fine. It's it's it's it's a
<v Speaker 3>serviceable souls like for what I tried of it. And
<v Speaker 3>what I mean by that is I played a demo
<v Speaker 3>and it beat the ship out of me. It's exactly
<v Speaker 3>what I expected. And then there's like other stuff. The
<v Speaker 3>pre show was surprisingly strong. Yeah, like the Battlestar Galactica game.
<v Speaker 3>The aforementioned nineties mascot Bubbsy was he man in the
<v Speaker 3>pre show as well. Yes, then there was the there
<v Speaker 3>was the one where you're just sitting at the controller,
<v Speaker 3>the planetary Canon PVKK or Planeton, vert Planet and Vertie
<v Speaker 3>Oh I had I practiced this planet and Vertidi gus
<v Speaker 3>Canon and comment there it is. We got ah, how
<v Speaker 3>do you ever screw that up? So easy? It's so easy?
<v Speaker 3>But yeah, I mean that that looks interesting. That looks
<v Speaker 3>like it's got papers please, thing going on, but instead
<v Speaker 3>of like collecting papers and verifying things, you're like just
<v Speaker 3>defending this planet with this one canon. So I don't know,
<v Speaker 3>could be could be something down the line that came
<v Speaker 3>from this show that I'll forget came from this show,
<v Speaker 3>and I'll be like, oh shit, that was a lot
<v Speaker 3>of fun and we'll see what goes on.
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<v Speaker 1>All right, we have a lot to get into, so
<v Speaker 1>let's start the Morning Mess with everything that happened at
<v Speaker 1>Gamescom twenty twenty five opening night. It says that I
<v Speaker 1>went through this story. There's some holes here. That's fine.
<v Speaker 1>We talked about some of them already a he Man
<v Speaker 1>and some of the Battlestar Galactico game. Yeah, some of
<v Speaker 1>that stuff isn't in here. I try to add some
<v Speaker 1>more stuff from the pre show. Let's get into it.
<v Speaker 1>This comes from Jamie Tugaiev at Dual Shockers. We mentioned
<v Speaker 1>Bubbs four D that is actually coming from the studio
<v Speaker 1>that did Demons Tide or Demon Tides I should say,
<v Speaker 1>which was a three platformer.
<v Speaker 2>They actually got a sequel a little bit a little
<v Speaker 2>bit ago.
<v Speaker 1>It's from the last couple of years, and they have
<v Speaker 1>a really really good look to them, where like you
<v Speaker 1>are a two D sprite character running through a three
<v Speaker 1>D world and the animation this looks really nice. I
<v Speaker 1>played that game and thought it felt pretty good. Like
<v Speaker 1>a lot of other indie three D platformers, it's never
<v Speaker 1>it never feels like they're quite over the hump of like,
<v Speaker 1>oh man, this, we don't even need three D platformers
<v Speaker 1>from the big companies anymore.
<v Speaker 2>Indie games got have this.
<v Speaker 1>It's not like none of those games have quite been
<v Speaker 1>there yet, but they are getting closer. And this was
<v Speaker 1>definitely one where I was like, Okay, this is pretty close.
<v Speaker 1>This feels how I wanted to feel. So seeing them
<v Speaker 1>come in there and tackle Bubsy, oh boy, can't wait
<v Speaker 1>to see what that's all about. Sonic and pac Man
<v Speaker 1>are exchanging DLC Crossworld is going to get pac Man.
<v Speaker 1>Pac Man World to Repack is getting some Sonic stuff.
<v Speaker 1>Hollow Night's Silk Song is real coming at twenty twenty five.
<v Speaker 1>Jason we're getting that real. Just deep dive into this game.
<v Speaker 1>Apparently tomorrow they held off, didn't put a lot of
<v Speaker 1>details into Opening Night Live, although people are playing it
<v Speaker 1>right now right.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, the first level I believe is available in a
<v Speaker 3>via demo on the show floor.
<v Speaker 4>Now.
<v Speaker 3>The public day is not until tomorrow. I believe today
<v Speaker 3>is media only at games Com, so that would make
<v Speaker 3>sense as to why they're waiting until tomorrow to do it.
<v Speaker 3>The public will be there. I imagine they'll be on
<v Speaker 3>some sort of maybe a little stage, maybe Xbox is stage.
<v Speaker 3>I don't know it is a specifically Team Cherry stream
<v Speaker 3>or the video that's going around, so it may just
<v Speaker 3>be pre recorded, but I imagine that they will be
<v Speaker 3>on stage with Xbox at some point, considering they're so
<v Speaker 3>intrinsically linked with the rug L, which we will talk
<v Speaker 3>about a little bit later in this show based on
<v Speaker 3>the rundown. But yeah, it's very weird to see actual
<v Speaker 3>gameplay of Hollow Night moving.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you sawtime breaking news, everybody, let's do it.
<v Speaker 3>Welcome to the show.
<v Speaker 1>PlayStation with PlayStation five price changes in the United States.
<v Speaker 1>This comes from the PlayStation blog.
<v Speaker 3>Put in your.
<v Speaker 1>Bets Now, do you think the price is going up
<v Speaker 1>or down.
<v Speaker 3>Everybody, Let's find out. Let's find out together, whole question. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>all right, here we go.
<v Speaker 1>This is from Isabel Timades at PlayStation What they shouldn't
<v Speaker 1>have someone have to attach their name. This should go
<v Speaker 1>right to the president or whatever. All right, here's the
<v Speaker 1>blog post. Similar to many global businesses, we continue to
<v Speaker 1>navigate a challenging economic environment. What about my fucking challenging
<v Speaker 1>economic environment.
<v Speaker 2>Whatever.
<v Speaker 1>As a result, we've made the difficult decision to increase
<v Speaker 1>the recommended retail price for PlayStation five consoles in the
<v Speaker 1>United States starting on August twenty first, that's tomorrow. The
<v Speaker 1>updated recommended retail price for PlayStation five consoles in the
<v Speaker 1>United States are as follows. For the PlayStation five, the
<v Speaker 1>standard version, which I guess and now is the that
<v Speaker 1>updated version. But whatever, PlayStation five is going to be
<v Speaker 1>five hundred fifty dollars. Now, the PlayStation five Digital Edition
<v Speaker 1>is going to be five hundred even four hundred ninety
<v Speaker 1>nine ninety nine, and then the PlayStation five Pro will
<v Speaker 1>be seven hundred fifty dollars. I think these are all
<v Speaker 1>going up by fifty bucks.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, yes, a fifty dollars increase on each one. Yikes,
<v Speaker 3>just sikes.
<v Speaker 1>They are not raising the price of their accessories, but
<v Speaker 1>they have and they have no other price changes to
<v Speaker 1>announce for additional markets at this time.
<v Speaker 3>Now.
<v Speaker 1>The reason for that is they already raised the price
<v Speaker 1>in a lot of other places. We've kind of been
<v Speaker 1>waiting for this to happen. I imagine that they were
<v Speaker 1>like looking for maybe ways around this because they do
<v Speaker 1>want to sell more PlayStations. They do, but that these
<v Speaker 1>companies want to raise prices when they can get when
<v Speaker 1>they can get away with it, and then they also
<v Speaker 1>sometimes feel forced to do so. This definitely feels like
<v Speaker 1>we're on that path of them, like looking at Okay, sure,
<v Speaker 1>right now, we could probably get away with continuing to
<v Speaker 1>charge the same price for the PlayStation if ever then
<v Speaker 1>goes perfec from here on out. But the way the
<v Speaker 1>world has gone, maybe we should not assume that, and
<v Speaker 1>so we can get away with raising prices right now.
<v Speaker 1>People still understand, like the tariffs are a factor there
<v Speaker 1>as well as a bunch of other things. So let's
<v Speaker 1>just do it, even though it's.
<v Speaker 2>Going to look bad.
<v Speaker 1>You know, at a certain point, if you're a console
<v Speaker 1>gamer and you're looking at PlayStation it's like, what other
<v Speaker 1>choice do you really have?
<v Speaker 2>I mean, you can go with Xbox.
<v Speaker 1>But it's gonna kind of feel like you are just
<v Speaker 1>waiting to get those or waiting to get some games
<v Speaker 1>and other games you'll never get, or it's PlayStation will
<v Speaker 1>eventually just get those Xbox games. So maybe Sony feels
<v Speaker 1>emboldened and on a lot of fronts, and I think
<v Speaker 1>they probably do. What is your read here, inevitable? Small
<v Speaker 1>part of me is like, I'm glad it's only fifty bucks, right.
<v Speaker 1>It could have been more. They could have justified more,
<v Speaker 1>but they only went up fifty dollars. I hope it
<v Speaker 1>is not a longer term plan with incremental release increases
<v Speaker 1>that would be rough. I find it interesting that they're
<v Speaker 1>trying to bury it in the game's calm news cycle.
<v Speaker 1>That's week we're on to you, Sony. Sorry about that.
<v Speaker 1>It's it's rough.
<v Speaker 3>It's just a sign of the times that we live in,
<v Speaker 3>the insane, hard to explain crazy times that are the
<v Speaker 3>world at the moment. It's not great. It's it's uh,
<v Speaker 3>it's it's it's unfortunate, and there's really not much more
<v Speaker 3>you can say about it than this medium that we
<v Speaker 3>love this art form, whatever however you feel about it,
<v Speaker 3>is simply getting harder for the layman, the normal casual
<v Speaker 3>gamer to enjoy, and that ultimately hurts the whole thing
<v Speaker 3>in the long run. They can we can talk about
<v Speaker 3>all the games from games Com all we want, all
<v Speaker 3>the reveals, all the trailers, all that good stuff till
<v Speaker 3>we're blue in the face, and we will. But if
<v Speaker 3>there ain't people to play it, if the people can't
<v Speaker 3>afford the consoles or the PCs to get in on
<v Speaker 3>the ground floor, what the hell does any of it matter? Right,
<v Speaker 3>It's just it's it's it's I hate I hate it.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, there's no other way to put it. I
<v Speaker 3>hate it. I mean.
<v Speaker 1>Then they kind of they stewed this up themselves in
<v Speaker 1>a lot of ways, these big corporations, to deflating wages
<v Speaker 1>for decades, lobbying to make sure that it stays that way,
<v Speaker 1>kind of building it through the culture, putting out propaganda
<v Speaker 1>and that to make people feel like we don't raise
<v Speaker 1>the minimum wage, that'll get rid of jobs. And now
<v Speaker 1>here we are like so far removed from like where
<v Speaker 1>the purchasing power was once for minimum wage jobs, where
<v Speaker 1>it's like, hey, you could work here and eventually afford
<v Speaker 1>a house. That is just not that's a whole other
<v Speaker 1>planet at this point, is what it feels like. And
<v Speaker 1>these companies are responsible for that sort of thing. So
<v Speaker 1>when people don't have the money to get into this
<v Speaker 1>hobby anymore, which is what we're seeing from the younger generations,
<v Speaker 1>gen Z doesn't buy video games. They don't buy any
<v Speaker 1>fucking video games. So and like, can you justify that? Well, no,
<v Speaker 1>I get it, because they have given them these others.
<v Speaker 1>Get into our free to play games, get on a treadmill,
<v Speaker 1>and then we'll find the ones of you that do
<v Speaker 1>have money, and we'll turn you into Wales and we'll
<v Speaker 1>extract that. And we're not really interested in the rest
<v Speaker 1>of you because you don't have any money. And so,
<v Speaker 1>and that means are we interested in making console games
<v Speaker 1>anymore traditional games? And they clearly are losing their appetite
<v Speaker 1>in a lot of ways. They're losing their the belief
<v Speaker 1>that these things can grow, or else these prices wouldn't
<v Speaker 1>be going up. The prices simply would not be going
<v Speaker 1>up if they believed in these products long term, because
<v Speaker 1>they would be like, no, we want to get more
<v Speaker 1>people into here.
<v Speaker 2>They don't think that's going to happen.
<v Speaker 1>It is about getting more money from us, and that
<v Speaker 1>is like the beginning of a death.
<v Speaker 2>Spiral in a lot of ways. Now is it that grim?
<v Speaker 1>I don't know. Things will change, they always do in
<v Speaker 1>video games. It's like the one constant is the constant
<v Speaker 1>is that things are dynamic, and one day is very
<v Speaker 1>different from the next, and one year is especially very
<v Speaker 1>different from the next year. But we have stagnated in
<v Speaker 1>a lot of ways, and it's like, Okay, maybe that
<v Speaker 1>truth is not as true as it once was, or
<v Speaker 1>it will take longer than it has in the past
<v Speaker 1>for that sort of change to come.
<v Speaker 2>And when it does, what does it look like? Does
<v Speaker 2>it just keep getting worse? Right now? It feels that
<v Speaker 2>way a little bit. So it's it's rough, you know.
<v Speaker 2>We can't compare this.
<v Speaker 1>The Xbox Series consoles did go up in price as
<v Speaker 1>well a few months ago.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that was like earlier in the summer.
<v Speaker 1>The Xbox Series X two Terabyte Galaxy Special Edition is
<v Speaker 1>now no longer the most expensive console. Remember that went
<v Speaker 1>up from six hundred dollars to seven hundred and thirty dollars.
<v Speaker 1>So now the PS five Pro is only a little
<v Speaker 1>bit more expensive than that. And then you know that's
<v Speaker 1>not an Xbox Series X Pro, the Xbox Series X
<v Speaker 1>like the one that has the disk drive that most
<v Speaker 1>people would probably get.
<v Speaker 2>That's six hundred dollars, so right in line with the PlayStation.
<v Speaker 1>Now, okay, yeah, well, how does PlayStation sort of come
<v Speaker 1>out and like like sort of distracting this themselves? Like
<v Speaker 1>are they going to have games here pretty soon to
<v Speaker 1>kind of really get people to be like, you know,
<v Speaker 1>what it's worth that price?
<v Speaker 3>I do believe you yourself was starting a pot a couple
<v Speaker 3>of days ago saying that there was a showcase coming
<v Speaker 3>in September. Then we're still to play. Yeah, might want
<v Speaker 3>to move that up, maybe until before Memorial Labor Day.
<v Speaker 3>Excuse me if if that is something you're planning to
<v Speaker 3>do just to get this sour taste out of people's mouths.
<v Speaker 3>I don't think people are gonna be want to be
<v Speaker 3>sitting on this for a month if that's how long
<v Speaker 3>it's taking you to get the State of Player showcase out. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>I mean they're gonna especially first party stuff, especially first
<v Speaker 3>party stuff. They do have Ghost of Yota coming out here,
<v Speaker 3>they do? Is that a console sellerround.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, you know what, I don't know.
<v Speaker 1>I think it is in some places, and I think
<v Speaker 1>for some people that would be like, oh yeah, I
<v Speaker 1>should I should get this.
<v Speaker 2>I love ghost Sushima.
<v Speaker 1>We are forgetting the other thing that is going to sell,
<v Speaker 1>specifically PlayStations, and maybe a good reason if you're one
<v Speaker 1>of these companies to do the price increase now so
<v Speaker 1>you're ready for when that launches. And that's Grand Theft
<v Speaker 1>Auto six next year, which it's kind of like, throw
<v Speaker 1>all this shit and we're staying out the window.
<v Speaker 3>Right.
<v Speaker 2>People will buy that game.
<v Speaker 1>Z will buy that game right because it'll become a
<v Speaker 1>cultural thing, their favorite stream will be playing it.
<v Speaker 2>That will move the needle.
<v Speaker 1>So kind of everything they do before that is just
<v Speaker 1>like maneuvers to maximize the value of call of duty,
<v Speaker 1>of well, call duty, but Grand Theft Auto, that's that
<v Speaker 1>is what they're trying to do here. So you know,
<v Speaker 1>the PlayStation five has continued to sell like really well
<v Speaker 1>in terms of just hardware sales.
<v Speaker 2>It's like two.
<v Speaker 1>Million when you launch launch a line the PlayStation five
<v Speaker 1>up against the PlayStation four. I think it's about two
<v Speaker 1>million behind the PS four. That'll probably flip as soon
<v Speaker 1>as Grand Theft Auto six is here, so and you
<v Speaker 1>know another thing that might flip is the you know,
<v Speaker 1>PlayStation five so sold a certain amount this year, and
<v Speaker 1>then next year it'll probably sell more than that. So
<v Speaker 1>it's like, we're gonna see this like bell curve and
<v Speaker 1>then there's gonna be a new spike. So I just
<v Speaker 1>think Sony's feeling very confident because of that one game.
<v Speaker 1>And then meanwhile, and in the meantime, if you're buying
<v Speaker 1>that system to play PlayStation games, it's still continues to
<v Speaker 1>feel a little bit like when.
<v Speaker 2>Is this going to get started? And I just don't
<v Speaker 2>know if that's ever gonna change.
<v Speaker 3>No, I don't think so either. I also, just because
<v Speaker 3>of the world that we live in right now and
<v Speaker 3>the whole Steam and Itch situation, with the whole banning
<v Speaker 3>of sales and things like that, there's this small nagging
<v Speaker 3>part in the back of my head. I don't even
<v Speaker 3>want to say it out loud, that by the time
<v Speaker 3>Grand Theft Auto six is getting ready to come out,
<v Speaker 3>Fearless Leader is going to get some evangelicals in his
<v Speaker 3>ear and he's gonna be like, well, we're not gonna
<v Speaker 3>let you sell that anymore.
<v Speaker 2>And then always possible.
<v Speaker 3>It's a possibility, and the fact that it's even a
<v Speaker 3>goddamn possibility just the sign of the times that we
<v Speaker 3>live in fucking sucks.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, it could be the kind of game that
<v Speaker 1>where it's like, if they don't do that, it could
<v Speaker 1>be the one where it's like, well, let's introduce or
<v Speaker 1>force like a face recognition cameras onto these consoles so
<v Speaker 1>people have to like show their ideas or whatever. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>there's a lot of things that would be a violations
<v Speaker 1>to the First Amendment, and yeah, but they don't care.
<v Speaker 2>So we'll see they don't care.
<v Speaker 1>All right, let's let's just hit the highlights for the
<v Speaker 1>rest of games com here or you know, you can
<v Speaker 1>read each one Call Duty. Black Ops seven had another
<v Speaker 1>like long sort of stage presentation. It's weird. I think
<v Speaker 1>it's weird in some interesting ways. But god, I don't
<v Speaker 1>know if I'm gonna make time for a Black Ops seven.
<v Speaker 1>Lords of the Fallen two was announced. The Secrow No
<v Speaker 1>Defeat anime was shown off. It had leaked previously, but
<v Speaker 1>now people got a chance to see the crunchy roll show.
<v Speaker 2>It looked pretty good to me.
<v Speaker 1>And then you know, of course people found the studio
<v Speaker 1>talking about how they're using AI. So we'll wait and
<v Speaker 1>see Lego Batman. Legacy of the Dark Knight. This is
<v Speaker 1>this was the standout for a lot of people. I think, Jason,
<v Speaker 1>are you a fan of this?
<v Speaker 3>I think that's uh, I think it's cool. I M sorry,
<v Speaker 3>I'm still stuck on the PlayStation thing.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I get it, Yeah, I understand.
<v Speaker 3>It's I want to get excited for this stuff, but
<v Speaker 3>it's just sitting there in the back of my head.
<v Speaker 3>It sucks. Yeah, I think I think my fate, my my,
<v Speaker 3>uh my thoughts. Going back to Black Ops for a
<v Speaker 3>second here, A lot of the positive feedback coming out
<v Speaker 3>of Battlefield six was how pure it was, like a
<v Speaker 3>pure short of military shooter, and Black Ops didn't really
<v Speaker 3>do much to get away from like to try and
<v Speaker 3>match that. Right, it's all like shooting robots and futuristic
<v Speaker 3>and stuff like that. So I think I think they're
<v Speaker 3>in a They're in a bad spot there. Legacy the
<v Speaker 3>Dark Knight looks very cool.
<v Speaker 2>I know what's promising, right.
<v Speaker 3>I think the fact that they have made that into
<v Speaker 3>like it's it's following the Dark Knight movies. That's the
<v Speaker 3>or is it all is it everything.
<v Speaker 1>It's so I think that like the I would say,
<v Speaker 1>the core pillar appears to be The Batman, the most
<v Speaker 1>recent Batman movie, and then it has everything sort of
<v Speaker 1>orbiting that and it's like all the.
<v Speaker 2>It's taken from all the Batman.
<v Speaker 1>So like we didn't see Adam West, but he's gonna
<v Speaker 1>show up and stuff like that.
<v Speaker 3>Right, yes, but like, yeah, so you saw Bain, you
<v Speaker 3>saw the Joker and he said why so serious? Clearly
<v Speaker 3>a nod to Heath Ledger. But yeah, it looks and
<v Speaker 3>the fact that it's sort of evoking Arkham and its
<v Speaker 3>gameplay a little bit, is is really really neat that.
<v Speaker 1>I think that's the promise inside of it, because it
<v Speaker 1>feels like, oh that that could feel like a really
<v Speaker 1>fresh turn for the Lego games. So yes, it looks
<v Speaker 1>like they play like Arkham and then it's open world,
<v Speaker 1>I believe.
<v Speaker 2>So yeah, it's it's kind of like, okay, they're just
<v Speaker 2>kind of doing more.
<v Speaker 3>They're doing more. Very very excited man who came out
<v Speaker 3>to speak after the trailer showed was like, it's oh,
<v Speaker 3>good world. It's like the one thing I took from that,
<v Speaker 3>but you've been hearing well. It was very cool, All right,
<v Speaker 3>let's keep going.
<v Speaker 1>Warhammer forty K Dawn of War four was revealed. Will continue. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>was the rough third game. It does seem like they're
<v Speaker 1>trying to make this a make good we'll see. Monster
<v Speaker 1>Hunter Wilds is doing its crossover with Final Fantasy fourteen,
<v Speaker 1>as those franchises are one to do any Mushot Way
<v Speaker 1>of the Sword got a new trailer. I believe Tam
<v Speaker 1>and Lucy checked that out and put out a preview today.
<v Speaker 1>I've heard, you know, secondhand, I haven't read that yet
<v Speaker 1>or watched it yet, that they were pretty impressed by it.
<v Speaker 1>So okay, I'm ready to check that game out, and
<v Speaker 1>I hope it's good. Arc Knight's Infield, a spinoff is
<v Speaker 1>coming to PS five and PC Europa. Universalis five got
<v Speaker 1>a pretty good, pretty good trailer that looked nice. Damon
<v Speaker 1>x Makina Titanic Scion had a play or has a
<v Speaker 1>playable demo that got announced. Void Break Yeah, the Rogue
<v Speaker 1>Light FBS void Breaker is out now in early access.
<v Speaker 1>Fallout TV got a The Fallout TV series Season two
<v Speaker 1>got a new trailer. Let's see Indiana Jones and the
<v Speaker 1>Great Circles coming to switch to They also showed off
<v Speaker 1>some of the DLC that's coming soon. Yeah, that's a
<v Speaker 1>pretty big one to see on on switch to. It's
<v Speaker 1>a graphically impressive game. It doesn't run great on Steam Deck,
<v Speaker 1>so I will be interested to see how they get
<v Speaker 1>it running on switch To, although I think you know,
<v Speaker 1>the GPU will help there as.
<v Speaker 2>Long as it's not held back by CPU. We'll find out.
<v Speaker 1>Deadpool v R got a new trailer. World of Tanks
<v Speaker 1>is I mean, it's two point zero update. Although this
<v Speaker 1>story you're says despite a difficult year, I wonder if
<v Speaker 1>there's something happened with the World of World Tanks is
<v Speaker 1>appalling a part over.
<v Speaker 3>There the list before this. The last uh news I
<v Speaker 3>remember about these games like World of Warships World of
<v Speaker 3>Tanks is that they were leaking military secrets.
<v Speaker 2>That sounds familiar.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's the one thing like they were they were
<v Speaker 3>talking about schematics for the vehicles in the game, and
<v Speaker 3>then they were like, oh, these are actual classified military secrets. Oops.
<v Speaker 3>But no, the world the two point er update for
<v Speaker 3>World of Tanks is finally going up to tier eleven,
<v Speaker 3>which is something that the.
<v Speaker 2>Fans work under said chat chat, wrong one, wrong one.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, but yeah, it's it's going up to tier eleven,
<v Speaker 3>which which the fans have really wanted for a very
<v Speaker 3>long time, I understand, which is also neat. Warhammer had
<v Speaker 3>another announcement further down the list, which is a ten
<v Speaker 3>v ten Hero Tank Shooter, So you're you get a tank,
<v Speaker 3>you get an agent that has certain abilities, and you
<v Speaker 3>can like customize your tank and then play ten v
<v Speaker 3>ten matches over Tank Tank Watch whatever you want to
<v Speaker 3>call it Tank Rivals, I guess now because that's the
<v Speaker 3>most popular one. Seems interesting, seems different, different way to
<v Speaker 3>play World of Tanks. I don't know if it's gonna
<v Speaker 3>I don't know if it's gonna really last that long
<v Speaker 3>because if you remember, back in December at the Game Awards,
<v Speaker 3>Wargaming also announced that Steel Hunters online battle reale multiplayer
<v Speaker 3>game thing, and that one's already shut down, like it's
<v Speaker 3>already gone. So I don't know if they just move
<v Speaker 3>those resources to this or what. But yeah, so that's
<v Speaker 3>that Wargaming. Other than World of Tanks. Anything they do,
<v Speaker 3>I hold at arm's length because I don't know how
<v Speaker 3>long it's going to last. With Steel Hunters being the
<v Speaker 3>first one there, Toxic Commando going further down the list
<v Speaker 3>here look earlier, so Toxic Commando looked very cool. Want
<v Speaker 3>to give that it's due Earlier in the show, Jeff
<v Speaker 3>said Ron Gilbert, and I went Ron Gilbert neat and
<v Speaker 3>then death by scrolling happened. Then I'm like, is this
<v Speaker 3>the Ron Gilbert game?
<v Speaker 2>What it was? The Ron Gilbert game?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah? And the more I the more I look at it,
<v Speaker 3>the cooler it seems. It seems like a weird little
<v Speaker 3>rogue thing.
<v Speaker 1>He's tried some different kinds of games before, so I'm like,
<v Speaker 1>and usually those pan out pretty well, So yeah, I'll
<v Speaker 1>be interested to see if he's able to make this work.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>So it looks like a vertically scrolling Vampire Survivors with
<v Speaker 1>maybe some Ron Gilbert humor.
<v Speaker 3>I wonder if they were going to name it Going Vertical,
<v Speaker 3>but that got taken.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, we have on the trademark there, so back off, Ron,
<v Speaker 1>Get out of here, Ron road Kings from Saber. It
<v Speaker 1>looks like European truck simulator, but like a little bit
<v Speaker 1>more of a game. They showed a lot more of
<v Speaker 1>like fist bumping people when you complete a mission, and
<v Speaker 1>then the traffic just like looked really realistic.
<v Speaker 2>I was impressed by it. I'm definitely I.
<v Speaker 3>Thought of you when that trailer played, I'm like, Jeff's
<v Speaker 3>gonna love that that. It seems like it's right up
<v Speaker 3>his alley.
<v Speaker 2>And I did. I thought it was.
<v Speaker 1>It looked really impressive and its saber and so I
<v Speaker 1>know they know they're big machines, and I'm like, all right, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>this is a good sort of offshoot of.
<v Speaker 2>What they've done in other areas in this space. Zaoom
<v Speaker 2>is back. It was funny. Keeley was like, you know.
<v Speaker 1>They've had some stuff happened since the last game came
<v Speaker 1>out Discalesium. Anyway, Zero Parades It's like, oh, yeah, what stuff, Jeff,
<v Speaker 1>what happened? It's completely fell apart, and who knows who's
<v Speaker 1>even making this game? Either way, Zero Parades looks exactly
<v Speaker 1>like Disco Elysium. It's crazy. The Darkest Files director discusses
<v Speaker 1>the power of the of games as tool against tools
<v Speaker 1>against oppression. RPG Neverness to Eagerness has open registration. Now
<v Speaker 1>there was let's see, yes, Bachi the Rock meets Celeste
<v Speaker 1>in Unbeatable, which is coming out November six. Yeah, it
<v Speaker 1>looked pretty promising. Honor of King's World. It's well, another
<v Speaker 1>spinoff for one of these games. It's huge in other
<v Speaker 1>parts of the world. Squid games, Yeah, Squid game collaboration
<v Speaker 1>is happening in Fortnite and Call of Duty. Now Delta
<v Speaker 1>Force is finally coming out on console. They showed off
<v Speaker 1>Ninja Guide in fours gameplay in a new trailer.
<v Speaker 2>Looked fantastic.
<v Speaker 4>Uh.
<v Speaker 1>Cinder City is a co op shooter that has looks
<v Speaker 1>like battlefield with monsters.
<v Speaker 2>Who reads this story? There was the Survival is Time Takers.
<v Speaker 2>I thought that was.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah game, Look that looks interesting.
<v Speaker 1>It's got Robbie Williams running around with a gun. Now,
<v Speaker 1>let's see. Silent Hilps got its English voice over trailer.
<v Speaker 1>That was Mike joke and I am still laughing about it.
<v Speaker 3>The joke. The joke I made was Silent Hill f
<v Speaker 3>which is named after the sound I make whenever I
<v Speaker 3>play a Silent Hill game.
<v Speaker 2>Uh, Dante is back. You mentioned this one? Uh?
<v Speaker 3>La Divina Comedia is that close enough? La Divina Comedia
<v Speaker 3>is this studio Giama based in Milan, Italy, so very
<v Speaker 3>steeped in they made They made a not tree of
<v Speaker 3>the last song, which was Soul's like but Comedia del Arte. Uh,
<v Speaker 3>so to see them tackling Dante A makes sense and
<v Speaker 3>B is very cool.
<v Speaker 1>U kingdcom Deliverance two's getting some DLC. Legacy of the
<v Speaker 1>Forge looks like a new crafting system. Vampire the Mass
<v Speaker 1>Grade Bloodlines two that reappeared, and I think it's coming
<v Speaker 1>out soon.
<v Speaker 2>They didn't write a date here. I've meant to do that.
<v Speaker 3>I think October twenty one of this year.
<v Speaker 1>That's so bananus, But I mean, I guess the game's
<v Speaker 1>been in development for a long time. I just kind
<v Speaker 1>of considered it as a game that would never come out,
<v Speaker 1>so compared to that, this is extremely soon actually compared
<v Speaker 1>to anything.
<v Speaker 2>October soon.
<v Speaker 1>Delta Force has a new project. The doves behind that
<v Speaker 1>game have a Project Spectrum, which is a co op
<v Speaker 1>horror shooter World of Tanks introduced Heat, which is a
<v Speaker 1>has like a futuristic spin on their gameplay.
<v Speaker 2>That's yeah, yes, exactly.
<v Speaker 1>Goes to YOTEG gets an extended trailer and the reveal
<v Speaker 1>of the Legends DLC. So the co op multiplayer thing
<v Speaker 1>that was in the first game that got released as
<v Speaker 1>free DLC later on is also happening here. That'll come
<v Speaker 1>out in twenty twenty six, Resident Evil Requiem got a
<v Speaker 1>new trailer as well. Thought I thought it looked good,
<v Speaker 1>But you know, I think a lot of people are like, man,
<v Speaker 1>if we're holding back that game the entire time we
<v Speaker 1>knew it was happening, I think a lot of people
<v Speaker 1>were hoping for.
<v Speaker 2>A little bit more.
<v Speaker 1>I think people are really waiting for is to see
<v Speaker 1>if there's other characters in the game. I think a
<v Speaker 1>lot of people believe that there will be other characters,
<v Speaker 1>and they're still not confirming that, and it's like, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>they're probably going to keep holding that back for a
<v Speaker 1>while now.
<v Speaker 3>This morning, so you mentioned the Onna Musha game play earlier,
<v Speaker 3>capcom Relea, the embargo went up on three different games, Pragmata,
<v Speaker 3>which does exist, only Musha and this. It's all hands
<v Speaker 3>on gameplay and it's basically everything we saw at SGF
<v Speaker 3>but now hands on. Right. So if you go watch
<v Speaker 3>the Resident Evil Requiem demo, hands on demo that all
<v Speaker 3>the websites have posted their gameplay off, that's what we
<v Speaker 3>the theater presentation we watched in SGF at SGF, and
<v Speaker 3>that's Leasta Trevor right. It has to be has to be.
<v Speaker 1>I think that's what everyone is thinking. Yeah, Jen played
<v Speaker 1>that stuff yesterday. We might still my time to do
<v Speaker 1>something with that. He got some gameplay footage and we'll
<v Speaker 1>find places to talk about that and go over it.
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, yeah, last thing here from the rundown Black
<v Speaker 1>Myth Jeong Qui I believe is However, I'm going to
<v Speaker 1>say that a sequel, spin off, standalone DLC. I don't know,
<v Speaker 1>but it's something new from the Black Myth series.
<v Speaker 3>Rumors made it sound like it is a standalone sequel
<v Speaker 3>or standalone game because Jeff also made the comment that
<v Speaker 3>the Wukong's Journey to the West is also not done.
<v Speaker 3>Then he pulled out his little fan because he's a
<v Speaker 3>cool guy. So I think it might be them having
<v Speaker 3>a whole new project to go alongside a quick yes shank,
<v Speaker 3>there it is. But yeah, I think I think this
<v Speaker 3>is going to be a standalone thing and not related
<v Speaker 3>to Wukong. I think Wukong is going to continue on
<v Speaker 3>the side.
<v Speaker 1>Some stuff yeah that we didn't like that wasn't in
<v Speaker 1>this rundown, but he man, that one looked really good.
<v Speaker 2>It's like Golden.
<v Speaker 1>Axe, yes, and big and heavy. It's not going to
<v Speaker 1>be like stream to Rage four, which is like, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>that's fantastic. We have streets of Rage four. There are
<v Speaker 1>other beat m ups you should be drawing from. I
<v Speaker 1>talked to Audie about it. He also mentioned the capcom
<v Speaker 1>D and D beat him ups. He's drawing from that
<v Speaker 1>a lot. I'm like, oh cool, that's yeah. Chronicle was awesome. Yes,
<v Speaker 1>so I'm like, I just think this is going to
<v Speaker 1>be one of these that really hits. The beat him
<v Speaker 1>up genre just got left behind because people didn't realize
<v Speaker 1>how much more you could do with it. And I
<v Speaker 1>think giving these games a chance to come back and
<v Speaker 1>trying different versions of it, like I'm ready for the
<v Speaker 1>Golden next version of this.
<v Speaker 2>That's that sounds perfect.
<v Speaker 3>Chat reminds me Outlaws.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, yes, yes, exactly right, that that did the leak.
<v Speaker 1>But it was like and then when you like start
<v Speaker 1>thinking about it's like night Dive has already done Dark Forces.
<v Speaker 1>This is the same engine, so sure they should do this,
<v Speaker 1>but it's still it's surprising that someone's going because that's
<v Speaker 1>just not a game people talk about a lot. But
<v Speaker 1>now that it's here, I'm like, yeah, that looks awesome.
<v Speaker 1>That's a Lucas Arts shooter. With a Western style, like
<v Speaker 1>a kind of a spahetty Western style to it. And yes,
<v Speaker 1>it looks a lot like Dark Forces, but in the
<v Speaker 1>Why West. And give me more of that. All right,
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<v Speaker 1>Let's get back into the show, Like, let's wrap up
<v Speaker 1>is what happened over a Games comes Opening Night Live
<v Speaker 1>with a little bit more details about Lego Batman Legacy
<v Speaker 1>of the Dark Knight. They are not saying how much
<v Speaker 1>it's going to cost that I think this is the
<v Speaker 1>move right now, Like why say it?
<v Speaker 2>Because you might want to continue to see what like
<v Speaker 2>what you can get away with.
<v Speaker 1>But it does feel like we are maybe steadying out
<v Speaker 1>at seventy dollars. I do expect this game to be seventy,
<v Speaker 1>but it was like I think people are used to that.
<v Speaker 1>If they said this game with seventy dollars, I think
<v Speaker 1>everyone would go, yeah, okay, I think like that battle
<v Speaker 1>is lost. So it's like why not just say it?
<v Speaker 1>And is it because you're thinking about eighty. I don't
<v Speaker 1>know if you can do that, but but yeah, what
<v Speaker 1>do you expect here?
<v Speaker 3>This being so this being a Lego game, they may
<v Speaker 3>actually be thinking perhaps a little lower, depending on the
<v Speaker 3>scope of this game and really how big it is.
<v Speaker 3>Lego games tend to be like back when when in
<v Speaker 3>the Xbox three sixty PlayStation three era, when the Lego
<v Speaker 3>games will come out, they come out at like fifty
<v Speaker 3>instead of sixty sometimes, So maybe.
<v Speaker 1>Things have changed, right, Yes, Star Wars the Skywalker Saga.
<v Speaker 1>The whole point of that one was like, this is
<v Speaker 1>the massive one, and we're making a ton of improvements,
<v Speaker 1>and so it's going to be a big, full game.
<v Speaker 1>I think them making these these these games, I think
<v Speaker 1>that was part of it, is they had to justify, Hey,
<v Speaker 1>we want these to be big sellers and we want
<v Speaker 1>them to have a premium price, So make those games
<v Speaker 1>the way that they need to be made to justify that.
<v Speaker 1>And this definitely feels like that. So I just won't
<v Speaker 1>be surprised if it's like I guess, I guess I wouldn't.
<v Speaker 1>Maybe sixty, Yeah that's still possible, but I'm gonna guess.
<v Speaker 3>It's seventy seventy would be my guest too, if I
<v Speaker 3>really had to think about it. I hope, I hope
<v Speaker 3>it's not ey. This goes eighty, Everything's going eighty.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, for real.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, let's let's keep moving here. Starfield is coming to
<v Speaker 1>switch to next year, it has been claimed. This is
<v Speaker 1>from Chris Scollion at VEGC. A port of Starfield will
<v Speaker 1>reportedly be released on switch To next year. That's according
<v Speaker 1>to industry insider Nate the Hate, who has a track
<v Speaker 1>record of breaking stories about unreleased games. Indiana Jones in
<v Speaker 1>the Great Circle won't be the only Bethesta game coming
<v Speaker 1>to Nintendo switch To in twenty twenty six. He posted
<v Speaker 1>on Twitter, see that planet you can go there. Aside
<v Speaker 1>from landing out PS five, Starfield has planned for release
<v Speaker 1>on Nintendo switch To in twenty twenty six. Starfield has
<v Speaker 1>yet to be officially confirmed for even the PlayStation five,
<v Speaker 1>but numerous reports, including one earlier this month, suggest Bethesda
<v Speaker 1>sci fi RPG is being readied for Sony's console. Microsoft
<v Speaker 1>and Bethesta confirmed during Gamescom's Opening Night Live presentation that
<v Speaker 1>Indiana Jones The Great Circle will be released on Nintendo
<v Speaker 1>switch To in twenty twenty six, making it the first
<v Speaker 1>major Xbox first party title.
<v Speaker 2>To be announced for Nintendo's new platform. As always, as.
<v Speaker 1>A reminder, Xbox is a target of the BDS boycott
<v Speaker 1>movement for it's providing services that are causing an ethnic
<v Speaker 1>cleansing in Gaza. Starfield is probably going to come to
<v Speaker 1>switch To just because, like all these games are probably
<v Speaker 1>going to come there. But that is a game that
<v Speaker 1>also doesn't run very well on the Steam Deck, So
<v Speaker 1>I will be interested to see how they get it
<v Speaker 1>to run on the switch To, which is you know,
<v Speaker 1>a little bit more powerful than the Steam Deck for sure.
<v Speaker 3>But.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I guess.
<v Speaker 1>But the other question here, Jason would be does this
<v Speaker 1>Starfield move the needle anymore? I mean, is anyone going
<v Speaker 1>to care this time around?
<v Speaker 3>No, the only way the PlayStation users were going to
<v Speaker 3>care about Starfield is when it launched, because it has
<v Speaker 3>since launched and it was not good, at least not
<v Speaker 3>in Bethesda terms. So PlayStation, maybe some die hard it's
<v Speaker 3>going to be, well, let's see what happens and then
<v Speaker 3>they'll try it and whatever goes on now Switch that's different.
<v Speaker 3>I feel like even people who may have already played
<v Speaker 3>it on Xbox may give it a shot on switch
<v Speaker 3>To just to be able to play it wherever they want.
<v Speaker 3>That seems like the kind of game for a long
<v Speaker 3>flight or like like like a road trip, you know
<v Speaker 3>what I mean, like where you just sit down and
<v Speaker 3>mess around in the in space for a little while,
<v Speaker 3>complete some missions or go get lost in some solar system.
<v Speaker 3>It seems a good, a good past the time game
<v Speaker 3>for something like that. And while you could technically do
<v Speaker 3>that with Xbox Play Anywhere on your phone or Xbox
<v Speaker 3>Cloud Gaming or what have you. Yes, I almost chucked
<v Speaker 3>my phone into my face, but I think having it
<v Speaker 3>on switch To where it will actually run and not
<v Speaker 3>need the Wi Fi on the plane to make that
<v Speaker 3>cloud connection will be better for it. I also am
<v Speaker 3>kind of hoping maybe that if is planning anything with Fallout,
<v Speaker 3>be it a collection or a remaster or something like that,
<v Speaker 3>that Starfield going to switch To, if this is real,
<v Speaker 3>could perhaps be the bridge for something like that, because
<v Speaker 3>I think Fallout on switch To would be wonderful.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, that does feel like they will just keep moving.
<v Speaker 1>That Oblivion remake or whatever it was didn't come to
<v Speaker 1>switch one, so I met that also comes to switch
<v Speaker 1>to here pretty soon.
<v Speaker 3>That's a good point.
<v Speaker 1>That didn't get announced, right, Yeah, it was kind of
<v Speaker 1>like a little bit too close. It launched and then
<v Speaker 1>the switch To was getting announced all that stuff, and
<v Speaker 1>they didn't mention that.
<v Speaker 2>Elden Rings the kind of a game that.
<v Speaker 1>Filled that spot for me in my head, just like, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>the big port that they'll do that does well at launch,
<v Speaker 1>that'll probably happen soon.
<v Speaker 3>I think Oblivian Remastered actually shadow dropped the same week
<v Speaker 3>as the or maybe the week after the switch To reveals,
<v Speaker 3>right the same time, sounds right, Yeah, So yeah that
<v Speaker 3>Oblivion Remastered would also be a very good bridge to
<v Speaker 3>the switch To if they decided to do that either way.
<v Speaker 3>Is it's not the first salvo of Microsoft putting their
<v Speaker 3>games onto Nintendo's switch or switch to, but I think
<v Speaker 3>this might be a little more notable in how powerful
<v Speaker 3>this game is, Like Pentiment good as good of a
<v Speaker 3>game as it is not the most powerful game in
<v Speaker 3>the world. So if they can get Starfield on there
<v Speaker 3>without blowing up switch To batteries, then that kind of
<v Speaker 3>bodes well for the rest of Microsoft's portfolio. Just getting
<v Speaker 3>ever so closer to the inevitable Halo switch To experience
<v Speaker 3>it's going to happen eventually.
<v Speaker 2>Yep, it does feel inevitable as well.
<v Speaker 1>All right, Hey, the rog Xbox Ally handheld launch day
<v Speaker 1>is set for October features steam Deck style compatibility guide.
<v Speaker 1>They have a handheld optimized thing where it's like, hey,
<v Speaker 1>we'll test these games. We'll tell you if it's mostly compatible,
<v Speaker 1>should perform well, should perform great, which means sixty frames
<v Speaker 1>per second or above, and then if we haven't checked
<v Speaker 1>the performance, we haven't done any testing of the game.
<v Speaker 1>They're going to basically have the check Ark style thing
<v Speaker 1>similar to what steam Deck has. The release date is
<v Speaker 1>in October. Let's see, do I have yeah, October sixteenth.
<v Speaker 1>They still aren't talking about a price though themselves. A
<v Speaker 1>price has leaked from Bill Bill koon Over at deal Labs,
<v Speaker 1>who is very good at like tracking down what's happening
<v Speaker 1>at retailers, and the price that he's found is five
<v Speaker 1>hundred and fifty dollars for the Xbox rog Ally and
<v Speaker 1>then nine hundred dollars for the Xbox rog Ally X.
<v Speaker 3>These are the prices.
<v Speaker 1>I think this is right in the range where the
<v Speaker 1>rumors had been for a while, so I don't think
<v Speaker 1>people are too stunned, And yet I just man nine
<v Speaker 1>hundred dollars for one of these handhelds, even knowing that
<v Speaker 1>that is actually kind of a fair price compared to
<v Speaker 1>like where these handhelds were a few years ago, and really,
<v Speaker 1>like you know, the Steam Deck subsidizing the price, so
<v Speaker 1>it kind of has had a deflationary effect on the
<v Speaker 1>entire market, kind of having forcing everyone else to compete
<v Speaker 1>with that. Even with that in mind, I'm just not
<v Speaker 1>gonna I'm not gonna spend nine hundred dollars on a
<v Speaker 1>handheld like this. I just can't. I can't justify that.
<v Speaker 1>I wonder who will do that though, Jason.
<v Speaker 3>I think Xbox diehards who don't have a handheld yet
<v Speaker 3>and have been waiting for this one will be the
<v Speaker 3>person that that will buy this. I am perfectly happy
<v Speaker 3>with my Legion. Go my Legion go s. I'm sure
<v Speaker 3>you're perfectly happy with the Steam Deck or whatever we
<v Speaker 3>have other ones.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I have a rug ally the original Rock. I
<v Speaker 1>don't have the r I X Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so I'm perfectly happy with that. It runs the
<v Speaker 3>Xbox Games fine on the Xbox App. It runs the
<v Speaker 3>Steam Games fine. As I found out, it ran the
<v Speaker 3>Battlefield six Beta pretty good too, right, So I'm not
<v Speaker 3>I'm not. I'm fine, like I don't, I don't need
<v Speaker 3>to do this. That price is steep, and I will
<v Speaker 3>say Billy Billy did report that, but also best buy
<v Speaker 3>listings went up that had these prices and then took
<v Speaker 3>them deck. That's right, So I think we find out
<v Speaker 3>what these prices are. They say it's for macroeconomics. There
<v Speaker 3>was a reporter in i GN saying they didn't want
<v Speaker 3>to give the price for macroeconomical reasons. That seems to
<v Speaker 3>be the running excuse. Now we're not going to give
<v Speaker 3>you the price yet because we don't know where the
<v Speaker 3>market's going to be, which is understandable. But I think
<v Speaker 3>they already know what the price is, and by the
<v Speaker 3>end of games come, I think we may find out
<v Speaker 3>how much we're going to be spending on this thing.
<v Speaker 3>And if these are the prices, then I might be
<v Speaker 3>out for the time being. I don't know that I
<v Speaker 3>can swing nine hundred bucks when I have a perfectly
<v Speaker 3>good Like I said, lead you go sitting on the
<v Speaker 3>table behind me, that'll have to do, right.
<v Speaker 1>And it's like having that out there makes the more
<v Speaker 1>affordable model feel like, well, why would I spend six
<v Speaker 1>hundred dollars to get something that's not going to be
<v Speaker 1>as good. It's just a tough position. Yeah, I'm probably
<v Speaker 1>out for now, although I'm curious. I continue to be
<v Speaker 1>curious about like how this is going to work. At
<v Speaker 1>the very least, I just hope that this isn't like
<v Speaker 1>some stunted and aborted thing where like the Microsoft doesn't
<v Speaker 1>try to continue to improve its operating system on handhelds.
<v Speaker 1>I want them to keep doing that, just so that
<v Speaker 1>steam Os has some competition and it improves both sides.
<v Speaker 1>We'll see Final Fantasy fourteen dev on switch to version
<v Speaker 1>says there's been quote positive discussions with Nintendo.
<v Speaker 2>This is from Nintendo everything.
<v Speaker 1>Could we see Final Fantasy fourteen on Nintendo Switch to
<v Speaker 1>one day? Producer Naoki Yoship Yoshida has indicated that Square
<v Speaker 1>Enix is in talks with Nintendo and it sounds like
<v Speaker 1>things are going well so far, he said in an
<v Speaker 1>interview with VGC when asked about potentially getting Final Fantasy
<v Speaker 1>fourteen on the Nintendo Switch too. For me, it's just
<v Speaker 1>my aim to provide Final Fantasy fourteen and sixteen to
<v Speaker 1>as many players as possible, and I hope that as
<v Speaker 1>many players as possible will be able to we'll be
<v Speaker 1>able to enjoy these two games. We are putting in
<v Speaker 1>our best efforts to ensure that this happens. So it's
<v Speaker 1>fine to convey to your readership that I consider the
<v Speaker 1>possibilities very positively and we are putting in our best efforts.
<v Speaker 1>So I hope players will look forward to the possibilities
<v Speaker 1>in the future. But I just ask for a little
<v Speaker 1>bit more time. Yeah, this does feel like one that
<v Speaker 1>will happen at least Final Fantasy at sixteen for sure.
<v Speaker 1>Fourteen it's like, yeah, that's it went to Xbox, and
<v Speaker 1>I think the Switch to is an even better fit
<v Speaker 1>than that kind of obviously, So yeah, I do expect
<v Speaker 1>them to get around to doing this, And I think
<v Speaker 1>this is like where the Switch two is now at,
<v Speaker 1>where it's like, Okay, is it going to get every
<v Speaker 1>massive nude triple a blockbuster game that is like taking
<v Speaker 1>the full advantage of PCs and PlayStation five pros. Probably not,
<v Speaker 1>or at least not without some severe compromises, but it
<v Speaker 1>at least is at the point where it's like all
<v Speaker 1>of those big live service games that have been going
<v Speaker 1>for years now should make sense on the switch to
<v Speaker 1>at least in terms from a technical perspective, and that's
<v Speaker 1>kind of where it needed to get because live service
<v Speaker 1>games are not going to evolve much in terms of
<v Speaker 1>like their visual requirements because they want them to run
<v Speaker 1>on everything, and so it's like, okay, Switch two is
<v Speaker 1>good on that front. It'll get Nintendo games, it'll get
<v Speaker 1>indie games, and it'll get quite a few of the
<v Speaker 1>big new releases from third parties. So I think they've
<v Speaker 1>kind of now covered a lot of their bases and
<v Speaker 1>this feels like a part of that.
<v Speaker 3>My thing is the so with Final Fantasy fourteen specifically,
<v Speaker 3>MMOs are very hood intensive and you only have so
<v Speaker 3>much screen real estate to use there, So I wonder
<v Speaker 3>how that would work, at least in a handheld situation.
<v Speaker 3>I think I've switched to primarily as a handheld, so
<v Speaker 3>I wonder about That's probably one of the biggest hurdles
<v Speaker 3>I think they would have to cross. They do have
<v Speaker 3>a console version. It did launch on Xbox, and it's
<v Speaker 3>always been on PlayStation, right, so they had I'm sure
<v Speaker 3>they've already figured this part out, or they're going to
<v Speaker 3>figure this out for Nintendo's console. That would be my
<v Speaker 3>only caveat, my only issue or potential problem. But I
<v Speaker 3>think it makes perfect sense, Like strategically, it makes perfect sense.
<v Speaker 3>I was talking about the airplane ride earlier. If you
<v Speaker 3>can if the airplane Urin's WiFi is good and you're
<v Speaker 3>a FFFF fourteen fan, you're good. You're good for that
<v Speaker 3>whole cross country flight. So yeah, I mean, if they
<v Speaker 3>can make it happen, I think it definitely makes a
<v Speaker 3>lot of sense. But I would just need to see
<v Speaker 3>the logistical side of it, like the way it looks,
<v Speaker 3>the HUD stuff like that, before I would fully be
<v Speaker 3>on board.
<v Speaker 1>I think, yeah, Final Fantasy fourteen is definitely a game.
<v Speaker 1>You know, they built it with consoles in mine, so
<v Speaker 1>and I've not played it ever, so I don't have
<v Speaker 1>any first sand experience, but it seems like people are
<v Speaker 1>like pretty happy with the way that works.
<v Speaker 2>And now you have a lot of people on chatter saying.
<v Speaker 1>Hey, I have a friend that plays it on steam
<v Speaker 1>Deck and it's completely fine on there, It's.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, here you go.
<v Speaker 1>So the apparently they've already built in a lot of
<v Speaker 1>tools for customizing how like you interface with the game,
<v Speaker 1>So people should be able to just make it work
<v Speaker 1>the way they needed to work on one of these handhelds,
<v Speaker 1>and then you know, you do the touch screen.
<v Speaker 2>Maybe that helps. I don't.
<v Speaker 3>I don't, and I probably sound like an idiot when
<v Speaker 3>I'm saying stuff like that with you.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know.
<v Speaker 3>My experience with Final Fantasy fourteen is I did the
<v Speaker 3>tech test on my computer to see if it worked.
<v Speaker 3>That's as far as I was going in that game.
<v Speaker 3>I just don't have the time. But if hey, if
<v Speaker 3>it's working on steam Deck and the other handhelds, then
<v Speaker 3>switch to is not an issue. And I'm making a
<v Speaker 3>mountain out of a non existant molehill.
<v Speaker 1>That's good, jam, Were you the one that wanted one
<v Speaker 1>of those? Oh, dear allen Wick two thermoses? No, it's
<v Speaker 1>gonna restock in like nine minutes according to ABC, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I'll buy it for you. I don't want that, all right,
<v Speaker 1>let's see here. Oh okay, yeah, this is the next story.
<v Speaker 1>I am just baffled that this is the headline. Roadblocks
<v Speaker 1>bans all erotic content. This is from Marcus Person and
<v Speaker 1>game reactor Jason. There was erotic content on Roadblocks. What
<v Speaker 1>the fuck is happening?
<v Speaker 3>I don't let your kids play roadblocks. And you've seen
<v Speaker 3>me get heated before. Do not this is your kids
<v Speaker 3>play fucking roadblocks. Don't do it? Not allowed, Get them
<v Speaker 3>the fuck off that platform. It is. They do not
<v Speaker 3>care about your children, They do not care about their
<v Speaker 3>well being, They do not care about their safety. They
<v Speaker 3>they banned a guy who was Chris hansening sexual predators
<v Speaker 3>on their platform. They went after the freedom fighter, the
<v Speaker 3>defense mechanism instead of their the vigilante.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, they're shitty, Thank you. They're shitty ass platform that
<v Speaker 3>allows this shit to happen. And now you're gonna say
<v Speaker 3>it bans erotic content, this sweeping thing. So let me
<v Speaker 3>ask you a question. Dressed to impress, right, one of
<v Speaker 3>the biggest games on that platform. Some fashion can sometimes
<v Speaker 3>seem erotic when it's just people wearing bathing suits or whatever.
<v Speaker 3>Are they gonna go after that? If the Lady Gaga
<v Speaker 3>just partnered with them? Oh man, this is so if
<v Speaker 3>you have all platform just needs to go away. If
<v Speaker 3>it's me, but I know that's unfeasible.
<v Speaker 1>I just I mean, something needs to be done because
<v Speaker 1>it's like you're only doing this now because the backlash
<v Speaker 1>that happened recently, so you could have always done this,
<v Speaker 1>you did not. What else are you not taking care
<v Speaker 1>of because of outside pressure? So let's bee It's more
<v Speaker 1>than just a banning all erotic content. They also have
<v Speaker 1>some changes to how children can interact with the game.
<v Speaker 2>This is also crazy, so through the whole thing here.
<v Speaker 1>Roadblock's one of the world's largest digital platforms for gaming
<v Speaker 1>and social so interaction, is tightening its rules regarding adult content.
<v Speaker 1>The company has announced that all material that could be
<v Speaker 1>perceived as erotic or sexual is now prohibited, even content
<v Speaker 1>that only hits hints at such activities. The policy change
<v Speaker 1>comes just days after Roadblocks was sued by a state
<v Speaker 1>judge in the United States, who argued that the service
<v Speaker 1>is filled with potentially harmful content and environments for children.
<v Speaker 1>Critics have long pointed out that the otherwise child friendly
<v Speaker 1>platform has struggled to keep inappropriate content under control. Under
<v Speaker 1>the new rules, unrated material will only be visible to
<v Speaker 1>developers themselves. Roadblocks is also working on methods to quickly
<v Speaker 1>identify and handle users who engage in inappropriate or violent behavior.
<v Speaker 1>That's like your whole thing. You need to have done
<v Speaker 1>this a long time ago. Matt Kaufman Roadblocks's chief safety
<v Speaker 1>officer explained, we've seen that social hangouts experiences where the
<v Speaker 1>primary purpose is to chat with other users as their
<v Speaker 1>user or their avatar, can sometimes contain inappropriate user behavior
<v Speaker 1>when they include certain settings. Although these settings are not
<v Speaker 1>against our current policy, we've observed higher rates of inappropriate
<v Speaker 1>user behavior in them, so we're further restricting some of
<v Speaker 1>them from our younger users. So what they're doing is, uh,
<v Speaker 1>read this one. I read this, Yeah, read this one,
<v Speaker 1>because this is crazy. This is so insane.
<v Speaker 3>Additional changes apply to younger players. Users under seventeen will
<v Speaker 3>no longer be able to access private virtual spaces such
<v Speaker 3>as bathrooms, bedrooms, bars, or nightclubs. Why the fuck were
<v Speaker 3>they in there to begin with?
<v Speaker 1>Yes, especially like private spaces like these aren't like public rooms.
<v Speaker 1>Like someone invites you into a bathroom to hang out.
<v Speaker 3>What the fuck?
<v Speaker 2>What are you talking about? What are you talking about?
<v Speaker 3>I just listen. It makes me angry because my older child,
<v Speaker 3>who probably hears me right now, Sorry, kid, she's up there. There,
<v Speaker 3>they're here, they're there. We're going on vacation tomorrow. But uh,
<v Speaker 3>she's been asking let me play roebucks. Why can't I
<v Speaker 3>play rodbucks. This is why I will not. I refuse
<v Speaker 3>to allow this game to be played in my house
<v Speaker 3>other than me. I had to write guides for it
<v Speaker 3>for Google Play at one point, so that's the only
<v Speaker 3>experience I have with it, and it's the only experience
<v Speaker 3>I goddamn one. They built second life in this social
<v Speaker 3>hangouts and then didn't remember the eighteen plus restriction? Yes,
<v Speaker 3>what the not to sound like the the the the
<v Speaker 3>you want to talk about brain rot roadblocks? Brain Rot
<v Speaker 3>starts at the fucking top. It's that simple. Get this
<v Speaker 3>platform out of here. I hope they get sued.
<v Speaker 2>They are acting.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, they're getting so they're getting sued the state at
<v Speaker 1>the state judge is suing them. But also Chris Hansen
<v Speaker 1>said that they've been looking at this site now for months.
<v Speaker 1>Chris Hansen himself, not just Evngelanti acting like Chris Hansen,
<v Speaker 1>which was.
<v Speaker 2>Cool, but they banned him.
<v Speaker 1>Uh Now, Chris Hanson himself's got a team and they're
<v Speaker 1>going to do a special on it. It's like, oh, man,
<v Speaker 1>I should so, but first I should short roadblocks it
<v Speaker 1>stopped because I think this is it's probably gonna go
<v Speaker 1>in the toilet here, but I don't know.
<v Speaker 2>And two it's in all way. I'm not a financial advisor,
<v Speaker 2>don't do anything I say or so.
<v Speaker 3>In the chat, somebody asked, is Roadblocks a game? No,
<v Speaker 3>it's a platform where you make your own you can
<v Speaker 3>make they call them experiences, and you can make you
<v Speaker 3>can make games, which is where like Dressed to Impress
<v Speaker 3>and Rainbow Friends that like fanaff rip off horror game
<v Speaker 3>and a couple other Doors is another popular horror type thing.
<v Speaker 3>In Roadblocks you can make these experiences, but they also
<v Speaker 3>have these social hangouts, which is basically I said second
<v Speaker 3>Life but for the console minded PlayStation Home. Yeah, but
<v Speaker 3>PlayStation Home had the wherewithal to not include shit like
<v Speaker 3>this from the start. Also, older console minded people, if
<v Speaker 3>you know what PlayStation Home is, time to schedule your
<v Speaker 3>annual I just it will always confound me how this
<v Speaker 3>platform was able to get away with this for so
<v Speaker 3>fucking long. I mean, I know how it was YouTube
<v Speaker 3>YouTube players getting on Roadblocks like that, that kid Ryan
<v Speaker 3>who makes more money in a day that I'll ever
<v Speaker 3>make in my lifetime playing Roadblocks games. That's where my
<v Speaker 3>kids fan out about it. That's what made them want
<v Speaker 3>to watch it. I want to play it. Excuse me
<v Speaker 3>that they're the little like they ripping off lego heads,
<v Speaker 3>rip off lego heads. They're not actually ripping off lego
<v Speaker 3>heads there. I just it's a long time coming. I
<v Speaker 3>have been tooting this horn for years, and now it
<v Speaker 3>seems like the rest of the world has finally come
<v Speaker 3>to their goddamn senses. Time to go. I'm so I
<v Speaker 3>am planning on watching this fire, dumpster fire with popcorn
<v Speaker 3>and champagne. Get them out of here.
<v Speaker 1>I think the even sadd reality is five years, we're
<v Speaker 1>probably having this conversation again, and it's right back roadblocks,
<v Speaker 1>still just chugging along, and it's a behema the platform.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah right, exactly. All right.
<v Speaker 1>Last story called duty devs explain how we're getting new
<v Speaker 1>Black Ops games in consecutive years. Well, they just did
<v Speaker 1>it again, all right, This from Eddie McCoo had GameSpot.
<v Speaker 1>For the first time ever, Activision is releasing new call
<v Speaker 1>due Black Ops games in consecutive years. Beyond that, the
<v Speaker 1>same two developers that led the production of Black Ops six,
<v Speaker 1>Treyarch and Raven Software, are once again co leading the
<v Speaker 1>development on Black Ops seven, with Activision previously stating how
<v Speaker 1>important it is to have a three year production cycle
<v Speaker 1>for each new Call of Duty game, many are wondering
<v Speaker 1>how it's even possible. Treyarch Associate creative director Miles Leslie
<v Speaker 1>told IGN that development on Black Ops seven actually began
<v Speaker 1>at the same time as Black Ops six, that the
<v Speaker 1>game had a franchise longest four year development cycle. They
<v Speaker 1>were started at the same time, Leslie said, So, obviously
<v Speaker 1>they have different production ramp up times, but they were
<v Speaker 1>started in parallel and green at the same time. That
<v Speaker 1>was a really unique challenge but also fun.
<v Speaker 2>Blah blah blah.
<v Speaker 1>To me, what this sounds like is, you know, back
<v Speaker 1>in the day, the teams would have like release a
<v Speaker 1>game and then they would spend some time and but
<v Speaker 1>know that they were going to do this, they were
<v Speaker 1>going to release map packs and stuff like that.
<v Speaker 2>That was like a Call Duty business model early on.
<v Speaker 1>Just sounds like do that but for another immediate follow
<v Speaker 1>up games. So like, you know, take some stuff like
<v Speaker 1>you know that you're going to be releasing this soon,
<v Speaker 1>so maybe this stuff that you were planning for six
<v Speaker 1>can just go into seven and you know, be ready
<v Speaker 1>to do that. And they're making the campaign like a
<v Speaker 1>co op a multiplayer thing, so it's like, yeah, and
<v Speaker 1>you can just you see how it kind of feels
<v Speaker 1>like in some ways DLC like an expansion, but like
<v Speaker 1>a standalone thing.
<v Speaker 2>At the same time.
<v Speaker 1>Obviously, no one's talking about Black Ops seven still though, right,
<v Speaker 1>I just don't, you know, maybe a little bit after yesterday,
<v Speaker 1>because it did they did show it at games Come,
<v Speaker 1>but I don't know the excitement I'm just not hearing
<v Speaker 1>out there.
<v Speaker 3>There was a story floating around that the number one
<v Speaker 3>comment on the Black Up seven Games Com segment YouTube
<v Speaker 3>video was this made me pre order Battlefield six.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>I mean that's basically where we are here.
<v Speaker 1>Uh.
<v Speaker 3>Call of Duty, I think played with fire by opening
<v Speaker 3>Pandora's Box with its out of left field collaborations and partnerships,
<v Speaker 3>and it really drove away the people who are looking
<v Speaker 3>for that pure military experience, and Battlefield six is going
<v Speaker 3>to slip right in there and uh and and fill
<v Speaker 3>that void. Granted, it would be naive for people to
<v Speaker 3>think that that that Battlefield six is going to stay
<v Speaker 3>away from partnerships. I think may be smarter about it,
<v Speaker 3>but I don't think they're going to be completely devoid
<v Speaker 3>of them.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, whether they're gonna or at least they're going
<v Speaker 1>to walk around right now acting like that. It's not
<v Speaker 1>going to be that. People will be happy to be like, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>I'll accept it. That'll change over time.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, but I think that there they Call of Duty
<v Speaker 3>is in a weird spot. Man, It's in a weird
<v Speaker 3>precarious position at the moment, which is so weird to
<v Speaker 3>say about cold. I guess it kind of applies to
<v Speaker 3>Xbox as a whole.
<v Speaker 2>Noil, Yeah, it's just it's the tide right though.
<v Speaker 1>It's like like Call of Duty will be back on
<v Speaker 1>top in a couple of years, like it always has
<v Speaker 1>when they kind of make when they change up from
<v Speaker 1>this current stretch of the way of doing things and
<v Speaker 1>they kind of come back like now we've figured out
<v Speaker 1>we're going back to the basics again.
<v Speaker 2>It'll be fine. That's kind of been the story of
<v Speaker 2>Call of Duty this entire time.
<v Speaker 5>Oh no, we've been invaded all right now, Listen, we
<v Speaker 5>know we were just kind of confirm if it was real.
<v Speaker 5>So have you confirmed that that is a shoot reveal
<v Speaker 5>out of games? Calm Mike Manatti who has joined us.
<v Speaker 2>Well, it's not a reveal per se.
<v Speaker 6>It's just there's a booth for Mortal Kombat Legacy Collection,
<v Speaker 6>and like in their little video thing on the booth
<v Speaker 6>is where you see them scrolling through all the games
<v Speaker 6>and highlighting Mortal Kombat mythologies, sub Zero and Mortal Kombat
<v Speaker 6>Special Forces. Now, look, maybe somebody's playing a very big prank.
<v Speaker 1>We were talking before it past the eye test, at
<v Speaker 1>the very tests.
<v Speaker 3>The eye test, but not the spell test. I have
<v Speaker 3>two feelers out right now. One is a DM to
<v Speaker 3>somebody I know at Digital Eclipse. The other is an
<v Speaker 3>email to official through official channels to see if we
<v Speaker 3>can get some answers here. Apparently Atari is going to
<v Speaker 3>be part of Xbox's live stream and we will we
<v Speaker 3>will see what's going on there. It's apparently apparently the
<v Speaker 3>gang's all here. Everyone is here. Get mess Turbo, do
<v Speaker 3>you have to say?
<v Speaker 7>Sean, Yes, Independent reporter Turbo Sean from Giant Bomb reporting it.
<v Speaker 7>I would just like to say that I did double
<v Speaker 7>check and this does look like the picture that Dan
<v Speaker 7>Amrick just posted on Blue Sky of their booth at
<v Speaker 7>games Com. And he told me at EVO we have
<v Speaker 7>more games to announce, and he heavily implied the would
<v Speaker 7>be PS one, so PS one, yes's legit to me.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>That's that's why I've kind of been leaning towards this
<v Speaker 1>being real, because when they were talking about, hey, don't
<v Speaker 1>expect stuff from like PS two, I might, well, okay,
<v Speaker 1>so what about PS one games?
<v Speaker 2>Then they're not say anything about that?
<v Speaker 8>And then you and then oh I'm the chief content
<v Speaker 8>officer dot Com, I named day record.
<v Speaker 3>Oh Dan Riker, what can we do for you? Oh?
<v Speaker 8>I just I had some ideas for content here, you know,
<v Speaker 8>as generalation, media creators and so forth. I do think
<v Speaker 8>it's important that we give a comprehensive look at this
<v Speaker 8>and we do an expert on it.
<v Speaker 3>That's why I figured out how to move Dan away.
<v Speaker 3>I'm sure.
<v Speaker 2>Do you think he's probably still talking there right? He
<v Speaker 2>doesn't know? Yeah.
<v Speaker 6>Isn't it wild that three Blood Club games are getting
<v Speaker 6>re released this year?
<v Speaker 3>That's great?
<v Speaker 6>Well, goodbye to did great.
<v Speaker 1>I'll see you later.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, we will.
<v Speaker 1>We will have to do something about that, all right. Uh,
<v Speaker 1>that does it for the headlines. Let's get to the
<v Speaker 1>poll question from earlier this week, which I have right here. Uh, okay,
<v Speaker 1>do you think fair games will get canceled?
<v Speaker 3>Uh?
<v Speaker 1>That was a rumor that got debunked, but everyone's still
<v Speaker 1>not sure. Tell you what, most people seem to think
<v Speaker 1>it's gonna get canceled. Eighty eight percent say yes, it
<v Speaker 1>will be canceled. Twelve percent say no, what do you think, Jason?
<v Speaker 3>Was this the Jade Raven game?
<v Speaker 2>That is right? Well, not anymore, but it was.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, did she leave? Yeah, it's canceled. There's no, that's it.
<v Speaker 3>It's it, dope, Nope, it's a I don't. I have
<v Speaker 3>no confidence in it because she's gone, and I have
<v Speaker 3>no confidence in it because PlayStation Live Service like just
<v Speaker 3>those names next to each other. I have zero confidence.
<v Speaker 3>Prove me wrong, Please prove me wrong. I would love
<v Speaker 3>for you to prove me wrong, but I don't see
<v Speaker 3>that happening any time soon now, honest. I gotta tell
<v Speaker 3>you sidetle side thing right here. I am now nervous
<v Speaker 3>that we're gonna get in dated by Jurf. He's the
<v Speaker 3>only one who hasn't showed up yet.
<v Speaker 1>Just be careful, be careful what you wish for. You'll
<v Speaker 1>come in here? Keeps hockey hockey? Oh don't say three times?
<v Speaker 1>I warned you, uh, any minute. He's probably busy. Actually,
<v Speaker 1>I think he actually is out today, so that seems unlikely. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>let's see here, we'll have a new pole question. Get
<v Speaker 1>to that in a second. Before we do that, though,
<v Speaker 1>Jason Fonell where cad people find you on the internet?
<v Speaker 2>What do you have going on? What's all that good stuff?
<v Speaker 3>That good stuff? Jasonfidelli dot com on Blue Sky, big
<v Speaker 3>Man Fidelle everywhere else. Most active on Blue Sky and Instagram.
<v Speaker 3>You can see me writing news at game Spot, do
<v Speaker 3>some reviews and stuff for MMO RPG, the occasional feature
<v Speaker 3>for Epic Game Store, as well things coming up. I
<v Speaker 3>finished last night Sort of the Sea, which I will
<v Speaker 3>be reviewing for MMO RPG. The game by Giant Squid,
<v Speaker 3>who made ab Zoo very much in line with their
<v Speaker 3>aquatic themes, a nice climate message in this game. I
<v Speaker 3>thought it was very very cool, had a little more
<v Speaker 3>action in the end of the game than I expected.
<v Speaker 3>That was pretty neat. I'm hoping to have that done
<v Speaker 3>today because tomorrow I'm taking a little family vacation up
<v Speaker 3>to the mountains before school starts with like the airbnb
<v Speaker 3>up there, sit on the lake. So if you like
<v Speaker 3>picture x picturesque views of rural mountainous Lake. You know,
<v Speaker 3>lakeside areas. You're about to get those all weekend long tonight,
<v Speaker 3>though I might go deaf. I'm going to a concert
<v Speaker 3>with the Family Descendants and Zombies World Tour. Pray for me.
<v Speaker 3>It's at the Disney Show.
<v Speaker 8>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>My kids just.
<v Speaker 1>Got super into the into the Descendants, which one has Bonyellow.
<v Speaker 2>Jane, do you know descending the new one? The newest one? Okay,
<v Speaker 2>all right, well they're not there.
<v Speaker 3>I have read that we had to watch in preparation
<v Speaker 3>for this a couple of nights ago.
<v Speaker 2>Okay.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, they've been watching him back to back like it's
<v Speaker 1>been all descended, like they this is like the first
<v Speaker 1>like live action movie they've really given their attention to.
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, that's been different.
<v Speaker 3>I've been trying to get them to watch K Pop
<v Speaker 3>Demon Hunters, but they won't do it. So my kid's
<v Speaker 3>got into that.
<v Speaker 1>The first time I put it on, Addie ran out
<v Speaker 1>of the room because I was like, I'm gonna put
<v Speaker 1>it on for my phone in the basement on the
<v Speaker 1>TV upstairs. I'm not going to tell them. I'll just
<v Speaker 1>have to start playing and I'll go up there'll check
<v Speaker 1>it and see if they actually liked it. I put
<v Speaker 1>it on and Addie came running like screaming because she
<v Speaker 1>was scared of the first five seconds. It's not scary,
<v Speaker 1>but it just a movie started playing, and I think
<v Speaker 1>that is really what happened there. But now they've watched
<v Speaker 1>that movie like ten times and they love it.
<v Speaker 3>So yeah, cool.
<v Speaker 2>Keep trying. Uh oh yeah, yeah, go ahead.
<v Speaker 3>And then so you're asking who was excited about the Thermis,
<v Speaker 3>I would like to show you my Google calendar notification
<v Speaker 3>that just says Thermis for ten minutes before it went live. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>I did manage to get one while we were speaking.
<v Speaker 3>So so apparently as GF twenty twenty three, they were
<v Speaker 3>supposed to give those out after the Allan Way two demo,
<v Speaker 3>and then like something happened, and then they gave him
<v Speaker 3>out at the press event that I couldn't go to.
<v Speaker 3>So this has been sitting in the back of my head, like, man,
<v Speaker 3>I really want that Thermis. I could have had it,
<v Speaker 3>but for whatever reason, didn't happen. I finally, finally the
<v Speaker 3>Thermis is coming my way. I'm very excited. I want
<v Speaker 3>to drink so much coffee out of that shit.
<v Speaker 1>I like Thermiss. I like vacuum technology.
<v Speaker 2>Everybody.
<v Speaker 1>That's a cool thing. All right, let's wrap up this show.
<v Speaker 1>Let's see here, we gotta have a few things we
<v Speaker 1>should do. New poll question here we go grade games, Calm,
<v Speaker 1>Opening Night Live.
<v Speaker 2>ABCD or lower.
<v Speaker 1>We'll talk about those results here on Giant Bombs game
<v Speaker 1>mes morning tomorrow. Speaking of Giant Bomb later today, Blake
<v Speaker 1>Club's back. I'm gonna go check out that that trespasser
<v Speaker 1>a little bit more Trespasser, gott to.
<v Speaker 2>Find a blue key.
<v Speaker 3>Like.
<v Speaker 2>It's a game that I really like, but not necessarily.
<v Speaker 1>Not necessarily when I'm playing it, Jason, like playing it's
<v Speaker 1>maybe not good, but everything else about it, I'm really
<v Speaker 1>into it.
<v Speaker 3>The reaction of your health tattoo was everything I dreamed of,
<v Speaker 3>and I just I can't believe I didn't know anything about
<v Speaker 3>it until they mentioned that you were gonna be playing it.
<v Speaker 3>So I immediately googled it because I didn't. I'm not the
<v Speaker 3>one playing it. I can look up whatever I want.
<v Speaker 3>And when I saw that for the first time, I
<v Speaker 3>was he's gonna lose his mind. Awesome stuff, Awesome. It's
<v Speaker 3>been fun to kind of discover what that game is. Yeah, Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>and I got a despite the name, Blake cub is
<v Speaker 3>a beacon of light. Man. It's just just makes me
<v Speaker 3>laugh every single episode, whoever's playing of you three goobers,
<v Speaker 3>It's just it makes me. It's a lot of fun.
<v Speaker 3>These games are terrible, and watching you react to them
<v Speaker 3>is terrible. It is fun because they're terrible. It's it's
<v Speaker 3>just it's it's exactly what I need if I need
<v Speaker 3>a laugh, that's where I go. Blake Club stuff. Keep
<v Speaker 3>it up. It's awesome.
<v Speaker 2>We appreciate it. Yeah, I love doing.
<v Speaker 1>It's definitely the thing where it's like, as I've discovered
<v Speaker 1>the things I've enjoyed doing, it's like, yeah, we'll just
<v Speaker 1>do Blake Club forever, no matter what kind of no
<v Speaker 1>matter what happens, I'm gonna be playing these bad games
<v Speaker 1>for people on the internet.
<v Speaker 2>It's been it's special to me at this point. All right,
<v Speaker 2>let's see.
<v Speaker 4>Uh.
<v Speaker 1>All I can think about now is like, you're going
<v Speaker 1>to a concert and last night with that riff tracks
<v Speaker 1>a live thing, I'm like, I wish I could have
<v Speaker 1>gone to that. You're not doing it again, so I'll
<v Speaker 1>just have to wait for that to come out on
<v Speaker 1>video and watch it at home. All right, everybody, let's
<v Speaker 1>wrap the show up. Jason FANEWI thank you so much
<v Speaker 1>for hanging out with me today and talk about video
<v Speaker 1>ms man.
<v Speaker 2>I really appreciate it.
<v Speaker 3>I always appreciate the invite sir anytime.
<v Speaker 1>And thank you everybody for watching and listening. Thanks to
<v Speaker 1>Jans for producing. Until next time, everybody, have a good one,
<v Speaker 1>take care of yourself.
<v Speaker 2>Goodbye.
<v Speaker 3>I'm not taking my