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<v Speaker 1>Hey, everybody, welcome to Game Best Mornings with Me Jeff Grub,
<v Speaker 1>your host from GiantBomb dot com. Thank you for tuning in.
<v Speaker 1>In this episode, we're gonna be talking about shoe Ya Yoshida,
<v Speaker 1>just just spilling all the tea and more. It's gonna
<v Speaker 1>be a good one because we have Lex Ludie on
<v Speaker 1>the show. Lexi, how are you doing?
<v Speaker 2>How long does an NBA last?
<v Speaker 3>Usually?
<v Speaker 1>You know, I think it's just that they go out,
<v Speaker 1>they go bad after a while, right you can soil?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah?
<v Speaker 1>Who could say? Yeah, that's good, that's good stuff.
<v Speaker 3>Oh? Lexi? Three mondays in a row. I love it.
<v Speaker 3>How are you doing?
<v Speaker 2>I'm not doing too bad. I had a nice weekend.
<v Speaker 2>I went to see A Kira in the cinema, first
<v Speaker 2>time seeing it on a big screen for that four
<v Speaker 2>hieth anniversary. I think it was probably yeah, yeah, and yeah.
<v Speaker 2>It was a lot of fun. Turns how that movie
<v Speaker 2>is really good and I was thinking a lot about it.
<v Speaker 2>I think the underlying theme of that movie, I know that,
<v Speaker 2>like themes is something that comes up a lot on
<v Speaker 2>Giant Bomb self of like does everything have a metaphor?
<v Speaker 2>You know, can can anything be a metaphor? And you know,
<v Speaker 2>Dan's quite sensitive around this subject. I think a Kira
<v Speaker 2>is about how sometimes a teenager just sucks.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, what if a teenager has bad vibes? Is it
<v Speaker 1>okay to have to inflate them and have them explode?
<v Speaker 3>Like?
<v Speaker 1>That's yeah, that's an important question we all have to
<v Speaker 1>face at one point or another in our lives.
<v Speaker 3>It's been a hot minute since I've watched Akira.
<v Speaker 2>I turns out it still looks really fucking good, especially
<v Speaker 2>at four k Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>That's that is like the differently the thing. It's like
<v Speaker 1>man nineteen eighty six.
<v Speaker 3>Huh.
<v Speaker 1>They were making a movie that looked that good in
<v Speaker 1>nineteen eighty six, and then we were like, we need
<v Speaker 1>computers to do this, And obviously computers make things easier
<v Speaker 1>for the people who make movies like that. Whatever, But God,
<v Speaker 1>things don't need to look better than Akira.
<v Speaker 3>They just don't. God.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, all right, yeah, Hey, it's uh, any any fun
<v Speaker 1>gaming over the weekend, anything you're catching up on staying busy?
<v Speaker 3>What do you got going on?
<v Speaker 2>I'm currently playing the Seance of Blake Manor for a
<v Speaker 2>research piece. Yeah, so I'm getting back to that. I
<v Speaker 2>need to have it done by like Thursday, so I'm
<v Speaker 2>kind of rushing to to do it some following a guide,
<v Speaker 2>more than I probably should be if I was playing
<v Speaker 2>it normally. But I've also been dabbling with Borderlands for
<v Speaker 2>because for some reason, I had a notion of I'm
<v Speaker 2>going to replay all of the Borderlands games because I'm
<v Speaker 2>doing great right now. I'm doing really well. Yeah yeah, really,
<v Speaker 2>what did you know that the new DLC for Borderlands
<v Speaker 2>for is basically like dead Space. It's just a horror DLC.
<v Speaker 1>It's weird, weird, Okay, I mean that's you know, that's
<v Speaker 1>like one of the genre of DLCs we get, right,
<v Speaker 1>like a horror theme thing going back to what was
<v Speaker 1>it called for dead Redemption undead? Yeah, yeah, I mean
<v Speaker 1>I appreciate that that that makes some sense. There's okay,
<v Speaker 1>So there's Borderlands, Borderlands two, Borderlands, the pre sequel Borderlands three, Borderlands,
<v Speaker 1>the one with Wonderlands I want the Little Lady, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>Tiny Teens Wonderland, and then Borderlands four that's six.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and then the two tales from the Borderlands games,
<v Speaker 2>which I'm not playing for this mainly because the second
<v Speaker 2>one is really really terrible. But yeah, it's been I
<v Speaker 2>don't know. I just I have this nice PC and
<v Speaker 2>a lot of these are games that I played on console,
<v Speaker 2>and now being able to share the settings, it's like, oh,
<v Speaker 2>this is neat. Especially Borderlands, to which we've talked about
<v Speaker 2>this before, has the Nvidio physics stuff, and because they
<v Speaker 2>recently patched the physics stuff to work again on new graphics.
<v Speaker 3>Cards, I didn't know that.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so all titles that had in video phys x
<v Speaker 2>as they hold this and you can you can now
<v Speaker 2>play those on like fifty series cards with that crazy
<v Speaker 2>phys X stuff and it looks pretty cool. Turns out
<v Speaker 2>still looks pretty cool. It's no tress effects, but it's
<v Speaker 2>still pretty impressive.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, definitely, Yeah, Okay, yeah, look at that. One of
<v Speaker 1>the driver updates kind of address this. I wonder if
<v Speaker 1>they're just like, we can we can brute force this,
<v Speaker 1>because my understanding.
<v Speaker 2>Was I think it's a thing.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah there's enough power.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's like, yeah, they have enough power, they should
<v Speaker 1>be able to fake that. They can just emulate that
<v Speaker 1>hardware whatever it was inside of those old cards. So
<v Speaker 1>you're telling me I don't have to do the dumb
<v Speaker 1>ass thing of putting a like thirty thirty to fifty
<v Speaker 1>into my computer with a fifty ninety.
<v Speaker 2>You can still do that. No one's stopping you.
<v Speaker 3>I'm gonna do it. It's so stupid. I'm gonna do it.
<v Speaker 2>I meant to ask you know your computer able to
<v Speaker 2>unpag that matter? I know you're really struggling for power
<v Speaker 2>over there.
<v Speaker 1>It's doing all right, it's doing okay, got the path
<v Speaker 1>tration turned on. It's it's that's hanging in there.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>I really think every now and again, whenever you're playing
<v Speaker 2>a new game, you should just send down whatever your
<v Speaker 2>frame rate is. Yeah, just to remind him that he
<v Speaker 2>has a lesser machine.
<v Speaker 3>Is this good? Here?
<v Speaker 1>Here's the thing really bothers him?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>I can tell it actually annoys him.
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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 Shoehey. Yoshida says he
<v Speaker 1>was quote fired from his role as PlayStation studio president
<v Speaker 1>because he quote they didn't listen to Jim Ryan. This
<v Speaker 1>is WRON Chris Scullion at VGC. Former PlayStation executive shoe
<v Speaker 1>Hey Yoshida claims he was fired from his role as
<v Speaker 1>SIE Worldwide Studios president because he didn't listen to then
<v Speaker 1>CEO Jim Ryan. The popular executive quit Sony last year
<v Speaker 1>after thirty one years at the company, where he helped
<v Speaker 1>launch the original PlayStation and served as its president of
<v Speaker 1>SIE Worldwide Studios between twenty eight and twenty nineteen. In
<v Speaker 1>twenty nineteen, it was announced that Yoshoulda had stepped down
<v Speaker 1>to work on a new initiative focusing on building relationships
<v Speaker 1>with indie developers, with Hermann Holst replacing him as president.
<v Speaker 1>Since then, however, Yoshoulda has stated a number of times
<v Speaker 1>that it wasn't his decision to step down as president,
<v Speaker 1>and that while he enjoyed his new role working with
<v Speaker 1>indie studios. He had to take it or leave PlayStation altogether.
<v Speaker 1>Yoshouda's latest comments came when he attended the Alt Games
<v Speaker 1>Festival in Australia this past weekend, where he was giving
<v Speaker 1>a talk on Sunday about what makes an indie game
<v Speaker 1>successful when he reportedly made the comments. As reported by
<v Speaker 1>This Week in Video Games, Yo should have listed some
<v Speaker 1>of his achievements as Worldwide Studios president, thing claimed he
<v Speaker 1>was fired for not agreeing to do certain things which
<v Speaker 1>he did not specify for Ryan, which makes it sound
<v Speaker 1>more nefarious. I helped Santa Monica to make God War,
<v Speaker 1>Naughty Dog to make Uncharted this is a quote now,
<v Speaker 1>and the last of us and Sucker Punch to make
<v Speaker 1>the beautiful Ghost of Sushima. Yo should have reportedly said,
<v Speaker 1>Ghost of Sushimo was one of the last games that
<v Speaker 1>I worked on as.
<v Speaker 3>The president of Worldwide Studios.
<v Speaker 1>But in twenty nineteen, after eleven years leading the First
<v Speaker 1>Party development, I was fired from the role. Jim Ryan
<v Speaker 1>wanted to remove me from First Party because I didn't
<v Speaker 1>listen to him. He asked to do some ridiculous things
<v Speaker 1>and I said no. The report states that Yo should
<v Speaker 1>have said this is a said this in a jovial manner,
<v Speaker 1>leading to laughter from the audience.
<v Speaker 3>But this isn't the first time Yo.
<v Speaker 1>Should have discussed his removal from Sie Worldwide Studios President role.
<v Speaker 3>I mean this is we always had this sense.
<v Speaker 1>He's made it, maybe not abundantly clear, but pretty clear
<v Speaker 1>that this is kind of how it went down. I'll
<v Speaker 1>tell you, Sony sound like working internally at Sony Interactive
<v Speaker 1>and Entertainment to me, Lexi, whenever I speak to people there,
<v Speaker 1>and it was always sounded like a political nightmare, Like
<v Speaker 1>the politics of navigating that place has always sounded rough
<v Speaker 1>to me. Now like it's the kind of thing where
<v Speaker 1>people occasionally ask me, Lexi, why do people share things
<v Speaker 1>with you? And it's because they get frustrated working in
<v Speaker 1>certain places, and those frustration levels, you know, rise or
<v Speaker 1>lower depending on how the leadership is handling things. But
<v Speaker 1>certainly at a place like Sony recently, it is because
<v Speaker 1>of the you know, at one point things were a
<v Speaker 1>lot like this, where it's just you can tell there's
<v Speaker 1>something rotten in the state of Denmark and it's it's
<v Speaker 1>and the people that you kind of were into like show, Hey,
<v Speaker 1>Yo shoulda We're paying the price for decisions being made
<v Speaker 1>by people above them because they wanted something else, And
<v Speaker 1>then years later we see the results of those people's
<v Speaker 1>decisions and it's like, oh, one of the people standing
<v Speaker 1>in the way of Sony and them stepping on their
<v Speaker 1>own toes was Shoe Hay And now here we are.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, do you think that Sony still like this
<v Speaker 1>to a certain extent? Do you think that this is
<v Speaker 1>like one of the things that explains how we've ended
<v Speaker 1>up where we are with PlayStation. Not that they're in
<v Speaker 1>some dire straits or anything like that, but people are
<v Speaker 1>certainly a little bit antsy about the games they're delivering
<v Speaker 1>these days, at least some of them.
<v Speaker 3>Do you think this explains some of it?
<v Speaker 2>I really don't think they should be like super surprising
<v Speaker 2>when you think about PlayStation has always been a feudal
<v Speaker 2>company in a lot of ways, even within the Sony corporation.
<v Speaker 2>You look at how things went for Ken Kuzulaghi of
<v Speaker 2>he basically had cat blanche at that company to do
<v Speaker 2>whatever he wanted until he fucked it up so bad
<v Speaker 2>that they spent a whole generation trying to light that ship.
<v Speaker 2>And now they have memory holed him are sensibly outside
<v Speaker 2>of the Astro Bob games where he gets to where
<v Speaker 2>they get to like talk about him every now and
<v Speaker 2>again and be like he made the PlayStation. Remember him,
<v Speaker 2>but like, yeah, there is a pretty long history of
<v Speaker 2>Sony execs doing really well until they didn't, and a
<v Speaker 2>lot of these companies are like that. But the thing
<v Speaker 2>a PlayStation was it always felt kind of like people
<v Speaker 2>were aware that there was politics going on a PlayStation.
<v Speaker 2>I'm not surprised about this, but you know, these disagreements
<v Speaker 2>show in the product in a lot of ways. You
<v Speaker 2>see that in the live service shift and now the
<v Speaker 2>counter shift and the recalibration. It seems like it does
<v Speaker 2>seem like two people or two enclaves having a very
<v Speaker 2>distinct idea of what the future of the company should
<v Speaker 2>look like and trying to polish in either direction. And
<v Speaker 2>it went in one direction up until Jim Ry, and
<v Speaker 2>now it's trying to readjust and in the course of readjusting,
<v Speaker 2>with all the other economic stuff it's dealing with, it's
<v Speaker 2>becoming like too much to turn the ship around, and
<v Speaker 2>the seas are too choppy to do it. And so
<v Speaker 2>I think that like, this isn't surprising. It's almost like
<v Speaker 2>just like nice that it's out there in very plain text.
<v Speaker 2>And I know Yashida's out there doing mainly indie game
<v Speaker 2>consulting at the moment. He has his own company, which
<v Speaker 2>that seems to be doing well for him, and I'm
<v Speaker 2>sure he had stocks that vested in all those sort
<v Speaker 2>of things, but yeah, it does seem like his like
<v Speaker 2>ever diminishing role at PlayStation. It was something that we
<v Speaker 2>all noticed. We all everyone noticed when he went from
<v Speaker 2>head Worldwide Studios to head of Indie's because it was
<v Speaker 2>there was no other way to look at it other
<v Speaker 2>than a demotion, and they kind of they framed it
<v Speaker 2>as a reshuffle of everything, but like, you can't avoid
<v Speaker 2>the fact that it's a portfolio worth a lot less
<v Speaker 2>that you were being assigned to. And so it has
<v Speaker 2>always been pretty clear. And it's a shame because from
<v Speaker 2>everything I hear, Yoshida is genuinely an incredibly nice and
<v Speaker 2>passionate guy who does care about the games in a
<v Speaker 2>way that a lot of people in those higher positions
<v Speaker 2>fundamentally don't. I'm sure that you know there are people
<v Speaker 2>like Herman Holts who have made games who have definitely
<v Speaker 2>the empathy of a game developer and they understand, you know,
<v Speaker 2>the difficulties that game developer faces. But for each one
<v Speaker 2>of those, there's a lot of people who kind of
<v Speaker 2>like Jim Ryan, who like were never coding anything. They
<v Speaker 2>were never in the back end, pulling the long nights
<v Speaker 2>and trying to get the right yeah, not not trying
<v Speaker 2>to get things out the door before launch. And so
<v Speaker 2>I think that voices like Yoshidah were really helpful to
<v Speaker 2>have in these organizations. And you even saw that, like
<v Speaker 2>the indie games that came out under his tenure partnered
<v Speaker 2>with PlayStation in that period are really good. There's a
<v Speaker 2>lot of great stuff. There's you know, things like Chickle.
<v Speaker 2>You got like a cold marketing deal, I think, and
<v Speaker 2>they had all yeah, actual game of the year on ironically,
<v Speaker 2>stop joking about it, giant bomb chat. But yeah, like
<v Speaker 2>I don't know, I wish him well, and I think
<v Speaker 2>that he's earned enough cultural cachet in the space that
<v Speaker 2>he's in that he can do a little shit talking
<v Speaker 2>if he wants, you know. He like also not like
<v Speaker 2>jim Mine's going to come back to PlayStation fa Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I've just caused the monkey part.
<v Speaker 3>Don't I Mean?
<v Speaker 1>Don't threaten me with a good time, you know me.
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, he seems like a guy who has pretty
<v Speaker 2>much retired, So I don't feel like he is going
<v Speaker 2>to be out for retribution in a way. That's certain
<v Speaker 2>other people who you could talk sh about might be.
<v Speaker 2>So yeah, I'm curious if we get something similar to
<v Speaker 2>this on the Microsoft side as years go by. But
<v Speaker 2>that company gives much more of a vibe of hey,
<v Speaker 2>if you do shit talk us after you leave, will
<v Speaker 2>ruin your life with lawyers.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you know, And this is the kind of thing
<v Speaker 1>whereas like we sniff this out as it happened, as
<v Speaker 1>it gets confirmed more and more over time, we could
<v Speaker 1>begin to apply reasoning skills to other events, such as
<v Speaker 1>like when Sean Laydon suddenly announced he was leaving out
<v Speaker 1>of nowhere and there was no successor announced in that moment,
<v Speaker 1>and it's like, hm, that certainly seemed like a power
<v Speaker 1>struggle between him and Jim Ryan, And you know, Sean
<v Speaker 1>laden representing this idea of wanting to maintain the regional
<v Speaker 1>autonomy of the various Sony Computer entertainment divisions and saying
<v Speaker 1>and there should be these different regional headquarters kind of
<v Speaker 1>focusing on their different areas and Jim Ryan wanting to
<v Speaker 1>streamline globally and kind of consolidate power. And I mean again,
<v Speaker 1>another one of those ones where we look back on
<v Speaker 1>as like, man, what happened to why.
<v Speaker 3>Did we close Japan studios? Why did we do all
<v Speaker 3>this stuff?
<v Speaker 1>Why is why did the headquarters move from Japan to
<v Speaker 1>Los Angeles? And and yeah, it's like and then Sean
<v Speaker 1>Layden's out and Jim Ryan's in charge, and I think
<v Speaker 1>we can probably safely assume some things about what happened
<v Speaker 1>there as well. In terms of internal politics, this is
<v Speaker 1>the kind of thing where it's a big company. There
<v Speaker 1>are going to be big ideas about how to run it.
<v Speaker 1>But you would think that there would be some stronger
<v Speaker 1>hand at Like you don't hear about anything like this
<v Speaker 1>coming out of Nintendo, right. They have a good, good
<v Speaker 1>vision for what that company's supposed to be from the
<v Speaker 1>bottom all the way to the top, and the top
<v Speaker 1>sort of is in lockstep with the rest of that
<v Speaker 1>company about what it needs to be. I don't I
<v Speaker 1>think occasionally they're they're quality dips on many of their games,
<v Speaker 1>but but yeah, they have a good idea of what
<v Speaker 1>they're supposed to be, and Sony doesn't quite have that
<v Speaker 1>same and you know, maybe the you know I'm saying
<v Speaker 1>all this, maybe the pressure is just so much different
<v Speaker 1>on PlayStation because that business holds up so much of
<v Speaker 1>what Sony is these days.
<v Speaker 3>It's the most profitable.
<v Speaker 1>Part of their business a lot of years, and so
<v Speaker 1>it's got to kind of carry the water for the
<v Speaker 1>rest of the company that must put so much extra pressure.
<v Speaker 3>On PlayStation to grow year over year.
<v Speaker 1>So if you have, if you're going to be the
<v Speaker 1>person in charge, a big part of that job probably
<v Speaker 1>is finding ways to promise some untapped growth that hasn't
<v Speaker 1>already hit.
<v Speaker 3>And that's difficult for a company like that.
<v Speaker 1>I think, you know, PlayStation's got such an advantage in
<v Speaker 1>terms of its default status as.
<v Speaker 3>The gaming console right now.
<v Speaker 1>Excuse me that they can afford to make you know, airs,
<v Speaker 1>are these even airs they can afford to have these
<v Speaker 1>weird aspects to the way that their company has run
<v Speaker 1>and kind of brute force their way through that. Is
<v Speaker 1>there any threat of this stuff piling up over time
<v Speaker 1>and causing like good people that know what they're doing
<v Speaker 1>to leave, Because it feels like this company could use
<v Speaker 1>a shoe hey right now.
<v Speaker 2>I mean like we're seeing it, you know, we're seeing it.
<v Speaker 2>In However, many like half dozen projects they had to
<v Speaker 2>cancel and studios that they had to close, and a
<v Speaker 2>lot of it kind of went like I don't think
<v Speaker 2>people realized just how many studios PlayStation has closed recently
<v Speaker 2>because so many of them never shipped a game.
<v Speaker 3>And like since twenty twenty.
<v Speaker 1>We did, like we did a story about it a
<v Speaker 1>couple of weeks ago, and it was seven or eight
<v Speaker 1>studios or something like that.
<v Speaker 2>It was a lot like they they had that studio
<v Speaker 2>from the Call of Judy guy who they were partnering
<v Speaker 2>with and funding, and then they old funding from that studio,
<v Speaker 2>the studio shut down, and then they set up a
<v Speaker 2>new studio with that same guy that they owned, and
<v Speaker 2>then they shut that down to like that is talk
<v Speaker 2>about like inefficient money burning apparatus.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I and like.
<v Speaker 2>Losing quality people like Jade Raymond no longer at Sony
<v Speaker 2>that like a very high profile game. Yeah yeah. And
<v Speaker 2>these were people that they almost certainly partook in a
<v Speaker 2>tug of war to gain and to gesh making games
<v Speaker 2>for them and to get working on these projects for them.
<v Speaker 2>And then you see like baffling decisions, like kind of
<v Speaker 2>the God War spinoff game, the Son's a Spider game
<v Speaker 2>going to a studio that, like, let's be real, not
<v Speaker 2>a great choice for that game, and the result shows
<v Speaker 2>in the final product. And so I think, like, if
<v Speaker 2>you're asking, are we going to see repercussions from this,
<v Speaker 2>we kind of already are, like right now, Returnal is
<v Speaker 2>coming out and Wolverine is coming out later this year.
<v Speaker 2>But it's not like Sony has a sacked year, and
<v Speaker 2>if anything, Xbox has a busier year, which is also
<v Speaker 2>good news for like Sony is lucky that all the
<v Speaker 2>Xbox should is now coming to their platform too, because
<v Speaker 2>otherwise would be a pretty light year for like big
<v Speaker 2>blockbuster games on their platform. So yeah, like it is
<v Speaker 2>does it come home to roosting material form? That is
<v Speaker 2>something that like you're gonna only really see when the
<v Speaker 2>next generation hits and whether people are willing to spend,
<v Speaker 2>however many hundreds of dollars to double down in that
<v Speaker 2>ecosystem again, and if they feel like they got their
<v Speaker 2>money's worth out of this ecosystem, which I think, like
<v Speaker 2>I don't feel like I got my money's worth out
<v Speaker 2>of my PlayStation five. It's probably the console I've played
<v Speaker 2>the most almost in my lifetime by like the PlayStation
<v Speaker 2>two US as a child, But like, I don't feel
<v Speaker 2>like the console was the thing enabling that I would
<v Speaker 2>have played those games anyway, So yeah, I don't. It
<v Speaker 2>doesn't feel like the PS five has justified the investment
<v Speaker 2>in a PS six yet.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, And it's you know, running a company. I always
<v Speaker 1>go back to, like there's always the business person versus
<v Speaker 1>the the product person, the person who's very familiar with making.
<v Speaker 1>I always use like Boeing as an example and how
<v Speaker 1>that led to some tragic outcomes for them.
<v Speaker 3>But it's across the board, like at all.
<v Speaker 1>These different companies, it's there is a tilling of the soil, like, hey,
<v Speaker 1>we had the product person in charge for a really
<v Speaker 1>long time. They did a good job getting people excited
<v Speaker 1>about this stuff. Now we got to put the adults
<v Speaker 1>in charge and make some money, and there is a
<v Speaker 1>time for that. I think that the time for that
<v Speaker 1>at PlayStation specifically is probably running out in the moment
<v Speaker 1>and it is probably time to put someone back in
<v Speaker 1>charge or or I mean, you know, Harmonholst is a
<v Speaker 1>game guy. He is he's high up I think that's
<v Speaker 1>what they're thinking. But there's he's like co CEO with
<v Speaker 1>the business bow, like the business boy over here, and
<v Speaker 1>it feels like they're trying to walk that line. And
<v Speaker 1>it's like, I think what PlayStation does need in this
<v Speaker 1>moment is because they are the default business success in
<v Speaker 1>the space is to come back at it with the
<v Speaker 1>eye of hey, let's focus on what people who play
<v Speaker 1>are who play games and purchase our products are most
<v Speaker 1>excited about. And it doesn't feel like that has happened yet.
<v Speaker 1>Like they are they are trying to make the business
<v Speaker 1>case the forefront, and I think it's probably time to
<v Speaker 1>like just let loose a little bit and shift things
<v Speaker 1>up so that you don't get you don't you know,
<v Speaker 1>the reason you tell the soil is so you don't
<v Speaker 1>get these the ashen soil that turns into like a
<v Speaker 1>bad crop later. And you need to kind of need
<v Speaker 1>that right now because a choice right now will pay
<v Speaker 1>off somewhere midway through the PlayStation six. So it's like, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>you kind of have to commit one way or the other,
<v Speaker 1>and it feels like it's time to commit back towards
<v Speaker 1>the games.
<v Speaker 3>But of course that.
<v Speaker 1>Would be my opinion. I play the games, all right,
<v Speaker 1>let's keep going here. Pragmatis sales top one million in
<v Speaker 1>two days. Not bad at all. This is from sal
<v Speaker 1>Romano at Kamatsu. Total sales for science fiction hacking action
<v Speaker 1>adventure game Pragmata Pregmata Pragmata Pragmata surpassed one million units
<v Speaker 1>in two days. Capcom announced this is the game that
<v Speaker 1>came out last week. I did a launch look for it.
<v Speaker 1>I had a really good time with it. We were
<v Speaker 1>kind of expecting pretty good things for it. It sounds
<v Speaker 1>like it's delivered.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, turns out that game is really good. Who knew? Yes?
<v Speaker 2>I think I was here this time last week when
<v Speaker 2>reviews were dropping, and you know, there's been discourse around
<v Speaker 2>that game. I'm not that interesting reliligating it. I like
<v Speaker 2>that game. I think it's fun. It feels fun to control,
<v Speaker 2>It plays really well. It is generally quite sweet and wholesome.
<v Speaker 2>I think that the weird handful of controversies manufactured over
<v Speaker 2>it have been one things Capcom should have seen coming
<v Speaker 2>in certain cases with like the twitch emos and two
<v Speaker 2>are extremely manufactured in the fake outrage over the content
<v Speaker 2>creators that they're working with and things like that. Shout
<v Speaker 2>out to Susie and yeah, that game is really solid
<v Speaker 2>and a million in two days is really good for
<v Speaker 2>a new IP. And I'm curious how what its word
<v Speaker 2>of mouth is like.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean, I got to imagine its word of
<v Speaker 1>mouth is going to just keep picking up. Yeah, I mean,
<v Speaker 1>we see people trying to target every game, They look
<v Speaker 1>for any angle to get the grift going again, that's
<v Speaker 1>you know, of course that's happening here. Capcom should have
<v Speaker 1>foresaw some of it, but other parts of it, it's
<v Speaker 1>just dumb as hell. But I'll say the game itself,
<v Speaker 1>standing on its own, has been excellent so far. I've
<v Speaker 1>really enjoyed playing it, and.
<v Speaker 3>I think it has earned its spots.
<v Speaker 1>It deserves the success, and it's earned its spot alongside
<v Speaker 1>the rest of Capcom's excellent output recently to the point
<v Speaker 1>where it's like, yeah, they should probably be bouncing back
<v Speaker 1>to this franchise quite frequently going forward, just as much
<v Speaker 1>as they do with you know, A Monster Hunter or
<v Speaker 1>a Devil May Cry. And I really hope that's the
<v Speaker 1>case and they can keep exploring that world.
<v Speaker 2>I'm very curious what a sequel would be too. Also,
<v Speaker 2>I said this on Blue Sky. I think Mattsler was
<v Speaker 2>out there talking about the game director having come from
<v Speaker 2>He worked on Neil Altomaher's weapon designs, and he worked
<v Speaker 2>on and melgear Rising the Vengeance's character design. For people
<v Speaker 2>like jets Stream Sam, this game is the jet Stream
<v Speaker 2>Sam of video games.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, likely is.
<v Speaker 2>It is like if jet Stream Sam became a actual
<v Speaker 2>full video game on his own. And I mean that
<v Speaker 2>in the nicest way possible.
<v Speaker 3>Yep, I agree.
<v Speaker 1>All right, let's uh, you know what, Let's actually take
<v Speaker 1>a break. When we come back, we'll get to the
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<v Speaker 1>I'm Jeff Grubb. That's Lexiletti. Let's do the next story here.
<v Speaker 1>THHQ Nordick has seven unannounced games headed to the Nintendo Switch.
<v Speaker 1>T s from Jack Connor at Tweaked Town Forget It
<v Speaker 1>Jake t HQ Nordick is quietly stacking its lineup for
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo's next gen platform, with new information revealing multiple unannounced
<v Speaker 1>projects already in development, and all of them are coming
<v Speaker 1>to Nintendo switch To. A recent update update to THQ
<v Speaker 1>Nordic's official website has confirmed that the publisher is currently
<v Speaker 1>working on seven unannounced titles for Nintendo switch To, as
<v Speaker 1>well as six additional unannounced projects for the original Nintendo Switch.
<v Speaker 1>The discovery offers one of the clearest indications yet that
<v Speaker 1>the third party support for Nintendo's upcoming hardware for Nintendo's
<v Speaker 1>current hardware is already well underway behind the scenes, which
<v Speaker 1>is likely relieving for some Nintendo Switch To owners who
<v Speaker 1>have been complaining.
<v Speaker 3>About the lack of new switch To titles.
<v Speaker 1>Although there's no guarantee that these will be new, I'm
<v Speaker 1>expecting a lot of these to be ports.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I was about to say, I bet three of
<v Speaker 2>these are the gothic games that they are currently doing
<v Speaker 2>remakes and remasters of, and all the three uh the
<v Speaker 2>of what's it called dark Side.
<v Speaker 3>Is Dark Siders, like all of.
<v Speaker 2>Those games, and there's a fifth new one coming out, so.
<v Speaker 1>I wouldn't surprised by a SpongeBob. Yeah, but some of
<v Speaker 1>these things could be like on Switch one and run
<v Speaker 1>on switch To, But yes, switch To, we'll get like
<v Speaker 1>stuff like that.
<v Speaker 3>Dark Siders.
<v Speaker 1>I bet a new game could sneak in there, maybe
<v Speaker 1>a couple, but yeah, I'm mostly I'm expecting ports. This
<v Speaker 1>story mostly, however, goes back to the story we talked about.
<v Speaker 3>What was it Friday chat?
<v Speaker 1>Maybe it was Thursday about Hey, there's a lot of
<v Speaker 1>smoke here in terms of Nintendo switch to games from
<v Speaker 1>a variety of sources, whether it's ratings agencies or now
<v Speaker 1>THHQ Nordic's websites of games that are unannounced and are
<v Speaker 1>either getting ratings or getting.
<v Speaker 3>Pages on this website.
<v Speaker 1>In addition to you know, reporting that Nintendo's got a
<v Speaker 1>lot of games itself that it needs to announce, and
<v Speaker 1>then games it needs to date like Splatoon, Raiders and
<v Speaker 1>then fire Emblem so and those games also got re
<v Speaker 1>rated as well recently. So all of this is sort
<v Speaker 1>of piling up as there very well could be another
<v Speaker 1>direct here very soon.
<v Speaker 3>Now.
<v Speaker 1>The reporting does say that we should expect a direct
<v Speaker 1>in June, but they could have like another partner showcase
<v Speaker 1>or a direct many for many of these games, a
<v Speaker 1>lot of these ports that maybe wouldn't make sense in
<v Speaker 1>the bigger direct for them to get announced something else.
<v Speaker 1>It does just feel like one is around the corner though,
<v Speaker 1>so yeah, more evidence piling up for that. Do you
<v Speaker 1>expect it to be like a port fest? When do
<v Speaker 1>third party developers sort of begin stepping up and being
<v Speaker 1>like the switch To is a viable platform for our
<v Speaker 1>focus on new games.
<v Speaker 2>I think it kind of depends how you view or
<v Speaker 2>how the developers view there their games. If it's something
<v Speaker 2>that they are building for PCs. The switch To is
<v Speaker 2>extremely scalable right now thanks to its DLSS, which yeah,
<v Speaker 2>the consoles the other consoles don't have, and so that's
<v Speaker 2>how you can get things like Pragmato running ash a
<v Speaker 2>extremely low internal resolution and still coming out with a
<v Speaker 2>better picture quality than the series s. And if that's
<v Speaker 2>the approach that you are taking, then yeah, lots of
<v Speaker 2>these are very scalable. If you are making your game
<v Speaker 2>primarily for PlayStation or something, then it becomes a different
<v Speaker 2>challenge because you are probably playing into things like the
<v Speaker 2>PlayStation's fast load times and it's more powerful CPU and
<v Speaker 2>things like that. So it's it depends how these developed
<v Speaker 2>or what developers are feeling like is their lead platform,
<v Speaker 2>But it's definitely I think something that you were going
<v Speaker 2>to see as developers get better at using these tools
<v Speaker 2>on consoles because a lot of a lot of DLSS
<v Speaker 2>usage is offloaded to in Nvidia on PC. It's kind
<v Speaker 2>of like, hey, you handle this and do your driver
<v Speaker 2>updates and make sure you're using the right end video
<v Speaker 2>software to get this to run correctly. As developers kind
<v Speaker 2>of get that running and get to grips with getting
<v Speaker 2>it running on a console, I think we're going to
<v Speaker 2>see more of DASH. Did you see that thing in
<v Speaker 2>the There was a recent Digital Foundry on Death Stranding too,
<v Speaker 2>and that includes Griller games. I'm just thinking about now
<v Speaker 2>because we're talking about Sony. It includes Grilla games internal
<v Speaker 2>upscaler that they use called PICO.
<v Speaker 3>I didn't see this.
<v Speaker 2>No, it's available in the Horizon Forbidden Down games on
<v Speaker 2>PC as well, but basically they were like, yeah, this
<v Speaker 2>is like better in some places than d LSS, and
<v Speaker 2>so it only seems to be being used currently in
<v Speaker 2>the Decima Engine games. Sure, but it was very interesting
<v Speaker 2>to see like another like there's XCSS and there's fsor
<v Speaker 2>and things like that, but there's very little on par
<v Speaker 2>with with LSS when it comes to upscaling. So between
<v Speaker 2>that and pssor Sony seem to have like quite a
<v Speaker 2>good stable of technology for this kind of upscaling technology,
<v Speaker 2>which is going to be the key to higher performance
<v Speaker 2>in the next generation of consoles. So yeah, I think
<v Speaker 2>it's going to be interesting to see how this stuff
<v Speaker 2>pans out on what scale of games we see coming
<v Speaker 2>to the switch to.
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, yeah, I mean, I think it's going to
<v Speaker 1>have to be a dam building in terms of consumer
<v Speaker 1>sentiment about third parties, Like it'll have to keep delivering
<v Speaker 1>consistently with very few missteps, very few games that are
<v Speaker 1>very problematic in terms of performance or missing content, so
<v Speaker 1>that people believe in investing in third party games on
<v Speaker 1>the switch To. People will occasionally pick up something there's
<v Speaker 1>a lot of people who only have a switch to,
<v Speaker 1>but typically the people that only have a switch to
<v Speaker 1>aren't buying a ton of Triple A third party games.
<v Speaker 1>They're probably into indies and stuff like that. So yeah,
<v Speaker 1>it'll have to be built up over time, and that
<v Speaker 1>anything could sort of be an obstacle in the way,
<v Speaker 1>including yes, games kind of getting improved on the other
<v Speaker 1>consoles to the point where they can't run on the
<v Speaker 1>switch too well anymore, and then suddenly, like the third
<v Speaker 1>party support just disappears overnight, so they kind of have
<v Speaker 1>to get everything right along the way, and that will
<v Speaker 1>start with probably the next direct really making a lot
<v Speaker 1>of big promises, and we don't even know if that's
<v Speaker 1>going to happen, all right, but.
<v Speaker 2>I'm also fawks that's because that's that's so totally happening.
<v Speaker 2>I was thinking about how much that staff Fax sequence
<v Speaker 2>is just an advert for staff Fox Gap. It's literally
<v Speaker 2>just like, hey, here's the box story for this thirst
<v Speaker 2>year old character that none of you know.
<v Speaker 1>Here's some music to be nostalgic about. So the plays
<v Speaker 1>like you know from Smash Brothers. Here it is in
<v Speaker 1>the movie. So now when you see it in the game,
<v Speaker 1>you'll have two points of reference and.
<v Speaker 3>You'll be even more excited.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, definitely, Uh, breaking news may be related. This is
<v Speaker 1>from the last couple of days. Le'll say you about
<v Speaker 1>two weeks ago, I saw someone talking about, Hey, just
<v Speaker 1>the pirate games or something. I don't know what they
<v Speaker 1>were talking about, but basically someone's like there was some argument,
<v Speaker 1>like there always is about how to acquire games, and
<v Speaker 1>someone's like, I don't know, like just go get buck
<v Speaker 1>bumble Ubiso not getting any money from not from that
<v Speaker 1>and Argonaut Games, which made buck Bumble China in about
<v Speaker 1>eight days ago and said we care we own it,
<v Speaker 1>not them.
<v Speaker 3>That's okay, yeah, but it's not like you're selling it well.
<v Speaker 1>In the last couple of days, they begin posting teases
<v Speaker 1>that is like a musical. I'm I mean, I haven't
<v Speaker 1>muted here, I can't hear, but I'm pretty sure that
<v Speaker 1>that's the Buck Bubble music playing. No, it's not, it's not.
<v Speaker 1>What is it?
<v Speaker 2>It's guess who's back?
<v Speaker 1>Okay, Well, the color scheme is a bumblebee in a
<v Speaker 1>yellow and black all right, so that we could probably
<v Speaker 1>assume that Argonaut is saying that they're back and that
<v Speaker 1>they will. I think buck Bumble is probably leading the
<v Speaker 1>charge here. They have recently put out Kroc. They brought
<v Speaker 1>those Croc games back. I think buck Bumble's next to
<v Speaker 1>get that same same treatment. And that's one that could
<v Speaker 1>also easily show up in a Nintendo direct. That music
<v Speaker 1>in a direct would actually get people going pretty good.
<v Speaker 1>I think I think it well for the yes, for
<v Speaker 1>the kinds of freaks that would show up at a
<v Speaker 1>like a Nintendo store or whatever to watch it live.
<v Speaker 1>They know the Buck Bumble music and they would go.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah right, total, yeah, sure, why not? Fuck it? Who
<v Speaker 2>cares anymore?
<v Speaker 3>Who can?
<v Speaker 1>Okay, let's just do yeah who ca Yeah right, No
<v Speaker 1>one's gonna stop you.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, No one's gonna figure out who owns the lights
<v Speaker 2>to buck bumble.
<v Speaker 1>Just change the lyrics from bickety buck bumble to buckety
<v Speaker 1>big bumble and there you go.
<v Speaker 3>It's a new thing. Actually, don't do that. That would
<v Speaker 3>be terrible.
<v Speaker 1>All right, let's see here, let's get to this next story.
<v Speaker 1>Developer feels shut down and silenced after BAFTA Award pulled
<v Speaker 1>her game over its subject material. This is from Kenneth
<v Speaker 1>Shephard at Kotaku. The Quiet Things is an upcoming narrative
<v Speaker 1>game by Silver Script Games that tells an autobiographical story
<v Speaker 1>about studio founder Alex Jones's experience with mental health issues
<v Speaker 1>and childhood abuse and trauma. It was supposed to be
<v Speaker 1>featured during tonight's BAFTA Game Awards, but according to Jones,
<v Speaker 1>the trailer was removed from the showcase at the last
<v Speaker 1>minute due to its content. In a leaked in post,
<v Speaker 1>Jones says that she was informed via phone call the
<v Speaker 1>night before the show that The Quiet Things trailer had
<v Speaker 1>been cut for the ceremony. For the ceremony was pulled
<v Speaker 1>because the organizer. Organizers said there wasn't enough time to
<v Speaker 1>put the appropriate warnings in place for the audience. Jones
<v Speaker 1>said that when she offered to make further changes, she
<v Speaker 1>was ignored, which this is a sort of a quote here.
<v Speaker 1>What has upset me so much is not just the decision,
<v Speaker 1>but how this happens to me over and over. Doors
<v Speaker 1>closed because the subject matter might upset people or make
<v Speaker 1>them uncomfortable. I've stayed quiet to maintain relationships. I've taken
<v Speaker 1>the hits. I've tried not to burn bridges. I'm sick
<v Speaker 1>of it. The quiet things is deeply personal to me.
<v Speaker 1>It's my story. It's about trauma, abuse, survival and giving
<v Speaker 1>survivors a voice. It's about people being shut down and
<v Speaker 1>silenced and what that does to them. So there's something
<v Speaker 1>deeply painful about reliving that again. Now art should make
<v Speaker 1>people feel something. There's the trailer is available so people
<v Speaker 1>can watch that. Yeah, this is the one thing I've
<v Speaker 1>learned about trauma over time, or just dealing with with
<v Speaker 1>just obstacles in your life. There's plenty of ways to
<v Speaker 1>relive that shit all the time. You know, you know,
<v Speaker 1>have a kid born with a problem, and that like
<v Speaker 1>you solve the problem, right, you go through all the
<v Speaker 1>work to like, Okay, we've addressed it, and then it
<v Speaker 1>like still causes issues later in life. It's like, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>let's relive this trauma one more time. Uh yeah, this
<v Speaker 1>sounds like BAFTA causing Alex Jones to have to not
<v Speaker 1>that Alex Jones.
<v Speaker 3>To relive that trauma.
<v Speaker 1>Uh and boy, that seems real unfair and kind of
<v Speaker 1>I don't get it. Like it's art, right, We're talking
<v Speaker 1>about Europe thing that's supposed to be celebrating art.
<v Speaker 3>How do you do this?
<v Speaker 2>Have to put out a statement. I was following this
<v Speaker 2>over the weekend because I am I'm actually mutuals with
<v Speaker 2>Alex on Blue Sky. We haven't talked in a very
<v Speaker 2>long time. We were part of the same MCV future
<v Speaker 2>class back in like twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three.
<v Speaker 2>But they, yeah, have to put out a statement saying
<v Speaker 2>we made a compliance decision not to show the trailer
<v Speaker 2>of an unreleased game that contains themes that may be
<v Speaker 2>a trigger for some in consideration of our guests, as
<v Speaker 2>we were not in a position to sufficiently warn them.
<v Speaker 2>We fully support games that engage with difficult subjects, and
<v Speaker 2>we made the decision in relation to our event only,
<v Speaker 2>and with the well being of our guests as a priority.
<v Speaker 2>The problem with that defense is it implies that they
<v Speaker 2>were surprised by the contents of the trailer, which one
<v Speaker 2>Alex makes pretty clear they were working with them for
<v Speaker 2>going on two weeks to get a trailer submitted, and
<v Speaker 2>two surely someone at b After scouted the game for inclusion,
<v Speaker 2>and the Steam page talks about how this is an
<v Speaker 2>autobiographical game about abuse and has several content warnings, honush
<v Speaker 2>and this thing is a very bad look in the
<v Speaker 2>same year that BAFTA has had a similar scandal in
<v Speaker 2>the film space or not not similar but not aren't
<v Speaker 2>dissimilar in a lot of ways with how they are
<v Speaker 2>sensibly set up a mic around a man with Turette's
<v Speaker 2>and then bad shit happened and they didn't edit it
<v Speaker 2>out of the TV UH live or the TV broadcast,
<v Speaker 2>And so I don't know. I have never held After
<v Speaker 2>in especially high esteem or anything like. It's an award show.
<v Speaker 2>People really like gathering around it. I understand why these
<v Speaker 2>local award shows are important, and hell, I've tried to
<v Speaker 2>help organize an Irish equivalent for a long time. But
<v Speaker 2>also when you were that level of notrebioty, there was
<v Speaker 2>an expectation of responsibility and care to not just your
<v Speaker 2>like people watching the show, but the people that you
<v Speaker 2>are presenting and representing at the show. This seems sort
<v Speaker 2>of like gained quite a bit of traction on like
<v Speaker 2>Blue Sky. At least I know Dave Jones, who is
<v Speaker 2>a voice actor who who is in this game. He
<v Speaker 2>quoted my original post about this with just a picture
<v Speaker 2>of the stris And house, So yes, I think I
<v Speaker 2>think that's some that sums it up pretty nicely.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it was it wisely, Silver Script Games on YouTube
<v Speaker 1>has changed the title of the YouTube trailer for the
<v Speaker 1>Quiet Things Announcement to the Quiet Things Announcement trailer pulled
<v Speaker 1>from the BAF to game over It's twenty twenty six,
<v Speaker 1>which is exactly the right thing to do, just make
<v Speaker 1>it like clear that this is the thing that they
<v Speaker 1>couldn't handle. Now you get to watch it, yeah, and
<v Speaker 1>you know, visually the trailers are very tamed, very tamed.
<v Speaker 1>I kind of was watching it a little bit before
<v Speaker 1>we got started much a little bit more. I guess
<v Speaker 1>it's like you can hear like the dialogue that that
<v Speaker 1>definitely suggests and insinuates child abuse and things and various
<v Speaker 1>other traumas. Yeah, okay, I mean god, I feel like
<v Speaker 1>there's a movie about child abuse that wins a baf
<v Speaker 1>TO every single year.
<v Speaker 3>What do we what do we.
<v Speaker 2>Talk why this was if it was a movie, you know,
<v Speaker 2>when this would not have would not have been a Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>And I don't know whether it's them like playing with
<v Speaker 2>kid gloves for video games or being scared of alienating sponsors,
<v Speaker 2>whatever the reasoning is, it's not acceptable, you know, It's
<v Speaker 2>just a shitty thing that they have done. The excuses
<v Speaker 2>don't really matter at this point. The thing has been
<v Speaker 2>done on the treatment of the person is exceptionally shitty.
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, agreed. All right, Well let's shift to the
<v Speaker 1>natural follow up here. Dragon Ball Zenaverse three is finally
<v Speaker 1>coming with designs by the late Akira Toriama. This is
<v Speaker 1>from Andy Robinson at vgc Vandy Namco has officially announced
<v Speaker 1>dragon Ball xeno Verse three, the latest installment in its
<v Speaker 1>fighting game series, revealed during the annual Dragon Ball Games
<v Speaker 1>Battle Hour event in Los Angeles, Xenoverse was confirmed to
<v Speaker 1>be in development at DEMPS for PS five, Xbox Series,
<v Speaker 1>and PC, with a release window of twenty twenty seven.
<v Speaker 1>The last Xenoverse game was released a decade ago in
<v Speaker 1>twenty sixteen. Zeno Verse three continues the series's legacy with
<v Speaker 1>a completely new dragon Ball experience where players choose the
<v Speaker 1>hero they want to become in an unexplored dragon Ball
<v Speaker 1>world brought to life by the original author, Akira Toriyama.
<v Speaker 1>Band Dynamco said dragon Ball creator Toriyama died in twenty
<v Speaker 1>twenty four, rip so Zenaverse three will almost certainly be
<v Speaker 1>the last video game featuring his direct contributions. During a
<v Speaker 1>brief panel that followed this announcement, trailer Xenoverse three's developer
<v Speaker 1>showed a new look at male and female player characters,
<v Speaker 1>player characters designed by Toriama, Polygon reports, and emphasized that
<v Speaker 1>the artists creatively contributed to the design of the game's
<v Speaker 1>world and characters. In addition to the sequel, ban, Dynamico
<v Speaker 1>revealed the final chapter of Zenoverse two during the Los
<v Speaker 1>Angeles event. Future Saga Chapter four will mark the final
<v Speaker 1>DLC when it releases this summer. The last chapter brings
<v Speaker 1>the Dragon Ball Zenoverse two to a future saga pack
<v Speaker 1>set to a dramatic clothes reflecting on everything players have
<v Speaker 1>fought for, protecting history shape in the future, and facing
<v Speaker 1>god level power in a climactic final battle. I've never
<v Speaker 1>played a Zenoverse game. I might start. I might pick
<v Speaker 1>up three I know they're like my quasi RPGs, and
<v Speaker 1>then definitely Arena Fighters, and I think I might finally
<v Speaker 1>be in the mood for one of those, So yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I might play this game.
<v Speaker 2>My entire knowledge of the Zeno Verse games comes from
<v Speaker 2>the Giant Bomb Quick look where they create Goku Too.
<v Speaker 2>Finally a piel to think, Yeah, I think about Goku
<v Speaker 2>Too a lot.
<v Speaker 3>You should. Absolutely.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's cool that Toriyama worked on this, and this
<v Speaker 1>will be the final thing that he probably did work
<v Speaker 1>on directly that will come out. And the trailer looked
<v Speaker 1>really good. It looked really good. It looked like some classic,
<v Speaker 1>awesome Toriyama art. So really looking forward to just kind
<v Speaker 1>of looking at the game and then we'll see how
<v Speaker 1>I feel about playing it. Arena Fighters are I mean, God,
<v Speaker 1>that's a Namco's entire bag at this point, it feels
<v Speaker 1>like sometimes hopefully they can make it even better this
<v Speaker 1>time around, deliver a better game than ever. All right,
<v Speaker 1>Tony Hawk's pro Skater three plus four before developer lays
<v Speaker 1>off up to ninety employees. This is from Alex Hopley
<v Speaker 1>at Game Reactor. It seems that yet again we're reporting
<v Speaker 1>on layoffs, as the developer behind Tony Hawk's pro Skater
<v Speaker 1>three plus four has revealed that it is going through
<v Speaker 1>a round of job losses due to the changing nature
<v Speaker 1>of the gaming industry. Kotaka reports that up to ninety
<v Speaker 1>employees could lose their jobs thanks to this decision to
<v Speaker 1>reduce the size of Iron Galaxy. This is the second
<v Speaker 1>round of recent layoffs for Iron Galaxy, after it lets
<v Speaker 1>sixty six people go in early twenty twenty five. So far,
<v Speaker 1>there has been no official word from the company responding
<v Speaker 1>to questions around how many people have been let go
<v Speaker 1>this time around. A number of teammates and friends are
<v Speaker 1>losing their jobs as we adjust to a new company structure.
<v Speaker 1>We are terribly sorry.
<v Speaker 3>To lose them.
<v Speaker 1>As we take steps to adapt to the climate of
<v Speaker 1>the video game industry, It's time for us to evolve again.
<v Speaker 3>The company wrote on LinkedIn.
<v Speaker 1>Players consume games in new ways, publishers have different criteria
<v Speaker 1>criteria for investing in the development of games. This new
<v Speaker 1>normal has impacted all our partners. As Iron Galaxy adapts,
<v Speaker 1>we must make painful decisions about what we can be
<v Speaker 1>as a company. It's impossible for us to sustain the
<v Speaker 1>team size that we've carried past year, even after our
<v Speaker 1>downsizing from last year. The post continues and echoes much
<v Speaker 1>of what we've heard in recent years as layoffs just
<v Speaker 1>seemed to be a regular part of the industry. Now, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I mean this is one of those reminders of just
<v Speaker 1>like Tony Hawks Pro Skater three plus four I think
<v Speaker 1>did do all right in terms of sales, and probably
<v Speaker 1>didn't do as well as one and two because one
<v Speaker 1>and two was a really massive success by my memory.
<v Speaker 3>I think I've said this before. I'm pretty sure it's true.
<v Speaker 1>The best selling Tony Hawks pro Skater game was one
<v Speaker 1>plus two, which is wild that game, that game series once.
<v Speaker 3>Ruled the world.
<v Speaker 1>But I don't think the success matters all that much.
<v Speaker 1>It really does come down to this climate, And you know,
<v Speaker 1>I feel like we say that and we don't really
<v Speaker 1>explain what that means. Often it means interest rates. It
<v Speaker 1>means interest rates. That's what they're talking about when you
<v Speaker 1>hear like, oh the Fed is it was they were
<v Speaker 1>going to lower interest rates, and then all this shit
<v Speaker 1>happened with the war and oil prices and inflation is back,
<v Speaker 1>and so now they're thinking about not just holding steady
<v Speaker 1>on interest rates. They might charge more. What does that mean.
<v Speaker 1>That means that the rate at which companies can borrow
<v Speaker 1>money goes up, So companies sell bonds. The like in
<v Speaker 1>bonds is basically just a way of like, hey, give
<v Speaker 1>us money and we'll pay you back later with interest.
<v Speaker 1>And a few years ago when we were getting all
<v Speaker 1>these companies making huge investments, that's back when interest rates.
<v Speaker 3>Were very very very low, practically zero.
<v Speaker 1>For a very long time in many countries, including the
<v Speaker 1>United States, and so borrowing money was essentially they looked
<v Speaker 1>at it free. That has changed and they use that
<v Speaker 1>money to pay employees like they borrow money to pay employees.
<v Speaker 1>Now that's not maybe how Iron Galaxy was working, but
<v Speaker 1>the companies that Iron Galaxy works with, like Microsoft to
<v Speaker 1>all these other ones, certainly do that.
<v Speaker 3>They sell bonds to fund stuff like that.
<v Speaker 1>And now that money's more expensive, they don't do that
<v Speaker 1>as much, or they have to do higher rates, so
<v Speaker 1>that they have to be a lot more careful with
<v Speaker 1>that money because people are just like you know, it's
<v Speaker 1>more difficult for them to do because they'd have to
<v Speaker 1>pay back a lot more money, so they're just doing
<v Speaker 1>it less frequently. So like, one of the first things
<v Speaker 1>that often gets hurt in that that ecosystem and in
<v Speaker 1>that climate are people's jobs. They just like, Okay, we
<v Speaker 1>can't borrow the money to pay these people anymore, so
<v Speaker 1>we need to cut them. And that's not getting any
<v Speaker 1>better anytime soon, Lexi. That reality is not changing. It
<v Speaker 1>seemed like it might steadily repair over time. That has
<v Speaker 1>been disrupted yet again by the incredible people who are
<v Speaker 1>in charge of our world for some reason. So, hey,
<v Speaker 1>we've been reporting on layoffs pretty consistently for a very
<v Speaker 1>long time. That's always been a part of the gaming industry.
<v Speaker 1>It's if it seemed more frequent recently. It has been,
<v Speaker 1>And I think the rate at which we are seeing
<v Speaker 1>this happen happening will just keep continuing until we get
<v Speaker 1>on the other side of whatever we're dealing with right now.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's really hard to reckon with the fact that
<v Speaker 2>there's very little that you can do other than get
<v Speaker 2>to this mole went and for some people that feels
<v Speaker 2>like an insurmountable everest of Somehow, every day we wake
<v Speaker 2>up and things are somehow, somehow there's a different thing
<v Speaker 2>that is worse in a different way. Technology doesn't work
<v Speaker 2>as well as it used to, It's not as helpful
<v Speaker 2>as it used to be. Somehow things are more expensive again.
<v Speaker 2>Somehow your wage is still plateaued and or gone down,
<v Speaker 2>or somehow you have lost your job even though you
<v Speaker 2>worked on Metroid Prime Remaster, the Last of Us Part
<v Speaker 2>one PC port, Tony Hawk one plus two ports, and
<v Speaker 2>the Last of Us Remastered on PC, Like you're doing
<v Speaker 2>good work, but somehow it's still not enough, And the
<v Speaker 2>only thing that you can keep on doing in this
<v Speaker 2>moment is continue to exist and it sucks, and everything sucks,
<v Speaker 2>and try to find the joy where you can, and
<v Speaker 2>try to make art when you can, and try to
<v Speaker 2>make something incredible when you can. But if you can't,
<v Speaker 2>there's no failure in that, because you're not the one
<v Speaker 2>failing at the moment. There are systems in place designed
<v Speaker 2>around making things impossible for the lay person, right now,
<v Speaker 2>and there's systems that are in place explicitly designed to
<v Speaker 2>make sure that it's only the people at the top
<v Speaker 2>continue to be successful and to ingrain that success even
<v Speaker 2>further and institutionalize it even further. And I think that,
<v Speaker 2>like the video game industry, we kind of thought we
<v Speaker 2>were going to be extremely resilient to a lot of
<v Speaker 2>things because we were resilient to the pandemic. And that
<v Speaker 2>was a lie that was very convenient to tell ourselves
<v Speaker 2>to get funding. It was very easy to be like, well,
<v Speaker 2>we survived the you know, two thousand and eight financial crisis,
<v Speaker 2>and now we're surviving this. Look how great we are.
<v Speaker 2>And that was just a lie. The same economic factors
<v Speaker 2>affect the game industry that affect everybody else, especially when
<v Speaker 2>it comes to things like hardware and software distribution, which
<v Speaker 2>right now are incredibly hard to do successfully. So yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I like, ultimately my message to the people who were
<v Speaker 2>affected by this layoff is, please don't feel like you failed, because,
<v Speaker 2>like looking at the track record of Iron Galaxy, they
<v Speaker 2>were doing solid work in day and day out, and
<v Speaker 2>people were continuing to hire them to do solid work
<v Speaker 2>and then they stopped. And it wasn't because the work
<v Speaker 2>was bad. It was because their money farcish grew slightly
<v Speaker 2>harder to access and that shit sucks and I'm sorry.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and you know, if you're Iron Galaxy and you're
<v Speaker 1>looking at the outlook for the potential to keep doing
<v Speaker 1>projects like you have been doing, Yeah, you might be
<v Speaker 1>able to get in the room to talk to one
<v Speaker 1>of these companies about doing something very similar to a
<v Speaker 1>MATREI Primary Mastered or the Last of Us update. Your
<v Speaker 1>price is going to have to be pretty low because
<v Speaker 1>you're competing with a global market of now a lot
<v Speaker 1>of Asian studios that have a ton of extremely talented
<v Speaker 1>technical people who could do that work maybe a little
<v Speaker 1>bit and sometimes often for a lot less money. And
<v Speaker 1>so yeah, you can keep this business going, but you're
<v Speaker 1>going to lay off ninety people to make it make sense.
<v Speaker 3>And it's like ooh that that is also very frustrating.
<v Speaker 1>And the reality is you do all that and they're
<v Speaker 1>probably still going to go with an outsourced studio that
<v Speaker 1>is on the other side of the world because it
<v Speaker 1>is just that much cheaper still, and yeah, it's it's frustrating.
<v Speaker 3>It's definitely why.
<v Speaker 1>It's like they were trying to get Rumble Verse going,
<v Speaker 1>and man, I don't think I'll ever forgive Epic Games
<v Speaker 1>for Rumble Verse locking that thing off of Steam and
<v Speaker 1>sort of guaranteeing that it would never have a real
<v Speaker 1>chance of succeeding.
<v Speaker 3>And I bet the people at Iron.
<v Speaker 1>Galaxy will be like, look, we thought like, that's not
<v Speaker 1>the full picture. I don't care. That's I think that
<v Speaker 1>game should have been on Steam to have a chance
<v Speaker 1>to go.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's a.
<v Speaker 1>Play Tony Olk's pros kater or three plus four. Everybody,
<v Speaker 1>I get it, you're upset that four is a little
<v Speaker 1>bit changed.
<v Speaker 3>It's a great game.
<v Speaker 1>Jesus Christ. Just go play the original four if you
<v Speaker 1>need it. That bad three plus four is so good.
<v Speaker 1>One of the greatest running gun games of the nineties
<v Speaker 1>is set for a reboot. This is from Thomas Phronsie's
<v Speaker 1>at Polygon. The iconic running gun games series Metal Slug
<v Speaker 1>is going to be rebooted. S and K confirmed. S
<v Speaker 1>and K owned by Saudi Arabia. Let's just say that
<v Speaker 1>around everything sucks, everybody.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I was gonna say, I'm very curious to see
<v Speaker 2>when this game is session.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>S K confirmed this in a new video released to
<v Speaker 1>celebrate the franchise's thirtieth anniversary. The thirtieth anniversary retrospective video
<v Speaker 1>mostly features footage from classic Metal Slug games. The trailer
<v Speaker 1>ends with the message mission reboot and quote a new
<v Speaker 1>mission awaits. The Metal Slug thirtieth Anniversary website then confirms
<v Speaker 1>what's on the way with the message to celebrate thirty
<v Speaker 1>years of Metal Slug action, We're reigniting and rebooting the
<v Speaker 1>series with a wide range of exciting projects, including new
<v Speaker 1>ventures in gaming. Are you ever playing any Metal Slug?
<v Speaker 1>I know, it's like one of those franchises a lot
<v Speaker 1>of people actually have played.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean, like the Metal Slug games are very neat,
<v Speaker 2>like they are very fun to boot up and on
<v Speaker 2>an emulator and mess around with for a while. I'm
<v Speaker 2>not sure how much they work in the modern era,
<v Speaker 2>and I'm not sure how much I trust SNK as
<v Speaker 2>it currently stands to make a version that is not
<v Speaker 2>heygo kill some journalists or whatever it is they're going
<v Speaker 2>to have you do in the next one. And so yeah,
<v Speaker 2>you know, I'm I'm pretty hesitant of whether this game
<v Speaker 2>will be worthwhile or interesting, especially considering like S and
<v Speaker 2>K got out there and made such a big deal
<v Speaker 2>of like no guys were still independent and was still
<v Speaker 2>going to make the games that we want to make
<v Speaker 2>and love. And then you look at the City of
<v Speaker 2>the Wolves and you're like, Joe Dog, what the fuck.
<v Speaker 1>Here's the NBS's favorite DJH.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, what do you mean?
<v Speaker 2>And so, yeah, good luck to them, I guess.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, there's lots of ways that this kid, like you know,
<v Speaker 1>the Saudi Arabbia stuff aside, like you know, if they've
<v Speaker 1>used three D graphics or something like that, and that
<v Speaker 1>could be really disappointing. I mean, I like Metal Slug
<v Speaker 1>a lot, and I bet there's a lot of people
<v Speaker 1>working at S and K who still want to just
<v Speaker 1>make good games. I think a good Metal Slug these days,
<v Speaker 1>a rebooted Metal Slug would probably actually be a rogue light.
<v Speaker 1>Sorry to everybody who doesn't want that, but I think
<v Speaker 1>that'd be pretty good for this.
<v Speaker 3>But uh yeah, look, I can't help but be excited
<v Speaker 3>about that contract. I'm sorry, go ahead.
<v Speaker 2>What if Konami bought back contract again?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I'd listened.
<v Speaker 1>I played that Operation Galuga or whatever it was from
<v Speaker 1>a few years back.
<v Speaker 3>It's not that bad. It's not that bad. It's pretty okay.
<v Speaker 1>Actually, I think it got unfairly maligned. The one before
<v Speaker 1>that actually was trash though. H yeah, I think I
<v Speaker 1>can't help but be excited about that. Neo Geo, despite
<v Speaker 1>the association with Saudi Arabia.
<v Speaker 2>Is just a fucking cool piece of hardway. It's so
<v Speaker 2>hard to know.
<v Speaker 3>It's hard not to.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and it's you know, that one's a two fer
<v Speaker 1>because it's Saudi Arabia and Embracer working together.
<v Speaker 3>Beacons all here, Jesus, all right.
<v Speaker 1>Valve received a tons of new shipments of Steam controllers
<v Speaker 1>or like literal actual tons like in tonnage.
<v Speaker 3>This is from Video Cards. Brad Lynch not that one.
<v Speaker 3>I don't think.
<v Speaker 1>I don't brain know, it's not you right, said on
<v Speaker 1>Twitter that Valve received its first large quantity imports of
<v Speaker 1>quote a wireless PC controller in the US last week.
<v Speaker 1>It's like, oh god, what could that be. The post
<v Speaker 1>lines up with Valves already announced twenty twenty six steam
<v Speaker 1>controller plan, but Lynch did not include the source in
<v Speaker 1>his post.
<v Speaker 3>So we founded ourselves.
<v Speaker 1>The Video Cards got the manifest and saw that, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>there's a huge amount of wireless PC controller that it's
<v Speaker 1>going to Valve that will be on this ship on
<v Speaker 1>this ship, on this imported ship. And yeah, so the
<v Speaker 1>very least they have them on these shores. So the
<v Speaker 1>expectation is they could release it any moment, or they
<v Speaker 1>could hold onto it until they're ready.
<v Speaker 3>Now.
<v Speaker 1>Valves previously said they want to release the three things together,
<v Speaker 1>the three things being you could be forgiven for forgetting
<v Speaker 1>now because it was months ago and they haven't talked
<v Speaker 1>about it because they've had to shut up because the
<v Speaker 1>pricing problems. But the Steam Frame, which is the VR
<v Speaker 1>headset that runs like a version of Android or whatever
<v Speaker 1>and has support for Steam games through compatibility layers. And
<v Speaker 1>then the Steam Machine, the Steam box, the Steam PC,
<v Speaker 1>which is a Steam OS PC that you put under
<v Speaker 1>your TV that's six times more powerful than the Steam Deck.
<v Speaker 1>They were going to launch that with the controller. The
<v Speaker 1>controller has a dongle, but you don't need to use
<v Speaker 1>the dongle to connect it to the Steam Machine because
<v Speaker 1>it has the dongle built in. They all work together
<v Speaker 1>at a certain point. The problems plaguing releasing the Steam
<v Speaker 1>Machine and the Steam Frame. LEXI are just holding back
<v Speaker 1>the Steam controller for no good reason, right because as
<v Speaker 1>we know, RAM prices, storage prices have just shot to
<v Speaker 1>hell and it's gone crazy, and that's caused them to
<v Speaker 1>have to rework their pricing that they have not told us,
<v Speaker 1>and the release schedule which they which they have not
<v Speaker 1>told us, the new release schedule. But those problems are
<v Speaker 1>not going to affect the controller all that much. So
<v Speaker 1>do you think that eventually they do just decouple these
<v Speaker 1>two things, of these three things and put the controller
<v Speaker 1>out on its own first.
<v Speaker 2>So there's two things. One vis viving is probably like
<v Speaker 2>the worst news for Valve possible because now they have
<v Speaker 2>to store them somewhere.
<v Speaker 3>I have to pay its costly.
<v Speaker 2>And the other thing is I'm not sure if you
<v Speaker 2>saw this, but last week the first public Gish hub
<v Speaker 2>for Steam running on armed devices finally went up, and
<v Speaker 2>so that stuff is starting to come together. Not a
<v Speaker 2>lot of about fifty percent of stuff that you try
<v Speaker 2>works on it, and the actual process of you know,
<v Speaker 2>getting Steam running on something like your electroid pocket is
<v Speaker 2>still a bit of a pain in the ass. You
<v Speaker 2>have to install Linux and then you have to install
<v Speaker 2>things over an SD card and it's a whole to do.
<v Speaker 2>Watching the few videos I've watched on it, but the
<v Speaker 2>actual technology for the translation layer for armed devices, or
<v Speaker 2>for Steam on armed devices, seems like it is starting
<v Speaker 2>to come together, which if you don't know, that is
<v Speaker 2>the chipset type that is being used for the Steam
<v Speaker 2>frame head SSH and so that being more readily usable
<v Speaker 2>and workable in a public space, or at least being
<v Speaker 2>out on the public gear shob means that things are
<v Speaker 2>probably pretty far along internally at Valve, which makes sense
<v Speaker 2>considering they wanted to have this released earlier this year.
<v Speaker 3>So yeah, yep, absolutely. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>There's been a lot of advancements in the translation layer,
<v Speaker 1>Proton and wine and all that stuff on ARM in
<v Speaker 1>the community for a while while now, but it's always
<v Speaker 1>been kind of messy, and the hope is, all right,
<v Speaker 1>Valve's going to show up and make it very streamlined
<v Speaker 1>and very much like the Steam Deck, and that is
<v Speaker 1>that's super encouraging. And then once Steam games playing like
<v Speaker 1>Windows based Steam games on ARM is here, that opens
<v Speaker 1>them up to a future of a Steam Deck that
<v Speaker 1>is smaller, lighter, more power efficient, just as powerful. Uh
<v Speaker 1>maybe more affordable. Uh, there's a lot of.
<v Speaker 3>Cool things they could do once ARM becomes the basis
<v Speaker 3>for their home.
<v Speaker 2>Maybe at one point it would have been more affordable.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, right, yes, the dream.
<v Speaker 1>All right, let's hit these last handful of movie stories
<v Speaker 1>all in one. The Legendizelda movie wraps up filming it's cinematography.
<v Speaker 1>Cinematographer shares a new look at Link. Jeff, if you
<v Speaker 1>could put this on the screen real quick, just I mean,
<v Speaker 1>this goes pretty hard. Actually, I think Link looks pretty
<v Speaker 1>cool in this image. Who knows if it's going to
<v Speaker 1>translate to motion picture. But in this photo where they
<v Speaker 1>have the clapper what it's called the clapper for like
<v Speaker 1>singing up audio and video, they have Umami, which is
<v Speaker 1>the code name for the movie that when they were
<v Speaker 1>filming it, which I like as well. But it's got
<v Speaker 1>a picture of what probably is concept art. Right, I
<v Speaker 1>shouldn't be getting le see, I probably shouldn't be working
<v Speaker 1>myself up so much over this one image, right.
<v Speaker 2>I mean it looks better than that first generically lish
<v Speaker 2>shot that we got for the deadline of Variety. But
<v Speaker 2>the lighting in those like set visit photos is always terrible,
<v Speaker 2>and this looks this looks way more like a actual
<v Speaker 2>movie quality thing. And I guess this movie's happening. I
<v Speaker 2>guess this is I think they said it on the
<v Speaker 2>next line of podcasts. But this feels like the one
<v Speaker 2>that the video game movie making craze hinges on of.
<v Speaker 2>If this does well, it is off to the races,
<v Speaker 2>let's license everything like people will like since in comic
<v Speaker 2>books around twenty ten. And if it doesn't do well,
<v Speaker 2>it is back to conservatism and kind of like, let's
<v Speaker 2>be more careful and do some prestige TV shows. So yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I'm very curious how this does.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, yeah, why did Clapper did sound like a slur
<v Speaker 1>when I said it to Altamont. I don't know, I
<v Speaker 1>just got one of them mouths. I can't help it,
<v Speaker 1>all right. And then the Super Mario Galaxy movie made
<v Speaker 1>seven hundred and fifty million dollars so far. You know,
<v Speaker 1>between the two movies, they've made two billion dollars. This
<v Speaker 1>thing's blown its way to a billion dollars worldwide. So
<v Speaker 1>well done.
<v Speaker 3>And then a Call.
<v Speaker 1>Of Duty movie from Taylor Sheridan and Pete Burg is
<v Speaker 1>coming in twenty twenty eight. Okay, look, I like Pete
<v Speaker 1>Burg as a fan of Dad movies. Well, first of all,
<v Speaker 1>he did Friday Night Lights the movie, but especially the
<v Speaker 1>TV show, and so he gets like sort of a
<v Speaker 1>lifetime pass from me for that. That's like the best
<v Speaker 1>sort of Americana show ever made. It's really well done.
<v Speaker 1>And then I also like his just straight up dad
<v Speaker 1>movie Patriots Day, which is about the Boston City bombing
<v Speaker 1>and just finding the guys that did that, and it's
<v Speaker 1>a basically police procedural. It's super dad movie. And then
<v Speaker 1>the oil rig movie I can't remember, but the one
<v Speaker 1>about was it the I can't remember the name of
<v Speaker 1>the the rig that caught on the fire.
<v Speaker 2>What's that deep horizon?
<v Speaker 1>Yes, exactly, deepwater Horizon. That movie also very good. It's
<v Speaker 1>basically just a tragedy happens. And then six months later,
<v Speaker 1>Pete Berg and Mark Wahlberg are like, we should make
<v Speaker 1>some money from this, and I go, all right, and
<v Speaker 1>then the movie's pretty good.
<v Speaker 3>So I like Pete Burg.
<v Speaker 1>Taylor Sheridan is an incredible hack just even the movie,
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, go ahead, please.
<v Speaker 2>There is one good Taylor Sheridan movie, and it's Hello
<v Speaker 2>High Washer. And it's because of because of the director,
<v Speaker 2>because David McKenzie is incredible. David McKenzie is like, go
<v Speaker 2>watch Relay, go watch start Up. David McKenzie fucking rules.
<v Speaker 2>Taylor Sheridan is a fucking dumb ass, one of the
<v Speaker 2>worst writers alive, and it is so funny that he
<v Speaker 2>has become like the poster boy for Powermount Americana.
<v Speaker 3>Like Coppa Gang.
<v Speaker 2>They're all checks and I'm not sure you you like
<v Speaker 2>folding ideas right the YouTube channel?
<v Speaker 3>I love them? Yeah, Danilson, Yeah yeah.
<v Speaker 2>I rewatched that video on Call of Udy Ghosts Yeah
<v Speaker 2>the other night because I was in a headspace for it,
<v Speaker 2>and boy, they're a match made in heaven. This this
<v Speaker 2>makes total fucking sense. This whole thing makes so much
<v Speaker 2>sense that I'm like, this is disgusting. Congrats you like
<v Speaker 2>knew the assignment.
<v Speaker 3>Good job. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>I definitely was like, man, I will watch Yellowstone. That's
<v Speaker 1>exactly the kind of dad bullshit I want to watch.
<v Speaker 1>And then I watched the first half of the first
<v Speaker 1>season and it was the worst kind of I don't
<v Speaker 1>know if people have seen that clip of the South
<v Speaker 1>Park guys talking about how they write stories and they're like,
<v Speaker 1>you can never do. This happened, and then this happened,
<v Speaker 1>and then this happened, and then this happened, which is
<v Speaker 1>a Taylor Sheridan script, like you gotta.
<v Speaker 3>Do this happened.
<v Speaker 1>But because of that this happened and then therefore that happened.
<v Speaker 1>Like that's, oh yeah, that's how you should write a story.
<v Speaker 1>That's what makes things satisfying. And Taylor Sheridan's like, no,
<v Speaker 1>here's a fucking bear out of nowhere, and no, she
<v Speaker 1>just got punched in the face and is in a
<v Speaker 1>coma because whatever it. Oh my god, why is this
<v Speaker 1>stuff such nonsense and so popular? And it's because they
<v Speaker 1>wear cowboy hats and then they talk down to any
<v Speaker 1>liberal that shows up on the show.
<v Speaker 3>It's a power fantasy. It's great. Last thing.
<v Speaker 1>Live action adaptation of elder Ring is coming in twenty
<v Speaker 1>twenty eight. That one feels real as well, and that
<v Speaker 1>one's like an alternative track to whatever happens with Zelda Wright.
<v Speaker 1>Like elder Ring is not one of those ones that
<v Speaker 1>was obviously going to get made into a movie, and
<v Speaker 1>not obviously by A twenty four and Alex Garland, And
<v Speaker 1>if that works, I think it is this alternative to
<v Speaker 1>like going to the biggest publishers and turning their biggest
<v Speaker 1>properties into movies.
<v Speaker 3>But we'll see.
<v Speaker 1>Call of Duty is supposed to come out in twenty
<v Speaker 1>twenty eight. The movie and elden Ring which do you
<v Speaker 1>think it's more likely to actually come out between those two.
<v Speaker 2>Elderman by far, they have an actual cast put together.
<v Speaker 2>Like you look at the rundown of the cast these
<v Speaker 2>people have signed on to make a movie. Call of
<v Speaker 2>Judy is some ideas on like a board somewhere in Paramount,
<v Speaker 2>But this cast is actually pretty good. You have like
<v Speaker 2>Jonathan Price, Kit Knnor Ben Wishar, Kley Spanney. You have
<v Speaker 2>Peter Sarah Fenowitz, who people will know is in the
<v Speaker 2>Dark Souls Games is a fan of from soft Games,
<v Speaker 2>so and Nick Offerman, of course, who was one of
<v Speaker 2>the first people who signed on. So like, there is
<v Speaker 2>an interesting cast that I I wonder how you make
<v Speaker 2>this movie without just making a different version of Green
<v Speaker 2>Knife or the Green Knife. So yeah, I don't know.
<v Speaker 2>I run very hot and cold on on Alex Garland's work.
<v Speaker 2>I think Annihilation is like one of the best movies
<v Speaker 2>of the last fifteen years, but I also think Men
<v Speaker 2>is trash, So I don't know. I'm curious. I also
<v Speaker 2>do really like x Macina, and I like the twenty
<v Speaker 2>eight years Later movies that he's been viting. So yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I'm curious how this stands.
<v Speaker 3>Out all right.
<v Speaker 1>That does it for the headlines. No poll question from Friday.
<v Speaker 1>We did the Bomb twelve instead. I don't know if
<v Speaker 1>i've updated the form yat, but I'll get that done today.
<v Speaker 1>So if you go to giant bomb dot com and
<v Speaker 1>you just scroll down, you see the Bomb twelve on
<v Speaker 1>the left hand side.
<v Speaker 3>Here, it says vote here. Click that.
<v Speaker 1>It'll take you to the Google form submit your game
<v Speaker 1>for this week's Bomb twelve, and we'll wrap up the
<v Speaker 1>week with those twelve games that really matter to people
<v Speaker 1>who are really playing video games. I have a new
<v Speaker 1>poll question. We'll get to that here in a moment.
<v Speaker 1>Before we do that, Lexi, why don't you tell people
<v Speaker 1>where they can find you on the internet and all
<v Speaker 1>that good stuff.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you can find me on blue Sky at lexload
<v Speaker 2>dot xyz, and you can support my work by going
<v Speaker 2>over to stampmanu dot co dot uk. I'm finding us
<v Speaker 2>on Patreon, Patreon dot com, slash stop menu. We have
<v Speaker 2>had a bunch of really cool stuff on the website. Recently.
<v Speaker 2>We had reviews of Dosa Divas and prag Matter, both
<v Speaker 2>of which were some pay per views, which was really
<v Speaker 2>cool to be able to pay people for those. We
<v Speaker 2>had some interesting features recently around breaking down the Jeff
<v Speaker 2>Kaplan Lex Friedman interview and kind of looking at the
<v Speaker 2>questions that weren't asked and the implications of that as
<v Speaker 2>Jeff Kaplan is one of the vice presidents at Blizzard
<v Speaker 2>at what was ostensibly a pretty bad time to work
<v Speaker 2>a Blizzard, and so that was a really good piece
<v Speaker 2>that's worth checking out. But yeah, go check that out
<v Speaker 2>and check out my blues excellent.
<v Speaker 1>All Right, new poll question, which Zelda story do you
<v Speaker 1>think the movie is most likely based on?
<v Speaker 3>I saw a logo and it looked like Breath of
<v Speaker 3>the Wild.
<v Speaker 1>And then we saw that picture of Link holding the
<v Speaker 1>Hirulean Shield and Highlian Shield. I can't remembering how to
<v Speaker 1>say it, but and then the Master Sword looking like
<v Speaker 1>it's straight out of Okering of Time. So who knows,
<v Speaker 1>But your options are a Breath of the Wild, Ockering
<v Speaker 1>of Time or a different Zelda story.
<v Speaker 3>We'll get the results of that.
<v Speaker 1>Poll on Game mess Mornings here on Giant Bomb tomorrow. Okay, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>we can add the wand of Gamble on as well
<v Speaker 1>on us CAW. That's obviously the probably what it's based on.
<v Speaker 1>U speaking, a Giant Bomb today, we'll have some fun stuff.
<v Speaker 1>We're gonna go in a meeting right now that me
<v Speaker 1>and Jan are late for and figure out exactly what's
<v Speaker 1>going on.
<v Speaker 3>We'll tell you later today, but.
<v Speaker 1>Maybe probably not missed. We finished Miss four. We've got
<v Speaker 1>to figure out what's next. But we'll get some stuff
<v Speaker 1>going on on there for you. Let you know, and
<v Speaker 1>then the rest of the week you can expect the
<v Speaker 1>Bomb cast, you could expect light club, you can expect
<v Speaker 1>some fun stuff. Maybe we'll get some quick looks out
<v Speaker 1>there for you as well. Looking forward to delivering a
<v Speaker 1>fun week for you here on Giant Bomb. All right, LEXI,
<v Speaker 1>thank you so much for hanging out with me today
<v Speaker 1>and talking about video games.
<v Speaker 3>I really appreciate it.
<v Speaker 2>There was too much news. I'm sorry you're like Vio meeting.
<v Speaker 1>No, it's I like it. That's I'd rather be here
<v Speaker 1>with you. All right, Thanks for watching everybody. Until next time,
<v Speaker 1>have a good one, take care of yourself, and goodbye.