Astro Bot Review Round Up and Balatro Coming to Mobile!

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<v Speaker 1>with me Jeff Grubb. Today, Astrobot reviews are in and
<v Speaker 1>it seems all right. Also the obligatory we found a
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<v Speaker 3>It's Janet Cho. Everybody, jan how are you doing? I
<v Speaker 3>am doing terribly, but that's fine. Nothing stops astrobot. Not
<v Speaker 3>even knops Astrobot.
<v Speaker 2>That's right.
<v Speaker 3>Mortal coils cannot stop the train of positivity that astrobot
<v Speaker 3>brings to us. Jeff Grubb, we don't care that you
<v Speaker 3>and Mike Manati have COVID.
<v Speaker 2>Here you go. So, hey, I did get out of cure.
<v Speaker 1>To me, I was, I was pretty rough yesterday when
<v Speaker 1>I like really and that was my first day that
<v Speaker 1>I really could play a ton of astro and I
<v Speaker 1>slept through most of the day, but then I woke
<v Speaker 1>up and then like the first thing I did was
<v Speaker 1>start playing astro, and I felt better every since I
<v Speaker 1>did test positive for COVID. Everybody, it's the first time
<v Speaker 1>I've tested positive for COVID. If I've had it before,
<v Speaker 1>I never noticed, so this time I'm like, oh, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I'm definitely feeling a little bit, a little bit run down,
<v Speaker 1>a little bit of a headache, stuff like that, but
<v Speaker 1>already feeling better.
<v Speaker 2>So mild case if it is one.
<v Speaker 1>I think Mike's feeling a little bit more rough, but
<v Speaker 1>he's got that doctor dad that's got him on the
<v Speaker 1>good stuff, so he's gonna bounce back.
<v Speaker 2>Here pretty soon.
<v Speaker 3>He also has those German non FDA approved drugs.
<v Speaker 1>That's right exactly. He's going to be just fine over there. Honestly,
<v Speaker 1>that's really what's going on. He's just in bed doing
<v Speaker 1>those whatever they are. Queludes. I have no idea, but yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I'm feeling pretty good. I know I sound a little rough,
<v Speaker 1>but I was. I missed the show, I missed you, Jan,
<v Speaker 1>I miss doing all this stuff, So honestly, this will
<v Speaker 1>put me in good spirits and I think get me
<v Speaker 1>back on them as well.
<v Speaker 3>Here's the cheesy thing, grub and I'm not saying this
<v Speaker 3>because there is someone from our parent company just off
<v Speaker 3>camera looking at me sternly. It's nice to go into
<v Speaker 3>work when you like where you work.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, absolutely, I mean that PAS was a very good time.
<v Speaker 1>I saw the pictures you put in the slack the
<v Speaker 1>Marino had of the audience for the Blake club A panel.
<v Speaker 1>It was just jam packed. It was a good time.
<v Speaker 1>It just yeah, I want to get back into the
<v Speaker 1>swing of things. Also, you know, like the Zelda embargoes up.
<v Speaker 1>We could talk about that maybe later today. Astro will
<v Speaker 1>get into the reviews a little bit. We'll have a
<v Speaker 1>full conversation about that at some point on this website
<v Speaker 1>here pretty soon. I want to do all that stuff
<v Speaker 1>because it's just like, yeah, video games make me happy,
<v Speaker 1>like to talk about this stuff and like to hang
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<v Speaker 1>We have a lot to get into, so let's start
<v Speaker 1>the morning mess with those Astrobot. Reviews are in and
<v Speaker 1>it's doing very well. I think it has a ninety
<v Speaker 1>five on Open Critic. It's around that same same zone
<v Speaker 1>on Metacritic. Simon Cardi at IGN gave it a nine
<v Speaker 1>out of ten. Set a very inventive platformer in its
<v Speaker 1>own right, but Astrobot is particularly special for anyone with
<v Speaker 1>a place in their heart for PlayStation Christian Donellan at
<v Speaker 1>Eurogamer gave it a five out of five. Sony's glassy,
<v Speaker 1>glossy mascot gets an outing filled with imagination and loving craft.
<v Speaker 1>Mark Delaney at GameSpot gave it a nine out of ten.
<v Speaker 1>Team of Sobey cements itself as an essential PlayStation studio
<v Speaker 1>with an imaginative platform for the ages, and Janet Ochoa
<v Speaker 1>from Giant Bomb gave it a five mio mialbeans, holypoop,
<v Speaker 1>this game is great. Is it bad that I start
<v Speaker 1>to care less about the normal astrobots?
<v Speaker 2>No? I think that's that's normal. I'll tell you. Okay, So, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>we've all been playing this game.
<v Speaker 1>It's one of those situations where PlayStation does this occasionally
<v Speaker 1>where they're very confident in the game. They just gave
<v Speaker 1>everybody in the world a code. We all got one,
<v Speaker 1>We've all been playing it. Janet Rules, I just beat
<v Speaker 1>it kind of overnight, and uh, and I'm gonna I'm
<v Speaker 1>gonna Platinum, not because it's like I care about platinums,
<v Speaker 1>but just because it's like, all this fun stuff is
<v Speaker 1>still there to do and I want to go back
<v Speaker 1>and play more of it. I just really really enjoyed
<v Speaker 1>this game.
<v Speaker 2>How about you?
<v Speaker 3>Oh, one hundred percent, Greb'll we'll definitely talk about this
<v Speaker 3>more on the BombCast as Astrobot dedicated bcr But my
<v Speaker 3>main thing is there's not a lot of games where
<v Speaker 3>I'm playing it where I'm like, actually, for shoot, constantly smiling,
<v Speaker 3>constantly because I'm having a good time, and that is
<v Speaker 3>a feeling sorely missed, especially in like this current landscape
<v Speaker 3>of games and games media, game development and everything. And
<v Speaker 3>it definitely feels like I am being respected as a
<v Speaker 3>gamer crub, which doesn't often happen sometimes you feel like
<v Speaker 3>kind of taken advantage of by bigger studios, But tim
<v Speaker 3>Asobi just has poured so much love and craft into Astrobot.
<v Speaker 3>Where I think you said it like every ten minutes
<v Speaker 3>you are finding a new mechanic or a different spin
<v Speaker 3>on a current mechanic, and it is just such a
<v Speaker 3>simple game when you boil it down where you're just jumping.
<v Speaker 3>It's a hop and bop where you occasionally will get
<v Speaker 3>a different power up, and those power ups wind up
<v Speaker 3>affecting the whole game and turning it on its head,
<v Speaker 3>and then that frown is now upside down if you
<v Speaker 3>were sad because it's it's just a great time and
<v Speaker 3>just all the various Easter eggs. It just makes me,
<v Speaker 3>I don't know, so happy to have grown up with
<v Speaker 3>the PlayStation. Yeah, and it respects that one hundred percent,
<v Speaker 3>And it respects that from wherever entry point you've gone
<v Speaker 3>into the PlayStation, whether it was the original PS one,
<v Speaker 3>PS two, even the PS three, if that was your
<v Speaker 3>entryway into the PlayStation ecosystem, it one hundred percent respects
<v Speaker 3>that and pays homage to that, and it's just like, oh,
<v Speaker 3>smiling from ear to ear.
<v Speaker 1>Grub yep, I uh I the PlayStation and miss of
<v Speaker 1>the game was even more affecting than I was expecting
<v Speaker 1>it to be. Uh it was, but excuse me, by
<v Speaker 1>the end of the game really kind of even emotional.
<v Speaker 1>But the most emotional aspect for this for for me
<v Speaker 1>with this game is something very similar. And we're gonna
<v Speaker 1>discord and Dan says he hasn't felt this way about
<v Speaker 1>a game since Breath of the Wild, and I have
<v Speaker 1>a similar feeling because when I played Breath with the Wild,
<v Speaker 1>the idea I was like, oh my god, Nintendo can
<v Speaker 1>still do this. They can still come back, look at something,
<v Speaker 1>take something familiar, and then take it to the next
<v Speaker 1>step and do something that feels like it will set
<v Speaker 1>up gaming for the next ten years, which is exactly
<v Speaker 1>what happened with that game. Here, it's like, oh my god,
<v Speaker 1>PlayStation can do this in the first place, they've never
<v Speaker 1>really made a platformer like this before. And the fact
<v Speaker 1>that they are now in the conversation with three D
<v Speaker 1>platformer that is right there, mount rushmore top four or
<v Speaker 1>five three D platform of all time, like it really
<v Speaker 1>has gone. There are the three D Mario games, and
<v Speaker 1>then kind of everything else a little bit behind that,
<v Speaker 1>and now this is like right in the mix with
<v Speaker 1>all of those best three D Mario platformers. I think
<v Speaker 1>it's equivalent to a super Mario Galaxy three and really like, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>a new mechanic every ten minutes, sure, yeah, but like
<v Speaker 1>something playful every thirty seconds.
<v Speaker 2>Are you're going to And that's I think the.
<v Speaker 1>Really the key to this game is that you will
<v Speaker 1>get into a level and you'll see something shiny and
<v Speaker 1>you'll go hit it and it will explode into a
<v Speaker 1>million little voxley pieces and you'll just have fun like
<v Speaker 1>spinning around knocking all these things around, and it looks great,
<v Speaker 1>it sounds incredible, and it just makes you want to.
<v Speaker 2>Go interact with the world.
<v Speaker 1>It encourages that play and that exploration to such a
<v Speaker 1>degree that it makes the whole world feel alive and
<v Speaker 1>it encourages you to like become part of the world.
<v Speaker 1>It's on another level in many ways compared to similar games.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>I'm not normally a person that wants to one hundred
<v Speaker 3>percent of video game or try and find every single
<v Speaker 3>collectible or secret, but for whatever reason, the last two
<v Speaker 3>games that make me that have made me want to
<v Speaker 3>do this is this Astrobot game an Assassin's Creed Brotherhood.
<v Speaker 3>Oddly those two Brotherhood was the one after. It's like
<v Speaker 3>two to one. I think, yeah, okay, I love Brotherhood too. God,
<v Speaker 3>that's such a good game. Such a banger, Yeah, real banger, absolutely.
<v Speaker 3>I yeah, I don't know. I think the best thing
<v Speaker 3>is everyone knows that this staff in particular has varying
<v Speaker 3>game tastes, and for all of us to kind of
<v Speaker 3>be on board with one singular game means that it
<v Speaker 3>is definitely special. You know, like Dan is more of
<v Speaker 3>a dewey platformer guy. You occasionally ride that line as well, Grubb,
<v Speaker 3>I'm kind of like a story let's get sad type
<v Speaker 3>of guy. And this somehow ticks off all of the
<v Speaker 3>boxes for everyone, including Nicki and Sean and Backla are included,
<v Speaker 3>where where all of us are just having a great
<v Speaker 3>time and as soon as they had the speed running,
<v Speaker 3>it is going to destroy this website.
<v Speaker 1>It's going to destroy everything. Yes, it's going to be
<v Speaker 1>a real problem. Yeah, we'll move on here in a second.
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, I just think that that we know video
<v Speaker 1>games can be so many things. They could be anything,
<v Speaker 1>they absolutely can, but they definitely should also always be
<v Speaker 1>this like there should be something like this coming out
<v Speaker 1>every once in a while, every year or so. At
<v Speaker 1>this point, I know games take longer than ever, so
<v Speaker 1>whatever whatever the timeframe is doesn't matter.
<v Speaker 2>Gaming should never lose this.
<v Speaker 1>This is a canonical entry in video games in the
<v Speaker 1>terms of the like that doing this, that that feeling
<v Speaker 1>like you could just go in there and play. You know,
<v Speaker 1>my kids have been coming home every day from school
<v Speaker 1>and rushing down here and like, okay, my turn, like
<v Speaker 1>basically ripping the controller away from me because they could
<v Speaker 1>just recognize it too, that this is something special and yeah,
<v Speaker 1>Sony has nailed it. It is And yeah, I just
<v Speaker 1>said this on Twitter. I think this is the best
<v Speaker 1>game PlayStation has ever made. I really think that. Now
<v Speaker 1>there's some variance there if you start talking about games
<v Speaker 1>they publish so technically they're involved in the making of it,
<v Speaker 1>like blood Borne and stuff like that. It's a conversation
<v Speaker 1>at least it's right there with all of those games.
<v Speaker 1>And yeah, this team just absolutely knocking out of the park.
<v Speaker 1>And I hope that they are able to build on
<v Speaker 1>this going forward, and really I hope that this game
<v Speaker 1>gets like some more content. I hope that that those
<v Speaker 1>challenges in addition to the speed running moodes, the challenge modes,
<v Speaker 1>I hope those are great. I'm just expecting amazing things
<v Speaker 1>from this game and this developer going forward forever.
<v Speaker 3>It just like if you have ever been a fan
<v Speaker 3>of PlayStation for whatever time, whatever generation, there is something
<v Speaker 3>in this game that will appeal to you. Because there
<v Speaker 3>have been multiple times where I've stood up from my
<v Speaker 3>chair started clapping my hands, going, I can't believe you'll
<v Speaker 3>remember this.
<v Speaker 2>We should.
<v Speaker 1>I'm not going to spoil anything, but each Nebula, which
<v Speaker 1>is like the galaxies or the solar systems inside the
<v Speaker 1>galaxy as you're exploring the overworld map. Fantastic overworld map,
<v Speaker 1>by the way, a lot of fun stuff to do
<v Speaker 1>on the overworld map, one of the best overworld maps
<v Speaker 1>since Super Mario World, which has been unmatched in my
<v Speaker 1>opinion in terms of over world maps. But each Nebula
<v Speaker 1>ends with a big sort of reference and level to
<v Speaker 1>another game. And I think if we had chat try
<v Speaker 1>to list every single game that they do, there's no
<v Speaker 1>way they would get them. They would get them all correct,
<v Speaker 1>they would they just no way. It's incredible some of
<v Speaker 1>the stuff that they pull there. Oh, it's it's just
<v Speaker 1>it's so what a what a grand game? All right,
<v Speaker 1>let's let's go ahead here. There is some Astrobot news.
<v Speaker 1>The DLC will include challenge in speed speed run levels soon.
<v Speaker 1>This is from Andy Robinson at VGC. Astrobots DLC plan
<v Speaker 1>will include new challenge levels and speed Run mode. This
<v Speaker 1>developer team Assobe revealed the plans during a studio visit
<v Speaker 1>attended by VGC last month. A presentation suggested that initially
<v Speaker 1>planned to add ten challenge levels and five speed run levels.
<v Speaker 1>They said that those numbers could change. I am encouraged
<v Speaker 1>by the number of speed Run levels. I'll tell you
<v Speaker 1>that much. I don't want there to be fifty. I
<v Speaker 1>don't want there to be I don't want there to
<v Speaker 1>be so many that it's just a war of attrition
<v Speaker 1>and who has the most time because I have the
<v Speaker 1>least amount of time. Let's be clear here, but my
<v Speaker 1>brain is broken in such way that if there are
<v Speaker 1>fewer levels, I will then spend the most amount of
<v Speaker 1>time on those handful of levels, because I'm a broken person.
<v Speaker 2>But yes, I mean, hey, this sounds great to me.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know, how are you feeling about the deep
<v Speaker 1>the potential DLC for Astrobot.
<v Speaker 3>I think it's a smart choice to have a limited
<v Speaker 3>amount of speed running levels, in particular because we have
<v Speaker 3>the brain broken people like yourself, grub yes, that will
<v Speaker 3>only ever play the first world of a game like
<v Speaker 3>Neon White, sure, and never see the rest of the game.
<v Speaker 3>I don't remember if you want to finishing the rest
<v Speaker 3>of the game, I don't think that's besides if I
<v Speaker 3>did fantastic, Yes, But like the beauty part is, you're
<v Speaker 3>not being kept away from the whole game. If those
<v Speaker 3>specific speed running levels are just that portion of the game,
<v Speaker 3>I am incredibly excited about the prospect of whatever more
<v Speaker 3>challenge levels will look like, or what that even looks like.
<v Speaker 3>We were talking about how some of those specific Sony
<v Speaker 3>IP homages to end a Galaxy are, like, I can't
<v Speaker 3>wait if maybe these challenge levels could be framed after
<v Speaker 3>specific Sony IP like, I don't know, maybe they want
<v Speaker 3>to give me a blastoh level.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, that would be fantastic.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean, and I hope that that is the
<v Speaker 1>direction the DLC goes in where it's yes, it's doing
<v Speaker 1>more to get people back in terms of here's more content,
<v Speaker 1>but here's some surprises. They weren't in the core game
<v Speaker 1>or something like that. Not you know, we're saying one
<v Speaker 1>thing is in there, in there whatever, just yet that
<v Speaker 1>would be a cool surprise. I do think that if
<v Speaker 1>this game does especially well, I think this DLC would
<v Speaker 1>just kind of be the start and they could maybe
<v Speaker 1>do a round two and then yeah, another five speed
<v Speaker 1>running challenges. I think the ideal scenario for me jan
<v Speaker 1>is it is maybe you do get a roster of
<v Speaker 1>like twenty to twenty five speed run challenges, and then
<v Speaker 1>each week it is like, here are the three that
<v Speaker 1>we're going to focus on, and we'll take your aggregated
<v Speaker 1>time from all three, and we'll have you know, winners
<v Speaker 1>for each of the individual challenges, and then it's like
<v Speaker 1>a rotation.
<v Speaker 2>So it is like.
<v Speaker 1>Basically what we were hoping to know a World championship
<v Speaker 1>would be, just do that here. Yeah, but you know,
<v Speaker 1>I recognize that what we're talking about is a niche thing,
<v Speaker 1>like this is a smaller part of the audience, but
<v Speaker 1>bully it's important to me. So I really hope that
<v Speaker 1>that's the way they go. Yeah, though, whatever, I'll take
<v Speaker 1>what they give me.
<v Speaker 2>At this point.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, I imagine like this isn't the major focus
<v Speaker 3>for all of team Asobi, So like maybe a smaller
<v Speaker 3>chunk of the team can focus on these speed running
<v Speaker 3>levels or the challenge levels in like a way where like,
<v Speaker 3>you know, we'll occasionally get a Tetras ninety nine skin
<v Speaker 3>that is lovingly crafted after something.
<v Speaker 2>Right, give us that, Yeah, give us all the good stuff. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>go ahead.
<v Speaker 1>I was gonna like, oh, yep, it's a very good game.
<v Speaker 2>I'm trying to see.
<v Speaker 1>I there's nothing else from this story. Sob has already
<v Speaker 1>released a stream of new content for the predecessor game,
<v Speaker 1>Astro's play Room, with new characters added to that game
<v Speaker 1>carrying over the next release. That's a good point. They
<v Speaker 1>supported supported, They like use that game as a platform
<v Speaker 1>to hype up this game and add a new stuff
<v Speaker 1>many years later. So it's not like they abandoned these projects.
<v Speaker 1>They have them around ready to go. So I think
<v Speaker 1>that this is a game that years from now could
<v Speaker 1>still be getting new stuff, and I hope that's exactly
<v Speaker 1>the way it goes.
<v Speaker 3>Treat this like PlayStation Home. Have this be the hub.
<v Speaker 3>You know, you're in your little world, and then suddenly like, oh,
<v Speaker 3>what's that box over there? Oh my god, you're remaking
<v Speaker 3>or you're remastering Bloodborne. Holy smokes, there it is. Oh
<v Speaker 3>my god, Blasto's coming back.
<v Speaker 2>Blast though too.
<v Speaker 1>There was no blast though too, right, there should have been.
<v Speaker 1>I like blast though, even though it's not a good game.
<v Speaker 2>Uh all right.
<v Speaker 1>Sony executive says company lacks new IP across games, film
<v Speaker 1>and anime. This is from Blair Martell at GameSpot. Despite
<v Speaker 1>the recent failure of Concord to reach an audience, Sony
<v Speaker 1>has a library of original PlayStation games and a intellectual
<v Speaker 1>property that few in the video game industry can match. However,
<v Speaker 1>Sony Chief executive Canishiro yo Shoulda believes that the company
<v Speaker 1>is lagging behind in IP and wants to devote resources
<v Speaker 1>to creating more originals. While speaking with The Financial Times,
<v Speaker 1>yo should Have indicated that Sony won't stop providing content
<v Speaker 1>for the various streaming services and services, including Netflix and Max,
<v Speaker 1>but he believes that the company has to focus on
<v Speaker 1>making new IP in order to better compete in the
<v Speaker 1>entertainment industry, whether it's for games, film, anime. We don't
<v Speaker 1>have that much IP that we fostered from the beginning,
<v Speaker 1>added Sony's chief financial officer, Herokei Totoke. We're lacking the
<v Speaker 1>early phase of IP. That's and that's an issue for US.
<v Speaker 1>Sony has already successfully adapted the Last of US, Twisted
<v Speaker 1>Metal and Grand Tarismo into live action projects based on
<v Speaker 1>the company's hit video games, but according to the report,
<v Speaker 1>Sony's looking to lean more on the anime series and
<v Speaker 1>it distributes through Crunchy Role and produce or co produce
<v Speaker 1>news shows.
<v Speaker 2>Sony also wants.
<v Speaker 1>To drive more and more PlayStation Plus subscribers to Crunchy Roles,
<v Speaker 1>anime streaming service. This was a difficult one for me
<v Speaker 1>to parse, especially after just playing astro Jan. You know,
<v Speaker 1>chock full of original IP many of which have been
<v Speaker 1>dormant recently or dormant for more than a decade. And
<v Speaker 1>I saw a headline I can't remember where it's from.
<v Speaker 1>I think it was from the Gamer where it's like, hey,
<v Speaker 1>you know, Astrobot's not even really a celebration. It's kind
<v Speaker 1>of a graveyard for a lot of these dead franchises,
<v Speaker 1>and it's like, yeah, I mean something, they would be
<v Speaker 1>great if they would take many of these things that
<v Speaker 1>are beloved and could bring them back. Now, I think
<v Speaker 1>what he's getting at is that they aren't in the
<v Speaker 1>business of actively.
<v Speaker 2>Creating a ton of new IP in the moment.
<v Speaker 1>And at the same time, I think he's saying that
<v Speaker 1>the IP that they're thinking of are properties that can
<v Speaker 1>easily be transmedia events. They can be games, they can
<v Speaker 1>be filmed, they can be anime, and maybe they don't
<v Speaker 1>look at Blasto that way. Jan maybe that's not I know,
<v Speaker 1>that's a shame, although I get it. Yeah, I kind
<v Speaker 1>of wish though. It's like, maybe if you were a
<v Speaker 1>little bit bolder, you could just believe in some of
<v Speaker 1>those IP and just bring those back and get them
<v Speaker 1>working just for making new IP.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I start to think about how Japan Studios would
<v Speaker 3>be great to still have around and especially with a
<v Speaker 3>sentiment of like wanting to create new and original IP
<v Speaker 3>like around for Dog, And I think you're right, it
<v Speaker 3>is a lack and uh uh not the desire to
<v Speaker 3>be bold and make miscellaneous random stuff like Concord is
<v Speaker 3>a triple a dip into the well versus like these
<v Speaker 3>smaller attempts that may be more sustainable for game development
<v Speaker 3>to like, if this fails, it's not going to be
<v Speaker 3>as big of a hit. But yeah, looking. Framing Astrobot
<v Speaker 3>has a graveyard is kind of pretty depressing in that, Sony,
<v Speaker 3>y'all do have a bunch of IP that could be
<v Speaker 3>adapted to all these things that you want. Just do
<v Speaker 3>something with it. Uh, where's my Day's Gone?
<v Speaker 2>Anime?
<v Speaker 3>Huh? Where's my Day's Gone? Isai anime?
<v Speaker 1>Where's the so comm CBS procedural for retirees?
<v Speaker 2>Oh my god? Put David Briannis David so right? Oh
<v Speaker 2>my god, it's why do I want that?
<v Speaker 1>I know I do too. I don't know why, but
<v Speaker 1>they should just make that. It makes perfect sense to me.
<v Speaker 3>Oh and David Brienne is as blast though, Okay, I
<v Speaker 3>really want that absolutely.
<v Speaker 2>What Like, I don't know.
<v Speaker 3>I see a game like astro and it's like someone
<v Speaker 3>may think it's a baby game because it's a platformer.
<v Speaker 3>They're incredibly wrong if they think of games that way.
<v Speaker 3>But like, yo, Sony, you maybe you make more games
<v Speaker 3>without guns?
<v Speaker 2>Yep, yeah, I mean you make more.
<v Speaker 3>Games where you just hop and bop around and you
<v Speaker 3>got to spin attack. Remember when Crash Bandicoot was your dude?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, And I get why they like they're saying we're
<v Speaker 1>gonna like maybe start making original shows as anime, because
<v Speaker 1>my understanding is anime is pretty cost effective because they
<v Speaker 1>treat the people that make those shows pretty poorly, it's
<v Speaker 1>my understanding, or at least maybe the people that make
<v Speaker 1>them all and then that's where it starts from.
<v Speaker 2>But they're not talking about that. They're starting from the.
<v Speaker 1>Shows, and so that could be experimental and they can
<v Speaker 1>build on that, I guess, but that there's not like
<v Speaker 1>some clear pathway from creating a successful anime to then
<v Speaker 1>turning that into quality games and film and live action television.
<v Speaker 1>That's been a fraught path so far. A lot of
<v Speaker 1>that stuff just hasn't worked out. So you know, that
<v Speaker 1>doesn't mean that's not original IP and that doesn't count that.
<v Speaker 1>I get what they're going for here, but I I
<v Speaker 1>think that they if I were them, instead of having
<v Speaker 1>this conversation, I would be looking back to the roster
<v Speaker 1>of dormant franchises. Bring back Colony Wars. I don't know
<v Speaker 1>that was them, right. There's stuff that they can do
<v Speaker 1>that I think, you know, star Hawk or Warhawk, there
<v Speaker 1>are things where like you could bring back I think
<v Speaker 1>we get enough of a pop and if you gave
<v Speaker 1>it the love and attention that it needs. You could
<v Speaker 1>have something there that would get enough excitement that you
<v Speaker 1>can then get the ball rolling and do something else
<v Speaker 1>with that, whether that's a TV show or anime or something.
<v Speaker 3>Like that, somehow throw Warhawk into the hell Divers universe.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Like there's so crop.
<v Speaker 3>Like we could go down the fandom wiki of PlayStation
<v Speaker 3>IP and just list out all these different ideas of
<v Speaker 3>stuff that has been dormant. Oh jeez, Like I don't know.
<v Speaker 3>Kill Zone could be a fun show. Not a fun show,
<v Speaker 3>but a show. And David Brienna is in so calm.
<v Speaker 1>I think, like you know you as Sean points out,
<v Speaker 1>and we've we've talked about on this show, Sony has
<v Speaker 1>acquired all of anime like they do. They own Crunchy Role,
<v Speaker 1>They owned them the previous competitor that they've brought into
<v Speaker 1>Crunchy Role. Now if like you do have and I
<v Speaker 1>know they're not making us a Sly Cooper game, They're
<v Speaker 1>not making a Sly Cooper game, but you got Sly
<v Speaker 1>Cooper there, make a Sly Cooper anime. Uh, you could
<v Speaker 1>keep these things relevant on the side in some other
<v Speaker 1>ways so that if they do come back around and
<v Speaker 1>want to make a game it's there, But honestly, you
<v Speaker 1>don't even have You don't have to make the game
<v Speaker 1>like they can just like say, hey, you a Sly
<v Speaker 1>Cooper animated series could be something that stands on its own. Yeah, so,
<v Speaker 1>I I think they really want the trans media thing,
<v Speaker 1>and I get that, but I mean, Twisted Metal didn't
<v Speaker 1>like that game never actually came out. That is a
<v Speaker 1>tough thing to pull off to get everything going in
<v Speaker 1>one direction. So at the same time there is a
<v Speaker 1>game on the shelf and a show and whatever else
<v Speaker 1>you want to do with that stuff, so that when
<v Speaker 1>you do try to make that work, half the time
<v Speaker 1>it's not going to pan out the way you thought.
<v Speaker 1>So maybe just kind of start from the perspective of
<v Speaker 1>let's take some of these other IP and do some
<v Speaker 1>stuff with it and keep them relevant some other ways.
<v Speaker 3>Give give another studio a chance, or like a smaller
<v Speaker 3>dev some of the IP. Like I'd be interested to
<v Speaker 3>see another fresh, brand new take on something like Jack
<v Speaker 3>and Daxter or a Sly Cooper, perhaps a Ridge Racer.
<v Speaker 3>So Mikey's finally satiated. Yeah, But on top of that, like, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>you know, maybe some of your trans media stuff doesn't
<v Speaker 3>need to be transmedia stuff. Maybe focus on one aspect
<v Speaker 3>of that triangle before you go off into movies and anime.
<v Speaker 3>I think it's interesting to say that the Uncharted movie
<v Speaker 3>was a successful adaptation.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, I mean, I don't know how they measure
<v Speaker 1>that stuff. They are making another one, right, they're making
<v Speaker 1>it Uncharted too. I think that's correct. I don't know,
<v Speaker 1>it's it's not what I want from them.
<v Speaker 2>I get that.
<v Speaker 1>I think it's what they want themselves to be, like, hey,
<v Speaker 1>we have Uncharted, We'll make the Uncharted movie. It'll start
<v Speaker 1>big stars, it'll be a kind of a blockbuster.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know.
<v Speaker 1>But what I really want from them is to look
<v Speaker 1>at what Astro's done and replicate that. Smaller teams kind
<v Speaker 1>of playing around in fun spaces, and Astro's kind of
<v Speaker 1>a relatively newer IP for them. I know, in the
<v Speaker 1>grand scheme of thing, it's been around for a while,
<v Speaker 1>but in the grand scheme of things, the way IP
<v Speaker 1>goes and video games relatively new. I want them to
<v Speaker 1>be more experimental. And I know they closed the trans studio,
<v Speaker 1>so it's a little bit tougher for them. Man, Timisobe
<v Speaker 1>feels like it has picked up the slack there and
<v Speaker 1>is trying to carry that torch on where but.
<v Speaker 3>Also grub let me let me throw this out into
<v Speaker 3>the universe, sony, feel free to get the check book ready.
<v Speaker 3>Where is my PaRappa the Rappa anime?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean the PaRappa the Rapper universe. Right, you
<v Speaker 1>can have a little general Lammy in there and stuff
<v Speaker 1>like that, and.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, right, I mean you got the check Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>I think coming out of Astro when when they're going
<v Speaker 1>to see it, I think this game is going to
<v Speaker 1>do very well and people are gonna you know, one
<v Speaker 1>of the things that happened with me with this game
<v Speaker 1>is as I was playing through these segments and seeing
<v Speaker 1>these references, I was like, man, I kind of want
<v Speaker 1>to play this game. I never really wanted to. I
<v Speaker 1>haven't cared about playing forever again, when I actually play
<v Speaker 1>these games now, I think that they're going to see
<v Speaker 1>that they have more of an appetite for a lot
<v Speaker 1>of these things than they realize, and hopefully they come
<v Speaker 1>out the other side being like, hey, let's find ways
<v Speaker 1>to bring these things back and within a reasonable budget.
<v Speaker 1>Because I'm not saying bet the house on anything here,
<v Speaker 1>don't stop betting the house. Well, maybe maybe you got
<v Speaker 1>to figure out if always to make games. Jan you listen,
<v Speaker 1>you you always win.
<v Speaker 3>So I can't bet the house grub if I don't
<v Speaker 3>own a house.
<v Speaker 2>And that's there you go. That's hey, that's cheat code.
<v Speaker 2>There you go.
<v Speaker 1>All right, let's keep going here. Actually, you know what,
<v Speaker 1>let's take a quick break when we come back. We've
<v Speaker 1>had the kind of the good news parade for Astro
<v Speaker 1>from Sony. Let's fit like kind of wrap up what's
<v Speaker 1>going on with Concord right after this. All right, we
<v Speaker 1>are back next headline. Concord dev thanks fans for their support,
<v Speaker 1>but admits none of us know what is next.
<v Speaker 2>This is from Eddie mccooo.
<v Speaker 1>Game Spot PlayStation's latest big game, the multiplayer arena shooter Concord,
<v Speaker 1>launched in late August and struggled so much out of
<v Speaker 1>the gate that Sony decided to stop sales and take
<v Speaker 1>the game offline beginning tomorrow, September sixth. Lead character designer
<v Speaker 1>John Wuznouski has now thanked fans for their support ahead
<v Speaker 1>of the server shutdown, while acknowledging that the studio doesn't
<v Speaker 1>know what the future holds. Posting on social media, was
<v Speaker 1>Nuski said the team at Firewalk Studios is packed with
<v Speaker 1>tenacious fighters who built Concord amid a number of challenging scenarios.
<v Speaker 1>These included multiple acquisitions, the latest of which was Sony's
<v Speaker 1>buyout of the company in twenty twenty three, along with
<v Speaker 1>an engine upgrade from Unreal Engine four to Unreal Engine five.
<v Speaker 1>Was Nuski also mentioned how Concord was developed during the
<v Speaker 1>pandemic in fase delays, noting that the fact that we
<v Speaker 1>shipped at all is legendary to all the players who
<v Speaker 1>showed up for Concord.
<v Speaker 2>Thank you.
<v Speaker 1>The positivity and constructive feedback in the face of overwhelming
<v Speaker 1>noise was huge for everyone at Firewalk. Building a positive
<v Speaker 1>community was why we did this. We saw you every stream,
<v Speaker 1>post threat emoji, we saw it all, the developer added.
<v Speaker 2>As for the.
<v Speaker 1>Future, was Nusky admitted, none of us know what's next,
<v Speaker 1>and I do know that this team is peopable of
<v Speaker 1>wild energy. When faced with a challenge and Sony announced
<v Speaker 1>the news that Concord would shut down, game director Ryan
<v Speaker 1>Ellis said, well, many qualities the qualities of the experience
<v Speaker 1>resonated with players. We also recognize that the other aspects
<v Speaker 1>of the game and are and also recognize that other
<v Speaker 1>aspects of the game and our initial launch didn't land
<v Speaker 1>the way we intended. Ellis said that the team will
<v Speaker 1>explore options for how to better reach players.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, there's there's not a zero percent chance this
<v Speaker 1>game comes back, but I think it's pretty close to zero.
<v Speaker 1>And I mean when you begin, like Jim, we sit
<v Speaker 1>down at a table and you get a paper in
<v Speaker 1>front of you and you start writing, what are the
<v Speaker 1>ways to get Concord make Concord relevant again? I mean
<v Speaker 1>everyone's going to say free to play, but I just
<v Speaker 1>I don't know, it doesn't feel like that is really
<v Speaker 1>the solution to the specific problem of Concord, which doesn't
<v Speaker 1>feel like a specific problem, feels.
<v Speaker 2>Like a myriad of issues, right mm hmm.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. Simply taking off the price tag and the the
<v Speaker 3>admission price to get in, I don't think is going
<v Speaker 3>to immediately solve any of the problems. If a lot
<v Speaker 3>of those people even during like the beta phase grub
<v Speaker 3>which just weren't interested in checking it out.
<v Speaker 1>And then that was a beta phase that was like
<v Speaker 1>a pre order only to get into the beta, and
<v Speaker 1>then they dropped that and made it just anyone can
<v Speaker 1>get in the beta for free basically, and no one played.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's just a it's a bigger problem where the
<v Speaker 3>general gaming audiences are not into or aren't after another
<v Speaker 3>one of these, or at least like however, Sony was
<v Speaker 3>pitching and framing it and I, you know, I never
<v Speaker 3>want a game to fail, but it just it just
<v Speaker 3>stinks that so much work, so much time. We talked
<v Speaker 3>about the BombCast, but eight years got poured into this
<v Speaker 3>game and now that's just vanished.
<v Speaker 2>Yep, yep.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's uh, it's really frustrating because it's you know,
<v Speaker 1>this game's still going to be part of the culture
<v Speaker 1>war and all that stuff. And you'll hear people say.
<v Speaker 2>It's because you know, the characters are are black or
<v Speaker 2>day and it's like, man, have you seen Overwatch? Have
<v Speaker 2>you seen Apex?
<v Speaker 1>Legends Like these games are are chock full that stuff.
<v Speaker 1>When people sit down to play the game, I think
<v Speaker 1>it's nice to have the representation, but most people sitting
<v Speaker 1>down aren't really even thinking about any of that stuff.
<v Speaker 1>They just want to have a fun game, and they don't.
<v Speaker 1>They're not hating it because these characters are there. They're
<v Speaker 1>not loving it because these characters are there. They're liking air,
<v Speaker 1>loving it because they're having a good time with their friends.
<v Speaker 2>And I just don't think.
<v Speaker 1>Concord was over overcoming that particular challenge, which seems to
<v Speaker 1>be the most important one. And so with that in mind, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I don't know if there is. I mean, maybe it's
<v Speaker 1>the kind of thing where you go make it a
<v Speaker 1>mobile game or something like that. Maybe it could do
<v Speaker 1>better with that audience, but it's just not worth probably
<v Speaker 1>all that effort it would take to change that game
<v Speaker 1>into a whole other game at this point.
<v Speaker 3>No, no, And this is incredibly it's just upsetting across
<v Speaker 3>the board crub where you know, I bet there the
<v Speaker 3>thing that's going to be unfortunate is that this game
<v Speaker 3>did not succeed. But I think Marvel Rivals will have
<v Speaker 3>an audience and succeed, and the wrong lessons will be taken.
<v Speaker 3>Where Okay, as you know, put my my PlayStation sony
<v Speaker 3>hat on, all right, they didn't want to Guardians at
<v Speaker 3>the Galaxy Hero Shooter. Let's just make it like an
<v Speaker 3>all Marvel type of thing.
<v Speaker 2>Yep.
<v Speaker 1>I mean this will lead to more licensing of IP again,
<v Speaker 1>which bad. Yeah, And we've oscillated back and forth. I mean,
<v Speaker 1>you know, this show isn't that old. We've been doing it.
<v Speaker 2>For two years ish uh.
<v Speaker 1>In that time, we've oscillated from like, hey, it's all
<v Speaker 1>about having an original IP. We want to invest in
<v Speaker 1>our own stuff because we want to own IP, and
<v Speaker 1>then quickly after that it was these companies going, hey,
<v Speaker 1>we're eang. We just got done having a nightmare with
<v Speaker 1>Star Wars, but now we're making multiple Marvel superhero video
<v Speaker 1>games because it's easier to license something that's already popular
<v Speaker 1>than to create a new IP.
<v Speaker 2>That is, because that takes just as bunch of money
<v Speaker 2>and it's riskier.
<v Speaker 1>And now it feels, you know, there was a chance
<v Speaker 1>like time in there where it's like, I don't know,
<v Speaker 1>Sony's saying it right now, we want to have more IP,
<v Speaker 1>original IP and it's coming out of Concord so well,
<v Speaker 1>that seems very difficult to pull off. Maybe it would
<v Speaker 1>have been smarter just to go license something. And it's
<v Speaker 1>going to keep going back and forth. These companies at
<v Speaker 1>their core are just rained for data to tell them
<v Speaker 1>what to do. They and I think that when you
<v Speaker 1>do get the occasional like breakout, here is something that
<v Speaker 1>has a vision that has had that's you know, trying
<v Speaker 1>to do something that has a conviction that it is
<v Speaker 1>fun to play and has an appeal, like you know,
<v Speaker 1>like astro That stuff will break through. But it's not like, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>well let's just go follow that formula the rest of
<v Speaker 1>the time. They got to keep spending money because they
<v Speaker 1>got to spend money to make money. So they will
<v Speaker 1>come back to hey, right now we're going to be
<v Speaker 1>licensing IP or whatever. I don't know what the next
<v Speaker 1>five years from gaming looks like from Sony, but I
<v Speaker 1>do think they get much more risk averse.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, which is the opposite route that I want them
<v Speaker 3>to take, yep, yeah, because then everything starts to feel
<v Speaker 3>super homogenized and just very sterile looking, where we're only
<v Speaker 3>getting three types of games from them, and I just
<v Speaker 3>don't want them to beat like the Astrobot horse to death,
<v Speaker 3>where you know, they're they're taking this pony out constantly,
<v Speaker 3>and we are we start to get filled with fatigue
<v Speaker 3>over it, because what is it. It's going to be
<v Speaker 3>a god of war, a god of war, an astrobot
<v Speaker 3>and like a spider Man, and are we eventually going
<v Speaker 3>to get tired of those? Despite all those games probably
<v Speaker 3>being very good.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and you know, I mean, coming out of astro
<v Speaker 1>I am feeling like, hey, there is a vision here
<v Speaker 1>for let's take smaller teams that focus on a ton
<v Speaker 1>of creativity and make smaller things. And I think the
<v Speaker 1>goal for those games shouldn't be like sell forty million
<v Speaker 1>copies like a Nintendo game, but make games like Nintendo
<v Speaker 1>does a little bit more for the next few years.
<v Speaker 3>I know that.
<v Speaker 1>Like they would probably point back to, like, well, we
<v Speaker 1>tried that with Japan Studio. It's like, yeah, but I
<v Speaker 1>felt like you did that with Japan Studio and sort
<v Speaker 1>of let the energy slowly zap out of that and
<v Speaker 1>you were disappointed with the results. It's like, actually reinvigorate it,
<v Speaker 1>try something new, and give several new teams a chance
<v Speaker 1>to to like do stuff along those lines.
<v Speaker 2>Make a party game, I don't know.
<v Speaker 1>Make a play an Astrobot party game or something like that,
<v Speaker 1>you know, or PlayStation partyo game party game that has
<v Speaker 1>sort of asteroids like the backbone so you could play
<v Speaker 1>around the space. Do a lot more stuff like that,
<v Speaker 1>and see if you can get a few more of
<v Speaker 1>these hits that can pay for a bunch of other
<v Speaker 1>games while costing very little to make and use that
<v Speaker 1>to fund the party.
<v Speaker 2>A little bit.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that's the other thought that I had earlier in
<v Speaker 3>the show, where Astrobot is just a fun game. And
<v Speaker 3>remember when Sony just made fun games. It's been a minute.
<v Speaker 3>Did they forget that they can do that? They don't
<v Speaker 3>just have to be the sad dad triple A genre.
<v Speaker 3>Maybe Aloyd just has a fun beach vacation.
<v Speaker 1>Right, Yeah, I mean I think that there is a
<v Speaker 1>lot of space for them to explore and and you're right,
<v Speaker 1>and focus on fun, lighter fare and.
<v Speaker 2>And make some of the stuff work.
<v Speaker 1>And in the meantime, I get that the big bets
<v Speaker 1>were live service and of one of those really really
<v Speaker 1>hits that can pay for the whole thing. But I mean,
<v Speaker 1>I don't know, hell Divers two really really hit, and
<v Speaker 1>even that feels like it's not going to pay for
<v Speaker 1>everything else. It's sort of like it had its time
<v Speaker 1>in the sun. And it's a great I mean, it's
<v Speaker 1>a great game that I would look forward to going
<v Speaker 1>back to at any moment.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but I think this.
<v Speaker 1>Is why a Last of US Factions was something that
<v Speaker 1>they were scared of putting out because it's like, let's say,
<v Speaker 1>the best case scenario of a last of US factions happens,
<v Speaker 1>it's that thing just gonna end up still costing us
<v Speaker 1>more money as we have to make more content down
<v Speaker 1>the line. I mean that's what they said. I think
<v Speaker 1>that's true.
<v Speaker 3>It's not going to pay for everything grub because the
<v Speaker 3>scale that they want and keep operating on is too big,
<v Speaker 3>like the symbiosystem of the Giant Bomb chat. I know
<v Speaker 3>this is set as a goof, but I honestly believe this.
<v Speaker 3>Are we saying gaming needs a strong middle class?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, one hundred Yeah, definitely.
<v Speaker 3>We need that line between like Triple A and ind
<v Speaker 3>I hate the Triple I kind of label that has
<v Speaker 3>developed over the last couple of years, but we need
<v Speaker 3>those solid B games.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>And you know, I think if we look around, like
<v Speaker 1>what we're saying is we want Sony to do that
<v Speaker 1>stuff because those games are like in this last week,
<v Speaker 1>like a Kemboc came out, which is like a ratch
<v Speaker 1>clank from the guy that made Pumpkin Jack.
<v Speaker 2>And there's that Monster Truck game that just came out.
<v Speaker 1>It's like, man, you know, we used to get like
<v Speaker 1>a big extreme sports vehicle games from a bunch of
<v Speaker 1>bit major publishers, and now we're getting this Monster Jam
<v Speaker 1>game from a smaller team. Things like that, And and
<v Speaker 1>then you know, a Saber put out Space Breeing two.
<v Speaker 2>It's got like an A three or something on Metacritic.
<v Speaker 2>That's incredible.
<v Speaker 3>Dave jew at a game spot is doing backflips.
<v Speaker 2>Right now, and it's you know, Saber.
<v Speaker 1>You know, I think is the ideal the middle class
<v Speaker 1>game developer where they I think they just crush it.
<v Speaker 1>They know what they're making, they have really good handle
<v Speaker 1>on their technology.
<v Speaker 2>That stuff is happening. It's out there. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>I think that Sony needs to find like the space
<v Speaker 1>between that and Concord and there's got to be something
<v Speaker 1>in between there.
<v Speaker 3>And I know, folks listening at home, that that space
<v Speaker 3>does exist because we just listed off a couple of
<v Speaker 3>games that do that. And that place is actually the
<v Speaker 3>PC where the middle class of games finds an audience
<v Speaker 3>and succeeds. But it is very important for a big
<v Speaker 3>publisher like Sony or Microsoft to encourage that because that
<v Speaker 3>just keeps the whole industry healthy because then that console
<v Speaker 3>audience that isn't as plugged into PC games will find
<v Speaker 3>those games, and those games can succeed and blow up
<v Speaker 3>where we can continue to pay for the God of
<v Speaker 3>Wars out there and it is less of a stress
<v Speaker 3>if a concord fails.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and people pointing to Returnal, Yeah, good example. I
<v Speaker 1>think do a handful more of those. I think Returnal
<v Speaker 1>is a good game, not a great game, but it's
<v Speaker 1>definitely one that I think Returnal too, I think will
<v Speaker 1>very easily be great or whatever.
<v Speaker 2>They follow it up with.
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, I think that they know they can do this.
<v Speaker 1>I just wish they would emphasize it a little bit
<v Speaker 1>more and believe in their that that is an answer
<v Speaker 1>to their problem, and the way that they seem to
<v Speaker 1>believe live service games were an answer.
<v Speaker 2>Clearly it is a problem unto itself.
<v Speaker 3>Give me so Calm. I don't even need a headset anymore,
<v Speaker 3>it's my controller.
<v Speaker 2>Yep.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I think I think they had greenlit a so
<v Speaker 1>Calm instead of a concord in fair Games.
<v Speaker 2>I think they'd be feeling much better right now.
<v Speaker 3>As crazy as that is, I don't know if it's
<v Speaker 3>just nostalgia crub that has made me a so Cam freak.
<v Speaker 1>But yes, but that nostalgia is real for a lot
<v Speaker 1>of people. I never played much So Calm and even
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, man, I would I would be paying. I
<v Speaker 1>would be curious to see what a socom looks like
<v Speaker 1>right now.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, imagine if we had a So Calm, but your
<v Speaker 3>squad is just PlayStation IP. You get Days Gone guy, right,
<v Speaker 3>you get a Crash Bandicoot but he's grizzled, and then
<v Speaker 3>you get Spiral the Dragon.
<v Speaker 1>And one operator Crash Bandicoot and Spire the Dragon. It's
<v Speaker 1>a very good image, yes, and then.
<v Speaker 3>Your main character in this PlayStation So Calm is Blasto.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, yes, I'm down. Let's get this.
<v Speaker 3>Happened blade Blasto crump, Well.
<v Speaker 2>Boy, we can fix that.
<v Speaker 1>That's a delight club god, I don't know, it's delightful
<v Speaker 1>because of what's his name, Phil part Larman. Yes, thank you,
<v Speaker 1>all right, let's keep going here. As promised, switch to
<v Speaker 1>rumors are hitting a fever pitch.
<v Speaker 2>This is from Ethan Gotch at Kotaku. Shout outst Ethan.
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo Switch owners have been waiting for upgraded hardware for years.
<v Speaker 1>They might finally get a glimpse of that later this month,
<v Speaker 1>as rumors continue pouring in about an imminent reveal, A
<v Speaker 1>potential imminent reveal of a switch to console in September,
<v Speaker 1>including that it will boast backward compatibility so that fans
<v Speaker 1>vast collections can come along for the ride. There's been
<v Speaker 1>speculation about Nintendo teasing at least a glimpse, excuse me,
<v Speaker 1>a glimpse of the upcoming console this month.
<v Speaker 2>For a while.
<v Speaker 1>That's because the company followed a similar timeline with the
<v Speaker 1>rollout of the original Switch and recently jumbled around its
<v Speaker 1>normal Nintendo Direct schedule to seemingly make room for some
<v Speaker 1>kind of showing something of something in September. Now, fans
<v Speaker 1>increasingly feel like the switch ining might finally be underway. Yesterday,
<v Speaker 1>games industry dopis head Christopher Drink teased industry whispers that
<v Speaker 1>something Switched To related would be happening this month, describing
<v Speaker 1>the vibe in a follow up tweet as just chatter
<v Speaker 1>from Folks. Editor in chief of VGC Andy robinsonport both
<v Speaker 1>hot and cold water on the report, saying, seems a
<v Speaker 1>bunch of press. I've heard this, he posted, but I
<v Speaker 1>still wouldn't.
<v Speaker 2>Bet my house on it.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, there's definitely chatter, but I mean, I'm I'm with
<v Speaker 1>Andy about this, where it's.
<v Speaker 2>Like I wouldn't. I'm not going to guarantee anything here.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know.
<v Speaker 1>I've I've heard these these rumors going around people. A
<v Speaker 1>lot of it is people piecing things together, right They
<v Speaker 1>a direct normally happens in September. It does seem like
<v Speaker 1>they moved a direct into August to make space for
<v Speaker 1>something or for whatever reason. Maybe it was a conflict,
<v Speaker 1>like maybe Miyamoto was going to go on vacation or something.
<v Speaker 1>Who knows, but they did move it, and the suggestion
<v Speaker 1>is like they moved it so that they could have
<v Speaker 1>a switch to reveal in September. That is definitely still possible.
<v Speaker 1>That is within the timeframe of what they said they're
<v Speaker 1>going to announce the switch to in some way before
<v Speaker 1>the end of the fiscal year. That's before the end
<v Speaker 1>of the fiscal year in March, but then there's a
<v Speaker 1>lot of days after that where it could still be announced.
<v Speaker 1>I think that Nintudo might be feeling a little bit
<v Speaker 1>more ready to go though, And maybe one of the
<v Speaker 1>reasons that they did move things around is because they
<v Speaker 1>did look at how the switch is performing. They wanted
<v Speaker 1>to sell fifteen million units this year this financial year.
<v Speaker 2>They're not on pace to do that.
<v Speaker 1>Maybe they're like, maybe they're saying, oh, okay, we are
<v Speaker 1>going to miss that, so let's actually get things going
<v Speaker 1>a little bit sooner than we originally planned or or
<v Speaker 1>maybe originally originally we did plan it for around this timeframe,
<v Speaker 1>so we're ready to go.
<v Speaker 2>What do you think?
<v Speaker 3>It is one of those things that is inevitable, grub,
<v Speaker 3>and it's coming any day now. I am starting to
<v Speaker 3>get tired of the switch to. Even the switch to
<v Speaker 3>is occupying the same brain space for me as GTA six,
<v Speaker 3>where yeah, yeah, it's coming, all right, cool, like everyone
<v Speaker 3>everyone relaxed. There's nothing we can do until the people
<v Speaker 3>behind the scenes just decided to publish the trailer or
<v Speaker 3>like with the name out. At this point, my shoot
<v Speaker 3>idea Grub as to why Nintendo has yet to announce
<v Speaker 3>the switch to is because they don't know what to
<v Speaker 3>call it. Sure there is like there are like several
<v Speaker 3>departments across the world with throwing papers in the air,
<v Speaker 3>going like I don't know what to call it. Super switch.
<v Speaker 3>Turns out SS is a bad acronym.
<v Speaker 2>But not a good one.
<v Speaker 1>Oh no, one likes that super Nintendo Switch. Do you
<v Speaker 1>have to call SNS? I don't like the way that
<v Speaker 1>sounds either, and it probably it is too close to
<v Speaker 1>Super Nintendo, so they is Super Nintendo, so they probably
<v Speaker 1>wouldn't like that either, because it's like it's confused and
<v Speaker 1>we already did.
<v Speaker 3>That exactly Super Nintendo love sn NOL.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah there is.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, no, no, I don't think so, I don't think
<v Speaker 1>I'm don't ring a bell or anything. Uh yeah, I
<v Speaker 1>mean this story goes on to talk about how like
<v Speaker 1>analyst Dave Gibson from MST Financial says that, like one
<v Speaker 1>of the production companies that Nintendo works with is talking
<v Speaker 1>about ramping up spending on on equipment and manufacturing an
<v Speaker 1>auto automation in a huge way in Vietnam in this
<v Speaker 1>next quarter or whatever.
<v Speaker 2>And you know that stuff is like not online yet
<v Speaker 2>if they're going doing it in the next quarter.
<v Speaker 1>But either way, production, like everyone speculating production is a
<v Speaker 1>like that is happening very soon. This thing is actually
<v Speaker 1>gonna be They're gonna begin if they're not actually assembling
<v Speaker 1>the switch to itself, the components that make up the
<v Speaker 1>switch to are definitely happening happening very soon, if not already.
<v Speaker 1>And then once that stuff is sitting around, well they're
<v Speaker 1>not gonna want it sitting around two lungs. That's just
<v Speaker 1>a waste of money. They will begin actually assembling those
<v Speaker 1>things and then and then at that point it's gonna leak,
<v Speaker 1>so and the Nintendo knows this, so they're going to
<v Speaker 1>talk about it at that time. I think all that
<v Speaker 1>lines up to suggest this thing probably does get announced
<v Speaker 1>this month. But that's just a guess. And I say
<v Speaker 1>that because it's like I think September makes the most sense,
<v Speaker 1>and then after that October, November, December maybe don't make
<v Speaker 1>quite as much sense. Then maybe we are waiting till
<v Speaker 1>either maybe late December or January. But I don't know
<v Speaker 1>if they want to wait that long. So if with
<v Speaker 1>all that in mind, I say it probably does happen
<v Speaker 1>this month.
<v Speaker 3>Also, you know, end of the month is Tokyo Game Show,
<v Speaker 3>so that the direct time to show off whatever games
<v Speaker 3>are are going to be ready to play, or if
<v Speaker 3>hardware isn't ready yet, that's at least a place to
<v Speaker 3>be like, hey, now we're taking public appointments for this thing.
<v Speaker 3>We all know it exists now.
<v Speaker 1>And there's room for there to have like tertiary partners
<v Speaker 1>finally get their hands on like dev units or something.
<v Speaker 1>Now that it's public, it's like, hey, Nintendo's presidence at
<v Speaker 1>Tokyo Game Show is, let's take a meeting. Yeah, band
<v Speaker 1>I Namco, you've had a dev kit for a long
<v Speaker 1>time now. But like all these other smaller studios in
<v Speaker 1>Japan that we continue to love working with, let's make
<v Speaker 1>sure you get in line so you can get your
<v Speaker 1>stuff as well. Now that you know it exists, we
<v Speaker 1>have no problem with like here fell out the paperwork,
<v Speaker 1>give us the deposit, and we'll.
<v Speaker 2>Get your unit right away. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>I think circumstantially a lot of that stuff makes sense,
<v Speaker 1>but I just like it is a little bit. I
<v Speaker 1>get why people get frustrated with this stuff because it's like, God,
<v Speaker 1>we hear the speculation.
<v Speaker 2>It's ceaseless.
<v Speaker 1>People do also like speculating about it, so it always
<v Speaker 1>kind of it bubbles back up. And yeah, well we'll see.
<v Speaker 1>I think that we probably do. If it happens, it
<v Speaker 1>probably is in the next couple of weeks, and where
<v Speaker 1>we're at September fifth, so maybe I mean next week,
<v Speaker 1>the week after that, and then Tokyo Game Show is
<v Speaker 1>the week after that, last week of September, So yeah,
<v Speaker 1>we'll see.
<v Speaker 3>Hey, that being said, someone send us the Tokyo Game Show.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, come on Tokyo Game Show, but I will bring
<v Speaker 1>your boys out love a good time.
<v Speaker 3>Oh my god, imagine the Germany crew. What if we
<v Speaker 3>find the Japanese equivalent of DJ as TETs.
<v Speaker 2>That's got to exist.
<v Speaker 1>Absolutely, we can have them DJ battle. That would be incredible,
<v Speaker 1>real quick. Part of this story, one of the other
<v Speaker 1>rumors is kind of a reconfirmation of something that we've
<v Speaker 1>had confirmed a little bit. You know, so as much
<v Speaker 1>as we can confirm anything for a system that doesn't
<v Speaker 1>technically exist yet, that the switch to will have backward compatibility.
<v Speaker 1>Nathan Hate, who is a Nintendo insider, kind of an
<v Speaker 1>insider generally, but Nintendo folks to Nintendo quite a bit.
<v Speaker 1>He mentioned that, Yeah, this thing has full backward compatibility,
<v Speaker 1>or he just said it is backward compatible. I think
<v Speaker 1>it's how he phrased it. Yeah, the expectations were there.
<v Speaker 1>We've talked about this a lot where there were reasons
<v Speaker 1>to be skeptical. Part of that is Nintendo being Nintendo.
<v Speaker 1>Other parts are the hardware isn't It doesn't make it
<v Speaker 1>easy to just bring everything from the switch to the
<v Speaker 1>switch to it.
<v Speaker 2>There was going to be a challenge there.
<v Speaker 1>Excuse me, but I think Nvidia Nintendo likely figured that
<v Speaker 1>out solved it.
<v Speaker 2>And by that I mean Nvidia.
<v Speaker 1>Did the work and Nintendo, you know, paid them money
<v Speaker 1>for the chips, and that's kind of how it goes.
<v Speaker 2>Thanks, all right.
<v Speaker 1>Ubisoft stock sinks to a ten year low as Star
<v Speaker 1>Wars Outlaws underperforms. This is from Steven T. Wright at GameSpot.
<v Speaker 1>Star Wars Outlaws is the first open world Star Wars
<v Speaker 1>game ever, but it seems that the galactic low life
<v Speaker 1>adventure isn't quite living up to sales expectations. Ubisoft's share
<v Speaker 1>prices has fallen twelve point six percent since Outlaws released
<v Speaker 1>on August twenty seventh, and it now sits at the
<v Speaker 1>lowest level since twenty fifteen. Ubisoft's sales target for US
<v Speaker 1>Star Wars Outlaws is unclear. The company didn't announce a
<v Speaker 1>public number, but the market results indicate that it's not
<v Speaker 1>a hit. Per Reuters, JP Morgan analyst Daniel Curvin said
<v Speaker 1>that the game has struggled to meet sales expectations despite
<v Speaker 1>positive critical reviews. The analysts lowered his sales expectations for
<v Speaker 1>the game from seven point five million to five point
<v Speaker 1>five million through March twenty twenty five, noting that Outlaws
<v Speaker 1>budget was at least thirty percent higher than that of
<v Speaker 1>last year's Assassin's Creed Mirage. Outlaws, of course, is that
<v Speaker 1>the only thing weighing on ubisoft stock price. Initial interest
<v Speaker 1>in the companies free to play online shooter X Defiant
<v Speaker 1>has cooled off in recent months, which contributed to the
<v Speaker 1>slide Ubisau's in the next major release will come on
<v Speaker 1>November fifteenth, with Assassin's Creed Shadows. Yeah, I think it's
<v Speaker 1>hard to put my finger on the pulse of how
<v Speaker 1>Outlaws is Outlaws is doing. It's kind of feels like
<v Speaker 1>it's punching above its weight based on how it did
<v Speaker 1>review Like I go, seventy five is a good score
<v Speaker 1>in a lot of ways. Definitely a lot of games,
<v Speaker 1>you know, struggle to get that high, for sure. I
<v Speaker 1>think it's a little disappointing for what people were expecting
<v Speaker 1>from this game. I think many people are disappointed with
<v Speaker 1>this game. Myself, as I continue to play it, I
<v Speaker 1>think it gets better and better. I think a lot
<v Speaker 1>of people feel that way as they continue to play it.
<v Speaker 1>So maybe it's kind of a bad Pepsi challenge thing
<v Speaker 1>where it's like people take the taste and they don't
<v Speaker 1>like it as much they thought they wouldn't they just.
<v Speaker 2>Put it away.
<v Speaker 1>But either way, I think there's also just this general
<v Speaker 1>vibe of people being skeptical about spending seventy dollars on
<v Speaker 1>new video games and they look for an excuse enough
<v Speaker 1>to do it, and I think it hurt this game
<v Speaker 1>in particular.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's it's a whole mix of different issues grub
<v Speaker 3>like the seventy dollars issue. Maybe people are tired of
<v Speaker 3>Star Wars across the board.
<v Speaker 2>They feel burned by it, for sure.
<v Speaker 3>People also feel burned by you be Soft as a company.
<v Speaker 3>And then the other aspect of this is maybe Ubisoft
<v Speaker 3>got to chill with their expectations, especially if they are
<v Speaker 3>being labeled as expectations.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean those expectations they you know, they don't
<v Speaker 1>come out of nowhere, right, It's it's based on how
<v Speaker 1>much money they spend on something. They spend that much
<v Speaker 1>because they can justify it by saying we expect to
<v Speaker 1>sell this much.
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, I mean, you're you're right, still.
<v Speaker 1>Like I don't this game would have been significantly worse
<v Speaker 1>if it didn't have that extra suspent on it that
<v Speaker 1>they did versus Assassin's Crew miarrage. It does feel like
<v Speaker 1>they had a lot more ideas and then in the
<v Speaker 1>end they were able to sort of piece together what
<v Speaker 1>they had in a relatively cohesive way. But it feels
<v Speaker 1>relatively cohesive, and I think if you keel back thirty
<v Speaker 1>percent of that polish, this is a game that is
<v Speaker 1>much worse, much rougher, and I think is doing even worse,
<v Speaker 1>way worse on metacritics. So it needed that investment to
<v Speaker 1>be what it is. And then the only reason you
<v Speaker 1>could justify that is saying.
<v Speaker 2>It's Star Wars game. It should sell pretty well.
<v Speaker 1>I wonder if this thing gets a little bit of
<v Speaker 1>a bump during the holidays, if they could drop to
<v Speaker 1>fifty dollars and get it through Black Friday, and the
<v Speaker 1>word of mouth does seem to be picking up a
<v Speaker 1>little bit. I think there's a chance it kind of
<v Speaker 1>has a second wind here.
<v Speaker 3>Lex pointed this out in chat. But there is that
<v Speaker 3>expectation with Ubisoft games for them to go on sale
<v Speaker 3>pratty dramatically pretty quickly after the release, So I think
<v Speaker 3>that is also informing the consumer of like, hey, I
<v Speaker 3>know what to expect from Ubisoft. Yep, we're eventually going
<v Speaker 3>to drop that price. Also, the holidays are coming up,
<v Speaker 3>so maybe you know, I know, we're still in September,
<v Speaker 3>but there's that Black Friday proximity effect happening where I'm
<v Speaker 3>just gonna wait for stuff.
<v Speaker 1>It's a I think people have are finding a lot
<v Speaker 1>of reasons to argue with themselves against buying this game
<v Speaker 1>right now. Like we talked about how every purchase is
<v Speaker 1>a conversation with yourself, justifying things to yourself, and I
<v Speaker 1>just think this one had too many entries in the
<v Speaker 1>con column for making a purchase right now, and the
<v Speaker 1>pro column was I like Star Wars, but god, everything
<v Speaker 1>about Star Wars right now is bumming me out, and
<v Speaker 1>all this like there's just so many caveats that I
<v Speaker 1>think it hurt this game overall and stuff they couldn't predicted,
<v Speaker 1>and I think they did kind of the best they
<v Speaker 1>could with the game that they were making. For the
<v Speaker 1>most part, there's definitely you know, obviously people some people
<v Speaker 1>don't want a stealth game, like, yeah, there's there's issues there,
<v Speaker 1>but I.
<v Speaker 2>Don't know, I'm enjoying it.
<v Speaker 1>It's now that I'm done with Astro where you know,
<v Speaker 1>I'll clean up Astro, but I'm still going to be
<v Speaker 1>playing Star Wars Outlaws as my main game.
<v Speaker 3>Especially, it's hard to justify that seventy dollars grub when
<v Speaker 3>you're constantly betting the house.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, yep, yeah, And that's Ubisoft. It seems like they're
<v Speaker 1>in the business of we have to bet the house constantly,
<v Speaker 1>and they have when that's blown up in their faces
<v Speaker 1>now multiple times they have had to like we're delaying everything,
<v Speaker 1>we're freaking out over here, and they've kind of done
<v Speaker 1>that so many times and now they're like, well, we
<v Speaker 1>got to bet the house on this next thing because
<v Speaker 1>we just missed out money from these last fiscal year
<v Speaker 1>because we didn't release anything. So yeah, I all that said,
<v Speaker 1>I think Assassin's Creed Shadows is going to do pretty well.
<v Speaker 1>I think the game as long as it's like a
<v Speaker 1>pretty high quality, if it's like one of the better
<v Speaker 1>Assassin's Creeds, I think it's got a chance of doing
<v Speaker 1>pretty well. All right, let's see here, last couple of stories.
<v Speaker 1>Destiny Mobile game is in the works at net ease.
<v Speaker 1>There's a this is a rumor I post on threads
<v Speaker 1>that this is real, it's happening. It's going to be
<v Speaker 1>basically Destiny on mobile. Instead of making your own character,
<v Speaker 1>you have hero characters. So it's going to be a
<v Speaker 1>little bit different. Net Ease is doing the vast majority
<v Speaker 1>of the work on this game. There are people from
<v Speaker 1>Bunchie working on it, but they're doing you know, they
<v Speaker 1>do the kind of stuff we It's like, does this
<v Speaker 1>make sense with our universe? We approve, like the use
<v Speaker 1>of rip in these various ways, that sort of thing.
<v Speaker 1>It is not like a retelling of Destiny one or two.
<v Speaker 1>It's a whole other new story things like that. So
<v Speaker 1>could get announced here any minute and then it should
<v Speaker 1>come out in twenty twenty five. I don't know any
<v Speaker 1>interest in Destiny Destiny what is it called Destiny Rising
<v Speaker 1>on Mobile?
<v Speaker 2>Jan Nah?
<v Speaker 3>Not really, but hey, I know there's Destiny freaks out there.
<v Speaker 3>I just can't imagine doing one of those raids on
<v Speaker 3>my phone based off of how long they're expected to take.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean, I think there's probably an audience out
<v Speaker 1>there that, like, you know, of younger, younger kids who
<v Speaker 1>are getting into that kind of like playing games with
<v Speaker 1>their friends in a really strong way who that really
<v Speaker 1>appeals to, But I'm with you, that's that couldn't be me.
<v Speaker 1>Acer revealed the Nitro Blaze seven handheld their own handheld PC.
<v Speaker 1>This from Darren Bonfiusic game Spot. Interesting thing about this
<v Speaker 1>is instead of using the Z one processor that like
<v Speaker 1>the Roger ally has, it uses an AMD rise in
<v Speaker 1>seven eighty eight forty hs. Excuse me, that's going to
<v Speaker 1>have the rise in AI And I know that's marketing,
<v Speaker 1>but really what that means is this could have improved
<v Speaker 1>upscaling so that AI could be used directly to improve
<v Speaker 1>the image quality and frame rate and all this other stuff.
<v Speaker 1>At least that's the it seems to be the intention here,
<v Speaker 1>So maybe this thing could end up having some really
<v Speaker 1>nice features in terms of run the game at a
<v Speaker 1>lower frame rate, lower resolution, but it's going to look
<v Speaker 1>really good and we're going to save a ton of
<v Speaker 1>battery life in the process. That that rise in seven,
<v Speaker 1>that eighty eight to forty chips already very efficient, so
<v Speaker 1>could be a cool thing. I'm glad there's more competition.
<v Speaker 1>These things tend to come in a little bit more
<v Speaker 1>expensive than the steam Deck. Steam Deck is definitely the
<v Speaker 1>one that is subsidized, so it's gonna be more expensive,
<v Speaker 1>but you know, you get the Windows thing if you
<v Speaker 1>want that, you know, not that I do.
<v Speaker 2>And then finally, Jan watch out.
<v Speaker 1>Blatro is coming to iOS and Android and Apple Arcade
<v Speaker 1>on September twenty six. This is from sal Ramano Kamatsu
<v Speaker 1>publisher Place Deck and develop a local Thunk will release
<v Speaker 1>Bilatro for iOS via App Store and Android via Google
<v Speaker 1>Play on September twenty sixth or ten dollars. The company's
<v Speaker 1>announced it will also be available via Apple Arcade. It's
<v Speaker 1>not like exclusive the Apple Arcade. So that's pretty that's
<v Speaker 1>pretty cool. She was like the biggest game in the
<v Speaker 1>world if it's able to do that, because most of
<v Speaker 1>these games, like they get the Apple Arcade money and
<v Speaker 1>they get locked down. Oka't lockdown, Bolotro. Come on, this
<v Speaker 1>game's massive. I'm I will buy this thing again. You're
<v Speaker 1>gonna be okay, bud Jan, It's gonna listen, man, you
<v Speaker 1>don't have to download it. You could just you know,
<v Speaker 1>put your phone in a lock box or something, keep
<v Speaker 1>it away, go cold turkey. Man, It's gonna be okay.
<v Speaker 3>Dude, grub I uh why why why why why? Why
<v Speaker 3>why why Why why does the world do this to me?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean they know they're coming for you. That's
<v Speaker 1>just how it is. I uh, I'm gonna play a
<v Speaker 1>lot of this sham. I already been kind of getting
<v Speaker 1>the itch to go back to Blattro, and this seems
<v Speaker 1>like the exact way to do it.
<v Speaker 2>I bet it's gonna look great on phone too.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, I'm very blot while driving, of course, lane mc COSSU,
<v Speaker 1>and don't ask stupid questions.
<v Speaker 3>Pass out to my degenerates out there. The grub. The
<v Speaker 3>thing that I'm scared of is that they've been teasing
<v Speaker 3>another thing, like another like mode update.
<v Speaker 2>Like a really like a big expansion.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, yeah, and I fear that it may be
<v Speaker 3>mobile oriented where it's gonna it's gonna punch me in
<v Speaker 3>the pants, grub. Yeah, it's gonna just punch me right
<v Speaker 3>in the jeans.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, god, they've already got the like rogue light
<v Speaker 1>thing locked down, so it's like, what else can they do?
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, I don't know, we'll see. Maybe they're gonna be.
<v Speaker 3>Sorry I just caught pneumonia and start gurgling. Oh man,
<v Speaker 3>this is great. It's absolutely fantastic for shoot, though, that
<v Speaker 3>there's gonna be so many people playing this grub now
<v Speaker 3>that it's available on phones, it's gonna be wild. And
<v Speaker 3>you know what, it's great because Bilotro is a fantastic game,
<v Speaker 3>and up until Astrobot it was a lot for my
<v Speaker 3>game of the Year, and now it's like a it's
<v Speaker 3>a grudge match.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's a conversation, yeah, man.
<v Speaker 3>For me personally, it's it's a three way. It's a
<v Speaker 3>triple threat between Astrobot, Bilatro and Infinite Wealth. I don't
<v Speaker 3>know what to do.
<v Speaker 1>Infinite Wealth is right there for me as well, and
<v Speaker 1>then Prince of Persia. Yeah, what fucker game? Whatever the
<v Speaker 1>fuck that thinks?
<v Speaker 3>Cool?
<v Speaker 2>I can never remember it. Lost Sword.
<v Speaker 1>I have no idea, but yes, there's God, there's a
<v Speaker 1>lot of great games this year for sure. Yeah, Lost Crime,
<v Speaker 1>thank you, chat appreciate that. Okay, Pole question from ancient past.
<v Speaker 1>The last time I did this this show six days ago, court, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>last week sometime. Do you think Konami will really port
<v Speaker 1>metal Gear Solid for to modern devices? Seventy two believe
<v Speaker 1>and say yes. Twenty eight percent still think no. I
<v Speaker 1>just think they don't want.
<v Speaker 2>To be hurt.
<v Speaker 1>I don't blame it all right, we'll have a new
<v Speaker 1>poll question here in a second. We'll get to that momentarily,
<v Speaker 1>But first, Jim, what do we got going on the website?
<v Speaker 3>Well, I want to take today to wish a happy
<v Speaker 3>one yearish anniversary to our dear friend Nikki Grayson for
<v Speaker 3>working with us for a year and some change now. Also,
<v Speaker 3>just Miscellanea shouts out to Turbo Shan just because of
<v Speaker 3>Sean being Sean. Today we've got another episode of the
<v Speaker 3>Voicemail Dump Truck. Tomorrow will be a you know what,
<v Speaker 3>We're just going to stream Astrobot. Maybe we'll start from
<v Speaker 3>the very beginning, just so we don't spoil anything for
<v Speaker 3>folks at home that don't want to see the later content.
<v Speaker 3>And there will be a BCR either today maybe tomorrow,
<v Speaker 3>who knows, dedicated to Astrobot, because that is the actual
<v Speaker 3>game of the week.
<v Speaker 2>Yep, exactly, yep.
<v Speaker 1>And when we do that BCR, we'll do a quick
<v Speaker 1>little nugget on the Zelda stuff that we got to
<v Speaker 1>see at PACs because we've got to see an extended demo.
<v Speaker 1>Very excited about that game. It looks very good, like
<v Speaker 1>already like filling out my Game of the Year list
<v Speaker 1>and it's like, oh yeah, a Zelda is still coming.
<v Speaker 2>And from what I played, it's like, oh yeah.
<v Speaker 1>This takes all the stuff I like about, like link
<v Speaker 1>between worlds and links awakening, and then adds in that
<v Speaker 1>creativity element that was in Breath of the Wild and
<v Speaker 1>Tears of the Kingdom and it's just astounding stuff. So yep,
<v Speaker 1>very much looking forward to that. All right, new pole question.
<v Speaker 2>Let's see here. Are you getting after a bot? Yes
<v Speaker 2>or no?
<v Speaker 1>We'll talk about the results of that on Games Mornings
<v Speaker 1>here on Giant Bomb tomorrow. Well, last thing speaking to
<v Speaker 1>Giant Bomb. Stick around. We'll have some more stuff at
<v Speaker 1>some point, I don't know. Yeah, look, you hang out
<v Speaker 1>with us. And one last shout out to everybody that
<v Speaker 1>did come out to the panels at packs. Yeah, it
<v Speaker 1>was fantastic. All right, Jan thank you so much for
<v Speaker 1>hanging out with me today and talk about video games. Man,
<v Speaker 1>I really appreciate it.
<v Speaker 3>It's my favorite way to start a Thursday.
<v Speaker 2>Thank you all for watching and listening. You're the best
<v Speaker 2>audience in gaming.
<v Speaker 1>Until next time, have a good one, Take care of yourself,
<v Speaker 1>goad bye, We're back.
<v Speaker 2>Everybody whoa
<v Speaker 1>Mm hm