Ghost of Tsushima's PC Port Coming Soon?

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Everybody, Emma, how are you doing? Hello, I'm great. I'm
debuting my new hair today. It's like a shade of blonde. Thank you
so much. I suddenly got interested in my natural hair color, so we're
experimenting and bringing it down to see if we can get it back to what
it probably naturally is, which is maybe even a teeny bit darker than this.
But this is pretty close and I'm a big fan. I'm loving seeing
people in chat talking about they've played Final Fantasy seven Rebirth for twenty hours and
are still in the grasslands. I salute you. I am with you.
This is my life as well, and also apparently Roche's best boy now,
so oh okay, with everybody else, wants the sequel to be about him.
If there's a shifting tier list among faves in the community, is that
what's happening. Yeah, there's a shifting tier list. It seems like everybody's
team roche. Now. I still stand by Zach being best boy, but
you know, and now and now spoilers, but we're allowed to talk about
it because the game is out. At the beginning of the game, you
immediately play a Zach and it's just like, yes, oh, stabbed right
to the heart right off the bat. But yeah, that's that's that has
nothing to do with how I'm doing. That's just me. It seems like
it has a lot to do with how you're doing. Let's keep you guys,
it really does. I've played so much Vital Fantasy seven Rebirth. I
think I've played like one hundred hours now, So yeah, you beat it?
Do you have you you've gone back? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
so I yeah, I finished the game, and then I was like,
you know what, I'd have to load up the game again on the chapter
select because I've got to stomp every fool in the land in Queen's Blood.
So that's what I'm currently doing, all right, excellent and I got started.
I got to Queen's Blood. That is a very good game. That
Queen's Blood. They did a very good job at that. It's so fun.
Yeah, it's like very quick to get the hang of it. And
then you start seeing like okay, here's some clear strategies and you have options
in however direction you want to take that strategy. It's it's very cool.
Well, my current my current deck is so sick, like ugh, it's
so good. Apparently they did actually test out a physical version of it,
and I'm like, okay, they should just make right. Oh yeah,
we need some stuff to put on the board. Yeah, I would like
to have a ton if we can get that done, like if that exists
and we can get it from Square by the time, say, like I
don't know, Summer games. Wouldn't it be amazing if they were demoing that
at Summer Games? Best like the real Queen Slide don't join it at our
studio for when we do our Giant bomb at night. Yeah, that would
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the Morning Mess with Piuro implies March tenth as in Mario Day, we'll see
Nintendo share paper Mario and Luigi's Mansion two info. This is from my Nintendo
News. Just a quick little tip here. Prominent leaker Porro or Payoro as
hinting that we could get more information about the paper Mario the thousand Year Door
remake and Luigi's manch too on March tenth or around March tenth, which which
is Mario Day because mar one zero looks on zero. Yes, we haven't
heard much about either title as of late, so March tenth would be an
ideal time for Nintendo to vulge more. Nintendo has yet to ann's any plans
for Mario Day this year. This is something that could happen, but Mari,
like March tenth is a Sunday, So if they're gonna do it,
I imagine they'll be like, well, you know, we're celebrating Mario Day
this year this weekend, and they'll probably have some news on Thursday or Friday.
Nintendo, you know, well, a company that loves celebrating Mario Day,
company that typically doesn't do stuff on the weekend very often, especially something
that feels like a little stunty like this, right, one hundred percent?
Yeah, I mean I don't think that it would be as you say,
on March tenth, just given the fact that it is Sunday, and and
it is a weekend, like it's a weekend in Japan, and also and
more likely, as you say, it would be in the week leading up
to that, that there would be a Mario specific Nintendo direct. That all
seems very very likely. It's just the actual timing of it that is up
for debate. Yeah, it's the kind of thing where also like, hey,
that they could drop this stuff in tiny little Twitter announcements that doesn't have
to be some big production behind it, so that I suppose they could just
drop a tweet on Mario Day. But also I think they want to like
get a little bit of buzz going, so that would necessitate them, at
least to a certain degree, just starting to talk about it this week.
But hey, I'm I'm happy to get news about these games if we do.
If we do get more information, like we get the release dates for
Paper Mari and Luigi's Nanser two, I think that puts us back at a
situation where we do have just about all the information about Nintendo's announced games.
Besides obviously I guess Metroid Prime four tchnically getting announced seventy five goddamn years ago,
but beyond that, like everything else that's been announced recently should then have
a release date kind of like makes us wonder what's gonna happen next, She's
what's gonna happen next? And yeah, a lot of reasons to suspect we
should get some more news about Nintendo stuff here soon ish, Yes, And
also, I mean, you think about the fact that Super Mario Brothers Wonder
kind of came out of nowhere last year. It's like they announced it and
then it was out a few months later. So I do wonder also if
there's going to be some additional Mario adjacent title, like I don't know,
like a Yoshi centric title like give us, Give us a Yoshi's Island for
Switch or something. They're going to make it. They would make another good
Yoshi's Island. I would be all for that. One of my favorite games,
although none of the sequels have really done it for me. Yeah,
I mean we know that, you know, based on a lot of reporting
now that the Switch to likely March of next year at the earliest, probably
does come out March and next so they can get it out in the current
fiscal year one way or the other. But that's ways off. That opens
up this massive gap for the holiday. And we just found out last week
with the Pokemon Direct that there's not necessarily going to be a new Pokemon game
released this holiday. Now, they could still announce something that's a possibility,
that is something that is that while wasn't the Pokemon Direct. Maybe they do
have a remake coming out this year. Probably not, but I'm not like
completely writing that office possibility. But as it stands right now, no Pokemon
for the holiday, So even the thing that was like the safe assumption not
happening for switch. So it's like they probably will start dropping some other stuff
here pretty soon, but not not anything too major, like you said,
maybe some other smaller things they might have already had in the works and they
might pull the trigger on it right. Yeah, definitely. And you know
what, in two Pokemon's credit Let's Go ev and Pikachu, which were effectively
red and blue, Red and Green remakes with a Pokemon Go aspect to them,
were way better than they had any right to be. So even if
Pokemon does re release something as like a sort of remake version of it,
you know, they're still pretty fun. Yep. Yeah, for sure,
and you know I would welcome something like that, that'd be cool. Yeah.
I'm trying to think what they've done for Mario Day in the past.
It's never been too huge, but I mean, at the very least,
like you know, they do have two Mario games that are coming out.
Yeah, it seems like they probably will mind us up with that. That
makes some sense, and then maybe some discounts on games but they've been actually
putting a lot of the big Mario games on sale pretty frequently frequently recently,
so I guess that's not going to stop them from doing it again. Yeah,
it seems they do sometimes have like Mario themed hardware. I suppose they
could do that as well, right, Yeah. I mean the other thing
that I'm sort of speculating here is obviously Mario has broken out of merely being
in video games, so I wonder if we might get like a teaser for
a second illumination Mario film. Certainly they're going to make one, then you
might drop a date for that that does happen for me, Yeah, yeah,
for a couple years ahead of time totally. Or also because I mean
they announced the Mario movie during a Nintendo direct, which was insane, Like
it was a film announced during a video game showcase, which was unheard of
at the time. But I also think too maybe there's a because I feel
like I've seen I don't know, i'd have to look up and see if
they already have them in Japan or not, but I've seen like the prototype
drawings of the power up bands for like Warrio and Waalawigi, like the villain
ones. So I wonder if maybe there could be some sort of light theme
park announcement. Yeah, that makes it. Yeah, you're right, like
sprinkle in a bunch of different stuff, like a here's how the partnership with
Illumination is expanding to like to evolve more stuff. Mario and hear some theme
park news. Even if the theme park news, like even if they start
talking a little bit more about the Donkey Kong stuff, that still would be
under the umbrella of Mario in some ways, I think in Nintendo's opinions.
So yeah, maybe you know, I'm not expecting the world, but it's
cool that I think even though Mario Day on a Sunday, we should still
expect something fun this week. Speaking of announcements this week, Ghost of Sushima's
PC port could reportedly surface this weeks from Jordan Miller at VGC. A PC
version of twenty twenties Ghost of Sushima could be announced next week, it's claimed
according to Xbox Era era as Nick Baker. Hy Nick, who accurately predicted
a majority of Sony's recent State of Play presentation, posted to Twitter claiming that
news on the unannounced but widely expected port could arrive as soon as Tuesday March
fifth, So tomorrow I'm hearing that we might get something about the Ghost of
Sushima pcport pretty soon, maybe around the fifth, he posted to Twitter.
Ghost of Sushimo was widely expected to arrive on PC at some point, following
in the footsteps of the majority of Sony's current first party output from that era.
Ghost of Sushimo was released in twenty twenty on PlayStation four and later received
a director's cut for PlayStation five. Yeah, we all agree that this seems
inevitable. And also we're getting to a point where it's like, I'm surprised
this happened. Hasn't happened already for games from that era, it was about
three years before they ended up on PC. Now. I think a big
part of that is like, well, when you start up a Spider Man
and you know that that is going to be very popular, like you could
see what we're going to get that to PC, let's let's prioritize that.
And Ghost of Sushermo I think surprised them how successful that was. That doesn't
mean it was never going to happen if it wasn't successful, but it was
very successful, and I think they were like, well, let's folks keep
focusing on upgrading and for PlayStation five, and we have these other games that
will prioritize, and we only have a limited number of teams that could port
things to PC like Nick C's and things like that. Let's have them work
on these other ones and they'll get the Ghost of Sushimo eventually. And now
they're getting into Ghost of Sushima and it could come out, and it feels
like it's going to come out, and then like next year after this,
like twenty twenty five, Sony says they won't have any major franchise ips that
are sequels to existing in France. It's like, well maybe after that,
very quickly we get Ghost of Sushima two and excitement will be reignited because of
this PC port. That makes a lot of sense, right, yeah,
I mean timing wise, it's like you think about something like The Last of
Us getting a PC port, and I feel like that that happened. Are
not so long before the TV show? How you know, It's like they're
they're very they're very smart about their timing on some of these titles. So
yeah, I mean it does seem very likely that it would be PC port
and then an announcement of Ghost to Shuma Part two. Yeah, I mean,
it's it is interesting because obviously like that, Sony works that way a
lot, where they have these titles that basically have these limited exclusivity deals and
then they are open to bringing them back on PC. So they're actually getting
more of a news life cycle out of those games because suddenly they're being available
to other people. I mean, you know, the Final Fantasy series is
a perfect example of this, where it's like they basically have a year of
exclusivity on PlayStation and then they come to PC and this is well known.
Yet no matter where there's any sort of advertising about these games, there's still
always people being like, bring it to PC immediately. It's like, that's
not it works save an exclusivity deal with Sony PlayStation trust me. So yeah,
I mean again, like that, as you say, it's it's inevitable
that this is going to get a PC port given the success of the game.
It's a little surprising it hasn't already happened. But again, you were
talking about an original ip, which is something that we don't necessarily see a
whole lot of because companies aren't really willing to gamble on new stuff. And
this is across the board. This isn't just in gaming, this is in
TV. This is in movies as well. You know, the only place
where you're really getting fresh IP is in like books basically. So look at
something like Ghostushima, which was totally original and to have it be so successful
is very encouraging. And bringing it to PC, you're just opening it up
to an entire additional audience that will then be hype about it potentially getting a
sequel. Yeah, and this is you know, Ghost of Sushimo. We
talk about the synergies with like a sequel. You talked about the synergies with
like a Last of Us and it's the TV show Ghost Sushi made last I
heard that movie was happening like they I think that like they had a director
and I thought it actually started filming. Uh, maybe maybe that's not the
case, but hey, there could be news with that like relatively soon as
well. And totally you know, Sony Pitchers wants to have that that that
you know, one hand, you know, clapping the other. However they're
saying goes, but like like we want to like make one thing to prop
up another, and so having the game ready to go on PC. Uh
So, like you said, get it back in the news. Maybe that
gets a little bit more attention to the movie, and then the movie brings
people back into buying these games. And now the game is available where you
just about anyone can get it, whether it's PlayStation or PC. At that
point, it's and we've seen over and over again now successful movies, it's
especially successful shows get people excited to go play games. That happened with The
Witcher, it did happen with the Last of Us, and they're like,
well, now we are set up and ready to capitalize on that because it's
on PC. Yep, maybe at the very least, at the very least,
I'm excited to like really dive into this. I played a little bit
of Ghostsushima when it launched, I think at the time, I think Mike
did the review when I was working at games Feet, so I was like,
I'll let him handle that. I'll handle something else. But I enjoy
what I played here. It seems like a better Assassin's Creed in some ways,
and like kind of what you expected some others and a lot of people
really loved it. It is like extraordinarily popular in Japan. It like really
took off there to the point where you have I think people were like,
oh, thank you with these Western devs for making something that really respects this
culture inst and likes like, okay, well, hearing that stuff gets me
more excited to play it. And now it's got like major updates that they've
done where they added cooperative multiplayer things like that, Like, yeah, there's
a bunch of reasons to go back to this game, and now I'm going
to use this as an excuse to do exactly that. I'm excited about it.
Yeah, and I mean it. It has its roots completely in Japanese
cinema and you know, like the films of Ocuratoryama and things our that's the
creator of Dragon Ball Sally. Yeah, curse, it's Monday, everybody listen.
Respect to paramas Onto. But uh but anyway, Yeah, it's like
it is a lot of basis in like Krosawa's films, and and so it
makes sense that that is something that would be very easy to adapt for the
screen as well, and then also just kind of like brings that world to
a different audience who might get curiosity about the games. They might not actually
play them, but hey, you know you're getting you're getting eyes on the
IP yep, uh real quick, a little hot off the presses. Xbox
Partner Preview is going to happen on March sixth. This is a looks like
this. It's going to stream to YouTube and Twitch at ten A and Pacific
time one pm Eastern. Uh. It'll have it's going to have a thirty
minute run time, and they're promising to feature titles like The First Berserker causon
Tales of the Canzera Zal, which is that game looks very good, Khnitsugami,
Half of the Goddess, which is that Capcom game that looked really good.
Yes, that looked sick. So we'll get more information on Path of
the Goddess, which is coming to like Game Past Day one. That's I
always point. I think that's a pretty big deal, a new Capcom IP
debuting coming to game Pass. I think it's like Microsoft making a really good
play with Capcom. There and other great titles coming to Xbox Windows or Game
Pass. So that'll happen this week. At the very least, Path of
the Goddess is exciting to me. Any like third party games that you want
to see show up at this. Oh man, you know, I love
everything that Xbox has been doing with Atlas, with the Persona and shooting my
tense titles. I mean, obviously that that seems unlikely given the fact that
like Persona three reload just came out, but you know and stuff like you
know, Persona four already got the Golden treatment. It's not quite as like
upscaled as Persona three is, because that's like fully looks like Persona five.
But yeah, I mean that's I think that. Yeah, Xbox has been
smart about their partnerships because you know, they're they're casting a wide net in
terms of who they're going to appeal to. And again it's like, I'm
with you that like Path of the Goddess looked super sick, so I'm stoked
to see more about that. Yeah, people are like saying and like Silk
Song that actually actually could show up here, because last time we saw it
was at an Xbox event. It could show up here. I think maybe,
especially if it's coming out like relatively soon. If that game's still not
coming out to like the second half of this year, they probably just wait
for a bigger showcase and going there because if that game has earned its like,
you know, space in a bigger showcase. So if they want to,
that could be in Microsoft's Juna E three equivalent at that point. Sure,
all right, Uh, this next story is going to be a jumping
off point. Speedy SD Express cards have gone nowhere for years, but Samsung,
Samsung could change that. This is from Andrew Cunningham at Ours Technica.
Basically, this story is just saying that, hey, this new format,
the new standard for SD cards, SD Express, hasn't caught on. Instead,
people continue to use the old format that gets about eight has a read
speed about eighty to ninety megab bytes per second. There are faster standards that
professionals use for like recording four K footage at sixty frames per second that's about
two two hundred and fifty megabytes per second, but that shows up almost nowhere
in most consumer electronics. This was meant to do that, and it has
a read speed of eight hundred megabytes per second. That is exciting because there
is a device that does have some connections to Samsung called the Nintendo switch to
that would greatly benefit from this being a thing. Now we don't know any
like, There's plenty to talk about with the switch to im improved visuals,
all these things that we're hoping for a bunch of Nvidia technologies that could push
resolutions and frame rates. We don't know where that stuff settled. We definitely
don't know about like what SD card slot is going to be on this thing.
It seems like a possibility though, that that Nintendo could be looking at
something along these lines, because they are when they showed off reportedly, when
they showed off the Switch to developers, I believe at games Com something along
those lines. They were showing Breath of the Wild running on the switch to
and there was no load screens. That was one of the big highlights of
the demo that they were showing. In order to get that off of expanded
media, they are going to need something faster than eighty to ninety megabytes of
REED speed on the device, and there are options developers of them. One
is you get the cartridge or you download the game and you have to install
it to an internal hard drive or SSD, which maybe does have faster speeds.
They could have an SSD built into this thing with five hundred gigabytes of
storage and that would solve it. But if they aren't going to have massive
internal storage, they're going to have to get people away to expand it.
This seems like a good solution. I might just be this might be like
hopeful thinking them up, but I don't know, it seems like it could
work to me. At the very least. They're gonna have to come up
with something, right, because games are getting bigger's getting bigger. Yeah,
go ahead. We've already seen that games that are on the Switch and that
are on other systems, namely Mortal Kombat one. You know, it looks
like a totally different game on the Switch simply because of the limitations of the
switch is hardware and how fast it can read. This is very exciting to
me as somebody who films a lot off. Right, Yes, if this
becomes the standard and I can just walk across the street to Staples and get
a super SD that reads up to eight hundred megamus per second, like I'm
in because we're I mean, that's always the thing is like transferring footage is
so much of the gig when you're filming stuff, and like this would change
the game in terms of just like this would put it in enough switch two's
that the economy of scale would kick in and we could be expecting to see
like this being available in more places. Yes, exactly, exactly. Yeah,
if this becomes like the mass market thing, then like, uh,
like the relief I feel just thinking about it, the hours spent transferring footages
to hard drives, because it's like, we already have the SSDs, which
read a lot faster than your sort of standard hard drive, but then if
you're also copying off of an SD card that reads that fast, like it's
just going to make everybody's lives so much easier. Yeah, And it's the
kind of thing where SATA SSD drives are a little bit slower than eight hundred
megabytes per second. So it's like you could have one of the Zoo SD
express things be the main storage I like a Raspberry Pie or a really tiny
computing device. Yeah, and it would like, yeah, it's not going
to be in vm E SSD speeds, but it's going to be way faster
than you need for just about anything. And so it's like, now we
have cheap small Windows drives on these SD cards, so we could pop into
stuff and it's like that would be a huge leap or you know, or
Linux or whatever. If you're on a Raspberry Pie. That would be excellent
for a whole number of reasons, and then it would start here. It's
like you need a big company to adopt it to kickstart, and like Apple's
not like putting SD card slots on their devices. That's something that like would
have helped, but they're not going to be doing that, and most phone
manufacturers have gotten dropped to SD card slots and micro SD card slots. So
it's like, well, a switch to is like one possible device that actually
could change this. So yeah, I'm with you, Like there's a number
of work like scenarios that I would really want one of these things. And
it does start for me with hey, hey my game's run fast on a
switch to because of this thing. Yeah I'm happy, But then I want
to be able to go buy one of these things and put it in any
number of devices, including like future commuting devices. So yeah, fantastic.
Absolutely. Uh A final thing before the break eas Star Wars Strategy game is
still in development following RESPAWND cancelations. This is from Jordan Midler at VGC.
The Star Wars Strategy Game, currently in development at Bitreactor, will continue despite
recent layoffs at publisher EA. That's according to a post from the developer on
Twitter following news that Respawn's first person shooter was canceled this week, It wrote,
the studio wrote, last week was difficult for the edustry, and more
so because of our strong relationships within the other teams at Respawn. But for
those asking, we are still hard at work and our game was unaffected by
last week's news. We still don't know a ton about this game, but
it was one of several projects like announced as part of a batch of like
Star Wars things happening at Respawn, including that Star Wars first person shooter was
confirmed at the same time. So when that got canceled, people were wondering
about this bit Reactor game. But at the time it seemed like no news
was good news, and that seems to be the case. What this sounds
like to me, Emma, is they already have a contract studio bit Reactor
that they're working with here that probably has reduced costs for them. It's like
they are only committed for what they've already committed to this company to make the
game, and then respond is working with them on it. But it's like
that those resources are probably minimal compared to starting up a whole new game where
it's like, no, Respond is making an entire Star Wars first person shooter,
yes, and it's still two three years away from coming out, so
they're only going to have to scale up. It feels like, no,
this is already part of the cost cutting measures, right, Yeah. I
mean, as you say, it's like they've already basically contracted out to another
developer to work on the strategy title and so that is that is a completely
separate entity effectively than Respawn building a first person shooter from the ground up.
So yeah, I mean at this point, it feels like that game is
definitely, you know, still going to go forward because, as you say,
EA has actually contracted out to somebody else, not to Respond specifically,
So that's like, yeah, it's happened. We don't know anything about it.
It's a ways out, but it's happening. It does like I do
wonder what's going to happen with Respawn. They you know, Apex Legends is
in a certain like like kind of end of life, a very long end
of life scenario, but they're not like looking to reinvest in the Apex Legends
in a major way. They're not like gonna turn it off tomorrow, It's
going to take years, but they are like we have I think I think
they believe at EA that they've seen the peak of Apex Legends, and and
that they don't believe that they can change the fortunes of that. I who
knows games continue to grow over time, but Apex Legends didn't burn pretty brightly
out of the gate. So maybe they are looking at numbers and seeing things
different than what I can imagine. It's like, oh, I look at
what is that game that there's a lot of like free to play games that
like, oh, every time they put out new content, it's like,
we have more players than we've ever had before. And I'm like, well,
Apex Ledgends, you probably could do that. Maybe not, I don't
know, but everyone's looking okay, So Respawn in EA are now saying,
or we say, EA saying, hey, we want to get away from
licensing IP that that's expensive, and that gets everyone thinking what about Yes,
it absolutely absolutely is. So it's like, well, you do own titan
Fall? What about Titan Fall three? And now there's been a lot of
conversation this past weekend. Once again about it. There's always conversation about titan
Fall three. Whenever I do look into it, it's like they're not making
titan Fall three. They just straight up aren't they are. They do have
another team that has been like kicking around a like skunk Works project that is
that was in like very early. There's like different phases of prototyping. There's
a very early, very small team prototyping phase, and now there's they're they're
going to go to a wider like this is a real project now, but
still in the prototyping phase. And that that has happened with that game.
And that's from the director of the original titan Fall. This game I as
it stands today, as far as I understand, is it is a titan
Fall game. It's again the titan Fall universe. But everyone I talk to
you keep saying, well, it's not. But it's don't get in your
mind that it's titan Fall three. Like a game with a online multiplayer in
a single player campaign. I'm like, well, wait, what then,
how is it? Like? What is this game? I don't still don't
know, but it feels like, man, if you are trying to go
all in on your own IP just expand that into being titan Fall three.
Figure out a way to make that happen, and then I'm reminded that,
hey, they were working on titan Fall three essentially with Titanfall Legends, which
was going to be a part of Apex Legends, and they pulled the rug
out from underneath that. So it's like it it seems very unlikely that they
would change their strategy and go back and actually end up making titan Fall three.
But I don't know, Emma. I just love titan Fall two so
much and Titanfall one. I hope that they can change it here. But
like, if they're not going to make license games or make fewer license games,
and they're not going to make titan Fall three, I mean, what
are they going to do? Well? Yeah, Emma, what do they
do? I don't know. I don't know well because, as I mean,
I brought it up before that people aren't taking chances on new IP.
But you look at something like Ghostsushima, which did extremely well, which was
a new IP. Now granted it was very smart about the way that it
did a new IP because it was living in something that already existed, you
know, the sort of you know, the Japanese cinema. So I wonder
then if it's like, Okay, well we're not going to do a titan
Fall three and we don't want to license Star Wars, do they do they
go full Zack Snyder on this with his Netflix series that is clearly Star Wars.
You know, yeah, well, I mean I would I pondered that,
like, hey, you have that Star Wars first person shooter that is
supposed to be like you play as a Mandalorian at least for part of it,
and he's gonna have a jet pack and they're going to like do cool
wall maneuversis like Wall running all these things. Take that and turn it into
a titan Fall game or titan Fall three or just something. And it's like,
well, no, no, that that while that team has not been
laid off, they are getting. The likely scenario for them is they're getting
put in on to other teams at EA, not just at Respawn. And
it's because there was a budget to make that game. And it's like they're
not just canceling that game, they are taking away the budget that went along
with making that game, and they're not replacing it elsewhere in Respawn. It's
like, no, we are spending less money on Respawn now going forward,
so it's like the money to make a game like that is just not there,
so they have to reallocate those resources those people. And I mean,
I just I get bummed out because it's like I feel like, if respond
has not earned their autonomy within EA, who has And it's you know,
they've been the breadwinner for this company now for the last five years, and
this is the reward they get where it's like, hey, the thing that
you were making And again I'll say it, I know it breaks everyone's heart.
Titan Faule Legends. Everyone who played that thought it was really cool.
Everyone who played the Star Wars first person shooter said it was something amazing.
Now. It wasn't like some imagine everything that was going to be amazing one
day. It was awesome now. And it's like, man, if they
have something awesome and they can't see it through, I don't know. I
don't know what to say about a company like yeah, yeah, I mean
they couldn't figure out enough micro transactions to make the game sustainable. Yep.
Really if it feels I mean, and Apex legends on it's like, you
know, it had its bumps in the road with that stuff. They figured
that out. You almost never hear anyone complain about that now for the last
year, so I'm sure in the community they probably are complaining a lot,
But like that wider news of like, hey, the monetization in this game
is completely busted. No one really talks that way about the Apex legends these
days. No, all right, we're gonna take a quick break. When
we get back. A lot more headlines, including a seven hundred dollars Xbox.
We'll get into all that right after this. All right, we are
back, and yeah, seven hundred dollars Xbox. Xbox is launching a seven
hundred, seven hundred dollars SpongeBob Special Edition Series X Console. This is from
Tom Ivan at VGC. Microsoft is launching the Special Edition SpongeBob SquarePants Xbox Series
X Console Bundle, priced at six hundred and ninety nine dollars. The Xbox
Series X Nickelodeon All Star Brawl To Special Edition Bundle includes a custom design console
and wireless controller, plus a digital download of Nickelodeon All Stars Brawl Too.
A limited supply will be available to purchase at eight am Pacific time on March
seventh, Microsoft said it looks like SpongeBob. Like that is that's the thing
here. It is painted to look like SpongeBob. It's pretty neat. I
mostly bring this up, though, Emma, because I wonder if we will
start seeing more of this leading up to whatever happens next with these consoles where
they do special editions, they do variations that cost more and more to begin
setting up the price for what the next generation is going to be. Where
it's like, well we got a handful of Xbox Series X is that we're
set one hundred dollars, So when the next gen launch is at seven hundred
or eight hundred, if Xbox goes that route of trying to be like super
powerful, it looks a little bit less strength. They're slowly stepping us up
the ladder, and you know, I might be seeing patterns where none exist
them up. What do you think? No, I think that that's very
reasonable because and the way that they're going about it is they're targeting very specific
fandoms. I mean, Nintendo does this already. They have their their various
themed switches. You know, there's like an animal crossing switch, there's a
Mario O lead there's a breath of the wire or a cheers of the kingdom
O lead, So you know this is this is not a new practice.
And as you say, that does set expectations of well, there's already people
that spend seven hundred dollars on a SpongeBob xbox, so you know you're getting
something even better than those people got for the same price point. Yes,
I think it's you know, we definitely see these companies thinking this way before.
I think the O lead from Nintendo being three instead of three hundred and
moving everything else down. They're like, no, let's step everybody up.
First of all, we can get away with it because people aren't going to
pay this price for because of inflation, any number of things, whatever it
was, we can get away with it. That's the number one factor.
And then the other factory I think is like, hey, as we step
these people up, they will become more accustomed to prices moving in that direction.
And I mean I think, you know, having a pro come out
from PlayStation five, I think that's probably also going to cost more, which
you know, they haven't lowered the price of the PS five, they have
had a lot of sales on it, but I mean, I think they
probably won't permanently lower the price of that. I think they'll step up the
price, and that will be part of setting up the next generation as well.
Know my Microsoft even has like a revised Xbox Series X reportedly coming out
soonish this year. Next year, we'll see. They said they're going to
have a hardware announced this around this holiday. Whether it's for this holiday or
beyond, they'll have something to announce this holiday that very well could just be
an Xbox Series X with a ton more store ridge that is also fifty dollars
more expensive. I think that this slow sort of manipulation of perception of value
is something that these companies think about a lot. Now. I do look
at the SpongeBob Xbox and I'm like, it's probably just because maybe I am
being a bit too a tinfoil hat there. It's probably just because there's very
few of them and it looks like SpongeBob and I would pay seven hundred dollars
for that. It's very cute, I mean. And that's the thing is,
like SpongeBob is such a great fan base to target for this because they
are dedicated and you know you're gonna have people as well, that there's the
collector aspect of it who maybe like didn't get an Xbox up to this point,
and they're like, well, now I gotta, now, I gotta.
I'm glad I waited because I got to get this SpongeBob. So I'm
I'm I might just watch the drop on this just to see how fast they
go because I'm really curious. Yeah, and it's like, you know,
they haven't done on of these custom exposes this generation, and you gotta start
thinking, like, coming out of the pandemic, probably is it like a
ton of excess manufacturing lines that you could just go and say, hey,
we want to have a bespoke Xbox for the SpongeBob for the Nickelodeon All Stars
Brawl to game. So it probably is significantly more expensive to make this Xbox
than to make the standard Xbox. Where it's like, Okay, well we're
going to add a whole new part of the assembly line here where we're going
to add this skin or whatever. It's like, well, no, you
you got to have to go actually find someone new to do that, and
they are charging a premium because a lot of those places either closed down or
don't have enough workers these days, So yeah, I imagine there's a lot
of like logistical reasons why this is also more expensive to manufacture. I am
curious though about like what differentiates this from getting like a skin for your Xbox,
you know what I mean. Maybe it's just like the the official licensing
of it all from a collector aspect, right, I mean, yeah,
it's got like that's definitely part of it, right, because like there is
the cannon, you know, game Boy Advances where it's like, oh,
this one is from the Pokemon Store and it looks like Pikachu and it's like,
you know, that one's worth way more than some custom one that someone
made with with either stickers or even if they got a custom one where they
sent it to an artist and had it done like that. You know.
That's cool and I like that, But I think in terms of collectors collector's
value and perceived value having it be official, I think you nailed it.
I think that's a big part of it here. Yeah, uh all right.
Blatro was removed from several several digital stores due to mistaken ratings change.
This is from Jordan Midller at VGC. Shout out to Jordan. Popular Poker
based roguelike Blantro has been removed from several digital storefronts in an apparent ratings mix
up. The game, which has been frequently occupying Steam's top ten most popular
game since it's released last month, was removed from several storefronts due to the
game's ratings suddenly jumping from three plus to eighteen plus, which I think is
the rating scheme in the UK. Exact statement to the publisher to publisher Playstecks
at Twitter page reads, we are aware that Blatro has been temporarily removed from
sale on a number of digital stores in some countries on console platforms, meaning
that some new customers will be unable to buy it. It continues, This
is not an issue with the stores themselves, however, a reaction to an
overnight change to Blatro's age rating from three plus to eighteen plus by a ratings
board without any advanced warning, due to a mistaken belief that the game contains
prominent gambling imagery and material that instructs about gambling. Blatro does not allow or
encourage gambling, and we fundamentally believe that the ratings decision is unfounded. Bilatro
was developed by someone who is staunchly anti gambling and took pain sticking care or
has taken painsticking care to ensure that the game does not feature gambling mechanics of
any kind. Perhaps most notably, the publisher claims the concerns about the game
being highly rated due to potential gambling imagery were raised with Rating Sports before the
release, and then the Rating Sports assured them to the publisher that this would
not be an issue, And so for it to be an issue, that's
got to be especially frustrating. Now, am I played a lot of billatro
and if there's one thing you can't do in the game, it is gamble.
Yeah, there are chips, and there's chips, sounds, and there
are things called antis and blinds, and those are it's that's gambling terminology,
and that's that's as far as it goes. That's a s from post because
antis and blinds don't work like antis and blinds in actual gambling. And then
you can't risk, you can't even risk any of the virtual currency that you
make. That's not how it works. It's just a measure of like the
difficulty level, that's all it is. This is really unfortunate and it feels
like the game's sort of viral popularity did not actually help it here where it's
like suddenly people are like, what what is this? And to be fair,
I was playing it. My wife looks over my shoulder, She's like,
are you are you playing poker online? I'm like, no, here's
this game. I think that the trouble here really just comes from the fact
that it has those recognizable card faces that sort of identify it as being gambling,
even if it isn't right gambling. Yep. I mean if it was
Pokemon cards, we probably wouldn't be here. What was that? Yeah,
yep, if it was Pokemon cards, we wouldn't be here. If they
had done their own card faces, original, whatever, wouldn't be here.
But yeah, as you say, it's like, unfortunately, it's just the
design of the game that puts it in a place where you could look at
it at a passing glance and go, is this gambling? But but as
you say, there's actually no gambling mechanics whatsoever in the game. So it's
unfortunate and it's unfair to the developers. Yeah, they just they just took
some existing game mechanics that exist in card games in the real world, including
ones that you know, you would typically gamble in. But all they're using
is the gaming mechanics, not the gambling mechanics, right exactly. And it's
you know, it clearly benefits from from its relationship to poke, which has
obviously it's a gambling pastime, but it does so in a way that is
very delineated from gambling itself in just about every way. And I clearly shouldn't
be rated this way. This is a game that I would happily hand to
young people and be like, no, this is this is not at any
risk of harming you the way gambling could it is. It's, in fact,
it's a fair way of understanding odds and how things work and how you
can change odds with just a few card changes here and there. Yeah,
one hundred percent. And I mean I think back to my own childhood and
it's like I played blackjack when I was a kid. We just didn't gamble,
right exactly. Yeah, right. And it's like, at the very
least, like by definition, this is not gambling because because you're not putting
money on it. But it's not even virtual gambling. It's not even like
a social casino on Facebook or whatever. It's completely away from all of that,
waiting to see if there's some update here. You know, this is
going to affect their ability to sell things. Yea, and eighteen plus rating
is the kind of thing I think in a lot of countries they just don't
allow those on some stores without exception, or if you do get an exception,
it requires a lot of effort. And so yeah, this is going
to cut into their sales. To be like, as it stands now,
I think it's still available on Steam everywhere. Steam like obviously lets people buy
eighteen plus games. There's games butts all over the place on Steam, So
yeah, I think they'll they'll be fine there, but this has got to
be very frustrating for them, especially after doing all that work working with regulators
and rating sports beforehand. To say this is what the game is. Are
we sure this is not a problem, and to get the no, this
isn't a problem, and to have that change after the game is released,
that is especially annoying, I would believe. Yep, all right, Ransomware
Groups Group admits it's Epic games Hacks was a hoax. Excuse me, a
hoax. This is from Chris Sculling at VGC. The so called ransomware group
that recently claimed to have hack Epic Games has omitted it was a hoax.
Last week, the group, which goes by the name mcgolovich, posted a
message on its darknet leak site giving information on its claimed data breach of the
Fortnite and Epic Game store company. The group claimed to have compromised email,
passwords, full name, payment information, source code, and many other pieces
of data amounted to a total size of one and eighty nine gigabytes. However,
unlike when Insomniac Games was hacked by Recita Group in late twenty twenty three,
mcgolovich failed to produce any actual proof that it had successfully hacked Epic Games.
Epic then sent VGC a statement saying that it was investigating but had zero
evidence that these claims are legitimate. We talked about this last week read Epic
Games. The statement said, Yeah, there's definitely a chance that this is
just a hoax, And here we are. I guess they're probably trying emma
to get people to like pay up before people realize what's going on here.
And these leaks and these hacks are so frequent at this point that maybe some
of those will fall through the crack and you'll get away with it. They
just didn't get away with it in this case, right, Yeah, absolutely,
yeah, because I was I was thinking about why, and it truly
is just the hoping that they will bet on the side of safety and you
know, pay up whatever their demands are, et cetera, before they realize,
oh, actually they didn't breach any data whatsoever. So man, people
are bad. Yeah, it's like something you already had to be pretty vigilant
about, and yeah, it's just gonna be even worse. It's just the
Internet just exists now to fool you at every turn, whether it's with you
know, the fake stories and bots conversing with one another to make you think
like someone's having a real conversation, to artificially boost like the rating on various
stores. All this stuff. It's all just fake and and everyone's like trying
to make a quick buck because because everything else is broken when it comes to
the economy, and the people feel like, you know, I'm being taken
advantage of by any company I go to work for. Why shouldn't I get
in on some of that action and take advantage of people. It's just nihilism
all the way. Down. It's broken. It's very discouraging sometimes yeah,
yeah, I can't remember any more passwords like we gotta stop, we gotta
stop, yeah, we got we got to figure something out here. People,
it's getting out of hand. Uh, let's see a final store here
in Nintendo E Shop to delisting of Octopath Traveler is only temporary. This is
from Sophie McAvoy at Games Industry dop is. Nintendo Is confirmed that Octopath Travelers
delisting on the E Shop is temporary. On its customer support page, the
publisher noted that as of March first, the game will be temporarily unavailable on
the E Shop and My Nintendo Store, but will be available to purchase again
soon. It clarifies that users who have previously purchased a game could still redownload
it from the E Shop, as reported by VG twenty four to seven,
There was no announcement when the twenty eighteen Square Enix title was delisted by Nintendo,
and it's still available to purchase on other digital storefronts such a Steam.
Goodmatsu noted on social media that the de listing may be due to the game's
publisher being changed from Nintendo to Square Enix. On the e Shop in recent
that makes gold makes some sense where it's like, oh, you know,
Nintendo system could be back so backward. That's like, actually they're like change
whose bank accounts associated with this or something? We actually have to take it
down, right, you know what. I'm fully guessing that that's one hundred
percent what it is, because I mean, the thing about Nintendo is that
like their online support is it exists, but it's not the greatest uh integration,
shall we say? So, I think that it is very likely that
that is the case. Is that, like the source code itself is just
so backwards that they have to completely delist the game, go in, change
a bunch of stuff on the back end before they can relist it as being
published by Square Enix as opposed to being published by Nintendo. Since Octoba now
lives on a bunch of different platforms and is not a Nintendo exclusive, So
yeah, that seems extremely likely. Yeah, how do you feel about the
state of non Final Fantasy RPGs like Octopath Traveler? Yeah, I mean,
look, I have not played Persona three reload yet because I got it basically
it came out and I got the code for Final Fantasy seven Rebirth, so
I was playing that, but I'm very excited to go back and play Persona
three reload because I've really enjoyed all of the sort of revamps of Persona titles
that have been happening, and even you know, I mean, I fully
was like with Persona five, I was like, do I really need to
play Persona five Royal? I played Persona five and everybody was like, yeah,
you really do, and people were right. It was freaking awesome.
So yeah, I mean, there's lots of other really good, you know,
JRPG's out there, and the Octopath series. I got tired of the
first Octopath Traveler, but everybody has told me that I need to go back
and play about Traveler too. Yeah, I've heard that two is a big
improvement. I also love. I also really enjoyed Triangle Strategy, which is
some of the Octopath Traveler team that was a term ased Strategy RPG, which
is more sort of in your Fire Emblem Realm, which I also really enjoy
Fire Emblem games, not all of not necessarily all of them. You know,
they're they're a mixed bag in terms of how good they are. You
know, Three Houses and Awakening being the peak for me. But but yeah,
I mean again, but then also like you look at stuff that isn't
actually JRPGs but is JRPG inspired, Like see If Stars was awesome. It
was very you know, crono trigger, which I really enjoyed. And so
I think that you know, there are where the other JRPGs are really thriving,
are not necessarily in those big like Triple A fancy graphic titles. They're
the ones that are very much an homage to the more classic style of JRPG
and I think that, you know, there's a lot out there to enjoy,
and that particular style works so well on a handheld console, so they're
like a perfect perfect fit for the switch. So yeah, I mean,
you know, I think that Final Fantasy still definitely is showing up as being
the big giant when it comes to your big state of the art graphics,
Triple A kind of stuff, But there's a lot of really great stuff out
there, and I think that you know, making but again, we're talking
about the first Octopath Traveler here, not Octapath Traveler too, which was immediately
published as being published by Square Enix, so that's still available, and by
and large, I hear is the superior Octopath, Yes, and is much
of it is like improved, and people assessed it as being so. It
also felt like it kind of came and went, which while I'm like a
little bit like concerned, I'm not concerned. I think square Enix is right
to focus in on and its biggest franchises. That is what's worked for Capcom,
and every publisher, especially the ones in Japan, should be like looking
to mimic what Capcom is doing. I think that said, I think Squaringix
did a lot in the last several years of like putting out a bunch of
different games from all into like new new ips, deal Field Chronicles and all
these different things, and some of them had like a lot of interesting gameplay
quirks, and some of our like great revitalizations of old franchises. I do
wonder if that stuff will begin, you know, it becomes less frequent from
Squaring in X, which I guess I wouldn't be too surprised by because a
lot of it did also come and go, even more so maybe than Acopath
Traveler too. Well. Yeah, but it's interesting though, because you then,
but they are also in an interesting position of Atlas and their partnership with
the Xbox and particularly game Pass and putting out all of the Persona titles.
So it feels like they're in a position wherein it would be beneficial for them
to keep putting out, you know, those remasters of these other games,
and they're sort of not top tier final Fantasy games. I mean, there's
another uh mana game coming out soon as well, like yeah, Dragon Quest
three hds coming out, Yeah, yeah, exactly. So yeah, it's
but but they have the disadvantage of it not being a game pass you pay
for a subscription kind of things, so it's a it's yeah, it feels
like the RPG audience is growing constantly and growing fast, but it also feels
like Squarens doesn't always know how to take advantage of that. So and you
know, and very the very least, Atlas seems like they have a better
grab grasp on that surprising rising because for a while there they were like,
we're just gonna put it on a PlayStation. That's cool, right, and
everyone's yeah, switch, what is wrong with you? Yeah, you finally
are getting the hang of that. So yeah, last little tidbit here before
we get to the polls. Matt Cautelo points out that hell divers to US
sales. We talked about you, it's UK sales going up week after week.
It's US sales went up yet again during its third week in the market,
and honest to goodness, in verse decay curve so far. He says,
it's like Steve Irwin citing a rare bird or something rare and amazing.
He says he wants to do it in Australian accent. That is, it's
cool news that a game like that could come out and catch on in such
a way that it's like more people are buying it every week. Feels like
it does feel extremely rare these days, and the game has clearly clearly earned
it. Yeah, I want to get back to it and play a lot
more of it. Really enjoy that game. All right, all questions we
got from last week, we're gonna do two because we didn't get the one
up from Thursday up for Friday, So we'll do both of those right now.
Starting with are you losing interest in buying video games? This was in
a reaction to a lot of people claiming that there's a market crash and that
and that's what's leading to people or if these companies having to lay things off
and thirty five percent of people say yes, they are losing some interest in
buying video games, sixty five percent say no, And that's four point five
thousand votes. That's a bigger number than I was expecting him. Do you
think, like the bad news the trend of there being fewer big games to
vibe because they're taking so long to make and getting news from like Sony that
it's going to take all of twenty twenty fiscal twenty twenty five, so through
March twenty twenty five before they have another one of their big franchise IP sequels
come out. Like the people, a lot of people show up to games
for those kinds of things, and if they're less frequent frequent, why wouldn't
they be less interested. Yeah, it's interesting because I think that games for
me, especially because so many of these games are so gigantic, that it
puts me in a place where I feel like I have a lot of backlog
games that I want to play. And also, you know, there's the
game pass of it all as well of there's you know, lots of eight
other titles to explore in there, and games are expensive, so yeah,
I mean, I I I actually fully get why people are saying that they're
losing interest in buying video games. It doesn't mean that they're losing interest in
games. That's a good point. And then but that would still at the
end of the day manifest in the same way for these companies, where it's
like, if people feel like they have a glood of good games, maybe
they do buy fewer games and that's bad for us. So yep, interesting,
all right, other poll question, have you ever bought something from dk
oldies? Three percent said yes, ninety seven percent said no. Do you
know what dk oldies is? What it is? It is the CarMax of
retro games. It is Walmart. It is like this big store that will
have everything. It's always marked up significantly, and they got kind of a
weird reputation. But only three percent of people have ever bought anything from there.
And so all those YouTube videos I see about how dk oldies is scamming
all of gaming, I think might be blown a little bit out of proportion.
So yeah, I mean, if ninety seven percent of chat has not
purchased anything from them, I think people are smarter than decay. People are
pretty savvy to it yeah, that said. I bought Superman for in sixty
four for Dan from there, and that's why I was talking about him.
That worked just fine. Whatever that was. That was doctor Fandom's money,
So fair enough, doctor Fandom, the heir to the Fandom family fortune.
All right, amending doctor Fandom's money. Yeah, I mean, listen,
it's part of the job. Why didn't I just use eBay because I didn't
want to do a listing and I didn't want to buy Now I'm kind of
sick of eBay. Sean's not my money. All right. That does it
for the poll questions. I have a new poole question. We'll get to
here in a second. Before I do that. And while we get that
set up, am I Why don't you tell people where they could find you
on the internet what you have going on? All that good stuff. Yeah,
you can find me on the internet. I exist there, I'm at
m Fife everywhere. I really only used by instag anymore because I'm just overwhelmed
by how many social media platforms there are, and my life is so much
better without Twitter slash x constantly being in it. I took that off my
phone a long time ago, and it has truly significantly improved the quality of
my life. I've got final fantasies having rebirth videos come into game Spot throughout
the week, so be sure to keep your eyes peeled and those will be
there. They'll be fun and possibly a little crazy. Yeah, and that's
me. I'm you know, I'm out here working. Hell yeah, I
spent too much. Well the weekends. I like because I will. It's
easy to get off Twitter on the weekends because when I tweet so much,
it's because I'm sitting here at this computer and I'm just my brain's firing off
exhaust that I can't control, and that all just goes on to Twitter and
that I'll get to the weekend and I'm like, man, that was nice.
I went all Saturday most of Sunday without checking it, and then by
Sunday night, I'm like, well, I got to start getting back on
see what's happening. And then suddenly I'm back and I'm like, oh,
can't control myself. I will say that that is the downfall, is that
I never know what's happening anymore. Well, you should be happy not to
know what's happening. Boy, it is. It's monetized faux outrage kind of
constantly now on Twitter, and there's a fucking stupid one happening right now that's
reminding me of fucking game or Gate, and I'm like, oh, try
to give it no as little oxygen as possible other than say, these are
fucking idiots and they should feel bad about themselves Jesus. Yeah, maybe I'll
start using TikTok or something. Also, I just want to give one short
shout out here, which is that my fiance spent his entire week last week
and into the weekend making a whole series of tiktoks about uh a genre of
game called the funny little guy game, and it's doing very well. And
yeah, so it's just Gabe Durham on TikTok and they're very fun videos if
you want to check them out. Yeah, let's check that out of everybody,
that's fantastic. I love funny little guy guy. Know what's an example
of a funny little guy? We have a like a little sneak peak.
Yeah, Kirby is a funny little guy. Okay, the funniest little guy.
Yeah. Mario is a funny little guy who exclusively surrounds himself with other
funny little guys, Pickman, Funny Little Guys. Yeah, that might be
my genre. Funny Little Guys might be my primary video game genre, and
I'm happy to hear it all. I'm gonna check out this TikTok immediately.
All right, new poll question. Have you ever played Ghost of Sushimo?
Yes or no? I'm curious. We'll talk about it on Game This Mornings
on Wednesday here on Giant Bomb. Speaking to Giant Bomb On Tuesday Tomorrow,
the BombCast is back. Look forward to that. It'll be a bunch of
great discussions about games and the news of the last week. We will have
plenty of other fun stuff happening this week. Wednesday, new season of Blake
Club starts with Dan Reiker playing Super Super Dan sixty four The Dan of Steel.
Oh, look cord to that. That does mean that Mike Mitchkoo beat
Mortal Kombat Mythology sub Zero. I can't recommend enough going and watching that.
I had some friends mentioned that they were watching it and really enjoying it.
They I saw Ambron Kahn saying he was watching Mike play it and like the
game is a crime. It is you have to see it for yourself.
I was Rena book right now, Emma, about Apollo eight called a Rocketman.
It's actually a book that Mike recommended to me, and it's like they
always talk about how they're going out and exploring things and finding things out for
all human race. And that's what it feels like Blake Club is we are
going in and we are seeing what these games are for everybody, so no
one else has to We will go to the edge so you could save yourselves.
And we're gonna do it again with Superman. Looking forward to it all
right, plenty more. We'll have probably a tweet later day talking about what's
happened this week. I'm gonna go to a meeting and find out right now.
In the meantime, Emma, thank you so much for spinning today talking
with me about video games. I really appreciate it. Oh, thank you
so much for having me always a delight. Thank you everybody for watching.
You're the best audience of gaming. And until next time, have a good
one, take care of yourself and goodbye. Fade the Black. Oh yeah,