EA Q3 Not the Financial Performance Company Expected

<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's the internet. You're busy. Let's do this for
<v Speaker 1>February fifth, twenty twenty five. For the next hour or so,
<v Speaker 1>let me help you sort through the world of gaming
<v Speaker 1>on Game mess Mornings Live with Me Jeff Grubb. Today,
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo says switch to we'll have a price, so you
<v Speaker 1>could stop worrying about that, everybody, But first please join
<v Speaker 1>me and welcoming today's co host the Game Best Mornings.
<v Speaker 1>It's Lucy James. Games. Everyone. How's it going?
<v Speaker 2>Lucy doing okay? Thank you?
<v Speaker 3>In the middle of decorating, How obvious is it that
<v Speaker 3>I ran out of wallpaper?
<v Speaker 1>It's you know what? I can't I actually can't tell.
<v Speaker 1>It looks like it could be on purpose. I'm legitimately not.
<v Speaker 1>That's probably just on cam. If I was there, I'm
<v Speaker 1>sure it looked terrible. Lucy. Is that we want me
<v Speaker 1>to say? Oh? There it is? Okay, there it is.
<v Speaker 2>No, I'm other than a slight cold, I'm doing okay,
<v Speaker 2>thank you.
<v Speaker 3>I yeah, it's it's been really cold in the Bay recently,
<v Speaker 3>and I mean, I know it's not very cold by
<v Speaker 3>you know, the rest of the world's standards, but in California,
<v Speaker 3>everyone is human.
<v Speaker 2>Well, because that's so chilly.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean, like, and let's be clear, the homes
<v Speaker 1>where you're at are not built for variations in temperature.
<v Speaker 1>They're built for one temperature because that's traditionally what it's
<v Speaker 1>always been. So yeah, like seventy degrees yep, not a
<v Speaker 1>lot of insolation, not a lot of air conditioning. So yeah,
<v Speaker 1>that could be, that could be rough. We are we're
<v Speaker 1>doing okay here now, although I think just the way
<v Speaker 1>it's worked recently where Dan will complain about how cold
<v Speaker 1>it is and then two days later it's that cold here.
<v Speaker 1>So yesterday it was like six degrees at his house,
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, it's like forty here now, that's great, And
<v Speaker 1>I think it's going down to his temperature again. So
<v Speaker 1>it turns out whether it just moves that way, but
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, hey, I'm fine, the kids are starting to
<v Speaker 1>feel a little bit better. I'm going to still keep
<v Speaker 1>going outside. I'll just bundle up because it's been too
<v Speaker 1>long of not really going outside. This has been a
<v Speaker 1>rough winter, so going to do that.
<v Speaker 3>Have you got a sauna? You know, you could be
<v Speaker 3>like the Fins and have a sauna. It's a lot
<v Speaker 3>on Facebook marketplace over here, for some reason.
<v Speaker 1>Were they just like like a portable ones, So like, well,
<v Speaker 1>like what's something okay interesting?
<v Speaker 3>So you can get you can get some that are
<v Speaker 3>you know, basically like a tent and you can move
<v Speaker 3>pop up tent, but you can get like kind of
<v Speaker 3>a built right.
<v Speaker 1>I'd have been in one of those tent ones in
<v Speaker 1>Dan Record's basement and I had to try to super
<v Speaker 1>Mario Brothers three while in there, and uh like it
<v Speaker 1>was that was unpleasant actually because I was clothed and
<v Speaker 1>a head.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I was gonna say, you could you know, that
<v Speaker 2>was a traumatic experience. You could, you know, take back.
<v Speaker 1>Control face the demons.
<v Speaker 3>Face the demons face the demons in in heat and
<v Speaker 3>what's the word when it's like really of humid y?
<v Speaker 2>What'd be great? Great for your pause?
<v Speaker 1>That's right?
<v Speaker 2>An't forgetting out any gunk, that's right?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah? I I I, uh just I was just sweat
<v Speaker 1>when I was done in there, and my clothes were
<v Speaker 1>a mess. I probably should not have done that, but
<v Speaker 1>it was very fun because like it was very humid.
<v Speaker 1>Dan gave me his worst Chinese handheld to go in there,
<v Speaker 1>because that thing has to have been destroyed because it
<v Speaker 1>was just so wet by the time I was rough
<v Speaker 1>in there. All right, let's explain what we do here
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<v Speaker 1>Nintendo confirms timings for the Switch to Direct in Ale.
<v Speaker 1>This is from Ali Reynolds at Nintendo Life. Nintendo has
<v Speaker 1>provided a smidge more information regarding its upcoming Nintendo Direct
<v Speaker 1>in April, focused entirely on the much anticipated switch to console,
<v Speaker 1>scheduled to commence on the second of April, which we
<v Speaker 1>already knew. We now know that it will be broadcasted
<v Speaker 1>at the following times in North America six am Pacific
<v Speaker 1>daylight savings. That's not right, It's got to be a
<v Speaker 1>still standard time at that point.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, six all, I will also be enjoying that at
<v Speaker 3>a reasonable hour of nine am instead of six am
<v Speaker 3>grown Nintendo.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, come on, yeah six am, so Jan I don't know,
<v Speaker 1>you could just sleep there. It will be fine. We
<v Speaker 1>can handle that. And then nine am Eastern and then
<v Speaker 1>and the UK that's two pm BST a real time,
<v Speaker 1>I'm sure throughout the rest of Europe.
<v Speaker 2>Three summer time.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, British summertime. That sounds real. I think this is
<v Speaker 1>central European summer time three pm there as yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>although again I don't think summertime would have started by then. Asia,
<v Speaker 1>Oceania will be ten pm and your local time. You know.
<v Speaker 1>It's just there's the whole thing here that I'm going
<v Speaker 1>to read that apparently because it only applies to me.
<v Speaker 1>It would be nine am my time. That's what really
<v Speaker 1>matters everybody. This is just like slightly more information, although
<v Speaker 1>I'm like surprised. It's like, why'd they wait to tell
<v Speaker 1>us this? And then also why tell us this early
<v Speaker 1>if you weren't going to tell us originally in that
<v Speaker 1>video where you announced this was happening on April second.
<v Speaker 1>But whatever, that's just Nintendo being a little strange. I'm
<v Speaker 1>like still not sure like how to set my expectations
<v Speaker 1>for this thing other than hey, I hope they show
<v Speaker 1>me at all of my dreams, show me all the
<v Speaker 1>games that I want to see, as well as like
<v Speaker 1>all the kind of obvious stuff like, hey, three D Mario.
<v Speaker 1>You already talked about a new Mario Kart Animal Crossing.
<v Speaker 1>You just talked about how well that sold, So probably
<v Speaker 1>another one of those pretty soon. I'm like beginning to
<v Speaker 1>build probably an impossible list in my brain. Lucy, I
<v Speaker 1>don't know where where should I be setting my expectations.
<v Speaker 3>I love that you said I I'm going to be
<v Speaker 3>I'm going to set my expectations, but I also I
<v Speaker 3>need them to give me everything I've a dream exactly.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, I'm a broken person.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, I think that this has potential to be
<v Speaker 3>pretty big.
<v Speaker 2>You know, it feels like they've been cooking for a while.
<v Speaker 3>New console Switch finally on the decline, didn't meet its expectations.
<v Speaker 3>They need to kind of stir up some excitement and
<v Speaker 3>if GTA slips, it's gonna be Nintendo's yeah, right, Like,
<v Speaker 3>so I think they have the chance to go all
<v Speaker 3>out with this. I really hope they do, because I mean,
<v Speaker 3>even from that first look at.
<v Speaker 2>The hardware, I'm not particularly excited about what I've seen
<v Speaker 2>so far.
<v Speaker 3>Shoot, Heyshida said the other day something about like the mouse,
<v Speaker 3>the rumored mouse part of it, and so I'm interested
<v Speaker 3>to see what that's going to be.
<v Speaker 2>But I I don't know.
<v Speaker 3>It feels like it's been so long since we've had
<v Speaker 3>a new a new console and that new exciting slate moment.
<v Speaker 2>So I really hope they go all out with it.
<v Speaker 2>I really hope that like Metroid gets a date.
<v Speaker 3>And I'm trying to think because yeah, like I said,
<v Speaker 3>I've never been the biggest Intendal person, just purely because
<v Speaker 3>I didn't grow up with it, right, So while I
<v Speaker 3>love Nintendo games, I don't have the same connection, And
<v Speaker 3>so I think the thing that would excite me most
<v Speaker 3>at the moment certainly not third party. But I do
<v Speaker 3>think a new three D Mario because I was obsessed
<v Speaker 3>with Odyssey when it came out, and yeah, I think
<v Speaker 3>Animal Crossing was such a moment. I didn't expect to
<v Speaker 3>get into it as much as I did, and then
<v Speaker 3>that obsession carried over to Dundoko Island. Uh yuck is
<v Speaker 3>so I don't know, I'm yeah, I'm just hoving with
<v Speaker 3>some good stuff. I am really intrigued to see.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, maybe this is where Hollow Night shows up,
<v Speaker 2>shows up.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, there's a possibility. Yeah, there is that rumored, unconfirmed
<v Speaker 1>and maybe a little bit weird now because they are
<v Speaker 1>talking about the timing more of this direct. But apparently
<v Speaker 1>they're going to have a direct this month. I've heard
<v Speaker 1>that as well, and this would be focused on Switch
<v Speaker 1>one and that's probably where they could give us the
<v Speaker 1>date for Metroy Prime four. People keep pointing out to
<v Speaker 1>me that when they open up their switch and go
<v Speaker 1>to the e shop or like the little news page that, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>before you actually click into the fully open your switch,
<v Speaker 1>they'll see stuff like, hey, Metroy Prime four a Switch
<v Speaker 1>one game still coming it being marketed there. So Nintendo
<v Speaker 1>is still very much treating that as a Switch one game.
<v Speaker 1>So we could get more information about that here in February.
<v Speaker 1>But but yeah, like it does feel like, okay, well,
<v Speaker 1>if that's happening, why are you talking so much about
<v Speaker 1>this April one when you could have just like waited. Honestly,
<v Speaker 1>they could have announced the timing for this one at
<v Speaker 1>the end of a February direct So it just feels
<v Speaker 1>a little strange thing. Yeah yeah, but it's Nintendo, so
<v Speaker 1>it's like trying to figure this out is pointless. They
<v Speaker 1>are a weird company and they will do things their
<v Speaker 1>own way. Speaking of which, switch to price will consider
<v Speaker 1>the affordability customers expect from Nintendo, says president. This is
<v Speaker 1>from Chris Scullion at BGC. The price of the switch
<v Speaker 1>to hardware will take into account numerous factors, including Nintendo's
<v Speaker 1>trademark affordability, its president has said. During a Q and
<v Speaker 1>A following Nintendo's Q three financial results, Nintendo President Shuntaro
<v Speaker 1>for Okawa was asked about the company's thoughts on hardware pricing. Specifically,
<v Speaker 1>for Okawa was asked if there was any chance to
<v Speaker 1>any change to Nintendo's stance on what constitutes an acceptable
<v Speaker 1>price point given various global economic factors. For Akawa replied
<v Speaker 1>that not only does Nintendo have to take into account
<v Speaker 1>Japan's increased inflation rate, it also has to consider the
<v Speaker 1>exchange rate environment has changed considerably since the switch launched
<v Speaker 1>in twenty seventeen. However, he noted that Nintendo has also
<v Speaker 1>has to excuse me, has to consider the affordability that
<v Speaker 1>our customers expect from Nintendo products, saying that the company
<v Speaker 1>needs to take all these factors into account when considering
<v Speaker 1>the price of its products. This is still the main
<v Speaker 1>thing that people are now focused on, since we had
<v Speaker 1>everything confirmed about the hardware, and we know that there's
<v Speaker 1>a date to talk about all the software and all
<v Speaker 1>the stuff after that, and that's probably where they'll talk
<v Speaker 1>about the price as well. But the price is like
<v Speaker 1>just going to be a point of contention people. You know,
<v Speaker 1>it's hard to spend four hundred to five hundred dollars
<v Speaker 1>on something, and so people are thinking about that right
<v Speaker 1>now and trying to like dial in where they think
<v Speaker 1>this thing is going to land. And Lucy, I think
<v Speaker 1>I've been kind of at a point where it's like,
<v Speaker 1>I think this thing is going to be four hundred
<v Speaker 1>dollars for quite some time, and I think this mostly
<v Speaker 1>convinces me of that, although I mean people are saying, hey,
<v Speaker 1>maybe three fifty still like the O lead, and then
<v Speaker 1>of course it could be more as well. I don't
<v Speaker 1>know where are you at. Does any of this change
<v Speaker 1>like what you're expecting?
<v Speaker 2>I honestly don't think it does.
<v Speaker 3>I think really proof is going to be in the
<v Speaker 3>pudding when it comes to pricing, because we can speculate
<v Speaker 3>all we want, but as we know, we are living
<v Speaker 3>in unprecedented time.
<v Speaker 1>Again.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know about you, man, but I'm kind of
<v Speaker 2>fed up of how unprecedented these times are becoming. Yep,
<v Speaker 2>are they going to be tarriffsed by then? They're not
<v Speaker 2>going to be by? Then? Is the I don't know, Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I don't know. Let's let's not bring the mood down.
<v Speaker 3>However, let's just talk about the fact that, yeah, I mean,
<v Speaker 3>things are subject to change. They're probably finalizing that stuff
<v Speaker 3>on their end too. I I think I think this
<v Speaker 3>is the point where I think I've made it on
<v Speaker 3>this show, if not another show before, where it's like,
<v Speaker 3>I am less excited about the box. If the box
<v Speaker 3>is what I feel is going to be a reasonable price,
<v Speaker 3>because it's the software that I am the most interested in.
<v Speaker 3>So if Nintendo comes out with a compelling enough slate
<v Speaker 3>of games that I want to play and can only
<v Speaker 3>play on switch to, then that is the ultimately the
<v Speaker 3>thing that I take into consideration when I am making
<v Speaker 3>my purchasing decisions because right now, I mean my I'm
<v Speaker 3>sorry Nintendo fans, my my switch is gathering dust because
<v Speaker 3>I'm I'm in a PC era, And yeah, I do
<v Speaker 3>want to be able to you know, I want to
<v Speaker 3>go back to the heyday of I remember when you know,
<v Speaker 3>we were all locked into was an animal crossing and
<v Speaker 3>I was in multiple discords and group chats.
<v Speaker 2>And then the other thing would be like, you know, when.
<v Speaker 3>When Tears the Kingdom came around, me and my friend
<v Speaker 3>Andrew went around to TAM's place and Tam was playing
<v Speaker 3>on the TV. Andrew and I both handheld and we
<v Speaker 3>all just playing Teas of the Kingdom together, and it's
<v Speaker 3>like I want, I want those moments again.
<v Speaker 2>So I'm excited. But again this feeds into like the
<v Speaker 2>first one where it's you know, the first story words.
<v Speaker 2>I need to know what what games they've got we
<v Speaker 2>got for me.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I think people have a much easier time just
<v Speaker 1>to find four hundred to five hundred dollars if there
<v Speaker 1>are just games you can't possibly miss out on. And
<v Speaker 1>you know, I think I am most curious about that
<v Speaker 1>as well, because I think it is very easy for
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo to look at, Hey, here's what's sold well on
<v Speaker 1>the switch. Let's just just do the new versions of
<v Speaker 1>those and not have a lot of stuff that's new
<v Speaker 1>and exciting met.
<v Speaker 2>The new switch, yes, same as the old switch.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, And that's you know, I think there's gonna be
<v Speaker 1>quite a bit of potential for that to happen. They
<v Speaker 1>are already like starting off with Mario Kart, but we
<v Speaker 1>don't Hey, maybe there's a gimmick to Mario Kart that
<v Speaker 1>we don't know about. Yeah, twenty four players, right exactly,
<v Speaker 1>and then maybe a new Animal Crossing is a big
<v Speaker 1>expansion to the idea of what Animal Crossing could be.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know, but I imagine mostly it's going to
<v Speaker 1>be like, yeah, here's the Breath of the Wild remaster
<v Speaker 1>that we've we've been showing off to developers, and here's
<v Speaker 1>a lot of like filling in the slots of like,
<v Speaker 1>here's this franchise on this console that will just sell
<v Speaker 1>for the entire generation, and that maybe like there are
<v Speaker 1>some surprises like Mario Paint or something along those lines,
<v Speaker 1>But I do I think Nintendo understands that surprise and
<v Speaker 1>delight like coming to people and like giving them experience
<v Speaker 1>they didn't know they wanted is important and crucial to
<v Speaker 1>making the switch feel special, and they'll want to recreate
<v Speaker 1>that with the switch to as best they can. And
<v Speaker 1>I'm sure they've been spending years figuring out what that
<v Speaker 1>looks like as far as like for them dialing in
<v Speaker 1>a price themselves. I think you're right, they're still finalizing that.
<v Speaker 1>It's not finalized yet. They're still fine analyzing that because
<v Speaker 1>of the uncertainty of the world, and I think that
<v Speaker 1>will probably lead them to leaning towards a slightly higher
<v Speaker 1>price than they might have gone with otherwise, just so
<v Speaker 1>they can bake in that uncertainty. Will they'll be Terriff's
<v Speaker 1>wool there, Well, that doesn't doesn't matter. They don't know.
<v Speaker 1>They can't, like just on a whim every time something
<v Speaker 1>crazy happens in the world change the price of the
<v Speaker 1>switch to so they sort of have to try to
<v Speaker 1>guess what things are going to look like. And it's
<v Speaker 1>probably safest to go with a worst case scenario assumption.
<v Speaker 1>And so yeah, I think they probably still lean towards
<v Speaker 1>something that can be argued to be affordable while still
<v Speaker 1>being relatively high priced at this point, though I'm not
<v Speaker 1>expecting it to be five hundred dollars.
<v Speaker 2>But hey, we'll see, yeah, we'll see.
<v Speaker 1>All right, So let's see here. EA had their financial results.
<v Speaker 1>We talked about Nintendo's yesterday on the BombCast, but EA
<v Speaker 1>had theirs as well and said that they were not
<v Speaker 1>the financial performance we wanted or expected. This comes from
<v Speaker 1>Sophie McAvoy at gi dot biz. Electronic Arts Is published
<v Speaker 1>its financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year
<v Speaker 1>twenty five, experiencing declients in revenue and netbookings. CEO Andrew
<v Speaker 1>Wilson said it was not the financial performance we wanted,
<v Speaker 1>which was driven by the temporary underperformance of EA Sports
<v Speaker 1>FC twenty five. So I like temporary. They're going to
<v Speaker 1>make more money in the future. Don't worry everybody. EA
<v Speaker 1>pre announced its Q three results last month, in which
<v Speaker 1>it revisited its full year and third year guidance due
<v Speaker 1>to due to two factors that are due to two
<v Speaker 1>of its franchises excuse me, EA Sports FC and Dragon
<v Speaker 1>Age not meeting financial expectation. Here's what you need to know.
<v Speaker 1>The revenue was down or was down three percent to
<v Speaker 1>one point eight eight billion. Net income was up one
<v Speaker 1>percent to two hundred ninety three but million and then
<v Speaker 1>net bookings, which is just like any business that they've
<v Speaker 1>been able to get a contract for that will come
<v Speaker 1>in at some point in the future, was down six
<v Speaker 1>percent to two point two two billion. Highlights. EA Sports
<v Speaker 1>FC twenty five experienced a high quality, stable launch, but
<v Speaker 1>it did not carry its momentum through the quarter, and
<v Speaker 1>that's the biggest culprit here for why EA missed its targets.
<v Speaker 1>But they also like point out, like you know, Apex
<v Speaker 1>Legends was down, although that was down with like within
<v Speaker 1>its expected range, but now they're like also kind of
<v Speaker 1>changing up their their story on that a little bit,
<v Speaker 1>and we'll talk about that more here in a moment.
<v Speaker 1>And then of course Dragon Age the Veil Guard also underperformed.
<v Speaker 1>I think this came up several times when we were
<v Speaker 1>looking at those Nintendo numbers. Lucy Mario Kart eight Deluxe
<v Speaker 1>in the last three months of the year sold two
<v Speaker 1>million copies, and according to EAU, Dragon Age the Veil Guard,
<v Speaker 1>a multi platform release, had one point five million players.
<v Speaker 1>So it's like kind of puts into perspective how like
<v Speaker 1>something that big and important can miss the mark pretty hard.
<v Speaker 1>And when we talk about what well, you know, those
<v Speaker 1>are unfair expectations. It seems like those are should have
<v Speaker 1>been pretty fair expectations for dragon Age, and they just
<v Speaker 1>could not get a broad community, broad audience excited about it,
<v Speaker 1>which is what Andrew Wilson said. They are promising to
<v Speaker 1>like double down on here here. Actually, I'll just read
<v Speaker 1>what CFO Stuart Canfield said, the importance of our actions
<v Speaker 1>or this reinforces the importance of our actions to reallocate
<v Speaker 1>resources towards our most significant and highest potential opportunities. So
<v Speaker 1>they're once again understanding, Hey, we are going to hunker
<v Speaker 1>down and really focus on the stuff that we think
<v Speaker 1>can be the biggest successes. And right now that still
<v Speaker 1>includes something like mass Effect, But it feels like we're
<v Speaker 1>in a world where maybe one day that doesn't even
<v Speaker 1>include that. I don't know, what do you think?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I mean, I think mass effect is the last
<v Speaker 3>shot bioare has at this point.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, yeah, I mean to talk about the story from
<v Speaker 2>the top.
<v Speaker 3>I think a lot of the reporting that came out
<v Speaker 3>of this last week was obviously focused on Dragonage and Dragonage.
<v Speaker 3>It's an unfortunate reality, it is true. But I think
<v Speaker 3>the positioning of EA's down financials just purely on Dragon
<v Speaker 3>Age when.
<v Speaker 2>FIFA, let's just call it FIFA. Maybe, dude, I don't know,
<v Speaker 2>maybe removing the branding from one.
<v Speaker 3>Of your highest earning and most icon series for the
<v Speaker 3>last thirty years wasn't the best move.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, sure, you're right. I guess I got it.
<v Speaker 2>I guess yeah, I get it. You don't want to
<v Speaker 2>pay FIFA for the use of their rights.
<v Speaker 3>But oh no, dude, if you're talking about like, I
<v Speaker 3>don't know, maybe what was it like EA Sports.
<v Speaker 2>Football Club shit name? Yeah, no, terrible.
<v Speaker 3>Name anyway, and also yeah, you're looking at again global uncertainty,
<v Speaker 3>but anyway, So yeah, the thing with Dragon Age is
<v Speaker 3>like I was disappointed by the game, don't get me wrong,
<v Speaker 3>but also, you know, a lot of people did like it,
<v Speaker 3>and I think it is sad because the way that
<v Speaker 3>franchise has kind of.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know, it's just it's gone now, right, it's it.
<v Speaker 2>There's no coming back to Dragon Age at this point.
<v Speaker 1>Feels like they are saying themselves as we are not
<v Speaker 1>focusing on a game like that going forward.
<v Speaker 3>And I mean the writing was on the wall even
<v Speaker 3>when they said, like there's definitely going to be no DLC,
<v Speaker 3>you know, looking at was it creative director John Eppler,
<v Speaker 3>You know, I was.
<v Speaker 2>I was on Blue Sky and I saw that he'd
<v Speaker 2>already been moved to Skate.
<v Speaker 3>Corin Bush left the company, a lot of developers left,
<v Speaker 3>and they were having layoffs and it was just like, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>the writing was on the wall there, and you know,
<v Speaker 3>it's sad. Game development is very difficult. That game took
<v Speaker 3>ten years and went through multiple iterations. By all accounts,
<v Speaker 3>it sounds like a miserable not completely miserable, but like
<v Speaker 3>a challenging dev experience. And the fact that they managed
<v Speaker 3>to ship anything anything at all, always a miracle. But
<v Speaker 3>I think especially so with Dragon Age and yeah, with EA,
<v Speaker 3>I mean, yeah, Apex is in what it's twenty something
<v Speaker 3>season and like coming up they have Black Panther, what else?
<v Speaker 3>Same stuff.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, I'm also intrigued to see how much Yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>because Marvel's the Yeah, I don't know, it's it's not
<v Speaker 2>the same environment for Marvel as it was when those
<v Speaker 2>games got signed. I guess.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean, you know, if you could do with
<v Speaker 1>Spider Man, Spider Man sells very well everything Spider Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>I'm also I'm also like, I'm really intrigued to see
<v Speaker 3>about this the SIMS stuff. So again, by all accounts,
<v Speaker 3>they released the legacy collection of SIMS one and SIMS two.
<v Speaker 3>That's incredible because you know, SIMS one has never been
<v Speaker 3>available digitally. I don't think SIMS two has been either,
<v Speaker 3>And unfortunately they've kind of whipped it, uh the subreddit
<v Speaker 3>on fire at the moment, because.
<v Speaker 1>I'm just not surprised. We talked, I talked about this
<v Speaker 1>last week when they got announced, and I'm like, I'm
<v Speaker 1>gonna wait to see what that community has to say
<v Speaker 1>about this, and here we are.
<v Speaker 3>It just you know, I've got a code. I need
<v Speaker 3>to play it to see for myself. But like a
<v Speaker 3>lot of people just saying straight up, they just can't
<v Speaker 3>play it, Like the game just crashes and it's.
<v Speaker 1>Kind of working Windows ten and eleven and it doesn't
<v Speaker 1>work on Windows ten and eleven.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and I mean, look, taking the crown for the
<v Speaker 3>most unplayable SIMS game from the SIMS three am I right,
<v Speaker 3>little simple little SIMS joke.
<v Speaker 2>There, But yeah, I don't know.
<v Speaker 3>It's it is that kind of triple a bubble contracted
<v Speaker 3>slush popping and EA still making a bottle load of.
<v Speaker 2>Money yeah, yeah, and I think still making a lot
<v Speaker 2>of money.
<v Speaker 3>And then Battlefield of this year, so we'll see how
<v Speaker 3>see how that one does.
<v Speaker 2>I'm really intrigued to see.
<v Speaker 3>How people react to Battlefield because it feels like, I mean,
<v Speaker 3>what was what was the last Battlefield game that really
<v Speaker 3>hit it was?
<v Speaker 1>It was Battlefield one, which I think was twenty eighteen,
<v Speaker 1>twenty seventeen. Yeah, and that and that one did not
<v Speaker 1>hit like four, as Nelick put puts out in chat
<v Speaker 1>four hit much harder than even one did. Yeah, but
<v Speaker 1>one did very well. Yeah. And then after that we
<v Speaker 1>had Battlefield five, which missed, and then Battlefield twenty forty two,
<v Speaker 1>which missed even more so. And listen, I think part
<v Speaker 1>of that is that they have a hard time figuring
<v Speaker 1>out how to present Battlefield in the first place, and
<v Speaker 1>how to make it feel fresh and like essential.
<v Speaker 2>And also it's the least one they did Oddline yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Hard Life, yeah, oh god. And then it's like they
<v Speaker 1>also these are seventy dollars games, seventy dollars multiplayer Shooters
<v Speaker 1>twenty forty two is only a multiplayer shooter, no campaign,
<v Speaker 1>and there are other ways for people to play online
<v Speaker 1>multiplayer shooters for free and you know we just talked
<v Speaker 1>about you know, Marvel not really popping off. Well it
<v Speaker 1>does pop off. It's a free play rivals with very yeah,
<v Speaker 1>of course very attractive character designs, and it's free and
<v Speaker 1>anyone could try it, and it just and everyone understands
<v Speaker 1>how to play because everyone played Overwatch, Like there are
<v Speaker 1>some ways to make that stuff work for sure.
<v Speaker 2>Uh.
<v Speaker 1>Going back to what Andrew Wilson said about a Dragon Age,
<v Speaker 1>one of the things he said that the players need
<v Speaker 1>and why they didn't, you know, connect with this game
<v Speaker 1>on a broader way as they want shared worlds, which
<v Speaker 1>I don't. I'm not sure exactly what he's trying to
<v Speaker 1>say there, although I think if I like had to bet,
<v Speaker 1>I would say I think he's saying, you know, with
<v Speaker 1>this game actually should have been online cooperative live service
<v Speaker 1>game in the first place. It's not.
<v Speaker 2>It's not the point of Dragon Age.
<v Speaker 1>It's also just not the problem with Dragon Age. The
<v Speaker 1>problem was it was too smooth down, it was too
<v Speaker 1>polished because they had this online live service game that
<v Speaker 1>they were trying to turn into an RPG, and they
<v Speaker 1>didn't have time to sort of build up new bones.
<v Speaker 1>They had to just shave off all the bones they
<v Speaker 1>didn't want anymore, and you're left with an uninteresting product
<v Speaker 1>at the end of the day.
<v Speaker 3>And that makes me nervous about mass effect. I mean,
<v Speaker 3>I've been nervous about mass effect.
<v Speaker 2>I know those people who really enjoyed massfactories multiplayer. Don't
<v Speaker 2>get me wrong.
<v Speaker 3>I remember they put it in an inquisition. I didn't
<v Speaker 3>even touch it. They try to do the same thing.
<v Speaker 3>But like, yeah, I mean by away games, it's the story.
<v Speaker 2>It's your story through that character.
<v Speaker 3>You know, I am the gray Warden, I am the
<v Speaker 3>hero for Eldon, I am Shepherd. I don't want to
<v Speaker 3>have that shared experience with someone else. It'll be like
<v Speaker 3>you know, it's also baffling to me because you know,
<v Speaker 3>boulders Gate three did so well there is alia market
<v Speaker 3>for those people who want that single player experience.
<v Speaker 2>So for him to say people want this shared world thing,
<v Speaker 2>I think it's such a.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, And I think, like, there's no chance he's talking
<v Speaker 1>about like the kind of shared gameplay you can do
<v Speaker 1>in balder Skate three, right, Like, that's not what he
<v Speaker 1>means when we talk.
<v Speaker 2>About he he means lobbies.
<v Speaker 3>He means anything you can jam micro transactions into.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I think I think you're right. That's the assumption
<v Speaker 1>I'm making as well. But it's like not balder Skate
<v Speaker 1>three is a shared world experience technically, and if you
<v Speaker 1>talk about that, fantastic, we just I don't think anyone
<v Speaker 1>thinks he's talking about that.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, I mean, having seen what EA has been
<v Speaker 3>up to for the last like fifteen years, you can
<v Speaker 3>definitely read between the lines.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, that that's right, and reading between the lines of
<v Speaker 1>all this stuff is yeah, no more dragon Age. That
<v Speaker 1>Mass Effect could be a very different thing. They already
<v Speaker 1>talked about reimagining development of that game.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, you know, you know what, you know what hang
<v Speaker 3>on right by right. My prediction for Drive, my prediction
<v Speaker 3>for Mass Effect. You are a miscellaneous N seven marine
<v Speaker 3>and you get sent on strike missions around the galaxy.
<v Speaker 3>That's the game. Yeah, that's it's going to be a
<v Speaker 3>live service bullshit games. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>But you also, yeah, there will.
<v Speaker 3>Be they will have to have recruitment missions to build
<v Speaker 3>up a squad.
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, I think that's going to be it.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. At this point, I'm I'm toning down my expectations
<v Speaker 1>and excitement for mass Efect five.
<v Speaker 2>So because they're not they're not showing like obviously they
<v Speaker 2>don't want to say if it's Shepherd's going to be
<v Speaker 2>back or whatever.
<v Speaker 3>But like the fact that Leara is there Liara makes
<v Speaker 3>me think that like she's going to be some kind
<v Speaker 3>of faction leader and you go to her and you
<v Speaker 3>get missions from her.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and I think that's I think that's what they'll.
<v Speaker 3>Do with key people from Mass Effect who could be
<v Speaker 3>alive still at that point, Like obviously some of them
<v Speaker 3>will be dead, but you know, sorry lived for.
<v Speaker 2>A one thousand years.
<v Speaker 1>Yep. I think I bummed myself out.
<v Speaker 2>My hypothetical scenario, and I'm bummed myself out. Oh yeah, no, no, yes,
<v Speaker 2>Bungus is right. Leara is the shadow broker. So yeah,
<v Speaker 2>that's the yeah, there you go.
<v Speaker 1>EA had other stuff to say. Uh. In fact that
<v Speaker 1>they talked a little bit about switch to. I don't
<v Speaker 1>know if they're like hooking their wagon to switch to,
<v Speaker 1>but they're definitely like, hey, we know investors like to
<v Speaker 1>hear switch to right now. It's one of the things
<v Speaker 1>that you know when when investors talked to their analysts,
<v Speaker 1>their analysts are all saying, hey, switch to and GTA
<v Speaker 1>six those are things they're going to turn around this industry.
<v Speaker 1>So e A saying hey that, uh, the EA Sports
<v Speaker 1>FC and Madden could find real energy on switch to.
<v Speaker 1>I wouldn't take that three and now e A is
<v Speaker 1>going to be all in on this system. But that
<v Speaker 1>that is something that Wilson said. This is from Andy
<v Speaker 1>Robinson at VGC Electronic Arts has spoken about its potential
<v Speaker 1>support for switch to and name checked franchises like Madden
<v Speaker 1>and EA Sports FC. Now, FIFA did come out to
<v Speaker 1>the switch consistently throughout that entire thing, throughout the entire life.
<v Speaker 1>Madden never did. Uh, So that is a sign of like, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>they're going to try something, and I think we get
<v Speaker 1>at least a Madden on there in the first year.
<v Speaker 1>We'll see how that does. But I don't know, I
<v Speaker 1>feel like trying to make it. I mean the my
<v Speaker 1>I think my SIMS Cozy Bundle they mentioned that as well,
<v Speaker 1>that did very well, better than they expected. And I
<v Speaker 1>think part of it is it sold really well on
<v Speaker 1>switch It's like maybe it's in the home.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean the thing is as well.
<v Speaker 1>Though.
<v Speaker 3>Let's not forget the FIFA port switch port is notoriously dreadful,
<v Speaker 3>leading to IG and doing one of the funniest things
<v Speaker 3>I've ever seen them do, which was I think the
<v Speaker 3>line was because EA has just copy pasted the game
<v Speaker 3>from last year's game, and we're going to copy paste
<v Speaker 3>last year that's for you and just change the number.
<v Speaker 1>So yep, and that that's in it. It's just a
<v Speaker 1>roster update every year. That's all that game is. And uh,
<v Speaker 1>you know, switch to will have more power. They probably
<v Speaker 1>will update it for Switch too, but then I don't
<v Speaker 1>think they'll update it after that. They'll kind of do
<v Speaker 1>the same thing. That's the kind of token sport the
<v Speaker 1>Switch gets from EA. There was that period there where
<v Speaker 1>they did I think they put like Burnout Paradise Remaster
<v Speaker 1>on the Switch.
<v Speaker 2>And they yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Come to it too. Yeah, yeah, see, some of the
<v Speaker 1>party games do come to the Switch. They actually tend
<v Speaker 1>to do pretty well on the Switch. I think it
<v Speaker 1>takes two sold very well on the Switch. I think
<v Speaker 1>it's on there.
<v Speaker 3>Oh, I mean it takes two sold.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, I love that game, but I didn't expect
<v Speaker 2>it to be a twenty million A.
<v Speaker 1>Million apparently a big part of that is China, but
<v Speaker 1>I think I think it's half so even if they
<v Speaker 1>could take out like China falling a lot of this
<v Speaker 1>game for whatever reason. Apparently divorce, like legit, divorce is
<v Speaker 1>huge in China right now. Apparently that was the that
<v Speaker 1>was the reasoning that was set in some story somewhere.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, China's hottest trend divorce.
<v Speaker 1>Divorce, separation. Even if you take that out ten million
<v Speaker 1>copies ever where else in the world, still super impressive.
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, it's a great game. I love to h.
<v Speaker 2>Oh, mate, you should play. We should stream it with
<v Speaker 2>like Dan.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I think I will actually.
<v Speaker 2>Because yeah, because you can't do you have to talk
<v Speaker 2>to get through stuff.
<v Speaker 1>So maybe not Dan.
<v Speaker 2>No, I think you should play with it.
<v Speaker 1>Oh, damn it a married couple. Dannit. Dang it, dan it? Yes, God,
<v Speaker 1>dann it all right. Uh, there's still one more from
<v Speaker 1>EA here. E A CEO says a more meaningful update
<v Speaker 1>of Apex Legends is in development. This is from Sophie
<v Speaker 1>McAvoy at g I Do Biz. Despite performing in line
<v Speaker 1>with expectations, netbookings for Apex Legends were down year over
<v Speaker 1>year during EA's Q three fiscal year twenty five, e
<v Speaker 1>A CEO Andrew Wilson reflected on the franchise's future during
<v Speaker 1>the earnings call Q and A, where he laid out
<v Speaker 1>the firm's plans to implement changes to improve Apex Legends,
<v Speaker 1>including the idea of Apex two point zero. This is
<v Speaker 1>a change. This is different than what they were doing
<v Speaker 1>with Apex Legends just a few months ago, and maybe
<v Speaker 1>a long longer than that. Who knows what happened internally,
<v Speaker 1>But the whole idea was, let's cancel the titan Fall
<v Speaker 1>Legends stuff that we're working on because we don't want
<v Speaker 1>to invest in Apext Legends, because we don't think that
<v Speaker 1>investing in it will be worth the return that we
<v Speaker 1>will get. So instead, let's just let it slowly dwindle
<v Speaker 1>and do minimum investment and let that money sort of
<v Speaker 1>just keep creeping in from a legacy audience while we
<v Speaker 1>figure out something new years down the line. Now now
<v Speaker 1>that now EA Football Club is underperforming and they're the
<v Speaker 1>rest of like the EA publishing division that does stuff
<v Speaker 1>like dragon Age doesn't have a lot of answers, I
<v Speaker 1>think they are panicking and being like, we got to
<v Speaker 1>figure something with the Apex Legends. Let's go back there
<v Speaker 1>and try to like rejuvenate that. And I'm just kind
<v Speaker 1>of furious. It's like, well, why did you cancel the
<v Speaker 1>Titan Fall stuff in the first place.
<v Speaker 2>The one thing people are a bit excited about.
<v Speaker 3>It's yeah, I mean that's the video games industry at
<v Speaker 3>the moment right.
<v Speaker 2>Its Spanish infuriating.
<v Speaker 1>They're all just they're all frightened of everything. They're unfrightened
<v Speaker 1>of spending money on investing in ideas. Uh. And then
<v Speaker 1>they're they're frightened when they see their shadow when just
<v Speaker 1>one thing underperforms and they just completely change what like
<v Speaker 1>the eas flip flock back and forth from like we're
<v Speaker 1>supporting single player games live service, single player live service.
<v Speaker 1>That we've seen them do that a half dozen times
<v Speaker 1>now over the last fifteen twenty years, and it's just Okay,
<v Speaker 1>at a certain point, you guys are not deciding. You're
<v Speaker 1>not you don't have a vision for what you need
<v Speaker 1>to be, and so you're just reacting, and so you
<v Speaker 1>are doomed to just eventually fail, because that's the only
<v Speaker 1>thing that can happen if you are always just reacting
<v Speaker 1>to things instead of deciding, this is what EA is
<v Speaker 1>and this is what we're gonna do.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I just I I want them to remake Dead
<v Speaker 3>Space two.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, dead Space remake was so good.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, and I definitely considered it. The whole idea of
<v Speaker 1>the dead Space remake was, hey, let's just like restart
<v Speaker 1>this and then things go really well, we will maybe
<v Speaker 1>do a new take on dead Space too. It was
<v Speaker 1>going to be it was never going to be exactly remake. God,
<v Speaker 1>but yes, there was definitely something considered. And then they
<v Speaker 1>knew very early on, pretty much even before the game
<v Speaker 1>came out. It just wasn't tracking the way they needed
<v Speaker 1>it to pre orders and the way we wanted it to.
<v Speaker 2>But it bangs. Maybe I'll replay that.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's a good idea. I started that and I
<v Speaker 1>had some issues with it on my PC and so
<v Speaker 1>I didn't see it through. That'd be a fun one
<v Speaker 1>to play.
<v Speaker 3>I played it on PlayStation, and the audio design in
<v Speaker 3>that game is outrageously good. Like I hadphones on the
<v Speaker 3>whole time.
<v Speaker 2>It was so so good.
<v Speaker 1>All right, anyway, yep, no, no worries. Let's take a break,
<v Speaker 1>we'll come back. Capcom had their little showcase yesterday and
<v Speaker 1>not a ton from that, but we got a few tidbits,
<v Speaker 1>so we'll talk about that right after this. Right, we're
<v Speaker 1>back into it, and we're talking about capcom Monster Hunter
<v Speaker 1>Wilds Open Beta two starts later this week, offers bonuses
<v Speaker 1>for the full game. This is from Chris Going at VGC.
<v Speaker 1>Catcom has shared details on second open on this second
<v Speaker 1>open beta for Monster Hunter Wilds due to start later
<v Speaker 1>this week. Open Beta Test two will be available across
<v Speaker 1>PS five, Xbox Series, x N S, and Steam and
<v Speaker 1>will take place over the next two weekends February seventh
<v Speaker 1>through the tenth, and then February fourteenth through the seventeenth.
<v Speaker 1>So now you have plans for Valentine's Day ahead of
<v Speaker 1>the game's full release on February twenty eighth to twenty
<v Speaker 1>twenty five. We held an open beta test in November
<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty four. Capcom says, in response to requests from
<v Speaker 1>players who were unable to participate the first time or
<v Speaker 1>simply wish to play again, we've decided to hold a
<v Speaker 1>second open beta test now. This game is coming out
<v Speaker 1>later this month, so this is definitely the one of
<v Speaker 1>those the tests that's like half marketing, half final check
<v Speaker 1>on this game before it goes live, and I'm I'm
<v Speaker 1>I'm excited. I think I'm going to try to get
<v Speaker 1>into this and maybe we'll try to play it on
<v Speaker 1>the website. If we don't play it like for this UPF,
<v Speaker 1>maybe next week's UPF for That's kind of the general
<v Speaker 1>plan right now.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and got activated there.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, there there is that. Let's go. Yeah, so I'm
<v Speaker 1>hoping we can make that happen because I'm like, I'm
<v Speaker 1>ready for some Monster Hunter Wilds. How about you, Lucy?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean, well that's the thing because one of
<v Speaker 2>these weekends is also the elden Ring Network test.
<v Speaker 1>That's right, Yeah, God, okay, it's gonna be.
<v Speaker 3>So, I mean, no gamer has plans around Valentine's Day.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I'm intrigued because, like, I have.
<v Speaker 3>Never really been a big mons Hunted person, but I
<v Speaker 3>did enjoy what I played of World's World back in.
<v Speaker 2>What twenty seventeen or whenever when it came out.
<v Speaker 3>I played with my buddies, and you know, it was
<v Speaker 3>one of those games where it was just like a
<v Speaker 3>good hangout game. And so I'm really intrigued about Wilds
<v Speaker 3>because everyone I know who's seen it or just been
<v Speaker 3>playing it or you know, even just watching any of
<v Speaker 3>the capcom stuff, I have been really into it something
<v Speaker 3>and a good Yeah, I'm still looking for that live
<v Speaker 3>service game, you know, to fill that Overwatch Like.
<v Speaker 2>This is how bad I'm doing right now.
<v Speaker 3>I've been watching twenty sixteen twenty seventeen Overwatch videos because
<v Speaker 3>I want to recapture that magic.
<v Speaker 1>Oh no, you're down, shout out to salty Fish. Yeah. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I mean I'm in a similar space where it's like,
<v Speaker 1>and this is the time that I just throw myself
<v Speaker 1>into Monster Hunter and yeah, hopefully can just make a
<v Speaker 1>ton of stuff with that. That'd be fun.
<v Speaker 3>But then there's also like Pirate Yakaza coming out and
<v Speaker 3>I Vowed and.
<v Speaker 2>A bunch of other stuff, and I'm just like, there's
<v Speaker 2>just so much going on. I haven't I need to
<v Speaker 2>someone seventy to do a wellness check. I do. I
<v Speaker 2>do need to. I do need to try Rivals? I do.
<v Speaker 1>Oh you've never tried it? Yeah you'll enjoy it.
<v Speaker 3>No, I mean, look, I've been I've been moving, and
<v Speaker 3>I have.
<v Speaker 2>A lot more stuff than I thought. That's Jan Jan
<v Speaker 2>I will play with you.
<v Speaker 1>Really into it. He's been playing a lot on his
<v Speaker 1>own time, but every time we played on the site
<v Speaker 1>as well, it's just it's a lot of fun. So yeah,
<v Speaker 1>and it's one of those games recently, where you know,
<v Speaker 1>I'll get done with one of my late night, late
<v Speaker 1>night shows and we'll be in the discord chat and
<v Speaker 1>then someone's like, well, I'm starting Marvel Rivals, and then
<v Speaker 1>everyone's immediately playing Market Arrivals. So it's it's got that
<v Speaker 1>infectious nature to it. I think you'll really enjoy it.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I definitely want to. I definitely want to try it.
<v Speaker 3>But also right now I'm a bigin to my crochet again,
<v Speaker 3>crocheting a sweater.
<v Speaker 1>So it's how long did it take you to get
<v Speaker 1>to a point where you could crochet a sweater?
<v Speaker 3>Crocheing off and on for a long time. Crochet is
<v Speaker 3>actually once you get into it.
<v Speaker 2>Big thing.
<v Speaker 3>You gotta have the right yawn, right, because yeah, so
<v Speaker 3>I crocheted a doll the other day and now I'm
<v Speaker 3>crocheting a sweater. So basically I haven't played playing a
<v Speaker 3>video game because I've become an eighty year old woman.
<v Speaker 1>It happens to everybody, and it'll come for us all
<v Speaker 1>in the end, so you're just getting ahead of the curve.
<v Speaker 1>A few other tidbits from this Capcom Fighting collection. To
<v Speaker 1>release date is set for May May sixteenth, specifically, that's
<v Speaker 1>pretty exciting. I was that there's a good trailer. I
<v Speaker 1>wasn't even I wasn't watching this Capcom showcase, and this
<v Speaker 1>trailer popped up on like the Nintendo YouTube channel, and
<v Speaker 1>I watched them just like helly, I didn't even notice
<v Speaker 1>the date. I'm like, these games just look awesome. There's
<v Speaker 1>Powerstone and Plasma Sword, I think Powerstone Cop and then
<v Speaker 1>of course Capcom Versus S and K is really the
<v Speaker 1>big the big number there that everyone's gonna be very
<v Speaker 1>excited about. All these games have rollback net code, so
<v Speaker 1>I'm excited, and May sixteenth not that far away, especially
<v Speaker 1>considering they just released that Marvel Versus Capcom Fighting collection
<v Speaker 1>just recently, so Capcom really really charging ahead. I wonder
<v Speaker 1>if that, like Bese before they released the Marvel Versus
<v Speaker 1>Capcom collection, they announced this, I wonder if they have
<v Speaker 1>another collection ready to go, whether it's a fighting game
<v Speaker 1>collection or maybe the Mega Man Legends collection that I
<v Speaker 1>know some people out there have been clamoring for Capcom
<v Speaker 1>can absolutely keep getting away with doing these. When you
<v Speaker 1>look at like, hey, they're new games and they're full
<v Speaker 1>on remakes are so good that everyone just say, hey,
<v Speaker 1>of course if you want to also make money by
<v Speaker 1>sewing us your old games, we will line up to
<v Speaker 1>do that. We just feel good about the stuff you're doing.
<v Speaker 2>Congrats to fighting game plays, you.
<v Speaker 1>Know, yeah, exactly. They deserve a win here and there,
<v Speaker 1>they really do. And then Capcom shared new Annie Musha
<v Speaker 1>details and confirms a PS two remasters coming. This is
<v Speaker 1>from Andy Robinson of VGC. Capcom has revealed new details
<v Speaker 1>on Annie Musha Way of the Sword and confirm that
<v Speaker 1>a remastered version of the PS two title Annie Musha
<v Speaker 1>two Samuraized Destiny will be released this year. Speaking during
<v Speaker 1>a live stream on Tuesday, Way of the Sword's producers
<v Speaker 1>said the twenty twenty sixth title would focus on three
<v Speaker 1>core concepts, compelling characters, including a new protagonist, the setting
<v Speaker 1>of Kyoto, and the ultimate sword fighting action. And here's
<v Speaker 1>the quote to add some detail to what we've shown
<v Speaker 1>in this video. In this game, we are taking on
<v Speaker 1>a Musha's signature sword fighting action in dark fantasy elements
<v Speaker 1>and using Capcom's latest technology to make this new game
<v Speaker 1>as captivating as possible. You know, I wonder if that
<v Speaker 1>means I was never an Animusha player. I was like, oh,
<v Speaker 1>that's the Samurai game from the Resident Evil people, And
<v Speaker 1>of course I had a deeper relationship with Capcom than that,
<v Speaker 1>but it's just how I thought about it at the time.
<v Speaker 1>With Capcom, when you think about Capcom's latest technology, their
<v Speaker 1>latest push has been open world versions of the Ari Engine. Uh.
<v Speaker 1>They have a trio of games that are doing that.
<v Speaker 1>First was Darker not Dark Dark Orisen. What's the actual
<v Speaker 1>game called Deep Dragons Dragon's Dogma. I wanted to save
<v Speaker 1>deep Down. It's a different DD game, so yeah, Dragon's Dogma.
<v Speaker 1>Then they are doing it with Monster Hunter Wild is
<v Speaker 1>more open world than that franchise has been before. And
<v Speaker 1>then apparently the Resident Evil nine will be the end
<v Speaker 1>of that trio and will also be more open world
<v Speaker 1>than Resident Evil's been before. So this is them kind
<v Speaker 1>of like expanding what the RI engine can do. I
<v Speaker 1>wonder if they're kind of talking about that for Annie
<v Speaker 1>Musha as well. Maybe that hasn't story be in open world. Again,
<v Speaker 1>I've never really played those games, so yeah, either, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>let's kind of clean up the rest of the news here.
<v Speaker 1>Kingdom Come Deliverance too off to an enormous start on Steam.
<v Speaker 1>This comes from Eddie mccoitt game Spot. After years of development,
<v Speaker 1>The RPG Kingdom Come Deliverance Too from Warhorse Studios is
<v Speaker 1>out now and it's putting up huge numbers on Steam.
<v Speaker 1>The game has exceeded one hundred and fifty thousand concurrent
<v Speaker 1>users on the platform just hours after launch, and it's
<v Speaker 1>the number one top selling game on Steam in the
<v Speaker 1>US right now. The game is also available on PS
<v Speaker 1>five and Xbox Series X and S. That's a very
<v Speaker 1>big number for a concurrent for a new launch game,
<v Speaker 1>especially for when there's a single player typically a new
<v Speaker 1>game from a major publisher doing very well. You know,
<v Speaker 1>these are just general numbers, but around eighty to nine
<v Speaker 1>thousand concurrent players, So this is up there with some
<v Speaker 1>of the biggest releases recently. Hey, people really like their
<v Speaker 1>open world RPGs, and if you can make one that
<v Speaker 1>resonates with them, they'll show up and here they are one.
<v Speaker 1>If there's like part of Bethest, it's like, man, why
<v Speaker 1>can't we just get out our elder scrolls games a
<v Speaker 1>little bit faster because it feels like it's slipping out
<v Speaker 1>from their fingers in a lot of ways.
<v Speaker 2>We've got to see something from six this.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, right, I think I mean yeah, but I mean,
<v Speaker 1>when can that game possibly really come out? It's I
<v Speaker 1>guess we're twenty twenty five now, Starfield was two years ago. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>and so I think, yeah, they could remind us that
<v Speaker 1>they're making it.
<v Speaker 2>Maybe maybe twenty seven.
<v Speaker 1>Twenty seven's kind of feels like the earliest we could
<v Speaker 1>actually get that game, But they could remind us about
<v Speaker 1>it now.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, yeah, it would be good to It would be
<v Speaker 3>good to see something that's not that ten second trailer
<v Speaker 3>from twenty eighteen or whatever it was.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, just a disgustingly long time ago. I have not
<v Speaker 1>played Kingdom Come Deliverance too. I was playing So seven
<v Speaker 1>instead over the weekend. I haven't installed. Now I'm going
<v Speaker 1>to give it a shot. I definitely you know, I
<v Speaker 1>don't need I was telling Mike last night one of
<v Speaker 1>our shows, I don't need a lot of reasons to
<v Speaker 1>like skip over a game these days, because there's so
<v Speaker 1>much to play, so much that I have my backlog. So,
<v Speaker 1>you know, the weird vibes around the developer I'm true
<v Speaker 1>or not or whatever, there's definitely some that are true.
<v Speaker 1>I get weird vibes from him that is true. That's
<v Speaker 1>been enough for me to mostly ignore this game through
<v Speaker 1>the preview period, but it got very good reviews and
<v Speaker 1>a lot of people work on this game that aren't
<v Speaker 1>people giving me the weird vibes. So I'm gonna give
<v Speaker 1>it a shot and we'll see. My expectation is I
<v Speaker 1>bet this is an overly realistic take on the genre
<v Speaker 1>that won't actually do a ton for me. But I'll
<v Speaker 1>try for myself and see any interest in this for you.
<v Speaker 3>So I was talking about this on FPS with Ralph
<v Speaker 3>and Jake and they had both been playing, and they
<v Speaker 3>were both into it, but they were saying I question.
<v Speaker 2>I said to them, do you think I would like it?
<v Speaker 3>And they both just went no, It's it's like it's
<v Speaker 3>really they said, it's like slow.
<v Speaker 2>Max Scoville. Oh do you he said?
<v Speaker 3>He was, like, it kind of had that Red Dead
<v Speaker 3>two like deliberateness and slowness and if you need some
<v Speaker 3>like I don't. I don't think it's like a complete
<v Speaker 3>like Apple comparison. But it's just like in terms of
<v Speaker 3>you know, things, the laborious things take time to do.
<v Speaker 2>But everyone I know who's played it has had fun
<v Speaker 2>with it.
<v Speaker 3>But I, you know, things that I'm on my wheelhouse
<v Speaker 3>about Pirate yak is a.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, wonder.
<v Speaker 3>Stop is coming hopefully I think soon. So like there
<v Speaker 3>there there are more Lucy games.
<v Speaker 2>I have it. I'm I'll download it.
<v Speaker 1>With wonder Is. In fact, it can't stop talking. I'm
<v Speaker 1>looking it up right now.
<v Speaker 2>Bro. It's the new game from the Stanley Parable guy
<v Speaker 2>right right.
<v Speaker 1>Right right, very fantasy critic and I'm like, oh shit,
<v Speaker 1>I should have taken that. That's going to do very well.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, and so I'm really stoked for that game and
<v Speaker 3>that's coming up, and yeah, February is a is an
<v Speaker 3>absolute mess.
<v Speaker 2>So is March.
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, so I'm gonna I'm gonna try coming Deliverance too.
<v Speaker 1>That Red Dead Redemption to comparison, well, I'm sure not perfect.
<v Speaker 1>I bet that's actually kind of where I end up feeling,
<v Speaker 1>excuse me, feeling about the game. Unless it's like got
<v Speaker 1>some options to like really let the player get messy
<v Speaker 1>and do their own thing and kind of throw a
<v Speaker 1>wrench in the works. That's the kind of stuff I
<v Speaker 1>like in an open world RPG. And we'll see if
<v Speaker 1>you can support that or not. And really, if it doesn't,
<v Speaker 1>it doesn't mean I will think it's a bad game.
<v Speaker 1>It just means it won't be for me. Reckfest two
<v Speaker 1>hits Early Access this March. I know there's a lot
<v Speaker 1>of Reckfest to fans in this community. We've played that
<v Speaker 1>before on the side, yep, rec rec fans. And this
<v Speaker 1>is from Anti Come Out or Anthony Kamal at Dual Shockers.
<v Speaker 1>Recfest two hits Steam Early Access in March, focusing on
<v Speaker 1>chaotic gameplay and prioritizing PC modding communities. Early access trailer
<v Speaker 1>shows new physics engine and derby mode, with plans for
<v Speaker 1>a career mode that adapts to players style. Hey, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>that sounds great. I want more of that. We'll we'll
<v Speaker 1>get we'll get in there and do some Reckfest to
<v Speaker 1>immediately as soon as it hits early access. That will
<v Speaker 1>be a lot of fun. That's good, Just a fun
<v Speaker 1>game to do dumb stuff. Then like, hey, let's get
<v Speaker 1>fifty people to drive around this bowl and just see
<v Speaker 1>what happens. Yeah, just see what happens. And then finally,
<v Speaker 1>Xbox confirms it's bringing two real time strategy games to
<v Speaker 1>PS five this year. This is from Tom Ivan at VGC.
<v Speaker 1>Xbox has announced plans to release Age of Mythology Retold
<v Speaker 1>in Age of Empires two definitive edition for PlayStation five,
<v Speaker 1>the real time strategy games wi Hit Sony's console this year,
<v Speaker 1>alongside the launch of new expansions for both titles, which
<v Speaker 1>are currently available on Xbox and PC. They're just they're
<v Speaker 1>doing everything and this is not even like, oh my god,
<v Speaker 1>all these I can't believe this franchis is come into PlayStation.
<v Speaker 1>This is just like, oh, these games have been out
<v Speaker 1>for a minute, just like FORTSA and forts is coming
<v Speaker 1>to PlayStation. So it's like, oh, they're gonna mind the
<v Speaker 1>backlog here the back catalog, I should say, and bring
<v Speaker 1>a ton of stuff over to PlayStation and that I
<v Speaker 1>think that's exciting because it's just done, Like we could
<v Speaker 1>just accept that this is the way things are, and
<v Speaker 1>PlayStation fans could start getting on board with some of
<v Speaker 1>these franchises, and that increases the likelihood we get more
<v Speaker 1>of these games going forward, right.
<v Speaker 2>And that's always the good thing. Rising Tide, et cetera.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, all that stuff. Yeah, I think that they have
<v Speaker 1>finally accepted it, like a lot of that fan base
<v Speaker 1>because it's like, yeah, with sports are coming, and it's
<v Speaker 1>like there was not that much of a backlash compared
<v Speaker 1>to what it might have been a year or so ago.
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, do you think like a Halo A master
<v Speaker 1>Chief collection does launch on Switch and PS five this year? Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I think so too.
<v Speaker 2>I think I think it would make a lot of
<v Speaker 2>sense for them to do that. Yeah, I would like
<v Speaker 2>to do that.
<v Speaker 3>Happen to give Xbox its flowers right now. I never
<v Speaker 3>used to enjoy the Xbox interface and I went on
<v Speaker 3>to play something into the day and I was like,
<v Speaker 3>damn they actually I think they figured it out.
<v Speaker 2>And I mean, I will they really refined it.
<v Speaker 3>And I also thank the onboarding experience for setting up
<v Speaker 3>a new Xbox for you know, transferring data and stuff
<v Speaker 3>from an old Xbox. I think they don't really get
<v Speaker 3>enough credit for that. And yeah, I was kind of
<v Speaker 3>really like pleasantly surprised about that when I was I
<v Speaker 3>was playing through the Xbox and I mean yeah, like
<v Speaker 3>I said, I'm in my PC era, but I was
<v Speaker 3>on the Xbox the other day and I was like, damn,
<v Speaker 3>yeah they did they did stuff here.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. I think that the benefit there was they didn't
<v Speaker 1>make a ton of changes from Xbox One to Xbox
<v Speaker 1>Series SNX, so part of it is they were able
<v Speaker 1>to refine it. Part of it is people were able
<v Speaker 1>to like really figure out what they didn't like about
<v Speaker 1>it and voice that to Xbox, and Xbox was able
<v Speaker 1>to respond to that, where PlayStation they're like, let's just
<v Speaker 1>completely do let's change everything and relates a new code
<v Speaker 1>of paint on how the PS four stuff works. But
<v Speaker 1>they just moved things around, so they kind of had
<v Speaker 1>to start from scratch. So while it works fine, I
<v Speaker 1>think people were like just slightly annoyed by that because
<v Speaker 1>it's like it's just different to be different, and at
<v Speaker 1>a certain point that's not as exciting as it once was,
<v Speaker 1>where it's like, well, I got a new console, I
<v Speaker 1>wanted to feel different. These days, I just kind of
<v Speaker 1>wanted to work.
<v Speaker 2>I just want my stuff to be there.
<v Speaker 1>Yep. And you're right now it's much easier to navigate
<v Speaker 1>that on Xbox than it once was. Yeah, and then
<v Speaker 1>at the same time, I'm also just more used to it.
<v Speaker 1>All right, So we got a pull question, let's get
<v Speaker 1>to that. So I actually, real quick before we do that,
<v Speaker 1>I was going to talk about the USPS thing, where like, hey,
<v Speaker 1>they're not going to take parcels from China and Hong Kong.
<v Speaker 1>They've already reversed that decision that was like announced yesterday
<v Speaker 1>and they.
<v Speaker 2>I didn't even see that within.
<v Speaker 1>Twelve hours they reversed that decision, and that you know,
<v Speaker 1>I only bring this up because this would have affected
<v Speaker 1>smaller distributors that sell the items from China. Now, like
<v Speaker 1>you're like an ambernik, you're probably shipping like big ballots
<v Speaker 1>to the United States. And then yeah, if you're analog,
<v Speaker 1>you're kind of just like having warehouses here store that
<v Speaker 1>and shipping it from here to get around this. Or
<v Speaker 1>you know a lot of them use DHL things that
<v Speaker 1>just don't go through the USPS at all usually, or
<v Speaker 1>if they do go through the USPS just kind of
<v Speaker 1>they brushed by it in certain areas maybe in the
<v Speaker 1>last mile. But this was like still going to affect
<v Speaker 1>like smaller Chinese handhelds, things like that retro tink probably
<v Speaker 1>would have been hit by this. A lot of things.
<v Speaker 1>All that new stuff being made by Techiudon, who's like
<v Speaker 1>going to make the cheaper version of the mystery or
<v Speaker 1>has made that and it's going to make the cheaper
<v Speaker 1>version of the retro tank. All that stuff would have
<v Speaker 1>just caused a bunch of headaches and within twelve hours
<v Speaker 1>they've already reversed it.
<v Speaker 2>So I believe you wonder why I've taken up crochet again.
<v Speaker 2>By the way, it's so I'm not online.
<v Speaker 1>Yep. It's really the only cause you can't keep up
<v Speaker 1>with it. And yeah, you can't like and like what like,
<v Speaker 1>let's go march and try to do something about the USPS.
<v Speaker 1>By the time you get out there, they've already changed
<v Speaker 1>their mind. It is overwhelming, and the uncertainty is just
<v Speaker 1>the only certainty is that nothing. No one's gonna know
<v Speaker 1>anything for sure. And that's still gonna have like, you know,
<v Speaker 1>just the fact that they were willing to do this
<v Speaker 1>and then reverse it so quickly, it's still gonna have
<v Speaker 1>an effect on how people decide to do business. Uh
<v Speaker 1>So it's not like, oh, we're in the clear or
<v Speaker 1>anything like that. But still it was just a baffling
<v Speaker 1>thing to witness, all right, that pole question. Let's see,
<v Speaker 1>elder Ring night Rain is a ruguelike? Does that make
<v Speaker 1>you more or less excited? I mean, bring that up
<v Speaker 1>so everyone can see it. Here. I'm gonna vote yes,
<v Speaker 1>more excited, and then we'll get the results by flipping
<v Speaker 1>over here. Eldering Night Rain let's see, forty percent say
<v Speaker 1>they're more excited by that, fifty nine percent say less excited.
<v Speaker 1>And I think that's right because just you know, a
<v Speaker 1>lot of people don't have good taste, so quick, what
<v Speaker 1>can you do about it?
<v Speaker 2>What are you gonna do?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, what are you gonna do? I though, personally, I
<v Speaker 1>think that is a really good way to kind of
<v Speaker 1>do another elder ring so quickly. Yeah, it's just kind
<v Speaker 1>of take this and you know, they say that they
<v Speaker 1>kind of stumbled on this idea themselves and also got
<v Speaker 1>inspired by some other games, so it's still going to
<v Speaker 1>be a very from soft game. I think.
<v Speaker 3>I am just so excited to see what the bingo
<v Speaker 3>brawlers and the challenge speed runners they you do with it, yep,
<v Speaker 3>because that is my shit.
<v Speaker 2>I'm so excited.
<v Speaker 1>Yep. I think it's going to be one of those things.
<v Speaker 1>It's going to have a lot of interesting meta games
<v Speaker 1>kind of built on top of it by the community,
<v Speaker 1>and I'm looking forward to it. And you know, just
<v Speaker 1>like the idea, it's like it's single player, yeah, it
<v Speaker 1>supports that, but then you can play it in trios,
<v Speaker 1>but you can't play you know, co op with just
<v Speaker 1>two like one or two people. That's just very odd thing.
<v Speaker 1>I got to see what they are actually trying to
<v Speaker 1>do here, what they're trying to accomplish. That could just
<v Speaker 1>be traditional from soft weirdness, though they're also a weird company.
<v Speaker 1>All Right, a new pool question. We'll get to here
<v Speaker 1>in a second. I haven't written that down in the
<v Speaker 1>dock for Sean or Ja whoever puts that up. I'll
<v Speaker 1>get that for you guys here in a second. But
<v Speaker 1>in the meantime, Lucy James Games, why don't you tell
<v Speaker 1>people where they can find you on the internet if
<v Speaker 1>that's something you want or what you're going on? All
<v Speaker 1>that good stuff?
<v Speaker 3>I you find me have reare lose James Games, this
<v Speaker 3>James Doot Games. I so we have Jeff jeffs as
<v Speaker 3>our adventure coming up. I believe it's going out today
<v Speaker 3>and we have started Berserk.
<v Speaker 1>Whoa really?
<v Speaker 2>Oh is out now? Is that now? According to Jen?
<v Speaker 2>Thank you Jan? Yeah, we are making Jeff backlaw Watch Berserk.
<v Speaker 1>Shit. I can't. I don't know if I can live
<v Speaker 1>in a world where Jeff Backlar seem berserk and I haven't.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, so he it's nineteen ninety seven and it's a.
<v Speaker 3>It's a kind of an interesting one to record because previously,
<v Speaker 3>obviously when we're doing JoJo's both John and Tam had
<v Speaker 3>seen it.
<v Speaker 2>I had no idea, and obviously Jeff had never seen
<v Speaker 2>it anime.
<v Speaker 3>Before this time we have the on has seen all
<v Speaker 3>of the Berserk and read them all.
<v Speaker 2>Same with time. I've only ever read Berserk. I've never
<v Speaker 2>seen Okay anime.
<v Speaker 3>I've seen like bits and pieces, but I've never seen
<v Speaker 3>it all the way through. And Jeff has genuinely no idea.
<v Speaker 2>At all, and so.
<v Speaker 1>I also don't have any idea. But I see the
<v Speaker 1>look in people's eyes who have engaged with Berserk, and
<v Speaker 1>so I have that. I think that's a pretty good
<v Speaker 1>indicator of what that thing does to people.
<v Speaker 2>It is.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, yeah, it's one of the greatest pieces of
<v Speaker 3>fiction I think of Britain.
<v Speaker 2>I have it tattooed on my leg. I would read it.
<v Speaker 2>I will also. I will also tell you that there
<v Speaker 2>is a lot of shit in that.
<v Speaker 1>Like let's fucking go. Yeah, I'll handle it. I do not.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I would say like, don't have the kiddo was around.
<v Speaker 3>I mean like when you're watching it, Yeah, when you're
<v Speaker 3>watching it, it is also, you know, like they've they've
<v Speaker 3>toned down a bunch, but there is certainly some yeah,
<v Speaker 3>trigger warning. Yes, it's basically the answer, but it's fantastic.
<v Speaker 3>It's unelievable. As soon as I read it, there was
<v Speaker 3>one specific panel that I knew I was immediately getting
<v Speaker 3>get a tattooed because it was so beautiful and like,
<v Speaker 3>in the context of.
<v Speaker 2>The story, I loved it. Yeah, go go read Berserk,
<v Speaker 2>go watch Bersk. I'm getting a tattooed tonight. I am
<v Speaker 2>so stud tonight.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, Yeah, do you want to share with the class
<v Speaker 1>or you want to make keep it a surprise or
<v Speaker 1>keep it a private.
<v Speaker 2>H it's a Peanuts one. It's it's Lucy van Pelt.
<v Speaker 3>So it's Lucy and she looks really despondent, and she says,
<v Speaker 3>I'm torn between the desire to create and the desire
<v Speaker 3>to destroy.
<v Speaker 1>That's fantastic, Okay, I like that a lot. That's very good.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and hopefully by the time I'm next on, I
<v Speaker 2>will have finished.
<v Speaker 1>Wallpapering, leave it like it attached.
<v Speaker 3>Honestly, I will say, TikTok has given me an unearned
<v Speaker 3>sense of confidence. And it comes to Diy projects. Yep,
<v Speaker 3>but like, so you know, looking and I put this up.
<v Speaker 3>I've hung all this, I hung this wallpaper.
<v Speaker 1>Me. Steph keeps asking me to do something with the
<v Speaker 1>wall in our bedroom and we're like talking about paux
<v Speaker 1>brick or wallpaper, and now we're like the phux brick
<v Speaker 1>will get dusty and wallpaper will be easier to clean.
<v Speaker 2>So feeling thick woolpaper is back in a big way.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, all right, so you've given me the confidence as well.
<v Speaker 1>I'm sure I'll mess it up. But yeah, it's annoyingly
<v Speaker 1>well done. Lucy as tarty mit, theer points out in shack.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Yeah, because I was texting him yesterday. Look at
<v Speaker 2>my walls, Look.
<v Speaker 1>At my walls. All right? A new poll question. Do
<v Speaker 1>you think Halo master Chief Collection launches on Switch and
<v Speaker 1>PlayStation five this year. We've given our answers everybody, well,
<v Speaker 1>I'm curious, still hear what you think? You can vote
<v Speaker 1>by going to YouTube dot YouTube dot com slash at
<v Speaker 1>giant Bomb. The community tab there will have the pole question.
<v Speaker 1>We'll read the results here on Game Mess Mornings on
<v Speaker 1>Giant Bomb tomorrow. Speaking of Giant Bomb later today. It
<v Speaker 1>is Wednesday, So Blake Club is back. We will be
<v Speaker 1>watching Dan likely quite possibly finish up Drake of the
<v Speaker 1>ninety nine Dragons, which has been That was a real
<v Speaker 1>delight last episode. It got like you spent an hour
<v Speaker 1>on one level, which is what you always want to
<v Speaker 1>see at a certain point, especially after you breeze through
<v Speaker 1>the first part of that game. There's also a new
<v Speaker 1>Pickle draft out if everyone wants to see that, an
<v Speaker 1>animated version of Blake Club. It was very good. And
<v Speaker 1>then and then yeah, so tomorrow Voicemail, Dumb Truck Friday, UPF.
<v Speaker 1>It's kind we're kind of shifting around what we might
<v Speaker 1>do for UPF, but I think if we can get
<v Speaker 1>Monster Hunter working, that's what I want to do. And
<v Speaker 1>then yeah, new Jeff. Jeff's on the site now on one.
<v Speaker 3>And then yeah, I'm on dumb talk to one. We
<v Speaker 3>got to because someone suggested on Blue Sky to do
<v Speaker 3>Polite Club where we play yes, cozy games.
<v Speaker 2>We should figure that out.
<v Speaker 1>I yes, I think we're gonna have a real opportunity
<v Speaker 1>to make stuff like that work much more frequently coming
<v Speaker 1>up pretty soon, everybody. So Polight Club, it is what
<v Speaker 1>it sounds like, insteadying a little bit different than Delight
<v Speaker 1>club where it's like, hey, here's the game I think
<v Speaker 1>you'll like. Play clubs. Just we'll just hang out and play
<v Speaker 1>cozy games, play fun stuff like nice all right. And
<v Speaker 1>also the Blake club boys would not be allowed on
<v Speaker 1>polit club is also apparently a rule. Yeah, the punishment
<v Speaker 1>has uh, it's permanent, all right, Lucy James, thank you
<v Speaker 1>so much for hanging out with me today and talking
<v Speaker 1>about video games. I super appreciate it.
<v Speaker 2>Of course I'm going to go blow my nose.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, me too. You thank you for watching, Thank you
<v Speaker 1>for listening. You're the best audience in gaming. Until next time,
<v Speaker 1>have a good one, take care of yourself and goodbye.
<v Speaker 1>And I didn't mean Jordan Midler when I said best audience.
<v Speaker 2>No, no,