Super Mario Galaxy is Already Breaking Records

<v Speaker 1>Hey, everybody, welcome to Game Best Mornings with Me Jeff Grub,
<v Speaker 1>your host from GiantBomb dot com. Thank you for tuning in.
<v Speaker 1>In this episode, we're going to be talking about just
<v Speaker 1>how powerful will that PlayStation six hand held be, and
<v Speaker 1>a hot start for the Super Mario Galaxy movie. It's
<v Speaker 1>gonna be a good one because we have Jana Choa
<v Speaker 1>on the show. Jan, how are you doing?
<v Speaker 2>I'm sleepy? Yeah, me too.
<v Speaker 1>I didn't really, I was just like trying to fit
<v Speaker 1>in things I should have been doing over the weekend,
<v Speaker 1>but I was gone at packs. So I'm like fit
<v Speaker 1>doing a little bit more painting so we could do
<v Speaker 1>some wallpapering this weekend. Wallpaper's back, Jan, I don't know
<v Speaker 1>if you knew that wallpaper is back.
<v Speaker 2>Wallpapers back, yes, And so I'm doing some of that.
<v Speaker 1>So I had to get ready for and it's going
<v Speaker 1>to be a busy weekend because we're gonna do some
<v Speaker 1>Easter stuff for the kids and go see the Mario movie.
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, not a lot of time. I got to
<v Speaker 1>fit that in here.
<v Speaker 3>Holy smokes, I didn't realize this weekend was Easter. I've
<v Speaker 3>just been living like a heathen meat on Fridays and
<v Speaker 3>just not giving anything up.
<v Speaker 2>Oh, no, you can't do that.
<v Speaker 3>There's too much fish. You gotta eat the fish first. Oh,
<v Speaker 3>I'll gladly eat the fish. I mean, we all ate
<v Speaker 3>a bunch of lobster. That's close enough, someone enough, someone
<v Speaker 3>brought to the sea, they say, exactly. So what brought
<v Speaker 3>this up to my attention when we were mentioning about
<v Speaker 3>how many the sheer volume of lobsters we ate over
<v Speaker 3>the packs weekend? Is that not a sea dog?
<v Speaker 2>Almost?
<v Speaker 3>Is that not a fancier hot dog to some?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah? I mean the way it was presented, it did
<v Speaker 1>feel a bit like a sea dog.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean.
<v Speaker 1>And the thing about lobster is, you know, it's it
<v Speaker 1>is just one meat, which is not something hot dogs
<v Speaker 1>can often claim. But if you did like imitation crab instead,
<v Speaker 1>then that you're getting real close to just being a
<v Speaker 1>sea dog. So I think I think we're onto something.
<v Speaker 1>I think we're pretty close to cracking that nut.
<v Speaker 2>Jan there we go. We're on the case.
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<v Speaker 1>All right, we have a lot to get into, so
<v Speaker 1>let's start the morning mess with reports claim PS six
<v Speaker 1>handheld surpasses Xbox Series S in graphics tests.
<v Speaker 2>This comes from.
<v Speaker 1>A couple of places, but mostly that Kepler L two
<v Speaker 1>person that we talked about a little bit earlier this week.
<v Speaker 1>They have a track record of being pretty good at
<v Speaker 1>at least knowing what the specs are for upcoming hardware,
<v Speaker 1>and they have a pretty good idea of like especially
<v Speaker 1>with AMD stuff. So this is the big the bulk
<v Speaker 1>of the story that the handheld that will be launching
<v Speaker 1>alongside the PS six is going to be more powerful,
<v Speaker 1>generally speaking, than an Xbox Series S.
<v Speaker 2>Here's how Kepler L two put it in a post
<v Speaker 2>on neogaph.
<v Speaker 1>GPU is a bit ahead of the Xbox Series S
<v Speaker 1>in raster, which is like the traditional way of presenting games,
<v Speaker 1>and of course massively ahead in ray tracing and path tracing,
<v Speaker 1>which is the alternative, the new new way of doing things,
<v Speaker 1>something that like, you can be way better at ray
<v Speaker 1>tracing and path tracing and not be that much better
<v Speaker 1>at raster, And that's kind of what happened with the
<v Speaker 1>switch To versus the Xbox Series S, where Xbox Series
<v Speaker 1>the Xbox Series S is probably a little bit more
<v Speaker 1>powerful still than the Switch To in traditional rastered graphics fidelity,
<v Speaker 1>but once you out on any path tracing or ray tracing,
<v Speaker 1>the H two has enough of the specialized juice to
<v Speaker 1>make that stuff work really well, and so you get
<v Speaker 1>situations where it's like, oh, this game that kind of
<v Speaker 1>ran like shit on the Xbox Series S is running
<v Speaker 1>really well on the switch To. Surprisingly, so with this
<v Speaker 1>PS six handheld, it's sounding like you won't have any
<v Speaker 1>of that. It'll just straight up be more powerful than
<v Speaker 1>Xbox Series S and then also have extremely good rate
<v Speaker 1>tracing performance on top of that, then to compare it
<v Speaker 1>to the switch to which you know, one of it's magical.
<v Speaker 1>The magic sauce that does have jan is the DLSS.
<v Speaker 1>It hasn't much older version of that something that is helping,
<v Speaker 1>but isn't like the modern standard by a long shot.
<v Speaker 1>They're saying that the Pisser three tech that will be
<v Speaker 1>in the PS six and apparently the PS six handheld
<v Speaker 1>will lead to better image quality than even the current
<v Speaker 1>DLSS four point five. So the top of the line
<v Speaker 1>stuff that we're getting on the high end in Vidio GPUs,
<v Speaker 1>this will at least be able to match or surpass that.
<v Speaker 1>So you hope to hear these things for a device
<v Speaker 1>that is still years off and in a lot of
<v Speaker 1>ways we talk about at least for the home console
<v Speaker 1>not having a lot of interest in I'm a little
<v Speaker 1>bit more interested in the handheld for sure, Jane. And
<v Speaker 1>this is the kind of stuff where it's like, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>if you're gonna do this, Sony, and the idea is
<v Speaker 1>to just have a PS six you can take with you.
<v Speaker 1>This is kind of the realm you need to kind
<v Speaker 1>of start at of I better be able to play
<v Speaker 1>all the games that are coming out to this thing
<v Speaker 1>on this device in a decent way. And if this
<v Speaker 1>is the case, that's great, And then of course there's
<v Speaker 1>a conversation around price, but we have no idea, so
<v Speaker 1>I don't know what.
<v Speaker 2>How do you feel about all this, Greb.
<v Speaker 3>I'm in a similar space as you where I have
<v Speaker 3>a lot of hesitancy towards adopting the next generation of consoles.
<v Speaker 3>I feel like we haven't completely taken advantage of this one.
<v Speaker 3>But all that being said, I am a sucker for
<v Speaker 3>a good handheld. My other worries, though, on top of
<v Speaker 3>performance and price, is how big is this thing going
<v Speaker 3>to be supposed to be as powerful as an Xbox
<v Speaker 3>Series S? Is this thing going to chew up and
<v Speaker 3>churn through batteries? How hot is this thing going to get?
<v Speaker 3>Because I've also been very curious about how PlayStation has
<v Speaker 3>been pushing and positioning the PlayStation portal, because at first
<v Speaker 3>it felt like a weird idea for them to put out,
<v Speaker 3>and then it didn't quite land, But lately it's been hitting.
<v Speaker 3>It's been a silent system sellar, not system sellar, but
<v Speaker 3>like a product that is moving off of shelves so
<v Speaker 3>much so that they included it in like the price increase, right,
<v Speaker 3>I don't know are they learning anything from that? Is
<v Speaker 3>it just going to be a big honkin screen with
<v Speaker 3>two dual senses attached to the sides.
<v Speaker 2>I am curious about what this is going to look like.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and I think that it is probably going to
<v Speaker 1>be pretty big, pretty bulky. They are putting an entire
<v Speaker 1>laptop into their similar to a Steam deck. This thing
<v Speaker 1>is is certainly going to be expensive two hundred and
<v Speaker 1>fifty dollars for a PlayStation portal today, and then that
<v Speaker 1>doesn't have any of the real hardware in there to
<v Speaker 1>run games. And then, like we're talking about comparing that
<v Speaker 1>to what you would put in there today, that's not
<v Speaker 1>what this thing is. This thing is you know four
<v Speaker 1>Zen six uh yeah, six core processors.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's like going to have.
<v Speaker 1>Twenty four gigabytes of low power d d R five
<v Speaker 1>x memory.
<v Speaker 2>That's gonna be. That's gonna be a lot right there.
<v Speaker 1>Even even two years from now things settle down, it's
<v Speaker 1>still going to be very expensive to put that in there.
<v Speaker 1>The three and nanimeter TSMC process which has its benefits
<v Speaker 1>of you know, talking about how big is this thing
<v Speaker 1>going to be that should enable them to shrink down
<v Speaker 1>the cooling structure of it. It should run pretty efficiently.
<v Speaker 1>It's still going to get hot, it's still going to
<v Speaker 1>need a fan, but it's going to have to be
<v Speaker 1>not quite as big as you would think otherwise.
<v Speaker 2>But that is also expensive.
<v Speaker 1>So there's just all these things here that line up
<v Speaker 1>to scream that this thing is going to cost quite
<v Speaker 1>a lot of money, and they kind of can't pull
<v Speaker 1>back on that because the whole promise here is this
<v Speaker 1>is not a Vita, This is not a PSP. This
<v Speaker 1>is a PS six on the go, not even a
<v Speaker 1>PS five like a PS six, which is another reason
<v Speaker 1>why I think they will find ways to keep the
<v Speaker 1>PS five around, because probably this will be the kind
<v Speaker 1>of thing that, hey, we'll keep making games with the
<v Speaker 1>PS five, and that means they'll also just work for
<v Speaker 1>the PS six handheld. But yeah, all of this effort,
<v Speaker 1>I think it's probably gonna pay off, though, because when
<v Speaker 1>I think about the next generation of consoles, I'm not
<v Speaker 1>too excited in general, even outside of all the factors
<v Speaker 1>of costs and how much I'm not playing my consoles
<v Speaker 1>or whatever. It's just, you know, there's no gimmicks. The
<v Speaker 1>games look as good as I need them to look.
<v Speaker 1>The cost associated with producing a video game don't go
<v Speaker 1>toward making it look that much more special. It just
<v Speaker 1>kind of looks like, Hey, let's them across the finish
<v Speaker 1>line at this point, and I don't need a whole
<v Speaker 1>new console to get that feeling. That's kind of crazy.
<v Speaker 1>But the idea of having a very convenient, all self
<v Speaker 1>contained PlayStation device that I could just have with me,
<v Speaker 1>not even necessarily on the go, but around the house
<v Speaker 1>is very appealing to me, even more so than the portal,
<v Speaker 1>which I like the idea of the portal, A lot
<v Speaker 1>of people have been enjoying that, but this this would
<v Speaker 1>be Hey, I can then also take it with me
<v Speaker 1>on vacation or when I do leave the house, and
<v Speaker 1>that makes it all very much worth it. What do
<v Speaker 1>you think this is a good strategy for PlayStation to
<v Speaker 1>be pursuing this as one of the big imis for
<v Speaker 1>their next console generation.
<v Speaker 2>I think so, Grub, I think so.
<v Speaker 3>I mean we've seen the success of the Switch one,
<v Speaker 3>the switch to the Steam Deck. You know, these other
<v Speaker 3>handheld pecs have degrees of success, right like the Asis Rod,
<v Speaker 3>the gosh I forget what it was called the Xbox Asis.
<v Speaker 3>The basis Roger Ally yeah right, Alix Yeah, Alix like
<v Speaker 3>had a decent amount of success, But then we've also
<v Speaker 3>seen our fair share of ones that are complete duds,
<v Speaker 3>like the gosh was it Lenovo or was it logitariy
<v Speaker 3>the first Lenovo legion Go kind of just came and
<v Speaker 3>went yeah. But I would hope and guesstimate that PlayStation
<v Speaker 3>has been doing their R and D and they strike
<v Speaker 3>a good middle ground between portability, which is the whole
<v Speaker 3>goal of a portable system, right and condensing that experience
<v Speaker 3>in that format. Would you want stuff to pop out
<v Speaker 3>of this or would you want it to be like
<v Speaker 3>a contained unit like esteemed?
<v Speaker 1>I I think I would want stuff to pop out
<v Speaker 1>just because handheld like I like having my handheld with
<v Speaker 1>me more so than I like to treat it like
<v Speaker 1>a precious little.
<v Speaker 2>Thing that I have to keep safe.
<v Speaker 1>And so that means occasionally the analog stick is going
<v Speaker 1>to get a little scuffed, and I do want I
<v Speaker 1>want it to be very easy to swap things in
<v Speaker 1>and out, and so yeah, I would like to be able.
<v Speaker 2>To detach the side controllers or whatever. That would be
<v Speaker 2>nice Grub.
<v Speaker 3>I've been I've been on this mountain yelling and no
<v Speaker 3>one is listening to me. I've yelled this at Nintendo.
<v Speaker 3>I've been at Valve and I've yelled this at them.
<v Speaker 2>Is it time, Jan Crub PlayStation?
<v Speaker 4>His wrist is so naked. PlayStation a watch, tam PlayStation.
<v Speaker 4>Give me a watch that goes with this system?
<v Speaker 2>Please? What would it do? Jan? That's not for me
<v Speaker 2>to figure out.
<v Speaker 1>You're right, that not your job. You just need to watch,
<v Speaker 1>that's all you're demanding. Please?
<v Speaker 2>I saw chapter.
<v Speaker 1>But oh well, they treat this like PSVR and PSBR two.
<v Speaker 1>I mean the idea here would be they wouldn't have
<v Speaker 1>to worry about it because again, it won't be a FETA,
<v Speaker 1>it won't be a PSB, It won't have its own
<v Speaker 1>unique games that only run on that device. So they
<v Speaker 1>don't have to distract the developers with making separate versions
<v Speaker 1>of their games or going to Bend and being like, hey,
<v Speaker 1>can you make a portable and Charted. They can just
<v Speaker 1>have the PlayStation experience on the go in a full
<v Speaker 1>fat form. And yeah, I think that does mean that
<v Speaker 1>this becomes the baseline though, right Jam, because they can't
<v Speaker 1>make games that don't run on it, and that's that's fine.
<v Speaker 2>Excuse me, that's fine with me, Greg.
<v Speaker 3>Would you I think it'd be interesting if this handheld
<v Speaker 3>was considered the just the straight up PlayStation six and
<v Speaker 3>you could do similar things where you can dock it
<v Speaker 3>and everything or plug it into a TV, and then
<v Speaker 3>the big boy, bigger console would already be called the
<v Speaker 3>PlayStation six pro straight.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, right, not a bad idea, Yeah, I mean they
<v Speaker 1>probably they I wonder if they would be hesitant to
<v Speaker 1>do that because they're, like, we want to sell a
<v Speaker 1>lot of those in the pros always sell less.
<v Speaker 2>But I mean they're gonna sell less.
<v Speaker 1>Because of the pricing, right, not necessarily because of the name,
<v Speaker 1>and that that much more, that bigger and beefier home
<v Speaker 1>console will just inherently be more expensive. Although you know,
<v Speaker 1>this thing's shrunk down, it's probably not going to be
<v Speaker 1>that much more expensive than this. Yeah, it's it's not
<v Speaker 1>a bad idea, Jan because again, I just don't know
<v Speaker 1>what these companies get out of pushing the hardware that
<v Speaker 1>much more. You know, obviously there's probably some some things
<v Speaker 1>wait wait, like waiting to be unlocked to make things
<v Speaker 1>easier for developers, But does that show up on the
<v Speaker 1>you know, the marketing side of things, where it's like
<v Speaker 1>and now that's the reason you got to have this device,
<v Speaker 1>so drop your money. I'm not seeing a lot of
<v Speaker 1>evidence of that, but yeah, who knows. You know, they've
<v Speaker 1>done things one way for a very long time, and
<v Speaker 1>it's always worked for PlayStation. I expect them to keep
<v Speaker 1>replicating that. I hope they just find a way to
<v Speaker 1>sprinkle this in as like, here's a new way of
<v Speaker 1>us executing on that idea. And obviously the handheld has
<v Speaker 1>been proven to work, like you were saying, switch switch
<v Speaker 1>to Steam deck a bunch of examples of that now.
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, hopefully they can just make a really good
<v Speaker 1>portable version of the PlayStation and that would be my my,
<v Speaker 1>my main way of playing PlayStation games going forward.
<v Speaker 2>I would love that one hundred percent.
<v Speaker 3>My other requests grub, we've been desired, we've been we've
<v Speaker 3>been asking for it as well. This is not a watch.
<v Speaker 3>I'm not asking for a which I am asking for
<v Speaker 3>a watch, but of course he's asking for a watch.
<v Speaker 3>Just give me a sidekick style screen. Yeah, I mean
<v Speaker 3>that'd be swagging as hell.
<v Speaker 1>Something that just kind of like with that Sony consumer
<v Speaker 1>electronics design, Like, you know, they're they're, they're, they're, they're
<v Speaker 1>sort of high skill level on that stuff. I think
<v Speaker 1>they could do a good job of just making that
<v Speaker 1>thing pop out so it can kind of condense and
<v Speaker 1>be smaller when it is. I mean, I don't think
<v Speaker 1>this thing's going to fit in a pocket, but when
<v Speaker 1>it's time to throw it in a bag, just make
<v Speaker 1>it more condensed.
<v Speaker 2>That would be fantastic.
<v Speaker 3>This is why I'm so upset about the design of
<v Speaker 3>the PS five, because a lot of other Sony electronics
<v Speaker 3>look so slick and cool that I don't know who
<v Speaker 3>they let into the room to make the PS five.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, And I was wondering, like, because I I do
<v Speaker 1>like it ironically, and Mike doesn't like that. He likes it,
<v Speaker 1>you know, genuinely and with his whole heart and whole chest.
<v Speaker 1>But is this gonna be one of those things where
<v Speaker 1>it's like we look back at that era of the
<v Speaker 1>goofy Sony design where it's like it looked like liquid
<v Speaker 1>metal falling apart or like or melting, and that's what
<v Speaker 1>their CD player looked like in the nineties. And I'm like,
<v Speaker 1>I don't think so, No, I think it's just I
<v Speaker 1>think the PS five is just kind of off for
<v Speaker 1>most people, and it won't be looked back upon too
<v Speaker 1>fondly beyond the very core audience.
<v Speaker 3>I want this PS six and the PS six handheld
<v Speaker 3>to look like a blocky gundom.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah yeah, hell yeah, let's go. All right.
<v Speaker 1>Let's shift over to the Super Mario Galaxy movie, which
<v Speaker 1>we had been talking about because of the reviews from critics,
<v Speaker 1>which weren't too hot. In fact, they were pretty scathing.
<v Speaker 1>The movie's gonna end cinema, jan I really, I can't
<v Speaker 1>stop thinking about how funny that Haveline is.
<v Speaker 2>It's so good.
<v Speaker 1>But hey, it's doing all right at the box office
<v Speaker 1>so far. The movie launched last night, and it is
<v Speaker 1>let's see thirty four million dollars in one night, Arding
<v Speaker 1>to Anthony Alessandro at Deadline. Out of the Gate, Illumination, Nintendo,
<v Speaker 1>and Universals, the Super Mario Galaxy Movie is already breaking
<v Speaker 1>records with a thirty four million dollar Wednesday. That's the
<v Speaker 1>best opening day so far this year, besting Amazon MGM
<v Speaker 1>Studio's Project tail Mary, which rang up a thirty three
<v Speaker 1>point one million Friday.
<v Speaker 2>Slash previews, but it's also the.
<v Speaker 1>Best opening Wednesday in April, beating twenty twenty threes the
<v Speaker 1>Super Mario Brothers movie, which brought in thirty one point
<v Speaker 1>seven million dollars. Keep in mind no previews of puffing
<v Speaker 1>up that figure. That first chapter during Easter stretch. Twenty
<v Speaker 1>twenty three went on to to post a three day
<v Speaker 1>one hundred and forty six point three million and five
<v Speaker 1>day two hundred four point six million, which was an
<v Speaker 1>all time.
<v Speaker 2>Opening for Illumination.
<v Speaker 1>The forecast for this movie right now does say that
<v Speaker 1>this movie's probably gonna still end up coming in a
<v Speaker 1>bit short of that massive twenty twenty three haul for
<v Speaker 1>the original movie, but it seems like it'll be It'll
<v Speaker 1>be right there. So I definitely had questions about whether
<v Speaker 1>they'd be able to replicate the excitement for the movie.
<v Speaker 1>I knew a lot of families were going to go
<v Speaker 1>see it. I knew it was gonna make a lot
<v Speaker 1>of money. Was it going to be breaking any records
<v Speaker 1>the way the first one did? I didn't think so,
<v Speaker 1>because I'm like, people probably got their phil last time,
<v Speaker 1>and it turns out, you know, with these family focused.
<v Speaker 2>Movies that doesn't That's not how it works.
<v Speaker 1>That that they're every like, I'm always looking for the
<v Speaker 1>next reason to take the kids out to go do
<v Speaker 1>something fun, and this is one of the better excuses
<v Speaker 1>where it's like, oh, everyone in the family knows who
<v Speaker 1>Mario is and has some experience with them, so we're
<v Speaker 1>all going to get something out of this. So it's
<v Speaker 1>kind of a no brainer, and there's not a lot
<v Speaker 1>of those no brainers out there, and it's showing up
<v Speaker 1>in these numbers, right, oh, one hundred percent.
<v Speaker 3>Greg, you talk about like bringing the family to the movies,
<v Speaker 3>and I can't quite place the last time there's been
<v Speaker 3>a gigantic movie that appeals to everyone, because I feel
<v Speaker 3>like the casting also of the Super Mario movies is
<v Speaker 3>targeted such a way that it will get older audiences in. Right,
<v Speaker 3>you don't just cast Donald Glover and not expect him
<v Speaker 3>to draw in that millennial millennial audience, not only that
<v Speaker 3>has already drawn to the Super Mario movies because of
<v Speaker 3>the IP, but also because like, oh, hey, I like
<v Speaker 3>Glenn Powell. I kind of remember Star Fox. I like
<v Speaker 3>Benny Safti. He's the weird actor, one of the Safti brothers.
<v Speaker 3>So this was a no brainer. I don't know why
<v Speaker 3>critics were so up their own asses thinking that this
<v Speaker 3>was going to be the death of cinema and not
<v Speaker 3>acknowledging that the the the greater balance grub of you
<v Speaker 3>need this type of movie to draw people into the theaters.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean, I just you know what that they
<v Speaker 1>can only view it on their own, like from their
<v Speaker 1>own experience, right, and they're if you're going in there
<v Speaker 1>and you don't have that value, or you don't have
<v Speaker 1>that experience with Mario, or you don't value it the
<v Speaker 1>same way. I am not surprised that many of them
<v Speaker 1>went into it and were like this is physically painful
<v Speaker 1>for me to sit through. And I don't have sort
<v Speaker 1>of any problems with the reviews. I was just like,
<v Speaker 1>this is it's kind of funny how hyperbolic these these
<v Speaker 1>headlines are, and you know, I just I know it's
<v Speaker 1>not the end of cinema, that's all. So when I
<v Speaker 1>saw that one, I'm like, it's not the end of cinema.
<v Speaker 1>We're gonna be just fine. But I really enjoy actually
<v Speaker 1>reading those reviews because it's like, oh man, this must
<v Speaker 1>be how it feels if you're someone who's like the
<v Speaker 1>souper like I am super into games and you get
<v Speaker 1>some some like real slop and people are like, oh
<v Speaker 1>my god, this is the best thing ever.
<v Speaker 2>It's like, yeah, I know how you feel about this.
<v Speaker 1>I'm just gonna have a different experience because my expectations
<v Speaker 1>are so divorced from what yours are that I know
<v Speaker 1>this doesn't really matter all that much.
<v Speaker 3>We are in a post Sonic three world in cinema, yes, right, so,
<v Speaker 3>and I don't for as much as I enjoy the
<v Speaker 3>Sonic movies, I don't think that they bring out any
<v Speaker 3>deep emotional connection. It is I'm not sobbing at the
<v Speaker 3>theaters like I am when I'm watching Hamnet or like
<v Speaker 3>a different Chloe Jao film. But again, this is like
<v Speaker 3>that popcorn entertainment. This is like the Top Gun Maverick,
<v Speaker 3>but for families, where like, right, we're all going to
<v Speaker 3>enjoy something here, and it may not be critically received well, but.
<v Speaker 2>Like, guys, it's not gonna it's no one's gonna You
<v Speaker 2>will be okay, we will be okay.
<v Speaker 1>I expect to come out of this movie and have
<v Speaker 1>the same criticisms as I had last time, which is
<v Speaker 1>there's not much there. I I believe that they could
<v Speaker 1>do something more interesting with Mario if they wanted to,
<v Speaker 1>it's obviously they don't want to. And at a certain point,
<v Speaker 1>like when they're making this much money, I got to
<v Speaker 1>just be like, they're not gonna make that movie for me?
<v Speaker 2>Did I?
<v Speaker 1>So can I get something out of the thing that
<v Speaker 1>actually exists before my very eyes? I'm gonna sort of
<v Speaker 1>just put aside my my fantasy booking of like what
<v Speaker 1>I would really want here and just try to enjoy this.
<v Speaker 1>So that's where I'm at, Like I'm not gonna I'm
<v Speaker 1>not gonna tilt Win Mills with this one.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, two things, Greb. This just feels like a con
<v Speaker 3>candy movie, you know, very pretty to look atugar. It's sugar,
<v Speaker 3>pure sugar to consume. And then the second thing is
<v Speaker 3>whenever I see a lot of like dour and negativity
<v Speaker 3>towards something, especially from like a critic standpoint, it was
<v Speaker 3>Chuck that said this to me that it is exponentially
<v Speaker 3>harder to try and explain why you do enjoy something.
<v Speaker 3>And I'm sure these critics for even though they're like
<v Speaker 3>cowering in their seats, cringing in their seats, and a
<v Speaker 3>lot of them, I would completely respect. I hope they
<v Speaker 3>cracked a smile at least once.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, I mean I bet there's especially if you
<v Speaker 1>do bring any sort of Mario nostalgia in there.
<v Speaker 2>That's what they're playing on. I get it.
<v Speaker 1>Well, you know, we can actually touch on that. Audiences
<v Speaker 1>do seem to mostly like it. It's not as good
<v Speaker 1>as as it did last time, where you know, at
<v Speaker 1>fifty nine critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes for the first movie,
<v Speaker 1>and then the audience Tomato meter was ninety five percent.
<v Speaker 1>Now it's forty two percent for critics and ninety one
<v Speaker 1>percent for audiences.
<v Speaker 2>Still very good. That's that's better than most movies.
<v Speaker 1>And it's like, yeah, at a certain point, like, what
<v Speaker 1>are you trying to do with the film, Are you
<v Speaker 1>just trying to get people a fun ride of an
<v Speaker 1>experience something that they that is you know, sugar is
<v Speaker 1>still substance, right, It is still a substance. It's is
<v Speaker 1>it nourishing, No, but it's it is something that people
<v Speaker 1>do crave and look for. And I think like we
<v Speaker 1>could set that there and be like it's not doing
<v Speaker 1>all these other things that I think like a Lego
<v Speaker 1>movie does or any sort of decent Pixar film and
<v Speaker 1>and those are also family movies, and those also often
<v Speaker 1>make a lot of money. So why couldn't they just
<v Speaker 1>do that with this? Well they didn't. They wanted They
<v Speaker 1>went for the sugary route. Can you get any enjoyment
<v Speaker 1>out of that? Ninety one percent of people are saying yes,
<v Speaker 1>I can, and fair enough.
<v Speaker 3>You know the other movie franchise, I guess now it's
<v Speaker 3>a franchise that you think about grub is the Five
<v Speaker 3>Nights at Freddy's movie. Yes, we're at two, We're probably
<v Speaker 3>gonna get a third. And those are gigantic hits, because
<v Speaker 3>that is an ip that, even though it's it's framed
<v Speaker 3>as horror, still appeals to kids. And then like the
<v Speaker 3>horror freaks out there that are just looking for the
<v Speaker 3>newest scare or the newest uh horror movie are are
<v Speaker 3>flocking to it as well. It's interesting to see the
<v Speaker 3>divide from critical reception and general audience reception.
<v Speaker 2>I uh so, I'm seen it Friday.
<v Speaker 1>I will be curious to see like where I land finally,
<v Speaker 1>because I'm like, you know, I have like this sort
<v Speaker 1>of this small spectrum of possibilities where it's like, oh,
<v Speaker 1>you know what they did make some small improvements to
<v Speaker 1>what bothered me a little bit with the first movie,
<v Speaker 1>and it's still that movie again, and that was what
<v Speaker 1>I was expecting so great. Or it follows the path
<v Speaker 1>of a lot of recent animated family movie sequels where
<v Speaker 1>it's like they just did more and because of that,
<v Speaker 1>it is more forgettable and I can kind of leave
<v Speaker 1>it behind even faster than I did the first one.
<v Speaker 1>That's you know, that's Wreck at Ralph, That's that is
<v Speaker 1>Utopia too. That's a bunch of these movies recently, So
<v Speaker 1>I think that's a possibility here.
<v Speaker 3>For me personally, I'm I'm very I feel like I
<v Speaker 3>will watch the movie this weekend grub and think, Wow,
<v Speaker 3>that was fun, or wow that was okay. I like
<v Speaker 3>Donald Glover.
<v Speaker 1>Yep. I see people like, oh, this is just like
<v Speaker 1>the Crimson Desert thing, but in reverse. Yeah, I don't
<v Speaker 1>see it that way, But I know that's also completely
<v Speaker 1>fair if people feel that way. Where I am looking
<v Speaker 1>at Crimson Desert as a critic with a critical eye
<v Speaker 1>of someone who has thought about video games a lot,
<v Speaker 1>and if someone went into the Mario movie as a
<v Speaker 1>movie critic and thought about thinks about movies a lot,
<v Speaker 1>and what the medium can do, and that's why they
<v Speaker 1>don't like that. Fuck yeah, give me that review. I
<v Speaker 1>write a bunch of those, and I'm like, I'm glad
<v Speaker 1>you wrote the review that way. And someone should be
<v Speaker 1>saying that about any sort of project that comes down,
<v Speaker 1>any sort of movie that comes out. Someone should be
<v Speaker 1>standing up and being like, this is a medium worth
<v Speaker 1>thinking deeply about. And I think video games are worthy
<v Speaker 1>of that. And that's my job. It's not my job
<v Speaker 1>to do that for movies. So my job is to
<v Speaker 1>take the family to a dumb thing and have a
<v Speaker 1>good time. And if it is sugary and forgettable, and
<v Speaker 1>if that's what we're saying, Crimson Desert is fair. I
<v Speaker 1>don't think it's even that sugary. I think it's kind
<v Speaker 1>of has a lot of bad crunch to it. But
<v Speaker 1>that's my experience.
<v Speaker 3>It's it's like kind of like a jawbreaker in my opinion.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, a little bit.
<v Speaker 1>All right, let's go ahead and take a break. Well,
<v Speaker 1>we got plenty more switch news to hit on after
<v Speaker 1>we come back, as well as just drama in the
<v Speaker 1>speed running scene.
<v Speaker 2>I can't wait to get to that.
<v Speaker 1>I had to like get a little creative because yesterday
<v Speaker 1>was April Fool's Day, and I'm like, oh, I started
<v Speaker 1>to fault the news and then I saw that one.
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, I'm just gonna include it. No matter what.
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<v Speaker 1>Let's get right back into it. Switch two price is
<v Speaker 1>going to have to go up eventually. Former Nintendo sales
<v Speaker 1>lead says. This is from Chris Scullion at VGC. Nintendo
<v Speaker 1>will eventually have no choice but to increase the price
<v Speaker 1>of the switch to hardware, a former Nintendo sales lead says.
<v Speaker 1>In an interview on Kitt and krista podcast, the former
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo employee, who is referred to simply as Quote Sean,
<v Speaker 1>was asked about Sony's recent PS five price hike and
<v Speaker 1>whether Nintendo would follow suit. Sean replied that while Nintendo
<v Speaker 1>will likely do its best to resist increasing the switch
<v Speaker 1>to price for as long as possible. He feels it
<v Speaker 1>is inevitable that an increase will come eventually, and that
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo's recent decision to sell digital games for less than
<v Speaker 1>physical games in the US may be an attempt to
<v Speaker 1>soften any backlash. Unfortunately, I think the I think eventually
<v Speaker 1>the hardware price is going to have to go up,
<v Speaker 1>he said. I think that there's things that they can
<v Speaker 1>and seem to be doing to try to mitigate that.
<v Speaker 1>But I also look at this move on software as
<v Speaker 1>if I'm reading it a way to make a hardware
<v Speaker 1>price increase.
<v Speaker 2>A little bit more palatable.
<v Speaker 1>We've seen info inflation being a problem for a while now.
<v Speaker 1>Tariffs are a more recent nuisance, but they're not going
<v Speaker 1>away anytime soon. The demand that AIS is causing for
<v Speaker 1>chips is causing memory prices to go up, and you know,
<v Speaker 1>within the last couple of weeks we have issues with
<v Speaker 1>oil prices going through the roof. And when oil goes
<v Speaker 1>through the roof, that's not just shipping costs that goes up.
<v Speaker 1>There's you know, you can imagine to get to the
<v Speaker 1>games from whatever, to get the games from wherever they're
<v Speaker 1>being manufactured to the warehouse, to the retailers, to the shelf.
<v Speaker 1>That's going to drive prices up. And this is another
<v Speaker 1>one that I've been looking at too recently. He continues
<v Speaker 1>to go on here, But there's other things that people
<v Speaker 1>may not realize. Helium is a byproduct of producing oil.
<v Speaker 1>Helium is a key and unreplaceable ingredient in making semiconductors,
<v Speaker 1>which means hardware prices go up even more. It's an
<v Speaker 1>un replaceable byproduct of making silicon wafers, which means if
<v Speaker 1>you're Nintendo and you're producing cartridges, that's going to go
<v Speaker 1>up as well. So helium is the substance on Earth
<v Speaker 1>that we can make the coldest. It's the coldest thing
<v Speaker 1>on Earth when we do make it, and it's in
<v Speaker 1>a certain form, and that is crucial to making these
<v Speaker 1>silicon wafers.
<v Speaker 2>It's like and there's a.
<v Speaker 1>Finite amount of it unless you are getting it, as
<v Speaker 1>I brought a byproduct through oil, and if you run
<v Speaker 1>out of supply, you just can't make your processors anymore.
<v Speaker 1>You cannot make the chips that the game ships on,
<v Speaker 1>the nand memory, the nand flash memory, and so that
<v Speaker 1>like a lot of these companies are running into that
<v Speaker 1>already already, and it's gonna get worse here pretty soon
<v Speaker 1>before it gets better. So I think Jim when he
<v Speaker 1>talks about being being inevitable to me, it's like, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>we do see them trying to maneuver and avoid raising
<v Speaker 1>prices as much as they can, but it does feel
<v Speaker 1>like they've done a lot already, and that was when
<v Speaker 1>they were probably thinking inflation and oh no, these tariffs
<v Speaker 1>are pretty bad. And now we've listed three or four
<v Speaker 1>other reasons why price pressures might be increasing, or prices
<v Speaker 1>might be increasing due to other pressures, and like they
<v Speaker 1>were not expecting that. So it feels inevitable because there's
<v Speaker 1>there could be even more reasons why prices are going
<v Speaker 1>to go up around the core a corner waiting for them,
<v Speaker 1>and they have to be ready for that as well
<v Speaker 1>as dealing with what's right in front of them.
<v Speaker 3>The thing that I'm hearing Grub is I should be
<v Speaker 3>going to my local party supply store and buying as
<v Speaker 3>much helium as possible. Yes, so I should just be
<v Speaker 3>sitting on a bunch of helium tanks that I can
<v Speaker 3>try and sell back to Nintendo.
<v Speaker 2>I think. So it's time to invest in helium.
<v Speaker 1>Now, that could be a situation where I think that's
<v Speaker 1>it's like helium three, And I don't think that's what
<v Speaker 1>you get at at party city wells of helium. That's yes,
<v Speaker 1>might not know that, Yeah helium three, Yeah, you're mislabel
<v Speaker 1>it on eBay and then dip.
<v Speaker 3>My new concern grub with this helium heist is what
<v Speaker 3>if I accrue too much helium that my house just
<v Speaker 3>starts floating away.
<v Speaker 1>Well, then you're just in an up situation and that
<v Speaker 1>was always where you were destined to end up.
<v Speaker 3>Jan So yes, yes, both as Russell and the Old
<v Speaker 3>Man and the Dog, the Holy Trinity.
<v Speaker 1>Actually they did a fusion dance.
<v Speaker 3>But you know, everything that Sean was saying kind of
<v Speaker 3>felt like a no brainer. It just felt like, oh,
<v Speaker 3>you know, the rising tide is coming or high tide
<v Speaker 3>is coming. Of course, price is going to eventually climb
<v Speaker 3>up on the switch to But the insight about helium
<v Speaker 3>is interesting and now and just like a fun little
<v Speaker 3>fact that I learned today.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean I've heard like the helium shortages for
<v Speaker 1>a while apparently, and I could be misremembering. So if
<v Speaker 1>there's anyone who's actually an expert on the stuff in chat.
<v Speaker 1>Feel free to yell at me, but like they store
<v Speaker 1>helium in caves and like that the cave like helium
<v Speaker 1>storage is running low, and so they're like even people
<v Speaker 1>are saying even Party City doesn't have a lot of helium.
<v Speaker 1>I'd say, okay, So, man, that's that's a weird thing
<v Speaker 1>to have to deal with.
<v Speaker 3>Do the employees or cave dwell cave people that have
<v Speaker 3>to go inside the helium caves? Do they have to
<v Speaker 3>wear a gas mask and fear that their voices are
<v Speaker 3>gonna go up?
<v Speaker 1>That's why the mold people sound so strange, Jan, That's
<v Speaker 1>just that's how it works.
<v Speaker 2>That's science. Brother. Wow, yep, we learned. We learn a
<v Speaker 2>lot of new stuff on the show. Absolutely. I was
<v Speaker 2>born in one of those caves. Thank you, Chat.
<v Speaker 1>All right, let's let's keep going here. Analytics firm says
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo Switch and Switch to third party ecosystem sales are
<v Speaker 1>up seventy six percent in twenty twenty five.
<v Speaker 2>This is from my Nintendo News.
<v Speaker 1>Video games analytics firm and peer Is reported that combined
<v Speaker 1>third party software sales on the Nintendo Switch and Switch
<v Speaker 1>to have helped boost third party video game sales in
<v Speaker 1>the Switch ecosystem to two point three billion dollars from
<v Speaker 1>the second quarter of twenty twenty five through the fourth
<v Speaker 1>quarter of twenty twenty five. The firm also reveals that
<v Speaker 1>the third party sales are up seventy six percent year
<v Speaker 1>on year, as they were one point three billion dollars
<v Speaker 1>over the same period in twenty twenty four. Warner Brothers
<v Speaker 1>was the big one to benefit here. Apparently Hogwarts legacy
<v Speaker 1>continues just to pick up a lot of that juice.
<v Speaker 1>It's wild how that continues to happen still, and then
<v Speaker 1>ban Dynamico and EA also saw the benefit of this,
<v Speaker 1>So ja I'm trying to like, look at that timeline.
<v Speaker 1>Q two of twenty twenty five is when the Switch
<v Speaker 1>to launched, right, Yes, so there's probably some just like
<v Speaker 1>extra money going around from people who are excited about
<v Speaker 1>the new hardware, being like I'm gonna get Mario Kart
<v Speaker 1>and maybe a couple other games, and it just feels
<v Speaker 1>like inevitably one or two of those games might end
<v Speaker 1>up being third party. So my question would be, do
<v Speaker 1>you think this is momentum that is building and will
<v Speaker 1>be sustained throughout the generation and grow as switch to
<v Speaker 1>becomes a better platform for third party games, or is
<v Speaker 1>this like an early blip.
<v Speaker 3>I want to hope it's it's more of the former
<v Speaker 3>grub that it is going to be an other safe
<v Speaker 3>haven for third party games and other indie games, like
<v Speaker 3>whenever it is an option to get a code for
<v Speaker 3>a game. Lately, I've been leaning if there's a switch
<v Speaker 3>to version, switch to version, Yeah, go get the switch
<v Speaker 3>to version. That being my second choice after PC versus
<v Speaker 3>choosing an Xbox or PS five console code. And I
<v Speaker 3>hope that this is the start of bigger and better things.
<v Speaker 3>We've seen that you've played through r E nine all
<v Speaker 3>on the switch to so it is definitely capable of
<v Speaker 3>handling a full experience like Resident Evil nine, and then
<v Speaker 3>not only that, but the first party support stuff like
<v Speaker 3>Pacopia has been doing gangbusters. We're going to get to
<v Speaker 3>Tomadaci life in a second. But I hope RI nine
<v Speaker 3>is like a good It is a step in the
<v Speaker 3>right direction for third party games. I'm confident Pragmata is
<v Speaker 3>going to be completely fine on the switch to. Capcom
<v Speaker 3>is doing a lot of work to make sure that
<v Speaker 3>those switch two games are are running well and on
<v Speaker 3>top of like the bigger publishers out there, I hope
<v Speaker 3>that there's a lot of indie success on the switch
<v Speaker 3>to as well.
<v Speaker 2>Is Peak available on the switch To on consoles? I
<v Speaker 2>think it's stead only PC only, right, it.
<v Speaker 1>Might be PC only. I don't know Peak on consoles.
<v Speaker 1>H Peak the Columbia is not currently available on consoles,
<v Speaker 1>so there's still yet.
<v Speaker 3>To pull that, if and when that happens, and if
<v Speaker 3>that team is capable of making it happen on the
<v Speaker 3>switch to that with game chat.
<v Speaker 1>Grub, yes, I mean I think for a lot of
<v Speaker 1>those friends slop like part like party hangout games that
<v Speaker 1>have been popping off online with proximity chat, Uh yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I think incorporating that with game chat and having the
<v Speaker 1>cameras and then still using the end game prox chat
<v Speaker 1>is a really fun, untapped concept that I think a
<v Speaker 1>couple of these games are are going to leverage and
<v Speaker 1>find some success with.
<v Speaker 2>I think.
<v Speaker 1>Like the question marks for me are coming out of
<v Speaker 1>Resident Evil nine and be playing that and being like
<v Speaker 1>this is not just acceptable. It is a completely great
<v Speaker 1>way to play this game. It's not the best way,
<v Speaker 1>but I thought it was fantastic, And so the switch
<v Speaker 1>to is sort of proven itself to me that it
<v Speaker 1>could be a good platform for current modern releases of
<v Speaker 1>Big tripa a third party games, something that the Switch
<v Speaker 1>one never really was. And so okay, you know it's
<v Speaker 1>true for now, it might might not be true going
<v Speaker 1>into the future. I don't think that a lot of
<v Speaker 1>people still recognize that yet, or if they do, they're like, well, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>it was rising at Evil nine. Come back to me
<v Speaker 1>when it's like five to six games in a row
<v Speaker 1>that all came out on the PlayStation five, the Xbox series, XPC,
<v Speaker 1>and switch To and the switch To version is kind
<v Speaker 1>of standing shoulder to shoulder with all of those, then
<v Speaker 1>I could sort of start buying into this ecosystem for
<v Speaker 1>those kinds of games, for endie games. It's got to
<v Speaker 1>continue to be like one of the key homes for
<v Speaker 1>those where it's like people like to play games on
<v Speaker 1>their switch and they like these littler games, and that's
<v Speaker 1>just a match made in heaven.
<v Speaker 2>That was true on the Switch one.
<v Speaker 1>It was always the eas and these other publishers that
<v Speaker 1>never really found a home on switch And you know
<v Speaker 1>that's true going back to many previous Nintendo consoles as well. Now,
<v Speaker 1>while that's been true. The Switch was the first time
<v Speaker 1>I think Nintendo sold more than a billion pieces of
<v Speaker 1>software between itself and all of its partners on one
<v Speaker 1>of its consoles, and so people did buy a lot
<v Speaker 1>of games for that thing. I'd hoped that there was
<v Speaker 1>a lot of them out there for sure, but still
<v Speaker 1>selling more than a billion pieces of software is huge.
<v Speaker 1>They want to continue that, so if they can, I
<v Speaker 1>think they had there's a chance to carry some of
<v Speaker 1>this momentum forward. I don't think it sort of flips
<v Speaker 1>the narrative on its head though, where suddenly everyone's just
<v Speaker 1>buying their third party games on the switch to.
<v Speaker 2>Obviously that's not.
<v Speaker 3>The cards unless, like we see a massive dip in
<v Speaker 3>like engagement with the PS five because of the cost
<v Speaker 3>just skyrocketing and the folks just clamoring for stuff they
<v Speaker 3>can only get on a switch to. It's funny, though,
<v Speaker 3>because I also feel like a lot of this motion,
<v Speaker 3>at least in the indie scene, is kind of just
<v Speaker 3>not really acknowledged by Nintendo. Sure, we'll have our like
<v Speaker 3>Nintendo Indie World Showcase, but like when I think of
<v Speaker 3>like the Switch one, some of these standout titles for
<v Speaker 3>that is not just the first party Nintendo stuff. But
<v Speaker 3>I think of dead cells. I think of Hades, yes,
<v Speaker 3>and with the switch too, I think of like.
<v Speaker 1>That's my Hades two machine, and that was like the
<v Speaker 1>one Nintendo adopted, right, Nintendo adopted Hades two is like
<v Speaker 1>one of its own. And then it doesn't go to
<v Speaker 1>It doesn't like do that frequently. It does that every
<v Speaker 1>once in a while.
<v Speaker 3>Grub, We're we could totally see a world where Zagarias
<v Speaker 3>or Melina way show.
<v Speaker 2>Up in a Smash game.
<v Speaker 1>Huh oh yes, I think, yes, Zagarace is going to
<v Speaker 1>be in Smash in one way or another for sure.
<v Speaker 1>But I think could just straight up be a character
<v Speaker 1>in a new Smash Brothers game. Yes, that's possible. That
<v Speaker 1>would be awesome. I would really I would actually prefer Molina,
<v Speaker 1>I think, but I think it's Zagris that they pick.
<v Speaker 1>All right, let's keep going here. Yes, did I do
<v Speaker 1>this one?
<v Speaker 3>No?
<v Speaker 1>Tomodacci Life Living the Dream, Fact details seventy me limit
<v Speaker 1>and Nintendo Switch to improvements, and those are the two
<v Speaker 1>big things I want to talk about. But this is
<v Speaker 1>from Nintendo everything. Let's go over some of these questions
<v Speaker 1>that they answered in the Fact save data and islands.
<v Speaker 1>There are not shared islands between users. Everyone on a
<v Speaker 1>console gets their own island that has their own mes
<v Speaker 1>and its own story going on. So it's not like
<v Speaker 1>I can bring my mea to your island, sort of
<v Speaker 1>like Animal Crossing and have it. And I'm thinking of
<v Speaker 1>the original Animal Crossing now, I actually don't remember if
<v Speaker 1>that's how well, no, that is how it worked, because
<v Speaker 1>Animal Crossing New Horizons on Switch one jan that was
<v Speaker 1>like one island per system.
<v Speaker 2>That was very weird.
<v Speaker 1>It's not like that at all here, Okay, as far
<v Speaker 1>as Nintendo switched to compatibility. This was a question to me,
<v Speaker 1>Jacuz I've been playing that demo and I got the
<v Speaker 1>demo right after Nintendo Switch boost Mode got released, which
<v Speaker 1>is that function on the switch to that makes Switch
<v Speaker 1>one games run as if they're being docked so that
<v Speaker 1>you can get ten ADP. And it was curious in
<v Speaker 1>this case because the demo on Plane is the Switch
<v Speaker 1>one release and because of that, it was running in
<v Speaker 1>boost mode, so I couldn't use the touch screen, and
<v Speaker 1>I was like, oh, why can't I use Why isn't
<v Speaker 1>this working? And then eventually if you press the touch
<v Speaker 1>screen enough times, a system level icon pops up it's like,
<v Speaker 1>you know, you're in boost mode, touch screen's not going
<v Speaker 1>to work. It was like, oh, okay, weird, So I
<v Speaker 1>guess I really hope there's a Nintendo switch to version.
<v Speaker 2>Well sounds like there will be.
<v Speaker 1>The game is playable on both the original switch and
<v Speaker 1>switch To. Playing on the switch to offers advantages like
<v Speaker 1>reduced loading times and the game chat feature requires a
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo Switch online, and then the switch to handheld modes.
<v Speaker 1>The answer there is the game runs at a higher
<v Speaker 1>ten ADP resolution in handheld mode on the switch to
<v Speaker 1>and does not support the handheld handheld mode boost feature,
<v Speaker 1>so they will turning that off and instead just running
<v Speaker 1>it in a basically native way on the switch to,
<v Speaker 1>so you could still.
<v Speaker 2>Use the handheld touchscreen mode. So they thought about that.
<v Speaker 1>That is that is nice.
<v Speaker 2>And then the other big headline here is the seventy
<v Speaker 2>meter limit.
<v Speaker 1>I say that's a big headline because in the community
<v Speaker 1>over there on the Tomodachi Life subreddit, this has been
<v Speaker 1>a big point of contention. They're like, what's the limit
<v Speaker 1>going to be? I need to have endless means. I
<v Speaker 1>want to have two hundred me's on my islanch. Do
<v Speaker 1>all kinds of crazy shit, you can only have seventy,
<v Speaker 1>although that certainly seems like enough to me.
<v Speaker 3>I will say that seems enough for me. That's enough
<v Speaker 3>for our crew plus the extended family. And then I
<v Speaker 3>guess the people I know in real life.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, yes, exactly like I want, right, I want my
<v Speaker 1>immediate family. I want you guys, I want, And then
<v Speaker 1>I want basically just w WCW wrestlers from the nineties
<v Speaker 1>and in Walluigi shack shat, shack, of course, shack and shat.
<v Speaker 2>You know that's yeah, of course.
<v Speaker 3>And then I like about them, the various genital people
<v Speaker 3>that people are, Yes, the buttholes and the ppees.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, they're just a whole island of that.
<v Speaker 3>Oh god, there's gonna be a whole island of.
<v Speaker 1>That pp island. Welcome everybody.
<v Speaker 3>Uh.
<v Speaker 1>There's some other stuff here about me, gender and relationships,
<v Speaker 1>which people did get a good look at in the demo,
<v Speaker 1>and it did seem really well done. Players could choose male, female,
<v Speaker 1>or other for a me's gender, and this does not
<v Speaker 1>affect the core game. For romantic partners, players could choose male, female, other,
<v Speaker 1>or a combination. Relationships and babies can occur regardless of
<v Speaker 1>the chosen gender system it's they're setting. It's just going
<v Speaker 1>to function the way it always does. And then social
<v Speaker 1>media sharing, they are saying that that is pretty limited.
<v Speaker 1>Posting images and video of the game on social media
<v Speaker 1>is permitted subject to Nintendo's guideline and the social media
<v Speaker 1>platform's rules. However, some console functions like direct posting or
<v Speaker 1>automatic image uploading are not supported for content captured from
<v Speaker 1>this game, So they are going to put a little
<v Speaker 1>bit of a roadblock up. I wonder what if that's
<v Speaker 1>something they get rid of eventually, because it's not. It
<v Speaker 1>already hasn't stopped no, like the sharing of PP Island
<v Speaker 1>Jan So I just don't know what they think they're
<v Speaker 1>doing here.
<v Speaker 3>I feel like it is the whole family aspect that
<v Speaker 3>is keeping them from doing it. But I hope this
<v Speaker 3>is one of those rare instances where NINTA is like
<v Speaker 3>all right, fine, yeah, I mean, I'm glad they're like,
<v Speaker 3>all right, fline, this is for Nintendo. Almost feels like
<v Speaker 3>the best case scenario of like we're gonna wash our
<v Speaker 3>hands of it and we're not gonna help you share
<v Speaker 3>your perversions and your dirty little memes, but you can
<v Speaker 3>do it if you have your own ways of accomplishing that,
<v Speaker 3>because we're in a very different space than we were
<v Speaker 3>with the original Tomadacci Life coming out. You know, like
<v Speaker 3>streaming is a gigantic part of the culture now and
<v Speaker 3>sharing and shareable clips, short form video that a lot
<v Speaker 3>of those streamers, a lot of those short form videos
<v Speaker 3>will push sales of because people want to engage with
<v Speaker 3>the silliness, the goofiness.
<v Speaker 2>Or see Pepe Island for themselves.
<v Speaker 3>So I hope Nintendo just makes it easier to share,
<v Speaker 3>and if that is a thing that they actually do,
<v Speaker 3>I think that is good news for other online sharing
<v Speaker 3>support for Nintendo things, perhaps of a Mario making variety.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, right, exactly. They'd have similar concerns there as well.
<v Speaker 2>I'm sure.
<v Speaker 1>I think hopefully what happens here is they get out
<v Speaker 1>of the blast radius of the launch when they would
<v Speaker 1>probably expect the most like unhinged stuff to happen, because
<v Speaker 1>the people who are you know, just trying to poke
<v Speaker 1>around and see what's possible, see what they see, the
<v Speaker 1>naughtiest thing they can do that will wear off pretty quickly.
<v Speaker 1>They won't ever go away, It'll wear off pretty quickly.
<v Speaker 1>For the vast majority of people. So maybe we get
<v Speaker 1>six months out and they're like, ah, we turned that on.
<v Speaker 1>For the people who are still really playing this, I
<v Speaker 1>would I would be completely happy with that. Again, for me,
<v Speaker 1>this is the best case scenario because I would much
<v Speaker 1>rather have all the uncensored options and and have Nintendo
<v Speaker 1>sensor sharing on the back end, as opposed to them
<v Speaker 1>going in there and trying to figure out some filter.
<v Speaker 1>That's just gonna make it annoying for to like do
<v Speaker 1>something that is actually maybe probably not like innocent arnocuous
<v Speaker 1>and just has a weird like little phrase in there
<v Speaker 1>that they might get through their filter. That's that never
<v Speaker 1>makes for a fun time.
<v Speaker 3>No, And I also, uh, this is just a journal
<v Speaker 3>curiosity grub because I'm not super familiar with Tomadacci life
<v Speaker 3>at least the original.
<v Speaker 2>Can these die?
<v Speaker 1>I don't think so? Okay, yeah I don't think so. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>this is it has a lot in common with the sims,
<v Speaker 1>but it's much more laid back even than that.
<v Speaker 2>So I don't know.
<v Speaker 3>I just want a Viking funeral for some means. I
<v Speaker 3>just think that'd be I mean, man, maybe you couldn't.
<v Speaker 1>Maybe maybe eventually, like we'll crack the system open and
<v Speaker 1>we'll modit, we'll add all that stuff ourselves.
<v Speaker 2>It'll be a good time, lovely.
<v Speaker 3>But like all of the cliffs that I've been seeing
<v Speaker 3>just from the demo alone grub are like absolutely hilarious.
<v Speaker 1>It's very funny. And it's even like seeing the same
<v Speaker 1>scenes like just different characters or different topics. It's funny
<v Speaker 1>kind of every time. So far, it's like we have
<v Speaker 1>only seen a very very very small fraction of what's
<v Speaker 1>in there. I think that that will be the question,
<v Speaker 1>how a robust how far does it go? Is it
<v Speaker 1>sort of like a one note game? Or are they
<v Speaker 1>able to elaborate on it and introduce a lot of
<v Speaker 1>different ideas.
<v Speaker 2>I hope so grab like.
<v Speaker 3>An interesting twist and other difference from in our our
<v Speaker 3>I guess general monoculture and culture as a society is
<v Speaker 3>that reality TV wasn't as big of a thing, specifically
<v Speaker 3>dating reality TV shows, and like the prevalence of just
<v Speaker 3>like Kardashian style shows right wasn't as big with the
<v Speaker 3>original Tomadaci Life coming out this, I could see people
<v Speaker 3>just making certain like tableaus of scenes and re enacting
<v Speaker 3>like other moments or or creating the shareable content through
<v Speaker 3>this it's going to be bonkers.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I want I want more confessional style interviews in
<v Speaker 1>Tomodacci life.
<v Speaker 2>That would be great, all right.
<v Speaker 1>Coin pusher roguelike Raccoin hit a massive Steam sales milestone
<v Speaker 1>in just twenty four hours. This is from Jen Glennon
<v Speaker 1>at Polygon. Shout out to gen fans of Balatro take note.
<v Speaker 1>There's a new rift on the Moorish number goes up
<v Speaker 1>genre on the scene, and it's already doing some impressive
<v Speaker 1>numbers on Steam. Reccoin, a coin pusher roguelike builder which
<v Speaker 1>we just did a quick look of, where you combine
<v Speaker 1>special coins and powerful items to trigger massive payoffs, launched
<v Speaker 1>on March thirty first. The very next day, on April first,
<v Speaker 1>the team at developer Dora Coon Dora Raccoon shared on
<v Speaker 1>Blue Sky that Racoin had sold more than one hundred
<v Speaker 1>thousand copies on Steam in just the past twenty four hours.
<v Speaker 1>That the game is obviously just popping off.
<v Speaker 2>I did see it doing very well.
<v Speaker 1>A lot of people were playing it concurrently on Steam.
<v Speaker 1>It goes to show like there's room in this genre.
<v Speaker 1>People have realized very quickly. Oh, I'm a fan of
<v Speaker 1>these things and I want to get on the next
<v Speaker 1>new hot one one that is that continues to be
<v Speaker 1>like one of the powerful aspects of a platform like
<v Speaker 1>Steam where these games usually are happening first, where people
<v Speaker 1>really quickly recognize that this is something new. I tried it,
<v Speaker 1>I love it, I know why I like it, and
<v Speaker 1>so I'm on the lookout for the next thing that
<v Speaker 1>is going for it. And then on the other side
<v Speaker 1>of the developers, I think playstack is involved in this
<v Speaker 1>as well. Yeah, yeah, it's like playtack, just like we
<v Speaker 1>will laser target you guys. Then if you're gonna show
<v Speaker 1>if you're promising to show up, we'll laser target you
<v Speaker 1>with the thing you're looking for, and we'll work with
<v Speaker 1>the developer to make sure they know the best way
<v Speaker 1>to make a game that will appeal to you. And
<v Speaker 1>it just seems like everyone knows what they're doing in
<v Speaker 1>this and it's cool to see it working out.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's great for the devs, and I think it's
<v Speaker 3>something to be said grub about smaller games in general, right, Yes,
<v Speaker 3>like it is incredibly difficult. I believe Vitelli was talking
<v Speaker 3>about this, but it's incredibly difficult about for these like
<v Speaker 3>big gigantic publishers to be as nimble and as mobile
<v Speaker 3>as these smaller studios. But I think, yeah, you know,
<v Speaker 3>there's something to be said about these smaller initiatives that
<v Speaker 3>just can run away with a funky idea and get
<v Speaker 3>a decent amount of success from it. So I don't
<v Speaker 3>know why these bigger publishers don't. I mean, they did
<v Speaker 3>have smaller initiatives inside of them, and then they closed
<v Speaker 3>all of them or force them to work in other stuff.
<v Speaker 3>But great, fantastic for ratcoin's developer. I love raccoons pushing
<v Speaker 3>coins growth.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I need to play this. I like raccoons, I
<v Speaker 1>coin pushers. I need to get in on this action.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>I always wonder it's like, man, could EA have figured
<v Speaker 1>out a PopCap a little bit better than what it did?
<v Speaker 1>But oh my god, they always follow the same pattern
<v Speaker 1>of let's acquire PopCap, let's let them do what they
<v Speaker 1>do for a little bit, and then suddenly we're going
<v Speaker 1>to wake up one day and be like, we need
<v Speaker 1>a bigger return on investment from everything you do, so
<v Speaker 1>therefore you have to make bigger games. And now they're
<v Speaker 1>making Not that those games were looked upon like unfavorably
<v Speaker 1>A lot of people really liked Plants versus Zombie's Garden
<v Speaker 1>Warfare the shooters, but it's like, obviously that's great that
<v Speaker 1>you're doing that, but you need the focus should still
<v Speaker 1>be PopCap mickey PopCap style games.
<v Speaker 2>And then they just stopped doing that and they just
<v Speaker 2>went away, and it's.
<v Speaker 1>Like, there's there's got to be a way for a
<v Speaker 1>big company like that to navigate that space in a
<v Speaker 1>way that is not going to eventually just eat up
<v Speaker 1>what the thing originally did in favor of bigger and
<v Speaker 1>bigger games.
<v Speaker 3>Like, uh, there are so many different mini games with
<v Speaker 3>any game that you can just spin off a Queen's
<v Speaker 3>Blood solo dolo experience would do crazy Town Bananas. Here's
<v Speaker 3>my pitch. All right, we you know, there's some people
<v Speaker 3>that work at Disney out there that we're fairly associated with.
<v Speaker 3>I'm talking to you right now.
<v Speaker 2>Right there's a certain card game. There's a certain card
<v Speaker 2>game in Star Wars grub Oh yeah, I'm giving yeah.
<v Speaker 2>They should just elaborate on that.
<v Speaker 1>Subot trow yeah, oh shit, oh man, cut the check,
<v Speaker 1>let's do it now. Thinking about that, I want that
<v Speaker 1>real bad.
<v Speaker 2>I don't even know how to place the.
<v Speaker 1>Buck that's pretty Listen, you can pilattro that up pretty quickly.
<v Speaker 2>I would really enjoy that. Oh my god, how fucking
<v Speaker 2>Watto in there.
<v Speaker 1>Give it like the just the old vector graphics style
<v Speaker 1>crch like treatment and make it look like you're playing
<v Speaker 1>it on a Star Wars in movie display.
<v Speaker 2>Oh that'd be that would be fantastic.
<v Speaker 1>All right, let's get these last couple of stories. Resident
<v Speaker 1>Evil Trilogy is now on Steam. This is the GOG
<v Speaker 1>optimized ports.
<v Speaker 2>It was on Gog.
<v Speaker 1>Now it's also on Steam, so you can get Residuevil one, two,
<v Speaker 1>and three of the original versions running in really top
<v Speaker 1>tier order on PC.
<v Speaker 2>Let's see Resident Evil games.
<v Speaker 1>Each one is priced at ten dollars and you can
<v Speaker 1>get them with a discount for the a little bit
<v Speaker 1>for the next few days through the next few weeks
<v Speaker 1>through April fifteenth, so you could pick those up. And
<v Speaker 1>then finally, Super Mario brother speed Runner claims he's being
<v Speaker 1>sabotaged from Amelia Zohlner at Kotaku. Speed Runner Nifski, who's
<v Speaker 1>been known for being the second fast fastest person to
<v Speaker 1>complete Super Mario Brothers, has spent most of twenty twenty
<v Speaker 1>six working toward a monumental achievement being the first person
<v Speaker 1>to tie with a theoretically perfect playthrough of the game. However,
<v Speaker 1>after a particularly sudden rule change that voided his preferred
<v Speaker 1>method of input, he's now accusing the game's speed run
<v Speaker 1>dot Com moderation team of conspiring against him and his progress.
<v Speaker 1>In a YouTube video published Monday, Niftski alleged that the
<v Speaker 1>current any Percentage world record holder Average eleven, conspired this
<v Speaker 1>is a quote, conspired with certain Super Mario Brothers won
<v Speaker 1>leaderboard moderators and others to rig the vote to ban
<v Speaker 1>input swapping for the purpose of sabotaging my any Percentage
<v Speaker 1>TAZ tie progress. That's a lot, but basically what he's
<v Speaker 1>saying is he's trying to tie what is the theoretically
<v Speaker 1>fastest speed run you can do and Super Mario Brothers,
<v Speaker 1>which one other person has done this average eleven, and
<v Speaker 1>his method Nifski, of doing that requires him from that
<v Speaker 1>doesn't require but he prefers to go from using a
<v Speaker 1>controller in certain segments to using a PC keyboard as
<v Speaker 1>an input method for different parts of the segments. And previously,
<v Speaker 1>like six months ago, maybe not even that long ago,
<v Speaker 1>the moderation team, which is nine people voted eight to one,
<v Speaker 1>like the goddamn Supreme Court to approve input swapping, and
<v Speaker 1>they're like, yeah, that's fine that we don't think that
<v Speaker 1>that is against any of the spirit of what we're
<v Speaker 1>going for here.
<v Speaker 2>So thumbs up.
<v Speaker 1>And then suddenly, as it seems like he might be
<v Speaker 1>getting closer to accomplishing this, things changed and he's accusing
<v Speaker 1>some scene drama of getting in the way of him
<v Speaker 1>accomplishing this. I mostly included this jam because it's like,
<v Speaker 1>as a reminder, all these fun spaces, if it's people
<v Speaker 1>and they're competing or there's just people existing the side
<v Speaker 1>by side, everything eventually just becomes politics. Everything becomes people scheming.
<v Speaker 1>It goes all the way down to the bottom, it
<v Speaker 1>goes all the way up to the top. It's everywhere.
<v Speaker 1>It's impossible to avoid. But yeah, scene drama.
<v Speaker 2>You know.
<v Speaker 3>I wish for easy resolutions for all those involved, just
<v Speaker 3>because I don't know. The speed running community seems very
<v Speaker 3>tight knit. It does does seem like one of those
<v Speaker 3>communities where everyone does know everyone, and I don't know
<v Speaker 3>what it is grub. I think this is a big
<v Speaker 3>week for sabotage. It is stage is, it's out there.
<v Speaker 3>Now I'm waiting, is someone out there trying to sabotage us?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it could be, could be this this moderation team
<v Speaker 1>on speed run dot com.
<v Speaker 2>Who's to say? Yeah?
<v Speaker 1>I mean that The King of Kong's fist full of
<v Speaker 1>quarters is where I first realized. It's like, oh yeah,
<v Speaker 1>this sort of backstabbing can happen in anything. And uh,
<v Speaker 1>the way that those growing men behaved trying to set
<v Speaker 1>a world record in Donkey Kong, It's like, yeah, okay,
<v Speaker 1>if it can happen, there can happen anywhere. And of
<v Speaker 1>course it's still happening in a Nintendo related video game scene.
<v Speaker 1>All right, that does it for the headlines. Let's get
<v Speaker 1>to the poll question from yesterday. I should have the
<v Speaker 1>results right over here. I am going to refresh. The
<v Speaker 1>question was, are you seeing the Mario Galaxy movie in
<v Speaker 1>the next two weeks? I am so our thirty eight
<v Speaker 1>percent respondents. Sixty two percent of people said no, they
<v Speaker 1>are not.
<v Speaker 2>So.
<v Speaker 1>I think that says like the audience here is like, yeah, look,
<v Speaker 1>I'll check it out, but not a ton of excitement.
<v Speaker 1>But thirty eight percent is you know, that's a lot
<v Speaker 1>of people going to see a movie out of the
<v Speaker 1>four thousand that voted, So I would like I kind
<v Speaker 1>of wish I could like quickly compare this to like
<v Speaker 1>how other movies would fare, Like what did people do
<v Speaker 1>with Project tail Mary? I bet our audience was even
<v Speaker 1>more than that for Project tail Mary wouldn't be surprised
<v Speaker 1>by that. That movie did very well.
<v Speaker 2>Are you Jen?
<v Speaker 1>Are you seeing Mario in the theaters? You have plans
<v Speaker 1>for that?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah? Plenty, see you this weekend.
<v Speaker 3>I thought about, uh, perhaps tonight, but I'm too sleepy,
<v Speaker 3>grub I'd probably fall No.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I get it.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, all right, that's the poll question from yesterday. Let's see,
<v Speaker 1>we need a new poll question. Let's see, should we
<v Speaker 1>just do one about the PS six handheld and the price?
<v Speaker 1>What do we think it's gonna cost? Yeah, we'll come
<v Speaker 1>up with one about the PlayStation six price, basically, how
<v Speaker 1>much do you think it's gonna cost? And we'll give
<v Speaker 1>you a range of Let's say I'm gonna start it
<v Speaker 1>at guess five hundred. I think that even that's pretty low.
<v Speaker 1>Five hundred to six hundred, six hundred, seven hundred, seven hundred,
<v Speaker 1>eight hundred, eight hundred, nine hundred plus something like that.
<v Speaker 1>I think that's probably where most people are gonna end up.
<v Speaker 1>We'll come up the exact verbiage, get that posted up
<v Speaker 1>for you all here pretty soon, we'll get the results
<v Speaker 1>to talk about it here on Giant Bomb on Game
<v Speaker 1>of Morning's tomorrow. Speaking of Giant Bomb voicemail. Dump truck
<v Speaker 1>coming up pretty soon, right, Jane.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, we have our dear portal pal Mary Kish joining
<v Speaker 3>us on the dump truck and speaking about Tomadotci life Greb.
<v Speaker 3>We're gonna continue marry Me Tomo Dooci in its hottest
<v Speaker 3>dating show later this afternoon and also gang tomorrow for you.
<v Speaker 3>Pf Our dear friend Samantha Coleman is joining us. You
<v Speaker 3>won't want to miss it.
<v Speaker 2>Yep, it's go.
<v Speaker 1>We're gonna have a lot of fun. We'll play some
<v Speaker 1>to Samantha's bringing her new game. It's gonna be a
<v Speaker 1>lot of fun. Everybody cannot wait. Okay, let's see With
<v Speaker 1>all of that out of the way, Jane, I think
<v Speaker 1>what I'm gonna do now is say thank you for
<v Speaker 1>hanging out with me today and talking about video games.
<v Speaker 2>Man, I really do appreciate it. It's the only way
<v Speaker 2>to start a Thursday.
<v Speaker 1>And thank you for all watching and listening. You are
<v Speaker 1>the best audience in gaming. Until next time, have a
<v Speaker 1>good one, take care of yourself and goodbye.