New Switch 2 Model Coming Soon?

<v Speaker 1>Hey, everybody, welcome to Game Best Mornings with Me Jeff Grub,
<v Speaker 1>your host from giant bomb dot com.
<v Speaker 2>Thank you for tuning in.
<v Speaker 1>In this episode, we're gonna be talking about new Nintendo
<v Speaker 1>hardware because I'll die if we don't have new Nintendo
<v Speaker 1>hardware rumors. I will just I'll suffocate on the show. Also,
<v Speaker 1>Resident Evil Requiem's latest reveals looking really good. It's gonna
<v Speaker 1>be a good one because we have Lex Luddy on
<v Speaker 1>the show. LEXI, how are you doing.
<v Speaker 3>Bob, other than my entire culture being diminished by one
<v Speaker 3>of this website's owners, I'm doing two.
<v Speaker 2>Two of the owners have done this now. Yeah, it's
<v Speaker 2>all five eventually.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, you're really just whiffing your way through, you know,
<v Speaker 3>all the countries, all the owners. Yep, that's right, true,
<v Speaker 3>your true Americans. I'll give you that.
<v Speaker 1>Oh thank you. Oh that's the nicest thing anyone's ever
<v Speaker 1>said about us. Yeah, Mike uh did not know. Well,
<v Speaker 1>he mistook the Irish accents in Dragon Quest seven for
<v Speaker 1>English accents, which which.
<v Speaker 3>I can I can accept. I can accept being accent deaf.
<v Speaker 3>It's seeing a character named Patrick and seeing a character
<v Speaker 3>named Mayve and calling those the most British names possible,
<v Speaker 3>that's not.
<v Speaker 1>That's he said that.
<v Speaker 3>He said that a town called like bally Gohan or something,
<v Speaker 3>and him being like, yeah, that's a really British sounding town.
<v Speaker 1>What's Brittish about the name?
<v Speaker 2>Patrick?
<v Speaker 1>I can't think of a single thing. I don't know
<v Speaker 1>what you're talking about. Oh no, even something that Americans would.
<v Speaker 2>Be familiar with.
<v Speaker 1>Look, he's gonna hear this, and he's gonna get mad
<v Speaker 1>that I'm not defending him.
<v Speaker 2>Too fucking bad, Mike.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, right next time. I don't know what to tell you, Bud. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>glad you're on the show. Though I have a it's
<v Speaker 1>it's been a good week. No one to blame but
<v Speaker 1>myself for my state of mind. I just am not
<v Speaker 1>I mean, obviously it's the goddamn world, but I'm not
<v Speaker 1>sleeping real well, and I'm just I'm feeling it. It's Friday,
<v Speaker 1>lucky to have. We're gonna have a long weekend over here.
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna take that. Although I say that, and there's
<v Speaker 1>so many things I tried to get done last weekend.
<v Speaker 1>I didn't finish someone to spend all week in doing that.
<v Speaker 1>But whatever that'll be, it's not neither here nor there.
<v Speaker 1>I just need to start getting my sleep schedule back
<v Speaker 1>on track and then I'll think I'll mostly be fine.
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, I'm glad you're here to help me get
<v Speaker 1>through this this episode.
<v Speaker 3>Speaking of sleep schedule, I mentioned this in a super
<v Speaker 3>shot to you the other Nie. I was at a
<v Speaker 3>Yakuza three preview event on Tuesday in London. Problem is
<v Speaker 3>I live for that Yakuza three preview event on Monday.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, So I mean that is a very also a
<v Speaker 1>micro minatti thing to do. I gotta say, I think
<v Speaker 1>we could see why you're lashing out a little bit,
<v Speaker 1>all right, your embarrassed.
<v Speaker 3>I the thirteenth of January as the twelfth of January
<v Speaker 3>just misread it, totally fucking misread it alive there as
<v Speaker 3>they were setting up the event space in London, and
<v Speaker 3>the guy was like, are you a journalist? And I
<v Speaker 3>was like yeah, and he was like, that isn't on
<v Speaker 3>until tomorrow. I was like oh, and he's like you
<v Speaker 3>look pretty upset. Like I'm a little bit upset. He's like,
<v Speaker 3>do you want a cup of coffee? I was like, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>I could do a cup of coffee.
<v Speaker 1>And I spent that whole day surrounded by Patricks.
<v Speaker 3>It was off in fairness. Shout out to Sega Pire.
<v Speaker 3>They were very understanding and they were like, we'll get
<v Speaker 3>you a hotel for the night. And then yeah, I
<v Speaker 3>rebooked my flight, so I'm paying like the flight stuff myself,
<v Speaker 3>which is fine, but you know, it's my own idiocy.
<v Speaker 3>And that event itself went pretty well. I met a
<v Speaker 3>cat cold Chicken.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, there's you. So you got to take a look
<v Speaker 1>at this game. You get to meet a cat named Chicken.
<v Speaker 1>Was the cat just like protecting the hotel the event?
<v Speaker 2>What was it doing?
<v Speaker 3>So the event was on in in like an indoor market,
<v Speaker 3>and the indoor market had they rented out like two
<v Speaker 3>stores there in the corner. One of them was a
<v Speaker 3>retro video game store and the other one was a
<v Speaker 3>ramen shop, and so they just cording that off from
<v Speaker 3>the rest of the market. And the people who owned
<v Speaker 3>the Ramen shop had a cash So the demo section
<v Speaker 3>was upstairs and the cat was just wandering around upstairs
<v Speaker 3>with us. Yeah, and the cat was very chill, sat
<v Speaker 3>next to me for almost the entire three hours of
<v Speaker 3>the event. It was very hard to actually bother playing
<v Speaker 3>the game. But yeah, it was a good event it
<v Speaker 3>was I. You can read my preview up now on
<v Speaker 3>gam of Guides. It's on my Blue Sky as well.
<v Speaker 3>That game's really frustrating already because in some ways it
<v Speaker 3>is everything I want from a Yakuza three remake. It
<v Speaker 3>fixes pretty much all of the major problems that I
<v Speaker 3>have with that game. But it was alluded to, I
<v Speaker 3>think it was yesterday or the day before that you
<v Speaker 3>talked about it on this show. And the recasting is
<v Speaker 3>really bad. It's really like naughty, right, Yes, So there's
<v Speaker 3>two bits of recasting. One of them is they recasted
<v Speaker 3>a kind of your main sidekick in this game who's
<v Speaker 3>kind of meant to be a country He's meant to
<v Speaker 3>be like a bit of a country bumpkin who's acting
<v Speaker 3>like a big Yakuza big shot. And the whole idea
<v Speaker 3>of his side character is that like he's a bit
<v Speaker 3>of a like loser, but you learn to love him
<v Speaker 3>because he does have a like a good harsh they've
<v Speaker 3>recast him and they've used the face of the guy
<v Speaker 3>that they recast him as. Originally, he was like an
<v Speaker 3>original design character wasn't based off of anyone's face, and
<v Speaker 3>he was meant to look like a bit of a dog.
<v Speaker 3>He was meant to look like a bit of a
<v Speaker 3>try hard poser. Now he is a like Hollywood pretty boy,
<v Speaker 3>he really is, and it just it's a weird choice.
<v Speaker 3>The other bit of recasting is one of the game's
<v Speaker 3>main villains is a guy called Go Hamazaki, and he
<v Speaker 3>is meant to be a brickshit acuse he is meant
<v Speaker 3>to be one of the most imposing physical figures in
<v Speaker 3>the Yakuza franchise. And again, he wasn't based off of
<v Speaker 3>real life person model wise, which allowed them to really
<v Speaker 3>make them look like a fucking brick shit house.
<v Speaker 2>Right.
<v Speaker 3>They've recast him with a real world actor and based
<v Speaker 3>it off of him, and now he kind of just
<v Speaker 3>looks like a seventy year old Japanese man, a sixty
<v Speaker 3>year old Japanese man. And the other problem is who
<v Speaker 3>they recast him as. And that's where it gets. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>they were in twenty twenty two, this actor Kadagawa, I
<v Speaker 3>can't remember his first name now off the top of
<v Speaker 3>my head without looking at my article. A video came
<v Speaker 3>out of him basically sexually harassing a woman in a
<v Speaker 3>hostess club. Shortly after that, a newspaper spoke to the
<v Speaker 3>woman and obtained that video and released dish. They also
<v Speaker 3>spoke to a second hostess who claimed that similar things
<v Speaker 3>happened to her on the same night, but there we're
<v Speaker 3>not videos of that. His agency came out and basically
<v Speaker 3>acknowledged Ith and apologized. They only acknowledged and apologized to
<v Speaker 3>the woman who there was video recording of. The other
<v Speaker 3>woman never received an apology, and within four months he
<v Speaker 3>was back acting again on stage. And now he's back
<v Speaker 3>acting on screen and Orgig have chosen to cast him.
<v Speaker 3>I understand the argument of hey, it's hard to replace
<v Speaker 3>people in video games. But also in twenty nineteen, Judgment
<v Speaker 3>came out This is why Yeah, go ahead, and shortly
<v Speaker 3>after the INU I think it was a month after
<v Speaker 3>the release of Judgment in Japan. It came out in Japan.
<v Speaker 3>First one of the actors was caught with possession of
<v Speaker 3>Yeah Yeah tacky, and he was caught with possession of cocaine.
<v Speaker 2>He was arrested and actually I was even caught with possession.
<v Speaker 1>I understand was like he had a positive drug test
<v Speaker 1>and they didn't find anything, so.
<v Speaker 3>They charged him with possession and testing cars and the
<v Speaker 3>ORGG basically said that for the Western release, which came
<v Speaker 3>out a couple of months later, they would be replacing
<v Speaker 3>him and it would no longer be his likeness. It
<v Speaker 3>would just be a random character facial likeness. And they
<v Speaker 3>also changed the voice actor, and then they patched the
<v Speaker 3>Japanese version later on to also remove the actor, and
<v Speaker 3>then subsequent like the PS five version, the PC version
<v Speaker 3>all don't have Pierre Taki's name. So I actually have
<v Speaker 3>a copy of the PS four version, the unpatched PS
<v Speaker 3>four version, that I picked up in Japan with this guy
<v Speaker 3>in Ish, because I thought it was an interesting novelty.
<v Speaker 3>So ORGG has been able to do this in the past.
<v Speaker 3>They also do it.
<v Speaker 1>Don't do it pagonist and do it for something that's
<v Speaker 1>just doesn't I mean, I know in Japan the culture
<v Speaker 1>around drug use is very severe and like this is
<v Speaker 1>what they do. Like when people get caught with drugs
<v Speaker 1>or using drugs, it's like, well, no, we're deleting you
<v Speaker 1>from society, okay, but keep that same energy for abuse.
<v Speaker 1>What are we talking about here?
<v Speaker 3>So the really frustrating thing about this is playing that demo.
<v Speaker 3>There is a whole side mission. One of the main
<v Speaker 3>side Substoris you know, the way that there's always kind
<v Speaker 3>of like a main side thing that you can do.
<v Speaker 3>In one of in zero it's like the cabaret club.
<v Speaker 3>In some of the other ones, it's you know, go
<v Speaker 3>kart racing or whatever. In this one it's, oh, you're
<v Speaker 3>helping out with a biker gang, and it's an all
<v Speaker 3>it's a women led biker gang. And the section that
<v Speaker 3>they showed us features basically the dad of the woman
<v Speaker 3>who runs the biker gang being to cure you, like, hey,
<v Speaker 3>take care of my daughter and you know, help her
<v Speaker 3>out with the biker gang. And here you kind of
<v Speaker 3>side steps the question. And then when he goes outside,
<v Speaker 3>the daughter is like, I want you to be the
<v Speaker 3>boss of the biker gang. And here you says, I
<v Speaker 3>don't want to be the boss. I want you to
<v Speaker 3>fight your own battles, but I'll support you. And it's
<v Speaker 3>a really good bit of a fighting. It's a really
<v Speaker 3>good bit of like actually acknowledging like, hey, this woman
<v Speaker 3>should empower herself and qu is trying to enable that.
<v Speaker 3>And it's fucking baffling and so at odds with what
<v Speaker 3>the studio is doing in real life, and it is
<v Speaker 3>so frustrating. It is so hard to like unequivocally recommend
<v Speaker 3>this game when those two casting decisions, like even without
<v Speaker 3>the questionableness nature to them, are just bad casting decisions.
<v Speaker 3>They're just not They don't improve the story, they take
<v Speaker 3>away from the story. And then when you factor in
<v Speaker 3>the actual like personalities involved, it feels so at odds
<v Speaker 3>with what the franchise wants to represent and tries to
<v Speaker 3>represent so often it's deeply frustrating as someone who really
<v Speaker 3>loves those games.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, and it's uh and I certainly don't want
<v Speaker 1>to like make this from my point of view like
<v Speaker 1>a criticism of Japanese culture, but I just I uh.
<v Speaker 1>One of the things I respect so much about rgg's
<v Speaker 1>games is they do seem like they are considerate and
<v Speaker 1>capable of examining their culture and having some critical thinking
<v Speaker 1>about it, uh, in a way that.
<v Speaker 3>Like Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii has a whole sub story
<v Speaker 3>where basically you help out a woman who used to
<v Speaker 3>be a sex worker and she decides to become an
<v Speaker 3>author to write about like safe sex and working in
<v Speaker 3>the sex work industry and like how to do it
<v Speaker 3>more safely. Like that's a whole sub story in pirate
<v Speaker 3>Yakuza in uh in Hawaii, and so this just feels
<v Speaker 3>so at odds with that stuff.
<v Speaker 2>Right, And so yes, I'm chat writers versus executives. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>you kind of. I kind of have to assume it's
<v Speaker 2>something along those lines. Either way.
<v Speaker 1>It's that this is a shame and and they should
<v Speaker 1>they should fix this.
<v Speaker 2>They should, they should get rid of this guy.
<v Speaker 3>And like I do know in the grand scheme, this
<v Speaker 3>is like a pretty small problem. There's other thing, like
<v Speaker 3>you have to consider a game on the whole, but
<v Speaker 3>also like hold that feet to the file on this stuff,
<v Speaker 3>like there's no reason not to as pressed, like we
<v Speaker 3>should like actually interrogate these decisions and call attention to
<v Speaker 3>them when they happen exactly.
<v Speaker 1>All right, thanks for that, Lex, I'm glad you were
<v Speaker 1>able to make that trip work.
<v Speaker 2>And I hope you get the sea chicken again one day.
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<v Speaker 1>we all love to get into four quick.
<v Speaker 3>Jump into souff. Just quick shout out to all the
<v Speaker 3>people at Inverse that have just lost their jobs.
<v Speaker 2>Oh really, that's terrible. Okay, I didn't see.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, they're divesting from the gaming industry. So huge shout
<v Speaker 3>out to folks like Willowow and Hayes Madsen. There's some
<v Speaker 3>really great people over at Inverse. I've worked with a
<v Speaker 3>bunch of them before in the past, and they're all
<v Speaker 3>really nice. So if you see any of them out
<v Speaker 3>there on Blue Sky or whatever talking about being out
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<v Speaker 2>Yep.
<v Speaker 1>The industry is better with them, So hopefully you can
<v Speaker 1>find a home for all these people. All right, let's
<v Speaker 1>get into it. A potential new Nintendo switch two model
<v Speaker 1>has been discovered. This is for my Nintendo News. A
<v Speaker 1>Blue Sky user has discovered what appears to be potentially
<v Speaker 1>a new Nintendo switch to model code on Nintendo's internal website.
<v Speaker 1>So there's like a code name for all these things,
<v Speaker 1>not even a cod name, it's like three code letters.
<v Speaker 1>For example, the original switch was HAC, the switch O
<v Speaker 1>led was h EG, the switch light was HGH, and
<v Speaker 1>then the switch to was b EE. This new one
<v Speaker 1>that is now referenced is OSM and it does seem
<v Speaker 1>to be an entirely new model of switch or switch
<v Speaker 1>to I should say what that means, though no one
<v Speaker 1>seems to be exactly sure, although the speculation right now
<v Speaker 1>everyone is immediately jump into oh, this is the switch
<v Speaker 1>to light, which I gotta say, LEXI, that sounds right
<v Speaker 1>to me. Because Nintendo knows what happened with the switch
<v Speaker 1>light last time, they probably are going to be able
<v Speaker 1>to get this next one ready quicker because they are
<v Speaker 1>preparing to do it, probably right out the gate they're like, well,
<v Speaker 1>we know when we want the switch to light, let's
<v Speaker 1>get it.
<v Speaker 2>Get it ready.
<v Speaker 1>And then also the switch to light can do some
<v Speaker 1>key things in terms of price reduction. Are cost reduction
<v Speaker 1>so that Nintendo can sell it at a lower price
<v Speaker 1>if they could get a switch to light out there.
<v Speaker 1>That serves a couple of purposes. For one, anytime that
<v Speaker 1>there is a Pokemon game that comes out that is
<v Speaker 1>exclusive the switch to you sort of match it up
<v Speaker 1>with this thing, and that's the thing that you can
<v Speaker 1>tell families to get for kids. And then the other
<v Speaker 1>key thing here that's going to be important very soon
<v Speaker 1>is Nintendo will eventually want to move on from the
<v Speaker 1>switch one, which has been there like, hey, if you
<v Speaker 1>can't afford to switch To, go get a Switch one.
<v Speaker 1>And that's been kind of a fair proposition because there's
<v Speaker 1>been a ton of Switch one games. They have Switch
<v Speaker 1>one game's coming soon still, but they're gonna want to
<v Speaker 1>move on from that soon and having a more affordable
<v Speaker 1>switch To would help them kind of put that in.
<v Speaker 2>Their rear view mirror a little bit.
<v Speaker 1>Uh, I'm buying into this a little bit. I guess
<v Speaker 1>the question would be when does this happen? And there's
<v Speaker 1>no reason to assume just because it's popping on the
<v Speaker 1>web on the website that it's imminent, as in like
<v Speaker 1>the next three months or something like that. We are
<v Speaker 1>not even yet a year out from the release of
<v Speaker 1>the switch To.
<v Speaker 3>I if the big question is when it holiday, right
<v Speaker 3>they holiday? Yeah, I agree, they do, like a September release,
<v Speaker 3>get it like in in store shelves and like they'll
<v Speaker 3>know where their pricing situation is ash by then, and yeah,
<v Speaker 3>this makes all the sense in the world. I think
<v Speaker 3>it will be interesting to see if it's the same
<v Speaker 3>screen because there's been so much back and forth on
<v Speaker 3>the quality of the switch To, who's built in screen
<v Speaker 3>and more so the lack equality of that screen, and
<v Speaker 3>if you have a handheld only device, I think people
<v Speaker 3>are going to notice the problems with that screen a
<v Speaker 3>lot more. And yeah, I I wish that screen was better.
<v Speaker 3>Every time I take my switch and travel with me,
<v Speaker 3>I'm like, this is fine. But also, man, that old
<v Speaker 3>ed was nice. It was really nice. It was crisp.
<v Speaker 3>It was it was so crisp, and it looks so
<v Speaker 3>sharp and like there are certain games where you play
<v Speaker 3>them on the switch one and you're like, oh this
<v Speaker 3>this does look better and handheld moch like this, this
<v Speaker 3>is a better handheld experience in some ways. So yeah,
<v Speaker 3>it would be. It will be weird if it winds
<v Speaker 3>up having a different screen and it's like better than
<v Speaker 3>the premiere model screen. But yeah, I can I can
<v Speaker 3>see it happening. Yeah, what what do you think that
<v Speaker 3>they would have any reason to like hold on this
<v Speaker 3>for longer than holiday?
<v Speaker 1>I mean again, obviously the question marks around like components
<v Speaker 1>sourcing will be an issue, Like, yeah, this will be.
<v Speaker 1>They will try to reduce the costs on this thing,
<v Speaker 1>but that comes down to actually being able to get
<v Speaker 1>the components at a decent price, and it's like, you know,
<v Speaker 1>there's a reason like Valve stops selling the lowest version
<v Speaker 1>of the Steam Deck, right because, yeah, that was the
<v Speaker 1>cheapest one for them to manufacture, but it also had
<v Speaker 1>the slimmest margins, So they like selling the more expensive
<v Speaker 1>ones because that gives them more margins even as RAM
<v Speaker 1>goes up in price. So that's the one thing that
<v Speaker 1>I think could hold this up is Nintendo going if
<v Speaker 1>we launch it this year actually at the price we
<v Speaker 1>wanted to launch it at, we are going to be
<v Speaker 1>in a situation where we're actually losing money on this device,
<v Speaker 1>and we don't want to do that. But we also
<v Speaker 1>do not want to sell it for more than three dollars,
<v Speaker 1>you know, three fifty No, that's crazy. I switched to
<v Speaker 1>OLED has kind of has to be three hundred dollars,
<v Speaker 1>But I don't know.
<v Speaker 2>We'll see what Nintendo doing.
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, I think this comes out in the holiday,
<v Speaker 1>And I agree with your assessment about like the screen
<v Speaker 1>is going to be kind of a key point here.
<v Speaker 1>It's not going to be an O lead, you know,
<v Speaker 1>it's it'll probably be a smaller screen. So therefore they'll
<v Speaker 1>have to source a different model and that will give
<v Speaker 1>them the chance to fix some of the stuff, like
<v Speaker 1>the ghosting that I don't notice, but like when I'm
<v Speaker 1>playing and I don't, I'm not. I be honest, I've
<v Speaker 1>not tried to look into it because I know once
<v Speaker 1>I notice it, I won't be able to not notice it,
<v Speaker 1>and that'll drive me crazy. So for people who have
<v Speaker 1>noticed it, it is driving them crazy. Maybe this will
<v Speaker 1>be the kind of thing where it's like, Okay, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>it's still LCD. It's it's still maybe even from the
<v Speaker 1>same company or whatever, but it is an improved model
<v Speaker 1>or whatever, which is entirely possible. Really though, it's like, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I really, I'm really happy with the switch to as
<v Speaker 1>it is. I remember very much enjoying the switch light
<v Speaker 1>when that launched, just because the switch one felt so
<v Speaker 1>flimsy in my hands, and the switch one being one
<v Speaker 1>or the switch one light being an all in one
<v Speaker 1>unit was.
<v Speaker 2>A big improvement to me.
<v Speaker 1>This time rout, it's like, that's a little bit less necessary,
<v Speaker 1>but maybe they'll have some other things in their pocket
<v Speaker 1>to make this thing feel extra cool. At the very least, though,
<v Speaker 1>they're they're gonna want something to sell to younger, younger players,
<v Speaker 1>and a light is the answer to that.
<v Speaker 3>For sure, as someone who only have a HODJ one
<v Speaker 3>active switch at a time does do Nintendo cross saves,
<v Speaker 3>how they when it comes to stuff like that with
<v Speaker 3>like having an account on two switches.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, so it's uh, it's not too bad if you're
<v Speaker 1>one person. If you've got a family, then it gets
<v Speaker 1>a little bit more complicated because then the virtual game
<v Speaker 1>key card situation gets a little bit frustrating.
<v Speaker 2>But I have bounced back.
<v Speaker 1>And forth between my switches using the virtual game cards
<v Speaker 1>and it's been not much of a problem. And the
<v Speaker 1>cloud saves as long as I think you have to
<v Speaker 1>have Nintendo Switch Online the subscription to get the full
<v Speaker 1>cloud save features. As long as you have that, it's
<v Speaker 1>been mostly seamlessly just downloads every time you start a
<v Speaker 1>game and you go and yeah, I've had no issues
<v Speaker 1>with that, so it's like that'll work for sure. But
<v Speaker 1>I think most people are probably gonna be in your
<v Speaker 1>situation where it's like that, this is my new active
<v Speaker 1>switch and after spending you know, five hundred dollars four
<v Speaker 1>fifty on the switch to already, I bet there will
<v Speaker 1>be quite a bit fewer people who are going to
<v Speaker 1>jump on a switch light as opposed to last generation
<v Speaker 1>where it's like I was upgrading. Every time they introduced
<v Speaker 1>a new thing, I was upgrading. Although I will probably
<v Speaker 1>do the same thing this time because I'm a SICO
<v Speaker 1>and a dummy.
<v Speaker 2>I guess.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, so we're all assuming, I think everyone in a chat,
<v Speaker 1>assuming you and I are assuming. Yes, this will be
<v Speaker 1>a switch light rather than O lead. They will do
<v Speaker 1>an O lead eventually though, right.
<v Speaker 3>They'll do an O lead down the road when people
<v Speaker 3>wouldn't be a ghast at the idea of buying another
<v Speaker 3>switch so so quickly that is, you know, functionally the
<v Speaker 3>exact same, just with an O LEED like this is
<v Speaker 3>for a different market. The switch OL EDGE in a
<v Speaker 3>lot of ways, is just it's a replacement console halfway
<v Speaker 3>through the generation to reset the price, so they'll hold
<v Speaker 3>on to it for I'm willing to bet the base
<v Speaker 3>model SWITCH will be here for at least another three
<v Speaker 3>years at least before we get an old.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it was quite a while before we got the OLED.
<v Speaker 1>We actually got the switch one revision first, the extended
<v Speaker 1>battery version.
<v Speaker 3>Cheme out the OL nineteen no I think twenty twenty.
<v Speaker 2>Twenty twenty nineteen, so yeah, yeah, oh, LED was.
<v Speaker 3>A bit before it came out with Metroid Primary Master.
<v Speaker 3>That was the first switch O led game. I remembering about.
<v Speaker 2>Yep, Sam and Nice and some other people are chat
<v Speaker 2>saying osam.
<v Speaker 1>Oled screen model maybe, but like Nintendo does like to
<v Speaker 1>be a little bit more cheeky with these code these codes.
<v Speaker 1>So all right, LEXI, the switch to is B E
<v Speaker 1>E so B, do you have a guess for why
<v Speaker 1>it That is the code name for the switch to.
<v Speaker 3>Uh, the switch to is full of bees.
<v Speaker 1>That's right, that's how it works. Wow, I didn't think
<v Speaker 1>you were gonna get it. Okay. So B in Japanese
<v Speaker 1>is hotchi, which is also the number eight, which this
<v Speaker 1>is the eighth Nintendo console. That's what people believe is
<v Speaker 1>actually happened. That's how it got its name. Uh yeah,
<v Speaker 1>So I don't know if oh let's switch model is something.
<v Speaker 1>Maybe they would because maybe they're not always that cute,
<v Speaker 1>and maybe that's maybe B is something else. But uh yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I think that is what is happening here. All right, Yes, well,
<v Speaker 1>I mean your guest is not. It's also just true.
<v Speaker 1>It's just that it has nothing to do with the
<v Speaker 1>code name. That's the thing that's the only difference.
<v Speaker 3>That's just this sounds weird. It's actually just the bees.
<v Speaker 2>It's the bees.
<v Speaker 1>All right. Let's see a SEUs has stopped producing the
<v Speaker 1>in Vidia RTX fifty seventy TI and fifty sixty TI
<v Speaker 1>sixteen gigabyte model, saying they've reached end of life. This
<v Speaker 1>is from Igor Beneficick at ngadget, who says, did that
<v Speaker 1>get the name very wrong?
<v Speaker 3>No, no, I just have the thought of those end
<v Speaker 3>of life. But the thirty sixty isn't end of life.
<v Speaker 2>So that's yeah, that's the thing here.
<v Speaker 1>Let's I mean, Asis is basically just saying they're talking
<v Speaker 1>to the Australian YouTubers hardware unboxed.
<v Speaker 2>Who do you usually do good.
<v Speaker 1>Reporting, telling them, yeah, we're not making those anymore, and
<v Speaker 1>everyone's like, oh, it's in Nvidia not sending out the
<v Speaker 1>stuff for that anymore. And Vidia came back and said
<v Speaker 1>no we are, and Asus like yeah, yeah, no, this
<v Speaker 1>is us being like, we can't source sixteen gigabytes of
<v Speaker 1>RAM for either of these cards in any affordable way imaginable.
<v Speaker 1>We ain't making that shit anymore. So yeah, the thirty sixty,
<v Speaker 1>the eight with eight gigabytes is something that is apparently
<v Speaker 1>much more affordable. Surprisingly, Uh, and they're gonna so they're
<v Speaker 1>gonna kind of keep doing that instead. This is gonna
<v Speaker 1>be something I think we continue to see. It begs
<v Speaker 1>the question, what is the next like generation of cards.
<v Speaker 1>Look like they're just gonna be all eight gigabyte cards. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>there's your fifty seven. That's rare right there from AUC.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, from as that piece that I wrote for into
<v Speaker 3>the spine of like, hey, feels like I got in
<v Speaker 3>right at the end of the death of something building
<v Speaker 3>this PC boy, I feel like even more every single
<v Speaker 3>day feels weird. Yeah, that that was a real like
<v Speaker 3>honey like sweet spot card for me price wise, Like
<v Speaker 3>I definitely couldn't afford a fifty eighty and anything below
<v Speaker 3>that probably would have been a bit frustrating to work
<v Speaker 3>with in a few years for work stuff. So yeah,
<v Speaker 3>this sucks.
<v Speaker 2>It's this is this sucks.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, Uh, fifty seven ETI sixteen gigabytes of v RAM. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>you'll be good. Uh. And that is the kind of
<v Speaker 1>the amount of RAM, the amount of power that most
<v Speaker 1>people are like, Yeah, that's gonna be It's gonna make
<v Speaker 1>you real comfortable in terms of gaming going forward.
<v Speaker 2>Now everyone's looking around like.
<v Speaker 1>Hey, can developers do anything to make sure that we
<v Speaker 1>can continue using a gigabytes of v RAM in a
<v Speaker 1>way that is less painful than it has than it
<v Speaker 1>has been getting recently. And this is just a sign
<v Speaker 1>of like things to yet to come, Like this is
<v Speaker 1>them cutting off these cards, So yeah, what is Nvidia
<v Speaker 1>going to replace them with?
<v Speaker 2>Not much?
<v Speaker 1>I mean they've already said they're cutting production on the
<v Speaker 1>cards that they're making this year, and that does not
<v Speaker 1>even include anything in like an eventual sixty series, which
<v Speaker 1>we're still far away from. Yeah, the solution is going
<v Speaker 1>to be give us the older cards with less RAM,
<v Speaker 1>and that's how they're going to solve this.
<v Speaker 3>I know people were really disappointed with the Steam machines
<v Speaker 3>and ounce specs, but suddenly that lower v AM seems
<v Speaker 3>like very for thash I'm thoughtful of, Like, hey, it's
<v Speaker 3>gonna be hard to get like more view am if
<v Speaker 3>we want to make these yep.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and like yeah, unused couss like, yeah, there's no
<v Speaker 1>way to make eight gigabytes of vie RAM work like
<v Speaker 1>it did six years ago.
<v Speaker 2>It's impossible. I think that's yeah.
<v Speaker 1>I think I think we're just gonna be in this
<v Speaker 1>spot where your games are just gonna run shitty, Like, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>there's only so much developers can do to sort of
<v Speaker 1>optimize for older specs, but the toothpaste is out of
<v Speaker 1>the tube, and I don't fully understand how that works.
<v Speaker 1>But I'm bet developers are gonna get a lot of
<v Speaker 1>questions about this in the next couple of months, and
<v Speaker 1>I'm looking forward to hearing how every single studio sort
<v Speaker 1>of responds and says, look, yeah, we get it, but
<v Speaker 1>here's why that's not gonna work. Or we'll do our best,
<v Speaker 1>but here's why that's not gonna work. My expectation is
<v Speaker 1>the real place that we end up with all of
<v Speaker 1>this is just pain, just pain, and more more expensive
<v Speaker 1>products than ever before.
<v Speaker 3>Well, going back to the PlayStation one things where there's
<v Speaker 3>just no textures on anything, they just playing colored polygons.
<v Speaker 3>I'm playing a game at the moment that has a
<v Speaker 3>photo mode, and one of the photo mode options is
<v Speaker 3>just it takes away all of the games textures and
<v Speaker 3>just shows you the triangles and it looks fucking awesome.
<v Speaker 3>It's so cool. I love it.
<v Speaker 1>I yeah, I I do wonder like the Steam Deck
<v Speaker 1>did seem to like change things a little bit where
<v Speaker 1>it's like early on in the year, in the first
<v Speaker 1>couple of years of the Steam Deck, big new games
<v Speaker 1>didn't run well on it. And now, like my expectation is,
<v Speaker 1>I bet I can boot up this big new game
<v Speaker 1>and it'll you know, it's gonna look like shit, but
<v Speaker 1>it's gonna run. They're gonna at least have accounted for
<v Speaker 1>this device and make it like playable on here. And
<v Speaker 1>I hope the Steam Machine kind of accomplishes the same
<v Speaker 1>thing because if it does, then most people's computers right
<v Speaker 1>now should be good for the next few years and
<v Speaker 1>hopefully that'll skate us through everything. But that won't be
<v Speaker 1>a that won't be the case across the board, especially
<v Speaker 1>for every new big game. All right, let's take a break.
<v Speaker 1>When we come back, plenty of new headlines to get to.
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<v Speaker 1>along here. Jeff grub Lex Luddy. Let's get over to
<v Speaker 1>Resident Evil Requem. Requiem really does look like two different
<v Speaker 1>Resident Evil games mashed together. That's from Michael McWherter over
<v Speaker 1>at Polygon. There's some details here, like the creators buying
<v Speaker 1>the Resident Evil requem have stressed that the game is
<v Speaker 1>one part dread inducing survival horror, one part action horror.
<v Speaker 1>That that distinction was made even more clear in Capcom's
<v Speaker 1>latest Resident Evil showcase on Thursday. The game's dual protagonists
<v Speaker 1>not only played differently, they even save their games differently,
<v Speaker 1>as the iconic Resident Evil inc ribbon returns in Resident
<v Speaker 1>Evil Requiem. During the new Resident Evil Showcase, game director
<v Speaker 1>Koshi Nakanishi explained that heroin Grace Ashcrofts gameplay style is
<v Speaker 1>modeled after Resident Evil two and Resident Evil seven, which
<v Speaker 1>offered more traditional horror elements. Leons Kennedy's gameplay is more
<v Speaker 1>action oriented allah Resident Evil four. That makes Requiem an
<v Speaker 1>experience with an emotional range, unlike any other Resident.
<v Speaker 2>Evil game to date that Canichi.
<v Speaker 1>Said, now, I think they've tried this, like bouncing back
<v Speaker 1>and forth between stuff before that. My understanding is, are
<v Speaker 1>some some of that to six. I played five and
<v Speaker 1>kind of kind of was done. I think I played
<v Speaker 1>some six.
<v Speaker 3>I don't remember you should you need to play sex
<v Speaker 3>on this side. I've that game.
<v Speaker 1>It's Mike wants us to play through it co op
<v Speaker 1>and and yeah.
<v Speaker 3>It has one good campaign in it and it's the
<v Speaker 3>Leon campaign, and then it keeps going.
<v Speaker 2>Yes.
<v Speaker 1>So this this idea here of bouncing back and forth
<v Speaker 1>between scary stuff and action stuff, it can be I
<v Speaker 1>think it could be worrisome. I think this is a
<v Speaker 1>very different capcom that kind of knows what they're doing
<v Speaker 1>in a way that they did not before. And looking
<v Speaker 1>at this game, you know, confidence is the word I
<v Speaker 1>keep coming to. It's like, Oh, they seem really confident
<v Speaker 1>what they're doing here, and I think they want to
<v Speaker 1>have the action stuff where it's like, you know, being
<v Speaker 1>able to knock these zombies around and have them stumble back,
<v Speaker 1>or shoot them in the leg and have them stumble
<v Speaker 1>up against the wall, and then that creates this opportunity
<v Speaker 1>for doing these environmental attacks. That's that is like really
<v Speaker 1>exciting because it's like, Oh, what other systems do they
<v Speaker 1>have in here that will make that stuff even more
<v Speaker 1>like a dynamic We don't know, can't wait to see.
<v Speaker 1>But it's like that is very different than the scariest
<v Speaker 1>side of Resident Evil, which I think a lot of
<v Speaker 1>people would miss.
<v Speaker 2>So have both and use Leon S.
<v Speaker 1>Kennedy's action stuff as a release valve on the tension
<v Speaker 1>you're building up on the Grace Ashcroft side, And that's
<v Speaker 1>what it looks like it's going to accomplish. To me,
<v Speaker 1>I'm really hopeful that this game is going to really
<v Speaker 1>nail that.
<v Speaker 3>On a totally unrelated note, anyone else have like a
<v Speaker 3>weird urge to buy a Porsche suddenly?
<v Speaker 1>I'm I just I'm hungry for a portion of Hamilton
<v Speaker 1>wristwatch for some reason.
<v Speaker 2>Just Starvin.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, just kind of feel like I feel like a
<v Speaker 3>need one.
<v Speaker 1>The masters of subliminal messaging, Capcom trying to convince us
<v Speaker 1>to buy products that they good for them, they video games.
<v Speaker 3>I really like that it's a Cayenne. I really like that.
<v Speaker 3>It's like, no, he doesn't drive like a sports car.
<v Speaker 3>He drives a four by four.
<v Speaker 2>He drives a Porsche Cayenne.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, big old honking weird thing for the biggest douchebags
<v Speaker 1>on the road. I bet we don't have a single
<v Speaker 1>Porsche guy and new driver in this audience. I don't
<v Speaker 1>the guy offended a single person there? Yeah, he looked
<v Speaker 1>really good, though, I am.
<v Speaker 3>I've played that game three times now on three different platforms,
<v Speaker 3>and I played PS five. I played on PC, which
<v Speaker 3>is when I went to an end video event in
<v Speaker 3>Games Calm and was in an old industrial building and
<v Speaker 3>the Capcom section was in the back, in like its
<v Speaker 3>mini cave, and it got so hot in there that
<v Speaker 3>my PC crashed, and there was someone from Capcom Pure
<v Speaker 3>very angrily sending emails on their phone being like it's
<v Speaker 3>too warm in here. And then I played it on
<v Speaker 3>Switch in Japan, and that Switch version is kind of
<v Speaker 3>fucking nuts that it looks as good as it does,
<v Speaker 3>really kind of wild, like experimented a little bit with
<v Speaker 3>like the lighting and the ray tray slighting. It's kind
<v Speaker 3>of wild that, like it looks as good as it
<v Speaker 3>does on a swear It's weird. It fuels illegal.
<v Speaker 1>Playing It's yes. The switch to is so surprising because
<v Speaker 1>it's like it's like Ampere hardware. It's like four generations
<v Speaker 1>old in video shit, it's not gonna be able to
<v Speaker 1>handle anything that's happening in games today. And it turns
<v Speaker 1>out in video just put in the extra star specifically
<v Speaker 1>for a rate racing and they're like, we just gonna
<v Speaker 1>make sure that this thing can handle the kind of
<v Speaker 1>light rate tracing that we're probably gonna throw at it,
<v Speaker 1>and yeah, they succeeded.
<v Speaker 2>So that's happened repeatedly.
<v Speaker 1>Now where there's the recent game that that us requires
<v Speaker 1>a lot of ray trac Yes.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, ray tracing, And so did Sola's Outlaws.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah yes, in those games that like everyone's like, why
<v Speaker 1>does this run so well? And it's like, turns out, oh,
<v Speaker 1>the switch to is better at ray tracing than any
<v Speaker 1>of the other consoles right now, so surprise, surprise, it's
<v Speaker 1>handling it very well. Yes, we mentioned the two different
<v Speaker 1>ways of saving. Michael mcorterter brought that up in his
<v Speaker 1>story here. Grace and Leon won't just feel different in
<v Speaker 1>moment to moment gameplay, they'll also have different save styles.
<v Speaker 1>One of the game's difficulty options, called standard Parentheses, Classic
<v Speaker 1>requires Grace parentheses and only Grace to use limited supply
<v Speaker 1>of ink ribbons to save her progress at Typewriters. It's
<v Speaker 1>a big throwback to classic Resident Evil games and helps
<v Speaker 1>differentiate her from Leon in a big way. Leon will
<v Speaker 1>not require inc gribbins for him.
<v Speaker 2>To save I.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah again, just looks like they're having fun with this one,
<v Speaker 1>playing around with a lot of classic elements and then.
<v Speaker 2>And then just caused so many zombies.
<v Speaker 3>Wild Yeah, CACA has a wild Year like kicking off
<v Speaker 3>of this, then prag Matter and a pound leone Musha
<v Speaker 3>will be out before the end of the year. Like
<v Speaker 3>I've played all three of those, all three of those,
<v Speaker 3>I'm like, I want to play more of those.
<v Speaker 2>Mm hmmm, uh yeah.
<v Speaker 1>I want to just kind of see what's going to
<v Speaker 1>be possible in this game and then kind of see
<v Speaker 1>what Capcom has for the rest of the year.
<v Speaker 2>Absolutely, all right, let's keep going here.
<v Speaker 1>High Fi Rush has been rated for Switch again. This
<v Speaker 1>is from Ali Reynolds at Nintendo Life. High Fi Rush,
<v Speaker 1>the most GameCube esque title to launch in the last
<v Speaker 1>five years, has once again, I would say Dreamcast, but
<v Speaker 1>I get it in Nintendo Life, has once again been
<v Speaker 1>rated for the Switch by Peggy. Sounds familiar, It should,
<v Speaker 1>because this has happened before. Back in April twenty twenty four,
<v Speaker 1>when developer Tango game Works was still sitting under Microsoft,
<v Speaker 1>a Peggy rating for the game on Switch appeared, but sadly,
<v Speaker 1>nothing happened in Microsoft unceremoniously ditched Tango Game Works entirely
<v Speaker 1>later that year because it's a joke of a company.
<v Speaker 1>The company has since been acquired by publisher Crafting, and
<v Speaker 1>so this latest rating could actually result in a port
<v Speaker 1>coming and coming to Fruition. Indeed, the source over on
<v Speaker 1>Peggy list two separate entries, one underneath Zinimex Europe Limited
<v Speaker 1>but there's the list, and then the other one to
<v Speaker 1>hear is yeah Crafton, So yeah, there you go, Uh,
<v Speaker 1>this is this is probably it. This is the game's
<v Speaker 1>probably coming to Switch. Finally, it did seem like they
<v Speaker 1>just had it like ready for Switch and then didn't
<v Speaker 1>launch it. I wonder if that was like, it's not
<v Speaker 1>worth it because the performance is bad and we don't
<v Speaker 1>care about Tango Game Works. But now you know Crafton,
<v Speaker 1>who's a weird company in its own rights, a very
<v Speaker 1>weird company, but at the very least sounds like this
<v Speaker 1>game might be able to come out to the Nintendo platform.
<v Speaker 2>So should we be expecting it pretty soon?
<v Speaker 3>I think Michael Luis and Chad is saying that limited
<v Speaker 3>one had one of their listings say Switch, so I
<v Speaker 3>imagine it's like imminent announcement. I don't think it will
<v Speaker 3>be announced that Microsoft thing, but it will probably be
<v Speaker 3>Oh wait, of course I fucking won't be announced that
<v Speaker 3>the Microsoft in christ Yeah, but yeah, I've bet this
<v Speaker 3>gets announced pretty soon. There's always the swirling rumors of
<v Speaker 3>like February direx earlyer dires and so if there is
<v Speaker 3>one that would be like a shoe and show up
<v Speaker 3>that I will say, as much as I like like
<v Speaker 3>this in theory, I think trying to do like the
<v Speaker 3>QTEs with the switch buttons would break my brain. My
<v Speaker 3>brain is sure, yeah, like my primary like when I
<v Speaker 3>play video games, it goes PlayStation buttons, Xbox buttons, big
<v Speaker 3>gap Nintendo buttons, and I just like I can't switch
<v Speaker 3>between them quickly, so I would I would get very
<v Speaker 3>annoyed very quickly. The PC version of Hi Fi Rush
<v Speaker 3>actually has a cool feature where no matter what controller
<v Speaker 3>you're using, you can choose the button display, so you
<v Speaker 3>can be like I always want PlayStation.
<v Speaker 1>Oh yeah, sure, yeah, okay, which.
<v Speaker 3>Is it's a nice thing, like why not do that?
<v Speaker 3>You you know you have the assets, just use it.
<v Speaker 3>Like if people prefer those buttons.
<v Speaker 1>I almost think it's like, don't even put any sort
<v Speaker 1>of labels on the buttons. Just show the four buttons
<v Speaker 1>and highlight the one that I should be pressing because
<v Speaker 1>and then it's like never a problem. But uh, I
<v Speaker 1>get it. It's it's something that has trip me up,
<v Speaker 1>for sure, but I'm much less. I'm more used to it.
<v Speaker 1>It's jumping between all these things because I've been doing
<v Speaker 1>it so much. Yeah, I direct is a good call.
<v Speaker 1>This could show up at the direct. I could see
<v Speaker 1>that when it does crafton who just loves them there
<v Speaker 1>that AI talks about how that's going to basically do
<v Speaker 1>all the jobs they have going forward? What are the
<v Speaker 1>chances that we get an AI trailer for Hi Fi Rush?
<v Speaker 2>And that's just depressing.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I knowing some of the people at that studio,
<v Speaker 3>I am like, I really hope you get to keep
<v Speaker 3>doing your own things. Uh huh. I have faith in
<v Speaker 3>you as creatives. I just hope that you have a
<v Speaker 3>long enough leash to be able to push back on
<v Speaker 3>this stuff, especially now that like Makami isn't there anymore.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yep, exactly.
<v Speaker 1>Amazon Games confirms MMO New World has a year left
<v Speaker 1>before it goes offline permanently. This is from Andy Robinson
<v Speaker 1>at VGC Amazon Games, MMO New World, a tournam has
<v Speaker 1>been pulled from storefronts and will shut down permanently in
<v Speaker 1>twelve months time, it's confirmed in a post clarifying the
<v Speaker 1>future of the game. Following the October announcement that Amazon
<v Speaker 1>is moving away from MMO development and ending service on
<v Speaker 1>New World, it's now been confirmed that the game will
<v Speaker 1>go offline permanently on January thirty first, twenty twenty seven.
<v Speaker 1>At the time of the publication, the game had already
<v Speaker 1>been pulled from Steam and the Xbox Store. Beginning July twentieth,
<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty six, players will no longer be able to
<v Speaker 1>purchase in game currency. Amazon said, Yeah, Amazon's foray into
<v Speaker 1>gaming has been bizarre.
<v Speaker 3>Like at least three MMOs back to back, like MMOs
<v Speaker 3>are in the future.
<v Speaker 1>It was, yes, weird, and I don't think anyone understood,
<v Speaker 1>like why do you think this is the way to
<v Speaker 1>do it? And the New World did kind of pop
<v Speaker 1>off there for a bit, as some of these games
<v Speaker 1>can do, But what is that?
<v Speaker 2>What does that mean?
<v Speaker 1>Because a couple years later it's it's not doing what
<v Speaker 1>it needs to do, and now you're shutting it down,
<v Speaker 1>and now it's just kind of like a bummer, like,
<v Speaker 1>oh yeah, another game people aren't going to be able
<v Speaker 1>to be able to be aren't going to be able
<v Speaker 1>to play anymore.
<v Speaker 3>I played a bit of New World at SGF twenty
<v Speaker 3>twenty four for the Eternum release on consoles, and I
<v Speaker 3>remember pretty much nothing about it other than the appointment
<v Speaker 3>was booked to me as a new Triple A game
<v Speaker 3>from Amazon, and I showed up and it was a
<v Speaker 3>PS five port of their MMO that had been out
<v Speaker 3>on PC for years. I was like, dude, they did
<v Speaker 3>give me a sixteen ounce Yeshi Metal Thermos cup.
<v Speaker 1>Okay that's reviews.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>So I was like, Okay, this hour of my life
<v Speaker 3>was worth it just for that, because I've drank out
<v Speaker 3>of this like once a week for going on a
<v Speaker 3>year and a half now. But like, yeah, this whole
<v Speaker 3>endeavors seemed where I think the owner of the studios
<v Speaker 3>out there on Twitter like making cash offers deals to
<v Speaker 3>Amazon to buy the IP and so we'll see how
<v Speaker 3>that goes.
<v Speaker 1>I have I must say if I have New World,
<v Speaker 1>and I do have New World, okay, so I can
<v Speaker 1>play this still. Uh it should be my it should
<v Speaker 1>be my first MMO. I think that'd be fun. I
<v Speaker 1>think I would make Mike Minatti happy if I never
<v Speaker 1>played World of Warcraft and only ever play New World.
<v Speaker 3>It's a totally serviceable like action or PG in an
<v Speaker 3>MMO format. It's kind of one of those where they
<v Speaker 3>try to make it more souls like in its combat,
<v Speaker 3>but like it's it's fine, but yeah, it just I
<v Speaker 3>don't know. Amazon Games is such a fucking weird thing.
<v Speaker 3>I think, I said in the comments of Games Mornings yesterday,
<v Speaker 3>like Amazon really good at making TV shows based off
<v Speaker 3>of games. I can't make the video games for shit,
<v Speaker 3>but they're really good at basing the TV shows off
<v Speaker 3>of them.
<v Speaker 2>Apparently, Yep, I mean.
<v Speaker 1>And that's that's the story with all these big corporations
<v Speaker 1>trying to figure out how to make games.
<v Speaker 2>They're bad at it.
<v Speaker 1>They're bad at it. It's it's a tough business to
<v Speaker 1>figure out, especially if you are a big tech business.
<v Speaker 1>You could put twelve people on a product in a
<v Speaker 1>lot of other parts of the economy and suddenly you
<v Speaker 1>have a thing that's making you a billion dollars and
<v Speaker 1>to make a game you need thousands of people now,
<v Speaker 1>and they're like, wait, what the hell are you talking
<v Speaker 1>about that's now how this works. No, that's how games work.
<v Speaker 1>Are you still down and they go no, they freak
<v Speaker 1>out and they leave.
<v Speaker 2>Google did it.
<v Speaker 1>The Amazon's are kind of in the process of doing it.
<v Speaker 1>They have other games now right though. I guess they're
<v Speaker 1>doing the tomb Raiders stuff, but they're having someone else
<v Speaker 1>make that.
<v Speaker 2>So Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>It seems like the idea for games going forward is
<v Speaker 3>treating it like the movie studios, which is kind of
<v Speaker 3>treating you know, game studios as like Union for CRUs
<v Speaker 3>just being like, well, hiring a crew, they're going to
<v Speaker 3>do out and do their own thing, like or actual
<v Speaker 3>movie team is pretty small or actual game team is
<v Speaker 3>pretty small, but we hire studios to go out and
<v Speaker 3>do this work for us with or IP which could Wick. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>good Wick.
<v Speaker 1>Let's see we've got this Amazona here. Julian Garrity, overseer
<v Speaker 1>of the Division departs Massive for Dice. John Hexit Games
<v Speaker 1>and Industry Dopiz has this here. But just last week
<v Speaker 1>Julian Garrity was like, Hey, the Division is going to
<v Speaker 1>be the Division three that I'm making. This is gonna
<v Speaker 1>be a big shit. This is gonna have a huge impact.
<v Speaker 1>It's gonna be Massive. And now he's gone and he's
<v Speaker 1>going over to Dice. It's time for me to hang
<v Speaker 1>up my bag, keeping the watch as I go on
<v Speaker 1>another grand adventure. The Division's future burns bright, and I
<v Speaker 1>can't wait for you to discover what the team has
<v Speaker 1>been working on. Ibisoff says, yeah, we're good. Over excuse me,
<v Speaker 1>we're good. He's moving on, But don't worry. Division three
<v Speaker 1>is going to be great. We'll see how much uvsoft
<v Speaker 1>has like cares about anything that's not Assassin's Creed in
<v Speaker 1>a couple of years. But yeah, they said, we are
<v Speaker 1>incredibly proud of everything Julian has contributed to Massive. We
<v Speaker 1>look forward to seeing how he continues to elevate our
<v Speaker 1>craft on a global stage.
<v Speaker 2>Blah blah blah.
<v Speaker 1>I he made Star Wars on we lost game I
<v Speaker 1>really like, I really liked the Division. Massive also made
<v Speaker 1>that Avatar game. I don't know how much he was
<v Speaker 1>involved with that.
<v Speaker 2>That was decent.
<v Speaker 1>It is not too surprising though, when a big you know,
<v Speaker 1>a senior developer though, gets a new job kind of moving.
<v Speaker 2>On somewhere somewhere else. That happens pretty frequently.
<v Speaker 1>And if you are going to move around, I suppose
<v Speaker 1>going from the unknown of the husk of Ubisoft, this
<v Speaker 1>is the Dead, like a zombie version of Ubisoft anything
<v Speaker 1>that is not Assassin's Great Far Cry in Ghost Recon.
<v Speaker 1>Why not go to EA that has a promising future.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I guess, like, like Battlefield six is a hot
<v Speaker 3>commodity right now, like it is continuing to do quite
<v Speaker 3>well for them, and it seems like a lot of
<v Speaker 3>the groundwork has been done by that team and Vin Sampella.
<v Speaker 3>But yeah, I think it's it's weird because he was
<v Speaker 3>out there less than three weeks ago harken up the
<v Speaker 3>Division three kind of being like, yeah, it's gonna be
<v Speaker 3>the biggest game yet, it's going to be you know,
<v Speaker 3>like the vibe of one but the scope of two
<v Speaker 3>and things like that, And he was really getting out
<v Speaker 3>there promising the world on that. So there's obvious reasons
<v Speaker 3>why this would have come together pretty short notice when
<v Speaker 3>you consider where he's going in the position he's taking up.
<v Speaker 3>But it's also kind of weird that he is leaving
<v Speaker 3>this thing at what seems like a pretty crucial time
<v Speaker 3>for the Division are Massive and Massive just had layoffs
<v Speaker 3>as well, Like it's kind of seems like a time
<v Speaker 3>where you would want someone backing down the hatches and
<v Speaker 3>holding the gates to make sure that things go smoothly
<v Speaker 3>for the next while. So yeah, I'm a bit worried
<v Speaker 3>for Massive in that sense.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I think you know, Massive is one that's just
<v Speaker 1>like it'll come down to the Division three. But you know,
<v Speaker 1>those last two games, Star Wars Outlast didn't perform and
<v Speaker 1>Avatar didn't perform.
<v Speaker 2>Even if they've had some like bumps in.
<v Speaker 1>Player numbers recently, it's like, no, they kind of have
<v Speaker 1>to hit out of the gate to justify all the
<v Speaker 1>money that you put into them. Uh So, yeah, like
<v Speaker 1>they laid people off, as you said, and the focuses elsewhere.
<v Speaker 2>You know, they're two different ubisofts.
<v Speaker 1>Now, obviously you get the one over there, ten Cent,
<v Speaker 1>but again this is the one that no one really
<v Speaker 1>knows what the future of this side of your soft
<v Speaker 1>really looks like. And so I yeah, I don't I
<v Speaker 1>don't blame them, I just I do wonder It's like, okay,
<v Speaker 1>are you bringing sort of the connected multiplayer and then
<v Speaker 1>and then kind of campaign.
<v Speaker 2>Stuff over to battlefield?
<v Speaker 1>Is that what you're going to be doing or are
<v Speaker 1>you just going to be making sure that the multiplayer
<v Speaker 1>Battlefield six game is as good as it possibly can be,
<v Speaker 1>that that both the both sides of that equation.
<v Speaker 2>For Battlefield seem like they need that attention.
<v Speaker 1>Although he did just make a Star Wars game, maybe
<v Speaker 1>he's going to make Battlefront three.
<v Speaker 3>Yeap, oh yeah, totally, totally. But in some ways he
<v Speaker 3>is probably a good fit because like Division, very big
<v Speaker 3>head count on those games, and Battlefield is now like
<v Speaker 3>three or four students.
<v Speaker 1>Sprawling. Good point, you a sprawling group of developers. That's
<v Speaker 1>a really good point.
<v Speaker 3>But yeah, good luck on all right.
<v Speaker 1>Uh Sony wiped over one thousand shovel weear games off
<v Speaker 1>the PlayStation Store without warning, all from a single developer.
<v Speaker 1>This is from Connor maccarr at Eurogamer. Over one thousand
<v Speaker 1>games from a single developer have been removed. The developer
<v Speaker 1>in question was the game the game t Hi Games
<v Speaker 1>all Right, I guess, which, prior to the wipe yesterday,
<v Speaker 1>was the fourth highest ranked developer on the PlayStation Storm
<v Speaker 1>in terms of quantity. According to Rob Thanatos, who first
<v Speaker 1>spoted to change, all of the games released games have
<v Speaker 1>been totally removed from the store, the only exception being
<v Speaker 1>trophies tied to these titles, which remain present to those
<v Speaker 1>who unlocked them. So shouts out to those Sikos out
<v Speaker 1>there that were buying these two dollars freak Match three
<v Speaker 1>games like The Jumping Soda and The Jumping Taco Turbo
<v Speaker 1>forgetting your trophies and getting while the getting was good.
<v Speaker 3>Well, you could just say, Greg Miller, it's Greg Miller.
<v Speaker 1>You you fucking sick out? Yeah, hey, I get it,
<v Speaker 1>I get it. I always lean towards just don't buy
<v Speaker 1>these games if you don't like him. But having your
<v Speaker 1>store clogged up is frustrating. And Sony's allowed to decide
<v Speaker 1>what's in their store. So no, no, The only the
<v Speaker 1>only coupy I think shouldn't be allowed to decide what's
<v Speaker 1>in their store is Valve because they're basically a monopoly
<v Speaker 1>in my eyes, so they should be able to let
<v Speaker 1>everyone in because I don't want them picking winners and losers.
<v Speaker 1>But Sony, sure, why not.
<v Speaker 2>Cut this out? But also it's like, what was this?
<v Speaker 1>I used the PlayStation and I never really noticed this stuff.
<v Speaker 1>I guess that's anecdotal, but still it's like, I don't
<v Speaker 1>just ignore it, move on, buy the games, you want
<v Speaker 1>to buy instead. Was this really hurt anybody outlives another?
<v Speaker 2>That's right, he's making art, all right.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, I'm in love with your dead Grandma. Free Online
<v Speaker 3>Battle Loyal is out.
<v Speaker 1>Now, beautiful. Yeah, it clogs up the recent tabs. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I don't know. I've always seen people kind of you know, recently, though,
<v Speaker 1>I haven't seen people complaining about this much. It was
<v Speaker 1>something maybe a little bit more a couple of years ago.
<v Speaker 1>I always say, hey, just improve the discoverability on your store.
<v Speaker 1>That's maybe a better use of your time. But the
<v Speaker 1>thing you do that pretty quickly my getting rid of
<v Speaker 1>a thousand crappy games, So I get it.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>The thing that I really wish PlayStation would do is
<v Speaker 3>add like a developer page, because they still don't have that,
<v Speaker 3>And that's just like a very easy discoverability thing of
<v Speaker 3>like I want to see other Devolver games and it
<v Speaker 3>just makes it a lot easier to sort through stuff.
<v Speaker 3>But yeah, that feels like something that like Nintendo has
<v Speaker 3>that and PlayStation doesn't, and it feels like it would
<v Speaker 3>help a lot.
<v Speaker 2>Yep. Nintendo stories are messed though, too.
<v Speaker 1>Oh god. Yeah, yeah, and again, like I just ignore
<v Speaker 1>it for the most part. Nintendo makes it a little
<v Speaker 1>bit more difficult to ignore because they just their discoverability
<v Speaker 1>is nothing.
<v Speaker 2>They're really bad at it.
<v Speaker 1>Uh okay, let's see you last things.
<v Speaker 2>Excuse me. Saya is gearing up for Sonics thirty fifth anniversary.
<v Speaker 2>What should we do? How should we prepare? How do
<v Speaker 2>we protect ourselves?
<v Speaker 3>Eh? I don't want to go to any more Sonic potties,
<v Speaker 3>not after the Saga one I went to in Japan
<v Speaker 3>with the Poledounces and Shadow the Hedgehog.
<v Speaker 1>I wish I won the same.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I wish I was joking about that.
<v Speaker 1>All right, Yeah, we'll do We'll do chili dogs and
<v Speaker 1>Sonic teenies everybody, and that's how we'll celebrate.
<v Speaker 2>They'll probably have some stuff to announce this year.
<v Speaker 1>We'll see twenty twenty six marks the Sonic the Hedgehogs
<v Speaker 1>thirty fifth anniversary, a thrilling milestone for one of the
<v Speaker 1>most legendary gaming and entertainment icons for over three decades.
<v Speaker 1>Blah blah blah. They're they're saying he's old. He's an
<v Speaker 1>old dude. Uh, But those movies make a lot of money,
<v Speaker 1>and they're gonna want to keep making games and stuff
<v Speaker 1>to keep it relevant, so we'll see how they celebrate it.
<v Speaker 1>All right, let's see here poll question from yesterday. I
<v Speaker 1>have my results over here, but I'm going to refreshed
<v Speaker 1>to see what the latest stuff is. Are you going
<v Speaker 1>back to your Animal Crossing island in New Horizons? Nine
<v Speaker 1>percent said no, I'm starting a new island, Eighteen percent
<v Speaker 1>said yes, I am just going back to my old island.
<v Speaker 1>Twenty six percent, though, said no, I'm waiting for the
<v Speaker 1>next game, so not even going to play it again,
<v Speaker 1>and then forty seven percent.
<v Speaker 2>Said no, I don't play Animal Crossing.
<v Speaker 1>So a fair number of people, though, gonna just jump
<v Speaker 1>back in and play it one way or the other.
<v Speaker 1>And that's you know, if you kind of that's about
<v Speaker 1>a quarter.
<v Speaker 2>Of respond it's a little bit more than that.
<v Speaker 1>And if you take into account how much that game sold,
<v Speaker 1>I bet that d'ls is gonna do just fine for Nintendo.
<v Speaker 1>I man, I just kind of was wishing. I wish
<v Speaker 1>we would get a new Animal Crossing sooner rather than later. Though,
<v Speaker 1>uh yeah, when our people are feeling I've not touched it.
<v Speaker 2>Samone Nison Chat says found it real boring. We'll see
<v Speaker 2>what people say, Okay, that's out of the way.
<v Speaker 1>No new poll question because it's Friday, so it's time
<v Speaker 1>to do the Bomb twelve. We'll get that here in
<v Speaker 1>a second. Before we do that, though, Lexi, why don't
<v Speaker 1>you tell people where they can find you on the
<v Speaker 1>internet what you have going on all of that good stuff.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so I have that preview of Yakuzawami three up
<v Speaker 3>now on gamer guides dot com. You can also check
<v Speaker 3>out I'm gonna have some reviews going up there over
<v Speaker 3>the course of the rest of this year. I'm helping
<v Speaker 3>them out kind of expand their reviews and previews section
<v Speaker 3>as they try to grow and diversify that siche. You
<v Speaker 3>can check out start menu the website I want for
<v Speaker 3>people trying to break into the video games media industry.
<v Speaker 3>We had our Winter Spectacular going on. We still have
<v Speaker 3>a few pieces coming in. Loads of really cool pieces
<v Speaker 3>went up this year. Go check out some of those
<v Speaker 3>and the Giant Bomb guest lists. I me and Marino
<v Speaker 3>edited like sixty of those and those are all live now.
<v Speaker 3>The may or may not be one or two more
<v Speaker 3>trickling in depending on how things go. And yeah, I'm
<v Speaker 3>super proud all the work we did on those and
<v Speaker 3>they look great on the side, so shout outs to Chuck,
<v Speaker 3>so go eat some of those as well.
<v Speaker 2>Excellent. Yeah, you can go read those on Giant Bombs.
<v Speaker 1>Speaking of Giant Bomb, we're gonna be doing unprofessional Fridays
<v Speaker 1>later today where we're gonna do that five player team
<v Speaker 1>mode in Fortnite. We're gonna go check in on Fortnite
<v Speaker 1>the South Park stuff.
<v Speaker 2>Is that live?
<v Speaker 1>I guess we're gonna do Southbark stuff because we're millennials
<v Speaker 1>since the law, I think we have to.
<v Speaker 2>And then other stuff's happening.
<v Speaker 1>But behind the scenes, and we're getting stuff ready for debuting,
<v Speaker 1>you know, later later this month or next month.
<v Speaker 2>We'll let you guys know. It's gonna be a busy
<v Speaker 2>day over here.
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, check out giant bomb dot com for all
<v Speaker 1>of it and more. All right, let's see, I think
<v Speaker 1>it's time for the Bomb twelve. That's right, everybody. These
<v Speaker 1>are the twelve games that really matter to people who
<v Speaker 1>are really playing video games. We get your responses, we
<v Speaker 1>tabulate you can you always submit your game by going
<v Speaker 1>to Giant Bomb. You can find the vote here thing
<v Speaker 1>right next to the Bomb twelve on the home page
<v Speaker 1>in the meantime, here are the results for January sixteenth,
<v Speaker 1>starting with number twelve.
<v Speaker 2>You did it, Bud, Mike Manatti, You did.
<v Speaker 1>It two point Museum. Number twelve on the Bomb twelve.
<v Speaker 1>That's a big accomplishment for that game, and people, I
<v Speaker 1>think we're saying, yeah, I know, right, obviously he's rigged
<v Speaker 1>things over here. But yeah, obviously that was happening because
<v Speaker 1>he pushed it so hard during Game of the Year
<v Speaker 1>and people listened to that and they wanted to check
<v Speaker 1>it out, and they're in the community, and they.
<v Speaker 2>Dropped it on the Bomb twelve.
<v Speaker 1>Number eleven Claire Obscure Expedition thirty three, which has just
<v Speaker 1>been hovering up and down this chart at the entire
<v Speaker 1>time we've been doing it. Number ten Ghost of Vota.
<v Speaker 1>Number nine Fire Emblem, Path of Radiance, the latest addition
<v Speaker 1>to the Nintendo Switch on Lines GameCube library.
<v Speaker 2>This is a classic.
<v Speaker 1>I think a lot of people were happy to finally
<v Speaker 1>see this because if you wanted to play it, and
<v Speaker 1>you wanted to do so and on the up and.
<v Speaker 2>Up, game is very expensive. Number eight Ring Night Rain.
<v Speaker 1>Which I think got an update recently, and that's kind
<v Speaker 1>of that's send.
<v Speaker 2>People back to it.
<v Speaker 1>Number seven high Tail. What is high Tail? Is this
<v Speaker 1>the Minecraft like?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's the Minecraft ORPG like thing.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>I have no idea other than you have to buy
<v Speaker 3>it through their website and it's been in development since
<v Speaker 3>twenty fifteen.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, both those things are like, all right, yeah, Minecraft,
<v Speaker 1>that sounds about right. Okay, I'm gonna check out high Tail.
<v Speaker 1>Number six second Tory. I keep playing this.
<v Speaker 3>And it's a good game.
<v Speaker 2>It's really good, but I just need to.
<v Speaker 3>Again on PC because I got a view code for
<v Speaker 3>it on PlayStation and then I built this PC and
<v Speaker 3>I was like, I want to keep playing this.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, hell yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Number five is Final Fantasy Tactics the Evilyes Chronicles. Number
<v Speaker 1>four is Arc Raiders. I means number three is Big Hops.
<v Speaker 1>That's a great platformer from Chris Wade and his team
<v Speaker 1>over there. That's hey, that's a real good game. We
<v Speaker 1>got a review up on the site if you want
<v Speaker 1>to know more about it. It's Three Plants Former where
<v Speaker 1>replays a little frog. He's got great movement.
<v Speaker 2>Number two Kingdom Come Deliverance too. Big week for that.
<v Speaker 1>That seems like one of those games a lot of
<v Speaker 1>people coming out of twenty twenty five are going, oh,
<v Speaker 1>that's in my backlog.
<v Speaker 2>I meant to try that. I should go give it
<v Speaker 2>a chance, and.
<v Speaker 1>Then number one continually and for like the last month
<v Speaker 1>or so, hades two.
<v Speaker 2>This is the one that everyone just can't put down.
<v Speaker 1>I'll know that your print for dropped off the list,
<v Speaker 1>so it was in the top three last week, was
<v Speaker 1>not kind of nowhere to be seen this time.
<v Speaker 2>The good news is.
<v Speaker 3>It did really well for you and fantasy critics, so
<v Speaker 3>that it balance.
<v Speaker 2>It crushed, that's right.
<v Speaker 1>And and my mess of a guess where I had
<v Speaker 1>to guess what it's Metacritic was going to be or
<v Speaker 1>its open critic was going to be three months before
<v Speaker 1>it came out.
<v Speaker 3>You really nailed down that one.
<v Speaker 2>I believed I was.
<v Speaker 1>I trusted in retro and Nintendo and in love, and
<v Speaker 1>I said, ninety six, that's it, and it didn't.
<v Speaker 3>Do nothing gets ninety six.
<v Speaker 2>I know.
<v Speaker 1>I just wanted to have a world where I could
<v Speaker 1>believe that magic can still happen.
<v Speaker 3>All right, video games stopped getting that when the became
<v Speaker 3>more than ten websites.
<v Speaker 1>You know, someone pointed out, like, there's a lot of
<v Speaker 1>websites that do the five star scale now and it's
<v Speaker 1>like that drags things down.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Absolutely all right, So there you go. There's the Bomb twelve.
<v Speaker 1>We'll have a new one next Friday. I'll update things
<v Speaker 1>today so the link on the website on giant bomb
<v Speaker 1>dot com will be the new form so that you
<v Speaker 1>could submit your game for the next Bomb twelve. We'll
<v Speaker 1>tabulate it again, come back with those results on Friday.
<v Speaker 1>Until then, though, let's see here. Lexi, thank you so
<v Speaker 1>much for hanging out with me today and talking about
<v Speaker 1>video games.
<v Speaker 2>I really appreciate it.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, anytime, globe, any any time.
<v Speaker 1>And thank you all for 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.