Xbox is Increasing Prices of Current Consoles

<v Speaker 1>Hey, everybody, welcome to Game This Mornings with Me Jeff Grub,
<v Speaker 1>your host from giant bomb dot com. Thank you for
<v Speaker 1>tuning in. In this episode, we're gonna be talking about
<v Speaker 1>yet another big and new game getting glowing reviews and
<v Speaker 1>Microsoft is basically begging you not to buy an Xbox.
<v Speaker 1>It's gonna be a good one because we have Brittain
<v Speaker 1>Peel on the show. Britton, how are you doing?
<v Speaker 2>I am great, always happy to start the Monday with
<v Speaker 2>the boys of Giant Bomb.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, glad to have you here. We're gonna kick this
<v Speaker 1>week off right, which means probably complaining about a bunch
<v Speaker 1>of stuff happy in video games that I wouldn't do
<v Speaker 1>it any other way. But how you been You've been
<v Speaker 1>able to keep up with games? I'm feeling underwater over here.
<v Speaker 1>It's like my main thought is ah, too many and
<v Speaker 1>then I just keep playing Silk Song.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I hear you on that. I've been trying to
<v Speaker 2>play that Trails in the Sky remake sure which I
<v Speaker 2>bought the original home on the PSP pretty sure never
<v Speaker 2>finished it, so I thought this is the time, but
<v Speaker 2>of course I got it on the switch and every
<v Speaker 2>time I try to use the switch too my son
<v Speaker 2>wants to play through his third play through a Donkey
<v Speaker 2>Kong Bananza hell because he just can't stop. So been
<v Speaker 2>moving slowly through that. But it's been good. Man.
<v Speaker 1>I wonder would be like what it's gonna be like
<v Speaker 1>to be a kid who grows up on a game
<v Speaker 1>like Donkey Kong Bonanza. It's like, man, you could just
<v Speaker 1>punch through anything, and this whole world's interactive, interactive, and
<v Speaker 1>is this what games are? And what? No, don't get
<v Speaker 1>your hopes up too much, don't set your sites too high,
<v Speaker 1>and most games are not like Donkey Kong Bonanza. I
<v Speaker 1>don't blame him for getting obsessed though. That's a good
<v Speaker 1>video game.
<v Speaker 2>It is, yeah, And I you know, he's a little
<v Speaker 2>bit spoiled having me as a dad. He has all
<v Speaker 2>the good games, not the you know, Credi ones. Before this,
<v Speaker 2>he had played Mario Odyssey a bunch, So it makes
<v Speaker 2>total sense that he has gravitated to Bonanza because it's
<v Speaker 2>basically Mario Odyssey, you know, in a different font. We've
<v Speaker 2>tried some other like three platformers and stuff to scratch
<v Speaker 2>that itch, and every time he just goes back to
<v Speaker 2>Mario and doc Y Kong. So I'm happy he hasn't.
<v Speaker 1>Can I I want to ask you something I've been
<v Speaker 1>thinking about. Donkey Kung Bonanza does it. A lot of
<v Speaker 1>you games do it, but don Key Kung Bananza did.
<v Speaker 1>That's what the game I probably most recently beat before
<v Speaker 1>Silk Song, which I haven't I guess technically beat. That's
<v Speaker 1>what I'm gonna ask you about. Uh, where do you
<v Speaker 1>think the credits should go in a video game?
<v Speaker 2>I saw some Blue Sky posts about, Yeah, very topic.
<v Speaker 2>I was thinking about it a little bit, not with
<v Speaker 2>Bonanza because it does do It's its own little thing
<v Speaker 2>a little bit, Yeah, but I was. I was thinking
<v Speaker 2>about Blueprints recently, and same sort of thing where I
<v Speaker 2>say I beat Blueprints, but also I've been told, yeah, I.
<v Speaker 1>Haven't you need Okay, those people need to shut their mouths.
<v Speaker 1>Blueprints is so an exception. It is its own thing
<v Speaker 1>in terms of really like, there's that thing just keeps
<v Speaker 1>going and going and going and going. Like the idea
<v Speaker 1>that most people or or even the people who I
<v Speaker 1>love that game one of my game of the years
<v Speaker 1>probably could. It's still in the running for number one.
<v Speaker 1>I'm done. I've put it aside. I've accomplished what I
<v Speaker 1>mean to this is really where I've landed with this,
<v Speaker 1>and maybe it's not that different because I would put
<v Speaker 1>it in the same bucket. I've decided. I just am
<v Speaker 1>going to ignore what the developer is trying to say
<v Speaker 1>to me when they put the credits wherever. Like they're
<v Speaker 1>trying to be like, hey, if you want to put
<v Speaker 1>the game down, that's fine. I'm like, yeah, you know what,
<v Speaker 1>even if you didn't put the credits here, I'm still
<v Speaker 1>allowed to do that. I'm just going to play a
<v Speaker 1>video game because I don't play games to get to
<v Speaker 1>the credits. That's never been my thing. I'll just play
<v Speaker 1>it until I'm done with the play and if that
<v Speaker 1>have credits happen before that, whatever, if it happens after that, whatever.
<v Speaker 1>It's just this weird thing. I guess it's not weird.
<v Speaker 1>I totally get why they do it. They want to
<v Speaker 1>like give people a definitive end for people who really
<v Speaker 1>need that, and they're like that's a human thing to
<v Speaker 1>be like to want closure like that, and then it's like, hey,
<v Speaker 1>there's a lot more game and you feel like you're
<v Speaker 1>getting something extra. It's a clear, easy, kind of harmless trick.
<v Speaker 1>But for me, it just kind of tickles my brain
<v Speaker 1>in such away. It's like, what is happening here? Why
<v Speaker 1>does every game doing this? Right now?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I think I'm I'm good with you know, the
<v Speaker 2>credits roll, and then you've got like an epilogue, which
<v Speaker 2>I feel like some good games do of like, hey, okay,
<v Speaker 2>we enjoyed our time together, let's do a little bit more.
<v Speaker 2>And like that's cool because then if I decide I'm done,
<v Speaker 2>put the control down, don't feel like I'm missing anything.
<v Speaker 2>So yeah, I think I'm broadly with you on this topic.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and again I get why developers do it. It's,
<v Speaker 1>you know, it's a little bit of a trick, but
<v Speaker 1>still is everything in games, Like everything's like kind of
<v Speaker 1>a magic trick with one kind or another. All right,
<v Speaker 1>no more complaining. I guess I wasn't even really complaining.
<v Speaker 2>Let's we're not done complaining, I have Oh.
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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 Silent Hill. F reviews
<v Speaker 1>are in and it's creeping up close to ninety on
<v Speaker 1>Open Critic, has an eighty eight on Open Critics. Started
<v Speaker 1>a little bit lower, it keeps popping up seven seven
<v Speaker 1>out of ten. Heure from Tristan o'gilvy at IGN, who
<v Speaker 1>says Silent Hill F presents a fresh new setting to explore,
<v Speaker 1>a fascinatingly dark story to unravel, but its melee focused
<v Speaker 1>combat takes a big swing that doesn't quite land. It
<v Speaker 1>did get a ninety out of one hundred, though, from
<v Speaker 1>Ellie gould Over at PC Gamer, who says Silent HILLF
<v Speaker 1>is an excellent step excellent next step for this accomplished
<v Speaker 1>horror series, proving that the horrors of Silent Hill aren't
<v Speaker 1>and shouldn't be restricted to the iconic American mountain town.
<v Speaker 1>And then a nine out of ten from Jessica cogswell
<v Speaker 1>Over at GameSpot shouts out to jess with its brilliant writing,
<v Speaker 1>haunting atmosphere, well designed gameplay, and spectacular visuals. Silent Hill
<v Speaker 1>F sets a new benchmark for the Silent Hill series.
<v Speaker 1>And then finally nine point five out of ten from
<v Speaker 1>Elena Chappella at Dual Shockers, who says Silent Hill F
<v Speaker 1>is completely distinct from any other entry in the franchise,
<v Speaker 1>but also firmly committed to being faithful to Team Silence visions,
<v Speaker 1>and it carried out those visions wonderfully. Not only is
<v Speaker 1>the game of horror masterpiece, it's a Silent Hill masterpiece,
<v Speaker 1>finally giving veteran fans the long awaited relief we've been craving.
<v Speaker 1>While being a commentary on feminine fears and oppressive societies,
<v Speaker 1>Silent Hill f gives much for players to chew on
<v Speaker 1>and even more to swallow, and the most visually striking
<v Speaker 1>and grotesque entering the series the series has seen yet,
<v Speaker 1>the first new Silent Hill entry in over a decade
<v Speaker 1>is everything fans could have hoped it to be, and
<v Speaker 1>then some, cementing itself as an instant classic, not just
<v Speaker 1>for the franchise but for the survival horror genre overall. Well,
<v Speaker 1>this sounds promising. This sounds like it really hit the mark.
<v Speaker 1>You know, it's not gonna have perfect reviews across the boar,
<v Speaker 1>but it's all well within that that really nice range
<v Speaker 1>of you know, one seven here and then a bunch
<v Speaker 1>of eights and nines. Not that the scores matter. Honestly,
<v Speaker 1>it sounds like a lot of Silent Hill fans did.
<v Speaker 1>These reviews have been carrying a torch for the series
<v Speaker 1>and all of them, but that relief, the word relief,
<v Speaker 1>I think that's what was really popping out to me
<v Speaker 1>here is fans of the series who have felt mistreated
<v Speaker 1>for a long time can feel a sense of relief.
<v Speaker 1>That's maybe harder to pull off than a lot of
<v Speaker 1>other things and games. Huh.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Like what a comeback story Silent Hell has had lately,
<v Speaker 2>because there was so much dread around the two remake.
<v Speaker 2>Nobody thought it would be as good as it ended
<v Speaker 2>up being. And then yeah, and then we're gonna do
<v Speaker 2>a brand new one that's very different. It was a
<v Speaker 2>risky move, but I'm really happy that it sounds like
<v Speaker 2>it's all come together and everything's paying off, because yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I feel like those fans have felt a little abandoned
<v Speaker 2>for a little while. They've seen all the resident Evil
<v Speaker 2>fans get everything they wanted in more and they had
<v Speaker 2>to just sit back and suffer. So happy for them,
<v Speaker 2>Happy for myself as someone who I can't handle scary movies,
<v Speaker 2>but for some reason I really love scary games, especially
<v Speaker 2>as we get closer to October. So it's not like
<v Speaker 2>I have a shortage of good games to play right now,
<v Speaker 2>but I'm happy that this one seems to be among them.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, exactly, There's so much to play, but it's like,
<v Speaker 1>you know, I was gonna play probably something spooky in October,
<v Speaker 1>and well, maybe I'll just make it this. This will
<v Speaker 1>be the game I play after I clean up like
<v Speaker 1>three other things. Man, I gotta finish Silk Song. I'm
<v Speaker 1>getting close, but I'm not quite there yet. Hey, Konami.
<v Speaker 1>Though Konami seems like they're on a bit of a
<v Speaker 1>role here. I think that's been the since we've been
<v Speaker 1>getting that they are are serious. But I think this
<v Speaker 1>one was always the real bell Weather. This one was
<v Speaker 1>always like, yeah, but can they get Silent Hill right?
<v Speaker 1>And really, honestly, maybe I would have been even more
<v Speaker 1>interested written if this game was bad, And to see
<v Speaker 1>Konami's reaction to maybe people not jumping on this. Now
<v Speaker 1>that it's good, it's gonna sell, people will be excited
<v Speaker 1>about it. Konami has sort of has no choice but
<v Speaker 1>to double down. This whole thing is working. I want
<v Speaker 1>to see what their appetite is for, like when they
<v Speaker 1>hit some adversity. But whatever, we'll probably get there eventually.
<v Speaker 1>For now. Good news. The games keep coming out and
<v Speaker 1>they're really good, and Konami seems serious about continuing down
<v Speaker 1>this track of delivering games of a certain quality in
<v Speaker 1>their familiar franchises and while also simultaneously serving the fans
<v Speaker 1>of those franchises. It just all seems like a good
<v Speaker 1>recipe for long term success for the publisher, right.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, with my luck, they'll hit that adversity stage right
<v Speaker 2>when it's time to revisit Castlevania, because that's what I
<v Speaker 2>really want. So well, we'll see what happens in the future.
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, totally. With a well received metal gear now,
<v Speaker 2>you know, a couple well received silent hills like this,
<v Speaker 2>things are looking good. So maybe all these publishers that
<v Speaker 2>are struggling just need to take a break, do some
<v Speaker 2>pitchinko machines for a while, then come back and hit
<v Speaker 2>the ground.
<v Speaker 1>Right Yeah, I don't oh my cough button, it's not
<v Speaker 1>working everybody, So I'm probably gonna do it a couple
<v Speaker 1>of times and hear in a few stories, we'll talk
<v Speaker 1>about Konami's polling fans saying hey, what else do you
<v Speaker 1>want to see or what don't you want to see?
<v Speaker 3>Them?
<v Speaker 1>We'll talk about that here in a little bit. But
<v Speaker 1>you know, they at least are suggesting that they have
<v Speaker 1>an eye on the long term future and that could
<v Speaker 1>open up some really interesting possibilities. You're right, Caslvania like that.
<v Speaker 1>That'll be the next test. How do you even bring
<v Speaker 1>that game back? Does does Konami have a vision for
<v Speaker 1>for what that can look like? If it's a two
<v Speaker 1>D Metroid Venya style game, do they have an idea
<v Speaker 1>of how to make that feel big and important and
<v Speaker 1>hollow night like at this point? And if it's not that,
<v Speaker 1>if it's more niche are they okay with it? Finding
<v Speaker 1>that typical Metroid Venua audience Caslvanian games never sold more
<v Speaker 1>than two million copies? Will they be cool with that?
<v Speaker 1>If it's a big three D game, are you trying
<v Speaker 1>to like like complete the full circle and make it
<v Speaker 1>like everyone say, hey, from Soft Games are like modern
<v Speaker 1>Castlevania's will can Castlevania be like a follow up now
<v Speaker 1>to Fromsoft Games or something else? A character action game?
<v Speaker 1>Like There's a lot of opportunities for them to come
<v Speaker 1>up with an idea of what Castlevania's future can be.
<v Speaker 1>And again, what choice they make will say a lot
<v Speaker 1>to me about like how this company is looking at
<v Speaker 1>making these video games and sort of who they are
<v Speaker 1>trying to sell it to. Right now, it feels like
<v Speaker 1>they're trying to sell games for the audience that I'm in,
<v Speaker 1>and that's really encouraging because so many of the stories
<v Speaker 1>we cover on the show Britain are like, here's why
<v Speaker 1>companies feel like they're ignoring you or don't really care,
<v Speaker 1>or are treating you like their personal ATM machine that
<v Speaker 1>they can just take more and more money out of
<v Speaker 1>while doing kind of the same thing or even a
<v Speaker 1>little bit less or a little bit worse, and at
<v Speaker 1>the very least for a handful of publishers, and especially
<v Speaker 1>in Japan right now, Capcom, Konami, handful of others, it
<v Speaker 1>feels like they have found a something that works for
<v Speaker 1>them and I'm I'm really pleased with it for sure.
<v Speaker 1>All right, let's get to this next story. Microsoft faces
<v Speaker 1>tough choicest Xbox price hike, explained amid tariff pressures. That's right,
<v Speaker 1>the prices are going up again again, Like you might
<v Speaker 1>have been Wait, didn't do this story just like four
<v Speaker 1>months ago? Yes we did. We're doing it again. In
<v Speaker 1>an unexpected twist, Microsoft has announced a price hike for
<v Speaker 1>its Xbox Series X and S consoles effective October third,
<v Speaker 1>driven by escalating US tariffs. The Series X climbs to
<v Speaker 1>six hundred and fifty dollars it launched at five hundred,
<v Speaker 1>a stark reflection of the challenging economic landscape facing consumers.
<v Speaker 1>This is only happening in the United States, which I
<v Speaker 1>agree with most people who are saying that does suggest
<v Speaker 1>tariffs are a huge part of it, you know, saying
<v Speaker 1>that it's just the tariffs because because you know, these
<v Speaker 1>consoles have been around for a long time, right, so
<v Speaker 1>they should also be cheaper to produce. Well, it's like
<v Speaker 1>it's not that simple. Everything's getting more expensive because you know,
<v Speaker 1>it's not like we actually got inflation under control. Even
<v Speaker 1>in the United States where we kind of got it
<v Speaker 1>under control. It's future, like inflation, the future there is
<v Speaker 1>very uncertain. It's kind of bubbling back up. The rest
<v Speaker 1>of the world never quite got it under control in
<v Speaker 1>the same way the United States did. It's kind of
<v Speaker 1>slowly coming down, but things are getting more expensive. And
<v Speaker 1>then like Microsoft is looking at this as we don't
<v Speaker 1>want to lose money on xboxes because we want to
<v Speaker 1>be spending our money elsewhere, and they have other concerns
<v Speaker 1>in terms of them trying to like spend their money
<v Speaker 1>where It's like, hey, we got a we're gonna have
<v Speaker 1>a hard time getting like h one B visas, Like
<v Speaker 1>that's gonna be a problem. So we're gonna have to
<v Speaker 1>like spend more money to compete for a fewer number
<v Speaker 1>of people who are already in the United States. And
<v Speaker 1>so like labor is just going to be more expensive.
<v Speaker 1>Everything is just a pressure point for pushing prices up,
<v Speaker 1>and then the tariffs are just another thing on top
<v Speaker 1>of that. And in the meantime, of course, these companies
<v Speaker 1>don't they're just like the leadership of these companies Britain.
<v Speaker 1>It's not like they have some vision. It's not like
<v Speaker 1>they have some idea of what they should be doing.
<v Speaker 1>They're just like h in spreadsheets, right, they get inputs
<v Speaker 1>and they do outputs, like here are the inputs. Tariffs
<v Speaker 1>are bad, Labor's going labor's more expensive. Components are more
<v Speaker 1>expensive because a variety of tariffs. Tariffs are happening across
<v Speaker 1>the board. So we have to react, and our reaction
<v Speaker 1>is raise the prices. Again. I guess the question for
<v Speaker 1>the normal person Britain would be why, I mean, why
<v Speaker 1>would you have bought an Xbox up to this point?
<v Speaker 1>And now it's going to be more expensive October third,
<v Speaker 1>you know, six hundred and fifty dollars for the Xbox
<v Speaker 1>Series X. We'll go over all the price increases here
<v Speaker 1>in a second, but like, why would anyone get an Xbox?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's it's tough and I'm you know, we were
<v Speaker 2>talking earlier about how my son has been taking the
<v Speaker 2>TV to play switch gams and stuff. There's a scenario
<v Speaker 2>where with the original launch price of the series S
<v Speaker 2>I would have maybe thought like, hey, maybe I just
<v Speaker 2>need another Xbox for another room for what I need
<v Speaker 2>to play something. And that original price, like the three
<v Speaker 2>hundred or whatever it was was was more like a yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I could docket swing that. Now not so much. Now,
<v Speaker 2>I'm like why why would I make that decision? And
<v Speaker 2>it's gonna be tougher, Yeah, especially given the landscape of
<v Speaker 2>what else is out there. Uh, you know, wallets are
<v Speaker 2>being squeezed across the board because of you know, all
<v Speaker 2>the stuff you talked about, whether it is inflation or
<v Speaker 2>you know, rent is up, food is up. Yeah, why
<v Speaker 2>why buy an Xbox? And I wonder there's a double
<v Speaker 2>edged sword a bit with Microsoft being Microsoft and not
<v Speaker 2>just a game company, because when you look at say Nintendo,
<v Speaker 2>they're gonna focus on the games, and so like they
<v Speaker 2>need that division to be profitable because it's the only division.
<v Speaker 2>Microsoft on one hand can move money around and creative
<v Speaker 2>ways and you know, offset their gaming division with other things.
<v Speaker 2>Is your YadA YadA YadA. But then on that at
<v Speaker 2>the same time, they can be like, we don't need
<v Speaker 2>Xbox to you know, sell millions and millions units, cause
<v Speaker 2>we've got this other stuff we've got to worry about.
<v Speaker 2>We've got as your needs, attention, windows needs, whatever. So
<v Speaker 2>they're in a interesting spots. But they've also been saying
<v Speaker 2>for a little while now like everything's an Xbox, so
<v Speaker 2>maybe to some extent, thre all so like, yeah, we
<v Speaker 2>can raise the price on this cause whatever, We'll put
<v Speaker 2>the Xbox software on your TV and call it today.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean yeah. I think the the every sort
<v Speaker 1>of move like this tells a story. And this definitely
<v Speaker 1>tells the story that we've honestly been telling me for
<v Speaker 1>a long time now. I think I guess the story
<v Speaker 1>was once Microsoft doesn't necessarily care if you get an
<v Speaker 1>Xbox now. I think they're like, you know, don't get
<v Speaker 1>an Xbox, like buy our games somewhere else, Like that's
<v Speaker 1>easier for us. We make you know, we still make
<v Speaker 1>a lot of money. If you buy it on PlayStation,
<v Speaker 1>maybe we don't make quite as much, but then we
<v Speaker 1>don't have the hassway having them to maintain you know,
<v Speaker 1>you as a customer on Xbox. Someone else can have
<v Speaker 1>that hassle and we'll just get all the micro transaction
<v Speaker 1>purchases from you. And long term, I think they still
<v Speaker 1>want to see a world where they could put their
<v Speaker 1>own store out on a PlayStation. I know every time
<v Speaker 1>I say that that sounds far fetched, but that's the
<v Speaker 1>way the regulatory winds are blowing long term. I mean,
<v Speaker 1>that's how it's working on mobile now. And what's the
<v Speaker 1>difference between a mobile phone and a console. We could
<v Speaker 1>spell out some but I mean, do you think a
<v Speaker 1>regulator is going to believe that or care about that?
<v Speaker 1>I don't think so so. And Microsoft's got a lot
<v Speaker 1>of money, a lot of sway, and as far as
<v Speaker 1>much as like they have been in the crosshairs of
<v Speaker 1>regulators before, Microsoft tends to have a better relationship with
<v Speaker 1>regulators than the rest of the tech space, especially like
<v Speaker 1>the facebooks and the twitters and everything else. Even Apple
<v Speaker 1>Microsoft tends to kind of get their way a lot
<v Speaker 1>of times. So we could end up in a world
<v Speaker 1>where they're like, we really don't want you to buy
<v Speaker 1>an Xbox because now it's just we make money from
<v Speaker 1>everyone else selling the hardware, and we sell the games.
<v Speaker 1>So we control the biggest games in the world in
<v Speaker 1>Minecraft and Call of Duty, and let's do it that way.
<v Speaker 1>These price increases. The Xbox Series S five hundred and
<v Speaker 1>twelve gigabyte model, it was recently four hundred. I think
<v Speaker 1>that one, you know, I think it was started to No,
<v Speaker 1>that five hundred twelve gigabyte was the launch model. That
<v Speaker 1>started like three hundred. I want to say, now it's
<v Speaker 1>four hundred, or it was four hundred. Now that's already
<v Speaker 1>I'm sorry. Let me go through this. It started three hundred,
<v Speaker 1>went up to three hundred and eighty like four months ago,
<v Speaker 1>and now it's four hundred. The Xbox Series S one
<v Speaker 1>terabyte went up to four hundred and thirty four months ago.
<v Speaker 1>Now it's four hundred and fifty dollars. The Xbox Series
<v Speaker 1>X Digital is six hundred dollars, was five forty nine
<v Speaker 1>ninety nine Xbox Series X, the aforementioned six hundred and
<v Speaker 1>fifty dollars, and the Xbox Series X two terabyte Galaxy
<v Speaker 1>Black Special Edition was I think that one started at
<v Speaker 1>like six fifty went up to seven thirty four months ago.
<v Speaker 1>Now that is eight hundred dollars. We have an eight
<v Speaker 1>hundred dollars console on the market. I think that's once
<v Speaker 1>again more more expensive than the PlayStation five Pro, which
<v Speaker 1>I want to say is like seven hundred and fifty dollars.
<v Speaker 1>These I mean, I get a big part of this
<v Speaker 1>is also just setting up next gin, which is probably
<v Speaker 1>gonna start here in the next year or two for
<v Speaker 1>at least one of these consoles, likely Microsoft if they
<v Speaker 1>intend to launch a new Xbox still, and that means
<v Speaker 1>that thing is going to probably be at least seven
<v Speaker 1>hun I want, I want to say eight hundred dollars.
<v Speaker 1>It's at least going to be eight hundred dollars. Like
<v Speaker 1>what do you think.
<v Speaker 2>I don't want to pay eight hundred dollars for anything
<v Speaker 2>that's you know, not like a good PC or decent PC.
<v Speaker 2>That's wild to me. And as someone who for decades.
<v Speaker 2>At this point, I've always owned all the all the consoles,
<v Speaker 2>even before I was doing this for a living, Like,
<v Speaker 2>this is my main hobby. So I wanted to have
<v Speaker 2>an Xbox, wanted to have a PlayStation one, to have
<v Speaker 2>whatever Nintendo's latest thing was, plus the handhelds at that point,
<v Speaker 2>so I also had a DS or and whatever they are.
<v Speaker 2>And this is a story we've told on the show
<v Speaker 2>and elsewhere before. But they're they're pricing people out of
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, not only that, but in some cases the hobby,
<v Speaker 2>which sucks. It sucks a lot. Hopefully there's ways out
<v Speaker 2>of this. I it's wild to me that we're even
<v Speaker 2>talking about next generation, just so even though it has
<v Speaker 2>been like five years, it's still doesn't feel I mean,
<v Speaker 2>COVID broke time just in essence, but it still feels like, wait,
<v Speaker 2>I'm not ready to be thinking about new hardware yet.
<v Speaker 2>I'm still we still need more games on the current stuff.
<v Speaker 2>So yeah, I'm curious where all of this goes. And
<v Speaker 2>I don't know that's.
<v Speaker 1>True, and you know you mentioned it. We talk about
<v Speaker 1>it all the time, but it is worth reiterating that that,
<v Speaker 1>like what the price increase does and what it means
<v Speaker 1>and what it says. And it's like there was a
<v Speaker 1>time when consoles went down in price. It wasn't just
<v Speaker 1>there was a time that was the normal behavior of
<v Speaker 1>pricing structures throughout the lifespan of a console. And the
<v Speaker 1>idea was there are people waiting on the sidelines who
<v Speaker 1>want to buy one or two games a year, and
<v Speaker 1>eventually you want to service those people by reducing the
<v Speaker 1>console price by a lot. You know, like there are
<v Speaker 1>those people will show up for a two hundred dollars system,
<v Speaker 1>you know in the PS two era PS you know, Xbox, Serah, Gamecubera.
<v Speaker 1>Maybe you get it down to one thirty nine ninety nine,
<v Speaker 1>you get it down to ninety nine dollars, and then
<v Speaker 1>you get a lot of people who then are just
<v Speaker 1>going to buy FIFA every year, and that is that's
<v Speaker 1>a handy. You eventually want to like reach out to
<v Speaker 1>that audience. You know, it is a chicken in the
<v Speaker 1>egg scenario a little bit. Those people aren't showing up
<v Speaker 1>anymore for consoles period, no matter what the price is,
<v Speaker 1>because they already have smartphones. They don't they don't need
<v Speaker 1>to do that. This is an old story. It's been
<v Speaker 1>this has been the case for ten to fifteen years.
<v Speaker 1>Now it's extreme. It's to the point of extreme where
<v Speaker 1>it's right now there's like those people who got smartphones,
<v Speaker 1>so they're no longer considering a console. Well, now there's
<v Speaker 1>a whole new crop of people who are never going
<v Speaker 1>to consider a console. It's not the way they want
<v Speaker 1>to play games. And so these companies, by raising prices
<v Speaker 1>are saying to us that we are not even trying
<v Speaker 1>to convince those people to buy a system. We gave
<v Speaker 1>up on that a long time ago. This is about
<v Speaker 1>getting more money from you assholes. It is about getting
<v Speaker 1>more money from you guys who won't stop playing games
<v Speaker 1>this way, who won't go to these other avenues and
<v Speaker 1>play Call of Duty Mobile or play King games. We
<v Speaker 1>are going to get more money from you. By Nicol
<v Speaker 1>and Dimon. You price increase and then four months later
<v Speaker 1>another price increase. And if you want to get another
<v Speaker 1>Xbox or your first Xbox and you're planning to jump
<v Speaker 1>in still, well you're going to pay for it. And
<v Speaker 1>so it just feels like the whole world's getting smaller
<v Speaker 1>for this kind of gaming, and these companies don't seem
<v Speaker 1>interested in solving that problem, and their solution was like
<v Speaker 1>cloud gaming, and it's like that, well, we're not interested
<v Speaker 1>in that either. Do you think, you know, before we
<v Speaker 1>move on from this like what's what's the timer on
<v Speaker 1>the switch to getting a price increase?
<v Speaker 2>Oh, it's a good question. Even just you know, we've
<v Speaker 2>seen the accessories go up. They've you know, inched up.
<v Speaker 2>At least it's been easier to swallow an additional ten
<v Speaker 2>bucks for control. You know, you know, controller is really
<v Speaker 2>expensive already, but oh yeah, going up ten bucks is
<v Speaker 2>better than looking at you know, Xbox series A s
<v Speaker 2>now one hundred dollars more than it used to be,
<v Speaker 2>and that thing is several years old. That's tricky. And
<v Speaker 2>as someone who you know, I'm not going to buy
<v Speaker 2>another Xbox, maybe I'll buy another doc for switch to
<v Speaker 2>Now I'm thinking like, shoot, I need to do that
<v Speaker 2>soon because that could go up. Yeah, I don't know.
<v Speaker 1>It's a lot of people in chatter immediately saying that
<v Speaker 1>it's going to go up after Christmas early next year.
<v Speaker 1>And you know, when you have a common sentiment like
<v Speaker 1>that that people are all just accepting, we are almost
<v Speaker 1>going to manifest it. Like the companies say, everyone thinks
<v Speaker 1>it's going up we might as well just raise the price.
<v Speaker 1>But you're right that Windows way of getting more money
<v Speaker 1>from us assholes is to raise money, raise the prices
<v Speaker 1>on the accessories. You know, I will likely get another
<v Speaker 1>pro controller here in the next year that you know
<v Speaker 1>that will be more expensive than the price I paid
<v Speaker 1>for the one originally, so they'll get a little bit
<v Speaker 1>a little extra money from there. And I am always
<v Speaker 1>in the market for another DOC, although I've solved that problem.
<v Speaker 1>I went with a third party one that was even
<v Speaker 1>more expensive than a Nintendo DOC. So a lot of
<v Speaker 1>fun there, all right. Before we move on, let's shoot
<v Speaker 1>a couple of things. Microsoft is currently and continues to
<v Speaker 1>be a BDS target for their support of Israel and
<v Speaker 1>providing tools for them in their ethnic cleansing and genocide
<v Speaker 1>in Gaza. And with that, what you will. I mentioned
<v Speaker 1>that now because we're gonna go into one more story
<v Speaker 1>about Xbox and a new game that they plan to
<v Speaker 1>show off at Tokyo Game Show. There is a stage
<v Speaker 1>presentation at TGS. It's going to be a big week
<v Speaker 1>for games overall Britain. That of these things happening, there's
<v Speaker 1>a lot of these showcases happening this week, and this
<v Speaker 1>one seems to be a stage presentation that is run
<v Speaker 1>by Famitsu or something. Either way, there is a time
<v Speaker 1>slot early on the first day that says unannounced or
<v Speaker 1>unnamed Xbox game, and everyone's thinking, that's probably going to
<v Speaker 1>be Forts the Horizon six and it's going to be
<v Speaker 1>announced to the Japanese setting, and that's been the rumor now.
<v Speaker 1>I continue to tend to believe that, how about you.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. In fact, I think last time I was on
<v Speaker 2>the show, we were talking about Japan probably being the
<v Speaker 2>setting for that game, so it would make total sense.
<v Speaker 2>Xbox trying to make waves in Japan has always been
<v Speaker 2>an interesting proposition. I think in the past they try
<v Speaker 2>to trot out. Now we have Persona two you know,
<v Speaker 2>or Persona as well, not Persona too literally, but so yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I think is the safe bet. I can't think, especially
<v Speaker 2>with how many shake ups they've had there lately, like
<v Speaker 2>we know it's not gonna be perfect, you know, anything
<v Speaker 2>like that. So yeah, Forts, that seems to be the
<v Speaker 2>one that makes most sense.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and I'm I'm ready for it, you know. For
<v Speaker 1>as much as I'm not playing Xbox games, Sports, Horizon
<v Speaker 1>is the one that like, oh, they just they nailed
<v Speaker 1>that I won't make time for it anytime soon. If
<v Speaker 1>it comes out, who knows when it will come out.
<v Speaker 1>They probably they'll announce it probably comes out next sometime
<v Speaker 1>next year, but not prioritizing Microsoft Games at the moment.
<v Speaker 1>All right, let's take a break. We're gonna take a
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<v Speaker 1>You soon we're back. It's Game Best Morning. I'm Jeff
<v Speaker 1>grub that's Britton Peel. Let's get back into it. Bloodborne
<v Speaker 1>could be on ice for a long time. This is
<v Speaker 1>from Levi Winslow at GameSpot, who says, I want to
<v Speaker 1>blit Bloodborne remake. You want a Bloodborn remake. People who've
<v Speaker 1>never played it probably want a Bloodborn remake. It's sick
<v Speaker 1>to say that everyone wants a Bloodborn remake. Unfortunately, though,
<v Speaker 1>those who are those once may not mean anything to
<v Speaker 1>the people making the game. Giant Bomb Cohne or Reliable
<v Speaker 1>News Sound Jeff Grubbs sat down with Pite Cone or
<v Speaker 1>Mike Manatti for a recent episode of the Game Best
<v Speaker 1>Sides podcast. During the episode, which was live streamed, blah
<v Speaker 1>blah blah, Grebham and Idy responded to a chat request
<v Speaker 1>for commentary around various aspects of the games and technologies industry,
<v Speaker 1>and we're asked about blood Born in particular. Basically, I said,
<v Speaker 1>last time I checked on this, there wasn't anything happening.
<v Speaker 1>Nothing's happening with Bloodborne, so don't be waiting for it.
<v Speaker 1>And now that was at that point a little bit
<v Speaker 1>older news and so like, when I said that and
<v Speaker 1>then it became a story. It's like, look, look, look
<v Speaker 1>it's nothing. We're not talking about fresh info. Last time
<v Speaker 1>I checked on it when I talked about it a
<v Speaker 1>few months ago, that is what I was referencing. Now
<v Speaker 1>because of the story, I did check again, and nothing's
<v Speaker 1>happening with blood born super Nothing's happening with bloodborn I
<v Speaker 1>guess it's something that people over there talk about sometimes,
<v Speaker 1>But like when I asked, like, is it even in
<v Speaker 1>one of those glass cases that has a label on
<v Speaker 1>it that says break glass in case of emergency emergency,
<v Speaker 1>it's not even in that. So it's like, nothing's happening
<v Speaker 1>with blood born out. That is what I know. The
<v Speaker 1>reason why I you know, I will continue to say
<v Speaker 1>what I've been saying. This hasn't changed, and I can't
<v Speaker 1>go any further because I don't know any further. I
<v Speaker 1>would only be speculating. It's because it seems to because
<v Speaker 1>from Software wants to be involved, and then they're either
<v Speaker 1>too busy or have some inclination against that idea. I
<v Speaker 1>don't know, but they want to be involved and they
<v Speaker 1>cannot be and then you know it's Sony trying to
<v Speaker 1>convince them. I don't know. It doesn't seem like it,
<v Speaker 1>but you know, you just do the math Britain of like, hey,
<v Speaker 1>you put in this much effort, not even to remake Bloodborne,
<v Speaker 1>remaster it sixty frames per second for you know, full
<v Speaker 1>four K or whatever, some improved lighting here or there.
<v Speaker 1>I guess you don't have to do much. Sixty frames
<v Speaker 1>per second will sell that game. And that's like an
<v Speaker 1>instant you put it on PC. That's like an instant
<v Speaker 1>several tens of millions of dollars, right, So what is
<v Speaker 1>really stopping it from happening here? I guess that's still
<v Speaker 1>a question. What do you think?
<v Speaker 2>Well, I don't know if we can trust those guys
<v Speaker 2>over a gameless mornings that. Yeah, how often are they
<v Speaker 2>even right about anything? So keep your hopes alive. It's
<v Speaker 2>definitely happening right on the corner. Uh, yeah, it does.
<v Speaker 2>It's interesting when you have these games and movies and
<v Speaker 2>so on where there is more than one party involved.
<v Speaker 2>You know, Sony, you even saw it. This can be
<v Speaker 2>sound like a weird aside, but when K Pop Demon
<v Speaker 2>Hunters blew up, same sort of thing, where like Netflix
<v Speaker 2>was like, yeah, we want to do this, but Sony
<v Speaker 2>also had to say we also want to do this,
<v Speaker 2>and they had to come to the right terms of Okay,
<v Speaker 2>who's doing what, who's in control here? So blood Board
<v Speaker 2>and K Pop Demon Hunters same thing basically set the
<v Speaker 2>world on fire. Uh, and yeah, millions to be made
<v Speaker 2>by bringing that back in some form. So yeah, it's
<v Speaker 2>it's wild that it hasn't happened yet. At the same time,
<v Speaker 2>when you say we need to remake a PlayStation four
<v Speaker 2>game because like what, Yeah, is that the right move
<v Speaker 2>there or do we need just a remaster? Yeah, like
<v Speaker 2>bump up the frame rate, resolution, whatever. Also, you know,
<v Speaker 2>I will acknowledge it could be triggier than some of
<v Speaker 2>us think. I think back to that Dark Soul's PC
<v Speaker 2>ports where if you modded the frame rate then ladders
<v Speaker 2>wouldn't work like that. There's stuff that you know, can
<v Speaker 2>can make things harder than maybe most of us realize.
<v Speaker 2>So I try to give you know a little grace
<v Speaker 2>in that area. But yeah, this seems like a thing
<v Speaker 2>that it should at least be like you said in
<v Speaker 2>that in case of emergency glass that you would think
<v Speaker 2>someone would be working on.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, not even in there though, Yep, just reiterate nothing
<v Speaker 1>happening with Bloodborne. Do not get those hopes up anytime soon,
<v Speaker 1>Like if they change their mind tomorrow, it's years and
<v Speaker 1>years and years and years away from something manifesting there
<v Speaker 1>and they are not even at that point yet. All right,
<v Speaker 1>we'll keep going now, Well real quick, someone did ask
<v Speaker 1>you Ched, have you heard about anything with Demon Souls
<v Speaker 1>coming to PC. It's like, well, yeah, that that sounds
<v Speaker 1>like that's something that should happen. Of course that wouldn't
<v Speaker 1>involve from Sony would have full control there. It's almost
<v Speaker 1>weird that that one isn't out on PC yet, But uh,
<v Speaker 1>maybe that does happen here. Maybe this next state of
<v Speaker 1>play that could happen anytime this week. I would expect
<v Speaker 1>there's a chance that could get announced. Has that a
<v Speaker 1>game gotten a PS five pro patch? Maybe they kind
<v Speaker 1>of combined those two things pro patch, which again I
<v Speaker 1>don't know, maybe that's already happened and then the past
<v Speaker 1>I released. That would be nice.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I don't know. I am too poor to have
<v Speaker 2>to have a PS five pro so I'm not sure
<v Speaker 2>that was a and Souls was my favorite of the
<v Speaker 2>PS five launch same titles, so be happy to have
<v Speaker 2>more people be able to play that it was a
<v Speaker 2>good experience.
<v Speaker 1>Yep. Well, I hope we get that soon. I would
<v Speaker 1>love to have that on PC all right, as promised,
<v Speaker 1>some more news from Konami News or just them making
<v Speaker 1>moves that raises some questions. Konami polls fans to get
<v Speaker 1>their thoughts on which Metal Gear game it should remake next.
<v Speaker 1>This is from Vicki Blake at IGN. Just a month
<v Speaker 1>after Metal Gear Solid Delta Snake Eater debuted to critical
<v Speaker 1>and commercial acclaim. Publisher Konami wants to know which game
<v Speaker 1>Snake fans would like to see get a remake next,
<v Speaker 1>as the publisher Gear is up for Tokyo Game Show.
<v Speaker 1>Some players have seen a post viewing survey, presumably to
<v Speaker 1>be sent out to fans after Middle Gear production hotline
<v Speaker 1>at TGS twenty twenty five. A live stream set for
<v Speaker 1>the broadcast this Thursday is this Thursday, September twenty fifth.
<v Speaker 1>While some of the questions are pretty generic, including asking
<v Speaker 1>players if they're interested in playing the rekindled multiplayer mod
<v Speaker 1>fox Hunt in Delta and what they'd like to see
<v Speaker 1>in future livestream broadcast, one question really caught our eye.
<v Speaker 1>Please select all the following Metal Gear series titles that
<v Speaker 1>you would like to see remade so you can like
<v Speaker 1>check each one. It's not like which one do you
<v Speaker 1>want the most? Like, hey, do you want to remake
<v Speaker 1>of this? The list is as such, metal Gear like
<v Speaker 1>metal Gear nineteen eighty seven, metal Gear metal Gear Solid
<v Speaker 1>two Solid Snake, metal Gear Solid not nineteen ninety eight,
<v Speaker 1>middle Gear Solid not, metal Gear Solid two. Oh yeah,
<v Speaker 1>Meddle Gear two Yeah not, metal Gear slad tow Medle
<v Speaker 1>Gear two Solid Snake, metal Gear Solid two, Sons of
<v Speaker 1>Liberty metal Gear Solid, four, Guns of the Patriot metal
<v Speaker 1>Gear Solid, peace Walker, metal Gear Solid five, ground Zeros
<v Speaker 1>and metal Gear Solid five the Phantom Pain. You know,
<v Speaker 1>what really does this mean? Does this mean all of
<v Speaker 1>these are being considered by Konami Not necessarily, but maybe
<v Speaker 1>they're looking to see is there one of these that
<v Speaker 1>like everyone just leaves off, Like no one wants you
<v Speaker 1>to remake ground zeros in Phantom Pain, which don't do that.
<v Speaker 1>You don't need to do that, at least not for
<v Speaker 1>twenty years. What are you talking about? But it's like
<v Speaker 1>the rest of these, yeah, why not? And I guess
<v Speaker 1>there's gonna be a chance maybe some people won't check
<v Speaker 1>the MSX games, although those are the ones I would
<v Speaker 1>be most interested in seeing them remake because those are
<v Speaker 1>the ones they can sort of really riff on, try
<v Speaker 1>some new ideas, and maybe set up a future where
<v Speaker 1>they are making new metal Gear games. That continues to
<v Speaker 1>be my position. I know every every coach of a
<v Speaker 1>fan and every metal Gear fans like, that's impossible. You
<v Speaker 1>can't do that, but we'll see. Uh, what do you
<v Speaker 1>what do you read into this?
<v Speaker 2>Britain Well Chap beat me to the punch and saying
<v Speaker 2>that the biggest miss on this list is there's no
<v Speaker 2>metal Gear Acid. That's that's the real writing answer. Remake
<v Speaker 2>Malcear Acid. Uh, barring that the second most real answer
<v Speaker 2>is you remake metal Gear Ghost Battle.
<v Speaker 1>Let's go, yeah, game Boy.
<v Speaker 2>Because what or what else are we doing? You gotta
<v Speaker 2>be weird.
<v Speaker 1>I saw that for like a nine dollars at the
<v Speaker 1>Cleveland Gaming Classic on Saturday when I was there with Mike.
<v Speaker 1>I saw a clean Complete and Box Ghost Babble for like, now.
<v Speaker 2>That's a game that I'm very happy that I own.
<v Speaker 2>I don't own Complete and Box about half the carriage,
<v Speaker 2>and I got it partly because my mother didn't necessarily
<v Speaker 2>want me playing the real Metal Gear Solid two. But
<v Speaker 2>but like, hey, look at the game Boy one. It's
<v Speaker 2>it's so non violent and innocent, so I played that
<v Speaker 2>one instead. But yeah, I mean, I you're right, remaking
<v Speaker 2>MGS five makes no sense at this point in time.
<v Speaker 2>I could see a case for a peace Walker or
<v Speaker 2>something of that main, and I do think it would
<v Speaker 2>be really interesting to say, like, yeah, actual Metal Gear,
<v Speaker 2>let's completely reimagine that.
<v Speaker 1>Now.
<v Speaker 2>Would anyone want to do that with without Koduma, I
<v Speaker 2>don't know, but I would take, you know, in the
<v Speaker 2>vein of the three remake, which I understand people like
<v Speaker 2>a lot, it might be interesting to see Melgarsaw two,
<v Speaker 2>like just you know, remade new models and everything. I
<v Speaker 2>like that game a lot. I personally like MGS two
<v Speaker 2>over three, so sure, let's revisit that. I'm also a
<v Speaker 2>weirdo who likes twin Snakes, so I, to some extents,
<v Speaker 2>don't feel like the original MGS Like I don't feel
<v Speaker 2>as much of a craving for that because I was like,
<v Speaker 2>I've seen what that looks like already, even though I
<v Speaker 2>know it's been a while.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, we are much It was much closer to the
<v Speaker 1>release of Metal Gear than it was to today Twin Snakes.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah much, but it doesn't feel that way in my brain,
<v Speaker 2>is I get it? So yeah, it'll be interesting what
<v Speaker 2>they since. I guess that's you know, three remakes doing
<v Speaker 2>pretty well people like it. So I don't think they're
<v Speaker 2>going to stop here with metal Gear. And I don't
<v Speaker 2>think I'm going to get a new Acid game as
<v Speaker 2>much as I would like it. So we'll see happens.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, probably not. They will probably do some other new
<v Speaker 1>spinoff before they do another Acid. Yeah, I mean, at
<v Speaker 1>the very least, I do think that Konami is trying
<v Speaker 1>to plot a course for the future, and they'll just
<v Speaker 1>use this data and to inform their conversations in their planning.
<v Speaker 1>And I think, you know, they just finished three. They
<v Speaker 1>are getting the data that shows that Delta did very well,
<v Speaker 1>I'm sure, and that they are They've convinced themselves that
<v Speaker 1>this is worthy of continuing down this path, and now
<v Speaker 1>they're like, well, what's the right move. I do think
<v Speaker 1>that they probably do metal Gear Solid two next, or
<v Speaker 1>maybe they go in in chronological order, which I don't know.
<v Speaker 1>Maybe that would be metal Gear Solid one next, I
<v Speaker 1>don't know. Either way, I just think that they probably
<v Speaker 1>get a couple more of these remix out of the way,
<v Speaker 1>at least one more, and then maybe they throw in
<v Speaker 1>like a remake of Metal Gear at that point and
<v Speaker 1>be like, hey, we're remaking the MSX games. Let's have
<v Speaker 1>some fun there. I do think that's on the table
<v Speaker 1>within the next ten years or so. Either way, it's like,
<v Speaker 1>oh yeah, metal Gear is. It's not like Fully Back
<v Speaker 1>is like an active franchise, but it's they're going to
<v Speaker 1>keep making games in this in the franchise just usually remakes.
<v Speaker 1>Let's see how it goes. I'm curious. Resident Evil Requiem
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo Switch two version appears to be cheaper than the
<v Speaker 1>other versions. This is from my Nintendo news. Capcom recently
<v Speaker 1>revealed the highly anticipated next mainline Resident Evil title, Resident
<v Speaker 1>Evil Requiem will be heading to the Nintendo Switch To.
<v Speaker 1>What's now interesting is that it is listed on Amazon
<v Speaker 1>at ten pounds, cheaper than the PlayStation five and Xbox
<v Speaker 1>Series X and S versions of the game. The recommended
<v Speaker 1>retail price for PS five and Xbox Series XNS is
<v Speaker 1>seventy pounds, whereas the Nintendo Switch to version will be
<v Speaker 1>sixty pounds. It should be noted that it's extremely likely
<v Speaker 1>likely that the game will be a game key card
<v Speaker 1>on Nintendo's latest platform. A lot of people were seeing
<v Speaker 1>this and a lot of people were talking about it,
<v Speaker 1>and this seemed to be the common sentiment written is
<v Speaker 1>that this is going to be on a game key card.
<v Speaker 1>And this is one of the first games that is
<v Speaker 1>maybe reckoning with the concept that these games the game
<v Speaker 1>key cards, which again are like an alternative to a
<v Speaker 1>full game card where you get the whole game on
<v Speaker 1>the card. This is just basically a code in a box,
<v Speaker 1>but the game card version of that, those don't seem
<v Speaker 1>to be selling quite as well as maybe everyone making
<v Speaker 1>these games was expecting, And so mccap comes like, well,
<v Speaker 1>one way that we could deal with this is like,
<v Speaker 1>it costs us less to use this version of the card,
<v Speaker 1>let's sell it for less and see if we can
<v Speaker 1>get something back there. But also maybe there's a chance
<v Speaker 1>that they're selling it for less because the switch to
<v Speaker 1>version will be materially less than the PS five and
<v Speaker 1>Xbox Serious X versions. Although it didn't necessarily look that
<v Speaker 1>way when we saw the trailer in that Nintendo direct.
<v Speaker 1>What do you think here?
<v Speaker 2>It definitely feels like publishers are figuring this stuff out,
<v Speaker 2>which is as a switch To owner who likes collecting
<v Speaker 2>physical stuff in particular, I'm happy to see some of
<v Speaker 2>this acting and experimenting. I was like, I'll just say
<v Speaker 2>I pre ordered the Final Fantasy vin remake on switch
<v Speaker 2>To because they were doing the thing of like, hey,
<v Speaker 2>this is game key card, but you'll get some magic cards.
<v Speaker 2>So like that's been their approach. Haities two on the
<v Speaker 2>other end, hands you know, coming a little bit later
<v Speaker 2>and is more expensive, but it's all going to be
<v Speaker 2>on the card. So it seems like there is, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>a lot of this experimenting of like, hey, what do
<v Speaker 2>we do here to keep people happy to sell games
<v Speaker 2>on this system. This is an interesting one though, because yeah,
<v Speaker 2>it doesn't seem like it's going to be like a
<v Speaker 2>lesser version of the game other than you know, I'm
<v Speaker 2>sure resolution frame ran stuff will be. There's hard or limitations,
<v Speaker 2>for sure, but it doesn't seem like, oh, this last
<v Speaker 2>chunk of content is missing. Yeah. So yeah, I'm interested
<v Speaker 2>in like if this stuff sticks and what that means.
<v Speaker 2>But I am happy to at least see these discussions
<v Speaker 2>happening of like, Okay, there's been some pushback on this
<v Speaker 2>game key card stuff. What are we going to do
<v Speaker 2>to make it right or correct? You know what happens here?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I was. I might have told this story on
<v Speaker 1>the show, but I don't remember, so I'll just do
<v Speaker 1>it real quick. I was at Meyer last week, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>and that there's no games on the shelf for the
<v Speaker 1>Nintindo switch to that weren't or that were a game
<v Speaker 1>key card except for street Fighter, And there was like
<v Speaker 1>a couple dozen games, different games on like hanging up
<v Speaker 1>there that you could have I could have bought. So
<v Speaker 1>it's like to me, it's like, okay, anecdotal evidence. I
<v Speaker 1>get that. But I bet this is the kind of
<v Speaker 1>thing where if you are working at one of these
<v Speaker 1>stores and you get wind of this game key card
<v Speaker 1>thing and you look at the numbers and you're like, oh,
<v Speaker 1>these game key cards are just selling noticeably worse than
<v Speaker 1>these other games, so or maybe they aren't even doing that.
<v Speaker 1>They're just like, these are the games that are selling,
<v Speaker 1>these are the games that aren't. We'll get more of
<v Speaker 1>the games that they're selling, and so they end up
<v Speaker 1>with just Street Fighter on the game key card. Either way,
<v Speaker 1>I think the point here is there has to be
<v Speaker 1>some movement on this. Whether that means Nintendo finds a
<v Speaker 1>way to have fewer of these games put out on
<v Speaker 1>game key cards, that would probably probably be the ideal
<v Speaker 1>scenario for most people, although I guess maybe not the
<v Speaker 1>alternative of not putting out a physical version at all,
<v Speaker 1>or some price variability and some variability on the downside,
<v Speaker 1>not just raising prices, but providing these games at like
<v Speaker 1>something of a discount so that it feels like, Okay, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I'm getting a lesser version of this game on a
<v Speaker 1>physical card as opposed to what I'm used to or
<v Speaker 1>how I think it should work, but I am saving
<v Speaker 1>some money. And at the very least, it's like, if
<v Speaker 1>these game key cards do stick around, there is the
<v Speaker 1>reality where these things are sitting on shelves and they
<v Speaker 1>get put in two bargain bends, which is not something
<v Speaker 1>that would happen if there was no physical versions of
<v Speaker 1>these games. And it's like, so, you know, after this holiday,
<v Speaker 1>there's probably going to be a handful of these games
<v Speaker 1>that are gonna be marked way down at your game
<v Speaker 1>stops and your targets. And that's still handy in its
<v Speaker 1>own way. A little bit even if, again, most people
<v Speaker 1>aren't gonna want these game key cards. And I say
<v Speaker 1>most people, it's probably not most people, but a lot
<v Speaker 1>of people in Nintendo Hardware are game collectors, and so
<v Speaker 1>they want to get the best version of their game here,
<v Speaker 1>and this is just not delivering that. Do you think
<v Speaker 1>that Nintendo will kind of keep up with it's trying
<v Speaker 1>to like push prices as high as possible, or do
<v Speaker 1>you or do you think that's just Nintendo and everyone else?
<v Speaker 1>Maybe this is what this story is a sign of
<v Speaker 1>that while Nintendo can get away with charging seventy and
<v Speaker 1>eighty dollars, not very few other publishers, even Capcom is
<v Speaker 1>feeling like it can do that. On the switch to.
<v Speaker 2>H I think there's there's a good chance that, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>the third parties are saying, hey, we got to we
<v Speaker 2>gotta do something here, Nintendo. I don't know, Like it
<v Speaker 2>seems like there's been some good pushback on the pricing
<v Speaker 2>for like Donkey Kong as DLC, which, as my son
<v Speaker 2>is obsessed with Bonanza, we bought like he spent some
<v Speaker 2>of his own money as a six year old because
<v Speaker 2>he wanted more Donkeys content, but also like he you know,
<v Speaker 2>he played a lot of that island and then has
<v Speaker 2>gone back to just playing the main game again. Right,
<v Speaker 2>So we'll see like if that moves the needle at
<v Speaker 2>all on what Nintendo's approaches, because they may also be
<v Speaker 2>in this phase of let's figure out what what we're
<v Speaker 2>gonna do here. But yeah, it seems like third parties
<v Speaker 2>have been at least saying like, oh, we're gonna get
<v Speaker 2>We're gonna make sure you have all the content in here,
<v Speaker 2>even though it's on the key card, or yeah, we're
<v Speaker 2>going to include you know, some something physical. I think
<v Speaker 2>with Hades they're also like, hey, you're also going to
<v Speaker 2>get the soundtrack, like the stuff that that that is happening.
<v Speaker 1>I think Hades is like on the card. I think right,
<v Speaker 1>that one's kind again. Yeah, so they'll they'll hit all
<v Speaker 1>the quadrants there and that that game good.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. I think it is like twenty bucks more though
<v Speaker 2>for physical but yeah, yeah, yeah, but so that they
<v Speaker 2>are saying like, hey, it's coming later, you'll get something else. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>and I who really wants to play Hades, but I
<v Speaker 2>also want to physically, Like I guess I'll wait a
<v Speaker 2>little bit more.
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, it is the way I came, right, now
<v Speaker 1>in early access everybody, it's uh, you know, by the
<v Speaker 1>time honestly, probably by the time that update comes out,
<v Speaker 1>you'll probably be getting to that content anyhow, So I
<v Speaker 1>don't know.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I need if if Greg Kasovin is watching, I
<v Speaker 2>fill off your email list, I need, I need.
<v Speaker 1>To get back it in there. I get that. Uh,
<v Speaker 1>all right, let's keep going here. Lenovo has canceled some
<v Speaker 1>pre orders of it's eleven hundred dollars Legion go To,
<v Speaker 1>saying it's substantially exceeded expectations in terms of sales to
<v Speaker 1>some Chris calling in at VGC, although the headline is
<v Speaker 1>pretty much the story here. Just as a reminder, the
<v Speaker 1>Lenovo Legion go To Gentu will be released next month
<v Speaker 1>and boast an eight point eight inch O lead screen,
<v Speaker 1>one hundred and forty four hertz refresh rate removable controllers,
<v Speaker 1>and a similar AMD rising processor to the rog Xbox
<v Speaker 1>ally and Xbox ally X, thirty two gigbytes of RAM
<v Speaker 1>two terabytes of storage for the fifteen hundred dollars version.
<v Speaker 1>I guess one four hundred and seventy nine dollars, but
<v Speaker 1>what's twenty dollars at that point? People are buying these things.
<v Speaker 1>You know, let's be clear here, they're probably not making
<v Speaker 1>a ton of them, but you know, this is a
<v Speaker 1>company that makes like a lot of laptops. They probably
<v Speaker 1>have not had too many laptops sell out or exceed expectations.
<v Speaker 1>And these are basically laptops that you just hold with
<v Speaker 1>the screen and a controller built in. This. This this market,
<v Speaker 1>at the very least, is it's not like competing with
<v Speaker 1>the switch. It's far away from that, but it does
<v Speaker 1>continue to seem to be growing, and at the very least,
<v Speaker 1>it's like, oh, these continue to be some of the
<v Speaker 1>best selling computers a company can make, which for a
<v Speaker 1>lot of these companies is big business and means we're
<v Speaker 1>probably gonna get a lot more of this. And even
<v Speaker 1>as prices are, you don't want to say skyrocketing. I
<v Speaker 1>think it's a little unfair the these these This is
<v Speaker 1>how much of these things used to cost before the
<v Speaker 1>steam Deck, and Valve clearly subsidized that price till I
<v Speaker 1>get that price down to that point in the first place.
<v Speaker 1>So this is right in line with how much they
<v Speaker 1>used to cost, but still compared to where we were
<v Speaker 1>with the steam Deck, they're skyrocketing. And yet people are
<v Speaker 1>showing up because you know, they're excited about the new
<v Speaker 1>hardware and like and the new internals. So yeah, I mean,
<v Speaker 1>what do you think this says about the handheld gaming
<v Speaker 1>PC space? Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>I do think, you know, it's it's always a clever
<v Speaker 2>marketing tactic to say exceed as expectations when you don't
<v Speaker 2>have to say what those expectations were, So that could
<v Speaker 2>that could mean anything. I do think there is an appetite.
<v Speaker 2>I've even seen it, like on my TikTok feed of
<v Speaker 2>people when the switch to was coming out, people saying like, hey,
<v Speaker 2>I and mostly into it for indie games, and I
<v Speaker 2>could just get a Steam deck and broaden my horizons
<v Speaker 2>a little bit because it's, you know, the prices similar
<v Speaker 2>enough or so on. I do still think as someone
<v Speaker 2>who messes with some you know, of these gaming handhelds
<v Speaker 2>every now and then, none of the Windows ones so
<v Speaker 2>far from me. I mostly do like the Retroid stuff,
<v Speaker 2>but it is a higher barrier of entry. So I
<v Speaker 2>am curious who is buying thousand dollars gaming handhelds and
<v Speaker 2>if any of them are going to get it and say, oh,
<v Speaker 2>this is not as easy to use this I thought
<v Speaker 2>it was going to be I think that might be
<v Speaker 2>an interesting test. At the same time, I really like,
<v Speaker 2>you know, the form factor of the switch and the
<v Speaker 2>steam deck and stuff. I like having that freedom of
<v Speaker 2>plugging something into a dock for when I want to
<v Speaker 2>have it on a TV or desk or whatever, and
<v Speaker 2>then just carrying it around for when I don't or
<v Speaker 2>when I'm traveling. So I am hopeful for the success
<v Speaker 2>of stuff like this, and it's it seems like the
<v Speaker 2>previous legions have done done decently at least.
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, I have one. I reviewed one. It's got
<v Speaker 1>a big, nice, big screen. It's bulky and weird. I
<v Speaker 1>did like get to a point where the kids were
<v Speaker 1>playing a lot of Minecraft and they wanted PCs to
<v Speaker 1>do it for various reasons. And so the younger one,
<v Speaker 1>the six year old, is actually carrying around this bulky
<v Speaker 1>Lenovo Legion Go that's about as big as she is.
<v Speaker 1>It's crazy, but it works, and it's not so unwieldy
<v Speaker 1>that she can't use it. She she's fine with it.
<v Speaker 1>So it's been it's been handy, you know. It's the
<v Speaker 1>one thing that really set in the Lenovo Legion Go
<v Speaker 1>apart is the joy cons on the thing they do
<v Speaker 1>break off, and then not only that, before the Switch
<v Speaker 1>too came out the right joy con again, I'm using
<v Speaker 1>that phrase for the Lenovo Legion Go actually had a
<v Speaker 1>mouth optical mouse thing in it, so you can use
<v Speaker 1>that as a mouse and like move it around and
<v Speaker 1>play first person shooters and stuff like that. By setting
<v Speaker 1>the Lenovo Legion Go up on a desktop, and that
<v Speaker 1>was neat. That was a cool thing, but it was
<v Speaker 1>like always like, oh, this is this is your gimmick.
<v Speaker 1>How do the games play? And the game's played pretty good.
<v Speaker 1>They were slightly more powerful than a Steam Deck. I
<v Speaker 1>don't think anyone was like super overtaken by the Legion Go,
<v Speaker 1>but it definitely did. It had some fans. And now
<v Speaker 1>it feels like with this one they're hitting at the
<v Speaker 1>right time where it's like, you know, switch or the
<v Speaker 1>steam Deck two is nowhere to be seen. It's probably
<v Speaker 1>still quite a ways off. There's an opportunity here. And
<v Speaker 1>at the same time, while the Roger ally is going
<v Speaker 1>to be the first thing they get the full screen
<v Speaker 1>experience from Xbox, this thing apparently is also going to
<v Speaker 1>have be able to install that. And we're hearing nothing
<v Speaker 1>but good things at least so far about that, which
<v Speaker 1>I'm not I guess I'm not too surprised about because
<v Speaker 1>this seems to be the way that Microsoft's going with
<v Speaker 1>even the Xbox console, that they're going to have a
<v Speaker 1>version of Windows that slimmed down and made to play games.
<v Speaker 1>And the word is is that testing for this full
<v Speaker 1>screen experience of playing games is games run way better,
<v Speaker 1>it's way more power efficient, and it's like, oh, okay,
<v Speaker 1>that's a good thing. So this can take advantage of that,
<v Speaker 1>and maybe people will jump on because they're like, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna get a Roger ally, but maybe I don't
<v Speaker 1>like the form factor. I want this mouse thing while
<v Speaker 1>Lenovo's there for you if that's what you want, all right,
<v Speaker 1>last couple of stories here. Concept art and gameplay information
<v Speaker 1>from Xbox is canceled Perfect Dark game has been shared.
<v Speaker 1>This is from Chris Scullion at VGC. New information and
<v Speaker 1>concept art relating to xboxes handg canceled Perfect Dark reboot
<v Speaker 1>has been shared online. Internal documentation acquired by mp first
<v Speaker 1>shows concept art for some of the game's locations, as
<v Speaker 1>well as gameplay details. The documentation refers to game concepts
<v Speaker 1>like a relentless system and a reward system, but goes
<v Speaker 1>into more detail on another concept, the adrenaline system. According
<v Speaker 1>to the description, this would have made adrenaline a finite
<v Speaker 1>resource which the player could have regenerated over time. Having
<v Speaker 1>an adrenaline would have given the player of various abilities
<v Speaker 1>such as healing, increasing damage dealt and reducing damage. It
<v Speaker 1>just sounds like your standard gameplay mechanic that they were
<v Speaker 1>missing around with. Really, the other thing they said here
<v Speaker 1>is the reason they identified Perfect Dark as an opportunity
<v Speaker 1>in the first place, is there was a gap in
<v Speaker 1>the market. There was no Bond, there was no metal gear,
<v Speaker 1>and they're like, let's kind of do a fun spy
<v Speaker 1>game and really lean into the spy aspect of it. Now,
<v Speaker 1>you know, we are getting a new Bond game at
<v Speaker 1>this point, So maybe that was one of the reasons
<v Speaker 1>the Microsoft's like, we're not going to stand out anymore
<v Speaker 1>in this game is not coming together. Who knows. It stinks.
<v Speaker 1>Whatever reason they had for canceling it, it stinks. But
<v Speaker 1>I don't know. When you hear stuff like this and
<v Speaker 1>you kind of get a little a few details about
<v Speaker 1>a cancel game, and for me, especially one that I
<v Speaker 1>kind of was looking forward to how do you end
<v Speaker 1>up feeling about it? Britain. This is something that's like, oh,
<v Speaker 1>what could have been?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, what could have been is always a good question,
<v Speaker 2>especially in this line of work. I was really bummed
<v Speaker 2>when Perfect Dark was canceled. I've been through this sort
<v Speaker 2>of thing before, Like I was at Quake Con one
<v Speaker 2>year when they showed Prey uh like the new the
<v Speaker 2>new one, but not the new new one. Uh pray
<v Speaker 2>pray to you. I guess it was at the time.
<v Speaker 2>And I bring it up because it's like similar sort
<v Speaker 2>of like, oh, we're gonna have these systems and you
<v Speaker 2>can you know, deal with scenarios different ways, and it
<v Speaker 2>just sounded cool, and what I saw at qua Con
<v Speaker 2>looked cool now, you know, come to find out, it
<v Speaker 2>sounds like maybe what they had at qua Con was
<v Speaker 2>all they had, and so there's you know, maybe good
<v Speaker 2>reasons why it didn't you know, get finished and out
<v Speaker 2>the door, and there could be other stories. You know,
<v Speaker 2>we're hearing the cool stuff. We may not be hearing
<v Speaker 2>the less cool stuff that people especially when you're when
<v Speaker 2>it's developers that are either leaking this or just being open. Uh,
<v Speaker 2>it's it was their baby. So they're gonna they're gonna
<v Speaker 2>talk about the stuff that like was exciting to them
<v Speaker 2>about this project and why they're bombed that's gone. They're
<v Speaker 2>probably gonna be less likely at this point in time
<v Speaker 2>to say, oh yeah. And then also all this other
<v Speaker 2>stuff was broken and like not working and whatever, So
<v Speaker 2>you know, it's hard to say for sure. I do
<v Speaker 2>really wish that we would have seen more of what
<v Speaker 2>this was going to look like, because I think, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I think there was and maybe still is a gap, like, yes,
<v Speaker 2>we are getting a new Bond game, but we're not
<v Speaker 2>getting a new like Dishonored game that I know of it.
<v Speaker 2>You know that there's others, you know, especially in that
<v Speaker 2>first person space, there's I think there would have been
<v Speaker 2>room for this if it had come to Fruition.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, just a big narrative action game of any kind.
<v Speaker 1>It's like, we don't get a ton of those anymore.
<v Speaker 1>There's only so many companies can make something like that,
<v Speaker 1>and now Microsoft's not even one of those anymore. It's
<v Speaker 1>a bummer last thing here. Borderlands four masses, over two
<v Speaker 1>point five million players since launch. Yeah, it does seem
<v Speaker 1>like this game mostly has hit its targets of we
<v Speaker 1>want to deliver another Borderlands game. We wanted to be
<v Speaker 1>this fun, you know, looter shooter that you could play
<v Speaker 1>with your friends and sort of turn off your brain
<v Speaker 1>and it just kind of gets you one place to another.
<v Speaker 1>You know, it has its issues, it has its performance issues.
<v Speaker 1>I think it's you know, there was a time where
<v Speaker 1>we were on one mission and then it's like, all right,
<v Speaker 1>let's go to this next mission. And it was three
<v Speaker 1>kilometers away, and it was this long trek to get there,
<v Speaker 1>and it wasn't necessarily some super fun thing to traverse
<v Speaker 1>this open world to do that. But whatever, once we ought,
<v Speaker 1>once we were shooting again, it was fun again. It
<v Speaker 1>was an opportunity, like I said, to hang out and
<v Speaker 1>talk with friends. And I you know, I think Borderlands,
<v Speaker 1>if it just delivers what it's supposed to deliver, it
<v Speaker 1>always succeeds. And it seems like that has not changed, right.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's it's interesting. So I'm in like the Dallas area,
<v Speaker 2>which is where Gearbox is. So sometimes I have to
<v Speaker 2>wonder am I in a Borderlands bubble because I'll see,
<v Speaker 2>you know, a Borderlands decal on the back of a
<v Speaker 2>car and that could be a big fan or it
<v Speaker 2>could be someone who worked on the game, so I'm
<v Speaker 2>not entirely sure. Sometimes like how popular is this outside
<v Speaker 2>of here? But it seems like it it really does
<v Speaker 2>still scratch an itch for a lot of people. I actually,
<v Speaker 2>not too long ago, my dad, who has played games
<v Speaker 2>in the past, but most of the ecology stuff, he
<v Speaker 2>wanted to play something cooperatively since couch co op isn't
<v Speaker 2>what it used to be. I was, I had Tiny
<v Speaker 2>Tina installed. I was like, we could try this. I
<v Speaker 2>get I don't know if he'll be into it, and
<v Speaker 2>he like had a good time, okay, and he's a
<v Speaker 2>very no casual sort of gamer. So like, I think
<v Speaker 2>there is something there to that formula that still just
<v Speaker 2>works for people, like you can just hop in, start
<v Speaker 2>shooting stuff, start collecting loots, and you're gonna be happy.
<v Speaker 2>Sounds like they nailed it again, or at least as
<v Speaker 2>much as they needed to in this case. And yeah,
<v Speaker 2>as you know someone who is local, I like to
<v Speaker 2>have a weird and surpride sometimes when you know the
<v Speaker 2>logan come yeah, they're doing it, you know, when there
<v Speaker 2>is like like same thing with Doom, like okay, yeah cool,
<v Speaker 2>the local boys. I figured it out again. And games
<v Speaker 2>are good.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, exactly, all right. That does for the headlines. Let's
<v Speaker 1>go ahead and get to the pole question, which there
<v Speaker 1>wasn't one because last week was the Bomb twelve. I
<v Speaker 1>have not put up the blog post of the Bomb
<v Speaker 1>twelve yet. I'll do that today. When I do, there
<v Speaker 1>will be a link to the new form where you
<v Speaker 1>could submit your new game for the Bomb twelve. We
<v Speaker 1>will wrap up the week as always with the new
<v Speaker 1>top twelve games of the week according to people who
<v Speaker 1>are really playing video games. Get all that done again,
<v Speaker 1>check that out on Giant Bomb. We have a new
<v Speaker 1>poll question though, that we will get to here in
<v Speaker 1>a second. Before we do that, though, Britain Peel, why
<v Speaker 1>don't you tell people where they can find you on
<v Speaker 1>the internet what you have going on and all of
<v Speaker 1>that good stuff.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, mostly if you want to see me talk about
<v Speaker 2>actual game stuff, it's just mostly on Blue Sky. It's
<v Speaker 2>just at Britain Peel dot com on there because most
<v Speaker 2>of what I do with these days is behind the
<v Speaker 2>scenes for the Chicago Sun Times n wbe Z. So
<v Speaker 2>I'm supporting public media nonprofits. We don't have a payball
<v Speaker 2>on Chicago's some time, so especially if you're in Chicago,
<v Speaker 2>you need news, give us some views. Donate if you can.
<v Speaker 2>But in terms of like the fun stuff, yeah, mostly
<v Speaker 2>I'm blue Sky and commandeering streams like these whenever Jeff
<v Speaker 2>lets me come on and annoy some folks with my
<v Speaker 2>voice and opinions.
<v Speaker 1>Damn right, I wouldn't have it any other way. I'll
<v Speaker 1>write new poll question. We have it right here, Which
<v Speaker 1>Metal Gear game do you want Konami to remake next?
<v Speaker 1>This is one where you can always select one. I
<v Speaker 1>could only have four options, so these are the ones.
<v Speaker 1>I went with MSX metal Gear, metal Gear Solid, metal
<v Speaker 1>Gear Solid four or metal Gear Solid peace Walker. Sorry
<v Speaker 1>no Acid. That would have dominated the poll Britain. So
<v Speaker 1>I didn't want to put it on there because what's
<v Speaker 1>the point of asking? And you already know the answer
<v Speaker 1>to that one.
<v Speaker 2>We don't know how to make three D glasses anymore.
<v Speaker 2>That's the real reason in reintigation. Yeah, we can't kept
<v Speaker 2>play load Runner three D or whatever.
<v Speaker 1>All right, we'll get the results of that pull here
<v Speaker 1>on Giant Bomb on tomorrow and Wednesday's Game mess Mornings tomorrow, though,
<v Speaker 1>we will have the Giant BombCast. Be sure to tune
<v Speaker 1>in for that today, should have Monday Mornings missed with Mitch,
<v Speaker 1>although we are kind of shifting things up after we
<v Speaker 1>beat Riven. I think Mike has some other things in store.
<v Speaker 1>We'll see. Also, the timing on that might be a
<v Speaker 1>little wonky. Have to talk to Mike about that. I
<v Speaker 1>might have something, but should do that today, and then
<v Speaker 1>tonight is Monday evening gaming at Mike's at night. That's right,
<v Speaker 1>Mega Man returns. I think he's got a plan to
<v Speaker 1>play something. As always, he kind of just tries a
<v Speaker 1>game and plays it for the whole two hour stream.
<v Speaker 1>That's eight pm Eastern. Tune in for that, and then
<v Speaker 1>you know we're back for the week. It's going to
<v Speaker 1>be a big one. Like I said, if there is
<v Speaker 1>a state of play, we'll talk over that. We'll take
<v Speaker 1>a look at some of these other things happening in
<v Speaker 1>and around the Tokyo Game Show see if anything else
<v Speaker 1>is worth reacting to. But it's a lot, so we
<v Speaker 1>might have to pick and choose what we're able to
<v Speaker 1>actually get in there and talk over in the meantime. Though,
<v Speaker 1>written Peele, thank you so much for hanging out with
<v Speaker 1>me today and talking about video games. Man. I really
<v Speaker 1>appreciate it.
<v Speaker 2>It's always a pleasure, highlight of my week. I'll come
<v Speaker 2>back anytime.
<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.