GrubbSnax Ep. 17: God of War PC, Splinter Cell, and a Horse-Sized Bakalar

Yeah, it's the Internet. You're basically, let's do this. I'm Jeff
Grubb. I ride over on Games Beat. This is grubs next where we
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to those after this front news section. I've got my kids here. Hopefully
I'm gonna put on the minions for him and we'll all be good. All
right. Yeah, Uh, let's just let's get right into it because there's
a lot to talk about. A few things I want to talk about.
God War got announced that's coming to PC. And this is something that I
think it's not very surprising to many people because this has been Sony strategy.
Jim Ryan Is explicitly said like we are looking beyond PlayStation for homes for these
games to get to, you know, grow their their sales based This is
a game that has sold nearly twenty million copies after going on sales several times,
of course, but but able to get to twenty million copies for sort
of any console exclusive game that's not a Nintendo game, really that's really,
really, really impressive. But you know, at a certain point they are
going to saturate the possible market for God of War on PlayStation consoles, and
they are looking for other ways to sell those games. And then also God
of War Ragnarok coming up very soon. This is the one of the past
they've taken to try to promote these games is by going this way, so
saying, hey, let's get people re excited on a different platform. Maybe
they will then want to come back and play these games on PlayStation five as
as as we go for and release the game exclusively on PlayStation five at least
for a certain amount of time, well, PlayStation four as well, and
God of War Ragnarok's case. So I guess the question for me is like,
what's next? And I you know, we do know that Spider Man
two is coming eventually, uh, and you know, and so I'm hoping
that Spider Man comes to PC. I think that would be very cool.
Uh. That's one of those games where I think everybody involved would want it
to come to PC. I don't think Marvel will be like, no,
only keep it on PlayStation. That doesn't make any sense to me. And
if in those games are expensive to make, maybe not as expensive as like
God of War or the uncharted games. I think at Ssomniac is. I
mean, they're great. I love Insomniac. I just think they also are
very good at budgeting and and keeping things like within scope. They're good at
They're basically good at everything they do. And so but even in that case,
they're still expensive games to make, and and so you want to like
make as much money back from them as possible. And then also on top
of that, you are there is the licensing fees, like they while while
Sony continues to have the license for Spider Man in film, they had to
separately pay for it in a video game, and you know that does increase
cost. So they probably were like, yeah, let's doing on PC.
I hope. I think that's probably next. But you know that unless there's
something weird in between. Like I think I've said before, I expect them
to release Dreams on PC. Maybe something like that could sneak in there,
but I think Spider Man does seem like with it. By the end of
next year, I think Spider Man will be on PC. Okay, there's
uh some news of a new splinter Cell game getting greenlit, and that does
seem like that is happening. I heard a report. I heard that right
before E three, Ubisoft was doing focus groups and testing with a bunch of
games, and one of the games in there was something like a splinter cell
that it played like a splinter cell, and a bunch of people that were
in that group we're expecting the game to get announced, and it didn't get
announced. It seems like it might be a little bit earlier than you know,
getting announced. Maybe that'll happen next year, but you know, it
was a small tutorial section of vertical Slice that people played through, and it
had elements of hit Man like. It felt like kind of like similar to
the most recent Hitman games at least mixed in with with traditional splinter cell gameplay.
And to me, that all makes sense, Like, if you're gonna
take that action stealth genre forward, Hitman is a good like, it's a
good guiding post to say, let's go in that direction because that's working for
those games. Maybe we can kind of like keep splinter sell fresh by doing
that. And you can also see the pathway forward for Ubisoft really liking online
service games. Hitman has been doing that since twenty sixteen. Ubisoft is probably
like, hey, we could like layer a lot of Ubisoft bullshit on top
of that idea and kind of take splinter Cell in that direction and that could
work. That's not to say that that game that that was in testing is
going to be the splinter Cell game that was just greenlet according to Video Game
Chronicle, But I think chances are that that is the case, but I
cannot confirm that one percent right now. To me, this is good news
though. I'm like, yes, we should get a splinter Cell. That
would make a lot of sense. I think that if they do, if
they kind of go that Hitman route in one direction for the single player and
then they have like a Spies Versus Marx mode and the multiplayer, I think
splinter Cell would have a great chance of being this next big success for Ubisoft
in terms of reinvigorating an old franchise and also doing some live service stuff that
you we know, you Soft really loves. But then on top of that
just kind of making those fans happy. Now, of course, that's a
lot of what this is about is Ubisoft is looking for a win. There
is a lot of They have a lot of stuff in the works that is
that feels pretty sammy and isn't sort of getting people to people aren't like talking
about Ubisoft games too much. They're buying them, they definitely are. But
that dearth of conversation about those games is creating a vacuum where people can then
come in and say, Hey, we're actually real upset about the way that
you treat your employees, or that that you're treating treating women or people of
color, or this toxic work environment, and Ubisoft wants to distract from that.
Now. I don't think that distraction is going to work very well until
they actually address those problems. But we'll see. We'll see if they do,
if they are able to address those problems in a satisfactory way, and
then stuff like spinders, spinner steals starts coming along. We get to a
situation where people might start moving away along and away from that old that that
conversation now that the old and very familiar and necessary conversation about Ubisoft's workplace,
and now they just start talking about like, Okay, this is the future
splinter of of Ubisoft now and we could all be happy. But that doesn't
happen unless they get past this point and they and they actually satisfactorily start treating
their plays better. Last week I and one of these was coming up to
me and yelling at me at the end of the show last week. So
I ended it up on a question about Undead Labs, and I was basically
saying, state of the State of Daka three will still happen. There's more
to it than that, and I was able to like look into it a
little bit, So I guess to reiterate to like go over what happened.
Jeff Strain, who was the leader of undead Labs and was overseeing State of
DeKay three after seeing overseeing the first few games, left start a new studio.
Austin Walkers like, forget that stuff, come work with me. And
the guy's like, all right, Austin, I'll come work with you,
and and they so State of Decay three. He has been sort of left
behind by Jeff Strain, And so is that game, Like what's the state
of that game? I would say that it is actually struggling without Jeff Strain,
and and what's happening there is that Microsoft is really not sure about the
scope or the vision without that leadership, and they're they're like not exactly sure
who is going to step up and establish what the vision and scope should be
the game was already pretty early when they announced it and having that, having
that that vision was already an issue even with strained there, and now he's
gone, it's a little it's a little bit more difficult now. All that
said, uh, there are people at Undead Labs who are feeling defiant and
are feeling like we can do this without Jeff Strain and are you know,
a little bit resentful that that he left. People leave though, people need
to go do their own thing. But they're like, hey, yeah,
yeah he left, but we can do this. We're gonna be just fine.
And that's people within Undead Labs. But in terms of like what Xbox
Microsoft is looking at, they are looking at as like, Okay, there
could be an issue here, kind of related to the Undead Laps thing.
Xbox does have a lot of cool stuff in the works. Jess Cordon talked
about some of these things, and I've heard a lot about a lot of
the like codename games right now, so Xbox uses a lot of code names
when they are early in development with games, and he talked about a few
and I'm gonna talk about just a couple this week because there's some good information
about about both. Let's let's start with shall Len, which is one of
the codename games, and so I'm not sure what I don't think they know
exactly what kind of game it's gonna be yet. If they do, it's
early. But I think if you think about it for a second, and
I've actually teased this before, if you think about it for a second and
you like shell Len, that sounds familiar, who could that involve? Who
could be there? Now? I'm like hesitant about saying this myself because when
I first heard about this, I heard about it through I think, kind
of the same grape vine that Jez heard, and so I'm not trying to
under undercut him. But since then, I've I've been able to I've confirmed
it myself with multiple other sources. But maybe we could just keep teasing it
and I'll just say if you think about it, you'll you'll figure it out
yourself. And then let's see Mainframe. Mainframe is one that he talked a
little bit about. I'm a little a few more details that I can give
you. So Mainframe is the cloud native massively multiplayer online game. It's got
a working title, Pack's Day, pa X Space, d Ei who knows
that will end up being the final title. But it's important to Xbox for
for a couple of main reasons. The first one is is that people a
Xbox really like the concept, and the concept is that it has really scalable
game play. So because it's cloud native, you could play it on any
screen. Right, That's like, okay, I'll really obvious idea. But
then how do you take advantage of that. Well, one of the ideas
is there will be gameplay you could do on your phone during the day that
is really suited to a phone mining resources, farming, resources, crafting,
you know, using menus and stuff, and then at night you get home,
you get on your PC, you get on your Xbox with your friends,
and then you do stuff that's really complicated requires you to be really focused,
like rating or you know, performing like you know complex you know,
combat or whatever things that you would want to be doing with a controller or
mouse a keyboard. Oh you're sick, no kid, I'm sorry, go
sit down. I'll be done in a little bit. Oh yeah, I'll
take your tipature when we're done. Okay, okay, okay, I'm gonna
put them right here. She's cute even when she's sick, and so yeah,
so this idea that the gameplay is going through scale and so that when
you're out, so you could be playing this game whenever you want, regardless
of your like situation throughout the day and at night. So yeah, yeah,
So like someone's asking cloud native, so it's streaming. I think that's
the case. I think that's how it works. But I don't necessarily like
it's called cloud native, so it's going to live in the cloud. I
do think it's probably gonna be streaming. I wonder if there would be a
way to download a client and play it off your system, if that's what
you really want. But I do think like you are all going to be
like on that same server anyhow, so streaming the video along with all the
stuff that's happening on the server probably makes the most sense. We'll see,
we'll see how they actually figure out those those problems. But that's that's the
other side of this, is figuring out those problems. So one of the
other main reasons that Xbox is excited about this is because of Hideo Coojima.
They want to make sure that they fully understand all the problems that go into
making a cloud native game, or at least the game that is taking a
lot of advantage of the cloud, and so they want to build this game,
get those problems like out of the way so that when they have to
work with Cogima, and they have a spot a spotty history of working with
Japanese developers, right you think about scale Bound, they want to make sure
that when Cojima has a question about like how do we tackle this, they
have not just an answer, they have experience. You know. This goes
back to them hiring Kim Swift from Google Stadia to come in and specifically work
with Cojima on his game once that deal gets done. And so this is
all part of that strategy of making sure that they get that experience, they
get that stuff out of the way, and they have a you know,
the best sort of like here are the best practices that we can implement to
make sure that when we get to a hurdle with Cojima, things don't start
to fall apart. He could just focus on being Cogima, asked Cojima,
and we could do the rest for him. And so yeah, it's kind
of all like it's part of a wider strategy and it's and They definitely are
excited about the idea of taking advantage of the cloud in creative ways, not
just let's offload some graphical processing. It's not it's not about that anymore like
it was on Xbox One for like day and a half. It's like,
how can we do this to unlock new types of gameplay experiences. Pack's days
going you know, the Mainframe is going to do that, and then the
Kojima game is likely going to do that as well. That that process is
just gonna start with Mainframe first. Okay, So I am. So there's
a couple other games that at Microsoft's working on that I'll probably talk about at
some point in the future. Belfry and Josh Sawyer's Subsidian game. Uh,
I'm like still looking at that stuff. I'll have more for you soon,
but for now, that's uh, that's kind of all I wanted to talk
about. Let's get let's get to the questions. Let's do this. I
see there's a bunch of questions here. I'm gonna start answering them. Let's
check on this, kiddo real quick. All right. From Slaine mcawesome.
What underrated video video game IP would make for a good movie. Let's see
hubert Uh. I want to say, excite by excite bike, you can
make a really cool extreme sports ninety style movie. Yeah, I would.
Yeah, totally. We with like a a cool kid or a cool guy
that's a bully and a guy that's like, I just want to ride bikes
finally and he gets bullied all the time and then they go down the hill
or whatever. Yeah, give me, give me some excite bike movie or
excite bugs. What was the only one? The other one excite Bots.
Yeah, there you go from mister platitude. Chances Capcom does anything with Mega
Man anytime soon, so anything is a strong word. They're gonna do something
with Mega Man here pretty soon. We kind of know that because of the
week. But what is that gonna be, like a full Mega Man game
or is it gonna be some mobile thing. We don't know that for sure.
But Mega Man is in the weird spot where it's never really been a
huge success. It's been kind of CAPCOMs. It's been CAPCOMs, you know,
mascot and they definitely love Mega and at Capcom. But when they started
like shifting away from Capcom and started focusing instead on the games that do sell.
That's when they started heading having their really big successes. So you could
see sort of like they were already training away from Mega Man. Maybe they'll
continue to training away from MegaMan. MegaMan eleven didn't sell very well, is
what one of the problems I think I've told this story before. Mike Manatti
was Mike Manati is my co worker over at Games. Mean, he's a
huge MegaMan fan, and he was at a party and he met the CEO
of of of Capcom or someone very important at Capcom, and he's just like,
man, just tell me it's gonna be another MegaMan game. And the
guy basically was like a MegaMan eleven and then he just walked away. So
my understanding is like they're just not they're not sure about investing a lot in
MegaMan. But we you know, maybe the stuff like Metroid dread to kind
of convince this companies, Hey, these two D games can maybe come back
and and do really well even at sixty dollars. I don't know that it
would just take a really good Mega Man game to do that, but Mega
Man eleven was good. From Future Creep. I want to get if I
want to get into games journalism, should I change my name to Jeff.
I mean, it can't hurt at this point. It's not It's sure.
It certainly doesn't seem like an impediment to anybody, right. It only seems
like if you look at the data, If you look at the data,
seems like you name yourself Jeff, You're just gonna sort of find yourself working
in this field eventually. So uh, yeah, definitely I would do.
That would be the first thing I would do. From Ryhy, thanks for
doing grubsnext for us game, your gamer children, and being a great dead
to your real children. Yeah, no problem, Absolutely, I appreciate it.
Uh, they're they're just they just need a little bit of attention today,
but they're being good now. From El Drain, is Scorn still going
to release this year? I asked a round about this, and I got
some people asking in my dms on Twitter about this one. I haven't heard
anything. I'm I was. I thought I had heard it did get delayed
to twenty twenty two. I would say it's probably gonna get delayed into twenty
twenty two if it hasn't been yet, But I don't know for sure.
I did look around and I wasn't able to find a definitive answer. U
from psychis, do you think Retro studios other rumored games are canceled now that
they are officially working on Metroid Prime four? I think so yeah, or
at least put you know, shelved. What is canceled anymore? Here?
Do you need tissue? So? Yeah? What is canceled mean? In
video games, it's they could always pick stuff up again that they put on
they. I mean, that's what happened I Metroid Dread, right, Metroid
Dread is something we heard about years and years and years ago, and and
then finally they come out and they actually make it. Someone makes a Metroid
Dread. Now it was a different studio of course than was originally going to
make Metroid Dread. But I mean no ideas ever. Fully dead things morphed
into other things. They take assets that they were working on for one game,
they turn it into something else. H That's what happened with Overwatch and
things like that. So like Overwatch was going to be that Titan MMO from
Blizzard, they took those assets, turned it in overwell, and so Titan
was canceled, but all of that work got turned into something else. So
I don't know I would say that that, uh yeah, while the other
stuff is on the shelf right now, maybe not forever, but if metro
Prime four becomes a big thing, they'll probably be working on metro Prime for
quite some time. I would imagine from Lunar Jennings, I'm spending the weekend
at a music fest vaxed and masked. Baby, Okay, yeah, you're
living that best life. What's the worst concert you've seen? Now? See
are you vaxed, masked and waxed? Because that important? That last one
is very important. Get back to me on that one, Lunar Jennings,
what's the worst concert you've seen? I don't have a great memory for my
for the concerts I've been to for you know, various reasons. Uh Like,
honestly, there's there's things I remember by going to concerts, and I'm
like, I remember everything except for who played. I I'm trying to think.
I don't know. My first concert was Garth Brooks, but that was
good. I liked Garth Brooks. That was fun. I'm trying to think
what my last concert was. Maybe I can't remember. I can't even know.
I say, I can't even remember, oh, Arcade Fire. Maybe
I guess I'll someone after them. I don't know. I went to a
bunch of OZ fests, so I'm sure I saw some bands that were like,
you know, lower on the bill that we're kind of disappointing or whatever.
You know, maybe maybe stained after their prime or something like that.
From Afterlife, Josh, what year do you think we'll get the last Call
of Duty on last gen consoles PS four and Xbox one? So I talked,
So this came up on one on one podcast I was on, and
we were trying to figure out like when the like the last one happened on
Xbox three sixty and pleete PS three it was like a few years so,
and we know it's crossed you in this year. I think it's gonna be
Qroustion next year, and that'll be the last one. I think that's probably
what it is. I'll definitely be cross gin still next year. And that's
I mean next year, it'll still like financially, it'll still make a lot
of sense. There will still be a lot of PS four's and Xbox ones.
They are already so they're probably still already on that, like in terms
of momentum, like working in that in that way, where like the cross
gens still just makes sense and called duty doesn't need to It doesn't need to
take super advantage of like next gen features to succeed. Obviously, it just
needs to be called duty. Where can I get a cool shirt like that?
You know, let's let's show it off. It just came in the
mail yesterday. I actually did find this one on Amazon, so I you
know, in terms of like getting like, here's the thing. I got
a couple of sweaters like this. I have one actually just says game Boy
color on it. I really like that one. But I got it from
a website called red Bubble, and that's like they just print it off like
stuff that you know, copyright pirates are putting up and selling that they don't
own. And hey, whatever, I want the sweater. I want this.
I didn't do anything wrong. I'm just buying it. Maybe maybe they're
gonna something wrong there, but whatever, I don't care. I'm still buying
it. The thing is is that they're just printing it on these sweaters,
and I think that they're using the same process that they would use for like
T shirts or whatever. I think the process is made for T shirts.
So I've washed those sweaters like a couple of times, and they're already really
starting to crack and fade, And so I should probably go get the official
stuff when I need these things. If I'm like feeling that midlife crisis of
like needing to wear a shirt that was my childhood, I'll probably just pay
a little bit extra money and go get the official ones. Now for some
things, like I got a virtual boy hoodie, and Nintendo's not selling virtual
boy hoodies it turns out, so I'll still find my way to get those,
and I'll just have to like treat them a little bit more gingerly or
something. I guess I can go get my my, my embarrassing video game
clothing dry cleaned. I could do that, right, That seems like the
right, you know, almost forty That seems like what I should be doing
with my video game clothing is dry cleaning them from Kane I Win zero nine.
Why can't Metroid crawl? Look, don't ask me that, because it's
gonna make me want to spoil Metroid dread. So yeah, uh yeah,
well I'm biting my tongue. But that's uh, you know, there are
there are reasons why that question is very fun now from doctor Uncle, do
you have any insight on the PS five rest mode issue? I got mine
in July and has failed to boot up from rest mode twice. Now I'm
terrified to use rest mode at all. To Sony have any plans to fix
slash acknowledge this problem? When? When did it? When did they have
issues? Like? When was the when was the problem? Was? Did
that happen recently? Because I would say that that most recent update I would
think might address this. So maybe try to rest mode again if after the
most recent update, see if there was a any improvements there, and if
it stole is a problem, I would contact Sony and and get a replacement
PS five because they'll do that. I think, you know, the issue
could just be hardware at that point, and I think a lot of people
who've had that issue got their PS fives replaced. So yeah, I would.
I would. Yeah, I would call up Sony and and get on
the phone with them and say, hey, this is what's happening to me.
What should I do? And then you know, to take advantage of
that warranty before it runs out from Windmills. Dear mister Snacks, what's for
lunch? I haven't thought about it too much. I've been kind of,
you know, busy taking care of the youngs. But I don't know,
maybe maybe like a pizza today, Maybe pizza would be good, or I'm
you know, I'll probably order some some grub Hub, some me Hub and
get I don't know, maybe sandwiches, maybe pop Belly. I got probably
belly a couple of times. I always say swarm on here, but I'm
always in the mood for swarmers for some reason. When I'm doing doing this
show. Well, we'll see, I'll I'll tweet it. I'll tweet whatever
I end up getting for lunch. They'll probably used to be the hot dogs
standing up over the sink well after I get done feeding them from default.
This just wondering if you could shed some light on how well the Xbox series
S is doing. Picked one up a few months back, and it seems
like such a bargain. Surprised it's not being pushed more given you could find
it in stores easy and easily enough, at least in the UK. I
think that the that system is just going to sort of sell itself slowly over
time, where the people who show up, like, how do you reach
the people that are like, oh, I want to get a next gen
console, but I, you know, I want to save a little bit
of money, and I don't care too much about stuff, and I still
have a ten ADP. Like people who don't care enough to like be getting
the high end stuff are probably not paying too much attention. Yet they probably
hear like it's really hard to get into stuff. I mean, this holiday
season, I would expect them to start a little bit more like right now,
I would expect them to start talking about the Xbox series as a little
bit more. But it's gonna be the kind of thing that next holiday they're
gonna really be positioning as like the bargain option and stuff once like people are
like, oh the Xbox serious, like the Xbox One and the PlayStation four
have stopped getting a lot of games. A lot of games will stop showing
up on the system. I need to upgrade. What are my options?
I think at that point, when CrossGen sort of slowly fades away, this
three hundred dollars option that still plays all the new games and has key features
like SSD, that's gonna be the kind of thing where Okay, now now
it's our time to strike. Now now's our time to message this to people
who are looking for this specific Assassin's Creed game or whatever and they want a
way to play that, Well, here Xbox series is available to you right
now. It's just a little bit hard to message that because people who want
to play those games are probably already playing them on Xbox One or play PlayStation
four, and it's gonna take time for them to click over and feel like
they're being left out. All right, from Big Denham, I take it
the Gunk is not coming in December twenty twenty one at this point. They
now they announced that date recently though, right, so I think it's probably
is still coming. Why do you say that something else happened. I just
think that because they announced the Gunk release date, says here, says here
twenty nineteen. Well that's not right. Yeah, yeah, in August they
announced the date, So that's just that was just a couple of months ago.
I don't know, maybe something else has happened, but I would say
that's probably still gonna come out here pretty soon. Lutugens also says, uh
no, not waxed, just vaxed and masked, and then a sad face
and yeah, I'm sad too, sad for you from Final Daska. Any
validity to the Killer Instinct rumors floating around If Xbox is making a new which
studio would be developing it? Blink six times to deny the rumor, seven
times to confirm everything to be true. The one I've talked about Killer Instinct
before, and the one thing I know is that Microsoft wants to do it.
They're interested, They've asked around the studios who have said they're busy,
and and you know, and I don't know what studios they were, but
I would imagine one of them was probably hiring Galaxy because they do seem very
busy, and I don't think they're doing it, and that's probably That's probably
the hurdle here is finding the studio that can actually handle this, So who
would develop it? I don't know, that's tough. At a certain point,
maybe you just have to spin up a new team and say, hey,
who like anyone who works at are one of our fifty studios want to
make a fighting game. There's probably some people that want to make a fighting
game, and maybe feel some of them them off and start hiring. I
know that's tough, but I mean for Killer Instinct. I think you could
probably do that with like a pretty small core team and then hiring specifically support
studios. There's like sports studios popping up in Mexico and everywhere else, Like
maybe do it that way from Alan McKinnon, favorite drunk slash stone game or
favorite game to chill out to, anything that's very mechanically intense, Like you
know, I go to like ten eighty snowboarding and or excite bike or wave
race. But I could play those anytime. But we used to before we
had kids, and we used to think called Colorado Nights, and it was
like Friday night after the week, we'd you know, go get the edibles
from the store or whatever because it's Colorado and I'm trying to get like I
really I got Super into earth Bound one one of those nights. I still
never beat it because then I had kids and stopped having Colorado Nights so frequently.
But that was like one where I'm like, yeah, I could totally
just see myself like chilling out to that game. But then I'm like super
Mario Brothers. One time we were I was hanging out with my friends and
actually my my girlfriend at the time, and so and it was like early
in our relationships, so I was still trying to impress her, and I
thought playing Mario was Super Mario brother really well would be very impressive. Again,
I'm an embarrassment, but yeah, we get to a point where like
everyone was kept failing on World eight and I was. I was just I
got into the zone after being stoned, and I was able to get around
and do those really tough jumps and like jump over the hammer the Hammer Bros
At just the right time repeatedly while running really fast, and it was impressive
to me. No one else cared, but I was like, man,
I'm playing really well. So Super Mario Brothers is my aunts here. There
you go. Oh, people are calling the cops on me. One of
those nights, on a Colorado night, I was streaming and there might still
be video this somewhere. I was streaming and I it's late but not super
late. But then I hear I don't even fist on my door, and
it's like, hey, Hyland's Ranch police. I'm like, am I being
squatted right now? I'm like, hey, I might be. I'm like
talking the cops being paranoid. I might be being watted right now. Can
we just like and open the door. And they were like, oh,
we're just looking for someone who used to live here because I was renting the
place. So that was that was intense. I told my wife to go
upstairs and hide video games man. All right? So does Metrid Dread street
cred have samus at the top of everyone's head? For years? Fans have
pleaded, and now there's more Metroid ahead? Will Dread stay ahead in sales
and put that series is dead? Talk to bed. I think that there's
a good chance that this is a defining moment for the Metroid series in terms
of how can we take the series going forward and sure it remains relevant.
I think you have Mercury Steam make a couple more just like this one,
and and and you could release them every two to three years and that be
that. And and I think that by the third one that you know,
the formula is gonna start feeling stale again, and people are it's gonna have
to change. But I think those games, each of those would sell pretty
well. And I do think that this one, it's gonna start with this
one going over three million copies sold easily. At this point, it's you
know, it's setting records in Japan, which is the territory it never sold
in before. And I always, I always had a hunch that this would
be the one to break out in Japan because the people who are playing Switch
in Japan are people who are very, very into everything Nintendo at this point,
because if you are just a gamer, you're probably playing on mobile in
Japan. But there's been a swelling of console sales and especially of course Switch
in Japan, and I'm just not surprised to find out that Metroid Dread is
doing very well there. And so if Metroid Dread is selling in Japan,
we know it's going to sell here at least pretty well. And if it
sells in well in a few other territories, yeah, more than three more
than three million copies sold, probably gonna get in four or five million range,
I hope, I think. And then yeah, Metroid Prime four that
comes out in a couple of years, and people are going to be even
more primed for that because of Metroid Dread and because it's a three D game
and we know right now that three D is as a much better like sales
potential than two D at this point. That flipped a couple of years ago.
I remember, you know, New Super Mario Brothers always used to out
sell Super Mario Galaxy on the Wii. Right, Well that's flipped now,
and if they were releasing new two D Mario, it probably would not sell
as well as Odyssey has. So Metro Prime four is gonna come along and
have even more potential to sell. And if that game is good, which
it really could be, uh, then yeah, I think the I think
this. I think Metrod moves up into the same echelon as stuff like,
uh you Fire Emblem, right where fire Moom is never going to go away
at this point, right, it's not Advanced Wars Advance Wars. We're lucky
that we're getting a new one. But you know, with Fire Emblem,
it's just going to be a game that continues to come out regularly for every
Nintendo system, maybe a couple per system from here on out, Metroid could
finally move up into that place where there's never gonna be a nintinto sixty four
generation again, where we just didn't get a Metrod game. All right,
how are we doing? Don't touch the mic, don't touch the bike.
What do you think you're doing? From Eric Stifford zero five. Can you
give any insight into the into Discord coming to consoles? Discourse? Xbox already
has a partnership with Discord and was rumored to be coming a while back,
and now Sony has an investment in them as well. Do you know the
nature of what's planned planned for them? So the PlayStation Discord implementations should be
pretty robust, and I imagine it's gonna be like almost just like a Discord
app that just hooks into everything on the PlayStation, and so it's gonna be
like, it's gonna feel fully fledged. Now Xbox, like you said,
already has the Discord Now, I don't know partnership, is that what it
is? They have Discord stuff in here. You gotta stop singing in the
mic. Xbox already has that Discord integration. So are they in a position
where they could easily replicate those features if everyone is cool with that? And
I think everybody would be cool with that. Sony has an investment, but
Discord already has Sony's money. Sony doesn't get to like say much. I
don't think Sony got a position on the Discord board, trying to remember if
that's but even they did like the board can't be like, don't make more
money, don't expand your user base. That would be that would not be
something that would be supported by the rest of the company and the rest of
the board or whatever. That just wouldn't be how that works. The executive,
the chief executive officer, gets to make those decisions. And if Xbox
says, hey, we want to expand our relationship with Discord on Xbox and
build it in and hook it into Xbox Live Gold or whatever, all that
stuff would be something that the companies would be able to make happen, and
I would expect them to want to replicate those features if Sony does a good
job of implementing it into PS five, which I expect them to do.
Let's see here from Infinite Skeptic Jeff, what's up with the future of Devil
May Cry? I need melodrama and demon slain. Love the show, Thank
you. I think that the future should be continue to be bright. Don't
do that. The future should be bright for it where we should get a
new one regularly from here on now. The last one sold pretty well.
They know how to make those games, they like making those games, and
they know that there's a fan base that if they keep delivering, that same
quality will always show up for it. And you know, maybe there's there's
time where they take some time off so that team can work on some other
stuff. I think that might be. That's probably what's happening right now.
But they'll get back around. The devil may cry. They absolutely will.
From mighty war canoe and a fight to the Jeff, would you rather fight
one horse sized Bacholar or ten duck sized Gersmans? This is truly a horrifying
proposition. Horse sized Bachelar is just I mean, okay, what does it
mean? Like? Is he gonna be elongated like a horse because it's horse
size? I guess if you wave as much as a horse that would be
very bad. I would not want that. So I would take on ten
duck sized GIRs and I still imagine that this will be my demise. I
will perish, but I will do so with a little bit less fear in
my heart than if there was a horse size to Baccalar, who just smush
me? And I don't want that? Uh from Bane fire Lord. In
the wake of Farcrist six getting a tepid response, I remember I remember a
rumor from Shreier saying the next far card game is going to be a big
departure for the series. Any truth to this, and if so, what
does the departure look like. I think that that they might be looking at
kind of what they're doing with Assassin's Creed, where Assassin's Creed is going to
go much more service based and they're going to sort of roll content into this
one existing you know, client or whatever going forward. FARKRYD could do something
similar, like you take a lot of what's been in farcryst so far and
you make all that available in one game and add a lot more multiplayer stuff.
I think they might be looking to do that with all their all their
stuff, but I don't know. It's good to depend on how well FARCRYT
six sells. We'll see, we'll see next month how well it's sold.
Farcry five sold very well, but Farkry five was also also got a tepid
response right where you know, it was a solid game mechanically, but there
was definitely a lot of people who didn't like the setting, people who were
like disappointed, like this is not as good as some of the earlier Farcry
ones. So maybe is Farkry six paying the price for far Cry five.
That's possible. And if that's the case, that's usually when you be soft
decides today, let's take a year off. Are you sinking baby shark?
Okay, well, don't do that. You're gonna guess dm DMCA, you
gotta watch out there. That's usually when you be soft decides to make the
move of Okay, let's take a year off, let's rework with this is
gonna be and you know, maybe they add more RPG elements. Maybe that's
their way of going, but I don't know for sure. I just I
also wouldn't be surprised if far Cry we're gonna get a Farkry spin off from
six. They always do that. They'll still do this, little, still
do that. Then even after that, I wouldn't be surprised if far Christ
seven is just more of the same from mister Popo. Does console shortages have
to do with Sony Triple A's coming to PC? PC parts are hard to
come by, but maybe they're trying to spread out more for that extra cash.
No, No, the consoles were always going to be in short supply.
Consoles are usually in short supply early in the generation. And while things
are definitely more extreme because the demand is higher, they are selling as many
PS fives as they sold PS four and they weren't doing this then, well,
the difference is that games are more expensive to make, and Sony is
very good at making the most expensive games. And by that, I mean,
like the thing that Sony has been focusing on and the things that their
fans ask them to focus on, are make this certain kind of game.
And it turns out that certain kind of game is a two hundred million dollar
proposal, if not more at this point. And so that's a lot of
risks, a lot of risk where even one one of those backfires things,
it's just it's not a good it's not a good thing for the company,
and it feels like they're afraid of that risk. And so in order to
mitigate that risk, they have to sell as much up each one of these
successful games as they possibly can, and so that means putting them on PC
and getting a bigger return on that investment. And it's worked so far,
and of course it would these are popular games they're going to sell when they
come to PC. But I mean, Jim Ryan has said this explicitly in
that interview. You know, we want to go from selling ten million copies
to one hundred million copies, and we can't do that on PlayStation. What
does that mean going forward? I don't know. I don't know if they
know exactly what. I think they have an idea, and I think it's
like ECM Mobile definitely is involved in that, but that's not gonna They're not
gonna get to one hundred million copies sold of God Whoor Ragnarok through that method.
That's just not gonna happen. Like, you know, Nintendo sells thirty
million copies, thirty five million copies of of Mario Kart eight Deluxe out they
like, So Sony would be lucky if you've got even one game to do
that, even if it was spread across both console and PC. That's it's
just a whole other realm that Sony is soul, Like Sony games are.
They appeal to a really hardcore audience. But that hardcore audience is going to
have its limits. And that's why you see Sony looking at stuff like,
you know, not just putting games on PC, but a lot of talk
about, hey, we're gonna try to get into multiplayer service games, right,
now we're gonna try to get into uh yeah, we're gonna try to
make more more shooters, more stuff like in house, first party that are
going to be live service stuff. That's them saying, hey, we want
to spread out our bets in other ways as well, not just put stuff
on PC. So but yeah, this is this is just about games getting
expensive, you entertaining yourself. You gone from Fridgewater, which is a good
name. My grandpa used to keep a picture of fridge. Keep keep a
picture of water and the fridge, and it had a distinct fridge taste like
Fridgewater, and uh, I didn't hate it, but it also was different
than just like maybe it was like a water out of his tap was also
different. So because I'd go to his house and that was that. But
that's been a sense memory I've had my entire life at this point, from
Fridgewater, from my grandpa's Fridgewater. Hey, Jeff love the show. Why
is Jackbox so reluctant to make a unified UI slash launcher pick any game from
any pack from one screen. It seems like a no brainer. I think
that they are bound but sort of by momentum and what is working and being
afraid of messing what's worked with what's working. They know that they make a
Jackbox Party Pack nine, it's going to sell a certain amount, so they
can budget it out to this certain degree, and if it's worked so far,
why would they mess with that. I think it's a big part of
just they are bound by this momentum of we have, you know, our
expenses, of our x our potential profit is why, so let's just do
that. Let's stick to what works. And so that's what they're gonna do,
all right, Hang on, this kid's being a maniac. Let me
put her down from so scary. Hey, Jeff, I think Phil is
gonna buy Bungee if which Queen only does okay in sales? What do you
think? I don't know they've had I remember, like I said once that
they that someone inquired from Xbox about like what the price of Bungee would be,
And then Eurogamer had a story right at the same time saying that discussions
were happening, and then the chief exact the owner of Bungee or the chief
executive officers like these guys don't know what the fuck they're talking about. That
didn't happen, and I'm like me and Eurogamer didn't talk about this story beforehand.
We didn't and we didn't make this stuff up. Someone was talking about
the prices, and it doesn't necessarily mean that even like the CEO of Bungee
was like having the conversations. I just meant that someone of Microsoft asked about
a price. That's it. And that's something that happens all the time people
at these company's, people at these companies whose job it is to think about
acquiring people all the time. This is something Gerstman says on BombCast all the
time, that everyone's thinking about acquiring everyone else at at every moment of every
day. And so it wouldn't be surprised if in the back of Phil Spencer's
had a big Destiny fan, he's thinking like, Hey, why maybe getting
money back onboard would be cool, Maybe I should look into what that costs.
Does that turn in turn into anything real? I don't know. I
doubt it. I have my doubts, but you know, we'll see.
I bet I bet that the that discussion, whether it's just happening internally at
Microsoft or whatever, probably continues at some point this year where they're just like,
nah, maybe I don't know if that's I just don't think that turns
in anything real. I think Bungee wants to be Bungee and they have an
investment from who is it Nettie's next son? I can't even remember which one
is which. Uh, there's a couple others that could be, and they
probably gonna want to see that through first before they begin again looking at any
potential acquisitions. Again, We'll see And that's like twenty twenty five right from
Future Creep. Should Nintendo just make a switch emulator for PC? So?
I remember there was a there was a story I think MVG on YouTube did
a video about this about a I think it was it was an N sixty
four emulator or something like that or something something like that where and it was
reportedly made internally at Nintendo and they were thinking about selling it and stuff.
Now there's evidence that that wasn't ever real and someone just lied and positioned it
as like an internal Nintendo emulator. I would say Nintendo's never gonna do that,
not at least not at least not current to No, not in the
way it is right now. They just they have their way of doing things
and they and it's not like necessarily like Sony, where Sony has the biggest
budget games in the world and they're selling to a big audience, but that
audience he shows up in about ten verse ten percent of that audience shows up
for any one of those games, ten to twenty percent, you know,
Right, there's one hundred and twenty million p ps fours, right, and
God of War after several sales, gets to twenty million. That's fantastic.
That's the really good sales. That is not in any way a negative for
those games. But in Nintendo's case, it has very modestly budget games,
budgeted games in terms of how much they cost to make. It is selling
to about eighty million, ninety million people, and in the best case scenario,
a third of those people show up, and you get the games games
selling like thirty million copies, like multiple games selling twenty like over twenty million
copies. Got Divorces selling very well. But you know, and on top
of that's like you know, Marto Kard eight, the lucks still sixty dollars
most of the time. There's a couple of times per year he does go
on sale, but it goes down to like forty dollars fifty dollars. For
the most part, those games are sixty dollars all year round, the entire
generation. They don't even really do those greatest hits anymore where they drop them
down to thirty dollars and put a little banner on the cover. They don't
even really do that anymore. So Nintendo is maximizing its return on investment in
a very optimal way compared to the other companies, and so it just doesn't
feel the need to do this stuff. Emulators on PC from Lord Catus.
Xbox has said they're not going to announce anything new at their twentieth anniversary showcase.
But what previously announced game games do you think we might see? If
any excuse me, I you know, obviously they're gonna have to show Halo
single player, right, that's gotta be what's at at this thing, right
that I haven't looked too closely at what they said is going to be there.
I was gonna start looking here pretty soon, but I would imagine that's
like the last possible moment they could show that stuff. Now, beyond that,
I mean stuff like the gunk. Maybe maybe this is where we do
hear about the scorn. Basically, games that we know are coming to Xbox
before the end of this year, and I would imagine all that stuff to
show up. I think Forts will be out by then, right, because
that's early in November and November, so yeah, I think so, uh
yeah, I would. I would expect a few things that they've already talked
about that are coming out before the end of this year that should show up.
I'm a big fan of It's not Iron and Wine Games. That's a
band image in Light. No, it's one of those, but I think
they're called Thunderful Games. That's the publisher now, but the people that make
the my brain is just going completely blank. Steam World Games, the Steam
World game Steam World Dig two is one of my favorite games a little time.
They're making the gunk, so I'm very I'm looking forward to it.
If that shows up, I'll be happy. I just want that game to
come out and be great because they make some fantastic mechanically dance games that are
really rewarding to play, and if this game is another one of those,
I'll be really into it. There's probably a few others that could show up,
but I don't know. I like, like, you know, they
they probably won't be too image and for him, thank you Blackheart Vine.
Uh yeah, image with form? Yeah, what did I say? Lighting
form? Maybe got close? Maybe not, but yeah, I would expect
it mostly to focus on Halo single player, and that'd be the thing that
they have. They have to convince people now that that is worth it,
because otherwise people are just gonna go show up for the free to play a
Halo something. That's fine. I guess that's a good gateway into the single
player, but the single player needs to be good to help game pass.
Game Pass needs a boost. We saw those numbers of like, oh,
it's it's growing, but it's not growing as fast as they thought, and
they wanted to grow as fast as possible, so and Halo could be key
to that. From Winter Reese, when what do I need to do to
get Nintendo to make a new Endless Ocean game? That was that, like
we sort of underwater exploratory game. Right. I think I played that a
couple of times. That's a good chill out game, right, I don't
know, they're probably not, probably not gonna make another one of those.
I don't know. Just go just go play Endless Ocean again. There's probably
something on Steam now that's just like that made by some like made like two
people if assets off of the Unity store. But it probably does the same
thing, probably accomplishes the same thing from casual Dear Senior snacks. How do
you decompress when life gets just a smidge stressful? All the best, no
good way? Not really. I don't have a lot of times decompress.
I just have to embrace the stress and it's it's fine, I'm fine.
I try to exercise and work out. That helps a lot and it makes
me feel a lot better. It's important for me personally as someone with ADHD.
It's very crucial to get that dopamine from working out, and so that
helps. A cold shower helps, actually surprisingly cold shower releases like uh nor
finephrin? Is that what it is? And this is not like weird,
no new tropic science. I'm going over here. This is just like basic
stuff. It helps me, not saying it's gonna help anyone else. And
then if I just want to do something that's like very relaxing, I will
just come in the basement and put on a game kind of pretty basic stuff.
I'll play a familiar game more more likely than anything else, not anything
that's going to frustrate me, or I'll watch a familiar movie, something I'm
familiar with. All that stuff is good, but yeah, exercise is probably
the best thing from decent b Any insight as to how the new gun Grave
went from a Sony exclusive to an Bracer Group game, and is that a
good thing or a bad thing? I don't have any insight on this at
all. I'll look into it. I didn't know that this even happened,
but I'm not surprised that Embracer has embraced yet another thing. And is that
a good thing or a bad thing? I don't know. People that work
Frombracer tend to say it's giving them enough money, enough budget to do what
they need. And I mean, no one's like running away from that company
yet, So I don't know. I would love to get a better look
into how and how Embracer Group works, why it is. But I think
I said this on Twitter once. It is funny how Embracer Group is like
our strategy to be successful is to make as many games as possible, and
everyone's like, well, that there's no fucking way that's gonna work. That's
insane. Don't do that, and that's like such an insight into how gaming
is so volatile and people are like making games is the worst thing you could
do in the making games business. But I don't know whether what this means
for Gung Grave. I'm not sure. I'll look into it a little bit
and see what I see when I come up with from constable constable, how
do you manage screen time with your kids? Not well, especially because the
pandemic. And we've done a little bit more outside stuff in recent months after
we got vaccinated. The problem is they're still not vaccinated. And my one
kid is you know, we don't know she she was brought born with general
cataracts and she's a praxeo speech and we've got her genetically tested to make sure
there's nothing there, but there's probably something there that they just don't know about.
And so I'm like always hesitant about like any sort of sickness could be
worse for her. I don't know, And so we're trying to be very
careful and not going doing too many things. So when we go, we're
making sure we're doing all kinds of outside stuff, but there's only so many
outside things available. We did the pumpkin patch. It's October. What else
can we do when we're not going to go to like a haunted house because
usually those are enclosed and stuff like that. So here's your tablet. I'm
sorry that. I'm sorry that your life is like this when you're four years
old. And so I try not to be too harsh on them, a
too like and try and be like, oh, you know, you have
to go make your own fun. They are good at making their own fun.
Still, They're good at getting off the tablet when they want to and
doing all kinds of stuff. And if I enable, if I empower them
by giving them art supplies or something, they will go wild and they'll create
on their own. So I'm just not too worried about it if they want
to spend an hour and a half straight on the tablet watching aby Shark or
playing games. Honestly, the way that they play games on the tablets,
it's kind of impressive to me. They're four and two, and I just
I got them Amazon tablet and I put on kid mode, free time mode,
and I got like the premium one, so they get access to all
these videos, books and games, and all the games are free and there's
no there's no ads in them or anything like that, and there's no micro
transactions, and but they're also in this enclosed area where they can't get to
the other stuff on the tablet. They can only get to the kids stuff,
and so I can kind of hand it to them in the back of
the car connected to the internet and not have to worry about anything bad really
going wrong. They're just gonna kind of explore stuff on their own, and
a lot of times they go to the games, and the way that they
problem solve in these games is like, I'm like, I didn't know you
could do that. You are You're really like I think I've talked about this
before. My one kid, my four year old, she finds these games
where you have to like make cats out of these eggs, and it's like
it is, you know, you're on a treadmill, but it's all self
contained, no ads, no purchases, but you have to like make money
in the game, and she talks about, like, I gotta make this
money, gotta do this to make money. I'm like, I just did
not know that you knew how to do this, and so I kind of
just kind of let them go wild. At this point. I'm sure that's
going to be detrimental in some way, but I just I don't feel too
bad about it. Not in the world we live in right now, and
they are still as creative as ever. So I'm like, I'm not really
seeing any detrimental effects except for maybe at bedtime trying to take the tablet away
at them. It's bad. They cry for like five minutes, but then
they go right to sleep, so it hasn't been too much an issue.
Yeah, cats from Eggs. I know it's weird. You can ask her
about it. I don't know. I don't want to understand it. She'll
like ask for help, and I'll be like, kid, you can understand
this a thousand times better than I do. I have no idea what's going
on in this freaky game. That's a good idea. All the Dino says
that they rotate toys between the basement and the living room to have something relatively
new to bust out after the screen time. That's a good idea. I
should do that. Yeah, let's do one more. Let's wrap up from
Laser Party. Follow up on the Capcom Mega Man question would probably no chance
of a Breath of Fire revival. I just don't think right Now that's just
not where a cooms at. If they're gonna take chances on a game,
it's gonna be I think, like a more recent game, and it's gonna
like Dragons Dogma, Right, They're gonna take a chance. I'm bringing back
Dragons Dogma because they see a pathway forward to build that into something big and
new and huge. But something that like is a little bit older than that,
it's gonna be a little bit harder to justify. I think they want
to focus on known quantities that they know can succeed as the evaluator of rumors,
Which recent or persistent industry rumors do you wish would stop being perpetuated?
I wish people would take a little bit of a break on all the big,
wild eyed Microsoft acquisition rumors. Now, I mean, obviously they're gonna
acquire more stuff. They've said as much, so it's not gonna go away,
But like, oh, Microsoft's gonna acquire Take two, Microsoft's gonna acquire
square Inex, that stuff just seems that's very unlikely, so unlikely that we
could probably just dismiss it out of hand, And it's kind of all anyone
wants to talk about. And I'm like I'm a little bit over it personally.
Oh, I'm doing some quick ones until unless we find them, like
one another big one from Dixie Dean eighty two. Next Call of Duty is
Modern Warfare two? Almost certainly yes from Chilean ninety two. Do you know
when we might see more about that James Bond game from IO? I think
probably at least a year and a half, two years, maybe, I
guess. I don't know for sure. I think it's still ways off,
though you know, they have they have Project Dragon that they're working on with
with Microsoft as well, so it's a busy, busy company. And yeah,
I think it's gonna take some time for them to get either one of
those into a position where they get show it to us. I guess James
Bond's probably maybe a little bit closer because it just they'll probably use a lot
of the Hitman tech. But yeah, from mister mccrickeldink, what's going on
a Bungee? I don't. I don't pay super close attention to Bungee because
there are a lot of people who do, and so I kind of feel
like it doesn't need to be my beat. I'll look a bit more closely
but I'm sure like the stories that are coming out of there, that people
are here and are like, yeah, it's it seems like it's in a
weird place, like with the way that they handle DLC and stuff like that.
I don't know. I don't want to speak to it too much because
I don't know enough about the company in terms of like what's going on in
there internally. When I talked about like, oh, you know there was
conversations at Microsoft, I knew from the Microsoft side, not from the Bungee
side, and which is why the CEO Bungee you got mad at me or
whatever? All right from fair fair n in phonies. How do I get
my kids to stop watching Blippy? You don't. If you try, they'll
just want to watch it more. And you gotta keep in mind, like
Blippy's trash, right, Blippy blippies trash. Kids love trash. So if
you want them, if you want your kids to stop watching Blippy, you
just gotta find something that's even worse. And so for a while, for
me, it was those like CG generated And I don't mean like oh like
CG. I I mean like it felt like a computer was generating these videos
in their entirety where you know, Spider Man would turn into a truck and
then go into paint and turn a different color, and then pick up those
balls and then drive those balls through the pain again, and then all the
time, all the while there'd be these sound effects like, oh, hey,
like that happened like that, Like they just like randomly selected stuff from
from a folder and applied it to this video. And I love those Yes,
they're so stupid and silly and they're clearly just like made in like unity
or unreal or something like that. And and my kids love them too.
And if I don't want to watch Blippy, I put on that instead.
Uh so, yeah, there's your answer. Just find the worst trash you
possibly can. It's insane because there's so many good children's shows now, and
I try to get my kids into them, and sometimes, yeah, they'll
watch them. They they like Blue a little bit. They liked Tumbleweed,
Tumbelief, Tumbelief for a little bit. I love that show. They like,
Yeah, they got like once summer they were like the last are They
watched a lot of it. But it's not like something they want to watch
over and over Blippy. They want to watch over and over and over.
This kid right here, this two year old knows all the songs. So,
hi, kiddo, could you put that screwback? Thank you, kiddo,
that's important. Thank you. Oh all right, everybody, let's let's
do one more video in question. Uh oh yeah, put on Cruising Blast.
This from Slayman Awsom. Put a Cruising Blast to get baby Shark out
of the kid's heads. My kids do love the Cruising Blast song, and
I've been meaning to record them singing it so I have that forever they do.
They're like a CUIs In and that's just a classic song. So uh
from Kane, Hi win better show in your opinion, King of the Hill
or Prime Simpsons. I mean Prime Simpsons is probably better, But lately I've
been more in the King of the Hill. I've actually got like I've had
like the urge to go watching I started watching some of it. Baby,
you gotta I need those screws. Oh my god, she's getting the I'm
like putting new stuff in a PC for testing, and I have the case
screws, the screws right over here, and she just grabs both of them,
runs away, say mc gossip, King Grabb Junior sing a song for
us. In the mic they are singing over here, you could probably hear
him a little bit. I have the video broadcast on, but it's their
human voices allegedly, so you should be able to hear some of it from
jetakiv HF Are there any notable industry rumors you wish we're not repeat or not
repeated based on your inside or knowledge that happens, But usually there's like a
kernel truth, so it's like, oh, I can see how that happens.
I think everything that happen, like all the stuff that's happening with Cojim
any type, Cojim's name gets brought up and no one else says that.
And he's also working with Xbox, and so we have to take that into
mind. People continue to dismiss that thing. I just confirmed again that that's
still in the works. They're still just putting together the final deal. So
yeah, like people need to keep him on that that's probably going to happen.
And so yeah, maybe he's doing some other stuff, Maybe there's some
other work he's taking on that does involve so Near or whatever, but that
does not mean that the Xbox deal has fallen through. And won't happen,
and people act like that's the case. From w Q any whispers on street
Fighter six, there are like the beginning rumbles like where you hear like,
yeah, the street Fighter six is happening, But is that alright? But
nothing solid, nothing concrete, all right? From Easy Valves patching old games
to get them ready for steam Deck. Any chance we'll see modern console ports.
No, I think they're focused entirely on steam Deck right now. That's
the that's their concern. That's they're gonna be their big thing this holiday,
probably next holiday, it's probably gonna be a big hardware thing for them.
So no, I think they're just gonna focus on steam Deck. All right,
everybody that's gonna do it. Let's wrap this up, all right,
Thank you for watching. I appreciate it. That was That was a heck
of a show with a couple of co stars here. But I had a
good time, Like always, I love coming on here. Answer your questions
to you guys talking about video games. Let's uh, let's get out of
here. I'll be back next week. Until then, though, take care
of yourself, have a good one and goodbye. Go get some yamyami.
Tell me what you gotta tell me what I should have for lunch. Get
me on Twitter. I'm at Jeff Grub. Tell me what as you have
for lunch? All right, everybody, have a good one.