LEGO and Nintendo Making a Game Boy Set

<v Speaker 1>Be Ba. It's the Internet. You're busy. Let's do this
<v Speaker 1>for January tenth, twenty twenty four. For the next hour
<v Speaker 1>or so, let me help you sort through the world
<v Speaker 1>of gaming on gamest Mornings Live with Me Jeff Grubb Today.
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo actually responded to switch two weeks and Xbox has
<v Speaker 1>a developer direct coming up later this month with a
<v Speaker 1>mystery game. But first, please join me in welcoming today's
<v Speaker 1>co host the game Mest Mornings. It's Janet Show. Everybody,
<v Speaker 1>jan How are you doing? I'm doing great. It is
<v Speaker 1>Friday morning. There are dregs, but they're also not dregs.
<v Speaker 2>It's news. It it's a missing time.
<v Speaker 1>It's a mixture of news and drags. And you know what,
<v Speaker 1>I think that's my preference. I think it's the ratio
<v Speaker 1>that I come to Fridays for. It's like a good buffet.
<v Speaker 1>You need the child items like chicken nuggets and French
<v Speaker 1>fries and a very bad cheese pizza, but also the
<v Speaker 1>ability to get sushi rolls in suspect Chinese food exactly.
<v Speaker 1>You can have like the exciting stuff that adults are
<v Speaker 1>there for to roll the dice with their tummies, but
<v Speaker 1>you got to have the chicken nuggets, so you gotta
<v Speaker 1>have the chicken strips and the mac and cheese. Yep,
<v Speaker 1>learned that at Disney.
<v Speaker 3>If you see a chocolate fountain at a buffet, are
<v Speaker 3>you going to it?
<v Speaker 1>I am like like sidling up to it with suspicion
<v Speaker 1>in my eyes, But I probably get over that, and yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I will engage with the chocolate fountain. How about you.
<v Speaker 3>I don't know if I would, but I appreciate it
<v Speaker 3>being there. I'll take the things that need to be
<v Speaker 3>dipped in the chocolate fountain and just eat them raw.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. It also gives you a good way of like
<v Speaker 1>knowing who's surrounding you. Because the people that are running
<v Speaker 1>up enthusiastically to the chocolate fountain, You're like, all right,
<v Speaker 1>I got to keep an eye on them. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>make sure that they don't get out of hand, because
<v Speaker 1>these are the people you cannot trust. They have no
<v Speaker 1>sense of self preservation. Yeah, I'm right there with you.
<v Speaker 1>I went the games got done quick last night or yesterday,
<v Speaker 1>I should say, that was a yeah. We saw we
<v Speaker 1>showed up. They were finishing the partners in time run,
<v Speaker 1>and we went down and played some games in the
<v Speaker 1>arcade there. I did the popping music. Is that's what
<v Speaker 1>these machines are called?
<v Speaker 2>Oh the washing machine?
<v Speaker 1>Washing machine? Yes, yeah, and it was what that was
<v Speaker 1>my jam. I like rhythm games a lot. That was
<v Speaker 1>It was very fun. There's a j Minotti got some
<v Speaker 1>video of me playing, so I'll find somewhere to put that.
<v Speaker 1>But it was Yeah, it was a good time. And
<v Speaker 1>then we went up and watched the entirety of the
<v Speaker 1>Tears of the Kingdom run, which was fantastic as well. Boy,
<v Speaker 1>that's a you know what, that's a good game and
<v Speaker 1>very fun to watch someone just tear it apart. They
<v Speaker 1>did great as well. We got out of there not
<v Speaker 1>too long after that though, because we had to go
<v Speaker 1>record a podcast that night. But yeah, it was a
<v Speaker 1>you know, a quick, quick jog over to Pittsburgh and
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna try to make that happen again next year.
<v Speaker 3>Fantastic. I've always wanted to go to a games done
<v Speaker 3>quick and just just see the magic happen.
<v Speaker 1>It is magic, like they are that, you know. The
<v Speaker 1>magic is there's you know, so many very talented volunteers
<v Speaker 1>working behind the scenes making that thing very efficient at
<v Speaker 1>this point, and it was impressive. To just to see
<v Speaker 1>everybody know their job and just take care of things.
<v Speaker 1>And yeah, a really professional operation they have going there.
<v Speaker 1>So just yeah, all of the you know, every time
<v Speaker 1>you at these things start up and these things raise
<v Speaker 1>you know, a million dollars, two million dollars, it is
<v Speaker 1>you could tell that everyone's very proud, like they take
<v Speaker 1>pride in the work that they're doing to ensure that
<v Speaker 1>that happens, and they deserve it, and you know that
<v Speaker 1>it's like this is a like I said, professional operation.
<v Speaker 1>Real quick before we do get started, just want to
<v Speaker 1>you know, thoughts worth everyone in LA. It is time
<v Speaker 1>I glance over there, which I can only glance because
<v Speaker 1>it like hurts my heart to like look too deeply
<v Speaker 1>at it, which I apologize for. I'm a weak person.
<v Speaker 1>But when I do, I am thinking of people that
<v Speaker 1>I know and people that I don't know, and just
<v Speaker 1>it just seems devastating. I really like LA and I
<v Speaker 1>see to see this happen to it is just heartbreaking.
<v Speaker 1>So just shout outs to everybody out there.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, definitely, if you have any friends, acquaintance's family members
<v Speaker 3>in Los Angeles, please go and check on them. Friends
<v Speaker 3>of the site in Los Angeles I believe are all
<v Speaker 3>accounted for and okay, I've we've tried to check up
<v Speaker 3>on them. Believe all the homies are okay. But yeah,
<v Speaker 3>check on your homies folks at home.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, yep. I know a lot of them are you know,
<v Speaker 1>displaced and not able to get back to their homes
<v Speaker 1>quite yet, or if they are, it's just starting to happen.
<v Speaker 1>Glad they were safe. Boy, that sounds like a rough situation.
<v Speaker 1>So I just just hope everyone's able to get back
<v Speaker 1>to normal as soon as possible, which, yeah, you know,
<v Speaker 1>I know it's not going to be an option for many.
<v Speaker 3>Also, if you're in the Los Angeles area, please be safe.
<v Speaker 3>Please try and wear a mask as much as possible,
<v Speaker 3>and the N ninety five mask when you step outside.
<v Speaker 3>Air quality is terrible. As someone that lives in northern
<v Speaker 3>California has also had to deal with the fallout of fires.
<v Speaker 3>If thankfully you can be spared from the actual fire damage,
<v Speaker 3>but some of the lasting stuff and more toxic hazardous
<v Speaker 3>stuff can be the air quality. So stay inside when
<v Speaker 3>you can, or try and wear a mask as much
<v Speaker 3>as possible.
<v Speaker 1>All right, let's explain what we do here most weekdays.
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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 Nintendo. Switch To listings
<v Speaker 1>are popping up in retailer databases. Yes, more switch to
<v Speaker 1>leaks today. It's a little bit more fun because Nintendo
<v Speaker 1>actually acknowledged at least one of them. But you know,
<v Speaker 1>not that that amounted too much. Let's get into it.
<v Speaker 1>This is from a multiple places, so I kind of
<v Speaker 1>all mashed it all together here. Recent links from game
<v Speaker 1>Stops internal database and French retailer Finac suggest details about
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo's upcoming console, possibly a Switch successor, well, definitely a
<v Speaker 1>Switch successor. Leaks inside and leaks include listings for accessories
<v Speaker 1>like micro SD cards. These are micro express micro SD cards.
<v Speaker 1>This is maybe interesting because well, for one, they'll be faster,
<v Speaker 1>something I think a lot of people were anticipating. But
<v Speaker 1>those micro SD express cards can technically support up to
<v Speaker 1>five hundred terabyte maybe it was one hundred some odd
<v Speaker 1>terabytes on one card. Not that there's those available like
<v Speaker 1>at like retail. Maybe maybe if you go talk to
<v Speaker 1>like a specialist at one of these memory company storage companies,
<v Speaker 1>they might be able to provide that at an enterprise level.
<v Speaker 1>But eventually, you know, in several years, we might be
<v Speaker 1>getting these little st cards that are very fast, that
<v Speaker 1>work with the switch to and could have you know,
<v Speaker 1>fifty terabytes. Like that's not out of the realm of possibility,
<v Speaker 1>which is insane to me. But yeah, I'm glad that
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo is at least using what feels like a more
<v Speaker 1>next gen technology for it's it's it's you know cold
<v Speaker 1>storage there. Yeah, there's you know, also like carrying cases
<v Speaker 1>joy congrepts. The the doc has little indentations on it,
<v Speaker 1>so you can't slide or you can't put the switch
<v Speaker 1>to in a switch one dock. And you know, I
<v Speaker 1>think that's also something most people were anticipating that tells
<v Speaker 1>us that's like maybe there is some reason and like
<v Speaker 1>there's maybe more going on in the switch to DOC
<v Speaker 1>than in the switch one dock, or who knows, maybe
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo just wants to sell you a new dock and
<v Speaker 1>that's the way that goes. But yeah, this is just
<v Speaker 1>been an onslaught parade of leaks from every which way.
<v Speaker 1>We've talked about the mouse thing, like oh, maybe that's
<v Speaker 1>an optical sensor in those are mouse souls as they're called,
<v Speaker 1>like little feet, so the thing can slid on a table.
<v Speaker 1>We still don't know really anything for sure about this system.
<v Speaker 1>We are probably gonna get a lot of definitive information
<v Speaker 1>relatively quickly. Again, like they you know, not it will
<v Speaker 1>happen quickly, because they've said they are going to show
<v Speaker 1>this thing off before the end of March. We are
<v Speaker 1>midway through January. We're talking a matter of weeks now,
<v Speaker 1>but I think it's like we might not get out
<v Speaker 1>of January before like really getting all the information about this.
<v Speaker 1>And in this moment, like it feels like, God, we
<v Speaker 1>know everything, but a lot of the stuff that we
<v Speaker 1>have speculated and tried to piece together and feel good about,
<v Speaker 1>like the mouse thing, as Sean was saying games Mortis
<v Speaker 1>earlier this week could just look absolutely that.
<v Speaker 3>Shit silly very soon. Jan, how are you feeling about
<v Speaker 3>all this? I say, more rumors of plenty. Let's let's
<v Speaker 3>build up the hype factor, let's build up our expectations,
<v Speaker 3>and let's get weird. And I can't wait for Nintendo
<v Speaker 3>to release something that is still going to be pretty
<v Speaker 3>neat and cool, but it's not going to live up
<v Speaker 3>to all the wild expectations we built up, and we'll
<v Speaker 3>all just be.
<v Speaker 2>Like, oh, okay, yeah, I'll pick one up anyway.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I think that there. You know, I definitely saw
<v Speaker 1>some images of a switch to allegedly being turned on,
<v Speaker 1>something that we hadn't seen up to this point. But
<v Speaker 1>as far as I glanced at this, I only looked
<v Speaker 1>really quickly. It looked like it was just doing a
<v Speaker 1>manufacturer's like check, where like when you turn it on
<v Speaker 1>and be like, you know, a post. It was doing
<v Speaker 1>the post thing for your PC. This thing is going
<v Speaker 1>to post, it's going to turn on, uh, and and
<v Speaker 1>then we're gonna check all the systems to make sure
<v Speaker 1>that they're operational and something that you can the manufacturer
<v Speaker 1>we'll be able to do maybe before they install load
<v Speaker 1>on the operating system, the actual operating system. So maybe
<v Speaker 1>that is the switch toos that are getting out there,
<v Speaker 1>and uh, some some part of the operating system gets
<v Speaker 1>put on these devices at some other point that is
<v Speaker 1>not happening at the point of manufacturing. Uh, It's it's weird.
<v Speaker 1>We still haven't seen anything about software. We haven't seen
<v Speaker 1>anything about the way the system works, which is in
<v Speaker 1>my mind, the most important stuff, the most the most
<v Speaker 1>the more interesting factors about what the switch too is
<v Speaker 1>going to be. Uh So, yeah, there's still a lot
<v Speaker 1>for them to talk about.
<v Speaker 3>Have we seen anything grub about like the future of
<v Speaker 3>switch cartridges or switch to cartridges?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I I I'm not sure people are saying in
<v Speaker 1>chat that we have. I have not seen that. So
<v Speaker 1>let me see here. I'm gonna go to a website
<v Speaker 1>called Google and switch to card turches and I will
<v Speaker 1>just say cartridge even though I think they're just cards
<v Speaker 1>because I'm a bad person. Let's see here, I'm click
<v Speaker 1>on news.
<v Speaker 2>What about chips, let's start calling them chips.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, they're chips, They're they're yeah. We yeah, we'll put
<v Speaker 1>chips in your deck because we're cyberpunt now, yeah, I
<v Speaker 1>don't know. I'm not seeing much about it, so yeah,
<v Speaker 1>maybe they'll taste better. That's probably what people are worried about. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I had to. Uh, I did have that conversation with
<v Speaker 1>my my kid the other day, being because there was
<v Speaker 1>a battery that had the symbol on the package. That's like,
<v Speaker 1>we put the bad code in on this little taste
<v Speaker 1>bad And then she's like, so if it doesn't have that,
<v Speaker 1>does it taste good? Like no, no, no, no, no, don't
<v Speaker 1>go thinking that. So that was a really fun conversation. Uh. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo did respond to some of these leaks, though, Uh
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo responds specifically to CEES. Nintendo switched to leaks this
<v Speaker 1>from Alex Hopley at Game Reactor at CES despite Nintendo
<v Speaker 1>not being present at the show. We've heard a lot
<v Speaker 1>of alleged details about the Nintendo's which too from a
<v Speaker 1>parent from apparent logo to supposed Joycon images, a lot
<v Speaker 1>of this stuff is starting to look legit, but without
<v Speaker 1>confirmation from Nintendo, we're keeping our salt shakers out. Speaking
<v Speaker 1>to the sen Ke Shinbun, Nintendo made a very short
<v Speaker 1>statement on the supposed reveals saying the images and videos
<v Speaker 1>are quote not official. While this might sound like an
<v Speaker 1>immediate dismissal of what we've seen so far, the word
<v Speaker 1>official being used here seems quite key. Nintendo hasn't told
<v Speaker 1>us the images are false or fake, just that they're
<v Speaker 1>not official, which we know as they've not come from
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo itself. In reality, then this has cleared up little
<v Speaker 1>in regard to whether these images are legitimate or not. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I mean, just the fact that Nintendo felt the need
<v Speaker 1>to respond is maybe a little interesting. It's more interesting
<v Speaker 1>for the company responsible for this, which is Ginky, which
<v Speaker 1>is gotten a lot of attention because of this, which
<v Speaker 1>you know was the goal, I'm sure, and more power
<v Speaker 1>to them. I have no problem with this. You know,
<v Speaker 1>do your thing. You've got the information, and you don't
<v Speaker 1>have a relationship with like a direct relationship with Nintendo,
<v Speaker 1>that's fine. But Nintendo has noticed, and maybe that is
<v Speaker 1>a little bit scary if you're them, right, Yeah, can you?
<v Speaker 2>I is Nintendo in.
<v Speaker 3>A position where they can issue like a cease and
<v Speaker 3>desist or some type of legal action to stop Gankey
<v Speaker 3>from manufacturing switch to peripherals.
<v Speaker 2>Is that a thing that can be done?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah? You know what I I don't in my head,
<v Speaker 1>I'm like, it seems like that would be hard to
<v Speaker 1>do because unless they're using like the switch to trademark
<v Speaker 1>or some entire proprietary piece of information, like you know,
<v Speaker 1>anyone's allowed to make a piece of plastic shape however
<v Speaker 1>they want, right And then if it happens to work
<v Speaker 1>with a switch to, what can we what can Nintendo
<v Speaker 1>do about it? But maybe there are rules in some
<v Speaker 1>territories that I'm not aware of, which is very likely.
<v Speaker 1>I'm not aware of most regulations. But it seems like
<v Speaker 1>the way my guess is But because Ginky is behaving
<v Speaker 1>this way and this is you know, it's a professional
<v Speaker 1>company with the you know, access to lawyers and things
<v Speaker 1>like that, I guess is they know that Nintendo either
<v Speaker 1>can't do something or what wouldn't do something because it's
<v Speaker 1>just not worth it to them because they would maybe
<v Speaker 1>just lose so that but you know, I think, you know,
<v Speaker 1>in the future, Ganky might want to work with Nintendo
<v Speaker 1>and this might be had. This might be taking that
<v Speaker 1>off the table.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, do you think this is this is Ganky playing
<v Speaker 3>a little bit of chicken because they want to get
<v Speaker 3>ahead of the game. Versus all these other peripheral producers
<v Speaker 3>out there, like a mad cats, et cetera. And if
<v Speaker 3>Nintendo were to pursue legal action, that would kind of
<v Speaker 3>confirm specs, like physical specs of the switch to that
<v Speaker 3>Nintendo would still want to kind of keep out of there. Oh,
<v Speaker 3>Kanky's like, you know, they're not going to fire out
<v Speaker 3>on us, So we'll just keep pushing the limits and
<v Speaker 3>Nintendo's gonna have to play ball.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean, I think that could be part of it,
<v Speaker 1>and I think it's the reality. The reality is likely
<v Speaker 1>the Ganky has a very limited piece of the information
<v Speaker 1>set and they're working from that, and Nintendo might have
<v Speaker 1>more bigger concerns of figuring out where those weeks were
<v Speaker 1>coming from in the first place, if they really care.
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, I mean, the people in Shataman noting that
<v Speaker 1>there's rumors that thing gets the thing gets announced next week,
<v Speaker 1>and that sounds plausible to me. It sounds but you know,
<v Speaker 1>we've heard that many times. Of course, we've heard that
<v Speaker 1>many times, and I've said before it sounded plausible because
<v Speaker 1>it did. But yeah, I think that by next week
<v Speaker 1>we could have all these answers, and as we always say,
<v Speaker 1>none of the things that have happened up to this
<v Speaker 1>point will be remembered or mattered.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, one hundred percent, grub. I feel like Nintendo has
<v Speaker 3>unfortunate timing with real life events. We know that a
<v Speaker 3>certain thing in the United States is happening in two weeks,
<v Speaker 3>Nintendo should just do it next week to get ahead
<v Speaker 3>of the curve before anything worse happens.
<v Speaker 1>In America exactly, Yes, which is like, you know, I
<v Speaker 1>get all the uncertainty, but at a certain point you
<v Speaker 1>just got to act and and go with the go
<v Speaker 1>with whatever's happening there. Yeah. People are also once again
<v Speaker 1>pointing out from Chat thank You that Emron Cohn Game
<v Speaker 1>speeds Owned noted that Nintendo pr is finding a lot
<v Speaker 1>of the stuff going around to be very funny and
<v Speaker 1>that plan that their plans have not changed. And again,
<v Speaker 1>you know, my hunt here is that those plans are
<v Speaker 1>something's happening next week.
<v Speaker 2>So they they're they're making the watch then huh they
<v Speaker 2>make that.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, they're like it's funny because no one's mentioned the
<v Speaker 1>watch except for that jam guy. Uh, and everyone thinks
<v Speaker 1>he sounds crazy. So we got everybody right where we
<v Speaker 1>want them.
<v Speaker 2>Oh, come on, come on, Nintendo cut the check.
<v Speaker 1>H There's more Nintendo rumors, this time involving Xbox. Xbox
<v Speaker 1>is planning big Nintendo Switch to support that includes Halo
<v Speaker 1>and Flight sim as well as more. This is from
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo Everything. Rumor has it that Xbox is gearing up
<v Speaker 1>for a significant amount of Nintendo Switch support, including its
<v Speaker 1>top tier franchises like Halo. Nate They Hate Nate Drake
<v Speaker 1>weighed in on what to expect during a new episode
<v Speaker 1>of his podcast. It's claimed that at some point we'll
<v Speaker 1>be seeing Halo the Master Chief Collection as well as
<v Speaker 1>Flight Simulator on the new console, as well as PS
<v Speaker 1>five Halo and the Master Chief Collection. Excuse me. Is
<v Speaker 1>not a new package, as it's first debuted nearly a
<v Speaker 1>decade ago. Man, it's been that long. But it's a
<v Speaker 1>big release containing campaigns for Halo Reach, Halo Combat Evolved,
<v Speaker 1>Halo two Anniversary, Halo three, Halo three Obst the Campaign,
<v Speaker 1>and Halo Four. There's also a huge multiplayer component with
<v Speaker 1>various modes game types in over one hundred and twenty maps.
<v Speaker 1>In general, it sounds like there will be a good
<v Speaker 1>amount of Microsoft support going forward for the new system.
<v Speaker 1>Nate says the company will be porting and patching the
<v Speaker 1>current switch lineup Grounded, Pentiment and or games which were
<v Speaker 1>previously associated with Xbox and are already on Nintendo Switch. However,
<v Speaker 1>it also looks like they'll be on switch to with
<v Speaker 1>four K support, and cfd's in Highfi Rush could be
<v Speaker 1>possible as well. They're already on PS five, so Nintendo
<v Speaker 1>switched to versions makes sense. And of course early on
<v Speaker 1>there were rumors that cfieves was heading to Switch alongside
<v Speaker 1>the PS five version, and maybe that was just always
<v Speaker 1>a mix up that that would be, you know, be
<v Speaker 1>a switch to version down the line. Yeah, this one
<v Speaker 1>is like, oh yeah, I mean they've had a lot
<v Speaker 1>of success putting games out on the PlayStation five. Switch
<v Speaker 1>is just a matter of getting the development up to
<v Speaker 1>a point where it's like it's easier to report those
<v Speaker 1>games to the Switch and now switch to And for
<v Speaker 1>master Chief, you know, the master Chief collection, that's an
<v Speaker 1>older game that just will could run on Switch once
<v Speaker 1>they probably just launch it on that. Yeah, not too
<v Speaker 1>surprised to hear this, how about you?
<v Speaker 3>No, not surprising at all. It feels like this has
<v Speaker 3>been rumbling for what feels like forever now. Grub as
<v Speaker 3>soon as Xbox announced that they want to expand game
<v Speaker 3>Pass to be outside of the Microsoft ecosystem, or at
<v Speaker 3>least start releasing their titles on other platforms. It still
<v Speaker 3>feels weird to me, to be honest, grub to the
<v Speaker 3>thought that Halo and will be on other platforms. It
<v Speaker 3>also feels weird seeing Xbox moving away from having really
<v Speaker 3>pushing the console first and now pushing software, pushing game
<v Speaker 3>Pass very very hard.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's you know, I think it's just recognizing that
<v Speaker 1>the previous trajectory, the previous strategy was not going to
<v Speaker 1>pan out the way they needed it to, which was,
<v Speaker 1>you know, putting the console first, putting game pass first.
<v Speaker 1>And I think they've they've tapped that out and or
<v Speaker 1>you know, burnt goodwill among people who are relying on
<v Speaker 1>the Xbox to to kind of prop itself up. Uh
<v Speaker 1>and like we spent a lot of money, We've got
<v Speaker 1>to make a lot of money. Uh. And and I think,
<v Speaker 1>you know, in terms of if their goal is to
<v Speaker 1>make a lot of money, they're going towards the PS
<v Speaker 1>five and switch with with video games that they're going
<v Speaker 1>to sell to people. It's a good way to make
<v Speaker 1>a lot of money. And so I think this is
<v Speaker 1>going to work. Kind of feels like, uh, you know
<v Speaker 1>the way that just things evolve naturally in the the world,
<v Speaker 1>where it's like you just look for the path of
<v Speaker 1>least resistance or the path that provides the biggest return
<v Speaker 1>on investment. That's what capitalism is supposed to do. And
<v Speaker 1>that is going to lead to a company being like,
<v Speaker 1>we kept trying to do this one thing where we
<v Speaker 1>kept things guarded for long enough, and now that we've
<v Speaker 1>put things out on these other systems, we are making
<v Speaker 1>a lot more money. We kind of have no choice
<v Speaker 1>and we don't feel like do anything else other than that.
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, they're going to keep supporting Xbox that still
<v Speaker 1>makes a lot of money. But yeah, this is just
<v Speaker 1>lines up with their current goals.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, when you look at it on paper, the switch
<v Speaker 3>to is going to have a massive install base from
<v Speaker 3>the jump because of the excitement, all the rumors coming around,
<v Speaker 3>and maybe Nintendo won't have the software to support it
<v Speaker 3>other than a couple first party titles, maybe just kind
<v Speaker 3>of relying on that backwards compatibility that could happen, and
<v Speaker 3>that's where Microsoft could easily slot in and be like, hey,
<v Speaker 3>you got to switch to, why don't you play all
<v Speaker 3>of the halos.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean, even in Nintendo has a pretty decent launch,
<v Speaker 1>it's going to only have a handful of like very
<v Speaker 1>big games. And so when people are getting a switch to,
<v Speaker 1>they're going to do what they what they did with
<v Speaker 1>the Switch one. They're going to pick up you know,
<v Speaker 1>Zelda and maybe one other thing from Nintendo or maybe
<v Speaker 1>you know, their second game will be one of these
<v Speaker 1>smaller games or a game from a third party. The
<v Speaker 1>a lot of people you like to pick a bit launch,
<v Speaker 1>like you know, a golf story did really well in
<v Speaker 1>the first year of the switch because everyone's just behind
<v Speaker 1>everything on the Switch because they were so excited. So
<v Speaker 1>if you have these games ready to go for the
<v Speaker 1>launch of the switch to, you're just gonna you're gonna
<v Speaker 1>benefit naturally from that.
<v Speaker 3>As you said, yeah, and if getting online is not
<v Speaker 3>that a getting online is difficult on the Switch, but
<v Speaker 3>maybe if it's a more streamline experience on the switch to,
<v Speaker 3>something like Sea of Thieves could really take off and
<v Speaker 3>have like Another Life. I'm still very surprised that a
<v Speaker 3>lot of people are playing Sea of Thieves, but geez,
<v Speaker 3>proof this can be very good for Microsoft. Do you
<v Speaker 3>think they eventually try and bring a call of duty
<v Speaker 3>as well.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I'm they from that court case. They promised they
<v Speaker 1>would bring call of duty to switch, so they have
<v Speaker 1>to unless they want to get in trouble with regulators.
<v Speaker 3>So well, with that left mouse joy con, yes, huh, yep,
<v Speaker 3>that's uh because that's would be kind of a story.
<v Speaker 1>You just said that and I like popped in my head.
<v Speaker 1>So okay, So wait, the left mouse joycon, you put
<v Speaker 1>that on your right hand and use it over here.
<v Speaker 1>Does that mean you're then using the right joyc on
<v Speaker 1>your left hand to if you want to like move
<v Speaker 1>around in the world. It's like, I kind of get
<v Speaker 1>the sense that the mouse is gonna have to be
<v Speaker 1>used on its own and not like simultaneously with the
<v Speaker 1>joy con. But who knows, And again, could we could
<v Speaker 1>sound very silly in a week to six weeks, uh
<v Speaker 1>when this thing gets revealed and maybe there is no
<v Speaker 1>mouse support at all. It was just something else that
<v Speaker 1>has nothing to do with anything.
<v Speaker 2>It's a grappling hook. It's a grappling hook.
<v Speaker 1>Duh. Come on, everybody, all right, let's take a quick break.
<v Speaker 1>When we come back, we'll talk about the Xbox Developer
<v Speaker 1>Direct that has a brand new mystery game in it, Setsuscreen,
<v Speaker 1>Shadow Delayed and more. Right after this. Okay, we're back
<v Speaker 1>into it. Let's get to the next story here. Xbox
<v Speaker 1>Developer Direct announced for this month includes a brand new game.
<v Speaker 1>This is Fromanda mccuwitt game Spot. The next Developer Direct
<v Speaker 1>event is coming up soon. Microsoft has announced a new
<v Speaker 1>Xbox Developer Direct broadcast for January twenty third, and we'll
<v Speaker 1>feature a number of games like South of Midnight and
<v Speaker 1>Doom the Dark Ages, as well as a brand new game.
<v Speaker 1>The event takes place as as I said, January twenty third,
<v Speaker 1>at ten am Pacific time. It's expected to stream in
<v Speaker 1>all the usual places, and as they say here, we'll
<v Speaker 1>visit Compulsion Games in Montreal, Canada. To learn more about
<v Speaker 1>South of Midnight, head to Montpellier, France a see Sandfall
<v Speaker 1>Interactive for a look at Clear Obscure Expedition thirty three,
<v Speaker 1>which is that uh French final fantasy looking RPG that
<v Speaker 1>looks very cool.
<v Speaker 3>Uh.
<v Speaker 1>Stopped by the legendary ID Studios in Richardson, Texas. Check
<v Speaker 1>in on Doom the Dark Ages, which I continue to
<v Speaker 1>be very excited about, and visit a surprise location to
<v Speaker 1>see another studios brand new game, Microsoft said. Microsoft did
<v Speaker 1>not say anything more about the myster what the mysterious
<v Speaker 1>game might be, but keep checking it back game Spot
<v Speaker 1>for more. Yeah, this is this is one where it's like,
<v Speaker 1>is this, you know, a brand new game? Is it
<v Speaker 1>a is it? Is it a remake? Because we did
<v Speaker 1>have those rumors earlier this week that something's going to
<v Speaker 1>be happening soon with Virtuos and the it's Unreal Engine
<v Speaker 1>five remake game, which is very likely Oblivion. Uh, you
<v Speaker 1>know that's a Microsoft joint. But they're saying brand new game,
<v Speaker 1>so maybe maybe this is something else. Uh, I don't
<v Speaker 1>know either way. I'm I'm pretty excited to watch this
<v Speaker 1>this this showcase later this month, mostly because of Doom,
<v Speaker 1>but I don't mind seem about Clare Obscure and you know,
<v Speaker 1>South of Midnight continues to look very fascinating as well.
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, it just feels like Microsoft's got a pretty
<v Speaker 1>decent year coming up, right in terms of games.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, I'm curious to see when they were saying
<v Speaker 3>another another students brand new game that means internal studio
<v Speaker 3>greb or you know.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, I'm I'm gonna assume so, but I there's
<v Speaker 1>nothing here that like definitively says that jan.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, because I think the first time we saw a
<v Speaker 3>Path of the Goddess Kunitsagami, or maybe I got that
<v Speaker 3>title backwards, that game was at a Microsoft event. So
<v Speaker 3>I'm curious, maybe is this like a It could possibly
<v Speaker 3>be a partnership with an external studio that they're really
<v Speaker 3>pushing on game pass, because when I think of Kagami
<v Speaker 3>Path of the Goddess, there we go, we got it, right,
<v Speaker 3>I think of Xbox.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, uh and uh. I think I would have heard
<v Speaker 1>is Capcom and Sega continue to have a good relationship
<v Speaker 1>with Microsoft that their games they are doing pretty okay
<v Speaker 1>on those platforms. Microsoft pays them the right amount as
<v Speaker 1>far as they're concerned to be in game Pass when
<v Speaker 1>they do put their games in game Pass, like Kanitsugami
<v Speaker 1>was or continues to be. I think, yeah, so, so
<v Speaker 1>there's a chance that it could be something along those lines.
<v Speaker 1>And I think, you know, if a Sega or a
<v Speaker 1>Capcom has a game of Kanitsugami's scale announced, it here
<v Speaker 1>might make sense. You're right, So this could be just
<v Speaker 1>about anything, But I'm I think recently There's been very
<v Speaker 1>few complaints about the way Xbox has been running these
<v Speaker 1>developer directs. They are quick and snappy, lots of fast
<v Speaker 1>information and looks at games, and then they do deep
<v Speaker 1>dives later on the blogs or on YouTube videos or whatever.
<v Speaker 1>So I think that, you know, developers want to be
<v Speaker 1>in these showcases now. And yeah, like you said, could
<v Speaker 1>be anybody. I the very least, though, like I said,
<v Speaker 1>goodyear for Xbox. Overall. We're expecting Fables still a vouts
<v Speaker 1>coming out in a month. Oh you know, I think
<v Speaker 1>South of Midnight and Doom the Dark Ages are both
<v Speaker 1>tentatively scheduled for twenty twenty five, I believe.
<v Speaker 2>Mm hmm.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. That's four big games right there for this year,
<v Speaker 1>and there's probably going to be more than that when
<v Speaker 1>it's all said and done. And I'm sure I'm actually
<v Speaker 1>forgetting some off the top of my head here. So yeah,
<v Speaker 1>feel feel pretty good about.
<v Speaker 3>Uh oh yeah the Barcraft Ghost Grub Yeah, coming there
<v Speaker 3>it is.
<v Speaker 1>They said Outer Worlds was coming this year right at
<v Speaker 1>the Game War twenty twenty five, so we saw that. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>so five big games right there. Yeah cool, look looking
<v Speaker 1>forward to that because I feel like after Andiana Jones
<v Speaker 1>feeling much more positive about what Xbox is putting now. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>hopefully they can kind of keep that going, all right,
<v Speaker 1>Assassin's Creed Shadows has been delayed again and will now
<v Speaker 1>launch in March, So about a month delay. This comes
<v Speaker 1>from Eddie or excuse me, Eric Hittleback Puru at Game Reactor.
<v Speaker 1>We all knew that at least one of the many
<v Speaker 1>high anticipated games set to launch in February or February
<v Speaker 1>was going to get one more delay, and the first
<v Speaker 1>one is decided to go into the Shadows. Ubisoft confirms
<v Speaker 1>that Assassin's Creed Shadows, that was originally meant to launch
<v Speaker 1>last November, has been delayed from the fourteenth of February
<v Speaker 1>to the twentieth of March. Now, what am I going
<v Speaker 1>to do for Valentine's Day? Jan The officially stated reason
<v Speaker 1>for the delay is to allow the team to better
<v Speaker 1>incorporate the player feedback gathered over the past three months
<v Speaker 1>and help create the best conditions to launch. Let's hope
<v Speaker 1>that means feedback from actual players and not those who
<v Speaker 1>keep complaining about the game being woke because it's of
<v Speaker 1>its playable characters. Another interesting thing in the press release
<v Speaker 1>is that Ubisoft also acknowledged that the company might be
<v Speaker 1>sold off to interested parties. Leading advisors have been appointed
<v Speaker 1>to review and pursue various transformational and strategic capitalistic options
<v Speaker 1>to extract the best value for stakeholders. And yes that's
<v Speaker 1>a quote from Yu's GIMIL. One of the negative consequences
<v Speaker 1>of this is that they were told that they are
<v Speaker 1>expecting to exceed two hundred million euro consequences of this
<v Speaker 1>in what the is that there were oh, no excuse me,
<v Speaker 1>in reduction of its fixed cost base. Basically, they're going
<v Speaker 1>to cut two hundred million euros worth of cost, which
<v Speaker 1>almost certainly means jobs. Jobs. Yes, I mean and you
<v Speaker 1>look at you be soft by the numbers they employ
<v Speaker 1>ooh and they make and so like this has always
<v Speaker 1>felt inevitable, and part of me is for as much
<v Speaker 1>of a trash fire that as you be soft is.
<v Speaker 1>Part of me is a little bit like happy that
<v Speaker 1>they have found ways to put off the massive layoffs
<v Speaker 1>the real and they've had big layoffs, but they still
<v Speaker 1>are nowhere near as lean as a lot of the
<v Speaker 1>other companies that they're competing against. UH and it feels
<v Speaker 1>like that's just going to break now and here it is,
<v Speaker 1>and again inevitable. They put it off for as long
<v Speaker 1>as they cook. They wanted to keep making games. They
<v Speaker 1>were the way they were gonna make. Uh and no,
<v Speaker 1>but hey, at least Eves Gamo might still be in charge.
<v Speaker 1>Jan Okay, let's talk about Shadows first, though. How you
<v Speaker 1>feel about a little bit of a delay.
<v Speaker 3>There, you know, I think ultimately it's going to be
<v Speaker 3>for the best for Shadows because that February window is
<v Speaker 3>already looking very very populated. The Monster Hunter audience isn't
<v Speaker 3>necessarily the same audience or the Avowed audience even isn't
<v Speaker 3>the same type of gamers that are going to flock
<v Speaker 3>to Assassin's Creed Shadows. But I still think it'll be
<v Speaker 3>best because Monster Hunter Wilds is bound to pick up
<v Speaker 3>a lot of mainstream hype, especially after how well World's
<v Speaker 3>performed Avowed. I think folks are going to go to
<v Speaker 3>it despite having zero marketing or zero hype for it.
<v Speaker 3>I forgot it was coming out next month.
<v Speaker 1>It's almost like, and it's weird. It's not gonna be
<v Speaker 1>in the developer direct but yeah, yeah, keep going.
<v Speaker 3>Right, oh geez, and then it's probably gonna be the
<v Speaker 3>best for Assassin's Creed to get out of those other
<v Speaker 3>big two games. I believe there's like at least two more, right, yes, yes, yes, yes,
<v Speaker 3>like A Dragon.
<v Speaker 1>Pirate, Yakuza in Hawaii, Right, incredible name.
<v Speaker 3>I love that team to get out of the way
<v Speaker 3>of that as well. Again, even though those audiences may
<v Speaker 3>not be similar, like A Dragon is still picking up
<v Speaker 3>a lot of mainstream popularity that.
<v Speaker 2>Maybe people are a little.
<v Speaker 3>Bit tired of the Ubisoft name, tired of Assassin's Creed,
<v Speaker 3>thinking that it may not be like a new fun thing.
<v Speaker 3>So getting out of that window when there are other
<v Speaker 3>new games could be good. But I believe they're also
<v Speaker 3>now going up against these Zeno Blade Chronicles re release.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, they're not gonna be able to avoid everything, right,
<v Speaker 1>and it's like and they also don't want to go
<v Speaker 1>into the next fiscal year, which is why March twentieth
<v Speaker 1>is the release date, basically essentially the last day they
<v Speaker 1>could release it before the end of the fiscal year. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>there's probably maybe another Tuesday. I think that's maybe a
<v Speaker 1>Tuesday that they could release it on before the end there,
<v Speaker 1>like the March twenty seventh, But I think they want
<v Speaker 1>to give it like a full week of sales at
<v Speaker 1>least in the fiscal year, and that means okay, March twentieth,
<v Speaker 1>and so it's like, Okay, we got to look around
<v Speaker 1>and yeah, there's other games coming out, but it's a
<v Speaker 1>little bit lighter than it was in February. Now you
<v Speaker 1>say that, but it's like a lot of those games
<v Speaker 1>that people are buying in February are big, beefy games
<v Speaker 1>they're likely still to be playing in. I mean, especially
<v Speaker 1>Monster Hunter, but who knows about a vowed and like
<v Speaker 1>a Dragon. I know it's going to be a side story,
<v Speaker 1>but those games traditionally have still been pretty beefy. People
<v Speaker 1>might still be busy and not ready yeah for this
<v Speaker 1>game still, but you know, it's maybe still better than
<v Speaker 1>just being in the Maelstrom. Now on the other side
<v Speaker 1>of it, them wanting to maybe like put this off
<v Speaker 1>because they're exploring strategic options and capitalistic options. That is
<v Speaker 1>sounds like, hey, we want to try to make a
<v Speaker 1>deal before this game comes out. And I've said this,
<v Speaker 1>I said this on the Blue Sky a little bit,
<v Speaker 1>but it seems to me that they're saying that we
<v Speaker 1>want to make a deal with someone like a ten
<v Speaker 1>cent or whoever before this game comes out, because we
<v Speaker 1>are we have a little bit more leverage in that case.
<v Speaker 1>Once it's out, whoever we're talking to, we'll just know
<v Speaker 1>what we are, know what we have, and we won't
<v Speaker 1>be able to sort of say, but hey, sure this
<v Speaker 1>is what we're doing. But we still have that coming.
<v Speaker 1>There's no real we still have that coming. After this
<v Speaker 1>game comes out. For Ubisoft, they have to reload and
<v Speaker 1>there's nothing going to be quite as big for them
<v Speaker 1>and maybe a couple of years. So it sounds like
<v Speaker 1>they're just trying to solidify and finalize whatever conversations they've
<v Speaker 1>been having, likely with Tencent. We'll talk about this more
<v Speaker 1>here in a second, before this game comes out. So
<v Speaker 1>it's like they're gonna give this game a little extra
<v Speaker 1>time and try to give themselves a little extra time
<v Speaker 1>to make a deal. Ubiself just continues to feel like
<v Speaker 1>it is, you know, spinning in every direction right.
<v Speaker 3>I can't help it's a grub I'm not a business man.
<v Speaker 3>I'm a business damn Sorry. It seems like there is
<v Speaker 3>one common denominator here despite all of Ubisoft's efforts, and
<v Speaker 3>after they've laid off people, several people, massive chunks of
<v Speaker 3>the team and remained lean and game after game and
<v Speaker 3>effort after effort not quite sticking the landing. Maybe the
<v Speaker 3>problem is they are very very top heavy, yes, yep.
<v Speaker 3>And maybe the capitalistic whatever efforts is perhaps the lack
<v Speaker 3>of effort to adapt from the tippy top.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. I think that this top down strategy they had.
<v Speaker 1>I remember a what was the Grub Snacks The Grub
<v Speaker 1>Snacks Show to do. There was an episode where we
<v Speaker 1>talked about you Be Soft and sort of its strategy
<v Speaker 1>of shifting from having these big blueprint games, which is, hey,
<v Speaker 1>we're going to make we have a way that we
<v Speaker 1>make a game. We have way we make a far Cry,
<v Speaker 1>we have a way that we make an Assassin's Creed
<v Speaker 1>and a Ghost Recon, and we are going to stick
<v Speaker 1>to that formula, that blueprint, and we're going to make
<v Speaker 1>big Triple A games using that blueprint for years. And
<v Speaker 1>then they switched to, Okay, we're gonna have this mothership
<v Speaker 1>strategy where it is we have these big games that
<v Speaker 1>sort of have their own orbit, these massive ones similar
<v Speaker 1>to Rainbow six Siege, and then we'll have smaller games
<v Speaker 1>around it that sort of play on that theme like
<v Speaker 1>Rainbow six extraction and when and everyone's going, wait, what
<v Speaker 1>was it Rainbow six extraction And that's, you know, a
<v Speaker 1>very good example of why that wasn't going to work
<v Speaker 1>and hasn't worked. And they're kind of like shifting back
<v Speaker 1>to the blueprint strategy a little bit. These are like
<v Speaker 1>big brain ideas of like how we're going to take
<v Speaker 1>Ubisoft into the future, and they're not. It doesn't feel
<v Speaker 1>led by the creative teams that work at you'd be stopped.
<v Speaker 1>A lot of great creative people do work there, and
<v Speaker 1>I think that that speaks to what you're talking about.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I think in any of our criticism, Grub, I
<v Speaker 3>don't think it has really been levied at the folks
<v Speaker 3>the developer side of things. That has primarily been at management, right,
<v Speaker 3>And I just think you Bisoft had such a cult
<v Speaker 3>hit like Rainbow six Siege and never really in my eyes,
<v Speaker 3>really capitalized off of it where they could have easily
<v Speaker 3>spun that out in maybe not to something at Fortnite
<v Speaker 3>caliber of levels, but like at least trying to capture
<v Speaker 3>like the Overwatch style of hype, because it is like
<v Speaker 3>a team v team type of game. Also, it's just insane,
<v Speaker 3>Grub how they fumbled the bag so hard with Prince
<v Speaker 3>of Persia as well. Where's Splinter said, well, where is
<v Speaker 3>Rayman grub Yeah?
<v Speaker 1>I mean, and I think it's kind of thing where
<v Speaker 1>it's like, hey, they let they let a team that
<v Speaker 1>was sick of a group of people within UBI stuff
<v Speaker 1>that was sick of working on Assassin's Screed games go
<v Speaker 1>work on Prince of Persia, and boy, look at what
<v Speaker 1>they could do.
<v Speaker 3>Uh.
<v Speaker 1>When that when they were able to just like sort
<v Speaker 1>of spread their wings and do their thing. Uh, And
<v Speaker 1>Ubisoft didn't support them, didn't know what to do with them,
<v Speaker 1>didn't know what to do with that game. And all
<v Speaker 1>of the successes for that game can be credited to
<v Speaker 1>the people working on it directly. All of the failures
<v Speaker 1>of that game can be credited to everyone above them.
<v Speaker 1>And it's just this stark contrast. This this like very
<v Speaker 1>good illustration of everything wrong with Ubisoft. And you know,
<v Speaker 1>now they have so much writing on Assassin's Creed Shadows,
<v Speaker 1>a game that could do very well or could just
<v Speaker 1>crash and burn. Feels like there's no in between. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>And I don't endy them being in this position. They
<v Speaker 1>were victims a little bit of their own success. You
<v Speaker 1>know Whenchep pointed out that the blueprint format of making
<v Speaker 1>games in this style for Far Cry and Assassin's Creed
<v Speaker 1>worked for a very long time, a very long time,
<v Speaker 1>and so that's when and then they're like starting to
<v Speaker 1>see the right ingw on the wall that they couldn't
<v Speaker 1>do it forever. That is why they tried to switch
<v Speaker 1>to the mothership strategy. I get a weird name, but
<v Speaker 1>it was like the blueprint strategy did come from. Hey,
<v Speaker 1>there was some creative people working on Assassin's Creed that
<v Speaker 1>came up with some really cool ideas. They wanted to
<v Speaker 1>make this game. They were dead set on making this game.
<v Speaker 1>And then you had some new creative people who are like,
<v Speaker 1>now we're going to make Assassin's Creed too, and we're
<v Speaker 1>gonna make it even better, a better video game, just
<v Speaker 1>a video game, ass video game. And then that's going
<v Speaker 1>to set us up for a long time. All that
<v Speaker 1>stuff was driven by the creatives, and I just don't
<v Speaker 1>think you'd be soft has that operating at this moment.
<v Speaker 2>No, not at all.
<v Speaker 3>Grub Also, unfortunately, there's the public opinion as well. Whenever
<v Speaker 3>a triple a Ubisoft game comes out, gamers and players
<v Speaker 3>will just wait for that eventually go on sale, even
<v Speaker 3>maybe like a month later.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I mean they'll wait or they just won't even
<v Speaker 1>want to play it at all because it's Ubi Soft.
<v Speaker 1>There's too there's those two groups and they're equally loud
<v Speaker 1>to the groups that's like, I'm gonna wait till this
<v Speaker 1>thing is twenty five bucks, and then there's a group
<v Speaker 1>that's like, it's Ubisoft. I don't want ub slop.
<v Speaker 3>Right Yeah, And unfortunately, I'm hoping that they drop some
<v Speaker 3>of the you play stuff and just release things on Steam.
<v Speaker 1>Because they did say that that hasn't started yet, but
<v Speaker 1>they've said that they've been going forward they will begin
<v Speaker 1>doing that because it has been not successful.
<v Speaker 3>Right God, And like the problem is, I feel like
<v Speaker 3>a lot of people that have their criticisms against Ubi
<v Speaker 3>Soft Shadows, whether they're warranted or not, will still eventually
<v Speaker 3>pick it up, but they will one hundred percent wait
<v Speaker 3>for that game to go on sale a month if
<v Speaker 3>not six months down the line, or wait till the
<v Speaker 3>holiday season. Because, like I believe, there was a pretty
<v Speaker 3>not big, but a sizable bump Star Wars Outlaws during
<v Speaker 3>the holiday season.
<v Speaker 2>It had better because it was on.
<v Speaker 3>Sale because all that extra work had been done to
<v Speaker 3>kind of streamline loud about it.
<v Speaker 1>Yep, yep, very good point. Yeah, just real quick. Ubisoft
<v Speaker 1>was asked about the ten cent rumors and has been
<v Speaker 1>very quiet about them, So that probably is what's happening. Probably,
<v Speaker 1>and they, you know, they're in that silent period where
<v Speaker 1>they can't legally say In many regions, they can't say
<v Speaker 1>anything because they would affect the stock prices of both companies.
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, I wouldn't be surprised to find something has
<v Speaker 1>happened here pretty soon the next couple of weeks before
<v Speaker 1>March twentieth, unless it falls apart, we'll see. Uh okay,
<v Speaker 1>Nintendo and Lego are collaborating on a new game Boy set.
<v Speaker 1>This is from Ali Reynolds at Nintendo Life. Nintendo has
<v Speaker 1>announced that it is collaborating with Lego to launch a
<v Speaker 1>brand new set based on the classic game Boy handheld,
<v Speaker 1>currently scheduled to launch in October twenty twenty five. The
<v Speaker 1>set follows on from the Lego NYS set that the
<v Speaker 1>companies launched back in twenty twenty. Presumably, however, it probably
<v Speaker 1>won't be quite so ludicrously ludicrously expensive, but we'll see
<v Speaker 1>you never know. Further details have not been announced to
<v Speaker 1>this time. They've basically just said this is happening in
<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty five and that's it. I'm not really great,
<v Speaker 1>a great any great images of it, no price, nothing
<v Speaker 1>like that. So we'll have to wait for all those details.
<v Speaker 1>But in the meantime, Jen, I'm I'm excited about this.
<v Speaker 1>I'm glad that they're continuing this partnership because I like
<v Speaker 1>that in any set. Even though I never ended up buying.
<v Speaker 2>It, I hate this, Grub. I have no money right now.
<v Speaker 2>That's why I want one, and I want this. I
<v Speaker 2>thought i'd be.
<v Speaker 3>I thought i'd be impervious to all of these stuff
<v Speaker 3>because like I saw that this thing. I saw that
<v Speaker 3>there's like a Lego Xbox. I'm like, oh, that's really cool. Well,
<v Speaker 3>I'm not gonna pick it up. But then they're going
<v Speaker 3>to do these handhilds, Grub. Yeah, these handhelds your boy
<v Speaker 3>loves and I just want to pick up a Lego
<v Speaker 3>game Boy.
<v Speaker 2>That sounds so cool, Grub.
<v Speaker 1>It's wild that they're like they hand the nes and
<v Speaker 1>just a few years later they made the game Boy.
<v Speaker 1>That's I mean, I know that they had been making
<v Speaker 1>the handhelds of like the game and watches and stuff
<v Speaker 1>like that before the NES. Even still in my mind
<v Speaker 1>it's like man making a dedicated cartridge based console handheld
<v Speaker 1>right after the NES and like now ever since it's
<v Speaker 1>just been handheld and a consolant all the switch which
<v Speaker 1>is which is both? Uh, boy, they got started early on.
<v Speaker 2>That, you know.
<v Speaker 3>The best part, grub is that the best and worst part.
<v Speaker 3>I've been fairly quiet about this. Uh. The best part
<v Speaker 3>is whenever they Nintendo or not Nintendo, Lego makes one
<v Speaker 3>of these fun sets specific like the NEYS one, this
<v Speaker 3>upcoming game Boy set, And if you look at any
<v Speaker 3>of their plant based not Lego's made out of plants,
<v Speaker 3>but they're they're like bouquet stuff. They're all pre existing
<v Speaker 3>Lego parts that have just been collared a different way.
<v Speaker 3>So if y'all want to, uh, just wait a bit,
<v Speaker 3>y'all can look at the Lego game Boy set that
<v Speaker 3>drops and you can get all the different pieces and
<v Speaker 3>order those piecemeal in a different caller, so you can
<v Speaker 3>get ahead of the game and get your purple game Boy.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, And it's like the price per Lego is like
<v Speaker 1>for a generic Lego is like seven cents eight cents
<v Speaker 1>maybe now, and then if it's licensed, if it's like
<v Speaker 1>related to a property, it's like eleven cents, right, And
<v Speaker 1>that adds up very quickly when we're talking about one
<v Speaker 1>thousand plus pieces.
<v Speaker 3>So yeah, I'll be right back, rub I need to
<v Speaker 3>show people this.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, please, absolutely all right, he's going to go get
<v Speaker 1>a show and tell I am. I'm glad they're they're
<v Speaker 1>doing this. I hope they continue to do it. This
<v Speaker 1>is probably one I will pick up myself. I also
<v Speaker 1>have just vast fondness for the original game Boy, the toaster,
<v Speaker 1>the DMG, the Dot Matrix gaming device. So I am
<v Speaker 1>definitely going to be picking this up, and then I
<v Speaker 1>hope they continue to go through with the follow up.
<v Speaker 1>I would love a game Boy Advanced one. A game
<v Speaker 1>Boy Advanced sp an En sixty four Lego one would
<v Speaker 1>almost certainly be something that I would make as well.
<v Speaker 1>Janis back, Okay, yeah, he's got the plant based lego.
<v Speaker 2>Yes.
<v Speaker 3>For folks at home watching the audio, I have the
<v Speaker 3>Birds of Paradise set in front of me.
<v Speaker 2>Botanical that's what That's what it was is.
<v Speaker 3>The fun thing is like this has the lego dirt
<v Speaker 3>in the pot and that's just a bunch of loose
<v Speaker 3>statt puns.
<v Speaker 1>Oh my god, I just saw it as you were saying,
<v Speaker 1>And that's crazy.
<v Speaker 3>But like the birds of Paradise here, if you look
<v Speaker 3>like these are, this pointy part is just like what
<v Speaker 3>I believe was a walkie talkie from like a Star
<v Speaker 3>Wars set a couple of years ago. But also another
<v Speaker 3>part of their botanical collection is like one of these roses.
<v Speaker 3>They had three different designs for the roses here, and
<v Speaker 3>if you look on the inside, that is Indiana Jones's whip,
<v Speaker 3>but it's been colored red.
<v Speaker 1>That's amazing. Oh my god.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>So hey, folks at home, if you want to save
<v Speaker 3>a little little bit of change, you know, just wait
<v Speaker 3>for someone to drop the part set and then just
<v Speaker 3>order it from there.
<v Speaker 1>And yeah, that's and that's something that does happen in
<v Speaker 1>the community, right though the people people have frequently done
<v Speaker 1>that before.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, those freaks do that.
<v Speaker 1>I love those freaks.
<v Speaker 2>All right.
<v Speaker 1>Let's see here, last story, I have half life three
<v Speaker 1>fans think they finally found proof quote unquote that the
<v Speaker 1>game is coming. This is from Alex Hopley, a game reactor,
<v Speaker 1>and we've got folks who are down bad Jan, Let's
<v Speaker 1>help him out here. We've seen a fair few Half
<v Speaker 1>Life three rumors over the past few weeks. Now, while
<v Speaker 1>the game's existence has become more of a myth than
<v Speaker 1>anything else in the decades since the how since Half
<v Speaker 1>Life twos release, there is fresh belief that something is coming.
<v Speaker 1>And I will admit I am a believer, so I'm
<v Speaker 1>right there with these folks. I believe something's happening. But
<v Speaker 1>when you see stories like this, you got to be like,
<v Speaker 1>oh my god, are we all losing our mind now?
<v Speaker 1>As spied by eagle Eyed fans on the Valve Reddit,
<v Speaker 1>thanks to Eurogamer for spotting that, it appears that within
<v Speaker 1>steams back end, there are two games by Valve listed
<v Speaker 1>as upcoming. One is the hero shooter Deadlock, while the
<v Speaker 1>other is invisible. And I think there were rumors a
<v Speaker 1>few weeks back that there was a like friends and
<v Speaker 1>family test happening with this mystery game. Despite Valve's upcoming
<v Speaker 1>release section having two games, the second is nowhere to
<v Speaker 1>be seen. It's completely hidden. Well, this doesn't prove Half
<v Speaker 1>Life three's existence, It certainly does not. It doesn't disprove
<v Speaker 1>it either, which is all the excuse Valve fans need
<v Speaker 1>to go wild with conspiracy theories once more. Yeah, Jane,
<v Speaker 1>I don't know where you're at with all this. Does
<v Speaker 1>this sound crazy to you?
<v Speaker 2>You know what?
<v Speaker 3>I just let the half Life freaks get what they want.
<v Speaker 3>They've been waiting for so long grub. Yeah, And it's
<v Speaker 3>one of those things where I feel bad that we've
<v Speaker 3>had so many switch to rumors. And we'll eventually get
<v Speaker 3>the answers very soon. We're going to and then you
<v Speaker 3>know what, the Talent Hill freaks they got something last year, right,
<v Speaker 3>The half Life people need something.
<v Speaker 1>It's you know, Mike says this, Everything comes back eventually,
<v Speaker 1>especially something this large, this huge, that's important, And yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I think it's happening. Is that Is that the game
<v Speaker 1>that is in the back end that's being tested right now?
<v Speaker 1>You know what? I think so? I think so. But
<v Speaker 1>this is certainly not proof of anything. We'll we'll see, boy,
<v Speaker 1>we will see here pretty soon. Okay, we got the
<v Speaker 1>Internet's Mike Minatti.
<v Speaker 3>I don't think he knows it's Do you think he's
<v Speaker 3>just here for the BCR. I think he's here for BCR.
<v Speaker 3>Let's find out it's true. Okay, Well, we're still doing
<v Speaker 3>gay mess I.
<v Speaker 4>Thought you might be. And I saw Mitch come in
<v Speaker 4>here and I was like, oh, it must be over.
<v Speaker 4>Thanks Mitch, and show myself out. They got a showed
<v Speaker 4>to new Mitch.
<v Speaker 1>Thank you Dan Ryk here for being so considerate.
<v Speaker 2>Mike still hasn't left.
<v Speaker 1>Let's yeah, you can just hang out bye. All right,
<v Speaker 1>let's do the poll question from Uh, let's see it
<v Speaker 1>was a Wednesday, it was post it. Okay, let's not
<v Speaker 1>do the pull question. Then what was this? What do
<v Speaker 1>we yeah? What do we do? This one?
<v Speaker 2>This?
<v Speaker 1>Do you like the idea of using a switch to
<v Speaker 1>a joy con as a mouse? I don't remember if
<v Speaker 1>we did this one? Was that from how many episodes
<v Speaker 1>we do this week? We did that? And then ye yesterday? Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I think that was from earlier this week. Uh. Still
<v Speaker 1>I'm in the minority on that one. I remember that.
<v Speaker 1>Now forty three said yes, okay, so we'll do we'll
<v Speaker 1>double up on the poll questions, the new one that
<v Speaker 1>we'll get posted here. That will be doubling up on
<v Speaker 1>for Monday. That's not Martin Luther King Junior Day. That's
<v Speaker 1>the following week, right, So yeah, for Monday, are you
<v Speaker 1>more likely to play Assassin's Creed Shadows with its new
<v Speaker 1>March release date. Yes or no. You know, even if
<v Speaker 1>it's like no, I'm gonna was gonna play it, just
<v Speaker 1>like I was gonna play before, that's still a no.
<v Speaker 1>So just yes or no. We'll get that up and
<v Speaker 1>you guys can vote for that on the giant Bomb
<v Speaker 1>page on YouTube. Go to YouTube dot com slash at
<v Speaker 1>giant Bomb. There's a community tab there. Click on that
<v Speaker 1>that'll get you there. You can vote on that. We'll
<v Speaker 1>get the results. We'll discuss them on games Morning's here
<v Speaker 1>on giant Bomb. Speaking a Giant Bomb, we are going
<v Speaker 1>to be doing a BCR here pretty soon. We got
<v Speaker 1>some fun stuff happening with that. We'll have a voicemail
<v Speaker 1>dump truck after that, we'll have a UPF after that.
<v Speaker 1>It's a busy Friday. We're gonna make up for a
<v Speaker 1>lack of stuff yesterday. So hang out with this all
<v Speaker 1>day to day. It's gonna be a lot of fun.
<v Speaker 1>Anything else that we should mention, jan.
<v Speaker 3>I hope, like we said at the tip top, I
<v Speaker 3>hope everyone affected by the LA fires is doing okay.
<v Speaker 3>I woke up to an earthquake today and almost pooped
<v Speaker 3>to my pants.
<v Speaker 1>There you go. Everyone in California's being punished or something, so.
<v Speaker 2>Sorry for being so hot.
<v Speaker 1>It's just because they're too hot. And and God is
<v Speaker 1>punishing you for it. Uh yep, with thoughts with everybody
<v Speaker 1>in La and uh and and now apparently the earthquake
<v Speaker 1>people in San Francisco.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, do not pity us.
<v Speaker 1>Alright, fair enough, all right, I think that's gonna do
<v Speaker 1>it Forst. Janet show. And thank you so much for
<v Speaker 1>hanging out with me today and talk about video games. Man,
<v Speaker 1>I super appreciate it. Drugs mate, thank you everybody for
<v Speaker 1>watching and listening. You're the best audience in gaming. Until
<v Speaker 1>next time, have a good one, take care of yourself
<v Speaker 1>and goodbye.