Nintendo Switch 2 Is HERE! - Game Junction Podcast #125

The gaming world erupted this week with Nintendo's long-awaited Switch 2 announcement, revealing a powerhouse hybrid console boasting 1080p handheld resolution, 4K docked capabilities, and frame rates up to 120Hz with DLSS support. We dive deep into the technical specifications that position this new device as a legitimate contender against current-generation consoles while maintaining Nintendo's unique approach to gaming.

Mario Kart World headlines an impressive launch lineup, revolutionizing the beloved racing series with an open-world format that represents the franchise's most significant evolution since its inception. The surprise return of the feather power-up from the SNES days delighted long-time fans, while the expanded 24-player races promise chaotic multiplayer mayhem. We explore what makes this title potentially the most exciting Mario Kart installment in decades.

Beyond hardware and launch titles, we unpack Nintendo's clever anti-scalping measures for pre-orders, the GameCube games coming to the system with optional CRT filters, and the free performance upgrades planned for titles like Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. The announcement of a Hyrule Warriors sequel and a Zelda movie trilogy adds further excitement to what's shaping up to be a landmark year for Nintendo fans.

We also discuss the impressive third-party support at launch, including titles like Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition and Street Fighter VI, signaling stronger relationships bet

NYXI Gaming
- NYXI Wizard GameCube Wireless Joy-pad for Nintendo Switch. Use code "gamejunction" for 10% off!

PWRUP Grip 2
Use code "GameJunction" for 10% off.

Launch Your Own Podcast Now - Buzzsprout
Start for FREE with our affiliate link.

Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.

Chapters

• 0:00 Show Introduction and Technical Difficulties
• 5:28 Weekly Pickups and Collection Updates
• 40:17 Nintendo Switch Online Updates and CRT Gaming
• 54:25 News Roundup: Far Cry 4, Marvel Rivals
• 1:19:29 Nintendo Switch 2 Specs and Features
• 1:35:27 Mario Kart World and Open World Racing
• 1:47:18 Hyrule Warriors and Zelda Movie Trilogy
• 2:08:33 GameCube Games and Switch 2 Upgrades
• 2:31:07 Launch Games and Release Strategy
• 3:01:55 Ubisoft's Tencent Deal and Gaming Industry Issues
• 3:32:27 Wrap-up and Final Thoughts

Transcript

Mark Trobough: 0:00

the controller press starting. Hold tight, we're about to let it up with. Hey everybody, how's it going? Just, uh, going in raw, there we're all dog, all dogging that. We're all doing that bad boy tonight so the 125 hawk shua brandon on that thing it's been like two months late to that meme, but that's when they get good. That's when they get good. Oh yeah, I'm super into the really old memes. Exactly, I was trying to think of the other one.

Brandon Hurles: 0:30

They do call you the meme queen, don't they?

Mark Trobough: 0:34

Oh, you get the. You know, go with your Italian meme.

Brandon Hurles: 0:37

Oh, Mark, Sorry for our audio listeners. You got to fix the Twitch though it says we're playing Monster Hunter listeners. You gotta fix the twitch though it says we're playing monster hunter.

Mark Trobough: 0:46

I know why it's doing that, because I didn't even go and do it. I didn't want to do it at all. That's probably why it's doing it.

Brandon Hurles: 0:54

It's probably not. Yeah crap, sorry audio listeners or some technical difficulties here, but we'll get it fixed yeah, I know you're good, but we'll get it fixed Okay. Yeah, no, you're good meanwhile, one, two good and start getting posts up real quick. Uh, we got star stripes nerd here in the house. Gamer free, two, three, two. How's it going guys? Uh, sorry, we literally in the podcast. Uh, we had some stuff come up. I'm at the hospital all day. Been a fun time, mark, why are you black and white?

Mark Trobough: 1:33

I have no idea. Try to do like a bunch of things, so like, just give me a second It'll be back to normal.

Brandon Hurles: 1:40

You got like pink hair. Are you one of those wokesters?

Mark Trobough: 1:46

I feel like I just need to punch Brandon in a second. Everybody chat. Close your eyes. I'm trying to do something. You keep distracting me.

Brandon Hurles: 1:59

You're literally black and white. I'm so confused right now. Sorry guys, we're definitely raw dogging it tonight, for sure. Yeah, I mean, is there anything you can bring up while you're doing that, so I can?

Mark Trobough: 2:19

Oh, now I don't know why my camera is doing that.

Brandon Hurles: 2:23

I'm not too sure either. Maybe turn it off and on sensor cleaning so black and white? That's weird. Maybe, if I Move you out, put you back in and see what happens. Nope, still black and white, white. Maybe just unplug your camera and plug it back in. I guess we'll see. Usually, simple crap like that tends to fix a lot of those issues. So, yeah, we got uh, you can see one of the things we're going to be showing off some pickups. Bear with me, guys. I am, I am very, very sick. I still want to make sure I hit the show, since it was such an important one with the Switch 2. I got one of my pickups back there. This is my second PlayStation TV. I've got my collection. Oh, there we go. Mark's fix there. So, all right, go ahead and take it over, mark. I want to get these posts up real quick.

Mark Trobough: 3:28

Yeah, so hopefully Crazy way to start the podcast all the way around. Hopefully everyone's having a good Friday. A lot of news dropped this week. Obviously it's all Switch news. That's a lot and close to the bulk of what we're going to be talking about today. Yeah, I mean it's crazy, a lot to talk about and stuff like that. Oh yeah, I know brand's getting some posts up, some other news around there. Obviously it's always fun to just dunk on ubisoft, so this movie's off news over there that's going on. That's dropped I don't think we've talked about yet. Uh, but more stuff just kind of going on with that. Uh, a few general other things monster had an update. Uh, surprisingly, far cry 4 was in the news today. Uh, you know, marvel rivals get a new character. Uh, everyone's uh really loving emma frost and then just a lot of nintendo stuff to talk about. That's like the bulk of it. But I mean that makes sense. We just had the, the direct on wednesday, so that's just like sucking all the oxygen out of the room for anything else.

Brandon Hurles: 4:22

But it's a good stuff. Good stuff, that's the good stuff.

Mark Trobough: 4:25

Oh yeah, the good stuff. But I know Brandon said he wanted to knock out some Before we get into the news. Do some of the pickups first. Knock that out and then we'll go straight into all the good news stuff.

Brandon Hurles: 4:38

Yeah, I'm going to jump into all yours.

Mark Trobough: 4:42

I've had a whole lot Some of this other stuff. I think I picked it up like a week like it was like last week, uh, I don't know. Just just kind of some of this stuff. One thing came today. The other stuff is I picked up at a walmart so surprisingly. I don't know I was surprised they had it, but the akira blu-ray and 4k versions of it was at walmart had I known it's like that up, I would have had you grab me a copy too, because mine doesn't well, this was the last blu-ray, at least when I was there.

Mark Trobough: 5:08

I've seen it before multiple times but I mean, yeah, I mean it's 40 bucks for a 40 year old movie.

Brandon Hurles: 5:13

But you know it is remastered to be fair.

Mark Trobough: 5:17

It's I don't have it in dvd now. So there's one of those pros. And then, uh, just because sometimes walmart or at least my Walmart does they had the season one and two a psychopath. I was like, ah, screw it, this was cheaper than the movie, that was like 20 bucks.

Mark Trobough: 5:30

And then the first of many old retro games for the DS that I was in the process of picking up came in today. So it's not, it's not gonna look too well on the camera, but heart, gold, soul, silver, just the game itself. Silver, just the game itself. Uh, taking that because I haven't played these remakes and now they're like 120 to 150 dollars, like on ebay, just just the game alone. It's not the cheapest, but it's good. And some other games I wanted to get into, uh, so I got what's it? It's either I think it's black it's why I think it's white too that I have. So I suddenly get black and white and then black too, and then platinum as well and some other stuff I was trying to get. So it's just a bunch of the older Pokemon games. I was kind of targeting and trying to go after, right now, some of your top 10 anime. It's kind of hard because there's a lot of good stuff. I mean you got I?

Brandon Hurles: 6:26

think you probably got what you got in the show behind you top 10.

Mark Trobough: 6:30

I think it's a mixture, because you got like a violet evergarden, uh, spice and wolf um, I don't have it, but I I think I'd probably put don that on up there as well. I definitely really like that one. Uh, was it you hawk a show? I don't have like a list, probably tension movie and some other stuff, like that gate. Uh, I have friend room but I haven't watched it yet.

Mark Trobough: 6:55

Yeah, a whole bunch of other good stuff. I probably have to like do a full, proper list because, like, I don't have like a go-to top 10 for a lot of that stuff. Even the same, with a lot of games, I got stuff I like, but nothing that I like put together in a top 10 off the top of my head. There's always good stuff coming out every year and there's other stuff, like you know, shows that I like more than when I was younger, like I'm, I'm higher now on, uh, gundam seed or that, that whole universe, uh, and I'm much lower now than I was back then. As far as Gundam Wing, it's quickly not one of my least favorite Gundam shows.

Brandon Hurles: 7:29

I love Gundam Wing so much.

Mark Trobough: 7:31

The more time goes on, the more I watch Special Universal Century. It's such a very flawed show and stuff like that.

Brandon Hurles: 7:39

I mean, I think there's probably a flaw to most of the besides, I guess, besides the Universal Gundam timeline, which even there there's some slow moments.

Mark Trobough: 7:49

But it's far superior than it's. The Universal Century timeline in and of itself is, like superior to everything else they've put out since. So that's a hill I'm willing to die on.

Brandon Hurles: 8:01

What about Gundam? Qqqqqqqq.

Mark Trobough: 8:04

I don't know. I've not watched it. I know it's supposed to be a. From what I understand, it's a new spin or new take on Universal Century. If, like Zeon, had actually won the one year war.

Mark Trobough: 8:12

Do you know how you actually say the title? I have no idea. All I know is it's supposed to be an alternate take on if, if Zeon had won the one year war of the earth federation, which I think is like a neat concept. Uh, that's just secondhand. So I have not. I'm not actually watched it, because obviously it's one of those where, even if the, the original movie or whatever they aired initially in theaters, comes to the U? S, it comes like forever later. So I get around to watching it. You know, whenever they decide, hey, we're going to finally air this thing, yeah, yeah, but no, definitely a lot of good stuff. I know if you were ready to talk about your stuff or any of me, keep going for a little bit.

Brandon Hurles: 8:51

Oh, you know good and share all your stuff. I'm still working.

Mark Trobough: 8:54

I already shared I didn't have that many, that many pickups to talk about.

Brandon Hurles: 8:59

I got quite sent out that I'm going to be covering on the channel and stuff too.

Mark Trobough: 9:02

But let me Is there anything else you can riff off real?

Brandon Hurles: 9:07

quick, while I get one thing up here on Facebook real quick.

Mark Trobough: 9:11

No, yeah, I think I can. Where is it at? I thought I had something. I can't remember if I aired it or not, I don't know, but I did. I picked this up at Walmart, surprisingly as well. I don't have a lot of game pickups, unfortunately, but Friend Run and stuff like that, which I know is a pretty good show I think I ended up picking it up at the store and stuff like that One of those shows I need to watch. What's it called? I'm actually watching it. What's it called? Friend Run Can I see it beyond journey's end, like? If you're on the internet, I'm sure you've seen some of the memes about it oh, I've seen Skyforge Gaming did a, did a whole case for that.

Brandon Hurles: 9:56

That series the Asmongold's company, I think it's called Skyforge, right or Starforge.

Mark Trobough: 10:03

Yeah, they get Starforge a lot of good stuff about the show, so I've heard good things yeah uh, trying to see if brandon's is good to go almost. I'm sorry, I'm trying to get there um, yeah, hopefully, hopefully, I'll be able to have a good friday so you can start in the first topic if you want to. Yeah, basically like I wasn't like really prepared to like completely riff outside of some of the other stuff, but I got some other smaller stuff before we get into, like the nintendo stuff, we can definitely talk about.

Mark Trobough: 10:32

Uh, so I think I mentioned early on.

Mark Trobough: 10:35

So, for whatever reason, far cry 4 specifically was back in the news today all right so this was one of those things where apparently there was an update for the game that dropped, uh, early today that essentially censored all the nudity in that game worldwide, and in a few hours later they came out like that was a mistake. And of course, there's a whole bunch of people talking about the issue because, like you know, tencent just invested a significant portion in the new subsidiary with ubisoft, which we'll get into later and stuff like that. But uh, people just immediately jumped on that. I was like, oh, this was a, it was an error that they say it's supposed to be a specific region build, which I could believe. But they put it out and everyone just like, oh, tencent is buying another company.

Mark Trobough: 11:17

Now they're like censoring all of their old games. But it's one of those things I'm like, unless you're like giving access to like more support for like newer hardware as far as like no ultra wide and something like that, which I don't even think you really need for a game this old. I don't know why. I don't know why a game this old really even needs an update to begin with, or seems, and how?

Mark Trobough: 11:37

you're accidentally dropping an update like what is somebody just not paying attention to what they're doing? I mean, it's a possibility, but it's just kind of stupid.

Brandon Hurles: 11:47

Yeah, seems pretty silly to me.

Mark Trobough: 11:49

From what they say. They came out and reverted, but it was just. It's weird, like, why is like Far Cry 4, like this crazy, the game's over 10 years old.

Brandon Hurles: 11:59

I mean, Far Cry 6 is out, for God's sake.

Mark Trobough: 12:05

Yeah, and then in another five years you get Far Cry 7. It's just a matter of time. But in the same I don't know it's not necessarily the same breath we did get some new news as far as new characters coming to Marvel Rivals.

Brandon Hurles: 12:21

Yeah, I'm excited about this one.

Mark Trobough: 12:25

Blasting some noise. So we actually got a full on, uh, little character trailer for, um, what's it? Emma frost? Uh, they, they dropped a nice little trailer for us sick and of course, it's like everything you wanted. And I've seen some of the some of the memes on there people saying, oh okay, video gaming is healing because of her actual, actual outfit, one of those really uh revealing outfits and stuff like that. Uh, I don't, I think they said it was like around 1700 credits or whatever the in-game store is and something like that. So obviously this is a character you're gonna have to buy in the game, but yeah, of course my rivals have been doing really good game.

Brandon Hurles: 13:00

It's well, normally you don't have to buy the characters, you just buy the costumes. No, this is a new character. Yeah, but they've added new characters for free, from what I understood she wasn't for free, okay that must be something new, then I'm not sure verbal uh april 11th I must be new. Yeah, because as far as I'm aware, all the all the characters are playable.

Brandon Hurles: 13:22

You just let me try to double check because I know I haven't bought any of the new characters yet and I've played all of them that have came out so far. But I could be wrong.

Mark Trobough: 13:32

Maybe it's a new thing I thought I saw something about them saying it was there, was, it was going to cost something, but I can't remember unless it was like a costume it could be that revealing costume, because that's obviously but that's all they show.

Mark Trobough: 13:45

Okay, so let's say emma frost is dropping with it. So is emma frost already in the game or is it just a new costume, because I thought I didn't know she was in the game or not? To be honest, I haven't played the game in a hot second, so I haven't played it in a minute either.

Brandon Hurles: 13:59

I can look it up real quick uh, so uh.

Mark Trobough: 14:03

the emma Frost X Revolution costume bundle will go live in the shop on April 11th when season two begins. According to data pulled from the game, it will be an epic rarity bundle that costs 1600 units in the store, meaning it will include the X Revolution skin and MVP animation, a new emote, a fresh spray and nameplate though the nameplate won't be animated, so I don't know if that's just her as a character. It's just this costume, that they just her X Revolution costume, but that's not going to be her default. But regardless, I don't know how much that is in real world money.

Brandon Hurles: 14:37

I hate games, do this, but yeah, to be fair, it is a free to play game. So I mean they at least get the justification of doing it. They got to make money somehow.

Mark Trobough: 14:47

Yeah, so pretty much this goes live next Friday. So one more week. Essentially get new characters and some tells me she's going to be a really popular character for the next weekend.

Brandon Hurles: 14:56

I imagine I'm still stuck on Squirrel Girl when I play. I can't get myself off of.

Mark Trobough: 15:01

I don't know, I don't know, I don't know how she's gonna play um, but I'm sure, regardless she'll, she'll be pretty popular. For for a little bit I'm sure, I'm sure but I mean it's. It's pretty obvious to see why and that's why everyone's talking about it. I was like, oh wow, look, you do something and people like just will simp over your game it's. It's almost like sex sells. We were saying that for a while. I mean it does right it's kind of.

Brandon Hurles: 15:24

That's kind of the truth it's. It's almost like sex sells. We were saying that for a while.

Mark Trobough: 15:25

I mean it does right, it's kind of it's kind of the truth, it's not not the hardest thing to kind of understand why people. People talk about that like not surprisingly. Uh, yeah, true, but as well as we got our first major update, uh, the monster wilds, uh what they're calling their title update one, and apparently people are having crashes and connectivity issues with this update, which is not what you want to see for a game that's it's doing pretty well, really, really popular.

Brandon Hurles: 15:52

Yeah, here the past like two months it came out I imagine capcom is going to get this fixed pretty quick. It's too big of a game for them to you know leave problems like that hanging around so uh, so some of the stuff they were talking about.

Mark Trobough: 16:04

They say we've confirmed that the game crashes when you talk to Nata and select Sekka to trade items at the village intermediary and this has come from the Monster Hunter status over on Twitter. They say we've confirmed the rankings for Arena Quest and Challenge Quest includes some times which are either fraudulent or the result of bugs. They're working on that and they say the previous report monster under wilds online connectivity connectivity issues and um gameplay issues have now been resolved. This was all happening, you know, earlier, earlier this morning, primarily last night into this morning, but I mean there's always the chance that some of these bugs could still be around. Potentially, if they were, they were having these issues. But they seem to like try to jump on this pretty quickly, like they realize it's happening and they're not like dragging their feet to like get a, get a patch out and stuff.

Mark Trobough: 16:54

So yeah, hopefully, you know for a lot of people later tonight and stuff like that into the weekend, because you know the weekend's always going to be when a lot of people are playing games and stuff like that, especially with this new new update. You don't run into any new bugs, but I'm sure it's the possibility you'd be on the lookout and stuff.

Brandon Hurles: 17:08

So hey, what's up, it's always worth being aware yeah, for sure, for sure. Uh, how you both feeling, um, I have been much, much better mark. I think mark's doing all right, though no, I'm, I'm doing fine.

Mark Trobough: 17:23

I mean it's been a busy week, but other than that, I've been, I've been doing fine, I've been all over the place, yeah, uh. But yeah, on top of that, uh, we did get some news about some n64 games on the switch to apparently getting some new features, uh. So what they stated is, uh, n64 games on switch to will come with new features like customized button mapping, a rewind option and a retro filter. And it's supposed to drop the same thing.

Brandon Hurles: 17:50

They're adding scan lines, from my understanding, which is good. Gives you the authentic way to play the game.

Mark Trobough: 17:58

For all 34 games that are on the NSO. It should be effective all of them. From what I understand, it's happening the same day. June 5th is when a lot of this, a lot of these updates are coming. So it's not always just stuff I can't know, is it? I can't remember? Is this going to be just for the switch too, or is this just dropping the updates, dropping the same day like this, all the 64 stuff?

Brandon Hurles: 18:20

yeah, the 64 stuff. I can't say for sure, because I mean that's that makes sense, like it's on the nso it would make sense just to have it across the board. I think it would be across the board of course the gamecube stuff's going to be exclusive to switch to, but the um 64 stuff I assume is across the board yeah, and then I guess in the same breath they did come out and say, uh, for the switch to the gamecube will offer optional CRT filters for GameCube games if you want to play like that?

Brandon Hurles: 18:48

That's good. I mean because a lot of people like when I play.

Mark Trobough: 18:51

I prefer to play my retro games with CRT. To be fair, when you're emulating retro games, these are, like already default filters, so you could argue why did it take you all this long? But I guess better late than never to get some of these filters, if that's, if that's how you want to play it. Yeah sure, it's similar, but it's still not the same thing, it's it's not.

Brandon Hurles: 19:10

It definitely is not replicate playing on a crt. I personally don't like crt filters.

Mark Trobough: 19:17

I prefer to play on a crt for retro games but it's not even the same because, like I remember playing on crts and the scan lines are there but they weren't really noticeable like they are on an emulation. It just doesn't feel the same.

Brandon Hurles: 19:30

Yeah, it's one of those things where people either love or hate it. As far as filters, go.

Mark Trobough: 19:35

I never use CRT filters.

Brandon Hurles: 19:37

Some games do it better than others. There are game collections out there that do CRT filters pretty good. In other ones it just feels like pretty chunked on where it doesn't. You just don't get the same, the same replication as playing on an actual CRT.

Mark Trobough: 19:52

Yeah, but CRTs are very quickly not really there. They're, they're going away. Slowly but surely. Stuff like that's getting harder.

Brandon Hurles: 20:01

Yeah, I mean every day there's another CRT gone, but they are bigger than they've ever been in the retro community, for sure.

Mark Trobough: 20:08

Because there's a limited supply. Now they're going to go away eventually.

Brandon Hurles: 20:11

Yeah, there's nobody manufacturing them anymore.

Mark Trobough: 20:14

Get it while you can. People are hanging on even to the worst models Because I mean even the worst model CRTs you're very limited on what you can get now, but I mean so it's one of those things. In like 50 years, crts just aren't going to exist anymore.

Brandon Hurles: 20:29

Well, people will always be repairing them and keeping them up to date.

Brandon Hurles: 20:32

Yeah, but there's like so many parts that that you're going to be able to have and find and eventually there's a diminishing supply and eventually around as long as you can and keep it maintained and take care of them, make sure you get them serviced and and do everything you can, to you know, lengthen the life of them, because they definitely have a much, much, much longer lifespan than than modern tvs do. Obviously, we've got I've got, you know a crt over here from from 1986.

Mark Trobough: 21:00

That still works just like it did then and here we are, here we are, and I've got, I've replaced a new tv like six different times in the past 10 years. Yeah, what's it? Oh, six and ten, like I've had my tv for, bro you remember when I broke this one.

Brandon Hurles: 21:17

This was probably. It was probably like five months ago. I was so irritated because I had just spent 1400 on the400 on the TV, getting a nice OLED TV. I don't know how it broke. That's crazy. I did nothing but turn the TV on. I did nothing. I never moved one time since I've owned it.

Mark Trobough: 21:36

I've had my TV for eight years and it still works just fine.

Brandon Hurles: 21:39

I have no idea, I have no idea I got so irritated that I didn't get another good tv. I just went with a crappy tv and called it a day, because I now I game on my monitors mostly anyway. So like, really I didn't, didn't care as much as I once did because I was gaming exclusively on a tv. But now that I do pc gaming even my consoles I play on a monitor more often than not because of refresh rates and stuff like that 1440p mode and stuff like that.

Mark Trobough: 22:13

What's that meme? Will the modern TV be careful, you're going to break my TV. Or with the old CRTs, be careful, you're going to break a piece of furniture with this thing. Yeah, you drop your glass.

Brandon Hurles: 22:23

it doesn't break, it just breaks your foot.

Mark Trobough: 22:24

Instead You're like, oh my God this thing. Yeah, you drop your glass, it doesn't break it, just breaks your foot.

Brandon Hurles: 22:27

Instead you're like, oh my god, this thing is heavy tech was just, it was uh, it was in the way, all in the front of it, because that's where the glass was, so it would always lean forward yeah, it was just thing. Things were definitely made differently back then.

Mark Trobough: 22:42

Look at the CRT still lasting today and meanwhile you've got, you know, modern TVs, that Even modern TVs were to last like years, Like the technology would be so outdated with like eventually it's like you're gonna have to buy a new TV. Your games aren't going to work on it.

Brandon Hurles: 22:56

Yeah, I mean like you think of like an early LCD TV, like they look like absolute dog crap.

Mark Trobough: 23:06

Like even LCD technology has come such a long way. I mean to be fair. I've seen people like plug like a ps5 into like an old crt I've done it obviously downgraded, I've got all the equipment to do it I've plugged my ps5 into a portable handheld uh tv you can always tell like how, like the screen just getting cut off, really bad half the time.

Brandon Hurles: 23:24

Yeah, yeah, for sure, it's probably the capacitors. Those are always a problem. Yeah, for sure, you always got to get all your stuff recapped your retro game systems, your retro computers your CRTs.

Mark Trobough: 23:39

The real next thing is how do you capture and display old games or on a modern like oled and lcd? Essentially, when it comes to like those old games, like, how do, how can you like essentially emulate an lcd screen, naturally on the display itself?

Brandon Hurles: 23:57

wait, say that again.

Mark Trobough: 23:58

I'm sorry like, instead of like having like a just a screen on the software. Like actually having like a hard tv with a hardware option for like a just a screen on the software. Like actually having like a hard TV with a hardware option for like a uh uh the LC to replicate a CRT on a modern TV the retro tank. So no, like, not not like like, built into the TV itself. Do you think that will ever be a thing?

Brandon Hurles: 24:19

I'll built into it. Probably not, because it's so niche upon niche Like that is a niche of a niche, there's so few people out there, I mean obviously like retro gamers it matters, but like for the modern tv market, that probably makes up like 0.0001.

Brandon Hurles: 24:36

I don't know what they say, like 29 that's what retro tanks are for a retro games, yeah I, but I mean, I don't know, but that's what Retro Tinks are for. They do that. They replicate a CRT the closest you can possibly ever get to being able to play on a modern-day TV and it gets really close. Retro Tinks are really really good products, very good products, even the new Retro Tink 4Ks. I haven't got that one yet. I do plan to upgrade to that at some point, but I have the RetroTINK 5X Pro and I can't recommend it enough.

Mark Trobough: 25:16

It's the closest replication that you'll ever get of a CRT on a modern display. I mean fair enough.

Brandon Hurles: 25:19

That's why they're not cheap either, but they do the job and they work very, very well. It's probably going to be the only way that you're going to be able to emulate that. It's the only legit way to do it. Anybody that's a hardcore retro gamer that wants to play on modern hardware or modern screens owns a RetroTink for sure.

Mark Trobough: 25:41

When we get to the standard size of a tv is like like 150 inches or something like that. How will that blown up size?

Brandon Hurles: 25:50

well, that's what the retro thing 4k is for. It fixes that problem.

Mark Trobough: 25:55

I mean all right, but like when you get 250 screens or something like that, and we're doing with like 250k resolution, like I don't know, maybe we'll have the 256k resolution retro tank out there.

Brandon Hurles: 26:10

I have no idea we going crazy.

Mark Trobough: 26:12

You're bigger, the better baby. We love it, uh, some other, hopefully some good news there's obviously, if you haven't already heard, there's rumors, uh that we may be getting a remake, uh, for elder scrolls, for oblivion.

Brandon Hurles: 26:24

I don't know if you heard anything about that oh yeah, I think that's 100 happening, but I'm I have zero faith in them doing it correctly like, oh my, like, how many uh remakes of skyrim do we like?

Mark Trobough: 26:37

or remasters, re-releases of that game? It's like come on, like you've got older games that we would want to play, and I think oblivion is made to be fair.

Brandon Hurles: 26:44

Oblivion is supposed to be like a full-on remake, not like a remaster or like a legendary edition or like anything like that without old. The graphics are and some of the mechanics I still think oblivion holds up very well today, I know it does, but like if it would look maybe as good as even skyrim or something a little bit newer, I think, think the game would benefit.

Mark Trobough: 27:04

For the games that came out when 3D was still trying to find its way. It's that 360 era and stuff like that where some games look good, some games.

Brandon Hurles: 27:13

Let me ask you a question Are you a fan of Morrowind at all?

Mark Trobough: 27:19

I want to like the game, but there are some game mechanics that I just don't care for. Like I get why people like them, but like the whole uh rng element of swinging a sword and whether or not you're actually going to do damage and hit is really frustrating, either if you didn't grow up with it or you're just so used to how modern games work so I have a super hot take.

Brandon Hurles: 27:41

I think that both morrowind and um oblivion are both better than skyrim. I just always felt that way.

Mark Trobough: 27:49

I played skyrim a dozen times over and multiple different versions I think the game design for skyrim was like the world design for it is is really well, it's great. It's a great game, it's just. I think the only issue with skyrim is just the. The game, like the combat mechanics were so simplified in that game and it worked to its benefit and to its detriment in both ways. As far as it it limited what you could do in the game. It's outside of modding.

Mark Trobough: 28:15

But it also was probably the reason that far more people got into skyrim. You know as a whole, yeah, together and stuff like that. I don't because I think there think there's pros and cons to games being super, super simplified and stuff like that. Yeah, but then again I think that that's the benefit because at this point, like, the game's still relevant, because the modding scene is so much stuff you can do with the game, yeah, and you kind of got to the point like let's be fair, they're going to this is I think this is the way the studio is going to go is they can make the game kind of bare bones as far as some of the mechanics, knowing that the game's going to get modded to hell essentially to fix all these problems, and you can make it as simple or as complicated combat as you want.

Mark Trobough: 28:55

One of my big problems with it like a dark souls S game for some of the combat.

Brandon Hurles: 29:07

One of my big problems with the whole oblivion remake is the fact that they decided they needed to go and make a whole inclusive team of developers to work on the game and and as if like everybody's, not a person can't we all just like work on the game together? Why do you have like your own special inclusive team of people with pink hair and blue hair and whatever? Why can't we just all work on the game? Why do we need to have an all-inclusive DI team for Oblivion? That made me lose all hope and all of caring at all about that game coming out. I want to play that because I love oblivion, but like I just I mean, I just have so little faith in the company right now that I guess.

Mark Trobough: 29:55

Well, after after the other games, I will say this obviously nothing has been officially announced for this.

Mark Trobough: 29:59

This is kind of just officially, but it kind of has officially been announced too I mean they've edited, like, but a lot of the xenomax own games have like their steam page edited, but this one like had a lot of trailers and stuff removed and stuff like that. So some people are kind of like, I don't know, this is just rumored, stuff like that. So obviously we're still waiting for initial announcement. But the big thing obviously is are they gonna? Are they gonna remove elements of the game, whether it's the story combat there? Are they going to change how the game was originally?

Mark Trobough: 30:26

When people just want, yeah, you deal with like these remakes, like I just want a new coat of paint on the game, uh, I think the voice acting could, could use a re-dubbing, but that's just me. Yeah, obviously you can still play it as is. So it's not. If you can play the original version and the new coat of paint, I would say there's a lot of mechanics need fixed. I would also this might be a hot take redo a lot of the voice acting and stuff like that.

Brandon Hurles: 30:51

It was pretty dreadful.

Mark Trobough: 30:53

You didn't need to fix some of the game mechanics to just, you know, maybe not be as clunky as they were back then. Don't necessarily remove anything, just make it a more smooth experience to play the game and a new coat of paint that make it a more smooth experience to play the game in a new coat of paint. That's really all people want. They don't want you like completely changing things and stuff like that. So I'm like, if you're going to make the actual Imperial city like actually feel like bigger or something like that, like if it's like a hole in, we're going to not remove anything in format, but we're going to add a far more actual content. Make the world feel bigger and stuff like that. I think to far more actual content. Make the world feel bigger and stuff like that. I think that would be a far.

Mark Trobough: 31:26

If you're going to actually fully remake this game, I would say, make oblivion actually feel like the actual size it should actually be as a province, which is, which is massive, and stuff like that. Yeah, and make these cities feel bigger. Don't do what they did in that and skyrim these towns that are supposed to be really big and there's like 20 people that live in them like actually go in and make these cities feel like cities and stuff like that, and just add a bunch. You're not removing but you're just giving far more content, adding more quests, making the world bigger and stuff like that, because then people would I feel like people would be more receptive to the game as a remake. It's not just all. They did the bare minimum and they're charging us 70 for it.

Brandon Hurles: 32:02

There's also so many games that essentially tie into Oblivion as well, that were different spin-offs that came out over the years and stuff like Shadow Key.

Mark Trobough: 32:12

Yeah, but let's be fair, Nobody's really played those games.

Brandon Hurles: 32:15

Nobody's really played those games. But what I'm saying is they can take, because nobody's played those games. They can take the lore and what was built up from those games and add it into the game.

Mark Trobough: 32:24

No games, they can take the lore and what was built up from those games and add them as a dlc.

Brandon Hurles: 32:26

No, just add it into the game to give you a beefier game and um, I feel like they wouldn't do that. They're just going to ignore those games at this point, because they were kind of I wish they wouldn't, because there were a lot of good games that came out that people just unfortunately either didn't have a system for or just never knew about, or they weren't advertised well.

Mark Trobough: 32:45

How many people you know had the Engage, how many people actually had something like this? It's crazy.

Brandon Hurles: 32:51

Not many, nobody really played this game. Yeah, not many had it, but there's way more Elder Scrolls games out there than people realize and a lot of really good stuff that I feel like people just completely overlooked or didn't have a way to play, or whatever it might be.

Mark Trobough: 33:14

Yeah, because I got the hot take, because I liked a lot of the some of the mechanics and the story and how you could essentially kill non-essential MCPs in Morrowind. But I absolutely dread the actual combat in that game. It just it drives me up a wall and it's one of those things where it's like some people either love it or hate it and it was definitely a product of the era and just game designs. Just not how it was back then.

Brandon Hurles: 33:41

I mean, it's definitely, it's definitely different game. The games industry has changed tenfold since then and um, you know. So I guess we'll just kind of I guess see what happens to this.

Mark Trobough: 33:53

But I guess, before you jump into the uh, the other, I just want to say one thing like let's be fair, like I, I feel like a lot of people, they actually went, played like arena and, uh, the second old school game I'm blanking on the actual name of the game. Those games are so far more. Those are even more frustrating to go back and play now with how they've aged well.

Brandon Hurles: 34:13

They're different. They're different types of games.

Mark Trobough: 34:16

As far as the first, I think that you have Elder Scrolls 1, 2, and 3 is kind of their own era and it peaked with Morrowind. As far as the gameplay, obviously the maps kind of their own era and it peaked with more wind. As far as, like the gameplay, obviously the maps kind of got smaller, but it's the, the style of gameplay was there and then it kind of got a reset with oblivion and then to skyrim. As far as, like, game design just kind of changed from the old, probably more true to the rpg mechanics, to just more modern combat and yeah, because I mean like, like looking back more, just like active combat essentially.

Brandon Hurles: 34:47

Like Arena and Daggerfall are like such different games than like any of the games that people know in the Elder Scrolls series. But like there's some definitely some bad ones in there, like, for instance, redguard was not a good game at all. It's technically a spin-off. It's technically a spin-ff. It's technically a spinoff, but it's also technically a mainline game.

Brandon Hurles: 35:09

I mean, if you look at the actual timeline and the story, technically it's a mainline game. It is a quote-unquote spinoff. But I mean, most of the Elder Scrolls games are spinoffs that people don't even know about.

Mark Trobough: 35:21

Yeah, but it's one of those weird things you know people talk about. You know. I think it started probably at least with skyrim. I think it's a lot of modern gaming, how people you're either for or against fast traveling, but considering how large both more uh, it's not more wind, it's daggerfall and arena apps are they're. They're designed around the fact that you kind of need, you have to, fast travel in those games you're just trying to zoom in.

Brandon Hurles: 35:42

When you're talking, you keep keep changing.

Mark Trobough: 35:45

I I couldn't tell.

Brandon Hurles: 35:46

No, I was trying to put you on there so people could see you, but uh I guess, before you move on, I'll go ahead and uh show my pickups here real quick, and I'm gonna let mark kind of take the helm of the show today because I'm just not feeling good and, uh having a hard time with my voice. So so I'm going to show what we got. Some of this was sent out from companies. A couple things were pickups that my friend got me at a convention he went to when I wasn't able to go because my grandma's funeral, so he picked up some stuff for me there. I picked up a couple of things today at GameStop and, yeah, there's just a few random things. I got two things that came in that I ordered months and months ago that finally came in. There's some stuff to show here.

Brandon Hurles: 36:35

One thing I did want to actually announce that I was really bummed out to see as much as people have a love hate relationship with GameStop. Unfortunately, where I live it's the only modern gaming store, so like it's just it's the, it's like you know you're, you're more likely to get, like, for instance, a console pre-order there than you are online, because just not as many people are doing it. Um, it's way easier for me to go in there and get a game day one there than waiting online where it might not even come and you know it might be important for streaming or whatever it might be, with getting something that day that it comes out, and the pre-order bonuses and the, the sales and the, the five. You know you get five dollars a month, which might not seem like a lot, but I still get something free out of it every single month. It pays for itself.

Mark Trobough: 37:30

And I also build up the points. I do hate for GameStop.

Brandon Hurles: 37:33

It does.

Mark Trobough: 37:33

It's like, oh well, you're not going to buy it because the whole. It's like they're going to buy a used game but they have to resell it and make money and I'm not going to get as much money. I'm like, yeah, you can sell it yourself then, type thing.

Brandon Hurles: 37:45

That's what I do.

Mark Trobough: 37:48

That's the undue amount of criticism they get, because I'm just like, oh, okay, yeah, if you're selling Madden 25, bro, no one's going to buy that game.

Brandon Hurles: 37:55

I'm not going to straight up defend GameStop because they've done some deplorable things over the years.

Brandon Hurles: 38:08

I deplorable things over the years. There's a lot of uh. I appreciate being able to have access to a store where I can go pick up the game that I want to get on day one or get the pre-order bonus or the console launches are huge because because of GameStop, I was able to get my series X day one. Uh, because of GameStop, I was able to get my PS five just two days after launch. Because of GameStop, you know, I was able to get my PS5 just two days after launch. Because of GameStop, I was able to do all these different things.

Brandon Hurles: 38:28

And my plan originally for the Switch 2 launch was to go there super early. I was going to go probably five, six hours early for pre-order day for the Switch 2. Go there If I need to wait in line. Wait in line to pre-order it, but at the same time I'm going to have my phone ready to go to try to pre-order online too. So I have double the chances of being able to try to get it day one and being able to talk about it and cover it, you know, right away and stuff like that.

Brandon Hurles: 38:56

So that was kind of my plan until I happened to be walking by GameStop today and saw the giant sign, I actually took a picture and I was like, well, you know, I said this really sucks. But honestly, in no way was this completely a surprise to me, because I thought for sure this particular GameStop was going to get shut down four years ago. You know, I thought for sure that it was just done because they were not like. The sales were down, declining massively. If it weren't for the um, the stonks for GameStop, I don't think it even would be around right now. For for my area and so my area is not the only one I was told today that there were 280 store closures and there's more to come that have not been announced yet. So it's not just my game stop, unfortunately, but I do live in a small town and, uh, there's just very limited availability. The only other thing that's you know, available for getting all that brand new stuff is going to be walmart, and obviously it's just not the same.

Mark Trobough: 40:02

So yeah, I did. I guess I did want to say so. Like, uh, if any of you are still even interested in stuff like that, uh, nintendo is doing their own. Uh, yeah, it definitely sucks. Yeah, if you're trying to like pre-order it from nintendo, one of the unique ways I guess they were trying to combat uh, botting and stuff like that is, uh, they had their own unique take, if you kind of haven't already seen it, and stuff like that, which I think more people should should. I guess they couldn't do exactly when it did, but it's a unique way, yeah, um, so obviously you need to be an account holder and at least be older. Uh, and I think they said it's only one person per account. So if you have, like, a family account, whoever owns that family account is the only one that can use this pre-order through their own site.

Brandon Hurles: 40:43

That's completely fair, so that everybody can get a console to go around.

Mark Trobough: 40:49

So they're going to send out. You just go in there and you register. They're going to send out invites. Well, their website still says May 8th. I don't know if anything's going to change.

Brandon Hurles: 40:56

It's still coming out the same day, but pre-orders are not happening the same day.

Mark Trobough: 41:02

This is their the way to invite people to allow them to pre-order the game, essentially.

Brandon Hurles: 41:05

Yeah, I was really upset because you sent me that, but I had actually just gotten the notification about that probably 30 minutes before you sent it to me and I by accident clicked the non-bundle version. Which why would I not want the bundled version and only pay 50 for mario kart versus paying the full price? So I unintentionally hit that and you cannot go back once you made the selection. That was it.

Mark Trobough: 41:33

Yeah and it sucks, I screwed up essentially you're gonna receive it via invites. They say it's going to be delivered on first come, first serve basis and if you do get this criteria, you have a whole 72 hours to essentially go and buy the buy the console you got.

Brandon Hurles: 41:51

I was also going to say to you um, if you get the opportunity to be able to get two of the consoles somehow some way, what I do, oh yeah, from this is this is only like a one shot.

Brandon Hurles: 42:01

No, no, what I'm saying is, if it's another, like Best Buy or Walmart or something like that, if you are able to get a second console, like for me, and vice versa, if I'm able to get a second console for you, I'll just straight up buy it. You pay me, I pay you. Whatever. However, we want to do it just to make sure that we can both secure a console right away. I'm going to do that. I want to go out of my way to try to make sure I get you and if nothing else and you end up getting yours, I'll just cancel it. You know, no harm, no foul. Yeah, fair enough. So I figure that's an easy way to do. It is, you know, if we end up saying that you know one goes up on best buy and one goes up on walmart, I'll go on both and I'll buy one from both and make sure that you get one.

Mark Trobough: 42:41

I mean, this will probably be the the, the one you find out the soonest if you're able to get this. But uh, yeah, on top of it, the actual, they say, the priority requirements are as follows. So the one you must have been the only one to purchase any nintendo, the one who purchased the nintendo switch online membership. You must have had any paid nintendo switch online membership for a minimum of 12 months, which is the other way.

Brandon Hurles: 43:05

Essentially, they're gonna.

Mark Trobough: 43:07

Could you this going through the website? It's linked to your actual account so they're gonna see you can't just buy it now. You had to have had this for at least a full 12 months. Be like, okay, this person actually plays their console and use yeah, to be fair, playstation has started doing that too.

Brandon Hurles: 43:22

They did it with the launch for the ps5 Pro.

Mark Trobough: 43:24

Yeah, it's kind of got to combat the botting issue.

Brandon Hurles: 43:26

Yeah, it's the best way to do it. I mean, it's really like, if you think about it, there aren't too many ways to fight the bots, and that's one good way to do it is by making sure you are linked to an account, you're only able to get one of the consoles and that's it, and that you've had that account for a certain amount of time and didn't just buy it two days prior to be able to get it so they also said hey, you need to have been opted in to share gameplay data and have at least 50 hours of total gameplay hours to be like.

Mark Trobough: 43:53

Just because you have it, you don't play it. Like well, you don't play your switch. And now you want to switch to? Well, we want to. You know somebody who at least has some amount of play time on the actual switch and stuff like that? For sure, for sure.

Brandon Hurles: 44:04

I do think it's a unique way.

Mark Trobough: 44:06

It's harder for third parties. Obviously can't do that, right right.

Brandon Hurles: 44:09

More people are willing to go into it. It's the way to do it, and I do firmly believe that the reason that the Switch 2 got pushed off longer than we thought as far as release is because they were trying to build up stock to help combat this, because the only way to combat it is to have the stock. You know if you've got enough stock and people pick up 50 copies of it and you know 50 consoles, but there's still a whole bunch of consoles out there that people can buy. Yeah, we've already fought it. Now people are sitting on those consoles that they can't sell.

Mark Trobough: 44:51

And I think it's the easiest way to like combat body and stuff like that is to uh either aid, do some kind of queue system and probably like say hey for whatever site or who you're going through. Especially if it's digital, you need to have an account and it's like one per person. Uh, but there is. I could see where it's a little bit. You have to be be a little bit more creative with third party, with other retails, but the only other way some of these retails could avoid the botting issue is to be like you have to buy it in person and it's one per person.

Brandon Hurles: 45:12

I'll tell you what one website Now. I haven't gotten through for a single one of them, unfortunately, and I've signed up for every single one. But what I do, like that NewEgg is doing, is they're doing their NewEgg shuffle, so it gives everybody an equal opportunity to all sign up for the graphics card that they want, the GPU that they want. You go on there and you select which ones you're interested in and it's a random raffle. It doesn't matter if you click the link first or you click the link last. It's like a four-hour open window. You can sign up for this. You'll get an email saying, yes, you got through for this, or no, you didn't win this new egg shuffle and they've got them going on like every day, every other day and like that's. I like that system as well, because it's completely random. It doesn't matter if you click the link first and salt first, because, completely random, it's a random.

Mark Trobough: 46:04

That's like a unique way like how like a lot of like events or like especially like some conventions and stuff like that happen in japan is they'll have a general sale, but before, before that, they might have like one or two essentially uh guaranteed raffles.

Mark Trobough: 46:17

So sometimes it's easier, you can just create like 20 emails, but essentially it's a raffle system to see who gets first dibs at a guaranteed like ticket for like a convention or something else. Uh, because that's what uh like when I was in, when I was in japan at hall live and stuff like that, that's kind of how they did. The first thing it was they had two goes about, essentially a raffle for their concerts and the actual like expo type thing, and then after that it was a uh sale which sells out in a matter of minutes. Yeah, on top of the sites going down, it's kind of sold out. So it's like the only guaranteed way you're going to get anything is if you get in on this raffle. And it's also weird because they've got like a specific site outside of Japan and they've got stuff for inside of Japan as well.

Brandon Hurles: 46:59

So yeah, but it's a unique way to combat, to get people.

Mark Trobough: 47:05

It's like like, hey, we're gonna do a general raffle for x amount of tickets. If you get in, great, if not, you can try your hand at general admission, but it's probably gonna sell out before you're able to even get through the whole.

Brandon Hurles: 47:13

You know process, even the way that they did the switch to experience stuff, how it was completely just like a raffle yeah, that's a very bad thing. The whole uh gotcha system mechanics is like a real thing like you had to have an account, you had to be a member, and it was a complete just draw raffle. Everybody had the same amount of chances. So, like I like that system, it feels more fair than as many emails you wanted to create for the r yeah I mean, well, the thing with the nintendo switch to experience stuff is that you had to have a registered.

Mark Trobough: 47:52

Yeah, you had to have had but like verified registered buddy has the ability to do something like that.

Brandon Hurles: 47:59

If it's not like a first party thing, no, like you know, your third party sellers, like your walmart's, and your best buys and your targets aren't going to be able to do it in the same way, I don't think they care either.

Mark Trobough: 48:07

I don't think they care.

Brandon Hurles: 48:09

But it isn't that hard for them to get q systems, because now I know you haven't been following any of the stuff for the 50 series gpus. But best buy now has a q system as well, so you have to get queued up to get through on best buy for the gpus so apparently it's like let me know where I'm in the queue to be like, do I even have? A they don't let you know. They don't let you know which is so frustrating.

Mark Trobough: 48:31

Because it is frustrating, you get number five, you could be at five thousand, you'll wait you could be waiting for 15 minutes only for it to say sold out.

Brandon Hurles: 48:38

You know, that's the one thing it sucks, but I will say is better than having these bots buy all this stuff up.

Mark Trobough: 48:45

I think the other issue with the queue system is I think they also do it because, like, if you have everybody going to the site, especially like probably a lot of bots, it bogs down and just crashes the site like a DDoS attack. So they the queue system is kind of way to limit the, the load that's happening on their actual main, on their main page.

Brandon Hurles: 49:03

They do have a lot of these websites, do have detection software now with a lot of these bots and are able to tell.

Mark Trobough: 49:09

Well, because you can't tell whether it's a bunch of bots trying to buy something, or you're just getting a general DDoS attack as far as, like the IT system, it all looks the same, essentially, because that's essentially what a DDoS attack is.

Brandon Hurles: 49:20

Yeah, I think it's getting better. It's definitely better than it was when the PS5 launched and the Series X launched.

Mark Trobough: 49:29

The only reason I got lucky is I got the invite from Sony. That's the only reason I got lucky with the PS5.

Brandon Hurles: 49:32

This GPU 50 series launch is the worst launch I've ever seen in the history of anything with pre-ordering or with just being able to freaking get one right, even as expensive as they are. It is still a problem, it does not matter. So I say it's gotten better. It has in some ways. I think Nintendo has gotten better about it. I think certain websites such as Best Buy has gotten better about it, but in general, I do think that there is still a big problem because this gpu launch has been an absolute nightmare for people. I mean, it has just been a it's, it's a crap show man. It truly is a crap show, like you know there. It's just it's insane that people are these bots are able to get through so much that they're literally selling these GPUs and these are like sold prices, not asking prices for like $4,500 on eBay, and people are paying it because they can't get through to quarter one. But GPU, as Mr Coffey said, gpu sales have been an issue since, I would say probably like the 30 series. Definitely don't remember much about there being a problem with like the 20 series, but the I think around the 30 series is where it became a problem, but it really became a problem with the 40 series. The 49 specifically, you know the 40, 90 was, I will say, will probably go down as like the best video card that we've gotten in the last, you know, 20 years, I think. Besides, like the 10, 10, 80 TI, I think 10, 80 TI and 40, 90 go down as as being like some of the best, most improved upon GPUs, most worthwhile GPU. That's why, still right now, you go on eBay and they're still selling for $2,500 used. So there's a reason for that, because they're very good GPUs. So it's because of Mr Coffee and a couple of other people that I decided not to just straight up right away sell my 49. I want to hang on to it for a little while.

Brandon Hurles: 51:41

Make sure I'm good with the 5090,. Make sure that I don't have any problems with it. Make sure I've got a backup for a little bit. I don't have any problems with it. Make sure I've got a backup for a little bit. I don't have any connector issues. I don't have any driver issues. I don't have any. You know, whatever it might be, I'm going to hang on to it for a little while. I'm not going to hang on to it for good because they are still selling. It'll pay for essentially my entire price of my 5090 by selling the 4090. So I'm not going to hang on to it for good. I didn't want to hang on to it long enough to where I feel comfortable enough with the 5090 that I don't think there's going to be any problems and things like that. You just, you never know what's going to come up when it comes to pc gaming. They're always, you know there can always be a problem, so you could just get a bad gpu, you know, for you know yeah just how it goes.

Brandon Hurles: 52:26

So, but, uh, I guess, uh, before you move on to the next thing, I'll go ahead and show off what I got. Um, start off with, uh, something really, really small here, uh, that I got from gamestop this is actually the other day. So, um, go check your gamestops. These are really cool. If you, um are a pokemon fan or a xenoblade fan, definitely, definitely, you have to ask. They're behind the counter, they're not displayed, so people don't even know these exist. I posted on Twitter and people are like that's a thing.

Brandon Hurles: 52:53

But there's actually a card for Xenoblade Chronicles X. It gets you a whole pack of stuff. So it's a download code that you can get free there at GameStop that comes with a bunch of stuff and then, um, obviously they do these all the time, but this is for Pokemon Day 2025. It is a few months old, but I got a second one just to add to the collection, one I used for my game and then one I want to keep on scratch just to add to the collection, but it's the flying, uh, terra type Eevee. So it's a pretty good card too, um, but yeah, I mean, if you got Xenoblade Chronicles X, absolutely ask for this, cause you get a whole pack of stuff plus a hundred thousand credits in the game, which is crazy. And this is, it's free, you know.

Mark Trobough: 53:36

I say jokes on. You already got my flying Pikachu.

Brandon Hurles: 53:45

No flying Ev Mark. I got a flying Pikachu.

Mark Trobough: 53:47

You can have a flying Eevee too, mark. Nah, I'm good, he's trash.

Brandon Hurles: 53:49

You did pick up Xenoblade Chronicles X, so when you go back in there, make sure you ask for this.

Mark Trobough: 53:54

I don't know if that was part of the pre-order originally.

Brandon Hurles: 53:56

It wasn't a pre-order thing, it was just you had to ask for it. It's still in the back of my game, my game still makes you ask for this and put it in before it expires, Cause you get a lot of stuff from this and it's free, so uh what you're going to charge for it, it, uh, it comes with, uh, four different sets of things the support package plus a hundred thousand credits, which which is quite a bit for the game.

Brandon Hurles: 54:18

So, definitely, definitely ask for that for sure. All right, so I got this cool, nifty little bag today at game stop, trying not to crunch it up against the mic, but this is oh yeah, my game stops like, hey, we got a bunch of these we have to get rid of by like, within like a few days.

Mark Trobough: 54:33

Yeah, they're like trying to like get rid of those they just showed it to.

Brandon Hurles: 54:36

I've never even seen it before until today.

Mark Trobough: 54:38

I don't know if they were using it, but because I was at my game stop the other day, uh, and they were like, oh yeah, like we got a bunch of these bags we have to get rid of by x-men I asked them or throw them in the trash yeah, I asked for one to keep to put in the collection.

Mark Trobough: 54:49

Just that's crazy, because there's another dude I was in the store. He's like I'll take a bunch of him. He gave me like probably like 50 bags like you're taking, like I'm gonna ask for more when I go back in because I like them.

Brandon Hurles: 54:56

but they also gave me this one, uh, that I didn't use. That was folded up. It's a Spider-Man 2 bag. This is an older one, obviously, and I do actually already have a couple of these. But he said, hey, do you want this too? And I said, yeah, I'll take another one, why not? They're cool bags, cool collection pieces. I'm a collector so I got to get my bags, got to catch them all. I don't know if you guys remember or not, but I did show this off on social media and on the podcast.

Brandon Hurles: 55:31

But when silent hill remake launched, they came out with these grip sets and each store only got like two to four of them. Well, for some reason I bought a set of them. They're're $15 at launch. For some reason, they had one of these just hanging up that were not sold and I looked at it because I was thinking I'd get another one. I use them. So I wasn't just keeping it as a collection piece. I actually use them. They're on my controllers. But I looked at the back of it and they're limited edition. They're not being made anymore because the game's not new. But I looked at the back of it Five bucks. They were $5. So I was like, yeah, I'll absolutely grab those. I don't know if you know anything about controller grips the thumbstick grips but they're not cheap. Normally $15 for one set of grips for a controller From Control Freak, because I got them on all mine.

Brandon Hurles: 56:26

I'll show you I put them on all of my controllers, every single one. I'm like, right here I have control freak, these are from like 2020. I've had these forever and I've even got an otterbox case for my uh. This is an actual otterbox case for uh xbox controllers. I own a couple of these too. They were like 15 bucks when they came out or something, but they're they just make your controller way more comfortable. Did you say otter box? Otter box?

Mark Trobough: 56:51

yeah, it's the craziest thing. It's the craziest thing. That's like they make phone cases. Yeah, they're not cheap phone cases, they're not well, these aren't cheap either.

Brandon Hurles: 56:59

This feels like these are high quality, like they really. They make the, the controller, feel more, even more premium than they already are, like they're really cool for some reason I've always used them for like the back of my phone.

Brandon Hurles: 57:11

Yeah, exactly, for some reason, they only make them for xbox series x controllers, but they're. They're really good like they're. They have these grips here that just make it feel super comfortable in your hand. Plus, it protects your controller. Like um, for instance, like a controller like this, the see-through blue one, one that I wanted to protect. I wanted to make sure that I got the caps on there to protect the thumbsticks and put this on there to protect the controller, because I know, like eventually down the road, this will be valuable. Plus, it'll just be a controller I'll want to be able to use for an extended period of time.

Brandon Hurles: 57:44

I really like their cypher series of see-through controllers, so yeah definitely pretty cool there, but yeah, I mean five bucks for this, I mean still, you get three of them too, so three sets of them really really cool and they're comfortable. I got them on several of my controllers already, so definitely cool and you're wrong got this for free.

Brandon Hurles: 58:05

He just said, uh, he's. I said, hey, you got any promo stuff that you're going to be throwing away because they're? You know they're closing down and stuff like that. He's like, well, we can't even sell this because it's we can't even sell it because it's not worth anything. But they just threw it in for free madden 2005 for the uh, original xbox, but, but it's complete. What's hilarious about this, though, is that the front says $10. But yeah, they said it was priced so low in their system that they couldn't even sell it, so he just handed it to me.

Mark Trobough: 58:40

I'm not going to lie, it's pretty much a worthless game.

Brandon Hurles: 58:42

But what's, funny is. I have a ton of Madden games for the original Xbox and PS2. And this is one I didn't have, so I was like, ok, that's cool, I think it's free, that's for the one for the collection. Yeah, one for the collection, why not? And then that's all I got in that bag for this.

Mark Trobough: 59:00

And it was free.

Brandon Hurles: 59:10

So you for this and it was free. So you know I can't get wrong with that. Yeah, it's free. I mean, if nothing else, for people that don't collect sports games, you get a free case to swap out for. You know a game that needs a case or whatever. You know stuff like that. Yeah, okay, we got some stuff in from cricks, a few things here. There are a few things I don't have over here at the moment because I've got them put over there. So there was a few other things that came as well that I don't have. That I can show right now.

Brandon Hurles: 59:33

But Krix makes the EverDrives and also some other accessories. They are my favorite retro video game company period. I think EverDrives are the best value in retro gaming. Just pardon, it's my favorite favorite retro gaming company period. I just think that the ever drives and stuff they make is just absolutely excellent. They they put out nothing but quality stuff. So I was definitely super happy to get another package from them, but I got a.

Brandon Hurles: 1:00:07

This is the second one because I own two uh siget master systems, so I've got one for each. But this is a clear. I haven't opened it up out of the package yet, but it's a clear, see-through master everdrive x7. It's actually um smoke clear so I can see through the whole cartridge. Obviously it's got the protective stuff on it still, because I haven't taken it out to use it yet, but it is a clear cartridge so it's really really cool. Big, uh bigger sega master system fan, so I was really excited about that. Um, always good to have another one, since I've got a model one and model two. I've got an everdrive for both of them now. Um, so I don't even have to worry about taking them out anymore, and then I'll just show one of these.

Brandon Hurles: 1:00:48

I did get two of these. These are the cricks joys controllers. So these controllers are wireless wireless sega genesis controllers that work on original hardware. Really really cool. Um, I've got a few of these now. I absolutely love them. It's how I play my Sega Genesis on any of the Sega Genesis consoles that I have, but it is a six-button. It is a replication of the six-button fighting-style controller, so it's got the six buttons there. Very clicky, very nice controller. I really like the Joy's controllers. I don't hear people talk about these controllers like much at all, so I'm super happy to be able to showcase these because I think they're excellent. They're budget friendly controllers, they're cheap and they, they do the job. I mean, they, they, they really are pretty good controllers and especially for being wireless and six button controllers, you know, you just can't go wrong. I think they're like 15-20 bucks. They're, you know, very affordable and if you're a Sega Genesis fan, those are, I think, must have for any Sega Genesis fan. So those are those from Krix and then you can't go wrong.

Mark Trobough: 1:02:05

There it's. It is definitely really dope yeah for sure.

Brandon Hurles: 1:02:14

All right, so we got another box here. So, uh, I guess I'll go through um with some of these. So first this came in, I this was on back order. Uh, I ordered it about three or four months ago. It was on back order for the um gamecube.

Brandon Hurles: 1:02:30

It was one of the last three things that I need for the ultimate um gamecube setup that I'm working on, and that is the memcard pro gc. So if you don't know what the memcard pros are, they are essentially the last memory card that you will ever need for a console. So the way they work is that you can put an sd card in and obviously you remember how the blocks work on like gamecube memory cards, right. Like you know, you could get like a 256 block card right, which at the end of the day, actually really didn't hold as much as you think it would. Well, you can throw in like a 64 gigabyte micro SD card in this and you are good forever. I mean that covers every single GameCube game multiple times over with multiple saves. You know what I mean. So you plug the SD card into this and let me actually grab the unit, because I put it in my GameCube.

Mark Trobough: 1:03:29

You got to run and grab it real quick. But yeah, GameCube was such a good system with such good games on it. What was that? So? The GameCube was such a good system with some really good first party games on it.

Brandon Hurles: 1:03:40

Oh yeah, I wish I could bring over the GameCube to show you right now because I'm almost finished with the ultimate setup for it. I got two more items now since this came that I need for it. But, um, this is the memcard pro gc. It's got a screen on it, multiple buttons, so you can actually go through the memory card and select your different blocks and stuff on there. But I also have the memcard pro tw 2s for the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 1. I have one of each. I've got one for my PS2 and one for my PS1.

Brandon Hurles: 1:04:10

So I'm a big fan of 8-bit mods and the products that they put out. This is well worth the price. You'll never need another GameCube memory card ever again. They even advertise it as unlimited blocks because it's as big of an SD card as you want to put in and if you know the GameCube, they really don't take up that much blocks. So a micro SD card versus a 256 block card for the GameCube is like uncomparable Like you could fit every single game in the entire library multiple times over on one of these and you would never need another memory card again.

Brandon Hurles: 1:04:50

So this is a really, really cool item. I still got to set it up, get an sd card for it, but it's got it's wi-fi enabled and everything so that you can actually save your saves on your desktop computer as well. So you've got like a backup of a backup. You know what I mean. So, like you can save your saves forever, like there's saves you can have with you forever. You can save them multiple ways and I've already got like a bunch of stuff backed up on my PS2 MemCard Pro 2. But, yeah, you can have like the cloud saves where you can access all of these in the cloud and have your save for the rest of your life. So it's a really, really neat thing. It's I think it's I want to say it's around $50 and it is well worth the price of it. I mean, the technology in this thing is just phenomenal.

Brandon Hurles: 1:05:36

So this was one of the last, one of the last things I needed for the ultimate setup. I've got two more items. I need to get that done and then I can finally film that video. That is a video that's basically been in the process of making for almost three years, because I've had to track down all the different accessories for it and, as you know, I was tracking down the wacky stuff and the over-the-top yeah, not the easiest thing. The speakers took a long, long, long time to find. Um, those were not not an easy find at all, so, but yeah.

Brandon Hurles: 1:06:12

So this is one of the things and I guess one of them that I share, because people openly know that I am looking for it. So if you know anybody that has one or you're getting rid of one, get in contact with me, because I've been looking for it now for years. But I'm looking for the gamecube keyboard controller that was made for fantasy star online, um, but that is one of the uh wacky accessories I need for the, the gamecube, to help finish off the set and to be able to make this video, because it's a. It's a long time coming on this video and I'm I'm doing it for every single retro console, so not just for GameCube. It just happens to be that I am the closest to being done with GameCube and it's what I started first. So, just because I'm so passionate about the GameCube, I love that system so much, there's so many good games for it, it's such a great console. I love the GameCube so much it was the first system that I wanted to do that for. Just because I love it. It's like one of the systems I go back to the most. So, yeah, this was really cool.

Brandon Hurles: 1:07:13

I think I ordered this like four or five months ago and it finally came in. It was on back order. My one regret is not ordering more than one of these. I should have ordered two, because I'm getting another GameCube to do the other mod that came in a while ago, the Flippy Drive. So I'm going to have two GameCubes to use and that's one I'm going to do myself. It's a mod I'm going to do myself because it's very user-friendly and anybody can do it essentially. But I do wish I had ordered one more. So if there happened to come back in stock, I will pick up one more of these, just like I picked up two of the Memcar Pro 2s, one for the PS1, one for the PS2. So definitely cool, and it matches my Indigo GameCube, so that's pretty cool.

Mark Trobough: 1:08:00

Can't get wrong with that or any of that. Really, yeah for sure, sure, anything for the ultimate game cube experience, which just means I need to spend all this money so you can play fantasy star online and I do play it.

Brandon Hurles: 1:08:14

I plan on dreamcast and gamecube and now xbox, because I've got my xbox hooked up, uh online at all times obviously the gamecube's the superior experience it is because it did get the.

Brandon Hurles: 1:08:26

It got all the. So there's a version of fantasy star episode one and two plus that has all the additional content on it. So, like, technically speaking, it's the best way to play out of the xbox or dreamcast just because you have that extra content. But it's also a much more expensive game, much more rare and harder to find that plus version. But uh, then I got this other box of stuff, which was stuff I completely even forgot was coming out, and this all goes towards ultimate setups for other consoles as well. So this is really really, really cool, um, super happy about this. So one of these will actually go to the gamecube setup.

Brandon Hurles: 1:09:04

I do already have all four controller ports filled, because that was that was part of the plan, was? You know? I have four controllers connected that are wireless, but I'm going to remove one of them and I'm going to add this bad boy in. So this was sent out to me from uh, retro time. This is from 8-bit mods and this is the blue retro gamecube adapter.

Brandon Hurles: 1:09:24

So what this is is you plug this in there. It's bluetooth. You can use any bluetooth controller with your gamecube that you want. So, whatever you want to play it with, whether it be a ps5 dual sense or you know, a wireless n64 controller, whatever you might want to play it with you, you could play with this it's. It's really cool because there's a lot of people that want to bring over things like different fighting sticks or things like, uh, you know the xbox controller and stuff like that, uh, but yeah, so this is a really cool adapter that allows you to plug into your original gamecube console and then bring over whatever bluetooth controller that you want to bring over. Definitely a really cool piece. This one came in orange. I don't know what Mark's doing. He's Mark, mark. Boat goes bented.

Mark Trobough: 1:10:14

Boat goes bented.

Brandon Hurles: 1:10:16

I'm confused.

Mark Trobough: 1:10:18

Any GG fans out there If you know. You know, Guilty Gear, no VTuber. Oh my God.

Brandon Hurles: 1:10:28

That's why I said, if you know, you know, like guilty gear, no vtuber, oh my god. That's why I said, if you know, you know, if you know, you know. But yeah, this is really cool. So, speaking of that, this is the gamecube version of that from blue retro uh, retro time slash 8-bit mods, also sent out to Nintendo 64. So this is really good timing of this, because we obviously know about the analog 3D coming out and so this will be perfect for that, because I'll have all the controller slots for that all filled up as well.

Brandon Hurles: 1:10:58

But they sent out two different collared Nintendo 64 and 64 controller adapters as well, so you can bring over your bluetooth. What's what's actually really cool about these two mark is that what people actually do with these two to still play with an original controller is they buy the nintendo switch online n64 controller that's bluetooth and they connect it to this to have a wireless original controller. So it's actually a pretty great idea, right? So I'm actually thinking about ordering a couple of extra of those. So I have a couple of wireless 64 controllers that I can play. You know how it was originally intended, but wireless and not have to worry about the wires.

Brandon Hurles: 1:11:43

But that was really cool that they sent two of these out for the 64 and they also sent out one for the sega dreamcast, which is really cool too. So got one for the sega dreamcast and, uh, really excited about all these, being able to try them out, bring over weird controllers that were never made for the system to try out, or like different fighting sticks or different fight pads or different arcade sticks, whatever it might be. Anything it's bluetooth you can bring over and attach to this, so there's a lot of options out there. Um, I know people that use bluetooth keyboards because, um, fantasy star online for the sega dreamcast they had a. You know, obviously I had a keyboard. I've got a sega dreamcast.

Mark Trobough: 1:12:24

I don't think they make those old keyboard connectors anymore, it's all usb or bluetooth. You don't talk about the, the, the circle connector. That was like the ps2.

Brandon Hurles: 1:12:36

Yeah, whatever it's called yeah, you know, ps2 adapter, but yeah, um, yeah, no. So there's. There's a lot of stuff people bring over Bluetooth keyboards, you know, for games like that, you know, and stuff like Typing of the Dead or whether it be Phantasy Star Online or different games that you know require a keyboard and stuff like that. And so I've also got two more really, really cool things here. So these go towards my ultimate NES setup and this is the NES hub from Retro Time. So you might ask what is the NES hub? Well, in case you didn't know, on the bottom of your NES there is this slot area that was never used for anything, because we never got anything here to use it with right, because the famicom got the famicom this system and obviously got this to tell of you, but we didn't get anything over here, where they plan to, you know, leave a spot open and, yeah, nothing ever came out.

Brandon Hurles: 1:13:40

Well, this nes hub I, my ns, is plugged up so I can't bring it over here to show you, but basically on the back of it there's the adapter port where they would have added something right for you know, an expansion, whatever it might be, like the famicom disk system idea, or this teleview. This plugs right into that and fits discreetly right on the bottom of your NES and this does a bunch of things. So, like I can't even remember everything that this does. To be honest with you, I know that this brings over you can use. This adds Bluetooth to your NES, which is pretty crazy. So Bluetooth capabilities. This adds let me look up to make sure I say everything correctly, because I know it adds quite a bit of functionality. It's pretty crazy what the what people are doing with this, this retro hardware in 2025. It's just it's really really cool stuff and to be able to see is I know that one of the things is it adds the expansion audio so you can get stereo audio, like the famicom could do. Um, the nes is notorious, obviously, for having the mono audio and not having like good audio. So this brings over that that famicom stereo audio to your nes so you can hear the glorious soundtrack, the way it really should have sounded to begin with. But uh, looking on here to to tell you everything that this does. So this obviously only works on the nes 001. So the original um, the original nes, not not the um nes junior or anything like that. Uh, but so what this does is you're able to connect up to four controllers on the console through the use of a single hub hidden away under the console. Not only that, but you can still use the original ports simultaneously for sharing inputs on a single player game.

Brandon Hurles: 1:15:32

The NES hub can enable expansion audio, a special mode that allows some Famicom games to use more audio channel for a better audio experience. Finally, it exposes three ports for future add-ons that can make use of the CPU controller or other functionality. For example, our first available add-on, snes add-on, allows you to connect your original SNES wired controllers, play your NES games with them. So obviously a lot of people prefer myself included the Super Nintendo controllers over the NES controllers, and what they actually included in here was one of the attachments that they planned for the NES hub, which was this here. I'll open it up here.

Brandon Hurles: 1:16:16

So what this did was this is one of the expansion ports that they said they were going to be adding future stuff for is one of the expansion ports that they said they were going to be adding future stuff for. It allows you to play your NES with Super Nintendo controllers because, I mean, let's be real, they're superior controllers. You know, I like the NES controller, but I like the Super Nintendo controller a lot more. But this is one of the expansions that they added for the NES hub that lets you play with Super Nintendo controllers. So that's really really cool. But that was one of the things.

Brandon Hurles: 1:16:53

And there are also future ideas that they have for this NES hub to be like kind of an all-in-one hub to add different mods to the NES without actually even having to mod your system. It's literally plug-and-play. So also, it looks like there is web config is only available if no controller is connected, supported only in chrome browser. Uh, you can update the firmware via web config, which is pretty cool. And then it says for the add-ons um, if you want to use an add-on, connected to the corresponding add-on port on the NES hub with the provided cable, the control add-on allows use of SNES controllers on the NES. Additionally, famicom peripherals that use the 15-pin Famicom expansion. So on the side of this, this actually has the Famicom expansion port right on the side of it too. So not only does it add the functionality for the Super Nintendo controllers, but also the Famicom expansion port right here, mark, if you pay attention.

Mark Trobough: 1:17:58

Just ignore it, I'm just over here riffing.

Brandon Hurles: 1:18:01

I don't even know what's going on, oh man, but yeah, so that.

Mark Trobough: 1:18:06

You were just going on a roller coaster like that, so I was letting you go. You were there on the hub weren't you you wish.

Brandon Hurles: 1:18:13

All right, so the last thing that we got. So my buddy Matt Long he's got a YouTube channel. He's been on the podcast before Mark has met him, but he went out to a convention that I wanted to go to but didn't get to go to because my grandma passed away, unfortunately, and the funeral was that day. So he did message me and asked if I was interested in a few things there. So I sent him some money to pick up a couple things and I was actually shocked to see what he found for one of them. Now I already have this.

Brandon Hurles: 1:18:48

As Mark knows, I used it as one of my computer monitors for a very long time, for forever, and I still have it boxed up in my closet now to keep for 3D games on the PS3. But I wanted to get another one and I've got this grandmaster plan. I want to collect a few of these complete in box, because I've got an idea in the future of what I want to do with these. I think they are absolutely phenomenal products, for you have to think these came out in like 2012,. They're 240 Hertz monitors, they're 3D with simultaneous 3D technology, so each person sees the full screen in 3D, versus doing a half and half deal, which is crazy already. Crazy technology to think. If you think about it for the time, it gets nuts.

Brandon Hurles: 1:19:38

And I'm a big fan of 3D video games. I've collected a bunch of 3D PS3 and Xbox 360 games, so I'm a big fan of them. I like playing them in 3d. I don't think it's gimmicky at all. I think a lot of them do it very well and a lot of people don't even know about them. A lot of people don't even know that the PS three and three 60 had 3d video games. But yeah, so right here behind me I'll pick it up and show you guys.

Mark Trobough: 1:20:12

Yeah, he had that. For what forever? It's crazy you're still using that old of a monitor for that long. It's a thick boy right there that is my second one.

Brandon Hurles: 1:20:29

So right now, my plan for it right now is what I want to do is leave one out of the box and leave one in the box, because I have a future plan I would like to get. I would like to get two more of these, preferably complete in box if possible, but even if they're loose, I want to get two more of these because I'm working on a future project. It's something that I have had planned out, that I've wanted to do for a very long time. I don't want to announce it right now, but it is a project for the community and it's not about me. It's about the community and about other people and about video game preservation. But I would like to get two more of these to have set up for a certain thing that I want to do. So I want to showcase, because most people don't know that your 360 could play 3d games like. How many people do you know that? Do that right? I?

Mark Trobough: 1:21:24

think people probably cared to be fair and a lot of them play 3d.

Brandon Hurles: 1:21:29

A lot of ps3 and 360 games play in 3d and are actually very, very good. Uh, I mean like surprisingly really awesome, like the arkham games, for instance, those played in 3d really good games in 3d Like a lot of fun. So my goal would be ultimately to get two more of these. I would like to get two more, but one of these I'm going to leave out so I can play the 3D games for myself and I don't have to keep taking it in and out of the box and stuff like that One I'm going to leave in the box. The one downfall of this so I paid a pretty good deal. Yeah, talked him down to 150 on it. It's in the box, right, like 150 for a loose one is is even a good deal. The one downfall to this is that it did not come in with the pack-in game and the most unfortunate part is it did not come with any of the 3D glasses. But thankfully I've got multiple of the 3D glasses. I bought a bunch of them at a convention years ago, for when I eventually found one of these, before I even had one of the monitors, I bought like four or five of them, and I actually have a prototype pair of the 3D glasses too, the plug-in USB that developers used and is a pretty cool piece of history that I have. But what I need to get is the pack-in MotorStorm Apocalypse game that I just want to put in the package. I've already got it for the other one, but I want to have this complete. I just want it to be complete in box. So I'm going to try to find that not for resale copy, complete, I just want it to be complete in box. So I'm going to try to find that not for resale copy. It's probably going to be a pain to find because it's a specific copy that was made for this particular pack-in, like the game was released by itself, but there's a not for resale copy just for this package. So I'm going to try to find that. I imagine it's not going to be expensive or anything, it's just going to be tracking it down. It's probably going to try to find that. I imagine it's not going to be expensive or anything, it's just going to be tracking it down. It's probably going to be the pain in the butt. But yeah, that was like the one of my big things for the week. I was I mean absolutely flabbergasted that I was able to find another one of them and for the deal I did. It is unfortunate it didn't come with the other stuff that included in the box, but at the end of the day I found one Again. I knew that I wanted to get multiple of them and I knew I wanted to have one set up at all times and one to leave in the package to preserve and not to get scratches on the screen and things like that, to make sure I have a backup because they are prone to having some problems.

Brandon Hurles: 1:24:05

Doesn't the Sony 3D DVD player sound system, 3d glass compatible with the PlayStation 3D TV? Oh yeah, it is the sound system. I don't have this, but I am after it. It only came out in Japan, but there is a PlayStation 3 sound bar that came out for this TV to get 3D spatial audio while you're playing your 3D games, so it's like trying to immerse you into the ecosystem of playing it. It only came out in Japan. It did not come out here, as far as I'm aware. I think it came out in Japan and I think it came out in Europe.

Brandon Hurles: 1:24:44

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that we did not get it here at all, but I have seen one in person. I know someone that was able to get one off of AliExpress and then I've seen another collector that was local here had one at one point. I missed him. He sold it. I missed him selling it or I would have picked it up, but that is one of the things. I'm him. He sold it, I missed him selling it or I would have picked it up, but that is one of the things I'm after. So if you do have any leads on that PlayStation 3D soundbar, I would love to buy that. That's something I've been after for many years since I found out about it, because that immerses you even more into the experience and kind of what they were going for. Like you think about it was really ahead of its time. You know stuff like that that was very ahead of its time. But yeah, that's one thing I am looking for is that PS3 soundbar. So hopefully I do find that at some point. Sure you will eventually.

Brandon Hurles: 1:25:43

And the last things I got to show off are a mixture of one I bought the other day because I needed it for the Call of Duty collection, one I got today and then the other ones Matt bought me at the show. He picked them up for me. I paid him. So the first one that I bought was sorry, this is kind of funny. This might sound redonk ridiculous when I show you guys these, because I own these games multiple times over now. I already had it for the 360. I needed it for the PS3 still right. So I got the PS3 version when I said I'm going all in on this, I'm going for every version of every release that I can possibly get. So pick that up.

Brandon Hurles: 1:26:26

Modern Warfare 2 for the PS3. Nothing big right. Well then Matt found this, so I had picked this up prior. I still would have got this anyway, because this is technically a different release, so it wouldn't have counted towards a set. But I mean, it counts towards a set, but it's a separate release, so I would have gotten it regardless.

Brandon Hurles: 1:26:45

This is the Call of Duty Modern Warfare collection that includes 1 and 2 on PS3. So I've got. I own them by themselves, both 1 and 2 on PS3, but I also own them in this cool collection that came out. This was pretty neat too. I actually didn't know about this one. I knew about the Black Ops one.

Brandon Hurles: 1:27:03

This was pretty neat too. I actually didn't know about this one. I knew about the Black Ops one. What is unfortunate, however, is that oh, no, it's not this one. No, I do have both the games for this one, so you got both of them in there. This was a pretty cool release. I don't know exactly why this is a not-for-resale copy. If anybody knows, please let me know in the chat. I would like to find out the the story behind that, what it was a pack-in for and why it's a not for resale copy. It's very peculiar and very interesting. Um might have to look into it myself and figure that out, because I always like to find out that kind of info, but there's like a collector's edition of a console that they packed in with right.

Brandon Hurles: 1:27:44

I'm wondering if it was either that or. Um, yeah, I'm assuming probably that, because I actually had not seen this particular one before. So this was pretty cool to see and uh, yeah, so that's another one to check off the list. But just like that one, this one isn't a not-for-resale copy, but this is a 3D-compatible game, which is pretty cool, and that is Call of Duty Black Ops 1 and 2 for the PS3 combo pack. I did know about this one, so I remember seeing this one in stores back in the day. You get a free $15 DLC pack value with it as well. Pretty cool.

Brandon Hurles: 1:28:27

What is very unfortunate about this is I did not look at this until today because I just trusted you know it only included Black Ops 1. There is no Black Ops 2. You're missing the disc. I'm missing the disc. So I believe that this is just a standard copy of the game. So if I can just find a loose disc online, as far as I'm aware, there's nothing different about this release because it does not say it's a not for resale copy. The disc for black ops 1 doesn't say anything special. It's the same as the other one. It looks exactly the same. So I think for this one. I'm missing probably just the insert and then the disc 2. So I think I can buy a loose disc and put it in there and I'll be okay. Thankfully this one is not a not-for-resale, from my understanding, because I was like, ah, but thankfully it's not the Modern Warfare Collection one, because then that would have sucked. That's a not for resale copy would have been a lot harder to track down.

Brandon Hurles: 1:29:33

Um, yeah, but man, that was kind of a bummer to see that it wasn't in there and I was like man. But uh, I picked up. He also picked up these two for me at the convention and so I technically have all three versions of this game now, except one of them I don't have the case and manual for, so I still need to get that for the Xbox, but that is one of my favorite Call of Duties ever. It's not my favorite, but it's among my favorites in my top three. That is Call of duty 2, big red 1, which was a spinoff of call of duty 2 uh, for console and um, yeah, so I got it for playstation 2 and gamecube.

Brandon Hurles: 1:30:15

This is my first gamecube call of duty game. There's a few of them that came out for gamecube. This is my first one that I have, so i'm'm really excited about that and I can't wait to get all of them. I'm super pumped to pick those up. But yeah, I mean it was always cool seeing Call of Duty on Nintendo consoles. As you know, like the Wii got a few games as well, the DS got a few games as well. So the not-for-resale version is missing the slipcover.

Mark Trobough: 1:30:42

Oh, I'm never going to find that Okay you might as well just assume it doesn't exist anymore.

Brandon Hurles: 1:30:49

I'm never going to find that I'm never going to find just the slipcover for a like unknown game that most people do not even know exists as a pack.

Mark Trobough: 1:31:01

dang it, mr Coffee, you should have just not told me just rained on your parade, like hey, well, technically you're missing this thing.

Brandon Hurles: 1:31:10

I will never find just the slip cover. I'm telling you actually, um, it would be cool if we did find it. But what was, uh, also pretty interesting I don't know if you knew this, um, but what was really peculiar about these particular releases? The xbox version is like the ps2 version as well, but but the PS2 and Xbox version actually had online multiplayer for it, and the GameCube version only had single player and local co-op, so that was something super interesting.

Brandon Hurles: 1:31:41

Considering the GameCube could technically go online with the broadband adapter, they opted to not do that on the GameCube for some reason, but the Xbox and the PS2 version are online playable and you can still play them today. There are ways to get in and still be able to play these games online today, so it's really cool. And then my last thing I found this today when I stopped at GameStop and found out that they were closing down was this is my fourth version of owning this game. Still missing one more, uh, and that is call duty 3 for the ps2, also an online game. Uh, you play it and, funny enough, I had this back in the day on the ps2 and I played it online. On the ps2, we had to actually go into our computer room, hook it up to the phone line, so disconnect the phone line to be able to play the ethernet um online day back in the day.

Brandon Hurles: 1:32:40

So that means it tied up the phone and all that stuff no, someone answered the phone. It kicked me off the internet exactly that's what would happen, um, but no, I was actually really surprised to see this uh there, because they my game stop unfortunately has not really been getting in any of the retro stuff like yours does like very seldomly gets anything in at all like they always have like a lot, of, a lot of ds stuff.

Mark Trobough: 1:33:03

Ps3 mine doesn't mine doesn't.

Brandon Hurles: 1:33:06

It's crazy. There's a few xbox 360 none that I needed. There's a few.

Mark Trobough: 1:33:10

There's a couple of ps you like 64 and SNES and Ness Mine has none of those.

Brandon Hurles: 1:33:15

No, no NES, no SNES, no 64. It's got some DS games, a couple of 3DS games. That's it. It doesn't even have Vita games, for God's sake. So, but here's the unfortunate part about this, and I here's the unfortunate part about this, and I did not. This is why I've got to look at these things closer before I buy them. I did not see this until I already walked out of the store and looked at it at home, and the entire front cover of the game is cut in like this it's. It's let me see if I showed a little bit closer. It's pretty bad. Like it might not look as bad on camera, but it's pretty bad. It's got a gigantic rip right right through the cover.

Mark Trobough: 1:33:59

art you loved it like someone just stabbed a knife into it it's like how did you even do that?

Brandon Hurles: 1:34:05

and I'm like I highly doubt I'm gonna find just a cover. I paid like six bucks. I used my $5 reward, so I paid like a dollar something for this. So more than likely what's going to end up happening is I'm just going to have to end up rebuying it. And I essentially bought this for no reason, cause I I'm sorry for the complete collection. I don't want a bunch of garbage you know looking games for this, because I would like to do something with this collection one day, because there is nobody else out there right now who uh is going for or has a complete call of duty collection. I'm talking going after everything the engage game. I'm going after the psp game, the vita game, all the ds game. I'm going after everything all the pc physical releases, everything. So I'm want a museum.

Brandon Hurles: 1:34:52

Well, yeah, that's kind of the plan is. What I'm sort of doing here is is wanting to, wanting to do some things that people haven't done. And how many people out there do you know that care to collect every single physical release of call of duty? You know, like there's just's just there's like some people are going to be like, yeah, I want to get, I want to get every single one of them, like every game.

Brandon Hurles: 1:35:18

But I don't want to have three versions of the game on three different consoles and have, like you know, like just ridiculous stuff like, for instance, the latest one, modern warfare 3, for the PS5 and stuff like that. I've got it on PS5, right, well, I need it for Xbox Series X as well, but I'm not going to pay $60 for it when I already have it on PS5. So for me, that'll be one that I'll buy when it drops significantly down, because I already own it, I already play it on that console and there's there's no reason for me. I'm not, I'm not going to drop another $60 on the game, I'm not going to play that version, because I've already put enough time in the PS5 game that for me, you know, it just doesn't make sense. But I'll, I'll buy it when there's a deal or a sale or a drop significantly down, whether it takes years or not for me to eventually grab it.

Brandon Hurles: 1:36:14

That's one where I would not want to pay more than 20 for it tops, and I don't even want to pay that because I've already got the game, the version I'm playing, and I'm just not playing that version. So, but I you want to go for the full set, like I said and sticking to my word, and that was, uh, that's all the pickups there, man. I know, I know it's quite a bit more than I thought that it was going to be, but a lot of stuff came and a lot of things happened, so that is all my pickups.

Brandon Hurles: 1:36:41

So yeah, go ahead and jump into the news. Mark, get us running here, because my voice is killing me.

Mark Trobough: 1:36:48

I was about to say that you just went for like 40 minutes.

Brandon Hurles: 1:36:51

I should not have did that, but.

Mark Trobough: 1:36:53

I was like, oh wow, I guess he's going to keep going. We did get some update because I know we talked about this a little bit a while ago. We don't know exactly what's happening, but Pokemon, like not surprised, surprisingly and not surprisingly, pokemon Scarlet and Violet are getting some kind of free update for the Switch 2, but we don't know anything more than that, other than it's getting some kind of free update for the switch to uh but we don't know anything more than that, other than it's getting some kind of some, some kind of scarlet.

Mark Trobough: 1:37:16

Yeah, oh, thank god. So hopefully it's a performance issue, but nothing's been confirmed other than it's getting a update of some kind, so hopefully it'll be at least fixing the performance issues, because, god, that game drop stream rates so bad consistently. Yeah, we were talking about that. I was like, of all the games that you're remastering?

Brandon Hurles: 1:37:31

for that game. Drop stream rates are so bad, consistently. Yeah, we were talking about that. I was like, of all the games that you're remastering for the, the switch to, you're not remastering the game that needs it the most.

Mark Trobough: 1:37:41

Yeah, Like game. For what are you doing? Like your game, like this game performs, like absolute, like I'm not.

Brandon Hurles: 1:37:45

I'm not going to defend them and saying that they they dropped the ball on that game with performance, but I do enjoy the game, so if I could play a better version of those games that run better at the end of the day. The games themselves are very good. They're more pokemon right, and there's more to do kind of.

Mark Trobough: 1:38:03

I don't know. I think it's one of the but I think it's a lot of performances arceus, far and above, is number one and everything else is a distant whatever. It's not even close, but that's like a personal opinion.

Brandon Hurles: 1:38:16

I just wasn't a big fan of it, even without the performance issues is what you're saying.

Mark Trobough: 1:38:22

A lot of the map just feels open and empty and it's hard, especially if you're trying to catch a lot of Pokemon. There's a lot that you can run into issues and stuff like that with Some. Like if you're trying to catch a lot of poke, like it's just there's a lot that could you can run into issues and stuff like that with. I mean, some of the pokemon are just tiny and I don't know. I just I thought that the world was. It's not that it wasn't open, it just that at times there's just massive parts of the maps that just feel like there's not a lot to do other than you're running around an area looking for a pokemon to spawn. So, but that was like a. That's like a personal thing.

Brandon Hurles: 1:38:50

I don't know. I had no problems with the games themselves, it was just the performance issues.

Mark Trobough: 1:38:54

I think I don't mind massive, open worlds, but like I feel like there needs to be more to do, it's also really hard to miss trainer battles. Well, it's also really easy to get massively over leveled in that game.

Brandon Hurles: 1:39:06

It's game freaks. First attempt to open world. So I mean I feel like that's a second arceus was not open world that was the open world.

Mark Trobough: 1:39:13

But like, come on, like, open worlds have been a thing for over a day, like two decades now.

Brandon Hurles: 1:39:16

They've been relevant yeah, but I mean it's their. It's their first like period with any games that they I think that's that I don't know.

Mark Trobough: 1:39:24

I'll be critical of them because they have the finances and the money to have done it right the first time and I just I'm not defending that the games have problems, but I think the games are fun I I have fun with them. I enjoy it's one of the. It's one of the ones you even sent me a guide of the games. So I was like oh, mark does like yeah, I did, but it's one of my least favorite pokemon games that I played.

Brandon Hurles: 1:39:43

I think um. So I semi agree with you. I think that sun and moon are weaker games than scarlet and violet, though if it weren't for the performance problems like the games themselves I think it's close.

Mark Trobough: 1:39:56

That's doing the game, I think. I still think I've heard the story of sun and moon over the one in scarlet I think the story was very, very weak sorry. Oh, I was bullied. I'm gonna be a bully with such a weak storyline.

Brandon Hurles: 1:40:09

To be fair, I don't but they, I just feel like they didn't even do it well well, thank God they're doing, they're going to update the games and not just leave them as be, because I mean, it is Pokemon and it is deserving of giving respect you can't even re-battle the final four. That's not a thing in this game yeah, there is some weird decision making that they did with the game. Oh, it's a quasi tournament.

Mark Trobough: 1:40:33

I'm like I get, but I hate it because the way the tournament works, because what you used to do with the final four is you.

Brandon Hurles: 1:40:38

You'll be able to go back to your menu between uh uh, between each gym leader.

Mark Trobough: 1:40:43

Now you have to do four fights straight, so like if you're trying to use the final four to like level a pokemon or level them up to evolve and swap them out for a living deck, something like that. You can't do it because you're just stuck with your party through four straight fights. You get the auto-heal, but you can't swap out Pokemon as they evolve and stuff like that.

Brandon Hurles: 1:41:02

So you can't use that. One thing in the defense of the game, since you haven't played it, is that the DLC for the games is excellent and, in my opinion, is better than the main story of the base game. That's a problem.

Mark Trobough: 1:41:20

That's the same thing with Borderlands, so you know how to make a good game and a good story. Why is this not how you did the main story? Why is this subpar to the DLC?

Brandon Hurles: 1:41:31

I don't know, can't, I can't really speak to that, but I do know that they're, they're worth owning and they're fun. Uh, the dlc was really fun. I didn't want the end, so like I mean, I know they really got into it they added a lot of pokemon.

Mark Trobough: 1:41:44

I didn't care for the fact that there's a whole new pokedex for the area. I get why it's there, but it's also kind of frustrating, yeah, especially if you're going for like a living decks type thing in game or something like that. It's like, oh, okay, now I'm like all over the place but you need to.

Brandon Hurles: 1:41:58

You need to get over this absolute disdain towards these games. If you're trying to do, a living that's never gonna.

Mark Trobough: 1:42:04

I'm just gonna have to force myself to play and be like I'm never touching this again. Once I I got what I need for my living decks but, uh, I was gonna happen.

Brandon Hurles: 1:42:12

Uh, that is good news that they are going to be working on those games with switch to. That's good news.

Mark Trobough: 1:42:16

So we can move on from that. They definitely need it as well as the uh pokemons tcg pocket because of shining rever uh shining revelry, which I finally got my first shiny Pokemon in that deck the other day. They've seen a 250% Surge since that released.

Brandon Hurles: 1:42:37

As far as revenue, Really, I actually don't even think it's that great of a set I haven't seen the gold card. Yet I think it has some good cards, but I haven't seen what the gold cards are.

Mark Trobough: 1:42:50

I think it's the shiny cards that people are going after in the set, because I think it's the shiny cards that people are going after in the set, because I think this is the first shiny pokemon is the gold card um shiny charizard I don't know, but I do know this is the first set that has shiny pokemon, which is probably why people are uh want this one.

Brandon Hurles: 1:43:05

Yeah, I just don't think I got it. I just don't think it's better than like like, uh, the muse set I thought was really I don't think. I don't think it's better than like the Muse set I thought was really really good.

Mark Trobough: 1:43:15

I think it's just strictly the shiny Pokemon because the only shiny I got is Riolu. However you say his name, Riolu is the one that I got the other day.

Brandon Hurles: 1:43:24

I want to get the Lucario. I really want to get that. And I want to get the Charizard as well, because it's a shiny as well. But yeah, it's a shiny as well. But yeah, that's. It's a pretty cool set.

Mark Trobough: 1:43:37

It's the shiny Lucario EX and the shiny Charizard EX are probably going to be like.

Brandon Hurles: 1:43:41

Those are the what's the gold chase card that's in this set? Because there's a gold card for every set.

Mark Trobough: 1:43:49

I'm not sure to be honest.

Brandon Hurles: 1:43:50

I don't know either I actually haven't even bothered to look or anything what the gold card was.

Mark Trobough: 1:43:55

Yeah, and I guess, the last little small news so we can get to the big stuff. It's reported that the Zelda movie is expected to be a trilogy of films, obviously with the first movie coming out in 2027, they say. Principal filming starts in New Zealand November of this year and wraps up April of next year For the first movie.

Brandon Hurles: 1:44:17

You're telling me they're filming this In New Zealand and not Hyrule.

Mark Trobough: 1:44:23

Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. I mean, it makes sense, especially if you watch Lord of the Rings movies. I think the environment, a lot of the environment, fits for it, at least some of the, because it's a fairly mountainous in some areas. Yeah, obviously the desert couldn't be filmed there, but, um, uh, well, they said principal filming, uh, but the fact that they're this would be a trilogy, so it's not, it's gonna be a.

Brandon Hurles: 1:44:45

I think this makes sense for I think it makes one of the more many zelda games that like it's to be really hard to tell a story, yeah, but like it's always been story heavy as far as like first party games.

Mark Trobough: 1:44:55

It's like one of the heaviest story elements of the games that they have and the fact that they're going to essentially making a story last three separate games. It gives the story time to properly develop and introduce a lot of characters. What's going on? I got a one trio yes, you just pull that. Yeah, this guy. It's also said she gave me a moto and Hollywood producer Avi or Arad will produce the Zelda movie. Okay, I don't know what he's worked on. I can't.

Brandon Hurles: 1:45:24

I don't know. Yeah, we'd have to look up his work. I'm not sure.

Mark Trobough: 1:45:27

I mean it's always good that she gave me a moto. It's one of the producers.

Brandon Hurles: 1:45:30

Absolutely. I mean, it's always good that Shigeru Miyamoto is one of the producers. Absolutely, I think he has to be, because I think it's such an important series. It really has to be done right, and the fact that more than likely, link will not be talking is going to make the movie even harder to do.

Mark Trobough: 1:45:44

Oh, Link's going to talk in this movie. I think it will be.

Brandon Hurles: 1:45:50

I don't see why not.

Mark Trobough: 1:45:51

I mean because the Kingdom treat Link as if he talks Based on how characters interact with him, but they do in every game. They always treat him as if he talks. He just doesn't talk as the player character. Why would he not talk?

Brandon Hurles: 1:46:05

Because he never talks.

Mark Trobough: 1:46:07

He's going to talk in these movies. You have to accept that it's a different medium.

Brandon Hurles: 1:46:11

I don't want him to talk, though, but he's gonna talk in these movies. You have to accept that it's a different medium. I don't want him to talk, though, but he's going to.

Mark Trobough: 1:46:16

If he talks, I'm not watching it uh, but some of the films that this producer worked on. So he's worked on uh, blade x-men, blade two, spider-man, uh, daredevil, hulk x2, the pun 2, blade Train.

Brandon Hurles: 1:46:31

He's worked on a lot of Marvel stuff, a lot of catalog. Yeah, he's got a catalog.

Mark Trobough: 1:46:35

Yeah, so it was what played on Ghost Rider.

Brandon Hurles: 1:46:38

Spirits of Vengeance Rise of the Stormtrooper Last Stand. He's worked on some good.

Mark Trobough: 1:46:45

He worked on the Ghost in the Shell movie, which was god-awful.

Brandon Hurles: 1:46:49

That was really bad. So he's worked on some really bad stuff.

Mark Trobough: 1:46:53

He's also worked on Into the Spider-Verse. That was good. Okay, so sorry. Some of these. He worked as an executive producer, some as just a regular producer. So it's kind of back and forth, but he had whether it's an executive producer or producer some level of high-up work on some of these movies.

Brandon Hurles: 1:47:08

Well, I mean, at least yeah, I mean at least there's some hope there that he's done some, some pretty good but as a producer you still have your hands all over these movies.

Mark Trobough: 1:47:18

Yeah, but you know he was a producer and into the spider verse executive, long far from home and stuff like that and no way home but he's worked on movies like uh, as a producer, the uncharted movie morbius borderlands not been in the last dance, craven the hunter oh my god, he's like all over the place on court, he's worked on some really good movies he's worked on some really bad movies too because it's like you know, electra trend, like he worked on, like all of the movies and stuff like that.

Brandon Hurles: 1:47:52

So it's like, all over the place it's just a bunch of marvels now I feel a lot less confident about this movie, because this is a comment with shigerman, but he said that I'm like okay, so these movies gonna be a 10 out of 10 or is there is no in? Between with this, with this guy oh my god, that's, and he's apparently working on a to be determined date for a Naruto movie. So um no, why?

Mark Trobough: 1:48:15

why he's, but he worked as an executive producer on X-Men, the animated series, um, you know, nick Fury, agents of shield, the, the movies never turn out good ever. Uh, he worked as a consultant on X-Men 97. Uh, what's it, tom and Jane ever? Uh, he worked as a consulting on x-men 97. Uh, what's it?

Brandon Hurles: 1:48:37

marzian and jane super monsters, kong, king of apes uh, these are all.

Mark Trobough: 1:48:38

These are all like tv shows that he's either an exec, mostly an executive producer on, but yeah, it's like. Oh, he's like all over the place on on the quality of stuff he's worked on. Bros got range. That's all I can say, so the the only hope is that shigeru? Minamoto is uh, is a producer on this movie or an executive producer somewhere at that level, so keep a tight rein on this I think, hopefully the same quality of the mario movie that we got yeah, I hope so too.

Brandon Hurles: 1:49:07

That was, uh, that was a fantastic movie. They they really did Mario justice in that movie. So I do have faith there, because I I always thought that like a adaptation of Mario would not really work.

Mark Trobough: 1:49:22

I think it would be until I saw it. I mean, I don't know, it's not the first time you you had the, uh, the the cartoon from like what? The eighties or 90s or something like that? What, mario?

Brandon Hurles: 1:49:35

there's a couple like the, the mario bros.

Mark Trobough: 1:49:36

There's like one or two or something that one was good, one was bad I don't think any of them were good.

Brandon Hurles: 1:49:39

Mark. Oh my god. Super mario bros 3 had an animated show, and then there was a hot super show well, because there was also a legend of zelda animated series yeah, I like that series though like I'm sorry I like need to have a well, excuse me, princess and I will lose it and love it. I want, I want that reference in this if they put that in that movie, man, I will.

Mark Trobough: 1:50:05

I'll lose it in the theater oh my god, I would assume a lot of people in the theater would lose like, oh my god, they did it that mad lad, did it that would be hilarious if they did that.

Brandon Hurles: 1:50:14

That'd be really funny.

Mark Trobough: 1:50:15

I don't know. Could you do a movie with him, with him not speaking? Well, I don't know, I was kind of joking, but you could you could be an interesting, but it would be for a movie very interesting because it's like how you know he, I'm sorry he speaks, it's just that's all he says in the movie, right it's.

Brandon Hurles: 1:50:36

It's like how, how do you actually adapt that? I don't think you can, I don't think it would do it, because I mean even mario, like even mario in the mario series, like he's, he speaks so little mario actually talked.

Mark Trobough: 1:50:50

In the games you have the infamous Mario 64, one.

Brandon Hurles: 1:50:54

Mamma Mia, he had one liners and they're really short and sweet and to the point. Yeah, I don't know, can you do it? Yes, you can, but it would be very difficult, I think.

Mark Trobough: 1:51:11

I don't think they should even entertain it. I don't think they're going to entertain it. I don't think it would work. The question is what kind of story are they going to tell?

Brandon Hurles: 1:51:18

I feel like fans would be pretty upset by the change. It's such a big change for you have to think. It's a huge change for Zelda. This is going all the way back to Zelda 1, of him not speaking. It's like a thing.

Mark Trobough: 1:51:33

You know, but it's a video game Like movies, and video games are not the same type of thing they're not, but it's.

Brandon Hurles: 1:51:39

You gotta think, like I get the point of why people I think everybody expects Link to talk in this. I don't really expect that I don't expect anything, Because I don't really expect that. I don't expect anything because I don't know the angle they're going for with this. But if it's going to be a trilogy, I mean he's got to speak at some point in the trilogy, I would think.

Mark Trobough: 1:52:01

Yeah, hopefully it does. Well, the question is, are they filming them all kind of like together, like the Lord of the Rings did, or are they going to do one movie at a time?

Brandon Hurles: 1:52:07

Right, yeah, I wonder that too.

Mark Trobough: 1:52:09

Yeah, I wonder that as well but if they're, if they're already planning on it being a trilogy, I think it'd be better just to film them all together.

Brandon Hurles: 1:52:14

I don't know, that's because they feel more connected that way and you don't have all the yeah wait time in between the actors looking different and you know losing the actors.

Mark Trobough: 1:52:24

Well, the movie didn't do as well, so they nixed them and yeah, like cliffhanger and stuff.

Brandon Hurles: 1:52:29

Right, right right I will say I'm very excited about this because it is it is among my favorite franchises of all time, so I think that it can be adapted. Well, I think it may. It has it has the lore for a very good story, and it can do something completely original too, and still work just as well like it doesn't have to follow a story.

Mark Trobough: 1:52:51

So you have to get a. Yeah, another two years you get a trailer and then we can just, oh god, the moment that trailer drops, it's going to be, you know, examined to hell oh yeah, dude, we're gonna be, we're gonna be, uh, watching that one 50 times, making a video out of that one yeah, because other stuff we kind of already knew if you watch the direct.

Mark Trobough: 1:53:12

But obviously yeah, well, it's everything though yeah, the switch is going to be handheld 1080p docked up to 4k, which is really nice, but that's almost certainly uh ai, upscaling as much what we're doing. Yeah, dlfs and stuff like that, which is what you're getting with that, and it's also supporting hdr. They say what it supports up to 120 frames per second yeah, it supports vrr, which is what I was worried about about the 60 frames for the 4k and stuff like that which is 4k 60?

Brandon Hurles: 1:53:41

1080 120.

Mark Trobough: 1:53:44

So that's that's honestly, the games still need to be optimized to work on it, but that the fact that the hardware will support that is is really good. Plus it's a 7.9 inch screen pretty much an 80 inch screen and stuff like that so I think it'll.

Brandon Hurles: 1:53:58

I like the design of this over the original switch personally, but uh you know, what's crazy is that like the 1080p screen is actually, even though it's actually a better screen than some of the pc handhelds that are out there. Well, yeah, because everyone is riffing on the.

Mark Trobough: 1:54:14

It's not an OLED, but you act like LCDs aren't?

Brandon Hurles: 1:54:17

good or can't be good screens.

Mark Trobough: 1:54:18

The original Switch was a really cheap comp, to be fair. It's like what? $300 or something like that. Yeah, here's my take on it.

Brandon Hurles: 1:54:25

Almost 10 years ago, the upgrade from the LCD that we got at the time when the Switch came out. The OLED was a huge upgrade for it. It made games look so different. But the technology that they're using with the LCD now versus the technology we had with LCD then you can even tell from second hand footage how much better that picture looks.

Mark Trobough: 1:54:49

I'm like yeah sure, oled will always be better, but just because it's LCD doesn't mean it's bad. Not all LCD is created equally.

Brandon Hurles: 1:54:57

It is improved upon consistently. So my take is that, yeah, it's still not as good as an OLED, but here's the thing You've got to keep the price down. You've got to keep the price down, for one OLED is more expensive and also the fact that that lcd screen just from secondhand footage I watched so many videos of people playing it, like I, justine. I watched her video and I was like my god, this screen looks so good and it's lcd, like I was. I was, I wasn't shocked, I knew lcd had gotten better, but I was like, okay, then I, I get this for one. It keeps the cost down a little bit more. If they come out no lead model later down the line, I'll grab it, of course. So I absolutely have to. I love, I love oled technology, um, but the lcd technology has improved vastly upon the lcd technology of the switch one.

Mark Trobough: 1:55:52

So yeah, uh, and that's what I had. Obviously it's the, so it's got more. It's got 256, uh, gigabytes of internal storage, which why not? A lot for a lot of nintendo games. It's a lot more room for a lot more games, and it also supports the micro sd, but it's not the same micro sd you can't use the same sd as the switch, but obviously it's a good thing digital obviously it's a good thing digital transfer it's a good thing, because what people don't understand about that is that the micro sd card express cards are the closest that we can get to ssd technology yeah, you want, you need is the.

Mark Trobough: 1:56:24

The read and write really obviously really matters for the speed of some of these games yes but obviously I'm, it's probably going to be. They're going to talk some things, but until you actually have this in your hand, until people can rip it apart and see the actual guts of this thing, I'm sure some of the actual hardware will be limited. But once this actually comes out, I'm sure we'll get like we'll know for sure what's actually behind the actual dock and stuff like that.

Brandon Hurles: 1:56:46

What I do think puts ease to a lot of people's minds is that this is, even at the $450 price point, the lower price point. This is still competitive to PC handhelds that are out now and it's still competitive to current gen consoles PS5, not the PS5 Pro, but you know PS5 and Series X. This is competitive to that. It is doing what you know. It is doing what those consoles are doing. At the very least it's hitting that 120 hertz, it's hitting that 4K. It's got the DLSS and my take on this is that Nintendo is going to be way more prepared for DLSS than PlayStation was for PSSR, because it was a new technology, it's proprietary, it was a brand new thing for them, so developers didn't know what to do with it. Yet In my humble opinion, I think the DLSS, with the Switch 2 right off the bat, is going to hit the ground running and is going to be done correctly, unlike PSSR, because they decide to go proprietary with it and people have to learn how to to code with these things and how it works.

Mark Trobough: 1:57:59

They're just using what's already on the market right.

Brandon Hurles: 1:58:01

You know they're working with nvidia technology, so it's already been there and it's already been thoroughly tested and used and and things like that. What I would be interested to know is what. Obviously this is like semi-proprietary as well. This is not. This is nvidia's um technology for dlss, but it's not the same dlss that you find in your pc. It's it's. It's beenructured. What I'd be curious to know is what version of DLSS are they working off of? Would it be two? Would it be three?

Mark Trobough: 1:58:37

I'm assuming Probably three, because we're at four now it's hard to tell, until we get some kind of official confirmation either, when we can dig into it more or if there's a leak at an actual developer.

Brandon Hurles: 1:58:48

It'd be cool if well, I say it'd be cool if there was a leak, but I'm sure we'll find out eventually once the switch is actually out and stuff like that, though you'll probably get some kind of leak from a development I'd just be curious, because the people working with it you said um, you went from like a 1080 ti straight to the 4070, right, yeah, okay, so like you didn't get to see the progression of dlss and how horrible it was was in the beginning, oh, no Cause I buy a new GPU like every like five, six years.

Brandon Hurles: 1:59:16

It was really bad in the beginning. Like it was really bad, it wasn't good People didn't like it.

Mark Trobough: 1:59:21

It was new technology and stuff like that.

Brandon Hurles: 1:59:24

So that's why I said I'm kind of curious as to what version they're working off of. Obviously they're doing their own, like quote-unquote proprietary version of DLSS, but it's working off of already made technology.

Mark Trobough: 1:59:39

Well, yeah, because you're not using the same chips and the same cards that you can get on a laptop or a desktop, obviously. So there's some changes that have to probably be done. My assumption is.

Brandon Hurles: 1:59:47

It's probably going to be working off of DLSS 3 just because 3.5 was for 4090 and 4 is now for the 5090 or for the 50 series.

Brandon Hurles: 1:59:59

So that's just my guess of what they're working off of, which is a good sign, because DLSS 1, 2 were not great. They were still working on the technology. It got better and better and obviously they pretty much perfected it with the 4090. Like across the board, people love that card and love what DLSS brought to the table with that. But I'd be curious just to know a little more of the ins and outs of it. But I don't think Nintendo wants us to know that stuff. So whether we will know intentionally or not is to be seen.

Mark Trobough: 2:00:37

No, yeah, I agree, sir, I was trying to pull something up, real quick Come on, Mark. No, you were talking because I was trying to prepare it for the next thing I was pulling up.

Brandon Hurles: 2:00:48

Oh, my God.

Mark Trobough: 2:00:50

Talk about literally everything. Yeah, I think we're good enough, uh. So I mean, as you say, that I'll try to pull up the, the screen share, okay, so obviously we're going to know more about this at on the uh for mario kart world, on april 17th it's going to have its own direct. But one of the things that we did learn when they were doing their treehouse I'm just going to play like a short little little snippet is the fact that for the first time that I'm pretty sure is super Mario cart, the what is it? The feather item is actually back in the game.

Brandon Hurles: 2:01:24

That's cool.

Mark Trobough: 2:01:25

Which is which is crazy. It's been this long.

Brandon Hurles: 2:01:28

Yeah, I think, uh, yeah, I think I think it's coming up here for a second.

Mark Trobough: 2:01:30

Uh, when he does this? The next item? Okay, because we were talking about it like how it's going to use. You can be able to like dodge, like the blue shell, but the fact that the feather is actually in the racing portion of a game I'm pretty sure.

Mark Trobough: 2:01:41

Yeah, it's crazy. Wow, I don't think they're ever going to bring it back. I don't know exactly what you could or couldn't use it for. Obviously we don't have our hands on the game and certain map designs, uh. But I guess with the idea, the fact that you're bringing you know the uh, that you're bringing the feather back and you you have quasi open world elements, I could see it being useful for that to help, like, traverse the world and stuff like that, if items are available while you're generally traversing the world, but the ability to maybe add a new design to where, uh, I can bring that back.

Mark Trobough: 2:02:19

Yeah, a design of a world where maybe there's not a ramp to get to a certain area but the feather allows you to get up to another area. You have to have the item for a certain shortcut or something like that would be a pretty unique way, because you never played super mario kart on the snes. The feather was essentially what they used, because ramps were in a thing to either get around obstacles or jump over something or a certain uh, what do you call it? Like shortcuts, you had to get the feather to uh to access, essentially, right, uh, so like I could see them potentially doing the the same thing. Obviously, we've come a long way since the super mario kart, which for, as you know, it's you struggle to go back and play that game and get good at it. It's I grew up playing that game and it's I think it's it's hard, iconic game even back, when it was hard because using directional pads, stuff like yeah, drifting, you needed to drift, but if you drifted too long you'd spin out.

Mark Trobough: 2:03:09

There was, it was a out. It was much harder to get really good at that game.

Brandon Hurles: 2:03:12

Yeah, it was.

Mark Trobough: 2:03:13

I'm just kind of curious. And then obviously we're going to learn more on the 17th exactly about this game, which is the big launch title for a while. It's another month until you get Donkey Kong, and then it's going to probably be until the holiday before the next big. You have Metroid and then Pokemon Z launch.

Brandon Hurles: 2:03:33

I guess we didn't really for those that weren't able to watch the uh direct with us or anything. I guess we didn't even really mention that this is essentially an open world mario kart game that I had. Yeah, I could have never guessed this is something that we would ever get. But when you think about it really makes sense, because games like need for speed, most wanted or, um, some of those open world uh racing type games like it really does actually make a lot of sense. And it makes sense as like a next step and next evolution, because, at the end of the day, what else do you do different with Mario Kart? And this is the only logical way Other than this you're just going to redo what Mario Kart 8 and 8 Deluxe was, which was just a bunch.

Mark Trobough: 2:04:19

You just add more tracks, like you need to move the world, and this is probably the only way they could like revamp Mario Kart is introducing an open-world concept, because obviously they talked about it with. You know, you have to drive the different courses. You've got the essentially the, the marathon race, where you every section of the race, you, you get knocked out and stuff like that which other racing games kind of already do. But for mario kart.

Brandon Hurles: 2:04:42

It's a cue from uh f099. With that a little bit, where you get, you get knocked out there's a lot of games and pretty racing games that do do that, obviously not all of them, but then, on top of that.

Mark Trobough: 2:04:53

Obviously, I don't think we've gotten confirmed. We're probably gonna get confirmed the 19th, but we essentially already know there's gonna be 24 player races, which will be, you know, nice. And hopefully the the networked version of this online will, we'll be able to handle it as well as they are. They're hinting, or people are speculating there could be up to 84 potential characters. Uh, hopefully they're not we we know there's different skins for characters.

Mark Trobough: 2:05:17

Hopefully that doesn't count mario is one character and then you can just add different skins on them, and it's not like come on, we all want, dr mario, eight versions of your character list is just different versions of mario essentially, uh, but like.

Mark Trobough: 2:05:29

If you could essentially like, there's no reason at this point. They couldn't essentially put every most of the mainline mario. Essentially, uh, but like. If you could essentially like, there's no reason at this point they couldn't essentially put every most of the mainline mario characters in this game and even other characters as well, like think of uh, what's, uh, what's her name?

Mark Trobough: 2:05:43

from bayonetta, um, you know, being like a racer or like, but add those after every single mario characters in this game, like they should all be in this game, and then you can start adding in other IPs and stuff like that on top of it because, like Mario Kart arcade GP 1 and 2, like, for instance, had Pac-Man in the game so those were also developed by Bandai Namco, so that makes a little bit more sense yeah, but it would be interesting to see some of those other characters brought to the franchise, like the way they did link with uh, mario kart 8 deluxe and um, yeah, I think this is uh, this makes sense is like the next evolution.

Brandon Hurles: 2:06:22

Mario kart like and the question is the first time I've been this excited about a mario kart in many years really it's pretty much been what's the gimmick, but the game still pretty much plays the same.

Mark Trobough: 2:06:33

So this is the first time, and then I guess the idea is how many courses are we going to get at launch? Uh, how are they going to deal? Are we even getting? Are they going away from the retro stuff? Or how are they going to deal with expansions and more tracks? Are they able to bring the older tracks back? Either is you can play that like the old bar cart, or they're going to try to like add retro tracks into this open world style. It's a mixture of both Potentially.

Brandon Hurles: 2:06:55

I wonder what they're going to do. I'm definitely curious on how they're going to because ever since I think ever since a Mario Kart advanced.

Mark Trobough: 2:07:05

I don't remember that's the game, but on the on the GBA circuit, retro carts, retro tracks have been a thing in every Mario Kart game. Like gba circuit, retro carts, retro tracks have been a thing in every mario kart game, like that's always been there. Do they go away from that staple? Because of what?

Brandon Hurles: 2:07:16

they're trying to do.

Mark Trobough: 2:07:17

I have one request for this game bring back battle mode from mario kart ds I, I mean, I'd love to see it and stuff like that, or at the very least eventually with with updates, because we're at a point now where that's something you could add down the line, though you'd like it to be in the base game.

Mark Trobough: 2:07:32

But I have one more uh, what's another two weeks before the 17th? This yeah about about two weeks before we get the full direct, which is probably gonna tell us everything about the games, though one more request custom emblems you know, we're not getting that back ever again yeah that's a relic stuck on the ds, and you know why it's not coming back as much as I loved it? Because I spent forever just making little uh character designs on that thing essentially it's pixel art yeah, it's pixel art.

Brandon Hurles: 2:08:01

Those compete. People made some cool stuff, man, that's how I learned about genitals and all that kind of stuff.

Mark Trobough: 2:08:07

So this guy. I think you played more online than I did, but I played a lot of mario kart online yeah, I guess one of the other big games that we, that we got, uh announced, uh, that aren't third party games, is a hyrule warriors age of imprisonment, which, yes, I think, which has not been talked about very much.

Brandon Hurles: 2:08:29

I've noticed surprisingly not I've I've seen so little um talked about very much. I've noticed Surprisingly not I've seen so little talked about this game and I think this series is very popular and it's obviously set in the Tears of the Kingdom timeline. It makes a lot of sense and Age of Calamity. Its downfall was the fact that it had performance problems because of the amount of characters and stuff on screen and there's a lot going on with these games, but the fact that we're kind of like that one, because this is what the uh imprisoning war essentially so we're we're seeing more of the story game.

Mark Trobough: 2:09:06

Probably there's not gonna I sorry I can't speak. Link's not in this past so I so I assume Zelda will be our main character, that we, that we play as in this game. But the fact that we can experience the other side of the story of of tears of the kingdom, and I kind of like what they're doing with these warrior games in between Zelda games yeah, you get it's. It's a stop gap between the four or five years between games as of right now, and it directly ties into the main story Essentially, since they're stuck doing this back and forth, which I you there?

Brandon Hurles: 2:09:40

Oh, he's frozen.

Mark Trobough: 2:09:43

This allows you to expand and experience what's going on.

Brandon Hurles: 2:09:45

So, I?

Mark Trobough: 2:09:46

What's that? You're frozen, oh sorry, I do like what they're doing with this and I don't necessarily mind it. I don't hate the Warriors games and I think it's a unique way to tell the full story of every mainline game. Essentially, yeah, I think so, If that makes sense to you.

Brandon Hurles: 2:10:03

Yeah, no, no, it makes sense to me. I was getting Burnout just because we were getting the Fire Emblem Warriors, because we were getting the fire emblem warriors, we were getting the Hyrule warriors and we were also getting the persona strikers, which is the same thing for persona, and we were getting a lot of these games. But no, I mean it makes a lot of sense because it's like it's a cool, unique way to have a take on Zelda and like it makes sense and it's telling a story that fills in where we didn't get story and like tears of the kingdom, of wrath of the wild and stuff like that, where a lot of stuff was kind of missing and we just we didn't know as much about the video games, but like age of calamity brought forth a lot of lore to the story. That was really important and, um, yeah, I think this is great.

Mark Trobough: 2:10:53

So yeah, and the fact that it I guess so they do say it comes out winter, so that's probably a december to february release window. It's, I guess they they're probably still working on the game so we don't have like a hard set date. Yeah, but so it comes out sometime in the winter, which means it could come after the holiday season, so so we got some time on this. But, yeah, I'm, I I don't necessarily hate for for just Zelda, regardless of the other IPs for the warrior games. I do think it fits Hyrule Cause when you think of like a lot of like the lore for some of these fights or like how they talk up at least in the last two games with link. These kind of fights make a lot more sense for the battle You're fighting, like a handful of the cobblings, just the way the game works. I think this this definitely makes it feel more, more accurate as far as, like, some of these battles would have actually been essentially.

Brandon Hurles: 2:11:40

And and I really liked the name of the game too it's it's something I would have not guessed for.

Mark Trobough: 2:11:45

I mean it leans on because this is supposed to be the imprisoning war, age of Imprisonment and stuff like that. I think the names cleverly tie into what's actually going on, yeah. So all this is more canon than what they did with the first.

Brandon Hurles: 2:11:59

Yeah, the first one was actually the one for Breath of the Wild.

Mark Trobough: 2:12:02

It was kind of like a.

Brandon Hurles: 2:12:03

Oh, Age of Calamity.

Mark Trobough: 2:12:05

Yeah, age of Calamity was more alternative.

Brandon Hurles: 2:12:07

It's technically alternative so it wasn't like a one for one. The way the story kind of played out.

Mark Trobough: 2:12:14

I hope they don't do the same with this one have it more tied in.

Brandon Hurles: 2:12:17

But I mean, it was canon, though it was canon canon.

Mark Trobough: 2:12:19

But I thought the story primarily dealt with because you had that little thing go back in time, that it was canon, but it was like um an alternative universe yeah, it was.

Brandon Hurles: 2:12:27

It was a weird one. It was a little bit weird, but I like that they're. It seems like they're focusing on this being canon and telling more of the story that we don't know about and that we didn't get from the game, and it's and I think it helps with what pokemon's doing.

Mark Trobough: 2:12:42

You realize it's gonna take four to five years. Uh, so, to keep the ip relevant, add more content.

Mark Trobough: 2:12:47

Here's a essentially a stopgap game, a spin-off game, if you will exactly, but it still ties and it's just not like the first one, which I think was unique take. But having a tiny these games also gives people a reason to actually go out and buy and actually play these games to to maybe get more of a understanding of what was going on with the story. Even if it's not a one for one canon, they still do what they did with the other one. I don't, I don't hate what they're doing with the, with the higher warrior series. I don't I don't.

Mark Trobough: 2:13:13

I like these types of games and I hope they continue to. Uh, yeah, uh, nintendo and koei tecmo continue to have this relationship, because I think it works out really well for for both parties yeah, I mean it works with the the fire emblem series as well.

Brandon Hurles: 2:13:25

I mean it really works there and there's enough lore and characters deep into the fire emblem series that you could uh, you can make countless games for just fire emblem alone. So I mean it, it makes sense and like they did it with persona and it worked for persona too, and uh, it makes sense like these type of games make sense for certain series where you can tell a little more on the story of uh in a different way, in a different manner, in a different style of gameplay.

Mark Trobough: 2:13:57

Yeah.

Brandon Hurles: 2:13:59

So, yeah, I'm definitely excited for it, for sure.

Mark Trobough: 2:14:03

No, I am. And then obviously, uh, we got a lot of stuff that was getting more upgrades. I brought up the? Uh the Pokemon stuff earlier, uh, upgrades. I brought up the? Uh the pokemon stuff earlier, uh, but there's a lot of other games that are getting some upgrades, so I was trying to try to pull. I didn't want to hit that button. I was trying to pull some other stuff oh no, you're good.

Brandon Hurles: 2:14:18

Uh, mr coffee said burnout paradise. Yeah, that was the game I was thinking of.

Mark Trobough: 2:14:22

Yeah all right, shit, there we go, stop uh, so some of the other ones. So there were two main games, uh, that I was uh bringing up, that we're getting not only the upscale but also essentially extra stuff. Obviously, the first one is a game that we played really liked.

Mark Trobough: 2:14:40

It's the uh super mario jamboree, uh essentially it's the switch to addition plus jamboree tv, which is essentially using the camera functionality, yeah, uh, for like a lot of these games and stuff like that, as well as the mouse. This game felt like the primary gimmick for a lot of the new features of the Switch 2, since they don't have a Switch 2 Sports. Essentially, this was the game that they were doing to not only add full sale or just a whole lot more content, but they're using it to essentially show what the the switch to can do as far as some of the some of the camera functionality stuff.

Brandon Hurles: 2:15:16

Yes, I'm very, very happy about this because we really enjoyed this game and it's it's not often that we get a new, a Mario party with extra content, rather than just like a whole new Mario party, and I just thought this game was done so well. It was the first one that I loved as much as I did since, like Mario party two and I like most of the Mario party games but I think that, like it just brought back that Mario party love that I used to have and we we had so much fun playing this game. Like I want to stream this again sometime soon and like this will be a perfect time to stream it as well.

Mark Trobough: 2:15:56

It might be a little, a little bit harder with the camera maybe, but I think that, uh, I think this is a makes so much sense so, yeah, I can't imagine a whole lot of games actually using the camera functionality, uh, but I think it's a, it's a unique, unique way to kind of show, like, how you could potentially use this with the switch hardware did you see the hori uh branded piranha plant camera I didn't know oh, you gotta look see if you can show that on screen.

Brandon Hurles: 2:16:18

I want people to see that it's really.

Mark Trobough: 2:16:20

But we do know, like you don't have to buy nintendo's camera. I think they say any kind of like webcam with the usbc plug-in will will essentially work.

Brandon Hurles: 2:16:28

Uh, unless you want nintendo's camera for whatever reason, yeah hold on, I'll see if I can pull this up real quick. This is really cool. Like I, I'll buy both. I'll buy the regular one and this one, just this one for the collection. But, um, this is really really such a neat, neat idea. Let's pull it up here. So check this out. So this is officially licensed. This is a camera. It's a piranha plant that closes up too.

Mark Trobough: 2:16:59

If you don't want, if you want a camera but you want it to like blend in or something. Just want the the black camera, just right.

Brandon Hurles: 2:17:06

Isn't that such a cool idea?

Mark Trobough: 2:17:07

I think it's a unique idea that she did done with the, with the main camera personally, but I mean I'll buy both.

Brandon Hurles: 2:17:12

I'll buy this just to keep as like collection piece and use the other one as like my camera for the console, but I think that's so cool enough.

Mark Trobough: 2:17:20

Yeah, I thought that was really really cool uh, and then the other game that's not only get the getting essentially a switch to edition plus extra content is kirby in the Land. It's getting a Star-Crossed World content. I can bring up the trailer. Excellent game, it's definitely a game.

Brandon Hurles: 2:17:37

I haven't. This is like a semi. It's not a true open-world game, but it's like a semi open-world Kirby game that really works Like the one I had the most fun with in a long time.

Mark Trobough: 2:17:55

Yeah, and I'm glad that for some of these games it's not just a here's some more graphics and it performs better, but here's like actual new, new content coming to this, like putting some effort into releasing us on the adding a lot more content, cause I don't know if if this is just more content for the switch to the day, it's Because I don't know if this is just more content for the Switch 2.

Mark Trobough: 2:18:11

It's better with the hardware or if they were actually taking advantage of some of the other stuff, like the Mario Kart, which I don't think it was. I've not played the game so I can't really speak a whole lot about it, but it's always good to see that you're getting more content, essentially, so you're getting more bang for your buck. You're, you know, paying ten dollars or whatever they're going to charge just for it to perform better, unless it's pokemon and it absolutely right they're giving you value for it, which nintendo is good at doing.

Brandon Hurles: 2:18:37

Yeah, they're good. They're good with doing value they give you. Uh, they do give you value with their games yeah.

Mark Trobough: 2:18:46

So I don't know whether it's uh just more of a reason to buy the switch to and stuff like that, but it's uh, you know, always love to see see more content. Yeah, I think it's just more of a reason to buy the Switch 2 and stuff like that, but it's, you know, always love to see more content.

Brandon Hurles: 2:18:53

Yeah, I think it's really cool that they're adding additional content on top of the improvements of the games and the frame rates and resolution bumps.

Mark Trobough: 2:19:02

Yeah, and then obviously, if you don't already know, some of the other games that are getting essentially more performance upgrades. It's Prime 4 Beyond will have a Switch 2 version. So it's uh, prime for beyond will have a switch to version. So it's obviously developed for the switch one, but it'll have better ideally better performance on the switch to also looks much better like it looks.

Mark Trobough: 2:19:19

Yeah, I think these would just have better hardware and stuff like that. So it's it's good that we're having essentially a a better version of the game and stuff like that. Legends, those, those games aren't surprising. They're probably gonna be the two big holiday titles that come out for the Switch at this point yeah, I think so too.

Mark Trobough: 2:19:34

As well as not shockingly Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, which I do think definitely perform, will perform better with the hardware, especially if you've ever played Breath of the Wild and you're in the Korok Forest.

Brandon Hurles: 2:19:45

That game just was so, that area just yeah, it chugs there well yeah, the one, the one, um, the one thing I noticed tears looking, I actually saw way less of the chugging with tears of the kingdom, but when, what would chug is when you were, you were flying down like it, frank, you could see frame.

Mark Trobough: 2:20:05

Yeah, so I'm trying to load a lot of stuff. Yeah, so I hopefully this issue would just make at the very least. I just want something that just is a completely smoother experience yeah, because outside of that issue, those games are really good they're very good games at times you could realize it's pushing the limits of what the hardware can really do, especially with an open world game. It was like, yeah, this, this, this, 2017, 2016, uh tears of the kingdom is really.

Brandon Hurles: 2:20:29

Kingdom is officially my favorite game of all time, so I'm always excited to see that we're getting a better version of that game.

Mark Trobough: 2:20:38

I hope they not only do they give you an upgrade, but you're getting more. It'd be cool to get some additional content.

Brandon Hurles: 2:20:46

It's possible because we got DLC for Breath of the Wild but we never did for Tears for some reason, so it's possible.

Mark Trobough: 2:20:52

So if you're going to pay to get better performance, give people more of a reason to buy the game. Treat it essentially like a DLC, where you're getting that more content as well. There's always the chance before we don't. I don't know if they did. They give us the dates for all these upgrades or these just like.

Brandon Hurles: 2:21:06

I don't know actually, to be honest with you, that's a great question. I don't remember.

Mark Trobough: 2:21:10

to be honest, I know we were watching it and we were seeing it, but it would be nice to see that these games also come. But if they come out at launch, I feel like we would have heard it by now. If they come out later in the year, hopefully when they give us the next Direct, they'll be like oh yeah, here's more content. So there's an actual reason and give.

Brandon Hurles: 2:21:33

So there's an actual reason and give people less of a reason to complain about paying for a better performance. I don't see an actual confirmation on a date, but, um, they did for obviously Kirby and Jamboree.

Mark Trobough: 2:21:41

That they obviously verified. There's more content coming Cause Kirby comes August 28th and Jamboree comes July 24th.

Brandon Hurles: 2:21:48

The other thing that we didn't bring up is that they're actually making a map, now available on your phone to find all the shrines and the Korok seeds.

Mark Trobough: 2:21:57

Yeah, I don't know if it's just for that or that's what they use to demonstrate it, but a way, because it's like a big map, so it's like, oh, you can look at it, because it's maybe not on screen, but at least it says, oh, you're going here, turn this way, or something like that, which is essentially taking the wii u concept.

Brandon Hurles: 2:22:10

That was the one plus side of breath of the wild on the wii u is that you had the game pad, you know which was. You know it didn't didn't run quite as well. It didn't run bad. I would say I think it's fun. On the wii u, I played on the wii u and the switch, but uh, yeah, I like that they're taking that concept of having that dual screen there for the map and being able to use that, because that could be very, very helpful, you know, without having to keep pulling the map up and finding the shrines and finding the Korok seeds and all that stuff. I think it was really cool.

Mark Trobough: 2:22:43

I don't know if we have like a trailer or any screenshots of that, but Nothing that was like immediate, because those games are just it's more of like a comparison to the originals. What some of those videos are for, and the trailers were obviously were pretty short, but just because we did get the confirmation. Uh, metroid prime 4 will be able to hit 4k at 60 fps or 1080 at 120 with the switch to perfect, which is really nice to see that game already looked really good.

Mark Trobough: 2:23:09

With 60 fps at 4k, I think will be absolutely amazing. My tv can't do 4k but it's glad it's good it's being able to well, I will say.

Brandon Hurles: 2:23:18

I mean like there's got to eventually be a reason for you to want to upgrade to a my tv's like six to eight years. Yeah, but do you gain this point. Do you often game on your tv or do you game more on a?

Mark Trobough: 2:23:31

monitor Depends. If I'm playing a console game, it's on my TV. If I'm playing any other game on the PC.

Brandon Hurles: 2:23:38

You see that way for me, but now I just play everything on a monitor.

Mark Trobough: 2:23:41

I play my Nintendo or my Switch and my PlayStation for console exclusives, and anything that's not an exclusive I play on my PC.

Brandon Hurles: 2:23:52

Gotcha, I mean, eventually there will be something that will come along for you to want to invest in, I mean 4K is affordable now Much more affordable.

Brandon Hurles: 2:24:02

You can get a 4K screen for a couple hundred bucks now at this point but there definitely will be something that will be like okay, I want to see the beauty of this game. I want to see, I really want to see how this game looks Now for me. I will now. They did announce they did not say this for Metroid Prime per se, but we did get confirmation of a 1440p mode on the console itself as well. So that's good too, because 1440p, while it may not be a drastic improvement over 1080p, is a very noticeable improvement over 1080p. I just compared, like earlier today, 1080p monster under wilds to 1440p and it is, it's. It's actually a much bigger jump than you think it would be. It truly is. It really does look a lot better. So, seeing that in 4K at 60, I don't even know what mode would I want to play more, because it's like for a game like Metroid Prime, where it's kind of a Twitch-esque game. As far as a shooter, I would probably opt to play that.

Mark Trobough: 2:25:14

I want to try both modes.

Brandon Hurles: 2:25:14

I think I would probably opt for the 120 frames per second mode myself I guess it just depends try both, but this, this one.

Mark Trobough: 2:25:21

I feel like we'll play more like an actual shooter for the first time in the prime series, because primes one and two, and I guess technically three as well, were less twitch and it was more well, I don't mean, they were always like the combat especially well, the combat, especially on the gamecube, just the way it was designed, because you essentially only had the one joy-con.

Mark Trobough: 2:25:37

Yeah, it was designed with lock on combat, more or less you could look up and down, but most of the combat was you're just going to lock on to each yeah, so, like you're fighting, this might even be a game where, like 4k actually 4k 60 is is is good enough on the frame rate and actually like an actual, a modern fps, not not the limitation, because I would love to see this in 4k.

Brandon Hurles: 2:25:57

I mean the. The jump we've talked about it many times but like that jump from seeing the first metroid prime game was crazy, but then seeing metroid prime remastered how much better that looked was crazy.

Mark Trobough: 2:26:11

And that one times better and it's crazy. And that one was 4K and it's crazy as you look back on the original trailer, like I remember first playing Metroid Prime 1 thing and those graphics blew my mind back in 2003. Like it can't get any better than that, like we thought that and now it just looks so old, antiquated, and the new ones are like oh, this looks so much better.

Brandon Hurles: 2:26:39

Like, if I saw these new graphics back then, I think my head would have blown up.

Brandon Hurles: 2:26:41

I mean, if I want to see what metroid prime looks like in 4k, I truly do so. Like for me, like I'm, I am with you where I have a 4k tv, but it's not a vrr and it's not. It doesn't. It's not 120 hertz or any of that stuff, so it's just plain 4k um. But I I am going to get a 4k monitor and this is one of the reasons why is because I want to check this stuff out. But monster hunter is also a reason why I really want to see the, the full potential of that um resolution wise. But like the switch too is going to be a big reason why I do want to get 4k, because there's some of these games where it's like playing, for instance, you know, when we get the sequel to super mario odyssey, like seeing mario and 4k something I could have never imagined would be, just like a monumental thing for me to see these nintendo games in 4k, something I just thought I would never see.

Mark Trobough: 2:27:30

You know, you kind of came to the conclusion, like I don't know if nintendo's ever gonna make a console that can even do that and right, that's what we thought, the way they were going with the switch. It's like yeah, I mean 1080p it's, but to see, metroid prime 4 and 4k to me.

Brandon Hurles: 2:27:45

I don't even have a 4k monitor to me. That is worth investing in that ahead of time to see that in 4k I mean mean to be fair.

Mark Trobough: 2:27:53

I bought the Switch originally just for Metroid Prime 4.

Brandon Hurles: 2:27:57

I remember yeah.

Mark Trobough: 2:27:58

And we went the whole life cycle without having it. I guess technically now, but at this point playing on the Switch 2 will be the equivalent.

Brandon Hurles: 2:28:04

But I mean, I think the wait might be worth it because from what we've seen on this it looks phenomenal and I'm curious on the new gimmick of the psychic powers. I like the new suit design. I think it looks really good. I think it does. Yeah, I think it looks really really good.

Mark Trobough: 2:28:22

Not quite as good as Definitely we need a portion of this game where we can play as Zero Suit Samus. That's what I want in this game. That's the most boring Samus, though, oh my god, that's what I want in this game. That's the most boring Samus, though, oh my God, this guy Not the whole game, just a small portion. Redesign her Zero suit, don't make it look like it's a Samus.

Brandon Hurles: 2:28:37

In 4K. Now in 4K.

Mark Trobough: 2:28:39

Give me all of Samus' glory in 4K.

Brandon Hurles: 2:28:42

Oh my gosh, You're something else, man, you're something else. It goes all the way back to the Ness version. The first game, yeah, no. But seriously, switch 2 is a reason that I actually do want to invest in having a 4K monitor now, because before I kind of just didn't care as much. We talked about it before, where 1440p is good enough for me. I care more about frame rate, which I still do, but there are some of these games where I would actually love to see if it runs 4k 60, not 4k 30. Even better, if it ran 4k 30 I would 100 play the frame rate mode.

Brandon Hurles: 2:29:20

But running 4k 60, 60 is good enough for me, and to see it in 4k, that's awesome, even better. It's just something I could have never imagined. So, um, but it'd be a different story if it was 4k 30, because then I wouldn't want to play that mode, but 4k 60 all day. Yeah, I, I want to see that in 4k I truly do 100 as well as we.

Mark Trobough: 2:29:45

Another. Another big feature that we're getting that essentially we haven't really seen. I don't think, I don't think it was on the 3ds, but the original ds, which was a game sharing feature, essentially so like one person has a copy of the game and then you can play a limited version of that game with other people and local co-op essentially that are, like you know, right near you, uh with uh with uh, the ds's download play, whether it was near a bunch of people, or you go to like walmart or gamest and download that game.

Brandon Hurles: 2:30:10

Essentially I love that feature. I love that feature. I remember Super Mario 64 DS had that feature where you could play a bunch of the mini games with other people. And I love that feature because we got to experience more games and we also got to like kind of test drive games and see if it's something we wanted, that a friend had. And you know we were kids so we we all couldn't afford everything. So it was neat to have that feature where you can try the game.

Mark Trobough: 2:30:39

And then, if you look at the actual trailer for this and stuff like that and what they showed, uh, they showed that it wasn't. They say it's a software update. I don't know how they're going to do it, but in the trailer they showed the. I don't know. Is this exclusive to the Switch 2, or will it let you play on the Switch 1 at all?

Brandon Hurles: 2:30:59

I think it's Switch 2 exclusive to GameShare.

Mark Trobough: 2:31:03

It would be nice if they allowed you to use the Bluetooth and do it with the Switch 1, but I still think it's a neat thing and stuff like that that you're able to play across, to just share, because it's just like yeah and maybe it's like a fun little. Like it came something like a bomb ransom you could play real quick and stuff like that.

Brandon Hurles: 2:31:19

So one thing I was thinking about too. I thought about this after, because we talked about it while we were live covering the nintendo direct. But the game chat feature, I feel like it could grow on me, Cause I kind of get the. I get what they're going for. It's not per se like something I'm you know, it is, but it's like within the game. It could be. This could be very interesting for streams. This can be very interesting for literally just meeting up with your buddies and playing.

Mark Trobough: 2:31:52

I think it's neat but like I think, outside of just the voice chat, I think most everything else is very niche and won't be used really all that often.

Brandon Hurles: 2:31:59

I don't think you're playing the game. You're like I don't know how to do this.

Mark Trobough: 2:32:01

Show me show me what you're trying to do and I can kind of help you out or trying to find something. But I think for the most, going to be the the voice, the voice chat's really all people really wanted and that's what most people are going to end up using it for. I think the camera stuff is nice but like with how low the frame rate is going to be and stuff like that with the camera, like I don't care if I see your face at the bottom of the screen. I get what they're going with, with trying to re-emulate the couch co-op. I just don't think most people are going to are going to care or use it or have a camera like.

Brandon Hurles: 2:32:27

So yeah, I think it'll definitely be one of those features, kind of like hd rumble, where it's like uh it's there, but it doesn't really it's there but it doesn't get used as much.

Brandon Hurles: 2:32:35

But it would be interesting to see what they do with it. They do use it in a right way, like it could be pretty cool. I mean, is it? Is it designed, you know, really for me not necessarily, but it doesn't mean that I won't try this out, because some of the um, some of the games they showed off doing this with, could really make sense for like streams, like community streams, playing with other people on you know what I mean. Like playing with other people in the community on stream, like that could be really fun. Like a Mario Party game, you know, like playing Mario Party like this could be really interesting. Like a game like that or like Mario Kart or you know things like that could be, could actually be pretty interesting.

Mark Trobough: 2:33:21

No, I agree completely. And you know what, the more I looked into it, the more that this next game didn't really surprise me with how hard Nintendo had been going with other games and over, like the past, with the with their park and stuff like that. But the, the new Donkey Kong 3d game that we haven't had in like 64. Yeah.

Mark Trobough: 2:33:41

We've only ever had one but you know, with with everything else that we've gotten and stuff like that, with their support, from their, their actual park to some of the other and we're getting a donkey yeah port from their, their actual park to some of the other, and we're getting a donkey country games, yeah, and the movie. This doesn't surprise me as much. It's just I don't think anybody really saw this coming or anybody was even really talking about this even being a thing, which is crazy I know, and you know it's.

Brandon Hurles: 2:34:02

What's crazy is that? Um, as as much as I, I love my 3d platformer. It doesn't matter what it is, as long as it's fun, that's all I care about. But in my collectathons and things like that, but to me, because it's been so long since we've gotten a donkey kong game like this, or really you could say we've never gotten one on the scale of you know, don't you really have.

Mark Trobough: 2:34:25

Most of them are really I think most of them are really just linear side scrolling, yeah, even donkey kong 64.

Brandon Hurles: 2:34:31

It's a collectathon but it's linear, like. To me this is actually a little more exciting than just another 3d mario, because it's it's. It's something completely different, like this looks like an almost open world-esque game where it is like still linear, you can tell, but it looks like there's just. It looks like Super Mario Odyssey, but Donkey Kong.

Mark Trobough: 2:34:56

Yeah, it's one of those games where you look back on it and now you're like I'm surprised that Donkey Kong really never got this much love.

Brandon Hurles: 2:35:03

Which it finally could. I mean maybe we finally will get the love that Donkey Kong, it's like Donkey.

Mark Trobough: 2:35:09

Kong Country was great games and then after the 64 they just kind of didn't care about him for like a few generations yeah, I mean he kept getting the 2d games and stuff, which are great, but he just was not getting the love.

Brandon Hurles: 2:35:22

But that was the era where 3d was the thing and 2d was just seen as like a, a secondary title, like a, a game that just wasn't like main, like your main title you're gonna invest a lot of money into like, uh, so for you, because this is going to be like a 3d mario game but donkey kong, donkey kong characters and in that world, like, is this a game that really interests you or is this, is this one, where you're?

Mark Trobough: 2:35:44

like I'll play it either way and see, see how it goes. I'll play it, obviously once I have a switch too.

Brandon Hurles: 2:35:50

Yeah, but like I guess I don't know, donkey Kong has just always been that it was there since the beginning, but he's largely since the early era was just kind of relegated to the sides as like another character in the multiplayer series of games you know what, at first, when we first saw I don't know if you remember the leaked image, but before we knew about Marioio kart world, just the fact that we are getting a new mario kart when I first saw the image of the redesign for donkey kong, I absolutely hated it.

Mark Trobough: 2:36:21

I didn't like it at all because of what they were doing with the movie and stuff.

Brandon Hurles: 2:36:23

Yeah, yeah, but now, but now I get it. I get what they're going for. I understand. I understand what they're going for now. They're going for a more universal look. Where it's it's going to tie into everything altogether, like it makes sense.

Brandon Hurles: 2:36:39

Um, I didn't like it at first at all. I really didn't, cause I'm so attached to that that original, rare design of Donkey Kong. But this makes sense and he actually is like more emotive, like you can see more expression in his faces when he's doing stuff in the world, and even on the cover for the game, for instance. Like you can see how much more emotive he is in this particular game. That just makes it a little more interesting and something a little different. That I am. I definitely want a new 3d mario, no doubt about that, but I actually am happier to see this something different and something with an ip that deserves more love, and I think we'll get more love because we got the theme park, we're getting the movie, we're getting getting this game, we got, obviously, mario Kart World. So they're really trying to pump up this IP again, which is what they need to do, because we need more than just Mario.

Mark Trobough: 2:37:42

We've got a lot of good stuff, but this was definitely the one that I don't think anybody was expecting. I think everyone saw it and they were just assuming it was the next Mario game.

Brandon Hurles: 2:37:48

People were asked for years for a new 3D Donkey Kong game and people just assumed it would never happen.

Mark Trobough: 2:37:56

Another one.

Brandon Hurles: 2:37:59

Willy Witter said. Games I want to see follow-ups to are Wave Race, blast Corps, star Fox, just to name a few. So much potential in the IPs that have been asleep for a while. I agree F-Zero would be a big one for agree, um, f0 would be a big one. For me, starfox would be a big one then again.

Mark Trobough: 2:38:14

The last race, that was starfox. It just wasn't, probably wasn't the best game, and it was also received terribly, so I think, starfox which is unfortunate, has a chance.

Brandon Hurles: 2:38:23

It's a great ip. It's a really good ip. It's like everyone's just too connected to the 64 game starfox 64 I mean, yeah, I would say the same for the snes game, because it's, I would, I would say, just as notorious right.

Mark Trobough: 2:38:41

I'd say the 64 is really the one game most people remember starfox for, and that's where they say it peaked I think of the snes game first, but I I do.

Brandon Hurles: 2:38:48

I don't know anybody that would ever think of the snes game.

Mark Trobough: 2:38:50

I think this snes game was way before its time.

Brandon Hurles: 2:38:52

I because I went back and played, I'm like this is uh, it's the same game as a 64, but the 64 is just better in every aspect but regardless, I think that if starfox made a proper comeback and they did it right and they really, you know, really put their effort into it, it could take off. I mean, it's very likable characters, you know what I want willie.

Mark Trobough: 2:39:13

And what is it? He brought up the wave race. I was like wave where should be great?

Brandon Hurles: 2:39:16

another new, another hydro thunder which is again outside of the arcades, just what was so cool about wave race is that it was always like a um, it was always a launch title for the, the consoles where it showed the water physics, and it was amazing for the time. Do you remember wave race 64, seeing those water physics for the first time?

Mark Trobough: 2:39:40

wave race blue storm on the game cube.

Brandon Hurles: 2:39:42

Like the water, physics are mind-blowing even today. Like the water, we don't even get water physics like that now, like they were mind, were mind-blowing. To be fair, there's a lot more.

Mark Trobough: 2:39:52

The games are more complicated than they were back then. That you have to deal with, but I understand what you're saying.

Brandon Hurles: 2:39:57

Yeah, it would be really cool, and a new Blast Corps would be cool too. Man, I would love to see them revive some of these properties that I think have just left the garment.

Mark Trobough: 2:40:07

A smaller scale game for smaller scale, $40 game, I think would be just fine.

Brandon Hurles: 2:40:13

I just want to know what are they doing with F-Zero? I don't understand. We're getting F-Zero now with the GameCube games, I guess because we always said it competes too much with Mario. Kart. They want to focus on one racing game, but now they're doing Kirby Air Ride, which is the same thing racing.

Mark Trobough: 2:40:33

Mario cart. So like, if you're willing to do that with air ride, are you willing to revisit F zero?

Brandon Hurles: 2:40:39

I see zero was always serious racer.

Mark Trobough: 2:40:42

It was always more of a single player games. What it was where Mark Hart was the multiplayer game.

Brandon Hurles: 2:40:47

Yeah, and it was a. It was a party game at the end of the day. It always has been a party. This was an actual, just a fast-paced single-player racing game. For the most part, and like F-Zero 99, look, it's the only 99 game that's still around it's doing very well. I play it every week to get my coins.

Mark Trobough: 2:41:03

I guess people want another F-Zero game. Then again, how long ago did that game come out? F-zero, that was like a year, two years ago, I think. Even though the name did look good like okay, let's make another f-zero, it'd be too early to even get any kind of uh decision on. Like even if they started a year afterwards in development, well, you wouldn't have heard anything by now anyways. So there's always a chance. The next two, three years, if they are finally working on a game, you'll finally hear about it. You know later. I just, even if they're working on it right now, it's just too early to come out and actually say anything, but it would be nice.

Brandon Hurles: 2:41:37

Yeah, willie says bring back Diddy Kong Racing. I agree. I think Diddy Kong Racing is a better game than Mario Kart 64. Because it had an adventure mode and you could fly in planes.

Mark Trobough: 2:41:48

I don't know. I guess it depends on the closer you get to mario kart. Are they willing to do that, or were they just?

Brandon Hurles: 2:41:54

I don't. I don't know, because it's a rare property you got to remember mario kart, essentially it was a rare property for one um, but doesn't the ip itself belong?

Mark Trobough: 2:42:04

it's all nintendo characters, though they just developed the game yeah, I just don't.

Brandon Hurles: 2:42:09

When you say competing with mario kart, that one I do feel like is competing. It's the closest one, I guess, air ride is not really the same.

Mark Trobough: 2:42:17

Obviously, f-zero is its own thing, but you got the phone. Nintendo only wanted one, where they didn't want anything that could potentially compete with mario kart without popular god, so they just stayed away from everything which is it's a.

Brandon Hurles: 2:42:27

It's a real bummer, because I love diddy Kong Racing. I love Diddy Kong Racing DS. I love the adventure mode. I thought it was so fun that there was an actual story mode for it.

Mark Trobough: 2:42:37

I think you could argue, as of right now, mario Kart's, nintendo's most popular.

Brandon Hurles: 2:42:42

IP right now, because 8 and 8 Deluxe are the best on the Switch game. Yeah, I mean, it is.

Mark Trobough: 2:42:47

It's sold over 50 million copies, I think globally and its lifetime is insane.

Brandon Hurles: 2:42:57

It it's sold like it's sold over 50 million copies, I think, world, globally, and it's, like you, insane. It is absolutely insane. Do you think that we get an animal crossing new horizons?

Mark Trobough: 2:43:01

nintendo switch 2 edition, or do we just get a chance? It might get an upgrade, but to be fair, I think a new animal crossing game on exclusively on the switch 2 would be preferred I think you'll eventually get some kind of like just update or something like that or just generally run better. But I think I think Animal Crossing range is fine for the most part on the switch.

Brandon Hurles: 2:43:15

Yeah, I was fine, I had no problem.

Mark Trobough: 2:43:16

Bigger world, something that's less like that, more like maybe going back to like the GameCube era games, would be a lot better.

Brandon Hurles: 2:43:23

I would like to see like a return, well, like return to the like DS era of Animal Crossing, because I think that's where it peaked for me.

Mark Trobough: 2:43:32

I think they expected the one on the Switch to be as popular as it was. But I mean the way it was designed. You're sitting here like. This was not designed as like a big game. It was going to be that popular. The game would have probably looked and had a lot more content and you know what's crazy?

Brandon Hurles: 2:43:50

yeah, they never did add like a ton of content to it either. It wasn't like they never planned to.

Mark Trobough: 2:43:55

But I think they also. I think Nintendo is one of the studios that understood this game's popular because it just happened to come out during COVID, yeah. And so they were like, yeah, it's popular. They knew the popular wasn't going to last, so they definitely limited. They wasn't gonna last.

Brandon Hurles: 2:44:09

So they definitely limited. They just pocketed the money and limited the they could have added so much more content to that game, though like it could still be alive and kicking, but uh, yeah, definitely, uh definitely interesting to you know see what happens there.

Mark Trobough: 2:44:20

So uh, but I mean, if you're, it's not the same. But uh, best buys is doing a midnight release for the Switch 2. They say mini, so you have to probably check locally but will allow players who pre-ordered a Switch 2 to essentially pick it up at midnight on launch day. So it's not the you still have to wait in line to get it, but you can still. If you're able to pre-order it through Best Buy, you can still at least do a form of a midnight launch, which is nice to somewhat see that coming back in in some form, to the very least uh, I don't know how you feel about this.

Brandon Hurles: 2:45:00

Yeah, I, I don't know. Matt long six said he just came back from watching the minecraft movie. I'm, I feel, I feel sorry for you.

Mark Trobough: 2:45:08

I everything I've seen, but like it kind of looks what I expect and it just doesn't look like a good movie. But like I look the trailer for me wasn't good, but I don't know.

Brandon Hurles: 2:45:18

Look I'm not a minecraft fan anyway to begin with, but uh there's no story and no, no hate or anything that anybody can enjoy the, the movie or whatever, but for me, when I saw the trailer yeah, I'll try to crap on you, but when I saw the trailer for that movie, it instantly said say stay far away from watching this I guess here's the better idea I guess, if you're like a really young kid, you'd probably like them.

Mark Trobough: 2:45:43

Yeah, sure, sure, my first idea was like this would have been better all digital or all cg, um. But let's be fair when it comes to adapting games and stuff like that, there's far more failures than there are successes. So we all just kind of had our preconceived notions. Like it's another video game adaptation, it's more than likely going to be bad. So I guess the idea is, if your expectations are at the bottom.

Brandon Hurles: 2:46:09

they can only go up, they can only go up. But he says it's surprisingly good, so maybe it is good, you know I'm glad you liked it.

Mark Trobough: 2:46:16

You know, I'm glad I don't care for, for jack black all that much. He just seems to be in. Everything that's mediocre.

Brandon Hurles: 2:46:22

But I do like he does, like jumanji and all that crap like those are really bad I think jason was a far better actor, but I just, I don't know the the way that Minecraft character to me exactly, but yeah.

Mark Trobough: 2:46:36

So I mean I guess it should probably try to try to watch this weekend. At least give it a shot. We can at least talk about it next week.

Brandon Hurles: 2:46:44

So if you want to do that, we'll do it.

Mark Trobough: 2:46:46

I mean, I suffered my daughter it can't be worse than that, god see, I didn't even do that.

Brandon Hurles: 2:46:53

We were supposed to, but we never got to talk about it. I forget why.

Mark Trobough: 2:46:59

For the best, the movie was terrible.

Brandon Hurles: 2:47:01

I hated it. If we actually plan to go do this, then yeah, I'll take my daughter and we'll talk about it. We'll do our opinions on it.

Mark Trobough: 2:47:08

I guess it's worthwhile. It's not the worst thing, so it's. You know at least one person saying it's bad. Actually, I can see what. There's anything.

Brandon Hurles: 2:47:18

Any reviews on it yeah, see what the like rotten tomatoes or something is on it so the critical score on rotten tomatoes is 48.

Mark Trobough: 2:47:29

This is another one of those movies where the the audience and the critics don't like it. So it's a 48 from 108 reviews.

Brandon Hurles: 2:47:35

Critics it's an 85 with a thousand oh wow, way higher than I would have thought of for audience. Way higher than I would have because I did see that a few days ago.

Mark Trobough: 2:47:44

The critical review is 48 and people just like, oh, maybe it actually will be a good movie. Well, that's not like that's a trend. There are times where the audience and the critics do agree a lot of times. But they saw that and I was like maybe this is the time that the critics are kind of right about it.

Brandon Hurles: 2:48:00

Do you want to review Snow White?

Mark Trobough: 2:48:03

You couldn't pay me enough money to go watch that. You realize that movie ends with a ditty party. Essentially right the way that the movie is like that.

Brandon Hurles: 2:48:11

Did I tell you that joke Everyone before all the stuff came out about it, like when the. This was like before it came out and Rachel uh, I didn't know anything about the actor I didn't know about her yeah. This is before all of that. Right, I didn't know anything about it. I just didn't know anything about it. I like watching these adaptations with my daughter. She's enjoyed some of these, the Leland and Stitch one we're really excited for. I can't wait to watch that.

Mark Trobough: 2:48:38

She's going to love that. I wish she got that one right and stuff like that they got the right girl for it.

Brandon Hurles: 2:48:42

Stitch looks good.

Mark Trobough: 2:48:44

I think that one's going to be right, but anyway, we like watching these Are they actually tired of losing money and they're actually getting people that know how to write a movie to write movies for once, but we were going to go watch this.

Brandon Hurles: 2:48:53

I was going to take my daughter to go watch this and like I opted to not do it anymore after everything that I saw about it, I was just like I I can't do it, I guess it's reviewing. Well, apparently, but uh yeah. Anyway, it was packed and everyone was repeating Jack Black lines. Well, that's good, I guess there. That's good to hear. It was packed and everyone was repeating Jack Black lines.

Mark Trobough: 2:49:15

Well, that's good. I guess that's good to hear. I have to pick a late night movie. I'm weird. I don't mind matinee movies, but I kind of enjoy being the only person in the theater when I go watch a movie at night.

Brandon Hurles: 2:49:24

I do too. I get annoyed the weekend stuff with the phones and the loudness.

Mark Trobough: 2:49:30

He's just nice being the only one in there and stuff like that, Cause there's less people and stuff like that and it's just I don't know. It feels like you got the theater to yourself.

Brandon Hurles: 2:49:36

Yeah, for sure, for sure, I feel it, I feel it all right, what else we got?

Mark Trobough: 2:49:44

now mr coffee said uh, minecraft moves made for kids like roblox, minecraft and tiktok. I only like one of those things. I don't mind. Minecraft's a decent open sandbox game. I don't. I don't mind it, but it's a game. You go through uh phases of wanting to play it for a few weeks and you won't touch it for a few months my daughter loves roblox and she enjoys minecraft, but I do not let her.

Mark Trobough: 2:50:05

I remember, I remember that game was still out when we were in high. I remember being in high school, middle school, and that game being out.

Brandon Hurles: 2:50:10

I know you brought it up. It came out in what? 2008 or something.

Mark Trobough: 2:50:17

It's a really old game. I remember At least still in high school, and that game being out, it's a really old game. I'm surprised it's even still around. Surprisingly, it's a really old game.

Brandon Hurles: 2:50:25

I'm surprised it's even still around, surprisingly, I know it seems like maybe the popularity is not really left, maybe a little.

Mark Trobough: 2:50:32

Minecraft is still a really popular game. It makes a lot of money.

Brandon Hurles: 2:50:35

Yeah, it comes out on every system.

Mark Trobough: 2:50:37

Yeah, but obviously, outside of Going back to some of the Switch stuff, outside of the Nintendo games, we had what's it? Another 20 confirmed games at launch. Some of these are Nintendo games, Some of these are third party. A lot of these are ports and stuff like that. So you had Arcade Archives 2 Ridge Racer it's always good to see another Ridge Racer Barely Default Flying Ferry.

Brandon Hurles: 2:51:03

HD. Brave Lister Barely.

Mark Trobough: 2:51:04

Default, barely Default, bravely Default. Flying fairy, hd, brave, which barely default, barely bravely default. My bad, I'm not dyslexic, but apparently I am sometimes. Uh, we're getting the nintendo switch 2 edition of civ 7, which I you couldn't pay me enough to play that game. Uh, cyberpunk 2077, ultimate edition, which I can't that's really cool, that's really.

Mark Trobough: 2:51:24

I mean, it's gonna I know the performance is around 30 to 40 frames per second, but like that's not why I won't buy this game. I can't. That's really cool, that's really. I mean it's gonna. I know the performance is around 30 to 40 frames per second, but like that's not why I won't buy this game. I can't play that game because I the game's so much better modded. It's kind of like skyrim.

Brandon Hurles: 2:51:35

I can't play the vanilla version I don't even know how to mod a game, yet uh, it's.

Mark Trobough: 2:51:39

It's not the easiest game to mod, but I think it's worthwhile. Uh, delta rune is coming to the switch. Uh, fast fusion. Uh, kunitsu gami, path of the goddess, if I didn't butcher that. Uh, hitman, world of assassination, hogwarts legacy, obviously, maru kart world. Uh, nintendo switch to welcome tour, which should be a packing game should be a packing game. I cannot believe they're selling nobody's paying for that game if it's not a free. I cannot believe they're selling that game that10.

Brandon Hurles: 2:52:07

I cannot believe they're selling that game. That is such a tech duo. It's such it's like Astro's Playroom where they go through the Playstation history.

Mark Trobough: 2:52:17

But they gave you that game like it was good because they gave you it.

Brandon Hurles: 2:52:23

I can't believe they're actually trying to sell it. Who's going to buy it?

Mark Trobough: 2:52:28

what's it going to be? Five dollars, because it shouldn't be more than that that's.

Brandon Hurles: 2:52:30

I think you said 10.

Mark Trobough: 2:52:31

I think you said 10, nobody's like five people are going to pay for that just to just to play it, and they're going to lose money on that?

Brandon Hurles: 2:52:38

yeah, they should.

Mark Trobough: 2:52:40

That should be a pack and for what it is like come on uh 100 should be uh nobanuga's ambition uh awake oh, we were just talking about this series yeah, we, I think we talked about during the live stream yeah, we did because, like, there's like so many games of that, uh puyo puyo, tetris 2s, uh, rune factory, guardians of azuma and attender switch 2 edition, that one I'll be picking up.

Mark Trobough: 2:53:05

Oh yeah, split Fiction, street Fighter VI which I'm sure caught a lot of people off guard, that that's actually on a Nintendo system Survival Kids, breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, switch 2 Edition, and then Yakuza 0, director's Cut, which hopefully means we're getting more Yakuza, all the Yakuza games, coming over.

Brandon Hurles: 2:53:24

That'd be great. That, which hopefully means we're getting more yakuza all the yakuza games coming over, that'd be great. That was a really random one, though it seems like uh, I just did not see that one coming.

Mark Trobough: 2:53:31

But no, that's good as far as a nintendo switch to exclusive game, for nintendo it's only mario kart world and some uh switch to additions for switch one games which about healthy amount of ports and other third-party games that will be there at launch. Yeah, so, on top of having mostly backwards compatibility because I know they say there's some games that were having some levels of issues uh, there's a decent level of games if you only had access to switch to and didn't want to buy switch one games exclusively, essentially.

Brandon Hurles: 2:53:58

So, uh, you can't forget welcome to war, that's. I think that's a first party.

Mark Trobough: 2:54:03

I don't know this is like best launch title, especially when it comes to first party games, which is only Mario.

Brandon Hurles: 2:54:08

Kart. Mario Kart World is a pretty big one, though.

Mark Trobough: 2:54:11

Mario Kart is probably their most popular and profitable IP right now.

Brandon Hurles: 2:54:14

Yeah, that seems like a really big launch title. To me. This seems like maybe the biggest Mario Kart game since launch.

Mark Trobough: 2:54:22

Looking back now, it's not surprising. This is a launch title.

Brandon Hurles: 2:54:32

It's a really popular ip. So yeah, I mean I think that's a pretty good selection of games to launch with for the for day one. I mean for day one, that's pretty good.

Mark Trobough: 2:54:37

There's been plenty of consoles where we've gotten way less than that on day one so the other big titles coming, obviously about a little over a month later you're getting Donkey Kong and then you're getting a Metroid Prime 4 and Pokemon Legends, EA coming later in the year. So I think they did a nice job with staggering their major games.

Brandon Hurles: 2:54:54

I think so too.

Mark Trobough: 2:54:55

You've got a month between Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong and then probably a few months you're going to get Metroid Prime and then Pokemon games. So they're staggering their major releases for 2025.

Brandon Hurles: 2:55:05

Yeah, I think they've got a good plan for this, I feel confident that those are the only major titles that are coming out.

Mark Trobough: 2:55:12

If there is a Mario game coming out, it's probably going to come out sometime in 2026. I would assume. So, with the Donkey Kong game coming out, not that many people are going to have access to it year one. So you're willing to wait to wait to release more.

Brandon Hurles: 2:55:26

You know major titles I feel like a 3d mario. They don't want to compete with the 3d donkey kong the same year.

Mark Trobough: 2:55:33

No, I think they, that's at the very least, you'd want several months between those two games, so they're not, like you know, affecting sales or the other, because, like, let's be fair, outside of people like you and me, most people aren't buying more than a handful, like three to five, probably a year and stuff like that, yeah, even looking back when you're a kid, your parents you'd have like maybe five to eight games for a console and that's like all you had.

Mark Trobough: 2:55:54

Yeah, but most people aren't buying, like you know, five games a month at this point is what it feels like, sometimes.

Brandon Hurles: 2:56:00

Even though there's some months, some months like, yeah, some months there's nothing, but yeah for sure, there's all kinds of stuff, man, all kinds of stuff coming out. So I guess, to ask you, out of all of these, I thoroughly believe that you would enjoy the Bravely Default series. Have you not played it yet?

Mark Trobough: 2:56:21

I have not played it.

Brandon Hurles: 2:56:22

I think it's a JRPG series that you would love, so I feel like that one is right up your alley. I really do think you would seriously enjoy that one, but I guess, speaking on all the titles here, what piques your interest about grabbing day one Besides Mario Kart?

Mark Trobough: 2:56:41

Probably the Zelda upgrades and stuff like that, because most of those third-party games I can play elsewhere and I probably would still prefer to play them elsewhere, like on PC and stuff like that, cause most of those third party games I can play elsewhere and I probably would still prefer to play them elsewhere, like like on PC or something like that. But I think it'd probably that or one of those few titles that are that I just haven't played, maybe, but it's it's. It's. It's a really small list, just cause most of those games I can, if I can, if I rather buy it and play it on PC. But that's like a personal thing. I mean, there's obviously some other games, because you're getting the new From Software game, which I've never been big on their games since the early 2000s, since the Darks of the Era kind of took over, but I mean I'm sure that's a game that's worth looking into, the fact that Switch is getting its own.

Mark Trobough: 2:57:22

Would you pick up Split Fiction with me and play through that one as a stream, because that's like a stream type game where you got to play with somebody, and I've heard great things about the game too, or it's really really like I just I'd have to go back and look, I don't know enough, like brevity thought, like I don't really know a whole lot about the game, so I'd have to go back and actually like, look at the trailer, be like, would this be in the act?

Brandon Hurles: 2:57:42

there's not that many games too, so it's actually a little bit easier for for you. There's only a few games, so it would be a yeah, an easier one to get into, but it's something you would enjoy.

Mark Trobough: 2:57:53

So yeah, and then, uh, as far as like the last little stuff, because we got two things left to talk about uh, this is like switch stuff. Uh, there are apparently a few features on the switch that require an update to work at launch, and these updates are apparently coming at launch. So the first one is the support for the micro SD express cards. We'll need an update to work, as well as the surround sound effect, and it's a built-in speakers.

Brandon Hurles: 2:58:19

I don't. I guess we don't. It does have the 3d spatial audio. I forgot. Yeah, that's good.

Mark Trobough: 2:58:25

So we don't know if these were. They were stuff they're still working on and it's just like we'll update it later, or if this is maybe a way to. We don't know if there's other things that might need an update, but this is maybe a way that we've talked about. Like, how do you combat people potentially getting games in a console early? Yeah well, you lock stuff behind stuff where this needs to connect online before certain things will work, which I know has always been a contentious issue.

Brandon Hurles: 2:58:49

but, like yeah, I'm not particularly a fan of the concept.

Mark Trobough: 2:58:54

I get this is a problem, but let's be fair, especially with the early adopters At this point. How many people don't have easy access to some form of an internet connection?

Brandon Hurles: 2:59:04

Because I've opened myself up to pc gaming, I've become a lot less tighter about that.

Mark Trobough: 2:59:11

Um, I don't like it when dial-up was still a thing. But, like, let's be fair, the amount of people that this would probably negatively affect is becoming smaller. But how connected are just? The world in general is becoming. I think this is becoming less of an issue and it will become more of a strategy.

Mark Trobough: 2:59:28

If you're worried about maybe consoles and games leaking is, there's an update that needs to actually unlock it before you can even do anything. There's some level of stuff that has to get downloaded to allow you to actually play the game. Yeah, and I I know people will complain about it and there's a whole host of potential issues more with the game side than with the consoles. But, like, while people complain about it, this probably would affect, at least in the usa, hyper minority of people and people that probably wouldn't even get this on day one and stuff like that. Early adopters like I just don't.

Mark Trobough: 3:00:00

I don't think it's that big of an issue. It's just a thing that well, you don't want to see it, but it's kind of an inevitable inevitability and, especially with with the leaks over the past year than the titans had to deal with, it wouldn't be surprising if, especially for some of their maybe their major games, this is the route they start going, because it's really the only way to keep people from potentially playing your game early, as you have some form of a hard lock that the game can't be properly accessed. I know it's an there's a whole potential load of issues, but with it's the same thing with digital games. I think another way that this can be combated is going all digital, and I think you're going to go there kicking and screaming, but kind of like with AI and a lot of other things, in about 10 to 20 years, I think video gaming's going all digital and I get the issue.

Brandon Hurles: 3:00:52

We're already going that way we'll be, you know, really embracing pc.

Mark Trobough: 3:00:56

It's already been that way for like probably over a decade on pc gaming going all digital and stuff like that. The way steam deals with it is even if some games are unlisted, obviously you still have access to the game to kind of like redownload. You just can't buy it.

Brandon Hurles: 3:01:10

There are issues, one big problem with the digital only thing for PC is now not all services offer or put games out this way. The DRM is a huge issue for me with Steam. I love Steam's UI. I think it's great. I'm building up my Steam library, but my GOG library is significantly more, because DRM does nothing but bog the game down. It often causes problems for the game and makes it worse this is the way things are going.

Mark Trobough: 3:01:47

It's, it's really an inevitability at this time. It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when uh, it is like, but I wanted let's just be fair.

Mark Trobough: 3:01:55

We're not in the same world. We were back in the 80s and 90s with physical gaming and as much as we want to complain about there it's easier with digital games are getting they're getting pirated. That's where a large part of the game preservation is going to be. But if you really think of people like the general consumer, who doesn't interact with this medium the way that we do, they're kind of already headed there. They don't really care.

Mark Trobough: 3:02:18

They're going to play your Maddens, your FIFAs, maybe not Assassin's Creed as much, but they're going to play those handful of major titles a year and they're going to pick it up maybe once a week, play it with some friends and they might not touch it for like two weeks and stuff like that. The average consumer is slowly getting to the point where they just don't care as much and I believe at this point the minority of people like us that think the way we do that don't like it, complain about it. But you kind of have to come to an understanding.

Brandon Hurles: 3:02:49

I mean, I was even hesitant to buy.

Mark Trobough: 3:02:50

This is the way things are going and you're not really going to stop it. When these studios just decide this is what we're doing, take it or leave it. You're just going to either accept it or you're just going to be stuck with playing older games at that point, yeah, I at that point, yeah, I was like even hesitant.

Brandon Hurles: 3:03:09

Now the decision I made is that I will buy it physically still regardless, because I'm a huge fan of the series. But I was like very hesitant to even buy monster hunter on pc when I I knew I wanted it on pc because I knew is where I was going to play it the best. Right, like I knew that. But it was like it's one of those series where I always get it physically and it's one that I just love enough to have physically, so I'm just going to get it at a later date at a cheaper price on ps5 that's what I've done with a lot of games like I prefer to play on pc, especially now I'm upgrading my graphics card and stuff like I really want to.

Brandon Hurles: 3:03:42

Yeah, I really want to test this stuff out it's.

Mark Trobough: 3:03:45

It's even the same thing on pc, like if you're willing to wait a few years you can get it cheaper, even on the digital. But like yeah you're willing to.

Mark Trobough: 3:03:51

You want it brand new. If you're willing to wait a few years and get a used copy, you can get a game a few years down the road for like 20 30 bucks physical for like ps5 or ps4 and stuff like that, assuming it's in good condition and it's not not the worst thing if you want a physical down the road and like to be fair. I played a lot of games digitally and what some games. I'm like I got about this digitally. Well, maybe not as much, but like if I bought this physical I'd have sold it for the five bucks to game stop Cause I'm like I'm never gonna play this game again. You can.

Brandon Hurles: 3:04:30

I'll sell it, for I am still very upset with you for having me not buy the Ultimate Edition of Monster and the Wilds, because you said, oh, it doesn't matter, who cares, it's all cosmetics. And then you go and buy it and I didn't buy it. And I love the series. I knew I wanted it.

Mark Trobough: 3:04:40

I don't know. I think I just said screw it in the end you like screwed me on that.

Brandon Hurles: 3:04:44

I'm a hypocrite. Sometimes I'm a hypocrite, sometimes I'm sorry the thing about digital is that Steam does not offer to let you buy the rest of that by itself.

Brandon Hurles: 3:04:54

I don't think the Steam thing is the ultimate thing no, it's a Steam thing because I've seen it for other games too. Like you either buy the ultimate edition or you buy the base, you can't buy the stuff that you get with that ultimate, you have to buy one or the other. So if I were to Ultimate Edition, or you buy the base, you can't buy the stuff that you get with that Ultimate, you have to buy one or the other. So if I were to, so I'm like, are you kidding me, mark? Like I knew I wanted that, but I let you talk me into something.

Mark Trobough: 3:05:16

You should have just bought it, then I know.

Brandon Hurles: 3:05:17

But I let you talk me into something, because then I started to think about it. I was like oh, maybe I really don't need this, and then you wouldn't buy it. I'm like all right, all right, cool, cool, this is great.

Mark Trobough: 3:05:28

I don't always follow what I say.

Brandon Hurles: 3:05:30

It's a thing I I guess you're like well, I will know that for next time.

Mark Trobough: 3:05:36

Um, but no, uh, well, I guess um do we have to uh crap on uh I don't know if I say tencent, ubisoft, uh every once in a while. This was some relevant news for the last two weeks and stuff like that, because uh could be, we didn't, we weren't able to talk about it last week the fact that there's uh ubisoft is making a subsidiary studio with a significant I think it's like a 25 ownership via tencent titles which is like their assassins, creeds, their uh uh, rainbow six uh, is it far cries?

Mark Trobough: 3:06:16

yeah, it should be far cry as well and some other their main ips. Uh, essentially that you would think that would save the company. But as more information comes out, essentially that deal is helping to tank Ubisoft's stakes. They're essentially offshoring to a separate company all their major IPs with Tencent and it kind of feels like the main Ubisoft company is inevitably going to have Shudder and they're moving to this new company that Tencent's probably going to have a controlling stake here eventually. It's what it feels like.

Mark Trobough: 3:06:50

But essentially, after this came out, the stocks continued to drop.

Mark Trobough: 3:06:54

A lot of their shareholders are trying to essentially force a lawsuit to get Ubisoft to renege on that deal because it's negatively affecting their shares.

Mark Trobough: 3:07:06

I don't know how the legality is going to work out and stuff like that, because the other thing is there's a lot of employees who, instead of taking a I think it's what a cash bonus it's like oh, you can offer a cash, like a lot of companies will be like here's cash bonus, or we can give you X amount of shares in the company stock in the obvious hopes that it goes up and you'll you'll make money in the long term, but because, especially after this deal, the stock was going down.

Mark Trobough: 3:07:31

Obviously there's a lot of other other stuff that affects it, uh, but it's it's continuing to be bad for ubisoft stocks. They're essentially saying they're not, uh, uh, they're not doing their fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders and stuff like that. So they're trying to get this, whether Ubisoft will do it voluntarily, which I don't think they will do, or they're going to try to force their hands legally, or else it just feels like the Ubisoft, as we know, will cease to exist and it's going to become more of a Tencent Ubisoft, where Tencent is essentially going to tell Ubisoft what they're going to do because of the amount of investments they're putting into the company. And then whoever owns the current stock, it's just well, your soa, you better get rid of it now didn't they sell so many copies of assassin's creed?

Mark Trobough: 3:08:14

they said players, let's be fair. You could have played assassin's uh creed shadows for 15. If you do the, what's it? The ubisoft plus their, their streaming version of it. Yeah, well and access that game. That's $15.

Brandon Hurles: 3:08:29

You could have spent $15 play the game per month and canceled your subscription I will technically have a copy of it because it comes with my gpu for free, but that's the other thing, because it's the same thing.

Mark Trobough: 3:08:40

Even with, I'm pretty sure, xbox game pass, you probably would have had access to the to the game. So then this is the other issue with streaming. The way some of these uh streaming stuff works for games is your play. Just because you say you have a million players doesn't mean that million players paid 70 dollars right for your video game because of how they could access it.

Mark Trobough: 3:09:02

So you may have only had half those people potentially pay that full price. Everyone else pay is paying a subscription service for it, which means you're not really making that full money. Or if they're it's, if it's through game pass, there's a contract, so they're getting x amount of money based off of probably how many people play the game or how long they played or whatever is behind the scenes, which means in theory you're not potentially maximizing your profit unless they're playing it through the ubisoft plus, because I don't know if it's through game pass. But if it's through game pass that's great for microsoft, but for non-subsidiary companies it could be a negative thing, I but. So that's. There's the issue. That's about that's. I think that's why they're saying more player numbers and not sales, because the sales technically aren't that high.

Brandon Hurles: 3:09:47

Apparently, Assassin's Creed Shadows attracted over 3 million players in just one week, but most of these players are from Western countries. It also says in the first week in Japan, Assassin's Creed Shadows sold 17,701 physical copies for PS5, 17,701 physical copies for PS5, which is 60% less than Assassin's Creed, Valhalla and even lower than Odyssey and Mirage, despite its Japanese setting.

Mark Trobough: 3:10:15

I mean to be fair. Those numbers sound low but compared to like US numbers for game sales are always going to be low, just to kind of put that out there but the 60% means you'd be closer to like 100,000, 150,000 players.

Brandon Hurles: 3:10:28

Apparently Valhalla which. I thoroughly enjoyed. I thought it was a great game sold quite a bit more physically in Japan 100% the discourse around this game.

Mark Trobough: 3:10:39

It was the extra time.

Brandon Hurles: 3:10:41

Valhalla, thankfully, was pretty DEI.

Mark Trobough: 3:10:44

There was no DEI in that game I played it, the discourse negatively affected that game because because, like we talked with some people and I think to be fair, uh, asman gold probably gave it a fair review.

Brandon Hurles: 3:10:55

He said it was like a six or seven yeah, he was being fair about it, even there were. He's like the game.

Mark Trobough: 3:11:00

Like there's portions of the story that are bad, uh, and the story is where the most the conflict really comes from, and some of the writing, some of the story that are bad, uh, and the story is where the most the conflict really comes from, and some of the writing, some of the romance, stuff like that. But he's like the game itself performs mainly fine and I don't know if he brought it up, but I would say some of the uh, my true transactions, what is was far bigger of an issue than probably anything else, micro transactions unlock the map horrible.

Mark Trobough: 3:11:23

You could pay to unlock the map and a few other things am I surprised?

Brandon Hurles: 3:11:27

not at all. This is a ubisoft tactic through and through. They do this for everything it's disgusting it's disgusting I mean seriously what has happened to video games?

Mark Trobough: 3:11:41

this is just like the fact that they are microtransactioning.

Brandon Hurles: 3:11:44

They're hiding a map from you until you pay for it.

Mark Trobough: 3:11:47

It's a single player game and you can pay to unlock so much of that game. It's one thing if it's a multiplayer game with microtransactions or it's free to play, but, come on, the microtransactions are a little much in this game. I would say.

Brandon Hurles: 3:12:02

It's a single player game. There's no reason for any of it.

Mark Trobough: 3:12:06

You're essentially getting nickeled and dimed to death with some of these games, some of these dlcs and my god, they had to.

Mark Trobough: 3:12:13

They weren't gonna make any money back obviously you don't have to buy it, but the fact that it's there is not not ideal essentially, but like if there's anything, any legit criticism of this game, that's where it deserves to be. And because it's not a whole lot of defense for some of that stuff where the story and the writing is very well, it's very uh, uh, oh, I don't want to say, as culture is not what I was thinking of. It's very uh, black and white. It's not the, the word I'm thinking of, or it's either you're you, you're forward or against it. There's no real middle ground in that kind of discussion.

Mark Trobough: 3:12:44

It goes straight to culture war stuff.

Brandon Hurles: 3:12:47

I'll tell you what game you should be looking forward to instead of this crap. Wu-tang Fallen Feathers. That game looks so good. I am so excited for that game.

Mark Trobough: 3:12:57

Say what you want about CCP. A lot of these Chinese as well as some Japanese, you're starting to see it the japanese development market and then korea and especially china, like they're definitely, uh, putting games that are doing well, it's almost like, hey, you know what it's like. You're listening to what people have been asking for. Yeah, just give us what we want. Like we, let's be fair. Uh, because I don't know if you've seen it or some of the other people in the odds that have listened to it, because I listened to a fair amount of aspen, just because it pops up in my feed on youtube every day uh, other stuff I agree with and stuff I don't.

Mark Trobough: 3:13:30

It just pops up and I think he's got decent takes on some stuff and he's popular for his part, uh, but it's the idea that uh and I immediately lost my train of thought there for a second. Yeah, give me a second. I'm sorry, I had something and I immediately lost it.

Brandon Hurles: 3:13:47

Uh, how was I trying to think of what I will say is wu chang um is like getting more stellar blade. To me it's like uh, it's more stellar blade-esque game that I'm all for. They they're doing it right. It looks like all the teasers they're putting out for it looks great. The costumes look great. The aesthetic of the game just looks really fun. It's the type of game I want to play.

Mark Trobough: 3:14:18

Yeah, I am so mad that I lost my train of thought.

Brandon Hurles: 3:14:21

I don't even know what you're trying to say.

Mark Trobough: 3:14:22

I know it's killing me now, because it was a good point that I heard him bring up and then Phantom Blade. Zero oh god, it's killing me that game was really good too.

Brandon Hurles: 3:14:33

Phantom Blade Zero, it's another. Chinese game also. That game that's set in France. That's a Chinese game. That game looks really good too. Which one is it? It's set in France. That's a Chinese game. That game looks really good too. Which one is it? It's set in France, but it's a Chinese developed game. He plays like the French girl. Asman did a video on it and stuff like that, but it looks really good too. I'll see if I can see what it's called real quick.

Mark Trobough: 3:15:07

Oh my God, this is killing me. I lost my train of thought and I can't remember what I was saying yeah, I don't know oh my God, I hate myself. I'm sorry and I liked talking and then I just poof One of those things where you just I can't remember what I was about to say and I hate it. When this happens, I'm going to remember it like two hours. That's what I was saying. I can't remember, do you remember?

Brandon Hurles: 3:15:32

what I was about to say. I don't even know what you're talking about To be honest with you. I had no idea. You just start saying something and then you stop.

Mark Trobough: 3:15:39

Because stuff pops into my head yeah, that's a decent point and I immediately lost it. And now I'm like really mad at myself.

Brandon Hurles: 3:15:45

That's all good. Maybe you'll remember it later.

Mark Trobough: 3:15:49

Yeah, not when you're not on stream.

Brandon Hurles: 3:15:51

Well, anyway, I was going to tell you tomorrow you got to do a thing. You got to try to at least get some progress in Monster Hunter before you play it, so your HR is at least not like super low tier and we can actually do some progress in monster hunter before we play it, so that your hr is at least not like super low tier and we can actually do all I can be promised is that I'll be through the main quest.

Brandon Hurles: 3:16:12

That's about it well, as long as you get the hr up, it's not hard, it's so easy to do. I'm almost at 200 and I don't even feel like I've played nearly as much as some people. It it's pretty. We just need to get up a little bit. Because here's the reason why, since the new content just came out, I would like to be able to stream the said new content instead of streaming the same content I've been streaming for weeks on it, because Mitsuni is in there and you just do the quick, simple story mission for it and it's not hard, it's really easy. But uh, there's a whole bunch of new stuff. The multiplayer hub and stuff is coming and, uh, there's all kinds of new stuff for it. So if you can get it up just a little bit just to be able to fight whatever we want to fight, that that would be pretty awesome. Yeah, it just should take long. I really don't think it'll take that long.

Mark Trobough: 3:17:09

I can't remember what I was saying. I can't remember and it's killing me. I'm sorry.

Brandon Hurles: 3:17:13

It's all good, Mark.

Mark Trobough: 3:17:15

I can't even remember where I was going with that?

Brandon Hurles: 3:17:18

Was it something to do with Ubisoft?

Mark Trobough: 3:17:20

I can't remember. That's the problem. I thought it was more bigger than that, but I just I can't remember now and it's killing me something about the chinese developers or I'm trying to remember, because it's I mean, I don't know. It's kind of all on the lanes because they're like actually like listening to what people want, not just like no, no, let's force you to play what we want you to play well, they're also not buying into the dei stuff either.

Mark Trobough: 3:17:43

You don't, you don't get you, but I mean, I guess I was kind of was talking about like all the developers, like they're actually like going towards, like uh, listening to the feedback, not just like ignoring yeah, it's one very clear.

Brandon Hurles: 3:17:53

Like you follow, do you follow wu chang on um x? Do you see all the community stuff that they do?

Mark Trobough: 3:18:00

but I kind of remember what I was going with. It was more like uh, I know I do remember what I was, what I was about to say. Now I don't know, I just took me for a bit. I like, where you go back into the train of you brought it up. I was like going back through the train of thought, uh, that that Asmodee brought up and it's the idea that, uh, regardless of what people say, and stuff like that, because you see, the game developers like, oh, we did x amount of work into a game and I just because I think he's right on this uh, the, the average consumer just doesn't only cares about the product, they don't care about the process or the people behind it, like that. Yeah, I don't know, I don't know if you've watched some of his stuff where he talks about that, where it's just like I watch him, you can talk about all this stuff that you've done behind the scenes, like if all, it's the whole deal like your your blood, sweat and tears.

Mark Trobough: 3:18:39

If they don't like the product they're, they're not gonna play it they're not to.

Brandon Hurles: 3:18:43

It's the whole deal to me of like when you have those video game presentations and like the people won't shut up and stop talking and just show the game yeah, they talk about the spec like bro, nobody cares about me we don't care that you spent six years in this game. We just want to see the gameplay.

Mark Trobough: 3:19:08

We don't care I think he's right about it's. Like it doesn't matter, like what you talk about what you've done, like if it doesn't matter. You can come out and complain about the effort and all this stuff, like all these developers did such great what's it called south of?

Brandon Hurles: 3:19:23

is it called south of midnight coming out that just like doesn't interest me at all, really like it just doesn't look interesting oh yeah, I'm just gonna shout out.

Mark Trobough: 3:19:33

Matt long say he's heading to bed.

Brandon Hurles: 3:19:34

Good night, I'm yeah, we're getting ready to head off as well.

Mark Trobough: 3:19:37

We've been on like over three hours.

Brandon Hurles: 3:19:38

We started like an hour yeah, this was a big one, though this was a really big one, so it's we can make an exception, it's all good, yeah we also spent like an hour showcasing stuff really excited.

Mark Trobough: 3:19:49

It's like 40 minutes a long time I was like, oh, this is definitely gonna roll over. No, because you brought it up south of midnight. Uh, that game has an all time peak on steam of 496 players. That peaked yesterday. This is the second day it was out obviously we don't know what's out yet we don't know what it's like on consoles, it's just steam, but like steam has a fairly decent indication of what's happening, like this game is an xbox game, so I imagine that probably sales are going to be more there.

Brandon Hurles: 3:20:15

But our game passing.

Mark Trobough: 3:20:17

If they're this bad on pc, they can't be that much better yeah, I can't imagine, I just it.

Brandon Hurles: 3:20:24

I don't like to stop motion animation crap.

Mark Trobough: 3:20:28

Yeah, so they do add. The SteamDB does have Twitch stats on their site, so there's 695 viewers right now. The all-time peak was yesterday at 30,000 viewers, but then again the viewers is not accurate. That could have been five really big streamers playing the game that were getting a few thousand viewers each potentially. Yeah, like that.

Brandon Hurles: 3:20:49

So yeah, for sure, for sure, all right guys. Well, uh, we're going to go ahead and end off here. We we had a long podcast tonight.

Mark Trobough: 3:20:57

I think we had a lot to talk about with nintendo and stuff, which was not surprising, it's dominated the news cycle and then, yeah, I don't know. Obviously there there's a lot of negativity, but I was like I don't, I don't always agree with all what some people are talking about and it's like, ah, I, we deal with enough negativity.

Brandon Hurles: 3:21:14

I mean, what's the Nintendo stuff I like?

Mark Trobough: 3:21:17

we said before we even it. But it's a misinformation and so, like some misleading a lot of misinformation, a lot and I sometimes I think people just don't, don't think about it.

Brandon Hurles: 3:21:35

They don't read, but it's like they read headlines.

Mark Trobough: 3:21:37

They don't there's enough negativity about the, the, the switch stuff online there's like misinformation about this entire hour-long direct that we just had. We're getting everything wrong some of it I can. I'm like all right, you have a, you have a point with some of the criticisms, but I was like at the end of the day I we do.

Brandon Hurles: 3:21:55

I'm just excited to play the system I want to be excited about something positive for it a little bit more.

Mark Trobough: 3:22:00

We can talk about some of the what's more of the stuff solidified.

Brandon Hurles: 3:22:03

We can talk about it later, but at least in the immediate aftermath let's just I just want to revel in the excitement for it because we've been we, we, so I brought this up before, but we have been talking about at the time we were calling it the switch pro, but we've been talking about it since episode three of this podcast.

Mark Trobough: 3:22:22

Yeah, episode three bro, positivity for now. There's enough negativity out there there's enough, I'm sure, in the future it'll be small, like okay, we can once, ever, once the dust is fully settled, then we can we're excited.

Brandon Hurles: 3:22:35

That's all that matters, and it shows that we're excited for this. I mean, we've been hyped for this for a long time like everybody else.

Mark Trobough: 3:22:42

Yeah, I think there's there's enough negativity out there. I was like all right, well, we can dunk on ubisoft because and don't, don't get us wrong.

Brandon Hurles: 3:22:49

Well, I mean, we get into some of that.

Mark Trobough: 3:22:51

We get into some of our negativity with some of these companies well deserved negativity to be fair, but there'll be some legit criticisms down the road. But I'm one of those people like let's let the dust settle and see where everything stands and then we can, kind of we can address it from there and address it later and stuff like that.

Brandon Hurles: 3:23:05

But yeah, yeah, mr coffee. He even brought it up on twitter earlier. He said people just want to complain because I mean, that's all they can do. It's games. We should all be there enjoying it. I agree, that's what it's about. It's supposed to be fun, right, like? If we're bitching and moaning all the time about this stuff, like what, what's the point then at the end of the day.

Mark Trobough: 3:23:25

Sometimes it this may be a little bit hypocritical sometimes. I think it's warranted, especially on some games and game developers who have a reputation of doing that ubisoft and stuff like that. But this is, this is it's. It's a different type of negativity, but I was like there's enough out there, like I've I've been hearing too much. It was kind of like all right, I get it, let's move on and talk about something else. But I was like it's whatever, we'll deal with it when we deal with it.

Brandon Hurles: 3:23:50

I just didn't I just think the negativity about the price point of I don't know what people are expecting the switch to to be priced at. Do you really? Think it's going to be you think it's really going to be 300. Do you know how much? The Asus ROG Ally X is $800. $800 for the base model, the base model.

Mark Trobough: 3:24:10

Let's be fair. My God, there's a lot of inflation. I get some of the terror stuff is going to drive up some of the costs and stuff here and there. But let's be fair.

Brandon Hurles: 3:24:22

It's $450. It's less than any other console on the market.

Mark Trobough: 3:24:29

We've been used to the 60 price for almost three decades and like eventually it should have.

Brandon Hurles: 3:24:32

Realistically it should have went up two decades ago.

Mark Trobough: 3:24:34

I mean, I'm not saying I wanted it to, but especially with the western developers and say they're wanting to unionize, like that might be good for the worker but like that's gonna jack up some of the price. Yeah, Some of the costs of production are self-inflicted, but generally I get it. Everything's just getting more expensive. Why would video games not? I get you don't like it. But if everything else is getting more expensive, this eventually has to get bigger as well.

Brandon Hurles: 3:25:08

The way I see it with the price point is that Nintendo, for the most part, for all their big party releases, should stick with the price that they have set for whatever that is, which is probably going to be the 70 right, the only game that wasn't at the 70 was mario kart information about is europe stuff.

Mark Trobough: 3:25:22

It was 90 euros for the yes, 90 euros in the us, or wasn't confirmed. And then the other big thing just because we're already we already brought up was the digital download stuff that some people were talking about.

Brandon Hurles: 3:25:35

That's not across the board, though they're like all 70 for a remaster like bro.

Mark Trobough: 3:25:40

No, that's a lot of these aren't nintendo games. To be fair, it's the the third party that that price is. That. That's kind of standard in the industry so that's the other thing, but it was the idea some games that the, the physical, was a key to unlock a download. Yes, to be fair, that was already there which that were massive in size.

Brandon Hurles: 3:26:00

So it told you on the box, just like these ones do, but it tells you download required. Yeah, it'll tell you on the box just like these ones do, but it tells you download required.

Mark Trobough: 3:26:07

Yeah, it'll tell you on the box down there was like some misleading stuff or people were blanking it across the board. I get it.

Brandon Hurles: 3:26:14

It's the internet, people, you know people are reading, reading headlines not not not reading the actual facts I'll be one of those like I don't mind traveling and criticism, but like, let's make it.

Mark Trobough: 3:26:26

We should be responsible, making legit criticism, doing our due diligence. Like we're going to criticize, that's great, let's make it legit criticisms right, get the 80 price tag. But if you're misleading it with the 90 stuff, that was euros, not dollars. It was never confirmed. Like, yeah, I think you're, you're jumping the gun there. I let's talk the 80 and stuff like that and I'm not the biggest fan of it. But like you know, the industry was already talking about we want to go to $100. Gta 6 needs to be $100, so the whole industry chain can move that way. Yeah, and look, we both agreed whether we were interested or not.

Brandon Hurles: 3:27:03

Like I said, I will buy GTA when it comes out. But we even said whether we are interested or not. Like I said, I will buy GTA when it comes out, but we even said, whether we are interested or not, they can sell that at $100 and they will have zero problems selling that game and nobody will complain. Nobody will complain, it's GTA.

Mark Trobough: 3:27:20

Not every game is worth that price tag, but there's a lot of stuff going into it. It's just one of those things and I've kind of come to this conclusion on myself. There's so much like negativity or like hyper polarization on so many things. It's like I think we, we owe ourselves and everybody else the responsibility of like, all right, let's, let's pull the, the pull back and be a little bit more, uh, responsible and more. I don't want to say necessarily moderate on how we talk about things, but let's be real about what's happening and why they're happening. Let's not be hyperbolic about literally everything, because it's not the healthiest thing for the internet.

Brandon Hurles: 3:27:57

And me and you are not the type to just jump the gun like that on this stuff.

Mark Trobough: 3:28:02

anyway, we want to know the information you learn like okay, I read a lot of crap that out the gate is wrong and later you realize it was wrong sorry, I'm not a headline reader like I need to know the information I don't care what your headline says that tells me nothing.

Brandon Hurles: 3:28:19

If I've learned anything these past four years, past five years, is that I don't trust any news media outlet for anything. So, like I'm definitely definitely not going to listen to your headlines, I can tell you that right now I'll make the judgment for myself. I will happily research the topic so I can bring the viewers the actual information, the factual information, without my opinion thrown in there about it or whatever I think is.

Mark Trobough: 3:28:51

If it's in there, I'll at least try to let you know. This is how I feel about it.

Brandon Hurles: 3:28:54

Right, that's different if you're saying how you feel about it, but my opinion should not change. What is factual information? If it is factual, it should be factual, and then I will say this is how I feel about it. You know that's different, that's different you know. So it's what.

Mark Trobough: 3:29:13

Sorry, I just wanted to answer Matt Long just because he asked for it. The only Direct that we know is on the April 17th and that's the Mario Kart World Direct. That's the only one that we know before before launch, but there's definitely more coming. For sure, we just don't launch. I can't imagine there being that's specific to that game, but like a general direct I can't.

Mark Trobough: 3:29:34

I assume the next one's probably the time in the summer after release yeah, that would be my last two we still need like hard release dates for like metroid 4 and then uh, legend za and stuff like that, I would assume being the next Direct.

Brandon Hurles: 3:29:48

Matt, you should get Monster Hunter Wilds and play with us. You got a PC, you're able to do it. You should be playing with us. All the rest of the community is enjoying it. Unfortunately, our buddy can't play tomorrow. That played with us. He played with me, I think, four or five times, played with Mark, once with us, but he can't play tomorrow unfortunately. But you should jump in, I think you would enjoy it. So it's a pretty addicting game. It's really fun. But yeah, I guess I guess we're going to close out here.

Mark Trobough: 3:30:17

So for our late went three and a half hours. So yeah, it's all. Good man, I had a good time.

Brandon Hurles: 3:30:22

I had a good time for our audio listeners. If you could give us a either subscribe, like follow, whatever it is, on whatever audio platform, all of them are different. That helps us out a lot. Also, if you are an audio listener and you're listening to us on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, definitely check out the live video. You get the live uncut, raw take as it's happening over on YouTube. It's youtubecom slash at game junction media. So definitely give us a sub over there as we continue to try to grow the channel and we will be live again.

Brandon Hurles: 3:30:59

Well, we're live every Friday, 8 PM Eastern standard time with the podcast and then live every Saturday at 8 PMm Eastern Standard Time playing a different video game. So for our live viewers and listeners, right now we are playing Monster Hunter Wilds. Tomorrow we're checking out the brand-new DLC or the brand-new update that just came out with the new monster and all that stuff. I'm excited to check it out. I've been obsessed with the game. I've been waiting for a new update and new stuff to come out. So I'm really excited to check that out with Mark and yeah, so definitely go check out the YouTube channel Again. It's YouTubecom slash at Game Junction Media. Give us a subscribe. It helps out a lot. You can follow us on social media. We're on Facebook X, everything else, tiktok, instagram, all that jazz. You can find us in our link tree. The link tree has all the links to all our social media, so definitely stay up to date there and post it every day, all throughout the day, all kinds of different stuff. Definitely give us a follow.

Mark Trobough: 3:32:06

What is it? It's going to be a big. This year's going to be big on a lot of Nintendo news oh yeah, for sure a lot of stuff more sure to come, that we're going to talk with Nintendo not only in the immediate future.

Brandon Hurles: 3:32:18

So a lot of good stuff to look forward to and I am going to do a full video on the 5090, so that should be coming Tuesday. I already ordered my psu, so that's on the way. I ordered a 1250 watt but uh, yeah, I want to give. I decided I just go and do a video on it. Um, why not get the video out when I have to extensively test it? I got to figure out what software I need to use to make sure I've got all the ROPs in it and I'm not missing any. I don't know what software people use. I'm new to this. Do you know what it is that people usually use to check all that stuff? What is it exactly? Again, sorry, the ROPs are missing in some of the cards, remember.

Mark Trobough: 3:33:02

Oh, I'm not sure there's a software that people use to test it.

Brandon Hurles: 3:33:05

I want to test it right away. That's one of the reasons I don't want to sell the 4090 right off, because I want to make sure everything's good with it. Now I haven't heard any reports on the model I got, but it doesn't mean it's not there. It's not something I've ever dealt with.

Mark Trobough: 3:33:22

But yeah, it's never something I've really messed with on my GPUs.

Brandon Hurles: 3:33:26

I'm just really excited to try Monster Hunter Wilds with it. I'm definitely the multi-frame generation stuff. See how it looks. I'm really excited.

Mark Trobough: 3:33:32

I don't think mine even has that. I think it's a 50 series thing on the cards if it has to do this with AI stuff. Yeah, it is.

Brandon Hurles: 3:33:40

I'm excited to see what it looks like and stuff like that and how it performs. Yep, again, we'll be, like I said, live every Friday, saturday, 8 pm, eastern Standard Time for the podcast and our video game streams every Saturday, and just stay tuned to the socials. We will be announcing anything that comes up. Not sure yet if there's any special occasion stuff coming up anytime soon, but we'll definitely let you guys know and we appreciate everybody watching hanging out with us and we'll see you all later. Have a good one, guys. Have a good weekend.