Xbox Price Increases & GTA VI Delayed - Game Junction Podcast #129

The gaming landscape continues to evolve at breakneck speed, and episode 129 of the Game Junction Podcast captures this momentum perfectly. We kick things off with an impressive showcase of our latest acquisitions - Brandon's Pokemon Platinum find and extensive Pokemon card haul sits alongside Mark's treasure trove of retro and modern gaming gems, including the Atari 7800 Plus and rare Japanese imports.

The industry news this week hits particularly hard, starting with EA's sweeping layoffs and the heartbreaking cancellation of the next Titanfall game. We unpack what this means for beloved franchises and the developers who create them. In a surprising turn, we also explore one of the strangest gaming partnerships in recent memory - the collaboration between a popular Japanese horse racing mobile game and the actual Kentucky Derby. These unexpected cultural crossovers highlight gaming's expanding influence beyond traditional boundaries.

Nintendo Switch 2 developments take center stage as we analyze the recent firmware update that enabled game sharing functionality - a clear precursor to the upcoming console's capabilities. We also dive deep into the controversy surrounding Ghost of Yotei's preorders, particularly the collector's edition that doesn't include a physical game copy - a growing trend that has physical media ent

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Chapters

• 0:00 Episode Introduction and Pickups
• 15:15 Retro Gaming Acquisitions
• 24:22 [Ad] PodMatch
• 25:00 (Cont.) Retro Gaming Acquisitions
• 27:19 Pokemon Card Collection Haul
• 39:21 EA Layoffs and Titanfall Cancellation
• 1:00:37 Horse Racing Mobile Games and Biometric Controllers
• 1:11:29 Switch 2 Game Share Features
• 1:12:57 Xbox Price Increases and Gaming's Future
• 1:21:05 Ghost of Yotei and Missing Physical Games

Transcript

Brandon Hurles: 0:02

Hey, what's up everybody? How's it going? We are back for the Game Junction Podcast, episode 129. We got Mark with us. How's it going? Man, it's doing pretty good, how you doing, brandon Doing pretty good. It's been a week, but you know it's a lot of interesting gaming news, a lot of pickups this week. That's about it, yeah.

Mark Trobough: 0:29

Yeah, I mean, yeah, got some decent pickups. Some stuff hasn't come in yet and it's just been an interesting week as far as the news goes and I guess maybe some of the pickups. Yeah, do you want to just get right into that?

Brandon Hurles: 0:44

Yeah, if you have yours, go ahead, because I could get behind all in a pile real quick give me just a second.

Mark Trobough: 0:53

I'm gonna tell you like five things at the same time. No, you're good, but I did get a few things, some today, some technically last weekend. So I will, because we always have retro stuff at the local GameStop and I was looking for for games for Brandon. I found one of like two Switch game or not, switch to DS air games I was still looking for. It was the only Pokemon one that they had this one and obviously they usually sometimes GameStop still will actually actually have the whole box. Sometimes they don't. This one was just out in the out and about but it was like probably one of the one of the better pokemon games ever made. That was the platinum version. I know my camera doesn't really do a whole well at auto focusing. Love that game sought after. That's one of the one of the big ones I have to.

Mark Trobough: 1:43

I have to get a box, uh later yeah, that one's gonna be too much yeah, one of the things I picked up um, I can't, I'm only missing the fourth one. Now it's a pikmin 3 deluxe great game. And I also picked up a game that I had, but just digitally, but I wanted it physical was, uh, pokemon, arceus or csr. You want to say and I guess technically. A few other things that I picked up at walmart and it was like the last copies they had and I I wasn't the biggest fan of attack on titan, but they had the first three seasons on the blu-ray, the steelbooks oh nice, so I was like I'll just pick them up.

Brandon Hurles: 2:19

I who knows if I'll ever actually get around to watching them we were pretty big on it at first, but it went downhill pretty quick.

Mark Trobough: 2:26

The first season. I know it gets kind of weird. I'm like, eh, whatever it was like.

Brandon Hurles: 2:30

I love the first season. I love the first season, but yeah, it kind of went downhill for me.

Mark Trobough: 2:35

I haven't watched this since like 2012, so 2012, 2013, whenever it first came out. Do you own any of the pokemon anime?

Brandon Hurles: 2:48

physically. Yet I think it's just the the, the one that I showed you a while ago, because I saw today the x and y one at walmart. It was on sale, um, I didn't pick it up, but I didn't want to go back and pick it up yeah, so it's the indigo league, because they had, like, the whole Indigo League, but it wasn't on the list Tales of Lugia 2000 and something else.

Mark Trobough: 3:10

It was like a three movie collection DVD that I bought at Walmart a while ago nice might have to go back several episodes to figure that out okay, so I guess I can start with mine.

Brandon Hurles: 3:24

This is all the non-pokemon card stuff. Uh, first I finally. I've been wanting to get it since launch, but I'm glad I waited because I saved like 40 bucks. But I got the atari 7800 plus and then, if you remember, I got the set the uh second controller a little while ago, so I got two controllers for it. Um, the one reason that I held off on this for so long is that I can't use my 7800 game drive on it and I only have a few physical 7800 games. But, um, they are putting out like new ones. So, like, I'll probably like buy like the new releases that they're doing to play on this.

Brandon Hurles: 4:00

It's unfortunate the game drive doesn't work on this. It's like really unfortunate, because that would be the premier way to play. It has HDMI and stuff like that. But, yeah, for the price Like I said, $40 off. I've been wanting to get it for a while. I like the 7800 Alright, not very interesting, but they are all game related Because they're for a bunch of Everdrives. I still need more too. I need probably 15 more. But I got a Micro SD card, two Micro SD cards, two Micro SD cards, probably all the Micro.

Mark Trobough: 4:38

SD cards and four.

Brandon Hurles: 4:39

Micro SD cards in there, christ and I still need a bunch more. Okay, and then, game-wise, let's see what we got. First, we got this one's called unahara kawase bazooka for the ps4. It's a game I've been wanting to get for a while. It's kind of like a uh, smash brothers party game, a little bit like, um, this game's on the dreamcast, I can't remember, but it's like a. It's like a party-esque game, if you will. It's something that, like me and my daughter, probably enjoy playing.

Brandon Hurles: 5:13

Uh, I finally picked up my favorite platformer of all time, my favorite 2d platformer, and that is gimmick. That got put out on switch. It's originally an nes and famicom game, uh, but this is the special edition that limited run games put out that's thing for 10 bucks, bro, and, uh, this is my favorite 2d platformer ever, so I'm really happy to get that. This one was, uh, I know absolutely nothing about this game. I sent you a picture of it. It was ten dollars, so it was like ten dollar switch game. It's about idols um, it's a rhythm action idol adventure, uh, but it's called I chew chibi edition and it was ten bucks.

Mark Trobough: 5:56

So I think at that point, what well you know why not uh.

Brandon Hurles: 6:01

And then I got screen protectors for the switch too, for when it comes. So I already have the game on that. It comes with three, so it should be good for the whole time because I still have the original screen protector on my Switch I have. Now I never even switch it out because I take good care of myself. But when I got that it went up on Amazon it's cheap. So I was like, yeah, I'll get it and it's tempered glass, so it's a. It's the better kind. I got the best kind, the best kind, and let's see what. What Mr Coffee say Xbox price drop, gta coming out any day now.

Brandon Hurles: 6:40

Then I got the Saru optical drive emulator for the Sega Saturn. I ordered this probably about four months ago. It finally came in from JT Studio, so really happy about that. But now I can play all my Sega Saturn games right on a cart, don't have to worry about the crazy prices of the games for the system, and you can load them all up on this cart for your Sega Saturn. So I'm super happy about that. And then I picked this up. I already had Monster Hunter Stories 2, but Monster Hunter Stories 1 was a 3DS game, so I picked this two-pack up. It's $20. It's got both the games in it so that I have it on Switch and can play it on there.

Mark Trobough: 7:24

I think I got one of those, but it only had the second one. The first that I have it on Switch and can play it on there. I got that. I think I got one of those, but it only had the second one. The first one I have to go buy digitally because it didn't have the card still in it. It was already redeemed because I bought it used.

Brandon Hurles: 7:33

Yeah, the unfortunate part is that for some reason Monster Hunter Stories 2 is a digital download on it, but you only get Stories 1 on the card. But I guess that's the one that I mostly cared about. I already have the other one. I'll just sell it because, well, maybe I won't because I guess it's not physical on this, but I wanted to have stories one on the switch, since it was stuck on the three DS. And if you love Pokemon, you'll love these games. These are basically just straight up Pokemon games, super, super fun, way different than the traditional monster hunter they're. They're just like a lot of fun.

Brandon Hurles: 8:08

Um, finally, I don't know, it took so long for me to get this. I really wanted to get it on switch, not ps4, but uh, it's because they were like originally mobile games on the gba and stuff. So I wanted it on switch but unfortunately it just only went on sale on ps4 and that's megaman battle network Legacy Collection. Pick that up. If I still find it on Switch for a good price, I'll still buy it again because it's my favorite series. Then this one I bought for a goof because I wanted to show you to see if you remember this Cartoon Network show. It was $10,. By the way, it doesn't look great. It comes with a bunch of goodies, though. It comes with a bunch of goodies Stickers. What's it about? Let me see if I can guess it. It's about spies. That's just too vague. I mean it's in the name of the show.

Brandon Hurles: 9:01

Spy for a spy, no.

Mark Trobough: 9:05

Yeah, I've got no idea totally spies oh my god was that a cartoon network show, or is that yeah?

Brandon Hurles: 9:14

yeah, right, yeah, it's a cartoon network show for sure.

Mark Trobough: 9:16

Yeah, I mean, my sister watched it all the time you said spies a little bit more hint, it would probably would have helped. I'm like spies, like nothing comes to mind.

Brandon Hurles: 9:24

It was 10 bucks. So it comes as a bunch of goodies, it doesn't? It looks like it looks like it's like an okay game, but it was 10 bucks. So this one I bought for whenever we decided to stream it, which is a star troopers extermination, and I still got it.

Brandon Hurles: 9:40

That's what I meant. I still need to pick up Helldivers 2 because I know we're going to stream that at some point too. I went ahead and picked it up because there was a deal on it and I knew we were going to stream it. I was like, yeah, why not? Something I'd want to have a physical of. I like the franchise. Last two I got Call of Duty Black Ops 3 on PS4 and PS3. This is the gold edition. This goes towards the complete collection.

Mark Trobough: 10:08

Brandon's out here doing the Lord's work. I command Brandon to get every single physical copy of Call of Duty. What's your next task after that? You going to go for Call of Duty next.

Brandon Hurles: 10:21

What.

Mark Trobough: 10:22

Not Call of Duty but Medal of Honor. Sorry.

Brandon Hurles: 10:25

Probably not. I think I want to leave it at call of duty, that's. That's enough of a task. I'm not even. I'm still at battlefield as well. F that man. No, I'm good on. The pokemon is the only other one I'm. Hey, what's up? Uh, uh, tj wicks, how's it going? Um, should I show the Pokemon stuff, because there's a lot?

Mark Trobough: 10:46

Yeah, why not? Are you sure? Are you afraid someone's going to rob you? You can grab what you want to show. You don't have to necessarily grab everything, just the big stuff you want.

Brandon Hurles: 10:59

Alright, I got this Paldia Adventure Chest. It comes with seven promo cards, six TCG booster packs and a bunch of other stuff Squishy Toy, pikachu Mini Portfolio, one sheet of text stickers, code card for Pokemon, tcg Live and a couple other things. They only got one of these in, so I was like I've never seen it before, so I grabbed it. I think I've it before, so when?

Mark Trobough: 11:25

I grabbed it. I think I think I've seen those before, but I never I never bothered to pick one up.

Brandon Hurles: 11:28

Well, like the promo cards was the main reason that I want. I mean, you get six packs too, but the promo cards are exclusive to that, so that was pretty cool. I got tens for both, both of these guys, for Scarlet and Violet. So I don't again, I don't know what's good and what's not good. I think those tens.

Mark Trobough: 11:49

Usually what I've got is you get them for the pro If you like, the promo card on the front, and then you get the booster packs. That's really all that's. That's in those it's outside of the booster packs. You get those probably for the, for the, for the promo.

Brandon Hurles: 12:06

Yeah, yeah, which I mean? I like the design of the promo cards.

Mark Trobough: 12:07

So, yeah, they're pretty, pretty cool. So I think that's why most people buy those. They also buy the, the big boxes. You're buying those, not for the packs I mean, some people probably are, but it's the, it's the promo cards, because you can only get those promo cards in this thing. Promo cards usually specific to like one very one specific type of packaging well, got two, two, I've got two more tens, I think I had those two before I can't remember off the top of my head, back when they were easy to obtain.

Mark Trobough: 12:36

Now they're just, for whatever reason, impossible to find. Places like GameStop just stopped selling them outright, my first trainer box ever. That's usually what most people go after, because you're getting like a nine.

Brandon Hurles: 12:46

I know.

Mark Trobough: 12:47

One of the biggest bang for your buck.

Brandon Hurles: 12:51

Buddy Roman from Facebook. Oh hey, what's up? Appreciate you coming to hang out. Yeah, they didn't get any trainer boxes in today.

Mark Trobough: 12:58

I ordered this online, yeah, but usually those boxes are like the most bang for your buck.

Brandon Hurles: 13:02

It's what people want the most, because you get extra stuff if you want to play the games.

Mark Trobough: 13:05

You get some sleeves. You get the most packs Bang for your buck with your packs as well, as you get the little booklet that has like every card in it and stuff like that.

Brandon Hurles: 13:13

Yeah, because it comes with nine packs. That's pretty good.

Mark Trobough: 13:16

So like if you're just going for packs outside of buying them individually, usually the best bang ETB is what they call them. I can't remember off the top of my head.

Brandon Hurles: 13:29

Yeah, I got this Houndstone EX box.

Mark Trobough: 13:33

If only I cared about that. Pokemon. Sorry, I'm not the biggest fan.

Brandon Hurles: 13:36

I got most of these for the packs. I don't yeah.

Mark Trobough: 13:39

Usually those have different types of they got packs but unlike the ETBs, they've got different sets of packs. Yeah, In that one you had they're all gonna be the that set packs for usually in those ones you have different sets and stuff like that.

Brandon Hurles: 13:54

So yeah, this one. I'm not sure this is a crown zenith, but uh, pikachu v max premium collection oh yeah, the big one, the big promo cards. You gotta get a big sleep for that I got a couple of the big cards already. Then I got Crown Zenith Regieleki I don't even know Is that how you say it, Regieleki? Which one? The electric Reggie? I'm not sure how you say it, to be honest.

Mark Trobough: 14:21

You're probably close.

Brandon Hurles: 14:23

But yeah, I got that one.

Mark Trobough: 14:31

This one here oh, you got the fucking, oh you got the uh stations. I mean this where you're good oh, I forgot a game too.

Brandon Hurles: 14:39

Uh, and then two of these because they were discounted. I don't care about the pokemon at all, but I just got it for the packs they were. They were discounted. I don't care about the Pokemon at all, but I just got it for the packs. They were super discounted. I think I paid $10 a piece on them.

Mark Trobough: 14:51

Oh, it's dirt cheap at that point you don't have to make money just on the packs alone. Yeah, you get four packs each.

Brandon Hurles: 14:56

I got that. Then I have one more game which is a collector's edition. This is Silent Hope day one edition, uh, for the switch, and it's like a dungeon crawling, uh, action rpg game.

Mark Trobough: 15:09

So that's it for the pickups. I'm big. I picked up pokemon cards in months because I can't I can't ever find them in stock I actually have two more bags of pokemon cards I didn't show, so hold on, let me.

Brandon Hurles: 15:23

at least you're gonna spend six months just saving up on them, that way you can. I actually have two more bags of Pokemon cards I didn't show, so Hold on, you're going to spend six months, just saving up on them.

Mark Trobough: 15:28

That way you can just spend like two days opening packs.

Brandon Hurles: 15:31

Let me at least show just like one of each thing out of these Got this.

Brandon Hurles: 15:44

All of the lunchboxes yeah, it comes with six booster packs, three flow cards, so it wasn't bad for the price. With the booster packs it was like it wasn't much so. And then these ones I took a total gamble on. But there's a reason I bought. I don't know if they're good at all or not, but the reason I bought them is because my favorite set is Neo Discovery. It was a set that I really, really loved and my grandma had bought me the imported the promo binder for the first cards that came out for Neo Discovery from Japan. She imported it for me and they're these mystery power boxes and apparently it's got neo discovery on it. I bought four of them. So I don't know if they're any good, but you get looks like you get five booster packs, so and one of them can be a like a retro pack, but at that bought this just three packs. Nice, this one here, mystery Pack 2, it's got Team Rocket 1 on it and then, yeah, that's it. So Not very many cards, but Just unique stuff, I suppose.

Brandon Hurles: 17:02

So Alright, what do we got going on with the news?

Mark Trobough: 17:06

I mean, I guess, the first big thing that dropped this week. I don't care about giving you my money. Ea is laying off a bunch of people and they're shutting down development of the next Titanfall game oh boy cause. I think that was Respawn. They were like what EA cut around. They said 300 to 400 jobs and about 100 of them were at respawn and they're like cutting, canceling development on the next Titanfall game. All that stuff's coming out Dang. So I mean the news of layoffs has slowed down, but not completely.

Brandon Hurles: 17:41

Yeah, I like to say I'm surprised, but I mean, it is EA, and Titanfall is a pretty good series too.

Mark Trobough: 17:47

You know they're good games yeah it's uh unfortunate, but it is ea, so I'm not can't say I'm shocked and you gotta gotta maintain that, uh, that profit margin off of their fifa and madden games and stuff like that, yeah, exactly I, exactly I guess they're not calling it FIFA anymore, but that's still on McCall, because that's essentially what it is FC or whatever they're trying to call it now. Yeah, whatever they call it.

Mark Trobough: 18:13

I can't remember I guess it sucks for whoever lost their jobs, but not completely unsurprising. They've definitely slowed down since this time last year, but they're still around, mr.

Brandon Hurles: 18:25

Coffee said what I heard. Respawn was announcing Titanfall four.

Mark Trobough: 18:30

Not anymore, they're not. I just got the ax, got the.

Brandon Hurles: 18:36

Oh my the ax.

Mark Trobough: 18:38

He's like this isn't going to make money for a decade, why bother I?

Brandon Hurles: 18:42

mean, titanfall was a pretty popular uh franchise when it came out, but it's just like they I only ever played the first one, so I feel like they didn't put enough of them out to make it like you know series yeah, like you know, you only got two games, so it just felt like they weren't pumping them out enough to get it out there in the mainstream like they're popular.

Brandon Hurles: 19:04

I remember when titanfall one came out, people were obsessed with it and I thought it was pretty good. I didn't like love it or anything, but I thought there was. I thought they were both great games, but they just didn't put enough out to keep the series alive. So I don't know.

Mark Trobough: 19:20

Yeah, I mean it's. I guess it's unfortunate. I yeah, I mean I guess it's unfortunate. I was never a fan of the series, but I mean that's just me, yep, just you. I guess in a little bit happier stuff. If you're into Christmas ornaments, hallmark's putting out some stuff, this is a little 360 thing you can hang on your Christmas tree next year. They're missing something here, as far as what the image is, yeah, go back to the Xbox.

Brandon Hurles: 19:50

It's supposed to be red.

Mark Trobough: 19:52

Oh my God, this guy. I mean, yeah, if you had this version, if you had the later versions.

Brandon Hurles: 19:58

Yeah, that's why I said, with that version it's supposed to be red.

Mark Trobough: 20:02

Those are cool, though I'd pick those. Though version it's supposed to be red, I pick yeah, they are neat, neat collect.

Brandon Hurles: 20:07

Yeah, that one's really cool little one.

Mark Trobough: 20:09

Yeah, that's the one brands in beginning, for sure that's cool Mario, and then just a pink, yeah pass on that one, but yeah, that's not it's not the Minecraft one, it's the Minecraft movie version of it. Even worse, that's what I'm saying. If you're really into christmas ornaments, uh, I guess, hop on the pre-orders now. Apparently I don't know how they do orderments. They just say, hey, we're selling these. I don't know either. Then you get amish country to buy your christmas stuff because that's where the store is at, did?

Mark Trobough: 20:40

you say amish country yeah, there's always like a christmas store there there is, I love amish country it.

Brandon Hurles: 20:45

Yeah. There's always like a Christmas store there. There is I love Amish country. It's fun, All right. So we got Psy Games ties in activation for its horse-themed video game to Kentucky Derby deal, yeah so the Kentucky Derby the 151st one starts.

Mark Trobough: 21:01

I think it starts today. It's running through this weekend. Okay, derby the 151st one starts. I think it starts today and it's running through this weekend. Okay, I think they were said they were doing this for uh, specifically for the female horse races. From when I was saw some other stuff, uh, but essentially they're using uh, this game, game slash anime, it's called umamusume or whatever it's called. Pretty, derby, essentially it's both a show and a mobile game. Apparently it's like one of the top, if not, it periodically hits number one, is like the most profitable mobile game in japan. It's a really popular game. I can bring up a trailer because at the same time they announced uh, not this specifically, but but they pretty much announced that the actual mobile games coming to the US. I think it's sometime middle of the month, next month, essentially. So if you're into Horse Girls and gacha games, that's your whole thing. But they were essentially partnering with the Kentucky Derby at the. What was it essentially called? The?

Brandon Hurles: 22:02

Churchill Downs, essentially.

Mark Trobough: 22:06

Essentially as a partnership to advertise for the game, and it makes sense. The game's pretty much just girls horse racing. That's like the whole point of this, of the show and of the game essentially I made an exception for playing a mobile game.

Brandon Hurles: 22:18

I haven't played it yet, but I tagged you and it's a. It's a bomber man, uh, it's oh yeah, I didn't see that, yeah, I want to. I want to try it out, just because it's bar man and I.

Mark Trobough: 22:26

It's nothing like big.

Brandon Hurles: 22:27

I just thought it was funny that all this uh mobile game that's about horse girls racing is uh being advertised at the kentucky derby I don't know if that's the right audience, that's gonna buy yeah, I don't think kentuckians are uh gonna quite understand what's going on, but yeah because it comes out next month.

Mark Trobough: 22:47

Uh, because, yeah, because the game came out in 2021. I think it was supposed to come out in 2018, when the anime originally was supposed to come out the same year. Essentially, yeah, I think the anime was being used as an advertisement for the show and I think it got later seasons, but it got delayed for for whatever reason, essentially, and it's one of their uh, one of their top. Well, it's one of their top. It's one of the top-profiting mobile games in Japan, which is not really all that surprising. But if you're into horse racing.

Mark Trobough: 23:13

You like playing games on your phone? I mean, it's a thing. I just thought it was funny. Did I read that right Kentucky Derby in anime, like what's going on?

Brandon Hurles: 23:25

Anime seems to be collabing with everything these days. It's funny.

Mark Trobough: 23:29

Gotta expand your market and make that money, baby. Oh yeah, Pokemon cards are essentially gacha. It's just a physical version of gacha.

Brandon Hurles: 23:40

No doubt.

Mark Trobough: 23:42

It's all the same thing.

Brandon Hurles: 23:43

Pretty much, yeah, it's like a mobile game. Pretty much, yeah, pretty much.

Mark Trobough: 23:45

Until Brian doesn't care. He's like I'm mobile game, I'm out, I'm out.

Brandon Hurles: 23:49

All right, so we got. Sony could be working on a biometric PS5 controller. According to their latest patent, it reveals a biometric controller capable of reading the chemical levels found on a player's skin. The controller could use light sensors to detect compounds in the skin like cortisol, and would adjust difficulty levels accordingly. It's unclear if the device will ever make it to the production stage.

Mark Trobough: 24:16

This just sounds like hey, this is a neat idea. In practicality, I don't know how this would ever actually work.

Brandon Hurles: 24:52

It's like are your hands getting sweaty?

Mark Trobough: 24:55

you know like yeah, because I'm holding a piece of plastic and I may or may not be warm in my house, something like that. Like who knows, I sweat. My hands have occasionally sweat when I'm not even really trying that hard. It's just you know, you're holding a piece of plastic and it gets hot yeah, I don't know.

Brandon Hurles: 25:11

I mean it's interesting for sure. I mean it sounds like interesting technology, but like that I can't imagine this.

Mark Trobough: 25:19

This could ever actually work. And even if it theoretically could work, it could work at an affordable price. It's not like a thousand dollars for a controller.

Brandon Hurles: 25:26

Yeah, I mean I don't. And then, based on what they're talking about, that means the games have to be programmed to work with a specific thing. And well, how many game companies are really going to care? I don't. And then, based on what they're talking, about.

Mark Trobough: 25:32

That means the games have to be programmed to work with a specific thing. How many game companies are really going to care to program this into a controller that 99% of their player base isn't going to have? Controllers are essentially already $100 baseline. Now how much more is this whole biometric scanner going to cost? Even if they just added the ability for a, a fingerprint scanner, it would jack the price up by like 50 and no one's buying it yeah, I, I just don't even know.

Brandon Hurles: 26:00

I mean it's, it's interesting technology, for sure yeah, at like the r&d level.

Mark Trobough: 26:05

It's interesting, but implemented in the games like I that I don't know, I mean yeah, this just sounds like a neat r&d thing that you do for research, but you would never actually you'd never actually make it past that. Yeah, I mean, I cause I just did this, I'm just like it. It financially just wouldn't make sense. It'd be too expensive.

Brandon Hurles: 26:26

Yeah, it would definitely be expensive. Uh, it looks like we got, so got. It looks like we also got Xbox Game Pass. We'll be losing at least eight games coming May 15th, which are Brothers, a Tale of Two Sons, chance of Cinar Dune, spice Wars, haunty, jurassic World, evolution 2, little Kitty, big City, planet Lana and the Big Con. So it looks like all those are going to be leaving, uh, here pretty soon.

Mark Trobough: 26:54

So you know pros and cons of uh, of a subscription-based game service yeah, unfortunately, unfortunately I don't know, I don't, I don't think any of those games really once I really cared about to be fair or ever I I most of these I never actually even really heard of outside of Tale of Two Sons. Yeah, yeah, I'm going to say this is only like a three-hour game, so Only one of these breaks 10 hours of gameplay time and that's the Spice Wars at 11 hours.

Brandon Hurles: 27:29

We also got Ghost of Yotei went up for pre-order today and uh shows, uh pre-order bonuses, as well as the collector's edition that you can get. The problem with the collector's edition is you do not get a physical game, of course, which is just like what's the point?

Mark Trobough: 27:45

so they're just like trying to just get extra money out of you, like if you're gonna sell the the collector's edition like sell the game with it, especially if it's a physical version of this.

Brandon Hurles: 27:53

That's why I'm just gonna get the base game, because it's just stupid. I'm not gonna sorry, I'm not gonna buy a collector's edition to get a code. It's just dumb.

Mark Trobough: 28:02

But uh, you got like if there's something in there, the only thing that's even remotely cool would be kind of like the mask.

Brandon Hurles: 28:06

But the mask is cool I mean like the collector's edition itself is pretty cool but it's not cool that it doesn't come with the game other than the download code. So I'll pass. I'd rather have it physically.

Mark Trobough: 28:16

What if you'd have to buy the physical game again for another $70?

Brandon Hurles: 28:20

Yeah, I'm just not going to do that. But yeah, I did go up for pre-order. I pre-ordered it on Amazon because it didn't charge, so you shit. But yeah, I mean, I'm pretty excited for the game. I'm pretty excited for the game. Hopefully they didn't DEI the crap out of it or any of that crap, because I love the previous game a lot. I think it's one of the best samurai games ever made. I do hope that this game is just as good.

Mark Trobough: 28:48

To be fair, it's competition of shadows. It's not a high bar. It needs to climb to be better than.

Brandon Hurles: 28:54

Yeah, but there's a lot of samurai games out there. It's competition of shadows. It's not a high bar. It needs to climb to be better than yeah, but there's a lot of Samurai games out there. It's a really good one, but I'm just going to get the standard copy because I don't want it digitally. The collector's edition is cool, but don't get the game. For me it's just going to be a standard copy, but I am looking forward to this game. It's cool that it went up for pre-order and stuff like that. There are three different editions that you can get. I know a lot of people don't care about physical, so the digital deluxe edition might be your go-to there, with all the extras.

Mark Trobough: 29:29

The main thing is this is really what they have for their extra stuff.

Brandon Hurles: 29:31

The mask is really cool. It'd be a really cool display piece, but it's like you don't even don't, doesn't come with the game, like I'm just not interested. The god of war, ragnarok did the same thing, didn't come with the game. Yeah, download. Oh, here's a digital version.

Mark Trobough: 29:45

Like if I want this physical stuff, I want the game. Might as well, just give me the game physical as well.

Brandon Hurles: 29:48

Like you're giving me everything else physical, but the game like it makes no sense to me. I just can't comprehend it.

Mark Trobough: 29:55

I don't quite understand I mean to be fair, like it's kind of neat, but like most of the stuff would just sit in a box on a shelf and pretty much.

Brandon Hurles: 30:03

That's how most collector's editions are. Now, I mean, I don't even bother with most collector's editions anymore.

Mark Trobough: 30:09

Like, very much like very something specifically, you know, like a, like a figure that I'd actually be able to put out, exactly like. Let's be fair, like art cards are neat, but you're like, oh, that's neat put it in, look at it once and never, ever open it back up.

Brandon Hurles: 30:22

Yeah like.

Mark Trobough: 30:23

I mean to be fair. Most, that's most of the time. That's usually what happens with a lot of this collector stuff. Yeah, like all my Borderlands 3 collector's edition that I have, just sits in a box in a corner and just collects dust.

Brandon Hurles: 30:36

Yeah, Mr Coffee brought up about the Spider-Man one. Yeah, it didn't even come with the code, which is crazy. That was crazy, and it's still sold out too, so it didn't even come with the game at all.

Mark Trobough: 30:50

Like you know, just get screwed pretty much, pretty much yeah.

Brandon Hurles: 30:56

So it looks like we also got Nintendo released a hotfix for their version 20.0.0. This resolved crashing issues that began taking place after the recent new version. The new update added the game share functionality, though this can only be hosted on the Switch 2, nintendo Switch 2 will be released on June 5th. So, yeah, this was just a hot fix to fix the version 20 that came out recently. Again, apparently there was some issues with that and stuff.

Mark Trobough: 31:30

This is more in preparation for Switch 2 coming out and stuff like that, but yeah, they're just trying to get the updates out now so they can make sure there's no bugs for it. Essentially yeah, which is good.

Mark Trobough: 31:40

I mean, they're pretty much just kind of goes to show they're using the same, uh, the same software. Uh, for the, for the switch to that they're using for the same one, essentially, yeah yeah. So it's pretty much. You know. All book confirms I think we pretty much all we all knew this as well. At the same time they also pretty much came out and they didn't come out.

Mark Trobough: 32:00

The actual share feature actually went live Cause I, I just went in and just it was like a quick little thing. I was able to test it, move it from one switch to the other and it did what it did. And it did what it did. It just made me able to play it on a console that didn't have it downloaded, essentially, I think. Well, it has to download the game because it's still digital, but essentially it moves it from your one console and it play puts it on your other one. That's just, yeah, only, um, so it's I. I moved it from, I use it on the same accounts.

Mark Trobough: 32:27

It was technically I could have already done that move my save data over, read, download. It was kind of, uh, pointless. This is obviously designed for for different accounts, but it's, you know, it's a straightforward feature, it's pretty easy. The only thing you need to use. The switches need to be, like you know, right next to each other while you're doing it for the initial swap over, and then it starts. If it isn't already on the other switch, it just starts downloading it right then, and then, once it's already downloaded, you just swap the the license back and forth right, yeah, yeah so I mean it pretty much kind of does what what they explained it would do?

Brandon Hurles: 32:59

yeah, exactly, exactly so, uh, there's that then. Uh, we've also got um discussion on nintendo 2 achievements. So apparently, game Rant posted an article on why they think that the Nintendo Switch 2 won't have achievements, said Nintendo's big picture game design philosophy may be the reason why Switch 2 doesn't have the system-wide achievements. When asked about the lack of 3DS achievements back in 2011, a senior Nintendo official said the company's designers don't tell users how to play the games in exchange for some kind of mythical reward. Given that Switch 2 will lack a unified achievement system, that reasoning may still hold true 14 years later.

Mark Trobough: 33:45

So there isn't really much to say about that, because there's no, I mean there's some sort of verification, but it's like I kind of agree, achievements are like it's like an artificial kind of agree like achievements are like it's like a artificial way to track your progress and or it can get it strapped from you, like I'm not playing the game, I'm trying to get a specific achievement which some games it's grinding or like whatever it. I think it distracts from the enjoyment of a game. If you have, uh, of an achievement tracker, I'm not the biggest fan of it because, like I always want to go towards it, but I never chase them.

Mark Trobough: 34:14

I don't have one it's such a grind for certain games where they do their achievements, you're like, oh, okay, it's a way they for people that go after like 100% in a game. It's an artificial way to pad gameplay or to keep you playing this game for longer than the normal game would have allowed. Yeah, it's fine, because it's just you do a quest and you to keep you playing this game for longer than the normal game would have allowed, right, yeah, yeah, I mean, I'm glad it's fine because it's just you do a quest and you get an achievement, and it's not really, you don't really go out of your way. But sometimes it's like, oh, you need to do this a thousand times or you know trade or do something else that either Some are easy. And then sometimes I think there's an achievement on Steam that I'm missing for Rocket League, that I can't even get anymore because they took out the trade feature. So it's just an achievement you just can't get.

Mark Trobough: 35:00

Now, granted, it's PC and you can just artificially give yourself achievements on Steam if you download software, so you can just be like I 100% of the game, that I have like an hour play time in, but it's just one of those things where it's just like it's. It just artificially gives you something to go after and pads game time, and I think nintendo does it right. I don't think achievements really carry that much weight and they're not really needed anymore, unless you're trying to show off like I did all these things right. I spent so much time on a game to the point where I hated because I needed this very specific achievement. Yeah, especially for multiplayer games as well. It's such a big, big pain.

Brandon Hurles: 35:36

Do you mind taking over for a minute? I have an emergency, real quick.

Mark Trobough: 35:39

No, yeah, you're good. Okay, all right, I'll be right back guys. Yeah, because I kind of see it as the way of essentially it's just padding out time. I think what I was. What I was trying to say was because there's, like for multiplayer games, some of the achievements you have to grind forever, especially on a game that essentially nobody plays anymore, like I think for the first tomb raider game. Uh, there's a multiplayer stuff. There's like a lot of achievements you have to do with the multiplayer. I'm like, well, nobody plays that anymore, so you're probably stuck trying to find other people or just forever grind for an achievement. That is just not really worth the time to get put 100 hours in for like 10 achievements, wholesale waste of time unless you just really love the the most, play every game. But I mean, if sony and microsoft went away from achievements which they're not going to, it wouldn't I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. Uh, I guess. Yeah, the, the next thing.

Mark Trobough: 36:32

Uh, I saw this like I don't know, didn't know how to think about it. I think it just goes to show because brandon was talking about uh, the, uh, some of the pokemon cards and it's. It's just crazy. With the scalpers it's hard to find anymore. Uh, apparently there was a uh, an owner who had a card I think he was trying to sell it or do a trade or something like that was essentially robbed of his $5,000, what they claim was $5,000 Charizard card in Australia, which is just insane. Man who's trying to commit felonious assault and theft for a Pokemon card. I mean, I get it like. You know, five thousand eight thousand dollars is a decent amount of money for some people, but like that's crazy. Also means if you're gonna, if you're gonna, sell some of your stuff, you should definitely be careful. If you're gonna meet somebody in in public to sell a card, probably try to do that and I would assume the safest way possible. Or just do it online, sell it on eBay. It's probably the easiest and safest way to do it If people are going to be this this crazy about it.

Mark Trobough: 37:44

Mr Coffee, it really sucks. They locked achievements behind multiplayer things. Yeah, I just. It's probably one of the one of the biggest pains for a lot of these games. In some games it's easy I think Skyrim it's not really that hard to 100% the game. You just do a bunch of quests.

Mark Trobough: 37:56

But other games I'm trying to remember the name of a game real quick. It was a JRPG game. I know we brought it up here before in the past. I think I've talked about this. Let me figure out what game it was exactly, because it required you like you get into the main game, you get to like level 60, level 70, and there's achievements, hit a level 100, and it's like just pure grind at that point, just fighting like the same monster over and over and over again. Or you could pay actual money to just level up to level 100 for this achievement, which I was like that's so scummy. It achievement which I was like that's, that's so scummy. Oh, it's tales, tales of a rise has like a, some achievements where you just, if you didn't want to pay money at least for that one achievement, you'd spend probably another 50 hours just grinding out to platinum the game and it's just like, nah, man, I'm good, it's not, it's not worth the time. You're just artificially uh, padding out, padding out gameplay at that point for a game that's already, you know, 40 hours long, to just beat the story anyways. Uh, once a game deactivates servers for online functionality, they should just give you the two minutes, yeah, or just get rid of them, or something like that. But there's a lot of games where, if you want to do 100, if the online servers aren't there anymore, it's just there. There's probably a decent amount of unattainable achievements at this point for for multiplayer games, uh, depending on the cost of card.

Mark Trobough: 39:17

People don't want to pay extra fees selling through ebay or sites. I don't know how much ebay does but either you need to to go somewhere better or hopefully you're not willing to bring somebody with you that's not gonna, like you know, steal it from you. It's just the risk of selling anything physical in person and stuff like that. That that's not going to steal it from you, it's just the risk of selling anything physical in person and stuff like that that somebody could try to steal it. It's a pro and con thing. It definitely sucks, but it's probably more of a. Well, people shouldn't be like this. But people throw hands over Pokemon cards at Walmart, so this does not surprise me at all. Then again, I would never sell any cards that I have because I bought them for me. I didn't buy them as an investment like some people do, especially these scalpers not. So that's so scummy, uh. Well, come on, there we go. Uh, hopefully brand gets back here soon. It's not nothing too bad.

Mark Trobough: 40:15

Uh, 8-bit do is apparently pausing shipments to the us because of the the tariffs had put on china, which are like 210 percent. Uh, so they said these customers can still buy their products that have already been imported, but they're, uh, they're not shipping anything from China. So either they have to wait for that issue to resolve it or they've got to move their production out of China. Essentially, I was trying to pick it up, yeah, because they were doing some like different controllers for 8, but I think it's like the main thing. They did different, different types of controllers 8, but duo, I bet they sell online because I want to complete a certain set. Yeah, yeah, that definitely makes sense. Uh, so I guess I can pull this up real quick. I think I've got the right thing.

Mark Trobough: 41:05

Uh, so these were like some of the controllers they were selling and they weren't like overly expensive controllers. But if you want to like, you know second hand uh controller. Uh, their ultimate 2c bluetooth switch controller. Uh, ultimate bluetooth controller with the charred charging dock and then the wired controller. Essentially, uh, like how the bluetooth, just the, just the bluetooth is like cheaper than usually the a wired controller. I mean it's for the xbox series x, uh, xbox, so yeah, it's two. The Xbox Series X, xbox, so yeah, it's two Switch and then an Xbox, at least from what they had listed here. I guess. Get it, while you can or just buy a different brand of controller, unless it's something that you're really, really into.

Mark Trobough: 41:48

Scoffy was saying 8-bit do need to slow its production because there's always another controller. Yeah, the second hand market's like a dime a dozen because I have the, uh, I bought it a while ago. It wasn't too bad. I bought it because my pro went out and I just at the time I didn't want to spend the money on another pro controller, but it was fine because you use it for pc and for the switch, just the, the candy one, uh, so you can. Obviously you can like change the plate, plate on it or, sorry, it's the candy con, so you can like change the, the joys and like the, the place of the, the, the directional pad, as well, as you can get like different types of face plates, which was kind of neat.

Mark Trobough: 42:24

It's also got the, the back pads that I don't, I don't bother using, and it was like 45, 50, something like that, 40 or 50, whatever was priced out. Over that they had a game stop. So I mean, controllers are a dime, a dozen, essentially, uh, but it's, I mean they're, they're cheaper than anything that you're going to get, you know, first party. But I still think, like the quality of the first party, controllers are still better, especially for the switch, the pro controller. But but I mean you're, you're paying a premium for it. So, and then I can't remember what it was, I can't remember the brand of it, but I know that you're used to because I had one for my PS4. Uh, I think I spent 150, almost $200 on a third, on a third party controller.

Mark Trobough: 43:05

But the shoulder back bumpers, I guess whatever you want to call it were, I guess, more of a novelty, less common than what they're becoming now, but they were far more obviously designed for shooters and stuff like that to have quicker reaction times. It's just easier. You have more access to buttons that you can map around. That I spent, but I think that was back when I was still playing Siege pretty regularly. It's kind of the same for my mouse. I'll just leave it plugged.

Mark Trobough: 43:36

In this one, actually, the nameplate just comes off. For this one it just kind of comes off, but you can get different ones, whether it's the forward-backwards button or this one, it's got the, I guess technically MMO, it's got the yeah, my camera doesn but the one through zero buttons and stuff like that, which for most games works for me, because it's just an extra 12 buttons on the thumb that I can have, which I find all that much more helpful myself. But yeah, it is what it is, at least in that side. But on top of that there's some other stuff going on as well as they. They think that people are talking about when you could, uh, order the switch to GameCube controller. Uh, so, from what they were saying, if you get the invite from, I don't know why that's going on. Oh.

Mark Trobough: 44:31

Hey, I'm back to come back. Yep, sorry about that, hey, no, you're we just talking about the uh, the 8-bit do stuff you're like, oh, you missed so, oh, okay, yeah, but I guess the other big thing that was the uh, uh, the switch to gamecube controller you can purchase from may 8th to the 12th. Uh, if you get the invite from nintendo, because I thought this was already live, or was it not on the other sites, do you know?

Brandon Hurles: 44:56

no, it's not live yet. I mean, okay, the only, uh, you have to have a nintendo oh yeah.

Mark Trobough: 45:03

So yeah, they say the the switch to the switch. Online subscribers will have access to it starting may, may 13th yeah, I'm I'm definitely going to buy one.

Brandon Hurles: 45:11

My I um bought one of all the other ones, but I kept them sealed. I would like, if it's possible, I'd like, to buy two, one to use and one to keep. They just look cool in the little they just display.

Mark Trobough: 45:23

Really cool, I think they're really nice, it's a neat little little you know box and stuff like that and it's just a bluetooth version essentially of the game, because I got a wired one for the switch but I've only used it for like two games but this I mean with the switch.

Brandon Hurles: 45:37

Online game keeps still coming out. I can see myself using it.

Mark Trobough: 45:40

Let's be fair like it's like a lot of these older games, like they're designed for these controllers in mind like the 64 they put out you've got.

Brandon Hurles: 45:47

You gotta use that controller because it just does not work with the pro like the button, layouts were designed with these controllers in mind.

Mark Trobough: 45:53

You don't use the, at least the reproduction of the original controller. It just feels awkward on a on a modern pro controller, because it wasn't designed with that layout in mind for a lot of these games.

Brandon Hurles: 46:02

I really hope that we're able to order more than one, but I'm not going to get my hopes up because if I can only order one, I'm not going to open it.

Mark Trobough: 46:09

I'm sure down the road you'll be able to. They're going to sell these and you're going to have third parties that eventually start selling them too.

Brandon Hurles: 46:15

But they look really good quality I mean as good quality as the original. Obviously they're using all the same parts and stuff like that, and I can see myself using that more than any of the other ones, because when they continue to add the GameCube, I'm super nostalgic for the GameCube. There's so many good GameCube games that I can see myself using that quite a bit. So I'll definitely be trying to get that day one, if I can, for sure.

Mark Trobough: 46:41

I mean, yeah, I would.

Brandon Hurles: 46:42

Yeah, but you're not really a GameCube fan, so, oh my god, this guy.

Mark Trobough: 46:48

That's why I have like half a dozen GameCube games on my shelf but do you have pokemon xd?

Brandon Hurles: 46:54

that's all.

Mark Trobough: 46:54

I never had pokemon xd. Well, that's right, any of those, those console pokemon games to the switch that's, that's the problem with you oh my god, you don't know you don't know a good pokemon game or like pokemon, coliseum or nothing. Take her to leave itosseum or nothing. Take it or leave it. Battle Revolution or nothing.

Brandon Hurles: 47:14

Gale of Darkness, that's a good game?

Brandon Hurles: 47:20

I don't know what they say. That's what they say. Yeah, what do we got next? This is a rumor. Apparently, we got a new Nier game in development. Again, like I said, rumor Creators are collaborating on a new project and many believe it could be a new near game in development. Again, like I said, rumor creators are collaborating on a new project and many believe it could be a new entry in the series. Square Enix recently celebrated near his 15th anniversary with a live stream teasing a new novel, upcoming concerts and merch. So I know, uh, me.

Mark Trobough: 47:46

And Mark are largely really good.

Brandon Hurles: 47:48

So yeah yeah, I'm a massive fan of near automata huge, I've been near automata.

Mark Trobough: 47:54

I've played a decent amount of the the near remaster or the replicate remaster. It's pretty good game. It's good.

Brandon Hurles: 48:00

But to me it doesn't touch automata well, it's the.

Mark Trobough: 48:05

Essentially it's a they refine the gameplay of near because they were doing near. Even the remaster version it's still rough around the edges with the gameplay. It's's also like a 360 PS3 era game.

Brandon Hurles: 48:15

But Platinum Games is nothing but great stuff. I mean Bandana and all the stuff that they do, so they always put out bangers. A new Nier game is coming. I'd expect a new Nier game to be coming.

Mark Trobough: 48:29

I mean they used to take several years. It's been like what, like what? Seven, eight years since near I like that.

Brandon Hurles: 48:34

Yeah, I only came twice over.

Mark Trobough: 48:36

I've got on the ps4 and switch I think I think it's worth at least to play through once. Yeah, yeah, because I think they also came out and said for automata that uh, he put in all those endings in just because I was saying you need more content for the game, so just put, put in a bunch of BS endings for the game. Yeah, pretty much You're just all but the all. But the main five endings are just different death endings essentially for your for pretty much, yeah, yeah.

Mark Trobough: 49:04

So it's just such a good game, man, I really this is one of those games where the gameplay is good but it's definitely really carried by the story of the game yeah, it definitely is I agree, you go back and play this game not for the gameplay, but because of the story, exactly, yeah, so hopefully this is true and hopefully we are getting a new Nier game.

Brandon Hurles: 49:23

That'd be great. We also got Borderlands 4 reveals it's four new vault hunters a cast of four playable vault hunters players will be able to choose from. Following the sequel's release, gearbox introduced fans to the new Siren and Exo Soldier, showing off some of their unique abilities and teasing the other two Vault Hunters. So, mark, you got the video up there.

Mark Trobough: 49:50

For our audio listeners.

Brandon Hurles: 49:51

We've shown a video here talking about some of it, but we've got a.

Mark Trobough: 49:56

I don't know I watched this and I was like it's neat. I wasn't stoked on this. Still, borderlands 3 left a sour taste in my mouth and this just kind of looked like more.

Brandon Hurles: 50:08

Borderlands 3.

Mark Trobough: 50:11

Quasi looks like a.

Brandon Hurles: 50:12

It looks better, but it doesn't look like what you would.

Mark Trobough: 50:16

It doesn't look as good as it should look better than it does I guess it looks better, but it should look even better than it looks good, but it looks also like it like a, like it looks sanitized, looks like a corporatized game. Like this game had to go through hr before it, you know, got released.

Brandon Hurles: 50:35

Essentially well, after playing tiny team, I mean I have I guess the, I guess what I think of uh was it?

Mark Trobough: 50:40

it looks better, but soulless at the same time, like they're, they're literally doing this because of the money, not because of the well, they have the passion for it. At this point where borderlands 1, 2 and, to some degree, the pre-sequel you know you could at least with borderlands 1 and 2 you could feel the the passion behind the game and it just feels like it got successful and it got kind of corporatized. Like a lot of triple a games do they? They? They look good, but you just feel like the soul on a lot of these games just doesn't, doesn't exist anymore, like they're clearly doing this because, well, they have to do. It's kind of like what Halo and a lot of Call of Duty has become. It's just like, well, we have to keep pumping out games because we need this money. We want to do what has worked in the past. We want to do it safe instead of taking a risk on a new IP.

Brandon Hurles: 51:21

Yeah, yeah, I don't have high hopes for the game.

Mark Trobough: 51:24

I mean, I hope and again they did a risk on a new IP and it flopped terribly.

Brandon Hurles: 51:34

I hope it's good, but I have no.

Mark Trobough: 51:36

It's one of those games where it's like I'm not going to. I was burned with Borderlands 3 at launch, pre-ordering the not just the game but the collector's edition.

Mark Trobough: 51:44

I'm like I'll wait and see. Gearbox is going to have to prove to me that they deserve my money for this game. Because, well, I've gone back multiple times to try to beat borderlands 3 and it I just can't like. I go back and play borderlands borderlands one's like 15 hour game, to be fair but I go back and play borderlands 2 and even, to a lesser degree, the pre-sequel, uh, and it's just I can't. I can't go back and beat 3, ideally, like I think. I still think they peaked with borderlands 2. I'm like the gameplay in some areas is better, but sometimes I just prefer playing two between the the writing and even the gameplay and just all the content.

Brandon Hurles: 52:19

I think they peaked it with tiny tina, to be honest with you.

Mark Trobough: 52:23

Well, that's just a that's just a dlc to borderlands 2 no the original tiny tina not not the one that we played. That was absolute dog crap that's what I'm talking about. I think that that peaked with that game I mean they the writing peaked with uh tales from the border. That game was so bad, man, I'm sorry that game, yeah between that and new tales, you're like I've got no faith in this game, I just have no, uh faith in gearbox at all.

Brandon Hurles: 52:48

To be honest with you, I just don't faith in Gearbox at all. To be honest with you, I just don't. It's just yeah. I love Dragon Guard. I got it on the PS3.

Mark Trobough: 52:58

I guess going back to the other one, because he was asking what no love for the prior games? I've never played the Dragon Guard. They're harder to get to. I've talked or I've seen stuff where people will be like you're better off just watching like a six hour YouTube video about the story of those games and actually playing them. Essentially it's a it's as you go back in time between the near games and into the dragon games. It's just older gameplay that was refined and better with the newer games. So just the gameplay gets worse as you kind of go back to where, like if you play those games back but trying to get into those games now it's.

Mark Trobough: 53:29

it's kind of a pain to play those games. You're better off just watching a video or a gameplay of it yourself than actually trying to go back and play those games. I know people who have different opinions on that. That's just some of the stuff I've seen. They're not the best games to go back and play. They're not the best games gameplay-wise that have aged the best from what I've seen. Gotcha I've never played any of the Dragon Guard games. I've been keeping an eye out to see if I can see them, but I haven't run into one yet.

Brandon Hurles: 53:58

Alright. Well, we got free PS Plus games for May 2025 revealed and we've got Ark Survival Ascended, ps5 only Bellatro and Warhammer 40,000 Boltgun.

Mark Trobough: 54:16

I guess it's probably worthwhile for people for Bellatro. I don't know anything about Boltgun, to be fair.

Brandon Hurles: 54:24

I've got it on PC, but I've never played it.

Mark Trobough: 54:27

I'd argue there's better games than ARK to play in that same genre. Yeah, I have no interest in it. I think Rust games than arc to play in that in that same genre. But yeah, I have no interest. Well, I think I mean rust. I think rust is probably the best game of that, of that base building pvp gameplay style, but I don't know, maybe they fix it, I haven't. I think, uh, the old version of arc.

Brandon Hurles: 54:45

I just didn't think was was good I didn't care for it myself, so wasn't my thing. We also got an EA game shutting down on October 20th, and that is Madden NFL 22 man, my favorite Madden too.

Mark Trobough: 55:05

I was like I guess they're using different servers at this point, like that's such a shame if you're playing online version of these games, you're probably just playing the new one every single year, which I think is a waste of money.

Brandon Hurles: 55:15

But like man, why are they shut down? Madden nfl 22 though because?

Mark Trobough: 55:23

no, because it's not always playing anymore. They're all playing madden 25 or about to be 26, or something like that what a shame, what a shame people that playden games. You just get the new game.

Brandon Hurles: 55:33

You don't even enjoy video games anymore.

Mark Trobough: 55:36

Not these sports. It's the same game every year. Why waste your money?

Brandon Hurles: 55:40

Roster update, that's it.

Mark Trobough: 55:42

That's really all. There is Roster update.

Brandon Hurles: 55:44

If you want to play the online. You have to swap over to the new game because that's where everyone's at Biggest scam in gaming history. I mean, it's the same format for FIFA.

Mark Trobough: 55:54

It's essentially loot box gambling for your players and you go out and play with them, so you have to spend the money to get the good players. Yeah, I think it's like Ultimate Team or whatever they have essentially, which is essentially their version of Gacha, which is just loot boxes to get your characters Right, their version of gotcha, which is just loot boxes to get your uh to get characters right.

Brandon Hurles: 56:15

Uh, what we got. Next, mark trying to pull some stuff up here.

Mark Trobough: 56:19

Let me pull it up, uh. I mean, we just talked about the platinum games. Uh, so there's a rumor out there that platinum is working on a live service game after Ninja Gaiden 4 comes out, okay, and we don't really know anything about that other than there were job postings for online action game and open field game as far as some of the keywords and some of the job postings online. So people were like, oh, are they going to make an online open world? Uh, live service game essentially. And if they are going to like, what game are they gonna? Are they gonna do with that?

Mark Trobough: 57:02

because, plan them, some worked on a bunch of games yeah, they've worked on a lot of stuff metal Gear, rising, revengeance, bayonetta, nier, automata, obviously the guidance stuff because what they were saying, project GG is like, I guess, the temporary title right now we don't know if it's official or that's just probably some kind of placeholder name but Gaiden comes out. I don't think it's come out yet. All I know is it comes out. I don't think it's come out yet. All I know is it comes out sometime this year. Yeah, it's not, yeah, but I mean the before that.

Mark Trobough: 57:36

They are pretty much working on the games and stuff like that. They've worked on the, the wonderful 101. They've worked on, obviously, the near games. They've worked on, uh, starfox zero, for whatever that is worth. Um, they've worked on, uh, they've done some work for the final fantasy what's it? 16, infinite space, on the ds, grand blue fantasy, relink and stuff like that. So they've, they've worked on a whole bunch of different types of games. So is this going to be a new ip or they potentially working on a multiplayer game, for I don't know, banetta, bayonetta or is the next? Well, it would be. The net is another near game, or something like that. Who knows?

Brandon Hurles: 58:16

yeah, that's a good question. I mean, I don't know or correction.

Mark Trobough: 58:21

I mean, they've only worked on near automata. But I mean, I would hope that the, the, if they're doing an open world game, it wouldn't be at least be uh, it wouldn't be near, yeah, yeah. And if it is a near game, I'm like oh man, it's gonna be another five years before we get, you know, near three. I don't think I can wait that long yeah, yeah, for sure, uh, okay apparently one of their.

Mark Trobough: 58:46

One of their uh. Just because we just talked about one of their cancelled games. Lost order was supposed to be published under, uh, psy Games. Who does the? Uh, the horse girl, horse girl racing game? Just because we just talked about one of their canceled games. Lost Order was supposed to be published under Cy Games. Who does the Horse Girl racing game?

Brandon Hurles: 58:57

Oh, for real On iOS.

Mark Trobough: 59:00

There was a closed beta in 2017, and then it was canceled after that and apparently they probably moved on. I just thought that was neat because I was scrolling through the page. That's funny.

Brandon Hurles: 59:10

So we got Cyberpunk 2077. Nintendo Switch 2 version has a unique Joy-Con feature. Will support motion controls on the Switch 2. Swinging one of the Joy-Con 2 controls around will be enough to control melee weapons. Gyro aiming is still unconfirmed and I do believe I take this with a grain of salt, but I do believe it also supports the mouse mode as well I could be wrong launch title.

Mark Trobough: 59:37

It wouldn't surprise me like I don't know head. They have to do that much more work. But it'd be a great major title to show off what the joy probably the best game that could do the joy cons and stuff like that yeah, because I really want to try out that mouse mode. So if it is a, uh, yeah it's the most realistic shooter to actually do that, not some some some demo. Essentially Right.

Brandon Hurles: 59:59

Yeah, welcome Thor. Yeah, right but switch two is the best way to play cyberpunk 2077 on the go, cdpr says.

Brandon Hurles: 1:00:12

I think it's the only way you can. They've never looked to go. Cdpr says I think it's the only way you can never look it up, it is the only way. Yeah, they never came out and said why, uh, they can't get it to run on the steam deck, but I do find it, you know, pretty curious that uh probably the same code we talked about last week, where they had to do a lot of extra play, a lot of extra work behind the scenes.

Mark Trobough: 1:00:24

I mean in the dlss, I think, had a lot to do with being able to make this run on switch 2 and and because steam deck doesn't offer that, I I feel like it just wasn't probably in the same vein they'd have to do a lot of work for probably not a lot of extra money, where with the switch 2 as one of the few launch title games they they probably see the opportunity to make a little, make more money than they would probably on steam yeah with the with the with the steam deck.

Mark Trobough: 1:00:46

Usually you're you already have the game, so you just transfer it over and play it on your Steam Deck.

Brandon Hurles: 1:00:51

I'm actually looking forward to replaying this again, because, since this is the complete edition, I actually am looking forward to playing it.

Mark Trobough: 1:00:58

It's got the DLC on I mean it's a good deal.

Brandon Hurles: 1:01:02

If you haven't played this before and you're getting a Switch 2, that's a good deal for the complete game and it runs well. You know you're not running 60, you're running 40 frames, but you can play it in 4K and it offers all these other different ways to play the game. It's a good way to be able to play the game, so I'm definitely looking forward to playing it again. It's been a hot minute since I've played it.

Mark Trobough: 1:01:29

Yeah, right, played it. So, yeah, right. Yeah, I mean, at this point, wait and see, I don't. I haven't made it my mind whether I'm gonna pick it up or not. That's just kind of like where I'm at with the game because I've already bought it. I've already bought it, I think. I think I've only bought it once on pc, but that's usually that's like what I'm used to playing it on. So, yeah, I mean, I don't know if I can make that, what this guy?

Brandon Hurles: 1:02:02

Okay, so we also got. Let's see here we got another, another Nintendo switch to game leaks via age rating.

Mark Trobough: 1:02:15

So that's what we got here? Yeah, because this one was a game that we have played before on stream. It was rumored to be Sparking Zero. That would be badass, based off of a spotty rate.

Brandon Hurles: 1:02:25

I would rebuy this game in a heartbeat if this came out on Switch 2.

Mark Trobough: 1:02:32

Yeah, I mean I'm not good at it, but it's a. It was a fun, fun fighting game to play yeah, it's really fun probably gonna be the the competitive dragonball game to play for a while yeah, for sure pretty good uh, pretty good in-depth fighting game. I'm not well versed on on fighting games, their complexities, but it seemed like a fairly enjoyable game that could be competitive yeah, yeah, I need to go back and play it again.

Brandon Hurles: 1:02:56

Uh, I I never got through and played everybody's story.

Mark Trobough: 1:03:00

I need to to pick it back up again, but uh obviously they've had a lot in the the characters, the diamond stuff.

Brandon Hurles: 1:03:06

Yeah, I haven't checked out any of the diamond stuff. I haven't bought any of the dlc yet, but I I need to get back.

Mark Trobough: 1:03:10

I mean, this is actually coming out probably a good good way to come back and revisit the game. Yeah you're not even true before then true, I guess the question is are you have to spend extra money or all these characters can be available to you when?

Mark Trobough: 1:03:22

yeah, my hope is that they're doing some sort of like complete edition for the switch to, and not just like all the dlc yeah, that would be great, then I would definitely buy it, for sure I guess it depends on, like how much more dlc do they have planned for this game? Then right, and if it, is coming out.

Mark Trobough: 1:03:35

Well, is it gonna be a lot? Paul? It's not, not gonna be a launch title but, like when it comes out by determine whether or not it'll have all the dlc in in for the game. It would be neat to see, uh, yeah, essentially new games more or less coming out on the switch, because I mean, this does come to the switch, probably comes out sometime in the fall. Holiday season makes sense. Yeah, it would be like about a year after when it came out. For everybody else, yeah, or is it two years? Uh, no, it'd be. Yeah, it came out before. Yeah, 2024. Yeah, I'd go back and double check. I can't remember.

Brandon Hurles: 1:04:10

Yeah, this would be awesome when it comes to Switch 2. It's good to see, for sure. And then we've got GameStop is actively investigating custom Switch 2 bundle situation. I actually saw the girl that posted about this and complained about it.

Mark Trobough: 1:04:29

I saw her tweet Was this the one where they were saying you have to buy this bundle. Yeah, she pre-ordered the Switch.

Brandon Hurles: 1:04:36

I wish I could remember her name so I could pull up the tweet, but she tweeted it and GameStop noticed it and basically they came out with how about it blew up online.

Mark Trobough: 1:04:44

It got a lot of traction. It got a lot of traction.

Brandon Hurles: 1:04:47

Yeah, but GameStop said no, you traction, it got a lot of traction. Yeah, but, like uh, gamestop said no, you do not have to do that to do the bundle situation and said they anybody who was trying to buy a switch to and couldn't because they were trying to make them bundle, they'll make it right and sell them a switch to, which is good on them for for doing that but I don't know how they they figure that out exactly.

Mark Trobough: 1:05:07

But yeah, yeah, I don't know how they figure it out exactly.

Brandon Hurles: 1:05:09

But yeah, yeah, I don't know how they figure it out either, but I mean, GameStop always tries to upsell you on everything, Like they've always done. That they're always, you know.

Mark Trobough: 1:05:20

But it's never been forced.

Brandon Hurles: 1:05:22

Never been forced.

Mark Trobough: 1:05:22

It was always an option.

Brandon Hurles: 1:05:27

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Mark Trobough: 1:05:29

You get a free magazine. Not that Screw the magazine, but I shop there enough where the rewards pays off for me in the end.

Brandon Hurles: 1:05:36

Now I don't have one anymore. Freaking sucks.

Mark Trobough: 1:05:40

You just gotta drive a little further away.

Brandon Hurles: 1:05:42

Yeah, it said. Gamestop is asking effective customers to send DMs regarding custom bundle issues.

Mark Trobough: 1:05:53

Hopefully, whoever was doing doing that, you know, gets the axe. Yeah, that that is.

Brandon Hurles: 1:05:56

That is really scummy and by the axe I mean the head chopped off good old french revolution stuff all right, so, uh, into some of the bigger news. We got a couple of things here left. We got GTA 6 is now delayed to May 26, 2026. I mean, I could have seen this.

Mark Trobough: 1:06:19

Yeah, so it looks like about a six month pushback? Yeah, about six months, yeah, which I don't know how long they've actually been working on this game. I mean to be fair, like if you announced it for 2025, shouldn't it have already been more or less done? Like I don't? I don't kind of confused on why they would have done this, or do they? They announce it like it's been like how long since five came out, like a decade, decade plus it came out on the ps3.

Brandon Hurles: 1:06:46

I don't know. It's been out.

Mark Trobough: 1:06:47

It's been out for way too long. I thought it came like 2013 or something like that, something like that, yeah it feels like it's been out way too long to be like bro. You've had like a decade to work on this game yeah, it's crazy.

Brandon Hurles: 1:06:59

Um I could. I I saw this happening for sure.

Mark Trobough: 1:07:04

Um, yeah, yeah, because it pushed back out to to may of 26, so you have like a whole other. It's not even. You have over a year now before the game comes out. Like what A year? And like three weeks at this point? Yeah, it's only May 2nd now.

Brandon Hurles: 1:07:23

Yeah, it's still got a while.

Mark Trobough: 1:07:24

Instead of, like, six months, you have a whole year.

Brandon Hurles: 1:07:26

The way that I see it is. I'd rather a game get delayed than pushed out and be crappy. You know what I mean.

Mark Trobough: 1:07:33

There's enough games to play, yeah, but if they're delaying this game by six months, it makes you ask questions like what's really going on? Were you not essentially ready for this game to come out when you announced it? Did you announce it too early?

Brandon Hurles: 1:07:44

Good point. I mean, you know it's hard to tell. Haven't you been working on the game for 15 years? Yeah right, oh my gosh, it's been 75 years or whatever. This one was crazy. That came out today. I was like whoa, this took my breath away for a minute when I saw it. But apparently a Chrono Trigger remake may have accidentally got leaked and this was really interesting. It says if that is true, that's insane.

Mark Trobough: 1:08:20

Arguably one of the best RPGs or JRPGs to ever exist.

Brandon Hurles: 1:08:24

I would say the best. In my opinion. I think it is the best, but developer Yuji hori allegedly mentioned the game during a comic-con panel. Uh, fans should keep in mind that it's possible. This is all a misunderstanding.

Mark Trobough: 1:08:38

This translation is always possible.

Brandon Hurles: 1:08:40

Yeah, it's possible. But, man, I really, truly hope that this is the case, because we did get the ds remake but unfortunately it just like wasn't the best remake of the game. It just didn't.

Mark Trobough: 1:08:52

It wasn't as good as the original game yeah, and I thought the version that's on steam it's either the ds or the mobile version that was ported over I think it's the mobile version, which is also kind of shoddy.

Brandon Hurles: 1:09:03

And yeah, it's not the, not the, not the ideal way to play. But uh, yeah, I said chrono triggers forward to pc in 2018, but it's been dormant ever since. In the meantime, squaring nicks has been reviving some of the classic jrpgs through remasters and remakes, and I mean this is the perfect time for like, uh, like, a remake would be great but like I went from the ground up, do a final, essentially what they did for final fantasy 7.

Mark Trobough: 1:09:27

Maybe I don't. I don't want it in like three or four different games, I want it in one game, in one go, but like that level of quality of a remake.

Brandon Hurles: 1:09:34

But what I was in is like I would love to see a remake. For sure, I would love to see that quality of a remake, but I would even be happy with getting like a remaster, the way they did with, like, the lunar collection and like the hd 2d version essentially yeah and like yeah yeah, I would like that, but I also would be like I really wouldn't mind this being the full.

Mark Trobough: 1:09:53

I would like a full remake as well.

Brandon Hurles: 1:09:56

I would like a full remake treatment too, but I wouldn't be mad if we ended up just getting like the remaster treatment. But, like I said, a remake would be pretty badass.

Mark Trobough: 1:10:07

I'm curious if you're going to remake this like and say you're actually.

Brandon Hurles: 1:10:12

This just prints money. I don't know why you wouldn't do it.

Mark Trobough: 1:10:14

I think this has arguably got one of the. It's probably my top 10 as far as the best soundtracks to a video game ever.

Brandon Hurles: 1:10:22

It has an amazing OST I've got on vinyl.

Mark Trobough: 1:10:27

On the original hardware too. It's just amazing what they did with that quality of sound card.

Brandon Hurles: 1:10:32

I have this on vinyl and CD, the soundtrack. I love it. It's just so classic, man. It's one of those ones I really will just throw on just to listen to. I love listening to video game soundtracks.

Mark Trobough: 1:10:47

A lot of games have forgettable soundtracks, but this is one of those games. I think for me it's also on par with uh uh, not the, the uh stellar blade.

Brandon Hurles: 1:10:59

I absolutely love the soundtrack yeah, that's a good soundtrack too, for sure, all right. And then for our last thing, uh, which has raised a lot of controversy uh, recently we've got uh xbox announces price increase for games and consoles.

Brandon Hurles: 1:11:15

So they pretty much a lot of people talking yeah, it's uh a lot of people talking here trying to figure out you know what, what's xbox doing exactly? Because, uh, you know, it seems that they it just doesn't make sense because the Xbox is already not selling, so I don't quite understand what their thinking is here, but I'll share.

Mark Trobough: 1:11:42

They can't afford to have their profit margin shrunk at all. That's what's happening here.

Brandon Hurles: 1:11:47

So, right here, they got xbox price hikes in may 2025. So if you want to get it, get it now, uh. But the elite wireless controller series 2 core will be going up ten dollars. The wireless controller series 2 full will be going up uh, twenty dollars. The series s 512 gigabyte will be going up to $379. Series S 1 terabyte $429. Series X digital $549. Regular Series X will be going up to $600. Series X 2 terabyte. Galaxy Special Edition will be $729 was originally $599.

Brandon Hurles: 1:12:26

Xbox stereo headset $6499. Wireless headset $119. Wireless controller core $64.99. Controller collar $69.99. Controller special edition $79.99. Limited edition $89.99. Everything is going up in price. You can expect that, probably for the games as well, to be hitting probably the $80 price tag is my assumption. So it does say starting holiday 2025 new Xbox first party game prices will rise to $80, in line with some of the Nintendo Switch 2 titles, and really it's only just one title that we know about that's the $80, which is Mario Kart World. But yeah, I mean I expect all these companies to follow suit. I mean, I already saw it coming anyway, to be honest with you, that this was going to happen. Regardless of whether Nintendo priced Mario Kart at $80 or not, this would have happened regardless. I mean, it just would have.

Mark Trobough: 1:13:30

No, I agree, but I mean it just would have. So no, I, I agree, but I mean it just feels like god, come on. Nintendo is like now we're not going to increase our price. Xbox is like nah, jack that up like a hundred dollars yeah, I mean it's like uh, what exclusives do you got?

Brandon Hurles: 1:13:43

like, uh, what do you got to?

Mark Trobough: 1:13:45

offer with your hardware, like what's the benefit of getting it on your xbox versus getting on a tv or a pc or a milk carton, because game pass is on literally everything at this point yeah, it's on everything I'm surprised it's on the switch yet yeah, yeah, I mean I I don't know what they're thinking, because they're already not selling the hardware, so it's like increasing the price, you're gonna sell less hardware yeah.

Brandon Hurles: 1:14:09

I just don't quite understand. And we're only two years out from the new platform, so it's like you know. Here's a great question. Mark, I want to ask you your honest opinion. So, PS6, we know you're two years away. Whatever the next Xbox is, what do you see the MSRP being for the PS6?

Mark Trobough: 1:14:30

I don't know At least $700 at this point. I think it's going to be the price tag where it's going to be like? Is it really worth the money to upgrade at launch?

Brandon Hurles: 1:14:44

I mean it's a great question. I think it's going to be $800, but yeah, it's not going to be cheap.

Mark Trobough: 1:14:51

They're essentially building a mid-to-low tier PC. They're essentially building a mid-tier PC, I mean.

Brandon Hurles: 1:14:58

I see us getting to the point of $1,000 consoles, because if you look at the PC space, right like $1,000 spending on a PC is absolutely nothing, Right you?

Mark Trobough: 1:15:08

see money on just a graphics card. It's like it's like a mid tier, like a lower, like a lower and mid-tier pc yeah, yeah, I mean it's. It's not getting you far, like if you spend 12 to 1500 on a pc, depending on if you can find sales. That's about a mid-range pc right there. Yeah, you know it does about. About the 1440p pretty well.

Brandon Hurles: 1:15:30

Yeah, if you want 4k, you're going to spend closer to 2000 on a pc but considering you know these, these consoles are, their big push is pushing 4k and and all that stuff, it's like I could see us hitting the thousand dollar price point on a console, and not it's sometime in the near future. I mean, I I see the ps6 probably being like 800, but to me, honestly, at this point I wouldn't be shocked if it was a thousand yeah, I really wouldn't this increase five pro is 700, right, so like and that that that was marked when it came out like what, like who's paying for that?

Brandon Hurles: 1:16:07

yeah, it's, it's. I just I I don't even know like where gaming is going at this point, like it's all crazy, it's going to be less.

Mark Trobough: 1:16:14

There's just going to be less people that upgrade and it's, I think, financially it's going to start backfiring because, well, people aren't going to, aren't going to spend $800 on a console.

Brandon Hurles: 1:16:21

We say that point. You're about all the people that said happen.

Mark Trobough: 1:16:33

The game price but like 450 is far more as before is a far more affordable and it's a very fair price, I think, especially what you're getting, the upgrade, because that's usually what you were used to for modern, you know, console hardware essentially.

Mark Trobough: 1:16:46

Uh, and it's it. Yeah, it lags behind, but like I think it just means if you have to get a console, well, the switch is like by far the cheapest thing on the market. So, yeah, the switch too. I think it'll just help the switch too for for quite a while if it's going to be that expensive, because at that point you're better off spending 800 and just getting a, a lower tier in pc. At that point, yeah, i're probably going to get equivalent performance.

Brandon Hurles: 1:17:10

Yeah, I definitely recommend PC nowadays If you can save up. Buy one part at a time, save up for it. Just buy one part at a time and eventually you get to put it together.

Mark Trobough: 1:17:21

Because, especially with all the Xbox game passes on PC, you're starting to get Microsoft or Sony games on the PC Steam sales. It's like you can get all of them everything but a Nintendo game all in one place, more or less on a PC, and the hardware is expensive. Like you said, if you use Steam, the hardware is the expensive part. You can get games dirt cheap if you're willing to buy them on a sale and stuff like that.

Brandon Hurles: 1:17:40

Yep, yep, cheap games on Go If you're willing to wait like a year or two of the games you can get it for like half price or something like that.

Mark Trobough: 1:17:47

Like, yeah, it's got arguably got the biggest digital library out there. So, yeah, I mean it's pro, it's it's pro and con it is. I do think this could potentially help help the switch to as long as they don't they don't increase the price down the road. Uh, yeah, for sure. I did see something funny that I wanted to bring up. There's like two different things I saw about the uh, uh, about gta 6, that I thought was actually kind of funny. Uh, so this first one, uh, essentially I don't know why, I just I bookmarked these. I was like I should probably bring them up. Uh, every other, every other game seen GTA 6, uh, is delayed to 2026, meaning they actually have a chance at winning game. Yes, hell yeah hey, come Hell.

Brandon Hurles: 1:18:28

Yeah, hey, come on, baby, come on. Yes, come on, ah yeah.

Mark Trobough: 1:18:35

You can't tell me. That's not accurate, because if GTA 6 is going, whatever year it releases, it's winning game of the year. Yeah, there's no doubt about it that game will print money and you know it's just going to win.

Brandon Hurles: 1:18:46

Yeah, it's like it's there's no competition.

Mark Trobough: 1:18:52

no, it's definitely gonna win for sure as well as uh, I guess, if you want to, if you want to crap on them, uh, oh, hang on. Let me bring it back up. I had this one as well, where the uh this is posted over on on twitter with video game history, where the ps2 had three GTAs, where GTA 5 had three PlayStations. It's ridiculous how long we were just talking about this, how long GTA 5 has been around.

Brandon Hurles: 1:19:18

I know it's crazy, man, it's crazy. I miss the days of like San Andreas and Vice City that were like you didn't need these big $200 million games.

Mark Trobough: 1:19:29

I prefer those games over, like four or five, like I thought they were better games In my opinion you get like small little spinoffs, like on the DS or something like that, like you don't always need to spend 10 years making this massive game. You can make smaller scale games that are far more affordable and put them out to, like you know, the fans. But obviously GTA online came out and it was just print money. So it's like, well, what's the point of making a new game? We just just sit back and make money. It's what it's what valve does with steam. It's why you're not getting any other half-life games, because I'm like, right, right, why they just make? They just sit back and just print money with that, with that platform. Why? Why make another orange box?

Brandon Hurles: 1:20:04

essentially, yeah, pretty much, pretty much, but I think it's uh, I think it's all we got for this week.

Mark Trobough: 1:20:09

Appreciate everybody watching and listening. Good stuff to talk about, but also I guess one of the first time in a while was pretty light.

Brandon Hurles: 1:20:17

Yeah, I mean, which is a good thing? I mean, we usually got.

Mark Trobough: 1:20:21

Every week was going to be like a big week.

Brandon Hurles: 1:20:24

Yeah, I think we did pretty good for this week. We had some fun things to show off and and some interesting stuff to talk about, so not too bad.

Mark Trobough: 1:20:33

I'm trying to save up money for his uh, uh, whatever the um for his evie plushie no, I see the prices.

Brandon Hurles: 1:20:45

I cannot believe that guys, I'm just gonna. Only you were trying to tell me that those were like 30 and then they're like 300 I'm sorry.

Mark Trobough: 1:20:54

The one thing that I was reading was giving me bad stuff like that's not the life.

Brandon Hurles: 1:20:57

Yeah right, I was about that's not right. I was about to say like 30 bucks, that was that was.

Mark Trobough: 1:21:01

That was the information I was reading was like. I was like like that's kind of sus for like the, maybe the small ones you hold in your hand yeah, three hundred dollars I'm just saying yeah, life-size gardevoir. Now you've got life-size vaporeon.

Brandon Hurles: 1:21:15

I'm just saying uh, mr pokemon batman no laws mr coffee asked the last minute question. He said do you think the reason for the delay is rockstar does not think it will sell enough on console, only so delay it for a year release on console and pc at the same time?

Mark Trobough: 1:21:32

I think it's a possibility.

Brandon Hurles: 1:21:33

It's a possibility, yeah.

Mark Trobough: 1:21:35

I wasn't even thinking about that. I forgot it was only going to release on console first, which, to me, baffles me. Why not have it release across the board at launch?

Brandon Hurles: 1:21:43

Yeah, I mean it very well, could be the reason it's possible.

Mark Trobough: 1:21:51

I'm sure we'll find out, is the? Is the, you know a?

Mark Trobough: 1:21:52

lot of people are going to want to play on pc because of the mods, so modding is probably just usually most games, if optimized correctly, generally just run and perform better on pc because you're just going to have, if you have a good, decent pc, you just have better hardware essentially so you could run it better on it 4k, higher frame rates and stuff like that. But right, yeah, I don't. I was shocked when it wasn't going to release across the board all at once. Or do you think there's like, oh, they're going to delay it a year and they're going to give us a switch?

Brandon Hurles: 1:22:22

Well, my, my thought was that they had some Exclusivity limited deal with PlayStation or release it on their platform first, for like the first six months.

Mark Trobough: 1:22:31

That's what I they're they're going to make. They don't need the, they don't need it Money. They don't. They definitely don't need it.

Brandon Hurles: 1:22:37

It's just what I thought at first. So I mean it's hard to tell what what the game plan is, but if they release in console PC at the same, that'd be a good move.

Mark Trobough: 1:22:47

I think it makes the most sense.

Brandon Hurles: 1:22:48

Yeah, for sure. But yeah, we have. We appreciate everybody watching, listening, everybody on the audio platforms. Definitely leave us a review, a like, follow, subscribe or whatever the platform allows, and definitely check us out over on the YouTube youtubecom slash at game junction media. We are live on the podcast every single Friday, 8 PM Eastern Standard Time. Then we also stream a game every single Saturday at 8 pm Eastern Standard Time. Do we know what we're streaming tomorrow, mark? Are we doing Schedule 1 again?

Brandon Hurles: 1:23:20

I don't think we determined what we were streaming. Yet Do you want to do Schedule 1 again? I mean we can. Yeah, let's just do Schedule 1 again. It was pretty fun. Yeah, I had a good time with it, so we'll do that. Uh, yeah, it'll be a good time and it's getting me adjusted to the mouse and keyboard control.

Mark Trobough: 1:23:35

So I mean, it's not that, it's not that hard, you just need to. You need to force yourself. You say that, but I've been using the controller my whole life yeah, that's the. That's the problem. You have to force yourself to get used to the keyboard and mouse so you can realize how superior it is to a controller.

Brandon Hurles: 1:23:49

All right, whatever you say, well, hope to see you all tomorrow as we stream Schedule 1. Like I said, 8 pm Eastern Standard Time for any of those that are watching live or watching this video after, and then if you are listening on any of the audio platforms, definitely check out the YouTube. We got all kinds of content there. We'll see you all later. Have a good one, guys. Peace out everybody.