Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - Roger's 2025 Video Game Predictions: Month By Month - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Episode Date: January 8, 2025

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What's up and welcome back to the Kind of Funny Games cast for Tuesday, January 7th, 2025. Of course, I'm your host, Tim Geddes. I'm joined today by Blessing at Ae Oye Jr. Ah, morning. Ah, good morning. Greg Miller. So, Nintendo Platinum points, they're not the same as the gold coins I can use to buy games, right? The platinum points I just used to buy little Luigi's here?

What do I do with these Luigi's? He's only little Guibi points by Luigi's. Like, can I change my icon to him as the Ghostbuster or no? What is this? Probably. I'll spend the ten and see what happens. It's a Luigi's Mansion to HD character for 10 points. I got it.

They got it. It's a big tag. You used the great icon. They're redeemable. These icons were used making that random. You can select it yourself. Do you want to show the camera behind you? Stalks all of us at the seat time.

Show your DMs. Show you. Absolutely no time Absolutely no time for what was about to happen Why are you doing that at work? Because they can Because they won't stop me I hope I didn't have anything on there

Andy had his DMs open, who knows He had all of his DMs open Yeah, it's like, you know, we'd click Cabbage of his society You're gonna see it, Zah! All right, sorry, I'm glad I didn't have slack open And round it out the group today.

the man of the hour, Roger Percorny. Roger, how are you feeling? I'm a little nervous about this episode. This was, you know, it's supposed to be a collaborative episode. It's supposed to be, hey, here's a good idea. But then now it's going to turn into Roger sucks. You know what I mean? Fucking Roger. I'm excited.

We made it an attack. Yeah, for real. Maybe. Or maybe he's brilliant. Maybe he's a genius. Maybe I'm cooking. Maybe. Because here's what we're doing today, everybody. Roger came to us with a rather fantastic idea.

Thank you. For us to come up with a prediction for every month. month of 2025 in video games. And so we were going to do that. But then when he pitched that, he's like, hey, guys, it's a good idea. I'm putting it on the calendar. Greg and I were like, we've done this so many times. There is no

way we can get a kind of funny games cast done where each one of us is giving 12 predictions. That would last 10 days. Andy wouldn't do it. It'd be a whole thing, okay? Oh, I'd forget about it. So then we kind of dialed it back to okay, let's just come up with one prediction

for each month. And if we all kind of put a prediction in. We can work together to come up with one list. But then, Roger, I went to go put some predictions in. I saw Roger had a prediction for every month prepped. Yeah, I had it all prepped because over the break, I had this idea for a video. It's based off of, I don't know if you guys remember this, people would do this on Twitter for the last decade where it would be like, here's my list in the notes app. There would be a screenshot of like every month, here's like a wild prediction. It'd be like October the queen dies. You know what I mean? Like some insane shit. So I was like, let me do my type of vibe with that. No one dies on

list, but there's some wild ones. Not yet, not yet. But some wild ones there. So I'm excited to get through it. So that was, I had it all prepped. And then I was like, I didn't get to record the video or edited or anything. So I was like, let me just put this out to the Gamescast Slack. So then when Greg made that document, I put it all in there

and some good stuff there. So I saw it and I glanced at one or two of it and I'm like, oh, this is the show. Like, we just need to look at Rogers' list and talk about it. Because like, it's going to be, this is going to be a lot of fun. A lot of people could take a lesson from you and stop trying to make content outside and Just make it content here. Exactly.

Just let us own it and monetize it all. Yeah. Andy. Christmas jumpers for us, you know. Make all the new jumpers. You make us one zies. This is the kind of funny games cast. Each and every weekday,

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A little housekeeping for you. got our Last of Us season two trailer reactions on Games Daily. That was me, bless, and Greg, all reacting to the trailer. The Steam after this will be an exclusive look at Freedom Wars remastered. Greg, you want to talk about that? Yeah, they said, who's the biggest Freedom Wars fan alive? And it was, oh, it's Greg Miller. And so they said, you know what? You can stream this game before anybody else. And I said, thank you, I will. We're to do that today. You excited? Can't wait. Yeah, it's going to be me. It's me playing from the beginning. Mike there asking me questions about Freedom Wars,

all my memories of it. Because, I mean, if it's been 10 years of kind of funny, I mean, it's been 10 years of freedom. I think it was a 2014, yeah, Colin review that when we started that when we were still at ICN. Wow, wow. That was, man, oh my gosh. I just remember being in unity, making a little shield with Zebras, listening to Colin and Greg

talk about Freedom Wars. Yeah. I don't ever play that. I'm never going to get that. I'm fucking crazy. Yeah, I didn't even have a video yet. I have an issue, Tim. Hit me. God dang Ben Starr's freaking boss in Hades is so hard. Yeah. I don't know what this dude is doing.

He's just doing weird waves of attacks. I don't know what the throwing a bird at you. Like, I don't know what the fuck this guy's doing, man. Have you thought about getting good? Ooh, wow. Have you thought about it? I think you might be washed.

Maybe you're, maybe. Don't ever say that. Could you imagine? Like, Andy losing it. Like, the next Ellen Ring game comes out. He's just like, I can't get past the third boss. This might be the moment where you just make the review. Take it back, dude.

Don't ever say that. That's crazy. I don't know. It's like Spider-Man, too. Remember when he heard his back? And he couldn't swing. And he had to go to the doctor and it was like, you're going to start dancing. Yeah, exactly. No, that was three. Yeah. Yeah. I'm like Mickey Rourke right now in the wrestler. Yeah. Oh, I was thinking Iron Man too. We're listening to your heart. I don't want to get, I just want to. Like Superman and Batman v. Superman. Oh, my gosh. He said you are my world. Fluid news. He was so weak, but he had to do it.

Why do you have something for every situation? Because it's always different. I do think about this often. It's always different. I do think about this often. I get older of like, what if my, what if I can't play fighting games anymore, like on the level that I want to play them? Like, what if like, I don't know, I get like a finger thing. A finger thing.

Yeah, of course. I hate the finger thing. Bless, it's not your day. This game's daily. Bless is really getting beat down. Oh, shucks. Uh, Raj. I only want a yes or no from this.

Yes. And I'm going to learn a lot about you. Is Spider-Man 3 your favorite of the original three? Oh, that is a great question. I did get in trouble in school, because I was like, it was like maybe fourth grade or third grade when that movie came out. I don't know what year that kid's. Let me know in the chat.

But I was like third grade or something like that. And then I remember, I think it was, uh, Harry Osborne says like the word shit or something like that. I remember whispering in my-strawberry pie. And I whispered in my friend's ear and then like, I thought he was cool. And then he says, he said shit. I'm like, bro. Bro, come on.

Come on. Bro, come on, bro. It's fucked up. 2007, so I was eight. I was eight years ago. I'll never forget about three different things that Roger was talking about in succession within a span of like five minutes of him being like, no, this place is good. Well, it's not good, but like, you know, I like it. And then he talked about a movie and he was like, no, no, no, the movie's like bad. But like, bad. But like, I enjoy it. And I was like, Roger, I don't know if you like anything good. he was just He's like, no, no, no, those bagel things that we get from there? No, no, no, like, they're bad for sure, but like, I like them. Yeah, yeah.

That's most, see, I find the joy and the bad things in life, right? Like, I love Madam Webb. What did you say yesterday after we watch Raw? Oh, what did I say? So you'll never watch wrestling with a live chat again. Oh, yeah, that was the worst experience ever. Roger, I thought about this a lot, though, last night, because I know we had a follow-up conversation about it, and you're like, you were getting upset to the chat was like, you know,

just harsh in your vibe. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The chat's just like, oh, man. man, that was stiff. I'm like, I don't fucking know. So I was thinking about this whole time. Stiff is like a wrestling. Yeah.

They're hurting. Yeah, I understand. Like, where it looks like, yeah. But like, it's still like, I don't know. You know what I mean? I don't want to hear that. That's true. You think, though, how much they didn't like each other.

That's true. Exactly. I don't want to hear about it. I didn't like how audible they were. What? Yeah, I saw you tweet about that. I didn't understand it. They were like, you don't like they were hurt?

They were 15% too audible. No, I think that's because of like, WrestleMania. They started doing that. Bodie and it was like because they were expecting a little bit more of that and they just I'm used to like watching a wrestling match and hearing like oh this is my play you know you know off the mic right but this was like a little too it's like they were almost miced like they just had boom dudes like boom mics like pointing right at him but a little too much

because I'll just be like you see this I built this place and like they're all and it's like Roman Raines you need more or uh fucking Seth yeah Seth Rons you need more hair grease like your hair is just kind of more It was all fluffy. You need a grease, man. Got a lot of issues. He didn't look like he got out of the shower. Like he usually does, you know?

Yeah, that's sure. Thank you to our Patreon producers, Delaney Twining and Carl Jacobs. Today are brought to you by Rocky Money, but we'll tell you all about that later. Time for the topic of the show. Tots, Tots, Tats, Tots, Tots. 2025 video game predictions month by month by Roger. Jesus. Nostrom ominous.

Do you want me to go month by month? and we start with January and then I... Because I have, I have like an expanded version of the document that you have, right? What does that even mean? I have one that has more detail for everything. I thought... Okay, well, yeah, yeah, no, I'll be the prediction. And then we will judge.

Rod Stradamus. God forbid you're like this. Just go home, come up with a great idea. Don't do it on your channel. Come on do it for us. Roger, what kind of do it for us? Are you talking about the contenders? Put your face on the bits for us.

You know what I mean? He does so much for us. Also, I had all the attentions to do it for my personal channel. You stream at home too. Yeah, but then you got wise. You're doing home too. Just think about it. Next time you go to hit that button, you're like, maybe I should go to bed at 6.30.

Wake up, refresh for kind of funny. You know what I mean? I'm going to be up my stream. I have 30 viewers last night. Watch me play magic. January 2025. The month that we are in right now, Roger, what's going to happen? Uh, Rajas Dajamas says, of course.

Switch to was announced. But I got to add a little bit of fun here. I had a little bit of fun here. I did see, this is a lot of the stuff is based off of gaming leaks and rumors. You all see the stuff, but I'm going to take it a little bit further.

I saw something that said that, Fidel Castro. Ferell, Ferell Williams's company is working on like the, the song for the commercial of the reveal of the Switch 2. I think that's probably true. That sounds fun.

That sounds like that. And I also saw that Sabrina Carpenter was potentially part of this. So my prediction here, This is all stuff you know. This is all rumor you've heard. She references Nintendo in the hit song Espresso. Exactly. So I think references a lot of other things Nintendo's that want to be connected to.

Yeah, but she's part of Dunkin' Donuts now and they're a wholesome brand. So like, you know, Nintendo will want to pick her up. Yeah, exactly. So my idea is in the trailer, you know, you're going to have the generic thing of everyone playing, playing the Switch, walking around, they're on the rooftop, you know, doing that thing. But she's going to be on stage. Maybe you're going to have the cut of like a fan in the audio or in line playing the Switch. they're in the audience

oh my gosh Sabrina Carpenter she's singing she's doing her thing she gets off stage and she's tired right she's tired she goes to her green room she sits down and she picks up her switch puts up her switch she's playing it and she's like you know what presses the C button which is that extra button that they have

connects to the dock wirelessly it's a cast button it's a cast button it's a cast button it's a cast button and wirelessly she can now connect to the dock and she's playing her switch on the TV so I think that is the the fun feature, the fun hardware feature that Nintendo is adding to the Switch to make it a little different.

That goes hard. Yeah, I like that idea. The more I think about it, the more it makes sense. It is connecting to the Wii U. I don't know what the screen does. Maybe it just goes black. Maybe some games actually have some features. But I think that that is a compelling argument for a Switch to,

being able to sit there, not even have to worry about the doc. You just press a button, boom, it's on the TV. It's him. Yeah. I know it's insane to say. Right? Obviously, Switch one. I think.

took the sins of the Wii and made them right. What if, based on what Roger's saying, Switch 2 takes even more of those sins and makes them right, right? What if it is like a dual screen experience? What if you are like, okay, cool, you could do the touchscreen shit on your Switch 2,

but then, yeah, while you're casting to your TV, like that gives you unique features. Yeah. Bringing the 3DS back essentially in a way. I mean, dual screen experience. I mean, I think it's less 3DS, but DS, right? Opening up the world to the DS being

on Nintendo Switch online. I'm right there with you. I think that this is a lock. Like I think that what's a lock? A lock. Wow. The one thing that I don't know is lock is it January. Or Sabrina Carpenter. Like I do, I think it's January.

I do. Yeah. But no, Sabrina, all that stuff, I believe. Yeah, that sounds right. Honestly. I really, really believe the details of the, the, her actually doing it. I don't know about that. They're really kicking Brie Larson to the curb like that.

Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Yes. After the marvels. After the marvels. They're giving in to the fucking. Anti-Woke crowd.

Yeah. Yeah. In 2025. Sabrina Carpenter higher on the tone pole. than Brie Larson, I'm sorry? Yeah, Braylinson has had quite the fall. You know what I mean? In terms of her stock.

Right now, if you want to speak to America, you get Sabrina Carpenter. I'm not even saying you're wrong. I'm just hurt by it. Like, I don't like this truth. You're not on the Sabrina Carpenter? No, I love Sabrina Carpenter. I'm just like, it hurts my heart that Brie Larson is being done dirty this way. I agree.

In the video. She's not done dirty. She had a moment. She's like, Brie, do you want to play? Just kidding. By Nintendo? By the world. By the insels.

Yeah. She's being done incredibly, incredibly dirty. Brie Larson. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I would put her on the top 10 list of like, she does not deserve the show.

Yeah, pretty much, straight up. But yeah, no, I think that Sabrina Carpenter and Farrell to some extent are involved in the... Ferell himself is in the two

or is he just gone off. The production to, like the music. Ferell better stay out of it. He had his moment. He had the big hat moment. He had the big hat moment.

He had the Robin thick moment. And he had the... Robin thick moment. He had his moments. He doesn't need to be in the Nintendo thing. Yes, he does. Ben doesn't know for... Ben doesn't know Farrell.

He can. He will. He will. Because of happy? Because of everything he's ever done and will continue to do. He's always been rolling. It's time to go behind the scenes, Farrell. Nobody wants you up front anymore.

All right? Nobody wants you in front of it. He's always kind of behind the scenes. He better fucking stay there. He had the Twitch commercial. If we're watching a reacts and it's fucking. Sabrina Carbone and cast it away

and Farrell pop his giant fucking hat in there I'm out I personally I don't think Ferrell appears in the commercial I think he produces some kind of

like the Switch 2 jingle I could easily see it being produced like forrel so much I'm sick of seeing him he's crying he's got too much he should be

you know I think his hat is no because just be clear that's not the big hat no I'm sorry what why did I

because he was crying okay yeah he's crying We love Ferrell. I mean, it's constantly 25. Yeah. But no, I think you're right. But I do also, I do.

And you're all right? This is a great podcast. We're back. Andy, you okay? Ellen is fine. I definitely saw whatever comment made you go, but I forgot it. No, it wasn't even a comment. I just had an ice.

cube like go to the back of my throat I had a panic moment holy shit I think that it will cast and I think it'll cast wirelessly so Rod you think you're absolutely right there I'm just unclear as to what is going to be on the screen so everyone explain this to me then because you know me

I don't keep up with Nintendo rumors as much because he seems like in the weeds rumors more than like something we would cover on games daily for the cast it's going to cast to the dock not the TV and would there not be latency because it's going to the dock is the idea Yeah, there will be. I mean, that's just, you know, cloud stuff has gotten so good. Like, this will all be dependent on your Wi-Fi network and everything.

But, like, we're out of place where this is a normal thing. So it'd be using Wi-Fi to connect to the dock. It might have its own chip, right? Like, there's ways you can get around this. But even through Wi-Fi, like, I use my Xbox and I do the, like, the local remote player or whatever. I do that, too. Yeah, but, like, I use it as a controller sometimes where I'm desperate. Like, there was one moment where I was at back home and I didn't have a controller, it was dead or something.

And I used, like, my Steam Deck as a controller. And I was like, this works perfectly. Like you can easily do this. I view it as a proprietary thing where it's almost like PlayStation Link where it is like their own proprietary technology that allows casting. And like obviously with anything, there's always going to be latency. But I think when you have it as an in-house thing, like, hey, this is a Nintendo product. It's only talking to that thing.

It is only talking to that thing. Like you're going to have like such a low amount of latency that it might not even matter. Yeah. I think it's going to work. Like I don't think it's going to be like the work as well. And you hear the sound effect like that that just is such a, yeah, it makes too much. There's going to be a cute little feedback on the. screen that like, you see like the screen

like that kind of flashed. Yeah, you guys, it would be like, Hey, I'm for real, you're doing it wildest, bye. You all want, huh? That's what for a real world you all want. But Greg, to go deeper into your question about, like, where this is coming from, a lot of the leaked images of what the joycons might look like, at this point, leaked images of what the joycons might actually freaking be. In the last week or two, I feel like things

have went from diagrams to like, in hand, but there is a mysterious button on it. Oh, no, I've seen that. I know that. I've heard, I haven't had a conversation with anyone about what the C means. So I was just wondering how the casting. I mean, if the C is a camera, then I changed my prediction, where they're recording Sabrina Carpenter in the crowd.

Because that is kind of a meme, right, using Nintendo products as like. That was a channel. Yeah, exactly. She saw that in the crowd. You bitch, are you using it in D.S? Sabrina herself, like, there's the picture of her with, I forget what guy it was. It was before, um, Barry. Um, rap boy.

We call him a different rap boy. Uh, they were chilling there. And he had his, like, they were playing DS. Oh, that's cute. Okay. So, like, there's lineage here for sure. I like that. So, yeah, the wireless doc stuff, I believe it.

Let's talk January. Do you ever think about him? No, let's talk January. Carpenter hit her up. Or switch. I think there's a good chance. There have been, see, this is one of those things where the rumor mill

for the switch two has gone so deep that I don't even know where we're at with anything anymore. But I remember there being talks of like a switch to announcement happening in January. I don't know if I stand by that as far as the legitimacy of it, but I think if we're talking about what makes sense,

I think a January reveal for it could make sense in the coming weeks. But honestly, I can probably say that about any month. That's the thing about it where it's at this point, you've all been waiting so long for this and thinking it's around the corner for so long that it has to be around the corner. So yeah, January makes sense. I just feel like the rumor right was that you remember

where you're coming up on kind of funny day. There was this rumor suddenly of like, well, the intent is going to want to do it immediately. They want to get it done as fast as possible. Like, okay, well, is that actually happening on the third when we come back? or now we're here in this week, are we gonna hear something about it? This has to be the year for a shovel night

or for a fucking hollow night silk song, right? Like that's what we're at with, which news I think, like I would dollars to donuts, Greg. Those Pop-Tart donuts out there that I just bought. How were they? They looked at it. Did anyone have the small Pop-Tart on top of it?

No. No, I looked at it. Let's all cut into force. I know it's okay to cut a donut up, but you cut a tip of a pizza off here. No, no, we're not doing this. He cut out of, he fucking bought tacos. All right?

Stay out of my pizza box, you reckon. They weren't good. They weren't good. The brittals weren't good. We traditionally get a Nintendo direct in January or February. And normally February, I would say, we get more of them. So with that, I feel like we will assuredly get something on the Switch to. It's not a direct though, right? Like, it's just like 24 hours ahead of time, like, see the future of Nintendo tomorrow. But my point is, I don't think we see another direct without knowing about the Switch 2. Because I do not think we get another direct that's like, we will not be talking about the Switch 2.

I think the next direct we're talking about the switch too. So I think January could make a lot of sense for a February direct that shows a lot more things. Although I do think that it wouldn't be a direct. I think whatever their follow-up thing is going to be like what they did in January 2017 for showing off everything. Honestly, you saying that would make me think because I don't think we, here's the thing. I don't think our first showing of the switch two is a like sit down event like hour long thing. I think they have to lead off with a commercial. I think they have to lead off with something that is two minutes long that everybody sees.

You can push to the world, right? Like, you have to go for the mass audience with your first foot, right? And then you follow up with the hour long thing. Or like the more detailed, here are all the games, here's all this shit. And they're different presentations? Yeah, I think for sure they're different things. That's what they did with the Switch 1. Yeah, that is true.

Commercial in October, presentation, January, launch in March. So I can see commercial January and then to Tim's point of like the February director or whatever, right? Like, I'm with you that you don't get to a direct without. having the switch to announced already. So yeah, like, I think January commercial, February presentation, not even to direct, it's a presentation. Okay, well, we'll talk more about the switch later on.

Oh. Take this one step further, though, just adding something to this. I've been saying it, but I stand by it, and now I want to add a little extra fun for myself. Eldon Ring will be in this commercial. Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah. Okay, that's fair, that's fair. And Sabrina Carver just going to be playing Eldonring.

No, she's not. No, no. She's going to be playing one, two, switch, do. One, two, switch, two. Everybody want to switch too. Yeah, Eldon Ring will definitely be. That has to be.

I forgot to see. Everybody did. All right, Rodge, February. February. It's finally time. GTA6 trailer and it's 2026. We're going to get a trailer

and it's going to be very soon, but I don't think there's no way that we start off this year and we're still pretending that it's 2025. This is going to get moved out to 2026. They're going to get out ahead of it pretty early. Yes, and also, here's the thing. Why?

First thing's first thing for, I mean, I think the game is, just needs time and it's going to, you want that game to be perfect and they keep on top of it. But GTA 6, 2026. What a ring. You know what I mean? It just, it just rolls off the tongue. GTA 6, 2026.

It rolls off the tongue. It feels good. It's an 11, 11, 11 sort of situation. Yeah, it just feels good. And we can just get out of it. I'm going to say no to this one. Why is that? Because why get ahead of it?

I don't think that they want to get ahead of it. I think that they want to make it this year. I don't think they're going to make that call this early. I don't think that they know this early. And even if they did, I think that the powers that be are like, like, but what if we didn't? You know what I mean? February just seems a little too soon for me.

That's fair. That's fair. What about the thing with February, I'm trying to figure out the fiscal year part of it. Right. Because that's the rumor, right, that they've said the estimated fiscal year 2025. I don't know.

I'm trying to find if I can't remember anymore if they said specifically that's what it is. If that was the fact, yeah. Yeah. If that was the fact, then March 31st, right at the end of the fiscal year, you'd have to get some, if you wanted to say that,

which you would adjust what your actual fiscal projection is going to be, that'd be the time to say that. I believe the trailer said 2025. No, that's true. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah, that's the reason I put it in February. It's in the middle.

It's right before the end of the fiscal quarter, right? Then trying to get ahead of them, hey, we're not, we're going to say this in a call eventually, right? Let's just give a trailer. Let's say 2026. Give the fans something, right? So then we know, hey, this game is not just in development hell. It's not, something's not wrong with it. It's just, we know it's 2026.

That was my thinking. I'm with Roger on this one. I, it does seem like just one of those games that you not only need to get perfect, but it's kind of a red dead two situation where you're likely going to be limited to 30 frames per second and they want to make sure that that's as smooth of an experience as possible because the series S was going to need a shitload of optimization, the series

X and the PS5 as well. The PS5 Pro might have a PS5 Pro version or maybe not a version but a just setting that you need to get right on there as well. Yeah I do think that that seems to make the most sense. Yeah, I'm like, I'm half and half right now, right? Because I do think to Greg's point, I think fiscal year plays a huge part of it. And to your point as well, Roger, I think fiscal year plays a huge part of it. But I think the question is, does, I don't think, I don't think Rockstar or Take Two even thinks this game is coming out in 2025, even though they keep reiterating fall.

The question is, do they think it's coming out in the fiscal year? Is it coming out in that January to March period of next year? If it slips? Of next year? Yeah. To join 26? 2026, right? Right?

Like, is it coming out early 2026? or does it miss the fiscal year entirely? I think that is going to then shake up how they want to talk about it. Because if they think that is still coming out in this next fiscal year of March, this upcoming March to March, I could see them playing it fast and loose. I think they then wait to talk about delaying it. Because it's still going to come out in the fiscal year, hopefully.

Like, we're still going to get that some amount of money. If they think it's going to come out later next year, then I think you're right, Roger, that they had to get ahead of it and maybe talk about it, maybe in February. Yeah. That's why I think we don't hear about this until after March this year. Did we get deep in there? right.

Every time a rock star game has been delayed it hasn't been earlier on in the year, right? I believe Red Der Reddemption

was pretty like not close to release but it was like middle of the year, right? I mean, correct me wrong chat, but

I don't, like, when we're thinking about like who it benefits to announce that it's delayed, it's like, it's not the gamers

and it's not the shareholders. Like, when you think about the timing, like, like, it would benefit them most to put out a trailer to hype people up

right before that shareholder's call but don't even, like, still pretend it's 2025, even if they, they don't know, right? Like, it doesn't behoove them at all

to say 2026. So I just don't, I don't think. Well, Roger Domas has spoke. Yeah. He spoke. He spoke.

He spoke to it. Um, Joey Radstone writes in and says, what about GTA 6th's Super Bowl commercial? Wow. That's pretty interesting. I think that's the next to your thing. I think maybe you wait until the game is like on the precipice.

That's pretty good, though. Yeah. Uh, I think that's Gary. And that's February, too. Come on, Roger. Damn.

What a way to it now? What's the most What's the most way we can fuck people over, crush their dreams? Like you're watching this, you're rolling this, you're like, oh, this fucking out of 2020. Ah!

March. March is a fun one. I call it February Fallout. No, a fallout game is not announced. Or maybe it is, maybe it is, but no, it is.

It is talking about the releases of February and the kind of what settles. The big ones here that I have, which I stand by, I think Assassin's Creates, shadows and avowed are going to underperform. Wow. For different reasons.

Right. I think Avowed is just going to underperform because we just don't have the right marketing. We are not saying, this is Skyrim, you know what I mean? Because of course they own Skyrim and they own Bethesla. They don't want to do that comparison. That's the best way to market that game in my opinion. And also, Shadows is just that's not going to bomb, right? Shadows is not going to

bomb. It's going to do very well. Ubisoft is going to say, hey, we wanted way more copies. We're going to want 10 more copies than we actually have. that's just because they've put all their eggs in one basket, right? Assassin's Creed Shadows is the game that they need to perform and I don't think it's going to perform

in the level that they need it to. It's like Square Enix, right? Like every game that comes out sells millions of copies, but not enough. I want to first pull on Avowed because I think Assassin's Creed, I'm right there with you. But Avowed, you say you think it's going to underperform. You're thinking in Xbox's eyes,

critically? No, I'm talking, not critically. I'm talking money-wise, right? I'm just talking like... Do you think they have... that high hopes for it? I think of a vowed it very much in that pentiment camp. We're putting this thing out there and it's going to speak to a very specific audience and we hope it gets flowers from that. We're RPG gamers. We really hope you love this and you

really talk about it. But is it going to move the needle in terms of game pass? Is it going to move the needle in terms of- They think it is? See, I don't, I mean, I don't think they're thinking of pentament at all, right? Like, I think you look at a vow and you look at it in the vein of an outer world or like the vein of maybe not necessarily a Skyrim because I think the name brand and the scope of Skyrim is a bit too big to compare to a vowed. But I think it is a third person, or not a third person, it is a, can be sometimes. It depends. But it is a AAA is what I mean.

AAA RPG, like AAA Western Action RPG. And I think that does come with a level of budget that you're putting into making that game with, you know, how, like, how many hours that game is meant to sustain, how many the type of players that they want to bring into this, right? Like, I think they are going for the Baldur's Gate crowd. They are going for the Dragon Age crowd. They are going for the Skyrim crowd. and I think with that, right, it being an obsidian, those level of expectations you have for it.

I think if the plan is for this game to sell even, it's just throughout a number, right? If they're planning for it to sell $4 million, I think it's going to sell $2 million. Like I'm with Roger there where I don't think the marketing is right on this one. See, I just disagree. I think obviously, yeah, they're targeting the Skyrim crowd. They're targeting the Baldur's great crowd. But I don't think they're looking at this as this is a AAA RPG we're making that everyone, like I just don't, that's not the vibe I get. I throw in our worlds too.

I also don't think they look at Outer Worlds too or Outer Worlds as that. I think this is the thing. We argue all the time in the chat usually argues in this show. What is AAA? What is it? What's Double A? I think when you look at what Obsidian makes and the way they make it and how fast they make it, I think

if you were to talk to Xbox about Obsidian, they are making AA games with a AAA pedigree. What is the way I would put it, right? I think the nuts and bolts of what I've seen of Avad make you go, wow, that's going to be such a great RPG. But I do think it's going to be a 20-40-hour RPG.

I do think it's going to be, oh, man, the seams are showing it's a little rough here, I'm not expecting this to be polished and awesome. And they said as much. I mean, when Avowed has that initial first trailer, and it's, I think, game awards or summer game fest. I'm forgetting which one it was, but it was just more of a CG type. You just see like a hand holding a sword.

It's like, Avowed, holy shit. Here's this big new, you know, fantasy RPG. This is going to be massive. and then they came out a year later or so and said, hey, we scaled back what that, what a vowed was going to be. We wanted it to be this huge thing. We decided we're going to scale it back

and have it not be this gigantic, expansive Skyrim-like experience. I think I'm with Greg. With their expectations in set, I think that they're expecting, you know, three to four to five millions. I think they're looking at obsidian and they're saying pentament, outer worlds,

avowed, make awesome fucking games, we're not looking for gigantic sales. I think this is the, hey, let's satisfy the core gamer who we want to keep subscribe to GamePass with great experiences. Yeah, and I just don't see a world where a vowed, even from like the hardcore gamers that I know, that aren't in our sphere, right?

The people that are outside that would be perfect for a vowed, right? I know they play these types of games. They're like, what is this game? Like, this is not there. I do, there could be a word of mouth situation, right? And that's what I think they're counting well. Yeah. It previewed so well.

Exactly. I think that surprised me. I think they are counting on that. That this isn't a game you can show a trailer during the Super Bowl and make people go, oh yeah, I'm all about a game pass. I mean, this is a crazy month. We know this month. We have Siv 7.

We have Yakuza. You have Assassin's Creed Shadows. You have a vowed. You have Monster Hunter, right? Like, you have so many games that are coming out this month. It's like, something's got a break here. And I don't, I see Sib 7 taking a huge part of that PC crowd spending their 70 bucks. I see, you know, Monster Hunter taking a huge chunk.

And that's also part of my prediction. Monster Hunter is going to be the biggest in the franchise, biggest launch, you know, of course. That's going to be a 30 million. Exactly. It's going to go insane. Siv and Yakuza are going to do about what you expect from those franchises. I think Siv's going to be really successful. Yakuza is going to be way less successful, but successful for their crowd.

And Blumen Rage, I think it's going to get lost in the shuffle, right? It's going to review well, probably, hopefully. But, you know, you're not going to, that's not going to save Donon, sadly. That's not going to be the time. To me, a vow does have the least shine to it when you're talking about, like, what stands out, what's exciting. Maybe it has a long shelf life, right? Maybe this is going to be the one that the PC crowd really gets behind over the next year, right? But I don't know.

Like, I'm just scared for a vow. And I want that to be... I do look it in a different vein than Outer Worlds, right? Like, Outer Worlds, I think has the personality, has the charm. Like, you look at it and you go, oh, damn, like, it's space fallout. Oh, you know, like, Spacer's choice or whatever. Like, there's, like, branding and an identity that Outer Worlds had, that Outer Worlds had, even in its marketing, that I think Avals still lacks, even in, like, the previews of it, right?

Because I previewed it. I really liked it. looking forward to it. But like even still, like, I'm looking forward to it in the way that I just happened to not really be in the audiences for a lot of the other games coming out in February, right? I'm not a Assassin's Creed person. I'm not a Siv person. I'm not a monster under person, right? Like, but a lot of people are. And I don't know. I am looking at a vow right now. I'm going to play it, but I don't know if it's a game I'm going to evangelize about, right? I don't know if it's a game that I'm going to play a vow like this shit rocks.

Like, I think I'm going to play it right now and be happy that I'm playing a Western first person an RPG that I like. Yeah. Assassin's Creed, though. Yeah. I mean, it's an interesting conversation there. I think, no matter what happens, it's going to underperform in terms of sales, like you're saying, because of what we've seen from Ubisoft and expectation. And the delay too and everything. I think the bigger question is, does it underperform in terms of critical reception and gamer critical reception? My bet is yes. And what does that? If I'm making a bet on that, especially after ghosts, right?

Like, you have that, you know, experience in Japan before with samurai and everything, and you have this, and people are going to compare it. It can be a one. to one comparison, right? And that game's also on PC. So yeah, I don't know. I don't think it's going to, yeah, it goes. Yeah, it's everywhere. People have been playing it. So, yeah, I don't know. So then, I think it's not great. Is it the end of Ubisoft? And I don't mean, we'll talk about that later. We will talk about that later, everybody. This next one is, is April. Switch to launches. Here is just a few things really quick. We'll just go through it. Some of my launch lineup, or launch window lineup, going off of what Tim has been saying, Donkey Kong and Mario. I think that game is going to be called Mario and Donkey

Kong Odyssey. We just fully do it. We just do Mario Donkey Kong Odyssey. I like that. Eldon Ring is going to be in the launch window. It's going to, Eldon Ring, Night Rain specifically, but I think you're going to get both those games. Either as a package or separately, whatever, but Night Rain is going to be in the marketing. is Bree Larson going to be playing with some covered in the video? Yeah, exactly. Metro Prime. Can you imagine? The squad gets together. Metro Prime 4, of course. Here's my weird one here, which I know we've talked about. We've had these conversations about I am still very bullish on.

I think Animal Crossing. The highest selling physical game in Japanese history, right? Like, it is a game that literally I know so many people in my life that only have switches that have only played Animal Crossing. That is it. To me, that is a bigger priority for them to put that on that switch at launch to get people to pay $70 for it than maybe even a Mario Kart potentially, like at least getting that audience of people in on the switch too.

That is exciting. And also it makes sense timeline-wise, right? They came out in 2020, and they stopped development of any DLC almost immediately. They had two packs and they were like, we're done, bye. Like, they just stopped updating that game. So you're telling me, you think we're getting 3D Mario, Animal Crossing, and Metroid Prime 4 all at launch? Launch window.

It could be the next six months or whatever. We're not getting at launch launch, but within that six months. I see that as a thing. I didn't put any Zelda, which you have to, You can't count out Zelda, but also all I can make it was like a Waker remaster or something like that. I don't. I'm a believer of Rastodontas right now.

Yeah. I don't know, man. If he's giving me an Animal Crossing, Red Launch, I'm in. One more thing. One more thing to throw in here. There's got to be a negative with all this, right? There's got to be some weird Nintendo decision, right? WND.

So mine is, is that every first party game that was available on Switch has a 4K upgrade for $7. but it's available and for free as part of a Nintendo Switch online. Oh wow. So they have it so you can buy it piecemeal or if you have Nintendo Switch online you get the 4K upgrade.

It's only in the first party games or maybe they have some third party connections there but they're going to just do that. I'm with you on that to some extent but I don't think they offer it piecemeal. I think that they really just want to push Nintendo Switch online. That's how they get people in.

But on top of that, I don't think that this is how it's going to work. I don't think that they can just be like, hey, it's all, these games are not going to be 4K. They're going to work. They're going to work on your switch too. They might even run a little bit better. They're just a patch that will make it look even better. Like they put actual work into making these games look like 4K beautiful.

That's the part that I'm just not sure that that's going to happen. I mean, I feel like they're going to figure. I don't think they're just, oh, your existing games can now look better. I think that it will be like remaster. Remaster. Remaster choice by choice. Like certain packs for certain games that they really are like, hey, there's like a, it doesn't even need, it doesn't have to be a full game or whatever. It could just be like, choke on another ice.

Cube. It's not just going to be like every first party game. I don't think so. I mean, people are mad in the chat, but Nintendo does crazy shit. I kind of believe it. Yeah. Like the idea of the idea of even being remasters, like I am buying Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

for a third time, right, to like play in 4K. It sounds crazy enough to work. I'm like, oh, how do we get more money out of these guys? But also like, you know, how do we maintain our Nintendo identity? Oh, let's fucking pay for more. Let's retain this value in Mario Card 8 Deluxe. Because even though

a seven-year-old game still slaps. You know, it still rocks. I don't want it to happen, but I don't know. I don't know if I've been more excited for anything in the last decade than I am for this. Let's go, baby. Like, I am legitimately so excited to have just better looking running versions of games that Nintendo knows what the fuck they're doing with art direction. And that's why anytime you open a game, it's like, God, this looks incredible.

And yeah, it doesn't run great. But, man, opening up Mario Party over the break, jamboree, it's like, dude, they're so good with how their games are presented and just like look and appeal and that shit's going to be look oh my god are you thinking that this will actually solve that or is it going to be you turn on switch too and you're still like ah it still is not as good as it could have been no because i'm uh i i know what this but i go into a nintendo uh experience in ecosystem knowing your bar is lower i'm not yeah my bar is automatically lower i mean the fact that you know if you if you gave me a pc game that looked and ran like pkemon Scarlet and Violet, I would have said, fuck, I'm not playing this shit.

But when it's on Switch, I'm like, man, is this number nine on my top 10? You know? Like, it's just a great experience or whatever. But yeah, definitely my bar is absolutely lower. I mean, my thing is, like, just turning it on in the menu being in 4K is going to go such a long way. Like, just the entire experience of how just blurry things look, it just, it feels lesser than. And yeah, I feel like that alone is going to solve so much. I don't have two minds where, you know, Roger's at $7. I'll pay more for that to get

To like look and run I mean $10 makes sense I mean I would pay money If they and if they bundle it into Switch online What a brilliant move Yeah yeah The other mind though is for is Nintendo has never been about fidelity

Right Nintendo I don't think it has ever been great about We're gonna market this for how much better your things are gonna look Because they're always gonna lose that fight right Because if I'm gonna pay more to play a better looking tiers of the kingdom I'm still gonna look at any game on my Xbox or my PlayStation and go Okay but it doesn't look as good like anywhere near as good as the best stuff I'm playing over here. Why am I spending $10 to play this game?

And it looks now, what, like a PS4 title? I mean, it's going to look, I mean, PS4. On Target 4. That game looks insane. Yeah, way good. But I get what you're saying. That's why I just don't see them doing like, hey, everything looks beautiful and everything's hunky dory with your Switch 1.

You put in Tears of the Kingdom and it runs at 60FBS and it's 4K. I don't see that whatsoever. Like, if they will give you that ability to play Tears of the Kingdom at 60FBS in 4K eventually, is that going to be a remaster or is that just going to be an upgrade and they're trying to get you, get money out of it? I see that as an easier way for them to get money. It's just being like, hey, here's the patches. It's 10 dollars each or whatever. So excited. That's good to me. May. This one's... This one is PlayStation Showcase time. Oh, that sounds about right to me. So new IP from Sony Santa Monica opens the show.

Go see Yote new trailer. Wolverine new trailer. Game I will talk about later is revealed. And Andy, it's happening. Bloodbourne remake closes the show. It's about persistence. They said it. They said it. They said it. They said it to end the show.

They have a piece of the company that owns from software now. They're collaborating a little bit more. Maybe it's going to happen. What if it's the year? What if this is the year? Andy? I love this. It all ends up.

I mean, look, it's a very lofty. Obviously, thing of dreams here, getting a PlayStation showcase that good in May. It's what we want. But honestly, it's what we need from PlayStation at this point. We know Donny Dog's next game. They've got the ball rolling. They're making these announcements, whether they're ready to make them or not. So, break the internet.

Let's keep it going. I know it's not the biggest reveal out of all of this, right? You're going to have a fucking new game from Sony, Santa Monica, but I think ending the show would be really fucking sick on Blumborne remake. See, I don't know. I'm in a weird place with PlayStation Showcase. I already talked about this in our predictions for game awards, but even thinking about upcoming ones.

I think no matter what we get a PlayStation thing in May, whether it be a showcase or a state of play. But like, the longer we go with it, the more I am like, what's going on over here? He's leaving? There's a light buzz in Roger's microphone.

We're fixing that. Oh, I see, I see. The further we get out from like, or I guess the further we go on in this generation and see the results we've gotten from the previous PlayStation showcases, the more I'm like, I don't know, man.

I think I could see us getting more and more PlayStation big announcements at Jeff Keely things, as opposed to just a PlayStation thing, right? I think, you know, a play, a Bloodbourne remake, I could see it being at a state of play and then a Sony Santa Monica, a new IP, being at Jeff Kiley's Summer Game Fest. Like, I think that's kind of where we're at right now.

I know that sounds crazy to say it. I don't agree, but I see why you say it. I just think the track record for PlayStation Showcase hasn't been good, and I think PlayStation knows that. There's been one bad one. Yeah, but again, when was the last good one? Like, four years ago? Yeah.

That's a long time. But only do them when you have the good stuff. Things change a lot in four years. Like, that's my thing. is I think when you're talking about that long since the last, like, really good PlayStation showcase, why do we think the same PlayStation that put out that in, what, 20, 21, whatever that was, is operating the same way now? Because the lineup of games they had then were the ones we didn't want, but the lineup of the games they have now are the ones we want.

I don't know, man. I is, yeah, I want that. That's what makes me think I won't get it, where it's like, I, I mean, I know you're not late with leaving it off, but it's just like, you're not saying everything I should say is what's up. But it's like, that's a year of dreams kind of stuff right there. And I know that is technically what's in the chamber, right? But there's also a marathon. Well, not the Blueprint remaster.

But there's marathon to worry about. There's other things that they have. There's going to be the third party partnerships. I think that would just maybe you get two of these, right? Where you get ghost for sure, obviously. They have to. Wolverine. You hope.

But again, how far out is that where are we at with that? Like there's been turnover and insomnia on that project, right? What is it actually done to it? Yeah, the leaks and everything. Yeah. Fair of games. Oh. Baden on the Hacks.

It's coming, everybody. But you know, you're either getting the Fair Games trailer or the announcement of their closing Haven studios. But one of those two is coming this year probably. I've already saw it. I've already seen it. You've seen it. You can't change it. You can't change it.

Give me June. June, summer game fest. So I got a few rapid fire ones really quick. Start it off with one for you two. Sonic Adventure remakes. We do. We do Sonic Adventure 1 and 2. Remakes.

Remakes. Oh my God. We do two. We do both of them. Remade. We do it. Follow me. set me free

I know Sonic Venture Remakes This one's for Barrett Who will probably run in And be like Oh my God Do you know what not happening

But it's happening Pursona 6 teaser For 2026 And then Splinter Cell gameplay We see that Ubisoft Forward We're gonna see something

That game is in the chamber It's working The remake of the first game Oh you call them Shit Say his name And he appears I've already seen it

I've already seen it I've already seen it I saw the vision I saw the vision he's back here he's back here he's fixing the microphone on the cable

oh okay never mind and then my last one which is my favorite one you will not see Silk Song and then this will be the moment where we have the real conversation and it's like

is this game in development hell what's going on like then we start to actually have those real conversations so I like that we're not going to see Silk Song I mean I hate that but I like that yes that's my big one here

but yeah I'm gonna go upper cut Rosh to Domes in the future Hey, I gave you some good ones. I gave you bloodborn. You did, you did. You did. You did.

You did it. You can get some of you in the universe. I like a lot of this stuff. I want to break it down. I feel like you're right that we don't see Silk Song there. That's because we see Silk Song at a Nintendo event. Oh, interesting.

That's where I think we see Silk Song. But I also think that Sonic Adventure, they're scared. I don't see them doing it. I mean, they made a whole movie that's based off of this somewhat. Well, I know. In terms of the games, they're scared to go back to adventure and adventure too.

All the rumors are saying Sonic Hero And I think it's Sonic Heroes. And there's also been rumors about remake, though. I did see some crazy, some crazy fucking 4chan one where it was somebody who predicted, like, the next 10 years of Sonic, and they've gotten everything right. And the only thing that they had left was Sonic Remakes.

It was Eugene Rohinger. I mean, I saw some crazy shit. I mean, I saw some crazy shit. I saw some crazy shit. I hope it's Sonic Heroes. I think Sonic Heroes would be fucking awesome. That would be cool. I thought Tim was going to say,

they're scared of the big, the cat accusations. But I'm, so, like, you don't think they'll do front of. volunteers too. That's what I would have assumed. Maybe eventually, but I mean, I just remake, I mean, specifically Sonic Adventure is so popular. It also continuously has this fan base

that kind of grows over the years, right? Like, you have people that keep on going back and then, oh my God, look how funny this moment is. If that game, if you had actual fucking physics that worked, would be fucking fire as remakes. Like, you can put those out. Maybe, I think they're still going to do Sonic Adventure 3. I mean, yeah, Sonic... Because I do think we're due for

a, like, big or Sonic thing. The last couple years. Last year we got generations, X shadow generations. And the year before we got Sonic superstars, right? And then before that was Sonic Frontiers. What's 2020? Like, three years ago. So yeah, 2022. But

counterpoint to that. Yeah. Sonic's 35th anniversary is the next year. That's when we get Frontiers, too. Or you get Sonic Adventure 3. Or whatever. Yeah. I'm telling you, this scared of adventure. I would lose my goddamn mind. Adventure, I'm like, for some reason. The counter to your counter, I

think if it's ready, right? Like, I think Frontiers 2 this year, and then next year would be Sonic Adventure remake. Yeah, it'll be fine. Or Heroes remake if you want to play it safe. I think this is a good place to go to an ad because then we start getting crazy. 100% also.

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RocketMoney.com slash. kind of funny. Roger. This is where we get spicy. I'm very excited about these next two ones, but I'll start with, of course, July. Ubisoft is fully sold. It is sold after the failure, quote unquote, failure of Assassin's Creed Shadow under-delivering that game, that they're going to sell off. It's probably going to be some type of, you know, deal with Tencent and the Guillaumont family.

They're going to figure it out. But, yeah, it's going to sell to probably Tencent, and we're going to go into a different direction for Ubisoft. I would like it to be not Tencent, you know, so we can actually probably revive some of these franchises and not do a bunch of free-to-play weird stuff, but it's probably gonna be... So the Splinter Cell reveal or whatever?

That's just gonna be, hey, didn't help? No. No. The one place where I might disagree is, I think it happens sooner. Yeah, probably. I don't even think we get that far. I think, like, if... Yeah, there was just the recently that were at the Gimaw family

being more talks or whatever. Yeah. I think if in March we're talking about Assassin's Creek Shadows not performing, I think in April. I think we're talking about... I could also see... uh, Yves trying to do one last big hurrah for,

um, uh, UB Ford, right? Like he really cares about those E3-ish press conferences. And I could see him wanting to do one last one of like, I'm on stage. Here's my crew.

It's me. It's me. I love this. Yeah. Hell yeah. And then you get the news the next month. Hey, we're selling.

That is like that reasoning right there. You just sold me on July. Otherwise I was like, I think it's going to be earlier, but you're right. Yeah. He's going to want that. He loves it.

Uh, yeah, I mean, I feel like this news, do any of us think that this, think that Ubisoft will not be sold by the end of next year, of this year, this year. By the end of this year. Yeah.

It's one of those words like I, I think Ubisoft could be sold any day. I'm not sitting here going, oh, it's going to be this year for sure, but it doesn't surprise me that it would be this year. But I mean, like, with Assassin's Creed as the impetus. Because I do think like after outlaws and now this, it's like we went in from last year. We're talking about those two. They're the biggest games, Ubisoft's ever. And it's like, oh, but they also have all this live service stuff. Well, ex defiance gone.

And atlaws didn't do great. And we don't expect Assassin's Creed to work. We've been talking about fails for the last five years. The last several titles being the, this is make a break for you. Yeah. We've been saying that for a while. Gull and bones. Like, I don't even think like, oh, yeah, skull and bones.

Right. Like, I don't even think like Assassin's Street Shadows is a make or break thing. I think maybe the success of Shadows might prolong them time a little bit. Yeah. But I think when we're talking about last straws, right? Like I think it was shadows, or I think it was Star Wars Outlaws. I think it's like the big games that have come out in the last couple of years that just haven't

performed for them. Yeah, and I people are saying in the chat like they're, Ubisoft's not going anywhere. They're not going anywhere. Like we're not changing the name to Tencent, you know, France or whatever. Like we're, this is going to be Ubisoft. Yeah, exactly. This is going to be Ubisoft. This is the end of the Eve's situation. Well, no.

I wonder if he's, I would think he's maybe stays on. No, he's staying on. Like that, that was the rumor was that he, his family was going to be a part of this deal and they were going to buy out Ubisoft together. with Tencent. So I could see him still being a part of it or at least being like a transitional CEO for the next few years, but he's going to be there. It's going to be a succession TV show based on that. Sure. That'd be great. That'd be great.

Stock right now at $2.66. Time to buy. So there's no better time to buy. I mean, Mythic Quest kind of is like the. Yeah, you're right. Which is coming back next month. Yeah. Is it really? Yeah. Is that soon? It's cool. What about the other show? Mythic Quest more like, wow. Yeah. Yeah, but it's Ubisoft. It's like in collaboration with Ubiased. soft?

August. Now we're getting spicy, everybody. Phil Spencer resigns from Xbox. Whoa. Now, my thought process behind this is Phil Spencer has gone through so much shit with Xbox, right? And Xbox is changing so much behind the scenes when it comes to, there's all those rumors of the civil war between Microsoft and Xbox trying to put everything on third-party platforms, and clearly they've lost that.

Everything's going third-party now. I don't think that's the straw that's going to break his back when it comes to this. as the reason he's leaving. I think it's just a lot of him trying to go uphill, and then it just keeps on falling backwards. And you're going to have a few moments. I do not believe this is going to be the year where Xbox magically fixes everything.

There's not going to be the year that. The Domino's though. Yeah, exactly. There's not going to be the year, but oh my God, Xbox is fucking, there's no fucking scandal. There's nothing crazy that happened. There's no failure.

There's going to be at least be one of those this year. But the good thing about this is that he's going to end on a high note, right? He's going to end on a high note of Doom. You're going to have all, fable, you're going to have all these great games, and he's going to probably announce all those games a month or two before with the Xbox game showcase. So he's going to have a huge win on his resume.

And also he didn't end on, I thought he was going to leave when Redfall happened. Like when all of that was going down, I was like, oh, we might just, we might just be moving leadership or whatever. But he fought through it. We got, he has a huge resume when it comes to buying up Bethesda and buying out Activision. This is the time to leave, right? This is the time to look at the future and be like, hey, I've set up the future of Xbox.

I'm just going to, I'm just going to piece out because this is, this is too much. That's my thought process. I think post acquisition, especially with the new stories we've had of the last year of, you know, call of duty and the CEO of Microsoft Satya Nadella, right? Like the comments of, yeah, we want to essentially saying we want to be third party, not verbatim, but like basically that, right? Like it seems like a lot of the changes and a lot of the big choices being made for Xbox have gotten to a place where a lot of them are just like out of Phil Spencer's hands, right?

It's like it's more for Microsoft at this point than for Xbox. I think that might be more of the straw. And maybe not maybe one of the major straws as far as Phil being like, yeah, I think my time here's done. Like he's been, he's been there forever. Right. It's been a decade of Phil Spencer. People leave at some point. Like it's like like a weird thing of, oh man, I'm out of here.

I think it's more so like, yeah, I think my time's come to a close type of thing. I can see it happening. See, I don't, I don't see it happening. I wouldn't be shocked. Obviously, it's business is that. It's blah, blah, blah, blah. But it's more the fact that I just don't think his work is doing. kind of thing.

I think if Phil was going to leave Xbox right now, I think it would have to be from the top. It's time for you to go. It isn't working. It's blah, blah, blah. And there's all these, you know, we talk about it, this, that, the other. Are they where they want to be X, Y, and Z?

They're still very much committed to this. That's an Xbox. That's an Xbox. They're going bigger with that than ever, which makes me think that if you're still investing to that point with the merch and the ad campaign that just kicked off, It's something we've been asking about for a long time with how cloud gaming centric they've been.

If they're actually pushing on that, I think Microsoft is still behind them. And that's why I don't see still leaving me like, I've got it in a good place. You don't. You know what I mean? The message still isn't there. You aren't ubiquitous with games.

We are still waiting for game pass and the fruits of the labor of collecting this infinity gauntlet of game studios to really pay off where it is, bangor after panger after banger. We're firing on. Matt Booty wants something once a quarter, once a month, what?

Once a quarter, right? where he wanted a big AAA game. Like, we aren't doing that yet. And maybe this is it. A vowed happens. And then it is a... South of midnight. South of midnight.

South of midnight. Yeah, maybe this is the year that the dominoes don't fall the way we've always thought they would in terms of domination. But they've fallen away where you're like, holy shit, this year of games is great. But I don't think you get to... Where are we? August? August. And he's like, I've landed it.

Mission accomplished. Yeah, well, I don't think you would say mission accomplished. But I think he would be like, hey, like my time at Xbox is done. like I just, this to me, I get what you're saying and I agree with it. Of course, this is me making an outlandish prediction, right? Sure. I'm just surprised he stayed there for so long, right? I'm surprised that with all the shit that happened with Xbox that he was able to get to a place where, yeah.

Someone weather the storm. Exactly. And even put out, I had to Google it right now just to kind of verify, but back in March, him talking about, yeah, capitalism is the problem with the games industry. It's like, whoa, that's kind of wild for you to say. that. Yeah. Well, also, yeah,

and that's also a great point, right, with all of the layoffs that happened at the beginning of the year, right? And him just clearly being dejected of, like, there's nothing I can do here, right?

This is from up top, I have to fucking close down these studios that I'm sure he was very much like, these are the studios I like. I want to be, I want high-fi rush too. I'm sure that that was the conversation there. I do, I do think that his sort of,

um, mentality is always going to be at odds with what the directives are from up top. And, sure. There is no, other CEO that is logging hours in games like Phil Spencer is. The dude loves games, the dude comes from games, the dude cares about games and

studios, and the people working behind them. And unfortunately, has to be the person that says, we're closing this shit down, you guys are getting laid off, all this stuff is getting laid off. And in the back of his mind, in the back of his mind, if I were to have, you know, Rod Schradamus is also like a psychic or I guess you kind of are. Yeah, a little back of reach your mind, Jay. He's a sooth seer. Yeah. soup say if you can go to his mind i bet you'd be like man i this really really sucks in the amount of

fan of any of this you see that's my thing is i think it's the opposite of what greg's saying as far as like all right like my job here is done like i'm like i've taken this to the finish line i almost think it's more of like a job will never be done i have to go yeah i think it's more so like things will get worse and worse yeah i don't want to project because like i think at some point with this conversation we get to the point of like you know we're putting words in his mouth but I almost feel like it's more of a spirit-broken thing of like, yo, I had this vision. Like I started, I started my presidency at Xbox

with, you know, Game Pass and buying the studios. Backwards compatibility. Back-compatibility. And making these big decisions and being a face. And I think a lot of that has just backfired in a way where it is like, all right, like I had this vision, but like the vision is out of my hands, right? It is Microsoft's vision now of what Xbox wants it needs to be.

And this is no more like the ship that I was piloting. It's not going in the way that I wanted to. that on top of what Amy's talking about as far as like and I have to do the layoffs and also I have to get shit on by the entire internet like you know like whether it be the Xbox fans are never satisfied with what I do. Whether it be the Xbox fans or whether

it be the journalists and the critics that are mad when I when I have these layouts like nobody is fucking with me right and like I have done so much for this company again projecting because not making it sound like he's fucking whining about shit right and again I'm never I'm not in this man in mind but I think at a certain point like it is a yo this shit is out of my hands like I'm going to pass this on

the Cereyball We've been training her up We've been Or not training her up We've been like propping her up Like bringing her up To like take this shit over I think it might be time

Yeah Interesting Quite September September This is TGS times Tokyo game show Kingdom Hearts 4

Revealed And a new Yakuza game I know Those are just falling out of Sega's pocket I think it's not gonna Maybe you

see more Project Century. Eventually that game, by the way, Project Century is going to be a Yakuza game. It might not be actually called a Yakuza game, but it's going to be in the lineage. We see, of course, Yakuza in it, but yeah, we're going to see a new Yaku's game. It's going to be led up by Kido. I'd assume so. I don't think we're going to see Ichibon. He's not going to be at least the main character,

or playable character. But yeah, Kingdom Hearts 4, we revealed. Does that ring true to you, Tim? Yes. So here's the thing. There's no D-23 this year. It's every other year. So I would have said that that's where it was going to be. I do think that that's where it was going to be. I do think that you're right. The Kingdom Hearts 4 will be at TGS this year. I do

not know if that will be where it's re-revealed, though. I think we're going to see it sooner. I keep saying this, but I think the Kingdom Hearts 4 is sooner than we think. Like a PlayStation and Xbox, a Keely? Yeah. I mean, it's been at every at some point. Xbox and PlayStation. Like, maybe it's at a Nintendo thing. I doubt

it, but like with the Switch 2, right? Like, I can imagine Switch 2 when they put out their list of partners. And especially with the Square being like, hey, we want to be way more multi-platform going forward. Like, I can imagine that. But, yeah, I think we're going to see

Kingdom Hearts 4 before that, but I think you're right that we will see it at TGS. Okay, sounds good. The next two, pretty safe-ish, and then we have a banger, of course, the end of the year. October, this is straight from blessing, so I stole this one from you. Until Dawn, two, releases.

October, makes sense. I think we're going to get that reveal at the May PlayStation Showcase and comes out in October. I was thinking in this list like where a Resident Evil would come into play I mean of course they don't release in October historically so but yeah

talking about horror until dawn two releases in October and we're gonna get that movie and assume this year so yeah for 2025 that makes sense release date April 25th apparently the release date yeah so then everyone can get so hype and then buy that movie on Blu-ray and then buy them play until dawn two yeah I agree no notes it'll bomb in theaters

and they'll watch it on digital. Yeah, and it'll be the number one movie in Netflix history. Sword of the highest of highs. Can I pull a train over real quick? Sure. I guess you don't do that. You stop the train real quick. This is just an interesting thing I had never heard about.

Tim, have you ever heard about George A. Romero's Resident Evil? Yeah. I never did. You know, I'm a big, I love, obviously, George Romero zombie movies. It's such a big deal for me. I had never heard about this, and then a press release came through the other day. There's a documentary dropping today about it.

Yeah, this is like one of the Nick Cage, Superman type situation. Yeah, yeah. And so, like, this is the official trailer. I just sent over to assets. I got a screener for it. I'm going to watch it as soon as I can, but that's cool. I never heard about the fact that he, when they were getting ready, I guess,

to do the original Resident Evil movie. He did like a treatment or a plan or whatever and like, fuck, yeah, I can't wait to to watch this. That's so, you know, I can't, this is one of those like, how did this slip by me? Like, this is so video games and my favorite zombie director. I didn't know this. Like, it's on demand right now. I have no idea if the movie's good or bad, but, or the documentary is good or bad,

but I'm going to watch it. I got a lot of it. Man, I remember seeing all of this. That's crazy. I'm pretty sure they ended up using this footage, correct me if I'm wrong, chat, but in the director's cut of Resident Evil One on PlayStation 1, I think so.

I'm pretty sure they used this footage as the opening videos. And I remember Kevin's uncles, they had a PlayStation and they showed us, and it scared the fuck out of us. Like those dogs in the forest in the beginning? Oh, my God. Thank you. November.

November. New call of duty comes out, and it sucks. This is going to... Yeah, no, this is going to go... Thank God Phil left ahead of it. This is going to be the every other year. We just have a good call of duty, and then we have a bad call of duty. It'll sell 21 million.

Exactly. Still going to sell an insane amount of copies. $750 million. Yeah. Modern Warfare 3 famously was a rushed out game. It was supposed to be D.L.C. or an expansion of some sort for modern. Warfare too. I don't necessarily think that's what's happening here, but for me, the vibes are like, we had a really great call of duty, and we're just going to make another one really quick.

Is this because it's Infinity Award going, like, Trajerk having Black Ops, and that seems to be where... That's where they are, and then now we're making another... The idea, I think, the rumor that I've heard is that we're making Black Ops 7, and it's going to be the future Black Ops, and I'm like, that feels weird and rushed, and, like, I don't know why we're going, old Black Ops, the new Black Ops, and then now we're going to do call... I don't know. I'm back Kid Harrington. Right. Which one is you in? and like advanced war or you do advanced wars

but don't bring back Kevin Spacey Oh Oh Oh that's right Yeah Who's the Vanguard developer

This is Trey Arc It's a Fing word Sledgehammer Thank you Is they still doing mainline Call of Duties? Yeah Are they up

Because if they're up Then I can see Like I'm not against Nothing is that studio Or nothing It's Sledgehammer Right

But it feels like They always get the Short end of the stick As far as Like You're either working on the one That's not

Modern Warfare Black Ops or we're putting one of those games in your hand. You're going to make like a side version of that. It's not going to be as good. Dude, let Raven make the whole fucking. Raven's so good. Raven's so fucking good. But yeah, the last one, of course, December.

TGA, game awards. Heard of it. Half-life three. Half-lift three. I think, I think Keely is riding this fucking high. He is so hype and happy with the reaction to Game Awards of last year. everyone was so happy with it. They got an A on his little poll on Twitter

that he does. That's a huge deal. That's usually like a C. Right? Like the fact that every, like most gamers are like, even with... Because there's a lot of haters. Yeah, a lot of haters. And also the fact that there were rumors of Half Life 3 being there and it wasn't there and people were still like, this is fucking awesome. Like this is an amazing showcase. He's riding that high. And I don't think he wants to fucking

get off that ship. I think he wants this to continue to go up and up and up. And I could see him looking at at Valve and being like, please. And Rod. I want this one. Everything that we said in our predictions episode for Game Awards is still true. Steam OS is going to be a huge deal and they are investing heavily in it. Half-Life 3 is happening. It's a matter of when.

And I do think that like, yeah, that that timing sounds good to me. Do you think Game Awards 2025 is going to have, is it going to benefit from the 10 out of 10 we just had or is it going to have a hangover for? Hangover. Yeah. Yeah. I honestly, I don't think that Jeff would have got intergalactic. if it wasn't the 10 year anniversary. Yeah.

And if Noddy Dog hadn't done Last of Us premiering there, like I think that was very much a Jeff, I don't want to say begging. It's not that, but I do think it was like a play ball with me. Yeah, yeah. And PlayStation being like, you know what?

We're going to play ball with you. Like, we understand what this means and what it could mean for the industry. I think that I'd be so fascinated to knowing what those actual conversations were, but I do think that there were things done out of the ordinary. That was not the plan.

I wonder how much it let him level up, though. How much does that bring up Stop. We saw the numbers, right? But I also wonder the negatives of the game awards, right? Because you have, like, so many games being announced there that things just inevitably we forgot about, right? We have Teague Eco's new game.

We have Outer Worlds, too, which I kind of just forgot like a week later. I was like, oh shit, that was announced. Like, there's so many games that were there. There's so many bigger games that were announced, Which are Four, Intergalactic, of course, right? Like, I wonder if the smaller teams or, like, the medium teams are like, I don't, do I really want to be a part of this? Like, I don't know.

Is it really doing something for their brand? I don't know. For the last year or so, I've completely changed my tune when it comes to reacting to smaller presentations that maybe we may not have in the past, but when we do them, my immediate thought is, I'm glad that I watched this kind of mid-trailer or whatever

because there's so many games that I would have forgotten about otherwise, and there's so many games that I didn't even know existed, and now they're on my radar, whether they're gigantic or small indie titles. So I don't, for me, it's like, even the games like, you know, from the eco-deves or whatever, all that stuff is still completely useful for them. Okay.

Yeah. Just asking. So fuck off with that. I'm sorry. I just see the future. I keep on wanting to sing Radioactive, but with the Intergalactic. Intergalactic. And that is my year.

Fantastic. Thank you so much. Honestly, great job, Roger. That was very, very, very good. Fantastic episode, great discussion. but really, really good predictions with a lot of work put into them. Like, I feel like there's,

there's good stuff there. Got a couple super chats I want to get to. Super chats. Um, we got a, guzzling, guzzling king David, Lizzie.

Jesus. Hey, it keeps going, y'all. Who says it's 20, 25 and I'm moister than an oyster. Fuck yeah. Yes.

Yes. All around. 10 out of 10. Oh, and then, uh, we got a dear Sixlet saying, I've been saving the Pokemon Violet DLC for the

opposed to switch two version and patch due to the poor performance any day now Nintendo. Yeah, it's not happening. Yeah, man. I don't know that these games are just going to get back. It's about that Pokemon Zah. They didn't worry about that. I think they just move on. And then Jeff Bull Jr. says Sonic Heroes was a big,

Sonic Adventure 2 remake with Child Gardens needed. Come on, Sonic Team. Calm down. We'll see. Calm down. Sonic Heroes is great. Man, I played a lot of Sonic Adventure. It's crazy.

Yeah. I replayed it recently. Lanzi replayed it and I kind of watched. It made me think the word K-I-EUls Chaos was chouse. It's why. Why is it chowse, but chaos emeralds? Yeah.

Why would they do that to me as a boy reading these backacets? I'm just a boy. It's like a chow garden without the us. And so you should know. Exactly. It's chow. God, man. Look at all those chaos out there.

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