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Yo, what's up? Welcome to Kind of Funny Gamescast for Tuesday, January 21st, 20205. I'm on your host, Blessing, Adioia Jr. joining me is Little Croy Poppy. Tim, ma, bugging, Gettys. I can't wait for this episode of Gamescast, Bless. I love, like, I can't read your notes from here, but I can see how long the paragraphs are. They're substantial. Yeah, you have substantial notes, which excites me because this is exactly what I wanted from you, I wanted you to get in your Duffy as far as what this is.

We had a blast yesterday. as you went through month by month, 2025, even beyond. You went June to June. I was in 2026. From when you think the switch launches all the way through 20, or halfway through 2026, and broke down what you thought Nintendo was going to do.

And we had a great time talking about it. If you haven't checked out that episode, I highly recommend it because we got something going here. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Can I tell you that I love seeing your notes, especially because during the weekend when I was putting together mine,

I really had to hold back. I was like, I can't, I can't overdo this. Like, let me not over detail this. Like, let me keep it simple. I love looking at you and you and you just not, not caring. Yeah, no, no, no. As you go down, you start getting a little bit, just like there's a couple that are just a couple words.

But yeah, overall, I got some thoughts. Hell yeah. And let me tell you, I don't think you guys are going to like a lot of them. Well, let's get into those thoughts. Remember, this is the kind of funny games cast each and every weekday. We get together and talk about the biggest reviews, and topics in video games live on YouTube, Twitch and on podcast services around the globe.

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And then after this is going to be the stream, I'm going to be playing the early hours, the demo essentially of a turn. Eternal Strands. Ooh. Yeah. Give me the top level of this. Because Eternal Strands for some reason, totally over my head.

I don't remember seeing it anywhere. Yeah. I don't know anything about it. I heard Andy getting really excited when Greg brought it up last week. And then I saw some screenshots today. Yes. So this is one of those ones that, you know,

like we've had the string of studios from like people who worked at big developers that left big developers to start of indie studios and like somewhat in that double A to AAA space. This is one of those. It is from Mike Laidlaw. who was one of the, like, important people who worked on, I believe, Mass Effect. Okay, that sounds right. And the style of this game is essentially, like, Shadow the Colossus meets, like, Zelda slash Immortals Phoenix Rising-ish, right?

Like, has a lot of those elements. It seems like there's a lot of, like, environmental of, like, fire interacting with, like, ice interacting with, like, the elements type stuff. and like the art style kind of gives a bit I don't know if Fortnite is the right word but it has like kind of like an animated cartoony aesthetic yeah and so it's one that I've been looking forward to just to try out right like I don't know if it's going to be good or not

which is why I'm excited for this demo but check it out everybody after this yeah on paper very excited to check this one out and then after that Mike will be playing some Kingdom Hearts too if you're kind of funny member you can get today's Gregway thank you to our Patreon producers Delaney Twining

and Carl Jacobs. Today we're brought to you by Shady Ray's and Rocket Money, but we'll tell you about that later. For now, let's start with topic of the show. Tots, Tots, Tots, Tots, Tots. Two people Tots is always a little weird. It is. You know what I mean?

It feels like subdued. That's how me and me and Greg did it. You know what I mean? I guess Bear was in the background. I'm also doing it. And so topic of the show is going to be Tim's month-by-month Nintendo Switch to Predictions. Of course, I did mine yesterday.

I went from June to June talking about a thing or a lot of things each month that was going to happen with the switch to during its first year. Tim, I'm excited for you because if I remember correctly, you're doing yours a little bit differently than I did mine. I am. And, you know, I was going back and forth and trying to figure out how I wanted to do this. I was like, you know what, no matter what, I want to start with February. I want to start with next month because I think that's when the switch to conversation is going to like really start kicking up a little bit. and I want to keep that going all the way through. And I was going to keep going past next February,

but I'm like, if I'm being honest, so much is kind of dependent on if this, then that. I got so detailed about some of these things and I was like, I don't want to get too far ahead of myself. At the end of this week, we might have a conversation of where do we go from there? Yeah. But I got something that I feel pretty good about here.

Before we get into it, though, I want to say, I've studied Nintendo my entire life as a fan, as a critic. as all of the things, right? And if there's one thing that I've learned about Nintendo, it's that you can never follow a pattern. You can never try to base what they're going to do based on what they have done. Having said that,

there are some things that never change. WND's. Weird Nintendo decisions. While they're rarely the same type of weird as the one previous, they're weird nonetheless. Yes. So any time your. predicting something. There has to be something weird about it. So I tried to come up with what the

weird twist is. And anytime there's good news, there has to be something fucking weird. What's the weird thing about it? I like this a lot. And as I started doing that, it started painting a path that I'm like, you know what? This is plausible. I'm so excited. And what's funny about this, obviously, we're predicting based on very little information. Like I said, it's hard to tell. This is more for fun than anything. But, like, I tried to be realistic about this. Like, I tried to not be, like, crazy just saying shit. I love

how similar me and you are, because, like, again, I did the same thing. I was like, how can I make this boring? Because, like, I think we all are under the impression that the reality of this, there are going to be exciting parts about it, but they're also going to be the boring parts and the weird parts. Yes. And weird's not necessarily bad.

Yeah. It's just weird. Correct. You ready to get into this? I'm very ready to get into this. Let's start. With February, everybody. My God. I got this part of your prediction. I get so triggered by this song now. Fuck, I got to open up another tab.

Hold on. I think it's happening. Hold on. I think it's happening. Greg, for audio listeners, Greg Miller, had just entered the building with the stars in the bank chief case. Craig, is it happening? Are you doing this?

What's up? What are you doing? What are you doing here? Not today. But it could be. You know, everybody, I couldn't think of the best way to bring this up. Last I taught you how to fix this, remember? Just very recently.

With the button? Where the button? Control shift T. Thank you. So, let's see. Before we get into that, I need to let you know that this weekend on Friday at 9.16 p.m. I get a text from Greg. Remember, Gia was out at a bachelor's party.

Cool, Greg was in Mexico. So I was alone in the house. just me and the pups.m. I get a text from Greg. Not an emergency, but are you busy? Sorry, and so I just immediately call him because, you know, we're kind of funny. And it is, if I'm getting a 916 text from Greg that says, not an emergency, are you busy? It's like, oh, fuck, we need to talk. I call him. He responds, sorry, can't talk, talk. Are you driving? And I say, no, I'm at home. And he goes, great, come outside.

And I said, God damn it. And he just sends me a picture of the stars of the bank briefcase. Jesus Christ. And in all caps just goes, it's not happening, but that's how it could happen. So fucking easy. I'll get you in your star. You are not safe with this sticker of Greg in a bathrobe. What the fuck?

Drinking a martini. It's really tiny. I can't, Kev. Uh, why does that sticker exist? And then I said, I called you because I thought it was happening. It's legit fear. I'm in my underwear. That's amazing.

I was ready to go outside, though. And I was like, didn't expect it to happen so fast, but I was quote unquote ready. And he goes, got to keep you on your toes. Enjoy your weekend. Keep me posted on the public places you'll be in at what time. The next day, he does the same thing again. Oh, that's amazing. Yeah.

That's amazing. This is just my life now. I can't tell you. I was getting so ready to make up trivia on the spot because I still don't have my questions ready. Plus, you got to get ready. I really do got to find time this week. Because I got to have a couple days. room to steal.

Wait, say again? I now have stars for them to steal. Last week I didn't. You do have a star for a little safer. So it can happen at any moment. And I got to figure out

these questions because I'm scared too. All right, let's get into this. February. February. I got quite a bit here. There will be a Nintendo Direct. Okay.

In February. Nintendo Direct. A Nintendo Direct. Not a Pokemon Presents. A Nintendo Direct. There will also be a Pokemon Presents. But there will be a Nintendo

direct in February to kind of flesh out a few Nintendo Switch games we're going to get before the Switch 2. Those games will be May and June, but we'll talk about those in May and June. Okay. But we'll get it in the Nintendo Direct. Fairly general. I don't think it'll be the most exciting thing, but just kind of like, hey, talk about what we got coming up, wrap things up, a couple new announcements.

Bada Bing, Bada boom. On February 27. I'm sorry. I didn't know my mic was on. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. Frank just came back from Mexico with a soul in a year for me. And I was like, oh, let me figure it out. It's a death whistle. It's really cool. I'm sorry, Chad.

That's really my bad. I thought it hadn't muted. Chad, I'm so sorry. Dude, I'm so sorry. You do a great show. Why was it directly to the mic? The mic's right in front of me. I thought I had to be. That was my bad. That's my bad. I'm so sad. Oh, shit.

My favorite thing is just Mike to the fact. he just goes, ah. Oh, fuck. Oh, shit. I thought Greg was coming back out. Me too. Oh, okay. Chaos here.

All right. Jesus. On February 27th, aka Pokemon Day, 2025, we will finally see Pokemon legend Zah, aka the final Switch 1

Pokemon game. Yep. AKA the first ever Nintendo Switch 2 Pokemon game. No, you stupid fuckers. It will not be the final. Final Switch 1 Pokemon game.

And guess what? It won't be on Switch 2. Wait. Say that again. Wait, so you're saying Pokemon Legends. Zah. Won't be on Switch 2. It will not be a Switch 2 game.

It'll be a Switch 2 game. And you can play it on Switch 2. Yes, because it's backwards compatible. You can play everything. And it won't be the last Pokemon game on Switch 1. Are you going to, is that something you're going to get to later or should we talk about this now? We'll get to it later. Okay.

We'll get to it later. But surely it'll be enhanced on the Switch 2, correct? Surely it'll play better on the Switch 2, right? Of course. I don't want to get ahead of myself, but also guess what? Maybe not. You know what? We'll get to that later.

You know what? So far, you got me. Yeah, this is all very believable. Especially Pokemon Legends on, not having a native Switch 2 version. Very believable to me. So let's kind of get into this, right? Yeah. Because I have one more prediction of this Pokemon

Presents. Okay. So, Pokemon Zah, switch one, right? Yeah. Not going to talk about it, Switch 2 enhancements yet at this point. In addition to this, we will get at least a tease of another Pokemon game during this Pokemon Presents. And it will be either a Gen 5 remake or another Gen 2 remake.

Okay. So either Joto or Unova. Yeah. And it'll be a sort of. which one game. Are you thinking, because I had thoughts about this too a little bit of like a Pokemon coming out either say if Legends Zah is in the first half of the year, right? I'll think another Pokemon game either comes out at the second half of this year or in the first half of next year and it not being maybe a mainline thing. I am thinking if you're talking about Jodo, you might be on the same wavelength as far as a let's go Jodo game. That's the thing.

I would be at this point utterly shocked if let's go. is something they go back to. You think it was one of done? I think that I was trying to ride the, the tail end of the high of Pokemon Go, and Pokemon Go just doesn't have the sauce like that anymore. Okay. You know what I mean?

I say that as somebody that, like, is addicted to playing every day. But like, I just, I think if they were going to do Pokemon Go Joto, they would have done that years ago. But at this point, I don't know what it could be. I mean, I don't know. I don't know.

But just going back, it's, we're overdue for a Gen 2, a Joto revisit. Which one would you, prefer slash think is more plausible. A, let's go Jodo or a, you know how they did Gen 4 but had like Cheeby? You think it's going to be that? Strap in motherfuckers. Oh God, no. I know. It's not worth it. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. Did that do well? I mean, it's Pokemon. So yes, but compared to other

Pokemon games, no. But I think that it's an easy cash money grab here. Let's just get it out. Let's just move on. Brilliant gold and shining silver. I mean, who the hell knows. But yeah, Honestly, it's like, I feel like there's the chance there. But then there's also the Gen 5 side. Because I feel like we are due both of those in some way, shape, or form. Like, if I remember correctly, we're at a point now that Gen 5, which is Unova, which is based in America, is the furthest we've been from seeing that region again. Okay. Yeah.

We technically saw it a little bit in the DLC recently for Scarlet and Violet because that the weird ass, like, water base is technically in like the waters. but it's like that doesn't fucking count okay but anyway that that's my bad way do you think that getting that like I guess T's in the DLC

do you think that's then like them trying to hint or like lead into a Unova thing again going back to Nintendo being like weird Pokemon's weird too like back in the day it was like oh there's the two versions then there'll be a third version

and then eventually they'll be remakes they don't really there's no pattern if you look back now it's like sometimes they get sequels sometimes they get two enhanced versions with like ultra sun and ultramoon And like, there's so many different ways they can go with this shit. In fact, let's go as the second remake of Pokemon Red and Blue.

So I don't know. I don't want to get too into the details of it because all I know is it'll be Gen 5 or Gen 2. And it'll be a Switch 1 game. And Gen 5, Unova, is that which Pokemon games are? Black and white, gotcha. Yeah, DS3DS blind spot for me. So any sort of remake I'm down for. Black and white's great too, because black and white, I think at the time got a little bit of shade from people

because they were just like, oh, like, that was, when the Pokemon designs really like there's a fucking trash clear like you know like things like that that might not I think it was Gen 5 actually but Gen 5 was the first one to really go all out and feel like there's no old Pokemon like you're playing through this game and it's all going to be new

motherfuckers that you're seeing like eventually you can get the old ones but like there was 150 new ones so it was kind of like a reboot in a lot of ways and also it was great game great game let's get to March so that's February

that's February Nintendo direct about the Switch. Yes. How much do they have left to say about the Switch, do you think? I'll talk about that. Okay. When we get into it. Because I don't want to say everything up front.

I don't want to say the announcements and the releases. I got a couple releases. I like that. Okay. Okay. March. March. Definitely one of my least juicy things to predict here.

I tried to stay away from theme park stuff and movie stuff. Okay. For this. So really want to just stick on Switch and Switch 2. All right. Zeno Blade Chronicles X, X, definitive edition. will receive a Metacritic score at least four points higher than the 84 the Wii U version is at.

For no real reason other than more people will actually play it and mechs are freaking cool. Can I tell you something about Xenoblade Chronicles X? This isn't a promise, but I think this will be my Xenoblade Chronicles. Okay. I think this, I'm going to at least try to play this one. We will get one code for Nintendo and I will put you on it. I'm down.

Okay. I'm down. At the very least we'll get it. preview on me. Cool. But Tim Nickle Weiss does it. It's so funny because like not that many weeks ago, I think it might have been last week I swore off playing

large GRPGs for the next year. And like, I saw Zerobay Chronicles X and I was like, I've always wanted to play Zinobay Chronicles and it got mex. I think I have to. I think I have to try it at least. I love it. We'll see it. But yeah, I think that it's going to review significantly better than the original did. The original 84, not bad.

Yeah. Looking at the scores of other Xenoblades and their remakes or definitive editions or whatever it is, I'm being a little lofty here, but I'm feeling a little lofty. Okay. I got there's something about Zeno Blake Chronicles X that I think is going to, again, I think it's the Mex. We got the Mex factor, okay? I mean, mex are huge. Literally. Cool as hell.

Cool as hell. And also, yeah, X was a Wii U game. Yes, it was. So yeah, to your point, way more people play in it. Hopefully, like, that lights a spark. And also, I think Xenoblade now is different from Zeno Blade. then as far as the amount of people I've seen talk about how much they love two

how much they love three right people ride for it now not saying that they didn't ride for it before but I think a Zelbyc Chronicles X is going to hit right now all right bless let me take you to April take me to April now remember April very big deal for Nintendo fans out there because on April 2nd 2025 we will get the Nintendo Switch to

Nintendo Direct all of our questions will be answered or will there during the direct we will finally learn how Nintendo's going to handle Switch 2 games being upgraded for the Nintendo Switch 2

and guess what? That's fucking weird It's fucking weird Good news Breath of the Wild We'll get an upgrade patch At the Switch 2's launch Nice

Bad news Tears of the Kingdom won't At least not on any Comprehensible release timeline Switch 2 upgrades will be a random A strip feed And it will be a perk of Nintendo Switch Online.

Oh, not that last part. I feel you until that. I feel like that last part is, I don't know if they can get away with that. I would not be surprised if Breath of the Wild is a freebie. And going forward, oh, in a couple months, Mario Odyssey's going to

get an upgrade. But if you have Switch Online. No. Because that's just gross. I feel like then you get into like territory of, is this okay? Like, can we let them do this? Like, we got to revolt. We got to do something.

That's kind of, that's diabolical. Premium options. You don't need it. The game will run. I think it's the most plausible outcome. I'm not saying I want it. But bless, I thought a lot about this. And if I had to put my money down on what I think they're going to do, I think this is the

most likely option. I pray to God Almighty that you're wrong. Yeah. Because I think it's plausible. I think you're right as far as it could happen. I would hope that Nintendo would resist the urge. I would hope that Nintendo, not that. that even needs to be free. I think I'll even do, I,

because now I get into what would I prefer, right? Because like, could it be free? Sure, yeah, just patch everything, but then you then get into the cost of what it takes to do that and like, are they willing to do that? Yada, yada, it's Nintendo. Then I get into, well, they could just sell things piecemeal, right? You could buy Breath of the Wild Switch 2 edition. But then that even is more expensive than just buying the membership at that point. I actually, again, I may, I rock for the Nintendo Switch membership, so I don't actually think this is that big of a deal. But, but then that even, I understand people being upset about it if it were to happen,

because it's just not the ideal way for things to go. But I think it's better than having it be a piecemeal like patch by patch paid download. But here's the thing. Having said all of this, I do think that playing Switch 1 games on Switch 2 inherently will have some type of boost. I just don't think it's going to be this game-changing thing.

I think that will have to be more of a tailored, handcrafted, like we're making this experience better type thing. And that's what these are. going to be. But at the end of the day, that's what we're going to want. We're not going to be super happy with just the basic stuff. It'll be like, oh, it's running a couple frames faster or like, things like that. But I do think that, uh, we're going to be like, why like, okay, breath of the wild, cool,

but what about tears? And it's like going to, we're not necessarily going to have that answer for, we don't know. We don't know. Yeah, I like this. Because this is, I think the, where I diverge from this is I, I think the, like, more. more detailed upgrades, like the patches that actually make big changes to

how much better this looks. I think those are going to be so few and far between. I think Breath of the Wild will get one of those. And that's based off of the conversations that happened a year or so ago, Gamescom of like 2023, I think, of people being shown versions reportedly, right? People saying, like, oh yeah, we saw a version

of Breath of the Wild that looks so much better. I think those will happen, but I do think those are going to be a very select few games. And I think, I do think that most games, not even most, most might be put it, but I think a lot more games are going to get like a basic, like, not that crazy of an upgrade, but yeah, like a

little step up. Yeah. And I think that is going to be the expectation. And I think it is going to be the thing where people are just like, all right, it is what it is, but I can get breath of the wild, it might look a lot better. And maybe, I guess maybe that could still be a switch online thing. I think you're knocking on the door, you're tapping into something. Yeah. I just hope that it's not as crazy. Yeah, I know. I mean, honestly, the thing that bugs me the most

about it is the idea of a drip feed with no timeline. Yeah. Which is the most Nintendo thing. But that is a very Nintendo thing. I think we've gotten used to that by now. There's one last thing about the Nintendo Direct that I want to put out there. This is me getting a little bit wild, but I don't think too crazy.

It's unlikely, but possible. Ocary and of Time remake. Exclusive for Switch 2. I don't think it's a big old thing, but I see them kind of wanting to sell during the direct, hey, we got a future, and you're going to want to be part of this. I don't think there is a, let me not speak to. I think if you're Nintendo and you're doing a Switch 2 presentation, you've got to put some kind of Zelda in it, like even if it's far out.

Like, Zelda, I think, is that unicorn game of, all right, people, like, we have a Mario coming out this year, most likely, right? We have a Mario, we have a Mario cart. But like, Zelda needs to be that thing on the horizon that people are like, oh, fuck, I got to get myself a Switch to. I got to get myself a Switch to because I got to play that Zelda eventually. And my bigger thing here, the reason that I added this, this was my last edition here, because I've been wavering on like, is it too crazy? I feel like it being in the launch direct of the switch, like the initial like showing off the games is a little weird.

And I'd be like, you know what? They're going to save that for their summer showcase. Their second one. They don't have that this year because this is their summer showcase. You've got to imagine. Yeah. Right. Like this being April, it's like they're not going to do one in May or June.

Yeah. So I think. We just get a tease. It could be something like the, the Wii U tech demo we saw of Zelda that we ended up never even seeing. But like, just some footage of it. I agree with that.

I agree with that. You know? Incredible stuff though. Oh. I can't. I think the only part, it's funny because we talked about this so much, the Ocary of Time remake, I'll believe it when I see it.

Like, I hope so. And I think it'd make a lot of sense. I think that could be a good, especially as like a in-between of, Tears of the Kingdom and whatever the next major Zelda is, especially if they decide to move away from the high rule that we're in in Tears the Kingdom.

Like an Ocarina remake would be such a good. All right, now here is a standalone, something different, but something very exciting. Like, as exciting as a mainline thing before we get you to whatever our next reimagined Zelda thing is. But Ocreena Time remake just sounds too good to be true.

To me, it sounds, and yes, you're right. It almost reminds me how you talk about Sonic Adventure and why Sega wouldn't want to make a Sonic adventure. It's so lofty. But there's the difference with those. There's many differences with those, but the difference in terms of like plausibility to me, I've said this many times, but for people

just listen to this episode of the show, the amount that Nintendo is investing in Breath of the Wild and Aquarina of Time styled things separately, but together, I think is very telling. When you look at all of the theme park stuff we're hearing about, when we look at the Lego set that they put out, that's the

great Deco tree, that is you can do both different styles. I think Nintendo is looking at those two styles as like things that they want to push as representing Zelda. Um, and Occurion of time, you're like, you don't get bigger than that one. You know what I mean?

Like that is the one. And it obviously has been more than long enough, uh, since the release of either the original or the 3DS remaster to introduce it to a whole new generation of gamers more Zelda fans than we've ever had by far, uh, with the switch generations. I like it.

I like it a lot. I like it too. And that's all you have for the Swiss you direct. Well, I don't want to, I mean. You don't want to spoil. Yeah, you know, there's other stuff. Clearly they're going to talk about,

like other details and stuff. But I'll get to that when we get to that. Fair enough. May. Talks me about May. Metroit Prime 2 and 3 remastered will be released. But there's got to be something weird about it. Maybe they're digital only

or only available to buy every other Tuesday or just a limited run. you can only buy them in a certain amount of time. I don't know, but there's going to be something weird, but those games will be coming out sometime before Switch 2. Interesting. And May just seems right to me. The only thing I have against it is, is it too much Metroid, right?

If you're planning on putting out Metroid Prime for, let's say, either at Switch launch or even like through the rest of the year, is giving people two Metroid Prime's before it, two Metroid Primes before it, going to like fatigue people on Metroid. Yes. Fair enough. Fair enough.

I think that maybe that's the weird Nintendo decision of it all, right? I'm just like, no, I'm with you. Like, I don't necessarily think this is a good idea. But I see it happening. Now, there's another world where we kind of flip it and two and three just come out like months after four. Yeah.

You know? I think that's what I see. Like, if four comes out, I can see two and three maybe being a early, 2026, right? Because I do think that you should remaster those and put them out as a collection. But I think the hunger is already there for a Metroid Prime 4 that like, you know, put that up front and then have that be the thing that hipes people up for two and three as opposed to the other way around. Yeah. No, and again, I think you're right. But we're not Nintendo.

That's true. You know what I mean? I mean, you're right. Um, and then, June. Yeah. a first-party Nintendo Switch game that we don't currently know about will release on the Nintendo Switch one. Okay. And I'm saying something of a level of consequence. Oh.

And it's not going to be a new Mario or a new Zelda or something like that, right? Yeah. Not a new Animal Crossing, not a new Splatoon. But you're talking about like a new donkey con. But it could, no, no, no, no. It could just be another port or another thing. But it's going to be like something on the level

of a Donkey Kong country remastered or a Mario versus Donkey Kong or I'm trying to give it Super Princess Pete Showtime. Okay. Something like that. Like that level of game. Gotcha. Maybe a Kirby game. That is the most plausible thing you ever said.

Yes. A Kirby game coming out late Switch one that we all ask like, oh, why are you putting this out right now? All right, cool. I guess we'll play the Kirby game. But this will be a game that actually, oh, thank you, Nathan the viewer. That is exactly where my head was at. Kid I'm getting a port of that

3Ds remaster I think that'd be amazing actually like they need to do that Um that's to me is the June game that we will hear about in the February direct Let me throw another one at you

Kirby playing at Robobot Potentially Yeah I think that's a very like Everyone loves that one And also that was a rumor that we talked about I think at some point yeah Was it a rumor we talked about Or it was one that there was a rumor

There was a Kirby game and then we talked it back and forth. We're like, well, it's probably Robo 5. I think Nate the hate specifically. Oh, well, then, I think that's a great pull then for that. But I think, yeah, the February direct, that's where we're starting hearing about the Metri games and whatever this ends up being, this game that releases in June.

I like it a lot. Now, Bless, I don't know if you notice. Yeah. I just did June. You did? I just did June with a random new Switch game coming out. And no Switch 2. No Switch 2.

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Go to RocketMoney.com slash Kind of Funny today. That's rocketmoney.com slash kind of funny. RocketMoney.com slash Kind of Funny. And we're back. Tim, you had a big reveal for us. But before we get to that big reveal, I want to get to some of your big super chassis that you left for us. Starting with Nathan Maloney, who writes in and says, hey, Tim and Bless, my switch two predictions. Sonic Heroes remake as a launch game, Fire Emblem Remake slash Three Houses, Definitive Edition, smash old port with added fighters like Shadow and Edelgard from Three Houses. Oh, man. Nathan, I love where your head's at. I think you're wrong about all those. yeah the Sonic Heroes remake I thought about but then because I think I you need a November Sonic game

October November Sonic game but you already have the Sonic Racing Team Sonic Racing I think that might be yeah Sonic Heroes remake I think will happen I just don't think the timing is right here it won't make Switch launch Switch to launch no and then a Fire Emblem remake we might talk about that later uh three houses definitive edition, Smash Ultimate Port. Those are things that, like, we'll have to wait and see, like, how they're handling the, it goes back to, like, what is the strategy for Switch 1 games coming to Switch 2? Like, will we even need a Switch Ultimate port or Switch Ultimate just going to be it? Smash Ultimate.

Yeah, sorry. Oh, I see. Yeah. I keep saying Switch Ultimate. Smash Ultimate, Ultimate, I can see them, and I pray that they release a cartridge version of Smash that has all of the DLC characters just on it, just so we can, like, have that, preserve that forever. I think it never take cloud away from me. Yep. Amen.

Amen to that. But getting new smash characters at its ultimate, I think that dream is over. But fuck, I still love a dream. Here's the thing. It should be over because you shouldn't add anybody else after Sora. Like, come on. Sora needs to be the final stamp on this thing.

Like, that is the way to end it. We have another one from Vishal Verma who writes in and says, Tim, I just started Mario Odyssey after being away from Nintendo for years. I can't believe how the same plumber keeps revolutionizing platformers. He encourages me to dive back in. Thank you.

Dude. Love that. Enjoy one of the best gaming experiences you'll ever have. There are a few games that I dream about as much as Mario Odyssey. You know what I mean? Let me times I wake up and I'm like, I got to play. It's crazy that I don't go back to playing Mario Odyssey as much. And I don't know why when I think about like how much I go back to playing Mario

64. But that said, I think back to it so fondly. I think it's a size and scope thing, you know. I think Mario 64 is such a just like, I think the way me and you play is very similar, where we can just pop in and we're just like, I know, we're just going to run around.

Even just going to fuck around. It feels good. You know, we're going to have some fun there. But whereas Odyssey, I feel like because there's so many moons everywhere, there's so many things to do at all points, it can kind of feel like you don't,

jumping in, you don't know what to start. Yeah. We got another one from Chris Fodoski who writes and it says, crazy Pokemon Predictions. No game but a Pokemon Center Land inside Universal Studios, Florida,

after the Epic Universe launch. this May. There have been rumors for years that it will replace Simpsonsland. I mean, I'd love that. I don't know. There's a Simpsons land. Yeah, it's very small, but it's cool as hell, actually. You get to go to Mo's Tavern. Oh, that's fun. Very sick. That's cool.

For some reason, reading Simpsons Lane, maybe think of the part in the Simpsons movie where they're in the dome. And I'm like, oh, it's probably the dome. That's probably what Simpson's land is. The most iconic Simpsons thing. The dome. Remember, Spider-pig?

That was huge. We can forget. We don't talk about Spider-Pig enough. I think we talk about Spider-Pig the exact right amount. We talked about it so much that year. And then we moved off from Spider-Pig so hard. That was like the original meme. You think about it.

I don't think you're wrong. Spider-Pig was one of the original memes. We don't give enough. Is it Spider-Ham? Is that his name? No, Spider-Pig. Spider-Pig. Spider-Pig does whatever Spider-Pig does.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. and otherwise. There we go. There is. Spider-Pig right there. Did Spider-Ham come after Spider-Pig? Oh, came before.

Yeah. Okay. Gene Sandoval writes in it says, Super Mario World remake, Wonder Graphics, or even L.O.Z. Links Awakening Art style. Ad co-op. I can hear Bowser's Castle theme

in high-quality glory. I mean, I love where your heads out. The idea of getting a remake of the 2D Mario games in some ways interesting. I don't know that I'd want it in the wonder style. Like I would want it to be something that's new and totally different.

But what I'd really want the most that I'm surprised they haven't went back and actually done is just like widescreen versions of the games. Because you can kind of do it in Mario Maker, right? Yeah. Where you're using the Mario World style, but it's widescreen.

Like it's weird. There's no official way to play Mario World, Mario 3, Mario 2, Mario 1 in widescreen. What if we did the opposite it and like scrunched it a little bit and put it on a handheld and call it the Lux. Okay, add a multi-player mode. There you go.

At a multiplayer mode for no reason. Oh man, Super Mario deluxe was the way I beat Super Mario Brothers one. And like, man, that was an experience. Like, that was like, I hold that near and dear. Even though I later, I learned that was the worst way to play that game. Is it the worst way? But it's not the most ideal. But there's some additions to it that were really cool.

Like, there was an actual like World Map. Yeah. Oh, roadmap was cool. I mean, that was the only way I would ever beat Mario 1, honestly, is like by playing a game boy game that would save where I'm at in the world. Because otherwise, God, there's no whales beating that as a kid. And then one more from Hooded Robin and Raisin and says, do you think they combine black in black two or stage it as two different games still?

Also, loving the Tommy Versetti fit today, Tim. Timi Versetti, man,'s what they call me. I realize like people, everyone's, oh, Tim, it looks like you just came from Miami. I'm like, I think I just really like Miami style. It's fair. They got style over there. Do they combine them? I mean, no, dude.

Again, WNDs. You get black one and you're going to like it. Will we ever get black two? Probably not. Sorry. Just like we got Alpha Sapphire and Omega Ruby. And it was like, well, why didn't you adapt the stuff from Emerald that like made it even better? Remake that.

No. Okay. That's just not how they roll. WNDs. Tim, tell me about what happens in July. So July is where we start to cook, everybody. That's when things get really real. because on July 11th, 2025,

the Nintendo Switch 2 will be released. July 11th, dropping. For $400 U.S. dollars. Ugh. I feel this price is a lock and in fact plus. Yes. I think it's a good thing. You just made a, oh, sound.

I think we'll be lucky if it's $400. I mean, the more I think about it, the more you're right. Even after yesterday, because yesterday I said $3.50. Which is crazy. Yeah, which is crazy. But like, even this morning reading about like, the, some of the terrorist stuff that's happening, right?

Like, I'm not, I'm not even, like, that type of stuff, I feel like I'm not equipped to predict and all that stuff. Yeah. My $400 bet is if things were quote, unquote, normal. Yeah. So who the fuck knows what's going to happen? But $400 of as if it was being priced right now. Are, how's the world going to react to $400?

Fine. Yeah. Be working black, right? That is entirely reasonable for what this is going to be. Yeah. And in the state that we're in the year of 2025, $400 for a Switch 2. I think that if it's too cheap, it's actually what works against Nintendo for what this console is supposed to be. Yeah.

We have a console for people who want to pay $300 and under, and it's called the Switch 1. Exactly. I mean, especially with already how they're marketing this of like, oh, it plays Switch 1 games. It's a message. It's an ecosystem, everybody. That's why Pokemon's still going to be Switch 1, okay? That's not it. That's not all I'm there.

Of course not. Of course not. We got to talk some launch games. Metroid Prime 4 Beyond is a launch title. Of course, cross-gen, Switch 1 and Switch 2. It will go on to be easily the best-selling Metroid game of all time. We'll get a lot of third-party support at the launch. Eldon Ring will be there.

Final Fantasy 7 remake will be there. Wow. Civilization 7 will be there. Mouse support, of course. Yeah. Big thing there. Big thing there. but Metroid Prime 4 will not be the only first party game that comes out on this day.

This is one of the predictions that I am less confident in, but I think adds up in a world for me that I'm like, ooh, it checks a lot of boxes. Back in the day on the Super Nintendo, they released a game called Super Mario World 2, Yoshis Island, right? Yes, they did. Then eventually on the Game Boy Advance, they put out. a game called, I don't even remember exactly, but Super Mario Mario Advance for Super Mario World 2, Yosea Silent.

A lot of bullshit. Mario Maker 3, Mario Paint 2. Jesus Christ, I'm not actually going to call it that. They're not actually going to call it that. I'm just joking, I'm just joking, but what it is, is Mario Maker 3. And the big, what's it going to be different is it'll be Mario Maker, like we know, like we love, but there will be other game modes of things that you can make.

and that will be Mario Paint-style stuff. For those that don't know, Mario Paint was a Super Nintendo game that prominently featured a peripheral. I just spit a lot with every P that I said. The S&S mouse. Yeah. Many people played this game.

Many people loved this game. This game let you paint. This game lets you make music. It lets you use Nintendo sound fonts to make Nintendo songs. There was a game called Nat Attack. It was awesome. A lot of the elements,

both UI, sound effects, the saving robot, the loading robot, all that stuff, were used in Mario Maker, one and two. Mario Maker, in a lot of ways, already is a spiritual successor to Mario Paint. I think with mouse support, adding more Mario Paint modes to a Mario Maker, makes a lot of sense. And also, I think that this is a good, okay, we got Metroid Prime for the hardcore big boys and girls out there. This is something to sell the parents on, oh, but there's something educational. There's something more family friendly.

And also, 2D Mario stuff. Of course, there need to be new art styles or something. So it's not just Mario Maker 2 again. Mario Maker 2 being backwards compatible. I understand there's a lot of things of like, this doesn't add up. WNDs, everybody. Does it make sense for Mario Maker 3 to be a Switch 2 launch title? Does it have the juice?

That's the only thing that gives me positive is it being a launch title. Mario Maker 2, over 8 million copies sold. many years ago. That's nothing to shake a stick at. That's true. Because we're talking about a launch of like, oh, is that enough juice for the launch? Motherfuckers,

do you listen to me just say, Metroid Prime 4, Final Fantasy 7, remake, Eldon, Ring, civilization, seven, like, that's so tight enough to be in a banger launch. Here's where I take fault with this, is I think when we're talking about third party, too much juice.

Like, how much is too much when we're talking about launch? Now, like, this could be the month, right? This could be a launch. All this doesn't have to come out on day one, obviously, right? Like you can get week one, B, Eldon and Ring, week two, get FF7, you know, three weeks into the month get SIF 7. But I still feel like it's a lot.

So I feel like two out of three or maybe one out of three of these. I'm kind of casting a wide net here. But while I think you're right, I also think we need to remember that launches are exciting. Launches are times that people are like, oh, I want to, I'm writing this new fancy thing. I want to get stuff around it. And I think that these games, none of these are new. Siv 7 at that point will be four months. months old. Yeah. So, because it's February to July, right? Five months. So I think that like this is not

too much because it's not like it's the brand new hotness that's competing with something. This is just from software and Square and 2K double dipping. So they don't necessarily see it as like a man, we need a big marketing beat for these. Like you're not going to get a bigger marketing beat than the switch to launch as Nintendo is presenting it alongside everything as Target has it on its kiosks and all that stuff. Like, I think that kind of adds up. Think about the PS4 launch. Think about the PS5 launch.

You know what I mean? You get a handful, a couple, if even, handful. That's not right. You get one or two, if even, first party titles. And then you just get a bunch of the heavy hitter third party. But I think for the third parties, right? For PS5, there's this game. It's called the Pathless.

And that was a PS5 launch title. And let me tell you. I also got another going to talk about the sackboy, a big adventure, but I'll get there in a second, right? The Pathless, I played through. absolutely loved. Played the fuck out of that game. One of my games of the year probably.

Actually, I don't think it was because I don't think it was in my top ten. But I played the fuck out of the path list, trust me, y'all. And the reason I played the fuck out of the path list was, one, because it was a good game, but also because it was a PS4 or no, PS5 launch title. Same with Sack Boys A Big Adventure. I feel like you can put out, like, some of your, like, mid-tier to, like, lower high-tier and have you able to be a launch thing. and people will play it like it's the best thing ever.

People will devour it like it's a, like a cracker when you're hungry, right? Like, I'll fucking just eat the shit up. And like, I feel like you could do that and then months later be like, all right, when it has space, let's, yeah, let's do the big marketing beat for Elven Ring or let's do that for like Siv coming to Switch

because it is a big deal. But I do feel what you're talking about, right? Like, I think one of these, at least one of these comes to the Switch at launch. So, I don't know which one, but I think at least one of them. JG in the chat brings up something that I had not put together

and is making me doubt this. Civilization 77 is coming to the switch already. Oh, is it? No way, really? They're right. They're saying that it's coming in February. Holy shit. Which does incredibly change this.

It makes, no, no, no. They're not going to do a switch too then during launch for that. Interesting. I don't think it's crazy for Final Fantasy 7 remake and Eldon Ring to both be launched. I think, I've said this many times. I think Eldon Ring being there, Day one with the Switch 2 is a message

that Nintendo wants to send. So I think that that's going to be a priority for them. And then on top of that, I think that Final Fantasy 7 remake, another one of the games that they talked about at Gamescom. It was that and Breath of the Wild, right? That we've seen running the Switch 2 hardware. So I just think that that makes sense. And also, we're talking about remake. We're not talking about rebirth.

See, Chad is throwing out a game. Baldur's Gate 3. That'd be fucking sick. That's where I'm at. That'd be fucking. sick with the mouse too. See that one I could see. That one I would almost put money on like if it's not

launch in the first 12 months I think you're going to see Balders Gate 3 on Switch 2 that's got to happen. The one more thing I'll say on Mario Maker 3 and I think the thing that gives me pause not even that it doesn't have the juice because I think you're right as far as like 8 million sold like it'll push

I guess you could argue that it'll push units but I think even more so like it is a title of consequence I do think that Mario Maker, especially with like if we are going to Mario Paint round, if we're adding in these new features, I think it's one that'll take quite a bit of like explanation

from Nintendo as far as how you go about marketing it, how you go about talking about it, right? Like, I think you need to give that one maybe spaced by itself as opposed to space by like all the other launch games to thrive. And then also I don't know if it fits the bill as far as like something that is a kitty. If you're

looking at it as like the opposition to Metriot Prime 4, which is going to be, you know, first person shooter, violent, shit. We need something for the kids. I think Mario Maker, I don't know if Mario Maker's for the kids. I feel like that's for us. Think about it as Mario Paint 2, which is very much for the kids. Okay.

And that's to me the kind of like how this fits. And I also think that a big thing is, I think you predicted, and I've heard a couple of predictions that we're going to get like everybody, one, two, switch or one two switch type game. I don't think we do. Yeah. I think that the focus during the February or the April direct that's going to talk about, Switch 2 and the mouse support and all that stuff,

that is a Mario Maker time for them to explain why this matters. And I think that they don't need to explain much about Mario Maker because we know. But I think going back to explaining the more educational slash, educational was a weird word there, but more like this is a good use of your time. Learning how to play music,

like going real deep into some of the Mario paint stuff. I think that is a cell to parents for more kid focused things. I can't explain to you the amount of fun I had with Mario Paint just coloring things in when I was a little kid Things are different you know I like gone are the days Actually I don't know if this is true or not As a kid there was nothing more exciting than MS Paint

Oh yeah you know Do kids still get excited about that or is that just such a basic It's everywhere so who cares I mean I was a 30 year old man I got to I got I imagine no I just don't know but I do think that if you're putting up Mario pictures that you then get to color in. That's a kid's dream, dude. Yeah.

And I say that as a kid that loved doing that. I wonder if there's a way to even feed in. Because when I think about what our kids into nowadays, I meet my mind and me legal. So like TikTok and content creation, which is like what Mario Maker is technically. I wonder if there are ways to feed that in of like, what if you could, yeah,

color in Mario, but like then make him move or something and like make a record a fun video or like do stuff like that and share it around with your friends. If you can figure out to loop that in with social feature, Yeah. I think you're cooking. Because you could do that in Mario Paint. You could do basic animations.

Oh, could you really? Yes, you do multiple. We don't play Mario Paint, man. Dude, Mario Paint was awesome because, yeah, you could literally, you can go in, you can draw pictures, like multiple frames, and then they would, like, switch between each other. You can then go in and make music and put the music underneath the thing. You can make videos in Mario Paint. Oh, that's cool.

And very, very basic. It was Super Nintendo, but, like, what could they do now? I think there's something here. Launch might be lofty, but there's something. about all of that that I think adds up. All right. So that's July. Is there anything else left for a July? That's July. That's where I want to stop.

All right. Until we get to August. Let's get to August. Mario Kart 9 will not be released in the first year of the Nintendo Switch 2. Tim. In fact, Mario Kart 9 will never be released

on the Nintendo Switch 2. Mario Kart X will be released. on the Nintendo Switch 2 in August 2025, one month after the Nintendo Switch 2 launch. I love you. People might say, X, how are we going to jump there?

There's been an arcade Mario Kart, but we don't count that because you can't own that. Mario Kart Tour is a game that came out after Mario Kart 8 that you can own that Nintendo can see as Mario Kart 9. this allows them to jump straight to Mario Kart 10, aka Mario Kart X.

When you look at Mario Kart 8, and you look at that 8 in the logo, it kind of represents this like anti-grab, infinite loopy type situation. Yep. That kind of defined the aesthetics of Mario Kart 8. What is X often used for? Hmm.

I like this guy. Cross. This means crossover? Crossover? Interesting. Mario Kart X. It's the Super Smash Brothers of Mario Kart, baby.

I like how you're thinking even though I, when we get to X, what's so funny is like I got to, when you said, what does X make you think of, right? For me, it is crossroads. And more so, it's the idea of, shout out of

Kevin for bringing up the everybody's here, kind of thing for Mario Kart here. I love Funky Kong being on the cart. And I want you explain more of your thing because I'm really interested. But like I think of like when you look through the the gameplay footage of the next Mario car in the Switch 2 thing, right? Like it looks like maybe the track is shifting as you go. Like maybe you can make multiple tracks out of like the same like area type thing. So my mind immediately goes to like roads crossing over and it being the thing or even being the thing of in Burnout Paradise. We meet at the crossroads. We start a race there type thing.

I'm very fascinated by all right, everybody's here. It is a crossover. Mario Kart X is bringing everybody in. When you say everybody, who do you mean by everybody? That's my thing. Everybody's here.

I'm semi-joking because I think it could get there. But my idea is I think the X can represent multiple things because I do think that it could be a crossover of characters. But I think that the footage they showed is a little bit of a red herring that we've seen so far of this next Mario Kart. The road that we saw and like how open it was, how big it was, the 24 playable characters,

the characters they showed us. I think this is all very purposeful to like get us talking about certain things, but there's so much they're not showing us with this. I think it's too early to like jump into like, oh, like you were bringing up the wonder thing and it changing the roads and all that stuff. Yeah. I think it's a little too early for that. I also think it's a little too early to even necessarily get into it's going to be a

fort's a horizon, open world type thing. I think there'll be elements of that. I don't think it's going to be full on that, but I do think it'll be a Nintendo version of that to some extent. Almost like a Bowser's Fury type open world as opposed to a Odyssey type open world, you know? But you're bringing up Sonic cross worlds or whatever it's called. Nintendo's to give a fuck.

No. Nintendo's like, oh cute, Sonic's racing cars. Yeah. We got Mario Kart. I don't think that that necessarily matters. I'm sure they're kind of like, oh, that sucks, that the cross would be in both of them, but they ain't looking at that way.

But yeah, in terms of everyone's here, I think it just, yeah, represents multiple Nintendo properties. I think that we'll just have different characters in it. Clearly, we're still going to get new Mario Kart world levels. Like this Yoshi level that we're seeing here, we've never seen it before. It's not from any Mario game, any Nintendo game, or whatever. We're going to get those,

but I also think that we will be visiting other worlds, which we've done before. But I think we'll just do it in a bit more of an official way. Because we've done in Maricard 8 Deluxe had like the Animal Crossing one. There was an F0 back I think. I believe, yeah. It was like a Zelda one as well. So it would be dope to get way more of those, right?

Like if half of the tracks. Wait, have we gotten Swatoon? Are you saying we? Okay, yeah. Oh, for sure. We're going to get a smoothing. We got inklings in it though, but we didn't get an inkling level. Gotcha.

Mario Cardi Deluxe by the end of it, like kind of is already really working towards this. But again, I just think leaning into the X for the marketing to explain what's difference about this game about this one. I think that could be really exciting. I also am very interested in the direction they go with the soundtrack because Mario Card 8 is like one of the best soundtracks ever. They went so hard into that like big band jazz renditions of everything. So I wonder what they're going to do here.

But, um... Rap rock. Let's go. We can only hope. Limbiscuit rolling, rolling for everything. But yeah, Mario Cardax, everybody. I like it. I like it.

And also I think you're spot on with like them skipping nine or not skipping. been nine technically because we're going to call it tour, but yeah. Listen, if Microsoft and the iPhone have taught me anything, it's that companies don't like nine for some reason. Skip over the nine if you can. All right. Hit me with the next month. September.

The legend of Zelda, Windwaker, will be released on the Nintendo Switch 1. Oh. I mean, you're right. Who cares? I'm going to Nintendo. Yeah, whatever. It'll be fine. It'll be fine.

Yeah. I can play it on my switch to you, I guess. I think, yeah, I think anything that we want, it'll be fine. Yeah. Not Twilight Princess. Boo. Come on, man. I don't know.

It'll come. Eventually. Maybe. The treat, tweet, tweet, treat Twilight Princess with some respect. God dang it. Yeah. My thoughts here are, uh, wind waker is, uh, it's been longer since we've got it because it was on the Wii U.

It was already boarded, but we more recently got the Twilight Princess Wii U. right? So I think that they're going to still stagger the releases of this, and we're still going to be questioning when, why? But yeah, I don't think it'll be a dual pack. I think it'll be a single release, and I don't think they even mentioned Twilight Princess

when they talk about Winwaker. I can see it. No matter how many years it's been since we've been predicting that these games are already done and just sitting there. Very plausible. I like it. October. definitely

one that I don't have much to say but I don't think I need to say much Halo Master Chief Collection Hallelujah Everybody All signs are pointing to this happening Right That more Microsoft more Xbox games

Are going to make their way To PS5 And Nintendo Switch 2 Halo Master Chief Collection has been thrown around I actually think it's a great pull I think that there will be crossplay And I think that there will be a moment In October

That Halo's back baby that moment will not last long. I was going to say, like, how well is going to work? I think it's going to work. You think it's going to work pretty well? I think it's going to work. Yeah. And I think that there's going to be this like renaissance weekend, maybe two.

Yeah. Oh my God. People on PlayStation and Nintendo and Xbox were all in Battle Creek and it's awesome. And then that's going to fade. But the game will come out and it'll be available on the Nintendo Switch. Love that. November. The next big 3D Mario will release in November, 2025.

November. so far into the year and the reason for that is everything's just pushed back from our normal predictions because we've been working off of a Switch 2 is coming in March maybe April

but now they're like oh we're not getting the direct till April everything's a couple months back so because of that I don't think that they're gonna want to release all these big games that we're talking about like Mario cart and Mario that close together

give it just a couple months yeah but then you get weird with the game of the year type stuff like does Mario miss out on that no it comes out too late. It's Mario. So I feel like the people are going to rock for Mario. I think that's the type of the reason he buys if, and not

to even think of, like, I'm even thinking of game awards like eligibility. I think you'll make it before that before the cutoff, which is normally November 16th. Like, yeah, like midway through November. I can see the game releasing November 14th or something, but people will have reviewed it like the weeks before that and you know, I'm pretty sure that everybody playing Mario the next

one for review by that point. You're thinking about game of the year. You're thinking about it and you'll know like, is it hidden or is it not? Yeah. know, it will feature Donkey Kong. Yeah. And Peach. And Luigi. And possibly more.

All playable. Because it will be Odyssey style open, millions of things to collect stars or moons or whatever the fuck. But co-op multiplayer. Interesting. Of course you could play it by yourself. But it's 3D Mario. Not just the isometric.

platforming, challenge-based, get to the end of the level style of 3D world. More like a Bowser's Fury that is a bit more open, but way more open, like Odyssey. Multiplayer co-op. How? Why?

What's the idea here? Can I go anywhere in the level? Like, explain to me how this isn't going to work. Yeah, that's what it is. I'm thinking, think about the rise recently in the Mario Kart 64, now that's been ported to PC of people adding multiplayer,

and they're just in the levels together, collecting different stars together. That's true. Think about that. Think about playing a Mario Odyssey level. Think about being in New Dong City with multiple of your friends, and you're all collecting moons together. You can race to see who gets the most moons.

You can work together for moons. I just... Is there anything Nintendo loves more than a group of friends hanging out on a couch, having fun with a plumber? Yeah, I'm just trying to think of it from like a gameplay sense as far as like it what is the co-op giving you aside from sitting next to your friend i guess playing the same thing right because then i guess i'm thinking about would i want to play a game co-op with a friend where they're like collecting my stars for me it's like no man i'm playing this

this whole ship by myself i feel like unless it is us going through the same like if it was a more linear mario game of course like okay cool we're going through the same course together picking each other up throwing each other like having fun in that way i feel like in an open 3d explorable world, what are the things that are bringing you together to like fuck with each other or like pick each other up

or help each other. I think that's the Nintendo Magic. I think they'll figure that out. They'll find the fun there. And I think also it wouldn't be too hard to come up with ways of like you only get

on your save file the stars that you get. Right? There could be some like group oh we need to get this much to get to the next level or like there could be some multiplayer specific stars

potentially. Are you thinking online most player? Yeah. interesting. Yeah. Or more for them, just like local, we're together, each on our own switch playing together. You know, local ones and play.

Yeah, like ad hoc or whatever is called. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Yeah. It's interesting. I was trying to get realistically spicy with, uh, not just saying, oh, it's Mario Donkey Kong, because I've been saying that forever.

But like, I think that with where Nintendo's at and with where 3D Mario is at, and with where, like, the experience people want to have, they just want to hang out with their friends and be in a world and there's no world cooler than the mushroom kingdom. I agree with that. And yeah, like I see something there's prolicious in chat

so as Blessing used to watch in 64 co-op mods. The thing is I have, right? Like I used to get, what I used to, I get them on TikTok. I guess I used to get them on TikTok all the time, right? And my thing with those is that those oftentimes, whenever I see them

are people speed running, right? It is, all right, how fast can we get 120 stars with two people playing at the same time and doing all this stuff? I think for Nintendo to do this with, a mainline like Mario Odyssey for example right those games in a sense aren't necessarily they are built for speed running but they're not

that's not the way most people are playing those games so like how do you casualize like the co-op experience of playing a Mario and I guess I could see it being a thing of hey like it is just hanging out it is people hang out in Fortnite exactly and so that's the thing is like there's there's a difference between Mario 64 and Mario Odyssey with how this works 64 you get a star boot you back to the castle there's six stars a level and that's it they're

mission focused. Mario Odyssey, this fucking screw it, 69 million moons per level. Like one of them, you have to go through this gauntlet of platforming challenge. One of them you have to figure out a puzzle. The other one, you just need to jump on a guy with a hat. It's like, there's no rhyme or reason, really.

The rhyme of reason is it fun, right? And I think that it's like allowing a group of friends to hang out and just live in that level together and just collect random things. That's, it writes itself. I mean, I got a weird Nintendo decision to layer on of this you're going to hate.

Because I could see you being right. And in fact, I think if you are right, the way it's going to work is, it's going to be local and it's not going to be split screen. The way it's going to work is the same exact way it worked in GTA, St. Andreas, where y'all couldn't go too far away from each other. Like, I think they're going to use that as a way to, like, keep people together so that it is always like this like togetherness of playing. You know what I mean?

And also, yeah, like, I think it's going to be limited. Like, I think if they do that, it's going to be very limited. I don't. I think that if they do this, I think it'll be because they figured it out, like, how to make this actually a viable, worthy thing. I think the bubble system in the New Super Mario Brothers games was a good example of them having figured out, hey, there's a problem here. Like, what if this happens? It's like, oh, we have a solution. I think there'll be something similar there, but I think that it'll function more where there's, like, some type of way to fast travel to each other.

It's like if somebody's doing something like, oh fuck I need you guys Then it can just be like a You know Yeah And then then you're together And it's like that solves that Just like again

It's about keeping the fun going Okay I do like the idea of playing All these different characters though We play Donkey Kong In a 3D Mario game Uh we've I mean again

Mario 64 DS Did something very similar For what I'm saying Yeah Give it to me December I've already said this before But this probably is

actually my least likely to have happened, at least on this timeline. But there's something about December that screams three words to me. I know what they are. For Smash Brothers. Yeah. Smash Brothers melee, baby. Oh. Yeah. I mean, I like it. I like it. It's year one though. Yeah. Year one. Mm-hmm. December. Yeah. Just the thing. We're not trying to get game awards. We're just trying to sell shit. Oh, yeah. I'm trying to keep people happy. I like it. Yeah, it's a weird one, but like,

I think inevitably we're going to get melee again. I hope so. So, and a big X factor to me on this is they're going to want to get smash, a new smash on Switch 2 within the first two years. And so the big question is, what do they do with Ultimate? Like, is there an upgraded port? Are there new characters? Is there some there?

Or Ultimates on Switch 1, so you have it on Switch 2. when did Ultimate come out? 2018? Mm-hmm. Okay, so that wasn't... Yeah, that wasn't the first two years. You're right about that. Yeah, I'm very curious.

I think... I wonder... Yeah, I know. I don't know what's tough. I think there is a chance there. I think for sure, melee, like bringing back melee somehow or porting melee, I think would be such a slam dunk decision.

It's one that... It's so slam dunk... slam dunk that, like, I worry if Nintendo would actually get there, right? Because I think they have this thing that... they're kind of anti-competition, right? They're anti-competitive, like making their games for like the competitive scene, right?

They lean towards, you get to brawl and they put in the banana slipping in there, or not even banana slipping, just tripping in there, right, to like throw people off and like try to keep it less competitive. So I wonder if melee is a thing that they want to revive for how resistant they are to that oftentimes. That's why I think this is just a random December release. I don't think it's going to be like the most mind-blowing thing ever.

I do think it's like, hey, y'all been asking, we're going to give it to you. Go here. Be happy. Because they don't have a new smash. Yeah. Like I don't think we're like anywhere close to that. It'll happen. But like I don't think that it's like imminent.

So I think they're just going to want a new smash skew out there. Do you think this happens over them just doing, um, adding GameCube to Nintendo Switch online and having smash old or smash melee be maybe like one of the first games for it? Something tells me that they're not stupid and they know that they can make a lot of money by, just doing a paper Mario thousand-year door style remake of melee just it's the same fucking game but it just has some upgraded sell it for full price

and it will sell I hope you're speaking to my heart I know you make me dream to him I don't want to dream too hard I don't want to get disappointed but you're speaking to me I like it we're into January now one of my final ones here

is your 12th month yes it is I have a bonus 13 oh okay my 12th month here Fire emblem Genealogy of the Holy War The Fire Emblem 4 Super Nintendo remake

This game exists I'm pretty sure this game is done We've heard way too much about this game We've heard way too much about Wind Waker and Twilight Princess We've heard way too much about Metroid Prime 2 and 3 I think it's time to just get all those things out the way Let's do it So I think it is time finally

And it's out for a switch one That's where I'm a little lazy but probably like it is funny going through this because I'm like all right a lot of the predictions I'm making are switch one but then I'm like but is that crazy I don't think it is and I also think that like in a year that I'm also predicting a 3D Mario and Mario car and Metroid Prime that is going to be available on switch to some extent like I don't think it needs that any more things you don't get much bigger than those things so again like I think to your point right like you think about the big games that came out for the switch one launch year and it's not like they put out a billion things right like they did actually put out I think a lot for a launch year but like they put out what Zelda Breath of the Wild

Mario Card 8 Deluxe Arms Splatoon 2 Mario Odyssey and they filled in the rest with like Super Street Fighter yeah there were like Nintendo backed games Bottom Man R exactly Super Bottom Man R

but it was like RMX like they had Snipper Clips like they had those games like so I'm expecting that balance of of maybe like five, depending on, I guess we're getting it later in the year, so it's hard to even quantify, but let's say four, four or five big games with like a bunch of Nintendo backed

small to like mid tier like double A like games to back it up, right? Like that's what I'm expecting. And that's my thing too is going off of this of like, if I'm right that it's coming out in July, we are just talking about six months of the year. I don't think we're gonna get five big Switch two games. That's crazy.

So yeah, yeah, just kind of be a little realistic. And also, like, again, to your point of the Switch 1 stuff, how many millions of people have Switch 1 still? Like, they got to keep feeding those people. They're not just going to cut that off out of nowhere. And then also, it being a Fire Enblem remake, we just got engaged not too long ago, which was a new game.

So I just think we're back on the path of the echoes, if they still use that branding. And then February, this is just a fun little bonus I wanted to throw in here, the 13th month. Kirby and the Forgotten Land, we'll get a sequel announced in a Nintendo Direct. It'll have a new subtitle. Kirby and the something.

But it'll be a follow-up and we're going to be very, very excited. Kirby in the Chamber of Secrets. Maybe. Kirby and the Prisoner of Ascombeen. Probably not. Kirby and the Deathly Hollows part two. I'm in. Let's go. I like it. I think you're right. Wait, so

what are the changes we get a Kirby game? Like a 3D Kirby game in April during the upcoming direct. I think that that's a phase two game. We don't need it that soon. I don't think. Fair enough.

Yeah. Is that your final prediction? That is my final prediction. Him I love your predictions. Thank you. You got me so excited now. I'm like, I'm not about you yesterday. It's funny because at the beginning of KGD, Greg was asking about my hype levels for the switch too, right?

And I'm like, you know, I don't know of the mind coming off of the hardware announcement, right? Like, I'm excited for it, but I'm still the same amount of excited that I've always been. don't think the hardware announcement necessarily like push me all over the edge of oh man i can't wait for it like i need this now like i'm waiting for the Nintendo direct to tell me all the games that are going to come to this thing to then really get me excited your predictions you just ran me through man you know you're pushing me like i might be over the edge now so with that for me uh i i said this earlier of just like trying to come up with this and like it's hard to look at patterns or whatever but like i rewatched a lot of the Nintendo presentation in 2017 that was the real

blowout of the switch. And a lot of it made sense. A lot of it was good news. I think in retrospect, looking at it, you're like, oh, wow, there was a lot of banger games

that they talked about there. But there was just a lot of timing things, a lot of things that were weird of, the amount of people that I've seen be like, there's no way that Mario Kart 9's not a launch title because they showed it as in the Switch 2 launch thing. I'm like, if you think there's no way,

like you don't understand how this works. Again, I don't think that it's impossible. I actually think that there's a good chance. It's a launch final. Yeah. But I also think that there's a very good chance. It's not, but it's close.

But yeah, Mario Kart and Mario Odyssey, both in the initial commercial that they showed, but then even in the switch presentation when they were going through it, like, I remember getting towards the end of it when they were talking about Breath of the Wild, and there was a question of like, is this not going to make launch?

And then it did, thank God. But like, we're in that point right now of there's a lot of pieces on the table just because there's a way that like, oh, obviously, they're going to fall this way. They might not. Whenever the word obviously is in the same sentence as Nintendo, take out the word

obviously. Get it out of there because they're Nintendo man. You never know. You never know. I want to bring in some super chats real quick to close out the show. CJ splits and writes in and says, return of battle clash, question mark. I don't think I know what battle clash is. I don't know what that is. That sounds like either a mobile game

that makes a lot of money or a flash game that makes zero money. Deer 6 that writes in and says, will cloud-based games like Control, Kingdom Hearts, Guardians of the Galaxy, etc., get natively running skews or updates on Switch 2? I think Kingdom Hearts will. I don't expect the others, too.

Yeah, I can see them getting skews, but I don't think it's going to be a marketed thing of, oh, these cloud games are now natively playable. I think they'll just happen to get skews. Bobby Joe writes in and it says, a Pokemon maker with slap. I don't even know what that looks like. That would be wild.

Was that like you're making dungeons? maybe or something. Oh, that'd be cool actually. You make the dungeons and like you place trainers to then stop the character, the player character and you like choose what Pokemon they have and the move set and shit. Let me cook Nintendo. Also, just play polaroog. Gene Sandoval says instead of Mario Maker, it's Nintendo Maker and it implements the Nintendo

Music App library. I got really caught up earlier just because I wanted to make the Mario Maker 3 Mario Paint 2 joke. I do think that the Mario Paint stuff I feel really strongly about just because of the kid-friendly focus and how Nintendo would want to think of it even thinking about Labo and like some of the style of game that Nintendo likes to have

but I wouldn't be surprised if maybe Mario Maker 2 the sequel does evolve I just don't know a branding name that's like that enhances it more but that maybe this is where we get other types of games that you can make as well where it's not just Mario I think Zelda might be too ambitious of a thing for that, but like some different types of styles, it's more of a Nintendo

maker, a Nintendo game maker. It's just the tough to think about the other games that could get the maker treatment, right? Maybe Kirby, it would be like 2D platformers, I think. Yeah. Right, so Kirby, maybe Yoshi and then you start to trail off a little bit. It gets kind of tough.

Totally. Joey Ratstone writes in and says, great show. Thanks for it while I'm off sick today. Thank you for watching Joey. And then finally, Samson L. writes in and says, Tim, wait, What about Pokemon Zah? We talked about Pokemon Zah, right? We did.

So I think Pokemon Presents in next month. We'll see it and get a lot more information on it. I imagine we'll get a date on it. But I, real talk, like, I don't feel confident enough to give any type of prediction on where it will fall. Because it could be anywhere. It really could be. It could be coming out in April or June or July. Or November.

Or November. Like, I don't know. So yeah, I'm a little, I'm pretty hazy on that. And I feel like I don't have any confidence in like locking that down. And yeah, earlier I was saying like, so I think it's a Switch 1 game. Will it get Switch 2 enhancements day one or maybe? That is the thing that I think is important to note about my prediction about the Switch to Enhancements of things like Tears of the Kingdom and Mario Odyssey,

that they're not necessarily going to have them. We won't know when they're going to get them, but just at some point they'll happen. I think when the new Switch one games come out, things like Metroid Prime or Pokemon Zah or forgot what other ones I Wind Waker. Yeah. I think those will have them Day 1. Oh, okay. I see what you're saying. Yeah.

All right. But they're probably behind NSO. God, I hope not. I just hope it's I don't know, consumer friendly. You know, just be more consumer friendly companies. Nintendo. Nintendo. That does bring us to the end of this episode of Kind of Funny Games cast. Tim, thank you for bringing your predictions.

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