Nintendo Switch 2 Pre-Orders, Oblivion, Clair Obscur - Game Junction Podcast #128

The Nintendo Switch 2 has sent shockwaves through the gaming community with pre-orders finally going live—and what a wild ride it's been! We break down every aspect of this momentous gaming event, from the surprisingly manageable online queues to the lightning-fast sellouts.

Unlike the nightmare scenarios of PS5 and graphics card launches past, Nintendo seems to have learned valuable lessons. While still chaotic, the implementation of virtual queuing systems and staggered release windows created what we're calling "five times easier than the PS5 launch and 50 times easier than any 50-series cards launch." We share our personal triumphs in securing our consoles and analyze how each major retailer handled the unprecedented demand.

The episode dives deep into what's coming for Switch 2 owners at launch, with particular attention to the impressive technical capabilities being showcased by games like Cyberpunk 2077. Using NVIDIA's DLSS technology, the Switch 2 demonstrates significant horsepower that opens exciting possibilities for third-party support. However, we raise concerns about the growing trend of physical releases containing merely download codes rather than actual game cartridges.

While celebrating Nintendo's hardware achievements, we spotlight Clear Obscure: Expedition 33, the surprise hit that's sold 500

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Chapters

• 0:00 Switch 2 Pre-Order Experience
• 23:32 [Ad] PodMatch
• 24:10 (Cont.) Switch 2 Pre-Order Experience
• 28:27 Exploring Upcoming Games For Switch 2
• 52:13 Game Key Cards vs Full Cartridges
• 1:03:48 Pokémon & Nintendo Museum Updates
• 1:23:37 GameStop's Future and Retail Changes
• 1:48:03 Spotlight on Clear Obscure: 2024's Surprise Hit
• 2:05:18 Final Thoughts and Outro

Transcript

Mark Trobough: 0:03

hey everybody, what's up? This is episode 128 of the game junction podcast. I'm your, one of your hosts, mark, here with brandon. How's it going? What's up, my dude?

Brandon Hurles: 0:15

how's it going, bro? It's been a week and a half in the video game world, bro. Yeah, it's been a crazy, crazy week.

Mark Trobough: 0:22

Then got a friday and stuff. Hopefully it slows down for at least the weekend dude it legit like no joke.

Brandon Hurles: 0:28

Uh, this brought it on more when I thought about it because asman gold took a break for the week, took a little vacation.

Brandon Hurles: 0:34

Oh, yeah, I saw a post and he's like all this stuff coming out that asman wanted to play and it's all like great stuff right coming out and it's like the one week you take a break you got all this and then doom in two weeks, when that doom looks absolutely incredible. You have to play that mark. I think you'll love it. Looks, oh my god. Looks so god tier. The last two were fantastic. I bet that game. It gets mech, you get. You get a mech and fight kaiju you freaking get. I mean it's insane, bro, and it's open world. It's the first open world doom.

Mark Trobough: 1:05

So everything else up until now has been been pretty linear. I still haven't beaten doom 2016 that's okay, I mean. So this is a prequel, so it's actually works out oh yeah, or is this equal to doom 2016 or to the og doom? Prequel to 2016 nah man, we, we need to bring the old bro.

Brandon Hurles: 1:23

I think you've never even played the OG Doom, get out of here, you can play it on your refrigerator right now.

Mark Trobough: 1:30

You can, but have you. The original. I've played it. I'm not beating it, but I've played it.

Brandon Hurles: 1:36

You haven't beaten the original Doom.

Mark Trobough: 1:38

Why would I? It's just a game with no story. Brandon Bro, it does have a story. You have to read the liner games had a story wink wink it was in the book, bro.

Brandon Hurles: 1:50

Yeah, man, that was good enough, zelda. Good enough, it was in the book. You know what?

Mark Trobough: 1:55

you gotta save the princess.

Brandon Hurles: 1:56

That's the story of like but I mean I love, I truly I do love the original doom and I actually have doom plus doom 2 on my pc right now to play at all times. So I jump into it all the time just to play. You know 15 minutes. If I got a couple minutes, it's one of those. You can jump in and play type games.

Mark Trobough: 2:15

So I enjoy playing it. I'd have pegged you more for a Doom 64 guy myself. I like Doom 64 too. I got it on Switch, not on the 64 on the switch oh, I mean I have it.

Brandon Hurles: 2:27

I had it on the 64 back in the day, but now I got a switch.

Mark Trobough: 2:29

Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, whatever when we get doom switch 2, now dude, you know what?

Brandon Hurles: 2:36

because I can remember the 64 and we got both of the previous Dooms on Switch. I see no reason that it's not possible to get the new Doom on Switch 2.

Brandon Hurles: 2:49

I see zero reason that it's not possible, considering the minimum specs for that game are like, I think like a 1080 Ti was like the minimum and then they recommended it was like a 2060 or something. There's no way that can't run on Switch 2. There's no way. I mean Oblivion's not going to happen, simply because first of all the gigabytes If it were to come out physical, you're maxed out a 64 gigabyte card. But I still think it would be very doable. The game looks beautiful, but that again also lower recommendation 1080 Ti. The next one's like a 2060.

Mark Trobough: 3:25

That's the recommended specs. That game's still based off of the old game.

Brandon Hurles: 3:30

It is very clearly a remake, not a remaster. They are cutting themselves short on that. No, I do not like Unreal Engine 5, but I felt a lot less Unreal Engine 5 problems in this particular game than I have in most.

Mark Trobough: 3:44

I will say yeah, because everything I've seen with that game it looks. The only that I've seen that I didn't like were some of the uh, some of the npc faces looked kind of weird or too too realistic are you talking about the character creation ones?

Brandon Hurles: 3:56

not the character faces in general actually most of most of the npcs, because that's usually what you're gonna see, they looked wacky in the original, so I mean, like they still made it look better art style, and it was also on the 360s early, earlier 360 games too.

Mark Trobough: 4:09

It makes sense, but it just.

Brandon Hurles: 4:11

I would have preferred something that was like the skyrim faces they did a lot more work to it than I would have ever imagined for a it's a small nitpick.

Brandon Hurles: 4:19

It's just like I don't think it looks good, but you can tell it's because of the unreal engine yeah, it is unreal engine is terrible with faces, but my biggest complaint with it and I guess this is like one of those things where it's like people still want the jank like that made. That was like the character of oblivion, so like there was stuff they left, such as the combat where they did change a combat where the enemies are slashing back at you, versus in the original it was, um, it wasn't the same, they weren't like a real-time fighting you, if that makes sense. It was like a turn turn, turn turn.

Mark Trobough: 4:54

But this is no like very real-time block hit, block hit you know what you didn't expect with the with some of their newer games yeah, exactly yeah, which they changed and was a good change.

Brandon Hurles: 5:04

I mean, like I said, I was skeptical on the changes that they make to the game.

Mark Trobough: 5:09

But so far other than the Type 1,.

Brandon Hurles: 5:11

Type 2 thing, I have no complaints.

Mark Trobough: 5:13

Realistically, yeah that was weird, but New set of graphics and just modernized the combat to just work a lot more smoothly. Yeah, I mean Not a, not a one for one for what they did for skyrim, but skyrim's combat was a lot more fluid and it just was super too simplified.

Brandon Hurles: 5:28

Yeah, I agree, and yeah, it was, and you were kind of. You said you didn't care much for oblivion back then. But now, like playing this, you would like it much more because it plays more like a skyrim. But actually I particularly think it plays better than skyrim does I would hope, hope so.

Mark Trobough: 5:44

Skyrim came out in 2011. It's 2025.

Brandon Hurles: 5:47

Yeah, but I mean, this was pegged as a remaster. It's not a remaster, it's a remake. I don't know why they called it a remaster.

Mark Trobough: 5:51

It doesn't matter If you're re-touching up a game at all. The combat should be better than your last game. It is the. Would hope so.

Brandon Hurles: 6:05

Whatever I mean, it's supposed to be a remaster. So you would think that like, and if it were me, I would think no, because just a remaster is like usually a new coat of paint, no like To be fair, like what's the last major remaster?

Mark Trobough: 6:19

you played BDSP and that game's bad because it's the exact same game. They didn't change it, it's just a new coat of paint. Everything else looks and plays and feels exactly the same.

Brandon Hurles: 6:28

You argued with me how it isn't exactly the same because it's not sprites anymore. So it's not the same. It's not just a coat of paint.

Mark Trobough: 6:36

It plays exactly the same.

Brandon Hurles: 6:38

That's the problem with a remake or remaster.

Mark Trobough: 6:42

Especially with a remake, you want it to mark more there to it, and chill, chill out.

Brandon Hurles: 6:46

All right, it's just a game I will. I will not chill out, I will chill, I will chill, I will chill up, or chill in whatever, the right opposite is a chill out all right, yeah, so what the heck we got going on. Today, mark, mark, when we dive in.

Mark Trobough: 7:03

Outside of the oblivion sneak drop, which I still think was purposely leaked because they probably had no marketing budget at all to promote the game at all. Obviously, the big thing that happened this week Wednesday night, thursday morning, the Switch 2 pre-orders dropped and that was chaos, but not as bad as it could have gone based off past pre-orders, especially when it looked like the PS5. That was a complete crash Before that.

Brandon Hurles: 7:33

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Mark Trobough: 8:26

So yeah, yeah, just just start talking. Switch to. Uh, because I well the issue was trying to, you know, get the thing pre-ordered was like my problem. I think walmart and best buy outside of best buy dropping it like a half hour later for whatever reason, their, their websites were definitely built probably the best for the pre-order. They're best prepared for it. I don't know. I know there are issues with GameStop's website because they did it at 11 am on their website the next day.

Brandon Hurles: 8:56

GameStop was the only one I would say was a complete crap show, although Target was like.

Mark Trobough: 9:01

Everything I heard about there was bad.

Brandon Hurles: 9:09

Here's. Although target was like everything I heard about it was bad. It was here's, here's the thing. You had to exit like normal with that one and it caused all sorts of problems with it. The problem with it was it was the first one technically to go live like walmart let you go into the queue. But as you know, it was not. It took an hour and a half for me to get through the walmart queue I was you, and it immediately.

Mark Trobough: 9:20

The other hundreds of thousands or millions of other people are in the queue.

Brandon Hurles: 9:23

Yeah, but I mean I did click it immediately so it wasn't like I was even five minutes late or anything. I clicked it on the dot so like refreshed right away 30 seconds before, clicked it on the dot, but that queue came up first and so we were waiting in the queue for that. So then Target came up and the thing with Target was everybody had this problem you either couldn't enter your address or it would air you out when you got it into your cart. First there was a problem with getting it into your cart. You would have to click it a hundred times to get it into your cart. Then you get it into your cart and it would just come up with an error message. And I had like five of them in a row. I screenshotted and posted on x and a bunch of other people had the exact same thing. But eventually I got through to target. So I didn't tell you the.

Brandon Hurles: 10:08

The cancellation I got was not for that, it was for the piranha plant camera, which I went ahead and got an Amazon because they don't charge you right now, so it charged me later when it releases. So I was just like, yeah, whatever, I knew I was going to get that Cause I think it looks cool. We, because I think it looks cool, will I use it. No, I'll use the other one. But yeah, so the Target one was a mess, but a lot of people did get through the Target one. The problem with Target was not everybody. I did not get a cancellation, but a lot of people did.

Mark Trobough: 10:36

A lot of people got canceled orders. That was the problem with them not using a queue is they couldn't make sure people that were actually going to order it they actually had the stock for it. They just it's like they'll do like a free-for-all, like it had been in the past for online stuff, where it's all these are like this.

Brandon Hurles: 10:50

By the way, there's always every single launch for stuff.

Mark Trobough: 10:52

There's problems with the website, like because when you have millions of people trying to get in, literally that's just the problem, like their servers cannot handle that well, I mean, their servers are designed for millions of people to come visit their site, but I think the problem is what a lot of these sites are actually the same thing at one like a million plus people on the exact same product, all the right, right you're essentially ddossing their site, which is where I think, with the, the q line works a lot better off for one.

Mark Trobough: 11:18

It allows them to make sure that if you're ordering it, they have the stock for it as well. It helps alleviate a lot of the issues. It's you're not refreshing the page, which you know is a more thing, a different hit and it, it.

Mark Trobough: 11:30

It just helps alleviate the pressure, puts everyone aligned. They can whatever they're. However, they have it built behind the scenes. Uh, as far as like, I don't know if they're trying to like combat botting or stuff like that, but it just it alleviates a lot of the issues with the site that you could run into. So, outside of the initial trying to get in, you can get in and it'll just throw you in a queue and you're just kind of sitting there waiting to step over to the game stop side.

Brandon Hurles: 11:51

We didn't need to to do that because we had already secured them. But, um, I had just out of curiosity to see if I could get through because it went up right away. I went all the way to the checkout screen and got there. So I could have got it there if I wanted. So I know other people were getting through. Yeah, I just wanted to see for my friend if you could get through, because he was trying and he couldn't get it. But I got right through the checkout. I click could have clicked buy if I wanted to. For that obviously I didn't. I don't need another switch.

Mark Trobough: 12:15

But and obviously the other side is uh, best buy allowed you to to pre-order it in person and uh, every store that I've seen like the day before they put up like we'll have this many switches and this many switches with the mario kart on it and they always had like double the mario kart, which it feels like nintendo intentionally want people to get that it is a better deal because they want people on that big, big launch tile.

Brandon Hurles: 12:37

So, like it really does, they're only big like that's, that's that's it, donkey kong. Is it comes out?

Mark Trobough: 12:43

a month later. It's not a launch title. Launch title is it comes out date date and date with the with the so it's a launch window game I I'd say a launch window. I thought it was traditionally, you think of launch games that launch the day that the.

Brandon Hurles: 12:56

You could pick it up the day the yeah, launch window is usually the first three months.

Mark Trobough: 13:00

Okay, you're right, yeah it's, it's, it's not this, because you have to wait like a month, month and a half for that to come. Yeah, a lot, there's a lot of other launch window games.

Brandon Hurles: 13:07

This is good. I'm not complaining. This is a good thing, because we want other launch window games.

Mark Trobough: 13:11

But um but I think nintendo took advantage it's huge right. The switch to is backwards compatible. So they're like we already have this library that will technically play a handful, a decent amount of games that will have upgrades at launch. Yes, so let's just focus on one main game. We want to launch another big title a month later and then we've got two more big titles coming out. They obviously want breathing room between their their first party games. Yes, they do and they already knew.

Mark Trobough: 13:36

They've got the third party support, they've got the backwards compatibility. So, like it's not the library's on issue and, let's be fair, most people that are early adopters, uh, don't care about that. They probably have switch games and stuff like that. So that's not a problem. By the time you get to the holiday season you'll have a handful of first. You have like four first party titles that we know of. When you get to the holiday season, that's probably their next big window when they're going to have like restocks and stuff like that.

Mark Trobough: 13:59

So yeah, I think it's less of an issue as far as like the game stuff. But yeah, it makes sense like nintendo is intentionally pushing. They want as many people with the mercur as possible. Technically it's 30 cheaper, so why not go for the bundle where?

Brandon Hurles: 14:13

it becomes 50, which is even significantly cheaper than like, uh, even last gen prices.

Mark Trobough: 14:18

So yeah, I mean, to me it makes like complete sense, you know so they're pulling a switch where you want to get this title, because you just get the Switch, you've got to pay $80 until we decide to discount it later down the line.

Brandon Hurles: 14:28

I think it is.

Mark Trobough: 14:29

Whatever said, the game's going to get discounted at the holiday season.

Brandon Hurles: 14:31

Discounted. It's not going to be $70.

Mark Trobough: 14:34

I'm going to say that game's $70 at the holiday season.

Brandon Hurles: 14:36

I say absolutely no, freaking way.

Mark Trobough: 14:43

It would not surprise me if you paid. Essentially, they're charging a tax for early adopters for that game, for the physical, physical and digital.

Brandon Hurles: 14:49

I mean this is going to be a holiday bundle. It ends holiday right, oh?

Mark Trobough: 14:53

yeah, Well, they said that this is a limited thing. 100%. They're going to restock at the holiday because they want as many people on this game as possible.

Brandon Hurles: 15:00

We'll get five other Mario Kart World bund bundles in the future. We've had, I think, I think I counted so far for the switch to, there's seven different bundles with mario kart, because they always do like every year there's the holiday bundle every single year and then there's been like other ones in between.

Mark Trobough: 15:18

So I think there's been seven total in the lifespan for the switch seven different mario kart 8 deluxe I mean, how many pokemon or how many zelda bundles and specialty consoles do you usually get with some of these? Zelda, we didn't get any for this well, I guess the zelda usually get like uh, you get special consoles and special consoles, yeah, but no, they sell just the same yeah, yeah, I'm for sure.

Brandon Hurles: 15:41

Um, I misspoke on that a little bit, but no, you're good.

Mark Trobough: 15:45

Yeah, so I mean, um, I think it'll be a good first first year for the, for the switch to as far as first party title goes obviously you don't want to have any issues with the actual switch to when it comes out.

Brandon Hurles: 15:54

But I will say I have a problem with the people that are okay. So first of all, here's my first complaint all the people that were drop the price, drop the price, I'm not buying this. And then you see what happens. They had 2.2 million people sign up in just japan this is just japan on the nintendo store to get to get it there. That is one place in one country, so you have to equate the rest of the world to this too. Like you, guys are absolute I'm sorry, but anybody was saying that stuff is absolute idiots because they still bought it you know, some probably did, and let's be fair like some people, that some will you know I just didn't care.

Mark Trobough: 16:32

They're like, you know it, it is what it is. I. I want these, I want the hardware, I want it plus it's. You know it's. It's a new hot thing. It's coming out.

Brandon Hurles: 16:39

We'll see four years later how the other switch 2 is actually doing as far as like actual sales, game sales and stuff like that but I will say, with launch, launch uh like the launch window for this one, this actually launches the ps2, which is the biggest launch weekend for any video game system. I believe was at 1.5 million for the weekend, just the weekend. So imagine day one for this, with all the people that have already just pre-ordered, plus the people that get the chance to possibly get it in store who didn't pre-order that weekend. Um is going to be absolutely massive.

Mark Trobough: 17:12

So there is huge, huge, gigantic potential that this I am above that ps2 launch weekend I'll say this it wouldn't surprise me if by the end of 2025, the switch is sold 20, the switch 2 hits 20 million.

Brandon Hurles: 17:25

It wouldn't surprise me either at all. I'm not gonna go to 10, just on the pre-order alone, and I am now in the uh boat that I do believe this is going to sell. Outsell the switch one. I just do just, I just have a strong feeling. Only time will tell.

Brandon Hurles: 17:38

It's because if we get a switch to lights, if we get it to switch to light, for instance, and then if we get a switch to oled later on, like we did for the switch, it'll it'll help. It'll bump up sales, because a lot of those people upgrade to that oled and I I'll be the first to say that I absolutely will. I think, although the new lcd technology used for the switch to is much, much, much better than the original switch like it looks great. Even up to the oled it looks really good. I seen a bunch of comparison photos. Oled is just a much better technology. The blacks are true black. The colors just completely pop the game. It almost. I say this for somebody that's upgrading their PC, getting an OLED monitor can oftentimes feel like more of an upgrade than upgrading your GPU.

Mark Trobough: 18:23

It's serious.

Brandon Hurles: 18:24

It depends on how old it is. If you run something halfway decent like a 4060 or a 5080, 5070 Ti, whatever it is something below the mothership class there, it is still going to be an upgrade. It is a significant upgrade, so much so that I'm all led on my end now because it's just I can't go back like I just can't pretty much everything on mine and mine is is lcd, led or whatever, whatever it is because you're a chump mark not a chump, it's just.

Mark Trobough: 18:55

I don't it's it you? Can find deals you can find a little upgrade for for the price I promise you I would not lie to you as your friend.

Brandon Hurles: 19:04

It is not negligible, it's a big difference. I promise you, if I could show you in person to see it, you'd be like oh you guys like the upgraded LCD and LED technology. They've gotten better they've certainly gotten better, but they don't do blacks right, for instance. They just don't do blacks Right. They're too bright.

Mark Trobough: 19:25

Does that? Does that break your immersion in a video game? How, how black a black is?

Brandon Hurles: 19:30

a little bit, yeah, a little bit. When you're playing like a dark game, bro, it's like actually dark, like pitch black dark, it's crazy. But anyway, um, what was it?

Mark Trobough: 19:42

Well, I guess, because I know where you're going. I also think because people are trying to compare this to the Wii and the Wii U and I'm like. First of all, nintendo's consoles weren't always up and down. They've had successes after successes and I would argue from the SNES to the GameCube was more of like a steady decline, not a straight drop-off.

Brandon Hurles: 20:00

Right, the GameCube just didn't sell, unfortunately. And then let's be. Let's be fairly blew up.

Mark Trobough: 20:06

Success isn't what. What led to the, the switch's success like? Let's be fair, the we was far more marketed to a more casual audience, not a gamer core, but I would say the switch was too because of the handheld factor.

Brandon Hurles: 20:20

I feel like it was more.

Brandon Hurles: 20:21

I mean like not as much as we were there, like you know, in nursing homes and stuff like that, but like in the fact that it was more, I mean like not as much as the Wii or they were, like you know in nursing homes and stuff like that, but like in the fact that it was a portable console, the first hybrid console, where you could take it on the go like you could a Game Boy or a DS or anything like that I feel like that was always there and it wasn't like it was.

Mark Trobough: 20:37

Obviously it wasn't like the traditional casual video game but, like the Wii was definitely marketed towards people that outside of the Wii Like families older video game but like this, the wii was definitely marketed towards people that outside of the wii families ever touch video game exactly.

Brandon Hurles: 20:48

Yeah, I mean like my, my grandma played wii sports.

Mark Trobough: 20:50

You know what I mean like she would never play a switch, you know, back then. So like I don't think it's a one for one in a different way.

Brandon Hurles: 20:56

The switch was also a more casual I mean, it was a casual video game system as well, like it.

Mark Trobough: 21:02

I mean yeah, but it's not necessarily a gamer, but she has a switch but its market was more towards people that just played video games, not towards people that are using, because it's like an exercise tool I mean, yeah, there was definitely pointers where with the wii it was definitely much, much more of a casual audience.

Brandon Hurles: 21:20

But I think also in the switch, during the wii era is why it sold so much. It sold so much for a reason most core gamers weren't getting wii's.

Mark Trobough: 21:28

They may have had it for one or two games. You're getting a ps3. You're getting a 360 like that's before. That was that era at launch, all I had was a wii yeah, but like you, you know you weren't the one paying for it at the time.

Brandon Hurles: 21:41

So true, yeah, I was excited. I couldn't be any more excited. I wouldn't. I wouldn't change that for the world. The wii was what I wanted, more than those consoles, and I did end up getting those consoles. I got both of them before the end of the life cycle, but I got the 360 I think a year before the xbox one came out, and the ps3 I think it got like two years before the ps4 came out. So like I got them at the end of life cycle when they were cheaper, um, so I did end up getting all of them and I bought those myself. Uh, but the wii, I mean I, I wouldn't change that for the world. I had some of the best times ever on the wii, I mean there was just console, but like that era gamer, you just didn't.

Brandon Hurles: 22:20

You didn't play on the wii, you played on the ps3, or at least here in the west, the 360 primarily me and you, I think, are kind of on the outcast of that, because both of us got the game cube, both of us got the wii um that's what my, that's what my parents got the ds instead of the psp. At launch, both of us got the the game boys instead of, you know, atari links or game gear or any of the other handhelds that were on the market.

Mark Trobough: 22:45

Back then there was only one handheld and it was Game Boy and Game Boy Color. Everything else was trash.

Brandon Hurles: 22:49

Wonder Swan Color. Engage, neo Geo Pocket Color. There were so many handhelds.

Mark Trobough: 22:56

They don't have a memorable library at all To me they do.

Brandon Hurles: 22:59

Don't disrespect my systems, okay.

Mark Trobough: 23:01

Let's be fair. What really led to the success of the game boy and the game boy color was was pokemon, like that was it did, for sure handheld.

Brandon Hurles: 23:08

I wouldn't change that either for anything that game sold it I mean that those games, if I'm being fair, changed my life and our rv, reason I do what I do today, the reason this podcast exists because I fell in love with those games and it's why you're still chasing true vr, so you can have your own ash, catch them.

Brandon Hurles: 23:26

Adventure or satoshi, whatever language you're watching, the, the anime in all right, he's saying stupid stuff now so I had to remove him out of there. He can come back in when he's not saying stupid stuff no more anyway. Anyway, with the Switch 2 stuff, yeah, with the pre-order and all that stuff, it was kind of chaos. But basically what I said was I think I put this in a post to Andre Sears of GameXplain. He made a post and I commented and said that it was has he come back in or is he just messing around? Come back in, mark, all right, okay. Anyway, I was saying to Andre Seeger, who's a game?

Brandon Hurles: 24:42

explainer on his post that I said it was five times easier than the PS5 launch and 50 times easier than any of the 50 series cards launch for those. So for any tech I was just talking about that and I said it's two times easier than the Series X. Yes, it was kind of a crap show that night. Like it was a little bit of a crap show, but we got through on multiple places so like it did work out, you got through on multiple places.

Mark Trobough: 25:09

I only got through on one place.

Brandon Hurles: 25:11

I was trying to get you one, trying to get Lucas one and was trying to figure all that stuff out. So I ended up getting you one after I got me one, but then you ended up getting one later that night, after I already fell asleep because it finally went through much later.

Brandon Hurles: 25:24

I just happened to leave it up so let's put it this way um, I got one and no, I'm not scalping, I'm not selling these, I'm not doing anything like that. Like I said, I was getting Mark one, I was getting Lucas one and then I did get an extra because Target was canceling pre-orders and Walmart was canceling pre-orders. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to hold out on both of them. If one ships, I'm just going to cancel the other. That's what I'm going to end up doing, because I'll just keep them until then. Yeah, yeah, it's held up. You know, a lot of money, um, unfortunately, but I think that's just what I'm going to do to be safe, because, uh, I've seen so many people get their pre-orders canceled from walmart, from best buy and from target, so I've seen cancellations from all three. So, like there's no guarantee that you end up getting it and it's like we're trying to get this for launch day. Uh, one of them says it'll come launch week, wal Walmart supposedly says it'll be their morning of launch.

Mark Trobough: 26:15

So that's the one I'm hoping to hold on to it just depends how they ship stuff out, because they can't, they don't, they can't ship it and get to you like the day before.

Brandon Hurles: 26:22

Apparently they're using sparks delivery so, like they guarantee, if you pre-ordered, you're guaranteed to get it. Morning of launch, which I'm fine with. Yes, I would like to do a midnight launch. I would love to go in-store to do that, but unfortunately I talked about this last week my GameStop closed down last week, so the closest one is about 30 minutes away and I just decided I really want to go pick it up at midnight. Unfortunately, I can't because I did Walmart and Target and I did Best Buy, but that was for you. So we ended up getting multiple switches Mark's got two and then I got two plus one for another. Well, here's what I probably do. Actually, I'm getting confused. I'm going to hold out on two pre-orders, but they both come through. Lucas is getting the other. That's how it's going to work out. So that way then they'll all be taken care of Not going to cancel. It Forgot getting Lucas one. So they both come through like they should. Lucas is getting the other.

Mark Trobough: 27:23

So I hope that's the friend.

Brandon Hurles: 27:25

I feel better about that.

Mark Trobough: 27:26

If everything works out and I end up with the two, because, for whatever want to hold on to, I was like, well, I've got, I've got family, I've got some nieces, I'll just, you know, pass it on.

Brandon Hurles: 27:34

Yeah, and stuff like that inevitably probably this year, end up getting my daughter one for christmas this year too, so I'll just wait on that and just get that later. But um yeah, so I mean, and they were all mario kart world bundles, which is great, because I mean that's what everybody wanted. Lucas wanted that you want.

Mark Trobough: 27:50

Unsurprisingly, that was obviously the one that they very obviously pumped out the most of so they pumped out the most of.

Brandon Hurles: 27:56

It was also the one most people were trying to get so online, which they knew.

Mark Trobough: 28:00

Which is why they? Obviously because usually when you have those bundles, the, the game bundle, there's a game for 30 cheaper.

Brandon Hurles: 28:06

It's like why not? Everybody wants?

Mark Trobough: 28:08

it's like it's it's a, it's a no-brainer at that point and then, if you really for the physical, I'll buy a used one in like two years when it's like you know about the same price.

Brandon Hurles: 28:16

GameFreak said he got his through Walmart. Well, I'm glad you got one man. I really am happy that you got one.

Mark Trobough: 28:20

I gotta ask did you get any peripherals? Because I went back later in the night.

Brandon Hurles: 28:33

It was about 1 am for me and I don't have GameStop anymore and, um, my Walmart does not like to stock any pro controllers at all, so I was a little nervous about that. Now that's my only option locally, uh, so I was like you know what I'm just going to do. I've also got it almost $200, um, micro sd card express coming, but it is that I did this one for one terabyte. I'm just going to roll with that because I ran out of stuff on my switch so quick and the file sizes are much bigger this generation because you got bigger games, so it's going to run through way quicker and especially if you, even if you're just going out there first party games, you're going to run out quick like it. I ran through that, uh, 568 gigabyte or whatever it is.

Mark Trobough: 29:13

so well, I'm in the way of like I can wait till it comes out sometimes yeah, I mean that's fair, like that I I just because all my stuff is on my switch so like if I'll migrate what I can to fit on the 256 until I can get an sd card without you know what it'll be, I they should have a problem keeping those in stock, plus there's hopefully other brands you don't have to get the Nintendo branded selling one. There's going to be other brands.

Brandon Hurles: 29:38

I went with a brand that I normally don't go with, but it was the first one that came out months ago targeted at the Switch and it was the cheapest possible one. Did you look more into the one that you sent me? Was that actually a micro SD card? I didn't, I didn't look back into it, I wasn't because I looked at it again, I don't think it is, because it says 200 megabytes per second. Micro sd card expresses are 900 megabytes per second. They're more like an ssd I'm not sure, I just don't know.

Brandon Hurles: 30:03

I know they, I know they look exactly the same.

Mark Trobough: 30:06

I'm like I don't know why they just wouldn't both work.

Brandon Hurles: 30:08

It's just compatible that one that you're talking about I. I've used that exact SanDisk before the Extreme Pro as a regular SD card for my EverDrive. So I don't think it is. I really don't think it is especially that cheap. There's no way Express cards are going to be that cheap yet. So I mean I want you to. I would love for you to.

Mark Trobough: 30:27

I mean the Express cards I saw weren't much more expensive than what I saw for that size. Yeah.

Brandon Hurles: 30:35

I just said. The reason I said to do that is because I don't want to double dip on buying another SD card that I'm especially Express card, that I can't use in anything else right now. So it's going to be a waste of money, it's just going to be sitting there. I can't use an old Switch, I can't use it in anything else I have. So I was like I'm just going to do a one and done, get the one terabyte, have it over with and screw it. But here's what I got. So Amazon, I got the Piranha Plant camera. And then Walmart, I got the pro controller, the regular camera and Donkey Kong Bonanza, which ships July 17th. So that's a while away, obviously, but those were the accessories I got.

Mark Trobough: 31:16

So pretty much what I wanted to get.

Brandon Hurles: 31:19

That was really all, and I do need to get a screen protector, but I'll probably just get a cheap one or something like on Amazon.

Mark Trobough: 31:25

That's why somebody can just pick up that day from Walmart.

Brandon Hurles: 31:27

You don't have a.

Mark Trobough: 31:27

GameStop anymore, but probably a GameStop they'll have those in stock.

Brandon Hurles: 31:30

I'll probably just order it on Amazon, get it shipped the day before, or something. The console comes out, Because I don't like to play a console until I have a screen protector on it, just to be safe, especially one that expensive. So I'm just going to order it the day before, or something like that. Just get a cheaper brand one $7, $8 or something like that.

Mark Trobough: 31:47

Like the same thing you do with your phone.

Brandon Hurles: 31:50

Yeah, I've just got a generic screen protector in case on my iPhone 16. So it's whatever. I'm fine with that. It works, does the job.

Mark Trobough: 31:58

I was surprised you were able to get it through. I was expecting what you're used to and it's like 10 minutes in everything sold out because it was all bought. That's what I was expecting.

Brandon Hurles: 32:08

I was trained because of the PS5 launch, the Series X launch I mean even the Steam Deck was that way when it first came out. You couldn't get anywhere. The ps5 pro when it first launched, it was a problem actually the.

Mark Trobough: 32:19

The only reason I got the ps5 at launch was through the. Whatever sony did through their own website that was the only way I even had a shot at getting the ps5 at launch it turns out well, launch time. The only, the only good thing was, that is, it was using an ssd. I remember of an hhd it. No new games, everything else played exactly the same.

Brandon Hurles: 32:34

That was I still remember that happening. I was so jealous. But then the exact same day I was able to get one at best buy, the exact same day that you had said that. So that was one of those launch that I got my ps5, so I was okay yeah, that was.

Mark Trobough: 32:47

The only difference was it has an ssd, so everything loads faster. No, no exclusive games.

Brandon Hurles: 32:52

The crappy part was the Series X only launched one day before the PS5, so I had just got that. But then I got the PS5 two days later, so it worked out. It worked out the way I wanted it to. But yeah, I waited six hours in line for the Series X just for pre-order day. So people were camping out for the pre-order for this Same deal. I waited six hours for that, got through. Did I tell you this story, how there was three of us there, we got through and then day of pickup for launch day, we went in there. Guess how many they had.

Mark Trobough: 33:25

What the three of those three pre-orders. The three that's it.

Brandon Hurles: 33:35

And they had to out to the car because there was a dude screaming and yelling about this. And when I say a line, I'm talking a line like four stores back, almost all the way to Walmart.

Mark Trobough: 33:38

I mean at that point you don't need to assume you're there, they're not going to have that many copies there.

Brandon Hurles: 33:42

They had three. They had no extras besides pre-orders. I was like I kind of felt bad for people. But it's like if you're not staying in the loop with the pre-order day stuff like any normal person probably would anybody that actually wanted it, that's what happens.

Mark Trobough: 33:57

Yeah, everything's now pre-ordered. I mean you can stay in line for the pre-order, but consoles that launch just aren't a thing, that's not 20 years ago you had to stand in line because pre-orders weren't a thing. Now, pre-order everything's sold out on pre-orders.

Brandon Hurles: 34:10

PS5, same deal. I didn't get mine at gamestop. It was the same deal. The people that pre-ordered it that's all they got were pre-orders. They didn't get any extra ps5s either at my gamestop. So yeah, I mean, you just got to be on the ball. You know you got to pay attention to what's going on and you know, just stay in tune and stuff there is a kind of some people prefer the online stuff.

Mark Trobough: 34:30

There there was a charm, because you look at those old videos and I know pictures of like you know for like the, the original xbox, like the 360 and stuff like that, where you had to stand in line, camp out like all night or something like that. There there is like a lost charm to that. I mean, it's the other side like that would be a wholesale.

Brandon Hurles: 34:46

I would have went and did that for sure, because I think it's fun you get to talk with it's fun.

Mark Trobough: 34:51

But also you're like I'm gonna be exhausted because you're not going to really sleep at all you only have one life.

Brandon Hurles: 34:56

These things are fun. They're rememberable. I remember when I waited on Series X I made a couple friends there. There was three of us there. We were all talking video games. Some people bought some handhelds. There's a charm to it. I miss that in person.

Brandon Hurles: 35:11

I am kind of bummed out that I can't go to a midnight release, cause those are always very fun. They're giving away free stuff at GameStop. I don't have a GameStop anymore. Um, and then Best Buy is doing the midnight pickup, but they're not doing like anything special. You can just pick it up at midnight, yeah, but unfortunately I don't have that option. Um, I wish I had gotten mine at best buy, but then it was like I still got to drive 35 minutes to go get it and I was like I for midnight. I really don't want to do that's an hour total driving at midnight and I don't know how long I'll be there to get it. And I was like I just I'll just opt out for this one, unfortunately.

Brandon Hurles: 35:46

But if gamestop was here, I would have did that for sure. I mean like I wouldn't have relied on that. I was still would have tried to get one online, just in case, because you never. We didn't know what was going to happen for people waiting in line. But I will give GameStop a lot of credit. I love the way they handled in person pre-orders. Did you see what they did for their in-person pre-orders, how they were posting what you needed and then they said like the day before and stuff like that and stuff like that and stuff like that and how many they're going to have, and stuff.

Brandon Hurles: 36:11

The better part was they. They handed out everybody a sheet of what they wanted.

Mark Trobough: 36:15

They checked, check oh yeah, I don't know that was every game stop, but some were like hey, if you like let us know so it's supposed to be. I didn't, I didn't, I didn't have to at mine, but the idea of, like you, they know what, essentially, what's your, what you're trying to pre-order so they can, just you know it's, it makes it it makes it easier for them that you're not, you're not having to like talk to them and stuff like that. It benefits you.

Brandon Hurles: 36:35

It also benefits them, so they can have the line move faster a game free, a game frank said uh, all online didn't need to stand in lines. I mean I you know there is a an easiness to try and do it online, but actually it's not necessarily easy, although I will say it was still easy well, it was easier as far as in the last five years.

Mark Trobough: 36:53

They essentially put you in a digital line, and then I was just on Twitter just refreshing Switch 2 and seeing people that got it and stuff like that.

Brandon Hurles: 37:02

I'm just, I am incredibly happy that we were both able to secure them, Because I assume I'm like I'm probably not going to get it, have to wait for this Nintendo thing on May.

Mark Trobough: 37:10

Maybe I'll be able to. Maybe my game stop, I have enough and they're not gonna have like a terribly long line. But I was, I was resigned to I'm just not gonna get it. That that's, that, that's the mindset I had.

Brandon Hurles: 37:19

So if I didn't get it I wouldn't be bummed out because you were like, uh, you're pretty like getting tapped out there early.

Mark Trobough: 37:24

I was like hold on, mark, I gotta well to be fair that was all past experiences, where if you didn't get it, if you didn't get checked out in, like the first 10 minutes, it was sold out yeah, past experiences, yes, but but what?

Brandon Hurles: 37:35

the way they rolled it out? So walmart did it in waves, so it kept coming in waves. So yeah, so they could you know, I hope they had, they could minimize.

Mark Trobough: 37:43

You know, yes, going over their limit, they could check. At least that's what the best buy site was saying.

Brandon Hurles: 37:49

You know, let's see if there's still stuff here before we push you through yeah, and then the other positive was even today, gamestop has been doing waves and walmart has been doing waves, and it's it. They've been quick and gone quick, so you have to click it right away.

Mark Trobough: 38:03

So I guess the idea is they were they I think one is nintendo waited significantly longer to release it so they had a bigger inventory and these stores are doing it in waves and the idea is they didn't release everything last night right.

Brandon Hurles: 38:17

But I also think part of that is probably cancellation. So cancellation gets made and there's a lot of issues behind the scenes and stuff like that.

Mark Trobough: 38:24

They have to go back. You know the system was having problems and stuff. Maybe people doubled up so they ended up having to cancel one and stuff like that.

Brandon Hurles: 38:31

So somebody got like three and several hours later they're, they're getting canceled, so they're getting having to cancel one and stuff like that.

Mark Trobough: 38:34

So several hours later they're they're getting canceled, so they're getting technically they're not getting restocked, but they're getting restocked by people that went on every site. They got one and then they had to cancel the other stuff later, cause usually, like, when you cancel something, it doesn't always immediately go back into the abyss. It has to get like re quarried that it was bought, then it was bought, than it was refunded, or something like that.

Brandon Hurles: 38:52

Yeah, I love the way that Nintendo did this. I think it was worth the wait the extra wait because, as we know, it was supposed to realistically be revealed a little bit earlier, but I like that. They waited to build up stock. No, they still didn't get as much as demand wanted, but they did a lot better than any company has in any recent years.

Mark Trobough: 39:12

Let's be fair, before they released it, every country was getting x amount of copies. So, like some, a place like the us was going to get more copies than japan because they're expecting more people. So, you're, you're, you know, you're, you're. Certain countries are going to get certain numbers of pre-orders and stuff like that, just based off of population size and stuff like that. But it felt like, compared to in the past, it was handled better and it's probably, as far as like the supply, I wouldn't be surprised if they had, you know, seven to 10 million consoles ready to go at launch, which probably helps, you know, minimize the people that can't get it at launch, which minimizes scalping, if it's easier for people to get a copy.

Brandon Hurles: 39:53

Yeah, I wanted to uh bring this up real quick. Somebody said uh, I found this interesting, like an interesting little fact. Uh, they put the crazy to think that by tomorrow there will be more switch to pre-orders and total steam deck units lifetime sold. Nintendo doesn't have competition. I found that kind of interesting um, well, let's be fair.

Mark Trobough: 40:11

Like you, you buy that, you buy this for nintendo games and a lot of people that like these handhelds. But like somebody like me, like if I'm gonna play a pc game I'd rather just play it on my pc and then if I'm on the go I'll play my pokemon games I get some people prefer to like they'll. They'll either torrent or they'll emulate, but like that's like a, a, a hyper minority of people that will rather emulate stuff than buy new stuff or something like that, or they'd rather sell to high seas for stuff like that. That's like a vocal minority on the internet, and it always has been.

Mark Trobough: 40:43

The fact that the Switch is selling out the way it does doesn't surprise me. There were a lot of people that said lower the price, we're not going to buy it, and I'm sure a lot of them aren't going to buy it. But the demand of people that do want to buy the switch and didn't necessarily have as much of a problem with the price increase obviously at least on the, on the, you know pre-order stuff far outweighed the uh, the people that that had no interest in doing it yeah, and I did want to shout out jake randall.

Brandon Hurles: 41:09

he helped a lot of people. I was listening in the background of of stuff. I pretty much did it on my own, but he helped a lot of people get Switches. He's been doing this for all the console releases. He did it for the PS5 Pro, the PS5, series X, so he was a good resource for a lot of people to know what was in stock when and the weight on the Best Buy debacle. And then also he went live really late that night, I think until like four in the morning, and then he got up really early and went live waiting for GameStop 2. So like he did something like I don't know, like 18, 20 hours of streaming or whatever, just to help people get their Switches. So I wanted to shout that out. That's a good resource. If you're still looking to get a Switch 2, he's posting about it. There's also, let's see. Another good resource is, I guess call it LBot.

Mark Trobough: 42:04

As he pulls it up real quick.

Brandon Hurles: 42:06

Yeah, another good resource is this account on X as well. Sorry for our audio listeners, I'm just sharing a few X accounts, but I will tell you what they are. This one is LBOT Switch 2 Gaming Tech Drops plus Deals. His at is leblorst of time, so if you want to give him a follow, he also has been tweeting pretty much all day all yesterday and stuff like that for the Switch 2. So there's a couple good resources there, especially on X, for getting ones that are going up.

Brandon Hurles: 42:41

Like I said, there's been a bunch of stuff where a bunch have came up today. All throughout the day there's been these waves of different, whether it's cancellations or there's extra stock and stuff like that. So there's still opportunity. Don't give up if you're wanting an antenna switch too. It's unfortunate, but there was a lot of people that commented on the post I made yesterday about people whether they got it or not. There was at least 25 people that said they tried to get it and couldn't get it, and it's just like just keep an eye out for these resources, because there are resources out there to let you know when stocks do go up. I don't expect a lot up until launch, but I expect cancellations and I expect maybe a little extra stock that goes up. Actually, to be honest with you, I probably don't expect much past next week of seeing stuff go up, because stock is going to eventually be obliterated. I feel like the only thing you're going to see is the air park cancellations Probably after past this weekend stock is going to eventually be obliterated.

Mark Trobough: 43:36

I feel like the only thing you're going to see is the AirTag Past this weekend. You're going to have to wait until after it comes out or close to the actual release date before more consoles have been manufactured and getting shipped out. We don't know if they're pre-orders for what they're expecting to get out there by the launch date or that's just what they had then and you've got another two months of them of trying to build up stock for stuff in stores on launch day, or if stores are going to have extra stock.

Mark Trobough: 43:59

You know when it actually launches, so yeah, for sure it'll definitely worth trying to try to see what rumors come out for that. But worse came, worse come to worse. You wait a little bit longer. You have another month before their next big game comes out. So, yeah, I can't imagine it'll be sometime later this year. You should, it'll be somewhat easier. Like you know, it's going to be a hot thing for for quite a while, for at least yeah, I always say the first six months is where it's really hard to get.

Brandon Hurles: 44:23

I mean, if we're looking at ps5 realistically, that was like a year probably a year and a half of being hard I guess the idea is, how, how good is their, their production, how much?

Mark Trobough: 44:32

How many people got what they wanted on the pre-order? So it's less demand on the back end.

Brandon Hurles: 44:37

I feel, like Nintendo's doing it right by pumping out way more stock and not doing the scarcity thing they have done on past products, like the stupid Alarmo thing. They've done it with that.

Mark Trobough: 44:49

Very intentional.

Brandon Hurles: 44:50

They've done it, but I think they do it a lot less than other companies like the ps5. Stuff was just ridiculous. There's no reason, a year and a half in, you should still be having problems getting a ps5.

Mark Trobough: 45:01

That's stupid. Yeah, by that point, ever like the, the people that really want it should have it. It should be easier for the more casual you should want to make the sale. I mean like there's no sense to the time you get the holiday season. They want to have enough of these in stores where it's not going to be a problem.

Brandon Hurles: 45:14

Absolutely yeah, nintendo. I feel like they are definitely going to be saving up stock for holiday season because that is their big cash cow.

Mark Trobough: 45:20

Yeah, because it's not always a big cash cow. You've got a brand new Mario Kart. You've got a brand new Donkey Kong that we haven't seen in forever. Metroid and, like you know well, the new first Metroid Prime game in like 15 years since the Wii era. And then you know another, another big Pokemon game. These are all going to be, you know, big popular games, especially Pokemon ZA. So, having these consoles ready to go, especially for even though some of these are going to be backwards compatible people that are really into these games, grab them first and foremost, outside of maybe some families, for some kids are going to want to play it on the new console. So you ideally want those back in stock as quickly as possible yeah, I agree, I agree.

Brandon Hurles: 46:00

So I think that nintendo is definitely handling this a lot better than other companies have, and that's good to see.

Mark Trobough: 46:05

I mean, well, we'll see in six months exactly how everything's going. But hopefully they were able to get up the. Usually it would take close to a year in the, as much as that possible in that pre-order window. So it doesn't like you know, the the demand doesn't outweigh the supply for like the first year, year and a half. So you don't run into like a ps5 for sure. I appreciate it, brandon.

Brandon Hurles: 46:26

Yeah, you're welcome uh, yeah, no for sure. So I guess we just uh go ahead and dive into the news. What do we got uh going on here first?

Mark Trobough: 46:35

uh, as I hit the wrong button. Uh, we got some new stuff as far as uh, the new blade coming out. I assume from what I'm seeing here I haven't tracked this, I don't know how much you have as far as like what we talked about in the podcast here and there uh, so is the blade movie not happening now? Then, based off what I'm seeing, I didn't get a chance to follow up on everything, so I don't know what you were. You were tracking on this uh, I wasn't tracking anything.

Brandon Hurles: 47:02

I just seen this new story come up today. We knew that a new blade was happening, but uh, apparently, um, it seems like, according to a report, um, it's gone through its fair share of roadblocks over the years, which we know, but appears the project has officially stalled, with little hope that it will ever pick up where it left off, which is really truly unfortunate.

Mark Trobough: 47:20

I mean, wesley snipes's blade was just next level man, I mean I mean he was he was he I mean some areas, but it's very iconic yeah, but it but it was comic like it was. It had character to it charm.

Brandon Hurles: 47:33

It was charm really. But yeah, I mean it's unfortunate to hear this, because I love this character. I think it's a great character. I think Wesley Snipes plays the character very, very well. Didn't care too much for the last Blade movie, but the first two I really really liked yeah, I didn't care for them.

Mark Trobough: 47:51

I think Blade 1 was by far the best yeah, I think so too.

Brandon Hurles: 47:54

I mean that first scene, man. Oh my god, the opening scene for that movie, brutal bro yeah so brutal, yeah, I I absolutely love the character in the comic books. I think he's a phenomenal character. I love that. You know he's got the whole deal with dracula and the dracula's in the mc or in the marvel universe and stuff like that and like that and that's one of his foes and stuff.

Mark Trobough: 48:15

I always thought it was really cool. I think it was several months ago at this point, but you could really look at the first Blade movie as really laying the groundwork for what the modern MCU really became.

Brandon Hurles: 48:27

If you think about it, if you really really think about it, it kind of unofficially started the MCU because they're bringing him back into it.

Mark Trobough: 48:34

And think about it, it, it did it, kind of unofficially started the mcu because like I mean, because like bringing them back into it and they've referenced it in movies whether it was marvel or dc, like blade.

Mark Trobough: 48:42

Really it made that transition from a comic book goofy movie to like trying to actually be super serious with an actual story. Uh, especially with these, a more adult, more mature story, oh yeah, and they they didn't try like the old super like Superman or or you know, batman, stuff like that, which still felt kind of goofy at times with the movie, even when they tried to be kind of dark and serious with it.

Brandon Hurles: 49:01

Yeah, for sure.

Mark Trobough: 49:03

Especially like in the eighties and stuff with their movies like they were. They were good movies but it was to the modern DC and modern MCU. Yeah, I agree Much more. You know a dark, mature storytelling.

Brandon Hurles: 49:15

Christopher Reeve's Superman is still my favorite, which is what you would call the cheesier ones.

Mark Trobough: 49:20

But I would call it classic at this point.

Brandon Hurles: 49:23

They're very, they hold a very special place in my heart because they are the movies that I first watched with my dad, that he was really into and that we really connected with. So it was one of those things where, you know, he was always into the comic book stuff and sci-fi channel and stuff like that. So all that stuff he really got me into alien predator um child's play um friday the 13th, anything that showed up on sci-fi channel, tremors, you know I like.

Mark Trobough: 49:51

The tremors are of like and this is not the same level of the tremors aliens and predator series. Of those three series, the tremors is obviously the weakest. The best movies are the first one and it was just a slow, steady downhill from there, if you ask me, until like eight movies which was for me. It's such a terrible movie, oh I thought you're talking about tremors. There's like eight tremor movies but I know and I've watched all eight of them and I like them, but it's a steady downhill of quality. It's a huge decline.

Brandon Hurles: 50:16

I watched the last one that came out. I was like, oh my god, this is not it's a straight movie.

Mark Trobough: 50:19

They're not even trying to be serious about it, they're not even trying to be serious, no, no.

Brandon Hurles: 50:24

But that's where all my love for that stuff and he was a big, big superman fans of christopher reeves is like my, my uh, movie superman. I always, I always loved them, yes, like the movies. They they still hold up today. Yes, there was cheesiness, but it was superman that you're working with, um, first of all, who is a great character, but he's also like a very cheesy character, like in movie form, because I mean, you think it's cheesy.

Mark Trobough: 50:45

I think of tremors three, I think, is the first movie. Okay, it's either two or three, I can't remember which one? He was really cheesy where they had those, uh, the, the, the, the, the, the creature that um, could, uh, could fly, essentially, and they called it the ass blaster. I'm like that's when you know they were. Just, do you remember about being you know?

Brandon Hurles: 51:01

do you remember the first movie?

Mark Trobough: 51:03

really felt like a horror movie yeah.

Brandon Hurles: 51:05

Yeah.

Brandon Hurles: 51:15

Like blasted about the crocodile. I remember watching a whole it's a whole series too A marathon of those movies on the sci-fi channel way back then. Yeah, the Superman comics were definitely cheesy. It did get grittier in the 90s but yeah, the early stuff very cheesy, but I still love it. I have a soft spot for it. But yeah, I mean this Blade stuff Unfortunate hopefully Ends up getting, you know, works out. But it looks like they probably just dived into it a little too early and they just weren't ready for it or had everything kind of set in stone on what they were going to do. So hopefully you see more about it yeah and then.

Mark Trobough: 51:41

Uh, not surprisingly, another single player game is going to require is requiring always online internet, which is kind of frustrating to see or like. I don't know why they need it like this, but the new skate game will require and always connected. You will always, always need to be connected to the internet, for whatever reason. I don't know why they need it like this, but the new skate game will require an always connected. You will always, always need to be connected to the internet, for whatever reason. But the single player games they want you on the internet, probably the data harvest but this is like so disappointing.

Brandon Hurles: 52:05

It's so disappointing to hear that. I hate that, because I mean what happens is eventually a game gets shut down. It's just gone forever.

Mark Trobough: 52:11

Yeah, again a game gets shut down. It's just gone forever. A game that's single player, but because it requires a server connection that it doesn't really need, I mean like even a game I loved, like Assassin's Creed Valhalla, you had to be connected.

Brandon Hurles: 52:20

Like why bro, why? Why do I have to be connected? That's so stupid.

Mark Trobough: 52:26

I mean there's more to talk about. I guess I can. I can bring it up now because I think it goes hand in hand. I don't know where I put it exactly because obviously ubi soft is always in the news. Uh, it's bottom of the smaller stuff that I had, uh, but apparently a european legal firm, a non-profit uh, noib nyob is what it's called, uh, based in austria, essentially has filed a legal complaint as far as security concerns, essentially citing that that ubisoft is uh data harvesting data for, like single player games that require that, always online internet connection, primarily with this one, the new assassin's creed shadows, essentially they're. They're modern, when you get on, how long you're playing, when you get off and stuff like, and ideally using that for whatever data collection that they're doing to sell or to use or something like that, right, and that you know essentially that this is probably breaking some EU law or something like that.

Brandon Hurles: 53:25

Probably. Yeah, I mean it's actually good, the only major risk is that they get fined.

Mark Trobough: 53:30

What up to 92 million euros, which around a hundred some million dollars, or something like that. So financially not a whole lot. But I don't know if they could legally force them to say either you have to couldn't tell people you're doing this, or you have to stop doing this and stuff like that crazy.

Brandon Hurles: 53:47

I mean, it's truly unfortunate, but this is where we're at, unfortunately, in 2025. Um, I was going to ask you do you want to, uh, just quickly break from news and do just kind of break it up a little bit? Do pickups real quick I mean we can't.

Mark Trobough: 54:00

I don't have any pickups, but yeah, we can break anything show I spent like way too much money this week to go.

Brandon Hurles: 54:06

Try to look for other well, these are like way previous I got these like no, no, if you got some stuff, you can bring it up I didn didn't have anything because of the.

Mark Trobough: 54:13

Switch 2 pre-order was like where all my money was at.

Brandon Hurles: 54:16

All right. First I got two reproduction Vectrex controllers. This was a special launch bundle. One of them is white and then the other is black. So if you know anything about the Vectrex, it's one of the most expensive video game systems. So the reason I got this was I was going to take the black one, take this out, take my original and put the reproduction in, just to preserve the original controller. And then, if you didn't know, the Vectrex actually has a second slot for a controller too, so I can use that as well. If I want to like play with my daughter or something like that, I have the option to have another controller, because original controllers are very, very expensive. But this is the first reproduction controller, so this is absolutely insane. When I saw that this went up, it was crazy. And one of them is white. It's a special launch edition only that is no longer available. Let me see if I can find the white real quick and I'll show it.

Mark Trobough: 55:09

I haven't even opened these up yet. That's not the white.

Brandon Hurles: 55:11

Nice, I haven't even opened them. Yeah, I, the white one I think I'm going to leave in the box and not use, because it was a special launch edition. The only reason I got it is because they had a bundle price for the launch and I wanted to support him for doing this, because it's something I thought nobody would ever do. The original controllers are very, very, very expensive, um, and hard to find a good working one. But, uh, I wish I could just bring over my Vectrex, but it's a giant vector unit with a screen built in so it's very heavy. This is the white launch one. There's never been a white controller for the Vectrex before, so this is really really, really neat. And then this is the outer shell where it connects into the unit and you leave it in there and stuff like that. So this is really really cool to see.

Brandon Hurles: 55:53

This is the one I will be leaving in the box. I won't be using this one, just going to keep this one for the collection. But the black one I will be swapping out for my original, just to preserve the original. So nothing happens to the stick, nothing happens to the buttons, I don't have to worry about any repairs down the road or anything like that. But this is really really cool and there was a good price. It was 150 for both. Uh launch bundle um, that's a really good price for these. I mean the fact that he even reproduced the boxes to look as good as they do. I mean these look like the original boxes. The only difference on these is where is it? At the bottom right here it says sean kelly, the guy that did it 2024. So that's the. That's how you can differentiate the original from the original.

Mark Trobough: 56:38

The box doesn't look like. It's like 40 years old.

Brandon Hurles: 56:42

Well, yeah, I mean it looks like it's 40 years old, but it looks new.

Mark Trobough: 56:46

The condition of the box is not how you'd expect it to look. They're beautiful.

Brandon Hurles: 56:49

I mean just for the box alone. They're really cool display pieces, so the white one I'll just display and the other one I'll actually be using.

Mark Trobough: 56:56

So uh, yeah, I guess technically there was one thing I forgot to share like a week or two ago, I don't remember yeah, go ahead before I show my other two uh, but it was technically. Uh. They finally started selling the spy family code white movie. Yes, they only had it in the steel case which I thought looked on the front looks really cool. Uh, I believe it was only on the Blu-ray and the DVD. It's combined and stuff like that One's DVD, one's Blu-ray.

Brandon Hurles: 57:18

I heard there's a lot of DEI in that, though and spy family no, it's not okay, maybe I misheard or something I don't.

Mark Trobough: 57:29

I don't know where you're getting that from, because I've watched the tv show. I watched the movie when I got it from uh brand.

Brandon Hurles: 57:33

I thought it was really good, like it's a really good movie yeah, uh, and then we got I picked up two really cool ones. I got this for ten dollars. This is a limited run games release too, which makes it an even better deal because obviously it's a limited game. I already wanted it because it's a classic show and it's a 2D platformer that you can play in either the NES style or the brand new Code of Paint style, so you can flip back and forth between the ones on the fly. So if you want to play and they did actually release a real NES cart with this game on it so like, released a real NES cart with this game on it. So this is an actual NES game. But that is Rugrats Adventures in Game Land and it is really fun. It's a really fun 2D platformer, a lot of fun, really a throwback to 2D platforms on the NES. And then the best one, which, unfortunately, I'm sorry to tell you, they are going to be doing restocks.

Brandon Hurles: 58:24

The company said they didn't expect the demand Makes sense to me, but, um, they they are have been very transparent, very honest about stuff and have been like keeping updates going like all the time. So maybe they just really didn't anticipate. Because it's like, uh, it's like, um, it's not a low budget game by any means. These are very expensive games. These are very sought after games very games, if you were to buy them now.

Brandon Hurles: 58:49

But anyway, that is the Lunar Remaster Collection on Switch, so haven't opened it up yet because of the other games that came out this week, but I will be diving into this probably in the next couple of weeks. I have not played these games in many years, so I'm really excited to check them out. But this is one that I really want Mark to get because I think he'll really like these games and you've been getting into a lot more of the JRPG stuff and these are just classics that I think you'll love. They look really nice. There's a lot of quality of life improvements. They speed up the battle system so you can get through the game quicker and the grindy is less grindy.

Mark Trobough: 59:23

The problem with some of those older jrpgs.

Brandon Hurles: 59:25

Yeah, they fix that a lot the speed of battles and the speed of moving and stuff like that. So there's some quality of life improvements. And also the best thing about this is the original games are very expensive, very rare and very sought after. So like you would be spending like 300 to get these original games that's just like this without the hardware.

Brandon Hurles: 59:46

Yeah, that's without the hardware, even that you need to play the game. So, yeah, this is this is a way to go If you want to experience these games. The way to go, for sure, but that's all I got.

Mark Trobough: 59:55

Yeah, so we got some other stuff. Uh actually got a proper uh trailer for the predator badlands and lands and some some more information about yeah I'm excited for this, the trailer play. Apparently they also the what's. The director said he got inspiration from I don't know how much inspiration or this is just some marketing crap. But uh said he got inspiration from shadow of the colossus, which is a really popular game.

Brandon Hurles: 1:00:18

That feels like was just kind of amazing video game, amazing video they refused to make another sequel to the game, for whatever reason.

Mark Trobough: 1:00:25

But everyone talks, talks about it and I don't know did this in the remake was phenomenal, but it's like give us a new game and in that universe, yeah, I mean really the remake was great, like it really was good, but it's like give us a new game yeah, but outside of that, did you have interest based off the trailer for this movie, or is it? Like I did maybe I'll turn around and see it later.

Brandon Hurles: 1:00:46

It's one of those things where there have been more bad predator movies and there's been good, there's been several that I liked.

Mark Trobough: 1:00:54

I'd say there's only really one iconic one, and that's one that's the original.

Brandon Hurles: 1:00:59

One and two I really like and then I also liked, funny enough. My next favorite one is a movie I think it's called Prey and it was a Disney Plus release and it's really really good. Like I was shocked at how good it was. It was so good and it's like centered around a little indigenous girl and like she's kind of like the main character in the show, but like it is just so good. I was shocked at how good it was and it was a Disney plus release, so I was like had even less hope for it, but it was really good. It's my third favorite for sure, um, but yeah, there's been a few others.

Brandon Hurles: 1:01:37

Like predators, um, I kind of liked, I thought it was a, I thought it was like a seven. Maybe it wasn't like a great movie but it was good. Like I love the lore and I love predator as a character in the universe, but I think they've done more bad movies than good. And I I can say the exact same thing for alien. Um, I loved alien and I loved aliens but honestly, for that franchise, those are the only two I like at all. But honestly, for that franchise, those are the only two I like at all. And again. I love the lore, love the universe, love the alien characters, love Ripley, love all the stuff around that. But apparently they are saying that this is actually setting up for a new Alien vs Predator, which we have not had in a very long time.

Mark Trobough: 1:02:23

So we got two of those back in the day they were back in school when those movies were relevant.

Brandon Hurles: 1:02:28

Yeah, one in Requiem, the second one, which is terrible. The second one was really bad. I liked the first one. Again, not a great movie, but for what it was and for seeing that mashup, because the last mashup that we saw was on. The Atari Jag was okay, but, um, the the atari jaguar one's a 10 out of 10 great game. It's in the doom style, wolfenstein style, but it's like really really good, especially for the time. Um, but yeah, apparently this is hinting at a alien versus predator movie, so that's good news. Um, will I see this? Yes, I, I do want to see it. What do you, what do you think?

Mark Trobough: 1:03:08

uh I, they're just to be fair. They've not been big uh movies or series sorry sneeze coming on for like the longest time uh that I've been. It's just not like a series that I've really cared for all that much. So maybe if we get around to if I get around to watching it, we'll see. I don't even know when this movie comes out. Well, it comes out November 7th, so I guess I've got time to figure out if I'm going to watch it November 7th, but if I didn't butcher his name, trottenberg.

Mark Trobough: 1:03:41

What he said, a small portion of what he said on this, was as inspired as I am by movies, I've been, uh, very inspired by video games like shadow of the colossus. We have a protagonist paired with somebody else who provides, uh, color and connection and stuff like that. It was get an idea of, uh, where it was coming out for some of that stuff, which, which makes sense, you got, like, you know, I guess I can see it in some ways. Sometimes you just like the idea of, yeah, of context, of you don't know what's going on but you kind of have to just accept it, kind of like with the last Kong Godzilla movie yeah, you don't really know what he's saying but you understand by context what's actually happening.

Mark Trobough: 1:04:20

Sometimes I don't think it's terrible, but I can see if it's done right. As long as this person isn't just a lore dump and that's it, it could work well. It could work well if it's just a straight lore dump character, it's forgettable and it's I don't think it's. It's good, yeah, but as long as this, this yeah, you have to like know what you're doing and not not fall into that trap of let me just tell you what's going on, then we kind of move on from there and I am irrelevant when the movie actually matters me. Just tell you what's going on, then we kind of move on from there and I am irrelevant when the movie actually matters. Yeah, I agree. Why you have the virtual boy on your face? I don't know.

Brandon Hurles: 1:04:51

I wondered how long you were gonna do that for uh, boy, uh, yeah, no, I definitely want to check it out and, uh, I'm looking forward to it. So I mean, I, like you said, I'll remain skeptical on it because, uh, previous entries and you know, there's been more bad than good in my opinion. When you bring in all media, like games and stuff like that, there's definitely been a few like really good games, but there's also been some like crappy stuff. So it's the same with all media and you know, and like stuff like Prometheus for Alien, like I just didn't like it. I wasn't a fan, I think it was just a bad movie yeah like it was, but I mean with with what you brought up.

Mark Trobough: 1:05:31

The idea that there's uh, more bad adaptations than good, I think is a is a trend that will. That will continue because, for whatever reason for this game that just came out, split fiction we're already getting a movie adaptation with I know, yeah, you know why I'm starting in this movie that's why I'm gonna watch it you you've already decided you're gonna watch this movie could be terrible.

Mark Trobough: 1:05:53

It could be terrible odds are the movie's gonna be bad bro, I'm gonna watch it suddenly this movie's like this game's not even like six months old, but this is one.

Brandon Hurles: 1:06:02

We do, we do plan on uh streaming, because it's like that two-player code.

Mark Trobough: 1:06:06

Yeah, I mean we need to like. I don't even. I haven't played the game yet no, I've heard great things.

Brandon Hurles: 1:06:11

I've heard it's really really good it's got.

Mark Trobough: 1:06:13

I mean, I've heard great things too and I ended up not liking it, so you haven't even played it. I don't know. Well, we gotta play it because the people like it doesn't mean I'm like I could hate it for all I know yeah, you could, but I'm just saying we got to find out for ourselves, right?

Brandon Hurles: 1:06:26

we don't trust the media, so we just find out.

Mark Trobough: 1:06:28

I just think it's weird that this game isn't that old.

Brandon Hurles: 1:06:31

It is weird but the way that I see is probably just because it was so successful, like it was being streamed a lot, like it was getting really high numbers my. A lot of games get high streaming numbers and then you would never like one, and I'm always skeptical on a video game movie anymore, but because sydney sweeney's the only one to watch it.

Mark Trobough: 1:06:48

So yeah, we all know why. You're what you want to watch it she's, uh, she's got branch.

Brandon Hurles: 1:06:53

Once teared her tits, so okay, that was unnecessary, but you know just immediately. I wasn't saying all that, I just said I want to see it because I think she's a, you know, interesting person I mean, we all were thinking it.

Mark Trobough: 1:07:08

I just had the. I wasn't thinking anything, mark.

Brandon Hurles: 1:07:12

That was all, you All right, let's move along.

Mark Trobough: 1:07:19

We got some new official confirmation and some image drops for the new Pokemon trading card game Pocket Celestial Guardians set. I can bring this up real quick. Oh, okay, I was going to bring it up. Which is bringing what Sun? And yeah, it's bringing Sun and Moon.

Brandon Hurles: 1:07:34

There's a video trailer for it too.

Mark Trobough: 1:07:36

Okay, I grabbed that because they were giving us, you know, not surprising. I'm glad about this because I really like.

Brandon Hurles: 1:07:43

While the Sun and Moon games aren't my favorite games, I really like the Legendaries from Sun and Moon.

Mark Trobough: 1:07:52

I always thought they were really good designs and cool Legendaries.

Brandon Hurles: 1:07:57

Yeah, as much as I both like and don't like Sun and Moon. Yeah, I mean, I like them, but they're just not my favorite. But they're pretty weak on the story front. But the, the pokemon, they, they shared actually I like the reason, or the low how I say it? Low in pokemon. I like the designs, like I would say it's different.

Mark Trobough: 1:08:16

I liked it for the story because it's arguably one of the more darkest ones that they've had.

Brandon Hurles: 1:08:19

I didn't like it, bro? Have you played black and white well?

Mark Trobough: 1:08:24

not even I'm about to.

Brandon Hurles: 1:08:26

Not even remotely close to being as dark as those games.

Mark Trobough: 1:08:29

I would disagree, son of man is not dark.

Brandon Hurles: 1:08:34

They were like the brightest games in the series and like the most like.

Mark Trobough: 1:08:37

You didn't pay attention to the story.

Brandon Hurles: 1:08:39

Yes, I certainly did. I played Ultra and the original.

Mark Trobough: 1:08:42

Do you not remember the one chick's mom? She like, yeah, the very end of the story was, but it wasn't, but it wasn't.

Brandon Hurles: 1:08:50

It doesn't even touch black and white. I would disagree you're wait till you play back and white too yeah, whatever, I like the games for the story.

Mark Trobough: 1:08:58

I didn't like the gameplay. I didn't like the. It was unique, but I I still prefer, prefer the traditional gym challenge myself. As far as Pokemon games go, then again you got Sword and Shield, and then Scarlet and Violet, which I think the stories were absolutely terrible and I didn't like them at all. That's just me. So, yeah, more cards. They're all cinnamon error cards which we haven't seen in forever since these games came out. So yeah that's a new Robocop game which we haven't seen in forever since these games came out.

Brandon Hurles: 1:09:30

So yeah, oh, that's a new Robocop game. By the way, we should probably add that to the notes, if we can. But what we got next I'll see if I can grab that up real quick.

Mark Trobough: 1:09:38

I guess, because we didn't grab this. We were talking about it as far as, like, some of the switch to stuff. Not surprisingly, because people have done this in the past. People to combat some of the switch to stuff. Not surprisingly, because people have done this in the past. Uh, people to combat some of the uh. Uh, there's not combat the body but combat the scalping. Uh, people were posting uh, I don't technically they're, they're fake listings for the switch to, but ideally it's just a piece of paper. It's our uh MSRP and it's labeled like hey, this is just a picture of an image. Essentially they're.

Mark Trobough: 1:10:08

They're trying to flood the like ebay with that to combat scalpers, to make it harder and stuff like that well, here's my.

Brandon Hurles: 1:10:12

Here's the problem with this. There's a big problem with this. Yes, they are trying to combat the scalpers, but the problem with this is I think this is a super scummy practice, because what happens is a lot of people who are you got to, there's a lot of people that don't want to deal with the pre-order crap and they're just like they got a few extra dollars and they just want to get it there. So they know they're getting it. That's fine. I have no problem with, like I say, don't support scalpers, but if you have the few extra dollars like, you can afford it. If I had the money, maybe I would do it that way.

Mark Trobough: 1:10:45

I don't know, maybe he's going to take these downs, but like, let's be fair.

Brandon Hurles: 1:10:48

But who buys?

Mark Trobough: 1:10:49

something without actually reading anything about it, and that is the point, because these are when you I don't have it pulled up, but the product descriptions, every time they do this, are flooded with this is not real.

Brandon Hurles: 1:10:59

Don't buy Officer you can just wait, it just depends on if you're a hardcore gamer that wants to get it early at launch or launch window. I understand to a point, but yes, you should read the description. A lot of people don't. That is their fault, but I still think it's a bit of a scummy practice. I don't think eBay should allow this. I personally don't.

Mark Trobough: 1:11:23

I don't think they're going to a hundred percent. They're going to go through and start taking these down, but the idea is people are.

Brandon Hurles: 1:11:27

This is the only way they can and they're like you get my receipt from buying the game. It says that they repeat it in their description and this sold by way. This was a sold listing and looked at somebody shared it on facebook or something and I looked at it as like they repeated it twice, said this is a copy of my receipt for buying the game. That is what you are buying. You are not buying the video game system and it's sold for $800.

Mark Trobough: 1:11:51

Probably cause I didn't read it and they're going to refund the money back.

Brandon Hurles: 1:11:55

Yeah.

Mark Trobough: 1:11:56

It's crazy.

Brandon Hurles: 1:11:56

Yeah, there are so many games to play. But you know people get excited about these. I get very excited about console launches. So I I understand to a point. If you can afford it and it's not money's not a problem, then whatever do, I don't care what you do with your money. I say don't support scalpers, but do what you want to do. It's not my decision, you know. So, you mind if I show this Robocop trailer real quick.

Brandon Hurles: 1:12:16

No, you didn't have it in the notes. Okay, uh, but yeah, we got the announcement unfinished business. Funny enough, I just beat this game two weeks ago, so now we're getting uh, see if I get a full screen here and, uh, now we're getting a a new uh story trailer here for this. So this looks pretty uh. I watched it already. It looks pretty cool. The game's pretty fun. Uh, it's. It's a bit repetitive, but it's fun. I played all the way through. I thought I think, uh, it took me 10 hours to beat the game. Uh, and I just played it like an hour before work each day and beat it in like a week, but it was pretty fun.

Brandon Hurles: 1:12:51

I like RoboCop a lot, so that's the main reason it kept me around with the game. But it's one of those games where all the decisions you make with the NPCs affect the final outcome of the game, which is pretty cool. So you've got to select what you think is right. You've either got to be on the side of the wall or on the side of making the civilians like you more. So you're. You're picking between those two. Do you want to defend the wall or do you want the civilians to like you better? And each thing you select affects the end of the game. So it's a really, really cool premise.

Brandon Hurles: 1:13:23

I think Robocop's a badass character. I've always liked the movies and stuff, so you know I it was very 80s style type game fps. It really feels like you're playing robocop when you care, uh are playing him, because he's a little bit slower, like a robot would be. Um, so you got to be a little more methodical with with uh, uh when you have like 12 enemies on screen and stuff, since you are a little bit slower, um, getting in cover and stuff like that. But yeah, unfinished business. You wishlist it. Now it's coming out July 17th 2025. What I do not know, though, is whether this is a full new game or if this is DLC, because it didn't actually specify that on there, so I don't have to look into it.

Mark Trobough: 1:14:02

Yeah, I have to look into it but I did want to share that and I don't know why I have to pull this up every time. Hopefully the volume is good on this. Every time you think of robocop, you think of detroit yeah right, that's where the original show is in. I always think of this, this clip right here take him to detroit. No, no, no, no. I'm sorry, it's just so funny to me. It's funny.

Brandon Hurles: 1:14:34

It's like the perfect reaction to anybody that goes to Detroit, michigan does suck Everything Football team, so does Cleveland.

Mark Trobough: 1:14:38

That's my reaction every time I have to go to Cleveland, which I've been there twice.

Brandon Hurles: 1:14:45

Michigan's just in general, all the sports teams, they all suck right, all right.

Mark Trobough: 1:14:49

You're going a little too far there, but this is some fighting words, uh mr coffee talking about you know movies and stuff like that, unless, oh, you can bring that up real quick yeah, mr coffee said did you see that one streamer?

Brandon Hurles: 1:15:00

he was bragging, he got to switch online. Uh, he showed off his pre-order on the stream and a few minutes later he gets an email saying his order was canceled. Seemed like someone was watching a stream, was able to see the order. Uh, was able to see his order was canceled. Or, it seems like somebody was watching a stream, was able to see the order number. Got to walmart and canceled it. Yeah, well, that's what happens, you know don't share this, you don't. You don't share yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure but apparently there was.

Mark Trobough: 1:15:29

There's a news going around they're working on a toys r us movie yes, yeah with inspiration from ninth museum back to the future and big. So when I heard this I'm like this is stupid. But I guess, actually thinking about it more than just the initial actually.

Brandon Hurles: 1:15:45

How does that? How do you movie?

Mark Trobough: 1:15:46

it'd be one of two things either it's more of like a night at the museum where you're, it's store or something.

Mark Trobough: 1:15:53

Yeah, it's like a I don't want to say like a period piece where they actually come to life, or it's more of like a I don't know. More of like a historical drama, but more of like the story of like the founding and how it got pop. More of like the the story of like the founding and how it got popping. More of like a documentary style movie, if that makes sense I don't think it's gonna be a documentary I think that'd be successful.

Brandon Hurles: 1:16:13

I think the sonic, the hedgehog movie producers are doing this, which have a good track record, obviously, with those movies.

Mark Trobough: 1:16:19

So that has me, um you know more on a positive note with it, uh but it's a weird premise, though just saying that it's like, oh, a movie based on toys r us, you're like I'm what? That sounds stupid it does.

Brandon Hurles: 1:16:29

But I have I have such a soft spot for uh toys r us and if it is something that's in line like, maybe, night's museum where toys turned alive, or it could be something entirely different. We have no idea.

Mark Trobough: 1:16:39

We don't know any firm details about the cast or anything back in the day when you could back in the day, when you could go there and like they'd have, like the, the demo, like we're now like they. They have them behind the screens for the video games, but it's just that we're back in the day you can have play like the demos and stuff, like of games and stuff yeah, yeah, you go to walmart or something like that.

Mark Trobough: 1:16:56

You, just while your parents are shopping, you're just there. You and how many other kids are there just playing, like you know, ps3 or gamecube or 64 or something like that You'd be, literally breaking your neck, looking straight up, because the controller would be where you are the TV's way, at the top of the shelf. You're breaking your neck. I'm playing video games.

Brandon Hurles: 1:17:15

And then I did want to quickly share. We had some notes. We are celebrating the first anniversary of Stellar Blade, a game we both liked. No news necessarily there, but the PC version will be coming out soon. That might be a double dip for both of us, I don't know yet it already is all right, I'm already gonna get that game playing on pc but I'll tell you what else I'm excited.

Brandon Hurles: 1:17:33

We're right underneath it. They commented, um, because it's going to be very similar to the game, but wu chang fallen feathers. I'm so stoked for that game, man. I am so excited for that game. I cannot. These Chinese companies are just pumping out these great games. Crazy, these games I'm like really interested in. Mr Coffee said I saw the Hasbro NFL collab. They're making these NFL helmets to transform.

Mark Trobough: 1:17:57

Oh wow, oh nice, Crazy. But speaking of toys that come to life, we're getting more life-size Pokemon plushies.

Brandon Hurles: 1:18:05

Oh my gosh, got an instant pre-order I thought there's a friend who's gonna do he went in there for the guard of war.

Mark Trobough: 1:18:12

But yeah, I don't like uh, they're bad, just as expensive. There's like what four they're?

Brandon Hurles: 1:18:18

310 dollars, uh usd when uh uh transferred over from yen, so uh but I think on their website. They're actually like 350, if I remember seeing what I seen.

Mark Trobough: 1:18:31

You look, let me look back at the messages I sent you I mean they're gonna be like you know, if you're gonna buy them in the us, probably closer to 400 dollars, yeah, so the official prices are yeah, the official prices are 400 each yeah, I mean they're, they're, they're essentially like they're huge, they are the size of the pokemon, but uh, it's like, here's now that umbreon.

Brandon Hurles: 1:18:51

If they were doing umbreon right now, I'll be honest with you, it'd be umbreon and, uh, gardevoir that I'd want. I might. I might convince myself to get just umbreon, because I already missed out on gardevoir and gardevoir. It's a little weird to have a life size yeah, because that's right.

Mark Trobough: 1:19:08

Yeah, as of right now. Uh, they're just doing obviously, you can get plushies of all these are not life size, though, but they're just doing the, uh, the jolteon, flareon and yeah, uh, I can't remember the other name for the for the water one vaporion vaporon. Yeah, I couldn't think of the name, sorry.

Brandon Hurles: 1:19:26

Non-Pokemon fan.

Mark Trobough: 1:19:27

Oh, my god whatever.

Brandon Hurles: 1:19:28

But no, the Umbreon, I might justify. I don't know. Yet it's so much funny I don't know I might justify, we'll see. It is my second favorite Pokemon. I don't know, I mean, I don't know. They sell out immediately, obviously, favorite pokemon.

Mark Trobough: 1:19:46

I don't know, I mean I I don't know they sell out immediately. Obviously they're very in the band. I mean, they're just doing pre-orders now and, yeah, they're gonna sell out very, very quickly.

Brandon Hurles: 1:19:51

Yeah, but again you missed your opportunity. Now a thousand dollars on ebay. I'm like a black light. I'd get a black light if you're gonna want you once.

Mark Trobough: 1:19:58

You want it to arrive, just to make sure you're safe.

Brandon Hurles: 1:19:59

But a black light. Yeah, what do you mean? If you know, you know, I don't know how, one of the reasons why, like the Gardevoir is a little weird to get because it look it's just like kind of a.

Mark Trobough: 1:20:15

It's kind of kind of weird a little bit it is a little weird to the average person, isn't it it?

Brandon Hurles: 1:20:21

is my favorite Pokemon, but somebody that doesn't know Pokemon is like what. What in the hell is wrong with you? I know Pokemon is, and that's what I'm saying I mean, it's a great pokemon but it's like it's, it's weird to have a life size of it, although I do regret not getting it just because the aftermarket price is stupid. But 400 is just crazy, man, in general it's just like ridiculous. But they sell out, so they know what they're doing, I guess yeah uh, but we didn't get some.

Mark Trobough: 1:20:46

Nor, you know, if you want to say positive news for for switch to games coming, because a lot of the third parties are doing digital but they're doing the, the game key cards, because they're cheap.

Mark Trobough: 1:20:55

Essentially, there's no better way to say it this point, or their games just gonna be too big and they don't want to deal with trying to, you know, compress it, uh. But all marvels, usa came out and pretty much said all their games will not require a download. Their, their whole game will be on the cartridge. No download required to play these games. Um, which is good news, because most of the third-party games are just going to do that.

Brandon Hurles: 1:21:16

The, uh, yeah, thing to add on to that, every single sega launch window release and and launch day release are all game key cards, including sonic shadow generations, yakuza zero, director's cut, uh raidu, remastered two-point museum and puyo puyo, tetris 2s. So all of those are game key cards, which is super unfortunate because I was like, oh, I didn't grab sonic shadow generations yet something I want to play. Yeah, I'll get on switch to. Yeah, I'm not. I'm sorry, but just personally I'm not going to buy any key cards unless it like pops up on amazon for 10 bucks or something where it's cheaper than getting it digitally. Yeah, I mean that I can justify, but like in general.

Mark Trobough: 1:21:58

If it's just a download key, what's the point of getting the physical at all at that point?

Brandon Hurles: 1:22:01

yeah, unless it's cheaper than any digital that's out there.

Mark Trobough: 1:22:05

I don't already have it on Steam or something like that?

Brandon Hurles: 1:22:08

Yeah, it's one of those things where it's like I have no desire to collect these on my shelf game key cards. I just don't. But, like I said, if it's a really, really good deal I will get it, if it's something I want to play because my only other option is digital. So it's like if it's cheaper than the digital like cheaper than the digital, like on a sale or something. You know amazon pick up 10 games all the time, then I'll get it. You know I'm not necessarily happy that it's a game key card, but in general I don't like this practice.

Mark Trobough: 1:22:32

So yeah, I mean they put some of the games they worked on for the switch with the uh daemon, uh machina game yeah, daemon, yeah, they worked on some uh fate xdeli games.

Brandon Hurles: 1:22:42

Goddard daemon x machina is is a non-game key card, so I am getting that one, and I did get cyberpunk as well, because it's a non-game key card.

Mark Trobough: 1:22:50

So which was really surprising too.

Brandon Hurles: 1:22:53

Yeah, and like the big one that 64 gigabyte and actually looks pretty good and runs pretty good.

Mark Trobough: 1:22:58

So yeah, uh, you know, because they also worked on some of the no more heroes games, ruin factory story seasons. They worked on some monster hunter Stories games and stuff like that A lot of their games. They haven't posted a Harvest Moon game in forever but they've made those. They've worked on a lot of the Senran Kagura games which hopefully the game series can come back, and stuff like that. They've got a good history of really good games.

Brandon Hurles: 1:23:23

They're definitely a.

Mark Trobough: 1:23:24

Japanese company.

Brandon Hurles: 1:23:25

Mr Coffee, japanese homes are generally very, very small, so I'm not sure about that, but they are being sold, obviously, in the us too. My assumption is probably more of these are actually selling to us than they are in japan, just because of space from what I I mean that makes sense.

Mark Trobough: 1:23:41

Why the cartridge, like everything's, just smaller it's the portable the plushies. He's asking about the japanese homes being small you're just gonna buy like one, it's just like a use it like a hello or something like that. Yeah, oh, sorry, I think you should talk about some other stuff like that's a that's a third-party decision.

Brandon Hurles: 1:23:58

That's just pretty, that's straight yeah, it's not a nintendo decision on that front, but it is unfortunate that a game that's super, super, super small, like two point museum and po po tetris 2s, are on game key cards. Those are very small games. I already have po po tetris 2 on switch. It's on the cart, but this is the new s version that's got extra content. Like two point, museum is a very small game that could easily fit on one of the game cards, but for some reason sega is opting to not do this. So if this is how it's going to continue with sega, I imagine I won't have a lot of sega games on my switch to, which is unfortunate because I love the company, I mean yakuza card.

Brandon Hurles: 1:24:35

I'm like a dragon all those games are coming out. You know, yeah, a lot of it I'll probably get on like pc or whatever. But for the physical stuff that I want to get and I want to play on the Switch 2, then it's unfortunate because there is going to be some stuff that I want to get and if it's cheaper I'll get it on Switch 2. I don't care necessarily about what platform I'm playing on necessarily. That doesn't necessarily matter to me. Yes, I'd love to play PC, but for me if it's cheaper on a certain platform, it just gives me more opportunity to play that platform more. So I don't necessarily care If I find a game that's $10 on the Series X when I'd rather play it on the Switch or PS5 or PC, I'll still get it on that. I bought a $5, $10 game on the Series X, which is the platform I played the least, but I'll still get it. I don't care.

Mark Trobough: 1:25:34

I'm just there to play the game, so to me the platform doesn't matter.

Brandon Hurles: 1:25:35

So yeah, yeah, just is it? Is it physical or is it download, like that? That matters, that's a problem. Yeah, I'm not. I'm not. I'm sorry. I'm not supporting the practice of the game key card stuff unless it's super on sale or the company's making like no money.

Mark Trobough: 1:25:43

So yeah, that's just my stance on it. I'm sorry you're good, something small, real quick. Uh, if you're into using pokemon home, they're adding uh, uh you can metal features and stuff like that and they're allowing you to uh trade between players, uh, pokemon events for these metals using pokemon home, which I use pokemon home. I don't really care about these metal things, but if you are like into that, I guess good for you.

Brandon Hurles: 1:26:09

I'm not a Pokemon fan necessarily, but it's not an update that I care for. Yeah, not a big Pokemon fan.

Mark Trobough: 1:26:18

But if you are an F zero 99 fan, you get an update coming in April. You get version 1.6, which is bringing in Mirror and Classic tracks, as well as a mini world tour event and vehicle customization to the game.

Brandon Hurles: 1:26:34

It's cool. It's cool to see this game still getting so much support.

Mark Trobough: 1:26:37

I mean it's getting support because I mean there's obviously still a lot of love for it, a lot of people playing.

Brandon Hurles: 1:26:42

I mean granted.

Mark Trobough: 1:26:43

When's the last time an F-Zero game came out?

Brandon Hurles: 1:26:47

To be fair. But you know what's cool? We don't have it in the news, I'm sure, but we did get the final F-Zero game coming to Switch Online. F-zero GX, the one everybody wanted, it's coming to Switch Online.

Mark Trobough: 1:26:56

What people really want is a new F-Zero game.

Brandon Hurles: 1:26:57

They do but I think this is leading to us getting a new F-Zero they wouldn't continue to support that.

Mark Trobough: 1:27:05

There wasn't a demand for it, which means there's obviously demand for this game series.

Brandon Hurles: 1:27:08

Don't you think that's good news? The gx is on switch online, because that mean leaves the the last. Really, I'd say yes and no it's.

Mark Trobough: 1:27:15

It's not surprising they're bringing their old like it's just like one of those games was inevitably going to come over. But if there's still a lot of popularity for f0, it is hopefully giving game.

Brandon Hurles: 1:27:25

We got the game.

Mark Trobough: 1:27:25

It game, it's getting hopefully the the people playing that game. There's a decent amount of people that play it, so there's like showing nintendo. Hey, there is a good audience here for another f-zero game. Hopefully you're behind the scenes still working on one, so it comes out here pretty soon.

Brandon Hurles: 1:27:39

But it's crazy, it's been forever I get that point, but I it is good to get more games on the console. I just I don't like the concept of game key card in general.

Mark Trobough: 1:27:51

I just don't, I can't get on board with it really other than that you can just buy it online and just download it digitally. What's the point of buying the physical at that point?

Brandon Hurles: 1:28:02

but do people really want F-Zero? I mean I see a lot of people asking for F-Zero. I want a new F-Zero. I mean I see a lot of people asking for F-Zero, I want a new F-Zero. So I mean I'm sure there's an audience for it.

Brandon Hurles: 1:28:12

And if it's on Switch 2, with the amount of consoles that will be out there. We know the Switch effect right, where every single franchise on the Switch, if the game came out on Switch, that franchise got 100x bigger. You look at Metroid Dread right, the best-selling Metroid now of all time. It of course is not still crazy units, but it upped the franchise a ton just being on Switch. You think of Animal Crossing bigger than ever. You think of Pikmin bigger than ever. Mario Kart bigger than ever. Every single franchise that touches the pikmin bigger than ever. Mario kart bigger than ever. Every single franchise that touches the switch is bigger than it's ever been.

Brandon Hurles: 1:28:50

So, uh, the switch to effect will be the same, same exact thing. If you ask me, and I think that with f zero drops, no, it won't be in the top 10. You know first party releases, but that doesn't matter, as long as it makes money and hits the audience and people pick it up. As long as they make money, you know from it, then it's worth the release. So, and I think it definitely, definitely will.

Mark Trobough: 1:29:11

So yeah, and then, uh, surprisingly I'm sure you're shocked that the nintendo 3ds is uh, has some news that just dropped here recently. Uh, so obviously this has been out of print for forever now. But if you still happen to have yours and you find yourself in kyoto going to the nintendo museum, you can use these street paths to get exclusive me's of uh miyamoto takahashi and uh furukawa, or if I am sure I butchered that name. But furukawa furukawa.

Mark Trobough: 1:29:43

Yeah, that's all all there is to it, but the fact that there's even some level of support still for the 3DS and the Street Pass, which I know is one of the big things that people really liked about the 3DS and stuff like that and 2DS.

Brandon Hurles: 1:29:57

Yeah, I would absolutely take mine. I still take mine to every convention. I go and I get tons of Street Passes.

Mark Trobough: 1:30:02

There's a lot of good games on the DSs and 3ds absolutely mine's plugged up at all times, ready to play, so I I love it I mean, let's be fair, there's still a lot of pokemon games stuck on the ds, yep or pretty much all of the pre-switch.

Mark Trobough: 1:30:17

Uh, pokemon games are stuck on the, on the ds or the 3ds, if you're able to get them digitally downloaded before the. The store shut down. Yes last year, yeah year. It sucks that they just refused to bring those back to the modern console at this point it's a whole other issue. I feel like we've talked to death at this point. In previous episodes about wanting those games.

Brandon Hurles: 1:30:39

I know we definitely did. It looks like we also got. A tech company is looking to replace GameStop store by store Retail chain. Paymore is buying old GameStop locations, aiming to create more vibrant, community focused spaces. Gamestop has closed over 700 stores since 2020, including mine. Paymore has been expanding rapidly, with 18 stores opening in March 2025, and it projected 150 by the end of the year, so they're looking to buy all of these out.

Brandon Hurles: 1:31:07

It looks like they've been shutting down at an increasing rate, obviously since COVID. Many of these closures are due to the rising prevalence of online shopping, which has caused GameStop to start looking into alternative revenue sources, like NFTs stupid and investing in Bitcoin even more stupider. These efforts have done little to quell the number of physical GameStop location closures over the past years, with over 700 stores locking their doors for good since 2020. Looks like Paymore Growing Chain and Technology stores or customers can trade in their old electronics reporting buying closed GameStop locations. They're going to convert these stores into vibrant, community-focused spaces that prioritize flexibility, fairness and sustainability. Paymore notes that it and GameStop utilize similar commercial footprints and that customers have increasingly turned to Paymore for its concentrating needs in the wake of GameStop closures, so it looks like they've been expanding greatly over the past year, with 18 stores opening in March 2025. While more and more customers are instead doing their video game shopping online, they're looking to fill the void left by game stops, increasing closures. So not more more, just surprised by that.

Mark Trobough: 1:32:15

but um, I didn't necessarily see anything. I don't know exactly how they're gonna like turn this into a store outside of.

Mark Trobough: 1:32:21

You can bring your old tech and sell it and exchange it and probably buy some stuff there, yeah, they're if they're trying to like host more community events, whether it's like tabletop card games or just rpgs or just general, a more sociable place to just play games and stuff like that that arguably gamestop somewhat dips their toes into.

Mark Trobough: 1:32:40

I feel like they should go more that way instead of just the like a general pop culture store. That'd be, that'd be great. But I have to see if the uh, if this is working or they're just doing this and they're subsidizing it with the rest of their, with the rest of their business behind the scenes, or they're a lot of their online stuff. So hopefully, I mean maybe this will give gamestop proper competition, bring people back to the stores and help both of them. Or this is a way to replace gamestop, because arguably you'd want you want more more game stores like you just don't want gamestop. You want some competition to kind of force both companies to compete but, like, try to get people into physical stores would be potentially a great thing absolutely I guess only time will tell with this, because I don't, I don't have any near me, so I can't immediately tell you.

Brandon Hurles: 1:33:25

Yeah, I don't either.

Mark Trobough: 1:33:29

So news to me? Yeah, also another movie that people are talking about getting another adaptation. I will remain skeptical. Outrun is apparently in the works to get another live action, which is an old 86 arcade game where you just drive. I don't know how you turn that into a movie.

Brandon Hurles: 1:33:52

They did the Gran Turismo movie.

Mark Trobough: 1:33:55

That's crazy. Yeah, because this is a really old game I remember playing maybe not this one, but something similar but you just drive and until you reach the destination or you're wrecked or something like that those old arcade games that used to have.

Brandon Hurles: 1:34:06

I love OutRun, but, yeah, how they're going to turn this into a movie, not quite sure. Because here's where I'm very, very skeptical. And listen to this. This is crazy because we just talked about it earlier, but Michael Bay is directing, so that leaves me very skeptical. And then Sidney Sweeney is producing.

Mark Trobough: 1:34:28

I don't know. I could see this movie being done be a complete flop. I could see it being a really good movie.

Brandon Hurles: 1:34:35

Mainly because there's like no plot. I'm sorry.

Mark Trobough: 1:34:38

There's no story to this game. It's just a racing game, a racing arcade game.

Brandon Hurles: 1:34:42

Best thing he ever did was Transformers 1. He ruined the franchise after that. I'm game best thing he ever did was transforms one. He ruined the franchise after that. I'm sorry he just I his movies like I like the movie painting game a little bit, but it was over the top and kind of ridiculous too. It wasn't a good movie, uh, but yeah, he just puts, he puts out.

Mark Trobough: 1:34:58

So much outside of the terrible uh romance subplot. Armageddon was really fun movie.

Brandon Hurles: 1:35:06

Just get rid of that.

Mark Trobough: 1:35:08

The movie's almost perfect. It's the epitome of a disaster movie.

Brandon Hurles: 1:35:12

It was fine, I didn't love it Paris gets destroyed.

Mark Trobough: 1:35:15

What's not to like?

Brandon Hurles: 1:35:17

What is it with you and France, my God? You need to move there or something. Get cultured, my boy.

Mark Trobough: 1:35:25

France is one of those things that just peaked with a point. It's just been a steady downhill ever since.

Brandon Hurles: 1:35:29

Probably you ain't even been there.

Mark Trobough: 1:35:32

Why would I want to go there? I?

Brandon Hurles: 1:35:36

don't know, I don't know. But yeah, I'll remain skeptical on this for sure With Michael. Sydney Sweeney is an actor. She's producing it. I'm a little confused there. I like her, but I don't know how her skills are behind the screen.

Mark Trobough: 1:35:52

Yeah, I don't know. I guess it's a wait and see. I got some other news Nintendo Pokemon news. Apparently, nintendo is trying to get Discord to help give them information for the Pokemon Terralyke hacker, which means they really want to know who this person is and, just you know, throw the book at them that they can, because they're of course really salty about this, about this leak, and they will. They're trying to do everything they can to what?

Brandon Hurles: 1:36:20

what is the leak exactly?

Mark Trobough: 1:36:22

I don't know.

Brandon Hurles: 1:36:26

Oh so it looks like leaked personal financial info, future Pokemon game details and more. It's unclear whether Nintendo will pursue legal action.

Mark Trobough: 1:36:34

Well, I mean, why else would they try to ask Discord if they're not trying to pursue legal action? Oh yeah, because he also sorry to pull this up he also leaked part of the source code for pokemon legend za and stuff like that. So like, if you're, if you're oh, I remember that.

Mark Trobough: 1:36:52

Yeah, we talked about that yeah, I, I had to go through because I remember this. I was trying to like give myself like a refresh. I read, yeah, which is secular, like four hours ago, and I'm like, oh my god, I can't remember what this was. I think that was like the big thing was the uh, was the source code leak? Oh, it was really going to be unhappy about.

Brandon Hurles: 1:37:08

It also had the uh early Pokemon yellow sprites, for example, which dated back to 1998. We're not using the final version of the game. We're not meant to be released to the public.

Mark Trobough: 1:37:18

That's not a problem, though I think it's they.

Brandon Hurles: 1:37:20

They would care less about that source code for it, the hack also included a multiplayer game code named Pokemon Synapse, so a game we didn't know about.

Mark Trobough: 1:37:32

I think it's primarily the source code leak and the fact that certain employee PII was released and stuff like that, which is a big thing for people getting their identity stolen, yeah, personal and financial info.

Brandon Hurles: 1:37:44

So yeah, it's a big deal.

Mark Trobough: 1:37:46

So it definitely makes sense why they're going after it. And then I don't know their identity. Yeah, personal financial info. So, yeah, it's a big deal. So it definitely makes sense why they're going after it. And then I don't know, outside of legal issues, why Discord wouldn't. But I could see them like requiring Nintendo and Game Freak to go through, you know, courts to try to get this information.

Brandon Hurles: 1:38:01

Potentially, yeah, for sure.

Mark Trobough: 1:38:04

Or how much information is even on this discord that discord could release to them. But this, this definitely shows that the tendo and game figure out to just throw the. If you're asking uh, I don't know why this, why they put it the article. If you're asking discord for information, you're very obviously trying to place legal charges on this person. Why else would?

Brandon Hurles: 1:38:22

you, would you continue to?

Mark Trobough: 1:38:23

pursue this you after the fact Right 100%. I'm just a journalist being stupid. It's very obvious if they're going this far.

Brandon Hurles: 1:38:33

but personal opinion, Name one movie Sydney Sweeney has done without Googling. I have no idea. I couldn't tell you any.

Mark Trobough: 1:38:43

I've only seen a movie that she's been in.

Brandon Hurles: 1:38:44

to be honest, yeah, I couldn't name any but sticking more with the nintendo.

Mark Trobough: 1:38:48

But it's uh, specifically pokemon. Uh, there is a? Uh an official ecology encyclopedia that's getting released in japan, uh, june 18th. Uh, for the thousand thousand or so pokemon with detailed information. You know, behavior analysis like this is like uh, sorry, my nose is getting really cheap like they're the. The book that's like detailed about how pokemon would actually like act and stuff like that behavior, kind of like if you're reading, kind of like a, a book about like actual animals would be the best way to describe it.

Mark Trobough: 1:39:22

It's getting released in japan, uh, with a bunch of jap, uh, japanese sites. Uh like, uh, let me read this. Like amazon japan, rakuten, seven net shopping tower records, hmv and books and stuff like that. A bunch of a bunch of japanese websites and stores are getting this and I'm sure like you could probably go through amazon japan and get this book. It's about ten dollars, yeah it with the conversion rate or something like that. Uh, my nose is itchy all of a sudden, but the the problem with that is it's all gonna be japanese, so you're just gonna get this as a collector. You wouldn't be able to like read unless you read. You read japanese or something like that. But right, it'd be nice for something like this to uh to come to the us and stuff like that I mean they're cool, like even uh, like that japanese uh pokemon scarlet violet guide.

Brandon Hurles: 1:40:05

You got me like that's really just cool to look through and look at the pictures and like all the how it's different, because I have the US one too and it's just cooler, it's made better, it's smaller it's like, more compact it's smaller, more compact.

Mark Trobough: 1:40:17

It's made better, like it feels more quality. Bigger ones and stuff like that. Yeah.

Brandon Hurles: 1:40:22

Yeah, I don't know why I bought the Scarlet and Violet guide that I had.

Mark Trobough: 1:40:26

Considering you can usually Google that stuff online.

Brandon Hurles: 1:40:29

You don't really need them anymore, but it was just a collector thing.

Mark Trobough: 1:40:32

I saw that and I thought it was a neat little collector's thing. You can't read Japanese anyway.

Brandon Hurles: 1:40:37

Not yet Eventually, I promise Monday. He's been saying that for 20 years. I have been saying that for 20 years I did to be fair, I did do Japanese courses.

Mark Trobough: 1:40:46

I did do Japanese course when I grew up. Ohayo genki desu ka that's all I remember.

Brandon Hurles: 1:40:54

Hello, how are you?

Mark Trobough: 1:40:59

come in, come in, as I um, I know, like a handful of words, it's about it I know you said something you swore at me in japanese I did not. I don't know any japanese swear words, uh, but obviously talking because the cyberpunk game is the only game coming to the switch third party right now. That's actually all on the 64 cartridge?

Brandon Hurles: 1:41:19

Well, the only third party? Well, no it's not the only one. All the Marvelous games, the Rune Factory and all those, those are on the card too. But the big AAA-sized games and stuff like that, big AAA games.

Mark Trobough: 1:41:30

It has come out that it is using NVIDIA DLSS technology on the Switch 2 for this game. Yeah, so they nvidia dlss technology on the switch 2 for this game. Yeah, uh, so they're using the switch 2 for quality mode at 30 fps and dock performance mode at 40. Handheld performance mode upscales to 720 with 40 fps. This is definitely a game that really needs dlss. That's it's definitely being downsized and if you're used to playing this, especially on pc, it's going to be a drop in quality.

Brandon Hurles: 1:41:54

but it's going to be a drop in quality, but it's definitely. It's definitely playable.

Mark Trobough: 1:41:58

I've seen a bunch of gameplay this is probably going to be closest to like the xbox one and the ps4 version of this game. Yeah, so what I?

Brandon Hurles: 1:42:04

saw is it's just a step above the, because those are 30 frames locked for they also don't have, like the dlss technology, yeah, so these are just a step above those, um visually and uh performance wise yeah, it's more in line with that.

Mark Trobough: 1:42:21

It's supposed to be the full game, the dlc and all, and this is definitely one of those games that without dlss, probably just wouldn't be able to run on the switch now without cutting a lot of content, really, really downsizing the overall performance yeah, which I?

Brandon Hurles: 1:42:32

I mean I expect it for games like that's why it's there. You know, know, I expect it. I just, you know you don't want it to be a crutch for developers, but when it's a game, it's already been out, already uses DLSS on PC. Makes sense.

Mark Trobough: 1:42:44

You know I'm not going to go to me to get this game because I already have it on PC and PCs the only reason I am is because it's one of the few.

Brandon Hurles: 1:42:57

It's one of the few that are on the card. Yes, I already have it on PC too and I have it on PS4, but the main reason is I want to check it out and I'll probably end up doing a video about it, just kind of doing a comparison stuff in my thought, like a first thoughts video or something. But I just thought it's one of the few at launch, literally right now, since Donkey Kong Bonanza doesn't come out for till July, the only game that I have that I'm getting. I am getting the Damon X Machina game and getting the collector's edition of that Cause. That is on the card, but I cannot remember if that is launch day or not.

Brandon Hurles: 1:43:30

But other than that, like I it, I'll have like three games to play. I mean that's not much. So I want to have a few games to play on it when it launches and to check out. So I said, yeah, why not? It's on the card. It's definitely different to be able to play on a handheld and stuff, and I want to check out the DLSS technology on the Switch 2. There's a bunch of reasons.

Mark Trobough: 1:43:53

Actually, if you ever get around to getting like a steam deck or like an asus rock ally, this is probably the game to do a comparison between it doesn't even run on the steam deck.

Brandon Hurles: 1:44:01

That's the crazy thing it's not.

Mark Trobough: 1:44:03

No, it's not steam deck compatible.

Brandon Hurles: 1:44:05

They couldn't even get it to run on the steam deck.

Mark Trobough: 1:44:07

That's the crazy thing well, I mean after this is no, there's no excuse to not have it on the steam deck. Well, apparently it has something to do it. Steam Deck doesn't have.

Brandon Hurles: 1:44:14

DLSS technology and apparently even with the tech inside the Steam Deck, they could not get it to perform right.

Mark Trobough: 1:44:21

Well. I mean to be fair the Switch 2 is going to be much newer, but that's even more impressive, or whatever the Steam Deck 2 should have.

Brandon Hurles: 1:44:27

Yeah, that's why I said it's really impressive to me that they got this to run on Steam Deck.

Mark Trobough: 1:44:31

I got the question is is that an issue because of the Steam Deck or because you're downloading the PC version of that game?

Brandon Hurles: 1:44:38

That's a good question. I'm not sure they had to change stuff, probably behind the scenes, to get this working. It could be a bit of both. I would say Probably a bit of both. Some of the hardware.

Mark Trobough: 1:44:47

They had to do a lot more work and just straight down the PC version of the game. It just doesn't work with what the steam deck, although the pc versions run differently on the steam like.

Brandon Hurles: 1:44:58

The pc versions aren't the straight pc port on the steam deck, if that makes sense, like they are optimized yeah, there's, there's like the developers have to go in and make it for the steam deck too yeah, so like it's not, they don't see the. Uh, that's why you see like all people tweet this is steam deck compatible, because they had to actually go in and do the work to optimize it for the steam deck.

Mark Trobough: 1:45:20

It isn't like a stream optimized for steam deck isn't that crazy does it work on the asus rogue ally then, or?

Brandon Hurles: 1:45:26

I don't know if it runs on that, but I just I know it doesn't run on the steam deck. I watched digital foundries video about it and how they were talking about all this stuff and why it can run on the Switch 2 and not the Steam Deck and stuff.

Mark Trobough: 1:45:36

Well, it runs, because they made it run on the Switch 2 and they didn't care, and what's the team's name again?

Brandon Hurles: 1:45:46

Was it Project Red? Sorry, they said they had a bit of a tumultuous time doing this because they were learning how to do the DLSS technology.

Mark Trobough: 1:45:57

I don't think they've ever used the. Has CD Projekt Red ever used Nintendo hardware for any of their games?

Brandon Hurles: 1:46:05

I don't think they've ever used it. They did Witcher on. They did Witcher on Switch.

Mark Trobough: 1:46:12

Okay.

Brandon Hurles: 1:46:14

But other than that it's a much older game too. Yeah, it was a little outside of that one game like I don't think they've done anything else for a game like this.

Mark Trobough: 1:46:22

They're just not familiar. It's probably a mixture of they're trying to make it fit on this and they're using hardware they've never really used, right, they've used to make the consoles and pcs and stuff like that.

Brandon Hurles: 1:46:31

So yeah, I think, other than that, no, they haven't done anything else on Switch hardware. It is cool, man. I like to see how these games are going to be performing on even the launch day. Obviously, games are just going to get better and better and better as people utilize the DLSS more and understand it more. Things are just going to get better. End-of-life cycle games are always better than stuff that launch. I'm really curious to see how this is at launch and then how we are at the end of you know the lifespan with how games are performing. Games like this, as we're getting new games like this, opens the door very much so for you know, the possibility of grand theft auto 5 being on the switch 2. Um, I could see it being done now. It does actually make a lot more sense. There is more power than we even thought before on the switch shoes, so there's a possibility. Man, there's obviously rockstar games. If they can do it on the switch shoe, they're going to. They don't want to miss that install base.

Mark Trobough: 1:47:28

So yeah, especially considering you're expecting at least the, the switch to, to be fairly successful. Oh yeah At to be fairly successful oh yeah, at least on par with what the playstation, the xbox, are doing. As far as for sure, I it, maybe it. It will be a highly successful console. If it hits 100 million, yeah, as long as it hits like 60 to 80 million, I think it'll.

Brandon Hurles: 1:47:45

It'll still be a successful console for nintendo and then I did want to bring up uh, not that we necessarily care about it, but this is big news because we're finally seeing the return of this franchise and these games back to a Nintendo console. Madden got announced, the regular version of Madden that's coming out, the new one got announced for the Switch. So that's really good news. I don't, like I said, I'm not a sports game guy, but this is really good news to see these big, big, big third-party titles that are massive, massive sellers, make their way back to the Nintendo console, after skipping out pretty much on the Switch and now they can run and look good and perform well. So it makes sense.

Mark Trobough: 1:48:25

Yeah, I mean it's been forever since Nintendo's actually had decent hardware in their consoles.

Brandon Hurles: 1:48:29

Yeah, for sure.

Mark Trobough: 1:48:30

Switch was great, but even from day one it was not the best.

Brandon Hurles: 1:48:34

Yeah, it launched being a weak console.

Mark Trobough: 1:48:36

But they Even from day one. It was not the best. It launched being a weak console.

Brandon Hurles: 1:48:39

They had to to keep the price down.

Mark Trobough: 1:48:40

They had to yeah.

Brandon Hurles: 1:48:40

But it is cool to see, man, that we're getting these third parties jumping back on the bandwagon. That's just good news for Nintendo, that's good news for the consumers. So yeah, man, it's cool to see.

Mark Trobough: 1:48:51

Yeah, I don't know if we kind of. I talked about some of these, some of the switch to stuff, obviously because of the high demand, don't be? It would not be uh surprising if some people, whether it's through nintendo's website or through the third party, you get it, you know, not on launch day. Obviously some some websites like walmart say you will, you'll get it that morning, but like anything else, have you ever bought anything? I don't think this is too surprising because shipping stuff there can be delays for whatever reason. So I'm sure somebody's going to be complaining about that, even if they buy it through Nintendo's website. It got here three days too late. I'm like, bro, you're getting stuff shipped through the mail. It's not surprising.

Brandon Hurles: 1:49:32

Yeah, so some of the stuff they said. They said update about, uh, release day delivery. Thank you to those of you who have already registered your interest in purchasing from my nintendo store. We're thrilled by the enthusiasm for nintendo switch 2. Due to the very high demand, we will be working diligently to fulfill orders as product becomes available. But delivery by june 5th is not guaranteed. Your invitation email may arrive after the Nintendo Switch 2 launch. We'll confirm your shipping date upon purchase. If you wish to increase your opportunity of obtaining a Switch 2 system at launch, please visit our participating retail partners above. If you wish to continue to wait for your invitation from mine into the store, no further action is required after registering your entrance. So their one store they put there is GameStop, which I find very funny.

Mark Trobough: 1:50:20

It's going to be the only one that probably has stock at release. That's not pre-order related.

Brandon Hurles: 1:50:25

Probably, but it is. I mean they are saying so. Do not rely on the my Nintendo store, because they're saying it could potentially be after the launch of the console that you get the email.

Mark Trobough: 1:50:35

So I didn't want to point that out because demand is that high and they're having to probably move stuff around and stuff like that. Be like uh, you'll get it, we'll let you buy it, but you're gonna get it like several weeks after it's been out, like a month after it's been out yeah, for sure.

Brandon Hurles: 1:50:51

I mean it's uh, just don't rely on if you're wanting to get it at launch or near launch.

Mark Trobough: 1:50:56

So if you wanted to launch near launch you, probably you would have already tried to buy it by now. You already got it from the third party.

Brandon Hurles: 1:51:03

Or if you're one of the unlucky few that tried to get it and couldn't get it. You know, of course. Yeah, so.

Mark Trobough: 1:51:10

But yeah, some other stuff that was neat to say, and this is coming from GameStop. Some people might see a rare W. They say they're going to go back through their pre-orders and they're going to cancel bot and duplicate switch to pre-orders to try to hopefully reopen inventory and to reopen pre-orders for whatever extra stuff they have Big W on GameStop.

Mark Trobough: 1:51:32

I don't know how they figure out what's a bot and what's not, unless they're looking at delivery addresses. Potentially, I'm sure there's a way they can say that. But if there's a way to combat bot traffic that these companies can see and they know it's a bot traffic, that's a great thing. More of them should do it to combat scalpers and stuff like that, especially when people are just trying to buy dozens of them all at once just to resell them yeah, it says uh, they put a tweet out it says pre-orders for switch 2 are sold out online but still available in store.

Brandon Hurles: 1:52:07

So this was, I think, like 25 hours ago or something. Um, but they said nintendo switch 2 pre-orders have sold out online. We will continue to squash bot and duplicate orders to reopen inventory. Pre-orders have sold out online. We will continue to squash bot and duplicate orders to reopen inventory. Pre-orders are still available in-store for the Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch 2 Plus Mario Kart bundle Games and accessories. Check your local GameStop store for current inventory status and stay tuned for more updates regarding Switch 2. So big W on GameStop's part for that, because you know they get a lot of flack. But man, they've handled this pre-order very well. I would say better than probably. Obviously there are the problems with the gamestop pre-order yesterday with their site, where it completely was the only website that completely crashed.

Mark Trobough: 1:52:47

You could not pre-order nobody I mean you're, you're essentially, you're essentially everyone's ddossing these websites yeah, basically you have initial problems.

Brandon Hurles: 1:52:54

It was so funny that it took like I think it took like 38 minutes before anybody could even place a single pre-order, because because everyone logged that.

Mark Trobough: 1:53:02

You know that couldn't get it the night before, was immediately doing this all at once and this the website office.

Brandon Hurles: 1:53:06

You can't handle the traffic so but they handled it really well for in-store pre-orders and stuff like that.

Mark Trobough: 1:53:11

So that's really cool man I'm, you know which is probably for a lot of people like the way to go. Like if you're, if you had like the night and the day to just sit in line, like yeah, it's all like that and you knew, you know what the store was going to have wait in the line and get it, because that's probably for a lot of people, going to be the best bet.

Brandon Hurles: 1:53:25

It's like, if I can't get it online, I'm going to go wait in line or I'm going to do both and see what I get yeah, and then gamestop also revealed trade-in values for Nintendo Switch when pre-ordering Switch 2, so they said they will offer up to $175 credit towards the Switch 2 pre-order. When trading in the original models, the Switch OLED fetches the highest potential trade-in value at $175. I'm confused. It's the same price.

Mark Trobough: 1:53:48

That's probably. I don't know if they released it. They say that's probably the trade-in value right now. So I'd assume you're going to get probably something closer to 200 or they're just going to take the 175. But I mean the idea, if you're, if you're able to pre-order it and then get some money back on it.

Brandon Hurles: 1:54:03

It makes the, the console significantly. That's not a terrible trade-in price when you think. You know the the base switch is 300.

Mark Trobough: 1:54:08

So you're looking at, you know, because you also have to think like they have to like potentially refurbish these and then, yeah, gamestop has to buy it from you, make sure it works, repackage it and resell it and still make a profit, which is a lot of people complain about gamestop. I'm like, yeah, they're gonna, they're gonna buy your stuff for sure. Then they have to turn around and resell it for what they can, so obviously you're gonna lose money, which is like the one people complain about gamestop for they the.

Brandon Hurles: 1:54:30

The article was wrong here. At the bottom they put switch light up to a hundred dollar credit, switch v1 or v2 up to 125 credit and switch oled up to 175 credit that makes a lot more sense so that's not as good as I was at 200 for the switch. It would make a little more sense to me, but most people that want to switch by now already have one.

Mark Trobough: 1:54:51

So like, what's the resale value on these switches, especially with the switch two coming out? I guess?

Brandon Hurles: 1:54:55

the. The other thing is I will say I know a lot of people do have to do this and I understand, you know if you're financially just can't afford to keep your console. But if you can't afford to keep your console, I definitely recommend doing that because I know for me me and Mark have talked about this extensively it's like a regret when you lose your console eventually. Like talked about this extensively, it's like a regret when you lose your console eventually, like in the future.

Mark Trobough: 1:55:19

You're like oh, man, I really wish I would have done that because the switch 2 is largely backwards compatible outside of a handful of games like it's. It's less of a problem compared to, uh, when consoles weren't backwards compatible like you like for the ps3, like it's not, like the ps4 doesn't play ps3 games. You have to have that console for those games where, if it's like, mostly outside of like maybe a handful of games because of the way the the console is designed, yeah, most games that people would care about are backwards compatible. I could see this being less of an issue because it's just a more powerful switch yeah, I mean it is less of an issue with this console.

Brandon Hurles: 1:55:54

I know both me and you are keeping our Switches, but there's something when it's like I bought that console. I spent so many hours on that console Like I just want to keep it, you know.

Mark Trobough: 1:56:04

Even if it's in a box on a shelf.

Brandon Hurles: 1:56:05

I'll still use it. I'll still use the Switch OLED for Stuff too, and I got plans on stuff I'm doing with it later on. But yeah, I mean you know, entirely Up to you. But it's one of the things I know where I always end up regretting if I lose a console. I did trade in my ps5 for the ps5 pro, but that is different in the fact that it's the same console, just an upgraded version.

Mark Trobough: 1:56:24

So to me that didn't matter as much so yeah, my copy brought up the resale value is gonna be. He said, uh, fifty dollars less than a brand new one. But that's the thing. Gamestop will buy your console on the spot where let's be fair there's a lot more stuff you have to do. You can make more money selling it yourself, but there's a lot more work you have to do yourself as well. Especially, you're competing against a lot of other people and stuff. So there's a. You also have to make sure you ship it and stuff. So it's just one of those things where it's you get less money, but GameStop's just easier for a lot of people compared to having to go through all the extra stuff.

Brandon Hurles: 1:56:56

And he brought up a really great point. If you have a special edition, I don't recommend trading it in because you do not get any more difference in value. If you got the Zelda OLED or something, I would hold on to that. If you can, I wouldn't trade it in.

Mark Trobough: 1:57:10

That's a collector's item. If you were going to sell those, you would want to sell those. You'd want to sell the second hand or even the Pyro Edition.

Brandon Hurles: 1:57:15

Switch Lite or the.

Mark Trobough: 1:57:18

Especially when they're out of print. Yeah, Especially if you have the box and everything. They're out of print Because collectors will want to spend money on those.

Brandon Hurles: 1:57:24

Yeah, there's so many too. There's that Diablo Switch that's worth $900 or something, and the let's Go Pokemon Switches, stuff like that Stuff that are already super expensive now. So, like I, just I personally wouldn't recommend doing that. Or if you are in the boat where you need to sell the console to get it, I would sell it in the aftermarket and not trade it in, because you're going to get way more money and it can go towards that switch like some of those can pay for the switch itself, the switch to itself yeah, but it's one of those things where it's like money.

Mark Trobough: 1:57:56

Some of those people it's like, oh, don't go. Like they complain about the money you get. But I'm like, yeah, but like you don't have to do any legwork, especially when you train in a game like, well, it's a few game if you can get 300 more because it's like the diablo switch, like do the legwork I'm sorry, you'll sell that in a couple days 100 or 250 out of your100 or $250 out of your used Switch, then sell it yourself.

Mark Trobough: 1:58:17

They're going to offer you money but they're a business. They have to turn around and resell it. So they can't give you street eBay market price, because if they sold that for you they'd turn around and resell it. They're going to make no money off of it.

Brandon Hurles: 1:58:27

Yeah, so it's one of those you, but that's just my recommendation. If it's a special edition and you need to sell, I would sell it yourself, get the extra money, but I would most of all recommend keeping it if it's a special edition.

Mark Trobough: 1:58:46

If it's an original, like I've got the I just have a regular Switch, the original version, but like yeah.

Brandon Hurles: 1:58:50

I've just got to bring that over $125 is $125.

Mark Trobough: 1:58:54

You're saving some money if you don't care to keep your old consoles, compared to having to list it. Most people don't care about keeping old consoles, so most people don't want to go through the process of getting an extra $100 out of it by doing all the work themselves, because a lot of people are lazy, so a lot of lazy people out there like Mark. I'm not lazy. I'm so lazy I won don't even want to take it. I won't even take it to GameStop.

Brandon Hurles: 1:59:22

Oh man, all right. Well, we got a left here.

Mark Trobough: 1:59:26

Obviously the, the big stealth drop which is a other schools, the elder schools for oblivion remake which outside of I don't care for the, the some of the, some of the character faces, but that's more of the of the Unreal Engine itself. The game absolutely looks beautiful. I I haven't got around to get in the game or playing it yet because it's on Game Pass, by the way, so don't pay for it. I don't think I got game. I think I stopped paying for Game Pass but it's worth it for these two games.

Brandon Hurles: 1:59:56

Think I stopped paying for game pass, but it's worth it for these two games that just came out this week. Uh, playing for a month is worth it. I mean, you got two games.

Mark Trobough: 1:59:59

You can get full month's worth of gameplay out of yeah, but who says like a year later, I want to go back and play to it I'll.

Brandon Hurles: 2:00:04

I'm gonna end up just buying it on steam, just so I have the game to play it whenever I mean claire obscures on steam series x and ps5 as well too, by the way yeah, I mean both of these games I am going to get on Steam.

Mark Trobough: 2:00:15

I'm probably going to have to wait until I get next payday and stuff like that.

Brandon Hurles: 2:00:22

Nexus mods man, Am I right?

Mark Trobough: 2:00:25

That's one of the main complaints. A lot of the modders said that this game wasn't designed like their other games with mods in mind.

Brandon Hurles: 2:00:32

Yeah, there's no mods in mind.

Mark Trobough: 2:00:33

It's going to take longer for them to get mods out for this game because they gotta do a lot of what some people say I'll be honest with you.

Brandon Hurles: 2:00:39

I don't have ability working I don't personally want to play it with mods, I just want to play it straightforward, the way they designed it, because I love the original, just base game already these games is fine but like the longevity of popular games. But I don't care for skyrim. I understand the the mods did a lot to it, but it's like a lot of these games after a while you just get.

Mark Trobough: 2:00:59

You like the game but you kind of get bored with the gameplay. If I beat the game, I'm done with it. I don't need to keep going back and forth. But some people like the game because you can make a whole new game with mods.

Brandon Hurles: 2:01:10

I get why people do it. I understand through the game and then I'm done, that's it for me, and then obviously, uh, it was.

Mark Trobough: 2:01:17

I, I think, I believe it. I don't know if it's official or unofficial, uh, because I didn't have it pulled up, but essentially they was. They were talking about the uh the sky, oblivion skyrim, uh, oblivion mod. They're not going to be going after them to shut it down then again, they've been working on that for like a decade. At this point, yeah, sky oblivion.

Brandon Hurles: 2:01:33

Actually, funny enough, they sent out free codes for everybody in the development team on sky believing. Did you see that?

Mark Trobough: 2:01:40

that is really dope that's really cool.

Brandon Hurles: 2:01:41

They're willing to do that. Yeah, let's be fair.

Mark Trobough: 2:01:43

I've been following that forever. Like they're. They're rebuilding oblivion in skyrim, and that's a. That's a big feat.

Brandon Hurles: 2:01:49

It's a different experience too, because like this is, you know, obviously a remake, but that's like putting oblivion in the skyrim world. So it's like a whole different thing.

Mark Trobough: 2:01:57

You've still got the charm of skyrim and you got the charm of oblivion kind of, but to be fair, like I, because I can't remember like to be fair. Like you can play skyrim with mods, you can. You can make skyrim play like, uh, like you make it 4k 120, I've seen yeah, if you got a rig that can handle it and some of that stuff.

Mark Trobough: 2:02:15

But essentially the gameplay can play fully different games and stuff like that. I think modding is a great thing and stuff like that. It sucks that this game doesn't have it built in by default.

Brandon Hurles: 2:02:25

That's a great question, Mr Coffee. I think it's still available on Steam right now. I don't see them taking the original down. I think they might have commented on not doing that. I could be misremembering, but I don't think they're going to take the original down because it's still a different game and a lot. The sales jumped up 300% on Oblivion before Oblivion Remastered came out.

Mark Trobough: 2:02:50

Yeah, so as of right now, the original Game of the Year edition of Oblivion is still on Steam.

Brandon Hurles: 2:02:55

I don't see them taking it down. There's no reason to.

Mark Trobough: 2:02:57

I don't know why it's a different game, you know, let's be fair most people that are going to play this probably already own oblivion and they're willing to, you know, they're gonna, they're gonna, you know, buy the game again and stuff like that. Most people, most people that haven't played oblivion, are gonna want to, probably more than likely, play the remake, the remaster, than the original version of the game.

Brandon Hurles: 2:03:16

That's yeah, that's just how a lot of people go because it's.

Mark Trobough: 2:03:19

It's definitely a step back in in quality. It's got its charm if you grew up with it. But like if you didn't grow up with this game, you're probably gonna like not like the, the old graphics and the old gameplay as much I still think the original game is great.

Brandon Hurles: 2:03:30

I loved it. I had I spent so much time with that game, but yeah, this, this is a Stop, you violated the law. It's cool to see, as a big Oblivion fan, to even see this happen Now. What I think is going to happen next, this is going to be after the next Elder Scrolls comes out. I think what they're going to do is, since they've got this engine they've got this developed already in this engine they're going to do this exact thing to Morrowind this engine. They're going to do this exact thing to morrowind.

Mark Trobough: 2:03:58

So that's what I see happening next, but I think it'll come out be far more of a contentious game release.

Brandon Hurles: 2:04:01

I think it'll be like 2030 or something like me, maybe even a little bit later, but if they change anything about what do you mean?

Mark Trobough: 2:04:07

contentious um, if living is the one that would be more contentious less people like morrowind than oblivion but I love far more vocal about morrowind, especially like if they change how the combat work personally, I'm a bigger morrowind fan than I am oblivion. I love oblivion, but morrowind is my jam and, uh, morrowind's combat I'm, so it's like the one thing I don't like about the game man shivering aisles, bro, like just saying that's oblivion.

Brandon Hurles: 2:04:36

I know I mixed it up.

Mark Trobough: 2:04:38

I realized that after I said it yeah, no, no, no but I think Morrowind's fantastic so. I hope Elder Scrolls 6 isn't in that engine, just cause I don't care.

Brandon Hurles: 2:04:50

I hope Elder Scrolls 6 isn't but if they did Morrowind in the engine they've already built within Unreal, it would make sense. They've already done within Unreal. It would make sense. They've already done the legwork, why not? But Mr Coffee said maybe they don't need to do anything. When the next Windows OS comes out, Will they update it to make it run? I don't know. That's a Mark question.

Mark Trobough: 2:05:12

I mean, that's the hope. So this game, because I was going to pull up this meme that was posted on there because I thought it was funny Technically the all-time player high or sorry. This is the current chart. It's already hit 190,000. Crazy, I think. Two days ago the 170,000, like for a remake or remaster, it's really good. This isn't what I actually want to pull up.

Mark Trobough: 2:05:38

Um, they pull up the right thing I feel like it would have been better marketing if they just marketed it as a remake, because I didn't think this was funny uh, the fact that a what a 15 year old game, a remake of a 15 year old game, is just beating the on just steam alone, beating the crap out of two games that came out in the last six months which I thought was wild.

Brandon Hurles: 2:05:59

Yeah, that's so funny, that's hilarious.

Mark Trobough: 2:06:02

Oh my gosh.

Brandon Hurles: 2:06:05

Uh that's so funny.

Mark Trobough: 2:06:06

I really, I really thought that was funny.

Brandon Hurles: 2:06:08

That really is Ubisoft.

Mark Trobough: 2:06:09

Sucks, bro, the same I mean, they've sucked for quite a while now.

Brandon Hurles: 2:06:13

Yeah, All right, what else we got, mark?

Mark Trobough: 2:06:16

I guess the other one, clear Obscure Expedition 33, has sold over 500,000 copies so far, and this game just came out like what? A day ago.

Brandon Hurles: 2:06:25

Yeah it just came out yesterday.

Mark Trobough: 2:06:27

Yeah, so I mean, this game's probably good and you have to keep in mind this is also a Game Pass game, so like a lot of people are playing it there too.

Brandon Hurles: 2:06:34

So the fact they're still selling this many copies with it being on Game Pass is unreal 500,000 copies and this is this studio's very first game and it's so far the top rated game of the year. And this will 100% be in Game of the Year conversation. This game is so damn good.

Mark Trobough: 2:06:56

It's made by Sandfall Interactive. Yeah, Sandfall Interactive. This game is so damn good. It's made by Sandfall Interactive.

Brandon Hurles: 2:06:58

Yeah, sandfall Interactive. This game is just so good, man, absolutely unreal. I love it. I'm just a few hours into it, three hours in Freaking. Love it, man. It's fantastic. You've got the adventure element of it where you are running around, but you've also got the turn-based, classical style of it. But the turn-based is like so more intuitive and so more involved than most like turn-based games you would think of. Also, the characters can be really, really OP at times. If you counter and and Harry at the right times, like you can have crazy attacks. Man, like just this game. Man, just this game. The design of the game, the way the characters look really good. The voice acting in the game is fantastic. The music is beautiful. This is a soundtrack I would listen to by itself. This is how good it is, soundtrack. The music is so good, but pulling up on.

Mark Trobough: 2:07:58

It's doing really good.

Brandon Hurles: 2:07:59

I want to pull up on metacritic real quick to show you a little bit of some of that with uh, with over six, it's almost just shy like 7 000 reviews on steam.

Mark Trobough: 2:08:06

It's hitting like a 94 percent and this game, uh, at least on steam through may 1st has 10 off, so you're saving like five dollars on steam. It's 45 right now that's now.

Brandon Hurles: 2:08:16

That's a really good deal for this game.

Mark Trobough: 2:08:18

That's really good so that's for the base game. The deluxe edition is usually $60, but you can get it for $54 and stuff like that. So they're like letting you get it discounted at launch so worth it.

Brandon Hurles: 2:08:28

So here's Metacritic, sitting at a 92 Metascore for critics and a 9.6 user score. So just some of the people here. You got like 100 from twin infinite uh user reviews 10 hydro, uh, hydro chews. 10 rain down hammers, 10 twiggly puffs. Um yeah, xbox, it's a 93, pc it's a 90. Ps5, it's a 92. I'm personally playing on PC through Game Pass.

Brandon Hurles: 2:08:59

But yeah, this game is just fantastic, man, I just absolutely love it. I know Mark will love it. It's got the. It's like a persona mixed with an adventure game, mixed with just really great dialogue. Cut scenes are great. Like I said, voice acting is great, music is great. The traversal of the game is just really good, very fluid. There's a little bit of exploration in the game as well, so it's not like a straightforward turn-based game. In fact, I would say this is the most different turn-based game I've played in a very long time. It's not like a traditional turn-based game. It is and it isn't. It is very Persona-esque in the turn-based, but to a higher degree. It's more interactive when you're fighting and you're doing your moves. If you want to land the extra strikes, you've got to hit it at the right time. If you want to parry. You've got to parry at the right time. You've got a parry at the right time. You've got a ton of magic moves you can use. You got straight attacks. You've got guns like it's crazy man.

Mark Trobough: 2:10:00

It's really cool, it's you know, what's crazy is that these two games drop in the same week.

Brandon Hurles: 2:10:03

I decided to give nintendo all my money, hell, hey, I mean they're on game pass, bro, at least take advantage of game pass for now. You know, I think it's that's why I did it. I was like we just spent all this money on Nintendo like I'll just play on game pass, I see no problem with it. It's like, yeah, I don't own it, but I'll buy it because I will. I want to buy these games on a game that is this well here's how I'm seeing it.

Brandon Hurles: 2:10:27

I'm playing on PC, but a game like this I absolutely 100% want to own the physical for this. There is no doubt mine. This is probably going I mean, we aren't, we aren't even halfway through the year, but this is probably going to be my game of the year, potentially like this is going to be in the conversation. For sure it's so far it's the highest rated game of the year. But doom, doom, the dark ages the game is like super highly anticipated that I've already got pre-downloaded on my pc comes out in two weeks. So we're getting all these like bangers, man, and like, uh, you gotta think that's bethesda too. That's the crazy, you say that.

Mark Trobough: 2:11:02

But I mean, like we already know what. What game of the year is gonna be. It's gta6.

Brandon Hurles: 2:11:07

I'm sorry, I mean I say I'm saying it's gonna be a contender. I'm not saying it's gonna, it's gonna win again in the year, but it's definitely going to be in the conversation like that game isn't for me.

Mark Trobough: 2:11:15

It could be gameplay for it and you already didn't know what's what's going to win.

Brandon Hurles: 2:11:18

Game of the year, which I find funny I'm not saying that it's going to win game of the year. I said it's in the conversation. I I not never mind this fool is putting words in my mouth.

Mark Trobough: 2:11:29

I don't like it I didn't put words in your mouth. I was just saying something else not related to the game.

Brandon Hurles: 2:11:32

But uh, ryan yoder, yeah, we're, we're uploading it to youtube, doing something a little bit different this week with it. Uh, game pass great, but game key carts are bad. No, you're misunderstanding me. I'm saying that it's a. I think game pass is the the best value in gaming.

Brandon Hurles: 2:11:48

But for me, like when we're getting two big drops like this, I see no problem in paying the price for that month to play these two games, especially when we just spent the money on the Nintendo stuff and still experiencing the games and I said I will buy the physical. You know, so this I will get on PS five for sure. And then if we get a physical for oblivion which I'm not so sure about then I'll do that too. But you know, regardless, like it is something I will want to own. So yeah, I will, I will buy it, but it's just, it's a. I think game pass, when we're talking about digital services, is absolutely the best value in gaming. I've been saying that for years. No, I don't love digital, but it's a great way to experience's nice and I get to play on PC.

Mark Trobough: 2:12:35

So yeah, Hopefully you're going to get some.

Brandon Hurles: 2:12:40

get a chance to play these pretty soon, so we can actually go to Mr Coffee over here arguing with me.

Mark Trobough: 2:12:44

I tell you you get a Mr Coffee.

Brandon Hurles: 2:12:46

He deserves it All right, we got anything else for this week.

Mark Trobough: 2:12:51

Mark and all the main stuff we talked about. That was everything.

Brandon Hurles: 2:12:54

All right, anyone want to go ahead and close us out?

Mark Trobough: 2:12:58

Yeah, definitely appreciate everyone watching this episode. Obviously, we're live every Friday at 8 o'clock Eastern and we go live at 8 every Saturday when we stream. Live stream Everywhere, same locations, brandon streams everywhere, except for Twitch, where I stream on Twitch what you mentioned it. What game are we playing tomorrow again?

Brandon Hurles: 2:13:20

oh god, what did I mention? Oh, what's it called? Oh crap, it's like the top game on Steam or whatever schedule 1. I pulled the wrong location we had like 6 people request it, so we said we'll just go ahead and play it. It's a really popular game.

Mark Trobough: 2:13:39

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Brandon Hurles: 2:13:53

I think that's all Uh have we played lethal company. No, have not played that, but somebody did bring that up.

Mark Trobough: 2:13:59

So I played body cam. That was an interesting game.

Brandon Hurles: 2:14:02

Yeah, we played body cam last week. He's actually really fun, Like I did. I had the most fun with the last game mode that we played that uh, it was like a 5v5. I really, really, really enjoyed that. Since we bought it, we should stream it again sometime here soon, because I mean we had fun with it and Dave jumped in with us and it was a good time.

Brandon Hurles: 2:14:24

So maybe we'll do that next week or maybe we'll do Split Fiction. We'll see. I'm not sure yet, but yeah, we'll be streaming that tomorrow. So if you are watching to the audio later, we are live every single Friday, 8 pm Eastern Standard Time with the Game Junction Podcast, and then we are live every Saturday streaming a different game at 8 pm Eastern Standard Time as well. So we appreciate everyone watching listening. If you are listening on any of the audio platforms, please leave a rating, either a subscribe, follow, whatever the platform allows. It definitely helps us out and I guess we'll see you all.