Switch 2 Vs PS5 In Japan

Nintendo is spending 121 billion yen on a brand-new R&D center in Kyoto, Sony is selling a Japan-only PS5 at a loss, and the Switch 2 is still running away with the market. That combo says a lot about where gaming is headed, so we unpack it from the perspective that actually matters: how people live, how people play, and what they can realistically fit into a busy day.

We also get personal with the stuff you only hear when two longtime players are being honest. The Soulslike “rage fixation” loop, chasing lost XP, and realizing you’re wasting time just because you’re mad. The strange relief of stepping away from trophies and achievements, and how completionism can turn an amazing single-player game into a checklist. Plus the practical handheld angle: why Switch 2 ports can be “good enough” when the trade is gaming anywhere, anytime, without fighting the TV.

Then we zoom out to the bigger cultural shift: physical media, collector’s editions, and the slow death of the old ritual of saving up, buying a box, and actually owning what you paid for. Streaming and digital libraries are convenient, but the bill never ends and the licenses don’t love you back. If you’ve felt that tension between convenience and ownership, or between prestige consoles and real-life gaming time, you’ll feel seen here.

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Transcript

Cold Open And Quick Rundown

SPEAKER_06 0:19

Hello and welcome to the unofficial controller podcast, your weekly gaming podcast, episode number 325 with me, George, and this week joined by the living legend Bobby. He's 34 Double D's to my resting on my knees. Um unfortunately, YouTube has decided the algorithm is more important than my personal friendship. So I've got to tell you that we've got some great PlayStation news coming up where we find out that it's been outcosted than the sweat by the Switch 2. We've got Xbox layoffs have already begun. And Nintendo's just blown 121 billion yen on an RD centre. So someone's doing okay. Bobby, now that's all done and out of the way, and I think I tripped over most of it, so forgive me, viewer, viewer, viewer, viewer. If you've hung on this far, you might as well subscribe because the car crash is only gonna get worse. But let me throw it over to my esteemed co-host as I ask him, how are you doing, fella? I'm doing good, man. How are you? I am fired up and ready to talk some video

What We Have Been Playing

SPEAKER_06 1:22

games. So I guess I ought to get things going by asking you what you're what are you what you what you been playing?

SPEAKER_02 1:32

Well, Lego Batman, still. I just got up to I met uh Dick Grayson. So I'm at that point. I mean, no spoilers really, obviously, but I got I'm there now. Um and then it was Father's Day, Sunday, last Sunday. So I got some gift cards. I bought a bunch of games on sale that I had on my wish list. Now I have more games than I ever thought I'd imagine have. And I started playing Beholder 2, which is like an old school 16-bit uh Metrovania with like a barbarian guy. I like the first game a lot. Second game looks more 16-bit than uh the other than the first one, but I like it, enjoyable, really good for the portal. Um, which is what I've been playing now when Liam is getting ready for bed. Nice.

SPEAKER_00 2:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 2:27

What about you? I've had a busy week, um, so I've not done as much gaming as I'd like. It's all been on the Switch 2 again. Um played a little bit more Demon's Souls. Um, I've left some experience, so I went to get it. Um, you know those times where you think, oh yeah, I've left a lot of experience there. And then by the time you get there, you realize that you've probably earned more experience than you left on the floor. Yes, sir. And then you pick it up and you're like, Oh, I don't know why I wasted my time here. But while I'm here, I might as well have a little get pop at Big Boy again. Big boy blatsh you in the ground. You're like, right, okay. Okay.

Demon's Souls Rage Fixation

SPEAKER_02 3:07

At least sometimes I realize that if you drop some experience is maybe like a couple thousand. If you farm an enemy, you'll get it back.

SPEAKER_06 3:16

And I think sometimes what happens in these these Souls like games is you get what I would call sort of rage fixation fixation, where you kind of you've gone down a path, and you're like, I need to keep going down that path. You've I've I've left my XP there, I can do this. Now, you do improve that run, that route, you get better at it, you know, where the guys are, and it ends up becoming less exciting because it's like, okay, here he is back, left, left, chop, right, roll, back, boom, he's on the stairs. I'll tempt him from distance, I'll bring him in. He's chicken feed to me now. Dish bosh bosh is down. Um, but you continue down this path when actually, probably what you should do is say, look, that's not working for me. I need to turn around and check out this other way. Um, now I had the blood rage come down on me, and I've I've got particularly invested in going this certain route, and I do think I need to come back, lay off the XP. I mean, let it go now. I mean, the only sore bit about that rage fixation is that you let's say you get through, pick up your XP, you've already earned, so you're on 4,000 XP, you die. Oh, right, uh, well, now I've got 4,000 XP invested in that hole. Then you come back, fight all the way through, you got 2,000 XP, you pick up that, you got 6,000 XP. Smack. Oh. And in those moments, it's one of those moments where you're that enraged that you walk out the s from the from the bonfire and you get taken by the weakest guy. Yes. And then you 6,000's done anyway.

SPEAKER_02 4:48

One of my best memories is I had a lot of experience where the dragon was on the bridge. Yes. I don't know how I avoided him the first time. I didn't even see it coming, so it kind of scared me a little bit. And I'm like, oh my god, I died. I need to go back. I could do it again. You know, I had so much experience. And then I did do it again, and then at the edge of the bridge, when I was gonna roll to safety, I just rolled off the bridge and lost everything because I couldn't get it back because I overrolled on the fire, and I was like, oh god. And what was the point? In reality, all I did was waste my time, wasn't ready for this area, and stupid.

SPEAKER_06 5:28

Well, you're not as stupid as me, mate, because I'm the guy who still looks for the jump button. Right? There's things that you can just see right in front of you. Uh, you know, I've tried the roll, roll, roll, and it doesn't work. Roll works if you're going from above. Roll is not gonna get you up. No, but these things they're literally just shin height above him, and it's like, nah, nah. A knight will not do this.

SPEAKER_02 5:57

Okay, wanna send one of the greatest warriors, and he can't hop up a step. He can't, he won't.

SPEAKER_06 6:04

Um, yeah, I find that a little bit frustrating, I have to

Switch 2 Ports Worth Revisiting

SPEAKER_06 6:08

admit. Um, other than that, I've been kicking around some things on the switch. I I started downloading the Batman trilogy again, which you know is always great. Um, had a dabble with Arkham Asylum. Um, I'm at the point where you found the Batcave on Arkham Asylum on there. Um, and I also downloaded Arkham Knight because there was a lot of hoo-haw about this when it first came out on Switch on the original Switch. Oh, it doesn't work, it's garbage, it's broken, it's this that and the other. Listen, I'm playing it the same game on Switch 2. It has had updates. I will hold my hands up. But me arriving to it first time. Hate me in the comments, but it's not that bad if you've got a Switch 2. So you can definitely enjoy the trilogy on there. I know I'm selling the Europa date because it was originally meant for the Switch 1, and I'm sure, based on my experience, it's absolute dog shit on there. I don't think I ever had the guts to run it on the Switch 1. I played Arkham Knight. Um, no, I played Arkham Asylum and it was perfect on there, and Arkham City was as well. Arkham Knight's a big ask of the originals. Um, but this sort of stripped down version, yeah, there's a bit of texture pop in every now and then, and maybe the models aren't as good as they are on PS4 or whatnot, but it's it to have that in the palm of your hand like that. Um I'm enjoying it.

SPEAKER_02 7:26

What was it? Like a nine-inch screen, ten-inch, what a twelve-inch screen? What is the size of the screen? I actually don't know what size it is. Um I mean, just consider that it looks good on that, it's outstanding anyway.

SPEAKER_06 7:36

Well, that's what I've kind of been sort of taking from it. And Witcher 3, I'll go back to that. I've been playing the DLC again. I've um just gone back to the you get gifted a winery, uh, your own little place. I didn't realise when I went to it the first time and cleared out this cretinous vampiric woman in the cellar that I was actually cleaning out my own future cellar. Um, but I got there and place place needs some work, needs a bit of money spending on it. There's a place that would make a perfect stable for Roach, and I'm like, surely that this place would have a stable, uh Geralt, but you know, do as you please. So you want to throw some money in on that, he wants to throw some money. It all feels very um kind of Assassin's Creed II, if I'm being honest with you. I'm sure it's gonna have absolutely zero impact and it'll be nothing but a cash sponge. But I've got a load of garbage in my shared chest that I've collected throughout the whole game run, which should more than cover the uh renovation costs. So I think I might plunge a bit of time into making the winery look as good as it can look, um, pick up some side missions here and there and see what I can do to feather my nest. I quite like the idea of Geralt having a little retirement place in the sunny hills where he can go and skull a couple of barrels of the hard work someplace to breast his hair without fear, you know. Yeah, exactly that. I think he's earned it. The place to I walked inside what inside looks a bit grotty at the minute, and there's his bedroom where a place where you could hang your trophies. And I thought to myself, you know, not even Geralt's gonna want to sleep next to a bloody, I don't know, a half severed head of a griffin. Yeah, stinking at his bedroom. He's got Yennefer coming round. He's gonna have to like more. Yeah, for her, you know. He's gonna have to like that many. Yeah, he he he doesn't want to be spraying air freshener to hide the smell of a decaying griffin when he wants to get his freak on with Yennefer or any one of the women that is romancing. I mean, he's I'll tell you one thing that Geralt's not fussy. No, um, but fair play to him. Um, other than that, I actually indulged myself and downloaded the reboot Tomb Raider that was on PS3 back in the day that's also got a Switch 2 remake. Looks pretty good on there, I have to admit. I think I played it on PS3, so it's quite the up spec in graphics. Um what else did I the the what the which one? Uh the one where she crashes on that desert island or that remote island it's called just called straight tombraider. Yeah, and then there's the also in the store for about $26 on sale right now is Rise of the Tomb Raider, which I have to admit, I mean, I should download that as well. It looks absolutely fantastic. I've also been flirting with getting Indiana Jones on there, but I feel like 60 quid's a bit big ask, so I've popped it in my wish list. Hopes it comes up on sales.

SPEAKER_02 10:39

I'm the wishlist master, man.

SPEAKER_06 10:42

Thing is, I don't like a dirty wish list though, because then it starts to look like the storefront and I get confused. It's like my wish list.

SPEAKER_02 10:48

Yeah, no, sometimes I have things on my wishlist that do I really need to get this? No, but it looks lazy enough for me to play it. So oh yo. I'll wait for the sale.

SPEAKER_06 10:59

I like what you're doing. Um, I think with that said and done, I think we've probably uh game up to the eyeballs.

Retro Emulation Joy And Pain

SPEAKER_06 11:09

There's been oh I'll tell you what, I've also been playing on my little piece of garbage. That's what I call my retro emulation device. Uh I've been playing Advanced Wars, which is a Game Boy Advance game originally. Now, I fell in love with this. And if I've been playing original Game Boy Advance, it would be an incredible experience because I'm playing it on this emulated piece of garbage. The buttons are backwards, it doesn't save. I try and do a save state, and it takes you back to the menu and reboots the game simultaneously, so you're back to square one anyway. So I kept the thing plugged in um until I didn't, and then I lost my save. Um so it is what it is. But can't you make your own hat key? Listen, mate, I have no idea what I'm doing. If Bada Binkster's out there and he hears this, I need I need what I need is I just need an SD card with whatever background thing makes this work, and then I need I don't want to mess around with a 20. I just I just need I just need someone to make it work.

SPEAKER_02 12:22

I I had a friend that I asked, he gave me I'll take pictures and send it. Maybe we could share it online or something.

SPEAKER_06 12:29

I think it's just a Raspberry Pi 3.

SPEAKER_02 12:31

Oh, that's it's got a little little SD card. I mean, there's over 20,000 games in there.

SPEAKER_06 12:36

I think I just need an SD card. Now I'll put it in my Mac and it was like, oh no, I don't recognize this file. And I just was like, right, I'm beat. I'm done. I'm beat. I'm beat. I don't want to buy I don't want to buy another one. I don't want to buy another one just to get the games that I want.

SPEAKER_02 12:54

No, the best controller for uh emulation I I realized. I bought an Amazon basic Xbox controller, the USB plug. The X on the Xbox controller. You push that and like L1, it's a save. You push that and like start, it quits the game. I mean it's the I it came with two controllers, and I have like I bought uh controllers for it. Like I bought the Sega Genesis six button controller for Sega Games, I bought a Super Nintendo controller for Super Nintendo games. It doesn't work as good as the Xbox controller. I think the S box controller for the re for emulation is superior. So I love popping out the Raspberry Pi. I I bought two of them, so I have two controllers. Me and my brother was over at Father's Day. We play Nintendo 94 together, like it was amazing. Oh, that's special.

SPEAKER_00 13:43

Yeah, yeah, it's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_06 13:45

Well, I booted up international superstar soccer as well, um, on the Super Nintendo. Oh wow. Um, and uh that just felt really difficult to play, and I don't remember it being difficult to play on the Super Nintendo.

SPEAKER_02 14:01

Um, you know what's hard? There was a game on the Neo Geo that was a football game. Uh I remember playing all the time, and I couldn't even get a goal. It was like, what difficulty is this on? I really looked like it's this on Supreme difficulty. I felt like I was just like an amateur group. Forget playing Brazil, don't even look at them. You gotta find the country that's the least and hopefully you can get a goal.

SPEAKER_06 14:24

Oh well, mate. I I went in as Brazil uh and I picked Wales as my opponent. And I was running rings around them, but I don't know what button was pass, I didn't know what was shoot, and I think they're reversed. So I mean I came in to tackle a guy, I thought I was doing gentle tackle, and I absolutely obliterated him.

SPEAKER_02 14:50

Oh my god. What was the game? I forgot what game it was, where if you got a red card, but you kept running around, the referee couldn't stop you and kept chasing you until you couldn't move anymore, and then he finally stopped and red carded you, and then you were like out of the game. I don't know what that is.

SPEAKER_00 15:06

That was hilarious. Oh my god, we do all the time. I gotta, I gotta I gotta talk to my boy Marlon to figure that out.

SPEAKER_06 15:13

I'll get back to you next week. Let me know. Let's see if we can see the red card Benny Hill shenanigans. Um, it's time

Nintendo Bets 121 Billion Yen

SPEAKER_06 15:20

for the news. We've scoured the very darkest regions of the internet to bring you the latest stories. First up, I don't know if I said that already or not, but you know, it's a fever dream episode, so just get on board with it. Um, Nintendo Live, Folly Reynolds has been busy, he's put pen to paper, he's he's he's put back all the shenanigans, he don't get involved with it anymore. He just turns up, clocks on at nine, clocks off at five. He's a straight talking salary man. Um, and he's he's found out about this. Uh as I say, Nintendo have announced the construction of a 121 billion RD centre in Japan, um, in Kyoto, Japan, officially called the Technology Development Centre. The company states that new building will serve as a new research and development base for Nintendo Software and Hardware, with completion currently planned for March 2029. It previously acquired the land required for the new building from the city of Kyoto in 2022 following an official proposal process that commenced in 2021. The cost of construction is currently estimated at 121 billion. That's just shy of 750 million. Nintendo previously referred to the building as corporate headquarters development centre building number two, which doesn't have quite that ring to it, to be fair, but uh sees how the company is now well on the way to delivering its fission for the future. Uh some stats about the building here. It's gonna have 6,084 cubic meter capacity, it's gonna have a floor area of 49,305 metres squared, it's gonna be a height of 67.570 metres, excluding the rooftop structures, and it's gonna be nine stories of one uh below ground. This certainly promising future for the uh promising for the future of Nintendo, the company investing so heavily in research and development for both its software and hardware can only be a good thing for fans and investors alike. Of course, we have a little to wait until it's all done and dusted, and theoretically we'll probably never hear about it in any official capacity following its completion. But hopefully, it'll lead to more delightful experiences from Nintendo in the future. Bobby. Everybody else in the industry's panicking, cutting jobs, shutting studios, and Nintendo, they just keep on keeping on, brother. I tell you what, we're gonna do in a moment of crisis. Hardware sales going through the roof. We're gonna build a brand new headquarters. Massive. And it's where we're gonna do all of our sneaky, sneaky game and console development. Um, what do you make of all this?

SPEAKER_02 17:53

Nintendo can do it anyway. They will never lose. They're not fighting Sony, they're not fighting Microsoft, they can care less about the Steam Deck, they don't care about PC. They're just Nintendo. That's it.

SPEAKER_06 18:09

Nintendo they have a direction that they're traveling on. And I I I genuinely believe this. I don't know, does it have long left for this world? I'm not too sure. But if they go, I'd imagine that maybe PlayStation wouldn't be far behind because I feel like it it represents a little bit more of a systemic collapse of the video game industry, maybe. But I see if that does happen, there'll be one name left still doing their thing. That's it, still pushing forward, still making the kids' toys, which is what the other two should have been making this whole time.

SPEAKER_00 18:58

Still making you know what Nintendo is.

SPEAKER_02 19:01

Nintendo is just a big rich kid, right? And if he wants to do something that he lost money on and didn't work, doesn't matter. Next, next next part, right? This isn't the next adventure. If that doesn't make money, he doesn't care, it doesn't go down, he keeps doing it, and all of a sudden, this makes money, that makes money, and he keeps going. And for 45 years, or 48, whatever, this has been Nintendo, right?

SPEAKER_06 19:26

Well, yeah, as a company, they've been around an awful lot longer than that. Yeah, well longer than that, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:30

But for video gaming, at least, because that they were playing cards back in like what the 1800s or something like that. 1890s or something, yeah. Yeah, so I mean, they've obviously have the beat to their own drum, they have their own unique fan base, which includes little kids to people our age or older, which is which is a phenomenal. Yeah, um, they could have easily made a system that can be neck and neck with Xbox and Sony. What do they care? Because I I cannot imagine a Mario game looking like you know, God of War Halo. It doesn't have to be that because Mario's Mario, so they don't have to worry about that. Which you know, Switch 2 is doing phenomenal. Obviously, they have enough money to make a new warehouse, whether I'm sure they have more games, you know, maybe a Switch 3 at some point, if if whatever.

SPEAKER_06 20:17

I mean, which is I suppose that's the only crossroads for them, isn't it? If you know, normally they've innovated and that's been their kind of killer app. I do think they've like looked into a position, whether they've managed themselves into position or whether they've looked into a position of being a Lego, of being a Disney, of being an accepted family-friendly brand that's allowed in the household. It's kind of sacrosanct in that way, and I do believe like Mario is a big part of that. Um, fair play to them.

SPEAKER_02 20:49

Yeah, I mean they're family friendly, and they have their own little area for more adult games, but you know, it's nothing crazy like you know, Sonya Xbox, I don't think, at least in my opinion. So they're just gonna keep winning. I don't think I don't think Nintendo will ever go out of style.

SPEAKER_06 21:08

No, I think you're right. I think the I think the other two like they have arms of a business, but it's not their core focus for their whole business as a mission.

SPEAKER_02 21:20

I think the problem is I think Xbox will go down first, which is kind of sad. And then people, oh, Sony survived. Sony will survive, but only for so much time because who is Sony competing with? Nobody. Yeah. So you know, you're not gonna beat Nintendo or compete with them. So Sony's either gonna have to get on board and just do their own thing and not worry about anything else, or fall apart from the inside when they're just putting out rubbish because there's no one to compete with them. I think that's what'll happen. Hopefully, not anytime soon. I'm just saying that's my opinion.

SPEAKER_06 21:56

I think that's the order and how that will go down when it does inevitably go down. Down. Um, and uh, you know, it it all really hangs now on what Xbox does next. And I think either like PlayStation could pivot now to become like that, to become a Nintendo. I mean, PlayStation's almost halfway there. I think that's like halfway to their success. If they kind of are an accepted brand name, but I also think so is Xbox. There's many times on TV or you hear mum shout, I'll go play your Xbox. You know, you hear it, it's in the ecosystem, it's yeah, 100%.

SPEAKER_02 22:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 22:29

Um, but I think PlayStation maybe just edges it out, but it's not fully in, it's not an accepted Lego. It kind of is, but it's not quite there. But Nintendo's fully rooted in the family ecosystem. Um, maybe PlayStation don't want to be all the way in because that gives them the edge for the teenagers to aspire to to move them on, but yeah, who knows, mate?

SPEAKER_02 22:51

Let's have a look at edginess is gone, I would say, right?

SPEAKER_06 22:55

I I think so. I think so.

SPEAKER_02 22:57

Nintendo has their clear, family-friendly, which they had for a while. Sony and Xbox came up with edginess. Emptiness now is kind of scary. So we have to be balanced, and that's that's the problem. Now they need to find a track and stay on it, but also be competitive with each other. I don't know. It's that's what whatever.

SPEAKER_06 23:19

Strange times.

Why PS5 Struggles In Japan

SPEAKER_06 23:21

Um your next bit of news uh also paints an interesting picture in Japan, Bobby. What's going on?

SPEAKER_02 23:27

Yes. Well, just found out today that Sony Japan exclusive PS5 is losing money, even though it's cheaper than a Switch 2. This was by Sammy Baker over at Push Square. Uh Sony's confirmed that his language of lock Japanese exclusive PS5 console is losing money. The unit introduced last year currently sells at a lower price than the much more popular Switch 2. Speaking with Japanese uh what is it? Public, oh Fatum CEO Hadeki Nishino, said the company considers this an important and necessary investment for its domestic market. Previous management uh reported that Sony's home region to Nintendo, the big difference with Nishini compared from his predecessors, is that he's Japanese and he seems willing to fight for his home territory, even though PlayStation has an uphill battle against Nintendo. At the time of this publication, the Language Lock Japanese PS5 retails for 55,000 yen, which is roughly $339, which is cheaper than the Switch 2, 59,980 yen, which is about $370. Despite this, Nintendo's hybrid is still comfortably outselling Sony's console console. Uh obviously, in the current economic climate, with memory prices soaring, the PS5 is extremely cheap domestically right now, and Nishino more or less admitted that is losing money for the platform holder. Uh, the problem with the PS5 is that he doesn't have a software library that can compete with the Switch 2, especially with franchises like Resident Evil and Final Fantasy going fully multi-format. The Japanese market is incredibly unique, and Sony has no answer to the likes of Pokemon or Tomidichu Life. Uh console-exclusive gacha games like Weathering Waves and Gishin Impact have performed well locally, while Astrobot has enjoyed some long legs on the sales charts as of late, but not enough. Either way, he's pleased to see the company starting to compete in its home country again, and I'm right behind Nishino on this.

SPEAKER_06 25:35

Good bit of news there, Bobby. It's interesting to think that the Switch 2. I mean, I've been a rabid fan of it, I suppose, in a way, especially more recently. It's just been a real convenient way to play. But it seems strange to me that Sony abandoned Japan many, many years ago. Their home market, their territory, where if you weren't in the no, stop to Western and say, where do you think they sell the most PlayStation? But oh, it must be Japan, must be Japan. It's not. And I think they've in a bid to lure a worldwide market, they've attracted themselves games and franchises around them that just don't stack up in Japan. They play differently. I think that to say, oh I think Resident Evil in the way it is now on Switch is a is a big win. Um but I wouldn't say these people have been waiting this whole time to play Resident Evil 7, have they? Have they? I very much doubt it. They either played the cloud version on their original Switch or they bought another console. They didn't wait a decade. I I won't have it. That's dribble. I think what the Switch 2 does lend itself to in Japan. I mean, here's another stereotype. Oh, all the houses are small. Not really, but kind of. Areas are cramped. Um so uh a switch lends itself to being thrown in a draw, a PS5, it's pretty big. And then it requires a TV.

SPEAKER_02 27:05

No, it's true. If you have multiple kids and maybe not the luxury of multiple bedrooms, you can only have one game on at a time, one kid playing at a time. Yeah, meanwhile, if I'm limited with space and I have three kids and I've got three switches, well then you can do that anyway.

SPEAKER_06 27:21

Yeah. Now, I think family and home environments are changing. Like I love, I'm always gonna be a big believer in the big screen surround, wanting to do it right. But even I've been finding that harder and harder to kind of justify. No, I'm gonna occupy this room for 12 hours, you can't come in. And uh and if you sit on the couch in the corner, you're gonna want to talk to me, and we're gonna sit for hours playing this game, and the moment the cutscene starts, we're gonna have this moment where we need to have art heart about the about life. Let me pause. The moment's gone. I might as well turn it off. You know, it's it's hard, you know. The kid runs in. Oh, I wanna do this. No, daddy wants to play a video game for 12 hours. Get out. Yeah, it's not it's not gonna wash.

SPEAKER_02 28:19

No, the family dynamics definitely changed, especially with cell phones now. Oh, I mean, god forbid you can even watch a movie with somebody without them even looking at the cell phone is almost impossible. Uh it's tough that people's interests are changed. Remember, back in the day, there wasn't that many movies out, let's say, released. So you kind of want kind of want to watch everything that was coming out. Now there's so many things coming out that people have so many other interests that maybe I don't want to sit next to dad and watch Genghis Kong for the 15th time. You know, let's put on Captain America. I don't know, you know? And that's the thing. Cell phones changing this, Nintendo Switch, this kid's in the dining room, my other son's over here. I want to watch TV. It's just all messed up now. I want to play board games, the attention span is gone. I don't have time to count Candyland and play Monopoly and fist fight with grandma for a fake money she pulled out of nowhere. You know, we don't have we don't have time for this. That's what it is, man.

SPEAKER_06 29:19

It it's weird, in it, but you've nailed it. You you bang on the money. Um and these Sectic Lives, they I mean, and that's where I think the games that we that you and I maybe have enjoyed, the single player for 500 hour games, I mean, there for the there for the dinosaur.

SPEAKER_02 29:37

I mean, I remember I love used to love hanging out with my mom and dad. They want to watch a movie, something rated R. You know, maybe they've seen it before and I they pre-screen it and I watched it with them. I felt cool. Nowadays, do teenos really want to hang out with their parents? I mean, I don't know. I would hope my son wants to hang out with me. If I'm cool enough, I guess.

SPEAKER_06 29:56

I think there's always the want to cut your own way. Um so there's gonna there's I think you know, there's always gonna be a relationship there. Depends on what you what you both make of it. Um I think it'll be.

SPEAKER_02 30:11

I mean, look now. I we decided we don't want to have you know my son Liam watch TV until at least let's see you get to a year, which has been six months now. So far, so good. The TV's barely on until he goes to sleep. I have now invested more time in my portal, probably than my PS5, because now my time is super limited. So if this keeps up and we keep we wait the 18 months like you're supposed to, fine. My PlayStation's in the living room. He's gonna be in the living room watching Sesame Street at some point. So when is daddy gonna play X Play PS5? I don't know. Maybe I gotta go back to the bedroom again. So all this dynamic changed. The switch 2 is actually like the perfect system right now to just sit anywhere and play that bad boy, you know? So I get it, I understand, I get it completely. I if the portal just had the ability to be able to just play something natively, because yeah, similar to like if you have Netflix, you can download episodes and play offline, which is great. You can't do that with the portal, so you I just can't take this anywhere. I need some kind of Wi-Fi.

SPEAKER_06 31:19

It's and that's the thing, it's not a thousand percent guaranteed a thousand percent of the time when it is working, it's it's great. Like I've had some really, really great experiences laid on the couch playing pharma simulator from dawn till dusk, no problems. But it's not guaranteed. No, I've taken it away and had some mixed success, I've used it at home to some mixed success as well. Um, which is like I find unbelievable, but pharma to mana's not the best example for a Wi-Fi signal. Um, but the Switch 2, I could be playing that upside down in a cave in deepest Transylvania. Yeah. And it would be working 1000%.

SPEAKER_02 32:06

And half those games are already have been out, so there's no more updates needed. It's just ready to go and play. It starts, boom. Meanwhile, I haven't even played Crimson Desert yet, and every time I turn my PlayStation on, there seems to be another update for this game.

SPEAKER_06 32:21

But here's the compromise. Guess what? You're not playing on the Switch 2 ever. What? Crimson Desert.

SPEAKER_02 32:28

Oh, thousand percent, no way. But that's understandable, right? Like, I think that is like, don't expect that to come on PS on the Nintendo Switch 2. I don't think that's possible. Maybe it's a three, maybe it's a four, I don't know, but you know, but look at how many games you have that's just Nintendo exclusives. And look how many games they have now on it that are on Xbox and PlayStation. That's the that's the key thing here, right? I love PlayStation, but they're just on the same rail they've been on. Great. Xbox, they're up and down right now, they'll get back on track, I'm sure. And Nintendo's just been on this highlight rail their entire life. They weren't worried about Sega, they weren't worried about Sony, they weren't worried about X, they never were, they never were, and this is why they're at where they're at now. They figured it out. I I don't know, man. That's just my opinion. No, mate. I'm not buying a switch too. I go back to work in two weeks. My first paycheck, I'm buying a switch too. Wow, I don't care. Done. Don't hang it. I already have a I have a I already have a switch. But let me get it too. That's it, done.

SPEAKER_06 33:39

I mean one of the best bits about I personally found coming from switch one to switch two was all my games working it, and guess what? They actually work this time. Yeah. So it is a bit brutal that uh I was playing Witcher awful, now it looks a little bit less awful. I'm happy with this. I see this as a bonus. I should be raging, but I just I'm okay with it. I more happiness continues. I'm happy. And like I say, taking a taking a seat out the out the achievement trophy window for a a month or two, it's like it's it's like going on holiday.

Trophies And The Completionist Trap

SPEAKER_02 34:17

It re it it like re-invigorates your spirit to keep playing games and not worry about a trophy. I do have to say it is it is nice. From a trophy hunter, I think it is nice to just play a game and enjoy.

SPEAKER_06 34:30

It's nice to go on the switch and take a game that's maybe a guilty pleasure or just a little bit daft. Like Lego Batman would have been a great place for you to play that. You know, no stress, yeah. Nope. Pick up and play. Doesn't really matter if you finish it.

SPEAKER_02 34:46

Maybe you oh I didn't get 900 Joker and Riddler achievements or uh riddles, no problem. Enjoy the game either way. On a PS5, I have to, I have to, in my own mind, find them all. Because I want that.

SPEAKER_06 35:07

So there's a there's a there's a there's a vacation here.

SPEAKER_02 35:09

They knew Nintendo could have easily made something with a cheap intertrop or something, but they did, they knew it is kind of just not necessary.

SPEAKER_06 35:18

They do, in a way, they're not trophies, but they do like reward, interacting with the cloud saves, they do reward, so you get these little points, like silver points you can spend on merch from the sh Nintendo store, or which is great, yeah. Or you can then plow into getting little icons and bits and bobs as they appear on the storefront. And I've got a load of tea towels, shopping bags, pins. See, that's nice, man. I've never had that from Xbox sources.

SPEAKER_02 35:46

Like, there's some people, like you know, there's people who like who play Dark Souls, Demon Souls, all those games, right? And then there's other people who say, Well, did you platinum it? Right? Like, Dark Souls is hard enough without trophies. Now you're gonna add trophies, you make the game harder because you have to do certain amount of things a certain way to get certain items to achieve this achievement, right? Yes, and then that kind of like is like, well, then the the suit the series gamer has the trophies that back it up. Whereas like I beat Mario Galaxy. I never heard anybody say, Did you collect all the special stars? No, never had a conversation. Just play Mario Galaxy, had a lot of fun with it, back and forth gaming. I've had conversations where oh, I I beat Witcher. Did you platinum it? No. Well then, but what did you really do? Well, maybe that person didn't have time to find 56 trading cards uh and play all those, you know, like see, like I freaking hate Gwent anyway. I love Gwent. I thought I played Gwent just sometimes I lost myself in Gwent and like oh my god, I lasted three hours of playing Gwent. I couldn't play in the game because I that's how much I love the Gwent. Now, did I buy the Gwent video game? No. Why? No idea. But I think I had enough Gwent. I I had physical editions of all the cards from Gwent. You love Gwent that much?

SPEAKER_06 37:09

I love Gwent. Oh I love Gwent. Every time I sat down, I was like, to be honest, I'd rather be just riding around on roach looking at the sunset.

SPEAKER_02 37:16

No, man. There was one card where you can mimic or I mean it's been so long since I played Witcher. But I remember I had some cards I can copy or steal a card from the other player's deck, and that was it for me. If I had that one card, I could feel like it win any Gwen. I put Gwen difficulty to max. Wow. One the trophy didn't you didn't have to do a see trophy. You didn't have to do that. But I did it because I felt easy was just too. I felt like they were giving me the game. Like, did you play you played Ghost of uh not Toshima, the second one? No, I haven't played that. Summer Guilty Pop. Alright, there's a game where you can flick a coin, hit other coins, forgot what it's called, and don't knock the coin off the table. Oh yeah. I I would just play that game sometimes. But Eva's like, why aren't you playing the game? Eva, I'm winning money, I'm betting this guy in the den, and I'm flicking his little coins. Very happy with that. You know, is there a trophy for that? Nope. But if there was, I'd probably play more of it. Trophies trophies get in the way sometimes. So it's good that Nintendo, you just put the game in, play the game, enjoy it, beat it, next game. I miss those days.

SPEAKER_06 38:32

They feel very um it feels very sanitized though, without them. You do expect that little you do something cool in game or you finish a level on a on the switch and your eyes glance to the top right hand corner of the screen. Immediately gimme gimme, and it's like, no. You did it. Yeah. You know you beat this. I do. Onwards. And I I'll tell you one thing though, that Witcher 3 on the Switch, there is no reward for literally hoovering up every single icon on the screen. Guess what? I've ended up doing it anyway. Yep.

SPEAKER_02 39:18

It like it trophies, I think, has made the like, I guess, I don't know, the the achievement hunter for either system, right? Do things that they normally wouldn't do. Because you know, in some ways, trophies are cool because maybe I didn't go down to this alley in the sewer to get something because I can care about it. But the people who made it developed and they created this cool system, and who's ever gonna see that maybe without trophies? And I understand. That's true. So that is that is pretty fun. But then some of the trophies are just like not progressive trophies. Like I get beaten sort of enemies, X, Y, Z. Okay, that's that's all normal, but like collecting all this rubbish just to go around the map and collect it is like a waste of time, but you need it to complete the game, but you don't really need to do it, just beat the game. It kind of like changes how you come off to a game. Like, I know some people look at the trophy list, oh, I'm not gonna get it. So you're gonna miss an experience of a game because of a trophy. Like, we need to like not worry about the trophy so much. It's a personal achievement, right? You're not getting any money from it. Does anybody you know gonna really gonna tell you suck because you couldn't get a certain thing? I mean, there are some trophies are interesting too, because sometimes you look at trophies, percentages, people stop playing halfway through the game, like you haven't even beat the game. So what to because they just don't care, they just done eh, whatever. Next game. On Nintendo, you're not gonna know if we did that, but you look at someone's trophies list and they just don't beat games because they just feel like maybe it's too much or there's too much to collect. And I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 41:01

I've always found collect 99 blah blahs. Like, how's that like I don't like I'm playing single player experience, but this guy that I'm living as a his life of for him to just derail everything he's doing to collect 99 flowers is is faintly ridiculous.

SPEAKER_02 41:22

Yeah, Batman Arkham Knight, very serious game, right? I mean, the the city is going down, yeah however, however, the Riddler somehow got permits from Gotham City Hall to create like roller coaster rides underground for the Battery Wheels to test him to do this to achievement. Is it cool? Yes, is it ridiculous? Yes. Do you need to do them? No. If you're a trophy hunter, to do it.

SPEAKER_06 41:55

They're possibly one of the most they're possibly the worst part of the game as well.

SPEAKER_02 41:59

Yeah, and then sometimes that can make people like or dislike a game for something that is optional. You know what I mean? And I feel like that also gives people an incentive to play it or doesn't.

SPEAKER_06 42:13

And I think the way Arkham Knight offers up some of its gameplay options feels mandated. Like that first Riddler race, you are dragged there by your eyeballs like Clockwork Orange, and it's like, look at this, look at this. This is awesome, and you're gonna love it. Go, and you get on there, and you're like, No, this is absolute garbage rock steady, and you get spat out the other end, and and it's like, My god, I don't really want to do that again.

SPEAKER_05 42:42

Oh my god, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 42:45

What why what why oh dear? I guess it it pads a game out, but I hated it, and you finished the driving sections. Of course you did. Of course you did, you had to, got the platinum, right?

SPEAKER_02 43:02

So again, I kind of made myself miserable, and then sometimes, like at the time when it came out, I was kind of like you know, it wasn't the best game because XYZ, da da da. And I was aggravated because of the driving sequences, but if I went back and played it and just played it, probably great. Look at I love Red Dead Redemption 2. I did not platinum that game. Do you think I have time to not only look through my binoculars for an animal and then study it and then kill it and then skin it for a trophy? It's gonna be perfect as well. No, I don't, so I didn't even bother. So if I didn't bother doing that, I'm not gonna go back and three star levels. No way. So I I played the hell out of that game. I have like 400 hours in there. I saw sunsets, I drank with people in my own mind that made stories at the bar. Why? Why not? I slept in the shrigging against a tree. I slept in the river. I did everything I need to do. I was collecting bounties, you know. I died. I played as another character. I continued. It was amazing. Yeah. Will I apply in that game? No. Will I go back and play it? Of course I would love to go back and play the game. But I don't have the the I don't know what it is to do all that. See, that is beyond if you if you got the plan for that game, I applaud you because I just thought that was too tedious. However, this is from a guy just telling you that I drove a Batmobile 9,000 times on the ground to collect a trophy. Bananas.

SPEAKER_06 44:46

I don't know how we got here, but somehow um Sony's losing money and it's cheaper than the Switch too. Um I think somewhere in the.

SPEAKER_02 44:56

It's only 50 bucks, right? It's only 50 bucks difference. Yeah. $30 difference. Which is actually, you know, it just goes to show you that Nintendo has figured out a formula and they're working. Because for $30, really it's not a big deal to me. I mean, if you have to buy a PS5 and you could wait another week to get it, great. But if $30 is a big thing to you, you know, people have different, you know, bank accounts and I get it, and money and whatever responsibilities. But I mean it's killing the Switch 2 is killing the PS5 in Japan, apparently. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 45:30

And I I think that will continue and expand here because we haven't seen we we saw it launch last year and have its first Christmas, but now a lot of those kids are gonna be they're aged out, their Switch lights, they're looking for a bigger console. Maybe mummy and daddy don't want to get the PlayStation, maybe they're not quite old enough, they're a bit more into gaming. So daddy's or uncles secondhand switch, probably seen better days, probably need to get a couple of Joy-Cons. Actually, do you know what? This Christmas, we might as well get Johnny Switch too. I think this Christmas they're gonna clean up big. Oh, hell yeah, I absolutely agree with you. They've got Star Fox comes out what this week? They've got a remake of Ocarina of Time. That is guaranteed bank, even if it project ends up displaying a picture of a dog turd on the screen, they will that will that it's gonna trigger so much nostalgia. And if they kind of handle it the way they've handled Star Fox, they're gonna get away with Blue Murder. Uh-huh. That that is gonna be that is gonna be the hot toy. Um the bonus is once Daddy's finished playing that after 10 minutes, little Johnny gets to play Fortnite 24-7 in his bed. Yeah, it's over his head. And you know what else, too?

SPEAKER_02 46:40

Nintendo's so smart that there were games released on Nintendo, like Japanicons Famicon, that were in Japanese. They can easily re-release in English now. Oh yeah. I'm sure there's a software that could easily translate that, put it on the new disc, resell it, you know, whatever, you know, non-Japanese version or whatever, whatever version you want to call it. Like, you know, now in English and or Brazil, uh Portuguese or Spanish, anything. And then release it and make money.

SPEAKER_06 47:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 47:14

Because that's Nintendo.

SPEAKER_06 47:16

Yeah, I guarantee. Will I be buying on Karina a time? You bet you bought them dollar or whatever.

SPEAKER_02 47:23

Yeah. Will I buy Mario for the 85th time in my collection? Even I beat it, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 47:29

Why not?

SPEAKER_02 47:30

Because it's not the switch to I have the Switch 1 version, I have the N64 version, I have the Nintendo version, don't have the Switch 2 version. Open it.

SPEAKER_06 47:41

It's time for you to cash in. Are you gonna get GTA 6 at launch, Bobby?

SPEAKER_02 47:47

No. Why? I don't really care for GTA 6. I played um the last one I played I was uh San Andreas.

SPEAKER_01 48:00

That's it.

SPEAKER_02 48:01

Wow. I haven't played any of them. And I also found out there's no physical disc.

SPEAKER_06 48:08

No, that's apparently been misreported. They're gonna do one, but not at launch.

SPEAKER_02 48:13

Okay. That's also weird though.

SPEAKER_06 48:15

Super weird. Um, but I guess if you've got the hottest property on planet earth, you don't have you want one in, yeah. Do you want to waste money getting it printed or do you want maximum because people are gonna download anyone with a console? Oh, download immediately. It's got a wire in the back of it. Some of those don't have disc fronts, Series S, some of it PS5s, right? So what you're gonna do? I'll tell you what you're gonna do, you're gonna make it download, and no other business and no other game would get away with it. But we will. Yep. 100% agree. And even those that go, because I know they've had a bit of a pushback in the States with the whole oh, you know, we're not gonna we're there's a couple of stores are saying, oh, we're not gonna stock it. Well, they've got more press off the fact they're saying they're not gonna stock it than they ever will from stocking it, so it's a win-win anyway.

SPEAKER_02 49:07

Yeah, 100% agree.

SPEAKER_06 49:09

What's the point? You've already told people there's no point stocking a box in a code in a box. Well, you've probably shot yourself in the foot there because that's well, they're gonna, yeah, you're gonna lose money. That was the most profitable code in a box you're ever gonna sell.

SPEAKER_02 49:21

I would buy 8,000 copies to sell at my store to make myself money. Why not? You know it's gonna go. I think, yeah, I think these stores are bit dinosaur. It's either gonna be the best thing ever to happen or a flop. I don't see it being a flop. I just don't think people are gonna expect the uh like the old Grand F Auto story type thing. I don't know if they can get away with it now. Now I hope it does because one thing that kind of is good, you know?

SPEAKER_06 49:53

A more important and more immediate lurking danger than whether it's gonna be good, bad, different, or other is the the you can get a standard edition of the game. Nice, you can get another edition of the game. But guess what? This other edition of the game has a load more tuning stores you can take your car to in the single player, and it wasn't just one, it was like six. And I thought to myself, Ah, okay, so in the base game, I'm gonna feel like the town's less alive. Oh, because these stores are now locked. You can't go in them, but if I'd paid a little bit more, maybe ten, twenty, thirty dollars, all of a sudden a magic little gate opens up for me to open the door. Now, I find that to be a bit am I that into tuning cars that I'll notice or care? I don't know enough about the game to know whether I need the standard, the ultimate, or the special edition, or the mega crazy remortgage your house for a code in the box edition. I don't even know what I want right now. I'm not particularly enchanted by Vice City t-shirt unlockable t-shirts or any of that drivel. Well, if the game's as big as you say it is, I can just wear what the hell I want from anywhere anyway. It's probably not going to be like that. So maybe I do need the unlockable Vice City shirts. Help me out. I think until we know a bit more, I won't know what to do. So the pre-order could. I didn't know about that until you tell me. That's wild. I might have got the wrong end of the stick, but I don't know how I can get the wrong end of the stick to know that these shops won't be accessible or maybe even open. Am I going to drive down the road and it's just going to be plastered up buildings saying should have spent more money, loser? Is that the trade-off for me in a cutscene we're taking place in front of a black, blacked-out building because I didn't get the special edition?

SPEAKER_02 51:55

Can you imagine like the cutscenes are different because you're like in a neighborhood that could have been great, but you didn't spend the money on it, so now you're just in this neighborhood with less people, less door, less drama. But now you pay these special editions, beautiful lights, cities on there, more people, talk about the streets working on the cars till 3 a.m.

SPEAKER_06 52:14

Oh my god. Yeah. Oh, I would be few. That might be the last version of GTI I ever bought, to be fair.

SPEAKER_02 52:21

That's that's insane. Like, listen, I bought the special edition of Batman, Lego Batman off the bat. Came with all these cool whatever comes from costumes, other things. I have not taken off the Batman 89 costume since I got it.

SPEAKER_06 52:34

Did you get it physical? I presume you did. Yeah. Did it come in a special box or with a little Lego?

SPEAKER_02 52:40

It came like a regular, regular. I didn't see any special. I mean, I even Googled it. I didn't see any special edition disc or that came with a Lego. I just have the disc. I think those days are over as well. Yeah, I mean, the last thing I bought that I can remember, like that came with something, was probably God of War with the ha with Doors Hammer. Also, I don't have that much space anymore, like I used to have, but um, it has to be something really, really cool for me to get it. But then I also look at what's the size of this thing and where am I gonna put it? I don't have a display case, I don't have anything.

SPEAKER_06 53:17

Yeah, but dude, where's the younger versions of us? Don't they want like all this tat?

SPEAKER_02 53:23

Or are they just I don't think they care as much. I don't think they really care as much.

SPEAKER_05 53:27

Are you a fan of a game or not?

SPEAKER_02 53:29

I mean, sh I mean I have like Marvel collectible cards from like 92 to like 97 in like you know, the the car collecting cases, the the three hole buttons, the nine plastic. And I have them and I like showing them off to people who care. That's what makes you real to me. But I don't know if young kids really care about that. Like, I mean, I I don't first of all I don't first of all I don't really know anybody in their 20s, right? Um, most of my friends are in their 40s or 50s. Uh you know, some of my sister's friends, I guess I know them. So she's 27, but like I've been to someone's house, my sister's friend's house. You know, very normal house, nothing really in there. Like the guy, he's a PC gamer, he plays games, but like there's nothing in his house that like looks like collectible, looks like a very just regular house. Whereas you're on huh?

SPEAKER_06 54:24

I'm nervous of like, you know, PC gamer, he has to go off to like an understairs cupboard to sit.

SPEAKER_02 54:29

Like, yeah, no, he has a special area just for the play, just for the PC, because if PC gamers are you know special, that's fine. But like nothing in his house is collectible-ish, right? Where you go to Marlon's house, and every now and then you see, oh what's that? Oh wow, that's cool. All over the house, there's a little talk about things, I guess. You see it, some stuff at the bar. He has little stickers. Okay, great, looks cool. I don't really see that in this young, young people's houses. I don't think they care about stuff like that. Or they collect other things that maybe we don't know about, but I don't really see anybody having like display cases like I used to see back in the day. It's just, I don't know, it's just I don't it's weird to me.

Physical Media And Collectibles Fade

SPEAKER_02 55:10

Is it that we were the strange ones? Or oh, I think we're definitely a unique breed of people. Like I would collect something just at a video game disc just to have it, because I think it's cool. Like Street of Rage 4. I bought both special versions.

SPEAKER_06 55:27

Do you think we think it's cool because we grew up in a time where there were like video rental stores and like video game shops where it was on the shelf, so we kind of aspired to own it. We we wanted to have as many as a video game shop would have.

SPEAKER_02 55:42

I yes, agree, I love that. Like, I don't know if you ever you know you ever seen the angry video game nerd? Yeah, so you know, he he does he still does his nerd thing, but now he also does like talking about old movies and everything. His basement looks like an old school 80s video store. I love it. Does anybody really care about that? I don't know. I mean, who's following him? People RH, and I don't think 19 year olds, 18 years are gonna follow him, they're gonna follow somebody like a show speed or something. Like the era of the collectible is gone because I used to go to the video stores and oh man, before you take that down, kind of have it. I'll I I'll purchase. I don't care if he you know sometimes it's already it's marketed, they got it for free to promote the disc or whatever. They throw it in a garbage can. I'm like, no, no, no, no. I want that, I want the poster. Like, I I like that stuff. Um, I don't think people do that anymore. There's no more video stores, first of all. If there is, God bless you have one. But what's on the shelf that's cool that I want to put on my show? Where do you see that? Like, sometimes I go to a bar, they all look the same, very generic, clean, light, cool. You go to somebody's dive bars, they have stuff on the shelf, like, oh my god, look at that. And it's cool to look at. But who's in those bars? Not the young kids, the older guys, like us, you know. Someone had a friggin' Ronaldo little toy that looked like crap on the shelf. I'm like, Where'd you get that? How can I get that? Can I get that from you at some point in life when you're gonna sell the bar? You know, meanwhile, you go to these other bars, it's just like cool lights, clean vibe. Even the music is weird. I'm not playing 80s rock, 90s rock, or hip-hop anymore. It's like weird European vibey music, you know? It's just a different time. Collectibles is different. Do you see people walking around with Nintendo shirts or Sega shirts that are young? I don't. No. Our guy, our guys are our people our age, I seen with cool shirts. I haven't seen a guy the other day.

SPEAKER_06 57:46

Is this why we're facing a video game collapse while we? Because we're the only people keeping it going.

SPEAKER_02 57:52

I mean, physical media is very touchy as it is in DVDs. People love to stream. It's just the convenience of having it now. Whereas I have to then get a DVD. If I don't play video game, I gotta buy a DVD player or Blu-ray player, hook it up, all the stuff, put the disc in. I need a place to put the disc to collect them, right? Is is someone is it worth someone to pay a movie 25 bucks to own it? Or I can rent it for like half the price, or wait for streaming, and I don't have to worry about putting anything in a space I don't have available to me. This is what I think it is. It's like space-wise, storage-wise, where are you putting all this stuff? How many DVDs can you possibly have? And how many DVDs are you gonna watch? Like, I have Batman A9 DVD. I love it. I bought the Blu-ray when it's a special anniversary thing. I have like three versions of that DVD. Do I need another one? No. Have I watched the latest DVD I bought? No. Was it on HBO Max and I streamed it yesterday? Absolutely. You know, it's just a little bit of the convenience, it's all convenience.

SPEAKER_06 59:01

I think the I think we would rather have like most people would rather pay, like that DVD or that Blu-ray, let's say it's $20.

SPEAKER_03 59:12

Yep.

SPEAKER_06 59:13

It's on your shelf forever. Watch it as many times as you like, no extra charge, no extra burden, nothing. But for the convenience, we will pay $9.99 a month. So $109. And there's thousands of movies on there we don't watch, but then we use the inverse logic to take everything we've got on the shelf to a thrift store because we haven't got space. What are you putting in the shelf where you used to have your DVDs? What? More knickknacks and trash? I don't get it. I don't know what's happening.

SPEAKER_02 59:48

I and then you have that streaming service for particular movies you like until they lose the license. Exactly. And it ultimately goes to another streaming service. Like I said, Netflix bought everything, they had every license you can imagine. Then other people say, wait a minute, why am I showing you my movies on your streaming service when I'm Paramount? I make my own streaming service. And that's what happened. Now you have to have all these streaming services to watch X amount of TV shows. Where yes, you could buy the physical media, and of course you could do it, you know what I mean? But it's the convenience of I have all this at my fingertips now. Then buying a DVD, put watching it, and put it taking it out, putting it back in the box. Where's the box go?

SPEAKER_06 1:00:34

It's weird because back in the day the methodology was, oh no, you have to save up your money to be able to afford that thing, which you then aspire to have and you buy. And there's some ritual in the save, or there's some ritual in the urn, there's some ritual in the go and reward, and getting it in a bag and bringing it home and getting it out and unwrapping it. It's like a little present to yourself. But that ritual requires you to save or have enough money to be able to buy it. The modern world ain't got time for that. I'll tell you what, we're gonna do we're gonna rob you. And you're not gonna really know we're doing it, and you're gonna think it's great. Um, so instead of waiting for you to save up and buy that one DVD, we're gonna take whatever you can afford, and it's gonna be $9.99 a month for now and for till forever. Uh instead of we having to wait, we get it now, and you get uh let me check. Really nothing, you own nothing. Wow, you're paying for fresh air. I've I don't think in any era of human civilization such a thing has ever took place.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:38

No. Um I mean in high school, I would have video games, I'd bring some games to my friends, we traded, or I borrow them. You know, hopefully you get them back. You chase, you gotta make sure you got the right people to trade with, obviously. But you get the stuff back, it's it was cool, you know. I have not asked any of my friends to borrow a game in like 10 to 15 years. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:02

Because no one doesn't know that again, that world's dead.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:09

Which is why I think no one really cares for a lot of physical stuff anymore.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:14

I just think it's slowly going away.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:19

Well good news is Switch brings out physical uh copies of games, which is good, and they're smart, and they make a little box that saves space. Always think they could have that box, by the way.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:36

Oh, I personally think that having one with like a V as an aesthetic would not be would have been a would not have been a bad decision. I think it would have been the right size.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:44

I think it's perfect size for that.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:47

And it's cute, the little show. And a Blu-ray disc. Think about that.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:56

If you're listening, make the change. We did have a bit of Xbox news, but to be honest with you, it was just quite sad. We get we're laying people off news, and I'm enjoying talking to Bobby. So I think I'd rather have done that uh than pontificate about more bad news. It's sad news, and we don't need to really carry on getting on board with all that. Uh I think that um the good news is I think this brings us to the housekeeping area.

Housekeeping Subscribe And Support

SPEAKER_06 1:03:23

Um this is where I normally waffle on about all the things that we do. I'll tell you what, I'm not gonna waffle on about it. You've got one job and one job only. Okay, this show's free, it'll always be free. Sister Show Flashback is free. I'm not even gonna go into any of the stuff. All you have to do, if you've got this far, especially after that rough ass opening eye that I open with, whichever way that whichever way represents to you back in time for the visual visual viewer. For the audio listener, you exist in all of time and space. That's why you're on the premium. So, whatever that is. If you've survived from then to now, just press subscribe. So many of you come, you obviously enjoy it, or or as uh not offended enough by it to just quit immediately. I see you all hanging around. Hit subscribe. It'd be great for you to stay. You never know, we might become friends. Um and that's it. I think we've been asking way too much lately. Just subscribe. That's it. From there, your journey begins. But it really has to start with a subscribe. Hit that one book, one job, wherever you are, if you're audio, audio, you know where. Hit it. If you're video, video, video, video viewer. Oh hit it. Do it, subscribe, get on board with it. Um, yeah. We're gonna leave it there. We're not gonna overlabour it. We've said enough, we've done enough. Bobby. There are people though that choose to support the show. Uh, and if you're listening, the easy way, in the description, little clicky. There's some descriptions there about what you can and can't have. Uh for your money, very little amount of money, very small, very probably the best amount of money, small amount of money. Small. China. Um it's for the visual viewer.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:13

Uh we get double downloads now. You've got to sell yourself, sell your soul to the devil. Plant something in here that he's driving down the road, down the highway, down the freeway, and he's like, God damn it, I want to see this. I want to see this. Pulls his semi over and load of hogs kicking off in the back. He's like, Let me get my phone out, gets his Starlink Geo sat up. He's like, Yeah. Yeah, probably won't worth it, but anyway, on we go.

Supporter Shoutouts And Wild Tangents

SPEAKER_06 1:05:41

Um, these people, they can subscribe, and they do, and they also support the show from us at the three dollars. One of the perks that they get, Bobby, is that we read them out on the episode. And somewhere in our text between us is the list. Do you have the list? You're probably way ahead of it.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:00

You are you know what it is? My mind was set as the show has its structure ready for the segment.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:10

Yeah, thank god the show has structure because without it this would be a five-hour angry ramble, wouldn't it? I love a bit of apple ties. If you're wondering what this is, it's apple ties. Get on board with it. I think it's French. Who even knows? It's basically fizzy apples, zero alcohol. Um right, shall I start or shall you start? Doesn't matter to me, brother. Okay, I'm gonna I'll start. Gazcon. He's uh he's now starting to get a little bit jealous of his brother Shane Con, who's start who's an Australian uh sheep herder, as far as we know. Um rides around on a quad bike stripped to the waist. He's got superior jeans, he's got one of those mullets. Um wow, yeah, you know, the Australian type. He's got the big Tash, it's blonde, absolute, you know, butch, butch bronzed god.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:13

Um is it as good as a mullet as Keith Sutherland in Lost Boys?

SPEAKER_06 1:07:19

It's the sort of thing that I do believe. Correct me if I'm wrong, Gazcon, or Shane, if you're listening through the medium of the you know, the Outback. I don't know how the signal gets out there. Probably played on a drummer, didgeridoo, and he interpret it through a gramophone horn that makes it sound like the UCP. Um Kiefer Sutherland apparently based his mullet on Shane Con's mullet. Oh that's that's all I know. That's I think I want to park it there because I've gone that off topic. I forgot what I was even on topic about, and I was talking about Gaz's bro, who doesn't even contribute to the show. So, you know, he's getting a free ride in here, and I don't want some Aussie coming in on a free ride. Of course I do. Get on board with it, Shane. Who's next?

SPEAKER_02 1:08:13

Up next we have, and I touched my phone. Okay, we have Captain Scarlet, who is hard at work working on trying to clip up this conversation at some point for social media.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:32

Yeah, I I I I Captain Scarlet, I wanna uh surely I've done enough things in here, and Bobby's done enough things. Maybe Bobby's just maybe Bobby's just too cool. Maybe he doesn't make like weird noises, or you know, Bobby's a very cool cat. He's like New York's finest. I don't know, you know.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:50

You make a lot of odd facial expressions. Yeah. I'm like the uh Killian Murphy of uh huh and you know oh wow. When someone's telling me something, I try to look normal, but can't really have my face.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:09

No, well, um I I don't even know who I am or where I am anymore, I'll be honest with you. Uh this will happen right now. Up next, a man who I'm a big fan of. Um his name's RetroEd. He got rebranded as Retroid, but I think we should rebrand him now as Retro Ed.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:34

Yeah, Retro Ed is much better than his cousin, Hemorroid. Yeah, I think that's much better. Hammeroid. Hamoroid, yeah. And you guys are hammering hemorrhoids. It's very it's not good, not pleasant, not safe, not fun. The exact opposite of the show.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:54

Just let's just remember, although I need to just yeah. Oof, mate. I know we're not in the PG era anymore, but I need to remember that we are, yeah, we're not in that era.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:07

Yeah, I'm definitely in the R era, the R rated, but I'm PG 13 myself. I think I'm doing a great job.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:14

Oh, I just literally had to lobotomise myself because I was about to go off on a mad tangent, and then I I stopped myself and thought, no, George, that is even you know, that's not acceptable. So if you think what that must have been, it was pretty edgy. Um coming in to save me, the one man. Oh, is that you? Are you meant to be doing it?

SPEAKER_02 1:10:37

It's me, yes. This is our beloved friend Carlos. Yes, he is again, as you know, last week learned to make the perfect sandwich. Now he's learning to make the perfect chicken cutlet. In my opinion, I don't know. I do like cooking. It's very hard to make a juicy chicken breast, but it's much easier to make a juicy chicken thigh. Because even if you mess up and you go a little longer than a chicken thigh, it's still juicy. If you make a mistake on a chicken breast, you go too long, it is just chewing like a rubber band. Just toss it out and have cereal.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:22

Yeah. I also think chicken breast is of a lower quality in the modern era. I highly agree. It's brought on too quick, and the chance for it to dry and go chewy is all too present.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:38

I refuse to buy chicken at a restaurant. I just feel like they just constantly ruin it. I and I can make a steak and I can make a pork, but I'd rather get that than a chicken. I just make chicken my damn self. I've never been a fan of chicken. I'll be honest with you.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:58

I can make chicken 9,000 ways, brother. One day you'll have some iron chicken. I'll make it like three chicken meals. Completely different. Surprise.

SPEAKER_06 1:12:09

I can't have any bone in it.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:11

No, no bone.

SPEAKER_06 1:12:13

You swear to me.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:14

100,000 percent.

SPEAKER_06 1:12:16

I always feel like a kind of like a like a like a You gotta cut that thing out too.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:22

Whatever it's called, you gotta cut that out. Get it all out. You got a little bang, bang it down, it'll tenderize it. You got you can't high flame it, you can't medium flame it, you gotta low medium flame it. You know, if you bread it, it's it's a little more juicier, a little more calories, but it's possible. Cook it in something, cook it in a sauce. Don't panther it, it's dry, dumb, disgusting.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:54

Just can't do it. So I'm I'm looking forward to the recipe. I'll get back at you.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:01

I think we're now generating content for Captain Scarlet's clipvin.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:07

I don't know if we are, but hey, listen.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:10

Going with the flow. Where do we get to? Oh, I'll tell you where we got to. This man is the sort of guy that's gonna give you financial advice. He's FCA approved, he's the real deal. Yeah, he's gonna take your he's gonna take your two-pence hate me and he's gonna turn it into threepence hinty. This guy's gonna double, triple, quadruple your investments. All I know him, he's called firm returns. He applies his trade on Twitter or X. Get there, get involved, seek him out.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:39

Up next, we have the corner house, which I am legally obliged to mention because I have secured a loan for 99 years, well past our era of the show. Hopefully, someone else continues. Um, that lease is that building. Whatever that piece comes, that's who's gonna respond our show. It was a hard deal, it was a good deal, and I got it done. The corner house. The burgers are juicy.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:09

I tell you what's gonna be. You've just made me think of something that's gonna be a real rough bump for the fan base. Because when I get recast, yeah, and someone else is sat here acting, George, and you get eventually recast, and someone's doing Bobby and someone's doing OG, and RGT gets recast. This show's gonna run forever, except there's gonna be different people playing our roles.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:34

Yeah. And that restaurant will always be different.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:40

But they've always got to pay. Yes, that's part of the land, and it's the land, so whatever goes thereafter, US US military, government, whatever, they've got to pay as the money.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:52

Think about this. Someone's gonna be retro Thomas, okay? RGT. Someone's gonna talk about a retro game from 2020 in 2045. And I will absolutely puke that that is now a retro game.

SPEAKER_06 1:15:12

But who do you think you would like? They've got to be a younger than you, so they've got to be a young up-and-coming actor, I suppose. Who would you like to play you when you eventually, you know, when the Bobby roll, you have to you know hang your hand that little amazing actor, the little boy from adolescence.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:33

I don't know his name. Get him. This kid was phenomenal. Okay, so he's gonna like know any young, young actor that I like. That kid, boom, amazing.

SPEAKER_06 1:15:47

Okay, so you cast him as you. Yes. Um we'll let get in the comments below who you're gonna cast as our replacements. Uh, probably the next 18 months. They need to be famous as well, because we've got to pitch this to them because I think the show's big enough now where it needs like a property.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:12

He knows, he heard it, he's gonna hear it next week.

SPEAKER_06 1:16:16

Well, we'll do we'll make sure there's a you know, we won't, you know, he's not just gonna turn up tomorrow, don't panic. Um which means I get to thank the legendary roast space monk. Tell you what, Game Boy Matty is son, he's he's now probably well, I think I think he is the future of the show as well. He is the future of the show. So he could play, he's he could play me.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:39

Why don't we ask him? Does he collect things?

SPEAKER_06 1:16:43

I think the sad thing is I don't think he even listens.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:46

I don't think he listens, I know he listens. Those that two listen hit on that area, it's those two decks.

SPEAKER_06 1:16:55

I hope Game Boy. I would love to think that we had been with Game Boy Matty all the way through his life, and even takes us to like uni with us.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:03

He's like it's been six years. If not, who knows? Wow, that would be we're like his weird uncles that maybe you just tell one story about, but it's enough to keep it the lore going. That's us, man. We're the uncles, man. Oh wow. Unks.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:32

I don't know if that hit that hit the UK yet, but it's very unk over here in America, especially in New York. We're at the unk age.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:43

Okay. Now I don't know what age this man is, but this is my second favorite Italian, right behind Mario. Bada Bingster. Newly wed. Okay. Enjoying a new life, having the time of his life, and not being able to connect the hell divers, too. But all in all, that's my man, Bada Bingster.

SPEAKER_06 1:18:09

What a beautiful human being. Um, what a beautiful human being you both are. Um, up next, another beautiful human being. His name's Tingle Tuna. Uh, this is a man that I imagine, with the heat the way it is, he's tucked to his country estate. He's probably sat in a a cop's a little wooded area that Gardner's prepared. He's sat on a fine sort of stone bench, he's reclined there, he's took himself out. He's took himself out the switch too, Bobby. He's decided to recline there at the height of luxury. He's playing a triple A game, he's playing Star Wars Outlaws, Legs of Kimbo, he's wearing nothing, but a Fez. And he's got a bit of he's got a little bit of he's got a handkerchief just draped across himself because he knows that that just keeps him safe.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:00

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:01

Or I don't know if you know, Nashville and Poon has a uh I'm gonna be PG here, a crotch warmer that was knitted. Hmm. My I have one. I will find and take a picture of it. Have I used it? No. Is it a collectible for my father?

SPEAKER_06 1:19:19

Yes. I don't think I can really fully appreciate that warmer unless it's worn.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:26

So he my father probably did wear it, which is why I probably will not wear it. His junk was in there at some point, and I don't think I'm comfortable with putting my junk in there.

SPEAKER_06 1:19:40

I'll be honest with you, I think I'm gonna say this out loud. I think that means you need to.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:49

I don't think I should because I realize just how small I am.

SPEAKER_06 1:19:56

Yeah, but you could put it on and then warm up into it.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:00

Oh perhaps.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:02

You know, you're judging him.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:04

Let the sun hit it a little bit, you know? Really get it warm.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:09

Yeah. It's possible. You know? Definitely possible.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:19

You know, it's I mean, it's been it was knitted probably 40 years ago. I'm sure there's some space for some air blowing, you know, so I guess a little bit of breeze in there, you know.

SPEAKER_06 1:20:28

Let me let me just take you back to a moment to me who probably didn't quite perceive where the conversation was going, and I didn't realize that you meant the flaming ball of atoms in the sky when you said, Oh, you know, let the sun hit it. I was like, Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:20:44

Yeah, that big boy son, superman powered, you know, that son.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:49

You know what I mean? Let me have it, let me let me hit that, let me hit that, let me hit that willy woman. Let me get it like, Whoa, let the sun hit it. It's like, yeah, yeah, I'm all for it. You just do it, you just put it on. You didn't even say it like that. Let the sun hit it. Like, whoa, wow, mate, steady on that natural ray, you know. Yeah, I don't know. I yeah, totally outrageous.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:21

I don't even think I uh on the list. Oh, it's you.

SPEAKER_02 1:21:26

Speaking of more outrageous than that, digital monkery, he is in his backyard creating a zen-like waterfall where he can comfortably somehow connect his I don't know what console uh he prefers, but he's gonna set it up there with a little outdoor TV, little waterfall zen, beautiful garden, and play all his retro games back there.

SPEAKER_06 1:21:56

Looks pretty cool. Does he get in the pond or does he look at that pond while playing his retro video games?

SPEAKER_02 1:22:02

Oh no, it's he's always in the pond. It is he's just in it. If he wants to not you know stand, is a place he could sit in the water and play. Is he underwater, like permanently, or does he? I mean he could be underwater, but he's just I mean, you know, his head's just out. I forgot how tall he was, but definitely nip level, just enough to get in there, like a sit bath, yeah, yeah. And then he has a department, a compartment where he has liquor. So you don't really have to leave. Is that underwater as well? That's right above level. Beautiful, like a like a like a like a waterfall edge type of thing.

SPEAKER_06 1:22:44

How does he keep his controller dry?

SPEAKER_02 1:22:47

It's a magic controller. He got it from Carlos. I don't know.

unknown 1:22:55

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 1:22:57

None of this is real, so it doesn't really matter, does it, to be fair? Um, I don't know why I feel like I need to ground it to reality. Up next, Bull Border, he has got himself booked on the next SpaceX flight, um, which is incredible news. Congratulations, Bull Border. He's going up there to attempt the first space bound. Let me get this right. Um the first in space, 360 inverted. Yeah. Double fluff. I'm trying to think of a special move, right? And I can't, so I might need your help, Bobby. I was gonna cook I was gonna come up with a whole new special move for him. It was the floss, but now he's going into space, he wants to reinvigorate it. So double worm. Holy shit, inverted. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:23:58

Instead of landing down as the worm, he pops up as the worm.

SPEAKER_06 1:24:02

Ooh. He's doing this in space.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:06

In space, which is amazing.

SPEAKER_06 1:24:08

Yeah. Elon Musk is gonna capture it on a on a weapon.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:12

Two anti-gravity packs to make sure that he's balanced. Or else he'll flip off to like Mars, and then that's it.

SPEAKER_06 1:24:17

Where is he gonna insert them?

SPEAKER_02 1:24:19

Uh, one right behind his neck.

SPEAKER_06 1:24:22

Yeah, good call.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:23

And then one right on the left inner thigh. Has to be left inner thigh. He's right-handed. Uh so he's right footed as well, so he can't. He needs to balance on the left. Too much right pressure, he's out. Which way would he flip? Counterclockwise.

SPEAKER_06 1:24:40

Hmm. Because that would probably that would have a that would probably send him back in time.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:47

Yeah. Uh ironically, it's built with a flux capacitor. So if he does happen to go clockwise, he can go back 30 years and big drama there. Hmm. So he's safe, but there's chaos.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:04

It's it it's it's it's a fine balance. It's it's all finely tuned.

SPEAKER_06 1:25:08

Would we know he'd messed up though? Because he'd be sort of stood there as an old man going, do you think it would have been better for me to have told him that if it'd gone left instead of right, then this wouldn't be. No, we can't tell him because that's cheating.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:20

Who's gonna figure it out? Having this conversation now and trying it again would just be detrimental to the galaxy.

SPEAKER_06 1:25:28

Oh, because I think those guys would have a lot in common. I think they're the same person.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:34

It's possible.

SPEAKER_06 1:25:35

We'll never know.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:37

Two worlds, same time, you know?

SPEAKER_06 1:25:40

Yeah. It's like Captain America, he sat around as an old man when he could have done something that whole time just to give him a shield.

SPEAKER_02 1:25:47

It's a rift apart.

SPEAKER_06 1:25:49

Hmm. Who's next?

SPEAKER_02 1:25:51

Up next we have ginge. No. No, no. Boba. Sorry about that. Well, I have news for ginge, but boba. No, do ginge. I'll do okay, ginge. I know that Manchester United is getting a new stadium. Ginge is now contracted to do all the cement work in the Manchester Greater area. Phenomenal.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:20

Yeah, I don't think he's getting any more platinums, but the amount of work he has to do now. He's just gonna pull that. Maybe in ten years I'll catch him.

SPEAKER_06 1:26:28

Well, he's so strong he cries cement. That's how tough and strong he is.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:32

Yeah, so his hands are like he basically is the thing from Fantastic Four. Wow. He is now.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:41

I mean, I've told you, I've hugged him. It's not pleasant, it's extremely hard. Let the sun hit it. Yeah, the sun's always hitting him. That's his problem.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:54

That's his problem. He needs an umbrella, you know.

SPEAKER_06 1:26:58

Um I'm gonna thank um Boba Loba. He's gone brown this week. I think he might have gone pink. I'm not even sure anymore. All I know is he's in my back garden dressed as a ghillie suit, which I think is the perfect disguise, because who would expect that?

SPEAKER_02 1:27:16

I wouldn't. I wouldn't also wouldn't expect it either.

SPEAKER_06 1:27:20

What?

SPEAKER_02 1:27:20

Our immortal lifetime friend. Oh Harvey Retro.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:26

Oh, I hope he's well.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:27

Now I know he is chilling. I know he's working on something that's coming out soon.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:34

So he's been very quiet. He had turned off all internet. He has his little quill pen with the ink. What so he's turned his bat phone off? Everything's off.

SPEAKER_06 1:27:44

Wow. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:47

And he's just a castle, it's locked.

SPEAKER_06 1:27:50

So he's just quilling it.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:27:55

Interesting. Up next. Um The immortal Emma Sharp. She's not a vampire, she just is forever in our minds. Thank you for all you do, Emma. Um, who's next?

SPEAKER_02 1:28:08

Nowhere near Berlin. Now, this guy actually is in Berlin um watching all of Germany's World Cup games in every city in Germany.

SPEAKER_06 1:28:19

At the same time?

SPEAKER_01 1:28:22

At the same time. Wow, that's I don't know how he gets around, but he does. That's his job. That's incredible. Or is he?

SPEAKER_06 1:28:37

Well I think that's and this is a joke in itself because he is a bit of an enigma. Yeah. Um one last time. Well, it won't ever be one last time, will it? Let the sun hit it. It's mumsy.

SPEAKER_02 1:28:54

That's it. You know, good old mom. She's just always supporting us, and everything we do, no matter how much we embarrass her, and her friends tell her what we were talking about in the show, why we get there. You know, she's always supporting us. She's great.

SPEAKER_06 1:29:12

Oh, get jobs as well. Yeah. They sit around playing video games all day and then they go on the computer and talk to each other about it.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:19

Yeah, I don't think she would have ever thought I would be podcasting about video games, but the amount of time she told me to go outside and play in the dirt. Here I am, Mom. Love you. Do you think she'd be proud?

SPEAKER_06 1:29:31

She's definitely proud. She's definitely proud. That's nice to know. Well, say someone else who's proud. The RGT fan club. Um, this week they had a whist drive uh to rustle up some money for a uh pond RGT's planning on building. Um interesting way of funding it, RGT, but uh you do what you do.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:53

That's right. Up next is uh my boy Pete Brocklehurst. He is again in legal trouble. Legal? Yeah, he has decided to rob the last Toysuros and basically stole all the video games on the shelf. However, those video games don't have games in them because they're actually behind the counter. Still stole them. It's over a thousand dollars of games that he stole. It is now considered grand theft. So good luck. Good luck, brother. I hope you run fast. Make it to the Vice City, it'll be alright.

SPEAKER_06 1:30:38

Um so that means I get to say thank you to Billy Marmine. Um he has been involved in a right road traffic accident, something serious. He he just, I'll be honest with you, he was doing 33 and a 30. Um, hit a sleeping policeman, probably catapulted himself and his motor vehicle uh 20, 30 feet in the air. He got caught on a telephone wire, like a pair of sneakers, and he's been there ever since. Um, luckily, he's got power, so he's staying warm, and people are throwing sandwiches in through the driver's window from the second floor of their houses. So he doesn't want to leave. He says he's found himself a warm community and he wants to stay part of it. Um I'm gonna take the Zangief, and then you can tell me what the Zangif is. Yep, yep. Um, so thank you to everyone who contributes uh every single month. Uh we're very grateful for you. And if you want to find out how, just click in the description and you can and join these people.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:51

So I'm gonna do that's too easy.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:21

What was that? He's a Camden Town bartermaid. And he's so surprised at the deals that he found. Or that he's selling actually. I genuinely didn't think he'd get that. Yeah. Okay. Immediately bam from the first look. Camden Barmaid.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:44

Yep.

SPEAKER_06 1:32:45

Fair play to you. Okay, with all that said and done, thank you to everyone who supports on a on a monthly basis, as I say. Very grateful, thank you for that. Um but now we need to slip slide out the side by asking each other what we're hoping

Summer Gaming Plans And Sign-Off

SPEAKER_06 1:33:01

to play. Now, as a gentleman should do, Bobby.

SPEAKER_02 1:33:06

Why are you hoping to play? Continue my legal Batman journey. And then when I have the portal, play Be Holgar to that is what I strive to do this whole week. That's true. When we can, good. What about you, man?

SPEAKER_06 1:33:28

Um, I'm just gonna keep on vibing when we switch to. I keep going on there hoping I'm gonna find a UK farm and then not. And it's like, oh come on, farming simulator, bring me it now. Um, other than that, I tell you what I did do. I downloaded Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy for the PS5. I don't know why, but I felt like that would be a fun playthrough. Bizarrely, as we talk about trophies. I think there's one thing I didn't do on the whole way through the game, and the one thing I don't know, the one thing I didn't though do because I didn't think it relevant was at the start, you have to beat the raccoon in the game. And I was annoyed when I didn't do it because I was like figuring out the controls and mucking around, and then before I knew it, it was like that section had ended, and I was like, oh man alive. Oh well, it can't be that important. I won't restart it for that. I won't. Well, I think I needed to do that to get the plat. So I might play that, see where I get to.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:33

That's annoying, man.

SPEAKER_06 1:34:35

Look, I'm playing it for the hell of it, so I might as well clean that up while I'm there. That's true. Um, I just want I I tell you what I'm yearning for, I just want an unbrained just banging gaming experience for the summertime. You know, I'm not asking much. You know, in this 1997, we got like Godzilla. By all stretch of the imagination, it was a shit version of Godzilla, right? For the fanboys. But I kind of liked it. It filled a hole, it was a big movie, a bit like Independence Day, a bit like uh that 2012 movie, Doomsday or whatever. These big summer blockbusters that you're not Star Wars, some drivel that I've never played before, that I can just kick back with over the summer months when it's boiling on and I can just chill out. Um not gonna happen though. So I shall probably uh play a bit more Tomb Raider um and Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy. I think with all that said and done though, Bobby, I want to thank you for uh helping uh helping me host again. I'm uh absolutely loving having you here, and I know everyone else listening and view, view, view, view, viewing is enjoying seeing the Bobmeister back, you representing the US of A. Um you handsome devil, look at him. What'd you mean? What'd you mean me?

SPEAKER_05 1:35:56

Pretty owl Baba boy, can you fly?

SPEAKER_06 1:36:00

That's all we have time for this week. Listen, as always, thank you for your time. Look forward to the pleasure of speaking to you again next week. Until then, happy gaming. And remember, there's nothing wrong with being given the fish controller. It's what you do with it that counts. See you, Bobby. Peace out. See you guys.