Nintendo Direct Predictions! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 07.30.25

Summary

Summary of "Nintendo Direct Predictions! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 07.30.25"

Podcast Information:

• Title: Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
• Host/Authors: Greg “GameOverGreggy” Miller, Tim Gettys, Blessing Adeoye Jr., and Mike Minati
• Episode: Nintendo Direct Predictions! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 07.30.25
• Release Date: July 30, 2025

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Introduction and Lighthearted Banter [00:00 – 05:00]

The episode opens with Greg Miller welcoming listeners to Kinda Funny Games Daily, setting the stage for discussions on the upcoming Nintendo Direct partner showcase, EA's stance on $80 games, Pokémon TCG controversies, and more.

Greg Miller [00:00]: "We'll evolve this and more because this is Kinda Funny Games Daily."

Mike Minati joins in, leading to a playful exchange about his shoes and first-time experience in the studio.

Mike Minati [00:41]: "Hello. Hello. You can't see, but I am in fact wearing shoes right now."

Their camaraderie sets a relaxed and engaging tone for the episode.

Predictions for the Upcoming Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase [10:24 – 25:00]

Greg and Mike delve into the much-anticipated Nintendo Direct partner showcase scheduled for July 31st at 6:00 AM Pacific Time. They speculate on potential announcements, focusing on third-party titles that might make their way to the Nintendo Switch 2.

Mike Minati [11:21]: "Partner showcases usually aren't that interesting but because we are still early on in this Switch 2 era, there are still so many big third-party games that we are hoping are going to come to the Switch."

Key titles discussed include:

• Hollow Knight: Silksong
• Hades 2
• Elden Ring
• Other AAA Titles like Forza Horizon and Starfield

Mike expresses excitement over the possibility of these games bringing substantial content to the Switch 2 platform.

Mike Minati [13:57]: "I think they're still looking into a Switch 2 version like crazy."

EA CEO Confirms No Immediate $80 Games [34:42 – 36:16]

The conversation shifts to EA CEO Andrew Wilson's recent statement during the Q1 earnings call, clarifying that EA has no plans to release $80 base-price games within the current fiscal year, which ends in March 2026.

Greg Miller [39:00]: "EA has now also made its position clear. No $80 games for now."

Mike praises EA for maintaining value for players amidst industry shifts.

Mike Minati [34:42]: "You know, people say these CEOs are bad, but look at them. They're always so concerned about our value."

They discuss the implications for future AAA releases and how Nintendo's earlier experiment with higher-priced titles like Mario Kart World has influenced industry pricing strategies.

Pokémon TCG Pulls Plagiarized Card Designs [38:00 – 42:44]

Tom Phillips from IGN reports on a significant controversy where Pokémon Company has pulled new Pokémon TCG Pocket trading cards due to accusations of plagiarism from fan art.

Greg Miller [39:23]: "It's a shitty situation that you hope isn't nefarious."

The hosts analyze the impact on the community and praise Pokémon's swift action in addressing the issue.

Mike Minati [40:46]: "Fan artists stuff. It's awkward because, you know, ..."

They discuss the importance of originality in card designs and the trust between the company and its fans.

Mario Kart World UI Change Reversed [42:53 – 46:56]

Greg and Mike cover Nintendo's recent decision to reverse a controversial UI change in Mario Kart World. Initially, Nintendo had nerfed the game's random course selection in Versus mode, leading to significant fan backlash. Responding to the outcry, Nintendo issued an update to restore the original functionality.

Greg Miller [42:53]: "Nintendo has hit the brakes, reversed course and pulled a UI on this change in a surprising climb down."

Mike shares his frustrations with the initial change and welcomes the restoration, emphasizing the importance of player feedback.

Mike Minati [46:12]: "Like why can't we have two modes, right? ..."

They anticipate future updates and potential DLCs that might further refine the gaming experience.

Elden Ring Patch Delayed Due to Tsunami Warning [47:10 – 48:56]

Jordan Vidler from VGC breaks the news that Elden Ring's anticipated patch 1.02, which was set to introduce a two-player mode, has been delayed due to a recent massive earthquake and subsequent tsunami warnings across the Pacific coast.

Greg Miller [47:10]: "Elden ring patch 1.02 has been delayed following a tsunami warning."

The hosts humorously separate concerns about the game update from actual safety, reflecting on the unpredictability of real-world events impacting digital releases.

Mike Minati [48:37]: "Honestly, I was never... I generally like not having to be worried about earthquakes."

Additional News and Community Interaction [50:00 – 57:24]

The episode continues with brief mentions of upcoming game releases:

• Hello Kitty Island Adventure for PS5 launching on August 5th
• Slime Rancher 2 releasing on September 23rd
• Hotel Barcelona launching on September 26th

They also engage with Super Chats, highlighting fan interactions and comments, including theories about Mega Man games and shout-outs to hometowns like Youngstown.

Mike Minati [30:34]: "Don’t know if you know this about me. I love Mega Man."

Kyle in Chat [22:03]: "Successful Nintendo is also arrogant Nintendo..."

These interactions add a personal and community-driven layer to the podcast, making listeners feel involved.

Promotions and Closing Remarks [58:00 – End]

As the episode winds down, Greg and Mike promote Kinda Funny memberships and their sponsors, Mood and Factor. They emphasize the importance of listener support in sustaining their content creation efforts.

Greg Miller [58:11]: "You give us $10, you get 80 episodes of kind content ad-free."

They conclude with mentions of upcoming content, including secret collaborations and future show formats like the Gamescast.

Greg Miller [59:14]: "That's another episode of Kinda Funny Games Daily in the bank."

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Notable Quotes:

• Greg Miller [00:00]: "We'll evolve this and more because this is Kinda Funny Games Daily."
• Mike Minati [11:21]: "Partner showcases usually aren't that interesting but because we are still early on in this Switch 2 era, there are still so many big third-party games that we are hoping are going to come to the Switch."
• Greg Miller [39:00]: "EA has now also made its position clear. No $80 games for now."
• Greg Miller [42:53]: "Nintendo has hit the brakes, reversed course and pulled a UI on this change in a surprising climb down."
• Mike Minati [46:12]: "Like why can't we have two modes, right? ..."

This episode of Kinda Funny Games Daily provided insightful discussions on major industry news, engaged the community through Super Chats, and maintained a lively and informative atmosphere throughout.

Transcript

[Greg Miller]

Today in the nerdy news you need to know about. A Nintendo Direct partner showcase is coming tomorrow. EA's CEO says no $80 games for now. I'll believe it when I see it in Pokemon. TCG pockets. Plagiarism, controversy. We'll evolve this and more because this is Kinda Funny Games Daily. What's up, everybody? Welcome to Kinda Funny Games daily for Wednesday, 7-30-25. I'm one of your hosts, Greg Miller, alongside Giant Bomb co owner and the best shoeless RoboCop I know, Mike Minati.

[Mike Minati]

Hello. Hello. You can't see, but I am in fact wearing shoes right now.

[Greg Miller]

Get them up here. Show me how. Show me how limber you are.

[Mike Minati]

Oh, I got these on clouds. Have you seen these on clouds?

[Greg Miller]

No. I don't know what an on cloud is.

[Mike Minati]

Problems. And then these solved it. They have like, look at. It's like, I'm going to take my shoes off. It's like, look how much padding there is.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, that's big. That's like a lift. We should get that for Nick.

[Mike Minati]

It is thick now. They squeak crazy.

[Greg Miller]

Give me a walk. Give me a walk. Hold on, audio listeners. I'm gonna put my microphone down for you now.

[Mike Minati]

I'm gonna have performance anxiety. Oh, this is now. You don't squeak.

[Greg Miller]

They're not squeaking right now. Classic. Classic. Can't do it. I can't do it on command. Michael, how are you?

[Mike Minati]

I'm doing great. It's fantastic being here.

[Greg Miller]

First time in the studio.

[Mike Minati]

First time in this, actually my first time. I've been, you know, doing the whole game journalism, game media stuff for like 12 years. I have never been in like an office like this where it's like, oh, my God. People have like their workstations and they decorate. I worked remotely before. It was cool to work remotely.

[Greg Miller]

Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure.

[Mike Minati]

Just like seeing. It's like, wow. This is like, this is how it was done. This is the way to do it.

[Greg Miller]

So I assume this is giving you a lot of ideas. Giant Bomb's going to start an office.

[Mike Minati]

Yeah, I'm gonna. I think, you know, I'm gonna use what power I have to mandate everybody move to Youngstown, Ohio.

[Greg Miller]

Perfect.

[Mike Minati]

Yeah. Brent's pretty cheap there.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. No, you could probably get a really good space there.

[Mike Minati]

We can make one of these for probably a fifth of the price that you did.

[Greg Miller]

I. What's it. But what's it been like? Of course. You're so close to Cleveland. Yeah, you're right there.

[Mike Minati]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Superman, they filmed the Whole movie there. The Schuster house is there. The hall of justice is there. Like, I suddenly want to go to Cleveland.

[Mike Minati]

It's funny because I actually have been thinking about you a lot because of all the Cleveland stuff. You know, I saw the movie about a week ago and I really liked it. But a big part of it was the kind of Cleveland sightseeing aspect of it. Especially when they have the fight in Progressive field where the Guardians play. And that's my team.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, nice.

[Mike Minati]

I was just super excited about. Been there a hundred times. Yeah, right. In fact, they even did a like meteor's night at that field.

[Greg Miller]

So cool.

[Mike Minati]

I was like, I should go and get. Get a shirt for Greg. But yeah, I should have, but I'm a bad friend, so I didn't. But no, just all that aspect of it was great.

[Greg Miller]

We bought you bagels today.

[Mike Minati]

I. Yeah, they're okay. I mean, ducking donut bagels.

[Greg Miller]

Hey, we bought you bagels. I didn't say they were good or bad. All right. We're working on a budget here.

[Mike Minati]

I don't think that quite, you know, requires me to go to a baseball game and get you exclusive merch and bring it in.

[Greg Miller]

Fair enough. All right. Geez, Mike Manati got me dead to rights on that one. I can't lie to you. Of course you're here. Dan Reichert is here. We're doing some crossover stuff that's super secret that we can't talk about, but it's very exciting.

[Mike Minati]

Yeah, it's going to be a good, good fun time.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Mike Minati]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

That's all we can say.

[Mike Minati]

That's all we can say.

[Greg Miller]

One day you'll see it, probably. Unless it doesn't go well and then.

[Mike Minati]

We never show it anywhere somebody might die.

[Greg Miller]

You know, it's always possible the Kind of Funny shoot. But we'll tell you about that another time because right now we're going to tell you that this is the Kind of Funny Games daily episode for Wednesday, July 30. Each and every weekday, we run you through the nerdy video game news you need to know about live Twitch, YouTube, podcast services around the globe. If you love that, we'd love you to pick up a Kind of Funny membership. Of course you can grab1 on patreon.com kindafunny YouTube.com Kinda FunnyGames, Apple or Spotify. Of course, $10 would get you all of our content ad free. You'd get your daily dose of me, Greg Miller in a series we call Greg Way. That's 15 to 20 minutes of me podcasting. About whatever it is I want. And of course you'd get good karma for support an 11 person small business running a very expensive studio in a very expensive city. But we'd love you to do that because that would be fantastic. I don't know why it's got to be the sad fog when I say that. Of course, no bucks. Toss away. No big deal. Like subscribe, share, ring the bell, click the follow button. You could of course go over on Twitch. If you have Amazon prime, you have Twitch Prime. Give us that free 30 day subscription. They don't remind you about it. So make sure you get there. But most importantly, you could be super chatting right now. YouTube.com kindafunny Games if you're watching live, you can super chat to be part of the show. Just like Rance Cox is who says, greg, did Tim bring Leviathan wakes today? I'm not. Barrett, is Tim in the building yet? Do we know?

[Tim Gettys]

I have no idea.

[Greg Miller]

Tim. We'll see if he comes or if Joey comes in and says Tim's not here. But that's, that's how you can make the show happen. That's how the show happens right there for rants. If that. If Tim's here. No, Tim.

[Mike Minati]

Not Tam.

[Greg Miller]

Tam, is Tim here? God, Tim Gettys. Is that not embarrassing? Reichardt, this is important to me. We're trying to be literary people all of a sudden. Of course you have another super chat here. This is about you. Mike, the uncharted wolf super chats and says, Mike, what are you doing here? Jeff misses you. In all seriousness, shout out to the best Nintendogs.

[Mike Minati]

Hey, I'm Char Woof, long time viewer of Giant Bomb game. Hello. And Charl Wolf. Nice to see you here. Just fine. He's got like a. He's got a family. He has a. Another cat. He just keeps trying to fill his.

[Greg Miller]

So many cats.

[Mike Minati]

Depression, sadness, emptiness, self loathing.

[Greg Miller]

He cut his hair.

[Mike Minati]

You know, I did that. Well, I started doing it like we had to do it in a garage because he lost a bet. So I cut his hair with like just normal, not like scissors for cutting hair like the scissors you would do for arts and crafts kind of a thing.

[Greg Miller]

So yeah, thinking about the sentence you just said, you know, it makes so much sense to me. Do you have in your life because you're going to Disney all the time. I'm sure you bump into normal people there. Do you ever have to explain what it is you do and then have to say sentences to like people like that that are like CPAs yeah, I was cutting my, my co workers hair, my co founder's hair, my co owners.

[Mike Minati]

The embarrassing thing kind of lately is like I've been in charge of merch at giant bombs store.giant bomb.com.

[Greg Miller]

There it is.

[Mike Minati]

And you know, like some of the merch has me on it. You know, I get the samples and I wear it and then I'll go do. Go to my subway. And then all of a sudden they're kind of looking at me like, look at this jerk wearing a picture of him.

[Greg Miller]

I had, I had a good run of getting my son's preschool. Like, they slowly started to realize, oh, Greg does something weird or whatever. They get it. I'm the weird video game guy, that's fine. But now he's in a summer camp. And today was the first day I showed up wearing a shirt that has my own photo on it. And I was like, oh, this is gonna have something. I'm gonna have some questions.

[Mike Minati]

I was having a prom hang out with my niece and we were just at like a local swim club thing, right? And like, she, she's 10, so she thinks that people on YouTube are the coolest in the world.

[Greg Miller]

We are.

[Mike Minati]

All right? So the fact that I twitch is very, you know, and all that stuff, she thinks it's very impressive. So she's introducing me to her friends. I was like, this is my uncle Mike. He's a famous YouTuber, and it's cute.

[Greg Miller]

And then they started the question, oh, well, do you know Buzzy B12? You're like, no, never. How they have 6 million subs. I don't know who they are. I'm sorry, I've never.

[Mike Minati]

Where's your platinum play button? I'm like, we don't talk about that.

[Greg Miller]

George in the live chat is screaming in all caps. Greg, ask Mike how he feels about mugs.

[Mike Minati]

Mugs are the worst kind of merchandise you could possibly create.

[Greg Miller]

I see.

[Mike Minati]

Or sell. All they do is break in transit and then people gotta message me and they gotta get refunds. And I'm like, I have to be very apologetic, as if I made the mugs. I didn't. I just, you know, there's a store.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mike Minati]

Because that handle is just a giant point of failure right there that's gonna break any moment now while you're holding it.

[Greg Miller]

This is Nintendo store SF quality. It won't happen. Now, who stole my saucer that goes with it? I don't know. And I'm upset about it, but yeah.

[Mike Minati]

I mean, mugs are having kind of a rough Patch right now.

[Greg Miller]

I understand. Timothy Robert Gettys, please welcome yourself to the stage. It's good to have you here. He's wearing his. He's wearing his, you know, he's wearing a burnt orange jacket. Burnt orange shirt. Yes, we have a chat here that says for Mr. Rance Cox. Greg, did you. God damn it. You didn't bring Leviathan wakes up?

[Dan Reichert]

No, I was told that everyone's yelling my name and I need to come.

[Greg Miller]

In here and I come in and.

[Dan Reichert]

It was for a mistake. I'm sorry. I did not bring it today. I didn't even look at it today. Mostly I look at it every day. Not today, Greg.

[Mike Minati]

Not today.

[Greg Miller]

Fair enough. Thank you.

[Mike Minati]

I forgive you.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you. Believe it or not, we're not even housekeeping yet. Housekeeping. We're an 11 person small business. All about live talk shows today after kind of Funny Games Daily you are getting the kind of funny games cast. It's our Ninja Gaiden Rage Rage Bound review. It will feature the one, the only Dan Reichert. Very exciting for that. And then after that, nothing. There is no stream today. There are no in reviews. There's nothing. Because we're doing something super special secret and super special with Giant Bomb. So you will see that soon enough, everybody, if you're a kinda funny member. Today's Greg Way is more than 17 minutes about the Nintendo Switch 2's future. Thank you to our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs and Omega Buster and Delaney. The Psalm 20 Today we're brought to you by Mood Factor and the Kinda Funny Survey. But we'll tell you about that later. For now, let's begin the show with what is and forever will be the Roper Report. Time for some nerd. Six items on the Rope Report.

[Mike Minati]

Baker's dozen.

[Greg Miller]

I will ask you this before we even get into story number one. Yeah, sure, I. How long have you been doing. You talk about the games journalism stuff and all that jazz. How long you been doing it?

[Mike Minati]

Gosh, since like what? When did they reveal the 3Ds at E3? That was my first E3.

[Greg Miller]

Okay, so you've been going a long time too. Longer than me then, right? Because I'm 18 years, so.

[Mike Minati]

No, no, no, not that. No, it's not that. Like 12, 13. Not longer than you. I'm not.

[Greg Miller]

I still get. And this is good for me, it's good for everybody. Yeah, but there will never be a time when I say we're doing a review and somebody in the chat goes, I didn't know that was out yet. That my Blood doesn't run cold of Did I fuck up the embargo? Is it the embargo?

[Mike Minati]

So I was open critic. There are reviews out there.

[Greg Miller]

I was bad on my thing just to go. Here it is all coverage held for July 30th at 8am I'm always like oh, did I fuck this up? I can't and I rarely do.

[Mike Minati]

I'm the guy who said how many Cat shines were in Bowser's Fury one time? And now you know Nintendo will send you anything infraction.

[Greg Miller]

You're done. That's it, man. One strike and you're out.

[Mike Minati]

Oh yeah, that's it.

[Greg Miller]

I'm surprised they let you in the Nintendo Store. Speaking of Nintendo number one on the Roper Report, the next Nintendo Direct is a partner showcase coming tomorrow. This is Chris Scullion at VGC Super Chat. You have a question? What are of course your predictions for tomorrow's Nintendo Direct? Nintendo has announced that its next Nintendo Direct presentation will take place tomorrow and it will be a partner showcase. Nintendo says the direct will feature quote, roughly 25 minutes of information on upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch games from Nintendo's publishing partners. The direct will broadcast on Thursday, July 31st at 6:00am Pacific. Yes, of course. Kind of funny. Will live react to this direct? No, not at 6am we will do everything on a delay. Probably start with the games cast at 10am but hey, a lot of moving parts. We'll talk to you about that later. Michael Minati hi Greg. Hype level for a partner showcase tomorrow.

[Mike Minati]

Partner showcases usually aren't that interesting but because we are still early on in this Switch 2 era, there are still so many kind of big third party games that we are hoping are going to come to the Switch to.

[Greg Miller]

There it is.

[Mike Minati]

Right?

[Greg Miller]

You knew it was popping right away.

[Mike Minati]

Yeah, and look, there's one right there. Hollow Knight Silk Song Is tomorrow the.

[Greg Miller]

Day Mike Minati we call it Spoon.

[Mike Minati]

Heaven at Giant Bomb. Don't ask why.

[Greg Miller]

I have to man.

[Mike Minati]

I have. I feel like 15 times now. I have said I think this game is going to show up at a thing and then it doesn't.

[Greg Miller]

But we've got to be right at some point.

[Mike Minati]

It's supposed to come out this year. It's supposed to happen.

[Greg Miller]

Supposed to be a launch game with the Xbox Ally X and Rog Xbox Ally period. But does that mean it's launching on the same day? Or does that mean when the Ally launches it'll be there? Or does that mean why this when it's when it does launch. It'll be able to be on the. We're not 100 sure on that.

[Mike Minati]

But exactly what does that mean to be a launch game for just a portable PC thing with Xbox branding on? Does feel like there's a much better chance. Usual if you put a gun to my head. Yes or no? I'll go ahead, I'll believe. I'll say yes. It's gotta happen eventually. They know. There's so much hype. I am so curious like why there has been such this kind of weirdness. It used to be a fascination, used to be kind of cute. It's almost becoming a weirdness with Silksong. Like we're all concerned.

[Greg Miller]

What are you up to? What is going on with this game? Is this game happening?

[Mike Minati]

I played this thing in 2019 at E3. I played this game six years ago. What's happening?

[Greg Miller]

I. I am going to go. It's not there tomorrow. I think the. Yesterday we talked on the show about the rumored now yet again leak of what the Xbox Handheld is going to be. Right. And the thing was like, well, it makes sense then that they would announce that at Gamescom and I think if it wasn't just a weird thing during that Xbox SGF direct to be like in Silksong's there. I think doing them both at Gamescom would make sense of. Here's the release date for the handheld, here's the price and here's the release day for Silksong.

[Mike Minati]

Think it's gonna be playable at Gamescom? Yeah, yeah, right.

[Greg Miller]

It was a playable some museum recently, remember?

[Mike Minati]

Yeah, that's right. Australia maybe something. Yeah. Who knows what goes on down there.

[Greg Miller]

So you're not hyped for tomorrow then?

[Mike Minati]

I'm hyped. No, no, I'm hype. I mean I. I like Hollow Knight 1 a lot. So just the prospect of seeing that. But again, there's other big games that I think we could hear about. A Claire obscure, right? I think that's one that, you know, maybe they weren't thinking about Switch two right away. Maybe it's actually a little too early. Maybe they aren't able to pivot that fast. But I bet they've been looking into a Switch 2 version like crazy.

[Greg Miller]

I feel like they ha. They know. And I think they've been on the record talking about like, oh well, yeah, we want to, but we're a small team and yada yada if I'm Nintendo, yeah, I've rolled up with the dump truck full of money and hey, let's let us Help you let us do this. And so even if it is just the trailer, the announcement that says 2026 or no date. I think you get away doing that.

[Mike Minati]

Right. Other big things like boulders, Gate three, you know, like that. Sure, sure. Running on switch to any stuff like that.

[Greg Miller]

Mr. Hawk says give me metaphor on switch. Metaphor. Refrontazio didn't come out on switch.

[Mike Minati]

No, that true. I don't think it did.

[Greg Miller]

God damn.

[Mike Minati]

I don't think it did. I mean, I don't think Persona 3 Reloaded did either. So. No, no. Yeah. So there's a dad get some of that stuff on there.

[Tim Gettys]

Should a switch to update for Royal as well. Make it look a little bit prettier.

[Mike Minati]

There you go.

[Greg Miller]

Sure. Yeah.

[Mike Minati]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

I see the chat popping off with Hades too. Another one of like.

[Mike Minati]

Well, that's right. Because Hades 2 is coming there. We know that once it does get that 1.0 release. So we could finally get that release date. Maybe Elden Ring, which we know is coming.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Mike Minati]

That gets a release date. I'm sure we see that in one formula and that Duskbloods the other game from. From software. Right. That could show up.

[Greg Miller]

Yep.

[Mike Minati]

Learn more about that.

[Greg Miller]

There you go then. It's all good stuff over here in the super chats. Jackie San says over under they show a switch to edition of Skyrim. I. I don't. I.

[Mike Minati]

No, I just know what.

[Greg Miller]

We're not gonna do that. We're gonna do that.

[Mike Minati]

No.

[Greg Miller]

What does this one mean? Big fresh 37 says, Greg, the man next to you owes us Captain Toad.

[Mike Minati]

Oh, he's been trying to get me to play Captain Toad for a long time. It's like. And I love Nintendo and I bet it's a good game. I just don't feel the motivation. I can't fake it with Toad, you know.

[Greg Miller]

Sure.

[Mike Minati]

I'll get there at some point.

[Greg Miller]

It's a fun little, you know, puzzler. Look around the corner, see what's going on.

[Mike Minati]

I could do a decent Toad.

[Greg Miller]

Hit me with it.

[Mike Minati]

I'm Toad. I'm a kind of funny. Hi, Greg.

[Greg Miller]

I like that you're making. You're doing the opposite of Charles Martinet right Where he's like, I won't manufacture lines for Mario. You're like, I'll just do Toad can.

[Mike Minati]

Say anything you want. Arrow.

[Greg Miller]

I was gonna say Barrett's is a good one.

[Mike Minati]

Barrett. I'm the best. I'm the best. Thank you. I'm here all day, folks.

[Greg Miller]

Foxy Steve says, I think we see more performance patches hoping for 60 frames a second for Astral Chain and Xen Blade.

[Mike Minati]

Yeah, yeah. For some of those older games like that. Or even some other third party stuff like. Like Red Dead Redemption 1. Right. Like that's a game I've been kind of thinking about replaying recently and I, yeah, would love to be able to do that on my Switch too and have that, that 60 frames per second on there. I think right now the only way to play that 60 frames per second is on like PS4, PS5 with some kind of performance boost thing there. But yeah, gosh, I like all those performance boosts a lot. I had a lot of fun just going back to the Zelda games like that. But yeah, Partner Direct. So yeah, that's.

[Greg Miller]

That's where. That's where it gets. Struggling with it right where you want to go out. And it's like Partner Direct is so broad that it really could be anything. I don't know if it was a joke or not. So earlier when we talked about silksong, somebody said it'll be in the Xbox section of Nintendo tomorrow. And you do then go, well, what about. Wait, wait, wait, wait.

[Mike Minati]

What about it?

[Greg Miller]

Because like right here you got Samson L. Super chatting. Call of Duty Library, including Black Ops 7 gets announced.

[Mike Minati]

Well, they said Call of Duty has to come to us. They did promise the government that at one point.

[Greg Miller]

You can't lie to the government. Nintendo.

[Mike Minati]

Another thing like Sea of Thieves, like why not get that on Switch to eventually? Starfield. Is that something we can do on Switch to.

[Greg Miller]

That would be fucking ridiculous if it came there and not PlayStation. That would be insane if they're like, Starfield's also coming.

[Mike Minati]

But Forza Horizon, Indiana Jones, Indiana Jones maybe. Forza 5 has done so well on PlayStation.

[Greg Miller]

Oh yeah, yeah. It's printing money. I see the updates all the time.

[Mike Minati]

If you can get that on Switch too. And I think they probably can, why not? That'll do really well there also.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mike Minati]

It's all sorts of stuff. That's the thing. It's like. It is so wide open. It could be a bunch of things. What if we get more? Because PlayStation's approach is really weird. Because we've been. We got pat upon, right? We're like, yeah, we'll put pat upon here. Don't mention the word PlayStation though. We'll get Bandai Namco to do it.

[Greg Miller]

Exactly. We'll do all the dirty work. You can have Freedom wars, you can have this, you can have Hot Shots Golf. But it's all going through Bandai Name cup.

[Mike Minati]

Right? So we Were just like, more of that. Like, here's Parapa. The rap is back.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, my God. Could you imagine?

[Mike Minati]

Yeah, that's. I don't really believe that. Might be fun.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Yeah, that'd be fun. Yeah. I wonder too, about Capcom. What's their support gonna look like? Again, we're talking about these patches. Like, obviously, I would love to see Monster Hunter Wild come over. Impossible to a degree, I was about to say.

[Mike Minati]

Like, that thing is barely working on PC.

[Greg Miller]

But, I mean, there is a lineage of Monster Hunter games that were Switch exclusive. I mean, they eventually broke out, but you know what I mean, there's stuff there you could do.

[Mike Minati]

Does Rise, Monster Hunter Rise have like, a big performance patch update on Switch to. Because even I would like that.

[Greg Miller]

So chat. Keep me honest on that.

[Mike Minati]

Somebody who was like. Like a smidge whelmed by. By Rise, I. Pardon me. Or by Wild, as part of me would like to, like, just go back to Rise and play that at like, 60 frames per second, for sure.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, Yeah, I can see. I could see that. Yeah. Yeah. Rise does not have a patch. Says jg, who I believe.

[Mike Minati]

Sorts of Resident Evil games, though.

[Greg Miller]

That's what I was thinking too. Yeah. Yeah.

[Mike Minati]

2 remake, 4 remake.

[Greg Miller]

The big question here, I think that's interesting, right, Is that the rumor had been when Switch 2 finally made its debut that, you know, Nintendo had been very particular about who they gave dev kits to.

[Mike Minati]

Right.

[Greg Miller]

So now what does that look like post launch? How many have they gotten out? How easy has it been to make your games for Switch?

[Mike Minati]

Yeah, but again, like, being particular, it's the tone that could be. Were they gonna say no to Capcom? Like. Right. I mean, if I was, Capco could be like, hey, we want to put Resident Evil and Monster Hunter on Switch too. Like, I don't know if we can trust you.

[Greg Miller]

We got Dragon Drive to worry about. We'll get to you. We'll get to those games. Yeah.

[Mike Minati]

So. Yeah, but they might. Yeah, there's got to be some bigger Capcom support coming to the Switch 2 relatively soon. There's got got be at least one Capcom thing here.

[Greg Miller]

Okay. Oh, I like that.

[Mike Minati]

Yeah. That's a promise. Wow. I guarantee.

[Greg Miller]

I guarantee you, Mike.

[Mike Minati]

When.

[Greg Miller]

I guarantee. I appreciate that.

[Mike Minati]

That means a lot. You could take that to the bank.

[Greg Miller]

Alex Frazier says please bring Night Rain to the Switch, too. I don't see that one happening. Right, because you have Elden Ring and then you have the Duskblood one. Right?

[Mike Minati]

So, yeah, I mean, it's like, if you can get Elder Ring on there, then I guess you could get this on there. Yeah, I suppose. I mean, you got to get out of ring on there first, right? Unless you want to do something cute like a bundle. Get elder ring and Night rain all at one for just $100.

[Greg Miller]

I don't think they need to worry about it. They'll make the money either way. From Soft Sickos. Yeah. Elden Ring will be interested if we get a date tomorrow. And if so, when it is how imminent that is, right?

[Mike Minati]

It was like a holiday.

[Greg Miller]

You think so, right?

[Mike Minati]

I think so. Because, like, you know, first party wise, I think they're relatively set on holiday. They're gonna have Pokemon. Metroid Prime 4 doesn't have a date, probably.

[Greg Miller]

You worried? You worried? Yeah.

[Mike Minati]

Oh, a little bit.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, a little.

[Mike Minati]

It's a little weird. We had that whole Subway Subway thing. It's out now, right? I was like, I gotta go check. I gotta go call gamestop or. It's a little weird. Especially because when there are rumors they're gonna be a direct, and the whole time was like, it could be a partner direct, it could be an indie direct or whatever. I was hoping it would be just a Nintendo direct. Because I do want to know about Metroid Prime 4's release date. I do want to know if we're getting Metroid Prime 2 and 3 Remastered like we did with one, because I want to play those games again.

[Greg Miller]

Too late now, though.

[Mike Minati]

No. Well, it might not be. If this thing comes out like December 31st, and there's plenty of time to bust out the Wii U and Metroid prime trilogy.

[Greg Miller]

Sure, sure, sure, sure. I just feel like if you're gonna get another remaster for two and three.

[Mike Minati]

Well, the way Nintendo is, though, those things could have been done for years now.

[Greg Miller]

If you see those get announced Tomorrow, then Prime 4 is definitely delayed. I think the thing. I think the energy and the flame for four is kept alive by the faithful, but it's so small right now that you need to have that game come out and have the Switch audience stoked for a new exclusive and a new thing. And I think if you had just two months before put out two other.

[Mike Minati]

Metroid games, can that be just kind of part of the build up? Is that just kind of part of like the.

[Greg Miller]

I feel like you have a chance of having people who jump into the old ones thinking. Not thinking they're new, but they're a new game to their Switch too. And they're like, oh, I don't like this. And they don't worry about what the upgrades were to four or whatever.

[Mike Minati]

Maybe, maybe. But contrary to that, maybe there's people who are like, well, I got to play Metro Prime 1 on my Switch. I don't even know about 2 and 3. And now you want me to play 4. What did I miss out on here?

[Greg Miller]

Sure. Yeah, right.

[Mike Minati]

All that important Metroid lore, which is way more important than Donkey Kong lore.

[Tim Gettys]

All right, settle down there. The other opportunity they had, Greg, was to put out DK64 onto Nintendo Switch Online before Donkey Kong Bonanza. So everybody could understand all the very important timeline lore going on in that universe. And they didn't think about it.

[Greg Miller]

Well, it's because we kind of started fresh with Bonanza, you know?

[Tim Gettys]

No, we didn't.

[Mike Minati]

We got that Donkey Kong Country Returns HD this year. That was this year that that came out still, which feels weird, right? Yeah, Yeah. I was shocked we didn't get DK64 and NSO kind of, because again, when Returns HD came out, they gave us all the Donkey Kong lands. So it's like sometimes there is like that, oh, we should release some of the old stuff because the new things coming out, that sometimes it's not like that at all.

[Greg Miller]

Kyle LaBouf in the chat says successful Nintendo is also arrogant Nintendo. They will decline anyone if they think they have leverage, whether they actually do or not.

[Mike Minati]

I mean, everybody's.

[Greg Miller]

I love, I love that, Kyle. It feels like the call is coming from inside. Like, you know, something we know. Like, they totally would have told Capcom to kick rocks.

[Mike Minati]

I mean, it's definitely a Nintendo world and we all live in it, right?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, for sure.

[Mike Minati]

You definitely have to. You play by the rules. But if anybody has. If any third party has like a pretty good amount of goodwill, like, Capcom should be up there. Monster Hunter Rise. Again, great game. Has to be. And I'm. I'm sure, I think it's definitely one of the best selling third party games on the original Switch. Right?

[Greg Miller]

Sure.

[Mike Minati]

Even, like Civilization 6 did really well on Switch, so they worked to make sure Civilization 7 was. Was set up with that stuff too. So they do care about that. But even Hades, Hades one Giant on Switch. So they really made sure that they're talking about Hades 2 a ton with Switch. To God.

[Greg Miller]

I hope that. I hope they're there tomorrow. Yeah.

[Mike Minati]

Because they. They released a patch and they were like, this is our Last patch before 1.0. So, yeah, I. I think a Hades 2 release date is a distinct possibility. I'm so excited for that. I did play the, you know, Alpha beta a little bit.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Mike Minati]

Early Access. And then I was like, okay, I really like this. I want to wait for that full release now. Then really?

[Greg Miller]

I did the same thing. I stayed away from it all. I'm like, I know this game's gonna be great. I don't need to jump in here.

[Mike Minati]

Oh, yeah. I was like, no, it' sure thing. Ever.

[Greg Miller]

I, of course, am incredibly excited for Moonlighter 2. I would love Moonlighter 2 to show up tomorrow and give a date because they have said summer as well. If it came out tomorrow, I will flip out just for a heads up.

[Mike Minati]

I think that makes sense now. It's only going to be like, what, 25 minutes long that they said. And you could do a lot there.

[Greg Miller]

The way I raged there, I thought you were making fun of Moonlighter too, saying, it's gonna. Is that game gonna be 25 minutes long? I'll. I'll kill you. Monotic.

[Mike Minati]

Please don't murder. Murder me.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. 25 minutes for this. Yeah. So it's gonna be, you figure, brief. I mean, assuming they're gonna show a lot of different stuff. And I wonder then too, how many. You know, we're talking about Capcom and we're talking about Elden Ring and blah, blah, how many indies are we talking about that are gonna really care?

[Mike Minati]

That's the thing. Like, Showcase is so weird because they can show indies, but they also do indie showcases. Of course.

[Greg Miller]

Right. That's a great point too. Yeah.

[Mike Minati]

But the big indies like Hades 2 and Silk Song, that is still totally game for something like this.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. 100%. Yeah. Man, I just got myself super excited. Moonlighter 2 tomorrow, get hyped.

[Mike Minati]

Why? Not gonna happen.

[Greg Miller]

I'll be sad then.

[Mike Minati]

Yeah, that'll be fleeting though. Then they'll announce something else you care about and you'll be happy again.

[Greg Miller]

It's fair enough. Costa super chats and says Spyro4, question mark, exclamation mark. Switch 2 would be the perfect. And the Reignited trilogy is in Switch's library.

[Mike Minati]

I mean, the Reignite trilogy and the Crash Insane trilogy both sold really well.

[Greg Miller]

Yep.

[Mike Minati]

On Switch, but one Crash four did okay. It did not sell nearly as well as the Insane Trilogy. So I bet maybe back at the. At a time they thought they would just do a Spyro 4 right after that. But also, like all of those companies, so many of them got put on Call of Duty or, you know, Vicarious Visions is just in Blizzard now.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Mike Minati]

Right. So who is making.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mike Minati]

And you know, there's a lot of people worked at Xbox who have been elected go recently. Right. They've been canceling projects.

[Tim Gettys]

What was that one studio that broke off though?

[Greg Miller]

Toys for Bob.

[Tim Gettys]

Toys for Bob, Yes.

[Mike Minati]

So yeah, Toys for Bob. Like, yeah, they broke off and are maybe doing something.

[Greg Miller]

It was a messy breakup too. Remember?

[Mike Minati]

It was a messy breakup. Toys for Rob is that is one that did crash war thing. Crash 4, by the way, is an amazing game. 100% best Crash game. Yeah, it is, absolutely. So I would be super excited to see it. But that would get announced at an Xbox thing, not a Nintendo thing.

[Greg Miller]

You'd like to think so.

[Mike Minati]

I would. I would think so. I mean I know you know Xbox is pretty generous with the other platforms. I hope they would still like to announce it was like Banjo, which I don't think we're gonna see a new Banjo Kazooie game tomorrow. Maybe that's one where. Yeah, we can announce that at the Nintendo thing. Even though that's us, the big audience for that game is gonna be Nintendo for sure.

[Greg Miller]

Of course. Like I said, this Nintendo Direct Partner Showcase is tomorrow 6:00am Pacific Time, which is too early for kind of funny games. D We will be starting Our day tomorrow 10am Pacific with the Gamescast where we will watch this live. We will not look at the social media beforehand. We will watch it live. React to the you do a Gamescast post show. Roll into Kinda Funny games daily. And before we roll into story number two, let me remind you about patreon.com kinda funny YouTube.com kindafunnygames, Apple and Spotify of course you can go there to get all of our shows ad free. That's more than 80 episodes of content a month. And of course to get your daily dose of me Greg Miller in a 15 to 20 minute podcast that adds up to four hours of exclusive podcasts each and every month. And of course support a small independent business over there. Do that. Get the membership Right now though, you're not using your membership benefits. So here's a word from our sponsors.

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[Mike Minati]

Don'T know if you know this about me. I love Mega Man.

[Greg Miller]

I assumed based on the. Hey, Mikey there at the end.

[Mike Minati]

Oh, big Mega man fan. We gotta get a new Mega man game someday. I haven't completely lost hope, right? It's gotta happen. I think we're. It's karma for like the 30 years there where we got a new Mega man game like every four months. Get this mighty number nine out of here.

[Tim Gettys]

I thought this was. I thought this was, you know, like the successor to it all, you know?

[Greg Miller]

You were eating good there for a while. With what, nine and ten like they were.

[Mike Minati]

Yeah, that's why I don't complain too much. There's. Look, if they stopped making Megman forever, I'd have enough to feast on for a long time. Do you hear about the pragmatic conspiracy theory?

[Greg Miller]

No, but I like pragmata.

[Mike Minati]

Yeah. Secretly a Mega man game. The robot, that little girl. That's roll, I think. Yeah, it's all conspiracy.

[Greg Miller]

I don't buy it, but I love it.

[Mike Minati]

Secret. You just wait.

[Greg Miller]

I played that at SGF and I was like, holy. I like this game. I can't believe I want to play.

[Mike Minati]

I heard good things about it. And just wait till after the credits roll and like Dr. Wiley shows up and we all say, ah, we see what's going on here.

[Greg Miller]

They probably didn't wait that long.

[Mike Minati]

Reveal. Come on. You see the movies now, you gotta really hook them at that. Movies. You see the movies.

[Greg Miller]

You see these.

[Mike Minati]

You see these talkies that the kids all watch, right? Yeah. Youtubes, huh?

[Greg Miller]

I see Wiener says, didn't Greg talk about this theory before? No, not to my knowledge. I think I would remember this. This is awesome.

[Mike Minati]

Yes. I'm very excited about the secret Mega Man. That's the thing is like, if they made another throwback Mega man game, that'd be cute. I am ready for them. Kind of like what we have with Bonanza, right? It's like, oh, we've had 2D Donkey Kong kings forever. That were good. Take another big swing, though. Make the big 3D one. We had legends forever ago, but I'm ready for like, big Aaa Re Engine Mega man game. And that's the fantasy world mini game.

[Greg Miller]

When you think of Mega man, you think of this. Yeah, yeah, exactly. John Karen says the hall of justice was actually in Cincinnati. And my theater applauded when it appeared on screen.

[Mike Minati]

Yeah, apparently I said, say, what's that?

[Greg Miller]

I say Cleveland. I say Cleveland.

[Mike Minati]

Oh, no. So everything, everything is Cleveland except for the hall of Justice.

[Greg Miller]

How close is Cleveland to Cincinnati?

[Mike Minati]

Very far.

[Tim Gettys]

I I yeah, they're on the opposite end.

[Mike Minati]

I lived near Cleveland my whole life. I've driven through Cincinnati one time. It may as well be the moon in Russia. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

God damn it.

[Mike Minati]

Because I think the hall of justice, that building they filmed in, is what inspired the look of the hall of Justice. Yeah, I don't know if you know this interesting little Superman trivia that I got here for you.

[Greg Miller]

No, I knew that one, I knew that one. I thought I had you there, but I appreciate it. Okay, let's see if we can learn something from Rebecca Valentine with story number two. EA CEO says no $80 games for now as Nintendo takes the first step towards selling full price AAA games at $80. And Xbox starts to follow suit, but backs off. Of course, EA has now also made its position clear. No $80 games for now. Quote we're not looking at making any changes on pricings at this stage, said CEO Andrew Wilson during today's Q1 earnings call. He said this is in response to an investor question, or he said this in response to an investor question regarding publishing competitors beginning to release $80 games and where EA sees itself in relation to them, wilson continued. Quote, that's in the construct of we already offer a fairly broad pricing scheme across our various products. When you think about everything from free to play through to our premium products and deluxe editions, our orientation is always to capture the full spectrum of pricing so that we can serve players in the best way possible, offer them the greatest value. We'll continue to look at opportunities to deliver great value to our players through various pricing schemes over the course of time, but no dramatic changes planned yet, end quote. EA also confirmed on the call that it hadn't factored in any changes to its existing pricing schemes to its expectations for the current fiscal year. Earnings Guidance the current fiscal year ends March of 2026, so don't expect any $80 EA games between now and then. That means games like Madden NFL 26, EA Sports FC 26, and seemingly Battlefield 6 won't be $80, despite one leaker suggesting the contrary.

[Mike Minati]

You know, people say these CEOs are bad, but look at them. They're always so concerned about our value.

[Greg Miller]

The value. The great value to our players.

[Mike Minati]

Yeah, they say great value, right? That's better than like, okay value. Yeah, nice.

[Greg Miller]

As soon as they can get away with it, they will.

[Mike Minati]

Oh yeah, in I think some People thought they had the all clear just because Mario kart world was $80.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mike Minati]

Like floodgates are open now. That's Mario Karts. And I know you could say, well, Madden is Madden. Maybe you can get away with it there.

[Greg Miller]

Madden already does. Like, I mean, we really are like to be like, oh, it's not. Well, what is the Deluxe Edition? Whatever.

[Mike Minati]

Right.

[Greg Miller]

Five days access early, whatever. There's a whole bunch of you can buy.

[Mike Minati]

Right? Exactly. And that's something Nintendo doesn't do. Right? Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

So.

[Mike Minati]

So generally there might be something. But yeah, EA just has that route to go through and that's a much easier pill for people to swallow. Swallow. $80 can look so difficult.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Madden 26 Deluxe Edition is 100 bucks right now. On the, on the.

[Mike Minati]

They already have a hundred dollar sku.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Mike Minati]

Like what does it matter if the base version is $80? You know what all this talk does do, which is great. Remember when everybody was really upset about base seventy dollar games? That seemed like not too long ago. That was still a touchy subject.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Mike Minati]

Now everyone's like, $70, great.

[Greg Miller]

What a steal. It's a great value for us, for consumer.

[Mike Minati]

Greatest value for consumers. Right?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Mike Minati]

Yeah. So we moved there really quick.

[Greg Miller]

I'm. I'm happy that this has been the reaction to the 80 price. Right. When Nintendo did this, we all were like, here we go. And Microsoft was like, here we go. And they're like, oh, Outer Wilds two do not go. It turns out y' all didn't vibe with that. Let's dial you back to 70 bucks.

[Mike Minati]

It was interesting because at the time I was like, okay, Outer Worlds 2. Maybe that one just wasn't getting the pre orders. And this is like. And you know something about that game. But it does seem like the whole industry, for whatever reason is backing off from that a bit. It makes me curious how many more 80 games we're getting from Nintendo still. Right. Because Bonanza wasn't. That was still. That was just $7. I believe it was Mario Kart. I forget if they've announced anything else at $80.

[Greg Miller]

Chat will tell us if there's anything else.

[Mike Minati]

I would appreciate that.

[Greg Miller]

I don't think so from Nintendo, but.

[Mike Minati]

You know, like Pokemon. I don't know.

[Greg Miller]

Did I say Outer Wilds again? I'm sorry, I was saying Outer Worlds too.

[Mike Minati]

Y' all understand I'm playing Outer Wilds for the first time right now.

[Greg Miller]

Wilds.

[Mike Minati]

Wilds, yes, actually Wilds. Yeah. I'm playing for them. Trust me, it's. Yeah, it's a good game.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Mike Minati]

Yeah. But, yeah, who knew?

[Greg Miller]

Nobody talked about it ever.

[Mike Minati]

Yeah. Dragon drive should be $80. That'd be, that'd be funny. I think that was actually just like 30 years.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, they're going less on that one.

[Mike Minati]

Okay, so like, yeah, like Mario party and Kirby one with the expansion packs bundled together are $80. Right. We know why that is.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Mike Minati]

Pokemon 60, jeez. It is just all over the place. Good.

[Greg Miller]

Explore the spectrum.

[Mike Minati]

Explore the spectrum. I still don't like that the top ceiling is $80. It's a little. You know, with Mario Kart World, they. They were saying the same things. It's just so much value here. But people played it and they're like, ah, not that much value.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. What. Talk to me about World. Did you stick around it?

[Mike Minati]

I'm not, I'm actually not a giant Mario Kart person. I'm a big Nintendo guy. But I've always thought that Mario Karts were, you know, like 8 out of 10 or 7 out of 10 for me. So for me, I'm like, oh, another 8 out of 10 Mario Kart and a lot of other people. Like, this is significantly worse. I'm like, yeah, good. Don't make me play this one as much.

[Greg Miller]

So then Bonanza is that. What has that had your full attention?

[Mike Minati]

Bonanza is amazing. I've already finished the post game stuff in. In bed.

[Greg Miller]

Look at you.

[Mike Minati]

I know, I'm very impressive. I know that, that. Oh, but Bonanza, I was just ripping through that. Kind of staying up till 6am just having a great time. Mario Odyssey is one of my favorite games. So just having something that's like that but similar.

[Greg Miller]

You got good taste.

[Mike Minati]

So freaking good.

[Greg Miller]

A lot of people say Mario Odyssey should have been game of the year that year.

[Mike Minati]

I. I do. Look, I love Breath of the Wild. Absolutely. Is it the more important game? Yeah, sure. But Odyssey, I'll take Odyssey over it any day.

[Greg Miller]

This stuff, this man gets it. Bad food takes a lot, but really he gets this. And I appreciate that. Number three, let's stay in this Nintendo esque vein. We're gonna talk about Pokemon. TCG Pocket suddenly pulls card design embroiled in plagiarism controversy. This is Tom Phillips at ign. Let me see. The Pokemon company has dramatically pull. Has dramatically pulled the design of a new Pokemon TCG Pocket trading card amid a firestorm of controversy over its apparent origins. Fans have said the card ho ex from the game's Wisdom of Sea and sky expansion was based on plagiarized fan art. And in A statement issued today, the Pokemon company essentially admitted as much. Barrett has it up here. Okay, so on the left is Oho's now pulled Pokemon card. On the right is Ian Ian's. I'm gonna say original design. Wow. Ian Juju's.

[Mike Minati]

That's. That looks pretty blatant there.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, that's. I mean, like, I don't know how this bird can fly. And here's the now the car's artwork alongside that of sister Lugia Ex card which was also also features the Ho oh design have been pulled from the game mere hours before Wisdom of Sea and Sky's global launch. Addressing the situation, the Pokemon company said it, quote, deeply apologized for any inconvenience and was now conducting a review of all other cards to ensure no other designs were at fault. After internal review, we discovered that the card production team provided incorrect materials as official documents to the illustrator commissioned to create these cards. As a result, both the cards have been replaced with a temporary placeholder that the team is actively working to replace with new artwork as soon as it's ready. We are also conducting a broader investigation to ensure no similar issues exist elsewhere in the game. End quote, quote.

[Mike Minati]

Interesting. Kind of. Kind of reminds me of that marathon situation a little bit.

[Greg Miller]

Sure.

[Mike Minati]

I mean, although, you know, not AI involved there, it seems like wasn't. It doesn't even seem like it was really the artist's fault. It was. He was provided with materials that were supposed to be like official approved materials, which again, I would feel like should be more of like a baseline inspiration, not just kind of drawing this big.

[Greg Miller]

Bird and I'll put them over there.

[Mike Minati]

Fan artists stuff. It's awkward because, you know, and I don't play a ton of Pokemon cards these days, but I assume for this Wisdom of Sea and sky expansion that Lugia and Ho oh are the kind of star Pokemon there, right? A big deal.

[Greg Miller]

They got ex.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. They're like the faces of the expansion, right?

[Mike Minati]

Exactly. You know, they're two very popular legendary type Pokemon. So having both of those designs get replaced at the last second was something, I assume a bit more simple.

[Greg Miller]

I mean, Minati.

[Tim Gettys]

It is very exciting to see what it was replaced by. Do you want to see what I love that those cards are now. So here we go. We got our Togepi.

[Greg Miller]

Wow. If you're an audio listener, it's a car that just says new art coming soon. Is this real?

[Tim Gettys]

That this was Blessing posted this in. So I believe this.

[Greg Miller]

God damn it.

[Mike Minati]

Was not expecting that. That's in incredible.

[Greg Miller]

In the chat And I think it's an interesting take. Unless I'm missing something. Please keep me honest. Big five says. Which, like, is the proper response, right? 100%. This is a, a shitty situation that you hope isn't nefarious. It doesn't sound like it's nefarious based on the internal review. And I mean, like, this is how this all should work. We all are, thank God, at least at this point. Humans, right, who are making this and there's gonna be mistakes and shit like it's gonna happen. And yet. So it's like cool. Like, this sucks that this happened, but I like that it's a traceback of like the car production team provided incorrect materials to the official. So it's like, okay, okay, isn't somebody. Hopefully this isn't somebody being an and.

[Mike Minati]

It'S kind of lucky it happened to the digital card game, right? Yeah. Because you can do stuff like just change a file and it says coming soon.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mike Minati]

But not plagiarized art.

[Greg Miller]

Well, if it was, then you got. You got a collector's item in your hands.

[Mike Minati]

I was actually thinking that I would like to own that card. I think I'm going to print it out and frame it.

[Greg Miller]

Well, I don't know if it counts as much. Then you.

[Mike Minati]

I'll put it next to my Phase Clan Batman comic. Oh, my most treasured possessions.

[Greg Miller]

Oh man, these things. This is what you're going to retire on one day. Oh, you know, I remember that number four.

[Mike Minati]

This is a gamer issue, Batman.

[Greg Miller]

We couldn't talk number four. Nintendo U turns on Mario Kart World changes this is Tom Phillips, also still at ign. This is like an all Oops All Nintendo episode.

[Mike Minati]

Great.

[Greg Miller]

Nintendo has updated Switch 2 launch title Mario Kart World with a fresh patch that pulls a notable U turn on a recent controversial change. Last month, Nintendo upset Mario Kart fans by nerfing the game's random course selection option when playing in Versus mode, something many players were deliberately using to try and opt out of the open world driving whenever possible. Unlike the game's suggested next race options, random allowed players to land on a track further afield, which then would be played as a distinct three lap race in traditional Mario Kart style. Rather than play a so called intermission track where a bulk of the next race is taken up by simply driving to the course through the game's open world. Now Nintendo has hit the brakes, reversed course and pulled a UI on this change in a surprising climb down. In the latest patch notes from Mario Kart World's update One two zero, which is available to download now. Nintendo said it has, quote, increased the frequency of lap type courses appearing in the selection when choosing the next course in Versus race and wireless races. Today's update is a chunky one with a slew of tweaks and bug fixes for Nintendo's open world racer. A handful of new features include the ability to view replays after downloading time trial ghost data and to choose who to spectate in Knockout tour and balloon battle. Meanwhile, a handful of balance adjustments by Nintendo have made computer controlled players quote, weaker in everything other than battle, end quote. And also nerfed the homing accuracy of the boomerang item. There's a new wheel spinning animation if you try to accelerate too early and at the start of the races too. Good. Another good one. This is one I remember listening to games daily when this one got announced. A lot of people up in arms about it. Barrett, you. I think we're talking at the time about when y' all did the Alana charity stream and how this was a.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, like the fundamental basis of it. Like we wanted to do every track but then they showed like we all had to vote, but they chose the order in a way that we didn't like accidentally connect to one track too close. So we weren't doing any of the open world stuff. And you know, it's a small turnaround to you know, give people the, the highs of Mario Kart World, which to me is when, you know, Mario Kart feels like a theme park park and there's a lot of this game that doesn't feel like a theme park. So you know, go on that. I think the other big one that is like unfortunately too late. It feels like now that Mario Kart World, like the, the fervor around it has died down a little bit. Mike was the one who like really snow bike Micah Howard. Not Mike. Maybe Mike Manani, I'm not sure made the point of like Knockout Tour of like he would love to host Knockout Tour like nights and stuff, but you could only spectate the like first place driver.

[Greg Miller]

Right.

[Tim Gettys]

For the longest time time. And I feel like that's just like an unfortunate like too late of an update to be able to change around and like have those kind of streams or you know, pieces of content being made like that.

[Greg Miller]

Sure.

[Mike Minati]

Yeah. It's a good. It was something that, it kind of annoyed me about the game at launch was I get the whole they want all these tracks to be connected, but it was weird. You would spend two laps basically just racing to the place you actually want to go to. Yeah. And then you were there for this one lap and I'm like, but the open world stuff is neat. But you know, I want to go around DK Spaceport three times. This seems really cool. So I'm, I'm glad. I'm still a little curious. Increase the frequency of lap type courses appearing, the selection.

[Greg Miller]

Why not just add in the ability to only pick those?

[Mike Minati]

Like why can't, like, why can't we have two modes, right? Like can we have like traditional like race or the connected race thing. I don't know what you want to call it because I bet most people do want to just do three laps on these courses.

[Greg Miller]

It's going to be interesting to see how much Nintendo continues to tweak and refine Mario Kart work. Right. Because it's not a live service game, obviously. But it is a game that I think the audience is being loud about what they want. And will Nintendo respond to that and build that out and you assume. I assume. Unless I'm, you know, I haven't been following close, close. But I assume DLC one day and all these different things. You want to keep this going? Yeah.

[Mike Minati]

And I don't think it's gonna be like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe where it was like four or five years later we got the DLC. Like I kind of hope we get some new tracks this holiday or sooner or later. Right?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. We will wait and see and keep you updated here on games daily. For now we move on to story number five. El Rings 2 player mode patch has been delayed due to tsunami warnings. This is the big man, Jordan Vidler. Jordan Midler at VGC.

[Mike Minati]

Jordan.

[Greg Miller]

Jordan. Vidla. Vidla Elden ring patch 1.02 has been delayed following a tsunami warning. The patch, which would have added the long awaited two player mode to the game has been delayed due to safety concerns. The patch will now be released Thursday, July 31 after 1:00am Pacific Time.

[Mike Minati]

Greg?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah?

[Mike Minati]

Am I in danger? Nah, I got a lot of family members texting.

[Greg Miller]

It must have been fun for you. Of like I'm, hey everybody, I'm headed out of the west coast and they're like, the entire west coast is under.

[Mike Minati]

A tsunami warning as soon as I get here. Of course.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Mike Minati]

Honestly, I was never. I mean I'm concerned for other people. Everyone say, but I didn't, I didn't particularly feel like I was in danger here.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, of course not. If you have missed everything. Of course. There was an 8.8 earthquake yesterday that triggered tsunami warnings for, for everybody, just.

[Tim Gettys]

Everybody everywhere from Russia to. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

The, to Hawaii to our entire coast of this country. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

I found out with a text from my dad like three minutes after that happened. He's like, are you safe? And I was like, oh, yeah. Like a three foot wave hit the coast here. Oh, dang.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mike Minati]

You know what I love about Ohio? Just a general lack of natural disasters.

[Greg Miller]

I grew up in Illinois, so. Tornadoes.

[Mike Minati]

We'll get a tornado.

[Greg Miller]

Do you get tornadoes? Do you get.

[Mike Minati]

Tornado warning is rarely. It's not too much. We'll get into tornado warnings. But I've never had a tornado impact my life in any real way. You should have to go in the basement sometimes. That's kind of fun. Like, oh, I gotta get the game gear and go hide in the basement. Batteries are upstairs. It's like, do you want to die?

[Greg Miller]

It's not worth it to play sonic.

[Mike Minati]

We have five AAA's out here anymore. But no, no, I generally like not having to be worried about earthquakes.

[Greg Miller]

You're generally fine here. It's just a rare thing.

[Mike Minati]

I like simulated earthquakes. Earthquakes like on the ride earthquake that they used to have in Universal, Florida. Still in Hollywood.

[Greg Miller]

I know you talked about maybe tomorrow bumming around San Francisco if you end up over at the Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park. They have an earthquake simulator in there.

[Mike Minati]

Oh, that would be fun. Yeah, yeah. I like earthquakes that like the safety of some kind of entertainment. Yeah, yeah, that's all good.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Mike Minati]

Yeah. I might hit up that Walt Disney Family Museum, though. You know, gotta keep on brand.

[Greg Miller]

You do have to keep on brand. It's a good museum.

[Mike Minati]

Museum. I've been there once before. I think they have a Mary Blair exhibit right now. She's the lady who designed all the characters. And It's a Small World. Do you remember how that song goes?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Mike Minati]

It's a Small World.

[Greg Miller]

Is that still, it's still around.

[Mike Minati]

Oh, yeah. Oh, it's a classic.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, well, I mean, they're killing other classics over there. Guardians of the Galaxies.

[Mike Minati]

Yeah, some. Well, not, not, not everything is sacred. Trust me. You. It's not just video game people who are aware. They announced that they're going to close a ride. Oh, you should see what the Disney people think about that.

[Greg Miller]

For some reason I get, you know, because of Ben or whatever, I, I, I occasionally my tick tock algorithm will bring that stuff in about people doing things in parks. It's always interesting.

[Mike Minati]

It's like, how dare they put cars here? I didn't watch cars when I was five years old. I'm mad.

[Greg Miller]

Mike.

[Mike Minati]

Yo.

[Greg Miller]

Tsunamis, earthquakes, changes to Disneyland are all big, huge news. If I wanted something smaller, say the tiniest news I need to know about, where would I go?

[Mike Minati]

Well, you would go to our last story, the We News Channel, where we cover all the small new items you need to know about.

[Greg Miller]

Number six on the Wii. News items from Noble Claire obscure. Expedition 33 adds a retry button for boss fights in its latest updates.

[Mike Minati]

That's great. It was mildly. You know, there's general checkpoints. They're generous, but it was annoying. Like to have to do anything. Just get me back in there.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. 100% from this Week in Video Games, EA CEO Andrew Wilson has spoken about the impact of rematch on EA's Sports FC. Quote. Like every great sports team, we love competition. We come to work every day to compete. We're always watching what the competition does. We're always evaluating where there are new needs to be met by new players for new. New needs being met for new players. We're always looking to work that into the offerings that we have for players.

[Mike Minati]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Thanks, ea.

[Mike Minati]

Thank you. What the hell? What are they saying? What is that? Yeah, those are two very different games. I don't. I don't think that you. Why did they have to comment on Rematch?

[Greg Miller]

Because someone asked them in their investor call. And rather than say it's a great game, you know, we used to do FIFA Street. Maybe we'll do that sometime. He had to give this weird.

[Mike Minati]

Did FIFA have to comment on Rocket League?

[Greg Miller]

Hello Kitty island Adventure for PlayStation 5, launches August 5th.

[Mike Minati]

Finally.

[Greg Miller]

People have been waiting for that one.

[Mike Minati]

Okay.

[Greg Miller]

Slime Rancher 2 launches September 23rd.

[Mike Minati]

Never have slime ranched before.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, this is your chance. Get in there.

[Mike Minati]

All right. This is my big moment.

[Greg Miller]

And then Hotel Barcelona launches September 26th. Check.

[Mike Minati]

MB can never leave.

[Greg Miller]

We do have breaking news from the super chat. Big fresh 37 says shut up about the Nintendo Direct. Oreo and Reese's just announced a collab. Get on the real news. We go to CNN.com where Jordan Valansky says Oreo and Reese's fans have been begging for a mashup for a decade. Now it's here. Despite being owned by different companies, Oreo and Reese's are bowing to fan demand and releasing a sweet collaboration. Oreo, owned by Modela's International. That's how you say that. And Reese's, part of the Hershey company, are introducing two new treats that combine flavors from both snacks. Team ups between. Rob, what is the fucking Thing. Both companies could boost this, do this.

[Mike Minati]

But they put the Reese's inside of the Oreo.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. So you got the. Yeah, you got, you're looking at it. You got some Oreo bits and the white chocolate and the Reese thing. Okay, here it is. Here it is. The first creation is a Reese's Oreo correct cup which replaces the typical chocolate of the Reese's cup for Oreos, milk chocolate and white cream. It's then filled with peanut butter and Oreo cookie crumbs. This treat is a permanent addition to the Reese's line lineup. Coming in a standard and I'm sorry, standard king in miniature sizes. They hit shelves in September with pre sale beginning August.

[Tim Gettys]

Be first in line for when the most anticipated candy club drops. Do you want me to enter in your. Your email here?

[Greg Miller]

We got a printer free Oreo. On the Oreo side, the brand is re releasing a version of a 2014 cookie that used Reese's peanut butter, which was hugely successful according to the. Michelle Dygan, the vice president of Oreo.

[Tim Gettys]

I signed you up, Greg.

[Greg Miller]

The new Oreo. Thank you very much. The new one has Oreo cookie crumbs in the filling.

[Mike Minati]

Wow. I was a big fan of the Coke Zero Oreo flavor. No, that was good.

[Greg Miller]

Hold on. Or did I do, did, did we did Oreo oration do Reese's Oreo oration.

[Mike Minati]

Damn Reese's. You know how like people get mad places of games are showing up or Xbox games are showing up. PlayStation you think like the Oreo and Reese's people like how.

[Greg Miller]

This is a third party cookie now.

[Mike Minati]

I don't feel special about my cookie jar anymore.

[Greg Miller]

I hate this. They're. They're over the fans that have been with Reese's Forest. You're all consumer. You're all jokes to us. And that's it for we news.

[Mike Minati]

That was very exciting.

[Greg Miller]

It was. I like that. We have a bunch of super chats that are fun to get through. Funky Gouda just wrote it and said birthday tax. Mike, as you know, when somebody has a birthday. Here we sing Happy birthday to.

[Mike Minati]

Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday Funky goo da. Happy birthday.

[Greg Miller]

It's got sensual at the end.

[Mike Minati]

There you go. Have a happy birthday.

[Greg Miller]

As Ty Wilkins points out. Man, Greg just lied. Yeah, we don't sing. We don't sing usually. But I appreciate you doing that.

[Mike Minati]

It's like I, I appreciate you did.

[Greg Miller]

Chrono rig super chat and says Tim blessing Mike and Barrett for a DK spoiler cast.

[Mike Minati]

Oh yeah. It's funny that the book are spoilers. Right? But there are.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, that's a good point where I didn't realize you were like Donkey Konged out, bro.

[Mike Minati]

That's good stuff.

[Greg Miller]

Come by tomorrow and pre record one maybe because we had it on the books to be.

[Mike Minati]

Yeah, I could. I could probably do that. So I'm going to be here for a while.

[Greg Miller]

I'll check. I'm deep in crazy day when we're off camera. Or we can also just call you.

[Mike Minati]

I could also still. That's what I usually do.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, but look at your here.

[Mike Minati]

It's great. It is nice. I can touch. I'm nice and soft.

[Greg Miller]

I feel like we're wasting. Wasting opportunity not to have it. We'll talk about this after the fact. There's super chats in here. Levi says KF Giant. Oh, kind of funny. Slash Giant bomb is even more exciting than Marvel cross DC hype.

[Mike Minati]

I agree. It's always fun. We do say we love. We love doing stuff with you guys.

[Greg Miller]

We love you guys. I wish we were all closer to be able to do it too together.

[Mike Minati]

Yeah. But you know there. There are reasons that come out the same for not as much used to be way more events. Yeah. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

My thing is when they start sending you guys out for the LA stuff, we should hit it. We should talk ahead of time because PR is always down to be weird. So it could be you're going to an LA for an event but then we make you come up here.

[Mike Minati]

Grub and I, we can give you like you know Bear can help too. The full Cleveland Superman tour. Right. We can show you all the things that were.

[Greg Miller]

I do like that idea if we.

[Mike Minati]

Come out there take you to a Guardians game.

[Greg Miller]

Okay, okay. Okay. And then final super chat for now comes from Cody who says Youngstown shout out right up the road from.

[Mike Minati]

Oh nice, nice, nice. Yep yep. Born, raised, live there my entire life. I'm a very strange games media person that way that I still just live in my hometown and have always been there.

[Greg Miller]

That's awesome though.

[Mike Minati]

Yeah. Never I thought I assumed like everyone else I was gonna move to San Francisco at some point.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Mike Minati]

And then like even back before it was cool. Yeah. I guess I just work remotely. Then pandemic happened and everyone else did.

[Greg Miller]

A final final super chat came at the last second from Kyle and says why are you on Tim's Mac, Kyle? This is my Mac. Of course, you know the fine people at Apple are trying to do more gaming stuff and they were doing that cyberpunk thing and it runs on the Chip and then more Steam games than ever work on it and blah blah, blah. And so I hit them up when they PR'd me about it. I was like, I don't have a Mac that could run games. Could you help me? And they said, sure. So I have this to play games on and I have to play redacted on and a few other things on it.

[Mike Minati]

So very fun.

[Greg Miller]

I'm all over the place. I'm Greg Mailer, multi platform gamer. I don't know if you know that.

[Mike Minati]

Yeah. Big PC fan I hear. Well, it's not a PC, so.

[Greg Miller]

Exactly. I do love my Rog Ally, but that's just a. That's like, you know, a spiritual successor to the Vita. So I'm not really PC gaming. It's a different thing. Mike. We got nothing wrong and you're wrong. So that just means we crushed it.

[Mike Minati]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

That's another episode of Kinda Funny Games Daily in the bank. Everybody remember we couldn't do the show without you. Please pick up a Kinda funny membership on patreon.com kindafunny YouTube.com kinda funnygames, Apple Spotify, of course. You give us $10, you get 80 episodes of kind content ad free. You get four hours of exclusive podcasts from me, broken up by the day. And of course you get to have good karma. And you like, maybe you're on Tinder, maybe you're on some other date. Maybe you're going on a date. Maybe you just want to talk to your partner at home so you can say, I did a good thing today. I supported 11 knuckleheads living in San Francisco, chasing the dream, talking about video games. It's a great icebreaker. Shout it out the next time you're at a funeral or a wedding. Of course, if you have no bucks, toss our way, no big deal. Like subscribe, share, ring the bell. Twitch Prime, Amazon prime, give us that please. They don't remind you. You. And of course, no, we couldn't do this without you, Mike.

[Mike Minati]

Yo.

[Greg Miller]

Of course you're from Giant Bomb, right? Where can people keep up? And more importantly, where can they support Giant Bomb?

[Mike Minati]

Well, you know, go to giant bomb.com. you can follow us on Twitch and YouTube also. All our content's going there. Yeah. To support us it is. Giant bomb.com join. There's five US co owners now. We're trying to bring in more people to help out and you know, we're having a ton of fun, really getting to chart our own destinies. They are getting to make the kind of content we want to. I just did a whole playthrough of mist. I'm like, who's talking about Misty Days? We even looked at the mist parody Pissed starring John Goodman. Right? Come. That's important work.

[Greg Miller]

That is. That is important work.

[Mike Minati]

You look at me like you don't remember piss.

[Greg Miller]

I don't remember this.

[Mike Minati]

Oh, you fool.

[Greg Miller]

Sorry.

[Mike Minati]

I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah. You got to go to giant bomb.com for all the piss. Breaking news is about giant bomb.com join again if you want to to support us and help us out, you know, keep us going. We are having so much fun and we appreciate the support, especially, you know, you guys have been incredibly supportive and so nice to us. We appreciate all that love and we have nothing but love to return to. Kind of funny. Thank you so much.

[Greg Miller]

Right back at you, buddy. You know that we love you. Excited to hang out with you today and do something super secret that you'll find out about later. Of course, what's not secret is even though Games Daily is ending, gamescast is starting. It's going to be that Ninja guiding Rage bound. I'll tell you what, I could not remember the name of this game when I was recording. Greg Way the Day and Dan Riker will be joining us for that as well. So for right now, I'll tell you until next time, it's been a pleasure to serve you. I'm gonna shake your hand. There it is.

[Mike Minati]

There we go.