PlayStation Portal Gets a Huge Upgrade - Kinda Funny Games Daily 11.20.24

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Kinda Funny Games Daily: PlayStation Portal Gets a Huge Upgrade – Summary

Release Date: November 20, 2024

Hosts: Blessing Adeoye Jr., Tim Gettys, Greg “GameOverGreggy” Miller, Little Croy, Poppy Gettys

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1. PlayStation Portal Receives Major Cloud Streaming Upgrade

Timestamp: 05:21

The episode kicks off with exciting news about the PlayStation Portal, which is undergoing a significant firmware update to introduce cloud streaming capabilities. According to Jordan Midler from Video Games Chronicle, the update will allow PlayStation Plus Premium members to stream a curated selection of 120 PS5 games directly to their Portal devices. Notable titles include Ghost of Tsushima, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Monster Hunter Rise, and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart.

Tim Gettys expresses his enthusiasm:

“This is a major step and a huge step that wasn't necessarily expected... the fact that PlayStation has seen the success it has with the Portal, despite the initial market feedback, the sales are great for them.” (07:30)

The streaming service offers games in 1080p at 60fps, integrating all DualSense controller features such as haptic feedback and adaptive triggers. Tim adds that this update reinforces PlayStation’s commitment to the Portal, highlighting its role as a versatile add-on rather than a standalone device.

Blessing Adeoye Jr. reflects on the potential impact:

“For me, that makes a way. I'm way more likely now to bust out my Portal than I have been in the last year.” (12:21)

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2. Xbox Expands Cloud Gaming to Include Owned Titles

Timestamp: 22:00

The discussion shifts to Xbox Cloud Gaming, where Xbox Wire announces that Game Pass Ultimate members can now stream select games they own outside the Game Pass catalog. This feature is rolling out in 28 countries and supports devices like Samsung Smart TVs, Amazon Fire TV, and Meta Quest headsets. Titles include Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Complete Edition.

Tim Gettys highlights the significance:

“This then becomes a new standard... it's a major step forward. I think this is huge because this then becomes a new standard.” (24:25)

The update aims to lower the barrier for entry into the PlayStation ecosystem by allowing users to access high-quality games without needing to purchase a PS5. However, there are concerns about the reliance on strong Wi-Fi connections for optimal performance.

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3. Valve Eyes New Hardware: Steam Controller 2 and VR Controller

Timestamp: 35:11

Valve is reportedly developing a Steam Controller 2, codenamed Ibex, and a new VR controller named Roy. According to Rebecca Valentine from IGN, the Steam Controller 2 is expected to resemble a standard gamepad with redesigned trackpads and symmetrical analog sticks. Meanwhile, Roy is designed as a wand-shaped controller compatible with Valve’s rumored wireless Deckard VR headset.

Tim Gettys shares his skepticism:

“I don't have high hopes for this. No, no, not at all.” (35:11)

Despite his reservations, he acknowledges the potential for these controllers to bridge the gap between traditional gaming and VR experiences.

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4. New Minecraft Movie Trailer Released

Timestamp: 39:03

The hosts review the newly released Minecraft movie trailer, noting mixed feelings. Mike likens parts of the trailer to the Mario movies, suggesting a familiar yet different approach.

Blessing Adeoye Jr. comments:

“If I was somebody who grew up on Minecraft, I could see some of the references hitting me.” (43:07)

While the trailer showcases the creative and block-building essence of Minecraft, Tim remains ambivalent, appreciating improvements over previous iterations but unsure about its universal appeal.

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5. Final Fantasy XIV Announces Mobile Version

Timestamp: 45:02

Final Fantasy XIV is expanding to mobile platforms, developed by Tencent’s Lightspeed Studios. Kat Bailey from IGN reports that the mobile version aims to replicate the immersive MMO experience in a mobile-friendly format, incorporating features like fishing, chocobo racing, and Triple Triad. However, it's unclear if cross-progression or expansions will be supported.

Tim Gettys voices his concerns:

“This seems a little bit weird to me... without knowing some more answers there.” (46:34)

The hosts discuss the potential for cross-platform integration, emphasizing the importance of seamless progression between mobile and existing platforms to enhance the gaming experience.

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6. Pokémon Go Utilizes Player Data to Train AI for Real-World Autocomplete

Timestamp: 49:20

Niantic, the developer behind Pokémon Go, is leveraging player data to train a large geospatial model (LGM) aimed at autocompleting real-world locations. This initiative uses data collected from players’ interactions with the game to enhance technologies such as AR glasses and robotics.

Blessing Adeoye Jr. expresses both fascination and concern:

“It's going to be big... if I wanted something smaller, say the tiniest news I need us to know about, where would I go?” (57:04)

The integration of AR in everyday life raises questions about privacy and data usage, with hosts debating the ethical implications of using player-generated data for broader technological advancements.

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7. WE News: STALKER 2 Review Roundup and Other Updates

Timestamp: 59:31

In the WE News segment, the hosts provide a roundup of STALKER 2: Heart of Chernobyl reviews, noting a mixed reception with scores ranging from 74 on Metacritic to 83 from PC Gamer. Common criticisms include technical issues and bugs, while praise is directed towards the game's immersive world and emergent gameplay moments.

Blessing Adeoye Jr. remarks on the feedback:

“From the streets I’ve heard that STALKER 2, I’ve heard plenty of people, plenty of reviewers be like, ah, like, just frustrated... very buggy of a game.” (59:35)

Additionally, updates on Star Wars: The Old Republic and upcoming content releases are briefly discussed.

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Conclusion and Sonic the Hedgehog Movie Buzz

As the episode wraps up, the hosts dive into the highly anticipated Sonic the Hedgehog 3 movie. They analyze character posters featuring Ben Schwartz as Sonic, Keanu Reeves as Shadow, and Colleen O'Shaughnessy as Tails, highlighting the star-studded cast and elaborate costume designs.

Tim Gettys shares his excitement:

“We are one month away from Sonic the Hedgehog 3 in theaters.” (65:07)

The discussion includes playful banter about character dynamics and fan expectations, with the hosts eagerly anticipating the film’s release and its reception among both fans and newcomers.

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Notable Quotes:

• Blessing Adeoye Jr. on PlayStation Portal’s potential:

  “I'm way more likely now to bust out my Portal than I have been in the last year.” (12:21)

• Tim Gettys on Xbox’s cloud gaming expansion:

  “This then becomes a new standard... it's a major step forward.” (24:25)

• Greg Miller humorously commenting on Starfield mods:

  “Finally made a questline. That's fucking awesome. Great job, modders out there.” (24:20)

• Tim Gettys on Valve’s new controllers:

  “I don't have high hopes for this. No, no, not at all.” (35:11)

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Final Thoughts:

In this episode of Kinda Funny Games Daily, the hosts navigate through a range of exciting updates and discussions, from significant upgrades to gaming hardware and cloud services to the latest in movie adaptations and AI innovations. Their engaging dialogue, peppered with humor and insightful commentary, offers listeners a comprehensive overview of the current gaming landscape.

For those who missed the episode, this summary provides a thorough overview of the key points, ensuring you stay informed on the latest developments in the gaming world.

Transcript

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Hi, I'm Angie Hicks, co founder of angie. When you use Angie for your home projects, you know all your jobs will be done well, from roof repair to emergency plumbing and more done well. So the next time you have a home project, leave it to the pros. Get [e-mail] today's stories include PlayStation Portal is getting a big new feature. Xbox Cloud Gaming is getting a highly requested update, and Valve might be working on some new hardware. We'll have all this and more because this is Kind of Funny Games Daily. Yo, what's up? Welcome to Kind of Funny Games daily for Wednesday, November 20, 2024. I'm one of your hosts, Blessing Adioye Jr. Joining me is Little Croy, Poppy, Tim, Ma Vol. Gettys.

[Tim Gettys]

Looking at the running show today, we got some good stuff to talk about.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It's gonna be a good show.

[Tim Gettys]

Good news stories, fun stuff to react to. It's gonna be good.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Give me a good one. Can I tell you what else is good? I said this a couple days ago, but I'm gonna say it again. Case of the Golden Idol. Yeah, I've been playing this game. It's been one of those frustrating things where I've just not had enough time in the day to play this game as much as I wanna play it. And so, like, I do, like, a puzzle a day essentially, off of Case of the Golden Idol.

[Tim Gettys]

Does that satiate you?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yes and no. Like, I wanna do more.

[Tim Gettys]

Right?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I'm like, yesterday, I finished kfc. I get off of gamescast. I'm like, all right, let me eat some lunch. I finished eating my lunch and. And I'm like, oh, we got a game that I got a preview, so let me do that. But I was like, before we get there, though, like, oh, I still want to prepare some other things that I'm producing. All right, cool. Let me do this preview game. And I was hoping that after that I'd have at least enough time to do just one puzzle of Case of the Golden Idol. And I just didn't have the time. And I was like, fuck. Well, after I get home from work, I got soccer practice, but I also got to eat dinner. And I'm like, man, I just want to play video game. Just one specific video game. I just want to play Case of the Golden Idol. It's so good. It's so addicting, but I'm like. I'm like two puzzles away from finishing it.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, hell yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I'm sad that it's almost done, but I'm happy that I have a whole Other game afterwards. Rise of the Golden Idol. Oh, I'm gonna shoot up right afterwards. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Exciting times. That's how I feel with Gladiator. We're doing Gladiator in review.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And I. For the. I've never seen them. So watch a Gladiator 1 and then watch a Gladiator 2.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. Back to back.

[Tim Gettys]

Goodness, let me tell you, I can't wait for y'all to see these interviews.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

All of us say I'm excited. Most excited because I'm seeing Wicked later today.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, hell yeah. I'm hearing amazing things.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And that's my thing is like, I think from the get go, a lot of people were apprehensive because like it's a two parter and like that. I think at first blush that is a fair, fair reason to go, oh, what are you doing here? Right. Sure. And I think like some people were like, you know, a little bit scared of even Ariana Grande, which confused me because she's an amazing singer obviously and like she's acted before, so it's not. And like she also loves, she also loves theater.

[Tim Gettys]

Right.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

So I was like, I don't know. Ariana seems like the right cast for this.

[Tim Gettys]

My biggest thing with the movie is I just think that everything I've seen in the trailers, it's ugly.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It does have a particular style to.

[Tim Gettys]

It that like I feel is. And I, I'm a broken record at this point because I think I've even said this on Games Daily, but like I saw behind the scenes thing that so much of the sets were practical.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And I'm like, they look gorgeous. They look stunning, amazing. And then you see them in the trailer and it's like, why did you add all this nonsense on top of your beautiful sets that makes it just looks like shitty, smudgy filters. Like, I don't know, man.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I think it's also. It's a musical though. So like, I guess so.

[Tim Gettys]

I want color. I don't want it to be drab.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It's. I've been, I've been trying to avoid actually like a lot of the trailer stuff. So I'm not even.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. I'm just saying like going in, I am very hesitant about it because I. What I've seen, I'm like, this does not look like it's it. But everyone that's seen it that I know is like, Tim, it's freaking good.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Reviews are great. Yeah, I've seen. It's good. I gave it a 9 out of 10, which is like the highest score they've ever given for a media thing for entertainment. So, yeah, I'm super excited about it. I just want to Defy Gravity and I just know. I just know that's what they're going to close on and I'm like, oh man, I'm going to walk out. I'm going to walk out the theater. Fucking tears my eyes. I hope. I hope they end on Defying Gravity and then I hope the credits is just like a rendition of Defying Gravity again.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, I'm sure. Just go.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Just do it a second time.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, man. This isn't a show about musicals.

[Tim Gettys]

No, no.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

The show about video games. Remember this is Kind of Funny Games Daily. Each and every weekday we run you through the nerdy news you need to know about live on YouTube, Twitch and on podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do, support us with the kind of Funny membership on Patreon or YouTube to get all of our shows ad free, watch, record them live and get a daily exclusive show.

[Tim Gettys]

Jorge in the chat says it looks like you have HDR on content that doesn't have hdr and that is exact. That's the best way to explain what I was trying to say.

[Barrett Courtney]

That's a perfect way to describe it.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That makes sense. For a chance to be a part of the show, some of your thoughts and opinions as YouTube super chats as we go. Housekeeping for you. Did you know that we have a highlights channel? Roger is working hard bringing you the best of KF in shorter, easier to binge chunks. This entire week is reaction week, so come relive some of our favorite E3 and press conference reactions over on YouTube.com kind of funny. Of course, kind of Funny is an 11 person business. All about live talk shows. So today after kfg, you're going to get our games cast, which is our S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 review so far. Come join us. I believe Snowbike Mike's been playing it and has a lot to say about it, so you'll want to tune in for that. And then afterwards is the stream and that's going to be Greg and myself learning Magic the Gathering.

[Tim Gettys]

Pretty cool.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Something I've always wanted to learn how to do. A lot of my friends play Magic the Gathering and I feel left out when they do their little magic heads and I'm like looking through the window like Squidward and I'm like, I want to be with them. I want to learn magic.

[Tim Gettys]

So Mike's going to teach you.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh shit.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I tried to take the like the Magic Gathering people were very nice and they sent over like the foundation packs and like a bunch of stuff and I tried to take it home and they're like, oh, you're gonna learn here. And I was like, oh, cool. Nothing can go wrong. I'm sure I'm gonna learn all the rules by the end of the stream. It's a great one.

[Tim Gettys]

It's gonna be great.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Hang out and if you're a kind of funny member, you can get today's Greg Way, of course. Thank you to our Patreon producers Delaney Twining and Carl Jacobs. Today we're brought to you by Sonic at topgolf or A Frames and the visual triangle merch. But we'll tell you about that later. For now, let's begin with what is and forever will be the Roper Report. It's time for some News. We have seven stories today, a baker's dozen starting with our number one. PlayStation Portal is getting cloud streaming today. This is from Jordan Midler at Video Games Chronicle. The PlayStation portal is getting cloud streaming with a beta for the service launching today in select countries. The streaming Service will allow PlayStation Plus Premium members to play a selection of 120 PS5 games, including Dave the Diver, Ghost of Tsushima, Marvel's Spider Man, Miles Morales, Monster Hunter, Rise and Ratchet and Rift Apart. The streaming Games playable on PlayStation Portal are limited to PlayStation 5 games with PS3 and PS4 games not currently supported. It's not clear if this will change when the feature comes out of its beta test period and gets a full release. Games will be streamed in 1080p and 60fps and will include all dualsense wireless controller features including haptic feedback, adaptive triggers, speakers and touchpad emulated on the touchscreen. 4. PlayStation Portal Tim thoughts this is big.

[Tim Gettys]

Man this Jeff C Also super chats in saying Portal 4.0 update has fixed the remote play micro stutter. It's now perfect smooth 59.94 hertz.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Wow.

[Tim Gettys]

A lot of little things coming together. I feel like this is a major step and a huge step that wasn't necessarily expected. Um, but them doing it this way I feel might not be the end all be all. Oh now it makes the PlayStation portal worth it for every single person on the planet. I don't know that we're ever going to get there. I think gone are the days of the PlayStation dedicated handheld, but I do think that these devices and the ability to stream both from your PlayStation but also from a cloud service like that is something that is going to get adopted more and more we're already kind of seeing that. And the fact that PlayStation has seen the success it has with the Portal, despite the initial kind of market feedback to it, the sales are great for them. So much so that they put out the PlayStation 30th Anniversary Edition of the Portal. That was a sign to me of like, wow, this is way bigger of a success than we even anticipated, like to make a niche product like that. Obviously they want to deck out their entire line of accessories with the 30th anniversary stuff because they know that there's a market there for all that. But the Portal, to me getting that treatment, I just feel like that's a little bit different. That's different than controllers. I didn't necessarily expect to get custom portals ever. So the fact that we are, I think shows a commitment to the product line and firmware updates like this I think are huge for it as a product. This also being a firmware update, pretty damn impressive. This could have easily been PlayStation Portal 2 and all of us would roll our eyes, be like, what are you doing? The fact that this is just a firmware update, I think is, is very, very, very cool and very great. Especially with the Xbox news that we'll get to later that we've already kind of been covering of how they're handling the cloud gaming stuff.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. Is this not something that I guess should have been there from launch? Is this not something that should have been like maybe a main marketing beat of what the PlayStation portal can do?

[Tim Gettys]

I would say no, because I mean, like I said, we're still not there. We're not ready for all this cloud beta situation stuff going on. Right. That's why we're in the beta of it all. But it being a remote play device is what they marketed this as. Now here's an important thing to keep in mind. It still is just WI fi, so you're not going to get any like mobile cell service on this thing. So you're not going to be able to play games anywhere. It doesn't make this a truly go anywhere portable device. It is still a remote play device that now has more features. I just think that what is cool, what this does open up and again we're in the baby steps of this. But they're talking 150 PS5 games and a lot of the games they mentioned here are some of the bigger hitters that is going to allow people, if they want a much lower cost barrier of entry into the PlayStation 5 ecosystem to play games. People can play some of these games for the first time. I mean I guess the irony is looking at this, these are all on PS4 as well. Oh except for Ratchet and Clank. People could play Ration Clank Rift Apart without buying a PS5. They could just buy the Portal.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And then get it.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And you imagine that this is going to go forward like as more PlayStation exclusive stuff like comes out and just more games in general come out. Right. Like you imagine this is going to work for Ghost of Yote. You imagine this is going to work for DEST training too.

[Tim Gettys]

That's the thing. We'll have to wait and see. I, I wouldn't be surprised if because of what I just said, PlayStation doesn't necessarily want that to be the day one type thing. I wouldn't be surprised if it becomes like a later down the line and gets patched in like a year later or something. I think the right move would be yeah, day one and marketed that way and push the portal as a entry point a way, way, way cheaper. It's what half the price of a PS5.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, PlayStation Portal. Oh, the chat. Yeah, let me know.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm Pretty sure it's 200.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Is it 200?

[Tim Gettys]

I could be wrong on that. I think that the 30th anniversary one was 220.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

And then yeah PS5 is like 500. So the portal or Pros even more so. Yeah, I feel like get having another entry point to be able to actually play PlayStation games. Yeah, $200. That's not a actual PlayStation 5. Especially when we are talking about the hardware on the other side of Xbox, of how they have really pushed this play anywhere. And while PlayStation is adopting the play the PC side of things. I don't know if you saw this or if we talked about on the show already but like did they started adding PC icons on PlayStation games? So you know when you buy, when you have a PlayStation game on your PlayStation and there's a PS5 and a PS4 version, it'll say PS5 PS4. Now it also says PC.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Interesting.

[Tim Gettys]

So it's just we're again we're walking down a road that I feel is very clear. It's just we're very far from the end of it now.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I saw some people talk, some people talking about this in chat and there's no way this is true. Right. Some people were mentioning that you need a PS5 to even use PlayStation Cloud. No, you just need PS Plus. Am I crazy about it? PS plus, yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Which I mean if it didn't work that way, that would be.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Then it's like, that's. That'd be pointless. Like, then why are we doing this for?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

This is such a big update, right? This is one of those ones where, you know, I am kind of surprised that I guess I'm not surprised that this wasn't a main selling point from the get go. Because it wasn't there from the get go and there are reasons why it wasn't there from the get go. You imagine maybe it wasn't ready.

[Tim Gettys]

Maybe.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. Because it wasn't like the main advertised feature. They wanted to get remote play out the door and then just add to it over time as they're like, you know, as they're able to pace it out and actually have that stuff prepared and ready to go. Hey, this is a remote play device. That's how we're thinking about it first and foremost, I guess on my side, I think the idea of a cloud streaming device is just more enticing than the idea of a remote play device. And I don't know if that's just me and being in, I guess, the bucket of type of player that I am, where remote play has never been something that I've been extremely into. Right. Like, I've always. I remember listening to Greg on podcast Talking about like PlayStation Vita remote play and like, you know, how cool of a thing that was. And, you know, I would do it every now and then, Even for the PlayStation portal when we're reviewing it. I remote played some games that way and that's how I beat Cocoon. That's how I played through a couple of other games and that was always a neat thing to me. But Internet has always been a thing that I've not had good luck with as far as, you know, my PlayStation and my Portal being at a place where they're working off of networks that are strong enough to support this. Right. Like, I'll be on either I'm my home, Internet fucking sucks, or I'm at a place where the wifi fucking sucks. And like that chemistry between having two products that are on extremely good Internet, I feel like that scenario was just so limited for me. The idea of, oh, I have a PlayStation portal and I just need to be in a one place that has really good wifi to make this work and play this 120 list of games that's fucking awesome to me. For me, that makes a way. I'm. I think I'm way more likely now to bust out my portal than I have been in the last year.

[Tim Gettys]

Again, this is baby steps down a road that we're not at. And to your point of like, why didn't they launch with this? It's like, I mean, clearly look like Xbox is. Isn't even doing it yet, right? Like they're just starting there. If you own the game, you can actually cloud stream it type service, which is awesome. Like, I feel like the tech, I think is outpacing the realities of where the people are. But when we start looking at the different WI fi technologies of where we're at currently of Wi Fi 7, but most people do not have that. Like Wi Fi 7 is the niche of the niche. I would say probably like less than 2% of Internet users have Wi Fi 7 router setups. Wi Fi 6 though, is getting a lot more popular and that is becoming the prosumer standard, I would say. But then even Wi Fi 5, we're right behind it. We're just getting a lot more advanced than a place that we used to be. And there's. It's never going to work for every single person for sure, period. But like that I don't think this is being marketed to every single person. But I do think that the market just grew substantially with this offering and like the potential interest from people in a PlayStation portal I think is a lot higher now.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I almost, I'm almost at the place of man. If you're an outlet that reviewed the PlayStation portal last year when it came out, like, I wonder if now you're gearing up for some kind of re review. Because I am thinking now about our review conversation and how much of it was, hey, if you are somebody that likes remote play, like this is the product for you now, like after this beta and we'll see like how this expands out post beta and what that looks like, right? Like this is to a place where the conversation for me has grown so much. As far as what you're talking about, like, hey, this is a product that they're pushing a little bit more than you assume that they would have pushed when they announced this. We talked about it as being. This is just purely an accessory. Like, this is just a way to, you know, an additive way for a very specific group of PlayStation audience players to play. Right. It is an additional thing. You talking about the, you know, 20th 30th. Which anniversary is it? Whatever anniversary it is. Yeah, it has to be 30, right? 30th anniversary.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 30th.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

The 30th anniversary. PlayStation Portal. There's a reason you're doing the Counting in your head.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, yeah, it's 30. It's 30. Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

1995.

[Tim Gettys]

1994. Yeah, yeah, that's 30.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Because I'm 35, so it must be 30. Yeah, yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Them doing the anniversary PlayStation portal. Like, guess what? They didn't do an anniversary PlayStation fucking VR2.

[Tim Gettys]

Right.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Like, there's. There's a reason why.

[Tim Gettys]

Exactly.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

There is a. There's a portal anniversary, and that's because they see it as something worth pushing. And I think this feature might be just the first step.

[Tim Gettys]

Right.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I think if you would ask me before, I would say, oh, I don't think we get a PlayStation portal too. I think this is what it is. I wouldn't be surprised. Not that it's imminent, but like, by the time we get around to, let's say PlayStation 6, I think you get another PlayStation portal and I think it is like these features that you're seeing here and probably more. Right. I think this could end up being something that they view as core to the platform and something that they want to push. Maybe the same way as like the. The way they maybe would have liked to push psvr. PSVR was more successful.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. I, at this point, though, I don't know what else they would really add. Like, the Portal is a pretty damn amazing device for what it is. And again, I feel like a lot of the people that reviewed it negatively were comparing it and I feel like rightfully so, to similar products that do the thing that it does better. Like the Steam Deck.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

But the important thing to note there is the steam deck is 3 times the price. Like 2 times the price even for the entry point edition of it. Like, and the Steam Deck does very well at remote play. And it's only getting better. It has hdr. It has like features that this thing doesn't. Oled. Hdr, I think are the two big things that Portal could. Could add better. WI Fi because it only. It only has Wi Fi 6 at this point.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

But again, we're talking about such slim margin.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Do you. Do you think that we could see ourselves by the time let's say we get to next generation? It's 2028. The PS5. The PS6 just came out. Let's say it's 2029, a year after the PS, the PS6 comes out.

[Tim Gettys]

Right.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

We're talking about. We're watching the PlayStation showcase and they announced the PlayStation portal to you. Do you think that they could get away with maybe having it be double the price? So let's say $400. But also, it plays a lot of the old games natively. You're playing your PS5, the PS5 titles that are now last gen. You can play those directly on the device.

[Tim Gettys]

I can see that happening for sure. Again, we're seeing the market shift right now. Like, we're talking about these dev. Not in the grand scheme of things selling that much. Like, it's not like the Steam deck is. We talk about it a lot and we all love it a lot, but it is not like it is representative of any major market period in video games. That is going to change though. I do think that it's going to continue to bridge the gap between consoles, PC and handheld portability, mobile, whatever you want to call it, and cloud, all those things together are going to keep continue merging.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It feels like we're in the beginning of a handheld race.

[Tim Gettys]

Right.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Like, and may maybe this has just been the thing that's been going on for the last few decades since the Game Boy or whatever. But I think ever since the Switch, you know, we've seen, yeah. Now Valve put out the Steam deck and you. We know that Xbox is working on their handheld thing portal. Like we've always viewed as, oh, this is different. But like I could see, yeah, I could see this parlaying into more serious conversations at PlayStation as far as, hey, can we get back to being in the handheld market and making this cor to our console platform? Because for everything we've been talking about, like handhelds have the capability now to be able to play games that are way more higher fidelity, that are way more advanced. Right. People are playing Elden Ring and Sekiro and stuff like that on their Steam decks. I'm very excited to see where this goes in the future as far as like everybody may be having their own handheld that they're supporting and putting out.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. I just think that as the gaming audience gets older and older, I feel like the desire for remote play and the technical necessities for it to be viable are just going to continue to become a bigger part of the pie chart. And like we're already seeing that and with their support of this, I think this is great and there's awesome news all around.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And there's a whole conversation we had about like all the different technologies now that can come together to really support this stuff, whether it is the, you know, DLSS style stuff or the Pisser style stuff. Right. Or like just so there's just like, I guess, general AI stuff in general. Right. There's so much that is pointing to, oh, we can the industry is about to go go hard as far as how they implement like, I guess different technologies to support handheld gaming and make that a thing again.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean again, handheld and portable different like remote play. I play my PlayStation portal or Steam Deck handheld in my room while we're watching TV or whatever. But what's interesting, and we've talked about this during our PS5 Pro review, but like this doesn't necessarily relate to the cloud situation, but it could as technology gets better for the cloud side of things. But playing a game on a, on your portal from a PS5 Pro looks better than playing it on a PS5. Yeah, right. I wonder if. Oh yes, this cloud situation because of PSSR and things like that be being integrated. I wonder if the time here, this 1080 cloud, sorry, 1080, 60, is that 1080 60? 1080, 60. Again, we're not getting HDR, so that is a big lost there. But 1080, 60, I wonder from the cloud, what's it running off? If. Is it running off of PS5 Pro?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

No, I mean I, I think we get there. I think to start off, no, but I.

[Tim Gettys]

Why not?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I would just think that that's probably too much like bandwidth right on the play. Like the amount of money that that'll probably cost PlayStation as far as, hey, we're supporting all these devices that are running off of like. And this is me speaking out of turn because I don't even. I guess I don't know the technology that well, so maybe, maybe it's not.

[Tim Gettys]

But yeah, this.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I would assume it's more bandwidth.

[Tim Gettys]

I'd love more info on this because I don't, I don. Yeah, but I would assume that they're going to try to put on the best stuff possible and like, obviously there's going to be the latency, there's going to be that like kind of fuzz look where everything's not quite as sharp as it should be because it's streaming. But like, but like if it runs.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

On a PS5 Pro, it's still going to look better than if it's not running on the PS5. That brings me back to what was the Google, Google's cloud? Stadia. Stadia. Remember when that was the promise of stadia. Remember when they did the presentation for Stadia?

[Tim Gettys]

We saw all the.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And they were like, oh man, it'd be like fucking 10 Xboxes taped together because we're running it off the cloud.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, that's a cool idea that the path that I keep talking about, that was the very beginning of the Path. Yeah, and we're still going down it. They might not still be here.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Well, speaking of cloud, story number two, you can now stream your own game with Xbox Cloud Gaming Beta. This is from Xbox Wire. Our mission is to bring more games to more people around the world across devices. We believe gaming should be easy to access and available for all players, no matter what device you choose to play with. That's why we're dedicated to making great games available across consoles, PCs and with cloud gaming. Today, millions of Xbox Game Pass ultimate members are enjoying Xbox Cloud gaming to play top titles from the Xbox Game Pass catalog on various devices. We also heard your excitement about having more flexibility to stream games you own beyond the Game Pass catalog. Starting today, I'm excited to announce that we're allowing Game Pass ultimate members to stream select games they own through TVs and browser on supported devices like smartphones, PCs and tablets in all 28 countries where Xbox Cloud Gaming Beta is available. This is just the beginning. Next year, we're excited to bring this feature to Xbox consoles and the Xbox app on Windows. We're happy to announce that over 50 great games will become available for streaming. Our library of cloud playable titles will continue to grow as we work with our partners around the world to bring you a diverse and expansive selection of great games across devices. You can stream any version of these games below that you own. For example, Cyberpunk 2077. He came and I thought he. I thought he was going to have things to say about the story, but he did weird shit.

[Tim Gettys]

He stood next to me and he wheeze talked so wheezy that I don't know, I think he said we fucking did it. But I'm not sure I want Greg.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

To come here and talk about this.

[Greg Miller]

Because like I said, in fact, we fucking did it.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, let's go, baby. So you're doing it right now?

[Greg Miller]

Well, not technically. I mean, technically I'm playing Starfield. Which you could have played before. Now let me tell. I got Starfield stories for you. All right. Like, are you. Because again, do we want to talk about what a 24 hours it's been for Greg Miller? All right. I come out and I deliver. Just a banger games cast. I heard I'm on the short list for content creator of the year next year because of it at the game Awards. Right. But at the end of it, to piss blessing off, I say they should make more Starfield content. And then they announced they made more Starfield. I went home, I had a new Starfield quest to play For Bethesda. A new car to drive. You fucking kidding me? Then I found out about the veil.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You know about the veil mods I'm gonna.

[Greg Miller]

I'm gonna say about the veil.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I'm gonna say about the mods that we just said.

[Greg Miller]

Modders made a. Finally made a questline. That's fucking awesome. When I'm playing it right now. Great job. Modders out there.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

So much to unpack. And just that statement, the fact that you're fucking around.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It doesn't sound like Greg Miller.

[Greg Miller]

Oh yeah. For yeah it's been a. This has been a big part of the return to Starfield.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh just that you're fucking around. Oh yeah. Cuz you didn't tell the whole story about. Yeah you're doing. And they made a questline.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

So people like voice fully voiced the audience man.

[Greg Miller]

I'm never gonna have to turn off Starfield again. It's going to be like dreams but people are going to play it or at least me probably. Actually probably about the same amount of people are going to play it. Got that got Portal getting cloud. Come on.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Your 2023 game of the year. The audience had to come through and be like we're going to make the quest ourselves.

[Greg Miller]

They were like we learned so much from the base game. We're going to make more.

[Tim Gettys]

What a day.

[Greg Miller]

Everybody. Come on. This is not Xbox.

[Tim Gettys]

On Xbox plus you can stream any.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Version of these games below that you own. For example Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition and the Witcher 3 Wild Hunt Complete Edition. There's a full list of games on the Xbox Wire but Game Pass ultimate members can stream select cloud playable games you own even if they're not included with Game Pass ultimate directly on various devices. This includes Samsung Smart TVs, Amazon Fire TV devices, Meta Quest headsets as well as other browser supported devices like PCs, smartphones and tablets. Tim?

[Tim Gettys]

Yep.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Thoughts.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean this is awesome. Again, I don't think it's going to work perfectly but I think it is going to work really well and I think over time it's going to just increase how well it's working and with the amount of games and all of that we got a nightlife super chatting in saying Microsoft Microsoft install Series X blades into data centers. I can't believe that Sony would have the money to create that infrastructure. Maybe I'm wrong. So that is interesting. But yeah them even doing cloud streaming at all like they definitely they got something going. Remember Gai Kai? I do remember Guy.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I. I'll also never Forget Gai Kai. I tell the story all the time.

[Tim Gettys]

We talked about Gai Kai for so goddamn long, dude.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I, I will never forget the story that I, I think I've told this a million times now. But like back before PlayStation bought Guai, I remember in 2011 or some 2012 maybe, I was on Facebook and I saw like a streaming app thing. They're, they're like, you can play video games on your Facebook browser. And I was like, no, no, no, no way. That's real. Click it. All of a sudden I'm playing Saints Row 3 on Facebook through Gaikai. And then all that shit disappeared. And I was like, what happened? And they got bought by PlayStation future. And that was so cool for a second.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. And so going back to this Xbox thing here. Like, it's funny that they name drop the Samsung Smart TVs, right? Like the last couple of years at Summer Game Fest, I always take the demo to see the cloud gaming that Xbox is doing with them just because I'm interested in that type of tech and what they got going on. And every year it gets so much better to the point that like, yeah, last year just go sit there, hit a on the game and it just starts playing and you're just in. And that feels like magic. For the type of games that we're talking about, that was the Game Pass stuff. That was stuff that we now are just used to. Everyone's been using and understands how well it works for them or doesn't work for them. Anything in between. This d being games that you actually own. Again, it's just a major step forward. I feel like this is huge because this then becomes a new standard. In the same way, the last couple years we've seen cross play become not a feature, but an expectation. Like I feel like this is the type of thing of the future of video games and also the preservation of the past to some extent. As much as we can with digital things. At any point that stuff can change. But being able to play your library of games the way you want to, where you want to, that's huge. And the fact that they're investing in it, I think is, is awesome. And it's only going to allow more people to be invested in the Xbox ecosystem playing Xbox games, wanting to invest in services like Game Pass because there's other services that they can trust.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, yeah. My big thing with this, because I think this is wonderful. I love this as a step and I think this is how, how you fulfill the vision of this is an Xbox, right Like you had to make cloud streaming as available as you possibly can. And I think it has to be that you have to be able to allow people to play the games they own via cloud streaming to really fulfill that right. To really have the thing of, oh man, I really don't have to own the box. I can play it on my Samsung TV or my Amazon Fire Stick or whatever it is. I think my, my main thing with this. And I guess, Tim, this will be a question for you as far as predictions and speculation station. Do you think. Thank you. Do you think this should and, or could get expanded out to more players beyond the Xbox Game Pass ultimate subscribers? Because for me that's still somewhat. A bit limiting. Like, I feel like this is something that no I, or your, your audience should be able to access.

[Tim Gettys]

I think there should be a cost associated with services like this because there's such a crazy cost to be able to make sure that they run well. Like, I think that this, there's, there's a product here that I do feel deserves financial backing in a way that I do think that opening it up to everybody, I think that that is like, there's potential concerns there of server costs. We're just flushing money down the drain and it's like. And then at that point it's not great, then the service is going to crumble.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. And I guess this comes back to just all the game past tiers for me, where I'm like, ultimate. Still ultimate sounds expensive. And maybe I should just look at the chart of what is the lowest tier, what's the middle tier. I need a personal snowbike mic just with me at all times to explain what the different things are. But I would have assumed that this would be a thing that's just available to all, like all Game Pass members and maybe not just the ultimate ones.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, I mean, okay, that's the thing. If we were talking about just different tiers of Game Pass. I mean, I don't know. This sounds to me like an ultimate feature. This sounds to me like a, a premium. This is what you're paying for if they're going to have an ultimate tier. Now, I'm not necessarily saying that they should or need to, but if they're going to, I do think this is the type of feature that makes sense.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Okay, that's fair. Tim, let's talk about another company, a PC company named Valve. But before you get there, let me talk about another company, an entertainment company named kind of funny, YouTube.com kind of funny games and patreon.com kind of funny games or sorry. Patreon.com kind of funny you can get the Kind of Funny membership which allows you to get shows ad free. Speaking of ads, let us tell you about our sponsors this episode is brought.

[Tim Gettys]

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[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And we're back.

[Tim Gettys]

You packing?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I'm packing. I just. I just tore it open and I. Do you ever do the thing where you look to the side, see what that. See what? That side. Just see what's coming up. And I got two interesting cards that seem like they're coming up. All right, so I'm starting off with a mien. Fu. What generation is me and Fu?

[Tim Gettys]

Which gen? That's a good question.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I never heard of this motherfucker. Me and Fu. So it must be post Gen three.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, it's definitely post three, I would say. I think it's six.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Six games.

[Tim Gettys]

I could be wrong.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

The X and Y. Yeah. Never heard of this guy. I got a full art. Electrode 5.

[Tim Gettys]

Really?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

A new one?

[Tim Gettys]

Fuck, yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Let's fucking go chat.

[Tim Gettys]

New full art, baby.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

A new full art. It's the electrode one.

[Barrett Courtney]

I'm trying to get the Alakazam Full art.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Dude, I just got the Alakazam full art. Fucking cool. It's hot. We got a poniard. We got a Pikachu. We got an arcanine. All right, Ending on an arcanine. I'm down for that.

[Tim Gettys]

Hell, yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Let's move on. Ooh, I think I just leveled up. Let's move on to story number three. Valve is reportedly making both a Steam Controller 2 and a new VR controller. Uh, this is Rebecca Valentine at IGN. Valve was reportedly working on a sequel to its original Steam controller. According to an Insider report. Per YouTuber Brad Lynch, a Steam controller to codenamed Ibex is in the works and en route to mass production. We don't have too many details on controller specifics, but lynch did say in the replies on X Slash Twitter that it'll look like a standard game pad. The biggest change is reportedly the shape and size of the trackpads. Quote, to get into that game. Paddy form. End quote. It will also allegedly. What does that mean? It'll also allegedly have symmetrical sticks. Additionally, lynch said Valve seems to be working on a new VR controller also for mass production, codenamed Roy. Roy is apparently referenced in Valve's Steam VR code and would supposedly be a wand shaped. A wand shaped companion to the rumored wireless Deckard headset that's also reportedly in the works. So many things reportedly in the works. Roy would be reportedly. Roy would reportedly double as a Steam controller game pad when not being used with VR, including a D pad, shoulder buttons and set of ABXY buttons for more traditional gameplay in addition to its motion and VR functionality. Interesting stuff.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm gonna put my hater hat on.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Put on that hater.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't have high hopes for this. No, no, not at all.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But they've been killing in a hardware.

[Tim Gettys]

Lately kind of with the ones but also no. So the Steam Deck's fantastic. The Steam Deck is an amazing piece of hardware. I do not like the button layout of it. I think that is probably its biggest flaw personally for me.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But as far as like where the.

[Tim Gettys]

Buttons are exactly where they're falling off.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, the device.

[Tim Gettys]

Exactly. Overall though, not the worst. Like I don't want to act like it's like terrible like their last controller was the actual Steam controller.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

If you can find a picture of the last Steam controller, it looks like.

[Barrett Courtney]

All about finding the right angle because you need to like understand just the fucking ergonomics and how terribly designed this thing.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Now can you. Can you look up a picture of Floyd from Jet Force Gemini for me? Okay. All right.

[Tim Gettys]

Important.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It's important.

[Tim Gettys]

But here's the thing. Like you look at that, you even look at the Steam Deck controls that like I feel like I have a bigger problem than most people do with it. But I'm not alone. I know I'm not alone in my thoughts on the control layout for this thing. But then you also add every single thing said here. So they're insisting the trackpads are on this controller which like interesting, right? Like I guess that could make sense. Like if they're not going to be there, then just buy another an Xbox controller and play on your Steam Deck or whatever.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

So.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay, cool. I get that they want that functionality, but symmetrical sticks.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

See, I fuck with it. But I'm also a sickle that prefers like the Dualsense. Right?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, but I don't think it's going to be that less. No, I think it's going to be a Wii U Pro controller situation where the.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

No, there's no way. I think so please don't. Don't do that. I don't like. Right.

[Tim Gettys]

Read through this and think about it. Think about their trackpads. Think about them saying symmetrical sticks.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Did say in the replies on that. It Looked like a standard game pad. The biggest change is reportedly the shape and size of the trackpads to get into that game. Paddy form. It also allegedly have symmetrical. I guess. Yeah, we're. If you're going to put the. The track pad somewhere, can you bring.

[Tim Gettys]

Up the Wii U Wii U Pro controller?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I hope not because you're right. Like if we're going based off of like even the Steam deck, then yeah, the sticks.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean they're the sticks. And then the buttons are on the outside. The face buttons and D pad are to the left and right. They're like, yes, you're in line.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But like the track pads under those.

[Barrett Courtney]

It's one of weird things that like when we had a Wii U, I never thought about it, but looking back in it, it's like, yeah, that's fucking weird.

[Tim Gettys]

It's wrong.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I thought about it.

[Tim Gettys]

I thought about it all the time.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That's because I always went to a friend's house to play the Wii U. I never owned one. And so whenever I picked up a Wii U controller, it was an anomaly and it was always a. Why'd they do this? This is bizarre.

[Tim Gettys]

That sound. It's a great review of this controller.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

This also looks like Floyd from Jetport.

[Barrett Courtney]

I think Floyd just kind of looks like a controller. Bliss.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Nah, man. Controllers.

[Tim Gettys]

Nah, man. There's something fucked up about these guys.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Don't you dare. Because Floyd came first and Floyd controllers.

[Barrett Courtney]

Look like before controllers.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

No, Floyd became before these types of controllers.

[Tim Gettys]

Funk ass controllers.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

When Floyd was at. Okay, when Floyd was on the streets, it was like 98. And so he doesn't look like an N64 controller. He doesn't look like a PS 164.

[Barrett Courtney]

Controller without the dong in the middle.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Which is what? The Xbox controller.

[Tim Gettys]

You never forget, the dog doesn't exist.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

The dong is a big part also. That's fan art. Give me like the actual picture of. It's fucking. This.

[Barrett Courtney]

It's all like really fucking low res pictures.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. Why aren't people taking. There we go. That's an actual.

[Barrett Courtney]

Because no one played this game. Bless.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I did and I loved it. All right.

[Tim Gettys]

Did this require the expansion pack?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, that's a. I. I think so. I don't remember. I got this with Donkey Kong 64.

[Tim Gettys]

So I just had the GK64 Majora's mask and perfect dark. They all needed it. Or at least like this seems like.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

One of those games that would have needed it.

[Tim Gettys]

People are saying, I don't think so. So yeah, I don't know, but this was a game that I was very hyped for.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

And there was a reason I didn't buy it and I never had an expansion pack, so.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, yeah. Probably because it's too violent. All the guts.

[Tim Gettys]

So many guts.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I mean, there are a lot of guts. You kill the aliens, they fucking explode. It's great. It's a great game. Yeah. Very fascinated about Roy and Deckard and Ibex. We'll see what happens with those. Story number four, There's a new Minecraft movie trailer out. And right before the show, Mike was like, bless this. This is giving me Mario movie vibes. And I was like, wait, wait, wait, wait.

[Tim Gettys]

Stop, stop. That's not what you told me. You told me that Mike said it was good.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, Mike said it was good in the way. In the sense that, like, it was so good that it gave him Mario movie vibes.

[Tim Gettys]

So the Mario movie. You mean the movie that Mike fell asleep in the middle of?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You know Mike.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Letting y'all know. This is the level of quality standards we're talking about. Going into a trailer that Mike said is good. It's as good as the movie he fell asleep.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

If were the requirement for Mike to like a movie has to be that he stayed up all the way through it, then, like, Mike likes no movies.

[Tim Gettys]

You're right. Except for, you know, Mike's favorite movie is it Venom?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

The Last Dance.

[Tim Gettys]

Tomb Raider, Cradle of Life.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You're right. You're right. He did love that. Tomb Raider.

[Tim Gettys]

Man has taste.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Barrett, hit play. Let us watch that. Let's. Let's watch. Minecraft trailer, take two.

[Tim Gettys]

I am Steve. As a child, I yearned for the mines. But something always got me. Okay, get out of here. The vines. But the call of the lines was too strong. So one day I started digging and digging until I found.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

This.

[Tim Gettys]

A wonderland where anything you can imagine is possible. As long as what you imagine can be built out of blocks. Got out, boy. Where are we?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Wait, who are you again?

[Tim Gettys]

Garrett, the garbage man. Garrison. Gamer of the year 1989. Whatever. I barely think about it. Welcome to the big greg energy. Big Dr. Disrespect. The dream is a little weird. You can make. Now let's have some fun. Oh, my God. Makes no sense. Don't I know it. There are dark forces who want to destroy this world. If we want to stop them, we're.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Going to need to create something. Oh, my God, that's awesome.

[Tim Gettys]

Let's go to the stash.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

This is our decision.

[Tim Gettys]

Nothing we can do. We've got.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Okay, you crossed it.

[Tim Gettys]

What's this junk? An ender pearl teleport you to wherever you throw it. Yeah, right. And that was the only one I had. No biggie. We were f. To protest. Oh, yeah. There's one more thing you need to know. Great.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Now it's dark. That feel quick to anyone else? Oh, no. You know the name of those guys? Those, like, Creepers. Creepers. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. Showdown, baby.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Was that a game showdown thing?

[Tim Gettys]

No, but I know. Thanks.

[Barrett Courtney]

I want to be honest. That wasn't on the level of Mario.

[Tim Gettys]

Movie, but it was on the level.

[Barrett Courtney]

Year for the Mine got me.

[Tim Gettys]

It got me. Not a level of Borderlands bad.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yes, you're right.

[Tim Gettys]

Right.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Like, for me, this trailer. This trailer didn't make me go, oh, this is gonna be terrible, like, whatsoever. But also didn't make me go, oh, I got to see this.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, exactly.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It's also. If I was somebody who grew up on Minecraft or was way more into Minecraft, I could see some of the references hitting me. Like, I think I get a little bit where Mike's coming from, because there are certain things where I'm like, oh, I get that reference. And I feel like if I was nostalgic for it, maybe would be like, us with the Mario Mario stuff.

[Tim Gettys]

Here's my thing, though.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Bless.

[Tim Gettys]

I question if that's the case and if instead it's the worst case scenario and it's people like us that don't know, but we see some things and we're like, oh, that seems right. And so we're like, they did it, but did they do it? I don't know. I don't think that the kids that grew up with Minecraft are going to look at this and be like, they're doing all the things that we wanted to do. No.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, absolutely not.

[Tim Gettys]

Well, that was Mario for us, though.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But like, that's the thing is Mario and Minecraft are just different in that way where I don't. Is there anything you can do with a Minecraft movie that'll make the kids go, oh, they're doing what we want them to do. Whereas Mario, man. And maybe this is me being an oldie, but, like, you grab a mushroom and fucking gets powers. I'm like, yeah, man, I guess we hype, but I guess that's just like.

[Tim Gettys]

Getting crafted a sword.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

He does grab the sword Creepers.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't know. He does craft the thing the children yearn for. The minds made us all laugh.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yes.

[Tim Gettys]

Like, actually laugh. So, okay, there's something here. But Then the trailer kept going and I. I feel like it kind of.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Lost part of the trailer. This is where they locked in in the trailer.

[Tim Gettys]

This doesn't look horrible. And again, I. This is not.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Seeing this right here, this wall of items. That's cool.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, it's cool. There's things from the game. The way he just crafted that sword concept.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That's cool.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. I don't know. This obviously is not made for us in multiple ways. We didn't grow up with Minecraft. It's a kids movie. Like, they're. I don't think they're trying to pull one over on people of like, oh, man. Like adults are going to enjoy this too, you know?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Sure.

[Tim Gettys]

Um, so I don't think this looks. I don't even think this looks bad. I'm gonna go that far. I don't necessarily want to see it, but good for them. I think this is a substantial increase over the last time we saw this.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And you know what? Congratulations on being nominated for Adaptation of the Year next year for game awards.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Your movie that came out.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

By default. Yeah. Bear, what's up?

[Barrett Courtney]

I think the. The more we start to see the people in the world, the. The worse it looks like throughout the trailer. Like, especially like the nighttime shit like here, it's like, oh, yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Seeing the group of humans. Yeah. The group of actual people when they stand around, I'm like, this kind of looks like a commercial. Yeah. But then like, the more we see like other shit, like stuff that looks natural and designed for the world. I think that stuff looks good. But it does look awkward juxtaposed with just fucking people. But I digress. Let's move on to story number five. Final Fantasy 14 has been announced for mobile. This is Kat Bailey at IGN. Final Fantasy 14 is the latest online multiplayer game to head to mobile, joining Diablo and Monster Hunter among others. It is being developed by Tencent subsidiary Lightspeed Studios, which is responsible for PUBG Mobile and recently added Dragon's Dogma director Hideaki Itsuno to its ranks as part of its newly established Japan studio. The official release calls it a quote, exciting extension of the beloved franchise and says it'll capture the immersive experience of the original title in a fresh mobile friendly form format. It's unconfirmed whether the new mobile title will include cross progression or any of the expansions, but Lightspeed Studios does plan to retain lifestyle content including fishing, Triple triad and chocobo racing. Quote. It has been 11 years since Final Fantasy 14 2.0 A Realm Reborn launched and this new mobile game will be a sister to Final Fantasy 14. Aiming to recreate the grandeur of the original story and combat mechanics on mobile devices. End quote. Big moves you made.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm filled with thoughts on this one. Bless. Yeah. Because looking at it and hearing what they're saying here, I really feel like this is the type of announcement that needs to come with the answers to these questions of it's unconfirmed whether it will include cross progression of any kind. Like. Yeah, that's the type of thing of like. All right. I feel like we should know that for something that could be as substantial as this. Right. This is potentially absolutely huge for mobile games. Final Fantasy 14 players and potential Final Fantasy 14 players. But do they connect? Is this literally just a different. Like, is this like an old school mobile version of a game that's going to be lesser than in a world where the first two stories of this. We're talking about cloud gaming. We're talking about being able to play console PC quality games on mobile devices. Like there are ways to play Final Fantasy 14 on your phone.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

The actual Final Fantasy 14. I don't know. This seems a little bit weird to me with. Without knowing some more answers there.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, I 100 agree. I think this is one of those wait and see things of. All right, let's see what more information comes out. Comes out, right? Because I. I read this as we. This is gonna be. It's like a new game but like the same game. You know what I mean? Like this is a completely different version of the same game because it's mobile or whatever. But like in the sense of it's Final Fantasy 14, it's an MMO. I feel like there should be connectivity. There should be some kind of cross play. Do people want to hop in? Like first of all, do people want to hop into a lesser version of the same thing that they've been playing forever? Right. Are you even aiming for those people? Are you trying to get new people? And like what is stopping those new people from just playing base 14 on their actual device? Right. Or it's Final Fantasy 14 is one of those things that's so prolific and so available that I'm like, yeah, just play the actual game if you have the choice. So like I feel like the right move would be to figure out how to make this cross progression and cross save and all that stuff.

[Tim Gettys]

Either make it connect directly where it very much is the same experience to some extent or make it so different and have the connection be either worth it or you don't need to bother with it if you don't need to. You know what I mean? Like, make it a game. Like, because we've seen so much success on the mobile game side of like.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Call of Duty Mobile or like, exactly.

[Tim Gettys]

Call of Duty. But even that. That does connect, right?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I don't know.

[Tim Gettys]

To the big college system.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Well, that's a bigger question. I don't know because I think of things like Genshin Impact. Right? Genshin Impact does connect. You are playing the same game and honestly, not saying that. I know game development is fucking hard, right? Not saying that's the same. But if they can do it for Genshin Impact, I feel like there's got to be a way to make it work for Final Fantasy 14 and have that be an absolute hit. That is how you do it, right? Is you figure out a way to make it all encompassing experience, whether you're playing on mobile, playing on PC, or doing the same thing. Right. And building towards the same things.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Story number six. Pokemon Go players have been annoyingly training an AI to autocomplete the real world. This is Rebecca Valentine at ign. And this is one of those ones where I forget what there was a conversation who they're talking about. There was a conversation I think I had on this show a while ago where I put on my tinfoil hat and I was like, there's something happening beneath Pokemon Go because there's too much power as far as putting these games in everybody's hands and having them walk.

[Tim Gettys]

Around the fat man. Walk, dude.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

They're making you walk everywhere in the collecting data. And I finally have my answers. This is like when Mr. Crocker finally proved that Timmy Turner had fairly odd parents, which I don't know if that actually ever happened, but you feel like.

[Tim Gettys]

You did what he didn't.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I did what Mr. Crocker wasn't able to do. I've been after these motherfuckers for a while. The story reads like this. Pokemon Go developer Niantic is hard at work building and training an AI to essentially be able to autocomplete real world locations with only a limited amount of information. And it's using data collected by Pokemon Go players to do it. Also, I'm going to pause there and just say, video game news is wild in 2024.

[Tim Gettys]

Really?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Could you imagine this headline in 2014?

[Tim Gettys]

No. No. Like, what does that even mean?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It's like they're using AI and all of our phones with the game that we're playing to autocomplete the Real world. That sounds like some villain shit.

[Tim Gettys]

And I hear it, I go, you're telling me I can play Pokemon outside?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

In an official blog post spotted by Garbage Day and reported on by 404Media, Niantic revealed that it's building something called a large geospatial model. Some villain shit. Like, who's the bear? Who's the villain in Phineas and Ferb? Is it doctor Doofenshmirtz? Yeah, I feel like doctor Doofenshmirtz.

[Tim Gettys]

This motherfucker did not. Oh, is it? Could it possibly be the most specific name in the fucking world? You don't just pull out Dr. Doofenshmirtz if you don't know. It's Doc. Dr. DoofenshmirtZ. Okay, all right. He kind of got you there.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

No, you're right, you're right.

[Tim Gettys]

Like, I just don't want to be alone.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Okay. Is that too much to ask for blessing?

[Barrett Courtney]

Because I thought about kids cartoons that we grew up with. You're not going to be alone. I'm bad with names, so I'm going to be like, yeah, that sounds right. But, like, I watch that show as well, man.

[Tim Gettys]

You're never alone.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

So what the world to know that somebody else, and it's not just me that knows, doesn't want to be alone?

[Tim Gettys]

Everybody get this man a plaguey.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But, yeah, Dr. Dr. Doofenshmirtz would come up with a large geospatial model. Just saying. Yeah, you may already know what a large language model is. It's ChatGPT. It's an AI that is trained on enormous amounts of existing text so that it can produce text on its own. That sounds normal and conceivably like what a user might want to hear. A large geospatial model is essentially the same idea, but applied to the physical world. It's trained on what real world places look like. A church, a park, a house, et cetera. And then it can use that data to produce information on what actual places it hasn't seen yet might look like. Niantic claimed that this will be a useful technology for. Or this will be useful for technology such as AR glasses, robotics, content creations, and other things. Or as Niantic put it, quote, imagine yourself standing behind a church. Let us assume. Why are you standing behind a church? Whatever.

[Tim Gettys]

You play Pokemon Go, you're doing a Zapdos Raid.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Imagine you're standing behind a church. Let us assume the closest local model has seen only the front entrance of that church, and thus it'll not be able to tell you where you Are the model has never seen the back of that building. But on a global scale, we have seen a lot of churches, thousands of them, all captured by their respective local models. At other places worldwide. No church is the same, but many share common characteristics. An LGM or a large geospatial model is a way to access that distributed knowledge. End quote. But to make this work, Niantic needs a lot of data to train that AI on, and it can only do so much on its own. Fortunately, Niantic has thousands of people globally pointing their phones at things and sending that that information back via its various projects and apps, Pokemon Go included. For now. Niantic said it's using the data explicitly to develop its own technologies that it then turns around and implements into existing products.

[Tim Gettys]

So bless. There's this thing here, right? My little daily research tasks that I have to do. This one here says, scan this thing and I get a rare candy. It's the AR mapping. So what I need to do is I need to go to this pokestop and then I need to scan the pokestop and for about 20 seconds I need to walk in a circle around the pokestop, following it from different angles so they can know what's going on here. So the next time they know what they like, what's the church look like? They're like, oh, Tim scanned it. I love gameplay and I'll let you know, it's one of my least favorite features of Pokemon Go. I hate doing this task. I most of the time do not ever do it. And that's because it takes way too long. Having to upload the data takes way too long. And walking around something, filming it like this makes people uncomfortable. Every single time I've done this, people are looking at me like, what the fuck are you doing? I love tell them I don't know. I don't. You're. Now.

[Barrett Courtney]

Now you can answer. I am training and I'm helping train an AI figure out what the fuck a church is.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm helping Dr. Google Puss.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

The reasons, Barrett, because you got to think about it, they're filling in the gaps of the world. Once they have a complete model of every fucking corner. Take a picture, you dipshits.

[Tim Gettys]

To what end are we gonna use.

[Barrett Courtney]

Fucking AI to burn down fucking forest for whatever fucking jerk off session you want? Because you think you're so, so fucking smart with all your little fucking robots.

[Tim Gettys]

Holy shit.

[Barrett Courtney]

This makes me so angry.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It's going to take too long to take pictures of the entire Earth, but if we can have our users take pictures of the Earth for us and use the AI that we have to like fill in all the gaps so we can have an accurate, like, you know, like an accurate model of the entire Earth. You can use that for things.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean it's the type of thing. So they're talking about the AR here, right? So you put on AR glasses and then when you look at something, you can see what it is, where you are, the longitude, latitude of where you're at in the planet. It's all just the dumb little shit, like the heads up display stuff of like you look at something and it translates the language. Right. I feel like that's probably like the most common use case today in ways people actually use this, which is freaking crazy.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Like the, like even though the Ray Ban meta glasses, like you can just look at text that's in Cantonese and it translates it to English.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah. And like I am honestly like genuinely, even though a lot of this is like, damn technology is crazy and kind of scary, I am fascinated to see like, all right, what are you actually going to use this data for? Because it's not like we already have things like Google Maps.

[Tim Gettys]

It's all the same shit. It's all Waymo's going around the fucking city.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, we're doing this. So they say here, right, that the Niantic said it's using the data explicitly to develop its own technologies that it then turns around and implements into existing products. I wonder one, I wonder if they can sell that data. They must be able to sell it, right? They must be able to be like, hey, Google, we literally have the Earth. If you want to improve Google Maps here, boom. Like we, we've done it with AI. Like you're going to have the perfect model of whatever, right? Like I wonder if they can sell that data and like what that then becomes. Or I wonder if Niantic is like, hey, we have the power now to like create some really advanced like products.

[Tim Gettys]

Like I think it's more for their stuff as we've even seen them, how they've advanced from Pokemon Go to Monster Hunter now, which is like such a gigantic increase. It's an insult to Pokemon Player.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

This is me putting my, my tinfoil hat on. I don't think it's games. Like I, I think they're using this for some kind of just software.

[Tim Gettys]

It's ar. Like, that's because they've already, they've. That's where they started and that's where like they're finding major success via the Game implementation of ar. But like, I mean they're straight up saying what this is going to be and it's just, it's AR help.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Like once the glasses again that we're here, like they exist and they are very cheap. So they. And they don't look like Google glasses used to look where it's goofy as. And I'm not even talking about the Apple Vision Pro VR experience. Like AR is actively here and this stuff is going to just continue to give it more features and in a way that we've always talked about VR where it's like you need the killer app, you need the reason you're actually using this and getting people in. I think AR is a lot simpler and just there's use cases that people already have.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

That they need.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And there's a lot of conversation in chat, which I love, I love looking at. But like somebody mentioned like, do you think Google's not already doing this? I understand that Google's already doing this to some extent. Niantic has the benefit of having a app that's like they have soldiers on the streets.

[Tim Gettys]

They have soldiers.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Like Niantic has people like regular human beings that are actively going out and for fun recording everything. What up?

[Tim Gettys]

There's nothing regular about us.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

They're fine. You're right, you're right. But you are civilians. They have civilians on the streets, are literally recording things for them. Like Google obviously has the technology to capture this shit. Right. Like they do it in different ways. Like, obviously. But yeah, like Niantic is just uniquely positioned in this instance, I just think to take advantage of this technology in ways that I think could make them a lot more money outside of just video games. Right. Like you mentioned ar, which I think is a large part of it.

[Tim Gettys]

Right.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But I think it is that like, that back and forth flow of like the AR is how they're getting that information. Can they flip that. Can they flip that into something that's going to then, yeah. Maybe create their next big AR product that's going to. Yeah. Take over the world and make them a lot of money.

[Tim Gettys]

Yes.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But Tim, whatever this ends up being, I am confident to say that this will be big.

[Tim Gettys]

It's going to be big.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But if I wanted something smaller, say the tiniest news I need us to know about, where would I go?

[Tim Gettys]

Our WE News channel, where you cover all the small news items that you need to know about.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Story number seven, it's We News. Let's start off with a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 review roundup for you. Remember, we're doing our games cast right after this, which is going to be our Stalker 2 review right now. On the streets of Metacritic it has a 74 and on open critic has a 76. Richard Wakeling at Gamespot gave it an 8 out of 10 and says, Stalker 2 Heart of Chernobyl is rough around the edges, but its propensity for creating emergent moments in a deadly and alluring world makes this trip back to the zone a fraught and compelling experience. So PC Gamer gave it an 83 out of 100 and VGC gave it a 2 out of 5.

[Tim Gettys]

I feel like VGC has been on a terror recently.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Recently, there's no don't fuck around with vgc.

[Tim Gettys]

They don't fuck around.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You know, they don't around. You put out a game, they don't like it, they'll tell you.

[Tim Gettys]

They'll tell you.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And I'll also say that, like, from the streets I've heard that Stalker two, I've heard plenty of people, plenty of reviewers be like, ah, like, just frustrated. Just very buggy of a game. I think that's the biggest complaint is that, like, there's a lot of technical issues. And I'm sure we'll talk about that during the game a few minutes. Everyone from Noble Fields of Mystery as first major update is now available. The Shooting Star festival on summer 28th has been added rideable mounts, Romanceable's six heart events have been added, two new home updates, bug fixes and more. Star wars the Old Republic will give away inactive character names in December, so if you want to protect your name, you got to log in before then. And lastly, here's the thing.

[Tim Gettys]

We can cut the music. This is very serious. This is very important stuff for us to look at here. Bless. We got some important Sonic bullshit to go through. Okay, I have four tweets that I want to go through one by one.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Very excited for this.

[Tim Gettys]

Starting with number one. We got new character posters.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, let's go.

[Tim Gettys]

Character posters for Sonic the Hedgehog 3. We have Sonic, we have Shadow, we have Knuckles, and we have Tails.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Can we stop and like.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I've never thought about just how crazy this cast is. Ben Schwartz is Sonic, Keanu Reeves is Shadow. It just always knuckles.

[Tim Gettys]

And Colleen O'Shaughnessy, the actual voice of the Games of Tales, as Tails. And they look like this. Oh, we've just won. All right. Bless. We have just freaking won. Let's look at the second picture here.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Very excited for this.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, my God, the gang is all here, everybody. There are so Many people here. Yeah, we get some humans. I didn't realize Kristen Ritter's in this.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Jessica Jones. What's Kristen Ritter? Oh, she was. Yes. Because weren't people. I think she got casted and everybody was like, oh, she must be Amy. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

So interesting. James Mars still doing his.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Kristen Ritter is just like another, like soldier, army person.

[Tim Gettys]

A gun.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

What if. Oh, yeah. Part of gun. Yeah.

[Barrett Courtney]

What if they turn her into Amy?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

No.

[Tim Gettys]

So let's continue.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Absolutely not. Barrett. Never say that again.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm with Barrett. Imagine Sonic giving her a little smooch.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

No, no. Because she's a human. You can't have a human kiss Sonic. We don't do that. We've never done that. Oh, wait, I like. I don't have it.

[Tim Gettys]

Like, I thought he had it ready.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You caught me off gu.

[Tim Gettys]

Honestly, Honestly. But if you can go to the third image here, this is just a zoom in on what the bigger picture was. But it's very important to look at because we have not one, but two instances of Jim Carrey in Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Of course, we have him playing him and his grandpa.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Let's go.

[Tim Gettys]

So there's the grandpa. Cool. But if you can go to the go back one.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

They really went in on that makeup.

[Tim Gettys]

They did this. He looks exactly like Eggman. Look at his jacket. This is his jacket.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

His jacket. Like everything he has on the mustache. Like we got there.

[Tim Gettys]

How did we get here?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

We were in the first movie being like, all right, I guess he's Robotnik. But no, this man, that's Dr. Robotnik.

[Tim Gettys]

That is Dr. Fucking Eggman, yo. And now here is where this all ends. Bless the fourth image. Here we have animation on the Twitter streets blowing my mind here saying, guys, hold on, hold on. Maddie, this character is wearing Pink. In Sonic 1 she wore yellow. And we got tails. In the post credit scene, if you hit right, you could see this.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, snap.

[Tim Gettys]

In Sonic 2, no way. She wore black and red.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

No.

[Tim Gettys]

In the post credit scene. So here's the thing. Is it Amy?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It has to.

[Tim Gettys]

Is it rouge the bat?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, you're right. Wait, go back to go back. Bring the picture up.

[Tim Gettys]

Bring it up. We gotta go deeper.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Well, the fact that it's just pink makes me think it has to be Amy. Because if it was, if it was rouge, it would have to be like a pink and white. Right?

[Tim Gettys]

Pink and white and purple.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

But like, that doesn't. Yeah, yeah, you're right. The background has some white in there. And also, like, obviously in the movie she's gonna have like More outfits. So maybe the white ends up getting implemented more. I'm stressed. Somebody in chat said, is it Espio? Come on.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh man.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I appreciate you for bringing that to me.

[Tim Gettys]

And you know what is even better? I'm going to warm your heart right now.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Do it.

[Tim Gettys]

What's today?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Today is November 20th.

[Tim Gettys]

We are one month away from Sonic the Hedgehog 3 in theaters. Everybody. Cinema. We'll see.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

He would never. He would never. Sonic doesn't do that. We don't think about that. Let's get some super chats in. Ooh boy, oh boy. Street Shadow says. FYI, Kadakawa confirmed the Sony buyout rumors, but seems to be still in discussions. Also, Katakawa owns Spike Chunsoft. So DBZ Sparking. So the DVZ Sparking zero devs. Did they Spike? No, I don't think the Street Shadow. First of all, I got to confirm the Katakawa thing. Not that I don't believe you, but.

[Tim Gettys]

I believe Street Shadow.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I just don't believe the Internet. You know what I mean? I got to always double check.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm with that.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Katakawa.

[Tim Gettys]

Says how many people are going to be down bad for CG Rouge.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, just. It's going to. It's going to awaken a generation for sure. Yeah. No, I'm saying. So, yeah, you are right. I'm saying VGC and other people say that. Yeah, they. Kadokawa did confirm Sony's buyout interest. Yeah, we got to wait for more. Woo.

[Tim Gettys]

What a time.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It's cooking. And yeah, I'm pretty sure. I don't think Spike Chunsoft did it. All right. Actually, you're wrong. Just let me know when you're wrong.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh my God. Stonewall Craft says Rouge the Bat, voiced by Rhea Ripley.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Oh, yeah, no, yeah, that makes sense. Right?

[Tim Gettys]

That would be. That would be insane. That would be fucking insane.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Be accurate. You know. Come on. A bad voice and a bad ego. Come on. Because she's a bad baddie. Voice and a baddie. Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Okay. Okay.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Come on. Let's see here. William Gordon says, do you think that next fall we could get a PlayStation Portable Pro? Or you probably mean a PlayStation Portal Pro, OLED, HDR, 120Hz or WiFi?

[Tim Gettys]

No, I don't. I think that all of that stuff first off, next year I think is too early. I also think that I'd be very surprised if we get those things implemented in. In a PlayStation Portal product anytime soon.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah, that feels a little bit more.

[Tim Gettys]

Far out because I. I mean, I would love that. My God, that would solve every. Honestly, what you just said here, like the Hertz Wi Fi 7 HDR OLED, like that would make the PlayStation Portal essentially perfect for me.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

How much would that cost, though?

[Tim Gettys]

I don't think that these things would add that much cost. That's the thing. I'm a little disappointed that the original one just didn't have these already. So. Yeah, I just, I don't see them. I. I feel like they want to keep the cost as low as possible for this product. And I also think that these things don't necessarily mean nearly as much as they do to me, to the general public.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

David Flores writes in and says, my brother works for a company that installs office supply things. He was at Niantic's office and said they were playing a Pokemon game on a dev kit.

[Tim Gettys]

Interesting. Interesting.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Be a crazy thing. A crazy way for something like Major.

[Tim Gettys]

To leak on fucking a Super Chat.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Remember that Super Chat where David said his brother works for a company that installed stuff? It was at night. Turns out they're working on the next major Pokemon game. Let's see here. DJ Kento says Jack Black is literally wearing the same costume as Nacho Libre's fancy outfit, but in different colors. Same director too. Sometimes he cut costs, you know. And then, you know what if you spray, spray paint the shirt another color. Just go to the same manufacture, the same shop where you got that last shirt. Get the other shirt, you know, but make it another color. You do what you do with what you got, Barrett.

[Tim Gettys]

You do what you do with what you got, Barrett.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

And then Joshi G says, my hope is Niantic accidentally creates Digimon and that is it. Shit for Super Chats. Now it's time for your wrong. Or course you write in, let us know what we got wrong as we got it wrong so we can correct it. For those watching later on YouTube and listening later on podcast services around the globe came over. Greggy says Jet Force Gemini did not need the expansion pack on N64.

[Tim Gettys]

The only four games required the expansion pack. Donkey Kong 64, Majora's Mask, Perfect Dark, and Dinosaur Planet.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I don't recall Dinosaur Planet.

[Tim Gettys]

Dinosaur Planet is what turned into Star Fox Adventures on game. Oh yeah, I don't think Dinosaur Planet ever even released here.

[Barrett Courtney]

Maybe it was like planned to have the expansion pack. Sorry Digimon was brought up and I just wanted to share this news.

[Tim Gettys]

My I got that notification as well, Barrett.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, actually that's what got to my house yesterday. Fuck. I didn't open the package from Play Asia.

[Barrett Courtney]

Oh, so for audio listeners, there's the digital Digimon movie Blu Ray remaster that was being. I forget what production company was making it. They were selling it on Crunchyroll. And I just got that email yesterday that mine is in process of being delivered.

[Tim Gettys]

I haven't told you this or shown you this yet. Barrett, I bought the 25th anniversary digivice. It's fucking sick. I need to bring it in.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You guys think I'm a nerd for my sonic love. Listen to these guys. Bless.

[Barrett Courtney]

I invite you on the movie remastered.

[Tim Gettys]

It'll change.

[Barrett Courtney]

Are you saying no?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Yes, I'm saying no.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, my God.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

I've never been a Digimon person, but.

[Tim Gettys]

That'S how you'll get in.

[Barrett Courtney]

That's how I got like, I will.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Never be unloyal to Pokemon.

[Barrett Courtney]

I. I was never like. I watched the OG show. Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

It's not in direct opposition to Pokemon. Digimon literally has Mon in the title. They evolve. They dig. Evolve.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That's a direct competitor. So much Yu Gi. Oh, more so, like, against Duel Masters.

[Tim Gettys]

You're making solid points, you know, Blessing.

[Barrett Courtney]

Do you want to watch a movie with the Most like, like, late 90s, early 2000s soundtrack you could possibly ever fucking imagine? Do you want to see monsters battle through the Internet as they try to stop nuclear warheads from fucking coming down on the planet?

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

Are you talking about Code Lyoko? I love Code Lyoko. Yeah, let's watch it cold. Lyoko was sick. Cole Lioko was so good. We got one from kebabs who says Mr. Crocker never actually proved the existence of fairies in any fairly odd parents work.

[Tim Gettys]

I knew you were better than him.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

That's. But that's wild to me that they never got around to, like, Mr. Crocker actually being right. I feel like that's like a finale or maybe a movie or something. But then they.

[Barrett Courtney]

That means they can never end.

[Blessing Adioye Jr.]

You know, that's true. People are saying that, yes, Spike Chunsoft are the sparking devs in collab with Bond with Bandai. And I think that is it. There's. There's one more from Tundra Boy that says WE News. Stardew Valley, a symphony of seasons has been announced. It's a worldwide live concert tour from soho Live. So there you go. And that is it for Kind of Funny Dot Com. You're wrong, Tim. That brings us to the end of Kind of Funny Games Daily, where each and every weekday we run you through the nerdy news you need to know about live on YouTube. Twitch and on podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do, of course, support us with the kind of funny membership on patreon or on YouTube to get all of our shows ad free. Watch us record them live and and get a daily exclusive show. Enjoy the games cast next and the stream after. But until next time game daily.