Sony is Raising PS5 Prices AGAIN - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.27.26

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This episode explores the breaking news that Sony is raising the PlayStation 5 prices—again—while diving into how hardware costs, supply chain issues, and the broader economic landscape are reshaping the gaming market. The hosts also discuss hot rumors of a Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake, a new Star Fox game, and the evolving Nintendo cinematic universe, plus developer-industry business adaptations. The discourse is filled with humor, sharp commentary, and listener questions, reflecting on both industry trends and personal nostalgia.

Hosts

• Greg "GameOverGreggy" Miller
• Blessing Adeoye Jr.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Sony Raises PlayStation 5 Prices Globally (05:33)

• News Detail: Starting April 2, 2026, Sony is increasing prices:
  • Standard PS5: $650 (previously $550)
  • PS5 Digital Edition: $600 (was $500)
  • PS5 Pro: $900 (was $750)
  • PlayStation Portal also increases from $200 to $250
• Context: This is the second hike in less than a year (last hike was $50 in August 2025).
• Sony's Justification: "Continued pressures in the global economic landscape..." and stress on delivering "high quality gaming experiences."
• Host Reaction: Disbelief and criticism, expecting PS6 may cost over $1,000.
  • Greg: “When the PlayStation 6 gets here, how much is this motherfucker going to cost?” (07:38)
• Industry Context: Not limited to Sony—Nintendo and Microsoft have also raised prices recently due to RAM shortages from AI, tariffs, and wars impacting global supply chains.
• Quote: Analyst Matt Piscatella forecasts a pivot to affluent gamers:
  • Blessing reads: "That premium gaming space is leaning more and more on the affluent consumer..." (09:41)

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2. How Price Hikes Affect the Market & Gamers (08:50, 14:32)

• Gaming for the Wealthy? The hosts stress that premium gaming is increasingly exclusionary, pricing out lower-income gamers.
  • Greg: “It's going to get way worse before it gets better. This is part of that.” (12:02)
• Shifting Player Habits: Expect more players to stick to one or two live-service games (like Fortnite, Roblox, Genshin Impact), with only ‘premium’ users buying multiple AAA releases each year.
  • Blessing: “People spend their time... in these same games… it’s gonna become more and more difficult [to buy every new game].” (14:14)

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3. Is There A Hopeful Disruptor? Streaming & Affordable Gaming (15:21, 27:27, 34:30)

• Cloud Gaming: Discussion on Xbox Cloud, Nvidia GeForce Now: both are praised but haven’t gained enough market share, lacking mainstream appeal and development support.
  • Greg: “I feel like both xCloud and Nvidia GeForce Now didn’t have time / the push to get locked in with enough gamers...” (15:35)
• Console “Winners”: Nintendo is best-poised with Switch 2 if they can hold pricing. Affordability could make them a runaway success, especially as parents look for accessible options.
  • Blessing: “Nintendo might eat it for a little bit … to have this price point against the big guys.” (20:21)
• Cloud Skepticism: Hosts admit the tech is promising, but not “ready for primetime” as a full gaming replacement. Trend-chasing (streaming, NFTs, AI) has destabilized industry focus.

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4. Q&A: Deeper Implications

• $1,000 Console Future? Agreement that it’s not far off, with the PS6 likely to break that threshold (11:08, 29:13).
• Will a Cheaper, Limited Console Work? Dismissed; “coming up with a cheap box that can’t play cool shit isn’t the way to do it” (27:07).
• Could Rising Prices Cause a Video Game Crash? Hosts say we’re already seeing symptoms, thanks to layoffs and closures (30:11).

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5. Nintendo’s Upcoming Moves & Rumors (43:16)

Zelda & Star Fox Speculation

• Ocarina of Time Remake: Rumored for holiday 2026 on Switch 2. Hosts are excited, particularly about potential updates to visuals/gameplay, but wary of premium pricing.
  • Greg: “We've all been predicting it forever, but, oh, my God, please.” (45:19)
• New Star Fox Game: Also rumored for summer 2026, “classic style with very good visuals and online multiplayer.”
• No 3D Mario Until 2027: Delayed major Mario title for Switch 2.
• Pricing Fears: Expectation that Nintendo will raise prices carefully, possibly through software/services before hardware.

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6. Nintendo Cinematic Universe & Smash Bros. Movie Set-Up (51:02)

• Glenn Powell as Fox McCloud: Confirmed for the Super Mario Galaxy movie.
  • Blessing: “We're getting that Smash movie … we're gonna get a Star Fox movie, I bet.” (53:25)
• Nintendo’s Movie/Game Synergy: The hosts marvel at how Nintendo is uniquely synchronizing game and film releases, unlike previous industry failures.

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7. Industry Innovation: Alana Pierce Launches Charred Pictures (55:26)

• New Indie Film Production House: Focused on close collaboration with game developers for faithful screen adaptations of game IPs, including Faith: The Unholy Trinity.
• Hosts’ Take: Applaud Alana and the model; “That’s exactly what we want to see.”

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8. Final Quick News (“Wii News”; 63:19)

• Possible Crimson Desert Switch 2 port
• PUBG Blind Spot shutting down after only two months
• Devil May Cry 5 rated for Switch
• Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic on next-gen consoles

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• Greg (on hardware prices):
  “It’s outrageous to say, but here we are.” (11:08)
• Blessing (on market shifts):
  “Free to Play… is going to continue to become more normalized, especially for younger audiences.” (13:10)
• Greg (on market contraction):
  “We are about to hemorrhage so many gamers, so many potential gamers.” (12:02)
• Blessing (about Nintendo's potential):
  “Nintendo might end up being the only company to nail the movie-video game synergy.” (55:03)
• Greg (on Ocarina remake):
  “I want it to look as serious as Breath of the Wild, but I don't want it to be Breath of Wild.” (48:30)
• Blessing (on movie/game crossovers):
  “We're getting that Smash movie. You sure as are getting that smash.” (53:22)

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• 05:33 — PS5 price hike breakdown and immediate reactions
• 07:38 — How this affects console life cycles and next generation projections
• 09:41 — Analyst’s prediction: Gaming shifting to the affluent
• 14:32 — How most players will retrench into “live service” games
• 34:30 — Hosts debate plausibility & readiness of a streaming-only future
• 43:16 — Nintendo rumors: Ocarina remake, Star Fox, 3D Mario delays
• 45:19 — Ocarina remake discussion & nostalgia
• 51:02 — Glenn Powell as Fox McCloud: implications for movies/games
• 55:26 — Alana Pierce launches Charred Pictures
• 63:19 — Wii News rapid-fire round

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Overall Tone

The episode blends outrage, sardonic humor, and nostalgia, with both hosts frustrated by rising costs and the industry's apparent focus on squeezing existing customers rather than expanding the market. There’s excitement—particularly for the Nintendo rumors—and a sense of cautious hope for creative disruption, whether through affordable hardware, cloud streaming (if it ever matures), or new transmedia projects. The show closes with banter and pop culture detours, staying true to Kinda Funny’s signature mix of analysis and fun.

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what do you think the Mario movie cast? Oh, I really feel like this is the least egregious of like.

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God, I, I. How can I forget? That's still one of my favorite clips of all time. Still one of my favorite moments of all time during the showcase, one by one being like, oh, yeah, Chris Pratt's in it. Also, we got Keegan, Michael Key. Also we got. Was that, did they have Queen's Gambit? Anya Taylor, Joy?

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There's nothing worse that could happen. What's on the docket? Oh, shit.

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I reached for the fog, but it didn't go number one. Sony is raising PlayStation 5 prices by $100 in April. This is Emma Roth at the Verge. Sony is raising the price of its PlayStation 5 consoles globally starting April 2. In an announcement on Friday, Sony says that the standard PlayStation 5 will now cost $650, up from $550. Meanwhile, the PS5 Digital Edition now costs $600 instead of $500, and the PlayStation 5 Pro will cost $900 instead of $750. Oh, when you put 100 in the headline, I was like, I'm Pretty sure it's 150 on fucking pro and it's 150 on the fucking Pro. Along with these changes, Sony is increasing the price of its PlayStation portal as well, going from 199 to 249 90. So 200 bucks to 250, which is the least egregious. But still, still, everybody that wants a

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portal has one already. I'm convinced.

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This is the second time in less than a year that Sony has raised the price of its PlayStation 5 consoles as the company hiked prices by $50 for all three models in late August. Sony cites, quote, continued pressures in the global economic landscape as the reason for the price hike. Quote, we know that price changes impact our community, and after careful evaluation, we found this was a necessary step to ensure we can continue delivering inn high quality gaming experiences to players worldwide.

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Sony says PlayStation 6 is gonna cost four figures. That's crazy.

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We just did the live Greg way, of course. Thank you all to who tuned in on this. And one of the questions was like, oh man, I was hemming and Han, should I go and get the PlayStation 5 Pro today and trade in my PlayStation 5? Which works fine. And the answer is unequivocally yes.

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Oh yeah, go do that right now. Yeah, there might be lines.

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This, this console generation is going to be even longer than we thought it was. And we thought it was going to be long. And when the PlayStation 6 gets here, how much is this motherfucker going to cost?

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A thousand? At least a thousand dollars. I mean, how much? You can extrapolate that to any piece of hardware coming out right now, right? With the global economic state of the world, with the tariffs that are happening, with all these things that, with the shortage.

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Memory loss.

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Memory loss as we like to call it here, right. Based off of these companies pulling off of or pulling off of producing like, I don't know the exact terminology for it, but there's a shift towards AI away from like RAM memory.

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Right.

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Which is causing the, A shortage, causing prices to go up and shit. Right. With all of this happening. Yeah, we could talk about PS6, we could talk about like the trajectory of PS5 prices, which we should stick around for for a second. But we can also talk about things like the new Steam machine and how like things like this make me worry more about that.

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Yes.

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Is that even going to come out at this.

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Yes, 1,000%. I forget. I'm pretty sure my prediction was I could see it being canceled after they did the. Hey, everybody. Yeah, we said spring, but things are happening. And we'll get back to you. Yeah, and I don't think there is any solution to the memory loss we currently face here. Of course we are talking about the RAM shortage driven by AI that. I don't think there is an easy solution to that. That you go, okay, we fixed it. We have a plan. You go, oh man, things just keep getting more expensive. We have what we have, the allotment of what we have, but we won't be able to make more Steam machines after that. And if we do, it'll be egregiously more expensive. Valve just goes, fuck it. I think it pulls that plug right now.

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The. There is an opportunity opening for any corporation that can figure out how to put games and put consoles or put at least like a gaming platform into people's hands at a low cost. And I think over the next however many years we're going to see the race toward that because this is not sustainable.

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Here's what's interesting about that. I want to go to ign.com where w y p Wesley Yin Pool also reported on this. Right. But pulled in this paragraph. All right, that I appreciated. We're talking about all the stuff, we're doing all the things and then boom. Early reaction to the price rises. I mean increases. Rises.

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It means the same thing.

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Can you. Can you pluralize rises? I guess there are multiple rises. The Dark Knight rises, but that's an a. That's a verb, right? Anyways, early reaction to the price increases is a mix of anger and disappointment, but few are shocked at the news, given the way things were going. There is also growing concern that gaming is becoming, or perhaps from next month, has become too expensive for many people. Speaking to Edge magazine via PC Gamer, Circana analyst Matt Piscatella said gaming is trending towards becoming a hobby focused on high earners. Quote, a bigger portion of the market is going to people who are more affluent, have higher incomes, and the lower income parts of the market are really struggling, said Piscatella. That premium gaming space is leaning more and more on the affluent consumer, of course, as we've already called out. But just to give a little bit of stuff here, the price rises come amid a turbulent time for global markets due to US Tariffs and the wars in Iran and Ukraine. The cost of RAM has also skyrocketed amid the global memory shortage sparked by AI demand. Sony is not alone in raising the price of consoles. Nintendo increased the price of the original Switch in August of last year, and there are fears it could be about to make the Switch two more expensive. Microsoft raised the prices of Xbox consoles, controllers and headsets last May. Yeah, May of last year. It makes you wonder, are we approaching a $1,000 console? We already asked the question here. Yes. Our answer? Yes, we are. We assume the PlayStation 6 at this point is going to be a thousand dollars, which is outrageous to say, but here we are.

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What if I told you that those aren't the only consoles that are going up in price?

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What?

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Next month the NEX Playground will get a $50 price hike. Remember the NEX Playground?

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Do I remember it? Ask me the real question. Do I own it? Do you own it? I own it.

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Good. Good that you got it already.

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The Playground, of course, is the one that we all joked around about. I did. I put in the Games Cast last year for Holiday Guide where I was like, I don't even have this. But if you don't know, this is blowing up with kids. It outsold the Xbox, etc. Etc. Great device for children. Yeah, like Ben and his friends Fucking go crazy to play it. The games aren't trash. Yada yada yada. Yes, they're going up as well. I saw this, I saw it from Game File. Steven Chitilo had an interview with the CEO who's talking about that and components and everything else. But sorry, back to my point. You were talking about being sustainable, this, that, the other. I really lean into what Matt's saying where I think you're talking about like if somebody can figure out how to make this cheaper for everybody else, that's awesome. Right. But I really feel it's going the opposite way where I feel like people are going to retreat. And we're going back to that part from the Sony financials where the CEO was like, it's about lack of a better term, milking the consumers we already have rather than trying to bring in new. I think this is a batten down the hatches and do that and go this affluent way, which of course fucking sucks. But it also. How do you. It's going to shrink the market even more. I, you know, quote Instagrammed my reel from the a couple of months ago now of like it's going to get way worse before it gets better. This is part of that. Right. Of like we are about to hemorrhage so many gamers, so many potential gamers. And then again when Sony does this, when Xbox does this and says we're going to milk more money out of who we have, it really is going to take a while for that market and expectation for a shareholder slash bottom line for a company to understand that like this leads to more layoffs, this leads to more closures, this leads to more problems as you shrink the vision of what this company entity hobby is.

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Yeah, I think what you're saying and what Matt Piscatel is saying is true, but I think it's truer for the me's and you's and the our audience when it comes to what we talk about is like the premium gamer. Because I think what we'll continue to see is we talk a lot about the top six games of the last however many years. The ones that are played are old games. Yeah, you know, we're talking about the biggest games being games like Fortnite and Roblox and Call of Duty. Right. And it is these same games that people return to that people spend their time, spend their time in. I think a lot of that is going to have to do with Free to Play and a lot of that I think is going to continue to become more of a normalized and popular thing, especially for younger audiences who might not have the disposable income. Like you look at a game like Genshin, you look at Wuthering Waves. Games that are our audience I think often rolls their eyes at and goes like, oh, who wants this stuff? Tens of millions of people want this stuff because those are what their player numbers are. Because that is an accessible way to play these games. For people who might not be able to spend $900 for a PS5 Pro, guess what? I can play this thing on my phone. I can play this thing on whatever like the bare minimum console is or at the very least I don't have to pay to gain entry into this thing and I can live in this game as opposed to being me, you or our audience where it is. I'm going to buy every other game that's coming out this year. That's the thing that's going to become more and more and more difficult as the years go.

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Yeah, 100%. I think you look at how what is going to be succeed, what is going to be a success and then what we're already seeing trend wise and yeah, it is people really committing to the games they're already involved in and sticking with that one unicorn game that they love and want to be.

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I'm going to buy a GTA and I'm going to play this forever. I'm going to buy Crimson Desert and play this forever. Because I view this as like a game that I can just live in for hundreds of hours.

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Exactly.

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I wouldn't be surprised the Crimson Desert in the next five years gets a mobile version or like, I mean we have a wee news coming up where they're trying to get it on Switch as well. Right. But like to my thing of finding those lower cost entries, like I think I know Xbox has talked about Cloud for the longest time. Yeah. If you can figure that out in a way that actually gets the common consumer to go, oh, this is good enough. Like I like this. Right. Like I can play video games this way. That's going to be huge because that's going to be what gets people in.

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You come back to. Well, first off, you mentioned, you know, you wouldn't be surprised if Crimson Desert has this. Would you be surprised if I told you in one week crimson desert sold 10 million copies?

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I'd be shocked. Yeah.

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Good, because that's why you won the pizza bet.

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Thank you.

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All right everybody, Crimson Desert has not sold 10 million copies. Roger does in fact owe you a pizza bet. Thank you very much. Kevin, I thank you very much. I think there's really two in the same boat, one in another boat to talk about this. And I think it's both Xbox and the cloud gaming and then Phil and Sarah's vision, which I feel Microsoft didn't believe in and yada yada yada. And that's because Microsoft's all in on AI, et cetera. And then even Nvidia which of course is leading so much of this AI stuff, but also has GeForce now which we've used and really like and yada yada yada. And I feel like both xCloud and Nvidia GeForce now didn't have time slash the push to get locked in with enough gamers to go this is really cool. So that when you get to this situation, people turn and go, hey, this is the solution. We should Game pass has the cloud and I could be playing stuff there. I don't need the expensive box. I don't need the new thing. Nvidia GeForce now using the 50 80s I think it is in the cloud or whatever. Like, oh, this is. I'm paying for this, but I'm getting a PC. I feel like both of those should be for so many people the answer to this. But I don't think that they've had enough time to gestate, get market share and really care about it. I think the winner in all this, which also winner is an interesting thing and I have a question immediately about it once I say it, but is the Switch 2 is Nintendo? Hey, I do think they're gonna inevitably increase the price of the Switch 2. They've done everything they can to not do it. But if PlayStation's finally giving up, Xbox has already given up. You assume Nintendo is seeing the same hey, AI RAM this thing Other there was a super chat in here. We're getting so many of them. Thank you. Saul wrote in and said going off what Phil DeFranco mentioned yesterday, apparently helium is also expensive and that's used to make chips for the majority of tech. On top of the GPU and ram, the actual creation of it is also pricey. So in general tech being shaken up, I assume Switch is going to raise their price. But I still think if you're a parent or. Yeah, parent, a lapsed gamer who doesn't want to can't go anymore because gas costs $8 a fucking gallon can't go out as much. Your kids are interested in video games, but you don't want them playing the trash on your phone. You see them playing or whatever. You go, all right, let's get you a video game console. And I think you go to Best Buy and you look at them all on the shelves and you're seeing $800 for a PlayStation and then you see a switch to at $500, you go, well, it's Nintendo, I know them, I trust them. It plays all the Switch games. It does this thing and again it's that it's good enough. I see that coming in and being a chance for Nintendo to make up even more ground and carry a generation here in a way that I can see everything Matt saying about high end affluent gamers being the I'm playing on the pro, I'm using a PC, whatever it is, you're playing the high end stuff. But for somebody who just wants to play games, the Switch being the easy solution and a proven solution.

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Yeah, I could see that. And I think we're already seeing that.

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Right.

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We talked about the Switch sales numbers earlier this week. We talked about in the last seven days and Switch two, even though it seemingly isn't living up to Nintendo's projections for it, it's still one of the fastest selling consoles of all time. Right. People are still showing up for the Switch too. So I think there's power there, there's something there. And I think that's only, that's only going to continue as we have Pickopia. We're going to talk about in the next story of games that are rumored. And Nintendo, they are finding a synergy with trying to expand what media looks like for them as they get into movies, which makes me nervous, but like they seem to be navigating it well so far we'll see what that Zelda movie looks like, but yeah, they're not immune as well. I wonder what that looks like when we do get the switch 2 price increase or we do like what are, what are the levels, levels, the levers available to pull for Nintendo to go? All right, physical and digital, we're gonna make them different prices. That way maybe we can get away with selling an 80 physical version of the game. But hey, 70 in the digital store, like you can do that, right? That's a lever for Nintendo Nintendo Switch Online expansion pack. Right? Can we see that go up in price?

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Probably.

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Like playing online for a lot of game for a lot of players is an important thing. Maybe less so for Nintendo players. But there are still those games. There are still the Pokemons, the Smash Brothers, even the Mario Karts when Splatoon comes out someday. Right. Like those are games that people like to play online. They're going to want Nintendo Switch online for that. Hey, if we raise the price on this, yeah, people might jump on that, right? Like those levers exist for Nintendo in ways where maybe they're able to stay off the console price because that might be too much of a damning thing for this, for the hardware sales of the Switch 2.

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But we'll see big curves. MD writes in with a super Shango Switch 2 for $450 is just an absurd value in this market slash economy. If Nintendo can hold the line longer, they'll see a huge boost. I don't think you're wrong. And I think Nintendo, while I can easily see them increase in the price here, I'm with you of like they will do everything around it before they do that. Where we already saw them increase the controller price, right? The camera price and whatever it was, the original Switch price. Like they're doing everything they can to not get in the way of the momentum of the Switch 2. And I think maybe again, I'm being too naive, but the way Nintendo is as a company, and again we were talking about this yesterday or two days ago, me and Tim on the show by being, you know, pro gamer more than they're still a corporation, they still want to make money. I could see them eat it, eat it for a little bit because I do think this is, this is now for Nintendo in an investment in the next five years where it's like you want to eat it right now to have this price point against the big guys, especially when things like Resident Evil Requiem are coming out and running excellent on it. You're getting great games, you're getting pickopia, right. You're getting these game of the year contenders that people want eat it right now, Let the prices go up, let people be offended by that. But then the Switch 2 is going to still be around when they do come out with the PlayStation 6. When Project Helix does come out and it is a grand twelve hundred dollars and you are like, what the fuck are you talking about? And then that's when you look at this Switch, you go look at the library the Switch to already has, let alone what you could play, bringing Switch 1 games into it. You've proven yourself, Nintendo, as this entity. People go for that.

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Yeah, maybe. I think so. I just think the question there is, can you afford that? Like in the now, in the future? Like can you with everything, with the price of everything going up, can you Nintendo actually go hold the line? Like raise other things, but hold the line on the console price.

[B]

I think they could. We talk all the time about the war chest of money Nintendo has. Like, they do have a lot of money. Again, it's not just one person making the decision. It's a company and you know, they're bored and yada yada, yada. But I do think they could say, let's take a short term loss here so that we're long term. Not only remember as I've awoken Nintendo to and become, I would say, a Nintendo fan again through Ben. In the same way I'm a Pokemon fan through Ben. Right. Like, Nintendo is so much more than the games. Nintendo is the brand. It is the characters, it is the ip, it is the store, it is the movie. Like, there's so much stuff to celebrate Nintendo. And so if it is that idea of like, yo, let's eat shit right now, let's lose money on the consoles, we're making, make it up hopefully on the software, but make it up more importantly on you going to the store and buying The Nintendo branded PJs at Walmart because you love Mario so much.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And maybe again, that's a little too naive.

[A]

Yeah. I want to be on your side of the hope. Right. I want to be on. I want to be on that side. This is what I need though. If you're, if you work in Nintendo and you're listening to this, I need to cut this off for five minutes. Okay, I'll give you a second. You work at Nintendo, especially if you're an executive or you work in the marketing division. Cut this off. I think they could easily get away with the 500 without like people like blinking eyes.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

No, right now the base console is 450. Mario Kart world bundle is 500. Yeah. I think if you raise that 450 to 500, it's an even number. If you even do this. Let's say you time it with Ocarina of Time remake, you might be able to get away with a hundred more dollars. You might be able to bump that up to 550 for the base and 600 for the bundle with Ocarina Time put in like some special looking Joy Cons. I have like another one.

[B]

Don't make me buy another one.

[A]

The special Joy Cons, we're. We're in year two. We're a year away from another revision for, for a revision of the Switch 2. Right. An OLED version.

[B]

Dude, do you think so? Because that would be my thought is like, yeah, sure. But then like everything that's going on in the tech world. Like where is that revision actually going to net out now? Where do we get the next switch to light whatever the hell is going to be?

[A]

I mean, I hope we get an oled. I know the oled. I mean that's the other thing. Honestly, if we were, if, if the conversation for Nintendo was to hold, let's try to keep the price even if they bump it up to 500 for the base. Right. Like let's not go above that. I think the getting out an OLED or a Switch Lite might be able to have allow them to overcharge a little bit for those.

[B]

Sure.

[A]

Right. You might be able to release an OLED and be like 700 and Tim Geddes will buy it. Like he's so stupid in the world. And I get it. Like OLED looks fantastic.

[B]

Now you're back to what we're talking about of like, yeah, there's an affluent gamer. Like when, remember when the Pro originally,

[A]

he's the most rich man in the world.

[B]

When PS5 Pro dropped, Tim was like, this is for me. I am that high end gamer that likes the bells and the whistles and I'll pay for it. And so that's what he went and did. Like, yeah, I don't know. Jimmy Mack 88 says the Series S is sub$400.

[A]

Great joke Jimmy, but like that was actually one of the things that was on my mind talking about going into next gen again. The people that are able to speak to affordability will be the company that wins.

[B]

Sure.

[A]

And I think Xbox is, is in a good place to be able to speak to affordability.

[B]

Absolutely not.

[A]

You don't think so?

[B]

No. The Series S performance is so bad. I think that alienates people from being a gamer.

[A]

But you come over, you plugged in like outselling the X or. It was at some point.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, at some point it was. Yeah. But that wasn't like their foot off the gas. Like Xbox has already staked their claim here by getting rid of Phil and Sarah. We're moving to this premium, this is Project Helix. It's going to fucking be a PC like Xbox, as always, through no fault of their own necessarily has at the worst possible time been like, this is what we're doing. And it's like fucking markets and explosions and tech everywhere. It's like, oh my God.

[A]

But yeah, I agree that like Nintendo was poised, is in the best position right now. But it's the PlayStation and Xbox aspect where I'm like, all right, let's see how this goes, you know, sucks.

[B]

Everything sucks.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Bam says, do you think Sony waiting to raise the price in April is some kind of last minute first quarter sales up? Can the rich only keep gaming industry alive? Yeah, Bam, I think that's, you know we are talking about the end of the fiscal year here, right? I do believe PlayStation and Sony works on March 31st being the end of the fiscal year. So yeah, you could see that could be a big part for it. Mukda says everything is going so wrong. I can't even tell which problem is causing the price increases anymore. I'm sure a regime change in Cuba will help. Of course. Yeah, don't worry, our government is looking out for us. They're on top of this as always. Andrew says, could a cheap low end console that can't play all the new big games but would play most smaller older games be feasible?

[A]

Wait, can a cheap low end console that can play older games but not

[B]

could have played the new stuff? So you can't play a PS5, you only play PS4.

[A]

I guess that's just, you're just describing

[B]

a PS4 and no, like what do we, like we've already been as an industry chasing our tail on how to get mainstream consumers to come do this. Coming up with a cheap box that can't play the cool shit isn't the way to do it.

[A]

Yeah, I think the key and I actually, I don't even think this is the key because honestly I'm not a big cloud guy. Like I, I think they're neat, I think they're fun to try, but I'm not sold on this is the way I'm gonna play play games. However, if I'm going to take the opposing side, right? Like I think I could, I could easily understand why an Xbox is like, yeah, let's chase cloud. Because if you're able to figure that out and put out a $100 cloud device for people to just play and pay for game pass on, that is the key. That is the thing that'll work. But that has to be a thing. You have to convince people.

[B]

I've clouded the way to talk for years, right? That was what I was saying of like before these times and you're talking about Xbox and you had Phil and you had Sarah and you had them pushing this vision that everything's an Xbox. When my cousin 2020 something hit me up, it was like, hey, I'm thinking about getting into gaming. Should I get an Xbox or should I get a PlayStation? And I'm like, well Right now, you could try being an Xbox gamer for $10, whatever it was at the time. Yeah. Like do this. Hook it up to your phone, your computer, whatever, and stream with a controller. And she was so blown away by this idea, right? And it didn't take because she just wasn't ready to be a mainstream. Whatever. Not mainstream gamer, US gamer, hardcore gamer. And so didn't buy a PlayStation either. But it was like, that was that instant. You can jump in and do it right now. And again, Phil, sitting in the back of these conference rooms as an advisor now must be laughing his ass off and watching it all fucking fall apart. Too goddamn expensive to do anything out here. Pickle Joystick says, I know a couple of people who are waiting to get a PlayStation 5 for GTA. And imagine there's a lot of people in the same boat. Will they still get the console or decide new gaming is not for them and will it affect GTA sales? So many people are in this boat. So many people have been waiting for GTA and saying they will go and buy this. Or maybe they don't even know they are. It's that sleeper agent shit that once the GTA marketing ramps up, they go, oh, yeah, I'm going to fucking pull the trigger on this.

[A]

Listen, y' all made fun of me when I said I would pay $1,000 to play Zelda Tears of the Kingdom. My question for y' all that have not bought a PS5 yet, right? But want to play GTA in the best possible form. Are you willing to pay $900 for the PS5 Pro and 70 to $80 to GTA 6? Because for some of you, the answer will be yes. And you're on my side now.

[B]

The problem with your question, Pickle Joystick is will it affect GTA sales? Yes, it will. To what degree, we'll never know. You would need. We would need the crystal ball, alternate reality. All these price increases don't happen. Here's how it would sell. All these price increases do happen. What's it going to sell? I just don't.

[A]

I don't.

[B]

I do think it affects it. I do think there's a chilling effect. I do think people look at it and go, oh, fuck, no way. But I don't know to what degree that would be and I don't think there'll be a way to say that. Sperbs says, does the Pro help with Portal remote play quality? Yes.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

Tim's talked about this before. It's something I never thought about. But of course, if your PlayStation 5 is running your games at a higher frame rate and higher resolution. The screen you're then streaming to is going to be doing it as well. So, yeah, there's a latent bump there. Yeah. Anakin says, do you think we're headed towards another video game crash where people are being priced out? Yes. I think you're already living it. Even if you don't know. All these layoffs and all these studio closures and Epic being like, oh, we can't even make money on Fortnite, like we are in the crash. Like, do I think it's going to bottom out and be the worst thing? And yet I think it's going to be really, really bad. And I've said this for weeks, maybe even months now, but like, yes, like you have all these people who came here, bought up companies, got into this thing, went public expecting the video game boom to never end. And now they're dealing with the fact that like, oh shit, it's very hard to make money in video games. And what that means is that they then offload those companies, those businesses, those people, and then we're gonna have to rebuild from what we have, Saul says, with the price hikes, do we see Costco drop the PlayStation like they did when the Xbox. When Xbox raised their prices on their 6 year old consoles?

[A]

I mean, that comes down to our people buying them.

[B]

Yeah, Costco's fucking crazy. So who knows what they're up to. They're always trying to look out for you and give you free pizza because

[A]

like I would imagine the Costco thing was, they probably weren't seeing enough. Xbox is flying off shelves anyway. So you raise the prices, like, well, no, we're not going to carry this anyway.

[B]

I think they're trying to get rid of their thing more than anything. Yeah, so. And I don't know if they're trying to get rid of PlayStations, but it goes on like this. There's so many things in here. I'm trying, I'm trying to find new things that we haven't talked about it.

[A]

It's crazy to read out $900 out loud.

[B]

I know. Blessed with a curse, says, this sucks. I've been holding out for a portal oled. Now that's gonna be too much again. Are they still committing to doing those kind of things? Like, you know what I mean? Like if you're sitting. If it's the same thing we're saying with the Steam machine, which has already been promoted and announced. Yeah, if I'm back in PlayStation R&D, and we're working on a Portal OLED. I look around right now and I'm like, just pause it. Like, what are we doing? There's no way. Pause it. If anything pivot to that. In between PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 6 handheld we've talked so much about. Yeah, but even that. What are the components gonna cost?

[A]

Yeah. How much is that gonna end up costing for the consumer?

[B]

I think again, as these companies batten down the hatches, what I think is happening is a lot of those projects are put on ice. Okay, cool. The market is not ready for us to put out a $1200 PlayStation handheld that's less powerful than the. We gotta start calling our shots. We can't be flooding the market with new hardware and then expect them to buy the new hardware in a recession, in this economic downturn, in freefall in general of how much our components gonna cost? 6 months, 9 months, 12 months.

[A]

On the flip side, do you just go, let's just make it super expensive in the. In our richest. The richest parts of our audience will pay for it. Like, you gotta, you gotta monetize the audience that you have. Right. Like, I don't think you have the option to just. We're not gonna, we're. We're gonna sit and not release anything because then it's like you're not making the money.

[B]

Not anything. To be clear, I'm saying if I'm PlayStation and we've been working on a PlayStation remote. Remote player. Remote play. Thank you. Portal. The PlayStation portal OLED. And now we're to the point where it's like, we still have an outstanding. We're here. I'm looking at the prices go up and the components go up. And I'm saying, let's stop that because PlayStation 6 has to sell. And PlayStation 6 is gonna be sticker shock. So what I don't want to do is two years before PlayStation 6 put out a remote play handheld that you go, oh my God, how much is that? I think it's like now it's calling your shots of not so many revisions as we understand people are gonna be committed to the console they currently own or the one we're currently selling. So let's not put something in the middle there to muddy the message or make people go, this is good enough. I'm using the OLED and I'm using PlayStation plus streaming, so I don't need to really worry about PlayStation 6 yet.

[A]

Gotcha.

[B]

IMO. Not knowing exactly what's going on. But I don't know. The MD says will These hardware prices push us to the streaming future. I think it could have. I think it could have, but I just feel like with Microsoft being like, no, we're changing course at the worst possible time, that I don't believe they believe in their streaming future.

[A]

Do you believe streaming as a. Is, like, a main way to play? Like, if we're. If I was. If I were to tell you, hey, you're not allowed to play games natively on your console for the next year, Greg, like, you can only play via cloud. You can only play via streaming. Is that something that you're ready to do?

[B]

So I'm ready. Yes. Am I excited? No. That's my problem is I feel like in another alternate universe where everybody in this tech space doesn't get so excited by the shiny fucking keys of AI in front of their face if they were to look and say that didn't happen. So we are doubling down on cloud, I think we'd be in an interesting place because again, GeForce, Nvidia GeForce now runs so fucking well. And now, granted, that's me playing with my San Francisco Internet, playing at my, you know, right next to my router or, yeah, plugged in. I'm trying to think all the different ways I've used it, but it doesn't matter, right? I'm not using it at a bus stop with 3G. I don't fucking know. But that runs well enough where I'm like, damn, that would be a thing where. With my Steam deck before I switch over to Raw, because I haven't run it on. Maybe I doesn't matter with my handhelds. I've done before where it's like, Bloodlines the Masquerade. I was like, damn, I want to play that. Ooh, it does not run well on my handheld. Wait a second. Put it on Nvidia GeForce Now. Damn, it runs really well and looks great here. Like, yes, I have had the latency. I have had, oh, I've moved. Or I've switched my wifi mesh network and it's trying to read the other room. Clearly not this one. I've had those problems. But my problem. My problem with the question, right, is that none of that, I think, is ready for prime time. Yeah, that's not ready for you to turn to the mainstream gamer and be like, yo, this all is expensive and sucks, but guess what? For $30, with Xbox game Pass ultimate, you can get all these games and cloud and you can be off to the races with it. None of it is prime time, because I feel like everybody started doing that and then got distracted and moved somewhere else. Because in the same way. Well, that's not too. That's maybe too much. The all in on AI right now feels like a fad. That's not going to work out. I feel like there's a second where Stadia Ouya. We were all in for a second on streaming anyway. Yeah. Thank you so much.

[A]

Yeah, we'll see.

[B]

We will.

[A]

Was ouya's a streaming thing?

[B]

No, I don't think so. I think I was reaching for. I was Luna. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm thinking of. Oh, I had it for a hot second. There was a thing called Shadow, but what there was the one fucking one that Scott Lowe. Yeah. Respect to your OGs online was there before anybody else. Yeah. To this question, all the skill says Xbox Cloud is looking more desirable. I played lag free 1440p Witcher 3 while watching pets and working from home last week. It was shockingly sick.

[A]

Hell yeah.

[B]

Again, I think cloud is fucking awesome.

[A]

But I know I've told. I've definitely told this story multiple times before, but I'll never forget in like, I forget what year was like 2013, 2012, somewhere around there, Saints Row 3 had come out and I was just on Facebook at. I don't know, I was probably 19 or some shit. And remember Facebook apps? You know, you download. Never forget using the Facebook apps. One of the apps was the Guy Kai app on Facebook.

[B]

Oh my.

[A]

Open the guy up on Facebook and it was like, do you want to play Saints Row 3? And I was like, no way that works. And I started playing Saints Row 3 on my Facebook browser page in like 2012, 2013 somewhere around there. And my mind was blown and I was like, this is the future. This is video games. And to your point. Yeah, like I feel like everybody was there and then the commitment just got lost.

[B]

It was the same thing I think we see with all technology and especially with what we're talking about right now in terms of how hard it is to make a bucket video games. It was the idea of like how hard it is to get people to go and believe in this service and do this thing and pay for this. And then over here. Yeah. Couch Commando says in the super chat, the stadium model Cloud only console would have probably worked. When looking at these console and PC prices, Internet speed's not there yet. And that's the problem is there's still in America. Such a variable variable for what your Internet is.

[A]

Internet has to be so good. Like I want to be able to be in a place where I am hanging out at the bus stop and I'm like, all right, let me play slay. Let me play Slay the Spire. Well, actually, spider's a bad idea or bad example because I have my phone. But let me play. I don't know, Super Meat Boy 3D is coming out. I want to bust that out on my phone at the bus stop. Play via a cloud server or my laptop or whatever it is and just bust it out for a second. Play it. All right, cool. Bus is here. Put it in my pocket. Yep, get, go. I need it to be easy. I need it to be so fucking simple and easy. And we're not there yet.

[B]

And back to your point. Yeah, and my point that you then got in on, right? Pivoted. The industry pivoted away from like that's the priority. No AI is going to be. Well, NFTs are going to be the priority. Wait now. NFT what? Free games as a service that like trend chasing. Trend chasing, trend chasing. And that does not end well as we are seeing as we live in the repercussions.

[A]

They didn't raise the price of VR headsets. Sorry, I just noticed that they're not. They do not care about those.

[B]

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Number two on the ROPA report Sources say Nintendo is planning a new Star Fox and a major Zelda remake this year, but no 3D Mario. This is the one, the only Andy Robinson at vgc. Nintendo is reportedly planning to release a major Zelda remake and a new Star Fox game this year, but a 3D Mario game won't arrive on Switch 2 until 2027. That's according to prominent Nintendo insider Nate the Hate, who's shared a plethora of information on the company's 2026 plans, which matches with what VGC has heard from our own sources. In a new podcast, the Nintendo Sleuth claimed a classic Star Fox revival is planned for Release on Switch 2 this summer, hot on the heels of Fox McCloud's confirmed appearance in the Super Mario Galaxy movie. Pull him to the curb. Bless. How did you feel about people yesterday saying that talking, and not just kind of funny, but in general talking about the Star Fox thing in Galaxy is a spoiler.

[A]

Oh, I think that's crazy.

[B]

It's got a poster.

[A]

It has a poster. Nintendo officially revealed it. I'm mad at Nintendo. Like y' all should be mad at Nintendo. Nintendo. They spoiled it. But once they spoil it, it's like, well, it's not a spoiler if I say it.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You know what I mean?

[B]

Sorry.

[A]

Back to this.

[B]

I'm with y'. All. Nate the Hate says Star Fox is coming back in summer 2026. We're getting a new Star Fox game in the very near future. I've been told it's a classic style Star Fox game and that the visuals are supposed to be very good. And I've heard it does have online multiplayer. End quote. Furthermore, a new 3D Mario game won't arrive in 2026 as expected, according to Nate sources. QUOTE One game that will not be releasing in holiday 2026 is 3D Mario 3D Mario will be releasing in 2027, Nate said. But there is another anniversary this year and it's the anniversary of the Legend of Zelda. What I can share with you today is that in the second half of 2026, approaching the holidays, we are going to receive an Ocarina of time remake for Switch 2.

[A]

Yeah you need a cigarette after that one, huh?

[B]

We've all been predicting it forever, but, oh, my God, please.

[A]

I mean, I didn't think we'd get it.

[B]

I prayed to God every day for this. According to Nate, the Hate Nintendo is unlikely to stream. I'm sorry. Yeah, no. To stream a general Nintendo direct until June. But it could make smaller announcements on social media, such as new looks at Splatoon, Raiders in Fire Emblems, Fortune's weaves, and anticipated Switch 2 editions for Pikmin 4 in Xenoblade 2.

[A]

There's so much here. There's so much here. Where do you want to start?

[B]

I mean, Ocarina. Come on, let's fucking go.

[A]

That's exciting.

[B]

God, that game's good. Mike's obviously playing it right now in his streams. You know, Ben and I started it back and I was so shocked to turn it back on and find that. Yes, it holds up. Thank God it holds up. Oh, man. Ben stopped playing it. Not because of. It was bad or whatever. You know, that's a game I kind of play and he watches and he wants to play more. And it's like I'm going to go and restart it and play with an N64 controller by myself. Because I love Ocarina so much. To be back is so nice.

[A]

I'm so excited for it.

[B]

Right.

[A]

I love Ocarina as well. I. I think it could. I guess you saying it ages Will, actually, it's pretty cool. And also, I know we had the 3DS remake as well, but the fact that this is a thing, this is a game where it is every. God, how long has it been since Ocarina? 30 years, almost. About 30 years since Ocarina. Of time.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was gonna say I played it in high school. Senior of high school. Yeah. That would have been 99. No. O. O. 99. Oh.

[A]

Oh, yeah. Every. Let's say, decade and a half or so, remake Ocarina. I feel like that's a good tradition. I feel like that's a good cadence to keep. I don't really have much to say about the Ocarina thing. I'm just like, oh, hell yeah.

[B]

Yeah, exactly. I hope it's true.

[A]

Hell yeah. My one fear with it, because I. If I have a guess, you want to touch fingers, like ET My one fear, my big fear is that this thing is gonna come out digital. $70 physical, 80 bucks.

[B]

Does it come with an ocarina, though? No.

[A]

Well, in the special edition for like, $120. Yeah. Maybe more. I don't know how special it is.

[B]

Now we're talking about the affluent gamer. What? That specialization.

[A]

What's Tim getting?

[B]

Here's my fucking car, Nintendo, whatever you want. You know what I mean? Come on. Super chat from Sky Fellowship says my theory for the Ocarina of Time remake trailer. We see Zelda's nightmare. She's in bed, very restless. It cuts to her dream and we see the king. It pans, door opens and bam. Here's Ganondorf. He smiles. Title card.

[A]

I like that. I like that.

[B]

I like that a lot. I like that.

[A]

Do you, I mean, I guess to talk about a little bit, right? Like, how different would you want it to be? Would you want it to be shot for shot, gameplay beat for gameplay beat, the same exact game, but way prettier? Or do you want them to take more modern Zelda isms and put them in the game?

[B]

I don't want, I want to see, we've already got the DS one. I want them to do new stuff with it.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

I don't want, I want it to look. This sounds so stupid. I want it to look like a real Zelda. I don't want it to look like Link's Awakening or Echoes of Wisdom or whatever.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

I love those games. I've enjoyed playing those games. But, like, I want it to be, like, it looks like a modern ocarina. That makes sense.

[A]

Like a. What do you, what do you envision for our style? Do you want it to look like a Breath of the Wild, or are you thinking, like.

[B]

I want it to look as serious as Breath of the Wild, but I don't want it to be Breath of Wild.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

I don't want it to be like climbing everything.

[A]

Feel like it has the scope and has, like.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

To be behind the back or whatever.

[B]

What I want, and I think that'll be the moment that so many people talk about is I want to relive the moment of leaving the village, walking into Hyrule Field and going, holy.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Because that as a kid. Oh, my God. Replaying with Ben, it's laughable.

[A]

That's the.

[B]

You walk in and it's so flat and tiny. You're like, oh, but this, Nobody did this. I want it to be. We're going. And it's like, holy.

[A]

That's the tough thing. I think that's what I, I, I'm with you. That I want it to feel like Zelda. I want it to have that, like, seriousness, I don't think is the right word, but I guess, like, Grounded. This is a fantasy world where shit can get dark but also light. All this. Right. I. I think I lean more towards. I want it to be straight up. Like, make it as Ocarina as possible. Right? Like, I want it to be more traditional Zelda than a Breath of the Wild or Tears of the Kingdom. I love those games, but I kind of miss the Twilight Princess Ocarina. Like, traditional Zelda dungeon style of game. So I kind of want that as well. But you're right that once you get into Hyrule Field, there needs to be liveliness. Like, there needs to be a sense of, oh, this is a world now. Because, yeah, N64 was a very long time ago, and so that was kind of a different thing. It felt a lot more.

[B]

You have any trepidation that Nate the Hate's just talking about anniversary? Oh, no, actually, I'm wrong. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. I was pivoting. Forget everything I said right there. Joshua Super Chat and says, people will hate me, but this needs to be Nintendo showing that voice acting does work in Zelda. They've already done it in Breath of the Wild. Tears of the Kingdom, pull the trigger.

[A]

I. I can see that. I don't know if they need to, but, like, I. I would like voice acting. I think it's time, I think, more Nintendo franchises.

[B]

Do you think Link talks, though, or just. I mean, just do what they did in Breath of Wild where Zelda's talking to us. That's fine. Ganondorf can scream at us.

[A]

See, this is a tough one, because if it was a brand new Zeala, I would say Link should talk, but because it's Ocarina of Time, I'm like, what? What's Link gonna say? What's this motherfucker say in this game? Yeah, I'll say that Link doesn't have to talk, but I want the other characters to be voiced.

[B]

Okay, yeah, that's fair enough.

[A]

But we got to get around to Link talking sooner or later.

[B]

Sada Fry says they're going to make it look like the movie coming out, which would make a lot of sense.

[A]

Cool. That could lead to the movie having a bit more Ocarina influence. Ocarina vibes, which is, I think, a good place to transition into Star Fox. Ah. If you want to, we should hop into story number three, because I think that'll feed into.

[B]

Let's bring it in. Story number three. Glen Powell, the Voice. Fox McCloud in Star Jesus Christ Super Mario Galaxy movie. This is Jordan Moreau over variety quote. The Super Mario Galaxy movie is assembling even more a list voice actors as Glenn Powell will bring to Life Fox McLeod, the surprise Nintendo character joining the Mario brothers. Powell posted a video on Instagram announcing the news Friday. He most recently starred in the thriller how to Make a Killing. This year, nobody he's in the running man. Like Fox, a space pilot from the Star Fox games, Powell took to the skies in the breakout role in Top Maverick in 2022. The inclusion of Fox was a surprise, but eagle eyed Nintendo fans spotted a glimpse of the character in a recent Super Mario Galaxy movie trailer.

[A]

So few things. Glen Powell. I like him a lot. I think he's a great choice. I love the Top Gun Maverick connection here that we have with him playing a pilot. I think that's awesome. Listen, for the people that might get mad that we're talking about it. We're all on the same side.

[B]

It's too late now.

[A]

It's too late when it's too late. But also we're on the same side, which is Nintendo Y Nintendo get asses in the seats. Nintendo. But like, you think kids need Star Fox to watch the new Mario Galaxy movie.

[B]

Some dorks do. Some dorks do. They weren't gonna go see.

[A]

Kids were gonna see it anyway. Kids are the primary audience for the movie. Keep this a secret for the adults out there. It's the adults that are gonna get excited for Star Fox. It's crazy. I don't think. I don't think this moves the needle that much for like getting. Getting butts in the seats. I do think this is cool because this then leads into this. I so I dreamt about this.

[B]

Greg.

[A]

I've. No joke. I've had multiple podcasts going back to. Okay, Beast, where I had an episode of the podcast that I don't think you find anywhere now. Where I gave my pitch for working our way towards the Super Smash Brothers movie.

[B]

Of course.

[A]

Right. If I was Nintendo, I was making a Mario Brothers cinematic universe. Whatever. Nintendo Cinematic universe. What would it look like? And it looked exactly like this. It looked like Mario going to space.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

A la Mario Galaxy and meeting Star Fox. In my dream. There was also Samus. There was also Captain Falcon. There was also Kirby. Right. Like I wanted to meet all these people in space. Of course I wouldn't expect them to do that. The fact that we're here. The fact that we've made it this far.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

We're getting that smash movie.

[B]

You sure as are getting that smash.

[A]

I'm excited.

[B]

No doubt. There. No doubt.

[A]

And we're gonna get a Star Fox movie, I bet.

[B]

Yeah. One.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Over on BS. That's a blue sky, Tim. Tim. BS. That's a blue sky%, Tim. 13 of the 82 Super Smash Brothers ultimate characters are now officially in the Super Mario Brothers movie. 16 if you count Easter Eggs of Little Mac, Duck Hunt, and Pit from the first movie. So if you don't count Fire Emblem characters, we already have almost the entire roster.

[A]

And we have, like, there are teasers with Pikmin in them. There was Rob. Rob Guy, the robot. He was in that.

[B]

Like, he's in your kitchen.

[A]

They're building the blocks here. And yes, I do think the Star Fox movie happens. This reminds me a lot of how

[B]

you think he'll get his own movie.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Because I think Star Fox weirdly works really well for a movie. Right? Like, it's the.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Voiced Nintendo characters. Star Fox has been voiced do a barrel since N64.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

But is he.

[B]

Is. Is Star Fox gonna put asses in

[A]

the seat after this? Yeah.

[B]

Okay. I mean, how big is this moment gonna be in this movie?

[A]

For me, this Star Fox in Mario is the equivalent to Obafemi in Brock Lesnar, where you, Mario is putting Star Fo. Here.

[B]

We're bringing you my chest from nxt.

[A]

Mario Mario's looking at Star Foxes. Like, put your foot on my chest right now. Like, this is what gets kids into Star Fox as an idea.

[B]

Okay, we'll see. You know, I'm excited to take Ben to see this. We're just days away from the Mario movie, so it's coming up pretty quick.

[A]

And the idea of a Star Fox game coming this summer going back to Story two, I think that's really exciting. Unexpected, but I absolutely love it.

[B]

I mean, to your point, if they're committed to, like, Star Fox is the truth.

[A]

Truth.

[B]

We're gonna ride the High of the Galaxy movie. We're gonna put Star Fox out there. He's gonna be hot, and then we're gonna make a movie on him.

[A]

Starfle or Nintendo might end up being the only company to nail the movie video game synergy. Because whenever this happens, I get so worried of, like. Like, what's. What's losing development time here, Right? Like, are the video games being rushed? Is the movie not gonna. Like, where. Where's the disconnect? In a weird way, I feel like Nintendo's found something with their. Their flow of being able to synthesize. Hell yeah.

[B]

Hell, yeah.

[A]

Hell yeah.

[B]

To that, let's move on to another Hell yeah. Story number four. Content creator Alana Pierce launches Charred Pictures in partnership with game devs. This is Jennifer Moss over at Variety. Popular content creator Alanah Pierce is launching Charred Pictures, an indie production company focused on involving game devs in film and TV adaptation projects. Charred Pictures initial slate includes three projects in various states of production. Two movies based on gaming IP and one original indie film from Pierce that is Rap Filming an adaptation of the Faith the Unholy trilogy. No, Trinity. Sorry. Survival horror game trilogy is in pre production with Pierce set as the screenwriter and Brandon Salisbury George A. Romero's resident evil directing. Produced by Pierce through Charred Pictures alongside Faith the Unholy Trinity developer Erdof Games as executive producer. The film follows a young priest confronting demons cultists and his own fractured faith amid the pair paranormal of the 1980s satanic panic. I've never heard of this series. Sounds like a game I want to play though. Kevin. Add it to my wish list. Also in pre production is Dead Take a film adaptation of House of the Dragon Star a boo. Whatever. Not whatever. What up abu? What up? 2025 first person narrative horror game of the same name from the developer Surgeon Studio.

[A]

Did you ever play through Dead Take?

[B]

No, I I. It's one of those like it just hit wrong for reviews. You guys covered it so well.

[A]

Yeah, I think you're playing grounded or something like that.

[B]

That.

[A]

Oh man, it's so good.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Such a good game.

[B]

Should I double back for it? I mean I don't like.

[A]

Yeah, because it's a night. You know what I mean? It's like a two hour game I think.

[B]

Fair enough. Okay, I'll go back for it. Abu AKA Salim will co write and co produce the film alongside Pierce and Charred Pictures. The story explores the seedy underbelly of Hollywood and the lengths people will go to achieve fame. End quote. The third project is Godmother, a film from writers Pierce and John Vernon. Directed by Vernon, the film follows Theo Revival star Paige Evans and her and as she and her boyfriend Colby Krypton star Cameron Cuff.

[A]

Hell yeah.

[B]

Come on. What a slate of people we got here. Head into the high desert for a romantic weekend only to have their plans slowly encroached upon by a pair of unsettlingly friendly retirees. 911 actor D. Wallace and X Men's Bruce Davidson. Can I get. Can you google for me? Bruce Davison, who's that? From X Men with dark designs for her. Charred Pictures describes itself as built on a collaborative model where developers are integrally involved across as many disciplines. As possible, including writing, art, design, music, shaping adaptations that preserve the tone, intent, and identity of the source materials. Oh, Senator fucking Kelly from X Men. Hell yeah. This guy turned into a blob and burst. Remember also, I always think of him, you see right there, the dad from the Harry and the Hendersons TV show. Love this guy. Alana, I need an introduction. In addition to working closely with game devs, Pierce says Charred Pictures is focused on a new way of funding for its film adaptations, working with content creators who are fans of the games being adapted and want to back the projects.

[A]

So this is really fun to talk about.

[B]

Fuck yeah.

[A]

We love Alonik. That's awesome. I think it's fun coming off of the Mario movie talk because one of the things that we talk about a lot in the last couple of years is video game adaptations happening more and more and more and more, becoming such a widely adopted thing. Really cool and really smart to see Alana get in on this and be like, all right, how can I be. How can I be of service to what's going on, Especially on the indie side? So these projects, really cool. The part where they talk about being built on a collaborative model where devs are involved in as many of the disciplines as possible. Right. Love that. Really cool. That's exactly what we want to see. We want to see devs involved in the art, in the music, in the story, in whatever, in the aspects that are important to actually making this a good piece of art that is reflective of the video games that they put out. So I think that's super awesome. And yeah, I think working with content creators as well. Like, every single thing about this I think is awesome. Shout out to Alana Pierce, one of

[B]

the coolest people I think, period, 100% Alana. I mean, I've talked about. I did a Greg way, I think earlier this year, maybe last year, about Alana's so cool. Alana just does cool shit all the time. And Alana, like, you just talk about somebody with the ambition and the talent to back it up. It's amazing to see her do and I can't wait to see what her career will look like. I do want to call out Darth Doobie in the Twitch chat who said about the Harry and the Hendersons TV show? The movie is better. Greg. Lol. Can I get the one Kevin Darth Duby. At what point did I say the TV show was better than the fucking movie? I just called out that I know Senator Kelly from, of course, X Men and from the Harry and the Hendersons. TV show. Did I say the fucking show is better? I didn't. So what I need you to do is ball up your fist like this. Slam it into your own head. Oh, Jesus. You know what I mean?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

These people out here filling in words. So the fact that I fucking mentioned the Harry and the Hendersons TV show infers to you that I think it's better than the movie starring John Lithgow? Not a goddamn chance. First movie I ever cried at. All right? So don't come at me with fucking slander about how I feel about Harry and the Hendersons, mov. While also how much I appreciated Harry and the Henderson TV show. They had the same fucking goddamn sasquatch from the film and the show. Do you understand the differences in budgets there, Darth Doobie? Are you so dazed from punching your own stupid fucking face because I just told you to that you don't understand math anymore? Take your left fist, ball that up. Punch yourself in the head again.

[A]

Oh. John Lithgow played Arthur Mitchell in Dexter. One of my favorite characters. Fantastic. Shout out. John Lithgow.

[B]

I also third Rock from the Sun. Remember that? No, it was a sitcom TV show.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Probably late 90s. Mid 90s. Mid to late 90s. Yeah, he was on that.

[A]

Did you ever watch Malcolm in the Middle?

[B]

I did, yeah.

[A]

I've been getting a lot of Malcolm. I didn't. I wasn't. I didn't really watch it that much. I was aware of it because I

[B]

feel I'm in the same boat where I never watched it, but I feel like I was showing up maybe for Simpsons or something, and it was on before, so you're, like, catching the last

[A]

15 or I forget the name of the main character, but he was in Lizzie McGuire for an episode, and I. I was watching Liz. Malcolm. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[B]

But Frankie Muniz.

[A]

Frankie Mun. Yeah. Frankie Muniz ended up on an episode of Liz McGuire, which put me on to Malcolm in the Middle and was like, oh, what is this? And I remember, like, being aware of it. I've been getting a lot of clips of it in my TikTok. It's a funny show. I wish I watched it back in the day.

[B]

Yeah, you would have got it, though, but. Right.

[A]

Probably not.

[B]

Talk to me about icarly. You seem like an icarly kid.

[A]

I loved icarly. Yeah.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Yeah. ICarly's hilarious. ICarly. It sucks because Dan Schneider, who's like, the shitty.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I saw the documentary.

[A]

He was the director of it. He weirdly not even weirdly. He upsettingly directed a lot of the best Nickelodeon sitcoms because it was Drake and Josh. It was Zoe 101, which didn't age that well. Actually, not that great. But icarly, oh, my God. Found has such a level of absurdist humor post season three where it's like, damn, y' all entered a flow state. Really, really good stuff.

[B]

And the cast is cool because I've talked. That's the thing. You know, I think I've mentioned this maybe on shows you're around, but not on. But, like, I've worked my way backwards.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Where Jennette McCurdy showed up on Modern Love New York Times podcast to promote her new novel, Half as eight Page. I listened to that, thought it was so good that I was like, oh, I gotta check out the autobiography. I'm glad my mom said, which, of course, is talking about her being a child star and iCarly. But I have no reference to iCarly. So it's like. And then, like, yesterday I got served some clip or whatever that was like a bloopers. And for some reason. Oh, that's. That's Jeanette right there. But I've never seen her as the character. It was weird.

[A]

Yeah. I don't know. If I were to, like, even send you the best episode of iCarly, I have no idea what your reaction would be to it, because it's, like, of such an era. It was such a kid, a 2007 kids show that, like, I mean, when

[B]

she's talking about I had to swing a butter sock, I was like, I. Yeah, I can. I can. I know what kind of show this is.

[A]

That butter sock was killing me, though.

[B]

Bless.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Butter socks. The death of our industry.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

This is all big news. If I wanted something smaller, say the tiniest news I need to know about, where would I go?

[A]

You'd go to our last story, the WE News channel, where we cover all the small news items you need to know about.

[B]

Number five, the WE news we've already covered. Number one bullet point. Roger owes blessing a pizza. But from vg, the CEO of Crimson Desert, publisher Pearl Abyss says it's currently looking into a possible Switch 2 port quote. While there are some aspects we have to compromise on because the Switch currently has lower specifications compared to the other consoles, we've begun research and development internally with a keen.

[A]

Interesting. Go get it.

[B]

Good luck for you.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

The six access says PUBG blind spot will shut down on March 30th.

[A]

Do you remember this one? PUBG blind spot came out two months ago. Yeah, this is one that I remember. I don't know if Mike ever streamed it, but it was on our schedule and I remember being like, oh, there's a new PUBG game.

[B]

Sounds about right for our schedule.

[A]

Yeah, exactly. And two months later, in a statement

[B]

posted to Steam Ark Team. Oh, I see. In a statement posted on Steam Ark Team wrote, quote, to everyone who has been part of PUBG Blindspot journey, thank you sincerely for your support. Since our last update, the team has been exploring multiple ways to improve the experience and move the game game forward. However, after careful consideration, we have come to the conclusion that we are no longer able to substantially provide the level. Oh, sorry. Sustainably provide the level of experience we set out to deliver through early access. We place player experience at the center of every decision we make and it is based on that principle that we have made this decision. As a result, PUBG Blind Spot's early access service will come to a close on Monday, March 30th. Sorry, I started laughing. Multiple ways to improve the experience and move the game forward. Forward. Our conclusion. Don't. We will not be doing that. We will not be doing that. I switched to version of Devil May Cry 5 has been rated in Taiwan and Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic is now available on Xbox Series and PlayStation 5. And that's it for your final Wii news of the week.

[A]

Did you ever watch Drake and Josh?

[B]

No. Oh, that was all.

[A]

That was the one right there. That was the show. Did you watch Keenan and Kell?

[B]

Yes, but like Keenan and Kel, I would say that I watched. But that was more for still having affinity from them from all that.

[A]

See sncc.

[B]

Right?

[A]

That was.

[B]

Yeah, The Saturday night.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

Are you afraid of the dark? All that. Like, that was my. But that I like. Just as I feel like I ended up aging out of that is when Keenan and Kell got the spin off. So I would watch occasionally the orange soda and all that jazz.

[A]

That's crazy because like stuff. Are youe Afraid of the Dark? Those are the earliest etches of my memory.

[B]

Yeah. Yeah. That's how I passed the baton. That's when I passed the baton.

[A]

It's crazy.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, man. Are you afraid of the dark? You know what I mean?

[A]

That shit actually scared me as a kid.

[B]

Oh, hell yeah, Dan. Oh my God. It was terrifying. You kidding me? Let me get you some super chats out of here that aren't just about everything being horrible. Kyle says digging the jacket. Bless Rare's N64 era is certified goat. One of the best runs for a video game developer of all time.

[A]

Oh, 100% N64. Era Rare is one of my favorite developers of all time.

[B]

So 100% agree. Jay Farelli says cast the rest of Star Fox. Team go.

[A]

Oh, who's.

[B]

Who's Slippy?

[A]

John Lithgow.

[B]

Yes. Yes. Get Senator Kelly in there too.

[A]

Let's go,

[B]

Rhino. Hey, says Calden sick from work today so I can watch live. Love you guys. We hope you're not really sick, but if you are, get better. And thanks for watching.

[A]

My original casting for Fox was Jamie Fox, but this is better just for the fox name. Yeah.

[B]

Optimistic. 92 birthday tax. I turned 18 at the very first PAX east and I will turn 34 tomorrow at PAX East. Also, what if they showed Star Fox early because they're actually hiding Samus.

[A]

See, that's what I.

[B]

Happy birthday. And I hope there's a lot of surprises.

[A]

I hope so. Yeah. I want. I want space to mean that, like, the further out we go, the more we're. We're meeting wacky characters. Like, if we can meet Captain Falcon, I might shed tears.

[B]

Chico. Or maybe it's Chico. 23 says happy Friday. That's all. Keep on gaming gamers. We will. Now we're into where people are real mad. Oh, no. You know, we did a lot of.

[A]

What are they mad about?

[B]

It was the one. We're catching up to this. I think a lot of that's pre PlayStation news. Now we're into the PlayStation news. Mickey says first birthday tax I've paid in the last 11 years. Smiley emoji. One of my cats passed away last weekend. And all the shows have a nice. A nice constant. As always. Happy birthday. We're sorry about your cat birthday. We're always happy to be there constantly for you, unlike you, who haven't been there constantly for us for the last 11 years, apparently. So if you want to make that right before you go, Mickey, I know you got to get back to mourning your cat, but we would love 11 years worth of super chats to come.

[A]

That's crazy. Did you ever watch 100 Good Deeds for Eddie MacDowd?

[B]

No, I have no idea what that is. Is that a show or is that.

[A]

It's a show. I tried to describe it to Roger. He didn't believe me. That was a real thing. It was a. A guy, a bully that got turned into a dog. It was on Nickelodeon. He had to do 100 good deeds. Every episode was a good deed.

[B]

That man you put an expiration date on the show. That's crazy.

[A]

Yeah. I mean, they didn't make it to 100 episodes.

[B]

Yeah, I was like, he was trapped as a dog. Did he get to be a human at the end or did they, like.

[A]

I don't remember what the finale was like, but I think it got like.

[B]

When ALF got kidnapped by the FBI at the end of his show. And that was just the end of it. They left ALF on a cliffhanger, surrounded by the cops.

[A]

When? What? When was ALF on tv?

[B]

Early 90s. Like, Al. I feel like. I know. Through syndication.

[A]

Oh, okay. It was like, I assumed you're watching alive.

[B]

No, no, no. It might have been one of the shows that was running this final se. But it was definitely Grandma Miller. After school. I'm waiting for animated stuff to come on. Or like, a sick day. Remember? Like, you'd be like, sick. And it's like, I'm watching chips.

[A]

Yeah, you're watching the California Highway Patrol. Like, whatever point of being sick if you guys aren't putting on the good stuff.

[B]

P. Why they didn't have it. Like, that's something Ben will never understand. Understand. Ben will never understand. Just turning on tv. Like, you gotta watch whatever on. Yeah, I'm watching People's Court.

[A]

Oh, my God.

[B]

All right.

[A]

Dude, I hate that we learn too much about people and everybody ends up

[B]

being a shitty person who's bad now.

[A]

I learned that Bob Barker sucks.

[B]

Did he? I didn't know it.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

I mean, I believe it, apparently.

[A]

Maybe I'll double check. The thing that I read yesterday was that he, like, one. He was weird.

[B]

Like you say. I'll double check. You're not double checking. Before the show's over, let me do some of your wrongs you before you defame Bob Barker. All right, let's see what I got.

[A]

Plus, I got a similar Tik Tok talking about him, like, being really mean to the. The girls. Right? Girls? Yeah, yeah. And like, apparently he would, like, limit contestants where it's like, I don't want more than two black contestants on my show.

[B]

Okay, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure. A couple people write in saying that at some point, either I did or the news did or whatever called Star Fox. Star Fox. And his name's Fox. I apologize, everybody, if that was me or if that's just something I read and I didn't catch it up. Bander says, as of September 2024, the Series X is the better selling console versus S.

[A]

Sorry, I'm looking up the ball. Give it to me. Hollywood Reporter. Is the one that they have an article yesterday from this the Docu series. Apparently there's a docu series now with Bob Barker about it. Not with Bob Barker, but about Bob Barker. The the docu series also revisits earlier claims tying Barker to racially charged remarks. Hallstrom recounts a moment in which Barker allegedly expressed fear of interracial relations, saying he believed black men were the most diseased people on earth, a statement cited in the program as emblematic of a broader culture.

[B]

That's not good. That's not great.

[A]

Which is crazy because as a kid I'm looking at Bob Barker, I'm like this guy is great. And now that I look back at it, I'm like, oh yeah, he was like a really old white man. Like of course I should have known.

[B]

You should have known. He's a different age.

[A]

I was six years old.

[B]

Our final one comes from Banner who says some missed additional news from Nate the Hates leaked Fire Emblem Splatoon Raiders and Rhythm Heaven are all summer plus a Switch 2 sports games. Not sure if it's a Switch 2 update or a new game. He also said there May be a Pikmin 4 Switch 2 Edition Dusk Bloods later this year.

[A]

Hell yeah. Cool.

[B]

And that's it for Kinda Funny Games Daily everybody. Remember each and every weekday we're here live on Twitch TV kinda funnygames YouTube.com kinda funnygames podcast services around the globe to give you the nerdy news you need to know about. If you love that, pick up a kinda funny membership patreon.com kinda funny YouTube.com kinda funnygames apple Spotify get everything ad free. Get your daily dose of me Greg Miller. And of course get good karma for supporting an 11 person 11 year old small business. We are all about live talk shows here so the day is far from over. After this you're getting a very special screencast with James and Elise Willems. They're here to talk about every movie coming out in April and after that that it's going to be a party mode for the new Mario Wonder. Switch to Bell.

[A]

Bella Bell.

[B]

Bella. Bella Park. Bella. Bella.

[A]

Nikki.

[B]

Bella Bella.

[A]

Well no it's not Bella Bella. It's just Bella Bell.

[B]

Bella Bell.

[A]

There you go.

[B]

Bella. Bella Bella everybody. Until next time, it's been our pleasure to serve you.