Switch 2 News You Missed! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 04.03.25

Summary

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Episode Summary — "Switch 2 News You Missed!" (04.03.25)

Released on April 3, 2025

Hosts:

• Greg “GameOverGreggy” Miller
• Tim Gettys
• Blessing Adeoye Jr.
• Guest: Andy Cortez

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1. Celebrating Andy Cortez’s 8-Year Anniversary

Timestamp: [00:00] - [02:48]

• Greg Miller opens the episode by congratulating Andy Cortez on his eight-year milestone with Kinda Funny.

  Greg Miller [02:23]: "Andy, you know, it's. It is crazy on the one hand to think about eight years of you working here. But then on the other hand, it."

• Andy Cortez shares reflections on how quickly time has flown, discussing adulthood and long-term collaborations with the team.

  Andy Cortez [01:20]: "I just, you know. Very true. I, I, it's already April and I feel like every time we approach New Year's I'm like, I feel like New Year's just happened."

• The hosts express appreciation for Andy’s contributions, highlighting his growth in game criticism and hosting roles.

  Greg Miller [02:48]: "It's an ecosystem we have here. But yeah, Andy, you know, it's. It does. It is crazy… You've gone to a different level with your games criticism…"

2. Nintendo Switch 2: DLSS and Ray Tracing Unveiled

Timestamp: [13:30] - [20:38]

• Greg Miller presents a detailed rundown of a recent IGN article covering the technical advancements of the Nintendo Switch 2.

  Greg Miller [13:30]: "Nintendo confirmed Switch 2 uses DLSS and ray tracing, but is being super vague about the details."

• Andy Cortez analyzes the implications of DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) and ray tracing for the Switch 2, emphasizing improved performance and visuals.

  Andy Cortez [17:08]: "I'm not surprised that they're saying, yeah, Nintendo doesn't love talking tech that deeply. Right?"

• Greg shares NVIDIA’s press release highlighting the Switch 2’s capabilities, including up to 4K gaming in TV mode and 120 FPS in handheld mode.

  Greg Miller [18:43]: "The Nintendo Switch 2, unveiled April 2, takes performance to the next level, powered by a custom Nvidia processor…"

• Discussion on battery life concerns associated with enhanced hardware features.

  Andy Cortez [23:03]: "I'm not surprised by a lot less battery power, obviously."

3. Switch 2 Accessories: Piranha Plant Camera

Timestamp: [39:06] - [40:28]

• Announcement of a Piranha Plant-themed camera accessory for the Switch 2, manufactured by Hori, set to release on June 5th.

  Greg Miller [21:02]: "They're selling a Piranha Plant camera…"

• Andy Cortez expresses mixed feelings about the novelty accessory, initially misunderstanding its purpose.

  Andy Cortez [39:16]: "I had misunderstood what this was initially… So this is how the camera is."

4. Privacy Features in Switch 2’s Game Chat

Timestamp: [40:35] - [44:32]

• Greg Miller discusses Nintendo’s approach to Game Chat safety, highlighting parental controls and privacy shutters on the Switch 2 camera.

  Greg Miller [40:35]: "Nintendo thought, quote unquote a lot about how to ensure game Chat is safe and secure…"

• Andy Cortez appreciates the measures but notes potential challenges with implementation and user experience.

  Andy Cortez [43:39]: "I’m glad Nintendo's doing what they can at least try to help mitigate any."

5. Video Game Pricing Trends: Mario Kart World at $80

Timestamp: [47:05] - [57:09]

• Greg Miller and Andy Cortez delve into the pricing of Mario Kart World, which is set at $80, marking a significant increase from previous titles.

  Andy Cortez [55:09]: "Everything's more expensive. Everything's gonna be more expensive."

• Analysis of Nintendo’s pricing strategy in the context of rising production costs and potential impacts of Trump’s tariffs.

  Greg Miller [56:14]: "Nintendo set a new price point…"

• Andy voices concerns over the affordability of games amidst broader economic challenges.

  Andy Cortez [57:09]: "Things are way more expensive since then, and federal minimum wage has remained unchanged."

6. Impact of Trump’s Tariffs on the Gaming Industry

Timestamp: [58:15] - [65:53]

• Steven Totila from GameSpot reports on the Entertainment Software Association (ESA)’s stance regarding Trump’s tariffs, predicting detrimental effects on gaming hardware and pricing.

  Steven Totila [60:58]: "The ESA believes the tariff story is far from over…"

• Greg and Andy discuss the broader economic implications, including stock market volatility and increased costs for consumers.

  Andy Cortez [63:27]: "Federal minimum wage has been 725 since 2009… You can't talk about this without talking about politics."

7. Other Gaming News and Rumors

Timestamp: [65:53] - [73:30]

• Greg Miller covers various updates, including:

  • Marvel Rivals trailer release featuring new characters.

  • Titanfall 3 rumors suggesting a 2026 launch, which Andy Cortez expresses fatigue over.

    Andy Cortez [69:02]: "I'm so fucking sick of this shit."

  • Call of Duty Warzone servers are back online with the return of Verdansk.

    Greg Miller [70:23]: "Call of Duty Warzone servers are back online, adding Verdansk for the first time since 2021."

• Andy Cortez shares personal gaming experiences and upcoming plans, including competitive gameplay and revisiting challenging titles like Dark Souls 2.

8. Audience Interaction: Super Chats Highlights

Timestamp: [73:09] - [75:43]

• The hosts engage with viewers through Super Chats, featuring messages like congratulations to Andy for his anniversary and feedback on game pricing.

  Steven Knight says: "Why do these Games Cost so Much?… $80 for that tech is nasty."

• Light-hearted interactions and humorous exchanges continue, maintaining an engaging and community-driven atmosphere.

9. Closing Remarks and Teasers

Timestamp: [75:43] - End

• Greg Miller wraps up the episode by teasing upcoming content, including:

  • South of Midnight Review on Gamescast.
  • Pokémon Nuzlocke streaming sessions.
  • Call of Duty Warzone marathon stream with team members.

  Greg Miller [75:43]: "This episode is brought to you by…"

• Final acknowledgments to Andy Cortez and farewells to the audience, encouraging support through memberships.

  Greg Miller [75:32]: "Until time everybody, it's been our pleasure to serve."

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Key Takeaways:

• Nintendo Switch 2 introduces advanced features like DLSS and ray tracing, promising enhanced gaming experiences but raising concerns about battery life and accessory costs.
• Game Pricing is on the rise, with titles like Mario Kart World priced at $80, reflecting broader economic pressures and tariffs impacting manufacturing costs.
• The gaming industry is grappling with the fallout from Trump’s tariffs, leading to increased prices and potential supply chain disruptions.
• Community Engagement remains strong, with hosts celebrating team milestones, addressing viewer feedback, and maintaining interactive segments through Super Chats.

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Notable Quotes:

• Andy Cortez [01:20]: "I just feel like every time we approach New Year's I'm like, I feel like New Year's just happened."
• Greg Miller [13:30]: "Nintendo confirmed Switch 2 uses DLSS and ray tracing, but is being super vague about the details."
• Andy Cortez [17:08]: "I'm not surprised that they're saying, yeah, Nintendo doesn't love talking tech that deeply."
• Andy Cortez [55:09]: "Everything's more expensive. Everything's gonna be more expensive."
• Andy Cortez [63:27]: "Things are way more expensive since then, and federal minimum wage has remained unchanged."

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This episode of Kinda Funny Games Daily offers an in-depth look at the latest developments surrounding the Nintendo Switch 2, including its technical advancements and the economic factors influencing game pricing. The hosts blend technical analysis with personal anecdotes and community interactions, providing a comprehensive and engaging overview for listeners.

Transcript

[Greg Miller]

Today in the nerdy news you need to know about, the Switch 2 does use DLSS and ray tracing. There might be hope for Titanfall 3 yet. And the Switch 2 has a piranha plant camera. And let me tell you, there's just so much gosh darn Switch two news to talk about because this is kind of Funny Games Daily. What's up, everybody? Welcome to Kinda Funny Games daily for Thursday, April 3rd. Word 2025. I'm one of your hosts, Greg Miller, alongside the Hispanic heartthrob Texas treat Latino heat. Clicking heads and ripping them to shreds. The Globetrot and Headshot and Root and Tootin Three point shooting Nitro rifle from Twitch tv. Celebrating eight years and kind of funny today, Andy Cortez.

[Andy Cortez]

Unbelievable.

[Greg Miller]

It's flown by.

[Andy Cortez]

God damn, dude.

[Greg Miller]

Do you think about it? Does it, Is it actually, has it actually flown by? Is that a long. What is that? What does eight years mean?

[Andy Cortez]

I think just adulthood flies by.

[Greg Miller]

Very true.

[Andy Cortez]

I just, you know. Very true. I, I, it's already April and I feel like every time we approach New Year's I'm like, I feel like New Year's just happened.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Just, just adulthood, you know?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Thinking about packing up everything in my Honda Civic, driving across the country, calling my parents, being like, all right, I'm in New Mexico now.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And stay in a little hotel there. Like, okay, I'm stopping in Los Angeles. Like, what a, what a weird, wild trip.

[Tim Gettys]

I mean, we've lived together for like seven and a half years at this point, which is fucking insane to think about.

[Greg Miller]

You guys hate each other.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm, I'm kind of waiting them out.

[Greg Miller]

You know, trying to get, I'm, I'm getting this rent controlled apart, trying to.

[Andy Cortez]

See who blinks first. No, the Baron Alyssa and this is not happening.

[Greg Miller]

This is not happening. But Baron Alyssa are walking through, like, man, your room would make a great nursery one day.

[Andy Cortez]

Like.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

Sucks. That's crazy, boss, dude.

[Greg Miller]

Sorry, Mike. Just me over it.

[Tim Gettys]

No, we love having Andy because, you know, with Lulu, like Lulu loves her to. Because he gives her a lot of chicken. So much chicken.

[Andy Cortez]

I didn't know that. She also loved the corners of the Pop. The banana Pop Tarts that I've been, you know, anything.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

But, you know, not really. She's, she could be a little bit.

[Tim Gettys]

She'S kind of picky.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, she. Okay. Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

But we always have whenever, you know, like on the weekends and I mean, like my morning Pop Tart, we'll have a little Pop Tart moment where we share a little pop tart together.

[Greg Miller]

I like that. I like that for you guys.

[Andy Cortez]

It's wild. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, it's wild. Well, congratulations.

[Andy Cortez]

Almost a decade.

[Greg Miller]

I know, right? That's when you get your lunch. Not nice, as we've now set the standard with Kevin. You can take an afternoon off and we'll take you to lunch. That's what'll happen. But no, Andy, thank you so much for working at Kind of funny all these eight years.

[Andy Cortez]

Hey, thanks for hiring me.

[Greg Miller]

No problem, Chad.

[Andy Cortez]

Thanks for paying the company all of your support with super chats and Twitch Primes and, you know, Patreon and all that so that they can afford to pay me, so.

[Greg Miller]

Exactly. It's. It's an ecosystem we have here. But yeah, Andy, you know, it's. It does. It is crazy on the one hand to think about eight years of you working here. But then on the other hand, it. I think. I stop and I think about what it was like when you first got here and how far you've come and how much you've progressed. And I know, you know, even employee reviews last year, specifically, I was telling you, like, how great you are on shows now. You know what I mean? And you were never bad, but, like, you've gone to a different level with your games criticism, the way the games you play, you know, you obviously stream so much on your own and you bring that, I think, expertise back and it really works and helps, you know, make the colors of the rainbow here even brighter in terms of, like, you know, we're really filling in each other's gaps and the content you bring and how good you are in shows and even you hosting stuff now, right? Like, you go out and you host games, dailies and gamescaster. Fantastic.

[Andy Cortez]

Thank you, Greg. I feel like I've regressed a little bit, you know.

[Greg Miller]

Really?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Why? Because of Mike?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. Yeah. Just really kind of puts me in a mood, you know?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

What was that?

[Greg Miller]

Someone interrupting my thing. Is that what it feels like? Such a song, such a jam?

[Andy Cortez]

Probably cut it off right there just because we did get dinged copyright and.

[Greg Miller]

You know, the important thing for me, Andy, is I've told the story a million times. I think every kind of funny day. But, like, you getting hiring, you're the turning point for me, like the eras of kind of funny. But you getting hired on that day where I walked through the old studio and I was like, yeah, so when's Andy get here? And Tim's like, oh, he's in the middle of Arizona right? Now he's going to be here in two days. And I was like, oh. And it all set in of like, oh, he's driving across the country tearing up his life for us just like I did for, for ignoring.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

I feel like you like Kevin's the first employee. But Kevin's still little brother. Right? He's from here. He's basically a founder, you know what I mean? Where you were like, oh, this is like we're a real thing and we need to not be idiots all the time. Yeah, but be it's the right way, you know how it is.

[Andy Cortez]

I notice like an uptick in the design of things.

[Greg Miller]

Well, you were already making shirts which is why it worked out so well. For bringing you in.

[Andy Cortez]

No more Impact font, you know.

[Greg Miller]

Okay, well first off, every now and then, first off, fuck you. I know, I know you weren't, but I'm working on my, my presentation for my show in Chicago. Kindafunny.com Chicago come see me a week from today. Insane. But I'm doing like a whole bunch of stuff and I'm using Impact.

[Andy Cortez]

Hell yeah.

[Greg Miller]

That's all I know.

[Andy Cortez]

It's what I know how to use.

[Greg Miller]

If you didn't know though, this is kinda Funny Games daily, each and every weekday on a variety of platforms. We run you through the nerdy video game news you need to know about live on YouTube.com kindafunnygames, Twitch TV, kindafunnygames and podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do, pick up that kind of Funny membership. Of course, $10 a month gets you good karma for supporting an 11 person business. It allows us to pay people like Andy to work here. And of course, there he is. Look at him. Don't you want him to work here? It also gets you all of our shows ad free. That's more than 20 a week, more than 80amonth. And of course you get your daily dose of me, Greg Miller in a series I do called Greg Way, which is a video and a podcast you get to enjoy. That's 15 to 20 minutes each and every day, meaning you get an hour long podcast every week. Which comes out to four hours of podcasting with me. Next week I'm in Chicago getting ready for the show. Kind of funny.com Chicago, please come see me. Tickets are still available and of course that means other people are doing Greg Way. So if you don't like one on one podcast with me now you get a bunch of other people which will be great for all of you. I think Mike's Already somehow wrangled Chris Anka into it. I don't know if he's told Chris Anka that, but I digress.

[Andy Cortez]

We'll talk about that later. There's never great communication from any of us.

[Greg Miller]

Yesterday when I was out here and it got revealed live to Gary that we weren't doing Mario Party anymore, I was like, yeah, yeah. Never. Never told you that. After that they changed that on me in a meeting. And as you know, in a meeting if I have to tell people to slack me things because I'm in the meeting and I never did that for anybody. And that was on me. Let's talk about some housekeeping. Of course, we are an 11 person small business all about live talk shows. But I don't want to talk about today just yet. Instead I want to talk about a city that never sleeps. New York. As you know, I had stars in the bank. I was ready to cash them in and compete in a sanctioned respectful game against him. He wasn't here yesterday. No one knew where he was. We just knew that he had fled the state. It turns out Tim, Blessing and Roger went to New York City to play the Nintendo Switch 2 to play all the games to try out mouse mode. Right now there are six different videos up over on YouTube.com kindafunnygames they are slowly. They are all gamescasts. They are all rolling out on the Gamescast podcast feed. Of course, uh, you know, we didn't want to ruin anything. I know Roger was editing at 10:00. Yeah. Time last night in New York. So these came in hot.

[Andy Cortez]

Cool.

[Greg Miller]

Greg is uploading them all to the Gamescast feed so you can go see them momentarily. You can't on Spotify you can watch the video. You can listen on Apple, you can listen on Spotify, you can watch over on YouTube.com kindafunnygames but it looks like they're all around 30 minutes of coverage. I've gotten through their hands on with the Switch 2. I've started in on them talking about the GameCube stuff. Great content from the the Charlatans.

[Andy Cortez]

Totally agreed. I had yeah put that playlist on 1.5 speed at the Uber drive over here because construction car blocked my car in. But the I am just based on what Blessing and Tim were describing about Mario Kart world. Holy it's. I was already stoked for this game and their excitement got me even more jazzed up about it because there's a lot of cool things that I don't think was necessarily evident on yesterday's Trailer. There's a lot of stuff they pointed out that sounds even more cool and even more exciting.

[Greg Miller]

I see my Apple podcast is starting to ding right now. We played GameCube on Nintendo Switch too. With the notification, the podcasts are going live. However, if you are a podcast listener, that's all great. If you go to YouTube or Spotify and watch the video, you will see, as you just saw there, B roll. There's a bunch of B roll. You know, usually we go there, we play stuff, we come back and just yak about it. We did send Roger there so the videos would look better than usual. So there is a lot of B roll. Roger stayed up late editing, of course. Shout out to Tim and killing it there. Shout out to everybody working on this cool rig right now. It's, you know, it takes a village. Right now we're doing a bunch of really, really cool stuff and somebody asked. It was mellow. Fellow actually asked in the live chat, did Roger get to play? He did. He has accuse impressions that I heard leaking through the. We played Switch 2, so lots of great content. And of course you, you know, Bear, what do you guys say?

[Tim Gettys]

Sorry, Bella. Fellow also put in the chat referencing I, I think a kind of funny podcast saying Roger's also just in the cuck. Share the for all of these.

[Greg Miller]

Yes, that's.

[Andy Cortez]

That's the hotel layout.

[Greg Miller]

You also, you know, a normal company would say, oh, we're putting up. Not, maybe not a normal company, us. We would say we're putting up six games cast today. We don't need to do anything. That's not how we roll here because we're all about live talk shows. You're getting kind of funny games daily right now. Right after this you are getting our south of Midnight review. That's right. Myself, Tim Blessing in Paris recorded our south at Midnight. You were on it, right?

[Andy Cortez]

No.

[Greg Miller]

Okay, good. We recorded our south at Midnight review before they had to shoot off and be cowards. So you will get that on a tape delay right after this. We're excited to talk to you about that. And then after that it is the funny podcast followed by more Pokemon in the streaming room. If you're a kinda funny member, you're gonna get today's Greg way soon all about the never ending Stars in the bank saga. Thank you to our Patreon producers, Anatoly Ast Delaney Twining, Carl Jacobs and Omega Buster. Today we're brought to you by Lost Skies, Monaco 2 and Rocket Money. But we'll tell you about that later. For now let's begin the show with what is and forever will be the Roper Report. Four items on the Roper Report. A baker's dozen, you might say four. Come on, Greg. No, I put all the switch stuff into one. All right, so every. Chill out. There's a ton of switch stuff to do this. I was move my window around here. I see the first super chat from Dexter. Hahaha. How does it feel to not cash in the stars, Greg? I did cash them in yesterday. Me and Andy, the backbone of game showdown. We're here, right? I called my shot. Tim could have stayed. Tim didn't have to go to New York, you know, I mean a lot of people. I saw at least one person on Reddit saying he shouldn't have gone to New York. This was more important. I agree with him. But as CEO, I awarded the stars to myself as a competitor and I think you'll all find that's perfectly legal. So how does it feel, Dexter, to be wrong about everything?

[Andy Cortez]

How does it feel, Dexter?

[Greg Miller]

James has a great point. I think this is a super chat. I think by. I think by Tim fleeing the state instead of three stars, he should forfeit all of his stars. He ends it there. I'll say to Greg, but I'd be open to. I would be open to.

[Andy Cortez]

Give me one.

[Greg Miller]

No, you. I take the three that I'm owed by stars in the bank, you get the other three. Tim has zero stars.

[Andy Cortez]

Shoot. I mean that sounds great to me.

[Greg Miller]

And that's a great anniversary gift for you being here.

[Andy Cortez]

Thank you.

[Greg Miller]

No problem. Happy to be them. Speaking of JJ baseball, Super Chat says congrats Andy, on 8 years. You and the rest of kind of funny make every workday fly by. So thank you for what you all do.

[Andy Cortez]

Thank you.

[Greg Miller]

We couldn't do. Oh, okay. And then Professor Cat says, you two hold hands romantically. We'll do that here. Do the interlocking fingers. That's more romantic. That's what me and Jen like to do. I ever tell you about Fingie Pile?

[Andy Cortez]

I don't know.

[Greg Miller]

Do you want to hear about Fingie Pile? It's a good story. No, it's a good story.

[Tim Gettys]

Sounds like a fromsoft enemy.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh God, he's leaning back.

[Greg Miller]

A few years ago at Dice Awards, I crushed the Dice Awards. I come off stage, meet up with Jen, we meet up with Andrew Goldfarb, we go and get on the escalator, and Jen and I were holding hands on the escalator, you know, railing, and then we said, gofarb, join us. Get on here. And we started chanting fingy pile. And so he put his fingies on the pile too. And then right next to Andrew Goldfarb was Sean Layden. And I turned around, I go hey Sean. And this is the one he was in charge of PlayStation.

[Andy Cortez]

Get in here, Sean.

[Greg Miller]

There was that moment of do we ask him to join the fingy pile? We stopped there for a second. Number one on the rope report. Of course it is. Switch two, day two. That's right. Of course. Switch two was revealed yesterday. You all have been amazing at supporting us. Whether it be our live reactions, whether it be our games cast post show, whether it be Paris and Gary talking about it, whether it be. I didn't talk about this. I think they're the reactions. Of course. In New York City they went onto the streets of New York after seeing the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct. They went on the streets and recorded their immediate reactions there. Blessing and Tim, last I saw, over 30,000 of you had watched that. Thank you so much for that late content going, let alone all the contents up there. I digress.

[Andy Cortez]

I saw a comment saying was there a planned meetup happening in New York? Why is this. Why is this the first time hearing of it? Did I miss something? It was all very, very super embargoed.

[Greg Miller]

Super embargoed.

[Andy Cortez]

Extremely embargoed.

[Greg Miller]

To the point that I don't know what I'm allowed to say. So I'm not saying anything already about what they did there. You I'm sure. I think we have a games cast tomorrow scheduled for the recap of the New York City adventure. So we'll get that. And of course they can all apologize for screwing over me for Stars in the Bank.

[Andy Cortez]

Of course they can.

[Greg Miller]

But I digress. We're going to [e-mail] and this is a long one. Stick with me. And I'm going to fumble some of these words because I don't know what half of them mean. You'll be there to pick me up.

[Andy Cortez]

Because I got you, big duck.

[Greg Miller]

You're my tech man. Nintendo confirmed Switch 2 uses DLSS and ray tracing, but is being super vague about the details. Again, this is IGN's Wesley Yin Pool. Nintendo has confirmed the Nintendo Switch 2 uses DLSS and ray tracing technology, but has yet to go into any detail about how exactly or show them off. Nvidia DLSS Deep Learning Super Sampling is an AI powered technology that uses machine learning to upscale lower resolution images in real time, enhancing both performance and image quality in games. This week's hour long Nintendo Direct revealed how much the Nintendo Switch 2 would be at $449.99, but Nintendo has kept its technical information to a minimum. Even in the official Nintendo Switch 2 tech specs, there is only confirmation that the console uses a custom processor made by Nvidia and no more detail. In a hardware focused roundtable Q and A in New York Yesterday attended by IGN, Nintendo representatives confirmed the Switch 2 uses DLSS, but did not specify which version of the tech or whether it had been customized for the switch 2. Takuhiro Dota, Senior Director of Programming Management Group, Entertainment Planning and Development Department at Nintendo Entertainment Planning and Development Division, confirmed Quote hey, there's some gymnastics I'm gonna do in this article.

[Andy Cortez]

You didn't set her over a syllable there.

[Greg Miller]

I'm trying to be better, I just gotta slow down. Dang, when you got titles, when your title includes the department you work in. But then I mentioned the department too. I you know, they it's whatever. Quote we use DLSS upscaling technology and that's something that we need to use as we develop games. And when it comes to the hardware, it is able to output to a TV at a max of 4K. Whether the software developer is going to use that as a native resolution or get it to upscale is something that the software developer can choose. I think it opens up a lot of options for our software developers to choose from. It was a similarly vague response when Dota confirmed the Switch 2's GPU is capable of ray tracing. Yes, the GPU does support ray tracing. As with dlss, I believe this provides yet another option for the software developer to use and a tool for them, end quote and what about the GPU itself? Tetsuya Sasaki, general manager at Nintendo's Technology Development Division and senior director at its Technology Development department, chimed in to say Nintendo prefers not to get into the weeds about things like gpu. Quote Nintendo doesn't share too much on the hardware spec, he said. What we really like is to focus on what we like to focus on is the value that we can provide to our consumers. But I do believe that our partner Nvidia will be sharing some information, end quote In January, the Internet spotted a patent filed July 2023 but published for the first time earlier this year that describes AI image upscaling technology that would help keep the video game download sizes small enough to fit on a physical game cartridge while offering up to 4K textures. The patent describes technology similar to Nvidia's DLSS or PlayStation 5 Pros pisser to upscale images using AI thank you, Greg.

[Andy Cortez]

Nothing about that was tough. You crushed all of that.

[Greg Miller]

I tried my best.

[Andy Cortez]

What were you worried about?

[Greg Miller]

You know, I just get it in my head about it. You know what I mean? Andy, you are Mr. PC Gaming. You are the man who says frames win games. You, of course, introduced us all to the visual triangle. What are you. What's your takeaway from this long story that is vague on details but is at least confirming that it can do all these things?

[Andy Cortez]

I'm not surprised that they're saying, yeah, Nintendo doesn't love talking tech that deeply. Right? I'm. I was as surprised as they went into it, you know, yesterday. I was surprised by even seeing numbers like 120 frames per second and hurts, just the word hurts. Like, I was just fucking shocked by that shit. Like, but like, legitimately, I was very, very surprised by all that.

[Greg Miller]

Not the normal way out.

[Andy Cortez]

I expected them to have like some little mascot logo like, I'm higher primary, let me tell you, I'm higher frame rate Harry, or whatever. But yeah, it doesn't surprise me that, you know, they don't love going into detail like that. That. That's all stuff that I expect them to sort of be like, ah, we'll let Nvidia talk about that later. And that seems like a very normal thing for them to do. Let them talk about all the dorky. Let them give info then. So Digital Foundry can put out a video telling you what the power exactly is sort of comparable to. Because when these, when the chipset was first leaked, everybody, including people like Digital Foundry, looked at comparisons and said, all right, it's similar to this GPU that was like an internal laptop gpu, but it's more modernized. So expect power a little bit higher than a PS4 Pro. And that's kind of where people were gauging it. But they were like, again, this is a more modern chipset, so it's not a one for one thing, because, you know, it's. It's a bit more modernized. It's just a newer piece of hardware. So I'm not surprised by any of that.

[Greg Miller]

Greg, can I bring in Nvidia?

[Andy Cortez]

Sure.

[Greg Miller]

Because they did put out a press release. Nvidia Switch to level. I'm sorry? Nintendo Switch to leveled up with Nvidia AI powered DLSS in 4K gaming. This is shorter, but still long. Stick with me. The Nintendo Switch 2, unveiled April 2, takes performance to the next level, powered by a custom Nvidia processor featuring an Nvidia GPU with dedicated RT cores and tensor cores for stunning visuals and AI driven enhancements with the 1000 engineer years of effort across every element from system and chip design to a custom GPU, APIs and world class development tools, the Nintendo Switch 2 brings major upgrades. The new console enables up to 4K gaming in TV mode and up to 120 frames per second at 1080p in handheld mode. Nintendo Switch 2 also supports HDR and AI upscaling to sharpen visuals and smooth gameplay. AI in ray tracing for next level visuals the new RT cores bring real time ray tracing delivering lifelike lighting, reflections and shadows from more immersive worlds. Tensor cores power AI driven features like dlss, boosting resolution for sharper details without sacrificing image quality. Tensor cores also enable AI power face tracking and background removal in video chat use cases. Enhancing social gaming and streaming with millions of players worldwide, the Nintendo Switch has become a gaming powerhouse in homes and Nintendo storied franchises. Its hybrid design redefined console gaming, bridging TV and handheld play. With 10 times the graphics performance of the Nintendo switch, the Nintendo Switch 2 delivers smoother gameplay and sharper visuals. Back to they have bullet points here. Tensor cores boost AI powered graphics while keeping power consumption efficient. RT cores enhance in game realism with dynamic lighting and natural reflections. Variable refresh rate with Nvidia G sync and handheld mode ensures ultra smooth tear free gameplay. Developers get improved game engines, better physics and optimize APIs for faster, more efficient game creation.

[Andy Cortez]

I saw a Blue sky post from Jason Schreier who mentioned who was at the event and mentioned that Cyberpunk was running docked at 40 frames per second.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

In sort of, you know they're kind of this is enhanced or whatever, 40 frames per second and followed by an oof parentheses oof. Right. Like oof. That's not great.

[Greg Miller]

Right?

[Andy Cortez]

You would expect maybe if we're not getting ray tracing to at least have 40 frames per second. I'm not sure what the exact visual quality there was, but after watching the homies over at Digital Foundry kind of break down what they were seeing because I didn't play Cyberpunk on console. They were just mentioning how much better the image quality already was compared to the console versions. Compared to just Xbox and PS5. Right.

[Greg Miller]

Like really better than PS5?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, like just in terms of it looks like they were going for a higher sort of, I guess a higher level of visual fidelity and then maybe they're sacrificing that frame rate. I'm not sure what the game's gonna have at launch, but all of this makes sense in that it's capable. Yeah, this piece of hardware is capable of getting ray tracing at a most likely, you know, smaller amount of frame rate, around 40 frames per second. Maybe you get what Spider man was able to do, where they say you're getting very, very limited amount of frame rate or a limited amount of ray tracing. Right. Where it's like, we'll give you ray trace reflections, and that's about it. You're not going to get ray traced shadows or ambient occlusion, which adds a lot more processing power. But, you know, if Mario's walking over the water, you might. You'll see reflections in real time.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Andy Cortez]

Who knows if that's even a possibility? Right? But I'm not surprised by any of this. I'm super stoked that they. This piece of hardware seems way more capable than we initially thought. Because the PS4, you know, when they mentioned this new chipset is more powerful than what the PS4 Pro was able to do. Yeah, the PS4 Pro could not do ray tracing. It just didn't have that hardware capability. And with Nvidia kind of working in overdrive on this chipset, making sure that it runs efficiently now, that doesn't mean a whole lot for what the battery life apparently is. Because I know that the Switch 2's battery life is seemingly not great and people are kind of underwhelmed by it.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And you kind of give me like that, eh? Were you expecting, like, worse of a battery life from.

[Greg Miller]

Yes.

[Andy Cortez]

Really from.

[Greg Miller]

I think this is just the way all of these handhelds that I love so much go. We all forget that Gen1 Switch also's battery wasn't great. It was when they quietly updated that and like, oh, great. Now there's another reason to buy. Then there was OLED and lights and stuff. This is gonna be the worst switch 2 battery. This will be the worst Switch to battery you ever have.

[Tim Gettys]

And even other, like, handheld options that are more powerful than like the Switch one. Right. Like, those battery lives depending on what game you're playing also aren't like the best. Right? Like, my Steam deck fucking can die in like an hour.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh my God.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, over here. And I'm not talking shit, but Sage Shinigami says two hours is crazy. It's like. Well, I remember when I first got my Steam deck and yeah, it was an hour and a half playing games. I think again, it's going to be, what kind of game are you playing? How much is it drawing from? Does that. And again, I can't recommend. We've never Been sponsored. I would love to be the anchor. Power batteries. Enough. I got this gigantic brick that I can power my laptop. I bought it for the Steam deck and I even rarely use it for the Steam deck. I use it around the house for more things. But going on the Chicago flight, you know, I'm tossing in the bag.

[Andy Cortez]

I bought one at the airport. Way too much. I was like, what am I doing at the airport? Yeah, it was such a.

[Greg Miller]

Was it pre charged?

[Andy Cortez]

Was. No, no. You know what? It was just a big ass power brick that did higher voltage.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, okay, okay, okay.

[Andy Cortez]

Because I was gonna. I thought I was gonna be stuck at the airport for a while. Spend like 80 bucks on it. Stupid decision. Just like, so expensive, right? But I'm not super surprised by. Oh, you're playing on the rock island.

[Greg Miller]

Everybody really? Remember they sent me in blessing a rog ally. Mine didn't charge. I finally had a free afternoon the other day. So I was like, hey, I'm gonna send it back. Like, oh, before you get the form, you gotta talk to text for. I talked to tech support. They were like, all right, well, here's what you do. Before we can give it. I'm like, it's not gonna work. I've done everything. They're like, okay, hold the power button down for 60 seconds. It's a hard, hard, hard reset everything. Then plug it in. And I did it. Went over, Plugged it in the wall. Nothing happened. Walked back to the computer. I'm like, yeah, I did that. And it didn't work. And I looked over it. It was lit up. I'm like, God damn it. God damn it. It worked.

[Andy Cortez]

It worked.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you.

[Andy Cortez]

Gaming.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I know gaming. So I'm already downloading Starfield. I'm all set.

[Andy Cortez]

Nice. Okay, so you're making.

[Greg Miller]

I'm doing Atom fall on the Xbox One here too.

[Andy Cortez]

You're making the big move over no Steam deck.

[Greg Miller]

I figured he to go on a trip and I'm waiting on a couple codes. Come on now. You know, come on through. But if they don't come in, then it is a good time to be like, all right, cool. Let's try this. Let's do a comparison trip. You know what I mean?

[Andy Cortez]

I love that.

[Greg Miller]

I gotta get steam on here, though.

[Andy Cortez]

That's exciting for you.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I'm excited.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. So, yeah, I guess when I'm thinking about battery life, I. If you're trying to play Metroid at 120 frames per second, which is still mind blowing, that that's even possible. Even hearing blessing Tim Talk about it on the Gamescast this morning. Just expect a lot less battery power, obviously. Yeah, I'm surprised and I think also.

[Greg Miller]

Like, and I'm sorry to cut you off also. Yeah, like, so are you trying to play Metroid with the mouse thing and stuff? Because that's going to draw more battery than I assume than having it attached and ready to go. Like in terms of input and what it's doing and how it's reading. I know the Joy Cons have their own battery, but it's, it's whatever. There's use cases. What I'm saying back to you. Don't listen to me, everybody.

[Andy Cortez]

Well, I was just gonna bring up a non sequitur and be like, obviously you got Paco in the back blending stuff, right? And the microphone isn't interrupting, you know.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah, I know. Paco in the back. We're doing. We're doing them. He's like, I'm like, I had to bring the Switch. I want to play this. Paco, please stop.

[Andy Cortez]

But then I just thought about the doc having that fan and.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

How loud can that thing possibly.

[Greg Miller]

It's gonna get loud. We're gonna hear that again. We're gonna hear that again, Paco. And it's. Well, wait, are we mad at Paco or the fan now?

[Tim Gettys]

It's Paco's fault. I heard he wanted the fan.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, that's going to be always the interesting thing of like whenever, especially for Nintendo's first dock with a fan. How loud will this dock be or you know, what's going to happen and how long does it get clogged with cat hair and everything else going to go on. We remember this from every other thing we've ever had with a fan, whether it be a PC, whether it be a PlayStation.

[Andy Cortez]

So blown away to just see 2160p here on the like. What I'm excited for is for the Switch to kind of just teach the layman about numbers. I saw a couple people yesterday during our stream being like, it just says it does up to 2160 though. Like, I thought this was 4K. It's like, well, honey, that is 4K. 3840 by 2160 is 4K.

[Greg Miller]

Greg didn't know that. Greg doesn't care. For the record, of course. What's the recommended. What's the highest boom there? Yeah, I don't care.

[Andy Cortez]

It's all. I was also listening just to a couple of Nintendo podcasts or Nintendo. Just reactions from people who maybe are just Nintendo centric and hearing Them talk about these terms like it's, you know, fucking alien scripture.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, same way with them coming out with a game chat yesterday and like having like acting like they invented. And again, I'm not, I'm not giving throwing shade but like for us it sounds like they're trying to act like this is a brand new thing. It's like we all live through this pandemic. Everyone understands Discord Windows, but there are people who don't. I understand, of course, of course. Putting it on there. You got to sell your device, you got to do your dang thing.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm super stoked to see the really deep dive tech breakdowns.

[Greg Miller]

Well, I have more things for you to look through.

[Andy Cortez]

Getting nerdy with me.

[Greg Miller]

I got a lot of Switch 2 tidbits to run us through. There are videos, there are gifs, there are a bunch of things. But before that, I'll tell you about our things. If you didn't know everybody, this is kinda funny Games Daily, we run you through the nerdy video game news you need to know about each and every day. Kicking off our live talk show network from here, we roll into gamescast. Today you'll have a kind of funny podcast. Then you get game streaming and we have a great time. If you'd like to support that, we'd love it. Of course, we're an 11 person small business. You can get $10 to us and we get you all shows ad free. You get good karma for supporting us and of course you get your daily dose of me, Greg Miller in a podcast and video series I call Greg Way. But right now you're not using your benefits. So here's a word from your sponsors.

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[Greg Miller]

And we're back. I was like put it my tooling around this. I put it down. An embargoed game probably shouldn't do that. I don't think anything, you know, I don't think you're just anything but just in case, Andy, I want to talk to you about the switch to still because there's still so much going on and where I want to start was a very simple one. All Right. We had. You had submitted this to the one, the only kind of funny games daily Slack channel we have where you. You put it in there. I was like, oh, this is interesting. And it's just a tweet from Nintendo Metroid prime for Beyond Nintendo Switch 2 Edition. And then shaking hands with Joy Con mouse control. Then it's pulling from the the day one of the Treehouse Live. And the part we have here is someone using the mouse control and then on the right Joy Con, of course using the left one to play Metroid prime for you. Put it in here. It's interesting. Of course you can go listen to Blessing and Tim talk about the mouse controls. Talk about Metroid and all their Gamescast and first hands on there. And one of the things I thought in the hardware preview, they did their hands on preview there was the conversation, if you're a video listener, you can see the hands have popped up there of how it's cool to use the Joy Con as a mouse, but then also how it broke their brain of you're doing that but you're still using the buttons on the side of the Joy Con to jump and do things similar if you're using like one of those MMO mouses like me and Kevin had for sweater, but it was like breaking bless his brain to do that. Talk to me about what you're seeing here as a PC headshot and player. What do you expect? Are you going to play Metroid Braun this way?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, this seems like the way that I would would prefer to play. I. I know Blessing was a bit confused by the auto aiming nature in Metroid where when you do lock on, you just do just sort of snap to the enemy. Right. And that is still a completely viable way to play and enjoy Metroid. And then hearing Tim talk about how he was kind of infusing both of those methods where he'd be locking on to somebody way over here on the left side of the screen and would notice something pop up on the right. So then he would unlock on, whip that mouse to the right, then lock onto the dude who was like, you know, yeah, almost further than a 180 away from him. Right. I just love the idea that this seems like a viable tactic. It looks uncomfortable as hell and I hope we get some third party accessories to kind of make it more mouse like you.

[Greg Miller]

That's what they were talking about in their preview as well. You have to imagine you'll be getting a fat mouse that can be a Joy Con as well on there or whatever. I do Think it's interesting as you see this. One of the things that's called out by the preview from Blessing Tim is that it's seamless. We talked a long time ago. Maybe the C button is going to be a cursor button, switch you into mouse mode, etc. If you watch the hands here while playing, all you have to do is lift it and turn it and you leave mouse mode and go back to double Joy Con mode. So it is that idea that if you're in something and all of a sudden you want to go back to it, bam, put it down, you're in mouse mode, pull it up, you're back in a Joy Con mode. I thought that was really interesting. I wasn't expecting that. I don't, I don't expect to use this, but I think it's cool for it being there that way.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, I thought it would be a bit more of a, a labored mechanic, you know, go into the settings, maybe restart the game.

[Greg Miller]

Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Stuff we're used to, right?

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. It seems really neat that they are kind of catering to it, just being convenient. Right? Like, like whatever the player wants to do. Maybe they're. I think because Metroid prime has a lot of different mechanics built into it, there might be some stuff that you might prefer just doing with the mouse. And then there, you know, would be other stuff where you go, all right, back to controlling mode or whatever. I like that sort of flexibility. I still do think it looks kind of uncomfortable. Can just kind of have in your, your hand all in a weird position. Yeah. And that big fat mouse placement of, you know, your index finger on the trigger and all that. Now, I'm not surprised by having, by controlling stuff on the mouse because I think they were mentioning on the, Whatever becomes your mouse hand would have some sort of button functionality as well.

[Greg Miller]

You'd still be using your thumb for the face buttons.

[Andy Cortez]

Right. So, like, that's totally normal for me. I, I, I always have not only the two buttons that you're kicking, but then the thumb buttons. The thumb buttons are always used by me in games and I always set one of them, melee and one of them to dash or whatever. And so that's all just already in my repertoire. So this seems totally up my alley. The game looks so fucking good.

[Greg Miller]

Does look good.

[Andy Cortez]

It looks so visually impressive. And dude, I swear to God, I thought when we first saw that trailer of it on the Direct last week or whatever it was, I was like, man, this looks way too good to be just switch one hardware and maybe that was just a switch one trailer still. Yeah, but maybe it's not a fair comparison because I just think back to whenever Metroid Dread would do the zoom in shots on Samus and you see like wherever there's an indention line in her armor, you see the low res texture trying to like make up. And I always felt like whenever we saw glimpses of Dread or, or glimpses of Prime 4, it always looked a lot cleaner. Now granted those things are made to be clearer because it's first person view and you're made to always see them up close. Where with Samus, with Metroid Dread, it's always really, really far away and they'll zoom in every now and then. But don't expect it to look the best because that's not how it's intended to be most of the time. But yeah, this game looks so stunning and retro is really cooking visually on it.

[Greg Miller]

Let's keep talking about looks and visuals. Red Misfit super chats and says, I have an issue with andy's emphasis on 60 frames per second.

[Andy Cortez]

Let me hear.

[Greg Miller]

30 frames per second is suitable for single player story driven action RPGs. It's fine. Unless there's multiplayer sports or fast action. Again, a solid 30 is fine. Perfect.

[Andy Cortez]

That's fine. If you think that, whatever. Yeah, it's, you know, I'm happy you think that, but why not want more? Why would you settle for.

[Greg Miller]

I mean, he describes my favorite genre of games, single player story driven action RPGs. And I every time it's 30 only.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh yeah, I played 60, remember?

[Tim Gettys]

Like an Assassin's Creed in the open world where it's like a nice smooth 60 and then you go back to the base and it's locked at 30.

[Andy Cortez]

And you're like, oh God, yeah, you get that whiplash.

[Tim Gettys]

Disgusting.

[Andy Cortez]

That's fine. I mean, look, hey, you control the buttons, you press like that doom tweet, you know, like you, you could do whatever you want. I just think that, that we've gotten to the point with frame rate where you know, hey, 720p is fine for you too. Like, why not just play at 720p if you want less of an experience, right?

[Greg Miller]

Sure.

[Andy Cortez]

Why not want faster frame rate because it not only looks smoother but it responds quicker. That's the most important thing. It's not just a look thing, it's a feel thing as well. And that the feel thing is such an easy thing to kind of disregard because it's hard to show that off. If I show You. When I, when I did my Bloodboard mod thing and I had to fight one of the bosses on p or on 30 frames per second, so I had to use my other PS5 to fight one of the bosses, I was like, oh my God. And then we switched back and all of the chat was like, holy, my eyes feel clean now.

[Greg Miller]

Like, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And it's not, it's not just a look thing, obviously, the look is massively different, but it's, it's the feel thing for me. It's whenever I. If I'm playing a first person shooter and I'm used to playing valorant at 240 frames per second, sometimes, you know, PCs are PCs and my monitor will reset to 60 hertz and I go back and I'm like, whoa, what the is wrong with my PC? And by something about to explode, I'm like, oh no. It just, it reverted back to 60 frames. Let me get that updated. And then it feels smooth and snappy again.

[Greg Miller]

Smooth and snappy. Let's move on to something also snappy. They're selling a Piranha Plant camera. Chris sculling at VGC. A Nintendo Switch 2 camera shaped like a piranha plant is set for release at launch. German retailer Media Market has listed the Nintendo Switch 2 Piranha Plant Camera, stating that it will be released on the Switch 2 launch date of June 5th. The product isn't part of the official Nintendo Accessories lineup and is instead being released by peripheral manufacturer Hori, which of course means its license. You see it on there and it's that thing where I saw the camera from Nintendo. I was like, that's dumb as shit. I would never buy it. I see this and I'm like, I don't.

[Andy Cortez]

If I, if I don't not want it.

[Greg Miller]

Camera. If I need a camera. If Ben wants a camera real bad for The Nintendo Switch 2, I'm buying this goddamn PD. The Piranha Plant, aka Chad.

[Andy Cortez]

I had misunderstood what this was initially because I saw the post, you know, on the slack early this morning, and initially I thought it was just a. An aesthetic kind of covering or an aesthetic sort of like, hey, whatever, Camera. If you buy the Switch camera, it's boring and it looks just like a normal Logitech whatever, but here's this little decorative thing you can kind of surrounded by. So this is, this is how the camera is.

[Greg Miller]

That's dope as hell.

[Andy Cortez]

That's. That's interesting. Yeah, it's like the little camera inside the teddy bear.

[Greg Miller]

Exactly.

[Andy Cortez]

Spy on the babysitter.

[Greg Miller]

Speaking of spying, Greg Way, let's talk about the camera in privacy. We go to a longer article from Eddie at GameSp lot.

[Andy Cortez]

Did you drink to let the audio listeners know I'm drinking?

[Greg Miller]

No, I just why I drank and then I just wanted to be dead Speak Switch to Design Director Sumi Kazu Ono said Nintendo thought, quote unquote a lot about how to ensure game Chat is safe and secure. Players will not be able to use Game Chat with everyone on their friend list by default. We assume some players will have somebody on their friends list who they've only played online with once, and yet somehow they ended up accepting their friend request. Given that possibility, players might feel uncomfortable if suddenly everyone on their friends list can invite them to a video chat, Ono said. With that in mind, during the initial setup, you can choose the friends you want to be able to chat with from your friends list before you start using Game Chat, End quote Andy, I'll tell you straight up. You're going to be the only person I add. I want to be able to interrupt your streams coming in cool costumes, you know.

[Andy Cortez]

Nah, I'm okay.

[Greg Miller]

It'll be fun. You'll love it. If you join a room created by a friend, players will only see people you or your friend have approved from Game Chat. Before joining a room, players will see if a friend of a friend is in the room. If they don't want to join for any reason, they don't have to. With regard to protecting the safety of children, Ono said. Nintendo had, quote, a lot of internal discussion on this topic. It was decided that children under 16 can only use game Chat with people on their friend list if their parent or guardian has given permission via the Nintendo Switch Parental Controls app. In the case of voice chat, once a parent gives their child approval to chat with a particular person, their child will always be able to connect with the approved person from then on, Ono said. Nintendo takes an even more cautious approach to video chats. When a child tries to start or join a video chat on their Switch 2, a request is sent to the parents app. The request must then be approved before the video chat can begin. While children may feel a bit restricted, we decided to prioritize safety and require parents to approve the request every time, ono said. Then they have a subhead here I like. Is the Switch 2 camera spying on you? The Nintendo Switch 2 camera has a privacy shutter that closes when not in use. As such, players should be able to see at a glance if the camera is on or off. Quote we want everyone to feel comfortable using this feature. So we've placed a high priority on safety to avoid any unpleasant experiences. Of course we want all players to follow the community guidelines, even when chatting with friends. Ono said, I was gonna say, I.

[Andy Cortez]

Don'T know if Nintendo's got the tech like that to even try to attempt a spot. Like, we don't know how.

[Greg Miller]

Miyamoto's like, can you join? I need you, your parent, you know, it's too much. Don't worry about it. You're not the primary account family holder from the Nintendo Switch Online plan. So it's all blah, blah, blah, blah.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, this is great that obviously when you're dealing with anything this delicate, you need to sort of take precautions. And on the flip side, you know, 12 year olds are watching Andrew Tate videos on TikTok and you know, like, it's, it's a, it's a weird world out there already, but I'm glad the Nintendo's doing what they can at least try to help mitigate any.

[Greg Miller]

People are going to find their work around this, you know, the bad guys are going to be bad guys. So giving as many hurdles as you need to or as you possibly can to try to stop that is great. It's interesting to read this in me, Greg Miller be like, oh, I got to start thinking about this, you know what I mean? Where it's like, you know, Jen in the stick with this is going to sound way worse than it is. Jen made a little Benny profile on the Switch, you know what I mean? Which we don't even use because he wants to use my saves and everything else or whatever. But I'm like, oh, he's just a kid, you know, tinkering, whatever, like he's super stoked for Donkey Kong and Mario Kart and all that jazz. And he's not going online anytime soon. But it is of like, oh, I should get the parental controls app. I should actually look into that. Like, you know what I mean? It's going to be interesting to see him as he ages up and has Switch in video games, what that actually looks like and what hurdles I need to go through to make sure he's as safe as possible.

[Andy Cortez]

I don't know how any of that sounded worse than it sounds.

[Greg Miller]

I didn't want people to think my 3 year old has unfettered access right now to a Nintendo Switch or online or X, Y and Z. You know what I mean?

[Andy Cortez]

I mean you are already raising him up not to be, to be a kid who just expects everything because you saying he just uses Your saves and everything. Not even having to earn characters.

[Greg Miller]

Dude, you want to. I mean, granted, by the time he's of an age, I think this would matter more. Hopefully we've settled all this. But the day when it was like, I want to play Hot Wheels Unleashed to write. Yeah. How was Unleashed to. I was like, great. You know, we were out or whatever, we were here and so I gave him the Xbox cloud version. And he went and he goes, where are all my cars? Oh, I'm like, well, Benny, technically your cars are on the PlayStation 5 version. You know what I mean? This is a. This is the same game, but it's not using the same.

[Andy Cortez]

I want eyes glass my car. Fine.

[Greg Miller]

I'm downloading on PlayStation 5. It'll take forever.

[Andy Cortez]

Father. I don't know if you heard me.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, exactly, exactly. I don't care about this today, you know, like, I snap awake in the bed because he came and slept with. He's in a thing right now in the middle of the night. He's coming to sleep with me and Jen. And it was like, you know, morning gave us our morning kisses. He gives each of us three kisses. And then he was just like, I want my lifeguard car. And we're like, okay, where did you leave the lifeguard car? I don't know. And so then it became a search of the entire house trying to find the one Hot Wheels car he wants or whatever. I'm out there, my PJ's in the car, Jen's car covered in trash. Because it's a mom's car, you know, I mean, there's like Hot Wheels wrappers and a banana peel and all this stuff. I had to put no car, don't know where the car is.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm so impressed by how much you're able to do on how little sleep because your life obviously changed when you had a kid.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And I just think about like not only your commute in yesterday being a long ass day.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

You know, I left like at 3. I was like, that was a long one. And being like, man, Greg's still there. How did you not fall asleep on the road?

[Greg Miller]

I wrote it out to the bitter end, you know. Well, then we. Then it was family date night before swim class, like we do. Then we went to swim class and swim class was me and Jen sat down. Jen had already had a point of like, I'm exhausted because she was up early for direct to. I sat down though, and that was the first time, like I stopped down without a task. And that was when I Started powering down. I was like, oh, whoa, I'm tired. I gotta get. We gotta. So the lifeguards got it. I'll be fine. More Nintendo Switch stuff, though, for you. Okay, okay, okay. This one I put on here. Zelda and Street Fighter Amiibos are at Target. Now, this made it to the. The list here of breakdowns, right? Because Tim put this into the games daily chat we keep talking about, right? And just wrote omg. So I was like, oh, this is new. So I put it out, but then I slacked him privately, and I go, pretend I'm not a Nintendo fan. Is your omg because of the prices, the characters. And he responded, amiibos are still a thing. I'm like, oh, okay.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, okay.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah, I would.

[Andy Cortez]

I assumed it was because of the $10 markup on the Street Fighter characters.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, of course. There is a lot of talk about. We knew yesterday from the presentation, they said Street Fighter 6 would be getting Amiibos. Now you see this? You got new street fighter ones at 30 bucks, and you got Zelda ones at 20 bucks. And I was like, oh, okay. But it's just that they're still there, which Tim talked about in his previews already, that, of course, there were rumors that Amiibos would be dunzo, but they are, in fact, not dunzo. They are living and thriving.

[Andy Cortez]

Everything's more expensive. Everything's gonna be more expensive. Expensive?

[Greg Miller]

Is that what it is? How much were Amiibo's last generation? You know, 20 bucks, probably.

[Andy Cortez]

I think they were probably 20. Yeah. I was just, like, shocked that I.

[Tim Gettys]

Just looked at, because the last one I can remember was Sora. And right now he's going for 16 bucks.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Tim Gettys]

But I imagine he.

[Greg Miller]

He's been marked down probably.

[Tim Gettys]

Well, it's Nintendo.

[Andy Cortez]

This.

[Tim Gettys]

That's 16 bucks on the Nintendo store. So maybe. Maybe he came out at 16 bucks. I don't know.

[Greg Miller]

I don't know.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't know.

[Andy Cortez]

There's. They're. They're still expensive.

[Greg Miller]

That's what you get, Paris.

[Andy Cortez]

Everything's more expensive. Obviously, that's the big conversation. Everything's so expensive. Why? You know, drop the price. Nintendo, drop the price. That's what was being spammed during the Treehouse chat. And what are you gonna do? Like, there's. The things that we need to survive and live are way more expensive. I'm not surprised by the entertainment things being more expensive as well. Well, it sucks.

[Greg Miller]

It does suck.

[Andy Cortez]

But that, like, what do you.

[Greg Miller]

I don't know.

[Tim Gettys]

Honestly, we're lucky that The. These are the prices that they are at. Especially with yesterday afternoon, the kids can't get school lunches.

[Andy Cortez]

You know what I mean?

[Greg Miller]

It's almost like we voted for this.

[Andy Cortez]

Like, I don't know. Like, I don't. It. It feels like there's obviously necessary outrage for this. And then I look at, like, the rest of everything that's happening. I'm like, what. What about that? Like, what about the stuff that is required to help people?

[Greg Miller]

It's the exact same thing, though, right? Where it's like, there's outrage about this because it's the first. Because I can be there. The third will be. And then it's going to be like, okay, this is just life now we go on.

[Andy Cortez]

And also.

[Greg Miller]

It's also filling up the gas tank today. I looked. I'm like, holy.

[Andy Cortez]

I'll also say it's the stuff that is directly affecting the gamer now.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, whether. You know, obviously there's costs of rent and the meme of egg prices and all that. And just food in general.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, groceries.

[Andy Cortez]

That's a very unique word. People haven't. We've been using that word forever, you weirdo.

[Greg Miller]

Like, he's gonna fix that. Day one.

[Andy Cortez]

Don't forget day one. That's right. When is that? Wednesday one. But like, I. I don't know. I'm just. I'm not surprised by the things that are optional and entertainment to be more expensive, as everything else is more expensive. And again, it sucks. I'm not excusing this.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

But I don't understand why people are this surprised by, like, I. I'm totally with Barrett's thoughts yesterday, where Barrett kept on saying, look, I hope it's 400. But I'm mentally preparing myself for a 600 price. And to me, that's a totally viable thought because it's like everything sucks. Not that I'm saying I wouldn't be surprised if it was 600, but I'd be like, like, yeah, at 600. That's the reality that we're in now. And when you can't even afford to buy things that are necessary to live and to survive. And houses are. Have been just this commodity that are not, you know, they haven't been affordable for a decade by. Or so like, I'm. I'm just not surprised by these optional things, these optional luxuries going up in price as well. Just like movie theater ticket prices are crazy. Here we go.

[Greg Miller]

What's up, everybody? Welcome back to your favorite kind of Funny Games Daily segment. Here comes the money. Greg's sound financial advice. Usually we check in on Ubisoft, but there's no rule saying we can't check in on the overall. So let's go see how the stock market is doing. We're gonna go to CNBC. They report big news. The Dow drops 1300 points. S&P 500 loses 4%. A stock market rout on Trump's tariff worsens. Live updates. Stocks nosedive Thursday, sending the S&P 500 back into correction territory after President Donald Trump unveiled sweeping tariffs of at least 10% on some countries. The news intensified a recent sell off and raised the risk of a global trade war that hit the already sputtering US economy. The broad market index dropped 4%, putting it on track for its worst day since September 2022.

[Andy Cortez]

Groceries.

[Greg Miller]

So the update, not good, but make.

[Andy Cortez]

America great Again, not good.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, things aren't.

[Andy Cortez]

Things aren't good. Things are, are have gotten worse. And it feels purposeful, you know, and when certain figures of government say, look, maybe things need to get really, really bad in order for them to get great again. Yeah, like all, it all feels very planned and calculated. But again, just to go back.

[Tim Gettys]

But also it doesn't because you know, when people are asked, asked of these tariffs that were announced, are those on top of the already in place tariffs? And the response is, yeah, maybe. And that's like an actual person in, you know, a position of power.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. I just do what people tell me, you know, man, yeah, things are, things are bad, things suck. Things are going to keep on getting more expensive. And that's the reality we're in. I don't love it. I don't know what to tell you though, because these are still going to sell. And when you have someone like me where people go, well, Andy, look, you're in a great situation. You get for free. You, it's like, okay, well, I also, I don't own a house and I don't have a child. And these are the luxuries that I can spend. These are the luxuries that I can spend on.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

To help make, you know, it's like, well, you would be able to afford a house if you could didn't buy, you know, all that avocado toast or whatever. It's going back to that same argument. It's like, well, these are the little luxuries that I can spend to kind of make my brain go like, oh, maybe things aren't all. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know. It's sucks that you see that immediate jump from oh, Jesus. The kingdom. 70 bucks. Whoa. Okay, this is the only one. And then to see the rest of the pricing structure, immediately drop in. I got a Blue Sky DM today and I don't know how verifiable it is, but I don't check sources. I'm not a trader.

[Greg Miller]

Chad, Super Chat and said, send Andy a DM on Blue sky. Clarifying Switch software price.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

For all the work you do.

[Andy Cortez]

Says, hey, Andy, I'm a big fan. I know there's a lot of discussion yesterday on physical digital price. I work at GameStop and we have prices in our internal system for each game and it looks like they are going for a tiered thing again. These are American prices. So the $80 tier would be Tears of the Kingdom, Mario Kart, Mario Kart, Jamboree plus Jamboree TV, Kirby and the Forgotten Land, the $70 tier Donkey Kong, Breath of the Wild, $60 tier, Street Fighter 6, $40 tier Brayley default. Looks like they're going for this sort of tier structure. And again, the fact that these digital commodities that are, you know. Yeah, these digital things are still less expensive than the now, whatever it is. Ninety dollar physical edition. Like all, all of this sucks a lot. And people are gonna suffer and people who are already suffering will like, there's no light at the end of the tunnel for wanting to get back into your favorite hobby or whatever.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And that's why you're gonna continue to see the free to play stuff like Fortnite and Call of Duty and those things that don't require a monthly membership to PS plus or to Xbox Live or whatever the they're calling it nowadays. Like, like those free to play games are still going to continue to dominate because the struggling families out there go, what you want? What? Dude, you've been having. You've been. You play Fortnite all the time anyway. Play that. It's free. I haven't spent a dime on that in three years that you've been playing that.

[Greg Miller]

They're buying them skins.

[Andy Cortez]

Well, you know, as a Christmas gift.

[Greg Miller]

Sure, sure, sure.

[Andy Cortez]

Thirty dollar Fortnite card or whatever. But yeah, families I think are being conditioned to not have to spend families that aren't in the know gaming wise. Right. And that makes it even tougher for the games industry when they say, fuck no, dude, you want what for that game. You play Fortnite all the time. Go back to that. I haven't spent a single dime on that. Except for your birthday where I give you a gift card.

[Greg Miller]

Let me bring in Darren from GameSpot, who has an article why do these Games Cost so Much? One of the big surprises following this week's Switch 2 deep dive was the price tag for Mario Kart World, as the game has a suggested retail price of $80 ahead of its June 5 release. This is a major increase, especially at a time when consumers are still debating the value of high profile games increasing from 60 to 70. And according to analysts, this could become the new standard for the industry. In a breakdown of the Switch 2 and its pricing, analysts at Niko Partners discussed the impact Mario Kart World and its discussed the impact of Mario Kart World and its price. While there has been some sticker shock regarding the price of games increasing from 60 to 70 or 80, these price points are set to become industry standard over the next two years, especially on Nintendo first party games. Nico Partners explained one reason for the higher price is the increased cost of the new and the faster game cards themselves, with higher capacities being more expensive to manufacture than a blu ray disc. PlayStation 5 blu ray disc my apologies. Left one out there as always. It's just there's this push and pull, there's this thing in the air. There's all these different things happening at once in a time where nobody feels like they're doing well financially.

[Andy Cortez]

And this also just feels like a, a big precautionary move from Nintendo. I, I agree. Look, everybody knows me. I'm. I'm the centrist. Kind of funny. I don't, I don't lean anyway politically.

[Barrett Courtney]

No.

[Andy Cortez]

But I, I think things would have, you know, I think the prices still would have been expensive under Biden for.

[Greg Miller]

Oh sure.

[Andy Cortez]

This isn't a presidential thing. I think things are. Well, it certainly is now. It's getting way worse. Right. And that was all a joke. I'm obviously way more. I don't even love, I don't even like Biden. Right. But like things were getting expensive anyway. Right. And you're seeing still a lot of people struggling under certain, you know, living under certain economic statuses.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

But I don't know if we, I still kind of feel like we would have seen these prices from Nintendo anyway, tariffs or not. I think having that jump would have gone up maybe not on the console hardware, but I think on the software. I wouldn't have been surprised to have seen that $10 jump. I'm surprised to see the $90 number anywhere being listed from a Nintendo product.

[Greg Miller]

Someone said that's again, there's so much news yesterday and so much. There was a lack of clarity yesterday. Are we confirming in the 90s. Someone in the chat said it 90 for physical isn't true. We were going off of a Spanish site that was listing them differently. I don't know if I'm not sure where we have netted out this Morning on a $90 tag for you think.

[Tim Gettys]

It from what I could tell last night and this morning, I think it's just 80. Okay. But yeah, things might still be a little bit hazy there.

[Greg Miller]

It's €90, someone's pointing out it's 90s. Really, in Ireland. Anyway. Okay, thank you. Yesterday it was a bit of confusion on all that obviously as all this is happening.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Also I just wanted to pop in and say I agree with Andy on like we probably would have seen some of these jumps anyway. I was listening to Last of the Nintendogs last night and Jeff Grubb was making really good points of for the longest while or for a little bit, Nintendo felt like they were kind of behind on like up pricing their stuff because of, you know, the PS4 and PS5 generations and especially with like the looming threat of GTA 6 and like the predictions even before election stuff like all this stuff, people thinking like GTA 6 might come out and be like 100 bucks. This, this Nintendo move feels very much like a they wanted to make the first step before any of that happened. Instead of they price things normally and then, you know, then we get GTA 6 for $100 and then games start being 70, 80 regularly and then they're still, you know, charging at 60 regularly and then later on charging up and stuff like that.

[Greg Miller]

So let's bring in Steven Totila while we are live. His latest Game File newsletter has come through my inbox and it's one of the lead story is Video Game Industry Group Expects Trump Tariffs to have Dire Effects the Entertainment Software association, the US Trade group that reps all major gaming companies including Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony, says President Donald Trump's recently announced tariffs quote, are going to have a real and detrimental impact on the video game industry. End quote. Trump announced steep tariffs on dozens of countries yesterday, continuing his current administration's efforts to smash things and see what holds together. ESA Senior Vice President Aubrey Quinn tells Game File that gaming hardware, including consoles, are likely to take a bit hit. I probably meant big hit, but it says bit hit. Due to new levies. These machines are made in some of the countries hit with the big tariffs yesterday. Beyond that, their parts are sourced from multiple countries and the devices often cross into the US Multiple times as they are made and prepped for Retail quote, any one product that a consumer would buy is likely to be subject to many of the tariffs announced, all compounded on top on top of one another. The new Trump tariffs were announced yesterday include a 76% levy on Vietnam and 34% parentheses, or 54% on goods from China. That's not because Steven doesn't know. That's because our administration doesn't know. Among other countries where gaming hardware is made, a lot of moving parts. They were paying attention to Nintendo Direct yesterday too. It's hard for them.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Nintendo, which in recent years moved the bulk of its console manufacturing to Vietnam, announced the launch price of the Switch 2 yesterday at $450 US a price increase over the Switch 1's launch cost even when adjusted for inflation. In Japan, where the system isn't subject to US Tariffs, a Japanese language only version of the system locked to users who designate their accounts as being based in Japan will sell for the equivalent of $343 parentheses. Nintendo has avoided saying whether the higher price for the US Market was tied to their expectations around tariffs. The esa, like others, believes the tariff story is far from over with the risk of retaliatory, retaliatory tariffs coming. Quote, I think what we heard yesterday is not the end of the story. Not for the United States, not for other countries, Quinn said. Asked whether the Trump administration had a point, had a point that more goods simply should be made in the US and whether the ESA's members should consider that option, Quinn said, quote, I think every company, every industry, the video game industry included, needs to think about what's best for consumers, best for business and best for employees. Supply chains are complicated and certainly supply chains don't change overnight. Everything that is considered or decided can't be a quick turnaround and can't be a knee jerk reaction to any particular announcement, end quote. Last week, the ESA joined the other tech trade groups in asking US Trade Representative Jameson Greer to avoid new tariffs and quote, increase the use of existing trade tools to strengthen trade relations with key markets for the US Products and services, end quote. The ESA had asked to meet with Greer but has not done so yet. The esa, I'm wrapping up right now. The esa, Quinn said, is nevertheless, quote, optimistic that there will be a solution that doesn't damage US industries, ours included, and doesn't hurt US consumers, end quote. I am not optimistic.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah, federal minimum wage has been 725 or 750, I'm sorry, since 2009. In 2009, movie tickets were $7 and 50 cents on average, in 2009, video game prices were $60. Video game prices have been the thing to have been infected the least by inflation, possibly because they were already at a certain price point. But the way everything has gotten more expensive since then, and federal minimum wage has remained unchanged since 2009. It. It's. You can't talk about this without talking about politics. Like, I'm sorry for, for the, for the stick to gaming crowd. Shove it up your ass.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. You made an hour and five minutes into this show. Get the out.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. It can't be.

[Greg Miller]

This is the news. This is the news. This is the world you live in. The world that you live in is affected by this news. This is video game news.

[Tim Gettys]

Like, no, I only want video games for escapism. I don't want any other context surrounding it.

[Greg Miller]

Man, I would love to. That to a. To an extent. I would love that if we were able to be like, hey, man, let the adults handle it.

[Tim Gettys]

You can only have your escapism, you know, after you come. Come to terms with, you know, what the real world is doing.

[Andy Cortez]

I. I incorrectly corrected myself. Federal minimum wage is 725 since 2009. I said 750. It's still 725 in the last 26 years. No, 16 years. I'm sorry. And people are still, you know, around the country feeling, you know, obviously, state by state, state minimum wage in California is up to 16, which is great. It obviously costs a lot more to live here, but, like, the fact that that has not been moved up on the federal level. And yes, things get more expensive and things are way more expensive right now than they should be. Why does it cost $70 for my Honda Civic to fill up a tank of gas? It sucks. It sucks. You know, and people are hurting out there. And for the little amount of escapism that people can get, that's also being. That's also out of reach for a lot of people now.

[Greg Miller]

100. Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And it, it sucks. You know, and billionaire, billionaire. And, and, you know, corporations will still not be paying the amount of taxes that they should be paying, and we'll.

[Tim Gettys]

Raise tariffs and skyrocket that aspect of our economy that we have not seen since, you know, the. Right before the Great Depression, which is interesting, but, you know, we won't raise federal minimum wage, which would actually encourage more spending in a healthy economy.

[Andy Cortez]

You know, like, it doesn't trickle down.

[Tim Gettys]

It never. It never did.

[Andy Cortez]

When I heard about economics in the movie Selena starring Jennifer Lopez and the Jennifer, you know, the Quintanilla family is talking about Reagan nomics like it doesn't trickle down, but they know that. They just don't give a. Yep, let's clear our pallets.

[Greg Miller]

Andy, while we have been live, a trailer has dropped for Marvel Rivals and a new character. Oh, would you like to watch that in life?

[Andy Cortez]

Hell yeah, dog. Finally, we can start the goon. Oh, Andy, you have no idea. Oh, my God. Emma Frost.

[Greg Miller]

God.

[Andy Cortez]

Way to clear the pallet.

[Greg Miller]

Welcome, one and all to Krakoa. This living island may be a sovereign mutant nation, but tonight our home is yours. Honored guest.

[Andy Cortez]

Jesus, I propose a choice. Insane Chun Li levels here there are no Rivals, man.

[Greg Miller]

And mutant.

[Andy Cortez]

Those guys got their own zip codes, man. It's crazy.

[Greg Miller]

Greg Bot super chats and says. Did you guys see the new Marvel's Rivals character? Six thighs save lives.

[Andy Cortez]

Unbelievable.

[Greg Miller]

Then try to stay alive just long enough to see my way as the Age of Ultron.

[Andy Cortez]

Ultron looks cool. Chris Anka, you out there? We're getting back into Marvel Rivals.

[Greg Miller]

Chris. We're getting back. In April 11, the Hellfire Gala season two begins. So you're all getting back into that.

[Andy Cortez]

Sweet.

[Greg Miller]

I did it for you.

[Andy Cortez]

I mean, I. I've always loved Marvel Rivals. I just have not had the time to get back to it. I. It's been long game review after long game review, and I'm still making my way through first Berserker Kazan and I'm playing that off stre stream. God, it's a long game, it's a hard game and. But in my free time, I'm also playing Dark Souls 2 and I've kind of put that away so I can get back to the DLC later on.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

And I. I'm so close to beating vowed and there's just so much. It's like I haven't had that free time like I usually do where it's, you know, I have a month and a half to just go balls deep in Destiny 2 DLC.

[Greg Miller]

Right.

[Andy Cortez]

I haven't had the chance to do that with Marvel Rivals, but will Emma.

[Greg Miller]

Emma Frost bring you back?

[Andy Cortez]

I. I'm gonna hopefully try to find a brief period of respite because I miss competitive games. I. I love playing first person shooter, third person shooters with the homies. So I. I've been wanting to get back to it. There's just always something else to prioritize, unfortunately. I understand, but fortunately. Because the things I'm prioritizing are also sick. But yeah, it's never. It's ever an indictment on a multiplayer. Andy is Like, I'm not playing that anymore. Dan, that game must have sucked.

[Greg Miller]

It's like, no, I'm always trying to get back to Monster Hunter.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

You know what I mean? It's just that thing where everything takes me away. Every review, everything.

[Andy Cortez]

Yeah. I never want people to think like, oh, Andy fell off of that shit. That game must suck now. That game kicks ass. I just. I got other games to play.

[Greg Miller]

Well, there you go. Emma Frost and the gala April 11th and then one more palate cleanser. This is just something that to toss it on the fire. All right. Is Titanfall 3 real and is it coming? Nobel Blue Sky Today a rumor. According to two AP Legends leakers, Titanfall 3 is in development and will launch in 2026.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm so fucking sick of this shit.

[Greg Miller]

He then linked to a Reddit thread where Ozvaldalator and Yoro Tsuki, two Apex Legends leakers with a history of good leaks going back multiple years, have just teased Titanfall 3. Yoro Tusuki stated that it will release in 2026 and possibly be teased at the game Awards.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm so fucking sick of Titanfall teacher too. I'm. We just like Blessing said we are leaving Blackmouth Wukong in 2024. We should have left Titanfall 3 rumors in 2023. I'm tired of hearing of rumors. Anytime I'm on a show, it's like there's always a new oh a developer from Respawn said that this might and dude, I'm tired of it show to me when there's a tease I'm it's always a will they. Won't they just kiss already?

[Tim Gettys]

I I trust Jeff Grubb in his reporting where, you know, it was like stuff that they were working on and then now I love grub but like nothing is being currently worked on. At least that's what he said like a month or two ago, I'm pretty sure. So like Titanfall 3 coming next year? Like, no shot man. Like, absolutely not.

[Greg Miller]

There you go, Andy. Titanfall tariffs and piranha plant cameras are big news. If I wanted something smaller, say the tiniest news I need to know about, where would I go?

[Andy Cortez]

You'd go to our last story, the Wii News Channel, where we cover all the small news items you need to know about. Just like my tiny ends.

[Greg Miller]

Your last story we news Call of Duty Warzone servers are back online, adding Verdansk for the first time since 2021. And hey, housekeeping for you. It's been 1200 days since we dropped Howard Hospital. 1200 days without Verdansk this Friday. That's tomorrow. The map that started it all returns. And so did the Jabroni boys. That's right. Even Andy is back to play Call of Duty Warzone one more time. Friday at noon. Mike, Nick, Andy and Chris Anka in studio returned to the game that brought them all together, but also tore them all apart for one mega marathon stream of laughter, frustration and friendship.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm really shocked. Mike wanted to do this really well because he keeps on saying, talking about Warzone. And then Chris is like, nick really wants to play with you. He's like, yeah, but I need you there, Chris. I can't do it with Nick. Like, Mike's already hit that level with Nick. I just can't. I can't, you know, fair and yeah. So this will be great to have those sort of dynamic relationships.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

In one room. I'm excited for this. I'm excited to get back to Verdansk.

[Greg Miller]

And then in a long episode of your show. Your last WE news item is just that south of Midnight is out today in Early Access, which is no notable because you're about to get the kind of funny gamescast review of south of Midnight before then we turn over to your wrong. Beetle Bat confirms what I Blue sky, you should be following me. Dry Bones has been confirmed for Mario Kart World, so don't worry about that. And then URD, not Krios. Said Andy. Andy said DF said Cyberpunk 2077 was looking better than PS5 on Switch. They said it was an upgrade over PS4, not PS5. Digital foundry.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, okay. I just meant the console version. I don't know.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, fair enough.

[Andy Cortez]

Sounded like they were talking about the console.

[Greg Miller]

I meant to double back to that because Blessing in his report on the hardware said he thought that Cyberpunk 2077 on Twitch was a recommendable game, that it didn't look as good as the other ones, but you could totally play it and have fun.

[Andy Cortez]

Okay, gotcha.

[Greg Miller]

Something installed over.

[Andy Cortez]

Good to know.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you. Of course we asked people watching live on YouTube.com kind of funny games to chime in with super chats many of you had. Many of them have already been read. Dexter apologized. Feels pretty good to be wrong. Congrats, Andy. With a smiley emoji for your anniversary, of course.

[Andy Cortez]

TriForce's Power 30.

[Greg Miller]

It's Topher celebrates my three stars coming home. That's a joke about this from Zombies 8 Keegan. But oh yeah, he's doing the Peepee Poo Poo Kaka okay, there it is.

[Andy Cortez]

It's coming home.

[Greg Miller]

Relish police says Greg, my eyes are going hit me with Clark Kent recommendations. I like Ray Bang and sunglasses Ray Bang glasses a lot. I have both the Meta Ray Bans and then these are just regular Ray Bans. I got them at Costco too. Get them at Costco. Not the Ray Bans or the Metas, it doesn't matter.

[Andy Cortez]

These fake glasses I bought on like, I don't know, I think it was Zenny. Yeah, Way back in the day.

[Greg Miller]

Chocolate Fox 9 says shout out to Andy for eight years. You're the best.

[Andy Cortez]

Hey. Thank you.

[Greg Miller]

Gondor's Condor says Andy, I'm celebrating you and your dark souls, love by losing 30k in souls to the lost Isolith battle.

[Andy Cortez]

Oh, nice. Congratulations. It could have been 2 million like Mike did in in Elden Ring Volk.

[Greg Miller]

Dash your super chats and says south of midnight. Getting a 76 on Metacritic is breaking my heart. Still very excited. But why? Wanted them to have a great reception. What do we think of it? You'll find out soon. Let me tell you. Some scores are higher than that, some scores are lower.

[Andy Cortez]

Wow.

[Greg Miller]

Little tease for you. Know what I mean? Ninja fingers says the Switch 2 is £399 base model or 430Mario Kart bundle pounds in the UK with those specs, that's a bargain. Can't wait. 30 pounds is a steal for Mario. Indicating the bundle thing. We're getting a good deal on that bundle here as well. Danger Daddy D says birthday tax excited for Prime 4, but those mouse controls look awkward and comfortable. Plus, if I can play on a TV in my living room, would I need a table? Odd you would you would.

[Andy Cortez]

I have a little bed tray that I started. I put my laptop on.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Andy Cortez]

When I don't want a steam deck and be in an awkward position and all that. And I have a little bed tray that kind of goes over my thighs. Thick thighs save lives.

[Greg Miller]

Yep.

[Andy Cortez]

Have a little cup holder in there as well. Put some goldfish crackers, maybe some reduced fat. Cheez.

[Greg Miller]

Its lately a lot of this. This thick thighs business. Yeah. I call them noise canceling headphones.

[Andy Cortez]

You got to give them that.

[Greg Miller]

You got to give them that.

[Andy Cortez]

That was good. That's pretty good.

[Greg Miller]

I mean, come on now.

[Andy Cortez]

That is really good.

[Greg Miller]

Zeke speak. Super Chat says happy global recession day. Now is a great time to invest in CSAs in local farm share programs.

[Andy Cortez]

I'm investing in Melania Cool Coin and Trump Coin.

[Greg Miller]

Jessica Hinkle says, Greg, you and Jen forever impress the hell out of me with how you care for the kind of funny fam. Your own fam and all of us out here inspires me to do more every day. Be a good, continue to be a good person. Jessica, I already know you are. Steven Knight says when the Nintendo released the Switch, the price point was justified for outdated tech. 450 is absolutely insane and $80 for a game on that tech is nasty.

[Andy Cortez]

When are we going to get the KF Coin Rug pull? God, that would be so genius.

[Greg Miller]

Final one comes from Eric Myers. While everything sucks, at least we still have Andy. Happy Andy Versary, everyone.

[Andy Cortez]

Hey, thank you. That's very nice of you. The KF Coin Rug pull was the Tim Getty's Farewell Tour T shirt.

[Greg Miller]

Ladies, gentlemen, and nbs, that's another episode of Kind of Funny Games Daily in the bank. But your programming day is just getting started. As I said, you're about to get our south of Midnight Review as a kind of funny Gamescast. If you're not watching live, check it out on the Gamescast podcast feed. Or of course YouTube.com if you are watching live Twitch, you don't have to go anywhere. Maybe you could use this time to link your Amazon prime and give us your free Twitch prime sub that doesn't renew every 30 days. Of course, if you're on YouTube, there'll be a new link after that it's gonna be a kind of funny podcast live for your amusement. Then some streaming of that Pokemon Nuzlocke. For now though, a round of applause for Andy's anniversary. A round of applause for the Nintendo Switch, and a round of applause for me, who has three new stars. Just saying, just thank you. Until time everybody, it's been our pleasure to serve.