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This episode is brought to you by Rocket Money. Cancel your unwanted subscriptions and let Rocket Money help you reach your financial goals faster. Join@RocketMoney.com Kinda funny this episode is brought to you by Factor. Make healthier Eating easy with Factor. Head to FactorMeals.com KindaFunny50OFF and use the code KindaFunny50OFF to get 50% off your first Factor box. Plus free breakfast for one year offer only valid for new Factor customers with code and qualifying auto renewing subscription purchase today. In the nerdy news you need to know about Nintendo is monitoring high RAM prices and tariffs. Call of Duty on Switch 2 could be quote unquote imminent. An epic CEO has some strong opinions about Twitter and AI will evolve this and more because this is kind of funny. Games Daily. What's up everybody? Welcome to Kinda Funny Games daily for Monday, January 12, 2026. I'm one of your hosts, Greg Miller alongside Forbes 30 under 30 aka New York Game Awards nominated aka Purple Poppy Blessing Eddie Oye Jr. Good day, Greg. How are you?
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I'm doing good. I had to rock the purple.
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Of course.
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That's one of the colors for Game of the Year this year.
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It is a spoiler, but it's not. No, we put up. They put up the key.
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I try to dress for the occasion.
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I appreciate that. I appreciate that. Yeah, yeah. I have no purple shirts. I'm incredibly excited for our game of the year. Of course, if you didn't know everybody right after this, it is the kind of funny Games cast doing the kind of funny top 10 for 2026 which of course crowns Our game of the year, if you're unfamiliar, kind of funny, the way we all do it is we all blind vote. We put in our top 10. They are ranked, they are given. You know, your number one gets 10 points. Your number 10 gets. No, your number one gets 10 points. Your number 10 gets 1 point. We all give him to Barrett. He sits there in a little booth he made that we can't see, and he goes and tabulates it and then we all reveal it live. What happens? So I'm incredibly excited. Always a fun day.
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I want your prediction in chat, super chat, and I want your predictions. What do you think is going to be our number eight game? Our number eight ranked game of the year?
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Oh, Bear came back in to lean on the wall. Here's what threw me off. Everybody and Barry, you can come on here if you want a mug because I know you won't say anything, but if you want a mug, give your facial reactions to this. A few weeks ago, Andy, no, that's not true. I guess we've only been back a week.
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And a half.
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That Friday we came back, Andy came by and he was like, hey, can you log into your steam on my machine? And I was like, sure, but why? He's like, I want to get octopath stuff in Casey. And I'm like, dude, I'm the only one who played octopath. I'm the only one voting for octopath. And he's like, yeah, but if you're still putting it at one, that would be 10 points. And he's like, I think it's going to be so spread this year it could get in that way. Way. And I was like, I don't think so. But I want to believe that. You know what I mean? I want to believe that because last year it was Barrett said 12 points is what you need was the first entry on the list. So I'd love to believe that my 10 for Octopath could get it on there as number 10. But if that's the case and who the fuck knows what the rest of this looks like?
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I'm going to do like a sniper shot right here.
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Okay.
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I'm sniping it. And Roger, I think, and Rogers are number eight.
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I would love that. I would love that.
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I think enough of us have played it. Enough of us really like it.
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Yeah.
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Mike3 Kev or Mike3 Kev.
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No, Mike3 Kev.
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All I'll say is I'm the one who usually collects, like, the footage for games. So I feel like Andy was Just kind of fucking with you there.
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I don't know. Well, he's trying to make. You know how he makes the graphic art, the wall thing, the back wall. Yeah.
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Okay.
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That's all. And again, don't get me wrong. I'm not believing it. I don't believe it. I don't think it was that spread. But we'll see, we'll see.
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We'll see.
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In just less than an hour now we'll start going through octopath. No, no, you're not for number eight. I. Number eight's got to be higher. That's not a bad one.
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It was between that and night rain.
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I'll throw out one that. You're gonna think I'm crazy.
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It's spicy. It's 10am On a Monday.
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I wake us up. Oh, man. Oh man. Wake us up. Greg, where is Donkey Kong Bonanza gonna shake out on this? That's my question. You know what I mean? I think so too, but I also feel like there was a cooling on that where people were and like. Ah.
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I think it's nobody's. It's nobody's number one, I think. Cuz talking to. Talking to Tim. His. I know his top three, right? His top three seems very locked. I don't think it's your number one's Dr. Pat Traveler 0. But I think enough of us have played it. But I guess. Did Mike play DK Bonanza?
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Did Andy. I don't like.
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Did Andy play DK Bonanza?
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Yeah.
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Bear gave it a six out of ten. That's not true. What'd you give it?
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I gave it an eight.
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You hate it.
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Hates it.
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He hate it. He hates it.
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Hey, better score than Mario works for this company.
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Did Roger play DK Bonanza?
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I think he hates Nintendo games.
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Yeah, he's weird. Fuck.
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He might be onto something.
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Ever since he got slapped, he hasn't been right.
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I know.
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He's been walking a guy. That JetBlue flight knocks something loose in there.
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Yeah, he's been getting weird tattoos.
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We'll wait and see. We'll have to wait and see.
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All right, fair enough.
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Yeah.
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Roger confirms I hate all Nintendo games.
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See, there it is. Ever since.
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Getting a lot of compliments on my. My Hero sweater, by the way.
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He likes weird mascot characters, but I. The Nintendo characters.
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I wasn't sure if it was like all one shirt or if you were wearing a shirt underneath that.
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Yeah, it's like attached. Attached sleeve.
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Oh, it is attached. I thought it was. Oh, who's this? Is this insert coin? Who is This.
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I forget this might be Toho and the Toho animation. Like, like.
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Oh, Google I, I Z, oh, and you.
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I got the same spot that I got Alyssa's sick quarter zip Bakugo sweater as well.
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This is actually a change of topic a little bit. Zacky G in chat says bananas Bonanza was awesome, but for 70 it was fine. I feel like that's a different conversation as far as price. Yeah, I think I get, I get lost when we get into the weeds of like the quality of a video game versus like the price of it. I guess in, in terms of how something ranks among your list, I totally understand from a capitalistic standpoint of, you know, you have to save your money, consumers have to pick or whatever. And like, if a game costs too much for you, it costs too much for you. But like in a game of the year ranking, I feel like if Expedition 33 costs $100 or whatever, I'm still like, well, fuck price. Like we're talking about, we're talking about the art. But maybe that's a hot take. Maybe that's just me.
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I think it is a different conversation because I think like, I think there is two different conversations of Bonanza being great. And then is bonanza worth the $70? You know?
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Yeah, yeah, all right.
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I agree with that 100%. I think, you know, you can look back at even my. Some old IGN reviews where I think I might ding things for the price and it's like, well, what the fuck was. What was the point of that? Yeah, like also an argument of are you reviewing in the moment? Are you reviewing for all time? And what does it mean?
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I guess I just don't think when I'm playing a game or I'm reviewing a game, I'm not thinking 70 moment to moment.
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But even before I got, before I.
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Got things for free, I was never like, oh man, is this, is this gunplay $70 right here? You know, like, I don't know.
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I agree with that. Don't get me wrong because I think everybody, 70, 50, whatever, $10 is a different price point for every person that the whole the peak quote going around today about. Yeah, well, $8 is 5 do or whatever it is. $7.99, $5, $8. And it makes sense when you think about it. But I digress. We'll have all that and more because remember, this is kind of funny. Games daily, each and every weekday. The nerdy news you need to know about. If you're watching live right now, of course, be part of the show by super chatting over on YouTube.com kindafunny games. You could be part of the show with your thoughts, opinions on the stories. Just like Bob Shiggody is right now. Who says Just finished Alan Wake 2 for the first time after playing Alan Wake 1 and Control also for the first time. Great games. Can't wait for Resonant Control Resident coming up very soon probably. We'll see how it does. We couldn't do this of course without our producers over on patreon.com kindafunny so thank you Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney the Psalm Twining. Remember, if you're looking for housekeeping, you can find it on a new episode of the Buzz, available right now on all of our social medias and of course YouTube.com kindafunnygames but for right now, let's begin with what is and forever will be the Roper Report. Time for some new seven items on the Rope Report.
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Oh bakers does it.
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Number one, Nintendo is monitoring high RAM prices and tariff impacts very closely. You would hope so, says President Shuntaro Furukawa. This is Chris Scullion at vgc. Nintendo President Shantaro Furukawa says the company is keeping a close eye on the switch 2's profit margin as the increase in memory prices and ongoing tariffs remain an ongoing issue in the industry. And in an interview with Kyoto Shimbun, Furukawa was asked what the challenges were regarding Switch 2's lower profit margin than that of the original Switch. Quote Hardware profitability depends on factors like component procurement conditions, cost reductions through mass production, and the impact of exchange rates and tariffs, he said via machine translation. It is difficult to generalize fundamentally. We aim to address this by advancing component procurement over the medium to long term. He went on to note that the rapidly increasing cost of ram, mainly attributed to AI data centers buying up huge quantities of it, making supplies scarce is something that could become an issue if it continues. Quote we procure from supply. I love procure.
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Procure.
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I don't. I.
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You know, is this like a Bond villain thing to do? Well, for me it was procure something.
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I chat Keep me honest on this one. I want to say I learned it as one of the Metal Gears because I used to always say I remember a lot would be I'm going to go out if what if we don't have something I say oh, we're going to procure on site. Because I remember, I remember I thought Colonel saying that to Snake or Snake saying that whether it was Metal Gear Solid or Metal Gear Solid three Or whatever. Yeah, but this idea of like whatever it is, I'll get it when we're there.
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It's just whenever I hear the word procure, I had to like hear it in a evil British sure, sure, sure, sure, sure. Procured the rabbit's foot. You know what I mean? It's like what is the. What's the evil MacGuffin that we're. That we're looking for?
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Yeah, exactly. You don't just get it back to it. Sorry. We procure from suppliers based on a medium to long term business plans. But the current memory market is very volatile. There is no immediate impact on earnings, but it is something we must monitor closely. When asked if it could increase its prices depending on its future procurement costs, he said that. He said that was hypothetical and he couldn't comment. Later in the interview, Furukawa was asked what the impact the high tariffs placed on Japan by the US were having on the company. Furukawa noted that at the start of the fiscal year, Nintendo had projected a negative impact of several tens of billion yen 7 several tens of billion yen as a result of the tariffs and said it did see a corresponding impact in the first half of the year. Quote. While it's difficult to accurately gauge the future impact, our basic policy is to recognize tariffs as a cost and pass them on to prices as much as possible, not just in the U.S. he said. On the other hand, this is a crucial period for our games business as we promote the adoption of new hardware and maintain the momentum of our platforms. We are working on this while carefully considering the situation.
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Are you shocked, Buzz shocked that Nintendo is paying attention to market data, market conditions? But I mean I do think that given the details of this. Right. It very much gives, not marketing speak, but high level. We can't say too much detail because we're Nintendo and we're secretive and I'm.
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A CEO and we're a publicly traded business. So like, you know what I mean? Like this is going to affect the stock market if we start saying stuff.
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Exactly like we can't say too much here, but we know what's going on and we're paying attention to what's going on. Okay, sure. I think this goes back to the conversation I was having it with Tim last week in regards to RAM prices and how AI is driving up RAM prices because you're seeing a lot of people move toward the AI side of things which is also driving up the ramp prices. So like what this all means to me is that prices of things are going to go up over time, if you want to switch to at the price that you can get a switch to today, buy a Switch to right now. Because we are past the time where game consoles, after three years, four years, end up going down in price. That's not the case anymore. They're only going to go up price. The Switch 2 is probably going to go up in price sooner than later, I imagine.
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Soja Go plays games 2 1, 53 Super Chat and says title of the live episode alone had me scared thinking a price increase was already happening when I'm. When I'm actively saving for a Switch too. But it sounds like I have time. But how much time do you have? That's the big question here, right? Of like how much RAM has Nintendo stockpiled? Obviously when you set off with the specs of a machine, you buy X amount at whatever that price point is so that you can build those machines that way and keep going. But now there is this idea, if you haven't been following, how terrible it is out there. All these fucking AI data centers that aren't even built yet have ordered all this ram, which have now fucked everything up to where we're all stalled. Like you're not going to be able to get RAM at an affordable price ever again. Or at least not in the imminent future or less. AI, God willing, buckles and falls away and then we can get into steal, right? Like we see all sorts of people scrambling trying to fix this or figure out what they're going to do. I'd missed this whole thing, but AMD and Nvidia will reportedly raise GPU prices significantly in 2026. I hadn't missed that. I had hear heard that the one I had missed was this rumor I guess I have from Moises Tavares over at the one, the only GameSpot. Of course, Nvidia reportedly combating GPU shortages by bringing back discontinued graphics card. As GPU prices continue to skyrocket and stock becomes increasingly scarce, rumors are swirling that Nvidia might be about to resurrect a previously discontinued line of hardware. It goes in to talk about the 3060 GPUs and yada yada yada, but it's these are the reverberation ramifications. We're talking about the ripples in the water here, right? As they go out of like as AI buys up all this shit, then you see the rest of the market really start to try to figure out what that means. And it can mean on one hand, AMD and Nvidia having to really jack up the price than what they already have. And then also Nvidia getting crafty. If this is real and being a pro gamer move and making this back.
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Yeah. I think this is going to be the story of the year regarding how video game hardware manufacturers react to all this. I think with Nintendo is going to be the tug of war of how long can we hold on to our current price point? Because they want to hold on to it. Because we're still in year one of the Switch 2.
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Right.
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We're still in the first 12 months of this thing being out. Nintendo desperately does not want to raise the price on the Switch to already. We're talking about this last holiday season being down compared to where the Switch one was at during the holiday season. Right. Like, we're in such a crucial time for new hardware for Nintendo and they're going to want to keep this as long as possible, but they're going to lose this tug of war. And then I think they know, or at least they're growing to know that they're going to lose the stock of war sooner than later. So we might be talking about by the end of the year, by early next year, like, maybe we have one more holiday season. And that's me trying to be generous about it. One more holiday season at this price point before they buckle and have to put prices up. That's just Nintendo. Like, the conversation then ripples to PlayStation and Xbox and Next Gen and how.
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Let's follow these ripples out. Yep. Right. It is that idea of, like, obviously Xbox have been very vocal about working on their next Xbox, which is gonna have some kind of PC connectivity, which is gonna be a premium product. Right. Clearly, PlayStation is also working on. I forget exactly what Cerny has or hasn't said in the past, but you know what's happening.
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Yeah.
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The question then becomes, cool, have you secured the amount of RAM you needed for these machines? Were they finalized to that point that you're ready to build on them? And even if they were, what do you do when you're like, cool, we bought enough to make X million units, but when we want to make the next. The next batch of them, it's going to cost 30%, 50% more to try to get that right now.
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Yeah.
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How do you do that? What kind of lurch are you in? Are we going to see what I know many gamers I think would be all right with. Would them? All right, you know what, let's delay Next Gen two years. Let's try to squeeze even more out of the PlayStation 5. Even more out of everything's an Xbox. Even more out of everything back to Nvidia, you know what I mean? Of like, is this what, what does this mean for Nvidia strategy that we talk about positively all the time, the show because we love it of GeForce now of like, would this be the thing of like, yo, there's no way you can afford a 50 80. Isn't that what's in the cloud if you have the highest tier, like or 50 90, like but here you could. And we'll give you this introductory deal. We'll do this and like it'll be interesting to see if this is some kind.
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If it is.
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Is if this is as bad as it could be.
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Yeah.
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Is this a turning point where we all really go, you know what, games are good as they are, we don't need to be pushing hyper realistic. And I know that like AI gets involved then of like, well, you know, that could super sample. And is it also the thing that pushes more people to try streaming? If it really is GeForce now again, in SF, we have great Internet, but Nvidia GeForce now has been great to me. Great to us. Like, it'll be really fascinating to see how this shakes out.
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I mean Steam Machine, that's one that we're all excited for. We still don't have the price for steam machine, right?
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100%.
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I think that's by design. I think that's them looking at the.
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Shit still happening and being like, all.
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Right, let's, let's wait and see to see how much we can charge for this thing. Do we even get it this week?
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Year?
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You know, does it end up getting delayed next year because this shit is happening so fast?
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See, I think that it's, it's so complicated because I don't think it gets delayed because I think that, that if you're as confident as they were to say, hey, we have the Steam Machine, they, they said it was first half of the year, early this year, right. That they're going to put it out.
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I forget if they said earlier first half.
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Either way, yeah, good enough. Not a date, but a date. If you said that those are in production, those are being built, those are in a warehouse right now being boxed up somewhere. Theoretically, or at least the components have been purchased.
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I hope so because I want one.
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But. But then you get back to the point of like, okay, cool shit, is it good enough for Valve to put out those X million units to begin with and then not put out another wave Put out another wave, but it is significantly more expensive. Do you pass that consumer on? Pass that cost on the consumer right now of saying shit, we need to put in the next order for ram, we might as well do it. It's going to be this much. So now, rather than punish the people who buy later, let's punish everyone equally and put it out here. Because again, as the quote goes in this article from the president of Nintendo policies to recognize tariffs as a cost and pass on the price. Pass them onto the prices. Yeah, pass them on to the prices. That's. You remember, this is how tariffs work because a whole bunch of people who voted here in America didn't understand that's how they work. Now you're eating shit, you stupid idiots.
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Yeah, it's a lot. Yeah, it's a lot to keep track of as far as what's going to happen.
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Because I'm Remember when the job used to be just we played a game and said if we didn't like it, we liked it or didn't like it.
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And now I'm thinking of the thing of again, if we're chasing down these ripples, what does the strategy become? Right? I think you talk about the cloud aspect of it, which is going to be a big aspect of it. But for when I think of me as a gamer, right? Like I'm somebody who, I like cloud. I don't love cloud, right. I. There's still that little bit of latency that just doesn't work. At least maybe for the kind of games I play. I like fighting games, I like action games. That shit's kind of hard. Latency, I don't like that. But I think for a PlayStation, I think for a lot of these console manufacturers you might just have to lock in on software, right? Like the strategy might change as far as you're talking about, let's extend it two years. I think it becomes, I think the big part of the strategy now becomes how long and how much can we squeeze out of the people that are already locked in, already own a console. You know what I mean? Like, do we raise money on PlayStation Plus? Do we raise. Like, are we still seeing PS4 games come out in 2030? What year are we in? 2020? Yeah, 2030. I think those are the conversations that we're going to end up having and those are the things we're going to.
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End up see thing we will wait and see as everything goes. I'm looking through the super chats here because people are talking about a whole bunch of things. I get the birthday taxes, they roll in. Someone's asking about bs. That's birthday, everybody. What are you gonna do over there? Let's get you this one. Golden Spider says, this is why I bought a Switch to at launch, even though I hardly ever use it because I knew the price would inevitably go up 100%. That was what I think a lot of us are saying when it was even crazier with tariffs back then. I know it's not good now, but back then it was shooting from the hip. You know what's going to happen? Are they going to change their mind here now? Do we just shoot people in the head? Just American citizens get shot in the head for no reason. C Barry328 says, Wasn't switch two sales lower than expected this holiday and they were 50, 50 off. Would the sale numbers decrease even more with the price increase? Yeah, well, yeah, see, Barry. But again, this comes back to a conversation we had on games daily of like, that's a fact. Yes, but remember, of course, switch to launch sales were far better than Switch 1 launch sales. So when you start talking about moving units, it's like, well, did they sell worse in the holiday because so many people who wanted them bought them in the summer or spring, whenever it came out. You know what I mean? It's that kind of argument back and forth of a saturated market. And then of course, as they have said, software of like, we don't have a Mario, we don't have. I think they talked about not having a big western game in terms of a western release, something like that. I don't know. DC Hard Rocker says Nvidia stopped selling RAM to card makers as part of their deal. They can make as many 30, 60 chips as they want. But ASUS, etc. Still need to buy RAM. Yes, but it's interesting to see them introduce the chips. Yeah, I'm with you. I'm following you. There's an article I think we're missing there. And then Dexter has a prediction for number eight. Unless Kevin bullied everyone for Blueprints to be number one, I think Blueprints is number eight, tied with Donkey Kong. Love you, Kevin. Do you think Blueprints makes the list?
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I think it makes the list. I think it's very low on the list.
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I'd be a good eight.
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Yeah, because I think I'll have it on my list, obviously. And I could see it on one or two other people's lists, but it's definitely one that will not be high on there, sadly.
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Fair enough.
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Company's wrong. Whoa. Yeah I said it.
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Whoa.
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Player obscure. More like should be an obscure game. Get out of here.
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Get out of here.
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Jk. I love that game.
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I love this game. Kevin is running the smoke today. Everybody's also on my list so we will continue to monitor the RAM prices this switch prices and etc. Etc. But for now we'll move into a different kind of Switch two. News Number two on the ROPA report Call of Duty on Switch two could be imminent. A data miner claims this is Chris Scullion at VGC News of Call of Duty's arrival on Switch 2 and potentially Switch could be imminent. That's according to X User Reality, who data mined a recent Call of Duty update and claimed to have found new code referencing Nintendo platforms under Platform Family section, joining existing entries like Sony, Steam, Microsoft and Ubisoft or UB Connect. Some Activision games were added to Ubisoft plus Premium last month. It is a reportedly new entry called Nintendo. It also adds a new entry to the Platform Family to account type section, adding NA Nintendo account to the existing entries. Xbl, PSN and Steam Reality suggested that the addition of Nintendo to the game games code suggests an announcement is imminent, perhaps during a presentation announcing new games. While it's almost certain that such games will be available on Nintendo Switch 2, it is not known whether Microsoft will attempt to bring the series to the original Switch period.
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This lines up with, I think Jess Corden said this last week that this would be the year that we'd see Call of Duty come to Switch. Yeah, part of this would lead me to believe maybe you say something during the developer direct, but I don't know what you would say because you don't announce the next Call of Duty there.
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Well, no, but if, I mean what you would do is say we're also excited and we're always looking for those day and day drops. So during the dev direct be like, hey you know what, we're also excited, you know, to tell you this.
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Call of Duty.
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Yeah, the one that just came out that people hated. Hey, you know that one with the.
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Guy releasing just the campaign Also you.
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Know that one that the guy from Heroes that nobody liked. It's out today right now on Switch 2 and we're excited to announce that from here on out will be day and day. Maybe that's probably too far.
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But I mean you could go back a couple Call of Duties ago, right? Like how long have they been working?
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Yeah, I mean like I of course am not the Call of Duty guy. So is the move really Warzone. Is that what we're trying to do here, you think? Is it like, oh, Warzone is dropping today on Nintendo Switch too.
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That would be fucking sick, actually. Yeah, that'd be a great way.
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And all it is is, you know, Phil or Sarah or whoever be like, and here's something. And it's just a trailer anywhere, anytime drop in. Yeah, it's nickel.
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It's like Switch. They have like a Mario costume on. Yeah. One of the soldiers dress up as Luigi.
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So exactly what they'll have executing a shine out there.
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Okay. Yeah, no, I can see it. I. For some reason I don't expect it, but like I could see it. I do think the War Zone thing is smart, but yeah, makes sense for later this year. You finally try to get in line with Call of Duty releasing everywhere so they can make good on all those court documents they had, all the things they had to do, things they had to agree to. We'll put Call of Duty everywhere.
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We'll do all the list and don't freak out. Everybody put it everywhere.
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Any playground is coming everywhere.
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Oh my God, the playground. Can't wait for that one. That's what I need the kids running around doing. Remember of course, the Xbox Underscore developer or developer Underscore Xbox developer Underscore Direct is coming out on January 22nd. We will be live reacting to it here on YouTube.com kind of funny games. Twitch TV kind of funny games. Paris will be here, Gary will be here in the flesh. We'll all be watching it and reacting to that. It'll be your usual Games Daily time followed by of course your. Well, it'll be a gamescast live reaction, then the post show Games cast, then the Games Daily. We'll have a great time talking about all the cool. Are you excited for it?
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For which part?
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Sorry, I was Xbox developer direct.
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No, yeah, I'm excited for it. I like the, the games that they have on the docket. Yeah, I'm all the way into. Right. Forza Horizon, obviously. I love Forza Horizon and them going to Tokyo. Oh yes. Beast of Reincarnation I believe is what it's called coming out. Coming from Game Freak. I always want to see Game freak try things and do things outside of Pokemon and like flex those muscles because they've done. They did Little Town Hero, that game that came out like 2018, five, six years ago. I want to see them do different things and I think that game does look like it has a lot of potential. So I'm excited to see that fable. I want to see more from it. I want to see them say a date and then most likely delay that date into 2027 because that's what's going to happen. But yeah, I'm excited for it.
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What if he did come this year though?
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There's a chance. Always a chance. That's just not coming this year though. Come on, let's be real, be honest. Mike paid $60 on his medicine on his fucking famous.
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Kevin, I just dropped at the end of story number two. Kindafunny.com league if you could throw that up. Of course we have a fantasy critic league that just kicked off last week as it does every year. And it is worth pointing out if you go to Snow Mike, Mike his team, Team Snow Mike Mike number one. You will see that over the weekend when drafts bids processed, Mike filled his entire team. Mike picked up Fable, Ghost of Yote, Legends, Diablo 4, Lord of Hatred at Fate's end, World of Warcraft, Midnight, and now only has $1 left to his name in this league, which is either going to be just a brilliant move or like a colossal collapse. What do you think it's going to be?
B
I think this is always a mistake. Every year somebody at the beginning of the year always picks, always like fills up their catalog and that never pays off for them. However, if it does pay off for anybody, it would be Snow White Mike.
A
Yeah.
B
So this could be his Steph Curry. I'm shooting from the logo type thing. I, I look down, I look through this list. Right.
A
Yeah.
B
Again, Fable, I'm not, I'm not 100 sold on.
A
Yeah, that will. I did bid for it as well, thinking but I went like, you know, 15 bucks.
B
Yeah, I mean I bid three. I put $3 down for it because if nobody else is going to get it, I'll get it. Sure. Ghostiote, Legends. I don't think that's gonna be reviewed like in the 90s. Right. Like I think that'll be maybe low 80, if not high 70. But then I think the other picks are good. At Fate's End, I'm not convinced we'll see this year. That's the only other thing I think that game looks.
A
Which one is that? I don't even know what that is.
B
It's the game coming from the Spirit Fair developer got it really cool 2D art style. I think I forget it has like a card combat system or something along those lines. Chat. Correct me if I'm wrong there, but yeah, Diablo, World Warcraft, those expansions, I think those are good picks. I don't think he has a bad lineup whatsoever here. But some of these are big risks.
A
We'll see. I took a risk this weekend as well. I went, I of course bid on Halo like I said. But I also went and you know, I said to hell with it. Is it all style, no substance? I don't know. And I bid and picked up replaced.
B
I saw that. Yeah, yeah, that's a good call.
A
I don't know. I don't know. I'll be at Paris. Who then texted me the day of. It was like, you idiot. Are you jerk? And I was like. I'm like, oh. It's like I could see it going either way. Where this thing pays off on the style it has because it has such fucking style or it totally 77 ones. It. You know what I mean? It's just like, okay, it's a beautiful game, but it doesn't get anywhere. It needs to be in terms of a narrative, if that makes sense.
B
Just indies.
A
I know, and I got burned so bad last year by indies. But I want to believe. Like I look at this game and I go, I want to believe. Expose the sinister secrets of the Phoenix Corporation as reach an AI trapped in a human body. Set in an alternate 1980s America scarred by nuclear catastrophe. Navigate a dark cyberpunk thriller in this narrative driven 2.5D platformer blending cinematic exploration with fluid free flow action. That sounds like combat.
B
Looks so smooth, like the animations look. So this game looks like it's going to be fantastic. Yeah, but yeah, I've been, I've been steered the wrong way.
A
You've been burned before.
B
I've been burned before. I was looking at. I was, I was even looking at Mugenics, which is one of my picks during the initial draft and I was looking through the history and of course they made Binding of Isaac, but then I saw that he made other games as well that didn't score as high. So now I'm like, fuck. All right, let's see. Like I need this thing to hit. I need this thing to do at least an 85 for me.
A
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And for delivery Number three on the Roper Report Throw them up for the Dudley boys Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI generate pornographic images of minors is just, quote unquote gatekeepers attempting to, quote, censor all of their political opponents. End quote. This is Ted Litchfield over at PC Gamer. As reported by Eurogamer, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney took to X, formerly Twitter, to criticize an attempt by US Lawmakers to ban the social media app and its accompanying generative AI tool, Grok. The move came after users discovered that Elon Musk Grok has the ability to take photos of real people, including minors, and produce images of them undressed or in otherwise sexually compromising positions, flooding the site with such content. Quote Reason number 42 for open platforms to shut down every politician's incessant demands to all gatekeepers to censor all of their political opponents, sweeney wrote in his first tweet, responding to macrumor's report of US politicians requesting that Apple and Google remove X and Grok from their app stores. Quote all major AIs have documented instances of going off the rails, end quote. Sweeney continued in a follow up tweet. All major AI companies make their best efforts to combat this. None are perfect. Politicians demanding gatekeeper selectively crush the one that's their political opponent's company is basic crony capitalism. AI going off guardrails. Oh, sorry. Okay, yeah, that's the end quote from Sweeney. Now we go to a quote here from Patrick Klepic. Quote, AI going off guardrails is not the same as actively excusing content for pedophiles, wrote REMAP and former Waypoint editor Patrick Kleppec in response. Quote your priority priorities as someone in charge of a company that makes a video game catering to young people are completely off. End quote. 404 Media's report from January 5th that the beginning of the saga offers illustrative examples of Grok's newly discovered capabilities, like influencer influencers undressed, made to appear pregnant, or shown breastfeeding a child. There are also extensive reports of users generating such material from images of minors. Given the opportunity, Sweeney appears eager to defend an unprecedented online sexual humiliation machine, calling for open platforms and free speech while presiding over censorship on his own closed platform. Then we have a link here to Sweeney's response. This is a response to this article I see over on Twitter. Yeah. Tim Sweeney tweets, this is a vile lie by PC gamer. I criticized a government official for pressuring Apple and Google to block a speech app owned by their political opponent, deplatforming 500 million users on the pretense of stopping a small number of users from disturbing disgusting content. Period.
B
You know, CEOs say the darndest things. You know, tech CEOs, gaming CEOs, they always say the darndest things. I don't know where to start with this. I think the place to start would be to inform people if you're not on Twitter or if you've missed out on what's been going on on Twitter, call it X. Oh, sorry, X.
A
Calling this Twitter such a fucking insult to what Twitter used to be when Twitter was good.
B
There's a AI chatbot, Grok. Yeah. That essentially you can tag and post to like ask, do this stupid shit.
A
Yeah.
B
Hey Grok, tell me what time it is. Hey Grok, tell me some basic shit I could Google right? In the last few weeks, maybe like month. I actually don't know how long this has been happening, but it's been blowing up more and more recently where people will post an image and people will reply to that image, asking Grok to edit that image. And it could be, hey, Grok, you know, put a hat, put a green hat on this person.
A
You'd be totally, yeah.
B
Yes. But what's been happening more and more is people saying, hey Grok, take this person's shirt off. Hey Grok, show me this person making out with somebody else. Hey, Grok, do you essentially like asking Grok to do things that are very inappropriate, inappropriate and non consensual to this person? And people have been doing it, I think small, partly because of memes, but then also it seems like there's a growing aspect of people that are just fucking horny and perverted coming in.
A
Well, with everyone good, leaving X, who's left on X? Yeah, not good.
B
And so, yeah, it's a lot of people basically non consensually taking people's clothes off. On this platform including children. Including make creating child porn using X's tool. So that's where this conversation, conversation starts as far as Tim Sweeney coming in and saying. And him I think initially replying to somebody saying, somebody saying we should do something about this and Tim Sweeney being.
A
Like, like no, all AI eventually goes off the guard.
B
Yeah, all AI goes off the guardrails. We shouldn't allow censorship. All this stuff which that I say get it together that like we gotta do something about this. Right? Like we can't keep over complicating things in the name of free speech.
A
Yeah, right.
B
We can't keep allowing like this to happen in the name of. Oh but like we should be able to say anything we want and be able to express.
A
I thought it was the marketplace of ideas.
B
Yeah, but in that we should protect people, right? Like we should protect children. We should, we should protect people who are being non consensually put out there in these ways that they don't want to be. All this is terrible shit and Tim Sweeney should not be defending this. But also I am not surprised because again tech CEO say the darndest things, don't they? Like this happens all the time and I've seen this before from Tim Sweeney so this especially doesn't surprise me.
A
Yeah, we have two super chats about it. Techie Haas says hi Greg and Bless Congrats on 11 years. Just wanted to shout out Alana Pierce's new video about X. It's a must watch and I ask everyone to please leave that platform. It will never die if people keep using it. Love you all. Kev, I dropped the link in there. Alana put this out. I think this weekend, maybe Friday. I haven't had the chance to watch it but I follow along on all the social media so I've seen her sharing it and encourage you to go check it out. Obviously it's her diving into all this and more importantly like I was saying, the fact that no one's talking about it like it isn't getting. That's Alana's one. One of her points over on the Instagrams I saw about it of the fact that like this is happening in mainstream media. Aren't actually talking about how fucked up this is and how fucking disgusting this is. Meanwhile Mukta super chats and says your daily reminder to get the fuck off X if you're using it. Whatever good you think comes from doing it is undone by your momentarily supporting these behaviors.
B
Tim Sweeney in part of his reply to PC Gamer, right he says deplatforming 500 million users on the pretense of stopping a small number of users from distributing disgusting content. I can't express it enough. It's not a small amount of users. You go to any, Any like, posted image on X right now, look in the replies. It's people asking Brock to do shit to that person. It's not a small amount of.
A
Yeah, yeah.
B
Just want to put that out there.
A
No, I'm glad you did.
B
Yeah.
A
No, no.
B
And that's in. In to Alana's video, which I. I watched on the way here. I only got halfway through it. I need to watch the rest. But, yeah, she puts it in a great way. Like you mentioned, right? Like, not many people are reporting on this. And this is the richest man on the planet. It's his tools. It's his website. Right. It's his AI tool that is making child porn. And nobody's reporting on this.
A
Well, it's just, you know, don't. This isn't me justifying it. It's just that the craziest fucking shit keeps happening each and every goddamn day. Yeah. So it's impossible to keep up with what the fucking latest horrible fucking thing is.
B
But I think it's also the thing of. We've allowed so much shit, and I think we're becoming more and more numb to things like this. 100%, I think the Internet and like, specifically terrible people on the Internet and terrible people just in real life, like, we've given them so much ground that abnormal shit doesn't feel as abnormal because we've just gone the entire opposite direction. This. This should be enough for us to fucking revolt against this, man. And be like, yo, we gotta get this guy out. We gotta do something. Like fucking your tool is doing this shit. Like, we should have such a bigger response to this. But we don't. Because I think we're all just numb.
A
Well, I mean, yeah, Yeah, I mean, you're right. It's 100%. And it's. Because again, it's this overwhelming wave of horrible fucking news at every fucking point. And again, what you're talking about, the things that. That 10 years ago would have been enough to end your career are just things you can just do now. You can just say, now you can do whatever. Now you can do it. You can do a Nazi salute. You can do a Nazi salute in an inauguration celebration. Then everybody's like, well, hold on, that's not what he meant. That's not what it was supposed to be. That's not what it was shut the fuck up. Shut the fuck up. Yeah, not you.
B
You're the darn. They do the darndest things, You know? I beat Dark Souls over the weekend. I was hoping that we could talk about that, but then I come in, I'm like, oh, this is the news. All right, cool.
A
Well, here's what. Okay, here's what we do. Next time, even not too late right now, pass Jordan Midler a quid and have him. He'll write it up on bgc. I don't think quid's the Scottish dollar. I don't think it would actually help him much. He goes to England enough for him to do it, and he'll write about it. And then we put it in games.
B
Daily about me beating Dark Souls. That's the title.
A
Someone finally beat Dark Souls.
B
Finally got to the end of dark.
A
Souls number four in the ROPA report. Persona 30th anniversary site quietly mentions, quote, the next chapter of the series. End quote. This is Andy Robinson at vgc, who I have heard knows Jordan Midler. Sega and Atlas's Persona 30th anniversary website quietly mentions the next chapter in the series. Fans have discovered Persona celebrates 30 years in 2026, with Sega promising to mark the occasion with, quote, special events, anniversary merchandise, and more. So far, Atlus has announced Persona 4 revival for release sometime after April 2026, but it's the unannounced Persona 6 that fans have been most anticipating. Considering Persona 5 is now nearly a decade old, potentially increasing the likelihood of news on that front is the Google snippet for the official Persona 30th anniversary site, as spotted by social media users, the snippet reads, quote, 2026 marks the 30th anniversary of Persona. Come celebrate the journey as we usher in the next chapter for the series. End quote. The website itself seemingly makes not a mention of the next chapter. The wording could be interpreted in multiple ways, of course, but considering the importance of the anniversary, it wouldn't be surprising if Atlas opted to announce the next full entry soon.
B
The next chapter of the series, Barrett, is happening. It's happening, Barrett. The next chapter of the series. Finally gonna get it.
A
You got.
C
This is what I wanted to wear for game of the year, but it's so goddamn cold out. And it was like, I don't want to wear this to work.
A
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
C
It's been 10 years. Like, it really hit me when they're like, oh, like, we're coming up on the 30th anniversary of Persona. I was like, I remember being assigned to Persona 5 at IGN to do gameplay clips for. Was really bummed out about it because I didn't know what Persona was, and then I fell in love with that game. But I remember and, like, I'll take you back. Bless the way Persona 5 opens with its title cards and all this stuff. It specifically calls out Persona 20th anniversary, and it's been that goddamn long because it came out, I think, in Japan in late 2016.
B
Yeah.
C
And so it like, what are we doing, guys? What are we doing the 30th anniversary here? What's going on?
B
As we usher in the next chapter for the series, here's what I'll say, right?
C
I hope we get an announcement.
B
I. I think we do.
C
I think this is finally the year we get an announcement.
B
Yeah. When? Because what Persona 4 revival are we thinking next year? Yeah.
C
A lot of people were hitting me up over the weekend, Barrett, why no one picked up Revival for Fantasy Critic. You gotta sneakily, like, pick it up or something. That game's not coming.
B
Yeah. None of us believe that's. We.
C
We saw five seconds of gameplay, and on that five seconds of gameplay, it said early footage, and that's all we saw. We didn't even get a year for that game. That game is early.
B
This is what. This is. What I'll say, all right, is my. I'm sniping again every time. Beerus here. I got to snipe. We get the announcement. Persona 4 revival, Persona 6. We get trailers for both this year and Persona revival coming out early next year. Persona 6 in the fall next year. It's that same Persona 3 reload, metaphor situation. The year of Persona.
C
It's fascinating, right? Because I imagine the Revival team is the same smaller team that did reload. The team that's been working on Persona 6, I think, has been working on it since Royal came out. So that's 2020. So you got to imagine, like, I would say, Six has got to be more ready to be, like, in the barrel of the gun than Revival.
B
Oh, interesting.
C
So I don't know. I don't like. I'm just. I continually am continually perplexed by this company and how they.
B
How much work are you doing? Copy paste, right click up res, ship, game over.
C
That's it. It's. It's a. It's a new. What is it? Engine. All that stuff. People are also predicting metaphor repackages. I think they're, like, slowing down on doing, like, repackages, like a Royal. I think Atlas, like, said, like, a year or two ago. Like, hey, like, that's. We don't really want to do that anymore. We're like, we're gonna do more, like, DLC stuff. And we kind of saw that with, like, Reload. Like, we didn't get a repackaged reload. We just got Episode, I guess.
A
Dlc.
B
Imagine we got a repackaged reload. What would you even title it? Persona. Persona 3 package repackaged.
A
Yeah.
C
I don't know.
A
Re.
B
Reload.
C
Anyways, Revival should have been called Rewind.
B
That's.
C
Yeah, that's all I have to really say. Persona 6. I hope your main color is still green, because green is my favorite color.
A
Thank you, Barrett.
B
Thank you, Barrett.
A
Number five on the Roper Report. It looks like the Division, the Division Definitive Edition, is on its way 10 years after its initial release. This is Vicky Blake at IGN. It's been almost 10 years since we first stepped foot in Ubisoft's Extraction shooter, the Division, and it looks like the developer will celebrate by giving its fans a chance to replay the experience in Definitive Edition form. While not confirmed by Ubisoft, advertising for an unannounced Definitive Edition has dropped in or popped up in Japan, along with what looks like to be hoodies, caps, and T shirts inspired by the division's anniversary. Although it appears those are just prizes for players jumping into the game at an esports event rather than simply being available to buy.
B
You would think Division is a way bigger franchise than it is. Unless I'm wrong.
A
I feel like we go from the highest of highs last week. I think it was Friday. Julian from Massive being like, Division 3 is going to be as impactful on the industry as Division one. And me and Mike here just gobbling it up. So excited. Yes. Division three. Let's fucking go. And then I wake up to the definitive edition of Division One. The definitive edition of Division One. I do not need to replay Division One. Thank you very much. You just put 60 frames PS5 out. I'm fine. I don't need to go back to Division 1.
B
You don't want to go back to New York?
A
I do, but as a new game.
B
Go back to Brooklyn.
A
I'm going. Going back. Back to Brooklyn. I did some things there that aren't.
B
Yeah, that's joke. Because you went back to Brooklyn in Division two, right?
A
Yeah, there. There was DLC for that. Yeah, exactly. No, no, thank you. I don't need this. No, no. I love Division. I love Division 1. I love Division 2. I'm excited for Division 3. I do not want a Division Definitive Division. What does that mean?
B
Isn't division more like live servicey also? Like, what does that look like for a. Like a definitive edition? Are you just packaging in everything in there?
A
I guess that is. What definitive. Can you throw a backup? Kev, I know you just closed it out. Sorry. Can you throw that back up? Because the. What? Because over here on the. Oh, because that's esports stuff. Go to the esports stuff. The. The there, there. That's Division 2 stuff. But I guess if that's esports.
B
Yeah, those are prizes for the esports thing.
A
I don't know, man. I don't. I mean, like, what would it. So it's the game. Definitive edition. So it's the game and all the DLC and I64K. All that jazz.
B
Like Dark Zone darker.
A
They made the dark zone darker. I wish I could care. I wish. I don't want that. I don't need that. I don't have time for that. I only have time for the new games. I could go play the division right now. Division 2. We all like that one DLC so much. They support it for like six more years or whatever the fuck it is. Some stupid ass number where they keep adding things to it. I turn it on, Richie's still playing it like it's happening. I know that that's there. Roger says he's drafting it. You need to step in the way of that. You need to stop that.
B
There's no way the website allows that. There's no way. Is this an Xbox developer Direct announcement. When do we hear this? They're putting down on the. No, on the walls of the train. And where did they say this is? Tokyo.
A
Yeah, well, that's where that other thing was.
B
Japan. They just said Japan. So, like they're putting it up. They gotta announce this somewhere.
A
We don't need this. And do not do it at fucking. Don't waste the Xbox on it. Don't waste the Xbox on it. The only one I will accept being wasted on it. Is that true or the Life is Strange game?
B
That's not a waste, though.
A
Well, we don't need Chloe back.
B
Well, that I agree with.
A
Thank you very much.
B
No, you're right, you're right. Come on. No. Come on. Make some new.
A
Speaking of making things new, number six on the Roper report. The first Lego Pokemon sets have been revealed, including a $650 Charizard Blastoid and Venusaur statue. This is Jordan Miller, VGC, the big man. The Pokemon company and LEGO have revealed the first images of the upcoming Lego Pokemon sets. LEGO Pokemon is due to launch. And is it? I know I'm broken, but it makes me so angry that. That Jordan isn't putting Lego in all caps. You know, this isn't. I don't feel like this is like when they. When Sony tries to get cute with infamous where the capital I, capital F. That's just whatever. But LEGO is always all caps.
B
Yeah, you're right. That's true.
A
Jordan, do better, Jordan. You know what I mean.
B
Get it together.
A
That's why you lost a Rebecca for best reporter. Yeah, he would have got more votes.
B
If you capitalize Lego do better.
A
Fix this article. Write about blessing beating dark souls, please. Lego Pokemon is due to launch later this year in time for Pokemon's 30th anniversary. The first group of sets, which includes Pikachu, Eevee, Charizard, Venusaur, and Blastoid, will be released on February 27th. Pikachu and Pokeball will cost you 199.99. That's 200 bucks and feature 2,050 pieces. This set sees Pikachu emerging from a Pokeball onto the stand that has a 25 built into it, a nod to Pikachu's Pokedex number.
B
Wow.
A
The next set, Eevee, will cost you $59.99, include 567 pieces. Hey, that's a more that Ben will want this and I will have to make this. This will be something I guarantee I have to make. He loves Eevee. The biggest set, the first wave, is Venusaur, Charizard and Blastoid, which will cost you $649.99, include 6,838 pieces. Also revealed is the Lego Pokemon Kanto region badge collection, which will only be available by pre ordering the Lego Pokemon, Lego Venusaur, Charizard, and Blastoise. But for Lego insiders, a small replica of the Pokemon center will be available for 2,500 insider points. While stocks last. Insider points are earned via Lego store purchases.
B
I have a few thoughts.
A
Look at them all combined. My first thought is that's $650 times three.
B
My first thought is a hot take. And that is I don't love how LEGO characters look like when you're making replicas of like existing. Like when I look at these Pokemon characters.
A
I'm sorry, we gotta stop. But how do I say Blastoise?
B
You said it. Blastoise.
A
Okay, But I did say Blastoid one time. Chat's very mad. I'm sorry. It's. I'm. I am a Bulbasaur guy. Okay? I'm still at that level. Nobody ever evolves him in my life.
B
Yeah, I noticed it, but I thought maybe Blastoise. Blastoise, yeah.
A
Tortoise.
B
But I think you were thinking, like, Illinois Blastoise. Blastoise, Yeah. I don't like how this looks, but that's. And it's not even just a Pokemon thing, because I'm sure to Lego fans, this probably looks great. But, like, when they announced the Mario Lego stuff too, like, I looked at Mario and I was like, I don't. I don't like how they look. I don't know. I feel like the Lego just, like the dimensions, the proportions just don't fit the characters as well as I want them.
A
And another correction here. Chat's correcting me. I'm sorry. You get the three, four. 650. I thought they were individually. 650, all three of them together. I apologize, everybody.
B
Yeah. So that's my first hot take. Or that's my first, I guess, take on it. Aside from that, I'm happy for people. Hell, yeah. Let's go.
A
Yeah, that's my thing where it's like, Yeah, I mean, 650 sounds ridiculous, but I'm not up to date on my Pokemon price or, I'm sorry, my Lego prices. I know Ben is building very small things in the most time. He won't even let me finish them. So, you know, I don't know where we're at.
B
My. My other hot take has nothing to do with this. It goes back to story number five.
A
Well, there should be a Hallucha. Thank you. Go on.
B
Oh, there you go. Thank you. Because in talking about the division showing up at Xbox underscore.
A
Yeah.
B
People are mentioning. That would make sense. That doesn't, like, really fit something like this. This is what I'll say, right? Going back to last year's direct, where we got Ninja Gaiden, and then you got like, hey, here's the Ninja Garden for launching later this year. But here's Ninja Gaiden definitive right now. What if we get Division 3?
A
Then I'm done. Then I'm done.
B
And they're like, division one is dropping today. You can play the Definitive edition while you wait for Division 3 coming out in the fall.
A
I would just raise my hand from the, you know, the chat there and be like, does it carry my save over from the old PlayStation 1? Do I get the trophies again? Thank you.
B
I get the trophies. Do you still care about trophies?
A
You don't got me. If I can get an easy platinum, if I can just boot up division Definitive edition. Pop a plat. I'm doing it.
B
You know, fair enough.
A
Fair enough. Blessing.
B
Greg.
A
Pokemon being expensive, Legos being expensive. That's big news. If I wanted something smaller, say the tiniest news I need to know about, where would I go?
B
You go to our last story, the Wii News Channel, where you cover all the small news items you need to know about.
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Number seven, WE news Masters of Albion. Right? Albion. Yeah. The next God game from Peter Molyneux launches on April 22nd on Steam. Wow. Remember when they announced that and everybody's like, isn't that the town from Fable? And he's like, yeah, they won't sue me. We're like, wait a second. I think they might like.
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Ah.
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It's shown up in fiction before.
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That was coming out the same year.
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Yeah, we'll see. We'll see. We'll see about that for sure.
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You don't believe either.
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Ah, you know, I can't trust anything. Again, the make. Here's the thing with Fable. I. I'll pizza bet you it comes out this year.
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I don't know if I'm pizza bet.
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Level of confidence because remember they were saying this thing is about games coming out this year. And I know that best edges, but I still think if it's coming out this year, it's coming out September or before. So I think you're even more confident than usual. I don't think you send this out to die against gta.
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I'll pizza about that.
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Okay. Yeah. Kevin, can we do a piece about it?
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For the record, for people watching, listening, I. They will say this game is coming out this year. They will say it.
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I'm saying Fable will you by December 31, 2026, you'll be playing favor.
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And I'm saying it gets delayed into next year.
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Fair enough. Yeah. I appreciate that. That's the best.
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Is that our first pizza bet of the year?
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We gotta.
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I gotta figure out a tracking system. I know there's pizza dot bets or whatever.
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No, nobody understands how that works.
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Yeah, we need make a sheet.
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I'm gonna put it in general, pin it.
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Okay.
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Okay. While you do that, I'll keep doing we news. The official PAL World card game launches on July 30, 2026. That's another lawsuit from VGC. Forza. Xbox's Forza Horizon 5 has reportedly been a big hit on PS5, passing 5 millions in segment sales. Hell yeah.
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Good for them.
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And then Anthem is officially gone. Has officially gone offline. Rest in peace to a real one.
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Rest in peace to Anthem. I really hope we get like Pal World Snap Power World Puzzle League how like I hope the Power World anime.
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They just lean all in. They're like just say them bring that heat. We'll take it.
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Rocket Pair just say them just go all the way in. I'm gonna, I'm gonna check out that card game. I don't give up. I don't care about Power World whatsoever. I'm checking out that card game. I want to see what's up with me.
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We now go into the one the only super chats YouTube.com kind of funny game where you can be part of the show. I try to pepper him as we go but sometimes our world center is.
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Opening around the world.
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Yel Singh says good for $40 is not the same as good for $70. Back to pricing and all this different stuff but again that's a conversation I agree with But I also think Game of the year you're sitting here talking about how great a game is.
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Yeah I don't, I, I, I hear you. We should talk about price and I think think KHD is the venue for that and like I and I think in your personal lives trying to figure out if something's worth it for sure and also like for specific reviewers that want to review that way for sure. All I'm saying is that I think there's there should be space or there I, I like there to be space to be able to talk about a game for what it is. I don't give a about price. Right I want to talk about and I'm not saying I actually don't give a about price I do but I don't know I think there I think you should have a space for games to be able to be talked about and judged and not having to worry about a price point 100% because I think that's art. I think the beauty of art is what it is.
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I agree with that Alex Modder says Greg, did you get my bs? That's a blue sky Tim about blokies. Happy to send some to the office. I did not get a blokies bs. I don't know what that is. I don't want to know. That doesn't sound like something I need to know about again Twitter and blue.
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Sky have these inappropriate things on them. Jesus.
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Hey Grock give me a blokey. James Peters says late birthday tax from 1-6-38 feels impossible. Happy birthday to you. Jameson. Jameson I read those. Oh here we go. Close forum says tiny wee news. Please share if you can Anxiety arcade A game made by two kind of funny best friends launches today on Steam for 2 99. Racing thoughts come tiny. What? Racing thoughts come tiny puzzles. Wow. We know about Anxiety Arcade. This came out during the right before or during the kind of funny anniversary stream and one of the devs sent us codes that we did give away, so. I'm aware of that, Kevin. If you could dig me out an Anxiety Arcade video game trailer, that would be choice. But if you're busy setting up for game of the year, no big deal. I will roll on. Congratulations everybody. Go check out Anxiety Arcade on the Steam. I have downloaded it to my rog ally. I have not started it. Chocolate. Chocolate McMuffin says I see the future go from game ownership to service subscription. More power becomes unattainable so companies will push services like GeForce. Now sounds like we're on the same page where we're talking about the possible solutions to where we're going with all this. David says unrelated to anything but Greg Hasbro announced a new Star Wars Black Series 1 12th Watto action figure. I did see this on BS this morning and I did quote BS it saying not small enough. This is Anxiety Arcade. Fight your thoughts in game or whatever the fucking quote was. Dexter says bless. Remember, for fantasy critic, I'm telling you to bid on a new Mario game Galaxy 3 or pizzas on me. Don't let Greg steal it from you. Love you.
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I am not bidding on a new 3D Mario.
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What does he know? What does Dexter know you think?
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I don't know. I think Dexter's Dexter thinks they know more than they do. I don't think you're not getting a new 3D Mario game. Mario Galaxy 3. Absolutely not.
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Sam and Trademark says Edmund tweeted out that he was looking for more shows podcast to appear on leading up to launch day for Mugenics. We had been connected with Edmund before the end of the year and Mike and him had started talking and I don't know whatever happened to that about.
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Mugenics or just okay. I was like you're just saying they're chatting it up.
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No, no, no, no, no.
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Being bros, chat's like, I heard you made this binding lies in game. Tell me about that jabroni.
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EJRPG says didn't a study come out last year saying about 76% of users on X are bots? Probably stop paying attention. A long time ago when I left Napoleon blown apart said someone needs to check Tim Sweeney's hard drive. Okay. Claw master says lest we forget, countries are threatening to Ban Twitter X in their own countries recently. So added pressure is happening because of Grok is doing with csam. Andrew Brown says Donald Trump is popular because he lets people be their worst self. Agreed. Oh, man. A lot of super chats here today. Aaron Lime says, I get why people use Unreal Engine 5, but I think big publishers should consider reprioritizing to creating proprietary engines. Why use Tim Sweeney's tools increasingly filled with AI assets when he defends CSAM for free speech?
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Well, that's complex.
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That's a complex issue of it's incredibly expensive to start your own engine and make your own engine incredibly, incredibly complicated to make it work. And then when you try to port it to something else, everything fucking breaks and yada yada, yada. So that's why people like to go to Unity or Unreal for these kind of things. Reed says tech CEO say the darndest things need to be put on a shirt.
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Joey say the darndest things. These gaming CEOs, he's tech CEOs, they say these things.
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You can just say. You can short it to CEO say the darndest thing.
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CEOs disappear. CEO though.
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I know.
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I guess you do say a lot of darn things. But not like.
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But I say it's a fun way. Yeah, not a bad way.
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You just make jokes about 9, 11.
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I don't make jokes. I make references. It's very different.
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Sorry, my bad.
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That's how I've gotten away so for so long.
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You're just referencing the.
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Yeah, I Admit I reference 911 too much, but it's just like. It's like literally Ghostbusters, Superman, 911. Right there. There it is.
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Greg Miller. I think of three things. Nine, 11, being a boy, Oreos and Wings.
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Sky Havali. Well, it's like Ravioli, but with an H. So Hovoli says I rolled credits on Astrobot. Finally. What a game. Couldn't stop smiling the whole time. Now I'm stuck on the great master challenge. Wish me luck. That was a few. That was a couple nights of work for me, that master. I guess two. But yeah, that's a couple.
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Sky, what I need you to do is play the like the DLC levels and then play the Speedrun levels. And I need you to get top three amongst your friend list in all the levels.
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Fair enough. For the Speedruns, Reuter says this is for bears. Dope shirt. Shout out to Bear Josh. He says as a Lego fan, the Pokemon Mega Blocks look better. Okay. Chase Super Chat Ifer. I'm sorry, member for 18 months and says, hey, Greg, have you played the Star wars mod on Starfield yet? Yes, Star Wars Genesis. I jumped through all the hoops to get it up and running on the razor blade out there. And I jumped into it and I haven't gotten deep into it because I wasn't sure what I was expecting. But then I was like, okay, it's Starfield, but it's Star Wars. And it's like, but if you hated Starfield, wouldn't you still hate this? Because I like Starfield, so I like this. But I'm like, this isn't like, I'm still doing the same thing with artifacts and whatever, but it's still Star Wars. Now it's got a Star wars skin to it. I need to play more of it. Mike. Like music. Super chatted. Can you guys give a quick pitch for my girlfriend Monica as to why we should watch the kind of funny why we should watch the Game of the Year after this. Bless you go first.
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Yeah, I mean, if you want 10 games that you should have played last year or games that you might have missed out on, even if you do play games, right? Like, hey, here are 10 of the games that we hear at. Kind of funny. Absolutely adored. And so if you like our tastes, or if you like at least one of our tastes, you might not like all of our tastes over here. Come check out.
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What did I do?
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But yeah, there you go.
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Okay. In my pitch, Monica, people disappear every day. Oh, and if he doesn't watch this with you today, say goodbye to him. Start looking for a new boyfriend. Oh, allegedly millions of bridges, people fall off him all the time. Ice. Hold on, rewind. I've been like, ice. Like they slipped on ice. But I did envision that fucking doofy ass ICE agent who bit it in Minnesota. I was like, can you imagine what a heel turn for Greg Miller? This entire thing rallying against Trump. AI that it's like, but yo, ICE could come get your void. Which is accurate. Sadly. Sadly, it is accurate. No matter what. No matter what your boyfriend's nationality is. He could be murdered by ICE because that's where we live in 2026. But I meant slipping on ice and falling off a bridge.
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I tweeted or I blue sky. That's B.S. tim, what's the number one gaming news story for today? Because I was trying to figure stuff out. Yeah, one person replied. So one person replied. All people have been getting like abducted by the fucking government organization in my town. So I hope you all talk about that. That we just did.
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We did. I've been saying that a lot for a while. I mean, you know, God damn since Ms. Good was murdered. But no, that, that the chat point out. CEOs do say the darnest CEO say the darndest thing. We brought it full circle. Costa, the creator says. Loving my time with Dragon Age. Veil Guard. Kind of funny's review cycle slash content for this was so good. Thank you. Make sure you check out my spoiler cast about it when you're all done in my gaming journal and all that jazz. And then the final super chat for right now is MIBs. Hopefully. Hope 2026 is treating you well, folks, as well as it can. As well as I did a Greg way today and I was like, man, this is a dark way to start your week. I'm sorry, everybody. Topic it was wwe, tko, maga, Saudi Arabia.
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What did I miss? Well, you just like in the totality of it.
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Oh yeah, that all. I mean, what do you mean? What have you missed?
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Was there a recent news story about wwe?
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No, I mean there was a chat, a chatter like. Or what? A Greg way comment. I was like, oh man. Like, how are. I can't balance these things. How are you dealing with all this? And I'm like, let's get into everything that's horrib right now. Which then of course goes out into everything that's horrible right now.
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Gotcha.
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Gotcha. And the AI stuff and the MAGA stuff and everything and the ice stuff and everything else we just talked about. You can't get away from it. Everything is political. We go over to the one, the only kind of funny.com/, you're wrong, Jeppo. You need to stop writing in about pirate yakuza. I'm sorry. I'm never going to. It's not. It's never going to happen. It's never going to happen. Ignacio says weapons and equipment os, esp. On site procurement seems to be the Metal Gear Solid quote Greg was thinking of. Thank you, Ignacio. Just Tom says Scotland and England use the same currency, so quid would be fine. Some places in England won't take Scottish notes slash bills, though, because they have different designs. This usually causes a Scottish person to appear and say, that's legal tender, pal.
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We should do a European tour. Kind of funny.
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It's one of those, like, I don't know if that's a joke or if that's real. That's legal tender, pal.
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No, a Scottish version doesn't appear out of nowhere to tell people, hey, no.
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You can use that.
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I think that's legal tender.
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And then everybody's in here getting mad about the blastoid thing. I'm sorry? Blastoise. Blastoise, some were saying, is a way to pronounce it.
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People are saying that is real. That is 100% real.
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Oh, and then Chroma Kira says blokies are easy to build. Model kits for Bluey, Transformers, Marvel characters and other. Oh, I'll try to find that blue sky because of course Ben likes all of those properties. But for now, I digress. That's another Kind of Funny Games Daily in the Books Remember, each and every weekday we run you through the nerdy video game news you need to know About Live Twitch TV kind of funny games YouTube.com kind of funny games podcast services around the globe. If you like that, pick up a membership patreon.com kind of funny YouTube.com kind of funny games Apple Spotify get all of our shows ad free. Of course you get your daily dose of me Greg Miller in a 15 to 20 or like today 24 minute episode of Regway, which is your own personal podcast. And of course you'd get good karma for supporting an 11 person 11 year old. Small business is all about live talk shows. For now, the day is far from over. We are going to go into the marathon game of the year2025 and find out what the top 10 games for kind of Funny are. Until next time, it's been our pleasure to serve you.
Episode Title: Switch 2 PRICE INCREASE Because of RAM?!
Date: January 12, 2026
Hosts: Greg Miller, Blessing Adeoye Jr., (with appearances by Barrett Courtney and others)
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This episode centers around speculation and breaking news about a potential Nintendo Switch 2 price increase due to soaring RAM prices and tariffs, plus wider implications for the gaming hardware market. Other top stories include Call of Duty’s possible Switch 2 arrival, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney’s controversial AI statements, and general video game news and debates around pricing, value, and nostalgia.
The hosts kick off with humor and a bit of banter before diving into a jam-packed Roper Report. They focus on Nintendo’s Switch 2 pricing issues, Call of Duty’s imminent release on Nintendo, and wider industry trends affected by component shortages—especially RAM, whose price is being driven by AI demand. Also featured: Epic CEO Tim Sweeney’s contentious take on X (Twitter), speculation around Persona 6’s announcement, a Division remaster, and the unveiling of LEGO Pokémon sets.
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Closing Note:
As the crew preps to move into their Game of the Year marathon, Greg and Blessing’s discussions crystallize a gaming moment where hardware economics, AI panic, and nostalgia all collide. If you’re looking for the “pulse” of gaming’s daily news—with side helpings of candor, skepticism, and in-jokes—this is it.