Unboxing the Nintendo Switch 2! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 06.04.25

Summary

Kinda Funny Games Daily: Unboxing the Nintendo Switch 2! - Summary

Episode Date: June 4, 2025

Hosts:

• Greg “GameOverGreggy” Miller
• Blessing Adeoye Jr.
• Tim Gettys

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Introduction & Excitement Over the Switch 2

The episode kicks off with Greg Miller expressing the team's unexpected acquisition of the highly anticipated Nintendo Switch 2. Blessing Adeoye Jr. shares his initial anxiety upon learning others had already received their units, stating, "[00:42] I woke up this morning... I can't believe we don't have ours yet." However, the mood quickly shifts to excitement as Greg reassures listeners about the unboxing and upcoming launch activities.

Greg Miller [00:00]:
"Today in the nerdy news you need to know about, we have the Nintendo Switch 2... Welcome to Kinda Funny Games Daily for Wednesday, June 4, 2025."

Unboxing the Nintendo Switch 2

Blessing leads the unboxing process, detailing the components included with the Switch 2—such as the Pro Controller, camera, and Joy-Con two wheel sets. The hosts marvel at the enhanced design and build quality, likening the experience to "Christmas in June."

Blessing Adeoye Jr. [08:19]:
"It's the Nintendo Switch 2. Oh, shoot. Hold on, hold on, hold on..."

Greg Miller [09:00]:
"From somebody who was using the my switch last night? Yeah. I think it's the way maybe the Joy Cons definitely feel slimmer in my hand..."

Initial Impressions & Setup

Greg shares his first impressions, noting the Switch 2 feels slimmer and more ergonomic. Blessing highlights the larger screen and improved controller design, enhancing the overall gaming experience.

Greg Miller [09:55]:
"I like that a lot. I like that a lot. Again, I feel like it feels slimmer for me."

Blessing Adeoye Jr. [13:16]:
"I did not have a hankering to check out Tears of the Kingdom or Breath of the Wild."

Launch Plans & Streaming Strategy

The hosts discuss their plans for the day, including playing titles like "Mario Kart World" and "Delta Rune." They contemplate whether to stick with their original launch party plans or pivot based on the Switch 2's availability, ultimately deciding to continue with an all-night stream from the Nintendo Store.

Greg Miller [33:27]:
"Nintendo Switch to everybody. As I said, we will be streaming it today for our big Nintendo Switch to launch party."

Audience Interaction & Super Chats

Throughout the episode, the hosts engage with listener messages, addressing topics ranging from controller performance to game availability. Notable comments include:

Joey Noel [21:17]:
"He just straight up tore open the Pro controller box."

Blessing Adeoye Jr. [22:04]:
"Damn. Hate to see it."

Ubisoft Forward Cancellation

A significant portion of the discussion revolves around Ubisoft's decision to cancel their annual Ubisoft Forward presentation. The hosts express disappointment and concern over Ubisoft's future, speculating that this move signals potential internal struggles or a shift in company strategy.

Greg Miller [39:11]:
"Ubisoft has confirmed that its annual Ubisoft Forward presentation will not take place this year..."

Blessing Adeoye Jr. [41:35]:
"This feels like another chapter in the story of Ubisoft's downfall."

Mind's Eye Studio Execs Departure

The episode delves into the news of key executives leaving Mind's Eye Studios just before the release of their game "Build a Rocket Boy." The hosts discuss potential implications, including internal issues or strategic shifts within the company.

Greg Miller [47:18]:
"Departure happening just before their game's release is a red flag."

Upcoming Video Game Movie Adaptations

The hosts touch on the adaptation of the hit video game "Split Fiction" into a movie starring Sydney Sweeney. They speculate on casting choices and the potential impact on the gaming-community intersection.

Greg Miller [51:51]:
"A film adaptation of the hit video game Split Fiction starring Sydney Sweeney has landed at Amazon."

Phasmophobia Movie Announcement

Another highlight is the announcement of a "Phasmophobia" movie being developed by Blumhouse and Atomic Monster. The hosts express enthusiasm for the adaptation of the popular ghost-hunting simulator into a horror film.

Greg Miller [54:28]:
"Phasmophobia, the popular ghost hunting sim from Kinetic Games, is being turned into a horror movie."

Indie News: Surgeon Studios & Aggro Crab

The episode covers updates from indie developers, including Surgeon Studios' upcoming horror game "Dead Take" and Aggro Crab's shift in project focus after shelving their planned "Game 2" due to funding issues and team burnout.

Blessing Adeoye Jr. [64:29]:
"Aggro Crab has shelved the game indefinitely... they're pivoting to smaller projects."

Greg Miller [66:37]:
"Surgeon Studios' Dead Take sounds dope—excited about what they're bringing to the table."

Nintendo Switch 2 Features & Cross Save

The hosts explore new features of the Switch 2, such as improved download speeds and cross-save functionality, enhancing user experience and game accessibility.

Greg Miller [67:35]:
"Cross Save functionality now available on Switch 2 is pretty dope. I'm a big fan of Cross Save, everybody."

Closing Remarks & Launch Party Plans

As the episode nears conclusion, the hosts outline their schedule for the rest of the day, including live streaming gameplay, interacting with fans, and hosting a marathon session from the Nintendo Store.

Greg Miller [75:09]:
"We're heading into an all-night stream at the Nintendo Store... stay tuned for fun times ahead."

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Notable Quotes:

• "Christmas in June." — Blessing Adeoye Jr. [01:48]
• "Nintendo knows how to do it." — Blessing Adeoye Jr. [13:52]
• "We are always eager to connect with our players and showcase our games." — Ubisoft Representative [40:35]
• "This is why we make the big bucks." — Blessing Adeoye Jr. [32:35]
• "Cross Save functionality now available on Switch 2 is pretty dope." — Greg Miller [67:35]

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Conclusion:

This episode of Kinda Funny Games Daily provided an in-depth unboxing experience of the Nintendo Switch 2, coupled with lively discussions on industry news, including Ubisoft's strategic shifts and upcoming game movie adaptations. The hosts maintained an engaging dialogue with their audience, seamlessly blending product insights with broader gaming industry narratives. For those unable to tune in live, this summary encapsulates the key moments and sentiments of the show, highlighting the community's excitement and the dynamic nature of the gaming world.

Transcript

[Greg Miller]

Today in the nerdy news you need to know about, we have the Nintendo Switch 2. We weren't expecting it. Throw the runner show out the window. We'll have all this and more because this is Kinda Funny Games Daily. What's up everybody? Welcome to Kinda Funny Games daily for Wednesday, June 4, 2025. I'm one of your host, Greg Miller alongside Forbes 30 under 30 aka New York Game Awards nominated aka Donktober Fiend Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

I woke up this morning and I was ready to come into this episode being very gloomy, being very upset and sad because I saw online other people like Jordan Midler already had their Nintendo Switch Twos.

[Greg Miller]

Sure.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

And I was like I was going to come in, I was going to be really like, oh man, what's going on here? I can't believe I don't have. I don't believe we. I can't believe we don't have ours yet.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

And the fact that I'm looking at the boxes right now warns my heart.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Ladies, gentlemen and bees, you may have heard that of course Nintendo Switch Twos weren't going out for review ahead of time. That was a well known factoid out there. We had been told by Nintendo at some point in the launch window we would get units from them. A couple of them. We have two, one to me and one to Tim that we would then be able to use. We didn't know when that would be. We didn't expect it right now because of course we are going to the Nintendo Store tonight. We are streaming from the Nintendo Store tonight for the actual worldwide launch and stuff. So a lot of interesting things happening. But we do in fact, if you are an audio listener, have The Nintendo Switch 2 regular, no Mario Kart, Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller, Nintendo Switch 2 camera, and the Joy Con two wheel set of twos.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

It feels like Christmas.

[Greg Miller]

It does.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Christmas in June.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Yeah. 100%.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

How do you feel right now?

[Greg Miller]

I love. We live for this.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Right. Like this is like I. My whole Greg way is about what a day to be a gamer. Right. Because of course it's the kickoff of this. But then of course there's sgf, but then there's the Microsoft. There's so much happening at once. Right. What an embarrassment of riches. And so I'm so excited to be part of this and have the excitement. And then of course today like all right, well what do we do with the rest of the day? Cuz there's no embargo. Now we have it. We can go like we're gonna do, we're gonna open it up, we're gonna look at it where it's. I've never touched a Nintendo Switch 2. We're gonna get online, we're gonna see what we can get, what we can't get, all the stuff and. And then it's like, okay, well ballerina in review we move in that. Are we sticking with that state of play? We are going to do that big.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Skip the state of play. You're going to do the F PlayStation, play the Switch.

[Greg Miller]

We're going to do our kind of funny launch party for the Nintendo Switch to all night into games daily. But I feel like that's changed now. Right? So at the very least after the reaction, the gamescast reaction post show to state of play. We're starting the launch party early going into this. Will it only be we're playing like the Pokemon game with the updates or checking out Mario Galaxy maybe? Probably, whatever. But we're going to ride the lightning.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yeah. It's special to be in a time where everything is happening at once the way you're talking about because all that stuff plus it's all the games that are coming out.

[Greg Miller]

Right.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Because there's the Switch launch lineup. Toby Fox tweeted out that Delta Rune is available right now. So I'm trying to get answers for. Can I play Chapter three if I just play if I boot it up on my switch 2 or do I have to like go like my computer at home has the save data from beaten Chapter two and all that stuff. I'm trying to figure that out. And at the same time we have codes for like a big game coming out that I also want to put a lot of time into.

[Greg Miller]

That's training to.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

That's training to.

[Greg Miller]

We can do. I appreciate that. I appreciate you hi to that. Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

So I'm like juggling all these things and it's like the. It's the gif of Sabrina the Teenage.

[Greg Miller]

Witch where she had all the pancakes. Yeah, yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

That's why. That's how I feel feel like right now.

[Greg Miller]

Well, of course everyone's here to see this unboxed. I see the twist chat popping off. Demanding of course that I rip it open as I've been known to do on one or two things that would be rude. You go ahead and unbox it. I know how much I intend to switch to me.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

I had it story number one. We can do it right now.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, you want me. I can do it. Okay, sure, sure, sure. I'll give you the rigmarole remember that 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 Twitch TV, kinda funnygames, YouTube.com kindafunnygames and of course podcast services around the globe. If you love what we do here, these kind of shenanigans changing our entire programming day on the whims of Nintendo, why not toss us a couple bucks? Of course over on patreon.com kinda funny YouTube.com kindafunnygames Apple and Spotify, you can pick up the Kinda Funny membership. Of course with the Kinda Funny membership you get all of our shows ad free. That's more than 20 a week, more than 80amonth. And you get your daily dose of me, Greg Miller in a series I call Greg way which is 15 to 20 minutes of me answering your questions, talking about what's going on, giving you reviews of the Rog ally or maybe a different game like Fantasy Life I which I can't wait to play on my Switch 2.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Let's go. Also Bear is there if there's like a small knife we can get you.

[Greg Miller]

Know you want to do like the Greg Way you don't want to do.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yeah, yeah, no, I'm not doing all.

[Greg Miller]

That thing up like a good old rib cage. Of course no bucks tossed away. No big deal. Like subscribe share if you're watching on Twitch. Remember if you have Amazon prime, you have a free Twitch Twitch prime subscription that we'd love you to give us. They don't remind you it doesn't auto renew. It happens every 30 days. You got to give it to somebody and we think it should be us. Housekeeping for you. Remember we're an 11 person small business all about live talk shows today after Kind of Funny Games Daily you're supposed to get Ballerina in review. Maybe we push it to play more Switch. Maybe we find out there's not enough going on in Switch and we just instead Ballerina in Review take our break, come back for a pre show to State of play at 1:45, react to the state of play, do the games cast after and then after that jump into a very long Nintendo Switch 2 stream where we go into the night. We broadcast from the Nintendo store, we try Pokemon, do that and then figure out what's going on from there. And of course tomorrow streaming it all day long. But I digress. We will be figuring that out with you. Remember, if you're a kind of funny member, today's Greg Way is About what a time it is to be a gamer. I want to say it's like 17 minutes, but I didn't write that down because it's been a crazy morning. Thank you to our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney Twining. Today we're brought to you by xreal. We'll tell you about that later. For now, let's begin the show with what is and forever will be the Roper report. For some eight items on the Roper report, Baker's dozen. I'll tell you straight up, they're not all getting equal time. Number one, let's unbox the Nintendo Switch to.

[Tim Gettys]

Hold on.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Bless. I'm coming.

[Greg Miller]

Are you going to sky can? What are you doing?

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, you're camera. But I'm going to give him something to use to cut.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yeah, the Switch 2 box itself doesn't need a knife. It's the other ones I do so I can get a hold on.

[Greg Miller]

Let him get out here with his. Come with a camera. What are you doing? But you're just saying knife. I think he's going to come.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

I thought he was coming out.

[Greg Miller]

He's going to come. Rock camera three manually. Over.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, Bear.

[Greg Miller]

Courtney, everybody, Round of applause for him making it happen out here.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

All right, there he is.

[Greg Miller]

Cool. It's upside down.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

I'm holding it, I'm holding it. Okay, I'm holding it. Yeah, open that upside down. There we go. So we got the joy con grip.

[Greg Miller]

Nobody wants this crap. Unbox the switch. All right, show me, show me.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Listen, the switch is.

[Greg Miller]

Show me. To me, show me, show me.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Here's the cable. Here's the cable for the thing.

[Greg Miller]

Actually. We have to start charging.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Oh, this is the dock. We got the. Oh, I'm not seeing this.

[Greg Miller]

Your first time holding the dock?

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

It's my first time holding the dock and it feels more expensive.

[Greg Miller]

You ever had a dock that big?

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

I mean, it's arguable. Put that to the side. Let's see. Oh, there's the switch too. Hold on, hold on, hold on.

[Greg Miller]

Just loose, loose like trash. You left.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yeah, they packed this in a really interesting way.

[Greg Miller]

You did it though. You did it the crazy way. Or you should open the small side, not the big side that's on you.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

And here's the. Here's the base itself. Here's the console itself. I feel bad for touching the screen.

[Greg Miller]

Not to. You got to.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

It's the only. Only way to do it now. Should I remove the film? The protective film? Hold on. Before I hold it up. I'm going to unbox the joy cons and connect the joy cons. God, this is so nice. It really does feel like Christmas. All right, here we go. I'm gonna clap on the first magnet I gotta take off.

[Greg Miller]

You want to read the instructions?

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yeah, let's bust out the instructions. Oh, there we go. No, that clapped on there. It's The Nintendo Switch 2.

[Greg Miller]

It's upside down.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

The Nintendo Switch 2. Oh, shoot. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. There we go. The Nintendo Switch 2. There you go. Oh, my gosh.

[Greg Miller]

All right, now hold on. I've never held one.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yeah, there you go.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, man. Okay. It feels thinner.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Does it?

[Greg Miller]

From somebody who was using the. My switch last night? Yeah. I think it's the way maybe the. The joy cons definitely feel slimmer in my hand, making the whole thing feel slimmer, even though I don't know if that's accurate, actually. Accurate, huh? Oh, sticks. I like that. Oh, I like that stick.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Now, where is. Where's the. Where's the block?

[Greg Miller]

It's right next to you. I put the charger. I put the charging cable into it so we can keep it charging.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Okay. Yeah, you read my mind.

[Greg Miller]

I don't know, Barrett, if we can get a stinger out here, like a extension cable to get it up higher in the center, because right now we can plug it in over there. Yeah, you can feel free to pull it out of the dock, the power cord, and put it into the system itself. I just put it there so it didn't keep sliding down on you. That way, we could do more with it. Log in there and see what's up.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

You've held the Switch two. Now how does it feel?

[Greg Miller]

I like that a lot. I like that a lot. Again, I feel like it feels slimmer for me.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

It just feels more expensive. Like, I think technically that's actually. I guess I see what you're saying. As far as the joy cons, like, I think there's a sleeker feel to it that makes it feel a little bit more. Yeah, I guess. Yeah. Slimmer. But overall, I think my thing is I like how much bigger the screen is. Oh, my God. It just turned on. It just turned on. I didn't even press a button. Hold on.

[Greg Miller]

He's so happy to see it turn on.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Now, do you want to go through the first steps? Because this is going to be your switch.

[Greg Miller]

This is a great question. So what are we doing here? Because if this has been a big conversation of what we're doing, what the fuck Are we doing. What are we doing? I have no. So you don't think you're. Would you. You're going to go to volleyball?

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

I got volleyball tonight.

[Greg Miller]

Okay. Okay.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

And I. Here's the thing. I would skip volleyball. I know people are like, volleyball. I skip. I missed the last two weeks because.

[Greg Miller]

Sure, sure, sure, sure.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

And I'm the captain, so I got.

[Greg Miller]

To go find my. The whole plan tonight for the marathon stream was me to le here. So I. I don't know if that's still the plan because I would have Mario on Pokemon. And I guess you would too, though, right? Like, are you. Would you be leaving your switch when you go to this? Are you taking your switch with you or what are you gonna do? Question.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

That's a good question. Here's the thing. My. My first few hours with the switch.

[Greg Miller]

Needs to be an intimate affair, and that's my thing. I feel like that's somebody who is excited for the switch, but not. It isn't a sacred experience to me, me letting everyone have a turn with my switch. You know what I mean? Unlock things that. Do things that I don't. I don't care. You know what I mean? Maybe it makes sense just to leave it with me.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yeah. We can call this your switch.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Now, do you want me to. Do you want to do the opening things?

[Greg Miller]

Oh, hell yeah. Yeah. Well, again, we don't know what.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

For a little bit, can we jump.

[Greg Miller]

Into this and then be like, all set and it's like we're, you know, what can we play? Is this. Is it a brick? Like, you know, the ones that were out early, Early. I don't know.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Now, what are your plans for it as far as the first games you're booting up on this thing?

[Greg Miller]

When I'm. When I have my intimate alone time with it.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

I mean, I hope Mario Kart obviously will be the talk of the town, and I will love it as much as I loved every other Mario Kart. And me and Ben will play it and have a great time with it. If you're talking about getting beyond beyond that. Right. Like, I am going to be a big dork and I want to see how fantasy life I runs on it. Compared. It's got the cross safe. Right. So. Which I think so.

[Joey Noel]

Cool.

[Greg Miller]

As I was talking about today on my Rog Ally, there's no load times. It just instantly goes, I never get to read the load screen. So I'd like to see what that's all about. And then I need to finish Pokemon Violet. Right Like, I'm at the end game of Pokemon Violet and I stopped. I want to see what that runs like and looks like, because I know that game pretty well from this. Right. I do want to go back to Link's awakening. Like, that's okay.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

You have, like, a checklist.

[Greg Miller]

I do. Well, there's so much stuff I slept on on the Switch that I'm like, oh, man. But then, of course, we're reviewing Death Stranding, so it's like my switch gets this golden time with me right now all the way through sgf, and when I land back on Sunday, we are heads down on Death Stranding 2 and nothing else.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

All right, pass her over here and I'll start setting her up. You got to talk, though.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

I'm really excited about it.

[Greg Miller]

She came 75% loaded. We're looking good.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yeah. It's funny because I. I guess I don't have as extensive of a to do list with my switch to. I'm going to play a lot of Mario Kart World, and then I also played. I plan to play Delta Rune, but beyond that, like, I'll peek into old games that I want to see, like, how they feel and how they feel upgrade and all that stuff. But, like, for now, I'm not in the mood to replay Tears of the Kingdom or Breath of the Wild.

[Greg Miller]

Right. Like, I never finished Tears. I know it's one of my big, dark problems, so it's like, I know I deserve that. I deserve that. So. Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yeah. And it's like, you know, I'm not. I don't have a hankering to check out welcome to her necessarily. Unless, like, news comes out that welcome to or is actually filled to the brim with, like, crazy shit in it, which I don't think it is. Like, I. You know, that's not necessarily going to be one for me. And so I think my time starting off with it is going to be focused in on just Mario Kart and Delta Rune. And then from there. Yeah, I'll be back to reviewing Destiny 2 until, like, more and more stuff comes out. I know there's a tune playing right now.

[Greg Miller]

The fun is a beat right here.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Nintendo knows how to do it.

[Greg Miller]

They do know how to do it. I like that.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Now what are you doing?

[Greg Miller]

Walk us through right now. I have. I've set up the time, and then it's telling me how I can play games however I want to with Nintendo Switch to. You can play games wherever you want to, however you want. They got the kickstand. Tell me about that they're talking me. Tell me how to detach. Hold the release button up there. Boom. Oh, that feels good.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yeah, right?

[Greg Miller]

I did feel good.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yeah. And just clap it right back on.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Now, let me see, let me see. I'm hopping into Super Chats. See what?

[Greg Miller]

Please, please, please. Yeah, Every different kind of show is you. I'm sure you all know.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Of course, Fox Steve writes in and says, congrats on your first in studio console launch. I didn't think about that. Yeah, the fact that we weren't in studio for the PS5 and Xbox Series X and then, yeah, PS4 was before kind of funny.

[Greg Miller]

Started downloading update data. We're at nine minutes left. It's cooking. It said 14 a second ago. Now, next thing I really want to do is feel how the controller feels.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Oh, yes, we should start that. I mean, you can start that right now.

[Greg Miller]

Sure.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

As I read through some of these super chats, Game Over Amy writes in, says, birthday tax. What a birthday. I get switched to ton. Happy Birthday, Game Over Amy.

[Greg Miller]

Happy birthday, Game Over, Andy Kebab.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Jesus Christ. Kebab says, are you gonna open it with a chainsaw, Greg?

[Greg Miller]

Question answered. Don't worry about that. I gave you your little Switch moment, audio listeners.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

He just straight up tore open the Pro controller box. Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Tim kept saying it felt silky. Okay. I'm glad I pre ordered one of these.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

It feels nice, doesn't it?

[Greg Miller]

I don't need it. It's totally don't need it. But that actually feels really nice. Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Lands97 writes in and says, glad to be here with y' all for the switch to launch. 2025 has been a rough year for me. Thankfully, I always have KF to look forward to during the week. Thank you for being here. Thank you for being a kind of funny best friend and glad to have you here for the Switch to launch. Tom.

[Greg Miller]

Lexco, I know you're doing a lot over there. Thank you so much. When you get the chance, could you bring me a regular Pro controller off my desk? I have them all stacked by my consoles.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Tom writes in and says, nintendo dodging the weak launch lineup criticisms. I feel like for a good launch lineup, you just need one banger card.

[Greg Miller]

Sit.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Oh, Mario Kart first.

[Greg Miller]

I saw that. I saw the Simon Carti IGN thing yesterday. Like, yo, this open world sucks.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

I mean, he didn't say, oh, wait, yeah, I didn't see Simon Carter with Simon Cardi.

[Greg Miller]

Simon Cardi was like, hey, this is really empty. Like, really?

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

I don't know why, but I expected that. You know what I mean?

[Greg Miller]

But that sucks. I don't want. I hope they were gonna, you know, exceed my expectations on that. Sure.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

But, like, you're. I feel like, because this is the first Mario Kart with this mode, like, I don't necessarily think about Mario Kart being something that I'm booting up for the open world. Like, I'm booting up for the Grand Priest and all that stuff, and it'd be cool.

[Greg Miller]

Thank you so much. It'd be cool if the open world was stuff.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

It'd be cool. The open world was the level of Odyssey or something like that. But, like, we're not there yet.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah. And the previews were also saying, like, yeah, like, the. The stuff. What Mario Kart has done in the past is still fantastic. So.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, Knockout Tour, that was Simon Carti's thing, was like, they should have just called this Mario Kart Knockout Tour, because this thing's awesome.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Oh, my God. Yeah. Yeah. So, like, I feel like between that and then all the other stuff you got going on as far as, like, third party stuff, I know on the first party side, it's not like there's a million things happening, but that's always the case.

[Tim Gettys]

First hands on. Sexy.

[Greg Miller]

All right.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, it's big.

[Greg Miller]

It's big.

[Tim Gettys]

I like it. I like it.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

9,000.

[Tim Gettys]

Like, it feels thinner, but I know it's not.

[Greg Miller]

How many Zelda is you gonna play on this?

[Tim Gettys]

All of them.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

So many. Is that a tease for a future video? I already did that. Are you gonna do it again on the Switch?

[Greg Miller]

The Switch 2 version? You should probably do a Switch 2 version. Do a Switch 2 version.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

But, yeah, like, I. I don't know how you can call this a weak launch lineup. Like, if there wasn't a Mario Kart world. Yeah, but, like, how many launch lineups do we get to have? A million first party games?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. Or have even, like, recently for sure.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Like, usually even for Nintendo games or Nintendo consoles. Historically.

[Greg Miller]

She's cooking.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

You're getting, like, one or two first party launch things, and then in the months after they start to fill up. But this is kind of par for the course as far as what we're talking about with launch lineup.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, this. So back. Back to the controller. It's another one where the form factor seems exactly the same, but for some reason, this one feels smaller with not having, like, the leathery kind of grip on it. Having that silk grip that. I don't know.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

I mean, I think. Does it just feel more ergonomic?

[Greg Miller]

Did they move the stick. Would they do anything differently? They move things closer. Like by.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Does it just feel more natural to hold maybe.

[Greg Miller]

I mean, this one never felt in natural. Yeah, it does feel.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Cause I always. I like the Pro controller, but I never. It never hit that level of. Oh, this is perfect.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Like there was always something off with the Nintendo.

[Greg Miller]

The Amazon Luna controller that you see me use all the time.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Exactly. I do like my Amazon Luna controller. But like, yeah, the Switch Pro controller for me still felt a little bit toyish as opposed to like technology. Ish. You know what I mean? And I think the Switch 2 Pro controller gets us a step closer to what I want.

[Greg Miller]

Now here, this is. This is one of those things that keeps me awake at night worrying about this. You can transfer data from a Nintendo Switch to Nintendo Switch 2. I'm not gonna do that because it would just sit here and take. Do that. Then like, why not just redownload the few games I want as I go?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, yeah. It's just like it's to save a step. Right. And yeah, I feel like if you do that, you're. You technically delete your profile off of the old Switch. If I remember correctly.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Chat.

[Tim Gettys]

Remember, you can kind of funny.com there.

[Greg Miller]

Corey says your saves. Yes, I am in the cloud with all my saves, except of course for Animal Crossing and of course for Pokemon. But Poke. But I can. There's a thing on Pokemon of send your save to another system. So once I'm up and running here, there should be no problem just going boop and booping it over. I don't want to sit here for 20 minutes and it's gonna. It's got like Monster Jam. It's got a million Ben games on there that are gonna take forever to go. I don't want to do that. I'm not gonna do that.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

We got another one from Admiral Redbeard who writes in and says this $5 goes toward the Superman bomber jacket. Greg also, how many switches came in for you guys? I think Greg mentioned this, but yeah, two came in the mail for Greg and Tim. And then later tonight you guys are going to the Nintendo Store.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

To pick up some more bear cable short. Also like the banana here. Like, what is the shirt?

[Greg Miller]

Fuck.

[Tim Gettys]

I'm forgetting the artist. Famous artist does a lot of back from like the 60s Picasso cover of Velvet Underground's album. And I'm forgetting his Andy Warhol. Thank you so much. But yeah, at least for my setup at home where I'm planning to put my Switch, I. I don't know if this HDMI is gonna have the length to to get over to where it needs to go.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Sounds like you gotta get on Amazon, get a long cable. I'm gonna not do that, Greg.

[Greg Miller]

Easy and everybody. It was that easy.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

See here, Jackie M says I've had the Switch 2 for 5 hours. My limited time I've had with it Switch 1 games with no upgrade I find are better on Switch OLED due to scaling.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, oh, dear.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Alex Frazier says open the Pro controller and give us a review of the control sticks. How do you feel about the sticks in particular?

[Greg Miller]

I like them. Yeah, no, that's what I was saying when I started moving around.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Dante, the clerk says you guys should time how long it takes to download Mario Kart World. Excited for all your content on the Switch 2 today? Well, we're going to have to see if we if we even have access to Mario Kart World, right? Oh.

[Greg Miller]

There'S we loaded up now. It's trying to teach me about their fucking cards.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Oh, I have the virtual game. Thank God they have a tutorial for it.

[Greg Miller]

We're going to go Barrett, when you did this is just powered, right? Not hdmi. Yeah. Okay, we're going to jump right into the Eshop then see what's up.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Oh yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Can I buy Mario Kart World 2 right away? Mario Kart World, yeah. Sorry everybody. I didn't mean to insult you. Nintendo people enter the pin as you do.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

That fat neck writes in and says birthday tax. How are you letting no Rhythm Miller lead a parade? He can't two step. Let Tim lead the parade. It's his birthright.

[Greg Miller]

Has a fucking loser who didn't win so he doesn't get to lead the parade on one hand and on the other I won't have to two step. I'll be being carried in this parade.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Josh Horton writes in and says, your uncle that works at Nintendo here. Our Switch 2 articles on our support site are going live. So if you run into any kind of issues today, head over there. Have fun with the launch, everyone.

[Greg Miller]

Yay. Thank you, Uncle.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

And then one more from Norman who writes in and says all console launches are a little underwhelming because the hype comes from promise for the future. Weak launch lineups are no big deal in my opinion. I still, I still hold the thing of like, compare this to any previous like Nintendo launch lineup. There's always just one like featured game. And then in the months like you look at the switch one, right? It was Breath of the Wild for day one. Yeah. For day one. And then Mario Kart 8 was. Mario Kart 8 was the next month or two, right?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Like this. This year we're getting Mario Kart World on launch. Next month we're getting Donkey Kong Bonanza. And then now in the months after, you're getting things like Metroid prime, that Kirby game and more.

[Greg Miller]

That Kirby.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

That's Kirby.

[Greg Miller]

So far everything Switch to on here in the store is in fact pre order only. So yeah, we can, well, we can boot into the stuff we already have.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Look up Delta Rune for me to see. See if I can play that right now. The Switch too. Because I can't. I might have to steal that from you. Then I turn into my Switch.

[Greg Miller]

Big drum roll, please. Delta Rune is in fact on a pre order for the Switch 2 version.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

You said it is a pre order?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Oh, gotcha.

[Greg Miller]

Play. We couldn't buy it and have you playing it right now.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Damn. Hate to see it.

[Greg Miller]

You hate to see it?

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Is the store so the storage running faster?

[Greg Miller]

It runs faster, yeah. I mean still not like instant imo, but it's running faster.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Oh yeah. This is like. This is way better.

[Greg Miller]

The bar is so low for Nintendo Switch.

[Tim Gettys]

I redeemed a code the other day for PP Strello and that was my first time on the Nintendo store in quite a while. I was like, Jesus Christ, this is rough.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

You go to recent releases at the very top, you have fantasy life. I, the girl who steals time. Very, very. Swipe the card for $70 for the bundle.

[Greg Miller]

I mean, I, you know, then it's gonna be $7 and $2 and 59 cents. Remember?

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Oh yeah. Monster Train 2 ready on here at launch. That's cool. Unless it's a pre order. Hold on, hold on. Don't take my word for that.

[Greg Miller]

It runs like trash. M says imo, buying a console day one isn't worth it. And that's your opinion. You're allowed to have it. I think. You know, lots of times there's a game that's fun to play. I mean like again, so much of a console launch is the hype and is the promise, as was said there and what you're getting excited for. But I don't know, you have one.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Game in your Nintendo wish list and it's the sexy brutal.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I saw that.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, it's a good game.

[Greg Miller]

Exactly.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

You just don't want to buy it. No, I'm not judging. Like, I've heard good things about this.

[Greg Miller]

I just, I guarantee you that's a fat finger move.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

I have one Wish list.

[Greg Miller]

Sexy brutal. Not clearly not a great game.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

I mean, is it not?

[Greg Miller]

No. Isn't it fighting like, isn't it? Or no. No.

[Tim Gettys]

What is that like a. From what I remember, that was like a puzzle kind of murder mystery type of thing.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Honestly, I think it is a great game.

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

I remember Dornbush reviewed that back when I was at ign.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yeah. It's from Tequila Works. The sexy brutal. A never ending masked ball featuring intrigue, murder and quite in the quite possibly. Sorry. In the quite possibly occult rel. Relive the same mysterious and murderous masked ball as the story unfolds in real time. Honestly, I think he probably. Yeah, he might fuck with this game. Art style is cool too. Like. Well, there you go.

[Greg Miller]

There's the camera.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Oh, shoot. I didn't realize. We got the camera.

[Greg Miller]

We got the camera too. Yeah. Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

There was a super chat asking us to hang dong in front of the camera. But I was. I don't know if we should do that live on.

[Greg Miller]

There's a lot of things we shouldn't do. But it is a launch to lineup. We need to get in there and do it, you know. What's up? Delta Rune 3. 4 is available on stream. The chat is reporting on Steam.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Oh, I know that.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yeah. It's just there's. There's something that hits different on playing something. For playing something on a new console versus playing something on a PC.

[Tim Gettys]

Like if the Switch 1 version. Could you get the Switch 1 version downloaded on the Switch 2? Because that is also out.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

You know, it's a good question.

[Tim Gettys]

That's a question. A question to think about.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

You know, that's a good question.

[Tim Gettys]

I would imagine so. Because you should be able to play like the Switch 1 versions of Breath of the Wild in Tears of the Kingdom, unless you get the upgrade pack. Right.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Listen, this is math that I've not thought about too deeply yet. It's like these are Tim Getty's questions because he stays up at night thinking about that shit.

[Greg Miller]

Okay, hold on now. I'm doing something here. Guys.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

What are you doing?

[Greg Miller]

I was trying to load up Pokemon on my. My game card. It says to load a virtual game card on the system, you'll need to link it with the other system being shown. So I got to open up my OLED over here. Go next.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Now.

[Greg Miller]

System's close. I've brought them close.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Bear King 08 says will there be faster download times on the Switch too?

[Greg Miller]

God, there better be.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yeah. I mean, hit download on Mario Kart World and then put a Timer to it and let's see what happens.

[Greg Miller]

Well, that'll be tonight, right? Because I. Yeah. Preorder right now.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Download the sexy brutal and put it. Put a timer to it and see.

[Greg Miller]

How long it do the following on the other system. Open the virtual cards. Bam. And then the on screen thing selects link. I do this. Yeah. Me. Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Are you planning to use these wheels or is this just a Ben thing?

[Greg Miller]

I mean, I wasn't planning on getting them. And then as soon as I touched them, you might even go back in the footage and see me go. And I was like, oh, wait, I do have a three year old.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

You have.

[Greg Miller]

I actually fucking think it's dope as shit to drive Mario Kart that way. Why is my hair fucked up in the back? Baron.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yeah, no, he would probably would love this. And this guy.

[Greg Miller]

We're linking. We're linking the systems. We're moving. It's happening. Linking systems. Keep the systems close to each other. And wait. I'm waiting. It's loading the virtual game card.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Loading.

[Greg Miller]

Maybe it's saying, I have Pokemon abilities. They haven't been linked. Okay, yeah. So eject from the other system and load it on this system. Load on this system. Home menu.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

So now you don't have that game available. What a system. What a weird little idea they had. What if you took digital games and.

[Greg Miller]

Just turned them into a little bit more complicated?

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

We made them weird.

[Greg Miller]

It's like one of those things, like, I agree it's a little weird. It's a little whatever. But it is also like a great visual representation of something we know from going into our PlayStation and be like, oh, ladies, gentlemen and Enbies, Mr. Nintendo himself, Timmy is here.

[Joey Noel]

I'm fucking stoked, y' all.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Dude, what a day.

[Joey Noel]

I mean, on the whole drive in, I was watching you guys. What an exciting time we're here. This is big kid Christmas, you know what I mean?

[Greg Miller]

Loading your virtual game cards. Pokemon. I'll send over Mario as well.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

I love how much this episode of Games Daily is barely an episode of Games Daily is us hanging out with microphones, y' all.

[Greg Miller]

This is what it is. This is. This is a special day. You got a great Games Daily every other time, you know what I mean? Now you're getting us here, figuring this out together, having some fun. Isn't that what you want?

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Kilgrim writes in and says, birthday tax. I recently brought bought. First of all, happy birthday. Happy birthday.

[Greg Miller]

Happy birthday.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

I recently bought a Steam deck and my wallet is dreading when something drops to entice. My. Entice me to buy the switch too. Listen, just do it. Just buy it. Spend the money. Red 13 says, can we get a Mario Kart competition between Barrett and Logan Plant from ign? Sounds like that would be some great content.

[Greg Miller]

I like that.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

I mean, I think we're gonna do the tour of going to different outlets and taking them out one by one.

[Greg Miller]

Exactly.

[Tim Gettys]

You and me, and we actually visit all of the spots.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yes.

[Tim Gettys]

Like, we Go down to IGN, we go.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Go to GameSpot.

[Tim Gettys]

GameSpot.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

That should probably be our first stop.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yeah, they're closest.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, right. We should do that. We drive.

[Joey Noel]

Did you get to. Out of Mario Kart?

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

I. I like Mario Kart, and I think I'm good at Mario Kart. I'm not. I'm not Barrett, but I'll get. I'll get down. Yeah, yeah.

[Greg Miller]

We'll.

[Tim Gettys]

We'll walk to Jeff Grubb's house.

[Joey Noel]

Where do you guys want me to lick it? Everyone wants the lick. Did you lick yet?

[Greg Miller]

I didn't lick. I pantomime. But you should do.

[Joey Noel]

I'm a lick. I'm lick it. But everybody.

[Greg Miller]

Where do you want him to lick right now?

[Joey Noel]

I'm going to lick the back of it. I don't want to lick the screen.

[Greg Miller]

Okay. Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Oh.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, my God.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

That was like one of those licks that gave you a disease. Jesus.

[Greg Miller]

I put my tongue to Evita once. I didn't do any of that. Oh, bye, Tim. I thought you're gonna hang out.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yeah. You tasted that.

[Greg Miller]

He fucking is inside it.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Wow.

[Greg Miller]

That's. They shared DNA. So now is where I'm. So.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Speak your mind.

[Greg Miller]

Animal Crossing.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

And getting my save over here.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Animal Crossing is a weird one.

[Greg Miller]

Do I still have to use the virtual island moving box thing, or can I just load the game card and then tell it to send the save to the system?

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

See, I feel like that's one of those ones where you're gonna have to answer for yourself. Like, I feel like you're not gonna look to Chad.

[Greg Miller]

They're like, motherfucker, you've got the system. We don't know what we're doing.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

They know. I don't think Nintendo's communicated this part that well.

[Greg Miller]

And they. Paul. Yeah. Zo says they've got. It's got a specific system. I know they do. I have let loaded here. But with virtual game cards. Does that change anything any other way?

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

I don't think that it does.

[Tim Gettys]

I don't think it does.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

I don't think that. Yeah, because you have to Imagine, like, a physical game card of, like, what would happen. It's not like the same data is on.

[Greg Miller]

Well, it's the same thing here with, like, Pokemon. So let's try this. Okay, so I got Pokemon over there. It's downloading. It's taking forever. None of these games will be downloaded by the time this episode of Games.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Roger Davis says system transfer will move the island.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, I know, but we're not doing the system transfer.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

No, you have to use the island transfer tool.

[Greg Miller]

Okay, but then the Pokemon. Right, So I hit options, and I say save data. And I say manage. Transfer your save data. Hit a on that, and then send it to another console, right? Yes, send to another console. And I say this. And I say, greggy, this is just for Pokemon, which is still installing over here. It says sending it, and I say select all. No, whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait a second.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Whoa, whoa.

[Greg Miller]

Select all. Save data. Now. I just want that. But maybe I can get Animal Crossing here, too, and really confuse things.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

This is why we make the big bucks.

[Greg Miller]

This is why I make the big audience. We love you, audio listeners. You. They're chill. They understand that this is a special day. Animal Crossing not popping up on my list of safe. So I think you will have to use that. But I still wonder, what does that mean? Ready to target, system in place. Speaking of it being home menu here, Alex system settings.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Alex writes in and says, happy Switch Day, y' all. Happy Switch Day, Alex. And then also Conman 1192 writes in and says, do the new game cards still taste bad? I don't believe we have access to.

[Greg Miller]

We don't have at this current moment.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

We'll see if we ever get a physical game in his office. Have an office full of digital people. Tim will probably buy some physical games.

[Greg Miller]

We're getting one tonight. I think he's buying Mario Kart physical tonight.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Perfect.

[Greg Miller]

I think to try to avoid hopefully downloading everything.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Gotcha.

[Greg Miller]

Pokemon is sending over perfectly. So that's all I need on that one. Perfect. I got that going. We'll worry about Animal Crossing later.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Is there anything left to unbox? Is that it?

[Greg Miller]

No, this is all the unboxing stuff. Okay, we can move on.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

That was fun.

[Greg Miller]

That was real fun. Nintendo Switch to everybody. Like I said, we will be streaming it today for our big Nintendo Switch to launch party. At the very least, it'll go live. After we do the state of play stuff, then it'll lead into us being at the Nintendo Store and getting it. That might also change. We do have to have a conversation I think as a team of. So we don't have the Switch 2 games. So are we really going to go live and not stream Mario Kart until nine and then only stream Mart? Like there's a conversation to be had there. We'll have. Right. Or we'll start that conversation right now when I say of course, everybody. This is kind of funny Games. We have a great time here. We love hanging out with you. We have so much video game news to tell you about that we'll get to right after we tell you about our sponsors because of course we wouldn't exist without them. And. What, that one? No, no. Tim's here. Tim's here. Come here. What are you doing, Tim? You're getting bear. See? Oh, you're coming all the way out. Great. This leads to my question then for you. So when we got him, we're all very hot on it. Cool, let's get them set up. Stream after state of play. We do Pokemon, we do Mario, blah, blah blah. Is that the right move to stream old games updated for Switch up until we get it at nine and then only stream for like probably a couple hours and then go to bed. Or do we stick to the plan of go off air after? I'm starting to be swayed. Go off air after everything. Do the normal nighttime stream like you're planning. Okay, cool. Yeah, you tell the kids that. Not the kids, our kids.

[Joey Noel]

Okay, yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Because you know Roger out there, he doesn't know what the fuck's going on.

[Joey Noel]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

Wait, so what are we doing?

[Joey Noel]

There's a lot going on. Everyone, right now.

[Greg Miller]

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[Joey Noel]

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[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

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[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

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[Greg Miller]

And we're back everybody for our continuing Nintendo Switch to pre launch day coverage. As we figure out what we're doing. Tim's setting his up about to recover his thing. We got a little. Nice. We didn't talk about this. Nintendo sent a nice checklist.

[Joey Noel]

Checklist. You know I was hoping there'd be some codes on it. There's not.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah. And I was like oh, they sent us this thing. Clearly this will all be in the box. I'm like oh no it's not. It's just Advertising cases in memory cards.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Or what's on there?

[Greg Miller]

No, it's even. Don't knock. The camera was on target. Camera game cap. We're game chatting with somebody. We should figure that out. Who can we game chat with right now? No, it goes all the way to advertising. Drag and drive.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

See, this reminds me of like one of those like holiday wish list kind of cards.

[Greg Miller]

Totally. Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Where you would like give it to your mom and she wouldn't buy anything. We got amiibos on here. Let me tell you, the amiibo door has been open for me in like a really dangerous way.

[Joey Noel]

It's the worst time.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

I now start thinking about the fact that there's a solid snake amiibo that I don't own yet. I'm like, why don't I own that solid snake amiibo? I should have that.

[Greg Miller]

That was where. That was my tipping point where I bought the solid Snake.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Oh yeah.

[Greg Miller]

And I had that for a long time. And when we moved, I think I gave it away or something.

[Joey Noel]

The problem is they're so expensive now. Like not only just the tariff, stuff like that sucks too. But just for some reason, the latest round of amiibos are like $10, $15 more than they ever were. And then they're even more now because the tariffs.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

I hate that.

[Joey Noel]

Bad stuff for everybody. I did just ask really nicely if we can get a code early and he said no.

[Greg Miller]

No. Yeah, 9:00pm so yeah, I think we're leaning more towards maybe keeping the all night stream going. So everybody stick with us. We'll figure out as we go. There's gonna be fun times here to be had for everybody. Don't worry about it for now. We'll move on to number two, some.

[Joey Noel]

Nice little Nintendo Direct music.

[Greg Miller]

Crank it up. We were bopping to it earlier. Yeah. Hell yeah. Number two on the Roper Report. There will be no Ubisoft Forward this year for the first time since it started. This is Chris Scullion at vgc. Ubisoft has confirmed that its annual Ubisoft Forward presentation will not take place this year. Game File journalist Stephen Totila, who was on Kind of Funny Games Daily just last week posted on Blue sky that a Ubisoft representative confirmed to him that there would be no Ubisoft Forward this summer. Greg aside, I assumed I would have heard about it by now.

[Joey Noel]

Oh yeah, for sure. I assume that as well. But like going into it, I assumed that definitely they were going to do one because they're Ubisoft. I don't think they should have but.

[Greg Miller]

I'm happy they won't admit defeat. Instead, the company will participate in other summer game fest shows such as the PC Gaming show and IGN Live, as well as Gamescom in August. Quote we are always eager to connect with our players and showcase our games. We are continuing to explore opportunities to share updates and we look forward to providing more information at a later date, the representative told Totilo. Totila noted that Ubisoft may not have many games planned for the rest of the year, making a full presentation, as opposed to showing trailers at another show, potentially unnecessary. The news marks the first year without a Ubisoft Forward since the show made its debut in 2020. The company generally saves its biggest game reveals and announcements for its Ubisoft Forward presentations.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

This saddens me a bit. Not because I was looking forward to Ubisoft Forward.

[Greg Miller]

See what's up with Animal Crossing, Assassin's Creed.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yeah. But more so because I this feels like another check mark, I guess. Or another chapter, I'll say, in the story of Ubisoft's downfall. Yeah, like the downward spiral of all right, like when I look at the rest of this year for Ubisoft, what are we talking about as far as game releases? Do they have anything big announced for the rest of the year? Have they even announced the Just Dance for the, for the. For the fall season? Like usually that would happen at the forward or at a summer Nintendo Direct, which I'll still guess would happen at a Nintendo partner direct if they had like a smaller one in like July or late June or something. But the fact that you don't have a Ubisoft forward makes me really worried about their output for the next, I'll say 12 months. And if they don't have anything major, this feels like a. All right, we're planning on wrapping this shit up like we are. I know they've talked about being in the process of trying to sell or trying to do something with it, also.

[Greg Miller]

Doubling down on the their established IPs. Right. That's what they've talked about as well. They're one of those folks who have been like, we're going to see X.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Y and Z where the established IPs, you know, like what's up with the next Assassin's Creed Black Flag remake or whatever.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, yeah. We what we went through it on our prediction shows, of course, available as gamescast for both the Xbox Showcase and SGF of predicting things like Splinter Cell. Right. They were out of pocket with that tweet. Why are they putting up the eyes and the little mouth thing when they're talking about Sam Fisher's face, what's going on with that? Something's happening there, right?

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yeah. I mean, I'd be excited to get like a Splinter style announcement, but even with that, it's like I feel like it were the slowdown of output from Ubisoft, I think is the thing that worries me.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Because I. Even when you are focused, is that.

[Greg Miller]

The right thing to do? Are they trying to make in theory better quality games?

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

So they should believe that's going to happen?

[Joey Noel]

I mean, if it does, are they not going to close the damn studio?

[Greg Miller]

I begin, I believe they're going to be sold. Yeah. And then a lot of closures and layoffs and stuff.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yeah, Yeah. I don't know. I. I'm. If this is more of a shift in terms of the ethos of Ubisoft and like focusing in and working on quality, like really focusing in on quality, then I think that's good and I'm happy. And that becomes a bit more sustainable than putting out just mid after mid. After mid.

[Greg Miller]

Sure, sure, sure.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

I just don't. I don't have the belief yet in the quality.

[Greg Miller]

What about Far Cry 7? Do you think there's a chance we see that at any show?

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

I don't feel like Far Cry 7 is around the corner, do you?

[Greg Miller]

No, but I also don't have a great reason as to why. I guess they usually talk about them. Pretty close to going, right. What? 2021 was last far cry. That was far cry six. Those are supported for a while after the fact, so it's not like they weren't doing anything. Speaking of Barrett, Assassin's Creed dlc. Is that something they've teased for Shadows?

[Tim Gettys]

I have food in my mouth.

[Joey Noel]

Sorry.

[Greg Miller]

It's fine. A lot of crazy things are happening over. I get it.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Oh, he's showing.

[Tim Gettys]

I believe they have a roadmap. Yes.

[Greg Miller]

Okay, okay, okay. So you get that out there somewhere. That game sold well.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

So you're fine, you're happy with this news?

[Greg Miller]

Yes. I. I mean, do I wish we had a flourishing games industry where everyone was doing a 45 to hour long presentation of an amazing. All these amazing. And they were all getting bought and everything was going well. Of course I'm much. I don't trust Ubisoft as far as I can throw the downtown office. So I'm happy they're not going. We're doing another forward and it's just trash updates like for games nobody cares about. We're all watching going, why are we wasting our time. Why are we here? I'd much rather them do this of like, yo, this ain't our year and whatever we do have, we're going to go pop it into Xbox, pop it into sgf, pop it into PC Gamer.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yeah. Now does. How much do your feelings change if we get past this next week and we barely. We don't see a peep from Ubisoft.

[Greg Miller]

I do think we're on our way out. You know what I mean? I do think that, yeah, we're not talking about or promoting future things and what. But even then you'd be promoting it talking about future things because you'd want to sell the company for more money.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Sure.

[Greg Miller]

If that's the case.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yeah. Tim, what do you think?

[Joey Noel]

Yeah, I feel that we're not going to see much from Ubisoft, but I don't really think that that is a concern. I think that we've talked about this a lot, that Star Wars Outlaws and Assassin's Creed Shadows are the two biggest things Ubisoft has ever done in terms of a giant Star wars game and the Japan Assassin's Creed. Right. So I feel like we kind of knew there were going to be in a bit of a lull period this year forever. So I, I'm not surprised that we're not getting a forward. I'm happy about it because I did think that they were going to just put something together and you know, just because they.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

It would not have been a great forward if they was.

[Joey Noel]

They have a lot of things to update. Like, I'm sure we'd still get more for honor, you know what I mean? Like they, they loved like all that stuff. Right. So they could have pulled something together and we would have freaking hated it. So I'm happy that they did, but I don't think that even if they did that I would have been expecting big games coming from it. And like. So I don't think we're getting any big Ubisoft game at any showcase this. This week.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yeah, I think the only possible one would be a Splinter Cell thing. But even that I'm like, oh, sorry, there's that. Yeah, I'm like, I'm like half. I'm like 50, 50 on it.

[Joey Noel]

But that's the thing is Splinter Cell remake and Prince of Persia remake. It's like we know. Yeah, it's not. That's not a new thing at all. Like we've known it's been then existed and we've also seen them kind of reannounce both of Those separate times.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Joey Noel]

So unless we get, like, gameplay of Splinter Salad, and it was going to be incredibly exciting. But it's also a known quantity from every perspective. It's a game. It's a remake of a game that we know.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Joey Noel]

And also we already know the announcement. So it's like.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

And the other one I'll put out there too is Black Flag remake, because that's been rumored. But I notice how everything that we're saying are remakes as far as what the games are putting out are right. It feels like there's not really an era of, oh, we got really big new exciting things happening. It very much feels like we're in cruise control until we're able to find somebody to really buy up this company and save us from our downfall 100%.

[Joey Noel]

There's room as a Rayman, our savior.

[Greg Miller]

He'll save it.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

That'll save us.

[Greg Miller]

Speaking of saving the day, number three, Mind's Eye studio execs depart Build a Rocket Boy one week before the game's debut. What a great weird. We did it, everybody. See you later. This is Victoria Phillips Kennedy at Eurogamer, the chief legal officer and chief financial officer at Mind's Eye. Developer Bill the Rocket Boy have left the company a week before the game's Release. Writing on LinkedIn, former CLO Riley Grabner said he was proud of what the team has accomplished during his time there, stating that during his tenure, the company had doubled in size to over 450 employees. Grabner did not give a reason for his departure. In addition, Build a Rocket Boys CFO Paul Bland. Oh, man, that's a rough one. You know what I mean?

[Joey Noel]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

You got Bland is your last name. You got Paul Blard happening on it, too. I'm sorry. Paul also left the company after two years, embarrassed by his name. Now, I added that part over on the Mind's Eye discord. Many have expressed concern that two key members of the Build a Rocket Boy team are leaving so close to the game's release. As a reminder, Mind's Eye is launching on June 10th across PS5, Xbox Series X and S and PC. QUOTE it could be a sign of very troubling internal affairs, or they don't want to deal with potential legal issues if Mind's Eye comes out broken. One member speculated, this is Mind's Eye here. If you're unfamiliar, quote, trying to keep an open mind. But that's sus. Indeed, wrote another. People don't bail right before. Right before they think they're releasing a hit. Usually if you Were the CFO at Rockstar a week from GTA 6 launch, would you resign? Word of Graebner and Bland's departures from Build Build a Rocket Boy come days after the studio's co CEO Mark Gerhard suggested the negative reaction to Mind's Eye so far has been paid for in a concerted effort against the studio ahead of its release.

[Tim Gettys]

Who could have paid for it?

[Greg Miller]

In an exchange on the Mind's Eye Discord server, Gerhard was asked if he believes, quote, all the people who reacted negatively were financed by someone. To which he replied 100%.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

That's the want to talk about. Wait, what? What? I. Oh my God. I love a good conspiracy theory because then like.

[Greg Miller]

But do you love delusion? Do you love somebody's delusional?

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Because I want to know.

[Greg Miller]

Please let the stream keep going if people need to know what Mind's Eye is.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Because like, I want to know who he thinks.

[Tim Gettys]

Oh, come on.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Blessed. You know, like Rockstar. Does he think that. Yes, he thinks. He thinks Rockstar is paying every games media journalist or whatever who they set the preview to to talk shit about the game.

[Greg Miller]

Could happen. Rockstar's got deep pockets. We weren't invited to the preview or we didn't accept, I'm not sure. Because we can't be bought, right?

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Fair enough.

[Tim Gettys]

It also doesn't help that like, this game was originally a campaign within the game Everywhere, which was supposed to be Adult Roblox essentially, but then they're like, never mind. Mind's Eye is going to be like its own thing. But now they're also trying to sell Mind's Eye, like it's going to be Adult Roblox again. So it's just like, what the fuck are we doing?

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Well, obviously, like, it seems like a lot of shit fell through, right? Like the, the fucking Everywhere thing was confusing from the get go and didn't sound realistic from the get go. And then it's like I still have questions of was this still made in Everywhere? And if so, like, what the. Like what the fuck? What is Everywhere is still my question. What is.

[Joey Noel]

Who's publishing this? Right?

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yes, yes. IO Interactive is publishing this game on all platforms except for maybe the Switch 2. Yeah, like, I just don't. How did A to B to C get there? As far as this being a thing within Everywhere, this now being separate from Everywhere, and also like this being from people who, yeah, used to work at Rockstar and were making grand theft auto 100%. Like, what the. What the happened to this game? There is a fascinating story here that I want to know.

[Greg Miller]

Jason will get it for you.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

I hope so.

[Greg Miller]

June 10th. We'll find out how mine's game comes.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Out in like, six days.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, we will find out pretty quick. And also there's that IO presentation to where they talk. They're gonna show more minds. Yeah, we're gonna get a lot of mind's eye.

[Tim Gettys]

What was the. Was it the day before? Was that the game that, like, they had to shut down, like, take off of stores and refund everybody? Like, literally launch day or something? I get the feeling here.

[Greg Miller]

You feel that?

[Tim Gettys]

I feel in my stomach. Yeah.

[Joey Noel]

Look at how. Oh, damn, I got a battle. I was gonna say, look how poorly Scarlet and Violet runs on the switch 1.

[Greg Miller]

Get ready for a brand new world over here on Switch 2. Speaking of a brand new world, number four, Sydney Sweeney split fiction movie lands at Amazon. This is Jennifer Moss over at Variety. A film adaptation of the hit video game Split Fiction starring Sydney Sweeney and directed by John M. Chu has landed at Amazon. MGM studios VAR has confirmed. As Variety first reported last month, along with the news of Sweeney's casting, the actress signed on the project March 6, the day the game launched. And Chew directing. The script for the movie is being written by Deadpool and Wolverine screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. It has yet to be decided whether Sidney will be playing Zoe or Mio, and the film is actively looking to cast her co star.

[Joey Noel]

This girl be out there, man. Sydney Sweeney. She's producing, she's acting, she's making. She's making bath soap.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Wait, she's producing?

[Joey Noel]

Yeah, she's producing a whole bunch of.

[Greg Miller]

Not this one, but other movies.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Good for her. Yeah, good for her.

[Greg Miller]

That's the whole thing with why she didn't regret Madame Web, right. Is that I got her in at Sony so she was able to make a picture she wanted to make.

[Joey Noel]

One of Gia's friends wrote a movie that she's producing.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

No way.

[Joey Noel]

The only reason it's happening is because she's attached as producer.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Wow.

[Joey Noel]

Yeah. That one friend.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Who do you think she's playing between Zoe and Mia?

[Greg Miller]

We talk about this every time to figure out. Yeah, yeah, she's the country. She's the.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

She's the fantasy.

[Greg Miller]

Fantasy. Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Who for some reason couldn't get along with a sci fi fan. I know we've probably talked about this, but who do you think is playing you?

[Greg Miller]

Put it in my. The room. Put it in there yesterday. That has to be Jenny Ortega. And I agree.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Oh, Jenna Ortega.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah.

[Joey Noel]

I don't Think so.

[Greg Miller]

That'd be amazing.

[Joey Noel]

No, I mean, I don't think that. Isabella Merced, which, I know we're just casting her and everything now, but, like, it's her. Like, when we were playing that game, I thought it was her.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

General Ortega doesn't give me the like, That's Jenna Ortega.

[Greg Miller]

She's a little goth and like, like, all mad with her emotions.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

I feel like she's more Aubrey Plaza type as far as, like, kind of like a little goth and also like, kind of apathetic and kind of like.

[Greg Miller]

You know, she could do other things. Let her go, you know, Aubrey Plaza. That's all she can.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

She like, I love Jenna Ortega, but.

[Greg Miller]

Like, it doesn't sound like you do. I mean, you're doubting her right now.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

I don't know, man. I feel like now she's been very typecast as that Aubrey Plaza type role, and that's. I don't think that fits. Mio, Zoe. I forget which one. Mio.

[Greg Miller]

They really made an impact on us, story wise.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

They're just making. We're just making games now. There are adaptations, I should say. They're just letting anything turn into a movie. Oh, are you running out of battery?

[Joey Noel]

No, just making me connection.

[Greg Miller]

Tim's just pouting. And I look at that as a connect. An AC adapter. I go there. See, this is the thing, though, Aubrey. This is all she can do now.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

What do you mean?

[Greg Miller]

You heard me.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

You watch your mouth. Yeah, she's great.

[Greg Miller]

This is what she does, though.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

You watch your mouth when it comes.

[Greg Miller]

She let herself get pushed into a corner. Jenna's breaking out of that corner, all right.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Is she?

[Joey Noel]

She wasn't so wrong about this.

[Greg Miller]

She wasn't like that in the. The one movie where it was the porn they were shooting. Then the old woman started killing people. Wait, X was that.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Damn it.

[Joey Noel]

How many AC adapters do I need?

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Hold on, I'm looking up Jenna Ortega film.

[Greg Miller]

We're on top of this out here. Don't worry, we got this. Done.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

I'm honored. I am. Okay, first of all, I just type in General Ortega. All right, Wednesday. Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice. Miller's Girl. Scream six.

[Greg Miller]

Scream six. She wasn't like a exact Aubrey Palazzo knockoff.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

I feel like they're just putting her in horror movies. She's the. What do they call it? Scream queen.

[Joey Noel]

Yeah, she's a scream queen.

[Greg Miller]

Typecasted number five on the Roper Report. Phasmophobia movie coming from Blumhouse to haunt theaters.

[Joey Noel]

You should be in that.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, Mark Delaney at Gamespot. Phasmophobia, the popular ghost hunting sim from Kinetic Games, is being turned into a horror movie. The film is coming from Blumhouse, a production company that has made a great number of horror movies in recent years, including Five Nights at Freddy's, Paranormal Activity, the Purge, and Insidious, among many more. James Wan's company, Atomic Monster, is also attached to the project. The game's studios direct the game. Studios director and lead developer Daniel Knight said in a press release that his team is thrilled to announce the movie.

[Joey Noel]

Is in the works, connected to the Nintendo Switch. Data will be received.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Come on, dude. I've never had so much FOMO in my life. Watching the song fold in front of me.

[Greg Miller]

You had to go to volleyball.

[Joey Noel]

It's thrilling.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

It's turning this chair.

[Joey Noel]

Yeah, your volleyball saga is wild. Well, I get it.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

It's the fact that I'm. I'm the captain of the team. I missed the first two weeks of the season because I've been in LA doing things, seeing things that I can't talk about yet. Well, one of the things I can is Riffbound. But, yeah, I. I gotta be there today. Riftbound. The Riot.

[Joey Noel]

You said Earthbound. I was like, excuse me.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Oh, yeah, I saw the Earthbound too. But, yeah, I gotta go to volleyball tonight. You know what I mean? The other thing is, there's also, like, a Magic the Gathering Final Fantasy Magic arena event that I like. Like is streamable, like, exclusive to streamers that I could be doing. I'm like, no, I gotta go to volleyball. Because I, for some reason, decided to do the season on a Wednesday instead of on the Tuesdays. I have a responsibility. GeneralTega was Wednesday. General Ortega would also be great in the Spasmophobia film. Are you calling a volleyball player? Who are you doing a volleyball player?

[Tim Gettys]

I thought he was calling Jenna Ortega.

[Joey Noel]

Who could he be possibly calling?

[Gary Whitta]

I just dropped out of a Hell Divers game for this.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

This has better be good.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, it is. It's gonna be me asking, how needy can you be? All right.

[Gary Whitta]

What do you mean?

[Greg Miller]

You. You know what I do for a day job? You could turn on Twitch right now and see that we're live, but instead, you. 9:40. We're getting the show ready.

[Gary Whitta]

You would see that I'm in there chatting and I'm fully aware of it.

[Greg Miller]

What do you want me to do? I'm hosting a show, Gary. You can't text me at 9:40. I'm taking my lawn chair to Best Buy tonight. Lolz. And then an hour later say, fine. I'll just go fuck myself. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I couldn't stop everything to text you back.

[Gary Whitta]

Gary, why would you do that to me? You're supposed to be my friend.

[Greg Miller]

I am your friend. But it's been an hour. I didn't know you were on the ledge. Jesus. You see me on. You're in the chat. You see me on the show. We gotta switches. Come over and see them.

[Gary Whitta]

No, I don't want to do that.

[Greg Miller]

No, meet me halfway. You want to be this friendship, come to my job, interrupt me.

[Gary Whitta]

I don't know those things even work. Do you have the patch that unlocks it or they just bricks?

[Greg Miller]

Oh, we're on the store, buddy. We are on the store. All right. Don't worry, you only pre order games you can't. Like you. We get the old games with the new updates, but we can't get the new.

[Gary Whitta]

Did you know that these were coming?

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, kind of, but we didn't know when.

[Gary Whitta]

Okay. All right. A bunch of people, a bunch of the press people showing them off.

[Greg Miller]

We're gonna do a late night stream tonight where we play late, so you should come over.

[Gary Whitta]

So what. What time do you think I should get to Best Buy? They open at 9 o' clock.

[Greg Miller]

Did you pre order.

[Gary Whitta]

Anything since actually it was the original Wii.

[Greg Miller]

Okay.

[Gary Whitta]

I actually didn't overnight at. At Best Buy, however many years ago it was for the original we. Which I got on at launch even though they were hard to get. I don't know, what do you think, like seven, eight? I've got a little lawn chair.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, seven, seven sounds good. Yeah, yeah, seven ish. Yeah.

[Gary Whitta]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

All right, give us updates and then come over.

[Gary Whitta]

All right, I'll let you know.

[Greg Miller]

All right, bye. Love you.

[Gary Whitta]

All right, bye.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

He does not need to be there at seven for the. To pick up the switch from.

[Greg Miller]

Remember, he's got a kid. He could just go park it. Park the kid in the chair.

[Joey Noel]

Wait, what?

[Tim Gettys]

Yeah, the kid holds his.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

I forgot about that part.

[Tim Gettys]

The kid holds his.

[Greg Miller]

Easy peasy, you know what I mean? A real Baby Joey situation. Making it happen.

[Joey Noel]

I hope that I hear about Baby Joey every day for the next year.

[Greg Miller]

I'll let you know.

[Joey Noel]

I thought you about to pull out a Baby Joey.

[Greg Miller]

Baby Joe, of course, is from the hitman Superman. No hit film Superman. You'll see it on July 11th in theaters only. He's a little green guy. We've been talking a lot about him on shows recently.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

I brought home Superman, not like an old Superman movie.

[Greg Miller]

The new Superman.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Okay, I miss this bear.

[Greg Miller]

When you get the chance to up a picture. Joey, please. I brought home a new bunch of toys last night that you all made fun of me because I got a box from Target. You thought maybe my switch got early delivered, but now it was Superman Toys. And Ben had a lot of questions about Baby Joey. But like, the first question was, who is this?

[Joey Noel]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

And I said. I said, it's Baby Joey.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

I have more questions now.

[Greg Miller]

I said. I said, what? No, hold on one second though. I said, it's Baby Joey. And he looks at me dead in the eye and goes, oh, like you're Joey. I was like, yeah, I'm glad you associate Baby Joe with Joey Noel. That's what I want. That's what I want out there.

[Joey Noel]

Poor Joe. Joey.

[Greg Miller]

Baby Joey's gonna be very important to the film. Don't worry about it.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

I need to rewatch those trailers. I do not remember this.

[Joey Noel]

You haven't seen Baby Joey trailers yet. He's. What the fuck is he making 10 different pieces of birch for Baby Joey.

[Greg Miller]

He's very. He's gonna be very important to the story. I don't want to ruin it for you.

[Joey Noel]

There's like. Is he in the seven action figures? And Baby Joey is one of them.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Do you know him from the comic?

[Greg Miller]

No, he's a new creation.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Oh, okay. All right.

[Greg Miller]

But like, okay. The kids activity book has given us new insight into what's going on in the film. So we have some confirmation on who Baby Joey is officially. More questions about the hammer though, but we'll get to that later. Number six.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

James Gunn is going crazy.

[Greg Miller]

Number six. Surgeon Studios announces a horror game, Dead Take. With Pocket Pair Publishing. This is Jordan Midler over at vgc. Surgeon Studios has announced its next game, Dead Take. The game which Pocket Pair Publishing will publish will be released this year. Quote. In Dead Take, you play as an actor who becomes uneasy when your friend won't answer the phone, reads the description of the game. I thought Joey was mad about the Baby Joey thing, which he's warning us about. Communal Doritos on the table. Quote, Delve into the gilded rot of the entertainment industry and show up at the last place he was before he went quiet. A dark, opulent mansion haunted by mysterious and human like figures. You advance into the house by solving object based puzzles and splicing together the video clips you find along the way. Oddly quiet for the sight of a glamorous party just hours before. The house is now populated by. The figures seem to turn up where you least expect Them. This sounds fucking dope. Quote. We are being secretive for a reason, Said Abu, CEO of Surgeon Studios. The subject matter of this game is delicate and it hits close to home. When it comes out and it won't be long until it does. I want players to think, I can't believe they actually did this. That sounds fucking awesome.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

It sounds really cool.

[Greg Miller]

It sounds like immortality mashed up with just like a puzzle poppy game out there for you.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yeah, no, I'm all about it. And I'm all about the fact that Surgeon Studios is out here doing their thing.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, of course.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

It's such a quick turnaround because. Yeah, yeah. Tails Gonzaro was last year. So to already be. Be out here a year later talking about your next thing in detail as far as what it is, there's a really exciting.

[Greg Miller]

There's an energy to this show. Okay. Yeah, sure.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

I don't want to take it.

[Greg Miller]

No. Here. Tim's is doing it.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Me and Joey are all.

[Greg Miller]

Did you hear that, Ben now.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yeah, we were like, that's kind of crazy.

[Greg Miller]

You hear that? Ben is now associating baby Joey from the Superman movie with you. It's happening every day. That's you. That's you now. Baby Joey right there. Yeah. What happened? Don't worry about it. To be really are matching.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yeah. I feel like.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, you're not. They can't hear. You're not. The mic. Yeah.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

I feel like people at kind of funny are often matching. I don't think it's ever been you.

[Joey Noel]

Yeah, that's true.

[Greg Miller]

I love it.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

A new dynamic duo was born today. This being you, Joey.

[Joey Noel]

It's the.

[Greg Miller]

There's. Yeah. On the top. There's a little trigger. I'll break my own. My question for y' all about this game here from Surgeon. Of course, like we said, tales of keratin. The you won't have to wait and it won't be long until it does. You think we're getting a shadow drop at sgf. You get it? That would make you get out here, you make the waves. You say, we got a cool game. You get all the news out so that when you shadow drop it there, people like, oh, shit, that was. That was fast.

[Joey Noel]

I mean, remember Abu came out at game awards Achilles show, so I can see him coming out again at some game fest.

[Greg Miller]

Hell yeah.

[Joey Noel]

The shadow drop. That's very smart.

[Greg Miller]

Now showing all the cake, all the different things.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Tim Gettys]

I was looking to see if there was like a indie show specific or anything like that.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Isn't the feature showcase always Sunday Is that. Is that happening?

[Tim Gettys]

I don't see that here.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Although I feel like a boo would fit on a summer game fest stage.

[Joey Noel]

Yo, this shit looks good. I'm just letting y' all know right now. This home screen, there's just subtle differences but like the curved squares on the icons. I like that.

[Greg Miller]

Interesting. So you did the system transfer.

[Joey Noel]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

And so it just threw all your cards over there. Now it's downloading everything, I think. Yeah. Okay. That would. Huh.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

You haven't regrets over there?

[Greg Miller]

Oh no, not at all. I've already got my animal Crossing island thing installed on this one. I'm set to go on the games I really care about. I'm fine, don't worry.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Oh yeah. I do like this homepage. Don't you sweat about it. Now do they have more themes?

[Joey Noel]

Not yet.

[Tim Gettys]

What does that mean?

[Joey Noel]

Potentially never.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Because I can see Tim's screen is dark.

[Joey Noel]

Dark baby.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Looks like you're walking the light screen.

[Greg Miller]

While they go through that. I'll give you number seven. Required reading an update from Aggro Crab. This is from their Steam blog post. The bullet points are goes as follows. Late last year they announced they're working on game three after by the way Aggro Crab, if you're not familiar are game I loved going under which many of you didn't play. And then of course they did not another Crab's treasure which was the Crab Souls like that broke out and everybody talked about. Anyways, late last year they announced they're working on game three. After a few months they lost funding because their funding partner had different visions of what they saw in Game three. That game was going under two. Fuck. Aggro Crab has shelved the game indefinitely. Fuck. Partly because of the funding but also because the team was burnt out. Understandable as a studio. They decided they needed to change what they were doing to remain sustainable. They did a game jam and made two games Peak and Crash Out Crew. They're calling these small projects and Aggro Crab side Hustle. Once those are done. They also have a third larger project that they plan to start this year. Year.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yeah. I put it as required reading because it's. I mean this is. This is really the boil down of it. Right. But like if you go in and read the. The Steam post, I think it's just interesting from the perspective of seeing how an indie game studio works and functions and how funding because can really dramatically change what your feature output is and they all. They're also very open and transparent as far as like oh yeah. Once Funding was pulled that kind of made us take a look around and realize, oh, we are burnt out. We've been working on this project for or we've been working on big project to big project in like. Like after three years of working on this, we're actually kind of over the idea or at least burnt out on this idea for now. And so we're shelving this game and this is why. This is how we reset. This is why we did a game jam. These are the ideas that we have. And now, you know, we're going to work on our big game three starting this year. I really want to figure out, I really want to see what this crash out crew thing is because that's a good title for a game.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, really good title. Yeah. Interesting. Good for them again identifying all of that and then be able to sustain so far. Right. Usually hear something like this and it's the studio's closing, these people are leaving. We laid people off. It seems like that's not the case yet. It just seems like, hey, cards in the table. We were working on going under two and that's not gonna happen. And now we're pivoting this and we're burnt out. So more power to them. Of course, you know that clarity is rare sometimes from game developers for many reasons. So it's nice to see somebody go this way with it. But Tim.

[Joey Noel]

Yes.

[Greg Miller]

Us getting the switch to Aggro Crab, pivoting all these things, it's huge news. It's big news. It's too big. If I wanted smaller news, say the tiniest news I need to know about, where would I go?

[Joey Noel]

You'd go to my desk or I'm going to go right now because I'm going to plug into Ethernet so my stuff will download faster because I have too many Switch games. But bless, where would you go for small news?

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

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

[Greg Miller]

Thank you. Number eight, the Wii news from the no Man's sky website. Expand your planetary empire and no Man's sky beacon become overseer of multiple planetary planetary settlements and discover the townships of the secretive robot autophage. Introducing improved settlement balance, more variety of management decisions, building upgrades, infestations, new base parts and more. No Man's sky, the game that continues to keep on giving.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

How much of the development time do you think they spend on trailers? Because like they gotta have the trailer guy on retainer at this point. Like, yo, just don't leave yeah, we're gonna need you about every two months to put. Put together a banger. Yeah, good for them.

[Greg Miller]

What a game, man. Every time something nice happens, I go, man, I really want to get deep into it. And then I do it and I play for like four or five hours. And then I get that first thing where you really got to build the base. I'm like, oh, man, I hate base building.

[Joey Noel]

Stop.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yeah, you know, I same thing happens. Well, the same thing happened to me, but then I stopped afterwards. It was like the big no Man's sky Update in like 2019 or some like that. And I was like, oh, this sounds really cool. And I tried playing it. I, I had a. To come to the realization that it's just not a game for me. Even though I respect the. Out of it.

[Greg Miller]

Yeah, exactly.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

I think that what they're doing is extremely cool.

[Greg Miller]

From Wario 64. Super Mario 3D all stars. A D listed and out of print game. By the way, got an update for Switch 2, quote. Several adjustments have been made to improve gameplay on the Nintendo Switch 2. End quote.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

It's the weirdest company ever. Update Mario All Stars 3D.

[Greg Miller]

They had to do something. Fortnite on the Switch 2 will support game chat and mouse control. There you go, Andy. And then Madden 26 launches August 14th.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Love it.

[Greg Miller]

And that's it for WE News. We asked people watching live to Super Chat to be part of the show. Obviously, so many of you have. Let's jump in here and see what's been going on. Lots of stuff. Oh, my gosh. I'll start at the end. Go there. Sydney Sweeney got introduced to gamers with Split Fiction. And she found out gamers love Bathwater. Got to respect her for honoring the culture.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

I, I mean, Tim, you know, explained how she's doing all these things right, and is making, making moves. There is a big, I feel like a big market for Sydney Sweeney just attaching herself to video game movies. Like, I don't think, I don't know if anybody. There's not the trend yet of like a specific actor doing it. But like, as soon as an actor realizes how many.

[Greg Miller]

There's money in those hills.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yeah, there's money in those hills. What if I just star in every single video game movie and become the video game person? Sydney Sweeney, you might be the person.

[Greg Miller]

You might be the person. Go do it. Jackie M. Says in a super chat, Switch two servers are fucked. It's nine hours to download Split Fiction. Well, damn, we all predicted it and we'll see what happens. Maybe it's just a Pokemon stream tonight. Nobody knows. Jack Hill says originally came over to Kind of funny after Tim was on Woods Nintendo podcast talking Switch Pro predictions everyday listeners since then. Y' all rock. Thank you, Jack.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Jack Black. That's a good point. Yeah. Jack Black already has a head start on the video game thing.

[Greg Miller]

Sure. Yeah. Yeah, okay. I get that because he was.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Was he in Borderlands also? Yeah, he's been in Mario Borderlands and Minecraft. Fuck, dude. Shout out Jack Black, the trilogy. Yeah, he already figured it out.

[Greg Miller]

I see Wiener says Tim's shirt looks good. Please do the dong test. That's for sure. That's what Tim's doing at his desk right now. Don't worry about that, man. Command 1192 says office smash Brothers tournament stream.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Oh, please. I haven't.

[Greg Miller]

Smash guy.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yeah, No, I love smash. I've been waiting for about five and a half years of working here to prove my Smash ability.

[Tim Gettys]

Really?

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

When I would listen to the podcast before getting hired, all I heard about was people playing Smash, you know, between. Between podcasts. And I'm like, oh, I want to get. I want to do that. I want to get into that. And then I came, and then the fucking pandemic happened and the smash never happened. I came back and we were all boring.

[Greg Miller]

That's my hope. This is if you remember when we announced the studio in the. In the trailer. Andy's thing was, I hope we get a big TV and I'll play games around it. And that's never happened. So what I would like to do is I'd like to set up one of the little fucking coffee table, the little folding dinner tables out there and put it under there and put a switch there and a bunch of controllers once we're done with the stream and we're using every controller. But, like, so you could play Mario.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

You could do an office Switch that. Yeah, let's do it.

[Greg Miller]

We got them now, right? Figure it out. Jay Sandoval super chats and says, cue to Greg. Happy Switch day to you. Happy Switch day to you. Happy Switch Day. I like that. Thank you. Tom says, does Nintendo ever go back to a pure console? Oh, I see. You're saying. Then he says, on Ly. I don't know what that means. Only. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe. Who knows? I mean, I mean, you could. I definitely could see it. I don't think it would necessarily happen.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

I. Yeah, I kind of lean toward no more than yes. But, like, the industry moves in, changes and the needs of the audiences change. Right. So, like, Right now the need for. I think the Nintendo audience is for a handheld thing. Right. Because Nintendo was serving those two audiences for a very long time between handheld and home console. And then. And that split their development teams put them in a weird place. Especially how with how the industry evolved with mobile and how, you know, consoles got more powerful and internal kind of got left behind. This was the perfect solution to all of that. Right. To go, hey, we'll just do it. All right. Like we might not have the fidelity of a PS, of a PS4 or an Xbox One, but we can get you to good enough and then also let you take your games on the go and then also have the first party stuff. Like turns out that was the magical formula to make Nintendo like as powerful as they've ever been.

[Greg Miller]

Sure.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

And I think that's. It's hard for me to think of a future, at least a near future where that doesn't remain the case as far as that being the most viable thing. But never say never as far as how things move and change. Like, who knows, maybe cloud does become the next big frontier and everybody's chasing after that and Nintendo finds something that there. That turns their whole business into something else. But right now I would lean on handheld being. Yeah just the.

[Greg Miller]

For this is it for the foreseeable future I think for sure. But yeah, I think anything can change and anything can happen. So yeah, who knows where it's gonna go one day. Final two super chats come from AK.98 who says rest in peace. X Defiant shut down forever this morning.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

And then Joshua says blessing. No need to prove your smash ability, my dude.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

I appreciate it. Thank you. I also appreciate the comments on my shirt. There are people that are like, yeah.

[Greg Miller]

Where'D you get this shirt is cool.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

You know, that's a really good question. I think this is one that was sent to me by Nintendo years ago that I rarely ever wear because I don't dress like this. But on occas like today, special days. Yeah.

[Greg Miller]

We asked you if you're watching live to keep us honest at kind of funny dot com. You're wrong. Brad said. Undead. Undead Labs, let's go. And then link to Chloe Brilliant on Twitter. Undead Labs working on State of Decay 3 posted a new picture one hour ago and it's got some writing on it that I don't understand and like a sandy crop circle or whatever. So they're doing something over there apparently. That makes sense. Of course. The Xbox Showcase is Sunday. We will be live reacting and doing a post show so get ready for that. And then Kebabs points out, worth noting that the no Man's sky update also makes Cross Save functionality available to all players. It was in beta before this, but now it works with the new Switch 2 version which is pretty dope. Yeah, big fan of Cross Save everybody. That's another episode of Kinda Funny Games Daily in the bank. Remember this is just the start of your programming day here. It's been confusing but we're resetting to what it was before. So from here we will roll out into in review for the ballerina, the John Wick thing. There will probably be a little bit of a break and then we will come back 1:45 for your pre show to the PlayStation State of Play. There'll be a live reacts to the state of play at 2 o' clock. Then there'll be a live Gamescast post show for the state of play. We will then sign off for a few hours and come back around 7:45 with Roger and Joey here and Andy and a whole bunch of people in studio. Tim and Kevin and myself will be at the Nintendo Store for the nine o' clock midnight launch. We will get those. We will come back. People have already downloaded things here. We're all going to play games all night long leading into of course tomorrow's Games Daily leading into a whole big stream about Nintendo Switch too. So tonight's stream, the big one only available on Twitch because it'll be so long. Obviously all subject to change if Mario Kart just suddenly goes live and we can play it. So whatever. Don't. Just don't. We're the only tab you need on your computer.

[Tim Gettys]

Be cool.

[Greg Miller]

We're the only tab we need on your computer. Just constantly be checking on Twitch TV kinda funnygames YouTube.com kinda funnygames if you like us having no rhythm because we're just pivoting to the news. Whatever it is, whatever it is, freestyle. Get a kind offunny membership YouTube.com kindafunnygames patreon.com kindafunny Apple and Spotify. You give us 10 bucks, we give you 80 episodes a month ad free. We give you a daily Greg Way podcast each and every day. Of course that adds up to four hours of podcasting each and every month. You also get good karma. You could also get posters and stuff, but we're not gonna get into that right now. Instead we're gonna figure out what the hell's going on around here. It's Nintendo Switch 2 day. It's SGF week. It's Xbox Week. It's Outer Worlds Week.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

We didn't even talk about the PlayStation State of Play.

[Greg Miller]

Oh, my God.

[Blessing Eddie Oye Jr.]

That's happening later today. That's exciting.

[Greg Miller]

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