gaming news today is all about labels first we are now hearing that the Xbox handheld that they temporarily shelve has in fact been cancelled and now not recently the announced Ally that’s not what’s been cancelled but this is going to be an actual Xbox handheld made by Microsoft that is seemingly not happening now i previously theorized it would not take place and they would just let other companies make hardware for them and run their OS and maybe be basically just like PCs we’ll see what that means for the future of Xbox hardware plans and we’ll discuss it in this live show second Bungie’s now being listed as a PlayStation studio which to some is a nothing burger but given recent developments does this signal a bigger change and a PlayStation’s earnings call or presentation still included Marathon in it and as always I do have a game for your wish list and your radar so if you guys are watching this later make sure and hit that like button make sure and hit subscribe uh we are going to experiment again with recording today and it doesn’t seem to be causing any issues so that way we can continue to make more content if you want to support this channel directly consider clicking join pick member plus you get into the green room segment as well as morning coffee those are extra streams every single day of the week as well as Friday night streams with my wife and it’s how I do this full-time twitch same deal use your primes and your subs and then that way you will never get ads on the channel so let’s get into this the Xbox handheld has been a bit of a roller coaster first we hear that it’s being shelved and then Xbox announces the Asus ROG Ally that many are confusing with being made by Xbox and now we are hearing from reliable sources that the Xbox handheld that was going to be made by Microsoft has been shelved but actually cancelled so if you feel a bit confused fear not i will try to clear this up for you first the Xbox handheld announced during the Xbox showcase is basically just an Asus ROG Ally that will have a more stripped down OS from Microsoft as well as the Xbox button on it this is their first step in having something to compete with the Steam OS and it has nothing to do with the Xbox handheld that Microsoft has allegedly canled so where is this coming from tom Warren from The Verge reported that quote “I’ve heard from insiders that it’s essentially cancelled as the company focuses on Xbox’s new software platform.” Even Jez Cordon from Windows Central who originally broke the story of the handheld being sidelined he indicated to me that he did not believe Microsoft would ever take it off the shelf again and that it was essentially not going to happen he did however say that he believed the hybrid console we’ve continued to hear about will come out as the nextG console and Tom Warren seems to agree he said quote “I still think we’ll see nextgen Xbox hardware from Microsoft but I also strongly believe we’ll see multiple devices from PC makers like Asus and will also be considered nextgen Xbox consoles.” So honestly this just kind of lines up with things that I felt about the future of Xbox hardware they would move away from a a traditional console and start letting others make the hardware with their OS on it essentially marketing their and sort of marking their exit from hardware in a traditional fashion and being more of a publisher and an ecosystem what do you think does this change your thoughts on the future of Xbox hardware or not let me know in the comments below or you can come discuss it in a live show and we also have to talk about what in the world is going on with Bungie so let’s take a little peek here at that well this is either a big nothing burger or a huge shift for Bungie there really isn’t room for an in-between in case you miss it there was a lot of speculation that Bungie did not turn things around and that would lead to PlayStation taking over as things continue to get worse at the company in the wake of the marathon controversy with the poorly received showcase their alpha and then the stolen artwork many were thinking that a PlayStation takeover was imminent and you may not realize this but Bungie operates independently even though they are owned by Sony they are actually the ones publishing Marathon not PlayStation so it would take a pretty significant change for them to no longer be in charge well Sony Interactive Entertainment launched a new PlayStation careers website and when you get to the page that says discover PlayStation Studios Bungie is listed and the description of these studios is that they are responsible for quote developing a wide range of exclusive games for PlayStation consoles which currently that is not something Bungie is doing destiny remain remained a multiplat game and Marathon is coming to PlayStation PC and Xbox so this could be a generic logo placement and it literally means nothing has changed or given the silence from Bungie and what happened with Marathon the PlayStation takeover may have actually started happening what do you think did it finally happen and will it help Bungie get to a better place let me know in the comments below or you can come discuss it in a live show all right and we just had the two stories i have not had enough time to look at what’s going on with the PlayStation’s earnings we’ll probably bat that around during this show a little bit maybe we’ll make a video about that or not but I do have a game for your wish list and your radar if this game is not on your wish list or radar I definitely think it should be alters just launched and I will be playing it on my channel so be sure to check out the game play to see what I thought but the reviews landed from the critics and it’s landing with a solid 85 across both Metacritic and Open Critic and the concept and the style is honestly very cool it reminds me of the movie Moon with Sam Rockwell and here is how they describe it explore the emotional sci-fi game with a unique blend of survival adventure and base building elements help Jan Doulski uh the sole survivor of an ill- fated space expedition create alternate versions of himself to escape a hostile planet and tackle personal turmoils with his unconventional crew so you can see why I’m intrigued and why others are intrigued i will say you know that the review guide that was given to me it did say to make the scientist first so take that tip from the review guide one of the reviews I read complained about resource management and you can actually lower the economic uh difficulty in the game if you find that to be too frustrating so if you just want to enjoy it you can turn the economy difficulty down so add this one to your wish list and radar and check out my gameplay to see what I thought and that’s it that’s the show open and uh we successfully recorded a 5-minute video and it seemingly worked so uh no issues there now I don’t know if we’ve tried uploading to frame uh with this new setup where I’m streaming at a much higher bit rate and doing multireaming and doing high uh highle streaming uh to two different platforms so let’s just try this okay so this is the show open so if you guys are unaware we take this content and we use it elsewhere so if you guys enjoy this content and you ever see it again in like a short or something give it a like give it a comment right now as you’re watching in the live show give it a like give it a comment uh that would be great uh greatly helpful to me uh that helps the video get seen by more people there’s plenty to discuss today we’re going to be playing Alters gameplay we’re going to be playing the Gears of War beta as long as the servers let us in uh so that will be fun and so thank you guys so so much uh for being here and supporting what I do are we saying the Microsoft ROG partnership is a complete different project that is correct sdo they’re completely unrelated so the Xbox handheld that has been allegedly cancelled according to the Verge has nothing to do with the ROG ally when um whenever uh Jez Cordon Oh hang on i’ve got some people to thank before we get into the discussion uh starting off the day Han shot first and so did you a 20 bomb from MASH that is a heck uh of a start to the day there’s your 20 bomb and uh I did not get a chance to make the farty bomb emote last night i’ll have to make that uh this evening you guys can celebrate with it tonight you guys did it you got 250 bombs before Friday so thank you so so much for that and the battle has begun youtube blasting out in front with 20 i wrote two songs just for this week i think you’re going to like them one of them took me forever to get the sound right and then the other one was like a first try so if you guys hit 800 you’ll get both of those from this point on every hundred unlocks a song and I really have enjoyed sharing those with you and you guys seem to enjoy them as well and thank you for 100 likes on uh on YouTube how will it look it’s going to be the bomb if you look there’s like a bomb on here that’s the wrong one there’s like a bomb in the background it’ll be that with the words party bomb in front of it my kids made the joke and they’re very excited so yeah we can make it animated we can make it animated on uh on Twitch so anyways so when Jez Cordon first reported that the Xbox handheld had been sidelined he is talking about one that is made by Microsoft not anybody else that’s that’s what he was talking about okay so that is not what was announced at Xbox showcase the Xbox showcase is a handheld are we getting a frame rate issue no okay the Xbox handheld is um the Xbox ROG Ally I’m sorry that they announced the Xbox showcase that’s just an Asus Rag ally made by Asus and it has it has nothing to do with like Xbox production it’s not an Xbox right i know everything’s an Xbox now but like it can’t play all your Xbox console games it’s not like a portable Xbox it’s an ASUS ROG alloy which is already in the market even even even hardcore Xbox guys agree with me on this a lot of them have said they don’t really think there’s anything to this they’re just like it’s another it’s just another ASUS in the market okay so that has nothing to do with what’s been cancelled according to Tom Warren the handheld that was sidelined has actually in fact been cancelled they’re just not going to do it which isn’t surprising to me at all i speculated that it was never going to come to the market i was like I think that thing’s done jez Cordon agreed with me he actually stopped by the stream and he like he tipped he did some he did some gifted members he’s always been very kind to me in the show he and I had you know we buted heads way back when and we buried the hatchet he has since been very kind to the show he’ll stop by sometimes and he’ll do that and he agreed with me he says “I don’t think the handheld comes to market.” He says “I think they’re just going to leave it permanently on the shelf.” But he did think and I agree with him on this and Tom Warren agrees that the PC console hybrid is coming in like the 2027 2028 you know time frame so there will be another quote unquote console from Xbox but it’s it’s it’s likely to not be a traditional console it honestly sounds to me like this thing they’re doing with the strip down OS for the Asus ROG Ally is step one and I believe that thing that they ship in like 2027 or 2028 I believe that’ll kind of be the culmination it’ll basically be a PC for your living room is what I think it will be i do not think it’ll be a traditional console in any in any respect it’ll basically be the stripped down OS that they’re working on right now and you’ll be able to load Steam on it if you want you’ll be able to just interact with you know Xbox games in the way that you do now on your Xbox sdto thank you for the single gifted i appreciate that so so much that takes us to 628 on the week i appreciate that you guys might want to get ready he may be setting something up some of these guys like to set it up so that we’re like 20 bombs away from big ones mini PC with an Xbox logo that that’s that’s what I think it’s going to be i really do i I don’t think it will even remotely be a console in any respect of how we have used the word up to now i I really don’t think so and I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing i’m being specific because so many people are not being specific and it can be it can be confusing people can be you it’s very easy to mislead people people that are going to think that that Xbox ROG ally is an Xbox we talked about that in morning coffee i said if I walked up to my friends who trust me and they know I’m an expert in this industry they know it’s what I do they know it’s what I cover they come to me with questions about this stuff like “Oh what are the games coming out how are the games doing how’s the industry doing?” Right i had a guy um who uh we were talking about uh GTA 6 and Take Two and the stock and he bought stock he did i didn’t tell him to i was just talking about how it dipped and it was going to probably recover from that dip and then next year it was going to probably soar even higher and so he bought on the dip i didn’t tell him to he just is really into stocks okay so that’s the level of trust these guys have if I went up to them and I said “Yeah it’s it’s in Best Buy right now there’s this thing called an ASUS all an Xbox ally and it’s an Xbox it’s a handheld Xbox.” They would think something completely different than what you and I know about it they would think “Oh it’ll be my Xbox that I have on the go i’ll be able to install all my games i’ll be able to take my games with me.” And that’s not true so you have to understand like we talk about this all the time like the divide between the average consumer and those of us who who know all these things right like I was watching an LD video this morning a Legendary Drops video and he said that gamers know he’s like “We already know that there are contractors and outsourcing and quality assurance work like this that happens.” And I’m like “That’s not true gamers on YouTube and Reddit know that but the average gamer doesn’t know all those details they don’t know all those details.” Like that’s that’s such an assumed thing so like I that was a part of his video like I just didn’t agree with i was like I actually don’t think gamers know this i don’t think that they know the inner workings of how these games operate now we do if we cover it or if we’re constantly in these circles discussing but in the grand scheme of gamers we are a super small minority we are not the majority and the same goes for situations like this with the Xbox handheld it’s like the average person doesn’t know this stuff they’re not going to know the finer nuances of like oh it’s an Xbox like it’s an Xbox like they’re going to be like oh it’s a portable Xbox that’s what they think they’re going to think that they’re going to be able to get all their games on it it will almost certainly be a pre-built mini PC says William with an Xbox logo i know it’s not on your docket but if you care about the PlayStation business meeting I have highlights on my post i saw your posts maybe I don’t want to like shove that into this show just yet that I I feel like maybe that’ll take over Monday because I want to really analyze what’s going on there like you know Marathon being included seems odd but they probably don’t have a choice they don’t have a choice yeah uh I think Keenan was designed to play Xbox console games and not PC games and Microsoft could not make it work at this point in time says Gothmog i have a ROG Ally and you can’t play Xbox games on the go but you can play Steam games on the go right it’s a good device for what it offers but like I think it should be very specifically stated to people what the capabilities of the device is that’s what I think that’s why I’m being specific seller Blade is flying on Steam i wonder why it’s cooking because it appeals to an audience that’s pretty big on PC which are people that like games with adult level content in them and it will likely sell more copies on PC than it did on PlayStation gooners are Legion on Steam so so was it canned or not okay okay there are two Xbox handhelds okay one is being made by Asus it’s a ROG Ally it’s coming later this year it’s probably going to be around $900 okay and the other handheld was planned internally and it was going to be made by Microsoft it was going to be made by Xbox according to Tom Warren at the Verge his sources have told him it that thing has been completely cancelled they’re moving forward with their software interesting how he said they’re moving forward with their software strategy as I said in the wake of the ABK stuff I said I think they’re going to convert Xbox into a software strategy sort of a software ccentric business model they’re a software company 900 that’s interesting i mean it’s going to be slightly stronger than one that’s in the market right now for $900 so yeah it’s it’s going to have to be around that price i can’t see how they could make it cheaper than that that would be I don’t know if that’s I mean unless they just take a huge loss per unit um but I said I said I think they’re going to lean into software strategy they’ll be able to mod it on PC oh for sure patholon the mods oh boy um that’s all I’ll say about the price you have to align your expectations with the market and what we’re doing here adding 32 gig OLED uh Z2 Extreme and all those extra bells and whistles would cost a lot more than the price bracket you guys are used to on the Ally and the vast majority of users are not willing to pay that kind of price wait so I’m I might be a little ignorant here i’m not aware i wasn’t aware that it’s that big of an upgrade oh oh oh that’s why it doesn’t have an OLED so that person is saying if they would have added all those things it would have significantly raised the price asus explains why the ROG Ally by Xbox I’m sorry why the ROG Xbox Ally doesn’t have an OLED screen okay so it’s not that big of an upgrade that that article is explaining why because it would have made the thing significantly more expensive than the current allies in the market got it yeah so it’s probably going to be around $900 yeah um hang on i got to snooze the ring i got to do an eight hour snooze uh well no I’m only going to do a two-hour snooze i think my family’s leaving i like having it on once they’re gone but when they’re coming and going Xbox will eventually cancel all hardware it’s what they do i’ll say this i’m really going to change my my prediction here i think the PC hybrid for the living room won’t even be made by them i bet it’s not even made by them i bet they task somebody else to make it and they’ve slapped their OS on it and sell it as a as a nextG Xbox and I think their slogan and their marketing is going to be is going to be something to the effect of more than a console that’s what I’ve said for the very for a very long time i’ve said they’re going to market it and they’re going to say more than a console and they’re going to say this is more than a console this Xbox can do this it can do this it can do this and that’s going to be their big marketing push for it that’s going to be how they they sell it i don’t even think they make it i think they’re going to have somebody else make it i they’re they’re seemingly they’re seemingly just reeling back everything they had out there that was like traditional Xbox console ccentric strategy it’s all getting pulled back it’s like nope not doing that nope not doing that we’re not doing exclusives we’re not doing day and date on the standard game pass subscription yeah we’re not doing that handheld next in line next in line is we’re not going to we’re not going to make our own console why would we it’s expensive and we don’t get good return on it we haven’t got good return on it two gens in a row that’s what I think i don’t even think they make the next one that’s not a big deal by the way you kind of don’t want them to if we’re honest you probably want Asus or somebody else making it it would probably be better given what they did with Series S and Series X i mean they sabotage this entire gen with a weaker box and it So yeah let somebody else make it that’s probably better you’ll probably get a better device honestly why would people wait for the new ROG Ally if it’s just another ROG Ally what’s the function of the Xbox button is it just the logo i’m assuming that if you hit the button it open it’ll open up like and make you feel like you’re on an Xbox like it’ll open up an interface that rep that that sort of replicates that experience like they’re going to strip down the OS to make it more gamerentric and I bet you when you hit that button it’ll like have that slide out so you feel like you’re on an Xbox because Phil spoke about this he talked about how he wants that experience to be the same across all spaces and they I think there was something recently we learned about them they’re going to be developing something so like their games if they’re multiplayer or anything like that you know how when you open up Fall Guys it’s very reminiscent the social aspect of Fall Guys is almost identical to Fortnite how the friends list and all that pops out i think they’re going to start cooking up things like that so like whether you are on a PC a TV a ROG Ally or this future thing they’re building you’re going to press that button and it’s going to make that bar pop out and you’re it’s going to sort of unify the sense of the ecosystem of Xbox i’m excited for it seems like most people are looking forward to it the the the the Xbox ROG Ally I don’t see a lot of excitement about it why are you excited why do you think people are looking forward to it i see the opposite i see people shrugging at it they’re like “What the heck why would I get that?” I’m seeing like really hardcore Xbox guys that are just shrugging at this thing okay guys stone Spire has not been given his 20 bomb this week yet i don’t think this man is so faithful he’s going to set up a 20 bomb all right it’s going to be 630 in a second and 650 is the next milestone and whoever hits it gets it that’s who gets the next gifted five all right i already owe YouTube I already owe YouTube a fivebomb all right give this man what he wants he’s so He’s so faithful twitch it’s your time to steal it’s your chance come out of the shadows and steal it also the thing no one’s talking about says Nightfire third parties might really buy into the Xbox Play Anywhere because that will be less sales and growth wait I don’t Your sentence doesn’t make any sense third parties might really buy into the Xbox Play Anywhere i think you meant to say they might not oh might not i was like your sentence doesn’t make any sense yo M lobo with a plus thank you so much that 20 bomb will now be an agent of chaos we’re at 631 thank you so much Lobo somebody give this man his 20 bomb anyway right Nightfire do you really want your game to be play anywhere don’t Don’t you want somebody to have to buy the game more than once i mean if we’re being honest is this really in the business interest of publishers and developers that sell games on multiple platforms oh you want to own that that game and get cross progression so that when you’re on your Steam deck playing it on Steam you’re also making progress in the game that you also then play on your PlayStation yeah you got to buy it again people bought GTA multiple times they’re going to buy GTA 6 nine different times like what’s good feed yeah again again I’ve continued to say Xbox like doesn’t seem to understand the business interest of other companies like Game Pass is not in the business interest of most companies right it it’s like we want to sell so you got to write obscenely large checks to get games on Game Pass which makes the entire strategy shaky at best i mean we’re already hearing from a company the guys from Revenge of the Savage Planet they were like I you know it it might not be a good idea we’ve had other companies speak to the problem of Game Pass we’ve had CEOs speak to the problem of Game Pass and how it’s value destructive these are people who make decisions about really big pieces of property and they’re like “Yeah that’s really value destructive.” And now you got another thing play anywhere that’s completely at odds with with what most seuite’s going to want to do which is sell the game more than once seuite and devs I’m sorry seuite and shareholders aren’t going to like oh yeah we only want people to buy the game one time and then let them play it anywhere again that’s totally at odds with what most gaming executives are going to want you you just keep making yourself unappealing i don’t I don’t get it series S made the platform unappealing you know passively blaming Larry and passively blaming you know Game Science with Wukong you’re just making your platform so unappealing and now Play Anywhere oh okay that’s the future that’s the future you shouldn’t have to buy all the devices but if you own all the devices you shouldn’t have to buy the game more than once what the freak like that game companies don’t agree with they’re not going to agree with that now some might but the average won’t thank you Joker Quinn for gifting a member bumping the line to 632 the ever faithful Joker Quinn out here constantly bumping the gifted line there’s an article on Windows Central where Square Enix more or less says that they are not putting Final Fantasy Tactics Remaster on Play Anywhere right because they want you to buy the game multiple times they’re in the business of selling games see this is this is this this has been the issue with Xbox for a while is they create strategies that center around themselves at the at at sort of the the sacrifice of somebody else’s business interests they center their entire console and identity around Game Pass hang on one second they center their entire identity around Game Pass which is at odds with what most companies are going to want to do i keep peeking hang on i fiddled with my um I fiddled with my mixer and I I’m just I’m just getting into its sweet spot again Xbox doesn’t meet developers where they are that’s what I’m saying like I I I struggle to see I struggle to see their their third party relationships improving if they want to if this is their new push is if Play Anywhere is your new push and it was you notice the big thing that they banged on during the Xbox showcase it wasn’t Game Pass it was Play Anywhere they are once again making themselves unappealing to other game companies it’s like why would we want to be okay with that if somebody buys our game on PlayStation and then they want to play it on Steam or they want to play it on PC they got to buy it again that’s what most publishers are going to say because they’re in the business of selling games they’re looking for an easy win trying to pretend to be consumer friendly says Aoz xbox is enforcing Play Anywhere on third party developers if I’m not mistaken how on earth can people be antiplay anywhere i’m not being anti-play anywhere no no no no no no that’s a really easy way to false frame what I’m saying i’m not saying that I’m antiplay anywhere i’m saying game executives will be anti-play anywhere meaning one of the central aspects of Xbox’s new marketing push is something that a lot of companies are going to say no to do you understand like they’re once again creating a central strategy and central identity around something that game execs are going to be like “We don’t want to do that why would the freak would we want to do that why would we want to be make it so that the consumer can only buy the product one time?” Ask I mean ask Rockstar how well being able to get people to buy a game more than once worked out for GTA 5 ben Ben says it doesn’t matter if they’re pretending to be consumer friendly as long as they’re providing alternative cheaper options here’s the issue okay this isn’t their first rodeo offering the cheaper option series S didn’t work out for them at all it didn’t i don’t I don’t think this is going to suddenly be some big win for them if they wanted to focus on Play Anywhere they should have done it a long time ago with Windows 10 says FCAT all right think of it this way look at the dialogue surrounding this okay look at the dialogue surrounding the the Xbox ally and Play Anywhere the dialogue is this is the future this is where things are going this is where things are going baby games everywhere Play Anywhere right xbox is seemingly always leading the charge from third place for for the last for the for the last six years I I’ve had to hear about how Xbox is leading the charge xbox is this is the future this is where things are headed did you do you see any of the snippets from PlayStation’s latest earnings report just take a gander at it just take a little peek at it what’s it say they’re asked about Microsoft’s new strategy and they say “Yeah we we we don’t feel any urgent need to switch our strategy.” They talk about how they’re going to be particular about games coming to PC later but we we we’ve had to hear all the last couple of years that this is where things are going playstation’s doing the same thing playstation’s following Xbox and yet every time we talk about this it becomes clearer and clearer and clearer that that’s not the case and if this is them leading the charge this is the future h how people thought Game Pass was the future people thought basically turning gaming into Netflix was the future and it’s clearly not it isn’t their their their Game Pass subscribers have plateaued subscriber services in general have plateaued and then we’ve got record-breaking sales and breakout titles doing incredibly well so you have to ask yourself how is Play Anywhere the future of gaming if as it’s designed it’s immediately antithetical to to the business interest of the people that they’re going to be pitching it to which by the way am I saying that right or wrong because Joker in one of his videos he kept saying he kept saying antithetical and it made my eye twitch because listen I’m the king of mispronouncing things but that one antithetical okay thank goodness [Music] antithetical he kept saying antithetical and I was like I’m like stop it it would be like watching an entire video and somebody keeps saying epiome instead of epitome or hyperbol instead of hyperbole it made my eye twitch and listen I’m not judging i mispronounce words all the time i’m the king of misprononunciation but Joker that one hurts yeah lock in step now getting an idiom wrong is different than just straight up saying the word wrong which it’s not Monaco by the way it’s Monokco it’s It’s Manokco i’m going to remember how to say it cuz I love him i absolutely love him he clutched up a fight last night for me i was like “Yeah I see your shields.” And I was like “Wam wham wham,” with the spear killed killed the boss it was awesome uh anyway that that that’s the question before I went and looked up how to uh say antithetical um love you Joker he he probably doesn’t pay any attention to me uh but I I I think his content’s funny i like his stuff i was surprised that he did a face reveal um but but how is this the future of gaming if it’s literally antithetical to what the business interest of these companies are like you’re going to approach big big companies and you’re going to say “Hey would you like to be involved with Play Anywhere?” And they’re going to say “No not unless you heavily compensate us.” Because you’re basically telling people they only have to buy the game once so what you’re going to do is you’re going to have Play Anywhere be a list of games where some of the biggest titles are not included how is that the future of gaming it’s just going to be another version of Game Pass to a certain degree it’s going to be heavily saturated with their own content which credit where credit’s due they got a lot of great content they own a lot of property now but that that again then it’s not play anywhere it’s just like another weird ver it feels like another weird version of game pass like a list of games that will be over time more saturated with Microsoft property than anything else which again how is that the future of gaming why is anybody coming to your ecosystem why if some of the biggest titles can’t even make it on these lists that you’re compiling of like Play Anywhere raphael McCoy with 13 months thanks for all the content keep on rocking the truth thank you so so much and that gets us to 630 that is not true that would be insane if that were true 633 thank you bill Spencer’s always quiet during the chaos like Doom the Dark Ages who barely sold well I mean Doom: The Dark Age is not selling well is an interesting one to me because Game Pass should not have affected the sales of that game on PlayStation it also should not have affected the sales of that game on Steam did you hear about Steam banning all those games banning what games what are you talking about play Anywhere is just another income vector but for Microsoft ecosystem Steam users will continue to use Steam same for other storefronts it’s additive as a lifelong PlayStation gamer it sticks to my craw that Microsoft owns Crash Bandicoot the one with the ads in them i don’t know what games you’re talking about i didn’t see any headlines or stories about games with ads in them on Steam getting banned play Anywhere sounded good a long time ago but it’s doing nothing really in the end listen I I know I know this will get misconstrued i know I I am not saying that I’m antiplay anywhere i’m not i’m saying game devs and executives they’re going to be anti-play anywhere because they’re going to say that’s not in our business interest we know that people buy our games a percentage of them are purchased across multiple platforms more than once by some of our most ardent fans giving those people the option to only buy the game once is not we’re not interested in that if you can’t outsell your competition maybe by offering things like this they hope to bleed them customers outside Microsoft might start asking for this play Anywhere really only speaks to existing gamers hilly I don’t think play like imagine not being a gamer play Anywhere would be like “What?” They’d be like “I don’t even What do you mean play anywhere what why do I care about that?” Like it’s a concern and a care for a hobbyist gamer who’s going to have a handheld a PC and a console somebody who’s not currently gaming isn’t going to be like “I already have a pain point i have multiple gaming devices and I only want to buy the game once.” Like that doesn’t speak to a non-gamer because they don’t they’re not in our ecosystem they don’t have all the devices this is like a a restaurant declaring that going forward all meals will be buy one get one free and people being like that’s the future of dining out yes because the average restaurant’s going to be like we can’t do that that’s not in our business interest play anywhere doesn’t do anything for me 99% of my play time is from the couch if I try to think about this in the best light my only thought is guys can we get 200 likes on the video let’s on YouTube smash that thumbs up we’re having a really strong start thank you maybe they’re looking at you know Asian markets where they’re trying to grow Japan Korea and they’re saying okay you know maybe they’re trying to break into China i don’t know maybe they’re saying there’s such a larger gaming onthe-go culture that this will speak to people who want to game on their PC and like a handheld or something maybe that’s what they’re thinking cuz I don’t even think this really speaks to Western or European gamers that much because of the prevalence of PC and console culture where we live it’s like most people that are going to game in a serious way like they buy they want to buy games they see commercials for you know Call of Duty or God of War or something and they want to play them they’re going to be playing them as Eugene said like on their couch it’s the future of DA Studios what’s What’s the future of AA Studios could be big in Japan home PCs are rare right so they’re playing at a cafe and then they’re playing on their handheld like play anywhere might speak to somebody in a market where they’re rarely at home right this was this was sort of what we thought the portal was meant to do especially now that it has cloud was it was it meant to be a catalyst for people to say “I don’t really game at home.” Like uh PlayStation saturation in Japan has always been weaker than US and and Europe uh saturation so we always thought well maybe the Portal was to help with that maybe Xbox is thinking similarly like well play anywhere will appeal to markets where people don’t really play at home play anywhere for multiplayer games are fine with me because I know I’m under Xbox’s security formerly Xbox Live oh I did like playing Xbox games on my Meta VR i’m mainly just taking issue with the idea that this is the future i don’t think that it is i think it’s another marketing beat from Xbox that’s just being pared by all the marketing mouthpieces like I I do not think consumers are going to suddenly say “Yeah that’s that really matters to me.” And also I don’t think developers are going to say “Oh yeah that really serves our interest.” Like think about the two things that Xbox has made central to their identity in the last 20 years or so in the last 15 years one of them is game pass where you don’t have to buy the game and now play anywhere where you don’t have to buy the game multiple times both of those sentences are like that’s like poison the the average executive is going to recoil at that and be like “Wait what your your main your big offer your big pitch is that the consumer doesn’t have to buy the game.” And now your your crack squad cooked up another winning strategy and it’s you’re going to tell the consumer they only have to buy the game once the average executive is going to say “We have no interest in that whatsoever.” How is that the future of anything it’s another very odd antithetical strategy it’s like that the average executive of a very big game a mainline game a popular game is going to say absolutely not that that’s not in our interest at all it only works if your purpose is to undercut your competition in the hope that they will go out of business yeah but there’s no way that this is going to do that because the performance of Nightrid on PS5 is absolutely disgusting and it’s quite annoying how FromSoft keeps getting a pass i’m I I am disappointed that as a YouTuber it’s never it’s never you know great when a video kind of underperforms i’m really disappointed in the way my Night Rain video is treated it got brigaded by the Defense Force of FromSoft it has a 46% like ratio and the viewership tanked because they all went and brigaded it they all went and left hate comments and didn’t watch the video it’s like they shoveled out they shoveled out a game that doesn’t run well that’s missing basic features for a multiplayer game to function and you’re all lapping it up like good little fanboy doggies like Giny freaking Christmas it’s just like everybody handwaving the egregious performance issues of Monster Hunter Wilds fanboy gamers are the worst because they they overlook actual problems and then and then want to fight about stuff that doesn’t matter it’s like people are more willing to fight about a character creator letting you put a beard on a character than they are like getting actually angry about you know flaws in the game’s you know structure and performance you know things that are objective stupid defense force is the worst thing for your video it’s the worst thing because you get flooded with bad you get flooded with bad views they all come to your video hit down vote leave a comment and don’t watch and they leave it’s like it’s irritating i could tell when it happened like the video was doing great and then it just went like this and when that that happened literally the day after I I was flooded with with hate comments what happens to games in your library that can’t be accessed with the handheld nothing they’re just sitting there you can’t do anything with them that’s why calling this an Xbox is it it’s not an accurate thing to say it isn’t it’s not accurate calling the ASUS rogue allies your takes age like wine i wish there was an algorithm for aging like wine i’ve got so many videos from this year that got defense force brigaded my one about Manhun Wilds got defense force brigaded and I don’t have the volume to compete against it i’m not a big channel so it kills the video and then I get defense force brigaded on the night reign video and both of my videos are bullseye it’s like these games should not be given a pass you shouldn’t be accept but what what drives me crazy about this is we get all this belly aching and whining about AAA games are in the toilet and AAA and then these are the same people that defend games like this it’s like you literally are lapping up slot from two big AAA companies from soft and Capcom and acting like it’s okay for them to ship games in the state that they shipped in you’re everything wrong with gaming those g both of those games should have been eviscerated they shouldn’t have been praised they shouldn’t be they shouldn’t be getting like award nominations they’re they shipped in a state in a state that they shouldn’t have shipped in it was like people doing defense force on Mind’s Eye it doesn’t make any sense to me it doesn’t make any sense it’s like where’s all the bloation and self-righteous and and and indignation about AAA games shipping out slop where is it what the what’s what’s going on here you want to weaponize Expedition 33 and and whail on AAA companies with a game built by 30 people that was actually built by hundreds of people because there was contractors and outsourcing work that went into it monster Equal Slob the game isn’t slob when a game releases and performs that poorly and has that many issues that’s slop to me it’s like your game isn’t ready what are you doing and and and From Soft ships Night Rain with blatant stuttering blatant performance issues frame issues issues on the PlayStation it doesn’t have crossplay it doesn’t have voice comms and it’s like if anybody else would have shipped a multiplayer game in that way it would they would have gotten eviscerated but the FromSoft boys will come to the defense of that game as if it’s a a a maiden in need of rescuing it’s just ridiculous who’s defending Minds Eye i mean not very many people the Rag Ally was canceled they just announced it no it was not cancelled xbox’s handheld was cancelled there’s two different Xbox handhelds there’s the one that just got announced that Asus is making and then there was one that Xbox was going to make themselves according to Tom Warren at the Verge it has been cancelled they said they were shelving it and apparently no it’s just done they’re not going to do it four bosses in soloing Night Rain one day playtime i don’t regret my purchase i I’m not trying to dissuade anybody who’s having a good time i That doesn’t matter to me you having a good time doesn’t matter you can have a good time walking on barb wire that doesn’t mean that I’m going to encourage other people to do it like you get what I’m saying like I appreciate that people are having a good time but you have to admit if another game shipped like that and it was multiplayer and it had no crossplay no no cross-platform play no voice comms and had all these performance problems people would have eviscerated the game it would have flopped my argument in my video was that this game should have flopped it didn’t flop because it’s got such volume and such such a large fan base and people are going to have fun regardless they’re going to go in with a pre-made team and they’re going to have fun there’s enough people like Elden Ring was so dadum popular that Night Rain was basically too big to fail xbox at least is pretty smooth for me the performance problems are not gamebreaking homie it’s just frame issues like bosses with frame drops and stuttering and freezing and stuff it’s not the whole time like you can play the game it’s not like egregious where you’re like you’re unable to play like the performance issues in mind are are like constant basically that wasn’t the case with Night Rain the Xbox handheld they should have made is being cancelled an Xbox handheld that could play all of my Xbox library plus have access to all the PC storefronts yes that has been cancelled walking on barb wire and playing night rain builds character it’s from soft these games have always been jank i want to know how I want to know how a studio gets to that level i want to know how do you get to the level of they’ve always been jank do you know what I’m saying like I want I want to get to that level as a content creator where you tune in and the stream quality is terrible and the and the microphone cutting out audio is messing up and I want people to be like “Oh his streams have always been that way.” It’s fine it’s fine it’s always that way it’s always been that way you know and I’ve got like a million viewers that’s what I want i want that status did you just mess with your audio maybe the Gigg community has in fact gotten good at excusing the lack of basic features in quality of life improvements so be it lono has and will always be jank the Tyler one experience i mean yeah yes i I would like to take this time to say congratulations to Tyler one he’s achieved that level of uh of notoriety and fame that people just accept the fact that he’s going to scream into a $40 microphone headset and the quality is going to be horrendous but no one can look away you can’t look away it’s too entertaining he’s It’s too entertaining tyler one is the FromSoft or the Bethesda of the streaming world his streams have always been like this yeah we just tune in anyway we love him congratulations Tyler you did it what’s good Snake Eyes it’s like seeing a bad accident that’s right i didn’t know Xbox was releasing two handhelds okay so basically right before not right before but before the leadup to the Xbox showcase Jez coordinate Windows Central reported that the Asus OEM handheld was going forward but Xbox had sidelined their own handheld up to that point it was known that Xbox was planning on doing both the rumor was they’re going to do an OEM with a with another developer with another hardware company everybody pretty much knew it was ASUS it was like sort of an open secret everybody kind of knew they also were going to be doing their own handheld and then they also were going to be doing like a PC hybrid for their next console those were sort of the known rumors about Xbox hardware going forward so then in the leadup to the showcase Jez reports because obviously things are heating up about the ASUS because they’re getting ready to announce it at the showcase so Jez his sources say “Yeah that that’s going forward we’re going to focus on the OS for that and other devices and we’re going to we’re going to sideline our own handheld.” Now at that time that that the day of that reporting Jez stopped by the show and was typing in the chat here and he said he did not believe the handheld was ever going to happen he thinks “No they’re saying sidelined and that they’re still committed to it.” And he says “I I don’t believe them.” He he thought and I agreed with him i said “I think the thing’s done they’re just doing the it it sounded a lot like just four games to me right?” Oh no no yeah yeah but we’re still committed to the handheld right just four games you know that’s what it sounded like like like this assurance that everything’s going to be okay that’s why today I’ve predicted their future PC hybrid whatever it is I don’t even think they’re going to make it they’re going to cancel those plans too and they’re going to hand that off to somebody else and they’re going to say “We’re focusing on our OS we want the OS to be as good as possible there’s no reason for us to be invested in making our own hardware anymore we can get other people to make it for us the Rock Ally is still coming that’s one the one from the showcase xbox Sideline their own handheld that’s correct that is correct i want to point out that if this was Xbox hardware ASUS would not be the one talking about its specifications there you go what kind of numbers does the Ally need to sell to be successful is ASUS just happy with the free marketing i mean the production lines were probably already in place to make this thing i mean you know what I mean it probably wasn’t some enormous endeavor or undertaking for them i don’t think the risk is I don’t think the risk is is that high for ASUS i’ll be if the thing sells if the thing sells a million copies I’ll be I’ll be kind of shocked the entire PC handheld market’s at like 6 million or something they’re also putting this in the market i just thought about this good golly have you seen the numbers for the Switch 2 like we haven’t even talked about that entity in the equation like the Switch 2 is insane with the numbers that it’s pulling and I told y’all that it would be i said that thing is going to sell a dumb amount it’s going to be in it’s going to break records and it is so you got to think about holiday this year i think Nintendo is going to swing really really hard i don’t think we even I don’t think we’ve even seen Nintendo hasn’t even stood up yet they like it’s they’re God I’ve always said they’re Godzilla everybody ignores them because they’re kind of like under the water and people don’t pay attention to them i’ve always said they are Godzilla nobody Everybody’s like “Oh Nintendo what about Nintendo’s for kids?” What shut the freak up we did put some respect on Nintendo’s name they’re Godzilla has have always been they’ve crawled out of the water and they haven’t even stood up yet and they’re breaking records they haven’t even done a big marketing push for this both of my friends across the street that we hang out with regularly both of them were like “I haven’t seen any marketing for the Switch 2.” I’m like “Yeah they didn’t need to.” The first wave was just all early adopters and they broke records with early adopters with the people that were going to buy it no matter what you could turn it on and Reggie could insult you and every they still would have bought it it doesn’t matter so it’s like they haven’t even really swung the bat there’s loads of trailers no the marketing everybody was commenting on that journalists bloggers everybody was saying that the marketing for the Switch 2 was very subdued in the leadup to the release and here’s the thing when they actually start swinging and they launch like a mainline Mario or like a mainline Zelda I think they’ve got something up their sleeve i do i think Mario Kart swung big then there’s Donkey Kong metroid doesn’t have a release date yet i wouldn’t be surprised if they swing real big with a with a mainline Mario for holiday you do a mainline Mario for holiday and you do bundles dear Lord oh my gosh like that it’ll it’ll be insane they the Pokemon game’s not even out yet it’s not even a mainline Pokemon but the Pokemon game’s not even out yet they don’t even really need to do a new game they could just do they could just keep doing the Mario Kart bundles and really push the pedal down on the marketing and I’m here to tell you that’s a factor in this equation the gaming world is going to be paying attention to the new hotness from Nintendo and Xbox is going to have a rag ally like that i just don’t think the demand for it is going to be very high at all i see it as a big upgraded from Switch one even Switch One games run oh yeah i love it i love it if I wasn’t playing Expedition 33 like my Switch 2 would be getting a stupid amount of hours right now a stupid amount of hours i’d be playing Zelda all day every day if I could it’ll be expensive to boot i really want to know what all of the people who bloiated and complained and and and got really angry about the price of the PS5 Pro i want to know what their take is going to be on this thing nintendo a new Nintendo bundled with Mario you’re crazy what do you mean they have it bundled with Mario Kart right now the the last Mario Kart sold like 75 million copies like they took one of their most popular franchises and most sold games ever and they put the newest one bundled with the Switch i don’t I don’t I think they would I think they would bundle it we’ve been ignoring Nintendo for years because it has catered to a different audience rather than the traditional console audience i don’t know if I agree with that i think a lot of the traditional console audience has a Switch it’s very additive a lot of people got it just for things like Zelda or Animal Crossing it literally didn’t change anything huh i Oh I’m joking new hardware with new Mario is genius and what they almost always do oh okay i was really confused Eric i didn’t catch the sarcasm um yeah like if if Nintendo swings hard with their marketing this is why I want to know where all these people are that complained about the PS5 Pro price and the Switch 2 price I really want to know what their thoughts are on when the Asus Xbox ROG Ally is 900 bucks or so and it lands at a time of the year where everybody’s going to be clamoring to try to get a Switch 2 for 450 they cancel the handheld according to Tom Warren from The Verge the handheld that Xbox was making has been cancelled the Asus ROG Xbox is still coming microsoft was going to make their own they sidelined it and now we’re hearing it wasn’t just sidelined it was cancelled now that problem is gone what problem and you thought it was a problem that they were making a handheld the Xbox ROG that you can’t even download games to from your Xbox library i’ll take the Nintendo Switch too it’ll be that it does more than other devices that’ll be the justification series S should have been a handheld unfortunately that would have been a massive massive leverage point for Xbox this gen but I don’t think the tech was there back then like when they were building the S I don’t think there was tech to build it whether it was the the GPU CPU memory or the battery configurations that were required for a good handheld right like I don’t know if they would have been able to do it they were and they probably weren’t even thinking about it they were probably thinking about like you know they were still operating in the they were still operating in the threshold of a traditional console is that right all legacy libraries can’t be passed to the ROG no yeah you you can’t this is why this is why I’ve been saying I’ve been a stickler i’m like calling it an Xbox is misleading can we get a bloiated emoji no isn’t the Rock Box just kind of an amped up Steam Deck but with less games it won’t be with less games it’ll be able to do Steam it’ll be able to do Xbox Play Anywhere games but you will not be able to access your Xbox library alex says “Where are the likes people alex is coming over from Twitch to scold you on YouTube.” Same here i’ll cop the new Switch when a new mainline Zelda drops i wonder what they’re going to do for the next Zelda are they going to do a trilogy breath of the Wild Tears of the Kingdom and then you know what I mean whatever they decide to call it Breath of the Wild Tears of the Kingdom and then Blood of the Ancients i don’t know well yeah i wonder if they’re going to do a trilogy and like stay in that world can you access your Xbox library on a Steam Deck no no no the the the the the issue with the Xbox library being accessible on other devices has been an issue for a while like you don’t have the ability like right now I can’t just load up the Xbox app on my PC and just play all those games that I own i can’t do it there are some that you can but the the majority are just they’re not there my sister got a Switch and put a thousand hours into Tears of the Kingdom docked now grinding No Man’s Sky in the series isn’t loving it wasn’t a gamer three years ago there you go i was just wondering no no that you you wondering about that Derek that’s a big question that people have they’re like “If I’m buying this thing and it’s got the Xbox logo on it what are the capab like am I able to play my my Xbox library?” Because that’s the thing you can’t really do right now people you can’t access it you’ve got to be on your Xbox which is totally fine that’s not like a knock but it’s like it is somewhat confusing to people that are like “Well Xbox puts everything on PC and Xbox.” They have for a while and then they start doing this sort of like “Oh well there’s Play Anywhere games and there’s Game Pass.” And it’s like oh they’re sort of unifying everything and it hasn’t ever really unified it’s like it’s some You can cloud stream on a Steam Deck yeah but you can’t Can you cloud stream every So can I cloud stream like all my 360 games that I own is that possible are those all available on the cloud i thought even the games available on the cloud was limited that was something that I feel like I feel like Jez Cordon criticized them for that that you can’t you can’t access all your own games on the cloud that’s an issue with PlayStation as well right that’s an issue with the U with the ULAS the enduser license agreements have to be uh adjusted to allow for cloud streaming that’s why a lot of games cannot be cloud streamed it’s actually sort of like a a legal ease thing you have to stream it like the Portal well that would be remote play at that point that would be Yeah that would be different so accessing your library on the Xbox ally yeah that’s it’s not it’s not possible you cannot access your library you can access the the 1,00 something Play Anywhere games which that’s not bad i’m not saying that’s bad like oh that’s not enough it’s to me it’s the impression that people are getting and the lies that are being circulated calling it an Xbox you are essentially creating a false expectation in people what is this this new feature that allows you to turn a public live stream into a members only live stream we’d love your feedback yeah I’ll give you feedback you didn’t create a new feature i’m sorry YouTube you didn’t create a new feature i can schedule a membersonly stream and then redirect people to it all you do is clone my existing stream and turn it into a membersonly stream that’s not helpful like I Who is in charge of the features for for YouTube good lord what a waste of development time they literally created something that I could already do i that that feature that we tested a while ago boys it it’s not even a new feature i’ve been able to create a new stream and redirect to it for for the five years that I’ve been streaming on YouTube it’s not new what beer me strength like what are we doing they spent all the time developing that when they could have been developing like I don’t know better monetization better things for members make upgrading your membership easier you know the things that actually you know generate revenue for the platform and the streamer and said you spent a bunch of time developing nothing that’s we I I’ve been able to do that for 5 years i am going to be scathing in my feedback i’m like what are y’all doing over there put me on the payroll make me sign an NDA i’ll hop on a call with you guys every week i will save you so much time like what are we doing here YouTube i didn’t start gaming until 2021 after I got really sick and put in the hospital uh before I was hiking in the woods and hunting but now I can’t breathe well that’s that’s unfortunate beer me one of them switch twos oh my gosh with that logic the portal is dumb the portal’s fantastic what logic are you referring to the Portal is a $200 accessory that is a remote play and cloud device it’s not a $900 handheld what logic you referring to ecstasis has the EU prices apparently he’s confirmed that the ROG Ally White will be 600 euro the ROG Ally X Black will be 900 what’s the difference between the Ally and the Ally X obster says “Exbox switching from traditional consoles to PC will be horrible to Xbox fans they’ll be left with nothing but Game Pass games which are games that they don’t even own it’s less powerful.” Okay y’all that are in the know y’all that follow this stuff buy these use these whatever is the 600 Euro nonX1 even worth getting oh the black one’s actually the new one oh the white one’s just something that’s already been in the market the white’s just a Steam Deck oh my gosh so 900 euro in USD is a,000 USD now sometimes it’ll be 900 euro 900 USD they’ll just have them match but sometimes they won’t i So you’re you’re talking about a 900 to 1,000 device according to Ecstasis according to Ecstasis that it’s it’s 900 euro for this new device which means it’s 900 to a,000 USD you can buy two Switch twos for that boy I mean okay I don’t completely get the debate you can’t play all Xbox games on handheld you can’t do that on the Xbox console same with the PS3 games not being able to live on PS5 just convinced at the whole saying “No Chris Chris Chris track with me track with me Chris i’m not being critical of it not being able to play the games i’m saying that there should be clearer marketing that doesn’t make it seem like it can.” Do you understand my issue my issue is not that you can’t i’ve never said that’s stupid that’s dumb it’s DOA i’ve said calling it an Xbox makes people think they can play their library on it and they cannot you’re familiar with my content i am rigid and pause i’m a stickler on saying things as accurately as possible it’s like this is why whenever people were saying that like Redfall was Xbox’s fault I was like “No it wasn’t it was Zenamax’s fault.” Zenamax is the one who tasked a a single player studio to build a multiplayer game now I still hold Xbox responsible they should have canceled it but the development and the and the production and the problems with Redfall have nothing to do with Xbox well why am I a stickler on that be because I have a a a penchant for accuracy like I just be accurate there was no reason to be like “Yeah Red Falls all Xbox’s fault.” No no it wasn’t it wasn’t it’s why with the case with Marathon i’m like “It’s a bungee published game like it’s PlayStation’s not even publishing it that’s an important thing to know uh Stellar Blade being hailed as a PlayStation game it’s not a PlayStation game they don’t own the studio they don’t own the IP it’s not a PlayStation game it isn’t it was an exclusive like I’m I’m just all about being accurate and in this case I’m trying to be accurate i’m like “Listen y’all if you start telling people this thing’s an Xbox and people hear the marketing and they see it and they think “Oh that’s an Xbox.” The average consumer is going to think things that are not true xbox is the king at this they literally wear the crown of saying something true technically true to convey a false impression just for games we’re not putting Game Pass on Nintendo and PlayStation those statements were true and they conveyed something false is Blackmmith Wukong a PlayStation game no i’ve never claimed that as a PlayStation game i’ve I’ve never even claimed it as a PlayStation W by the way which is what the ponies were always doing it ran like crap and still runs like crap on the PlayStation so the ponies that tried to celebrate that as some W for PlayStation it looks like Doodoo what are you talking about looks like Dudu it doesn’t It doesn’t really It doesn’t really matter what the subject is i I’ve not I’ve not wavered or changed on any of these positions i’ve been consistent on all these things you ask me about anything that I’ve covered in the last 3 to four years I get to remain consistent if I if I praise an Xbox game I wasn’t ever bashing a game just cuz it was on Xbox i was never just praising a game because it was on PlayStation i was extremely critical of Final Fantasy 16 i didn’t act like “Oh all is well yay confetti in the air haha Xbox guy.” No I was like “No the the performance mode in FF16 is a joke the performance of Blackm Wukong on the PlayStation is a joke i don’t like parade those around as W’s for PlayStation and flaunt them in the face of the Xbox fans because I’ve just never been interested in that that’s not accurate it isn’t accurate it’s not accurate to call the Xbox wrong ally an Xbox it isn’t because you’re conveying something false to the public that doesn’t understand the nuances of what you’re saying it’s platitudinous dril it doesn’t communicate anything other than it’s basically a form of obvious obuscation through omission is what it is you’re obuscating you’re clouding the issue by saying very little it’s like you’re doing it through omission you’re not really conveying the truth about the device hang on I got to think a super chat a $5 from Pubtown says “It’s called an Xbox and the biggest game next year GTA 6 can’t run on the new Xbox the marketing behind this thing is beyond idiotic uh Creature says “The average user isn’t going to react just is going to is going to react just like the crowd in the video really excited until they see what it is and then they don’t care.” Or or they get it home and realize that it’s not an Xbox they’re going to get it home and be like “This isn’t an Xbox i don’t have my Xbox stuff on it what the freak is going on?” A $5 Super Chat from SDO excluding Nintendo fans and general mobile phone games are many people exclusively handheld gamers i suspect people add one to having a PC or console oh oh buy one yeah yeah yeah it’ll be additive for most people sdo I agree with you i don’t think this thing is going to be a knockdown dragout barn burner of a sale if they sell a million copies of If they sell a million units of this thing I will be shocked that that’s I feel like that’s where it’ll tap out it’ll like get close to or kiss a million units and that’ll be it there’s only like 6 million PC handhelds sold worldwide they’ve been out for what how many years now chris says “The main issue with this handheld it’s the marketing of as an Xbox in the title of it and they need to shoot it’s scrolled out of the frame and they need to be clear if all games you own are playable on it or not.” Well Sarah Bond says you can play games all across your Xbox library she says that in the presentation do you want to know what most people heard i can play my Xbox library on that and that isn’t true they are the kings they are the champions at saying things that are technically true to give the person a false impression yes you can play games all across your library she didn’t say you can play your entire library they’re doing it again they did this with the Series S and they’re doing it again they’re just giving people a false impression about the device and I got news for you this time it’s going to hurt them worse than the Series S did it will hurt them worse do you want to know why return policies on these devices are a real pain in the butt typically now correct me if I’m wrong i don’t know this i’m just saying typically so I’d have to research this if you buy one of these things from Best Buy typically don’t they have a very different return policy for devices like this isn’t it shorter and then you don’t even get all your money back is this true currently with these devices cuz typically when you buy something like this from Best Buy it has a different return policy like if you go buy some cables from Best Buy and you take them back you get all of your money back but like laptops and devices like this are typically like a 14-day return policy and then you get like you you don’t get all of your money back oh you do get all your money back there’s no restocking fee on these things uh let’s see best Buy return policy on gaming handhelds typically 15 days full refund is what AI is saying let’s check their website let’s see if the word handheld is on no it’s not pc laptop and handheld are not are not listed um so okay so sounds like it’s two weeks full refund okay okay let’s just run with that i’m ready i got your DM james is the the beta is 300 p.m we’ll have to play altars first then probably guys if you haven’t hit the like button yet on YouTube do me a favor and hit that like button it will really really help this video let’s try to get to 300 we got a really good turnout today in PubHtown with a $5 super chat tip says “ASUS quality isn’t the greatest either the OG Ally fried SD cards at launch.” Also guys this over here we are now working on stretch goals i wrote two songs this week for some pretty specific things that happened and they turned out really good i It took me a long time on one of them i would love to share them tonight but each of them is a stretch goal so you guys are going to have to hustle if you want to hit You basically need to hit 800 to get both um Asus Rag Alli X is being listed as $1,000 is that the new That can’t be the new device that has 200 reviews yes I was going to play Gears today not Not for very long though probably for like 45 minutes i am not a PvP guy i am not you guys know this i was always terrible at Gears PvP i always played it for the campaigns and the co-op with my buds i that’s that’s why I love Gears so when are you gonna plat Minds Eye madam’s playing Minds Eye tonight you guys don’t want to miss that tonight’s member stream yeah you can play games all across your entire library sorry I’m trying to break down this statement and what it actually means ashen I’m here to tell you it’s up for interpretation it’s like it’s like corpo speak marketing poetry it’s just open to your interpretation what does it mean does it mean your entire library some of your library none of your library do we even exist like what the freak like I’m telling you it’s open to interpretation they’re totally fine with somebody hearing that and wrongfully interpreting it they don’t freaking care what happens with the 40 bomb emoji oh you guys got it you unlocked it yesterday there was a 50 bomb from Wilbur and there was a 50 bomb from um was it Pathon pathalon did the first one I think and then Wilbur did the second one and so I’ll make it for tonight we’ll celebrate with it tonight if you guys miss it my kiddos were like “Don’t yell 50 bombs.” And I’m like “I’m not going to yell 50 bombs.” Cuz they were going to watch a movie and then my son said “Farty bomb.” And everybody thought it was hilarious madam is not happy that that’s going to be an emote so you’ll want to be here tonight it’ll be great it will be great um look at this a-hole he can’t even keep his sugar daddy straight is that a brand new gameplay showcase of Kronos the key word is across take that out and it redefineses the entire sentence across is what’s tripping me up what she’s saying when she says a cross ashen I know what she’s saying i mean her her very pretty face is distracting but I I see through i see through she’s vicious man you got to be real careful with Sarah Bond cuz she’ll distract you you’re like “Oh she’s so pretty i trust everything she says.” You better watch out boys she’s she’s slick okay when she says across she’s saying some of the games across your library are playable like a sampling she’s saying “Oh yeah all all across the library.” There’s all sorts of games out there in your library that can be played she’s not saying all yo Brandon thank you for 19 months of memberships 634 there it is and Twitch you gonna fight back today or what twitch it’s 27 to one never trust a big butt and a smile i mean Robert Jones factual i mean that that’s that’s motto right there i mean that’s I think that’s in that’s in the Bible i’m just kidding it’s not it’s not well actually there probably are proverbs that basically say that right about the seductive woman you know and her way leads to death so that I mean there there are versions of that that’s more of a modern-day proverb you know never trust never trust you know the thickness in a smile like there you know there’s other versions of that but the point is the point is that marketing phrasing and that that um showcase of of the uh of the device is 100% going to mislead people and I’m here to tell you that it it’s going to be a it’s going to be a device that gets a lot of returns i bet it’s going to get a lot of returns sony says that Bungie’s Marathon is already showing strong early engagement set to release uh during fiscal year 2025 which is by March it’s not been delayed gangs and that phrasing was super generic for a reason because the alpha and the live streams actually did get strong engagement initially so what they’re saying is true strong early engagement so it it it again it’s corpo speak it’s BS i’ll call it what it is playstation’s just saying BS corpo speak they don’t want to admit that the game is basically destined to flop saying strong early engagement is basically like yeah that’s the only real time we had good engagement was early after that it wasn’t strong it was bad like the drop off in in in engagement with with Marathon was quick but it’s not a lie they actually did have strong engagement initially why it’s Bungie everybody was interested the streams did well they opened up the alpha people wanted to play and then it like it it quickly went back down because there was nothing to it so them including it in that in that uh briefing they probably don’t have a choice more than likely the marathon logo and the marathon that it was on like a chart as well that was all in there probably months ago they they put those things together you know a lot of times pretty far in advance like all those key the the key art and the logos and everything are placed in all that stuff and they were like “We’re not going to rip it out.” And it seems like it’s still coming to market anyway why didn’t they tell the investors uh about all the controversy and how hard it dropped off the game is being sent to slaughter they unless they’re asked about it Ashen they’re just they’re not going to volunteer that information you’re going to volunteer that information to your shareholders yeah that studio we bought for three billion holy crap they’re they’re sitting on a goose egg it’s a disaster i mean they were they stole artwork a guy looked like he wanted to die and he saluted and he got me’d on for a week uh yeah it went viral for all the wrong reasons like they’re not going to say that during a shareholders call they’re not going to offer up that information as comical as it would be they’re not going to fuzzy’s got an all across uh we got an all across definition here we’re really We’re really Whoops oh gosh hang on we’re really digging in here boys all across can function as an adjective phrase modifying a noun and indicating an expansive or widespread nature it’s used to describe something that extends or is present in every part of a region or area it’s different from all over which suggests complete coverage there you go she’s using it to indicate there are games all across your library that you will be able to play she is not saying that you will be able to play your entire library she is saying something that is technically true that gives a false impression she learned from the master Obi-Wan himself phil Spencer is the master at saying something that is technically true but leaves a false impression he he put on a master class of this in the leadup it should be studied in the leadup to Xbox basically becoming a publisher this this guy put on a master class in misleading the public with truth i mean just a master class like oops oops uh CFO just told uh Wells Fargo’s investors and would be investors that we’re going to start putting our first party property on PlayStation Nintendo uhoh better do an interview with Windows Central where you don’t speak to games going to PlayStation and Nintendo you say “We have no plans to put Game Pass on PlayStation Nintendo.” And everyone goes “Haha we’re safe thank you Phil all those idiot ponies don’t understand context.” H master class just a master the master puppeteer and then people were primed and ready with head cannon and they had been propagandized they were ready for the first quarter of the next year when Satia Nadella is like “We can now do the thing that we’ve always wanted to do publish games on all platforms.” Yeah oh the context was ABK phil Spencer told us that they’re not putting anything on PlayStation and Nintendo no he he spoke to Game Pass but hey good to be It’s good to be a lap dog i guess you probably get pets and then he does it again just four games it’s This is not a signal that everything’s going and what did everybody do we We need wellness checks on Reforge Gaming how’s Reforge doing i’m doing just fine with a batting average better than yours i said at the time I was like “Listen to what the man said he’s playing a game.” They all laughed it up and here we are yet again we stand on the precipice of another moment in the evolution of Xbox where the marketing mouthpieces and the lap dogs and the and the astrourfers oh they’re ready they’re ready what do we say what how do we frame this thing oh call it an Xbox give the public a false impression about it say it’s the future do you see it’s like we’re we Nothing has changed time is a flat circle we are we we’ve been here before this isn’t new we’re here once again with the same with the same push the same misleading nonsense and the same people doing their job doing their duty to Microsoft to to to frame something they’re doing in a way that’s not accurate that’s just it’s just drenched in marketing corpo speak and what’s what’s the result the consumer is misled that’s why I have such a problem with it that’s why I have such a problem with it it’s not like “Oh I’m so upset about their marketing strategy it’s a threat to PlayStation.” Oh that’s what people are going to say right oh well the ponies are rattled and that’s why they’re upset rattled by what a $1,000 handheld that’s basically already in the market i I got to do a video on this i think I think I need to I think I need to This should be studied it’s a It’s a It’s a master class in deception they’re the masters they’ve been It’s just It’s just continued it’s continued and continued and continued just go through the whole thing go through the whole timeline oh is somebody saying I’m bashing Xbox that’s always my favorite response to all this where where is he in chat let’s Let’s be entertained one of the few that will speak up most of the hate watchers have been banned or they just watch like cowards and don’t say anything or they come in on alts and just say stupid stuff where is he i can’t see him has he already been banned did somebody already get him i don’t see him in chat microsoft bashing once again nothing new here x legit attires so let me ask you something when I recount how Phil Spencer handled what the CFO said and he he he kind of waves the hand and says “We’re not putting Game Pass on PlayStation Nintendo.” When he said “Just four games this is not a signal.” When Sarah Bond says “This handheld can play games all across your Xbox library and you got people out here saying it’s an Xbox people falsely believing it’ll be able to play everything.” I just walk through all of that how am I bashing Microsoft walk me through it argue your position what What in that is bashing i’m just pointing out a clear pattern in history where they say something technically true and the public runs with something that isn’t true the result is essentially it’s like a form of propaganda it’s like well if we say this all our all our little defense force out here in the Twitter verse will basically run with a false narrative like when those of us were trying to signal they’re going software strategy they’re going to start putting their games everywhere when the CFO said what he said and we all got smacked bashed and and attacked because people were like no look Phil Spencer said they have no plans of putting game pass on PlayStation Nintendo like they did he did they did his job for him how dare you bash my favorite console of all time what’s next cuz you’re going to target tiddlywinks for being false equivalent to snakes and ladders you literally just got leave my multi-billion dollar company alone why do people care about what consoles other people play i don’t care where you play i don’t I don’t care where you play i care about people getting accurate information that’s what I care about let me make sure that camera is still working is it still working okay we’re in a We’re in an era where telling the truth is bashing and attacking did he even respond no he I don’t think he did yeah exactly siru I I truly don’t care where you play like it doesn’t Why would I care about that i have all of the systems like it doesn’t affect me one iota where you play you could play on a $5,000 PC or a Switch Light like it doesn’t matter to me i don’t care but don’t say things that aren’t true like let’s look at this let’s do it let’s do like an experiment if somebody came in here and they said that the Switch Light was as powerful as a $5,000 PC and I was like “That’s ridiculous that’s not true it can’t do it.” And they said “Why are you bashing Nintendo?” That’s the conversation we’ve been we we we’ve been having at times this this entire you know gen this entire gen people will say things Microsoft will say things Xbox will say things the bleed green guys will say things that aren’t true and you’re like “That’s not true why are you bashing Xbox it’s like what so because I don’t lap up the marketing and parrot it like you I’m I’m bashing Xbox in a vacuum i could see this marketing being misleading but it’s consistent with their everything is an Xbox marketing yes but Robert the problem with that is is You don’t get to redefine what these things are and then just be like “Well customers being confused and misled that’s on the customers we declared everything is an Xbox therefore we can say this about the device yeah we have every right to do that.” It’s like “Wait wait wait wait wait no communication requires agreed upon definitions and terms you can’t just be like “Well I mean we called everything an Xbox so we redefined what it is so now we can say that this is an Xbox and it doesn’t matter if the consumer is misled or comes to a false conclusion cuz hey we changed the definition.” What that sounds like some My Truth BS it’s like what the huh would it be better if they completely rebranded i don’t know i I You know what El Dunarino the best question to ask how should they have marketed the ASUS ROG you know hey Lono hey Reforge how should they have marketed i don’t know i don’t know how you market something that’s got your label on it that’s not an Xbox i don’t know how you do it the thing’s existence is misleading it’s just it’s misleading the just the thing’s existence just to look at it that just to look at the device is misleading you’re like “Is that an Xbox that’s an Xbox that’s an Xbox handheld look babe i don’t know how you market it.” I I truly don’t it’s like how do you market it and not have people come to false conclusions it’s like you’ve redefined what an Xbox is and now you’re selling something that will look like an Xbox in the form of a handheld but that it’s not actually an Xbox they can’t play all their games so it’s like again the average consumer is going to be in the store and they are not going to have the level of nuance and understanding that we have see my previous I have to click on your name flip the question if Xbox was adamant that there would be no confusion what would they have done i’d say clearly distinct naming and very different messaging their current approach isn’t an accident right i agree with you their current approach is not an accident how old is this video it’s 50 minutes old blubber team putting out a new gameplay showcase you guys want sound i’ll get you sound give me one second let me get the controls out of the screen ugly volume warning volume warning y’all that’s your last volume warning such is our calling [Applause] commencing search [Music] i’m not a I’m not a fan of the gun sound that sounded good the gun sounds like I don’t know it’s I don’t like that thin sound of a pistol it’s like It sounds like it’s not strong caution advised something is here huh oh that’s bad that’s bad you don’t want that to happen you don’t want them to touch you’re basically a chaperone at church camp um what is that that’s Kronos the new dawn i think it looks great um okay hang on wired rope says “Read this headline.” What’s your What’s your issue with this headline jess Cordon says “I need people to know the ROG Xbox Ally as Xbox by name and software experience only it’s a full Windows PC you can install anything you want on it.” I mean it I this to me it doesn’t sound like he’s making claims about games it sounds like he’s making claims about function it has PC functionality right like the audience reading his article the audience reading his article knows that gaming p that p a Windows PC can’t play the entire Xbox library oh you’re saying he’s saying it’s not an Xbox no yeah I think Jez’s reporting on this has been quite good i do i think it’s been quite good he he was the one that broke the story about um he was the one that broke the story about the handheld being sidelined and he admitted in our chat that he didn’t think it was even going to come out yo death just reuped thank you for 16 months of subscriptions on Twitch um we are currently working on a stretch goal guys for more music tonight i got two songs I wrote for you this week i think you’ll like them how is not an Xbox an Xbox advertisement with the Xbox logo on it i’m confused okay think of it this way um all right think of it this way so when Microsoft let’s imagine right now that Microsoft wrote I’m wrote Microsoft made a a phone this is this is a sore subject for Jez let’s say they made a phone and they said “Yeah we’re so excited to do this and blah blah blah and it’s gonna have our Microsoft operating system on it.” You and I would know and the average person would know that that’s not a PC we would we would just know we’re like “Well that’s not a PC it’s a phone.” In this situation Xbox is making a handheld and a handheld isn’t the same as a console but the reason it’s confusing is because Xbox is not known for making a variety of of of pieces of hardware the Xbox name is synonymous with console i mean Phil Spencer himself said box is in the name when he was asked about like if they were going to continue to have consoles so that’s why it’s confusing like if Microsoft makes a phone or a tablet or a laptop or or a f or or or a or or a phone did I already say that one or a handheld no one’s confused and is like “Well those are all PCs.” Because that’s not synonymous like when you see Microsoft making hardware they’re not synonymous with making PCs they’re synonymous with the operating system on the PC that’s what’s confusing here xbox is synonymous with a console so when you see an Xbox handheld you’re going to think “Oh they made an Xbox that I can carry around with me.” Xbox has always been an OEM product this is not right it would be like if suddenly PlayStation had a um a laptop you’d be like “Wait am I going to be able to play my entire PlayStation library on the PlayStation laptop?” Joaps apologizing about the M minds Eye sponsored video i would love to know what happened did he play a vertical slice that was like really polished or something did they literally dupe him and trick him if that’s the case I would sue them i would literally sue them i’d be like “You misled me and I would like payment because you that that that’s a breach of trust with my audience that’s damaging to my brand if they misled anybody who played review copies of that cuz people were saying they were looking at some of the reviews or some of the early access that people had and they had like better versions of the game is that true did they send people like a vertical slice that was like super polished or something he probably had a yellow chair moment what do you mean i don’t think Jor would do that an hour ago it’s only four minutes i I don’t do react content i want to I want to hear what he has to say cuz I like Jorah’s content obviously it’s very bad i want to apologize for the sponsored video that we did because I now totally see that it completely missed the mark and I feel really bad if you feel misled by that and ended up buying the game based on that video i want to offer you a reimbursement for if you did but I will talk more about that a little later in the video um we took down all those Minds Eight videos that we did good and also yeah so other people cannot get the wrong idea and also yeah it’s really a learning like I will be way more selective with the sponsorships that I take in the future that I know will be something that might be of interest to you and will actually be a good game uh because I know you come to the channel for my recommendations for my opinion to hear updates on your favorite games and I get it that if you saw that minds video saying it has a lots of potential and then all the launch news you’re like what the heck so uh yeah that that really sucks um basically when we started that video there was not a lot known about Mansai so I thought okay I want to explain it because I do think that the core concept is pretty interesting that in a single player game you at any point can pause it on PC select build and then create your own activities and missions so basically normally a single player game ends but now there should be this constant drip feed of content created by players but also by the developers i think it’s again a pretty cool concept and I think it would be cool if other single player games did that as well so that was the approach for the video but again I I totally uh yeah did it the wrong way like I also included my opinions um yeah I I said things that I liked um I also talked about things that I was like I’m not sure but it does have a lot of potential i get it it kind of felt like a review and that was totally not the intent of that video and I just did not have the full picture because when I played like I played a limited amount I did not run into a lot of issues actually and to now see all the crashes that people are experiencing the bugs the glitches the poor performance on console that I wasn’t aware of like I feel really bad because that was not what I experienced but again maybe I yeah I could have seen it coming maybe so again I want to learn from this and make sure that I don’t that I even though I have an idea for a video that could be like great for a sponsored video let’s look at the product as well uh I think that’s the the big learning because I want to know what ver did he play a different version or something that’s what I guess that’s my question for Jory is like did they send you did they send you something or did he play the release day version and just not have any of the issues i mean people were saying that on Twitter they’re like well I’m not having any major issues i mean if I don’t know if he was playing it on PC or what um I also think in his defense a lot of people don’t watch your video they react to the thumbnail so all they saw was a video where he said it had potential and they didn’t watch it i don’t know what he said it sounds like he more focused on the technical aspects of like oh this game could have a really cool concept going forward and that’s a lot of potential and the video didn’t really focus on the actual game itself because he didn’t have a review copy it It’s again it sounds to me like he made a video that sounded like a review that wasn’t a review he was speaking to the technical aspect of it that it had potential it got misconstrued as a review because that was my question i was like why why are there videos about it and sponsored videos about it if the if nobody was sent review copies so do they basically pay him to do what amounts to a commercial and if they did I think that’s totally fine i think people do that but I think people maybe misunderstood the video and thought it was basically a review so I I think he’s doing the exact right thing he has taken the videos down that’s that’s loss of revenue and he’s willing to pay to reimburse people that might have bought it you know and he’s he’s probably going to go into details uh about that so you know I’m going to put a link to the video and uh I I would say support the video i’m not going to watch the whole thing um I’m going to give you guys the ability to support the video all right cuz I I like Jore and I feel like guys like this get caught in a crossfire and I don’t feel like he had bad intentions he’s a standup guy i feel like he’s trustworthy i don’t think somebody you know w- with with a with a million subscribers is like interested in in lying to you to to the public i think he got caught in a crossfire here and he made a video about like “Oh sure i’ll do a sponsored video oh wow these details sound really promising and they seem like there’s a lot of potential he makes a video and then it gets misunderstood i think people thought it was supposed to be a review and it wasn’t so he took the video down and he’s apologizing i I I don’t I don’t think there’s any reason to uh to to like rake him over the coals for it so throw throw love at the video likes the video comments at the video um I think there’s enough there’s enough bad actors in the spaces that uh that we should we should give a guy like that the the the goodwill of being like “All right yeah it’s there there’s nothing here i don’t I don’t think he’s like some kind of like you know conniving person he doesn’t come off that way at all.” Um yo Gerald I did not shout this out gerald thank you so much for the gifted member we’re slowly working on the stretch goal boys and we’re at 636 thank you so so much and uh this part two all right hang on one second what do we have here okay yeah he says “For the refund email me.” So he’s got his email include a receipt that shows you bought the game make sure the purchase date is visible show that you tried to get a refund through PlayStation and or Steam comment uh I’ll send you an email and mention your username okay so yeah he he’s going to give some people a refund listen he shouldn’t have to do that everybody should be able to get a refund for PlayStation and Steam i don’t I don’t think anybody’s going to have to go to Jore for a refund so but you know good good on him for doing the right thing cuz that freaking game is a dad gum disaster um and thank you Brandon for ordering some coffee two bags of the of the Dark Roast um uh he’s opening a large can of worms i don’t I don’t think he’s going to have to do that many refunds people are going to have to prove that they they’re not getting refunds psn doesn’t give refunds no people are getting refunds for Mind’s Eye Chosen they are 100% yeah put some respect on Minds Eyee’s name no uh guys can we get 20 more likes on the video thanks so much for being here thanks so much for supporting the channel uh I appreciate it very very much we’ve been talking about all kinds of things the Xbox handheld and uh Hitman should have distanced themselves from Mind’s Eye psn is extending its refund policy for that game yes yeah every time I’ve wanted a refund from PSN I’ve gotten it if you download the game they don’t get that I couldn’t get my money back for um what was it what What do I What did I download and wanted my money back for oh Night Rain yeah I because I downloaded it i hadn’t even played it now you’re hating on Mind’s Eye i would imagine that if you’re dumb enough to defend Mind’s Eye and play it that your life is miserable enough and just full of mistakes that I don’t really need to insult you all right that’s That’s Every day has got to be really rough bro i mean that guy probably gets lost going to the bathroom in his own house minds Eye Dev should be proud they’re mentioned in the same breath as Cyberpunk yeah trolling at its finest yeah that was bad that wasn’t even good trolling either you know that was pretty bad mind’s Eye is beautiful it’s so beautiful it had people in tears that’s right um hang on um hang on i’m just making notes people defending Minds Eye are more miserable than the people who work at the DMV and the people who are traffic officers handing out tickets combined i What’s remarkable to me is I don’t even know if they’re uh defending Mind’s Eye it’s like we went we went through something similar with um we went through something similar with the day before and so it’s really cancelled the Asus ROG Xbox is coming to the market xbox was going to make their own handheld that has been cancelled um I think what it is is they’re just angry and they hate to see somebody that they don’t like get it correct like we went through this with the day before and I think they’re just they’re so in a perpetual state of seething like they’re just they’re so steeped in jealousy and they’re so steeped in anger that like they go full they’re like “Well I’m gonna defend this game and I’m going to attack Reforge because like they hate that like they hate that I got it right.” It’s why in the wake of like ABK and exclusivity and all that everything that we got right about Xbox’s moves uh and their their pivots and their changes you’ll notice that like the people that come in and attack me they don’t say that I was wrong they don’t they don’t come and say “Haha haha you were wrong.” No they don’t say that they say “Oh well yeah i mean PlayStation sucks so bad xbox is carrying them.” It’s just like they turn petulant they’re so angry that we got it right that they can’t come in and be like “Oh yeah you were wrong haha we were right.” It’s “Man we were so woefully wrong about Xbox the only thing we can do now is call you a pony and say that PlayStation has no games and that Xbox is carrying PlayStation.” Like it’s just it it it I mean it truly is the death rattle of the of the console war it’s just pathetic it’s like I I got gifted a bunch on Twitch i thought I would chip in uh dip in again yo Nitro thank you so much for the member plus thanks for jumping back in we are at 6:37 we are You guys have unlocked Friday night you have unlocked Madam Playing Mind’s Eye and right now we’re working on the music stretch goals and uh it’s okay we don’t hit the stretch goals you’ll just have to wait you’ll have to wait for uh I guess for next week uh for the two new ones I wrote this week crimes New Roman’s YouTube header you are extremely unlikable and talk nonsense for too long i I I love his content i love him i absolutely love him like and I know that we wouldn’t even agree on a lot of things like like base level things that we would probably see very differently but the seven deadly gamer sins video I watched it this morning i was like “Oh my gosh it’s just f it’s so good.” Red Vault Mind’s Eye Gollum gollum yeah yeah yeah yeah that’s exactly right or they make it seem like you bash everything well I mean we’ve we’ve had to talk about this before like if a if a you know if a sports franchise is having a very very terrible season and you cover that terrible season you’re not bashing you’re not bashing what do you What do you want me to say yo Anubis jumps in with the prime for 11 months almost a whole year guys check those primes check your renewals that takes us to 638 and then the member battle jumps to a three for Twitch and I know what Stone Spire’s going to do he hasn’t gotten his 20 bomb bait but he’s going to try and do a 10 bomb bait he gets us to 639 he’s going to bump this to 640 he wants that 10 bomb he didn’t get his 20 so he’s going to bait a 10 bomb and there it is there it is thank you so so much whoever hits it gets it twitch if you do the 10 bomb you get the five gifteds if YouTube does it they get it i watched 30 seconds of Crimes Roman’s video about legendary drops and I hit subscribe the first 30 seconds sold me he did one on LD i need to watch that um I watched an LD video this morning about Expedition 33 and it I I did not like it i like I like some of LD’s videos a lot his his most recent one on um on Expedition 33 I did not like i I thought it was it was interesting to see a bunch of like small developers basically agree with the idea that like we’re setting up a real dangerous like dichotomy to act like like Expedition 33 is some champion of 30 people and like we weaponize it against AAA and we demonize AAA and a five bomb comes in from Raphael he’s like “I’ll get us halfway there i’ll get us halfway there another five bomb secures it twitch this is the perfect opportunity to steal it from YouTube.” Um and what was interesting is he just like he like glossed over the fact that like smaller studios were saying and agreeing that like the guy that worked on Bellatro and others were like agreeing that like there’s this weird thing that happens when a small studio has a successful game and they were not agreeing with like the mantra like he just kind of like I don’t know he kind of glossed over that i was like okay you’re going to ignore that the small devs kind of agree and a five bomb from Wired Rope steals it we had a single from SDO but it wasn’t enough and that is 651 thank you very very much and that’s going to take this to 44 no wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait 39 and then this becomes an eight but here comes another one another five bomb comes Oh we got a we got a train on Twitch a five bomb from Stupafly from Superfly and a five bomb from Johnny Always takes this to 18 twitch is fighting back twitch is absolutely fighting back we are at 661 you love to see it and a $10 super chat from Street Shadow one thing the ally made me think about if and when Xbox makes a PC hybrid they will need to ensure native Xbox console games are compatible with the platform otherwise how do they migrate users libraries this is an excellent observation excellent observation the LD1 he even mentions LD’s retweet of your tweet just to warn you he takes him to the woodshed and he’s not merciful do I show up in the video or it’s just the one about no one wants to hear about inflation is that cuz that was the time that LD got a complete misrepresentation of my position but then he didn’t answer me when I said you literally tweeted i had to kind of pull a this U on him i was like you literally tweeted and told people bringing up inflation to shut the f up that’s you saying that you don’t want it to be a part of the conversation that’s you saying get the facts out of here we don’t want to hear about that he just mentions it’s a retweet about inflation okay and Joker Quinn with a single gifted thank you so so much 662 we are well on our way to you guys getting one of the songs thank you so so much the member battle is heating up the member battle is heating up and the hype train has started on Twitch jay Dog’s going to add to it jay Dog’s going to add to it with two months of subs mandatory Prime carry on thank you i owe Twitch 5 so I’m going to contribute I’m going to contribute to the train over here hang on i’m navigating two m two mice two mices uh two mouse two mousins two mooseens there we go like I like LD’s content a lot of the times but I also think some of the times he just I I think his the biggest flaw in a lot of his videos is he just presumes the negative and I’m like you didn’t establish that you’re presuming that as if it’s head cannon and as if it’s truth and it’s like but you haven’t established that and in his video the most recent one about Expedition 33 it’s like you just ignored the fact that a lot of the dialogue about how it’s a dangerous precedent to act like you know uh Expedition 33 is some saint status game built by 30 people even small developers were echoing the sentiment that like this is not this is not an us versus them situation you can’t ignore the fact that even smaller devs were agreeing it’s this idea that like AAA is threatened by this so they’re trying to silence they’re trying to silence or take away from what Expedition 33 achieved by saying it wasn’t built by 30 people it was built by like hundreds of people are there only 30 people in the end credits no that’s the whole point that people were trying to bring up it’s like even the even the one guy that said like he’s credited as being like a solo dev even he was like “Yeah that’s not really accurate.” I think it’s an over it’s an overrealized position i don’t think it’s a bad position to say smaller studios and and and smaller game studios are instructive to big studios again I said this the other day it’s not punitive like “Yeah let’s just whail on these big st Yeah screw you your games suck and these guys are doing a great job.” And these guys are like “Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa we’re all out here trying to make games boys let’s settle down let’s settle down like you’re act you’re actually like poisoning the greatness that is Expedition 33 by turning it into like a Lucille bat in your war against AAA Studios aaa Studios are in similar situations they’re trying to bring a game to market they’re trying to do the best they can it’s not this big corporate entity that’s evil and maniacal and just there for you to whail on i mean it just because the company’s big doesn’t automatically mean that like oh yeah they’re bad they suck they put crap in their games it’s like well they’re more corporately bound more shareholder bound so sure it’s going to lead to maybe tighter timelines and pushes into monetization or live service that gamers have you know spoken out about and saying that they don’t like but that’s not true of every single AAA studio or game i worry the AAA studio heads will learn the wrong things my hope is that they learn smaller projects driven by passion have a greater likelihood of success and they’re lower risk we know that studio execs and the big guys they’re risk averse we know this that’s my hope that’s my hope and this is another video I think I need to make um um cuz I like that line that Expedition 33 is instructive it is not punitive it is not meant it should not be weaponized as as almost like this public punishment and like we’re just going to be you know flogging the AAA studios with a game that should just be celebrated for how great it is i don’t worry about anything a AAA studio does because I can’t control it i just buy games I like oh wait wait wait no I did watch I did watch Crimes New Roman’s video about it because it’s got the not I’m not political thing i don’t I’m not political i’m not political like he keeps playing that clip i remember that video now 30 seconds and the hype train ends on Twitch twitch rally Twitch if you roll it over if you roll it over I’ll do a 10 come on 20 seconds i don’t know if we I don’t know if that’s enough time i should have been watching it my bad street Shadow says “They’re learning that I work for the industry i just got back from a huge work event with tons of devs it was a topic of conversation in many sessions the power of making varied game sizes i I I I made that prediction with the Insomniac leaks is when I is when I started that i said I think you’re going to see I think you’re going to see devs start to say “Let’s take smaller bets let’s place smaller bets.” I You’re going to empower people to do things that are more driven by passion and you’re going to empower people to not have the entire studio’s future dangling by the thread of one game success joker out here with the bat he says “A yes strong early engagement.” I mean it peaked at 7,000 on Steam for it was an alpha that was that you wasn’t that when it was closed i am not going to defend Marathon but didn’t didn’t the interest in the closed alpha wasn’t it actually pretty strong and like their Discord got overrun and the that initial 7,000 player peak was just people that went in and got the invites wasn’t it and that’s just on Steam as well i again I actually feel like the beta I’m sorry the alpha of Marathon that first day they had good engagement for a closed alpha i don’t think that’s incorrect to say i like I like Joker i like his content but I don’t I don’t think this is the I don’t think this is the swing to take they had a closed alpha that right at the front there was lots of interest it was only Yeah it was only in America it was closed and then they opened it after and then yes it tapered off saying early engagement they’re listen PlayStation’s playing corpo speak they are i’ll call it that that they’re playing a game the only positive thing they can say is like yeah for like 12 hours we had strong interest in engagement there were big streams being watched there were people trying to get into the Discord and there were people playing the closed alpha yeah that’s all you can say positive about it is that there was strong engagement early on as in like in the first 12 hours it’s corpo speak nonsense marathon’s a dud and we all know it the hype and mass interest in Marathon was account signing up for Discord i’d say bots i don’t think we have evidence to say that you’re welcome to be skeptical but I don’t think we have any evidence to say that it was bots street Shadow says “Astrobot and now Expedition 33 are changing the narrative it was very strong.” I’m going to include that in my video Street Shadow that you know someone someone in the industry you know told me that they came back from a trip and that’s this is becoming a significant talking point within dev circles that we should start placing smaller bets it’s a great answer to these crazy inflated budgets of these huge titles i’m almost done with Expedition 33 says Mash i’m in the epilog section and all the relationships maxed i am uh I just beat all the masks and then the final boss asked for the after the masks it was wonderful monokco is god monokco is god this guy shielded up on me and I was like it would be a shame if I had an ability that could ignore your shields i’ve turned Manoko into an absolute killer they broke the Discord server spamming the command for the alpha yeah I that’s what I’m saying interest initial interest in Marathon it It’s fair to say it was strong it was just a closed alpha boys like it was not going to be hundreds of thousands of players you can’t compare it to other live service games when it was a closed alpha i am not defending Marathon oh my gosh i’m not defending Marathon but I think that’s corpo speak for this is the only positive thing we can say about the dad gum game is that in the first 24 hours of the closed alpha there was strong interest there were big streams there were people trying to sign up player numbers were strong for a closed alpha that you could only get invited into initially and that’s all we can say about it that’s positive there’s nothing else positive to say about Marathon mel has an ability that breaks all shields in one shot she does i think Manoko’s ability is better for now i may change my mind i like his better because he does like six attacks and he just damages them he doesn’t even care about their shields their their health bar is just going blunk blunk blunk blunk i just absolutely eviscerated the boss like he he he was he was a little lower than half health and he shielded up and Monoko was like your shields are adorable slash slash slash slash slash and then he was dead the damage stacks for each shield the enemy has i’m telling you dude mano is god tier he’s so good i couldn’t believe it i was like “Oh this is going to be tough now that he’s shielded up i don’t I don’t know.” Oh and I was like well I know Monino is ability he’s really good let me try it and it was over i love him i love him he’s great my daughter is very upset when she comes down she really really likes Myel hey somebody ordered some soda from Spreer thank you so much listen we’ve not done this enough we are We are We are partner with Spreer if you guys like soda and you don’t like all that caffeine Spreer soda is fabulous i’ve taken this to a couple of our small groups um like our community groups at church and so I always bring drinks and I 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next week i don’t know how much you make but if it’s decent get ready well thank you Durge if you use my code I I really appreciate that the commission to me is great it’s extra it’s it’s additive revenue for me but really it really sort of it it sort of speaks well of me to the companies that I work with when you guys use my codes like you can always use my code at Into the AM i’m wearing an Into the AM shirt today um I love their stuff so use my code and they’re doing a big sale right now over there at Into the AM and you can always stack my code on top so I still don’t understand how Manoko never once mentions Lun’s feet maybe because she’s not like a creature maybe because her feet are too sacred i mean she is a goddess after all i mean we all worship Lun if you don’t worship Lun then I I don’t think you’re playing um I mean boys yeah my daughter’s really upset with me when she comes down and I’m not playing with Myel um when I’m playing with uh Monokco you lost weight i am i am down a little bit more yeah I’ve lost some more i’m 145 144 i was like 148ish 150ish yeah I’ve lost a couple more pounds bay she’s not my type no Lun is she’s she’s great she’s great um good to see you Behemoth by the way uh worship at the altar that is Lun and rejoice yes yes sir we We all do uh yeah so we’re going to be playing the altars first because the Gears beta is later in the afternoon um so we’ll be doing that in I don’t know 45 minutes or so you guys are going to have to scramble for these stretch goals before we do gameplay because once I’m in game play everything slows down so your your windows are starting to shrink uh which is totally fine we’ve had a killer week but I never want people to be like “Oh man we were close we almost had it.” And then feeling like they um they get Sometimes I feel like you guys feel a little bit blindsided by when we shift gears um yeah I think this is a better thumbnail i made two thumbnails for the altars and um yeah I’m going to use this one i think this one’s better okay game play okay okay let me get this sual when people say sual I uh I I just I don’t want to punch him so I’m starting to say it as a form of exposure therapy so that I don’t violently attack a Brit you know in like a Kroger or something that would be bad you know I don’t have to check my sensual like Yeah I don’t want to do that i That’s wrong you know uh let’s see here we go well there’s an Iron Man at 2,000 paid subs let’s make it happen at 1,000 paid subs I have to build a gaming rig like I bought a gaming rig because our our backup rig is just not um is just not going to do it anymore and so we do have a gaming rig on the way it should be here tomorrow hopefully but the building of the rig is at 1,000 paying members on YouTube we are currently at 550 so a lot of you like roughly 2,000 of you every month are on a gifted which is great it’s wonderful we celebrate that here uh but it’s very lopsided so we’re always saying “Hey consider the six bucks a month as a way of supporting what we do making room for more gifted to get in.” Uh and then you get into the green room advertisement i don’t mind advertisement as much as as much as sual because sual sounds like some like I don’t know pompous prick i’ll have to check my schedule like okay are you wearing a monle like I don’t I don’t know boys i don’t know yo my man Biggie Smalls jumping back in with a member plus taking us a 664 i sense a great disturbance in the force i sense a single gifted setting up a 10 bomb i can feel it uh he rides a penny farthing as well i don’t even know what that is um The Altters is now available on Steam i just got an email from Steam about that they must have had a um like a noon release window I guess so thank you to everybody who has hit subscribe today on YouTube as well that’s a great way to support what I do hit subscribe hit the bell button that way you don’t miss out on the shows your content is my daily routine even in the morning says Behemoth i encourage everyone to join and support thank you and make sure if you guys do decide to sign up pick member plus six bucks a month is the one you want because if you pick member light that’s the gifted bucket i can’t distinguish you from paying members oh it’s the bicycle with a huge wheel in the front and a small wheel in the back right he rides a penny farthing and has a monle yeah when someone says suual that’s what they look like to me like straight out of one of those oldtimey paintings cooking eggs and listening to Lo is a ritual at this point that’s awesome my mom pronounces uh schedule like that she also drives one of those bikes with a giant wheel in the front that’s good uh Lono’s daughter loves Myel the rest were debating uh Seiel or Lun yeah yeah yeah yeah i thought they were calling Myel Bay no no that’s creepy nobody was doing that she’s like a She’s a kid my daughter was upset when she would come down and I wouldn’t be playing as Myel she likes Myel because my daughter is like dying to be a teenager and she thinks Myel is great she also loves Lun if I ever go to um level up my characters and we haven’t rested yet my daughter also gets very upset she’s like “Clean their faces please.” You know I don’t let her watch the cut scenes and stuff cuz they’re swearing but she’ll come down and I’ll be like “Okay I’m leveling my characters you can watch this.” And she was like “Clean their faces off.” So I have to back out and rest and then go back in to spend their skill points usually I spend the skill points and then I rest but she gets very irritated cuz she loves Lun as well and she thinks Lun is very pretty and if Lun has blood all over her face that that that she does not abide that so if I don’t watch Lono in the morning my son will ask me “Dad where’s that funny guy that yells?” Oh that’s great i love that I’m known as the guy who yells in many households um I appreciate that where’s that guy that yells 50 bomb you know you’ve been using Monino because there’s trophies tied to his skills i’ve just been using him because he’s awesome found Alono shirt the cocktail tea what does that say about me uh I’ve got the one with the bourbon glass up in the corner with the skull i don’t like that one with the bottle as much like it’s one thing to be like “Oh yeah I got a little cup with bourbon in it.” Like with the bottle it’s just like I’m just tell everybody I’m an alcoholic i guess I love Lunatel takes the takes care of my needs oh settle down swearing is good for kids my dad let me watch Armageddon when I was 10 well my daughter has very good self-control because she whispered the uh sword to me last night and I died laughing she’s like she like got a little grit on her face and she’s like “Can I swear?” And I was like “No.” And she got really close to me and she said “Shit.” And she just like said it and I died laughing um and she’s never said it and she’s known it for a very long time i really need to commend her like now that the dust is settled and Madam’s not scolding me and I’m not like shaking with laughter um I need to commend her on her self-control she read it in a Wonder Woman comic uh a Wonder Woman like graphic novel like months ago and she’s never said it i’m like that’s pretty good my son on the other hand would not be able to have that level of self-control what yeah what does Merde mean merde or they or however they say it i can’t really say it yeah that’s what it means yeah I can’t have her walking around saying that she knows there are people that we know that speak French they like “Who taught you that?” That flannel jacket is uh that’s nice i thought you were going to say she whispered the n-word to you oh no she would never say that she would not oh you put a kappa if she knew the word and in the historical context of it she would hate it i remember I don’t even know how old she was six five or six i was reading a book to her about the first black ballerina and she got very angry i had to be careful we had to like kind of guard her heart against certain things because when she was she she didn’t understand why they wouldn’t let the little girl be a part of the ballerina class and I had to explain it to her it was explained in the book she got super angry um she got very angry and she um she hates money and she hates that people are homeless she thinks that if the world wasn’t run by money people wouldn’t be homeless she’s got big ideas in a little in her little mind um and so she put together like care packages for homeless people like if we see them on the side of the road she’s got like a blue bag and a pink bag you know depending if it’s a man or a woman um she spoke to somebody who like works in shelters and was like what are good things to give the homeless like you you know you’re you know you’re not kind of like supposed to give them money um but like yeah so she’s very sensitive to those things so if she learned which she will one day learn about that word she would be very angry about it she would hate the word she would never be tempted to say it um I remember when my daughter first said a swear word the f word uh was kind of torn between outrage and pride she used it in the proper context so you just beat the final boss for the mask that’s awesome now you’re about to hear some of the greatest boss music ever created that was There was great music in that one thanks for the gift to me oh no 23 minutes ago you’re welcome Thor you are welcome we are teetering on the next stretch goal we’re about 30 minutes away from game play wait till she starts paying taxes she’ll really hate money then that’s right that is right you guys if you’re going to scramble for these stretch goals you’re going to want to do it before we get into gameplay because gameplay usually puts a whole pin in members it usually slows way down somebody just commented on a really old video exclusives matter and he said “Yeah no she’ll go full anarchist and burn the system down she’ll become the Joker um or Tyler Deran how do you teach them to not say it if they don’t know it well they’re not going to like accidentally say the F-word they’re not just going to like stumble into it you don’t teach it to them one of the worst things you can do with younger children especially is be like “See this thing don’t touch it.” Now they really want to touch it you see this word you hear this word don’t say it well now they really want to say it you You got to be very careful sounds like minion’s very empathetic not enough people like that oh she’s too She’s too empathetic she’s like empathetic to a fault i’m glad you explained uh the situation rather than leaving it she hates homeless people she hates that there are homeless people yet told my 2-year-old not to touch the outlet and then it’s the most interesting thing in the world were you not a fan of turn-based games coming in Expedition 33 this is correct i was not a fan of turn-based games coming into Expedition 33 that is true yes sony says Marathon will get the optimal chance of success at launch [Laughter] see these dirty dishes don’t clean them if it were only that easy to pull a Tom Sawyer you know if it were only that easy to trick people trick kids into doing chores my oldest daughter first cursing incident was a proud moment she called another another kid at school soft as f that’s pretty good that’s pretty dad gum scathing you were in for a month behind that one yeah cuz that’s you that’s you that’s a That’s a That’s a creature phrase if I’ve ever heard one my buddy told his son Oh told his son he could only swear if he uh if the word was in a video game that they played together he really regretted playing Gears with him i think that every word is probably in Gears isn’t it berser 3 is turnbased did you like that i I played it for an evening with my wife to like entertain the audience i was never going to play that game not my bag at all yeah I tried to boot it up one night to play co-op with Madam in my living room and I like couldn’t figure anything out i was I couldn’t figure out how to get into inventory or something and I was like I just this game’s just not for us babe i was like I we’re Borderlands and Diablo players like we I need to be pretty simple i need I need it to be simple you’re burning your legs right now on a three-tory roof measuring it in shorts uh and the asphalt shingles are hot yeah I’ve seen a lot of roofers um wear pants for that reason you’d think they’d wear shorts but it’s like no you’re better off in pants when are you going to try a real-time strategy i have played uh growing up I played Starcraft 1 and two and I played Age of Empires and I just don’t like them very much i was driving and called someone a Pendjo and only my 5-year-old to say it right after yeah that’s an easy one to say if I can get Nintendo exclusives on my PS5 and Series X do you think Switch 2 would sell the way that it has um probably not i think the exclusives do drive purchases of of the device i do think it being a handheld drives purchases as well i also think there are people that are just loyal to Nintendo so like the idea of having a Nintendo console is like default for a lot of us because we grew up with it so it’s sort of endemic to Japan it’s endemic to a lot of gaming you know uh gaming households it would certainly diminish the sales though yeah I would have bought them because my children like them and like to have the the handheld on trips and stuff they I got my son a Switch Light for that reason so that they could each have their own Switch on trips but if I didn’t have kids and I could buy Tears of the Kingdom and Mario Kart World on other devices yeah I probably wouldn’t buy the Switch 2 wouldn’t need it see what the It’s a It’s a symbiotic relationship the exclusives have to be at an excellent caliber because they’re part of the packaging of the device right like Mario Kart has to be incredible you know the the the exclusives the first party games from from PlayStation have an amazing track record like if you if you look at I mean Herman Holtz described them as the differentiator and they are they are they’ve got consistent game of the year nominations consistent game of the year wins Nintendo exclusives consistent game of the year nominations consistent uh you know wins marathon got delayed is that official or is it just the fiscal are people just reading the fiscal thing has this been officially announced or was it the fiscal thing like it’ll it’ll be out by the in this fiscal period which ends in March i’m not seeing anybody reporting marathon delayed i that would be I feel like that would be flooding my my feed right now i think it just said that it’ll launch within this fiscal period which ends in March i don’t think it’s been delayed to March they’re they’re aiming to launch by I think we’re I think we’re misreading that FCAT i think they’re just saying it’s releasing in this fiscal period i’m not seeing anybody reporting that it’s a fiscal It’s a fiscal report so they’re going to they speak they speak about releases within fiscal periods let’s be honest the PS5 lacks its own identity and SIE already talked about the PS6 which is disingenuous to their consumers i always like when somebody says “Let’s be honest here.” And then they won agreement with their really stupid opinion like let’s be honest here and then you proceed to say something that’s just bankrupt like okay no no one’s going to agree with what you’re saying unless you’re I mean unless they think the exact same thing that you do like I you know what I mean like I of course they’re talking about the PlayStation 6 they’re signaling that we’re in the second half of this gen so you got to start talking about next the next gen as well you also have things in the works with Project Amethyst and AMD like they’re not going to not mention PS6 and this gen lacks its own identity what does that even mean you need to What what do you mean by that like we’ve got We’ve We’ve just gotten such a great cadence of games i just you have to play this weird version of of console war Calvin Ball where you make up rules so that PlayStation’s somehow losing i there’s just been a consistent and steady stream of exclusives i I don’t I just don’t I genuinely don’t understand this it It’s It’s literally just a completely madeup position just to like cope with the fact that you lost like lost big you know a lot of people cheered for the wrong team this time around i was cheering for the wrong team i was an Xbox guy at the beginning of this gen i was I called Xbox a sleeping giant and I got the sleeping part right like the PS5 is printing money on the sole fact that it’s more expensive than previous generation but there was better generations that’s a convenient way to take away from the fact that this is the most successful generation that PlayStation’s ever had and they’ve also hit record MAUs and they also have incredibly high new user acquisition every quarter people are buying PlayStation fives that have never had a PlayStation before but you’re going to attribute all of the success that because they didn’t do a halfway through the gen price drop that’s a dizzying display of logic like K okay i don’t like in every bracket in every bracket they’re they’re doing well and winning and we’re still going to find some way to be like yeah but it’s only because they haven’t lowered the price and therefore it’s you know falsely inflating the revenue results and there are actually better generations okay all right 2 plus 2 equals 5 man whatever makes you sleep better at night they’re silly for buying a PS5 could just cloud stream games huh who are you who Who are you talking about who is silly for buying a PS5 and could just cloud stream what are you talking about [Music] come on Reforge Gaming previous generation we got better games don’t let me call this streamer this YouTuber there’s so many ways I could respond to this but like I just don’t care i don’t I I don’t care i don’t care that some some other content creator thinks that there was a better generation okay so I think we’re in one of the best times ever to be playing games you don’t have to agree with me i I don’t I don’t need your agreement i That’s what I think i think we’re in one of the best times to be a gamer i have played video games since the Kico and I genuinely feel that I have played some of the best games of my life this gen i’ve played Returnal i’ve played Tsushima Forbidden West God of War i’m currently loving Expedition 33 i I don’t know where this weird insistence on misery and looking back comes from you want to know what it is i’ll tell you what it is i’ll say the quiet part out loud a lot of these people have smoked themselves stupid with hate and anger and they don’t play games anymore they’ve lost the ability to enjoy games so they create this mirage of like it was all better back then and everything sucks now no you suck now you don’t like to game anymore and you disrupt the conversation for the rest of us that are having a perfectly fine time it would be great if you all would just go somewhere else and find a new hobby cuz gaming is not your hobby anymore your hobby is belly aching about gaming your hobby is attacking others who like gaming or who like a particular platform your hobby is not gaming anymore that’s the facts we’re all We’re all genuinely tired of you like the people that are playing games and enjoying games we don’t we don’t like you we don’t hang out with you we don’t come to your communities we don’t talk about your content we don’t watch your content we’re just doing our thing so you want to come in here and and say your say your jabs and say your your snide remarks and say “Well oh I’m going to tell this YouTuber on you.” I don’t freaking care you You You could do an expose on me a documentary on me do 18 more videos on me i don’t care i’m not watching your content i don’t consume it i I I think it’s I think it’s trash i’m just playing games and having a good time and I’m talking to people who are having a good time and if I’m critical of Xbox or I’m critical of something everybody gets their their uh their underwear all bunched up and twisted up and they get really upset and angry like he’s bashing Xbox and it’s like all I’m doing is pointing out the facts that they’re misleading people with their marketing again and the device is a the device is a non-starter you want to contort your body into some sort of a reach to make this device a win go for it you want to contort your body and and not just report on the facts that that PlayStation is doing an incredibly good job this gen and me saying that makes me probably uh I don’t know a shill and a corporate bootlicker oo they’re really reaching for the big insults you know like go ahead like nobody cares that is actually concerned about facts and reality you live in a mirage you live in a diluted state of thinking that like gaming sucks these corporations suck everything’s terrible and you just keep eating from a trough of of [ __ ] and then you want to come in here and say stuff to us about it just go away we don’t care what you think we don’t we’re going to play altars we’re going to play the beta today of Gears you know my wife’s going to play Mind’s Eye tonight like I just keep eating the slop and wondering why your stomach hurts like I you know I What do you want me to say to you the the insistence and the persistence of this negativity in this in this weird I don’t I I don’t know i I just you I just go away you’re unwanted so you know leave thank you for the single gifted stone spire i told you I felt a disturbance in the forest a while ago we He’s baiting a 10 bomb 675 is the next milestone and whoever hits it gets it a 10 bomb from YouTube or Twitch takes it steals it and I owe you five i owe 10 currently to YouTube that I have not paid i feel like people are having a gaming midlife crisis i don’t know the cause i don’t know all I know is I genuinely think so much of those those those people the people that are like they act like everything sucks all AAA game sucks they’re on this big like anti-woke war or they’re just constantly doing the grift and the rage farming and the salt farming and you know they’ll put people like me and stuff in their content i literally think they have smoked themselves stupid on on on hate they’ve made themselves dumb it’s like they they’ve blunted their brain they can’t enjoy games anymore that’s what I think it is like they’ve literally gone down so deep into the trenches of hate and misery and being unkind they can’t experience joy anymore they can’t experience mirth they’ve they’re like inoculated to enjoyment because they’re just always steeped in hate they’re not having a good time in anything that they do so that’s that that’s why they’ll say gaming was so much better back then you want to know why gaming was so much better back then because you weren’t spending every single day being hateful you were playing video games you had more of a childlike enjoyment of things now you’re just the shell of men you know spewing boyish nonsense insults and and hate and and you spend so much time in those trenches you can’t see your way out you can’t you you you you can’t you you are now inoculated to mirth and to joy and to having fun and you see other people having it and it makes you mad it was that that Nintendo tweet where the guy said they cooked and it got millions of views and it trended it literally trended because people are doing the stop having fun meme why they’re they’re just that’s what they’re doing they’re so steeped in drinking from the from the well of hate and negativity that they literally can’t experience joy anymore i think even if you think you are right with Sony’s PS5 exclusives there are so many great third party games that’s it literally don’t matter right exactly like even if you think like PlayStation’s been disappointing this gen there still have been so many good third party games like what are you doing what are you playing did you play Split Fiction with a friend did you play Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 did you play Blueprints have you played Expedition 33 what are you doing how How do you How can you think gaming is so bad i’ve got a backlog I’m never going to get to i’m never going to complete it hilly says “I suspect over half just love saying crap they likely make a video bashing this or that and then 10 minutes later they’re likely laughing and playing the thing that they bash.” No Hilly because they get their gamer cards pulled all of the time and they don’t play games they don’t it’s why they say the games back then were better i’m I’m dead serious i’ve got these guys dead to rights i do it’s why I get attacked the way that I do because a hit dog barks they don’t like what I’m saying because they know it’s accurate you liked games back then because you were a better person back then you did you You were You were a better person you probably laughed more like and I mean real laughter not the fake force laughter crap that these guys do i mean you belly laughed back then slapped your knee laughed you experienced mirth back then you were a better person you were a kinder person back then and you could experience mirth and happiness and now oh not now now you’re just cruel and angry and miserable and you can’t experience those things anymore so what do you do well it’s the game’s fault the gaming sucks now gaming’s terrible everything’s a corporate this and a and a cash grab that you’ve devolved i mean that’s really what it is a lot of these guys have just devolved they’ve regressed right you see children regress they go back to like their old ways all these people have just regressed and devolved into just just very very everything’s a binary everything is good or bad or or or everything is an us versus them everything’s so polarized so yeah you know and and you earned it i I don’t want you here i’m going to ban you i’m going to ban you because you don’t belong here you belong with them you do you belong with the miserable hating cruel angry people you don’t belong here you’re not welcome here and I hope you feel it i hope you feel it and it’s enough of a pin prick to maybe make you self-reflect and and behave differently and change your life and be better person and then one day maybe you’ll come back in here and you’ll you’ll be able to get along with me and everybody else here and have a good time and join the community but now no yeah you probably already did i got keys for co-streaming future game show on PC game show what did I get fresh Tracks and Ness’s i don’t remember i think Fresh Tracks is the skiing rogue uh I also got codes for that waifu for tactical force or whatever it’s called wtf skiing rogue are you cheating on Lonely Mountain again you know what’s crazy is Lonely Mountain is better by yourself because you get checkpoints it’s harder with another person it’s aptly named Lonely Mountain because you just play by yourself and you’re going to have a better time it’s so stupid i don’t know why you can’t get checkpoints when you play with another person that was misery for me and Hilly anyway you guys have 10 minutes before we go to game play this is this is kind of your last warning once we go to game play the gifted slow down i mean unless the crazy unless the crazy big dogs start dropping bombs during gameplay which they’ve done before but I wouldn’t count on it if you guys are going to scramble for these stretch goals you’re going to have to hurry uh and Stone Spire set up an easy one a 10 to 675 now listen you’ve unlocked Friday night so we’re streaming tonight madam has to play Mind’s Eye uh and then the stretch goals right now are seven and 800 for the music i wrote two songs this week and they are they’re pretty scathing and I really like them and I hopefully we get to share them tonight hopefully we can hit those if not if not I’ll save them for next week that’s totally fine i can save them for next week top five indie guy indie games I need to download on my PS5 um I really liked Tales of Iron 1 and two um Hollow Knight um Expedition 33 I guess we would classify as indie uh blueprints um off the top of my head those are all really good i think those are all really good is there a particular type of game you’re looking for like indie kind of is a is a pretty broad category and those are all very very different games can we make the stretch goal a literal stretch goal you hit the goal and then you do yoga i don’t know about that anybody got recommendations for hidden gems on PS+ extra they just added some stuff that I thought was good didn’t they i went and looked and I was like “Oh those are those are good games.” Um yo Soul Train thank you so much for gifting a me a membership over here on on Twitch and now it’s sitting at 666 we got to get that off of there boys um didn’t they just add something uh what’s new here we go yeah Sandland is on there i thought people really like that didn’t people like Sandland um Sandland has a 4.1 so it’s got an 82% from the users on on uh on PlayStation that’s pretty good uh NBA 2K 25 space Marine 2 seems like it’s in there for a game trial i don’t know if the full game is in there it might just be a game trial that’s just for premium though right battle engine um thank you Cat Uncle and Raphael holy mackerel they’re like “Get that off the screen boys.” And there we go that’s going to be 668 thank you boys thank you thank you thank you and the battle the battle is 44 to 20 deep Rock Galactic Survivor is currently on sale for the next six days on Steam it’s like eight bucks it looks like can’t wait to see more of Soros oh same same same oh man I’m pumped uh all games A to Z um and then sort by latest releases here you go so Mist and Riven are classics blueprints is on here are definitely worth checking out the Armor Core Games Toy Story Games Apes Escape Academy uh D I thought there was something recently though i I’m not seeing it i I’m going to see it like that’s what I was thinking of and I haven’t seen it yet um I thought it was a newer release it must not have been i Oh no no yeah jedi Survivor yes i knew I’d remind myself jedi survivor i’m Christian that six summer bothers the hell of me thank you you’re good you’re good raphael McCoy cat uncle took care of us all right um make sure the console cap card is yeah it’s working survivor is not a hidden gem i guess I wouldn’t classify it as a hidden gem they just might not know that it’s there Mr johnson like surv hidden gem could mean a couple of things right like they might not just know that it’s there also a lot of people skipped out on Survivor cuz at launch it was in super rough shape it’s in much better shape now well worth playing i loved it great story great combat excellent game uh super super bummed uh that it ended up being you know that it launched the way that it did um why is this ad in my feed so I go from seeing Borderlands to seeing Brooklyn Decker and just go with it from 2011 i mean great but why is that being advertised the ads on Twitter make no sense anymore the skit I upload tonight it’ll be on Sunday will cancel me ke’s going to have a skit Sunday i thought I was going to sneeze again wait wait yeah I am sorry um okay let me get ready here okay so we’re all set i’m not getting sound uh properties is it this one no is it this one there we go okay let’s make sure we’re getting Yeah we’re getting synced sound that’s good i’m gonna have to pull up Twitch over here so I can switch directories i’m on the PS5 Pro that’s where I primarily game now okay that artwork on the game screen huh someone clip him clip me he said he’s a Sony pony oh okay the economy standard so you can lower um graphics no we do not want fidelity we do not want motion blur okay so if you have trouble with this the economy waiting standard i thought you could lower that i thought they said that you could lower that maybe once you’re in the game you can lower it to easy they said in the review uh guide if you start having trouble with that like you can always um invert camera rotation huh that’s not how you describe doing invert exploration map exploration camera no where’s the Where’s the way you control the guy i’ll have to get in the game and see what this means that doesn’t make any sense to me uh streaming disable copyrighted content on okay rotate camera that sounds like it’s going to be fixed camera and I can rotate instead of like up and I won’t be able to pivot it up and down that’s what it sounds like to me like I’ll be able to rotate the camera around him maybe we’ll see that’s a weird way to phrase the the camera controls it’s like a survival game where you clone yourself to survive like you get other people to help you but it’s other versions of you basically so okay I’m gonna need a quick break before we get into this i’ll be right back don’t go anywhere [Music] okay all right so if I miss anything subs or anything like that just let me know uh I’m going to switch directories on uh on Twitch we will need to send a tweet and then I owe you guys some members i’ll do those uh I’m going to do those now cuz it’s kind of distracting at the beginning um only PlayStation gets physical discs of upcoming Xbox releases what What games is that true for uh I owe you guys 10 on YouTube actually you know what I’m going to do i’m going to do it on the altars one it’ll notify people about that stream maybe bring more folks in there we go gears of War reloaded is in like a couple hours okay gears is getting discs and Xbox isn’t oh my gosh recently announced Xbox Games are only offering disc and physical edition for PS5 per retailer listings ps5 versions have discs included in the box while Xbox versions have the same games are only including a digital code oh golly that’s probably more related to the fact that a lot of the uh a lot of them are on series S’s anyway you know if the majority of your Xbox audience doesn’t even need the dad gum disc why make them why spend the money okay here we go thanks so much for checking out this video this is going to be me diving in brand new to the altars on my PS5 Pro so this will be the altars gameplay on the PS5 Pro i did receive a code so thank you to the devs for sending that this was one I was already looking forward to really reminds me of the movie Moon they do recommend you make a scientist first the review a guide said that it also said you can turn down the economy difficulty i’m actually not seeing that in the settings i can just change it from standard to hard so maybe people were turning it up or something or maybe once you’re playing you can turn it down but they did say you can turn that down i’m going to end the previous stream and bring people over with redirect which I forgot to set up give me two seconds to set that up and I’m going to go click ahead and click new story and so here you can see the action elements can be set to easy but the economy is only marked as being standard or uh challenging uh and hang on let me also give you guys on YouTube a link in chat so that it’s easier for you guys to come over uh there’s the link and then I’ll end the stream uh and redirect folks over okay