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The second best baby blues in San Francisco, the married one, Tim Gettys. What's him host? Hey, doing Tim? I've been better Greg. Rough night. Rough night. I'm right there with you. Rough, rough every day. We got through last night, of course. I don't need to mention it. I don't need to talk about it. But Jen and I got through the second hour of the Batman.
I like this show. I like this movie a lot more based on the Penguin now. This is big. I want you to know. But again, just three hours. It's fucking Titanic. I mean, I'm waiting here. It's like we got to one, we got 45 minutes the first night.
Then we got through this night here. You know what I mean? I waited until after the finale to then watch. See, I know I want of time. Yeah. It was a finale Sunday. And then we're doing Penguin in Review on Monday. I wanted all of this in there. I wanted to be able to have this conversation in there as well.
Yeah. Yeah. I'm excited to check it out. If you liked the Batman more after watching most of the show, I haven't started the Penguin at all yet. So really. Yeah. It's one of those things where Alyssa, like I know it's going to be too intense of a show for her to watch. And so like my time where she is either not awake or around is limited.
So it's been tough, but I'm going to try to find some time soon, especially with the interview coming up next week. So I'm excited to like watch that. And then maybe go back to the Batman and appreciate it more. So I guarantee it's going to happen. I mean, I've just been seeing clips of the Batman going around. I just watching my man. I appreciate a lot more too. Yeah. It's weird. I get it. I guess being ingratiated and that's that Gotham for so long now and understanding it better and understanding.
Yeah, understanding the penguin character more. So when he pops up, I'm like, oh man, I was what are you up to? Oh shit. I know who that guy is doing this. It's cool, man. It's cool. Pain was good. Pain was so good. Yeah. Oh, man. A lot of good stuff. So about today. A lot of good stuff. A lot of bad stuff. But you know, this game's daily. What else happened last night? What else?
Of course, of course, of course, of course, of course. Rough night, man. It was a very, very not fun. I'm sure for a lot of people to deal with the constant stress that we've been in forever at this point. It feels like, but I was just reflecting on 2012. When me and one of my friends went to Berkeley for a Lindsay Sterling concert, the violinist and can't wait to see what the story is going.
Before the concert, it was election night and it really felt like I remember having a conversation with my friend and she was just like, it can't get worse than this. Like I can't believe that it's not such an obvious runaway that it's Obama winning this. Like how are we here? And like, I just didn't shower day thing and like, God, I would give anything to be there. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Because I remember how it felt then and it felt so different than it does now. But here we are. Yeah. Here we are. We can only do what's right, Greg. We can only continue to do what's right. That's my plan.
100% yeah. You know, and I, you know, I quoted tweeted Devon Sauer this morning because last night I saw Devon tweet this and I was like, oh, you know what? That's perfect. And but I'll come up with my own words for it. I just couldn't it by the end of it. So I quoted the thing of like, congratulations to the Republican Party. Prove us wrong.
Prove us wrong. All the people said that this was going to be really, really, really, really, really, really bad. I hope that I'm proven, I hope that I'm proven wrong on this one. You know what I mean?
Because we are Americans and now it's Trump as president elect once again. So proof is wrong. He is the president of the United States. We live in the United States. So it's one of those. I'm not cheering against him. I'm not hoping he fucks everything up. I'm hoping that I was wrong. I want to be wrong. I want to eat crow. I this is my
Greg way today too. So I don't need to spend. But like I hope I'm wrong. And congratulations Republican Party and proof is wrong. But for now I saw a tweet that was like this just reminds me of having to do group projects in school. It's just like why the fuck is my grade dependent on what they do? And man, who can relate? What are the best moments of all time? You know what I mean? Yeah, there's a lot. I mean, I don't know how much you want to wait.
I mean, stop. The thing we go into of course is like, you know, if Trump wants to send power to the states that works out well in our favor because I like California a lot and selfishly. Yeah, what?
I mean, with all due respect, like is it selfish anymore? I don't know. Cause every if you're like, yeah, it is. It is. Paris lost the popular vote. These other states are doing their thing. Missouri is voting to trying to portion to do all this stuff while also electing Josh Harley who hates all that stuff. I'm like, I don't.
You're kind of these states you're kind of putting yourself in your own situations now. I don't know. I don't know anymore. I don't know. But I also don't trust Trump not to fuck everything up for the states rights as well.
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For some. Five times on the Roper report. Fucking Christ up, Bakers does it. You hanging in there, bear. We saw the thing go. No, okay. It's fucking Wednesday. Wednesday, my dudes. Roper report begins with number one, the PlayStation five pro review roundup. As you can see, we have a PlayStation five pro. We have two PlayStation five pros. Timothy has been playing his extensively. And I want his thoughts. But before then, we will of course ask the Super Chat a question.
Are you in or out on the PlayStation five pro? I need your answers. Yes, no, and why show your work. The why. This is algebra class. Show your work in your Super Chat. So you can be part of the conversation. We'll turn our eyes to Michael Hyme at IGN.com, which always makes me smile. I know. I know. I'm IGN.com who gave the PlayStation five pro a seven out of 10.
Considering that the PlayStation five generation has largely been described as what if the PS4 was faster. It's a little difficult to get all that excited about a console that promises to be a faster PS5. The PS5 pro delivers on that for sure. And if you find the standard PS5 leaving more to be desired from a technical perspective, it's an intriguing prospect.
Running pro enhanced games in the new performance modes gives you essentially the old fidelity modes now targeting 60 frames per second. Sometimes with extra improvements. Sony's AI powered, pisser, PSSR, upscaling tech is certainly impressive when playing games that have been updated for it. Giving console players the same type of image quality and frame rate improvements that Nvidia's DLSS has delivered on the PC side in recent years.
You're not entirely free from compromises because you still have to choose between that new standard and even better looking fidelity modes at 30 frames per second. Though I found going with performance performance and easier choice at $700. It's not cheap. So you have to really desire that visual upgrade knowing that it doesn't transform the gameplay experience at a fundamental level.
And to be fair, Sony never said it would. So as it stands, the PlayStation 5 Pro isn't essential, but it is certainly nice to have. Then another friend of the show tomorrow saying over a game spot wrote powerful on paper, ordinary in action. What marks Sony and the engineers at Sony proposed to do in the PS5 Pro? I always want to say PlayStation 5, but I know they've already introduced it in the article at that point.
So I don't need to. But it's it gets in me. I'm a PS5 guy. Yeah, but I mean the first saying should playstation 5 Pro reveal has been achieved to a degree. The gap between how a fidelity mode looks and the way a performance mode plays and feels. Let me try all this again. The gap between how a fidelity mode looks and the way a performance mode plays and feels is smaller.
Having a technology like pisser and a machine learning chip in consoles is also impressive. But for now, all of this is only exciting on paper. It's not enough to recommend over the alternative cheaper options. And ultimately, there is still a choice to be made between better visuals and performance just with a less noticeable tradeoff.
I hope that one day the PS5 Pro really shows off what it can do to elevate games. But for now, this is the console you should get only if you've got cash to spare. And just want to know and just want to know you have the latest version of the console for everyone else, a standard PS5 will do just fine. Timothy Robert get ease. You are the tech tower of kind of funny. You are the one who cares the most. Who me and Indian and Roger. No, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, different ways.
No, because we have they have a home theater and he has the PC, right? And he's the PC enthusiast. I would say, Roger's the tinker. All right. Roger likes to get in there. Roger wants the best deal you can possibly get. He's in it for the love of the game, right? Yeah. And then there's me. I am definitely the home theater side of it all. And that does include a PC setup with all that and integrating it together, which is the nightmare and a half.
But again, it kind of goes back to if you love this stuff, you're in it for the troubleshooting, which just means you're a sick person. And I'm very, very, very sick. You are. So I am the perfect audience for the PlayStation 5 pro and you know talking to Tam about this as well. I feel like in some ways he is, he owns all the consoles, like he cares about this stuff.
And he cares about the games specifically that he likes. He knows how they feel. So playing them on an upgraded system. He can actually tell the difference. I feel like that's the biggest thing to talk about is like it's easy to look at it. It looks exactly the same. But when you know how a game feels and know how game looks, you can tell the differences. And to Tam, he was saying, it's not really worth it. And I kind of.
And split on this because I feel like to put a number score on this thing, I think is very silly at this point. I think putting numbers on consoles in general is a little bit weird because what exactly are you reviewing with it. And I could we always find different things to put on it and like what score we'd give and a lot of ways I'd be like, all right, fine, I give it a 10 PS5 is awesome to me. It works.
How I need it to and games run very well. Yeah, I'm like, cool, I'm happy. You know, I don't love how it looks. I feel like the pro, I don't like the event thing. I feel like this is my favorite iteration of the PS5 thus far, but still don't like it. Sure.
But whatever. Getting in the weeds of the way that stuff. But I'm just talking about like reviewing, putting a score in it. I do think it's way easier to talk about who is this forward, who is this not for because I do think all of that exists. I think it very much is for people that have a nice TV that do not have a PlayStation 5. If it's your first time buying a PlayStation 5 and you have a nice TV, I would recommend getting a PlayStation 5 pro.
If anything as an investment for the games to come this is only going to be more and more worth it over time. Of course, I will say at this point doesn't really see more of it because there is no flagship title that's coming out alongside it to show off how special this is. But when you look back at the experiences you had, and I can say this from my experience, you can listen to any review that we've done of a PlayStation 5 exclusive game.
I always hate how I am torn between the cinematic fidelity mode or the performance mode. And there's always some concessions made. There's always some issues to be fair review process. I don't think this is ever really going to change like oftentimes we don't get full access to every mode we want. And if we do this weird issues here or there, whatever. But I am the type of person that switches back and forth between the modes to see the difference.
And I at this point very much value 60 frames per second 30 frames per second is is is is very is rough. But seeing the differences in the ray tracing and seeing the differences in just the overall resolution and quality of the cinematic and fidelity modes. It's a heart breaker. I really like I want the best of both worlds and I feel like in Somniac's done a good job of either at release or soon after putting out that kind of in the middle mode.
Yeah, that thumbs things down, but you're still getting the 60 and you're you're still getting some of the fancy features. And I do think some ray tracing goes a long way to enhance. But the PS5 Pro does is just kind of gets rid of that and for those specific games. There's a mode now that you just would have should immediately get the best of both worlds. Yeah, there's also modes that are just even fancier fidelity and stuff.
But I think it's clear and ever fidelity pro. This is not that's not the way to go. That is them being experimental. That is them pushing things. They're just like look how fancy this can look. You know, I mean, that's fun with it. But clearly you should go with this one mode that is like recommended for most people and in the majority of games that I played with actual PS5 pro patches out so far, which is very limited by the way for a review process.
Most of them literally say this is recommended for most people with the PlayStation 5 Pro so they know and I like that because I feel like it's the first time that it does feel like although there's choices. This is the one. This is the one. And while it's not exciting for games that we played already that we're not necessarily going to I don't think that's the next game.
That's that's to me. I'm like, yeah, I know the problems I had with Miles Morales and Spider-Man 2 and Ratchet and Clank and other insomniac games. But I now know I'm not going to have that problem. Yeah, next time. And to me, I'm like, cool. If you're investing in the PS5 for the first time, I do think it's worth making this jump.
Well, yeah, because I think at that point we're talking about the conversation of the PlayStation 4 pro, which when PlayStation 4 pro launched, it was when I was happy with my PlayStation 4, but when PlayStation 4 died, it was well, I'm going to get a PlayStation 4 pro.
Yeah, so yeah, you're entering the space. Why and you have the income to pony up for it? Why not set up to have the best. And especially for me to jump in right as somebody who didn't go to the event like you did, you know, you were Cinderella going to the ball. I had to stay here and mop the floors or whatever. That's actually not how Cinderella works, but you understand.
I, you know, sitting down and booting up stuff on this, I was not shocked because I obviously the whole point is to look better, but boot jump playing rebirth yesterday on the giant TV out there in whatever the PS5 pro mode.
I was like, Goddamn, this does look way better. Yeah. And, you know, so then moving on to PS5 owners, should they upgrade? I feel like I can't recommend that necessary. And 100% to jump in of like I saw both as like, damn, that looks good. And I'm excited to see. You know, I want to work on my dragon each platinum eventually and see what that update happens. How this looks on there, but it's not enough where I want to run off and buy it or even bring it home.
Like I like it, you know what I mean? Like Spider-Man looks great and Final Fantasy looks great and playing Dragon Age on Nvidia on the sponsor streams. We did. Oh, man, that looks great, but it looks fine. And I like my PlayStation 5 at home. And I don't want to I'm not going to rock the boat, let alone right now as a father.
I feel like I need to sell out 700 dollars for a system. I don't need. Yeah, totally. It's again, there's a lot of complications to it. I think most due to timing that I if there were bigger releases that were taken advantage of it. First party or even third party. I feel like the third party releases coming out now that we don't even know if they're supporting it or not or Dragon Age just coming out. I think it's a great example of it does not have a PSI pro patch. Correct.
I mean, one of the ones they said was going to be going to, but I mean, like, I don't think it's out or I don't think it's even like I don't think we even have a date on it or anything. Do we? I don't remember that. That would go a long way even of like cool. I do believe that it is just around the corner that this conversation is going to be no void.
Because I imagine that by January any game coming out on PlayStation of consequence is going to have a PS5 pro hands mode. And then say, all right, cool. That makes sense. But even then I do not think that anything you see is going to convince you, oh, I already have this thing and it's worth 700 dollars. Sure. Sure. Sure. Sure. At this time, I think that that could change when ghost comes out, but it's probably not. I still think that it's a very steep upgrade for what you're getting.
Unless you're tech minded and unless you've had the experience I've had of being frustrated having to make the choice, then it is worth it is totally worth it because you're going to play the new games and not have to worry about that at all. And Final Fantasy 7 rebirth is I think the best example so far of the potential of that game was amazing clearly one of my game in the years.
Yeah, but it had a lot of issues with performance mode, fidelity mode, the differences like it, the drop in quality when you went to performance mode was high. And this brings that back and makes that not a problem at all. And now just makes the game even better because now the game's beautiful and runs well. So if we're just going to get that going forward, great mission success, right.
But also I feel like people that expect this thing to just make all the current games better. It's just not going to work that way. Chat, I can't find if they've ever confirmed when the PS5 pro patch is coming for a dragon age of a guard. If somebody could keep on that for me and then you could put me into kind of funny.com slash you're wrong. Let me great show your work. Give me a link so I understand, but I'd like to know.
I was hoping that was like an imminent right because this is out tomorrow the PlayStation 5 pro. Yeah, for some reason I was under the impression that it wasn't going to be in this first round of upgrades, but I can be wrong. And again, for the review process, we there were certain games we got patches for like the Final Fantasy 7 when they told us wasn't going to be out, but then it actually coming out a little early.
So I spent a lot of last night playing it, but also a lot of my thoughts of the PS5 pro are based on the event I went to where I got to see the actual side by side of these things. Were you not a presser that in your. No, I was sure you press like the games that we are able to play here. It's like cool Spider-Man. It's hard to sell people on Spider-Man looks better. It's like, oh, this doesn't matter.
It's like, well, yeah, just looking at it for five seconds doesn't matter. But when you're playing it for hours and there is more cars. There is more reflections. There is just sure it's all the little things that add up everything sharper. I think the thing for me is if you have access to a PS5 pro at all booted up boot up Final Fantasy 7 revert turn on the versatility mode and look in the distance and read a sign.
Any sign you can actually read you can see it you can see it and you can read what it says it is sharp. Go to any other mode and found a 70 with it's just not the car. So it's like it's those little things of like, yeah, does that matter not really, but it also does. So you don't need it, but it is very nice to have it is definitively better.
I don't think that there's any question. It sure sure of course, but you're talking about it's more generally better right and then yeah, obviously quite a hefty price point on something you already have. Yeah, but the conversation about I mean, we are now closer to these console games being equivalent to high end not highest end of course, and I'm like, that's a great place to be when you have the control of a console and the output into day one titles of PlayStation.
Yeah, for gamers, I think there's an incredible value here for PlayStation gamers and I also think a big thing about the ecosystem is I've gotten really into remote play this year in various ways. I wasn't going to like just all of it, and yeah, yes what it's better with PS5 pro because if the world, and just the quality games better than you're getting rich, you're getting things on your own.
Yeah, so it's like the game looks better when you're playing because it is just another screen for you, but I like it's the little wins that add up and if that adds up to $700 for you, I think that makes sense, if it doesn't I totally understand, Well, I asked you, the super chat at the top of the show and tell me if it adds up for you. And we got a lot of people in here, all right. Chase Lay says, yes, I got to wait a couple weeks for the 30th anniversary edition though. Great idea, great call.
If you were lucky enough to get one of those, come on. That was a master's show by PlayStation, if you recall. They put out the thing, what's there any talking about this? Everybody's like, what the fuck, that's horrible, that's stupid. And then like, what, the week less than a week later, they're like, and here's the fan of anniversary edition and we're like, fuck, I gotta get that. Gotta get that. And very few did. I'm so upset it wasn't me.
Joey Radstone, super chats and says, I'm out to save money for Switch 2 plus launch games. And that is always part of the gamer arithmetic. When can you get in and do this? And I think what you say makes so much sense of not having a launch title, not having something that's like, oh, you gotta get it. And you do wonder if they're working with Rockstar and GTA VI will have something like that. Or whatever, the next big, I mean, obviously ghost of Yota. Yota, Yota, Yota, fuck.
Okay, Yota, Yota. Obviously that's gonna look markedly better and amazing on this. So you wonder what those, hey, you're about to jump in and spend 60 hours in a game, maybe more. This looks better, that's not it. When will that be? Cause that was one of the ones to keep cutting you off. Sorry, I know you're opening your app, trying to say something.
But it's that idea of like, I've had this one here and I haven't even bothered to bring it home because I want people to play it on the nicest TV out there. And I was reviewing Life is Strange. I'm working on all these other games that have no improvement. So it's like, even if I brought it home, I wouldn't be getting the experience I need out of it.
Yeah, I think that clearly like talking about like it not being aligned with a new game, I've been saying this as we were just talking about the rumors of PS5 Pro. Like, PlayStation just doesn't see this as them trying to get everyone to upgrade. They know what this product is. It's just an iterative solution that they're gonna see as the standard going forward. But it is not, they're not trying to position this as a must buy item.
Like I just think that this is getting something else out there into the market that over time will sell and will make sense for people. And I think it already makes sense for some people. And I feel like that is a very small group of people. I am one of them. But even then, like I'm saying, it's just like I, your time out Life is Strange. It's like, I'm also playing some games that don't take advantage of it and doesn't affect it at all.
And I don't know when the next game that is coming out that is going to, but that's a place to be. In the end of Jones, great. Circle Sprink. Honestly, like that real talk that probably is going to end up being the best way to play it on the console. Day. More super chats for you. Kabobs, of course, Pipe Chimes in and says, no. PS5 has 40 frames per second. PS6 will do all this stuff. So he's gonna wait for the next iteration of the PlayStation, which is a understandable. I apologize.
Then we got Shaggy Sasquatch someday, maybe after year, probably after I upgrade my, me, someday, maybe after year, I upgrade my TV. But who knows how bad money is going to be after the era last night? Oh, era is what you're talking about. I don't know whatever. Deer Slickslet became a member for 13 months and says, I'll likely be in for the pro in Kingdom Hearts 4 and Final Fantasy 7 are three come. But out. And I can afford around that time.
Maybe for Metal Gear Solid 3, if that is a tax return. That's a good next year. Me, baby. That's a great actually fucking call out to your sixlet. But otherwise, I'm not much of a fidelity person. Shit, fuck. Yeah, I did not think about that. I did not think about Metal Gear Solid. Oof, that's gonna be a looker. It is. And that's a perfect example of a game that you know would have a cinematic mode and a performance mode. And I want both.
It's one of those where again for me personally with this machine, get this New York trip, which is coming out of me on Saturday. See me, Kevin Smith, Jared Petty. Jason Mews. Once that's out and I'm back home, take this home and play Final Fantasy because I need to play Final Fantasy for a game of the year. And again, like yesterday, an hour of that game, I'm like, name, this looks really fucking good. It's a looker. It's really fucking good on this thing.
Yeah. Um, SapK says, should this, what the launch PS5 should have been, given the promises made on the launch version of the PlayStation 5, it skipped away there, but that was pretty much it. No, I don't think so. Again, I feel like we talk about this stuff so often on these shows, but the jump from PS4 to PS5 already, I think, is the type of in a different level of scale. Yeah, but it is similar to the PS5 to PS5 Pro of just like, yeah, you could play God of War, Ragnarok on your PS4.
Easy, Garden 916 says, I caved prices ridiculous and I am the problem. Now I can play a shot of the Erd Tree in 60 frames a second. Can't afford a house anyway. Duck, duck, duck, duck, duck. CJ Splitson has a question. Do you think Death Stranding 2 will use Pissar? Because Gorilla is using their own solution that seems better for their engine. I mean, I asked it. Well, that's the thing is I feel like they might just use their own thing for their end.
I don't know what did they do for Verizon for what they did for the PS5 Pro updates. It's up to the developers. And I think that that is a good thing at the end of the day that they get to actually use the tools how they want to and talk into one of the lead tech designers at Insomniac. He was saying, yeah, we're including this experimental.
And the word experimental is even in the description of it for the cinematic pro-motor, fidelity pro-motor, whatever it is, the newest fanciest 30 frames per second mode for Spider-Man. Knowing that is not going to be how people necessarily should play the game, but it has all the them pushing the tech forward. I'm trying different things that they haven't been able to do before using whether it's Pissar or the other toggles available to them.
So I think that that's cool that there's some fun being had there. But I also just think it's good that they're able to make the choices based on their own game, even looking at what Rebirth did by making the versatility mode as well as there's other modes as well that I look at it, I don't know understand why anyone would want the smooth mode, sharp mode, whatever. It's like the versatility is where it's at.
But yeah, I think that it's good, but we had so many conversations leading into the PS4 Pro of, is this going to leave other people behind? Is it going to cause problems for the devs? Do you remember that? Yeah, of course, of course. How much of a discourse that was. And we just add a point that I feel like those conversations still happen. They happen a lot with Xbox Series X and S and so many different similar things, right? But I feel we're at a place where this is just standard.
The even consoles are more similar to PCs than they've ever been of games need to be able to work at this level low or this level high. This is just another level higher. And in fact, I almost feel like this isn't so much another level higher. This is just actually able to do all the things at once of the previous highs. OK, fair enough. I want to give you three more pieces of feedback and super chats on this question, all right?
Trevor says, personally, no, I won't be getting a PS5 Pro, but that's only because I mainly play Xbox, also because Switch 2 probably next year. And I'm already happy with my PlayStation 5's performance. It's similar boat to me where I'm happy enough with PS5, where I don't feel like I'm missing on anything. Popping out on the chat says, Tim is that one kid with all the cool toys, LMAO? I have really in my life prioritized the cool toys.
Yeah, I prioritized the hope theater, the tech and all that stuff. And I do think there's a lot of people like me that they wake up and they get excited that phone upgrades are happening and that there might be a new controller and then TV tech. And I watch YouTube videos breaking down LG's OLED panels from this year versus that year and the differences and all that stuff. Like there's just an investment that I have in that.
And I'm just like, it is for the people like me that like, yeah, when you have the nice toys, the more nice toys you have, it just makes the whole experience better when they are all actually working together. There's many examples of that not being the case. You can have all the nicest things and they don't talk to each other the right way. Ecosystems get all messed up. There's tons of examples. That's crazy.
But I think the PS5 Pro is a perfect example of a console that fits right at home with an LG OLED and with a home theater receiver and just like all the being able to have variable refresh rates and using the HDMI 2.1 and all of the logos on the box will be at most and all this stuff. It's like, yeah, if you care about that stuff, this is literally for you. $700 is a lot, but it's not a lot when you compare it to other things in that realm.
So again, I think it's a niche product for now, but I think it will become a mainstream product very soon. Well, there you go, everybody. Thank you, Timothy, for your in-depth analysis of the PlayStation 5 Pro and thank you for your service. I've been the kid with the cool toys. For now, I'll remind you that we're a bunch of cool kids who need your support because we're an 11 person small business. If you love what we do here, it would mean a lot.
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Like my mom saying, the Nintendo. Dragon Age, the Vailguard's patch should be tomorrow. There isn't one that's spanked to tomorrow. Well, that actually worked that way. Maybe that's why I'm fucking it up. But it's like, you don't have a headline of it, right? But it's like, there's a patch coming this week confirmed by BioWare and then it's the tweet about it. But the tweet that I see doesn't say anything about the pro. But then it's like, there's the one talking about the pro enhancements.
It looks like tomorrow. And then the PlayStation blog does have PS5 pro, 50 plus enhanced games available for a launch November 7th and it has it listed there. Good. Yeah, that's awesome. Again, this goes back to what I'm saying. I believe in this hardware and I believe in their support of this because they proven it's me already with the PS4 pro. And I think we're just even in a better spot now. This is going to be the definitive console way to play games for the foreseeable future.
Number two on the Roper report Nintendo switch to will officially be backward compatible with original switch games. We're going to read Adam bankhurst at IGN's report. But super chats, I need to know how much does this move the needle for you? Is this a big deal that you care about your library coming over with you? Let us know. Back to Adam makers.
Nintendo has confirmed that the yet to be announced switch to will be backward compatible with the original switch games and feature Nintendo switch online. Nintendo president shared the news during the company's corporate management policy briefing revealing a bit about the successor to 2017's Nintendo switch with Nintendo road on Twitter. This is for Rukawa.
That's today's corporate management policy briefing we announced that Nintendo switch software will also be playable on the successor to Nintendo switch. Nintendo switch online will be available on successor to Nintendo switch as well. Further information about the successor to Nintendo switch including its compatibility with Nintendo switch will be announced at a later date end quote.
I love when they speak so funny about the successor to the corporate corporate speak untitled sequel to breath of the wild. They're on title breath of the wild sequel. I just love that stuff. It's so funny to look back on. This is amazing news. I mean, I've talked about this a lot on games daily specifically. And the amount of times we were like Tim, we're in Nintendo decisions. It's not going to be backwards compatible.
I'm like, y'all need to look at what Nintendo has been doing this generation. There was no way that it wasn't going to be backwards compatible with this. And there was no way that they weren't going to continue the NSO moving forward into this. So this is great news. Like this, this is what they, these are the right moves. This is what Nintendo needs to do. They need to continue the success that they had with the switch. Major success. The big success we've ever seen.
But what I love about it is looking at NSO and looking at the value of NSO of how it's built over the years where you look at it and you're just like, there's let me buy the games and all that stuff and I get there's still a lot of validity to some of those complaints. But now you look at it in the majority of games are there on NES, SNES, N64, Genesis. Like the list goes on. There's still some emissions, Barrett. I'm still thinking about you. Okay, one day we're going to get dunked up.
There's nothing. You double, don't, no, my Tuesday. But we're so close. Like all jokes aside, it's like we have quite the library available. Sure. Nintendo Switch Online, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance. Like again, still some emissions. Where are the Pokemon games? We also know where the Pokemon games are. That's, you know what I mean? That's when the Pokemon's anniversary is coming up. They'll do something at some point. But anyways, they clearly are trying to invest in making it a value.
Nintendo music being added. Yeah, that could be seen as a weird Nintendo decision. There are some parts about that that are. But there's also really awesome parts about that that do truly add value to Nintendo Switch Online. So them continuing that service to the next console is great because this is an Nintendo acting modern. And it's silly to say modern for something that was modern a generation ago for all the other guys. But that's how Nintendo rolls by design.
Like Nintendo defaulting to HD, not happening until the Wii U era, which then essentially take two with the Switch, right? That was them, a generation behind that wall. There's still majority of games four by three. You could play them 16 by nine. If you like use the right cables and all that shit. But like, that's why that's what it all did. Yeah, I do. I do, man, the composite component, crazy stuff.
But now the generation they're behind on is the online account ecosystem and digital game library. And we saw PlayStation be able to from the PS3 to PS4 to PS5. But really it was the PS4 that was able to from the jump have that going where your PSN account has always mattered. Xbox is the best example of this. Of course, you know, going all the way back. Yeah. But as a Nintendo fan, I'm incredibly happy that I believe in them for the first time that they're making the right decisions.
They're making the right decisions with my account. They're making the right weird decisions. They're still making weird decisions because they're Nintendo. Here's an alarm, but they're also not cutting their nose off despite that. To their core console stuff and to me knowing that my backlog of switch games that are my library of switch games that I would say greatest library of games a console's ever had. I have all of them right there still almost switched to what's this mean for re-releases.
What's this mean for patch updates for the switch to and all that stuff? I don't know. What's it mean for cartridges? I mean, looking at Nintendo's past. Come on, it's right. And she says, I hope this includes the physical carts. Looking at Nintendo's past, it's going to. That's what they do. Look at the Wii. Could play GameCube games. The Wii literally had GameCube controller ports. Nintendo does value that type of stuff and they don't want to shoot themselves in the foot.
When it comes to these type of choices, they know how many people buy physically. We know how many people buy physically. And we know that because when people are on the Nintendo side, that's not true. I know, but it's important to look at the NPD reports. When we look at the sales in a month of video games, and when Nintendo puts out a new game, how high on that list they are, and that doesn't include digital. That's just physical. That shows the dominance of physical market for Nintendo fans.
So it's got to include cartridges. I think it has to have the cartridges on there. I mean, even the Game Boy Advance was compatible with Game Boy Color games and Game Boy games. It looked silly, but it worked. I very much think that the cartridges are going to work on the Switch too. They have to. One of the things we gloss over there, the Nintendo Switch online, working. That's what I was just talking about. Yeah, but I know we're talking about backwards compatibility and all that.
I know you were just talking about it. For me personally, I think that's... For me personally, in the way I play Nintendo Switch, I think that's the coolest. I'm excited for Switch 2 games, but I love the fact that we don't have to go through and buy everything again. More world for the 19th time. Exactly. I know you're talking about this. I'm sorry. It doesn't work. It matters to me out of this. Yeah. I mean, all of it's great. Of course, I know this is all a way to consume it all.
This is how this should work. This is how it works on PlayStation and Xbox. We look at Nintendo and it's like, thank God, we're at a place that it's working now. There's a lot of other information that came out that I would like to talk about. I would be glad for you to talk about it. Bring up those... He does that. Do you want me to go through some of the Super Chats? Because people are talking about this. Yeah. Go for it.
Michael Graf's Super Chats and says, I am probably more likely to get a Switch 2 because it's compatible. I have a huge backlog. I think that's great. And I love the idea of, like, yeah, these games you maybe didn't touch or just had or whatever redeemed and didn't do anything. But it'd be good. It says, I don't have a Switch yet. PlayStation all day. But when I was about to get a Switch, they announced the Switch 2 unofficially.
So, I'm still waiting, but a more inclined to get a light until the 2 comes out. Well, okay. A couple things I want to break down there. One is definitely a way for the two. I think that the Switch 2 is going to be such a monumental leap for just quality of life things and the little things that matter to make the Switch 2 modern with where we're at. We'll talk about some tweets that I think are even more important there. But Switch 2, I think, is the one to wait for.
On the flip side of that, the Switch 1 is going to get a price drop sometime soon. I feel like Nintendo wants the Switch to be the highest selling console of all time. Nintendo in the past have always put some type of price cuts on their systems. I think that they're going to get the Switch 2, the Switch, especially if the Switch 2 could just play Switch 1 games, which we now know, like they're going to treat it the Switch light and the Switch OLED. That's entry points into that ecosystem.
Sure. So, yeah, I think there'll be significant price drops. And then the next thing, the Switch light is a fantastic system. I love it so much. Every time you let me touch that, I'm like, this is nice. It's really, really, really nice. It's so light and having the controllers actually like part of the hardware. So you don't get that weird, like, loose joy-con feel and all that stuff. It is just such a beautiful, nice little portable system. The only issue is it's not OLED.
And that's a huge issue for me. And there's a solution now, everybody. There's a solution. Taki Udon. He's out there making OLED screens for the Switch light. Oh my God. I have mine on the way. Oh my God. Allegedly. Here's Psycho. I love it. 10 minutes to install. They claim. I'll keep y'all waiting. No, I want to do it. I want to prove how easy it is. Okay, Goddamn, sorry. Yeah, but I'm really sorry about it. Final one to close this out. It's Toe for 9000 says in a Super Chat.
100% this is a great move on their part and makes my gaming library happy. Tim, back to you about some of the other stuff they talked about. Yeah, man. They put out a lot of good stuff here. Like, everything they're saying, I'm like, thank God. So here we have during their financial update call. They actually put together a pretty nice looking deck. They're definitely just like, it's just blocked the information just like that. All the other people need to do.
So it's nice to see this, but they have a slide here. Tom out strengthening relationships with software publishers. And everyone's here. It's like Smash Brothers Ultimate. Like you look at this and it's just a full page of logos of all of the different publishers and developers that they're trying to work with on the Switch 2. And seeing this warms my heart because I remember this slide for the Switch 1.
And I remember this slide for the Wii U. And it's just been more and more to the point here where you look at it and you're like, man, this is exciting. Like there, I think that there's going to be more belief and support from third parties on Nintendo that ever before. Just like, they know the numbers, man. They know the numbers. They know the numbers. They know the magic that's there.
And if the Switch 2 can be powerful enough to be in that conversation that we were talking about earlier of, if the PS5 pros the high end, if the Switch 2 can even be the low end or maybe even higher than the low end, just a little bit. Yeah. We're going to be in really good places for the third party games being here so that the Switch 2 could be people's soul console. I don't think the majority of people I think people listen to this show are always going to be a dual console household.
Fair enough. I can't believe looking at this thing that Gungho still has this vibrator as a logo. I don't think about Gungho often, but you know what I mean? Ever since they debuted that thing is like, that's really a fucking vibrator. That is. Why? Why are we still committed to that? I don't know. You look at that logo and it doesn't screen video games. It screams one of the pink, one of the stink. You know what I mean? Pibrator. My God. I'm just saying what I see. I'm just saying what I see.
All right. These are observations. I'm a journalist. Look again, looking at this is exciting to me because if you remember the Wii U era when they had this and it was like a fraction of the logos. And then they had the Wii U debut E3 and it's like, hey, you get Arkham City on. You get Lego City undercover. A lot of cities. A lot of cities. I love cities that the Wii U long. And it's like, okay, I guess this is. Zombie U. Zombie U, exactly. I feel like this, this to me is different.
This to me says, you combine this with everything Squares been saying the last year of like, hey, no more of this exclusivity. It's not working for us. We want to go multi-platform. Like, I love the idea that Final Fantasy 17 might come out on Switch 2 alongside the other system. Like, that's good. You know, any way to get it? Yeah. So, exciting stuff there. A couple of other slides too if you could bring those up. Because there's just a lot of good shit here.
The future outlook expanding the Nintendo IP. Go to the next one. Nintendo Switch software will also be playable on the screen. Strength and development resources. NintendoCube, one-up studio, Mario Club. Sorry, this is- Here's a list. Yeah. This one, thank you. Many serious titles are showing growth on Nintendo Switch. We talk about this a lot, but it is wild to see the actual numbers here. These numbers are comparisons to Wii U, which obviously- Wii U and 3DS though, so that is big.
But like, look at Kirby. Look at Metroid. Look at the freaking Xenoblade. Man, like- Show me Animal Crossing just for hell of it. The Switch is a powerhouse in terms of sales and being able to either revive franchises or get franchisees to a new level. And I think the Switch 2 is just going to continue to do that. Oh, yeah. So yeah, it's just exciting times. Are you especially Mr. Nintendo? You've been there for the bad times. You've been there for the boom times.
You want to see them do this back-to-back generationally, right? And I believe- I truly, truly believe there was- There's so many things that came out yesterday, but one other thing was titles announced for 2025. Like, we still have Metroid Prime 4. We have Pokemon Legends Z8. Those are two games of major consequence, right? For the Switch. Yeah. Those are key titles for the Switch 1. Tim, please. It's Pokemon Zaw. You're right, you're right. This is a Zabra.
And then, yeah, you know, filling out the rest of the year with things like Donkey Kong Country Returns. And then a plethora of JRPGs, which are sellers on these systems. Like, this is good. Nintendo, I think, is in a very, very, very healthy spot. Potentially the healthiest they've ever been. Tim, yes. I have two questions for you on this Nintendo stuff. You ready? Yes. Michael Graph gives you an easy one. Tim, what Joy-Cons or Grip are you currently using on your Switch these days?
The world has washed you, try every grip known to man. Don't get me started, man. It's just, anytime I fall in love with one, I fall out of love. Oh, no. There's always just some issue where it's like, oh, after extended play, the plastic kind of rubs me the wrong way. Or like, there's just always some issue, man. Yeah. I don't have any that I, like, 100% stand by at this point. It's a rough world out there. But the MomoCon, six S, I think it's called, the Joy-Cons.
Those I would say are the best overall in terms of getting like a actual quality controller experience with the Switch and Joy-Con mode. We have crashed again. Audio listeners, just, you know, Barrett has run out of the room. Yeah. But it's upsetting. I'm very excited for the Switch too. I hope that there are new Joy-Cons. I hope that they're good.
Yeah. Because I have found that at the end of the day, first party controller stuff, there's just a level of quality that they have that third parties don't. I forget where are we in the Switch 2 thing. I remember there was rumors, but has there been confirmation that your old Joy-Cons are going to work on the Switch 2? Have they talked about that yet? No, definitely not. In fact, I don't think they will.
Like, if all the rumors of the, how the magnets are going to work, and all that stuff, like, and it's a little bit bigger based on the leaked like footprint of the system, doesn't seem like it'd be possible for them to be able to latch on. I do imagine they'll be able to work as Bluetooth controllers. Sure, sure, sure. Yeah. Yeah. Who knows? Well, let's move on, Timothy. Number three, the secret actor behind the Metal Gear's, behind Metal Gear.
Why am I saying the, in front of every video game title? The secret actor behind Metal Gear Solid 3's Eva has been revealed after 20 years. This is Michael McWord or over at Polygon. For the past 20 years, the identity of the woman behind Eva in Metal Gear Solid 3, Snake Eater has been closely guarded secret.
The actor credited in the role is Suzette Minette, but that name is a pseudonym for a much more famous voiceover artist, a new video from Konami promoting the upcoming Metal Gear Solid 3 remake reveals. The third episode of Metal Gear Solid Legacy series hosted by David Hader, reveals the actor behind Eva in Snake Eater is Jody Benson. She's best known for her roles as Ariel in Disney's Little Mermaid and Barbie in Pixar's Toy Story franchise.
Benson said in a discussion with Hader that her and Laurie Allen, the voice of the boss, that the choice to go with a pseudonym for her role in Metal Gear Solid 3 was her decision, but one that was informed by the games, the games voice acting director. Benson explained that because, quote, the various projects that I'm affiliated with in my career are family-based, children-based, voice acting director Chris Zimmerman suggested she go with a pseudonym.
Our director, she sat down with me and she was like, maybe we need to change your name, Benson recalled. So she asked me, what's your dog name growing up? And I said, Su-Zet Monet, and she's like, you know what? Let's build on that. How about Su-Zet? I don't know, Su-Zetta. How about, and instead of Monet, an artist like Minette, and I was like, sounds like a deal. And here we are, Greg. Here we are. This is wild. Have you been up to date on this at all?
I've never known this. Again, Metal Gear Solid 3, not my favorite Metal Gear. Not that I hate it. It's not a bad game. It's just not my favorite one. So it's like, no, I've never paid attention to this. Yeah, I mean, this is something that I've read about for years now. People just feel like it's, it's Benson. Like, it's Ariel. Like, what are we talking about here? Why is, why are they doing this? Why is this a secret and people for a long time assumed?
It must be dizzy-related. It must be, trying to separate. So they were right. I just love that this is, that they announced it this way. I love this series, by the way, this has been awesome to see. And like, you can see them all here. It's like, very, very cool. But I don't know, while you're reading it, I don't know if you have seen this video. It's like, you literally see the lower third. She like walks into frame and like, the name changes from Suzette to, wow. It's a Jody Monson.
Like, just so, yeah, there it is. Here it's like, I'm literally like such a big reveal. Baaaaaah! No, it's trying to bet to everybody. But I just love it. Very cool. Good for her. And yeah, I love that they're, they're getting the crew back together, right? Like, especially with David Hader being a part of all this. Can't wait for this game, obviously. I cannot wait. What's the release date? When's it coming, everyone? Not this year, I'll tell you that. Yeah, yeah.
I'm starting to, starting to believe it's not this year, Greg. But what is it? Tell me, somebody tell me. First half of next year. April. Yeah, I believe first half. Yeah. April's not a bad pick, Baron. I don't mind that. I don't mind that at all. I just think February is too crazy. I'll go May, though. I'm going to say May. Okay. I like him. We get in there right before SGF and all that jazz.
Number four in the Ruppert report, Hogwarts Legacy sequel will tie into the new Harry Potter HBO series. This is Tom Ive and at VGC. Haven't read this story ahead of time. Can't, can't say, avoid this guy. I can't, I can't say it enough. This doesn't sound like a good idea. Let's see what, how bad this is going to tie into it. We're going to, brother. What do you mean? Don't fucking tie into the TV show. Just do your own fucking game. Don't try to tie into the shit.
This never works out for anybody. I think I just think they're talking about marketing. But we'll see. I have one of brothers discovery has provided an update on its plans for a sequel the last year. Smash hit Hogwarts Legacy. Quote, obviously a successor to Hogwarts Legacy is one of the biggest priorities in a couple of years down the, in a couple of years down the road.
Chief financial officer Gunner, Widenfelds said at the Bank of America conference in September, Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ capitalism, Bofa and David Hadad, president. Is that how you say? Okay. President Warner Brothers, oh, interactive meat. That's where it was. Echoed the language in a new interview with Variety. He said, Warner Brothers games is working on a Hogwarts Legacy follow up, which he described as a quote, very big priority, end quote, for the company's top executives.
Hadad said the sequel will share some big picture storytelling elements with Warner Brothers televisions, upcoming Harry Potter series, which is targeted to hit HBO in 2026. Quote, the rest of the company was very curious about what we helped to unlock with Hogwarts Legacy this year, last year end quote. Yeah. I mean, nonsense fucking story. No, yeah, I mean, but the story is they're making a sequel. Yeah, but we knew that, but we didn't. Yeah, we said this. Oh, really?
Yeah. No, David Hadad, this is back up to the dude at the Bank of America conference in September. Obviously, Secretary Hogwarts is one of the biggest things priority on the road. We knew they've been working on this. I missed that, but I mean, cool. That, that, the tie-in stuff, it's like, it's just gonna be marketing stuff. This is the storytelling elements. What do you think? What does that mean? Wands? Winsers? I mean, I just ran Harry Potter. I don't know anything about the show.
The show's just the books again. No. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Why? Money, I mean, obviously, it's money, but that was the smart one. Yeah, that was the smart one. The Hagrid had a thing with dragons that they didn't have. There was in the book that wasn't in the movie. So, is that true? Was that with the whole thing? Huh. Huh. There's also other things, but that was the first one. Huh. Yeah. Well, dragons are big news. But I'm sick of all this big news team.
If I wanted something smaller, say the tiniest news I need to know about, where would I go? You got our last story. The We News channel, where we cover all the small news items that you need to know about. I love it. Great track. So much. Harder hell doesn't miss. Yeah. We News spec. Number five, We News. From VGC Halo Infinite's latest major update introduces classic Halo 2 maps on the game in a third person mode. Uh, among other features. So fucking cool. Operation Great Journey drops today.
Four days ahead of Halo 2's 20th anniversary on November 9th. Mike's very excited about this. Oh yeah. Are you excited about it? Oh yeah. Oh, dude. The E3 2004 thing? Yes, I'm playing that. That's a dream come true. This is going to be a big one for your current birthday party. Current texted me a couple days ago just being like, you know, we're coming up on right. And I'm like, of course, I know with the Halo 2 anniversary, just coming up. I just love that he's thinking about it.
Love it. Amazing. Uh, Sega has confirmed in an interview with VGC that a new virtual fighter is currently in development. And then stranger things VR is coming to PlayStation VR 2 on December 5th, everybody. Hurrah. Hurrah. We have a couple of Super Chats we can get to. Actually more than a couple. I'll go and reverse, okay? Uh, CJ says does Nintendo make the jump to a $70 game with Switch 2? They already did with tears of the Kingdom. Oh yeah. So probably right.
I feel like yet that I think that big major release as well. Uh, DJ Kent says, can you imagine if Elden Ring is one of the Switch 2 launch titles with DLC? That'll sell like things that sell really well. Take it to the bank. It's happening. Yeah. I mean, I just feel like that, that to me, like again, we have to look at what Nintendo is now. Nintendo launched the, the announced the Switch and showed off a bunch of games. One of the core games they showed off Skyrim. Right?
Yeah. Like the original pitch of the Switch is you get to play Skyrim portably on a day plane. Yeah. Right. Yeah. And then the other thing is the modern Skyrim for all intents and purposes of showing what Nintendo does not have that it now does. Hell yeah. Okay. Cool. Uh, T Pat 12. Super Chaston says a reminder to jump on the EGM, Compendium Kickstarter.
Yes. As you know, there's a Compendium for EGM coming out talking about the history of it and then a digital portal with scans of every magazine that you can search this up. Very amazing. And thank you all because of course, you know how much EGM means to me. And I nerded out with Jason Trier about it when he was on the show and I ranted and raved and did all the stuff. And they hit me up and said Greg, would you like to contribute to the EGM? God damn it, man. And I said, fuck yeah, I will.
I will introduce them to you as well. I would love that. We'll try to get you in. I'm proud of you too. Thank you. Now you just want to take everything from me. And then one thing I want. You fucking take everything from me. I used to be the tech guy. Never once. I do like that. I even, the Chromia PlayStation controller. Thank you for letting me take that home, the white one. Oh, yeah. I really like that. It's a very nice controller. We're doing with these PlayStation controllers.
They sent us the white glacial, whatever the hell it's called. And then they sent the dark teal or whatever. The one that's like blue and purple. Yeah. And then there's also the green one. And I was like, I want the green one. Because it looks like it's green blue. It's very, I like the color. It's not coming off to January. Got a drip feed. But like that's what you want to get that you want to keep people guessing. Yeah, that's just weird.
Like I feel like the line of controllers like, if anything, I feel like the white one is a little bit different compared to the rest of the line. Sure. I don't know. Something must be up. Maybe they like ran out of green paint. They ran out of green paint. Final Super Chat of the day comes from Deer Sixlet, who says, I've been a kind of funny best friend for about five years exactly. And I don't think I've ever thanked you for everything.
The world is more stressful now, especially being buy and trans. But it's nice to be here. Thanks, heart emoji. We are lucky to have you, Deer Sixlet. You are loved. Now we're checking with kind of funny.com slash you're wrong. See what we got wrong. Giving me, I begged you, begged you to show your work. A food king writes in and says, Velgard PS5 Pro Patch comes out this Friday, which would not be what the blog said. But you didn't show your work.
So who might believe a blog post from weeks ago or this unsighted, unsourced information. I don't know. Kabab says it's worse. The official title for Pokemon Legends is Z-A. Don't forget the hyphen. Z-A. Z-A. Then, oh, the right person won, I see. Nintendo said the cartridges will not be compatible with the switch two without an adapter. And again, show your work. Show your work. I don't believe that. That's an unsourced thing. As your guy would say, fake news. So I don't believe that.
I need a dot com. And I need a quote from that to believe that for a second. But I appreciate that all the same. Timothy, that's another episode of Kanda. Funny, games, daily. I don't think that that's out of the realm of possibility. I don't think that's going to be what happens. But I could see them doing that. Sure. W-Indy. As long as you can play your old shit, who cares? Because you figure a cartridge slot on the switch two means money. And form factor ugliness, right?
So if it is the, yeah, it's a USB dongle or whatever, you're going to put in there. I could see that. I think that I agree with that. Dongle. But again, that's why you should have gone digital. But all you Nintendo people want to see online. Oh, look at all my little switch cartridges on the bookshelf. This is nice. I got Kirby here. I got the elderly. Yeah. I got cooking mama here. This is another episode of Kanda Funny Games, daily.
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