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2023 Predictions Reviewed
00:00:13
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what's up everybody welcome to the logon games podcast for friday january the fifth on this episode today we are going to be
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giving our 2024 gaming predictions as well as looking back at our 2023 predictions and seeing how smart we really are. We got all of them right, right?
00:00:38
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Yes. We didn't miss it. Um, Neil's not here. So he is disqualified. He misses all of them. Neil, the deal has died from a seal.
Neil's Absence and Show Dynamics
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This human being actually exists. There's just somebody who made up. You could be making that person up.
00:00:56
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I'll have to go back and look, but I think for the last two or three years, every time we've done a predictions episode, by the time the next one comes around, that person isn't on it. Neil is like...
00:01:13
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My evolution is a Pokemon. Like if I got better and bigger, it would be. Yeah, it's true. I would say he's off doing bigger, better things in life. Yeah. Carlos is just our Neil replacement. So yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. See, Carlos is like, is like a mid mid evolution up to Neil. I think we had Jason and then the next year he wasn't on and then we had Neil and then the next year wasn't on. So Carlos, something's bad's going to happen to you this year.
00:01:43
Speaker
Oh, man. Wow. What what sucks like to about like Jason, like Jason was the like from software guy. And now I feel like I've replaced him with it to go and try to be an adult, you know, freaking loser. You know, what's funny is all these people that basically since the day one have been a part of this podcast are still like in our discord, like
00:02:13
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Most people like our private chat and stuff. So they still get all like the notification. Well, anytime they want to be on, they can. They just said like anybody. Yeah. We got to get Marty on again at some point to doing life stuff. That's all Marty's. All right.
00:02:33
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I don't have my right things brought up. I just had the patience brought up. So let me, let me read the spiel. Okay. On this episode, since this could possibly be a longer one, I'm going to do the same thing I did last week.
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We have at X user eight X Matt at ruffle on my waffles, Carlos and at brown berserker. Oh my gosh.
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Hell yeah, brother. So loud. It's insane. I turned down my mic input, so. Irrelevant. Could be louder. Yeah, that's some thick boy lines. Yeah. We.
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want to welcome everybody to the Logon Games Podcast, the weekly show, which our hosts discuss a variety of game news topics for new games, big announcements, events and more.
2023 Gaming Predictions Recap
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00:03:43
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on who has the best hair. Spoiler alert. It's Andrew. Man, don't say me. Absolutely. 100% gorgeous, man. This is hat hair. This is what happens when you wear a hat for like eight hours. Alex, do you wear a hat for like eight hours?
00:03:57
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Oh, yeah, she's she's this is a good job. This is this is all Alex. It's always she just does what she wants. And you do her hair, too, right? Like when you I help her with the back, but she she's she'll cut and dye her own hair in a mirror. Like, wow, impressive. Yeah, it's just ridiculous. Yeah, that's called witchcraft. I think you might be married to a witch. All right, so.
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00:05:09
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Let's do it. 2023 predictions. We'll go through those first.
High-Scoring New Games
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Carlos, you can be Neil for today since Neil's been here. Okay. Some of these questions are going to be carrying over to 2024, but not all of them. Some of my responses will too. So if Neil wins, if he was right the most right with his predictions, I win. You get the billion dollars.
00:05:32
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We all love Neil. All of us. There's no way Neil won this game. But sports, I think we all know there's no way there's too many Nintendo questions for Neil to have won. You know, that's true.
00:05:51
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Um, question number one, will Nintendo and next console be announced, which I feel like it's a question every year for less. Like since we seriously, um, I said no, Matthew said no. Neil said yes. Andrew, you said no. Uh, no, there was not. So we all get a point
Steam Deck Pricing Debate
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from that. Let me, let me tally some points up here. I appreciate Neil's, you know, gusto on that. We all wanted it. We all did want it. We just didn't believe.
00:06:21
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we were right and it's also like a long long time for Nintendo in between like Releasing any hardware like there was rumors last year. So it's like we all thought we all thought something was coming but There's rumors It's like a pro version for like four or five years and then like at some point or like there's no reason for the new a pronoun It's been like eight years.
2024 Predictions and Speculations
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Mm-hmm. Now it's been
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When did the switch come out? 20? 15? 17? Oh, it was 17? The switch? Something like that? I don't know. That sounds right. That portable PS2 is just flying off the shelf still, so. All right, so we all get a point for that. Next question, will the Activision Blizzard sale go through?
00:07:10
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Andrew, you said yes. Matthew said no. Neil said yes. And I said yes. So we all get points, except for Matthew. Listen, there was a time where we didn't think it was going to happen. Yeah. I think if you go back and listen to it, I said it'll go through. I just don't think it'll be within the year. I think you're still just going to get dragged out. That's fair. Yep. Next question will, I'm sorry, which will have more exclusive Xbox or PlayStation?
00:07:39
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Andrew, you said PlayStation out the Wazoo. Matthew said PlayStation. Neil said PlayStation. I said Xbox. I didn't say anything about Wazoo. No, you said nothing about Wazoo. You said Xbox. That was back when I was immature. I'm not going to lie. This week's been a little crazy. So I haven't looked this up.
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I apologize. Oh my gosh, I'm on the edge of my seat, fam. Oh my goodness. How are you doing this? The question is exclusives. That is what we're going for here. Not first party, just exclusives. I think this question, and if we do it in the future, should be changed to like,
00:08:22
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above a eight out of 10 or something like that on like, like first party games that come out that are decent, you know? Yeah. You could turn on a lot of X box. We had four, foursome hi-fi rush party animals planet of Lana star field.
00:08:43
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It looks like that's it. So that's six or this is this is the best. The game spot. That is not what we wanted. Game spot. I'll circle back. I'll see if I can find something while you're doing things. Matthew, you'll find something while we're doing this. I said I'll see. OK, I need to bring up a new window. I apologize. I am unprepared.
00:09:14
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I'm unfair. Raw dog baby. Oh, people tune in to log on games right here for this unprepared spontaneous chaos idea. We are the example that you too can do a video game podcast. I was so into doing my 2024 stuff last night that you forgot to look back and reflect back. I'm always looking forward. You know what I mean? Yeah. The next question.
00:09:46
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Over under three and a half new games with a Metacritic score of 94 or higher. So now why do you put the half? Because we're going higher or lower. Yes, you have to pick higher or lower. So the half makes everybody either right or wrong. OK. Yeah. So I'm going to games. I'm going to two thousand twenty three games on Metacritic. I think it's a yes, right?
00:10:16
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I would assume so. Let me choose release date. So I said under Neil said under Matthew, you said under Andrew, you said under. I played it safe. All right, year two thousand and twenty three.
00:10:45
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We had Baldur's Gate at a 96, Tears of the Kingdom 96, New Games, so I don't think Metroid remakes can count. That's fair. Tears of the Kingdom's a remake. Here's the thing, even if we count Metroid Prime Remake, there's only those three that are over a 94 or over.
00:11:08
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OK, so either way, it's going to be under surprisingly Resident Evil fours and ninety three wonders and ninety two, ninety two, ninety two, ninety two, a bunch of ninety two. So this is such a high mark. Yeah, that's what I'm marking. Yeah. At that time, I think we were like. Trying to remember the games that we knew were going to come out. But my dog is growling. No, no.
00:11:38
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Somebody's probably cutting my door. He's going to go. Like he's just going to say Rick flair. There it is. Yeah, there it is. All right. Matthew, do you have any updates on the exclusives? Not at all. Fairly miserably currently. Next question. Over under two and a half. Hold on a second.
00:12:07
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I'll use this for a cat moment. You have cat moment? We have. There's so many things happening. I should go somewhere. You should go somewhere too. We should all go somewhere. I didn't need to go to the bathroom, but. I'm finding it difficult to find exclusives. I came out this year.
00:12:35
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Her body chilling. Her body. They had two weeks, man. Yeah, I'm just scared I was going to like walk out there and both dogs are just licking the wound and I'm like, no. We're trying to take care of you. Yeah, we're back. Oh, OK. See, over under two and a half new PSVR games from PlayStation Studios, PSVR.
00:13:05
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uh epic fail on that front um because i think we just got horizon that was it from like an actual playstation studio i honestly do not know i don't pay too much attention to the vr world if i'm honest
00:13:21
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Andrew, you said over. Matthew, you said over. Neil said over. I said under. You win. Win the game. No reason to go any further. VR is the future. Right.
00:13:37
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I feel like PlayStation just gave up. Like they released it and they're like, all right, we're done. And the thing is, it's like their PSVR is good. Like compared to like I have the consumer version one Oculus and it's definitely better than I thought. Didn't they say it's like it's like the best resolution on the market right now, I think. Still? Well, for the two. Yeah. Mediquis 3.
00:14:01
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Have to go back and look there's like one thing that's better on that. I don't know if it's like Wrestle I don't think it's resolution or pixel or I don't know something but they're pretty close. They're pretty close now But the quest 3 is why the cord is colored Okay, the most
00:14:21
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Streamed game on Twitch will be a new title from 2023. This was a yes or no question. I hope I said no. We're going to go look right now. I hope I said no. You said no. Everybody said no except for me because I'm a tool.
00:14:45
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Okay, games. You're hopeful and that's okay. Probably Fortnite. The number one stream game right now, as we speak, you'll never guess Grand Theft Auto 5. Really? Wow. It's Fortnite 2. The new Skyrim, killing it.
00:15:07
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uh, Skyrim portal escape from Tarkov. Uh, that's where Neil's at right now. 27. Uh, league of legends, Fortnite, Minecraft, worse on Valorant. I'm just trying to find a new game. You know, well, so the tactics, whatever that is. It's not for 20. Is this for 2023? Oh, the finals isn't in the top list. That's crazy. Teamfight tactics is, um,
00:15:37
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It's the same people that do league, right? Yeah, I think is very low. Yeah. I don't think it's, I don't think it's been out long enough to be that high up on the list yet. It really came out at the tail end of the year.
00:15:56
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I must say, Apex was killing it when it came out. Apex is good. When that launched, it killed it. I mean, even right now, Apex is... It's on somewhere. That is a fun game. It's been so long, dude.
00:16:13
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It's sitting at 27,000 right now. Take this for perspective. The finals is sitting at 9.3 thousand viewers as we record this. Destiny 2 is at 10,000. Watch out, finals. Get out of here. Get out of here. I've played the finals. It's not that it's bad, but it's like any competitive shooter that comes out now.
00:16:37
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But the destruction, man. That's it. It's not easy and simple to get into and understand.
00:16:44
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Like, I mean, I feel like I would say three games. You're like, oh, I understand. I don't know. I feel like with the finals, with the finals, I feel like it's it's even simpler because the objective is simple. There's like two guns per class. There's only really three classes. I don't think there's much to the finals as far as like what you need to do. It's the game itself.
00:17:08
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It's like you have people that are like, oh, I just like they spawn into play for the first time. Like, oh, I'm just going to get kills. And then there's some people like know what the objective is. It's almost like Overwatch where it's like, oh, you mean everybody realize we have an objective here. And then someone's like, no, I just got to get kills, bro. Call me. I like it. I like the everybody playing Iron Banner.
00:17:27
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I like the, I feel like Apex is, it's more colorful. It seems to kind of keep your attention. It's not as chaotic, so you're able to focus more.
00:17:43
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Yeah, the finals I eaters, you know, you're running in there and crazy stuff is happening. There's just a bunch of different types of people. I say like you have Apex people, Overwatch people, Call of Duty people all playing the finals and they're all trying to play it like their main game. Yeah, I'm trying to play it like Battlefield because they're ex dice dev. So there's okay.
00:18:03
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Yeah, yeah. I played like four or five games when it came out. The second game it seemed like all anybody was trying to do was make the whole map explode. Like people on the enemy team would see me and then just keep walking. I was like, what's happening? Destructible environments. They love it. It should be like Splatoon. It's like who can take down the most buildings. That would be a cool game. Let's go. Let's go. I have a bit of an update.
00:18:28
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I could not find a good list for anything. A lot of lists have the best, but if you go to Metacritic, just search 2023 release year. If you click on both PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, there were 257 total games between the two consoles.
00:18:45
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And then if you take off the games, like if you uncheck the Xbox series X, it only goes down by 26. So 231 out of those 257 came out on the PlayStation. If you do it the other way and you take out the PlayStation games, it has 107 games for Xbox.
00:19:04
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Okay. 107 games came out for Xbox and 231 for the PlayStation. There's a lot of crossover there, but I would assume that means there was more exclusives on the PlayStation. Just assuming. Yeah, I believe that. Logic. Logic. Logic Studio.
00:19:23
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Yeah, there's some weird stuff like like, for example, when you just have Xbox checked and not PlayStation five, like Alan wakes there, it's like you click on it and it takes you to PlayStation one. So I mean, like, there's crossover there. But I would assume that would be a Sony point. Well, if it ends up mattering at the end of this, there you go. Deep dive a little bit more. Okay.
00:19:51
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Um, where am I lost my spot? Um, over or under? I missed an over under. Over or under one and a half full Nintendo Directs. We all said over, we all got a point for that. I don't even remember. I know we had two. There you go. I think it was two.
00:20:12
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I think we had two in just the second half of it. It's 2024. I remember the one with all the farming games. There was a lot of farming games for sure. We had this last one that was like the Pete farmers direct and Luigi's mansion thing and all that. Okay. A remake or a remaster will have the highest metacritic rating of 2023.
00:20:38
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And some good ones for sure. But Baldrificated is sitting at a 96 right now. Andrew, you said no. Matthew said yes. Neil said no. I said yes. So Andrew and Neil.
00:20:51
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Let's go, Neil. I have. Yeah, let's go. We're doing it, man. For instance, he's resident before, which was up there, though. That's a little. Yeah, it was. OK, yeah. It's a steam deck. He's still get a permanent price drop. Oh, crap. Steam deck will get a permanent price. I hope I said no.
00:21:13
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You said, everyone said no except for me. Did it not? I don't think it did. I'm pretty sure it did. I think by the end of the year, the OLED came out, so the debased one, I think, did go down. Oh, shoot. I believe so. Let's double check. Oh, you have to double check that. There's a thing that I'm not paying attention to.
00:21:32
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I'm hoping it's just a black Friday sale. They did have a good black Friday sale. I think it was like 20% off. Oh, buddy. Not only the first thing I see when it says choose your steam deck, the first option 256 gigabyte and big black letters price drop. Well, there's, don't, don't.
00:21:55
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There's all but the thing is the winner steam sale is going on right now. So it could be on sale because Macarena early, bro. And it is 24. Did it price drop two days ago? Yeah. And that's not permanent. But what I will say is when the OLED came out, the base model did drop in price. I did go back. But was that like an initial sale because of the announcement of the OLED?
00:22:22
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No, no, no, because they put the OLED in there with their other price, with their other models. So they had the price, the old one accordingly. But you are right, there is a sale going on now, so we don't know. Yeah, there's a steam sale. What is the steam sale price right now, actually?
00:22:36
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I'm looking at so there's um because ours was 399 right when we first got yeah yeah right now the 64 is at 350 the 256 is at 399 okay but the 64 gig is at 350 349 99 yeah okay that's what it dropped to when the OLED came out but the baseball is the same yeah um i'm looking at
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This is from Yahoo Finance. Yahoo! When the OLED was announced. Wow. It says the 64, 256, and 512 models are priced at 349, 399, and 449, respectively. If you purchased your Steam Deck in the last 14 days, you may be eligible for a refund, partial refund. I think Daddy gets a point for that. That depends. Are you, Daddy? A partial refund.
00:23:31
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Yeah, so like if you bought it and then like 10 days later, this came out, you could get like your $50 back. You get the price difference. How do I figure out how to return mine? What? No, no. The same thing for the OLED. If you purchase it, yeah. Apple does the same thing for like when new phones and MacBooks and stuff come out. Like if you if you just bought one and you're like, well, great. Now mine's like $200 cheaper. That's bull crap. You can go and get a $200 refund or whatever.
00:23:59
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Um, okay, okay next question Which game will get delayed from 2023? Andrew you said dragon age four point Matthew said wolf among us two point
00:24:18
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Neil said, final fantasy seven rebirth. And then, and I have in quotes, I believe in my brother. And this is what he said after Andrew gave Neil the answer. Yeah. Yeah. I remember that. I said Alan wake too. So I did not get a point, but everybody else gets a point. So good for you. We are all daddy. He got shafted by the team actually releasing their game on time. Sorry, bro. I know. Right.
00:24:48
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That's like four different games and three of them were correct. Okay. Predict an unannounced PS5 game. It's the cool thing to do. Andrew, you said Metal Gear Solid. We did get a Metal Gear Solid. It's a remake of 3, but... Remake. Is it coming out for only PS5 or everything? I don't think it matters. You said Metal Gear Solid.
00:25:16
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I think it counts. Sure. I appreciate that. Matthew said uncharted remake. Good answer, but wrong. Wrong answer. Neil said Stray 2. Stray 2? He should have said Tarkov 2. I said Twisted Metal.
00:25:36
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Andrew. But you got a second season of the show. Does that count? No. I get a point taken away from that. Predict an unannounced Xbox game. Andrew, you said crackdown. Didn't happen. Matthew said non Battle Royale Halo game. Didn't happen. Neil said fours of spin off. Didn't happen. I said Gears collection. Didn't happen. That's a tough one.
00:26:05
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Predict an unannounced Nintendo game. Andrew, you said Beautiful Joe. Oh, that would be so good, man. Matthew said Mario Baseball didn't happen. Neil said Animal Crossing Spin-Off didn't happen. I said Waluigi game. Should've picked Peach. That's true. Okay, three, sorry, three unique predictions. Andrew, your first one was a new Mario Kart announced.
00:26:37
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Sorry. Step up, Nintendo. Your second one was Bloodborne 2 announced. Sorry. But your third one, Marvel's Avengers shut down. Yes! That happened. That very much happened. Wow. Nice. Hashtag Breakback Anthem. Bring back Anthem. We did. Marvel's Avengers was Anthem. I don't know if you knew that or not. Oh, okay. Same thing. Matthew.
00:27:07
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What did I say? Let's see. Your first one PS VR two will flop and price drop. Yeah. Um, gosh, the way I'm doing points. Did it not price drop? Maybe that's why it flopped. Just cause it didn't price drop. Uh, your second one was Tony Hawk Pro Skater three and four didn't happen.
00:27:34
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Um, and then you said PS, your third one was PS plus we'll start throwing in exclusives somehow. Yeah. Don't think they did announce that that's going to happen some, but they don't like, I don't think they've done anything and they definitely haven't done it with any major games. Yeah. Uh, Neil said the last of us multiplayer released this year.
00:27:56
Speaker
Nope. Tarkov out of beta mode. His second one was Tarkov out of beta mode. I don't know the answer to that. I feel like that's true, though. That is tough. I know they're working on some sort of expansion or deal. If they're making a DLC, then technically it's fully released. I mean, there's I mean, it's number two on Twitch right now. So today was today.
00:28:23
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And then his third one was more than three Mario games come out this year. We had Mario Wonder. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. The Peach game. Peach game and Paper Mario, I think, were announced, but they didn't come out. Oh, what about the Mario RPG remake? Did that come out? Was there another Mario game besides those two?
00:28:51
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Uh, speaking of that, by the way, Mario RPG. Uh, so my old roommate brought about a bunch of old games and cases and I've been buying them off of him, but like his mom kept them intact, like kept the boxes, instruction manuals and everything for some of these games. When I already have Super Mario RPG.
00:29:13
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I just need the boxing instructions that alone. Just the box is $100 valued. She's a lot of guacamole. Yeah. But now with the game complete, it's worth like to $250. I don't I see the two Mario games and that's it. It's ridiculous how for this year some of those good games, man.
00:29:39
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Yeah, even the old Pokemon games are the same way. Like if you have just a car cartridge or if you have like an un like a brand new one or just one with the box is ridiculous. Yeah. OK, my first one was Netherrealm will release their new fighting game that happened was Mortal Kombat one. My second was Ghost of Tsushima two announced did not happen.
00:30:04
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And my third one was new bungee game announced. Pretty much did happen. Yes. Was that this year? Last year. That was this, that was last year. Well, this 2023, 2023 marathon. It was a July summer. By the way, I think Tarkov still in beta.
00:30:31
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I'm pretty sure I'm correct on that. Yeah, beta is available on their front of the thing. Yeah. And then Holy Grail announcement which doesn't contribute to points just for funsies. Andrew said bloodborne two. Sorry. Matthew said uncharted five. Sorry. Neil said full game Tarkov. I think maybe gay. And then I said, Neil's was full game Tarkov. Like the full game is released. Oh, like it's not in beta? Well, it's still in beta.
00:31:02
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Is it? Yeah, that's what he said. And then mine was Pokemon Coliseum or Rock Band 5. Andrew and I Rock Band texted the other night. We did. Oh, snap. Hmm. You Rock Band texted? Final point tally for 2023. Neil in last place with six points. Matthew in third place with 6.5 points. Point five is important.
00:31:31
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I'm in second with eight, and then Andrew's back on top with nine, nine points. Always a million dollars for you. Nice job. All right, let's get into 2024 for this podcast at 1000 years long. And let's say Andrew, you wanna give us a speech? You wanna give us a celebratory speech? Four score and seven years ago. All right, 2024 big boys.
00:32:04
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Let's predict the future by looking at crystal balls, read their palms, pray to whoever gave you answers, whatever you have to do to make it happen. Question number one, will Nintendo release a new console slash handheld in 2024 bonus point? What will it be?
00:32:27
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I'll go first because I have I have me and then Matthew and then Andrew and then Carlos So we'll try and keep it in that order so it makes my life easier do it I said yes, it'll be the switch to I Went through a couple different names in my brain, but I feel like switch to is the easiest the thing to remember This is Nintendo. So it's probably not gonna be called that. It's gonna be called something really dumb. It's the site to do switch deuces wild
00:32:56
Speaker
Um, and then I just said massive performance improvement, but fully backwards compatible. Well, more than likely, oh, there goes Nancy. Goodbye. Nintendo took him down because he's about to reveal. Um, yes. So switch to.
00:33:22
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performance update fully cut backwards compatible, but we'll definitely have separate accessories because like they'll have joy cons, but they're going to be a little bit just a slightly different. Yeah. The size is going to look different. It won't be one for one. Yeah. They got to sell a whole bunch of new joy con colors for everybody. You know? Yeah. Matthew, you're up.
00:33:50
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Will Nintendo release a new console? Yes, they will, I think.
00:33:56
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I was pretty confident it was going to be a switch to our switch pro, but like the longer they take, the more I'm thinking they're putting one of their new fangled things and something. You know, whether it's a switch 3DS deal where you get the little slider English 3D, I don't know, you know, something like it feels like the longer they take the, they always innovate. Like a gimmicky thing that's there's like the we, yeah. Like the longer they take the more I'm like,
00:34:25
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Are you taking time just to update the hardware or is there something we're doing here that's gimmicky? Like you said, I could see that I'm still gonna just say switch to for now because I don't know what the heck the gimmick would be and nobody ever does. And when they do announce stuff, you're like, what the heck? So here she is, boys. Hello. Yeah, we're still going. But there she goes.
00:34:51
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Just as quickly as she came, she leaves. Oh, she's back! Oh, she's leaving again. Audio listeners, you gotta watch the YouTube vid. Okay, go on YouTube. Do you think it'll be called the Switch 2? If you had to come up with a name, what would it be?
00:35:17
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I don't know what they're going to call it. If it were me, I would call it the super switch.
00:35:28
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It's been around, but they're not going. I mean, they'll make up a word before they'll call it a super. I don't know, because the thing is like retro stuff is still kind of it's coming back around. So like maybe they can do that to grab just a little bit more of a little grab grab like, oh, we're being retro. It's vintage like throwing the name out there. Obviously, Super Mario is kind of a big deal for them. So yeah.
00:35:52
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I'm really hoping that for you because I love that super switch. That's just, I'm going to call it the super switch. I'm going with that because even if I'm wrong, I'm, I would, I would rather be wrong with a cool name. You know how that sounds and feels good to say. I don't know if you guys have seen this car on the road, but every time I see the Prius prime, I'm like, yeah. I like that. P P boy.
00:36:19
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It depends on which Nintendo we get. Do we get weird Nintendo that's like Wii and Wii U and no one understood what the heck was going on because I worked the best buy when the Wii U came out? Trust me, no one knew what the heck was going on.
00:36:33
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Um, or do we make it something that's easy? So when a mom goes into Walmart and asks for a switch, whatever they have the right one, they learn our lesson with the Wii U. I think you mean like Xbox series acts because, because the, the, the Wii U was that for a lot of people, a lot of older people and families, it was a very accessible thing. And I think the switch is also that. So, uh,
00:36:57
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I mean, and it's Nintendo, they're really good about sticking with something or doing something right. And they just had to slip up with the Wii U, but I don't see that being an issue. I may have mentioned it before, but I worked at GameStop when the Wii's were out.
00:37:15
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a year and a half after they came out where they were still hard to find because everybody had like three of them at their house, which was insane. But I just remember there's an older gentleman who came in one time and asked very country in the middle of Southern South Carolina, he goes, y'all got any of them wheezies? No, we do not have any of those, sir.
00:37:37
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before vapes were popular too because you could have been you know just this year maybe that's a vape it sounds like a vape name. That's not like a vape term. Aweezy is a hundred percent. Andrew, will Nintendo release a new console? All right very specific. No, they will announce it next year but it's going to come out spring 2025. Oh okay. That is very fair. I think that's the latest a new console comes out by then. Announced? It will be announced but they're not releasing it next year.
00:38:06
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Are you going to give us a name? It will be the successor to the switch. So, yeah, switch to or whatever you want to call it. Ultra hyper remix. We switch ultra hyper remix data.
00:38:23
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Carlos, will Nintendo release a new console? I think so. So I think it will get announced. I think it will get announced around the spring and they're going to release a holiday 2024 classic trope consoles trying to get out there during the holiday season. So I think that's going to happen.
00:38:43
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Um, if I had to, if I had to guess, I would think like October. That's what I would say. I chose my answer in hopes that it actually does happen. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. I know. I feel it. Well, I feel, I do feel like from a announcement perspective of what they have coming out, it's definitely slowed down to the point where you feel like they're working on this. Yeah. Yeah.
00:39:02
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So, production's probably going to start ramping up at some point after it's unveiled. They probably have a few things to iron out. Because the thing is, they had already been showing this to people behind closed doors last year. People already said, hey. Yeah, that's what I heard. So, yeah, I think they're about ready. I can guarantee the resale value will be four times.
00:39:24
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Oh God, yeah, maybe. For a name, I, you know, Super Switch is so perfect. So to continue in the spirit, I don't know. Like if they made a Switch 64, that would be, why, okay, hold on. I don't know, even though I owned one, why did they call it the Nintendo 64?
00:39:49
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64 bits something was it 16 more is it 64 bit graphics 64 bits. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yep Yeah, they stopped with that because we would be really big numbers at this point. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you do remember like the
00:40:04
Speaker
the Xbox 360. I remember like a lot of the jokes when it was like the PS3 versus the Xbox 360 and kids would be like, you know what they call it Xbox 360? Because when you like do 360, you like walk away or something. It's like, no, you're facing it still. That's not how 360 works. It's not the Xbox 180.
00:40:35
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So do you have a name that you want to go with? I'm going to switch to. I literally cannot believe you wrote down what I said. OK, next question. Will Xbox or PlayStation acquire a big studio? And by big studio, I mean like. We know we know the big ones. EA, Capcom, Ubisoft. The big ones that are left.
00:41:01
Speaker
And a bonus point, if you can name which studio. I said no, so there's no reason to name a studio. Because I don't think it will be Xbox. So if it was going to be someone, it would be PlayStation. I think we all just need to take a break right now. Matthew, what about you?
00:41:26
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I said, yes. Uh, I think Sony is going to respond with something. They're a hundred percent going to buy some stuff just based off of what Xbox just acquired. Right. Um, what I would like for them to acquire is EA because what Sony's first party studios could do with EA games that should be good, that aren't good. Yeah. Maybe they can fix that. But I actually put, was I think Sony buys Ubisoft.
00:41:55
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Yeah, it'll be so I checked it again today. It was also valued at like three point three billion, something like that, which is like chump change compared to what Blizzard Activision all that stuff just went down as. And Ubisoft, one of those companies that is always like every time I look at their value, I'm like, that's way lower than I thought that it would be. Yeah, that's actually pretty I could see that like that is a good prediction. Well, they've been talking about like
00:42:23
Speaker
the game to service games. And even though they're going to cut back some Ubisoft definitely fits that mold and they can make they can take some of the IPs and run with it that way. Um, Andrew.
00:42:38
Speaker
Microsoft is going to buy Nintendo. I'm joking. Happening. Switch 360. I think Sony will acquire a company and it will be to be specific, Konami. Ooh, that's a good one. I thought about it. The only reason I didn't say that, if I'm honest with you, is because it makes so much sense that there must be a reason it hasn't happened yet.
00:43:06
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Like, so I don't know what that reason would be. I feel like it already happened. I don't know the logistics of everything. I just know that Konami makes most of their money from casino machines. Wow. So I don't know if like it's possible to just buy like the gaming portion of like the right to make the games or something like that. Probably it's probably a separate division of Konami. Yeah.
00:43:33
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Carlos. Are just by what's his name? Like we own you now. Give it to me.
00:43:42
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I don't know, it's interesting because I feel like 2024, already towards the end of 2023, your businesses have been cutting back on spending a lot. There's a chance, maybe not, although, or maybe not earlier in the first half of the year.
00:44:04
Speaker
But yeah, I don't know. Microsoft has been doing a lot of acquisitions and I think it's not helping them. So they might chill on that. Sony purchased Bungie, which was a big acquisition for them.
00:44:25
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But I think I think Sony would acquire someone else. So I don't know who. So I'm not going to try to go for the bonus point, but I think Sony will make a big acquisition. Although I also Microsoft could just goof up again and do it. Yeah, I'm going to go with Sony. But yeah, the fall to let's go. Yeah, I mean, I mean, the rumors of even like bungee, for example.
00:44:50
Speaker
doing more layoffs after the final shape and all the layoffs we've seen thus far. It would definitely have to be a second half of the year thing. I think it's likely that Sony takes over Bungie, but that wouldn't count. I think it's more believable. I could definitely see like what Matt was saying, like Ubisoft getting, or even if the sale doesn't happen, the announcement happening like this year. They want to buy Ubisoft so they can have a game to compete with Sea of Thieves.
00:45:19
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I mean, because like if they bought Ubisoft, like I think like the Tom Clancy series would be safe in like Sony's hands for sure. Absolutely. I mean, like when they talk about wanting to get into the game to service stuff, like the divisions, like that comes to my brain immediately. Like this would be something. Oh, then would that be the new Destiny killer right there? Live service games, new division. Anthem was it?
00:45:49
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um okay will xbox playstation or nintendo have the most game of the year nominations bonus point how many i'm going nintendo
00:46:03
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Um, and I'm saying 13 and I don't have numbers to really compare. I remember game of the year, the nominations for the game awards. Oh, okay. You said game of the year. Yeah. I was thinking game of the year. Okay. Me too. Oh, most games of your nominations. Let's see what you mean. I meant game awards. Okay. Okay. Most. Okay. Okay. I don't know the numbers, but I do remember this past year, like.
00:46:33
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I remember maybe it was at the game awards. Most game award nominations. Yeah, where they showed like by studio who had the most. And I remember PlayStation, Xbox, PlayStation and being like from like the like 10 to like 19 range for most nominations. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:46:50
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So that's kind of around the end. Obviously, this is probably one of the first years that we just don't know a lot of games that are coming out period from this from the big three. We know more about Xbox. We'll have to wait. So I definitely think if I had to put money on anything.
00:47:09
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There's gonna be a new switch and with a launch of a new Mario game probably So I'm expecting that game to next year that will get a lot of the nominations I think so. I just really need one more Nintendo game to get stuff but Matthew
00:47:25
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Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo, most game awards nomination. Yeah, I was thinking game of the year, like in that category, who would have the most exclusives basically? Just the studio and how many nominations they get. Yeah, I would. I was going to say Nintendo either way. I think they probably have a game or two that's going to do really well that we just don't know about yet because of a new console release thing. And if they don't release the console, then they're not going to be anywhere near this, but
00:47:55
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Um, yeah, I would say Nintendo still, would you say 13? You said it's usually, I'd say 15. 15. Why not? What was the last year's, did you, do you have last year's results for? I don't, but I remember like PlayStation was like 19. I think they were number one because Spider-Man was nominated for a lot of final fantasy seven. I mean, final fantasy 16 was nominated for a lot. Um, yeah.
00:48:24
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Andrew, you're up. I'm going to have to stick with the big boys and I'm going to say Sony with 15 nominations.
00:48:36
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Listen, like this rumored uncharted game has been forever. Like if they actually come out with an uncharted game and it's hits like they normally do, it could be. That won't be for this. It could be nominated for everything. That would be for next year. If there's no way they're going to announce an uncharted game this year and release it. You never know, man. You never know. Unless, you know, catastrophe hits and it's just a bad year for PlayStation, something has to come out.
00:49:03
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Yes. Right now it's like we know about Sailor Blade and that's like it. It's fraternal too. I feel like they would have announced it like that there would be an anticipated date where people are like, we're looking forward to this. I don't know. I just can't imagine going through all of 2024 and getting like not a first party studio game. They will never be specifically not a naughty dog game. It's been forever.
00:49:32
Speaker
Well, that's because they've been working on a game to get that guy canceled. I understand that. But by the end of it, only only half of them are working on it. So there are other halves working on something. So Carlos, you're up. I know that with Nintendo releasing a new console.
00:49:52
Speaker
if he knows if I know that in the situation he's about to get swatted I know that in the situation that they release a console this year that there is a chance but I'm still gonna stick with Sony don't know what it is just because yeah I don't I don't know they might be able to get like they got what there's a Silent Hill 2 remake coming out so you know maybe that might help them or something
00:50:24
Speaker
But yeah, no, I'm going to go with PS5 or Sony. Yep. Do you have a number you want to guess? I'm going to go with 69. I'm going to go with 13. 13. I love that number. Let's go. All right. Going on to the over under section.
00:50:44
Speaker
over or under two and a half new PC handheld gaming machines released. Not announced. This is specifically released. Yeah. We have, I don't even know, three or four last year. Sure. It seemed like every three, four months, I was like, Oh, here's a new one. Yeah. Here's a question. Yeah. Does that count switch to? No.
00:51:11
Speaker
And it has to be like, he says PC. The main thing has to be like, yeah, is running steam or windows or something like that. You just said it said PC slash gaming. And so I mean, yeah, I mean, like, yeah, he's like what the steam deck is, what the ally is. Sure. That kind of thing. Which, by the way, if they wanted to make bank to come out with a switch to but also give you access to like the steam store and stuff to be able to use it as a as a steam, they might get a game pass on there.
00:51:41
Speaker
Oh, yeah. And does a new steam deck count towards this? Oh, yeah. Yeah, but it has it has to release this year. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. OK. OK. I'm saying under, but I don't really feel great about that. Matthew, what about you?
00:52:01
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I'll say under out. I feel really, really confident that there's not over. There's no chance that more of that is going to come out. That is going to be good. Oh, for sure. It's possible that a couple crappy ones. There'll be a lot of bad ones. And then ruined the thing. Yeah. But I just, I don't, I don't think the market's as big as a lot of people seem to think it is.
00:52:22
Speaker
Well, I mean was I don't think it's big either. But yeah, I never stopped PC from doing weird PC things. It's it's weird. It's pretty pretty competitively priced. So if somebody else want to jump in, it's got to be.
00:52:37
Speaker
Like they would have to be a lot of like, I think before the steam deck came out, they had already existed. Yeah. Yeah. It's called like the INEO. Yeah. All those things. And then the thing is, what's crazy about the steam deck, even though it's not like a widely like it's nowhere near a console level release. I mean, I know like six other people that have steamed like seven people now, I think. Yeah. And it's also like the other ones.
00:52:59
Speaker
After a steam deck, there's a lot better, better spec. There's a lot of better battery life and better visuals, but the steam deck kind of has that console-like ease to it now where it's like, you can just kind of turn it on and just buy steam games if you want to. You don't have to do all the crazy stuff. But we'll see. Andrew, over. I'm going to say over. He's going over. I think people are trying to get on this train, man. Get on the train. Carlos, are you getting on that train with Andrew?
00:53:30
Speaker
Um, I'm not dreaming. I think, uh, yeah, the steam deck OLED got announced, uh, and is already for sale. So, and there goes Matt. He got swatted. He leaked the secrets. All right. So I have you as under car lows. Yeah, I am at under, uh,
00:54:00
Speaker
just because OLED, OLED seems like if they announce a Steam Deck 2, it's not going to come out till next year.
00:54:10
Speaker
Yeah, I want to say that they had an interview or something that was like that where they were like, there will be a steam deck too, but we won't make it until the market says we should make it kind of. Yeah. And because of how it happened when the steam deck released, we preordered and you know, it was like 10 months later before and like.
00:54:31
Speaker
I was like a fairly early pre-order person but like it was it was down to like the minutes and that's determined how far away you are from the person in front of you in the queue like in the line. That was a fun way.
00:54:45
Speaker
Yeah, it was. Carlos and I were going back and forth almost every day. The hype. It was like, because then there were two days a week that the emails got sent out that your steam deck was being prepared, like pay for it and it's going to ship out. And so we were checking all the time and looking at people were talking about, they were making programs that took like
00:55:06
Speaker
Some information about like your order ID and everything like that It could tell you predict like where you were in line compared to everyone else and like how far those are moving along So it was pretty good. It was yeah, it got they fine-tuned it So we were going off of that. But yeah every did you get email yet? Did you get the email? Yeah
00:55:29
Speaker
Did Mr. Steem himself bring you your Mr. Steem? All right, over under one and a half new Grand Theft Auto 6 dollars. What a topic.
00:55:44
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Now there's two arguments. There's arguments of like oh, yeah, they're gonna be pumping out every freaking Chance they get like summer game fest boom game awards. It's there games come there. They're probably gonna put one out themselves Whatever. Yeah, then there's also the argument of like they haven't they didn't say anything for years until they dropped this last trailer so they're probably not gonna say anything again until like the games ready to come out so Depends on what train you're on
00:56:09
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I'm saying over, though. I'm saying over. There's going to be at least two brand new ones. So I'm going over Matthew. I'm exact same way. I know it. Even if they don't come out with a ton, I can't imagine not coming out with at least two.
00:56:24
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Andrew. There's going to be at least two and I'm not just trying to copy. That's just what my gut says. Carlos. Exact same thing. Yep. We're all over. Over or under two hours and 40 minutes for the game awards, 2024.
00:56:49
Speaker
Oh my god. I can't even remember. This past year was a little over three hours. Yeah. Running time. This is not counting the pre-show. This is the show show. Yeah. Yeah. So it's going to start at eight o'clock and then go. So this past year was a little over three hours. The year prior, I think was right at two and a half or a little over two and a half. So do they, do they, do they, do they actually read the comments and they're like, Oh, I'm going, I'm going under.
00:57:17
Speaker
But just, I'm probably like two hours, 39 minutes, you know. Yeah, yeah, no, I feel you. Matthew, what about you? Way over. Way over. It'll be by far the longest one they've ever done because he got, again, look at the online comments. There were so many people that gave him crap for not letting people talk.
00:57:38
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And I don't agree with that. I think it should be under, but I think it's, I think the cop, the, the, uh, pendulum swing the other way means it's going to be like three 40. Like we're talking a long time. Andrew, it's going to be uno hours long.
00:57:56
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It's going to be three hours long. You said Uno. Oh yeah, it was like what? That was intentional. I just wanted people to catch on. It's going to be over. It's going to be over. Carlos. Uh, yeah, it's going to be over. I, but I'm not, I, you said what, two and a half hours? Two hours, like two years ago, it was a little over two and a half. This past year was ever three.
00:58:19
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But for this, I'm saying for the predictions, what's the time? Two hours and 40 minutes. It's going to be real close. I think like you're saying too, I was thinking to around 240. So yeah, I just a little bit over. I think the only way he gets under is if he moves a lot of stuff to the pre-show and.
00:58:38
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Or there's just not as many announcements, you know. Yeah, I mean, that's fair. If he stops doing announcements, then I'm not going to watch. No, he's not going to stop doing them. I just mean like, there's nothing. It was, there was just so many announcements. Kojima's announcement itself took freaking 15. He needs to stop letting celebrities just talk for 10 minutes. Oh my God. Yeah. You get one, a show.
00:59:01
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So I do agree that the winners will have more time to speak, but I'm thinking less Kojima's talking for 15 minutes. Matthew McConaughey is going to come out and talk about a random game. Oh, yeah. That was so weird. Whatever. Yeah. I thought the game looked cool. Like, yeah, the game looked awesome, but just him. So we'll see. It might just end up canceling each other out and still be in three hours. Yeah. All right. We're in the yes or no portion. Let's blow through some of these. Blow me.
00:59:31
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you will be able to easily talk to your friends in a party of some sort on a Nintendo console this year. That could be a new console. That could be the switch and how it is now. And they're just like implement something that, you know, makes sense that they, you know, what we could all do in 2008. Um,
00:59:54
Speaker
But I'm still, I'm saying no. Matthew, what about you? I actually think finally, yes. I think in a new console and I think people's response when they announced it, when the new console are going to be like, finally, like what took you so long? And the reason I think so is now 20 years now both PlayStation and Xbox have like discord integration.
01:00:14
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to where like I played, uh, I was going to say FIFA EFC with our friend who just bought that on PlayStation and we just hopped in discord party and he transferred his, his part over to PlayStation. It was really simple and easy. I feel like at least that will be available on Nintendo.
01:00:29
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Well, let's say easily talk to your friends. Cause remember, I don't know if they're still doing anything, but when the switch came out, they're like, well, you can download the app on your phone. I tried it and you can do all that crap and they're like, okay, that's just stupid. I agree. I think it would have to be either like a normal party that most things have or a discord deal for it to count for easily. Yeah. Andrew, what about you? No, it's not a priority and they'll just assume people use discord.
01:00:58
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No, I don't think so. You know, they want to continue to be a very family friendly game and that, you know, they try to steer clear of any toxicity. I think if anything,
01:01:18
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I mean, I don't know because I don't use my switch enough. Can you send messages to your friends? It's by game is OK. So I think even on Mario Kart, you can just. Like since Mario Kart for this or the Mario Kart Deluxe, whatever it's called. Like you could hook up a headset and just talk on there.
01:01:42
Speaker
Cause I would, I didn't do that, but I would hear other people right before the race or whatever. So like there, and then I think Splatoon was kind of similar maybe. And then some games just don't have it at all. So I think it's just like, I think if anything, and I don't know if this counts, uh, that you'll be able to like message your friends and like send cute customized messages and stuff. Yeah.
01:02:07
Speaker
All right. Um, next yes or no question. A major sports title will go free to play in 2024. I'm saying no, Matthew. I also say no, but I, I, it frustrates the heck out of me. Cause I think that's the way that most sports games should go. And I think they'd actually make more money that way, but no agreed. Andrew.
01:02:32
Speaker
I want to say yes for experimental sake, but no. Carlos, you're going to be point hunting. Okay.
01:02:42
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Nose across the board, sports game suck. All right. Maybe NCAA comes out this year and it's the free one. That's the one that makes the least amount of sense to go free to play because everyone's going to buy it full price. Cause it hadn't been out for forever, 10 years or whatever. Yeah.
01:03:08
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Alright, last yes or no, the final shape launch. Destiny is the final shape. Launch will go smoothly. This is the launch day.
01:03:21
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Okay, this isn't like, you know, three days later, whatever. Just launch day, are we getting kicked out mid missions? Are all the subclasses in working order? Are you getting error code weasel or baboon? I'm going to say, I'm going to say yes. Taking the extra three months, I would hope yes. Matthew.
01:03:44
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Yeah, I actually think yes, too. I think it's it'll it will go smoothly because they can't afford to have it not go smoothly. Andrew, absolutely not because I'm a vet. Smart.
01:04:01
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heck to the no dude absolutely not there will be server issues you will be getting some weird animal errors like it's inevitable that being said you know final shape itself as the content piece
01:04:18
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story and everything, hopefully, I think trying to be hopeful should be good. But the launch itself of like being able to log on, get ready, jump into it like weird things are happening. No, it's bungee. I mean, it's it wouldn't be bungee without that. It's true. It's true. OK, moving on. What game will be delayed out of two thousand and twenty four?
01:04:43
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Doesn't have to have a specific date, just a 2024 general date. Um, I'm going with arc two because we saw Vin Diesel years ago. And I don't even, I don't know anything about that game, but I feel like we're not going to get more Vin Diesel until we've had enough Vin Diesel. Let's be honest. Yeah. I agree there. Uh, Matthew, your answer. I'm saying avowed. He's saying about, Oh, it was going to be my second choice.
01:05:13
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Um, Andrew, I straight up don't know because I don't know anything that's like super huge that's coming out. That'd be pushed. Like my gut wants to say that, uh, the final shape will get delayed in the same year, but not out of 2024. So might need to come back to me on that. Cause like, I don't know. Um, we have, um,
01:05:37
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Like Hellblade could be one. I know it said 20, 20, four. Like I said, our two, we got avowed. We have is there supposed to be another Final Fantasy? So something. Yes, I think I think Hellblade would be a good safe bet. We have Hades, too. No, I think I think Hellblade for sure. I thought it was pronounced Hads. No, Luigi's Mansion, two HD ads. Hads to.
01:06:04
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Paper mario thousand-year door replaced you remember that like a little pixley Game that we saw a long time ago called replace. It looked real cool I'll I'll appreciate this and say help me right down there. He appreciates this I appreciate the assist Like I like when I hooked up Neil last time
01:06:28
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It's fair. Appreciate that. Carlos. I am going to go with Star Wars Outwalls. Oh, that's a good one. It is a late 2024 game and just the scope of it. And also, I think EA is still doing Star Wars, aren't they? So I don't have much trust in that either. I hope you're wrong, but that's just a good pick.
01:06:54
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I'm hope I'm wrong too, because I had this game is looking pretty fire, so. Oh, right. Going into the unannounced games before we do our unique predictions and in this thing out, but predict an unannounced PS5 game. I'm sticking with the same answer I had last year and going twisted metal.
01:07:15
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Matthew, I am sticking with the same answer I had last year and tweaking it a little bit and not saying uncharted remake, but just saying an uncharted King. We saw that little clip that looked super uncharted E and the big montage they had. And I don't know if it'll be a remake by somebody else or they're coming out with something in charted E, but I'm going with it.
01:07:36
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Yeah, I think the what it seems to be is just a continuation kind of the story just with the daughter. But I mean, you've only had like two little tiny clips. I agree with you. That's what it looks like. And we're just saying it has to be announced, not released, right? Yeah, just announced. Just announced. Andrew, I don't think this was announced, but they're going to remake like the OG got a war.
01:08:01
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I see what you're saying. Yeah, that would make sense. And they slapped that thing on PlayStation Plus premium day one, you know what I mean? There you go. Carlos. Announcements, I am going to I'm just going to go with just Ashima to.
01:08:26
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Oh, I want that. It's good. Good choice. I want that. He wants it. We all want it. Okay. Predict an unannounced Xbox game. I'm going with gears.
01:08:43
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Seven that's that in quotes because It'll either I think I mean it I think it'll be a full-fledged Gears of War game Whether or not they just continue into a gear seven or they do like a full reboot or something like that. I don't know They need to bring the franchise back. Yeah, but it'll be a brand new like full Gears of War game
01:09:05
Speaker
Yeah, Matthew. I'm voting with my heart, not my head here. I'm gonna say that now they own now they acquired Blizzard Activision. I'm gonna say they go ahead and go through with the Tony Hawk three and four. I know they talk like it was on the docket for a while and then it got X nade. So I both love because I want to play a game and I hate because the PlayStation controller is the better controller to play that game like the D pad is what you want. Yeah, but well,
01:09:35
Speaker
Andrew. World of Warcraft on Xbox. Oh, I hope so. He hopes. For my own time's sake, I hope not, but. Carlos. I'm going to go along that vein that Andrew did, but I'm going to say wow on Game Pass.
01:09:59
Speaker
Ooh, even better. He just won up to you. Yeah, no, he did. That's very, very specific. That was my first unique prediction that we haven't gotten to, so I'm going to Xnay that and put another one on. That is very specific. All right, predict an unannounced Nintendo game. I'm going straight from the point here, and it's just saying Mario Odyssey 2. Matthew, give it to me. I'm not changing anything. Superstars baseball.
01:10:26
Speaker
I think I still think it's coming at some point. They've done tennis. They've done golf. Like it's coming back at some point. Yeah. And strikers. So, uh, Andrew, I'm going to shut Andrew down and say new 3d Mario. Oh, a new 3d Mario. You know how upset I'm going to be if that's the case. So just the same thing, not completely original, just new 3d. Carlos.
01:10:53
Speaker
I don't know, man. I'm just going to say, come on, man. Well, let me the switch to is coming out like he said that confidently again. He keeps doing that. Why is he not getting swatted? Matthew's getting swatted. So, yeah, the Mario game of some sort. Yeah, I can't predict. Sure. Let's go with Mario Kart. Put me down for that. Mario Kart. Do it. It's just announced to and I don't have to come out. That's it.
01:11:22
Speaker
All right. Three unique predictions, boys. Oh, three. Oh, God. Three. Yep. Yep. It's always three. Oh, I thought it was one. You're always one. I'll give you some time. I got one. Do you want to go one at a time or do you want to do all three so that one at a time? We can do one at a time. Sure. You'll have time to think. Crap. You want to. I am.
01:11:51
Speaker
Just whenever somebody makes a unique prediction, predict the opposite. I think Mario Kart's coming out and they'd be like, I think Mario Kart's not coming out. That's my unique prediction. There you go. Wow. Okay. I'll go first with my first one. The PS5 Pro is very real. It will release fall of 2024 at $600 price tag with no disc drive.
01:12:20
Speaker
Okay. They have that detachable disk drive that you can buy if you want it. But it's going to be an expensive, expensive boy.
01:12:30
Speaker
And I don't have this written down, but they'll probably show off a new Grand Theft Auto trailer when they show off the PS5 Pro. Look how good Grand Theft Auto 6 is going to look when you play on a PS5 Pro. All right, Matthew, your first one.
01:12:53
Speaker
I have a theme in my unique predictions. Theme it up. I'm going to predict that there is an Animal Crossing something game announced this year. I don't know if that's necessarily a sequel, but I think that... An Animal Crossing game. Something, yeah. Because I just think it became too big of a household name for them to not include it with advertising for their new console. Could be. Could be. Andrew.
01:13:21
Speaker
Lay it on me. Are we doing one or three? Because I have three. One at a time. One at a time. Okay. All right. It's going to be boring, but it's the return of Bloodborne, either remake or sequel. Okay. That's going to be the name of it. The return of Bloodborne. Okay. Return of Bloodborne. AKA the thing that I and many other millions want. That's what the game is going to be called. Okay. You won't know which one it will be until you play the game.
01:13:48
Speaker
some Carlos, your first one said, uh, goes to Sushima will be announced for PC. Oh yes, dude. I've been waiting on that. I think this is the year I've been, I've been thinking, I've been sitting on this one. I think this is the year that they're going to announce it. God, it's so good. Okay. My second one, Pokemon black and white remakes.
01:14:15
Speaker
nice will come out at the end of this year possibly will combine i guess like so there's black and white and there's black and white too which is like pretty much the same game but the story was like kind of different it was weird so
01:14:30
Speaker
whatever black and white thing they have going on. That'll be the remake for this game. I predict it won't be able to break 30 FPS. That's my unique opinion. It depends on which console it comes on. And who's making it too? So like the last remake we got was not made by Game Freak. It was the Diamond and Pearl ones, remember?
01:14:54
Speaker
So I'm hoping it's made at least in that same vein of like open world-ish, but it's on the new Switch and it runs well. That's my hope, but it'll probably just be maybe by that same team that did the Diamond and Pearl ones.
01:15:11
Speaker
Matthew, you're second. Well, I'm going to ask. I'm going out of order because it's plays off yours. I actually have a, what I, what I wrote was major Pokemon game. What I mean by that is not in the cookie cutter fashion, like maybe it's an Arceus style or the next evolution of that, but a major Pokemon game. It's not, you know, the same exact style as everything else has been. Yeah.
01:15:39
Speaker
Um, and drew, I don't know if I can cast a net this wide. I was going to say a brand new rhythm game for home console with a peripheral. Okay. We can do that. I was originally going to say like a new DDR or the return of guitar hero, but I'll do like a, a wide net. So you're saying a peripheral that does not exist yet.
01:16:04
Speaker
Right. Is that what you're saying? No, it's just a yeah. Yeah. Like if it's DDR, it'll come with them. You can buy them. Yeah. Or if it's a new guitar here, it'll come with the guitar. Yeah. Right. I got you. I got you. A current gen rhythm game with a peripheral. It could be that saxophone game comes out, but it's where this comes with the saxophone. Oh yeah, dude. I forgot about that. Oh, is it trombone?
Musical Game Sequels
01:16:24
Speaker
There's a trombone. Trombone. Yeah, comes with a trombone.
01:16:26
Speaker
Or the sequel is a saxophone. Yeah. Donkey Kong. And the only songs on there are 90s theme song music from hit TV shows. Oh, there we go. Yeah. It's a small day, man.
Apple's Gaming Ambitions
01:16:40
Speaker
Carlos. I'm going to go a little weird with this one, but the Apple. Let's get weird. The Apple Vision is coming out within the next month or so. Apple is going to have a major game.
01:16:56
Speaker
I would say major game announcement, but a major announcement about like a whole game division for the Apple Vision Pros. That's going to be a weird one, but cool. I mean, it wouldn't shock me and only 500 for sure. We'll play it because it costs five thousand dollars. So expensive. Yeah, it's going to get shut down.
01:17:20
Speaker
Um, okay. My last and final one is a, it's a beefy boy. I'm going for all the point five points. You know, I can get, if I can get a half a point, I'm going to get it.
Upcoming PlayStation Titles
01:17:33
Speaker
PlayStation will have one showcase this year with the majority of first party games being slated out of 2024.
01:17:42
Speaker
Okay means they'll be announced but it won't be coming this year. We will get updates for Stellar Blade and Wolverine with this holidays big game being Twisted Metal. The highlights of the show will be a new Uncharted game not done by Naughty Dog. A tease from Neil Druckmann's original IP.
01:18:01
Speaker
And Ghost of Tsushima 2 will end the show. And then I have in parentheses also probably- Yeah, he just wrote a paragraph. Did you just play this fantasy out in your head? Yeah, like what the heck dude? I thought you were reading an article. All of my extra predictions in one prediction.
01:18:18
Speaker
So if he gets all of this right, he just wins the year, right? I mean, if I get like two of them, maybe he gets it. It's just ridiculous. And then at the end, I have in parentheses, also probably something from Insomniac, because they always show up and do something. They do. If we have a PlayStation showcase and Insomniac isn't there, it's going to be weird. I mean, you're just hell-bearing this one, aren't you?
01:18:40
Speaker
I mean, I'm gonna nail everything I said. All right. I'm a genius. I have all the insider information. All right. Matthew, your last one. My theme was all Nintendo all time. I think it's a big Nintendo year with a new console, at least in my opinion. So I'm gonna say the Metroid Prime 2 remake comes out in launch window, we'll say.
Nintendo's New Console Launch Titles
01:19:05
Speaker
Maybe not launch day, but it's definitely a launch day or window title. Yeah.
01:19:11
Speaker
All right. Andrew, your final prediction, big boy. PlayStation returns to handheld. Bold. Bold. Nothing else. I don't need a paragraph. You're going to miss out on all those half points.
01:19:35
Speaker
When PlayStation returns, but not to handheld, you don't get a half point for that.
Half-Life 3 VR Announcement
01:19:41
Speaker
Carlos. All right. I'm going to go even more bold. I'm going to hail Mary. I'm going to hail that Mary even further. And this could be the most ridiculous thing or it could be the most idiotic answer. And you can laugh. I have my permission to laugh. Half life three gets announced.
01:20:03
Speaker
I have like three I'm putting it there. It's all it's VR. Oh, I'm a madman VR. I'm putting you know, I'm You heard it, right? No, no, you said it okay. So here's a here's a question. Would you rather have that or portal portal three?
01:20:29
Speaker
Portal 3. I'm too scared for Half-Life 3. I'd rather have Portal 3. Because it's scary to have that chance of the bar has been set so high and expectations are so high where it's like, I don't think it's ever going to really fulfill what everyone wants out of that game. So I'm terrified to see what it would be.
Dream Game Announcements
01:20:52
Speaker
I'm okay with the portal. I love portal but portal 3 it's like whatever it's a safe formula but like half-life 3 is just so far up here. I'm like I want to but at the same time I kind of don't know if I'm ready. I have a higher chance of playing anthem again before you play. Yeah that's fair.
01:21:11
Speaker
Okay, last thing of the podcast are Holy Grail announcements. These are games that if they were announced, you'd pee your pants and you'd pee other people's pants. A game? You said games plural? I mean, if you have more than one, sure. Okay. Just list them off. I have two kind of. Same two as I had last year for the most part, except for I had changed my Pokemon. I just put Pokemon MMO, some sort of live service.
01:21:38
Speaker
Ongoing pokemon mm-hmm MMO would be the best game. Well. There's that Korean one in development right the one that looks really cool Who makes it the black desert team remember? What's it called? Oh? Yeah, the one with guns No, no, no, no, but it's supposed to be like a pokemon light game, but the graphics are like super awesome Pokemon light game Here one sec
01:22:14
Speaker
Well, Game Freak is going to have to do it and be a part of it in someone. But then my other one is just right then five. And then my more realistic one, I guess, would be. Yeah. Give me a new. Give me a brand spanking full fledged new rock band game where they're doing all the stuff in Fortnite now. So. Yeah, it's possible. Oh, it's called Dokey V. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's the that's the open world like Pokemon like.
01:22:25
Speaker
I want Game Freak to be like, here's the new Switch, and here's a Pokemon Destiny, or a Pokemon World of Warcraft. And everybody's in.
01:22:42
Speaker
Cool. Now, if only Pokemon would see that and be like, hey, maybe we should do that. Mm hmm. People might like it. Matthew.
01:22:52
Speaker
Holy grail, a little different this year. Usually I pick a new uncharted game or I go to another Shenmue game because it just give me all those. But I went a little different based off of what I've been
Remake Desires
01:23:01
Speaker
playing recently. I would love for them to come out and remake or remaster or whatever fantasy star online episodes one and two, like the old school ones. They're not going to do it because they're putting their money in the new stuff. I get that. But I love the old gameplay style a little bit more.
01:23:18
Speaker
And I would love to experience that again. Like that's the one game out of all the games in my past. I wish I could have experienced like the way it was meant to be online with friends and stuff. But when it was out that I didn't get to at the time. So, yeah. All right. Andrew, give it to me. I think I say this every year. We want new blood board. I already had it written down.
01:23:49
Speaker
Are you sure? Is that your final answer? Yes. My dog, what just happened? Carlos, sorry. Bloodborne's taken. Okay. So honestly, the,
Star Citizen and Tarkov Predictions
01:24:12
Speaker
The Half-Life 3 thing, I know, I joked, it's not gonna happen. That probably should have gone in the Holy Grail one. Probably, probably so. It might happen. They did Half-Life Alyx, no one thought that would happen. That's just reaching for points. More realistically, I mean, Squadron 42 will release this year. I don't know what that is, but I'll put it in.
01:24:41
Speaker
It's Star Citizen, the single player game. The game has only been in Alpha for like 10 years, 12 years. But the single player part of it I think is gonna happen. Which is I guess where they've been putting in their resources for the last 12 years. There's another one I had.
01:25:10
Speaker
Neil's got it. Neil's Holy Grail is that Tarkov comes out of beta. I can't believe that game is still in beta. It's just 2017. Wait, that means I can still get it cheap. Let's see. I think it's 40 bucks. Yeah, it's not cheap. It's not cheap. I bought the game. Oh man. I bought the game and I have not even installed it. I think I made an account. That sounds about right.
01:25:35
Speaker
Yeah, because I had a couple friends that were like, Hey, you should complain. I'm like, uh-huh. And then suddenly they're nowhere to be found. If it was free to play, I would be there with you. Sounds about right. Yeah. All right. Well, that well is our 2024 predictions. We will be back.
01:25:53
Speaker
Either at the end of this year or the beginning of next year. This marks year four for the podcast.
Podcast Milestone Celebration
01:26:05
Speaker
For real? Jeez. It's got to be more than that. We've done over 200 episodes. Well, yeah, you guys started it like 15 years ago or something. We're over 200 episodes, right? We started in 2020, right? The beginning of 2020 is when we started.
01:26:23
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, surprise, they're not just throwing media passes at us all the time. They need to do better. That's true. Do better. All right. Well, that is going to do it for this episode. Thank you. If you made it this far, let us know in the comments below what your predictions are, or if you're listening, go to our YouTube channel, comment what your predictions for 2024 are, hit that subscribe button, do all the things we will be with you next.
01:26:53
Speaker
See ya!