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Is Playstation Making A New Handheld Console?
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Introduction and Host Updates
00:00:13
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What's up, everybody? Welcome to the Logon Games podcast for Friday, February the 2nd. We're recording this on Friday, February the 2nd at 1 0 2 a.m. That's right. That's how we like to roll. Last minute, baby. I moved.
00:00:32
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And I'm still moving and it's craziness. So. It's about it, but I wanted to get on here. This may be a shorter one. Yes, I'm very tired. It's been nonstop for like four days. So just like. Literally, as soon as I've woken up the last three days, there's been animal fecal matter to clean. So it's been like, you're up. All right. Time to clean up poop because the animals are confused and don't know what the heck's going on.
00:01:03
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And then it's all day of moving and cleaning and stuff.
State of Play Reactions
00:01:07
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But I watched the state of play last night or I guess yesterday whenever it happened. Was it yesterday yesterday? I had it going on my phone. I sat on the floor of our old house after I vacuumed and just sat there and took a break and watched it on my phone. Yeah.
00:01:27
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Um, so I wanted to get on here. It's maybe, like I said, maybe a shorter one, but we're talking about the state of play and then some more PlayStation news that dropped, uh, today as well. And we will get into it. Um, Matthew and Carlos and Andrew did reactions to the state of play. So if you want more content from us, it's like usual, you can go to our YouTube channel, youtube.com slash log on games.
00:01:56
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And you can watch the reactions on that one. Let me tell you, I was editing it last night. I was like, why is Carlos is four minutes less than everybody else's. And then I was like, okay, he jumped in. So, so with no context trying to figure out, I was like, did he drop out early? Did he come in early?
00:02:18
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So you were like, Hey, you join right when the PlayStation logo popped up. So it's like, all right, that's where I'm putting. Yeah. He jumped in a little, uh, a little late. I'm gonna be honest with you. I know like from our discord that it, you know, we, he can obviously jump in and it was communicated. I just missed it where it said that he might, that he was jumping in or whatever. So I, we were just sitting here watching me and Andrew getting ready to do it. All of a sudden he pops in and I was like, Oh,
00:02:46
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Hi, no idea. I did not expect it at all. I mean, I thought it was like maybe a different like last week's podcast or something when I was downloading it. Cause I was like, I didn't think Carlos was going to do it. It happened. So it was good. Um, good say
Meet the Hosts and Weather Chat
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to play. I thought.
00:03:05
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I will Do the rigmarole? This is my next user eight eight x matt. I think my gong is in the garage because I hit a point At about 11 p.m. Last night when I had a load a van full of stuff that I was like
00:03:23
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I'm just going to put it all in the garage and sifter it later. I'm not bringing it in the house. And then I did it again today. And so my gong is somewhere behind this wall. I'm not going to go digging for it right now, but X user, eight X Matthew, he's on the podcast tonight. This morning, whatever it is, the cold and there's no one is not, it's 40 degrees, which is really warm compared to what it has been. It is snowed here, like maybe six times.
00:03:53
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So far? Yeah. I've had to shovel snow five or six times so far. I don't like it. Not here. It's not here. It is, however. I don't like it. 41 degrees, but it feels like 38. It's cold for Atlanta. That is cold for Atlanta. It feels like 33.
00:04:20
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too cold. It is 40 degrees and that is the warmest, warmest it will be for a week. Well, we will welcome everybody to log on
Podcast Availability and YouTube Call to Action
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games podcast. It's a weekly show in which I was discussed a variety of gaming news topics from new games, big announcements, events, and more new episodes upload every Friday on Apple podcasts, Spotify, Google. I don't know what Google podcasts. Is that what it's just called Google podcasts or is it you for now?
00:04:51
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It's still, I still use the Google podcast app, but it's all about to go to YouTube music. And it just, there's a podcast section or YouTube music. Actually, if I go to Google podcasts at the very top after April 2nd, 2024, no longer be able to listen to podcasts and Google podcasts. There you go. Export subscriptions. Okay. Let me do that real quick.
00:05:13
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Death Stranding 2 Trailer Discussion
00:06:00
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So y'all did the action state of play yesterday. Mm hmm.
00:06:03
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Um, again, if you want to see the reaction to every game announcement, you can do that. Um, I'm just going to kind of go through the list, try and give my, I guess the list here too, from overall thoughts. I am looking at the list from IGN.com. I also did put an outline in our discord. Um, I never texted it to you, but there is one if you want it. Um,
00:06:29
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The biggest one that they have at the top was Death Stranding 2, which was a trailer. That was a short film. Yeah, it was like a sneak preview episode. Death Stranding, when I watched
00:06:47
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and look at the gameplay like it's not something I want to do. I just don't want to like deliver packages. I know people that actually like the game. It's like really relaxing when you're just like delivering packages. It's kind of like positively and stuff like that. I don't care. But man, if this trailer wasn't like, man, I wish this was just a movie. I could just watch the movie right now.
00:07:06
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I, we, if you, I don't know if you had to watch our reaction at all, but, um, we, we said that exact same thing. I was like, man, I, like I, I want to finish the first game. I enjoyed what I played. I just, it's, it's just one of those things. I didn't play a ton, maybe 10, 12 hours. And it's just one of those things where I was like, okay, this is a commitment I'm going to have to make. And I just didn't make that commitment at that time. I would like to do so. Um, and then play this one as well, just because.
00:07:36
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We said the same thing. If they just decide to come out with this as a movie in the future, I'd watch it, man.
00:07:43
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It looks phenomenal graphically. Looks so good. I was looking at some of the rumors and stuff that were supposed to be about the stage of play before. And one of them was like, Okojima is going to announce a movie thing or whatever. And I was like, I hope it's just a death stranding movie so I can just watch the movie. And then if I want to play the second game, I can play the second game. But right here, it says the trailer was nine minutes and 40 seconds. So.
00:08:10
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It was cool. My favorite part? Well, there's some parts. First of all, the puppet was probably the star of the show. But when he was fighting the dude with the guitar, the guitar guy was fighting another dude. That was the best part to block it. He like he threw it around his body and then caught up. I was like, yeah, that was what's his name. What's his name doing the voice? Yeah, Troy Baker. It was cool.
00:08:35
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He also announced a new action espionage game. They're not going to say it's Metal Gear because it's probably not, but something same type of game, I guess. I would like to make all these games. Yeah, just because I recently played Snatcher on Sega CD, which is forever old and your little robot guy that helps you out is named Metal Gear.
00:09:03
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Uh, and, uh, it's not really action espionage though. It's just more like, uh, espionage. It's like a lot of action, but I dunno, it's probably, it sounds to me like it's probably not metal gear. It's just a new IP in that.
00:09:24
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Like, it's gonna blend movies and video games together like never. Yeah. And then, and then the way they went, he said that and was like, all right, we're out. And it like zooms out and they're like in the in the studios. And then it says that thing on the studios, which is a word that I don't know what it means. Who knows? But it was cool. We had a deep dive on Rise of Ronin. Mm hmm.
00:09:54
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I don't know. I didn't I didn't care much for it. I was like, I don't know if Andrew did or not. It seemed like if anybody in the games crew would care to be him. I think they were interested, intrigued because it was it was. It's definitely it almost made them just based off. I don't want to put words in his mouth, but it sounded like it almost just made him want Ghost of Tsushima 2 more.
Stellar Blade Trailer Impressions
00:10:18
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Yeah. So checks out. I think it's kind of where they're at on that.
00:10:23
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Uh, we had the until dawn remaster. Sure. I don't know exactly who was asking for that, but it's going to happen. Um, stellar blade deep dive. It looked weird. We've seen it a million times by this point. We've seen like this trailer trailer. So it's like, okay. I mean, I don't, if you're not sold on it or it's not your type of game yet, I don't know what this trailer would do to make you feel differently. But.
00:10:52
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It did a good job of making me still not know if I want to play this game or not.
00:10:59
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There's like so many things about the game. Like, this looks cool. The music was really good. It was like kind of persona II without the dancing beat sounded good. It was cool. But then everything in the whole video was narrated by some chick. And you can sit down if you want to rest and heal. And that's good. At this part of the game, you're going to be doing stuff like this. And it was just like the most not
00:11:25
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I mean, she sounded like the Wii Fit instructor. Yeah. It's like, what are we doing here? Like you could have just showed me all the stuff without the narration and I'd have got it. And it would have probably been better. But it reminds me of like all these like platinum games that come out or any of these Japanese like action games to come out and get like nine out of 10. So everybody's like, Oh my gosh, my favorite game ever. And I'm like, awesome. I really want to play it. And then I never do. Yeah. Number one takeaway of that game for me.
00:11:52
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What a really cool, unique take on some of the monsters in that game. They just don't look like monsters in any other game. I like that. It looked good. Monsters Inc.? Yeah. That is 100% a game that I will play if it's a 9 out of 10. And if it's a 7, I'm probably going to pass. We got a final look at Dragon's Dogma 2, which looked cool. Looks like it's a good trailer. If you're into that.
00:12:23
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Is that game multiplayer? I don't know. Let's find out. Single player. Single player. I think this one. Sonic and Shadow Generations announces it's obviously a remake slash remaster of Sonic Generations, which they've already remastered once before, I think.
00:12:52
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But, uh, we're adding shadow and it looks like they're adding a bunch of new like shadow levels and stuff like that. So, because, uh, the next Sonic three, the next Sonic movie is going to have shadow in it. And he'll probably also be in the, would it be par, I think Paramount is doing the Knuckles TV show.
00:13:15
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from. I didn't know that. I don't know. Yeah. That's cool. Knuckles from Sonic two. He's at unless they cancel it or whatever. It's always possible. Silent Hill. The short message that that was the ghost drop that dropped today or yesterday. But apparently that game is utter garbage because it's like getting like threes and stuff. Really?
00:13:36
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Interesting. I saw two, one was like a four out of 10 and one was a three out of 10 is for the review. I was like, okay. You're talking about the short stories when they're short, whatever that is, short message. It looked like we talked about it. It looked very PT ish. Yeah. I thought it was going to be a VR thing, but then it wouldn't.
00:13:54
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Um, and then we got Judas, which was the creator of the Bioshock's new game, which I think we'd seen before something, but this was like, it was like gameplay thing that we had seen. Oh yeah. So you're the Bioshock person. What'd you, what'd you think?
00:14:07
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It was so funny because we talked about it and it said from the makers of Bioshock, I'm like, Oh, cool. And I'd forgotten about that game until we got like towards the end. And it said like the logo I remembered very specifically. So I don't think we saw very much of it when we saw it before. Um, but it was one of those things. I was like, man, this does not look like it's from the creators of Bioshock. And then the more the trailer went on, the more I was like, yeah, it does. Yeah. Like at the beginning it didn't, but the more they got into it. Yeah.
00:14:34
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Like, graphically, just looks wise, like, it has that old, like, it has that, like, bioshock, but that has to, like, look. But way better. Way better look. Like, like, that's one of the re- I almost thought it looked graphically in certain, certain times, like, um, Deathloop, I mentioned it. It had some of that, some of that graphic to it, and I don't know. Uh, I'm into it. Like, I'm totally into it, man. I think it's going to be really good. Um, I assume.
00:15:04
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Uh, it's the story writer from the first and third Bioshock games, what it sounds like to me. And the stories for both those games are phenomenal. So I assume this is, is going to be similar. Um, so I don't know. I'm into it. We didn't, I don't think we got a date or anything on that one. No, I didn't say anything on here. I think we might be ways out for that, but look good.
00:15:30
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The rising come in PlayStation five action Diablo style something or another. Mr. Vampire one thing. Yeah. David Diver coming, bringing Godzilla with him. Because why not? Got to get to get to it. Zenless zone zero in development for PlayStation five. Metro Awakening VR, this was leaked.
00:15:56
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Uh, like a day before. So I kind of knew that was coming, but it's funny. We were watching, we were watching that and Carlos is like, uh, what's calling Metro? And we get the, and he's like, Oh, it is Metro. So it's pretty interesting. Uh, the first thing I did when I saw this trailer was look it up, see if it was coming to any other VR platforms and it.
00:16:19
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It's coming to every VR platform. So good. Well, we had a good little conversation about like that's for VR to succeed long-term. It needs full experiences like that that are AAA VR experiences. So the more of that that they can do, the better. You have to have a decent catalog of games that can do some stuff like that to make people that are like myself or other people that like are like, I don't want a novelty item. They want something they can play all the time.
00:16:48
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Yeah, and I will definitely be getting a meta quest three at some point, maybe birthday coming up in April or something like that. But so any, any full games like this is a welcome because it is coming to medical history. I was like, yes. Okay.
Helldivers 2: Excitement or Skepticism?
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Um, legendary tales, uh, revealed for PlayStation VR too. I don't.
00:17:11
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This game really didn't speak to me as someone that likes VR stuff. But so I didn't look it up, see if it's coming to anything else. But I assume it is because if it's only going to be on PlayStation VR 2, that's how like the trailer just going to start only playing. Yeah, I think the thing about that I want to figure out is that there was a part where I could have sworn I saw a second player. Maybe. Legendary Tales on Steam is a 9.0. It's a four player co-op.
00:17:42
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Nice. That's a really fun VR co-op games out right now. Interesting. That's really interesting because that did not like the way they started that like the first 10 seconds or so it was like, Ooh, this doesn't look finished or good.
00:17:59
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And then the more I got into it, the more I was like, there's a lot of this that I don't get and I don't like. And then there's some stuff I'll go, that looks really cool. So it must be good. Nine out of 10 is not, not half shabby. You know what I mean? Everyone likes half shabbies. There's a lot of, uh, the yard games that don't look, I mean, kind of like the Nintendo effect where it's like, they don't look good. They're just fun to play like it. Yep. And co-ops. Yeah.
00:18:26
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And that's the thing with there's some games that Emily has seen. I've shown off or whatever that are VR games. She's like, I would love to play it. And like. It's all like she could have a medicalist to which are like dirt cheap right now, and I can have the medicalist three and we could still play that kind of stuff, which makes me happy. So a new film stars trailer ahead of next week's launch. I played the beta this game and I didn't care about it.
00:18:55
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It looks pretty. That's all I got. Helldivers 2 trailer. This looks cool. I'm excited for this. I just don't know if I want to pay $40 for it or $30, however much it is. But I'll be interested to see when the reviews come out. Yeah, that's going to have to be like a really like a nine out of 10-ish kind of thing for me to be interested. Otherwise, it just looks a little samey as a lot of other stuff. So yeah, I think I'm good. And
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Announcement
00:19:20
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that was it. That was the state of play.
00:19:25
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We have the they also announced the final fantasy seven rebirth state of play coming next week and yeah a week later. Yeah and uh Cool, yeah, I think it's just going to be final fantasy. I don't think it's going to be like anything else. So I agree my assumption Go ahead Let's say my assumption is we don't get another state of play or probably a showcase whatever until may june times
00:19:56
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Right. We kind of talked about that a little bit and it seemed like they announced a couple of things that are way in the future, but the majority of the state of play was here's the stuff we have coming out before summer game fest.
00:20:08
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Yeah, or does training which loads 2025 but we already knew that game existed. There's something there was a couple things that were way off Judas being one of them, but most of it was just kind of like here's here's what's some dates on some things coming out in the next, you know, three, four or five months. And that's kind of what that looked like. And then also the Final Fantasy thing. I think you're right. I think they only show Final Fantasy with the exception of
00:20:34
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if they're doing a remaster of a different like something like if there's another announcement there, it'll be another Final Fantasy announcement. Um, today, we got this I'm reading from insider gaming. Sony may finally be set to rejoin the traditional handheld gaming market with a new PlayStation handheld console. According to known hardware leaker Moore's law is dead. ML ID.
00:21:02
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A non-streaming console is in the works at Sony that would natively support and play games. In his report, he says the device will have a custom AMD APU that is currently in the high-level design phase and is at least two years out and technically not in green lit for launch yet.
00:21:18
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It's also mentioned that based on talking with developers, a new handheld could maintain native backwards compatibility with PS4 games while receiving a pro-like patch for PlayStation 5 titles. The report does not state that the device is still in early development, so things are likely to change. It's also unclear about when this could possibly be revealed and or released by Sony. Lastly, he says that while he can confirm that the handheld is in development and AMD
00:21:44
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Has the contract for the APU the exact specs of the device our speculation on his part as the writing insider gaming has been able to independently verify So miss memory, like I said, he has been right before but also I feel like all these companies like Sony and Microsoft those are probably always working on a
00:22:06
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two or three hardware things that just aren't going to ever see the light of day. So. Right. Right. Right. Right. But with the, you know, the, one of our 2024 predictions was how many of these PC handheld things we were going to get.
Sony's New Handheld Console Speculations
00:22:20
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So maybe did the boom is happening. Maybe Sony might jump back on board one of these days and give us that. Maybe, maybe so.
00:22:33
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Yeah, I don't know. Interesting. I was the one who said that we wouldn't see all a bunch of handhelds this year. And it looks like I'm going to be pretty wrong on that. Just CES alone was like. They announced like. Whatever the over was, whatever the over under was on our prediction, it's like it's already over. We are just in February.
00:23:00
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And that's, I guess, I don't know if we said released or not. I think we said released. So I know one of them is set to be released this year. I don't know about the other ones, but I'm sure they will be, but that's all I got. So something you want to talk before we end up this short little pod. Yeah. I am going to, I'm going to mention some more power world. I brought up a, uh, an article also from IGN, uh, today, yesterday, uh, two days ago.
00:23:31
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Power World, playfully dubbed as Pokemon with Guns, has experienced a meteoric rise in three weeks since its launch as one of the biggest releases in gaming history. While the argument over, blah, blah, blah, okay, skipping, skipping, skipping, in a recent blog post on Xbox Wire, Xbox announced that it will be working directly with Pocket Pair, the developers of Power World, to assist in supplying the resources necessary to keep the momentum of the monster survival game going strong.
Power World Success Story
00:23:54
Speaker
On Xbox's part, we're working with pocket, this is a quote on Xbox's part, we're working with pocket pair to help provide support for Xbox versions of the game. Xbox said in the post, we're providing support to enable dedicated servers offering engineering resources to help with GPU and memory optimization, speeding up the process to make PowerWorld updates available for players and working with the team to optimize the title for our platform.
00:24:19
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This news coming off the heels of pocket pair announcing that power world crossed over 19 million total players across all platforms since this release on January 19th. Keep in mind, this was the article that was posted on January the 31st, 12 days later. So 19 million players in 12 days.
00:24:39
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According to Xbox wire power world is this biggest third party launch in top in game pass history with over 7 million players in a daily player peak of just shy of 3 million. So yeah, it's really I know we talked about it goes on to talk about you know, how they hit 2.1 and on Steam and different stuff, but
00:25:02
Speaker
I just, that just blows my mind that you're 12 days in and it's the biggest third party game launch on Xbox, you know, game pass platform history. And, uh, this is the kind of thing that game pass needs long-term. They need to have to where people, we need people to have game pass so that when something like this happens once every year or two, they know they're there and they're ready.
00:25:32
Speaker
Right. And you have to have a cup. You have to have something like this happen for people to have the feeling like it can happen again. It's a perfect storm. Like we said, I guess last podcast, like with apex kind of dropped out of nowhere and there was nothing out at the mall at that moment. I was like, it wasn't like to 2023 where it's like big game after big game or whatever. Um, or like rocket league came for free on PlayStation plus.
00:25:58
Speaker
And so the perfect storm where there's not really anything new to play. There's still a lot of people are doing back catalog stuff from 2023, but just nothing been nothing like new. And for game pass people, it's been free. So, well, you pay for the subscription, but essentially it just pops up one day and you can just play it. So it's been that perfect storm of just everything happening all at once analysis. And the game's great. I've played it.
00:26:27
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At some point every day, I've been doing nothing but wanting to play it for the last three days. So there's that. I know. I know. And if we had dedicated servers, I kept playing, but I have far past where we are on our multiplayer world. So I need to get back in there maybe tomorrow and we can, we can do some stuff, but, um, it's just.
00:26:48
Speaker
I don't know. It's, that's a lot of players in 12 days. And, um, I would be curious to see where the player count stacks up to like the Halo first 12 day player count. Like, so I just would be curious on some of that stuff. I would imagine the first party stuff has more, but I bet it's closer than you think. Yeah. Um, but yeah, it's, it's, uh, it is the video game of choice across.
00:27:18
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all platforms that are not PlayStation. And that was kind of come back full circle. That was the one to actually kind of thought that we might see Power World at the state of play. Not any sort of anything other than... And Power World's gonna come to PlayStation. And that's it. You know what I mean? Like, at some point or whatever, just kind of like, this is in the works. We're gonna make this freaking work. And maybe then I... And they still will. But when? I don't know.
00:27:48
Speaker
Yeah. The more of a PlayStation blog situation. I assume like these state of plays are done a month before they.
00:27:59
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come out. That's probably true, too. That's why I said I didn't think it'd be anything more than just like, here's a screenshot of the main screen or something. And it's coming sometime this year or whatever. Well, no, we got a new pal world patch. I saw whoever it was. Maybe it was just a pal world Twitter account that was like working on Xbox to get this out as quickly as possible or whatever. So. Yeah, I. So there was a patch that just came out a couple of hours ago, I think, or today. That might have been the one.
00:28:27
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Yeah. And I'm going to download it after this and see, because I experienced some pretty rough frame rate stuff yesterday, but it was because like, I didn't experience frame rate issues until after I downloaded the new AMD driver for my graphics card. And so I would imagine there's an update to the AMD drivers sometime soon to fix that. Um, but we'll see.
Conclusion and YouTube Reminder
00:28:56
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We'll see. Well, that's our short pod. Again, if you guys want some more content, the state of play reactions is over on our YouTube channel, youtube.com slash at log on games. We will be with you next Friday with another podcast. You can rate us five stars, thumbs up, all that kind of stuff. So that's going to do it. Goodbye. Oh, see you. Let's break it.