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We Mostly Talk About the Nintendo Switch 2
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Hey, everyone! In Episode 109 of Unqualified Game Chat, Spencer and I cover everything from my 10-day streak on Duolingo learning Japanese (Nihongo for the win!) to a deep dive into Nintendo’s recent reveal of the Switch 2. We reflect on how the original Switch revolutionized hybrid gaming but can’t help critiquing the unimaginative name and lack of exciting innovations in the sequel. While the original Switch nailed the balance between portability and home gaming, the Switch 2 feels more like an incremental upgrade, raising questions about whether Nintendo is playing it too safe.
We also chat about how much we miss the charm and personality of older consoles, like the Wii and 3DS, with their quirky themes and fun features. Beyond that, we get into some real talk about the challenges content creators face when it comes to sponsorships and journalistic integrity. To wrap things up, we look ahead with cautious optimism, hoping the Switch 2 will push developers to optimize games better—even if it’s missing the fun, creative spark we’ve come to love from Nintendo’s past.
Key Topics
- 00:00 – Intro
- 13:09 – Live Streaming Reflections
- 15:13 – Nintendo Switch 2 Reveal
- 20:31 – The Charm of Past Consoles
- 35:37 – Switch 2 Speculations
- 41:13 – Closing Thoughts
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Transcript
Spencer's Duolingo Journey
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Speaker
Spencer, I actually have to tell you, I've been doing a Duolingo for 10 days straight. Whoa, what language? ah This little language, I don't know if you've heard about it. It's called Japanese Kanichiwa. Hi,
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Speaker
Aliyagashimasu!
Episode Introduction
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the
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Hello and welcome to episode one oh nine. Right on time. Right on time. Of Unqualified Game Chat. I am one of your hosts, Lazar Lopez. And with me today is the ever so cuddly, ever so bright, ever so charming.
00:01:12
Speaker
Spencer, the legacy. We moved my mic closer so I have a bassy boom. It is bassy. It's just Like there's, there's different tones and, and this is the stupid nerdy shit that I learned while if you listen to a noisy pixel reviews, like in our first year, oh man, not only is my, my voice really bad, but our audio was different. I remember that. Yeah.
00:01:36
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It sounded like a 90, 80 year old lesbian or something. Like smoke too much, smoke too much. the first time met we met it Like some loud thing. And and I remember you you were introducing yourself to me and I was like, I can't really hear you. I'm sorry. Yeah. Who is this? Who is this guy back
Spencer's Vocal Cord Incident
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then?
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So, so I, I paralyzed, I had paralyzed my vocal cord. I was in a band and we went on like a month long, like we're breaking up tour. And after that tour, then called the Beatles ever heard of that little band called the Beatles. We are signed with the fifth beetle. If you can believe that. Yeah. Yeah. They put me off to the side. I was doing all the undertones and the, I'm as already a low pose. I'm doing melodies. You have a little guitar triangle.
00:02:24
Speaker
Pretty good impression. Thank you. that That's dopey British man. Um, I don't, I don't, uh, I didn't, I didn't really laughed at, uh, Beatles impressions until I saw a couple interviews, like all the interviews of the Beatles when they released that Disney movie just yeah recently, actually, I was like, holy shit. Like good they did suck it out like this. I'm just saying like as a kid, I didn't, I, I never cared about the Beatles as a little kid. Cause I was, Like a little kid. So yeah every cartoon would be characters like, hello, I'm Mr. Beatle. And I was like, yeah what I thought they were overplaying it, but no, they're doing a really good job. Every each every single show in cartoon from like the sixties to the 2000s had someone with like a mop head of hair that covered their eyes to be like, Oh, welcome to the Beatles. And as a kid, I was just like, who, what even is that? That's silly. It's a cartoon man, but no.
00:03:18
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That's until that until that Disney documentary, anytime Dana Carvey did that impression, I i always never, I never laughed. And then afterwards, I was like, I start, I was like, Oh, I get the joke. now It's so true. Get him, gonna get him, get him, Dana. You're the master disguise. You're the master disguise.
Challenges of Sponsored Reviews
00:03:38
Speaker
The other day it made it so clear that like, um,
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like Like gaming industry business owners are a lot different than just like normal like yeah gamers or I don't know, your game couch.com or whatever. It was when I was like, ah I don't know. I was talking about something online and then, ah so.
00:03:59
Speaker
and the The only like metaphor I can think of was in Wayne's world where Dana Carvey's character has like the Pepsi stuff on and it's like, we're not sellouts, man. we're just like Why would somebody do that? and it's like It's so true. that's that That is how it is in this. like I can talk all the shit I want about corporations and and all this stuff, but when when they come money in hand,
00:04:25
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It's really hard to say no, money yeah punk rock. They're like, if you be less punk rock, we'll give you $12,000. It's less punk rock. It's not, it's a, you'll see it on the other content creators that, that they, that start off from nothing and kind of, kind of get bigger where Just recently, I won't say the name, but just recently I saw like a reviewer who i who like started around the time Noisy Pixel did, and did a full review of a game that was t tagged as sponsored, and taggged but it was a review. of ah And I was like, i don't think I don't think I could ever review a game that was sponsored. That's tough, because that's there's no way to separate
00:05:17
Speaker
The, yeah, I was just having this conversation. yeah I was just having this conversation with Mark today and it was like, we're, we're held to as content creators and ah writers were held to our journalistic integrity but and the lines blur between actually for collecting creators. They are yeah they're not journalistic.
00:05:40
Speaker
Yeah, but they don't, they don't have, they they don't have that. Like, Oh, I can't take up the sponsorship because it doesn't align with my views. Your views are kind of.
00:05:51
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like whatever you want them to be. you know your opinion Your opinions can can often change. Twitter twitter journalists are aren't held to that same scrutiny as like if I write an article and don't put a console release console in the the article or if i miss a ah if I mess up their release date or I don't add something,
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I get a lot of shit for it, but i it's it's hard for me to go into that that article and change it. Whereas if a Twitter person makes and makes an error, they kind of just like piggyback off of their own error and say, hey, sorry. Yeah, they're like, oh, my bad here. Yeah, and then they they they get they but everyone just like lets them off the chain. ah Like this ah this this Twitter user tweeted out that this game company made their character ah uh Have less clothes um after stella blade Went big got big and they showed like a before after and they edited their own little twitter twitter image You know and it said uh before and after on it and showed the girl wearing her combat outfit and then the picture next to her in a more revealing combat outfit and the development and and this thing got like
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a ton of likes, a ton of retweets
Misinformation on Twitter
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and stuff. of All these gamers are saying, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. But then the developer goes in and it's like, Um, oh no, that's just two different costumes. One of them's a costume and the other one's a costume. They're both in the game and the guy's like, and on the Twitter page, all it says is it retweets it and says even better, but no, you were wrong. Yeah. You were for all you're spreading misinformation. You were fucking wrong, dude. And if I did that on noisy pixel, I would have to eat that for, for
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For a while, like I remember I got i fucking I was really drunk, uh, over the holidays. Yeah. And, uh, Surya Yoshida was, was, uh, was going away and a Stellar blade Twitter that fuck I, I thought I had removed it from our, like our contacts thing. No, it's, it's like, uh, it's like just a, a list of users, Twitter users, you know, like an industry list. Yeah. I thought I took it out of there and, um,
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It's basically just a fan account repping shift up stuff, but they said it said something to Sheeda on there and I was like, oh, fuck yeah. So I was like kind of drunk. It was like around the holidays. And ah I think we just got off winter. We're just getting onto winter break and I write the story. And then it turns out, oh, that's from a fan account. I had to say sorry twice, you know? I was like, hey, ah thanks for calling me out. ah Boosted up the the the Twitter user.
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deleted the article, you know, I had to delete an article. You have to do a bunch of five oh, uh, three oh four or three oh, so three oh two, whatever redirects. Um, and it's a lot of effort, you know, it is, but I don't think that these Twitter like journalists are held to that same. Oh, definitely not. It's annoying.
Financial Incentives and Content Creation
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It is. It's like, and you can see why because it's like, who are like, they're nobody, but they're big, nobody. Like they're not, they don't represent an organization. So they don't have to eat crow when they're wrong and like retract things because nobody cares. Cause everyone's like, Oh, they're just some guy, which is weird. Cause they have as much power or or more compared to actual journalists.
00:09:27
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yeah yeah it's a Sponsorships are a messy thing, but well, they can be. You can have clean cut lines and really like you guys do with pretty clear cut, like you don't have sponsored reviews because that's crazy and stuff like that.
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I don't, I don't even know if we'll ever go into sponsored previews. I'll do like sponsored featured features like, Hey, let's do a huge overview of this game and let me just give you all the information of it. I can do that, but ah a preview.
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I don't think I don't, I haven't opened up that door, but I haven't like sponsored opinion based stuff is just risky. Cause it's like, how much it opinion yeah, like a feature where you're, where it's hands on and you're like, here's all the gameplay features. That's a lot more of a informational thing. The company could make that like a ah trailer of that. But if you're doing a preview, then it's like, Oh, well how much of of it is you enjoying it? Because there's the boon of, of financial incentive.
00:10:28
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So i yeah, that' I think once you inject opinions, it becomes a lot more, and that's again, that's only for journalists like streamers and say like, who cares? look like I always think of Norm McDonald with The Man Great, how he'd be on his podcast and he'd be like, well, let me tell you about The Man Great. And he would just read like word for word, the sponsorship things and just riff on it. Yeah, they're really bad.
00:10:52
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yeah Yeah. Yeah. They dropped like they dropped them. So they dropped them and he you kept doing. Yeah. It's like the shit like that. Like streamers and stuff like that. Like, listen, if ace bananas ever takes off, don't trust any shit. I say that sponsored because I'll say anything. I will there's a ri streamer, not a journalist. Yeah. Yeah. There's a tag on this man. There's a price tag. So like, if I'm like, I love raid shadow legends.
00:11:18
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I'm just getting the bag. i Yeah. i I would never do that on monster vine or anything because that's a journalist, like that's journalist Spencer who's being more responsible. But you know, if if if you're a Twitch streamer, a YouTuber, then I mean, especially if you're like a very jokey, ironic one, like your audience can tell like what the man great or your audience would be like, he doesn't care. Yeah. He doesn't care at all. i had that And that's exactly what we do too. It's like, it's like,
00:11:49
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we we pick and choose who our sponsors are gonna be. and And they have to kind of be in line with um with our readers. um yeah
00:12:01
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But in so many words, that was a nice, uh, opener. It was. And hopefully we've solved the issue. That one guy who commented that you talk 90%. I saw that the other day, it was like, guy on the left talks 90%. Maybe I just didn't have that much to say. You know what though, I will say that on, we did the live, we finally did our live stream. We started our live stream yesterday. and And we did it for like two hours or something like that. And we played a hyperlight breaker, but my hyperlight breaker for some reason wouldn't connect to the online servers. So I had to just talk, but Jose and Mark played, but they quickly found out that I talk a lot.
00:12:39
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the crowd' Like he doesn't talk much. It's just that the ratio is off because, cause when you talk less and one person talks more, it just looks more skewed, but that's just the
Industry Knowledge Disparities
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way it is. With this, it was like people were commenting and I think I just know a little too much about the industry and Mark and Jose kind of view it.
00:13:03
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from a a more casual perspective. So I just have so much more insight into these stories where I could be like, Hey, Mark, do you remember this? And he'd be like, nah, dude, I don't know what you're talking about. And I'd be like, that's fair because your brain is consumed by a ton of other shit that I wouldn't want in my brain, but it fits in yours. like oh you You're a not online person. You have your brain is like real people stuff and like outside stuff. It's a it brings the question like sometimes my imagination or my my Means of like building stuff or going in a certain direction It's like it's very focused on what I want, but he brings a sense that's like okay But what about this and I'm like fuck you're right like now that I bring that into the equation all of Everything that I had my idea for is completely. Yeah but So he's good at that
00:13:57
Speaker
He's really good at that. Um, but, uh, yeah, it was a good stream. It's fun. i miss we're go we do Is it, is it, is there a VOD it's yeah, there's, I think the video's up. It's going to be every Tuesday. We'll get better at it too. I'm sure. Um, I think, I think I need to make it clear though, that like, at least to Mark and Jose, that a lot of what I say is just like, uh,
00:14:25
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Um, I dunno, impulsive, uh, riffs, you know, like, yeah, silly business. Yeah. Like, like there was one point, this is all like inside baseball, but I don't even, and I don't even know if it's like, but these are just the things that are going on in my head. Right. But there's one point in the stream where, where, uh, Jose, I thought Jose was going the wrong direction and I was like, Oh, I know he's going in the right direction, but I'm going to pretend like I don't.
00:14:51
Speaker
And like slowly I saw I felt him getting more and more angry. Yeah. We're just trolling. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But I think, I think that just takes a little time and getting to know people. And then I think, uh, I think we have a good group. Yeah. I think we have a good group though. I think we have a good group. Um, hell you but yeah, we do have something to talk about today.
Nintendo Switch 2 Announcement Reaction
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We do the switch, the switch to the switch to which I can't believe it's actually called that.
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Yeah, it was a rebuild last Thursday. So we didn't know about it. We didn't know about it the last episode. oh What are your thoughts? Uh, I was saying just today to my monster vine pals that I can't wait because I feel like every game first party or not that I play on the switch now does not run well. It's gotten old. Like it's very much.
00:15:48
Speaker
This feels very overdue. Uh, I'm ready for things to like run nicely on the switch. And, but as for the switch to itself,
00:15:59
Speaker
It really doesn't seem different at all. Like this might be the least and change I've seen between Nintendo, like the n NES to the Super Nintendo, the to the N64, to the GameCube, to the Wii, to the Wii U, like even the Wii to the Wii U was way there, like a second screen and and and same with the Game Boy Color to DS or to Advance to the, like,
00:16:27
Speaker
It's very, this is, it seems like a very safe thing, which is odd for Nintendo, but I also understand they were probably kind of scarred by the Wii U generation. So they were like, okay, this is working. So nobody touch it and like nobody fuck with it. And we're going to put this out.
00:16:44
Speaker
as more switch, like bigger switch, literally just switch to. So I think they were really, my the Sensei government, from they were hesitant to change anything that would change the massive success of the switch. um But that also signals to me that it's not gonna get any of the charm back of the, ah the switch was like the console itself felt kind of charmless in terms of not games but like the Wii U had music on every screen like catchy little ditties on on every screen on the home menu and it had its own internal apps that you could mess around with it had like weird you can go on the browser and put up like
00:17:31
Speaker
I would do this all with my brother and I would watch movies and shows and go in the browser and you could put up like curtains and then drum roll them and then reveal what you were watching. Like tiny, tiny things like that. Or like the 3DS having themes, like based on video games or consoles or whatever, all these tiny things. And then you go to the switch and the themes are black and white and there's no songs. There's no It very much feels just like a console to play games, which is, you know, in a way good, but it's missing that. I loved that weird. I think a lot of it was probably you Wada maybe, and that might be why the the street pass, the connectivity, yeah yeah the, the you're playing with people, even when you're not playing with people. Yeah. like yes That kept you as a child entertained when you had one game, like.
00:18:20
Speaker
and Or like when you would go on the I remember the day that Smash 4 launched on the Wii U the store was like themed to Smash 4 and it would play the theme song over everything and it was like wow this is exciting and like ah This is an exciting feeling of them promoting their big game But like I said, I feel like a lot of that might have been Iwata, which is why it ended with the Switch, because he passed before the Switch. um Just from like what I got from reading Askiwata and from watching or reading a lot of those articles and seeing what Sakurai says about him, it seems like a lot of the very like goofy fun stuff was it was more that.
00:18:57
Speaker
um But is i don't like that this signals to me that I don't think that's coming back ah because there's no big change because it's very close to the Switch. like even though Even the Mii Maker is in the settings now. It's not even it's on like a channel.
00:19:14
Speaker
or or like a an app. I don't know. you You can go through the whole so your whole Switch life cycle without ever caring. They might make you make one maybe for a game. boy yeah yeah But we were making we used to make like everyone for all of our friends to just have a point. They had that channel to show off your means. And like there were so many like, because this was like, what, 2006, 2007. So it was like, wow, Michael Jackson, wow, Pikachu, wow, Bill Cosby. And like all these like,
00:19:44
Speaker
youy two two of those Two of those people didn't last the generations. Yeah. That's the reason. What is still going on? Yeah. oh good beach you still you still un cancelableable unpro Um, Maybe a little overexposed, but that's better than exposed like that.
00:20:11
Speaker
There was so much charm to all that. And I rant about this a lot. I've probably done it on this podcast, but, but I miss that. And, uh, this signals to me that that's not coming back. It's going to be, uh, it's going to be another straightforward console. a but I hope they do themes because.
00:20:30
Speaker
It's just so cool. Like PlayStation got rid of themes with a five, which sucked like so fucking dumb. It's cool. My, I turn on my 3DS. It makes dreamcast noises. I turn on my PS4. I can have it do like Kingdom Hearts menu sounds. yeah Why not have that extra bit of customization for fun? It's I don't know.
00:20:48
Speaker
I think, I think the, the act of, uh, those little touches, uh, they, they don't necessarily sell consoles.
Quirky Gaming Features and Marketability
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Speaker
So once you, once the, once the gimmick wears off, they, it's not, it's non-markable, you know, you it's a shame you can't market it anymore as, um, as this, uh, this plus, you know, it, uh,
00:21:15
Speaker
And it sucks because the people who enjoy those aren't, aren't the, like the, the loud majority, you know, like, yeah, exactly. but Like, think it's just part of that. Like everything has been kind of.
00:21:31
Speaker
rounded off like you like you always see pictures of like McDonald's in like 2002 compared to now where it's like fun restaurant with colors everywhere and now it's like Apple Store essentially with yeah with like I think that's it's also just like Because there's no money to be made from being fun or or quirky things don't so maybe that's also just an extension of that but you know Yeah, even even things like, I don't know, Chuck E. Cheese is just kind of not fun anymore. Look at the Nintendo ads. Like the ads used to, you had like the, we would like to play guys and and all the goofy stuff like that. And now it's like this summer or this holiday, be sure to play Donkey Kong with your family. And it's like a very not real bunch of people who are like, whoa. Mario Party's crazy. Look out. Oh, you got my star. And it's like only this holiday on this way. And it's like, that's just nothing. That's, that's, that's just, that's not like a weird, that's not the David Lynch PS2 commercial. What's going on?
00:22:32
Speaker
Yeah, i think I think the act of cutting corners and and saving on costs where you have an initial investment on to create an engine and to create a ah product off of that engine. But to get the most out of your money as a studio, you're going to have to use that engine for the next four or five games. It's going to need to take you there. And that's why I think that's why a lot of studios just rely on Unreal. and fair um and t it where anenix is struggling with the
00:23:03
Speaker
fifteen era of making engines and the ship Yeah, they tried. And and and I think i to their. To their credit, Luminous was probably a fine engine. It just no good not good for what they needed to do. But from what I saw about Luminous, it was just very like light. you know they they They is like a pop, I don't know, flashy. You look at For Spoken, and when you look at For Spoken being played ah by someone that knows how to play it, it looks pretty cool.
00:23:34
Speaker
Square knows how to do particle effects really well. Yeah. Really? Yeah. Since like the PS two, even. i I think, I think as a, as a spectacle like that for spoken is a, is a fine game, but just couldn't, couldn't piece it all together in a natural <unk> around that. Um, but what do you think the logo stupid. It is very stupid. This is like this, this thing that I would have made on Zenga fucking 20 years ago where it's like text and then a big number on the side. Come on. Whoa. Come on. I wonder who fucking got paid for that. Like what fucker in the board room was just like, I have this idea. It's a two. And then he walks out with a hundred K and like, like the James Cameron aliens thing, the dollar sign at the end of alien. And then when I was aliens,
00:24:27
Speaker
ah hit for two next to the switch and left see I'll see you in eight years when I put it kind cook um ah yeah the switch to
00:24:49
Speaker
No, i i don't I don't accept it as a console. And i I think if I was a new Switch, at least it's not that. I would have actually preferred Switch Pro, the Switch which you use switch U, i anything except for Switch. Because Switch 2 leads me to believe there's going to be a Switch 3. Or what, you're just going to stop at 2? Like that's it? one Switch 1, Switch 2, the Nintendo Revolution.
00:25:19
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Well, what's it what's what are we doing here? Well, are you setting me up for four years of for a life of switches? Because I'll tell you one thing. The switch being released was revolutionary. It really changed the game on on gaming on the go.
00:25:37
Speaker
and gaming at home. it it bridge It really bridged that gap and everyone talks shit on it in the beginning and everyone had something to say about it. But over the years, we've learned that the idea of playing your games anywhere but your couch is a lot nicer than being in your couch. And if anything, working from home has taught us that. Like we don't want to be at our PCs anymore. We don't want to be in our houses anymore. We want to be out, but we still want to enjoy video games and, and COVID kind of led, led led into that and working from home, led into that. But, uh, you, you see it with the, the PlayStation portal or whatever that stupid thing is. It's like, Oh, seen people play that.
00:26:18
Speaker
You see it with Xbox saying, OK, you can play literally. I could play my Xbox games on my Samsung TV without my console. Yeah, I've seen that function. That's crazy. I could. I didn't even know I can do it. And it's on my TV and I do it. I do it all the time. And i and that so so I can play my Xbox literally anywhere. um Yeah. And so the switch with the switch released in revolutionized that the switch to is only an upgraded switch yeah it's a car switch because you have steam decks now, you have, uh, raw allies, you have a, aces is a system. So they're all doing stuff. You know, I feel bad for the the families of five and and four out there where they have two to three kids and each of them have switched lights. And now they have another fucking stupid tablet that they're going to stuck in their fucking couch cushions. And and hey dude, I just,
00:27:18
Speaker
I just hate the idea that we're we're now living in a future where we just have all these tablets and screens everywhere. And I can't- It's hard to recommend a dark future when they made that up. Yeah. And I'm sorry, but it doesn't look- I don't care if you make the ship bigger. I don't care about how big it is because if I'm playing on the go, I'll consciously make those those choices to like, oh, I'm going to settle because I'm playing on the go.
00:27:45
Speaker
Yeah, I don't need this screen to be bigger. I don't need it to be heavier. I don't need to be easier for someone to see me playing so they can steal it. I don't need it. I don't need to be sufficient. Just I just, just fucking used to play on screens this big. It's it's fine if it's a regular yeah switch size. I had a game boy fucking micro.
00:28:04
Speaker
And I enjoyed and I enjoyed the fuck out of that Don't listen. It's not the only way to play did they have a back screen to those micros? I was like a good way to play fly i have mine Like a great way to play Game Boy Advance games back then because the purple Game Boy Advance didn't i Didn't have that also has an insane battery life it Yeah, it is easy every time Perfect. Perfect startup screen. Amazing battery life. This shit you could not play for 12 years. It would still full.
00:28:45
Speaker
i and i'm I'm literally just like, okay. So call me crazy. Yeah. But wouldn't it have been cooler if they announced a console, uh,
00:29:00
Speaker
something like I don't know, switch, switch home, switch home, you know, something that, yeah you know, and then like it is, it is a
Desire for a More Powerful Switch
00:29:09
Speaker
console box. Okay. It's, it's the, it's the PS five version of, uh, of a Nintendo Mortal Kombat one and looking good. It's running. Yeah. it's all You can play God of War Ragnarok.
00:29:23
Speaker
You're playing you're playing FIFA. You're playing all the heavy hitters play Yeah, you're you're you have particle effects res rezo gun ah to Horizon the second one the the title. I don't i remember. Yeah forbidden forbidden West forbidden West ah or You can buy the hybrid version, which is the power, not as powerful. Xbox Series S. It's the Series S. It is, it is your. That's portable. Yeah. It's your, it's your Switch portable. The Switch home light, the Switch shack. Switch, the Switch go, Switch go. Switch outhouse. outhouse. Switch love shack. Switch love shack.
00:30:14
Speaker
ah talent switch The switch cabin switch ah ah side. ah I can picture them doing like their videos mean like to switch home that you can play on your television. Then there's the switch home light where you can pick it up and then someone picks up and it's like and take it anywhere. Yeah, I can picture that. yeah combine Combine the two if you want ah to get some type of extra functionality. I don't know. You can find the two you get to play fun little mini games that are only on that.
00:30:44
Speaker
I think the box could just be for the people who, cause I don't necessarily. wouldn't mind just having a box, you know, I barely play my switch on the go. I can't because of the recording. Like I have to do the fucking video. So, so there is, there's, yeah, and and not to mention it the drill. How much do you think they're not going to fix that? What are you doing? Yeah, no, it's the, no, these are the same fucking controllers. And I, say the thing is, is I was just playing, I just played like two or three hours of Donkey Kong and I say, I don't play on the switch, uh, to on the,
00:31:18
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around, but when Donkey Kong came out last week, um, I have been playing it. like um on watch Yeah. Well, I watch it. I liked, I watched like a survivor or something on TV, you know, and then it's just like put on trash TV and get through Donkey Kong is like, yeah, it's one of life's simple platers. Yeah. I've, I've never played, I have some,
00:31:41
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I'll wait for my Donkey Kong, uh, review, but oh my I never played that game until now. And I just beat it. I got it for Christmas when it came out on my Wii. I was so happy. Yeah. Um, I have some negative points about it, but we can do it. Um,
00:31:58
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So yeah, I don't necessarily play switch on the go. So I wouldn't mind. Just give me a fucking powerful console. Give me something fun. I don't care if there's an e-reader on top of it. I don't fucking care. I don't care about gimmicks. Fucking gimmick me, daddy. I don't care. I just.
00:32:16
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I just don't want another tablet in my house. No, I, I have four switches already. That's a lot of switches. I have two switch lights. Uh, there's the Zelda's OLED and then the launch switch.
00:32:32
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I do not need, I do not, I do not need another one of these fucking tablets around it. It's been, it's been nine years. Give me a break, Spencer. Don't say one for force, force, which is the nice the line get double called as my launch switch. And that's it. That's why, yeah, I, there's, there's, I borrowed a switch for the first like six months of, of the, it being a thing. And then I got my own launch and that's the only one I got.
00:32:56
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Yeah. Cause we know he's not going to be played switch. He was like, he was like, Hey, if you want to review all the launch games, you can just borrow my switch and then give it back to me at E3. And I was like, okay. And then I just like lay in my college room and play breath of the wild in every launch game. so they ride me with the bedtime That's a problem with, uh, Nintendo codes actually. And the reason why, um, the launch switches actually, uh, have that like, I don't know, error in them where you are issue in them where you can, um,
00:33:25
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Homebrew or download games. So that's how breath of the wild got leaked is someone got a review code put it on a launch day switch and was able to To rip the game and post it online Wow But that's why Nintendo's a little stenchy with the review codes is because they have to do like an approval process To make sure you don't have a launch day switch and how they do it is beyond me it's it's it's a lot of it's a lot of stupid things the cool cool guys game but um Yeah, I hope that that changes with Switch too.
00:34:01
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Yeah, same here. I won't. hey won ah I don't know the the controllers dumb. Oh, so, so my point about Donkey Kong, that's fine. Yeah, I was playing it for, I was playing it on the go for like, uh, two, three hours. And man, those controllers hurt my big ass hands. You need handles. You need rubber handles. That's the way to go. I suck at gaming too. Like I had to bring out the pro controller. They just made me better at, uh,
00:34:31
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Well, you are a pro, so you need the proper equipment. Yeah, I need to be set up for success. You need the true gamer wielding. Yeah, so the controllers also don't give a shit, you know, like... I think... I'm just gonna get a pro. If I can use the pro one still, like that I have, I just will. I don't like the Joy-Cons or the Player 2 controller.
00:34:56
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And again, I feel bad for, for parents out there who have taught their joy cons in their house. Yeah. Just taught their kids how to put those joy cons in properly. You know, like they went through this whole training scenario with them. And now they got learn how to clack it. Now you got a clack. Uh, yeah, I dunno. I wonder if the cartridges are going to be different.
00:35:24
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I feel like it'll be like the DS to the 3DS where there's like a little hook. So it's like, you can't put it in a switch, but you can put a switch one. and Yeah. You're telling me they're going back to 20 years of a region locking and they're just going to reintroduce the plastic nub. Yeah. Cause they like.
00:35:45
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That's a hundred percent what they did with the 3DS and the DS. So I feel like that's a hundred percent what they're going to do. So they did with the, that's how I played romantic saga on my SDS. I just broke off that little plastic, super Famicom games. Um, but I don't know. We'll have to see. It's going to be, it's, it's the big reveals April 2nd. Yeah. That'll be good. Um,
00:36:15
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When do you think it's coming summer? We have to think about media.
00:36:27
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I could only hope that it is going to be a summer release after summer games fest maybe before July end of June. Um, but if they don't hit that, it would have to be somewhere around the holidays, right? Yeah. I feel like it's either going to be,
00:36:45
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like july-ish or november and i remember in between i do remember when the switch was first announced it was about six or seven months or eight months before it released right because it was at events i could play the switch too when i went to like anime expo or or packs um but and i remember it being like such a cool thing they're like oh we got the switch but we got the switch version here yeah do What was the first, uh, PlayStation four game that you remember playing when it was first announced? I so i played it in 2013 or something. I played octodad at like, uh, at like, uh, I played octodad at the game stop. Yeah. yeah and i that was True. I think yeah that was my first one. That's why, that was my entrance into next. ged back like My first PS3 was playing Arkham asylum and infamous at a Walmart.
00:37:39
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It's that's gone now. I don't see that anymore. Yeah, they don't do that shit anymore. And everything was a smash at a preview event on Wii U at best. nintendos Nintendo sometimes does it with Best Buy still yeah and they like touring ones. They'll probably do it. Switch to events in April or May.
00:37:59
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I know there's one in Toronto. GDC is happening in March, so I can imagine that some ah movement will come around then about like getting people hands on. I know Nintendo has a presence out there.
00:38:12
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oh
00:38:14
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Listen, all I care about is
Developer Optimization for New Console
00:38:16
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games. yeah And, and what I like about this console is that it pushes developers to optimize their games. And that is the best thing about Nintendo and, and just like,
00:38:32
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Imagination and creativity in video games because those are the most fun experiences that I had last year and the games cost $10 no country animal well Lorelei and the laser eye, you know, like like all of these like indie games that I can say were some of my favorite experiences don't require a graphical hardware. So when you're saying, okay, this thing is like a PS4. Well,
00:39:04
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The PS4 right now developing for it, all the all the rules have been unlocked. as the All the ah the the the the tricks and tips, the developers have shared it all with each other. This is probably the best time ever to be getting PS4 style games. Yeah, 100%. Yeah, it's it's it's the Last of Us 2s. Last of Us came out on PS3.
00:39:31
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That's so crazy. It's true. And it's been like remade or remastered on everything. That's so weird. And it's a fascinating game, a fascinatingly developed playable game that that blows everything else ah out of the water that is on PS3 graphically because it came out at the end of its life. So developer Nintendo, I think they're going to do great.
00:39:53
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I think so. has It's going to be a great... I don't give a shit about i don't give a shit about performance. any Performance, yes. Graphics, no. and he Yeah, exactly exactly. Performance, yes. As long as it runs, like I'm i'm the 75% that picks performance every time on the settings. As long as it runs fine. I don't need to see pores. I don't need to see...
00:40:15
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s Sweat I don't like those are the old things the ps3 had that they show I don't care about any of that I don't like yeah, just make it run nice and have a neat style like I don't need photorealistic I prefer not photorealistic graphics so like I was I would love them and like you said I would love for them to bring back the the fun I the, the, the charm, the cork. I do. I don't like that. And I hate the fucking menu of the switch.
Nintendo's Internet Safety Focus
00:40:46
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I hate navigating it. I hate going into the, the e-shop. I hate everything about it. This sounds like you being a webpage is nuts.
00:40:55
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That's fucking stupid. It lags like crazy. Oh my God. Sometimes I'll be like typing in a code and like, I'll type four letters and then it'll like jump ahead. Yeah. Like, what are we doing? What are we doing here? Come on. Yeah. The, the, I think, I think I would prefer a better network, but you know what? This is a console for, for mainly family and kids. I think that Nintendo's approach to internet security and safety is probably for the best, uh, knowing what's on the internet and just out there. I'm fine. I think, I think, I think I'll, I'll let Nintendo off the hook about their Nintendo or their network connectivity. I I'm a, I'm a single player.
00:41:45
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I don't need to I don't need to hear kids crying or people cussing playing Mario Kart. It's not something that like Games I don't need to hear they are children like children oriented games. I don't need to hear them It's not it's not like were you going like TF2 or something and you're hearing psychos and it's funny It's like yeah, these are just children feeling sad. That's upsetting. Yeah That's a Switch to more information. What do all of you think about o the switch to? Yeah. Let us know in the comments below. Um, do you agree with us?
00:42:25
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That's really all we got. We check out our fan phantom brave reviews going up. dap If you're listening to this, we both have them up. um Monster vine has a video version. Noisy pixel has a video version. So go check out our reviews and see, see how our opinions of the game differ or match how they're the same. Who knows? Who knows? We, I I've been purposely not really talking about it with Spencer too much because It is, it is quite possible to get in people's heads while they're trying to write a review. And I tried to, and I, that's why I don't like tweet about reviews or anything like that. I don't tell people that I'm reviewing games because like their, their questions or their preconceived notions about a game.
00:43:12
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<unk> Yeah, they leak in and they stick there. So you're either trying to prove them wrong in your review or you're agreeing with them. It's like, wait, but I wouldn't naturally do that on my own. yeah I'm just doing it because they said something about it. Spoils the broth. Yeah. Yeah, it does. Yeah. Great. Great. Uh, too many cooks. Yeah. Too many cooks. Well, with that said, we'll see you all next week. Should be good. Should be a good time. Bye everyone.
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