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Today, in the nerdy news you

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need to know about, George Railroad

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Martin is teasing an Elden Ring

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adaptation. Nintendo's plan against Switch

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2, Scalpers, and Crazy Taxi is going

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to be open world and massively multiplayer.

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We'll have all this and more because

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this is Kinda Funny Games Daily. What's

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up everybody? Welcome to Kinda

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Funny Games Daily. I'm one

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of your hosts, Greg Miller,

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alongside Giant Bombs, aka

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Z Game Spots,

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aka Friends Per Seconds,

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aka Comic Book Writer. And

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what else can I toss in there? It's Lucy James, everybody.

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Hey, Lucy. Hi. How

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are you? Good morning. I'm doing

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well, thank you. How are you? Good. Have

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you recovered from Tim's nuptials? I basically

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have, I mean, my voice is a little

1:02

bit gone still. And

1:05

the live chat gas man says Greg smoked half a pack

1:07

before this. So my voice is the one that needs to

1:09

be either. So you know how it's going to go.

1:11

But honestly, so I want to give a shout out.

1:13

So we did, I had

1:15

Ben Starr staying with me and before we

1:18

went, we had a nap before

1:20

the wedding. Oh, wow. We

1:22

did liquid IV before we went. And as soon

1:24

as we got in, and the next

1:27

day, the next morning we did liquid IV. Honestly,

1:30

the move absolute champ hours.

1:32

I felt fine. And then yesterday we

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had brunch and then we got like a

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dirty pizza and watched a

1:39

movie and then feeling

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great. What is dirty? What is dirty

1:43

pizza? Dirty pizza. So like off of the floor,

1:45

that's gross. I

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keep a clean house. No,

1:50

the day pizza is like,

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you know, if you go to like, I'm

1:54

sorry if you're not in San Francisco, but

1:56

like a Fiorella pizza Delfina, they would be

1:58

like a nice more. upscale

2:00

pizza, dirty pizza is like your takeaway

2:03

pizza. It is your Domino's, your Papa

2:05

John's and in our case, round table

2:07

pizza. Fantastic though. I

2:10

love a round table pizza, but

2:13

it's, you know, that's such a good

2:15

hangover food anyway. See, here's my thing is I'm

2:17

with you and I love where your head's at.

2:19

I agree there are tiers of pizza, right? But

2:21

I would say like, I

2:24

would think dirty pizza is like Irving street pizza,

2:26

right? When you finish an item. Well, this is

2:28

all old. But you know what I

2:30

mean? When you used to finish the slice shop you're

2:33

getting after bars. That is what I would call dirty

2:35

pizza. You got your chain pizza sure there.

2:37

I understand that. I understand where you're at with that. Yeah.

2:40

I think I just- Is señoré is a dirty pizza?

2:43

I don't think I've had that one. It's like, I can't

2:45

possibly comment. But like I'm

2:47

talking, oh

2:50

God, my mouth is watering. It's like the

2:52

crust is thick. It's, you know, there are

2:54

preservatives by the shovel load in there.

2:57

There's a little too much cheese. Bonus points for

2:59

a pool of oil on the top. That's also

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a hallmark of a real dirty pizza. Yeah. Okay.

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I agree with all this. I appreciate where your

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heads out on this one. Thank you. I'm

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really glad we worked out this classification system. Well, it's important.

3:10

You know what I mean? I'll tell you

3:12

right now to lose. I'm so, I hate work from home. You

3:15

do? We're back. They're still putting it together.

3:17

You know, the office sort of, I'm just off my game.

3:19

We've done two days already. This is- We've all felt it

3:21

Greg. We've all felt it. I didn't even say it was

3:23

one day, July 1st, right? Like I'm just so, I'm just

3:26

so out of sync with what it is. There's no smoke.

3:29

I'm looking at the live feed. Cause I was like, man,

3:31

there's a lot of dead space. I'm like, oh, my feed

3:33

seems way behind today. So I, when I'm probably staring at

3:35

the camera, like a moron in between. I hate it. Yeah.

3:38

Yeah. That was a couple seconds. It wasn't too

3:40

bad though. Why it's like so

3:42

delayed in discord, but that's how the feeds come through

3:44

for me, but whatever, you know what I mean? Discord

3:46

had a massive update for me just before I launched.

3:49

What a surprise. You know what I mean? What a

3:51

surprise. This fucking PC shit. What ain't an update? A,

3:53

A, O, A. There's someone

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who loves PCs. No, yeah,

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no, I know. It's, I

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don't know. If

6:00

you unsubscribe and resubscribe, that usually fixes it.

6:02

But I know Pocket Cast is

6:04

always up to something whenever the cognitive clip

6:06

says, what is this, a crossover episode? Iconic

6:08

duo, we agree. Thank you for supporting Lucy.

6:11

She's everywhere doing everything. And I believe you

6:13

have a brand new show, don't you, Luce?

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I do. That was a great segue, you

6:18

should do this professionally. I was gonna say, isn't that the whole

6:20

reason we brought you on and then we didn't- No, I do.

6:24

And so the second episode is up today

6:26

if you wanna watch it after, obviously, Games

6:28

Daily. And

6:30

Games Cast, yeah, okay. Well, maybe just- The

6:33

afternoon, we're not doing kind of funny podcasts

6:35

today. Yeah, no, we're doing a fire. What's

6:37

it called? It's called

6:40

Star Players. But it's one of those shows

6:42

where it's like the name doesn't really matter.

6:44

It's basically a new interview format where we

6:46

get celebrities in and we chat about games

6:48

with them. And the new episode is up

6:50

on the screen right now. Got two new

6:52

tattoos done. Monaghan. And as a Big Lord

6:54

of the Rings fan, that was very wild for me. But

6:56

basically, when you see celebrities doing

6:58

interviews, it's like

7:00

the six minute junket thing, basically, occasionally on

7:02

a podcast or something like Hot Ones where

7:05

you get longer. But it's usually like career

7:07

retrospectives. Yeah. Or like junket

7:09

games. And so when we were putting this

7:11

together, we were like, we know that a

7:13

lot of celebs are actual gamers. And

7:16

we wanna give, we just wanna have

7:18

those conversations. And so we've had a

7:20

really great lineup for season one, so

7:22

like Dominic Monaghan. Last week, we had

7:24

Mona Exchange, Drag Queen. We have Aisha

7:27

Tyler, Johnny from Hell, Thrull Koli, Abu

7:30

from House of the Dragon

7:32

now, but also from Assassin's Creed. And

7:34

a couple more, one more to

7:36

still be filmed. And so it's been a really fun show to

7:38

work on. And you can go watch it now on

7:40

Games Me

7:55

whatsoever. We had a really fun

7:57

time going through that. But no, so. Every

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check out. Shadow

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of the Urtree, George R.R. Martin

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has teased an Elden Ring movie

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or TV show. In

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a post on his blog, the Game

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of Thrones author wrote about winning awards

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and, in doing so, strongly suggested an

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adaptation of From Software's masterpiece is indeed

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in the works. Quote,

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Oh, and about those

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rumors you may have heard about a

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feature film or television series based on

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Elden Ring, dot, dot, dot, I have

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nothing to say. Not a word. Nope.

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Not a thing. I know nothing. You

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never heard a peep from me. What rumor?

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What rumor? As

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George R.R. Martin stated in the blog

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post, the fame fantasy author, quote, did

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the world building in quote for Elden

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Ring, whereas From Software achieved a Hideki

12:53

Miyazaki hit a taco. Hit

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a taco. Tried. You did

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my best. And his team

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did all the rest. Now it does indeed

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seem like an Elden Ring movie or TV

13:04

series is actually happening. George R.R. Martin will

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likely be involved in some capacity. An

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Elden Ring movie has come up

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as a possibility with fans pondering how it

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might be adapted. Miyazaki himself

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revealed recently that he would be open

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to an adaptation of the studio's 25

13:20

million selling 2022 action role playing

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game, but only if a quote, very strong

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partner and quote were to come into play.

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Lucy, you're out there. You're hobnobbing with

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the stars. You're playing Elden Ring. What's

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your prediction for this happening movie TV series? Nothing.

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You know, I think it's one

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of those ones where I am

13:42

not a movie person or a TV person

13:44

really. And so like I struggle to see

13:46

how exactly it would translate.

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But I know that there will be someone who

13:51

will have a killer idea and who will be

13:53

able to execute it. The thing

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that I love the most about Elden

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Ring is the feeling of exploration and

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it feeling like it is true. my

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story. The thing is though

14:04

is that like in terms of

14:06

my story it's more like my exploration, my

14:08

discoveries, rather than me seeing a lore item

14:10

and immediately knowing what it all means. I

14:12

just rely on Vati to do that. Exactly.

14:15

I knew I was like time to Vati.

14:17

I know we're getting to Vati. And that's

14:19

the thing. It's like people

14:21

like Vati and Quelaag and Zuly the Witch

14:24

and everyone like they do these great lore

14:26

videos and they do and like the lore

14:28

of it is super super cool. But

14:31

I also think the strength of From Software

14:33

Games and its storytelling is that like it

14:35

just it just wrinkles the breadcrumbs and you

14:37

put it all together and so that

14:40

translating into something I'm intrigued by.

14:42

But like what

14:44

if they just did like a patches patches

14:47

origins patches the hyena origins that would be

14:49

fun like something I don't know

14:52

the story of America. I don't

14:54

think you're that far off right and what you

14:56

could do obviously you could do anything of course

14:58

super chats I want to know what you think

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so many of you are already writing in of

15:02

course Joshy G super chats and says finish Winds

15:04

of Winter George which I feel is a classic

15:06

George RR Martin story of like don't even book

15:08

to write get out of the get out of

15:10

the blogging here but CJ says a prequel series

15:12

would work really well I think and I do

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think as somebody who only

15:16

knows Elden Ring from looking in and listening to Andy

15:19

and like it just never clicked for me right I

15:21

know and Barrett especially I know

15:24

the weight of these boss battles and the characters

15:26

they are unto themselves there'd be cool ways I

15:28

would think to give you a backstory to that

15:30

right to show you what's happening in that world

15:32

let alone drop something else in there Barrett as

15:35

an Elden Ring superfan would that do it for

15:37

you yeah

15:40

I think so like I think it'd be

15:42

interesting like we a lot of the lore

15:44

is you know the things

15:46

that have happened in the past in the

15:48

game so I think kind of seeing

15:51

a dramatization of kind

15:53

of all the relationships and all

15:57

like the the crazy things that America has

15:59

done and seeing that not fleshed out, but

16:01

an interpretation of it, I think would be

16:04

would be interesting. It's

16:06

hard for me personally to see it be pulled.

16:10

I like it would really have to be the right team,

16:12

I think. And like people saying like, Oh, George, you got

16:14

to go finish your book for the love of God, like

16:16

I doubt he's like heavily involved.

16:19

Like I imagine maybe some sort

16:21

of producer, but like him,

16:23

you know, looking at a script once or twice, right?

16:26

Advisor. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like he's in

16:28

meetings for whatever they're trying to get together for a

16:30

pitch or something to that. Yeah. And so, yeah, I

16:32

think it would have to. It would really have to

16:34

be the right team in terms of directors

16:37

and writers and

16:39

cast. And

16:41

I personally don't have the vision for

16:43

that. Lucy, do you do you have

16:46

anything there? No, I

16:48

think the other thing that is kind of

16:50

a roadblock for me in being able to

16:52

envision it is the fact that it relies

16:54

so little on dialogue and George's work is

16:56

full of dialogue. It's full of history and

16:59

like they just throw names out at you.

17:01

And like Elden Ring, it's like, you

17:03

know, if you look at the lines that

17:05

each actor probably has, it's really, really not

17:07

a lot. And so I

17:09

don't think television or movies are ready.

17:12

You know, it's so rare that you get

17:14

a movie or a TV show where things

17:16

are implied rather than explicitly told to you

17:19

because they don't want. I

17:21

don't know, they want the audience to deviate. They want the

17:23

audience to be, you know, taken

17:25

by the hand the whole time. And so that's like

17:27

another creative thing. But like in terms of someone who

17:29

could do it. God,

17:32

I don't know. I

17:35

think, you know, the more we talk about it, you

17:38

get into this right. I would hope for a TV

17:40

series. I think for this world and for everything that's

17:42

going on, you know, the fact that Vati video can

17:44

video can come out. Vati video

17:47

can come out and do these crazy videos that are

17:49

so long and so in depth. I think you really

17:51

want to let it breathe right now. I would feel

17:53

like, yeah, you would then push that into a TV

17:55

series where you let it go and get weird

17:58

and wild out there. You

20:00

so many things you can pull out here. I think people understand

20:03

more than ever that video game IP is valuable

20:05

if you do it the right way. So I

20:08

wouldn't be so worried about them coming in and

20:10

making something that's gonna shit all over

20:12

the franchise or screw it up this way or that

20:14

way. It's more, I think you get down to the

20:17

budget of whatever you're working on and the amount

20:19

of effects that would go into that and making

20:21

the monstrous things happening in this world look cool

20:23

and make them work that way, right? I

20:26

think that's when you worry, I think like if

20:28

an Amazon coming in and doing this and seeing

20:30

the success they just had with Fallout, seeing the

20:32

success, HBO coming in with the success

20:34

they have last of us doing it. Netflix, I

20:36

still feel always a weird one. It's the way

20:38

I know. Yeah, but that was animated, right? So

20:40

even though I guess this could be too as

20:42

well. That's the thing that I was gonna bring

20:44

up is that we haven't mentioned, we've kind of

20:46

been speaking about this as if we are assuming

20:49

that it is gonna be live action. Honestly,

20:51

animated would be sick

20:53

for this. That'd be awesome actually, that would

20:55

be really cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't

20:57

go that way, Luce, that is an interesting

21:00

one. Fuck, that'd be a really cool

21:02

way to make it do it. Because you could do it.

21:05

You wouldn't have to worry about bad

21:07

CGI, you wouldn't have to worry about

21:09

things not looking right. You would get

21:11

the armors right, the intricate detail right

21:13

and it would be cool, I don't

21:16

know. That'd be really cool actually. Kabob

21:18

says he wants an Elden Ring in the style of

21:20

a road, or I'm sorry, they want an Elden Ring

21:22

in the style of the road movie. Or

21:24

a road movie. Oh, the

21:26

Viggo Mortensen. Well, they

21:28

say a road movie, so. Oh, not the

21:30

road movie. That's what you want,

21:32

just another Last of Us, you just want Last of Us again. I

21:36

wanna cry, I want to

21:38

cry, that's all I want. Prepare to cry, there we go.

21:41

That's all I want. That's our

21:43

use, that's our head. No, that's what I

21:45

use, I can't take credit for that one. Okay, fair enough,

21:47

fair enough, you can take that. I like that, I like

21:49

that. And Kabob's in the chest says, I mean the rogue,

21:52

is a rogue story. So yeah, okay, fine.

21:56

Okay, interesting, we did some good work here.

21:58

I, next question. Do you think you

22:00

ever see this come to fruition? Do we ever see this

22:03

actually happen? Yeah, maybe after winds of winter.

22:06

Am I right, George? Am

22:09

I right, George? I mean, is that we're going to

22:11

finish that? I don't even know. No, I don't think you will. Like,

22:13

I mean, the thing is as well, and as someone who

22:16

covered Game of Thrones and Song of Ice

22:18

and Fire at work for years, I

22:21

think I've just kind of let go,

22:23

and I'm fine with him not doing it. We've

22:25

had instances of the past where people like Brandon

22:27

Sanderson have come in and, you know, Brandon Sanderson

22:29

finished Wheel of Time. I'm not putting him up

22:31

for the job for this one, but like, if

22:35

God forbid something were to happen to George R.R. Martin, he

22:37

doesn't finish Winds of Winter, I assume he has a bunch

22:39

of notes. I think someone could finish

22:42

that work for him. But

22:44

if not, like, it gives you the

22:46

chance as the reader to finish the story your

22:48

own way. And that might not be satisfying for

22:50

some people, but for some people, that might be

22:52

OK. Interesting.

22:55

Just finish the book. Number

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two, Nintendo says it wants to

23:00

avoid switch to scalping by making enough to

23:02

meet demand. This is Chris Scullion at VGC.

23:05

Nintendo says the best way to stop scalping

23:07

of the Switch's successors to make enough of

23:09

them in the first place. In

23:11

a Q&A, during a general meeting of

23:13

shareholders, the company's executives were asked what

23:15

measures they were taking to

23:17

stop reselling of its next console, given

23:20

that at last year's meeting, they

23:22

said they were, oh, I'm sorry, let me

23:24

get all the sentence correctly. It's a long

23:26

sentence. In a Q&A, during a general meeting

23:29

of shareholders, the company's executives were asked what

23:31

measures they were taking to stop reselling of

23:33

its next console, given that at last year's

23:35

meeting, they said they were planning to do

23:37

so. The Nintendo president

23:39

replied to the company's main plan

23:41

for combating scalping is to make

23:43

sure players don't have to turn

23:45

to resellers because they can just

23:47

buy a console at retail. This

23:51

is Furu Kao, of course, said that

23:53

as a countermeasure against resale, Nintendo believes

23:55

that the most important thing to produce

23:57

is sufficient numbers to meet con. consumer

24:00

demand. In addition, the

24:02

president of Nintendo is also considering whether

24:04

it can take some other measures, quote,

24:06

taking into account the circumstances in each

24:08

region. He continued also

24:11

noting that the semiconductor shortage that affected

24:13

numerous companies ability to produce new hardware

24:15

in recent years is no longer an

24:17

issue. Quote, last year and

24:19

the year before we were unable

24:22

to produce significant, no sufficient quantities

24:24

of Nintendo Switch hardware due to

24:26

a shortage of semiconductor components. But

24:28

this situation has now been resolved.

24:31

At present, we do not believe that

24:33

the shortage of components will have a

24:35

significant impact on the production of the

24:37

successor model, end quote. Lucy,

24:41

are you gonna be able to walk into a Target on

24:43

launch day and buy a Switch 2? No

24:45

pre-order. I can't walk into my

24:48

Target and buy a PlayStation 5, mate. Have you

24:50

been in there recently? Everything is behind a glass

24:52

sliding door you have to lock. They don't even

24:54

stock them. Do

24:56

you think Target's still gonna resell in physical media by

24:59

the time Switch 2 comes out? They have

25:01

to. They will, they have to. Come

25:03

on. No,

25:05

I mean, yeah, I, looking

25:08

back to the launch of Series X, Series

25:10

S and PS5, like that was height

25:13

of the pandemic. I remember when we got

25:15

ours coming in and then I

25:17

was in a Discord because

25:20

we were waiting for it when everything went

25:22

live. And like the way that stuff

25:24

was rolled out and like, oh my God, did you get a

25:26

pre-order? My pre-order got canceled. Like, you know, it was

25:29

this mad, mad rush. And then, you

25:32

know, looking at the reseller Discords,

25:35

the Stockping Discords, like it became

25:37

a second job for some

25:39

people. Oh yeah, yeah. And then, you know, and then

25:42

those people, those scalpers obviously got dinged because

25:44

production went back up again and they had

25:46

this excess surplus. And it sucks also like

25:49

to do that. And like, it became this

25:51

whole market in definitely during COVID.

25:53

And so I really hope that, yeah, Nintendo have

25:55

cracked it, figured it out. I also really hope

25:57

they don't have what happened to Playdate, like. off

34:00

your first month. That's better help

34:02

h e l p.com/kind of funny.

34:07

Let's just say all right. You

34:09

mistimed that I'm eating a bit

34:11

chicken. I've

34:13

got a little question in here. 1035 in

34:16

the morning. I had a piece of rudgig

34:18

and all right. You call me chat. I

34:21

know I've let you down. Barrett was even

34:23

giving you the countdown and you Yeah, when he

34:25

said hubris you were like 15 seems so like

34:27

I had so much time. And then I had

34:29

I even asked a question about ads and stuff

34:32

in there. You did? Yeah, yeah. I like to

34:34

give the 15 because I do the countdown starting

34:36

at five and I feel like if I do

34:38

like a 10 second it's like too quick you

34:40

know. Sure. This isn't a bare

34:42

fault by the way. I'm not saying no. No, we fully

34:45

know it's on you Greg. Well I want to make sure

34:47

they know all right. This is why

34:49

again, I just decided I'm gonna do the worst

34:51

performances of my career in this this four day work from

34:53

home thing. So we never have to do it again. You

34:55

know what I mean? It's

34:59

like a sit in. It's like a sit

35:01

in. It's a protest. All right. Next

35:04

time we have to do any maintenance to the studio

35:06

we have to sit down and be like guys remember

35:08

how terrible Greg was. It's great for him. He won't

35:11

do it. Let this let let

35:13

this equipment burn down. Just do it in

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the studio. Number

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three on the Roper report. Probably

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and arguably what should have been the headline. Sega's

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new crazy taxi game will be open world and

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massively multiplayer. This is Tom Phillips at Eurogamer. Elden

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Ring get the fuck out of here. Switch

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to nobody gives a shit. The kids

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love crazy taxi. Greg loves crazy taxi.

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All right. Another insult. First

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bear won't let me go to the office. Secondly,

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they're gonna bless he's gonna bury the crazy taxi

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news. We go

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back to tell the big budget

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upcoming return of crazy taxi will be an

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open world massively multiplayer game Sega has said

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a new developer interview video

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published today includes quotes from Sega's team

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behind the upcoming reboot as well as

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brief flashes of in game footage. There

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are clips of multiple