Bungie Layoffs in Wake of Destiny 2’s Demise - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.22.26

22:01Andy Cortez:Fair games? Yeah. No. Why? It's like the only thing that would make me question my longstanding belief that you never see fair games is this them rebranding. It is breaking. Yeah. because it's like okay so you know that the salt so it's like but if you're rebranding it as breaking your best slash perhaps only chance of getting anything out of this game is that you hide haven studios name from it at june 2nd state of play it's boom sony interactive entertainment presents this crazy ass trailer for break-in it's you and three or four of your friends whatever it is breaking in stealing thing yada yada bye having a great time and then it ends it's out now on PlayStation Plus or$5 or, you know, whatever, like$9.99.

22:46You get a friend's pass. I don't fucking know. But something like you get your money on that day. That is when you get your money. Maybe we're all right. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe you jump in and you go in. You're like, oh, but here we go. And it's great. But I just don't think that's good. Yeah. Zealand says Greg just wants this game to die. I don't. I'm just telling you what's going to happen to this game because I've seen it over and over again. Every day in this chair, fucking the industry pries my eyes open. It makes me watch people I love make art that dies. I'm not fucking cursing them. I'm telling you what I fucking say every night.

23:19Yeah. That's wild to say. What? No, no, no. You wanted to die. Oh, sure, sure. What are you talking about?

23:27Andy Cortez:As always, I hope every game finds its audience. I hope every game is a 10 out of 10. Yeah. Like we're saying that we're sitting here talking about the likely outcome. because he paid 3.6 billion dollars and they can't find success yeah you think the studio that had jade raymond oh she left it had the other guy oh he left the studio can't keep anybody working on this fucking game i digress let's get some more super chats in here because a lot of people have a lot of things to say about this uh article this reporting and playstation's handling of the one and only for 3.6 million dollars uh gerald says i hate that the devs are paying the price for leadership's greed, scandals, and poor decisions over the last three to four years.

24:08Andy Cortez:This is what happens when you try to take the artistry out of art and expect the same results. Yes. Street Shadow says, this falls on Jim Ryan. It feels like Sony is course correcting, with Nishino in charge. Bungie's choice to not start Destiny 3 after the final shape was bad. If they were really only at incubation. It makes sense to reduce the numbers on the Destiny 2, but I still hate... Oh, but I still hate like it. You're talking about the game. understandable yeah yeah again like it's fascinating to me of like what i would love to be the fly on the wall of the decisions happening when it is jim ryan slash herman holst when it is hey we're talking to you as a studio because this is one of the big things with bungie remember of like we're buying them but they're still independent they're still doing their thing we're not like not i don't know it's just a weird thing of we're gonna buy these people but not tell them what they need to make because we think you can make whatever you want and it'll be fine or we believe in your art like it's i would have bought them like this is rad destiny 3 right now marathon no just stop doing that or put it out however it is now let's just be done with it why'd they buy them we're gonna have 13 live service it's to start tim and then they're going to be all six so successful we'll make 13 more and bungee with their rubber stamp can come in and say yes no oh the last of us that isn't coming together.

25:29She's getting rid of that fucking multiplayer. We don't need that. Oh, man.

25:34Andy Cortez:Big Curse says Bungie not having Destiny 3 ready to go shortly after Final Shape, or at least in production. It's one of the biggest ball drops in gaming history. OMGLX says, obviously, everyone can do boycott slash do whatever, but the best case scenario for a Destiny 3 is for a marathon to dig itself out of the hole it's in. I don't think that will happen, but that's the best bet. Is it? Would that help? or would they read the wrong things there and go, oh man, fucking keep doubling down on Marathon. Let's keep making that shit happen. Felix says, Tim, why did Xbox buy Activision? It's pretty much the same thing.

26:06It is entirely different. Xbox bought Activision and they're making now Xbox games. And like, they're making the games that you expect Activision to make Overwatch and Call of Duty and all those things. And they're going to make a lot of money from those things. Whereas this, it's like, they're not making Destiny 3. They're not doing the thing that you would expect the purchase to be made for and the other thing of like helping all these studios it's like all right well that was a barely very poorly planned plan that we all saw as a bad idea correct so it's like if we saw it why didn't the people spending 3.6 billion dollars see it i don't that's a there's a level of gamble there studio that we the industry the way we pay

26:47Andy Cortez:attention to the industry man which is crazy to say norm chacho super chats and says how we've made it this far without sony telling bungie to make halo with the serial numbers filed off is beyond me it's like yeah I don't know again the first person shooting is what you always hear so much about Bungie and their pedigree right yeah and so yeah the idea of I mean I I you said earlier like you're kind of talking you don't know a lot about destiny right yeah obviously I I've played both destinies and I platinum destiny too thank you thank you Kevin thank you for the applause I don't know as much about but it's like if I'm Herman Hulse and I have Bungie and I have all this knowledge in first person shooter shit this is where I would turn to them and go like awesome one second Insomniac come talk to them about resistance let them tell them we don't want you making resistance because you make superhero games what about ratchet shut the fuck up no ratchet you make superhero games and we're gonna go see these guys who are great about first person shooter put a new spin on resistance or whatever the fuck it is there so that again i i got my little headlamp on you know what i'm doing everybody i'm mining the ip in the playstation mine there you go what was the exploit that was embracer they're gonna exploit when they split it too then the cfo for playstation was the one who's like we're gonna double down on the core audience or whatever that's we're gonna make our money or whatever uh following up on the conversation i'm having in chat here with felix he says activision making call of duty for the masses doesn't benefit xbox exclusively it doesn't even exclusively it's financially it needs to benefit the bottom line financially they're going to make so much money from call of duty selling on playstation and switch and xbox and pc year after year after year after year they're going to make their money back eventually even though that number is insane everyone needs to wake the fuck up you are in 2026 all any of these people care about is making money money that is what they care about it's not about benefiting xbox It's about making money for Xbox.

28:55Andy Cortez:Speaking of rival, uh, Kinsuna says, does Sony sell Bungie to Xbox? No. Xbox has got enough people over there to making shooters. No, they don't need that anymore. Uh, golden spider says, we keep saying we want new IPs or for companies to revitalize old IPs. But when, when Bungie did it with marathon, we keep saying, go back to destiny question mark. This is another one. another argument that drives me crazy where it's like we keep saying we want new ips yes yes but we also are saying we want specific genres and that we're burned down in specific genres and we don't and also when you just make a new thing it doesn't mean i have to fucking buy it it means i look at it i go is that look interesting to me no like make interesting games out of the new ips don't just make new ips and expect you to get bought over here i'm even bringing back old things like the case of marathon this is not what marathon was this is a completely new thing right we're putting the name of marathon on there but there's ties back but it's like the gameplay styles and totally different there wasn't a group of Kevin a large enough group of people I'm not talking there wasn't a large enough group of people that are like I I'm clamoring for marathon in the way that you see a lot of old IPs people actually asking for a banjo kazooie or jack and daxter i understand mascot platform where it's very different than uh old school pc yeah yeah but um i'm blanking right now on things people would want i'm sure like like a kill zone and a resistance and a fucking so calm and things like that right yeah like when i said well people shouted at socom yeah another great one let's take the socom uh ip over to uh bungee and let them have some first person shooting stuff with usher yeah and and also i see this in the chat people like marathon marathon's a good game like but is it making money is it making money money they spent 3.6 billion dollars on bungee is marathon making that much money it's about money everyone not quality it should be for us don't get me wrong when we finally They start kind of funny games games.

31:05We are making quality games. 2 % return on investment is the hope. That's it. That's it. Be nice. 2%. That's all I want. Let's sell 50 ,000 units or whatever stupid shit we're making. Mike Bithell, what dumb game you want to make? You know what I mean? Make it about superheroes. What about my ratchet? We don't want it.

31:23Andy Cortez:I really want ratchet. I'm going to move on. Otherwise we'll be here all day. Lots of super chats. People are the action. Pat says that that beat. the action pad I think is a pirate that beat Horizon multiplayer game also looks DOA for interest I mean can we say that it's like put it out stop doing alphas I don't know what the fuck we're talking about you know what I mean like I can't be interested when you're like do you want to come be in the band and I'm like yes I registered my interest nobody says anything to me put the fucking game out I got a million goddamn games to play Jason 3 says money

32:00everybody I need to clear the pallet he does all right we need to reset we need to come back

32:06Andy Cortez:sir lockwood says biggest l take greg has had in the wild the ration clank thing I assume not the money thing because if it's the money thing you're a fucking idiot

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32:58Nothing lives up to expectations Everybody's out of work The industry's fucked Because everybody wanted to make a Fortnite And they can't make a Fortnite Jim Ryan left He didn't want to talk about abortion He wanted to talk about cats But then he left And then he left And Herman Hall's A whole fucking thing like this And they don't have no single player games And then Naughty Dog Was making a multiplayer game And it could have been cool But they said No we don't want to do that And then you said Naughty Dog How did you not know When you were making a multiplayer game You would need to support the multiplayer game And then you go What the fuck is Sony been doing Why didn't they help on it You go Okay what about But then you got Bungie.

33:25You have Bungie. They could have supported it. And then you got 12 other ones that are doing the fucking thing. And then everyone goes, oh, Helldivers. But is Helldivers even... That will be the show. Here's a word from our sponsor.

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35:09Andy Cortez:Laid off this week by Meta. Thank you guys for keeping me sane. Happy to keep you sane. I'm sure your layoff wasn't at all motivated by money! chasing fucking trends for money. Here we go.

35:27What's up, everybody? Welcome to your favorite reoccurring segment. Greg Sound Financial Advice. Of course, not real financial advice. Today's is pretty simple. Put it all on potatoes. Man, it's fucked. We are all fucked. Put your money in the mattress.

35:41Andy Cortez:Put it into gold. Don't put it into games unless you are happy to make a little bit of money because you could make a little bit of money and be great. But if you're one of these fucking fat cat assholes over here, Zed Drake, maybe it's Zed Rake, Super Chats and says, of the$3.6 billion,$1.2 billion was for staff retention. It was golden handcuffs for senior equity members. They waited for vesting cliffs and left the staff to face mass layoffs. It was an exit strategy, not a rescue.

36:14What's story number two, Greg? What's it about? It's for money! Take-Two forecasts$8 billion in revenue in its next fiscal year thanks to GTA 6. This is Tom Henderson at Insider Gaming. Take-Two Interactive has announced that it expects to earn around$8 billion in its next fiscal year, mostly thanks to GTA 6. That's according to Take-Two Interactive's latest earnings call, where the company is forecasting$7.9 to$8.1 billion in revenue for its next fiscal year. The CEO also once again confirmed that GTA 6 will release on November 19, 2026 Earlier today, an interview with Tick2 Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick Confirmed that GTA 6 marketing will take place later than normal Stating quote I've been asked by investors whether we need to spend marketing dollars Given the scale of the intellectual property and its reach and sentiment He says And the answer is, of course, we need to market it we should expect a very significant broad-based marketing campaign that reflects where audiences and attention is today which is to say it won't resemble the approach taken for gta 5 back in 2013

37:21Andy Cortez:quote 13 years ago we were still buying network television we won't be buying a lot of network television end quote gta 6 will release on november 19th on the playstation 5 xbox series s slash X with its PC release expected to come sometime in 2027. With$8 billion in revenue, you could buy Bungie a couple times. That number is insane. That's$8 ,000 million. Wow. Everything's so fucked. It's just crazy. The numbers we throw around, everything is so fucked. The thing with this is like jay dublin says eight billion sounds like it's about the money i just i what is this game going to end up being man what the fuck i'm excited for this game about about yeah me too me too the the thing about gta 6 and the money coming into eight billion dollars like they are putting a lot of money into this game yeah exactly of course in the chat zellen says revenue does not equal profit of course of course it's like this is gestating for a while but remember isn't it wasn't the stat that GTA online currently makes a million dollars a day yeah like I don't know if they're hurting yes revenue I'm sorry yeah revenue is not profit but I don't know if it's gonna be that far I mean maybe on the balance sheet of just what GTA 6 is but yeah it's just it's really wild to think about the project of GTA 6 being I mean it must be the most expensive single thing ever right like i mean video games are way more money than movies yeah so this is definitely the most expensive video game i don't know i can't even think of something that would cost more than what grand theft auto 6 has cost it i guess the only thing is when i and this is all the shit we would never know right like how much was the empire state building i don't know How much is Trump's fucking arch Or in his ballroom right Now we sit here though with this When do they officially count GTA 6 starting You know I don't know and we'll never get a straight answer Out of Rockstar about it Mine's up Somebody chatted like it's the entire MCU Duro says the entire MCU Yeah I think that GTA 6 Is going to cost more than every MCU Project That's crazy Yeah I know robert downey jr 60 million dollars nothing nothing they should put him in gta 6 they have the money do you think uh oh i know it's a question i feel like but it's just here we are again i think it's such a weird one where it's like this much time this much money this much pressure etc etc etc this much these many expectations i still feel like gta 6 is going to live up to the hype do you think it lives up to the hype so here's the thing i think what's very interesting is we're just in a totally different time where i think the answer is yes i also think it's going to disappoint as many people and not live up to the hype but it doesn't matter because there's just more people are going to engage with this game than ever before and that's where the money comes from right i think it's crazy that the ps2 generation some of the biggest games were grand theft auto 3 trilogy yeah right but the scale to which those were the biggest games is nowhere close to what came after right yeah yeah uh three vice city san andreas were as big as video games can get back then but back then it was very small and then we get to gta 4 mega fucking hit yeah right sold so many copies reviewed incredibly well some perfect tens um major hit but compared to gta 5 gta 5 was a different level and it continues to this day to this moment being a different level than anything else like it's almost bigger than video games like we we always talk about like oh there's the fortnight there's the roblox and all that stuff gta is on that level but gta also is a core video game in a way that roblox isn't fortnight is but even then fortnight doesn't have that single player side that i think is equally maybe not equally but very uh important to an audience that's going to buy grand theft auto right there's that online live service side but then there is just the core the people that love gta three by city san andreas gta 4 and gta 5 that are going to buy this game there's just so many people more people than ever playing games and they're all going to play gta 6 and if not all the majority the majority are going to at least consider it so yeah it's like i think that without toxic discourse is about video games now there's no way for it to purely live up to the hype because we're just past that era everybody like the negativity is too strong and and it's not just the toxic negativity also the the critical thinking and the the side of people that like want more from stories and even when gta 5 came out there was a lot of people who just like i don't like this for xyz reasons and they're totally valid valid uh points i think that those points are gonna be louder than ever the amount of think pieces of like does gta still have a place in our world there's gonna be so many of those but guess what they're playing it fair enough because take two is making eight billion dollars in revenue they're not worried about much that's why number three meanwhile don't expect bioshock or judas anytime soon we talk to the one and only rebecca valentine over at kotaku we joined her story in progress this comes from take two the don't expect bioshock or judas anytime soon this comes from take two's q4 and full year earnings posted today which stated that six games are planned for the coming fiscal year apart from GTA 6.

43:21Andy Cortez:Those six games are made up of two mobile games and three sports games, NBA 2K7, PGA Tour 2K27, and WWE 2K27, and one, quote-unquote, platform extension, or essentially a port of something that's already out. None of those would describe either Judas or Bioshock, both of which are still listed as TBA on Take-Two's lineup. It does look a little brighter for the years immediately after that, as Take-Two states that in fiscal 28 and 29, it plans to release one new mobile game, five sports games, three core new IPs and 13 core existing IPs, which includes seven sequels and six remakes, remasters, or platform extensions.

44:00Interesting. Take two as a lot, right? When you're making$8 billion, you don't need to rush it. Ken Levine. Well, I mean, that is true, but also like the rush is an interesting, the fact that both these games are in the headline at the same time. Yeah. It's like, well, what's the chance there? But yeah, it's like, all right, Bioshock. I mean talk about can it live up to the hype that's a project that I'm just like I have zero hoping like see I think I'm with I have zero expectations yeah but I hope isn't that's but that's the thing is I just feel like there's it's just it's the type of game that I don't think is going to please any of the people it's trying to please okay I don't think it's going to be Bioshock is a unique game where it has this like it did something gravitas it did gravitas is a great word for it like it really did something different and you have bioshock 2 which is that classic story of like well you know it's it's a sequel but whatever and then there's infinite which i think tried something different in a way that like people really liked it because it was kind of similar to the first one but it took a different direction and that speaks to to people this long of a gap between it all it just it feels like uh it just caught in a bunch of bad buzzwords like i feel like it feel it'll feel like a legacy sequel it'll feel like a cash grab it'll feel like a whole bunch of things that i don't

45:20Andy Cortez:think have gravitas to it i i definitely agree it won't have gravitas in the same way bioshock one and bioshock if you're trying to say things right and then the dlc for bioshock two was but i feel like the message here would be simple because this is cloud chamber right that's the name i feel like you're like hey we're a brand new studio you know where we loved bioshock we're inspired to do our own Bioshock. Like this, when you say it's going to be a Bioshock game to me, that just means, okay, cool. It's going to be first person. It's going to be shooty, shooty. It'll be a little bit of hiding.

45:51Andy Cortez:Probably it'll be exploratory, some powers. Like, I feel like there's enough that we're taking that core idea and putting our own thing on it. I think is exciting to me in the same way we talk about, oh, well take fly Cooper, take infamous and give it to a different studio and let them spin with it. I'm I'm I have no expectations, but I wouldn't say I have no hope. Yeah. That's coming from somebody who's a Bioshock fan, I would say. Yeah. Yeah. It's the same thing with Judas where it's like, cool. Ken Levine's doing something hilarious that Ken's whole thing originally was like, I want to make smaller games.

46:21Andy Cortez:It'll go faster. And it's like, yeah, okay. Well, I mean, that's the other thing too about when it comes to the hope, it's like, I don't believe Bioshock's coming out. I don't believe it's not going to, but like, I would not bet money. It does. Sure. I can see that. Yeah. So whereas Judas, I think it does come out. Yeah. I think they both come out. Judas is like, I think an interesting one where it's like, holy shit. Like it, it really could be anything. It could be the best thing ever. It could be totally missed, totally missed everything. And it could just be fine. But yeah, with Bioshock, it's like, I just feel like if it comes out, it's a seven.

46:55Okay. Fair. I could see that. You know, it won't be a seven.

47:00Andy Cortez:You know, what's going to be a 10 out of motherfucking 10 story. Number four, crazy taxi news is imminent. This is the big man Jordan Midler of VGC.News. The Crazy Taxi X account is posted for the first time in seven years, potentially teasing the upcoming revival. A new entry in the Crazy Taxi franchise was announced in 2023 during the Game Awards. Since then, nothing has been seen of the upcoming revival. Now a teaser video has been posted to the Crazy Taxi X account, the first post on the account since 2019. The clip, which can be viewed here on your screen right now, shows the iconic taxi light illuminating on top of what appears to be the trademark yellow convertible taxi the crazy taxi reboot is being developed by sega's sapporo studio which was established in december 2021 and helps the development of various sega games in 2024 recruitment video was posted by sapporo uh with the director of the original game according to the video the development team was testing adapting the classic crazy taxi gameplay which has players transporting passengers to destinations as fast as possible into a game world with multiple players.

48:07It's unclear if this version of the game reflects what Sega is currently teasing.

48:11Andy Cortez:The original Crazy Taxi enjoyed some success as an arcade game in 1999, but became far more popular when a home version was released for the Dreamcast in 2000, ultimately becoming the third best-selling game on the console in the U.S. The game has seen several sequels and spin-offs, but the last entirely new main entry in the series was crazy taxi three high roller which was released 22 years ago as an xbox exclusive yeah yeah yeah yeah let's let's fucking go um i love crazy taxi i've loved all of them including high roller and i guess baby um crazy taxi one i didn't ever own a dreamcast but i used to play the game in arcades and was obsessed with it my dad was a taxi driver so i was like oh yeah this my shit um i was born for this i was born for this and i uh remember going to funko land which was a precursor to game spot oh yeah game stop and i traded in pokemon red and star wars episode one racer to get my first ever playstation 2 game nice crazy taxi the blue disc bottom because it I remember it.

49:20Wow, buddy. Yeah, I played the hell out of it and I loved it. And it's crazy to put in the context that Crazy Taxi was the third best-selling game in the year 2000 on Dreamcast. Wow. Like this simple arcade game. Take me to Pizza Hut. Like I want to know what this is going to be.

49:42Andy Cortez:I fucking cannot fucking wait. I adore Crazy Taxi too. and it was the thing for me you know in high school uh there was a target across the street and so some days when i was like waiting to get picked up from school rather than wait in the library and read or do homework i would just go to target and i would play the crazy taxi dreamcast demo and i remember telling michael bryan like i think i'm gonna buy a dreamcast he's like dude the playstation 2 is like at the time seven months away he's like just wait for that i'm sure i don't know if they've been announced to support whatever and so when we got that me poe and all my high school idiot friends just gathering around and i remember the first time we discovered you could s rank oh like i thought it was a and then when i got the boost down yeah yeah and i we got s rank the place like erupted and that's so funny crazy taxi was the game that taught me s rank yeah exactly and so yeah like i i we talk you know jordan's article here talks about uh them over here in the clip and blah blah and then talking about the video was it a leak or was it like b roll in a Sega thing that showed.

50:41Andy Cortez:I know we've seen something of what he's talking about of the multiple taxis driving around. I can't remember if that was leaked, though, if that was B-roll in something else. I think that might have been leaked because so remember, there's the Sega Super Game that is now canceled. But then at Game Awards, they did that like, hey, a bunch of revivals are coming or whatever. And I just want to Sonic whatever to bless. Yeah. Sonic Revolution. But I just want everybody to keep in mind that so far, this Sega old IP project has been a hit. Like, Shinobi, Art of Vengeance, was incredible. And there was another one that I'm forgetting, but it was also very, very good.

51:17Like, Sega's in a surprisingly good spot right now. So I have higher hopes for this than I would have. It's taken a lot longer than I expected for Crazy Taxi and for the Jet Set Radio to actually come to fruition. there was like a bunch of little like a snippet montage thing where we did see shinobi and we saw um a little bit of the jet set i don't remember seeing crazy taxi itself in there but i know crazy taxi was named in all of it um but yeah i love that we are a week away from playstation

51:46Andy Cortez:state of play and summer game yeah where do you think the shows uh summer game fest yeah yeah this is a jeff yeah especially bringing up a game award yeah jeff dna there so uh in addition to that it's like i there's a likelihood that we'll get a nintendo direct we normally do around i thought grub talked about that the june um time frame so like man we're about to get a lot of great game announcements and that's very very exciting because i we're gonna they're teasing it we're getting crazy what scares me about crazy taxi is yes the gestation because i think the success of this crazy taxi would be keep it simple stupid and it is i even when they showed the multiplayer thing i know we're coming out of live service and all this argument i think making a crazy taxi that's like tetris 99 yeah where it is how long can you survive i think that sounds great that sounds like a lot of fun that's the only way to make this like actually work like the crazy taxi of your putting it out charging anything for it i'm like what are we talking about like i just don't think that the we live in a world where that's an enticing project but yeah so that the financials of this i am interested in of like what they charge and what the actual game is but I am excited because this is a nostalgia play in the right ways but if they put this out it's a$70 title it has way too many game modes I don't think so I don't think they will but don't fucking do that Joshy Frog Super Chats and says Sega bring back Comic Zone no I mean fuck yeah dude no it was never as cool as it could have been Bander SN says if Crazy Taxi does a Simpsons collab I'm in hell yeah dude what was that one called I can never It's Hit Run or Road Rage They blur together I loved them both Hit Run was the GTA one Road Rage How was it?

53:28Andy Cortez:Road Rage Okay Jameson Peters says Do you think Crazy Taxi will have new music? It has to And that's so dangerous This needs to be a You need Don't do original shit Don't do free Do pay for licensed music You have to We have to pay for licensed music Then the game's gonna cost money Okay fine I don't give a shit I'll give you the goddamn money Let me do that I don't know It's dangerous balance everybody I know it is I'm just saying That's what we need Speaking of dangerous balance, money, and everything else, number five on the Roper Report. Nintendo seeks to top conservative Switch forecast by about 20%.

53:58This is Takashi Mochizuki over at Bloomberg. Nintendo has asked partners and suppliers to assemble about 20 million Switch 2 consoles in the year through March, roughly 20 % more than the public sales outlook it issued earlier this month, people familiar with the matter said. The latest production volume plan is not final and may be revised depending on demand. said the people, asking not to be named as the information is not public. Still, the current schedule suggests the company is confident in its ability to stoke Switch 2 sales with its upcoming games lineup. Nintendo has made a habit of issuing conservative forecasts at the start of a fiscal year and then outperforming them, a common practice for Japanese corporations.

54:39Just a year ago, the company publicly proclaimed an estimate of 15 million Switch 2 sales in the last fiscal year and then finished at 19.9 million units. For this year, it said it expects to sell 16.5 million Switch 2 consoles. Quote,

55:04The just-finished fiscal year is a good example. The closely-watched Switch 2 has set new sales records since its June debut. Nintendo stirred a fresh buying spree in Japan in recent days by announcing an imminent price hike to be followed by a global price increase in September to$500 from the original 450 brought on by the elevated cost of key parts like memory. I'm going to be an annoying little bitch here, Greg. Thank you. I fucking told you. I fucking told you. He told you. And here's the thing. If you heard me say that and you're like, not me, not you, not you. But if you hear me say that, you know what I'm talking about?

55:43I'm talking about you. Yeah. All right. everyone was like oh man switch to doom and gloom doom and gloom what are we talking about here this is how you do it have conservative goals exactly fucking crush the goals yeah move on get the systems in the house sell the games to the systems yeah go get them tiger i want more you're right across the board no argument no counter thing to say you nailed it congratulations yeah let's move on to story number six hey kevin here's what's in the crimson desert update 1.08.00. This is Wesley YinPool at IGN.com. Crimson Desert has yet another update making more significant improvements to Pearl Abyss' single-player open-world adventure game.

56:26Andy Cortez:The headline additions with the headline additions with update 1.08.00 patch notes courtesy of Steam or below are a pond for your camp, a baby wyvern has a new pet, and muskets and shotguns for Cliff. But before we get into that, there's one seemingly innocuous change that I wanted to zero in on because it's going to make my experience playing the game a lot more pleasant. An added function allows you to silence tied up outlaws. This, Kevin, that gets you. It's so good. General reaction. This really is a bigger deal than it sounds. If you've played Crimson Desert, you've probably dabbled in a spot of bounty hunting.

57:02Andy Cortez:You get these wanted posters from towns, then seek out the target. You pounce, literally punching your hapless foe into submission, sling them on the back of your horse or your shoulder if you're going on long walks, and head back to town to deliver the bounty and cash in. The problem is your targets just won't stop talking while you bring them to town. Really, they just will not shut up. They keep repeating themselves, complaining about how harshly they've been treated or how they've been framed or some nonsense. Parentheses, one outlaw actually made me feel sorry for them and I let them go. During really long journeys back to town for the drop-off, their constant waffle can start to get frustrating.

57:36Andy Cortez:I stopped doing bounties mostly because of this yapping. Now you can silence those tied-up outlaws. I'm going to start doing bounties again. Now all we need is the same thing for that disgrace of a gray main. Yeah. Okay. I'm exaggerating a little here. Obviously silencing outlaws. Isn't the most important change in the update cliff. Getting muskets and shotguns is a real game changer and adding a slot to equip tools means certain equipment that was previously equipped in secondary item slots can now be equipped in the tool slot, which is really helpful, but still for me, this is Wesley and pool bounties are back on and reaction for fans has been positive quote.

58:09My prayers have been answered. one player said quote there's already a function it's called death another joked quote yeah i stopped doing the bounties because of the constant noise looking forward to catching up added another the pace of crimson desert updates has been remarkable since launch something pearl abyss

58:23Andy Cortez:has said said has contributed to the game's enormous success it's an mmo style approach to post-launch updates for a single-player action adventure game and it's helping keep crimson desert interesting for weeks and months to come uh kevin has the igin article pulled up you can scroll and see there's just a million things going on here the slot for the tools the pond and howling hills uh 20 species of small animals and a baby wyvern that can be registered as pets added a function to instantly refine refine equipment uh selected kevin does this how are you feeling how are you feeling baby greg miller i what this game is wonderful they just are

59:01Blessing Adeoye Jr.:constantly making small changes that that make it even better i think it was a week ago they announced hey you can now go get a special necklace that you can put on your cat so you can put your cat on your shoulder wherever you go do i need that that is no i don't need that heaven coelho shit i've ever seen tim i have a white dog named cecil in the game and okay there's a special necklace i can put on him now he helps me fight that's pretty cool that's also a new add-on this equip the equipment tools or equipment yeah the tool slot is fantastic of like that's one less step that I have to do when I'm trying to switch over to my mining drill so that I can mine ore, you know?

59:42Blessing Adeoye Jr.:That's awesome. Why did they now switch over the... On here they're talking about the... You have a little scarf that you put on if you're trying to steal stuff. Now I have to hold left on the D-pad, hit R1 to switch to the secondary, to the clothing. Now I have to... That I didn't like, but there's a lot of awesome... guess what? Add a pond to howling hills. That that's your main basis. Yeah. My pond's being built right now. Oh, my pond's being built right now. I love that. Kevin, how many hours in crimson desert are you right now? I don't want to say no, but you say it's 284, 282 80, 40. Hell yeah,

1:00:20Andy Cortez:man. Good for you. I'm going to put it on this. I'm changing. People are saying games cast with Kevin next week. I'm happy to report on Thursday, the 28th. Kevin is doing a games cast plays crimson desert after 284 hours. Awesome. So you can catch that stream live. It'll be a podcast. Of course, it'll be up in YouTube and all that jazz. But I'm excited to see everything Kevin's got in his world. Because, Tim, Kevin being obsessed with the game is big news. It is. But if I wanted something smaller, say the tiniest news I need to know about, where would I go? Go to our last story, the Wii News channel, where we cover all the small news items that you need to know about.

1:00:54Number seven, Wii News. On the back of one of our conversations this week about Mortal Kombat,

1:00:58Andy Cortez:Ed Boone over on X wants to know which Mortal Kombat you want remastered. It's kind of wild. Mortal Kombat 9 or Shaolin Monks. And it's funny because I don't know if you remember, but in that conversation, we were literally talking about Mortal Kombat 9 and Shaolin Monks. Yeah. So I'm like, those are not similar things. They're both, I guess the similarity is that they're like iconic fan favorite entries in the franchise that are difficult to play today. And here's where it gets annoying. When we had that conversation on Gamescast, May 19th, 1209, I emailed Ed Boone live on the show I said dear Ed I'm on the kind of funny games cast and Blessing wants you to come on the show to hang out can we fight SF to be on the show thank you I miss you Greg P.S.

1:01:37Andy Cortez:do you know who Blessing is this was written live on the show P.P.S. if you say yes I'll hit up PR and ask the right way so neither of us get in trouble Ed Boone yet to respond to that email but then brings up the same things we were talking about in that conversation sounds to me like Mr. Bullitt watched that games cast and then rather than respond to me he went to Twitter. What a boondoggle. That was nice. And then your final piece of Wee News. In an interview with Screen Rant's Liam Crowley for the Super Mario Galaxy movie's digital release, Keegan, Michael Key. My fucking guy. Liam. Oh, I thought Keegan.

1:02:11Okay. Liam's a great dude. Okay. Fantastic dude. Okay. Keegan, Michael Key, who voices Toad, confirmed Jack Black's recent comments

1:02:20Andy Cortez:that the third Super Mario movie will likely arrive in theaters in 2029. Take it with a grain of salt. Remember when Goofy told you all you'd be playing Kingdom Hearts? You didn't play shit. And that's it for Wii News. Well, didn't? Not that year. No? It was very much like it was coming out this year, and it was like two years later. Oh, yeah. Maybe even longer. And that's it for Wii News. I think this is true, though. 2029. That makes sense, yeah. But you know how movies are. You know how everything is. I can see it getting delayed. I think we're going to be on it. It's going to hit 2029. You heard it here first.

1:02:48I got five on it.

1:02:50Andy Cortez:We had a lot of super chats. We did a lot as we went. I'm going to go through for the ones that aren't necessarily about how right I was and how wrong that other person was. Nightlife says birthday tax for my friend Richard Kind. Happy birthday, Richard Kind. The actor? I fucking, I hope you're actually friends with Richard Kind. I love Richard Kind so much. Everybody out there, if you have Netflix, I need you to go watch Everybody's Live. Everybody's here in LA. I don't remember the name of it. There was, they did a show, there was six episodes and then they did a sequel show with a slightly different name.

1:03:17It's John Mulaney and Richard Kind. And it is my favorite thing I've ever seen. And I need a season three. So go watch it. Support Richard Kind. the goat everybody's live with John Eleni there's everybody's live and then there was all everyone's in LA all right

1:03:31Andy Cortez:uh T Sweezy 90 says free idea for kind of funny games games Mike Biffle makes a game based on the Tom King run of Vision I'm not against it we ought to then talk to Marvel games Bill Roseman you know what I mean Castle Wink says birthday tax for tomorrow the big 37 happy birthday re-watching surf ninjas as a birthday tradition shout out to the only movie where a game gear is the main plot device add it to TMT add it to TMNT and review you cowards. I recently was going down a three ninjas rabbit hole, which I often do like every couple of years. I'm like, what's up with three ninjas? Has there been anything new?

1:04:03And there is because like a lot of the cast are now like, you know, we want money. Yeah. So they're going to conventions and like, you know, doing a bunch of cool things. So always a big fan of the three ninja world. And so this is where I'm going to say something that I don't know if Kevin remembers or not. So this might be like a deja vu conversation. I've never seen surfing.

1:04:20Andy Cortez:Okay. Never. Yeah. I definitely thought this was three ninjas. And then I saw this like, Oh,

1:04:25Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I remember why that conversation feels like deja vu.

1:04:28Andy Cortez:No,

1:04:28Blessing Adeoye Jr.:because I recently, I mean, this is probably like a year or two ago. I bought a three ninja or surf ninjas shirt. Yes. And you're like, I've never seen that before. Yeah. And you were like, what the fuck? How is that possible? Which is insane. I don't know how it's possible. Cause Kevin loved this movie. Sure. And you guys were together all the time. And we were out watching three ninjas constantly. Midnight Thunderboy super chats and says, first time, long time, 2011.

1:04:50Andy Cortez:I want to give a shout out to kind of funny. and my son. He graduates high school tonight. Kind of funny was on every morning ride to school. Hell yeah. Happy graduation to your son. A big moment. Now the baby bird's leaving the nest probably. I assume. Maybe not to college, but I mean again, once Ben graduates high school, I don't care what's next. Get the fuck out. Learn to fend for yourself. Slim Duck says, pray for Gary, me, and all the other Tottenham fans out there. It all comes down to Sunday. Coys. I will certainly I want you to know 1000 % not waste a prayer on that. All right? On soccer?

1:05:27Oh, damn. Those are fighting words. They really don't like when you call it soccer.

1:05:35Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Tim, they made up that term. If you don't like it,

1:05:38Andy Cortez:come argue with me on Monday. Mr. Hawks 182 says, Greg, for one night only, Story Motors is Story Motors with a T. And everyone is invited to our Forza Horizon 6 community hangout on our Twitch channel. Everybody go to Story Motors if you want to do that one. But you have to figure out which one I'm talking about. Crazy, you know, nostalgia glasses. We're getting to money.

1:06:06Andy Cortez:HXC Jedi says, we're getting a Portillo's here in San Antonio next month. I hope it's good. What would you recommend for a first timer? Google on, or just go to YouTube, Greg Miller's Portillo order. There is a one video there from before they became a corporation and played nice with us where we almost got arrested because we filmed outside the Portillo's and they got mad at us. They did. You can't film inside of Portillo's. It sucks. Back then, now you can do a whole bunch of different stuff. I digress. The money, a lot. I'm super chast people complimenting money bit. Thank you very much there.

1:06:33Andy Cortez:I am looking no beard. That's the Anaheim one. Oh, yeah, man. Am I going to BlizzCon this year? You bet your ass I am. Will I be at Portillo's at some point? I will be. You're going to BlizzCon? Yeah, that's right. Really? I'm willing that into existence. Oh, Diablo. Yeah. What the fuck are you doing at BlizzCon? Diablo. I think Mike has to come with me And I'll bring Xanf too Maybe we do a live show Oh, money still Oh, here we go Back to something else Could be Brandon says Early birthday tax Birthday tomorrow But here's money today Thank you guys for the constant entertainment Through my work days Love y 'all We love you Thank you Thank you Happy birthday People are back about Bungie now People are like People just love me You know what I mean Machine XP says Starfield literally had a higher play count Than Marathon on Steam That's how you know you're in trouble I'm doing a lot of stuff here.

1:07:23People still talking about bungee, man. They love that stuff. Sean says,

1:07:26Andy Cortez:y 'all going to cover the six one Indy showcase from yesterday. Honestly, some very unique looking games in there this year. As everybody knows, we love six one Indy. They had an amazing showcase yesterday, but it was also Mike's final one. And so I've supported Mike for years, but I will never support Kyle. Kyle Stevenson will never have my support. I don't know why he's like this. And so I know this was Mike's final one, but I thought to make a stand on it, I would say if Mike's leaving, I'm going to, I know I saw some comments about it. It's just a very hectic time in the lead up to SGF and reviews and a million other things.

1:08:02Andy Cortez:So we covered that it was coming up and I hope you paid attention to that and then went and watched it, but you could still go find the six one Indy showcase right now and see a whole bunch of games. I watched the end yesterday again, because I wanted to see Mike say goodbye. and then as when it was over I just flicked Kyle off because I wanted to see him cry I love you Kyle because Kyle knows he's fucking lost I also love you Mike no Michael no Kelsey oh my god now Kyle's over there he's like home make showcase you know what I mean because he's basically a caveman I've heard where Mike has to dress him like that's how bad it is for Kyle Steven Kyle Stevenson oof you know what I mean he had a blue beard once remember that we end this show I mean there's so many super chats telling me how right I was about everything uh yeah okay uh brain buster is gaming says hey greg cool shirt thank you this is my friend nikki jakey shirt you should support and then final one is a tim one ed reed fan says tim did you see that john passano was announced as the composer of the legend of zelda zelda movie recently he does all the west balls movies he also scored the playstation spider-man games hey that's awesome i actually think that that's a really good call the thing about the nintendo movies is obviously the goal would be having just like the original game composer that'd be awesome but game composers movie composers different skill sets I really like that they got Brian Tyler for the Mario movies and I think that John Passano is another great one here where they're really good at doing stuff clearly the Spider-Man Insomniac soundtrack are incredible they made new theme songs for Spider-Man that I put in the same echelon as any of the movie themes or any Nickelback well the score i'm so high but uh brian tyler did such a great job adapting the koji kondo mario themes into a movie score and i think that uh john will do a very similar thing with zelda and his style there so yeah i think they're the right level of uh film composers like very cool that's great news we ask people watching live to keep us honest by going to kind of funny.com slash you're wrong uh young albion had one piece of missed news fable has been rated in korea apparently which is incredibly exciting yeah wow means what maybe we get a release date for real at sgf yeah i'd be happy about that everybody it's time for your weekend to almost begin but remember we're not done working it kind of funny right after this you're getting the games cast once again it's tim and myself talking about if we're too old for games and after that they're streaming some video games it really is just going to be an episode of me and you talking with this energy y 'all gonna want to be there i'm gonna have another get some super chat's ready.

1:10:38Andy Cortez:We can do that. Give us some shit to talk about. Do them on the Gamescast, not over here. Yeah, not over here. We won't wait on the Gamescast. Everybody, like I said, if you missed that Gamescast, you missed that stream, you can catch them on demand. YouTube.com slash Kind of Funny Games. Of course, podcast services around the globe. Thank you for watching live on Twitch. Remember, pick up a Kind of Funny membership. YouTube.com slash Kind of Funny Games. Apple, Spotify, and of course Patreon.com slash Kind of Funny. For now, that's the end of Kind of Funny Games daily. Everybody but Kyle Stevens and have a great weekend.

1:11:05Andy Cortez:And until next time, know it's been a pleasure to serve you love you kyle