Does GTA 6 NEED To Cost $80? - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.05.26

28:03You're going to look at Blessing and Mike and say Outer Worlds 2 for$80 made you feel that way. That's insane.

28:09Blessing Adeoye Jr.:You know what? No, I'm with that guy in chat. Outer Worlds 2 should have been$100. for what that game offered like i so this is an interesting one right because we've been having the debate debate back and forth i know tim and greg talked about it last week as far as will it will gta 6 come out at 80 will come out at 70 i i am not confident one way or another but i i lean toward the 70 side because i think gta 6 i think their prime directive is to get that game into people's hands because the more units are out there the more you can sell them on the microtransaction of course the more you can sell them on the shark cards the more people that are active in the gta online ecosystem the better for them of course i know that 80 for gta 6 might be the difference between 25 million on on launch versus 23 million but i i think you don't want to fuck up that bag at all no they don't want to they're not gonna fuck up the bag no matter what but you want to you want as many units out there as possible i think you care about units a lot i think we talk about active users engagement of users right like that is a big one to keep them in especially knowing the tale of this is to be hey there's the initial sales that we want there will be pc sales and then we're going to move to online which will be micro transactions and we want as many people in there as possible right and so we will see what that looks like bless but But whatever Rockstar does, they will be the ones to dictate it, right?

29:42$100, no one here will bat an eye at that. We will all go, yep, give us that. We're totally fine with that. You think nobody will bat an eye at$100? They will complain, but they will do it. We all know that. Right now, if GTA 6 came out tomorrow and they said, the game's$100, we're all going to do this. We're going to nod and say, hell yeah, let's get it, right? Now, they can do whatever they want with online in-game currency because that's just funny money to them, right? They can go, hey, it's$100, but bless, you're going to get$4 million in shark cards. You don't know what that actually comes out to.

30:13It doesn't matter what it is. But that makes me, the consumer, go, okay, well, at least I'm getting some added value here. But we will find when it comes to the finish line what they do, but they will dictate the rest of the market. That's what this story is going to be.

30:26Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I definitely just can't. Yeah. I think$100, I think you're right that me and you and the people watching and listening are going to buy it. however i don't think you need that unnecessary bad press i don't think i think for them gta 6 is such a golden goose right it is such a like it is you are not really dealing with much bad press around gta 6 at all i think that hundred dollar price point we'll be walking to the store but we will be we'll be grumbling yeah i'm gonna fucking buy gonna take out my hundred dollar bill hand this to the cashier giving back to you today we're playing gj6 angry yeah yeah yeah i don't think they they want that especially because i don't think they have to do that of course i think the a 70 standard price and notice how i'm saying standard i think you're gonna have special editions of the game that are going to sell crazy you're gonna have 120 edition of the game maybe even more that's going to fly off the shelves right i think that's what balances this out Plus the micro transactions.

31:28Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I think you have so many ways to go about pricing this game in ways that don't also just piss off your entire audience. I mean, that's the goal, right? Consumers pay for the value that you bring them. Our job is to charge way, way less for the value delivery. I mean, I'm all on board. I think they stay at$70 plus I agree with you, right? There's no need to sour the story. There's no need to change any of this, especially because you know, the target goal is 25 million, 24 hours in. We know we're going to go way past that seven days, a month, a year from now, right? And then we're going to hit the tail of the microtransactions.

32:03They're totally fine. But with this story, it will dictate what the rest of the audience does, the rest of the marketplace. Because there's no way if GTA comes out at$70 from that point forward, you're going to be looked at as crazy for going above that. Yeah, I agree with that.

32:21Blessing Adeoye Jr.:now the one the one more point on this what i want to ask based off of bank of america do they need to go to 80 are we in a player and maybe this is like a call call up matt piscatella type thing and have a whole games cast about it right like is the video games industry in trouble if we don't make an 80 standard i mean that is now a different conversation like you said right it's like that's what this bank of america story is telling you it's like hey they're clearly interfacing with developers and publishers in a different way than the consumer is. And there may be seeing a different story. And that's what Matt Piscitella would tell you is like, Hey, with the ballooning costs of development time and how long it takes and how much money we're putting into it, this$70 price tag is clearly not working.

33:02Right. And so like back to the story, if GTA was to charge more, that would allow the door would be open for Mike and blessings. next game to be 75 to be$80 without souring the milk without hopefully allowing more without consumers saying we're not buying that right like yeah they might need more money we don't know what uh grand theft auto's six's budget is we assume it's gigantic of course right so it's like is$70 enough to pay for that budget at the end of the day will they make it all back of course

33:33Blessing Adeoye Jr.:it's$70 enough to satisfy their shareholders with the amount of revenue that you're gaining is the real question, right? Great call, Blast. And it's just a tough thing to balance because when I think of, let's say we go to an$80 standard across the board for new AAA video games, I find it tough to think that people will buy more games. I think that, I mean, I think just by property of that, right? People, the consumers start buying less. I mean, you buy less. You start to look for value with Xbox Game Pass, like we've talked about. I just can't keep doing this at this price point. And it's interesting when you see the Bank of America title on this, right?

34:10I think a lot of people go, oh, Bank of America is talking about me. Someone that's like living paycheck to paycheck or someone that is struggling to pay for groceries, rent in this economy. And it's like hoping that GTA won't up the price, right? Because the video games industry has a awesome enthusiast hobby. It's already a lot of money and is pricing people out of this, right? We're hoping that doesn't happen. And so it's like one of those like you read that first title. It's like Bank of America saying what? like you see the you see all the credit card statements help us out but it's yeah yeah they're

34:41Blessing Adeoye Jr.:speaking to the to the business of it right and like we're seeing it i think across the board in the talks that we see from these quarterly earnings where you're talking about uh i think it was playstation that said that says we got to focus on monetizing our our own audience you know embrace or talking about we got to exploit lord of the rings like everybody is trying to lock in and find the avenue that is going to continue that upward trajectory for your sales and a lot of that I think for a lot of these companies is looking at, all right, who does have money? Where are the whales at? Like, who are the people that are going to overspend and get us that revenue that we're talking about?

35:18Blessing Adeoye Jr.:And if we got to say, fuck the people that are in the middle and lower than that, if we got to say, fuck the people that aren't able to buy as many games or whatever, hey, at least we're getting money from the people that are making high of six figures, right? And that's going to suck for most of us. And I don't think that's sustainable long term. that might help you out for a second. I don't think that's sustainable for the health of the industry, which is where I look at this and go, I hope it's not$80. I hope we stick at$70. I don't think we can surpass that standard and have this be a healthy industry for the vast majority of people.

35:53If we stick at$70, does that mean the next generation, as we move on, sticks at$70? How long until we see another price increase? It'll happen. Yeah. Will it be one-offs? Nintendo will do their own thing. We don't include Nintendo, but we're talking about the next PlayStation game. PlayStation would be the next people who have juggernaut video games that clearly sell. Last was part three for PlayStation 6. Spider-Man 3, whatever it is, right? Like the banger PlayStation game. Would they be the next ones to say, hey, whatever GTA did, we don't care. We're coming out at 85. I ain't paying no$80 for Spider-Man 3.

36:27I'll wait for a sale. Fuck that shit.

36:29Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I think most people would say that. Yeah, no, I'm not doing that. I'll just play Spider-Man 2. like how sure i'll watch the story on youtube and then keep playing spiderman 2 i ain't paying 80 yeah i gotta save this so i can buy god of war ragnarok too you know you know what as we near towards november it is more and more fun to think about gta because i'll be honest with you bless gta hasn't been on my radar for a while i i enjoyed the last week's story with the numbers right but like i haven't had the fun of us talking about will it be a hundred dollars in quite some time yeah and when we get closer and closer this conversation will only ramp up and tighten even more we'll have so many more conversations we're gonna have so many conversations about it mike let's have a conversation about xbox and asha sharma but before we do let's have a conversation about patreon.com slash kind of funny and youtube.com slash kind of funny games where you can go and get the kind of funny membership which allows you to get shows ad free speaking of ads let us tell you about our sponsors this episode's brought to you by rocket money rocket money can track subscriptions and has the ability to cancel unwanted ones within the app with just a few taps, saving users over$880 million in canceled subscriptions.

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40:35Blessing Adeoye Jr.:And we're back. i actually want to hop into some super chats a lot of super chat a lot of chatter going on let's do it mob axie says i love how publishers say we need 80 games ghost of yote was made with less than 100 million dollars why the fuck can't triple a games have a lower budget like that oh wait we need mega sales yeah i mean that's a conversation we've been having right over the course of the last however many years six years whatever it's been of like video game budgets seem insane and like i think it's a balance of what does the audience ask for because on one hand i'm with you mob axe you i want more smaller smaller scale triple a games i love playing a game like lost legacy or miles morales or um you know you mentioned ghost of yote or a returnal but even even these games are still high budget games you know what i mean but then you jump to a god of a ragnarok and elden ring a whatever and we're we hail these games as masterpieces yeah we look at these games and we give them tons of sales they're console say They're console sellers.

41:35And so, like, I think there's a balance to that conversation.

41:38Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I don't know where the balance is at, because I think that's a very deep conversation of when we look at budget, when we look at the desire of players, what do players really care about? Because I agree that I look at the numbers and I go, this is not sustainable, and we are overworking people, and the games are being delayed forever, and it's been a whole generation. I've not played a new Naughty Dog game. But then you get one, and it's like, damn, all right, hell yeah, game of the year, 10 out of 10, and we're rewarded. Yep, yep, yep. And so I don't know what to do about that. No, bless. That is the balance that we will walk, especially for the video game industry right now at this moment with so many layoffs, studio closures, you are going to see publishers, big owners, and the stakes of all this.

42:18The balance will be key for the next 10 years of, can this be sustainable? How do you make sure your audience is being served? Your, of course, shareholders are being served in this perfect balance. That is a tight rope to walk. Yeah.

42:31Blessing Adeoye Jr.:we got one that just came in from rob base jr says sorry fellas but no one is buying base version of gta 6 at 100 i say the base needs to be 70 while a higher priced version 100 perhaps should come with a three to five day early access in a steel book case rob i mean me and bless are on board for the 70 price i'm on yeah we want that but to say no one would buy that game for 100 I apologize to you Rob you don't have egg on your face because all of us will be behind that game at$100 and they will have a 22 million 22 million units sold in 24 hours it will happen this game is going to do that Casual Vader says we don't need to pay more for games we need to pay executives less which I 100 % agree with you there that's what I'm talking about with the shareholders power to the people baby let's rise up let's fucking stop this shit i hear you mike let's go let's do it uh only special feature says my crazy idea that won't happen but i wish would happen the game is 60 bucks you charge less to sell more copies and you appear as the hero to gamers here's what i'll say in the dream world oh man that'd be so sick that'll never happen that'll never making 10 dollars less per copy no of gta do you know how many millions of dollars you're leaving on the floor that's not in the budget that's that's definitely not the budget when when strauss zelnick says that um we told i told my son that he can that he can have unlimited budget or whatever for his wedding and they still went over budget i butchered that but like no that game is gonna cost at least full price for you yeah but i i hear you there um i mean jam van writes in with a similar thing gta 6 should come out at 50 and cause a massive industry panic the idea that anyone but gta could get away with 80 is crazed didn't nintendo get away with it though they did get away with nintendo got away we all happily bought that game not happily but we did buy that game um striking news writes in and says birthday tax for yesterday going through lambing season on my farm in iceland wow that's awesome and you guys are keeping me sane through sleepless nights shout out to mike and any other fellow may babies out there hey shout out to all the may babies out there birthday coming up very excited and thanks for watching and listening to us.

44:50Thanks for allowing us to be part of your day. Lambing season.

44:53Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah. I would assume that means birthing season. It's time for the babies to come. Kevin has it pulled up here. Laming season primarily occurs in late winter to early spring. Lasting about six weeks as ewes give birth after a five-month gestation. Damn. Nailed it. Wow. Time to get out. That's going to be some hard work. It's going to be a lot of lambs crying, a lot of screaming. Got to get them the bottle. You got to get dirty. Got to rock them to bed. I'd like to do it one day in my life. I'd do it one day. That's the most white privilege thing ever said. Go out there, dude. I'll get my hands dirty for one day.

45:27Are you a celebrity? I don't want to go through lambing season. I just want to do one day of lambing season.

45:33Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I'll work at a grocery store for a day. As we talk about a video game podcast. God. And then we'll do one more. We'll do one more. uh mike like music writes and it says if y 'all could play any game that's released in this very moment what would it be and why if you can play a game that's been released right now that's been released or coming okay that is that's a really that's released that's oh then i could just stop right now and just like stop right now play this video game man i have so many dude i'd like to play sorrows if i could stop everything right now pragmata was up there but for real the game that i want to play right now this moment is heroes of might and magic okay number four new new game just came out wow it's like low on my list of like priorities because there's so much things to do that's the game i want to i want to stop the world and say let mike play this if i can play any game i mean you had me wanting to play tekken blessing you got me you only wanted me to go we need to go back to kit takin i mean that's my of the year the year that's my main i know victor is my dude i'd be going crazy crazy cool oh listen if you want to do a fighting game stream i just say the word invincible versus is out right now what what's a what's a game right now that's like in your busy season that's we juggle all these reviews is there any game that you're like i missed this mike and i wish i could just pause time oh i missed this and i want to get back to it yeah um life is strange reunion oh i missed it i'm a big life's a strange fan and like i want to make time for it but i'm scared that i'm not want to be able to uh athelian that's the one from don't speaking of life strange that's the one don't nod yeah yeah this game uh had like middling reviews but i saw a couple of reviews that were like no no no this is amazing okay kate sanchez at but why though um reviewed it gave it a 9.5 out of 10 and is glowing about it yeah and so that's definitely on the list and then um titanium court i have that on my steam deck i played it i booted it up on the way to vegas and then I fall asleep on the plane because I always fall asleep on planes.

47:35Blessing Adeoye Jr.:But that game seems neat. It seems really, really cool. I like that. So many games. Story number three. Bless. That's like a 45-minute flight. Dude, let me tell you what. I was on a plane ride to LA. Yeah. Of course, the normal. You get on the plane. Hey, sorry, everybody. It's going to be another 45 minutes. Hate that. Yeah. Blessing. I started nodding off, phone in my hand, dropped it in front of the people in front of me. I was like, oh, I'm so embarrassed. but i can feel myself passing out in front of them the thing kevin is it's like being rocked like a baby for me that's how it is but yeah it's just so i know i'm sorry i'm the exact same way yeah dude oh man it's like you and me at lambing season somebody photoshopped me and mike as lambs being rocked to sleep story number three microsoft's new xbox shakeup is all about platform changes this is tom warren at the verge microsoft's new xbox chief asha sharma has spent the past couple of months making her mark on the Xbox organization.

48:30Blessing Adeoye Jr.:After focusing on highly requested Xbox console features, reducing the price of Game Pass, and moving Microsoft gaming back to Xbox, Sharma is now reorganizing the Xbox platform team at Microsoft today. The changes will see some veterans depart, promotions, and new faces with more technical expertise to help the Xbox platform team. Jared Palmer, who used to work with Sharma in Microsoft's core AI division, is joining Xbox as VP of Engineering and Technical advisor to Sharma. In a memo to Xbox employees, Sharma says that Palmer will work, quote, directly with me on our most complex product and engineering problems with a focus on developer tooling, taste, and infrastructure, end quote.

49:13Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Tim Allen, former Microsoft Core AI VP of Design and GitHub's Senior VP of Design and Research, is also joining Xbox to lead design. Sharma says Allen's appointment is the first time bringing together product design, design engineering, research and creative with a fan first focus. Jonathan McKay, former head of growth at Microsoft's Core AI division, is also joining Xbox to lead its growth data platform and analytics. Evan Shockey, a former general manager at Core AI, is joining a new team in Xbox to quote, lead a forward deployed engineering group focused on removing repetitive work, simplifying development and improving how we operate end quote.

49:53Blessing Adeoye Jr.:That's a lot of folks from Microsoft's Core AI team and it seems like Sharma is bringing over her former colleagues to give the Xbox organization a little more technical expertise for platforms and experience with things like growth in data. It's also a lot of AI experience, which is bound to sound the alarms with some Xbox fans. But looking at the appointments, there's no clear AI push for Xbox here. These leadership changes at Xbox largely affect the platform teams under Xbox president Sarah Bond. Microsoft originally announced Bond's departure in February, and she has remained in place as special advisor to Sharma to help with the leadership transition.

50:31Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Many an expected bond would be named Xbox chief, but Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella decided to shake up Xbox leadership with an outsider. As part of this new Xbox shakeup, Roanne Soans, corporate vice president of Xbox devices and ecosystem, will be taking a leave of of absence after this summer and will be staying on as an advisor stones previously reported to bond and helped lead the launch of xbox ally devices kevin gamel corporate vice president of xbox user experience is also stepping down after nearly 20 years at microsoft quote he has dedicated more than 15 years to xbox and will support the transition says sharma i'm grateful for his leadership and everything he has built here jason ronald vice president of next gen is also getting a promotion as part of these changes quote on hardware we're elevating jason ronald accountable for project helix and our platform says sharma it's not clear what ronald's new title is though jason beaumont will lead the product and serve as interim head of engineering as part of these changes this is an important time for xbox says sharma quote our goal with this change is simple build a platform that is affordable personal and open by staying close to the work and people we serve will continue to add the capabilities needed to get there and well mike this broke right before we went live a lot going on there i got to see your reaction live when i said there's some new asha xbox news you're like exciting and i said everybody's being i said okay core ai people are being brought to lead the ship here mood kind of shifted a little bit but you know what you talked me into it, Bless, because she's bringing on her team, right?

52:10And that's the big deal of this. Of course, want to kick off Rowan and Kevin. Congratulations. Like, thank you for your service. That's an amazing amount of time to spend at Xbox and Microsoft. Like, best of luck to you wherever you go. Please enjoy some time off and like thanks so much for everything you've done. Like, that's crazy. That's wild to say I can spend that much time at a company and look back on my career. Jason, congratulations, big dog. Another promotion. We'll see what that is. Let's talk about her, though. Bless. The audience heard you talk, and you could see it in the chat. Oh, yeah.

52:43Poor AI. People immediately don't feel good about that. They do not like the word AI right now. We've talked about it for months, cutting jobs, the idea that the goal would be to supplement AI instead of people, right? But this is now Asha Sharma's ship, right? This is her role. I am impressed that, like, when we talk about Satya and we talk about her, it seems like hey this is her ball to take she's going to do whatever she wants to do

53:10Blessing Adeoye Jr.:and only time will tell where this takes us though yeah i think for me there's two sides of it i think the first side of it is as people who talk about the industry every single day right as an audience that pays attention to everything we're not naive when it comes to the shifts made in the industry especially in uh surrounding ai and how ai is being forced into nearly everything because shareholders demand for it um and so i i think that is why we have the the innate fear of oh no like xbox is being invaded by people who are from the ai team right i think there there's the feeling that we have automatically that is that kind of shudders at this we're kind of like i don't like this no um on the other side for me i'm very much on like the all right let's see how it goes like Like, to your point, she's bringing over people that she's worked with in the past in that she looks at their pedigree and goes, okay, cool.

54:08Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I like what you do. I know how to work with you. Cool. These are people I trust. These are people that we've worked with before. We know each other's workflows. Like, that is a big part of building a team is the trust and understanding. I know what Bless is capable of. He knows what I like and don't like. Let's work together. Yeah. And so I think on that side of it, I'm like, I don't really have much of a strong opinion about this regarding that i think that's something that happens when there's big leadership change right like that leader looks at people they've worked with looks at people they trust looks at people with certain expertise and goes i want to do this i'm going to bring this team these people that i know have the capability of doing this and bring them bring them along with me so there's that does this eventually lead to some ai bullshit sure maybe of course the question is what is their knowledge on xbox and gaming as a whole right we're talking about asha and how she's coming in and perceived, right, of like, whoa, AI, Instacart, right?

55:01Like, where's the gaming background? And we always say, hey, given the benefit of the doubt, they're bringing in talents that you might not know about, right? But now you look at the team and go, okay, what is the knowledge? What are you going to be bringing? But we do know that Asha is bringing a different eye to this, right? It is about the user base and player engagement, right, and trying to get small wins now to start getting this turn, especially ahead of Project Helix, when that is going to be announced, dated, and slated, and outright, you want a big positive upshift towards that, and you want to start winning the fans back.

55:34And I think her goal is we got to start getting people back on board now.

55:38Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yeah. The only thing that does stick out to me here, they talk about Evan Shockey, right, the former general manager at Cori. He's joining the team. To quote, lead a forward-deployed engineering group focused on removing repetitive work, simplifying development, and improving how we operate. that sounds like you're going to fire people. That sounds like we're going to slim this thing up. That's the only part where I'm like, that scares me. I don't know about that. I don't like that language. I think we will see. I think the big one with Asha and this team is we will see a lot of this is going to be a year, five years out.

56:11Right. But like with that, that reads me resume speak. Hey, this is what I'm good at. Right. I'm good at coming into a role, seeing what you have going on and finding ways to be more efficient. Right. what are the bottlenecks what are the issues that your team is having or that i see from the outside that i'm good at coming in and saying hey let's change this i don't jump immediately to cut cut cut i think a lot of us would do that but i think that's coming regardless if well

56:37Blessing Adeoye Jr.:big leadership changes it's not a we will see mike it is a it will happen i don't when is it not happened yeah that's true it's never not happened on this scale so the problem is when you say that then my mind goes back to the Seamus Blackley um quote at the beginning of all this like we're putting putting Xbox to rest then you know right and like it doesn't feel like the fighting mentality you want to be I want to be more optimistic of like these business changes are in the right to better Xbox and get them back into a better spot than they have been over the past 10 years this past generation yeah but yeah I mean this is all corporate speak this is all we can just guess and hope we won't find out until two weeks from now when they're like hey guess what mike we shut off a thousand jobs yeah i i the only push back to that where i don't see it in line with the shameless blackley thing is that i think their job here is to make xbox more profitable and make money and you know i think that's at odds with we're sunsetting this we're putting we're putting it to sleep right but i also think to the corporate speak of it and corporate structure of it for companies especially a company of the size of microsoft and xbox oftentimes raising profits means we're paying less people we're paying we're not going to pay the people that we think are sitting around and doing a job that we think they don't need to do or in the case of maybe some of these ai folks we can have an ai do you know what i mean like i think that's just the that's the natural course of how these things happen that sucks i don't agree with it it all comes down to capitalism and all and all that bullshit right all comes down to the people at the top and their greediness and filling their pockets but yeah like that's i i you know i i feel like we get into this loop every single time of oh this company acquired this other company let's be let's be optimistic all this shit and then the layoffs happen oh xbox acquired activision blizzard oh they're saying all the right things layoffs happen right it's a yearly come june we're gonna hear about layoffs it's always in june for microsoft like it happens like clockwork and i don't i'm not trying to be defeatist yeah i'm not trying to be anti xbox either i know people think that every single time i talk about xbox i'm just trying to lay it out how it is and yeah like not saying that this specific thing is exactly that but overall with these big shifts in leadership that's the that's the other shoe that drops every single time i mean it'll be interesting to see only time will tell of course we also talk about sarah bond right and her role leaving who is filling these gaps right for ash's team to be in those kind of roles these are the people that kind of have to come and be brought in when you have talent like sarah bond leaving and probably more of her team going as well yeah let's move on story number four which mike you know we talked about a lot of big news we tie in story number four i would put in maybe the big ish news category yeah maybe a little smaller maybe a little smaller yeah but if i wanted the tiniest news i need to know about where would i go bless i take you to our last story the we news channel where we cover all the small news items you need to know about story number four we're far into the show of course we had a lot of big conversation and bless i love having good gaming conversations with you big i want you to know that i love bouncing off of you and having a good conversation um halo studios is actively developing remakes of halo 2 and 3 it is claimed uh is from andy robinson at vgc that's according to Rebs Gaming which claims to have received proof from sources that the entire original Halo trilogy is receiving the remake treatment yeah bless we'll keep this very short I will say when I me and Tim went up to go and preview Halo campaign evolved or yeah campaign evolved whatever they call that my immediate thought was oh well they're gonna run this back with 2 and 3 right like hey we're bringing this to Playstation this is now in Unreal engine five my immediate thought was oh well they'll go to two and three yeah right like to complete the saga brand new player base a brand new look and feel for the modern day modern engine boom like that just seems like a win where's the multiplayer on that what is that what's the balance of hey they have a multiplayer project the next halo plus these two where does it really go are the campaigns enough i don't know but my mind did jump immediately to oh surely they'll do two and three people in chat are saying that we also talked about these yesterday but mike wasn't here yesterday.

1:01:02Well, thank you. I wanted to talk. I'm very excited to talk Halo.

1:01:07Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Fuck. Yeah. You know, I also was off yesterday. I was getting back from Vegas. Usually I prep every single show. I thought I read the full notes for the show yesterday. Apparently I missed. We will see. I'm very excited to see how Halo sells on PlayStation in particular. And of course how it's received. Right. Yeah. There's diehard Halo fans like me or just Mike in general who was like, hey, Halo campaign evolved. Great. Ten levels plus an additional three. Thirteen total. that's fun where's the multiplayer yeah this isn't a full halo product to me right i'm very looking forward to whenever this comes out how it's received what is the sales for this what what does this look like can it be a smaller project in the halo library so you can do a two and three without taking so much time away from where it needs to be which is that real full product here man i miss halo infinite was it so much fun i was so it's such a fun Halo Infinite was so good.

1:02:00Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Bring that to PlayStation. Let's give it another shot, bro. I want to play more Halo Infinite. Wee News for you. Call of Duty tweeted out that they're not sure where this one started, but it's not true. The next Call of Duty is not being developed for PS4. Big deal. Let's watch those rumors. Say goodbye to the last gen. Is this the first one that's not on PS4? Let me double check which one was. Yeah, fact check for that for me. More for you from Noble. This is a really fun one. Landfall and AgroCrab teamed up for a banger steam bundle. You can get eight games for$12, and you donate to Make-A-Wish.

1:02:32Blessing Adeoye Jr.:The list of games is pretty cool. You got Another Crabs Treasure, Haste Peak, Content Warning, Totally Accurate Battle Sim, Going Under, Stick Fight the Game, and Subway Midnight. That's a banger, banger list of games. That's a great lineup of games. Jump on that. Black Ops 7 is on PS4. Damn. I can buy it currently on Target right now. Hell yeah. Really exciting, then, for this next Call of Duty. Big deal. Yeah. It's one of those we're so deep into this life cycle that like for this console generation, it feels like now's the time. But then you saw those GTA numbers. You're like, well, people are still playing back.

1:03:06Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Oh, yeah, you are definitely still playing back back there. From VGC, the CEO of Hitman Studio, Ion Reactive, has assured players that the Switch 2 version of 007 First Light will be released eventually and that he'll do everything in his power to ensure it runs well. Nice. Coming to Game Pass on May 6th, you're getting Ben 10 Power Trip. On the 7th, you're getting Mixtape. On the 11th, you're getting Outbound. On the 12th, you're getting Black Jacket, Call of the Elder Gods, and Elite Dangerous. On the 14th, you're getting Subnautica 2. It happened. That's the release date right there. We got the release date for Subnautica 2.

1:03:38Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I assume they talked about that. But if they didn't, that's happening. Whoa! That's a big fucking deal! Yeah. May 14th, okay, I'm in. I can't believe it's happening. Wow. On the 19th, you're getting Forza Horizon 6. This is a packed month right here. Super packed month. And then you're getting, for premium, Descenders Next, Wheel World, Wildgate, Wushong Fallen Feathers, and Doom the Dark Ages. Which is Doom the Dark? Oh, premium. I see. Different. Don't even get me started. We fucked it up. I got so uptight about this. The moment that you went from the two very clear PC, console, and premium, whatever, right?

1:04:13Yeah. And then they were like, well, now there's core. And, like, some of you will get these games. Then a lot of you will get those games. Wait. Some of you won't get all these games. That was the moment where it was like, you fucked it up. premium what is wait there's three different levels bless and it depends on what games you

1:04:27Blessing Adeoye Jr.:get and when you get them because i knew they restructured it is premium which one was what games with gold was is that premium that's core no so premium is a more expensive version games with gold is done games with gold was three games a month that changed that xbox live ended and became game pass core so premium i gotta give my presentation the dark ages is a new thing for premium but wasn't it that's an xbox first party game though right well you're not an ultimate ultimate is where you got to be for the first party games day and wait damn let me bring up my i'll bring up the slides bring up the slides horizon hunters gathering second closed play test will take place between may 22nd and 25th it adds to two new hunters a playable episode a new region and more i haven't talked to anybody that's played that if you play that let me know because i want to know is it good is it fun did anybody bless welcome to the snow bike mic slideshow presentation of what Xbox now is, right?

1:05:23And so this is what it previously was. But just to give you a quick rundown before the price changes, there was essential premium ultimate.

1:05:29Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Yes. All of those levels would dictate when you get certain games and how many games you have in your vast library immediately, right? And so at this ultimate tier, that's 400-plus games with day-one launches of day-and-date Game Pass first-party titles. When you get to this premium tier, you get 200-plus games, but only a couple of games. from the day one or from Xbox first party. Day and date will come later on. You're like six months out. And then when you get to Essential, that shit will come eventually. Whenever I'm in the mood. Huh. Yeah. We gotta simplify that, bro. We gotta simplify that.

1:06:05You gotta get back to the tomb. What have we done? That's crazy.

1:06:12Blessing Adeoye Jr.:And then Control sold over six million copies. People are saying in chat that the Hunters Gathering thing was under NDA. I didn't know that. Tell me anyway. Break it. Let's get weird, guys. Let's take one more look at Super Chats, see what people are talking about. Kinetic says, Mike, will the boys return to CS2? Has the hype right now. Yo, did you hear the conversation? No. Greg got on the phone with Nakey Jakey. Oh, I did hear that. And when I think about Nakey Jakey, I think about CS2. Yeah. And so maybe we can sweet talk Greg and be like, hey, can you ask him to play CS2 with us for an afternoon?

1:06:47That would be a lot of fun.

1:06:47Blessing Adeoye Jr.:here's here's the thing because i was listening to that show about nikki jakey pretty amazing i mean if you want to call it that i met nikki jakey the week before at the 007 event i was so excited because i'm such a big fan of nikki jakey yeah he's one of my favorite video essayers and when i met him at the 007 event i was so excited i was hanging out with jake baldino of course they know each other and then um i introduced myself i'm like hey my name's blessing i work with kind of funny he's like oh yeah no kind of funny i was like oh i was gushing i was like oh let's go like he knows he knows kind of funny that's cool i felt like such a fanboy um and so when you jump forward a week and greg calls him a thing that you shouldn't call somebody you know my first reaction was like damn maybe i shouldn't have said i was from kind of funny because now we had greg william calling him something that you shouldn't call me to call people but that's cool they got on the phone with them got on the phone with him so like is he coming through what's the what's the vibe the word is he's trying to get him in let's get him in so yeah i love nakey jakey i would love to return to counter strike i haven't played a tactical shooter in quite some time.

1:07:44I fell off of Valorant because I wasn't invited to the team, Andy. And then we played some Counter-Strike. We had a ton of fun with it. But I haven't played any tactical shooter like that in a while.

1:07:54Blessing Adeoye Jr.:I think I booted up Counter-Strike one time when I was younger. Okay. And I didn't understand it at the time. I think post-Valorant, bless, could probably play Counter-Strike a little bit better. You'll be good at it. You'll be good at it. It seems like the most hardcore shooter that's out there. it's a frustrating one you know when you die and you just want to keep playing and you got to sit there and watch your teammates like that's a frustrating thing yeah how about patience um luke nukem gaming says hi guys great episode as always y 'all have inspired me to set up this channel where i'm doing quick game reviews and rankings i appreciate a plug starting out much love kind of funny crew slash community listen here's the thing blessures gave you a free plug without even checking it here's yeah right here's here's the thing right nobody else do what he just if you do it i will curse you out all right no free plugs on the show but what was his name luke nukem gaming luke nukem listen luke nukem gaming how dare you how do you super chat us luke nukem gaming spelled n-u-k-e-m luke nukem gaming is that on youtube it looks like it's on youtube yeah let me click it to your account so i can roast some of your content i'm getting on it right now i'm gonna hit the follow oh i'm gonna go to channel fucking luke nukem what videos you got here oh he has a pragmatic quick review homie you gotta get more videos on here it's just starting out but like if you're gonna when you shoot your shot for the promo you gotta have the stuff ready because we're gonna then talk about you if you're gonna be immediately click over upload more content oh see i went to bombed him no that's not the same this is different guys luke nukem gaming okay anyway no free shout outs um

1:09:40Blessing Adeoye Jr.:okay we'll do one more quick one we got to get out of here uh well let's not do that one uh omg omg or burr says 25 mil would beat gamecube live gamecube lifetime in a day if we sell 25 million units of gta oh yeah yeah that would be that'll beat the lifetime in a day it's an insane number to go to top selling video games of all time and see the numbers and see how quick it drops off from the minecraft and one other game to grand theft auto and then the drop off from the 200s to just 80 million it's amazing what's the tetris number because i feel like tetris is there yeah tetris i'm pretty sure is number one it goes tetris gta probably minecraft tetris minecraft gta mario kart eight deluxe there's something above that there's got to be something before red dead yeah maybe but should tetris count it was a pack-in game i mean we sports counts we sports is up we sports is in there but it's low that's an 80 game that's an 80 game um and i think honestly i think they bundle every single tetris which we can't do right i don't bundle every assassin's creed together well you know but i'm pretty sure when a tetris effect comes out they fucking put that in there they're ballooning the tetris numbers we gotta talk about tetris y 'all uh kindoffunny.com slash you're wrong that's where write-in list of what we got wrong as we got it wrong mellow fellow writes in uh says dead as disco was out today that's not a year wrong and i don't always include include the out today's but did you try that one are you looking forward to trying that one i tried it and then i i remember it was early access and i'll wait for it okay uh the real garati says luke's plug wasn't free he paid 10 pounds to super chat the plug well he got it well ask us how much any of these sponsors pay yes it's more than 10 pounds he's got his plug i'm i'm following um let's see oh subnautica subnautica writes in and says the release date was announced last week on april 30th it's an early access nice i didn't even know this i'm so excited yeah that's a big deal to me and that is it for you're wrong and that is it for this episode of kind of funny games daily of course mike thank you so much for joining me on the show big fun day today yeah got a lot of awesome stuff after this greg is talking about his preview of lego batman the new one legacy of the darkness legacy of the bat whatever the new batman game is and then we have a bunch more and after that we have a kind of funny podcast with your big four that you all love tim nick andy and greg and then after that mike greg xanth a games cast plays of diablo 4 with the developers for even of hatred.

1:12:23Love it. Very pumped.

1:12:24Blessing Adeoye Jr.:Legacy of the Dark Knight. It's funny. I was going to say Legacy of the Dark Knight and I was like, that's not it. I can't wait for this game. Lego Batman? Yeah, yeah. This is top three most anticipated. Wow. Yeah, it's up there. All right. Well, let's listen to Greg talk about it right after this. If you love what we do, support us with The Kind of Funny membership on Patreon or YouTube to get our shows ad-free and get a daily exclusive show. Enjoy the games cast next and everything after. But until next time, Game Daily.