PlayStation Exclusives Are DONE Coming to PC - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.19.26

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1:46Lego Batman, Legacy of the Dark Knight. This is my favorite part. Available May 22nd on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, S, and PC. Rated E10 for ages 10 and up. today in the nerdy news you need to know about it's official playstation exclusives aren't coming to pc anymore maybe they can use that money to buy soap now right andy all the pc players they can go buy soap andy because they don't wash themselves these pc players i heard you spreading your fucking bullshit yesterday oh well i can't believe playstation plus still charges you to be online oh i heard you you think i don't fucking hear everything you say in this goddamn place?

2:28Where have you been playing on? I was playing on Xbox. Well, technically, I was the ROG. Well, the ROG is an Xbox. And also because it's the successor to the Vita in many ways. Otherwise, Microsoft launches an Xbox player voice to gather feedback. That's what it is. It's not the player. It's not like Zordon's talking. That's not the player voice. You got what I mean. And Nintendo reveals a new game. Picto Nico. Picto Nico. Picto Nico. we'll have all this and more on a very special episode of kind of funny games daily

3:08what's up everybody welcome to kind of funny games daily for tuesday may 19th 2026 i'm one of your hosts greg miller alongside hispanic heartthrob texas tree latino hate clicking heads and ripping them to shreds the globe trotting head shot and rooting tooting three point shooting spurs fan who must be having a great day nitro rifle from twitch.tv andy cortez i mean it was ecstasy last night unfortunately i didn't get to watch most of it i want everybody to know of course if you aren't paying attention to basketball spurs are in the nba playoffs they're doing quite well lots of stuff's on the line big pressure all sorts of things are going on what's your conference finals yesterday was game one and he was very excited about it and i asked him about it he said yes and of course i will be watching the mandalorian and grogu you gotta go see that for star wars in review yeah and so i kind of forgot all about it of course and then i open up a little bs that's blue skies him and i see every post on my front page about wembley and the game he's having and how this guy's just god mode insane yada yada and i looked After the time, like, AD is still inside.

4:17Nate Delorean and Groku. He can't even see what he loves. I had to watch, like, the first half. And then, you know, I just got my slushie. I was prepping to get my cherry slushie. Yeah. And Tim's like, so what's going on? Like, catch me up. Where are they? I was like, well, you know, they won the last series. And he was like, oh, okay. So they move on. When's the next game? I said, well, it's right now. And he was like, oh, I'm so sorry. Tim genuinely felt really bad about it. But, you know, I walked out during one of the restroom breaks. I had to go to the restroom. This feels almost sitcom-like.

4:56Like when the shitty fat dad who looks like me is married to the hot wife like Jen, and they got to go to church on Sunday, but he's got like the earpiece soon, and he's watching football or whatever. Yeah, it was very, very similar to that. And, you know, I was just happy to—I got a text message from Tam during the movie. Okay. And he's like, I hope you're not watching Grogu right now. It was an image that it said like Golden State Spurs because he's like, I'm rooting for the Spurs. Got it. Got it. Got it. And then so me on my watch, because they're very like, you know, this movie is under embargo.

5:27Mandalorian and Grogu. We can't let the secret to Grogu out. And so I'm on my phone and I'm like, I'm on my watch and I'm typing. I said, update, please. I'm in a movie. Got no response from Tam until this fucking morning. And the whole So the movie ends I immediately bust out my phone 122, 115 I'm just like Oh my god That's the best movie I've ever seen in my life Oh my gosh dude Mandalorian Grogu Don't break your embargo Can't break embargo You'll hear about it On Star Wars in review This week I do believe Yeah I think tomorrow Is it time for me To buy a Spurs shirt? It's time for you to join Yeah I've been I mean I've always liked David Robinson So I mean like that's going And John Stockton Tomahawk No it's just back in the day Back in the day Before Tim Duncan retired You called him Kevin Duncan It's gotta be real good And you called him Wembley right now It was Wemby Wemba Nyama Victor Wemba Nyama When I said it Big Vic Here I knew I was wrong And I knew it would get a reaction Out of the audience When I said it on Gregway Like 30 minutes ago When I was behind you Honking my horn I said Wembley And I'm like I know that's not right Isn't that a tennis thing And I just went out With my day Yeah Wembley Stadium Yeah Yeah yeah we'll have a whole bunch more video game news for you right now because this is kind of funny games daily each and every weekday we run you through the biggest news in gaming if you're watching live be part of the show with your youtube super chats so many people have uh claw master says andy after last night i am an alien believer wemby is that dude he's that dude he's lanky i saw a lot of people comparing him to uh bloodborne characters as well too he's he has those proportions.

7:05Yeah. Tam was doing seven foot five. Yeah. Seven foot six. Yeah. Then you got one here. Why Rokas is thunder up Andy. Okay. I see. I see what you're doing right there. Kay Zupano says see you for the NBA cup rematch. Andy go Knicks. You know I was asked what do I think is going to happen and I told him well the Spurs are good against the Thunder during the season. Yeah. Thunder are the best team in the NBA but the NBA is all about matchups correct sure momentum and if certain lineups match up against you know it doesn't matter who has necessarily the better team overall it's like how do they match up spurs match up well against the thunder and they've won five of their last six games against the thunder now if the spur if the thunder somehow pull it out i think the thunder beat the knicks in the finals if the spurs beat the thunder i think the knicks beat the spurs in the in the finals okay the knicks will beat the Cleveland Cavaliers.

8:05Okay. Pretty handedly. Like I, I would say it's going to be in five games. Okay. Fair enough. Cleveland. I hope you make it tougher of a matchup, but I don't have a whole lot over in the chat. Lakers had said, Greg, why did you let Andy watch the Spurs to be clear again? Like I handled the games content. That's Tim. All right. Tim tried. Tim had me convinced. I had to go see star Wars until yesterday when I caught him in a lie. And then I was like, wait, I don't have to go to this movie at all. And I didn't go. So don't, don't you get onto it. I'm the one who's working behind the scenes trying to get any tickets and they go to the finals.

8:36There was a great moment yesterday where Greg goes, Tim, do I do plot on Star Wars? And he's like, I don't know. And he goes, he went, he's like, yeah, you know, it's an old one. So, yeah, you probably do. And I went, yeah. And then him and I, our eyes lit up at the exact same moment. I'm like, wait a second. No, I come in dressed as Wado. I'm not on this show. And he's like, damn, you're not on this show. And then Tim goes, well, you could still go if you want. And Greg goes, no. I'm good. I'm good. Thank you. Man, that must have felt awesome. Yeah, I'm really happy for you. Thank you. If I could have traded places with you, I would have.

9:08I would have done that for you. But again, get him to the finals and then you and me go to San Antonio. Okay, I'm done. All right, cool. Get some pluckers. Oh, my God. Get out of that. Come on. If you're watching live, I would do the Super Chats. I already did that. You could also be a Patreon producer over on patreon.com slash kind of funny. Thank you, Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster, and Delaney Vassantwining. For now, let's begin the show with what is and forever will be the Roper Report. time for some five items on the rope report and Kevin did it there's a lot of talk ahead of time should we try to set up a puppy cam really quick and I was like no it's too much work Kevin don't worry about it but Kevin did go back to the puppy cam you can see there's Cole ever vigilant the big brother you can see then the thing that looks like a pillow next to him almost blending in perfectly with the mattress he on is Chip Chip the wiener dog is here as well They're doing really good today.

10:01They're doing really good today. We've got to ease them in. We've got to ease them in. Number one on the Roper Report. The PlayStation? Why don't you keep putting the in front of everything? PlayStation exclusives aren't coming to PC anymore. This is Jay Peters at The Verge. Sony reportedly won't release its major single-player PlayStation games on PC anymore, according to Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, Herman Hulse. Oh, sorry. I see what he's doing here. According to Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, Herman Hulse, who heads up PlayStation Studio business informed employees in a town hall on monday about the change in strategy schreier had previously reported on the shift in march saying that sony scrapped plans to launch pc versions of last year's ghost of yote and quote unquote other internally developed games online games will still come to multiple platforms following this change in strategy schreier reported at the time in recent years sony has released many of its biggest games on pc including spider-man 2 Ghost of Tsushima, both The Last of Us games, Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered, and multiplayer titles like Helldivers 2 and Marathon.

11:01Two years ago, Hulst committed to releasing PlayStation Live Service games day and date on PC and PlayStation 5. But its single-player PC releases have been less consistent, with Hulst saying that the company takes a more strategic approach. Andy, when Jason originally reported this, I didn't doubt him. Yeah, neither did I. I, you know, after getting the official word and, you know, as of a couple of days ago when me and Mike were on games daily and Mike was still in the assumption that Soros would probably come. Yeah, I was really shocked. I was like, no, I was in the car. It's rare that I get to be in the car and be a listener like everybody else.

11:40I'm like, no, Mike, no, that's not. Somebody correct them. Somebody correct them. You know, there was still a part of me that was hoping maybe this was the last one from the maybe this like beat the cutoff or whatever. Sure. Of course, we've already we've already invested so much in a piece. Right. We're not going to pull the plug on it. And plus, you know, when we think about purchases and acquisitions like Nixus and what, what will their job be from now on? Of course, you know, there will be multiplayer games to kind of port and go to PC. But yeah, I, I definitely believed this when it was first kind of leaked by Jason Schreier and then seeing it yesterday, just all, but it just confirms it.

12:14And it, it does suck. Yeah, it sucks. I understand the need to want people to buy your machine, right? I totally understand that. And I get the notion that if your game comes out on your console, you don't want people to go, I'll just wait for blah, blah, blah. Because when they wait, you're going to be selling it at a lesser cost anyway, a year, two years down the road or whatever. You want to recoup that money as fast as possible. Right. on the flip side of it though I think games are selling less and less as it is and when you look at estimates for what some of their games sold on on PC you know we're talking about like some of the worst selling games were around like the 1 million, 2 million mark and that's not nothing nowadays like I look at those numbers and those are not insignificant a lot of the, unfortunately a lot of the sales estimates are just based on you know concurrent player data and things like that so there there hasn't been anything too concrete a lot of it is from alinea analytics who does uh we mentioned them earlier in the week maybe it was last week i forget we i think come up a few different times yeah and so uh they do a lot of like sales analytics based on what they're seeing with concurrent players and and based on whatever reviews to give some kind of numbers what we're talking about right we're gonna go to the gamer this is johnny flores jr this is from may 2026 so pretty gosh darn recently going through all this stuff blah blah blah uh as first spotted by push square the game the game business recently reported launch month sales data for several playstation titles on pc and the numbers are poor ghost of tsushima uh 710 ,000 god of war ragnarok 300 ,000 marvel spider-man 2 260 ,000 horizon forbidden west 230 ,000 those numbers are admittedly not very good with Ragnarok simultaneous PS4 and PlayStation 5 release bringing in a reported 6.9 million players the 300 ,000 figures very weak however the numbers don't tell the full story beyond the live service titles which have come day and date the vast majority of PlayStation titles of course are after the original launch yeah so I guess seeing those more recent numbers I could see why a decision like this is made I do think that the earlier games when they were first coming to place or when they were first coming to pc we're looking at estimates of horizon zero dawn selling you know around four to five million yeah uh the first god of war selling four million i i guess i i look at this strategy and think that there could still be ways to maximize the amount of sales and the more sales this isn't even really me coming from the the standpoint of i want more people to like this isn't me being like kind of like boohoo about it like oh i want to be able to play it on pc it's more of like yeah but more game sales means less you know possibilities of layoffs and things like that and and unless these these porting processes are insanely expensive and you're not seeing the return that you are getting from them yeah then like i don't think it's bad to just have more sales as it is And unless we get like super inside data from Herman's holds about this, then it won't really make a whole lot of sense to me.

15:36I think it really comes from a place of fear, but maybe a better word is caution and, and trying to be cautious as a business. And I think again, looking at where we're going with all of this, right where it's talking about the fact that video games are where they are right now. I'm a sure market. It's coming from what was it? the CFO saying, Hey, we're going to, you know, double down on this is a conversation from yesterday too, or whatever. I'm not exploiting like Lord of the Rings, but double down on making money on the existing PlayStation fan base. They realized that that existing PlayStation fan base isn't going anywhere.

16:11And while maybe I'm using too harsh of a word, pandering or offering to the PC community hasn't resulted in a windfall of money. And so I really do think it is PlayStation saying, listen, the PlayStation 6 is going to cost a lot of money and we're going to justify that price to people and the way to do that is to have an exclusive lineup of games and so we can't have it be that people think they can wait a year, two years, get it on PC and do that even though you look at those sales and it's like well do you already have the majority of PC players with a PlayStation 5 or are they just not interested in those games or X, Y, and Z on Y that's hard to read but it really what I read from the entire situation is PlayStation saying let's batten down the hatches like this storm is going to get worse and what we want to do is make it as easy as possible for people understand buy a playstation to play playstation games we did an experiment here when it looked like the industry was going to be a little bit more open doors and we could grow but due to a number of economic headwinds that's not what's about to happen it needs to be we need to give you a reason to buy the playstation 6 keep buying playstation 5s buy a playstation handheld buy a portal whatever it may be and on the flip side of that i i I totally hear what you're saying and I go okay well you're making it more expensive to buy your console too and it's five years after, six years after it released and you raised the price for a second time and I it just feels like there's a lot of messaging that is clashing with each other and again until we kind of, unless we were a fly on the wall in those offices I don't know if we would fully ever know the full story of course and and again to go back to the nix's point what does their workload look like from here on out is it just working on the game like for loop which is one of their multiplayer games that will likely be similar to hell divers where it's like that day and date multiplayer type of video game i it i think it just kind of sucks because i still feel like games are going to sell less anyway and you already have a lot of ps5s out there it doesn't hurt to put your games you know to get more units sold i think i don't want to say i disagree i just think it's an argument of making the money on the units versus making the money on the units the console and then the psn tax and the playstation plus and the third the yeah 30 you're taking from everybody buying everything on playstation like it's i don't think it's existing in a vacuum i want to bring in a question there's a little boy in the chat named snowbike mike who super chats when he could just walk in and says is there a threat from the steam machine now coming into the living room in playstation games being sold on that unit with living room exclusivity i don't think so this is a conversation that came up as well with oh project helix playstation doesn't want their thing on an x and it's like i really yeah i'm sure someone inside of playstation doesn't like that but the adoption rate of that the adoption rate of the xbox rog like it's already happening that you could do all of this and be playing all your xbox and all your playstation games on a pc in your living room it's like i don't think the steam machine is that level of a threat i think when the steam machine comes out and is hopefully a huge success and suddenly people are like there's a lot of things that need to happen for that to be the concern i think the concern is way more the economics of how much it costs to make a console the economics of tariffs the economics of digital exclusive and buying rights and all these different things like i feel that's where their head's at and i think that the pc stuff was an experiment to see if there was money in those hills and there's clearly not enough money to justify this let alone like we're talking about what we brought nix's in to do this and now that didn't really work out so we're paying for this entire studio that's doing great work but it's not maybe less work now exactly it's not ending with them actually getting money on yeah i guess on the flip side of it when we talk about pc you know it doesn't help that it doesn't help sony that steam is taking 30 of those profits exactly from exactly from their pc sales i mean the way you're making money right and again back to this whole we're gonna not exploit but double down on these people and make them be the ones that are doing the money for us is like you need them in the ecosystem right like you look at any subscription service the entire point is trying to keep you in that service and it's what xbox tried to do with their game pass you know uh forefront argument which worked to some degree but not to what they needed it and i think playstation looks at them and goes oh man they are a warning to us of putting all the eggs in one basket because playstation again continues like I it might have been a Greg White question it might have been a question one of the shows I forget I apologize but of hey the portal is awesome maybe it was just a reddit conversation the portal is awesome why isn't PlayStation promoting the portal more and it is that argument of like again if you really wanted to you could buy a PlayStation portal and PlayStation plus and you could be streaming your games and not need to buy the even more expensive unit to put on your TV like there's a way to enter into the ecosystem that Xbox was very forefront of x cloud everything's an xbox and playstation has all that i can remote play on my phone like it's like that technology's there but playstation continues to be like that we see the percentage of people i assume we're not a fly on the wall we see the percentage of people who are actually using that and it just doesn't make sense for us to promote that as a mainstream thing because as ox pope pops in uh playstation relies on people sit uh staying on their platform and playing third-party games to collect their 30 percent if people play on pc they might uh they might stay there to play the big things as well exactly back to our point of splitting the money with steam who do you want beginning this point playstation wants to own that for as long as fucking possible and eventually if playstation needs to jettison like we always worried about with nintendo like we talk about currently with xbox and become a third-party publisher fine but they're far from that right now i think a lot of it also just likely comes down to just not seeing the return that they were hoping for with the more and seeing that sort of downward trajectory of of sales on pc otherwise i would feel like if sony felt threatened we would see high sales of the most recent releases on pc if the sales were really high then they would be like oh shit oh yeah what did that what did that because well we see a lot of high sales there but what if that then becomes the preferred place to play playstation games and what if those what if those gamers are now seeing oh shit i could just play this here now and be done with my PlayStation as a device.

22:55I just feel like the PlayStation audience is like way too loyal to peace out and go play somewhere else. And I feel like we said that about Xbox for a long time. And I mean, a long time, a long time ago, clearly. I'm not saying in the last year and a half we've been saying that or something, but I think, you know, as Batman said in Batman Returns, things change. Remember that, Michael Keaton? Why do we fall and mash away? That was a different one. We can get back. I've got some more Super Chats about all this. Killian Super Chats and says, I could see Nix is shifting to a support studio like they were for Soros.

23:26I wouldn't be surprised if they're already hands-on with Wolverine, Intergalactic, and other PlayStation Studios titles. Of course. I think you have these people. You want to use them. You're going to move in there. I would be shocked right now, by the way, if they were hands-on with Intergalactic, though. Wolverine? Sure. We got a release date coming up pretty goddamn fast. Intergalactic? You don't let the sous chef walk in there and start putting his hands inside the cake wall. It's in the oven. We got a lot of things going on over there. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong. Street Shadow Super Chats.

23:54Follow up to the first Super Chat. Andy, you might be looking at this just through unit sales, but you have to factor in the brand, exclusives impact on hardware sales, and the ROI you get versus cost, people, and money. We already talked about that. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to bring that back up. You know what I mean? Aaron Lime says, Sony's trying to pull a Nintendo move of having strong first parties that entice people to buy in, but importantly, they lack the Nintendo cadence. Yeah. I mean, I think you're not wrong, airy lime i wonder if it's too much of a boil down because obviously playstation would already tell you that's what they have with their first parties and i do think that's what cemented that playstation 3 generation into playstation 4 and then yes playstation 5 we have seen them flounder with that because of this live service push collapsing upon itself like a souffle i'm making more baking references um and i think that's left them a little bit in the lurch here of where are all the titles that define what playstation is but as we've said it before on this show every time PlayStation shoots themselves in the foot.

24:50Xbox shoots themselves in the head. So we get to look past that. Yeah. It's in a big rush to be like, oh my God. Well, yeah. Cause one injury is more severe. Exactly. Oh, here we go. Rev Alex Martinez says, Andy Ray is playing Lego Batman. Could you please call him and do an impression of Michael Caine reading his pick yourself up Batman begin tweet? Yeah. Maybe during the break. Yeah. Oh, you know what? I can send a little voice message. Okay, fair enough. I'll accept that. I don't know why I don't want to call him. I'll call him if you don't want to. I can't do that. I don't know. That's a you thing, you know.

25:28We're grabbing his phone. We're going to see what's up here.

25:35He's calling. Everybody, don't stop watching us to go watch Ray. Oh, God. Here we go. Greg, you are on stream and on speaker. Ray, you are on stream and on speaker. We had a super chat over here on Kind of Funny Games Daily that said you're playing Lego Batman right now. And so Andy wanted to give you some words of encouragement as Michael Caine. Why do we fall, Master Wayne? That we can get back up. Batman begin.

26:08I fucking crushed that. That was one of my best. That was really good. We love you, Ray. Have fun with the game. I know. That's how good we are on here. And we have a puppy camp. Oh, hell yeah. You guys have a great stream. I love y 'all. Thank you so much for the call. Bye. I love you. Bye. Like the fact that the fact that Alyssa doesn't Barrett's wife, Alyssa doesn't think that's a good impression. It boggles the mind. It really boggles the mind. She said that to your face. She may as well have. So how did you get the feedback? She, she's keyed my car and said, it's a bad Michael Caine impression.

26:44God damn. Yeah. You hate to see that. That's fucked up. I don't like that at all. I don't like that one bit. And then let's just do... Saul says, what's the likelihood of other PlayStation studios leaving like Shift Up to develop their game for every console slash PC? I mean, not good. You wait for your studio to be closed, I think, and then you'd go do something like that. But I don't think you're going to be leaving anytime. But I mean, Shift Up was never... They were bought. No, it was just a publishing deal. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Triscuit Scott says, One of the flaws with PlayStation is a requirement for a PlayStation account to play PC games.

27:21It's a deterrent to the desire to buy and play. Sure. PC people are weird about that. You know what I mean? Oh, the Epic Game Store, another launcher. Who fucking cares? I got a million launchers on that ROG. It's amazing. I turn on Xbox, BlizzNet opens up. I'm like, cool, whatever. Look, I was of that mind back in the day before I started becoming a PC gamer. I was like, let's fucking just whine about all these long, like who gives a shit. It's just, it gets you to your game, whatever. And, and now I get it. And I've gotten it for several years now where I'm just like, I don't want to, I don't, that launcher.

27:59I don't know the past. Fuck. How do I get back in? It's just, I guess for me, it's still just the, you know, being a console man for so many years, I already had to remember my Xbox, Nintendo, whatever, passwords and stuff like that. And I, you know, set them free. And now the idea that I turn on this machine and it's got all the shit right there. This is rad. I'll open up whatever I need to open up. But I hear you. You can't be inconvenienced. But your Y-Bun's also sticky. Yeah, I wonder why. Who did that? And the buttons are real clicky loud. That's 100 % true. So clicky clacky. Don't get me wrong.

28:31They better fucking know. All right. When they make the Asus ROG Xbox Ally X2, this motherfucker better be whisper quiet. Yeah. Jen puts up with a lot in her life already. All right. She doesn't need to be trying to go to sleep I just love LBRB LBRB fucking furious I love the Conceit you made at one point of like Yeah I'm playing on Switch 2 in bed and it's great because it's quiet I can play more games That was an actual comparison She doesn't get mad The rumble on that motherfucker Oh my god look at Chip's being a cutie right now Oh Chip's falling out of the bed that's a puppy In case you were wondering too I have been That's not what the audience is seeing the entire time Oh, no, I know.

29:13Okay. Yeah. Just making sure. Yeah. I'm sorry. Is that what you guys are seeing? Yeah, our confidence monitor is just the dog, so I opened up YouTube. I'm like, are we really hanging on the dogs for 30 minutes? I'm sorry. You put it down here. That was great, Kevin. That's really smart. Yeah. Great job, Kevin. Gold stars for Kevin. If you're in the chat, give him the gold stars. That's important. There was a moment where I'm like, we've been on the puppy cam for about 18 minutes straight. let's get one more playstation story out before we go to ads number two on the roper report playstation is exploring the revival of older ips it's claimed this is sam sapile at insider game a new claim states that playstation might be looking to bring back some of its older ips it seems quite a few changes have been brewing within playstation and xbox has begun its rebrand under the new ceo just today we saw new announcements from the company revealing that PlayStation Plus prices will increase this week.

30:08Now, a new rumor states that older IPs could be making a return. There was a rumor circulating that PlayStation was working on bringing back Infamous, but no one has been able to verify it. Well, hold on a second now. The big man, Jordan Midler, had information on this. I called him on a big phone, remember, during the thing. So let's not throw this out. However, reliable insider, which is an insult to our big man, Jordan Midler, Nate the Hate, has stated on an ex, formerly Twitter, that quote there is truth to Sony exploring and considering reviving some of their older unused IPs and quote this is no shade to Nate the hate at all but like what a fucking quote if you want to quote me Kev give me the one even though I just see the dogs give me the one let me know when it's on hey everybody it's industry insider Greg Miller there is truth to Xbox exploring and considering reviving some of their older unused IPs.

31:05Stay here one second. Are they clear for a second? Hey, everybody, it's me, Insider Greg Miller. There is truth to Nintendo exploring and considering reviving some of its older IPs. One more second. Come back to me. Oh, sorry. Go ahead. Hey, Greg. No, that's what I'm talking about. All right, the bit's over. I ruined it. I'm not going to pass me. I don't know what I'm doing there. If we could get that, I mean, if we can get that aggregated. Oh, sure. That's massive. Roger will break it out. Yeah. Is there truth to Nintendo bringing back older IPs? It'll be me. Massive. Here you go. Fucking Game & Watch.

31:39He's back. And Viva Piñata. Viva Piñata for Xbox. Oh, God. The people, they yearn for it. They love it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Look at that dog. He's so cute. What does this do for you? Because it's not. I mean, the infamous thing was super exciting and cool. Yeah, hell yeah. But it's like the overall thing. For people that don't know what is the infamous thing. what show was that I think it was a games cast it was games cast yes you're right you're right you're right at the end of games cast it came up in the chat that uh Jordan Midler was flapping his old gums saying that uh he had heard rumors that they were trying to do something with infamous whether it be a remake or a new one or a remaster whatever and I called him on the WhatsApp and it was that yeah that day's VGC podcast had gone out basically saying that and he had no really information beyond I did appreciate the journalistic integrity for mr middler yeah where he said yeah i don't have multiple sources to where i could write it down and say i stand by this yeah but you know we'll do a little yap yap here and there sure because there's there's some whispering out there and that does what for you because you are you're the playstation 3 guy thank you when we think about you know maybe future kind of feudy questions yeah yeah exactly you know yeah well we talk about the the consoles that really cemented you as the playstation sure yeah yeah playstation 3 is my area yeah when if it's not just infamous what else are we talking about well i mean for me even to reach back beyond that beyond yeah timely beyond i go to some playstation 1 stuff it's crazy that there isn't a hey we've partied with a cool independent studio to make a new take on parapa the rapper that seems so easy give me a five-hour game that you're partnering with some indian to make a cool like why do we not do that right even medieval which i know got a remake that went nowhere i feel like there's money in those hills too to make a two we're partnering with an indie studio to make a 2d side scroller cheap budget let's just fuck around and do some of the shit that we have it reminds me so much of uh stick with me it's kind of a weird analogy but But it reminds me of when Infinity Saga ends and Marvel starts partnering with a bunch of different smaller creators to kind of say, like, we have a vision for that.

33:55Let's make this be the one episode where we'll find out. Let's make this be the horror version of this. Let's make this be an action, whatever. It's like there are a lot of different creators that want to use this IP. your ip still has value it's got juice it's got juice and it doesn't need to be a 50 million plus projects 100 million plus project you there are possibilities and avenues to find success with these older ips with smaller studios and i think i think you nail like why not license out these ips to smaller studios that have a smaller and again jack and daxter right where it's like okay cool like naughty dog's not doing anything with that we got the one PSP game that then got ported to PS2 right but it wasn't great but it wasn't bad it's like and I'm not even saying like these are all slam dunk ideas but it's clear that you have IP and then again you could make a lot of people are calling out God of War right for Metroidvania Sons of Sparta that came out and didn't do well right it's like yeah but like if any of us were in the pitch room and they pitched that would we have been like yeah that's a great idea playing as Kratos before he's Kratos like no like that's that was a dumb idea we shouldn't have done that there should have been a it all comes out to like well you know yeah the game has to be good yeah exactly exactly yeah if we're saying that like well it's not worth it if the game's not good okay well then why do anything like you know eq says lego horizon 2 yes exactly that was a stupid idea yeah who want to like again put any of us i'm sure any of you who listen to the show in the room every day hey would you want to play it like not really there is can you make the you left horizon 2 on a fucking stupid cliffhanger can we finish that trilogy please well no we got a lego game and now a multiplayer game i don't know if i care Greg, I don't know if there's been more of a fundamental misunderstanding of the gaming landscape and industry than green lighting a Lego Horizon game.

35:45Like, legit, straight up. Like, I just don't, you know, you're looking at it purely from the numbers perspective of we tied in a bunch of Horizon games into that bundle that sold a shit ton. Which is why Horizon is one of the most purchased games ever. In the same way that Wii Sports is as well, right? Like it's, it was that big bundle tie in thing. And to think that that leads to like. Yeah. Like it was just people caring. That was just like, to me, whoever, I don't know. It was like, this is a Herman Holtz thing, right? Yeah. I, that just feels like, wow, you totally misread the landscape there.

36:26And you know, not that they haven't been misreading the landscape the last couple of years with games as a services, but that's, that's one that I look at. I was like, whoa, what the fuck was that all about? Just a big misunderstanding. And I don't feel great about the Night Rain game coming out. That's, you know, Horizon. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Boy, no. They keep doing betas for it or whatever. Scoundrels, Horizon Voyagers, Horizon Foragers. That's right. That sounds right. Yeah. We'll figure it out during the ads. Hunters. But yeah, PlayStation is going to do stuff with IP, of course. Especially when they're like, man, you know what?

36:59Nobody wanted all these multiplayer things. We should go back to what made us. maybe we should make these games like sly cooper there's things out there all right hunter hunter's gathering awful name is it a survival game no no is it no it's just a third it's just a three-player roguelite no no no boss no man this game i forget about and then i'll get like i'll get like the ping on playstation like hey do you want to register your interest in an alpha i'm like yeah sure never hear about it yeah yeah that is one of those everybody we're happy you hear about us each every weekday we couldn't do without your support remember if you love what we do here all the shenanigans and all the puppies head on over to patreon.com slash kind of funny youtube.com slash kind of funny games apple spotify where of course you can get your kind of funny membership and you can get all of our shows ad free get your daily dose of me greg miller in a series we call greg way and of course get good karma for supporting an 11 person 11 year old small business right now you're not using your benefits though so here's a word from our sponsor do you smell it in the air

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