The Console Wars Are Over - Kinda Funny Games Daily 10.27.25

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2:00Andy Cortez:Speaker 1 0 0 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 8 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8. Today in the nerdy news, you need to know about more reports about the next gen Xbox. Halo comes to PlayStation and battlefields battle royale launches tomorrow. We'll have all this in more and great hair, because this is kind of funny games daily.

2:29Andy Cortez:What's up, everybody? Welcome to Kind of Funny Games Daily for Monday, October 27th, 2025. It's your last Monday here in that beautiful Halloween jingle for quite some time. I want every host, Greg Miller, alongside Forbes 30 Under 30, a.k.a. the second best baby blues in San Francisco, a.k.a. the expectant father at Tim Geddes. Let's him host. tomorrow's I was wrong about saying last time that it was my final doctor's appointment with for the baby very did you explain that to them uh no I don't remember was that fucking like a month ago Tim's like well we got our final doctor's appointment for the baby and I'm like that's not how it works you're supposed to be going every week this whole thing has been a surprise to me because it's like I feel like there's I just how did you misinterpret that information I forgot what it was they said it was the last of some specific thing and it was the last time that we saw this one woman okay all right and it turns out it was only the last reason or last time we saw her because she was is going on vacation i had a lot of that you're like in the car like mangy we're on our own for the next three months huh it really felt that way i was like this is crazy i mean like she seems prepped so i'm like i trust she ain't freaking i'm not gonna freak i have to go to a bunch of classes and stuff but that's not doctors you know what i mean question are you doing the classes in person are you doing yeah we're doing them in person yeah we were still covid so yeah i gotta i have a whole week of like four hour classes and i'm like i'm already dreading it the way i dreaded college classes like you know some college classes are like it's an hour five times a week and then somewhere like once a week but it's six hours feels like that how we doing on baby watcher are you feeling the pressure are you feeling like a father that's all i'm feeling not like a father i'm feeling the pressure every second of the day yeah tearing away at me but the baby room coming together very very very well excellent um excited to show that to people.

4:16I think people are going to enjoy it. You got that snoo?

4:18Andy Cortez:You got that snoo all set up yet? I know it's not the baby's room. That would be in your room. Yeah, we got a chair. The chair's on the way. I want to take my chair. Too good for my chair. Didn't want my hand. When you see what we're doing you'll get it. I'm sure. Well, I already know the vibe. I'm not going to say anything, but I know. Chair's important. It was funny because you had told us the loose theme for your room. Yeah. So then Jen wants spoilers to make something. You know what I mean? And not to force anything. She does the pottery and stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And she's like, what color is it?

4:45Andy Cortez:And I'm like, ugh. And she said what she thought it was. And I was like, no. So I sent her all these different, like, I Googled image searches. And I'm like, this would be the mood board. Yeah, I like that. I like that. I want to see the mood board. I bet you're right. Because, like, yeah, you get it. You know me. Yeah, yeah. I think it was just. I want to tell about something, though, Greg. I'd love to tell you. I had a good weekend. I finally got to set aside some time to watch Marvel Zombies. Oh, shit. Four episode show that was supposed to be a movie. But due to rights with Spider-Man, they can't call it a movie.

5:10Whole thing. and I just want to say Marvel animation sleeper hits kind of just came out of nowhere because for decades we obviously in the 90s everyone loved Batman and all that stuff right but the common thought was Marvel movies better DC animated better right and then you can even take that further of like Marvel animation kind of sucks like Marvel animated movies and like all those direct to vhs yeah i didn't know yeah no i've never heard anyone talk about that shit just you know it just it always felt lesser than or like weird one-ops or whatever what they've been doing with marvel animation studios is very damn impressive like i feel like the worst project is what if and like that being the first one inconsistent i'm a fan of what if but yeah inconsistent i understand it not being for everybody i know the art style is not necessarily the best thing ever but to follow up with x-men 97 my friendly neighborhood spider-man um the marvel zombies now eyes of wakanda earlier in the year like they're slowly just kind of putting out a lot of stuff that no one's watching but uh the people that are are enjoying it quite a bit marvel zombies four episodes the first episode i was like okay this is all about that came out but i mean without spoiling uh too much like this is kind of just the premise of it it is a follow-up to what happened in uh what if season one the zombie episode but fairly lightly like you they you don't need to re-watch it they kind of remind you everything you need to know but the coolest thing about it and the saddest thing about it in the sense of where we're at we're at with the mcu is it feels like the avengers movie of all the phase four five and six heroes like shang chi moon nine yeah all the characters that we've seen they're like when are they going to get together it's here and yeah it's you know an elseworld story or whatever but like it was cool to see them kind of make that choice to like focus on these new heroes and having them all together.

7:00Most of the voice cast is the actual voice cast, which was very cool. A couple big surprises. Action scenes insane. And the wildest thing, straight up rated R. It is a rated R cartoon. No cocks, but a lot of decapitations, a lot of blood. You see some heroes do some things. I never thought Spider-Man would do that, but it did. And it was cool as shit. I like that. Very, very cool. I recommend watching it. Good Halloween vibes. Did you read Avengers vs. aliens or are you reading no i'm waiting until it's done it might already be done but uh i you

7:30Andy Cortez:know i saw bendis put up a a couple grabs on instagram i was like i want to read that yeah apparently it's really good yeah we like avp here you know you know we're spread it a preferred partner back this week fuck badlands killer of killers killer of killers badlands is the next one do i have to go to the theater to see badlands oh okay monday monday monday is that a book thing okay oh i don't know let's move on i had a good weekend too how was your weekend it was good no we have to be else around anyway you did a great job there i had a great one i played a lot of video games hung out it was that weekend where i feel like we're finally on the other side of review season where it's 900 reviews at once where there was something i installed but i didn't get to and i don't feel guilty not doing that so i you know i went back and played more pokemon i I went back and played more Outer Worlds 2.

8:20Andy Cortez:I had wild hairs and downloaded random ass things to the ROG or whatever. I had a great time out there. We missed it yesterday. 25th anniversary of the PlayStation 2. Oh, I didn't miss it. I was there celebrating. We celebrated. Yeah. We celebrated a part. We missed it on this show. Yeah. I was hoping it was going to time out to be here for 25 years. That's crazy, right? It's really crazy. More importantly, though, for you, and of course, the fact that I'm raising another you in Ben. he had been gassed up this weekend to where he's you know going to be a jedi he's going to be luke skywalker he's we're all we got the whole family costumes everybody's got something going on who's what where he's luke i'm vader mom's leia uh colby's the dog that's down here in a bag is yoda uh lucy james is a stormtrooper i love that and then uh we have a visiting a toy from class he's a bear I forget his name you send the bear home from class did they give up on guinea pigs oh yeah nobody wants a live animal in their house and he's dressing as I think R2D2 or Chewbacca I forget which it is but we have a whole family suit ready to go here whatever but we as you know we've talked about this maybe in passing or maybe you've heard me on one of our award winning shows there was a whole debate of how to start him on Star Wars movies where to go I was like i'll do traditional and i'll start with episode four and we'll go that way right and we did episode four and it wasn't that he didn't enjoy it but it's just slow it's slow and fell out of it and so he plays the lego games and likes that likes luke skyward but i i he we went to library on the rainy day this weekend picked up the you know in complete history that's you know this thick yeah it's just a tiny kid's book of darth vader but explaining and showing and i was like he's like what is this i'm like this is fan i'm like we should you would dig phantom menace you like racing you like the you know you want and there's a kid and they start with lightsabers right away and they put it in the wall and it glows and melts and shit and he's like okay and so jen left yesterday for a work trip so for a boys night yeah we watched phantom menace oh yeah fucking into phantom menace phantom menace did not lose his attention whatsoever with the he's a big politics guy oh he loves this i'm like ben this is very much like tariffs you see what's happening here you know what i mean uh but no no there was this fucking awesome moment of it where is for the first time is in his four-year-old brain it's always set up like this because of course my wife her first language is french so it's easier for her to keep up when she sees subtitles and then now i've become a subtitle person that i need them on at all times respect but today he caught yesterday he caught on he goes what are the what are the words say on the screen and i'm like oh they're just saying what people are saying you know it's for people you know mom it's me if you can't hear whatever he's like okay cool and then it would be like oh you know, Sebulb was talking, so I got to translate it or whatever, right?

11:01Andy Cortez:I'm actually reading the thing for it. Fucking Jar Jar Rinks and every other goddamn gungan is talking. Ben goes, read it. What are they saying? I'm like, Ben, they're speaking English. This is a choice they made. I can't help you more than this. This is how it sounds to me, too. He's upset. All right? Why is he shaking his head like that? I don't fucking know. They gave him a weird tick and stuff. I don't know. It's a fucking movie. he was like following it he was following i'm like let's just it's bath time okay i'm like but let's get through the podcast or pod racing yeah and he's like no no i don't need to i'm like you're gonna want to see this and then it was like when they came around they're like two more lengths to go or whatever he's like there's more of my kid he goes this is the best ever i was like yes it is man oh good for you but enough about star wars episode one we're gonna run you through the nerdy news you need to know about in the video game world because this is kind of funny games daily each and every weekday on twitch.tv slash kindoffunnygames, youtube.com slash kindoffunnygames, podcast services around the globe.

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12:36Andy Cortez:Housekeeping for you today. Remember, we're an 11-person business all about live talk shows. After Kind of Funny Games Daily, you're getting one of our monthly favorites. It's the Kind of Funny Games cast where we go through every game coming out next month. This is your November edition. after gamescast it's power wash simulator 2 with joey and nick if you're a kind of funny member today's gregway is going to be about trump and gamestop or lily alb lily allen's new album and peloton we will see how this episode goes and what we get into i'm not sure if we get in i want to say stuff but i don't know where we're going yeah i just like i would rather than say stuff and gregway and repeat it here i want to hear your thoughts on lily so do that and gregway do it what i mean You know what I mean?

13:14Andy Cortez:Oh, I do. As it turns out, man, you love gossip. Period. It's true. Full stop. I can't be bothered with it usually. Like, you know, I think a great example is Taylor Swift. You know I'm a Taylor Swift diehard. You know, favorite musical artist of all time. I can't tell you what boyfriend the songs are all about in every reference because I'm not that kind of fan. I just like the music and the lyricist. You know what I mean? But, like, when somebody's got dirty laundry to air and they're like, no metaphors. Here's what it is. I'm like, let's fucking go. This Renee Rapp. Just take people down. I don't give a shit.

13:50Andy Cortez:Thank you to our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster, and Delaney the Psalm Twining. Today we're brought to you by Ark Raiders, but we'll tell you about that later for now. Let's begin the show with what is and forever will be the Roper Report. It's time for some news. Five items on the Roper Report. A Baker's Duster! calm down Colts just smoke number one on the Roper report a new report confirms details about the next gen xbox this is W Y P at IGN.com that's Wesley Ian Poole at the Imagine Games Network at this point I'm Phil Spencer I'm Sarah Bond I'm just coming out and be like here's the white board here's what the here's what the next xbox is I'm sick of hearing like pieces of it leaking and this this is what we think it's going to look like will it we don't know take a drag off your cigarette obviously so much sob out we'll get into the stories and we'll get it into the nitty gritty but like before the show started i looked at you i was like really this is the headline and it's not our fault it's simply not our fault this is what the news continues to be a new report has revealed details on xbox next gen x no microsoft's next gen xbox console which is allegedly a console slash pc hybrid that will play playstation games released on pc via steam this means the likes of sony santa monica's god of war insomniac spider-man and sucker punch's ghost of tsushima and pretty much all other pc games will be playable on the next gen xbox in an industry first windows central said that while users of the next gen xbox can remain inside the xbox ecosystem if they want they can exit to windows where the console acts like a traditional windows pc that means having access to playstation games on steam and mousing keyboard games from Blizzard's launcher, Battle.net, World of Warcraft, and Riot's launcher, League of Legends.

15:38Andy Cortez:Essentially, it sounds like the next-gen Xbox will be as much a PC as it is a console. Perhaps it's more of a PC than a console. Microsoft is set to go up against PlayStation once again, with both Microsoft and Sony reportedly set to release their next-gen consoles in 2027. No fucking shit. It's a weird... This is so weird. like this being an actual article with like a source it's like what are we talking about here I feel like we're saying the same shit over and over again 10 ,000 times like we not only do we know did y 'all think when they said that it was going to be that it wouldn't run the PlayStation games on Steam like I feel like it's so weird I turn on my Xbox ally and I see the God of War and Spider-Man things if I have them on Steam like what are we talking about we're getting caught up in that super obvious and yeah again it's already working on the Xbox ally this is happening this is the ecosystem they've said as much and anything they haven't said we know and it's the idea too of course sarah bond last week just being unable to stop talking and talking about the fact of like okay the next one's gonna it's gonna be a premium console right like you read between the lines on that yeah you see they're going to be a pc and i assume that well i haven't talked to you about it which is exciting and so it's fun and you know what i'll let's wade in and bring in story number two because it goes to the console wars are over as you see on the headline kevin put the headline above me thank you number two halo campaign evolved is a gorgeous remake that debuts on playstation 5 and xbox in 2026 this is tom warren at the verge we have a trailer kevin stop trying to put the headline above me i appreciate you halo studios has created something special for the 25th anniversary of halo next year halo campaign evolved is a full remake of the original combat evolve that launched alongside microsoft's first xbox console in 2001 it has a fully rebuilt campaign with 4k visuals new weapons and vehicles a four-player online co-op mode in brand new story content and it's all coming to the xbox series x slash spc and for the first time playstation 5 in 2026 the iconic vistas in halo have been rebuilt as well as the alien architecture and environments It's really designed to be the ultimate remake of the original campaign that's both welcoming to new players and also built in a way that respects Bungie's original creation story.

17:55Andy Cortez:Campaign Evolved includes three new bonus missions. There are also new mechanics and AI behaviors. Perhaps the most obvious is the ability to sprint in the game, which makes everything from combat to moving around missions feel a lot faster. up to four people can play this campaign together online regardless of what platform they're on thanks to cross play and shared progression across console and pc there's also two-player split screen co-op local play on consoles just like the original game the one thing that's missing from campaign evolved is the multiplayer which i feel like as a non-halo guy is a big thing to not be there dude it's a huge conversation okay and like so i got to play this uh i got to go to halo studios and it was very wild to i played it on xbox series x just like everyone else did that was the only way to to actually play the silent cartographer demo that we got to do um but in the interview room when we walk in it was like their play test room and there was just a playstation 5 on and you're like whoa you know what you mean it just had this thing you know it's funny because it's like we've been covering this stuff for so long like greg you and i go back decades almost right like oh closer to two than one right oh yeah i'm about to hit two or you know soon hit two and with that it's like we've seen so it's console wars like i recently was going down a rabbit hole of old up at noon episodes and i'm watching uh you and altano and joker act like assholes whoa we got brian altano on on the the war fields of the console wars remember that on the green screen and all that and it was just like so funny that here we are still talking about halo and playstation all right but now it's it's it's happening it's actually coming over um the campaign evolved part of it not no multiplayer yo we're gonna be talking about this for at least the next year um we don't know when this game's coming out we just know it is 2026 uh november 15th next year is the 25th anniversary of halo so that kind of would make sense but potentially they put out campaign evolves earlier in the year we there's rumors that there is a multiplayer thing happening.

19:55Maybe that's November. The state of where the game's at from what it seemed for me being at the studio, I think this is a little ways out. Like, I don't think this is ready to go, even though I think strategically that would be the move, but that's strategy. You can only play with what you got, you know? Yeah. So I do think a multiplayer thing's coming, but it's in the name here. It's Campaign Evolved. They're focusing on the campaign and talking to the developers there. They really are focusing on, hey, we can't fuck this up. and this is like let's get this right let's introduce the story of halo to the playstation 5 audience and that's admirable i get it is it the right thing is it the right time there's a lot of questions that i don't know but i do know halo's coming to playstation and it looks amazing and of course that means a lot of people don't like it a lot of people are like it doesn't look the way it should and that's valid as well uh but i look at it i'm like i loved halo 1 i loved halo when I lived in Halo 1.

20:48And I am not the type of fan that's going to look at this and be like, oh, it's too shiny. I look at it like, wow, they made Halo 1 look awesome. And you didn't have the best time playing through Halo 1 in 2020. And I do think that you'd enjoy this significantly more for a multitude of reasons. It's even more cinematic. The sprint button makes it not feel like you're going through molasses as you play. Waypointing works a lot better. It just feels modern, but it still feels classic.

21:15Andy Cortez:How crazy is it that by the time Halo gets here in 2026, I'm going to play my Xbox slash PC. Oh, that is right. Miller and I go play it on his PlayStation. I'll play it over there. That's actually that's insane that they the console wars are over to the point that by the time we got here, they know I would have died on 10 years ago. Is it even matter? Like, all right, well, I would have played over here. Yeah. So, man, that's that is quite the wild ride. We have been on quite the wild. Yeah. Excited that they announced this again. I think it's weird. they announced this campaign thing at uh the final halo esports event for infinite the halo championship series like that you'd think that'd be the place you announce a multiplayer thing but hey they're trying out here they're moving over to unreal engine 5 which i think is again story number one story number two we're just kind of repeating things that have been slowly happening for the last five years and now they're just kind of getting more official but like how many times was our headline like we need to fix halo how to fix halo what's going on that was gas had a whole thing about and so much of that was engine based so much of that was the the slip space engine just simply not working causing all these problems and here we are now they are trying unreal engine 5 will that be the answer i sure freaking hope it is i sure freaking hope it is but i almost can guarantee that we're not going to see halo infinite or uh master chief collection come to playstation despite how dumb dumbs like me would be like just put that on this like what are you doing and it's because the engine i think that they are dedicating to this unreal engine 5 and you know that's that focusing that dedication might pay off for them but uh it's going to be paying off on multiple consoles now like this halo is going to sell very well just like gears did just like forza did just like indiana jones did right like i got a question for you about this we recognize you question as we've been talking about this ongoing xbox next generation becoming more of a pc xbox putting all its games like i i'm still shocked that it's not just incredibly clear that every time xbox announces a game stay one on playstation 5 because it's not yeah it's still not there we still have questions south of midnight came out this year not on places we still don't know when it's coming if it's coming i expect that it will at some point so right and so right now um there's a couple games that are just like like okay so their strategy is clear but it's like and i understand people oh they they want to double dip get out of here what are we talking about we see the numbers we know what's going on like if i look at headlines last week uh sarah bond said console exclusive gamers don't want exclusive so what are we doing don't do it then just like let's move forward or else we're going to continue having this conversation the same conversation right yeah so let's jump past that conversation let's talk about game pass a little bit right so game pass obviously so much of the value with it in the past has been the third party support right it is it's the deals with Sega for Persona and all that stuff and the Yakuza games and the Final Fantasies with Square and all that.

24:03The key big thing people are subscribing for, though, is the Xbox games. Do we see a future now where Game Pass can be on PlayStation 5 and Game Pass is just retooled where it's not the third-party games? Because I think that's the big hiccup.

24:16Andy Cortez:No, I don't think you can. I think if you were to do that, you would have to blow it up and make a new service. Which isn't... I mean, Xbox doesn't mind complicating things in on playstation yeah it would then be easy hey it's xbox game pass it's core xbox you know it's only xbox i i don't see the thing there because that here's the thing let's kick the fucking beehive let's punt it through the uprights right yeah i hate it to break it to you gamers but xbox game pass is still the best value in gaming and i mean that strictly from a mathematical perspective of you want to buy this$70 game or spend$30 and play it this month.

24:57Andy Cortez:We can then get into the conversation of, well, I'm not going to play a game every month, and I'm not going to do this. We start getting into all these different blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. The way you are able to say it's the best value in gaming, you should be a Game Pass member is by going, yeah, you can buy any of our games for$70,$80 on PlayStation, or you can be a Game Pass person and get it for$30. Are you going to play it longer than a month? That's up to you. and again, I know. This is where the conversation about what value means to you. Again, as I've said, they fuck themselves into the ground by calling it the best value in gaming because when I think of value, I think of that goddamn McDonald's value menu where I roll up and I specifically say, I want a breakfast burrito and then I want the other one for a dollar because I want them to know I'm hip to the game.

25:39Andy Cortez:Don't overcharge me on these burritos. That's when I... Value equals cheap to so many fucking people. So, no, I don't think you do it in a way to get it on there. I think it's just too convoluted of right now the value, whether you think$30 is highway robbery and you're fine with$20 or not, the value is the idea that, sure, buy Outer Worlds 2 for$70 on PlayStation or come over here, pay us$30, get Outer Worlds 2, get Fallout New Vegas, get et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, enter into this ecosystem where we hope we win you over and you go, fuck, this is really good. and I can put, I can just, I don't even need to buy an Xbox.

26:13Andy Cortez:I can put the app on my TV. Awesome. Or that you do that. And then two years from now you go, wow, they're launching a high end Xbox PC hybrid. That does sound great. Cause I'm playing so much stuff over here already. I'd want the best bells and whistles experience. Oh man. They're so fucked. So fucked dude. Here's the thing. They're fucked in certain ways, but they're so not fucked in others. They're about to make so much money from selling games everywhere. From just selling games on PlayStation. They're going to profit. They're going to win. But yeah, it's just. So let's jump in because we have not had the chance since all of these Sarah Bond quotes and these different things and dah, dah, dah.

26:46Andy Cortez:They're so fucked. Yeah. What do you think the next gen Xbox PC hybrid is fucked or would you? Okay. Oh, I mean, yeah. And like fucked in the sense of like, it's not going to sell console numbers. It's not going to sell Wii U numbers. Like congratulations. Yeah. They know that. Like that's fucked. Like just because you know, it doesn't mean it's not horrible news for your hardware. It's the normal. well yeah but god this is the whole conversation that is so hard to have because it is what does xbox count as wins what does xbox count as their future where are they really long you know what i mean where it's like we're on the same page and it's that idea of like oh the rogue ally is a thousand dollars the xbox version fuck that's a lot of money and so many people but then you see them talking about it they're like no this sold what we wanted right we're in that playstation vr uh playstation portal range right of like oh man no no this did what we thought it was going to do so then to go and build this thing it is almost if not totally a quiet exit from hardware yeah we are still making hardware we are making a premium xbox but it's like what that immediately screams is cool the next generation xbox is going to cost i think significantly more than a playstation 5 significantly less than the high-end PC, but you've been...

28:05Andy Cortez:I don't know about that. ...alienated console people, I think, than, like, the$4 ,000 razors and stuff like that. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Okay, sure, yeah. You know, for a turnkey, you buy it off the shelf. I think you're gonna... There's a console group that's gonna go, well, I'm not gonna go higher than this, and then there's the PC people, where, like, well, I'm not gonna buy that thing because it's lower than this, and is it... Can I change out all the parts and do all the different things? Which I imagine you could, but who knows? It's just... This shouldn't be this messy. like i i know that when you acquire 10 000 companies it's messy there's just no way to like have that be a clean thing when and then ai is coming around and you're not xbox you're microsoft but with all these things it's like why are games not day and date on playstation 5 that's inevitable why don't we just start there the longer this confusion lasts the longer the expectation from gamers is that the xbox is a console they're they're fucked that that is what I mean by that.

28:55Perception is the entire narrative. It doesn't seem like they're even attempting to. It seems like they're just very bullheaded about this vision that they have but the vision on one hand is incredibly clear. It's just PC. Then just be a PC. Then just do that. Stop pretending you're something else. They're pretending there's something else by having exclusives. By doing any of this instead of just we're everywhere now. I know it's not that easy but also your microsoft at this point like we go back to the xbox one announcement to now how many wakes did they step on you know it's like at a certain point it's like let's look at where the the winds are and just be like this is what we're doing and move on yeah and they still haven't done that so

29:40Andy Cortez:we're still having this headline where we at chat i need your help and tim maybe you have it off the top of your head i remember we had this conversation there was a bet blessing and i had about all games oh no premium edition is not the same thing strike that where are we at right now with every xbox game going forward is day and date on playstation no no that we haven't said no we haven't said that and i don't think that that's going to be the case okay that's crazy yeah i guess keeper wasn't right yeah yeah yeah okay okay how greg how is keeper not on playstation like what sense does that make to anybody at all yeah like it doesn't it makes sense if you're still trying to be a console if you're still trying to compete but they're not they say that and then their actions speak differently they're the ones in control of this yeah yeah yeah muddy it is you're right you're you're not wrong yeah yeah yeah yeah people are talking about soft and midnight indie you know i know that i was talking about going forward but keeper would be the immediate boom there you go that's fucked up because again to your point and i don't know behind the scenes yeah what that is and why that is that's weird yeah that is weird but yeah i'm with you of like I think if somebody who you know is playing out there on the PC and playing on the rock and doing all this stuff like I love what Xbox is doing in terms of what they're doing and they're like letting me play and move my games around and stuff like that but for stuff like this where it is a what are we doing and again it's like even for me where I'm at right now with my Xbox with my PC and with PlayStation as well if I was on the outside and we get to 2027 and it's like guess what here it is this Xbox PC hybrid that more than a playstation less than a pc i feel by the time we get there i'm already gonna have made a pc to take advantage of the ecosystem i'm already living in right even right now with the razor blade that i love out there and it's incredible like it gets loud playing triple a games and so it is that thing of like all right i have this tower from work at home over here that i know has a good graphics card not the most late what else would i have to do to that one to make that like the you know oh man yeah the the jump from console to pc gaming is more convenient and more obvious than it's ever been for a multitude of reasons at the same time it's still not the answer console like playstation 6 is just going to dominate right yeah there's a reason to switch to there's many reasons why the switch 2 is dominating and it's going to continue to dominate they need to produce 25 million more of those things despite people saying model mario kart world's disappointment like there's something to the console experience and like i simply won't hear any different from people it's just oh no i'm right there with you it's easy and it's turnkey and it goes that's what it's supposed to do yeah and like you know me and kevin were talking over the weekend i i sent kevin a screenshot and i was like what if we're both dads there's a million games to play but what if and it was just a screenshot of my rog ally downloading uh the old republic again because me and kevin you know i played so much of that on streams and whatever during covid and then it was like i sat down in bed and i turned it on and i jumped in and then i was like wait i read that controllers do work but they're not working but this that i'm like oh fuck it i don't want to do this i just uninstalled got out of there not gonna worry about that shit download the knights of the old republic instead i'll do that eventually you know what i mean but of course i'm still playing outer world still playing pokemon there's a lot of other games coming out too speaking of things coming out i want to talk about more of these console wars and the fact that the White House has now come in and said, oh, whoa, look, Kevin did it.

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35:20Andy Cortez:And we're back reading from IGN where W Y P that's Wesley in pool says the White House wades into the console wars releases AI image of Donald Trump as master chief saluting in front of an American flag that contains a big mistake. Microsoft's announcement that Halo campaign evolved is coming to PlayStation is the final nail in the coffin for the Xbox exclusive. and for some marks the end of the console wars. Now the White House is waded in with an AI image of Donald Trump as a saluting master chief that, well, there's something very wrong about it. For the uninitiated, hey, oh, we already just ran through this.

35:55Andy Cortez:You know what's coming out. We're just doing this. The idea of a Halo game on PlayStation would have been outrageous before, say a few years ago, yada, yada, yada. Someone somewhere within the bowels of the White House saw that tweet and decided it would be a good one to jump on. The tweet in question shows the U.S. president as Halo protagonist master chief, clearly generated by AI, holding an energy sword and saluting in front of the White House and the American flag. But look closely at the flag and you'll notice the mistake. There are 40 stars where there should be 50. Has Trump as Master Chief teased plans to scrub 10 states from the United States map?

36:28Andy Cortez:There's a bunch of jokes here from Wesley. It's an especially odd collab from the White House when you consider Trump's prior comments on video games in 2019. Trump suggested in 2019 Trump suggested one way to prevent future mass shootings in America was to take a firm stance on violent video games quote we must stop the glorification of violence in our society he said this includes the gruesome and grisly video games that are now commonplace it is too easy today for troubled youth to surround themselves with a culture that celebrates violence we must stop our substantially or we must stop or substantially reduce this and it has to begin immediately Kevin kind of went through it on the Instagram feed it's even crazier where the White House put up the AI generated thing and then shared GameStop's goofy press release where they declared the console wars were over this is a press release went on and they're like whereas two decades and it's like looking like an official decree where it gets even grosser is that on this then fucking GameStop commented and said thank you for your attention on this matter to which I had replied in there of course hey as a reminder everybody in 20 fucking 19 i had to write a goddamn op-ed for newsweek that was saying countering everything we just talked about with trump blaming the ohio and texas mass shootings at the time on video games what the fuck and then the twitter's even worse for game stop game stop themselves posting ai images of master chief and trump shaking hands and like this shit jd vance's cortana like it's like yeah how short is our memory how how how like i see all these goddamn tech billionaires all the time bending the knees like motherfuckers kissing the rings why are we here saying like why why why are gamers why is game stop and like game stop has been trying desperately to get back in the conversation and they they were doing you know what i mean doing some funny stuff then it's like come the fuck on and this guy fucking hates us and he doesn't understand what he's fucking talking about yeah it's and you know the freaking it also gets worse the Department of Homeland Security put out another image using Halo that's like stop the flood and it's like an ice recruitment and it's like following up a couple weeks ago the Pokemon thing disgusting, absolutely vile, rotten stuff and yeah GameStop's just supporting it like absolute freaking nonsense man.

38:44Boo. Boo all around. And this is a weird segue but I'm going to take it because it does make sense in some ways. Me and Mike went to Redmond, Seattle, or Redmond, Washington near Seattle to play Halo, and they gave us some goodies, right? One of the goodies, I don't want to spoil it, actually. Okay, well, here we go, is this Halo energy sword bling. Bling. Blinged out. Which, like, I think is obviously hilarious. You love it. You're wearing it right now? No, I'm not wearing it. You love it. This is the type of thing, you know what I mean? There's a line, and I just think it's funny that this exists.