Valve Launching FOUR Steam Machines?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 05.12.26

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0:49Yo, what's up? Welcome to Kind of Funny Games Daily for Tuesday, May 12th, 2026. I'm your host, Blessing, Addy O.A. Jr. Joining me is the master of hype, Snowbike Mike. Good morning, Bless. How are you today? Doing well. How are you doing? I'm feeling good. I'm a little tired. Half step behind. I've been playing a lot of video games late at night lately. So getting to my bedtime a little bit later every single evening. I'll be honest. I'm in the exact same place. Okay. And I'm an extra step behind because my alarm didn't go off this morning. I think maybe I had changed it a few days ago or something.

1:21I forgot to turn it back on. But I woke up. Maybe the latest I've ever woken up for work, which isn't that bad. Like, I woke up at 830. Okay. Yeah. Hop in the shower. I mean, I caught you as you walked into the studio. and there was a little more pep in your step. There was a little bit of like, I got to get in this door right now. Yeah, yeah. I was like, okay, okay. Yes, but it's still very early. Putting late. I'm not all the way on yet, but I'm a good player. We're going to warm up. Bless, how are you doing today? Doing good. Doing good, yeah. It's nice to host a show with you. Haven't seen you in a little bit.

1:50You went to MagicCon, of course. We caught up after that. You now have seen Stranger Than Heaven, which got you kind of on a Yakuza. Yeah. I saw you play Yakuza Zero. How did that go? So it was fun because I remember I talked about this on Strange in Heaven that I booted up Yakuza 0 before. I got home and I was like, man, I want to play some more Yakuza. And then, yeah, toward I think it was Friday or something like that. I was like, you know what? Let's do it. I streamed a little bit of it. I thought I owned it digitally. I didn't. And then I went to the store and I was like, can I buy this thing?

2:19And it was like, I think,$50. And I was like, I don't know if I'm going to buy Yakuza 0 for$50 right now. And then I was like, wait a second. I played Yakuza 0 when I was still on the physical games train. and so i went in my games bucket um dug out the playstation 4 disc okay put that in my ps5 and yeah i started playing the ps4 version nice i only played about um an hour okay and i enjoyed it for the hour right the it being the ps4 version and not the director's cut doesn't have the translation looks doesn't look as amazing but doesn't look bad by any means it looks like a ps4 game okay which i honestly holds up pretty pretty well um but i was in for that first hour and i would like to go back i think what i'm gonna do is gonna try and get the complete or the director's cut on pc so i can play on my steam deck because i think that might be i think that might fix my yakuza issues okay if i can have it handheld just whenever you want it whenever you need it it's right there exactly you want are you gonna jump in are you gonna play some yakuza i would love to try yakuza uh i have done the like a dragons so both ichiban stories and i did like dragon pirate yakuza in hawaii so those are my so far i will one day lock myself in the stream stream room and play through all the yakuza's what if me i'm building towards what if me and you we we become the yakuza brothers but when we don't include roger he would be very mad at you i know and his wedding is coming up i know very mad what if he did it during his wedding what do we mean you don't go oh we stayed back and played yakuza you know what that would be standard Mike procedures, so he wouldn't be mad at me.

3:50He'd be mad at you on that one. Roger could never be mad at me. He would definitely be mad at you, just so you know. Roger could never be mad at me. Yeah, one day I'll jump in, bless. Other than that, I'm having fun. I'm playing through Wind Waker right now. I've been having adoring Wind Waker. I love the cartoon art style. I love Link right now, or whoever this hero in green is. I love sailing the seven seas. I'm having a really good time with this game. That's really cool. I love that you're, you've not lost steam with the Zelda. I was worried because, because when you went straight from Ocarina to Majora's mask, it brought me back to when I tried to do that back in the day.

4:25Cause I played Ocarina. It immediately was like, I'm gonna play Majora's mask. And I got burnt out and I took a little bit of a break and then came back with Twilight princess and fell in love with that. But it's for me, it's hard to do like back to back to back games in a series. I can't stop. Yeah. I'm deep in this. I can't stop thinking about Zelda. It's all I want to play. I'm playing on the Wii U too. This is the first time I've ever played a Wii U. I never bought one back in the day. I never had a friend who had a Wii U. So holding the Wii U game pad and having the dual screens going on is a blast.

4:52It's really cool to check out this hardware. The blast. Oh, dude. Man, the Wii U game pad feels comfortable. And looking down and having the map and items like always there and looking up and down, awesome. I don't know. Is that crazy? I feel like that's nuts. I bet you if you go back and try the Wii U, you'll be like, damn, this game pad is actually pretty comfortable. This is legit. I didn't play that much of the Wii U. There weren't that many of them out there. They only sold like 13 million of these guys. But I did have a friend, Brandon, in town who had a Wii U. And I remember being excited to go to his place to play a little bit of it.

5:27And he introduced me to Nintendo Land. It was a really fun time. But then he was also one of those friends that would make me watch him play video games. And he made me watch him play Monster Hunter Tri or whatever it was called. The Wii U Monster Hunter. And I was like, Brandon, I'm not coming over here anymore. I'm staying home from now on. And that's where the saying you play comes from, because you would never let your friend, blessing out of the O.A. Junior. Yeah. Sit there day after day, minute after minute, hour after hour without saying, you know what? You play. It's your turn. We you play.

5:55Come on. Come on, Brandon. You know, right there in the name. Remember, if you're watching live, you can be a part of the show by super chatting in over on YouTube dot com slash kind of funny games. We couldn't do this without our producers over on Patreon dot com slash kind of funny. So thank you to Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney, the Psalm Twining. For now, let's begin with what is and forever will be the Roper Report. It's time for some news. We have eight stories today. A baker's dozen. A jam-packed news day, starting with story number one. An update leak suggests four Steam Machine packages will be available at launch alongside a reservation queue.

6:34This is Jacqueline Thomas at IGN. Things have sure been heating up for the Steam Machine over the last couple of weeks. On top of shipment data suggesting Valve's mini gaming PC is coming soon, code found in the latest Steam update hints at the different versions of the console that will be available. Spotted by WCCF Tech, it seems like there will be four different versions of the Steam Machine, along with two versions of the Steam Frame available at launch. However, while this does suggest there will be plenty of choices for upcoming hardware, nothing yet indicates just how much the Steam Machine will cost.

7:05As for which versions of the Steam Machine will be available, Valve told me all the way back in November that there will be a 512GB entry-level model alongside a 2TB version. Nobody except Valve knows what the other two options will be, or if those options even exist, but it's highly likely that at least one of them is going to be a bundle with the Steam Frame and controller. Do you think you bundle the Steam Machine with the Steam Frame? Preferably not, but maybe. I feel like that's kind of insane. I would prefer not to because that price would be insane is correct, Bless, but I think that is a logical like, hey, we have two products here, and one, they work hand in hand together.

7:42We want to sell more of these Steam Frame units, the VR headsets. Let's get it out there. When you feel like that, that makes sense. Yes, I totally see that. I think most of the audience listening is like, hey, Mike, I don't want to do that, right? Like that's already too much. But like if I'm Valve, it's like, yeah, of course, I want these products to get out there into the markets. Yeah, if you can bundle the Steam frame in a way that makes it more enticing. I think it's more of a favor to the Steam frame than it is to the Steam machine. So I think that makes sense. Yes. I mean, hey, things are heating up less.

8:12We already had the controller go out. Yeah. Pre-orders went out. People are getting their controllers. It's sold real hot. Yeah. We are right around the corner. Did you get one? No. I didn't get one either. I didn't love the feeling of it. Maybe that's because I only held it once. You know, Andy and Tim got it. So I haven't got to really play with it. but i didn't love the feeling of it i am an offset sticks guy i don't like inline sticks and that's what it has i'm i don't like having to like schedule buying something that's really what it comes down to is like when i saw the word q i was like i'm i'll get it later i'll figure out a way i don't know can i just go to a store hit buy and then have the thing you would love that no bless you have to i don't want to yeah i don't want to have to like schedule a time put a calendar send myself a calendar invite be like buy the steam machine and then sit there and look at a thing and like refresh and hope it happens you were just doing this for this the switch two last year say that again it's the switch two we were all fighting for our lives it's a different occasion that's the switch it's a controller compared to a console i get like yeah it's the new nintendo console i had to get one uh of course but like yeah things are heating up it's getting exciting we're still waiting of course on the date the pre-order date the pricing of all this so there's still a lot of information to get to us four skews so yeah if we're talking about four skews i think the 512 and the two terabyte like dimension makes sense yes steam frame bundle with the controller all that makes sense for the most expensive version of this i would think one terabyte so then your mind goes to one terabyte right because like here's the catch is man that the the memory memory is getting costly very costly like we saw the playstation the xbox right now for one terabyte xbox series x is sitting at 650 and the playstation 5 one terabyte is$650 as well, right?

9:57We know what this machine is is going to probably be more than the current-gen console plus the hardware. So it's like, yeah, this is going to be an expensive piece. More than the current-gen console? I expect the Steam machine to be more than$650. Okay, no, you're right. Yeah. Okay. In my mind, I expect this to be more than$650, yes. For 512, what do you think? That I'd like to see. Well, 512 gigabyte. Yeah. I think... isn't naive to say 700 window yeah that's where i want to be i'm i'm i'm preparing after all the conversations that tim and andy have here on all of our shows when they talk about the deep dive into tech i am preparing for things to be a thousand dollars i think like i'm mentally preparing a 512 be a thousand dollars listen one terabyte two terabyte yes yeah 512 terabyte a thousand dollars that's crazy that's nuts right yeah no but i guess that is the world we live in I think I'm prepared.

10:55I'm hoping for like$600 to$700. I'm prepared for$800. I think once you get to$900,$1 ,000 for the lowest SKU, that's where I start to look at it like, I don't know if this is going to be what you need it to do. It is interesting. Do you come at it with such a loss, right? What is the number before you say, we can't sell that? Because on the Valve side of things, you are running the PC industry, right? Everybody is jumping on your marketplace on PC. Now your goal is to start getting into the living room, and you are now competing with the playstations the xboxes right which are now towards the end of their life cycles big install base but they'll be announcing their consoles soon enough right so yeah you are trying to get in there and kind of get right up at the table against all these consoles obviously everybody is everybody's different in terms of their uh how much money they have available right their financial situations if i'm looking at it right of because i'm somebody who really wants a steam machine i think for the lowest skew if you get to 700 that's where i'm like that's where i tap out i'm like i don't know if i i have a pc i don't need to buy this just to have it in my living room right and like have that additional way to play if i really wanted to i could probably find a way to get my pc in my living room or something like that like that becomes less worth it for me and i think at that point maybe you're only selling to people who don't have a pc and are looking for that entry level i mean i'm as a xbox guy right and where Xbox currently is.

12:17I am looking at this compared to the next Xbox piece of hardware, right? I think the Project Helix has a lot more upside to me of like what's going on there, but like I've moved to Steam. I've moved to PC, right? And so this is now me looking at both of these devices going, okay, I'm getting the next PlayStation for the exclusives. I already know that. But what is my secondary console? It might be now I move to just Steam only and go with this Steam machine right over the next xbox depending on pricing what they both offer so i think in the next one to two years you'll have you'll be watching me go through that mental battle of what do i want to decide to put my additional spending money into because yeah things are getting tight i don't have thousands of dollars to throw around right and when it comes back to the four skews the audience earlier i think put it pretty simply you have the five and a controller you have the two terabyte and a two terabyte with the controller i think you just do that i don't think you'll get a third one all of a sudden that's just one terabyte here interesting i'm not mad at that i think that i think it's with the controller without with the controller without do you think this bundling the steam frame makes sense because i think otherwise i i'm so fascinated about how the steam frame is going to perform because i think the steam machine depending on where it comes in price has a place the steam frame is way more niche when we're talking about the VR audience and how much people are willing to spend on VR, especially when VR software obviously doesn't get as much support as flat screen software.

13:46And what are the games that are coming up for it that gets us excited and makes me go, oh man, I really want to play Steam Frames so I can play XYZ thing. Are we announcing a new Half-Life Alyx style game? Are we finally getting a Portal VR game that makes us all throw up and still have fun with it? You know what I mean? Like, what does selling the Steam Frames software-wise look like? Are they even trying to sell it software-wise or just going, this is another way, this is the best way that we can provide to you to play your VR games. Well, they've been in the VR space for a long time now. Yeah.

14:14Right. Like they are one of the few teams that was like, they've gone through it all. They clearly know the numbers and the re the reality of VR and what that actually sells. I do think that's like the Uber enthusiast market right there of like, I am the diehard VR fan. I know what I'm getting and I want to stick with valve for what they kind of bring to the product line. So it's like, I don't think they're hoping that the mass audience attaches to this unless you somehow an incredible bundle in games but i think they know this is the uber enthusiast that's jumping onto this yeah very very curious the force they call it here on the website the streaming first experience talk to me there's no cords on this no because from now from ever since meta with their headset the quest right like i'm not putting on a vr headset wireless ever has a wire on it wire wireless comfortable lightweight vr for your steam library um i imagine probably similar technology to what they're using with the steam controller right of like here's your dock thing that you plug into the computer and then you're streaming wirelessly through that and they probably have technology there to make it feel very seamless that that gets me excited because yeah i mean i've talked about the meta before when we had the greg with the playstation vr with you as well yeah like i told him i just i can't do anything with the wire when i want to go into vr mode i don't want anything weighing me down and most importantly I want to be able to move and so yeah this is great to hear on that you just need some killer apps you've always needed killer app but the issue is like with the VR you're in it for 30 minutes to 2 hours like usually maximum for a normal audience right it's like it's hot it's usually heavy so it's got to be like the games have to be Beat Saber right like some super hot VR they have to be these like bite sized fun games that keep you active and like having a good time but also like hey i can take this off at any moment and be done right yeah so it's interesting to see yeah let's move on the story number two a playstation exec says next few years of unannounced games is unbelievably positive quote there are no dire times ahead for the industry end quote i'm pulling from andy robinson at video games chronicle playstation's head of third-party content has said the the platform's upcoming game slate is unbelievably positive and argued that the industry should be more optimistic about the future christian svenson sony interactive entertainment's vp of second and third party content was speaking to the game business about the future of the games industry at a time when layoffs studio closures and turbulent player spending still regularly occupy news headlines svenson's team is responsible for supporting developers who want to make games for ps5 and thus has a unique view of what companies have planned for the upcoming years he said that based on the games he knows are coming he believes that the developers and publishers are making very smart decisions and that the games industry should feel more comfortable about the future well in the future there's going to be more touch points with players than ever and figuring out how to navigate the number of devices the number of audience segments and finding your audience for your game that's going to continue to be where the challenge is he said i'm in an incredibly privileged position to have amazing visibility into what games will be for the next three four five years.

17:23I literally cannot explain to you. Last year was an amazing year for games. This year will be even better. Next year will be better still. The trajectory of content is unbelievably positive. And we as an industry should be super optimistic about where we're going in spite of the headwinds, end quote. Svensson noted that because games take years to make, the decisions made by developers and publishers today might not necessarily be seen for some time. Quote, obviously the decisions we're making now take into account where we are at this moment, he said. we're anticipating where we're going to be there are no dire times for the industry ahead as far as i'm concerned very smart decisions are being made by our partners and by platforms be more comfortable uh than you think you should be end quote interesting statements there some interesting statements bless what do you think um i think he's speaking from a very specific perspective of course i think he's speaking from somebody who is head of third party portfolio and is looking at the games coming in and going we have a lot of good games coming in and to that I say yeah I see where that side of it is coming from and I agree in terms of I've been saying that if you're somebody who doesn't pay attention to video game news and you're just playing the games I don't know how you can look at the game slate and be unsatisfied there are so many games there are so many quality games there's such a variety of games like It's as a games player, one of the best times for video games, the games industry though, is on fire.

18:57If you are paying attention. And I think he's speaking more so toward the four, the ladder or toward the former than the ladder that said, like, I think when you take in parts of this, if you'll, if he was kind of like, he's toeing a line there where it does feel like, yeah, of course. Like, I don't think any of us out there when you're talking about the consumer side of like playing the games are going, man, it's been a turbulent time. I'm getting nothing but fortnights. It's like, no, the past three years or so have been nothing but incredible games. I don't think anyone's doubting that it is more of like, Hey, there's thousands upon thousands of layoffs happening almost weekly and monthly around the industry.

19:34That's what's more turbulent. That's what we're not really pleased with. Right. And like, yeah, he is looking at it from a different perspective going, Hey Mike, it seems like corporate CEOs and game developers and publishers have decided to step away from maybe games as a service and these live service games and are more focusing on the games that clearly are what the gamers want and that's a positive thing i think we are starting to see that quick trying to turn the ship now as we saw playstation fumble their games as a service we've seen other games come out and just not find that we're gonna we're gonna talk about sega in a few stories but the sega super game got canceled exactly we're seeing teams now try to avoid that as the audience has spoken like we don't want that right but we're looking at it as like hey there's way too many layoffs people are questioning if their job is safe here yeah and to end that being be more comfortable than you think you should be it's like i don't know there's a lot of jobs out there they don't feel that the part that i highlight right is he said that based on the games he knows are coming he believes that developers and publishers are making very smart decisions and that that the games industry should feel more comfortable about the future i think that last part of the games industry should feel more comfortable without the future is the part that i take issue with right as far as you're talking about all the layoffs all the studio closures all the things that we're seeing right now the ai and how that's going and how that's already taking effect into things right and like even just what we talk about as far as the shareholder money uh the lightening up as the as this industry becomes more and more mature and people are taking money out of it to put into other things that they see as more upcoming like ai right it feels like we're in a place where things are going more and more into like a deeper darker place um and like i don't i think it's there's a balance because i don't want to be all doom and gloom about it because there's so much light there's a lot of time there's a lot of selling a ton of copies right a small team finding success dude and hitting this last year games around the globe last year being the year finding wins looking at clear obscure expedition 33 from last year which is a debut game from a new small developer that was able to make waves and have this special moment you're talking about games like pi for hire selling yeah three-fourths of a million copies and being able to make their money back and now invest more into the company that's a huge win and i think there is there's something he said that there's something there to the idea of how big of a ship it is to turn when it comes to hey the decisions we're making now are not going to change anything until then three years from now four years from now five years from now right video games take time to develop and make and these choices take time to come into effect i believe the idea that hey we're learning things in real time that we are and we're implementing uh changes implementing ways that we're that we're trying to push back against a lot of the bad decisions that have been made and he's seeing three to four years out right he's like a chess player seeing three moves ahead and he's like okay cool yeah these things are going to be so much better as we as we continue to move forward but i think for us when me you and probably our audience who listens to video game news all the time read this quote we're like i don't really like i don't know about that there are no dire times ahead for the industry as far as i'm concerned that's one where it's like i don't know about that right we don't know where the world is going to be hopefully it's like hey i'm looking at it right now like this is the darkest time but we're about to round the corner we're going to see light at the end of the tunnel and we're going to turn on that as you brought up right it's like are we in the most dire time or will it continue to get a little more dire as people are tightening their belts they're not investing as much into games right we aren't seeing a bunch of double-a games come out that are like hey these are good right it's like you're either great or you're not you're not making a second game yeah or you're not even making a game yeah let's move on to story number three tekken boss katsuhiro harada has joined snk this is big news for me you're wearing your jacket and show it off and i didn't know this story was happening because i wore my tekken jacket today uh this is from andy robinson at video games chronicle former tekken series producer katsuhiro harada has formed a new studio with snk following his exit from bandai namco after more than 31 years in an announcement published on tuesday harada confirmed the formation of snk versus studio or i should say snk vs studio in shinagawa tokyo where he will act as ceo According to Harada, the VS in VS Studio's name holds various meanings, including Video Game Soft, VS Development Division, and the spirit of Versus challenging tradition.

24:06Quote, VS Studios, I'm just going to say Versus because it's cooler. Versus Studios' philosophy is beyond tradition, crafted to perfection, he said in a statement. We'll combine technology, sensibility, and world-class expertise to pursue the ultimate. From a free, open, and spacious environment, we will generate new ideas and create memorable games. We established this studio to bring this vision to life. He added, quote, Having been involved in game development for many years, I've constantly considered how I want to spend my time as a developer and what kind of environment allows developers to perform at their best.

24:41Versus Studio is one answer to that question. By bringing together technology and knowledge and working with passionate colleagues, we aim to deliver the best gaming experiences to users worldwide. Versus Studio aspires to be a studio that continues to take on such challenges, and we are looking for new team members who share our vision. Please look forward to the future of Versus Studio." Speaking to 4Gamer, Harada said that the games he makes in the future won't deviate from the action and competitive player-versus-player elements he's known for. the producer also wouldn't rule out working on snk's own fighting game franchises in the future quote speaking personally there are certainly things i'd like to do he said when asked about potentially working on snk's ip however it seems however it oh is that we got bagels coming in the office he put his order in with me earlier poppy seed and butter but we didn't have butter so he's got more cream cheese but what do you want what do you want to bag what do we have out there i got i got a poppy seed i got salt i got everything yeah what's your favorite i'll grab one after the show okay yeah i don't want to chew then read because i don't want to get yeah some poppy seeds in your teeth like i'm about to yeah uh let's see here uh when he said that when asked about potentially working on snk's ip quote however since it belongs to snk i can't really say anything too freely this isn't about hiding anything it simply means that nothing has been decided yet in the 1990s i could have easily dabbled in it but nowadays development can easily take four to five years so it's not something i can say easily and quote again that four to five years number man remember that always remember that always video games everyone listening out there remember that now i do want to circle back to the previous story we'll do it at the end of the show because yeah there is conversation there but bless you're my fighting game guy i just played tekken yeah you did the first time yeah you did right here is a industry icon a legend in this what what are your thoughts i i don't know what to think mike i think that's where i stand i i of course love of Harada's work yeah a big Tekken 8 the Tekken franchise I'll say one of my favorite franchises okay and so I love what Harada does and I love that he's finding a new beginning elsewhere I think I I like that he's not stuck to one franchise even though I associate with that franchise even though I love the work that he does with that franchise even though I have a little bit of fear about where the franchise goes after him I want to see Harada do something fresh do something new do something different 31 years bless crazy that is a long time uh of course like you said right like your fingerprint is that right yeah when you bring up hey go do something new and exciting like yeah that is new that is fun and like a little thrilling a little scary right like yeah what does that look like now in snk it like snk put they put out good fighting games okay they've not put out fighting games on level and i'm talking about in recent time in modern times They've not put out a fighting game, in my opinion, on the level of like a Tekken 8, Street Fighter 6.

27:32Guilty Gear. I was going to say Mortal Kombat, but I say Mortal Kombat. So that's why you call up one of the goats and say, come over here. Yes. And I want to say all that, but also shout out that I think King of Fighters 15 was a really, really excellent fighting game. I love King of Fighters 15. Fatal Fury, City of the Wolves, I liked fine. It didn't make me stop and get addicted to it, but a lot of fighting games do. But it was fine. I think it underperformed for them. I view SNK fighting games as a more smaller contained experience in terms of budget and where they go with it. And so Harada joining that team makes me ask, what is the scope that he's going to be able to work with?

28:12Because for me, I see it as a thing of like, you're going from Tekken, which has money, Bandai Namco money thrown into it, right? They view it as something that like, yo, we care about this. We want this to be successful, all this stuff. you're going to snk which don't get me wrong snk has money because they are owned by saudi arabia really quick bless who owns this company is right yeah saudi arabia owns snk and so like i can see where they get the money to hire him and form a studio under him i just wonder if that money is also going to go into like funding a harada game on the level that a harada game should be funded.

28:48I mean, that's what you hope, Bless. In the Snowbike Mike super optimistic world, right? You are coming over to a team that has a bunch of money. And as he said here, I've been involved in game development for many years. I've constantly considered how I want to spend my time as a developer and what kind of environment allows developers to perform their best. This guy is leaving Bandai Namco, going off on his own. Now is like the opportunity of like, here's a bunch of money. you create what you want in an environment that you want and you optimistic mike goes this is going to be a perfect match made in heaven right like hopefully everything is good yeah do you not worry about that bless of like the reality we just talked about yeah dire situation in the industry and i here's the thing i also think harad is a smart man so i don't think he's going to join snk the deal if he if he looks at the numbers and goes gonna sink after one game yeah like that those numbers aren't right to fund what i have a vision for the question then becomes what do you have a vision for he kind of talks about like um you know they they tackle it toward the end of the article talking about is it going to work on um an snk property or make something like that it's that's his own and he says speaking personally it seems like there's a lot to be decided here but yeah speaking personally there are certainly things i'd like to do uh however since it belongs to snk i can't really say anything too freely that makes it sound like he's looking at the snk ip specifically and going let me make something with one of these and when we're talking about snk ip we're talking about games like king of fighters we're talking about like i mentioned before uh fatal theory you're also talking about samurai showdown um and then if i'm looking up here right you have the last blade and art of fighting which i don't know much about about those i don't know if i see harada like unless you are revitalizing and rebooting one of these franchises which could very dude a harada uh samurai showdown that's like a ground up i'm fucking taking samurai showdown and forming it and morphing it into my own image maybe there's something there actually that could be cool i i just don't think any i don't view any of those ip as something that like is what i view as the heart and soul of what harada does which is 3d fighting like that's actually what it comes down to okay i view him as a 3d fighter guy i view him as somebody who wants like the over over the top shit right and like crazy personality personality on these characters i think you can pull that out of some of these games but i think it would it would require him to take a lot of liberty in rebooting a franchise well congratulations to him we will see the future um four to five years bless 45 years how long do you really think four to five years you think you think hey mike no matter what we're gonna set up the studio we're gonna hire we're going to pick our vision and then we'll get to release eventually four to five years yeah unless something goes wrong which in this industry things often go wrong unless something goes wrong and in two years we get a new story that harada is leaving versus studio and we're like well then who's leading it and then we don't hear anything and then they close down the studio you know we hear those stories all the time but if things go smoothly Okay.

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39:48You're out of town. Yeah, no, I can't do it. I need it. I need to do a better job of switch to launch. Rest. El Capitan says, oh, by the way, Mike and Barrett, Toei redid Fishman Island arc in better quality animation and trimmed the fat to shorten the arc. Good to know that's some one piece stuff right there. I am currently getting ready. Plus, I've made it to the time skip. Yeah. The big deal. I didn't know there was a time. 516 episodes in the one piece. I'm ready. I am so impressed that people are able to watch through all of one piece, but like, and not even you watched it from when you were a kid, people who started as adults and somehow watch through all of one piece.

40:29I have no idea how you do that. It's epic bliss. I mean, I believe you should watch one episode a day while you're at the gym. If you're on the treadmill, one episode a day, just turn it on. Do your 24 minutes of cardio. Yeah. All it good. And then the episodes are there over 1100. Okay, so that would only take me... A couple of years. Well, you'll have days where you watch two. I think it's more than a couple. You'll have days where you watch three. You know what I mean? You'll have more days. But if you did one a day on the treadmill, you're moving. Yeah, but that's assuming I'm going to the gym every single day.

41:03Blessing. Look at you right now. You're going to the gym. I see you. I mean, I am going to the gym like six out of seven days out of the week. We see you. Let's see. Yeah, it's ZeroPulse says y 'all should check out the new Marvel Rivals trailer. It's only a minute and a half. My boy Cyclops is there. i think kevin was playing in the background dude sick um let's see nader poohater sorry no that's not it nader potato that's what it is nader potato writes in and says the only thing keeping a ps5 in my home is gta 6 when the steam machine releases how long until the port or would they wait until the pc launch wait how long until the port or would they wait until the pc launch i don't know what you mean by that but you're asking how long until the port of gta 6 i'll give it a couple years where you get the pc version not a couple of years no one year one year okay one year one year yeah what was it like last time that's a great question i have to look that up i don't know chat let me know on that one i'm thinking one year now we're like 13 years back from that so it's hard to be like that's the business decisions they're gonna follow we've evolved past that pc is now a larger market i do think we will go with one year especially with like what gta rp is going to be and how they've brought on no pixel how long is that pc was two it was it was like a year and a half yeah okay like there for yeah we'll call it two we'll just round up to two years i think it's a little bit tighter this time around okay somebody said red dead was one year how long can you look up red dead redemption 2 how long that was because if that was one year that i totally buy it if that was more than i i just think rockstar cares so little about pc let's see we had 2018 so that 2019 okay so that's less than a year yeah no that was about a year oh yeah like a year and a month december yeah yeah a year and a couple weeks so yeah that's a year okay i buy that that makes sense i'm excited to see you're gonna wait till pc to play it absolutely no way i'm jumping right in right away uh let's hop into this real quick what consoles are you guys gonna play it on oh ps5 xbox of course ps5 pro yeah I'm on my Xbox I don't have a PS5 Pro I mean we can get you one Greg just gave it to me No you got a nice TV you should be playing I had to buy a TV so I could finally get some good use of it You didn't even try to get them to buy you a TV They would have They would not have bought me a TV Oh you just have to say it on air I can't put Greg Miller out like that You know what today you asked for a bagel He has a new puppy You know mint chocolate chip Just really want to circle back to story number two really quick on that PlayStation exec.

43:40It is interesting. I'm like, well, what are you seeing? Are you seeing people work the budgets out now that are a little bit more in favor of the team here? Are you seeing games now working on shorter time spans? Are the budgets going down? What are you seeing here that makes it feel less turbulent? I just wanted to circle back and be like, that's what I want to know. Yeah, I bet you're seeing a world, I don't want to say post-pandemic, because I'm sure we're probably still in the pandemic as we enter into a new pandemic, possibly. Actually, I don't want to put fear out there. I don't know what's going on with the antivirus, but I think he's seeing a post lockdown like dev environment where people where that part is less disruptive.