Xbox Disc to Digital OFFICIALLY Real! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 08.26.26

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2:39If it wasn't clear, it was me, Andy. I have Star Wars Zero Company on Fantasy Critic. How many points? I don't know. 87? They seem really good, though. Last I saw was at 87, which gets me 17 points. If you're over 85 Sitting pretty You're sitting real pretty And I snuck in there I forgot I bought it for like what 35 cents or something like that It was like nothing Is that the one that you failed to try to get Retribution It happened Man if only I remembered You said it out loud like I fucked that up Nobody go get it And then I was like I'm going to get it Because how much money do you have left Andy Probably like$90 or something Really?

3:22Nah, I have like 70 or 60, something like that. So you're more than making moves? I think most than us. I gotta make moves. Because... You gotta drop Mariachi. I already did. Ooh, okay. Mariachi Legends. Delayed. Until 2027. Good. And, you know... I got a couple of heaters. Aside from that, I'm fucked. Because Witchbrook is not coming out. I just gotta accept that. Eternal Life of Walter Schmitty not coming out either. So weird. Like... It's just a disaster right now. Like, why'd they say it at that Nintendo Direct that wasn't that long ago? Was GTA already known? Yeah. We've known about GTA since the beginning of the year.

4:02You could create your own Oppenheim. Barbenheimer is a thing. You could be GTA and Walter Smitty. Like, the month of GTA and fucking Goldberg or whatever. Yeah, dude. I like that. That could work. I just hate that. Yeah, I just... It was looking really promising there for a while. Yeah. I think once Mortal Shell got me 85, I was like, wow. All right. Nice. This is really, really. We're on the up and up. I'm still holding out. Since then, it's been a disaster. For Kena 2. You know? There's never, like I said yesterday, there's never been a game more delayed in the history of gaming than Kena 2.

4:38Yeah. Tides of Annihilation. They didn't say anything about Dave, did they? No. They didn't say anything about a year? They didn't say a year either. They didn't say anything, so it could be this year. Okay. Okay, buddy. They're not saying it's not. You're right. We still have Game Awards. You're right. Shadow job. Shadow job. Shadow job Game Awards. And there's going to be so many reviewers to play it. So many. To get it on the score. Oh, man. What's up, everybody? Welcome to Kind of Funny Games Daily for Wednesday, August 26, 2026. Of course, I'm your host, Tim Geddes. I'm joined today by the Nitro Rifle, Andy Cortez, in an incredibly lime green jacket.

5:15Hello. Yes, I wanted to go with the Splatoon color. Oh, I like that. I got a phone call last night from Jeff Grubb. Someone trying to buy a PS5. No. Stop freaking calling, please. No, it was from Jeff Grubb. Him and Minotti were on last in the Nintendogs. And they just, I answered the phone and they go, was it a real neon sign? It's a real neon sign. And I'm just like, what are you talking about? I had no idea what they were talking about. And it hit, I was like, oh, oh, of course, yes. Mike's neon sign. and they didn't they were just catching up on the lore they didn't they just heard about it somebody super chatted informing them about the sign so i had to inform them about like where that was all at i told them about the hernia you know multiple yeah that was the whole thing and then they come in threes unfortunately exactly and i went back and i listened to get the context of like what led into me being called like why me why not just call mike or whatever and of course it's because everyone's talking about me being divorced oh right then i have all them guys what i do appreciate is that both minati and grub are like this isn't real greg's doing something yeah they know what i mean and i just love that like that things that serious are still not serious when is when greg is involved when he is the nexus point of all this well i mean you know the audience will have to look forward to that kind of funny podcast thumbnail that says you know the divorce like I don't even know what it's going to be there's just too much too much going on I did see a funny reddit thread today of somebody saying that this is my excuse to do the Getty's wedding remake oh shit remaster which is like oh shit dude there was some really funny ideas in there just like everything is the same but some things are kind of different I love that You know what I mean?

7:06Little whispers. It's like the rumors of the Endgame Encore movie. Yeah. They're replacing Cassie. Big kid. Big kid? They're replacing her with apparently. We'll see. We'll see. I will say those rumors are like as rumor as you can get. Yeah. Because none of them add up to like what's been officially announced of like there is four minutes of different footage in this movie. I don't think they're going to use up some of that footage for Cassie Lang. Big kid. It's a big cameo. Maybe. Who knows? uh Andy how are you I'm doing I'm doing great man yeah yeah many games out it sucks because there's so many games right now that we're playing we can't talk about but the good news is there's so many games coming out that we can as I started making the thumbnail for the you know every game out in September it only really then occurred to me just how little of other games I'm going to be able to play as i'm going down the list on overworld.vg or on like games calendar and game spot and all that game informers calendar it's like oh my god i've completely forgot orbitals was the same day as don walker yeah i just don't think i'm gonna and orbitals requires two people's time there's just no time for that there there really is there's no availability there yeah so there will be some omissions i would say on the top 10 when we hit the end of the year but see that's the thing is i look at this overall as a good thing the only fear i have is there's there's two problems i see one is i don't want these games to step on each other and hurt each other's sales because i want a vibrant industry i want you know as much as possible for enough money to be made that they're able to continue making games and new IP and the reboots and the sequels and the remakes and all the things that they want to do you know and I hope that we were not seeing Titanfall 2 situations because then guess what we haven't seen Titanfall since right right on the other side of that the only con is of course when you're invested and ingrained in this world you want to play it all quote-unquote some people literally do want to play at all.

9:17Some people just like, even people like me that I'm like, I know that there's a ton of these games that are exciting, but they're just not exciting for me. I'm still like, fuck, there's too many games. Like, there's making these choices, and even if there are games that I'm like, I mean, I'm more interested in The Witcher than I've ever been. Andy, I'll say that. You know? But it's like, oh, there's not a chance in hell I'm playing The Witcher now. You know what I mean? It's just so cool. It's just like, there's just too much stuff, and I think that it's good, though, because When you're in the shower, just watch my playthrough.

9:44Okay. Yeah. Yeah. there's a great moment where you know there's an NPC that you could recruit her or if you piss her off she might say I'm out later right and there's a lot of people that were watching my play they're like I didn't even what she could leave I just assumed she would always just join the squad or whatever well Later on There's a There's a mass Like We're going after All of these Witches Witches get stitches Tim We're going after all of them You better get the fuck out of the city If you're here You're dead We get word about This character She's She got got Tim Oh no And she's like close to a lot of NPCs That I know And like obviously you know maybe her and i had sex who knows who knows tim and they put her body up oh in the center square i don't like that with other witches to show everybody this is what happens to you what happens to you you know which gets stitches and me and my crew they're like we have to go recover this body we we have to give her a proper burial this is so disrespectful like fuck this You know, everybody's disgusted with this.

11:13She may have disagreed with you at one point, but she doesn't deserve this, you know? And we go, I'm in the center square, and like, she's all bloodied up, and it's bad, Tim, it's bad. And Geralt's walking up, and then it starts to rain, and Geralt just looks up, and he goes, hmm, looks like rain. And it's just one of those, where the game didn't really understand the situation. and it's just like that's you know kind of like deep and moving you know what I mean what does the rain represent Andy the darkness coming into his life is he trying to point that out because he's crying but he's trying to look like a big tough man so he's just letting everyone know hey these drops on my face it might be the rain he's just talking to the dead bodies like Full Metal Alchemist where he says it's a terrible day for rain looks like we got a storm on the way huh like he's just talking weather so good man god i loved it the game is just so unbelievably good and i cannot wait for this remaster man yeah but i can't wait to replay it it's just again what a time man because on top of that we got don don blood the blood of the don walker coming the blood of don walker no no triple down on the those the blood of don walker are you fucking with me no the blood of don walker No, fuck you.

12:32There's two thes. The blood of Don Walker. Don Walker. Google it. I just say use both Tims because then you're never wrong. Fuck, really? Donald Walker, yeah. I don't like how much people fuck with me, man. I don't know who it was. It might have been Bless. Bless, if it was you, shame on you. Someone convinced me it was the blood of the Don Walker. Two thes. Don't drop them. Oh, also, fuck Greg. Period. Fuck Greg for acting like it was a wishy-washy, who knows how I felt about this no-law game. I went back and watched that clip, and it is the most clear-as-day him going, that's bad, that's bad, that game looks bad.

13:13It is the most clear-as-day, not even a, I don't know if I was talking about what Mike was talking about. No, no, no, it is so obvious. My laptop had died, I think, around that point. Yeah. When he was, like, trying to, later he brought it up and defended it and stuff. Yeah. But if it wasn't, I was like, the way Greg's talking right now, I don't believe him. Yeah. Like he is totally projected. He did this. Like I'm kind of guilty, but also Mike was talking about stuff. So I don't know if I was talking about what Mike was. No, no. It was very, very obvious. I get the clip for Barrett. Don't worry about it.

13:42We have the proof and it is like, I need to see it. The world needs to see it. It's the most clear cut, like not even, you know, a question of what he was debating. So get out of my face with that. Okay. And out of his freaking face. Get out of my face. And while he does that, everybody, of course, where am I? We still have so much intro to do. If you're watching live, be part of the show by super chatting on YouTube.com slash kind of funny games. We couldn't do this without our producers on Patreon.com slash kind of funny. So shout out to Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster, Delaney the Slam Twining, and Lax Nomad.

14:11But now let's begin with what is and forever will be the Roper Report. It's time for some news. It's time for some news. We have six stories today. Why did you say it twice?

14:28I was in there and I'm like, before we get to the first story, should I start reading some super chats? And then I like darted my eyes. And when I darted it back to try to read how many stories. I became a robot. It was cool. So here we are. Story number one. Xbox announces disc to digital feature that digitizes your physical games. This comes from Tom Warren at The Verge.

14:56there we go there we go i found it sorry okay we found it tim we wonder do you want to get to that now or later um i i think this takes priority okay go for it this feels definitely way more important yep so let's just uh here we go found i i have the copy video url at the current time and i'm sending that over to assets right now and this is just uh i just i knew it i knew what was in my heart. Yeah, I do too. I always believe you over, Greg. And it was just one of those like, if you said, I like the way that looked, and I said, that looked awful, Tim. You'd be like, fuck you. You know what I mean?

15:33So that's what I felt in my heart. Like, fuck you. Here we go. That's the cyberpunk, little Batman. This looks sick. This is like the perfect double-A game. You know what it is? Robocop. That looks bad. That looks bad. It's going to be bad. We got a lot more shows. We played into the PS3 game. We put it on PS5. And he tried passing that off his own. There was cross talk. There was a lot of cross talk. There was a lot of cross talk. There was a lot of cross talk. Sure. They were talking over each other. Just like a little bit, a little bit for a second. It's the most clear-cut shit. It's just, there's a pause.

16:06And then Greg, it's bad. It's bad. It's bad. It's bad. It's bad. It looked bad. It looked bad. It's going to be bad. No one's clear-cut shit ever. Jamie Chappelle says, real fence sitter there. It's just like. That is so funny because I don't think there's ever been something more clear. You show that in court, it's over, you know what I mean? Fucking over, man. Xbox announces disc to digital feature that digitizes your physical games. This comes from Tom Warren at The Verge. Microsoft's officially announcing a new Xbox feature that will allow Xbox owners to digitize their existing physical game collections.

16:41The Disk to Digital feature, which The Verge exclusively revealed last month, is part of work that Microsoft's doing for game preservation and in preparation for the next generation of Xbox consoles. Most Xbox One and Xbox Series X disc-based games support this new feature, explains Jason Ronald, VP of NextGen at Xbox. Players can claim a digital entitlement by inserting a supported disc into an Xbox One or Xbox Series X console and launching the game. This digital entitlement is tied to the specific disc and it will move from account to account if you swap the physical game with a friend or log into a different Xbox profile and try to play a disc-based game.

17:17Microsoft will start testing this new Xbox disc-to-digital feature with Xbox Insider testers on August 31st, followed by a broader rollout to Xbox One and Series X consoles in the coming months. Is there a reason? Series S doesn't have a disc drive. That's why they're not talking about Series S. Correct. There we go. Correct. Once you have a digital version of an Xbox disc game, if supported, you'll also be able to access the game on PC through Xbox Play Anywhere or stream it to multiple devices with Xbox Cloud Gaming. Very, very cool. A leaked memo from earlier this month revealed that publishers would have control over the Xbox disc to digital, so not every game will be supported initially.

17:56Quote, we're starting with thousands of titles, thousands of disc based games, Andy. right when you hear thousands of games and if you think oh just all the digital games that exist sure but no thousands of disc-based games that's a lot um and we'll continue to add more over time says Ronald while not every title will be available at launch this is an important step toward a future where players can have greater confidence that the games they buy remain with them for years to come uh very very interesting this is awesome it's quite an undertaking it's got to be and i think a lot of this started in that sort of phil spencer era of talking about you know wanting to try to preserve at things as much as possible um because so many things get delisted and it really really stinks when they're just gone and that was the initial worry just things getting delisted you know back when the scott pilgrim thing happened or whenever any game would have a soundtrack that would get you know the license would run turtles uh turtles in time remake yeah whenever any of those games would have music license they'll run out they would get delisted and it's like oh shit that that's a possibility and that's i think that's as worse as we thought it could get and you know everybody can say that they're nostradamus but me 15 years ago never thought that they would just have the ability to be like no you don't own that game anymore you don't own that thing that you and it's not even a music licensing thing we just wanted to take it offline so now you cannot i didn't really think that that was a possibility that long ago right and now it's like this is a neat way to kind of help out the consumer to say like i'm gonna i feel secure in this purchase now this thing will be mine and make sure you do the right research and understand which games have this feature going along with it but um yeah this seems like a crazy big undertaking for their engineering team and i'm happy that there's like at least some good news to talk about xbox wise uh there's some more things here too uh paris is at gamescom right now and he actually got to talk to a picture of himself for the cd project red booth do you take a picture with the the helmet yet from uh no i don't think so that's a good point that's a good point uh oh that is that is i'm so sorry for you though yeah and you yeah Yeah, he's a project man.

20:21But Paris got to interview Jason Ronald as well and ask some questions. And so somebody asked Paris on Twitter, did you get an answer about game sharing? If we get all the benefits of digital copies, including game sharing, and we can still use the disc, then this program's fire. Paris says, yes, you can loan your Xbox disc to a friend and the digital rights will transfer to the friend's account. And when the disc is returned, it transfers back to you. So that is awesome. Very interesting. And then why does it know? It's crazy. Well, I mean, it's just like once it's in your. Yeah, so it's like, that just gets inauthenticated but technology is crazy it's fucking crazy it's crazy it's terrifying and like to the point you were making about like oh like you can rest assured you own this i'm like i still don't believe that because it's still at the end of the day it's like if you just put the disc in at their whim they can just decide well you own the disc but like a lot of these other services around it don't exist anymore if you're not you know leave your xbox off i have one that's always offline that's that's when you'll always be able to play those discs on um but then this This is just kind of doubling down on a point that I find very interesting from the initial article here from Wire 64, saying most Xbox One and Xbox Series X disc-based games support this new feature.

21:29Players can claim a digital entitlement by inserting a supported disc into one of the Xboxes, launching the game. Once the entitlement's claimed, you can experience the benefits of digital, including Play Anywhere and cloud gaming where supported, while your physical disc continues to work exactly as it always has. We're starting with thousands of titles. I already talked about all that stuff. but I on one hand it's like no shit Tim duh this is obvious but I am most impressed by the fact that it is literally just turning it into a digital version of the game like that already exists and I am interested are there examples where the games don't exist digitally I guess we don't have the list of games but there must be right because not every game is available digital right that people have discs for and if there's thousands of games I'm interested to see what that looks like but despite that that's the amazing the idea that the discs that you have the thousands of games you were getting the benefits that you expect to get from how xbox digital games have been functioning and incredible features like play anywhere and cloud gaming that have just only strengthened over the last couple years it's like this is all of the ecosystem coming together to work in a very very nice way that i never expected to see this is the type of step forward of the digital physical split that they first talked about in 2013 right like this was they weren't necessarily talking about the physical games but they were talking about the digital ecosystem of xbox and they put their foot in their mouth way more than they needed to when they announced the xbox one and we know how that all netted out right of the the direction and way they talked about all that stuff was just so anti-gamer and specifically anti-gamer at the time we want to be in your living room um but ironically i think a lot of where we're at what they're talking about here is that vision that they had but with the added i think x factor that is very important of the context of 2026 of where physical games are more importantly where physical games were and people's collections of games and what do we do for that collection how do we digitize it when inevitably we are moving towards a generation that is not disc-based right we're already seeing an xbox that has inconsistent at best disc releases i would say and uh we already know officially from playstation that started in 2028 that's they're they're not going to have anything right so this coming in at this time i think is very integral to the entire situation yeah yeah i mean it's very encouraging that you know just some just amidst all of the bad bullshit that happens that there's like at least one decent thing that can happen uh that these companies they don't gotta do that at all like you know there are other companies out there that do not give a shit about what happens you know licensing wise or whatever and it's like hey it's on you you're you're accepting the terms of agreement you know what you're getting into this seems like an a nice way for people who have all those gigantic libraries to at least give you a little bit more of a peace of mind yeah in that whenever that discless future happens in the future i still have those games that i bought digitally and now i own them um and i'd be really fascinated to see you know the amount of indie games and how uh like how etsy game covers get created and things like that like people making their own custom library covers i love that you to so much i am interested in a couple different things here because the fact that they have a solution for well why don't you just digitize your games and then take it to game stop and trade it in and then play it's like well no because then your the license gets revoked from you and it stays with the disc however they figured making that work why didn't we get there earlier yeah like was the technology not there before or like were they just not trying to incentivize that for some reason like i just i don't know like this sounds maybe this is they're just at the point now business-wise that they're like well discs are on the way out so we need we're not fighting to protect anything over there or maybe it's the other way where it's more like they're able to get away with just moving digital because that's just what's happening i think unless we know what sort of an undertaking this whole process has been that we don't really know when the decisions were made because yeah you're right this could just be something that they're like oh we can do this and you know we started this process three months ago or whatever or it could be something they've been trying to work on for years and years since the since the phil spencer regime you know yeah no no idea and then i wanted to put a poll up on uh twitch and i don't know why i can't put up a poll on youtube right now it's annoying me but i wanted to put a pull up of like is xbox cloud gaming good enough now because the last time i tried it was like a year and a half ago and it was still like it's still not it's still almost as bad as it was three years ago or whatever so i'm like i don't know where the people are with xbox cloud gaming yeah i will say xbox cloud gaming is the at this point modern cloud streaming service i have the least up-to-date experience on so i don't really have a take on it myself um i am interested in the like you know now that we have a lot of information we're still lacking things here and there but follow me down this path andy okay i'm a nitty-gritty path and then chad if you if you have an answer can maybe understand what i'm saying here the xbox series s doesn't have a disk drive so if we were to take a disk for a game that so far doesn't have a digital version that is supported you got to imagine that some of those exist right if there's thousands of games yeah you take one of those you put it into an xbox one or series x you do the physical to digital could you then go on to a Series S and download the digital version because it's tied to your account there's Xbox Play Anywhere there's all that stuff but can you get the game on your Series S that doesn't have a disk drive well wouldn't you wouldn't you already be a part of your yeah if it's part of your it's part of your library right as Paris said in a follow up tweet once the game is digital it will act like any other digital game that is in your library so I do wonder though if there's just like um like a every 30 day check or something like you have to put the disc in the console or something like that you know i don't think so though like it sounds like that's what they solved right because it sounds like just like until it's put in until it's digitized somewhere else that's the not check process but that's the like kind of whatever yeah so i i expected that i just wanted to follow that through just because like that's fucking cool man yeah any gamers out there like is it even possible to do an x i don't even know why this probably sounds like a stupid ass question can you plug in a usb external drive to a series s i don't know i've never even thought of that as a possibility right right right yeah it was a stupid question i'm pretty sure as i thought of it i was like that that's a dumb question of course you can but i was like i don't really know if i've seen anybody even do things like that so i don't really know of many people with series s's except for a homie of mine who was like we have hey man do you think gta 6 will run on a series s and i talked to this guy like once every three years so funny i was like i don't know man it should be okay maybe i don't know it should be okay maybe i don't know we have one in our living room that i haven't turned on in like a year and a half oh that's right that's right i have two um xbox one x's in my room that i haven't turned on forever one of them because i remember one of them died on me and then joey lent me hers and then that one also yeah bummer so i'm like what do i do with that hard drive just drilled right through it do i drill through the hard drive tim are you scared of i don't know what's on there i don't know what joey has on there either viva pinata true pokemon snaps i'm out uh parts view says distant digital this is the xbox one launch plan yeah it is it is and joey russle says isn't this the same as the xbox one pitch from 2013 it is comical how similar they are actually are it's just the actual disc two digital that side of it that's what we didn't ever get before um so it's just funny how time works that way really it's a while this feels like such a third party service like all of this feels like such a random company that's like we can do this thing for you you know and we're we're located next to the T-Mobile and the GameStop.

30:27You know what I mean? What up, Barrett? Really quick, Andy, you ran the poll in the Twitch chat. 68 % of people said, yes, cloud gaming is good enough now. I ran the poll in the YouTube chat. 55 % said no. Okay. And that was, I think, way more people voted in YouTube. Now, fuck the poll chat. Just type in some stuff. If you've played NVIDIA GeForce Now and Xbox Cloud Gaming, are you like hey you know xbox is kind of close now to nvidia g4 because i think g4 now is like far and away the the better one in terms of all the streaming things i've done period like g4 now and just uh self-done apollo moonlight all that stuff i don't know if you tinkered with any of that like where it's no i never reading your own uh stream those are by far the best like by far in my experience um tyler wallace says bought heroes of might and magic 3 from my ipad it got removed in 2017 from the app store 10 years since i played it on my ipad digital sucks damn um sg17 says i have over 500 physical games from the nes to ps5 i bought a retro tank 4k pro to play them on my modern tv i won't invest in a system where i don't own what i buy we need real digital rights yeah i'm so interested in in if we ever get to the digital right place i think that like that war might have been lost like at least for our generation i think maybe at some point something might change where it's like there will be one warrior i don't know but i i feel like that is a war that you know that's gotta come from that's gotta come from regulation from uh you know an administration that isn't so subservient to capital we need europe to do something and then dude for real for real yeah that's it like yeah or else like you know you're gonna hear some news about you know uh trump bought this much stock in digital things and then like that day they announced some big yeah like every other day with like palantir and shit but i mean even like taking that stuff out of the way it's like going back all the way to metallica fighting against napster dude lars is so mad everything that turned out like what happened with iTunes and just like looking at digital music and then how the ownership of digital music turned into streaming and like just where we're at it's like I just think that all the technologies and the forks that they provide make me very pessimistic on a uh a future where digital rights are something that we're happy about and I say that as somebody that like that fucking sucks like I hate how not only splintered but just bullshit so much of this stuff is and how inconvenient they even make it to use your own digital stuff because they're pushing you to do the streaming stuff like why is it that when i have my personal amazing library that i've held up for the majority of my life at this point with the highest quality files possible for my digital music library most of which i either ripped myself from cds or bought digitally and like owned a digital version or whatever why is it that when i'm using apple music a fucking service that i do love overall have to pay subscription fee every freaking month to access and uh to to use the streaming side of it but then it's like it when i it won't let me just integrate my library at the quality that they offer on their streaming stuff together it's like no no no no you can only listen to the lossless stuff on apple music i'm like i'm listening to the same fucking album don't convert my shit to some bullshit yeah fuckers yeah it sucks man but that's just what they do and it makes sense because people like me don't matter to them um hey lars how about you learn how to drum jesus christ worry less about kazan napster learn how to drum dude maybe if you learn how to drum they wouldn't have cared you know what i mean street shadow says i think there would have to be a check because it needs to know this has it needs to know this license been activated by another account aka has someone bought the disc in the event a user sold or gave it away i'm interested we'll see how that all shakes out you lost me a little bit there but give me it one more time i think there would have to be a check because it needs to know has this license been activated by another account aka has someone else bought the disc in the event a user sold or gave it away i wonder if it's like if it's just disc could it possibly be like disc centric and not like sucks it off the disc or like like does the disc know like i don't know fucking technology maybe it like a set like when you register it for digital just kind of purely guessing here maybe it registers the like disc as like a specific code or whatever that it pings on one account and then that that account is just free to play that game whenever doesn't need the disk inside what have you but the second that disk with that assigned code gets activated through a different account that code pings the system to be like oh that no longer belongs to this other original account is my understanding yeah that checks out uh young ray charles says i actually love xbox cloud for playing a campaign like call of duty or any other game that i don't care for that says my biggest w from distant digital is revitalizing xbox one games i bought a decade ago and playing them on my modern pc yeah that's the other thing right like that's because of play anywhere yeah where it's like all of a sudden now all these xbox games are on pc and you know with the other initiatives they're doing of the backwards compatibility stuff of like the og xbox games coming and those uh being kind of more heavily focused on for pc versions like that's crazy man like that is very cool that a majority of the entire xbox catalog will be available with these up-to-date features of xbox it'll never be everything but like a majority that's cool do you see yourself doing anything with this just to tinker and my problem eddie is just i'm so out of the xbox ecosystem they do so much that i'm all about that i wish other people were doing but just at the end of the day this isn't fucking console war shit this isn't any of that it's just the things I care about the most personally Tim Gettys I'm just like fuck the PlayStation just gives me it better like I care about the haptics of the controller so much more than I care than I care about some of these other things and it's like it's the immersion and that's because I fucking have a home theater that has shaking chairs and fucking like it adds so much to me and also the PlayStation's 3D audio sound sounds way better than Xbox to me and it's like I have A.B.

37:11tested the hell out of that. And I'm saying this as well on my PlayStation compared to my beast-ass PC. Getting the settings right on PC, sure, it looks a little bit better. It sounds worse, and the sound matters a lot to me. So it's like there's just all these dumb little things that, like, I just wish PlayStation had to play anywhere. Can't believe you do Master Chief like that. That's crazy. Yeah, I did. He's watching this stream and just being like, fucking. Yeah. God damn it. He just played my game the other day. On PlayStation. That's crazy. That's so crazy.

37:42let's get to story number two sticking with xbox here xbox's 25th anniversary limited edition console price and release dates revealed comes with halo campaign evolved this one from kate under at ign uh earlier this summer microsoft revealed that it will be releasing a translucent green xbox series x console inspired by the original xbox for the company's 25th anniversary now microsoft's confirmed that the console will cost a whopping 900 and released on november 13th It will come with the Xbox Series X console, a matching controller, and a free copy of Halo Campaign Evolved. Pre-orders go up tomorrow, August 27th at 7 a.m.

38:16The controller can be purchased separately for$80, and it will release on October 20th. I remember a time when DualShock 2 controllers being$40 upset me. I'm like, that's unacceptable. Yeah,$80 is a lot, and that bitch doesn't even have back buttons, dude. you know what i mean it's crazy dude it's ridiculous even then it's like 80 it's like that i thought this would be more money just because of it being all collectory and special because it's like the pro 2 nintendo switch pro controllers 90 that's true that is but back button it does that back soft is sat very soft soft is satin div but i can't see the insides and also like look 900 for this xbox series x it's obscene is wild work to imagine paying that much money for an Xbox Series X in 2026?

39:08Like, I know we just talked about a lot of this, like, good stuff they're doing, but I'm like, what the you would see? Anybody that is seriously considering buying a$900 Series X that wasn't in at$500? Right. You know what I mean? It's like, when we always say there's never been a better time, it's like, there has been many other times. I don't want to say better. There's never been a worse time to buy an Xbox. There's never been a fucking worse time. Yeah. And sure, they're incentivizing with the fucking cool green and shit, but like, that's insane. This thing's gonna sell out that's just how this shit works like don't take the metrics of it selling that one way or another it's like it is what it is yeah i'm surprised it's not a thousand dollars me me and me and mike were joking around when this thing first got revealed and we're like you know we're gonna buy that shit and we're not gonna we're just gonna put it in you know it behind us in our stream setups or whatever because the the translucent green xbox has always just meant so much to me that was my first xbox and that was my just first halo experience and It's like such a pivotal moment in my gaming history.

40:09And I felt a little bit of that before the price increases. And now it's just like, this is no shot. Like, it'd be like, that's stupid as hell. Now, what I will say is this thing will be worth a lot of money in the future, Andy. So if that matters to you. Will it? Yeah, 100%. I guarantee it. You're silly to think otherwise. Look at any collector's edition console that, especially ones that are doing the thing people want any from the past at what cost him you know oh i'm not saying do it i'm definitely not saying do it i'm just saying like the collection you pay for that bloodborne ps5 well that's different you can't put a price on you can't put a price on 60 frames per second bloodborne all right but like if i were 1200 bucks okay yeah yeah But the thing here too is the PS5, like the 30th anniversary was more than this.

41:03That's right. But it was a pro. Do we know the amounts? Because I remember when the PS5 collected edition was like, hey, we have 20 or some bullshit. It was ridiculous. It was some like obscenely small amount. Do we know the amount of this? I don't think, I mean, they would have said it here, right? I don't know. Yeah, interesting. I just want their standard controller to have back buttons, dude.

41:33Like, we just have to be there now. Where are those other controllers? The one with the pants?

41:44The one with the pants? Is this one of those situations? Like, are you fucking with me? No, the controller that's wearing pants. Farrah, can you bring up the pants controller? Are you talking about where it's like white on the top and then black on the two little holders? Candles? Yeah. Because that was like one of the early leaks. Those are pants. Look at the pants. How would a giraffe wear pants? Like this or like this? That's what it is. It's funny. I wasn't talking about that one. Oh, okay. What were you talking about? I was talking about the one with the weird knobs on the bottom. The dials.

42:22There was so much shit that were like, oh, that's definitely going to be at Gamescom. Then it wasn't at Gamescom. oh really it's definitely going to be at summer game fest and then it wasn't so it's like where is that stuff i don't know well i think i think the regime change changed a lot of shit i think like a lot of hardware stuff was probably but the thing is like like there's just a reality that if hardware is made already and like manufactured they're not just gonna be like let's not put it out it's like there's just there's a lot well we don't know if they were mass-produced yet well it seemed i thought that's what that's where the shit was leaking right was like people were having them i could be wrong like there's a lot of this was going on while i was on my uh pandemic so i like i could be wrong about stuff a pandemic and a divorce in one year i know man it's just been insane yeah it's been such a lot of time for your boy tim gettys uh hey please i'm now a single man all right on the streets alone i need all the support we could use this to our benefit so uh so here we go there's some word from our sponsors the wait is over aliens fire team elite 2 is out now and it's every bit as brutal as you hoped.

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44:45You're allowed to, right? They're giving you the means. I am, but it's going to make other experiences for me way worse when I don't have this. That is the thing. You've got to set yourself up for, like, not lowest common denominator, but a common denominator you're comfortable with knowing that you're not going to get the same experience everywhere. I get annoyed when I go to a preview event and there's just no back buttons at all, or if I'm not allowed to plug in my own controller. Yeah. You know, shout out to, I think it was the Shadow of the Urtree event. yeah I believe it was or I just busted out my controller and started plugging it in and Bandai Namco employee was on stage talking to all of us and they definitely saw me and they were like don't plug anything don't plug anything into the controllers and I just kept on doing it and Lucy was like Andy he's talking to you and I was like I know I know and I played the whole time with the controller it was so bad but like i need it you want me to was this the same preview event where uh lucy also watched you eat goldfish just um like a horse like a horse no that was the don walker one okay that was about a don walker one well you know your hands yeah are nuclear you know they are full of just bacteria i don't want to touch my face to them so i opened a bag of goldfish and i was just going Wow that is worse than I expected Because I infamously Andy I can say with most certainty I've only had Cheeto dust Hot Cheeto dust on my fingers Five times a month I didn't know where that story was going to go I was like man this could go anywhere Because I always just I down it I don't like that Take the bag He's single I'm single everybody i'm not everyone this is such a joke i am very married i'm very happy she is very happy everyone's very happy everything's fine greg's just a fucking asshole okay we're fine um where was i controllers i've hard committed to every time i start up a new game every time from now on i'm gonna stop and after playing for five ten minutes stop go into the options and set the back paddles to be whatever specific thing i want for that game experience always got to be dodge see that's my thing is i that's not true for me there's some i'm learning that there's certain things that like it's the game feel it's like what's the game trying to get me to do damn how focused on running because i've learned click l3 to run works for me for some games other times i I do like it being in that R2.

47:27I do like it being some other button. That really shocked me that you didn't like L3 to run. Yeah. That's like so preferred for me. Yeah. You don't like just tap it at once and it goes. Sometimes you have to hold. Nah. Yeah. Usually in the opposite, it'll say like you could swap. Usually. To toggle. Usually. What games are you playing? I don't know. But I know about story number three. Rockstar Games finally addresses extraordinary and heartbreaking GTA 6 leaks. This comes from Tom Phillips at IGN. Rockstar has addressed the leaks, describing them as heartbreaking for the development team and unfortunate for fans.