Sony is Raising PS5 Prices AGAIN - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.27.26

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Zelda Ocarina of Time could get a remake this year, and Glenn Powell is playing Star Fox in the Mario Galaxy movie. We'll have all this and more because this is kind of funny games daily. What's up everybody? Welcome to kind of funny games daily for Friday, March 27th, 2026. My mother's birthday. Happy birthday, mom. I'm one of your hosts, Greg Miller, alongside Forbes 30 under 30. A-K-A, New York Game Awards nominated A-K-A, Byset Poppy, blessing, Adio Ye, Junior. Happy birthday, Greg's mom. Happy birthday, Greg's mom. Happy birthday. I had a little laugh at my desk as I was writing out the cold open, specifically the last bullet point of Glenn Powell was playing Star Fox in the Mario Galaxy movie. Because that sounds like such a mad lib. It does. Like if you told me that a year ago, I would have been like, what are you saying? But when you look at the Mario movie cast, I really feel like this is the least egregious of like... The first thing is like, Star Fox is the movie. That's the thing where I'm like, oh, that's fucking crazy. Glenn Powell's playing Star Fox. Oh, it's a Mario Galaxy movie. Like every part of this, if you told me a year ago, I would have been like, no, you're lying. No, no, I don't believe you for a second. Really? I think if you would have said this before the original, hey, here's the Mario Galaxy casting or Mario movie casting. Sure. Here's Chris Pratt. Remember our reaction to Chris Pratt? God, how can I forget? That's still one of my favorite clips of all time. It's one of my favorite moments of all time during the showcase. One by one being like, oh yeah, Chris Pratt's in it. Also, we got Keegan-Michael Key. Also, we got, was that, did they have Queens Gambit, Anya Taylor-Joy? No. Oh, yeah, they did. They did. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And they had Jack Black. Jack Black, oh my gosh. Seth Rogen is Donkey Kong. What a blessed time. Charlie Day is, oh yeah, Charlie Day was the one who killed him. Remember? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was a blessed time. Yeah. Now we're in the worst times. Every day something worse happens. How can the industry keep getting more cooked? That's what I want you to know. There's nothing worse that can happen. What's on the docket to, oh shit. Oh, that's just jumping. P.S. 5. Remember everybody, this is kind of funny games daily, nerdy news each and every weekday. Of course we couldn't do without our Patreon producers. Thank you, Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster and Delaney the Somp twining. If you're watching live, I need you super chatting, youtube.com slash kind of funny games, just like, oh I shrunk it too much, just like Mike Domeem said, or Mike, maybe it's Mike Domeem, but he uppercased Mike and he uppercased meme. He didn't uppercate the D. I'm saying Mike, the, uh, birthday tax last year. I had a paint can today having my first breakfast beer. Love you guys and you too, Greg breakfast beer, breakfast beers. I feel like that just shuts that just down the whole day. Also your phone is on a beer. It's a cold brew. Yeah. So you missed a little bit of content. I think where my son started calling these breakfast beers. I was like, do not repeat that outside of the house or I'll go to jail. And then one day I cracked that weeks later I cracked one and Jen goes, Oh, breakfast beer. And Ben turns to me and goes, don't worry, daddy. I won't tell the police. That's really funny. Also, he can identify beer, beer cans. Yeah. You're doing over there. I'm saying, give me another one. And I go, you're going to slow. I whipped the empty out. No, that's not how you raise a child. That's how you raise a bag. For now, let's begin with what is and forever will be the rope report. Also happy birthday. Mike to me. I'm items on the rope report. Bakers does. I'll reach for the fog, but it didn't go. Number one, Sony is raising PlayStation five prices by $100 in April. This is Emma Roth at the verge. Sony is raising the price of its PlayStation five consoles globally starting April second in an announcement on Friday. Sony says that the standard PlayStation five will now cost $650 up from $550. Meanwhile, the PS five digital edition now costs $600 instead of $500. And the PlayStation five pro will cost $900 instead of $750. Oh, when you put a hundred in the headline, I was like, I'm pretty sure it's a hundred fifty on fucking pro and it's a hundred fifty on the fucking pro along with these changes. Sony is increasing the price of its PlayStation portal as well going from $199 to $249 90. So 200 bucks to 250, which is the least egregious, but still still everybody that wants a portal has one already. I'm convinced this is the second time in less than a year that Sony has raised the price of its PlayStation five consoles as the companies as the company hiked prices by $50 for all three models in late August. Sony cites quote continued pressures in the global economic landscape as the reason for the price hike quote. We know the price changes impact our community. And after careful evaluation, we found this was a necessary step to ensure we can continue delivering innovative high quality gaming experiences to players worldwide. Sony says. Places six is going to cost four figures. That's crazy. We just did the live Greg way. Oh, of course. Thank you all to who tuned in on this. And one of the questions was like, oh man, I was Hemingham. Should I go and get the PlayStation five pro today and trade in my PlayStation five, which works fine? And the answer is unequivocally. Yes. Oh, yeah. Go do that right now. Yeah. There might be lines. This console generation is going to be even longer than we thought it was. And we thought it was going to be long. And when the PlayStation six gets here, how much is this motherfucker going to cost? A thousand, at least a thousand dollars. I mean, how much you can extrapolate that to any piece of hardware coming out right now, right? With the global economic state of the world with the tariffs that are happening with all these things that with the memory loss, memory loss, right? Based off of these companies pulling off of or pulling off of producing the like, I don't know the exact terminology for it, but there's a shift towards AI away from like RAM memory, right? Which is causing the a shortage causing prices to go up and shit, right? With all of this happening. Yeah, we could talk about PS six. We could talk about like the trajectory of PS five prices, which we should stick around for a second. But we can also talk about things like the new steam machine and how like things like this make me worry more and more about that. Yes. Is that even going to come out at this? Yes. 1000%. I forget. I'm pretty sure my prediction was I could see it being canceled after they did the, hey everybody, yeah, we said spring, but things are happening and we'll get back to him. And I don't think there is any solution to the memory loss we currently face here. Of course we were talking about the RAM shortage driven by AI that I don't think there's an easy solution to that that you go, okay, we fixed it. We have a plan. You go, man, things just keep getting more expensive. We have what we have the allotment, what of what we have, but we won't be able to make more steam machines after that. And if we do, it'll be egregiously more expensive. Val just goes, fuck it. I think it pulls that plug right now. Right now the, there is an opportunity opening for any corporation that can figure out how to put games and put consoles or put at least like a gaming platform into people's hands at a low cost. And I think over the next however many years we're going to see the race toward that because this is not sustainable. Here's what's interesting about that. I want to go to IGN.com where WIP, Wesley Yenpool also reported on this, right? But pulled in this paragraph, all right, that I appreciated. We're talking about all this stuff. We're doing all the things and then boom, early reaction to the price rises. I mean increases, rises. It means the same thing. Can you, can you pluralize rises? Price, right? I guess there are multiple rises to the dark night rises, but that's an ad. That's a verb, right? Anyways, early reaction to the price increases is a mix of anger and disappointment, but few are shocked at the news given the way things were going. There's also growing concern that gaming is becoming, or perhaps from next month has become, too expensive for many people. Speaking to Edge magazine via PC Gamer, Cercana analyst Matt Piscatella said gaming is trending towards becoming a hobby focused on high earners. Quote, a bigger portion of the market is going to people who are more affluent, have higher incomes, and the lower income parts of the market are really struggling, said Piscatella. Premium gaming space is leaning more and more on the affluent consumer. Of course, as we've already called out, but just to give a little bit of stuff here, the price rises come amid a turbulent time for global markets due to U.S. tariffs and the wars in Iran and Ukraine. The cost of RAM has also skyrocketed amid the global memory shortage sparked by AI demand. Sony is not alone in raising the price of consoles. Nintendo increased the price of the original Switch in August of last year, and there are fears it could be about to make the Switch 2 more expensive. Microsoft raised the prices of Xbox consoles, controllers, and headsets last May of last year. It makes you wonder, are we approaching a $1,000 console? We already asked the question here, yes, or answered, yes we are. We assume the PlayStation 6 at this point is going to be $1,000, which is outrageous to say, but here we are. What if I told you that those aren't the only consoles that are going up in price? What? Next month, the NEX playground will get a $50 price hike. Remember the NEX playground? Do I remember it? Ask me the real question. Do I own it? Do you own it? I own it. Good. Good that you got it already. NEX playground, of course, is the one that we all joked around about. I did, I put in the gamescast last year for holiday guy where I was like, I don't even have this, but if you don't know, this is blowing up with kids and outsold the Xbox, et cetera, et cetera. Great device for children. Like Ben and his friends fucking go crazy to play it. The games aren't trash. Yada, yada, yada. Yes, they're going up as well. I saw this, I saw it from game file. Steven Jotillo had an interview with the CEO who was talking about that and components and everything else. But sorry, back to my point. You were talking about being sustainable. This, that, the other, I really lean into what Matt's saying, where I think you're talking about like, if somebody can figure out how to make this cheaper for everybody else, that's awesome, right? But I really feel it's going the opposite way where I feel like people are going to retreat and we're going back to that part from the Sony financials where the CEO was like, it's about lack of better term milking the consumers we already have rather than trying to bring in new. I think this is a batten down the hatches and do that and go this affluent way, which of course fucking sucks. But it also, how do you, it's going to shrink the market even more. I, you know, quote Instagramed my reel from the, a couple of months ago now of like, it's going to get way worse before it gets better. This is part of that, right? Of like, we were about to hemorrhage so many gamers, so many potential gamers. And then again, when Sony does this, when Xbox does this and says we're going to milk more money out of who we have, it really is going to take a while for that market and expectation for a shareholder slash bottom line for a company to understand that. Like this leads to more layoffs. This leads to more closures. This leads to more problems as you shrink the vision of what this company entity hobby is. I think what you're saying and what Matt Piscotello is saying is true, but I think it's truer for the me's and you's and the, our audience when it comes to what we talk about is like the premium gamer. Because I think what we'll continue to see is we talk a lot about the top six games of the last however many years, the ones that are played are old games. You know, we're talking about the biggest games being games like Fortnite and Roblox and Call of Duty, right? And it is these same games that people return to that people spend their time, spend their time in. I think a lot of that is going to have to do with free to play. And a lot of that I think is going to continue to become more of a normalized and popular thing, especially for younger audiences who might not have the disposable income. Like you look at a game like Genshin, you look at Wuthering Waves games that are our audience I think often rolls their eyes at and goes like, Oh, who wants this stuff? Tens of millions of people want this stuff because those are what their player numbers are because that is an accessible way to play these games for people who might not be able to spend $900 for a PS5 Pro. Guess what? I can play this thing on my phone. I can play this thing on whatever like the bare minimum console is or at the very least I don't have to pay to gain entry into this thing and I can live in this game as opposed to being me, you or our audience where it is. I'm going to buy every other game that's coming out this year. That's the thing that's going to become more and more and more difficult as the years go. Yeah. 100%. I think you look at how what is going to be a success and then what we're already seeing trend wise and yeah, it is people really committing to the games that are already involved in and sticking with that one unicorn game that they love and want to be a part of. I'm going to buy a GTA and I'm going to play this forever. I'm going to buy Crimson Desert and play this forever because I view this as like a game that I can just live in for hundreds of hours. Exactly. I wouldn't be surprised if Crimson Desert in the next five years gets a mobile version or like, I mean, we have a weed news coming up where they're trying to get it on Switch as well, right? But like, to my thing of finding those lower cost entries, like I think, I know Xbox has talked about cloud for the longest time. If you can figure that out in a way that actually gets the common consumer to go, oh, this is good enough. Like I like this, right? Like I can play video games this way. That's going to be huge because that's going to be what gets people in. You come back to, well, first off, you mentioned, you know, you wouldn't be surprised if Crimson Desert has this. Yeah. Would you be surprised if I told you in one week Crimson Desert sold 10 million copies? I would be shocked. Yeah. Oh good. Because that's why you won the pizza bet. Thank you. All right, everybody. Crimson Desert has not sold 10 million copies. Roger does in fact owe you a pizza bet. Thank you very much, Kevin. Thank you very much. I think there's really two in the same boat, one in another boat to talk about this. And I think it's both Xbox and the cloud gaming and then Phil and Sarah's vision, which I feel Microsoft didn't believe in and yada, yada, yada. That's because Microsoft's all in an AI, et cetera. And then even Nvidia, which of course is leading so much of this AI stuff, but also has G force now, which we've used and really like and yet a yada. And I feel like both X cloud and Nvidia G force now didn't have time slash the push to get locked in with enough gamers to go, this is really cool. So that when you get to this situation, people turn and go, Hey, this is the solution. We should read the game pass has the cloud and I can be playing stuff there. I don't need the expensive box. I don't need the new thing in video, Nvidia G force now using the 50 80s. I think it is in the cloud or whatever. Like, Oh, this is, I'm paying for this, but I'm getting a PC. I feel like both of those should be for so many people the answer to this, but I don't think that they've had enough time to gestate, get market share and really care about it. I think the winner in all this, which also winner is an interesting thing. And I have a question immediately about it once I say it, but is the switch to is Nintendo Hey, I do think they're going to inevitably increase the price of the switch to they've done everything they can to not do it. But if PlayStation is finally giving up Xbox has already given up, you assume Nintendo is seeing the same. Hey, AI Ram, this thing other, there was a super chat in here. We're getting so many of them. Thank you. Saul wrote in and said, going off what Phil DeFranco mentioned yesterday, apparently helium is also expensive and that's used to make chips for the majority of tech on top of the GPU and Ram. The actual creation of it is also pricey. So in general tech being shaken up, I assume switch is going to raise their price, but I still think if you're a parent or yeah, parent, a lapsed gamer who doesn't want to can't go anymore because gas costs $8 a fucking gallon can't go out as much. Your kids are interested in video games, but you don't want them playing the trash on your phone. You see them playing or whatever. You go, all right, let's get you a video game console. And I think you go to Best Buy and you look at them all the shelves and you're seeing $800 for a PlayStation. And then you see a switch to at $500. You go, well, it's Nintendo. I know them. I trust them. It plays all the switch games. It does this thing. And again, it's that it's good enough. I see that coming in and being a chance for Nintendo to make up even more ground and carry a generation here in a way that I can see everything Matt saying about. High end affluent gamers being the, I'm playing on the pro. I'm using a PC, whatever it is, you're playing the high end stuff. But for somebody who just wants to play games, the switch being the easy solution and a proven solution. Yeah, I could see that. And I think we're already seeing that, right? Like we talked about the switch sales numbers earlier this week. We talked about in the last seven days and switch to, even though it seemingly isn't living up to Nintendo's projections for it, it's still one of the fastest selling consoles of all time. They're still showing up for the switch to. So I think there's power there. There's something there. And I think that's only that's only going to continue as we have to cope. Yeah, we're going to talk about it in the next story of games that are rumored and Nintendo, they are finding a synergy with trying to expand what media looks like for them as they get into movies, which makes me nervous. But like they seem to be navigating it well so far. We'll see what that Zelda movie looks like. But yeah, yeah, they're not immune as well. I wonder what that looks like when we do get the switch to price increase or we do like what are what are the levels levels, the levers available to pull for Nintendo to go? All right, physical and digital, we're going to make them different prices that way. Maybe we can get away with selling an $80 physical version of the game. But hey, $70 in the digital store, like you can do that, right? That's a lever for Nintendo. Nintendo switch online expansion pack, right? Can we see that golden price? Probably like playing online for a lot of game for a lot of players is an important thing. There are still those games, there are still the Pokemons, the Smash Brothers, even the Mario Kart when Splatoon comes out someday, right? Like those are games that people like to play online. They're going to want Nintendo switch online for that. Hey, if we raise the price on this, yeah, people might jump on that, right? Like those levers exist for Nintendo in ways where maybe they're able to stay off the console price because that might be too much of a damning thing for the hardware sales of the Switch 2, but we'll see. Big Curse MD writes in with Super Chan goes switch to for $450 is just an absurd value in this market slash economy. If Nintendo can hold the line longer, they'll see a huge boost. I don't think you're wrong. And I think Nintendo, while I can easily see them increase in the price here, I'm with you of like they will do everything around it before they do that, where we already saw them increase the controller price, right? The camera price and whatever it was. Yeah. The original switch price, like they're doing everything they can to not get in the way of the momentum of the switch to, and I think maybe again, I'm being too naive, but the way Nintendo is as a company. And again, we were talking about this yesterday or two days ago, me and Tim on this show by being, you know, pro gamer more than they're still a corporation. They still want to make money. I could see them eat it, eat it for a little bit. Cause I do think this is, this is now for Nintendo in an investment in the next five years where it's like, you want to eat it right now to have this price point against the big guys. Especially when things like resident evil, rec, we were coming out and running excellent on it. You're getting great games. You're getting Pocopia, right? You're getting these game of the year contenders that people want. Eat it right now. Let the prices go up. Let people be offended by that. But then the switch two is going to still be around when they do come out with the PlayStation six when project Helix does come out and it is a grand $1,200. And you are like, what the fuck are you talking about? And then that's when you look at the switch, you go, look at the library. The switch to already has, let alone what you could play, bring Switch one games into it. You've proven yourself Nintendo as this entity. People go for that. Yeah. Maybe I think so. I just think the question there is, can you afford that? Like in the now, in the future, like, can you with everything, with the price of everything going up, can you Nintendo actually go hold the line, like raise other things will hold the line on the console price. I think they could. We talk all the time about the war chest of money Nintendo has. Like they do have a lot of money. Again, it's not just one person making the decision. It's a company and, you know, they're bored and yada, yada, yada, but I do think they could say, let's take a short term loss here so that we're long term, not only. Remember, as I've awoken Nintendo to become, I would say a Nintendo fan again through Ben at the same way I'm a Pokemon fan through Ben, right? Like Nintendo is so much more than the games. Nintendo is the brand. It is the characters. It is the IP. It is the store. It is the movie. It is like there's so much stuff to celebrate Nintendo. And so if it is that idea of like, yo, let's eat shit right now, let's lose money on the consoles we're making, make it up, hopefully on the software, but make it up more importantly on you going to the store and buying the Nintendo branded PJs at Walmart because you love Mario so much. Yeah. And maybe again, that's a little too naive. I want to be on your side of the hope, right? I want to be on, I want to be on that side. This is what I need though. If you're, if you work in Nintendo and you're listening to this, I need to cut this off for five minutes. I'll give you a second. You work in Nintendo, especially if you're an executive or you work in the marketing division, cut this off. I think they could easily get away with the $500 without like people like blinking on right now. The base console is 450. Mario Kart World Bundle is $500. I think if you raise that 450 to 500, it's an even number. If you even do this, let's say you time it with Ocarina of Time remake, you might be able to get away with a hundred more dollars. You might be able to bump that up to 550 for the base and 600 for the bundle with Ocarina of Time, put in like some special looking Joy-Cons that have like the Ocarina of Time. I'll probably buy another one. Oh man. I'll probably buy another one. You know, we get the special Joy-Cons. And we're in year two. We're a year away from another revision for a revision of the Switch 2, right? An OLED version. Dude, do you think so? Because that would be my thought is like, yeah, sure. But then like everything that's going on in the tech world, like where is that revision actually going to net out now? Where do we get the next switch to light? Whatever the hell is going to be. I mean, I hope we get an OLED. I know the OLED. I mean, that's the other thing. Honestly, if we were if if the conversation we're going to have to hold, let's try to keep the price, even if they bump it up to 500 for the base, right? Like let's not go above that. I think the getting out an OLED or a Switch Lite might be able to have allow them to overcharge a little bit for those. Sure. Right. You might be able to release an OLED and be like $700. And Tim Guettis will buy it. Like that's so stupid. I'll buy anything in the world and I get it. Like OLED looks fantastic. Now you're back to what we're talking about of like, yeah, there's an affluent gamer. Like when the pro originally dropped, the most rich man in the world. When the PS5 pro dropped him was like, this is for me. I am that high end gamer that likes the bells and the whistles and I'll pay for it. And so that's what he went and did. Like, yeah, I don't know. Jimmy Mack 88 says the series S is sub $400. Great joke, Jimmy. But like that was actually one of the things that was on my mind talking about going into next gen again, the people that are able to speak to affordability will be the company that wins. Sure. And I think Xbox is in a good place to be able to speak to affordability. Absolutely not. You don't think so? No, the series S performance is so bad. I think that alienates people from being a gamer. But like series S like outselling the X or it was at some point. Yeah, at some point it was. Yeah, but that was like put off the gas. Like Xbox has already staked their claim here by getting rid of Phil and Sarah. We're moving to this premium. This is the project Helix. It's going to fucking be a PC like Xbox, as always, through no fault of their own necessarily has at the worst possible time. They're like, this is what we're doing. And it's like fucking markets and explosions and tech everywhere. It's like, oh my God. But I agree that like Nintendo was poised in the best position right now. But it's the PlayStation and Xbox aspect where I'm like, all right, let's see how this goes. You know, it sucks. Everything sucks. Yeah. Bam says, do you think Sony waiting to raise the price in April is some kind of last minute first quarter sales up? Can the rich only keep gaming industry alive? Yeah, bam. I think that's, you know, we're talking about the end of the fiscal year here, right? I do believe PlayStation and Sony works on March 31st being the end of the fiscal year. So yeah, you could see that could be a big part for it. Muck says everything is going so wrong. I can't even tell which problem is causing the price increases anymore. I'm sure a regime change in Cuba will help. Of course. Yeah. Don't worry. Our government is looking out for us. They're on top of this as always. Andrew says, could a cheap low end console that can't play all the new big games but would play most smaller older games be feasible? Wait, can a cheap low end console that can play older games but not? Could have played the new stuff. So you can't play a PS5. You can only play PS4, I guess. You're just describing a PS4. And no, like what are we, like we've already been as an industry chasing our tail on how to get mainstream consumers to come do this. Coming up with a cheap box that can't play the cool shit isn't the way to do it. Yeah. I think the key, and I actually, I don't even think this is the key because honestly, I'm not a big cloud guy. Like I, I think they're neat. I think they're fun to try, but I'm not sold on. This is the way I'm going to play, play games. However, if I'm going to take the opposing side, right? Like I think I could, I could easily understand why an Xbox is like, yeah, let's chase cloud because if you're able to figure that out and put out a $100 cloud device for people to just play, play, play and pay for Game Pass on, that is the key. That is the thing that'll work. But that has to be a thing. You have to convince people. I've talked about this for years, right? Is that, that was what I was saying of like before these times and you're talking about Xbox and you had Phil and you had Sarin, you had them pushing this vision that everything's an Xbox. When my cousin 20, 20 something hit me up, it was like, Hey, I'm thinking about getting into gaming. Should I get an Xbox or should I get a PlayStation? And I'm like, well, right now you could try being an Xbox gamer for, for $10, whatever it was at the time. Yeah. Like do this, hook it up to your phone, your computer, whatever and stream with a controller. And she was so blown away by this idea, right? And it didn't take because she just wasn't ready to be a mainstream, whatever. Not mainstream gamer, us gamer, hardcore gamer. And so he didn't buy a PlayStation either, but it was like, that was that instant you can jump in and do it right now. And again, Phil sitting in the back of these conference rooms as an advisor. Now it must be laughing his ass off and watching it all fucking fall apart. Too goddamn expensive to do anything out here. Pickle Joystick says, I know a couple of people who are waiting to get a PlayStation five for GTA and imagine there's a lot of people in the same boat. Will they still get the console or decide new gaming is not for them? And will it affect GTA sales? So many people are in this boat. So many people have been waiting for GTA and saying they will go and buy this, or maybe they don't even know they are. It's that sleeper agent shit that once the GTA marketing ramps up, they go, Oh yeah, I'm going to fucking pull the trigger on this. Listen, y'all made fun of me when I said I would pay $1,000 to play Zelda tears, the kingdom. My question for y'all that I'm not bought a PS five yet, right? But want to play GTA in the best possible form, are you willing to pay $900 for the PS five pro and $70 to $80 to GTA six? Because for some of you, the answer will be yes. And you're on my side now. The problem with your question, Pickle Joystick is will it affect GTA sales? Yes, it will. To what degree we'll never know. You would need, we would need the crystal ball, alternate reality. All of these price increases don't happen. Here's how it would sell. All these price increases do happen. What's it going to sell? I just don't, I don't, I do think it affects it. I do think there's a chilling effect. I do think people look at it and go, Oh, fuck no way. But I don't know to what degree that would be. And I don't think there'll be a way to say that. Uh, Spurbs says, does the pro help with a portal remote play quality? Yes. Oh, yeah. Tim's talked about this before. It's something I never thought about. But of course, if your PlayStation five is running your games at a higher frame rate and higher resolution, the screen you're then streaming to is going to be doing it as well. So yeah, there's a latent bump there. Uh, yeah. Uh, Anakin says, do you think we're headed towards another video game crash where people are being priced out? Yes. I think you're already living it. Even if you don't know all of these layoffs and all of these studio closures and Epic being like, Oh, we can't even make money on Fortnite. Like we are in the crash. Like do I think it's going to bottom out and be the worst thing? And yeah, I think it's going to be really, really bad. And I've said this for weeks, maybe even months now, but like, yes, like you have all of these people who came here, bought up companies, got into this thing, went public, expecting the video game booned and never end. And now they're dealing with the fact that like, Oh shit, it's very hard to make money in video games. And what that means is that they then offload those companies, those businesses, those people, and then we're going to have to rebuild from what we have. Saul says, uh, with the price hikes, do we see Costco drop the PlayStation like they did when the Xbox, when Xbox raised their prices on their six year old consoles? I mean, that comes down to our people buying them. Yeah. Costco is fucking crazy. So who knows what they're up to. They're always trying to look out for you and give you free pizza. Cause like I would imagine the Costco thing was they probably weren't seeing enough Xboxes flying off shelves anyways. When you raise the price, it's like, well, no, we're not going to carry this. Yeah. I think they're trying to get rid of their thing more than anything. Yeah. So, and I don't know if they're trying to get rid of PlayStation's, but it goes on like this. There's so many things in here. I'm trying to find new things that we haven't talked about it. It's crazy to read out $900 out loud. Plus for the curse says this sucks. I've been holding out for a portal OLED. Now that's going to be too much. Again, are they still committing to doing those kind of things? Like, you know what I mean? Like if you're sitting, if it's the same thing we're saying with the steam machine, which has already been promoted and announced. Yeah. If I'm back in PlayStation R and D and we're working on a portal OLED, I look around right now and I'm like, just pause it. Like what are we doing? There's no way. Pause it. If anything pivot to that in between PlayStation five and PlayStation six, handheld we've talked so much about. Yeah. But even that, what are the components going to cost? Yeah. How much is that going to end up costing for the consumer? I think again, as these companies batten down the hatches, what I think is happening is a lot of those projects are put on ice. Okay. Cool. The market is not ready for us to put out a $1,200 PlayStation handheld. That's less powerful than the, let's, we got to start calling our shots. Oh, we can't be flooding the market with new hardware and then expect them to buy the new hardware in a recession, in this economic downturn, in free fall in general of how much our components going to cost six months, nine months, 12 months. On the flip side, do you just go, let's just make it super expensive in our richest, the richest parts of our audience will pay for it. Like you got to monetize the audience that you have, right? Like I don't think you have the option to just, we're not going to, we're going to sit and not release anything because then it's like you're not making the money. Not anything to be clear. I'm saying if I'm PlayStation and we've been working on a PlayStation remote, a remote player, remote, yeah. Portal, the PlayStation portal, OLED. And now we're to the point where it's like, we still have an out say we're here. I'm looking at the prices go up and the components go up and I'm saying, let's stop that because PlayStation six has to sell and PlayStation six is going to be sticker shock. So what I don't want to do is two years before PlayStation six put out a remote play handheld that you go, Oh my God, how much is that? I think it's like now it's calling your shots of not so many revisions as we understand people are going to be committed to the console they currently own or the one we're currently selling. So let's not put something in the middle there to muddy the message or make people go, this is good enough. I'm using the OLED and I'm using PlayStation plus streaming. So I don't need to really worry about PlayStation six yet. Gotcha. I am not knowing exactly what's going on, but I don't know. The MD says, will these hardware prices push us to the streaming future? I think it could have. I think it could have, but I just feel like with Microsoft being like, no, we're changing course at the worst possible time that I don't believe they believe in their streaming future. Do you believe streaming as a main way to play? Like if we're, if I were to tell you, hey, you're not allowed to play games natively on your console for the next year, Greg, like you can only play via cloud, you can only play via streaming. Is that something that you're ready to do? So I'm ready. Yes. Am I excited? No, that's my problem is I feel like in another alternate universe where everybody in this tech space doesn't get so excited by the shiny fucking keys of AI in front of their face. If they were to look and say that didn't happen. So we are doubling down on cloud. I think we'd be in an interesting place because again, G force, Nvidia, G force now runs so fucking well. And I'm granted that's me playing with my San Francisco internet playing at my, you know, right next to my router or a plug, Dan, I'm trying to think all the different ways I've used it, but it doesn't matter. Right. I'm not using it at a bus stop with three G. I don't fucking know, but that runs well enough where I'm like, damn, that would be a thing where with my steam deck before I switch over to raw, because I haven't run it on. Maybe I have. It doesn't matter with my handhelds I've done before where it's like blood lines, the masquerade. I was like, damn, I want to play that. Ooh, it does not run well on my handheld. Wait a second. Put it on and G, Nvidia G force. Now, damn, it runs really well and looks great here. Like, yes, I have had the latency. I have had, oh, I've moved or I've switched my wifi mesh network and it's trying to read the other room clearly. Not this one. I've had those problems, but my problem, my problem with the question, right? Is that none of that I think is ready for prime time. Yeah. That's not ready for you to turn to the mainstream gamer and be like, yo, this all is expensive and sucks. But guess what? For $30 with Xbox game pass ultimate, you can get all these games and cloud and you can be off to the races with it. None of it is prime time because I feel like everybody started doing that and then got distracted and moved somewhere else because in the same way. Well, that's not too, that's maybe too much. We all in on AI right now feels like a fad. That's not going to work out. I feel like there was a second where Stadia, we were all in for a second on streaming. Anyway, I'm Luna. Yeah. Thank you so much. Yeah. We'll see. We will. Was Ooya's a streaming thing? No, I don't think so. I think I was reaching. I was. Okay. I'll say. I appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank I'm thinking of, oh, I had a first hot second. There was the thing called shadow. Well, there was the one fucking one that's got low. Yeah. Online. Online. Online. That online. Yo, respect to your OGs online before anybody else. Yeah. Um, so this question, all the skill says Xbox thought is looking more desirable. I played lag free 1440p Witcher three while watching pets and working from home last week. It was shockingly sick. Hell yeah. Again, I think cloud is fucking awesome. But I know I told, I definitely told this story multiple times before, but I'll never forget in like, I forget what year it was like 2013, 2012, somewhere around there, Saints Row three had come out and I was just on Facebook at, I don't know, it was probably 19 or some shit. And remember Facebook apps, you know, you download, never forget using the Facebook apps. One of the apps was the guy, Kai app on Facebook. Oh my God. And I opened the guy, Kai app on Facebook and it was like, you want to play Saints Row three? I was like, no way that works. And I started playing Saints Row three on my Facebook browser page in like 2012, 2013, somewhere around there. Yeah. My mind was blown. And I was like, this is the future. Yeah. This is video games. And to your point, yeah, like I feel like everybody was there and then the commitment just got lost. It was the same thing. I think we see with all technology and especially with what we're talking about right now in terms of how hard it is to make a bucket video games. It was the idea of like, how hard it is to get people to go and believe in this service and do this thing and pay for this. And then over here, yeah, couch commando says in the super chat, the stadium model, cloud only console would have probably worked when looking at these console and PC prices. Internet speeds not there yet. And that's the problem is they're still in America, such a variable variable. That's the thing is what your internet. Internet has to be so good. Like I want to be able to be in a place where I am hanging out at the bus stop. And I'm like, all right, let me play Slay the little place. Slay the spy or actually the Slay the spy is a bad idea or a bad example because I have my phone. But let me play. I don't know. Super Meat Boy 3D is coming out. I want to bust that out on my phone at the bus stop, play via a cloud server or my laptop or whatever it is and just bust that out for a second. Play it. All right. Cool. Buses here. Put it in my pocket. Yeah. Go. I need it to be easy. Yeah. I need it to be so fucking simple and easy. And we're not there yet. And back to your point. Yeah. And my point that you then got in on right. Yeah. We pivoted the industry pivoted away from like that's the priority. No. A.I. is going to be well NFTs are going to be the priority. Wait now. NFT. What free games of service that done like trend chasing, trend chasing, trend chasing. And that does not end well as we are seeing as we live in the repercussions. They didn't raise the price of VR headsets. Sorry. I just noticed that they don't need to not care about those. They're like, please take them. Everybody, we still have more news to go. That isn't this at all. So I'll remind you that we couldn't do this without your support. If you love us, ranting and raving about video game news each and every weekday, maybe doing previews, maybe doing reviews on the games, gas, playing games, having a great time. Of course you need to support us with a kind of funny membership. You got a patreon.com slash kind of funny YouTube.com slash kind of funny games, Apple Spotify, no matter where you get the show, you can go over there. You can give us 10 bucks. You can get everything out for you. You can get your daily dose of me, Greg Miller in a 15 to 30 minute. As today's Greg way was a podcast each and every weekday. 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What have you got to lose? Sign up for a free sub on patreon.com slash kind of funny and I'll see you Friday, March 27th on patreon at 9 30 a.m. Pacific. Who else are you going to talk to a shoe? Number two on the rope report sources say Nintendo was planning a new Star Fox and a major Zelda remake this year, but no 3d Mario. This is the one, the only Andy Robinson at VGC. Nintendo is reportedly planning to release a major Zelda remake and a new Star Fox game this year, but a 3d Mario game won't arrive on switch to until 2027. That's according to prominent Nintendo insider Nate the hate who's shared a plethora of information on the company's 2026 plans, which mashes with what VGC has heard from our own sources. In a new podcast, the Nintendo sleuth claimed a classic Star Fox revival is planned for release on switch to this summer hot on the heels of Fox McLeod's confirmed appearance in the super Mario galaxy movie. Pull into the curb. Bless. How did you feel about people yesterday saying that talking and not just kind of funny, but in general talking about the Star Fox thing in galaxies, a spoiler. Oh, I think that's crazy. I've got a poster. It has a poster. Nintendo officially revealed it. I'm mad at Nintendo. Like y'all should be mad at Nintendo because Nintendo, they spoiled it. But once they spoil it, it's like, well, it's not a spoiler. If I say it, yeah, sorry, back to this. No, Nate, the hate says Star Fox is coming back in summer 2026. We're getting a new Star Fox game in the very near future. I've been told it's a classic style Star Fox game and that the visuals are supposed to be very good. And I've heard it does have online multiplayer and quote. Furthermore, a new 3D Mario game won't arrive in 2026 as expected, according to Nate sources, quote. One game that will not be releasing in holiday 2026 is 3D Mario. 3D Mario will be releasing in 2027, Nate said. But there is another anniversary this year and it's the anniversary of the Legend of Zelda. What I can share with you today is that in the second half of 2026 approaching the holidays, we are going to receive an ocarina of time remake for Switch 2. Yeah, you just think right after that one, huh? We've all been predicting it forever. But my God, please. I mean, I didn't think we'd get it this year though. I prayed to God every day for this. According to Nate, the hate Nintendo is unlikely to stream. I'm sorry. Yeah, no, to stream a general Nintendo direct until June, but it could make smaller announcements on social media, such as new looks at Splatoon Raiders in Fire Emblems, Fortunes, Weaves and anticipated Switch 2 editions for Pikmin 4 and Xenoblade 2. There's so much here. What do you want to start? I mean, ocarina, come on, let's fucking go. That's exciting. God, that game's good. You know, and Mike's obviously playing it right now in his streams. You know, Ben and I started it back and I was so shocked to turn it back on and find that. Yes, it holds up. Thank God it holds up. Oh, man, Ben stopped playing it not because of it was bad or whatever. You know, that's a game I kind of play and he watches and he wants to play more. And it's like, I'm going to go and restart it and play with it and 64 controller by myself because I love ocarina so much. I love ocarina so much to be back is so nice. I'm so excited for it. Right. I love ocarina as well. I think it could, I guess you saying it ages well actually is pretty cool. And also I know we had the 3D S remake as well. But the fact that this is a thing, this is a game where it is every kind. How long has it been since ocarina? 30 years? Almost about 30 years since ocarina time. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, I was going to say, I played it in high school, senior of high school. Yeah, that would have been 99. No, 00. 99. But every let's say decade and a half or so remake ocarina. I feel like that's a good tradition. I feel like that's a good thing to keep. Um, I don't really have much to say about the ocarina thing. I'm just like, oh, hell yeah. Yeah, exactly. I hope it's true. Oh yeah. My one fear with it, because I, if I have a guest, you might touch fingers like E.T. My one fear, my big fear is that this thing is going to come out digital. $70 physical, 80 bucks. Does it come with ocarina though? No, you own the special edition for like $120. Yeah. Maybe I don't know how special. Now we're talking about the affluent gamer. What's the fucking card? Nintendo, whatever you want. You know what I mean? Come on. Super chat from Sky Fellowship says, my theory for the ocarina of time remake trailer, we see Zelda's nightmare. She's in bed, very restless. It cuts to her dream and we see the king. It pans door opens and bam, here's Ganondorf. He smiles title card. I like that. I like that. I like that a lot. I like that. Do you, I mean, I guess to talk about a little bit, right? Like how different would you want it to be? Would you want it to be shot for shot gameplay, beat for gameplay, beat the same exact game, but way prettier? Or do you want them to take more modern Zelda isms and put them in the game? I don't want. I want to see we've already got the DS one. I want them to do new stuff with it. Okay. I don't want. I want it to look at this. So stupid. I want it to look like a real Zelda. I don't want it to look like Link's Awakening or Echoes of Wisdom or whatever. Okay. I love those games. I've enjoyed playing those games, but I want it to be like, it looks like a modern ocarina. That makes sense. Like a. What do you, what do you envision for our style? Do you want it to look like a breath of the wild? Are you thinking I wanted to look as serious as breath of the wild, but I don't want it to be breath of the wild. Okay. I don't want it to be climbing everything. Like it has the scope and has like, the camera to be behind the back or whatever. What I want, and I think that'll be the moment that so many people talk about, is I want to relive the moment of leaving the village, walking into Hyrule Field and going, Holy shit. Yeah. Cause as a kid, oh my God, replaying with Ben, it's laughable. That's the, you walk in and it's so flat and tiny. Like, oh, but this, nobody did this. I want it to be, we go, and it's like, Holy fuck. That's the tough thing. I think that's what I, I'm with you that I want it to feel like Zelda. I want it to have that like seriousness. I don't think is the right word, but I guess like grounded. This is a fantasy world where shit can get dark, but also light. All this shit, right? Um, I, I think I lean more towards, I want it to be straight up, like make it as Ocarina as possible. Right. Like I want it to be more traditional Zelda than a breath of the wild or tears of the kingdom. I love those games. But I kind of miss the Twilight princess Ocarina, like traditional Zelda style of game. So I kind of want that as well, but you're right that once you get into Hyrule field, there needs to be liveliness. Like there needs to be a sense of, Oh, this is a world now because yeah, and 64 was a very long time ago. And so that was kind of a different thing. It felt a lot more empty. Do you have any trepidation that Nate, the hates just talking about anniversary? Oh, no, actually I'm wrong. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. I was pivoting. I forgot everything I said right there. Joshua super chat that says people will hate me, but this needs to be Nintendo showing that voice acting does work in Zelda. They've already done it in breath of the wild tears of the kingdom. Pull the trigger. I, I can see that. I don't know if they need to be like, I would like voice acting. I think it's fine. I think more Nintendo franchises. Do you think link talks though? Or just, I mean, just do what they did in breath of the wild where Zelda's talking to us. That's fine. Gain the dwarf can scream at us. See, this is a tough one because it was a brand new Zelda. I would say link should talk, but because it's a Ocarina time, I'm like, what's what's link going to say? What's this? Well, I'll say in this game, I'll say that link does not talk, but I want the other characters to be voiced. Okay. Yeah, that's fair enough. But we got to get around to link talking sooner or later. Sight of fries is they're going to make it look like the movie coming out, which would make a lot of sense. Cool. That could lead to the movie having a bit more. Okay. Yeah. Ocarina influence, Ocarina vibes, which is I think a good place to transition into Star Fox. Ah, if you want to, we should hop into story number three, because I think that'll feed in story number three. Glenn Powell, the voice Fox McLeod in Star, Jesus Christ, Super Mario Galaxy movie. This is Jordan Maro over a variety quote. The Super Mario Galaxy movie is assembling even more A list voice actors as Glenn Powell will bring to life. Fox McLeod, the surprise Nintendo character joining the Mario brothers. Powell posted a video on Instagram announcing news Friday. He most recently starred in the thriller, how to make a killing this year. Nobody. He's in the running man. Like Fox, a space pilot from the star Fox games. Pal, took to the skies in the breakout role in Top Gun Maverick in 2022. The inclusion of Fox was a surprise, but Eagle eye, Nintendo fans spotted a glimpse of the character in a recent Super Mario Galaxy movie trailer. So few things. Glenn Powell, I like him a lot. I think he's a great choice. I love the Top Gun Maverick connection here that we have with him playing a pilot. I think that's awesome. Listen, you know, for the people that might get mad that we're talking about it. We're all on the same side. That's true. We're one is too late, but also we're on the same side, which is Nintendo. Why Nintendo? Ashes in the seats, Nintendo. But like you think kids need Star Fox to watch the new Mario Galaxy movie? Some dorks do. Some dorks do. They weren't going to go see this. We're going to see it anyway. Kids are the primary audience for the movie. Keep this a secret for the adults out there. It's crazy. Don'ts that are going to get excited for Star Fox. It's crazy. I don't think I don't think this moves the needle that much for like getting getting butts in the seats. I do think this is cool because this then leads into this. So I dream I dreamt about this, Greg. I've no joke. I've had multiple podcasts going back to OK Beast, where I had an episode of the podcast that I don't think you find anywhere now where I gave my pitch for working our way towards the Super Smash Brothers movie. Of course. Right. If I was Nintendo, I was making a Mario Brothers cinematic universe, whatever. Nintendo cinematic universe. What would it look like? And it looked exactly like this. It looked like Mario going to space. Allah, Mario Galaxy and meeting Star Fox. In my dream, there was also Samus. There was also Captain Falcon. There was also Kirby, right? Like I wanted to meet all these people in space. Of course, I wouldn't expect them to do that. But the fact that we're here, the fact that we've made it this far. Yeah. We're getting that smash movie. You sure are. Shit are getting that. I'm excited. No doubt there. No doubt. And we're going to get a Star Fox movie, I bet. Yeah. One. Yeah. Over on BS. That's a blue sky, Tim. Tim BS. That's a blue sky, Tim. Thirteen of the 82 Super Smash Brothers Ultimate characters are now officially in the Super Mario Brothers movie. Sixteen. If you count Easter eggs of little Mac Duck Hunt and Pitt from the first movie. So if you don't count Fire Emblem characters, we already have almost the entire roster. And we have like their teams. There's a lot of people that use this. Pitman in them. There was Rob, Roby, the guy. The robot. He was in that. Like. He's in your kitchen. They're building the blocks here. And yes, I do think the Star Fox movie happens because like this reminds me a lot of how. You think he'll get his own movie? Yeah. OK. Because I think Star Fox really works really well for a movie, right? Like it's the. Yeah. You want to talk about voiced Nintendo characters. Star Fox has been voiced. No, Marryl. Since N64. Yeah. Yeah. But is he is is Star Fox going to put asses in the seat? After this? I mean, how big is this moment going to be in this movie? For me, this is Star Fox and Mario is the equivalent to Oba Femi and Brock Lester, where you brought Mario is putting the star Fox over here. We're bringing you up to my chest from NXT. Mario's looking at Star Fox is like, put your foot on my chest right now. Like this is what gets kids into Star Fox as an idea. OK, we'll see. You know, I'm excited to take Ben to see this. And we're just days away from the Mario movie. So it's coming up pretty quick. And the idea of a Star Fox game coming this summer, going back to story. Yeah, I think that's really exciting, unexpected, but I absolutely. I mean, to your point, if they're committed to like Star Fox is the truth, we're going to ride the high of the Galaxy movie. We're going to put Star Fox out there. He's going to be hot and then we're going to make a movie on him. Star Fox or Nintendo might end up being the only company to nail the movie video game synergy, because whenever this happens, I get so worried of like, like what's what's losing development time here, right? Like are the video games being rushed as the movie? Yeah. Where are we? Where's the disconnect? In a weird way, I feel like Nintendo's found something with their their flow of being able to sync things up. So hell, yeah. Hell, yeah. Hell, yeah. To that. Let's move on to another hell, yeah. Story number four, content creator Alana Pierce launches charred pictures in partnership with Game Devs. This is Jennifer Moss over at Variety. Popular content creator Alana Pierce is launching charred pictures in indie production company focused on involving game devs in film and TV TV adaptation projects. Charred pictures initial slate includes three projects in various states of productions, two movies based on gaming IP and one original indie film from Pierce that has wrapped filming and adaptation of the faith. The unholy trilogy, no, Trinity, sorry. Survival horror game trilogy is in pre-production with Pierce set as the screenwriter and Brandon Salisbury, George A Romero's resident evil directing produced by Pierce through charred pictures alongside faith. The unholy Trinity developer aired off games as executive producer. The film follows a young priest confronting demons, cultists and his own fractured faith amid the paranormal of the 1980s satanic panic. I've never heard of this. No, it sounds like a game I want to play though. Kevin Addith, my wishlist also in pre-production is dead take a film adaptation of House of the Dragon star a boo, whatever. What's not whatever. What up? A boo. What up? 2025 first person narrative horror game of the same name from the developer surgeon studios. You ever played that take? No, I it's one of those like it just hit wrong for reviews. You guys covered it so well. I think you're playing grounded or something like that. Yeah. Oh man, so good. Yeah. Should I double back for it? I mean, I don't like that night. You know, I mean, it's like a two hour game. I think. OK, I'll go back for a boo, OK, Salim will co-write and co-produce the film alongside Pierce and charred pictures. The story explores the seedy underbelly of Hollywood and the lengths people go to achieve fame and quote. The third project is Godmother, a film from writers Pierce and John Vernon directed by Vernon. The film follows Theo revival star Paige Evans and her and as she and her boyfriend Colby, Krypton star Cameron Cuff. Hell yeah. Come on. What a slate of people we got here. Head into the high desert for a romantic weekend only to have their plans slowly encroached upon by a pair of unsettlingly friendly retirees. 9 1 1 actor D Wallace and X-Men's Bruce Davidson. Can I get it? Can you Google for me, Bruce? Davidson, who's that from X-Men with dark designs for her? Charred pictures describes itself as quote, built on a collaborative model where developers are integrally involved across as many disciplines as possible, including writing, art, design, music, shaping adaptations that preserve the tone, intent and identity of the source materials. Oh, Senator fucking Kelly from X-Men. Hell yeah. This guy turned into a blob and burst. Remember also, I always think of them. You see right there. The dad from the Harry and the Henderson's TV show. Love this guy. Alana, I need an introduction. In addition to working closely with game devs, Pierce says, charred pictures is focused on a new way of funding for its film adaptations, working with content creators who are fans of the games being adapted and want to back the projects. So this is really fun to talk about. Fuck yeah, we love Alana. That's awesome. I think it's fun. Fun coming off of the Mario movie talk, because one of the things that we talked about a lot in the last couple of years is video game adaptations happening more and more and more and more, becoming such a widely adopted thing, really cool and really smart to see Alana get in on this and be like, all right, how can I be? How can I be of service to what's going on, especially on the indie side? So these projects really cool. The part where they talk about being built on a collaborative model, where devs are involved in as many of the disciplines as possible, right? Love that. Really cool. That's exactly what we want to see. We want to see devs involved in the art, in the music, in the story, in whatever, in the aspects that are important to actually making this a good piece of art that is reflective of the video games that they put out. So I think that's super awesome. Yeah, I think working with content creators as well, like every single thing about this, I think is awesome. Shout out to Alana Pierce. One of the coolest people, I think, Pierce. 100%. Alana, I mean, I've talked about, I did a great way. I think earlier this year, maybe last year about Alana, so cool. Alana just does cool shit all the time. And Alana, like you just talk about somebody with the ambition and the talent to back it up. It's amazing to see her do. And I can't wait to see what her career will look like. I do want to call out Darth Dooby in the Twitch chat who said about the Harry and the Henderson's TV show, the movie is better, Greg, LOL. Can I get the one camera? Darth Dooby, at what point did I say the TV show was better than the fucking movie? I just called out that I know Senator Kelly from, of course, X-Men and from the Harry and the Henderson's TV show. Did I say the fucking show was better? I didn't. So what I need you to do is ball up your fist like this, slam it into your own head. Oh, Jesus. You know what I mean? Yeah, these people out here, filling in words. The fact, so the fact that I fucking mentioned the Harry and the Henderson's TV show infers to you that I think it's better than the movie starring John Lithgow, not a goddamn chance. First movie I ever cried at. All right. So don't come at me with fucking slander about how I feel about Harry and the Henderson's movie while also how much I appreciate the Harry and the Henderson TV show. They had the same fucking goddamn Sasquatch from the film in the show. Do you understand the differences in budgets there, Darth Dooby? Are you so dazed from punching your own stupid fucking face? Because I just told you to, that you don't understand math anymore. Take your left fist, ball that up, punch yourself in the head again. Oh. Um, John Lithgow played Arthur Mitchell in Dexter, one of my favorite characters. Yes, yes, yes. Fantastic. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, John Lithgow. And also a third rock from the sun. Remember that? No. It was a sitcom TV show. Okay. Probably late nineties, mid nineties, mid to late nineties. Yeah, he was on the. Did you ever watch Malcolm in the middle? I did. I've been getting a lot of Malcolm. I didn't, I wasn't, I didn't really watch it that much. I was aware of it because. Yeah, I didn't. I feel I'm in the same boat where I never watched it, but I feel like I was showing up maybe for Simpsons or something that was on before as you're like catching the last 15 or I forget the name of the main character, but he was in Elizabeth Gwyer for an episode. And I was, I was walking with Malcolm. Yeah. Yeah. But. Franky Muniz. Franky Muniz. Yeah. Franky Muniz ended up on an episode of Elizabeth Gwyer, which put me on to Malcolm in the middle and was like, Oh, what is this? And I remember like being aware of it. I've been getting a lot of clips of it in my TikTok. It's a funny show. I wish I watched it back in the day. Yeah. You would have got it though, but right. Probably not. Talk to me about I. Carly. You seem like an I. Carly. I. Carly. It sucks because Dan Schneider, who's like the shitty documentary, he was the director of it. He weirdly, and I mean weirdly, he upsettingly directed a lot of the best Nickelodeon sitcom because it was Drake and Josh. It was Zoe 101, which didn't age that well. Actually not that great, but I Carly. Oh my God. Found it has such a level of absurdist humor post season three where it's like, damn, y'all entered a flow state. Really, really good stuff in the cast of school. Cause I've talked, that's the thing. You know, I think I've mentioned this maybe on shows you're around, but not on, but like I've worked my way backwards where Jeanette McCurdy showed up on modern love, New York times podcast to promote her new novel half his age. I listened to that thought it was so good that I was like, oh, I gotta check out the autobiography. I'm glad my mom said, which of course is talking about her being a child star and I Carly, but I have no reference to I Carly. So it's like, and then like yesterday I got served some clip or whatever that was like a bloopers in the first summer. He knows that. I was like, oh, that's, that's Jeanette right there, but I've never seen her as the character was weird. Yeah. I don't know if I were to like even send you the best episode of my Carly. I have no idea what your reaction would be to it. Cause it's like of such an era. It was such a kid, a 2007 kids show that like, I mean, when she's talking about I had to swing a butter sock. I was like, I, yeah, I can, I can, I know what kind of show this is. That butter sock was killing me though. Uh, bless. Yeah. Butter socks, the death of our industry. Yeah. This is all big news. If I wanted something smaller, say the tiniest news I need to know about, where would I go? You'd go to our last story, the we news channel, where you cover all the small news items you need to know about. Number five, the we news, we've already covered number one bullet point, Roger O's blessing a pizza. But from VGC, the CEO of Crimson Desert Publisher, Pearl Abyss says it's currently looking into a possible switch to port. Quote, while there are some aspects we have to compromise on because the switch currently has lower specifications compared to the other consoles, we've begun research and development internally with a keen interest. Interesting. So good runs. Good luck for you. Yeah. The six access says pubg blind spot will shut down on March 30th. Do you remember this one? Pubg blind spot came out two months ago. Aye, yeah. Yeah. This is the one that I remember. I don't know if Mike ever streamed it, but it was on our schedule and I remember being like, Oh, there's a new pubg game. That was about right for our schedule. Yeah. Exactly. And two months later, in a statement posted a steam arc team. In a, oh, I see. In a statement posted on steam, arc team wrote quote to everyone who's been part of pubg blind spot journey. Thank you sincerely for your support. Since our last update, the team has been exploring multiple ways to improve the experience and move the game forward. However, after careful consideration, we have come to the conclusion that we are no longer able to substantially provide the level. Oh, sorry. Sustainably provide the level of experience we set out to deliver through early access. We place player experience at the center of every decision we make. And it is based on that principle that we have made this decision. As a result, pubg blind spots early access service will come to a close on Monday, March 30th. So I started laughing. It's just, since we've been multiple ways to improve the experience and move the game forward. Our conclusion, don't we will not be doing that. We will not be doing that. I switched to version of devil may cry five has been rated in Taiwan. And roller coaster tycoon classic is now available on xbox series and play station five. And that's it for your final. We news of the week. Did you ever watch Drake and Josh? No, that was all that was the one right there. That was the show. Did you watch Keenan and Kel? Yes, but like Keenan and Kel, I would say that I watched, but that was more for still having affinity from them from all that. Oh, Nick, right? That was yeah. Yeah. The Saturday. Yeah. Yeah. Are you afraid of the dark all that? Like that was my shit. But that, like, just as I feel like I ended up aging out of that is when Keenan and Kel got the spin off. So I would watch occasionally the orange soda and all that jazz. That's crazy. Cause like snick those are you afraid of the dark? Those are the earliest edges of my memory. Yeah. Yeah. That's why I passed the baton. That's when I passed the baton. Damn, it's crazy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh man, are you afraid of the dark? You know what I mean? I should actually scared me as a kid. Oh, hell yeah. Oh my God. It was terrifying. You kidding me? Oh, let me get you some super chats out of here that aren't just about everything be horrible. Kyle says digging the jacket bless. N64 era is certified goat. One of the best runs for a video game developer of all time. Oh, 100% 64 era rare is one of my favorite developers of all time. So 100% agree. Jay Farelli says cast the rest of star Fox team go. Oh, who's who's slippy? John Lithgow. Yes. Yes. I accept Senator Kelly in there too. Let's go. Rhino Hay says called in sick from work today so I can watch live. Love you guys. We hope you're not really sick, but if you are, we're get better and thanks for watching. My original casting for Fox was Jamie Foxx, but this is better. Just for the Fox name. Optimistic 92 birthday tax. I turned 18 at the very first packs East and I will turn 34 tomorrow at packs East. Also, what if they showed star Fox early because they're actually hiding Samus? See, that's what I happy birthday and I hope there's a lot of surprises. I hope so. Yeah, I want I want space to mean that like the further out we go, the more we're meeting wacky characters. Like if we can meet Captain Falcon, I might shed tears. Fucking punch. Chico or maybe it's Chico 23 says happy Friday. That's all. Keep on gaming gamers. We will. Now we're into where people are real mad. Oh no. We did a lot of what they've been mad about. This is the one we're catching up to. This is I think a lot of that's pre PlayStation news. Now we're into the PlayStation news. Mickey says first birthday tax I've paid in the last 11 years. Smiley emoji. One of my cats passed away last weekend and all the shows have a nice, a nice constant as always. Happy birthday. We're sorry about your cat birthday. We're always happy to be there constantly for you. Unlike you who haven't been there constantly for us for the last 11 years, apparently. So if you want to make that right before you go, Mickey, I know you got to get back to morning your cat, but we would love 11 years worth of Super chest. That's crazy. Did you watch 100 Good Deeds for Eddie McDowd? No, I have no idea what that is. Is that a show or is that a show? I try to describe it to Roger. He didn't believe me. That was a real thing. It was a guy, a bully that got turned into a dog. I was on Nickelodeon. He had to do 100 Good Deeds. Every episode was a good deed. Man, I put an expiration date on the show. That's crazy. Yeah. I mean, they didn't make it to 100 episodes. Yeah. I was like, he was trapped as a dog. Did he get to be a human at the end? Or did they like, I don't remember what the finale was like, but I think when Alph got kidnapped by the FBI, I think at his show, and that was just the end of it. They left an alpha on a cliffhanger surrounded by the cops. What, when was alpha on TV? Early 90s? Like alpha, I feel like I know through syndication. Oh, okay. I assumed you were watching Alph live. No, no, no. It might have been one of those shows that was running. It was final scene, but it was definitely grandma Miller after school. I'm waiting for animated stuff to come on or like a sick day. Remember like you'd be like sick and it's like I'm watching chips. Yeah. You're watching the work show. I was like, whatever. What's the point of being sick if you guys aren't putting on the good stuff? Well, they didn't have it. That's something Ben will never fucking understand. Ben will never fucking understand just turning on the TV. Like you got to watch what's ever on. Yeah. I'm watching people's court. Oh my God. All right. Dude, I hate that we learn too much about people and everybody ends up being a shitty person. Who was bad? I learned that Bob Barker sucks. Did he? I didn't know it. Oh yeah. I mean, I believe it. Apparently, maybe I'll double check. The thing that I read yesterday was that he like, one, he was weird to the lady. Like you say, I'll double check. You're not double checking before the show's over. Let me do some of your rugs. Before you defame Bob Barker. All right. Let's see what I got. Plus, I got a similar TikTok talking about him like being really mean to the girls, right? The girls, yeah. Yeah. And like, apparently he would like limit contestants where it's like, I don't want more of the two black contestants on my show. Oh, okay. Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure. A couple of people write in saying that at some point either I did or the news did or whatever called Star Fox, Star Fox in his name's Fox. I apologize everybody. If that was me or if that's just something I read and I didn't catch it up. Bander says as of September 2024, the series X is the better selling console versus the series S. Sorry, I'm looking up the ball. Give it to me. Hollywood Reporter is the one that they have an article yesterday from this. The docuseries, apparently there's a docuseries now with Bob Barker about it. Not with Bob Barker, but about Bob Barker. The docuseries also revisits earlier claims tying Barker to racially charged remarks. Hallstrom recounts a moment in which Barker allegedly expressed fear of interracial relationships saying he believed black men were the most diseased people on earth. A statement cited in the program as emblematic of a broader culture. Yeah, that's not good. That's not great. That's not great. Which is crazy because as a kid, I'm looking at Bob Barker and I'm like, this guy's great. And now that I look back at it, I'm like, oh yeah, he was like a really old white man. Like, of course. I should have known. I should have known. It was a different age. I was six years old. Our final one comes from Bander who says, some missed additional news from Nate the Hates leaks. Fire Emblems, Splatoon Raiders and Rhythm Heaven are all summer plus a Switch 2 sports games. Not sure if it's a Switch 2 update or a new game. He also said there may be a Pikmin 4 Switch 2 edition, Dusk Bloods later this year. Oh yeah. Cool. And that's it for Kanda Funny Games Daily, everybody. Remember each and every weekday we're here live on twitch.tv slash Kanda Funny Games, youtube.com slash Kanda Funny Games podcast services around the globe to give you the nerdy news you need to know about. 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