Fran Mirabella

I do like this as a test of whether or not people will wear Greg Miller on their chest.

You know, at first I was like, wow, two days away from your birthday. Like, you really dodged that being on your birthday. But then, yeah, explain the Pokemon Go thing. I know. It's actually worse.

That makes a lot of sense.

You're going to open up for them.

Yeah.

You're opening up for the Pride Parade.

And then coming back and, you know, playing the Switch 2 and Mario Kart. I don't know. It was just such a good time, such a busy day. But, yeah, I, like, I felt like I felt lame because I peaced out at, what, like, 11, 11.30? Yeah. I don't know, man. I wish I could have stayed later.

Is he asking you this with a straight face? Yes. It's not like a Greg Miller character. Total straight face. He's genuinely holding a Band-Aid.

Yeah. Yeah. What happened after? Is that the end of the story?

Did you grab a band-aid from him? Did you say yes?

Well, that's what Walmart is doing to many of their customers. They are giving wet wipes, Tide samples, Band-Aids, miscellaneous bonus goods. Now, before the show, Kevin asked, is this a make good or is this like a marketing move for how messy this pre-order stuff has been? And I'd imagine so.

Of course, shout out to Raj Former, Roger Percorny, and Joey who were streaming last night and were getting chats in from people in the audience that were like, yo, I just got my Switch 2 and they sent in Coke and Pringles. I saw people on my Blue Sky timeline tweeting about this, right, of getting Coke and Pringles. Good-looking kitchen behind, too.

Of course, if you go to the hashtag Walmart Surprise, that's where Roger was asking people to send their things to kind of funny vids on Twitter and Blue Sky.

Now, who says that's not ours? I snuck in. I do appreciate that there's no consistency as far as the flavoring of Pringles. And what the prize is.

Because Pringles and Coke, I understand that as a universal, like, oh, that's cool. It's where we get into the wet wipes and Band-Aids where I'm like, oh, okay, you're just picking things out, I feel like.

I hope we get some Pringles, you know? Would it surprise you to know that, like...

in organizing this show really it is a thing of like all the news stories are kind of like this yeah it is this everybody got out the way of the switch launch as far as everybody as far as like other news dropping but all of the news here all the news items we got are very much like just weird news stories yeah that we got like i love the switch now i will say that obviously any new launch of anything with demand is there's going to be a lot of problems there's going to be canceled pre-orders there's going to be like just like a weird ass things happening left and right but what i will say anecdotally

Do we know how long it took Barrett? Because Barrett did send us a Slack last night saying that the line he was at at Best Buy was, like, hell long.

their orders and stuff like that's awesome oh yeah so anyway i i'm just like impressed with uh best buy specifically i guess i want to give the shout out to and we'll say my boys in blue hold on explain that to him blue and yellow okay that's better that's better um you know who's not happy some people for in new york who bought their switches from a particular game stop

You're going to have to read story number two for that one.

You're treating these boxes with no regard.

Yeah, he does that.

JG says they need a Band-Aid. They should have got it from Walmart. Should have got the Band-Aid. And also, yeah, there's another reason why Nintendo's like, don't take off the protective film. Because guess what? It saved... I imagine it saved the Switch because it's still turned on.

Let's get into some real news. Some good stuff.

I assume, was there a crowd? I assume there were people around him. He did it for attention, yeah.

Yeah, but to be doing that in front of a bunch of Nintendo fans.

Here's the thing. There's a few people in chat that are like, oh, it's wild to ban him. That sucks, but it's his money. Here's the thing. He's allowed to do whatever he wants. He's not being arrested. He's being banned from an establishment. That's crazy. That is watching him break their product.

If somebody – oh, no, man. Actually, that's not a good example. I was going to say if somebody came in front of our office and, like, I don't know, fucking, like, was wearing shirts that said fucking kind of funny and sucks and y'all should die or whatever, we'd be like, all right, that person – if they're in any of our fucking Reddits or anything, we ban them. They're not allowed.

I feel like you're allowed – if you have a community of people, you should be allowed to be like, all right, we don't like certain people. They're not allowed here.

Okay, here's the thing, right? Because my follow-up... Because I feel like my example I just gave wasn't great. But...

if i see somebody outside of my nintendo store just breaking a switch for attention i feel like that's potentially a safety hazard because like i feel like you could possibly get jumped in front of the nintendo store oh yeah with those actions right if you have a line of people that are waiting to pick up their switch and they see you fucking breaking a switch in front of them like you can that you could cause bad shit to happen that way yeah totally

You made it sound like, Kevin, you took a shit in front of a GameStop or something.

Finally getting around to Deltarune.

Do I want to know the rest of the story that you were about to tell him? That was it. Okay.

You can't start off with quarter inch real thick.

This is the Switch 2 launch KFG, by the way. Yeah.

He seemingly had a lot of energy to him. You seem surprisingly awake for somebody who's been awake for the last 24 hours.

Ooh, I would say equal. I'm equally excited. Yeah, I think I would say I'm pretty excited for both. I think mainly because I don't know what to expect for either. I know Xbox is a bit easier because you kind of know that you have the expectations of we might see Perfect Dark. We might see Clockwork Revolution. We know we're going to see Outer Worlds 2. You know what? I'll say Xbox.

good with their membership? Because they're the only one I can think of that has a consistent membership. GameStop sucks, in my experience.

Bezos. Yeah. If they even have Nintendo games, like they're selling out. They're not selling the Switch. I don't even think about that.

Amazing.

And every picture I'm seeing is like in almost like a grocery bag. Like they're not in boxes like I would expect for like a. Joey Radsom says that's exactly why they did it.

I'm learning a lot today. No way. I didn't even think about that. The ingenuity.

That makes a lot of sense.

I assume they're talking about the Greg shirts. I unfortunately am, too.

Yeah, like, again, this is one of those ones where the reason I put this as story number one is because it is kind of a bizarre slash cool thing that I think a lot of people are just going to associate now with, like, when they think back to their Switch 2 launch memories of fucking sitting back, eating a fucking pizza Pringles.

Drinking a Coke that may or may not have your name on it, you know what I mean?

Because Outer Worlds 2 specifically. I cannot wait to see more of that game. I love the first Outer Worlds. And so I'm really excited to see what they have for the second one.

Yeah. This whole thing's been a trash fire, but yeah, that doesn't surprise me.

He didn't do it in the store, though, right? Because if he did in the store, that's an opening shot case. He looked at the Mario mascot in the fucking eyes. If you do it in the store, that's an opening shot case. You're banned.

We supply joy.

Firefest. This is giving me some Firefest vibes.

You don't think Kevin's going to be out there with an iPhone on Discord? Absolutely not.

He's freaking out, everybody.

Yeah, it's funny because they do, even though I say that, right? Like, they say everything but open world, but, like, the courses are part of the open world.

That's my thing with it is my impression, my very limited impression is because I've only played maybe

20 to 30 minutes of the free roam mode but as far as the layout of the land i think it's actually like really really well crafted i just wish it was filled with more varied things to do and like more interesting things to explore and maybe as i play more i'll find some of that but like as far as like the construction of it i'm fairly impressed so far by how natural the world of mario kart world feels and so you know maybe monolith has a lot to do with that but

I think it pulls together Nintendo's library so well, just as far as the audience it serves and how serious people take it. It's that game where

we all i think with with many nintendo games at least for me i'm like all right story isn't necessarily the thing i come to these things for like and i say that loosely because tears the kingdom i love the story of tears the kingdom right or um you know metroid i think oftentimes has stuff where it's like oh i care about what's going on here in the story but it's different from i think something like when i hear people when i hear people talk about xenoblade and the characters and like how much they vibe with like the writing of the game and

Yeah, it's probably good why they kind of went away over time there.

Yeah.

See, I thought I noticed that, too, when you and Greg were at the Nintendo store and we had the stream focused on you guys. In the background, I was just playing Smash Ultimate on Greg's Switch 2, trying to unlock characters, because apparently Greg has never booted up Smash Ultimate before in his life. I booted up the game, and it was like, Piranha Plant has been unlocked.

And I was like, uh-oh, there's not going to be all the characters that I want here. And then I hopped into the Smash mode, and it started teaching me about if you fall off the stage, you lose a life. And I was like, oh, fuck. And I look at the character select screen, there's 10 characters available. I'm like, okay, cool. We're not going to play this on stream, probably.

But I started trying to unlock characters. And as I did that, I was like, I feel like this game is running better, but I don't know if this is the, what do they call those pills that's like, there's nothing to them, but they make you feel better anyway? Placebo. I thought it was like a placebo situation.

Already, before the video even plays, I can see the smoother textures in the Switch 2 version. This is insane, by the way.

If you're somebody who, I guess, owns both Switch 1 and Switch 2, and you buy a Switch 2 version of a thing, but you want to play it on... Or you buy a Switch 2, I guess, cross-gen version, whatever they're calling it, right? Like, Switch 2 edition of a Switch 1 game. Guess what? That cart works on both. That's convenient. I'm really...

Wait, it deletes everything from your Switch One?

Oh, like you're talking about the game cards and shit.

I don't think that happened with mine when I did mine last night. Like, I still, if I boot up my Switch 1 right now, my account and stuff is still, my homepage looks the same.

I mean, yeah, it gave me like a warning of, and this is for specific games, those Pokemon actually, where they're like, your save data is going to move entirely. Well, that makes sense though.

I mean, yeah, I did not read the fine print. I was just like, give me my Switch 2 games. Get me in there. So you're probably right about that. Everything's here. Yeah. That's what I was like. I don't know. I was scared for you. Everything's here. I was like, what did you do to your Switch 1?

That's probably what they're implying, I imagine.

For audio listeners, like, we're looking at a side-by-side of the Switch 1 and Switch 2 versions of Scarlet or Violet. And, yeah, we're looking at the windmills, and the Switch 1 windmill, the rotation on the fans, propellers, they are... In stop motion, essentially, right? Because of how bad the frame rate is in that game. And in the Switch 2 version, it is so smooth.

it's happened this is the second time it's happened right because the Wii did the Wii U have Netflix and stuff wait hold on didn't the Wii also have Netflix but it was a disc the Wii had Netflix and Wii was actually really big for Netflix like Wii was kind of that start of like Netflix's digital push and like that becoming like a really really big thing on one hand

I was going to say on one hand, I understand it. I honestly don't. And I think the part that I understand is the fact that the Switch doesn't need this shit. So maybe that's the part where I'm like, okay, well, cool. It doesn't have it. But when I think about my personal use case for Hulu and Netflix and all that shit being on the Switch 2, for me, it's just a thing of convenience.

I don't always want to change my HDMI output or source or whatever to the second one where I have my Roku or my Apple TV fucking stick or whatever it is. The one that Gary gifted me. Thanks so much, Gary. And I love it very much, actually. But I just want it there, man. I want all of my fucking anything that I have that has video output should just have Netflix and Hulu. That's my stance on it.

But why wouldn't that happen?

I feel like the number would be high if they actually put the apps on there. I don't think so, man. It's the Switch.

I grew up with the PlayStation 2 version of Soul Calibur 2. And so I had bitch ass Heihachi as my special character for the game. And so now you play in the GameCube version of Soul Calibur 2 and playing with Link.

See, for me, I think of... I specifically think of my sister's family and her kids. I think families with children that might not have as many like, streaming devices as, like, less tech nerds or video game nerds or, like, people who are really in on this stuff, right? Like, I feel like there is a convenience of, all right, we have a... I don't know. We have the Roku and we have the Switch.

All right, cool. We can have Switch on TV 1 and Roku be for TV 2 and both of those have Netflix and Hulu and we have all that stuff. Now, I'm saying this even though I feel like there's... a large amount of people now that just have straight up smart TVs. And so maybe that, maybe that is like not just a thing anymore as far as like,

the how convenient it is to have those extra devices that have hulu and netflix just installed on them so i can use them anywhere but for me i also think of it as just an easy thing to have right like even if you don't update it really not because it's not good bless bless i'm gonna put tim's argument aside and i'm gonna elevate things one further not only do i want netflix i want it to be picture and picture while i play my video game

Okay, now you're doing too much. Am I?

No. Well... Just think about how good it would be. Did they have that for Xbox One when they first launched it? I don't know.

See, for me, it's more, it's less of an argument of, like, for me, it's more of an argument of convenience. Of, like, I feel like for anything that...

like i think anything that outputs like the video or it's anything that's a entertainment box i should say that's a way better way to say anything that you have that's an entertainment box for the most part i got wide consumer like you know largely popular entertainment box should just have these streaming apps available like so should i have spotify Maybe. Should it have Apple Music?

On the top, yeah. Windmill number four is trying its best. Like, that is one frame per second? Yeah. Like, two frames at max per second?

Honestly, yes. Where do you draw the line? Yes, it should have all that stuff. PlayStation has all that stuff. Xbox has all that stuff. Put Pornhub on this thing! I use Spotify for my PlayStation all the time. If I could use Spotify for my Nintendo Switch 2 and play Mario Kart while listening to Spotify, of course, Nintendo doesn't have... Nintendo wouldn't let that happen. I was about to go off.

Nintendo probably would be very frustrating with that stuff. But I'm going to say yes. I think they should strive to have those features because those features are convenient for people. And they do uplift the console. They require people to make the apps and work on the system.

That's my argument. I'm not going to say it's not that hard because I know all this shit is hard. But you can do it. And it's worth it. I do not know that it's worth it. This is going to sell tens of millions of units. Mm-hmm. You don't think a lot of those people aren't going to use your Spotify, Netflix, Hulu, Crunchyroll apps on your thing? I don't think enough.

My guy looks nerdy as hell, by the way. Like, my guy... i must have made my i guess i made it in 2017 when i got my switch and i never changed it and i look back and i'm like god i was a fucking nerd and i know i still am like that hasn't changed hilarious because it's just in the menu right create edit a me me list i'm gonna see if i can find it i don't have any me's

Ooh, can you fullscreen?

Yeah. Take a step into the modern times. Take a step into the future, right? I think this is a good move for the inclusivity that we're talking about here as far as being able to pick whatever clothes, do whatever styles you want with whatever body shape that you choose. Makes sense. Yep. Good step for me's.

I don't know if we'll be able to tell, honestly. Well, I mean, windmill in the back, honestly, windmill in the back is better than the Switch One's first windmill in the front. Like, to really drive this home. I... think this is fucked up. They are messing with what Scarlet and Violet is at its core. This is not Scarlet and Violet. This ain't the Scarlet and Violet that I know.

Yes. This is something I've been wanting out of the Jeff Showcases for a while. Like, open it up and, like, get more faces in front of the camera and get more faces, like, hosting these things. I think Jeff does a great job. He's great, like, you know, hosting, obviously. But he's been doing this for a very long time. And I think hosting three events every single year, there's so much room for...

getting variety in there getting new faces in there getting some like somebody like lucy james who's been in the industry forever and is really great on camera and knows how to host all that stuff like getting uh getting more folks opportunities to be on the the like the biggest stage as possible good on jeff like this is what i've been wanting to see for years yep good stuff and love that it's lucy yeah because i love lucy i love lucy also

You're trying to make a transition or you're trying to make a joke about the old TV show?

It's a big day, too. It is a big day.

Oh, man. But if I want to know about something smaller, where would I look? You'd look toward our last story, the We News Channel, where we cover all the small news items you need to know about.

If folks are more interested in that story, you should go over to gamesindustry.biz, because he also goes into details about more of the stuff that just went wrong with X-Defiant. A lot of it, I think, just comes down to...

Bad communication, bad vision, not being given the resources and like bad and like engine stuff like the engine they were working on just wasn't fitting for the kind of game they wanted to make. But very fascinating, fascinating stuff. And also, yeah, he's leaving the industry, like not just leaving the company, which is wild.

I saw some stories popping up. I think there was a story about, especially in the UK, specifically, if you go to a store, you have a very likely shot of grabbing a Switch 2, which is really exciting.

I want to, man, I'm going to look into this guy. That was banned from Nintendo store.

Cause like, what's up with them? What's your story?

You're right. I shouldn't pay attention to him. Yeah.

I had to play it in its truest form.

Oh, yeah. I've never had one of those either. Is that like a popular... It's apparently very popular.

See, I feel like you think... Not the 7-Eleven. You saying you haven't had pickle in a bag is like one of those, I think it's one of those things that's specific enough to where it's like me being like, I've not had Spam. You know what I mean? I don't know.

I don't know if I've ever, I don't know if I've ever been walking around, walking on the sidewalk, saw somebody walking and they just got a pickle in a bag.

No, I don't love pickles.

Yeah, I don't really mess with pickles like that. Fuck.

I've been to 7-Eleven quite a bit nowadays. I don't know if I've seen these show up at 7-Eleven.

Y'all gotta be careful about what you're doing in front of these stores. They care. You're gonna cause a riot.

Yeah, and here's the thing that I want people to keep in mind. Because I put the links to the news stuff in the document. So usually Kevin's going off the stuff that I'm putting in there. A lot of news comes directly from X. I don't control where people post things. And so I try to use Blue Sky because Blue Sky is now my main platform. So oftentimes I see the Blue Sky post.

But there's a lot of things where if I'm referencing a story, if I'm referencing an X tweet specifically, that's the only way I can do it.

Fair enough. Also, I don't respect X. I call it Twitter, but also, I don't care anymore. I can't be the thing- I also call it Twitter. I can't keep caring about- If I'm talking about this thing all the time, I'm just going to call it whatever the fuck I want. I'm sorry. We've lost the battle. Trump is president. Everything's gone to shit. I don't know what to do anymore.

It was Twitter's fault, too. I can't stress about calling it extra Twitter. I don't care. I don't use the platform like that anyway.

I don't know what the plan is. I didn't get a preorder because they're so expensive, and I'm waiting to see if anything comes in the mail to see what's up.

He's playing like Dead Rising 3 on the screen with like football playing in the corner.

Alright, that means it's working over there.

Oh, you know what? Never mind. I was going to make a reference to a different podcast. You ever listen to a podcast and then you try to recall it and you think you were having a conversation earlier and then you realize it wasn't a conversation you had. It was a podcast that you were listening to.

Yeah, that's yesterday.

At the very least, on Saturday, I got plans to go to a magic event, and I'm going to play some magic Final Fantasy set with people. I love that. I will have my hand on those.

This Cameron Kennedy one's pretty good.

I understand the stress that you're under. That reminds me of the time that I thought Tom Cruise's name was Tom Steamboat. We both were equally wrong.

Kevin's in the same boat with us. The same Steamboat. The same Steamboat.

I grew up in church, and there were plenty of tattoos there. You grew up in a church? Yeah. I practically grew up in that church, let me tell you. I was there all the time. It was my second home.

I'm going to stop asking things. Because I didn't need to know any of that. I didn't need to know any of that.

Yeah. But like, if I explained it that way, it wouldn't have been as funny as a joke. You know what I mean? Like sometimes I say things because they're funny, not because they're factual.

Couldn't be me. Nowadays, my weeks are I play volleyball on one day of the week. Another day of the week, I go and I play cards with strangers. Hell yeah. And it's changed my life. I feel like such a better man.

Sometimes I'll order chips from across the street and I'll be eating them and I'm like, this is stale as fuck, dude. What do you mean you order? Like when you go to a store and you buy a thing? You call that ordering?

Do you wear tattoos too, Bless? Wait, wait, wait. Define order.

Okay, you know what? That's fair. I never thought about that. I just always thought order was, like, literally the same as buy is how I would use it. I don't think so. Like, when you walk into a store.

Wait, so, okay, if I order something, basically it has to come to me sometime in the future? No, no, no.

You know what?

Now that I think about it, that makes sense.

For the record, I don't co-sign anything he just said. I'm sure it's fine, but I can't tell if it's fine or not what he just said. But I don't co-sign any of that.

This one's me. Oh, it's you. This one's me. Okay, I don't count when it's other people. Yeah, yeah.

No, he got it in on time. Or he didn't write the amount of how long the Greg way was, but he did write the topic, which is good enough for me.

I just want to get there without having to read the X's. I don't like X's. I don't like X's. Yeah. Especially seven evil ones.

I am not confident it's going to work. So what, you're going to put on the glasses and see your Switch 2 screen?

Get this man on the road.

What's going on, Tim?

We have Pringles to talk about on this gaming news show. We had to talk about these wet wipes that are going out with people.

I mean, honestly, I'm sad that I couldn't stay longer. It was such an active day. It was such a busy day. And so, like, to start it off with getting the Switch 2s in the office and then rolling that into, I mean, y'all talking about Ballerina, and then the State of Play, right, which was really big. And then, you know, I had volleyball I had to go to, you know what I mean?

Thank you.