Matt James
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this new lens that I'm looking at it through, which is like GTA 6 as the last hope of indoctrinating kids into console gaming.
Like if GTA 6 comes out and there's no one even talking about it on Roblox, then we're in trouble.
Yeah.
And I think there's a good chance that it doesn't make even a ripple amongst kids who are used to only playing games on their iPad, on their iPhone, not paying for games, aside from the harmful monetization forms within those free games.
There's something about the Grand Theft Auto formula that I think speaks to the younger generation who play free-to-play games as a social experience with their friends.
Just playing a narrative game alone is a little bit foreign to the youngest generation of gamers.
And I don't think that Grand Theft Auto is going to have evolved in any way that...
that, you know, onboards those kids.
It's not an easy ramp from what they've been playing to GTA 6, but I don't know.
Maybe if it's a big enough game, maybe it has a big enough impact it can actually...
sort of crack in and have kids try this form of gaming that they've never tried before.
Because I'm really worried about the landscape of video games 20 years from now when people just aren't used to playing with a controller.
That tends to be my role here, I think.
I loved it.
I love it.
You're the Van Latham of Button Mesh.
I love games, guys.
I love this game.
This game, I had some pretty high expectations because IO Interactive has been a real hit factory for me in the past.
And