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Forza Horizon 5 is Coming to PS5 - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.30.25
Thu, 30 Jan 2025
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Chapter 1: What are the highlights from Kinda Funny Games Daily?
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Today's stories include Beyond Two Souls is getting adapted to TV, Simu Liu is trying to make the Sleeping Dogs movie happen, and Summer Game Fest 2025 officially reveals some details. We'll have all this and more because this is Kinda Funny Games Daily. What's up and welcome to Kind of Funny Games Daily for Thursday, January 30th, 2025.
Of course, I'm your host, Tim Geddes, returning from my eternal slumber of sickness the last couple of days. I am so happy to be back on Kind of Funny Games Daily with Blessing Adeoye Jr. I was just thinking like, man, it feels like it's been a minute since I've hosted KHD. It has. It has. Welcome back. Thank you. And I'm very happy to be back. There's been a lot I want to talk to you about, Bless.
A lot I want to hear about when it comes to video game news. I feel like it's been a big couple of days.
Ich denke, es war ein großer Januar. Ja. Dieses ganze Monat fühle ich mich, als hätte es geöffnet.
Boom, boom, boom.
Es ist alles passiert. Xbox hat einen Entwickler direkt. Switch 2 hat sich gezeigt. Switch 2 hat sich gezeigt, Leute. Es ist tatsächlich passiert.
Wir leben in einem Switch-2-Reveal-Welt. Man, und jeden Tag zählen wir auf den 2. April-Tag.
Hier ist das Ding. Jeder verliebt sich an dieses Mal. Denn es wird kein weiteres Mal wie dieses sein. Wir sind zwischen dem Hardware-Reveal und dem Software-Reveal. Ja. Es ist speziell.
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Chapter 2: What news has Harada tweeted about?
Wir gehen hierher. Das ist mein Freund Luigi. Er macht alles. Oh mein Gott.
Oh, like Mario Luigi. Yes, yeah, of course. Oh, okay, okay, okay. Different New Yorker. Mario. Done. Oh my God. Speaking of getting shit done, Les. Yeah? A couple days ago, I was bedridden. Looking at Twitter, I'm like, Twitter, give me some good stuff. Please give me something good. And Harada tweets. You know, Mr. Tekken himself. Tweets. Something that caught my eye.
And it caught my eye because it had a screenshot that he was quote tweeting of an old like video game magazine article that I remember looking at here that was Itagaki. Nummer 3, Tekken 3, hate. Nummer 4, Tekken 4, hate. Und Nummer 5, I can no longer figure out what the hell they're trying to do with the numbering and I don't know which one is which.
I don't know what they're trying to do with all of it, with all these spin-offs, so it includes Nina Death by Degrees as well. I don't think this needs saying, but people should stay away from Tekken. Nothing left to say. I just don't want them to disappoint me anymore. It's so annoying. Please don't annoy me anymore.
Two things I'll say about this. One, fair when it comes to Tekken 4. Secondly, Why are you throwing shade at death by degrees? I had that demo on a demo disc. That shit fucked me. I had a sniper. You could like hit people's limbs and you would see their bones break. That was the first time I experienced that in a video game. And that shit was cool. I don't like the death by degrees hate.
And also the Tekken hate in general. What's Itagakis beef here? How funny. Dead or alive.
He was the Rival Fighting Games, right? And so it's like, when this came, I remember seeing this and just being like, well, this is kind of wild. Imagine Phil Spencer coming out and doing this about PlayStation games. Yeah. Right?
Comes out like God of War, whack, Spider-Man, whack, Days Gone, whack, and we're like, alright, you might be fair on one of those, but like, come on.
So, evidence of this was when he was friends with Itagaki from Dead or Alive that literally had this printed in no particular order. So it's like they're joking here of like, well, clearly they're having fun. Clearly this is like, you know, boys being boys type situation of like, we're just, we're giving each other some nice little ribs, all that. What if I told you that wasn't the case?
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Chapter 3: What is the significance of Forza Horizon 5 coming to PS5?
We're excited to see the Forza Horizon 5 community grow with new players on PS5. We can't wait to see the creativity and skill these new creators, builders and racers will bring to our vibrant community. Let's see what else we got here. Das klingt cool. Ja. Wenn es auf Xbox, PC und PS5 vorhanden ist. Ich freue mich auf mehr Informationen.
Ich wünschte, wenn sie Cross-Regression gesagt hätten, würde es nicht sein. Aber wenn wir da sind, wo sie sagen, du kannst deinen Xbox-Progress über PlayStation 5 nehmen. Oh, lass mich dir sagen, ich esse. Like, I'm living my best life. So, I say we won, right? And the we can mean a lot of things.
But what I ultimately mean here, Forza fans, like, this game coming everywhere is gonna be so good for Forza Horizon as a franchise. Already, like, I view it as one of the best things Xbox has every few years.
I mean, I think that we can view Forza Horizon 5 specifically at this point as one of the best things Xbox has, one of the best racing games, one of the bigger franchises, period. Like, it's...
substantial right substantial and if you're somebody who hasn't had the pleasure of checking out force of horizon because either maybe you don't have like a pc that's capable or maybe you don't have an xbox i am somebody who when it comes to racing games right like burnout uh three takedown is probably my favorite of all time burnout three paradise is another one right and like
You know, Paradise is special because it is this open world that you can get into like, you know, car combat style racing type shit in, right? Like, you know, explore, have fun, find the shortcuts, play this fun arcade style game in this open world type thing, right? Forza Horizon does that. And Forza Horizon, I think, does that better than maybe any other racing game I've ever played before.
It is, and I've... This is me playing Forza Horizon, dating back to Forza Horizon 3 on Xbox One, right? Like, this series has been fantastic for a while. And they've been able to build and build over the last couple of iterations of adding seasons, right? Finding new locations of going from Australia to England to Mexico. And, like, they just nail everything.
In terms of the world and environment, looks beautiful. I think they capture their locations very well. I'm very fascinated by... was sie mit dem Content machen können. Ich weiß, dass Forza Horizon 4 gegen die Fahrzeuge von Halo gespielt wird. Also ich frage mich... Warum? Warum fragst du dich?
Die Tage sind vorbei, Gott sei Dank.
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Chapter 4: How will Forza Horizon 5 impact the racing game community?
Also entweder ist das ein Typo und sie meinen 3. Quartal oder Microsoft hat ein anderes Fiskaljahr.
Das ist ein guter Punkt, das ist ein guter Punkt. Ich weiß nicht, was es eigentlich ist, aber ja, weil die meisten starten im April, aber nicht alle. Also vielleicht ist Microsoft anders.
Ja, Chat, du bist falsch. Glück ist korrekt. Also es ist im Juli. Sie starten im Juli. The decline was attributed to a 29% drop in Xbox hardware revenue, driven by a lower volume of consoles sold during the quarter. Nadella ran through the Xbox Division's quarterly highlights during the company's earnings call. Quote,
Nadella claimed Black Ops 6 enjoyed a record-breaking launch quarter as it topped software sales on both Xbox and PlayStation. Quote, we also continue to see strong momentum for Xbox Cloud Gaming with a record 140 million hours streamed this quarter, Nadella added.
All up, Game Pass set a new quarterly record for revenue and grew its PC subscriber base by over 30% as we focus on driving fully paid subscribers.
Look, these are good numbers. Everything's adding up. Again, it goes back to what I was saying. It's not a surprise because of Call of Duty Black Ops 6. When you literally buy the highest performing game year after year after year, you're going to see high performance. Nobody's shocked, right?
I am very interested to see what these numbers look like when it's not the Call of Duties, when it is the... I can't wait to see these number conversations a year from now about 2025. Because I do think that Xbox has the potential to really kind of break a lot of their own records and really push Game Pass in a way like they haven't before.
That might not beat the Call of Duty months ever, but we'll have a Call of Duty month every year. Yeah. Right? So they still have that. But I do think that they're going to pull this off. What does that look like at the end? I don't know. I think it's definitely a better step than where they were before.
And at the end of the day, they're talking about the higher margin content and platform services. It's like, all right, cool, like higher margin content, like being on more platforms, getting more money for the games they're already making. Like that's a good thing. And again, everybody kind of wins from that.
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Chapter 5: What are the latest Xbox gaming revenue updates?
Das ist das, was ich sage. Es ist eine interessante Statistik. Ich denke nur, dass es so breit ist, dass es zu viel Kontext braucht, um wirklich zu sagen, oh, wir können jeden Raum der Diskussion über die 4 Millionen gegen die Dragon Age haben.
Ja.
Aber wir wissen das, wir verstehen das. Aber ich sage nur, es gibt viele Dinge, denen ich das nicht vertraue.
Ja, ich verstehe das völlig. Und um meinen Punkt zu beschleunigen, weil ich jemanden gesehen habe, dem ich nicht folgen kann. Was ich hier mehr so sage, ist, dass ich denke, dass sich das als IP stärker erweitern wird als wenn es auf Game Pass gewesen wäre.
Und ich benutze den Dragon Age The Veil Guard im Vergleich dazu, um zu sagen, hey, hier ist eine IP, hier ist eine Franchise, die seit Jahrhunderten vorhanden ist. Und es kam durch. Es hat 1,5 Millionen gekauft. Das war genug für EA als AAA-Game, um zu sagen, oh, das war unsere Erwartung. Es war nicht. Wenn Avowed auf Game Pass kommt und es das 3-Millionen-Player-Markt schafft, weißt du was?
Ich denke, das ist genug, um zu sagen, oh, du musst Avowed 2 machen. Wir müssen Avowed 3 machen. Du hast es auf so einem guten Fuß angefangen. Und Ich denke, das ist es, was man heutzutage braucht, wenn man in so einem sehr kompetenten Raum ist.
Wenn man über AAA-Games spricht, wenn man über Videospiele im Allgemeinen spricht, von der Aufmerksamkeit von Leuten überall, wenn man über Fantasie-RPGs spricht und darüber geht, ob es eine Baldur's Gate oder eine Witcher oder irgendeine andere Fantasie-RPG ist, die man nennen möchte. Der Boost von Game Pass ist so wichtig, um auf dem richtigen Fuß zu starten.
Eine weitere Frage möchte ich zu dir bringen, Tim. In der Konversation über die Zahlen, wie viel siehst du, wenn du präsentierst? Wie viel verkaufst du von Forza Horizon 5 auf Playstation?
Das ist das, was ich gerade nicht in den Kontext habe, um auf den Spot zu kommen, mit einem Nummer, der wirklich Sinn macht. Aber meine Antwort ist, viel.
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Chapter 6: Why is the Game Pass model important for Xbox?
Ich glaube auch, dass die Zahlen auf Xbox sprechen werden. Ich wundere mich, wann der nächste Forza Horizon ist, denn Playground arbeitet auf Fable. Das ist ein guter Anruf. Haben sie so viel Team, dass sie beide arbeiten können? Muss jemand anderes einen Forza Horizon machen?
Das müssen sie. Es ist schon so lange her, seit Horizon 5. Und was für eine Franchise es ist. Wait, hold on, because then we had... Motorsport, which is a different dev.
But did come out... Oh man. Is Mike in the background? Mike's not in the background.
I can look it up.
Anyways. Yeah, I do wonder if that does fill that space.
Turn 10. Turn 10, thank you. That is right, yeah. Und es gibt Leute, die sagen, Playground hat mindestens drei Teams, die unter dem Namen arbeiten.
Oh, okay.
Dann ja, vielleicht kann ich es dann sehen. Fable ist groß, aber für sie ist es groß. Aber ja, wir werden sehen. Aber ja, lange Geschichte. Ich denke, es wird Tag für Tag sein. Was sagst du, Raj?
Äh, ja, ich denke, es wird Tag und Tag sein. Ja, ich denke nur an die... Weil, erinnere dich, es gibt immer diese Gerüchte, wie die Gears-Kollektion oder so, die auf mehreren Konzolen kommen, und das vielleicht mit einem E-Day-Release zusammenfällt, um Leute auf Xbox zu bringen.
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of Forza Horizon 6 for PlayStation?
Okay, let's get into story number two. Story number two today is going to be a whole bunch of video game movie TV stuff. We got Beyond Two Souls Video Game is getting a TV series adaptation by Elliot Pages Pageboy. This comes from Nelly Andreeva at Deadline.
Amid der Erhöhung einer Video-Game-Based TV-Serie mit dem Erfolg von Last of Us und Fallout, ist ein weiterer populärer Gaming-Titel, Beyond Two Souls, eine TV-Serie-Adaptation. Elliot Page's Pageboy Productions hat die Rechte von Video-Game-Developer Quantic Dream erhoben, um eine Beyond Two Souls-Television-Serie zu entwickeln.
Das Spiel, das Page mit Willem Dafoe startete, folgt Jodie Holmes, eine junge Frau,
Ich habe viele Gedanken. Halt mich! Kann ich etwas über mich erzählen? Wenn du schon lange gelesen hast, dann weißt du das schon. Ich habe schon darüber gesprochen, richtig? Ich war früher ein Quantic-Dream-Sicko. Als ich Heavy Rain am Tag gespielt habe, habe ich mit Heavy Rain verliebt. Ich konnte nicht auf Beyond Two Souls warten. Und ich habe Beyond Two Souls gespielt.
Zuerst einmal habe ich die E3-Erklärung für Beyond Two Souls gesehen. Es ging verdammt hart. Und ich glaube niemandem, der das sagt, dass es das war. Der E3-Trailer für Beyond Two Souls hat mich verkauft. Keine Worte. Und dann habe ich das Spiel bekommen. Ich liebte nicht Beyond Two Souls. Ich liebte nicht die non-linear Storytelling von Beyond Two Souls.
Dann bin ich zurückgekommen und habe dieses Spiel gespielt, das Fahrenheit, Tim. Ich weiß nicht, ob du Fahrenheit erinnerst. Ich erinnere mich nicht an Fahrenheit. It was the Quantic Dream game before Heavy Rain on PS2. And it was similar. It was like one of these narrative, cinematic, storytelling kind of games. Supernatural as well. But I digress. Played that.
And then I played Detroit Become Human. And again, I was a sicko. I was like, yo, I understand that these games aren't Masterpieces, but there's something about just making choices that I like. There's something about being able to decide where these stories go and there's a fidelity that they do it with that just appealed to me. Even though looking back, a lot of that shit didn't hit.
Heavy Rain in retrospect, the story sucked. There's a lot we can talk about. That said... Beyond Two Souls, als Adaptation, fühlt sich wie ein Schritt zu weit an, in meiner Meinung. Wir müssen alles adaptieren. Wir müssen alles adaptieren. Wer hat eine Person gefragt für Beyond Two Souls? Ich habe eine.
Lianza. Das ist ein guter Punkt, eigentlich.
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