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Sony Makes Major Deal With From Software's Parent Company - Kinda Funny Games Daily 12.19.24
Thu, 19 Dec 2024
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Chapter 1: What major deal did Sony announce with From Software's parent company?
what's up and welcome back to kind of funny games daily live for thursday december 19th 2024 of course i am your host tim gettys i am joined today by the nitro rifle himself andy cortez good morning tim look at us little ketchup and mustard little deadpool and wolverine yeah i love that you saw my shirt my dopest fuck shirt by the way and you're like i bought that too i'm glad i didn't wear it today
We got algorithms. Can you imagine if you did wear it today?
I was close. That would have been awesome. I was legitimately close because I got that one and I got the Dark Souls one. Sick. Are we out of focus?
Kind of. Yep. Ken's on it though.
Yeah, we are. I'm trying to fix it, but it was in focus right before we started. A lot's going on, everybody.
Camera's out of focus. Andy's laptop is dancing and we're not exactly sure what's making the LED do it. But hey, there it is. It's going. It's going, everyone. And more importantly... We just reacted to James Gunn's Superman trailer. Of course, we did it live on YouTube and Twitch. YouTube did not like us doing that. Did not like it at all.
It did something I've never seen, which is while we were live, it didn't take us down. It just went black. But the live stream stayed. And then we came back and then it went black again. So there's a lot of like cutout chunks. We're re uploading it to YouTube right now, hoping that they don't block it or take it down or anything.
So we left up the video if you want to see some of our reaction, but mainly the hour long discussion that we mainly Greg Miller has about our thoughts on the Superman trailer, our theories on where it might be going and all that. So definitely go check that out.
I thought it was odd. I saw the Reddit talk about it. You know, YouTube doesn't like whatever kind of fun he's doing with Warner Brothers or whatever the hell. And then I clicked on the link, and it just worked. I don't know.
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Chapter 2: What are the implications of Sony's investment in Kadokawa?
how elden ring or how from software seems to have a decent amount of like hey we can do whatever the hell we want right now especially with the cache that we have with our library we're popping off right now kind of let us cook over here this does seem to be a much larger story even like a screencasty type story to me though yep absolutely me and bless talked about this about a month ago at this
point when these rumors first started and I feel like we had back-to-back stories day after day one was kind of the rumors and then the next one was like hey this is happening like what the extent will be we don't know but we will know by the end of the year and here we are so all that kind of played out the way that was reported and yeah this is not a PlayStation acquiring from software play this is very much a Sony trying to have a more strategic partnership with
much bigger entity and that makes sense when you look at sony as a whole where playstation and gaming is just one vertical of its many many many verticals of how they make money and when you look at their sony uh pictures what the the movies but then more specifically the sony tv and sony animation side they've been making a lot of investments over the years like two-way
Pretty scary degree in terms of being a monopoly in the ownership and distribution of anime with their acquisitions or just investments in Crunchyroll, Funimation. There's a bunch of other ones, too. That they've been kind of like building up over the last decade or so. But then you look at their movie side, and it's interesting. Sony's one of the big dogs, one of the big studios out there.
But they don't have much going for them in comparison to a Disney or a Universal even.
Hey, what about me, Tim? It's me, Mark Wahlberg.
We got the Uncharted movies. Yeah, so there's the Uncharted movies. And even then, to say that, I don't want to discredit them because they still have hits. They put out movies that make a lot of money. But they also have been on a pretty bad run the last couple years. A lot of that thanks to the Sony Spider-Man movies that don't include. Spider-Man.
So those have been kind of rough, but in addition to that, we do have Sony Pictures collaborations with Marvel Studios on the Spider-Man Homecoming trilogy. Major, major, major wins there. Some of the highest grossing movies of all time. So that's great for them.
They have Karate Kid Legends coming out next year, but I think everything I just said kind of paints a picture of where Sony Pictures is at, which is they're not number one. They're far from it. They're doing well, but it is not a sure thing that
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Chapter 3: How is Xbox developing a cross-platform user interface?
And I also think that the Xbox One, if they put it out and it does have ability to play other OSs and Steam and all that, which I think it will, there's value there too. We're going to keep going with different stories, but we're going to do that after a word from our sponsors. This episode's brought to you by Heart Electric.
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Chapter 4: What record did The Game Awards break this year?
Firstly, we're gifting to everyone the planned second wave of the Helldivers Cross Killzone collaboration items today, free of charge. The distribution of those items will begin shortly in two waves. As such, we're going to extend the duration of the items currently in the Superstore from five days to ten days. I do, man.
It's just like, honestly, I'm having a real bad problem, and it's fucking killing me, and there's just no solution here. I have, you know when you get like a, it's not an ingrown hair, but it's like a pimple that doesn't actually want to be a pimple. Oh, it's just in your... And it's like right here in my sinuses. Oh. And it is fucking me up. It's making me tear up. My teeth hurt. What?
It's just fucking me up, dude. What the fuck? It's so, I mean, you know when you get those like sinus headaches?
No, yeah, yeah, oh yeah.
I'm dying.
It's caused by a pimple.
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Chapter 5: How does the viewership of The Game Awards compare to other major events?
I think so.
It hurts, man. It hurts really bad. I always imagine just getting a little hot needle and just see what happens.
It's in there, though.
You know what I mean? I would need to go. Oh, Kevin could get to it. Kevin could definitely freaking get to it, man.
In addition to lengthening the stay of the new crossover items in the shop's monthly rotation, it sounds like Arrowhead's also looking at a way to have a secondary shop of items that never changes so that latecomers always have a chance to buy the more highly sought-after crossover merch.
Some fans worried that this latest economic encroachment, it's right, but it's funny, was due to publisher Sony's meddling. But CEO Shams Jorjani said in the Helldivers 2 Discord that wasn't the case. It's a partnership, but we're in the driving seat behind the decisions he wrote. This one is on us.
Good on them. Good on them. And also, just good on them as a whole, not just talking about, like, this is one minor thing that happens every once in a while, and sometimes developers walk it back whenever there's enough feedback. But, like, I open up SteamDB. Mm-hmm. This isn't counting PlayStation. This is just counting PC players. Counter-Strike 2, number one, 740,000 playing. Dota 2, 500K.
Path of Exile 2, 375K. You got Marvel Rivals. You got PUBG still killing it. Rust, GTA 5 still killing it with 142,000 players playing right now. Helldivers 2 with 100K playing. That's astounding. Six digits for... Helldivers 2. For Helldivers 2. Period. For a non-competitive co-op game, and one that we've seen... They've been kind of a dime a dozen, and it's just... It's insane.
Again, this is... Now, don't get me wrong. This is much better than a lot of those experiences. I'm not trying to say this is like alien colonial marines or... I always blank on the name, though... There's a co-op Alien game that came out a couple years ago. I'm not saying it's freaking Second Extinction, that game where you squad up with your friends and shoot dinos.
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