VR Gaming Officially DEAD?! - Kinda Funny Games Daily 01.13.26
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Today's gaming news stories include Meta closes some big VR studios, we finally have some Steam Machine news, and Ninja Theory is no longer working on Project Mara. We'll have all this and more because this is Kinda Funny Games Daily.
yo what's up welcome to kind of funny games daily for tuesday january 13th 2026 i'm one of your hosts blessing addy oea jr joining me is the legend greg miller hello bless how are you i'm doing well greg how are you doing i'm hanging in there hanging in there hanging in there it's a good looking sweatshirt thank you shout out to sega for sending this to me yesterday hey The back is cooler.
I actually don't... Show them back. Show them back. They won't hear you, but I'll talk. Oh, yeah. There's the Jet Set folks. They're there. They're doing their thing. Yeah, the front, I get it. Yeah. I would go with one. If you're an audio listener, there's two logos on, like, the nipples, where if you just had one, like, the party mode sweater I'm wearing, kindoffun.com. See, that one I like a lot. Yeah. That one I really like. It's oversized, so go down a size. When do we get a new Jet Set Radio? I know they announced it.
That's one of the super mega games or whatever, right? Yeah. Where is Crazy Taxi? Where is this goddamn Crazy Taxi? Yeah. Are those... Do we see them in the next 12 months? Like, even just a trailer? Yes, you have to.
We have to?
What happened with Meta's VR studios?
Those seem... I, of course, pay more attention to Crazy Taxi. You pay more attention to Jet Set. Yeah. We don't have much to pay attention to because they're always together. I'm not saying both for sure, but I could easily see both. Those seem like Slam Dunk, John Stockton from downtown. Easy points for Summer Game Fest. Right? They have to be at this point. They always support Jeff. Always having a thing at the SGF Bungalow. Can I be honest? Yeah.
I don't know if we ever see these games. I could see a reality where these games just never pop up again. I know I just said, shout out Sega, and now I'm shitting on your potential podcast. But it's not even like, it's not, this is no fault of Crazy Taxi or Jet Set Radio. It's just the fact of, like, we're seeing video game costs go up and up and up and up. And is Crazy Taxi, like, a console Crazy Taxi the thing that you really want to put out? I think it is. But do you think that it is? A corporation? Well, here you know corporations.
With CEOs and structures? You know that corporations are dumb. And shareholders? You know that crazy taxi, what do they call it? Super game?
You show me a crazy taxi, and I'm like, oh, okay, so you're just going to put it on a mobile? No, don't you remember this? But that's what I'm saying of my jaded business brain sees this, and I'm like, this isn't a mobile game?
This is a real game? The next polygon, the new crazy taxi is going to be a large scale open world online game because of course it is from July 2024.
Those words don't make sense. That's not a real thing that happens in 2026.
Exactly, but you know companies love to think it is. Yeah. Fair games. Yeah. I mean, we love this idea that, I mean, Skate, we love to think that we can take a classic game, not fair games, obviously, but Skate, but we can do this and modernize it. And what's modern? Fortnite. So we'll Fortnite it. We'll just Fortnite it, everybody.
But in a weird way, I think that makes more sense for Skate, because Skate is just big enough, and community-based and all that stuff, which Crazy Taxi I guess could be, I guess that's a weirder fit, but I can see it a little bit.
It's one of those things of, I think when you look at the state of video games, and I don't think it's right or wrong. I don't think it's right. I'll just say that. I think when you're talking at a company, they look and they go, well, there's no way we can make money off of an arcade game.
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