Jake Decker
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Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Report: Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.25.25
Do you think Nintendo's showcase is going to show a lot of, like, Switch 1 games running on the Switch 2? Like, I could see us getting, like, a Tears of the Kingdom update, like, 60 frames a second or whatever. Like, I feel like there's got to be some of that, at least, since backwards compatibility has been announced and confirmed.
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Report: Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.25.25
I mean, I think especially now, you brought up Pokemon Zaw, right? But Scarlet and Violet, that could really use some boost. I mean, Game Freak, that's a whole different beast. But that said, I would love to see a version of that that runs better, looks a little nicer. Because I think what? People who got it running on PC, it looks and runs so much better. And it's like, I want that. I want that.
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Report: Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.25.25
But I think you're right. I don't think I'll just be able to pop in my copy of Scarlet. And just have it automatically. And just have it working like that, you know?
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Report: Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.25.25
Yeah.
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Report: Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.25.25
Um, and yeah, this is the result of God, six months of work, seven months of work. Uh, but it basically is documenting kind of the last couple months of development for stalker two and the incredible journey that the developers went through in order to get this game out the door. Uh, it is a miracle that this game came out.
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Report: Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.25.25
get all those but god it would suck to have to put in or to put in like my physical copy of tears of the kingdom or whatever on my switch to but not get the boosted version because i don't subscribe or whatever you know i mean i do so it wouldn't be an issue but like if they do that people are gonna be mad oh but i think they're banking on that too yeah uh king toast writes it and says astral chain 2 would be dope did you ever play i played a little bit of it it's one of those games i've been meaning to get back to
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Report: Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.25.25
yeah it's i fucking love astral yeah um and then flying penguins writes in and says uh no dev kits till release is an insanely bad idea yeah i mean so that's like the other thing like how long is it gonna take to put a game on the switch to you know like if they wait to send out dev kits until june and they send it to ubisoft to put assassin's creed games on it will we even get an assassin's creed by the timeline they've set out like does that take six months does that take a year i don't know i mean
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Report: Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.25.25
yeah and i think you know it's been said so many times but that is nintendo strength like like you're saying like you know it'd be dope if elden ring came to switch and i could play that anywhere i don't have a steam deck so something like that would be great but at the same time i don't necessarily need to take elden ring with me everywhere i want to i want a nintendo console so i can play yeah but it would be cool if you could take elden ring it would be cool for the splatoon 4 yeah
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Report: Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.25.25
Okay.
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Report: Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.25.25
That's such a weird one at this point because I felt like Ultimate kind of did the whole we have everything sort of thing. And I don't know where you go with that apart from remastering it, adding a couple characters, sending it to Switch 2, which I don't think they're going to do. For me, I think it's like... I want a back-to-basics sort of thing. Like...
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Report: Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.25.25
Like they dealt with obviously the invasion, Russian hackers, uh, a fire in the studio that took out an entire floor or most of a floor, uh, COVID of course like it was announced in 2018 they had to like relocate everyone like you know a lot of people did here as well yeah but yeah it is not a fun watch I'll say that much but I think it's
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Report: Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.25.25
smaller roster really balance it out uh maybe add some new mechanics refine some other mechanics that like the competitive community kind of picked up on um but yeah i'm super curious what they do with smash like i i don't really have a wish list at this point because i felt like ultimate kind of gave me everything i wanted except for waluigi which you know i mean that could i mean that might be the wish list yeah because i'm with you that i don't know what you where you go from here with smash you've already given me a smash game that has everything in it
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Report: Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.25.25
off the final fan base. Get rid of Sora, you know.
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Report: Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.25.25
Yeah. That's where I'm at. But yeah, like Smash is a weird one for me because I love Ultimate. Like Ultimate was everything I wanted in a Smash game and I... I don't know. I just want them to do something different. Because Ultimate's going to exist, especially with backwards compatibility. I can still play Ultimate, you know, very easily. And I still do. And I will continue to, you know.
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Report: Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.25.25
I do have one thing though, whatever they do, uh, better online connectivity for the love of God. Yeah. Like, Oh my God. Like the, the, the, I would spend so much time online if it wasn't so laggy. Like, I think there's a baked in six frame delay, no matter what, no matter how fast your internet is, no matter who you're playing against. And that's good.
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Report: Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.25.25
You know, like it gets worse depending on people's connectivity. If they're wired, I think that needs to be addressed. I know Sakura, I think has said that like, he doesn't really see smash as an online game, but, but it kind of is, you know, like not everyone plays it that way, but a lot of people do.
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Report: Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.25.25
What about you? I mean, Zelda's a hard one to disagree with. Anything Zelda, I'll be excited for. I would really like to see... This is stupid. I know it's not going to happen, but Mother 3. Just put it on Virtual Console or whatever it's called now. I don't care. I love that. Yeah, it's stupid. We need Mother 3 at this point. It's been so long, and I've given up hope, but...
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Report: Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.25.25
Yeah, I think even if... I don't know if you played much S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
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Yeah, I respect S.T.A.L.K.E.R. a lot. It's all about the friction in that game that I really enjoy where it kind of makes things difficult for you. But... The fact that they managed to get this game out despite all that is insane.
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Yeah.
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Let's get back to it. I'm all for it. I mean, we got a Kirby 3D platformer before we got another Donkey Kong. Dude, for real. Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I don't just want to play as DK, you know? Like... I feel you.
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I think it's got to be... I'm more excited for a Mario, I think, at this point. Toons of the Kingdom was amazing. I got my Zelda fill.
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Report: Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.25.25
I have no idea. I don't know. Could it be, like, maybe some last-minute Switch 1 announcements? Or maybe, like, an indie second-party sort of... Or third-party sort of presentation? Like, if there is one, I feel like it's them just clearing the runway for the Switch 2.
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I don't think we got that yet. I don't think so.
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I don't know the timeline on that. I don't know if that's supposed to be soon at all. But that was the first thing that jumped out. Because I remember they did do directs for that. Where it was like, here's our cast. And they just showed images.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe it's them being like, oh, this is what it looks like. Because it was open in May, right? Yeah. I think, right before. May 15th, I believe. That, I guess it's Nintendo, but that seems like a bizarre one to dedicate, like, a whole thing for, because it's like... There's already the one in New York. How many people are going to go to San Francisco?
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Just, I mean, maybe a lot of people. I could be totally wrong. I mean, I'm going to try to go there. But like, I don't know. It seems, it seems bizarre. It seems kind of a little too localized.
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Report: Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.25.25
I'm still waiting for that Oblivion remake. Puck, you're right. Yeah, you're right. Where is that? I think Nate the Hated said it this month is when it's supposed to get announced. As in March? Yeah, this month's almost over.
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Nate, you're on the clock. For what?
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jake gta 6 does this make sense to you that everybody's trying to get out the way yeah i mean it really depends on the game i guess i feel like there are some select games that can probably get away with it or select franchises maybe but for the most part i make sense do you think that do you think gta 6 hits this fall That I don't know.
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I mean, we've, this is the first, this is the only trailer we've seen. And when this come out like a year and a half ago at this point, uh, they've said it will, but wasn't there that quote from like Zelnick, I think who was like, we're prepared to launch this year, but at the same time, if it gets delayed, we're prepared to delay it.
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So it's like, okay, that, that, so it could get delayed, you know, who knows?
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That seems insane. And it almost like kind of seems trivial to make a video game under all that. But like after talking to those developers, it's very clear that, you know, Stalker is a piece of Ukrainian culture that they are trying to send or they wanted to share with the world. And when another country is sort of actively suppressing that culture, seeing...
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yeah i i don't know like i think they have said maybe or it was talked about that now they're just polishing and they've been polishing for a long time but like polish for a rock star game like every game they've released comes out ridiculously polished and i'm sure they spend years doing that yeah so i i get why they haven't announced it i feel like or announced the release date i feel like they are just waiting for that right time but yeah it is funny seeing the fallout of this i mean
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I think, like, what, Battlefield was kind of one of the ones that was referenced, like, that Battlefield game, which a bunch of clips have been leaking online. Like, it seems like that game is getting there, you know? Yeah. And just to see it wait for GTA seems weird.
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And here's the other thing. Like, I think Red Dead 2 had, like, three different release dates. Like, it was supposed to come out in, like, 2017 and got pushed to 2018, and then it got delayed a couple months. So even if they do come out and announce a release date... could it be delayed anyway? Yeah.
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I do think, though, when they give a release date for this one, for GTA 6, I think it'll come out that day. Obviously, the release window 2025, I could see that moving, but I think when they're like, it's coming out, I don't know, February 17th, 2026, I think it's going to hit that. This game has been in the oven for so long now, right? Yeah. I mean, I don't know when full production started.
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I'm sure it's out there. But there hasn't been a GTA game in over 10 years.
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How do you feel if GTA gets delayed? It doesn't come out this year. Are you excited for GTA 6? Are you like, I need it now? Or are you cool? I don't need it now.
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Yeah. What about you? I'm in the same boat. I really like GTA V. I mean, I loved Red Dead Redemption 2. I'm cool with them taking the time they need for that. I think what I'm most curious about, which I haven't seen a whole lot of people talk about other than me, is this is the first GTA that Sam Houser is not leading the writing team on.
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them release this game, a Ukrainian game to the world is, is pretty cool. But yeah, even if like stalker is not really your thing, I think it's probably worth watching this doc. I mean, of course I'd say that I worked very hard on it along with many other people at GameSpot, but I think it kind of transcends like just here's how the game was made. You know, how can people check this out?
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And he's been kind of... I mean, obviously, those teams are huge. So many people work on these games. But there is, like, a certain tone that I think all Rockstar games hit that, like, at least from my perspective, I kind of attribute to the Hausers. And I'm super curious to see what GTA 6 looks like without that direction. So, like, I'm...
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I almost think the story may not be as compelling as some of the other stuff, but that's a conversation to be had when the game comes out, but that's what I'm most excited about. I want to see what GTA 6 looks like without Sam Houser.
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Which I have no interest in, you know? Like, I enjoyed my time with GTA Online, but I'm just there for the story of the world, and, like, I'll bounce after I'm done, you know?
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more online in the single player right like yeah is it going to be a thing where i am playing as the main character in a single player mode and like i talked to somebody to do a mission and they're like all right now here hop in with your friends keep up with your buddies so you can like gain the online bucks and i'm like no i just want to play by myself i do feel like that online has to work day one or whenever they plan to launch it i know they usually delay the launch of online but like uh gta5 online back in 2013 i remember that was pretty broken when that was
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red dead redemption 2 that online was pretty broken and i feel like considering how big gta online is i feel like whatever they do is six that online's got to be i'm gonna hope i'm gonna tell you right now it's not yeah it's not gonna work at launch because you know like i don't i don't know how many copies that's gonna sell 50 million or whatever like 50 million people jumping online like that sounds impossible that's obviously an estimate that i'm just pulling out of the air but like here's the thing
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Or better yet, do you remember the aerial shot before you get into online and it would just sit there and you'd be looking at Los Santos and you'd just be waiting and you'd see that little circle spinning and nothing would happen. Dude, I can't wait.
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Uh, it is on GameSpot's YouTube channel.
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And it's already available. It's already available. It's live now. I think we dropped it on Wednesday last week, right during GDC documentary.
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Great. We need more. I mean, I feel like there's been so many mergers and sites shut down that more is better, I think. And especially with Jeff Keighley kind of leading it, I feel like there is a position for that to succeed, and I hope it does.
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Woo!
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Yeah, exactly. I mean, like, I feel like for the longest time, like, people have been asking, like, how do I get in the industry? And it's like, well, there's got to be jobs. And right now, there's not a lot. Apart from freelancing. Yeah. And, like, you know, freelancing is great if you're, like, getting your feet wet and you want to, like, get into the industry.
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But it can't really pay the bills necessarily unless you're – depending on where you're writing for. I am curious, though, to see, like – what audience is interested in this. Cause I mean, like it already is tough to find an audience for gaming websites today. And I like, even with like, is Jeff Keighley enough to sort of like push an audience there? I don't know.
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Like a lot of it is just like mastering Google SEO, which is kind of soulless and not fun. You know, like, I don't know. I don't know. I'm probably not the one to ask though.
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And I mean, at this point too, Jeff Keighley kind of has a chokehold on three of the biggest gaming events in the world now, right? Like the Game Awards, Summer Game Fest, and Gamescom. He's pretty involved in all three of those, if not heading them up, leading them, that I could see how, kind of like you're saying, that could bolster the other side of the business, right? Where it's like...
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Jeff Keighley has these big tentpole events, but then throughout the year, it's still kind of staying relevant because of this sort of Jeff Keighley-backed outlet. I don't know. I need to look more into the details of how this works and kind of see it play out. But I am curious, and I really hope it succeeds and does well because we do need more voices. I agree with that.
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Thanks for having me. It's been a while. I think I was telling you last time I was on this was like 2017 or 2018 or something. It was right before Red Dead or right after Red Dead came out or something.
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I know, right? And it's sitting in very positive, too, I think, last I saw. Or was it mentioned in this story as well? But I was surprised because I feel like Ubisoft games, especially with all the controversy around this, kind of get bombed. But yeah, Steam seemed positive last I checked, which was good to see.
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to fuck with this that's kind of where i am i i did not care much for the last couple assassins creed games not really a big assassins creed fan but i've played a few hours of this and i'm like i could play more of this can't see myself finishing it because i know how long those games can be and i know this one's supposed to be a little shorter than like valhalla which i think was like 80 hours yeah valhalla was 80 this i've finished in like 50
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50 okay that's still too many hours for me but i'm definitely gonna play more of it uh because you know at the end of the day it's just like a fun and i love the stealth stuff coming back like but it's just a fun sort of like turn off your brain game at least from where i'm standing yeah and like sometimes it's all you need also i'm such a big fan of games just doing well period
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It surprised me, too. I figured it would just get downvoted to hell because the internet, not even necessarily based on the quality of the game, just figured that would happen. Yeah. It's cool seeing that.
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You'd go to the... Oh, God. You'd go to our last story, the We News channel, where we cover all the small news items you need to know about.
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Did I?
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Okay.
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I mean, I know they're relaunching, bringing it back. It seems obvious that's the plan, right?
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How are they doing it?
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He's getting the Game Informer tattoo on his arm that gives the release date, like Peter Moore style for Halo or whatever.
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Yeah.
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Are they connected?
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I don't think so. I think Rockstar just... Rockstar can do what Rockstar wants to do. The internet's going to respond no matter what they do. You know, like...
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Yeah.
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I'm surprised Steam would do that. I missed that, but, like, I don't know. Steam's always, like, kind of laissez-faire about everything, it seems.
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I think that's probably what they're talking about.
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If it is two hours, two hours of Assassin's Creed is, like, that's like cut scenes, you know?
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Not anymore. I got rid of a lot of my cards, but I think what I'm going to do is I'm going to make a commander deck only because you don't necessarily need to buy a bunch of cards to make that. You can just have your commander deck. It doesn't go out of rotation. And then I always want to do giraffes because giraffes are a lot of fun.
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Yeah. Does the deck work? Is it efficient? Does it work well?
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Okay. You beat it every time, but it's good.
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Okay.
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That's the way you do it. Yeah. I think that's why I like drafting is because you just build the deck on the fly. And like a lot of people, I feel like I played just like looked up best deck, built that deck and showed up with it. And it's like, of course you won. Cause I'm doing a dinosaur goblin deck and you're doing like, I don't know if mono black is still the best, but it usually is.
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And like, you just smoked me. Of course. Jake, if people wanted to check out your work, where can they find you? GameSpot.com or YouTube.com slash GameSpot. We've been doing the PowerBlock daily. It's probably happening right now where we've been streaming a bunch of stuff between GameSpot and Giant Bomb.
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And then, of course, as I talked about in the front of the episode, check out that Stalker 2 doc if you get the chance because... A lot of people put a lot of time into that, and yeah, super proud of how it turned out.
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Yeah, 2018. So it's been a while.
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I was here for the studio launch, saw your game show live, which was great.
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That makes sense to me. I mean, I feel like a while ago there were reports that they had been in production, like mass producing Switch consoles a while ago. So I think they're like ready to kind of hit the ground running. And considering the announcements in April or the official stream is in a week, kind of makes sense that we'd see it in June. From my perspective, June's going to be nuts. Yeah.
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Report: Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.25.25
No, I was actually here, what, less than a year ago to like, but it was like a technical scout sort of thing because we just built a new studio at GameSpot and we needed advice from the best.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Report: Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.25.25
God, I mean, I think the first thing that kind of stood out to me, though, was, like, if they're waiting to give dev kits to studios till June, right? Then that means Nintendo's really going to have to hit hard with first party, I feel like. And, you know, Metroid Prime, like you said, seems kind of obvious at this point. 3D Mario, maybe? Dude.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Report: Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.25.25
Like, I feel like it has to be big if we're not going to get, like, a lot of or if any third party games right out of the gate, right? Yeah.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Report: Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.25.25
Yeah, Mario and Holiday then.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Report: Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.25.25
I don't know. I think it's too soon for a Zelda thing. I mean, I could be wrong. I hope I'm wrong. I could see like some weird... Remember like 1-2 Switch? You know, Wii Sports? Like I could see something like that. You know, like a more casual sort of... Maybe not a pack-in game, but something similar to that.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Report: Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.25.25
I would love that. I love the Animal Crossing series. I played a lot of the last one, so that would be great for me. I don't know, though. Like, I think that's probably one of the things I do love about Nintendo, though, is, like, it's really hard to predict what they're going to do for the most part. I mean, obviously, there's been so many leaks for the Switch, too, at this point.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Report: Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.25.25
So many leaks, so many rumors that, like, some of it, someone predicted it, right? At the end of the day, whatever happens, someone called it. But... Yeah, God, I don't know. I struggle to think. I feel like it's too soon for Animal Crossing, though. I do love how many people in the chat are saying arms. Arms, too.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Report: Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.25.25
Two arms. Two arms, legs.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Report: Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.25.25
Yeah.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Report: Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.25.25
It's the power block. Yeah, essentially we're streaming from like 8 a.m. to 2, 3, 4, depending on how the schedule runs. But pretty much every day it rotates between Giant Bomb content to GameSpot content. A lot of live streams, a lot of shows. Oh, yeah. It's been fun, though.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Report: Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.25.25
Yeah, like 1-2 Switch, 2-3 Switch, 3-4 Switch, I don't know. Something like that. I could see happening. Not that exact game, but I feel like there's going to be some gimmicky... Gimmicky's harsh, but you know what I mean.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Report: Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.25.25
WarioWare, yeah, that'd be great.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Report: Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.25.25
But I guess it would be mouse in second Joy-Con. I'm trying to, like, figure this, you know? Like, picture this, like, I'm holding... Here's the thing. ...the one Joy-Con and moving the other like a mouse. I don't know. I think I just take the sticks. I mess with it.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Report: Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.25.25
Oh, okay. Interesting.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Report: Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.25.25
I'm thinking of Splatoon. Splatoon has the motion aiming or whatever. Or you could use a controller, but it felt better to just aim with the controller itself, at least in my opinion. And I could actually see with Splatoon 4, if that happens, which I imagine it will, I could see that being better to mouse and keyboard it, kind of. Mouse and Joy-Con it, I guess.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Report: Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.25.25
Yeah.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Report: Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.25.25
Yeah. Oh, God, where to start? So in September, myself and Jean-Luc Seipke and Chris Morris, a couple of GameSpot producers, flew to Prague to interview around seven developers that evacuated Ukraine right before Russia invaded. And then we interviewed two developers who are still in Kiev in Ukraine over Zoom. We didn't go to Ukraine.
Kinda Funny Games Daily: Video Games News Podcast
Report: Nintendo Switch 2 Launches June - Kinda Funny Games Daily 03.25.25
It comes out this year, but I think it's supposed to be late this year. I imagine the reason they haven't announced a release date probably has something to do with the Switch 2, even though I think they said it's, or the rumors are that it's not necessarily supposed to be a Switch 2 game. But that kind of brings up another point or question I have for you.