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It is Friday, October 2nd.
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Let's talk PlayStation.
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Welcome back, everyone, to another Ace Combat episode of LTPS.
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It's been, again, a very busy week.
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Like, there is so much happening for PS Studios.
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Rumors, confirmed news, PS5 hardware.
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So let's begin, as always, with our PS Plus reminders.
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This is your last call for the September games before they go away.
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So claim those, get that done.
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This coming Tuesday on October 6th, It's going to change over to F -125 on PlayStation 5, Hunt Showdown 1896 on PlayStation 5,
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and Earth Defense Force World Brothers 2 on PS4 and PS5.
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Now, I think it would be fair to say this is a very weak lineup for Essential, one of the worst we've had in a long time.
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And every October, they seem to drop the ball on not including at least one horror game.
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I think that seems to make the most sense.
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But I will say F1, I've heard it's a really solid racing game.
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Same for Hunt Showdown.
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It's just, you know, it's a bit more novel in it being an extraction shooter.
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It's like a PvP bounty hunting game.
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It's got PvE elements in there as well, but, you know, that doesn't really cast a wide net on people enjoying that experience.
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And then Earth Defense Force, you know, I'll bet for this game, it is fun.
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It's the weird offshoot franchise or portion of it where it's like Minecraft blocky looking, but, you know, those games, they're very mindless and fun.
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I like to call them podcast games
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because you really don't have to pay attention and you're just mindlessly shooting giant ant aliens, and that's what that franchise is.
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But it's not for everybody, so I would say this is a very weak lineup for PS Plus in October.
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Now, with that in mind, we should also do a PSA for those final games on PS Plus Extra for the September lineup, so these are now live for those in the US, UK, and Japan.
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That is Ninja Gaiden Ragebound, Dungeons of Hinterberg, and Sniper Elite Resistance, which that game is still on Essential,
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so you can claim that to your library properly now we can also say
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that unfortunately those toy story games they did get delisted
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which this lined up more so with the date we saw from the xbox store page
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because that notice was for september 29th so initially we saw those games
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or at least two of them were going to be unbundled from ps plus premium's game collection catalog
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so they left you could still buy them
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and then buzz lightyear was still on there now they all
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three of these games are delisted from the playstation store so that's Toy Story 2 on PS1, Toy Story 3, the PSP game,
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which is incredibly different from the console PS3 360 versions, which that is more tragic to lose that, and Buzz Lightyear of Star Command on PS1.
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All three are no longer available on the PlayStation Store.
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You can't play them through the collection.
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You can't buy them, and that was part of the PSA, and that, okay, this upcoming Toy Story collection is coming out soon.
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They're probably going to delist them, and so it's a shame that that did happen, but if you did get your purchase in, then you at least know that game is always available in your collection.
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You can always re -download it from there.
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Anyway, let's move on to our first news story, which is a very surprising announcement from PlayStation, which is a new AI Upscaler for base PS5 consoles.
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So we have PSSR for PS5 Pro.
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Now all PS5 consoles, the base models, get QSSR, which is Quick Spectral Super Resolution.
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And this is indeed a new AI Upscaler, a machine learning technique where PlayStation calls this a streamlined neural network architecture
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and a hand -tuned implementation that maximizes performance on PlayStation 5.
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Now, so far, they've only shown two games, Wolverine and Ghost of Yote, but both of these games are patched and ready to go.
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It's already deployed in these two games, so immediately this announcement came out.
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Two games already have it turned on by default, so they seem pretty confident in the results, and so far, it does look quite good.
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Now, I want to quickly add before we get into this, there is still a key difference on PSSR versus this.
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PS5 Pro has ML Silicon on the console, so it really does heavily accelerate the results,
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and you're seeing games still punch pretty high above their weight on PS5 Pro versus at least the base console.
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But we do have some initial comparisons and testing.
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Digital Foundry had some hands -on coverage with these two games, and so they had a great explanation of what we're seeing so far with QSSR,
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and QSSR on its own does have a noticeable difference if the game's native resolution is lower, targeting an upscale of 1440p,
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or in some cases 4k.
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The issue with upscaling all the way to 4k is that the frame time cost is much bigger, so Digital Foundry found it to be like 4 .4 milliseconds
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when playing Wolverine in uncapped fidelity mode that targets a 2160p output.
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The frame time cost is a lot less on the uncapped performance mode.
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It's about 1 .5 to 1 .8 milliseconds where the target resolution is lower at 1440p.
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And, you know, the frame time is something you don't have to worry about as a consumer, but for developers where all these, you know, ML solutions have a cost,
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like there's always an associated frame time cost for this stuff.
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And for context, PSSR on PS5 Pro is about two milliseconds.
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So you know where your budget stands on implementing PSSR.
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So it seems like the best use case is very much
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for those more blurry performance mode settings for what we've seen in a lot of PS5 games, more so I would say later generation.
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I mean, we're seeing more and more games kind of push the upper end of the console and what it can do.
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So we're seeing lower internal resolutions and then upscales up to 1440p or very aggressively up to 4K.
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And you're getting, yeah, like reliable frame rates in the 60s, but you are still getting games that are now more on the blurry side on those base consoles. And
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so Wolverine seems to be a very good example of the
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image quality really being cleaned up those finer details resolving in
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a nicer way you know not having nearly as many artifacts
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and things like hair or foliage when things are moving around
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so it's a really strong result for base consoles which is awesome
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and we are hearing it's mostly an easy solution to implement
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so we are hearing this from Daniel Craig a principal engineer for graphics
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and R &D at SIE and they say QSSR is mostly a drop -in solution
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so if a game has PSSR you can drop in QSSR for the base performance profile for that game pretty easily.
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If there's no implementation whatsoever, then it sounds like it could be just a few days of work, and that's going to include some testing, validating, and the adjustment phase, what have you so forth.
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Some studios might have to make some adjustments to streaming, but we're hearing for the most part it's easy to put into games, and that's big, especially for where we are in the life cycle,
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where it's generally understood, and the sentiment is, that PS5 will stay very relevant deep into PlayStation 6.
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So this is a huge boon to tens of millions of base consoles out there.
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This is awesome, especially in the face of, you know, that idea that, okay, PSSR, that's kind of a paywalled PS5 Pro type of thing.
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Sony wants that reasonable gap between their consoles, especially with diminishing returns so you know you would think
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that they would not be doing something like this behind the scenes
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but sure enough they did and it's already deployed in two games
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so that's uh it's huge this is we're seeing some great results
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so far and you can't deny
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that this is actually pretty awesome all right let's get into
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some playstation studios news with god of war lao fe the
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pre -orders are now live for this game both physical
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and digital and unsurprisingly the game is going to be a full -price $70 game, still coming out February 16th.
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If you do happen to pre -order, then you get a Last Wish armor set and the Frank Golden Leaves appearance, which appears to be purely cosmetic,
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and also an in -game resource pack.
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The Digital Deluxe Edition is $80 USD that comes with a Dark Alchemy armor set, a Blade, Bow Scales, Catalyst,
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another resource pack, and the Digital Mini Artbook and official Gaudibor Laufey Digital Soundtrack and as for the armor set, the blade, things like that,
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that can all be unlocked naturally in game
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so you don't have to pre -order if you don't want to
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but on the PlayStation blog announcing the pre -orders we did see two new screenshots
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and one of them shows Faye
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and Kratos in what appears to be a Greek temple which
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that on its own is causing a lot of speculation
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because as we saw from the initial 20 minute opening sequence Kratos does make a brief appearance
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and that's the thing right Like, in the context of the story, it's Fae passing away, going to this afterlife called the Everyone, which is all the gods from different mythologies,
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and so I think it was, like, natural to think, like, oh, God, like, you're gonna see a lot of the Greek gods in here as well.
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So as far as the environment is concerned and how Kratos sort of like weaves into that, because it's got to be some sort of spiritual,
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higher plane, mental connection type of thing.
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I mean, Kratos had those sort of visions throughout Ragnarok.
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So I'm very curious to see how it would shake out and how Kratos is going to appear, how frequent that will certainly be very fun to explore.
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But we did also see a gameplay clip as well, a very short one.
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This was highlighting Faye using the serpent bow.
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And this really does show off the more DMC -like aerial combat.
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It's very combo -heavy.
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You can free -aim or you can hip -fire.
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So, you know, gameplay, this is where the game can really carve out a different path for itself
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because we already know it's going to be a lot more vertical
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and you're going to be jumping and stringing together combos in a different way than what we saw throughout 2018 in Ragnarok.
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So, you know, between that and visuals, the game is still an absolute stunner.
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I'm still shocked at how gorgeous it looked from
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that 20 -minute presentation but that and the story I I'm loving everything I'm seeing
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so far and so the game now has pre -orders available
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and there's a bunch of junk on there too
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if you want to pre -order and get all that stuff ahead of time Now,
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God of War Laufei is also a great time to mention one very interesting and neat resource that just came out, which is this new website called PS Store DB made by Maki,
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where it's very much like Steam DB in that, one, you can log into it and you can track your gameplay hours and your trophies, build out a profile like that,
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so it's very handy for that.
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But you can also track games on all the regional PlayStation stores to see how well they're doing, look at price changes, things like that.
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But in the case of game sales and pre -orders, for example, we can see God of War Lao Fei shot up to number two on nearly every PlayStation store,
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only being beaten by GTA 6, which at least for that game, which is very much an outlier, you know, there's very few times I think where any game is going to outpace that.
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So we can say, generally speaking, Lao Fei is doing incredibly well.
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But this does add to the online discourse, right?
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I think for a lot of games, the past how many years now it's been a common practice
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for major AAA titles where people talk about the pre -orders
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and how well the game is doing oh it's number one on Amazon it's been on Amazon for
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so and so months and same for like different PS stores
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but you know generally that stuff is judged in a vacuum
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because people don't go out of their way to check all the different stores you know
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so it's not usually the best metric
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and that's why I don't care to ever mention that all the game's number one on pre -orders.
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It's like, okay, well, is it like that everywhere?
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Probably not, or it's hard to say, right?
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So at the very minimum, if we wanna humor those conversations, PS Store DB seems to be a pretty good way to
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get at least a bird's eye view of all the different PlayStation stores to see like, okay, it is benchmarking pretty high.
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And for a game like this, it's not too surprising, but it is neat to see in practice for, you know, what is a new site
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and having a new high profile game be announced and see the effect on every storefront, again, from just a faraway glance.
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So it at least adds a little bit more credibility to the conversation if we want to humor the pre -order cycle,
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which that is still not nearly as indicative of the game's end sales by the time it does come out.
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There's still a lot of unknowns, but in the here and now we can say, Lao Fei, the general sentiment seems to be encouraging and people are pre -ordering the game en masse.
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Moving on to Naughty Dog, where there is a lot going on for the studio because this past week was The Last of Us Day,
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formerly Outbreak Day, which it took place on the 28th this year, not the 26th.
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But on Monday, they did announce a number of things.
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So for example, there's now new official separate social media accounts on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter for the franchise if you want updates on just this IP alone.
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And there's also a new Clicker armor set confirmed for Ghost of Yote's Most Wanted mode, which does look pretty cool, so I'll give them that.
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There's also a Clicker U2's figure, which is available for pre -order right now until October 26th.
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There's also a Last of Us Part 1 and 2 PS5 Welcome Hub background, which combines both the arts.
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Looks pretty neat.
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There's a Last of Us PSN avatar set you can redeem.
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There's also some Steam avatars.
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And Naughty Dog also put out this one -hour -long subway ambiance video on their YouTube channel, which is very much a ASMR,
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leave it on in the background kind of thing.
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The red flashing light subway sequence and the ambient noises.
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So if you want to be a little bit creeped out and it's October, I guess you can have that on from now on.
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But the really big news comes by way of the end of the Last of Us Day celebration, where on Naughty Dog's site,
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we have Neil Druckmann giving some very important updates on this IP and Intergalactic.
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So for The Last of us, Druckmann wrote, and I quote here, since Grounded 2, we've talked about the possibility of telling more stories in the world of The Last of Us.
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We have a couple of very exciting new projects in very early stages, so we can't say much about them at this point.
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I will tell you that both projects will expand the canon of The Last of Us Beyond Part 1 and Part 2.
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The world of The Last of Us means a great deal to us, and we wouldn't return to it unless we had something meaningful to say.
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We believe these stories are worth telling." So this is huge.
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This is a far more direct acknowledgement of what this is, because if you remember previously, we had Neil Druckmann on Naughty Dog's site say the same thing,
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just in the sense that it was okay a couple of projects in the works, and that's where you have to be a bit more careful because projects could be anything.
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They do merchandising, they do The Last of Us Day every year, they're doing location -based entertainment.
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There's the TV show.
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Obviously, it would be great if they were games.
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Now it seems like this is a more direct acknowledgement of, okay, we have two stories we want to tell, canon and the universe.
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Like, they're not outright saying it, but it's pretty semantic that I think it would be fair to say these are games, and one of them is part three.
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Another one could be a separate smaller experience a different story
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that again is canon but it's not strictly part of the characters
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that we know and love or maybe it is
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but it's like tommy you know because that was a thing
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that was being discussed for a little bit
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but it's you know one thing is clear right this ip is very boutique
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and it means a lot to not just playstation
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but certainly naughty dog they're very protective of it
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and they did spend a substantial amount of time on a multiplayer live service game
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that got a little bit too big the scope creep hit them
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and you know that fork in the road of single player or this game, and then we have to be stuck maintaining it for an indefinite amount of time, right?
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And so it's all good that they chose what I believe to be the correct path, but they spent a lot of time and money and they lost time doing that Last of Us game,
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but it's still a property that they don't want to walk away from.
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And as we'll talk about with more Naughty Dog Stories, the studio's roadmap is probably heavily comprised of risk and mitigating risk
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and you have established properties that you love
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and care about you can't leave them on the table for too long I would argue
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if they are as big as they are
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and with games as costly as they are you know it's not as easy to experiment nowadays
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and also there's just enough time passed between these projects
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so I think it was only a matter of time
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that we eventually see potentially Naughty Dog looking to go back to The Last of Us with something meaningful
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and that could very much be part three.
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Now as for Intergalactic the Heretic Prophet, the update here is that the studio is heads down, still working on the game,
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they're still calling it the most ambitious game they've made so far, but they need more time to cook just a little bit longer, and they want to set expectations,
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they'll be quiet for the rest of the year.
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But 2027, they will fully reveal the game, and the post closes out with new concept art of Jordan facing the alien planet of Semperia,
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which that on its own does look cool.
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I guess it's not even necessarily an alien planet, but that's the thing, right?
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There's still so many unknowns about the game, but just that concept art does set the mood and the tone very well.
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But the great thing here is, yeah, they set the record straight.
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You're not going to see it at the TGAs.
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That, at least to me, was the running theory that made the most sense
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and I was of the opinion
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that the game is going to show up again at the TGAs if they are planning to launch it sometime next year.
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PlayStation
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and their studios have kind of been in this you know
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pipeline of next time we show the game in a big
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substantial way like we can get semantic on the first time you see it whether it's a teaser
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or something like Wolverine where they didn't even make the game yet
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but that sort of like proper next reveal story trailer gameplay trailer, you know, like, like the first time we saw Lao Fei was 20 something minutes,
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like when they show that kind of footage, the game's closer than we think.
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And so that's kind of where intergalactic is of the next time they show it, you should expect that it would launch within six ish something months, hopefully.
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The problem is Naughty Dog is a studio famously known for not hitting deadlines reliably, right?
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So I still would love to see the game come out on time If we're hearing it's like mid -27, maybe a little bit in the back half, what have you.
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But I would have thought the TGAs would be a great place to do that.
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So I would honestly posit that maybe they were trying to hit the TGAs and couldn't.
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But that's just pure speculation on my part.
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I just, I enjoy that, okay, it's not going to be at the TGAs.
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We know PlayStation does like to be there with something.
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So maybe we could still see something else.
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It just will not be this game
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but at the very minimum whether the game launches on time
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or not I really do want to see it
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and I hope we see it sooner rather than later in 2027
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because I am just really I am deeply fascinated by what this game is
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when we get when we look at the gameplay
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and the moment -to -moment combat like what are they cooking up here that's what I'm ready to take a look at.
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In other Naughty Dog news, we have a big update for the ongoing speculation that there's a new Uncharted game on the way, and it does seem like that is what's going on.
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So this past week, over on Twitter, we had NateTheHate, where somebody asked them about the project at Naughty Dog that Sean Escage is working on, and if it's The Last of Us related,
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Nate simply said no. Then we had this report from MP First, where based on sources familiar with the situation,
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that Naughty Dog is working on a new Uncharted game.
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Now, they can't confirm the protagonist.
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They don't know who it is, but they've been told Nathan Drake is in there in some way, shape, or form.
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And pertinently, the game is described as all new, not a remake.
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And it should be coming after Intergalactic, and then after that is The Last of Us Part 3.
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Now, they do say the Uncharted game is Sean's project.
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He's directing it.
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And if you remember from earlier this year, he shared
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that photo of an old cannon on his personal Instagram where
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people found out it was a site visit to Trinidad and Tobago.
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which is a very Uncharted -like location, so I mean, it's something where it's the safest speculation around, but yeah, it seems like this is a new Uncharted game,
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so it's not a confirmation, but we've got some sources, we've got Nate saying it, we've got the site visit, studios do that all the time, like, okay, it sounds like we're going back to this IP,
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and I am for it.
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I think we had LTPS episodes back in 2017, after The Lost Legacy, and then also episodes,
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you know, early 2020, where we were talking about that rumor of a possible Uncharted 1 remake.
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And it's like, you know, I'm fine with certain IP being put down for a little bit.
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That's okay.
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I mean, that's why I think PlayStation in many ways can be great with their studios, their management, and their creative output is that it's okay to put something down and try something else. But,
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you know, Uncharted is one of those safer IPs
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and it is something where the game is culturally relevant and it's very impactful.
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You know, the effects of Uncharted are still felt to this day in the sense that
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that franchise really put 3D action platformers on the map with
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really exploring this idea of larger -than -life set pieces and cinematics, and Uncharted's big.
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It's one of the bigger PlayStation IPs out there, and circling back to what we talked about with the studio roadmap and risk mitigation.
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Something like Intergalactic is risky.
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It's new.
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It's unproven.
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It's very costly, so there has to be something on the back burner in the pipeline of, okay, here's the more safe bet, which is a new Uncharted game.
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And that's, that's great.
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Like it's been put down long enough.
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I'm ready to go back to it.
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I think it would be fantastic to see whatever this is.
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We don't know if it's like a proper Uncharted 5, maybe another sort of offshoot thing.
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And we don't know if it's Drake or not based on the ending of Uncharted 4.
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It's tough to say, but I mean, it's, it's awesome.
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I'm good.
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I'm ready.
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Like let's do it.
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Especially knowing that, okay, like this game, I would think is maybe going to come out before 2030, just off the back of if intergalactic launches mid 27,
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late 27, whatever the case is, you're going to have a lot of people then funnel into the Uncharted game.
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If that's, you know, on time and not running into major hurdles, you're going to do full production and full production is like two -ish something years.
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So we might have the game before 2030, actually.
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The Last of Us Part 3, that's a different story.
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That's probably deep 2030s, but at least based on what we're hearing right now, that is Naughty Dog's roadmap.
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I find it to be believable, and it's also something that greatly excites me as a Naughty Dog fan.
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We're getting a new IP, going back to Uncharted, and then possibly exploring more of The Last of Us, which by the time that comes out, we would have had nothing for The Last of Us for 10 -something years,
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you know, which sucks, right?
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Because we know we had the multiplayer thing, but we're not going to open up that can again.
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So it's just based on what we're hearing, it all lines up.
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And, you know, for me, it's exciting.
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Now, another rumor from NateTheHate going over an older PlayStation IP coming back is an even older IP, that being Ape Escape.
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We are hearing that maybe this is returning as well.
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So over on Reset Era on the PS Studios OT, people were discussing those rumors about older IP being brought back.
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We've heard about Killzone, Infamous, and also Ape Escape was mentioned, so NateTheHate was asked to weigh in, and he responded with, and I quote here,
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As I said a while ago, Sony is looking to bring back some dormant franchises, end quote, with the eyes emoji going crazy.
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So somebody assumed it was Team Asobi doing it.
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Nate said it's not them.
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He also clarified it's not Bandai Namco, not a situation like that where they licensed out the IP, but he's not 100 % certain.
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Either way, assuming this is to be believed, this is encouraging.
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Ape Escape, I will say, that was like the one PlayStation IP where it's kind of
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in this weird middle ground of no mainline entry since the PS2 days.
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The last proper entry was like PlayStation Move 2010, right?
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Like as a full -scale retail -esque experience.
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And Ape Escape is still like a very
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novelty maybe not novelty it's a known playstation property it has an identity more
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so in japan and europe less so in the u .s
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but like in japan strictly speaking like
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that is right next to your astrobot in the more modern times
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or toro ina ue but like the ape escape monkey is always known
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and shown off and used in marketing materials and merchandise they're selling keychains
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and trinkets like ape escape is just such a known thing in the playstation headspace even today, 16 years later from the last big release.
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So, Ape Escape, I think, always sort of had a chance to maybe come back in some way, shape, or form.
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And maybe now is the time.
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I don't know if PlayStation is making a more conscious effort to maybe buck this trend and this identity crisis of.
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Our games are so well -known as being the third -person action, over -the -shoulder cinematic storytelling games.
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And look, to their credit, they've had Ratchet & Clank Ripped Apart or Sackboy A Big Adventure or the Lego Horizon games.
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And you could say, oh, that was six years ago, that was three years ago, or what have you.
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But it's like games take forever to make.
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No matter what, they're going to kind of feel very sparse.
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They are still doing these games, but I'm curious
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if there's a conscious effort of let's one go back into
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the ip treasure treasure chest see what we can do in modern times
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and two try to do more of them we just need outside help
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because apparently it's not team asobi
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and i don't think it should be i think they should stick with astrobot with
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that property and evolve it and flesh it out even further
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but you know who else is doing it who did they sign on
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and what can they they spin up can this be a very parallel experience to astrobot
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and that you know that game was made on a disciplined budget, 60 people, won tons of awards, and it's a fun, colorful 3D platformer.
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It's a feel -good video game, and a modern Ape Escape could be that as well.
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I sincerely hope this is the start of something fresh, new, and encouraging for PlayStation,
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very much during this fan sentiment where things feel like they're at an all -time low.
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Seeing a new Ape Escape would be really fun.
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Really, really fun.
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I hope this does pan out.
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Next up, we have a new -ish patch for Marvel's Wolverine.
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I say new -ish because we had one yesterday for QSSR.
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The one before that, which was last Friday after LTPS came out, was another one for scent rails.
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So now they are fully allowing you to toggle scent rails and audio cues for all the collectibles.
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So you can turn off scent rails for the whiskey bottles
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you can turn off the audio cues for material crates
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and you can turn off the roots for the nightmare doors as well
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so all that is gone if you want them to be gone
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and they fixed a few other bugs in the patch
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but insomniac does say at the bottom that story critical sense will still appear
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so i'm not sure if like this is the end
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if they will offer a toggle for that or not
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because i would assume the whole idea for the game obviously
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in universe of like Logan saying oh I sense something I smell something he actually sniffs something
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and follows it I would think they want those things stay on for the default experience
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but it is great
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that like in two weeks they they really did address I
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would say most of the broad issues people had with the game with a lot of hand holding
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which was primarily for those collectibles because
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that was again the weird issue with the game in the review period is this idea
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that the scent trail was always there.
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It wasn't, but it was there for, you know, contextually story heavy stuff of Logan as a character.
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If you had a problem with the cues for all the collectibles, you can't turn those off.
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And I like that they were able to really take in
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that feedback by heart and able to address it in such a timely manner.
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Now I did mention earlier for The Last of Us Day with the clicker armor set
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and Ghost of Yote's most wanted mode.
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There actually is other PlayStation -themed outfits as well, so that's really cool because they're doing one for Helldivers, Astro Bot, and also Journey,
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and these are all for the most wanted mode, but if you do happen to unlock them, you can use them in the base game, the Sekigahara DLC, and Legends as well,
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so it's at least something earnable in the most wanted mode, then you can use it wherever.
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You know, as a PlayStation fan, I do always love the crossover and the different outfits.
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That does tend to happen pretty often.
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Saros just had those too, which is, it's always really neat to see those.
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But yeah, Most Wanted came out.
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The DLC came out.
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That's all live right now, so people are checking it out.
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Seems like the reviews are pretty good for it as well.
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Now, this one is not too surprising, but it's now been confirmed.
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Kena, Scars of Cosmora has officially been delayed to 2027, confirmed by Ember Lab over on the PlayStation blog, where they said they need more time for the game.
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It's still coming to PS5 and PC, so one of the few final, I would imagine, single -player PlayStation Studio games that Sony signed where the PC version is still coming,
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and we know a PS5 physical version is still coming as well, so that's great, but now it is put out there, confirmed 2027.
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No release window.
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They're not saying Q1, Q2, anything like that.
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Probably the safe way to put it anyway, so whenever they have a more accurate timeline they can put out there, I'm sure they'll eventually do that.
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All right, moving on to some general PlayStation and Sony news with a very big one,
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and that is the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas for next year, January 2027.
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Sony will not be there.
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They have pulled out of the event, which is big because they've been going to CES for 60 -something years.
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Modern Sony is a lot different nowadays, of course, because yes, they do have some electronics like headphones and
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cameras and they've well they spun off the bravia tv business
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that was with tcl and sony's the minority investor of
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that company they're 49 versus tcl's 51
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but the sony honda mobility initiative is dead
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and the last two years of ces half of
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that was the afila one car so that's gone
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and i mean ces the last five something years a lot of it has been them talking about playstation productions
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or Sony music and the anime space, right?
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Because that's what Sony is nowadays.
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They are an entertainment company primarily.
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They have electronics, but they've spun off a lot since then.
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And a lot of it is simply entertainment nowadays.
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You know, CES was the stage where like we've had more PlayStation announcements there as of late, not major ones.
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They'd give us some brief updates or do a game announcement like we saw with Horizon Call the Mountain, but it's not really like a heavy focused PlayStation event.
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You know, our big thing is Jim Ryan showing a logo for PS5.
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And now we can just simply say that's not going to happen for PlayStation 6.
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But there's like a lot of unknowns for how they may
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or may not reveal PlayStation 6 because we still don't know if it will launch on time late 2027.
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With that in mind though, what we can say is they will not be at this event, and that is a huge change for the company.
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Moving on to some heaping fresh copium for the disc controversy, where PlayStation is hearing the outcry loud and clear from not just fans,
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but also developers as well.
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So this story comes from Kenzo Saruhashi, the CEO of Nipponichi Software.
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They're known for the Deskaia franchise.
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They spoke with Kotaku at PAX West, and they were asked about Sony's decision to end disc production
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and how that might impact their business since they do release a lot of physical games
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and those bigger box limited edition versions as well.
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And so Kenzo said they initially had the same information as the public
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and that code in a box format is one possibility to navigate it, but perhaps not the only one.
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They said, and I quote, in our discussions with Sony so far, I think that they're hearing a lot of the feedback from customers.
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And so while that may be one destination that we arrive at, it's possible that the discussion may change in the future.
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So we'll have to see what happens, what comes of it, end quote.
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Now, obviously they're talking about only customer feedback, but I think the context is there of, oh, they're talking with Sony.
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They're probably voicing their own concerns.
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They too are blindsided by the announcement.
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And that's part of what I kept saying is that not a lot of people knew about this, and there are some businesses where this is a problem for them.
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I mean, Nipponichi, they very much do release niche games and experiences.
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Like, they heavily focus on a higher average selling price for their games at launch, and that hinges on those bigger box collector editions.
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They skew a lot more physically.
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And their fans are very much in the know of key cards, for example, which they experimented with didn't pan out all that well for them.
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So they get it, and they know this is a concern for them
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because their sales directly influence the budgets and salaries that are used to make the video games.
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You know, it's more so, I guess, a different dynamic for them.
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It's a major problem for the boutique publishers like a LRG or IM8Bit, obviously, but this is, I think,
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one of many examples of the developers themselves are also not too happy about this
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and it's just uh maybe somewhat encouraging as i said fresh copium hot off the press
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that implies maybe playstation is hearing more
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and more about this in a meaningful way from not just the fans
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but also their development partners now as i often say we don't cover the jailbreak and modding scene too often,
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unless there's bigger breakthroughs going on in the scene.
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Well, this past week, there was a pretty big breakthrough, which is a new jailbreak that is up to firmware 13 .60, which for those keeping score,
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two weeks ago, we just got firmware 14 .0, which means that a lot of PlayStation 5 consoles can be jailbroken.
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If you just, by some choice, happen to not turn on your PS5 for more than two weeks, and you're still on 13 .6,
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you are eligible for a jailbreak.
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This did not require having your console sit in a box for years like it took early on with the console.
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So the new relapse jailbreak works up to, well, from 7 .0 up to 13 .6.
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Like I said, it was by Nathan Fargo and Sonic ISO.
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So for this exploit, you just have to adjust primary DNS settings
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and the advanced internet setup settings
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and then you go to the user guide settings to open the ps5's web browser
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which you then load the jailbreak page automatically and you just, you get it going from there, and then you can install all sorts of custom packages and homebrew.
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I mean, that's where the PS5 is jailbroken up to a very recent firmware.
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In fact, that firmware is so new that consoles sold right now at retail are not shipping with 14 .0.
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Like, that's not a fast enough turnaround time.
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I don't know what they ship with, but it's definitely 13 .6 or lower, so that's, that's huge.
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Obviously, the thing with jailbreaks is that you can't go online there's a hard cutoff with the PlayStation software.
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So when they force firmwares, that means you have to go online.
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So you have, you would have had to have kept the console offline
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and you can never go online with it ever again, because it will prompt the firmware, of course.
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So that is the one caveat, but otherwise, yeah, it's a pretty big jailbreak that is now available to a lot of users than what was available previously.
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moving on to some third -party news where I did not think we'd have another story about Fizzant
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but here we are this time it's all about the game's budget
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because that was the chatter last week from Jason Schreier this idea
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that it sounds like Kojima asked a lot for PlayStation to pay for the game PlayStation then said no
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and it sounds like Xbox is maybe paying a lot less than that initial number.
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So we had that play out.
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Then that evolved into a new report from Christopher Dring on the game business
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that mentioned the budget was anywhere from $300 to $600 million.
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That was the chatter at TGS, and $400 million is seemingly the one heard the most, though Chris said he's not sure that Xbox paid that or is going to.
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Rather, the game's not out yet, obviously.
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Then over on Reset Era, Jason commented on this saying he's hesitant to get into exact numbers without seeing documentation or having multiple first -hand sources,
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but there are numbers for what PlayStation signed, what it was getting to, the number during negotiations, the number with A -list actors attached to it,
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a number Xbox agreed to, and a number it might really cost when it comes out.
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All said, someone at Xbox with first -hand knowledge of the deal says they signed Fizzant for significantly less than $400 million.
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And since then, Christopher Dring and Jez Corden from Windows Central, they both followed up saying the same thing, that Xbox is paying less than that.
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So now we have, I guess, a better idea of like, yeah, that's how this all went down, right?
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Of them wanting a lot of money, PlayStation was unwilling because there was just no compromise on either budget,
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exclusivity, obviously IP, but I think that was never really up for conversation at this point in Kojima's career.
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Maybe PlayStation was asking to own the I'm not entirely sure, but it's the same thing we've been saying.
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Like just nobody kind of came to terms with a deal that made everybody happy, but that then led to a surprise cancellation, at least from Kojima's point of view,
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even though negotiations were going on for about a few months at minimum.
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And then him having this epiphany of, oh no, what do I do?
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I'm going to have to go to somebody else.
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And he agreed to a smaller number.
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And that I think is the more pertinent item to discuss here.
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Not so much that PlayStation walked away from a Kojima game.
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Sure, that's still surprising and we can argue that they should have signed the deal and still paid for it.
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But I mean, really, I'm kind of annoyed because
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that means like the game's not what Kojima originally wanted it to be, right?
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Like it seems like there's very few people zeroing in on that.
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If we're talking about a game that allegedly had a $400 million budget and was exceeding that, now one, that's kind of insane, obviously.
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There's no getting around that.
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That's an absurd number to pay for a AAA video game.
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But if you're a Kojima fan, if you love the experiences he puts out and the talent he wants to associate on these games,
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I mean, look, I'd love to see what
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that $500 plus million game would have looked like by the time it came out.
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I don't care who pays for it, right?
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I'm just the guy on the ground floor who wants to play and experience compelling, groundbreaking video games.
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So I think it kind of sucks that this game potentially had a budget that was cut in half.
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I don't know how you're making the same game on that budget.
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Otherwise, he would have stayed at PlayStation.
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So again, like, it'll be fascinating to see what this game turns into by the time it comes out.
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But I feel like it's a very safe assumption to say
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that because PlayStation walked away
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and Kojima was not willing to waver on certain things like exclusivity that we're now getting a lesser experience because of it.
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Next up we have some massive Grand Theft Auto 6 details
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because GTA 6 was the cover game for the new Game Informer issue, so we learned a lot about the scope in scale of GTA 6.
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And these are the little things that, well, maybe not little, but the stuff that you don't really get to see in that initial Netflix gameplay debut.
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So we got new screenshots and all these details about the world of Leonida, which we found out the world map is twice the size of GTA 5 that's locked in.
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It's much more dense, and it has six distinct regions, which is Vice City, the Leonida Keys, Grass Rivers, Port Gelhorn, Ambrosia,
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and Mount Calaga National Park.
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And yes, this stuff certainly was part of the various leaks that we saw, but it's always good to have proper confirmation that these are in the final game.
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Now, there is also a load of side activities as well, like as we saw airboats, but base jumping, billiards, fishing,
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gyms, jet skiing, kayaking, mini golf, scuba diving, street and off -road racing, and zoo visits, which is fascinating.
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Which, speaking of, there's 170 different types of wildlife in the game with various levels of rarity as well.
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And the game has a greatly improved dynamic weather system with wind affecting hair and trash,
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water surfaces, vegetation in the swamps, things like that tropical storms and hurricanes will be present in the game.
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And then NPCs have a greater range of diversity from heights to body shapes, muscle mass, and more.
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Franchise stables like getting busted by the police will still play out the way you expect with the text on the screen.
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And you can use a rideshare app in the game to travel around, and you can chat with passengers, listen to music, or browse social media.
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It's just, it's really neat stuff.
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And I'm sure this is still not even scratching the surface on the level of detail
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and things that you can
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and cannot do i mean we saw a lot of this
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stuff in the trailers just sort of i guess at a cursory glance right like
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that very first trailer showed the the sort of wide range of body shapes
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and sizes you know like a lot of games it's it's very mpc driven of it's one sort of character
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and it's redressed 50 something times really a dozen times nowadays for modern video games
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but i digress it's just uh man i'm I'm really looking forward to this game.
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I think there's actually very few games that have gotten me to this level of excitement in recent memory because, you know, for as much as I love like Saras,
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for example, or the next major Naughty Dog game
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or how I get giddy with excitement at a new Luminous or Katamari game.
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This very much is the outlier sort of pinnacle of like what 10 years and a billion dollars, more than a billion dollars can make, right?
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The kind of resources and energy that the human spirit can put together.
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I think that's what this game really heavily embodies, and I love that they're full sending it for the full Florida experience, which your boy recently did as well.
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Moving on to some PlayStation Productions news for The Last of Us HBO Season 3, we have more casting announcements.
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This was part of the news out of The Last of Us Day, but we know that John Goodman, Ian Alexander, and Laura Bailey have joined Season 3,
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which Laura Bailey had that small cameo appearance in season one, and she plays Abby in the part two game, but she is going to play one of the leaders of the Seraphites in season three.
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Ian Alexander was Lev, but that part is already getting played by Kiriana Cratter.
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So Ian and John Goodman, they're playing a friendly duo named Joey and Paco, known as the Heroes of the Highway.
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That's part of the report from Deadline where this news came out of.
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So I'm not sure if
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that means they're like kind of new offshoot characters not part of part two originally
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because you know john goodman i just immediately thought of the rattlers
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and uh santa barbara so i don't know
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if that's like really what's going to play out
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or what have you
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but um i'm still excited for season three i you know as much as season two had its problems
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and in some cases like really dropped the ball i still
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want to see how they play out season three now knowing
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that it is going to be the full thing and they're going to close it out with the Santa Barbara portion.
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Now with all that said, it is time for Let's Talk Plus, the weekly Let's Talk PlayStation giveaway,
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where four of you could win a code for Toem and Toem 2, which came out very recently on PlayStation 5.
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So I would like to congratulate these viewers right here.
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I'll be contacting you very soon via email or Twitter.
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Thanks again to Pop Agenda for the giveaway, and we will be going back to a $10 PSN code.
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So if you would like to win, then follow the link down below or scan the QR code, enter the Gleam giveaway, and supporting this channel a number of ways can gain you an entry,
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and I'll announce the winner next week because I'm trying to help pay for your games.
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Those are some of the stories from this past week that I wanted to talk about with you all, and our Tuesday video was finally a game collection update.
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It's been over a year, but here's my new pickups, which like I said, I'm not buying games nearly as much as I used to,
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but I am more motivated right now to buy PS5 physicals.
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So there you go.
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There's a new collection update.
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Also, Click R3 was last night.
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So that's live on the Spawncast Network channel and also Spotify, LTPS, also still on Spotify.
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You can go listen to the show, subscribe there, or watch the show.
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It's the full 4K60 video.
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And I have an announcement.
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So after 14 -something years on YouTube with an all -encompassing channel of PlayStation, that's news, opinion pieces, documentaries,
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tutorials, tips and tricks, and trophy videos.
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Now felt like finally the time to splinter off one of those, give it a separate home, so I have a new channel, at Mystic Trophies on YouTube.
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This will be the new home of trophy hunting videos.
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And to kick it off, very soon I will upload to get the channel going, a full marathon of 30 Platinum's 1 through 4,
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since everyone always tells me they love re -watching those videos.
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So there's your new set it and forget it video coming out soon.
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Part one through four, it's like four and a half hours long or something like that.
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But that will be the new home of trophy playthroughs, which I have to say it's very much a side thing.
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So it's going to be very inconsistent, but I've got a few cadence of videos planned for it.
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But that's where you're going to see all the new platinum runs.
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Saros will be on there as well.
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I filmed my full Saros run and I'll try and upload on that channel as often as I reasonably can.
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But I don't know, it felt like maybe it was time to finally just do
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something a little bit separate from the main channel since YouTube's always weird with that stuff nowadays.
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I feel like most people have 30 different channels by now, so it took me a little bit longer.
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But either way, you can go subscribe and we'll have uploads going on that channel relatively soon.
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And that is pretty much it.
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So that concludes this week's episode of Let's Talk PlayStation.
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Asian.
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I'm Ryan Benecki.
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Thank you all so much for talking with me, and I will see you all next Friday.
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Phương Pháp Shadowing Là Gì?
Shadowing là kỹ thuật học ngôn ngữ có cơ sở khoa học, ban đầu được phát triển cho chương trình đào tạo phiên dịch viên chuyên nghiệp và được phổ biến rộng rãi bởi nhà đa ngôn ngữ học Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Nguyên lý cốt lõi đơn giản nhưng cực kỳ hiệu quả: bạn nghe tiếng Anh của người bản xứ và lặp lại to ngay lập tức — như một "cái bóng" (shadow) đuổi theo người nói với độ trễ chỉ 1–2 giây. Khác với luyện ngữ pháp hay học từ vựng bị động, Shadowing buộc não bộ và cơ miệng phải đồng thời xử lý và tái tạo ngôn ngữ thực tế. Các nghiên cứu khoa học xác nhận phương pháp này cải thiện đáng kể phát âm, ngữ điệu, nhịp điệu, nối âm, kỹ năng nghe và độ lưu loát khi nói — đặc biệt hiệu quả cho người luyện IELTS Speaking và muốn giao tiếp tiếng Anh tự nhiên như người bản ngữ.