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As always, by my friend slash

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The guy who has been doing this show

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with me for nine

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full years now

2:27

and it shows. Mister Spicer,

2:30

hello, Christian. Hello, Jeff.

2:32

I'm reporting to you live from

2:34

mountain time zone just like you. I'm

2:36

huddled on the floor and I've got

2:39

some sound dampening, nice throw

2:41

blankets next to me if you're watching the video

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version and You

2:46

know, I'm I'm sitting on the floor, so let's get

2:48

to it. Tell me everything I got right from -- I got last

2:50

year. -- I I thought you were just just

2:52

trying to recreate the way we did the show

2:54

the first time. When you were sitting on the floor in

2:56

the closet surrounded by

2:58

coats. Well, yeah, I was like this show's not gonna

3:00

last. I don't need to invest in a mic

3:02

arm. I'd just sit in the closet and talk to

3:04

Jeff for ninety plus

3:06

minutes, easy, busy, and then And here we are.

3:08

Full circle. 476. Full circle. You're

3:10

back. This is a very special

3:12

episode. This podcast

3:15

started on January eighth

3:19

two thousand fourteen, I believe. Gross.

3:22

Gross. Yes. Which

3:24

means that we are starting our tenth

3:27

full year. We have

3:29

completed nine years of this program.

3:31

And and this is always

3:33

the the first episode in January

3:36

because our show started the first week of January.

3:40

Well, technically a second. But we always do the

3:42

first episode in January as

3:44

our annual. I like to talk about it in

3:46

like the old annuals that comic books

3:48

used to do. And it's our chance

3:50

to kinda get back to our roots. Christian

3:53

gets back into a closet. Pulls a

3:55

microphone in his hand, gets all sweaty

3:58

inside inside a very

4:00

small space. I don't know. It's his it's his method.

4:02

He just likes to get back to it. And we

4:05

take a look. We take we assess

4:07

the year that was. We

4:09

talk about the state of the podcast.

4:11

And then we do what we like

4:13

to call. The reckoning. Because

4:16

in this annual episode every year,

4:19

Christian and I make

4:21

predictions about the year to

4:23

come. And in this episode,

4:25

we will both look back at

4:27

the predictions that we made in

4:30

twenty twenty two and

4:33

find out in the reckoning whether

4:35

we were correct or

4:37

we got wrecked. And

4:40

I will just say, maybe

4:43

we wanna skip that this year. Just maybe

4:46

I wanna skip that this year. 476

4:48

like I got way more wrecked than

4:50

co wrecked. We won't find out.

4:55

We won't find out. And then And then

4:57

we'll talk about the games that we know are

4:59

coming in the calendar year twenty twenty

5:01

three and give the games are most excited

5:03

about kind of our feelings about

5:05

the roadmap that lies

5:07

ahead. And then, ladies

5:10

and gentlemen, we will step

5:12

up to the plate and

5:14

give our predictions for

5:17

twenty twenty three And,

5:19

you know, there's a lot of places around the Internet, a lot

5:21

of podcasts perhaps that predict

5:23

the year to come, and they all

5:25

like to do bold predictions. We also

5:28

do bold predictions. We stand

5:31

right there on

5:33

that outstretched limb

5:36

of the tree, out on the

5:38

on the branch, out out on a limb,

5:41

making our bold predictions, but do we stop there,

5:43

Christian? No, we don't. We

5:45

don't stop it bold. No. We go

5:47

further into flavor country and we

5:49

go full cool ranch getting

5:53

predictions that frankly are

5:55

just unlikely to happen at all.

5:58

We step off that branch. And just

6:00

fall. We as free fall. Just

6:02

utter free fall. But that's

6:04

the fun. And that's the fun. And every once in a

6:06

while, we catch a little truth

6:08

on the way down. We

6:11

were we're gonna find out

6:13

how we did this last year and we're gonna

6:15

make some some really awesome bold and cool

6:17

ranch predictions for twenty twenty three. It's always a

6:19

good time. Thank you for joining us.

6:21

But Christian, let's start

6:24

just talking about the podcast

6:26

because this was a very big year

6:28

for the podcast. Ninth

6:31

476. We we started our ninth year,

6:34

and I listened back to the

6:36

the annual from last year as I always

6:38

do in preparation for this episode. And

6:41

we were kind of teasing at

6:43

that time that there was gonna be some big changes

6:45

for the show because we knew

6:48

that we were we were no longer

6:50

going to be associated with the the podcast

6:52

network five by five because they no longer

6:54

existed. We

6:55

were getting acquired. Yeah.

6:57

Yes. Oh, we acquired. As

6:59

as was nice to say. So we we

7:01

we went on on our own. We we started

7:04

a Patreon shortly after our

7:06

annual last in just the next couple of months, I

7:08

believe it started. And that was,

7:10

you know, for me, I

7:12

won't speak for you, but for

7:13

me, that was a little scary.

7:15

I

7:15

didn't know how people were gonna react to a show that

7:17

had been, you know, ad supported

7:19

and hadn't asked for any support from

7:22

the audience for eight years.

7:24

And then starting our ninth year, we're like, oh, by the way,

7:27

could you support us, ladies and gentlemen? Are

7:29

we important enough to you to

7:32

support with your dollars? And

7:35

I'm so delighted to say that people

7:37

responded very well to that,

7:39

and and the show has continued. And and it

7:41

looks like it will continue we have

7:44

such an awesome community of people.

7:46

And I say it every year, but we've we've cultivated

7:49

just a a really great group of

7:51

positive, awesome folks

7:53

and all the touch points that we have, emails,

7:55

and discord, and

7:57

the subreted, and all the ways we

7:59

interact with folks. And now on the Patreon

8:01

especially, it's it's

8:03

always so cool to see the kinds

8:05

of people that value

8:07

the show and that listen to us it

8:10

makes me very proud of the

8:12

audience that we have. It's not the biggest

8:14

podcast in the world, but it I think

8:16

our audience values

8:18

what we we're doing it

8:19

clearly, and and

8:21

they're, you

8:21

know, the kind of people that I wanna be interacting

8:24

with as well. Yeah.

8:26

I mean, I think the the variety

8:28

of our audience I love, you know. The

8:31

older listeners, younger listeners, women,

8:33

people in the industry people

8:35

that maybe have don't have the time to game like

8:37

they used to anymore, but still wanna keep up

8:39

with it. I love it. And I love

8:41

the interactions we see 476 the community. And

8:43

I love that my parents, your parents,

8:45

your 476, and my wife are the

8:47

only eight people that support the show. But by

8:49

god, they put their money where their mouth to keep us -- You

8:51

know, doing this -- Yeah. -- two hours on Sunday

8:53

so they can be left alone for a little

8:55

while. Yeah. You go ahead, boys. Go do your

8:57

podcast. I

8:59

often ask my wife why she's giving half 476

9:01

money to you. She

9:04

really

9:04

wants to support the show. My

9:06

wife says 476 just wants to make sure Patreon

9:08

gets their cut. So she's, you know,

9:11

she's all about that ten percent. That's

9:15

amazing. Actually, I think Pietro might be

9:17

more than that. I don't even know.

9:18

Anyway, but it's more. Holy cow.

9:20

We joke, but it, you know, it really was

9:22

a a really uncertain time

9:24

for us. And didn't

9:25

know, you know, the show had been been

9:27

going along for a long, long time,

9:29

and, you know, COVID happened

9:31

and and you know, the our

9:33

audience was uncertain that our numbers

9:35

went down. During COVID, it's,

9:37

you know, it's a scary thing. And then

9:39

all of a sudden, you go, oh, no. We don't even

9:41

have the 476 of of of

9:43

of this network of that we've

9:45

we've, you know, since our very inception

9:48

had been part of and had handled our ad

9:50

sales and how that was all gonna work. And You

9:53

know, it it was the

9:55

the future of the show was very much in question.

9:58

And I was

10:00

uncertain about whether we should even do a

10:02

Patreon and it has been a really

10:04

positive experience. Most notably

10:06

because we have begun to

10:08

do these extra bonus shows,

10:11

and they've been so fun, you know,

10:13

and bringing Atlanta on boarding Atlanta

10:15

has been a great guest on the

10:17

show for years and a great friend

10:19

and one of my favorite people in

10:21

the world And that

10:23

fact that she has been willing to be with

10:25

us every week --

10:26

Mhmm. -- on Wednesday has has just been a

10:29

delay. It's been I mean, I'm like, oh

10:31

my gosh.

10:31

I don't just have

10:32

to hang out with Christian every week. Hey, there's somebody

10:35

else. Yes. It's amazing. And I

10:36

just gotta get to talk to somebody that knows

10:38

video games. You know? Like, I'm finally

10:42

You're

10:42

welcome to someone that I'm like, so

10:45

on that note, how

10:47

was Marvel Snap not in your top

10:49

five? I was thinking about

10:51

that. Like, I get the setup for

10:53

Vampire Survivor's Well Play, 476 setup.

10:55

Thank you. But Like, that's

10:57

the state of the podcast that I wanna talk about. Every

10:59

week after it came out, you're like, I'm addicted. Won't

11:02

put it on my phone. It's all I play. stop

11:04

playing. Gotta love it. Yum. Yum.

11:05

Yum. Yum. We do our five 476 games and you're like,

11:08

Anyway, no Marvel Snap.

11:10

I think it probably should have

11:13

been in my top five, but I I knew I wanted

11:15

vampire survivors to be my number

11:16

one. And I couldn't resist

11:18

the swerve. You know, I could resist

11:20

the I

11:21

couldn't resist that. And and I felt like, you

11:23

know, there's a

11:25

poor Marvel snap dev just crying right

11:27

now, knowing that, like, they will be

11:29

476. Kanada's Yeah. I mean, the the one thing

11:32

that they have that was it. That's all they had

11:34

going for. It was to be Jeff Kanada's 476 five

11:36

favorite of the

11:36

year. Why don't you talk about this?

11:38

Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. It's

11:42

it probably should have been my top five, 476, you

11:44

know, if if we're doing a top ten, there's

11:46

no way I would have been able to leave it out of the top ten, and it

11:48

probably should have been my top 476, but

11:50

I I also feel like I I carved out

11:52

that other category for it and

11:55

I just have a

11:57

really hard time making a

11:59

mobile card game, my my number

12:01

one

12:01

game. Even even as much as I love Marvel

12:05

Snap. And it just felt like I don't know. It

12:07

just it just felt like the right thing

12:09

to kind of I

12:11

I still don't know how I feel

12:13

about the overall seasonal

12:15

thing. I mean, honestly,

12:17

It leaves a sour taste in my mouth

12:19

every month when I get knocked back

12:21

down. Yeah. And I don't know if I'm gonna be

12:23

able to continue doing

12:25

that too. I mean, I love the game a lot,

12:28

and it's a very, very good game. And, you

12:30

know, that is

12:32

clear. But

12:32

I

12:34

it does kind of leave a sour taste in my mouth every

12:37

time I grind and I grind and

12:39

I grind and then I get knocked back down,

12:41

you know. Anyway, it's not

12:43

a It's not a podcast about Marvel Snap, but I

12:45

appreciate you bringing it up. No. It's the

12:46

state of this podcast. I we're talking about the state of the

12:48

podcast. My state of this podcast was what

12:50

happened last week? Yeah. You need

12:52

to talk about it.

12:53

Fair enough. Fair enough. The

12:55

other thing is, you know, I always like to say at this

12:57

time, you know, this show

12:59

is Christian and I every week

13:02

And, you know, hey, nine

13:04

full years Christian, nine full

13:06

years, I don't know

13:09

Obviously, I don't listen to every podcast, but I don't know

13:11

of any other podcasts

13:13

that

13:13

has gone nine years

13:16

without a single week

13:18

without a new episode. We have

13:20

new

13:20

content, full new content

13:22

episodes every week for nine

13:24

years. We haven't missed a single week

13:26

No. And sometimes we have to be out of. And sometimes

13:29

we have multiple intros to

13:31

those podcasts that we

13:33

that don't make it to air, but we're so

13:35

committed to reaching difficulties almost

13:37

every time. Yeah. And

13:40

and and we also have, you

13:42

know, guest signed with us every single

13:44

week. And the

13:46

the it's always our

13:48

intention to have diverse

13:51

interesting voices that are that, you

13:53

know, that contrast us.

13:55

And I'm really proud

13:57

of that fact that we've been doing that for nine years and

13:59

always had a third person

14:01

that is from the world of games in

14:03

some interesting different way. And

14:06

I'm committed to continuing that and

14:08

and finding more interesting, unique

14:11

voices that that

14:13

might agree with us, might not agree with

14:15

us, might bring in perspectives that we

14:17

just don't have, might bring in games that we

14:19

don't know about. That's the fun. Mhmm. And

14:21

this is always the the part of the year where

14:23

I reach out the community and I say, hey, if

14:25

you're listening and there is somebody

14:28

that you know about that we might not even

14:30

know about a a

14:32

podcaster, a journalist a

14:35

YouTuber, a Twitch streamer, anybody

14:37

that you think would make a great guest on our

14:39

show, great third voice on our show, please.

14:41

Let us know. Email us a

14:43

DLC feedback at gmail dot com.

14:45

Make a thread in the discord. However, you get

14:47

us that information. I love reaching out and finding

14:49

new people to bring on the show and as

14:52

the more diverse, the better. I think it makes

14:54

great conversations. So

14:56

please continue to suggest folks It's

14:59

always, you know, we've been very lucky the

15:01

way people respond when we reach

15:03

out has been genuine generally

15:05

very very receptive

15:08

and we wanna keep finding out

15:10

about new people to bring them on board.

15:14

So I'm proud of this year

15:16

of guests as as I usually am. And I but I think we can

15:18

continue to do better and find more more

15:20

people, but it it requires the audience helping

15:22

us because, you know, we are

15:24

limited in our

15:26

our our scope of of who we

15:28

know.

15:30

What else? What else can we talk about this? I mean, I think

15:32

the Patreon was the big thing and and

15:34

and expanding the show to multiple shows.

15:36

You and Alex are just knocking it out of the park

15:38

with feeling this. It's just awesome. That's

15:41

a part of the the Patreon

15:43

experience. And I think the audience has really

15:45

respected it and and responded to

15:47

it. And I'd

15:49

say the community

15:50

on the community on Patreon

15:52

is really great. As well. Like, I love our discord

15:55

community, the subreddit, of course, email

15:57

all that stuff, and I am on

15:59

other social media less and less. And

16:01

I I really am

16:03

proud of the community and

16:05

how they handle themselves. And

16:07

there's not always agreement. There's

16:09

often you know, we the the

16:11

community's favorite game of the year based on

16:13

an incomplete sampling, you know,

16:16

polling has wrapped up. You know, it's

16:18

fun to see people you know,

16:21

vying for their game and and

16:23

disagreeing with others about why that game shouldn't

16:25

be this or whatever, but it's always respectful

16:28

It's always handled in a

16:30

delightful way and

16:32

that is in part

16:34

largely, almost exclusively to

16:36

you all. The community members for --

16:38

Yeah. -- bringing that and really,

16:40

you know, taking heart to making

16:42

the world a better place. And I'm super proud

16:45

of this little corner of the video

16:47

game Internet world that

16:49

has kind of rallied around this show and it would

16:52

not be what it is without you

16:54

all and those interactions that you

16:56

bring in the tone you set, both on the

16:58

Patreon and on the Discord, and

17:00

you know, that that makes my day because the Internet is

17:03

often a dark scary place, especially

17:05

when you're looking at gaming news a lot.

17:07

And I'm it brings me

17:09

so much joy to see our community having these enlightening

17:12

discussions and also doing it in a

17:14

way that

17:15

mean, this sounds cheesy, but it makes me proud. Yeah.

17:18

No. I I agree. It's it's

17:20

wonderful. And I'm honored to be a

17:22

part of it and, you know,

17:24

476 folks supporting the show

17:26

and and stepping up to the play this year and and really

17:28

saying that, hey, we value you, not just not

17:30

just because we download and and listen to you,

17:32

but we're valuing you with our dollars. That's it's a huge thing. And

17:34

it is not something we take lightly.

17:37

And, you know, we

17:39

appreciate it. And, hey, you know,

17:41

even if you can't Support the show

17:43

financially. We would never want

17:45

anybody to support the show financially if it puts you in

17:47

any kind of financial hardship. There

17:50

are other ways to support the show. You can you can tell your

17:52

friends about it. You can post about it on

17:54

social media. You can

17:57

grab a t shirt at DLC swag

17:59

dot com or a hat. We have mugs and

18:01

and fun stuff as well. So

18:04

You know, the Patreon has been wonderful and and

18:05

great, but we also appreciate support and just

18:08

getting the word out and letting folks know about the show

18:10

as

18:10

well. Alright. So that was, you

18:13

know, that was twenty twenty two. It it it

18:15

tumultuous year in in a lot of

18:18

ways. Personally, for me, a tumultuous year

18:20

globally, it continues to be, you know,

18:22

as we sort of try to crawl out of

18:24

the of the

18:26

pandemic. And

18:29

a really, I think, exciting year for video

18:31

games in a lot of

18:32

ways. And, you know, we we try to cover

18:35

it as best we could.

18:37

And we made some predictions. And

18:39

we're gonna see if those

18:42

I mean, we don't have to do

18:44

this segment. We could just skip

18:45

it, Christian, because I don't I

18:48

don't think people

18:48

need to know how wrong I was exactly.

18:51

I I mean, last year,

18:53

476 one. I knocked out of the

18:56

park. This year,

18:58

not so much.

19:00

mean, I'm

19:01

okay if

19:01

we wait a little bit because I think I'll I

19:04

think I'll net one more prediction here in a

19:06

short amount of time because somebody didn't

19:09

realize that they were supposed to do this in twenty

19:11

twenty two, and they're like, oh, we'll just wait.

19:13

And I'm

19:13

like, no, dude. Do it

19:16

already. So, you know, if we wanna wait, for me to

19:18

get put one more green check mark next to my

19:19

spirit. What was that supposed to do?

19:21

I'm okay with that.

19:23

What? I'm I'm not following. What was that supposed to do? Did

19:25

I mean, I'll say you forgot 476 you want if you want

19:27

to wait, not you, a a large video

19:29

game company. I was supposed to

19:32

announce something by now, and they're

19:34

just sitting on it sitting on

19:36

it. Just killing me. Take

19:38

it personal. It's like when, you know,

19:40

major announcements happen right after he posts the

19:42

show like this, there are someone sitting at a big

19:44

video game company that listened to last year's show

19:46

and they're like, oh, yeah, Christian, you could be

19:48

right. We could announce this right

19:50

now. But we're not gonna we're not gonna announce it all twenty twenty

19:52

two just to screw

19:54

you

19:54

over. And

19:56

you Lesson

19:57

learn. That's one of

19:58

the things that, you know, doing this nine

20:00

times now. It's one of the things

20:03

that

20:04

I have noticed that it's

20:06

really hard to predict stuff

20:08

that's 476 happen the immediate

20:10

year you're

20:11

about to enter. It's easier to predict

20:13

stuff like two or three years out. Like, this

20:15

is actually even. Yeah. Yeah.

20:18

Yeah. Because it feels like most

20:20

of a lot of my predictions are just like, I feel like I'm just

20:22

like a year early on this. And I I

20:24

feel like I'm still confident that that's gonna happen.

20:26

That just was a little soon on what

20:29

I was

20:29

know, when I was the time frame, I was putting it in.

20:31

Yeah. I mean, that one though you and I both

20:34

were like Elon twenty twenty

20:36

four. Like, I feel like that one didn't

20:38

work that well.

20:40

Yeah. Yeah.

20:42

Maybe by

20:43

twenty twenty four, yeah, maybe by twenty twenty four, I'll

20:45

go full circle and we'll be like,

20:51

Alright. Well, let's get into the reckoning

20:53

and revisit our

20:55

bold and cool ranch predictions from

20:57

twenty twenty

20:58

two. Starting. Are you ready,

21:01

Christian? I haven't started

21:02

my notes on my phone. I'm

21:04

ready. Notes on your phone. Alright.

21:06

Okay. Well, here is the audio.

21:08

I put in a little

21:11

underlying music because it's kinda hard to tell when

21:13

we're talking or when we're talking, you

21:15

know, which which us is talking.

21:17

Now us or time traveling is

21:19

hard, you know, to put

21:21

a little music bed on the

21:23

predictions. But here is

21:25

Christian Spicers' 476

21:27

bold prediction from twenty

21:29

twenty two. My first bold prediction and

21:32

one where I'm

21:32

I win either way. I either win because I'm

21:35

right or I win because I'm wrong. And

21:37

that it's like Game

21:37

Pass, it's a price

21:40

increase. Did

21:43

not happen? I'm very glad you win

21:45

because you're wrong, I

21:46

guess. And we all win with that. This is that's the

21:49

best music back music bed

21:51

you put on these, Jeff. That 476

21:52

mean, we all win with those. Great

21:54

to hear the The cool ranch has

21:56

a pretty cool. Cool with you guys.

21:57

Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah. I I did I did

22:00

one music bed for the bowls, one for the

22:02

cool ranch. You know what I mean? I'm gonna spice it up a

22:04

little

22:04

bit. Yeah. This one, I

22:06

am I I yes. I got it wrong, but

22:09

Phil spent I I took I

22:11

took hardcore notes this year because I knew, but

22:13

Phil Spencer hinted at it. At

22:14

The Wall Street Journal

22:17

live. And he said, I do think at some point,

22:19

we'll have to raise the price on

22:21

certain things. But going into this

22:23

holiday, we thought it was important to

22:25

maintain the

22:25

prices. At which point I was watching Can we

22:27

afford

22:27

to buy multibillion dollar

22:31

companies? I mean, come on. I mean, if you read

22:33

between the lines, this is still

22:35

saying I listened to DLCs

22:37

the annual. And

22:39

screw Christian Meiser. We're gonna do

22:42

it. Come tomorrow. Not

22:42

today. Not

22:43

today. Yeah. So, you know,

22:45

thanks a lot, Phil.

22:49

Alright. So that's a

22:51

miss, but Christian, you're confident 476 gonna happen.

22:53

I don't like that I don't

22:55

want this to happen.

22:57

I think that the low price point for

22:59

476 Pass is a part of its

23:01

charm, obviously. And part of the reason

23:03

why it feels like such a no brainer

23:06

is, you know, ten bucks

23:08

or fifteen for

23:10

Ultimate. And all the games you get just

23:12

feels incredible. And,

23:14

you know, I don't want that to go up. I

23:16

I'm wondering if if you think it's gonna go

23:19

up, like, you know, how

23:21

Netflix has been going up a

23:23

dollar, two dollars. Do you think it'll do

23:24

that? Or do you think they'll do, like, a big chunk?

23:26

Like, five dollars? No. It's gonna be

23:28

a little bit, and there have been rumors and

23:30

rumblings that they're gonna try to do, even do an

23:32

ad supported. Like, the all this stuff is

23:35

very fluid, right, and how they're gonna

23:37

price this stuff and and what the price

23:39

elasticity is and and what consumers can tolerate. And

23:41

I think that part of the reason it also

23:43

didn't go up this year is that Spartacus,

23:45

if PlayStation's answer, quote

23:47

unquote, at one point, rumored

23:49

answer to Game Pass out and everybody was like, yeah,

23:52

Game Pass still

23:53

great. Not a competitor. It turns

23:56

out. No pressure. No

23:58

market pressure. Yeah.

23:59

Yeah. Yeah. Alright. Well, let's just not lose sight

24:02

of the fact that you were completely wrong

24:04

about that. Sweet. Alright.

24:07

Here's my first bold prediction from twenty

24:09

twenty two. Alright. My first bold

24:12

prediction I guess

24:14

I'm doubling down a little bit from last year.

24:16

But I will say, I

24:18

think this year, Nintendo is

24:21

all in on breath of the wild out

24:22

too. It is their fall game. It actually

24:25

comes out this fall 476 it

24:27

is the tentpole. It's basically all

24:29

they've got there. No Metroid Prime

24:32

four. Metroid Prime four is a

24:34

twenty twenty three game and breath

24:36

of the wild two. And I will also double

24:38

down and say, as I said

24:40

last year, It ain't called

24:42

breath of the wild too when it releases.

24:44

You'll have some other name, you

24:46

know, the the stones of fates,

24:49

you

24:49

know, legend Zelda ruins of glory or whatever

24:51

it

24:51

is. Peers of the

24:54

kingdom. So,

24:56

you know,

24:57

the most obvious part of my prediction is

25:00

true. Well, I will say

25:02

this. That was this is maybe the

25:04

only example of keeping talking and eventually

25:06

getting something right. Like, usually, the

25:08

longer we

25:08

talk, the wrong we get. And you did that, you

25:10

talked, then

25:11

doubled down and got more wrong and more wrong.

25:13

But then you kept talking, Yeah.

25:15

And you spun around. Yeah. Yeah. You spun

25:17

around with the first pitch. You spun around and

25:20

hit the second pitch, you know.

25:23

Actually, the back of the bat hit the second

25:24

pitch. Yeah.

25:27

So clearly,

25:28

very wrong about that. There's

25:30

even a question about whether Here's

25:32

the king that is coming this year. We'll be talking about that

25:34

very shortly in the

25:35

show. Oh, you just have last year's predictions.

25:37

As this year's predictions, Jeff just plays it

25:39

with a new music bed under

25:41

it. Yeah. That's what I keep saying. I feel like a lot

25:44

of these are, like, I'm just a year early on some of

25:46

these predictions. But

25:48

yeah. So I was very wrong about that.

25:51

But, you know, think

25:52

it's it's hard to it's hard to remember that.

25:55

But at that time, every everything was

25:57

calling it breath of the wild too. They were they were calling

25:59

it breath of the wild

26:00

too.

26:00

So like saying that it had a different title,

26:03

maybe not too much of

26:05

a not very bold,

26:08

bold ish. But, you know, that

26:10

that little sliver of it was

26:12

correct. And then me saying like Metroid

26:14

476 four in twenty twenty three. I don't even

26:16

know if that's that feels wrong too. But

26:18

we'll see. We'll see. Anyway, I

26:21

I have a a sliver of

26:23

correct but mostly wrong on my first

26:25

bold prediction. Christian Spice's

26:28

second bold prediction. Consoles

26:31

are generally available

26:33

come Black Friday.

26:37

Usually, it wouldn't be bold to

26:40

say you can actually buy a thing in a store,

26:42

but, you know, these are the times we

26:43

live

26:44

in. Yes. You know, in

26:46

the in the heat of of

26:48

COVID, we were staring down the barrel

26:50

of Omnicron variants. In

26:53

January of twenty twenty two. So it

26:55

it was bold to say, hey,

26:57

you could actually buy something

26:59

on Black 476. I

27:01

don't know. How do we how do we rate that one? I think you

27:04

could. I don't think you could get APS5

27:06

if you wanted

27:06

one. Could you?

27:07

So I I posted this in

27:10

our disc card when it happened. And I

27:12

also saved two IGN

27:14

articles that

27:14

signed for Thomas with the

27:17

receipts all year long. X

27:19

box series x in stock

27:21

now for everyone, Black Friday twenty

27:23

twenty two, and Black Friday twenty

27:25

twenty two, Walmart has PS five

27:27

consoles in stock now. And on

27:29

top of that, on

27:31

the day after Black Friday, whatever that is,

27:33

I went to my local

27:35

target there were five PS

27:38

fives sitting in

27:39

there to

27:40

buy. And I dude, I was like, I'm

27:42

taking a picture of this and sending it to

27:44

476. And I waited till now to

27:46

tell you this. I took a picture

27:48

of it and sent it to my

27:51

friend Jesus, who's a comedian who

27:53

had not talked to since the beginning of

27:55

the pandemic. And

27:57

my text was my text

27:58

was, Spicer 476

28:01

on

28:01

this. You just hit

28:03

the run context. I just

28:05

hit Jay and it went auto I don't know why, hey, Jesus.

28:07

I was gonna pull it

28:09

up. And

28:09

he replied,

28:09

he replied, that's dope, but I already

28:12

got one. How you been?

28:13

I love that.

28:16

That's how you

28:16

reach out to you haven't talked

28:18

to in a long time. I haven't

28:21

seen a Walmart, thinking to you, bro.

28:23

Like, I haven't talked to you

28:25

since the pandemic. He's great. Hey,

28:28

Zustrae. Great great comedian. So

28:29

funny, and I just texted him.

28:32

You know? What are you gonna

28:34

do? Cheers. Yeah.

28:37

Amazing at predictions, fat

28:39

thumbs. You know what I'm saying? That's But

28:41

I

28:41

I mean, that's a it's not

28:44

widely available. But I will say when

28:45

we recorded that in the peak of

28:48

Omnicron, the fact that, yes, there was

28:50

not a queue and you could get one

28:52

without a scalper getting in front of

28:54

you, take it I take a w and I get a w.

28:56

Alright. I I gotta I gotta give you the

28:59

w on that. Although, I'm I'm

29:01

sure that'll be some listeners who

29:02

are, like, I tried to get and I could

29:05

not. But

29:06

I don't know. Maybe not. So I said generally generally.

29:09

Generali. Alright.

29:11

Okay. Christian

29:13

has a win. And I think this is the

29:15

trend this year. Again, twenty twenty one

29:17

was my year. Twenty twenty two.

29:20

Whoof. Speaking of Wolf, here's

29:22

my second one. Cronos

29:24

Trigger remake announced

29:28

for a twenty twenty three release.

29:31

Nope.

29:33

Nope. That didn't Maybe. Maybe

29:35

I'll get the back half. Right? You

29:37

know? Twenty twenty three. Maybe. Maybe I'm

29:39

just a year early. That's is my spring

29:41

theme. Maybe just a year early.

29:43

But, no, there hasn't been a whiff of

29:45

a corona trigger remake.

29:47

That I know

29:48

of, unless I missed missed the announcement.

29:50

But I wasn't in Walmart sending

29:52

pictures to my friends to prove I was right

29:54

all year

29:55

long. What

29:55

are you

29:56

gonna do? So, you know,

29:58

not doing good. The

30:00

old Jeff 476.

30:04

Christian's third

30:06

bold prediction from twenty

30:08

twenty two

30:10

is this. Another major

30:13

franchise goes free to

30:15

play at least for a

30:16

mode. At least for

30:19

a mode, And we went into a long

30:21

discussion in that podcast

30:23

last year about what that

30:25

meant exactly and you were talking about Call of

30:27

Duty and how it sort of was doing

30:29

that and What game

30:31

are you gonna use as

30:34

your example of being right on this one?

30:36

Because it's pretty

30:36

general. A game, free

30:39

to play.

30:39

What do

30:40

you think? Overwatch two

30:42

nailed it. Alright.

30:45

Do we

30:45

not

30:45

know that at that time that Overwatch two was gonna be

30:47

a free to play game? Alright. Not it was

30:49

a SQL, numbered, SQL, boxed,

30:52

retailed item. Yeah. There you

30:53

go. Yeah. No. That's a that's a w.

30:55

Because that that That game,

30:58

that's a huge thing that I

31:00

went for you to play

31:01

huge. And I think

31:04

I think that I I gotta you full points for that. I

31:06

mean, you could argue that

31:07

the watch too isn't like

31:09

a major franchise, but

31:12

No. It is. Mean, think it is.

31:14

It is. Of course Clifford wants it to

31:16

be. Yeah.

31:17

Yeah. Alright. Christian

31:21

crushing me this year. He

31:24

burns burns everything

31:26

that can

31:27

burn. Everybody

31:28

sleeps better with a weighted blanket, Jeff. It's okay.

31:30

That's all you're feeling. It's a hug.

31:33

This is

31:34

the weighted blanket of podcasting.

31:37

Alright. My

31:37

predictions are like a weight of

31:40

correctness on your

31:41

chest until this

31:44

year's

31:44

Alright. Here's here's the weight

31:47

of incorrectness coming at you with my

31:49

third bold

31:51

prediction. Peers of War

31:53

six is announced, again,

31:56

not for this

31:56

year, but twenty twenty three or

31:58

beyond. And

31:59

it's open world Open

32:02

world gears of war.

32:04

Nope. And

32:05

nope. I mean, maybe maybe I'm

32:07

early. Maybe I'm fast early.

32:10

I think you have a time machine and this is like how you

32:12

choose to reveal it to our audience. You're like, oh,

32:14

I did so bad last year.

32:16

I did so bad.

32:18

All of

32:20

these feel like this year to

32:23

me. Yeah. It's just

32:26

my my time machine is

32:28

mis calibrated. Is what

32:30

it is. Yeah.

32:33

Alright. Not doing

32:35

well folks. 476 is why we do this

32:37

because Jeff sometimes gets

32:38

wrecked. You mister was so fun because I got

32:41

476 gloat and be happy. We

32:43

have a jingle that goes like Jeff was wrong

32:45

476 it makes Christian feel happy for at

32:47

least a bit. Jeff was wrong and

32:50

Christian has doesn't have

32:52

a hole in his heart for at least five

32:53

seconds. Is there one I

32:55

would say 476 anyone is listening and it's

32:57

thinking of turning that into an actual jingle, it's

33:00

not gonna get played. So

33:02

don't waste your efforts. And

33:05

besides, I only get to use it, like, once a

33:08

year anyway. The happiness is

33:10

fleeting, so don't worry about it.

33:13

Alright. Fourth, bold

33:17

prediction from twenty twenty two from

33:19

Christian Spicer.

33:20

PS Plow doesn't add day

33:23

one triple a games this

33:25

year. No day one

33:27

triple a games to Plow

33:29

in

33:30

twenty twenty two.

33:34

Stray is

33:36

my retort. That's, you know, we can argue

33:38

whether that's AAA or not.

33:40

But it was a

33:44

day one exclusive

33:46

release that was up

33:49

for end of the

33:51

year

33:51

awards. I I don't

33:53

know if you I mean, it's it's a double

33:55

a game at the minimum. Right?

33:57

I don't know if triple I don't

33:59

know. We didn't really define what

34:02

your

34:02

your you know,

34:02

your idea of AAA was at that time. If you

34:05

meant, 476 a war and all that

34:07

stuff, I think you know, 476, a AAA

34:09

game. Yeah. I

34:10

don't know if they were at. Are

34:12

you Straight feels like the Straight bullet

34:15

that might Straight is

34:17

Straight

34:17

is the

34:17

question mark.

34:20

Me being me, I will take credit for it.

34:22

And that

34:23

when Stray was announced day and day,

34:25

you did not hear folks being

34:27

like, oh snap.

34:29

We get in stray. Like PS plow, we're

34:32

feasting over here. Now don't we

34:33

rush stray face? It

34:34

has to look pretty excited that

34:36

it was that it was hitting day and day

34:38

on on that service? Sure. But it it's not

34:40

you know, I'll let the audience decide

34:42

that one. I feel good about

34:45

my predictions. I'm okay with it. I think that's a

34:47

pretty dang good bold

34:50

prediction and to even just be

34:52

mostly

34:52

right. Again is, I'm right, but we all lost.

34:55

Yeah. Yeah. Your

34:58

predictions

34:59

had a real bumper 476

35:02

the tone last year.

35:03

I predict this will be the last episode

35:05

of this podcast. We're

35:08

all bad.

35:09

I predict nothing turns out

35:11

great. I mean, I I think I

35:13

said everything is delayed, so I can't I

35:15

can't be the voice of not

35:17

bummer. Hey,

35:17

Jeff, including your predictions.

35:20

That's all it is. Everything is delayed including

35:22

my Yes.

35:23

Oh. So

35:26

we may I'm reflectively

35:28

right. I'm I'm right.

35:30

Your old prediction makes

35:32

your new current predictions right.

35:36

Time travels hard. It

35:38

is

35:39

It's like looking in an infinite

35:41

mirror, you know? Yeah.

35:43

Yeah. Just accept it.

35:44

The the the same way the movies do now. Like, your

35:46

time traveling, how does that work? Just accept it.

35:48

That's all we're doing. It was accepting it.

35:50

Just accepting it. Alright. Here's my fourth

35:53

bold prediction.

35:57

PS VR two does released in twenty twenty

36:00

two.

36:01

Whoa. I'd

36:02

still think half life Alex 476

36:06

watched. Idle. And I will I will add something else

36:08

to make it more than just last year's same

36:10

prediction. There will also to

36:13

be a title from Insomniac.

36:17

Three wrong predictions

36:20

in one.

36:22

Now here's literally, as I was

36:25

sitting down this year to make my the

36:27

He's leaning in. Still

36:30

I still think Insomniac is gonna do a BSVR title. I

36:32

just don't think it's been announced yet, and

36:34

I still think half life Alex

36:37

is coming. I really I I have a hard time letting go of

36:40

these. Jeff, but a lot of tickets. Give

36:42

me the numbers. Give me I'm playing it a year

36:44

from now. 476 me the winning

36:46

numbers a year from now

36:48

to

36:48

now. Here's

36:50

here's my

36:51

only hail Mary to making

36:53

this not a complete disaster of

36:55

a prediction.

36:56

I purchased

36:56

PlayStation VR two in twenty twenty

37:00

two. I

37:02

my money was spent on it. Wasn't I

37:04

don't think it is. I don't think they've taken it out

37:06

of here. They've not charged me yet. I think they charged me.

37:09

I think they charged me dude. I'm

37:11

sure they charged me. I don't

37:13

know. That stinks. Anyway, I

37:15

have a receipt. How can it not be out if I

37:17

have a

37:17

receipt? Answer me that one. What is

37:20

this? What is this? It says

37:21

twenty twenty two clearly on

37:23

it. Clearly, it's really turning two on

37:26

it.

37:26

Three wrong predictions and what? You

37:28

say it every year to me?

37:30

That I keep

37:33

talking, and it's never almost never I

37:35

mean, we had that one instance where it kinda got a

37:37

little not good, not bad, but

37:39

Alright. But this is

37:42

this is a disaster year 476

37:44

disaster for predictions. Like,

37:47

I think I earned The

37:48

title, which I can never remember, what might you're Canvas Spicer

37:51

canvas canvas canvas canvas canvas canvas

37:53

canvas canvas

37:56

Yeah.

37:56

I have

37:57

to give that up this year. It's so

37:58

I it's a disaster

38:02

of predictions.

38:04

I'm gonna make up fourth though at the end of the show. I'm

38:06

gonna make up fourth. Okay. Here we go.

38:08

My Christian's fifth bold

38:10

prediction from twenty twenty

38:12

476.

38:14

I think Microsoft makes another sizable

38:16

acquisition. I went from Sony last year

38:18

to Microsoft this year. I don't think they're done. Yeah.

38:20

I don't know if it's

38:23

I said, I'd again last year,

38:25

but but for Microsoft, I think they

38:27

have another pop in

38:30

them. I almost had this

38:32

I think this they kind

38:34

of talked in various interviews

38:36

about still being actively interested

38:39

in making

38:39

acquisitions. Like, that's part of

38:42

their strategy. I I almost put this

38:44

down.

38:44

And I should've. I should've.

38:48

Almost only works in horses and hand

38:50

grenades,

38:51

Cannata, Well,

38:52

Idas is wrong Christian,

38:55

and technically, it

38:57

hasn't happened yet. He

39:00

The 476 government says no.

39:02

Well, but also though, yes,

39:04

you're correct there. But also, Idas

39:06

was also kind of correct.

39:09

Because it also was acquired. Yeah. It's just

39:11

not by Microsoft. Yeah. It's 476 not

39:13

by Microsoft. So --

39:13

Yeah. -- you know, the -- Me -- people

39:16

476 Pieces of light also requires. Yeah. Wide also showing its

39:18

leg lifting up the skirt a little bit, you know.

39:20

Yeah. And Microsoft

39:23

was not done. I

39:24

think yeah. I mean, I think

39:26

I think if anything you you were

39:29

wrong in how understated

39:32

you were about it. You know? Yeah. You

39:34

weren't saying Microsoft is gonna do something

39:36

here. It was like, hey, I

39:38

don't know. They'll do something,

39:40

but man. You know, Activision Blizzard, I don't think anybody saw coming,

39:42

but I gotta give you credit. That that

39:44

I I did not

39:46

have the

39:47

the kahone is to to actually say

39:49

it. You did.

39:50

And clearly, Microsoft was

39:53

not done. Well, it remains to be seen seen if it actually

39:56

happens and maybe maybe there'll be some predictions later

39:58

in the episode about that.

40:00

It's it's certainly one of the biggest questions of

40:02

twenty twenty

40:04

three is how that is all gonna play out. But the fact

40:06

that you saw 476 the inkling of

40:08

that coming, I think, is

40:10

impressive. And

40:12

Spicer Tourists had a had a good year in twenty twenty two,

40:16

clearly. Alright. Here's

40:19

my fifth one.

40:22

Yubisoft announces

40:24

a game with a

40:28

marvel

40:28

license. Or they

40:29

don't, or maybe they don't,

40:32

or possibly

40:33

they don't. Gotta just turn

40:35

to my spit laughing.

40:38

Was

40:38

was Avatar announced this year? No. I

40:40

think

40:40

that was actually

40:41

announced in twenty twenty one. Does that give you a

40:43

partial credit?

40:43

That's a big Disney, you know,

40:46

a huge Disney IP, but that's that wasn't twenty Well, they showed more of

40:48

it this year, but I think they announced it. Because, you

40:50

know, the movie's been announced for a

40:52

decade now. Yeah. But

40:55

Okay.

40:56

I mean, again, Jeff, that Gannett, I I I'm

40:58

gonna love if all of these are right for twenty

41:00

twenty three. They feel

41:01

right. You know what the problem

41:04

is Christian?

41:05

We're not gonna any of this in a year. I'm gonna be

41:07

worried about what we're

41:08

saying today in a year and all the stuff

41:11

I said last year, you know what

41:13

I

41:13

can remember? And that's, like, you know, I got maybe I gotta do the Christian

41:16

sponsored method of keeping notes and not just,

41:18

like, check back in a year later.

41:24

Alright. We have two

41:26

more of the bold

41:28

before we even get to our

41:30

cool ranch. And

41:32

here is Christian's final

41:34

bold

41:35

prediction. Gaming isn't a focus

41:37

for set. Here's more about

41:40

their ARVR headset this

41:42

year. And despite last

41:45

year, things that they would make gaming a big focus for Apple TV,

41:47

which they did not. I think

41:49

gaming might exist on this

41:51

headset, but I don't think that's how

41:53

they're positioning it.

41:55

Well, we don't know. This is

41:57

a big question mark still. Right? Because we

41:59

have not even heard any whispers of

42:01

I mean, we heard heard whispers, but it

42:03

was no official announcement of the Apple headset or

42:05

or any indication of what it's gonna

42:08

be. So this might be your

42:10

your kind of this year

42:12

or next

42:13

your kind of premature

42:16

prediction? III will say that

42:18

this is a miss, but I also

42:20

say Apple

42:22

you

42:22

were ready to announce it. You you had it. It was

42:24

there. Yeah. I blame I blame production

42:27

shortages, chip shortages, and

42:30

just manufacturing. And then also Apple is always a hard

42:32

prediction because unless it's like the

42:34

iPhone or whatever, a lot of

42:36

their stuff takes

42:38

a while to come out. I mean, how long

42:40

has that car been rumored? You know?

42:42

Yeah. I still unfortunately stand

42:44

by that prediction that it won't be

42:47

a gaming focused headset just

42:50

based on everything else they've shown in terms of of the

42:52

gaming landscape.

42:53

But, yeah, this this this

42:55

was not a twenty twenty two prediction

42:57

the way it worked out. Yeah. Yeah. I

42:59

mean, I'm very curious if we're even gonna hear about

43:01

it this year. I mean, people have

43:03

been talking about this this rumored

43:06

ARVR thing or maybe even

43:08

two headsets that one one is

43:10

pure VR and one is an ARVR

43:12

thing and There's been so many rumors swirling about

43:13

it. We've heard about, you know,

43:17

components that they've

43:20

sort of had in the pipeline and people are speculating, oh, it might

43:22

be this you there's they're

43:24

the kind of company that could spend billions of

43:26

dollars working on something and then just

43:29

never put it You know, like

43:31

the car. So I'm I'm hopeful.

43:33

I think if Apple enters

43:35

the ARVR market in the near

43:37

future, it'll really

43:40

solidify that as a major,

43:42

you

43:42

know, a a major tech

43:45

sector. And -- Yeah.

43:47

I

43:47

think we vitalize the interest in

43:50

ARVR, and

43:51

I do think it's

43:52

inevitable. I just don't know if it's inevitable in the

43:54

near term or if it's, you know,

43:56

if it's gonna be AAAAAA

43:59

thing where Apple will wait for the

44:01

market to mature

44:02

a little more as they all do.

44:06

Yes. I do wonder what the whatever

44:08

that business quest or

44:10

whatever that meta the fancy meta

44:13

headset. I do wonder if that

44:16

the reception of that or the adoption of that or

44:18

how Apple's looking at Horizon

44:20

or whatever Meta's thing is and

44:23

kind of looking at the spend

44:25

that Meta is doing and wondering, like, is this

44:27

the market we be in yet? I think you and

44:29

I are both pretty bullish

44:32

still on ARVR being the

44:32

future, whether we want it to be or not as dystopic

44:34

as it can be, but also how

44:36

cool

44:36

it can be. And I do think

44:40

that they're playing in the space. But, yeah, who knows how long they're gonna sit on

44:42

this thing before they, you know, enter

44:44

the space and don't be gaming on

44:46

it? Yeah.

44:48

Yeah. And, you know, here we

44:50

are recording this on New Year's Day on

44:52

on the first of January. And

44:57

next week is CES.

44:59

And I suspect we'll

45:01

hear some ARVR news. I mean, obviously,

45:03

not from Apple. They don't do stuff at

45:05

at CES. But HTC potentially

45:08

gonna introduce a new

45:11

ARVR headset at at CES. And

45:13

there may be other companies that there

45:15

it may be more in the news and it may be more in

45:17

the zeitgeist after CES than sitting here just a

45:19

few days beforehand. So

45:22

obviously PSVR coming out in February, I

45:24

think will be a boon to that market as well.

45:26

So this may be

45:28

closer to a year where we're

45:31

it moves back into the consciousness

45:34

of more people, more than just you and

45:36

me, or

45:38

me. Alright. Here's my

45:40

final bold prediction for

45:43

twenty twenty two. Microsoft

45:45

476 three event has

45:48

a fable reveal, a lot

45:50

of

45:50

476, but the big mic drop

45:53

game at the end of the

45:55

show His machine games

45:56

is Indiana Jones game.

46:00

Nope. Nope. There was

46:03

no Indiana Jones. Although I'm still really excited about that game. And

46:05

maybe now that, you know, we're getting an indie movie this

46:08

summer, maybe it was just a year

46:10

early Christian.

46:13

Man, I

46:14

seriously, I am going to love it if

46:16

all of these come true. That's literally

46:18

this year's e three because it

46:20

could be because Starfield is still in November or

46:23

no, it is. It's early. You don't know. I don't

46:25

know in Starfield. They 476

46:27

know. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I

46:29

was thinking

46:29

that it was still after

46:30

e three. Dan They changed the release date from eleven eleven

46:32

twenty two to question mark.

46:36

No. So we don't know when it'll be.

46:38

But we make it

46:40

fable. We make it more starfield. If it's

46:42

after the

46:44

e three, And we might get any it could it's it's

46:46

plausible. Yeah. Especially

46:48

if any if any other Jones five comes

46:50

out and it's a hit,

46:52

And people like

46:53

it, you know, and there may it may be synergy that they wanna

46:55

capitalize on. I

46:58

mis

46:59

calibrated my crystal ball.

47:02

What happened?

47:04

Alright. So that concludes our bold predictions.

47:06

Other than basic

47:08

at least say what everybody knew, which is breath of the

47:10

world too, wasn't gonna be called

47:11

that. I went over, whiffs.

47:14

Huge whiffs.

47:16

Which

47:17

might be the first time in nine years where I literally just

47:19

didn't get anything remotely

47:22

correct.

47:23

That hurts. It hurts.

47:26

But I'm I'm

47:27

man enough to be here and admit when I

47:29

was repeatedly

47:31

wrong. Just just a yearly. Just a

47:34

yearly. I dude, Matt props to you

47:36

Christian for great great

47:38

predictions last

47:40

year you know, you you have earned the title of mister Thomas

47:42

over and over again, and you

47:44

did so in twenty twenty

47:45

two. I'm being so

47:48

confident right now because I'm so

47:50

nervous for this year's show, Jeff. I've

47:52

been driving, like, cool. Just

47:54

basking the glow of these w's while

47:56

I can. Like, you know, in the Marlin's

47:58

to do another baseball analogy, the Marlin's won the world series and that where that was

48:00

ninety seven. And then you just sold

48:03

the entire team that feels like

48:06

me this year in twenty twenty three. I feel

48:08

like my payroll's been slashed. I already sold

48:10

the season tickets. I'm just coasting on last

48:12

year's victories.

48:14

You gotta ride

48:14

it. You gotta do it. Save for

48:15

it as long as you 476, Christian, because literally it's the

48:17

first half of this episode. The second half. Hey,

48:20

everybody. I'll come

48:22

crashing down. But again, the thing that I've learned, especially, it feels

48:24

like especially in the last few

48:26

years with 476 COVID and

48:28

and and delays

48:30

being much more common than they ever were

48:32

before, it really feels

48:34

like it's hard

48:36

to predict the next

48:38

year because -- Yeah. -- kind of

48:40

know everything about the

48:42

next year in a lot of ways. Because

48:44

all the games that were supposed to come out

48:46

this year are the

48:48

next year. So the whole fun of

48:50

predicting is coming up with unexpected

48:52

things and to be able to just

48:53

say, like, Yeah. We know 476, like,

48:56

five or six exciting things are coming out. Anyway, I'm just

48:57

making excuses because I

48:59

was so abysmal.

49:02

Alright. Let's

49:03

get to the real stuff, the

49:05

boldest flavor country, the

49:09

the the tingle in your mouth

49:12

that is cool ranch.

49:14

And again, I say it every year,

49:18

Christian. Frito Lay

49:20

476, we're right here.

49:22

We

49:22

will take your money. We

49:26

want the synergy of the

49:28

sponsorship, it makes so much sense.

49:30

Sponsored the show?

49:33

You know? And

49:35

The

49:35

cool wish. Do we know if it presents

49:37

the cool ranch predictions? Come

49:39

on. I'll go

49:41

as far to say 476 we're

49:45

too there. Maybe next year,

49:47

it's the

49:47

Pringles, predictions. Nice.

49:50

Just the threatened Doritos.

49:51

Is that what we

49:54

do? Yeah. And so

49:54

we have bold and once you popped, you can't stop predictions.

49:58

I like it. I

50:00

like it. Yeah. I don't

50:02

even I would I would even

50:04

do the bold and

50:06

the happy Honda days for you know, I I don't

50:09

even care. I don't you know? I'm forced to sail

50:11

is what I'm saying, ladies and

50:12

gentlemen. I will do I will do miss Vicki's

50:15

jalapeno kettle crisp.

50:22

Yeah.

50:22

Please 476. Please.

50:23

Mainstream America. You can

50:25

give us money. That's all I was saying. That's all

50:27

I was saying. Alright. Here we go.

50:30

Cool ranch prediction number one from

50:32

Christian 476 is

50:34

the pier where I think that we get

50:36

a now oust a new

50:38

476 skew. Nope.

50:43

Yes. Wait.

50:46

What?

50:47

Playstation five

50:48

with a new die that has

50:50

a new SKU was released in

50:53

twenty

50:53

twenty two. No discernible

50:57

difference. No discernible

50:59

difference. Exactly what you intended

51:01

with this prediction was a a

51:03

literally a new skew a number

51:08

that Target and Walmart will use

51:10

is what Christian

51:11

was predicting. Play that clip again. That's what I said. I said a new ski I said

51:14

it'd be announcement here where I think

51:16

that we get announced a new

51:18

PS

51:19

five skew.

51:20

So the only thing I got wrong, that

51:22

it was announced. All I had to do

51:24

was cut off the clip just slightly

51:26

476. A

51:29

new PS five. And if it just cut off right there, you would been

51:30

wrong. All I got wrong. It

51:32

but they did not announce it. They just quietly

51:35

released a minor you

51:37

know, inside refresh. 476 we

51:40

did get rumored that the

51:42

detachable disk drive, you

51:44

know, to plug in, like, that's out

51:46

to devs Yeah. Yeah.

51:48

And so, again, I'm in

51:49

coolant. I mean, I'm in once you pop, you

51:51

can't stop territory.

51:52

And again, you're gonna take

51:54

any technicality you can possibly find.

51:57

I am bat I'm still on the

51:59

parade route of twenty twenty two, Jeff, and you

52:01

can't stop it. A hilly cupboards have to gonna

52:03

come in because the crowd

52:05

is so

52:06

To get me through this parade. Okay? So, yeah,

52:08

that's a w bro. All of

52:10

Christian's predictions this year are gonna

52:12

be like, internal memos

52:14

476 big box retailers. My

52:17

prediction is this

52:19

year. The box will be listed in column b

52:21

of the Excel spreadsheet of Walmart's

52:25

internal

52:25

memoing. This

52:28

year's Black Friday ad by

52:29

target. We'll have a Xbox listing on page

52:31

twenty six of the digital

52:34

PDF. I was just writing

52:35

that that's

52:38

silky skew prediction all the way to the bank.

52:40

Alright. Yeah. Here's my

52:43

here's

52:43

my my first cool ranch, and I think might I

52:46

might have

52:48

to do similar technicality. Microsoft

52:50

announces a new Xbox

52:54

skew that is

52:56

streaming only. They

52:58

did and

52:59

they said it's not

53:01

coming out. We have it. It's

53:03

on

53:03

my shelf. 476 don't do

53:05

it. It. The whole we made a whole thing and

53:07

we just decided not to put it

53:10

out. They acknowledged that they

53:12

were making

53:14

the Was it project was it called project is

53:16

it an s? I will I will also

53:18

give you that one, Jeff, because again, we

53:21

are in wavy waves. Waivey

53:24

lays

53:24

territory. I guess that's

53:25

still I guess that's still the same that's the

53:27

same manufacturer. Because

53:31

they did do the

53:34

Samsung TV x

53:36

cloud integration. And I think that's pretty big.

53:38

Like, it's not a skew that you could buy of

53:40

just x box, but they put Xbox

53:43

on something that is one

53:45

hundred percent not

53:46

Xbox. So again, out in out in

53:48

cool ranch territory, you claw

53:51

for those

53:51

w's. 476, the medical examiner

53:54

looks at you and goes, there's w under the

53:56

nails. We're gonna count

53:58

that one. So I looked it up.

54:00

It's it's called it was called

54:02

Keystone. Yeah. That's

54:02

right. And they said they

54:06

they canceled Keystone, private keystone, it was

54:08

the All Xbox Game Pass streaming device. And

54:12

they were they even he he

54:15

our

54:15

friend, what's

54:16

his bucket? Put it on his shelf? Yeah.

54:18

Phil Spencer. Yeah. Phil put it on his You

54:20

have to get us this

54:21

year. Phil

54:21

was out 476 good as he

54:24

let's big fan. And just throwing

54:25

us under

54:25

the bus left hand around.

54:28

Anyway,

54:29

Keystone didn't work out.

54:32

But I I when I when I

54:34

announced that, by the way, we didn't know anything about

54:36

Keystone or, you know, I guess, we were kind of

54:38

rumoury. But it was a it was a

54:40

cool ranch. Could have been a thing, but nope. In terms of Like

54:42

someone was driving through

54:43

Montana, looked out their window and go.

54:45

That's a cool ranch. Like, that's kind

54:47

of territory we were

54:50

in.

54:50

Yes. Labor

54:51

country. Labor country is

54:54

what it is. Alright. Here

54:56

is

54:57

Christians. Second cool ranch prediction.

55:00

Bobby

55:00

is out in Activision. Yeah. I

55:02

I think that's the saddest part is

55:04

that it has to be cool ranch.

55:07

has be

55:08

more unlikely. Yeah. I

55:10

know. And unlikely it

55:13

was because Babikonic is

55:16

still employed with the with

55:18

that sweet sweet

55:18

job. And and who knows, you know, with

55:21

it with this acquisition,

55:24

In

55:25

play, who knows what his future is gonna be at this point? Thanks a

55:27

lot. FTC.

55:28

I hope you're happy. Yeah. You're ruining

55:30

my cool ranches. Yeah. Well,

55:34

I mean, I think you knew that it was

55:36

an unlikely relatively unlikely

55:38

prediction because you put it in cool range,

55:40

and that's kinda what we talked about. Right? And

55:43

that clip how it's not a no brainer even though

55:45

it seems like such a no brainer to get

55:48

rid of the guy who

55:50

presided over all

55:52

the problems. Yeah.

55:54

In fact, they just and said Blizzard was

55:56

like, you know what? Let's bring back one

55:58

of the other

55:59

guys. That was in charge during all of

56:01

these problems. Yeah. Yeah.

56:04

Uh-huh.

56:04

That's a

56:05

big whiz. Big whiz. Oh.

56:07

Big whiff, but I think it was a more hopeful one than than

56:09

anything else on your part.

56:12

Yeah. Alright.

56:14

Cool ranch.

56:16

Number. Where's oh, I

56:18

didn't get my number to

56:20

load it up. Let me do that. Cool Ranch

56:22

number two

56:24

from me. Here it

56:26

is. Apple's

56:28

VR headset is announced

56:31

at CDC

56:33

for release in early twenty

56:35

twenty three. Making twenty

56:38

twenty three,

56:40

your v r.

56:42

Could

56:42

be? Could

56:43

still be? The last part could be.

56:46

Yeah. It

56:47

could be. The

56:48

last part

56:49

could be. They did not announce it in WWE. And no

56:51

indication of when or if they will

56:53

announce it.

56:55

But

56:56

PSVR two is coming

56:57

out in February. Who knows? 476 be the

56:59

year VR? Yes. Yes.

57:02

Yes. Next week. The

57:04

new ACV That's a

57:06

competitor. So, yeah, it still could be. You're you're

57:07

okay. You're hanging in there. I'm hanging in

57:09

there. Yeah. A

57:10

solid chance

57:11

of not being completely wrong, which is

57:13

all I hope 476 hoped

57:15

for. Yeah. You just wanna have a little bit of that dust on your

57:17

fingers when you're in orange territory.

57:20

Right. That's right. Just to be able to

57:22

remember what it was like to

57:24

taste anything. You know? Yeah.

57:26

Alright. Here is your

57:30

third.

57:31

Cool ranch prediction. Metroid

57:33

Prime comes out to switch even if it's just

57:36

a re rerelease

57:38

of

57:38

one. Still waiting

57:40

on that one too. That's

57:44

any day. Now,

57:46

does

57:47

476 like you're right?

57:48

I

57:48

did I did emulate it on my steam deck, so I guess for

57:51

me 476. That

57:54

came true. It's

57:57

like 476 you see the episode of

58:00

Cheers where Cliff goes

58:02

on

58:04

on jeopardy? And he's -- Yes. -- crushing

58:06

everybody. And then the final jeopardy answer question is or

58:10

answer is you know,

58:11

a list of famous people 476, like, what do these people have

58:13

in common? And he

58:16

he writes, all these people

58:18

have never been in

58:19

my kitchen. And

58:21

they're they're they're like, well, he's fine as long as he didn't as long

58:23

as he didn't

58:24

wager everything. And then, of course, he

58:26

wager everything. And he's like But it's

58:30

true. None of them have been in my

58:31

kitchen. Anyway, yeah. I mean, I

58:34

do have it on my steam deck

58:36

with the HD texture pack. So it

58:38

feels no.

58:40

N Nintendo, just do it. You have it. You have to have

58:42

it. There's no way you don't have it. Just

58:44

do it. That's that's like this that's gonna

58:46

be Monday after this show

58:49

goes out. People gonna be listening this and being like,

58:51

sorry, bro. They just released

58:54

it. Well, for

58:54

now, it's

58:55

a mess. Yeah.

58:58

Yeah.

58:59

We we we still wait any Metroid News. You

59:02

know, Metroid News

59:04

for twenty twenty three. We'll see. We'll

59:06

see if you predict that later in the show. Alright.

59:10

My third cool ranch

59:11

prediction. Hang on.

59:15

Here it goes. The next

59:17

big Mario game is

59:19

a new version of

59:21

Super Mario RPG.

59:26

No. No. It's not. No. I mean, we don't know what the next big Mario

59:28

game is,

59:29

but it's true. Again, you could be right.

59:31

It'd be right?

59:34

Probably

59:34

not. But it was a big swing. I took

59:36

a big swing on that 1II felt good

59:38

about that, but it it

59:40

was a big swing. Alright. Christian's fourth

59:43

core inch prediction This one, ladies and

59:45

gentlemen, maybe the best thing you did

59:48

all

59:48

year. Core

59:50

Ranch prediction,

59:52

a core substantial, end quote,

59:54

new mode comes to Fortnite.

59:56

I like it when

59:57

you

59:59

quote yourself You're I mean, it's all a quote, Christian. It's

1:00:02

just substantial. Like, putting it

1:00:03

in air quotes, like, sub like,

1:00:05

bolding it. Substantive. If

1:00:08

you decide substantial. It's still the word still works.

1:00:10

You don't have to put it in scare quotes. You

1:00:12

know? I you know, when you get it right,

1:00:14

Jeff, I understand why

1:00:16

you just need to nitpick, but

1:00:18

when

1:00:18

you rush when you crash. Right.

1:00:20

Like, when you call a shot, like,

1:00:22

after 476 called his shot, like, you

1:00:24

know what? I wanna try that

1:00:25

too, and then you also call a shot and then

1:00:27

hit another home run. Yeah. Like, I I get where you're trying

1:00:28

to take me down a peg, but you know what, Jeff? It's

1:00:30

twenty twenty two Christian, and I'm living

1:00:34

large still. So I still feel great about nailing

1:00:36

-- Yeah. -- that quarantine. And I was like, oh, of

1:00:38

course, they were gonna do that really. In

1:00:40

January twenty twenty two, you

1:00:42

all were like, of 476, Fortnite's gonna

1:00:44

do

1:00:45

that. Get out of town, I was.

1:00:47

And by I mean, if just

1:00:49

a prayer, it came true.

1:00:52

It was It was, quote, substantial, end

1:00:54

quote, because it has become,

1:00:56

quote, the most popular

1:00:58

mode, end quote,

1:01:00

I think, be in no build

1:01:02

mode, which Christian alone

1:01:04

saw

1:01:05

coming. Pretty impressive.

1:01:07

Saw, quote, that coming. So Very

1:01:10

impressive. Very impressive. And

1:01:13

Fortnite continues to

1:01:16

become ready player one. You

1:01:18

know, I mean, it continues to become the

1:01:20

the the multiverse on its own

1:01:22

somehow. Quote

1:01:23

unquote. Quote unquote. Quote unquote. Yeah.

1:01:25

Alright. Here's my last one, which is a little

1:01:27

goofy, but we'll listen to it

1:01:29

anyway. Christian Spicer. Now

1:01:32

again, this is cool

1:01:34

ranch,

1:01:34

ready. Before twenty twenty two ends,

1:01:37

owns an NFT.

1:01:41

476

1:01:43

thin entities are gonna be

1:01:45

a bigger thing. You're not

1:01:48

wrong. The problem is, I

1:01:50

didn't buy any of them. Like, as a

1:01:52

DC universe, subscriber. They're

1:01:54

like, here's your Batman cow and 476 team.

1:01:56

I'm like, no. In like Angel City, we have

1:01:58

season tickets to the in WSL team.

1:02:00

And they're like, thank you for being day one

1:02:02

supporter, get your Angel City crush. And I'm like,

1:02:04

476. I literally didn't do the thing they

1:02:06

said to do. And they sent another email.

1:02:09

They're like, just to make sure no one missed out, you have it.

1:02:11

And I'm

1:02:11

like, give

1:02:12

me one moment. So you got

1:02:14

that one right over my dead body.

1:02:17

I didn't say you buy

1:02:19

one. I

1:02:19

said you have own one.

1:02:22

Yeah. Also, I should say that the Open

1:02:24

Sea wallet that Jeff keeps gifting

1:02:26

me. It's just

1:02:27

ridiculous. I

1:02:30

I the spirit of that one was that I thought

1:02:32

there was gonna be some

1:02:34

as much as I didn't completely believe in out of

1:02:36

t's, I thought there was gonna be some compelling thing

1:02:38

by the end of the year

1:02:41

But man, that the spirit of that could not be

1:02:43

more wrong because I think we saw it could just, you

1:02:46

know, fall away and

1:02:48

not be nobody's talking about it anymore. I mean, some people are,

1:02:50

but it's very

1:02:54

much not

1:02:56

what we all thought it was gonna be at the beginning of the year, which is

1:02:58

like a major part of the gaming industry.

1:03:00

It just it's kinda fallen on

1:03:02

space and a lot of people 476 happy about that.

1:03:06

And so, you know, I can't I can't take any points even though you

1:03:08

actually have You get you get full

1:03:09

credit. I

1:03:10

own them. I 476 not know how to access them.

1:03:13

But I have them somewhere. Alright.

1:03:16

Well, that's that was a total

1:03:18

and complete disaster 476

1:03:21

me, but Christian Again, Spiced Spicer

1:03:24

represent in full effect kudos. You're

1:03:26

gonna have to now you gotta repeat.

1:03:29

Nobody care nobody cares about last

1:03:30

year's victories. It's one They do, though. No. They

1:03:33

own a hat. They all like it. They have the they

1:03:35

have the patch. They give the shirt to

1:03:38

their kid. The team grows up remembering how, you

1:03:40

know, the last dance for twenty

1:03:42

twenty two was Christians, so I stood on

1:03:44

his

1:03:45

last hand

1:03:45

is this just a

1:03:47

gift of you looking at your

1:03:49

your iPad and looking

1:03:51

up like, what? Be

1:03:53

looking at the new SKU that Sonya

1:03:55

and

1:03:57

Alright. Let's talk about some of the games that we know

1:04:00

are coming

1:04:02

out. None. None zero, but potentially

1:04:04

zero. Well, the games that have been announced,

1:04:06

the games that are on the docket

1:04:08

for twenty twenty three

1:04:10

at least

1:04:11

at the moment. Twenty twenty's

1:04:12

games is what you're saying. The games that were

1:04:14

rumored to come out in twenty twenty. A lot

1:04:17

of games that we thought might

1:04:19

be coming out this last year now dated

1:04:22

for twenty twenty

1:04:23

476. There's a lot of, you

1:04:25

know, unknowns as to whether they'll

1:04:27

even make these

1:04:29

dates dates are more of a feeling

1:04:32

than anything else. Not not

1:04:34

rock

1:04:35

hard certainty anymore?

1:04:38

It is a When you make a prediction to happen

1:04:40

in twenty twenty two. You it could

1:04:42

also be twenty twenty three.

1:04:45

Like Right. Who's to say? Who's to say? So

1:04:47

there's a lot of games that we could talk about. I

1:04:49

I wanna, you know, throw the

1:04:52

doors open, for you

1:04:54

and and find out about the games you're most

1:04:56

excited about. I mean, there's a lot of ones we

1:04:58

know. I just I'll start the conversation

1:05:00

off with this. Because there's some awesome games coming

1:05:03

out January, February. This last

1:05:06

year, February really

1:05:08

was the date that all of the twenty

1:05:10

delayed 476, not all, but many of

1:05:12

them. Yeah. February felt like this

1:05:14

jam packed

1:05:16

crazy week after week release schedule, which is what the

1:05:19

fall used to be in the olden days. In

1:05:21

the days, you know, when we first started doing

1:05:23

the podcast 476, like, 476

1:05:26

end of October, early November, mid November time frame

1:05:28

was just where everything was concentrated,

1:05:31

not the case anymore. last

1:05:34

year, it was February. This year,

1:05:36

I present to you Christian.

1:05:41

May and June. Listen

1:05:43

to this.

1:05:43

Listen to this. Well,

1:05:44

actually, it it starts even earlier. April

1:05:48

fourth, Hogwarts

1:05:50

legacy. Well, actually,

1:05:52

I mean, March seventeenth, we

1:05:54

got Jedi's Star Wars Jedi's survivor,

1:05:56

March

1:05:56

seventeenth. That's the date for that.

1:05:59

Yeah. Two

1:05:59

weeks later, 476 Remake.

1:06:02

One week later,

1:06:06

Hogwarts legacy. It's big game. I mean, there's a lot of mixed feelings

1:06:08

about the Harry Potter franchise now, but

1:06:10

undeniably a big

1:06:11

game. Two weeks

1:06:14

after

1:06:14

that, Verizon Forbidden West, Burning Shores, DLC,

1:06:16

which I'm excited about, maybe others aren't.

1:06:18

And then end of April is

1:06:20

Dead Island

1:06:20

two, and that that's where

1:06:24

it gets starts getting

1:06:25

really cool raunchy up in here.

1:06:27

Dead Island two,

1:06:30

May twelfth, If it

1:06:32

holds, legends delta, here's the

1:06:34

kingdom. Two weeks later,

1:06:36

suicide squad killed the justice

1:06:38

league on May

1:06:40

twenty sixth. One week later, Street Fighter

1:06:42

476. Four days later,

1:06:44

Diablo four. Two weeks

1:06:46

after

1:06:47

that, 476 Fantasy sixteen. 476

1:06:52

that stretch

1:06:53

of huge

1:06:56

triple in in the summer,

1:07:00

which used to be when nothing came

1:07:02

out.

1:07:02

Oh, Sony released infamous in the summer

1:07:04

because it putting it out to die. Like,

1:07:06

no one plays during yeah.

1:07:09

This, like,

1:07:09

May June, the end of, you

1:07:12

know, March, April, May, June.

1:07:14

These are the months when we used

1:07:16

to be scrambling to come up with stuff to

1:07:18

talk about. Games to

1:07:20

play. You know, we I've been delving

1:07:22

into the nineties. And now it

1:07:24

is this

1:07:26

section is Honestly,

1:07:29

overwhelming. Zelda, suicide

1:07:30

squad, street fighter six, Diablo

1:07:33

four, final Fantasy sixteen.

1:07:35

What

1:07:36

how those are all

1:07:40

sixty

1:07:41

hundred hour two hundred hour

1:07:44

experiences. What's

1:07:46

how? Crazy.

1:07:50

I don't I mean, I don't even know. That's I just wanted to

1:07:52

throw that out as just

1:07:54

a

1:07:54

data point. You can feel

1:07:57

free to games or any other games that we

1:07:59

know about coming in twenty twenty

1:08:01

three. So I'm

1:08:03

gonna throw out three

1:08:06

and they are hopefully known, you know. One

1:08:08

is a little less known as

1:08:11

a twenty twenty three game. And

1:08:13

they're all sequels, which, you know, say what you will about that, but I get

1:08:16

down with the sequel as this

1:08:18

year's favorite of the year has

1:08:20

shown. First,

1:08:23

Spidey two. I am so

1:08:25

down for Spider Man two from Insomniac

1:08:27

Games. I'm really playing. We think we'll

1:08:29

be a fall game. It doesn't have

1:08:31

an exact date yet. May or may not slip. I

1:08:33

don't know. I I hope it doesn't It doesn't slip unless

1:08:35

it's totally the

1:08:38

Spider Man two where, you

1:08:39

know, Sticks. You're right? It does stick.

1:08:41

In the wall. Yeah. Sticks. Spidey

1:08:44

sticks. I'm replaying Spider Man remastered on PC

1:08:46

with my Spicer I'm also

1:08:48

476 playing it on

1:08:50

steam deck. My oldest daughter has a super gone into it on steam deck. She just loves, you know, the open world

1:08:52

and playing it. Do you

1:08:54

recall that the teensy Jeep?

1:08:59

Is it handheld? A

1:09:01

teensy GP? It's a

1:09:03

teensy GP. The army GP?

1:09:05

The RP GP? The DP Army?

1:09:07

I don't know. I'm very excited for that in

1:09:09

a in a big big way. I love that first game. I love

1:09:11

Miles Morales. I'm very excited to see

1:09:14

where that story goes. I love the

1:09:16

original yeah, the original story

1:09:18

that they're telling, I think it's so cool. What they did in the first game, which I won't spoil for people, if they still haven't played it, they 476

1:09:20

it up on sale here

1:09:22

this, you know, holiday, it respects

1:09:27

the character in a way that I

1:09:29

think really respects the character and everything in

1:09:31

the comics and media, but

1:09:33

also does things

1:09:36

vastly different and has been done in Spider Man Media

1:09:38

before, and and I I love them for that. I think it's a fantastic story

1:09:40

476, of

1:09:43

course, great Suicide squad to kill the

1:09:45

justice league. Like, please. You know, like,

1:09:48

rocksteady. I

1:09:51

love your games. They had big shake

1:09:53

up this year with, I believe, Chefton Hill saying, you know, bye

1:09:56

bye. I think staying

1:09:58

on for a bit, but

1:10:01

transitioning away. And, you know, mind understanding of that studio is that it is large has

1:10:03

largely been him. Right? Like, you think about,

1:10:05

like, Kojima and stuff like that as

1:10:08

studios. And

1:10:11

I think I'm getting my my announcement correct

1:10:14

that, you know, stepping

1:10:16

away as suicide squad has

1:10:18

yet to come

1:10:19

out. But I love those arkham games, nights just left such a bad

1:10:21

taste in my mouth. I love Harley

1:10:24

Quinn. I think

1:10:26

the way they're doing

1:10:28

with

1:10:29

Captain Boomerang, looks hysterical, like, what that character has

1:10:31

just always cuts me up. Obviously, we're excited for

1:10:33

that. I I hope I hope I hope

1:10:35

I hope it's good. And

1:10:39

it, I think, will also stick twenty

1:10:41

twenty

1:10:41

three. You think the twenty

1:10:44

twenty

1:10:44

six is is happening for suicide

1:10:47

squad.

1:10:47

I do. I I

1:10:47

really I mean, that that already feels like

1:10:49

a bold prediction, but -- Yeah. --

1:10:51

because

1:10:51

they had etched

1:10:53

would they write, like, October on

1:10:55

Harley's bat, you know, before for twenty

1:10:57

twenty two, and I feel like fool me one. So I I think that's on track. And then the

1:10:59

one that's kind of just now picking up steam as

1:11:02

a potential twenty twenty

1:11:03

three release Alan

1:11:06

Wake two. If Alan Wake two

1:11:08

comes out in twenty twenty 3II

1:11:10

texted you this to actually to you

1:11:12

and not to someone else whose name

1:11:14

starts with AJI was replaying

1:11:17

control on my 476

1:11:20

think Jeff controls an all

1:11:23

time like

1:11:23

top five

1:11:23

fave game of mine. 476? I'm also replaying

1:11:26

that on

1:11:26

my steam deck now as I'm not

1:11:28

at home. I love

1:11:31

that world. I love the way

1:11:33

the environment works in the old pitch for Alan

1:11:35

Wake two before the stuff they are

1:11:37

doing with enemies

1:11:40

and encounter and environmental encounters

1:11:42

like in remedies pitch deck for it. Looks so fascinating,

1:11:44

and I cannot

1:11:47

wait to see what

1:11:49

they bring to that franchise, especially

1:11:51

what they did with it in control

1:11:53

and and kind of seeing that connected

1:11:56

remedy universe I

1:11:58

think there's a good chance 476 it comes out in twenty twenty three that Allan Wake two might be a Gody contender for me. I mean,

1:12:03

a a Gody Very excited. Yeah.

1:12:06

Very excited for for Allan Wake too. And it'll be interesting to see

1:12:08

if it makes

1:12:11

476 dates. As

1:12:14

of yet. And again, these dates are

1:12:16

just dates. I don't wanna spoil any potential prediction

1:12:18

you might have in the next segment of the

1:12:20

show. But

1:12:22

I'm very curious if you think that Zelda is gonna

1:12:25

hit me

1:12:28

twelfth. Yes. Yes.

1:12:31

Just because I I think, again,

1:12:33

you were off a year, Jeff. Yeah.

1:12:35

I do. I I think I

1:12:37

do. Do you think it comes out? I

1:12:39

think I think

1:12:40

that machine can start turning in

1:12:42

a big way. I

1:12:43

do. I you know, I

1:12:45

have started to learn never bet against a

1:12:47

delay and yet another delay. Yeah.

1:12:52

But it does it it does feel like they wouldn't have

1:12:54

I keep saying that. I said that to about Starfield last

1:12:56

year. They wouldn't have said eleven eleven eleven

1:12:58

eleven twenty two if they weren't sure.

1:13:02

You know, it could definitely

1:13:04

be, here's the situation that

1:13:06

I wanna lay out to

1:13:09

you. For what I think would be

1:13:11

the most hilarious sequence of events. I think it

1:13:13

would be

1:13:14

we don't know when Starfield is coming out.

1:13:17

476 lot of people speculate it will be

1:13:19

in the same kind of summertime

1:13:21

frame. I think that

1:13:23

would be foolish.

1:13:26

476 not make that a fall

1:13:28

game 476 out of the way

1:13:30

of all these this this glut

1:13:33

of games? This

1:13:36

it's incredible in the middle of the year, it's just

1:13:38

like Bangor after Bangor after Bangor. I don't need a star field in there. I'm not gonna

1:13:42

have enough time as it is, to play all of these games

1:13:44

as they come out. So

1:13:46

I don't need another two

1:13:49

hundred hour experience in the middle

1:13:51

of Zelda and suicide squad and Diablo and it's

1:13:54

just too much. Right?

1:13:56

So Clariously,

1:14:00

if they do take

1:14:02

that strategy and and

1:14:05

476 Starfield in the fall and

1:14:08

then get out getting out of the

1:14:10

way of Zelda and then Zelda gets

1:14:12

pushed

1:14:13

to, like, the week right

1:14:15

before Starfield. And then you have the classic the classic situation

1:14:17

of Zelda overshattering literally everything

1:14:20

else

1:14:21

that comes

1:14:22

out. Yeah. I mean, I

1:14:24

feel 476 was the horizon

1:14:26

DLC coming out again? That's

1:14:28

a little early. It's April

1:14:30

nineteenth. Okay. So

1:14:31

maybe maybe Zelda gets moved up then. Just

1:14:33

mess with the poor

1:14:35

gorilla 476. Continue to just yeah.

1:14:37

Just continue to put his thumb

1:14:40

over four. Eloy. Yeah. I

1:14:41

mean, it's it's so

1:14:42

I I'm I'm really excited about Diablo IV. I

1:14:44

think that game is gonna be so much

1:14:46

fun. It's you know, I'm I

1:14:50

get addicted to diab to diabble games. I think I'm gonna

1:14:52

be addicted to that game.

1:14:54

But coming out so quickly after

1:14:56

Zelda's suicide squad, it just feels like,

1:14:58

oh my gosh. I need to breathe a little bit. I need of the wild. Or

1:15:01

I'm or, you know, so much

1:15:03

is gonna make me

1:15:05

have tears of the kingdom. Terrible. That was terrible.

1:15:08

No. Keep going.

1:15:08

I mean, I am go ahead. I

1:15:10

am at this point, Christian,

1:15:14

I'll be completely honest with you. I'm

1:15:16

a little nervous that

1:15:18

I might not love

1:15:20

Starfield. I'm nervous. You said that

1:15:22

what show was that that we I think that was on our e three show. Right? Because I I seemed the highest

1:15:24

on it. I think

1:15:26

you and Anthony were like,

1:15:28

But what the I think when they were in the

1:15:31

past, you're like, but what they showed and what they and I was like, I don't know. I'm still believing in the promise

1:15:33

of their premise and you

1:15:35

all were

1:15:36

like, I just I

1:15:38

mean, well, I know you might be right, but

1:15:40

I don't wanna be right. I and and honestly,

1:15:42

I've never not loved 476 Bethesda studio's game.

1:15:45

I mean, I love the Fallout Games. I love the Aldous

1:15:47

Girls Games. I love those games. And I love that's the kind of game that

1:15:49

I became a gamer to

1:15:51

enjoy as those spelling

1:15:54

open world exploration story

1:15:57

games. So there's no

1:15:59

reason why this shouldn't

1:16:01

be another one that I fall in love with, but I

1:16:03

just am a little nervous about

1:16:06

falling in love with this

1:16:08

fiction. And IIII worry

1:16:10

that it's gonna feel a little too much

1:16:12

like outer worlds or or it's gonna

1:16:15

it's just not which a game is

1:16:17

a game I did not click with So

1:16:19

anyway, I hope I'm wrong, but I'm

1:16:21

I'm a little worried about that

1:16:24

game.

1:16:25

Whereas I'm I just

1:16:27

have no doubt that I'm gonna love Diablo four. And Zelda,

1:16:29

I hope, like, clicks

1:16:31

with me

1:16:32

in

1:16:32

a way the breath of the wild

1:16:34

did not. And maybe post Phoenix rising,

1:16:36

I'll I'll just feel more

1:16:39

connection to that style

1:16:42

of game. Ironically, you know, like, maybe that's

1:16:44

the game that gets me into that more.

1:16:46

And I you know, people will make

1:16:48

fun of me for that, but I maybe

1:16:50

it's if it'll work for me. So I'm

1:16:53

hopeful that that game is as

1:16:55

glorious as it probably

1:16:58

will be for most. 476

1:17:00

for me it is as well. And,

1:17:02

you know, there's a lot of I'm I'm genuinely excited

1:17:05

about the Avatar

1:17:07

game from Ubisoft. Think that could

1:17:09

be really great. There's a lot of stuff that's that doesn't have dates that

1:17:11

-- Mhmm. -- you know, like,

1:17:14

like, stuff like metal metal slung

1:17:16

tactics. Super

1:17:19

excited about that game. You know? There's I'm

1:17:21

a I'll go ahead. Go

1:17:23

ahead. I'm gonna say Redfall is another

1:17:25

I

1:17:25

mean, I can do that. Yes. This isn't this isn't predictions

1:17:28

time, but I feel like,

1:17:30

you know, Microsoft got some

1:17:32

crappy on for

1:17:34

their game awards lack of presence.

1:17:36

And there we talked about kind of

1:17:38

the lack of big Microsoft games on Game Pass this

1:17:41

year. And, you know,

1:17:43

476 Spencer said that not having starfield

1:17:46

yet. You know, there's that gap in the lineup. I think this year, twenty twenty

1:17:48

three, Fort Samo

1:17:51

476 port 476, Red

1:17:53

476, Starfield, other games we don't know about that maybe you predicted

1:17:55

last year to come out

1:18:00

already. I think there's gonna be a

1:18:02

lot there and I mean, twenty twenty two is a great year for gaming,

1:18:04

but I I

1:18:07

look at the and silk song. If I

1:18:10

mean, per Microsoft's announcement, I think it was at e three where they said everything we're showing is

1:18:12

coming out in the next twelve

1:18:14

months, and people were like, wait.

1:18:17

That means 476 songs for

1:18:19

sure coming out before summer twenty

1:18:21

twenty. Like, if that comes out, oh, that's

1:18:23

that's exciting. That's super exciting. Yeah.

1:18:28

Yeah. The other big question mark for

1:18:30

twenty twenty three for me is, is

1:18:32

this finally the year

1:18:34

where it feels like we're

1:18:37

firmly in the next generation of consoles. You know? Does it feel

1:18:39

like it's essential to have APS5

1:18:43

or an 476 series console

1:18:47

to experience the height of gaming.

1:18:49

Right? And and maybe folks are not hoping

1:18:51

for 476, but as somebody who

1:18:53

happens to have those sounds I am, I wanna

1:18:55

see them push to limits. I I wanna see stuff

1:18:58

that isn't

1:18:58

paused. I mean, as great as Ragnarok looks,

1:19:02

it looks great on PS4 and I wanna see something that

1:19:04

proves to me why I needed to

1:19:06

upgrade to that new console

1:19:09

more than just, you know, faster

1:19:10

load times. Maybe, you know,

1:19:11

maybe Or Or Use those faster load times more,

1:19:13

you know.

1:19:14

476, that sort of thing. Faster load times could

1:19:16

be enough. But, like, double down.

1:19:18

Yeah. They're not. Right? Right. Yeah.

1:19:20

They're not optimized for that because they also

1:19:23

have to work on these previous generation of consoles. So and and maybe maybe

1:19:25

Star Wars Jedi

1:19:27

survivor is that. I am --

1:19:30

See. -- the stances and the stuff they've said about that game. Oh, I mean, for the

1:19:33

fact 476

1:19:36

So Yeah. Yeah. I was gonna say 476 fact

1:19:38

that it's next gen only and and it feels like it's the first wave of these

1:19:40

games that are kinda gonna be

1:19:43

next gen only, maybe that is

1:19:46

that. But anyway, you were saying the first game was what? It showed so much potential and

1:19:48

the fact 476 they've allowed

1:19:49

it, I was gonna

1:19:49

say the same thing that it's next gen only or current

1:19:52

gen still seems

1:19:55

weird to say because it's been such long cross

1:19:56

gen. Yeah. But the fact that they're really committing

1:19:58

to this franchise and it seems like learning from

1:20:03

what the first game was and what that potential could be to make

1:20:05

it better. Often gets thrown around assassin's

1:20:07

creed to assassin's creed

1:20:10

two. But I feel like the Jedi franchise

1:20:12

now for Star Wars could be that.

1:20:14

I could see this really fascinating leap

1:20:16

of uncharted to uncharted to and

1:20:18

creating this thing and that they're not doing

1:20:20

a cross gen game that they're doubling

1:20:22

down on this current hardware to make it hopefully something truly special from

1:20:25

a team that arguably

1:20:27

has only gotten better. Since

1:20:30

the last game came out

1:20:32

and, like, doubling down on their Star Wars

1:20:34

experience and building out this 476, the

1:20:36

folks over at Respawn, I mean, that

1:20:39

is an an early FODI for

1:20:41

sure. I'm

1:20:42

super excited about that.

1:20:45

476 saying FODI though. FODI. 476 not FODI,

1:20:47

not like forty ounce. 476 favorite of

1:20:49

the

1:20:50

year. Yeah. Yeah. And and, you know,

1:20:52

Marvel's Spider Man

1:20:54

two is also not Christian.

1:20:58

So maybe that shows

1:21:00

a leap forward as well. I mean,

1:21:02

I have a hard time imagining it

1:21:04

looking any better than the first one

1:21:06

on PC right now with my 476 because that's

1:21:08

like if the you know, if

1:21:10

they deliver that one on console, something

1:21:13

would be amazing too. But yeah. Yeah. There's lots

1:21:15

of great stuff. I I think it's

1:21:17

gonna be a big full year.

1:21:20

We'll see if

1:21:22

any of these games get pushed. But,

1:21:25

you know, this is all the first half

1:21:27

of the year. 476 most of the

1:21:29

stuff we're talking about, Spider Man not

1:21:31

included starfall potentially not or I keep saying that. Starfield not include

1:21:33

potentially not included. But so many of

1:21:36

these, what would be

1:21:38

like an entire year's worth

1:21:40

of the biggest games

1:21:42

in the world feel like they're happening in the first six months, which is wild. Wild.

1:21:48

Yeah. Lot to look forward to lot lots

1:21:50

of it, you 476, we'll be here talking

1:21:52

about as much of it as we

1:21:55

can cram into our eyeballs. I'm

1:21:58

I'm I'm genuinely worried about that maybe June period. It's like No kids. You're

1:22:00

still in school because dad needs to play

1:22:02

more

1:22:02

yes. Go back to school's out. For

1:22:07

summer, not for it's Yeah. Go.

1:22:08

Man, I tell you. Oh, who

1:22:10

do we need to

1:22:14

do? What? We get our kids

1:22:15

playing we gotta start farming out these games. You're right. You're

1:22:17

right. I did

1:22:18

starfield. Actually, it was my daughter. But it

1:22:21

was fan Alright. Something about your field. I know you

1:22:24

have six, but you you

1:22:26

get Dead Island too. Dead

1:22:29

Island. Nice. Sorry, Astell. You're playing Dead Space. I don't

1:22:31

care. You picked a short straw. Nothing

1:22:33

476

1:22:35

a bad game. But

1:22:37

you gotta play Dead Space this year. I'm sorry. Yeah. I'm playing hard

1:22:39

work's legacy.

1:22:41

You have to

1:22:44

play Dead space. You

1:22:45

got resume before remake dead space?

1:22:48

476. Damn

1:22:52

it. Alright.

1:22:54

Let's move on to the to the to

1:22:56

the to the real

1:22:58

No. We're good.

1:22:59

Thanks for

1:22:59

listening to me today. Patreon dot com

1:23:02

slash GLC pod. Remember Christian nailed In

1:23:04

twenty twenty two. And we think back at

1:23:06

twenty twenty

1:23:06

three, just think I did the same. Okay. That's the same. If

1:23:09

I This is where we

1:23:11

climb out onto the limb. Okay.

1:23:14

Off. Oh my god. This is the part of the show that I will be clipping next

1:23:17

year. And

1:23:20

hopefully hopefully, redeeming

1:23:23

myself.

1:23:24

Can you imagine, Christian,

1:23:26

the

1:23:27

next time we listen

1:23:30

to this, We will

1:23:32

be celebrating a decade of

1:23:34

doing the

1:23:35

show. Yeah. This is our

1:23:37

tenth year. We're we're starting

1:23:40

our tenth year when we complete

1:23:42

this next January, we will have done this show for a decade.

1:23:48

That's just That's not right. That's

1:23:50

not right. I'll I'll say this right now, Jeff. I really wish. I I

1:23:52

know I texted you when I

1:23:54

said I had my predictions done.

1:23:58

And I know that I kept notes for my predictions. 476.

1:24:01

But my friend, you

1:24:02

you have

1:24:02

to believe me, I did not take

1:24:06

note for your predictions.

1:24:08

Your predictions were

1:24:09

just a year off, buddy. I'm looking at

1:24:11

my predictions. Some of

1:24:14

the things I said, It's

1:24:17

gonna be amazing. You're gonna you're gonna wipe the floor with

1:24:19

me next year with my own words from the

1:24:21

previous

1:24:22

year. So not

1:24:24

right. It's

1:24:26

been a fun episode.

1:24:29

Alright. Let's start. Let's

1:24:32

start with

1:24:34

our bold predictions.

1:24:36

For twenty twenty

1:24:37

three, Christian Spicer, what is

1:24:39

your first

1:24:43

bold prediction? I'll set the stage and say I have five. Okay. I

1:24:45

have five five chances to be

1:24:47

completely wrong. Alright. This one you

1:24:49

did not make last year or

1:24:51

any year

1:24:52

prior. And it feels 476. Some

1:24:54

people might be like, that's not a little it's been next year since this game came out. I

1:25:00

think

1:25:00

Oh, god. How do I

1:25:02

wanna say this?

1:25:03

You wanna say it's announced or released? of those.

1:25:08

This is the problem, Christian. You know, how hard it

1:25:10

is for me to clip out your audio when you're like, oh, okay. Sorry. Sorry. Say that again.

1:25:12

State it clearly and succinctly so

1:25:14

I can just clip it next year.

1:25:17

Here we go. A new naughty

1:25:19

dog game in twenty twenty three. That so that

1:25:21

does not mean There's your

1:25:23

clip. There's recent. That

1:25:27

does not mean a PC

1:25:29

version of

1:25:30

something. This is a I

1:25:32

mean, are you

1:25:34

asking me are you asking me now are you asking me in twenty twenty four?

1:25:36

I will 476 to write the version

1:25:38

of it. What what what constitutes

1:25:40

a new non deducting new

1:25:43

brand new content? Right? Yeah.

1:25:45

Yeah. I'll

1:25:45

I'll leave remake or remaster out of this. Okay. And and the

1:25:48

reason behind this, I this

1:25:50

isn't like, oh, inside information. 476

1:25:55

believe me. I won't I wouldn't burn

1:25:57

that bridge if it

1:25:59

was. This is a

1:26:01

bold prediction based on the amount

1:26:03

of great PS five work

1:26:06

we've seen from that studio

1:26:08

without

1:26:11

new game, new thing. Like, yes, there's

1:26:14

new content in last of us part

1:26:17

one. Right? With, like, new animations

1:26:19

and taken from us. was part two uncharted on PlayStation

1:26:24

five with the

1:26:26

uncharted four bundle lost

1:26:28

legacy. And we're seeing I

1:26:31

I have to think

1:26:33

that that work is being put to something that like, oh, how

1:26:35

they've been releasing all this stuff? What have they been working on? I think

1:26:37

all of that stuff has been

1:26:39

rolling into something 476

1:26:42

I I I'm boldly predicting that twenty twenty

1:26:45

three. Like, it's all been that snowball's

1:26:47

been rolling down a

1:26:47

hill. We just haven't been looking in

1:26:50

the right place, and we're gonna get

1:26:52

it.

1:26:52

There's that multiplayer

1:26:53

game that they supposedly were staffing up for that we kinda heard

1:26:55

of counting that. Yeah. 476. That sounds

1:26:58

good to

1:26:58

me. That

1:26:59

sounds like

1:26:59

the new 476 factions

1:27:03

is gonna be. Sign up. I have a

1:27:05

hard time believing it'll be in it'll

1:27:07

be released. And anything new

1:27:09

will be released, but but maybe announced.

1:27:11

Man, it's pretty bold. It's pretty bold.

1:27:14

I like it. Part of the

1:27:16

I think part of

1:27:18

the genius of Spice Tradonis is is

1:27:21

how you leave room for

1:27:22

vagaries. Vagaries of your of

1:27:25

your prediction will

1:27:27

be a great triumph and

1:27:29

tragedy. Yes. The guy A man with glasses

1:27:32

will proclaim.

1:27:35

I I am not that

1:27:38

wise. You will notice with

1:27:40

my first

1:27:43

bold prediction, the specificity with which Spicer setting myself up

1:27:45

to fail. Here it is.

1:27:47

My first bold

1:27:48

prediction.

1:27:48

476

1:27:51

will be a Nintendo Direct, the

1:27:53

week that the Super

1:27:55

Mario Bros. Movie

1:27:58

comes out.

1:27:58

Revealing the next mainline

1:28:01

Mario

1:28:02

game. Synergy. That

1:28:04

feels

1:28:06

Synergy. That's bold because

1:28:07

I feel like Nintendo has not done that. Right?

1:28:09

Like, they've explicitly said, like,

1:28:11

this director's

1:28:13

just the movie, no games. Right.

1:28:15

No kidding. You don't wanna talk about the movie because the movies,

1:28:17

like, the movies, but the movies in the zeitgeist, I

1:28:19

think the movie is gonna crush.

1:28:21

I think it's gonna make

1:28:23

all the money. And I think they're

1:28:26

gonna recognize that at Nintendo and go, hey, is this the perfect time

1:28:28

to tell everybody that

1:28:30

there's more Mario to play?

1:28:33

I'm not saying it's gonna this is

1:28:35

gonna, like, come out this year. I'm just saying they reveal it, the

1:28:37

next Mario, mainline Mario game, the week the Mario Bros. Movie comes out

1:28:40

in April.

1:28:43

Jeff, here's how you do a bold 476. Because my

1:28:46

next bold prediction is, in twenty

1:28:48

twenty three, we get

1:28:50

a new Mario game from

1:28:52

Nintendo. She helps.

1:28:53

Broad that is. Very big. It could be very easy. Even mean -- Yeah. -- you know,

1:28:55

like, what is

1:28:56

that? But that's when

1:28:59

I wrote down Newmark. I

1:29:01

mean Yeah. And he's like, what does he

1:29:03

even get mean? Get means news? Does get mean, like,

1:29:05

I have it in my

1:29:06

house? I don't know. What does get? Really,

1:29:09

you can

1:29:10

write horoscopes. Christian, you're amazing. Yeah. I mean, to double down on

1:29:12

a I

1:29:15

hope you're right, Jeff. I

1:29:17

hope you're right. Like, yes. Is mine a

1:29:19

little vaguer? Yeah. Is yours way too specific? You're dang right. This is how

1:29:21

I fail. This is how

1:29:23

I always lose. Well,

1:29:25

no. Let's be let's be honest. In

1:29:28

twenty twenty two, you just failed.

1:29:29

Like, well, there's specificity right now. That's very true.

1:29:31

Specific in that 476 specific

1:29:34

ideas

1:29:35

were wrong. I like this idea. Yours. I I like

1:29:37

my better because it